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Q: How to fetch records using Select Query in JPA when Entity does not have 2 fields which are mentioned in Select query? I have an entity ResourceHierarchy :

import java.util.Date;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.SequenceGenerator;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name="resource_hierarchy")
public class ResourceHierarchy  {

      @Id
      @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "resource_generator")
      @SequenceGenerator(name="resource_generator", sequenceName = "resource_hierarchy__seq_no", allocationSize = 1)
      @Column(name="RESOURCE_ID")
      private Integer resourceID;

      @Column(name="RESOURCE_NAME", nullable = false)
      private String resourceName;

      @Column(name="PARENT_RESOURCE_ID", nullable = false)
      private String parentResourceID;

      @Column(name="RESOURCE_TYPE", nullable = false)
      private String resourceType;

      @Column(name="TIME_ZONE", nullable = false)
      private String timeZone;

      @Column(name="LANGUAGE", nullable = false)
      private String language;

      @Column(name="EMAIL_ADDRESS")
      private String emailAddress;

      @Column(name="ORGANIZATION")
      private String organization;

      @Column(name="CREATED_BY")
      private String createdBy;

      @Column(name="CREATED_DTTM", nullable = false)
      private Date createdDttm;

      @Column(name="LAST_UPDATED_BY")
      private String lastUpdatedBy;

      @Column(name="LAST_UPDATED_DTTM")
      private Date lastUpdatedDttm;

      @Column(name="ACTIVE_FLAG")
      private String activeFlag;

      @Column(name="CAPACITY_TYPE")
      private String capacityType;

      @Column(name="DWA_FLAG")
      private String dwaFlag;

    public  Integer getResourceID() {
        return resourceID;
    }

    public void setResourceID( Integer resourceID) {
        this.resourceID = resourceID;
    }

    public String getResourceName() {
        return resourceName;
    }

    public void setResourceName(String resourceName) {
        this.resourceName = resourceName;
    }

    public String getParentResourceID() {
        return parentResourceID;
    }

    public void setParentResourceID(String parentResourceID) {
        this.parentResourceID = parentResourceID;
    }

    public String getResourceType() {
        return resourceType;
    }

    public void setResourceType(String resourceType) {
        this.resourceType = resourceType;
    }

    public String getTimeZone() {
        return timeZone;
    }

    public void setTimeZone(String timeZone) {
        this.timeZone = timeZone;
    }

    public String getLanguage() {
        return language;
    }

    public void setLanguage(String language) {
        this.language = language;
    }

    public String getEmailAddress() {
        return emailAddress;
    }

    public void setEmailAddress(String emailAddress) {
        this.emailAddress = emailAddress;
    }

    public String getOrganization() {
        return organization;
    }

    public void setOrganization(String organization) {
        this.organization = organization;
    }

    public String getCreatedBy() {
        return createdBy;
    }

    public void setCreatedBy(String createdBy) {
        this.createdBy = createdBy;
    }

    public Date getCreatedDttm() {
        return createdDttm;
    }

    public void setCreatedDttm(Date createdDttm) {
        this.createdDttm = createdDttm;
    }

    public String getLastUpdatedBy() {
        return lastUpdatedBy;
    }

    public void setLastUpdatedBy(String lastUpdatedBy) {
        this.lastUpdatedBy = lastUpdatedBy;
    }

    public Date getLastUpdatedDttm() {
        return lastUpdatedDttm;
    }

    public void setLastUpdatedDttm(Date lastUpdatedDttm) {
        this.lastUpdatedDttm = lastUpdatedDttm;
    }

    public String getActiveFlag() {
        return activeFlag;
    }

    public void setActiveFlag(String activeFlag) {
        this.activeFlag = activeFlag;
    }

    public String getCapacityType() {
        return capacityType;
    }

    public void setCapacityType(String capacityType) {
        this.capacityType = capacityType;
    }

    public String getDwaFlag() {
        return dwaFlag;
    }

    public void setDwaFlag(String dwaFlag) {
        this.dwaFlag = dwaFlag;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "ResourceHierarchy [resourceID=" + resourceID + ", resourceName=" + resourceName + ", parentResourceID="
                + parentResourceID + ", resourceType=" + resourceType + ", timeZone=" + timeZone + ", language="
                + language + ", emailAddress=" + emailAddress + ", organization=" + organization + ", createdBy="
                + createdBy + ", createdDttm=" + createdDttm + ", lastUpdatedBy=" + lastUpdatedBy + ", lastUpdatedDttm="
                + lastUpdatedDttm + ", activeFlag=" + activeFlag + ", capacityType=" + capacityType + ", dwaFlag="
                + dwaFlag + "]";
    }

}

And I have SELECT query:
selectclocksquery=SELECT resource_hierarchy_util.get_ancestor_name(a.resource_id, 'Business Unit') as businessUnit ,  resource_hierarchy_util.get_ancestor_name(a.resource_id, 'Region') as regionName ,  resource_id as resourceId ,  a.resource_name as resourceName ,  a.time_zone as timeZone FROM resource_hierarchy a   WHERE  resource_hierarchy_util.get_ancestor_name(a.resource_id, 'Business Unit') = :businessUnitValue  AND  a.resource_type = :resourceTypeValueA AND to_date(a.created_dttm) = to_date(:reorgDate) AND NOT EXISTS (  SELECT * FROM resource_hierarchy b WHERE  b.parent_resource_id = a.resource_id  AND  b.resource_type = :resourceTypeValueB )

I have to migrate to JPA. Earlier I was using JDBC. When I do JPA and try to fetch record like this:
List<com.att.dmp.entity.ResourceHierarchy>  rAs  = resourceHierarchyService.findRAForClocks(reorgDate);

Then in that select query there are 2 columns which are not part of ResourceHierarchy entity. businessUnit and regionName are not in ResourceHierarchy entity. But other 3 ( resourceId, resourceName, timeZone) are in ResourceHierarchy entity. How can I modify so that after running select query, it can properly save those values in entity? Earlier I had model class and I kept 2 extra field.

A: You could use Projection in your query to map desired models to your POJO object


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1of2Lorenzo Herrera Jr., 22, was arrested for DWI after his girlfriend fell out of a truck he was driving and later died.
2of2Tamara Dujardin, 22, died after falling out of her boyfriend's moving truck after a night of drinking, police said.
SAN ANTONIO — Although the medical examiner concluded Tamara Dujardin fell out of a vehicle and her death was accidental, it will be up to a grand jury to determine if her boyfriend — son of a South Texas police chief — who was arrested and charged with DWI, should be held responsible for her death.
Lorenzo Herrera Jr. was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after Dujardin fell out of his half-ton pickup, when it was traveling at about 50 mph. Herrera, son of Floresville Police Chief Lorenzo Herrera, is father of Dujardin's 10-month-old son.
His DWI case has yet to be scheduled in Wilson County court, a clerk said, and Wilson County sheriff's deputies continue to investigate Dujardin's death to determine if other charges should be filed.
Investigator Richard Nichols expects the case to be presented to a grand jury in August.
It's common for grand juries to take a second look at controversial cases.
It was late on March 12 when Dujardin and Herrera, both 22, were heading home after drinking at Zombie's Bar. They stopped at a Taco Cabana restaurant, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office's investigative report.
After midnight, the couple got lost, and Dujardin — who had both marijuana and alcohol in her system — twice asked her boyfriend to stop so she could urinate, according to the report.
Near Medina County, Herrera wanted to stop for cigarettes, the report states, but couldn't find his wallet.
Dujardin started "fumbling around the moving truck looking for the wallet on the floor, sides and in between seats," the report states. Then she fell out of the truck.
Floresville police first arrived at the scene and summoned a medical helicopter. They told other officers that the "female passenger had jumped out of the vehicle," according to a report filed by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
A Wilson County officer told the DPS trooper that Herrera was "very confrontational" when first responders arrived.
Officers restrained him and conducted cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Dujardin.
Herrera was arrested and charged with his first DWI, then jailed and released on bail. Relatives said he then visited Dujardin, who was in a coma at University Hospital for nine days before she died.
Nichols wouldn't say whether the couple had a history of domestic violence, but he said he has looked into the possibility that Dujardin was pushed.
He measured Herrera's arm span, the inside of the truck and told the medical examiner's office that "it is almost impossible to reach from the driver's seat to the passenger door handle," adding that Herrera weighs about 300 pounds.
Attempts to reach Herrera via telephone and Facebook were unsuccessful.
Bell-Freer said her sister called her during fights, often in the middle of the night, and that Dujardin wanted to leave her boyfriend but it was difficult with an infant son and two toddlers. But she'd recently set out to do it, her twin said.
"She already had all their stuff packed up and had gotten herself all prettied up," Bell-Freer said.


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If the dedicated national team cannot make contact with a resident within a set period of time, the local public health officials can use the data provided by NHS Test and Trace to follow up, which in some pilot areas has involved local authority teams and voluntary partners visiting people at home.
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NWS confirms EF2 tornado damaged 196 homes in Copperas Cove, no injuries reported
The storm was located at 5:28 p.m. Sunday northwest of Copperas Cove, moving south at 35 mph, the National Weather Service reported.
Author: Kurtis Quillin, KCEN Web Team
Published: 5:16 PM CST March 6, 2019
Updated: 9:25 AM CDT June 11, 2019
TEMPLE, Texas — The National Weather Service investigated four reports of a possible tornado in Copperas Cove following Sunday's storm and confirmed an EF2 tornado caused the damaged. NWS officials from the Fort Worth field office toured the area for two hours to see the damage. Peak winds were as fast as 115 miles per hour, the NWS said.
The tornado's path stretched about one mile in length, and homes on both sides of it were damaged, the NWS said.
The storm was located at 5:28 p.m. northwest of Copperas Cove, moving south at 35 mph, the National Weather Service reported. According to Copperas Cove Fire Department deputy fire chief Gary Young, 196 homes were damaged in the storm and no injuries were reported.
"We have been inundated with offers for assistance, donations and other support," Young said. "Right now we do not have any needs for volunteers or any donations. Please feel free to pass along thoughts, prayers and positive words to all who have been involved."
HomeBase Lumber in Copperas Cove reopened Sunday night for people who needed supplies after their homes were damaged. The store located at 804 East Business Loop 190 said it will stay open until all of its customers are helped.
Members of Crestview Christian Church traveled around Colorado Drive and Big Divide Road to help patch up roofs in the area.
"Our grill blew across the patio, and then I heard a window break," one Copperas Cove resident said about the storms. "I went out 10 minutes later to find out the roof was blown off the house."
Another resident also described what he saw when the storm hit.
"All of a sudden, the wind shifted and you could see the rotation," he said. "Gutters got ripped off of my house."
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"Your polysheeting helps cover your windows," he said. "You can put it over any plywood you are putting on your roof right now."
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"It sticks a lot better to metal, brick, stuff like that," he said.
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Readers of Billboard got quite a surprise in the summer of 1986, when five albums by The Monkees re-entered the Billboard 200 albums chart, definitively confirming that Monkeemania was back in a big way.
Mind you, it wasn't as though the resurgence of Monkees fandom was something that happened overnight. Indeed, this sudden burst of new love for the band can quite definitely be traced back to a particular date: Feb. 23, 1986, a.k.a. MTV's "Pleasant Valley Sunday," a.k.a. when the network aired a marathon of the group's original TV series. In short order, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork announced that they would be doing a 20th anniversary tour (fourth member Mike Nesmith had scheduling conflicts), and it was right around the same general time frame that Nickelodeon began airing The Monkees on a daily basis.
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With their music in the air on a more regular basis than it had been since their initial heyday, younger fans inevitably began heading to their friendly neighborhood record stores and picking up copies of the group's albums, along with Then & Now...The Best of The Monkees, a compilation that included nearly two dozen of the band's original singles plus three new recordings by Dolenz and Tork. For the week ending Aug. 16, 1986, as Then & Now climbed the charts, the band's first four original albums - The Monkees, More of The Monkees, Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. - all re-entered the survey. The next month, when Then & Now peaked at an impressive No. 21, another album, The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, joined the other five on the chart; without a doubt, there were more albums by The Monkees on the chart than any other artist, firmly cementing the group as a multi-generational band.
Of course, that cement remains rock hard even 35 years later, as most recently proven by the success of the band's 2016 album Good Times! and its No. 14 placing on the Billboard 200, not to mention their subsequent holiday album, 2018's Christmas Party. Lest you forget, however, the remaining Monkees – Mike and Micky – are embarking on their final tour together, so if you're a fan and you've never seen any incarnation of the group, you'd best check and see if they're playing anywhere near you!
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As Syrian and Jordanian officials ponder reopening the Nassib border crossing, Syria Deeply talks with Sam Heller of the Century Foundation about the sticking points and possible negotiations.
Written by Hashem Osseiran, Alessandria Masi, Kim Bode Published on  Oct. 13, 2017 Read time Approx. 3 minutes
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BEIRUT – The border crossing between Jordan and Syria closed in 2015, but reports have been circulating since February about negotiations to re-open it. In Syria Deeply's second Deeply Talks, we look into the changing situation among Amman, Damascus and Syrian opposition groups along the frontier and the possibility of reopening the Nassib border crossing between the two states.
Sam Heller, a fellow at the Century Foundation who recently returned from a reporting trip to Jordan, joined our editors Alessandria Masi and Hashem Osseiran to discuss the latest developments on that front.
Here are a few highlights of the conversation.
Opposition groups gained control of the border crossing in May 2015. The ensuing instability in the area, and the presence of extremist groups, led Jordan to close the Nassib crossing, a checkpoint southeast of Daraa.
"The Jordanian border seems locked up in a way that the [porous] Turkish border is not," Heller said. "There is no regular civilian crossing over the border, and I think that Jordan's last major refugee intake was in [2016] when they emptied out the Rukban refugee camp in Syria's Badia desert. So the border is really kind of locked tight," he added.
He clarified, however, that some representatives of Syrian opposition groups and civilian bodies had been allowed to move between Jordan and Syria through unofficial crossings in the Badia desert and in border areas in southwest Syria.
The closure of the border dealt a significant blow to both the Syrian and Jordanian economies. Beforehand, the crossing handled an estimated $1.5 billion of trade every year, though that figure dipped when the war broke out in Syria.
Heller said Damascus had been pushing for the reopening of the crossing because of its economic significance: Syria has no official trade routes open. It was economically important for Jordan too, because Syria had previously been the nation's main outlet for agricultural exports to Lebanon and Europe.
When asked about current negotiations over the reopening of the Nassib border crossing, Heller said: "They don't seem to have produced anything yet."
The main sticking points, he said, were over customs duties and how they would be divided between the Syrian government and the various opposition forces. There are also discussions about administrative control over the border and whether it would be shared between opposition factions and the Syrian government or would be solely opposition-run, with maybe a government crossing in the interior of Daraa province with a road corridor through which shipments would pass.
According to Heller, more symbolic issues have figured in negotiations, including what flag would fly over the crossing, the release of detainees, and whether IDPs would be allowed to return to the handful of Syrian towns that have been converted to barracks for pro-government forces.
When asked what a government capture of the crossing would mean for Syrian rebels, Heller said that both symbolically and politically it would be sort of a loss to the opposition, especially as President Bashar Al-Assad continued to regain swaths of territory.
"But if there is economic gain [for rebels] to be had from this [reopening], then that is relevant," he said.
Heller said the covert United States aid to between 10,000 and 37,000 rebels will be cut off in December, leaving these fighters without the paychecks they have been using to support themselves and their families.
"So, if there are customs, duties, for example, if there is money to be spread around for the border crossing, then this could help mitigate that. It could be positive in that sense," he said.
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IMF Financial Terrorism
CAPITALISM, ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, 13 Jun 2011
Stephen Lendman - Activist Post
In July 1944, the IMF and Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now the World Bank) were established to integrate developing nations into the Global North-dominated world economy in ways other than initially mandated.
Under a new post-war monetary system, the IMF was created to stabilize exchange rates linked to the dollar and bridge temporary payment imbalances. The World Bank was to provide credit to war-torn developing countries. Both bodies, in fact, proved hugely exploitive, using debt entrapment to transfer public wealth to Western bankers and other corporate predators.
On a grander scale today, the scheme destructively obligates indebted nations to take new loans to service old ones, assuring rising indebtedness and structural adjustment harshness, including:
— privatization of state enterprises, many sold for a fraction of their real worth;
— mass layoffs;
— deregulation;
— deep social spending cuts;
— wage freezes or cuts;
— unrestricted free market access for western corporations;
— corporate-friendly tax cuts;
— tax increases for working households;
— crushing trade unionism; and
— harsh repression against opposition to a system incompatible with social democracy, civil and human rights.
As a result, bankers and other corporate predators strip mine countries of their material wealth and resources, shift them from public to private hands, crush democratic values, hollow out nations into backwaters, destroy middle class societies, and turn workers into serfs if they manage to have any means of employment.
In other words, perpetual debt bondage substitutes for freedom. A race to the bottom follows. An elite few benefit at the expense of the many, entrapped nations henceforth forced to pay homage to their money masters, effectively handing over their sovereignty.
As a result, neoliberalism is neo-Malthusianism writ large, destroying humanity to save it. Its holy trinity, in fact, mandates no public sphere, unrestrained corporate empowerment, and eliminating social spending to devote all state resources for bottom line profits, national security and internal control.
Except for the privileged few, it's the worst, not the best, of all possible worlds, financializing economies into debt bondage, transforming them into hollow shell dystopian backwaters.
For example, in the 1980s, 187 IMF loans caused poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease and death for many developing countries, including all sub-Saharan ones entrapped by structural adjustment harshness. Their growth, in fact, declined on average by 2.2% per year, and per capita income dropped below pre-independence levels.
Debt service required health expenditures cut 50% and education by 25%. Moreover, as indebtedness rises, so does forced austerity, what, in fact, becomes a death spiral requiring new loans to service old ones, a never-ending cycle to oblivion for many nations in hock to IMF mandates.
In Latin America, the 1980s was a lost decade. Loans to Chile required 40% wage cuts. During Mexico's 1982 debt crisis, wages as well as spending for health, education, and basic infrastructure dropped by half. As a result, infant mortality tripled and vital human needs were unmet to assure bankers got paid.
By decade's end, developing nations overall, in fact, were worse off, not better, deeper than ever in debt the way IMF officials planned. Devaluations followed. Debts burgeoned. Growth fell. Earlier from 1976 to 1982, Latin American borrowing doubled, 70% of new loans needed to service old ones.
Yet Article I of the IMF's Articles of Agreement audaciously says it lends:
to give confidence to members by making the general resources of the Fund temporarily available to them under adequate safeguards, thus providing them with opportunity to correct maladjustments in their balance of payments without resorting to measures destructive of national or international prosperity.
The IMF's web site states it provides loans to reduce poverty and increase economic development, adding that "(i)n difficult economic times, (it) helps countries to protect the most vulnerable in a crisis."
It fact, it does precisely the opposite, entrapping them in debt, poverty and depravation, operating as a global loan shark, demanding not a pound of flesh but all of it no matter the pain and suffering caused.
Once shock therapy entrapped Chile under Pinochet, unemployment rose from 9.1 to 18.7% between 1974 and 1975. At the same time, output fell 12.9% as cheap imports flooded the country. As a result, local businesses closed, hunger grew, and so did mass disenchantment with economic harshness followed by repressive crackdowns against challenges to regime control.
A decade later, growth resumed, but only after conditions worsened, including 45% of Chileans impoverished while the nation's richest 10% saw their incomes rise by 83%.
It works the same way everywhere under IMF mandates, including mass impoverishment, public wealth transferred to private hands, out-of-control corruption and cronyism, and nations transformed into hollow shells to benefit super-rich elitists already with too much.
In 1980s Bolivia under Victor Paz Estenssoro, austerity included wage freezes, ending food subsidies, lifting price controls, hiking oil prices 300%, imposing deep social spending cuts, permitting unrestricted imports, downsizing state enterprises before privatizing them, and letting unemployment rise sharply.
The decade through the early 1990s saw Latin American debt rise from $110 billion in 1980 to $473 in 1992, accompanied by interest payments growing from $6.4 billion to $18.3 billion. As a result, worker livelihoods, health and welfare suffered. Globally, in fact, many millions lucky enough to have work endure sub-poverty wages to let foreign predators cash in, profiting enormously on their misery.
The scenario replicated from sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America to Russia and Asian Tiger countries in 1997/98, looting them one at a time or in combination, turning Asia's miracle, in fact, into disaster.
The International Labor Organization estimated 24 million lost jobs as a result of selling state enterprises at fire sale prices, replacing local brands with Western ones, and letting foreign predators benefit from what The New York Times called "the world's biggest going-out-of-business sale."
At the same time, Asian workers became human wreckage, the fallout IMF policy statements never explain, perpetuating the myth they offer help as a lender of last resort when, in fact, their mandate is plunder for profit, no matter the damage caused.
Mandated Austerity in Greece
In his June 7 article titled, "Will Greece let EU Central Bankers Destroy Democracy," Michael Hudson discusses proposed bailout terms, calling them "an opportunity for privatization grabs," what local voters didn't bargain for with 2000 Euroland membership.
They didn't understand its unintended consequences, including agreeing to foreign-controlled central bank authority running Greece like a colony, substituting its will over national sovereignty.
According to Professor William Black (former senior bank regulator and Savings and Loan prosecutor), Eurozone membership has strings, including foregoing rights to:
— to devalue currencies to make exports more competitive;
— sovereignty over members' own money or (for "periphery nations") influence over European Central Bank (ECB) policies; and
— expansive fiscal policies to stimulate growth.
In fact, mandated bondage "is a double oxymoron – preventing effective counter-cyclical fiscal policies harm(ing) growth and stability throughout the Eurozone," weak members hurting stronger ones.
Moreover, like all debt-entrapped countries, Greece's bailout price is structural adjustment harshness, making a bad situation worse. It requires new infusions during hard times, causing rising indebtedness – the familiar IMF-imposed death spiral no responsible leader should accept.
Last year, however, in return for a $150 billion loan, Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou imposed earlier cuts, including:
— large public worker layoffs;
— public sector 10% wage cuts, including a 30% reduction in salary entitlements;
— cutting civil service bonuses 20%;
— freezing pensions;
— raising the average retirement age two years;
— higher fuel, alcohol, tobacco, and luxury goods taxes with much more to come given Greece's worsening debt problem.
Euroland officials now demand them in return for more bailout help, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker expecting Greek political consensus to agree, saying:
"In the case of countries with difficulties, it would be wise for the principal political forces of those countries to agree on the path to follow. That's what happened in Ireland, and that's what we would like to happen between the political parties in Greece," no matter the economic wreckage or human cost.
Undeterred, on June 8, Papandreou announced new tax increases and over $9 billion in spending cuts. Earlier he divulged plans to raise nearly $75 billion by privatizing state enterprises, including water companies, Piraeus and Thessalonika port facilities, the Athens racecourse, Greece's Postbank, a casino, the OPAP lottery company, and state rail system.
However, Brussels demands more, including deeper cuts and selling off Greece's crown jewels at fire sale prices, effectively ceding its entire sovereignty to foreign buyers able to strip mine its wealth, no matter the human cost.
Greek public assets are worth an estimated $440 billion. Brussels wants at least the best of them sold as well as no restructuring to assure full debt repayment in return for another $125 billion loan.
However, given Greece's rising burden, no amount is enough as greater austerity impedes economic growth and recovery, compounding its current crisis.
The Argentina Solution
On May 31, Irish Times.com headlined, "Ireland 'may try to restructure debt,' " saying:
According to Ernst and Young, "Ireland may try to restructure its debt to lower interest payments or extend the maturity on its borrowings as the economy contracts again this year."
Like Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and troubled Eastern European countries, Ireland's burden shows no signs of abating, perhaps heading it either for restructuring or default as the most sensible step to take.
In December 2001, Argentina halted all debt payments to domestic and foreign creditors. Months earlier, an IMF loan didn't help. Nearly $100 billion in debt was restructured, completed in 2005 on a take it or leave it basis, imposing stiff haircuts to bondholders agreeing to terms of around 65%, deciding something was better than nothing. Most holdouts out finally capitulated in 2010 on similar terms.
Sustained economic growth followed from 2003 through 2007, helped by debt restructuring and a devalued currency. Eurozone countries can relieve their burdens with a similar option, reclaiming their sovereignty by reinstating their pre-euro currencies, what they never should have sacrificed in the first place.
Stephen Lendman is the author of How Wall Street Fleeces America and The Iraq Quagmire . Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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Big Parade to Show Trump's 'Fondness for Military,' Mattis Says
FILE PHOTO -- President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted to Japan by the Yokota Air Base Honor Guard, Nov. 5, 2017, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Donald Hudson)
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
The Pentagon is working out the details on the big parade past the White House wanted by President Donald Trump to show his "fondness for the military" and the nation's growing strength under his administration, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday.
No date has been set for the parade that reportedly will include tanks, but once the logistics are worked out, "we'll send them up to the White House for a decision," Mattis said at the White House, where he had earlier pressed for a budget deal to avoid another government shutdown.
"We're all aware in this country of the President's affection and respect for the military," Mattis said. "We've been putting together some options."
"The President's respect, his fondness for the military, I think, is reflected in him asking for these options," Mattis said.
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed a report in the Washington Post that Trump had held discussions at the highest levels of the Defense Department on holding a military parade that would probably take the traditional route down Pennsylvania Ave. past the White House.
"He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebration at which all Americans can show their appreciation," Huckabee Sanders said.
The proposal for the parade has drawn criticism from Democrats on the costs and possible damage to the parade route from the tank treads.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, an Air Force reserve colonel, said in a Tweet: "You know what would be more useful than asking the Pentagon to waste money on a big military parade? Basically anything."
Trump's desire for a military parade reportedly grew out of his attendance last July at the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris, which included military vehicles and a flyover by French jets that drew applause from Trump. U.S. units stationed in Europe also participated in the French parade.
At the time, Trump said the two-hour parade was a "tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France," and he told French President Emmanuel Macron that he wanted one on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington that would be even grander.
Although no date has been set, The Washington Post said that the Pentagon was considering Veterans Day in November, partly because it would coincide with commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the victorious end of World War I.
-- Richard Sisk can be reached at Richard.Sisk@Military.com.
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A few weeks ago, we participated in the Elmer's Bag It Forward (#BagItForward) Campaign and made a surprise teacher goodie bag! The Bag It Forward movement is great, but Elmer's also has some other programs as well! Like, did you know that Elmer's is a Upromise partner? So, every time you purchase an Elmer's or Krazy Glue product with your registered drug or grocery card, a percentage of your purchase will be put into your Upromise account. More information can be found here — http://www.elmers.com/about/special-offers. And, Elmer's also has the Glue Crew Recycling Program!! Through Elmer's Glue Crew Program, schools & classrooms can collect all of their empty glue bottles & glue stick containers and then turn them into Walmart on Earth Day to be recycled! A great way to help the planet and teach kids about recycling! For full details on how the program works, please visit: http://www.elmersgluecrew.com/how.aspx.
Big Brother just started a little preschool program and we all know that preschoolers go through LOTS of glue! So, we made a Glue Crew box for his school!
We stopped in to Walmart to pick up some supplies, namely an Elmer's Tri-fold Display Board. You can see our whole shopping experience here on thisMoment!
Think your local school may want to join Elmer's Glue Crew Recycling Program? It's easy! Just start saving empty Elmer's glue bottles and sticks in a box (it can be as creative or simple as you like!)! Then, go to http://www.elmersgluecrew.com/ for full information about the program, ideas & tips, and even contests & prizes!!!
Disclosure: This project has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Elmer's #BagItForward #collectivebias. As always, all opinions & experiences are entirely my own!
Another fantastic program from Elmer's! The more I learn about Elmer's the more I like them! I love how your collection box turned out!
That looks amazing! Great job!
So cute!! I bet Big Brother was excited to have this for his school!!
I love the glue bottle-shaped box!


The elephant's pleasure was plain to see. The water and the scrubbing motion of the broom must have awoken in him some pleasant memory, a river in india, the rough trunk of a tree, and the proof was that for as long as the washing lasted, a good half hour, he did not move from the spot, standing firm on his powerful legs, as if he were hypnotised. Knowing as one does the preeminent virtues of bodily cleanliness, it was no surprise to find that in the place where one elephant had been there now stood another. The dirt that had covered him before, and through which one could barely see his skin, had vanished beneath the combined actions of water and broom, and solomon revealed himself now in all his splendour. A somewhat relative splendour, it must be said. The skin of an asian elephant like solomon is thick, a greyish coffee colour and sprinkled with freckles and hairs, a permanent disappointment to the elephant, despite the advice he was always giving himself about accepting his fate and being contented with what he had and giving thanks to vishnu. He surrendered himself to being washed as if he were expecting a miracle, a baptism, but the result was there for all to see, hairs and freckles.
….The pottingar delivered his opinion in a most insinuating manner; but he seemed to shrink into something less than his natural tenuity when he saw the blood rise in the old cheek of Simon Glover, and inflame to the temples the complexion of the redoubted smith.
But one distinguishing characteristic of this great author's mind and feelings deserves, even in the shortest allusion to his memory, to be mentioned as giving colour to all his works – we mean his love of country – his devoted attachment to the land of his birth, and the scenes of his youth – his warm sympathy in every thing that interested his nation, and the unceasing application of his industry and imagination to illustrate its history or to celebrate its exploits. From the Lay of the Last Minstrel, or the border ballads, to the last lines which he wrote, he showed a complete and entire devotion to his country. His works, both of poetry and prose, are impregnated with this feeling, and are marked by the celebration of successive portions of its wild scenery, or of separate pieces of its romantic annals. Hence his friends could often trace his residence, or the course of his reading, for periods anterior to the publication of his most popular works, in the pages of his glowing narrative or graphic description. Hence the Lady of the Lake sent crowds of visitors to the mountains of Scotland, who would never have thought of such a pilgrimage unless led by the desire to compare the scenery with the poem.
….Like so many mornings after a torrential rainstorm, the day broke awash with brilliant sunshine and fresh air. Though the sun had warmed the tin room to the point where I'd grown hot in my sleeping bag, the wretched position in which I'd finally fallen asleep had morphed into borderline uncomfortable.
….I gazed at the cot above me expecting to see the impression of Pia still sleeping there, but it was flat. To my left, Rachel's bed was empty too, her bedroll neatly tied. I was relieved to see Sandra still bundled in her red sleeping bag, head tucked down. Like Pia, she was a natural-born sleeper.
….Led by aromas of French toast and coffee, I climbed up the hill across grass flattened by the night's downpour. In the distance, our destination: smoke-blue mountains obscured and then revealed by morning fog. I felt equally pulled and repelled. What did the mountains care about our plan to climb them, rafting the waters that divided them? They had eternity before us, and eternity after us. We were nothing to them.
I'm still crawling through this challenge because of all the other vintage crime books that have come my way recently, but I'm still enjoying it!
I downloaded this one from wikisource , another great resource for finding some of these vintage crime novels. I wonder if it's only in Britain that the word "temple" makes us think of the legal profession rather than religion?
The Blurb says: On his way home after a long night's work, newspaper editor Frank Spargo stumbles across a crime scene on Middle Temple Lane in the heart of London's legal district. An elderly man lies dead in an entryway, his nose bloodied. He wears an expensive suit and a fashionable gray cap, but the police find nothing of value in his pockets, and no identifying documents of any kind.
Unable to sleep, Spargo pays a visit to the mortuary in the early hours of the morning and learns that a crumpled piece of paper has been recovered from a hole in the dead man's waistcoat. Strangely, the name and address it bears are familiar to Spargo. Succumbing to his reporter's instincts, he vows to get the story and help Scotland Yard uncover the identities of both victim and killer.
The Blurb says: Mark Brendon, a highly regarded young Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard, deserts London for a trout-fishing holiday on Dartmoor. Heading from Princetown towards the deep pools of Foggintor Quarry, he has a brief encounter with a beautiful young woman; later, while fishing, he passes the time of day with a red-haired man. When murder interrupts Mark's holiday. both strangers play a central part in the investigation.
The young woman is Jenny Pendean, and it seems that her husband has been killed by her uncle – who proves to be the red-haired man, Captain Robert Redmayne. Jenny tells Brendon the story of the troubled Redmayne family, the 'peculiar will' left by her wealthy grandfather, and the tensions caused by her marriage to Michael Pendean, who had avoided fighting during the war. Robert Redmayne has gone missing, and Pendean's body cannot be found.
The Blurb says: Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm's reputation – especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr Smallbone was – and why he had to die.
The Blurb says: Morris Assheton is in love and means to be married. But his happiness is spoilt when he discovers that someone has been whispering poisonous rumours about him to the girl's father. The culprit is Mills, dastardly partner to the Assheton family's trusted lawyer. Morris vows revenge.
When Mills' body is discovered, brutally beaten, the ugly quarrel comes to light and suspicion naturally falls on Morris. His innocence is debated in a tense courtroom, as an eager public and press look on.
Murder mystery… Courtroom drama. This is a classic whodunnit from the author of Mapp and Lucia. Crime fiction at its best.
All blurbs and covers taken from Goodreads or Amazon UK.
NB Please note that my giving links to free sources does not imply that I have confirmed the copyright status of any of the books, especially since this varies from country to country. If you download from any of these sites, you do so at your own risk and discretion.
…."It's a bit of a climb from this side," said Parker.
….Parker was six foot, and could just touch the top of the wall with his hand.
….The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they were under siege from settlers. Among them was the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who later wrote Little House on the Prairie based on her experiences. "Why don't you like Indians, Ma?" Laura asks her mother in one scene.
….Bannerman remembered a cartoon he had seen once in an old Punch magazine. Two crocodiles basking in a jungle swamp, heads facing each other above the muddy waters. One of them saying, 'You know, I keep thinking today is Thursday.' Bannerman smiled. It had amused him then, as it amused him now. What bloody difference did it make . . . today, tomorrow, yesterday, Thursday? It was ironic that later he would look back on this day as the day it all began. The day after which nothing would ever be quite the same again.
….But at the moment, so far as Bannerman knew, it was just a day like any other. He gazed reflectively from the window a while longer, out across Princes Street, the gardens beyond, and the Castle brooding darkly atop the rain-blackened cliffs. Even when it rained Edinburgh was a beautiful city. Against all odds it had retained its essential character in the face of centuries of change. There was something almost medieval about it; in the crooked hidden alleyways, the cobbled closes, the tall leaning tenements. And, of course, the formidable shape of the Castle itself, stark and powerful against the skyline.
The Blurb says: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.
As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled it. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
The Blurb says: A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist José Saramago.
In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In José Saramago's remarkable and imaginative retelling, Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub. Accompanied by the Archduke, his new wife, and the royal guard, these unlikely heroes traverse a continent riven by the Reformation and civil wars, witnessed along the way by scholars, historians, and wide-eyed ordinary people as they make their way through the storied cities of northern Italy; they brave the Alps and the terrifying Isarco and Brenner Passes; across the Mediterranean Sea and up the Inn River; and at last, toward their grand entry into the imperial city.
The Blurb says: The Fair Maid of Perth centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised, and in which the Scottish nobles fight for control of the weak Scottish monarchy, and clans are prepared to extinguish each other to gain supremacy in the central Highlands. It is a remarkable novel, in part because late in his career Scott has a new subject, and in part because he employs a spare narrative style that is without parallel in the rest of his oeuvre. Far too many critics, from his son-in-law J.G. Lockhart to the present day, have written off late Scott, and seen his last works as evidence of failing powers. The readers of this edition (which is not my edition) of The Fair Maid of Perth will see that these critics are mistaken, for in it we witness a luminous creative intelligence working at high pressure to produce a tightly organised and deeply moving novel.
The Blurb says: A heart-stopping, page-turning thriller that sees a trip of a lifetime – white-water rafting in the remote US wilderness – turn into a battle for survival for four best friends.
Win Allen doesn't want an adventure. After a miserable divorce and the death of her beloved brother, she just wants to spend some time with her three best friends away from her soul-crushing job. But athletic, energetic Pia has other plans. Plans for an adrenaline-raising, breath-taking, white-water rafting trip in the Maine wilderness. Five thousand square miles of remote countryside. Just mountains, rivers and fresh air. No phone coverage. No people. No help.
I'm in a bit of a reading slump at the moment, but fortunately I appear to be in a book-acquiring slump too, so the TBR has increased by just one to 226.
A gift from my brother. A little bit of Dickens sounds like a wonderful way to brighten every day of the year, doesn't it?
A bedside companion to dip into year round, this book introduces each month with a longer seasonal quote, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each day. Hopping gleefully from Esther Summerson's abandonment by her mother in Bleak House to a meditation on the difficult posture of letter-writing in The Pickwick Papers, this anthology displays the wide range of Dickens's stylistic virtuosity—his humour and his deep tragic sense, his ear for repetition, and his genius at all sorts of voices.
The Blurb says: An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination.
Courtesy of Oxford World's Classics. One for my Classics Club list. I don't know anything about this other than the blurb and the fact that it's considered a classic of espionage fiction. It sounds good, though, and I'll know a lot more once I read the OWC introduction… and the book, of course!
The Blurb says: One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the North Sea. A vivid exploration of the mysteries of seamanship, the story builds in excitement as these two young adventurers discover a German plot to invade England.
The Blurb says: There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale–a professional assassin.
My 2019 reading has got off to a start so slow I feel I might have to learn to read backwards. Fortunately my book acquisition rate seems to have slowed too, so the end result is an increase of just 1 to 227.
Here are a few that I will get to… sometime!
The Blurb says: In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever.
The Blurb says: When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation, she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.
The Blurb says: These stories follow a kind of life cycle of expatriates in Hong Kong, a place often called the most thrilling city on the planet. They share the feeling of being between two worlds, the experience of being neither here nor there and trying to find a way to fill that space. From the hedonistic first days in How To Pick Up A Maid in Statue Square, as Fast Eddy instructs on how best to approach Filipina maids on their rest day; through the muted middle in Rephrasing Kate, as Kate encounters a charismatic bad boy and is forced to admit her infidelities; to the inevitable end in The Dirty Duck, as Philip realizes his inability to commit and resolves to return home to Australia; Hong Kong alters them all with its frenetic mixture of capitalism and exoticism. Characters exist between the worlds they once knew and this place which now holds them in its spell and shapes them to its ends. Their stories explore how they cope with this space where loneliness and alienation intersect, a place where insomniac young bankers forfeit their ambition while chasing deviant sexual encounters, or consume themselves with climbing the corporate ladder. It is a world where passive domestics live and work for the money they can send home, while their keepers assemble poolside to engage in conversations aroused by the expats' desire to connect to others who share their fates. Always, of course, there is The Globe, a favourite watering hole where, when night falls, they meet to tell their stories.
The Blurb says: Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells' Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery.
When Philip Balfour is found murdered in a New York bookstore, the number one suspect is his librarian, a man who has coveted Balfour's widow. But when the police discover that a book worth $100,000 is missing, detective Fleming Stone realises that some people covet rare volumes even more highly than other men's wives, and embarks on one of his most dangerous investigations.
The Blurb says: In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of Europe. He begins 100 million years ago, when the continents of Asia, North America, and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved. Flannery teaches us about Europe's midwife toad, which has endured since the continent's beginning, while elephants, crocodiles, and giant sharks have come and gone. He explores the monumental changes wrought by the devastating comet strike and shows how rapid atmospheric shifts transformed the European archipelago into a single landmass during the Eocene.
As the story moves through millions of years of evolutionary history, Flannery eventually turns to our own species, describing the immense impact humans had on the continent's flora and fauna–within 30,000 years of our arrival in Europe, the woolly rhino, the cave bear, and the giant elk, among others, would disappear completely. The story continues right up to the present, as Flannery describes Europe's leading role in wildlife restoration, and then looks ahead to ponder the continent's future: with advancements in gene editing technology, European scientists are working to recreate some of the continent's lost creatures, such as the great ox of Europe's primeval forests and even the woolly mammoth.
Courtesy of the British Library. I've nearly caught up with my backlog of vintage crime review books now – just another couple to go (unless the postman has other ideas). I read another of Julian Symons' books, The Colour of Murder, just before Christmas – review to follow – and enjoyed it, so am looking forward to this one. And it's in the running for shortest blurb!
The Blurb says: When a stranger arrives at Belting, he is met with a very mixed reception by the occupants of the old house. Claiming his so-called "rightful inheritance," the stranger makes plans to take up residence at once. Such a thing was bound to cause problems in the family—but why were so many of them turning up dead?
The Blurb says: A Depression era portrait of people living in an area near a sardine fishery in Monterey, CA known as Cannery Row.
NB All blurbs and covers taken from Goodreads or Amazon UK.


For the community service project each class is required to complete, the Class of 2016 created iGrad, a program to mentor lower-income, high-needs high school seniors.
During 10 mentoring sessions with 13 students at Trinity High School, the teens were able to complete financial aid paperwork, receive help completing scholarship applications and college essay writing, develop résumés and do mock interviews. The project even included a clothing drive where the students could obtain the appropriate wardrobe for the next phase of their life.
The entire program "was a huge success," Davis said, adding that she and classmate Angela Jones are discussing ways to continue the program with school staff.
The graduation's keynote address was delivered by Euless Mayor Linda Martin, who discussed the importance of leadership.
Graduates included Kelli Agan, Cindy Benke, Mark A. Chandler, Anita Daniels, Charolete Davis, Gina Day, Denise Epp, Tyler Gibson and Tanya Ferreiro.
Also completing the leadership training were Jennifer Jayroe, Kent Johnson, Angela Jones, Lisa J. Karr, Nateasie Kendrick, Kathy Lanier, Jerry Lewandowski, David Mowers, Maria Redburn and Amy Sisler.
Applications are being accepted for the Leadership H-E-B Class of 2017. Classes meet monthly throughout the fall, winter and spring. There is also a September orientation day featuring a challenge course activity. Tuition fee is $450. Applications are available at www.HEB.org and are accepted until the class is full or until Aug. 29.
Direct inquiries to the chamber at 817-283-1521 or email maryfrazior@heb.org.
Trick dogs, a performing parrot, magic, juggling, rope spinning and unicycling are all part of the fabulous Circus Chickendog Show set for June 11 at 2 p.m. at the Euless Library, 201 N. Ector Drive.
Circus Chickendog is a family-friendly circus extravaganza featuring six rescued circus dogs. It is fun for all ages, said library administrator Sherry Knight.
Visit the website at www.chickendog.net to see the adorable animals and a little preview of what the highly entertaining show will offer.
Admission is free. Contact the library at 817-685-1480.
Mid-Cities Genealogical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Mary Lib Saleh Euless Public Library. Newcomers to genealogy are welcome. The program is at 7 p.m. and will feature Bernard Meisner, who will speak on "Researching German Ancestors." Visitors are welcome. Contact Evelynn Kelly at fourthgentx@yahoo.com with questions.
Kids Fire Academy is June 20-24 in the Euless fire administration facility, 201 N. Ector Drive. The five-day camp teaches kids what it is like to be a firefighter for Euless. The program "is a great opportunity for the firefighters to help kids build a sense of teamwork and responsibility," said city spokeswoman Betsy Deck. The academy is open to children ages 11 to 15. Registration costs $40. Call 817-685-1821 to inquire.


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Insider Economy FinMin accepted applications for 6-year bonds of €4.94 m
FinMin accepted applications for 6-year bonds of €4.94 m
The Finance Ministry's Public Debt Management Office has announced that it has accepted applications of a total value of €4.94 million, by 99% from local investors for six-year bonds maturing in 2025.
In a press release, the Public Debt Management Office announces that "on Septemberl 20, submission of applications for the purchase of six – year bonds of the Republic of Cyprus for natural persons of the 10th series (October) 2019 ended."
It adds that seventy-nine applications were received the great majority of which from Cypriot citizens (about 99%) and that seventy-eight applications were approved for a total sum of €4,974,000.
The issuance of six-year bonds for natural persons will continue with the 11th series (November) 2019, maturing in 2025, with a highest level of total issuance up to €5,000,000, which will be issued on November 1st, 2019, with a period for the submission of applications from October 2 to 18, the press release says.
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The strength of family is depicted in the golden beauty of this Tree of Life pendant necklace, gorgeously detailed with leaves, branches and a rope-look border.
Sparkling cubic zirconia adorn the branches of the symbolic family tree in this pendant necklace created by Unwritten in sterling silver. Approximate length: 18". Approximate drop: 1".
Gorgeous round-shape diamond leaves sparkle on the beautiful branches of this tree of life pendant necklace (1/5 ct. t.w.) created in 14k gold vermeil. Approximate length: 18".


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Tomahawks 2013 NAHL Showcase Tournament Schedule Announced
The Tomahawks will play four regular-season games in four days
against opponents in the South and Central Divisions.
JOHNSTOWN, PA. – The Johnstown Tomahawks, proud member of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), are pleased to announce the team's schedule for the 11th Annual NAHL Showcase Tournament, held Sept.18-22, 2013 at the Schwan Super Rink in Blaine, Minn. The Tomahawks will play four regular-season games in four days at the Showcase against teams from the South and Central Divisions.
The Tomahawks official and complete home and away schedule for the 2013-2014 season will be released soon by the NAHL.
2013 Tomahawks NAHL Showcase Tournament Schedule
9/18 Amarillo Bulls vs. Johnstown Tomahawks 8:15 PM
9/19 Johnstown Tomahawks vs. Topeka Roadrunners 4:30 PM
9/20 Aberdeen Wings vs. Johnstown Tomahawks 10:30 AM
9/21 Johnstown Tomahawks vs. Bismarck Bobcats 9:30 AM
* All Times CST
The Tomahawks have not previously faced any of their four 2013 Showcase opponents. During the 2012 NAHL Showcase Tournament, Johnstown went 1-2-1.
The yearly event garners the attention of many NCAA programs and NHL teams, which utilize the four days to heavily scout the best young talent in North America. In previous seasons, more than 300 professional, college, and junior scouts, along with over 9,000 people, have attended.
"Each year the NAHL Showcase keeps getting bigger and better as we continue to serve our hockey community in the highest regard by providing all the players with unmatched exposure to hundreds of scouts who will be in attendance," said NAHL Commissioner Mark Frankenfeld in an official statement from the Leauge. "We believe that the 2013 NAHL Showcase is shaping up to be the best yet and will continue to provide a unique opportunity for all the players that compete and to all the scouts that attend this year's event."
For more information on the Tomahawks and the Showcase, please visit www.JohnstownTomahawks.com and www.nahlshowcase.com.
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Brokers and dressing house representatives from around the world came out to stretch, feel, and see new advances in sustainable dressing on 3 May at a seminar in Glostrup.
Greece's largest fur fair took place last week from 3-6 May, and over 1,300 visitors from 43 countries came to buy, sell, and have a look.
After she bought the Top Lot in Palomino Mink, we had a chance to sit down with the face of Firelady, style expert and blogger Fu Zhi'en.
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Kopenhagen Fur was in Dubai last month showing off tastefully elegant fur looks at the six-day Pret-A-Cover Buyer's Lane modest fashion week.
For many years, Kopenhagen Fur's Kindergarten Project has helped many children in Katutura with reading, maths and a daily meal. But now, Kopenhagen Fur's samplemen have also taken on the mantle of assisting Namibia.


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LHD ULTRA pressure sensors
Tank Pressure Sensors for Plug-In Hybrids
First Sensor Qualifies Contract Manufacturer in Eastern Europe
HTD Manifold Pressure Sensors
Series 9 APDs for LIDAR
HTD Pressure sensors
Satellite antenna
Sensor und Test 2017
Optical sensors from First Sensor lift off
Best of Sensors Expo Award 2016
Series 9.5-APD
Custom Pressure Transmitters
Photodiode X100-7
Custom Submersible Level Sensors
Bringing the high energy universe into focus
New Detector for Gamma Radiation
Custom Flow Sensors
Micro-hole PIN detector technology
Series-i and series-ix detectors
Above 0.6 A/W responsivity for 1064 nm
Custom Flow-Through Pressure Transmitters
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Milestones in our expertise
In our history, there have been many technological milestones that have allowed First Sensor to become the company it is today. We have developed numerous solutions for our three target markets – namely, the Industrial, Medical and Mobility markets – that have made us an innovative manufacturer of high-quality sensor chips, sensors and sensor systems to this day. Here, we present a selection of technological highlights from the company's 25 years of existence.
First Sensor subsidiary Klay Instruments is the first company to supply electronics in a stainless steel housing. The advantage of this material is that the transmitters can now be used directly in the harsh process environment. It is also suitable for use in applications where strict hygiene requirements must be met.
First Sensor is developing a component for monitoring the blood circulation of astronauts in the space station MIR for one of today's leading aerospace companies. The photodiode measures oxygen saturation in the blood.
First Sensor subsidiary Klay brings the first digital transmitter with HART® protocol for converting various input signals onto the market.
With the order from the world market leader in the development of X-ray technologies, which enable the identification of hazardous substances, smuggling products and other hidden objects, First Sensor begins the development of photo diode arrays for luggage scanners.
First Sensor subsidiary ELBAU builds its first mini-CCD endoscope. The small device for minimally invasive surgical procedures is so successful that First Sensor is still producing it today and regularly adds new variants to the range.
The ESA space probe Mars Express takes up position in an orbit around Mars. On board the space probe is a high-resolution camera that delivers 3D stereo recordings in color. The CCD converter integrated in the camera head electronics converts the light collected into electrical signals, and prepares and digitalizes these signals. The entire camera head electronics system was developed and manufactured by First Sensor subsidiary Lewicki.
As part of an international aviation project, First Sensor subsidiary ELBAU develops the structural design and connection technology for the first fully automatic digital camera for photogrammetry and the remote sensing of Earth from airplanes.
First Sensor subsidiary ELBAU develops photodiode packaging that is used in the computer tomographs of a German medical technology manufacturer. The special feature of the packaging is that the chip is soldered onto the ceramic rather than glued. This enables a consistent level of precision to be achieved when positioning the chip — something that no other company had been able to achieve to date.
First Sensor recognizes the potential of today's indispensable LIDAR technology for autonomous driving early on back in 2008 and successfully completes two large-scale APD array development projects. This work focused on the development of sensors for optical distance measuring for applications including the control of adaptive cruise control in vehicles.
First Sensor launches STARe technology on the market. STARe stands for "Sensor technologies for advanced resistors". This technology enables the company's pressure sensors to deliver unrivaled stability for high-precision applications.
The developers at First Sensor in Montreal apply for a patent for the micro-flow technology, technology that today forms the basis for our flow and ultra-low pressure sensors. Sensors that are based on this technology are used in medical applications such as respiration and pneumology, as well as in industrial applications such as building automation for measuring air flow in ventilation systems.
First Sensor acquires the patent for AIM technology (Airgap Insulated Microstructures). The inertial sensors manufactured by First Sensor that are based on this technology enable measurements to be carried out with a degree of accuracy that exceeds the average level. Areas of application include flight control systems, drilling platforms, and structural health monitoring.
First Sensor subsidiary Lewicki microelectronic GmbH is certified by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt — DLR) as a manufacturer of space-grade semiconductors and, since then, has been the DLR's only assembly and test center for power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in Germany.
First Sensor brings the Area View Kit delivering 360° all-round visibility for use in special-purpose vehicles and machines to the market. The CMOS high-performance cameras in the Area View Kits boast a very large dynamic range (>100 dB) for challenging light conditions and can withstand the harshest of environmental conditions such as cold, heat, and constant vibrations.
At First Sensor, the 10 millionth pressure sensor for controlling braking systems rolls off the production line. Up to 15,000 units leave the assembly line every day - which means that one of the OEM pressure sensors leaves the production line about every six seconds. The pressure sensors detect when the vacuum in the brake booster is insufficient and the vehicle's automatic start-stop system must therefore be deactivated.
First Sensor receives the IATF 16949 certificate for the automotive industry for its two sites in Dresden and the Berlin-Oberschöneweide site. The certifications prove that the sensor technology specialist guarantees the high quality standards of the automotive industry when it comes to turning visions of autonomous driving and green mobility into reality.
First Sensor is taking the next step towards volume production of cameras for driver assistance systems and adding the "Blue Next" industrialized camera generation to its product range. Models in the "Blue Next" camera range can also be used in First Sensor's Embedded Area View application, and support innovative driver assistance systems in this way.
The medical technology production sites of First Sensor AG in Canada, Dresden and Berlin were awarded the ISO 13485 certificate. The certification confirms the introduction and use of a comprehensive management system for the design and manufacture of medical devices and demonstrates the efficiency of the First Sensor production network in the face of the current increased demand for highly sensitive and reliable pressure sensors.
First Sensor develops a novel transmission module for 5G broadband expansion. In order to ensure the transmission of large amounts of data in the future, First Sensor is working together with the internationally active telecommunications supplier ADVA Optical Networking SE and other development partners on a new type of poly transceiver, which creates the basis for the 5G broadband expansion. First Sensor is developing polyboard technologies, optical interfaces, cooling system and housings for the sensor module and is scheduled to start production in 2020 once it is ready for series production.
Against the backdrop of continuing high demand for high-performance sensor technology for industrial, medical and automotive applications, First Sensor AG is expanding its production capacities with a contract manufacturer. For this purpose, an Eastern European electronics manufacturer has been qualified as contact manufacturer for the standard pressure sensors of the H-Series.


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