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One Hundred Years of ChatGPTude
January 24, 2023 January 24, 2023 admin Culture
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Gabriel Garcia Marquez used this iconic line to embark on a tour-de-force on human nature in his literary masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. Had Gabo, as his adoring fans call him, been alive today, he would have begun with 'A few days later, as he put a gun to his head, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember his lonely midnight doomscrolling that introduced him to ChatGPT.'
The famous opening line, juxtaposing the macabre realities of life with the sense of wonder that comes with appreciating human ingenuity, draws readers into a wild journey of exploration. Not just of human existence and their place in it, but also the fertile nature of the human mind that can conjure up imaginary worlds to convey profound insights. And then, there is ChatGPT. No matter which line one prompts the machine with, it spits out a few paragraphs mimicking the human mind.
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Magic Realism and AI
Gabo makes us marvel at the human ability to understand our origins, internalize our journey through civilizations, observe the mundane, day-to-day life, and convey a deeper sense of meaning and belonging that fills our hearts with contentment when we turn the last page. Ironically, ChatGPT uses similar means to achieve fairly pedestrian ends. The Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) – built on something called a large language model – takes in everything ever written in a particular language, calculates the probability of any word following a given word, and strings together human-sounding sentences. Gabo playfully mocks the cyclical nature of human endeavors in the hope of liberating our souls. ChatGPT exploits the cyclical math of words to keep us trapped in a linguistic status quo.
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The irony does not end there. By hand holding us into his small, rustic, and isolated community of Macondo, Gabo takes us back to our childhoods, making us wonder how magical it would feel if gypsies from a faraway land brought along thingamajigs like magnets, magnifying glasses, and telescopes that we have never been exposed to. In the book, it inspires the patriarch Aureliano and his son Arcadio to embark on a lifelong quest to master alchemy. On the other hand, ChatGPT, while robbing us of the alchemy of cogently expressing our thoughts, resembles another one of those shiny new objects we have gotten used to in the age of social media. The viral tide of amusement will wash away faster than we think, leaving a void for another AI algorithm to fill.
And finally, there is fatalism, writ large in Gabo's real and imaginary worlds. In his make-believe world spanning a hundred years, the author pokes fun at the folly of conservative and liberal idealism in politics. The repeating names of the characters and their personalities spanning generations of the Buendia clan capture the somewhat limited nature of human imagination. Even in real life, a cruel twist of fate, or fatalism, made Gabo befriend Hugo Chavez. One of the most discerning minds of our generation finding virtues in a run-of-the-mill populist who later turned into a dictator. In a way, Gabo's life and body of work challenge us to reconcile fatalism with Mark Twain's famous quote that the radical invents the views, but when he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Where will ChatGPT take us?
ChatGPT evokes fatalism of a completely different kind. At one level, it is just another, and utterly predictable, step in the long march of technological progress. The geek in me asks: If an assembly line can automate and obviate physical labor, what is wrong in ChatGPT automating the mental labor of stringing together words? Who are we, if not elitists, to benefit from the efficiencies assembly lines bring and lament the banality of the language ChatGPT spits out without even a moment's worth of 'thought'?
The Unbearable Shallowness of "Deep AI"
On another level, as the euphoria subsides and people at large start searching for the next supposedly game-changing invention, ChatGPT will certainly creep into our daily lives. It will make some jobs redundant and be a godsend for those who dread the thought of writing a story. Even those who struggle with a writer's block or small businesses with no marketing budgets will benefit from it. At the same time, it will supercharge the deadly social media driven propaganda machines, which we have accepted as a part of life, with little accountability.
While the world is still in thrall of the capabilities of the latest version of ChatGPT, the perils of using such AI for automating writing are already staring at us. A recent report in the Washington Post summarizes how AI created a journalistic disaster for a media outlet, forcing it to issue countless corrections. Soon enough, pitfalls of such advances will sow socio-political divisions, prompting ethicists and politicians to call for meaningful regulations. As this author has argued before, AI engineers will have to grapple with issues of technology for its own sake vs. the democratic systems that enable free inquiry, challenging authority, and maximizing human capital.
Whatever the future holds, it will certainly chip away at our sense of what it means to be human. The fatalist in me even wants to believe that one hundred years of ChatGPTude will produce a masterpiece like Gabo's. The radical and romantic in me is screaming inside, begging me not to bet on it!
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Susan Ryder was born in 1944. She began painting professionally at an early age. Encouraged by her father, Robert Ryder VC, an enthusiastic amateur painter who imbued his daughter with a similar passion, she entered the prestigious Byam Shaw School of Art in London in 1960. There, her tutor, Bernard Dunstan, introduced her to the work of the post- impressionist Edouard Vuillard, whose gentle scenes of intimate interiors, domestic spaces and gardens in soft blurred colours proved a significant influence on her painting style and choice of subject for the rest of her career. Susan was only 18, and still a student, when she first exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Shortly after, she married Martin Bates and spent the next decade juggling the demands of her career with that of her young family, painting both interiors and portraits.
By 1981 her skills as a portrait painter were such that the Prince of Wales commissioned her to paint Diana, Princess of Wales in her wedding dress. In the ensuing three decades her career has been a blizzard of activity. Although well known for her portraits and interiors, it was as a landscape painter that Susan Ryder received her first award. Many prizes followed for both her portraits and interiors, with commissions to paint at fine country houses both in the United Kingdom and further afield. She was elected as a member of both the New English Art Club in 1980 and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1992, serving the latter as Vice President from 2002 to 2008. Further recognition came in 1997 with a commission to paint HM The Queen from the Royal Automobile Club, in celebration of its centenary.
Susan's work away from portraiture has proved even more successful, to the extent that the name Susan Ryder now conjures up images of the glorious interiors and sunlit terraces for which she is so well known. She occupies a place amongst the great names of contemporary British Impressionism as represented by the New English Art Club – a society of like-minded artists that can trace its philosophical roots from John Singer Sargent and Augustus John, through Stanley Spencer, to the present day and now includes Ken Howard, Tom Coates, Fred Cuming and Jane Corsellis. As a leading proponent of the New English style, Susan's paintings remain in constant demand despite the ascendency of conceptualism in the current market and other passing trends.
Susan Ryder divides her time between London and Scotland.
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Nestled in the heart of Chianti Classico lies the veritable Castello di Verrazzano. Surrounding Renaissance gardens give way to a late Romanesque tower that served as a lookout over the Greve valley to control the trade between Florence and Siena. The estate is truly picturesque.
The Castello became Verrazzano family property in the 7th century. Interestingly enough, the word Verrazzano is "verres" in Latin, meaning boar, or "land of the wild boar." On the estate there is a wooded pasture where wild boar are kept.
However, the Verrazzano family is no ordinary brood. The famous navigator, Giovanni da Verrazzano, is credited with being the first to explore the east coast of the U.S. of America by persuading King Francis I to fund the expedition. Giovanni was convinced he could find a passage to the west from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was on April 17, 1524 that he reached New York Bay. But on his third expedition in 1528, he fell in with a tribe of cannibals. Thus ended his illustrious explorations.
He wasn't forgotten, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York was dedicated to Giovanni. Designed by O.H. Amman, famous for the Golden Gate in San Francisco, it was inaugurated November 21, 1964. Three stones were removed from the foundation of the Castello Verrazzano in 1963 and walled up at the entrance of the bridge. On the same day, three stones from the bridge were extracted and fixed to the front of the Castello villa in Greve.
All this talk about Castello da Verrazzano could not be complete without mentioning the outstanding and world renown wines grown on the estate. Among them are the Chianti, Chianti Classico, Super Tuscan such as Sassello di Verrazzano and Bottiglia Particolare. In the ancient cellars are housed vintages since 1924.
Below is a link by Mercedes-Benz which hosts Castello da Verrazzano's owner Cavaliere Luigi Cappallini driving around his estate in beautiful Chianti…a must see!
Nice theme of blog Susan 🙂 Lovely post !
Looks like a lovely place to have a glass of Chianti! Greve in Chianti has a very nice Saturday morning mercato- I remember taking the bus there from Firenze. Too bad about the cannibals-and the fact they spelled his named wrong when naming a bridge after him!
It sure is a lovely place to be! And for poor Capt. Verrazzano, I agree. Cannibals is bad enough:( Let alone the misspelling of his name. I would love to experience the mercato.
I will be in Lucca in May, so this could go on my list of things to do which is getting pretty long.
I wouldn't miss it! The wine tour is amazing…have a great time!
Another must do if you are in Italy.
Yes it is! Chianti has so many charms that I find its always hard to get out of there. But then soon as i'm home I find myself planning another visit!
Thanks Diana…yeah, the cannibal part shook me up. But, he put himself in the history books as a notable navigator…and a bridge named after him. Not too bad…..still, the cannibal part is bothersome!


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Mansfield Traquair Centre, Edinburgh
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The Catholic Apostolic Church at Mansfield Place in Edinburgh is an early architectural masterpiece of Robert Rowand Anderson, Scotland's premier architect of the late 19th century. The A-listed former Neo-Norman church of 1872 is a key building in the New Town of Edinburgh. The Mansfield Traquair Centre contains a vast mural painting cycle by Phoebe Anna Traquair, a leading member of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain in the 1890s. The Herculean labour by the artist, the brilliant colour and the soaring space have led to the building being called 'Edinburgh's Sistine Chapel'. The former Church is also of considerable historic importance as a record of 19th century religious thought.
The Catholic Apostolic Church ceased worship in the church in 1958, since when the building suffered from lack of maintenance and the murals from water ingress. Mansfield Traquair Trust was set up in 1993, following growing awareness of the importance of the work of Phoebe Anna Traquair and the threat to the murals combined with local concern over proposals for various uses unsympathetic to the building and detrimental to the amenity of the area. After a five-year struggle, the Mansfield Traquair Trust managed to purchase the Church building in 1998, since when the fabric of the building has been repaired and the under-building converted into new headquarters for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
The architects for the Church restoration were Simpson & Brown. The key to the rescue of the Mansfield Traquair Centre was the creation of substantial office space in the under-building. This gave the building a viable use. Two floors of offices were fitted into the space beneath the nave with ancillary accommodation below the chancel and in the attached clergy house. This considerable enabling development was contained within the envelope of the church building yet kept the main architectural spaces and the view of the Traquair murals unencumbered. The only alteration in the upper floor was a new floor laid on top of the original floor. This preserves the original floor and provides underfloor heating and cabling needed for a flexible multi-function space.
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The new use would only work if new circulation could be created within the building. Even the widest original stair at the Centre does not allow two people to pass. The answer was to create a new stair sunk through the floor of the circular baptistery and to install a passenger lift in the space between the baptistery and the narthex. The new stair is linked to the two floors of offices by foyers created below the narthex. The main Mansfield Traquair Centre funders were the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council.
Following the completion of the building contract, Mansfield Traquair Trust is now tackling the restoration of the murals. The work is being carried out by two Historic Scotland structural paintings conservators assisted by conservation interns. Thus, right from the start, the restoration of the Traquair murals provides a significant opportunity for the training of mural conservators. The principal funder for the restoration of the Mansfield Traquair Centre murals is Historic Scotland. After this painstaking work, which it is estimated will take over two years and cost over £500,000, the murals will once again be 'scintillating and glowing like a jewelled crown'- as they were described when first completed a century ago.
The Mansfield Traquair Centre is regularly open to the public free-of-charge.
Restoration work costing £600k has commenced on the Mansfield Traquair murals decorating the Mansfield Traquair Centre, dubbed Edinburgh's Sistine Chapel. The 100-year-old murals occupy 500sqm of space but have suffered water damage.
The centre was built in 1872 for members of the Catholic Apostolic Church; the congregation moved out in 1956. The Mansfield Traquair Trust bought the property in 1998, converting it into headquarters for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
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Mansfield Traquair Centre received a Civic Trust Awards Commendation 2004: praised for "bringing a notable social, cultural or economic benefit to their communities".
The Mansfield Traquair Centre also received the Bronze Medal at the EAA Annual Awards for Architecture 2002.
Mansfield Traquair Centre ceased to be a church in 1958. The churchbuilders apparently believed that the world was going to end so they intended that the building would one day become useless.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has attracted around $300 million in its coal industry that will quadruple production next year versus 2017, its mining minister told an investment conference in London on Thursday.
The world's biggest shipper of export quality coal Glencore says the best coal will generate profits for the foreseeable future because of a shortage of new supply following a collapse in investment during the 2015-16 commodity downturn.
Speaking in Cape Town in February, Chitando announced a lithium deal. In London, he said another would soon follow. He also said there was interest in Zimbabwe's platinum reserves, which are second only in scale to those in South Africa.
International companies seeking to develop lithium in Zimbabwe - which Chitando has said could meet around a fifth of the world's needs - include Prospect Resources and Chimata Gold.
As terms for foreign investors get tougher in some African jurisdictions, notably Democratic Republic of Congo, many investors welcome Zimbabwe's promise of a stable environment and regulatory certainty as well as a crackdown on corruption.
For anyone investing more than $100 million, Chitando said there would be a special mining license, meaning particularly favorable conditions, such as negotiating royalties.


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is a railway station on the Aizu Railway Aizu Line in the town of Shimogō, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Aizu Railway..

Lines
Aizu-Shimogō Station is served by the Aizu Line, and is located 31.1 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at .

Station layout
Aizu-Shimogō Station has a single island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing.  The station is staffed.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History
Aizu-Shimogō Station opened on December 27, 1934, as . It was renamed to its present name on July 16, 1987.

Surrounding area
 Narahara Post Office
 Shimogō Town Hall

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

External links

 Aizu Railway Station information

Railway stations in Fukushima Prefecture
Aizu Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1934
Shimogō, Fukushima

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A letter to the editor written by former Skadden Fellow Ann Cammett ('00) about the use of jail to pressure parents to pay child support was published by The New York Times ("When 'Deadbeat Dads' Are Jailed," April 28). "Incarcerating those who owe child support is almost never a rational response for failure to pay," the letter said. "If they can't pay, jail is ineffective for generating child support and serves as a mechanism to punish parents for being poor."


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RD Accessories Provides Tech Geeks with Gadgets to Make Remote Working Simpler and Smarter
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The mobile accessories brand aims at being in sync with the latest trends and technological advancements in the market
January 6: RD Accessories, a noted mobile accessories brand, provides remote workers with gadgets that combine utility with entertainment. The company aims at hitting the sweet spot between work and leisure, providing an optimized digital experience to the customers.
The portfolio of RD Accessories includes high-quality audio devices, mobile accessories, and smart wearables. The company has designed its gadgets to provide users with a modern touch and sleek designs. Making no compromises with the quality of products, RD Accessories focuses on taking the tech acumen of the public a notch higher. The company makes this evident by using the tag of #OneStepAhead as its essence across multiple platforms. Mr. Narayan Rathod, the CEO of RD Accessories, believes that #OneStepHead is more than a mere tagline. He says, "We have always wanted to help our customers stay ahead of the curve with our products. Whether it is a portable speaker or a smart wearable, we make sure that the products designed by us are in tune with the prevalent industry trends."
With the country facing yet another wrath of the pandemic, RD Accessories attempts to provide young professionals with gadgets that keep them entertained and act as essential aids as they work from home. "We are fortunate to have received all the love from our loyal customers and feel that our hard work in building the brand has paid off. Now that people across the country are preparing to spend some time working remotely yet again, we are willing to be a small source of joy for them. We sincerely hope that our gadgets help young professionals attend meetings in the morning and listen to their favorite songs to unwind at night," says Mr. Rathod.
For more information about RD Accessories, visit its official website or follow the hashtags#RDAccessories and #OneStepAhead on Instagram.
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Snoring - A Dental Solution To The Age Old Problem
by Social We Talk
SNORING - A DENTAL SOLUTION
An estimated 75 per cent of people in the UK snore, causing those sharing a bed or a house with them to suffer frequently disrupted sleep. But how much impact does it really have on their lives? Matt Everatt considers a few of the answers to the age-old problem of snoring.
'There were times when I wanted to put a pillow over his head and smother him… it really was that bad.'
An alarming statement to say the least, but this is how Pat Wood, 64, recalls the years of poor sleep she suffered because of her husband Jim's snoring. Although Pat now has the ability to look back on these years with a certain degree of humour, the last forty years have certainly been no laughing matter.
Over the years, Jim has tried just about every treatment on the market in an attempt to stop his snoring, but with no avail. He remembers the time that he first realised that he was keeping others awake with his snoring,
'Forty-five years ago I used to do a lot of cycling with friends, and often it would end up with twenty or thirty of us staying overnight somewhere. When we woke in the morning someone would say 'who the heck was that snoring last night?' and I later found out it was me!'
Although his cycling days are now long behind him, until very recently the same can't be said for his snoring.
Having tried numerous solutions to alleviate the problem, Jim spent money not only on 'gadgets and gizmos' but eventually surgery.
'I'd tried every potential solution under the sun; the one where you roll a ball up your back, the one when you put strips across the nose… I even went into hospital and had laser treatment on my throat, but none of it worked,' recounts Jim who runs a B&B in Pentewan, St Austell, Cornwall.
Amazingly, just when Jim and Pat were about to give up all hope of ever finding an effective solution, they discovered S4S – the unique dental splint laboratory who were able to recommend a dentist locally who was specially trained in providing snoring therapy. Now a couple of years on, both Jim and Pat enjoy peaceful, snore-free sleep thanks to a custom-made Sleepwell mouthpiece.
'I haven't looked back once,' says a delighted Jim.
'I used to be kicked, punched, and told to sleep in the spare room, and if the bedroom window was open, anyone within twenty yards could hear my snoring. I now get seven to eight hours sleep with no snoring whatsoever, it's absolutely brilliant!'
A very relieved sounding Pat added: 'It's just such a relief. Over the years we've tried anything and everything to stop the snoring and never had any luck, but now I have a wonderful night's sleep and wake up feeling refreshed. For some people, snoring is an amusing and trivial issue, but I can assure you that for anyone who has ever had to cope with it, there is nothing funny or trivial about it.'
The main cause of snoring is the partial closure of the airway during sleep. Whilst sleeping, muscles in the neck relax, and for some people the soft tissue in the upper throat vibrates; making the sound known as snoring.
There are several factors that make some people more susceptible to snoring than others, including:
• Physiology – the shape of the airway in some people makes snoring more likely
• Being overweight – excess body fat increases the chances of snoring
• Age – throat muscles become weaker with age and can increase snoring
• Lifestyle – some people snore after drinking alcohol, which can cause further relaxation in the neck and throat.
S4S technical director Matt Everatt explains: 'Snoring is a big issue both for snorers and their partners. Not only is sleep disturbed, but also concentration, the ability to work, their relationships; and in severe cases, it can be life-threatening.'
'At S4S we see our role not only as a laboratory but also largely educational; we explain the condition and helping people find the appropriate solutions. Obviously we also want dentist to use our appliances, but not indiscriminately to patients; that's why there are protocols to follow.'
S4S have the UK rights to manufacture 'Sleepwell', a custom-made mouthpiece remedy that was clinically tested in Australia and has since proven to be Jim Wood's saviour. To be worn during sleep, the mouthpiece consists of two pressure formed splints that cover the upper and lower teeth and incorporates an adjustable mechanism to allow the patient to advance the mandible. It works by preventing the lower jaw from dropping back, so stopping the closure of the airway. 'Sleepwell' is only available from dentists that have undergone appropriate training, and is made by dental technicians at the S4S laboratory. Matt is delighted with the results.
'We've had incredibly positive feedback from patients and dentists. As well as training dentist we continue to spread our education campaign to GPs who are often the first port of call for patients looking for an answer to their snoring. We are very privileged to work closely with Dr Ama Johal, Consultant at the Barts & London. We support his seminars 'Snoring – A role for the GDP'. He has trained well over 1000 GDPs in the UK and has developed recognised and robust screening tools aimed to help GDPs screen their patients for Sleep Apnoea.'
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) occurs when a person stops breathing while asleep, which can be up to 50-60 times an hour. These breathing interruptions, known as 'apnoeas', happen when the airway narrows so much that it closes. The closure of the airway causes breathing to stop, which in turn reduces the oxygen level in the blood. The brain reacts by releasing adrenalin, which causes a partial wakening of the snorer. The snorer will often not be aware of this partial wakening during the night.
Many sufferers have excessive daytime sleepiness, and they can inadvertently fall asleep, making the condition potentially dangerous. Experts recommend a sleep study to assess the degree of OSA before treatment options are considered. Continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) is used to treat severe cases of OSA in which equipment pumps filtered humidified air under pressure into the nose to prevent the upper airway from collapsing.
A recent survey highlighted that snorers are three times more likely to suffer from hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and high cholesterol; and nearly four times more likely to suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness than non-snorers.
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Sam arranges extra special Christmas party for foster families
By News & Blogs Team
When the wonderful team from Anglesey Foster Care Association got in touch with our Llangefni store's community champion Sam Broadley they were hoping for a raffle prize for an awards evening ... and ended up being treated to an extra special Christmas party.
The group couldn't afford to hold a festive event after hosting their awards evening in September, so Sam secured a donation from the Asda Foundation to pay for a party for a group of 30 children, their parents and carers, as well as arranging for a storyteller to put on a show for the younger children, organising food and drink, treats for the children and a visit from Santa.
This Christmas the Asda Foundation is spreading festive magic by organising extra special surprises for groups like this.
Barbara Jones, chair of the Anglesey Foster Care Association, says it was a magical experience.
She said:" Sam at the Llangefni store has been brilliant. We would not have had a Christmas party at all if it wasn't for Asda. Their help has been amazing we can't thank them enough.
"I first contacted Sam in the summer and asked if Asda could donate a raffle prize for our Star Awards event, which we hold every two years. Children in care often have low morale and low self esteem, but these awards give them a bit of a boost.
"Sam generously agreed, and then asked if we were having a Christmas party. I said we weren't as we couldn't afford it and Sam said she would see what she could do.
"We were lucky enough to get a £500 grant from the Asda Foundation for the party and then I got a call out of the blue saying they were going to take our party to the next level! I was literally bursting with excitement."
The group usually meets twice a year and holds fundraisers for these events.
Barbara said: "When the children are all together they really thrive and they had such a great time. There are no stigmas, as they are all in the same boat. They don't feel left out because they aren't with their mummies and daddies."
The association, which has been running for about 10 years, caters for about 36 "looked after" children.
Sam said: "The group have been so excited by the Christmas party and it all started with them asking for a raffle prize! They really are a deserving group.
"The kids had an absolutely brilliant time and it was lovely to see."
At the party the group held a separate awards evening for children whose parents are fostering children.
Sam said: "At the Star Awards in September it was the children in foster care who were recognised, so we took the opportunity here to say thank you and well done to the biological children who've welcomed foster children into their homes."
Sam arranged a storyteller to come to the party to read Santa's Leftover Magic, the story of Tilly and Jack, the children featured in our Christmas advert, to the younger children.
She said: "They really enjoyed the story and were answering questions when she was asking what you think the lights are and what they would do if they had magic glitter like Tilly."
Our Llangefni store's manager Russell Frankland says the party reflected the real Christmas spirit.
He said: "It was a fantastic day. It's brilliant to be able to give something back to such an important group. To see the reaction on the children's faces was incredible.
"Helping make this happen was the least we could do. It wasn't just for the kids – it's about the people who foster and their children who live with the children their parents are fostering. It was a celebration of everyone."
Russell's a big supporter of the work Sam does in the community around the store and with local groups, charities and good causes across Anglesey.
He said: "Sam's absolutely amazing. She covers all different charities and cares deeply about our community. We're the only Asda on the island with a community champion so she does try to cover the whole island. She works with everyone from schools to groups for the elderly and supports a wide cross-section of the community. She comes up with some magical stuff and I couldn't be more proud of her."
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I've been a fan of EventGhost for some time now but unfortunately my remote control was not supported by it.
So I read some docs and looked at the MediaPortal Technotrend remote plugin and several of the EG plugins and after a couple of hours (it was much easier than I had expected) I came up with the plugin that's attached.
It works for remotes included with the Technotrend Budget cards that use BDA drivers (tested with TT-budget C-1501). The device types indicate that it might also work for Technotrend USB receivers, but I cannot test this.
Please have a look at the code. I'd appreciate any feedback. Hopefully the plugin can be included in EventGhost at some point.
It would also be great if it could be tested by someone with Technotrend hardware.
Hi, not work for me, i get the message "device not found". I have a TT S3600 USB. working fine with DVBViewer. I attach the log of the ttremotetest.exe that may help you.
I hope you fix soon.
I tried the plugin, but it doesn't seem to work with the TT CT2-4650CI USB.
I also tried 2 other plugins I found, but this card just came out this year, and is probably also similar to DVBSky.
Any help would be appriciated how I could get it to work.
The error is always, device not found.
At the TT-Viewer from Technotrend there is a new DLL included for the remote control. And there I have to choose the correct Remote, that it works.
So I guess some things have changed, or the name, thus it's not recognized?


Anno 1602: Creation of a New World (released as 1602 A.D. in North America and Australia) is a real-time strategy and city building video game developed by Max Design, published by Sunflowers Interactive and distributed by Infogrames. It was published in 1998 (2000 in North America) and is the first game of the Anno series.
Click on the download button. It should redirect you to your download (a .rar file). Make sure you download the file properly and that your internet does not disconnect while downloading.
Extract the "Anno 1602" folder to your desktop.
Open the "Anno 1602" folder and double click on the "setup_anno_1602_2.0.0.6.exe" setup file and the game setup should run. Install the game.
Launch the game from the desktop shortcut.


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Download as PDF 14778 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 56 / Thursday, March 23, 2006 / Notices statistical disparities between DBE availability and participation. This is likely to require a multivariate/ regression analysis. The study should quantify the magnitude of any differences between DBE availability and participation, or DBE participation in race-neutral and race-conscious contracts. Recipients should exercise caution in drawing conclusions about the presence of discrimination and its effects based on small differences. In calculating availability of DBEs, the study should not rely on numbers that may have been inflated by raceconscious programs that may not have been narrowly tailored. Recipients should consider, as they plan their studies, evidence-gathering efforts that Federal courts have approved in the past. These include the studies by Minnesota and Nebraska cited in Sherbrooke Turf, Inc. v. Minnesota Department of Transportation, 345 F.3d 964 (8th Cir. 2003), cert. denied 124 S. Ct. 2158 (2004) and the Illinois evidence cited in Northern Contracting, Inc. v. State of Illinois, et al. 2005 WL 2230195, N.D.Ill., September 08, 2005 (No. 00 C 4515) Question: Can There Be Statewide or Regional Studies, as Opposed to a Separate Study for Each Individual Recipient? FTA Requests for Comment FTA requests comment on two matters concerning the implementation of the DOT General Counsel's DBE Guidance on the Western States court decision: 1. For 9th circuit recipients only, with respect to FY 2006 overall DBE goals, recipients should submit DBE goals to their FTA Regional Office for review by the Regional Civil Rights Officer. As determined by the Regional Civil Rights Officer, recipients with race-neutral goals may be required to certify that they will conduct or participate in a disparity or availability study or other appropriate evidence gathering process and the time frame for completion of the study or process. 2. As mentioned in the DOT Guidance, disparity studies using FY 2006 funding allocations will be an authorized expense for reimbursement, subject to the availability of funds. We seek comment on whether disparity studies should receive grantee funding priority, and on whether any additional funding should be made available for this purpose. Issued on: March 20, 2006. Sandra K. Bushue, Deputy Administrator. [FR Doc. E6–4226 Filed 3–22–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–57–P Answer DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION If feasible, studies may be undertaken on a regional or statewide basis to reduce the costs that would be involved if each recipient conducted its own separate study. We would expect that each State DOT would conduct a statewide study. Such a study should be conducted in cooperation with transit and airport recipients in the state, so that the study would apply to recipients in all three modes. Larger transit and/or airport recipients may want to conduct their own study, since the demographics of large urban areas may differ from that of the state as a whole. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Question: Will Federal Funds Help To Defray the Costs of Recipients' Studies? wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES Answer Yes. FHWA, FTA, and FAA have all stated that the costs of conducting disparity studies are reimbursable from Federal program funds, subject to the availability of those funds. Recipients should contact their operating administration for more detailed information. VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:54 Mar 22, 2006 Jkt 208001 Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping Requirements Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Department of Transportation. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature of the information collections and their expected burden. The Federal Register document with a 60-day comment period was published on November 29, 2005 [70 FR 71601]. DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 24, 2006. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carlita Ballard at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of PO 00000 Frm 00102 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 International Vehicle, Fuel Economy and Consumer Standards, (NVS–131), 202–366–5222, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Room 5320, Washington, DC 20590. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Title: 49 CFR part 544; Insurer Reporting Requirement. OMB Control Number: 2127–0547. Type of Request: Request for public comment on a previously approved collection of information. Abstract: NHTSA must ensure that passenger motor vehicle insurance companies and rental/leasing companies comply with 49 CFR part 544, Insurer Reporting Requirement. Part 544 requires that the insurance/ rental and leasing companies provide information on comprehensive insurance premiums, theft and recoveries and actions taken to address motor vehicle theft. Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 64,610 hours (56,700 man-hours for 28 insurance companies and 7,910 manhours for 14 rental and leasing companies). Estimated Annual Cost: $2,325,960. Send comments, within 30 days, to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: NHTSA Desk Officer. Comments are invited on: Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Department, including whether the information will have practical utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. A comment to OMB is most effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication. ADDRESSES: Issued in Washington, DC on: March 20, 2006. Stephen R. Kratzke, Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. [FR Doc. 06–2838 Filed 3–22–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–59–P E:\FR\FM\23MRN1.SGM 23MRN1
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Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping Requirements Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR
describes the nature of the information collections and their expected
burden. The Federal Register document with a 60-day comment period was
published on November 29, 2005 [70 FR 71601].
DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 24, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carlita Ballard at the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of International Vehicle,
Fuel Economy and Consumer Standards, (NVS-131), 202-366-5222, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Room 5320, Washington, DC 20590.
Title: 49 CFR part 544; Insurer Reporting Requirement.
OMB Control Number: 2127-0547.
Type of Request: Request for public comment on a previously
approved collection of information.
Abstract: NHTSA must ensure that passenger motor vehicle insurance
companies and rental/leasing companies comply with 49 CFR part 544,
Insurer Reporting Requirement. Part 544 requires that the insurance/
rental and leasing companies provide information on comprehensive
insurance premiums, theft and recoveries and actions taken to address
motor vehicle theft.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 64,610 hours (56,700 man-hours for
28 insurance companies and 7,910 man-hours for 14 rental and leasing
companies).
Estimated Annual Cost: $2,325,960.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30 days, to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: NHTSA Desk Officer.
Comments are invited on: Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. A comment to OMB is most effective if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication.
Issued in Washington, DC on: March 20, 2006.
Stephen R. Kratzke,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 06-2838 Filed 3-22-06; 8:45 am]
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UK food industry pledges to halve waste
Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive of IGD.
Many of the UK's largest food retailers, producers, manufacturers and foodservice companies have committed to milestones laid out in a new industry Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
This has been developed with Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to further reduce the UK's food waste problem.
The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap shows what businesses across the whole supply chain need to undertake and there are sector-specific activities underpinning the Roadmap, reflecting differences between the sectors.
For example, the hospitality and foodservice sector is responding to the specific challenges of food waste measurement within a complex and fragmented sector by developing a detailed collaborative action plan for March 2019.
It also sets out how these businesses can engage with consumers to help reduce their food waste.
By September 2019, the aim is to have 50% of the UK's largest 250 food businesses measuring, reporting and acting on food waste with all 250 companies doing so by 2026.
Marcus Gover, CEO of WRAP, explains: "Together, WRAP and IGD have mobilised industry leaders to create a bold sector-wide Roadmap, showing clearly what UK businesses must do.
"This Roadmap is hugely ambitious, and I'm delighted that the UK is the first country anywhere to set a nation-wide plan towards delivering its part in SDG 12.3."
Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive of IGD said: "The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap presents a huge opportunity for every business within the UK food and grocery industry to provide reassurance for shoppers."
Industry reactions
The Roadmap has the support of the UK's largest food trade bodies, businesses across the supply chain and Defra, Welsh and Scottish Governments.
Helen Munday, chief scientific officer and director of Food Safety, Science and Sustainability, at the Food & Drink Federation (FDF), said: "FDF is pleased to support this ground-breaking initiative and in particular the emphasis on all businesses measuring, reporting and acting on food waste in a consistent way."
National Farmers' Union (NFU) president, Minette Batters said: "This is an incredibly important initiative by WRAP and IGD, and the NFU is very pleased to be able to support it.
"Farmers are the first step in the supply chain, producing the raw ingredients that make up the safe, traceable, affordable domestic food supply that helps to feed the nation."
Businesses wishing to access the free resources and find out more about the using the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap should click here.


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Eun Young Yi is an architect. He runs the Architekturbüro yi architects in Cologne and Seoul. Yi studied architecture from 1976 to 1983 at Hanyang University in Korea and from 1984 to 1990 at RWTH Aachen University. From 1994 to 1999 he was a research associate at the Chair for Urban Planning and Works Science at RWTH Aachen University. He was appointed a university professor at Hanyang University in 2000. In 1999, he won the competition for the realization of the City Library in Milan (then Library 21 ) in Stuttgart , which was opened on 24 October 2011. In 2010 it was decided to rebuild the Lower Saxony Landtag according to its plans.
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Eco-Friendly Fabric Is Destroying the Rainforest
A forest activist inspects land clearing and drainage of peat natural forest in Indonesia.
Photo: Ulet Ifansasti (Getty Images)
Viscose rayon is often billed as a more sustainable fabric. But a new investigation shows that one of its most popular purveyors is contributing to deforestation in Indonesia.
Satellite images of rainforest in the state of Kalimantan in Indonesia show that one of the world's largest producers of the fabric that supplies companies like Adidas, Abercrombie & Fitch, and H&M may still be clearing rainforest despite previous pledges to stop deforestation, according to an NBC News investigation.
Viscose rayon is a fabric made from the pulp of eucalyptus and bamboo trees. Since it's not made from petrochemical products, it's often billed as a greener option compared to fabrics like polyester and nylon, which are made from oil. The trees can technically regrow, making viscose rayon a better option—in theory—for producing clothing and items like baby wipes and face masks.
But the way these trees are harvested can also do a huge amount of harm. For years, much of the world's viscose rayon supply has come from Indonesia, where wood suppliers have repeatedly cleared old-growth rainforests to plant trees for rayon. Like palm oil plantations, one of the biggest industrial sources of deforestation in Indonesia, the monocrop planted for viscose rayon production dries out the land, making it susceptible to forest fires; destroys the habitat of endangered species like orangutans; and absorbs significantly less carbon dioxide than the rainforest it replaced. (One study on palm oil plantations published in 2018 found that each hectare of rainforest converted turned into a monocrop releases around the same amount of carbon as a flight of more than 500 people flying from Geneva to New York.)
In April 2015, one of Indonesia's largest pulpwood suppliers, Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd. (APRIL), vowed to stop using wood from forested peatlands and rainforests. It also promised to harvest trees more sustainably. But environmental groups last year released a report using satellite data showing how APRIL's sister companies and holding companies are still engaged in deforestation, including clearing out almost 28 square miles (73 square kilometers) of forest in the five years since the pledge. (The company denied these allegations to NBC.)
"You've gone from one of the most biodiverse places in the world to what's essentially like a biological desert," Earthrise co-founder Edward Boyda, who examined satellite images of the cleared forest for NBC News, said.
The pulp from some of these holding companies taken from Kalimantan is then sent to a sister processing company in China, where the resulting fabric is sold to major brands, according to corporate disclosures seen by NBC.
Indonesia has seen dramatic rainforest loss over the past 20 years, largely driven by palm oil demand. In 2014, a study found that it had the highest rate of deforestation in the world. That deforestation has slowed in the past five years thanks to a number of factors, including government mandates for palm oil producers. The covid-19 pandemic has slowed production as well.
But environmentalists worry that demand for pulpwood for paper and fabric—driven in part by the rise of fast fashion—could drive deforestation back up. Many of the world's major fashion brands do not disclose the sourcing of their fabrics, adding another layer of opacity to what's happening on the ground.
"For years to come, I'm most worried about pulpwood," Timer Manurung, director of Indonesian NGO Auriga, told NBC.
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We should now zoom right into the product itself. Basically, Ebene offers products which works extremely well on many areas of the body. However, the top selling product is certainly Ebene's knee guard. This product is quite simply produced to provide support on your knee to people patients recuperating from surgery & more.
The product comes with an adjustable strap, which will help to make maximum comfort for their user no matter what bodily proportions because they're free to readjust accordingly. When used regularly, Ebene knee guard can help to reduce inflammation and swelling by supporting better blood flow in the knee.
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The Lake Forest College men's soccer team tied host Edgewood College 0-0 Wednesday night. The Foresters are now 3-1-1 on the season and will begin Midwest Conference play next weekend.
Lake Forest outshot the Eagles 6-5 in the first half and 7-3 in the second. Both teams attempted a pair of shots in the first 10-minute overtime period and one in the second.
The Foresters put seven shots on goal while senior goalkeeper Ethan Guenther needed just three saves to record his first shutout as a Forester. He is now 1-0-1 and has not allowed a goal in more than 142 minutes this season.
Lake Forest will play its MWC opener against Grinnell College at home next Saturday. The game will begin at 1:30 p.m. The Foresters will also host Cornell College Sunday at 3:30 p.m.


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We will inform you of her return in due course.
For this reason we are giving notice that we can no longer continue with the extended hours (early morning, late evening and Saturdays).
Our nurse practitioner will be extending her role, so that you will be offered an appointment with her where possible.
Please contact your GP surgery for details on additional appointments which have been made available for East Surrey patients to book at our hub locations.
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Q: Using java replaceAll method to replace word in sentences with one regex I am trying to replace the "is" with "is not" in string but there is the exception that it should not replace "is" which is reside in other word.
Example
"This is an ant" --> "This is not an ant" [CORRECT]
"This is an ant" --> "This not is not an ant" [INCORRECT]

So far, what I did is
String result = str.replaceAll("([^a-zA-Z0-9])is([^a-zA-Z0-9])","$1is not$2");
result = result.replaceAll("^is([^a-zA-Z0-9])","is not$1");
result = result.replaceAll("([^a-zA-Z0-9])is$","$1is not");
result = result.replaceAll("^is$","is not");

But I think it is possible with only one regex but I can't figure it out.
Is it possible?

A: Use word boundary (\b):
result = str.replaceAll("\\bis\\b", "is not");

NOTE: \ should be escaped. Otherwise it matches backspace (U+0008).
See Demo.

A: result = str.replaceAll("\\bis\\b", "is not");

\b matches word-boundaries.
[Edit]: Thanks @Falsetru for the notice on escaping - you're right, of course!


th! -- Dragons. Snakes. Whatever.
Hi. Hope you all are having an evening. I brings three things.
It's almost the anniversary of the death of one of Joe Biden's ancestors.
no good deed: "Well, I guess he finally found the snake."
Have to ask... After two months... dead or alive?
Your collections are always delightful. This one was especially funny.
Warning: Do not tread upon.
Don't worry. They're friendly. I think.


The first day of Spring is almost here and it's time we get the skin on our face and body ready for the warmer weather. Spring, depending on where you live, can be a tricky season as some places are still very cold while others are very warm. With that being said, we made this list of 4 things you need to do to transition your skin into Spring, no matter where you live.
There are so many urban myths going around about puffy eyes and dark circles and how to cure them, that it is an overwhelming task to figure out what helps and what is a waste of time and money. Let's cut through the crap and look at some real solutions.
Cleansing your skin goes beyond just clean. You need to know what skin type you have to make an informed decision. What is good for oily skin is definitely not right for dry skin. Understanding your skin type is step one!


Whether working on personal projects or for clients, I sometimes catch myself negotiating more time in order for the "creative juices" to flow. The ones with myself are the funniest and most depressing. But that's how things work, right? One can't really rush creativity. My recollection of agency life reinforces this -- always a conflict over timing between creative and account folks. Creatives want more time and account people need magic made yesterday. "Television spots aren't made in 2 weeks. My friends, client expectations have been set." Who makes these rules?
I've come to loathe more time. The more of it alloted to a project, the more interference incurred along the way. Whether it's second-guessing a great idea, the client's wife hating the color or someone beating you to the punch, time isn't always on your side. I wouldn't presume time can never be a blessing, though. Even a few extra hours can make a world of difference from time to time. What I'm getting at is longer timelines shouldn't exist by default. There's real beauty in gesture drawings and something profound can come off the top of your head if allowed.
It's more about doing and less about waiting for the thought of what to do. In fact, many creative-types force themselves into daily exercises -- quick ones, mind you -- with the specific intent to spur on creativity. (skulls / purchases / collages) The same philosophy is applied in many cases through "shallow holes." But sometimes we dig so many shallow holes, we find ourselves a few weeks in the hole with nothing to show for it. I'm rambling a bit, but I guess I have this idea of making stuff that's inspired rather than well-thought-out. Does that make sense?
Gotta run -- till next time.


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American Oligarchy
To observe that the Left and its cheerleading media have treated the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as a solemn occasion would be to understate the point. For the Left, the (actually) mostly peaceful demonstrations of that day, which for a small percentage of demonstrators did entail illegal trespassing of the Capitol, represented a watershed moment in the history of our "democracy." Jan. 6 was the day, the narrative goes, where "deplorable" Trumpians attempted to effectuate an "insurrection" and a "coup," seeking to "overturn" the results of the perfect and pristine 2020 presidential election.
The lead-up to the one-year Jan. 6 anniversary was endlessly promoted by our insular and self-congratulatory Washington press corps as something akin to the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. President Joe Biden dedicated his Jan. 6, 2022, remarks to excoriating his predecessor for that predecessor's alleged incitement of an "insurrection." Defying parody, a candlelight vigil was held at the National Mall—"in remembrance of the attack on our democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021."
In fairness, it is true that modern America no longer meets a threshold definition of "democracy." But the Left is wrong as to why. America in the year 2022 is not a nation bedeviled by a great scourge of right-wing political violence, but it is a nation bedeviled by a monolithic and intellectually homogenous oligarchy that seeks to subjugate dissenting "deplorables" by any means necessary. Consider some examples.
American oligarchy is when a duly elected president of the United States is stymied from day one by cynical ruling class fabulists concocting a false story about that president's alleged collusion with a foreign power, based on the primary "evidence" of a salacious and unverified "dossier" created in conjunction with the defeated opponent's presidential campaign. American oligarchy is when the institutional media cheers on not one but two baseless and mind-numbing presidential impeachments based on nothing more than frothing partisan fealty to the oligarchs' preferred political tribe, the Democratic Party.
American oligarchy is when the nation's fourth-largest newspaper, the New York Post, runs on the eve of a monumental presidential election a prominent piece of investigative journalism about the oligarchs' preferred candidate's troubled son's shameless overseas venality—only to see that piece of journalism wiped clean from the Big Tech platforms and the Post locked out of its very own Twitter account. American oligarchy is when neoliberal purists from the left, center, and right unite to thwart any meaningful attempt at antitrust enforcement against Big Tech, permitting the Birkenstock-wearing C-suite dweebs who control our digital public square to bowdlerize that public square of any "deplorable" dissent from regime rule.
American oligarchy is when White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg collude, in naked fashion, to purge Facebook of any discourse skeptical of the recent crowning regime achievement, ineffectual COVID-19 "vaccines." American oligarchy is when White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients, echoing the rhetoric of a Maoist "social credit system," rebukes "the unvaccinated" for "looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm."
American oligarchy is when myriad states take advantage of a pandemic to pass massive changes to electoral regulations by executive fiat, and thus in violation of the U.S. Constitution, in such a manner as to not-so-coincidentally benefit the regime's favored political party. American oligarchy is when even the most anodyne of post-2020 election attempts to undo the ad hoc electoral changes of 2020, such as Georgia's quite moderate voting law, are unfairly maligned by political oligarchs as "Jim Crow on steroids" and viciously opposed by Big Business oligarchs all too happy to boycott states that legislate on behalf of cultural or electoral sanity.
American oligarchy is the spawning of a two-tier "biomedical security state" in which dissenters from the ruling class' preferred narrative on COVID-19 vaccines, mandates, and lockdowns are punished via woke consternation, fired from their jobs, kicked off the digital public square, and physically dragged out of convenience stores by police. American oligarchy is when the uniparty regime's foot soldiers, the Antifa and Black Lives Matter hooligans who savaged American urban corridors during 2020's "1619 Riots," are let off scot-free, while Jan. 6 trespassers without any previous criminal history are subjected to solitary confinement.
The Left is correct to bewail the sordid and fallen state of "our democracy." It just has no idea why.
Josh Hammer, a constitutional attorney by training, is an opinion editor for Newsweek, a podcast contributor with BlazeTV, of counsel at First Liberty Institute, and a syndicated columnist.
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import sys
import os
import PackRO
import argparse
import fnmatch

def files_in_tree(pattern, top):
  for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(os.path.abspath(top)):
    for f in fnmatch.filter(filenames, pattern):
      yield os.path.join(dirpath, f)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Prepare M components for Import')
parser.add_argument('MDir', metavar='<M_DIR>',nargs="+",help = "Path[s] to the M components source tree[s]")
parser.add_argument('-o' ,'--outputdir', default="", help = "Directory to store the output files")
parser.add_argument('-r','--relativedir' ,metavar='<RELATIVE_DIR>', help = "Make globals.lst paths relative to a supplied directory")
result = parser.parse_args()

for outputfile in ["routines.ro", "globals.lst"]:
  try:
    os.remove(outputfile)
  except OSError:
    pass

routputfile = open(os.path.join(result.outputdir,"routines.ro"),'w')
goutputfile = open(os.path.join(result.outputdir,"globals.lst"),'w')

routines=[]
globals=[]

for directory in result.MDir:
  print "Looking for routines in subdirectories below " + directory
  routines += [r for r in files_in_tree('*.m',directory)]
  print "Looking for globals in subdirectories below " + directory
  if result.relativedir:
    globals += [os.path.relpath(g,result.relativedir) for g in files_in_tree('*.zwr',directory)]
  else:
    globals += [g for g in files_in_tree('*.zwr',directory)]

print "Packing routines into routines.ro file"
PackRO.pack(routines[0:],routputfile)
print "Done!"

print "Packing global paths into globals.lst file"
for newglobal in globals:
  goutputfile.write(newglobal+'\n')
print "Done!"

routputfile.close()
goutputfile.close()
sys.exit(0)


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You are here : Archive > 2013 > October > October 14, 2013 - New Star Sited Over Albany
New Star Sited Over Albany
By Jay Breakstone
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Like it or not, the one thing we can say about our court system is that it reaches decisions. At the end of the day, something happens. It might be right or wrong, but cases don't end in a draw. Apparently, that is a luxury not enjoyed by the other two branches of the government.
Observing Congress over the last weeks would be funny, were our representatives not actually being paid for their inability to govern. The cost of American democracy is dear indeed, and goes far beyond a Congressman's salary or office staff. When our government doesn't work right, everyone pays, but no one earns.
That's not to say that all this Miasma on the Hill is anything new. Will Rogers may have believed that we should "never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous." But what are we to do when doing nothing causes some other thing to happen? Something bad? What then? Is inertia so endemic to the process that we simply ignore it?
We suggest that, at a minimum, we can ignore those who failed to act when they ask us to act on their behalf. Fair is fair. If party is more important than people, so be it.
Ask your party chairman to vote for you in November; we won't. We'll just do nothing, or vote for someone else. We've had good teachers.
First things first. In our discussion of Doerr v. Goldsmith in last week's MondayMonday, we told you that the two dog owners who caused the accident were on bicycles when they enticed their pooch to jump from one to another. That would have been quite a carnival act, were it true, but it wasn't. As Greg Bagen, MondayMonday reader and attorney for plaintiff clarifies, the dog owners were walking, not biking at the time of the incident. So, we put Ringling Bros. on hold for the moment and offer our mea culpa instead.
The angels sing (as they used to more regularly) when the Court of Appeals recognizes a new cause of action in response to a harm being done to citizens of the state.
That is precisely what the Chief Judge did in deciding Landon v. Kroll Laboratory Specialists, 2013 NY Slip Op 06597 (10/10/13) last week.
Defendant, a drug-testing lab, negligently reported a false positive drug report pertaining to a probationer which caused the plaintiff to suffer loss of rights and status. Luckily, the probationer had his own his own contemporaneous drug test and caught defendant red-handed.
The Court confirms, once again, that under Espinal, one can assume a duty of care to others outside of a contract such that the failure to exercise reasonable care in the performance of that contract will constitute the launching of a force or instrument of harm.
Nothing new there (see Moch), but the threat of opening up the mythical "floodgates of litigation" still brings the dissent of Judges Pigott and Read. Conceding that the majority "creates a new cause of action against third-party drug testing laboratories for 'negligent testing'," the dissent would hold that only the Probation Department was in a position to object to that negligence. Judge Smith, a lone, third dissenter, finds that the tort of defamation would serve the plaintiff here just as well without "invent[ing] a new tort." But a new tort, like a new star, brightens our belief in the future, for it is born of the stuff of the past. Moch lives.


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Mental health 'parity of esteem' far away as ever, say specialists
A survey by the Royal College of Nursing shows 57 per cent of mental health nurses think "parity of esteem" has still not achieved.
Equal treatment for patients with mental health problems remains as far away as ever according to specialist nurses – six years after the Coalition government promised to achieve it. A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) shows the majority (57 per cent) of mental health nurses across the UK think "parity of esteem" has still not achieved.
The phrase was used by David Cameron in 2013 when the then Prime Minister pledged to reduce the funding gap between mental and physical health. Theresa May also promised equal treatment when she took office so the survey's findings will prove embarrassing for the government. Those with serious mental illnesses such as psychosis or bipolar disorder, for example, die between 15 and 20 years earlier than the UK average; people with schizophrenia are up to three times more likely than average to have diabetes; and young adults with severe mental illness are three times more likely than average to die from heart disease.
The RCN's survey found that over half (57 per cent) of nurses who responded considered that their respective UK nation had been either 'unsuccessful' or 'very unsuccessful' in delivering mental health equality. Only 17 per cent said their country had been successful. Almost four in 10 (38 per cent) also considered that their mental health setting was 'completely ill-equipped' or 'not well-equipped' to respond to the physical health needs of people with serious mental illness (for example, lacked the right equipment to carry out diagnostic tests for physical health problems).
The findings come on the day the RCN hosts the launch of the Equally Well UK "Charter for Equal Health", a new collaborative backed by over 50 health and care organisations. The Charter invites those who support it to make pledges for the action they will take to increase life expectancy for people with severe mental illness.
The nurses said the most important factor that would make the biggest difference would be to increase funding for mental health care, followed by safe staffing of services – the number of mental health nurses has dropped by 5,000 since 2010 – and better commissioning of services. For example, setting up specialist clinics to help people with mental illness lose weight or stop smoking.
Tim Coupland, RCN Programme Lead for Parity of Esteem, said: "It's not only a tragedy that people with mental illness die so much earlier than the general population, it's also scandalous in a modern health service that we still have so far to go.
"As a mental health nurse, I welcomed each UK government's commitment to equal treatment for people with mental health problems – but we need a much more co-ordinated approach across the NHS to make faster progress towards this laudable aim. At the RCN, we wanted to find out exactly what nurses working in mental health thought would make a difference.
"The findings from our survey – more funding for mental health services, more staff and better planning of services – won't come as a surprise to Health Ministers and NHS managers, but nurse working in mental health are better placed than anyone to give definitive answers on what is holding up progress. "
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "We're committed to seeing parity between physical and mental health, which is why we're transforming services supported by record amounts of funding, and major increases to the workforce, with our ambition to create 21,000 new posts by 2021. Mental health will be a key priority of our long-term plan for the NHS which will be published in the autumn, backed by £20.5bn of funding over the next five years."