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Billions in Vaccine Damage Payouts
Court Awards 63 Million to Vaccine Brain Damaged Victims
GSK Pandemrix H1N1 Flu Vaccine has damaged hundreds (or thousands) of brains and paid out billions in damages. Yet people still think vaccines are safe?
Hundreds of children brain damaged by the swine flu vaccine to receive $90 million in financial compensation from UK government
by Mike Adams
The swine flu vaccine caused severe brain damage in over 800 children across Europe, and the UK government has now agreed to pay $90 million in compensation to those victims as part of a vaccine injury settlement.
This is the same swine flu vaccine that the entire mainstream media ridiculously insists never causes any harm whatsoever. From the quack science section of the Washington Post to the big pharma sellout pages of the New York Times, every U.S. mainstream media outlet exists in a state of total vaccine injury denialism, pushing toxic vaccines that provably harm children.
"Across Europe, more than 800 children are so far known to have been made ill by the vaccine," reports the International Business Times.
The vaccine caused narcolepsy and cataplexy in hundreds of children. Both are signs of neurological damage caused by vaccine additives which include mercury, aluminum, MSG, antibiotics and even formaldehyde.
As the IBTimes reports:
Narcolepsy affects a person's sleeping cycle, leaving them unable to sleep for more than 90 minutes at a time, and causing them to fall unconscious during the day. The condition damages mental function and memory, and can lead to hallucinations and mental illness.
Cataplexy causes a person to lose consciousness when they are experiencing heightened emotion, including when they are laughing.
See the animated educational video here: If car companies operated like vaccine companies.
Children brain damaged in Norway, too
"Norway has seen more than 170 reported cases of children developing narcolepsy after receiving the Pandemrix vaccine," reports the Global Post. "The government has so far paid $13 million to 86 victims, including 60 children..."
Just as in the USA and everywhere else, a contrived swine flu panic campaign was launched by the WHO and the CDC, creating widespread fear that would sell more vaccines. (Disneyland measles operation, anyone?)
As the Global Post write:
Back in 2009, the Norwegian health authorities urged everyone, not just at-risk groups, to receive vaccinations after the World Health Organization designated swine flu a pandemic.
More than 2 million Norwegians, or 45 percent of the country's population, were given Pandemrix in an unprecedented drive. The vaccine is produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and was used to inoculate up to 30 million people in 47 other European countries.
Vaccine damage is Big Pharma's route to selling more medications
Incredibly, even those children who are damaged by vaccines end up being big profit centers for the same pharmaceutical companies that damaged them in the first place.
In case after case being reported in the media, children who are damaged by defective vaccines are reported to be on multiple medications. For example, as the Global Post reports:
Tove Jensen, whose son developed severe narcolepsy after receiving the vaccine, also wants compensation from GSK.
"The situation is terrible," she says. "He's 100 percent disabled. We don't know if it's going to get better, he's on so much medication. But we hope something will happen, that he will get his life back."
Similarly, as the IB Times reports:
Peter Todd, a lawyer who represented many of the claimants, told the Sunday Times: "...The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong condition and will require extensive medication."
In other words, children who are damaged by vaccines generate even more profits for Big Pharma by being damaged! It's the perfect sinister revenue model for an industry run like a criminal mafia.
GlaxoSmithKline swine flu vaccine brain damaged medical staffers, too
"Among those affected are NHS medical staff, many of whom are now unable to do their jobs because of the symptoms brought on by the vaccine," reports the IBTimes. "They will be suing the government for millions in lost earnings."
The paper goes on to report:
Among [those damaged] is Josh Hadfield, 8, from Somerset, who is on anti-narcolepsy drugs costing [$20,000] a year to help him stay awake during the school day.
"If you make him laugh, he collapses. His memory is shot. There is no cure. He says he wishes he hadn't been born. I feel incredibly guilty about letting him have the vaccine," said his mother Caroline Hadfield, 43.
Despite a 2011 warning from the European Medicines Agency against using the vaccine on those under 20 and a study indicating a 13-fold heightened risk of narcolepsy in vaccinated children, GSK has refused to acknowledge a link.
Pharma-controlled U.S. media claims ZERO children were harmed in America
If 800 children were brain damaged by the swine flu vaccine in the UK and across Europe, how many children were damaged by the same vaccine -- or other vaccines -- in America?
According to the pharma-controlled lamestream media, that number is ZERO.
Vaccine Injury Denialism -- a particularly dangerous form of delusional junk science -- is the present-day mantra of the pharma-controlled press, which includes all the usual suspects such as the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN and so on. They simply pretend no children are ever harmed by vaccines... and they hope the U.S. public is stupid enough to believe the lie that "all vaccines are safe."
Right now, there are 800 children in the UK whose lives have been destroyed by the swine flu vaccine and who will never lead a normal life again. Every year, tens of thousands more children are diagnosed with autism. The vaccine industry is destroying a generation of children -- committing what Robert Kennedy Jr. correctly compared to a "holocaust" -- while the sellout media covers it up.
How is this not a crime against children?
Shame on all of those sellout editors and professional liars in the mainstream media who cover up the truth about an industry that's maiming and killing our children by the thousands. Do you have no sense of humanity?
See the animated educational video here: If the auto industry operated like the vaccine industry.
From Natural News @ http://www.naturalnews.com/049423_swine_flu_vaccine_brain_damage_financial_compensation.html
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On September 9th the annual i.deeds family day took place. Employees and their families met in De Panne, where the group was welcomed with a tasty breakfast. This was followed immediately by a playful quest on typical coast go carts. A delicious lunch with sea view at the Imperial Hotel recovered everyone's strength.
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As far as I can remember, the performance feats of Hennessey Performance Engineering have been legendary. I often dreamt of Hennessey Vipers, the Venom, Ferrari's, ZR1's, and others . When I got word that we would be a sponsor for the TX2K12 Dyno Day event held at HPE's Lonestar Facilities, to say I was ecstatic would be an understatement.
I was awe-struck by the sheer size of Hennessey's facility. It appeared abruptly from the Texas countryside as we took the exit off I-10. That combined with all my dream cars lined-up against the western-facing lot, I couldn't help but get immersed in the automotive rapture and stand mesmerized for what felt like days. And that was just the beginning.
This was the location for Day 2 of TX2K12; Lonestar Motorsports Park in Sealy, TX. It was also the setting for the remainder of the event. Day 2 comprised of a day-long dyno session followed by a judged show-n-shine car show. Hennessey's Mustang Dyno, properly refered to as "The Heart Breaker", catered to all the AWD vehicles. The Dynojet dyno tucked well into the facility catered to the 2WD crowd. Both were running simultaneously on a first-come-first-serve basis, with priority going to all event sponsors. Did I mention the dyno sessions were completely free?
We arrived on-site at approximately 8 AM, scoped out the scene and immediately setup camp. We barely had our EZ-UP canopy popped when the dyno day's participants started rolling in, forming a line directly in-front of the Team Revvolution booth. Within an hour, that line wrapped well around the front and side of HPE's shop and the fun began.
The line continued to roll for the rest of the event as dozens of cars came to take advantage of the free dyno sessions. Their hopes of securing the coveted TX2K12 Most Powerful title in their respective classes fueld their desires.
Participants and sponsors alike readied their rides for the day's event.
As the rides lined-up, it became a show on the move - popping their hoods, highlighting the work they've done.
As the line wrapped the south side of the facility preparing for entry into the shop, the event's sponsors lined-up in a shakedown of displays. Here, Stance Auto Body showed-off several perfectly molded body kits on a variety of platforms.
As the day progressed, it became apparent that the 2nd dyno had more demand as it's line never ceased to end.
Throughout the day, HPE dyno'd a total of 85 vehicles, a new TX2K12 record.
Hitting quadruple digits on the dyno became a norm for the Supra's, GT-R's, and several of the street-class cars.
Evo's and GT-R's were the regulars on the Mustang AWD Dyno.
On several of the vehicles, wheel-spin required by-standers to literally weigh the vehicles to ensure wheel grip for the runs.
The Jotech GT-R was the only AWD vehicle that we witnessed requiring people to weigh-down the front of the car!
After exiting the dyno, you could park in the show field to participate in the judged show-n-shine event. We couldn't help but snap some shots of a few noteworthy performances.
You have to love the Black Magic girls!
As the event wound-down around 6 PM, it became clear what was in-store for the rest of the weekend. Dyno day @ HPE had set a very high bar, and if the exhaust notes still ringing in our ears was any indicator, the weekend's high-octane races wouldn't let us down.


When we think of pantries, we mostly think of food. However, another important function of the pantry in history has been medicinal. A well stocked pantry can provide the means to make your own simple remedies.
She walks carefully from the back door with the basket of damp clothing in tow. She looks forward to these moments of reflection.
She will skillfully attach the family garments to the clothesline. She will set each pin in place with satisfaction.
She takes a deep breathe and inhales the clean wash as it swishes in the spring breeze. Birds are chirping melodies, serenading her. The sun shines upon her skin, embracing her with its warmth.
These are her minutes to soak in the beauty of the morning. These are her minutes to ponder and prepare.
When she does her duties in this thoughtful way, she is more sensitive to the blessings that abound each day.
"Give her of the fruit of her hands…"
Variety is said to be the spice of life but I think spices make the variety... A well maintained spice collection can turn you into a culinary queen. The secret is to actually use them :) They are truly more affordable when boughten in bulk, can be easily placed in recycled spice containers or jars and may be stored in a myriad of ways. Finish them off with some attractive labels and you are really cooking!
I personally like using mason jars with the plastic caps because they are easier to measure from. You can place the labels on the lids or you may glue them to the front of your jars. The idea is to keep the labels at eye level so that your spices and seasonings are quickly found. These labels can also be affixed to plastic storage containers with a glue stick. For instance, if you purchase seasoning packets in bulk and store them in Tupperware, then label your Tupperware. Be creative with what you have!
Some place their spices inside of a drawer. With a label on the lid, you can view your inventory at a glance. The wonderful part about pantry labels is that they bring everything together in a matching collection no matter how differently they are stored. Some of our food is in plastic containers, mason jars, recycled condiment jars while some are in Fido jars. However, it still looks nice and neat because of the unifying labels.
For a set of our pantry labels featuring "Seasonings, Spices and Such", simply download and/or print from this link HERE. You can either print them out on plain paper, cut to size and affix to your containers with glue (or decoupage) or print them out on sticker paper and cut to size. If you choose the first route, you may want to place a piece of packing tape or clear contact paper over each label to protect them. You may also be interested in our "Basic Pantry Labels" and our set for "Nuts and Seeds".
For further fun, visit our Make Your Own Seasoning Mixes with Printable DIY Recipe Kit which features recipes, printable labels and directions for our favorite 6 seasoning mixes.
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Here are some spring decorating ideas from an expensive retail store (aka Pottery Barn) that you can produce for *free* in your home. A pleasant nature walk with your family will provide the resources for many of these peaceful settings. Some collected pebbles and rocks could be dropped into an antique jar or glass vessel. Add a candle or a few dried flower stems (my choice would be roses, what about you?) for this simple vignette.
Forage for larger, smooth stones of the same colors to create this serene ensemble. A mason jar would be attractive for this project as well. For a romantic look, add a strip of ribbon or lace (or replace the rocks with an assortment of beads and pearls).
Place any vintage volumes and "artifacts" in a tray to provide a nostalgic look.
Though the toppers may be hard to reciprocate, the decorative jar certainly isn't. Some antique clip art, attached with a vintage style tag, twine and trinket gives your home a tranquil, naturalist ambiance.
and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine."
yet they prepare their meat in the summer…"
and gathereth her food in the harvest."
"It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself.
Should a Christian Practice Food Storage?
Today we are sharing samples from our simple studies of the History of the World, starting with creation. We have done a lot of creation related activities in our homeschool so this particular study wasn't in depth. It was more of a review for us but I would like to share our journey in case any one is intimidated to try something like this. The school subjects taught in this unit are shared in parenthesis.
For our "Book of the Centuries Timeline", we recorded each of the seven days as a separate page entry since this was a special week. We printed out the appropriate Scripture and illustrated it for our timeline. Day one and day seven are shared above (Subjects accomplished include: Bible, world history, language arts via copywork, science/nature, art/crafts).
We recopied the creation day Bible verse that we used in the timeline binder but in handwriting this time (Bible, cursive, language arts via copywork). We did a scrapbook style page showcasing each creation day. Our first entry was simply a half white/half black construction paper page (arts/crafts) symbolizing the light and darkness.
Each day, we read a few pages from The Amazing Story of Creation by Duane T. Gish, Ph.D. in order to learn about the science of creation and the evolution debate (science/nature, Bible). This book reinforces the truth of the Scriptures using observable science. If you are struggling in an area in the word of God that you think contradicts science, you will find answers here in this "Supposed Bible Contradictions Index".
Next, we recorded what was specifically created on each day (science/nature, arts/crafts) and read related picture books or encyclopedia entries on the subjects (such as "light"). We used the first few chapters of "Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation" as a resource for this section.
This book is very detailed and would be a help to someone who has questions and doubts about evolution versus creation but it is a little advanced to be read in its entirety to elementary aged students.
We used the Webster's 1828 Dictionary and defined key words for each creation day (language arts, science/nature).
We tried to accompany each creation day with artwork for picture study (fine arts). For day one, we used a photograph that the Hubble telescope took. Older children can write an art review below the picture (language arts) while the younger children can explain their feelings about the art (narration).
We continue to document what was created on each day and read accompanying books on the subjects (arts/crafts, science/nature).
We went into detail about water and how it exists in three forms (liquid, solid, gas) and shared examples of this.
When we got to day six, the verse was quite long so we used Microsoft word (Bible, typing) and printed it out for our scrapbook page (arts/crafts).
At the end of this study, we wrote a poem about creation (language arts).
On the weekends, we watched educational (but fun) movies about creation (shared below).
On day seven, we scrap-booked and copied the appropriate verse (arts/craft, cursive). We also took this opportunity to discuss the importance of the Sabbath (Bible).
During this study, as the clothes needed folding and housework needed doing, we listened to Jonathan Park "Creation Science" Adventure Series on CD (Bible, science/nature, character building, home economics). These CD's alone could teach creation without any effort from mother.
We followed this "Creation Study" with a study on Dinosaurs. You could also blend the two together since dinosaurs were created on day six.
You can find free creation books online from Answers in Genesis here. They also offer some teacher's resources on creation and a "Terms to Know List" that may be helpful. They share bookplates that you can print out for your students. If you live near Kentucky, you can visit their Creation Museum. Should you have any questions about science being in harmony with the Scriptures, you will find answers here.
"If God's Word be true, evolution is a lie.
I will not mince the matter: this is not the time for soft speaking."
The latest, choicest part of heaven's great plan.
Helpmeet is found for laboring, suffering man.
Her moulding power, her radiant virtues shine!
Our first foods in the Garden of Eden certainly deserve their own spot in the limelight. We store the majority of our nuts and seeds in the freezer (to keep them from going rancid), however, a smaller amount can safely be kept in airtight containers for quick snacks and such.
We went "round" on these labels because we store them in jars. However, they can still be used in the traditional way (affixed to the front). We continued the floral theme in order to coordinate them with our basic pantry labels.
I am rather addicted to the plastic caps. They turn every canning jar into a convenient storage container. Would you like to label a set for your pantry?
Simply download and/or print for FREE from the link HERE. You can either print them out on plain paper, cut to size and affix to your containers with glue (or decoupage) or print them out on sticker paper and cut to size. If you choose the first route, you may want to place a piece of packing tape or clear contact paper over each label to protect them.
These simple, organizational projects are a fun way to sprinkle love into ordinary spaces. They help to turn a humble house, into a home sweet home.
"Her spirit (the wife) gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of a home."
You will find our "Basic Pantry Labels" here and our "Seasonings, Spices and Such" set here. I invite you to subscribe to this blog (located on the sidebar) in order to keep updated on future homemaking printables.
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Q: How can I show the adjacent cards in scrollView? I'm trying to implement a swiper in react native, where cards are arranged horizontally and users can swipe left/right to see the next card coming from adjacent edge.
Something similar to this http://www.idangero.us/swiper/#.VmFqdeN95E4
I have a scrollView with each cards width equal to device width, so each card can be swiped to reveal next/previous card.
But how can I show the adjacent cards in the same viewpoint?
Are there any props in scrollView to achieve this? (using snapToInterval and snapToAlignment doesn't go well if pagingEnabled)

A: You need all of these in your scroll view:
horizontal = {true}
decelerationRate = {0}
snapToInterval = {200}
snapToAlignment = {'center'}

Check the expo for detailed implementation
https://snack.expo.io/H1CnjIeDb
Unfortunately, this does not work on Android at the moment. Hopefully, they will support it in the future.

A: Assuming you are using iOS you can combine the ScrollView properties snapToInterval={somethingSmallerThanDeviceWidth} and snapToAlignment to create this effect. Cards then need to be smaller than device width of course.
I've created a RNPlay example using this technique:

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De Corgoň Liga 2012/2013 was het twintigste seizoen in de hoogste afdeling van het Slowaakse voetbal sinds de introductie van de topliga in 1993. De competitie begon op 13 juli 2012 en eindigde op 26 mei 2013. Titelverdediger is MŠK Žilina, dat in 2012 voor de zesde keer landskampioen werd sinds de vreedzame ontmanteling van Tsjecho-Slowakije.

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|  || ŠK Slovan Bratislava || 33 || 16 || 11 || 6 || 56 || 33 || +23 || 59
|- style="background:#C0F0D0;"
| 2 || FK Senica || 33 || 16 || 7 || 10 || 40 || 34 || +6 || 55
|- style="background:#C0F0D0;"
| 3 ||  AS Trenčín || 33 || 14 || 11 || 8 || 52|| 34 || +18 || 53
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| 4 ||  Spartak Myjava || 33 || 13 || 9 || 11 || 43 || 37 || +6 || 48
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| 5 ||  MFK Košice || 33 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 38 || 33 || +5 || 47
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| 6 || MFK Ružomberok || 33 || 12 || 9 || 12 || 36 || 46 || –10 || 45
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| 7 ||  MŠK Žilina || 33 || 9 || 15 || 9 || 37 || 28 || +9 || 42
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| 8 ||  FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce || 33 || 11 || 8 || 14 || 42 || 43 || –1 || 41
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| 9 ||  Dukla Banská Bystrica || 33 || 9 || 11 || 13 || 28|| 32 || –4 || 38
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| 10 || FC Nitra || 33 || 11 || 6 || 16 || 39 || 54 || –14 || 36
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 Topscorers In onderstaand overzicht zijn alleen spelers opgenomen met tien of meer doelpunten achter hun naam''

Meeste speelminuten
Bijgaand een overzicht van de spelers die in het seizoen 2012/13 in alle 33 competitieduels in actie kwamen voor hun club, van de eerste tot en met de laatste minuut.

Nederlanders
Onderstaande Nederlandse voetballers kwamen in het seizoen 2012/13 uit in de Corgoň Liga.

Scheidsrechters

Toeschouwers

Slovan Bratislava
Bijgaand een overzicht van de spelers van Slovan Bratislava, die in het seizoen 2012/13 onder leiding van trainer-coach Samuel Slovák voor de elfde keer kampioen van Slowakije werden.

Zie ook
Slowaaks voetbalelftal in 2012
Slowaaks voetbalelftal in 2013

Slowaakse voetbalcompetitie
Competitievoetbal 2012/13

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The federal government shutdown caused by President Donald Trump's fight over his proposed border wall may not just be a distraction from his legal troubles, but a way to shore up his base ahead of a possible impeachment trial, CNN analyst Fareed Zakaria said Thursday.
Appearing with CNN host Don Lemon, Zakaria said that Trump's support of the wall was what separated him from the rest of the GOP pack at the beginning of his political career.
Trump is now pursuing a "base-only strategy" Zakaria said.


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Q: how to get the text from the image? I am trying to get coordinate from a map, I took the coordinate part and I applied on it OCR using Pytesseract but I can't get the coordinate. this is the link to the image "https://ibb.co/hVynk2b" i tried this script:
import numpy as np
import cv2 as cv
%matplotlib inline
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
img = cv.imread('a.jpg')
corped = img[460:700, 700:1000]
image=cv2.cvtColor(corped,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
se=cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT , (8,8))
bg=cv2.morphologyEx(image, cv2.MORPH_DILATE, se)
out_gray=cv2.divide(image, bg, scale=255)
out_binary=cv2.threshold(out_gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_OTSU )[1]
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
from pytesseract import Output
d = pytesseract.image_to_data(out_binary, output_type=Output.DICT)
print(d['text'])

A: It seems to work for me. I ran the code you pasted, but cleaned it up a bit:
import numpy as np
import cv2 as cv
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import pytesseract
from pytesseract import Output
img = cv.imread(r'a.jpg')
cropped = img[460:700, 700:1000]
image = cv.cvtColor(cropped, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
se = cv.getStructuringElement(cv.MORPH_RECT, (8, 8))
bg = cv.morphologyEx(image, cv.MORPH_DILATE, se)
out_gray = cv.divide(image, bg, scale=255)
out_binary = cv.threshold(out_gray, 0, 255, cv.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
d = pytesseract.image_to_data(out_binary, output_type=Output.DICT)
print(d['text'])

and it returns '35°21'24°'
I did notice however that pytesseract doesn't catch the vertical text. You can either add in and mess around with the config parameter when calling image_to_data or you can simply rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise and run it again:
import numpy as np
import cv2 as cv
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import pytesseract
from pytesseract import Output
img = cv.imread(r'C:\Users\guneh\Desktop\a.jpg')
rotate = cv.rotate(cropped, cv.ROTATE_90_CLOCKWISE)
image = cv.cvtColor(rotate, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
se = cv.getStructuringElement(cv.MORPH_RECT, (8, 8))
bg = cv.morphologyEx(image, cv.MORPH_DILATE, se)
out_gray = cv.divide(image, bg, scale=255)
out_binary = cv.threshold(out_gray, 0, 255, cv.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
d = pytesseract.image_to_data(out_binary, output_type=Output.DICT)
print(d['text'])

returns '10°37'02"'


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StandwithUs
Last evening we hosted a program with StandwithUs, an educational organization deeply involved in combating BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) and antisemitism on the college campus. Shahar Azani, Rabbi David Siegel and Professor Robin Charlow were incredible, outstanding speakers. They contributed a great deal to our understanding of the issues as well as sharing their personal experiences. I do however remain biased. My favorite speaker was none other than Shira Moskowitz! Below is the text of her prepared remarks. I hope that many find her words equally inspiring. I hope my young students hear as well her call to action.
It had been a month since resolution AR 3-050 had been brought before our Central Student Government (CSG). The resolution called for the University of Michigan to create a committee that would look into the ethics of the university's investments. However, this resolution was inextricably tied to the BDS movement because the only companies it singled out were ones that had operations in the West Bank.
I was working the Hillel booth at Springfest, a campus wide fair. We asked students to draw a representation of their core values on quilt to be displayed alongside the winning art from the Hillel art competition based on the same theme. One Hillel student had incorporated Nelson Mandela into her piece which was on display at Springfest. When I was left alone at the booth, students from SAFE (Students Allied for Freedom and Equality), the group that had created the BDS related resolution, approached me. They asked how we could incorporate Nelson Mandela into our art since Israel is an apartheid state. I calmly replied that this was a student's personal representation and that students in Hillel have a wide rang of views about Israel, social justice, and all other issues. Then the student began to yell at me while her friend videotaped. I said nothing, afraid of where this video would end up and how it could be taken out of context and used against me personally and Hillel. When they walked away I burst into tears. I had never felt so belittled and dehumanized. My privacy had been invaded and I had been attacked.
Unfortunately over the course of that semester, Winter 2014, these were feelings that I and my fellow classmates had become accustomed to. This resolution had divided our campus. You were either for it or against it. There was no room to fall into the gray areas that have shaped the Israel-Palestinian conflict for the past 2,000 years. Many Jewish students felt they could only voice their positive feelings for Israel because they worried that challenging their own beliefs could be misconstrued as weakness or used as ammunition by the other side. As such, it became impossible for students to learn from one another and to share their stories on a campus rife with such hostility and tension.
When students are unable to question and challenge their own beliefs and those of other members of their campus community, the beauty of a college education is lost and the likelihood that something meaningful will occur and that ideas can flow freely becomes less and less.
Although tension had been rising since early December when students from SAFE slipped eviction notices under the doors of dorm rooms to simulate the experience of Palestinians living in the West Bank, it was not until CSG decided to table the resolution that this tension bubbled over.
Students from SAFE hosted sit-ins at the student government offices. CSG representatives received death threats for speaking out against the resolution and some were even walked to class by university police officers. A Jewish friend of mine felt uncomfortable sharing her opinions in class because her professor had expressed his support for the resolution and the BDS movement. Students were called Anti-Semitic slurs for wearing IDF t-shirts, Jewish star necklaces, and other symbols of their pride for Israel and Judaism. Michigan no longer felt like the warm and friendly campus community I had grown to love.
In the end, the resolution was voted down but a statement had been made. Divestment was here to stay at the University of Michigan. This past year, a new but extremely similar resolution was brought in front of CSG. This resolution failed to pass by only a small margin but created much less tension because of the student government's decision to vote immediately.
While this experience was both eye opening and important for me, what left me frustrated was its lack of constructive outcomes. What had we achieved besides pushing people further apart? Although we are just one college campus, this matters. The students organizing both in favor of and against this resolution are the future leaders of our world. Our college campuses are a microcosm of our society and so it is our responsibility to continue educating, engaging, and debating, three things that are unattainable when polarizing movements infiltrate campuses.
I do not support BDS. I do however support peace, human rights, and a two-state solution. I hope that students on college campuses will not let internationally divisive movements prevent them from having meaningful dialogues that will one day allow them to reshape the society we live in.
And for those who have not yet had a chance to watch the thirty minute film about BDS, "Crossing the Line 2," I urge you again to watch it.
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Water is an integral and important part of our daily lives. We drink it, wash our bodies and hair with it, clean our clothes with it, even heat our houses with it, and yet we rarely pay attention to its effects.
However, if you find that your sinks are stained with white limescale, your skin is dry and itchy, then you may have a problem with hard water. And if that's the case, you probably need a water softener. Water softening systems will help increase the life of your equipment, appliances and clothing. A good water softener can even help you to save money in the long term.
– Hard water causes mineral deposits on skin, hair and clothing.
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The typical price for a Fleck water softener is upwards of $500. This is very reasonable and you can expect to pay this for most water softeners of a similar specification.
Of course, if you get a larger capacity model or one that has more features, it will cost you more. Also, this does not include potential costs of a professional plumber to install the unit for you. Nor does this include all the costs of maintaining and up-keeping. For example, the price does not include the water softener salt that you will need to buy in order to make the softener work.
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Fleck 5600SXT is popular because it is very effective in dealing with high amounts of hard water.
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Fully automated meaning you can set and forget it.
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College League of Legends 2018
If you're looking for a place to watch college League of Legends games, then you've come to the right place. Here you can find out the schedule, rankings, and more. You can also learn about the coaches and Teams in the game. These resources will help you get the best possible experience when watching college League of Legends games.
If you've been following College League of Legends esports for any length of time, you've seen the top players on the scene. You may also have seen some of the teams from the collegiate circuit. The Cougars and Saints have recruited some high-quality League of Legends players in the past. For example, the Cougars recruited MistyStumpy and Julien, two former pro League of Legends players.
Esports are a great way to engage students, keep them focused, and promote a positive learning environment. They can also be a viable path to higher education, career opportunities, or transfers to four-year schools. In 2018, the Peach Belt Conference became the first NCAA conference to compete in College League of Legends 2018. College League of Legends is an online video game with a competitive nature similar to traditional sports. The players are constantly competing for the top spots, coaches provide guidance, and tournaments are organized. Since the game is so popular, esports have gained a huge following and have become an exciting, growing sport.
College League of Legends 2018 is a highly competitive esports league with more than 300 teams. The game is becoming increasingly popular, especially among college students. The game is based on teamwork and has fast-paced gameplay. Teams have many advantages, and players have the opportunity to meet new people and bond with one another.
Teams in college League of Legends 2018 are preparing to face off against each other in the second week of the season. The teams will compete against each other in a series of weekly matches throughout the North American region, with live finals held in Los Angeles. The top 16 teams will be competing for scholarship prizes.
The rankings of college league of legends 2018 are out and the University of California-Irvine is the top team. The poll, released on Wednesday, was the first of its kind in college esports. More than 40 college coaches responded to the survey. The results will be updated on a weekly basis and are based on a methodology similar to the USA TODAY coaches polls.
League of Legends is a fast-paced 5-v-5 online video game that has more than a hundred million monthly active players. This competitive online game is particularly popular on college campuses. There are over 300 university teams, including many who compete for scholarships.
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The University of North Georgia has won the first ever Peach Belt Conference College League of Legends championship, defeating Georgia College 3-1 in the finals. The victory makes the Peach Belt Conference the first major NCAA conference to award a league championship in the field of video games. League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game in which players role-play in teams against other teams. The goal is to take out the opponent's home base and win.
The Peach Belt Conference has partnered with Riot Games, the creators of the online video game League of Legends. The Peach Belt already held an exhibition season in fall, but this spring will be the first official League of Legends competition. The league will host an inaugural championship in spring to determine its champion.
The first competitive year of Overwatch in college kicked off with a preseason event at Homecoming, which featured a Swiss round, group stage, and single elimination playoffs. Hundreds of student teams competed for the $27,600 prize pool. The winning team would be known as the team to beat before the main season tournament in 2022.
The university's varsity esports team is comprised of master and diamond ranked players such as Nat "Axiom" Wade, Alex "Alex" Matos, Ethan "Creenis" Loder, and Josh "Datadrainer" Denning. The team competes in the Tespa Overwatch collegiate varsity league and has previously beaten teams from Minnesota, Oklahoma City University, and Rogers State University.
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Jože Horvat, slovenski pisatelj in publicist, *1942.

Življenje in delo

Gimnazijo je končal leta 1960 v Murski Soboti, nato je na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani študiral nemščino, slovenščino in poljščino. V letih 1967/68 je dva semestra preživel na podiplomskem študiju v Heidelbergu. Kot študent je za SAZU honorarno sodeloval pri pripravi besedišča za SSKJ. Leta 1970 je dobil delo pri Delu in pisal o kulturni politiki, literaturi in jeziku, posvečal se je domala vsem časnikarskim zvrstem – poročilom, reportažam, literarnim portretom, glosam, intervjujem, knjižnim ocenam ipd. Kolumne in knjižne ocene je pisal tudi za reviji TT in Teleks in kot dopisnik Zagrebškega tednika Danas. V navezavi s spremljanjem literature in kulture v slovenskem zamejstvu in tujini je pripravil več intervjujev z jugoslovanskim pisatelji.
Leta 1981 je prejel nagrado Tomšičevega sklada. Krajši čas je urednikoval pri Naših razgledih, jeseni 1988 pa je ponovno na Delu prevzel uredništvo kulturne rubrike.

Leta 1991 je odstopil in odšel na založbo Mladika v Ljubljani, kjer je tri leta urejal otroško revijo Kekec. Vmes se je vrnil k Delu, leta 1998 je začel pri novem dnevniku Jutranjik, po njegovem zatonu pa je pisal za revijo Mag. Leta 2000 je prejel Jurčičevo nagrado, istega leta je na povabilo kulturnega ministra Rudija Šelige pričel z delom na ministrstvu za kulturo, kjer je bil zaposlen do upokojitve leta 2010.

Bibliografija

Pisatelji. Murska Sobota: Pomurska založba, 1983.
Lužica in njeni Srbi. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 1988.
Še enkrat o deveti deželi (Peter Handke v pogovoru z Jožetom Horvatom). Celovec; Salzburg: Wieser, 1993
Bela Lendava. Ljubljana: Mladika, 2002
Profili prizorov: s pisatelji v času razkrajanja bivše države. Murska Sobota: Pomurska založba, 2003.
Tihožitje z goro: poti in zgodbe. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2006  (2006).
Dvojni svet: heidelberška zgodba 1967/68. Celje: Celjska Mohorjeva družba; Celovec: Mohorjeva, 2009.
Obrazi prostora: podeželjske refleksije. Ljubljana: KUD Sodobnost International, 2013.
Domorodje: podeželjske refleksije. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2015.
Navdih in besede: pisatelji in pisateljice s Tržaškega. Trst: Mladika, 2012-2016.
Na slepem tiru: Dnevnik kulturnega urednika Dela, januar 1989–maj 1991. Ljubljana: Modrijan, 2017.
Izrečeno in zamolčano: Srečanja in prizoru z literati – dnevniški zapisi. Trst: Mladika, 2020.
Panoramski let. Ljubljana: KUD Sodobnost International, 2020.

Sklici

Rojeni leta 1942
Slovenski pisatelji
Slovenski publicisti
Tomšičevi nagrajenci
Prekmurski pisci
Diplomiranci Filozofske fakultete v Ljubljani
Živeči ljudje
Horvat, Jože
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Will recording every spoken word help or hurt us?
James Somers By James Somers Illustration by Christian Northeast September 3, 2015
We are going to start recording and automatically transcribing most of what we say. Instead of evaporating into memory, words spoken…By James Somers
We are going to start recording and automatically transcribing most of what we say. Instead of evaporating into memory, words spoken aloud will calcify as text, into a Record that will be referenced, searched, and mined. It will happen by our standard combination of willing and allowing. It will happen because it can. It will happen sooner than we think.
It will make incredible things possible. Think of all the reasons that you search through your email. Suddenly your own speech will be available in just the same way. "Show me all conversations with Michael before January of last year ... What was the address of that restaurant Mum recommended? ... When was the first time I mentioned Rob's now-wife? ... Who was at that meeting again?" Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University and a co-author of a forthcoming book on evolutionary psychology, has speculated that we might all get in the habit of peppering our speech with keywords, to help us look it up later. Or, while you're talking, a software agent could search your old conversations for relevant material. Details would come to your attention at just the moment that you needed them.
Much of what is said aloud would be published and made part of the Web. An unfathomable mass of expertise, opinion, wit, and culture—now lost—would be as accessible as any article or comment thread is today. You could, at any time, listen in on airline pilots, on barbershops, on grad-school bull sessions. You could search every mention of your company's name. You could read stories told by father to son, or explanations from colleague to colleague. People would become Internet-famous for being good conversationalists. The Record would be mined by advertisers, lawyers, academics. The sheer number of words available for sifting and savoring would explode—simply because people talk a lot more than they write.
With help from computers, you could trace quotes across speakers, or highlight your most common phrases, or find uncommon phrases that you say more often than average to see who else out there shares your way of talking. You could detect when other people were recording the same thing as you—say, at a concert or during a television show—and automatically collate your commentary.
You'd think we were a strange species, if you listened to the whole of humanity's recorded corpus today.
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Bill Schilit, a Googler who did early work mining the Google Books corpus, suggested that you could even use quotations to find connections between scientific subjects. "In science you have this problem that the same thing is called different names by different people; but quotations tend to bridge the nomenclature between disciplines," he said. He described a project where Google looked at quotations used by researchers in different fields. In each document, they'd extract the sentence just before the quotation—the one that introduced it—and then compare those two descriptions; that way they could find out what the quotation stood for: what it meant to different authors, what writers in different disciplines called the same thing.
But would all of this help or hurt us? In his book The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argues that new technology that augments our minds might actually leave them worse off. The more we come to rely on a tool, the less we rely on our own brains. That is, parts of the brain seem to behave like muscle: You either use it (and it grows), or you lose it. Carr cites a famous study of London taxi drivers studying for "The Knowledge," a grueling test of street maps and points of interest that drivers must pass if they are to get their official taxi license. As the taxi drivers ingested more information about London's streets, the parts of their brain responsible for spatial information literally grew. And what's more, those growing parts took over the space formally occupied by other gray matter.
Paradoxically, long-term memory doesn't seem to work the same way; it doesn't "fill up." By offloading more of memory's demands onto the Record, therefore, it might not be that we're making space for other, more important thinking. We might just be depriving our brains of useful material. "When a person fails to consolidate a fact, an idea, or an experience in long-term memory," Carr writes, "he's not 'freeing up' space in his brain for other functions ... When we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches."
The worry, then, is twofold: If you stopped working out the part of your brain that recalls speech, or names, or that-book-that-Brian-recommended-when- you-spoke-to-him-in-the-diner-that-day-after-the- football-game, maybe those parts of your brain would atrophy. Even more pernicious, as you came to rely more on the Record as a store of events and ideas, you would decide less often to commit them to your own long-term memory. And so your mind would become a less interesting place.
If that's frightening, consider also what it might be like to live in a society where everything is recorded. There is an episode of the British sci-fi series Black Mirror set in a world where Google Glass–style voice and video recording is ubiquitous. It is a kind of hell. At airport security, the agents ask you to replay your last 24 hours at high speed, so they can clear all the faces you interacted with. At parties, instead of making new conversation, people pore over their "redos" and ask to see their friends.' In lonely moments, instead of rehearsing memories in the usual way—using the faulty, foggy, nonlinear recall apparatus of their own minds—people replay videos, zooming in on parts they missed the first time around. They seem to live so much in the past as to be trapped by it. The past seems distorted and refracted by the too-perfect, too-public record. In the episode's most vividly dark moment, we see a couple passionately making love, only to realize that the great sex is happening in "redos" that they're both watching on their implanted eye-screens; in the real present, they're humping lovelessly on a cold bed, two drugged-out zombies.
Between these visions of heaven and hell lies the likely truth: When something like the Record comes along, it won't reshape the basic ways we live and love. It won't turn our brains to mush, or make us supermen. We will continue to be our usual old boring selves, on occasion deceitful, on occasion ingenuous. Yes, we will have new abilities—but what we want will change more slowly than what we can do.
Speech recognition has long been a holy grail of artificial intelligence research. "The attraction is perhaps similar to the attraction of schemes for turning water into gasoline, extracting gold from the sea, curing cancer, or going to the moon," the Bell Labs engineer J.R. Pierce wrote in 1969. He argued that we attacked and funded the problem not because it was tractable or even useful, but simply because there would be something magnificent in talking to a computer. It would be like science fiction. The machine would seem alive.
The fact that the problem of recognizing speech seemed to contain within it the whole problem of human understanding—after all, in order to parse an ambiguous sound, we bring to bear not just knowledge of language but knowledge of the world—only made it more enticing. Progress in speech recognition would stand for progress in AI more generally. And so it became a benchmark and a prize.
The earliest working systems restricted themselves to a simple vocabulary—say, the digits "zero" through "nine" spoken one at a time—and distinguished words by looking for specific features in their sound waves. As you might expect, when the vocabulary grew, the distinctions between different words' sound waves became more subtle. The approach fell apart. Researchers realized they needed something more robust.
Their insight, arrived at in the 1970s, was to model speech as a sequence at multiple levels simultaneously. That is, at each moment, they imagined their recognition system as being in some state at the sound level, the syllable level, the word level, the phrase level, and so on. Its job was to predict, at each level, what the next state would be. To do so it used large tables of probabilities that said, in essence, "If you see state A, then state B happens 0.1 percent of the time, state C happens 30 percent of the time, state D happens 11 percent of the time," and so on. These tables were made by training the system on labeled data (recordings that had been transcribed by hand, and were known to be correct). The trick was that if the word-level prediction was ambiguous—maybe because the environment was noisy, or the speaker's voice was distorted—predictions from the other levels could be used to rule out possibilities and home in on the correct choice. It was a massive advance. It was like going from trying to solve the crossword one clue at a time to playing on the grid: Each clue offered hints about the others, simplifying and reducing the puzzle.
This insight, combined with the exponential growth of training data and computational power, underwrote most of the progress in speech recognition in the last four decades. It's what got us workable but error-prone dictation software, like Dragon Naturally Speaking, the first versions of Siri, and those automated phone trees that let you to speak your selection ("billing inquiry" or "schedule maintenance"). But around 2010 it seemed as though progress might always be incremental—like there were no big ideas left in speech recognition. The field seemed to have plateaued. Then deep learning came along.
People will continue to be less concerned with how they sound than how they look. They will be far more likely to pause for a selfie than for a soliloquy.
Geoffrey Hinton and his collaborators, then at the University of Toronto and now at Google, were experimenting with deep neural nets. Neural nets are computer programs that work a little like the brain: They are made of layers of neuron-like cells that receive input from other neurons, compute some simple function (like a sum or average) over those inputs, and either fire or not based on the value of that function, spreading activation to other neurons deeper in the net. The nets are trained by entering inputs into the bottommost layer, and seeing what comes out of the topmost layer; if the output isn't what you were expecting, you use a simple learning algorithm to adjust the strength of the connections (the "synapses") between neurons until you get what you want. Rinse and repeat over many billions of examples, and your net might come to encode important features of the problem at hand, and work well as a recognizer.
Most neural nets are stateless, in the sense that the output for a given sense of inputs depends on that input alone. This limits their effectiveness for modeling speech. But Alex Graves, working in Hinton's lab, wondered what would happen if you tackled the speech recognition problem using neural nets whose output could depend on sequences of inputs, known as "recurrent neural nets." They were remarkably effective. Graves' RNNs—which are given far less information about language than those multi-level prediction systems that had long been a mainstay of the field—were soon matching and then surpassing the performance of the old approach.
When I spoke to Hinton, and asked him how such simple programs could recognize speech so effectively, he said he was reminded of some sketches that he likes, by Leonardo da Vinci, of turbulent water going past a lock. The water is rushing and frothing and swirling in eddies, a complex mess. But its behavior, Hinton said, "It's all described by the extremely simple Navier-Stokes equations." A few simple rules generate all the complexity. The same thing, he argues, happens when a neural network learns to recognize speech. "You don't need to hand-engineer lots of complicated speech phenomena into the system," Hinton says.
At Google, Hinton and his colleagues are doing basic research in computer science, examining, as he put it, "the space of learning algorithms that work well." Their findings will have a huge number of applications. But speech continues to be a top priority, and not just because it's a good proving ground for their algorithms. "The thing about speech," Hinton told me, "is that it's the most natural way to interact with things."
Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are not interested, today, in recording and transcribing everything we say. They are interested in voice as an interface. The Amazon Echo, for instance, sits and waits for you to issue it commands; for playing music or looking up a bit of trivia, talking is easier than typing, especially when you can do it from anywhere in the room. And as computers get smaller, and move onto our wrist or the bridge of our nose, perhaps someday into our ear, keyboards stop being practical—and yet we still need a way to tell the computer what to do. Why not just tell it? Why not just say, "Ok Google, direct me home?"
This is how it's going to happen. Speech recognition technology is being driven both by basic research into AI—because it's a model problem—and by the perceived need of Google and its ilk to create better voice interfaces for their new devices. Intentionally or not, the tech will soon get so good as to reach a tipping point—what the journalist Matt Thompson called the Speakularity—where "the default expectation for recorded speech will be that it's searchable and readable, nearly in the instant." The only question, then, will be what we decide to record.
Rather be elsewhere: This scene from the sci-fi series "Black Mirror" depicts a couple in bed, each using implanted technology to relive an episode from their past.Channel 4
by James Somers
Nick typed her streamcode slowly—indulgently, almost, as if each character were itself a prize. For a minute he stared dumbly at his screen, half enamored by the code, half afraid. When curiosity overcame caution, he hit ENTER.
Sam's audio came through immediately. Who was she talking to?
He adjusted his headphones. They were an old pair but still holophonic, with three-dimensional acoustics. They gave his head the feeling of being centered at—or in—the point source of the sound: in this case, Sam's mic, which must have been an implant. Nick was hearing the world from inside her head. He could hear her breath draw; he could hear the ride of vowels over the wave of her tongue.
Ordinarily he would have no interest in a live stream. He believed, as a matter of professional policy, that "real-time" was too slow. He didn't have the patience for out-loud talk, for the false starts and filled pauses of unedited speakers.
The archives were simply more efficient. Text is searchable, excerptable. Text can be skimmed, scanned, parsed, processed, and pattern-matched in massive batches, scrutinized without the pain of rewinding. For Nick, reading beat listening every time.
Well, nearly every time.
What was Sam even doing on the Record? That was the real irony. Wasn't this the same girl who made such a stink about—what did she call it?—the integrity of intimate discourse? Who so obviously had contempt for his job?
No zealot like a convert, Nick supposed. Sam now owned a device, a tiny microphone implanted into her upper jaw, that automatically recorded everything she said, and everything said around her, and sent it by radio to a swarm of servers where it was logged and transcribed and streamed out to subscribers. Who had access to what depended on the privacy settings of all the participant speakers.
Sam's settings made no sense. She had turned off the most popular option, which shared her anonymous, encrypted stream with approved bots—dictionaries, encyclopedias, mapping applications, translation services, emergency dispatchers, and the like. That was why most people went on the Record in the first place. She had turned off transcription and removed herself from the archives. But she had made her personal live stream available, at all times, to anyone with her streamcode. Maybe she had her own Talk show. How very like her: total exposure for the few she trusted, a total rejection of everyone else.
Hearing her voice again was surreal. Sam was a lovely speaker; Nick couldn't deny her that. Even now she sounded delightfully unself-conscious. Most pro Talkers were professionally insincere. Sam sounded like herself.
It was making him uneasy. Nick had never met the guy who sold him Sam's streamcode. He'd found him on the task boards, in the underbrush of quacks and spammers. And stalkers. "Ad hacker needs streamcode for highly targeted, self-service parameterized operational reporting," Nick had posted. "WILLING TO PAY."
At least the first part was true—he was an ad hacker. A terribly good one. Clients asked for Nick because he had a reputation for depth. No cookie-cutter keyword analytics like the AI shops. Nick would go on a goddamn empathy dive: given a cohort of, say, 22 year-old VR fiends, he would spend weeks poring through their archived speech. He would ingest not just what they'd said but the way they'd said it. From reading the 'scripts alone Nick could tell you who had a crush on whom, who was cheating on whom. He understood social contagion, he could back out a pecking order from the way verbal tics spread. He could get at what software still couldn't: what these kids wanted. What they were afraid of. Executives shelled out for his services.
And now he'd shelled out for Sam's streamcode. Why? Some mix of closure and curiosity, probably, of nostalgia and want. Just to remember.
She was arguing now. You could tell she was riled up; she'd dropped the familiar lilt from her voice. She had never really gotten like this with him. And of course that was part of the problem. Sometimes he would have a dark laugh about it: I read what people say for a living but apparently I can't talk to my own girlfriend.
She would tell him that he wasn't much of a conversationalist. "Conversation," she'd say, "isn't about saying interesting things or absorbing what someone else said. It isn't about sitting there quiet and nodding. And it's damn well not about scrutinzing every little thing I—someone—says. It's about being someone who draws the kind of talking out of a person that that person likes to do." At this, Nick had apparently failed. Sam told him she didn't like the way she sounded around him, the stuff she found herself saying.
"What I get to be, the parts of me I get to see," she'd said. "So much of it depends on who's listening."
You'd think we were a strange species, if you listened to the whole of humanity's recorded corpus today. You'd find all the blathering radio hosts there ever were, and the many takes of voiceover actors, and you'd find journalists talking to their subjects, and pilots to their controllers—and that would all be but the tiniest speck in a vast sea of calls to customer service, "recorded for quality purposes." You wouldn't get a sense of what human life actually sounded like, of what we actually talked about.
Megan Robbins, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, has listened to more regular talk than almost anyone in the world. Her research relies on a device, called the EAR (for Electronically Activated Recorder), designed for "sampling behavior in naturalistic settings." Research subjects agree to wear it all day. It turns on at periodic intervals about five times an hour, and records everything the wearer says and hears for about 30 seconds. The subject can review and delete any clips they like before handing them over to Robbins for analysis.
With the EAR, Robbins can be a scientist of everyday life. For instance, she can listen to how couples refer to themselves: Do they say "she and I" or "we?" She can listen to people laugh, and try to figure out why. One study found that "Overwhelmingly, most laughs didn't occur in the presence of humorous stimulus." By and large, laughs are social, and used to signal things, like "I think you're higher status than me," or "I want to affiliate with you."
Robbins is currently using the EAR to study couples coping with a cancer diagnosis. What do they talk about? Do they talk about the cancer? Do they laugh less? "You'd never think to run a focused study about how often do breast cancer patients laugh," she says. But with hours and hours of transcripts and tape, a world of questions about our basic behavior opens up. As it turns out, the cancer patients are laughing in about 7 percent of their clips, comparable to college students. They talk about cancer about the same percent of the time. Robbins explains that there seems to be a robustness to the everyday, even when you're diagnosed with cancer. "It's really difficult for people to not carry on with their normal daily activities."
She explains that people talk a lot—on average, about 40 percent of their waking lives. Her undergraduate research assistants, who come to her lab excited to eavesdrop on people, "are sometimes heartbroken to find that daily life, it's sometimes mundane. It's comprised of things like TV watching, and conversations about what you're going to have for dinner. And conversations about TV." Robbins says she was surprised at just how much television regular people watch. "It's a topic that's almost completely ignored in psych, but shows up in the EAR research ... it's second only to talking in the cancer coping couples."
One thing people don't talk about, in general, is the EAR itself. "Self-reports indicate no impact on their life. They generally forgot they were wearing it." Indeed, one can track mentions of the EAR in the transcripts. They drop off significantly after only two and a half hours. "Normal life goes on," Robbins says.
When presented with the idea of the Record, we might imagine that people won't be able to carry on a normal conversation because they'll be too busy performing. But anyone who's ever recorded someone knows that self-conscious monitoring of your own speech is just too mentally expensive to carry on for very long. Robbins' data supports the intuition that, after a short while, you go back to normal.
Hanson also thinks "normal" would be the operative word once ubiquitous speech transcription arrives. He's not convinced that it would change the world as much as some seem to think it would. "As soon as you see just how different our world is from 1,000 years ago, it's really hard to get very worked up about this," he says.
There was almost no privacy 1,000 years ago, he explains. Living quarters were dense. Rooms were tiny and didn't lock. There were no hallways. Other people could overhear your lovemaking. When you traveled, you hardly ever went by yourself; you roamed around in little groups. Most people lived in small towns, where most everybody knew everybody else and gossiped about them. The differences in how we lived between then and now were huge. And yet we adapted. "I gotta figure the changes we're looking at are small by comparison," he says. People have always been able to distinguish between their close friends and their less-close friends. They've always been able to decide who to trust, and they've always found ways to communicate intimacy. They've always been able to lie.
"Even our forager ancestors were quite capable of not telling each other something," he says. "Foragers are supposed to share food. But they hide a lot of food. They eat a lot on the way back to camp, they hide some at camp, they're selective about which food they give to who." Even in a band of 30 people, where the average person would meet a half-dozen other bands at most in their lifetime, and everybody stayed in the same camp at night—even in that environment, our ancestors were capable of being evasive, and tuning their speech and gestures to their advantage.
Having a Record will just give us a new dimension on which to map a capacity we've always had. People who are constantly being recorded will adapt to that fact by becoming expert at knowing what's in the transcript and what's not. They'll be like parents talking around children. They'll become masters of plausible deniability. They'll use sarcasm, or they'll grimace or grin or lean their head back or smirk, or they'll direct their gaze, so as to say a thing without saying it.
It sounds exhausting, but of course we already fluidly adapt to the spectrum of private, small-group, and public conversations—just go to a workplace. Or go to a party. We are constantly asking and answering subtle questions about our audience, and tuning our speech based on the answers. (Is Jack in earshot? Is Jack's wife in earshot?)
"There's no way this means that everything we say is now in the open," Hanson argues. "There's a layer of what we say that's in the open ... but we're always talking at several levels at once."
Whenever we contemplate a new technology, we tend to obsess and fixate, as though every aspect of the world must now be understood in terms of it. We are a hypochondriacal society. But the fact is that the hardware running inside our heads hardly changes at all, and the software only slowly, over the course of generations.
The Record will not turn our brains to mush. Yes, we will likely spend less energy committing great talk to our long-term memories. And transcripts will relieve us from having to track certain details that come up in conversation. But we won't thereby lose the ability to track details—just as we didn't lose our ability to plan when we invented the calendar, or our ability to memorize when we invented the pen. We will enrich our long-term memories in some other way (say, by poring over the vast stores of material newly made available by transcription). Our brains adapted to writing, to libraries, and to the Web. They will adapt to the Record. And people will, anyway, continue to be less concerned with how they sound than with how they look. They will be far more likely to pause for a selfie than for a soliloquy.
Nor is life like a Black Mirror episode, where every scene and line revolves, because it must, around the newest tech. Sure, the Record may enhance our narcissism, our nostalgia, our impatience and paranoia. It might even corrupt or stupefy us en masse. But even that has happened before, whether with smartphones or television or mirrors or alcohol, and somehow we have managed to end up, above all, ourselves.
James Somers is a programmer and writer based in New York. He works at Genius.
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