The +421 Foundation pursues a mission of enhancing relations between the American and Slovak people by showcasing the cultural richness of Slovakia to American audiences, and by creating opportunities for mutually beneficial interaction among Slovak and American interests in the cultural sphere and beyond.
The name of the organization derives from the international telephone calling code for Slovakia, which is +421. The organization hopes to generate visibility for Slovak arts and culture and for humanitarian issues facing Slovakia today through art exhibitions, performances, educational workshops, and cultural events.
A (not entirely serious) talk that I gave at the London Perl Mongers technical meeting in March 2018.
It talks about how and why I build a web site listing the line of succession to the British throne back through history.
A (not entirely serious) talk that I gave at the London Perl Mongers technical meeting in March 2018.
It talks about how and why I build a web site listing the line of succession to the British throne back through history.
Ludske prava v medzigeneracnom dialogu program konferencie+421 Foundation
ĽUDSKÉ PRÁVA V MEDZIGENERAČNOM DIALÓGU
KONFERENCIA POD ZÁŠTITOU
PODPREDSEDU VLÁDY A MINISTRA ZAHRANIČNÝCH VECÍ A EURÓPSKYCH ZÁLEŽITOSTÍ SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY MIROSLAVA LAJČÁKA
14. DECEMBRA 2012, HOTEL BÔRIK, BRATISLAVA
Saturday, December 15, 2012
6:00pm until 9:00pm
@ the Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021
PROGRAM OF THE EVENING:
- Menorah lighting ceremony
- Yiddish Songs, brought to us by the world-renown performer, Iva Bittova
- Short piano recital by Peter Breiner
- Family friendly entertainment with children’s games
- Music & dance party by DJ Eitan Noyze
- Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres
- Plenty of opportunity to see old friends and to make new
About the Rio+20 Conference
At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is being organized in pursuance of General Assembly Resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236), and will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.
The Rio+20 Conference It is envisaged as a Conference at the highest possible level, including Heads of State and Government or other representatives. The Conference will result in a focused political document.
Themes of the Conference
The Conference will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Seven priority areas
The preparations for Rio+20 have highlighted seven areas which need priority attention; these include decent jobs, energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster readiness.
INVITATION - Slovak Fashion Night in New York 2012 +421 Foundation
The Seventh Annual SLOVAK FASHION NIGHT IN NEW YORK is the signature event of the +421 Foundation Inc. organized in partnership with the Consulate General of Slovakia in New York and in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
The event will be held in New York City on May 11, 2012 at 7.30 PM at CAPITALE, 130 Bowery Street, New York, NY 10013.
This year’s Slovak Fashion Night motto, “Fashion Unites Us“, will introduce the Slovakian designers: Annamaria Kiss Kossa (winner of Bratislava Fashion Days), Libor Komosny and Ema Klein (with their collections “Flavour of Coffee”, “Clinical” and “Skeleton” ) from Studio of Fashion Design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under the supervision of Julia Sabova. Styling will be presented by Lenka Chmelova and Ivana Marmare from Slovakia. Guests of this evening will also enjoy collections of an Austrian designer Eva Poleschinski and an American designer of Slovak origin Lucy Racek Hulsizer. The show´s choreography by Sandra Sabbahi will be interpreted by the dancing etudes of Lucy Khulova. The evening will be hosted by rising Slovakian-American actress, Katarina Morhacova.
Guests will have an opportunity to view an exhibit anthology, compiled from paintings by Erik Binder and photographs by Natalia Sklenarikova. Slovakia’s very own Double Cross Vodka will provide delicious cocktails to all in attendance while DJ Eitan Noyze spins the after party.
www.slovakfashionnight.com
Tickets @ www.cskstore.com
Development Cooperation Forum Philanthropy Issues note+421 Foundation
Private philanthropic organizations have become in a very short period of time a key source of development finance. They complement flows from other providers and play a vital role in meeting needs in critical sectors, such as health and education. There is need to better understand the role they can play in international development cooperation and their impact on development results. The MDG Summit in 2010 recognized that and called on foundations to enhance their role in supporting national development efforts and the achievement of the MDGs.
President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council Ambassador Milos Koterec of Slovakia opened on Monday 27th February 2012 the first Dialogue of Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) with private philanthropic organizations. The Development Cooperation Forum, established by the 2005 World Summit in response to the changes in development cooperation as well as to the growing role taken by non-traditional actors, has an important role in spurring global discussions among foundations and United Nations Member States. The meeting focused on issues of comparative advantages and good practices of philantropic organizations and on promoting partnerships to achieve better development results. It enjoyed participation of important stakeholder like President of Ford Foundation Luis Ubinas, Executive Director of Trust Africa Akwasi Aidoo, Founder of Education for Employment network Ron Bruder, Vice President for Strategic Philantropy Foundation Center Lisa Philip, Bakery Kone of the African Capacity Building Foundation, Managing Director of Rockefeller Foundation Rob Garris and many others, as well as representatives of member states.
Generálny konzulát Slovenskej republiky v New Yorku organizuje Konzulárne dni v Chicagu.
Miesto konania:
Reštaurácia KLAS/ KLAS Restaurant: 5734 W. Cermak Road, Cicero, IL 60804 (www.klasrestaurant.com).
08. marec 2012 (štvrtok) : 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
09. marec 2012 (piatok) : 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Konzulárne dni budú zamerané na konzulárne úkony, pri ktorých sa podľa zákona vyžaduje osobná prítomnosť žiadateľa:
CESTOVNÝ PAS SR (54.00 USD)*
PREVZATIE VYSTAVENÉHO CESTOVNÉHO PASU
(bez poplatku)
OSVEDČENIE O ŠTÁTNOM OBČIANSTVE (23.00 USD)*
OSVEDČENIE PODPISU NA LISTINE (5.00 USD za jeden podpis)*
* poplatok platný v mesiaci február 2012
Generálny konzulát Slovenskej republiky v New Yorku
801 Second Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212-286-8434
212-286-8465
________________________
www.mzv.sk/nyc
cg.newyork@mzv.sk
Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present Staged Readings in English of 6 new plays written by women playwrights who are the leading voices writing for the stage today in Central and Eastern Europe. ITP’s artistic director Marcy Arlin and director Gwynn MacDonald will curate these plays from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovak Republic.
Podľa zákona č. 595/2003 Z.z. o daniach z príjmov v znení neskorších predpisov môžete poskytnúť 2% z Vašej dane vybranej neziskovej organizácii. Po zaplatení celej dane sa môžete rozhodnúť, či 2% z nej pôjdu do štátneho rozpočtu alebo ich váš daňový úrad prevedie Vami určenej neziskovej organizácii. Jedným zo zaregistrovaných oprávnených prijímateľov 2% je aj Slovenská spoločnosť pre medzinárodné právo pri SAV (www.ssmp-ssil.org), občianske združenie, ktoré združuje vedcov, akademikov, profesionálov a študentov medzinárodného práva a príbuzných odborov, ako aj ďalších nadšencov medzinárodného práva na Slovensku.
World Trade Report 2011
The WTO and preferential trade agreements: From co-existence to coherence
The ever-growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a prominent feature of international trade. The World Trade Report 2011 describes the historical development of PTAs and the current landscape of agreements. It examines why PTAs are established, their economic effects, and the contents of the agreements themselves. Finally it considers the interaction between PTAs and the multilateral trading system.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
Ludske prava v medzigeneracnom dialogu program konferencie+421 Foundation
ĽUDSKÉ PRÁVA V MEDZIGENERAČNOM DIALÓGU
KONFERENCIA POD ZÁŠTITOU
PODPREDSEDU VLÁDY A MINISTRA ZAHRANIČNÝCH VECÍ A EURÓPSKYCH ZÁLEŽITOSTÍ SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY MIROSLAVA LAJČÁKA
14. DECEMBRA 2012, HOTEL BÔRIK, BRATISLAVA
Saturday, December 15, 2012
6:00pm until 9:00pm
@ the Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021
PROGRAM OF THE EVENING:
- Menorah lighting ceremony
- Yiddish Songs, brought to us by the world-renown performer, Iva Bittova
- Short piano recital by Peter Breiner
- Family friendly entertainment with children’s games
- Music & dance party by DJ Eitan Noyze
- Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres
- Plenty of opportunity to see old friends and to make new
About the Rio+20 Conference
At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is being organized in pursuance of General Assembly Resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236), and will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.
The Rio+20 Conference It is envisaged as a Conference at the highest possible level, including Heads of State and Government or other representatives. The Conference will result in a focused political document.
Themes of the Conference
The Conference will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Seven priority areas
The preparations for Rio+20 have highlighted seven areas which need priority attention; these include decent jobs, energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster readiness.
INVITATION - Slovak Fashion Night in New York 2012 +421 Foundation
The Seventh Annual SLOVAK FASHION NIGHT IN NEW YORK is the signature event of the +421 Foundation Inc. organized in partnership with the Consulate General of Slovakia in New York and in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
The event will be held in New York City on May 11, 2012 at 7.30 PM at CAPITALE, 130 Bowery Street, New York, NY 10013.
This year’s Slovak Fashion Night motto, “Fashion Unites Us“, will introduce the Slovakian designers: Annamaria Kiss Kossa (winner of Bratislava Fashion Days), Libor Komosny and Ema Klein (with their collections “Flavour of Coffee”, “Clinical” and “Skeleton” ) from Studio of Fashion Design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under the supervision of Julia Sabova. Styling will be presented by Lenka Chmelova and Ivana Marmare from Slovakia. Guests of this evening will also enjoy collections of an Austrian designer Eva Poleschinski and an American designer of Slovak origin Lucy Racek Hulsizer. The show´s choreography by Sandra Sabbahi will be interpreted by the dancing etudes of Lucy Khulova. The evening will be hosted by rising Slovakian-American actress, Katarina Morhacova.
Guests will have an opportunity to view an exhibit anthology, compiled from paintings by Erik Binder and photographs by Natalia Sklenarikova. Slovakia’s very own Double Cross Vodka will provide delicious cocktails to all in attendance while DJ Eitan Noyze spins the after party.
www.slovakfashionnight.com
Tickets @ www.cskstore.com
Development Cooperation Forum Philanthropy Issues note+421 Foundation
Private philanthropic organizations have become in a very short period of time a key source of development finance. They complement flows from other providers and play a vital role in meeting needs in critical sectors, such as health and education. There is need to better understand the role they can play in international development cooperation and their impact on development results. The MDG Summit in 2010 recognized that and called on foundations to enhance their role in supporting national development efforts and the achievement of the MDGs.
President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council Ambassador Milos Koterec of Slovakia opened on Monday 27th February 2012 the first Dialogue of Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) with private philanthropic organizations. The Development Cooperation Forum, established by the 2005 World Summit in response to the changes in development cooperation as well as to the growing role taken by non-traditional actors, has an important role in spurring global discussions among foundations and United Nations Member States. The meeting focused on issues of comparative advantages and good practices of philantropic organizations and on promoting partnerships to achieve better development results. It enjoyed participation of important stakeholder like President of Ford Foundation Luis Ubinas, Executive Director of Trust Africa Akwasi Aidoo, Founder of Education for Employment network Ron Bruder, Vice President for Strategic Philantropy Foundation Center Lisa Philip, Bakery Kone of the African Capacity Building Foundation, Managing Director of Rockefeller Foundation Rob Garris and many others, as well as representatives of member states.
Generálny konzulát Slovenskej republiky v New Yorku organizuje Konzulárne dni v Chicagu.
Miesto konania:
Reštaurácia KLAS/ KLAS Restaurant: 5734 W. Cermak Road, Cicero, IL 60804 (www.klasrestaurant.com).
08. marec 2012 (štvrtok) : 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
09. marec 2012 (piatok) : 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Konzulárne dni budú zamerané na konzulárne úkony, pri ktorých sa podľa zákona vyžaduje osobná prítomnosť žiadateľa:
CESTOVNÝ PAS SR (54.00 USD)*
PREVZATIE VYSTAVENÉHO CESTOVNÉHO PASU
(bez poplatku)
OSVEDČENIE O ŠTÁTNOM OBČIANSTVE (23.00 USD)*
OSVEDČENIE PODPISU NA LISTINE (5.00 USD za jeden podpis)*
* poplatok platný v mesiaci február 2012
Generálny konzulát Slovenskej republiky v New Yorku
801 Second Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212-286-8434
212-286-8465
________________________
www.mzv.sk/nyc
cg.newyork@mzv.sk
Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present Staged Readings in English of 6 new plays written by women playwrights who are the leading voices writing for the stage today in Central and Eastern Europe. ITP’s artistic director Marcy Arlin and director Gwynn MacDonald will curate these plays from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovak Republic.
Podľa zákona č. 595/2003 Z.z. o daniach z príjmov v znení neskorších predpisov môžete poskytnúť 2% z Vašej dane vybranej neziskovej organizácii. Po zaplatení celej dane sa môžete rozhodnúť, či 2% z nej pôjdu do štátneho rozpočtu alebo ich váš daňový úrad prevedie Vami určenej neziskovej organizácii. Jedným zo zaregistrovaných oprávnených prijímateľov 2% je aj Slovenská spoločnosť pre medzinárodné právo pri SAV (www.ssmp-ssil.org), občianske združenie, ktoré združuje vedcov, akademikov, profesionálov a študentov medzinárodného práva a príbuzných odborov, ako aj ďalších nadšencov medzinárodného práva na Slovensku.
World Trade Report 2011
The WTO and preferential trade agreements: From co-existence to coherence
The ever-growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a prominent feature of international trade. The World Trade Report 2011 describes the historical development of PTAs and the current landscape of agreements. It examines why PTAs are established, their economic effects, and the contents of the agreements themselves. Finally it considers the interaction between PTAs and the multilateral trading system.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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3. The organization hopes to generate visibility for Slovak arts and culture through art
exhibitions, performances, educational workshops, and cultural events.
programs and activities
The +421 Foundation pursues its mission by focusing on activities that will expose influential
American audiences to the cultural, intellectual and social richness of Slovakia, and provide
opportunities for collaboration among artists, designers, performers, writers, and other
cultural players from Slovakia and the United States.
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4. current programs
+421’s current programming encompasses three principal areas:
Design and Fashion Showcases featuring emerging Slovak fashion designers, presented
by Slovak and American theatrical design and production teams in collaboration with models
and performers representing the newest trends in international style.
Entertainment Showcases featuring theater, dance, and musical presentations in both
contemporary and traditional Slovak idioms, celebrating the roots that bridge Old World and
New World cultural expression.
Promotional Forums gathering together leaders from various public and private sectors
under consular auspices to explore and encourage innovative partnerships to further the
overall mission of the +421 Foundation.
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7. DESIGN & FASHION
SLOVAK FASHION NIGHT in New York (annual event)
- main goal is presentation of young Slovak designers and artists in USA
- proceeds from the event are dedicated to a charity
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9. ENTERNTAINMENT SHOWCASES
THE VELVET REVOLUTION PARTY (annual event):
this event is held annually to commemorate the fall of communist regime and the triumph
of democracy in former Czechoslovakia
(Velvet Revolution, November 17th 1989)
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10. ENTERNTAINMENT SHOWCASES
exhibits (photography, paintings, glass etc.)
dance and theater performances
film & book presentations
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12. BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mgr. Elena Verešová
Vice President (SK)
elena@plus421.org
PhDr. Ľubica Surkošová,
President (SK), lubica@plus421.org RNDr. Martin Šamaj, PhD.
Treasurer (USA)
martin@plus421.org
BSP Software,
President/CEO
Honorary Consul of
Paraguay in Slovakia
Mgr. Roman Lazar
Eva Jurinová,MBA
Secretary (USA)
President (USA), eva@plus421.org roman@plus421.org
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13. EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Ing. Katarina Storfer Livia Fleming
Development Director Project manager (USA)
(USA) livia@plus421.org
kstorfer@plus421.org
Ing. arch. Eva Vojteková, PhD. Bc. Marko Surkoš
Sandra Frank
Executive Director (SK) Program Director IT Support (SK)
evav@plus421.org (USA) marko@plus421.org
sandra@plus421.org
Mgr. Eva Klanduchová Mariana Gavalová Wayne Bartlet
Executive Director (USA) Events Manager Artistic Adviser (USA)
evak@plus421.org (USA) Waynebartlett@jujuart.net
mariana@plus421.org
Simona Kováčová Marek Šoltýs
Maniaci Technical Support (USA)
Project Manager prsmarek@optonline.net
(USA)
simona@plus421.org
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14. ADVISORY BOARD
Zuzana Andreanska, Jolana Blau, Dr. Robert Simoncic, Gitka Hlavinka,
sq. Clif Perlmanj, Dr. Peter Pleva, William Simmons, Katarina Morhacova,
Lenka Opálená
VOLUNTEERS
Ana Ancin, Marcela Belovská, Jana Gabrielová, Ting Ji, Lucy Khulová, Ester Luteran, Anna
Marková, Veronika Ostrihoňová, Henry Pryl, Barbora Rakovská, Hamid Sabbahi, Blanka
Stichová, Daniela Stričková, Lydia Siska, Ľubomíra Štefaniaková, Mick Vezník, Elvira Vida,
Laura Wagner, Nicole Zahour, Adriana Zimová
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15. +421 Foundation USA Nadácia +421
P.O.Box 4114 Slávičie údolie 102/B
New York, NY 10163 81102 Bratislava, Slovakia
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16. BANK:
Tatra banka a.s.
Hodžovo námestie 3
811 06 Bratislava 1, Slovakia
Bank Account Number:
26 25 10 6349/1100
___________________
IBAN - SK87 1100 0000 0026 25 10 6349
SWIFT A BIC - TATR SK BX
ID Number: 30803314
DIČ: 2022181689
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