This is not only a New York State issue, but an issue on the global scale. However, total successful recycling in New York is about 20 percent, which is well under what should be considered acceptable—the national average is 32 percent. It is our job as citizens to help change this miserable statistic, at least in our state.…
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I have a tremendous resistance to change. I guess that’s why, in my 50s, I had the same bicycle for 43 years, the same power lawn mower for 40 years and the same old Chevy convertible for more than 30 years. Alice, my wife of 27 years at that time, must have felt pretty secure knowing my propensity for maintaining the status quo.…
I’ve got a 3-year-old boxer who I adopted from a shelter at age 1. He’s killing my image! His name is “Macho” and I’m thinking of changing it. He’s afraid of everything, I mean, everything! If I raise my voice, he’ll pee. A friend scared Macho when he dropped his phone and two weeks later Macho still avoids him like the plague.…
160 YEARS AGO: Ladies at the County Fair—Our attention was first directed to the Domestic Manufactures. The Ladies deserve much praise, for their department has become an attractive feature of the Exhibition. There was a good display of quilts. There were 12 entries. A beautiful silk patchwork quilt, containing 3,000 pieces, by Mrs. James F. Smith of Richfield Springs, was much admired as a work which had required no little time and skill to complete; another by Miss Amanda Belknap…
110 YEARS AGO: One of the largest and most enjoyable social functions in years in this city was the reception given Friday night by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Bresee and Mr. and Mrs. Lynn H. Bresee in the handsome new block just completed on Wall Street for the Oneonta Department Store annex, at which about 500 guests were present. Surprise and amazement were expressed on the faces of all the guests as they entered the spacious building which is…
The show itself depicts two sisters, Catherine and Claire, dealing with the death of their father, Robert, a genius mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, who dies in his 50s after a lengthy battle with mental illness. Also in the play is Hal, formerly Robert’s graduate student, now a member of the mathematics department. Hal revered his former mentor and is dealing with his own grief by working to elevate and capture all Robert’s work so that his legacy…
Every question asked of ChatGPT—even those that produce non-answers or trivial facts—uses as much electricity as does one lightbulb shining for 20 minutes. The training process for a single AI model, such as a large language model, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon.…
To market, to market, juicy tomatoes,
Home again, home again, don’t forget the potatoes!…
Your decision to publish the anti-American, anti-Israeli screed written by Wriley Nelson is appalling. [The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson, October 3, 2024, “J’accuse: Every American Has Palestinian Blood on Their Hands.”]…