His murals can be seen all over St. John's and his name in credits of local film and TV projects.
If you don't know his name, you probably know his work.
Derek Holmes was the artist behind many of the public murals around downtown St. John's, and his name is in the credits of dozens of film and television projects over the last few decades.
Holmes, affectionately called "Dadeo," died at home on Feb. 3, surrounded by his family, after a six-year battle with cancer. He was 59.
"Derek's whole life was sports and art, but really, Derek's whole life was his family. His four children, Krissy, Tracy, Ciaran and Orla, and his lovely wife Fionnuala," said Maggie Keiley, a friend and casting director who worked with Holmes over the years.
"He was always No. 1 with his family. There was nothing you could — if the kids had something, that was his priority, and it was amazing to watch him. He was an amazing dad."
That's something that sticks out to Dave Sorensen, too, who was friends with Holmes for more than 40 years.
"I know when Derek had his first two kids he was just a lad. He must have been 20 years old when Krissy was born, so when we grew up, by the time he was in his 40s, his children were raised and they were on their own," Sorensen said.
"He just was never happier than when he was with his kids. It was just an amazing part of who he was. It never ceased to amaze me. Just a beautiful human being."
Take a listen as five friends share memories of Derek Holmes with Fred Hutton, who hosts the St. John's Morning Show with Krissy Holmes.
Sorensen said they'd played hockey together for years, and Holmes was definitely a super-competitive person who loved to win.
"Actually he was fierce about it. But off the ice he was the complete opposite — he was completely laissez-faire, live and let live. He didn't ever wanna push people aside to get ahead, he was definitely a great friend and teammate," Sorensen told CBC's St. John's Morning Show.
"Off the ice, after a skate, we'd spend hours sometimes just sitting in the rink and having a beer and chatting about life and those are the moments that I'll treasure for the rest of my life."
That competitive drive stands out, too, to his friend Terry Stone, who was part of what the group of friends called "da hockey b'ys."
"Derek was an amazing athlete and he also had that competitive drive. He hated to lose. So if you were playing baseball or hockey, it doesn't matter, because of his great skill he would always be chosen No. 1, as a first pick," said Stone.
"Back in the day Derek was such a good hockey player that if he had the right coaching he probably would have made the NHL."
Holmes was competitive, but would always take time to help others, too, said Peter Blackie, who met him about 10 years ago working on Republic of Doyle.
"I was just starting playing hockey and he managed to balance this incredible generosity and was a natural coach, so he was often giving me tips and pointers. But then on the ice," Blackie said with a laugh, "there was no mercy.
"So it was great when I was on his team and it was really hard work when I was not."
While the nature of public art means some of the mural made by Holmes are no longer — since the buildings they were on have been torn down — his art is still everywhere.
"He has left a huge legacy," said Coun. Sheilagh O'Leary.
"It just leaves a beautiful feeling of the history of this place and a part of him. He's gonna be sorely missed, there's no doubt about it, but there's no doubt that he made a mark in this city."
Visitation open to the public was scheduled at Caul's Funeral Home on Lemarchant Road in St. John's, from 12 until 9 p.m. A celebration of life is Friday, Feb. 8, at the Wonderbolt Space on Harbour Drive after 7 p.m.


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30/30- a US Latina/o theatre/NoPassport reading scheme
Do you believe in US Latin@ theatre? Then join in for 30/30
NoPassport theatre alliance and press
in collaboration with Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director, The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)
invites you to collaborate on a national/international reading scheme we are calling 30/30 - a celebration of US Latino theatre!
THEATRES WHO ARE ALREADY PART OF THE SCHEME:
February 9th: DNAWORKS in Santa Fe, New Mexico reads CASCARONES at Teatro Paraguas Directed by Daniel Banks.
March 1st: Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX reads STRANGER by Martin Zimmerman; Directed by Frida Espinosa-Müller
March 2nd: Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX reads DARK MATTERS by Oliver Mayer; Directed by directed by Matthew Tomlanovich (Collaboration with Voicegeek Dallas directed by Matthew Tomlanovich)
March 11th: Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX reads ARCHIPELAGO by Caridad Svich. Directed by Stephanie Cleghorn-Jasso and Brad Hennigan.
March 16th: Teatro Vista in Chicago, IL reads AT WATER'S EDGE by Elaine Avila; Directed by Kay Martinovich at Vagabond School of the Arts at 7:00pm
March 19th: Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX reads OFELIA'S LOVERS by Mariana Carreno King; Directed by Priscilla Rice; TINY PEOPLE OR IT GETS BETTER by christopher oscar pena; Directed by Ryan Matthieu Smith
March 19th: Flux Theatre Ensemble in NYC reads UNDONE by Andrea Thome; Directed by Heather Cohn at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
March 21st: Teatro Vista in Chicago, IL reads COWL GIRL by Anna Capunay; Directed by Carlos Garcia at Vagabond School if the Arts at 7:00pm
March 21st: eSe Teatro in Seattle, WA reads ARCHIPELAGO by Caridad Svich directed by Rose Cano at A Contemporary Theatre at 7:30 PM.
March 22nd: Plays and Players, Power Street Theatre, Directors Gathering and Philadelphia New Play Initiative and Tamanya Garza in Philadelphia read 30 plays in one day. Initiated by Daniel Student of Plays and Players. Panel at 5 PM, reading at 7 PM. Opening remarks by Quiara Hudes delivered by Gabriela Sanchez.
March 23rd: Teatro Vista in Chicago, IL reads DARK MATTERS by Oliver Mayer; Directed by Lavina Jadhwani at Black Rock at 7:00pm
March 24th : Pregones in NYC reads EL NOGLAR by Tanya Saracho at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
March 24th: UCLA @ LATC reads AMERICAN TRIAGE by Marisela Orta at LATC at 7 PM. Directed by J. Ed Araiza.
March 27th: Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX reads PROFIT by Tatiana Suarez-Pico; Directed by Meg Hargis
March 28th: Teatro Vista in Collaboration with Collaboraction in Chicago, IL reads ASHES OF LIGHT by Marco Antonio Rodriguez; Directed by Jo Cattell at Vagabond School of the Arts at 7:30pm
March 28th: Dramatic Question Theatre reads PROVENANCE by Anne Garcia-Romero. At ART/NY, 520 8th Avenue at 8 PM.
March 30th: Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX reads TIENE DUENDE by Cecilia Copeland; Directed by Vanessa Mercado Taylor and Karen Robinson
March 31st: Cara Mia in Dallas, TX reads TIENE DUENDE by Cecila Copeland; Directed by Vanessa Mercado Taylor and Karen Robinson
March 31st: Pregones in NYC reads BETWEEN YOU, ME, AND THE LAMP SHADE By Raul Castillo at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
April 4th: Teatro Vista in Chicago, IL reads LEARN TO BE LATINA by Enrique Urueta; Directed by Juan F. Villa at Vagabond School of the Arts at 7:30pm
April 5th: Halcyon Theatre in Chicago, IL read ESTRELLA CRUZ by Charise Castro Smith; Directed by Noe Jara; AMERICAN TRIAGE by Marisela Trevino Orta ; Directed by Robert Salazar; at Halcyon Theatre at Christ Lutheran Church (times TBA)
April 5th: Cornish College of the Arts Theatre Dept in Seattle, WA reads EL NOGALAR by Tanya Saracho. Directed by Nikki Mejia and Xochitl Portillo Moody
April 6th: Sankofa Theatre in collaboration with Teatro Vista reads ARCHIPELAGO by Caridad Svich starring Eliza Shin and Juan Villa; Directed by Kristen Johnson at Angel Island at 7pm
(postponed) April 7th: Teatro Vista in Chicago, IL reads TINY PEOPLE OR, IT GETS BETTER by christopher oscar peña, Directed by Susan Bowen. at 7:30pm (location TBA)
April 7th: Pregones in NYC reads LA BELLA FAMILIA by Edwin Sanchez at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
April 15th: Banned Plays Public Reading Series reads EL NOGALAR by Tanya Saracho at Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Arizona directed by Nuvia Enriquez.
April 16: Washington Ensemble Theatre in Seattle, WA reads KING WITHOUT A CASTLE by Candido Tirado
April 21st: Pregones reads TWO ROBERTS by Migdalia Cruz at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater at 7 PM
April 24th: Teatro Luna in Chicago reads BETWEEN YOU, ME AND THELAMPSHADE by Raul Castillo at Instituo Cervantes, 31 West Ohio at 7:30 PM. Directed by Maggie Bofill (LAByrinth).
April 28th: UrbanTheater Company reads MISS QUINCE by Cynthia DeCure at UrbanTheater Company in Chicago, 2628 West Division Street at 7:00 PM. Directed by Marilyn Camacho.
April 30: Teatro Vista reads STRANGER by Martin Zimmerman, dir. by Lauri Dahl (Teatro Vista) at Black Rock, 3614 N. Damen, 60618 at 7:30 PM
May 1: Teatro Vista reads EARTHQUAKE WEATHER by Michael John Garcés, dir. by Joanie Schultz at Vagabond School of the Arts, 4001 N Ravenswood, #504, 60613 @8pm
May 2nd: Dramatic Question Theatre in NYC reads MISS QUINCE by Cynthia DeCure at Art/NY, 520 8th Ave at 8 PM.
May 4th: Dramatic Question Theatre in NYC reads WETBACK by Elaine Romero at ART/NY, 520 8th Avenue at 8 PM.
May 10th: University of Washington/Hansberry Project reads LEARN TO BE LATINA by Enrique Urueta at Penthouse Theatre at UW-Seattle directed by Val Curtis Newton at 7:30 PM
30/30 Series in Philadelphia: To Catch the Lightning by Carmen Rivera, June 9.
El Nogalar by Tanya Saracho, June 16.
Dark Matters by Oliver Mayer, June 17.
[Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place] June 9-17, 2014; playsandplayers.org.
June 27th: LATEA reads FAKE by Carmen Pelaez at LATEA in NYC. dir. Natalia Miranda Guzman at 7:30 PM
June 28th: Hartbeat Ensemble reads PICK UP POTS! By Ed Cardona Jr. at Hartbeat Ensemble Theatre in Hartford, CT dir. TBA, time TBA
More venues/plays/dates TBA... stay tuned.
30/30 is a gathering of 30+ NoPassport playwrights and theatre-makers who also happen to be US Latina/o artists. The playwrights (and plays) on board, as of this writing, for 30/30 are (cast breakdown and selected brief synopses below). Scripts available upon request by emailing 30playsin30days@gmail.com
Mando Alvarado - BASILICA
Full-length. 3M, 3W. In South Texas, two things loom large, The Catholic Church and Texas Pride... and Joe Garza - a strong, hard working man - embodies one more than the other. But when he learns that Gilbert Gonzalez has returned as the new pastor at the Basilica, Joe's confronted with the choices he made in life and questions the past the only way he knows how -- anger, pride and a biting tongue.
Elaine Avila - AT WATER'S EDGE
Full Length, 2 women (1 Japanese-Canadian, 1 open ethnicity), 1 man (Portuguese American). Setting: Vancouver, BC, Canada
When Paulo's start up business suddenly does well, Alice is able to hire Cecilia, a visionary architect, to design them a house they hope will bypass the pain of their legacies. Ghosts awake, forcing them to examine their core values around love, making a home, and their future.
Recipient, Alden B. Dow Fellowship; Semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award
Anna Capunay - COWL GIRL
Full-length. 1F, 2M. Cowl Girl is a shut-in living with her cat. Her life consists of Pee-wee Herman, the music of Prince, and 80s cartoons. Her only friend is the doorman in her building. Oh, and she wears a Batman cowl, all day, every day. Will a new man in her life "unmask" the Cowl Girl and show her what the outside world has to offer? Cowl Girl is a new romantic comedy for the geek and cosplay crowd.
Ed Cardona Jr - PICK UP POTS.
Full-length. 1F, 5M. PICK UP POTS exposes a hidden world behind the swinging kitchen doors of an upscale Connecticut restaurant. When its drunk and distraught owner shows up unexpectedly in the wee hours after closing, the dishwashers and porters she employs must each navigate his way through a social minefield, and emerge with his dignity and job intact.
Mariana Carre~no King - OFELIA'S LOVERS
Full-length, 4M/2F. Ofelia's Lovers is an exploration of the universe of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms, through the eyes of Ofelia Queiroz, Pessoa's only love interest. In the play, after Pessoa's death, Ofelia lures three of his most prolific heteronyms into her world, pushing the boundaries of who or what is real.
Raul Castillo -BETWEEN YOU, ME AND THE LAMPSHADE
Full-length. 3W, 3M. The lives of a single mother and her teenage son are turned upside down when a desperate and wounded undocumented immigrant breaks into their trailer home in rural South Texas.
Charise Castro Smith- ESTRELLA CRUZ THE JUNKYARD QUEEN
Full-length, 5 actors. A play about a mother and daughter. Also featuring: helpful tips on what to do if you get knocked up by the lord of the underworld and it turns out he's a little meh about the whole thing. Also about having Bette Davis as your imaginary best friend, a spunky heroine, some sex and loads of glamour.
Cecilia Copeland - TIENE DUENDE (IT HAS SOUL)
Full-length. 4 Women (one woman only sings, but for a reading she can be read by a stage manager as she will only have stage directions if there is no one to sing.) 3 Men (two who can play guitar, but for a reading the guitar can described and read by stage manager if needed.).
Maria dreams of dancing Flamenco in Spain, but "Puro" Flamenco needs more than technique... it wants blood. In order to overcome her outsider status and be taken seriously as an artist it's up to Maria to prove herself onstage, but to do that she has to be willing to wrestle with the Duende, heartbreak, love, compromise, and her own ghosts. Only then can she learn what it is to have soul.
Fernanda Coppel - NO HOMO
Full-length: 4W. Isabel and Rosie are expecting their first child together but a homophobic act of violence makes Isabel revisit and obsess about the not-so distant past.
Migdalia Cruz - TWO ROBERTS - a pirate-blues project
Full-length, 5 M, 3 W. On a deserted island, that lies Betwixt and Between, at a spiritual crossroads, filled with abandoned jook joints, and lost pirated treasures, a 19th C. Puerto Rican pirate & a Delta Blues master, battle for their souls and learn to let go.
Cynthia DeCure - MISS QUINCE
One-Act . 5 Women. Soledad Jenkins, an Americanized Puerto Rican woman walks into a quinceañera dress shop on her 45th birthday demanding to have the rite of passage she did not have as a teen. The women who work in the shop believe this woman must be crazy, but because the business is struggling financially, they agree to help her, even selling the dress meant for the shop owner's own fourteen-year old daughter. Throughout the course of the play, each of the women take center-stage and, standing on a dress pedestal, magically recall moments from their own quinceañeras, helping the shop women understand why Soledad needs to reconnect with her roots via this ritual. When the shop owner's teen returns to find that her dress was sold to this wealthy woman, Soledad is forced to reveal the real reason she now wants a quinceañera. This is a play about identity, transformation and forgiveness.
Amparo Garcia-Crow - THE BONOBOS
4W, 2M. A cyber bedroom farce. When seventeen year old Tiffany uses her father's computer one day to post an update on her instructional website for teens, the FBI arrests and charges him with child pornography, forcing the household to discover the 'missing link' that binds them all.
Anne Garcia-Romero - PROVENANCE
Full-length. When two sisters receive a stolen painting created by their Mexican great-grandfather, the women clash over whether to keep or sell the valuable artwork.
Michael John Garces - EARTHQUAKE WEATHER
5F, 6M. Things fall apart and the world begins. A changeling story.
Rogelio Martinez- FIZZ
Full-length. 4M, 3W. In 1985 the world changed...for a moment. The Coca-Cola Company decided to create a new soft drink. It would be called New Coke and it would take the world by storm. Well it did. But the storm that followed was not the one Coke executives expected. The drink went on sale and Americans staged a revolution. At the center of all the madness was a Cuban immigrant responsible for the new product. Roberto Goizueta, the mastermind behind Diet Coke, created New Coke and faced the greatest challenge of his life. FIZZ is a comedy about one of history's biggest flops, what happens when you tamper with perfection, and the difficult path one immigrant travels in his journey to understand the American mind.
Oliver Mayer - DARK MATTERS
Full-length. 2m, 1w. When two top-level particle physicists happen down the same area of inquiry involving SUSY (supersymmetry), sparks fly. Careers on the line, both men play hardball to win; but when their romantic happiness is threatened, the whole question of string theory finds itself on the chopping block. A comedy that connects supersymmetry to the harmonies of back-up singing and the songs of Donna Summer and Leonard Cohen.
Irma Mayorga - CASCARONES
Full-length. 3 Latino men (ages 18-late 50s), 1 white male (35), 3 Latina women (ages 18-late 40s). The West Side of San Antonio, TX; the "mexican" side. The year is 1992 or is it 1535? Or 1869? Eighteen year old Mary Margaret falls into history itself as she attempts to solve the dislocation, the economic struggles, and the intimate battlegrounds of her familia's Texas Mexican lives.
Michael Mejias - GHETTO BABYLON
Full length. 5 M, 1 F. 1982. The West Farms Housing Projects. The South Bronx. CHARLIE ROSA, along with his cousin FELIX, and their krazy-ass best friend SPEC "THE SPECTACULAR" SANCHEZ, is having the little league summer of his life. August is filled with victory celebrations of pizza and grape Kool-Aid. It's, as they say in the Boogedy, All Good. Then, there's a girl. Because when you're fourteen, there is always a girl. Her name is SARAFINA. Anywho, she brings Charlie a letter that was accidentally put in her mailbox. It's an acceptance letter to the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. HOORAY! Right? Nope, not really. Going to Exeter means a lot of things. A lot. Like maybe not playing on Championship Sunday, for starters. But also there's leaving the Bronx, his family, his friends, and even his cat, El Presidente. With no one around he feels will understand, Charlie unwittingly conjures relief in the form of THECATCHER, a mysterious boy in a red deer-hunter's cap, who just might be the main-character from his favorite novel. Together, they have to figure out if there's a way for Charlie to move forward without leaving it all behind.
Julian Mesri - PROGRESS
Full-length. 1W, 3M or 2W, 3M. Leonardo has grown up his whole life in the United States, but lives haunted by the Argentine dictatorship and a history that never seems to have closed itself up. But when he runs into one of these released Argentine generals in New York City, everything changes. Leonardo's revenge takes an unexpected turn when his two American friends - Roderick, a playwright, and Madeline, his photographer girlfriend, lead him towards the unimaginable. A biting comedic satire about revenge and remorse, love and country, Henry Kissinger, and the inexplicably grotesque consequences of brunch.
Alejandro Morales- ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY
4F (3 Latina; 1 non); 4M (1 Latino; 3 non). Spanning the Cuban Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall, On Rachmaninoff's Birthday tells the story of a half-Cuban, half-Russian musical family's longings surviving under two revolutionary regimes that has no room for their longing, passions ... and secrets. Shortlist for the 2013 McNally Award, Philadelphia Theater Company.
Carlos Murillo - YOUR NAME WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME.
Full-length. 5M,3 W. Young, reclusive novelist Danny Santiago came out of nowhere and took the literary world by storm. His novel was a gritty authentic depcition of Chicano life in East LA told through the eyes of a troubled teenager. But is it authentic? This play takes us on a wild odyssey to the darkest heart of these questions where Charlie Chaplin, aristocratic ex-Stalinists, the black list, 50s B-Monster Movies, East LA gangbangers, serial plagiarists and forgers, fake Latinos, and Jesse James intermingle?
Matthew Paul Olmos - I PUT THE FEAR OF MEXICO IN 'EM
Full-length. 3W, 3M. When two parents from Southern California cross the border into Tijuana, they stumble off the beaten path and are accosted by two Mexican parents in an alley only to find that their meeting was inevitable. An examination of what we do for our children and the borders that keep us apart.
Marisela Trevi~no Orta - AMERICAN TRIAGE
Full-length. 3W, 1M. Teens Lalo and Fatima struggle to keep their family and faith in tact when their parents are deported after immigration raids sweep through their city. But when Lalo turns to his guardian angel for help he sets into motion events that threaten to further fracture his family.
Carmen Pelaez - FAKE
Full-length. 2 W (30s, 60s), 3M (50s-60s) Camila has just been promoted to the head of the Latin American Art Department at a major NYC auction house when she is presented with one of her great Aunt Amelia's paintings as a last minute inclusion for auction. The authenticity of the painting is questionable, Camila's dedication to her great Aunt is not, forcing Camila to decide between her own burgeoning career and Amelia's legacy.
Christopher Oscar Pe~na - TINY PEOPLE, OR IT GETS BETTER
Full-length. 4M (3 white, 1 Latino), 2 W (white). Tiny People is a provocative and poetic remix of Chekhov's Three Sisters, focusing on a family living in Barstow, California—and longing to reclaim their former life in San Francisco. Transposing Chekhov's story to the mid-1990s, this thoughtful drama adroitly probes class, ethnic, and sexual-identity boundaries in turn-of-the-21st-century America.
Tatiana Suarez-Pico - PROFIT
Full-length. 1 F (Latina), 2 M (one Latino, one open ethnicity). In Chicago, Ana and Ben have maintained their bar & restaurant, "The Midnight Orchid," afloat since their parents died in a tragic accident four years ago. However, Ana has been lying to her younger brother Ben about the stability of their finances and soon enough the lies come crashing down as the bank proceeds on a motion to foreclose them. Ana has decided that she will fight to keep her parents legacy but all the odds are against her, especially in a country undergoing a mortgage crisis. How far will Ana go to keep her home?
Carmen Rivera - TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING
Full-length. 2M, 2W. Antonio desperately wants to create the perfect family. He already has a daughter (found in a garbage can) and a son (a homeless boy, he brought home). All he needs is a mother for his children.
Marco Antonio Rodriguez - ASHES OF LIGHT
Full-length. Two acts. 3F/1M. Over the course of two evenings mother and son, two estranged generations of Dominicans living in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, attempt to rekindle the love and appreciation for each other and their roots; but unexpectedly revealed intimate and taboo secrets threaten to destroy an already thin bond.
Elaine Romero - WETBACK
Full-length. 3W, 4M. The Minuteman Militia hold political rallies in the park, heightening the tension on the U.S./Mexican border. Wetback charts the intertwined fates of a privileged Latina high school principal, a Chicana activist journalist, and a Mexican undocumented worker. As the irrevocable consequences of the actions of the two women spin out of control, they find themselves grappling with their relationship to their cultural heritage for very different reasons.
Edwin Sanchez- LA BELLA FAMILIA
Full-length. 3 W, 3 M Bella, a reluctant hit woman living in a world of violence, meets Benny, the gentlest man in the world. Together they try to raise her
son, Joey while they deal with their crazy, needy and desperate next door neighbors.
Juan C. Sanchez- PROPERTY LINE
PROPERTY LINE by Juan C. Sanchez: (2W, 3M). When a property line survey reveals a land division error, two women, one fueled by territorial instinct and the other by grief after a recent tragedy, start a war over the placement of the fence that separates their houses.
Tanya Saracho - EL NOGALAR
Full-length. Set amid the explosive drug wars in present-day Northern Mexico, El Nogalar is the story of the Galván family's struggle to hold on to their homestead—and their precarious social status—before it slips away. The play shadows the family's housekeeper, Dunia, as she watches the family matriarch Maite and her daughters squander their money and risk losing everything to a local drug cartel. Despite warnings from friends and family, Maite ignores her dwindling fortune as stubbornly as she ignores the sinister capos simmering at her doorstep. This topical story explores the choice between adapting to the changing world—or getting left behind.
Caridad Svich - ARCHIPELAGO
Full-length. 2 actors (any gender, 20s-40s). A love story til the end of time. A play on memory and a memory play, a dream of life. Two lovers meets across the universe and wonder what happened to this world we call home.
Candido Tirado- KING WITHOUT A CASTLE
Full-length. 2W, 1 M. King Without a Castle is a black comedy. Isabel thinks she has giving birth to her husband. She's waiting for her son/husband Danny to turn twenty two years old in order to continue her life with husband. Danny copes with this forced identity by playing chess where he kills his father whenever he wins. He offers marriage to Soledad, who was about to jump off a bridge when he came upon her, and uses her as shield to keep Isabel away from him. These three characters fight for their own survival in this winner take all deadly situation they find themselves in.
Andrea Thome - UNDONE
Full-length. 3M. 3W. Loosely inspired by the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, Undone takes place in a city neighborhood troubled by dread and violence, filled with characters on the brink of transformation who must undo their tightly wound lives in order to move forward. Valentina is a teenage girl caught in a conflictive relationship with her mother Odile, a refugee with a hidden history who supports the whole neighborhood but cannot do the same for her daugher. An act of violence unearths the buried stories inside the characters' hearts and bursts open their relationships, forcing Valentina and Odile to reveal themselves to each other. Only then can the whole neighborhood begin to heal.
Enrique Urueta - LEARN TO BE LATINA
Full-length. 4W, 2M. Hanan is a promising young pop singer, and she has a record label dying to record her...until they find out she's Lebanese. Not to worry, they say: Hanan can still be a star—as long as she learns to be Latina! A comedy about becoming what you're not to find out who you are.
Martin Zimmerman - STRANGER
Full-length. 2W, 1M. The aftermath of a brutal dictatorship. Margot hires a homeless stranger to tell a lie. To tell a mother her son (abducted by the dictatorship and given to another family) is now dead. But when the stranger comes face to face with the mother, he can't bring himself to tell the lie, and the mother's convinced he can help find her son. The mother insists the stranger live with her while they search. But what will Margot do when she finds out the stranger hasn't kept his word?
More Writers and Plays to be announced soon. Please check this page for news!
THE PLAYS:
Each playwright has selected 1 play from their body of work to make part of this scheme. Next to each writer's name is the play they have selected. if a play is not listed next to an author's name, please stay tuned. We are in the process of making decisions!.
About the plays: Some are brand new plays. Others are from the author's hidden back catalogue. Others are representative pieces. Some are two handers, others are multi-character pieces. The range is vast and wide, as rich as US Latino theatre writing itself.
Scripts are available upon request by emailing NoPassport at 30playsin30days@gmail.com
GUIDELINES for 30/30:
So, how does 30/30 work? Simple.
a) stage 30 play readings of writers' works above on 30 consecutive nights at one venue
b) stage different play readings (of plays above) at 30 different venues across your city or region. Be creative. Partner up with galleries, coffehouses, college troupes, bands of actors, venues of different shapes, sizes, venues, and even outdoors!
c) stage 30 play readings in partnership with local and national venues - adding up to 30 days (in other words, doesn't have to happen all in one month!)
d) or any combination of the above - or chat with us about other ways you are thinking of making this happen! we want the conversation about the depth and range of vision in American playwriting to be at the forefront of this reading scheme. US Latina/o theatre is a vibrant and electic body of American drama. Let's celebrate it. And if you don't know that much about it or only a sliver, then this is a chance to be introduced to what is only (historically) a portion of the vast contemporary and modern work available.
HOW TO PLAN a 30/30 STAGED READING ACTION:
Between November 2013 and June 2014, NoPassport invites you to take part in 30/30- a celebration of US Latino theatre!
So, pick a venue. Pick a date or multiple dates/times. Select which plays (from list above) you wish to stage readings of script in hand. Let us know at 30playsin30days@gmail.com what you wish to do. We will put you in touch with the writers, and try to make the process flow smoothly.
Reach out to partners in your city/region or across the country. Maybe you want to do reading of one play and a partner wants to do reading of another. Coordinate! Talk to each other!
Keep us at NoPassport in the loop.
If your venue is not available until after March 2014, then please reach out to us. Maybe we can work something out!
WHAT WE ASK:
Each reading must be script in hand. Author must be notifed exactly about when and where reading is/will be taking place. We encourage dialogue, so do reach out! The whole point is to generate conversation and get artists to meet each other across the US and abroad! Through the work!
We trust you with the work. Respect author's wishes and their generosity with this scheme. We will do the same. As a saying goes, it ain't solidarity for nothing!
WHAT NoPASSPORT ASKS:
List your event as a collaboration with NoPassport theatre alliance and press. Please. We will list you on this page and keep our blog alive with news about the readings.
Use our 30/30 graphic for your publicity. Jpeg available upon request.
NoPassport can send you/collaborate with you on a sample press release when you have your reading consortium at the ready,
We are an unincorporated theatre alliance of artists. We have no funding body or infrastructure. This is grass roots. Our fiscal sponsor is Fractured Atlas. if you wish to donate something to keep NoPassport alive, then do so at http://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/2623
NoPassport Press publishes all or many of the authors above through our print on demand imprint. So, buy one of our books. Check out our titles. Maybe coordinate one of your readings hands across the water style with a local bookshop and set up an author's signing event!
30/30 in ACTION:
First 30/30 reading is of IMA MAYORGA's CASACARONES on November 24, 2013:
Teatro Paraguas Presents
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Cascarones takes place in San Antonio, Texas, as teenager Mary-Margaret Caceres, who works for the transit authority giving people bus route directions, attempts to understand the mapping of her community and city. As she navigates the daily challenges her working class family faces, in a dreamlike state she encounters John Wesley Powell, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and the other men whose actions in the past influence her present.
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New York Governor Signs Law Prohibiting Hairstyle Discrimination
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation amending state law to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on hair texture or protective hairstyles as race-based discrimination. The new law took effect immediately upon signing in July 2019. What do New York employers need to know about this new law?
The Basics: The New Law
The legislation amends the definition of race under the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) to include "traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles," including braids, locks, and twists.
The law piggybacks off guidance issued by the New York City Commission on Human Rights in February 2019, which advised that workplace grooming or appearance policies that ban, limit, or restrict natural hair or hairstyles associated with Black people violate the New York City Human Rights Law, the City's anti-discrimination laws.
What Do Employers Need To Know?
The new law does not mean that you cannot have grooming policies in the workplace. However, the grooming rules must not directly target hairstyles traditionally associated with persons of color or have a disparate impact on certain races. Your grooming policies should have a valid, non-discriminatory basis and be uniformly applied to all employees.
Employers in New York should review their handbooks and any other policies related to employee grooming to ensure they do not conflict with the new law. Grooming standards should be neutral, applied uniformly and must not result in a disparate impact.
Employers outside of New York should pay attention to this development as well. California passed a similar measure a few days before New York, and no doubt other states and local jurisdictions will seek to mirror these efforts and introduce similar workplace restrictions.
We will continue to monitor further developments and provide updates on this issue and other labor and employment issues affecting New York employers, so make sure you are subscribed to Fisher Phillips' alert system to gather the most up-to-date information. If you have questions, please contact your Fisher Phillips attorney, or any attorney in our New York City office.
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The Sociology of Social Inequality
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By Ashley Crossman
Social inequality results from a society organized by hierarchies of class, race, and gender that unequally distributes access to resources and rights.
It can manifest in a variety of ways, like income and wealth inequality, unequal access to education and cultural resources, and differential treatment by the police and judicial system, among others. Social inequality goes hand in hand with social stratification.
Social inequality is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. It contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments.
Racism, for example, is understood to be a phenomenon whereby access to rights and resources is unfairly distributed across racial lines. In the context of the United States, people of color typically experience racism, which benefits white people by conferring on them white privilege, which allows them greater access to rights and resources than other Americans.
There are two main ways to measure social inequality:
Inequality of conditions
Inequality of opportunities
Inequality of conditions refers to the unequal distribution of income, wealth, and material goods. Housing, for example, is inequality of conditions with the homeless and those living in housing projects sitting at the bottom of the hierarchy while those living in multi-million dollar mansions sit at the top.
Another example is at the level of whole communities, where some are poor, unstable, and plagued by violence, while others are invested in by businesses and government so that they thrive and provide safe, secure, and happy conditions for their inhabitants.
Inequality of opportunities refers to the unequal distribution of life chances across individuals. This is reflected in measures such as level of education, health status, and treatment by the criminal justice system.
For example, studies have shown that college and university professors are more likely to ignore emails from women and people of color than they are to ignore those from white men, which privileges the educational outcomes of white men by channeling a biased amount of mentoring and educational resources to them.
Discrimination of an individual, community, and institutional levels is a major part of the process of reproducing social inequalities of race, class, gender, and sexuality. For example, women are systematically paid less than men for doing the same work.
2 Main Theories
There are two main views of social inequality within sociology. One view aligns with the functionalist theory, and the other aligns with conflict theory.
Functionalist theorists believe that inequality is inevitable and desirable and plays an important function in society. Important positions in society require more training and thus should receive more rewards. Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability.
Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups. They believe that social inequality prevents and hinders societal progress as those in power repress the powerless people to maintain the status quo. In today's world, this work of domination is achieved primarily through the power of ideology, our thoughts, values, beliefs, worldviews, norms, and expectations, through a process known as cultural hegemony.
How It's Studied
Sociologically, social inequality can be studied as a social problem that encompasses three dimensions: structural conditions, ideological supports, and social reforms.
Structural conditions include things that can be objectively measured and that contribute to social inequality. Sociologists study how things like educational attainment, wealth, poverty, occupations, and power lead to social inequality between individuals and groups of people.
Ideological supports include ideas and assumptions that support the social inequality present in a society. Sociologists examine how things such as formal laws, public policies, and dominant values both lead to social inequality, and help sustain it. For example, consider this discussion of the role that words and the ideas attached to them play in this process.
Social reforms are things such as organized resistance, protest groups, and social movements. Sociologists study how these social reforms help shape or change social inequality that exists in a society, as well as their origins, impact, and long-term effects.
Today, social media plays a large role in social reform campaigns and was harnessed in 2014 by British actress Emma Watson, on behalf of the United Nations, to launch a campaign for gender equality called #HeForShe.
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Milkman, Katherine L., et al. "What Happens before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations." Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 100, no. 6, 2015, pp. 1678–1712., 2015, doi:10.1037/apl0000022
"Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2017." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Aug. 2018.
Crossman, Ashley. "The Sociology of Social Inequality." ThoughtCo, Feb. 16, 2021, thoughtco.com/sociology-of-social-inequality-3026287. Crossman, Ashley. (2021, February 16). The Sociology of Social Inequality. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/sociology-of-social-inequality-3026287 Crossman, Ashley. "The Sociology of Social Inequality." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/sociology-of-social-inequality-3026287 (accessed January 27, 2023).
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What You Need to Know About Economic Inequality
Civil Society: Definition and Theory
Equity vs. Equality: What Is the Difference?
Socialism vs. Capitalism: What Is the Difference?
The Sociology of Education
Visualizing Social Stratification in the U.S.
How Expectation States Theory Explains Social Inequality
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CREATe academic appointed to Irish government advisory panel
Posted on October 30, 2015 by Andrew
Dr Daithi Mac Sithigh of Newcastle University
CREATe investigator Dr Daithi Mac Sithigh, from Newcastle Law School, has been appointed by the Irish Government as a member of its Open Data Governance Board.
The board was set up earlier this month to provide a strategic vision and leadership for Ireland's Open Data Initiative.
Open data is data that can be freely used, modified and shared by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. It is about making data held by public bodies available and easily accessible online for reuse and redistribution. As public bodies have progressed in areas like eGovernment and data analytics, the potential of data and, in particular, open data to help deliver economic, social and democratic benefits has become clear.
Daithi will work with other members of the Board to provide advice on international best practice in the area of open data, to help improve the capability of public bodies in Ireland in implementing open data, and to consider opportunities to maximise the value of public sector data and information for long-term economic, social and democratic benefits.
Daithi said: "I am delighted to be a member of this new Board. The Government's decision to set up this interdisciplinary group demonstrates a commitment to robust governance in this exciting and promising area. In working in the CREATe research centre for copyright and new business models in the creative economy, and in my recent work on the UK Coalition government's approach to information technology law, I have seen how important this field is."
A full press release is available from Newcastle University's web site.


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Pokédex 3D è un videogioco per Nintendo 3DS. Disponibile gratuitamente presso il Nintendo eShop dal giugno 2011, l'applicazione è un Pokédex incentrato sui Pokémon di quinta generazione.

Durante il Nintendo Direct del 21 aprile 2011 è stato annunciato un seguito di Pokédex 3D dal titolo Pokédex 3D Pro. Il videogioco è disponibile in Giappone dal 14 luglio 2012 e presenta Pokémon non appartenenti alla regione di Unima.

Caratteristiche

Il gioco si presenta come un Pokédex che contiene le informazioni di 16 Pokémon della regione di Unima: Snivy, Servine, Serperior, Tepig, Pignite, Emboar, Oshawott, Dewott, Samurott, Audino, Scraggy, Minccino, Emolga, Foongus, Axew ed Hydreigon.

È possibile ampliare il Pokédex utilizzando SpotPass o mediante Data Matrix ed osservare i Pokémon in 3D tramite realtà aumentata.

Dei 156 Pokémon della quinta generazione ne sono presenti 153. Assenti sono i Pokémon leggendari Keldeo, Meloetta e Genesect.

Pokédex 3D Pro

In Pokédex 3D Pro sono presenti 727 differenti voci del Pokédex relative ai Pokémon appartenenti alle cinque generazioni. I Pokémon leggendari Meloetta e Genesect e le mosse Cantoantico e Tecnobotto sono disponibili inserendo i relativi codici.

Note

Voci correlate
 Pokédex

Collegamenti esterni

  Pokédex 3D da Bulbapedia
  Pokédex 3D da Serebii.net
  Pokédex 3D Pro da Serebii.net

Videogiochi spin-off di Pokémon

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Го́льґер Пе́дерсен (; , с. Гелбалле біля Кольдінга, Данія — , с. Хеллеруп біля Копенгагена, Данія) — данський мовознавець, що зробив значний внесок у розвиток історичної лінгвістики, автор близько 30 робіт, присвячених різним мовам. Автор ностратичної, греко-вірменської та низки інших гіпотез.

Біографія
Студіював у Копенгагенському університеті мовознавство разом з такими майбутніми науковцями, як Карл Фернер, Вільгельм Томсен та Герман Меллер. Також навчався у Лейпцизькому університеті разом з Карлом Бругманом, Едуардом Зіверсом, Ернсом Віндішем та Августом Лескіном. Восени 1897 року Педерсен провів семестр у Берлінському університеті, де познайомився з Йоганнесом Шмідтом. Наступного року разом з Генріхом Циммером займався вивченням кельтських мов у Грайфсвальдському університеті.

1893 року відвідав Керкіру разом з відомим індоєвропеїстом тих часів Карлом Бругманом для збору матеріалів з албанської мови. За матеріалами експедиції видав книгу албанських текстів, що стали важливим джерелом для лексикографії. 1895 року провів декілька місяців на Аранських островах, де вивчав місцевий розмовний варіант кельтської мови.

Здобув докторський ступінь 1896 року в Копенгагенському університеті, з 1903 року одержав посаду професора.

Зробив значний внесок у вивчення кельтських мов. Автор праці «Порівняльна граматика кельтських мов» (, ), який досі вважається одним з найважливіших праць з кельтологіі.

Його праця «Хетський та інші індоєвропейські мови» () значно просунув дослідження хеттської мови  — на нього неодноразово посилається Й. Фрідріх у своїй праці «Елементарний підручник хетського мови» (, 2 ed., 1960).

Чималий вплив мала також його праця «Тохарські мови з погляду порівняння індоєвропейських мов» (, ).

Педерсен сформулював закон «руки» — переходу  * s  > * š  (>  * x ) —   важливої звукової зміни в індоіранських, балтійських та слов'янських мовах.

Дві з теорій Педерсена отримали значний резонанс у світі лінгвістики — ностратична гіпотеза та глоттальна гіпотеза.

Ностратична гіпотеза

Педерсен першим використав термін «ностратична» в своїй статті з фонології турецької мови (1903). пізніше Педерсен визначав цей термін таким чином (1931:338) :

Для вичерпного визначення сімей мов, що перебувабть у близькій спорідненості з індоєвропейськими, ми можемо використовувати термін «ностратичні мови» (з , «наш земляк»)

З його точки зору, індоєвропейські мови найімовірніше були пов'язані генетичним зв'язком з фіно-угорськими та самодійськими. Педерсен також припускав "схожу, хоча менш явну подібність " між тюркськими, монгольськими та тунгусо-маньчжурськими мовами, з одного боку, та юкагірськими та ескімосько-алеутськими, з іншого (1931:338). Він також припускав, що індоєвропейські мови можуть бути пов'язані з семітськими, а через них — з «хамітськими» (термін нині застарів) і, ймовірно, з баскською мовою (там само). З погляду сучасної лінгвістики, а також антропології, лише останні зіставлення (з афразійськими та баскською) видаються сумнівними.

Педерсен також вважав, що крім перерахованих вище мов, до ностратичної макрородини можуть належати й інші.

Глоттальна теорія

У статті, опублікованій в 1951 році, Педерсен припустив, що частота вживання звуку  b  в праіндоєвропейській мові ненормально низька. Порівняння мов дозволило припустити, що колись це був еквівалентний глухий проривний  p , який рідко зустрічається або відсутній в багатьох мовах.

Педерсен також стверджував, що передбачувані індоєвропейські дзвінкі аспірати bh dh gh, очевидно, насправді були глухими аспіратами ph th kh.

Тож на цій основі Педерсен припустив, що три серії індоєвропейських проривних,p t k,bh dh gh і b d g, раніше виглядали як b d g,ph th kh і  (p) t k.

Його теорія не привертала до себе уваги до тих пір, поки Пол Гоппер (США, 1973) і два радянські мовознавці Гамкрелідзе Тамаз Валеріанович та Іванов В'ячеслав Всеволодович не запропонували в серії статей, а пізніше в фундаментальній праці Гамкрелідзе та Іванова  (1984, анг. переклад 1995), що індоєвропейська серія b d g спочатку була серією приголосних  p ' t ' k ' . Переформульована в такому вигляді, теорія викликала широкий інтерес.

Вибрані праці

 1903: «Türkische Lautgesetze», in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 57, 535–561.
 1909–1913: Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, 2 volumes. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
 * 1924: Sprogvidenskaben i det Nittende Aarhundrede. Metoder og Resulteter. København: Gyldendalske Boghandel.
 1931: Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century: Methods and Results, translated from the Danish by John Webster Spargo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. English translation of the previous.
 1938: Hittitisch und die anderen indoeuropäischen Sprachen. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser 25.2. København.
 1941: Tocharisch vom Gesichtspunkt der indoeuropäischen Sprachvergleichung. København: Ejnar Munksgaard. (Друге видання 1949.)
 1951: Die gemeinindoeuropäischen und die vorindoeuropäischen Verschlusslaute. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser 32.5. København.

Примітки

Література

 Johannes Friedrich,Hethitisches Elementarbuch, second edition, 2 volumes. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1960.
 Paul J. Hopper, «Glottalized and murmured occlusives in Indo-European.» Glossa 7,2 (1973) :141-166.
 Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and Vjačeslav V. Ivanov,Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans, 2 volumes. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995 (російськомовне видання — 1984).
 André Martinet, Economie des changements phonétiques. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005 (revised edition; original edition 1955).

Посилання

 Encyclopaedia Britannica article

Персоналії за алфавітом
Данські мовознавці
Індоєвропеїсти
Члени Шведської королівської академії наук
Члени Данської королівської академії наук
Уродженці Коллінга
Ректори Копенгагенського університету


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BIS has launched a consultation into regulations which could save businesses £206m a year. Who said the Government was all about red tape?
The change to existing regulations looks minor, but with the average audit costing a little under £10,000, businesses will save a lot if the new plans are approved. It's all a bit convoluted, but at the moment, to be classified as 'small' for accounting purposes, business must meet two of three criteria: 1) fewer than 50 employees, 2) no more than £3.26m on the balance sheet and/or 3) a turnover of less than £6.5m. However, to qualify for an audit exemption, it's got to be the latter two – ie. it must have a small(ish) balance sheet and a low(ish) turnover. Under the new rules, though, it wouldn't matter which two businesses comply with: so in effect, any company that qualifies as 'small' would be automatically exempt from audits.


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Mila Jovovich: Biography and career facts
Biography of Mila Jovovich
American actress with Ukrainian roots, model, and singer Mila Jovovich is best known as a zombie hunter in the Resident Evil series of films.
Early years and career
Mila Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975, in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine (the territory of the former Soviet Union). Her parents are Bogdan Jovovich, a doctor from Montenegro, and Galina Loginova Jovovich, a Russian actress, they moved with their whole family to Sacramento, California, when Jovovich was five years old. She attended the Excelsior School in Los Angeles.
Jovovich began her modeling career at a relatively young age. One of her earliest appearances was in an advertising company Revlon, which was shot by legendary photographer Richard Avedon. And at the age of 11, she first appeared on the cover of the fashionable Italian magazine Lei.
Soon after, Jovovich took up a movie career. She got her first major role when she was 15 years old in the movie Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). She also played small but memorable roles. For example, in the film "Chaplin" (1992), she is the young bride of Charlie Chaplin, and in the movie "Stoned and Confused" (1993), the actress transforms into a hippie guitarist.
Highlights of a career
After a short break in acting, Jovovich had a breakthrough after participating in the sci-fi film "The Fifth Element," directed by Luc Besson. Jovovich played along with Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman the role of Lilu - a girl with orange hair, born as a result of genetic engineering, she had supernatural powers and wore revealing clothes. Mila again worked with Besson in the historical drama "Joan of Arc" (1999), and also played other roles in films such as "His Game" (1998), directed by Spike Lee, in the thriller in the style of the hotel "Hotel" A Million Dollars" (2000), directed by Wim Wenders, and Ben Stiller's comedy "The Model Male" (2001).
Jovovich is the main character in the Resident Evil series of science fiction films based on the popular Japanese computer game. Its director was Paul William Scott Anderson. In the futuristic world, Resident Evil (2002), a virus leaked, which turned its victims into carnivorous monsters. Jovovich plays a military agent named Alice, and she is fighting a fierce war with zombies and the Umbrella Corporation. The struggle for the survival of her heroine goes on for four subsequent films released in 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2012.
Although the audience remembered Jovovich as the heroine of the militants, she also starred in dramatic films: "The Perfect Escape" (2009), "Stone" (2010).
Meanwhile, she continues her career as a model, being the advertising face of the global cosmetic brand L'Oreal since 1998, as well as working in several other major design studios, including Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, and Ann Taylor.
Jovovich, for a long time, combined her acting career and modeling career with different interests. As a singer and songwriter, she released her debut album, The Divine Comedy (Russian: Divine Comedy), when she was 18 years old, then continued to release her recordings on the Internet. From 2003 to 2008, she collaborated with Carmen Hawke to design the Jovovich-Hawk fashion line for women, which was well received in the fashion world. She is also an active member of several charitable groups, including the AIDS Research Foundation and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
Jovovich was married three times. Her first marriage was with actor Sean Andrews in 1992, which broke up just two months later. In 1997, she married director Luc Besson, but in 1999 the couple broke up. In 2009, Jovovich married Paul William Scott Andersen, director of the Resident Evil series. She and Andersen have one child, the daughter of Ewe Gabo Andersen.
In the movie, I have an approach like that of a businesswoman. I intend to act in more action films because, except for Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre anymore.


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UTI might be a woman's least favorite acronym. Half of all women will get one… and it could be getting worse. Doctors are finding it harder and harder to treat urinary tract infections with antibiotics. Here's what you can do to avoid the infection altogether.
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Self doubt is usually something we are taught to avoid, but as long as there are other people on this planet, our minds are going to naturally drift towards comparing ourselves to others. It's common to see someone successful and think about whether or not you could possibly get to their level. This is a very toxic mindset, and not redirecting those thoughts can be very limiting for achieving certain goals. I like to remind myself that there is enough success in this world to be passed around to everyone that strives for it. No one can limit you, period. Doing anything with bad intentions or jealousy isn't necessary. Whenever I begin doubting myself, I just think about my reason and what I actually want from an experience. I know I am most likely going to doubt myself here and there, but flipping around those moments to build myself is what I am going to continue doing. Sometimes there are certain qualities from someone that we envy, but instead of thinking you can never have those traits, see what you can do to grow off of that person. This thought process and many others, don't have to be feared, because there is always good to take from a situation.
Hope you're well and wishing you a wonderful week ahead!
Thanks so much for reading, Layla!
This is such a lovely read dear. This reminds me of the beautiful quote "doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will".
This was such a great read! Totally agree - never compare yourself with others! It truly is a thief of joy!


It is the job of all believers, not just theologians, to serve God by discerning what is true about the crucial issues of life. Our task is to learn more about God. Our privilege is to love God passionately with our minds. Clearly then, spiritual life must have theology as one of its ingredients, but this, by itself, will not guarantee a vibrant spiritual life. Rather, evangelicals must link a theological experience and an experiential theology. Knowing and loving God are both necessary.David Clark explains how evangelical systematic theology is structured and how this discipline assists believers in understanding God more fully and worshipping him more completely. To do so, he uses strategies of analytical philosophy to reveal the nature, purposes, methods, and limits of evangelical systematic theology. He attempts to speak both to and for evangelicals, with the goal of showing how a reasonable, articulate, and credible evangelical theology can proceed.Other questions are raised while trying to define evangelical systematic theology: Is systematic theology a legitimate intellectual enterprise? How does theology build upon the teachings of the Bible? How can evangelical theologians in different cultures assist each other? How does theology contribute to transforming society? What does the existence of other religions mean for evangelical theology? How does systematic theology relate to other intellectual disciplines? How does it connect with the life of the church? What are the purposes and the final goal of systematic theology? The answers to these questions are not ends in themselves, but assist believers in attaining the goal of knowing and loving God.Asserting that evangelical systematic theology is the science by which evangelical believers learn of God, Clark claims that the insights of apparently contradictory viewpoints can and should be drawn together. He works past the false dilemmas, imprecision, overstatement, inferences, and generalizations that often cloud theological discussion and arrives at clear definitions, precise distinctions, careful analysis, and modest conclusions.Clark argues that evangelical systematic theology is rooted in the Bible and focused on Christ. Good theology provides vision, fosters wisdom, and nurtures covenantal relationship with God. Good theology leads to knowing and loving God.


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Q: IRouteHandler not routing through RouteConfig I have a IRouteHander class which I use to resize images on the fly and add expire headers to them, Recently I moved to MVC5 and now updating my code. I tried to register the same route for that class in RouteConfig.cs
routes.Add(new Route("Image/{w}/{h}/{src}", new ThumbImageRouteHandler()));

but this route isn't working anymore like it was on MVC3 and giving 404 error in MVC5. Is there anything I am missing here? this route leads to
public class ThumbImageRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
         public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
            {
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                return httpHandler;
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                    get
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                        return false;
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                public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
                {
                //Do something
                }
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}

Please help me fixing this issue. Thanks

A: After research I found out that I need to add a line in webconfig in order to make it work, here's how.
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="ApiURIs-ISAPI-Integrated-4.0-Image" path="/Image/*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>

Because IRouteHandler is generating re-sized images with a dynamic path, and IIS thinks this is the actual path to a directory because of dot(.) in the link and it thinks it's an extension, which is actually not. So we have to add a handler in Web.Config to make it work.

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Wallabies launch 2016 jersey
4 May 2016 International
The Qantas Wallabies have unveiled their 2016 jersey ahead of the England Series next month. Photo: Getty Images
The Wallabies unveiled their 2016 jersey on Wednesday morning, ahead of next month's June Series.
This new kit, to be worn for the first time against England, is not too dissimilar to the 2015 incarnation, with white piping.
Probably the major difference in this year's jersey is the Southern Cross has shifted off the front of the jersey to the patch on the right arm.
Wallabies Kurtley Beale, Israel Folau, Rob Horne, Nick Phipps and Bernard Foley were on hand to launch the new uniform.
Folau said he felt some history in the jersey, which is a fairly simple design not far removed from many of the jerseys of years past.
"I love the new jersey. It fits well, the material feels great and I'm impressed with the new cut," he said.
"The colours and style are also a throwback to jerseys from the past...I think everyone is going to love it.
"The theme of this year's TV campaign 'Want it More' is perfect for our squad..
The @qantaswallabies unveiled their 2016 jersey ahead of the England Series in June. https://t.co/drGwJpr4FP pic.twitter.com/lZ3ZjGRJSV
— RUGBYcomau (@rugbycomau) May 4, 2016
"We know that as a playing group, the harder we work both as individuals and as a team the more we can achieve."
The Wallabies season kicks off on June 11 against England at Suncorp Stadium.
You can buy the new kit at shop.rugby.com.au
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Get back to work: is remote working in decline?
Workplace 15 Aug 2017
By Nicola Heath
IBM has told thousands of its US workers to abandon their home offices and return to the office, or leave the company. Is the remote working trend starting to reverse?
For decades, IBM has been a leader in telecommuting, but the tech giant took a step back in June 2017 when it ordered its many remote workers to report to the office or find a new job.
The company has not revealed how many people will be affected, but in 2009, 40 per cent of its 386,000-strong workforce worked from home.
Is IBM's decision an isolated incident or a turning point in the decline of remote work?
Is this the end of remote work?
Paul Broadfoot, entrepreneurial strategist and author of Xcelerate, says IBM's decision comes after a record run of 20 quarters of negative growth, "an incredible decline".
IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty had to change the way the company operates. A new global strategy focusing on the three pillars of cloud, data and engagement is delivering growth, says Broadfoot, but not fast enough. "Their overall legacy businesses are declining faster than their newer areas are growing."
The new strategy demands high levels of creativity and collaboration that are sparked by face-to-face communication. Sound familiar? It was the same reason given to Yahoo! staff when then-CEO Marissa Mayer ended the company's work-from-home policy in 2013.
"To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side," she told staff.
Ending telecommuting did not save Yahoo! – in June 2017 its internet assets were sold to Verizon Communications and the remaining business renamed Altaba.
The argument that co-location fosters collaboration does have merit, says Peter Wilson FCPA, chairman of the Australian Human Resource Institute.
"We are drawn to communities," he says. "We are all psychologically wired to want to belong, to be part of something."
Remote working is good for concentration and focus, but it is also very solitary.
"Most of us benefit from positive interactions with other human beings in work, particularly where you require the cooperation of others to get things done," adds Wilson.
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The benefits of remote working
Remote working's supporters say productivity is higher without long commutes, noisy colleagues or unnecessary meetings.
A Stanford University study of call centre workers found that productivity rose 13.5 per cent among employees working from home.
The study's author, Professor Nicholas Bloom, said the remote workers "quit at half the rate of people in the office" and "reported much higher job satisfaction".
IBM's decision may improve collaboration and innovation, but at the cost of reduced productivity and lost talent.
"People are concerned that the IBM move is a case of redundancies in disguise," says Broadfoot. "It's not ideal to give someone such short notice and say, 'Right, back in the front office in 30 days,' when you're nowhere near an office, or they've got 90 days to apply for another job. That's not going to get them in a collaborative and creative mindset when they return to the office."
He forecasts a wave of resignations.
Australians are increasingly working remotely
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that in 2015, 3.5 million employees worked from home in their main job – about 30 per cent of our workforce.
Rory Condon FCPA is a partner at CondonTreasure, an accounting firm with five offices in regional Queensland that has employed remote workers "from day one".
For Condon, offering part-time remote work is a valuable tool to retain talented staff, but his preference remains with office-based work. Employees enjoy the social interaction, he says, and face-to-face communication enables matters to be dealt with quickly and effectively.
"Everyone's inundated with e-mails and electronic communication," he says. "We can get lost if we don't keep up, or even step up, that face-to-face or telephone communication."
While remote work is on the rise, most employees still spend time in a central office.
According to research by McCrindle, only 10 per cent of Australians spend 80 per cent or more of their time working remotely – and it doesn't suit all roles and employees.
"Most jobs require both interdependent work and independent work," says Wilson, who says this favours a "blended" arrangement.
Spending some time in the office satisfies the business's need to foster collaboration, as well as employees' desire for human contact.
"One or two days from home gives people the ability to concentrate and be productive and have the autonomy they crave," says Broadfoot.
He says location will matter less as technology improves.
We shouldn't be asking if employees should have more autonomy or access to remote work – both are inevitable, says Broadfoot. Rather, we should ask "how can we use technology to make remote work better?"
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My grandfather had it for 55 years before me. When he got it, it was cut down to a flat-bed ute. He painted it pink with house paint for a parade.
I saw it in the shed at his place and it sat there for years. As a kid I used to drive it around and when I turned 21 he gave it to me and I immediately started restoring it with the help of the Darling Downs Veteran and Vintage Motor Club.
It took about seven years and we gradually went through the whole kit and caboodle. We stripped it down to every nut and bolt, re-leafed every spring and restored everything. The motor, gearbox and diff have all been completely redone and I rebuilt the body from scratch.
The name on the side is Ian Thomas Housing – that is my grandfather's name and he is a builder. I am a carpenter and the number plate is DIG 028, as his nickname is Digger.
I drive it everywhere. I drove out to Roma for Easter and though it isn't a daily driver I do drive it often. I don't take it to any of the jobs because I actually work in an explosives factory.
I love driving it and people are surprised when they go for a ride. The driveline is all original and the engine is a three-litre four-cylinder overhead valve with a crossflow head. It drives through a three-speed crash box so I have to double clutch on every shift up and down the box.
It surprises people how much like a normal car it feels. You can really only tell it is an oldie when going up or down hills, which you do at about the same speed because you don't want it to get away on you. It doesn't have much in the way of brakes!
I was asked to enter the Chev in the Robert Shannon Foundation, that is open to anyone under the age of 29 no matter what their car is. You put in an application with your car restoration details and I was thrilled to win.
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Q: How to avoid Visual C++ from mangling the names of my DLL functions I have the same problem exposed here. I'm using Visual C++ Express 2010.
I tried declaring extern "C", and changing the options Project + Properties, Linker, Debugging, Generate Debug Info = No. My function names are mangled on every compilation.
After reading the answer of jjones I changed the calling convention from StdCall to Cdecl, and then my function names are correct in the compiled dll. But I need the StdCall because I'm using this dll from VB6 (Vb6 protests when using other calling convention). So, everytime I compile with StdCall calling convention, my function names get mangled again.
How can I avoid my function names from being mangled with StdCall calling convention? or Is there a way to call a function in a Dll with cdecl calling convention from VB6?

A: After reading and reading I found out that (maybe) there's no way to avoid name mangling with StdCall calling convention.
I wanted to call my functions from VB6, so here's a workaround that actually works:
Declaring the functions with alias:
Declare Function prettyname Lib "mydll.dll" Alias "_prettyname@16" () As Integer

Of course, it is better to use extern "C", so the names don't get horribly mangled.


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"Sacrifice" by the Poor Amid Subsidies for the Rich in Nigeria
The poor in Nigeria are being denuded of all subsidies that subside their existential pains. This year, it started with petrol, then moved to fertilizer. We don't know what is next. But I think it's time we changed the conversation. Let's turn our gaze to the walloping subsidies that pay for the hedonism of Nigeria's notoriously self-indulgent elite, shall we?
We are told that subsidies for the poor have to go because Nigeria is broke and because the administration of subsidies is riddled with corruption. (And I thought the reason President Buhari was elected—and former President Jonathan was rejected at the polls— was because Buhari vowed to fight corruption so that it doesn't interfere with the dispensation of help to people who need it).
Well, if Nigeria is broke why is the construction of a helipad in Daura one of President Buhari's major projects? No one seems to know precisely how much it would cost to build it (estimates vary from N2 million to tens of millions of naira), but what we do know so far is that N60 million has already been paid as compensation to people whose land will be used for the project, according to the Daily Trust of September 21, 2015 .
Given that the helipad will become useless the moment Buhari's tenure expires, this doesn't strike me as a wise investment during this difficult financial time when the poor are stripped of subsidies and called upon to "sacrifice."
Let's not even talk of the presidential air fleet that needlessly and avoidably drains our national resources. According to a November 17, 2015 statement from the presidency, there are currently 10 aircraft in the presidential fleet, and they cost the nation more than 2 billion naira to maintain in just 6 months.
America, which is way wealthier than Nigeria and which gives all manner of subsidies to its poor, has only two aircraft in its presidential fleet. The British Prime Minister has no dedicated fleet of aircraft. It was announced only last year that a plane would be bought for the Prime Minister at the cost of $15 million. That's about how much it cost to maintain Nigeria's presidential fleet between May and November last year, according to the presidency.
In the new budget President Buhari just signed, nearly 4 billion naira has been allocated for "annual routine maintenance of villa facilities by [Julius Berger Nigeria]." The medical center in the Villa will be maintained with N3.89 billion. But this excludes drugs. Within this budget year, more than N200 million has been allocated to buy drugs for the State House clinic. Never mind that the president actually goes to London for his medical needs.
In February this year when he went to London for a routine medical check-up, he told Nigerians in the UK that he had been using his UK doctors "since 1978 when I was in Petroleum." So over 4 billion naira has been allocated for a medical facility in the presidential villa that the president may not even use, yet the poor are told to "sacrifice" because the country is "broke."
But that's not all. N387 million has been budgeted for "general renovation of the guest house" in the presidential villa, N254million for "renovation work on 8 No. Blocks of 16 No. 2 bedroom flats at State House security quarters, Asokoro," N115 for "wildlife conservation," N322,421,971 to link cable to the "driver's rest room at Villa Admin," N213,873,953 to link cable "from Guest House No. 9 Generator House to gate," N114,967,140 for the President's "food stuff/catering materials supplies," N16,683,193 for the Vice President's "food stuff/catering materials supplies," etc. There are many more puzzlingly wasteful expenditures that I have no space to highlight here. (Follow this link to read the budget for yourself.
Now compare this to America, the world's wealthiest nation. American presidents pay for their own food from their pocket. As Gary Walters, a former White House Chief of Staff, told the (London) Guardian, "All those things that are personal in nature that we all pay for, the first family pays for."
"It's just the tradition that it's continued on through time that the president will pay for their own food and, I guess, if they needed something for the house that was personal. Toothpaste, cologne or whatever," William Bushong, a White House historian, told the Guardian.
Wife of President Ronald Reagan was shocked when she discovered that she and her husband had to pay for all of their personal needs. "Nobody had told us that the president and his wife are charged for every meal, as well as for such incidentals as dry cleaning, toothpaste and other toiletries," she was reported to have said in 1981, according to the Guardian.
If the world's wealthiest country doesn't subsidize the personal expenditures of its first families, why do Nigerian budgets earmark billions for the convenience of the first family but talk of "sacrifice" and being "broke" when it comes to giving subsidies to the poor?
The Presidency isn't the only usurper of subsidies, of course. The crooked and ineffectual National Assembly got a lump sum of N115 Billion in the current budget. There is no breakdown on how this money will be spent.
A recent Daily Trust investigation also showed that "State governments are spending billions on luxury cars for members of their House of Assemblies" even though several of them haven't paid salaries to their workers for nearly a year. And we learned that Buhari caved in to petrol price increase because of the pressure that was brought to bear on him by state governors who want more money to steal.
Private sector operators (the second layer of my concentric circle) get their own subsidies, too. Apart from the oil cartel that perennially swindles Nigeria with impunity, a recent Senate investigation has uncovered a N447 billion import waiver scam to private sector fat cats from 2011 to 2015. It's just a tip of the iceberg.
Nigeria's subsidy regime is a classic case of taking coals to Newcastle, that is, giving assistance to people who don't need it and depriving it of people who desperately need it to survive. But I know there are many poor and not so poor Nigerians who will die defending the subsidies for the rich and opposing subsidies for the poor. Such people deserve our pity.
But let's say this: If members of the Nigeria political class are serious about "sacrificing," in light of the fact that the country is "broke," let's get rid of everyone's subsidies. It was Mahatma Gandhi who once said, "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." We are broke not because of the need of the poor but because of the greed of the rich.
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For more information on this program, check out the Memorial Grove Brochure.
The Saugeen Valley Conservation Foundation and Saugeen Conservation have partnered together to provide people with an opportunity of dedicating a mature tree to that someone special. The dedication could be for any number of special occasions, including birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, graduations, etc.
Each tree in the Celebration Forest, located at Sulphur Spring Conservation Area, is marked with a permanent plaque which includes the individuals name, occasion and date. Trees are priced according to size.