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Editor’s Log Polka Date May, 2024. Heard something interesting on XM radio, they were selling old music compilation CDs and listed the genres available: “easy listening, folk, blues, smooth, jazz, big band, and even POLKA.” Apparently, polka has finally become an accepted and marketable style of music, who da thought.
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Editor’s Log Polkadate April 2024 Various things have been happening.
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Spring is rapidly approaching, which means outside events will begin popping up and families will be participating. During the indoor winter events I have noticed an increase in youngster of all ages, from babies to tweens on the dance floor increasing the possibility of the continuation of dance culture in the future. This was very evident at the Round Top Rifle Hall on New Year’s Eve.
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Editor’s Log, Polkadate February 2024. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest advancement in technology that is making headlines as corporate America integrates this technology telling us that it’s the wave of the future, of course, some waves are tsunamis. AI is what makes vehicles able to drive themselves, it is what makes the suggestion of the word that you’ve started to type, and suggests the weather forecast. Computers have reached the ability to remember all information that passes through its processers and AI establishes relationships between all this information and forms ideas or “thoughts” about this information that is available upon request from humans (sometimes).