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6 Gift Ideas If You’ve Been Invited to a Christmas Dinner
Gareth streetfoodguy.com 1) Christmas Cookies One of the most popular Christmas gifts is a batch of cookies. Cookies are always a welcome addition to any holiday party and they’re easy to transport in a festive tin. The great thing about cookies is that you can make them yourself
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Decking the Halls of History
Anne Lawrence-Mathers University of Reading The idea of hanging up decorations in the middle of winter is older than Christmas itself. Decorations are mentioned in ancient descriptions of the Roman feast of Saturnalia, which is thought to have originated in the 5th century BC. Some 900 years later, a
View from Your Window
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Police Consultation on Firearm Fees A Sham
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz In August 2021 the Office of the Auditor General issued a guide for “The setting and administration of fees and levies for cost recovery with four basic principles: 1. Equity 2. Efficiency 3. Justifiability 4. Transparency The guide further states
The Battle Is Never Won
In the classic movie The Usual Suspects there is the line “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist“. A variation on that theme was after the collapse of communism in Russia and Europe; most freedom lovers thought, “Oh that’s that
How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas
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Labour’s Court Jester Is Willie Jackson
We all know, only too well, that Jacinda Ardern is spoilt for choice when it comes to blunderers, incompetents and wastrels to staff her cabinet. In fact, you could say, “Her cup runneth over!” Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM and as today is
You May Die: New Zealand Govt Report
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction