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ABERCROMBIE v. THE STATE.
(145 Ga. App. 204)
SMITH, Judge.
Theft by receiving. Lumpkin Superior Court. Before Judge Palmour.
Abercrombie's appeal of his conviction for receiving stolen property contends that the proof fatally varied from the indictment and that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. We find no fatal variance, and we find that the evidence authorized the verdict. The judgment is affirmed.
The indictment charged that Abercrombie "receive[d] from Bradley Miller stolen property, to-wit: one Plymouth Roadrunner automobile, property of Dennis Pass, of the value of $1,100.00, knowing and should have known, said property was stolen; said property not having been received with intent to restore it to the owner." The state's proof showed that Bradley Miller had participated in the theft of the automobile and had been present at a time when the appellant was in possession of the automobile; however, the proof showed that the appellant actually received the automobile from someone other than Bradley. Thus, there was a variance between the allegations and the proof, but we do not believe the variance is fatal in this case.
Under the test announced in De Palma v. State, 225 Ga. 465 (169 SE2d 801) (1969) and Dobbs v. State, 235 Ga. 800 (221 SE2d 576) (1976), a variance is not fatal unless it misinforms the defendant as to the charges against him or leaves him open to subsequent prosecutions for the same offense. Basically, it is a test to determine whether the variance has affected the substantial rights of the defendant. Sessions v. State, 143 Ga. App. 395 (238 SE2d 762) (1977). Where the variation is technical or trivial, or where the allegations and the proof substantially correspond, such that it cannot be said that the defendant was misled or prejudiced, the variance will not be fatal. Foster v. State, 142 Ga. App. 805, 807 (237 SE2d 455) (1977) (Smith, J., dissenting).
We find no such deficiencies in this case. First, proof of from whom a stolen article was received is not an essential element of the crime of receiving stolen property. Code 26-1806 (a). The state's evidence adequately proved all the essential elements of the crime. Second, we do not believe the appellant could have been misled about the charge against him because the indictment was specific as to the type, value, and ownership of the stolen property received, as well as to the date of receipt. Finally, we find that this specificity in the indictment, together with the proof substantially conforming thereto, sufficiently protects the appellant against further charges for the same offense. The variance was not fatal.
Jeff C. Wayne, District Attorney, James H. Whitmer, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
John Roger Palmour, for appellant.
SUBMITTED JANUARY 3, 1978 -- DECIDED FEBRUARY 15, 1978 -- REHEARING DENIED MARCH 8, 1978.
THOMAS v. THE STATE. (218 Ga. App. 371) (461 SE2d 305) (1995)
WINTER v. THE STATE. (171 Ga. App. 511) (320 SE2d 233) (1984)
THE STATE v. BRADBURY; and vice versa. (167 Ga. App. 390) (306 SE2d 346) (1983)
PAYMENT v. THE STATE. (164 Ga. App. 841) (298 SE2d 298) (1982)
STEVENS v. THE STATE. (158 Ga. App. 656) (281 SE2d 629) (1981)
GIVENS v. THE STATE. (149 Ga. App. 83) (253 SE2d 447) (1979)
LEWIS v. THE STATE. (149 Ga. App. 181) (254 SE2d 142) (1979)
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Tallbloke will snow in the UK in early March.
In Europe, the winter will not end soon.
Due to the location of the polar vortex ice in the Arctic is growing rapidly.
The expected further strong rise in temperature in the stratosphere. The graph shows temperature jump after a decline in solar activity.
The cooler object does not transfer heat, it transfers energy. Since it is cooler, it isn't going to "make the warmer object warmer than it was before", but it is going to slow the rate it cools at (i.e. the rate it loses energy).
At this point you need to remember that we are not discussing a closed system. The Sun is pushing energy in continually, and energy is being emitted to space continually. Changing the make-up of the atmosphere won't alter the amount of energy incoming or outgoing, but it will alter the rate at which energy moves through various parts of the system.
Congrats on the goal Tallbloke! I tried to donate but I live in Chile and have my billing address for my cards in the US. Send me an email if you still need a few USD for movie related stuff. Love your site and associated mathematics, science , etc.
Remember: One of Jim's girlfriends was a witch.
Thanks Paul and Ren, this has been more enjoyable than the last ten topics.
" Our Sun started to warm up soon after its birth 4.5 billion years ago. So far it has only warmed by about 30% but the rate of warming will steadily increase until the red giant stage marks the end of its active life. A 30% warm up doesn't sound much until you realise that it's equivalent to about a 25ºC rise of temperature for the Earth's surface. Or to put it in more familiar terms, seven times the difference between an ice age and now. If the Sun was delivering a third less heat when life started four billion years ago how on earth was it warm enough for it to flourish? alternatively, if it was warm enough then why are we not now intolerably hot?
One answer to this puzzling question about Earth's temperature, and why it has always been comfortable for life, is that maybe our planet has the capacity to keep its temperature right for life. Just as we keep our core temperature close to 37ºC regardless of whether it is freezing outside or torridly hot. Temperature is not the only property of Earth that somehow or other stays right for life. Have you ever wondered about the air you breathe and why the oxygen is 21%, not 50% or 10%? It so happens that if the oxygen were above 25% fires would be so fierce that few if any trees would survive and if it were below 15% it would be impossible to start a fire. 21% is just right.
Because the Earth is not a closed system is able to regulate the temperature.
Lucas numbers are all combinations of two alternate Fibonacci numbers e.g.
…but that's just another case from the infinite set of possibilities like Roger Andrews wisely emphasized.
φ's defined by the relationship with neighbors (for ANY starting pair — no matter how ordered).
If you think there's something extra-extra-extra special about Fib & Lucas, just let us know.
Science is confused about water because they are confused about polarity. They see polarity as a function of "polar' bonds (a "polar" bond is a covalent bond that has an electronegativity difference). It's not that simple. Many molecules have "polar" bonds but are not polar (they are not dipoles). A polar molecule is asymmetrical in addition to having electronegativity differences. And where it really gets confusing is when you consider that with water (and only with water) symmetry is variable–AND ACTUALLY VARIES AS A CONSEQUENCE OF HYDROGEN BONDING!
Fibonacci gets there faster than all the rest, that's the point. Check the numbers needed to get a 5.000…. result.
I saw your comment on the latest Postma post (climateofsophistry.com). I commented with the following and would appreciate feedback on it.
Tallbloke's statement that "the cooler object does not transfer heat, it transfers energy" may have been more palatable as "the cooler object does not transfer any net energy." Arfur Bryant may still object on the grounds that this leaves room for a photon from a cold body actually being absorbed at the surface of a warmer body. Nonetheless, it is obvious to me that a cooler body can slow the rate that a warmer body cools. For example, consider the extreme case of a hot body placed at the South Pole vs. the same hot body placed in a warm humid place. The hot body will undoubtedly cool faster at the pole irrespective of how you hypothesize the cooling occurs.
The other point of contention is the existence of a greenhouse effect. The problem starts with the term greenhouse which almost everyone agrees is a misnomer. Why do we still use it?
To avoid being hypocritical, I will refer to the greenhouse effect as the "Temperate Atmosphere Effect (TAE)." The TAE results in an atmosphere warmer than it would be without TAE gases, AKA, IR active gases (IRAGs). Without IRAGs, the planet would still be warmer than without an atmosphere, but it would be subject to much wider diurnal temperature swings than the present atmosphere. Gradually adding IRAGs to an IRAG-free atmosphere will make the days cooler and the nights warmer. Adding sufficient IRAGs to the atmosphere, we arrive at our present day temperate atmosphere.
Now to consider what happens if additional IRAGs are added to the atmosphere. This is the question Tallbloke raised and what I believe the blogosphere refers to as the "enhanced" greenhouse effect which I would prefer we call the enhanced TAE. I think Tallbloke misspoke by saying "Changing the make-up of the atmosphere won't alter the amount of energy incoming or outgoing…," because IRAGs affect SW reaching the surface and how much LW escapes, at least on short time scales. What I think is most important is to determine how much effect [if any!] an incremental increase in any IRAG will have on long term global temperature. IMO, this is the holy grail of climate science.
The rate of convergence isn't the unifying property.
Stability comes from the limit.
Are you limiting your search to integer seeds OB?
(Φ,1) & (1,φ) converge on and stabilize at exactly 5 instantly.
Strong GCR jump from 25 January and a sharp jump of temperature in the stratosphere.
Humble pie is more agreeable, so humbly I'll ask Paul to be just a little less cryptic for us, so we can get with the program(me).
Going to be fun watching where these trains are going. Some free rein.
Just saying the Fibonacci series is the best at following the phi numbers, patterns, ratios etc.
Looking at the numbers in brackets below that, they are converging on the Lucas series.
But – the sum of every 2 alternate Lucas numbers is a multiple of 5 (e.g. 11+29).
And – dividing that sum by 5 returns a Fibonacci number.
And – every Lucas number is the sum of two Fibonacci numbers.
I've clarified this in my latest response there (awaiting approval).
OB: Fibonacci gets there faster than all the rest, that's the point.
Well, it's one of the points. Obviously not a point that's relevant to Paul's immediate interest, but a point nonetheless.
5 is the usual number in Landscheidt's 'big hand' cycles and fractal derivations of it.
As I've outlined in full detail (with numbers rather than cryptic algebra no less), Fib is not the fastest converger.
If something is unclear, it's crystal unclear what it might be.
Why the fixation on only counting numbers?
Any number in any of these series fills the gap between it's neighbors — i.e. it's the difference between it's richer & poorer neighbors.
Noteworthy: The sequence of axial periods of richer & poorer Lucas neighbors converges to Fib.
Noteworthy: The sequence of (Φ,1) axial periods (of richer & poorer neighbors) equals (φ^(n-2))/√5 and converges to Fib.
PV: isn't everything in Lucas Fib-related in the end?
Only Phi can claim its square equals itself plus one.
Both Lucas & Fibonacci are subsumed by something more general. I think I'm starting to see why conventional focus stopped at Lucas & Fibonacci rather than following through. It was a good enough approximation of something more fundamental. Lucas was "close enough" on the difference side and Fibonacci was "close enough" on the sum side. A little more digging would have revealed the fundamental geometric roots. I'll aim to devote a little more time to algebraic formalization, perhaps generously supplementing that with some tabulated aid for the algebraically impaired.
1,2,3,5,8 and 13 are Fibonacci numbers.
Any Lucas equivalents in our planetary system?
The 'counting numbers' of the Fibonacci series form resonant ratios between real objects in the real world. Resonance transfers energy, and we're very interested in energy transfer. As I have already noted many times over the last several years, the golden ratio is remarkably un-resononant, yet lies very close to those whole 'counting number' Fibonacci ratios.
I think this is what makes the Fibonacci series unique, and is the reason why most of the 'near whole counting number' orbital ratios between planet pairs are Fibonacci number pairs, as OB noted above.
Nature is efficient, and being able to shift planet pair orbital ratios from maximally resonant whole 'counting number' Fibonacci ratios to minimally resonant phi ratios with the minimum of time and energy enables the most efficient maintenance of system stability.
JEV dies with insistence on counting numbers. In other words E does not determine V nor does V determine E. Rather the larger system bodies determine the nature of the E & V relationship …and JEV lives.
I've organized a table that should help sort conceptualization without any potentially encumbering algebra.
The E & V relationship is more than the sum & difference of its parts!
Earth & Venus are coupled (accidental misinterpretations that I'm suggesting otherwise here maybe?), but they're also constrained by something bigger …and that something just happens to be universal.
We'll keep working on improving mutual understanding….
We're told that magnetospheres provide planets with a protective shield against the force of the solar wind.
It's a bit too abstract for me.
I'm struggling a bit with this. It can't just mean 'higher and lower' can it? If it does, then why not just say higher and lower?
Well maybe that's because, with no magnetosphere to defend it, the Sun induced a big field in Venus' core and made it bloody hot, which caused lots of volcanic outgassing, producing the thick atmosphere.
It may help improve mutual understanding if you'd respond directly to my reply, so I can see where you're coming from.
TB: shouldn't the solar wind have 'blown' all that thick volcanic atmosphere far away according to magnetosphere theories?
They know that people trying to model the "physics" without first getting the geometry right will never succeed.
It's a campaign. There's not even a snowball's chance in h*ll of getting the "physics" right (in quotes to remind of assumptions lazily made to make the math tractable) if geometric central limits are ignored. They know this. That's why they thought police to such excessive extent.
Their whole strategy depends critically on blind audience buy-in to the always well-hidden uniformity assumption. They never address it squarely. They just evade. They pretend the physics can be realistically conceived without attention to geometric limits & boundaries. They've succeeded in brainwashing people we'd expect to be far less naive. It's a dead-ending trust-burner.
It's just mind-boggling that this equivalence criterion isn't widely well-known. It's like the pinwheel tiling. How is it even possible that no one noticed that before 22 years ago?? It's a sobering reminder (super sobering in this case) that simple things get overlooked. Our culture is so obsessed with complexity. It doesn't even value the simple. That's one of the things that causes me to appreciate far eastern values. There's a more profound respect for the power of vacuous simplicity in far eastern culture. But Hollywood doesn't know how to celebrate vacuous simplicity …and so off has gone western culture, lusting and lurching mindlessly for complexity, accepting even complex illusion over simple truth.
Thanks. We can see that alternate axial (Fib.) columns sum to the 'in-between' right-hand (Lucas) column e.g. axial cols. '+1' and '+3' sum to right col. '+2'.
Now that's quite nice because it's also quite close to 3 solar cycles (~3.05). One solar cycle is itself (very) close to phi^5. Four JS axial is ~(8 x phi³).
That would make 1 J-S axial = ~2 x phi³.
Here's one problem with internal planetary dynamos – Lenz's law.
'The theories that refer to moving metal within the Earth as the source of the Earth's magnetism directly conflict with a very basic law of electricity and magnetism. It is known as Lenz's Law.
If a conductor that is in a complete (closed) circuit moves in a magnetic field, a current will be induced in the conductor. The induced current will have its own magnetic field that is opposite in polarity to the magnetic field that induced the current in the conductor in the first place. This means that it is impossible to have a self-sustaining magnetic field as the basis for the Earth's magnetism.
Magnetic reversals may also be a bit tricky for conventional theory.
Again: No model looking at V & E in isolation can work. I again suggest broader perspective: Think not just of a here-&-now freeze-frame but rather of evolution at Milankovitch timescale. As I pointed out in the why phi thread: JEV is extraordinarily sensitive and dies with the slightest change if not coupled to the jovians in model equations. Perhaps I have not made the point with sufficient force.
It's fine to look at puzzle pieces in isolation to develop awareness & insight, but to get the whole right demands attention to limits & boundaries.
While waiting for me to have time to refine the tabulation, I'm confident that anyone who copies/pastes (paste special as text) into an Excel worksheet will immediately be able to see the main bullet points I listed above the table (February 29, 2016 at 8:54 pm).
The ".0000000″s and decimal point lengths I have to force (I perhaps unwisely expended time automating the cosmetic decisions) to make the columns line up make it more difficult than necessary to notice the pattern (an instance of (rather unhelpfully) competing objectives) that's dead simple when I look at the same numbers in Excel in their original format.
It's too bad there's no "excel" tag or something like that in html. After all these years of web development you'd think it would be easy enough to post a simple table (but it's not).
The table's intended as an aid for learning geometry fundamentals overlooked by the mainstream when aggregating samples and specifying "physical" models (based on false assumptions (hence the quotation marks in "physical") about boundaries & limits).
The image that summarizes the table is this one.
OB, if anything remains unclear — anything at all — please say so.
TB, please let me know what you are able to discern from this clearer tabulation.
Let's make sure this gets understood.
I regard the φ^n & "sum of preceding 2, seeded with (1,φ)" columns to be the most fundamental columns. I don't look at these columns as converging on Lucas, but rather I look at Lucas as converging on these columns.
Similarly I do not regard the axial period as converging on Fibonacci, but rather I regard Fibonacci as converging on the axial period (which I regard as more fundamental than Fibonacci).
I suspect there may be some resistance to looking at it from this more deeply fundamental perspective. With a lot of formality we could probably define away this initial difference in introductory level perspectives, but for the purposes of the type of discussion we're having, I don't think that's necessary. Probably (at this stage) it's better for us to focus first only on what relates to what, what converges to what in the limit as n goes to infinity, and what exactly equals what both initially and at every step of the way as n goes to infinity, etc.
Remember that φ+Φ = √5.
I suspect that's probably enough notes to help almost everyone sort this out and make sense of it.
With each rung in the φ power ladder (as n increases one step at a time) this illustration scales up by the amount illustrated in this simpler illustration.
a) inclusion of (φ+Φ)axial = (√5)axial period in the equivalence criterion.
b) how Lucas & Fibonacci fall on opposite sides of the same nearest-neighbor φ coin (remember that we're working our way towards less naive, more clear perception of coupling & aggregation criteria (to be continued)).
Is it all (or is at least some of it) starting to make a little (or a lot) more sense?
PV: if I look at row 2, the n-1 and n+1 values are rows 1 and 3.
The number in row 2 is the geometric mean of rows 1 and 3 but the column says 'axial'?
All calculations are based on this column (or alternatively the φ^n column which is equal …but if people look at it only that way they may miss Roger Andrews' key point …and the learning opportunity would be missed).
If something is still unclear, just say so. This is fundamental.
What does n-1, n+1 refer to? To me it suggests alternate rows but the whole table is based on the sum of consecutive rows.
If I take row 1 as x and row 3 as z the axial is a number < x, and not one of the numbers listed.
So '(φ+Φ)axial' column / √5 (i.e. φ+Φ) gives the 'axial' column value.
(φ+Φ)axial and geomean columns both return powers of φ.
Where Earth's semi-major axis is 1(AU), Venus AU is φ/√5 (99.92% accurate).
And Mercury's SMA in AU is close to 1/φ² (98.67%).
Different operations give the same result.
If it isn't clear how to successfully do the same calculations for other rows, please say so.
Once TB & OB acknowledge that they get this much, we'll take insight to the next level.
'Different operations give the same result.' – aka a formula.
Yes that's OK for me.
Hartmut Warm is on to this to some extent at least. His book is big on golden and silver sections, geometric means, harmonics, pentagons and other geometric shapes, etc. Worth ordering and they're almost giving it away – or they were when TB and I bought it.
and: maybe some other stuff too.
Then there are the Pell numbers.
0, 1, 2, 5, 12, 29, 70, 169, 408, 985, 2378, 5741, 13860, … (sequence A000129 in OEIS).
There are also Pell-Lucas numbers.
Math is such a disorganized world conceptually??… Everything's connected but mathematicians don't bother constructing a road map. They have a "I know where it is, so that's good enough" attitude …and perhaps rightly so because their lifetime is too short to even finish exploration (and road-mapping's orders of magnitude beyond that time-consumption-wise).
Everyone can do their best to see as many of the sights as possible.
The Regulator: I think we can at least get everyone that far — at least the basics of it.
The image is from wiki's roots of unity page.
The red points are the outline of a pentagon.
Better check your algebra there.
Btw those other series you mention have special properties, but they don't have the same special beat properties.
log(Lucas,φ) does NOT exactly equal n (only approximately and converging in limit).
log((φ+Φ)Fib,φ) does NOT exactly equal n (only approximately and converging in limit).
On a LOG scale what's an integer is NOT the same.
I hope these tables help overcome some of the miscommunications about Fibonacci & Lucas. On a base φ log scale they only approximate integers whereas φ^n hits integers exactly.
I've checked it again. Is there a problem?
TB: JEV is profoundly sensitive (its a total dealbreaker — check the numbers firsthand to see) and completely ruined by any other way of looking at it. I suggest you reconsider "constructal law". I suggest its much simpler than Bejan seems to contend. It's not so mysterious as to necessitate conjecture of a consciousness pursuing efficiency.
φ^n defines the landscape and stuff just rocks around the attractor.
Why resist this more parsimonious explanation that actually preserves the observed order?
Maybe in cross-disciplinary exchange its a matter of people not having some missing foundation and I'm not able to identify exactly what key piece of background they're missing. I don't know. I just don't understand the resistance to not only acknowledging the coupling of JEV to the jovians at some instant in time, but also keeping it in mind.
You know on some level I think people realize it, but then we see again and again considerations of E & V in isolation popping up (as if there's still an unsolved problem, but there isn't), so maybe it's more a matter of people just haven't finished sorting out their thinking and we're just observing vacillations back and forth and around due to not-yet-mature fragmented &/or intermittent conceptualization.
On Milankovitch & higher timescales for example as E & V rock around the attractor they're sometimes off by enough to hit integer resonance on a NON-log scale, but that does NOT mean they are free to stay there INDEFINITELY. There seems to be a tendency in discussion for some to fixate on time-freeze-frames, but in the long run it's not integer resonance on a NON-log scale, but rather integer ANTI-resonance on a LOG scale that defines the attractor.
That's just geometry — no "constructal law" romantic notions about pursuit of efficiency needed.
Paul, your comment demands a well considered reply, and you'll get it a few hours from now. Thanks for taking on the conversational discussion.
Roger, I suspect we're actually in close agreement about how "downhill" is defined as the system rocks around φ. It hits this non-log integer and flow is facilitated this way, but then it rocks arcoss the long-run LOG-integer attractor to the OTHER SIDE and hits another non-log integer and flow goes the other way. And so on. There's no missing "physics", just ignorance of geometry. The false assumptions about the central limit are missing from the boundary conditions in the "physical" models ("physics" in quotes because I can't and won't regard it as physics if its proponents are insisting on false assumptions about boundary conditions, sampling, & aggregation).
What I meant to say is that the assumptions are false or that the truth is missing. They may get the integration basically right nonetheless as everything washes out in the integral, but they (currently) appear conceptually blind to the central limit at shorter timescales. (Or at least I never see them pointing it out explicitly.) I don't doubt that this will change in the future. Once they get on the case they'll go well past where we are.
Refining expression even further: Even if they manage to get the central limit modeled right, they may not recognize its nature (a trivial consequence of geometry). So we shouldn't conflate model accuracy with conceptual accuracy is what I'm cautioning.
It's not so mysterious as to necessitate conjecture of a consciousness pursuing efficiency.
I agree. I think it's autonomic. It goes under several names. 'Principle of least action', 'Parsimony of nature' etc.
This just begs the question "Why φ ?". Now, each of us has been inching towards the answer to this question, and recently, you've been making giant strides. The rest of us are still catching up, and we thank you for your patient explanation, much of which I for one will need to re-read and re-read again.
Stuff just rocking around the attractor, whyever it's φ, is easier to understand. All true systems contain cybernetic feedback, and in meta-stable chaotic systems, everything oscillates either side of the attractor as perturbations push and shove stuff slightly out of equilibrium.
It seems to me that what you're saying is things stuff tends to the least perturbative state, which φ represents. I came to a similar conclusion with my "why phi pi slice" post where I showed that φ, in the round, represents the minimum possibility of orbital resonance.
But I think there's a danger of misunderstanding in the use of the mathematical and physics term "attractor". It's not that stuff is attracted to φ by some mysterious physical 'force of φ', but that stuff is pushed towards φ from anywhere else it happens to be, by the real physical force of gravity (not that we know exactly how gravity works!).
My (admittedly intuitive) hypothesis of how it comes about that the straight-line force of gravity can force stuff towards the φ 'attractor' is that gravity acts on stuff in more than one way.
There's the straight-line simple force. Then there's the effects of the orbitally resonant gravitational force. These two scale differentially, and that's why it is that they can act in concert to push stuff towards a central limit, which is the unresonant φ condition.
I'll stop there for now and ask if I'm still on the same page as you are.
Perhaps something fundamental to consider about the conway triangle and its relationship to the power law of gravity is that 2^2=4 and a 2:4 =1:2 geometry establishes the basic outline of the conway triangle. 1:2 in an orbital period ratio also establishes the strongest orbital resonance there can be.
We don't need any of this 'Principle of least action' stuff (that personifies nature, as lazy quite interestingly).
…that meet the equivalence criterion?
The system can only cumulatively alias itself so far out before it goes over a hill and rolls back.
Tweak it away from the basin of attraction any which way and check (φ+Φ)axial, geometric mean, difference, & beat. You'll see that whichever way you tweak it there will be an opposite reaction pulling the other way (in centrally limiting aggregate).
It's the geometry that does this to the timing.
I perceive nothing missing in our understanding of the simple physics. Conceptual ignorance of the timing implications of the simple geometry rather is the cultural obstacle.
In the solar system case once the Hale Core is defined everything else is just coupled to it.
By western cultural standards it's vacuously unpalatable. But it is what it is and simple's what it is.
OK, I'll chew on that for a day or so. Sleep now, big action day tomorrow.
How does the Hale core relate to the duration of the solar cycles (or vice versa)?
Deviations from that are defined by the SCL (solar cycle length) differintegral.
So the next question might be: what factors determine the length of individual solar cycles?
It's not a new question. In phase it relates to JEV at multidecadal (~60 year) timescale, but I haven't stumbled upon any good clues about the amplitude yet.
PV: 37 V-E, 54 J-E and 91 J-V all come in at about 59 years = ~8/3 Hale?
Good match between 1 J+S and 13 J-V: about 99.75%.
240 J-Merc = 59 years.
Many ways to say the same thing, for sure.
Clues to solar wind variability.
A wise eastern cutie sees no western acuity for vacuity.
"By a process of induction, namely intuitive induction, the first primitive awareness of a universal (necessary to any perception) becomes stabilized in the mind, leading ultimately to a clear and articulate concept of it. Thus, for Aristotle, as for Plato, grasp of universals is by the intellect, but it is by the intellect gradually working on what it is at first dimly and indeterminately conscious of in the data of sense perception.
A simple example from arithmetic will illustrate his point. As children we learn to count. We get the idea of 2 from being faced with pairs of objects, and we learn that 2 + 2 = 4 from coming to "see," for instance, that two apples plus two other apples are equal in number to four other apples.
….and in a cycle we've looped right back to where we started (with vukcevic quoting Plato).


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Q: Python 2.7 regular expressions finding specific html code So, I've been given another task from my professor, and this one is bugging me.

Write a program that can replicate this sort of exchange:

`What is the url to the course page? http://registrar.indiana.edu/browser/soc4148/index.shtml
Searching for departments on: http://registrar.indiana.edu/browser/soc4148/index.shtml
Departments loaded. List them (Y/N)? y
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AADM    AADM/index.shtml
AAST    AAST/index.shtml
ABEH    ABEH/index.shtml
AERO    AERO/index.shtml
AFRI    AFRI/index.shtml
AMID    AMID/index.shtml
AMST    AMST/index.shtml
ANAT    ANAT/index.shtml
ANTH    ANTH/index.shtml
ASCS    ASCS/index.shtml
AST     AST/index.shtml
BIOC    BIOC/index.shtml
BIOL    BIOL/index.shtml
BIOT    BIOT/index.shtml
[too many to list at once]
TEL     TEL/index.shtml
THTR    THTR/index.shtml
TOPT    TOPT/index.shtml
VSCI    VSCI/index.shtml

What department would you like? aero
Looking for courses on: http://registrar.indiana.edu/browser/soc4148/AERO/index.shtml

AERO-A101.shtml     AERO-A 101     INTRO TO THE AIR FORCE TODAY
AERO-A301.shtml     AERO-A 301     AIR FORCE LEADERSHIP STUDIES

What is the url to the course page? http://registrar.indiana.edu/browser/soc4148/index.shtml
Searching for departments on: http://registrar.indiana.edu/browser/soc4148/index.shtml
Departments loaded. List them (Y/N)?n
What department would you like? INFO
Looking for courses on: http://registrar.indiana.edu/browser/soc4148/INFO/index.shtml
...
...
...`

And the code repeats. We are only allowed to use list comprehension and regular expressions, as well as the urllib and os libraries.
If you look at the source code of the webpages, you find that the links are listed as such:

First page (list of departments)

'AAAD African Am & Afri Diaspora Std

AADM Arts Administration

AAST Asian American Studies

ABEH Animal Behavior

AERO Aerospace Studies

AFRI African Studies

AMID Apparel Merch/Int Design

AMST American Studies

ANAT Anatomy
'

And, very similarly:

Second page (list of courses)

'
AERO-A 101 INTRO TO THE AIR FORCE TODAY

AERO-A 201 EVOLUTION USAF AIR & SPACE PWR

AERO-A 301 AIR FORCE LEADERSHIP STUDIES

AERO-A 401 NATL SEC AFFRS/PREP ACTV DUTY

	'

To spare the functions I have to open the webpages and get the contents (using .read() in order to take the code as one large string). I was able to get the links to the departments (the first part of the code) using these regular expressions and loops.
'print "Searching for departments on: " + url
links = [item for item in re.findall('', contents)]

names = [item for item in re.findall('.shtml">[\w]+[-]?[\w]?[-]?[ ]?[\d]?[\d]?[\d]?', contents)]

descripts = [item for item in re.findall('[\s][\w\s]+[&/-]?[\w\s]+<br', contents)]

for link in links:
    link = link.replace('', '')
    the_links.append(link)

for name in names:
    name = name.replace('.shtml">', '')
    name = name.replace('', '')
    the_names.append(name)

for each in descripts:
    each = each.replace(' ', '')
    each = each.replace('<br', '')
    the_descripts.append(each)

while True:
    list_deps = raw_input("List them (Y/N)? ")
    if list_deps.lower() == "y":
        for i in range(len(links)):
            if len(the_links[i]) < 16:
                print the_names[i] + "\t" + the_links[i] + "\t\t" + the_descripts[i]
            else:
                print the_names[i] + "\t" + the_links[i] + "\t" + the_descripts[i]
        break
    elif list_deps.lower() == "n":
        break
    else:
        print "You must enter Y or N."'

But, my issue occurs when I attempt to use those same regular expressions for the second part (getting the course link, course name, and course description)
Can anyone spot where I've gone wrong? If the entirety of my code is needed, I can post or send it to those who wish to have it. I'm just not sure why my regular expressions work for getting the departments but not the courses.

EDIT: Turns out I was using the user's input .lower() to go to the corresponding department page, but the user input needed to be .upper() or it went to a 404 page.

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Firstly! I've been remiss in keeping you all informed about our film project, "Learning to Drive" and we've had some exciting developments over the last several weeks, not the least of which is that the script has been awarded by two different film festivals in their screenplay compeitions!
I remain highly excited about this film project and have spent the past several weeks location scouting and working on storyboards. I have also become even more determined to do the film RIGHT rather than soon and to that end have decided that as long as it takes to get the logistics worked out and raise the proper financing to do it well, that's what I'll work towards. I'll be launching follow up crowd-funding campaigns in the future, but for now - BACK TO THE ART!
I'm outta control, exploring new territory with the typewriters! I'm enjoying expanding the concept into more colorful territory and new themes.
(right) - "Think, Feel, Imagine"; 40"x21"x10" - mixed media assemblage. Collectors have been quite drawn to this new series of typewriters with the colorful elements, as each one I've built has found a new home at its first showing. This one now resides in Kansas City, Mo.
(below) - "headlines"; 30"x24"x10" mixed media assemblage. I gathered up some of the most prominent headlines from 20th century America for my first ever venture away from the black background panel. For the tab guide and space bar I created my own faux typesetting blocks' and that was so much fun, I actually made another one for myself that I used to stamp "JUST WORDS" onto the 'paper'! See below-right for a bit more about this piece.
The unremitting clacking of thoughts being pounded onto paper, accompanied by the tactile dance of fingers and metal keys offered a tangible sense of accomplishment when that bell rang prompting the return of the carriage. For this particular piece, I chose to reflect on some of the more prominent newspaper headlines in American history as well as offer homage to the type-setting craft once employed by those mass communication barons.
I wish to reiterate to those who already know and inform those who don't, that I do have lots of collectors who purchase their art and pay for it over time. I can accept a debit or credit card for your purchase and spread it out over as many months as you'd like at no extra charge. This isn't 'lay-away'; you possess the art right away. This is just a way for me to nurture the dissimination of art in circumstances that might otherwise prevent it.
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Meeting of Presidium of the Presidential Council for Countering Corruption
Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov held a meeting of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Countering Corruption.
During the meeting, Labour and Social Protection Minister Maxim Topilin Topilin Maxim reported on measures to improve legislative protection for those who had reported instances of corruption from harassment and infringement on their rights and lawful interests. Russia's Labour Ministry is instructed to prepare corresponding draft legislative acts based on the Council presidium's discussion.
In their speeches, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yury Chaika Chaika YuryPresidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District and State Secretary and Deputy Minister of the Interior Igor Zubov explained the problems pertaining to returning items of cultural value that were taken out of the Russian Federation, including those that were received as a result of corruption-related violations of the law in Russia. The Council presidium resolved to set a corresponding working group with participation by the Culture Ministry of the Russian Federation and relevant federal government agencies.
Education and Science Minister Dmitry Livanov Livanov Dmitry told meeting participants about the preparation of educational programmes to create an anti-corruption outlook among high school and college students, based on internatiional experience.
State Secretary and Deputy Economic Development Minister Oleg Fomichev reported on the results of a sociological study on the state of everyday corruption in Russia.
Chaika Yury
Ivanov Sergei
Livanov Dmitry
Topilin Maxim
Published in sections: Executive Office, Commissions and Councils, Council for Countering Corruption
Publication date: June 5, 2013, 18:30
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There may come a time when your lawn starts looking worse for wear. In this blog we'll examine the pros and cons of both real grass and artificial turf. Those who are starting to get tired of their garden or front lawn looking like a mud bath may start seeing artificial turf as a tempting option.
Grass lawns are the primary feature in many people's gardens, but they are costly and need regular maintenance; at the very least you need to cut them, dig out the weeds and strim the edges. But if you've had enough of the regular upkeep, you could consider installing artificial turf. Here's our guide on both.
A brand new, real grass lawn can rejuvenate a tired garden, transforming it into an alluring area. Laying the rolls of turf can be done yourself, but if you're not confident you can hire a professional to do it for you.
Soil preparation is important – this involves tearing up the old lawn and doing a lot of digging, levelling, raking and weeding.
Don't hang around – once delivered, the rolls of lawn need to be laid within 24 hours. After it's been laid, be sure to water it regularly until it's rooted into the soil underneath.
Do it right – if you want to grow a long-lasting lawn, ensure you purchase the correct type of turf. Those described as 'multipurpose' may not be right for your garden.
Synthetic grass is gaining popularity because they require very little maintenance.
It doesn't need to be cut and it'll be green year-round. It also can't be dug up – making it ideal for those with children and pets.
Also these days, artificial turf no longer looks like a plain green rug; it now comes in different lengths and in a range of greens and brown shades, giving them a more natural look. It's also long lasting, providing it's installed properly; artificial turf that's properly laid and cared for can last between 8-10 years.
The only maintenance required is occasional sweeping and watering. Algae and stains may appear over time but can be removed with household detergents and hot water.
So what should you go for?
Tired of your lawn getting muddy? Then artificial turf may be a tempting prospect. It could also be a consideration for gardens that suffer a lot of wear and tear throughout the year.
If your garden is suffering but you're unable to afford artificial turf, turf specialists suggest improving its drainage by laying down the right top soil.
Just remember that unless it's laid by them, specialists cannot provide a guarantee on their artificial grass, so consider paying the extra installation costs if you're unsure about doing this yourself.
Artificial turf is also ideal for roof terraces and flat roofs since real grass can't be laid there (it can only be laid on soil).
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Chinese hospitals thought they were testing urine samples, but they were really being tested. Reporters passed the lab warm tea in place of their urine samples. Out of ten hospitals, six diagnosed an infection, and five prescribed expensive medicine.
It's not the first health care scandal to piss everyone off. Ha. The health minister has come out calling hospitals greedy. The problem is, "In China, most village doctors make their income solely by selling drugs," reports Nicholas Zamiska in the Wall Street Journal.
The numbers: In rural areas, almost two thirds of prescriptions for the flu were unnecessary, according to the journal Health Policy and Planning. Prescription drugs markups are as high as 80%, according to the World Health Organization.
Unfortunately, such problems are not all so foreign. In the United States, fully a third of our medical spending goes to insurance overheads, which is why our health care costs exactly 50 percent more than any other industrialized country. And pharmaceutical lobbies keep drug prices how much higher than in Canada?


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Part 1 of ICLEI's series on climate prosperity introduced and defined this term, and outlined a vision for how local governments can drive economic growth through climate protection. But does this theory hold up in practice? Absolutely, says Dr. Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development, Chairman of the Climate Prosperity Project, and an internationally known expert on economic development and urban policy.
Below, Dr. Weiss shares a handful of powerful examples from the public and private sectors that illustrate the tenets of climate prosperity, and he describes how local leaders across the country are developing their own custom climate prosperity strategies.
ICLEI: Now that you've introduced us to climate prosperity as a concept, can you speak to its track record in practice?
Marc A. Weiss: The regional climate prosperity strategies being developed around the country are just getting started, and it will be another year before we can point to real results. But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of examples to prove that this approach works.
The DuPont corporation is a great story. Back in the mid-1990s, it adopted an aggressive policy to maximize energy efficiency and lower its energy consumption. Over a decade, DuPont saved $3 billion and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 72 percent. It also transitioned from the production of petrochemical products to bio-based products. By becoming more sustainable, it expanded its revenues and market share and attracted a high-quality workforce.
ICLEI: Does a business sustainability model work at the local government level?
Dr. Weiss: Yes, and an excellent example is metropolitan Portland, Oregon. Back in 1980, an urban growth boundary was established around the Portland region, in order to prevent the loss of valuable agricultural land to suburban development, and this forced the city and the three counties to adapt their land-use and transportation policies. They promoted good urban planning and sustainable community design, created higher-density mixed-use development that was pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly, as well as a very popular light rail transit system.
The biggest result of this has been Green Savings. According to the recent CEOs for Cities report on Portland's Green Dividend, metropolitan Portlanders save $1.1 billion annually on reduced transportation expenses, and an additional $1.5 billion due to reduced commuting and travel time. And what happens is that they spend the money locally, reinvesting $2.6 billion in the local economy instead of shipping it off to the Middle East to buy gas. Portland has a huge local food movement, and it ranks second highest per capita for people going out to eat in restaurants and bars.
Thanks to this culture of sustainability, the region offers a great quality of life and has become an incredible magnet for young and talented people. This in turn, has attracted businesses like Nike, IBM, Intel, Tektronix, and many others to locate in Portland and take advantage of this workforce. So in Portland we have examples of Green Savings, Green Opportunities, and Green Talent, the three keys to any climate prosperity strategy.
The final benefit is that as jobs, investment, and property values have increased in Portland—not to mention population—per-capita greenhouse gas emissions have been dramatically reduced to 1990 Kyoto levels, and vehicle miles traveled per capita have declined by more than 10 percent.
Every way you look at it, Portland got richer by becoming greener.
ICLEI: Portland's Green Savings bring to mind the results of the California Green Innovation Index.
Dr. Weiss: Yes! California is a great example of climate prosperity in action at the state level. The Innovation Index showed that Californians saved $56 billion on electricity expenses over the past three decades through improved energy efficiency -- primarily from state and local government policies requiring higher standards for buildings and electrical appliances, and by providing financial incentives for utility companies and businesses and households to conserve energy and use renewable sources. Private consumers reinvested much of this savings in the state's economy, directly contributing to higher economic growth and greater prosperity: They generated 1.5 million new full-time jobs with total annual income of $45 million.
So DuPont, Portland, and California show the power of this paradigm, and I believe that by having a proactive climate prosperity strategy, other regions can go even further.
ICLEI: How does that work? Will the Climate Prosperity Project's pilot regions emulate Portland and California, or take a different approach?
Dr. Weiss: Every climate prosperity strategy will follow the same broad model—Green Savings, Green Opportunities, Green Talent—but each of our seven pilots [Silicon Valley/San Jose, King County/Seattle, the State of Delaware, metropolitan Denver, metropolitan St. Louis, Southwest Florida, and Montgomery County, Maryland] will have custom-designed strategies, built on the fundamental assets that make each place special.
4) to help develop competitive entrepreneurial and workforce skills through education and training via the Green Talent initiative.
ICLEI: Can other local governments view these strategies? Are there resources to help them craft their own strategies?
Dr. Weiss: Yes. If they go to the Global Urban Development website, click on "Climate Prosperity Project" and scroll to the bottom of the page, they'll find a lot of key documents, including the draft climate prosperity strategies for Silicon Valley and Delaware.
In April 2009 the International Economic Development Council will publish The Climate Prosperity Guidebook, which will answer a lot of questions for people. Down the line, we also want to provide professional training, build a social network, and develop software to enable strategic planning decisions and ongoing metrics to measure results and show genuine economic and environmental progress.
This project has caught on faster than anything I've been involved with in 30 years of being a senior policy maker, and we're running very hard to catch up with the growing demand from states, regions, and localities for climate prosperity advice and assistance.


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First-in-man study demonstrates the therapeutic effect of RNAi gene silencing in cancer treatment
by Michael Gibney |
Feb 12, 2013 4:04pm
• The new study published in Cancer Discovery, the flagship journal of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), involving three Spanish and six American research centres, presents significant results in treating cancer patients with nanoparticles containing ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) molecules. This marks the first time that the therapeutic effect of RNAi has been demonstrated in humans.
Barcelona, 11 February 2013. A study led by Dr Josep Tabernero, the Director of Clinical Research at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) and Head of the Medical Oncology Department at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, shows for the first time that ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) is effective in the treatment of cancer patients. Harnessing these molecules to silence genes involved in the development and growth of cancer cells is an important step forward in developing a new and more targeted type of cancer therapy.
Dr Josep Tabernero, lead author of this study, said: "This is the first evidence to show that RNAi can be administered to cancer patients effectively, leading to significant tumour response."
RNAi is a gene-silencing mechanism that uses a subtype of RNA molecules to interfere with and silence genes. RNAi plays a vital role in normal cell development and differentiation, in cancer and viral defence, as it is powerful mechanism in the regulation of gene expression. Besides being a key natural cellular phenomenon, gene silencing shows great potential as a therapeutic device to shut down genes that have become hyperactive through cancer.
However, researchers have encountered difficulties in administering RNAi, as the molecules must penetrate cells in therapeutically effective concentrations, which in turn requires structural modifications. In the new study, led by the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), along with several other cancer research centres and the U.S. biotech company Alnylam, scientists have developed a lipid nanoparticle approach that can deliver two of these molecules targeted against the genes encoding two key proteins involved in the development of cancer cells (VEGF and KSP). This system takes the form of a novel drug (ALN-VSP) made up of RNAi molecules and lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).
The new paper, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, presents the results of a Phase I clinical trial, involving 41 patients with advanced cancer that had metastasised to the liver. These patients were treated with the new drug twice a week with intravenous doses of between 0.01-1.5 mg/kg.
The trial found that not only was the drug safely administered, but also presented good evidence for clinical utility. In 11 of the 37 patients, the disease either did not progress or stabilized after six months of treatment. In some cases of patients with metastasis to the liver or abdominal lymph glands, there was a complete regression of metastasis. (It should be noted that the liver typically responds better to treatment due to its excellent capacity to absorb these molecules.)
The research team performed a pharmacodynamics analysis to determine the impact of the drug on the tumours by taking biopsy samples from the patients before and after the drug was administered. This revealed the presence of the RNAi constructs in the samples, thus showing that the structurally modified molecules reached the tumour and were effective.
Having previously tested the drug on animals, this first-in-man clinical test has demonstrated that an efficient formula has been developed to transport and deliver RNAi with clinically promising results. The results will have to be confirmed and extended in additional clinical studies.
The importance of clinical research
This study, which also involved other international research centres including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston) and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), plus two other Spanish centres -- the Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Seville and the INCLIVA Health Research Institute in Valencia -- is potentially transformative for new drug discovery that will allow targeted, population-based studies.
Knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer has expanded greatly over the past decade, leading to the identification of potential therapeutic agents for developing tumour-selective drugs.
The Research Unit for Molecular Therapy of Cancer - "la Caixa", conducts Phase I clinical trials for new anticancer drugs. The choice of the most appropriate anticancer drug for each patient depends on a detailed analysis of the specific molecular changes in each tumour. This exciting approach entails a paradigm shift in the individualized treatment of patients.
Clinical trials play a vital role in developing new cancer treatments as they form the basis of scientifically recognised clinical research. Drugs must be proven to be both safe and efficacious in clinical trial volunteers before they can be formally approved by the appropriate government agency.
Michael Gibney


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Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Starring: Ella Hunt, Malcom Cumming, Sarah Swire
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven at Christmas forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Aldis Hodge, Tiffany Dupont
A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
Charmed: Season 1
Starring: Melonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, Sarah Jeffery
Follows the lives of three sisters who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are powerful witches.
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A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
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Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Doom Patrol: Season 1
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Kate Stone is career-focused, and enjoys her life that way. Her brash attitude keeps relationships at arm's length, making her an outcast in her own right.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba
Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, Norbert Leo Butz
An inside look at the romantic and creative partnership between influential choreographer/director, Bob Fosse, and Gwen Verdon, one of the greatest Broadway dancers of all time.
Starring: Tony Fadell, Andy Hertzfeld, Marc Porat
The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartphone").
The Haunting of Hill House: Season 1
Starring: Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Inside Lehman Brothers
Starring: Matthew Lee, Anton Valukas, Oliver Budde
Messy mortgages taken out by Lehman Brothers caused a real estate crisis in America ten years ago. This led to a global financial crisis. Ten years later, the French journalist Jennifer Deschamps looks back on the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
Into the Ashes
Starring: Luke Grimes, Frank Grillo, Marguerite Moreau
With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most – his wife – he has nothing left to lose.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 13
Starring: Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney
Five friends with big egos and slightly arrogant attitudes are the proprietors of an Irish pub in Philadelphia.
Starring: Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen
After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.
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Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth
A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
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The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Starring: Jin Zhang, Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh
While keeping a low profile after his defeat by Ip Man, Cheung Tin Chi gets into trouble after getting in a fight with a powerful foreigner.
Starring: Ashleigh Cummings, Zachary Quinto, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, has his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift.
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen
A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.
Starring: Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shîna
An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
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A college professor lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
The Rise of Jordan Peterson
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A rare, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Jordan Peterson, the academic and best-selling author who captured the world's attention with his criticisms of political correctness and his life-changing philosophy on discovering personal meaning.
Road to Christmas
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A TV producer is producing a Christmas Special for the 5th year but she is then told to co-produce it with the host's son. Initially, she's not too happy about it but – Christmas brings friends and families together.
Starring: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
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When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.
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Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore – and raid – the distant shores across the ocean.
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New UT production of classic Beckett drama is anything but trashy
Courtesy of University Theatre
By Evangeline Reid
This weekend University Theater will be putting on a Samuel Beckett classic featuring plenty of the expected absurdity but also an extra serving of humanity. Beckett's Endgame is a one-act play, but that's quite a misnomer when you realize it runs for precisely one hour and 34 minutes.
"The show starts at 7:30, and the show ends at about 9:04.... Eric and David have gotten it down to an exact science," Alex Hearn said with a laugh. Hearn, a second year, is playing Nag—the father figure of a strange, isolated family.
Beckett is also known for Waiting for Godot, which the Court Theatre will coincidentally be performing in January. Beckett is Irish, but he is known as a French novelist and playwright because he chose to write his work in French, then self-translated it into English. He claimed this helped him write as intentionally as possible. He emphasizes minimalism in both staging and language and includes consistently bizarre elements.
Endgame follows this style precisely. Hearn himself marveled at how the minimalist staging and small cast of four allows the play to be staged almost anywhere. However, in this staging of the play, the cast of characters, a small family on the verge of collapse, a into outright aggression re in their home during an unspoken apocalypse. The story that follows is loosely constructed and perhaps not the key to what makes the show tick. Instead, the show places weight on things typically taken for granted, forcing the audience to ask difficult questions about death, old age, and why people stay or leave.
The most important set pieces for the show are two garbage cans, the residence of the mother and father. Hearn and Eloise Hyman, who plays Hearn's character's wife Nel, spend an hour having aging makeup put on them, then the two climb into a garbage can 30 minutes before show time and sit in the dark for much of the lengthy show. It goes above and beyond commitment to character. Hearn says he keeps his phone with him for security, light, and a bit of stimulation, but one rehearsal his phone died.
"I was like, 'Well, this is really getting into character. I'm really feeling it right now,'....Eloise and I sorta' lucked out where they gave us like luxury-sized trash cans, but I can't imagine like a standard sized trash can. It's already sweltering as it is."
The trash cans—as well as the rest of the absurdity (including a man who can only see the world through the help of his servant)—are not just on stage for the sake of strangeness. They play an important role in developing the show's themes. Hearn asked, "How do we treat the elderly? How do we cordon them off… We treat them pretty poorly."
If you know Endgame well, you'll find a few differences in this telling. The space between Nel and Nag is purposely exaggerated to further stress their lack of agency as well as the distance between them.
"In the versions I've seen, the characters aren't played with nearly as much tenderness [as in our version]…. It really highlights when they dip into cruel measures to keep each other there," Hearn says.
Director Julia Santha pushed her actors to give the characters a real depth and humanity despite their foreignness. It serves to temper the absurdity with a whole new weight of its own.
November 21 at 7:30 p.m., November 22 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Logan Center Theatre West, tickets $6 in advance or $8 at the door.
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How can something become so out of control?
How can an Institution go from smooth running to total chaos in just minutes as I write about in my book Unshackled?
How can life change all of a sudden?
There isn't an answer that fits all, but I am convinced God is unchanging and unshaken by any sudden emergency in our lives. He is Sovereign. Because of the impact of Adam's original sin, we may have to suffer circumstances of it. While God forgives our sins, he also provides the grace to continue to live life in spite of the painful consequences that may manifest. God's grace empowers us to walk through, not around the circumstance.
Recently, I met this young precious and successful family whose baby boy developed a special need. It was life-threatening and altered their everyday existence. The grace of God was at work in this beautiful family. Although unbelievably painful, they are able to live one day at a time. More like one hour at a time as the boy's Mother put it. I agreed with her and if you're like me in any way, God's grace gets us through each day leaving a favorable impression as to who He is. While God resists pride, His grace flows unrestrained where there is humility. I like to describe true humility through my dependence on Jesus for everything I need in life. A great place to start our day is knowing we are totally dependent on Him.
Be encouraged knowing God is Sovereign and grace is available.
That night still remains vivid in my mind. It wasn't a single act or some radical moment that stands out, but that I was in the middle of one of the worst prison riots in the United States and walked through it untouched. While so many thoughts ran through my head the moment it when it all begun, the explosion of violence and mayhem erupted, the one thing that anchored me was my relationship with Christ. He didn't exactly tell me what to do when I prayed, "O LORD Help Us and Protect Us and Others in Danger," I just knew instinctively I was to walk in love. Walk in Love even in the midst of a prison riot where twenty staff-members were cuffed, blindfolded and taken hostage, over a hundred people seriously injured and millions of dollars in damage due to set fires that burned for days.
That may not be everyone's first thought but because of the Word of God inside me, I had this deep conviction that Love would best direct my decisions. God's never failed before, ever! Today as I go through difficult events of seasons, I am quick to recall past victories. While we may have to walk through mayhem we can be confident that God is Faithful and Love never Fails. I hope you'll memorize this verse so when troubles come it will remind you what to do.


Drinking plays a major role in Japanese culture. Japanese people drink a lot: not only green tea in the office, at meetings and with meals, but also all types of beverages. The most popular beverage by far is Japanese green tea, provided free of charge with almost every meal, hot in winter and cold in summer. There is a huge variety of green tea in bottles and cans in convenience-store fridges and vending machines. Chinese oolong tea and western style black tea is also very popular.
You can find vending machines everywhere in Japan, even in top of the Mt.Fuji. Vending machines serve up drinks 24 hours a day at the price of 100-150 JPY a can or bottle. In addition to cans of soft drinks includes tea and coffee, you can find vending machines that sell beer, sake and even hard liquor. In winter, most machines will also dispense hot drinks and even soups, indicated by a red label.
There are many unique Japanese soft drinks and trying random drinks on vending machines is one of the little joys of Japan. A few of note include Calpis, a kind of yoghurt-based milky soft drink containing lactic acid which tastes better than it sounds, and the famous Pocari Sweat (an "isotonic supply" drink). Also, most American soft drink brands (Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Ginger ale, etc.) are widely available in Japan.
Japanese Green tea (緑茶) is ubiquitous in Japan and therefore is more commonly known simply as "tea" (お茶). It is even referred to as "Japanese tea" (日本茶), though it was first used in China during the Song Dynasty, and brought to Japan by Myōan Eisai, a Japanese Buddhist priest who also introduced the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism.
Types of tea are commonly graded depending on the quality and the parts of the plant used as well as how they are processed. There are large variations in both price and quality within these broad categories, and there are many specialty green teas other than these. The best Japanese green tea is said to be that from the Yame (八女) region of Fukuoka Prefecture and the Uji (宇治) region of Kyoto. The so-called Uji area has been producing Ujicha (Uji tea) for four hundred years and predates the prefectural system. Shizuoka Prefecture produces 40 percent of raw tea leaf.
The first and second flushes of green tea made from leaves that are exposed directly to sunlight. This is the most common green tea in Japan. The name describes the method for preparing the beverage.
Sen-cha, which, in the processing of the leaves, has been steamed two times longer than usual Sencha, giving it a deeper color and producing a fuller flavor in the beverage.
Gyokuro is a fine and expensive type that differs from Sencha in that it is grown under the shade rather than the full sun for approximately 20 days. The name "Gyokuro" translates as "jade dew" and refers to the pale green color of the infusion. The shading causes the amino acids and caffeine in the tea leaves to increase, while Catechins (the source of bitterness in tea) decreases, giving rise to a sweet taste. The tea also has a distinct aroma.
Kabusecha is made from the leaves grown in the shade prior to harvest, although not for as long as Gyokuro. It has a more delicate flavor than Sencha. It is sometimes marketed as Gyokuro.
Tamaryoku-cha has a tangy, berry-like taste, with a long almondy aftertaste and a deep aroma with tones of citrus, grass, and berries. It is also called Guricha.
Lower grade of Sencha harvested as a third- or fourth-flush tea between summer and autumn. Aki-Bancha (autumn Bancha) is not made from entire leaves, but from the trimmed unnecessary twigs of the tea plant.
Kamairi-cha is a pan-fired green tea that does not undergo the usual steam treatments of Japanese tea and does not have the characteristic bitter taste of most Japanese tea.
A tea made from stems, stalks, and twigs. Kukicha has a mildly nutty, and slightly creamy sweet flavor.
Konacha is the dust and smallest parts after processing Gyokuro or Sencha. It is cheaper than Sencha and usually served at Sushi restaurants. It is also marketed as Gyokuroko (玉露粉?) or Gyokurokocha.
A fine ground tea made from Tencha. It has a very similar cultivation process as Gyokuro. It is expensive and is used primarily in the Japanese tea ceremony. Matcha is also a popular flavor of ice cream and other sweets in Japan.
Half-finished products used for Matcha production. The name indicates its intended eventual milling into matcha. Because, like gyokuro, it is cultivated in shade, it has a sweet aroma. In its processing, it is not rolled during drying, and tencha, therefore, remains spread out like the original fresh leaf.
Genmai-cha is a blend of ban-cha (sometimes Sen-cha) and roasted genmai (brown rice). It is often mixed with a small amount of Matcha to make the color better.
Japanese green tea that is distinguished from others because it is roasted in a porcelain pot over charcoal; most Japanese teas are usually steamed. The tea is fired at a high temperature, altering the leaf color tints from green to reddish-brown.
Shin-cha, "new tea", represents the first month's harvest of tea leaf. The name is used for either Sen-cha or Gyokuro.
This quiet bitter taste tea is expensive and is used primarily in the Japanese tea ceremony.
Mugi-cha is a roasted barley tea. I japan, it is served chilled during summer time.
Plant milk produced by soaking dried soybeans and grinding them in water.
Umeshu(Plum Wine) is a Japanese liqueur made from steeping ume fruits in shochu and sugar.
The museum exhibiting the samurai period of Edo (former Tokyo).
Official Store of famous tea brand "Fukujuen" in Kyoto. You can taste and experience various Japanese green tea.
They offer factory tours in all the breweries and distilleries around Japan.
Worldwide famous Yamazaki brand whisky distillery tour in Kyoto.


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What do you get when you combine a bunch of flowers and a doughnut? Doughflowers of course - and we know which one we'd rather get a bouquet of.
A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Or, in this case, taste just as sweet. Because these roses are actually doughnuts and they're the best darn bouquet we've ever seen.
These "doughflowers" were created by Mark Isreal, owner of NYC's Doughnut Plant, as a sweet treat for Mother's Day, according to The New York Times. And these are no one-trick pony - they come in three different flavours: strawberry - made with fresh berries - for the classic kinda gal; rose water with edible petals for the sophisticated soul; and Italian blood orange made with orange blossom water for those who like their sweet stuff a little bit tarty.
I don't know if a doughnut in the shape of a rose makes the doughnut tastier but I'm willing to try them to find out. Try all of them. Multiple times. Please.


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Women in Touring – Aurore
Hailing from Southern France originally, Aurore was always fascinated with trucks. After running a fashion boutique and an ethic hair salon in her home town, she felt confined within the four walls of her business and decided it was time for a change. So five years ago, she got her license and bought her own vehicle. But she didn't stop there; she built the truck into an RV and enjoys life on the road without having to worry about making it home!
So life on the road must be magical to you.
Yes! What I love most about truck driving is the sense of freedom life on the road gives you. Traveling makes me feel alive. Because I live in my truck, I've got all the comfort of a small apartment but with a different back yard whenever I want!
How did your family react to this sudden change in lifestyle?
Well, they were quite surprised when I said I wanted to be a driver and to see the world. They were concerned for my safety at first. The question I get asked most is, of course, what if I would want to have children someday? And I guess I don't have an answer to that. I really admire and respect women who somehow manage to combine family life with life on the road, but I have no idea how I would manage that myself. I love what I do and how I live my life. In my van! laughs
What's the craziest thing that happened to you on the road?
There are so many stories I could tell you. It's hard to pick just one story or one moment in time- I think every moment is magical, every border crossed, both on the map and for myself personally is special.
Like, last year, I got the opportunity to work on the Rolling Stones tour and that was just so impressive. The production itself, being able to go behind the scenes, traveling all over the place- there are so many advantages to this job.
It's often been said that life on the road is a man's world. What are your thoughts on that?
Well, there aren't that many women in touring I don't think. I mean, there are more of us than when I first got started- it was just me and one other girl back then. I think there are more of us women to bring some sweetness into the macho world laughs.
But really, it shouldn't matter if we're male or female. The job remains the same and we're all here because we're good at it. Of course I've been made to feel uncomfortable by men on the road sometimes. I feel some of them like to underestimate me. At the end of the day though, that's their problem, not mine. We're all on the same mission and that's to get our gear from A to B in time, and safely, and to have fun getting it there. It's been getting better over the years and I've made a lot of new friends, male and female. That's what matters to me.
What's your advice for women considering life on the road?
Live your dream if that's what you want! Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do just because you're a woman. Of course, touring can be hard, and lonely, but it's worth it. Arm yourself with patience and courage and don't be afraid to make your own decisions. And if you can: join Pieter Smit. It's very different than other companies I've worked for. This job is a privilege in itself. Every border crossed, from Russia to Copenhagen and from France to Portugal is an important milestone. There's nothing like it.
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Zucchini bread is made quickly in a food processor
Joe Truskot
When August arrives so do the gifts from folks you know who garden. It seems like the zucchini plant experiences a bumper crop every year. It's a great side dish steamed and a useful holder when hollowed out and stuffed with ground lamb. But it is as a quick bread that many have come to enjoy this wonderful vegetable.
All true squash, as you may know, originated in the New World. Zucchini, a variety of summer squash, was hybridized in Italy in the 19th century and, therefore, bears an Italian name.
Always select young zucchini with bright shiny coats of dark green. Each should be firm and not limp.
I adapted this recipe from "Cooking With A Food Processor," a 1978 cookbook which I ordered from General Electric when I was given this appliance for Christmas in the 80s. I've shared other recipes from this cookbook as all of them use this handy kitchen aide and turn out a fine product. My original food processor lasted more than 30 years when its gears just ground to a halt!
Garden Fresh Zucchini Bread
1 medium-sized zucchini
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan with butter.
Use the slicing disk to coarse chop the walnuts. Empty the food processor bowl and set them aside. Use the fine shredding disk to grate the zucchini. Empty the bowl into another one and set it aside. Don't bother to wash the bowl.
Insert the bottom blade into the bowl. Place the sugar, eggs,vanilla and oil in the bowl and mix thoroughly about 30 seconds should be fine. Add the cinnamon, baking powder, salt and baking soda on top of the egg mixture - each in a different spot. Pulse for 5 seconds or so. Add the flour in 1/2 cup portions - each in a different spot. Pulse until thoroughly blended about 15 to 20 seconds. Scrape down the sides and pulse once or twice.
Scoop the shredded zucchini back into the bowl and pulse for 5 seconds. Add the nuts and again pulse 3 or 4 times.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 55 minutes to an hour. The cake center should test done. It's better to overbake a bit than underbake. The heavier crust makes for easier cutting.


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Employee retention is essential to maintain customer relationships and minimize recruiting and training costs. The keys to employee satisfaction and retention are founded on strong leadership and sound management practices. By mastering these arts, you should have happy, loyal employees and customers, resulting in growth, profits and personal gratification.
The foundation of an efficient and effective workplace is the structure, discipline and consistency provided by well-conceived systematic operating methods. World-class companies like Disney, McDonalds and Ritz Carleton all have well defined operating methods. A policies and procedures (P&P) manual is critical to ensure that employees understand what is expected of them and know how they should handle the myriad of duties and responsibilities in the day-to-day operations of the business.
Legal agreements are often a "necessary evil" to ensure there is a "meeting of the minds" as to exactly what the parties agree to when they enter into an employer-employee relationship. The agreement should specify the term, termination, duties, responsibilities and compensation.
New employees will need orientation before going to work in your business and then on-the-job training. Training should include a review of your policies and procedures, with special emphasis on key subjects, such as customer service and your company philosophy and culture. Retraining should be done each year.
Employee costs constitute a major expense in most businesses. Not giving your employees adequate tools to do the job is "penny wise and pound foolish." Employing current technology can greatly improve efficiency and employee morale. Don't forget to provide the little things that make employees' jobs easier. Providing adequate tools to do the job will increase employee productivity and satisfaction.
How your employees feel about their jobs is greatly influenced by your workplace atmosphere. Extravagance is not necessary, but you should provide a pleasant place to work. Little things like a fresh coat of paint make a big difference. Don't neglect the break room and the rest room. The impression you make on your employees is just as important as the image you project to your customers. Keeping the workplace clean and uncluttered requires the cooperation of all employees. Employees' attitudes are affected by their work environment; make sure it is positive!
Your employees need someone readily available to help when they have questions or encounter problems. Adequate staffing to properly serve all customers is also essential for employee morale. Your people should not feel like they are left on their own.
World-class companies always have in common World-class cultures. Leaders of such businesses recognize that profit is a byproduct of meeting the needs of customers and employees. A business also has a responsibility to give back to the community and most employees want to make meaningful contributions through their work. They also like to take pride in their work and deliver quality products and services. And they need to continue to learn and grow professionally. A good company culture enables employees to combine their strengths to meet these mutual needs as part of a dynamic team.
A performance-based compensation plan should encourage employees to behave in ways that will attain the company's goals, while also meeting your employees' personal objectives. Company goals usually include growth, profitability, quality service, efficiency, effectiveness, image and reputation. To attract desirable employees, your pay scale should be competitive. The pay plan must also be objective and fair to all employees. Rewards should be commensurate with contributions.
Even if your profit margins are thin, you can provide benefits that are not cost-prohibitive, or even free. Providing more benefits puts you in a better competitive position to attract and retain employees. A profit sharing plan based on growth in profits is a win-win. You could offer a 401k plan or a pre-tax benefits savings plan. Group life and disability insurance and other benefits can be provided through the Greater Richmond Chamber. Group discounts on products and services are also extended through the Chamber. Your company can become a member of a credit union to enable employees to qualify for benefits. Little perks, like buying pizza for the staff on a hectic day, help to make your employees appreciate their jobs. Be creative!
Numerous studies have documented the fact that money is not the primary motivator for most workers. In fact, people who are motivated primarily by money may not be good employees. Recognize your people frequently for their good work and they will repeat the performance frequently. Praise must be sincere and should be distributed equitably, if warranted. When possible, praise people publicly in meetings or employee newsletters. Be sure to give credit and rewards for good ideas that benefit the company. Reinforce the right behaviors. Avoid saying "Great, but." Look for key measures to recognize employees, such as production or customer retention. Come up with contests to recognize your people. Give recognition certificates, plaques and prizes other than money, such as tickets for movie rental or sports events, or gift certificates for merchandise or dinner. A tangible reward makes a more lasting impression. Praising your best performers (the top 10-20%) will raise the bar for your weaker people. The goal is to encourage behaviors that build your business and recognize your people for practicing those behaviors as often as possible.
Lack of effective communication from superiors is often the greatest cause for employee dissatisfaction and premature departure. The best managers listen to and communication frequently with all employees; and they make it easy for employees to tell them about problems and concerns. Communication should include training, group and individual meetings and, most important, daily dialogue with employees. As the manager, you must make the time to regularly talk with everyone. E-mail is a good communication vehicle, but the phone is more personal; and neither can replace face-to-face meetings. Employee newsletters can enhance communication. Keep communication simple, provide adequate information and give examples for clarity. Show your trust in your people and make them feel included by sharing financial and other inside information. Management can make much better decisions by getting input from front-line employees. If your people know their voices are heard and feel like they are part of the decision making process, they will be much happier, loyal and more likely to support new programs.
Engage your employees to make decisions; give them the authority to act in the best interests of the company. Provide training in resolving customer problems and then trust them to make the right choices. Give your people some time to think and plan by building in some slack time through adequate staffing and by providing support. Don't criticize employee mistakes. Recognize that making decisions naturally results in making mistakes. If you criticize honest mistakes, your people will stop making decisions. Failure is also OK, because it is a normal part of the road to success. Nothing is more gratifying than to see your people develop the skills and confidence necessary to act independently and make sound decisions that are in the best interests of the company and your customers.
Much has been written about leadership and you should make the time to learn how to be a more effective leader. Here are ten basic keys: (1) Integrity: always tell the truth and always keep your promise, even when it hurts. (2) Trust: You must first demonstrate your trust in people by making yourself vulnerable before you can expect them place their trust in you. (3) Respect: If you really don't care about your people they will sense your lack of concern and will not respect you. (4) Fairness: Treat all employees fairly and equally (including family members) regardless of your personal feelings. (5) Vision: To be a true leader, you must have an unfaltering vision, be able to communicate it to your people, and get them to understand and share in your vision. (6) Optimism: You must always be positive and confident that the company will succeed; but you should also be realistic. (7) Decisive: A leader must make decisions and stick with them as long as they make sense. Consensus is not always better than an individual decision, particularly in a crisis situation. Remember, "The buck stops with you!" Trust your intuition. Intuition draws upon your experience, stored knowledge and information you may not even realize you have in your head. (8) Example: You must "practice what you preach" or you will have little credibility. (9) Teamwork: Insist on mutual respect, courtesy and cooperation among your people. This fundamental attitude was crucial in shaping our nation and is also essential to build your company. (10) Authority: Remember that authority is not vested in your position as "the boss." Authority resides with the people who report to you and they have the power grant it to you or not.
People like to work in an environment that is enjoyable; they can get burned out if the work environment is totally serious and strictly business. Great companies like Southwest Airlines have come up with creative ways for employees to have fun. If you're not naturally good at getting people to have fun, designate a key employee to assume this role and be your official or unofficial cheerleader.
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Chuck is founder and CEO of Richmond-based Peoples Income Tax, Inc. He has an Executive M.B.A. degree from Pace University, New York City, and has taught small business management at Virginia Commonwealth University.