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New Zealand. 2012 'Manufacture.' National Report of New Zealand on its Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA); Section 2, pp. 1-2. New York NY: Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations. 1 January
Section 2: Manufacture
Laws, regulations and administrative procedures
4. Are there any SALW manufactured in your country? YES
4.1 Does your country have laws, regulations and/or administrative procedures to exercise effective control over the manufacture of SALW? YES
4.1.1 List laws, regulations and/or administrative procedures regulating the manufacture of SALW in your country:
New Zealand does not manufacture SALW on a large commercial scale. The New Zealand Police have established administrative procedures for those who set out to manufacture SALW. A person who manufactures firearms for sale must hold a dealers licence issued by the Police. Dealers are required to maintain records of the firearms they sell or manufacture.
The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act and Hazardous Substances Regulations 2001 contain provisions controlling the importation, manufacture and management of explosives (which include ammunition and grenades) and for the tracking of them through each stage of their life cycle to the stage of final use. At present, the provisions in the Hazardous Substances (Tracking) Regulations expressly exclude "safety" (small arms) ammunition. The NZDF are exempt from complying with many parts of the HSNO Act under section 76a. NZDF have internal HSNO policies to control classes 1 to 9 substances. Under these exemptions NZDF import and control their own explosive products directly from the country of origin.
4.1.2. Does your country license the manufacture of SALW? YES…
Marking at manufacture
4.2. Does your country require that SALW be marked at the time of manufacture? YES
4.2.2. What part of the SALW is marked?
There are provisions in New Zealand law (Arms Regulations 1992 (reg7)) that ensures that all firearms manufactured in New Zealand for sale must have identification markings that are recorded…
Record-keeping by manufacturers
4.3. Does your country require that manufacturers keep records of their activities? YES
4.3.1. What information must be recorded (check relevant boxes)?
a) Quantity of SALW manufactured: YES
b) Type or model of SALW manufactured: YES
c) Markings applied to manufactured SALW: YES
d) Transactions (e.g. sales of manufactured and marked SALW): YES
e) Other: [No response]
4.3.2. How long must manufacturing records be kept? 5 years
[SALW = Small Arms and Light Weapons; NZDF = New Zealand Defence Force]


He's a little bit human, a lot of machine—and a total throwback to 1987, when the original RoboCop first clicked, whirred and blasted onto the big screen as an R-rated whammy of speculative, satirical sci-fi about crime and justice, corruption, corporate greed, the media, and what might happen if we ever let computers do the thinking for us.
This tamer, toned-down PG-13 remake follows the basic plot of the original, with a few tweaks. Here it's 2028, and Joel Kinnaman (from TV's The Killing) plays Detroit police officer Alex Murphy, whose remaining body parts are implanted into a rock-'em, sock-'em exoskeleton after a dangerous undercover mission goes awry.
But Murphy's high-tech reconstruction is underwritten by a mega-corporation with motives that aren't exactly medical—and a billion-dollar stake in "privatizing" crime control.
Michael Keaton is the corporation's smarmy CEO. The always-dependable Gary Oldman brings subtle shadings of conflicted genius to his role as the researcher/physician/surgeon who integrates man with machine. Jack Earle Haley makes a dandy, devious foil as a robot trainer. Samuel L. Jackson pops in and out as a one-man Greek chorus, a TV talk-show host stumping for bots to do all the dirty work for police officers and soldiers.
Back in 1987, that concept seemed a lot more far-off futuristic than it does today, when robots and robotic processes have already taken over all sorts of jobs once done by humans, and drone airplanes are doing widespread military surveillance—and more lethal tasks—as well as operations for police, firefighters and reporters.
Jack Earle Haley (right) is a devious robot trainer.
This RoboCop isn't a total clunker. It looks cool and sleek, and Brazilian director José Padilha, making his first English-language film, keeps things moving at a lively action-movie clip. But after 25-plus years, too much of this rebooted robot tale just feels recycled instead of refreshed, especially compared to the visceral, original kick of its groundbreaking '80s predecessor.
I do have to give some props to the rockin' soundtrack, however. Any movie that works in Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon," orchestrates a shootout to the loony '70s hit "Hocus Pocus" by the Dutch group Focus, and rolls end credits to the Clash's cover of "I Fought the Law" gets at least one pop-cultural attaboy from me.


U.K. retail giant Debenhams said it is not in a cash flow crunch following reports that insurers have cut coverage of the company's suppliers, reports in Euronews said Monday (July 16).
Sunday reports said insurers had cut trade credit insurance coverage for Debenhams suppliers. The insurance product protects suppliers against the risk of non-payment should corporate customers go bankrupt, shutter doors or fail to pay invoices. The initial reports sent Debenhams shares down by 8 percent on Monday, reports said.
Reports noted that the retailer previously cut performance forecasts and noted it may divest assets to raise cash. The company closed storefronts last year amid falling profits and sought to enhance its eCommerce presence following the recruitment of new CEO Sergio Bucher in 2016.
Trade credit insurance is an innovating industry as analysts warn that supplier payment terms are lengthening around the world. Euler Hermes released a report in May that found the global average Days Sales Outstanding hit 66 days, and is likely to continue to grow.
"Companies are extending a lot of trust in the way that clients pay them — it is a loosening of discipline," said Euler Hermes Chief Economist Ludovic Subran in an interview with the Financial Times at the time. The trade credit insurance provider noted that the trend is part of global economic recovery.


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Q: POST/get JSON using Ararat Synapse with special PEM key (Lazarus/FPC) We are forced to send (and receive back) JSON data to the government from our restaurant program

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*using a special RSA Key (PEM stream) they provide

*using TLS 1.3 (OpenSSL 3.0+) < This works! :-)

The only way I found is to create a separate DLL for that under Lazarus, which can use a separate component to do that, (and load that special key, so it does not interfere with the main program's Indy component.)
Ararat Synapse's new Trunk (R260) can handle OpenSSL 3.0, so I've downloaded and installed as component, but the JSON I'm sending to a test server (webhook.com) are distorted krix-krax.
How do I load a special .PEM key/stream (not a file!) for the SSL communication before sending it?
Here is my code:
function HttpPostGetJSON(const URL: string; var JSON: UTF8String; const key, pem: string; const TimeOut: integer = 5000): Boolean;
var
    HTTP    : THTTPSend;
    Data    : TStringStream;
begin
    HTTP := THTTPSend.Create;
    Data := TStringStream.Create(JSON, TEncoding.UTF8);
    JSON := '';
    HTTP.Timeout := TimeOut;

    try
        HTTP.Headers.Add('Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8') ;
        HTTP.Headers.Add('Accept: application/json') ;

        // TODO: specify PEM key for the SSL !

        Data.Position := 0;
        HTTP.Document.CopyFrom( Data, 0);
        Data.Size := 0;

        Result := HTTP.HTTPMethod('POST', URL);
        if Result then begin
            if HTTP.Document.Size > 0 then begin
                Data.LoadFromStream( HTTP.Document );
                JSON := Data.UnicodeDataString;
            end;
        end;
    finally
        HTTP.Free;
        Data.Free;
    end;
end;

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A vegetarian version of a classic Mexican entree.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat an 8 x 8 baking dish with cooking spray. Spread 1/2 cup enchilada sauce in the bottom of the dish.
Place 1/3 cup sauce and half the beans in a large bowl. Mash together until a loose paste forms. Add remaining beans, edamame, carrots, bell pepper, green onions, and brown rice. Mix well and divide equally among the tortillas. Roll tortillas and arrange seam-side down baking dish. Cover with remaining sauce.
Bake covered for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes longer. Remove from oven and let dish rest for 10 minutes.
Avocado Crema: Combine 1 avocado, juice from 1/2 a lime, and a generous pinch of salt in the work bowl of a food processor. With the motor running, add 1/4 cup cold water. Serve with the enchiladas instead of sour cream.
Ingredients: 1 can (15 oz.) red enchilada sauce, 1 can (15 oz.) no added salt black beans, rinsed and drained, ½ cup shelled edamame, ½ cup DOLE® Shredded Carrot, ¼ DOLE Red Bell Pepper, finely chopped, 3 DOLE Green Onions, thinly sliced, 1/3 cup instant brown rice, 4 (8" diameter) whole wheat tortillas, 1 ripe avocado, Juice from ½ lime, Salt, ¼ cup cold water, Avocado Crema (recipe below), Directions:Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat an 8 x 8 baking dish with cooking spray. Spread 1/2 cup enchilada sauce in the bottom of the dish.Place 1/3 cup sauce and half the beans in a large bowl. Mash together until a loose paste forms. Add remaining beans, edamame, carrots, bell pepper, green onions, and brown rice. Mix well and divide equally among the tortillas. Roll tortillas and arrange seam-side down baking dish. Cover with remaining sauce.Bake covered for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes longer. Remove from oven and let dish rest for 10 minutes.Avocado Crema: Combine 1 avocado, juice from 1/2 a lime, and a generous pinch of salt in the work bowl of a food processor. With the motor running, add 1/4 cup cold water. Serve with the enchiladas instead of sour cream.


Chitraloka Mega Poral deeply mourn the death of 80 year old Veteran Journalist V.N.Subbarao who breathed his last on Tuesday Morning at the M.S.Ramaiah Hospital. Scores of his well wishers from the field of Politics, Cinema, Culture, Literature paid the last respects to the departed soul after his body was placed in Suchithra Film Society till afternoon. Later he was cremated at Banashankari cremetoriam. He leaves behind his two sons Murali and Sudarshan.
V.N.Subbarao started his Jouranlistic career quite early in Mumbai where he worked as a reporter in Screen film weekly and later in the Mumbai edition of the Indian Express. He came to Bengaluru later where he worked for the Indian Express Group for a longer time. He was the editor of Kannada Prabha and also Resident Editor of Indian Express. He was the editor of Samyuktha Karnataka later. He wrote columns in various English and Kannada newspapers. He was well known in political circles and was closer to many Chief Ministers in Karnataka starting from S.Nijalingappa to Jagadish Shettar.
Subbarao who started his career as a film journalist wrote film columns in Indain Express and later in Deccan Herald. He started a weekly Kannada film periodical "Meanaka' which was the most popular film weekly during seventies till the early eighties. He encouraged good films and headed a committee formed by Karnataka State Government to suggest improvements in infrastructure in the state and enable encouragement for good and quality orieted films. His suggestions was accepted and some were implemented also by the state government.
Subbarao encouraged good young talents in Journalism and films. Many top journalists of today like Sachidananda Murthy (who is heading the Delhi office of Malayala Manorama and The Week periodical), A. Surya Prakash of Pioneer in Delhi, , Ramakrishna Upadhyaya who is presently working as Asst Editor of Deccan Herald, Nazreen Burah former Resident Editor of Asian Age, Late E. Raghavan who was the editor of Vijaya Karnataka, and Resident Editor of The Economic Times and Channai's Deccan Chronicle, Ranganath of Public TV were all duly encouraged by V.N.Subbarao. R.G.Vijayasarathy, content provider of Chitraloka Mega Portal had also worked in a periodical edited by V.N.Subba Rao.


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Special Issues » Flavor
With Mutiny Bar and Lost River, the tiki bar has returned to Detroit
by Lee DeVito
Courtesy Detroit Optimist Society
Mutiny Bar.
You're cozied up under a thatched roof, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a lei, sipping a sweet drink out of a coconut with a tiny umbrella in it. The beach, however, is nowhere to be found. You can only be in one place — the ersatz oasis of the tiki bar.
Especially in the winter, and especially in a place like Detroit, it's easy to understand the appeal.
"You come in, it's 20 degrees outside, you're freezing all day," says Chris Vanderginst, one of the owners and general manager of Southwest Detroit's Mutiny Bar. "We keep it a little bit warmer than it should be, luckily because we have a boiler. There's wicker chairs, there's a shark hanging from the ceiling. There's the netting, and the Christmas lights overhead. It feels like you're just on a getaway — we are your vacation for the next two hours."
Once considered passé, tropical-themed tiki bars are making a comeback in cities across the country, and Detroit is no exception. In November 2017, Mutiny Bar opened its doors in Southwest Detroit, and in June 2018, Lost River started slinging drinks on the east side. In recent years, Ferndale's Oakland Novelty Co. hosted Honi Honi, a tiki-themed pop-up.
The tiki bar rose to prominence in the 20th century, when spots like Don the Beachcomber in Los Angeles and Trader Vic's in Oakland opened in the 1930s, creating a cheap respite from the doldrums of the Great Depression. But the genre really took off after World War II, when military vets — including Don the Beachcomber proprietor Ernest Gantt, aka "Donn Beach" — returned home after serving stints in the Pacific with an appreciation for all things Polynesian.
With its "primitive" island motifs and strong beverages, the tiki bar contrasted with the clean lines and buttoned-up style of mid-century modernism. Soon, tiki bars began appearing all across America, including Detroit. By the 1960s, the Motor City had its own Trader Vic's outpost in downtown's former Hotel Statler, and former Ford engineer Marvin Chin opened Chin Tiki in the Cass Corridor. Then there was the Mauna Loa on West Grand Boulevard, with its grand tiki statues, transplanted palm trees, and even an indoor waterfall.
Tastes change and the tiki bar fell out of style, with Detroit's tiki bars shuttering as the city's economy bottomed out in the 1970s. But within the past decade, there's been a nationwide tiki bar revival, led by spots like San Francisco's Smuggler's Cove, Chicago's Three Dots and a Dash, and New Orleans' Latitude 29.
Lost River co-owner Matt Mergener says he was inspired to open a bar after visiting spots like those on his travels. "Five or six years ago I was traveling and I started to see the tiki bar starting to come back," he says. "I had the idea at the time that this would be a cool thing to start and to bring to Detroit. I like craft cocktails, but I like the more easygoing and less-stuffy nature of tropical cocktails."
Vanderginst echoes the sentiment, having served as general manager of the high-class Detroit craft cocktail bar Sugar House. After Sugar House experimented with a tiki-themed summer menu, he started Mutiny Bar along with Sugar House owners Dave and John Kwiatkowski. Like Sugar House, the idea was Mutiny would have flashy, inventive drinks, but at a more accessible price point.
"That's a big part of tiki, and craft cocktails in general, is the show and the entertainment," he says. "The bartender — they're almost like little rock stars, you know what I mean? They're entertaining. They're providing more than just a beer and a shot."
At tiki bars, that showmanship extends to drinks like the Scorpion Bowl, which is lit on fire, reminiscent of a tropical volcano. Another tiki bar tradition is to serve the drinks in ornate glassware — often in the shapes of coconuts, statuettes, or other island motifs. Half the delight of tiki drinks is the surprise at seeing what sort of vessel the drink will come in, and the tactile experience of twirling the mug around and admiring it.
"It's kind of a kitschy tiki bar thing to have the glassware," Mergener admits. "Some tiki bars will do it, some won't. We definitely wanted to do it — it's fun."
Of course, it comes at a cost.
"I buy like 48 at a time because it's an unfortunate byproduct of having a tiki bar with really fancy, nice glassware that people tend to sneak out the door with them," says Vanderginst.
Courtesy of Detroit Optimist Society
One surprising aspect of the tiki bar revival, however, is its timing. The trend comes just as there is a growing awareness and sensitivity to concepts like cultural appropriation, but it seems that so far, these neo-tiki bars have evaded such criticism.
Part of the reason for this could be that tiki bars have always been more of a romanticisation and amalgamation of different tropical motifs, rather than outright appropriation.
"Trader Vic started with a collection of knick knacks that he had collected from his travels," Vanderginst says. "A lot of that stuff is a mix and match from all over the place, and it all kind of became known as 'Polynesian.'" (The proprietor of the now-defunct Trader Dick's in Reno was forthcoming about the inauthenticity, confessing in the bar's menu, "Folks, I've never been to the South Seas... none of these recipes are mine...")
That said, both bar owners say they are careful in terms of the references they use, eschewing tribal or totem imagery in favor of more universal tropical motifs.
"I think a lot of the tiki bars that are opening, they don't necessarily resemble the old tiki bars because I think there is more of an awareness of that," Mergener says.
The word "Tiki" comes from the name of the first man in Maori mythology, and has since become used as a catch-all name for any sort of humanoid form carved out of wood. For this reason, Mergener says he prefers to call Lost River a "tropical bar" rather than a "tiki bar."
He says that some tiki "purists" — if there can even be such a thing — can be critical of this new crop of tiki bars. "That's our reaction, comically, when people are like, 'You're not tiki enough to us.' We're like, 'tiki' is not a real thing," he says. "It's an appropriation, it's a bastardization of other cultures. The mugs are from Japan. The recipes are from Filipino bartenders. And then you have the weird kitschy American elements to it from the '50s." In a sense, then, perhaps tiki bars are as American as apple pie.
"It can go in so many different directions," he says. "That's why tiki can be whatever you want it to be."
While these new tiki bars are not based in any particular culture, one common trend is a reverence for history, and what both bars do reference explicitly is tiki bar culture, and especially Detroit's tiki culture. Both Mutiny and Lost River have amassed a small trove of ephemera, including mugs, menus, and signs from Detroit's bygone tiki bars, which are on display. Meanwhile, Lost River has light fixtures carved by noted tiki bar designer "Bamboo Ben" Bassham.
There's also the canon of tiki drinks, with both bars adhering to and riffing off the recipes of classics like Mai Tais, Painkillers, and Zombies.
For example, for its Painkiller, Lost River uses Pusser's, a rum based on old British Navy recipe, just as the original Painkiller recipe calls for. "I mean, there's some variations that you have to make because of history and time, and some things aren't available," Mergener says. "But where possible we use a lot of the original rums that were called for." Meanwhile, at Mutiny, Vanderginst says they tweaked the classic recipes to make them more balanced and less sweet.
As far as there being room enough in this town for two tiki bars, neither bar owner sees a problem. After all, tiki bars are all about conviviality. "We're friends with them. The nice part is they're on the west side of town, and we're on the east side of town," Mergener says. "All tiki bars are going to have a similar vibe to them. You're probably going to end up serving some of the same drinks. But if you do it right, you're going to have your own vibe. Detroit is too small of a town to not run into each other."
And anyway, both bar owners say they just wanted to create a no-frills neighborhood spot to enjoy a drink. Again, there's that idea of escapism.
"We don't want to be a snobby bar where you come in and I tell you about your 23-year-old rum that I have and where it's from and whatever," Vanderginst says. "I can answer all those questions, but I'd rather just make you a drink, make you laugh, and have a good time."
Mutiny Bar is located at 4654 Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-406-4043; mutinybar.com. Lost River is located at 15421 Mack Ave., Detroit; 313-720-0673; lostrivertiki.com.
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Murphy showing the RGM Watch Co. Caliber 20 Model to NAWCC Ad Services Coordinator, Corinne Dedrick, and Publications Intern, Jessica Giaquinto. Photo by Keith Lehman.
All it takes is one visit to RGM Watch Co. to see how truly unique the company is. Nestled in Mount Joy, PA, RGM melds the old-fashioned craftsmanship of watch-making with modern technologies and creative styles. Founded by Roland G. Murphy in 1992, RGM builds, repairs, and restores watches. The watch shop is the only one in the United States that still makes mechanical movements in-house. It builds about 50 to 60 watch movements a year, and all watches are mechanical and high-end. A variety of complications, styles, and tools make RGM watches pieces of time-telling artwork.
Although Murphy makes unique movements and cases, he and his team also build cases around Swiss movements purchased from several companies in Switzerland. Murphy also searches the Internet for antique watches and movements to repair or restore. Some of the detail that goes into these watches, as well as his American-made watches, include guilloché work. He engraves many styles and patterns of guilloché on metal and mother of pearl. RGM owns a rose engine for such work. Down in the basement, there are also machines for glass beading and polishing, and in a closet lays a machine for physical and ultrasonic cleaning. When exacting the design of a watch, RGM takes advantage of a 3D printer and computer-aided drawing (CAD) technology. RGM uses these machines, programs, and other equipment for watch-making techniques that span the 16th to 21st centuries.
RGM Watch Co's. Caliber 20 Model. Photo by RGM Watch Co.
Model 801-EE with enamel skeleton dial and hand cut Engine-Turned (Guilloché) Main-plate. Photo by RGM Watch Co.
Murphy explains how a 3D printer is used to make watch case prototypes. Photo by Keith Lehman.
Murphy's favorite pocket watches and wristwatches reside in what once was a bank's walk-in safe, and other historical structures of the bank remain throughout the building. Murphy stores the masterpiece watches in black boxes.
RGM makes something to fit any taste, from pocket watches to modern artistic wristwatches. For the antique wristwatch lover, RGM carries a line of railroad watches. The railroad watches' styles vary by the type of dial, which includes boxcar dials, Canadian dials, and Ferguson dials. RGM's art watches display more colorful and modern designs. These wristwatches include many enamel dials, decorated in the cloisonné style. Two of the featured watches had regattas depicted, one in cloisonné and the other in a wood mosaic. Another classic artistic design is the chess watch, which has the game pieces fired onto the face in place of the hour numbers. Murphy takes pride in his antique collection and original designs.
Murphy shows how his 3D printer is used for other, non-horological purposes, at RGM Watch Co. Photo by Keith Lehman.
3D-printed Yogi Bear at RGM Watch Co., Mt. Joy, PA.


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Q: Spring Data JPA Specifications, how to fetch @JoinColumn data within the only sql request i'm newbie to Hibernate, i mostly have been using jdbc. But i was given a project which broadly uses Hibernate and Spring Data JPA Specification api to make requests to DB.
But there is an issue: if entity has @JoinColumn it makes numerous of additional requests to DB (in case of use of the inner field).
@Table(name = "vm$bonus_acc", uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames={"msisdn", "very_parent_group_id"}))
@Entity
public class BonusAccount extends BaseModel {

    @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "group_id", insertable = false, updatable = false)
    private VMGroup group;

For example if i fetch
    Page<BonusAccount> page = paginationService.formPageRequest2(req.getStart(), req.getLength(), bonusAccountDao);

    page.getContent().stream().forEach( bonusAccount -> bonusAccount.getGroup());

with content.size == 100, it will further provide 100 separated requests to DB. It loads DB a lot, and makes unnecessary requests.
I've found that it's possible to reach my need by the following way:
public interface BonusAccountDao extends JpaRepository<BonusAccount, Long>, JpaSpecificationExecutor<BonusAccount> {

    @Query("select ba, ba.group from BonusAccount ba ")
    List<BonusAccount> getBonusAccountsBy(@Param("groupIds") Collection<Long> groupIds);

}

What it does, it makes an inner join select and fills the BonusAccount entity within only one select request.
BUT the thing is, that Specification api is used really broadly and it's too much headache to change  this way.
What i currently see that Specification is well fit to configure the 'where' clause, but i can't find whether it's possible to configure the 'select', so my question is:
Is it possible to configure the 'select' clause same way as 'select ba, ba.group ...' above, within Specification api, to achieve the @JoinColumn field be fetched within the only request.
My current Specification code looks smth like below:
public <T> Page<T> formPageRequest2(int page, int size, JpaSpecificationExecutor<T> repo){
    PageRequest pageRequest = PageRequest.of(page, size);

    return repo.findAll(new Specification<T>() {
        @Override
        public Predicate toPredicate(Root<T> root, CriteriaQuery<?> cq, CriteriaBuilder cb) {
            //what it does, it configures the 'where' clause
            //it uses only the Root<T> and CriteriaBuilder for this purpose
            //and doesn't uses CriteriaQuery<?> at all, i suspect that it could be the key to my need,
            //but not yet found
            return createPredicate(root, cb);
        }
    }, pageRequest);
}

private<T> Predicate createPredicate(Root<T> root, CriteriaBuilder cb) {
    ...
}

Thanks a lot.

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Is it possible to configure the 'select' clause same way as 'select ba, ba.group ...' above, within Specification api, to achieve the @JoinColumn field be fetched within the only request.

Yes. You can configure more than just the 'where' clause using specifications. I may be oversimplifying your goal, but to select the BonusAccounts that belong to certain VMGroups (and include the group in the selection) your specification can be defined like this:
List<Long> groupIds = Arrays.asList(1L, 2L);

List<BonusAccount> bonusAccountList = bonusAccountDao.findAll(
        (Specification<BonusAccount>) (root, cq, cb) -> {
            root.fetch("group");
            return cb.in(root.get("group").get("id")).value(groupIds);
        });

Note that I used a lambda to decrease the code a bit. The resulting SQL is:
select
    bonusaccou0_.id as id1_0_0_,
    vmgroup1_.id as id1_1_1_,
    bonusaccou0_.group_id as group_id3_0_0_,
    bonusaccou0_.name as name2_0_0_,
    vmgroup1_.name as name2_1_1_
from
    bonus_account bonusaccou0_
inner join
    vm_group vmgroup1_
        on bonusaccou0_.group_id=vmgroup1_.id
where
    bonusaccou0_.group_id in (? , ?)

I don't know what is in your BaseModel, so I just added the 'name' properties to my entities for tinkering.
Some helpful references:

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*https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/java-ee-tutorial/jpa/criteria-api-fetch-joins.html

*https://www.baeldung.com/jpa-criteria-api-in-expressions


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Drawing • Installation • Photography • Design
±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009
by admin · September 30, 2009 · leave a comment
Pop Up Spaces' newest project, ±92, is a hybrid of art show, history lesson, architectural exhibit, planning study, performance and interactive experience. It will be unlike anything you or I have ever seen.
Soft Opening: Friday, October 2, 4-7pm
Grand Opening: Saturday, October 3, 6-10pm
Exhibit Hours: October 10, 17 and 24, 6-10pm
McLellan Building, 63 E. Congress (NW corner of Scott Ave. and Congress)
Tucson artists Bill Mackey, Julie Ray, Rachelle Díaz and Kimi Eisele, representing several collectives and entities including Worker, Inc., Pop-Up Spaces and Design Co*op, present ±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009, a compilation of over 100 Downtown Tucson master plans, comprehensive plans, studies and projects. The exhibition will include realized and unrealized plans authored from the early 20th century to 2009. An interactive timeline will help viewers track world events, economic and social trends, and Tucson's history in relationship to the plans' origins, realization, or death. This is a rare opportunity to see ALL of the planning for downtown Tucson in one space at one time.
Also included in the exhibition will be 92 images (by photographers including Josh Schachter) of spaces and places that make our downtown unique—some of these are a direct result of planning, some of which are not. A crew of official performing "apparatchiks" (i.e. officials in a large organization, usually a political one), will be on site to collect public input for current and future downtown master planning, for which there are no funds, of course. A small booklet entitled "A Guide to the Master Plans of Downtown Tucson" will be available for purchase.
Worker, Inc., Pop-Up Spaces and Design Co*op received pertinent plans, information, space, and materials for this exhibit from Pima County Planning Department Archives, City of Tucson Department of Transportation, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Poster Frost Architects, BWS Architects, Rob Paulus Architects, Wheat Scharf Landscape Architects, PARKWISE, Earl Wettstein, Alex Kimmelman, Donovan Durband, Sy Schorr, J.T. Fey, John Wesley Miller Companies, MOCA Tucson, Wilko, and others.
Created in 1995, Worker Inc. is a company that specializes in promoting change in the built environment. In 2007, Worker Inc. saw the need for science based research of the more mundane processes of popular culture and formed the Neighborhood Residents Resources Ethnography Studies Unit.
POP UP SPACES seeks to produce temporary, interactive, site-specific installations in empty spaces in which the visitors are not just expected to be passive viewers, but asked to be active participants. The goal of these art-based experiences is to enhance economic vitality and public engagement in downtown Tucson through promotion of the area's culture, history, architecture and business community.
Design Co*op is a collective of Tucson-based architects, designers, and artists working across disciplines to raise public awareness of the value of affordable and appropriate urban design.
For more information, contact Bill Mackey, workerarchitect@yahoo.com; Julie Ray, juliegraphics@gmail.com; Rachelle Díaz, info@popupspaces.org; Kimi Eisele, kimi@kimieisele.com. Visit popupspaces.org to view past projects.
Press for ±92
Zocalo magazine: "Actualized & Discarded Designs for Tucson" — August 5, 2009
Tucson Weekly: "Designs for Downtown" — October 1, 2009
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Blockchain gaming platform startup Animoca Brands Corp. Ltd. said today it has raised $125 million in new funding to support its mission to deliver digital property rights to users, including creating a new asset class — play-to-earn economies — and a more equitable digital framework.
Investors in the round include Boyu Capital, Singapore's Sovereign Wealth Fund Temasek and GGV Capital. True Global Ventures 4 Plus Fund and TGV 4 Plus Follow On Fund also participated through a $17.2 million convertible note investment.
Including the new funding, Animoca has raised ab0ut $800 million to date. The company previously raised $75 million on a $5.9 billion valuation in July from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Alpha Wave Ventures, 10T, SG Spring Limited Partnership Fund, Generation Highway and Cosmic Summit Investments.
Founded in 2011, Animoca specializes in blockchain, gamification and artificial intelligence technologies to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse.
The company's products span cryptocurrency tokens, original games and branded games in conjunction with other companies. Animoca has previously worked with intellectual properties such as those from The Walt Disney Co., World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP and Formula E. Animoca also offers nonfungible tokens that are used in metaverse-related gaming projects.
In delivering blockchain-based services and non-fungible tokens for true digital ownership of users' virtual assets and data, Animoca enables various opportunities, including asset interoperability and an open framework that delivers equitability for all participants in the open metaverse.
The investment by TGV 4 Plus FoF is the first for the fund, which was created to provide further funding to companies that already have TGV 4 Plus as an investor. TGV 4 Plus FoF completed its first closing in June for $146 million.
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13 November 2015 by Eric Toussaint , Mimi Podkrižnik
Interview with Professor Eric Toussaint, invited to Ljubljana by Slovenian Trade Unions to take part in a panel entitled Public debt: who owes whom?
By Mimi Podkrižnik, for the Slovenian daily Delo.
Do you still believe in the "European project"?
Most definitely, I don't. The "European project" has turned into a straitjacket to coerce populations. There is no leeway for democratically elected governments to implement policies that both comply with EU rules and work towards the common good. Indeed the various treaties and the institutional architecture through which they operate - European Parliament, European Commission, national governments and the European Central Bank Central Bank The establishment which in a given State is in charge of issuing bank notes and controlling the volume of currency and credit. In France, it is the Banque de France which assumes this role under the auspices of the European Central Bank (see ECB) while in the UK it is the Bank of England.
ECB : http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/Pages/home.aspx - have established a strict hierarchical framework that leaves little room for autonomous decisions, i.e. for democracy and the voice of ordinary citizens.
This has been demonstrated by the case of Greece. In January 2015 a majority of the people voted for a party that had promised to break away from policies that had completely failed. They rejected austerity measures once again in the 5 July 2015 referendum, but that only exacerbated the determination of the various EU institutions to prevent this popular aspiration from becoming reality. It was even clearly stated . Jean-Claude Juncker maintained that a referendum was not called for. EU leaders consider that EU policies should be determined by the Commission and the Eurogroup: there is no way either to get out or to change direction.
Why is this? Are we caught in a vicious circle?
The construction of the EU itself, i.e. adhering to treaties and a highly autocratic conception of the way the institutions function, is aimed at restricting democracy as much as possible. Major private corporations exert intense lobbying pressure on the Commission and Parliament to ensure that they make decisions that favour corporate interests. The head of the ECB ECB
European Central Bank The European Central Bank is a European institution based in Frankfurt, founded in 1998, to which the countries of the Eurozone have transferred their monetary powers. Its official role is to ensure price stability by combating inflation within that Zone. Its three decision-making organs (the Executive Board, the Governing Council and the General Council) are composed of governors of the central banks of the member states and/or recognized specialists. According to its statutes, it is politically 'independent' but it is directly influenced by the world of finance.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/html/index.en.html , Mario Draghi, used to be one of Goldman Sachs' strategists for Europe. This is emblematic of the situation we are in, where the major European companies have managed to place people coming from their own ranks key positions, or to obtain the full support of heads of state and senior civil servants to implement policies that favour their interests. Such a system looks very much like an oligarchy, in which a few individuals impose their decisions and define policies in the interest Interest An amount paid in remuneration of an investment or received by a lender. Interest is calculated on the amount of the capital invested or borrowed, the duration of the operation and the rate that has been set. of a small minority.
Left-wing parties also fell into the trap – we can see what has happened to the traditional left in France, with François Hollande's socialist party or to the radical left in Greece, with Alexis Tsipras' new party
I make a distinction between traditional and radical left-wing parties, since clearly we cannot use the word 'left-wing' for François Hollande, or indeed for Tony Blair or Jeroen Dijsselbloem. The latter is a member of the Dutch socialist party but that didn't stop him being among the most actively obstructive to the Greek government after the 25 January 2015 elections. We can place this kind of 'socialist' party on the side of the conservative and forces. They can be called 'neoliberal' or 'social-liberal'. These parties still have genuinely left-wing members who try to make themselves heard. The Labour Party elected Jeremy Corbyn in spite of Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's opposition. But how much room will Corbyn have in which to manœuvre? We shall wait and see what will happen with the Labour Party.
In any case, Corbyn has clearly indicated that if he becomes Prime Minister the UK would go back on what was done by Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. He talks of renationalising the railways, thus going further than what Tsipras had announced in January 2015 … François Hollande, the Dutch socialists, the German socialists, all those so-called socialists voted for the European treaties along with the other large right-wing parliamentary group, the Popular Party. The conclusion is clear; those socialists are the architects of everything we now face. Movements such as that of Alexis Tsipras or Podemos in Spain and other similar initiatives have had no hand in the construction of this system.
Not yet...
They are not in positions of power within the EU. Why did they fall into the way of thinking that we know about in Greece? Because they were under the illusion that the European power structure would give them room to manœuvre. They genuinely thought that the failure of the policies applied to Greece was obvious, because the fact was recognized by so many leading economists ...
... yes even Nobel-prize laureates...
Yes they thought, in exchange for their sense of responsibility, that European leaders and leaders of other national governments would agree to let them carry out their experiment, radically reduce austerity measures and attempt to boost economic activity in Greece. But they were mistaken. Their calculation was completely wrong. For European leaders it was essential to show all the peoples of Europe that there is no way to deviate from the path of austerity, that privatization cannot be halted. For all of them, whether Matteo Renzi or François Hollande or Wolfgang Schäuble or Jeroen Dijsselbloem – it was essential to prevent SIRYZA's experiment from succeeding. Among the most determined to counter Tsipras was of course Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and that of Portugal, Pedro Passos Coelho. Because they thought to themselves: if Tsipras succeeds, Podemos will sooner or later come to power in Spain, and then the same thing in Portugal. No government in any of the 27 other EU countries, nor the EU institutions, ever gave the Greek government a chance;. Yet Tsipras clearly thought that the governments of Matteo Renzi and François Hollande, who also wish for more flexibility with regard to deficits, would support him. But it didn't happen.
Surveys show that the harm suffered by SIRYZA also affected Podemos, whose popularity rating fell from 20 to 14%...
The aim of the European leaders is to tell the Spanish people: "do not vote for Podemos", and to tell Podemos: "give up your desire to really change things. You can see that Tsipras agreed to capitulate. You too, if you have a chance to enter a government, will have to accept the rules.
You distinguish between countries in the centre and countries on the periphery of Europe. Slovenia lies on the periphery, of course, just as Greece or Portugal. Yet those two countries are talked about very differently: while Portugal is the 'star pupil' concerning its policies and Troika Troika Troika: IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank, which together impose austerity measures through the conditions tied to loans to countries in difficulty.
IMF : https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html bailout, Greece is castigated for not playing the game
In the same way as Ireland is said to be a star pupil. But the actual situation is very bad in Portugal, as in Ireland and Spain. They seem to be meeting the criteria set by EU leaders because they manage to pay their debts without asking for any reduction. But this is entirely due to interest rates Interest rates When A lends money to B, B repays the amount lent by A (the capital) as well as a supplementary sum known as interest, so that A has an interest in agreeing to this financial operation. The interest is determined by the interest rate, which may be high or low. To take a very simple example: if A borrows 100 million dollars for 10 years at a fixed interest rate of 5%, the first year he will repay a tenth of the capital initially borrowed (10 million dollars) plus 5% of the capital owed, i.e. 5 million dollars, that is a total of 15 million dollars. In the second year, he will again repay 10% of the capital borrowed, but the 5% now only applies to the remaining 90 million dollars still due, i.e. 4.5 million dollars, or a total of 14.5 million dollars. And so on, until the tenth year when he will repay the last 10 million dollars, plus 5% of that remaining 10 million dollars, i.e. 0.5 million dollars, giving a total of 10.5 million dollars. Over 10 years, the total amount repaid will come to 127.5 million dollars. The repayment of the capital is not usually made in equal instalments. In the initial years, the repayment concerns mainly the interest, and the proportion of capital repaid increases over the years. In this case, if repayments are stopped, the capital still due is higher…
The nominal interest rate is the rate at which the loan is contracted. The real interest rate is the nominal rate reduced by the rate of inflation. being provisionally very low. All EU countries, Slovenia included, currently borrow at a very low cost but there is no guarantee that this will continue. In Portugal or in Spain, the rate of growth is very low or stagnant, the rate of unemployment is very high, the situation of Portuguese, Spanish and Irish banks is also very poor; they will require continual recapitalisation. Last year one major Portuguese bank, Banco Espírito Santo, failed. In fact the major media and the EU government show their approval of some governments because they want to say: "you see, the Greeks don't play the game and they're badly off because of it. The others, those that apply the reforms as they should, get by fine". But this is all just mystification. The actual situation is thoroughly different.
We are entering the realm of psychology...
In Slovenia you are in a rather surrealist situation. If I'm not mistaken most Slovenian people, the Slovenian government and the major media consider that you are so close to the centre of major powers, in particular Austria and Germany, that you will always get by. You may be on the periphery but with one foot in the centre. And some think that you are right in the centre. But we shall see whether that can last. Your public debt is skyrocketing because of bank bailouts, and things are not going to improve in the short term. Slovenia is not sheltered from hardships in the next two or three years. And the big difference between Slovenia and Germany or Austria is that you are not at the centre of EU decision making. It is Berlin, Paris and London, and to a more limited extent Brussels and Amsterdam, that influence the policies of European leaders, not Ljubljana.
What do you think of the part played by the media? They cover Portugal and Greece in different ways. There is a lot of emotional manipulation. We get lost in style and forget content. With Yanis Varoufakis, for instance, the media focus on his finger, or even his clothes.
Greece and the Greek population were clearly stigmatised. Some commentators who should have know better claimed that Greece had not collected taxes for centuries and that this was something inherited from the Ottoman Empire. Of course, there is a lot of tax avoidance in Greece...
... and corruption. We are in the Balkans, after all
There is corruption everywhere in Europe. Everywhere. Within the FIFA, in all organisations… But some want us to believe that it is limited to a few countries. To conceal high-scale corruption they focus attention on a small country, which is stigmatised. What Slovenian public opinion does not know is that a Greek Defence Minister, a member of PASOK [Akis Tsohatzopoulos] was sentenced to 20 years in jail for corruption in 2013. Five members of his family are also in prison. But this is never mentioned. How many ministers are in prison in EU countries? I think that some Slovenian ministers or former ministers belong in jail, but they have not been judged. In Greece they have trials for corruption and people are sentenced: there is a big trial of 69 Greeks involved in corruption with the multinational corporation Siemens and there will be sentences in the coming months.
Greece does indeed have serious problems of corruption and collection of taxes, but this is also the case in other European countries. All over Europe, every large corporation and the wealthiest 1% of the population have been granted tax privileges. States have to compensate for this loss of tax revenues and by borrowing. There is also tax evasion, for example the HSBC affair, or Luxleaks, in which Juncker is directly involved. And we shouldn't forget that Draghi was directly involved in the scandal of the falsification of Greek public accounts in 2001 and 2002 ... We have a major problem in Europe, as in the US: large corporations, especially banks, are systematically guilty of tax evasion and corruption. The EU only takes extremely weak measures to control them.
Nobody feels either guilty or responsible.
The European institutions, the European Commission, and the governments of the major States could implement strong measures to prevent tax evasion – which is on a massive scale and has the heaviest impact on the weakest economies. The wealthy in the peripheral European countries put their money where it is most secure — Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the City of London. Of course the European leaders have the power to take measures. But they don't want to.
Is it possible that someone will eventually be brought to trial?
I'm not optimistic — especially in the short term. I don't think that these individuals will be brought before a court, nor be found guilty, even though their behaviour would deserve it. The positive thing that may occur would be for us to learn lessons from what has happened with Greece and for the new progressive democratic governments to understand that they must be more firm, more firm than Tsipras was, which means that as democratically elected governments they have to be ready to disobey the orders of the European Commission and the ECB, if – as has been the case with Greece – they take measures that are unjust for the economies of their countries.
The wave of indignation has already lasted quite some time. Stéphane Hessel issued a call for indignation a few years ago. We've seen the birth of the Indignados movement in Spain and the formation of Podemos, but nothing has really come of it all yet. We feel a little bit at a dead end.
Those movements are driven by a part of the population who want radical answers. That's why Jeremy Corbyn, who had no institutional influence outside the trade unions, won the Labour Party leadership, and it's also why Bernie Sanders in the US, who has very few resources, is drawing considerable grass roots support from the Democrats, although he's considered a radical socialist. Twenty years ago, those who had the momentum were people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Clinton or Barack Obama... Now it's Sanders, Corbyn, and Podemos. Why? Because they correspond to what a part of the population wants, people who have come to the conclusion that it's time for policies that deal with the problem at its roots. In certain cases, the new political formations like SYRIZA and Podemos are too moderate. Even though they say that radical solutions are needed, and therefore get support from the people, they're afraid to actually put them into practice. What's needed is a progressive government that isn't afraid to disobey. The value of Stéphane Hessel's message was to say to people: when those in power apply policies that are fundamentally unjust, you have a duty to rebel, to revolt, to disobey. And it's important that it was coming from someone who resisted Nazism, because those are the people, in France, who resisted the Vichy regime and the French police, and not only the Nazis. It took courage to struggle against your own country's police and against your own collaborationist government. Today, of course, we aren't in the same situation; the Germany of Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble is not that of the Nazis. There's a huge difference, but it's undeniable that in the current context, a situation does exist where there is not enough space for the exercise of democratic rights, and therefore we have to be ready to disobey and to rebel. I hope that political movements will understand that. If not we'll experience one disappointment after another. The danger is that the Far Right, with...
...Marine Le Pen in France...
or Viktor Orbán in Hungary... will come to power. There's a great danger that the Far Right will eventually find charismatic figures and with violent disobedience, directed against immigrants, it could appear to be a credible alternative for ordinary citizens. There's a real danger in Europe. It's not immediate, it won't be in the next year or two, but the danger is nevertheless there.
What's your opinion of the role of the trade unions? It's clear that in the private sector, many factories have closed down. The working class is
disappearing.
That's exaggerating a little, but it is clear that there's a structural weakening of the major wage-earning sectors. Concentrations of wage earners are certainly diminishing in certain countries, or in entire regions of Europe. The trade-union movement has lost strength in a large number of countries.
Trade unionism is getting lost, at least in Slovenia, in a certain nostalgia, but also – it has to be said – in demagogy. The world is undergoing radical change, and trade unions need to keep up with it.
I have a lot of faith in the union movement's ability to redefine a coherent doctrine in the new context. One of the major problems in Europe is that there's a European Trade Union Confederation with, if I'm not mistaken, close to 60 million members. But the Confederation has supported all the European treaties, except for the latest one, the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance — the TSCG or Fiscal Compact, which it criticised. It opposed it, but in a very limp way, without mobilisation. Despite the reduction in major industrial concentrations, we still have – with the European Trade Union Confederation, which brings together all the trade unions – quite considerable potential power. But it's only potential. In practice it remained passive, in the belief that the European Union would allow it, as union leadership, to be a partner in a social dialogue. But in reality European policy-makers had no other goal than to make work more precarious everywhere and call collective bargaining agreements into question. The European Trade Union Confederation has taken a long time to realize what is happening and is incapable of reacting, because its enormous superstructure prevents it from functioning democratically, and also because most of all because its leaders and certain major unions who are members refuse to confront the proponents of these anti-Labour policies.
What role do the arms manufacturers play, considering the public debt and migration crises?
Arms manufacturers incontestably play an important role: In the case of Greece, their suppliers of military equipment are mainly French, German and North-American. They are responsible for a lot of corruption. I have just mentioned the condemnation of a Greek minister; he was obviously corrupted companies such as Rheinmetall in Germany, Thales in France and Lockheed-Martin in the US. It is well known that some very big deals have been struck where considerable sums, involving up to hundreds, of millions of Euros, have been used to corrupt political leaders. Several European countries aim to develop their arms industries, for example Poland has recently organised a major arms fair.
The high level of refugees coming from Syria is the direct result of European and US Middle-East policies. I have in mind the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which did not really bring more democracy to the country and only destabilised the region; the intervention in Libya and the attitude towards Syria, which ended up strengthening Al-Qaida in the frontier zones close to Sudan and Mali and favouring the creation and growth of IS. We have arms dealers who are supplying all sides in the conflicts and keeping the war going. As in other moments in history, arms dealers' strategies and the policies applied to problems in other parts of the World are interlinked. These policies are not in the general interest of the people and the effects are disastrous, whole sections of the populations are displaced and have to seek asylum wherever they may be accepted, however unwillingly.
Recently, in Who Owes Whom? the Slovenian publisher CF included a photo of German soldiers hoisting the Nazi flag over Athens' Acropolis in 1941. What do you think of this?
The publisher wants to make a strong message. Its value is to make people think. because European history must not be forgotten. It was not so long ago that Greece was occupied by Mussolini's troops and then the Nazis. Greece was one of the European countries that suffered most during the Second World War, along with the Soviet Union, Poland and, to some extent, Yugoslavia. Greece still has a war damages claim on Germany. And I support that claim. This photo should make people think. It is not a caricature, it doesn't show Schauble or Merkel wearing a Nazi helmet. The photo does not say that Merkel is behaving like a Nazi, but it should be considered a reminder of our history.
I think the media should change their rhetoric and stop talking about the 'Fourth Reich', for example. Too many memories prevent us achieving our objectives; the discourse should be tempered.
It is quite clear that we are not in a situation of outright domination and certainly not under German military domination of the whole of Europe. On the contrary, many governments of European countries were glad to see Merkel and Schäuble being cast as the bad guys. Mateo Renzi and Francois Hollande were quite pleased to be able to say "They're the ones that prevent us from making concessions".
The problem in Europe today is not only Germany, it is the way Europe has been built. To change all that – if we want a Europe that is truly democratic – it is obvious that many of the existing European treaties must be abrogated. A Europe-wide democratic constituent process, that would create a constituent assembly elected by the different European peoples, is urgently needed. Each EU country would also initiate a national process to collectively and democratically develop a new "European project". We could take inspiration from the French experience in the 18th century when the different regions made up "cahiers de doléances" where they expressed their feelings, expectations and requirements. It is high time to take stock of what the European Union has become over the last 60 years and to say: "now we are going to rebuild it, make it truly democratic and empower the peoples". I believe that several European treaties prevent that. So Europe needs a major upheaval, a major European movement, in order to achieve such changes. When could this happen? It will start in a few countries that disobey, and some may leave the Eurozone. Europe will enter a period of even more serious crisis than today, maybe lasting ten or twenty years. The process will be slow and long. Freeing France from absolute monarchy was the fruit of a long struggle.
Will it be possible to do this peacefully, considering history and the crisis?
I believe that the strength of the European authoritarian structures is based on the submission and docility of its peoples, and their political representatives. Our resigned obedience is their strength. Should the indignation become widespread and start to mobilise, Europe will be forced to change, but this does not imply violence. It is possible to change with firmness and determination, but without violence.
Is it correct to speak of a rich 1% and a poor 99%?
Yes, that's fine. Of course it's schematic, but it does correspond to reality. I have studied this issue, and the work of Thomas Piketty is very revealing. The richest 1% in the US possesses 50% of the country's wealth. Adding the next 9% does not add very much wealth. Speaking of the 1% targets a small minority and does not include the middle classes. We are now into such levels of concentrated wealth accumulation that it is quite true to speak of 1%, whereas thirty years ago it would have been truer to speak of 10%.
Is the current situation comparable to the period before the first World War?
We have returned to the same levels of wealth concentration as a century ago. That is what Piketty shows.
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is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
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Torre del Greco (; ; "Greek man's Tower") is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 . The locals are sometimes called Corallini because of the once plentiful coral in the nearby sea, and because the city has been a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the seventeenth century.

History

Ancient period

Tracing the history of Torre del Greco is difficult given the almost complete lack of historical documentary sources. Based on archaeological evidence, in Roman times Torre del Greco was probably a suburb of Herculaneum and, like elsewhere on the Bay of Naples such as at Oplontis and Stabiae, many patrician's villas would have lined the coast. In 79 AD the eruption of Vesuvius buried the area under volcanic ash.

The nearby Roman Villa Sora was a large and sumptuous residence overlooking the sea from its 150m-long frontage, dating from the 1st c. BC, whose excavated remains can be seen today. It was built on multiple levels like the Villa of the Papyri and on the beach below are the remains of a Roman bath complex (Terme Ginnasi) and quays would have been on the shore. It was embellished in the early imperial period and was being renovated in 79 AD probably after the 62 AD earthquake as shown by the piles of lime in some rooms, unfinished precious opus sectile floors made of imported marble and a famous graffito which recorded the cost of the work.

Many exquisite statues and frescos were found here firstly in the Bourbon excavations of the 1700s which are now in the museums such as Naples and the Palermo. Its size and quality implies it belonged to an important figure, possibly of the Imperial family judging by the spectacular frescoes which during the excavations of 1989 the area inspector considered closer to the Neronian Domus Aurea than to Pompeian houses.

It was rediscovered in 1974 by the GAV Archaeological Group. Further excavations in 1989–92 exposed the areas east and west of the apsidal hall, including service corridors, reception rooms, finely decorated bedrooms and the remains visible today. It was found that the top floor collapsed following the eruption while the bottom floor was buried by the ash. The middle floor can be visited today.

Post-Roman period
Later two villages are known to have been established in the area, Sora and Calastro. The Byzantine general Belisarius moved their inhabitants to Naples in 535. Around 700, it was also known as Turris Octava, the Latin for The Tower of Eight [sides] or The Eighth Tower, probably referring to a coastal watch tower. The current name appears for the first time in 1015; according to tradition, it stems from a Greek hermit who took up residence in the tower, or from the cultivation of a particular vine from Greece.

Middle ages

Torre del Greco was part of the royal estates of the Kingdom of Naples, until King Alfonso V of Aragon ceded it to the Carafa family.

In 1631 Torre del Greco was again damaged by an eruption of Vesuvius. Its citizens bought back their rights in 1699, after paying 106,000 ducats to their landlord, the Marquis of Monforte, and thenceforth the city flourished as a maritime trading and fishing port. The tradition of coral crafting dates from this time.

The historical centre of Torre del Greco was buried under a  layer of lava in 1794.

19th and early 20th century
At the time of the French rule of Joachim Murat, Torre del Greco, with 18,000 inhabitants, was the third largest mainland city in the Kingdom of Naples after Naples and Foggia.

Starting in the 16th century, wealthy families and even Italian nobility built elaborate summer palaces on the outskirts of the town. Among the most notable of these is the Palazzo Materazzo, renovated in the 1970s as a dance school, but later taken over by squatters after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake destroyed the homes of many of the poorer residents. In the 19th century, and continuing into the early 20th century, Torre del Greco was a popular summer resort for wealthy Italians.

In its heyday Torre del Greco was renowned for its cafés and eateries, particularly the "Gran Caffè Palumbo", a large Art Nouveau café with an extensive outdoor pavilion known for its gelato, pastries, food and coffee. The comedian Totò was among those who made Torre del Greco their annual summer retreat. The reason for Torre del Greco's popularity as a resort town was its fine beaches and the rural setting of lush farmlands and vineyards, as well as its close proximity to Vesuvius. As the town nearest to the volcano, Torre del Greco was the main starting point for tourists wishing to scale the mountain. This was facilitated by the Vesuvius Funicular, which took tourists to the crater from the town.

During World War II, the city was used as an ammunition depot by the German army, and consequently suffered heavy bombing by Allied forces.

Geography

Climate
Torre del Greco experiences a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa).

Economy
The city is the headquarters of Banca di Credito Popolare di Torre del Greco.

Main sights
Roman archaeological remains, including the so-called Villa Sora (1st century AD), probably a property of the Flavians.
The monastery of the Zoccolanti, with a cloister housing 28 frescoed panels depicting the life of Saint Francis of Assisi.
The parish church of Santa Croce, whose baroque belltower was buried by lava in 1794.
The 17th-century church of San Michele.
Villa delle Ginestre, where the poet Giacomo Leopardi sojourned.
The Museum of Coral.

Cameos and coral jewellery
Diving for coral has taken place in the Mediterranean Sea ever since Roman times, and in the 15th century Torre del Greco became known for its coral diving and harvesting of red coral. However, it was not until the 17th century that the first cameos were produced, and not until 1815 that a unique manufacturing contract was granted to the town by the King of Naples for a period of ten years.

At present there are several hundred companies and several thousands of people employed in the manufacture of coral and shell cameos. Coral is now mainly imported from Asia, since areas in the Mediterranean are increasingly becoming protected. The total industry is estimated to have a turnover of around US$225 million.

Noted persons from Torre del Greco

Enzo Aprea, Journalist and writer
Salvatore Accardo, violinist and conductor
Francesco Albanese, tenor
Ruggero Bonghi, philologist and politician
Rita Bottiglieri, ex pentathlete
Ruggero Cappuccio, author and director
Vincenzo Ciaravolo, sailor, recipient of the Gold Medal of Military Valor
Valentina Bianco, actress
Salvatore Commesso, cyclist
Ermanno Corsi, journalist and writer
Ettore Capriolo, Italian translator of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
Gino D'Acampo, chef
Nicolas De Corsi, painter
Giovanni Di Cristo, Italy national team judoka
Enrico de Nicola, first President of Italy
Maria Di Donna, singer of the 99 Posse
Mauro Esposito, footballer for A.S. Roma and the Italy national football team
Aniello Formisano, Italian senator
Nicola Lagnena, footballer
Mimmo Liguoro, journalist
Ernesto Mahieux, actor
Adolfo Margiotta, comedian
Giovanni Noto, engraver
Carlo Parlati, sculptor
Valeria Parrella, writer
Tobia Polese, painter
Massimo Rastelli, footballer
Arturo Scotto, member of the Italian Parliament
Francesco Vitiello, actor
Gennaro Vitiello, director and stage actor
Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, composer
Dario Nardella, mayor of Florence

Twin towns

Torre del Greco is twinned with:
 Montesarchio (Italy)

References

External links

Review of Torre del Greco's history and the cameo industry
Official website
torreweb.it
Torrese dictionary and grammar

Cities and towns in Campania
Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
Archaeological sites in Campania
Roman sites of Campania
Roman villas in Italy

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College Celebrates Its Outstanding Faculty
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"The Dream is Alive," a concert celebrating Martin Luther King, includes a talk with English prof. Jason Miller, an expert on King's 1962 speech in Rocky Mount that inspired MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, as well as the concert's world-premiere composition.
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Tossing the pigskin across the quad. Organizing a human rights protest on the library steps. Explaining why block difficulty makes Ethereum mining rigs obsolete.
Universities are known to be slow to change, but the spectacular rise of the cryptocurrency movement has begun to shape how technology is taught at elite institutions and the way thousands of students spend their college and graduate school years outside of class.
Five years ago, digital systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum were little-known outside an already ecstatic but fringe community of technologists and entrepreneurs. Some were animated by the seeming ease of making a fortune in the lightly regulated if highly volatile sector. Others worked to build out the underlying technology, known as blockchain, which enthusiasts believe will revolutionize not only finance but nearly every industry, even alleviating extreme poverty.
The anonymity of the technology has also been used by bad actors to advance criminal enterprises. In an "Ask Me Anything" Reddit session earlier this week, Bill Gates called cryptocurrencies "a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way." Gates was referring to people using the currency to buy fentanyl, the synthetic opioid tied to the deadly U.S. epidemic.
Interest in blockchain on campuses initially oozed up through the cracks: Professors began to incorporate the technology into lectures on other subjects or offered online courses; students formed cryptocurrency clubs that were swelled by hundreds of their schoolmates at many universities; and job-seeking graduates began to bypass investment banks for blockchain startups.
Some even transformed their apartments into trading floors. Last December, Forbes reported on two University of Michigan seniors who earned enough this way ("much to the dismay" of roommates) that one dropped out of school to trade full time.
Most young people remain on higher ed's pathway to desirable tech jobs, and institutions have begun to respond more directly to student interest and the adoption of blockchain in the financial world. A few elite schools, including Duke, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU, now offer courses, and many more teach its application to industry in fintech classes — how financial technology innovations are revolutionizing business. A group of computer science professors published a standard cryptocurrency textbook in 2016, and MIT launched a large digital currency research center.
The instructional breakthrough came when NYU's Yermack offered what's considered the first course entirely about blockchain. The class has grown from 35 students to more than 200 this year, he says. Like other scholars on the first wave of crypto-instruction, Yermack believes every major university will offer opportunities to study blockchain technology before long, but he acknowledges it's not easy to teach.
"The huge constraining factor is the shortage of qualified faculty," Yermack says. "It really takes somebody willing to make an investment of time to learn the material.
Kevin Werbach, a professor at Wharton Business School who will teach the university's first blockchain course next year, says there's "absolutely great interest in blockchain among students" but adds that the subject hasn't populated course offerings around the country yet because of its difficulty.
The founder and spirit king of Bitcoin was a privacy obsessive or obsessives using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2008, building on advances by other programmers, Nakamoto posted a paper on a cryptography list outlining a system that would allow people and organizations to make encoded financial transactions without banks or regulatory interference.
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Nakamoto vanished not long after, but his creation has evolved from a nerdy-boy curiosity to a multibillion-dollar (though still largely male) industry and, if not the bridge to universal prosperity that some adherents suggest, a potentially massive paradigm shifter in industry.
"Blockchain is the largest disruption to business that I have seen in my career," Duke's Campbell Harvey, who teaches "Innovation and Cryptoventures," told a business school publication.
NYU computer scientist Joseph Bonneau believes the digital currencies won't sideline the role of government as fully as some assume, but he says he recognizes how powerful the ideas are, especially to students.
"If you really believe that, it makes sense for people that they plan their whole education around it," he adds.


When I was invited to go to Minnesota to attend the in late January I had one thought: "What are they crazy?!" But when the organizers informed me I would be receiving 's Travel Journalist of the Year award, it suddenly didn't seem so crazy—and I quickly accepted as those kinds of accolades don't come around very often (for me, at least).
Still, although I was ecstatic about winning such a prestigious award, I was dreading the trip. After all, the upper Midwest has been in the news for weeks because of record low temps and the extended forecast wasn't looking any better. In fact, the day I arrived the high was -2°F (-18°C) and the low -16°F (-26.5°C)!
The 2014 conference was held at the Radisson Blu Mall of America in . It turned out that it didn't matter how cold it was outside because everything (and I mean everything) I could imagine was just steps away in this indoor haven where the average temp was 72°F. In fact, I seriously could've left my coat at home because there was no need to go outside except to walk a few yards to and from the airport shuttle van. In fact, I was so awestruck by the Mall of America that I couldn't wait to write about it—and so without any further ado, here are my 10 reasons you should go to the .
Mall of America is just a few miles from the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The airport is a major hub for Delta Air Lines so flights are coming in and going to destinations all over the world at all times. If you have a long layover at MSP, don't just hang out in the airport; jump in a taxi ($12) or on the ($1.75, and it runs direct to the mall from the airport) and head for the MOA. It only takes 10-15 minutes and you can even check your luggage at the mall. charges $10 for the first suitcase and $4 for each additional piece.
Good to know: If you are staying at one of Bloomington's hotels, most offer a free shuttle to the mall and the airport. Just call them up and let them know you're there—just like I did at the Radisson Blu Mall of America.
The is the only hotel physically connected to Mall of America and it's a darn nice one too. With 500 guest rooms and suites, it opened last March as only the second Radisson Blu hotel in North America (the first is in Chicago). There are 230 Radisson Blu hotels worldwide but they're just now breaking into America. They do an amazing job creating an exciting and inviting ambiance with individual interiors. The hotels have free high-speed internet and fashion-inspired rooms with Anne Semonin bath products. After spending two nights there, it's now one of my favorite conference hotels since everything I could ever imagine and more is all right there.
Good to know: Rack rates begin at $137 a night.
Mall of America is basically a city within a city. At 4.2 million square feet of total area it's the largest mall in the United States and the . And you can fit seven (7) Yankee Stadiums inside! When it opened in 1992 it was the world's largest and in 11 years it could be back on top because the owners plan on adding 5 million more square feet by 2025.
There's a full-on amusement park in the mall! When I turned the corner from the Radisson Blu I almost spit my Caribou Coffee out (they have six locations in the mall; that's how humongous it is) when I spotted the three roller coasters, a Ferris wheel and 20 other rides that kids and adults can enjoy at . It's a one-of-a-kind theme park that covers seven acres.
The first day I was there, the place was packed because the mall had announced on Twitter and Facebook that morning that they were offering free rides since schools were closed due to the intense cold. The following two days, meanwhile, it was like a ghost town during school hours, and so for the first time I rode rides all by myself—including the , the , and . I'm usually not a big amusement park kind of guy but the rides struck a perfect balance between too intense and too wimpy. They were just what I like, and with no one else around, I spent some time feeling like a kid again.
Nickelodeon Universe isn't the only attraction in the mall—not by a long shot. There's the 70,000 square foot all-new which features 10,000 sea creatures, including the most sharks in captivity anywhere and a 300-foot glass underground tunnel that was voted by Animal Planet as "the best shark exhibit on the planet." There's also a giant with play tables to inspire kids, a comedy club, a with 4 theaters and much more, including a new that's opening on February 14, 2014.
Good to know: MOA hosts around 100 celebrities a year for events, book signings or concerts. They've had everyone from Hillary Clinton to Taylor Swift.
520 SHOPS! Needs I say more? Everything you can imagine is here, from large department stores like Macy's to outlets for top-of-the-line designers like Tory Burch. I'm not really a shopper but I shopped while I was here just because everything is so convenient. On top of that there's no sales tax on clothing in Minnesota! I walked into a DSW and bought a new pair of Clarks shoes for $79 and then bought a present for my wife at another store (can't tell you since I haven't given it to her yet).
. FYI: The number of shops is always dropping or increasing by one or two.
With 59 restaurants you won't go hungry at MOA, that's for sure. They have a wide variety of restaurants to make everyone in your party happy. but I can tell you that you'll find everything from American Girl Bistro to Rainforest Café. I ate at Crave with my friend and travel legend Rudy Maxa and the food was excellent.
The staff at Mall of America know how to make you happy. A full-time comedian helps train employees, and the workers I asked for help were all super friendly (it might be a Midwest thing too). On top of that there's a phone number listed on all the directories that you can text if you have or find a problem, and the proper authorities will respond within minutes. For example, if one of the bathrooms is dirty or out of toilet paper you text them and they will send a cleaner out right away.
I think the only thing they need to work on is a better parking system (I heard it's a challenge during peak times). I suggested they set up a system like they have at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica where each parking space has a monitor so you know how many parking spots are available on each level, and there's a red or green light in front of each spot so you know if it's available without having to creep around.
The folks who manage the mall's text messages also do an amazing job running their social media. I took a tour of their ESP room and was really impressed. They have full-time employees working (during mall hours) to answer your Tweets () and texts or reply to comments you post on or .
Mall of America gets it—they understand that their only edge over online shopping is a memorable customer experience. And so they're always keeping it fresh by adding something new every week. Some of their bigger additions in 2014 will be a Grammy Hall of Fame, a zip line across the amusement park, a new version of a Hard Rock Café and a Benihana Restaurant. They recently added another luxury hotel, the JW Marriott.
After just three days inside the Mall of America, I can see why 42 million people pass through and together spend more than a billion dollars each year. You'll never get bored. You can even get married in their wedding chapel which has hosted over 6,000 weddings! The whole place is amazing—and even in the midst of polar vortexes, it's always sunny and 72°F during the day.
FYI: 40% of the visitors to the Mall of America are tourists, and international visitors spend 2.5X more than locals.
FYI: A tourist is defined as someone who travels 150 miles or more to get there.
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I have been there and it is just like you described it!!!!
I love the Mall of America! Glad you enjoyed it. We grew up a few hours away and going to the "big city" for some shopping always made for a great weekend :) I even ended up working there for a couple of years during college. You are right about the parking–it can be a huge nightmare, especially during the holidays!
Congratulations on being recognized as TravMedia Journalist of the Year!!
the center as well as the Radisson Blu.
Actually the West Edmonton Mall in Canada was the largest mall in the world until 2004. The Mall of America, when it was built, was the largest mall in the USA.
Seeing that photo of you and Rudy cracked me up because Rudy was trying to move in on a beautiful tall blond I had already won over during TBEX in MN. Try as he might, I prevailed. lol He's a comedic guy…it was fun meeting him. I was also great seeing you again and meeting Natalie for the first time.


April, in these parts, is irresistibly transformative. Vibrant life and color rise up and relentlessly overwhelm a drab winter's landscape, inspiring notions in the human heart of renewal and redemption. And with it comes another baseball season, and all its manifestations of new beginnings and the grand possibilities that await in the lush green days ahead.
So it was supposed to be 45 years ago. 1968 had dawned with the stunning reports of the Tet Offensive, a sobering reality that stretched deep into March, concluding with a sitting president declining to seek re-election, and bringing to us a reluctant familiarity with places called Khe Sanh, Hue, Lang Vei and My Lai. Our weariness longed for April's explosion of daffodils, bright green leaves, and baseball.
But the traditional month of promise had hardly begun when news arrived that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated while standing on the balcony of Memphis hotel. It was a dagger to the heart of the struggle for equality and justice, and our city erupted in an explosion of long accumulated frustration. We suddenly found ourselves in a warzone of riots and fire bombings that played out against the imposition of a general curfew enforced by uniformed soldiers, leaving us gripped by varying degrees of fear, anger and disbelief. Many businesses and neighborhoods would never be the same.
When it was mostly over, we ventured out cautiously and curiously past the smoldering ruble of mangled storefronts, which stood in stark contrast to the spring weather and peaceful calm of Holy Week and spring break. The Orioles opened play at Memorial Stadium almost immediately after the decrease in violence with a victory over the Oakland As, a win tempered by the palpable discomfort we now felt as we passed along our own streets.
Only a few short weeks later, with the riot fires fresh in our minds, Senator Robert Kennedy was also felled by an assassin's bullet, his calls for social justice an end to poverty seemingly having also taken the blow the left him lying on a hotel floor. As we moved toward summer, it was as though madness had become the rule of the day.
It is somehow fitting that, amidst all this turmoil and uncertainty, a figure should appear on the local stage who would profoundly impact this community's self-image and confidence. During the All Star break, the Orioles fired manager Hank Bauer, and replaced him with a relatively unknown coach named Earl Weaver. The franchise that had astonished the baseball world by sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the 1966 World Series had staggered through 1967 to finish nine games under .500. The team that began play in those troubling days of 1968 had been frustratingly inconsistent. By mid-season, they were over .500, but ten-and-a-half games out of first place.
Enter Earl Weaver, the diminutive firebrand who had spent 19 years as a minor league player or manager before reaching the major league coaching staff with a pronounced chip on his shoulder. He could be unapologetically antagonistic, bellicose and profane, but, above all, he was supremely confident in his abilities, obsessively rigorous in his dedication to fundamentals, and unwaveringly passionate about the game and his players. He was a superb match for the town that would come to embrace him.
The record is an undeniably amazing one. That '68 team won 91 games and finished in second place. During the following 15 seasons, Mr. Weaver's teams finished first or second 13 more times. They won 90 games 11 more times, and 100 games 5 times, securing 7 division championships, 5 pennants and a World Series. He had talented players, but he made them better. In fact, he used the entire roster in a way that maximized every player's ability to contribute to a winning team. Consoling and criticizing as necessary, he motivated them to become greater than the sum of their parts.
But his most significant contribution was coming to us in dark times and giving us something of which to be proud, and, more importantly, a vision of what we could become and accomplish through passion and commitment to the excellence. That is the essence of the inspiration of sports, and Earl Weaver inspired, not only his players, but a community to believe in itself and its possibilities. His death this winter is a reminder of what the Orioles can mean to this town and its future. Buck Showalter and his players appeared to recognize that last year in their magical return to prominence. May they keep that in mind as this new season begins and possibility fills the air of another April.


thanks for the post I did not get the whole debugging working already, but this was of a great help already.
I needed to take extra steps to get this working: Add the SerialPorts from GUI first, pointing them to the same file (you will be prompted to overwrite the file, accept). Then edit the vmx file according to this post.
Whu I just added the lines to the file and deleted all other lines starting with Serial0 it did not work.
Thanks man! This was of huge help and definitely saved me a lot of hours of hair pulling. Got the kernel debugging working right off the bat!
I'm doing this w/ Fusion 6, I'm not having much luck. I did follow the add serial port from the GUI first, shut down, and then modify the .vmx.
After that, in Windbg and via bcdedit, you reference the corresponding COM port correct? COM1 for serial0, COM2 for serial1, etc? I never see any file created at the path I specified.
there is one more important aspect: There must be no LPT port present in the virtual machine. To ensure that, the VMX file must not include any LPT devices _and_ the LPT port must be disabled in the BIOS of the virtual machine (yes, also when there is no LPT configured for the VM).
The windbg settings are correct, COM1 for serial0, COM2 for serial1 (in the default settings. You should also check the assignments of the COM ports in the device manager).
However, the file that you specified in the vmx settings should be created in any case (no depending on any settings in the VM), so this is definitely weird behavior. Feel free to post the vmx settings here or we can get in contact via mail.


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