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Louis Léger (1843–1923) je bil francoski pisatelj in pionir slavistike. Bil je častni član Bolgarske akademije znanosti in član Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres v Parizu. Akademske ustanove v Sankt Peterburgu, Beogradu in Bukarešti so mu dale različne članske statuse.

Leger je študiral pri Aleksandru Chodžku na Collège de France, kjer je dobil mesto leta 1885 za Slovansko literaturo in jezik. Leger je trdil, da tisti, ki ni živel v drugem francoskem cesarstvu, si ne more predstavljati poljskega vpliva na francosko družbo. Leger je pomagal prevajati različna poljska dela.

Dela
 La Crise autrichienne, Paris, 1868
 Grammaire russe, Maisonneuve, 1877
 Histoire de l'Autriche-Hongrie, Paris, 1879
 Recueil de contes populaires slaves, Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1882
 « Cours de Louis Léger, leçon d'ouverture au Collège de France », Revue bleue politique et littéraire, 1885
 La Bulgarie, Paris, 1885
 Nouvelles études slaves histoire et littérature, 1886
 Russes et Slaves, études politiques et littéraires, Hachette, 1890
 Le monde slave, études politiques et littéraires, Hachette, 1897
 La Mythologie slave, 1901 (prevedena v več slovanskih jezikov)
 Nicolas Gogol, 1913
 Moscou, 1904, 1910

Sklici

Francoski filologi
Francoski slavisti

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European Universities provides the international cooperation with foreign universities and educational centers of other countries in regional and global level. Since 2013 of January, the European University became a member of the International Association of Universities. Materials about European University are included in the directory of UNESCO, such as "The International Directory of Universities" and "Study in Abroad".
European University is co-organizer of public readings on European problems of integration. In 2003, the University received a grant on holding seminar of the Council in Europe on "The educational rights of national minorities".
During the last years, as part of the concluded contracts (53) and the most productive contacts were successful with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey, Poland, Russian Federation and the United Kingdom.
In 2007 of September, the diploma of the European University was recognized in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq and other Arab countries.
Many prominent figures of nowadays visit and give lectures in the European University. Delegations of our University recently visited such countries, as Spain, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Turkey, North Korea, Ethiopia, Republic of Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and others.
The European University which supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine were hold the exhibition of information and advertising, which calls "Higher education institutions of Ukraine and their scientific achievements". These exhibitions were in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey and it provided the powerful impetus to the developments of Educational and Science relations or cultural exchanges.
In 2006 - 2008r.r. at the European University conducted Public activities and the Information Seminar "Tempus Days in Ukraine" of the European Commission and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.


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Q: Some websites (hootsuite, facebook) see our old website instead of the new one In January of this year, a new website of one of our clients went live. They had an different website before that. So I will refer to the old one, as the previous website, and the new one as the one that went live in January.
The problem now is that some websites still see the old website. For example, we have a RSS feed for Hootsuite. But Hootsuite doesn't see the RSS feed as a valid one. So I checked the RSS feed using http://feedvalidator.org/, and came to the conclusion that it renders the old website. That results in a 404 error, because they didn't have a RSS feed on the old website. If you view the feed page in the browser, it works fine.
I have no clue as to why it still renders the old website sometimes, and I don't know where (and how) I should look for a solution. So I hope someone can help me, or at least point me in the right direction.

A: After endless tries with no result, I found the Facebook Developer Community on Facebook. When I posted my question there, someone answered:
"I just checked your DNS and everything seems to be fine except for 1 thing. The domain name has an AAAA record (IPv6) which points to 2001:888:0:18::117:80. After checking, your server does not seem to listen to this IP6 address (domain AAAA not/misconfigured?). Facebook always tries to use IPv6 before IPv4, so that might be an issue there."
We don't use IPv6 yet, so I knew there was something wrong with the IPv6 part. Turns out their old hosting did have IPv6 records. When I removed them, the site worked fine and Facebook finally saw our new site!
So, for some reason, some providers still had very old DNS records cached (for the old hosting company) instead of our new DNS records.
I answered this on my own question, in the hopes that it might help someone in the future who stumbles upon this question.

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Why I Am Not Buying WWE WrestleMania 29
By Ray The Rambler
Before I begin rambling on why I am not ordering WrestleMania, I want to take a minute or two to explain something to everyone reading this. I am a fan of wrestling. I love it. I love watching it, reading about it and writing about it. My love for wrestling inspired me write columns for the likes of CCB and WrestleChat.Net.
Wrestling as a whole hasn't been the best in recent years and I think most of you will agree with me on that. The stories haven't been very creative and there was times I wanted to give up watching it. But I keep watching. Why? Because every now and then something intriguing happens, examples: CM Punk's amazing pipebomb, Austin Aries winning the TNA world championship, Brock Lesnar returning after WrestleMania 28, Daniel Bryan's rise to stardom. You get my point.
But no matter how bad the product us, there is always one part of the year that I eagerly anticipate watching wrestling. You know what I'm talking about here; the Road to WrestleMania. That's when the stories evolve for the build up to the largest event wrestling has ever seen and will likely ever see. After the Royal Rumble, you know it's time to start getting excited for WrestleMania. It's more than an event, it's a spectacle, a global phenomenon.
This is not the case this year. I did not enjoy the stories and I don't expect to see any 5-star matches neither.
The Rock vs. John Cena/Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H/The Undertaker vs. CM Punk
Those are the top 3 matches on the card, the feuds that will sell WrestleMania 29. First, all of these matches have taken place already. Four out of the six wrestlers are part timers. John Cena's final promo on Raw was downright awful in my opinion. Same as The Rock's. I honestly felt like they didn't give a crap about the story. Cena is being built up as an underdog which is hilarious in my opinion. He lost ONE match and since defeated Brock Lesnar and won the Royal Rumble. I felt like they were there just doing their job. I didn't feel any passion or emotion from them. It felt like they didn't care, so I said to myself, if they don't care, why should I? The match is not going to top last years. John Cena is not going to turn heel and The Rock will probably win and drop the title to Brock Lesnar at extreme rules.
Brock Lesnar and Triple H had a great match at SummerSlam and I understand why they're wrestling (or should I say fighting) at WrestleMania from a storyline point of view and from a marketing point of view. Casual fans are interested in this match and probably haven't been following WWE that much since SummerSlam or the Royal Rumble, so a rematch between these two will interest them and encourage them to pay for WrestleMania. I expect Triple H to win. I can see HBK being a major part of this match. Either by helping Triple H or costing him the match thus setting up a match at WrestleMania 30. It would make a good story. It would be the only time HBK turned on Triple H too. Or this will happen: Lesnar beats the holy living shit out of HBK and Triple H, Batista comes out and saves the day. But that's not going to happen this Sunday. IF Batista returns, it will be after WrestleMania to cure the WrestleMania hangover. I can't see this match topping SummerSlam neither.
The Undertaker vs. CM Punk does interest me. However it doesn't interest me enough the cost WrestleMania is to see it. No way in hell. The feud has disappointed me in ONE way: why on earth haven we not seen a PIPEBOMB!? CM Punk is the best talker in pro wrestling and didn't use one of his famous pipebombs. It's a little disappointing. He pipebombed John Cena and The Rock so why not the Undertaker? Again, its a case of the story not being wrote properly. All three matches had great potential but I don't think much effort went into them.
Chris Jericho vs. Fandango
Fandango is a good gimmick. People forget that gimmicks is what WWE is all about. It has been like that since the 80s. The gimmick isn't the thing bothering me. The match isn't bothering me. I know Johnny Curtis is a great wrestler, as is Jericho, but I know they aren't going to get much time. I'm guessing they will get 8-12 minutes to perform. I just don't see this match being any good to be honest.
Ryback vs. Mark Henry
I want to see Ryback hit the shell shock on Henry. That will create a cool moment and that's going to happen. Other than that, I don't really care about this match. Ryback will probably win and it will be Mark Henry's final match (I'm guessing).
The Tag Titles Match/Sheamus, Big Show and Randy Orton vs. The Shield/Brodus Clay, Tensai, Cameron and Naomi vs. Cody Rhodes, Rhodes Scholars and The Bella Twins
I care about these matches as much as Kim Jong Un cares about world peace.
I have a lot more I could say about this years WrestleMania but I think my point has been made clear. What I want to know is, do you feel the same way? One thing I will say is though my goodness, WWE really know how to promote and market themselves. The build up this year has been awful yet the majority of fans are still willing to spend 70 bucks on it and there is a huge buzz around the internet for it. You can reply to me and say they won't be getting that much off me, I'm going to a sports-bar and it costs just 5 bucks to get in. But they still have you as a customer. Do you know how much it costs bars to show WrestleMania? I don't actually know but fuck me, it's pretty expensive I imagine.
Anyway ramblers, after writing this column, we will probably see the most epic WrestleMania of all time. We will probably see some epic angles and some of the best matches pro wrestling has ever seen and I will probably regret not buying it. Nah just kidding. It's gonna suck worse than Brooke Hogan trying to sell an angle!
Thanks for reading people, make sure you let me know your thoughts!
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Tanah Merah, Queensland
This article is about a suburb in Queensland, Australia. For other places called Tanah Merah, see Tanah Merah (disambiguation).
Suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia
Logan City, Queensland
Powerline easement and Tansey Drive, 2016
4,752 (2016 census)[1]
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Suburbs around Tanah Merah:
Slacks Creek Shailer Park Cornubia
Meadowbrook Tanah Merah Cornubia
Loganlea Bethania Loganholme
Tanah Merah is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 4,752.[1] Tanah Merah means "red soil" in Malay language. This type of soil is found across the local area. The Pacific Motorway borders the suburb and the Logan Motorway divides it.
4 Murray's Road
Originally this land was bought and named by the McBride's, an English family who moved to Brisbane from Penang, Malaysia. The land was the first settlement for the McBride family in Australia and subsequently named it Tanah Merah, translating to 'red soils' in Malay. The family were an airforce family who left Malaysia following WWII.
The land was once owned by the Murray family who sold it off in sections to developers. The Murray farm still exists in Tanah Merah and is located at the end of Murrays Road.
Tansey Park, 2016
In the north west Slacks Creek joins the Logan River. It was this area which was the first to be settled by Europeans. On north east border is the Logan Hyperdome. Part of the western boundary follows lower Slacks Creek. The Pintu Drive off-ramp is the designated exit from the M1 for Tanah Merah and nearby is the Bryants Road overpass. The south eastern pocket of the suburb is positioned close to Loganholme State School. The central parts are dominated by a ridge which remains partially vegetated. This area provides habitat for wallabies and koalas. Tansey Park on the river has a boat ramp, playground,[2] and two sports ovals. A small caravan park is located on the Pacific Highway opposite the Hyperdome.[3]
In the 2011 census, Tanah Merah recorded a population of 4,608 people, 50.7% female and 49.3% male.[4] The median age of the Tanah Merah population was 33 years, 4 years below the national median of 37. 69.1% of people living in Tanah Merah were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 8.2%, England 4.7%, South Africa 1.2%, Scotland 0.7%, Germany 0.5%. 87.2% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.2% Arabic, 0.7% Mandarin, 0.7% Spanish, 0.5% Hungarian, 0.4% German.[4]
Murray's Road[edit]
Murray's Road, 2016
Murray's Road is a heritage road located in the suburb.[citation needed] Named after the Murray family who first settled in the area in the 1870s, the road (in part) is bordered by Slacks Creek and natural reserve. The original Murray farm is still located at the end of the road. It was farmed for 4 generations as a Dairy Farm (originally supplying milk to the Kingston Butter Factory. Robert (Jim) Murray was the last to operate the dairy which is now not in use.
Murray's Road also provided access to timber carriage. Logs were brought in by bullock cart from the surrounding area and transported to sawmills up the Logan River. This was done by a rafting system (steamers) which would travel up Slacks Creek. Earth cuttings can still be seen in the hill to the side of the road where logs were rolled down for removal. Rafting Court is a small a street off Murray's Road which is named to remember the important role the timber distribution point had in supplying timber to the developing area.
Murray's Road also holds the largest single population of Austromyrtus gonoclada trees[5]. Less than 300 specimens are known to exist and many are located along the road itself as well on adjoining property (map reference) -27.661408,153.162332.[6]
^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tanah Merah (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats.
^ "Tansey Park". Logan City Council. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
^ "Main Page". Galaxy Caravan Park. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Tanah Merah (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
^ "Department of the Environment and Energy". Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
^ National recovery plan for the angle-stemmed myrtle (Austromyrtus gonoclada) 2001-2005
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Suburbs and localities in Logan City, South East Queensland
Bahrs Scrub
Belivah
Bethania
Boronia Heights
Carbrook
Chambers Flat
Cornubia
Crestmead
Eagleby
Edens Landing
Flinders Lakes
Forestdale
Glenlogan
Holmview
Kairabah
Logan Central
Logan Reserve
Logan Village
Marsden
Monarch Glen
Mount Warren Park
Munruben
New Beith
North Maclean
Park Ridge South
Priestdale
Riverbend
Rochedale South
Shailer Park
Silverbark Ridge
South Maclean
Stockleigh
Tamborine
Undullah
Veresdale
Veresdale Scrub
Waterford West
Windaroo
Wolffdene
Woodhill
Main article: Local government areas of Queensland
Coordinates: 27°40′S 153°10′E / 27.667°S 153.167°E / -27.667; 153.167
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Suburbs of Logan City
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Global investors will observe a heavy slate of first-tier economic data around the world amidst the aftermath of the G20 meeting in Shanghai and the Super Tuesday primary elections in the United States. In particular, with policy risk rising around the world, including the U.S., any hint of coordinated fiscal and or monetary policy support that may be on the way would put a floor under sagging investor confidence and likely turbo-charge global equity markets during the week. Now, with policymakers likely viewing recent developments in asset markets as a correction rather than a crisis, this is a low probability event. In China, the February manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index will be released, which will help set the tone at the beginning of the trading week. In the Eurozone, fresh data on inflation, the unemployment rate and retail sales will be released. Finally in the U.S., an update on pending home sales, manufacturing, vehicle sales, international trade and employment will influence risk appetite across global markets.


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Linfield boss Healy ready to make Europa League history – and bag £4million payday bonus for Blues
Posted By: That Football Daily August 14, 2019
Linfield boss David Healy knows full well his side are on the brink of another significant milestone in the club's history — and at the same time could even manage to bank a whopping £4million.
Healy is trying desperately to keep his delighted players' feet on the ground after they saw off Montenegro champions Sutjeska Niksic 3-2 in Tuesday's Windsor Park win to seal a 5-3 aggregate triumph in the third qualifying round of the Europa League.
The next round will see the Blues have a chance to virtually treble the £1.4m they have already deposited from the competition success and to do so Healy's men will need to overcome Azerbaijan champions Qarabag over two legs, at home next Thursday and away one week hence.
It has all come about after Linfield succeeded in reaching a play-off for the competition group stages — the first Irish League outfit to do so — by seeing off 10-man Sutjeska. The ever-lively Mark Stafford's header gave the home side an early advantage only for Bojan Bozovic to make it 1-1 — then razor-sharp Shayne Lavery grabbed an exquisite goal to make it 2-1.
A red card followed when Alexsandar Sofranac was dismissed and then Bozovic rose to head home before Matthew Clarke gleefully slotted away to restore the lead and ensure victory was taken with a 3-2 score line.
And as he prepared his outfit for the rather more mundane league clash with Coleraine this weekend, Healy says he is being careful not to underestimate the achievement he and his players have scored but at the same time trying to maintain an air of calm around the camp as they head into the next phase of a wondrous European adventure.
"I spoke to the players and reminded them not to underestimate what they achieved on the night. I'm really rather thrilled for the players and thrilled for the club. Thrilled for myself and the rest of the staff to be given the opportunity to go now next week and perform again in a big tie for the club."
"We really look forward to the challenge. It will be a tough one but the way we are playing at the minute, we will relish the challenge. Everything we are asking of the players at the minute, they are delivering. I hope it continues."
Healy says he has the utmost respect for Qarabag and has warned his charges they will face a stiffer test from the next opponents they come up against. He added:
"I know they are a good side. That's for sure. They played Chelsea two years ago in the Europa League group stages. They have a European pedigree."


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2020 Focus on the Field
Posted by Justin Klecha · January 16, 2020 1:35 PM
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Through grassroots community organizing SAVE will influence elections and voter turn out for the benefit of the LGBTQ+ community.
I'm proud to share that our strategic focus for 2020 is community engagement and fieldwork. By focusing on the field, we return to SAVE's core competency on which it has built its reputation and political power through grassroots organizing efforts that support our strategic imperatives:
To get pro-equality public service leaders such as legislators, judges, county commissioners, municipal council members, and mayors running for public office elected regardless of party affiliation.
To influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential race to get a pro-equality candidate and administration elected.
To mobilize pro-equality voters to turn out at the polls for elections; especially in communities that are hard to reach, who are contacted seldomly and/or are undecided voters that can make the difference between winning or losing.
To advocate for policy at all levels of government and business that supports the LGBTQ community's ability to thrive and reduce harm.
To engage the residents in conservative neighborhoods to reduce prejudice.
To engage employers in in-depth LGBTQ competency training and updates to their human resource policies to create welcoming work environments for LGBTQ people.
For more than 25 years SAVE has dedicated itself to protecting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) against discrimination. Since our founding in 1993, SAVE remains the home to civic-minded community members that believe in fighting for equality and fairness for all. They are the champions, heroes, activists, and ordinary people who go to work every day searching for and believing in a world that is fair. Despite busy schedules, our community of volunteers make time to sit on endorsement panels, call voters or knock on doors to get out the vote, organize a variety of events to build awareness of our issues, and engage the broader community to have conversations that effectively help reduce prejudice.
No joke, the stakes are high in 2020. There are over 100 key races, and at least three with openly LGBT candidates right here in Miami-Dade, at the local, state, and federal levels including the presidency of the United State where we will work in the field to make sure our community is protected. There are many challenges that lie ahead including voter suppression, as well as voter apathy. For example, a recent study shows that 1 in 5 LGBTQ adults isn't even registered to vote, and at the same time, nearly half of all Americans incorrectly believe we are already protected under Federal law. So, our work is cut out for us, but we know that we can make a difference as we have before when SAVE's efforts to protect the Miami-Dade County Human Rights Ordinance resulted in one of the largest voter turnouts in history.
We will continue to build our field efforts by hiring a Community and Field Organizer. And, we will continue to rely on the support and volunteer efforts of people like you. Let us know you are interested in volunteering by signing up to be on an endorsement panel or to be part of our canvass team.
I'm looking forward to working alongside you in our fight for equality. Please feel free to reach out to me by email, call, or text to schedule some time to get together. Rest assured I will be reaching out to you.
Yours in service,
Orlando Gonzales
Executive Director, SAVE
Legislative Alert: Dangerous Bills in the Florida Legislature
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This legislative session has set the record as one of the most hostile and dangerous sessions in our history as we are now facing eight anti-LGBTQ bills. These laws cause outright harm to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and threaten our local community's ability to self-govern.
COMMITTEE HEARINGS TO REPEAL EXISTING PROTECTIONS
A committee hearing is being held today in the House's Workforce Development & Tourism Subcommittee for House Bill 305 sponsored by Rep. Bob Rommel of Naples and Senate Bill 1126 sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters of Sarasota. This bill aims to repeal employment protections currently covered by local ordinances. These bills threaten city and county nondiscrimination ordinances that protect more than 13 million Floridians from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Lawmakers will also consider additional ways to allow the dangerous practice of conversion therapy within the home setting. House Bill 537 sponsored by Rep. Byron Donalds of Naples and Senate Bill 778 sponsored by Sen. Keith Perry of Sarasota supports conversion therapy in a home setting regardless of the current bans enacted by cities and counties that have already instituted protections.
Lastly, House Bill 1365 sponsored by Rep. Anthony Sabatini of Howey-in-the-Hills and Senate Bill 1864 sponsored by Sen. Dennis Baxley of Lady Lake makes providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth a second-degree felony for doctors who provide these lifesaving treatments to transgender youth.
WHAT'S AT STAKE IN 2020
With the 2020 legislative session being most dangerous yet, just two days in, to the LGBT community it is clear the stakes are high in 2020. SAVE remains committed to protecting LGBT people from discrimination and dangerous laws. Throughout 2020, we will continue to focus on electing pro-equality leaders by increasing turn-out from pro-equality voters. This is the only way to ensure we no longer have to endure dangerous legislation like we are seeing this year in Tallahassee.
Elections matter. Elections have consequences. SAVE will work hard over the next few years to ensure we elect pro-equality legislators to ensure that the LGBT community is protected.
Freidin Brown, P.A. & SAVE Social Justice Scholarship Recipients Announced!
Posted by Tommy Gomez · September 16, 2019 3:56 PM
Freidin Brown, P.A. & SAVE Launch Social Justice Scholarships
The law firm of Freidin Brown, P.A. and SAVE are proud to launch the Freidin Brown, P.A. & SAVE Social Justice Scholarships, which will award $25,000 in scholarships to four (4) LGBTQ and allied students in South Florida who strive to lead in a field of Social Justice. After receiving a number of extremely impressive applications, four scholarship recipients have been selected and will be honored at SAVE's Luminary Awards on September 18, 2019. Each recipient has a proven record of leadership and contributions to the LGBTQ community and has demonstrated a commitment to a field of Social Justice in their professional futures.
Our $10,000 scholarship will be awarded to Ariana Aboulafia, a third-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law. Ms. Aboulafia is the Senior Articles Editor of the Race and Social Justice Law Review, and previously served as the Vice Present of OUTLaw, where she was instrumental in ensuring that a new gender-neutral bathroom was installed on Miami Law's campus. This summer, a paper that she authored on LGBT homelessness was honored by the National LGBT Bar Association. Upon her graduation, she hopes to work full time at the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office and contribute to their mission of fighting for social justice on behalf of indigent clients.
SAVE Names Orlando Gonzales as its new Executive Director
Gonzales previously served as board chairman for the SAVE Foundation
MIAMI, FL (September 10, 2019) - Safeguarding American Values for Everyone (SAVE) has named Orlando Gonzales as its new Executive Director, effective September 16, 2019. As South Florida's leading organization for policy advocacy and community engagement for the LGBTQ+ population, Mr. Gonzales will work to expand the organization's reach and voice throughout South Florida to address the threats and challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community in the region.
"We feel very fortunate and proud to have Orlando back at SAVE as the organization's executive director. His background, vision, unique experience, and passion for advocacy work are emblematic of the work SAVE has led for the South Florida LGBTQ+ community for more than 25 years," said SAVE board of directors chair Elizabeth Regalado.
Mr. Gonzales will relocate to Miami from Washington D.C., where he was working in real estate as well as with various non-profit organizations leading their fundraising, grant writing, and programming efforts. As a longtime ally and leader of SAVE, Mr. Gonzales served as the chairman of SAVE from 2009-10 and as chairman of the SAVE Foundation from 2008-2012, during which time he helped to significantly increase the organization's donor contributions and political footprint.
"The conversation and climate around LGBTQ+ issues has evolved greatly in recent years, but there is still a lot of work to be done, at home and nationwide. Orlando's vast experience in working with diverse LGBTQ+ communities throughout the country will bring a new and fresh perspective to SAVE and the work that it does in South Florida and statewide," said Regalado.
Mr. Gonzales was selected from more than a dozen well-qualified candidates through a rigorous and competitive two-month interview process, which included a selection committee of SAVE board members and community leaders at large from the LGBTQ+ and non-profit space.
A formal introduction of SAVE's new executive director will be made during the organization's annual Luminaries Awards taking place on September 18, 2019 at Bacardi Headquarters in Coral Gables at 6:30 p.m. For tickets and information, please visit www.LuminaryAwards.org.
ABOUT SAVE
SAVE is recognized as South Florida's longest-serving organization dedicated to protecting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) against discrimination. Since 1993, SAVE has advocated for equal rights for persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions by focusing on civic engagement and community outreach. SAVE's vision is a community where people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer have full equality in all facets of life.
SAVE Inc. and Foundation - Executive Director Job Description
Posted by Tommy Gomez · July 25, 2019 11:03 AM
Safeguarding American Values for Everyone's (SAVE) mission is to promote, protect, and defend equality in Miami-Dade County for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). Established in 1993, SAVE strives to accomplish this mission through community education, grassroots organizing, mobilization and advocacy.
SAVE Names Founding Chair Damian Pardo as Interim Executive Director
Posted by Tommy Gomez · July 11, 2019 4:41 PM
Pardo will lead the search for new leadership while supporting the organization's signature programs and policy outreach initiatives
SAVE has named Damian Pardo as interim executive director, effective immediately. As interim ED, Pardo will oversee the non-profit's signature programs, donor engagement, and policy outreach, as well as form part of the executive director candidate search committee, to be led by SAVE Board of Directors Vice-Chair Helena Castro.
"As the founding chair of SAVE and one of the LGBTQ community's most respected and accomplished advocates and leaders, we are thrilled about having Damian take the helm of the organization during this transition period," said SAVE Chairman of the Board Elizabeth Regalado. "Damian not only understands the South Florida LGBTQ population intrinsically, his deep involvement with the organization and understanding of its work over the years will serve as the driving force for SAVE's continued success as we move forward."
U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act 236 to 173
Posted by Tommy Gomez · May 20, 2019 4:21 PM
In a historic victory today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act 236 to 173.
SAVE is proud of the overwhelming support the bill received from the South Florida delegation including Rep. Hastings, Rep. Frankel, Rep. Deutch, Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Wilson, Rep. Mucarsel-Powell, and our Champion Congresswoman Donna Shalala.
WE DID IT! Victories in both Miami Shores and Coral Gables!
Posted by Tommy Gomez · April 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Over in Miami Shores, we made history by helping elect Miami Shores Village's first African American, female Mayor! Congratulations Mayor-elect Crystal Wagar. We are very excited to work with you! SAVE Action PAC endorsed Candidate (and former SAVE Board Chair) Christian Ulvert is headed to a runoff election on April 30th pending a recount.
Congratulations to Mayor Raul J. Valdes-Fauli for his win in Coral Gables. We look forward to working with you Mr. Mayor! SAVE Action PAC endorsed candidate for Coral Gables City Commission Ralph Cabrera, is headed to a runoff election on April 23rd. We will keep you posted on the final results.
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December 9, 1897—May 24, 1987
HERMIONE GINGOLD was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by the sharpness of her nose and chin. GTG founder, David Staller, was a great friend of Hermione Gingold's for many years. In the early 1980s, they created the "Shaw Salon," which met on Sunday afternoons, gathering such luminaries as Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Helen Hayes, Lilian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Martin, George Rose, Ralph Richardson, Maureen Stapleton and Irene Worth to read Shaw's plays aloud. Forming this company in her name is Staller's tribute to Gingold.
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Gingold began her career in children's theatre in London in 1908. in 1911 she appeared in Where the Rainbow Ends with the young Noel Coward. She became a coloratura soprano and later performed in Shakespearean plays, such as The Merchant of Venice and Troilus and Cressida. In the 1930s, her quirky, ribald comedic sense became famous through musical revues, and it was during WWII that she became a star. It was her popularity with the American GIs that inspired her to move to New York.
It would appear that I have tried everything except incest and folk-dancing.— HG
After moving to New York in 1951, she began a successful career on the Broadway stage in John Murray Anderson's Almanac. Gingold won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1958 movie Gigi, in which she played Madame Alvarez. She played Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man (1962) and succeeded Jo Van Fleet as the graspingly possessive mother in Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1963) on Broadway and also in London. In the original 1973 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Gingold was Madame Armfeldt.
The trouble with me is that I'm not considered an actress anymore. I'm a celebrity.— HG
Gingold was known for her unruly hair—it was said she styled it by sticking her head out the window and letting the wind sculpt it—as well as her deep voice, a result of vocal nodes, which her mother forbade her to remove. Her inimitable comic sense, evident in her work on the stage, radio, television, and in the movies, is described by Sheridan Morley as "awesome eccentricity" and Kenneth Tynan as "strangely hilarious." She is quoted as saying, "I suppose I shall drop dead in the theatre, to a full house, I hope."
Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered—and I still do— which is more important. —HG
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SHANGHAI, China -- Daniil Kvyat was bemused after copping a drive-through penalty for his opening lap collision with Lando Norris at the Chinese Grand Prix.
The pair tangled at Turn 6 in Shanghai after Kvyat had bumped into Norris' McLaren teammate Carlos Sainz. While it initially looked like a racing incident, the stewards didn't share that view, instead opting to pin the blame on Kvyat.
The Russian was slapped with a drive-through penalty -- the third-harshest penalty which can be dished out during a race -- one he did not agree with.
"It was a normal lap-one incident, one car coming from off the track and one car being sandwiched," Kvyat said. "It was just a normal chain reaction. I didn't see how that incident deserved a drive-through penalty, that's for sure."
"We spoke. I think we found a good understanding, but we disagreed on a few things," he said. "It was a very long meeting and I think they kind of understand that they were quite harsh today. I could feel it in their post-race conversation."
Kvyat's penalty relegated him to the back of the pack and from there Toro Rosso decided to retire the car, mainly because he is already on a second power unit. Norris also failed to finish, but Sainz came home in 14th and was critical of Kvyat's first lap.
"We were just all fighting and at the exit of the corner I think someone didn't enjoy going side by side and opened the wheel a bit too much and created a bit of a melee, let's put it like that," Sainz said. "I don't pray for penalties or ask for penalties. I just ask for a bit more patience in lap one.
"It's a very long race in Shanghai, there's overtaking opportunities, [Alexander] Albon finished in the points starting from the pit-lane. You just need to be patient."


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Harp Guitar, from the workshop of A. Barry, c. 1805, made in London, ebonized wood finish, ebonized plain wood back and neck, ebonized spruce or pine top, ivory frets.
The harp guitar was invented by Edward Light in 1798 and made by A. Barry in London. This was the beginning of a series of instruments invented by Light which included the harp-lute, the harp-lute guitar, the dital harp (see catalog #3220), and ended with the Apollo lyre around 1825. It's called a harp guitar because of the harp-like back and the guitar-like neck.
The top of this instrument is painted with gold grape vines, musical trophies, and an urn and floral motif and has a fretwork gilt rosette. The fingerboard has 12 ivory frets and the peghead has six ebony pegs and is painted with a gold floral branch. The bottom rib has an original turned ivory button.
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È stata la 11ª edizione del ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament,
che fa parte del Volvo Grand Prix 1984.
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 Ivan Lendl vs.  Jimmy Connors, finale interrotta sul 6–0, 1–0

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The Tories Get a Thumping in Local UK Elections
Do the 2022 UK local elections mark the beginning of the end of Boris Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party?
Berlin, Germany,2019-08-21: Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at the press conference at the chancellery in Berlin © photocosmos1/shutterstock
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May 11, 2022 08:39 EDT
The political tremors of the 2022 local election results will be keenly felt for months and years to come across the United Kingdom with potentially severe consequences for the Union.
As the ballots are counted and results are declared across the country, a clear picture emerges: these local elections are the most consequential local elections in decades.
If the results of the local elections were to be replicated in a general election, we will find ourselves in hung Parliament territory where several scenarios could emerge, primarily based on and dictated by the number of seats secured in the House of Commons by the Labour and Liberal Democrats.
Bumbling Boris
Boris Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party has been a controversial one. The Conservatives and the country have not experienced a leader like Johnson before. His career as a journalist and politician is littered with transgressions and misdemeanors.
Boris Johnson is the ultimate Teflon politician. In the words of his lifelong friend and rival David Cameron, "Boris always been able to get away with things that mere mortals can't". Cameron certainly did not get away with the Brexit referendum that led to his downfall as prime minister. In contrast, Johnson has sailed through one scandal after another and won a thumping majority in the 2019 elections.
Before those elections, Johnson's unconventional leadership of the Tories in its first few months involved unlawfully proroguing Parliament and removing the whip from 21 of his MPs who voted to block a disastrous no-deal Brexit that the prime minister was pursuing at the time. Those MPs included party grandees and bigwigs such as former chancellors of the exchequer Ken Clarke and Phillip Hammond, and former ministers Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin, Rory Stewart, Ed Vaizey, and even Nicholas Soames, the grandson of the revered wartime Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Johnson's leadership of the Conservatives involves an implicit pact between himself and his party. His history of transgressions and misdemeanors, and economic relationship with the truth and facts as well as his antiques are tolerated as long as he wins elections. In the 2019 elections, Johnson upheld his side of the bargain and delivered an 80-seat majority for the Conservatives.
In the wake of the 2019 election results, Tory strategists and spin doctors claimed that Boris' antics and his scandalous personal life were always 'priced in' by large parts of the electorate. Last week's local election results dispute this Tory claim. It turns out that voters repeatedly raised the partygate scandal when campaigners and journalists turned up at their doorsteps.
The Conservative Party is extraordinary at winning elections. They are good at stealing the clothes of other parties and doing what is necessary to win. That involves ruthlessly knifing their leaders when they stop winning. No Tory leader has been exempt from this rule, including Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Yet Tory knifing is a clinical cold-blooded affair. MPs knife their leader when credible successors lie in wait to mount the saddle.
Boris Johnson: Bumbling Buffoon, Pied Piper or Churchillian Statesman?
So far, Johnson has ensured that there is no successor lying in wait. Despite partygate and the cost-of-living crisis, Johnson's position is secure because he has ruthlessly eliminated all potential rivals. Rishi Sunak, the current chancellor of the exchequer, was once touted as a potential prime minister but, like Icarus, he has come down to earth. Johnson is a Balliol classicist who wanted to be "world king" when he was young. Cloak and dagger palace intrigues come naturally to him. Sunak and his wife have been thrown to the wolves by the so-called Bumbling Boris whose team have leaked juicy tales of the couple's domicile, tax and financial affairs, causing outrage among voters. Sunak can now kiss goodbye to prime minister ambitions. A career managing his father-in-law's billions from sunny California seems more probable.
The local elections have been nothing short of disastrous for the Tories. Nearly 2,000 seats were in play. They were voted out in a quarter of the seats they were defending. Losing so many seats should put pressure on Johnson. His fast and loose reputation with the truth has finally come to haunt the Conservative Party. However, the Tories do not have any potential successors in sight and Johnson is secure for now.
Johnson is not like Cameron who resigned after losing the Brexit referendum. He has thick skin and no sense of shame. Johnson is not going to resign because he is found guilty of wrongdoing, misconduct or misjudgment. As one cabinet ally puts it, "He's not going anywhere, his fingernails have been dug into the Downing Street window frames and he would be taken away kicking and screaming."
Johnson is certainly in the mood to fight back against any attempt by Conservative MPs to remove him from power. For now, he still has the support of the conservative-leaning press. Tory-sympathizing journalists have gone into overdrive to spin the disastrous local elections as largely inconsequential and irrelevant for the Conservative Party. They take the view that these local elections were not a referendum on Johnson.
There is another key factor to note. The prime minister has a track record of resorting to unconstitutional methods, unlawful actions and top-level deceit to save his skin. At the moment, the only way Johnson will leave 10 Downing Street is through an election defeat.
Starmer Stakes All
Elections are complicated affairs. They are not as simple as one party or candidate beating the other. In general, power changes hands only when the ruling party loses energy, direction or cohesion or any combination of the three and the opposition party gets its act together to emerge as a ruling party in waiting. In the British system, any change in power takes two to tango. When John Major lost in 1997, the Tories were divided, discredited, exhausted and bereft of new ideas after 18 years in power. In contrast, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown offered fresh energy and projected competence. Like the 1997 elections, other changes in power were also such dual acts involving both ruling and opposition parties.
Currently, Keir Starmer is the leader of the Labour Party. He is a distinguished barrister who headed the Crown Prosecution Service. He took over in April 2020 after two failed leaders. Jeremy Corbyn presided over five turbulent and disastrous years. Before him, the uninspiring Ed Miliband squandered another five years. Starmer seemed like a sane and surefooted choice for the Labour Party. Here was a safe pair of hands who would return competence and order to the office of the Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition.
Unlike most of his predecessors, Starmer is not a political animal. His approach to politics is measured and forensic. His early performances during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) caught Johnson off guard. Starmer's lawyerly approach and mannerisms were in direct contrast to that of Johnson's populist, colorful, and theatrical political style. This rattled some Tory nerves in the early days and cheered Labour backbenchers.
Starmer's star has waned since. His back-handed political operations and communication blunders have not helped. Starmer is comfortable with big decisions but has a blind spot for the minutiae that drive modern politics. Some of these big decisions have long been necessary. Starmer has removed the whip from Corbyn and purged Corbynistas from key offices. Starmer has also worked hard to make Labour electable again.
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On Monday, May 9 — three days after the local elections — Starmer rolled the dice to take the biggest gamble of his political life. The Labour leader announced that he will step down if found guilty of breaking the stringent lockdown rules when he visited Durham, a historic city in Northeast England, in 2021 during the election campaign.
Starmer's announcement is a very bold move. If he is cleared by the Durham Police, Starmer will stand tall next to a prime minister alleged to have misled parliament over partygate, a resigning matter under 'normal' circumstances. If Starmer's move comes off, it will be the political equivalent of checkmating Boris Johnson. If Starmer is found guilty and resigns, his leadership will come to a premature end and it is unclear if the next Labour leader would benefit from such a move. The fate of British politics lies in balance on the Durham Police investigation.
Old Wine in New Bottle
Regardless of what transpires in Durham, the recent local elections provide a roadmap to toppling Tories from power. Starmer and Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey are carefully treading a path once charted by their charismatic predecessors in the 1990s. Then Blair and Paddy Ashdown forged a Labour-Liberal non-aggression pact to unseat the Tores from power. Starmer and Davey hope this may be a winning model for the next parliamentary elections.
While Starmer only became an MP in 2015, Davey first entered parliament in the historic elections of 1997. He benefits from the advice of Baroness Olly Grender, a veteran of the Ashdown years known for her political nous. Starmer lacks Davey's long history and subconscious memory but the Labour leader is proving to be ruthless and flexible in his pursuit for power.
Starmer and Davey might find it hard to replicate the Blair and Ashdown deal. However, the current leaders are well aware of the dividends such an arrangement could bring. If both their parties can avoid bloodletting, they could mount a challenge to Tories discredited by Johnson's repeated shenanigans.
If the results of the recent local elections were replicated in the next parliamentary elections, the UK would have a hung parliament with no party having a clear majority. If Labour and Liberal Democrats can build on what they have done, they could oust the Tories. Both opposition parties have a strong incentive to cooperate and their leaders seem to be sensible enough to do so.
Brexit Dividend
Even though Brexit is now fait accompli, it continues to haunt British politics. The Brexit business model championed by hardline Brexiteers is flawed, irrational, contorted and thus bound to malfunction. The so-called Brexit Dividend of their dreams has so far failed to materialize. In fact, the Boris-led Brexit is turning out to be an expensive deal for the country. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has estimated "the decline in trade volumes to bring about 4% reduction in the size of Britain's economy over the long run, in line with its pre-Brexit forecast". Elsewhere, experts have calculated that Brexit is currently costing the economy to the tune of £800 million a week — and counting.
So far, the Tories have managed to hide the economic self-harm caused by Brexit. They argue that the economic downturn is due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the squeeze on household budgets and the cost-of-living crisis is chipping away at this Tory narrative. Voters might not yet be in the mood to punish the Conservative Party for Brexit, but they will certainly punish Tories for the pain they are suffering thanks to economic mismanagement.
Arise King Boris, Father of Brexit and Foe of Brussels
For the foreseeable future, the Conservative brand will be intimately associated with Brexit and its economic consequences. The recent elections demonstrate that the national backdrop provides the mood music even for local voter choices. Westminster and Wandsworth Councils, two historically and symbolically significant Tory councils, were won by the Labour Party in the early hours of the morning of May 6. Safe Tory seats in affluent parts of Southwest England such as Richmond and St Albans fell to the Liberal Democrats. In the words of George W. Bush, the Conservatives have taken a "thumping."
The Disunited Kingdom
Bush never quite recovered from that 2006 midterm thumping. He left the US divided over Iraq and in the throes of a global financial crisis. Under Bumbling Boris, the Tories have embraced a disastrous Brexit business model and a toxic English ethnonationalism that threatens the integrity of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland itself.
On May 5, Sinn Féin achieved a historic victory in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. This has sent shockwaves through the Unionist Movement that seeks to keep Northern Ireland in the UK. Sinn Féin's victory has caused further embarrassments, anxiety, and alarm for the Conservative and Unionist Party — the full name of the Tory Party — in London.
The Irish Question dominated British politics a century ago. After World War I, Ireland won its long-cherished independence from the UK and disintegrated into civil war. Northern Ireland remained in the UK but the Troubles broke out in the late 1960s. A violent sectarian conflict between Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists caused much tragedy in this picturesque land till the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. This period of peace might be coming to an end.
Britain's Still Got It
Never before have Catholic nationalists who aim for the reunification of Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic wielded power in Belfast. The unionists are unlikely to accept the dominance of the republicans in Northern Ireland.
The election results in Northern Ireland have put into stark relief the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiated by Johnson with the EU. It was backed by his unionist allies, especially the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). In these elections, the unionists were divided and Sinn Féin trumped DUP to emerge as the top dog in Northern Irish politics. Together, the unionists have a greater vote share but the specter of a reunion with Ireland looms large.
Even as Northern Ireland threatens to slip out of the UK, so does Scotland. The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has campaigned for independence from London before. The SNP is now the natural ruling party of Scotland and is chipping away at the foundations of the union. In the long run, the SNP wants a second referendum and to turn Scotland into an independent nation. In the Brexit referendum, Scots voted to stay in the EU. Leaving the UK and entering the EU is the SNP ambition. Bumbling Boris and political gravity are helping their cause.
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Seniors in LTC homes with COVID-19 should get hospital care and health staff better protection say Sudbury and North Bay residents polled
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SUDBURY and NORTH BAY – ON – From high death rates in long-term care homes, concerning levels of health care worker infections and low COVID-19 testing, more than 2200 Sudbury and North Bay residents polled, say the provincial government is underperforming in how it is dealing with the pandemic response.
While northeastern Ontario has not seen the high levels of COVID-19 infections as the province's south, when asked whether the province had planned properly for the pandemic, more than twice as many said the government had not planned properly than said the government had planned properly. In Sudbury 68.3 per cent and in North Bay 66.5 per cent said they didn't think the province planned properly to deal with the pandemic.
The poll conducted for the CUPE's Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario earlier this spring was released today on the heels of a shocking report from the Canadian military whose soldiers are currently assisting in five Ontario long-term homes. Four of the five homes are for-profit and privately owned.
Across Ontario, more than 1538 long-term care residents have died from COVID-19 and hundreds of front-line staff are infected with the virus. CUPE has consistently raised concerns that very ill residents with COVID-19 were not being taken for higher care in hospitals.
When asked whether the government should move long-term care residents ill with COVID-19 symptoms to hospital, to protect the other residents" more than twice as many said yes as those that said no, they should not be moved. "This government cancelled inspections of long-term care facilities last year at the request of the long- term care industry and has effectively prevented long-term care residents with COVID-19 from being transferred to hospital. This government has turned a blind eye and has a lot to answer for. But all of us owe so much more to this generation in our care and it's time to face that squarely," says Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE.
As of May 26, 4485 health care workers were infected with COVID-19. Twelve of them have died. Consistently hospital and long-term care workers who are members of CUPE have said they do not have access to the equipment such as N95 to work safely. The province has been clear that the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) is low and that health staff must not waste PPE.
"LTC care staff care staff have loudly told the Premier and his minister's that they are often denied PPE or told to ration and reuse masks and gowns," says Candace Rennick, Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario. "The same military report "supports what health care workers have been telling the government, that the PPE they need to protect themselves and residents, simply is not being made available to them." Asked whether they thought the province needed to toughen its standards for protecting health care staff, 84.4 per cent in Sudbury and 82.5 per cent in North Bay said yes.
Testing for COVID-19 in Ontario is lagging. Other countries with aggressive testing have many fewer deaths. When asked would you like to see Ontario significantly increased testing, both communities showed high support for widespread COVID-19 testing with 85.8 per cent of respondents in Sudbury and 83.9 per cent in North Bay saying yes. Similarly, 89.4 per cent in Sudbury and 85.5 per cent in North Bay think all hospital patients and staff should be tested for the virus.
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Workers are being urged to claim back their tax rebates before the deadline passes.
The call comes from tax recovery specialists Brian Alfred who have claimed back more than £36 million for clients in overpaid tax.
According to the firm, around a third of tax payers are due a rebate in the UK and claims can range from £1,500 to £7,300 for people working in the construction industry.
Workers who are either part of the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE) are all eligible to apply and rebates can be claimed for the last four tax years.
However anyone who fails to put their claim in before April 6th will permanently lose the chance to claim a rebate for the 2013/2014 tax year.
Derek Kelly, CEO, Brian Alfred said: "Each year millions of pounds of hard earned money goes unclaimed. The time is now fast approaching to get your tax rebate claims in, as you can only go back four years at a time, so basically if you haven't claimed a rebate for the year 2013/14, it's either do it before April 6th or forever lose the opportunity for that year.
According to Brian Alfred it's simple things that people don't realise they can claim for, from travel expenses to work uniforms to equipment and even food costs.
Brian Alfred is one of the UK's leading CIS and PAYE tax rebate specialists and has helped thousands of people get their tax rebates, some in as little as 24 hours.


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Ruby Friday | Experiments from DocX at the Center for Documentary Studies
Learn about the latest from DocX, the digital lab at the Center for Documentary Studies, including a new website with an analog feel that showcases decades of the Center's best work.
April 19, 2019 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The Center for Documentary Studies' DocX lab is excited to join us in the Ruby to present CDS Shortwave, an experimental website that showcases the documentary arts as practiced at CDS for nearly thirty years. The presentation will encompass other works-in-progress, as well, including a web-based visual tuner, a virtual moving-image projector, and tools to design and play back spatial-audio soundscapes.
DocX is an innovative space to experiment with the evolving ways that documentary artists tell stories in the digital era and to explore how digital interactive spaces can be inspired and informed by analog modes of discovery.
About Ruby Fridays
Ruby Fridays are casual art talks offered at noon most Fridays during the semester in the Rubenstein Arts Center's Ruby Lounge. Speakers include Duke faculty and students who are creating or exhibiting work in the Ruby, visiting artists from far and wide, and local creatives. Learn about the amazing art being created on Duke's campus, the behind-the-scenes aspect of the creative process, careers in the arts, and more. A free lunch is included!
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Alexa Dilworth is director of publishing, awards, and the DocX lab at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Dilworth has a BA and an MA, both in English, from the University of Florida, and an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Aaron Kutnick received his MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University. He currently works as a digital content creator and user experience designer in the DocX lab at the Center for Documentary Studies. He also teaches courses in experimental interface design and computational media. His work asks what ethnographic fieldwork looks like within the virtual spaces of the internet, and what kind of tools are best suited to meaningfully engage this rich, dynamic realm of cultural production.
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I've talked a bit about the false multiples narrative. It's the story we are told incessantly about our impending life with multiples. It is the story we ourselves create to make sense of our new reality of having more than one newborn at the same time. It is the narrative that life with multiples is exponentially harder than life with a singleton.
Don't get me wrong. I am not saying life with multiples isn't hard. It is hard. The other day, I felt like I could finally say that I've potty trained one triplet. But guess what. I can't have a victory dance and throw away diapers and move on with life. I have 2 more to go. I have more pee and poop accidents ahead of me, tears, frustration, lots of patience to drum up in my tired being… TIMES TWO. That seems just plain unfair and hard. And it is. But I also refuse to accept the narrative that absolutely everything about multiples is harder or worse or soul-suckingly bad. That is the narrative I'm trying to quash in this blog and in my own life.
It is easier to have three babies in the same developmental stage so that we can do an activity and everyone has fun. As someone who has kids spaced 2, 4 and 6 years apart, I know full well how frustrating it can be to find an activity that is fun for one kid and not fun for the older or younger kid. It is easier to have built in playmates at home. It is exponentially easier to have fun dance parties, laugh together, play tag, or hide and seek with a pack of kids. It's easier to finish groceries before they go bad. It is easier to justify splurging on a toy that will be played with by multiple kids. It is easier to be extremely efficient with my time because there are so many kids needing my attention. You get the idea. For every hardship, there is a convenience or delight that comes from having multiples.
So what narrative can you write down about multiples and what is another way of looking at that story? I'd love to hear from you.
Photo: It is easier to make a party festive when multiple kids are celebrating a birthday!
I loved your post. I am a mom of 2 year old twins, with a 4 year old and 6 year old. I find myself constantly correcting the narrative that life with many little ones is crazy and leaves no time for anything else. I came across your blog mentioned in Off the Clock and have enjoyed reading over your posts. Thank you for sharing them.
Thank you so much for your comment and for checking out my blog. I am thrilled to hear someone else is with me in my fight against the false narrative!
What a profoundly important message that our narrative shapes our lives. I loved how you reframed so many aspects of life with multiples to create more joy in your perspective. The dance party example is especially fun to imagine. I'm so glad to have found this blog- it's helpful logistically but also emotionally. Thank you.


1951 - Beginning of the Nuclear Power age. To date, how to safely dispose of the highly radioactive nuclear waste has never been solved !!!
July 2015 - 30 countries are operating 438 nuclear power stations and 67 new nuclear plants are under construction in 15 countries. The navy and military also use nuclear reactors for propulsion and nuclear weapons. Consequently, large amount of nuclear radioactive waste by-product is produced every year - and piling up. Not all countries are adequately equipped to store or dispose of their own radioactive waste. Some countries are limited in resources, area, or have unfavourable geology. To date, most countries are struggling in developping a permanent strategy for long-term disposal of nuclear waste. Spent nuclear fuel and by-product plutonium wastes require well-designed storage for periods ranging from tens of thousands to a million year (that long before it starts to decay). There is general agreement that placing spent nuclear fuel in repositories hundreds of meters below the surface would be safer than CURRENT interim surface or sub-surface storage. However, land-based geological storage sites will not have the capacity to store all the waste that will be generated in future decades.
High and Low-level waste (HLW) is produced by nuclear reactors. Spent fuel is highly radioactive and hot. HLW accounts for over 95% of the total radioactivity produced in the process of nuclear electricity generation. The amount of HLW worldwide is currently increasing by about 12,000 metric tons every year, which is the equivalent to about 100 double-decker buses or a two-story structure with a footprint the size of a basketball court . A 1000-MW nuclear power plant produces about 27 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel (unreprocessed) every year. In 2010, there was a very roughly estimated 250,000 tons of nuclear HLW to be stored (excluding escaped amounts into the environment from accidents or tests). Japan is estimated to hold 17,000 tons of HLW in storage in 2015. Specially designed interim surface or sub-surface storage of radioactive waste facilities are currently used in many countries pending the availability of a long-term disposal option. Big problem is that what was initially meant to be an "interim" storage is now ....permanent due to desperately slow progress on finding permanent deep land-based sites. There are concerns that over ground existing fuel waste containers are beginning to degrade. "Recognising that long-term management options may require significant time to be achieved, interim storage arrangements may need to be extended beyond the time periods originally envisaged". (World Nuclear Association, January 2016) Safeguards are also required to ensure that neither plutonium nor highly enriched uranium can be pillaged for terrorist activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE) says there is "a persistent problem with the illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials, thefts, losses and other unauthorized activities". The IAEA Illicit Nuclear Trafficking Database notes 1,266 incidents reported by 99 countries over the last 12 years, including 18 incidents involving enriched plutonium trafficking.
Knowledge about marine eco-systems and sea-bed formation have vastly evolved since the 70's era when the 1972 London Dumping Convention was setup prohibiting dumping of nuclear waste at sea - Convention in force until 2018, after which the sub-seabed disposal option can be revisited at 25-year intervals. However, dumping still occurs illegally everywhere! The oceans have a vastly greater dilution capacity for limiting radioactive emissions than any single land site in the event of accidental leaks and, is unlikely to be disturbed either geologically or by human activity. In view of the controversies and political posturing on land-based disposal of nuclear waste, now may be the time to reconsider the sea (specifically seabed formation) as a possible solution to the ever mounting nuclear waste temporarily stored over ground; a time bomb! Investigating in sea-based solutions makes sense because they are particularly suited to international cooperation.
Sub-Seabed clay formations within stable (predictable) deep-sea regions away from earthquakes and volcanism tectonic plates and productive surface waters (nutrient-rich) have properties that might serve to permanently isolate radioactive waste. The most important characteristics of such clays are their uniformity, low permeability, very high retention capacity and potential for self-healing when disturbed. The most attractive abyssal clay formation covers nearly 30% of the sea floor and hence 20% of the earth's surface.
International group of scientists conducted experiments from 1974 to 1986 that suggested that any leakage from waste containers placed ten meters below the seabed could conceivably remain sealed in clays and muds for millions of years. For example, the large undersea plain, some 600 miles north of Hawaii, stable for some 65 million years, received special attention. American Researchers found that the clay muds in such sub-seabed formations had a high capacity for binding radionuclides, so that any leakage would be likely to remain within the clay for millions of years, by which time radioactive emissions would decline to natural background levels. Therefore, restarting investigation into sub-seabed disposal in stable clay formations make sense and is a way to develop a fallback alternative to geological disposal on land. The biodiversity at such depth limited to species of bacteria, protozoans, and invertebrates (worms, crustaceans and molluscs) that do not migrate to the upper marine food chain. The possibility of creating an international consortium that would ensure that all high-level nuclear waste from every country in the world would be buried in a single sub-seabed storage area seems promising.
Scientists have also considered disposing of nuclear waste by using modern drilling technologies to drill bore holes deep into the seabed, place canisters of SNF (Spent Nclear Fuel) inside, and pack the holes with sediment. Preliminary research has suggested that the risk of radioactive contamination of the marine environment would be low, considering the significant depths that drilling could achieve as well as the thick clays on the ocean floor. For example, waste handlers could dispose of SNF in holes drilled to 800 meters underneath the ocean floor, with SNF stacked in the holes up to about 300 meters beneath the seabed. Corrosion-resistant containers could help seal the SNF. Deep burial of SNF through drilling could be advantageous because the clays on the ocean floor have - low permeability to water, a high adsorption capacity for [radioactive waste] and a natural plasticity that enables the ooze to seal up any cracks or rifts that might develop around a waste container. SNF disposal in bore holes could be appropriate for certain radioactive material that has a long period of radioactive decay. Experiments have suggested that if SNF canisters in bore holes were to rupture, the radioactive material would not migrate more than a few meters from a breached canister after even 100,000 years because the thick clays on the ocean floor would prevent the waste from moving.
Burial in Subduction Faults A second sub-seabed option has received little attention but deserves careful consideration: burying canisters of nuclear waste in Subduction Faults that would carry the waste downward toward the Earth's mantle. This approach possesses the virtue of being very permanent, As the subduction fault would carry the canisters down at a rate of, say, 10 cm per year, the chances of any release of radionuclides into the biosphere would become increasingly remote.
A California firm, Permanent RadWaste Solutions, has pursued the technology for this option. In addition to the bottom-crawling submarine for digging the holes and delivering the waste, this company has developed a canister technology that becomes more tightly sealed and resistant as the outside pressure increases during the descent of the canister toward the mantle. Some observers object that earthquake or volcanic activity could cause the canister to leak, and the radioactive waste would spew into the sky or onto the surface. However, it is possible to place the canisters in the parts of a subduction zone where there is no volcanic activity, so that they will take millions of years to migrate to less stable parts, at a time when their level of radioactivity will no longer surpass that of the natural background. As with the stable clay approach, it would be possible to bore deep holes into the subduction faults in order to get the waste as deep as possible, even though the danger of leakage upward to the seafloor appears to be minimal. Radionuclides are heavier than water, so there is also no reason why they should migrate upward to the ocean's surface, especially since there is no evidence that bottom-dwelling marine species are concentrated upward into a food pyramid that leads to the surface.
Since governments appear to lack the political will to pursue such approaches, international organizations, companies, foundations, NGOs and ENVIRONMNTALISTS need to begin to support research on Sub-Seabed Disposal. Relying, as we now do, on dozens of nuclear countries each to develop and maintain secure geological disposal sites for nuclear waste is a thoughtless, wasteful and dangerously irresponsible. The ultimate goal should be to devise a nuclear waste solution (not necessarily a sea-based one) that will gain international adherence and become the shared global long-term one for all High-Level Waste, and perhaps for Low-Level Waste as well.
The United States has not seriously considered sub-seabed disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) since 1986, when it ceased funding an international team of scientists known as the Seabed Working Group. 190 This group consisted of about 200 researchers from ten different nations and received significant funding during its active years. 191 The group concluded its work with a call for further research after preliminary testing from 1976 to 1986 at about six sites in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans showed promise for sub-seabed burial of SNF in ocean floor sediment. The United States, which provided most of the group's funding, withdrew its support in favor of land-based SNF disposal methods around the time that Congress selected Yucca Mountain as a national SNF repository.
What's noteworthy about nuclear power is that not a lot of the total energy in a fuel rod is actually utilized and turned into electric power. In fact, less than 1% of the total power generated becomes usable electricity. Therefore, the other 99% has to be treated or allowed to decay in a safe way. The best way to do this, economically, is to store it underground in stable areas for thousands of years.
Experiments conducted by this international team of scientists from 1974 to 1986 support Hollister's opinion that the sticky mud and clays that blanket the mid-ocean basins may provide the best burial grounds yet proposed for nuclear waste. These tests suggest that if waste canisters were deposited just ten meters below the ocean floor, any toxic substances that leaked out would be bound up by the clays for millions of years. Deeper interment, at 100 meters or more, could easily be managed, providing an even greater margin of safety. "The stuff sticks to the mud and sits there like heavy lead," Hollister maintains.
"Nothing's going to bring it into the biosphere, unless we figure out how to reverse gravity."
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by diane@vformation.biz | May 28, 2020 | Blog Updates
As we enter the next post-total-lockdown phase, there's been much recent talk of businesses 'bouncing back', but this in itself raises a whole host of new challenges for cash-strapped businesses struggling to stay afloat. Ian Batkin, Partner at Luvo Financial, says that R&D Tax Credits have a key role in supporting businesses over the coming months. Here, he explains why.
The various forms of funding put in place by the government over the past couple of months have undoubtedly primarily been about trying to help businesses survive through this unprecedented period of time. But bouncing back from this very difficult period creates a whole new series of challenges, from planning the new way of working, to having the resources in place to successfully execute this and the progression to a very different 'new normal'.
The role of R&D Tax Credits
In recent months, the phrase 'cash is king' has never rung so true. With this – and cashflow easing – at front of mind, claiming R&D Tax Credits (and indeed Patent Box) has an increasingly important role to play in supporting businesses through the next phase.
Approximately 90% of eligible SME's are yet to claim the R&D Tax Credits that they are entitled to. By making a claim, businesses can not only reduce the amount of Corporation Tax that they pay, but eligible loss-making companies can also claim payable cash credits – cash funding from HMRC, which should be received within about a month of submitting their claim. The average claim by SME's is around £50,000– a significant financial boost for cash-strapped businesses.
Helping businesses bounce back
Luvo Financial is an independent R&D Tax Credits specialist, with a 100% claims success record. We are committed to playing our part in helping businesses bounce back, and to help businesses better understand the R&D Tax Credit scheme and the criteria for claiming, we have produced a simple 5-Minute Guide to R&D Tax Credits, which explains why you should claim R&D Tax Credits and how to go about doing so.
Luvo has also extended our May20 campaign until 30 June 2020. This means that, for all engagements and re-engagements formally agreed during the month of June 2020, our standard, initial, upfront £2,000 fee will be postponed until you receive or realise the benefit from your R&D Tax Credit claim. The businesses that we support in making claims do so with the certainty of our team's best-in-sector services being totally contingent (i.e. no-win-no-fee) and, as a consequence of this fantastic offer, combined with our free one-hour consultation meeting, also makes our service totally cash-positive.
Take a look at our 5-Minute Guide to R&D Tax Credits video (as the name implies, it will only take 5 minutes!) and then get in touch to discuss our offers or any questions you may have about claiming R&D Tax Credits.
The Luvo team continues to work remotely throughout lockdown and is here to support clients, both old and new, to hopefully 'bounce back' following these difficult and challenging times.
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Uzbekistan is a two-sided postcard. On one side are the glorious remains of the Silk Road days, and on the other side is the heavily lingering Soviet shadow which keeps getting crossed over by the seemingly distant American popular culture.
Around New Year days, Uzbek Islamic-nationalism takes the back seat and Santa Clauses roam around doing everyday jobs while dreams of a different world float in the air.
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By CBS NEWS Staff Writer April 18, 2019 07:22:55The Rockefeller High school, a new school built in Desoto County, Arizona, will be $3 million over budget.It will be a $5 million improvement over the previous school, which was $2.9 million overbudget.The new school has an enrollment of 2,800 students, but many students will be transferred from other schools, such as


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Kate Miller-Heidke with Camerata
February 27, 2017 by Camerata
Presented by QPAC 10 March 2017, Australian theatre and pop star Kate Miller-Heidke joins Camerata in a special expanded format to present an orchestral re-imagining of her celebrated catalogue, featuring old favouires, new material, covers and songs from The Rabbits.
A Brisbane native, Kate Miller-Heidke is a classically trained singer who traverses the worlds of contemporary pop, folk, and opera. A versatile and gifted creator, her songs are stamped with witty humour and poignant insight.
Conducted by Benjamin Northey and featuring visuals by Amy Gebhardt, this is a special concert event not to be missed.
Limited tickets remain and are on sale at QPAC.
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