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THE LATE LATE SHOW with JAMES CORDEN will return to London, England to broadcast four special episodes from the historic Central Hall Westminster (Photo: CBS/ Sky)
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James Corden is once again bringing his American chat show, The Late Late Show, over to the UK for a week of special episodes filmed in the capital.
Here's what to expect…
When are the shows on?
The shows are being aired in the UK on Tuesday to Friday evenings on Sky One at 10pm, from Tuesday 18 June to Friday 21 June.
Who is going to be on the UK shows?
There may only be four shows, but the team behind the series have locked in some seriously stellar names for the week, including:
Sir Ian McKellan
WOW!! The @latelateshow with @JKCorden is coming to London and they've only added @MichelleObama @Harry_Styles & #BenedictCumberbatch to the already AMAZING line-up. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/dXJ0GRIkxq
— Sky One (@SkyOne) June 10, 2019
What's going to happen on the shows?
There's a sketch in which many of the celebrities will play a dodgeball game.
Michelle Obama will be in a dodgeball sketch (Photo: CBS/ Sky0
Corden and others make up the team for dodgeball Photo: CBS /Sky
Then, there's going to be a bus tour, as Corden says: "There are star tours in LA, but they don't exist in London and the thinking was: What if we did a star tour for the stars and what if it was called James Corden's Star Star Tour: The Tour That Takes the Stars on Tour?"
The show will also take a quick jaunt over to Paris, where Corden will perform songs from Les Miserables in front of the Arc de Triomphe.
When and where are the shows filmed in the UK?
The shows aren't live, and are pre-recorded at 1pm each day at Westminster Central Hall in London.
Can I get tickets to be in the audience?
Tickets were available via Applause Store, but they have all been allocated now, so you'll just need to watch it on your TV instead. Last year, there were reportedly one million people who applied for the free tickets.
What does Corden say about the shows?
"My dodgeball skills leave a lot to be desired," he told USA Today.
When asked if Michelle Obama was good at dodgeball, he said: "Is anyone good at dodgeball, really? Is it a thing you're good at or is it a thing that you just happen to be in the right place at the right time?"
Corden said he was looking forward to returning to London.
"It will always be home and so it's a very lovely and special thing to be able to travel like that with a show like this."
He also talked about Donald Trump's recent visit to the UK: "It's weird seeing him with the queen. What can they possibly be talking about? Is someone like, 'This is Queen Elizabeth the 2nd,' and then he's like, 'This is Melania the third'?"
What happened in the previous times the show has filmed in the UK?
In 2017, Corden filmed a sketch with David Beckham, in which the two of them battled it out to be the next James Bond:
In 2018, Corden did a special version of Carpool Karaoke in which he toured around Liverpool with Paul McCartney, who surprised locals with a visit to his childhood home.
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Former duo UN member Kim Jeong Hoon gets enlisted for his military service on the 28th in front of 800 fans at replacement unit in GyeongGiDo.
His short hair was visible only after he took off the cap he has been wearing.
He said in an interview before he got enlisted, "I've decided on enlisting for military service. The 2-3 years period when I was not in Korea, I had a lot of good and fun experience overseas."
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"We are expecting more than 50 international speakers in the field of tennis-specific sports medicine, which includes sports medicine physicians, orthopaedic sports surgeons, physical therapists, athletic trainers, coaches and sport scientists," explains Jayanthi. "Emory Sports Medicine is proud to serve as one of the supporters of this World Congress with members of our Tennis Medicine Program as active participants in the event."
The Emory tennis medicine, with collaboration from the Association of Tennis Professionals, the Women's Tennis Association, the United States Tennis Association, and the International Tennis Federation, will participate in tennis-specific, on-court sport science sessions, main medical sessions, sports science and workshop sessions.
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The different fate of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh (and why design matters)
By RICCARDO BIANCHINI - 2019-11-01
There is little doubt that both the Macintosh and the Lisa, the "different twins" produced by Apple in the first half of the 1980s, have revolutionized the very concept of the personal computer. Yet, while the Macintosh project was an enormous success and (in different versions) sold millions of pieces from 1984 to 1995, the Lisa was discontinued in just three years, after selling a mere 100,000 machines, and is widely considered one of Apple's greatest commercial failures. But, why things went so differently if the two computers were so similar, apparently? Here, I try to investigate all this matter and explain the reasons for such a different fate.
The Apple Lisa (1983)
The development of the Lisa (whether this name is an acronym for "Locally Integrated Software Architecture" or was inspired by that of Job's first daughter is debated) begun in the late '70, initially intending to creating a relatively conventional machine aimed to replace the Apple II.
The inspiration to provide the new computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse reportedly came to Steve Job's mind after watching the Alto workstation and other projects during two visits at the Xerox PARC research center in Palo Alto in 1979; visits whose real importance some people dismissed later but that Jobs himself confirmed in his own words.
"I had three or four people who kept bugging me that I had my rear over the Xerox PARC and see what they were doing, and so I finally went over there. They were very kind and they showed what they were working on, and they showed me three things.
But I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't even really see the other two.
One of the things they showed me was object-oriented programming. They showed me that, but I didn't even see that. The other one they showed me was really a networked computer system, there were a hundred Alto computers, all networked, using e-mail, etc., etc.. I didn't even see that.
I was so blinded by the first thing they'd shown me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen in my life.
Now, remember, it was very flawed, we saw it was incomplete, (that) they'd done a bunch of things wrong; but what we did know at the time though it still was that the germ of an idea was there, and they'd done it very well.
And within, you know, ten minutes, it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this, someday." (from a 1995 video interview to Steve Jobs by Bob Cringely) °
The Apple Lisa in a 1983 advertising image
Released in January 1983, the Lisa featured a rather advanced hardware at the time, it was equipped with a 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, 1MB of RAM (expandable to 2MB), two 871K floppy drives, and an integrated 12" monochrome monitor with a resolution of 720 X 364 pixels, an optional external 5MB hard disk, and an input device almost never seen before: a box-shaped single-button mouse.
The operating system, called Lisa OS, offered a document-centered graphical interface based on the metaphor of a desktop, with icons, folders, and a trash bin.
That was a complete overturning of the then-usual approach. For example, instead of launching a program and thereafter creating or opening a file with it, you had just to click on a document, launching the correct application and everything else was up to the OS, which managed the whole process transparently.
The computer was also bundled with a suite of seven applications, including a word processor, a bitmap painting program, and a spreadsheet.
A drawing of the Lisa case from the U.S. patent Des. 277,573 (February 19, 1985), the patent file reports Bill Dresselhaus as the leading product designer, together with Kenneth Campbell, Clive Twyman, and Douglas Dayton
A screenshot of the Lisa Office System 3.1 (actual resolution); image: Nathan's Toasty Technology page (http://toastytech.com/)
A commercial photograph of the Xerox Star (1981); image by Digibarn Computer Museum reproduced under CC BY-NC 3.0 license
The development of the computer and its software had been long (some five years), expensive and troubled; the desire to recoup the high development costs led Apple to sell the Lisa at a price of nearly $10,000 in 1983, which was quite high even at those times (it was about twice that of an IBM XT with a 10MB hard disk).
Furthermore, Jobs left the Lisa team about one year before the launch of the new computer, for reasons that are not completely clear °°, eventually devoting himself to the creation of a new, simpler and cheaper machine: the Macintosh.
° As far as I know, when speaking about his visits to the PARC, Jobs always mentioned the Alto, which was a 6-year-old project, but never the Xerox Star that was under development at the PARC at that time (it was launched in 1981); possibly, either Jobs didn't see the Star and its OS at all, or the Xerox staff showed him only some kind of prototype of the Star's GUI which, for some aspects, is much more similar to that of the Lisa than the Alto's.
°° There are different theories about why Jobs left (or was fired from) the Lisa development team. In a 2013 interview, Steve Wozniak said it was because Jobs openly blamed Apple and the Lisa group for making the computer "too expensive" and called them "idiots". (https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/27/4468314/steve-wozniak-on-how-the-newton-changed-his-life). Another possible, yet less documented, the reason is that Jobs reportedly got upset with Apple's CEO of the time, Mike Scott, because he had refused to replace John Couch with Jobs himself as head of the Lisa division.
The Apple Macintosh (1984)
Apple started developing a new computer, cheaper than the planned flagship Lisa, in 1979, under the direction of Jef Raskin.
Yet, it was after Jobs joined the program that that small all-in-one machine, already dubbed Macintosh (from the name of a type of apple) *, got a GUI and a mouse.
Launched in January 1984, the Macintosh was apparently an "under-sized" version of the Lisa with much less (and not protected) memory (128KB vs 1MB), a lower graphic resolution (170,104 pixels vs 259,200 pixels), a smaller monitor (9" vs 12"), and no possibility to connect an hard disk, even as an option; two notable exceptions were the Motorola 68000 CPU higher speed (7.8 MHz vs 5 MHz) ** and the presence of sound capabilities (albeit limited to an 8-bit DAC) which made the Macintosh one of the first "multimedia" personal computers ever.
The stripped-down hardware, the simpler operating system, and as the possibility to take advantage from the experience Apple had already got with the expensive Lisa program, allowed the company to sell the Macintosh at a much lower price than its older sibling's (slightly less than $2,500, about $6,000 in 2018 dollars).
A 1984 advertisement of the Apple Macintosh
Two drawings of the Macintosh case from the U.S. patent Des. 285,607 (September 16, 1986), the patent file reports Steve Jobs, Jerrold "Jerry" Manock, and Terrel "Terry" Oyama as inventors
A screenshot of the Macintosh GUI (actual resolution); image: Nathan's Toasty Technology page (http://toastytech.com/)
The evolution of the Apple Macintosh from the 1984 model to the Color Classic II (1993)
A machine with quite limited hardware initially, the early Macintosh soon evolved into more powerful and equipped models, eventually disclosing its full potential. In 1984, Macintosh was bundled with two programs, the MacWrite word processor (with WYSIWYG capabilities, especially after the introduction of Apple's LaserWriter printer in 1985), and the MacPaint graphics editor. But the machine's success exploded after the introduction of third-party compatible applications – such as Microsoft Word, QuarkXpress, and Adobe Photoshop – that made it one of the world's favorite systems for desktop publishing. ***
* The name Macintosh (or Mac since 1998), which identifies all computers produced by Apple these days, was initially just that of the specific computer model presented in January 1984 , frequently (and incorrectly) called first Macintosh, original Macintosh or Macintosh 128K (which is actually that of a slightly technically different model released some months later).
** Though its clock speed was higher, the Macintosh CPU shared the system RAM with the video controller, thus remaining idle for about one clock cycle every four; therefore, the Macintosh computational power available for applications was the same or only marginally higher than Lisa's.
*** I still remember my shock when I watched my graduate thesis, I had written with the DOS-based WordStar word processor on an IBM XT, being transformed into something looking completely different using the MS Word (with fonts!) installed on a friend's Macintosh 512K and then printed with a LaserWriter.
A different fate: the commercial side
As anticipated earlier, despite being presented just some months apart (the Lisa was the first) and being so similar under many aspects, the Macintosh and the Lisa had a completely different sale history.
There are many commercial reasons for such a divergent fate.
The Lisa was an expensive machine aimed at the large business sector, to universities and research centers; priced at nearly $10,000 in 1983 (about 25,000 in 2018 dollars), it was something an individual would have hardly bought for personal use.
Not really a personal computer, the Lisa had to compete with high-performance Unix workstations such as the Sun 1 or the Apollo DN300 on one side, and with less expensive office computers like IBM's PC and XT on the other side.
Furthermore, the GUI of the Lisa, though revolutionary, was also too resource-hungry for the hardware of the time, making the Lisa a notoriously slow and underpowered machine.
For truth's sake, also the Macintosh 128K was a low-performance machine, but this was much more acceptable in a computer, mainly intended for writing text and creating simple graphics, whose cost was a quarter of Lisa's.
Another problem was the reference market; under some aspects the Lisa was an "easy-to-use" computer seemingly aimed to non-tech-expert users, while under other aspects it was an expensive workstation for the R&D, scientific, and software development sectors; actually, it was neither a truly personal computer nor a scientific workstation but something in between, a hybrid without a clearly identified commercial target.
Even after the price of the machine was reduced by half in 1984 with the Lisa 2 model, the number of potential customers remained simply too low for such a computer.
"The Lisa had its moments of brilliance, in a way it was very far ahead of its time, but (…) to our market, to our distribution channel $10,000 was impossible; so we produced a product that was a complete mismatch for the culture, the image, the distribution channels of our company, (and) for our current customers, none of them could afford a product like that, and it failed" (Steve Jobs, 1995)
In a nutshell, the concept of the Lisa was technically groundbreaking but commercially obsolete because still largely anchored to a 1970s market model (Jobs blamed the Apple management coming from Hewlett Packard and from the sector of large business equipment for that mistake).
At the same time, the original Macintosh represented the dawn of a new era, that of user-friendly personal computers, instead. It's not by chance that a Macintosh, maybe a second-hand one, had been the first computer of so many students.
Two 1980s Apple's commercials for the Lisa (left) and the Macintosh (right) which somehow reveal how the two products were aimed at different customer targets
Why product design played a crucial role too
Yet, my favorite explanation of why the Mac succeeded and the Lisa did not is a bit more subtle and also involves their different physical designs.
As said, the Lisa was intended as a serious business-oriented machine; consequently, also its appearance was rather serious, as one would have expected from a piece of expensive professional equipment, those days. Compared with the Macintosh, the Lisa was also almost three times bigger and heavier.
The Mac was instead a relatively tiny computer that could fit in almost any corner of a home, on a student's messy desk, on a shelf in your living room. Its small footprint made it easy to find a place for it, its weight was just 16.5 pounds, thus meaning you could move it from place to place with just one hand, as Jobs himself proudly demonstrated at the first Mac's public presentation on January 24. ("Never trust a computer you can't lift" the machine will say later during the same presentation). Moreover, the Mac looked "familiar" and unintimidating.
While the Lisa looked like a serious colleague, the Mac was a cheerful companion.
From a case design point of view, an important difference is also their different form factors.
We all have in mind that old advertising in which a Macintosh welcomes us with a "hello" written with a slightly childish script-type font. The computer vaguely resembles a puppy with a big head even if it has nor eyes neither a mouth (though the floppy disk slot could remind the latter), it's somewhat anthropomorphic as well. And it's all up to its form and dimensions to suggest such an image to our mind. That's pure genius.
Now, look at the Lisa; the basic elements are somewhat the same – the case gray-beige color, the graphical user interface, the Apple logo, the keyboard layout, the rectangular mouse – but the Lisa, with its horizontal shape and layout similar to that of a 1970s CP/M computer, resembles merely a machine; attached to the Mac the same mouse looks like a funny little animal's tail, to the Lisa it is just a peripheral device.
Jobs was perfectly aware of that, at the point he insisted that the Macintosh should have some kind of text-to-speech capabilities and could "speaks from itself" showing a sort of human personality, for example by saying, just after being pulled out of his bag at the 1984 launch, "Hello, I am the Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag!" Not just a person, this is a person with sentiments.
Job's idea to "demythologize" the computer was utterly revolutionary at the end of the 1970s, a period in which many were still perceiving computers as intimidating machines operated by an elite of hyper-specialized scientists.
Yet, despite its amicable and a bit infantile aspect, the Macintosh still was a real computer; it was not intended as a toy but as a piece of futurist technology. After all, no one would have bought just a toy for $2,500 indeed. That was one of Steve Jobs's greatest intuitions: good design helps you sell a product easily and at a higher price. A lesson that Jobs, and Apple at large, didn't forget and upon which all the subsequent products of the Cupertino-based company up to the iPhone have been cleverly based.
I frequently ask myself why such lesson hadn't been learned and applied also by all other tech manufacturers. Design (intended in a broad sense, not just aesthetics) has always demonstrated to be a key factor in a product's success; yet, in the last three decades, only a handful of computer manufacturers dared to apply an innovative design, and design ethics at large, to their products. Steve Jobs was neither a saint nor a prophet, and not everything he did was great, but back in the 1990s, his vision was certainly clearer and smarter than that of most technology companies' people today.
"sales and marketing people end up running the companies, and the product people get driven out of the decision-making forums and the companies forget what it means to make great products. (…) product sensibility and the product genius (…) get rotted out by people running these companies who have no conception of a good product versus a bad product, they have no conception of the craftsmanship that's required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product and they have really no feeling in their hearts usually about wanting to really help the customers"
"Designing a product is keeping 5,000 things in your brain, and fit them all together (…) in new and different ways to get what you want, and every day you discover something, that there is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. It's that process that is the magic." (Steve Jobs, 1995)
The famous cover of the first issue of Macworld (April 1984) with Steve Jobs and three Macintosh computers; the photo was shot by Will Mosgrove; image source: https://www.macworld.com/article/2091410/tech-events/cover-story-steve-jobs-and-the-first-issue-of-macworld.html


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Q: How to get specific commit from GitLab project I am developing (so new at it) an application with Windows Forms C# in Visual Studio and I need to get a specific commit from a GitLab project.
I have seen many examples about for GitHub. I have tried this way (do not know if is the correct one):
Download repository at a particular commit using the 7-digit SHA1:
 var Token = "xxxx";
 var url = "http://{my_domain}/{user}/{project_name}/repository/archive/{shor_id}.zip";
 var path = @"C:\GitLab\My_Projects";

      try
      {
         using (var client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient())
         {
            var credentials = string.Format(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}:", Token);
            credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(credentials));
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", credentials);
            var contents = client.GetByteArrayAsync(url).Result;
            System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(path, contents);
         }
      }
      catch (System.UnauthorizedAccessException)
      {
            backgroundWorker1.CancelAsync();
            Console.WriteLine("Problem downloading");
      }

But I get this error:
'System.UnauthorizedAccessException' in mscorlib.dll. Access denied to 'C:\GitLab\My_Projects'.

As I said before, I am new at it and probably may have said something stupid, sorry in advance.
If someone knows about the subject, I would love to explain or help me with this concept.

A: Finally, I achived the solution. I took another direction using GitLab API.
If someone would like to look at the result I arrived, here you have the code:
var url_sha = $"http://{my_gitlab_domain}/api/v4/projects/{id_project}/repository/archive.zip?
private_token={my_token}&sha={short_id_commit}";
var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.GetAsync(url_sha);
var local_path = @"C:\GitLab\My_Projects";

using (var stream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync())
{
     var fileInfo = new FileInfo(local_path + ".zip");
     using (var fileStream = fileInfo.OpenWrite())
     {
           await stream.CopyToAsync(fileStream);
     }
}

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Fiddler on the Roof documentary
"Fiddler": A theater giant, molded from tradition
Some of Broadway's best minds were trying to say what their prospective musical was about.
It had this dairyman … and his daughters … and the czar's soldiers … and …
But what, director Jerome Robbins asked, was it really about? Finally, someone said it was about tradition. "Write that!" Robbins said.
That story is told in "Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles," a richly crafted documentary at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13), on PBS. The film tells of a musical some people felt would fail.
It didn't. "Fiddler on the Roof" (shown here) won nine Tony awards and ran for 3,242 performances – at the time, the longest-running show in Broadway history. It's had five New York revivals, six tours and a movie. Read more…
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Burst of Broadway brightens PBS
Each year, PBS gives us a brief burst of Broadway.
For several Fridays, it has a mix of musicals and plays and such. Most years, that's important for those of us who live far from New York; this year – no Broadway, no tours – it's important for everyone.
That starts Friday, with James Corden in a wild comedy. It follows with a documentary … a musical rerun … and a Lea Salonga (shown here) concert, peppered with Broadway and movie hits.
There are flaws here and there. The comedy and the musical both suffer from weak scripts; one is salvaged (mostly) by gifted actors, the other by rousing, Irving Berlin songs. But the documentary is extraordinary – a rich, 56-year, six-nation journey. And Salonga is magnificent. Read more…
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Gross Bank Credit Deployment Improves A Little But Still Lopsided
By Dr Gyan Pathak
Gross Bank Credit in India has witnessed only a little improvement compared to last year. The latest data release by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows that both food and non-food credit deployment grew by only 7 per cent during November 2020- November 2021 as against 5.8 per cent a year before. Food credit was -2.6 per cent which deteriorated to a -7.4 per cent. However, non-food bank credit growth improved to 7.1 per cent compared to 5.9 per cent.
Credit to agriculture and allied activities continued to be robust at10.4 per cent in November 2021 as compared to 7.0 per cent in November2020. However, Credit growth to industry rose by 3.8 per cent in November 2021 from 0.7 per cent in November 2020.
For industries, size- wise, credit to medium industries registered a robust growth of 48.7 per cent in November 2021 as compared to 25.7 per cent last year. Credit to micro and small industries accelerated to 12.7 per cent in November 2021 from 0.6 per cent a year ago. However credit to large industries in November 2021 broadly remained at the same level as that of last year which was -0.4 per cent.
Within industry, credit growth to 'all engineering', 'beverage & tobacco', 'chemical & chemical products', 'infrastructure', 'mining & quarrying', 'rubber plastic & their products' and 'textiles' accelerated in November 2021 as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year.
However, credit growth to 'basic metal & metal products', 'cement & cement products', 'construction', 'food processing', 'gems & jewellery', 'glass & glassware', 'leather & leather products', 'paper & paper products', 'petroleum, coal products & nuclear fuels', 'vehicles, vehicles parts & transport equipment' and 'wood & wood products' decelerated and contracted.
Credit growth to services sector registered a growth of 3.6 per cent in November 2021 against 8.2 per cent a year ago. It is a clear sign that the sector is yet to emerge from the setback caused by the pandemic. Within the services sector credit to transport operators contracted from 6.8 per cent growth last year to only 3.3 per cent. It is indicative of the fact that despite the indication of economic revival and opening up the economy, the movement of people are still disrupted.
The robust growth in the Computer Software services from 1.2 per cent to 6.7 per cent shows the people are still more interested in working from home even more than the last year. It is also indicated in the sharp fall in the people's movement outside home. Tourism, Hotels, and Restaurants registered a sharp fall in the deployment of credit growth to this sector from 18.7 per cent last year to only 2.0 per cent in November 2021.
Surprisingly, the credit growth to shipping industry sharply rose from -5 per cent to 40.7 per cent. Aviation registered a fall from 21.8 per cent last year to only 6 per cent by November 2021. There was an improvement in professional services but it is still in negative. In November 2021 it was -4.7 per cent as against a growth of -32 per cent last year.
Trade sector still remains a matter of concern because the growth in deployment of credit shrank from 15.2 per cent last year to only 8.7 per cent in November 2021. The fall is reflected in both the wholesale (other than food procurement) and retail trade. Credit deployment growth in wholesale trade was reduced to 16.1 per cent by November 2021 as against 25.4 per cent a year ago. Same is the case with Commercial Real Estate, credit to which shrank from 3.5 per cent last year to only 0.4 per cent. Credit growth to other services combined shrank from 23.9 per cent last year to -1.7 per cent in 2021.
Personal loans continued to grow at a double digit rate and recorded growth of11.6 per cent in November 2021 vis-a-vis 9.2 per cent in November 2020 driven primarily by 'consumer durables' and 'vehicle loans'. Loans against gold jewellery growth rate last year was 56.6 per cent that is still high at 42 per cent.
Among the Priority Sector, credit deployment growth rate was in negative in 2021 was for Micro and Small Enterprises and Educational loans at -2.2 and -8.5 respectively. There is sharp rise in credit to Social infrastructure from 24.4 to 82.2 per cent. Thus uneven credit flow to various sectors remains a matter of serious concern. (IPA Service)
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Just got my rights back -- and here it is, brand new at Amazon Kindle and Smashwords! This book was deemed a Desert Isle Keeper at All About Romance and won the Golden Quill award as Best Regency of 2002. However, it has the greatest disparity of all my books, review-wise. It seems to be the kind of book that readers either love or hate, depending, frankly, on whether or not they find it funny. I think it's hilarious. If you don't, you probably won't like it!
When I first started writing DUEL OF HEARTS, I wanted to play with a concept that had intrigued me for a while: what happens when two "alpha" personality types are irresistibly attracted to each other? The adage has always been that opposites attract … but that's not always true. Sometimes like is drawn to like. It was easy for me to picture two gentle and retiring souls living happily together. But two fiery, dominant personalities? How would that work? Falling in love requires surrender. Falling in love means that someone else's wishes become more important to you than your own. How could two people who have never compromised on anything, commit to that? It was like the old joke that asks how porcupines make love. The answer? "Very carefully."
The resulting book was wonderful fun to write. Drake and Delilah are made for each other (quite literally, of course) … much to their dismay. They fight their mutual attraction tooth and nail, with no success whatsoever. Apparently some readers laugh at them as heartily as their author did.


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Edogawa Garage Club Receives a Modern Woven Shade Screen Facelift in Tokyo
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by Bridgette Meinhold
An outdated garage club in Tokyo was in need of some serious upgrades, but instead of bulldozing it and building a new one, local firm Jun'ichi Ito Architect & Associates gave the Edogawa Garage Club a facelift with the help of a woven metal screen. The new shade screen gives the building a distinct and modern appeal, while also keeping it cool and ensuring privacy and security. Jun'ichi Ito's goal was to minimize CO2 emissions while also letting the garage club reflect nature and its surroundings.
Located in Edogawa, Tokyo, the Edogawa Garage Club is a renovated warehouse with a modern new perforated metal screen skin. The owners with the help of Jun'ichi Ito Architect & Associates decided to update the building rather than tear it down as a way of reducing CO2 emissions. Inspiration for the facelift came from rippling water and nature itself. The metal screen reflects nature and its surroundings and responds to the changing light throughout the day.
The new metal screen exterior is composed of a series of modular perforated metal panels that weave back and forth. Offset from the building slightly, the new facade provides many benefits for the building. First, the screens allow breezes to blow through and around reducing the building's temperature and the need for additional cooling. Second, natural daylight can still pass through the screen and into the windows. Third, the screen provides additional security for the warehouse and keeps prying eyes from knowing what is inside. Finally, the screen is more aesthetically pleasing than the original warehouse facade and improves the look of the area.
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An outdated garage club in Tokyo was in need of some serious upgrades, but instead of bulldozing it and building a new one, local firm Jun'ichi Ito Architect & Associates gave the Edogawa Garage Club a facelift with the help of a woven metal screen. The new shade screen gives the building a distinct and modern appeal, while also keeping it cool and ensuring privacy and security. Jun'ichi Ito's goal was to minimize CO2 emissions while also letting the garage club reflect nature and its surr...
Edogawa Garage Club-Junichi Ito
Located in Edogawa, Tokyo, the Edogawa Garage Club is a renovated warehouse with a modern new perforated metal screen skin.
The owners with the help of Jun'ichi Ito Architect & Associates decided to update the building rather than tear it down as a way of reducing CO2 emissions.
Inspiration for the facelift came from rippling water and nature itself. The metal screen reflects nature and its surroundings and responds to the changing light throughout the day.
The new metal screen exterior is composed of a series of modular perforated metal panels that weave back and forth. Offset from the building slightly, the new facade provides many benefits for the building.
First, the screens allow breezes to blow through and around reducing the building's temperature and the need for additional cooling. Second, natural daylight can still pass through the screen and into the windows. Third, the screen provides additional
First, the screens allow breezes to blow through and around reducing the building's temperature and the need for additional cooling. Second, natural daylight can still pass through the screen and into the windows. Third, the screen provides additional security for the warehouse and keeps prying eyes from knowing what is inside. Finally, the screen is more aesthetically pleasing than the original warehouse facade and improves the look of the area.
The original warehouse before the facelit.


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Il distretto di Şahinbey (in turco Şahinbey ilçesi) è uno dei distretti della provincia di Gaziantep, in Turchia. È uno dei due distretti, insieme a Şehitkamil, in cui è suddivisa la città di Gaziantep.

Prende il nome da Şahin Bey (1877-1920) comandante militare che stazionò a Gaziantep durante la guerra d'indipendenza turca.

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Joining and Leaving Tour ' will meet directly at Chandigarh Airport as per the guidelines given . On arrival, we travelto Manali enjoying a scenic drive through Pandoh Dam and Kullu Valley. En route we visit Kullu Shawl Factory where you can buy woollen products.
Today's activity with AjToursAndTravels we enjoy spectacular drive towards Rohtang snow point. Free time to play and enjoy in the snow. Please Note: Rohtang pass is 51 kms. Away from Manali. This Pass is not accessible for almost 8 months in a year as it is covered by snow. We generally visit the snow point on Rohtang road, which has been permitted by the Border Security Force. Entertain yourself through spectacular Himachali folk dance.
Today's activity with AjToursAndTravels we explore the ancient temples like Vashista Kund and Hadimba Mandir. . Then we travelto Solang Valley – A splendid valley between Solang village which offers the view of glaciers and snow-capped mountains. Later we enjoy Ropeway ride, Enjoy the activities like Horse riding, Skiing, Ice skating, Paragliding, mountain bike, snow scooter, Zorbing at your own. Free time for shopping in the evening.
Today's activity with AjToursAndTravels we travelto Chandigarh – the capital of Punjab and Haryana. En – route we enjoy water rafting in Beas River (subject to operation) Please Note: For safety reasons child below 11 yrs of age and whose weight is less than 30-35 kgs are not allowed for water rafting.
Today's activity with AjToursAndTravels we explore the city of Chandigarh, we visit Sukhana Lake, Rock Garden, Rose Garden. Free time for shopping. Queens get ready to add more fun. An exclusive gala dinner amidst thrill, rejuvenation and entertainment awaits you. Dress to impress!! Walk the fashion ramp on tour and flaunt your style and vie for the crown.
It's time now to say goodbye to our tour companions. Let us be in contact with each other through email, Facebook…. And meet again on one more memorable tour. See you all!! 'Joining and Leaving Tour' will travelto Chandigarh airport . Tour concludes.


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OUT-LAW.com reports a (two-month old) High Court decision that a venture capital company that breached the confidentiality of businessmen who came to it with a proposition should only have to pay damages as compensation and not a share of their profits from the deal. Vercoe & Ors v Rutland Fund Management Ltd & Ors [2010] EWHC 424 (Ch) (5 March 2010) involved the acquisition of a pawnbroking business which the VC firm later floated – in breach of the confidentiality agreements made with the two men. Mr Justice Sales found that there was a breach of confidence, and it looked as if an account of the profits made by the VC on the flotation would be an obvious measure of damages. Too obvious, perhaps. The judege took the view that because this was a breach of a contractual obligation of confidence, not a fiduciary one, and because it didn't involve information about a secret design or process or anything else analogous to intellectual property, damages should be awarded on the basis of what it would have cost the VC to buy out the claimants. It wasn't a shabby amount: £860,000 for one and £1.72m for the other, based on the equity the judge thought they would have been given, but against a profit of £29m it's not such a lot.
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Charley Hull, Bronte Law, Meghan MacLaren and Catriona Matthew join defending Champion Georgia Hall in leading the British challenge for the 2019 AIG Women's British Open
Defending Champion Georgia Hall, local star Charley Hull and 2009 Champion Catriona Matthew enjoyed practice rounds today at the Championship's media day on the Marquess' Course ahead of the AIG Women's British Open, at Woburn, August 1 to 4. 2019.
With a new title sponsor AIG at the helm along with co-sponsors Rolex, Ricoh, Ishga, Loch Lomond Whiskies, Calvin Klein and Arnold Clark with several new partners to be announced shortly, interest and support for the Women's British Open is at an all-time high as the event returns to Woburn for the 11th time.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, Executive Director- Championships at The R&A said: "All our preparations for the 2019 Championship are going very well and with just under two months to go, we are on track for what we believe will be one of the best supported and most attended Championships to date."
"AIG embraces this opportunity to partner with the Women's British Open, which promotes diversity and puts a spotlight on international women champions. The goals of this Championship reflect AIG's commitment to diversity and inclusion, particularly in our own organization.
"Sponsoring the WBO will provide our clients and colleagues with memorable experiences, as well as enhance our relationships with our business and distribution partners," said Peter Zaffino, Chief Executive Officer, General Insurance and Chief Operating Officer, AIG.
Defending Champion Georgia Hall said: "I am so honoured to be the defending Champion of this amazing tournament. Arriving here today and seeing my image on the advertising boards was so exciting. The course was immaculate and it was great to get an early look. Now I simply can't wait for August and the chance to defend my title."
World No.20 Charley Hull, who finished T17th when the Championship was last played at Woburn in 2016, is relishing the chance for a do-over. She said: "I love being able to stay at home for a tournament. It doesn't happen very often and I have been looking forward to returning to Woburn ever since it was announced. It is so nice to see so many friends and family in the gallery here which is a big change from the events I usually play in America. I felt I could have done so much better last time we played the Marquess' so I'm really pleased that we haven't had to wait very long for the Championship to return."
Catriona Matthew, European Captain of the 2019 Solheim Cup who finished T5 in 2016, said: "This course really suits my eye so I am delighted that we are back at Woburn this year. Obviously, I might struggle a little bit with focus this time round as I will also have my eyes firmly on my European players that week as it's the second last qualifying event before we announce the team.
"It is going to be an exciting summer for sure and seeing the likes of Meghan MacLaren playing so well and Bronte Law winning on the LPGA Tour for the first time the other week has definitely been eye-catching as I consider my options for the Captain's picks."
With nine of the past 10 Champions in the field, including World No 6 Ariya Jutanugarn who won by three shots at Woburn in 2016, the field for the year's final Major will be as strong and international as ever.
Following AIG's recent commitment to a five-year sponsorship through to 2023, excitement is building as the Championship enters a new era. Woburn has hosted the Championship on 10 occasions, the first nine of which were on the Duke's Course, while the 2016 Ricoh Women's British Open was played on the Marquess' Course to great acclaim from the 144-strong field of world-class players.
Forming part of the Woburn Estate, home to the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Golf Club is one of the UK's premier golf facilities, boasting three world class Championship golf courses and has held many European Tour and Senior Tour events as well as Final Qualifying for The Open.
The Women's British Open was founded by the LGU in 1976 and is staged in conjunction with IMG, the world's largest sports marketing company, since 1984. The event has been co-sanctioned by the LPGA and LET since 1994 and gained Major status in 2001. The Championship is now owned by The R and A.
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The Global Convoy first round the world Expedition was an idea that hatched from the Mongol Rally on streets of Moscow, by Max and myself. The idea was simple, take the worst cars we could find and then see how far around the world these cars could take us. Instead of it just being ourselves, we opened the trip up to everyone. Inviting anyone to join us on any section in our cars or in their own car. That was a vague plan we then gave ourselves 6 months to organize "everything" or our case not a lot at all.
Max teamed up with old school friend Becca, to buy the Skoda Felicia for £75, while I found myself another Micra for £150. I made some changes to the Micra so it was in a good working state for the fast approaching launch date. This included changing all the brakes, filters, serviceable parts, parts of the front suspension and adding some fog lights.
A week before we left Teignmouth, to attempt this some what mad challenge, the adventure was shared to many Facebook groups and sites, inciting hundreds of people trying to join the expedition all across Europe.
Here is a brief explanation of the Global Convoy First Around the World Expedition, more videos can be find on Youtube.
When I get some time in the future, I shall write up a full post of my experiences from the Global Convoy First Around the World Expedition.


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Bipin Rawat Age, Death, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More
Profession Army Personnel
Famous For Being the first Chief of Defence Staff of India
Eye Colour Dark Brown
Hair Colour Grey
Service/Branch Indian Army
Rank Four-Star General
Service Years 16 December 1978 – 8 December 2021 (till his death)
Unit 5/11 Gorkha Rifles
Service Number IC-35471M
Commands • Southern Command III Corps
• 19th Infantry Division
• MONUSCO North Kivu Brigade
• Rashtriya Rifles, Sector 5
Career Ranks • Second Lieutenant (16 December 1978)
• Lieutenant (16 December 1980)
• Captain (31 July 1984)
• Major (16 December 1989)
• Lieutenant-Colonel (1 June 1998)
• Colonel (1 August 2003)
• Brigadier (1 October 2007)
• Major General (20 October 2011)
• Lieutenant-General (1 June 2014 (substantive))
• General (1 January 2017)
Designations (major ones) • 37th Vice Chief of the Army Staff (1 September 2016 – 31 December 2016)
• 27th Chief of the Army Staff (31 December 2016 – 31 December 2019)
• 32nd Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (27 September 2019 – 31 December 2019)
• 1st Chief of the Defence Staff (31 December 2019 – 8 December 2021; till his death)
Awards, Honours, Achievements • Param Vishisht Seva Medal
• Uttam Yudh Seva Medal
• Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
• Yudh Seva Medal
• Sena Medal
• Vishisht Seva Medal
• Padma Vibhushan (Civil Service) in 2022
Birthplace Saina Village, Birmoli, Lansdowne, Pauri, Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, India (now in Uttarakhand, India)
Date of Death 8 December 2021
Place of Death Coonoor, Tamil Nadu
Cremation Date 10 December 2021
Cremation Site Brar Square crematorium at Delhi cantonment
Note: The bodies of General Rawat and his wife, Madhulika Rawat, had been laid side by side on the same pyre.
Age (at the time of death) 63 Years
Death Cause He was killed after an IAF chopper, carrying him, his wife, and 11 more, crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu.
Hometown Lansdowne, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India
School • Cambrian Hall School, Dehradun
• St. Edward's School, Shimla
College/University • National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla
• Indian Military Academy, Dehradun
• Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington
• United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
• Madras University
• Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut
Educational Qualification(s) • MPhil degree from the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington
• Diplomas in Management and Computer Studies from Madras University
• Doctorate of Philosophy from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, in 2011
Caste Kshatriya (Rajput)
Hobbies Playing Football, Reading
Controversies • In 2017, Rawat's comments against stone pelters in Kashmir created a fuss. His comment was: "In fact, I wish these people, instead of throwing stones at us, were firing weapons at us. Then I would have been happy. Then I could do what I (want to do)."
• Rawat has been criticized by the Indian Army veterans for his suggestion that there should be a code of conduct governing retired soldiers; however, the Army HQ has shown its intention that it doesn't favour any such code of conduct.
• During an interview with a news channel when asked about the role of women in combat roles, he delivered a controversial statement. He said that women in combat roles could complain about men peeping into their tents while they were changing their clothes. He said, "She will say somebody is peeping, so we will have to give a sheet around her."
• In 2017, he was criticized for awarding the Chief of Army Staff's Commendation card to Major Leetul Gogoi for "sustained efforts" in counter-insurgency operations. Gogoi made headlines in 2017 for tying a Kashmiri civilian to the front of his jeep, apparently in an attempt to prevent stone-pelters from targeting his convoy.
• In December 2018, his opinion regarding disability pension also sparked a row. He warned soldiers who falsely call themselves 'disabled' to earn extra money, through disability pension. He said, "If a soldier is truly disabled, we will pay special attention to them and help them fully, even financially. But, those who falsely call themselves 'disabled' and make their disability a way to earn money, I am warning them today, that you better mend your ways otherwise in a few days you might receive special instructions from the Army Headquarters, which will not be good news for you."
• In December 2019, his comment, which was considered related to the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests across India, triggered a controversy by publicly condemning those leading violent protests, asserting that leadership wasn't about guiding people to carry out arson and violence. The comment by the general drew sharp criticism from Opposition leaders and also senior retired officers though most of the latter did not want to come on record.
Marital Status (at the time of death) Married
Marriage Date 14 April 1986
Wife/Spouse Madhulika Rawat (President of Army Women Welfare Association (AWWA)
Children Son– Not Known
Daughter(s)– 2
• Kritika Rawat
• He has 1 more daughter
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Yona Friedman (Budapest, 5 de junio  de 1923-París, 21 de febrero de 2020) fue un arquitecto y urbanista francés. Conocido por su teoría de la arquitectura móvil.

Biografía
Nacido en Budapest, Hungría, en 1923, en una familia judía étnicamente, lo que le planteó problemas debido a las leyes de cuotas antisemitas en las universidades. Yona Friedman ha pasado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial escapando de los rodeos nazis y vivió durante aproximadamente una década en la ciudad de Haifa en Israel antes de mudarse permanentemente a París en 1957. Se naturalizó ciudadano francés en 1966.

La obra de Friedman abarca modelos urbanísticos, textos teóricos, películas de animación. Ha participado en numerosas bienales de arte (Shanghái, Venecia, etc.) y también en la documenta 11 del año 2002 en Kassel, donde exponía Dibujos y modelos.

En 1958 publica el manifiesto L'Architecture Mobile, que constituye a su vez el documento fundacional del "Groupe d'étude d'architecture mobile (GEAM)". Desarrolla conceptos espaciales urbanos como "La Ville Spatiale". Las ideas de estos manifiestos fueron visionarias y adelantadas a su época; las megaestructuras sobre ciudades existentes, en las cuales los ciudadanos podrían reconfigurar su vida futura de manera flexible, ocuparon a varias generaciones de arquitectos y urbanistas. Conjuntamente con Ionel Schein, Walter Jonas y otros, fundó en 1965 el "Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective" (GIAP).

Proyectos
 1953: Cylindrical Shelters, propuesta de construcciones para inmigrantes
 1957/1958: Span-Over Blocks, proyecto de estructura urbana elevada (parte del manifiesto "L'Architecture Mobile")
 1958: Cabins for the Sahara, propuesta de vivienda para África del Norte
 1959: Paris Spatial, proyecto de estructura espacial encima de París
 1963: Seven Bridge Towns to link Four Continents, proyecto de ciudades-puente en Gibraltar, Canal de Suez y Canal de la Mancha
 1963: Bridge Town over the English Channel, proyecto detallado (con Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz) en el contexto de la discusión sobre el Túnel del Canal
 1980: Manilla Squatter Settlement, propuesta de autoconstrucción de viviendas en barrios urbanos carenciados
 1989: Musée des Sciences de La Villette, París, pabellón de hidrotecnología, con Eda Schaur
 1992: proyecto de viviendas para marginados en París
 1994: Haram es Sharif, Jerusalén: "estructura techo"

Literatura
 Toward a Scientific Architecture. MIT Press 1975, ISBN 0-262-56019-4
 Meine Fibel. Vieweg 1982, ISBN 3-528-08856-7
 Machbare Utopien. Absage an geläufige Zukunftsmodelle. Fischer 1983, ISBN 3-596-24018-2
 Pro Domo. ACTAR D (Barcelona) 2006, ISBN 84-96540-51-0

 Sabine Lebesque, Helene Fentener Van Vlissingen: "Yona Friedman: Between Structure and Coincidence", Netherlands Architecture Institute 1999, ISBN 90-5662-108-4
 Reyner Banham: "Megastructure. Urban Futures of the Recent Past." Thames and Hudson UK 1976/ Harper & Row Publishers 1977
 Yona Friedman. Hans Ulrich Obrist (The Conversation Series Band 7), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-171-1
 María Inés Rodríguez, et al: "Arquitectura con la gente, por la gente, para la gente/ architecture with the people, by the people, for the people: Yona Friedman".MUSAC, España. ISBN 978-84-92861-94-1

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Yona Friedman
 kamel mennour - Yona Friedman

Arquitectos de Hungría del siglo XX
Arquitectos de Francia del siglo XX
Urbanistas de Francia
Teóricos de la arquitectura
Nacidos en Budapest
Fallecidos en París


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Q: Repeat scheduling a message for delivery ActiveMQ using jmsTemplate (Spring JMS) I am sending message to the queue in the following manner:
I want to schedule repeat my message. I mean, whatever message my this line jsmClient.send(identifier); in the controller(shown below) is sending,
I want to keep on sending, say for 10 or 100 times (depending upon the timer I set). My consumer(not shown below) will keep on consuming the same message until I ask it to stop. For example, even though
my producer is going to send the message 10 or 100 times, if I want to stop receiving the message at 5th time(in case of producer sending message 10 times) or 50th time (in case of producer sending message 100 times),
I should be able to do that.
Since I am using JMS 2 and ActiveMQ (version 5.15.8), I am not able to figure out the following:
The  Delay and Schedule Message Delivery documentation talks about the AMQ_SCHEDULED_REPEAT in the following section:
MessageProducer producer = session.createProducer(destination);
TextMessage message = session.createTextMessage("test msg");
long delay = 30 * 1000;
long period = 10 * 1000;
int repeat = 9;
message.setLongProperty(ScheduledMessage.AMQ_SCHEDULED_DELAY, delay);
message.setLongProperty(ScheduledMessage.AMQ_SCHEDULED_PERIOD, period);
message.setIntProperty(ScheduledMessage.AMQ_SCHEDULED_REPEAT, repeat);
producer.send(message);

If I understood correctly, the above code isn't considering JMS 2 but JMS 1.1? I am wondering what changes I need to make in my code below so that I could do something like this message.setIntProperty(ScheduledMessage.AMQ_SCHEDULED_REPEAT, repeat);. I couldn't find much useful info regarding schedule repeat in the Spring documentation.
My JmsProducer class :
@Component
public class JmsProducer {
    @Autowired
    JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;

    @Value("${jms.queue.destination}")
    String destinationQueue;

    public void send(String msg){
        jmsTemplate.convertAndSend(destinationQueue, msg);
    }
}

JmsClient Interface:
public interface JmsClient {
    public void send(String msg);

}

JmsClientImpl class :
@Service
public class JmsClientImpl implements JmsClient{

    @Autowired
    JmsProducer jmsProducer;

    @Override
    public void send(String msg) {
        jmsProducer.send(msg);
    }

}

In my REST Controller, I am sending a message like this :
try {

            DataRetrieverDao dataRetrieverDao = (DataRetrieverDao) context.getBean("dataRetrieverDao");
            String identifier=dataRetrieverDao.sendDownloadInfo(user_id);
            logger.info("VALUE OF STRING: "+identifier);
            jsmClient.send(identifier);

        }

Based on my Research:
In this stackoverflow thread,  JMS 2.0 is not supported in the activemq package, so should I switch to artemis instead? But then, the questions I asked from jmsTemplate side above are still in my mind. Please advise what's the best course of action in this situation for me. Thanks

A: The way delayed & scheduled message delivery works in ActiveMQ 5.x is that the producer sets the delay/schedule on the message using special properties and sends the message once. Once the broker receives the message it will then deliver the message to the queue based on the delay & schedule set on the message. Therefore, it is not accurate to say, "...my producer is going to send the message 10 or 100 times..." in the context of delayed & scheduled messages.
Delayed & scheduled message delivery is a feature of ActiveMQ 5.x and not part of the JMS specification. Spring JMS libraries and/or documentation won't mention this feature since it is unique to ActiveMQ 5.x.
As you note, ActiveMQ 5.x doesn't support JMS 2.0 so if you want JMS 2.0 support you'll need to switch to ActiveMQ Artemis. However, ActiveMQ Artemis doesn't support delayed & scheduled messages as discussed on the user mailing list. Therefore, if you want to delayed & scheduled messages you might want to stick with JMS 1.1 or figure out a different way to implement the functionality you're looking for with JMS 2.0 and ActiveMQ Artemis.


The gingerbread men baking in the oven had caught the attention of his nose. Since 1972, I've baked gingerbread men (and ladies—no discrimination here) at Christmas time. The whole family from the youngest to the oldest assists in the decorating. I make the paint with powdered sugar, egg whites, and cream of tartar and then stir in drops of food coloring to achieve the array of colors we need. Once the frosting paint sits on the table with paint brushes in the cups, we gather around the table to decorate the people. Creativity flows. Soon there's a Superman made of gingerbread, then a Santa Claus, and lots of snowmen.
Sometimes the paint flows, too. Invariably the smaller ones discover that the paint tastes really good. Will's mouth might be green, and Jakey will have a red smudge on his forehead. Even at the ripe old age of 14, Trey just might get some paint on his shirt, and Will's man will soon be missing a leg.
"Umm, good," Will comments, chewing away as he drops crumbs to the floor for the dogs to lick up. Dogs love gingerbread, too. Even grownup Stuart helps paint. He hasn't outgrown gingerbread, and I hope he never does.


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You already saw a preview from this outfit in the previous blog post, but with New Year's Eve in the very near future, I figured a complete display couldn't hurt. Most definitely because of all the sparkles, which in my mind is indispensable for New Year's Eve. As I will be spending my New Year's Eve in the mountains (snow! mountains! snowboarding!) however, I won't be going completely full on sparkly, so naturally I had to wear this dress on Christmas, which is the next best occasion to submerge yourself in sequins.
How will you be spending New Year's Eve? And how are those New Year's resolutions coming? Although I think resolutions are significantly overrated, especially if you have no intention of keeping them, I still feel the start of the new year provides the perfect occasion to try and do better. I can proudly say that I kept my resolutions for 2014: I learned to run (I'm at 10k now, while last year I couldn't even run one kilometer) and I'm still improving my cooking skills. Yay for me!


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Study: Researchers forecast stable, slightly declining levels of COVID-19 entering fall
Model shows disease spread is not proportionate, as previously assumed
By Sara Savat June 10, 2020
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The rate in which COVID-19 cases spread is not proportionate with the number of contagious individuals – as prior models assumed – but rather concave, meaning that the impact of one more infected person diminishes as more people are infected. The disproportionate spread occurs because people typically live and work in inter-related social networks, meaning people stay in the same circles, according to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.
This finding, reported by Olin Business School's Meng Liu, Raphael Thomadsen and Song Yao, has a significant impact on the disease forecast going into the summer and early fall as states begin to reopen at varying levels.
At this level of social distancing, COVID-19 cases are forecast to continue a steady and slow plateau – going from slightly over 20,000 cases per day in early June to 14,000 cases per day in the end of September, according to their research.
Forecasting disease spread is an imperfect science based on constantly changing assumptions and evolving conditions. Early models assumed the disease spread would be proportionate with each infected individual infecting one additional person.
"Based on the standard susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model, new COVID-19 cases would grow exponentially without significant social distancing. Under the same model, declining rates of cases should indicate that the disease will quickly wind down," said Thomadsen, professor of marketing. "However, these patterns are not consistent with the case levels we have observed after the daily new case levels peaked, which has been more of a gradual reduction in the number of cases."
Unsatisfied with the available models, Thomadsen and team set out to use their skills as marketers and business scholars to develop a modified SIR model that was flexible and would apply theory into the data generation process to more accurately forecast COVID-19 cases.
Their modified SIR model combines COVID-19 case data with social distancing data – based on cellphone GPS location data. It also incorporates the percentage of the county population that has not yet had confirmed cases of COVID-19, the number of individuals who have been infected each day and the county's population density.
"The most significant difference between this model and the standard SIR model is our model does not constrain the rate of disease spread to be proportionate to the number of contagious individuals," said Liu, assistant professor of marketing.
Ultimately this small change in the forecasting model leads to predictions that fit the patterns of COVID-19 spread that we have observed much better than other forecasts.
"Based on this concave effect, following a brief period of exponential growth in the beginning or after reopening, we would expect new cases to quickly settle into a prolonged period of stable, slightly declining levels of disease spread," Thomadsen said.
"We believe this result occurs because people have overlapping social connections, which causes contagious individuals to expose many of the same individuals. We see this directly when, for example, cases are clustered within households, nursing homes or places of work."
Using this data, they also were able to determine that social distancing has a significant impact on the growth rate of COVID-19 cases. Humidity – which has been hypothesized to slow its spread – has a smaller effect while temperature is insignificant.
The model also provides insight as to how cases will likely grow or gradually decline between now and the end of September 2020 based on different reopening strategies.
Americans are currently at approximately 60% return-to-normalcy, based on cell phone data which shows the percentage of people who stay at home exclusively during a given day. At this level of social distancing, COVID-19 cases are forecast to continue a steady and slow plateau – going from slightly over 20,000 cases per day in early June to 14,000 cases per day in the end of September, according to their research.
The forecasts based on maximum and minimum social distancing efforts highlight the significant impact that policy has on disease spread. According to their forecasts, if the U.S. were to practice its maximum observed level of social distancing for even a few additional weeks, new cases would drop to a much lower level of around 2,000 cases per day by the end of September.
On the other hand, a complete return to normalcy would cause cases to surge for about two months. After that initial surge, cases would again reach a long-term plateau, although this would occur at a level that was more than double what would be experienced under current social distancing levels.
However, researchers acknowledge that other protective efforts like mask wearing and hand washing could lessen the impact of a full reopening.
"Social distancing greatly slowed down the spread of the virus. Based on our findings, a rushed reopening may be costly for many places in the U.S., especially the ones with high population densities," said Yao, associate professor of marketing.
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Technical analysis is not as deterministic as it is perceived. As new information appears, sometimes even the best-supported forecasts must change. That is what seems to have happened to the Dow Jones Transportation Average after an early September upside breakout failed and turned into breaking to the downside late in the month.
That is not good news for equity investors although not an immediate sell signal for the stock market as a whole. The Transports already had been heading in a different direction from the broad market for more than three months. But unless the Transports turn around soon, the drag it exerts on the rest of the market will eventually takes its toll.
The iShares Dow Jones Transportation Average Index Fund (ticker: IYT) set its high-water mark for the year-to-date in March (see Chart 1). Since then, it drifted sideways to lower, eventually forming a triangle pattern beginning in May.
I first wrote about this pattern on Sept. 4 as it appeared that the Transports were moving below its lower border. (See Getting Technical, "Stocks Need More Than Hints," Sept. 4.) Two days later, the talk of central-bank stimulus turned to reality as the European Central Bank announced its rescue plan. Stocks, including the Transports, took off to the upside and the triangle borders had to be redrawn.
After a week of gains, the exchange-traded fund moved above the upper border of its triangle on Sept. 13, the day the Federal Reserve announced its latest round of quantitative easing, or asset purchases now dubbed QE3. It appeared that the sector was about to attempt to catch up to the Industrials, but within two trading days the breakout failed.
Earlier in the month, an event from outside the market -- the ECB announcement -- turned a breakdown into a rally as might be expected. But the failure of an event-driven rally -- the Fed announcement -- bodes poorly. In charting, bad action on good news is quite bearish, and within a week the ETF was below the lower border of the triangle and at a 15-week low.
The significant increase in volume that accompanied the September selloff confirms the sector's condition to be negative.
Carl Swenlin, proprietor of the data-packed DecisionPoint.com, pointed out that the internals of the Transports are even worse than price action suggests. In his Sept. 21 blog, he reported that nearly 90% of all Dow Jones Industrial stocks were above their respective 200-day exponential moving averages. In sharp contrast, it is only 20% for the Dow Transports. In other words, 80% of the Transports in the index are technically in bear markets, which of course is not a positive statistic.
Within the sector, subgroups show various technical conditions and none of them are particularly bullish.
Truckers have been in decline for most of this year. Airlines have been troubled for the better part of two years. Let's focus on shares of companies in air freight and railroads, both of which have suffered technical deterioration this month.
Economic bellwether and Dow Transports component, FedEx (FDX), sports a chart pattern that is similar to the overall sector index pattern (see Chart 2). On Sept. 18, the company reported weak fiscal first-quarter results, slashed its full-year earnings outlook and the stock tumbled.
With its declining trend since July and position below both its 50- and 200-day major moving averages, the outlook for FedEx is not good. If support at 83.75, not far from Tuesday's trading near 85.40, does not hold, then there is little in the way of a decline to the high 70s.
In the railroad group, another Dow Transport component, Norfolk Southern (NSC), sparked a sharp reversal of fortune on Sept. 20, the day after it lowered its earnings outlook well below analysts' expectations. That stock fell nearly 8%, but the ripples were felt across the group.
One of the strongest rail stocks, Kansas City Souther n (KSU), also a Dow Transport component, broke down below its rising trendline drawn from June on fairly heavy volume (see Chart 3). In the process, it also failed to hold an earlier breakout to all-time highs; as a result, the outlook changed from bullish to somewhat bearish rather quickly. The loss of leadership here is an additional negative for the group.
The bottom line is that the transportation sector is not pulling its weight. Component stocks in the Dow Transports look weak. For now, it is still only a concern, not a sell signal for the broader market. But it bears watching for even the most inveterate bull.
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Mark Wood: Had Food Phobia, Starved To Death After Atos Decision
A "VULNERABLE and fragile" man starved to death four months after most of his benefits were stopped and he was left with just £40 a week to survive on.
Atos Healthcare – which assesses peoples' ability to work on behalf of the Government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – ruled that 44-year-old Mark Wood, from Bampton, was fit to work.
But at an inquest into his death, Oxford Coroner's Court heard testimony that Mr Wood was far from fit to hold down a job.
Weighing just 5st 8lbs when he died of malnutrition in August last year, Mr Wood had obsessive compulsive disorder, Aspergers syndrome, phobias of food, pollution, paint fumes, and social situations, and cognitive behavioural problems.
His GP Nicolas Ward told yesterday's proceedings: "He was an extremely vulnerable and fragile individual who was coping with life.
"Something pushed him or affected him in the time before he died and the only thing I can put my finger on is the pressure he felt he was under when his benefits were removed."
Dr Ward, from Bampton Medical Practice, said he had not been contacted by either Atos or DWP about Mr Wood's medical history, and revealed that if they had asked for his professional opinion he would have said Mr Wood was unfit for work.
Mr Wood had been receiving housing benefit, employment and support allowance, and disability living allowance of £40 a week and had been living independently since 2006.
But in January last year Atos Healthcare ruled that Mr Wood was healthy and able to work. Following its assessment, in about April last year, Mr Wood's housing benefits and employment support allowance were stopped by the DWP, leaving just the disability allowance.
The inquest heard he was not able to pay his rent of utility bills.
Mr Wood's family claim their "gentle and sweet" son and brother would still be alive if his benefits had not been stopped.
His sister Cathie Wood, 48, from North Oxford, told the Oxford Mail: "Atos are completely to blame. If they had not evaluated him as normal he would have carried on in his own way and would not have died last summer."
His mother Jill Gant, from Abingdon, explained to the coroner that the family only found out Mr Wood did not have any money a few weeks before he died and sent him £250.
Ms Wood said: "By then it was too late, he was so fragile and unstable. We didn't realise how bad things were.
"He found it difficult to accept help from his family because he tried to live independently so he gave the money away.
"He had a lot of problems, but he was very gentle and sweet."
At the inquest, Mrs Gant said: "I think he died of the severe effects of malnutrition, but there were precipitating causes.
"Extreme stress and lack of money caused by the removal of his benefits led to his eating problems, and malnutrition led to his death."
Between April – around the time his benefits stopped – and his death his body mass index plunged from 14.1 to about 11.5. A BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered healthy.
Pathologist Clare Verrill told the court a BMI below 13 could kill a man but a cause of death could not be given because his body had decomposed. Mr Wood had last been seen alive on July 29 but his body was not discovered until August 9.
Oxfordshire Coroner Darren Salter gave a narrative verdict at the inquest. He said: "Mr Wood had an eating disorder and food phobia. It is likely that this caused or contributed to his death as he was markedly underweight and malnourished."
He added: "I accept the evidence about something pushing him over the edge heard by the GP Mr Ward.
On the other hand we do know cash was provided prior to death, but because of his phobias he didn't use that cash to buy food."
His family are meeting Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood next Friday to try to find out why he was declared fit for work. Ms Wood said they may consider legal proceedings.
Atos Healthcare spokeswoman Tessa David said: "Our thoughts are with the family of Mr Wood at this difficult time.
"We carry out the Government's Work Capability Assessment as professionally and compassionately as possible."
DWP spokesman Ann Rimell said: "A decision on whether someone is well enough to work is taken following a thorough assessment and after consideration of all the supporting medical evidence from the claimant's GP or medical specialist."
DWP figures show that between October 2010 and March 2013, more than 1,000 people across Oxfordshire stopped receiving employment and support allowance benefits.
Suzy Drohan, joint manager of Barton's Oxfordshire Welfare Rights, said: "It is terrible, I'm really concerned about how Mr Wood has fallen through the cracks."
Between January 2012 and January this year Oxfordshire Welfare Rights took 312 cases to tribunal appeals against DWP decisions, and 281 were successful.
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jeffrey davies permalink
it wasn't us it wasn't us yet again we hear the sams drivel we take care in take care my foot they use atos to score your points them dwp takes away your monies but it isn't uswas the cry another poor poor soul collected before his due date the dwp wishes its nothing but two faced run by afruadster ids jeff3
unexpectedmonkeys permalink
Hearing/reading stuff like this makes me more and more worried that I'm going to get badly messed around by ATOS. I've already been messed about by the DWP – waiting over three months to even hear a reply about my PIP claim, they mangled my ESA claim so badly (then told me that my only option was to cancel it) that I have no idea where I even stand with that at the moment. I have a lady from the local CAB fighting my corner but she is so overworked.
She's apparently pushing for me to not have to attend an ATOS assessment as my problems are so severe and it would exacerbate them, but no idea how well that is going to go. I think that's my only hope, I'm doomed otherwise!
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Reply to 'unexpected monkey'.
"stuff like this"- How dare you. You're talking of a man, a human being, who has just died in tragic circumstances. He is not "stuff". Do you actually have a comment, an expression of sympathy? Or is it all about you? If so, you really are doomed.
I meant articles like this, I did not mean to offend in any way and I apologise that I somehow have. No need at all to react like that at all.
"no need at all to react like that at all."
On whose judgement? Yours? You tell me, then. How SHOULD I have reacted? Say nothing? Do nothing? To suit you? I don't think so.
Susan Mitton (@suemitton1) permalink
March 1, 2014 1:46 am
Miss Castello I think your reaction to unexpectedmonkeys comment is OTT and very rude!
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March 1, 2014 12:36 pm
im thinking that ATOS rep said… they take into consideration medical evidence from GPs and other health professionals…yet Dr Ward said , he had not been approached at all about this poor man…. more lies from THE NOT GIVING ATOS lot.
and yes i agree with Susan Mitton (@suemitton1) on Miss Castello's tirade against someone who is feeling very worried, very vulnerable. you ,miss castello, could very well have pushed him over the brink with your nasty remarks. you have no idea what others are going through. when you are overwhelmed with so many conditions, one after another being thrown at you, you have no respite from thinking about how things are affecting you or going to affect you, i know, ive been there. had a nervous breakdown after having 26 new conditions found from minor to major over a 6yr period. (another 3 since in the last 18months.) and believe me, in this day and age if you dont think of yourself . who the hell is going to???? . yes perhaps he could have had a little sympathy for the man. but unfortunately that man is no longer with us. but those surviving (and i mean surviving) in the same position or potentially so, have to think of themselves.
"you have no idea" etc.
How do you know what my "ideas" are? You don't. You merely assume. Wrongly. I need no lectures from you on emotional trauma or cruel bureaucracy, hell-bent on making peoples lives a misery on a scale we've never seen before. I've lived through it. I know exactly what it's like to lie awake all night, dreading the day to come and the 'medical ' which can make or break you. But I could still spare a thought for others in the same boat. Which is why I reacted as I did to unexpected monkeys comment. If I was over harsh, I apologise.
Susan Mitton; I think your LACK of reaction to not one single reference in unexpected monkeys comment for the man who died, says more about you than it does about me. End of.
Disabled Mark Wood starved to death after benefits cut when Atos declared him fit for work – Mirror Online « Dr Alf's Blog


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The Ford Tourneo Connect is available to the Irish market with one engine. This is the 1.5-litre 100bhp diesel. It is available with both a 6-speed manual gearbox and a 5-speed automatic box. For most, the 0-100km/h figures won't matter, but considering that we are taking about performance her, the official 0-100km/h figure, according to Ford, is 13.3 with the manual gearbox and 12.9 for the automatic. Top speeds are 162km/h and 167km/h respectively.
The Ford Tourneo Connect offers neither a wonderful drive nor an exciting one. This is a car which is built for practicality - and the benefits of its practicality will be clear to those who opt for one of these. Its dimensions are large and high, which results in body roll. However, the Tourneo Connect, because its Focus underpinnings, is a slightly better handler than its direct competition. It is also a bonus that the steering of the Tourneo Connect is light, which means that if is to be used for the school run, it should be easy to park.
Because this vehicle is both high and large, there is some sufferings from road and wind noise. However, it would fare slightly better than its competition in this department.
This MPV feels more car-like on the inside than the Citroen and Peugeot equivalents. Yes, the plastics are typically hard, but the layout is not that different from what you would see in a C-Max. Our test model still housed an early SYNC infotainment system, which is somewhat dated, however, future models will surely benefit from the latest generations of SYNC.
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Sheils Ennis - Gort Road, Ennis, Clare.
John Bogue (Monaghan) - Dublin Road, Monaghan, Monaghan.
Tallaght Ford - Airton Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Dublin.
Cork City Ford Centre - Forge Hill, Airport Road, Cork City, Cork.
Boland Motors New Ross - Waterford Road, New Ross, Wexford.
Massive space and practicality with this vehicle.


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