Las Canteras was actually the first tourist resort in Gran Canaria. The beach is about three kilometres long and the sea is safe for swimming. Click here to see a good map of Las Canteras.
Near to this beach are lots of restaurants, bars and shops and the beach is bordered in the north by La Isleta and in the east by Santa Catalina, which is where the bus station is. Las Arenas, a really big shopping centre, is nearby.
There is a landscaped promenade in the south of Las Canteras which takes you to the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus. This is home to the Las Palmas Philharmonic Orchestra and it is an interesting piece of architecture which was build as a tribute to the tenor Alfredo Kraus in 1997.
If you want some tips for exploring Las Palmas then make sure you take a walk along Las Canteras beach or even spend a day there. Not everyone speaks Spanish there (like in the south) and you might not find English menus but that all adds to the fun! Recent temperatures have been good (27 degrees C today!) so we're well into the summer now, making the Las Canteras beach even more tempting for a visit.


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Q: Lazy Quicksort in Scala Is it possible to do this sort of thing in Scala?

A: def quicksort[A](xs: Stream[A])(implicit o: Ordering[A]): Stream[A] = {
  import o._
  if (xs.isEmpty) xs else {
      val (smaller, bigger) = xs.tail.partition(_ < xs.head)
      quicksort(smaller) #::: xs.head #:: quicksort(bigger)
  }
}

It can be done with views as well, though it's bound to be much slower:
def quicksort[A](xs: List[A])(implicit o: Ordering[A]) = {
  import o._
  def qs(xs: SeqView[A, List[A]]): SeqView[A, Seq[_]] = if (xs.isEmpty) xs else {
    val (smaller, bigger) = xs.tail.partition(_ < xs.head)
    qs(smaller) ++ (xs.head +: qs(bigger))
  }
  qs(xs.view)
}

A: Yes!
Scala supports "lazy vals" as a way to defer calculation of a value until it's actually used.  Much of the Scala 2.8 library is capable of working with lazily-defined collections.

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Grace and Justice
Jason Micheli — September 28, 2016 — 1 Comment
My friend the poet, writer, and undertaker Thomas Lynch likes to say that Christians are those people who show up. Show up, he doesn't need to add, when shit gets real.
According to Tom's measure, my good friend Brian Stolarz is one of the best Jesus people this side of the first dozen. Brian showed up for me in ways I can't begin to convey when I learned I had this cancer, and, before me, Brian showed up Alfred Dewayne Brown, an inmate on Texas Death Row.
My oncologists kept my heart beating and my lungs breathing, but Brian is one of the people who kept me alive when I expected to die. Brian is also the one who showed up when Dewayne was scheduled to die for a crime hardly anyone even bothers anymore to argue he committed.
Brian tells the story of Dewayne's unjust conviction and his own laborious journey to D's exoneration in his forthcoming book, Grace and Justice on Death Row: The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man.
I love Brian like a brother, and I've spent a weird amount of intimate time with Dewayne Brown. They're both honest, and honest about their experience working together and then working towards a reversal of Dwayne's connection.
Below is an excerpt from Brian's book.
If you'd like to hear him speak, check him out this Thursday at the African American Hall of Fame Project.
I knew Alfred Dewayne Brown was stone-cold innocent the moment I met him. He was a 25-year-old, soft-spoken gentle giant with a 69 IQ living in the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas, north of Houston. Polunsky is where Texas houses people before it kills them. In 2005 he had been sentenced to die for the murder of a police officer, and he had been living on death row pretty much ever since. I was working for K&L Gates, a high-powered mega-firm in Washington DC, longing for a case I could be passionate about. I had worked for a couple of years as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York. It was a steady parade of fallible, devious, and occasionally innocent people, most of whom were short on money and shorter on luck. I felt something at Legal Aid—passion for my work.
In and out of the precinct houses, holding cells and courtrooms I developed a more than functional "bullshit meter" about people accused of breaking the law. I can usually spot a lie or a liar better than a polygraph operator. I don't mean to brag, but just this one time I'll quote the late Muhammad Ali who said, "It ain't bragging if you can back it up." I'm not bragging, I'm just saying after one look, I had absolutely no doubt—none—that Alfred Dewayne Brown had not committed the heinous crime for which he had been convicted and for which Texas was going to kill him.
When I left the Polunsky Unit an hour later, I promised Dewayne I would do my best to get him out of there. I also tried to both fight back tears and to keep from being sick to my stomach. I was grateful for the chance to save his life but scared it might be too late. The gravity of the situation set in instantly. I did not go to graduate school to save lives—that is what doctors do. But now I was given the opportunity to save one, and I was determined to do it. In fact, it became my legal, personal, and religious mission to do so.
But, I could not ward off the thought that I might one day travel to Texas, stand behind a glass window, and watch a group of my fellow citizens carry out a medical procedure to end his life against his will. I was sick thinking I might have to watch. I vowed to my wife that if I watched him die I would hang up the law license forever and go start a pizza parlor. I am from New Jersey, after all.
I had a lot of work to do. At the Houston airport a few hours later, I was waiting for my flight, lost in thought about just how much work it would be, when I was accosted by a friendly, toothpick-wielding woman offering free samples of her cuisine around the food court. Unable to resist, I ordered and devoured some of her best General Tso's chicken. I cracked open my fortune cookie. "You love challenge," it said. I laughed and looked up to a ceiling painted with fake clouds. Was this some kind of divine but sick joke? I put the fortune in my wallet, where it remains to this day next to a picture of my three kids.
I know your initial reaction to all of this is to say, "Yeah, sure, all the people in prison say they are innocent." Hell, even members of my own family didn't believe me when I came home from Texas and said he was innocent. Believe me, I would be the first one to tell you if he were guilty. Many of my current and former clients were, in fact, guilty of what they were charged with. But, in that one moment, that first time I met him, something rocketed through to the deepest part of me; he didn't commit this crime. I understand your hesitation. Maybe you have your own BS meter. Come along with me on this ride and you too will see what I saw and felt, what I feel. This man is what I believed him to be from the very second I saw him—innocent. And he would have died if there was no one to stand up for him.
Excerpt from Chapter Called "Family, Faith and Growth"
And we went to church. A lot. I basically lived at my grandparents' church, Blessed Sacrament in Paterson, New Jersey. If I sat through mass with my grandmother and behaved myself and said all the responsorial psalms correctly, I got one dollar. My grandparents' house had religious artifacts all over the place, with a huge Virgin Mary statue in the backyard, and a large poster of Jesus over their bed. We went to bingo nights, tricky trays, fish frys, community service projects, and many special events at the church. I was too young to fully realize it, but that parish formed my religious foundation.
Once during the decade-long effort to exonerate Dewayne Brown, I left the prison where he was being held. A church group was passing out bibles to the public and fish platters to the prison staff. The prison staff was "Doing God's Work," proclaimed a banner draped over a table.
I asked if I could have a fish platter. They asked me if I was a prison guard. I said I was a defense attorney for one of the men on death row. They looked at me like I was Satan himself and pushed the fish platters back away from my hand. Instead of a platter, they handed me a bible. One woman recommended I read it to my client before he went to the Lord.
I didn't want to say what I was thinking: that a benevolent and just God would probably not be cool with the execution of an innocent man, or anyone for that matter. I wished I had the right biblical passage I could throw back at her but I didn't. I wish I had said that an eye for an eye makes everyone blind and that I believed in the Jesus who told us to turn the other cheek and love each other and seek redemption and forgiveness, and in Saint Francis who taught me that it is in pardoning that we are pardoned. I just took the bible and said thank you. That night I read some Psalms and some New Testament passages in my hotel room, and I went to sleep thinking about Dewayne (as I often do) and (as I also often do) my religious upbringing.
I loved growing up in the Catholic Church, first at my grandparents' church and then my family's church, St. Mary's, a Franciscan parish in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. At St. Mary's, I met the men who shaped my spiritual life, Father Michael Carnevale and Father Kevin Downey. They taught me about life, love, tolerance, and how to serve others. When I got married many years later, Father Mike came to Dallas to officiate my wedding. He delivered a thoughtful sermon about love and perseverance, saying that "love is the fruit of the struggle," and then, because he was a wiseass like me, he turned to the crowd and said, "I now present Mr. and Mrs. Anna Stolarz."
Growing up in a Franciscan parish had a huge impact on who I became and what I value in life. The parish took the foundation I had from my grandparents' church and formed my Christian spirit. I felt alive every time I was on the grounds of my church.
Saint Francis of Assisi is my favorite saint for his dedication to serving the poor. We have a sign in our home that is an excerpt from the Prayer of Saint Francis that says, simply, "for it is in giving that we receive." And I make sure my kids try to live their lives that way in their daily actions and in church service projects.
Before we had kids, Anna and I went to Italy for two weeks and made sure that we stopped in Assisi just to see and feel the holy ground where he lived. And, of course, it is very cool that Pope Francis chose his name after Saint Francis. I was fortunate to get a ticket to the Papal Mass at Catholic University in September 2015, and I was five feet away from him when he processed in.
My time at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC in the 1990s clarified and solidified my desire to continue my religious mission to serve others while using my skills as a lawyer. It was why I became a public defender in Brooklyn, why I always did pro bono work when I was in private practice at the law firm of K&L Gates, and why I do pro bono work today. And I will always do it.
I received an award in 2007 for taking the most pro bono cases for indigent people from the Catholic Charities Legal Network, a division of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Washington that places cases for needy individuals with volunteer lawyers. In 2014 I received the Caritas award from Catholic Charities, the highest service award the organization gives in service to the poor. And I am very fortunate to have Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Washington as a trusted client. Father John Enzler is the CEO, and he is one of those unique, wonderful shepherds who is focused on service to the poor and needy and says that when it comes to service: "say yes every time you can and no only when you have to."
But I didn't, and don't, do pro bono work for awards or recognition. I just think it is a duty of any lawyer to give their talents back to those who can't afford a lawyer. It's that simple to me. It is the perfect confluence of my legal training and my religious upbringing. And it makes me feel alive inside every time I do it. Pope Francis said that "we all have the duty to do good," and my duty was to Dewayne. That duty was why I stayed with his case until I hugged him in 2015, why I love him like a member of my own family today, and why I thank God every chance I get that he is out of prison.
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Thomas Woodman September 28, 2016 at 9:57 AM
Excellent stuff, and thanks for all the material on McCabe, but the photo you have up is Fr Timothy Radcliffe, not Herbert.

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Ms. Una Byrne - one of the German teachers at Presentation College and Meadhbh Broderick - the winner of last year's German Olympiad, were both invited recently by the German Ambassador to a reception to celebrate twenty-eight years of German Unity.
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The Ambassador hosted a wonderful garden party for invited guests, German companies operating in Ireland and the many companies and businesses which trade with Germany as well as the organisations that actively promote the German language. The importance of building links between the two countries and the need for more Irish people to learn German were spoken about. Guests were also treated to an afternoon of entertainment, fine food and wine and networking opportunities.


Our High School Ministry at Rolling Hills is called Highlife. We are a group of high school students doing life together. Our Wednesday program is a night full of energy and games, as well as large group teaching and small groups. We have an amazing HS staff who makes Highlife the place to be! If you are looking for a High School Ministry to be involved in, look no further. We'd love to have you join us and grow deeper in your faith with a great group of students and staff. Oh, and we almost always hit up Chick-fil-a afterwards as well. We also have amazing trips lined up throughout the year you won't want to miss! We head to Hume San Diego for summer camp, Jenness for Winter Camp, Mexicali over Spring Break, and a weekend camping trip in Santa Cruz!
We also meet at 9am on Sunday mornings, where we dive a little deeper into God's Word. We use this time as more of a discussion group and a time to share what we are learning. We will sometimes head over to Bagel Street or Starbucks to switch things up and enjoy fellowship.
At Highlife, we strive to make it a place where students OWN their ministry. Ministries are better when students own it. We have a great group of student leaders who help lead alongside the adult volunteers. These students make it a point to greet new students and to help others get plugged in! To build into this core, we take them to Doug Fields, Student Leadership Conference in Orange County each summer. I love what God is doing through our Student Leaders.
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About PIDA
PIDA History
PIDA Vision
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PIDA Week
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Policy and Regulatory Framework
Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI)
M&E and Information Management
PIDA Impacts
Job Creation and PIDA Projects
MoveAfrica
One-Stop-Boarder-Posts (OSBP)
PIDA Capacity Building Project (PIDA CAP)
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Renewable Energy Access Programme (REAP)
Africa Power Vision (APV)
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PIDA Projects
NEPAD IPPF flags funding gap, AUC calls on Member States to mobilize domestic resources to replenish the Special Fund
To bridge the financing gap of the NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF) Special Fund, concerted efforts will be required to scale up support for domestic resource mobilization by AU Member States, so as to facilitate the physical and economic integration of the continent. That is according to the African Union Director for Infrastructure and Energy, Mr. Cheikh Bedda.
The Director made the call at the 29th Oversight Committee (OC) meeting of the New Partnership for Africa's Development – Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF) Special Fund which took place at the Headquarters of the African Union Commission, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 28 June 2019.
"The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), and Africa's infrastructure priorities cannot be implemented without adequate resources committed to the NEPAD-IPPF, a critical instrument to prepare investment ready and sustainable infrastructure projects across Africa," the Director stated.
Taking it back to Egypt, April this year, in his statement, Mr. Bedda reminded participants of the decision made by the Specialised Technical Committee on Transport Transcontinental and Interregional Infrastructure Energy and Tourism, which urged Member States to contribute and sustain project preparation and development for PIDA PAP projects by making financial contributions to the NEPAD IPPF.
"African Countries should demonstrate firm commitment to infrastructure development by making direct contribution to the African Union supported Project Preparation Instrument – the NEPAD-IPPF, through various innovative approaches," the Director reiterated.
The question of domestic resource mobilization came to the surface during the discussions.
On his part, the Director for Infrastructure and Urban Development at the African Development Bank, Mr. Amadou Oumarou, stated that operationalization of domestic resource mobilization for the NEPAD-IPPF should be well discussed and thought of.
"To succeed the NEPAD-IPPF must identify and focus on a key priorities and active portfolio management to move more projects to closure," Mr. Oumarou added.
NEPAD-IPPF Fund Manager, Mr. Mike Salawou, stated that cumulative contributions by donor partners including the African Development Bank amounted to US$ 102 Million out of which US$ 96.1 million had been committed to approve 91 projects. As per June 2019, 60 studies have been completed.
"While disbursements on supported projects have reached a high level, beyond that and without any new contributions to the Fund, NEPAD-IPPF will no longer be in a position to support further project preparation activities," Mr. Salawou affirmed.
Mr. Amadou Oumarou closed the meeting by commending the Fund's achievements in 2019 and reiterated the Bank's commitment to the Special Fund considering the enormous infrastructure needs in the continent.
"New contributions from Spain (Euro 3.0 million) and the African Development Bank (US$ 4.13) are indications of confidence bestowed in the Fund's ability to successfully fulfil its mandate, and also recognition that the NEPAD-IPPF is playing a critical role in infrastructure development in Africa. It is therefore expedient for the NEPAD-IPPF to be further strengthened with the necessary resources to enable it to meet its objectives and mandate," Mr. Oumarou stated.
Michael Andres Oversight Committee Chairman & Senior Project Manager at KfW Development Bank, while commending the achievements of the special fund, noted that more resources are required given the increasing demands being made on the fund.
The meeting offered the opportunity to discuss the NEPAD-IPPF Independent Review and New Business Model, the progress report of NEPAD-IPPF, updates on continental infrastructure initiatives, and adoption of a proposed joint AUC/AUDA/AfDB Domestic Resource Mobilization Strategy for NEPAD-IPPF.
Participants noted that domestic resource mobilization should be the main strategy for financing Africa's development in a sustainable manner. Participants also endorsed the NEPAD-IPPF Special Fund as the key instrument for project preparation to accelerate the delivery of infrastructure on the continent. They also agreed that the NEPAD-IPPF resources are managed in a sound manner under rigorous internal control, in addition to the governance around the administration of these resources, which is adequate.
The 29th Oversight Committee (OC) meeting of the New Partnership for Africa's Development Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF) Special Fund convened over 30 participants including donors providing financial support to the NEPAD-IPPF Special Fund, such as Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, and Spain, representatives from the African Development Bank, African Union Commission, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) The Nile Basin Initiative/Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program), Economic Commission for Africa, Regional Economic Communities, Regional Power Pools, NELSAP and Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM).
NEPAD-IPPF is a multi-donor special fund that supports African countries to translate major continental initiatives such as the African Union's Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) as well as Regional Infrastructure Master Plans of the Power Pools into bankable, investment-ready projects. The special fund is currently supported by the AfDB as host institution, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, and Spain. Participation in the special fund is open to donors, institutional funds and other special infrastructure funds.
The Oversight Committee (OC) of seven members provides general policy direction for NEPAD-IPPF activities. Its main function is to review the operational focus, the proposed areas of intervention and to ensure consistency with the Fund's policy thrust. The OC also reviews the annual report of activities financed through the Fund to ensure consistency with the NEPAD mandate and regional integration.
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Review: 'Hamlet' at Aquila Theatre Company
Sophia Howes
Straight Outta Denmark
Hamlet has a storied history, and the title role is one of the greatest in Shakespeare. It is also universally parodied: the BBC's 60 Second Shakespeare tabloid reports: "Bloodbath at Danish Court: 'Mad' Prince Hamlet Was Right All Along". It has always been a magnet for critics and armchair theorists. Horace Howard Furness, an early editor of Shakespeare, was quoted as saying:
I am convinced that were I told that my closest friend was lying at the point of death, and that his life could be saved by permitting him to divulge his theory of Hamlet, I would instantly say: "Let him die! Let him die! Let him die!"
This was in 1908.
Recent screen versions include Kenneth Branagh's critically acclaimed 1996 film. A 2000 movie, directed by Michael Almareyda, starred Ethan Hawke as a film student in contemporary Manhattan. Hamlet is an international phenomenon; as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in London, there were stage productions from Germany, Lithuania, and South Korea.
Aquila Theater's touring production of Hamlet. Photograph by Richard Termine.
The role is considered the ultimate test for actors. In 2015, Benedict Cumberbatch, at the Barbican in London, was an unusually sane Hamlet. Mark Rylance, of Wolf Hall fame, was just the opposite. He played the role for the RSC in 1989. When the production was performed in a psychiatric hospital, an inmate told him, "You were really mad – take it from me, I should know. I'm a loony." After collapsing backstage, Daniel Day-Lewis withdrew from the role in the same year at the National. At first, he claimed to have seen the ghost of his late father, poet Cecil Day-Lewis. He later denied those claims. But certainly, something must have happened; after the incident, he retired from acting for several years.
Lewis Brown. Photograph by Richard Termine.
New York-based Aquila Theatre Company brings bold re-interpretations of classic theater to 50-60 American cities a year. According to The New Yorker, Aquila's productions are "beautifully spoken, dramatically revealing and crystalline in effect." The Hamlet at George Mason University on November 12 was all that and more.
At first, we see a projection, of what seems to be a 1921 German silent movie of Hamlet starring Danish actress Asta Nielsen. The ensemble enters, and, before an image of the moon, do an interpretive dance, to music which is by turns ominous and sprightly.
Bernardo (Michael Rivers), Marcellus (Harriett Barrow), and Horatio (Tyler La Marr) gaze in wonder at the Ghost, which appears to be above them as they face the audience. Black and white projections of various rooms and landscapes, which have an Expressionist look, materialize behind the actors. At times, we can see the shadows of the performers on the screens behind.
Claudius (Gys de Villiers) and Gertrude (Rebecca Reaney) are a handsome middle-aged couple. Claudius, an urbane politician, is irritated with Hamlet from the first. Gertrude, on the other hand, is devoted to her son. Once he sees the Ghost, now played by James Lavender, Lewis Brown as Hamlet begins to come apart.
Hamlet's scene with the Ghost is musical in its rhythm, and freighted with a sense of dread. Lavender's Polonius is a remarkable creation, angry and patronizing with Ophelia (Lauren Drennan), yet painfully obsequious to Claudius and Gertrude. Michael Rivers' Laertes is a slightly condescending older brother, and both seem to enjoy mansplaining to Ophelia. Drennan, by committing to the role as it is, makes a forceful statement about the way women are treated in the play. Presenting the behavior of the men, and Ophelia's reaction to it, tells us all we need to know about this monumentally patriarchal society.
Hamlet, beginning to put his antic disposition on, enjoys mocking Polonius. He doesn't trust the hypomanic Guildenstern (Michael Rivers) or the slightly more down-to-earth Rosencrantz (Harriett Barrow). He makes it abundantly clear that he knows he is being spied upon. As Hamlet's mood darkens and he begins to misuse Ophelia, Brown shows him becoming more and more desperate. Along with other judicious cuts, Sanchez has eliminated the dumb-show in the play-within-a-play which is meant to expose Claudius. The Player King (Harriett Barrow), the Player Queen (a hilarious Michael Rivers) and the 3rd Player (Tyler La Marr) bring a refreshingly comic edge to the presentation. It is Hamlet, in a mask, who poisons the Player King.
This Hamlet focuses on the family tensions and lightning changes of mood, rather than the struggle for dominance. Because Desiree Sanchez' direction is so imaginative, the complexity and poetry of the play take hold and build throughout the performance. After the death of Polonius, the tragedy begins to speed up and the moments of horror pile up one after another. It is difficult to watch but impossible to look away.
Rebecca Reaney and Lewis Brown. Photograph by Richard Termine.
The scene where Hamlet confronts his mother is one of the most compelling. Rebecca Reaney's Gertrude is innocent of any knowledge of the murder. She is devastated by Hamlet's deterioration, but furious at him for the way he is treating her. Ophelia goes mad; Laertes attacks Claudius in a rage, thinking the King has killed his father. Hamlet is packed off to England but adroitly arranges his return and his revenge on the traitors Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Brown, as Hamlet, excels in the soliloquies, which are spoken directly to the audience.
Ophelia's mad songs are haunting. Her death is foreshadowed by a scene in which the Queen watches her as she stands pensively, alone, as if about to jump into the water.
The sword-fight (Fight Choreographer is Rick Sordelet) is first-rate, and the denouement comes with great intensity and power. Every moment of this Hamlet is carefully explored, and the moments fly by quickly. The Gravedigger (James Lavender again) is portrayed as the epically callous professional that he is.
Lighting Design by Joel Moritz and Sound Design by Andy Evan Cohen contribute to the mood of this many-splendored rendering of the play. Music is by Brian Eno and Andy Evan Cohen. Projections Designer Lianne Arnold and Costume Designer Lara de Bruijn create beautifully complementary visual effects.
Famed critic William Hazlitt once said: "It is we who are Hamlet." This memorable production reminds us that it is still true.
Running Time: Two hours and 40 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission.
Hamlet was performed for one night only, November 12, 2017 at George Mason University's Center for the Arts – 4373 Mason Pond Drive, in Fairfax, VA 22030. For more information about this touring production of Sense and Sensibility, visit Aquila Theatre's website. For tickets to other shows in George Mason University's Great Performances Season, call the box office at 888-945-2468, or visit their calendar of events.
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Sophia Howes has been a reviewer for DCMTA since 2013 and a columnist since 2015. She has an extensive background in theater. Her play Southern Girl was performed at the Public Theater-NY, and two of her plays, Rosetta's Eyes and Solace in Gondal, were produced at the Playwrights' Horizons Studio Theatre. She studied with Curt Dempster at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, where her play Madonna was given a staged reading at the Octoberfest. Her one-acts Better Dresses and The Endless Sky, among others, were produced as part of Director Robert Moss's Workshop-NY. She has directed The Tempest, at the Hazel Ruby McQuain Amphitheatre, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Monongalia Arts Center, both in Morgantown, WV. She studied Classics and English at Barnard and received her BFA with honors in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she received the Seidman Award for playwriting. Her play Adamov was produced at the Harold Clurman Theater on Theater Row-NY. She holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she received the Lucille Lortel Award for playwriting. She studied with, among others, Michael Feingold, Len Jenkin, Lynne Alvarez, and Tina Howe. Her father, Carleton Jones, long-time real estate editor and features writer for the Baltimore Sun, inspired her to become a writer.


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NIRATIAS (an acronym for "Nothing Is Real and This Is a Simulation") is the ninth studio album by American rock band Chevelle, released on March 5, 2021. It was preceded by three singles: "Self Destructor", "Peach", and "Remember When". The album was produced by Joe Barresi and was their first studio album in five years, the previous being 2016's The North Corridor. It is also their first album as a two-piece, as bassist Dean Bernardini left the band in late 2019. It marked the final album on their contract with long-time label Epic Records; future music from the band will be released independently.

Unlike previous Chevelle albums, NIRATIAS is a concept album, with more instrumental and spoken word tracks, dealing with themes such as interstellar travel, mistrust in leadership, loss, and the past.

Background
In June 2019, it was announced that the band entered the studio with producer Joe Barresi, who also produced their last three albums. Drummer Sam Loeffler stated they had been writing material for a year and a half, meaning the writing process of this album has taken longer than their other albums. The band recorded eight songs in 2019 and the other five were finished by March 2020. Speaking about the lyrical direction of the album, vocalist Pete Loeffler stated:

Artwork for the album is by Boris Vallejo, also known for designing the posters used for films like Knightriders and National Lampoon's Vacation. The title of the album is an acronym for "Nothing Is Real and This Is a Simulation" Producer Joe Barresi challenged the band to write more melodic songs, as opposed to the darker and heavier material from their past two albums.

About the music on NIRATIAS, Pete said, "It's just more melodic singing over heavy stuff...It's not as much screaming on this album, for sure."

Release
On November 6, 2020, the band uploaded a video stating that a their new album has already been completed and was awaiting release. On November 8, 2020, the band released an acoustic version of the new song "Endlessly". The band released a music video for the lead single, "Self Destructor" on January 8, 2021. The album was released on March 5, 2021. On January 25, 2021, the band revealed the track listing. On January 29, 2021, the band released the second single from the album, "Peach". On February 19, 2021, the band released the third single from the album, "Remember When". On May 1, 2021, the band released a music video for the song "Mars Simula".  "Self Destructor" is included in the 2021 film, Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard.

Composition and themes
NIRATIAS has been described as alternative metal, hard rock, alternative rock, progressive rock, art rock, and demonstrates science-fiction themes. The opener "Verruckt" is an instrumental song that contains "sludgy stoner-doom metal" riffs. "So Long, Mother Earth" is a song about space exploration and AllMusic compared it to "Tool's dystopian art-metal". The closing track "Lost in Digital Woods" is a spoken word and ambient Overall, the album is more melodic and contains less screaming than their last two albums. AllMusic described the album as a "sci-fi fever dream".

Critical reception

James Christopher Monger of AllMusic praised NIRATIAS as a "visceral sci-fi fever dream that pairs tight, caustic riffage with billowing melodic contrails". He criticized the absence of former bassist Dean Bernardini, stating, "it's in these beefier numbers that the absence of Bernardini is felt -- in addition to handling vocals, guitar, and piano, Pete Loeffler was tasked with filling in on bass as well, and while his parts are more than adequate, the paucity of low-end throughout NIRATIAS is hard to ignore." Gerrod Harris of Spill Magazine stated, "Chevelle has written the soundtrack warning of the dystopian future that looks more like Blade Runner and Total Recall than we'd like on NIRATIAS. The album ties together a tight recorded performance that sounds larger than life along with strong, unique songwriting that propelled Chevelle forward for just over 20 years." The staff review at Sputnikmusic generally praised the album for being slightly different due to its "interlude-filled tracklist and a sort of unifying theme throughout" though conceded that they were really only "baby steps" towards making a different sounding Chevelle album, hoping that they choose to "branch out more" on their next album.

Accolades

Track listing

Personnel
Credits for NIRATIAS adapted from liner notes.

Chevelle
Pete Loeffler – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano
Sam Loeffler – drums

Additional musicians
Brian Kilgore – timpani, chimes, percussion (track 10)
Joe Barresi – additional percussion

Production
Joe Barresi – producer, mixing
Mark "Stig" Daughney – guitar tech
Dan Druff – guitar tech
Mike Fasano – drum tech
Bruce Jacoby – drum tech
Jun Murakawa – assistant engineer
Greg Foeller – assistant engineer
Bob Ludwig – mastering

Artwork
Jeff Schulz – art direction and design
Boris Vallejo – cover illustration
Joseph Cultice – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2021 albums
Chevelle (band) albums
Epic Records albums
Albums produced by Joe Barresi
Albums with cover art by Boris Vallejo
Art rock albums by American artists
Progressive rock albums by American artists


I have a suggestion for future versions. I hope this is the right place to put it.
I move threads everyday due to lazy users posting on wrong subforum. But when I move the thread, i think it changes the thread id so it looses read status and appears unread again, confusing the users.
I know all this philosophy of "make a module as desired", but I really thing this is an usability issue, as a message should keep the read/unread flag regardless if it is moved or not.
No, they are not getting a new id but the newflags code in moving messages has its flaws.
*       in strange newflag problems.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2009 11:28PM by Thomas Seifert.
i see it has no easy solution, and i appreciate the reply, but in a forum like mine (moving many threads a day) users get really frustrated.
Getting this to perform will is the big issue here. Keeping tabs on who has read what messages for what forum is quite a daunting task for big forums and we have not yet come up with a solution for that.
I know that this behavior can confuse users. The only advice that I can give on that is to educate users to post in the correct forums and to move messages as quickly as possible. This needs a rather active approach to moderation, which might not be possible for you. But until we or somebody else comes up with a smart solution for the read message tracking, it's the only option available.
but in a forum like mine (moving many threads a day) users get really frustrated.
Hehe, use it as a peer pressure for the lazy users.
I always try to keep active moderations, but as you mentioned, is not always possible. And when you have an active forum (around 700 new messages a day) and have fast read times and move so many threads, at the end of the day it is an annoying issue you can't keep the read flag.
I'm just working through this one in my own mind so please feel free to correct me at any point in my logic.
I take it there can be a performance hit when this is done for 5000 users who have read the thread and even more so when those 5000 users have read all 150 messages in the thread. This would lead to updating 750,000 rows of the table.
This structure would allow the thread to be moved and the newflags to follow for every user without any extra database work.
This could be simplified further by adding a parent_message_id column to the user_newflags table and only linking that id to the message_id column in the forum_newflags table. This would add extra data to the user_newflags table but would actually reduce data in the forum_newflags table as only one row would be necessary per thread as opposed to one row per message. This would also speed up the moving process as only the parent_message_id would need to be updated in the forum_newflags table.
I could easily be missing something here, but I hope this might help.
The tiny thing that you are missing here, is the fact that the oldest message that is in the table for a forum implicitly flags all messages that are older in that forum as read. Therefore, you cannot simply move the message to a different forum alone.
(X) = message that is implicitly marked read, because it's older than the oldest read message for the forum (msg4).
The message msg5 is now implicitly marked read too, because msg7 is now the oldest read message in the newflags table for forum1.
So in the current architecture, making this work correctly would not only involve the work of moving the readflags for a message to a different forum, but also checking for each user if it's the oldest read message and inserting an appropriate newflag to make things right if this is the case.
One solution direction that I have been thinking about, is not letting the newflags table determine the min_id (that's how it's called in the code), but adding an extra table that is dedicated to storing min_ids for the users. That way, we'd have a quick lookup table to see what we're dealing with and a safer system for moving the newflags to the new forum.
We'd have to do some live tests to see if your idea to store the forum_id outside the newsflags would work, performance-wise. For moving purposes it would definitely work. For the standard case of keeping track of unread messages, I'm not sure if the extra join wouldn't slow down the queries too much.
i don't know if i am saying something crazy, but even if this a demanding operation, isnt in this case "less" important as you only slow down the performance when you moving the thread? I mean, everyday operation (read, reply, register) wouldnt suffer from this. After all, only really busy forums would need to move more than few threads everyday.
In my opinion I wouldn't mind paying this price if that solves the read issue.
I agree that it's better to bother moderators than to bother end users.
Note however that heavy db work will always affect end users as well. So if a move thread process is hacking away on the database server, the users could experience performance impact.
But more important than this: we should be aware that we could be dealing with systems with a lot of users. When moving threads on such system, other system limits might be kicking in. Think about PHP execution time for example. The only correct way to implement a system that can handle an arbitrary amount of users is to implement an interface that can handle the updates in batches, to circumvent execution time issues (visually presented as a progress bar to the person that is moving a message). With our new API layer code, this kind of functionality is now in reach, so it might be feasible to handle an interface like this. Not a high priority todo item though.
However, this would then cause a problem for forum 2. If the users had never read messages in that forum, they would suddenly see new flags for msg6 and beyond.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2009 05:30PM by Joe Curia.
Yes, that is indeed what I meant. Implement a separate storage for the min_id. A database table would be the best solution for that IMO. Especially because then it would be possible to execute queries on the data, which can be used as input for beating the newflags back into shape once in a while.


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2014 Macca's healthy cafe
In a world first, McDonald's trialled a new cafe concept in Sydney's Camperdown, opposite the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Macca's healthy cafe, dubbed The Corner by McCafe carried no traditional McDonald's branding and featured grain and legume salads, exotic flavours and even tofu.
The Corner by McCafe opened in December 2014 and was described by the fast food company as a "learning lab" for trying out a new menu and service style. The outlet was never a full-service McDonalds but had always carried the McCafe branding. Its location opposite one of Sydney's largest hospitals sat well with the new healthy approach. Business Insider saw the experiment as a response to falling global sales, particularly among young adults. It seems there is growing disenchantment among "millennials" with McDonald's traditional fare
The vibe was different. No golden arches, no red aprons. It's all very toned down, with staff in chambray shirts and lots of timber in the decor. Menu options included soups, salads and rice boxes. A "protein and salad box" contained chipotle bbq pulled pork, slaw, lebanese lentils and brown rice. Other options included Moroccan chicken, Lebanese lentil and chick pea salad, and cous cous with roasted eggplant and capsicum. There were also wraps (we've seen that Chicken Caesar wrap before though), fruit salad and tofu. It seems that some of the more ambitious offerings were later deleted, with pre-packaged salads replacing the mix and match salad bar and the menu tending to fairly average wraps and toasties.
The "learning lab" in Sydney was only one of the tactics the fast food giant has adopted. The Wall Street Journal reported that McDonalds in the USA was looking for a new way to engage with this generation by allying itself with a charitable cause. "McDonald's is trying to tap into the fact that researchers believe that millennials are very interested in philanthropy and are more likely to be drawn to brands that have a history of giving back" the Journal wrote.
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Arrests after boy, six, injured in 'broad daylight' shotgun shooting
The boy remains in a stable condition in hospital.
Police at the scene in Wolverhampton (Matthew Cooper/PA)
A 24-year-old man and 17-year-old boy have been arrested on suspicion of wounding after a six-year-old boy was injured in a shooting.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-after-boy-six-injured-in-broad-daylight-shotgun-shooting-38033405.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/136c8/38033402.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_2776b3dc-592b-4747-b4f2-a86ec5590e71_1
Officers from West Midlands Police believe a group of men fired shots at a house in Ashbourne Road in the Eastfield area of Wolverhampton at around 4pm on Friday.
The injured boy, who was in the property at the time, has an injured back and remains in hospital in a stable condition.
Police at the scene in Wolverhampton where a six-year-old boy was injured (Matthew Cooper/PA)
The arrested men remain in custody, West Midlands Police said.
Detective Inspector Rod Rose said: "These arrests are a significant step forward in our investigation which continues at pace.
"It's a shocking incident where someone has opened fire with a shotgun in broad daylight.
"The motive of this attack remains unclear and we're working hard to try and understand what happened earlier today."
#UPDATE | Detectives investigating after shots were fired at a house in Wolverhampton, injuring a six-year-old boy, just before 4pm this afternoon (Friday 19 April) have arrested two men. Details here: https://t.co/pVMYJyyVeY pic.twitter.com/qwQrK9YOA1
— Wolverhampton Police (@wolvespolice) April 19, 2019
Police have increased patrols and brought in extra officers following the incident.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
By David Hughes, PA Political Editor Donald Trump will heap pressure on Boris Johnson to drop a tax on US tech giants, Washington indicated as the UK insisted it will implement the measure in April.
By Simon Neville, PA City Editor Britain's budget deficit was less than expected in December, although borrowing is set to rise this year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
By Neil Lancefield, PA Transport Correspondent South Western Railway's recent financial statements indicate "the franchise is not sustainable in the long term", according to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.
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Bohemian Caverns Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month w/ harpist Edmar Casteneda (10.8.11)
"Many Backgrounds, Many Stories … One American Spirit"
Edmar Castaneda
8:30p & 10:30p
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and in the spirit of this year's theme: "Many Backgrounds, Many Stories…One American Spirit", Bohemian Caverns is proud to present.
Harpist Edmar Castaneda takes to the stage in his debut performance in the Cave! Edmar Castaneda was born in 1978, in the city of Bogota, Colombia. Since his move to the United States in 1994, Edmar has quite literally taken New York and the world stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command of the harp-revolutionizing the way audiences and critics alike consider an instrument commonly relegated to the "unusual category". A master at realizing beautiful complexities of time, while skillfully drawing out lush colors and dynamic spirit, Edmar has been characterized by The New York Times as "almost a world unto himself".
Legendary Paquito D'Rivera remarked: "Edmar is…an enormous talent, he has the versatility and the enchanting charisma of a musician who has taken his harp out of the shadow to become one of the most original musicians from the Big Apple."
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Jacky Terrason Trio – 10/21 & 10/22
Just Added! Tia Fuller – 11/4 & 11/5
Lonnie Liston Smith – 11/11 & 11/12
Etienne Charles – 12/02
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The 2011 Martha's Vineyard Jazz Festival (8.6 – 8.13.11)
Martha's Vineyard Jazz Festival 2011
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7th Annual DC Jazz Festival (6.1 – 6.13.11)
2011 DC Jazz Festival Pays Tribute to Jazz Legends – Jimmy Heath & Eddie Palmieri
Annual Lifetime Achievement Award Honors Two Jazz Giants
(April 26, 2011, Washington, D.C.) —The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced that its annual Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to two unique jazz legends: brilliant saxophonist Jimmy Heath, and celebrated Puerto Rican pianist, Eddie Palmieri — both also renowned bandleaders and prodigious composers — at its 7th annual festival, held June 1-13. Each year the DCJF honors jazz greats for their lifetime contributions to jazz and humanity. Past awardees include James Moody, Ellis Marsalis, George Wein, Clark Terry, Hank Jones, Dr. Billy Taylor and Dave Brubeck.
"We are thrilled to present this year's Lifetime Achievement Award to two distinguished artists in recognition of their indelible contributions to jazz. They have dedicated their lives to jazz as an art form, educational tool and unifying force," said DC Jazz Festival Executive Producer Charles Fishman. "No words could adequately express how much Mr. Heath and Mr. Palmieri have impacted the jazz genre and community."
A nine-time Grammy Award winner, Eddie Palmieri is renowned for his unique blend of jazz and Latin rhythms. His musical career spans more than 50 years as a groundbreaking pianist, composer/arranger, and leader of celebrated Salsa and Latin jazz orchestras, as well as smaller ensembles. Palmieri, a restless, yet instinctive artist, embraces the future of his music by unapologetically blazing a distinctive musical path. A true powerhouse of brilliance, known for his astute arranging skills and historic compositions, he has also generously mentored countless young musicians throughout his career.
Palmieri and his 11-piece All-Star Salsa Orchestra will close the free Jazz on the National Mall extravaganza on Sunday, June 12.
For more information on the DC Jazz Festival, to purchase tickets and to see the full schedule go to DC Jazz Fest.
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It's raining. As if to welcome me, the forecast in Tokyo for the next couple of days is thunderstorms.
Apart from that though, everything has gone very smoothly and I'm feeling pretty good 🙂 My dad drove me to Heathrow and I flew at 7.30pm. It's a 12 hour flight and Japan is 8 hours ahead of British summertime so for someone like me who can't sleep on planes this seems to be working well jet lag wise. I lost a day, as you do when traveling east, and arrived at 3.15pm local time by which time I had been awake for 24 hours. I managed to stay awake for 7 more hours and then I was tired enough to actually fall asleep at the right time and only wake up a couple of times in the night.
I have to say, the offering of films on the flight was pretty poor. After I couldn't take any more Big Bang Theory, I was reduced to watching The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and I must be more emotional about this whole 'not coming home for a year thing' than I realised because I actually teared up at one point. At the other end, I was anxious about customs. A part of me was convinced that they were going to say that there's been a mistake and I wasn't going to be allowed into the country after all. Some stern faced customs official was going to yell at me in Japanese I didn't understand and order me back where I came from. Unsurprisingly, this didn't happen. Actually the process was pretty efficient, though my broken finger held up taking my fingerprints a bit.
My boyfriend was waiting for me at arrivals, he's been staying with his family in Saitama for a week trying to find us somewhere to live. Our romantic greeting was hindered somewhat by a boy band that I had managed not to notice were on my flight and their entourage. I have no idea who they are, but they must be fairly famous as they had quite a crowd of Japanese girls waiting for them, blocking me and my luggage trolley.
Thankfully we could get a coach from the airport to the hotel my company have put me in, as taking my two massive suitcases on the metro would have been a nightmare. It seems to be very much a 'business hotel,' the room is small and my luggage pretty much takes up all of the floor but it's comfy and everything works so I'm happy. It was yummy but a bit strange eating fish and rice for breakfast, I also felt very female and gaijin amongst all the salary men having their morning coffee.
I'm chilling in my hotel now, later on I have to go into work for a meeting & then apartment hunting!