HTC and Verizon today announced the HTC Droid DNA smartphone featuring a retina-searing 5-inch, 1920 x 1080 full HD Super LCD 3 edge-to-edge display at a record-breaking (by a wide margin) 440ppi pixel density. The display brightness and viewing angle has been upped as has the refresh rate so there's no video blurring. Of course the display is shrouded with Gorilla Glass 2.
The device features Qualcomm's 1.5 Ghz Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB storage, 8 megapixel camera, 2,020 mAh battery, and runs Android Jelly Bean 4.1 out of the box. The camera has a f/2.0 lens (reportedly giving it a picture quality better than the iPhone 5) and features full HD video chat, face detection, smile capture, and HDR shooting. Other features include NFC, Beats Audio, two speaker amplifiers, and wireless charging. At only .16-inch wide, it's thinner than the Samsung Galaxy SIII.
Pre-sales begin today with the device hitting stores on November 21, 2012 at a price of $199 on contract.
Geek Slop take: HTC puts their own relatively unobtrusive Sense UI (4+) on top of Android which we personally don't like (prefer stock Android). Don't let the 5-inch display scare you off – the glass melts into the rounded sides so it feels very comfortable in the hands. Battery seems a bit small and no SD expansion slot but the extraordinary display and killer processor put it at the top of our list.
"BELLEVUE, WA — Nov. 13, 2012 — HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, and Verizon Wireless today announced the exclusive DROID DNA by HTC, the ultimate smartphone and the first with a full HD 1080p display. The DROID DNA by HTC will be available exclusively through Verizon Wireless through pre-order starting today and at retail stores nationwide Wednesday, November 21st.
With technology rivaling the latest HD TV's, the DROID DNA by HTC is the first smartphone to feature a true 1080p HD super LCD 3 display with Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2 protection. It boasts an extraordinary 440 pixels per inch (PPI) on a 5-inch screen for unprecedented in-hand HD experiences that delivers the maximum pixel clarity available on a smartphone.
The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S4 Pro processor, featuring a quad-core 1.5 GHz CPU and high-performance GPU, paired with America's largest 4G LTE network from Verizon Wireless and a full 2G of RAM enable the seamless use of multiple apps simultaneously. With HTC Sense® 4+ and Android™ 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean), you get great software experiences including Google Now. HTC Sense 4+ offers a wealth of easy-to-use and customizable features bringing highly sought after personalization to your phone and placing the most important content front and center. A series of intelligent features powered by HTC Sense 4+ also provides a number of improvements to the camera.
The DROID DNA by HTC has a world-class camera that delivers fast image capture, great images even in low-light and an easy interface to capture stills and video. With an 8-megapixel f/2.0 28mm wide-angle lens, 5-level automatic flash, backside illuminated sensor (BSI), and superfast autofocus, you'll capture amazing moments without the worry of missing a single one. Instead of choosing between photos and video, HTC VideoPic™ allows you to capture video and still images at the same time. And by simply holding the shutter button, Continuous Shooting takes multiple photos at up to four frames per second to catch all the action.
The DROID DNA by HTC has a unique, 2.55-volt, built-in headset amplifier and dedicated amp for the external rear-speaker to help boost the audio signal to deliver crystal clear sound with less distortion, even at maximum volume. The combination of amplified hardware and the rich, authentic, studio-quality sound of Beats Audio™ allows music to be heard the way the artist intended, and enhances the sound quality while playing games or watching video.


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Federal Court Rejects Treasury's Categorical FOIA Withholding
Leighton T. Brown
A federal judge in California has ordered the Treasury Department to disclose petitions from individuals and groups who have asked to have their names removed from a list of suspicious people maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit was brought by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.
OFAC maintains and administers the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN List), which is a publicly available compilation of suspected terrorists, drug traffickers and other "specially designated nationals," that includes individuals, banks, companies and other entities deemed to be a threat to national security. Private businesses screen potential customers and applicants against the SDN List. If an applicant's name appears – or is similar to a name on the SDN List – an alert is generated, and the businesses and/or employers may refuse to conduct business or employ the customer or applicant. The SDN List casts a fairly wide net – it includes common names such as Sanchez, Gonzalez, Ali and Hussein – so the Treasury often receives petitions requesting removal from it.
In the lawsuit, the Treasury primarily argued that the delisting petitions could be withheld under FOIA Exemption7, which permits the government to shield law enforcement records where the disclosure could interfere with law enforcement proceedings. The Treasury asserted a categorical exclusion, unusual under FOIA, arguing that it was not required to argue for closure of each petition individually or to release redacted versions of the petitions.
In rejecting this argument, the court first held that the Treasury failed to meet the standard for a categorical exclusion, as it did not show that all petitions belonged in the same category rather than being divided into narrower subcategories. With regard to wholesale withholding, rather than redaction, the court held that the Treasury had disregarded FOIA's doctrine of segregability, which requires that any reasonably segregable portion of a record be released after deletion of the portions which are exempt. The court reiterated that an agency cannot simply conclude that there is no segregable information without explaining its reasons. The Treasury had simply asserted that "OFAC determined that there was no reasonably segregable information that could be released."
Significantly, the court also held that the Treasury's argument confused the issue of segregability with the distinct concept of categorical application of a FOIA exemption. The court noted that the inquiry regarding the segregability of exempt and non-exempt material within documents is not the same as the inquiry regarding whether a class of documents may be withheld. In other words, even if the court determined that the exemption applied categorically to the delisting petitions, the Treasury would still be required to demonstrate that the "reasonably segregable portions" of the delisting petitions had been produced.
Finally, the court concluded that the Treasury also had not made a sufficient showing that disclosure of the delisting petitions could reasonably interfere with pending enforcement proceedings. It was required to make a detailed showing with respect to each individual delisting petition, according to the court. The Treasury's "conclusory" declaration failed to meet this burden because it did not explain how disclosure of the petitions could jeopardize any pending proceedings; nor did it describe the harm that could result from third parties' possession of the information in the petitions. Rather, the declaration simply set forth "speculative and unsupported" consequences, the court held.
Because the court concluded that it could not make an independent assessment whether the Treasury properly withheld the delisting petitions in their entirety, it denied the Treasury's motion for summary judgment and ordered the release of the delisting petitions.
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[S917] Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).
[S1369] Maine, Marriage Index, 1670-1921, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016).
[S920] 1910 U.S. Federal Census - Maine, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006).


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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
(Redirected from UNECE)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE or UNECE) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It was established in order to promote economic cooperation and integrations among its member States.
28 March 1947; 74 years ago (1947-03-28)
Primary Organ - Regional Branch
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Olga Algayerova
United Nations Economic and Social Council
unece.org
Map showing the member states of the commission.
The commission is composed of 56 member States, most of which are based in Europe, as well as a few outside of Europe. Its transcontinental Eurasian or non-European member States include: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United States of America and Uzbekistan.[1]
2 Member states
3 Committees and programmes
3.1 Committee on Environmental Policy
3.2 Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry
3.3 Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management
3.4 Inland Transport Committee
3.5 Statistical Division
3.6 Committee on Sustainable Energy
3.7 Steering Committee on Trade Capacity and Standards
3.8 Committee on Innovation, Competitiveness and Public-Private Partnerships
3.9 United Smart Cities (USC)
4 Executive secretaries
5 Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
HistoryEdit
The commission was established by the Economic and Social Council on 28 March 1947 in order to "Initiate and participate in measures for facilitating concerted action for the economic reconstruction of Europe," as well as to "maintain and strengthen the economic relations of the European countries, both among themselves and with other countries of the world."[2]
It was established at the request of the United Nations General Assembly who called on the Economic and Social Council to create the commission, as well as the Commission for Asia and the Far East, in order to "give effective aid to countries devastated by war."[3]
ECE absorbed the function and resources of the European Central Inland Transport Organization upon its founding.
As the commission was established towards the beginning of the Cold War, it faced difficulties in achieving its mandate of economic reconstruction of Europe due to the Iron Curtain. The work of the commission had to concern itself only with questions that were of common interest to East and West, as to not cause confrontation.[4] However, since the fall of the Soviet Union, the economic commissions of the United Nations have been expanding their activities in the former Soviet republics.
Member statesEdit
The following are the member states of the commission, along with their date of admission:[1]
Date of membership
Albania 14 December 1955
Andorra 28 July 1993
Armenia 30 July 1993
Austria 14 December 1955
Azerbaijan 30 July 1993
Belarus 28 March 1947 (**)
Belgium 28 March 1947
Bosnia and Herzegovina 22 May 1992
Bulgaria 14 December 1955
Canada 9 August 1973
Croatia 22 May 1992
Cyprus 20 September 1960
Czech Republic 28 March 1947
Denmark 28 March 1947
Finland 14 December 1955
France 28 March 1947
Georgia 30 July 1993
Greece 28 March 1947
Hungary 14 December 1955
Iceland 28 March 1947
Ireland 14 December 1955
Israel 26 July 1991
Italy 14 December 1955
Kazakhstan 31 January 1994
Kyrgyzstan 30 July 1993
Latvia 17 September 1991
Liechtenstein 18 September 1990
Luxembourg 28 March 1947
Malta 1 December 1964
Republic of Moldova 2 March 1992
Monaco 27 May 1993
Montenegro 28 June 2006
Netherlands 28 March 1947
North Macedonia 8 April 1993
Norway 28 March 1947
Poland 28 March 1947
Portugal 14 December 1955
Romania 14 December 1955
Russian Federation 28 March 1947 (***)
San Marino 30 July 1993
Serbia 1 November 2000
Slovakia 28 March 1947
Slovenia 22 May 1992
Spain 14 December 1955
Sweden 28 March 1947
Switzerland 24 March 1972 (*)
Tajikistan 12 December 1994
Turkey 28 March 1947
Turkmenistan 30 July 1993
Ukraine 28 March 1947 (**)
United Kingdom 28 March 1947
United States of America 28 March 1947
Uzbekistan 30 July 1993
(*) At that moment was not a UN member. Switzerland joined the United Nations in 2002. (**) Belarus and Ukraine were already UN members in 1947, even though they were not independent. (***) Joined UNECE as USSR, then the Russian Federation took over its membership.
Committees and programmesEdit
Committee on Environmental PolicyEdit
The concern of UNECE with problems of the environment dates back at least to 1971, when the group of Senior Advisors to the UNECE governments on environmental issues was created which led to the establishment of the Committee on Environmental Policy, which now meets annually. The Committee provides collective policy direction in the area of environment and sustainable development, prepares ministerial meetings, develops international environmental law and supports international initiatives in the region. CEP works to support countries to enhance their environmental governance and transboundary cooperation as well as strengthen implementation of the UNECE regional environmental commitments and advance sustainable development in the region.
Its main aim is to assess countries' efforts to reduce their overall pollution burden and manage their natural resources, to integrate environmental and socioeconomic policies, to strengthen cooperation with the international community, to harmonize environmental conditions and policies throughout the region and to stimulate greater involvement of the public and environmental discussions and decision-making.
CEP is the overall governing body of UNECE environmental activities. The Committee's work is based on several strategic pillars:[5]
Providing the secretariat to the "Environment for Europe" process and participating in the regional promotion of Agenda 21;
Developing and carrying-out of UNECE Environmental Performance Reviews in the UNECE countries non-members of OECD;[6]
Overseeing UNECE activities on environmental monitoring, assessment and reporting;
Increasing the overall effectiveness of UNECE multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and facilitating the exchange of experience on MEAs' implementation. See UNECE Espoo Convention, Aarhus Convention, Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents.
Participating and/or facilitating the exchange of experience in a number of cross-sectoral activities undertaken under the leadership of UNECE (e.g. education for sustainable development, transport, health and environment, green building), or in partnership with other organizations (e.g. environment and security initiative, European environment and health process).
Committee on Forests and the Forest IndustryEdit
The first task of UNECE after the Second World War was to coordinate reconstruction effort in Europe. Timber was crucial for construction, and energy, but the forests had been heavily overcut and production and trade were at a standstill. The ECE Timber Committee emerged from the International Timber Conference held in 1947 in Mariánské Lázně in the former Czechoslovakia.
The main pillars of the Committee's activities have been: the collection and publication of the best available staistics on forests, wood production and trade; the exchange of information on forest working techniques and training of forest workers; periodic surveys of the long-term outlook on forests; technical work on the rational use of wood; reviewing forest product markets; and share experiences on forest and forest sector policy.[7]
Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land ManagementEdit
In 1947, UNECE set up a Panel on Housing Problems, which later evolved into the Committee on Human Settlements and after the reform in 2005/2006 into the Committee on Housing and Land Management. The Committee is an intergovernmental body of all UNECE member States. It provides a forum for the compilation, dissemination and exchange of information and experience on housing, urban development, and land administration policies; and in areas such as Birmingham, a more fiscal issue-UK.[8]
Inland Transport CommitteeEdit
The UNECE Transport Division has been providing secretariat services to the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). In addition to acting as secretariat to the World Forum, the Vehicle Regulations and Transport Innovations section serves as the secretariat of the Administrative Committee for the coordination of work, and of the administrative/executives committees of the three agreements on vehicles administered by the World Forum.[9]
Among other things, ITC has produced:[10]
59 United Nations conventions concerning inland transport,[11]
Trans-European North-South Motorways, Trans-European Railways and the Euro-Asia Transport Links projects
the TIR system (Transports Internationaux Routiers), a global customs transit facilitation solution
transport statistics methods.[12]
The World Forum services three UN Agreements:
the 1958 Agreement on the approval/certification of Vehicles and its annexed UN Regulations,
the 1997 Agreement on Periodic Technical Inspections (PTI) and its annexed UN Rules,
and the 1998 Agreement on Global Technical Regulations and its annexed UN GTRs.[13]
Statistical DivisionEdit
The UNECE Statistical Division provides the secretariat for the Conference and its expert groups, and implements the statistical work programme of UNECE. The Conference brings together chief statisticians from national and international statistical organizations around the world, meaning that the word "European" in its name is no longer an accurate description of its geographical coverage. The Statistical Division helps member countries to strengthen their statistical systems, and coordinates international statistical activities in the UNECE region and beyond through the Conference and its Bureau, and the Database of International Statistical Activities. The Statistical Division develops guidelines and training materials on statistical methodology and practices, in response to demands from member countries. It works with different groups of specialists from national and international statistical organizations, and organizes meetings and online forums for statistical experts to exchange experiences on a wide range of topics. The UNECE Statistical Division also provides technical assistance to South-East European, East European, Caucasus and Central Asian countries.
The division also provides:
Free on-line data on the 56 UNECE member countries in Europe, Central Asia and North America in both English and Russian, on economic, gender, forestry and transport statistics.
A biennial overview of key statistics for member countries: UNECE Countries in Figures.
A set of wikis to support collaboration activities and disseminate information about good practices.
UNECE conducted the Fertility and Family Survey in the 1990s in 23 member States, with over 150,000 participants, with hundreds of resulting scientific publications.[14] This activity has hence continued in the form of the Generations and Gender Programme.[15]
Committee on Sustainable EnergyEdit
Steering Committee on Trade Capacity and StandardsEdit
Committee on Innovation, Competitiveness and Public-Private PartnershipsEdit
United Smart Cities (USC)Edit
The United Smart Cities programme is a joint effort between UNECE and the Organization for International Economic Relations (OiER).[16]
Numerous private business entities and other international and European agencies support the programme, including Environment Agency Austria (EAA), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), UN-Habitat, and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). The programme promotes areas of strategic smart city policy and development. The key focus areas as detailed by the programme are:
Executive secretariesEdit
Sweden Gunnar Myrdal
Finland Sakari Tuomioja
Yugoslavia Vladimir Velebit
1968–1982 Janez Stanovnik
Finland Klaus Sahlgren
Austria Gerald Hinteregger
France Yves Berthelot
Poland Danuta Hübner
Slovakia Brigita Schmögnerová[17]
Poland Marek Belka[18]
Slovakia Ján Kubiš[19]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj[20]
Denmark Michael Møller (acting)[21]
2014–2017 Christian Friis Bach[22]
Slovakia Olga Algayerova[23]
Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeEdit
Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
IOS Press (Netherlands)
Standard abbreviations
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NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt
ISO 4
Stat. J. U. N. Econ. Comm. Eur.
CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN
SJUED4
From 1982 to 2007 the IOS Press published the Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on behalf of the UNECE.[24][25]
Marco Keiner
UNECE Population Activities Unit
United Nations System
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (overlapping membership)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (overlapping membership)
UNFC
UN/CEFACT—Trade facilitation via standardised business communication.
UN/LOCODE—location codes, maintained by UNECE
International E-road network, numbered by UNECE
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
North American Union
Green card system—motor insurance scheme of UNECE
International Union of Tenants (IUT)
^ a b United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (24 August 2016). "Member States and Member States Representatives". United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. United Nations. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ United Nations Economic and Social Council Session 4 Resolution 36. Economic Commission for Europe E/RES/36(IV) 28 March 1947.
^ United Nations General Assembly Session 1 Resolution 46. Economic reconstruction of devastated areas A/RES/46(I) 11 December 1946.
^ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (n.d.). "History". United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. United Nations. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ "UNECE Homepage". www.unece.org.
^ - EPR Programme
^ ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (2017). 70 years working together in the service of forests and people. European Forestry Commission, United Nations, United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Forestry and Timber Section. New York. ISBN 978-92-1-117142-6. OCLC 1011422671.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 8, 2009. Retrieved September 28, 2009. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 26, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/1998_Road_Map_ENG_Final.pdf
^ UNECE, United Nations Road Safety Conventions, published June 2020, accessed 17 December 2021
^ "Fertility and Family Survey (FFS)". unece.org. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
^ "Fertility and Family Survey (standard country tables), FFS". edac.eu, the European Data Center for Work and Welfare. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
^ "United Smart Cities (USC) - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
^ "Secretary-General Appoints Brigita Schmögnerová as New Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Europe". UNECE.
^ "Secretary-General appoints Marek Belka of Poland as Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Europe". UNECE.
^ "Secretary-General appoints Ján KUBIŠ of Slovakia to head United Nations Economic Commission for Europe". UNECE.
^ "EXCOM welcomes Executive Secretary". UNECE.
^ "Acting Director-General of UNOG Michael Møller takes on functions of Acting Executive Secretary of UNECE". UNECE.
^ "The Secretary-General appoints Christian Friis Bach of Denmark as the next Executive Secretary of UNECE". UNECE.
^ "Algayerova Appointed to Head the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe". TASR.
^ "Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe". EconBiz. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
^ "Publications: STATISTICAL JOURNAL of the UNECE". UNECE. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
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50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., his struggle for peace lives on.
However, what the government tells us and what this great man did are two separate stories and had Dr. King been alive today, he would have been an enemy to the establishment who would have made every move they could to silence him.
In fact, the government is still very engaged in fighting the antiwar and pro-peace narrative King so eloquently espoused. And they have no qualms talking about this in the open.
After deleting the pages of hundreds of antiwar and pro-peace media and activist outlets in October, last week, Facebook made another giant move to silence. This time, they had no problem noting that they went after pages whose specific missions were "anti-corruption" or "protest" movements.
Make no mistake, because Dr. King broke through the divisive paradigm and bridged the gap between different cultures so well, he would undoubtedly been a target of these tech giant censors who aim to keep you divided. The Atlantic Council would have likely had a special committee devoted to solely silencing his "dangerous" talks of peace.
Like Dr. King, however, many activists of today are unafraid of speaking truth to power, even when faced with police action and censorship.
Like the activists of today, Dr. King's activism was often met with brutal backlash from police. Just like the protesters of today, who peacefully march in solidarity to end police violence and war, the protesters of the 50s and 60s were met with violence from the police.
So, while you are out there today, enjoying the day off, remember that this struggle is far from over. There are countless individuals continuing to try to live in the way Dr. King advocated for and who face constant bombardment from the establishment for doing so.


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SPI_is_cursor_plan -- return <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>true</TT
> if a plan
  prepared by SPI_prepare can be used with
  SPI_cursor_open

Synopsis

bool SPI_is_cursor_plan(SPIPlanPtr <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>plan</TT
>)

Description

   SPI_is_cursor_plan returns <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>true</TT
>
   if a plan prepared by SPI_prepare can be passed
   as an argument to SPI_cursor_open, or
   <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>false</TT
> if that is not the case. The criteria are that the
   <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>plan</TT
> represents one single command and that this
   command returns tuples to the caller; for example, <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
>
   is allowed unless it contains an <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INTO</TT
> clause, and
   <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
> is allowed only if it contains a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>RETURNING</TT
>
   clause.

Arguments

<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SPIPlanPtr <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>plan</TT
></TT
>

      execution plan (returned by SPI_prepare)

Return Value

    <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>true</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>false</TT
> to indicate if the
    <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>plan</TT
> can produce a cursor or not, with
    <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>SPI_result</TT
> set to zero.
    If it is not possible to determine the answer (for example,
    if the <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>plan</TT
> is <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>NULL</TT
> or invalid,
    or if called when not connected to SPI), then
    <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>SPI_result</TT
> is set to a suitable error code
    and <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>false</TT
> is returned.

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#check for the partterns starting with "/" #
echo $var | grep "^/*$"
if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]] ;then
  # check again whether parttern starts with /cygdrive/[a-z]/ parttern #
  if [[ $file == /cygdrive/[a-z]/* ]] ; then
    file=${file#/cygdrive/[a-z]/};
    file="C:/"$file;
  else
    file="$prefix""$file";
  fi
fi

#check for the appropriate file permissions #
# :TODO:

echo $file
exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Programmer's Notepad/pn.exe"  $file

as I in my program which convert path names between cygwin and windows and load
the pn.exe [ programmer's notepad in windows]. So my questions are,

*

*There are built in regex expression for the "[[" or 'test' operator. (as well as
I used them in my above program). But why they don't work in here if I change,
echo $var | grep "^/*$"
if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]] ;then

to this,
if [[ "$file" == ^/*$ ]] ;then

What is the reason for that? Is there any workaround?
I have already tried the second method [[ "$file" == ^/*$ ]] but it didn't work.
then , simple googling brought to me here: http://unix.com/shell-programming

*How to find all the documentation about [[ operator or 'test' command? I have used
man test but :(. Which document specifies it's limitations on regex usage if there so.

A: First, grep "^/*$" will only match paths containing only slashes, like "/", "///", "////". You can use grep "^/" to match paths starting with a slash. If you want to use bash regexes:
var="/some"
#echo $var | grep "^/"
if [[ "$var" =~ ^/ ]] ;then
  echo "yes"
fi

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After refueling in the mid-Atlantic and suffering bow damage from being rammed by a tanker, a 769-ton Nazi U-Boat reached its destination, the American East Coast, early on Monday, May 4, 1942.
U-333 stayed submerged off the balmy southeastern Florida shore during the daylight hours and then surfaced when evening came. Climbing one after another to the bridge for a breath of fresh air, Lt. Cmdr. Peter Cremer and his 43 crewmen rubbed their eyes in disbelief.
So begins "A Roll of the Drums," Michael Hull's chilling feature in the August 2014 edition  of WWII History Magazine. As you'll read inside, it wasn't just U-333 that threatened America's shorlines. Nazi U-Boats were hightly effective in bringing World War II to North America as they ravaged merchant shipping all along the East Coast.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Chruchill Joseph Stalin, and their pivotal meeting in the Iranian capital in late 1943.
In May 1942, a Japanese submarine force snuck into Sydney harbor in a daring, suicidal attack.
The offensive Adolf Hitler sent Jochen Peiper into was his last desperate gamble in the West. But how did it influence the fighting at the Battle of the Bulge?
In preparation for amphibious operations in the Pacific, U.S. Marines trained in New Zealand.
In the spring of 1944, the small island of Biak—a stepping stone to the Philippines—was taken by the Americans.
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U.S. GDP growth over the last two quarters has been the strongest since 2014 when U.S. oil production was boosting U.S. GDP growth. We boosted our fourth quarter GDP forecast up to 2.9% from 2.8% in the wake of these Q3 GDP estimates. Another 3.0% growth performance is entirely possible as residential and structural investment bounce back from hurricane reconstruction.
Relative strength was seen in the sectors of the economy we expected last quarter, but we got more of it than anticipated. Business equipment spending jumped another 8.6% annualized last quarter on top of an 8.8% increase in the second quarter, adding almost a half a percentage point to Q3 U.S. GDP growth. Rising wages and unfilled positions, along with improved business confidence, may be playing a role in the acceleration in business equipment spending.
Stronger global growth and a weaker dollar is adding to U.S. export growth with the shrinking U.S. trade deficit adding another 0.4 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth last quarter. Business inventory rebuilding added another 0.7 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth.
We did get a negative hit from the hurricanes in the residential and structural investment categories. Residential and commercial construction each subtracted around 0.2 percentage points for U.S. GDP growth last quarter. A rebound in construction activity in the fourth quarter will likely mean a similar or greater addition to U.S. GDP growth from construction in the fourth quarter.
Finally, the negative hurricane impacts on consumer spending were not quite as severe as we thought they might be at the national level. Consumer spending did slow to a 2.4% pace from 3.3% in the second quarter. However, a tight labor market and near record high stock prices kept consumers spending at a decent clip last quarter. Moreover, hurricane preparations, gasoline hording, and motor vehicle replacements in Texas and Florida also added to consumer spending in the third quarter.
This morning's strong Q3 GDP report raises the odds of another interest rate hike in December, which was already our baseline view. The conversation at the FOMC could start to shift from we are hiking too fast to we are not hiking fast enough.


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Trygve Martin Bratteli, född 11 januari 1910 på Nøtterøy i Vestfold fylke, död 20 november 1984 i Oslo, var en norsk socialdemokratisk politiker och landets statsminister 1971–1972 och 1973–1976.

Bratteli var partisekreterare för Arbeiderpartiet under tyska ockupationen. År 1942 blev han arresterad av tyskarna och satt 1943-1945 i fånglägret Grini (som inte var ett koncentrationsläger i egentlig mening, men hade stora likheter med dessa), och i koncentrationslägren Sachsenhausen och Natzweiler. Han evakuerades av de vita bussarna i mars 1945, och vägde då 47 kilo. År 1945 återvände han till Norge och var ledare för AUF 1945-46. 1950-1981 satt han i Stortinget. Han var finansminister från november 1951 till januari 1955 samt från december 1956 till april 1960. Därefter var han samferdselsminister till januari 1964. 1965 blev Bratteli partiledare för Arbeiderpartiet, en post han hade fram till 1975. Efter att Arbeiderpartiet med statsminister Einar Gerhardsen förlorat valet 1965 blev Bratteli också partiets statsministerkandidat. Valet 1969 blev en framgång för Arbeiderpartiet, men med minsta möjliga marginal kunde den borgerliga regeringen sitta kvar. Den kom dock att slitas sönder av interna motsättningar och när den avgick 1971 blev Bratteli statsminister.

Bratteli var norsk statsminister i två perioder, 1971-1972 och 1973-1976. Han avgick 1972 på grund av att Norge röstade nej till EG-medlemskap i en folkomröstning. När det blev en knapp socialistisk majoritet i stortingsvalet 1973 kom Bratteli dock tillbaka, trots att Arbeiderpartiet tappat hela 11 procentenheter. När han avgick som statsminister 1976 efterträddes han av Odvar Nordli, även han från Arbeiderpartiet.

Vänner av Israel i norska arbetarrörelsen (Norska: Venner av Israel i Norsk Arbeiderbevegelse), planterade efter hans död en skog til hans minne i Israel.

Han gifte sig 1946 med Randi Helene Larssen (1924-2002) och paret förblev gifta tills Brattelis död 1984. Paret hade 3 barn, döttrarna Tone och Marianne sant sonen Ola (1946-2015) som var utbildad matematiker.

Bibliografi
Norden og Europa: et foredrag (1968)
Fange i nat og tåge (Fånge i natt och dimma ) (1981)

Referenser

Norges statsministrar
Norges finansministrar
Kommunikationsministrar
Stortingsledamöter för Arbeiderpartiet
Norska partiledare
Avlidna 1984
Födda 1910
Män
Norska politiker under 1900-talet
Personer från Vestfold fylke
Europeiska socialdemokratiska regeringschefer

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Announcement: Affiliate Delegate Allocations for #Elections2020
Post published:23 Tammuz 5780 (July 15, 2020)
Dear Community
Below you will find a list of our current Affiliate organisations and the delegate allocation for each. Applications received by organisations seeking affiliation are currently being processed, the outcome of which will be communicated to you by 08 August 2020.
Please note, that in order to be eligible to represent an Affiliate as a Delegate, the person must:
i. be an office bearer, past or present, in the affiliate organisation;
ii. have his or her name on the Communal Register, and
iii. not represent more than one Affiliate at any time.
We encourage Affiliates when choosing their delegates to promote a broad representation of the community by considering the need for equitable gender representation and inclusion of young adults and younger members of the community in communal structures.
Download the Affiliate Delegate Allocations document by clicking here
All affiliate organisations of the Cape SAJBD are entitled to be represented by a minimum of one (1) delegate. The electoral commission ("EC") determined an application process in which every affiliate would be given a fair and proper opportunity to apply for additional delegates to be assigned. The process required affiliates to apply by no later than Monday 29 June. All affiliates were notified on Monday 18 May that they could so apply and the deadline for the applications. All affiliates were reminded about this application process and the deadline on 1 June and 23 June, and reminders were placed on the Cape SAJBD's social media channels.
Multiple affiliates applied timeously. Two affiliates, before the deadline, acknowledged the process but did not apply for additional delegates. The EC considered applications received and communicated the outcome of their determination on 3 July.
In considering these applications and making the determinations in terms of section 11(c) of the Cape SAJBD constitution, the EC took into account the constitution as a whole; the electoral regulations; the content of the applications for additional delegates; the history of additional assignments of delegates in previous elections; and, the nature and role of affiliates generally in the context of the Jewish community and the board.
The EC, in particular, considered the criteria set out in section 11(d) of the constitution in determining each application for assignment, and decided that it is inappropriate as a matter of principle to allocate additional delegates to affiliates which are themselves constituted by affiliate organisations (that is, any umbrella organisations) were not assigned additional delegates. The EC also considered that
certain members of the Jewish community may be members, beneficiaries and learners of, and in, multiple affiliates.
What was not taken into account by the EC was the perceived and/or actual political, religious or other views or stances of the affiliates which made an application for additional delegates.
Affiliates who applied for additional delegates and were dissatisfied with the outcome of the EC's determination had until 10 July to file an objection. Objections were received and considered, the final outcome of which was communicated to all affiliates on 14 July with the circulation of the above list of affiliates and their respective delegate allocations, accompanied by a letter explaining the reasons thereof.
The EC has tried to be as fair and even-handed as possible in making the determinations. Should you be unhappy with the allocation of delegates you received this year, we encourage you to apply for additional delegates in the New Year.
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U.K.'s Sainsbury's Site Melts Down A Second Time In Two Weeks
Jul 8, 2008 9:48pm
For the second time in two weeks, one of the largest grocery chains in the U.K. hit a snag with its Web site, triggering a 24-hour outage and causing the 823-store retailer to use a temporary homepage. Sainsbury's, a $38 billion retailer, is calling these incidents coincidental.
The first outage on June 20 was an internal glitch with the retailer's delivery processing system, forcing the chain to take down its site because it couldn't fulfill the orders. But the site itself wasn't the problem.
On July 4, it was the opposite: The supply chain systems were operating but the site itself—specifically, the homepage—was crashing for about an hour before a temporary homepage was put up, according to Sainsbury's spokesperson Gillian Taylor.
Because the Sainsbury's homepage is hosted by a different company than the rest of the site, everything else, including online grocery shopping, worked fine during the outage. The temporary page was live for 24-hours until the normal homepage was back up.
Taylor would not say what caused the homepage to crash, but added that it was completely unrelated to the June outage.
"It wasn't the same kind of issues we had last time," Taylor said. "We put up a temporary homepage, so customers could still continue to shop."
That June crash was caused by an unrelated processing problem. It froze the delivery services for Sainsbury's, preventing customers from shopping online for about 48 hours. That glitch prevented about 30,000 customers from getting their groceries and prompted Sainsbury's to issue almost a half a million dollars worth of vouchers to those disgruntled shoppers.
The chain also personally called each of those 30,000 affected customers and explained to them what happened.
During that meltdown, U.K. grocery competitors took advantage of Sainsbury's problem, according to a June 21 article in The Grocer. U.K. retailer Ocado saw a surge in orders and offered new customers a 15 percent discount, while Asda, another competitor, placed a sponsored link on Sainsbury's Google searches offering free deliveries.


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X-Man Galaxy Megaminx V2 M (Sculpted)
Stickerless - $22.99
MoFang JiaoShi Meilong Kilominx
Gan Megaminx
Z Carbon Fiber 2x2 Megaminx
CubeDepot Rocket Galaxy V2 LM (Factory)
Noah B. said: Better after a couple solves1
The unboxing experience is great. You just pull on the hole cutout, and it opens. Out of the box, the cube isn't the best. It's oddly bumpy, and honestly I was a bit disappointed. But after just a couple solves, it has massively improved. It's a great upgrade from my old ShengShou. I'm not that good at megaminx, but even so, I feel like the upgrade really helped me improve. It's just so much more enjoyable to solve on than my old cube.
Paul Taylor said: Wow!
I really like this cube a lot. Its size is the first good thing about it so far. It is so much smaller than the v1 which makes it a lot easier to hold in your hands and do algs on. Also, the magnet strength is super nice, more-so on the strong side I'd say, but it makes the cube super stable. I still need to break it in as I've gotten it today, but it is my main without a doubt and is a super nice cube. I'd recommend for anyone who likes megaminx!
Soledad Azucena said: Very good for its price
The megaminx comes a bit slow, but broke in pretty well, and after loosening it, its fast and stable. The corner cutting is excellent, and it's well priced.
Rohan Volety said: This cube is amazing
The magnets help with stability on a crazy level. I had the problem where another layer was moving when I get as turning one layer and now this doesn't happen. Even the normal v2 is better because of the smaller size and curved faces. And adding magnets, makes this cube a god
Miles said: Amazing, Would still but if it were 60$
This cube takes the insanely almost perfect galaxy megaminx and turns it into a perfect megaminx. The size feels weird for the first few solves but it quickly turns into an amazing feeling. The piece design is much better, creating a crunchier and lighter feel. The magnets might be a tiny bit too strong at first, but it gets better. This review is too long so I'll just end with, totally buy it if you have the money.
Anonymous said: Amazing!
When getting this cube, I did not expect a lot. But out of the box this cube was pretty much ready to go. I replaced the white side with the black tiles and while I did that I added Dignitas and 30k, keeping thr factory lube in this puzzle. This megaminx is very fast after lubing. However, because I have big hands the size may be uncomfortable. This will be my main until I can somehow get a Galaxy sculpted v1 M.
Steven Wintringham said: Amazing
This is a fantastic Megaminx. It is a more stable version of the Galaxy v2, which was the intent. Unlike many other mass-produced magnetic puzzles, the magnets are fairly strong. Personally, I would have preferred very slightly weaker magnets, but I also don't have a problem with how they are. The strength just makes it slightly more tiring to do many solves in a row compared to a non-magnetic puzzle or a puzzle with weaker magnets. Out of the box, it was very tight and dry. After adding a variety of lubes and loosening the tensions, it became excellent. Unfortunately, mine came with a bent screw, which inhibited the turning on one face. For the time being, I just swapped it out for a screw from my normal v2, but I am going to get a replacement in the near future. Additionally, it is somewhat difficult to get all of the sides tensioned evenly, but it just takes time to get it right. Something else to note is that the black pieces do not arrive magnetized, but there are spare magnets for the buyer to install. The mold was also altered slightly to allow for grooves to put the magnets in, making installation much easier. Overall, this is a great Megaminx, and it is unbeatable for the price. I would strongly recommend picking one of these up. You will almost definitely not be disappointed.


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David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. He has been called "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world."
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WICHITA, Kan. – Opening statements in the murder trial of the man accused of shooting one of the nation's most prominent abortion providers began Friday on the 37th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized abortion.
Jurors will hear from witnesses who saw Dr. George Tiller gunned down at his church, listen to the emergency call made moments later, and see evidence of his blood on the accused killer's shoes, a prosecutor said.
Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Missouri, is accused of shooting Tiller, who specialized in late-term abortions. Roeder told The Associated Press in November that he killed Tiller to protect unborn children. Roeder also faces two charges of aggravated assault for allegedly threatening two church ushers who tried to stop him from fleeing. He has pleaded not guilty.
Before opening statements began, District Judge Warren Wilbert denied a defense motion to move the trial out of Wichita and a motion from prosecutors to not allow an involuntary manslaughter defense.
Wilbert has repeatedly said the trial will not turn into a debate over abortion, warning Roeder's lawyers that he intends to keep the case as a "criminal, first-degree murder trial."
But the judge galvanized both sides of the abortion battle when he refused, on the eve of jury selection, to block the defense from trying to build a case for a conviction on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
The defense wants to argue that Roeder believed Tiller's killing was necessary to save unborn children. In Kansas, voluntary manslaughter is defined as "an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force."
If convicted of first-degree murder, Roeder faces a life sentence. Under state sentencing guidelines, a conviction for voluntary manslaughter for someone with as little criminal history as he has would bring a sentence closer to five years.
The opening arguments coincided with Friday's anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
Church members were gathering the morning of May 31 in the fellowship hall, where Tiller was scheduled to serve as an usher, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston told the jury of eight men and six women.
"Then unexpectedly, a sound was heard, like a popping of a balloon," she said.
Foulston said a witness saw "a man standing next to George Tiller with his arm still raised and ... Dr. Tiller fell to the floor. ... And the assailant was running."
Jurors will hear several witness accounts of Tiller's shooting, she said, and other evidence will include Roeder's shoes with Tiller's blood on them and a police video of Roeder's arrest later that day.
Jury selection in the case occurred for the most part behind closed doors. After six days of secret questioning of potential jurors, the court finally opened jury selection to the media on Thursday while turning away public spectators.
Tiller, whose Wichita clinic closed after his death, championed abortion rights even after being shot in both arms by an activist in 1993. The clinic, heavily fortified after a bombing in 1986, was the target of both peaceful and violent protests. In 1991, a 45-day "Summer of Mercy" campaign organized by Operation Rescue drew thousands of anti-abortion protesters to Wichita for demonstrations and saw mass arrests.
In more recent years, anti-abortion activists had focused their attacks against Tiller within the legal system and political arena. Thousands of abortion opponents signed petitions forcing Sedgwick County to convene grand juries in 2006 and 2008 to investigate him, but both refused to indict him.
Two state attorneys general in Kansas also tried in vain to prosecute him. Just two months before his death, a jury acquitted Tiller of misdemeanor charges accusing him of failing to get an independent second opinion for late-term abortions. The state's medical board was investigating similar allegations at the time of his killing.


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Kate Young's blog, Electronics 2013
Mon 4 Feb 2013
watch Kate's workshop
Kate_Young_Tectonic_Bath.mp3 (MP3 Audio - 20.68Mb)
Today I really opened up my ears to listen to my music in a way I have never done before. I could not have done this without the enthusiasm and supportiveness of McFall's quartet, Ben and invaluable guidance of Pippa Murphy, as I felt that she quickly understood my score and what I was trying to achieve by bringing it to the workshop. Pippa really acted as a bridge between the two worlds of the string players and the electronics as she was able to maintain a natural flow of communication between everyone. For me, this in itself was something quite amazing to watch as I have very little previous experience of using electronics, which for me seemed a bit of a minefield to understand! I guess the reason I was drawn to this workshop was purely out of curiosity...I had thought that working with an acoustic quartet was amazing enough, but to be able to really manipulate the sound in ways that are impossible on any instrument seemed fascinating to me – that you could create something which could travel to another planet...
My piece is named Tectonic Bath after writing the main melody whilst working on a farm in Iceland, October 2012. I was thinking a great deal about the tectonic fundaments of such a wild and beautiful place, and what feeling I got from it on an energetic level. I wrote the score in sections, imagining each as a plate under the land shifting at its own pace, creating tension where they divide, and this idea is what I intended to try to sonically elicit through the use of electronics. As this was my first time composing with the intention of involving electronics, I approached the score with a very open mind for which might occur during the session, and although i wrote it as though it seemed in linear form, I wanted to try out different ways in terms of joining up each section – like one section I had written to be pre-recorded and then played over the live score, I also involved some short recorded extracts that I had prepared prior to the workshop. One was of me standing on a frozen puddle in Seydisfjordur, East Iceland on a day when the edge of the sea had completely frozen. It made an interesting whistling/cracking sound, whilst another recording was of myself singing and playing.
Pippa showed me how to direct the sound of each instrument through the interface and into logic, where I chose what plug-in I would like to use. This basically means the way that the sound is altered to create a different effect. Later on she linked some of the controls over the effects used, reverb and volume of each instrument up to a panel which I was able to control through and piece, and work out where i would like to use the different effects. This was a really different feeling than anything I have done before in terms of being part of an ensemble. I am a musician and so used to contributing to the sound in a way that acoustic instrumentalists do, whereas here, I had control almost over the overall sound, no matter what was being played. Pippa encouraged me to take risks and switch the effects at different speeds – it almost felt like a kind of dance at some points...
What I realised was that I personally enjoyed it the most, and felt the most connected to the other musicians and the landscapes within the music when I had asked the players to improvise a little before and after the score. At the end, it was really flying and though I had enjoyed hearing my score being played back by such great musicians, in this circumstance I wished i had allowed more space for freedom and simplicity within it, rather than packing in lots of melody, harmony and rhythmic elements. But somehow it seemed that by the time the notes had ran out and we were just playing with the sound, it had been necessary to have had the score played to be able to reach the point where, as I felt it, the music really began... (which as at the end of the score!). So in this way, I felt that I had reached some kind of conclusions for myself – I'm glad that I had always viewed the score I wrote as a kind of exercise, it would have been a mistake the write something to perfection and become attached to details (I was very rough with the score and left a lot of dynamics etc to interpretation). By learning some very basic things on Logic, I was able to start to form some kind of structure in my mind of how I would like to lay out the score for the players, and how I might go about this in the future. I would very much like to further progress in my development of combining electronics with my compositions in the future, and from this experience I have not only gained some knowledge of how I might better approach it next time, but also when I noticed that when I got home and listened to Sigur Ros, I began to understand and appreciate it on a completely new level. Rather than it sounding like a wash of pretty sounds coming and going, they began to form some kind of order, which I think is something that is vital to understand when working with so many variables – one could end up lost in a sea of ideas, without maintaining a focus on your vision or main idea, some potentially exciting parts could remain formless and lost.
This has also acted as a valuable lesson for me as I have hoped for some time to write a lot more music for quartet as part of a larger project, which would link with my solo performance work. I have hopes to combine it with story-telling and an animation I have been working on and the idea of involving electronics, however I have a clear stylistic view that for the type of thing i want to create there must be a certain balance maintained between the raw, acoustic sound and the computerised sound. I feel it is important not to forget about the natural beauty of the quartet, as it is in itself, something which is incredibly dynamic and explorative and it would be a terrible shame to lose those qualities. It is more about the interplay of all things that make for creative, interesting, and inspired listening, and interaction between players.
I have very much enjoyed this rare experience, and felt very pleased to have been chosen to be part of such an amazing team of people. Thank you to all who made it possible!
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What a sweet leela from our Lord Sai Baba at the, Sathya Sai Region 3 Retreat. During the Retreat I met a young man named Girish, a former student of Sathya Sai Baba University. There was something about him that seemed so familiar. As I gazed upon his countenance, I was suddenly prompted to ask him if he had gone to Kodaikanal with Swami in 2007. He answered yes. I asked if he had also visited the Meenakshi Temple. Again, he responded in the affirmative.


The Winner of the 2013 Luigi Micheletti Award will be decided in a meeting that will take place in Brescia, the 25th of March.
The 19 candidates from 14 European countries will be evaluated from the Board of EMA – European Museum Academy and from the Representative of the Luigi Micheletti Foundation.
In the evening, a gala dinner will take place at the MusIL – Museum of Industry and Work of Rodengo Saiano.
In attach the full programme of the event and the application form for the Ceremony in Bursa (April, 26-27).


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