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The full St. Michael's Prayer

 Offered for all of those underemployed by AI: O Glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of the heavenly host, be our defense in the terrible warfare which we carry on against principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, and spirits of evil. Come to the aid of man, whom God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of the devil. Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist Thee, nor was there place for them any longer in heaven. That cruel, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan, who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels. Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of men has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to bl...

AI task test, data cleaning

 Well, so much for AI extracting information from e-mails. This is why I have my doubts about AI. I'm using Gmail Cloud HQ to separate out my mainly LinkedIn (with some other items) job search from all the spam I get. I'm then pushing that into an Azure SQL database. Using three separate queries looking for "%appli%" from "noreply@" in Gmail (because GMAIL doesn't actually support wildcards) I'm pulling in three slightly different CSV files into SQL, cleaning them, and putting them into my job search. This is *AFTER* CloudHQ used "AI parsing" to fill certain fields to begin with. Here's the script: /****** Object: Table [dbo].[CombinedCleand]  Script Date: 7/22/2025 10:59:29 AM ******/ IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[CombinedCleand]') AND type in (N'U')) DROP TABLE [dbo].[CombinedCleand] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[CombinedCleand]  Script Date: 7/22/2025 10:59:29 AM ***...