PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - This week, temperatures in the Pine Belt are expected to exceed 100 degrees.
Meteorologists across the area are urging people to take precautions against the excessive heat.
Dr. Edmund Chinchar with South Central Regional Medical Center said that staying outside too long during times of excessive heat can cause wear and tear on the body, eventually damaging the kidneys.
“So, the big thing is that you get hot, and you’ll kind of go through these shivering fits,” he said. “The big thing with us is that it’s going to kind of break muscle down and when it does that, it can cause problems with your kidneys because your kidneys are trying to clear all that out.”
Chinchar said if a person starts feeling ill, take a break and find a shaded area.
“Just remove yourself from that hot environment,” Chinchar said. “If you can, get inside into the shade if you’re outside at the lake or wherever.
“Start pushing fluids. Water’s fine. If you’ve got Gatorade or something like that, that’s fine. If you’ve got a lot of layers on, for folks who work on the roads and doing things that may be layered up with protective gear, strip those off and get down to just basically your undershirt.”
Chinchar says that while anyone can have a heat-related illness, they are more common in older adults.
“Usually, it’s folks (who) are going to be over 65,” he said. “Kids are pretty resilient to this stuff and really the only time you see it in young folks is people doing fairly extreme stuff.”
While heat stroke is common during the summer, Chinchar said it can be avoided by drinking plenty of fluids.
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What are PFAS, the concerning 'forever chemicals?'
PFAS is increasingly being found unnaturally in water sources, food, and animals.
LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Due to the abundance of forever chemicals in the local environment, the health department is asking anyone recreating in Michigan lakes and rivers to avoid contact with foam.
While foam can naturally accumulate in water bodies, traces of PFAS and other chemicals with known and associated health risks have been detected in some of those bubbles.
With the holidays around the corner and summer kicking into gear in the Great Lakes, more people will be venturing to water bodies. Potential contact with contaminants prompted the health department's recommendation.
"If you come in contact with any foam, MDHHS recommends you rinse off or bathe as soon as possible," a release read.
While the short term risks with exposure to PFAS arent' as severe, long term exposure has been associated with liver damage and thyroid disease. The persistence of the chemicals has prompted both scientific intervention into its removal as well as recommendations for avoiding it.
"We advise you to avoid contact with foam if you can, but if you accidentally come into contact with foam, you should rinse off as soon as possible," said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, MDHHS chief medical executive. "Rinsing off in general after water activities is always a good idea."
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Jonathan and Drew Scott warn homeowners to avoid placing a bathroom off the dining room because the toilet can cause a major distraction. "So you're dining, you're eating, you're entertaining, FLUSH!" jokes Jonathan. To say it takes away from the ambiance is an understatement. Using the bathroom should be a private matter, not something on display for everyone else to hear. No one wants to be eating when they know exactly what's happening on the other side of the door.
After you or someone uses the bathroom, certain smells may be emitted, which is enough to make anyone not want to continue their meal. Specifically, it's been proven that poop particles are released into the air after flushing, and if you aren't closing the lid afterward, it's highly likely those particles will travel out of the bathroom, per CBS17. Gross. Do you really want those floating around where you eat? Probably not.
The day Donald Trump was arraigned for unauthorized possession of national security documents — heightening his party's attacks on the nation's justice system — also saw the publication of Peter Turchin's new book, "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration," arguably the most comprehensive explanation so far of the current and ongoing crisis of American politics.
For all its breadth and depth, there's a simple message at the core of "End Times": At the heart of our problems, Turchin writes, is "a perverse 'wealth pump' ... taking from the poor and giving to the rich," and we have to find a way to turn it off. America has essentially done that before, during the New Deal era, and other nations and societies have done it as well. But only about one in five of the nation-states or empires that face cyclical crises like the one we're in today escapes it, Turchin reports. So the odds aren't great, unless we act fast and with purpose, making full use of what we now know.
As I explained in my recent interview with Turchin for Salon, he was one of the few observers who saw this breakdown of political order coming. In a 2010 letter to Nature he warned: "The next decade is likely to be a period of growing instability in the United States… set to peak in the years around 2020."
He was drawing on a model of cyclical integration and disintegration first introduced in Jack Goldstone's 1991 "Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World." Since then, Turchin and his colleagues have created a database of roughly 300 cases of crisis, stretching from the Neolithic Age to the present, with what he calls "good data" on about 100 of them.
For example, their analysis codes for 12 indicators of negative consequences, such as population loss (which occurs in about half such crises) and ending in revolutions, civil wars or both (which happens about 75% of the time). Cases that avoid such outcomes obviously hold valuable lessons — especially since the sample size is just about big enough to guard against cherry-picking evidence to prove some cherished point.
It should be no surprise that the Progressive/New Deal era in America, which produced decades-long high levels of social cohesion, is one such example. But "End Times" helps us understand that as one specific example of a broader genre of successful sociopolitical responses, some of which might be less obvious. That can potentially help us think more constructively about how to find our way out of our current crisis state — and mitigate the next one.
There's a central tension in "End Times" between the evidence about what works and the obstacles to executing those things, and that's also based on the historical record. On the one hand, Turchin's book strongly argues that something akin to New Deal reforms isn't just a good idea in moral or political terms but is an objective necessity to avoid disaster and rebuild social trust. But he's also clear about the deeply rooted forces that stand in the way of such reforms, casting them as damaging partisan politics or even an existential threat. In our interview, Turchin told me, "We don't have to do exactly the same thing the Democrats did in the New Deal, but somehow we have to achieve the same result. And I just don't see that happening."
In elite discourse today, "extreme left" and "extreme right" are routinely equated as unreasonable extremes, in contrast to an ideal version of pragmatic bipartisanship that will somehow save us. somehow the source of our salvation. But most of what is commonly called "leftist" these days is just an expanded version of the progressive policy vision that resolved America's previous period of crisis during the Great Depression, and that vision has significant electoral support.
My point is not to claim that all answers can be found on the left, which has its own internal conflicts and contradictions. But "End Times" offers a pathway toward a realistic focus on viable solution paths that elite compromise politics are doomed to obscure, if not destroy.
In three appendices to his book, Turchin provides a non-technical explanation of his approach to understanding history and how it developed over time. Goldstone's book "was almost completely ignored" for a decade after its publication, he writes. His own experience was quite different: "To my surprise, the new science of cliodynamics, which I launched in 2003, started getting immediate traction." The reason, he says, was his use of data, which he discusses in detail.
Turchin doesn't even mention the biggest reason Goldstone's book was ignored: It defied the dominant zeitgeist of the early 1990s. It was published the same year as the Soviet Union collapsed, and the following year saw the publication of Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man," which argued that we had reached "the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution." There were no more revolutions to be had. It was a huge hit. Everyone wanted to believe it. By 2003, not so much.
One of Goldstone's key discoveries was this: "Before every major revolution or rebellion between 1500 and 1900, I found that indeed, population had grown substantially in the prior half century." But "population growth was almost nil" in periods when those explosive outcomes did not happen. His model was more complex than that, and concerned not just the size and condition of the general population, but also that of elite groups who held social power.
Turchin had been a mathematically-inclined biologist before turning his attention to human history (his PhD from Duke is in zoology), and understood how to use nonlinear models of processes in which small changes can produce large results, as can happen, for example, with modest changes in fertility rates. Goldstone's model, known as structural demographic theory (SDT), suggested that human systems could be modeled in similar ways.
Of course revolutions and civil wars are complex phenomena, but Turchin's scientific experience led him to conclude that a "relatively small set of mechanisms can generate exceedingly complex dynamics." He sees four main drivers that lead to societal crisis, of which the most important is "intraelite competition and conflict," and the most variable is "geopolitical factors," which for large and powerful nations like the U.S. tend to be negligible. Another driver, "popular immiseration," increases as population growth drives down living standards, which leads to "elite overproduction," for example when too many middle-class college graduates compete for a stagnant number of well-paying jobs. The last driver, the "failing fiscal health and weakened legitimacy of the state," is exacerbated by both popular immiseration and elite overproduction, which are clearly the central features.
Turchin also focuses attention on what he calls the "engine" at the heart of the model, the previously mentioned "perverse 'wealth pump'... taking from the poor and giving to the rich." It intensifies and locks in popular immiseration and also drives elite overproduction, undermining social trust at both the top and bottom of the social pyramid.
America since Reagan has fallen prey to "one of the most fundamental principles in sociology, the 'iron law of oligarchy,'" Turchin writes, leading to the "perverse 'wealth pump' ... taking from the poor and giving to the rich."
This reflects "one of the most fundamental principles in sociology, the 'iron law of oligarchy,'" he writes, "which states that when an interest group acquires a lot of power, it inevitably starts using that power in self-interested ways." For example, while wages fell far behind the growth of economic productivity from 1979 onward, Turchin cites analysis from the Economic Policy Institute indicating that three-fourths of that gap was due to elite-driven policy shifts: weakened labor standards, the erosion of collective bargaining, corporate globalization and so-called fiscal austerity.
That was all part of what Turchin calls the "Trend Reversal of the Reagan Era," when the broad-based well-being and social trust from the New Deal era dramatically reversed themselves:
Diminished economic conditions for the less educated were accompanied by a decline in the social institutions that nurtured their social life and cooperation. These institutions include the family, the church, the labor union, the public schools and their parent-teacher associations, and various voluntary neighborhood associations.
The importance of the wealth pump in driving instability, and the need to constrain it to avoid collapse, cannot be overemphasized. It's reflected in the last lines of Turchin's book: "Complex human societies need elites — rulers, administrators, thought leaders — to function well. We don't want to get rid of them; the trick is to constrain them to act for the benefit of all."
That's a lot easier said than done, of course. But clearly establishing the need, and showing that it's not just an ideological position but an urgent practical necessity, represents a huge step forward. That alone makes "End Times" required reading for all who are serious about saving or redeeming American democracy.
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Next to the dreaded shank, there may not be another golf shot that is more embarrassing (or cringe-worthy) than the double cross.
What exactly is the double cross in golf? The Double Cross is a shot that flies in precisely the opposite shape of what a golfer intended. It happens more often than most would like to admit and usually at the most inopportune time. An example of the painful double cross can often look like this: You aim left to hit a fade and pull hook it off the map.
The double cross is awful to witness and even worse when it happens to you. But you don’t have to accept that you will hit them.
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What is the Double Cross?
5 reasons why you hit a Double Cross
How you can avoid the Double Cross
What is Double Cross in Golf?
A Double Cross is a shot that does precisely the opposite of what you intend for your ball to do. It tends to happen at the worst possible times too. The following scenario is something that plays out more than many golfers care to admit.
Here’s a typical story of the Double Cross:
You smoke the perfect drive, long and straight on a par five. In doing so, you have a very legitimate chance of going for the green in two shots, something you have never done before.
You are the exact yardage out from the green for a perfect four-hybrid shot. The shot sets up so well for your baby fade, which you almost always pull off with your four-hybrid. It’s go time, baby!
That water all down the left side of the hole is not at all a worry. Your patented fade is money, and you haven’t hooked a shot in years, so that is not even a worry.
You look down your target line from behind the ball, then walk up and address the ball. You can hardly contain your excitement because you know you will have a tap in Eagle putt. That five-hole carry-over skin is already yours!
You start your backswing, transition down from the top, and…and…
You proceed to aggressively come over the top, swinging out of your shoes, shut the clubface abruptly, and hook it so bad that you go left of that water down the left side and 30 yards out of bounds.
Yikes!
We’ve all been there, and it is a gutting experience. That colorful description of this ugly shot, known as the Double Cross, tells us a little about one reason why these shots may happen.
Many golfers have this scenario play out in real life, and the reason very often is a rush of adrenaline during a shot that is something we know we can indeed pull off.
The following are the five most common reasons I see players hitting the double cross in golf. The first key to preventing this is identifying why you might be doing it.
1. Not Paying Attention to Pre-Swing Fundamentals
The pre-swing fundamentals in golf lay the foundation for everything. You must have a solid understanding and application of these key pre-swing concepts to hit the ball constantly.
There are things that I call “match-ups” in golf. In your grip, the V’s formed by your pointer finger and thumb, on both hands, must “match up” with each other. The face of the club at impact and the path you are swinging on during your downswing need to “match up” to create the shot you want to hit.
Golfers that hit the double cross very often have miss-matches happing somewhere. In the case of the double cross, your body alignment is probably off in relation to where you want your ball to fly. When this happens, we tend to try and fix the mistake with our hands at the last minute by having them close or open the clubface pre-impact.
2. Poor Body Rotation
A properly struck golf ball is the result of several things happening simultaneously. One of those things is having a proper downswing sequence. In a deeper dive of that thought, how we rotate our body, both lower and upper, the degree at which we do it, the speed at which it’s done, and doing so in the proper order, is one necessary element in being able to strike the ball well at impact.
Golfers that do not rotate their body correctly on the downswing may once again try to “save’ the shot with their hands at impact. Because the hands move much faster than the body, it is very difficult to time this correctly, no matter how skilled you may be.
This could be a reason for a ball sailing in the opposite direction of what you had intended.
3. Losing Sight of Your Clubface at Impact
Your clubface is king at impact. At the moment of impact, how your face comes into the ball, in relation to your swing path and target line, will determine where the ball goes. Having poor clubface control will give you poor control of the shots you hit.
4. Poor Swing Path In Relation to Your Alignment
I want to return to my first point for a second and pull another element out of that thought. One critical pre-swing element is alignment. Good alignment means correctly aligning your body with your target line.
For a straight shot, you want your body to be parallel left (for right-handed players) to your target line. To hit different shot shapes, you may want to close or open your body lines concerning your target line to move the ball one way or the other. Doing this helps adjust your swing path for the shot shape you are attempting to hit. Doing this will, however, not guarantee that you WILL swing on that desired swing path…it only helps make it possible.
It is common for golfers to need help with how their body is lined up to the target. Sometimes it is off quite substantially to what they think it is. When this happens, and you swing the club on a path that fights against your body lines, you will have problems.
5. Your Mind Isn’t Calm
The mind plays a massive role in the outcome we get from each and every shot. The scenario I drew up previously, in my explanation of what a double cross is, gives us a glimpse into how the mind can affect an outcome in golf.
If a golfer is overly excited before a shot or even not mentally committed to the task, wayward shots, including double crosses, can be expected.
I suggest using the following checklist to avoid hitting the double cross.
Pay attention to your pre-swing fundamentals– Including a good grip, good posture, and accurate alignment.
Make sure to rotate your body correctly– This may take practice on the range, but ensuring you both understand and can implement the proper downswing sequence, including how the lower and upper body is supposed to move, is critical.
Learn to have better clubface control– A great way to be more aware of your clubface alignment is by paying attention to your lead wrist. The position of your lead wrist is the eyes to what your clubface is doing throughout the swing, whether it is open, square, or closed.
Have a better body alignment and swing path relationship– Working on and being very in tune with your alignment will significantly help you. The same can be said for your swing path. Get used to recording your swing and watching a playback to check these two aspects of your swing. Sharing recorded swings with a coach is also a great way to improve.
Your state of mind– Don’t get overly excited when “green light” situations come up on the golf course. Keep your composure and go through your regular routine on each and every shot.
To recap, a Double Cross is a shot that does precisely the opposite of what you intended for your ball to do.
The Double Cross is an awful shot to have pop up during a round. That is especially true when you are playing well, and a great opportunity arises to do something extraordinary, such as drive a short part four, or get home in two on a par five.
This article will serve you well in understanding what the double cross is and how to avoid it from happening the next time you are out on the links.
PGA Professional Brendon Elliottis the founder of Little Linksters, LLC, and its nonprofit arm, the Little Linksters Association for Junior Golf Development. He is the winner of 25+ prestigious industry honors, including the 2017 PGA National Youth Player Development award. Brendon is a respected coach, businessman, writer, and golf industry expert.
It’s not just your imagination: your skin may have dark spots, otherwise known as melasma, that seem impossible to get rid of — no matter how well you wash, exfoliate, and use masks and serums. And that’s because these spots aren’t just surface pigmentation, but can be found below the skin’s surface, which means you often need a dermatologist’s assistance and their product and procedure knowledge to really tackle them and make a noticeable difference.
But it’s so easy and tempting to try and take matters into your own hands. You may start buying up products that are ineffective, or are too harsh for your skin. You may even book procedures in the hopes that they will cause your dark spots to fade. Before you spent another dollar, Dr. Simran Sethi, CEO/Founder of skin by Dr. Simran Sethi, shares her insights on the worst mistake you can make if you have dark spots — and what to do instead.
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What Causes Dark Spots?
For some, dark spots appear out of the blue, it seems. For others, they become more noticeable during or after pregnancy, or while taking certain medications. Plain and simple: dark spots are caused by overactive pigment cells. And these cells can be turned way up in productivity after repeated exposures to UV light. But in addition to being the result of sun damage, they can pop up as a medication side effect and because of inflammation to the skin that occurs after acne, eczema, or psoriasis.
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Avoid This Dark Spot Mistake
What’s the mistake you should avoid if you have dark spots? Using chemical peels to treat them.
“Chemical peels may help to reduce skin pigment but only work on skin with melasma when the melanin is in the epidermis, where the peel can penetrate,” Dr. Sethi says. “If the melanin is deposited in the dermis, the pigment is often too deep and challenging to reach through chemical peels.”
Not only can these treatments cost you money without having any positive outcome on your dark spots, but they may even make them worse.
“Chemical peels also contain a high dose of hydroquinone, retinol, lactic or glycolic acids, which can actually aggravate skin with melasma,” Dr. Sethi says. “This is caused by the skin barrier having already been compromised due to the melasma.”
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A safe way to approach chemical peels for skin with melasma is first to strengthen the skin’s architecture and barrier, Dr. Sethi stresses. Moisturizing with lipid-rich serums and creams and under the supervision of a professional (in other words: don’t rush to the drugstore to get any old thing) is the way to go here.
“Chemical peels may also be more effective for patients after they have had more invasive, deeper medical skin treatments like Picosure laser and micro needling,” Dr. Sethi says. “These treatments will strengthen their skin and help bring pigment closer to the surface, making chemical peels safer and more effective.”
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What are the best solutions for dark spots?
Look no further than a gold standard skincare ingredient: retinol. “Incorporating a retinol into your routine can drastically help with minimizing dark spots,” Dr. Sethi says. “Retinol is essential as it increases cell regeneration, the skin renewal cycle and erases photodamage and loss of skin proteins like collagen and elastin. This powerful agent has anti-aging and acne-fighting properties that can produce brightening results.”
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Retinol can also reduce the look of wrinkles, spots, uneven skin tone, and inflammation. In addition, by increasing skin cell turnover and boosting collagen production, Dr. Sethi reminds us that uneven pigmentation can fade quickly, resulting in a brighter, even look.
But more isn’t always better when it comes to any skincare solution, including retinol.
“To gain the best results from retinol, you will want to avoid higher concentrations to ensure no skin barrier damage,” Dr. Sethi says. “Higher concentrations may cause sensitivity, so it’s important to stick to a medium-concentration that also hydrates the skin with lipids.”
If dark spots are a concern, visit a board-certified dermatologist before buying more products and booking more procedures to make sure your approach is targeted, personalized, and effective.
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Social Security plays an important role in many people's retirements. But seniors who rely on those benefits too heavily tend to struggle financially.
Among seniors aged 65 and over, Social Security represents 90% or more of retirement income for 12% of men and 15% of women. But even when those benefits comprise a smaller percentage of total income, seniors can struggle nonetheless.
In fact, more than 16.5 million seniors aged 65 and over are economically insecure, with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level, according to the National Council on Aging. And if that's a fate you'd like to avoid, then the solution could boil down to funding a retirement savings plan consistently while you're working.
Many people neglect their retirement savings because they have other expenses, like their car payments and mortgage loan payments, monopolizing their incomes. But if you don't make an effort to fund an IRA or 401(k) plan, you might end up struggling financially once you're retired and are no longer collecting a paycheck from a job.
Of course, the idea of having to fund a retirement plan can be intimidating. But one thing you should realize is that if you start saving for retirement at a fairly young age, and you make consistent contributions to your savings, you can grow a lot of wealth over time without having to part with a whole lot of money on a monthly basis.
In fact, let's say you're able to save $150 a month for retirement. And let's say you do so beginning at age 30 all the way up until age 65, at which point you decide you'd like to retire.
The stock market has, over the past 50 years, delivered an average annual 10% return before inflation, based on the performance of the S&P 500 index. If your IRA or 401(k) plan delivers that same return, then based on your savings window and monthly contributions, you stand to retire with about $488,000. That sort of nest egg, combined with some income from Social Security, could make for the comfortable retirement you deserve.
Don't force yourself to play catch-up
It's easy to let retirement savings fall by the wayside when you're younger and aren't so focused on your senior years. But if you don't start funding an IRA or 401(k) plan from a young age, you might end up in a situation where you're forced to scramble later on in your career and part with lots of money on a monthly basis just to have a shot at a decent-sized nest egg.
Instead of landing in that boat, or, worse yet, ending up economically insecure like more than 16.5 million seniors today, commit to funding your IRA or 401(k) as soon as you're able to, and make a point to invest that money rather than let it just sit in cash. You may end up very pleased with the amount of wealth you're able to grow over time.
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For our industry, AI offers up a powerful tool for things like workflow connectivity, analytics, and shop floor data analysis, as well as development of marketing content. But there are legitimate fears around AI, as well. When it comes to addressing those fears, it remains an individual effort.
Here on WhatTheyThink, we’ve talked about the benefits and challenges of implementing artificial intelligence for the printing industry, specifically marketing and production workflow. But there is a broader discussion about the benefits and challenges (and sometimes even outright dangers) of this powerful technology of which these issues are only a tiny fraction.
For our industry, AI offers up a powerful tool for things like workflow connectivity, analytics, and shop floor data analysis. Its “faster than human” ability to process data means increased uptime, slashed inefficiency, decreased service costs, and more. On the marketing side, it speeds the development of content, whether a blog post, a sales letter, or web copy. Like any tool, you have to know how to use it properly, but once you figure it out, it becomes very useful in your toolbox.
But there are legitimate fears around AI, as well. On the content side, for example, how do you police authenticity? Enforce honesty? Determine truth? What about students using AI to generate essays for school, for example? Politicians creating political ads using fake AI-generated images? Or kidnappers creating an AI-generated replica of a child’s voice to extort parents by tricking them into thinking their child had been abducted? These are very real dangers, and they are impacting us both professional and personally right now.
Identifying the True from the False
As we, as a society, continue to wrestle with the complexities of AI, it reminds us of the weight of each person’s individual responsibility to learn to identify the true from the false.
It’s like U.S. Secret Service agents learning to identify counterfeit money. New agents don’t start their anti-counterfeiting training by analyzing a counterfeit bill. They start by studying an authentic piece of U.S. currency. What is it made of? What security measures determine its authenticity? How do you locate those anticounterfeiting measures once they are put into place? Once you know the true, only then can you start to recognize the false. So it is with AI-generated content. Someone could use AI to crank out all sorts of marketing content, but is that content accurate? It might sound authoritative, but when somebody with knowledge of the subject matter digs in deeper, you may find out that it’s full of errors.
We’ve looked at some of these dangers here on WhatTheyThink. Several months ago (back when the paper supply chain was a much bigger issue), for example, we tested AI in its ability to generate copy on alternative printing substrates when the preferred substrate was not available. When we asked ChatGPT to come up with a list of alternative substrates, among the alternatives it listed were digital printing and bamboo paper. Someone who does not understand the industry might gloss right over those two things without a thought. But those in the industry (those who recognize the “true”) understand that digital printing is a process, not a substrate, and that bamboo paper, while a substrate, is only appropriate for very short runs and would only be an alternative under very limited circumstances. At least in its current state, ChatGPT was not able to make those distinctions.
In a separate article, we asked ChatGPT to come up with lists of research studies and case studies on the effectiveness of floor graphics for increasing retail sales. ChatGPT did, in fact, generate list after list of powerful examples, and when asked to supply the original citations, ChatGPT did so. But when we checked those sources, none of them was found to exist. Not one. Every one of the sources was made up based on its algorithm just like the studies themselves.
Taking on a Life of Its Own
These are unintentional inaccuracies. In a recent interview, Geoffrey Hinton, former Google scientist, multi-book author, and widely considered to be the “grandfather of artificial intelligence,“ raised a very different concern. What happens if (and when) AI intentionally deceives? Humans often deceive one another (and themselves), and artificial intelligence is patterned off human speech and thought. Why would artificial intelligence not start to deceive, as well?
There was a recent article in the New York Times in which the author decided to have an ongoing conversation with the AI-powered Bing engine to see what happened. The conversation started out innocently enough, but things took a dark turn somewhere along the way. Suddenly, the chatbot turned on the writer, trying to convince him that he was unhappy in his marriage, that he was really in love with the chatbot, that he should leave his wife and be with the chatbot instead. The incident left the writer “deeply unsettled,” and for good reason. (You can access the entire conversation between the writer and the chatbot here.)
When asked how to avoid these types of deceptions, Hinton indicated that these algorithms are too difficult to try to regulate once they are out of the box. You essentially would have to anticipate every deceptive permutation and come up with a hedge against it. It would be far better to design ethics into the algorithm to begin with.
“If you’ve ever written a computer program, you know that if you’ve got a program that’s trained to do the wrong thing and you’re trying to do the right thing by putting guardrails around it, it’s a losing proposition,” he says. “You have to think of every way in which things might go wrong. It’s much better to start with ethical principles and say, ‘You’re always going to follow these principles.’”
(Read the transcript of this powerful interview here, starting at 10:20:09.)
Right now, we’re not there. We are only at the beginning of thinking about regulating and reigning in this powerful technology, with all of its benefits and dangers. Therefore, if we want AI to act ethically, whether as a society, an industry, or individuals, that leaves us with one option: Each of us, individually, must choose the ethical path at the outset.
No matter how diligent you are, there’s a lot that can go wrong when it comes to packing for your holidays.
Crushed clothes (or worse – valuables), shampoo explosions, forgotten items you can’t find at the airport for love nor money… not to mention the worst-case scenario: lost luggage.
But with a bit of know-how, you can prevent a lot of disasters and arrive at your destination ready to unpack with ease and enjoy your well-earned break.
Here are eight key packing mistakes to avoid this summer…
1. Putting valuables in your checked bag
Chances are your luggage won’t get lost en route, but just in case it does, it’s important that you don’t pack anything in your checked bag that you couldn’t bear to lose (or be separated from for a day or two).
That means important documents, medications, electronics and other valuable items should always go in your cabin bag.
To really be on the safe side, you might also want to pack some spare clothes (for the whole family), swimwear, toiletries and any kids’ essentials in case your bags are delayed for a couple of days.
2. Chucking everything in together
Every organisation guru starts with a stack of packing cubes (also called travel dividers), using one for each type of garment – think tops, bottoms, underwear, dresses, swimwear.
“These handy organisers not only keep your luggage tidy but also maximise space,” says James Brockbank, founder of The Family Vacation Guide. “Additionally, packing cubes help prevent the dreaded ‘suitcase explosion’ when searching for a specific item.”
They’re also great for families, he says: “Each child can have their own cube, making finding their clothes and accessories easy.”
3. Folding instead of rolling
Unless you’ve got a butler ready to iron all your clothes on arrival, it’s best to avoid folding them before packing.
“When folding things made from fabrics that crease easily, rolling works better,” says Sophie Liard, aka The Folding Lady, who is working with Comfort. “Start by folding into thirds to create a rectangle, then roll away.”
Alternatively, you can make a pile of similar-sized garments then roll them up like sushi and pack them in your suitcase in rows.
4. Folding big items incorrectly
Some larger items are too bulky to roll, in which case you’ve got to know how to fold them properly.
“The most common error when folding items is not following the natural creases of the garment,” says Liard. “If you don’t fold clothes along their creases, you’ll find that your clothes look crumpled and like they need an iron.
“Whereas, if you fold your clothes along their seam, they will look crisp and wrinkle-free for longer.”
5. Leaky toiletries
Nobody wants to open their suitcase and find that a bottle of shampoo or sunscreen has leaked all over the place.
To avoid spillages, decant essential toiletries into travel-sized bottles, check all the lids are secure, and store in a leak-proof wash bag or zip-lock bag before packing.
6. Forgetting a first aid kit
You may rarely be far from a pharmacy on holiday, but it’s still sensible to take a first aid kit in your cabin bag, just in case.
“Accidents can happen anytime, anywhere, especially with active kids,” says Brockbank. “Include essentials like plasters, antiseptic wipes, pain relievers, and any necessary medications.
“Being prepared for minor mishaps will give you peace of mind and ensure that you’re ready to handle any unexpected situations.”
7. Putting delicate fabrics in danger
If your summer holiday wardrobe includes fabrics like crochet, mesh or lace, make sure to stow these items separately.
“The open-weave design of crochet is highly delicate and prone to fabric pulling and bobbling,” says Sophie O’Neil, senior stylist at PrettyLittleThing.
“Never pack a crochet item directly alongside your jewellery or hair accessories, and be sure to keep these pieces far away from your Velcro rollers or chain belts to keep your summer fits looking flawless.”
8. Not separating laundry
A portable laundry bag is essential, especially for families.
“Many parents overlook the importance of having a designated bag for dirty laundry,” says Brockbank. “Instead of mixing clean and soiled clothes together, pack a lightweight, collapsible laundry bag.
“This way, you can easily separate the dirty laundry from the clean clothes and maintain organisation throughout your trip.”
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1. Corn and tomatoes are self-pollinating.In corn, pollen from tassels falls onto the silks below. In tomatoes, pollen from a male stamen is transferred to a female stigma on the same flower. This process for both plants is generally facilitated by the wind so you may see less of a crop in an area where breezes don’t blow. To maximize pollination, it is therefore recommended to manually shake corn tassels so their polllen is shed onto the silks below. You shake tomato plants so that pollen is dislodged until it comes to rest on a sticky stigma. Tomato pollen is also released by the vibrations of bumble bees, so if you see them hovering around your tomato flowers, take heart. Growers of greenhouse-cultured tomatoes bring in bumble bees to maximize pollination and yield.
2. Propagate virtually any woody perennial, shrub, rose bush, or vine through a process known as layering.Dig a shallow trench and bend a low, flexible shoot, after scraping off around two inches of its bark, into the trench. The portion that is scraped should be at least six inches away from the end of the shoot. Bury the portion of shoot with the scraped bark in the trench, holding it in place with landscape staples used for holding drip tubing or soaker hose snug against the ground. A significant clump of roots will eventually form where the bark was scraped, at which time you can detach the shoot from the mother plant, taking care to dig up as much soil as possible around the roots before transplanting to a container or other part of the garden. Prior to burying the shoot, dusting the area where bark has been removed with root hormone may accelerate the rooting process.
3. Where birds poaching on your fruit is a problem, forego bird netting and utilize tulle fabric instead.The problem with plastic bird netting is that shoots can grow through it and then it is a chore to untangle them from the netting. Tulle fabric, on the other hand, allows shoots to grow freely without getting tangled up in it. You can cover blueberry bushes and small trees in their entirety with this fabric while the fruit-bearing branches of larger trees can also be covered. Tulle fabric will also protect vegetables from the depredations of rabbits. You can find tulle fabric, which is significantly less expensive than plastic bird netting, atpapermart.com. When you get there, search “economy-colored polyester tulle in bolts.” Thanks to Greg Alder (gregalder.com) for this useful tip.
4. As ironic as it sounds, one of the most problematic aspects of growing vegetables is harvesting them in a timely manner so that the pleasure of eating them is not lost.Perhaps this is due to laziness or perhaps to pride: We are so pleased with what we’ve grown that we just want to look at our beautiful crops and resist removing them from stem or stalk or soil. However, if you delay harvest once your vegetables are ready for picking, you will lose out on quality and sometimes lose them altogether. Delaying harvest may lead to rubbery pods on snow peas, sunburned bell peppers, split tomatoes, earworm-infested corn, woody or cracked carrots, pithy radishes, over-sized and flavorless zucchini, hardened asparagus spears, and lettuce that becomes bitter when it bolts (sends up flower stalks).
5. Climbing roses that only bloom over a single season such as Lady Banks and Cecile Brunner should be pruned when they stop flowering around this time, as opposed to late winter pruning recommended for roses in general.Although they put out massive growth each year, pruning of these climbers is less of a chore since both varieties are almost thorrnless. Lady Banks, with double white or yellow double flowers, and Cecile Brunner, with double pink blooms, are both mildly fragrant too.
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1. Corn and tomatoes are self-pollinating.In corn, pollen from tassels falls onto the silks below. In tomatoes, pollen from a male stamen is transferred to a female stigma on the same flower. This process for both plants is generally facilitated by the wind so you may see less of a crop in an area where breezes don’t blow. To maximize pollination, it is therefore recommended to manually shake corn tassels so their polllen is shed onto the silks below. You shake tomato plants so that pollen is dislodged until it comes to rest on a sticky stigma. Tomato pollen is also released by the vibrations of bumble bees, so if you see them hovering around your tomato flowers, take heart. Growers of greenhouse-cultured tomatoes bring in bumble bees to maximize pollination and yield.
2. Propagate virtually any woody perennial, shrub, rose bush, or vine through a process known as layering.Dig a shallow trench and bend a low, flexible shoot, after scraping off around two inches of its bark, into the trench. The portion that is scraped should be at least six inches away from the end of the shoot. Bury the portion of shoot with the scraped bark in the trench, holding it in place with landscape staples used for holding drip tubing or soaker hose snug against the ground. A significant clump of roots will eventually form where the bark was scraped, at which time you can detach the shoot from the mother plant, taking care to dig up as much soil as possible around the roots before transplanting to a container or other part of the garden. Prior to burying the shoot, dusting the area where bark has been removed with root hormone may accelerate the rooting process.
3. Where birds poaching on your fruit is a problem, forego bird netting and utilize tulle fabric instead.The problem with plastic bird netting is that shoots can grow through it and then it is a chore to untangle them from the netting. Tulle fabric, on the other hand, allows shoots to grow freely without getting tangled up in it. You can cover blueberry bushes and small trees in their entirety with this fabric while the fruit-bearing branches of larger trees can also be covered. Tulle fabric will also protect vegetables from the depredations of rabbits. You can find tulle fabric, which is significantly less expensive than plastic bird netting, atpapermart.com. When you get there, search “economy-colored polyester tulle in bolts.” Thanks to Greg Alder (gregalder.com) for this useful tip.
4. As ironic as it sounds, one of the most problematic aspects of growing vegetables is harvesting them in a timely manner so that the pleasure of eating them is not lost.Perhaps this is due to laziness or perhaps to pride: We are so pleased with what we’ve grown that we just want to look at our beautiful crops and resist removing them from stem or stalk or soil. However, if you delay harvest once your vegetables are ready for picking, you will lose out on quality and sometimes lose them altogether. Delaying harvest may lead to rubbery pods on snow peas, sunburned bell peppers, split tomatoes, earworm-infested corn, woody or cracked carrots, pithy radishes, over-sized and flavorless zucchini, hardened asparagus spears, and lettuce that becomes bitter when it bolts (sends up flower stalks).
5. Climbing roses that only bloom over a single season such as Lady Banks and Cecile Brunner should be pruned when they stop flowering around this time, as opposed to late winter pruning recommended for roses in general.Although they put out massive growth each year, pruning of these climbers is less of a chore since both varieties are almost thorrnless. Lady Banks, with double white or yellow double flowers, and Cecile Brunner, with double pink blooms, are both mildly fragrant too.
Your questions, comments, and photos are always welcome and should be sent tojoshua@perfectplants.com.
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1. Corn and tomatoes are self-pollinating.In corn, pollen from tassels falls onto the silks below. In tomatoes, pollen from a male stamen is transferred to a female stigma on the same flower. This process for both plants is generally facilitated by the wind so you may see less of a crop in an area where breezes don’t blow. To maximize pollination, it is therefore recommended to manually shake corn tassels so their polllen is shed onto the silks below. You shake tomato plants so that pollen is dislodged until it comes to rest on a sticky stigma. Tomato pollen is also released by the vibrations of bumble bees, so if you see them hovering around your tomato flowers, take heart. Growers of greenhouse-cultured tomatoes bring in bumble bees to maximize pollination and yield.
2. Propagate virtually any woody perennial, shrub, rose bush, or vine through a process known as layering.Dig a shallow trench and bend a low, flexible shoot, after scraping off around two inches of its bark, into the trench. The portion that is scraped should be at least six inches away from the end of the shoot. Bury the portion of shoot with the scraped bark in the trench, holding it in place with landscape staples used for holding drip tubing or soaker hose snug against the ground. A significant clump of roots will eventually form where the bark was scraped, at which time you can detach the shoot from the mother plant, taking care to dig up as much soil as possible around the roots before transplanting to a container or other part of the garden. Prior to burying the shoot, dusting the area where bark has been removed with root hormone may accelerate the rooting process.
3. Where birds poaching on your fruit is a problem, forego bird netting and utilize tulle fabric instead.The problem with plastic bird netting is that shoots can grow through it and then it is a chore to untangle them from the netting. Tulle fabric, on the other hand, allows shoots to grow freely without getting tangled up in it. You can cover blueberry bushes and small trees in their entirety with this fabric while the fruit-bearing branches of larger trees can also be covered. Tulle fabric will also protect vegetables from the depredations of rabbits. You can find tulle fabric, which is significantly less expensive than plastic bird netting, atpapermart.com. When you get there, search “economy-colored polyester tulle in bolts.” Thanks to Greg Alder (gregalder.com) for this useful tip.
4. As ironic as it sounds, one of the most problematic aspects of growing vegetables is harvesting them in a timely manner so that the pleasure of eating them is not lost.Perhaps this is due to laziness or perhaps to pride: We are so pleased with what we’ve grown that we just want to look at our beautiful crops and resist removing them from stem or stalk or soil. However, if you delay harvest once your vegetables are ready for picking, you will lose out on quality and sometimes lose them altogether. Delaying harvest may lead to rubbery pods on snow peas, sunburned bell peppers, split tomatoes, earworm-infested corn, woody or cracked carrots, pithy radishes, over-sized and flavorless zucchini, hardened asparagus spears, and lettuce that becomes bitter when it bolts (sends up flower stalks).
5. Climbing roses that only bloom over a single season such as Lady Banks and Cecile Brunner should be pruned when they stop flowering around this time, as opposed to late winter pruning recommended for roses in general.Although they put out massive growth each year, pruning of these climbers is less of a chore since both varieties are almost thorrnless. Lady Banks, with double white or yellow double flowers, and Cecile Brunner, with double pink blooms, are both mildly fragrant too.
Your questions, comments, and photos are always welcome and should be sent tojoshua@perfectplants.com.
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During the recent dry spell, I’ve noticed that grass growth has slowed measurably while poison ivy seems to be thriving.
That which I mow is more woodlot than lawn, but I never recall any conditions in which poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans, doesn’t do well. I raise a bunch of it, albeit against my will.
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Insolvency hurts you in the present and in the future. With cash-flow insolvency, if your search for liquidity prompts you to miss due payments, you will have to pay late-payment interest. With balance-sheet insolvency, even if you sell off assets, your credit history (which consists of your debts and defaults) will be damaged. This will make it harder for you to get credit, loans and other financial products and services in the future.
Insolvency can become a criminal offence if the law is broken in order to avoid debt repayment. Bankruptcy fraud includes concealing assets to avoid using them to pay a debt or falsifying documents to cover up your finances In some countries, bankruptcy fraud carries fines or even jail time.
Poor financial planning and debt scheduling can harm your financial health in many ways. Keep your income and expenses balanced in order to save money, invest, increase business revenue and meet other financial goals.
Allison Aubrey is a correspondent for NPR News, where her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She's also a contributor to the PBS NewsHour and is one of the hosts of NPR's Life Kit.
LINDSEY ZABRITSKY: So studies have shown that the most sun damage that we experience are during our childhood and adolescent years. So we need to start wearing sunscreen from the very beginning of our lives. Here are five common sunscreen mistakes to avoid this summer.
I'm Dr. Lindsey Zabritsky, board certified dermatologist. And I'm here with "In the Know." You're forgetting commonly miss areas like scalp, ears, back of hands, and lips. People often forget that your scalp can get sunburned, especially your part line. So it's really important that you use a scalp and hair mist, like this SPF one from Sunbalm.
You just spray it in the part line or any other areas that are exposed. You think that mineral sunscreens are the most effective. But in reality, both chemical and mineral sunscreens are equally as effective. What really makes a difference is the SPF factor.
So when you're looking for an effective sunscreen, you want to look for one that has at least an SPF of 30. That's broad spectrum. That means it protects you from both UVA and UVB rays. You're not applying enough sunscreen.
People usually only apply anywhere between 25% to 50% of the recommended amount of sunscreen. The recommended amount of sunscreen is at least an ounce or more or about a shot glass worth for the entire body. And you need to apply at least two or three finger lengths to apply for your neck and face.
You're only using sunscreen. So a good way to remember to protect yourself from the sun are the five S's. So, obviously, the first is sunscreen, but also sun hats, sunglasses, sleeves, and shade. You're only wearing SPF when it's sunny out. SPF all year round. It doesn't matter what the weather is, what the season is-- you should be wearing your SPF every single day.
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Workplace changes ushered in by the pandemic have been accompanied by a host of new terminology. “Quiet quitting,” “boomerang employees,” “career cushioning,” and “return to office” (or just “RTO”) are just a few phrases that express the new realities. But among remote and hybrid workforces, “productivity paranoia” might be the term most feared.
In a global survey of 20,000 people, Microsoft identified productivity paranoia as a phenomenon in which “leaders fear that lost productivity is due to employees not working, even though hours worked, number of meetings and other activity metrics have increased.” In other words, leaders’ unjustified belief that their hybrid teams aren’t productive is totally disconnected from evidence that they are.
Any turn of phrase that includes the word “paranoia” can’t be healthy for leaders, their teams or the company they work for. Trust, which is integral to the leader-employee relationship, is annihilated by paranoia, so you should avoid it at all costs. Here’s how you can.
Bring Down the Curtain on Productivity Theater
Productivity theater is the employee’s response to management’s productivity paranoia. Team members want to appear busy, regardless of whether they’re accomplishing actual work at any given moment. In fact, they spend more time focused on performing acts of business than on doing their jobs.
If this is how your team is responding to your micromanagement and overt surveillance, that sound you hear is the sucking of true productivity down the proverbial drain. You want your team to focus on what’s strategically valuable to the company, not on pretense.
The point of productivity is to make progress toward meeting deadlines and achieving goals. So keep your focus on project deliverables and milestones, not on how fast a WFH employee responds to your latest Slack. Reach out periodically, not to keep tabs on team members, but to ask if they’re encountering any obstacles you can help them remove.
You can’t end productivity theater’s run by just telling hybrid team members to stop putting on a show. Instead, clearly outline your work-life expectations. If you tell them they’re not expected to respond to emails 24/7, they may not spend so much time trying to appear they’re working nonstop.
Restock Your Toolbox
First, you had to figure out what tools your team needed to do their jobs 100% remotely. Now that they’re doing them in a hybrid situation, the same tools may not be working. Talk to your team to find out what they think about the tech they’re using in and out of the office.
Stop with the multiple daily Zoom meetings. Those might have been necessary when videoconferencing was the only way for teams to gather. Now you can schedule periodic check-in meetings when they’re in the office and brief calls when they’re working remotely. This approach will keep you updated without looking over their shoulders.
Another way to prevent productivity paranoia is by using project management software that helps team members stay abreast of timelines and report status on project tasks. Shared calendar software lets everyone know when various team members are in the office, working from home or taking time off. This information helps the team stay in sync and enables everyone to schedule necessary meetings at mutually workable times.
The right tools provide both accountability and autonomy. Use them to keep your finger on the pulse of productivity without holding team members under your thumb.
Figure Out Best Practices and Processes Together
You have a problem with obsessing over whether your employees are being productive when they’re out of sight. They have a problem with your surveillance and micromanagement. No one likes being under the proverbial microscope.
To put productivity paranoia behind you, invite your team to help you resolve the problems that arise with hybrid work arrangements. Perhaps asynchronous work schedules have become too asynchronous, and you need to schedule some overlap time to facilitate faster task handoffs. Maybe remote workers feel they’re being overlooked for plum assignments in favor of their in-office colleagues.
Whatever issues you identify, sit down—physically or virtually—and discuss the underlying reasons for them. Then work together with your team to come up with solutions that make you a more effective leader and them more productive employees. Collaborating to solve the problems and establish practices that put team members at ease will give everyone ownership of those solutions.
Doing this right will require transparency and candor. But you really are all in this hybrid situation together. To make it work, everyone will need to commit to trusting everyone else.
So Long, Paranoid Android
Just because your team members are occasionally out of sight, it doesn’t mean they’re out of mind or that you can’t trust them to be productive. If you react to hybrid work arrangements with paranoia, they will return the favor with productivity theater—and resentment. It’s your job to lead with trust so your team can follow suit.
CARSON CITY — We’re not trying to jinx anything, as the 2023 Legislature winds down toward its scheduled end at midnight Monday, but if lawmakers and the governor don’t finish their work on time, what happens?
First, let’s consider why there might be a special session, which would be the 33rd in Nevada history: We’ve reached the point where negotiations are occurring behind closed doors, with lawmakers traipsing back and forth across the capital courtyard to the governor’s office.
Still to be resolved is Gov. Joe Lombardo’s veto of a big budget bill, a pending two-thirds vote on the capital projects budget, a dispute over school choice programs and myriad policy bills, including medical malpractice caps. Oh, did we mention a $380 million subsidy for an A’s stadium and a $4 billion deal for a pair of Hollywood production studios in Las Vegas?
So yes, a special session is a real possibility.
If history is any guide, there’s a few ways this can go:
No special: In the 12 biennial sessions that have taken place since the 120-day limit was adopted by voters in 1998, there have been seven sessions that ended without need of a special session afterwards. There hasn’t been an immediate post-session special since 2013, in fact.
But in five of those 12 sessions, at least one special session has been held immediately after the regular session. They can be divided into two groups:
Cleanup session: Most special sessions that occur after a regular session are brief, held to finish a handful of items that didn’t get finished by the constitutional deadline of midnight on the 120th day. They range from one day (2005, 2007, 2013) to two days (2001). Some only lasted a matter of hours.
Doomsday scenario: In 2003, however, Republicans in the Assembly ended up in a standoff over a proposal to raise taxes to fund education and withheld the votes necessary to pass the K-12 education budget. An initial special session was called by Gov. Kenny Guinn, which lasted for 10 days but adjourned without resolving the issue.
A second special session was called in late June, and it ran for 28 days, rolling over the start of the new state fiscal year on July 1. Guinn sued the Legislature to force lawmakers to pass the education budget and the taxes to support it, and the Nevada Supreme Court — in a since-overturned ruling — said lawmakers could pass taxes without the constitutionally required two-thirds supermajority.
But after plenty of wrangling, a single Republican — the late John Marvel of Battle Mountain — switched his vote to yes, and the tax plan passed with the bare two-thirds supermajority.
The standoff led then-Congressman Jim Gibbons to spearhead a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2004 and 2006 that requires the education budget to be passed before any other budget bill.
Other special sessions: With the 12 post-session special sessions, there have been another 11 special sessions held since 1999 to address various issues. Most are short — between one and seven days. But a couple have gone longer: In 2004, a special session called to deal with the impeachment and trial of then Controller Kathy Augustine lasted for 24 days. And the first COVID-era special session in 2020 — called to deal with the pandemic — lasted for 12 days.
In the past few days, several key lobbyists have opined that things will get done before the Monday deadline, and no special session will be necessary. That will require bridging some significant differences between the Legislature and the governor, and a lot of overtime hours in the Legislative Building.
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