Two of Hampton Roads favorite actors, Chris Hanna and Julie Fishell, perform this touching story of lifelong love as a staged reading fundraiser for Virginia Stage.
The story of this Pulitzer Prize-nominated play unfolds as Andrew and Melissa, two life long friends, read cards, notes, and letters they have written to each other over nearly 50 years beginning when they were children. They remain close through their writing though he goes off to excel at Yale and join the war, while she flunks out of school and gets married. Through the decades they come together and float apart physically, but the love is ever present. This poignant story of friends who never lose their timeless connection is perfect for a date or ladies night out.
Chris Hanna serves as Artistic Director Emeritus at Virginia Stage Company, where he has directed over thirty productions in the Company's history. He is a Professor and Director of Theatre at Old Dominion University, where his production history is also extensive. He served on the founding faculty of the Governor's School of the Arts, is a past recipient of the Cultural Alliance's Artistic Leadership Award, and presently serves on the Board of Directors for Zeiders' American Dream Theatre. Outside Hampton Roads, Chris has served as Resident Director for the Juilliard School Drama Division, as Artistic Associate of the Chautauqua Theater Company, on the Graduate faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and on the play development staffs of both the New York Shakespeare Festival and London's Royal Court Theater. Chris' most recent onstage performance was as Sigmund Freud in Freud's Last Session at Tidewater Stage. He holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and is a member of the professional director's union, Society of Directors and Choreographers.
Julie Fishell is honored to return to VSC having previously appeared as Lizzie in The Rainmaker, Louka in Arms and the Man, Linda in Death of a Salesman and Julianna in The Other Place, all directed by Chris Hanna. Julie has appeared Off-Broadway, Regionally and with National and International Tours. Select roles include Amanda in Private Lives, Prospero in The Tempest, Kate in All My Sons, Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Charlotte in A Little Night Music and Winnie in Happy Days. Ms. Fishell currently teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara following 23 years of performing, directing and teaching with PlayMakers Repertory Company and the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. Memberships - Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, National Alliance of Acting Teachers.
Support VIRGINIA STAGE & the Arts in Hampton Roads by attending Love Letters!
* No rush tickets will be available for LOVE LETTERS, as it is a fundraising event.


The Last of Us Part II launched a new trailer, and it got a little bit brutal, showing a far more darker route for the title.
The PlayStation Paris Games Week live stream kicked off on the 30th of October 2017, and with it came a wide range of announcements and trailers. One of them was The Last of Us Part II.
The Last of Us Part II, by Naughty Dog, has had players wondering where the title is going after the trailer at E3 2017 showed Ellie playing a guitar amongst a derelict building, with Joel slowly walking towards her. However, the latest trailer that is a whopping, nearly-five-minutes-long trailer seems to be showing the game going down a very dark path.
We're introduced to some advanced facial animations and stunning, but dark graphics, but it's what's going on that has people wondering. The title still doesn't have a release date, but judging by the trailer, I imagine we'll be seeing it in 2018 for the PS4.
You can watch the trailer below, but be advised, it's pretty bloody brutal.


Newport Beach, Calif., Jan. 31, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DPW Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: DPW) a diversified holding company ("DPW" or the "Company") will hold and webcast its first investor conference on February 25, 2019, with presentations beginning at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET following the Chairman's welcome address and breakfast. The presentations will introduce DPW to those who are new to the Company, its subsidiaries and investees while updating those more familiar with the Company on the latest financial results and operational performance, activities, plans and outlook.


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Q: Inconsistent Results from Elastic Index I have two elastic search indexes, to the best of my understanding these indexes have an identical setup, apart from their name. One index has ~1.7 million documents, the other has 8.
The documents have the following structure:
{
    _index: "locations",
    _type: "location",
    _id: "Royal Leamington Spa",
    _version: 1,
    found: true,
    _source: {
        name: "Royal Leamington Spa",
        coordinate: {
            lat: 52.29156048773691,
            lon: -1.5343337101975745
        }
    }
}

I am querying both with the following:
POST http://<server>/locations/location/_search
{
    "from": 0,
    "size": 10,
    "sort": [
    {
        "_score": {}
    }
    ],
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "name": {
                "type": "phrase_prefix",
                "query": "Royal Le"
            }
        }
    }
}

The larger of the two indexes returns no results, but the smaller index returns the document I was expecting. What causes the difference in result and how can I query the larger index in a way that will return results for "Royal Leamington Spa"?

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Q: Using "while loop" or "for loop" to drives NSRunLoop in a thread I have some question about how to using NSRunLoop in a thread. In apple's Threading Programming Guide, it mention "that Your code provides the control statements used to implement the actual loop portion of the run loop—in other words, your code provides the while or for loop that drives the run loop." so, when using NSURLConnection to load data asynchronously in a new thread, I write the following code and it work:
...
....
NSURLConnection* connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self startImmediately:NO];
[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(downloadThread:) toTarget:self withObject:nil];
....
...

selector "downloadThread" is a new thread's entry point, the following is the "downloadThread" code:
- (int) downloadThread:(id)option {
    BOOL ret;
    [connection scheduleInRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
    [connection start];
    while (finished == NO) {
        ret = [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate distantFuture]];
    }
    return 1;
}

here is the question, NSRunLoop is a loop, why we should using a loop statement "while (finish == NO)" to control the NSRunLoop?even though apple's document mention that, but I just don't understand. in another hand, when using a timer, we don't need a loop statement to control the NSRunLoop, and it works, just like this:
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NSTimer* _timer = [NSTimer timerWithTimeInterval:1 target:object selector:@selector(timerFunc) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] addTimer:_timer forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
[_timer fire];
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate distantFuture]];
....
...

so, in what situation we should use a loop statement to control the NSRunLoop?

A: Read the docs for -[NSRunLoop runMode:beforeDate:]. That method returns after processing a single input source. Therefore, if you want to keep processing input sources until some specific event has occurred, you have to loop around it.
I'm not sure where that timer code came from, but there's no guarantee that calling -runMode:beforeDate: once will allow the timer to fire. Also, -runMode:beforeDate: won't return just because the timer has fired. So, that code seems wrong on at least two counts to me.


If you practice yoga, it's likely that you do it by yourself – either in a class setting or at home. But have you ever thought of doing yoga poses with the help of a partner?
Partner yoga is a newly emerging practice in which poses are shared and supported by another person. Partner yoga is not only for couples. It can be practiced by any two or more participants- friends, acquaintances, siblings, parents and children.
An important aspect of partner yoga is to learn how to work together and support each other, especially if you and your partner are mismatched physically.
See what partner yoga is all about in the video below.


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Q: Django: Query gives zero results after first match in for loop The following code works fine until the filter gets first match(es). After that on the following runs in the for loop, the query always returns 0. If in that result object would be a match for the next row also, it doesn't even see that, so I don't see this being a cache issue (which might have been far fetched anyhow).
 for row in self._ordr.OrderRows.SalesOrderRow:
     available = row.Row_amount - Slot.objects.filter(rows_ids=row.Row_id).count()

     if available > 0 or row.Row_id in self.instance.rows_ids:
          # some code

Any ideas what am I doing wrong here?
This is the models code on that rows_ids.
from django.db import models
from django_mysql.models import ListCharField

class Slot(models.Model):
rows_ids = ListCharField(base_field=models.IntegerField(), size=10, max_length=(10 * 21), null=True)

A: Went through the documentation once more, and apparently it's a ListCharField based issue. To find a match in all the options in it, you shouldn't compare it directly to the field, but rather to field__contains. So the correct code is:
for row in self._ordr.OrderRows.SalesOrderRow:
     available = row.Row_amount - Slot.objects.filter(rows_ids__contains=row.Row_id).count()

     if available > 0 or row.Row_id in self.instance.rows_ids:
          # some code

Finally got it to work with this.


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