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31/12/22
« on: Saturday, 31 December, 2022 @ 02:06:06 »


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Re: 31/12/22
« Reply #1 on: Saturday, 31 December, 2022 @ 02:06:39 »
Today’s bank rates:
1 €UR = £0.9121 GBP
1 €UR = $1.0969 USD
£1 GBP = 1.0964 €UR
$1 USD = 0.9117 €UR

Based on Alpha Bank exchange rates, these are widely used by exchange agencies in Greece.
Other banks likely to offer a different rate which may be marginally higher or lower.
Banks and foreign exchange offices normally charge standard 2% commission.
You may get a better rate changing your holiday money in advance at e.g the
Post Office.
NB: some f-ex agencies advertise "No Commission".
Invariably, they deduct commission before they (don't) advertise the rate.
Foreign exchange offices are businesses, not charities.


Ten day weather forecast for Kefalonia:
This is an overall forecast, due to the mountainous terrain the weather can be very localised.
Updated forecast @
weather.com

Day, Date   Hi°/Lo°   Wind sp   Wet   Forecast
Sat 31/12   17°/11°   06 km/h   21%   Starting cloudy then turning sunny
Sun 01/01   17°/11°   04 km/h   14%   Sun & cloud
Mon 02/01   17°/11°   07 km/h   08%   Sunny
Tue 03/01   17°/12°   13 km/h   10%   Sun & cloud
Wed 04/01   17°/11°   15 km/h   10%   Sun & cloud
Thu 05/01   17°/11°   10 km/h   19%   Sun & cloud
Fri 06/01   16°/11°   10 km/h   10%   Mostly sunny
Sat 07/01   17°/11°   12 km/h   24%   Sun & cloud
Sun 08/01   17°/10°   09 km/h   24%   Sun & cloud
Mon 09/01   16°/12°   12 km/h   24%   Sun & cloud

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Re: 31/12/22
« Reply #2 on: Saturday, 31 December, 2022 @ 04:29:56 »
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Unbelievable! Chris Kamara made an MBE in New Years Honours

One of football's most popular figures has been made an MBE in the New Year Honours list.

Chris Kamara played for nine English professional clubs in a career spanning 20 years before going on to manage Bradford and Stoke, but in more recent years he has become best known for his work as a pundit and presenter on Sky Sports.

Kamara’s inability to contain his enthusiasm for the game and his propensity for gaffes during live stadium video links in Sky’s Soccer Saturday programme became the stuff of legend, often leaving programme host Jeff Stelling and other studio guests in stitches.
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2022-12-30/unbelievable-chris-kamara-made-an-mbe-in-new-years-honours


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New Year Honours 2023: Brian May and Lionesses on list
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64125449


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MPs and officials who caused trouble for Boris Johnson given knighthoods
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-mps-knighthood-b2253638.html


I think this is a full list at assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

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Re: 31/12/22
« Reply #3 on: Saturday, 31 December, 2022 @ 13:41:58 »
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Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health.

He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64107731

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Re: 31/12/22
« Reply #4 on: Saturday, 31 December, 2022 @ 14:13:05 »
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Fury as Police Scotland describes paedophiles as ‘minor-attracted people’
Campaigners see the contentious term, used in a force report, as an attempt to rebrand offence as a harmless sexual preference

Police Scotland emphasised it opposed describing paedophiles as MAPs and insisted the term had only been included in the report as it was used by the project’s commissioning documents.

But the report was published amid wider concerns by campaigners over what they see as attempts to rebrand paedophilia as a harmless sexual preference.

The term MAP is contentious because child abusers are trying to escape the stigma attached to paedophilia and maintain they should be regarded as a niche group alongside the LGBT community.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/30/scottish-police-call-paedophiles-minor-attracted-people-major/

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Re: 31/12/22
« Reply #5 on: Saturday, 31 December, 2022 @ 18:45:27 »
The new big thing we might be hearing a lot about in 2023: ChatGPT, a recently released Artificial Intelligence chatbot. "In just five days, it racked up over a million users, a feat that took social media platform Meta (formerly Facebook) 10 months and streaming platform Netflix three years to match." (euronews.com)

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ChatGPT, an AI-based text generator that was released for public use in early December, has been praised and criticised alike for the quality of its output. Users can ask it questions ranging from simple factual queries (“What is the tallest mountain in Britain?”) to absurd requests (“Write a limerick explaining the offside rule”) and receive clear and coherent responses written in natural English.

Headteachers and university lecturers have expressed concerns that ChatGPT, which can provide convincing human-sounding answers to exam questions, could spark a wave of cheating in homework and exam coursework.

The bot doesn’t work perfectly. It has a tendency to “hallucinate” facts that aren’t strictly true, which technology analyst Benedict Evans described as “...like a confident bullshitter that can write very convincing nonsense.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/31/ai-assisted-plagiarism-chatgpt-bot-says-it-has-an-answer-for-that