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1 November 2017 at 8:03pm
What does an interest rate rise mean for borrowers?
Video report by ITV News Consumer Editor Chris Choi
The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates by 0.25% on Thursday, the first time they have gone up in more than a decade.
While the increase is good news for those with savings, it is bad news for those with mortgages or other money borrowed.
With the economy in a sluggish state and households feeling their finances squeezed due to rising costs, the Bank hopes that a small increase in interest rates could curb inflation and strengthen sterling.
If the widely expected rise does take place on Thursday, it remains unclear whether it could be a short, sharp shock, or a sign of things to come.
However, the Chief Executive of Leeds Building Society does not predict any "significant rate rises" for around a year.
What does an interest rate rise mean for savers?
The Chief Executive of Leeds Building Society does not predict any 'significant rate rises' for a year. Credit: ITV News
"At the moment, I think the market is probably reading this as being after a rise in November, unlikely to see any significant rate rises until the back end of 2018," Peter Hill explained.
If interest rates do rise on Thursday, it will be the first time they have done since 2007.
A base rate rise of 0.25%, would add around £144 per year to every £100,000 borrowed as part of an average mortgage.
A 0.25% rise would see a £144 increase per year for every £100,000 borrowed. Credit: ITV News
Kerry Goding is one such person who would see their monthly repayments increase by £12.
During the whole time she has owned her Sheffield home, she has only ever had rate reductions on her variable rate mortgage, but wants to know how much her mortgage will go up in the long term.
"How much is it going to go up?" She asked.
"How quick is it going to go up? How much is it going to go up in the long-term?"
Kerry Goding wants to know if the rate rise is a one-off or not. Credit: ITV News
Similarly to Ms Goding, almost four million other households in the UK will see their mortgage base rates rise, however, the 0.25% increase would still see much lower rates than in previous years.
Average standard variable rates have come down from 15.1% in 1990, to 7.4% in 2007, and to 4.6% in 2017.
Standard variable rates are lower now than in the past. Credit: ITV News
It is not just the 3.7 million variable rate mortgages which will see costs go up.
In recent years, low-cost borrowing has meant consumer debt has exploded.
Some 3.7 million variable rate mortgages would increase if the Bank of England raises interest rates. Credit: ITV News
Simon Harding hit money troubles after his wife died and he lost his job, leaving him with £7,000 worth of debt on credit cards and personal loans.
He is now on a debt management plan after struggling with his repayments, but says that he wishes he had given his borrowing more consideration at the time.
Simon Harding fell into money troubles after his wife died and he lost his job. Credit: ITV News
"It's so easy to take the debits and loans, knowing 'I can afford it now'," Mr Harding said.
"But you don't think: 'Can I afford it if x, y, and z happen?'"
With the cost of living already rising and Christmas coming, even if officials decide the time is right for a rate rise, many bill payers may think differently.
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- Kalahari Safaris | Kgalagadi, Augrabies & Desert Tours -
Northern Cape Highlights 15 days / 14 nights
No malaria
We cover: Two Trans Frontier Parks / Three National Parks / Eight Conservation areas
Shortened program:
DAY 1 Meet at Kimberley Airport
DAY 2 Kimberley – Mokala National Park
DAY 3 Mokala
DAY 4 Mokala – Witsand Nature Reserve
DAY 5 Witsand – Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
DAY 6 and 7 Kgalagadi
DAY 8 Kgalagadi – Mier / Klipkolk
DAY 9 Klipkolk – Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park / Namibia
AY 10 Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park / South Africa
DAY 11 Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park
DAY 12	Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park – Diamond Coast
DAY 13 Diamond Coast – Namaqua National Park
DAY 14 Namaqua National Park – Augrabies Falls National Park
DAY 15 Augrabies Falls – Upington
DAY 1 – Kimberley
We meet at Kimberley Airport, then visit Kimberley's BIG HOLE, which is the largest hand-dug excavation in the world. The Mine Museum takes one back to a diamond-digging era more than a hundred years ago. We visit Kampher's Dam where the largest flock of lesser flamingoes in Southern Africa, numbering 25 000, are permanent residents.
We also visit the Mcreggor Museum with its display of the origin of mankind and where arte facts from the Wonderwerk Cave are housed. The Wildebeestkuil Rock Art Centre just outside Kimberley is also an option. This is one of South Africa's premier rock art sites (with over 400 engravings) with audiovisual introduction, displays and audio tour on site. !Xun and Khwe San art crafts on sale in shop and tearoom.
Overnight: Kimberley
Meals: B L D
DAY 2 – Kimberley – Mokala National Park
Drive to Mokala National Park. Visit en route the Anglo Boere War battlefield site and museum at Magersfontein.
Mokala National Park is situated 81 km south of the diamond city Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province. The land of the previous Vaalbos National Park near Barkly West was handed back to local people and in a huge operation more than 800 head of game was trans-located from Vaalbos to Mokala. The grassy plains studded with camelthorn trees and isolated dolerite hills give Mokala a typical African feeling.
Mokala is home to many endangered species including black- and white rhino, Cape buffalo, roan antelope, sable antelope and tsessebe. Other species include black & blue wildebeest, giraffe, eland, kudu, gemsbok, red hartebeest, Burchell's zebra, waterbuck and mountain reedbuck .are some of the species roaming the sandy plains.
Various bird species, including a white-backed vulture breeding colony numbering 200 birds and many lizard species can be seen in Mokala and leopard tortoises are common sightings in summer, Afternoon game drive.
Optional activities: sunset drive and bush braai, Vulture drive, San rock art drive and endangered species drive
Overnight: One of the camps in Mokala
DAY 3 – Mokala National Park
Game drives according to your wishes.
DAY 4 – Mokala – Witsand Nature Reserve
Last game drive, then we depart to Witsand Nature Reserve. Wine tasting at the Douglas Wine Cellar near the confluence of the Vaal- and Orange Rivers.
Few eco-destinations in the Northern Cape are as scenic as Witsand Nature Reserve. Only Witsand can offer you sensual, flowing white dunes – twenty to sixty metres high, surrounded by copper-red Kalahari sand, Acacia woodland and the Langberg Mountain Range. Home of the famous "Brulsand" or Roaring Sands of the Kalahari. Under the right conditions, this dunes utter a rumble when disturbed.
Witsand Nature Reserve is a scenic reserve teeming with bird life. More than 150species have been recorded, including the Namaqua sandgrouse, sociable weaver and Africa's smallest raptor the pygmy falcon. Gemsbok, springbok, red hartebeest, common duiker and steenbok are residents. Afternoon scenic drive and walk to the bird hide.
Overnight: Witsand
DAY 5 – Witsand – Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
We drive a scenic road to Kgalagadi. Twee Rivieren is our first camp.
Game such as gemsbok, springbok, eland, giraffe, blue wildebeest and red hartebeest roam the sparsely vegetated red sand dunes and the dry river valleys of the Nossob and Auob where a variety of acacia species thrive.
Kgalagadi is well known for good sightings of lion, leopard and cheetah and spotted – and brown hyena are common residents. Because of an abundance of prey in the form of mice, whistling rats, birds and insects, smaller predators thrive in the park. The park is home to caracal, honey badger, black-backed jackal, bat-eared fox, cape fox, African wildcat, mongoose and the ever-popular suricate (meerkat).
Kgalagadi is a bird watcher's paradise with more than 300 species recorded including at least 20 larger raptor species. The world's heaviest flying bird, the Kori bustard and the stately secretary bird patrol the riverbeds while the noisy northern black korhaan rule in the dunes.
Overnight: Twee Rivieren
DAY 6 and 7 Kgalagadi Trans Frontier Park
Game drive to Nossob/ Mata Mata.
Overnight: Nossob/Mata Mata depending on availability.
DAY 8 – Kgalagadi – Klipkolk Guest Lodge
We depart to Klipkolk Lodge. Stop at the Khomani Bushmen.
We drive through the Mier area. The people inhabit the area since the 1830's. We travel through the small villages Klein Mier, Groot Mier and Philandersbron to Klipkolk. From the road we have a beautiful view over the 14 000 ha Hakskeen Pan, previously known as Oxford Pan. The road to Philandersbron cross the pan.
Klipkolk is the only facility of its kind in the remote Rietfontein region. The original house on Klipkolk was erected in the late 1800's. The 12 ha Klipkolk Dam and adjacent Sweet Thorn (Acacia Karroo) bush, situated close to the camping area, offers splendid bird viewing, with more than 100 species identified, including waterfowl. The owners of Klipkolk are great chefs and specialize in local foods.
Overnight: Klipkolk Lodge
DAY 9 – Klipkolk – Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park
Proceed to Rietfontein Border Post and enter Namibia. We drive through the vast plains of Southern Namibia to the Ai-Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park. This park spans some of the most spectacular scenery of the arid and desert environments in Southern Africa. Bisected by the Orange River, which forms the border between South Africa and Namibia, it comprises the Ai-Ais Hot Springs Game Park in Namibia and the Richtersveld National Park in South Africa.
Distinctive features in the area include the Ai-Ais Hot springs and the 2nd largest canyon in the world, the Fish River Canyon. This awe-inspiring canyon measures 160 km in length, up to 28 km in width and reaches a depth of 550 m. This arid zone is further characterised by a unique and impressive variety of succulent plant species, which makes this park an undisputed biodiversity 'hot spot'.
We enter the Park at Hobas and visit different viewpoints overlooking the canyon. Although the Park is not known as a game park, springbok, gemsbok, red hartebeest, Hartman's zebra, kudu, klipspringer and ostrich survive in this harsh land.
Continue to Ai-Ais via the 102 000 ha private conservation area, Gondwana Canyon Park. Ai-Ais, which means, "burning water" in one of the local languages, refers to the sulphurous hot springs which are found in this area. One of these springs has its eye within the camp. Ai-Ais is situated at the southern end of the Fish River Canyon. Relax in the warm pools and spa.
Overnight: Ai-Ais Resort / Canon Lodge.
DAY 10 – Ais-Ais – Richtersveld Transfrontier Park
Today we depart to Richtersveld through the vast barren plains of southern Namibia. Enter South Africa by pontoon at Sendelingsdrift. The Richtersveld mountain desert is regarded as the only true desert and one of the last wilderness areas in South Africa and was recently declared a world heritage site. The rainfall in some areas is less than 50 mm per annum. The Park nestles in a 100 km loop of the Lower Orange River, which forms the border with Namibia.
The Richtersveld is regarded as a geological masterpiece and is one of the world's most prolific and richest succulent areas, nurturing 30% of South Africa's succulent species, including 3 Quiver tree species and the very rare legendary "halfmens". Although game is not the main attraction of the Richtersveld Park, there are species such as the very rare Hartman's Zebra, Grey Reebok, Klipspringer, Duiker, Steenbok, Leopard, Caracal, Black backed jackal, Baboons and Vervet monkeys. The park harbours a small number of indigenous people, who live their lives as goatherds, unchanged from the time when their hardy ancestors lived.
Overnight: One of the camps in the Park
Game drives and hikes.
DAY 12 – Richtersveld – Diamond Coast
The Northern Cape West Coast ( Diamond Coast) stretches from the Orange River mouth south for about 300km. It has remained virtually unknown to the public at large as it is within the restricted and previously forbidden diamond mining areas. Today most of these areas are open to the public and the area between the Groen- and Spoeg Rivers have been introduced into the Namaqua National Park. The Diamond Coast offers alluvial diamond mine tours, a world-renowned resident seal colony containing more than 350 000 animals, shipwrecks, the Orange River mouth, which is a RAMSAR declared estuary, various conservation areas, South Africa's only lichen field, eco friendly 4×4 trails, excellent bird life, rough coastline with unspoiled beaches, spring flowers in season, mild summers and a seafood delicacy, crayfish.
We depart to Alexander Bay on the Diamond Coast on the cold Atlantic Ocean. Visit the estuary at the Orange River mouth near Alexander Bay. This previous restricted diamond area is now open to public. The Orange River Wetland is declared as a RAMSAR site and is home to more than 60 bird species including pelicans and many flamingos. After a drive to the mouth we continue to the Lichen Hill. The Richtersveld vegetation has unique species with awesome adoptions to survive in its semi desert climate. One km outside Alexander Bay, a hill of 5 hectares is covered with lichen – the only one of its kind in South Africa. Lichen is neither plant nor animal, consisting of algae and fungi living together in symbioses. Continue south along the coastline to the small harbour town Port Nolloth.
We drive on to Kleinzee. We enter the previously restricted diamond area owned by The Beers. The accommodation is situated on the shoreline. Whales are very often seen close to the shoreline.
Overnight: Noup Diamond Divers' Camp/similar or camping at Koingnaas Caravan Park
DAY 13 – Diamond Coast – Namaqua National Park.
We exit the security area at Koingnaas and travel to Hondeklip Bay, which relies for its survival on a small crayfish industry and a few diamond boats operating from its harbour. This small remote seaside village has an unpretentious rural charm. Visit the wreck of the Jahleel in the bay and the Aristea.
Drive on to Soebatsfontein, where we enter the Namaqua National Park. Namaqua National Park is situated in the world's only arid biodiversity hotspot. Namaqualand is home to more than 6000 plant species, 250 species of birds, 78 species of mammals 132 species of reptiles and amphibians and an unknown number of insects, making it the world's most diverse arid environment. More than 40% of these species are found nowhere else on earth.
During early August and September, seemingly overnight, the dusty valleys of Namaqualand are transformed into a wonderland, carpeted with wildflowers. With its winter rainfall, Namaqualand is home to the richest bulb flora of any arid region in the world.
During the rest of the year the Namaqualand is still worth a visit to enjoy the star-studded night skies and the barren landscape with enormous granite outcrops.
Overnight: Namaqua National Park
DAY 14 – Namaqua National Park – Augrabies Falls National Park
We drive on to Springbok, the main town of Namaqualand. Visit the Springbok Lodge.The history of Springbok and the copper mining industry are displayed on the walls and the huge collection of gemstones of the owner Jopie Kotze is on display too.
We drive on to Augrabies Falls National Park through the plains of the northern Bushmanland and the small, but known town, Pofadder. Visit the Augrabies Falls, which is the sixth largest waterfall in the world when South Africa's largest river, the Orange is in flood. The word Augrabies derives from the Khoi meaning 'place of great noise. Scenic – and game drives in this moon landscape-like land to viewpoints such as Ararat, Oranjekom on the Orange River Gorge and the Swartrante from where we have a great view of this arid rocky desert landscape.
Augrabies is mostly a scenic park, game such as giraffe, springbok, gemsbok, eland, kudu red hartebeest, Hartman's zebra and klipspringer survive in this unique riverine ecosystem. Fish eagles and black eagles are common residents.
Overnight: Augrabies
DAY 15 – Augrabies – Upington
Last game drive, walk to the Falls, early hike on the Dassie Trail before we depart to Upington. Visit Bezalel wine farm and Pienk pad stal.
Arrival at Upington late afternoon. End of tour.
Included: driver/guide, vehicle, fuel, meals, accommodation, cross-border fees.
Excluded: daily conservation fees and optional activities.
Conservation fee of R300 per person per day payable Kgalagadi cash or credit card
Bottled water / soft – and alcoholic drinks / snaks in between meals (shops available at every camp)
Accommodation is depending on availability and program may be slightly different.
This tour is found at: https://www.kalaharisafaris.co.za/northern-cape-highlights-15-days-14-nights/
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This fantastic tour can start either in Bolsterlang or Ofterschwang and takes you over the popular Hörner Panorama Tour along the Weiherkopf, Rangiswanger Horn, Sigiswanger Horn and Ofterschwanger Horn.
The unquestioned hiking classic in the Hörnerdörfer is undoubtedly the Hörner Panorama Tour. With only slight ascents and descents, this hiking trail is also suitable for families with little hikers.
At the end of June, early July, the Alpine roses bloom at the Rangiswanger Horn and turn the slopes into pink.
You are in the Nature Park Nagelfluhkette. A Nature Park is a protected landscape created by long-term use and cultivation. This valuable cultural landscape is to be preserved in its present form, but at the same time also to be used.
The unquestioned classic in the Hörnerdörfer is undoubtedly the Hörner Panorama Tour. With only slight ascents and descents, this hiking trail is also suitable for families with little hikers. The tour can be started either in Bolsterlang, or in Ofterschwang. From the mountain station of the Hörnerbahn (1550), which can be reached by car or on foot, the steepest passage leads to the highest point of the tour - the Weiherkopf (1665). If you do not want to take the steep ascent, you can also take the opportunity to go across below the peak.
Following the panoramic trail, you can now bypass or climb the following peaks - Rangiswanger Horn (1612) - Sigiswanger Horn (1527) - Ofterschwanger Horn (1408). Best summits for a fabulous all-round view in the Allgäu Alps are the Weiherkopf the Rangiswanger Horn and Ofterschwanger Horn.
In Ofterschwang, you can take the cable car Weltcup-Express back into the valley, or take the panoramic trail downhill past Alpe Eck.
The return path from Ofterschwang follows via Sigiswang and Kierwang back to the starting point. Alternatively, you can also take the bus back, please check the departure times.
Free parking at the Weltcup-Express base station in Ofterschwang or the Hörnerbahn in Bolsetrlang.


Dependecy Injection on J2ME/CLDC devices.
This post is a little geeky and technical and product-related for AgileAdvice, and is a shameless self-promotion. Nevertheless, since testability, test-driven-development, and incremental design are non-exclusive sub-topics of Agile, I though I'd report this here anyway.
Many developers use the Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IoC) patterns through such IoC containers as Spring, Hivemind, Picocontainer, and others. They have all sorts of benefits to testability, flexibility, etc. that I won't repeat here, but can be read about here, here, and here. A great summary of the history of "IoC" can be found here. J2ME developers, however, especially those on limited devices that use the CLDC configuration of J2ME, cannot use the substantial number of IoC/DI containers out there, because they nearly all rely on reflection. These also often make use of APIs not present in the CLDC – APIs which could not easily be added. Lastly there's a tendency among developers of "embedded software" to be very suspicious of complexity.
In working out some examples of DI as part of a testability workshop at one of my clients, I whipped up a quick DI container, and being the freak that I am, hardened it until it was suitable for production, because I hate half-finished products. So allow me to introduce the Israfil Micro Container. (That is, the Container from the Israfil Micro project). As I mention in the docs, "FemtoContainer" just was too ridiculous, and this container is smaller than pico-container. The project is BSD licensed, and hosted on googlecode, so source is freely available and there's an issue/feature tracker, yadda yadda.
P.S. There are a few other bits on googlecode that I'm working on in the micro-zone. Some minimalist backports of some of java.lang.concurrency (just the locks), as well as some of the java.util.Collections stuff. Not finished, but also part of the googlecode project.
Constraint-based thinking (as opposed to solution based thinking): allows an architect/developer to conceive of the set of possible solutions, rather than an enumeration of solutions. By looking at constraints, a developer implements the lean principle of deciding as late as possible, with as full information as possible.
Lateral Thinking: The constraint+test approach starts to get people into a very different mode, where vastly different kinds of solutions show up. The creative exercise of trying to break something provides insights that can change the whole approach of the system.
 Here again – I think it's possible to help people get a mind-set about quality, but some do seem to have a knack. It's important to have some of these people on your teams, as they'll disturb the waters and identify potential failure modes. These are going to be the ones who want to "mistake proof" (to borrow Toyota's phrase) the system by writing more unit tests and other executable proofs of the system. But most importantly (and I can personally testify to this) it is critical that people just write more tests. It is a learned skill to start to think of "how might this fail" until it becomes a background mental thread, always popping up risk models.A related concept is Demmings' "systems-thinking", which, applied to software quality, causes one to start looking at whole ecosystems of error states. This is when fearless re-factoring starts to pay off, because the elimination of duplication allows one to catch classes of error in fewer and fewer locations, where they're easier to fix. There are many and multifarious spin-off effects of this inverted questioning and the mindset it generates. Try it yourself. When you're writing code, ask yourself how you might break it? What inputs, external state, etc. might cause it to fail, crash, or behave in odd ways. This starts to show you where you might have state leaking into the wild, or side-effects from excessively complex interactions in your code. So quality focus can start to improve not only the external perception of your product, but also its fitness to new requirements by making it more resilient and less brittle. Cleaner interactions and less duplication allow for much faster implementation of new features.I could go on, but I just wanted to convey this sense of "attitude" or "mindset," over mere technique. Technique can help you get to a certain level, but you have to let it "click", and the powerful questions can sometimes help.


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Patient-reported outcomes in the GARNET trial in patients with advanced or recurrent mismatch repair-deficient/microsatellite instability-high endometrial cancer treated with dostarlimab
Rebecca Kristeleit Oncology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Susan Boklage GSK, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Correspondence to Dr Rebecca Kristeleit, Oncology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK; rebecca.kristeleit{at}gstt.nhs.uk
Kristeleit R, Mathews C, Redondo A, et al
International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer 2022;32:1250-1257.
Received February 25, 2022
Accepted July 5, 2022
First published August 16, 2022.
Previous version (16 August 2022).
© IGCS and ESGO 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, an indication of whether changes were made, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.


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Brett Watson July 19, 2018
"I am a woman, and I have a penis."
Like every other art form, spoken word poetry is a form of self-expression. Slam poets come from all walks of life, each with different experiences and feelings that make their work entirely, beautifully unique.
And just like every other form of poetry, it is also steeped in social activism.
Reece Burrows Lyons, a transgender woman, has become the recent embodiment of this power of slam poetry. At the Roundhouse Poetry Slam in London, Reece performed a powerful piece called 'I am a woman and I have a penis.
Her poem is an overwhelming commentary on not just homophobia, but also on the society's obsession with entrapping the identity of a woman in preconceived notions and expectations.
Through her words, Reece shatters stereotypes about how a woman must look, dress or even sound as she talks about her consequent struggle as a transwoman, of always being understood as something less, a 'tranny'- an anomaly. "what was it about me that gave it away? was it my height? Because I forgot you're not used to being confronted by a six feet tall woman, are you? Maybe its my voice?"
Talking about how acceptance in the society often comes at the price of stifling your identity as a woman, Reece, with her resting nonchalance and her sharp edged style of prose, systematically unshackles a woman's agency from all expectations, societal prerequisites and completely dismantles the code of gender binaries.
Read the full article here: News18.com
Brett Watson
I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.
TransgenderBrett Watson May 11, 2018 dysphoria, society


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Q: No data in Azure SQL after importing bacpac file I've created a bacpac file of my database for transfer to Azure. The file is uploaded and imported successfully but there's no data in the imported database. What did I do wrong? There don't seem to be options about with or without data. The structure did end up correctly in the database.
I verified the bacpac by importing it locally.

A: TL;DR: It wasn't finished importing yet.
I found out - it was impatience. As soon as I could access the DB and see the structure I thought the import process was done. But it turned out it was still importing. So good to know that you can access it before it's ready. (In hindsight there was sort of an indicator, while it was still importing it showed 1 additional table, something with Transaction... bla).
However, I could have known as I found out that there would still be an 'Importing...' item in the Notifications panel in the Azure portal during the import. It doesn't show that on any of the blades however.

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Halfbrick Studios has gained our eternal love and respect with Fruit Ninja, and some other developers would have exploited this niche until exhaustion. Thanks to Halfbrick, they know better than that and make some new games.
Jetpack Joyride is a new era take on horizontal scrolling arcades. Your character has invaded into the secret lab inhabited by evil scientists and stuffed with various deadly traps. Escape the lab, fly through obstacles and collect the power ups on your way.
You see, it's all so simple and familiar, we have enjoyed this type of games since the 1980s. But the joy depends on how it's done. And Jetpack Joyride is up to its name: the game gives you the real sense of flight, acceleration, and elevation. Some allusions reminding of Golden Era are inevitable in this genre, but they just add charm.
There's no difference between different versions of Jetpack Joyride; iOS and Android versions are equally well done.
Is it worth expecting much from a 2D retro-styled game? No, you won't be surrounded by artificial underground landscape, astonished by incredibly detailed monsters in 3D or futuristic machinery. The game rather looks like a comic-book, openly drawn with no ambition of photographic realism. Yet cartoon style suits this light-minded game.
Sometimes the picture seems too schematic (even if you use a device with 2K or higher definition). Yes, it's hard to make out all the details: everything is moving. Fire chainsaws are rolling, electric wires turn on around you, mechanical suits activate on you with big badaboom, everything speeds up, and it's not about concentrating on details, it's all one solid action.
There are pauses between levels, so use them to enjoy graphical greatness. Yes, the game is greatly drawn, if you don't expect from it something it's not supposed to be. And yes, it would be a great gap not to mention the music. The 90s sounds complete the impression the game makes.
All these 2D scrolling runners look basically the same. Your character moves along the long lab corridors, flying up with his jetpack. It only takes one type of action: tap the screen to rise and let go to go down. There's nothing bad in landing unless you run into an enemy or an obstacle.
Dangers are various here. You encounter terrible rolling chainsaws blazing with fire, missiles meeting you suddenly, electric wires that limit your freedom, and many other traps. You should avoid them not to die, and also collect vehicles. Any vehicle accelerates you and gives you one-time protection saving you at the collision.
Hold and drop, but think when to do it. That's what makes this game such fun.Like any good arcade, Jetpack Joyride offers you a lot of coins hanging in the air. Sometimes they even form some word. Don't try to collect all the coins; there's simply too many of them. Anyway, you'll miss some, so concentrate on survival and collecting come more rare powerups. The game is simple to learn but hard to master.
The developers did their best to add some diversity into the gaming process. The environment is changing (from underground tunnels to greenhouses and even underwater), mini games interrupt the action, missions vary from level to level.
Upgrades are very diverse: you can buy new jetpacks, protection devices, accelerators and other upgrades. Some are constant, and some are only used once, giving you an advantage in a single game. Some are caught while you fly. Birds collecting money, mechanical dragons, giant robots and other transformations are possibly the greatest part of the game. And there are outfits to select and unlock. They hardly change gaming process, but customizing your character's look is a special kind of fun.
There is even online mode, though you don't challenge each other on the same virtual playground — it's simply achievement competition. Yet authorization on Google Play Centre gives you some more bonuses.
Simplicity rules. The only control element you use in this game is simple tap anywhere on the screen. You use it to rise, and if you quit tapping, you ascend slowly. Sometimes it goes vice versa when you use a dragon mech that tends to the top and ascends when you tap.
When it goes to selecting your powerups at the beginning, you simply select them with a tap. This simplicity is one step away from primitiveness, but that doesn't spoil the fun.
Arcade games are much more often replayed than played. Even though you progress through the same levels over and over, your mission is different each time. The game provides you with quests you need to fulfill to advance to the new level. This makes replayability of this game virtually absolute. You won't run out of levels or missions, there's always the next one.
As a free-to-play game Jetpack Joyride offers some purchases that are not necessary, but they will help you advance faster or recover after lethal encounters. Like in most arcades, the more resurrections you need, the more expensive is each next one.
The coins can be collected while you fly, but purchasing a pack can save you a lot of time. After buying better equipment, you can reach better results in less time.
Once a game you can use one free resurrection. All it takes is watching a short video ad, promoting some other game. Some may find it annoying, but others may think it's fun to discover new games for free.
Jetpack Joyride revives the illogical jovial madness of Golden Age. No need to explain what's behind the story, you can rebuild it yourself. Now it's about flying and collecting, upgrading and accelerating. This game is pure fun. And though the developers didn't realize Zen Mode (like in their other hit – Fruit Ninja), Jetpack Joyride is a pure zen game with total involvement and not a moment to hold your breath.
A great action-packed arcade, a little nostalgic like arcades are, but that only makes it more attractive.
True nostalgic experience recollecting the Golden Age.
No translation into many languages.
Here you can find the links to the latest version of Jetpack Joyride game. Users with Android-powered mobile phones or tablets can download and install it from Play Market. For iPhone and iPad users, we provide a link to the app's official iTunes page. Please note: the application may ask for additional permissions and contain in-app purchases.
There's not a lot of questions about Jetpack Joyride. Ask insistently in the comments so you can make it frequent!


Great to see that you have finally cleared level 477, now get ready to clear 56 jelly and score 110,000 points to fly through this level. You are now in the eighth level of Cherry Chateau, and don't forget to watch out for the cake bomb, marmalade, locked candies, multilayered meringue. Know how to beat candy crush level 478 with the strategy below.
The objective of level is to clear 56 jelly and score 110,000 points.
Beat level 478 by following some simple suggestions and tips. These are sure to help you as you play the game. You need to remove one layer from each of the meringues in this level. You have to first destroy the cake and then you may move on to unlock wrapped candies. To pass the level 478, destroying the cake bomb can be one of the tough jobs. It gets even more difficult at the bottom of the board. Once you clear the cannon, two wrapped candies are released which descend to the isolated jelly areas at the bottom. You may clear the sections by dropping horizontal striped candy match to the level of wrapped candies. These explode and the area is cleared. Before clearing the cannons, you must hit the two blocks at least once. This makes sure that the wrapped candies drop to the bottom easily.
To pass this level you have to clear 56 jelly and score 110,000 points.
To get all three stars you need more than 300000, for 2 stars you need a score above 270000 and for one star you need to get at least 110000 points.
Should I use my boosters for level 478?
The main challenges of this level are the cake bomb, marmalade, locked candies, multilayered meringue.


At 3.5% Africa has the highest urbanization rate in the whole world. The potential effects of these staggering growth rates are relevant for all Africans, both in the urban as well as in the rural areas. By 2040 the continent's cities are expected to have to accommodate 79 Million additional inhabitants. Between 2040 and 2050 the figure will rise to a staggering 84 Million. The latest UN-Habitat report forecasts that by 2025 Africa's urban population will outstrip that of Europe and Latin America together. No wonder that a growing number of researchers, institutions and governments are paying more and more attention to urbanization in Africa. This growing interest focuses on whether rapid urbanization will overwhelm African governments and societies or whether it reflects the increasing importance of the middle classes, a factor which is held by many to account for Africa's positive economic performance of late.
African urbanization trends raise several issues that are of interest to scholars. These range from politics (what does the growing importance of city dwellers mean to the character of politics?), through economics (will urbanization undermine or foster efforts at overcoming inequalities?), all the way to social (e.g. are African social relations changing in any significant way as a result of these trends? How do Africans live their cities?) and cultural issues (e.g. will urban life styles dominate the rural? How will the rural and the urban relate to each other in the future?).
The key issue, however, is how urbanization processes in Africa transform conventional objects of African Studies and how do scholars of Africa gear up to face such changes? This is the question which the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel (CASB) in Switzerland wishes to invite scholars of Africa to engage with in a more conscious and systematic manner. While the urban will be prominent, the proposed conference theme will also look into the entanglements of the rural with the urban, especially with a view to addressing an implicit assumption underlying the study of Africa and which concerns the supposed rural 'nature' of the continent as well as the constitutive nature of the tension between tradition and modernity.
While over the past few decades a self-critical attitude within many disciplines has led to a weakening of these assumptions, the urban continues arguably to be seen as the exception or, at any rate, as analytically less consequential than the rural. ECAS 2017 "Urban Africa – Urban Africans" will, therefore, be an occasion for rethinking African Studies, but also for exploring and deepening research avenues that many researchers working on urban and rural issues have taken up over recent years. There is a critical mass to be harnessed in the effort to push the frontiers of critical European knowledge production on Africa.


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M&S on the Community Business Challenge, Liverpool
The way the community businesses embraced and supported each other was unexpected and heart-warming
Pete Swallow
M&S Head of Merseyside, Isle of Man and North Wale
Why developing relationships between UK-wide businesses and community businesses is integral to the UK's economic development.
Earlier this year M&S and partner Power to Change launched the Community Business Challenge, a pilot programme to provide funding and business skills support for a small number of businesses across Liverpool.
As one of our Plan A 10 Communities locations and home to a thriving community business scene, we knew the city would embrace the programme. Even with our local confidence in tow, M&S colleagues, customers and the community businesses showed their passion for supporting local communities in an unprecedented manner. This came further to the fore at a showcase event where the shortlisted businesses told their stories and explained how the programme's support would make a difference to them and their communities.
Across the showcase we saw each of the community businesses shortlisted make reference to how they had been supporting each other's endeavours, and how the funding and business skills support would allow them to continue to do so – be that through the ability to be part of each other's supply chains, support the development of complimentary skills for vulnerable people, or simply be a hand to hold.
We had expected some cameraderie between the organisations, but the way they truly embraced and supported each other was unexpected and heart-warming. They have helped, and will continue to help, each other progress, reach out further into their communities and develop strategies to not just survive but thrive.
Their presentations highlighted the achievements each of the organisations had realised with limited formal support – from accessing funding grants and launching Kickstarter campaigns to outgrowing their current premises. It was clear that with additional business skills support from an organisation like M&S that they would continue to develop their long-term sustainability.
Sustainability of community organisations is crucial. They provide services that support some of the most vulnerable in our society – those that other programmes and larger organisations often cannot reach. Their history and organic growth create a reassuring environment for people to acknowledge and accept the help that they need, and they form the beating heart of their local communities.
The nature of how these organisations appear – sometimes by accident, often significantly volunteer-led – means that there is sometimes limited business skills support to empower the community businesses in traditional business situations. This includes things like pitching for funding, completing business support applications, understanding and implementing large scale processes (health and safety, food safety etc), and developing business plans for long term growth.
Due to this there are so many ways businesses like ours can provide access to resources which, in even just a short time, can have a significant impact. The support can provide the business model that strengthens their future while maintaining their social impact, and in turn increases the social impact of the larger business.
The success of shopping centres and areas densely populated with businesses, in turn creating a destination and focal point for a community, has long been proven. Through greater support, collaboration and recognition of each other's key offering, relationships can only strengthen the businesses involved, their reach locally and in turn, the UK economy.
I look forward to working with the seven community businesses that have secured our business skills support and funding from Power to Change over the coming months.
M&S Community Business Challenge Winners Revealed
Seven winners of the Power to Change/ M&S Community Business Challenge have been announced at a showcase event at The Florrie, Liverpool.


Meet Janice Jackola of Lebanon, OR. We first met Janice in 2008 when Tom spoke at a local business meeting. Janice worked with her brothers in the family logging business, and what he shared about using cash values in Whole Life insurance policies was nothing new to her.
Her brothers had owned participating Whole Life policies for years. They had borrowed from their policies for operating expenses of their business. What was new and different was how they could be paying themselves back for the use of their money and how they could use participating Whole Life policies to finance their personal life as well.
It's been a pleasure assisting Janice, her husband, Bob, her brothers and other family members over the years. As bookkeeper for the logging business, Janice made alterations to how they used their WL policies to better benefit themselves and their business. With happy phone calls Janice has divulged how she has used her and Bob's policies personally to better manage their expenses.
Recently Janice began a new business venture with her daughter, Janelle. A baking business offering cupcakes was one of their first thoughts because Janice had previously baked and sold birthday and wedding cakes with great success. They went looking for baking equipment. Their search led to donut making equipment in excellent condition and at a reasonable price. Considering that Lebanon did not have a donut shop, their decision was made.
With the purchase of the equipment in February of 2016, they were introduced to a donut shop owner in Portland, Oregon. He invited them to his shop to work alongside him to learn donut making skills. After spending a week with him, they had the confidence they needed for the next step…finding a location for their business.
"That's when we found this really cool, old building that was built in the 1900s, in downtown Lebanon. We renovated the building and started the business." Facebook was full of excitement for the shop to open. Lebanon, a small town with big taste, was hungry for donuts!
Besides offering their customers great donuts and coffee, Janice and Janelle have given Sugar Vibes a warm, friendly atmosphere making it a comfortable place for people to gather. "Besides the regular line of customers just coming for donuts, we have moms with small babies, church groups, young college age students, and older people coming here to enjoy the morning and talk with each other." Janice says it's fun to see their customers forget about phones and computers in favor of talking with other customers gathered in the shop.
Congratulations to great people and a great business, serving the community of Lebanon, Oregon!
* Update: Janice and her daughter have just recently opened a second location in the rural town of Sweet Home, Oregon.


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How to be a graciously secure Airbnb host
Charles Cooper October 3, 2016
Diana Lavery's Airbnb house guest was a fan of Game of Thrones. So much so that he used her HBO subscription to pirate the entire series.
"I got a slap on the wrist from HBO and my cable provider because of it," says Lavery, an Airbnb host in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. "But that was the only problem I've had."
With the advent of the so-called sharing economy, more than 60 million people have stayed with Airbnb hosts in 191 nations. And security experts worry that the popularity of short-term rentals will attract more attention from casual hackers looking to exploit poor security practices to steal credentials, infect machines, or even spy on browsing patterns.
Intruders mimicking Airbnb can also dupe hosts and guests into unknowingly revealing account passwords in response to phishing emails or text messages. At that point, they can use the compromised account to set up phony listings and get unwary guests to pay by bank wire transfer outside the Airbnb payment system.
"Consider the following analogy," says security researcher Jeremy Galloway. "You should not really worry about bank robbers, but you should worry about casual thieves checking your car door to see if it's unlocked. Attacks on short-term rentals are most likely crimes of convenience rather than elaborate, coordinated operations."
Galloway says people who rent out their properties on Airbnb are not always aware of the magnitude of the cyberthreats and thus fail to take necessary precautions. He warns that most short-term rentals are probably less secure than the run-of-the-mill coffee shop or airport network.
"If anything, Airbnb and [other rental providers] should recommend that hosts never share their personal Wi-Fi connection," he advises.
An Airbnb representative was not immediately available for comment. But the company has previously issued statements making clear that guests ought to understand that they may not be accessing a secure network.
No need for paranoia
Still, hosts can take steps to protect their network security by adopting common-sense measures.
Noelle Bounds, an Airbnb host who rents out a sofa in her Bay Area apartment, doesn't leave her work laptop unguarded and also takes it with her when she's away from her home.
"I'm working at home nearly all the time that a guest is using the apartment," she says, adding that "the worst problem so far is that somebody didn't clean up the stove after using it."
As a matter of practice, hosts should keep temptation at a distance and remove physical access to networking hardware by storing units in a locked room, or at least lock the device away in a hardware enclosure. They should also keep their network hardware up-to-date and change the default password for all networking gear.
Instead of sharing a personal Wi-Fi connection with guests, set up a seperate, cheap line, and occasionally back up the router firmware. And to help put guests in a security state of mind, add a note about online safety in the guest welcome guide.
Galloway, who delivered a Black Hat presentation about short-term rental security challenges, offers a checklist for hosts to follow:
Use a VPN on your computer and mobile device
Be aware and skeptical when using new or untrusted networks
Disable WPAD in your browser
Use the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere plug-in
Encourage service providers to use HSTS
Check to see if guests have physical access to networking hardware
If you cannot trust the network, Use 4G/LTE
Use plain-text protocols such as POP3, FTP, and HTTP
Blindly trust unknown networks
Enter credentials unless you're 100 percent sure that the request is authentic
Assume that you're not important enough to be a target
Assume that attacks will be sophisticated. Most are simple.
And when all else fails, a host can always take an old-school approach.
"I did have one guest once who was asking me pointed questions about my security and whether I was afraid to be there by myself with strangers," Lavery recalled. "He looked a little aggressive. But after I explained to him that my dogs are protective, and that I have a rifle, he quieted down and behaved himself."
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Charles Cooper, a contributing writer, has been writing about technology and business for three decades. Based in San Francisco, he has held senior positions at a number of publications. He was most recently executive editor at CNET News, where he often tortured Seth Rosenblatt.


In order to succeed in a corporate world or with your team members, it is wise to spend some time figuring out your personality traits, strengths, and weaknesses. Enneagram is a powerful personality system that enables you to figure out what makes you tick and how you can change things around to work with others in a more positive fashion. Know Your Type uses this system to identify your personality traits on iPhone.
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Know Your Type is a helpful tool for those who make a living out of interacting with others and working in teams. It figures out your personality traits and matches them up against those of your colleagues'. This could be an eye opener if you have never tackled personality systems in the past.


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Maximum of a normal random vector
Paolo Maccallini in Mathematics June 8, 2019 October 4, 2021 2,533 Words
Ettore Majorana hadn't got MATLAB
When Ettore Majorana first met Enrico Fermi, between the end of 1927 and the beginning of 1928, Fermi – who was already an acclaimed scientist in the field of nuclear physics – had just solved an ordinary differential equation of the second-order (whose solution is now commonly named the Thomas-Fermi function) – by numerical integration. It required a week of assiduous work for him to accomplish this task, with the aid of a hand calculator. Fermi showed the results (a table with several numbers) to Majorana, who was a 21 years old student of electrical engineering who had some vague idea of switching from the field of boring ways of providing electrical energy for boring human activities, to the quest for the intimate structure of matter, under the guide of Fermi, the brightest Italian scientific star of that period.
Majorana looked at the numerical table, as I wrote, and said nothing. After 24 hours he came back to Fermi's lab and compared his own results with the table made by Fermi: he concluded that Fermi didn't make any mistake, and he decided that it could be worth working with him, so he switched from engineering to physics (Segrè E. 1995, page 69-70).
Only recently it has been possible to clarify what kind of approach to the equation Majorana had in those hours. It is worth mentioning that he not only was able to prove that the equation admitted in fact a unique solution (this is not trivial, because the theorem of Cauchy can not be applied directly to that equation and Fermi did not cared to solve this problem); he also solved the equation in a semianalytic way (by series expansion), with a method that has the potential to be generalized to a whole family of differential equations and that has been published only 75 years later (Esposito S. 2002), after the discovery of the notes Majorana wrote in those hours. He used this solution, not a numerical one, to derive a table that could be used for a comparison with the solution by Fermi. This mathematical discovery has been possible only because the notes that Majorana wrote in those two days have been found and studied by Salvatore Esposito, with the help of other physicists.
I won't mention here the merits that Majorana has in theoretical physics, mainly because I am very very far from understanding even a bit of his work. But as Erasmo Recami wrote in his biography of Majorana (R), a paper published by Majorana in 1932 about the relativistic theory of particles with arbitrary spin (Majorana E. 1932) contained a mathematical discovery that has been made independently in a series of papers by Russian mathematicians only in the years between 1948 and 1958, while the application to physics of that method – described by Majorana in 1932 – has been recognized only years later. The fame of Majorana has been constantly growing for the last decades.
The notes that Majorana took between 1927 and 1932 (in his early twenties) have been studied and published only in 2002 (Esposito S. et al. 2003). These are the notes in which the solution of the above-mentioned differential equation has been discovered, by the way. In these 500 pages, there are several brilliant calculations that span from engineering to statistics, from advanced mathematical methods for physics to, of course, theoretical physics. Some notes on classical mechanics are also included. In what follows I will go through what is probably the least difficult and important page among them, the one where Majorana presents an approximated expression for the maximum value of density of the largest of the components of a normal random vector. I have already written in this blog some notes about the multivariate normal distribution (R). But how can we find the maximum component of such a vector and how does it behave? Let's assume that each component has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. Then we easily find that the analytical expressions of the cumulative distribution function and of the density of the largest component (let's say Z) of an m-dimensional random vector are
We can't have an analytical expression for the integral, but it is relatively easy to use Simpson's method (see the code at the end of this paragraph) to integrate these expressions and to plot their surfaces (figure 1).
Figure 1. Density (left) and cumulative distribution function (right) for the maximum of the m components of a normal random vector. Numerical integration with MATLAB (by Paolo Maccallini).
Now, what about the maximum reached by the density of the largest among the m components? It is easy, again, using our code, to plot both the maximum and the time in which the maximum is reached, in function of m (figure 2, dotted lines). I have spent probably half an hour in writing the code that gives these results, but we usually forget how fortunate we are in having powerful computers on our desks. We forget that there was a time in which having an analytical solution was almost the only way to get mathematical work done. Now we will see how Majorana obtained the two functions in figure 2 (continuous line), in just a few passages (a few in his notes, much more in mine).
Figure 2. The time in which Z reaches its largest value (left) and the largest value (right) in the function of the dimension of the normal random vector. The two curves in dotted lines are obtained through numerical integration (Simpson's method) while the continuous lines are the function obtained by Majorana in an analytical way.
% file name = massimo_vettore_normale
% date of creation = 22/05/2019
delta = 0.01;
n(1) = 0.
for i=2:1:301;
n(i) = delta + n(i-1);
n_2(i) = - n(i);
for i=1:1:301
f(i) = 0.39894228*( e^(  (-0.5)*( n(i)^2 )  ) );
for i=1:1:3
sigma(1) = 0.;
sigma(3) = sigma(1) + delta*( f(1) + ( 4*f(2) ) + f(3) )/3;
sigma(2) = sigma(3)*0.5;
for j=2:1:299
sigma(j+2) = sigma(j) + delta*( f(j) + ( 4*f(j+1) ) + f(j+2) )/3;
F(i) =  0.5 + sigma(i);
F_2(i) = 1-F(i);
m(i) = i;
F_Z (i,j) = F(i)^j;
F_Z_2 (i,j) = F_2(i)^j;
f_Z (i,j) = 0.39894228*j*( F(i)^(j-1) )*( e^(  (-0.5)*( n(i)^2 )  ) );
f_Z_2 (i,j) = 0.39894228*j*( F_2(i)^(j-1) )*( e^(  (-0.5)*( n(i)^2 )  ) );
endfor
mesh(m(1:2:100),n(1:10:301),F_Z(1:10:301,1:2:100));
mesh(m(1:2:100),n_2(2:10:301),F_Z_2(2:10:301,1:2:100));
xlabel('m');
ylabel('t');
legend('F',"location","NORTHEAST");
Asymptotic series
I have always been fascinated by integrals since I encountered them a lifetime ago. I can still remember the first time I learned the rule of integration by parts. I was caring for my mother who was dying. That night I was in the hospital with her, but she couldn't feel my presence, she had a tumour in her brain and she was deteriorating. And yet I was not alone, because I had my book of mathematics and several problems to solve. But when my mind was hit by the disease for the first time, about a year later, and I lost the ability to solve problems, then real loneliness knocked at my door.
Now, why am I talking about the integration by parts? Well, I have discovered a few days ago, while studying Majorana's notes, that integration by parts – well known by students to be a path towards recursive integrations that usually leads to nowhere – is, in fact, a method that can be useful for developing series that approximate a function for large values of x (remember that Taylor's polynomials can approximate a function only for values of x that are close to a finite value , so we can't use them when x goes to ∞). Majorana used one such a series for the error function. He developed a general method, which I tried to understand for some time, without being able to actually get what he was talking about. His reasoning remained in the back of my mind for days, while I moved from Rome to Turin, where I delivered a speech about a paper on the measure of electric impedance in the blood of ME/CFS patients; and when I cried, some minutes later, looking at my drawings put on the screen of a cinema, Majorana was with me, with his silence trapped behind dark eyes. A couple of days later, I moved to a conference in London, searching for a cure that could perhaps allow my brain to be normal again and I talked with a famous scientist who worked on the human genome project. Majorana was there too, in that beautiful room (just a few metres from Parliament Square), sitting next to me. I could feel his disappointment, I knew that he would have found a cure, had he had the chance to examine that problem. Because as Fermi once said to Bruno Pontecorvo, "If a problem has been proposed, no one in the world can resolve it better than Majorana" (Esposito S. et al. 2003). Back in Rome, I gave up with the general method by Majorana and I found the way to calculate the series from another book. The first tip is to write the error function as follows:
Now by integrating by parts, one gets
But we can integrate by parts one other time, and we get
And we can go on and on with integration by parts. This algorithm leads to the series
whose main property is that the last addend is always smaller (in absolute value) than the previous one. And even though this series does not converge (it can be easily seen considering that the absolute value of its generic addend does not go to zero for k that goes to ∞, so the Cauchy's criteria for convergence is not satisfied) it gives a good approximation for the error function. From this series, it is easy to calculate a series for the Gaussian function (which is what we are interested in):
A clever way to solve a transcendental equation if you don't want to disturb Newton
Taking only the first two terms of the series, we have for the cumulative distribution function of Z the expression:
The further approximation on the right is interesting, I think that it comes from a well-known limit:
Now we can easily calculate the density of Z by deriving the cumulative distribution function:
With a further obvious approximation, we get:
In order to find the value of x in which this density reaches its largest value, we have to search for the value of x in which its derivative is zero. So we have to solve the following equation:
Which means that we have to solve the transcendental equation:
Majorana truncated the second member of the equation on the right and proposed as a solution the following one:
Then he substituted again this solution in the equation, in order to find ε:
With some further approximations, we have
So Majorana's expression for the value of x in which the density of Z reaches its maximum value is
I have tried to solve the transcendental equation with Newton's method (see the code below) and I found that Majorana's solution is a very good one (as you can see from figure 3). Now, If we compare the approximation by Majorana with what I obtained using numerical integration at the beginning (figure 2) we see that Majorana found a very good solution, particularly for the value of . Note: the transcendental equation that has been solved here seems the one whose solution is the Lambert W function, but it is not the same!
Figure 3. The value of x in which the density of Z reaches its largest value. Majorana's solution (continuous line) and a numerical solution obtained by means of Newton's method (dotted line).
Figure 4. From the original manuscript by Majorana, which can be found here (page 70). These are some of the passages that I have discussed here.
% file name = tangenti
x(1) = 1;            %the initial guess
for j = 2:1:1000
f(j-1) = exp( 0.5*( x(j-1)^2 ) ) - ( m(i)/( x(j-1)*sqrt(2*pi) ) );
f_p(j-1) = x(j-1)*exp( 0.5*( x(j-1)^2 ) ) + ( m(i)/( (x(j-1)^2)*sqrt(2*pi) ) );
x(j) = x(j-1) - ( f(j-1)/f_p(j-1) );
if ( abs(x(j)) < 0.001 )
max_t (i) = x(j);
% the aproximations by Majorana
max_t_M (j) = sqrt(log(j^2)) - ( log(sqrt(2*pi*log(j^2)))/sqrt(log(j^2)) );
% it plots the diagrams
plot(m(1:1:100),max_t (1:1:100),'.k','Linewidth', 1)
xlabel('m')
ylabel('time for maximum value')
plot(m(1:1:100),max_t_M (1:1:100),'-k','Linewidth', 1)
legend('numerical integration',"Majorana's approximation", "location", 'southeast')
From 1934 to 1938 Majorana continued his studies in a variety of different fields (from game theory to biology, from economy to quantistic electrodynamics), but he never published again (R), with the exception for a work on the symmetric theory of electrons and anti-electrons (Majorana E. 1937). But it has been concluded by biographers that the discoveries behind that work were made by Majorana about five years earlier and yet never shared with the scientific community until 1937 (Esposito S. et al. 2003). And in a spring day of the year 1938, while Mussolini was trying his best to impress the world with his facial expressions, Ettore became a subatomic particle: his coordinates in space and their derivatives with respect to time became indeterminate. Whether he had lived in a monastery in the south of Italy or he had helped the state of Uruguay in building its first nuclear reactor; whether he had seen the boundless landscapes of Argentina or the frozen depth of the abyss, I hope that he found, at last, what he was so desperately searching for.
He had given his contribution to humanity, so whatever his choice has been, his soul was already safe. And as I try to save my own soul, going back and forth from mathematics to biology, in order to find a cure, I can feel his presence. The eloquence of his silence trapped behind dark eyes can always be clearly heard if we put aside the noise of the outside world. And it tells us that Nature has a beautiful but elusive mathematical structure which can nevertheless be understood if we try very hard.
In the meanwhile, I write these short stories, like a mathematical proof of my own existence, in case I don't have further chances to use my brain.
Until time catches me.
Ettore Majorana
Paolo Maccallini Una vita ___ interrotta.
Published June 8, 2019 October 4, 2021
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These notes by Majorana have been made available in English at the following link. I have learnt several usefull tricks in mathematical methods just reading them, now and then.
https://www.academia.edu/14048778/Ettore_Majorana_Notes_on_Theoretical_Physics


So here we are at the beginning of a brand new year!
Did any of you make New Year resolutions?
I do set goals, some are short-term and some are further into the future. I don't do S.M.A.R.T. goals unless there is a specific time I need to get something done (for example I want to write a book between now and May when I'll be presenting at the Teach Them Diligently convention in Mobile, so I will have it available at my booth).
I also don't do BHAGs. I know the idea of aiming for the stars is great. I know that most people think that if you aim for the stars and hit the trees, then at least you got off the ground, but I feel it sets you up for failure when you are not able to actually hit the stars.
Yes, you need to set goals that push you, but they need to have a strategy in place behind the goal so you will actually accomplish the goal. Paul Evans has a program he calls the 5 Stones that does an excellent job of doing just that. I've used it for a couple years and I'm achieving my goals more than ever.
I've spent time over the past two weeks updating my Life Plan (another great idea, this one I got from Micheal Hyatt). I read over it a couple times a year but between the end and the beginning of a new year, I read to update, see if any of my "current reality" has a new look that moves me closer to the place I want to end up.
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Madison County continues to enjoy steady growth; ranks in the top five
By NIKKI ROWELL,
Madison County has seen steady growth for the last several consecutive years, according to county tax assessor Norman Cannady Jr.
This year is no different as evidenced by the 2019 preliminary tax roll. The county saw an increase of approximately $340 million in true value.
Cannady said that Madison County continues to be a leader in growth in the state.
"The county has seen growth of 2.5 percent, with an approximate $340 million increase in true value," Cannady said. "The total true value for the county is now nearly $13 billion."
New construction alone has added close to $25 million of assessed value for the county. More than 3,300 new homestead applications were processed by Cannady's office between January 1 and April 1.
The total real and personal property parcel count for Madison County is now just under 59,000. This is an increase of 640 from last year.
The county's personal property growth rate is 3.1 percent.
"I'm very pleased with the stability of Madison County's growth," Cannady said. "Madison County is ranked in the top five in the state."
This year also saw 650 new residential homes in the county, which is 50 less than last year. However, Cannady said the numbers fluctuate some from year to year.
Cannady touted the county's leadership, services and school district as being the driving forces behind the area's growth.
"Madison County continues to see steady growth year after year," Cannady said. "The hard work of our leadership, law enforcement, fire protection and our school serves to encourage the residential, commercial and industrial development that allows Madison County to flourish."
"The county has continued to see steady growth for several years," he added.
Cannady presented the 2019 preliminary tax roll at the recent meeting of the board of supervisors.
The board moved to accept the tax roll and set the date to hear protests as August 5.
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Foxconn's Wisconsin factory never made sense
Anna Hensel@ahhensel	 January 31, 2019 12:30 PM
The logo of Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is seen on top of the company's headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Image Credit: Tyrone Siu / Reuters
More than a year after committing to build a $10 billion factory in the state of Wisconsin, Foxconn threw in the towel on the "factory" concept yesterday, telling Reuters that the company now thinks it will be too expensive to manufacture LCD panels in Wisconsin as initially intended.
A Foxconn source also told Reuters that while it initially planned to hire 5,200 workers in Wisconsin by 2020, the company now expects that number to be closer to 1,000 workers. The Apple supplier said it still intends to hire for the 13,000 jobs it previously committed to in Wisconsin — but that the majority of those jobs will be in research and development, as well as packaging and assembly operations.
In a statement to CNN Business, Foxconn said that "we remain committed to the Wisconsin Valley Science and Technology Park project, the creation of 13,000 jobs, and to our long-term investment in Wisconsin. The global market environment that existed when the project was first announced has changed. As our plans are driven by those of our customers, this has necessitated the adjustment of plans for all projects, including Wisconsin. While the project's focus will be adjusted to meet these new realities, the Wisconsin project remains a priority for our company."
Wisconsin lawmakers failed to do their basic due diligence in offering a huge incentive package — one that totaled around $4 billion by the time the ink dried — to a company that has a history of reneging on its promises to build factories. But even setting that aside, the Foxconn deal was perplexing from the start. In their rush to take credit for bringing "high-tech, high-paying" jobs to the state, lawmakers cooked up a jobs package that didn't even make sense for the area.
When Foxconn announced the deal in July 2017, the company said the facility would initially create 3,000 jobs, with an average wage of $53,000 per year plus benefits. That's a good wage — but was only about 50 cents more per hour than the average wage in Wisconsin at the time. And Wisconsin's state unemployment rate at the time was just 3.3 percent — the lowest it had been in a decade. Foxconn was going into a tight labor market and offering a wage that wasn't all that enticing. No wonder Foxconn reportedly had trouble finding enough qualified applicants at a series of local job fairs.
For all of those good but not exceptionally well-paying jobs, Wisconsin would have paid Foxconn about $230,000 per job. That's because then-Gov. Scott Walker's thesis was that the new Foxconn factory would usher in the creation of a "Wisconn Valley." Foxconn's presence would attract suppliers and new tech startups, and serve as the pillar for a new high-tech manufacturing hub. But Gov. Walker's thesis ran counter to all of the evidence of the lessons offered by U.S. tech ecosystems like Silicon Valley — most companies here don't place their R&D operations in the same locales as their manufacturing operations.
But probably the worst part of the whole deal was that Foxconn decided to build its new plant in a place that was clearly not equipped to handle thousands of workers. Foxconn settled on Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — a "village" with 26,000 people. Mount Pleasant's location was desirable in that it's a halfway point between Milwaukee and Chicago — meaning that there is a large talent pool nearby. But Foxconn also faced an uphill battle in that workers who prefer living and working in urban areas had two better options to choose from.
Additionally, building a large factory in a small area required expensive infrastructure investments that wouldn't have been necessary if Foxconn had chosen a more practical area. The roads around the proposed plant had to be widened in order to make room for the theoretical increase in traffic and semi-trucks transporting goods. Homes had to be torn down in order to make way for the factory and to do so, the Mount Pleasant Village Board decided to use eminent domain, which allows local government entities to seize land for public use.
Typically, the government has to compensate landowners; however, the Village Board decided to declare some of the properties blighted — meaning that they believed the properties were in such bad shape, they didn't need to pay the homeowners. In retaliation, homeowners filed a lawsuit, though Mount Pleasant was able to buy out at least four of those landowners in exchange for dropping out of the lawsuit.
If there's no manufacturing being done, it begs the question of why Mount Pleasant needed to move heaven and earth to get land for Foxconn. If Foxconn ends up bringing mostly office jobs, couldn't it have found vacant office space in the area?
In a way, the Foxconn saga has almost run counter to the Amazon HQ2 deal. While both companies have scaled back on the number of jobs initially offered, Amazon at least admitted before striking deals with cities that there wasn't enough talent to bring the number of jobs initially promised. It decided to go with two metro areas — New York City and Washington, D.C. — that it figured had the best chance at providing enough workers at the skill level it needed. Meanwhile, Foxconn continues to try to squeeze an obscene number of jobs into an area not equipped for it.
Now, Foxconn says that the majority of the 13,000 jobs it brings will be research and development jobs. And not all of them will go in Mount Pleasant which, in partnership with Racine County, offered $764 million in tax credits to get a Foxconn facility constructed in the area. Economists point out that few companies, or even research universities, have R&D divisions that big. If Foxconn doesn't bring the promised number of jobs, it won't get the entire $4 billion subsidy package, but there are some tax credits — like one for capital investment — that it appears the company will still receive even if it brings fewer jobs.
Foxconn has committed to creating a Wisconsin-focused venture fund, as well as investing $100 million into a research facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — but the original vision of making Wisconsin the center of high-tech manufacturing in the U.S. will almost certainly not come to fruition. At best, Foxconn becomes one of many corporate pillars in Wisconsin, but not the singular driver of tech growth in the state.
While there's plenty of reasons to argue that states should avoid offering incentive packages to individual companies altogether, Wisconsin's Foxconn debacle offers up another lesson: Bigger jobs announcements aren't always better. Give a large number of tax breaks to a company that promises to bring an unrealistic number of jobs to your area, and you're more likely than not to wind up with egg on your face.


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12:08 pm January 11, 2022 By Roland Hutchinson
Asus unveiled a new gaming tablet at CES, the Asus ROG Flow Z13 and now we get to see the device in action in a new video.
The video below from Unbox Therapy gives us a look at the new Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet and its range of features.
As we can see from the video the Asus ROG Flow Z13 is designed to work like a tablet and a laptop as it comes with a keyboard.
The device is powered by a choice of 12th generation Intel Core processor and it comes with NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti GPU and it comes with a 13.4 inch WUXGA display and it comes with a built in kickstand and a detachable keyboard.
The new Asus gaming tablet features 8GB of RAM as standard and this can be increased to 16GB of RAM and it also comes with 512GB of storage.
The tablet comes with a wide range of ports and it features an 8-megapixel camera that can do 720p video, there is also Dolby Atmos audio and more.
As we can see from the video the device looks impressive, you can find out more details about it over at the Asus website.
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Rasmussen holds a degree in painting and graphic arts from the Aarhus Art Academy, Denmark. During his studies, Rasmussen developed close relationships with the local music community and designed LP covers and concert posters for many leading local acts.
After graduation, he taught photography and painting for ten years before becoming chief designer of textiles and imprints for Scandinavia's largest sportswear manufacturer, advancing to the position of president of the company's printing plant before resigning to found 2R Marketing, which quickly became Denmark's leading High End audio import company.
Gryphon Audio Designs was founded in 1985 as an offshoot of 2R Marketing, The first product, the now legendary Gryphon Head Amp, grew from a one-off spare time project developed only for the designers' own home systems. At the 1986 Chicago Consumer Electronics Show, a respected Japanese distributor expressed interest in the product. Soon after, the Head Amp was voted "Best Buy" by the Japanese audio press. Although the Gryphon project was initially strictly a hobby, not an actively pursued commercial venture, demand generated by reviews and word-of-mouth acclaim led to the formal establishment of Gryphon Audio Designs as a separate corporate entity.
Following the immediate success of the Gryphon brand, all import business was phased out in 1993, so that Rasmussen could dedicate his efforts entirely to Gryphon.
Gryphon Audio Designs achieved immediate and on-going global acclaim for state of the art performance, intuitive ergonomics and the stunning beauty of the cost-no-object Gryphon preamplifiers and power amplifiers. Rasmussen's background in fine arts and industrial design gives every Gryphon product a distinctive, luxuriant finish which arises organically out of the audio circuit design and the user interface for a truly unique integration of form and function.
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Whether they're wreaking havoc across the United States, Europe, Asia, South America or Australia, showering fans with seemingly endless bottles of champagne, ripping up the music charts with immense original tracks, unbelievable collaborations and huge remix cuts from the A-list elite, or playing their part in the incredible rise of the Belgian mega-festival Tomorrowland, award-winning Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have become leading lights in the new wave of international dance music currently taking the planet by storm. The brotherly duo, whose electrifying live combination of DJ sets and crowd-busting MCing has propelled them towards party notoriety, have been on the road since the mid-2000s and as each year has progressed, so their profile has become ever more significant. Scooping the hotly contested 'Breakthough DJ' award at the 2013 International Dance Music Awards (IMDAs), Dimitri & Mike are fast becoming major players and highly reputed producers, scoring their first ever Beatport #1 in March with the Moguai co-production 'Mammoth' (a track that sat atop Beatport for an incredible FOUR weeks, dominated global music charts, was named 'Track of the Month' by tastemaker site Dancing Astronaut and secured the impressive position of most played single throughout Miami Music Week itself) before repeating the feat in April with their second #1, the huge GTA/Wolfpack collaboration 'Turn It Up'. Currently sitting at #38 in the DJ Mag Top 100, the pair work consistently with the likes of Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records, Tiësto's Musical Freedom, Spinnin Records, Size Records, Axtone, Doorn Records, Wall Recordings and their own incendiary imprint Smash The House, proving themselves an increasingly integral part of modern day electronica's elite. From their early works which include the Belgian #1 'Liquid Skies' and the heavily supported reworking of Technotronic's classic 'Pump Up The Jam', through to recent hits like 'Madagascar', 'Rej', 'Alarma', 'Momentum', 'Loops & Tings', 'Generation X', 'Ocarina' and 'Wakanda' (#2 on Beatport and officially the most highly played track of Ultra Music Festival 2013), plus collaborations with Steve Aoki & Angger Dimas (Phat Brahms), Lil Jon and Coone (Madness), the Swedish House Mafia ('Leave The World Behind' Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. Swedish House Mafia Remix), Axwell ('One Look' DVLM & Axwell Remix) there remains absolutely no let up in the continual onslaught of high energy production coming out of the brothers' studios. Their smash hit 'The Hum' netted them the #1 single spot in their native Belgium going platinum, a feat that was repeated just a few months later with their 'Higher Place' collaboration penned with R&B superstar Ne-Yo, which spent an astonishing 10 weeks atop the singles chart in their home country. The track also went on to secure the #1 Billboard Dance Chart spot, furthermore picking up a trend as one of the most Shazamed tracks at festivals including Tomorrowland, TomorrowWorld, Ultra Miami and Creamfields – but Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are never one to conform to standard practice and continue to push the boundaries of their musical scope. This was proven when the bothers, alongside previous collaborators Steve Aoki and Ummet Ozcan, were chosen to produce the official Belgian Red Devils Euro 2016 football anthem 'Melody'. Their crowning position at #1 in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll will only see the duo propelled to even greater heights. Their relentless drive to continually provide their solid and loyal fanbase with even greater and more exciting shows, music, and madness, is likely to see Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike ascend even beyond the top tier of the electronic music scene. Their appeal and genuine love for what they do has been behind the impressive accolades the brothers have received so far, and they're only just getting started.
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Nature of Incident: Homicide Investigation
Report Number: 20-19061
Location: 900 block of Woodlawn Drive, Thousand Oaks
Date & Time: February 4, 2020 @ 2:23 PM
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At about 2:23 PM, Ventura County Fire Department and Thousand Oaks Police Department personnel responded to a call of a subject not breathing at a residence in the 900 block of Woodlawn Drive in Thousand Oaks. Upon arrival, they discovered an unresponsive adult female with what appeared to be multiple stab wounds. There was also a conscious adult male with additional injuries. Both subjects were transported to a local hospital. The female was pronounced deceased at the hospital and the male remains in stable condition.
The investigation has led investigators to believe this was a family disturbance that escalated into violence and no suspects are outstanding. Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to contact Detective Frances Saleh at (805) 384-4729.
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Q: p-value expressed in terms of angles Let $X_1,...,X_n$ be i.i.d. random variables with $E(X_i)=\mu$ and $V(X_i)=\sigma^2$. Suppose we are to test $H_0 : \mu=0$ against $H_1 : \mu >0$, we try to base our test statistic on $\tau_n = \frac{\sqrt{n}\bar{X}}{s_n}$ where $s_n$ is the sample standard deviation. Again, see that $\tau_n$ can be written as $\sqrt{n-1}\cot \theta$ where $\theta$ is the angle between $(1,....,1)'/ \sqrt{n}$ and $(X_1,...,X_n)$.
It can also be observed that $\tau_n$ is a monotonic decreasing function of $\theta$. My question is can we find the p-value expressed in terms of the observed $\theta$, say $\theta_0$?