It's pretty hard for me to get to professional class these days. Gone are the days when I would get up at a crazy hour, pay a crazy fare to London and participate in the glorious ritual of professional class at The Place or GDA. I do miss those days terribly, but at the same time my style of learning has changed, just as my lifestyle has changed.
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Whenever I have gone through a life change although I fight it, I always end up learning invaluable stuff – stuff that inevitably contributes to my life and work (same thing, yeah?). For instance participating in numerous baby sensory workshops this year. The look of horror on my son's face as; bubbles, snowballs, glitter, noises and big fluffy bunnies are thrown his way has made me re look and re invent our Stopgap sensory workshops for SEN schools. Learning online instead of in the studio has given me time to think about Stopgap's online classes.
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Replay really helps us support those dancers who in the past have had to rely on 'Steps' videos to learn their moves. Now they can still practice in their living room but with role models who can give alternatives as well as inspiration.
I love my morning yoga session with Adrienne – it really works, you have time to explore, time to pause, it feels private yet you are part of a community and most importantly it's accessible, because it fits into my lifestyle. After learning on line for a year, I can see Replay needs some serious input in order for it to be really useful to people, something that we hope to be looking into very soon. The dancers are already pushing round ideas in the studio – online fitness, yoga, Franklin (inclusive of course), sharing of methods, tricks and a live stream of class.
If you have any thoughts on what you'd like to see from Stopgap with regards to our online dance classes, get in contact ([email protected]) – we want to build that community. And here is the link to Replay itself.


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Professor Sylvia Chant, Department of Geography, London School of Economics
Dr Julio Davila, Development Planning Unit, UCL
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Dr Sunil Kumar, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics
Dr Deborah Potts, Department of Geography, King�s College London
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Q: Evaluate $\lim_{x\to 0^+}\left(\frac{\sin x}{x}\right)^{\frac{1}{x}}$ I need to find the following limit: $$\lim_{x\to 0^+}\left(\frac{\sin x}{x}\right)^{\frac{1}{x}}$$
I started this way: $$\left(\frac{\sin x}{x}\right)^{\frac{1}{x}}=e^{\frac{1}{x}\cdot \ln\left[\frac {\sin x}{x}\right]}$$
So it's enough to find: $$\lim_{x\to 0^+}\frac{\ln(\frac {\sin x}{x})}{x}$$
I tried to use L'Hôpital's rule but it got me nowhere. Any ideas?

A: Hints:

*

*Write
$$\left(\frac{\sin x }{x} \right)^\frac{1}{x} = \exp\left( \frac{1}{x} \ln \left(\frac{\sin x }{x} \right)\right).$$

*$\exp$ is continuous, $\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{\sin x }{x}=1$ and $\ln 1=0$.

*Evaluate $\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{1}{x} \ln \left(\frac{\sin x }{x} \right)$ by using L'Hospital.

For step 3 use $$\ln \left(\frac{\sin x }{x} \right)' =\frac{\cos x}{\sin x} - \frac{1}{x} = \frac{x\cos x - \sin x}{x \sin x}.$$
For $x\to 0+$ we have an expression like $0/0$ again. Now apply L'Hospital again:
$$\lim_{x\to 0+}\frac{x\cos x-\sin x}{x\sin x}=\lim_{x\to 0+}\frac{(\cos x-x\sin x)-\cos x}{\sin x+x\cos x}=-\lim_{x\to 0+}\frac{x\sin x}{\sin x+x\cos x}$$
$$=-\lim_{x\to 0+}\frac{\sin x+x\cos x}{\cos x+(\cos x-x\sin x)}=-\lim_{x\to 0+}\frac{\sin x+x\cos x}{2\cos x-x\sin x}=0.$$

So we get
  $$ \lim_{x\to 0+} \left(\frac{\sin x }{x} \right)^\frac{1}{x}= \lim_{x\to 0+} \exp\left( \frac{1}{x} \ln \left(\frac{\sin x }{x} \right)\right) = \exp \left( \lim_{x\to 0+} \ln \left(\frac{\sin x }{x}\right) \right) = \exp 0 =1.$$

A: Using Taylor polynomials,
$$
\frac1x\,\log\frac {\sin x}x=\frac1x\,\log (1-O (x^2))=O (x)\to0.
$$

A: Using the big-O notation in its common sense,
$$\sin x = x + O(x^3),$$
whence
$$\ln(\frac {\sin x}x)=\ln\frac{x+O(x^3)}x=\ln(1+O(x^2))=O(x^2).$$

A: Since $f(x)=e^x$ is a continuous function, we obtain:
$$\lim_{x\to 0^+}\left(\frac{\sin{x}}{x}\right)^{\frac{1}{x}}=\lim_{x\to 0^+}\left(1+\frac{\sin{x}}{x}-1\right)^{\frac{1}{\frac{\sin{x}}{x}-1}\frac{\frac{\sin{x}}{x}-1}{x}}=e^{\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{\sin{x}-x}{x^2}}=1$$
Because $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{\sin{x}-x}{x^2}=\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{\cos{x}-1}{2x}=0$

A: There is an interesting massive overkill: we may prove that in a right neighbourhood of the origin we have
$$1-\frac{x^2}{6}\leq\frac{\sin x}{x}\leq \exp\left(-\frac{x^2}{6}\right) \tag{1}$$
hence the wanted limit is trivially $\exp(0)=1$. By the Weierstrass product for the sine function:
$$ \log\left(\frac{\sin x}{x}\right) = \sum_{n\geq 1}\log\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\pi^2 n^2}\right)\leq\sum_{n\geq 1}-\frac{x^2}{\pi^2 n^2}=-\frac{\zeta(2)}{\pi^2}x^2=-\frac{x^2}{6}\tag{2} $$
and we are done, since the inequality on the left of $(1)$ just follows from the Taylor series of $\text{sinc}(x)$.

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October 16, 2018 Bill Bodell	Leave a comment
The Patriots are coming off their most impressive victory of the season defeating the now formerly undefeated Kansas City Chiefs and second-year phenom quarterback Patrick Mahomes by a score of 43-40. Even with the close score and game-winning field goal by Stephen Gostkowski as time expired, the game never seemed as close as the score made it out to be.
The Patriots got out to a big lead in the first half taking a 24-9 lead in to halftime. Mahomes got off to a rocky start and looked like the bright lights of playing against Tom Brady and Bill Belichick in Gillette Stadium in primetime with the whole country watching may have been too much for him. Mahomes missed some easy passes that led to three Kansas City first half field goals, as well as a first quarter interception that went directly to Patriots linebacker Dont'a Hightower. For the Patriots the offense seemed to click almost from the very start. After turning the ball over on downs following a missed fourth down conversion on the offense's first possession of the game, the Patriots scored on four straight possessions which included two Sony Michel rushing touchdowns and Julian Edelman's first receiving touchdown of the season in his second game back returning from his four-game suspension.
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The Chiefs came out firing in the second half and put on an offensive clinic much like they have all season. On the Chiefs first possession of the third quarter Mahomes connected with running back Kareem Hunt for a 67-yard touchdown after beating Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty down the sideline, a play that game Patriots fans flashbacks of last season's opener against Kansas City where Hunt ran free all over the Patriots defense in his NFL debut. While the Chiefs offense came out hot, the Patriots came out quite the opposite only putting up three points in the third quarter. It appeared that the Patriots and Tom Brady were trying to get wide receiver Josh Gordon more familiarity in the offense as Brady appeared to be looking for Gordon a lot in both the first and third quarters, and at one point had more targets than both Edelman and Rob Gronkowski had combined.
The Chiefs speed again appeared to give the Patriots defense problems in the fourth quarter. Wide receiver Tyreek Hill left Patriots safety Devin McCourty in his tracks as Hill ran around the end zone until becoming open for a one-yard touchdown pass from Mahomes which gave the Chiefs their first lead since the beginning of the first quarter. The Patriots then drove down the field to retake the lead on a touchdown from Brady who scrambled out of the backfield and dove across the end zone for a 37-33 lead. Following a Patriots field goal that made it a seven point game the Chiefs got the ball back with a little over three minutes left to play looking to march down the field and tie the game. Tyreek Hill's speed appeared to be too much for the Patriots defense again as Mahomes connected with Hill for a 75-yard touchdown on the team's first play wasting only 12 seconds of the game clock. With three minutes left on the clock and the game on the line Tom Brady did Tom Brady things, leading his team down the field for a game-winning score. Brady connected with Gronkowski to get the ball deep into Chiefs territory to set up a 28-yard game-winning field goal for kicker Stephen Gostkowski, which he made with ease.
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The Patriots will have another tough battle this upcoming week against the Chicago Bears, who despite losing to the Brock Osweiler led Miami Dolphins in overtime, have one of the leagues top defenses led by all-pro Khalil Mack.
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Talent, Brains and Money can be an elusive package in the NFL
August 8, 2015 Bill Bodell	Leave a comment
Now former San Fransisco 49ers star linebacker Aldon Smith was yet again arrested, this time for a DUI, the third DUI he has gotten since entering the league. As I'm writing this I just got the alert on my phone that the 49ers have released Smith, this makes me question how dumb some of these NFL players and athletes could be in general. You have guys like Aldon Smith, Josh Gordon, Justin Blackmon and of course Aaron Hernandez who are throwing away millions of dollars because of the stupid decisions they're making. These guys are living the dream, making millions of dollars to play football, what could possibly be better than that? Well apparently to some of these guys going out getting high, shooting people as well as other dumb things there doing, has a higher priority.
Makes you also question how these guys made it this far and if they were just kept being passed on because of their talent and never disciplined for issues before the NFL. Did everyone just turn their backs when these guys were in high school and let them do as they pleased because of their talent? Could some of these guys have been changed and not made the mistakes they did had they been punished and had tighter rules when they were younger? A good thought, but something we'll never know.
Aldon Smith was the 7th overall pick and finished second in defensive rookie of the year voting, he looked like he was gonna be a pro bowler year after year and could have been a force in the league. He was then arrested for now three separate DUIs, and for joking about having a bomb at an airport, another just purely stupid move. After his second DUI, Smith entered a rehab facility which seems clear he didn't take very seriously. When you're given an opportunity to get help when you need it, you take it and hope you can not only save your career, but also save yourself from going down an even worse path. After his release from the 49ers, his career is almost sure to be over at the age of 25.
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Another guy throwing his career away is Josh Gordon. Gordon bounced around college because of suspensions due to substance abuse problems and hardly played. Gordon was still selected by the Browns in the second round of the supplemental draft and ended up missing time in his rookie season because of his drug use in college. Gordon also missed time during his second season for a substance abuse violation, and again was suspended. When Gordon returned he went on to be the best receiver in the NFL even with missing 14 games. Entering his third season Gordon was suspended yet again for substance abuse, this time originally for the season, which ended up being reduced to 10 games. You think that maybe, just maybe, Gordon would learn from this, nope. Gordon was suspended for at least one year after testing positive for drinking alcohol, which he could not do after being placed in the leagues substance abuse program. Gordon was a complete stud during his very brief NFL career and is now in question if he will ever play again. I loved Gordon on the field and was pulling for him to change his ways off the field. Even with my fandom of Gordon I don't feel bad for him at all, he could have changed his off-field ways, he was in the leagues substance abuse program after three different substance abuse incidents, and after constant suspensions he just didn't learn. Apparently weed is more important than playing football and making millions to Gordon. Have fun selling cars again in Cleveland Josh, hope you were good at it because it looks like that is going to be your future, not the NFL.
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Like Gordon, Justin Blackmon has faced many suspensions due to substance abuse problems. Blackmon was suspended 8 games in 2013 because of failed drug tests and after not learning was suspended the whole season in 2014 for substance abuse and currently faces an indefinite suspension. The Jaguars general manager recently said he doesn't expect Blackmon to play in the NFL again. 25 years old, and out of the NFL because of weed, not talent which Blackmon had all the talent in the world, not injuries which tend to happen to players, but for smoking weed. Go back a few years and say Blackmon and Gordon would be among the top receivers in the NFL at this point in their careers and almost on one would disagree, tell someone the two would be out of the league and people would be shocked. I don't feel bad for Blackmon just like I don't feel bad for other players I mention, he didn't love the game and rather would live the way he wanted, smoking weed and doing whatever else he wanted to do which didn't involve football. The last that was seen of Blackmon he was not nearly in the playing shape he was and by the looks of it he has no desire to play in the NFL again.
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And of course the most well-known idiot on this list, Aaron Hernandez. All us Patriots fans as well as the rest of the country know his story and his legal trouble. Hernandez was convicted and given a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd and still faces a double homicide charge stemming from a 2012 incident. After news of Hernandez' arrest in the Odin Lloyd incident, Hernandez was released by the Patriots and then other news and incidents from his past began to slowly come out. From him taking a selfie with a gun during his time at Florida, to bar fights, to gang related activities from his time in high school combined with drug use, Hernandez was a thug off the field with all his issues. Hernandez had all the talent in the world on the field and had all the problems in the world off of it. After just having a baby and a new $40 million contract, you would think Hernandez would give up his old ways and change his life, apparently not. Hernandez is a sociopath and all he knew was his street mentality and was apparent he didn't wanna change for anything and its who he was, giving up his family, football career, a $40 million contract at the age of 23 and his life.
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No one will ever know the reasoning these guys have to do what they do, act how they act, and know whats important to them in life. The are all guys who were given many opportunities to change their lives and change who they are. Rehab through the league or separate rehab are and were all options to these guys. Johnny Manziel entered rehab after the end of last season because he knew his drinking and parting would have led to a quick end of his career. Johnny now seems to be on the right path, only focused on football and competing to be the Browns starting quarterback for the 2015 season. I hope Manziel has that all behind him and is focused solely on football, though I loved Johnny Football and the college party boy swagger he brought to the field being a college kid myself, I hope and would rather see Manziel as a successful NFL player.
These guys gave up the American dream, just about everyone including myself will never understand why and what is important to these guys, and they now have to live with their decisions which have changed all their lives for the worse.
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Disputes in labour matters involving cross-border elements can add an extra layer of complexity to your business. Specifically, court judgements awarded in one place but requested to be enforced in another place often require re-litigation in the court of the requested place. Customarily, the length of time and costs involved in pursuing multiple litigations could discourage the concerned parties to proceed with litigation in related jurisdictions. In the end, where litigation is pursued in one place, the court judgement may not be recognised and enforced in the requested place, as the dispute was not litigated in said place.
Between the Hong Kong Special Administration Region (HKSAR) and People's Republic of China (PRC), several arrangements have been signed to develop mutual legal assistance on the enforcement of civil and commercial judgements in the two jurisdictions. However, only the latest Arrangement on Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement of Judgements on Civil and Commercial Matters by the Courts of the PRC and HKSAR (2019 Arrangement) signed between the Supreme People's Court and the HSAR government on 18 January 2019, stipulates the inclusion of employment matters.
The previous arrangement, The Choice of Court Arrangement, signed in 2017 established the precondition of a choice of court agreement in writing for any party proceeding to enforce a court judgement issued in the PRC in the jurisdiction of HKSAR or vice versa. Parties concerned in the court judgement were required beforehand to expressly designate a court of the Mainland or a court of the HKSAR as the court with sole jurisdiction to resolve any disputes arising out of civil and commercial contracts between the related parties, excluding employment contracts. Since the precondition and the exclusion of employment contracts is removed in the latest arrangement, employees in either PRC or HKSAR may advance court judgements without the need to re-litigate.
An employer in HKSAR dispatches an employee to work in PRC. The HKSAR entity does not establish an entity in the PRC, and since the employee is an HKSAR resident, no work permit is required. Having understood the employee is exposed to legal and tax liabilities without an employing unit in China, the employee proceeds legal proceedings against the HKSAR employer and obtains a judgement in China. Under the latest reciprocal arrangement, the employee may seek to enforce the court judgement in the HKSAR. In this manner, even if no court was designated to have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes in the labour contract, the employee may still apply for recognition and enforcement of the judgement in an HKSAR court.
Court judgments in commercial and civil matters are referred to in an Arrangement as the following:
Judgements in the case of the PRC is any judgement, ruling, conciliatory statement and order of payment, but does not include a ruling concerning preservation measures.
Judgement in the case of the HKSAR includes any judgement, order, decree and allocator excluding an anti-suit injunction or an order for interim relief.
Civil and commercial matters
Civil and commercial matters are required to consider a case as civil and commercial in nature under both PRC law and HKSAR law, as well as for civil damages awarded in criminal cases. Although, judicial review cases and any other cases heard by the courts of the HKSAR arising directly out of the exercise of administrative powers are excluded.
Relationship between requesting jurisdiction and dispute
Parties pursuing enforcement in the requested place are required to establish that there is a relationship between the requesting place and the dispute by satisfying one of the following conditions:
At the time the original court (the court who issued the judgement) accepted the case, the place of residence of the defendant is within the requesting place;
At the time of which the originating court accepted the case, the defendant maintained in that place a representative office, branch, office, place of business or such other establishment without separate legal personality, and the action arose out of activities of the establishment;
The action was brought on a tortious dispute and the infringing act was committed in the requesting place;
The parties concerned in the contractual dispute or property-related dispute had expressly agreed in writing that the courts of the requesting place shall have jurisdiction over the relevant proceeding; or
The defendant appeared before the originating court and defended in the proceedings without raising an objection to the original court.
In the case of the last two points, where all parties to the judgement reside in the requested place, the requested place shall have an actual connection with the dispute, such as where the contract was performed or signed.
For employees working in PRC and employed by an HKSAR company or vice versa, the arrangement allows more potential for employees to bring any violation of contractual obligations against employers in either place, without the need to re-litigate the same dispute in the other place, thus offering greater protection for labour contracts. Although, the employers may also pursue employee in violation of contractual obligations. The 2019 Arrangement shall be effective after the two jurisdictions complete all necessary procedures to enable implementation, and will apply to judgements made on or after the commencement date.
If you have labour law concerns in either the PRC or HKSAR, please contact Horizons at talktous@horizons-advisory.com to schedule a consultation session. From RMB 1,500 per session, Horizons can provide insight, expertise and the right solutions for you.
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Indian Stocks Stand Out From the Crowd
Many investors say the country's stock market could withstand a reversal of the global rush into emerging markets
People walk past the bronze statue of a bull at the Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai.
Shefali Anand
Shefali.Anand@wsj.com
and Debiprasad Nayak
Updated Sept. 26, 2016 11:36 pm ET
MUMBAI—Indian shares are on a roll in 2016, benefiting from the global rush of money into emerging markets, and many investors say the country is better positioned than other developing nations to withstand any reversal of those global flows.
The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex is up 8.3% in 2016, and is now less than 5% below its all-time closing high set in January 2015. Among major emerging markets, Brazilian and Russian stocks have performed better, but both are rebounding from three years of losses.
The attraction to Indian stocks is evident in the country's booming initial public offerings. Last week's $900 million float of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co., an Indian insurance company, was the country's largest in six years, and it was oversubscribed by 10 times.
Overseas investors have caught the bug: Around $7 billion of foreign money has flowed into the Indian market this year, up from $4 billion over the same period in 2015, according to regulatory data.
That could leave India vulnerable to any reversal in the global search for yield, which has seen investors send money around the world looking for higher returns amid ultralow interest rates in developed economies. Some fear any future series of rate increases by the U.S. Federal Reserve could trigger such a reversal. On Monday, the Sensex fell 1.3%, in line with other Asian markets.
But investors and analysts say India—where annual economic growth reached 7.5% in the first half of 2016, beating China's 6.7% expansion—could eventually prove better placed than other emerging markets if global capital flows turn. They cite factors including government overhauls under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as reasons for optimism.
"India is in a Goldilocks situation," which is attracting global investors, said Sumit Jalan, co-head of investment banking at Credit Suisse in India. "Foreign investors are driving [Indian] markets."
Once lumped in with a block of emerging markets termed the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India and China—India has lately diverged from the group, in part thanks to its heavy weighting toward domestic consumption. By contrast, Brazil and Russia have been hit by the slump in global commodity prices, while China's exports have suffered from a slowdown in world trade.
Over the past three years, Indian shares have gained a cumulative 44%, beating the 37.5% rise in China's Shanghai Composite, and well ahead of the 8% rise in Brazilian shares and the 31% drop in Russia.
India's inflation has eased, its trade deficit has narrowed thanks to lower oil prices, and the rupee has been relatively stable against the U.S. dollar this year. Recent good monsoon rains could help boost agricultural productivity, and thus consumer demand from rural India.
India's government has delivered on some planned changes: Parliament this year approved a long-pending bill to replace myriad federal and state taxes with a national goods-and-services tax. It also cleared a new bankruptcy law that could make it easier to wind up a failing business.
Some think investors will continue to differentiate India from other leading emerging markets, in the belief that Indian consumers will keep buying new cars, televisions and mobile phones. Shares of consumer-goods companies, auto makers, banks, and cement companies have risen sharply this year, with some gaining as much as 60% in recent months.
Foreign investors are "all very clear: India is the stable part of my portfolio, I keep it. The rest I'm trading around," said Bharat Iyer, head of equity research at J.P. Morgan in India.
"Things look aligned for a fairly sustainable cycle for India going forward," said Matthew Dreith, a fund manager at U.S. money-management firm Wasatch Advisors, which has $6.8 billion invested in emerging markets, including $1.16 billion in India.
With market capitalizations of more than $1.6 trillion each, India's main stock exchanges—BSE Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.—now rank 10th and 11th in the world, respectively, according to the World Federation of Exchanges. Of the 200 largest companies, about half the shares are freely traded and the rest are largely held by founders. Foreign investors own about one-quarter of all shares issued by India's top 200 companies.
" India is in a Goldilocks situation. "
— Sumit Jalan, co-head of investment banking capital markets at Credit Suisse in India
One concern is that Indian stocks have become overvalued. The Sensex currently trades at around 18.5 times expected company earnings for the year ending March 2017, above its long-run average forward price-to-earnings ratio of 15.5, according to local brokerage Sharekhan Ltd.
Still, analysts believe that higher profits will justify the high valuations. J.P. Morgan said it expects profits for companies in the Nifty 50 index to rise by 8% to 10% for the financial year ending March 31, 2017, and by 15% in 2018.
Indian companies are capitalizing on investor demand with a flurry of equity issuance. While IPO issuance has fallen this year globally, the total value of initial offerings in India has nearly tripled to $2.8 billion through Sept. 23 compared with the same period last year, according to Dealogic. Bankers say other large flotations in the coming year will include those for the Indian unit of U.K. mobile-phone company Vodafone Group PLC, and India's two major securities exchanges, BSE and National Stock Exchange.
Write to Shefali Anand at shefali.anand@wsj.com and Debiprasad Nayak at debi.nayak@wsj.com
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