This Friday, a really meaningful event to me will be taking place in the gym at Sunset High School. Dozens of my peers, their parents, and other acquaintances will be gathering on the bleachers to cheer on the boys basketball team. Then again, next Tuesday to support the girls team. But this isn't just any old basketball game supporting cancer research to me.
Last year I had the pleasure of being the Cram The Stands ambassador for my school. Plain and simple, it was awesome. I loved the posters, the shirt design, and the video with the student section cheering "We love Nathalie" never fails to bring a smile to my face. But after everything had already happened, something still nagged at me. I hadn't been able to be a part of some major events that went along with being the ambassador. I had been feeling lousy on the days spent at Nike deciding the T-shirt design, and also had to miss the boys game because of a prior commitment to another charity event. Anyway, I felt that I had missed out on some awesome opportunities, so I was slightly discouraged about not being able to take part in those things.
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3 Soldiers honored at retirement ceremony in Bavaria
Payton Porter	August 28th, 2019
Retirees Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey A. Dawson, Sgt. 1st Class Francisco Valentin-Rivera and Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth C. Winstead were honored during a ceremony Aug. 28 at the Rose Barracks Theater, Vilseck, Germany. (U.S. Army photo by Payton Porter)
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — 7th Army Training Command and U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria honored three Soldiers for their service and career at the quarterly retirement ceremony Aug. 28 at the Rose Barracks Theater, Vilseck, Germany.
The 7th Army Training Command Operations Officer, Col. Timothy C. Davis, thanked the retirees for their accomplishments and sacrifices.
"These tremendous patriots have made great sacrifices as they served our nation, both in times of peace and in times of conflict," said Davis.
Three Soldiers in our community retired from the military after years of dedicated service. They include Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey A. Dawson, Sgt. 1st Class Francisco Valentin-Rivera and Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth C. Winstead.
Dawson joined the Army in 1999 as a military policeman. He completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He is a graduate of the primary leadership development course in Grafenwoehr, the basic noncommissioned officers' course, the United States Army Drill Sergeant School and the senior leadership course at Fort Leonard Wood. Dawson plans to retire to Virginia and continue woodworking, golfing and enjoying his retirement.
Valentin-Rivera joined the Army as a finance specialist. He completed basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2000. He is a graduate of the primary leadership development course in Grafenwoehr, the basic noncommissioned officers' course at Fort Jackson, and the senior leader course at Huntsville, Alabama. He re-classed in July 2011 to an acquisitions, logistics and technology contracting NCO. Valentin-Rivera has been married for nine years to his wife Sandra Gonzalez, and they have one daughter. He plans to get a job in the El Paso, Texas, area after retirement, and pursue an advanced degree in business.
Winstead joined the Army as an infantryman. He completed basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1989. He was honorably discharged after three years at Fort Ord, California. He rejoined the Army after 9/11 and reenlisted as an automated logistical specialist in 2002. He attended his second basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, with advanced individual training at Fort Lee, Virginia. In 2009, he re-classed to a contract specialist, and will continue to serve as a contract specialist until retirement. He is a graduate of the primary leadership development course at Fort Hood, Texas, the basic noncommissioned officers' course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and the senior leader course at Huntsville.
Combined, these three Soldiers rendered more than 61 years of service.
Retirees were reminded that they were still welcomed as part of the military family.
"Always remember that you will forever be a part of the Army family; and we will continue to look after you. You may be gone from our ranks, but you remain in our hearts," said Davis.
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At least 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness which means 30% of the population is affected at some point, by 2020 depression will be the second biggest illness internationally.
As modern medicine fails to provide the solutions to our systemic health crisis could we find the solution to good health and happiness in our own minds? As ancient technology becomes new-science we discover that within us are all the tools we need to live well, live long and be happy.
Most people come to meditation to escape stress in mind and ailments in the body as well as to decompress and quieten the mind and hide from their children.
Along with the benefits of a soothing retreat for mind, body and soul meditation can also help us to face the bigger questions in life like; who am I?, why am I here?, and will I ever look as happy and relaxed as that girl over there?.
Along with managing the symptoms of stress, meditation can heal the damage stress does, reverse the impact of stress-related illness and can also get to the very bottom of why you are so imbalanced in the first place, (if you stick with it long enough).
Meditation can be beautiful, magical, otherworldly and deeply rewarding and it can also be very confronting, sometimes frightening and confusing as you face life's biggest obstacle – your mind.
It takes courage and consistency to overcome the mind – but the benefits are unlimited- as so it seems. Looking at the science that supports the practices of meditation we are hinging on a door to a limitless reality where the mind can be used to heal the body and change your perceptions.
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Medicinal Products Availability
Seán Fleming
1192. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health when Spinraza will be made available to persons who have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 2; if the matter will be reviewed in view of the fact that it has been made more widely available in other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31992/19]
The HSE has statutory responsibility for medicine pricing and reimbursement decisions, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The Act specifies the criteria to be applied in the making of reimbursement decisions which include the clinical and cost effectiveness of the product, the opportunity cost and the impact on resources that are available to the HSE.
As Minister for Health, I do not have any statutory power or function in relation to the reimbursement of medicines.
However, I can advise you that on 11 June 2019, the HSE Leadership Team approved access to the drug Nusinersen (Spinraza) for children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type I, II or III on an exceptional and individualised basis.
The HSE decision process in relation to Spinraza involved a full Health Technology Assessment followed by detailed consideration by the HSE expert groups on new drug therapies, including the Technology Review Group for Rare Diseases and the Drugs Committee. Evidence of the clinical effectiveness of this new drug therapy was also reviewed.
The recommendation is to approve access for children with genetically confirmed SMA Type I, II or III, in accordance with the controlled access criteria recommended by the Rare Diseases Technology Review Committee. The rare diseases committee recommendation was clearly targeted at the youngest and most severely affected SMA patients, and this group is the clear priority for the HSE. The actual patient assessment and approval process will be the means for determining access on an individual case by case basis.


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Chapter 36 Machinery And Wages
This section is from the "Economics In Two Volumes: Volume I. Economic Principles" book, by Frank A. Fetter. Also available from Amazon: Economic
§ 1. Progressive control over natural conditions. § 2. Labor-saving invention as a dynamic factor. § 3. The lump of labor notion. § 4. Evils of "the industrial revolution." § 5. Some evils of the introduction of machinery. § 6. Loss to the less efficient workers. § 7. Effect of machinery in different industries. § 8. Beneficial effect of machinery upon wages. § 9. Dependence on abstinence. § 10. Grades of labor and gains from machinery. § 11. Opposing tendencies.
§ 1. Progressive control over natural conditions. Various stages of progress in human history have been recognized. First is the stage of appropriation - the stage of hunting, or of fishing, or of gathering the spontaneous fruits of the fields. Man in this stage is little beyond the animal in his economic methods; he uses some tools to gather what nature chances to bring forth, but he does not guide and direct the natural processes. The limitation to man's powers in this stage are marked. There is excess of supply and waste at one season, scarcity and great suffering at another. With such crude utilization of the bounties of nature, a vast area will support but a small population. When sheep and cattle have been domesticated and where there is a large area for grazing, industry rises to the pastoral stage. While still dependent on nature's bounties for the feeding of his cattle, man is hourly intervening to protect, increase, regulate, and improve the flocks and herds on which depends his supply of food and materials. Famines are more rare, economic welfare is greater, a larger population is nourished on the same area. The agricultural stage begins whenever man tills the soil, plants seeds, and increases by his care the supply of vegetable food. This is a still greater intervention in the course of nature. Man anticipates the future, directs forces, and groups materials to his purpose of getting a regular food-supply. He is thus forced into settled life, at the same time improves in hand-production of commodities, and makes further steps in commerce. Then gradually comes the industrial stage, in which control over nature grows, supplies increase, machinery and motive forces are utilized, and humanity is in the full tide of industrial development. Thus throughout history the economic progress of society has been marked by decreasing dependence on the bounties and chances of nature and by increasing shaping of materials and control of natural forces by man. There are no sharply marked changes, but there is a growth of security, of certainty, and of productivity. With man's increasing power and foresight, the element of chance is reduced.
§ 2. Labor-saving inventions as a dynamic factor. For several centuries, accompanying the advance of the natural sciences, there has been a gradual improvement of mechanical appliances in the practical arts in western Europe and America. The question may be put as regards the simplest improvement of the simplest tools: how do they affect the wages of the workers? The question took a dramatic form when power-using machines were so rapidly introduced in the last half of the eighteenth century in England.
It is by the use of power that the greatest saving of labor can be effected. Machinery is applicable in very different degrees in different processes and industries. In many industries and parts of industries, machines are usable only in a slight measure, indirectly, or not at all. They are of the least assistance in the personal services, and in the immediate work of the thinker, the teacher, the speaker, and the artist. Agriculture presents conditions of difficulty for the use, in the fields, of power other than that of man and of draft animals. Even horse-drawn gang-plows, planters, seeders, mowers, reapers, harvesters, hay-loaders, etc., to be used profitably require a level surface and a pretty large area given to a single crop. Such farm machinery can not be used as well east of the Alleghany Mountains as in the Mississippi Valley, and it is still uneconomical in large portions of the civilized world. The use of traction engines for plowing is increasing slowly. Other machines that can be used at the barn, and can be moved from one farm to another, have a constantly widening use, as threshers, automatic unloading-forks, corn-shellers, feed-cutters, hay-balers, steam and gasoline engines for pumping, wood-sawing, etc. With the aid of these machines the labor required to produce the staple food for one hundred people is a fraction of what it was a hundred years ago.
The use of machinery in land and water transportation (steamships, locomotives, electric power), has affected all other kinds of industries, by changing their locations, increasing the supplies of materials, and widening the markets. Yet the most typical applications of machinery have been in manufacturing, in making form-changes, in the mass-production of standardized products. (See Chapter 31 on large production.) The most striking changes took place in the textile industries. In 1840 a man's work in spinning cotton was 320 times as effective as in 1769, in 1855 it was 700 times. Similar examples are found in the manufacture of shoes, and in all varieties of wood- and iron-work.
§ 3. The lump of labor notion. Of the countless inventions many do not "save labor," but merely add to the comfort of the user, or to the ease of the worker; others enable men to do new things before quite beyond the power of any man or group of men; but many are "labor saving," in the sense that they enable the same labor to get a larger result in the same time, or the same result in less time.
The popular judgment always has been that this reduces the "amount of work" to be done, meaning the opportunities for employment, the number of jobs to be had by workers. The "lump of labor" notion, as it is called, is widely held, especially among workingmen. The notion is that there is exactly so much labor predetermined to be done; therefore, if machines are introduced, there is that much less for men to do. The conclusion easily drawn is that labor-saving machines are the explanation of any existing unemployment; and that they make wages low. Yet few if any would be rash enough to say that the income of the masses would be higher to-day if all tools and machines were abandoned and men worked barehanded. It is recognized that such a course would reduce all alike to want; indeed, that without the aid of labor-saving appliances the present population would be utterly unable to support existence. The objection is rather vaguely felt to the use of too much machinery, and to that kind which has been recently introduced, and to that kind which is used in the objector's own trade. The experience in the rapid introduction of machines in England in the period called "the industrial revolution" (about 1775 to 1825), as well as the experience of workers when a rapid change is made in their own trades, gives an appearance of truth to this view. §4. Evils of "the industrial revolution." It chanced that the extensive introduction of machinery in England, particularly in textile-manufacture, was coincident with the unhappy result of a lengthening of the hours of labor in factories and a lowering of wages. These were, in fact, quite abnormal consequences and have not been seen elsewhere, altho the owners of factories wish to keep their machines employed as many hours as possible. The laboring classes of England were at that time demoralized and depressed by industrial and social influences that had no logical connection with machinery: the very rapid growth of population, due in part to the evil workings of the system of poor relief, excessive taxation to carry on wars, the abnormally rapid growth of cities. In all other countries of Europe and in America, where the introduction of machinery has been more gradual, it has been followed by a shortening of working hours (as eventually it was in England also) and by a rise of wages. Indeed, the experience of England served as a warning to other nations, and by labor organization and factory-regulation much was done to reduce the shock of rapid introduction of machines.
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In 2000, Mitch McColl and Hayley Smith found a homeless girl, Sarah MacKay, drowned in a stormwater drain in the bay. Having lived on the streets himself, it struck a chord with Mitch and he decided to set up a place in the bay for kids in their time of need.
After some initial setbacks with the council, they were eventually given permission to renovate an abandoned house on Palmer Street to provide a drop-in centre. The centre opened in Episode 2878 and was named after Sarah, who's parents attended the opening.
Eventually the writers felt that the Drop-in Centre had run it's course, and in Episodes 3657–3658, aired in the opening weeks of 2004, the building was burnt down.
Thankfully the real life building, a private residence, remains unscathed in the suburb of Carlingford, a few minutes away from the old Seven Network studios in Epping.
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Three I-80 crashes near Alta sends 32 to hospital
ALTA, Calif. (AP) – Three traffic accidents on westbound Interstate 80 in Placer County injured 32 people, mostly passengers on three tour buses involved in a pileup Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Three victims suffered major injuries and two of them were airlifted to area hospitals, said Diane Clader, a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol. She didn't immediately have any details of the injuries.
The accidents, which all occurred within a one-mile stretch of the highway, began around 4 p.m. when a big-rig overturned near the town of Alta, spilling 100 gallons of diesel, said CHP Officer Richard Ruiz.
Within minutes, a motorcycle went down about a half-mile behind the big-rig, Ruiz said. And shortly after that, a tour bus that slowed down as it approached the motorcycle crash site was rear-ended by a car, setting off a chain-reaction pileup that also involved two other tour buses, he said.
The three buses, owned by Lucky Tours, were heading from Reno to the Bay Area.
In addition to the three seriously injured, 29 others were taken to five area hospitals. Most were middle-aged or elderly passengers on the buses, Clader said.
No deaths were reported.
All westbound lanes of I-80 remained closed Sunday evening, as authorities cleaned up the diesel spill and cleared the crash sites, Ruiz said.
The cause of the crashes was under investigation.


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Christianity enters Vietnam
Christianity was introduced to Vietnam in the 16th century by missionaries from Europe's main Catholic evangelist countries, France, Spain and Portugal. One of the early arrivals was Alexandre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit who greatly impressed the Trinh lords who ruled the north at that time, thus easing the way for permanent missions in Hanoi, Danang and Hoi An.
Expulsion from Vietnam
As the creator of the Romanised written form of the Vietnamese language, Alexandre de Rhodes could justifiably be considered as one of the founding fathers of modern Vietnam. However, his reward was expulsion along with all the other Christians when the Trinh lords decided that Christianity in the form of Catholicism was subverting the beliefs that kept them in power. Apart from its later use in the Catholic Church in Vietnam, his script was ignored until the 20th century.
However, de Rhodes continued to proselytise through the Societe des Mission Etrangeres, a French evangelical organization he helped to create, seeking converts throughout Indochina. In the following years, Catholicism was re-established in Vietnam and grew rapidly.
Oppression under Minh Mang
By the beginning of the 19th century, there were many thousands of Catholics in Vietnam. Catholicism's relationship with Vietnam's rulers was uneasy: the kings were wary of its doctrine of equality in the eyes of God, a belief that directly challenged the feudal Confucian system that legitimated their control. Under King Ming Manh, a strict Confucian, suspicion turned to oppression. Churches were razed, and Vietnamese and foreign devotees refusing to renounce their faith were executed.
Enter the French
Minh Mang's excesses, although much exaggerated, gave the French the excuse they were looking for to invade, and Catholicism was reinstated. The Catholic Church flourished under the colonialists' patronage, opening missions, schools and hospitals all over the country, and becoming Vietnam's largest landowner. Vietnamese Catholics were favored above their compatriots and became an educated elite.
An exodus to the south
By the 1950s, with the communists governing in the north, over half a million Catholics crossed the demilitarized zone to settle in the south, then controlled by the Saigon regime led by President Ngo Dinh Diem, a Catholic. Those that remained in the north were allowed to continue to practice their faith, but under tight control.
The post-war years
After reunification, the communists placed restrictions on the Catholic Church and imprisoned several of its leaders who had actively opposed the new government. Since then, controls have relaxed and relationships between Vietnam and the Vatican have become cordial. However, a papal visit to the second-largest Catholic population in Southeast Asia is still some way off.
The Protestant faith
Protestantism was mainly introduced by the Americans in the south in the form of militant evangelism, and now claims approximately half a million adherents. Many of these are in the ethnic groups of the Central Highlands. In recent years, there has been considerable unrest in the area. American 'Gospel' organisations frequently issue 'reports' alleging human rights abuse and denial of religious freedom. Putting aside the issue of differing perceptions between the US and Asia about what constitutes 'human rights', a trawl of the Internet soon reveals that the aim of many such groups are more political than religious.
The buildings
From a visitor's point of view, many Catholic churches are well worth a visit. The Gothic edifices of Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Hue and Da Lat are replicas of European cathedrals, and often built of imported materials. They have attractive features, but the home-grown products are of greater interest to the traveler.
The famous 'Stone Church'
In particular, the 'Stone Church' of Phat Diem in the north, the bell tower of which was immortalized by Graham Greene in 'The Quiet American', is a highly satisfying blend of Christianity and the orient. The lifetime achievement of a Vietnamese cleric, Father Tran Luc, it is an architectural gem combining what looks like a Vietnamese temple at first sight with Christian symbolism and statuary. The interior is stunning – a 75m roof supported by huge ironwood pillars and a magnificent altarpiece.
Unusual churches
Many of the churches in the Central Highlands also combine Western and Eastern styles and some have highly unusual features, reflecting the area's strong animist tradition
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Q: Interpolating values between three points in R I have a dataset where I have observations for three years (e.g., 2000, 2005, and 2010) and need to interpolate the values for the years in-between using R. I have attempted to use some type of spline to do this, however, the interpolated values are outside of the original range. In the case below they even become negative.
years <- c(2000, 2005, 2010)
outcome_values <- c(1, 10, 90)
plot(spline(years, outcome_values, xout = seq(min(years), max(years))))
points(years, outcome_values, pch = 16)

Someone described this situation and a solution in Python using a lower order spline (Smooth curved line between 3 points in plot and interpolate curve between three values), but I have not been able to figure out how to do this in R. Any pointers would be appreciated.

A: You can lower the degree of the spline, but this won't solve your problem. It is the nature of your data that causes negative estimates:
library(splines)

years <- c(2000, 2005, 2010)
outcome_values <- c(1, 10, 90)

# quadratic B-basis spline
fit2 <- lm(outcome_values ~ bs(years, degree = 2))

plot(years, outcome_values, pch = 16)
lines(2000:2010, predict(fit2, data.frame(years = 2000:2010)), col = "blue")

That a spline results in negative predictions does not mean anything is wrong with this spline. You should use linear interpolation.

A: Here's how to do it with a log transform on the outcome. This will guaranteed interpolated values are positive, and change the shape of the curve in a way you might like.
years = c(2000, 2005, 2010)
outcome_values= c(1, 10, 90)

sp = spline(years, log(outcome_values), xout = seq(min(years), max(years), length.out = 10))
plot(sp$x, exp(sp$y))
points(years, outcome_values, pch = 16)

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While Samsung's initial rollout of its virtual assistant left many users underwhelmed, the full launch of Bixby Voice has piqued the interest of consumers once again.
The company promises that its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Siri vs. Alexa: Which Personal Assistant Is Better? Siri vs. Alexa: Which Personal Assistant Is Better? The answer to "Alexa or Siri?" is likely going to depend a lot on your personal needs and opinions. We've come up with a head-to-head comparison in the areas that matter. Read More is a different breed from the others, thanks to contextual awareness and the ability to learn. But is this just marketing hype?
We take a look at five surprising things that Bixby Voice can do, as well as one thing it doesn't quite get right.
A welcome feature of Bixby Voice is the assistant's contextual awareness. This means that the AI is able to interpret what you're referring to depending on which app you have open.
So, if you have the Samsung internet browser open, you can simply say "Share this with Bob" and the AI will know you're referring to your current webpage. It will then copy the link and allow you to choose which app to share it through if you haven't specified this already.
Meanwhile, if you open a photo in your gallery using the command "Share this to Twitter," Bixby Voice will understand you are referring to the picture.
Considering that many AI assistants haven't nailed down this kind of context means its a surprising and unique feature. Bixby Voice also switches from native mode to contextual mode depending on the app you're in.
So, if you're on your home screen and say "Show me my most recent message," Bixby will show you the last message in your default messaging app. However, if you use the exact same command in Whatsapp, the assistant loads your most recent Whatsapp message.
"Bixby is contextually aware and it is multi-modal," Rui Brui, the Mobile Head of Product for Samsung South Africa told MakeUseOf.
He attributes this feature as the reason the assistant can understand commands that other AI assistants can't. Add to this the ability for the AI to learn, and you have a recipe for a very user-friendly assistant that understands humans, Brui says.
Even Google is moving towards more contextual awareness in the latest Assistant update Google Assistant App Getting Major Contextual Update Package Google Assistant App Getting Major Contextual Update Package Google Assistant is receiving a big update, making it more contextually aware. Here's what you can expect from the app in the future. Read More .
This kind of awareness is also part of the second surprising thing Bixby can do.
Bixby Voice, thanks to its compatibility with Samsung apps If You Have a Samsung Android Phone, You Need to Try These Features If You Have a Samsung Android Phone, You Need to Try These Features If you have a Samsung Android smartphone, your phone has some pretty cool features on it that you might not know about. Read More and many third-party apps, is able to follow through on very detailed, app-specific commands.
Nowhere is this more obvious than when you access "Voice Apps and Services" through Bixby and click on one of the listed apps.
The camera app has some of the most detailed commands, including "Set the timer for the rear camera to two seconds and turn on [the] Take 3 shots [feature]." Through Bixby Voice, you can also swap between the rear and front camera, select which filter you would like to use and adjust settings such as HDR and shutter speed.
Furthermore, these commands aren't only limited to the app that you currently have open. You can tell Bixby to take a selfie and send it to a contact through Whatsapp, going through multiple app functions all in one breath.
But the assistant isn't infallible when it comes to these commands. Sometimes the Bixby app hangs and quietly crashes, simply not fulfilling your command. If you've strung too many commands into one sentence, it also sometimes misinterprets and leaves out parts of the instructions.
For example, while in the camera app, you can tell Bixby to switch to the front camera, take a selfie and send it. However, try to add in a change in the colour mode as well, and Bixby tends to ignore it.
Luckily, this is where the third feature comes in handy.
While Bixby Voice has improved from its beta stage, it still has a few hiccups, including often misinterpreting pronunciation or not understanding a command.
But the intrepid AI can actually learn from its mistakes.
For most commands, you can provide feedback as to whether Bixby interpreted it correctly. You can also access your history in the My Bixby menu to go over past commands and correct any errors the AI made. Bixby literally asks you to teach it.
"The big thing is that it's contextually aware, as you use it it will learn and improve," Brui says. The AI is also supposed to become more accustomed to your accent, personal manner of speaking and your favorite commands.
This is my favorite Bixby Voice feature: the ability to create custom or quick commands.
I currently have Bixby answering the question "What do you believe in?" by loading and playing I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkness.
But aside from these party tricks, it actually is a very useful feature that allows you to create quick prompts for very detailed functions.
You could set up a command as simple as "Wake up" to get Bixby to tell you the weather, show you your calendar, and even play your morning music.
Long before Samsung was in the AI assistant game, it had its foot firmly planted in the smart home industry The 6 Gadgets You Should Immediately Install in a New Smart Home The 6 Gadgets You Should Immediately Install in a New Smart Home What are the core devices you need to be able to turn your home into a 21st Century residence? These gadgets are your best place to start. Read More . In recent years, the company acquired SmartThings, launched intelligent appliances, and made third-party device integration relatively easy.
With this ecosystem primed and ready, Samsung is making Bixby central to their smart home products. The company has an advantage as many of its smart appliances have been launched in developing markets where products like Google Home and Amazon Echo are not available.
Meanwhile, the SmartThings hub How to Set Up and Use Your Samsung SmartThings System How to Set Up and Use Your Samsung SmartThings System Just purchased a new Samsung SmartThings system? Here's a step-by-step guide for everything you need to know to get it working perfectly in your home. Read More also allows consumers to make their "dumb" devices smart. But how does Bixby Voice come into the picture?
Bixby Voice works with Samsung Connect, the central app used to manage users' smart homes. Through Connect, users will be able to use voice commands to control their smart devices.
If your devices are compatible with Samsung Connect, you can use Bixby Voice to control them. And considering over 100 devices are compatible with the app, it makes for a promising ecosystem base.
Brui confirmed that Bixby will be central to Samsung's smart home ecosystem moving forward, so you can expect to see the assistant more often.
But What Can't Bixby Voice Do?
There is one thing that is deterring users from using Bixby Voice: voice recognition. The virtual assistant's voice capabilities were officially launched in over 200 countries near the end of August. But it only understands one English accent: U.S. English.
This is not to say that if you deviate from the typical American accent that Bixby won't comprehend you at all, but the AI failing to recognize words becomes a pretty frequent occurrence. This is especially noticeable when it comes to the differences in pronunciation for the "a" vowel between U.S. and non-U.S. English speakers. Many English speakers use a long vowel in words like "last", "cast", "can't", etc. But the American pronunciation of the vowel is much shorter.
But it's not only my oh-so-South African accent that is misunderstood by Bixby. There are also strange interpretations of words from the assistant that seem to come out of nowhere. Some examples include "Cheer me up" being interpreted as "Jimmy up" and "Share me up." It even sometimes interprets completely different consonants from what has been said. I've had "last" interpreted as "most" by the assistant. "Do a beatbox" became "Der beatbox" at one point.
This is an issue that will likely improve over time as Bixby learns and grows more accustomed to other accents.However, with the high frequency of interpretation errors for non-U.S. English speakers, you can't blame some users for becoming exasperated.
You can teach Bixby to interpret common misinterpreted words differently, but the AI doesn't always learn immediately.
Was Bixby Voice Worth the Wait?
While it still has some issues to sort through, Bixby Voice has definitely made Samsung's virtual assistant a more appealing and useful product. Contextual awareness and the ability to give Bixby very specific commands is a welcome feature that makes it stand out.
However, the problems with voice recognition may tire some users and result in them simply turning the voice feature off. Bixby as a whole Google Assistant vs. Bixby: Does Samsung Have Any Hope? Google Assistant vs. Bixby: Does Samsung Have Any Hope? Samsung has introduced their own voice-controlled competitor to Google Assistant -- but is it enough? Read More also requires some improvements to become more competitive.
Samsung has created a great base from which to expand the AI assistant's capabilities, and the future of its integration into the company's smart device ecosystem is promising. But considering the assistant still has some very noticeable issues to work out, it might be a while before it sees unrestrained praise.
Do you think Bixby Voice was worth the wait? Or are you still underwhelmed by the product? Let us know in the comments below.
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I have so much fun with it and it's super helpful too!!
The depth of system control amazing and unmatched. I find it useful and obviously inevitable. I'm glad i have access to this in my note 8 now. Mostly using it for camera automation.


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Prince William 'recoiled' from Meghan Markle's embrace
January 5, 2023 by jiann
Prince Harry claims Prince William was "completely freaked out" that Meghan Markle hugged the Prince of Wales when they first met.
In his new memoir, 'Spare', the Duke of Sussex writes that when they first met in 2016, William 'flipped back' when Markle came into the embrace.
"[It] completely freaked him out," Harry wrote of their first hug, adding, "He backed off.
Harry adds: "Willy hasn't kissed many strangers. While Meg hugged most strangers.
The red-haired royal, 38, also writes that he didn't think Markle needed to curtsey to his brother despite the gesture being "protocol" for meeting a senior royal for the first time.
"Will had hoped she would greet him with the standard bow as per protocol because she didn't know and I hadn't told her," Harry said.
Prince Harry claims Prince William was "freaked out" when Meghan Markle hugged him when they first met.
He explains that in other situations, he made it clear that Markle, 41, should curtsy but didn't consider it necessary for the informal meeting between her and William, 40.
"When I met my grandmother [the late Queen Elizabeth II]I had been clear – she's the queen, but when I met my brother, it was just Willy, who loved 'Suits'.
Harry notes that Middleton, 40, was outside with his children when Markle and William first greeted each other.
Harry said his brother rarely hugs strangers while Markle often hugs people she doesn't know.
Elsewhere in the tome, which will be released in the US on January 10, Harry says William and Middleton were big fans of the legal drama, in which Markle played the role of no-nonsense paralegal Rachel Zane.
Harry remembers first telling his brother and sister-in-law that he was dating the 'Suits' actress.
"Their mouths opened. They turned to each other. Then Willy turned to me and said, 'Fk off?' "
Harry explained that he didn't think Markle had to curtsy when he first met his brother and Kate Middleton despite the "protocol".
"I was baffled until Willy and Kate explained to me that they were regular, even religious, 'Suits' viewers," Harry writes. "'Awesome', I thought, laughing. I worried about the wrong thing. All this time I had thought that Willy and Kate might not welcome Meg into the family, but now I had to worry about them pestering her for an autograph.
Harry expresses how much he yearned for himself and Markle to have a close relationship with William and Middleton. But things went downhill for the fabulous four after the Sussexes retired from their main roles as senior royals.
Harry thought their first meeting would go well because the Prince and Princess of Wales said they were big fans of Markle's 'Suits' show.
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He and Markle stepped down from royal duties in 2020 and have since moved to California where they reside with their two children: Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1.
As well as taking on the royals in their explosive 2020 interview with Oprah Winfrey as well as their new Netflix docuseries 'Harry & Meghan', Harry also digs into the Prince and Princess of Wales in his book. so anticipated.
He claims William and Middleton influenced his decision to wear a Nazi uniform to a costume party in 2005.
Things have been tough for the foursome since Markle and Harry stepped down from their royal duties.
Harry also calls William his "beloved brother and nemesis" and accuses his brother of physically assaulting him after fighting for Markle.
In Harry's New Memoirs
And William isn't the only family member Harry rips into his tome. Harry also opened up about his strained relationship with his father, King Charles III.
In the book, Harry claims his father said to his mother, Princess Diana, on the day he was born: "Now you have given me one heir and another – my work is done."
Harry also claimed that William physically attacked him after they had a fight over the old 'Suits'.
It was widely reported that Markle wanted to make amends with Charles after Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022 and requested a private audience with him, but to no avail.
However, sources close to Charles, 74, have recently claimed that the Commonwealth leader has every intention of reconciling with Harry and Markle.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the royal family in 2020 and moved to California where they now reside with their two children.
"Those close to the King insist he has always made it clear how much he loves his two sons, keeping channels of communication open over the past few years, despite California's many beards," sources said recently. at the Telegraph.
Harry and Markle would be invited to King Charles' coronation, however, the duke declined to confirm their attendance.
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Yesterday about twenty percent of the write-in ballots were counted. 98 percent were for Murkowski and 89% of those weren't challenged by Miller's poll watchers. DrewM did the math and at that rate Murkowski would win by about 1000 votes without even having to count the challenged ballots. In other words, the exact-spelling rule dispute will be moot if the the 89% rate persists.
According to Miller's poll watchers, the three voters who filled out those ballots should be disfranchised. By challenging ballots like these, which are clearly Murkowski votes and don't appear misspelled to me, Miller is ensuring that the pile of challenged ballots will have to be considered to determine the outcome of the election.
Update: This was sent to me by Jim Wilke via twitter and it gets right to the problem. This ballot has two flaws that I can see.
First, and most importantly, the voter didn't fill in the bubble next to the blank line before writing in Murkowski's name. Second, it looks like she (it's a she, right?) wrote "Murkoski", omitting the "w".
via A Look At Challenged Alaska Ballots.
Oh Come On !!!! What was the intent of the voter on this Ballot?
Problem is two conflicting laws prevail. One says the name must be accurate and another says the intent of the voter should be considered. My last name is Milliron. If someone wrote Milleron what would the intent of the vote be. The other law would eliminate that vote due to it not being written exactly as my last name. How is it possible to have two opposing laws on the books in Alaska? Could it be that no write in candidate has won since 1954?
Floyd Brown, the man responsible for the "Willie Horton" television ad that helped derail the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign in 1988, has signed up for the Joe Miller campaign.
I wrote a profile of Brown a few years ago.
He created a a 1-900 line in 1992 so callers could hear edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Bill Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers. He's also founder of Citizens United, whose Supreme Court case led to the allowance of unlimited donations from corporations and unions to certain types of political committees.
The Citizens United case opened the door for Alaskans Standing Together, the consortium of Native corporations that spent more than $1 million to help Lisa Murkowski's write-in effort.
Brown now runs the ImpeachObamaCampaign.com Web site.
We just received the first results of today's count and the trend is similar to what we saw yesterday, with Lisa Murkowski receiving nearly 98 percent of the write in ballots cast.
The Alaska Division of Elections has now reviewed the writes-in for 32 percent of the precincts. More than 89 percent of the 30,023 write-in votes cast are unchallenged for Murkowski.
Another 8.4 percent of the writes-in were challenged by Miller campaign observers but counted for Murkowski by Elections Director Gail Fenumiai.Those include examples of ballots that appear to be filled out correctly but were still challenged (see below). The Miller campaign challenges of those votes still stand, with Miller hoping the courts will rule on them.
Just 1.5 percent of the write-in ballots have been successfully challenged by the Miller ballot observers, with Fenumiai agreeing with Miller that they should not be counted.
The second day of reviewing write-in ballots has begun, and the Miller campaign observers are aggressively challenging ballots.
Often the challenged ballots (the ones pictured above are examples) appear to be filled out correctly, including the spelling of Lisa Murkowski's name.
"All we're doing right now is identifying any ballots that are questionable, have any deviation from the standard," said Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto.
The Miller campaign expects the courts to have the final say.


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Burundi slow to cast verdict on Pierre Nkurunziza in vote-turned-referendum
Opposition boycott and aura of tension lead to low initial turnout for the first presidential poll since civil war
A woman has her thumb marked before casting her vote in the Burundi presidential election. All six opposition candidates have withdrawn. Photograph: Yannick Tylle/EPA
Xan Rice
Mon 28 Jun 2010 09.45 EDT
Voters in Burundi are today issuing a verdict on President Pierre Nkurunziza's rule after the withdrawal of all the opposition candidates turned the election into a referendum.
In the first public presidential poll since the end of the civil war, Burundians placed their ballots in a white or black envelope to vote for or against another term for Nkurunziza, 46, who is expected to retain power comfortably. The early turnout was low due to the opposition boycott as well as heightened tension, with dozens of grenade attacks reported across the east African country over the past month.
The six presidential challengers withdrew after May's district polls, alleging fraud by the ruling CNDD-FDD party, which won nearly two-thirds of the vote. European Union observers said the local elections had met international standards.
The series of polls, which include a parliamentary ballot scheduled for July, are viewed as a key test of Burundi's stability as it emerges from decades of conflict. Up to 300,000 people were killed in ethnic fighting between 1993 and 2005, a period of all-out civil war. Hundreds of thousands more died in massacres dating back to 1972, when the ruling Tutsi elite used the army to suppress the Hutu majority.
The deadly cycle of attacks and reprisals – which were ultimately overshadowed by the scale of the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda – resulted in a tenth of Burundi's population fleeing the country. Many have returned since Nkurunziza, who led a Hutu rebel group during the war, was elected by parliament five years ago. In an attempt to reduce ethnic tensions, power sharing was enshrined in the new constitution, with a 60-40 split between Hutus and Tutsis. The last remaining rebel group, the Forces for the National Liberation, laid down its arms last year.
While the fighting has ended, peace remains fragile. Nkurunziza's rule has seen some improvement in areas such as health and education. But the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned earlier this year of the increasing authoritarian tendencies of his CNDD-FDD party, which it said was harassing media and civil society organisations and preventing opposition groups from operating freely.
The report was especially critical of the ruling party's youth wing, suggesting its "physical training, war songs and quasi-military organisation raise the spectre of militia violence and a major intimidation campaign". Other former rebel groups were mobilising their own youth units to oppose the threat, according to the ICG.
Though the election dispute is unlikely to lead to a resumption of hostilities, it has raised concerns about the security situation in the country. The grenade attacks – there were three in the capital, Bujumbura, on Sunday night – have claimed at least eight lives since the district polls, with dozens of people injured. The government and opposition parties have traded blame for the blasts. Opposition leaders have said they will also boycott the parliamentary poll.


The Origin Of the Universe is mentioned in Nasadiya Sukta of Rig Veda.
What covered it, where it was and who made it protected?
There was nothing else there, surely nothing was there.
That one lying deep inside, on its own intent ending.
Microcosmic forces within and macro forces out above.
6.Who really knows, who can declared that when it started from and where ?
And where will this creations ends?
No one knows , No one knows , No one knows !


Hi cosmic.iron, thank you for posting this! I have a question: on the last step, when you say quickly fall asleep, does that mean stop doing the cycles and just fall asleep?
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Topic: Why can't I get remember dreams very easily?
Subject: Why can't I get remember dreams very easily?
Looks like they stole the Circles feature from Diaspora's "Aspects". If I actually continue using social networks, then I'll use Diaspora in the future as it isn't a 'walled garden'.
Great article! My most recent dream is a result of simply questioning my reality, rather than focusing on the reality check. This has reminded me, so thanks!
Does the 3D look any good?
Ok I'll add some more artists I like.
Do most people have a special dream journal to write in? Or is it fine just to use a large notepad? Or could I make it more special by producing my own cover for it?


Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or be conscious, or to have subjective experiences. Eighteenth century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think ("reason") from the ability to feel ("sentience"). In modern western philosophy, sentience is the ability to have sensations or experiences (described by some thinkers as "qualia"). For Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience implies the ability to suffer, which entails certain rights. In science fiction, non-human characters described as "sentient" typically have similar abilities, qualities and rights as human beings.
According the the Old Testament, God is a sentient being capable of anger, jealousy, and other feelings. My experience counters that.
Regardless, something can communicate, something can be part of the design of life, even the source of life, and not be sentient.
It actually makes the relationship less tumultuous, more direct, and straight forward: not to the liking of religions of any denomination.
This new interpretation returns the power to each, the power that they have in the relationship. Beautiful, natural, and works.


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Opening day: An annual holiday in Aspen
Five-year-old Jack Haynie of Aspen receives some assistance from his mother, Lyndsey, while stepping into his skis for the first time this season.
Aubree Dallas / The Aspen Times |
Much like a holiday made especially for towns like Aspen, opening day of the 2014-15 ski season rekindled the annual celebration at the base of Aspen Mountain that had the young and old sharing a familiar bond made of skis, boards and snow.
With the sun shining over 6 inches of new snow in the past week and a 13-inch base for most of the open terrain, the brisk 20-degree temperature kept much of the untouched snow fluffy and forgiving.
As the clock ticked closer to the 9 a.m. opening, the amount of hugging, high-fiving, hooting and hollering and ear-to-ear smiles kept growing, much like the line of customers that stretched from the gondola to East Durant Avenue.
Jeff Hanle, director of public relations for Aspen Skiing Co., said the excitement was palpable.
"It's great to see people stoked to get on the hill," Hanle said. "It seems like every year, people forget this is a ski town and this is the core of what makes this town. Yes, we have great culture, art, music and dining, but this is a ski town and today is when you see that come out."
On Saturday, Aspen Mountain became the great equalizer. It seemed like all walks of Aspen life were represented at the gondola Saturday morning, and all were there to share the bond of returning to play in the snow. Despite faces being hidden behind helmets and goggles, friends could still recognize each other through their wintry costumes and celebrated the day with genuine joy.
Michael McKeon, of Aspen, was at the front of the gondola line at 6:45 a.m. and was one of the first to ride up the mountain at 9 a.m. sharp.
"We made first chair last year, as well," McKeon said. "We get to say we were the first to touch the mountain off the gondola in like, regulation time. If you compare this to when you're a little kid on Christmas morning waiting to open his gifts, opening day for skiing blows that out of the water. This is like all the holidays packed into one. The mountain is the gift I want every year."
James Harvey was part of the first group to ride the gondola with McKeon. Harvey lives in Snowmass Village, and although he's only been in the valley for two years, carries a "ski-or-die" attitude like many Aspen natives.
"They called me 'Robot' last year," said Harvey, who broke his arm at the Snowmass skate park six weeks before opening day in 2013 and had to have reconstructive surgery. "Aspen Valley Hospital knows me very well. I had my arm in this mechanical brace, so everybody called me Robot on the mountain. No way that was going to stop me from hitting the slopes, but it's good not to be the robot this year."
Mike Flynn has experienced 47 opening days at Aspen Mountain. The first one still resonates with Flynn, now a retired Aspen school teacher.
"It was 1968, and there was 3 feet of new snow the day before the mountain opened and they opened everything," Flynn said. "Today is the start of another six months of skiing. It's what we do in Aspen. This is it. Opening day is the start of winter and it surpasses everything else."
Cole Sharpe works for Skico and was helping load the Silver Queen Gondola. When he showed up just before 8 a.m., there was already close to one hundred people lined up to ski.
"It wasn't too crazy this morning," Sharpe said. "Just a bunch of hooligans running around excited like kids. Trust me, I'd have been right there with them if I wasn't working."
Also near the front of the line were Cindy Burke and Cindy Lamar, who both live in Snowmass and were already on their second opening day of skiing in 2014 after visiting Vail on Friday.
"It was surprisingly uncrowded, and the snow was fabulous with 530 acres open," Burke said of Vail. "Opening day anywhere is so fun. I'm more excited today because this is my hometown."
Lamar said it's always a thrill to get on the mountain before the masses shred the untouched powder.
"Just getting up the mountain early, getting on that corduroy, feeling the wind in your face, having a beautiful day like this and knowing more snow is to come is the best," Lamar said. "Corduroy is that perfect little bit of snow that you get to ski on before someone else ruins it."
"The coolest thing about opening day is seeing all your friends," Burke said. "It was great to show up at 7:15 a.m., and there were guys making breakfast sandwiches on their Bunsen burner for everyone. That was a lot of fun. You can really feel the connection to the community here."
mmclaughlin@aspentimes.com


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The Lost Treasure of Cuauhtemoc - Another lovely Amstrad CPC game in development!
Early this year as a first over any other site, we gave you the heads up over a new game for the Amstrad CPC which was set to light up our twitter feed in favs and re-tweets. It was none other than Sad1942's Amstrad homebrew platformer ' The Lost Treasure of Cuauhtemoc', in glorious high quality detail. Looking like a Castlevania, Pentacorn Quest and Rick Dangerous mash up, Sad's game looks very good indeed, with baddies to fight, platforms to jump and nasty traps to avoid all squished up into 64kb. So if you have an Amstrad CPC 464, this game may well be at the top of your list.
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Porsche Looks To Electricity With E-Mobility
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Porsche is a smart company. They build cars that cater to both their most hardcore fans as well as the folks that buy the cars which allow Porsche to build the cars for the purists. Porsche is also keeping an eye on the future, and that future includes vehicles aided by the use of electric propulsion systems.
It's a concept referred to as Porsche E-Mobility and the automaker has put together a video explaining what this means and how it affects the future of Porsche products.
It all started when Porsche created the Cayenne S Hybrid. From there, the electronic tech has spread to other models such as the new Panamera S E-Hybrid. The culmination of this electrification ends at the highest levels of Porsche performance, which is exactly where you'd expect it to wind up.
Coming soon for an exclusive set of customers is the 918 Spyder, which can be driven entirely in an electric mode. It can also be driven in a combination gas-electric drive mode which gives drives the full use of 887 horsepower and 940 pound-feet of torque.
Porsche is also a heavily involved motorsports competitor. The E-Mobility makes an appearance on the racetrack thanks to the 911 GT3 R Hybrid. By harnessing the power of electricity, Porsche can deliver an extra 160 horsepower and 120 pound-feet of torque to the front wheels for up to eight seconds of a time. That should be a rather nice tool for passing on circuits around the world.
Electricity is not a bad thing when it comes to automotive propulsion applications, and it's great to see it being used to enhance already potent machines. Say hello to the future.
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