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[Assistant] Take him up to the castle and we'll have Mrs. Fitz give him hot broth and blankets. That'll have to be stitched, and I've no tools for it here.


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[Assistant] Suddenly there was a piercing screen that rose high above fog and tree, and a startled pheasant broke from its hiding place nearby with a frightening rattle of wings. Dear God in heaven, what now?


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[Assistant] Seizing an armful of bandages, I abandoned my patient to his caretakers, and headed into the forest at a dead run.


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[Assistant] The fog was thicker under the branches, and I could see no more than a few feet ahead.


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[Assistant] But the sound of excited shouting and thrashing underbrush guided me in the right direction. It brushed past me from behind.


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[Assistant] Intent on the shouting, I didn't hear it and I didn't see it until it had passed.


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[Assistant] A dark mass moving at incredible speed, the absurdly tiny cloven hooves almost silent on the sodden leaves.


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[Assistant] Oh, I think you'll be interested in this, Annie. It's Larry's horoscope. Kate asked me to work on it. I sent for a chart. Horoscope for what?


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[Assistant] You see, the point is, if February 9th, as the day Larry disappeared, was a favorable day for him, then it's completely possible he's alive somewhere. Because he couldn't have been killed on his favorable day. Bilge.


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[Assistant] Oh sure, just because you don't believe in it. There's lots of things you don't believe in that are true just the same. This isn't something I make up, you know. It's all in the stars. It's been going on forever.


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[Assistant] When I get to think sometimes how an intelligent man like your father can be put in prison when there are gangsters running loose all over the country.


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[Assistant] than anyone else did. And in fact, he did it far faster than anyone else did.


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[Assistant] It's very rare that someone gets sued by the government and they actually win. You know, I mean, it's just another testament to this guy's tenacity. Most guys would have maybe walked away from that.


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[Assistant] You know, Larry sees how the world can be, and then he actually tries to make it that.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, I'd like to cancel our deals.


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[Assistant] There's a wonderful sense of accomplishment.


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[Assistant] Look at her. So hard and thankless. On the half where she was reared.


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[Assistant] There I took her, into this wretched breast, when it was first bleeding from its stabs.


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[Assistant] Well, when I first started out in this game, I worked around on different papers, but now I'm afraid the great demo in registers got me hog-tied. Someday I'll work on a bigger paper, though.


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[Assistant] Look, Bobby Lox, don't worry about me. Anytime I want to throw in the sponge, you'll know it. I just won't be around.


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[Assistant] I'm a newspaper man. It's my job to find the right people at the right time. You'll be seeing me. So long.


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[Assistant] It's Emily Edwards. She's kind of cute, but she's not my type. She's a redhead.


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[Assistant] Look, forget that you're the managing editor of a newspaper and try to act intelligent. Have you ever seen me with a type who's a good cook?


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[Assistant] Anyways, pretty hard for me to picture myself, what do they call it, popping the question. Can you imagine me suddenly turning to some girl and blurting out, will you marry me?


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[Assistant] Well, Bobby Locke's made a very wise decision. Anyway, I'd be no good for you. No good at all.


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[Assistant] What was that? Well, I was just thinking, you know, Downton Abbey. The success of Downton, you know.


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[Assistant] Ah baby, we are very, very, very disappointed in one Bridget. Where'd you get the dog? I just found it. I'll be, I'll be right, I've got other ideas.


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[Assistant] I've always been on the side of, this is the song of Ice and Fire, so this is supposed to be John's story. So I knew somehow, in my mind, in my personal mind, that Danny was not gonna make it onto the throne. So I kinda like seeing this play out. Do I think this is gonna happen in the books?


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[Assistant] It was supposed to be little brother, so Jamie or Tyrion.


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[Assistant] May I speak to your mistresses?' I said. You'd better tell me what you have to say to them. Where do you come from? I'm a stranger. What is your business here at this hour? I want a night's shelter in an outhouse or anywhere, and a morsel of bread to eat. Distrust, the very feeling I dreaded, appeared in Hannah's face. I'll give you a piece of bread, she said after a pause.


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[Assistant] But we can't take in a vagrant to lodge. It isn't likely. Do let me speak to your mistresses. No, not I. What can they do for you? You should not be roving about now. It looks very ill. But where shall I go if you drive me away? What shall I do? Oh, I'll warrant you know where to go and what to do. Mind you don't do wrong, that's all. Here's a penny. Now go.


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[Assistant] Don't shut the door. Oh, don't. For God's sake. I must. The rain is driving in. Tell the young ladies. Let me see them.


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[Assistant] Indeed I will not. You're not what you ought to be, or you wouldn't make such a noise. Move off! But I must die if I'm turned away. Not you. I'm feared you have some ill plans agate, that brings you about folks' houses at this time of night.


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[Assistant] If you've any followers, house breakers or such like, anywhere near, you may tell them we are not by ourselves in the house. We have a gentleman and dogs and guns.


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[Assistant] Here the honest but inflexible servant clapped the door too, and bolted it within.


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[Assistant] A pang of exquisite suffering, a throw of true despair, rent and heaved my heart. Worn out indeed I was, not another step could I stir. I sank on the wet doorstep, I groaned, I wrung my hands, I wept in utter anguish. Oh, this spectre of death! Oh, this last hour approaching in such horror!


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[Assistant] Alas, this isolation, this banishment from my kind, not only the anchor of hope, but the footing of fortitude was gone, at least for a moment. But the last I soon endeavoured to regain.


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[Assistant] I made an effort to compel it to remain there, dumb and still.


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[Assistant] All men must die, said a voice quite close at hand.


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[Assistant] But all are not condemned to meet a lingering and premature doom such as yours would be if you perished here of want.


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[Assistant] And incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid. A form was near.


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[Assistant] What form the pitch dark night and my infeable division prevented me from distinguishing? With a loud long knock, the newcomer appealed to the door.


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[Assistant] Is that you, Mr. Syngin? cried Hannah. Yes, yes. Open quickly.


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[Assistant] Well, how wet and cold you must be. Such a wild night as it is. Come in. Your sisters are quite uneasy about you. And I believe there are bad folks about. There's been a beggar woman. I declare she's not gone yet. Laid down there. Get up. For shame. Move off, I say. Hush, Hannah. I have a word to say to the woman. You have done your duty in excluding. Now let me do mine in admitting her.


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[Assistant] I was near and listened to both you and her. I think this is a peculiar case. I must at least examine into it. Young woman, rise and pass before me into the house. With difficulty I obeyed him.


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[Assistant] Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen, on the very half, trembling, sickening.


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[Assistant] Conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild and weather-beaten,


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[Assistant] He speaks, uh, Sunnian, the sacred promontory of Athens.


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[Assistant] Very fortunate then, when I was ten, I inherited a peerage.


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[Assistant] It's called Child Harold's Pilgrimage. Though I doubt it will suit. The taste of the town being so damn modern.


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[Assistant] My mother claims to be unwell, but as I have never known her not to claim to be unwell, I make no particular haste. She will still be her usual malignant self when I get there.


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[Assistant] I think I should give up poetry, Fletcher, don't you? Yes, my lord.


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[Assistant] It was two years of bliss. Bliss and debauchery. And now what? What indeed.


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[Assistant] Thank god it does me good to see you. Thank you for coming all this way.


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[Assistant] I wish often that I were a gambler. Win or lose, you feel something. But I feel nothing. And I'm sunk as a poet.


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[Assistant] Hope House has his politics. Hope House, as we all know, is a fool. What's wrong with politics?


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[Assistant] Well, do you see? The learned Fletcher informed me that the machines in Nottingham are putting our stocking weavers out of work. The men are rampaging at night, smashing the new equipment.


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[Assistant] The government wants to make this frame breaking a capital offence. Well, we cannot have the wanton destruction of private property, can we? Yes, but they're starving, don't you see? They're starving.


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[Assistant] So what? The Child Harold, the gloomy little ponce. Murray published it. And it's sold? It's sold out. In three days. One is very much in demand.


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[Assistant] Now Harold felt himself at length alone, and bad to Christian tongues a long adieu. Now he had ventured on a shore unknown, which all admired but many dread to view.


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[Assistant] His breast was armed against fate, his wants were few. Peril he sought not, but nair shrank to meet. The scene was savage, but the scene was new. This made the ceaseless toil of travel sweet. Beat back keen winter's blast, and welcomed summer's heat.


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[Assistant] Oh, I fall in love before breakfast. I fall in love with my dogs.


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[Assistant] It was a snob, Fletcher. Every other woman in London wants to know me.


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[Assistant] I am told your ladyship likes everything that is new and rare. For a moment.


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[Assistant] I deny whispering with your cousin. Who is your cousin?


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[Assistant] By accident I assure you, I don't think child Harold my very best work. I rather like hints from


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[Assistant] I myself am in debt to the tune of 25,000 or thereabouts. I shall have to sell Newstead. Perhaps then I may be in a position.


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[Assistant] But you loved her once. After a few days it went away. Rather like a sore throat. Her reputation's pretty well shot to pieces. Watch out for your own. I can't get rid of her hobby. She hangs around my neck like Coleridge's wretched bird.


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[Assistant] She thinks if she's with me, she has to be outrageous. Well, we can't have that, can we? Well, don't be cross. I know I'm a fool. How's the army? Fortney Battles?


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[Assistant] I've managed to consolidate my politics into an utter detestation of all governments. Like a bear.


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[Assistant] Late for a page, isn't it? I recently had mail from my sister. She may be back in town. I had no idea you had a sister. Half-sister. Different mothers. Haven't seen her for 13 years.


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[Assistant] And thinks herself intellectual, having once read the preface to a novel.


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[Assistant] I want to do something with my life and this isn't it.


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[Assistant] It's an ideal. An ideal place.


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[Assistant] Miss Milbank, do you object if I rest here?


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[Assistant] And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.


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[Assistant] Did you ever meet my nurse? May Gray from Aberdeen.


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[Assistant] At the present moment, half good, half diabolical.


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[Assistant] What do you propose to do? I propose to run off with her, abroad. However, my sister is not so delinquent as I. She will not abscond. So I am shortly to be married to Annabella Milbank.


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[Assistant] But I must tell you, at the hazard of losing whatever good opinion you have of me,


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[Assistant] That it is a source from which I never did and believe I never can derive comfort. Why I came here I know not. Where I shall go it is useless to inquire.


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[Assistant] In the midst of myriads of living and dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?


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[Assistant] You are welcome, my lord. There is no racing then? At Christmas? Oh no, we husbands must return home sometime.


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[Assistant] I am on my way to get married. Congratulations. I must of course reform thoroughly. I betrothed such a good person that, uh, in short, I wish I was a better.


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[Assistant] Riches are power and poverty is slavery all over the earth.


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[Assistant] I like a woman to talk, or I am left with the suspicion she is thinking.


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[Assistant] Thank you Fletcher. Can't be counted an unbridled success however, as I have caught a cold.


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[Assistant] Sleep hath its own world, a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence.


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[Assistant] Sleep hath its own world and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath and tears and tortures and the touch of joy.


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[Assistant] But all of society is asking, is it you enjoying these adventures? I have done some odd things in my time. They say at Cambridge you procured a bear. Oh, my bear was adorable. But what did you intend to do with the creature?


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[Assistant] Never the less. Certain things are allowed. Certain things are not. Usually go for the latter. Usually so do I.


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[Assistant] Why, the fewer years between us, dinner would have ended long ago.


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[Assistant] He has settled on your cousin from Yorkshire. Good. Marriage will be his salvation.


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[Assistant] Last time I played Wii Sports, I got a platinum medal. This time I play Wii Sports, I get a platinum medal. I wanna go two for two. I wanna get two...


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[Assistant] Platinum's in a row. To recap, I now have platinum medals and hitting home runs.


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[Assistant] One, two, three, four, five, six. Six platinum medals. I am almost halfway done with all the platinums. I'm gonna stick with baseball today. The question becomes which baseball category


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[Assistant] Do I go with today? Oops, not bowling. I'm gonna go with swing and drum. We need to hit the ball.


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[Assistant] In the direction of the zones, preferably,


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[Assistant] The dark blue one, and I just keep on throwing it at the white. Or off.


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[Assistant] This is not good. I can guarantee you this is not going to be a platinum. Although,


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[Assistant] Of course I hit it more straight when it's, when I need to hit it more left.


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[Assistant] And then you strike, okay, no. It's 65 points to get a plan to metal. And each zone has different point structure. The dark blue is 10 points, the light blue is 6 points, and then the white is 3 points. And if you hit the ball, and it doesn't go in a zone, but it's not a foul


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[Assistant] I don't know how you expect me to go. Oh wow, I did go that way.


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[Assistant] I can assure you, this is not a platinum medal. Whatever the fuck that was, it was still worth 43 points. 22 points away from a platinum.


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[Assistant] This is not, I don't know about this platinum, I'm not gonna lie. I don't know how to control where I swing. Or where my ball goes, really. So it seems like I might just struggle with this.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's six points, each light blue.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I got that left side down pat until the, the target's over there.


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[Assistant] Until the target's over there, and then I'll start hitting them right, because I think this is frivolous. It clearly changes the dynamics of hitting the ball, like, we're never hitting a home run. The ball just kind of goes into the ground. How real is this? How real is this if it's, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] We have 10 shots to get 65 points. It's very similar to the...


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[Assistant] Hitting the green platinum, you have 10 shots and only 65 feet, you can give up.


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[Assistant] In this one you have 10 hits and you have 65 points you have to get. So we gotta get 6 and a half each.


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[Assistant] Holy poop, nice bat. Watch this. I'll fall apart.


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[Assistant] Okay, now I need to hit over here. So you need to hit... Later? Okay, well that's worth something.


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[Assistant] Wha- Earlier, actually.


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[Assistant] We're still not on pace. I think we need to, we probably need to 10 10 10 at the end here to get it. I don't even think it would get it.


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[Assistant] No, we're gonna be so far off, I don't even know why I'm continuing. I just wanna see if I can not shit myself, which I clearly did.


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[Assistant] Ugh. 310 310. Now we need a miracle.


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[Assistant] That should've rolled into the light blue section. Oh, it did! It actually did give me credit.


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[Assistant] Actually, that's kinda like the perfect time. I might beat the high score.


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[Assistant] Mmmmm. I still end up with the same. 10, 10, 3, 3. Man, I should be able to get all, uh, oops. Okay, that's gonna kill it.


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[Assistant] No dude, we're at 369, damn she fine, boom shaka shaka, fuck me in the ass!


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[Assistant] I think platinum's dead. I mean, platinum's definitely dead now.


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[Assistant] Platinum's really dead now. I don't even get credit for that even though it's on the line.


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[Assistant] I, I'm, that was a disaster on the right side. I'm not, I don't even want to see my score. Doesn't matter. If it's not 65, I ain't playing.


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[Assistant] That's so stupid by the way. You should be able to lightly tap. There are only full swings in Wii Sports Baseball. You can't, you can't just lightly tap it forward to better control where it's going.


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[Assistant] No! Stop giving me sidearm, people! You're wasting both of our times! Stop! Stop! Stop!


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[Assistant] I threw my TV remote, so I didn't break a Wii remote. But I'm getting pissed. I'm getting very pissed off.


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[Assistant] I'm so pissed off it's beyond even comprehension. I can barely put it into words.


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[Assistant] We got a 10 again. Watch me frickin' put this one into foul ball. Well, close.


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[Assistant] I'm continuing on. I'm so sick of swinging once and restarting.


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[Assistant] No, a ten. Wow. Now we finally graduated to the left side.


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[Assistant] It's so easy to hit them right down the middle when you're trying to hit them left. But when you're trying to hit them down the middle, it's so easy to put them right or left.


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[Assistant] Eat my ass six times sideways in Kentucky. Fried chicken.


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[Assistant] Incredible. We can go right and left when we need to go straight. When we need to go left or right, we go straight.


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[Assistant] Nah, I don't, I didn't like how that ended. That's for sure.


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[Assistant] It's just so dangerous though, when you're swinging early, because it could go way right!


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[Assistant] It's so hard, I honestly don't get it. I really don't. I think it-


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[Assistant] So you're telling me if I got a 10 on the last one, I would've got the platinum. Cause I got a 3.


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[Assistant] I don't think I'm as far off on this one as I think I am.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's probably a little too late I'd say. Unless it wants to give me the foul ball ten point.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna restart, but that was terrible.


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[Assistant] That was marginally less terrible, but still worth the same.


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[Assistant] You know what, fuck me. There's only left and right right now. There is no middle. It can be left or it can be right.


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[Assistant] Please let it be for something. Doesn't look like it.


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[Assistant] At least it was a three again. Not, at least, that's... I mean...


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[Assistant] I get cold and then I finally get the picture I want and immediately shank it.


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[Assistant] No. That would have been a 10 in the middle.


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[Assistant] That ain't a ten. It would be a ten if it was down the middle.


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[Assistant] My goodness gracious. My dear Aunt Sally.


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[Assistant] If I would've got a ten there, I'd have been one point short, and I probably would've fell down my stairs intentionally.


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[Assistant] That is a three. That would have been a ten right down the middle.


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[Assistant] No, Helen. I don't know whose dick you plan on sucking looking that ugly and throwing underarm, but it ain't mine.


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[Assistant] I think some of them throw better pitchers- pitches than others.


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[Assistant] Come on, my face! How can I so perfectly put it on the same position? Both left and right. Or right then left. Oh man. It just seems suspicious.


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[Assistant] Got a ten there though. Three balls.


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[Assistant] What is there to be positive about? 10, 3, 3, 6. That's 22.


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[Assistant] That's not a ten. I do that so consistently, I don't know how.


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[Assistant] Oh man, do I wanna break this Wii Remote. I think my brain is rotting, to be honest.


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[Assistant] All I wanna do is change my, turn my anger into breaking things. Come on my face dude!


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[Assistant] You hate seeing me happy! Holy poop, one right down the middle.


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[Assistant] It's still not a good start. I mean, I, I feel like I need at least two tens in the first four. So there's probably gonna be a ten right here. Yep, there's a ten. So coincidentally, right when you get out of the middle one, that's when you hit it down the middle.


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[Assistant] 2 sixes, 2 tens. That alone is 32.


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[Assistant] I actually got a 10 there. I, I don't think so. That's only 30 and 10s, or probably 50. Oh, 60 again.


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[Assistant] Very. Very. How hard is it to hit one way into the left or way into the right?


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[Assistant] Super easy. As long as the target is in the middle, it is really easy to hit it left or right. If the, if the target's left, then it's really easy to hit it in the middle.


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[Assistant] There's some very questionable back-end shit on this game, and I'm convinced.


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[Assistant] There's just no way. There's just no way. There's just no way.


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[Assistant] This is my best chance in a while, and it's against Abby of all people.


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[Assistant] Jesus. Then I tried to hit it earlier because clearly that's what I need to do.


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[Assistant] We need two tens, I think. I think that's gonna be a ten. I think it's gonna bounce back.


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[Assistant] 58. A 10 would've done it. A 6 would've put me just sorry.


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[Assistant] Stay in. Nooo, stop it, dude.


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[Assistant] Oof. I think all I need is probably a six here.


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[Assistant] Oh, and I, I didn't want to hit it late. I really just didn't want to hit it late. I did not hit it late. 60.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, I needed to hit a 10 there though, anyway.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, the amount of times I've cocked my arm back to chuck this fucking weird move today is astronomical.


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[Assistant] You know, I was actually not doing bad. I was hitting six pointers. And I tried to adjust my aim a little bit.


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[Assistant] My head a little bit in order to get it more in the middle and it goes veering to the right. It goes completely foul.


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[Assistant] When the target's down the middle, your likelihood of going left or right is up 20 times. When the target is on the left or right, your odds of hitting it down the middle go up 20 times. How does, I mean, come on, be fair!


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[Assistant] That line again. Every time, three times in a row. Same exact line. You're telling me I timed it to the millisecond three times in a row?


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[Assistant] It's just suspicious the coincidences that are happening here. Way too suspicious.


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[Assistant] And it was a grim-faced Williams who has returned to his cell this afternoon. What the score will be after he takes the stand is anybody's guess, but he's going to need some lucky punches to get a decision.


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[Assistant] I object to the conclusions drawn by the prosecutor and move that it be stricken from the records. But Your Honor, there is a Corpus Delecti, remember?


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[Assistant] Oh, but I'm an old friend. I'm sure he'd want to see me. I'll just wait.


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[Assistant] Being married to Stephen is the most exciting career I ever had, Mac. He's a great man.


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[Assistant] Well, he's back. He's back in my life again. He's a leading man in that summer theater near our home. And he's making love to my stepdaughter, Barbara. She's 17. She's very headstrong. Well, she's completely gone on him. She's Stephen's only child. He adores her.


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[Assistant] Oh Mack, you don't seem to understand at all. I loathe the man.


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[Assistant] Goodbye darling and thank you. I'll go to see him right away.


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[Assistant] No, I didn't come for Barbara. I came to see you, Paul.


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[Assistant] You spoke just now of age. Barbara's only 17.


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[Assistant] Oh, Stephen, I thought you promised me you'd be out of this old lab before I got home. Darling, you're not gonna work all night again, are you?


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[Assistant] Because, he's not good. He's hard and cruel, he's-


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[Assistant] Oh, why do you insist on misunderstanding me? I'm older than you. I made a great mistake. And I'm only trying to keep you from suffering as I did.


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[Assistant] Here's Sonnet, about 18 by 26, studio type. There's a big sofa alongside of it to your right.


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[Assistant] There's some kind of a screwball statue sitting in a hole in a wall. It stinks. Go on, go on.


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[Assistant] Right. And I'll see if a step was taken out of the rug. No, don't.


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[Assistant] You oughta know better than to go around knocking people's brains out, Gabriel. What did he do to you? Steal a tire from you?


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[Assistant] The Earth is getting hotter. The polar ice caps are melting. In Greenland and Antarctica, the ice is receding six times faster than expected. Sea levels around the world are rising.


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[Assistant] GEOMAR, the Helmholtz Centre for Oceanic Research, is located in Kiel, Germany. Some of the world's top climate experts work here, including Mojib Latif, who studies global warming and its effects.


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[Assistant] An increase of that magnitude would radically alter the Earth's geography. Much of Northern Europe could be submerged. The Netherlands would vanish underwater.


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[Assistant] But even a smaller increase would have a major impact. Major cities in coastal regions and further inland would be flooded.


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[Assistant] That includes London. Boston.


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[Assistant] These huge sheets of ice are dynamic systems. If they reach a tipping point, sea levels could rise a lot very quickly.


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[Assistant] Sea levels are rising, and eventually many coastal regions might be reclaimed by the ocean.


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[Assistant] Since the 19th century, global mean sea levels have risen by about 20 centimeters.


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[Assistant] In the South Pacific, sea levels are rising two to three times faster than the global mean. The island nation of Tuvalu might be the first to be swallowed by the waves.


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[Assistant] Fully one half of the Netherlands lies just one metre above sea level. One quarter is below sea level. The country is protected by a system of polders, dikes and dams. But for how long?


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[Assistant] The Netherlands is developing innovative concepts to deal with the projected rise in sea levels.


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[Assistant] Here in Amsterdam, a pilot project has created an entire community of floating homes.


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[Assistant] Sasha Glassel is a founding partner of the Space and Matter architectural studio. He and his family now live in one of the houseboats.


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[Assistant] A small building initiative began acquiring these sites about 10 years ago. There's room for about 30 homes.


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[Assistant] Houseboats here are nothing new, but this project is one of a kind.


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[Assistant] There's plenty of living space spread out over three levels.


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[Assistant] You won't find this kind of comfort on a traditional houseboat.


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[Assistant] This jetty connects the floating settlement to the mainland.


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[Assistant] These floating homes generate much of their own energy with photovoltaic solar panels.


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[Assistant] Right now this site is purely residential, but Sasha believes that this might change one day.


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[Assistant] The water studio architectural firm is located in the town of Reisweik. The company was founded by Kuhn Oldhaus.


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[Assistant] He's known around the world for developing floating solutions to problems posed by climate change and urbanization.


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[Assistant] The Dutch have been taming the water and fighting the rising and falling tides for centuries.


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[Assistant] But if sea levels continue to rise, the Netherlands will be among the first countries that have to deal with the impact.


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[Assistant] Kuhn Oldhaus envisions what he calls the Blue City, a floating metropolis that grows out of an existing city.


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[Assistant] By building on the water, structures or even districts could be relocated to respond to climate change or new social conditions.


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[Assistant] Kuhn Oldhaus is an optimist. He believes that architects and urban planners will play an important role in helping communities adapt to rising sea levels.


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[Assistant] Here in Amsterdam's Eiburg district, people are already living in floating homes and apartment buildings.


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[Assistant] It's a model housing estate that features designs by a number of architects.


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[Assistant] The structures are anchored to the sea floor. Instead of garages, there are docks for boats.


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[Assistant] The neighbourhood is also different in another respect. It's connected to the mainland by a jetty. And the houses float on the water. So how were these structures actually built?


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[Assistant] The range of possibilities seems endless. The ocean flower complex in the Maldive Islands with 185 villas and a floating golf course.


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[Assistant] The Citadel apartment complex in the Netherlands, a design that would use the water to help cool the buildings, consuming 25% less energy than conventional structures.


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[Assistant] A plan for an entire floating city. It features self-contained modular construction and has lots of recreational space.


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[Assistant] A design for a floating mosque in the United Arab Emirates.


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[Assistant] And a 25-storey hotel tower in Dubai rotating on a floating foundation.


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[Assistant] But Kuhn Old House is mainly interested in designing floating residential communities.


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[Assistant] One basic idea underlies Water Studio's designs and accounts for its international success.


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[Assistant] This is the Maasland storm surge barrier in the province of South Holland.


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[Assistant] During the storm, 200 kilometers of dikes burst, and water levels quickly rose to three meters.


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[Assistant] An estimated 100,000 people lost their homes.


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[Assistant] Afterward, the government ordered the construction of a system of 15 storm surge barriers, dams and other structures.


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[Assistant] The country is still battling the threat of flooding. Dykes are being rebuilt and planted with vegetation, beaches are being widened, and sand dunes raised.


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[Assistant] Rotterdam was hit hard by the 1953 floods. The Maasland Barrier is one of the world's largest moving structures and now protects about one million people.


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[Assistant] The two large floating gates are each 240 metres long.


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[Assistant] The retaining walls are curved to withstand the force of the oncoming water.


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[Assistant] The barrier is closed only when a big storm is on the way.


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[Assistant] Rotterdam is Europe's largest seaport and the barrier is designed to protect it too.


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[Assistant] It takes just two hours to close the gates. This only happens when the water level hits three metres.


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[Assistant] The government also finances efforts to help parts of Rotterdam's city centre collect and drain excess water in an emergency.


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[Assistant] There's lots of open space in parking garages. They're designed so that they can take on runoff water during floods.


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[Assistant] Rotterdam is particularly vulnerable to storm surges because of its coastal location and because it sits in the delta created by the Rhine and Maas rivers.


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[Assistant] Here's an unusual design, floating pavilions.


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[Assistant] They're covered with a special foil that's 100 times lighter than glass. And they're environmentally friendly, cooled by surface water and heated with solar energy. The pavilions are now home to a floating cinema.


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[Assistant] Nearby a floating park. Hexagonal islands made of recycled plastic.


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[Assistant] They've been planted with vegetation and already seem to be drawing a crowd.


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[Assistant] For a unique city getaway, you can rent this small houseboat, called a Vickle boat.


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[Assistant] It's wrapped in 24 layers of corrugated cardboard, which makes it light and just about soundproof.


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[Assistant] The interior features a kitchen, bathroom, living room and terrace.


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[Assistant] This Vickle boat is located near the Rotterdam city centre, with easy access to sightseeing and restaurants.


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[Assistant] Despite all the comfort, there are constant reminders that you're living on the water.


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[Assistant] We now return to Amsterdam and the IJburg district with its 75 unit housing estate.


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[Assistant] The units actually sit on a floating foundation that's composed of airtight concrete tubs.


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[Assistant] What else can the Netherlands teach us about finding new ways to build on and with water?


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[Assistant] The Netherlands also drew on an example, the famous houseboat community in the city of Sausalito, California, which dates back to the 1950s.


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[Assistant] Like many communities built on water, its legal status remained vague for years.


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[Assistant] In July 2019, Paris recorded an all-time high temperature, 42 degrees Celsius.


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[Assistant] City residents are learning to live with climate extremes, from high heat to heavy rain and flooding.


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[Assistant] Paris hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in 2015, where delegates set a goal to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius in this century.


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[Assistant] Renowned architect and oceanographer Jacques Rougerie has lived on this houseboat in the heart of Paris for more than four decades.


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[Assistant] It's located near the Place de la Concorde and also includes his design studio.


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[Assistant] Rougerie has been working on this futuristic project for decades, an ocean-based research vessel called the Sea Orbiter. It's shaped like a seahorse.


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[Assistant] The project still only exists as a model, but its plans call for a total height of 58 metres, with 31 metres below the water's surface.


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[Assistant] Up to 22 scientists could work in the vessel.


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[Assistant] Rougerie says that we know less about the sea than we do about space.


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[Assistant] The scientists, Rougerie calls them aquanauts, would live in pressurized chambers so that they could take part in diving expeditions at any time.


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[Assistant] Swiss oceanographer Jacques Picard was an early supporter of the project.


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[Assistant] Rougerie says he was inspired by the work of two of his countrymen, Jules Verne and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.


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[Assistant] In 1962, Cousteau spent a week in his underwater research facility, Conchelf.


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[Assistant] He hoped it would be the dawn of a new age of marine exploration.


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[Assistant] In the 1970s, Rougeri began to imagine this future of laboratories and entire villages on the ocean floor.


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[Assistant] If climate change continues to progress, the idea of underwater settlements could become popular again.


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[Assistant] Rougerie designed this huge floating research centre, shaped like a manta ray. It would be 900 metres long and 500 metres wide, and could accommodate up to 7,000 people.


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[Assistant] His Teti Aroha design imagines underwater rooms, designed for holidaymakers.


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[Assistant] Other architects are getting on board. The US firm Solace 4 came up with this idea for a marine research station to be based off the coast of Bali.


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[Assistant] Italian architect Gianluca Santo Suoso developed this concept for a modular floating structure called Hyper-K.


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[Assistant] The individual units resemble vertebrae in the human spine.


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[Assistant] It's like a cross between a cruise ship and a hotel.


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[Assistant] The German architecture firm Gebers Puderville has designed a hotel that's to be built off the Chinese island of Hainan.


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[Assistant] The individual sweets would lie below the surface of the sea.


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[Assistant] Margo Krasajewicz came up with plans for a lighthouse hotel that harnesses wave energy to generate electricity.


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[Assistant] Some designs have actually been built. The Jules Undersea Lodge in Florida, which opened in 1986, builds itself as the world's first underwater hotel.


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[Assistant] This is the Atlantis Luxury Hotel Resort located on the coast of Dubai.


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[Assistant] It has more than 1,500 rooms spread out over 23 floors and an aquarium that contains more than 65,000 marine animals.


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[Assistant] The Ita'a undersea restaurant in the Maldive Islands is located five metres below sea level.


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[Assistant] Europe now has its first fully submerged restaurant. It's called The Under, located on the southern coast of Norway.


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[Assistant] It was designed by the Oslo-based architecture firm Snøheter.


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[Assistant] The same firm also developed the concept for this 100-room hotel that lies at the foot of a glacier in the Norwegian Arctic.


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[Assistant] The hotel will run mostly on energy generated by solar panels.


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[Assistant] Most of the plans are still dreams for the future, designed by visionaries like Jacques Rougerie.


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[Assistant] I'm a dreamer, but I'm also extremely pragmatic.


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[Assistant] Another vision for living in a marine environment, the ocean spiral. It has two main elements, a sphere and tower structure that would provide living and workspace for up to 5,000 people, and a spiral structure that connects the sphere to a base station on the ocean floor.


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[Assistant] Russian architect Alexander Remyzov has designed a modern day Noah's Ark that could accommodate up to 10,000 people.


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[Assistant] This water scraper concept comes from Malaysia.


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[Assistant] A floating building that would generate its own food and electricity and house thousands. But are ideas like this truly a utopia?


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[Assistant] The world's less affluent regions will be hit hard by the effects of climate change.


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[Assistant] Some coastal areas in Asia are already taking steps to deal with rising sea levels.


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[Assistant] Some 28 million people live in the Mumbai metropolitan region. The core of the city is built on several islands that lie in the Arabian Sea. This is a low-lying area, and rising sea levels pose a very real threat.


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[Assistant] Austrian architect Rames Najjar says that coastal cities like Mumbai must adapt to these conditions, and that could include building floating communities.


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[Assistant] Ramesh Najar proposes the use of floating turbines that generate electricity by taking in water.


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[Assistant] The concept is similar to that used with hydroelectric dams in the Austrian Alps.


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[Assistant] Rames and his brother, who's also an architect, have been designing water-based communities for years, and they're convinced that these projects will become reality.


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[Assistant] With sea levels rising ever more quickly solutions are urgently needed. Millions could be displaced by climate change.


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[Assistant] Nine of the world's ten largest cities are expected to be threatened by rising sea levels by 2050.


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[Assistant] They will have to develop a long-term plan for adapting to their new reality.


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[Assistant] One of these long-term projects is Jacques Rougerie's design for a floating city off the Pacific island of Tahiti.


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[Assistant] The US-based Seasteading Institute has developed a concept for a floating city project led by political theorist Patrick Friedman. The co-founder of PayPal is also on board.


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[Assistant] The idea has a political dimension. The sovereign ocean colonies would be free from state control.


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[Assistant] But floating communities must be available to everyone, not just the wealthy. The Oceanics Project is being developed in coordination with the United Nations. The goal is to make floating cities available to the many coastal regions that are under threat


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[Assistant] Those solutions are urgently needed. Nearly half of the world's population lives within 100 kilometres of a coastline.


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[Assistant] Oceanic cities could grow and adapt, housing anywhere from 300 to 10,000 people.


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[Assistant] The threat of rising sea levels might be right around the corner.


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[Assistant] Hamburg in northern Germany could also be at risk.


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[Assistant] Newsreels recall the flood of 1962 when a storm surge washed over the dikes and flooded the North Sea coast. About 100,000 people lost their homes and hundreds of people were killed.


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[Assistant] The storm destroyed dikes along several hundred kilometres of coastline. Hamburg was cut off for days. Local residents were scarcely able to cope.


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[Assistant] And the situation today may be even more dangerous because since 1962 the sea level here has risen by 20 centimetres.


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[Assistant] This is the port of Hamburg. More than 350,000 people who live in this part of the city are still threatened by storm surges. A lot of new projects are underway to protect them.


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[Assistant] This new promenade along the Elba River also serves as a flood control structure.


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[Assistant] It was designed by Zaha Hadid architects.


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[Assistant] The promenade rises nearly 9 metres above the river.


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[Assistant] If water levels in the North Sea continue to rise, London may also be affected.


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[Assistant] About nine million people live in London, which is located on the River Thames.


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[Assistant] About one third of those residents live in the city's central districts along the river.


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[Assistant] But rising and falling tides still affect river water levels in London.


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[Assistant] One sixth of the city lies in an area that's threatened by flooding.


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[Assistant] Rising sea levels would put more than a million people and 500,000 buildings here at risk.


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[Assistant] Storm surges and floods have become more common in Britain.


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[Assistant] In late 2013 and early 2014, southern England was hit by a series of severe storms. Heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding and power cuts and disrupted transport systems.


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[Assistant] In London, the Thames burst its banks, and many people were forced to leave their homes.


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[Assistant] The Thames Barrier is designed to protect the floodplain that includes most of Greater London from tides and storm surges that move in from the North Sea.


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[Assistant] It's one of the world's largest movable flood protection structures.


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[Assistant] The barrier consists of ten huge steel gates that are usually submerged but can be raised into position in case of emergency.


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[Assistant] But some studies predict an increase of 5 meters by 2100.


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[Assistant] The barrier was completed in the early 1980s, when scientists were predicting a much smaller rise in sea levels.


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[Assistant] But now reality is outstripping those projections.


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[Assistant] Sea levels are rising faster than anticipated, and London is at the forefront of planning for an uncertain future.


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[Assistant] But few coastal regions have a huge barrier like this to protect them from storm surges. If sea levels keep rising, many communities could be left to make difficult decisions.


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[Assistant] Floating homes like these in Amsterdam could offer refuge in a crisis.


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[Assistant] For now, most people here who live on the water do so because they want to.


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[Assistant] In affluent communities, floating homes are a lifestyle, a way to bring nature into the city.


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[Assistant] But they also offer new ideas for adapting to climate change.


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[Assistant] Miss March, dear madam. How elegant! I have had many pairs of slippers in my life, but I never had any that suited me so well as yours. I like to pay my debts, so I know you will allow the old gentleman.


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[Assistant] I only came here because Marmee says she's not too proud to beg for father. Well, I am. I'm too proud to beg for anyone. I'd rather sweep the streets than ever come to you again. Stubborn, obstinate, rude! Josephine!


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[Assistant] Where did you get it? I didn't beg, borrow or steal it. I only sold what belonged to me.


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[Assistant] And something else. A sort of nervous feeling. I like it.


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[Assistant] Mr. Lawrence sent the flowers. I ordered the sun.


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[Assistant] Where are you going? Going? Nowhere. You must be expecting someone then.


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[Assistant] I hope you don't think you're in love with him because I can tell you that you're not.


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[Assistant] Now you see, Meg, I'm a writer. And I write about girls who are in love, so I know. You have none of the symptoms. You eat all right, you sleep like a log, you knock Twitter across and you don't mope in corners. Therefore, you're not in love. Therefore, don't go and marry that man. I don't intend to go and marry any man. You don't?


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[Assistant] New impressions. A writer should meet and study people. Search their souls. Figure out their problems. Oh, I know I'm going to love New York. I've always wanted to come here. Kitty! Tina!


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[Assistant] A nice, comfortable, medium-sized chair.


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[Assistant] What is that song? I've heard you play it before, and I'd like to send it to my sister.


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[Assistant] Oh, I love it. Writing is my life. Oh, I've scribbled ever since I was a child. Some of my stories have been published. I just sold one to the Weekly Volcano. Oh, it's a wonderful one about... Well, I won't tell you what it is, but you must read it yourself.


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[Assistant] I should love it. Oh, please don't think me rude. But as long as you're not going to sew on that button, will you let me do it?


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[Assistant] Oh, I'd say, look at me, everybody. I'm Josephine March, and I'm so happy.


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[Assistant] No, no I haven't. And you and you alone are responsible for that.


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[Assistant] It's all right, Aunt March. I'm happy for Amy. Oh, it'll be thrilling for her. Besides, I'm having a wonderful time. Theaters, operas, lectures. And I know Amy is a much better companion than I could ever hope to be.


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[Assistant] You've always longed to go. Oh, no, darling. I'm perfectly contented here. It's your reward. You've always done sweet things to please Aunt Marge. Oh, think of all the wonderful things you're going to see.


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[Assistant] But I've tried. And when I think of Aunt Marge taking Amy to Europe with her, when she always promised she'd take me... Oh, not that I have a grudge, Amy, the trip, but... Well, I... I suppose that's what I am doing.


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[Assistant] Oh no. If I can't stand the truth, I'm not worth anything. Well, I didn't think those stories were very good, but... You see, the Duke's daughter paid the butcher bill and the kiss of the coventries was the blessing of the marches.


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[Assistant] I'm going home. Home? It's where I belong. They need me there. Beth is sick and I can help my family.


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[Assistant] I may be back someday, and I'll write you, truly I will.


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[Assistant] This is for you, Bethy. Thank you, Joe. It can accompany you while you play. I don't play much now, Joe.


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[Assistant] I'm not crying for you, darling. I'm just lonesome for Meg and Amy. And for our old happy times. I guess the storm didn't help things either. I'll be alright.


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[Assistant] That's an odd thing to do. You write him often, don't you? Yes, I do. He knows what I'm writing about. I mean, he understands me. Why shouldn't I write to him?


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[Assistant] They're in Balrosa now, and she says it's paradise.


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[Assistant] But you're right about me being alone. I am lonely. And who knows, maybe.


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[Assistant] Maybe if Laurie had come back, I might have said yes. Oh, not, not that I love him any differently, but because, well, it...


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[Assistant] Well, I suppose they'll get married and live happily ever after. I suppose they will.


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[Assistant] Well, if you're going to the post office... Thank you, Meg, but I'd rather walk. Goodbye, Jill. Goodbye, Meg.


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[Assistant] Oh, but you were going away without telling me. I would never have seen you again. Oh, please come back.


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[Assistant] Oh, but they're just my family. My sister's come home. She's married to that boy I told you about.


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[Assistant] Sophie, this is Miss Josephine, the new governor. You'll take her up to a room.


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[Assistant] Pistol, surgery, chemicals, numbers, badge, Barack Obama's signature.


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[Assistant] Well, perverted I thought maybe our forensic scientist was making a judgement against people who use whips.


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[Assistant] Brian, what is your melee? Uh, Arsenic. Oh, Arsenic. That would not be a suffocating...


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[Assistant] Which I don't think causes bruises. Cosmetic mask, prescription, herbal medicine, and mirror.


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[Assistant] While this is true, yeah, why would you, I mean, if you have a balcony right there, you might use it to some effect in your murder. I don't know if you would need to stab someone on a balcony. But if it's noon, you probably wouldn't push someone off a balcony.


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[Assistant] Do you think the cracked is the weapon? Is it a clue? Or is it the body? Or the stand, you know? Because as you said, there's a sculpture.


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[Assistant] It's in play. Could crack. Yeaah. I don't think a rat would crack.


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[Assistant] I think there is strong evidence to suggest Allegra pushed someone off a balcony. I don't know if it's with cigarettes.


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[Assistant] A chainsaw will leave a bruise. I'm struggling to piece together why the cause of death was loss of blood as opposed to severe injury, if it's a falling off a balcony injury. Obviously, you would lose blood, but it seems like a choice. Obviously, by mentioning this, I'm putting myself in a position to accuse myself.


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[Assistant] But I'm thinking more like blunt force trauma. I'm gonna have to put Simone in contention here with the brick and sculpture her own.


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[Assistant] Proposal for the death. Uhm, it could happen on balcony, there could be falling, but I think-


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[Assistant] I think something there takes it to the loss of blood level as opposed to just severe injury of pushing off the balcony even though you're right. I like the cigarette as well, why would it be on?


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[Assistant] I'm starting to think the balcony pushing theory might not be the right one.


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[Assistant] I like your theory, but I'm gonna say balcony. This is an outdoor murder. I have a complete alibi defense here.


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[Assistant] If it's Simone, what is the clue that we found?


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[Assistant] The only thing with Simone right now is if it's Simone, I don't know if it's sculpture or brick. That's sculpture, that's correct.


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[Assistant] I am, I am pretty, I had the same idea as Brian about, um, Allegra, like, chiming in at the, at the lightest.


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[Assistant] My pitch is uhm, I'll go with push and briefs, uh, the outdoor relaxation murder. Pitch?


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[Assistant] Okay, well I think that eliminates any denture theories.


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[Assistant] Fine, you know what? I'm gonna- I'm accusing Allegra here. Push briefs. Wrong. Let's just get it out. Done.


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[Assistant] Do you have any laudanum about you? I have a touch of neuralgia.


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[Assistant] Did you say pounds or guineas?


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[Assistant] Call it a moment's work and such it seems. This tale's a fragment from the life of dreams.


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[Assistant] David. Everything seems possible.


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[Assistant] Well, the gas is lighter than air, so if you remove the ballast and the restraints, it will fly.


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[Assistant] Well, I was describing a general spiritual...


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[Assistant] Political movement, not my own personal preferences.


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[Assistant] Pent mid cloisters dim, and so naught lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe, shalt wander like a breeze, By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags of ancient mountain, And beneath the clouds.


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[Assistant] This is the most wonderful time of my life.


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[Assistant] I wish it was always now and here.


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[Assistant] With all the numberless goings on of life, inaudible as dreams.


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[Assistant] Whether the summer clothe the general earth with greenness, or the red breasts sit and sing betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch.


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[Assistant] Well, no, not yet. Thelwell, as you know, is still in prison. So far it's Sarah, myself, and the baby.


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[Assistant] Here is the garden, where flowers and food grow side by side, spiritual and physical sustenance inter-pollinating.


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[Assistant] Well no, he, he's a tanner. He makes leather. But in his way, the greatest of men...


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[Assistant] We will create a new poetry, William. Something that's never even been seen before.


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[Assistant] We made this from something that was growing in the garden. Thorn apple. It has, uh, very interesting qualities.


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[Assistant] We will light a candle in this window, which shall shine out to a far distance.


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[Assistant] It's an underground waterfall. Not a hundred feet below us yet no human eye has ever seen it.


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[Assistant] I heard it first as a boy, and I imagined underground caverns and sunless seas. In fact, the stream emerges just below that bush down there.


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[Assistant] It helps me to think his mind runs clear and deep.


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[Assistant] The fair breeze blew The white foam flew The furrow followed free We were the first that ever burst into


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[Assistant] Hattly observing that the bird was always hovering near us, imagined it was some ill omen.


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[Assistant] In my darkness and my dreams, I'm drawn to the power of these images.


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[Assistant] Well, I have a notion for another ballad in five acts. Five acts? It will be tremendous. Better than the Mariner.


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[Assistant] I will be alright. I must have some ink. On the desk. I must, I must write it down. I've seen it. I've seen it.


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[Assistant] I tried to stop him, but... You were afraid of it, that's why you made me burn it.


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[Assistant] And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething


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[Assistant] As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, a mighty fountain momently was forced. Amid whose swift half-intermittent burst, huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, or chaffy grain beneath the threshers flail.


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[Assistant] And mid this tumult, Kubla heard from far ancestral voices prophesying war.


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[Assistant] Then sir, you are my prisoner.


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[Assistant] For how long? Mr. Wordsworth and I go way back.


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[Assistant] Did my brother send me any message? No. You see, he's living at the cottage. I didn't think it was safe to approach him. Quite right.


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[Assistant] Did you warn him about the butler? We did. Do you think my brother will find him troublesome? No, he won't come in contact with him as much as I did.


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[Assistant] What toast then? It's a breastfeeding. Breastfeeding.


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[Assistant] Material for your poems, I've thought of some. Uhm, a friend of Davey's lives near here. Goes by the name Cross. Experiments with electricity. Uhm, there's gotta be a poem in that.


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[Assistant] A dream, remembered in a dream of Kubla Khan.


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[Assistant] But oh, that deep, romantic chasm.


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[Assistant] What makes Ash unique is that he is, he is really someone who developed intimate familiarity with a business problem. That was the way enterprises store and manage their data.


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[Assistant] And uhm, Ash built a company a while ago called AppIQ.


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[Assistant] I started off as an engineer, actually. He built, like, all the way down to the metal, built software and applications, uh, that were behind, uh, some very important storage products, and then left to start a company called AppIQ, and eventually sold that to HP, and became the head of the storage division at HP, uhm, which used to be a very important company. That was a joke.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and so what's interesting about Ash is, is that he, he really


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[Assistant] Developed a very intimate familiarity with a business problem, that being how enterprises store and manage their data. And he's really built a career kind of applying successive generations of technology against that problem.


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[Assistant] And that is, that is, I would say, it's a sweeping generalization. I'd be curious to get your thoughts on this, Mike.


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[Assistant] But the, that is a more, more typical on the west coast than I think here. Yeaah. Here, very often you have, you know, uhm, some, you know, smart kid at, you know, here or across the river and they have a great idea and they're gonna go find a problem to solve.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's sort of an archetypal, you know, entrepreneur mode here. Uhm, on the west coast it's more, you know, somebody did their time at PayPal or whatever and they have become intimately familiar with the customer's business problem and they're gonna, looking back from that, apply some new generation of technology against it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uhm, I think it's, it's, uh, that is where we started and, and I, frankly, I think that's a great place to start. Uhm, many of you have started already. Uhm, but, uh, anyway, the Actifio story really starts with that. Intimate familiarity.


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[Assistant] With a scaled enterprise problem related to data management and maybe the ability to apply some new technology in solving that problem.


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[Assistant] These are again original slides, Actifio 1.0 slides or Actifio, uh, as it was spelled.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the point of this slide is just that there were lots of technical innovations taking place in the storage industry. You had a move to what they called thin provisioning, which was essentially a higher level of granularity in the way data was stored.


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[Assistant] Uh, you had, uh, the advent of data deduplication, which is a reduction in some of the copies that data creates, at least at the end of the backup silo. Uhm, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] Right, there was some technical changes that were happening in terms of the way that, that, uh, storage was managed.


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[Assistant] And in the face of these technical challenges, customers were responding with a need for a simpler approach. And what they wanted were these things that are called today appliances. They are essentially single function storage devices.


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[Assistant] And over time, the confluence of these two things, new technologies enabling lots of new functions, and customer's affinity for simple devices that I could kind of plug and play into their networks,


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[Assistant] You ended up with this very complicated multi-tiered system.


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[Assistant] Uh, all these little appliances, all these little toasters and kitchen things and, and devices that did one thing very well, and individually they were easy to kind of deploy, uhm, and put in place, but the result, if you look down on the architecture as a whole,


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[Assistant] Applying the framework to, to where the company found itself.


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[Assistant] In the early days, you know, I think that we did a pretty good job against the four U's, right? In terms of our value proposition, uhm, there was really no way to solve this complexity problem with current technology, right? Current technology had evolved incrementally from the technology that preceded it, because that's what, that's in the interest of the status quo.


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[Assistant] Uhm, every, uh, enterprise, uh, with data to be accessed and protected had this problem. Because they had all these little issues to be dealt with, so it was, it was absolutely unavoidable.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was urgent because what happened over time as data moved from, you know, megabyte to terabyte to now petabyte scale, companies were finding that more and more of their IT budgets were being consumed by checks they had the right to EMC for more and more spinning disk to store their crap.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was like the enterprise equivalent of like those like, you know, places where you store your stuff, you know. Uhm, just imagine if you were paying more for that than you were for your rent.


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[Assistant] That was happening in the, that's what was happening in the ID department. So there was great urgency to try and liberate resources from these more mundane storage capabilities and apply them against more strategic IT objectives.


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[Assistant] And then finally, uhm, the market was underserved, uh, primarily because the big vendors all had a very concrete disincentive to tackle this problem in the way that served the customer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, in the end, you know, the big companies were just buying more and more of these little, like, you know, uh, these little application companies, uh, these little, uh, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] You have your perfect sales process, which is a guy who gets fired if it doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, uh, petabyte-scale big data, I've talked a little bit about that. All those things were blatant and critical. And what we needed to create was a connection to this idea that I'll explain in a little bit called copy data as the root cause of that problem. Uhm, and uhm, uhm,


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[Assistant] When we came up with the right way to explain that idea, what we found was that customers embraced it and it was only when we came up with a better way to


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. You know, I think, uhm, I think it was the great Michael Scott who said a problem well understood is a problem half.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and having the opportunity to, you know, many times uhm, you know, you can, you can change the way people think about a problem. Now, it's not manipulation, like you need to reveal underlying truth to a customer.


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, I think marketing gets a bad rap sometimes because uhm, people think it's sort of manipulative. And really, great marketing is revealing an underlying truth.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well first I wanna, I wanna highlight the importance of that, of this first one, right? Discontinuous innovation. It's one thing if you're coming to an industry you know nothing about, which was my, my huge advantage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it takes real courage to change something inside the sort of, you know, the Gorbachev model. You know, you're part of the system and then you decide to change it from within.


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[Assistant] Uhm, very difficult to do. So, discontinuous innovation, uh, really starts with the courage to break with the past.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I talked earlier about some of the things that Ash just reiterated, which was, uh, changes in the enabling technologies of storage and a customer affinity for these single function boxes and applications.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think early in the company's life, uh, Ash and David really made a decision that we're gonna start with something, uh, totally new. Start with a blank sheet of paper.


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[Assistant] Uh, the cliche is actually true in our case. That's what they started with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that led to the development of some defensible technology. So it started off with the architecture, a new way of solving the problem. Uh, we've invested a lot of time and, and other people's money, uhm, in building up now a portfolio of 22 patents, you know, in process filed or pending.


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[Assistant] Last was a way to sell that and price it in a way that is very difficult for our already public scaled competition to match. It would involve complex restatement of the way they do their financials and alter their cash flow model in a way that would make investors unhappy.


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[Assistant] So for us, I think it starts with that break, it starts with a better way, and I think after finding that, it's years of work to go and do everything necessary to realize the vision on that piece of paper.


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[Assistant] You've proven out your hypothesis in the real world because, you know, more than one person has paid you for it, uhm, uh, and, and there's a pattern in those dots. And that's a very different stage of the organization.


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[Assistant] Here you have a strategy that is much more stable than in phase one. You have a product that is maturing or becoming, uh, it's reached a critical mass of maturity in the way it's consumed.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the customer is, you know, we think of it as kind of the ultra early majority, right? There's the old crossing the chasm and that's kind of where we are, is that we're on that front edge of just sort of clearing the, uh, uhm, the Grand Canyon there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the engine is a combination of heroism and systems. I wish I could say it was all process and systems, but it's not. Uhm, it's a difficult stage of the company where you still have to do all the hero shit.


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[Assistant] In your spare time, you have to build systems and processes to make that unnecessary. Uhm, and it's a stressful time, costs you a lot of hair.


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[Assistant] That's part of that. And then, uhm, the priority really is just to make sure you're making happy customers in the world.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think that, that, uh, in our company, that is job one. Like whatever, you know, bumps and bruises we get along the way, because it's hard to make all this stuff work, we just want to make sure that, that we have happy customers, because that's really the foundation of the business going forward.


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[Assistant] Alright, so who here feels like they have a pretty good handle on what Actifio does? Who here understands what Actifio does pretty well? Okay. Alright. One.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the way that we explain Actifio to people like yourselves today, uhm, is with an analogy. So who here has a smartphone?


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[Assistant] Alright, when you take a picture with that phone, you create a 1 meg file. Okay?


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[Assistant] If you're an Apple user, PhotoStream is going to do you the kindness of sending that to your iPad and your laptop.


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[Assistant] And so now your 1 meg file is consuming 3 megs of storage across devices and in the cloud.


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[Assistant] If you send that to Instagram and it bounces out to your Twitter and Facebook accounts, your one meg photo is now consuming six megs of storage across those multiple devices. Okay?


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[Assistant] Now the exact same thing happens in the enterprise.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you have all those systems that Ash described in those initial slides and they're all making copy after copy of what's in production without knowing what copies already exist.


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[Assistant] Backup makes a copy, snapshot, disaster recovery, all these different systems. The big difference with my analogy is that instead of a 1 meg photo, this might be a 10 terabyte Oracle database. And it's now consuming 60 terabytes of data across the enterprise.


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[Assistant] Around the world, this is a $44 billion problem. It represents 60% of the money that customers spend on disk capacity, drives 65% of their storage software spending, and accounts for 85%, the vast majority of their hardware.


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[Assistant] Businesses are spending much more to manage copies of their data than they are to manage their data. And we think this is crazy. Who understands what Actifio does now? Okay, that is marketing.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I'm gonna show you, uh, the way that we tell that story at the next level of detail. These are like two or three slides from what we call our CXO deck. And what's interesting is like, going through these with Michael, I'll be able to reinforce a lot of the ideas that we've shared.


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[Assistant] So, you know, our pitch really starts with this image, uhm, and the observation that every business out there is dealing with an explosion in the amount of data that they need to manage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that is the problem. That is the problem the guy sitting in front of you has. Is he's got a growth curve of his data that looks like this. And so what we help him understand is that uhm, the majority of that data


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[Assistant] Is not production data. It's not data being produced by the systems that they use to run the business. It's data that is being produced by systems that make a copy of that data.


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[Assistant] The root cause of this is these siloed systems. In the beginning there was backup.


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[Assistant] And backup was good, right? You gotta back your stuff up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, backup wasn't fast enough at some point though, and so people created separate systems to make snapshots of their production data. Separate systems copying the same data.


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[Assistant] Uhm, people wanted to take those snapshots and put them someplace else in case there was a smoking hole at headquarters and the disaster recovery market was born.


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[Assistant] People had a disaster. They couldn't get it back fast enough. They needed it faster. That's business continuity. Separate systems.


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[Assistant] There's this whole virtual layer of technology as well, and that results in massive excess duplication, huge spending on infrastructure, all this operational complexity and massive cost to make it all work together.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is just a simplified version of many of the themes that were in that original deck, but now brought to light in the context of a story that human beings, you know, can wrap their head around. Uhm, so what Actifio did, the sort of innovation, was to start with a blank sheet of paper.


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[Assistant] And say, look, you have your production data over here and we're not going to touch that.


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[Assistant] What we're gonna do is we're gonna manage copy data. And we're gonna do that by doing a full ingest of everything in your production environment. Not a point solution that adds to everything you have. We're gonna, we're gonna take a single copy of everything. And from that point forward, after that first ingest,


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[Assistant] We're only going to store and move a unique deduped version.


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[Assistant] Of, of whatever we don't have, right? So I'm only capturing the changes after that initial snapshot.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna store that in such a way that I can spin up a virtual copy for any of those uses that you now manage separately. Uhm, and that's it.


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[Assistant] And the beauty of this is once you architect the system that way, you get to manage it all with a single application. Okay?


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[Assistant] Uhm, Actifio is radically simple copy data storage.


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[Assistant] That's what it is. Radically simple, copy data storage. Uhm, you know, one of my favorite quotes is from this guy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he said if you can't explain it simply, uhm, it's because you don't understand it well enough.


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[Assistant] And I think that there's great truth in that. There is a sort of, you know, art and some craft in terms of the ability to, to turn that into something that, uhm, that resonates with, with, you know, you aren't people who understand the problem. So it's even more acute for you. Uhm, but I, but I really believe this and, and my, you know, thing for you to take away is,


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[Assistant] Is, I see entrepreneurs and they're afraid to tell it simply.


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[Assistant] You just say, what is it? Like, when I'm working with an entrepreneur, I'll say, just tell me what it is. Like, they'll talk for five minutes about an acute robust platform for the, and I'm just like, I saw your mouth moving, I have no idea what you do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and, and it's because we all have this professional persona. And we feel like if it's complicated, it's legitimate and it's substantive.


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[Assistant] Make it simple. Have the courage to make it simple. Boil it down to something a 12 year old can understand. I promise it will accelerate the growth of your business.


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[Assistant] Anybody got a, got a, uh, copy of that storage, but no. Uhm, so this is the slide we use to articulate gain to the customer and we do it on the hard dollar, uh, side, uh, in the slide. And, you know, we're eliminating a whole bunch of software licenses and hardware, you know, you can read the slide. Uhm, we talk about 10x just on the cost side.


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[Assistant] So we get the first 10x there without quantifying the value of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, how much is it worth? What's an hour of downtime cost you? You know, that question comes up when we produce our TCO ROI analysis. But, but we start the conversation really just on the basis of, of a 90% reduction in TCO. And we can quantify this for the customer after they tell us a little bit more about the money that they're spending today.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, our strategy to minimize the pain side of the equation, uh, recognizing that this wasn't enough was, uh, to create a whole new class of storage. Uhm, and, you know, I would, I would, uh, look for, you know, Ash's commentary on this slide. You know, the,


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[Assistant] The beauty of the copy data idea is it creates something different. We say, look, leave your, that's your production data. You just spent, you know, four million dollars on a Commvault based solution. Good for you. Great product. That's production data.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what we do is, is copy data. And that's something different, something new. So it enabled us to reduce the perceived pain, the perceived switching costs on the part of the, uhm, of the user.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the beauty of this was that, that it turned out that the, that copy data was an even better market. Uhm, as we kind of got behind this idea, uh, we used IDC to go out and, and measure the size of these two markets. And they said, you know, production data is about a ten billion dollar business, copy data is about


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[Assistant] 44 billion dollar business. And by the way, the copy data, because it grows geometrically, that's the downside for the customer. You know, the upside for the business is that's growing at a compound annual growth rate of 23% per year worldwide.


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[Assistant] So uhm, you know, this is really, I think another one of the things that the company got right, right at the beginning was to reduce the perceived pain, create a totally new category that let them keep what they have in the production side of their business.


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[Assistant] So uhm, uhm, yeaah, very quickly, I mean, all the players each have a suite of capabilities, like a stack of things that you have to connect to do what we do alone.


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[Assistant] So we disrupted not only all the things that they do today, but there were a whole bunch of supporting technologies that came about to mitigate the downside of a flawed 20th century architecture, and we replaced those too.


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[Assistant] So, you know, this disruptive, you know, comes back to the disruptive business model idea. We took a lot of those functions that people were familiar with and that people think of as separate things, and we showed them how we could do those very same things, uh, with a single app.


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[Assistant] Uh, connects to a blatant customer problem. It establishes this customer priority because it's driving an explosion in storage that's consuming all their resources.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it explains the gain in such a way that it's so huge, it actually engenders some cynicism on the part of customers who say, come on, you can't really do that. Uh, the sales process is a process of convincing them we told them the truth in the marketing process.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then we're minimizing pain by leaving their production data alone. So just a recap of how we're putting together some of those, uhm, uh, those concepts that Michael's been talking about.


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[Assistant] So I talked a little bit about stories and their importance and great stories have a structure and the structure we use very much parallels the one, uh, that we just took a look at. We think in terms of five components of, of, uh, of really, you know, positioning.


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[Assistant] Target, which is who is the actionable universe of buyers that we're talking to. Segment, which is if I had a room full of those people in the target, what qualifying question would I ask to figure out who's likely to be a customer and who's not. That's the segment.


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[Assistant] Brand is, is whatever you call yourself. Category is a competitive frame for the buyer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which is a very useful thing. Uhm, it's very helpful if the buyer, uhm, if, if, people say, I, I say who do you compete with very often to a startup and they say no one. And I say, well, shit, that means you're gonna need to train people about the problem that you solve. You know, you wanna try to create some category that the buyer understands.


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[Assistant] Distinction is what makes you unique in that competitive set. Proof is perceived evidence of truth, uh, to your claim of distinction. So this is a framework that sort of roughly parallels the one that Michael articulated. Uh, it is the one that we actually used. And when you string these together, you can articulate any company's value prop.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in a segment, in a, in a paragraph that looks like this. For a target who are segment, brand provides the category with distinction because of proof. And uhm, you know, I can, I can do this for almost any, any, uh, company. Yes, sir.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna let Ash answer that. I will start by saying I hate that word. Uhm, it's such a glossing over of an incredibly painful and soul searching process for an entrepreneur to decide what aspects of their original idea to abandon and move on from.


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[Assistant] So, so, but with that said, I'd love to get your answer.


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[Assistant] So this was it. For enterprises managing lots of production data, Actifio Copy Data Management provides access to anything instantly because it's radically simple.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and that was it. Everything that we've, we've done is really based on that articulation and those buckets and, uhm, it's been a guidepost for, for everything that's followed, you know. It was very gratifying to hear Gartner say that, uhm, but it, it was, you know, a year and a half of hard work, starting with a simple story and then focusing on quality of execution.


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[Assistant] Very important. He owns this beach too. You're trespassing.


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[Assistant] A visitor. His feet were hot and tired, so he used your beach.


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[Assistant] Do I look worn and tired? A little. Around the edges. We're not going to like each other.


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[Assistant] Yes, there was a reason. Oh, do you remember that big fellow from Montana?


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[Assistant] Hmm. I want more money. And a new coat. And a sunken tub in my dressing. Maybe I'm not fooling.


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[Assistant] There comes a time in every girl's life when a man needs a punch in the nose. Have you had a good look at the inside of the silver dollar?


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[Assistant] Uhm, he was limited today. Uhm, so we'll see where he's at on Wednesday.


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[Assistant] I think they led the league in terms of, you know, yards after contact in the, in the running game. And so, um, he's a, he's a really good back, strong, physical, has great speed. He's able to break the long ones.


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[Assistant] It'd be our first experience, um, seeing him up live and, and, and in person. Um, you know, so it's probably easier to defend him when he wasn't on the field. But, uh.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, look, I mean, he's, he's a, he's a dynamic back. I mean, he's...


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[Assistant] He's one of the better backs in our league, so it'll be a challenge for us.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think all those things play into account. You know, we'll have a game plan to utilize all of our, you know, skill players.


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[Assistant] Try to put our guys all always in the best position to have success. Uhm, and so.


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[Assistant] You know, we got Mike Thomas back. Obviously he adds an element to our offense. I think we got a couple of young receivers that, uh.


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[Assistant] You know, we've got varied weapons at the tight end position, some different things that we can utilize at the running back position, so.


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[Assistant] Teams don't usually show a lot in the preseason, so it's hard to really get an evaluation of exactly what they want to do. I think there's probably some core principles that will remain the same.


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[Assistant] I don't expect to see, you know, a totally different offense, but yeah, we'll have to be able to adjust to whatever they're doing and kind of get a feel for how he's going to call the game.


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[Assistant] You know, I feel confident in where we're at offensively. I like what I've seen all throughout training camp and in the preseason. So I think we're in a good spot.


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[Assistant] I get asked that question a lot. I would just say I'm confident in our football team. Uhm, I think we've had a really good camp.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think we've executed at a high level really in all three phases throughout training camp. And so I feel confident what this team is able to do.