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Little Linc Preschool
The Month of March '19
At Little Linc Preschool, we are preparing for Easter. We are walking our preschoolers through Jesus' final days before his death and resurrection. The church calls this time Lent, and it is a chance to prepare our hearts to understand and receive Christ's sacrifice for us. Because our children are so young, our teachers look for creative ways to immerse them in the stories. One of the Bible stories we learn about in preparation for Easter is the Last Supper. The teachers read this story to the children and also acted it out using wooden storytelling pieces. The children can go back to the storytelling pieces again and again to retell the story and gain a deeper understanding. The children also responded to the story with art. With this story, the children tasted the unleavened bread and juice like Jesus would have shared with his disciples. As we continue down this road towards Jesus dying on the cross and raising to life again, will you pray with us that our Little Linc children will make a decision to follow Jesus? In Revelation 3:20, it says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him…" Pray with us that our preschoolers will hear the voice of their Savior and respond!
Little Linc Preschool is looking for two morning preschool teachers for the coming school year! We need teachers who are passionate about Jesus, eager to share their faith, and ready to invest in the lives of our students and parents. Our primary goal is to share the transforming power of the gospel of Christ and to minister to our children and their families. We would prefer for our teachers to have a degree in Early Childhood Education or a related field, but job experience can also be considered! We'd love to start getting to know interested candidates, so please reach out to us! We would love to give you time to observe and volunteer in our classrooms over the next few weeks to discover if Little Linc would be a good fit for for you. You can contact " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ashley Powell and " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Missy Faulkenberry if you are interested!
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2 Corinthians 15:14
Our mission is to share Christ with the Lincoln community.
Local Mission.
By supporting Lincoln, you're making a difference in your own community.
Transforming the whole family's health and well-being by caring for each individual need.
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Every penny impacts the kingdom work. We purchase our properties outright.
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Just a few miles from the most expensive houses in the inner city of Huntsville were men, women, and children surviving without the basic necessities. No running water or electricity. Plumbing didn't work and floors were rotted from leaking pipes. Children had broken toys and went to bed hungry. A man with a heart for this inner city neighborhood stepped into the home of a little girl and her mother. That visit opened the man's eyes and eventually a community's eyes to the great need in their midst: the need for Christ.
Lincoln Village Ministries is the product of one man's call to action. The call has spread all over the city of Huntsville to pour out the hope and love of Jesus Christ into the Lincoln community.


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A dark horse among dark brews.
Porter is a mysterious brew, and even beer experts are a little hazy on its classification. The consensus is that it should be a top-fermenting black beer with a good degree of bitterness. In his Essentials of Beer Style, Fred Eckhardt notes, "Today, porters are usually medium-strong beers with rich dry maltiness and intense hoppy flavors."
Eckhardt also points out the stout-porter connection. "As [porter] came to be brewed stronger, the name stout porter came into use, indicating stronger porter. These have become known as stouts."
In its original form, porter enjoyed enormous popularity through the 1800s, but English demand for porter evaporated in the 1920s and '30s, and brewers in the U.K. stopped production. Fortunately, porter's heyday coincided with rampant British imperialism, and little pockets of porter consumption remain in former colonies all over the world.
Here in the biggest ex-colony, a vestigial demand for porter survived in Pennsylvania, where D. G. Yuengling & Sons Inc. and Lion, Inc. have produced porters (albeit bottom-fermented versions) down to the present day.
Microbrewers have now picked up the torch, and porter is produced at several small plants around the country.
Our favorite examples to date have been Anchor Porter, produced by the Anchor Brewing Co. of San Francisco, CA, and Great Northern Porter, brewed by the Summit Brewing Co. of St. Paul, MN.
To that short list, we would add Catamount Porter, produced by the Catamount Brewing Co. of White River Junction, VT. Catamount was founded in 1986, and the company has spent the intervening years brewing a series of excellent ales in their Vermont brewhouse. In addition to Catamount Gold, Catamount Amber and Ethan Allen Ale, the company produces some fine seasonal beers. Indeed, their 1991 Christmas Ale was one of the fines India Pale Ales we have poured.
Catamount Porter is a liquid tribute to this impressive lineage. Once a seasonal, the porter is now brewed year-around, a decision that may owe something to noted beer critic Michael Jackson, who lauded it as "the best porter produced on the East Coast."
We would concur. When poured into a glass, Catamount Porter produces a creamy head the color of coffee ice cream, and the brew has a fine malty aroma. The taste is very smooth, with some coffeeish bitter notes and hints of licorice in the aftertaste. A creamy, delicious beer, true to its noble heritage.
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A String Of UAE Holidays Are Approaching!
Here's when to expect them...
The Islamic New Year is over along with our long weekend, but lucky for us, there are more holidays coming up.
On Monday 19 November is the Prophet's Birthday with means that the public and private sector are both expected to get a day off. The exact date of the holiday however, will be confirmed closer to the time.
Soon after is Commemoration Day which falls on Friday 30 November. This is a public sector only holiday, and honours Emiratis who died in the line of duty.
Next up is National Day, and this celebration is set to take place on Sunday 2 December. There will be a long weekend for both the private and public sector. However, the public sector is likely to receive more than just a one-day leave.


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BOTANIC NAME: Acer saccharum marsh.
COMMON NAMES: Birdseye maple.
ORIGIN: North America.
DESCRIPTION: Density 630-700 kg/m3. Cream white to reddish brown colour. Figured with many small swirls resulting in circular eyes separate from each other - dubbed birds eye figure. It is not known what causes de phenomenon. The wood may be extremely valuable.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Sawing and machinery are difficult. It is hard to plane. Suitable for steam bending. Easy gluing and finishing.
DRYING: It is a wood that dries very fast. Hardly any defects on the drying process.
USES: Electric guitar bodies and bass guitar bodies. Guitar backs and sides.


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Have a rockin' time introducing children to Footloose, rewritten for children by the one and only Kenny Loggins himself. Features a bonus CD with the new children's "Footloose," performed by Kenny Loggins.
Time to cut loose! Have a rockin' time introducing children to the fun of Footloose, rewritten for children by the one and only Kenny Loggins. As a zookeeper named Jack joins the zoo animals in an all-night dance party, this new original story from Loggins is sure to get your feet moving. Little ones will love the cast of characters, including the rockin' chimp Louise ("Geez, Louise"), Mister DJ Elephant, the lemur Marie ("Oo Wee, Marie"), Milo the wombat, Luke the funkiest cat in the zoo, and so many more rocking, bopping, boogeying, tangoing, shaking, rattling and rolling animals!
To add to the fun, the book includes a CD with new recordings by Kenny Loggins. Kids and parents can sing along to the classic hit with new lyrics, as well as a three-song medley families will love.
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The new variations on the familiar refrain will probably be easy enough for adult readers to manage in a read-aloud, but the new verses' scansion may be difficult to parse. A CD embedded in the back cover, performed by Loggins, is immeasurably helpful in establishing the rhythms.Read Full Review of Footloose: Bonus CD! "Footloo... | See more reviews from Kirkus
Some of the trying-to-be-cool moments miss the mark—see the aforementioned deejay, as well as "Luke, too cute, funkiest cat at the zoo" in his backward cap, leather jacket, sunglasses, and gold chain—but the revised lyrics offer a fun way for parents and grandparents to "cut footloose" with a new generation.Read Full Review of Footloose: Bonus CD! "Footloo... | See more reviews from Publishers Weekly
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A stressful day, long hours at work, a quick lunch by the computer...
You need a coffee!
The coffee break is a very special moment in the day-to-day routine.
It can be celebrated at home, in a bar,
but also in the workplace, in front of the essential coffee machines.
It is a regenerating moment that helps alleviate the accumulated stress.
But the coffee break is also a time for socialization
and team building with friends and colleagues.
Studies on the subject tell us that coffee break in the workplace usually
lasts from 5 to 15 minutes and takes place 2 to 3 times a day.
Unfortunately on very busy days it's hard to take a break and leave the desk, even for a few minutes, so we grab a cup and drink it in front of the computer or while on the phone.
Even in gloomy days when there is no time for the "break",
"coffee" is there for you:
hot or cold, black, cappuccino or macchiato...
the choices may change, but coffee stays!


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The online diary of the Right Reverend Daniel Martins, Bishop of Springfield (Episcopal Church)
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Thursday (St Edmund)
From 9:30 until 4:00, today was dedicated to a scheduled gathering of the clergy of the diocese. We had an excellent turnout of around 30, and we seriously engaged the subject of space, place, and architecture as the context for liturgy. My hope in this was that we would continue to engage liturgy--specifically, in this case, the places where liturgy happens--with informed intentionality and not merely on auto-pilot. Various presenters elucidated material from three challenging books, and discussion was lively. We concluded our time in the nave of St Paul's Cathedral as a sort of lab/practicum in "reading" liturgical space. We also had a very animated discussion of the sorts of gatherings we would like to have going forward. A good day.
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How To Photography: Learning a New Set of Skills to Shoot Better Video with your DSLR Camera
This has created a wonderful opportunity for new DSLR photographers and experienced hobbyists and enthusiasts to add videography to their repertoire of skills and output. Video recording, however, is not exactly the same as shooting stills, but the following list of tips will help you explore the world of video and improve your results.
1. Manual is the still the best focus mode when recording video. Although the auto-focus (AF) function in newer (and more costly) DSLRs is improving, manual focusing is a skill you need to learn, currently.
2. Using manual focus also makes it important to be able turn the focus ring on the lens without looking at it. Video simply requires too much attention to be fumbling with focus or turning the ring in the wrong direction.
3. You can't expect quality video footage unless you use a tripod and a ball head or gimbal manufactured specifically for video. One of the biggest mistakes of novice videographers is to pan the camera too quickly, which results in wild movements that make your video virtually unwatchable.
4. As you pan with a tripod, your camera will have to read changes in the light and adjust its exposure values (ISO, aperture and shutter speed), accordingly. The auto exposure mode is unlikely to compensate quickly enough, so you should also learn how to choose exposure values manually.
5. For most video shooting situations, 1/50th of a second is the preferred shutter speed.
6. Most manuals and experts recommend ISO 100 for still photography; however, for video, select an ISO setting of 200.
7. The principles of depth of field apply equally to still and video, which means the depth becomes shallower as you use a wider aperture, or the smallest f/stop number. For the beginner, this usually results in poorly focused video. For most of the video you'll shoot, you'll want more depth of field, so avoid using those wide apertures. A good compromise is f/5.6.
8. The video feature on your DSLR has its own set of specifications, so here is another opportunity to bury your head in your camera's manual. An important spec is the number of frames per second; and 24 fps is the recommended setting, if possible.
9. White balance is another auto function on your camera that you don't want use during video recording. If you've avoided learning about white balance and how to set it on your camera, then schedule some more study time with your manual. It's best to select one white balance setting for an entire video session.
10. In many cases, HD video recording requires at least as much, if not more, post-production, so, to make that process easier, select your camera's neutral image setting.
11. Another skill specific to video is anticipating the movement of a subject, so you can focus on the place where the movement ends.
12. Don't record a video segment fewer than 15 seconds.
13. Taking still photos in the vertical, or portrait, orientation is a creative tool, but not for video. TV and computer screens are horizontal.
14. You can't be a cheapskate when shooting HD video, so be prepared to spend the money for a high quality, high performance memory card. The inexpensive cards tend to slow the process because their buffers can overload.
15. With the release of new DSLRs during 2012, more of them include stereo sound recording capabilities, but the microphones are still located on the camera. You can be more creative with video if you purchase an external mic, such as a shotgun type, so it can be held farther from the camera.
16. Learning to shoot HD video with artificial lighting equipment is much more involved than still photography, simply because you must light the entire area in which your subject will be moving. It's much better to use natural light and plan your video sessions where natural light is abundant.
17. Acquire a N.3 or N.9 neutral density filter and make sure your filters are from the same manufacturer.
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Like playing an instrument, or engaging in activity that requires intense focus, exercising can induce a "flow" state of mind. Flow Psychology has been studied for many years and sport and exercise are popular ways to get "in the zone" and enter this flow state. Flow psychology or being "in the zone" is what Buddhist's refer to as mindfulness. Being in the zone shifts your mind into a new state of mind. A sense of vibrant aliveness, connectedness and peace infuse your being. You feel in tune with life, moving with a precision and poise you don't fully understand but at the same time greatly enjoy it. You're in the zone. You're in flow.
Exercise is not the only way to get into that sacred state. Artists experience it when intensely focused on a creative project. Writers and readers experience it when getting caught up in the story. Some of us experience it while listening to music, holding a deep and meaningful conversation with a friend or when making love.
The activity takes the person's undivided attention so that the mind is completely engaged in what they are doing. All actions seem to move and work together harmoniously. You forget yourself and experience heightened perceptions and awareness.
Studies show that people in this state of flow or "in the zone" produce brain waves that operate similarly to the brain waves of those in meditation. So next time you find yourself completely absorbed in exercising remember that you are giving your mind a healthy dose of meditation (play on words intended).
Besides practicing mindfulness, exercise is also good for our mental health. It's one hell of a mood-booster as well. You don't even have to engage in rigorous physical activity to reap in the effects of this mood-booster. Just a simple walk around the block can already leave you feeling much better. Feeling like you're in a crappy mood? Rest assure knowing you have exercise to help you out.
Don't take my word for it though. Try it out for yourself.
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Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/26/2017 -- Contract research organizations (CROs) are support systems for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. These organizations facilitate research services outsourced by companies on contractual basis. CROs provide services such as biopharmaceutical drug development, biologic assay development, preclinical, clinical and post clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, and others. CROs also provide services to NGOs, foundations, research institutions, universities, and government bodies. The structure of CROs range from large international full-service organizations to small niche specialty groups. CROs that provide specialty services such as clinical trials offer expertise in the process of new drug or device from its time of conception till FDA / EMA marketing approval.
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Rising prevalence of diseases such as cardiovascular, diabetes, and oncological, robust pipeline of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products, increasing expenditure on research and development, rising emphasis on innovative treatment therapies for existing as well upcoming diseases, growing demand for outsourcing analytical testing, and optimal service provided by the CROs are the major factors driving the global CRO service market. However, restraining factors such as difficulty in aligning personnel expertise for specific projects and unavailability of highly skilled scientists causes inability to meet the requirement.
The global CRO services market has been segmented based on product type, therapeutic area, end-user, and region. In terms of product type, the market has been segmented into early phase development, clinical research, laboratory, and consulting services. Based on therapeutic area, the market has been segmented into oncology, central nervous system disorders, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and others. In terms of end-user, the market has been segmented into pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, academic and research institutes, NGOs, and others. In terms of region, the global CRO services market has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa.
The contract research organizations (CROs) services market is witnessing strong growth owing to increasing complexity of clinical trials, greater number of regulatory hurdles, and high investment required for infrastructure that results in greater clinical trials cost. As a result, rising number of pharmaceutical companies are partnering with CROs having the requisite infrastructure and expertise to manage costs and deadlines. Moreover, increasing focus on specialty drugs is likely to fuel the market as specialty drugs require scientific expertise and highly tailored clinical trials that significantly increases costs.
North America dominated the global CRO services market. High quality standards in the pharmaceutical industry, increased expenditure by governments on research and development in health care, rapid growth in the biosimilars and biological market, emerging biopharmaceutical industry, and rising demand for outsourcing are the major factors accelerating the growth of the CRO services market in North America. Europe is the second largest market due continuous innovation in medical technology with increasing investment by key players for research and development. Asia Pacific has significant potential in the CRO services market due to high availability of subjects for preclinical and clinical trials due to rising populations and increasing prevalence of diseases.
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In 2013, Canalys (1) estimated there were over 1,600,000 apps available in the two largest online app stores, iTunes and Google Play, and the number of platform-based, service carrier or manufacturer-operated online stores have increased to over 70 worldwide in the last two years (2). With over 1.2 billion people now accessing mobile applications (3), the role of the app has become multidimensional, with users expecting to discover an app to enhance every part of their life, for both work and play. For healthcare professionals (HCPs) working in palliative care, searching, evaluating, identifying, and downloading relevant apps from the proverbial sea of applications is a time-consuming pastime which often yields few results.
In 2014, CareSearch, as a member of the Guidance and Technological Innovation (GATI) team in the Decision Assist program, embarked on a process to develop palliAGED, a palliative care app that would assist primary health professionals in their provision of palliative care to older Australians in the community and residential aged care. As part of the palliAGED development process, the GATI project team conducted a scoping study to trawl through the thousands of apps available to HCPs. Not only did the study identify apps that were both relevant and useful, it also highlighted missing content areas which could provide a niche position in the marketplace for a locally-developed palliative care app that fills a need for clinical information.
Searching the app stores: You don't always get what you ask for…
When consumers search for an app within the iTunes and Play app stores, intuition implies that the use of search terms that have the highest relationship to the specific area of interest would provide the most retrievals. For example, the most common search strings that HCPs working in palliative care could use include terms such as palliative care, dementia, pain, carers, aged care, or fatigue. When searched within online app stores, these terms should turn up some relevant apps that would be useful to support clinical care. In fact, from our scoping study, we found that if you search using one or a combination of these strings, your chances of finding any app that is relevant and useful is extremely remote.
When these search terms (and three others) were used to search within both of the major app stores, around 2,800 from a possible 1.6 million apps were returned relating to the actual strings used. On further analysis, approximately 200 of these were relevant to palliative care and of those, only one third were marketed effectively – that is, their description matched their function. Approximately half of the remainder were created for carers and families. When care setting and intended audience were considered and the list revised for HCPs specifically, we were able to identify only 10-15 apps that would be classified as relevant to HCPs in a palliative care setting (residential aged care or in the community).
Overwhelmingly, our search retrieved over 2,500 apps whose search strings are categorised as not-relevant to either their function or description, and whose relationship to palliative care could be classed as tenuous at best even though they were retrieved using terms relating to palliative care. Figure 1 provides a summary of the common categories the non-relevant apps were grouped into by search term used.
There are implications for both HCPs and for organisations developing apps, not only for palliative care, but also in other medical fields. As a consumer, HCPs would find that using iTunes and Google Play as a source of locating useful and relevant apps to support clinical practice is time-consuming and will not necessarily yield a result - not only due the sheer volume of apps now available online, but also due to the variability in the marketing and descriptors that app developers upload to the online stores. For organisations trying to reach HCPs with a quality product in a crowded marketplace, marketing and promotion of their app becomes an issue for the same reasons.
The GATI approach with palliAGED and our new app, palliAGEDnurse, is to enlist the help of those organisations that provide support to HCPs to assist in promoting and marketing the product directly to the intended user. This provides an avenue for HCPs to rapidly access relevant and useful apps whilst providing a sense of trust and reliability in the end product.
Editor's note: The palliAGEDnurse app is scheduled for release in mid-May. If you'd like more information about it, please comment here or contact email@example.com.
Once released, it will be available on the palliAGED smartphone apps page
Amanda Adams is a project officer with the GATI Project within Decision Assist and a CareSearch Research Assistant.
Sandra Bradley
Great blog Amanda - loved the stats! Very frustrating when you put in what you think is a logical search term only to get everything you don't need!!
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This file is a Jupyter notebook hosted on CoCalc (formerly SageMathCloud). The demo is running a custom version of Sage including an in-development port of the Magma hypergeometric motives (joint work with Frédéric Chapoton); see Sage's trac server. Some features, such as tame and wild primes, are not yet implemented. (For technical reasons, I've also compiled in some other recent modifications; see tickets 23780 and 23784 on trac.)
Here are the associated slides.
from sage.modular.hypergeometric_motive import HypergeometricData as HGData
Change the following parameter to True/False to enable/disable optional consistency checks. The non-optional code can be found gathered into a single function at the bottom of the notebook (which depends on the user-defined functions appearing along the way).
optional = True
Specify hypergeometric data using tuples α=(α1,…,αn),β=(β1,…,βn), plus a prime p. In this demonstration, we insist that β contain no repeated elements nor 0 or 1, and p−1 be divisible by the least common denominator of β. (Loosening the second and third conditions should be relatively easy; the first condition may be somewhat harder.)
H = HGData(alpha_beta=([1/6, 5/6, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8], [1/3, 2/3, 1/12, 5/12, 7/12, 11/12])) alpha, beta = H.alpha_beta() ## these come back sorted p = 37
Set some auxiliary parameters: working precision in p, working precision in t, and desired final precision in p. (I haven't yet checked the calculations to figure out how these parameters should be set in general.)
pprec = 25 tprec = 7*p e = 7
Define a few global variables.
n = len(alpha) K = Qp(p, pprec) R.<t> = LaurentSeriesRing(K, tprec) n = H.degree() # = len(alpha)
Optional: compute the connection matrix N=⎝⎜⎜⎜⎜⎜⎜⎛00⋮0a0−100a1⋯⋱⋯000an−200⋮−1an−1⎠⎟⎟⎟⎟⎟⎟⎞ associated to the hypergeometric differential equation 0=t−11(ti=1∏n(D+αi)−i=1∏n(D+βi−1))(y)=Dn+a0Dn−1+⋯+an−1 where D=tdtd. (Normalization as per Beukers-Heckman, Monodromy for the hypergeometric function nFn−1.)
def companion_matrix(l): n = len(l) matlist = [[0 for j in range(n)] for i in range(n)] for i in range(n-1): matlist[i][i+1] = -1 for i in range(n): matlist[n-1][i] = l[i] return(matrix(matlist)) if optional: pol2.<D> = PolynomialRing(R) diffop = (t*prod(D+a for a in alpha) - prod(D+b-1 for b in beta))/(t-1 + O(t^tprec)) N = companion_matrix(diffop.list()[:-1])
The Clausen-Thomae hypergeometric series nFn−1(β1,…,βn−1α1,…,αn∣∣∣∣∣t)=k=0∑∞(β1)k⋯(βn−1)k(α1)k⋯(αn)kk!zk,(α)k=α(α+1)⋯(α+k−1) has the property that for i=1,…,n, the Puiseux series z1−βinFn−1(β1−βi+1,…,βi−βi+1,…,βn−1−βi+1α1−βi+1,…,αn−βi+1∣∣∣∣∣t) (where βi−βi+1 is omitted; it contributes the k!) is a solution of the hypergeometric equation. Using this, we construct a formal solution matrix U (and its inverse) for which U−1NU+U−1D(U)=N0,N0=Diag(β1−1,…,βn−1); namely, the i-th column of U consists of y,(D+1−βi)(y),…,(D+1−βi)n−1(y) where y is the i-th solution from above with the factor of z1−βi removed (because I don't want to deal with fractional exponents).
from sage.rings.padics.misc import gauss_sum as padic_gauss_sum def D(x,t): return t*x.derivative() def formal_solution_matrix(H, R, tprec, K=QQ): alpha, beta = H.alpha_beta() n = H.degree() l = [] for b in beta: alpha2 = [a2-b+1 for a2 in alpha] beta2 = [b2-b+1 for b2 in beta if b2 != b] tmp = [K(1)] for i in range(1,tprec): tmp.append(tmp[-1] * (prod(a2+i-1 for a2 in alpha2)/prod(b2+i-1 for b2 in beta2)/i)) l.append(R(tmp).add_bigoh(tprec)) # # Aside: I could have done # l.append(ser(hypergeometric(alpha2, beta2, var('x')).series(var('x'), tprec).list()).add_bigoh(tprec)) # but this would have computed the series over Q, which is suboptimal for large p. # matlist = [l] t = R.gen() for i in range(n-1): matlist.append([(1-beta[i])*matlist[-1][i] + D(matlist[-1][i],t) for i in range(n)]) return(matrix(matlist)) U = formal_solution_matrix(H,R,tprec,K) Uinv = U.inverse()
Consistency check: test that we have correctly constructed the formal solution matrix by verifying the equation U−1NU+U−1D(U)=N0.
if optional: test = Uinv * (N*U+U.apply_map(lambda x: D(x,t))) print([test[i][i] == (beta[i] - 1) for i in range(n)])
Compute the (conjectural) Frobenius matrix F0 on the formal solution basis. Note that this matrix must satisfy the commutation relation N0F0−pF0σ(N0)+D(F0)=0. Because the βj are distinct and p−1 is divisible by all denominators, F0 is forced to be diagonal, and the (j,j)-entry must be a scalar multiple of t−p+1+⌊pβj⌋. My conjecture for the scalar, based on the (conjectural) formula for the hypergeometric Euler factor at a prime of bad reduction, is (up to an overall twist) ωp(M(p−1)(1−βi))v∏gp((p−1)(1−βi)v)γv where ωp is the Teichmüller character, M and v↦γv are invariants of the hypergeometric data, and gp(a)=u∈Fp∗∑ωp(u)−aζpu is a Gauss sum. The latter is computed using the Gross-Koblitz formula: for π the root of πp−1=−p for which ζp≡1+π(modπ2), gp(a)=π−aΓp(a/(p−1))(a=0,…,p−2). Here we rely on the fact that (p−1)βj∈Z for all j. If this fails, but the βj are still distinct, then F0 is not scalar but rather a weighted permutation matrix. Things get much more complicated if the βj are not all distinct: for example, for the Dwork quintic family α=(51,52,53,54),β=(0,0,0,0), a calculation of Shapiro shows that F0=⎝⎜⎜⎜⎛p30000p20000p0∗001⎠⎟⎟⎟⎞ where ∗ is a particular nonzero multiple of ζ3. It may be possible to guess the off-diagonal terms in general using ideas of Vologodsky; they should involve p-adic multiple zeta values.
def initial_Frobenius_matrix(H,t,p,pprec=20): alpha, beta = H.alpha_beta() n = H.degree() gauss_list = [padic_gauss_sum(r,p,1,prec=pprec,factored=True) for r in range(p-1)] gamma = H.gamma_array() gamma_prods = [] K = Qp(p,prec=pprec) for j in range(n): s = 1 - beta[j] sg = sum(gauss_list[frac(v*s)*(p-1)][0]*gamma[v] for v in gamma)//(p-1) gamma_prods.append((-1)^sg * K.teichmuller(H.M_value())^(Integer(s*(p-1))) * prod(gauss_list[frac(v*s)*(p-1)][1]^gamma[v] for v in gamma)) m = min(H.zigzag(b) for b in beta) perm = [beta.index(frac(p*b)) for b in beta] # In fact perm is the identity matrix. It is here as a placeholder for dealing with the case # where p-1 need not be divisible by all denominators. return(matrix(n,n,lambda i,j: 0 if i != perm[j] else gamma_prods[j] * p^(H.zigzag(beta[j])-m) * t^(-p+1+floor(p*beta[j])))) F0 = initial_Frobenius_matrix(H,t,p,pprec)
Consistency check: test the commutation relation between the connection matrix and the Frobenius structure N0F0−pF0σ(N0)+D(F0)=0 on the formal solution basis. Note that σ(N0)=N0 because N0 is a scalar matrix.
if optional: N0 = diagonal_matrix([b-1 for b in beta]) test = N0*F0 - p*F0*N0 + F0.apply_map(lambda x: D(x,t)) print(test == 0)
We now compute the Frobenius structure F on the original basis from the identity F0=U−1Fσ(U), where σ denotes the substitution t↦tp.
def sigma(y,p,tprec): R = y.parent() v = y.valuation() l = y.list() l = [(l[i//p] if i%p==0 else 0) for i in range(p*len(l))] return(R(l, p*v).add_bigoh(tprec)) Uinvsig = Uinv.apply_map(lambda x: sigma(x,p,tprec)) F = U * F0 * Uinvsig F = F.apply_map(lambda x: x.add_bigoh(tprec-p))
Consistency check: test the commutation relation between the connection matrix and the Frobenius structure: NF−pFσ(N)+D(F)=0 on the original basis.
if optional: test = N*F - p*F*N.apply_map(lambda x: sigma(x,p,tprec)) + F.apply_map(lambda x: D(x,t)) test = test.apply_map(lambda x: x.truncate(tprec-p)) print(test==0)
Convert the coefficients of the entries of F from Qp to Z/peZ. The fact that this does not raise an error is itself a consistency check, as it confirms some "magical" cancellation of p-adic denominators. (Beware that this might fail for legitimate reasons; for p=13, I get a matrix which is not p-adically integral but still has the right characteristic polynomial. This means that the matrix F0 was off by a conjugation which I am currently unable to predict.)
pe_ring = IntegerModRing(p^e) F_mod_pe = F.apply_map(lambda x: x.change_ring(pe_ring).truncate(tprec-p))
Evaluate F at the Teichmüller lift of some value of t, then take the characteristic polynomial to get the Euler factor at p for the hypergeometric motive in this pencil at parameter t.
t0 = -5 arg = pe_ring(K.teichmuller(t0)) [i(arg).lift_centered() for i in F_mod_pe.charpoly().list()]
Compare with the hypergeometric trace formula of Cohen-Rodriguez Villegas, as implemented in Sage...
H = HGData(alpha_beta=(alpha,beta)) print(H.euler_factor(t0, p))
... and Magma. Note that Magma uses a sign convention whereby what we call t corresponds to an input value of 1/t. (The Magma examples are static because I didn't attempt to set up Magma on CoCalc; they were run elsewhere.)
> H := HypergeometricData([1/6, 5/6, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8], > [1/3, 2/3, 1/12, 5/12, 7/12, 11/12]); > EulerFactor(H, -15, 37); 50653*$.1^6 + 15059*$.1^5 + 3589*$.1^4 + 520*$.1^3 + 97*$.1^2 + 11*$.1 + 1
Beware that we got a bit lucky here: the reduction of F modulo pe is not actually supposed to be in (Z/peZ)[t±], but rather in (Z/peZ)[t±,(tp−1+⋯+1)−1]. We can see this by increasing e. (To extract a higher working precision, we would have to multiply in this factor to get a polynomial, evaluate, then take the extra factor back out.)
F_mod_pe2 = F.apply_map(lambda x: x.change_ring(IntegerModRing(p^(e+2))).truncate(tprec-p)) F_mod_pe2[0][0].degree()
te = F_mod_pe2[0][0].parent().gen() u = sum(te^i for i in range(p)) print (F_mod_pe2[0][0]*u^2).truncate(tprec-p).degree(), tprec-p
Theoretical and computational evidence both suggest that the factor of (tp−1+⋯+1)−1 required to clear denominators modulo pe is e plus a constant. (This e should be thought of as (d−2)e where d is the number of singularities of the connection, which is 3 here. The singularities at 0 and ∞ behave differently from 1 because we are using the Frobenius lift t↦tp which branches over both 0 and ∞.)
If this is confirmed (and we make precise the required working precision in the p-adic and t-adic directions), this indeed gives an algorithm for computing full Euler factors at p with a linear dependence on p. (I suspect there is also an average-polynomial-time variant in the style of Harvey and Harvey-Sutherland.)
Let's repack the preceding code as a function, so we can try more examples. (Beware: if you lift this code, you must also lift the user-defined functions
D, formal_solution_matrix, initial_Frobenius_matrix, sigma from earlier.)
def euler_factor(H,t0,p,pprec=20,tprec=None,e=7): if tprec==None: tprec=7*p K = Qp(p, pprec) R.<t> = LaurentSeriesRing(K, tprec) U = formal_solution_matrix(H,R,tprec,K) Uinv = U.inverse() F0 = initial_Frobenius_matrix(H,t,p,pprec) Uinvsig = Uinv.apply_map(lambda x: sigma(x,p,tprec)) F = U * F0 * Uinvsig F = F.apply_map(lambda x: x.add_bigoh(tprec-p)) pe_ring = IntegerModRing(p^e) F_mod_pe = F.apply_map(lambda x: x.change_ring(pe_ring).truncate(tprec-p)) arg = pe_ring(K.teichmuller(t0)) l = [i(arg).lift_centered() for i in F_mod_pe.charpoly().list()] l.reverse() S.<T> = PolynomialRing(ZZ) return(S(l)) # Did I copy everything correctly? Does this answer look familiar? euler_factor(H,t0,p)
Let's check some more examples against Sage. (I omit the cross-checks against Magma.)
alpha = [1/3, 2/3, 1/12, 5/12, 7/12, 11/12] beta = [1/6, 5/6, 1/10, 3/10, 7/10, 9/10] p = 31 H = HGData(alpha_beta=(alpha,beta)) print euler_factor(H,-5,p) # Only valid mod p^7 print H.euler_factor(-5,p)
alpha = [1/4, 3/4, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8] beta = [1/3, 2/3, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5] p = 31 H = HGData(alpha_beta=(alpha,beta)) print euler_factor(H,-5,p) print H.euler_factor(-5,p)
Let's try a bigger example with the same parameters.
from time import time timer = time() pol = euler_factor(H,-5,331) print pol # Again, only accurate modulo p^7. print(time()-timer)
What about Magma?
> H := HypergeometricData([1/4,3/4,1/8,3/8,5/8,7/8], > [1/3,2/3,1/5,2/5,3/5,4/5]); > time EulerFactor(H, -1/5, 331); Runtime error: p^f is too large
What about Sage? (Don't actually run this, I haven't seen it terminate...)
#from time import time #timer = time() #print H.euler_factor(-5,331) #print(time()-timer)


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As with all things in life, when we are around something for long enough, we can tend to take it for granted. Unfortunately, more often than not the things we should cherish the most, the things that we are around everyday, fall into this trap of entitlement. The family dog. The nice house. Our parents. Our car. Our children. Our spouse. In the fitness industry, the one that jumps out to me, that all of us can take for granted from time to time, is the one that can either make us or break us, and that is quite scary: our client base.
Becoming accustomed to a certain lifestyle, a certain routine, and a certain flow to the workday happens, so it is understandable why one could potentially fall into that trap of entitlement. In the fitness industry, the danger lies in the fact that this could deal a kill shot to your client base, and ultimately, your career, if you are not aware of how to manage your client base, and retain a large portion of it for a very long time. The good news is, as long as we are cognizant of this phenomenon, and work tirelessly to become a better, more thoughtful version of ourselves, the trap of entitlement can largely be avoided, and you can retain the vast majority of your clients, year after year.
In the fitness industry, your "retention rate" is defined by looking at the number of clients that are still with you who you had one year ago today, divided by the total number of clients that you had one year ago today. At Metabolic, we boast an incredibly high retention rate in the fitness industry at over 70%, and here are the Top 3 ways that we do it.
Personal Connections
Maybe it is obvious. Maybe it is isn't. You need to connect with your clients on a deep level. A great way to start is simply knowing their name. Think back to when you were a freshman in high school. I know, I can hardly remember that time either, but bear with me. Remember when the "cool" senior walked by you, gave you a head nod and acknowledged you by name? How good that made you feel? How accepted you immediately felt? Your clients crave that same feeling of acceptance. They are training at your facility because they want to build muscle, burn fat, become more mobile, more conditioned, stronger, etc….but most importantly, they want acceptance. They want to feel like they are a part of something. That they belong somewhere.
In 2019, boutique fitness studios have become like "church" or "temple" for many of us. I mean absolutely no offense to anyone who is extremely religious or may take offense to the comparison, the reality is it is an analogy that hits home for many of us. Whether it is going to church, or going to a boutique fitness studio, we go for a variety of reasons, but the common denominator is by going, we feel better on the inside. Maybe, just maybe, the reason it makes us feel good, is not just the hearing the priest or rabbi speak to us on the weekends, or our favorite coach telling us to go all the way down on a pushup, but it is being around a collective group of people who all have the same, positive mindset of self improvement. We are there to improve both our mental health (and in the gym, our physical health), and when we can do that with our friends, neighbors, and family, that community feel is incredibly hard to duplicate.
But who cultivates that community? Who builds it? Who maintains it? YOU DO. You need to know your clients on an intimate level. You need to know their kids names. What kind of ice cream they like. What kind of pet they have. Where they like to travel on vacation. Where they went to college. Who their favorite NFL team is. What they like to do in their free time. You get the idea.
How many of these questions can you answer about your clients? None? Some? All? If you can answer MOST of these questions, about MOST of your clients, you are well on your way to building a great relationship and rapport with most of them. However, you can't be fake about it. You have to REALLY care. Nobody likes someone who is fake, or who is doing something forced, and newsflash: your clients are smart, they will sniff that bullshit a mile away. You have to care about their lives outside of the gym, about them as people, similar to the way a leader of a religious establishment would.
Connect with your clients, and you will build a community. Build a community, and you will build something more powerful, durable, and sustainable than you could ever possibly imagine.
Challenge them daily
Bruce Lee had a great quote that I think applies to fitness extraordinarily well:
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but the man who practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Think about this. Let it sink in.
Excellence does not revolve around variety. It revolves around mastery.
Unfortunately, as fitness professionals, we face an army of people who crave variety, who feel like EVERY workout needs to be SO unique in order to see progress. At Metabolic, our clients have gotten a taste for my training philosophy. I believe in utilizing the safest, most effective movements, and milking them for all they are worth. Sure, variety in the way the exercises appear in a routine is fun, but ultimately, what really works, what really gets people stronger, more muscle, and the results they seek, is the ability to progress at the basic movement patterns: hinging, squatting, lunging, pushing, pulling, and carrying.
Take the push-up. I am guessing I have done literally hundreds of thousands of push-ups in my life. Until this year, I had never heard the cue "pull your hands together while you press up"…WOW…my pecs were on fire. I had never done this, or been told to do this, in all my years working out. I had discovered a way to challenge myself, and to continue evolving, refining, and progressing on the most basic of movements.
Don't succumb to your clients and feel pressured to do 10,000 new movements every single week. Sprinkle some in to keep the programing fresh and exciting, but remember, there is no substance to fancy, technically advanced exercises. Soon, the well will run dry, and unless you can master the ability to challenge people every single day on even the most fundamental of movement patterns, your client base will run dry as well.
Work with people on mastering their squat technique, even after class. If someone has upper cross syndrome, teach them how to do prone cobras at home, or in the office between phone calls. The day your clients think they have this fitness thing "figured out" is the day you don't have a client anymore, so it is in your best interest to become a true student of the proper biomechanics, a stickler for detail, and a cookie dough consumer.
Cookie dough consumer? Remember when you mom made cookies as a kid, and let you lick the spatula? Did you leave a morsel on that spatula, or did you lap up every last bit of delicious goodness before you set it down? The pushup is the spatula, and there is a LOT of cookie dough on it. Don't let it go to waste.
Give them an amazing experience.
I once heard a very interesting statistic: only 5% of people actually like working out. I don't know where I heard it, but it stuck to me like glue because quite frankly, it scared the crap out of me. In the fitness industry, we are all competing for a measly 5% of the population, because at the end of the day, those are the people that are going to stay with us, year after year. Scary stuff, huh?
But then I thought more about it. WHY don't people like working out? Well, ok, it hurts, I get that. If you put it that way, I don't particularly love working out either. I like working out because I love building muscle, getting stronger, and the way it makes me feel. I also love working out because I can do a painful set of Bulgarian Split Squats o Superthug by Noreaga, and relive my late teens/early 20's, and let's face it, anything you do in life is less painful when can revisit those days.
I have worked out in training sessions where a particular coach knows what song I want to hear, what people I want to be positioned next to, or exactly what words and tactics will motivate me to bring my best. I am corrected in a way that I respond to. I have the feeling that for a fleeting moment, I am the only person in the room being trained by that coach. And you know what? THAT is a phenomenal experience that I would come back for, time and time again.
Do you think about each one of your clients experiences in your program? Do you partner them with people they want to train with? Do you position them in a group that does not make them feel self conscious or defeated? Do you give them a smile and nod from across the room when a song they love comes on? Do you speak to them in a way that you know resonates with them? All of these things can have a tremendous impact on the overall experience your clients have at your facility, and ultimately your ability to provide each and every client with a unique experience that they truly appreciate is what separates the "good from the great." Give your clients a great experience, one that cannot be replicated anywhere else, and you will never have to worry about replacing them.
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Mamata Banerjee to Lead Protests Against Demonetization
Common people and opposition parties in India are up in arms against the Modi government because the decision to stop the circulation of currency is causing severe hardships to commoners.
By Rakesh Raman
As millions of people in India are suffering because of the demonetization scheme of the government, it has become the biggest humanitarian crisis in independent India.
While most opposition parties have been debating in Parliament on the issue, it has not deterred the government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is mocking at the human sufferings.
However, it is not possible to dethrone Modi and get rid of his government because the Indian political system is totally flawed and people will have to tolerate his dictatorship till 2019 when the next Lok Sabha election would take place.
[ Modi's Monarchy: Banks in India Refuse to Pay People's Money ]
Meanwhile, the Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee has taken the right step to take her protest to streets so that Modi's nefarious designs could be fully exposed. Only the sustained street protests – on the lines of India's freedom struggle – can save Indians from Modi's cruelty.
Earlier, Vijayan Pinarayi of Kerala had become the first Chief Minister to sit on dharna to protect the people from the Modi government's anti-people demonetization policy.
Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she would stage a dharna in Delhi on Wednesday and appealed to other opposition parties to take to streets to protest the move.
[ Demonetization Deaths: Communist Party Demands Obituary in Parliament ]
"I will stage a protest at Jantar Mantar at 1230 hrs and I appeal to other (opposition) parties to register their protests on the roads on demonetization which has caused hardship to the common people," Mamata Banerjee said.
She also attacked Modi for "failing" to bring back black money from abroad. "BJP (Modi's party) will be nowhere after the elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh," she said.
In her Parliament speech, another political leader Mayawati also said that Modi and his party BJP will pay a heavy price for the imposition of 'Financial Emergency' in the country. She said that BJP will lose the upcoming assembly elections in five states and also the Lok Sabha election of 2019.
According to Mamata Banerjee, the Narendra Modi government is taking away the hard earned money of the common people. She added that her party Trinamool Congress would hit the streets in Kolkata against demonetization on Wednesday when she will be in Delhi.
[ Demonetization May Ring Death Knell for Narendra Modi ]
Mamata Banerjee had also said on Monday that she would address a protest meeting in Lucknow on November 29 and also go to Bihar and Punjab to campaign against Modi's policies.
Modi had demonetized currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 on November 8, saying that the step has been taken to check corruption and stop the flow of black money.
Common people and opposition parties in India are up in arms against the Modi government because the decision to stop the circulation of currency is causing severe hardships to commoners.
This war-like situation is causing deaths of innocent people who keep standing in queues even in harsh weather with the hope to get their old currency exchanged from banks.
By Rakesh Raman, who is a government award-winning journalist and social scientist. You also can visit the REAL VOTER – Politics in India Information Center that he manages.
Photo courtesy: All India Trinamool Congress
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Sales Talk
Science Fiction Story: To live different and exciting lives, all I had to do was sign here--and give up my own life!
Tags: Science Fiction Novel-Classic
Looking out the window, I saw them crossing the court toward the building--two of them. One, the taller with yellow hair, was carrying a flat, expensive briefcase, and the other, of course, was carrying the large square box that contained the Sim.
The buzzer sounded, announcing them at the door, and I opened it with mixed feelings. I wasn't sure myself how I would act and--well, you hear so many stories about EL, and this was really my first contact with them.
They were standing out in front, looking just like a couple of door-to-door salesmen. And that's just what they were, even if they were called Electro Medical Consultants. Just a fancy name for salesmen.
They were very neat in appearance, just as good salesmen should be. Their hats looked new and so did their shoes.
"Ah, Mr. Gaines," said the yellow-haired one, sticking out his neatly manicured but definitely masculine hand, "I'm very happy to meet you, sir." His grin could only be described as sincerely boyish.
"Come in," I said, feeling like smiling back, so effectively pleasant were their grins. "Come in and sit down, won't you?"
So they came in, doffing their hats, and sat down in two chairs that I ordinarily didn't use. They seemed to know instinctively which was my favorite chair. Oh, they were smooth!
"Now, Mr. Gaines," said the light-haired man, "perhaps I should start off with a little introduction all around and a short explanation of what Electronic Living can mean to you."
No one had mentioned EL up to that point, yet they knew without a doubt that I had correctly identified them. Talk about confidence--it was like a physical force in the room.
"I'm Jake Long and this is Arnie Blik," said the light-haired one, rising and gripping my hand with a warm, dry, just right handshake.
"Pleased to meet you," said Blik, gripping my hand in turn with an identical warm, dry, just right handshake.
"I'm going to ask you for a bit of your time," said Long, "and I certainly hope you can grant us a few minutes without too much inconvenience."
I murmured something about having plenty of time. That was a laugh, and he and I both knew it. I had so little to do, I almost welcomed them just for sheer entertainment value.
"Well, that's fine," said Long, "but rest assured we aren't going to try to waste any of your time. We intend to make it short and sweet, as they say." He did such a good job of keeping up the fiction of me being a busy man that I almost believed it myself.
"You probably know more about Electronic Living than I do," he said, and I felt for an instant that I did, "but we'll go over it anyway just so you understand me a little better. You'll remember back in 1958-1959 there was a lot of work done--or I should say a beginning made--in developing an electronic eye for people who had lost their eyesight. This was a start of Electronic Living in its crudest form. These early pioneers, using what little knowledge was available of the brain then, were actually able to insert a probe in the brain and enable the blind person to 'see' light. At first it was just the difference between light and dark, but after a while they did develop a kind of vision--and then finally, after much work, the system grew into actual electronic vision.
"This was, as I said, the start of Electronic Living because it advanced the basic premise that the brain can utilize outside electrical impulses for its own purposes. And of course it wasn't long before some experimenters had rigged up a human television receiver. What they did was set up a series of brain probes which were directly connected to a small television receiving apparatus, and the subject could then 'see' the broadcast image without the use of his eyes.
"Since this rough beginning, we at EL have done a lot of work, and we are now able to reproduce every sort of physical sensation known to man through electronic brain connections.
"And recently, as a further refinement, we have been able to capture internal brain voltages and use them to reproduce thoughtlike sensations. Unfortunately, these are still in the realm of strong emotions and not true thoughts, but they are extremely effective.
"Now, it is this combination of physical sensation voltages and internal brain voltages, when fed into your brain from a simple tape like this, that produces what we call Electronic Living."
With that he pulled a piece of tape out of his pocket as if producing an elephant from a thimble.
Arnie Blik hadn't said a word up to this point. He had hung on every word his partner uttered as though it were all new to him. Now he took up the song.
"May I ask if you've ever experienced Electric Living?" he asked.
"No," I said. I really had once or twice, but I figured it was none of his business.
"Ah. Well, if you have no objection, I'd like to use this Simulator here for a few minutes and give you a bare idea of what's going on in Electronic Living today."
"Sure," I said. "Go right ahead."
Blik opened up the Sim and fished out a hat that was shaped much like a medieval knight's helmet, except that it had a couple of big fat wires connected to it at the back.
"Just a moment while I tune it in," Blik said, lowering the helmet part way over his head. He closed his eyes and began fiddling with a series of small knots and buttons which were mounted inside the case. Finally he took it off his head and approached me, carrying this ridiculous helmet like it was a crown on a velvet pillow.
"You will be experiencing a basketball player," he said, and plopped it down over my head.
When the helmet came down, there was a momentary blank period, and then suddenly I was a basketball player who was playing a fast professional game. I was good, or should say he was? He felt exultation because his team was ahead and he'd put them there with a difficult shot. I could feel the pounding of his heart and the strain of his chest as he gulped in huge quantities of air. His eyes ranged around the court, following his teammates and opponents.
It was something, all right, but not everything, because on top of the sensations and emotions of the basketball player, I was getting another series of feelings and emotion which were my own.
Superimposed on the other players on the court was the image of my own living room with the two men watching me. Over the smell of sweat of the basketball players came the odor of my apartment. Above the sensation of running, jumping and colliding with other players was the sensation of sitting in my favorite chair with a weight on my head.
In short, I was two people at one time.
Even the emotions of the basketball player--joy at making a basket, a flare of rage at a rough opponent, and the surge of hope that a teammate would come through--were clouded over with my own emotions of not completely accepting as right the whole concept of EL, coupled with the feeling that I didn't want to show any reaction in front of the EL men.
After a short time, Blik removed the Sim, and the basketball player's Life Experience faded away. The two EL men looked at me expectantly.
"Hmmm," I said, forcing myself to appear neutral. They did not seem to be disappointed by my reaction or lack of it.
"Quite an experience, wasn't it?" said Blik, putting the Sim down on the floor. "Of course you realize that you don't get the full effect because you actually have two primary sets of electric images going into the brain. We never have been able to overcome the subject's own real physical and mental sensation with a device that works outside the skull."
"But I'm sure Mr. Gaines gets the idea," said Long.
"I'm sure I do," I said. The damn thing was plenty intriguing, but somehow, despite all its good points, I wasn't really sold on it.
"Perhaps you'd be interested in the kind of thing we have programmed for our EL subscribers," said Long with a kindly smile. "If you are someone who likes active sports, we can give you an evening of that kind of thing. We don't program sports in the daytime or early evening because it interferes with the regular sports consumers, but it's nice to have later on in the evening if you like it."
I nodded in what I hoped was a cold manner.
"Perhaps you'd like the milieu built up around a hard-working farmer or laborer for a daytime program. A certain amount of physical labor which is coupled with a strong emotion of accomplishment and pride. An excellent milieu and one of our most popular currently."
"Very interesting," I said noncommitally, intrigued in spite of myself.
Then it was Blik's turn. "If you are interested in the social type of thing, we have several new milieus that fit right in with this sort of thing. I can recall one of a formal dinner party which has strong emotional connotations of well-being and a sense of--grandeur--yes, grandeur in the old meaning of the word. And in this same milieu it is possible to get the bon-vivant type of thing. You know, the raconteur who is a real spellbinder. That has a strong emotion of ego-fulfillment."
"Very interesting," I said again, "but it doesn't quite fill the bill as far as I'm--"
"Arnie, we've been overlooking the obvious," said Long. "Mr. Gaines is looking more for the intellectual type of Life Experience. Now, I recall one of a sculptor which has a fine feel to it. Extremely intellectual and yet artistically creative, if you know what I mean. And then there's an extremely thrilling milieu dealing with a symphony conductor in which there is an absolute physical thrill that is audio-inspired. Just the thing for anyone who is an audiophile, I'd say."
I had to admit that it was beginning to sound more appealing all the time and I found myself wondering just which Life Experience one would pick first if he were to go EL.
"Of course," said Blik, with a manly grin, "we have the thing we call our 'playboy milieu' which is strictly a sensual sort of a thing. It often appeals rather strongly to new subscribers, although I have to warn you that it soon becomes an Experience which palls on you."
He almost had me with that one, because after all I have normal male curiosity and all that, and naturally it's always these "playboy milieus" that you hear the most about among people who are non-EL subscribers. Yes, for a minute or two there, I was teetering on the brink, but my better sense did ultimately win out and I could feel the emotion of resistance welling up inside me.
"Well, actually, gentlemen, it isn't a case of not finding the right milieu, because I'm sure you have anything that I could ever want. It's more on philosophical grounds that I find that I hesitate to go along with Electronic Living," I said boldly. Just saying it gave me a tremendous lift.
"Ah," said Long, looking at the ceiling and making a tent of his fingers in front of his chest. "I always enjoy talking with a man who has a philosophical bent. In fact," he said, unfolding the tent and leaning close to me and lowering his voice a little, "it's the one big pleasure I get out of this job."
"I'm afraid that I have to agree with you there, Jack," said Blik, digging his toe into the rug in a distinctly boyish manner.
"Why don't you sort of fill us in on your thinking, Mr. Gaines?" urged Long.
"Well," I said, feeling warm under the collar and allowing my hand to tremble slightly with emotion as I got into what I now realized was the meat of my resistance to EL. "Well, let's take it from the word go. If I sign up with you now, I'll go down to the Electronic Living Center tomorrow or the next day and they'll take me into an operating room and put some tiny probes into my brain, and aside from a momentary twinge or two, I won't feel a thing. And then when it's over I'll walk out of the room looking just the way I did before, except that I'll have a neat little connection mounted high on the left side of my head where it can be tastefully covered with hair when not in use.
"And I'll probably come back to this apartment to find the Electronic Living Machine installed in that corner, tastefully decorated to look like an old-fashioned antique bookcase, or a modern bar, or whatever I want it to look like. But whatever it looks like, there will be a comfortable chair unobtrusively attached to the ELM and sooner or later I'll sit down in that chair and read over the list of Life Experiences and select one.
"Then I'll sink back in the chair and the little connection on my head will fit neatly into another little connection on the chair, because my chair will fit only me, and it will fit me perfectly.
"And then, while I drift off to EL-land, the chair will unfold around me so that all sight and sound and almost all feeling will disappear and I'll be like a chrysalis in a cocoon.
"So for two or three or eight hours I'll stay inside the cocoon, living another person's life. And while I'm in there, everyone will be sighing a sigh of relief that here is another potential producer who has finally given up the ghost and turned consumer.
"Then when the tape is through, the cocoon will open and I'll wake up tired or refreshed or satiated or somehow changed, and then I'll get out to the food center and dial a meal or call someone up, or go out and walk around or something."
I was really getting wound up, but Long broke in on me. "Tell me a little more," he said, "about that one idea, will you? You know, the idea about how you will give up being a producer and will be all consumer?"
"I was just coming to that," I said hotly. "Yes, they'll probably enroll my name on the EL subscribers roll with a big cheer, and all my non-EL friends will hear about it and they'll raise their eyebrows, or maybe they'll sign up too.
"But the point is this. Is it right for me, a big, strong, healthy human being with powers of perception and reasoning and a capability for work and creativeness--is it right for me to substitute this dream world of EL for actual real thinking, or doing, or creating? Do any of us have the right to subvert our normal impulses for creation and for living in this way?"
"A good question," said Long with a sigh. "I'm afraid he's put it in pretty unanswerable terms, all right. Except for one minor point, I couldn't help but agree with everything he said, in spite of the fact that I--well, I'm sold on EL, naturally."
We sat for a while just sort of gazing around at nothing.
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Mr Davison, the Assistant Headteacher is responsible for attendance at school. He works with Mrs Hudson, our attendance officer to monitor pupil attendance.
Mrs Jo Smith is the allocated Education Welfare Office for Dane Royd. Every half term she tracks the attendance data for all pupils, she specifically looks at children whose attendance is below 90%- this is called as persistence absence.
The EWO may request that the school sends a letter to parents regarding pupil attendance, she may decide to call a meeting with parents or proceed to issuing a fine if children continue to have persistent absence.
Nursery: (half day)
Morning: 8:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Afternoon: 12:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Main School :
Doors open at 8.40am
Morning: 8:50 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Afternoon: 1:05 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Morning Break: 10:35 a.m. to 10:55 a.m.
Lunch Break: 12:05 p.m. to 1:05 p.m.
Attendance Matters
Parents are asked to ensure that their children arrive at school promptly for the start of the school session, this includes Nursery. In the event of any delay then the school secretary should be informed on the child's arrival at school, parents will be asked to enter the pupils details on our electronic register system. If parents are unable to collect their child from school then a telephone message to inform the school of those substituting for the parent is necessary.
Should any child be unable to attend school for any reason then parents are asked to inform the school as soon as possible, by 10am at the latest by using one of the following methods:
1. Telephone the School - 01924 242917
2. Send a letter to the class teacher or Headteacher.
3. Call at the school personally.
Holidays in Term Time
Due to a change in legislation by the Government which came into force from September 2013 the school has been required to change its policy of granting up to 10 days holidays in term time due to 'special circumstances'.
The amendments made by the Department for Education mean that the law does not give any entitlement to parents to take their child on holiday during term time. Any application for leave must be in 'exceptional circumstances' and the headteacher must be satisfied that the circumstances warrant the granting of leave.
According to the new legislation, parents can be fined for taking their child on holiday during term time without consent from the school. The Local Authority is responsible for this, not the school.
The Governing Body updated the school policy to reflect the new legislation for term time holidays in conjunction with local schools. As a result from Septemeber 2013 the school is unable to authorise term time holidays. Any holiday taken during term time will be recorded as an unauthorised absence, unless it meets the criteria for 'exceptional circumstances'.
Exceptional circumstances would include armed forces set holidays and fixed annual leave by employers.
If any parent would like to discuss this further please contact Miss Kelly in school or the Education Welfare Officer on Tel: 01924 307 467.


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Last year was the first year I had kids in soccer. I volunteered to coach the under six team. This year the minor soccer association in our town was in danger of folding and a desperate plea went out to ask for volunteers. I helped with three of the four registrations, volunteered to coach under six again and somehow ended up vice president of the minor soccer association. WOW.
Soccer was scheduled to start on Tuesday night. On Monday the president sent me a text message to say she was not going to be able to attend and was going to drop everything off to me on Tuesday at work.
She came and gave me all of the lists for each of the coaches of the kids on each team. (I think the coaches NEED to have this info before the night they are showing up the first night to coach but maybe that's for me to work on for next near?!)
I went early to the first field where the under four and under six teams start. I put up colours on each goal post and then I hung up lists in the same colours on the fence for people to see. If their kids name was on a yellow sheet they went to the yellow goal etc. It was MUCH better than last year when all 100 plus kids showed up and went from field to field to see if their kid was on that pitch.
Last year I started to practise right away and so parents who saw I was actually playing with kids already all just came and put their kid on my field and I had a WHACK of kids that were not mine for the first few weeks. At least THAT was an improvement over last year.
The president had apparently told people that they could still register on the field the first night and so people were showing up to register and pay and I had NO help at ALL to take money, put kids on to teams equally AND coach at the same time. I started my kids with help of a parent to watch them and tried to finish up registration. I think it is a BIG mistake to take registration on the field especially when we had FOUR registrations before hand and they were advertised in the paper, and on the town notice board AND with sandwich boards on main street (also a change for next year!)
THEN (and this is the real kick in the teeth) A lady showed up to put her kid into the under four team and her name was on the board as a coach. She said " I never volunteered to be a coach!"
I have NO idea why the president just put names down as coaches and never bothered to confirm with people that they were doing it. It is VERY intimidating to parents, especially parents who have no knowledge of soccer to be thrown in like that and I felt HORRIBLE.
I found an older boy who plays lots to coach the u-4 for Monday and he said he would do it every week and the mom said she would be happy to help him but she had not signed up to be a coach, nor had anyone called her to let her know she was coaching. It was the president who put all the lists together and I just assumed she had contacted everyone?
I managed to get everything sorted and get some time with my little group of under sixes, then the time ended and the under eights started to arrive and I had 15 minutes to get them sorted AND get to the next field to get the lists to the coaches of the under ten teams and lo and behold a dad walks over to me and says - my wife's name is on that board to be a coach and she is not even here tonight. He had sent her a text message and she said she didn't volunteer OR have anyone call her! We have two under 8 teams and the one guy showed up with his son from college to coach the one team and they agreed to take all the kids and coach them all together which was a HUGE relief but I still had people coming to register. I got through as fast as I could, I didn't write anyone a receipt but told them I would get to them later. I went as fast as I could to the school to the under ten field and got the coaches there the lists and did the late registrations and had a few minutes to breathe. The man who came to coach the one under ten teams was on my list as being the coach of the under 16 team and so I asked him about it and he said...... wait for it.... no-one had asked him to coach the under 16 team and he has a son on the under ten team and so that was where he wanted to be! Shocker of all shockers.
I now had no coach for the under 16 team!
I went over to the fields where the under 14 and under 16 teams were, and took registrations for the under 14 team. There are very few under 16 kids to play - not even enough to field one team - and they said they would just play together and they were all thinking of car pooling and going to Peace River teams anyway, so they were good for the night just to kick some balls around alone.
So we waited and waited and waited for the under 14 coach to show up and I finally called her but only got her message machine. I left a message to let her know we were at the field waiting and a minute later she called me back and said........... No-one had called her to let her know that she was supposed to start coaching Tuesday night! She said she would be there on Thursday. So I stayed and coached the under 14 kids for an hour and a half so that they could play. (she wasn't able to be there on Thursday as it turns out and then the following Tuesday called me to say she was willing to be an assistant coach but not coach the team full time and alone. This has yet to be resolved.)
On Wednesday I spoke to the president VERY briefly and took all the stuff back to her and she asked why I wasn't writing receipts as I was getting money :(


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The New York Red Bulls return home for the second leg against Columbus Crew SC, needing a win in order to advance in the MLS Cup Playoffs.
Even though the club didn't get the result they sought after in Columbus, Head Coach Chris Armas is still confident, being that the team will be back at Red Bull Arena, where they've won 14 times during the regular season.
"The dialogue within the team is that going into the game we are really confident, because at home over the 21 games we have played with Open Cup and Champions League, it is a really good winning record at home," Head Coach Chris Armas said. "The guys have a lot of confidence, we could see that today."
Defender Tim Parker, who almost scored a goal against Columbus, but was denied by the post, also talked about the confidence the team has going back home, where they've had so much success.
"Some people might look at it as a bad result to lose the first game on the road, but all in all it is not that bad of a result, especially with how strong we are at home, it is not a bad result to go down 1-0 and have the game put on our terms at home now," Tim Parker said.
After allowing a goal in Columbus, preventing Columbus from scoring a goal at Red Bull Arena will be crucial in the Red Bulls quest of advancing to the next round.
"You don't want to give up that away goal," Parker said. "For us, we never really want to give up goals anyway, it is just a mindset of coming in doing all the right things we need to do at home to make sure we get the positive result."
Parker also mentioned how the entire team spoke about what needs to be done come Sunday and how everyone is mentally in a good place.
"It's good," Parker said. "We had a meeting this morning about just speaking about our confidence and about what our mindsets are like, what our goals should be like, and how we are going to vision ourselves this entire week to set ourselves up for success on Sunday."


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After the most recent Fallout 76 update, some players have come back to the game to find that their Power Armor is missing. The update attempted to improve Power Armor, but it seems it has caused more issues than it solved. Thankfully, the Fallout 76 Power Armor gone bug isn't affecting all players, and only seems to have hit a smaller amount of users. Nonetheless, for those players, this is a devastating bug, as Power Armor takes a long time to build and upgrade. If you were affected by the Power Armor bug, then you're probably wondering if there is a way to get your Power Armor back. Let's take a look.
Fallout 76 Power Armor Gone | How to fix the Power Armor gone bug
The latest Fallout 76 update was attempting to address some bugs with Power Armor and stated in the patch notes that some players "may notice your Power Armor pieces have moved into your inventory or Stash." While this is true for some players, it seems that others are missing pieces of their suit. One Reddit user, u/Lordofappalacia, has taken to the Fallout 76 subreddit to ask Bethesda what it plans to do about the missing Power Armor. So far, not Bethesda employee has commented on the post.
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With that said, one Reddit user did receive a response from a Bethesda employee; however, they didn't offer any solutions to the missing Armor. For now, it looks like there isn't really much players can do if they are missing some Power Armor. Thankfully, it seems that only a few players are missing all of their Armor, and most are just missing a couple of parts here or there.
At the time of this writing, there has been no official comment by Bethesda about the Fallout 76 Power Armor gone bug, but hopefully developers will be able to find a fix in the near future and address the issue relatively soon. In the meantime, if you're missing Power Armor, one Reddit user is offering free mod upgrades.


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What I Learned. WhatILearned.com. Breaking News and Stories from around the globe.
The scientists captured the acrobatic jumps of a tiny maggot-like creature with high-speed cameras to figure out how it does this trick with no arms, legs, or wings.
(Image credit: Reproduced/adapted with permission of Journal of Experimental Biology, Farley, G. M., Wise, M. J., Harrison, J. S., Sutton, G. P., Kuo, C. and Patek, S. N., 2019, Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 222, doi:10.1242/jeb.201129)


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B.G.E. Service & Supply Ltd. - Air Systems Sales Engineer (Product & Technical Specialist)
Status: Closed
Location: Edmonton or Calgary, AB
Air Systems Sales Engineer (Product and Technical Specialist)
B.G.E. Service & Supply Ltd. is growing and needs to add an Air Systems Sales Engineer to their Edmonton or Calgary location. At BGE, they don't just supply a filter or installation; they solve air filtration problems for their clients that other companies will not or cannot manage.
As the Air Systems Sales Engineer, you will report to the VP of Sales and be responsible for developing sales and promoting BGE products. Your success will be measured in a variety of ways including stronger pipeline development for capital projects, better sales results for the entire front-line sales team, and by helping BGE continue to lead the industry in innovation, and by increasing their market share.
As the incumbent, you will excel with:
- Driving sales for capital project products through a strategic approach to identification, mapping, and development.
- Providing technical expertise to develop best in class filtration solutions for customers and develop business relationships in various markets while educating customers on the importance of quality filtration;
- Enhancing and potentially developing new product and service offerings; and
- Acting as a subject matter resource expert to BGE's team of front-line Account Managers for business development.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be local and from either the Edmonton or Calgary area community.
- Be an Engineer (P.Eng.) with a technical mindset and an outstanding interpersonal skillset, coupled with the ability to identify, target and maximize business development opportunities. Equivalent education and/or relevant experience will be considered.
- Be highly self-motivated and have a minimum of 5 years' experience in Industrial Sales with HVAC or related industrial experience along with a mechanical aptitude.
- Be engaging. You have a proven ability to develop successful, strategic, working relationships with customers, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Be a time-management ninja! You have impeccable organizational and prioritizing skills. You always land on your feet and are adaptable to the needs of both the business and customers.
Overnight travel will be expected for up to 20% of the time to customer field locations, as well as for training in Canada and the US.
Contact Steven Davidson, either at 780.665.4965, ext. 104 or via email to firstname.lastname@example.com to receive a detailed position profile for this role and to give us the opportunity to know more about yourself and how you will fit into the role and into BGE's organization.


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Grab your bundles of joy
Have your fill this weekend. You can get bottomless bundles of spins every time you top up! Keep coming back for 10 EXTRA SPINS all weekend long
Go for a spin…
1) Select the spins bundle in the Cashier
2) Make a deposit of £10 or more
3) Your 10 spins will be credited instantly!
This offer is available all weekend long, so keep depositing for unlimited extra spins.
You have until Sunday 10th February to secure your spins.