There was a time when the Consumer Electronics Show was the absolute pinnacle of gaming's future. Anyone who was anyone in the game development world made their way to the Las Vegas Convention Center, press kits and goodies and beta builds in tow, and showed off their wares to buyers, publishers, and the press alike. One need only look at a few old videogame magazines to get a glimpse of the golden days of CES: pages after pages of exclusive show coverage, virtual nations of screenshots, and descriptions of games of all caliber. Here you'd see early glimpses of games that have become legends, forgotten obscurities, and even titles that never quite made it to store shelves. Photos reveal massive, expensive booth displays, glitzy world premieres, and a general sense that videogames have transcended the toy store prison and become both a viable market and a cultural phenomenon.
Powergrid Fitness's Kilowatt, so you can exercise and game at the same time. One of the many gizmos and gadgets at CES.
One may look at such coverage and think that they're seeing E3. And, in a sense, they'd be right. In many ways, E3 has become what CES used to be. Games simply became too big to be a part of a general electronics show. They've packed up and moved further west to Los Angeles, which was more than happy to accommodate their transcendence into a headlining act.
So what's left, then? Certainly not as much as there once was - software representation is relatively sparse at CES these days. This is a show of gadgets and gizmos and, as such, the videogame showing is mostly limited to new hardware, for better or for worse. But there are still major announcements and important showcases to be had from the important manufacturers, so let's look at what this year's CES brought for them.
In fact, one of the most notable pieces of news at this year's CES was a piece of hardware that didn't make the cut - Xbox Next. At the time of the announcement that Bill Gates would present a keynote at CES 2005, it was widely rumored that a first look at the next piece of Xbox hardware would be forthcoming - especially since Gates unveiled the final look of the original Xbox at his CES keynote back in 2001.
However, this was not to be, at least not at this CES, leaving many to speculate that either Game Developers Conference or E3 will be the official unveiling of the company's next-gen hardware line. Nonetheless, references to Microsoft's games consoles weren't entirely excised from the speech - Gates referenced the apparently buoyant state of the current Xbox in his entertaining, slightly goof-heavy Conan O'Brien co-anchored keynote, mentioning an alleged 40 percent North American market share for the console in November and December, as well as eye-opening sell-through figures of 6.3 million for Xbox killer app Halo 2. He even participated in a little virtual sports car racing on on Forza Motorsport, an internally-developed Microsoft project which shows the sheer will of the company to compete in all major game genres, even in areas where Sony (with the Gran Turismo series) appears to have a massive advantage.
There were also public showings for a limited amount of Xbox titles, including networked versions of the already-released Halo 2 and LucasArts' forthcoming Star Wars: Republic Commando, at Microsoft's booth on the show floor, although some analysts commented on the Xbox display only taking up a corner of the company's massive showcase. Nonetheless, Forza's good-looking three-screen mode (in which you'll need 3 networked Xboxes and 3 TVs), with an end result looking something like the arcade version of Sega's Ferrari F355 racer, was probably the highlight of the booth for many.
Also shown behind closed doors were titles including Jade Empire, and, particularly, Doom 3, which ships for Xbox in March and has already been the subject of an enthusiastic, if early review in the final issue of Ziff Davis' XBN magazine. Vicarious Visions' port is, indeed, looking impressive, with deathmatch plus as yet unannounced extra Xbox Live functionality, as well as an intriguing-looking Xbox-exclusive co-op mode and surprisingly competitive visuals given the very high-end PC needed to run the PC original. But what wasn't being announced were major Xbox titles past mid-year, indicating, perhaps, that an increasing amount of major Microsoft development is going into games for Xbox Next.
Sony's CES press conference was also rumored to be a little more earthshaking than it eventually turned out, since it was believed that North American launch price and date would be set by Kaz Hirai at the show. This may, in fact, have been the original plan, but with Sony's PSP GPU factory not yet up to speed, and units only trickling out onto the Japanese market, in the end, only a tentative 'late March' date was announced. Hirai did confirm that, as of that date, 510,000 PSPs had been shipped to stores in Japan, but it's clear that the handheld is still tremendously difficult to get hold of, even there. Therefore some observers believe a PSP launch delay until May is in order, simply to give Sony time to build up units for North American and European debuts. Conversely, it's quite possible that the PSP could launch in March, just with the same relative paucity of units seen in its Japanese debut.
One thing that the PSP press conference made very clear, however, was that the PSP isn't just about games. Hirai showed several movie trailers running on the PSP's UMD discs, and also brought rapper and Pimp My Ride star Xzibit out on stage to show how easy it was to transfer songs from a Sony PC to the PSP. Multi-function gaming devices are increasingly attractive, if not always well-realized, but in order to truly take off, it's clear that Sony want the PSP to at least appear to be everything to everyone.
On the other hand, the range and originality of PSP games was something that Hirai also tried to stress in the press conference. Although some currently have the impression that a great deal of PSP launch games are slightly streamlined PlayStation 2 conversions, he pointed out that there a number of original titles in development in the near and far future, and that many of the well-known names appearing on PSP (Tony Hawk, Wipeout, and so on) are more 'franchise extensions' to PSP than straight conversions. There's a fine line between the two, but the real point is probably this - it doesn't hurt to have 3D portable versions of titles which exhibited great gameplay to start with.
As for the range and breadth of titles being shown, the video montage shown during the PSP press conference featured the following titles: Ape Escape P!, ATV Offroad Fury, Coded Arms, Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Dynasty Warriors, Hot Shots Golf, Mercury, Metal Gear Acid, NBA ShootOut 2005, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Twisted Metal World Tour, and WipeOut Pure. Many of these titles were then available for playable demonstration following the press conference, and there are, likely, too many to cover in detail here. But it's obvious that Sony has a multitude of good-looking, functional games for the PSP's launch window and beyond, and, depending on price and availability, have an extremely competitive handheld.
As for the public face of Sony's handheld at CES, PlayStation Portable had a small showing, buried deep inside Sony's booth. The unit sat, behind glass, playing a looped movie involving bright colors and flowers. The games themselves were not particularly visible on the show floor, though, showing that CES has morphed somewhat for the major console manufacturers, from a place where it was important to be seen, to a place where it's important to make announcements and show your products to a select band of individuals.
In contrast, Tiger Telematics' Gizmondo, for example, had a strong showing this year. Strong, that is, if strength can be measured by booth size. The Gizmondo had its American premiere at the last CES, back when it was called the Gametrac and had absolutely no software announced. Tiger's gotten their act together now, and have already apparently launched the portable in Europe. They've even gone as far as to hire "booth babes" for the show, and set up a break dance floor next to the booth.
The Gizmondo is a portable gaming device that, much like the N-Gage and the Zodiac and other portables who have struggled to grab a market share, is packed with all sorts of extra features that don't have much to do with gaming. There is a functional digital camera, for example, though "functional" is about the extent of its capabilities. The Gizmondo can also play movies and music via SD memory cards. The most surprising and note-worthy inclusion here, however, is an embedded Global Positioning System, which allows one to… well, see exactly where they are at any given time. Useful for driving, we suppose, though we're told that future games will somehow incorporate this feature into play.
The only example we were revealed is packed into a gang war simulation called Colors. Apparently - and this wasn't functional at the time of the show - Colors features a separate 2D minigame in which players can "own" real territory in their area. Details were sketchy, but we're told that players can hire both NPCs and real people to defend their turf from rivals who wish to take it for themselves. This, of course, depends on separate players owning their own Gizmondo, a copy of Colors, and the willingness to play. When asked if this feature had any use without these outside factors, the answer was an honest "no."
There is also a single-player mode to Colors, which takes place in its own fictional 3D world. In the early build we played, the game offered a choice of three or four very similar early 90s "gangsta" movie-type players which were used to roam around a vast, lonely 3D city looking for something to do. We spotted an extremely low-polygon car parked near a streetlamp, though efforts to interact with it proved fruitless. A few buildings had doors as well, though upon further inspection, these were just flat sprites. Occasionally a hostile gang member would step out of nowhere, initiating a fight.
Fights involve targeting the opposition and pressing the "fire" button repeatedly. Targeting is fairly intuitive, as enemies stand still until they are dead. Players can strafe to avoid gunshots, though they can't fire unless they're standing still, so getting shot up a bit is probably unavoidable. When your rival is defeated, after pumping nine-or-so bullets into his body, he falls to the ground. There is no reward for killing rival gang members, other than the inalienable right of not having bullets sprayed into your body.
We were eventually shown a short preview of a later build of Colors, though not much had changed. There was a stereotypical pimp - cane, hat, and all - standing on a street corner, who requested a vague protection service from the player. When asked a yes or no question by the pimp, the player's possible replies are "Yo was up!" and "Naw dog."
Other games on display included Stuntcar Extreme, a racing game with questionable collision detection and a track that stops rendering itself when you fall off the side. This game was a part of Europe's launch, so we're left to assume this is near-final code. There was also Angel Fish, a vertical shooter with somewhat pedestrian enemy patterns that repeat indefinitely throughout its three levels. This, also, was a part of the European launch, along with Super Drop Mania, a standard but well-meaning puzzle game courtesy of Fathammer.
DISCover's PC/console hybrid technology returned to CES in the form of a small corner booth in the South Hall. Last year, DISCover and Apex went all out to push their upcoming joint effort, the ApeXtreme, including a flashy press conference in a rather swank little Italian restaurant across the street from the convention center. This year, their presence was limited to exactly two televisions hooked up to the bulkier and more unsightly Alienware models in a completely abandoned booth. When asked, an Apex marketing representative said that the ApeXtreme was "undergoing revisions" and "will not appear on the show floor." In fact, according to recent news stories, legal and logistical problems may mean the Apex version of the console might not appear at all, but we'll have to wait and see.
The mysterious Phantom makes another appearance.
Infinium Labs also made a return to CES though, unlike last year, the Phantom was actually functional and hooked into a monitor. Nothing much has changed since E3. The Phantom carries all of the same features as before, though we're told the final production model will be a bit more streamlined than that which was displayed. We were given a release date of "third quarter 2005," which brings the trade show release date count up to three. Perhaps Infinium is just about due for a charm?
Other than a number of mobile-related game items, and a neat little surround-sound chair designed for game playing alongside a number of hardware peripheral manufacturers showcasing their wares at CES, there wasn't a multitude of items for a games journalist to look at. Despite early press releases to the contrary, and little crudely-drawn game controllers adorning most of the official CES signs around the halls, this simply was not a videogame show. It may never be again.
But all in all, the gaming presence was significantly stronger this year than last, though that's really not saying much at all. Much of what was there was either hidden or limited to events outside of the show floor, such as the Game Power Showcase and Forum, a one-day event held before the CES show floor was even opened, which apparently drew record crowds for a pre-show event.
Showing the somewhat evolving status of CES, there was even an appearance by the shyest of major console manufacturers - Nintendo made a small appearance on the show floor with its bus, revealing the current status of the new StarFox title for GameCube, other titles such as Wario Ware Inc. for DS and Resident Evil 4 for GameCube, and… for now, not much else, since its major hardware announcement of recent is the DS, and it's clearly saving its major console announcements for later in the year.
So, perhaps this is the beginning. Perhaps games are on their way back home to Vegas. But for now, we're going to have to give a Colors-inspired "naw, dog" and start packing for GDC and E3.
Additional contributions to this report were made by Simon Carless.


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NASA data reveals the truth about Covid-19's effect on climate change
"This is the warmest decade in the historical record without any question whatsoever."
Passant Rabie
New NASA satellite data reveal global warming continued unabated in 2020 — in fact, the year is tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record, according to the space agency.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic forcing most people around the world to stay home, 2020 continues the trend in rising global temperatures, driven in major part by increases in greenhouse gas emissions, NASA experts said during a teleconference debuting the new data on Thursday.
The agency's data throws cold water earlier speculation about whether a decrease in air pollution levels seen in 2020 as the pandemic slowed human production, travel, and other activity that produces greenhouse gases could translate into measurable gains against global warming over time.
Lockdown might have put the brakes on humans, but the new data suggest the climate crisis suffered no such slowdown.
"When you add in all the things humans have done, almost all the trends over this period are attributable to human activity."
The average temperature on Earth in 2020 was 1.84 degrees Fahrenheit (1.02 degrees Celsius) warmer than the baseline average between the years 1951 to 1980, according to NASA. Every decade since the 1960's has been warmer than the previous one.
Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, had a bleak prediction for 2021, too.
"This is the warmest decade in the historical record without any question whatsoever," Shmidt said during the teleconference. "With these trends, and as the human impact on the climate increases, we have to expect that records will continue to be broken."
Global temperatures data revealed that the year 2020 was the hottest year on record, tying with the year 2016. NASA/Josh Stevens
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) each conduct their separate analysis of global temperatures. Curiously, NASA's analysis suggests 2020 is absolutely the warmest year on record, but by bringing both datasets together, the agencies say 2020 can be considered on a par with 2016 for the warmest year.
But even if 2020 was not the warmest year on record, it is undisputed that each of the past seven years have been among the warmest ever recorded, revealing an alarming trend of rising temperatures. Earth's average temperature has risen more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century.
This upward trend is mainly driven by human activity, which leads to increased emissions of carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gases.
"We can say quite confidently that the trends that we see are not being overly affected by non-climatic issues," Schmidt said during the conference.
"When we look at the 20th century we can see very clearly what has been happening... we know that we've been increasing the amount of greenhouse gases," he added.
This trend in warming temperatures is wreaking havoc on the planet, leading to a rise in sea levels, more frequent heat waves, the melting of ice sheets and loss in animal and plant habitat.
The Covid-19 impact
Earlier this year, as the Covid-19 pandemic forced a decrease in human activity as many cities imposed a socially distanced lockdown on their residents, satellite data recorded a decrease in global air pollution levels over cities, and even entire continents. Some looked to these data and theorized 2020, for all its hardships, could be the year warming pulled back.
Satellite imagery collected by the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed a 45-50 percent drop in nitrogen dioxide levels across Europe in the early months of the pandemic. Meanwhile, data collected by NASA showed a 30 percent reduction in nitrogen dioxide across the Northeast United States.
Nitrogen dioxide is one of the most abundant greenhouse gas pollutants, generated by burning fossil fuels for electricity or transportation.
But the recent data reveal otherwise. Unfortunately, it is clear that the planet's trajectory towards increasing temperatures will not be halted by a few months shift in human activity.

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SUMMARY.--The Preface. The Promise of the Father. The Command to Witness in Jerusalem, and in All Judea, and Unto the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. The Ascension. The Charge of the Angels. The Week of Prayer. The Fate of Judas. The Choice of an Apostle.
The former treatise. Luke's Gospel.
Theophilus. See note on Luke 1:3. Luke, whose history of {Acts} is really a continuation of the history of his {Gospel,} very naturally refers to the former.
Through the Holy Ghost. Jesus received the Spirit without measure, and all he did was in the Spirit. He also imparted a measure of the Spirit, before he ascended, to the apostles to help them in their work (John 20:22).
Commandments. The Great Commission. (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:49).
To whom he shewed himself alive. He is a living Savior. Otherwise he could no more be a Savior than Socrates, Buddha, or any other sage.
After his passion. Suffering on the cross.
Seen of them forty days. At various times during forty days. Eleven appearances are recorded. There were probably others.
Pertaining to the kingdom of God. His church, about to be established on the earth.
Commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem. Because, right in the citadel of his enemies, where he had been slain, the Risen Lord was to be first proclaimed, his Gospel preached, the Holy Spirit shed forth, and his kingdom established. Because, too, the prophet (Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 2:5) had declared that Jerusalem should be the place where the Gospel should be first preached.
But wait for the promise of the Father. Joel 2:28; Zechariah 2:10; John 14:16; John 15:26; Matthew 3:11. They must wait for the Spirit, that they might speak, on the great day of the inauguration of the kingdom, as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4). The conditions of citizenship in the kingdom must be spoken by the Spirit.
John truly baptized with water. They had received John's baptism; they were now to be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Not many days. Only ten days after these words were spoken.
Wilt thou at this time, etc.? They still held to their old ideas of a worldly restoration of the kingdom of Israel. Their only question was, "Wilt thou restore it {now?}" After the Holy Spirit was given, this delusion was dismissed, and they understood that Christ's kingdom is not of this world.
It is not for you to know. This was a reproof, not only to them, but to those in all ages who seek to know "the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."
Ye shall receive power. Not temporal power, such as they dreamed of, but spiritual and moral power.
Shall be witnesses unto me. Testify of him of their personal knowledge. They all {knew} personally of his life, his miracles, his death, his resurrection, and the Great Commission. There could be no mistake. Their witness is true, unless they were deceivers.
In Jerusalem. First, in the headquarters of Judaism, the capital of their own country, the place where the Lord was crucified; then in an ever-widening circle from that center; in Judea, then in Samaria, then to the uttermost parts of the earth. This order was followed exactly. It should always be followed in our efforts to evangelize the world.
He was taken up. See Luke 24:51, and the notes there.
Verse 11
Ye men of Galilee. The apostles were mostly, if not all, Galileans.
This same Jesus... shall so come. The cloud received him from their sight. He shall come in the clouds of heaven (Daniel 7:13; Matthew 24:30; Matthew 26:24).
Then returned they... from the mount called Olivet. See Luke 24:50. The place of ascent was near Bethany. A church now stands on the supposed place.
A sabbath day's journey. "The traditions of the elders" defined the distance that might be traveled on the Sabbath. It was a little less than a mile. Bethany is nearly two miles, but Luke here is stating the distance of the Mount of Olives from the city.
Went into an upper room. A guest chamber on the second floor.
Where abode. All the apostles are named except Judas Iscariot, who had fallen away and was now dead.
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. The latter clause is omitted in the Revision. They were waiting for the "promise of the Father," and the time was spent in worship. There were ten days of prayer, the best preparation for the Pentecostal blessing; an example to all churches which seek an ingathering of souls.
With the women. Especially those women who had followed and ministered to the Lord, lingered at his cross, and at his tomb.
Mary. This is the last time she is named in the sacred history. Tradition reports that she lived until the near the time of the overthrow of Jerusalem.
His brethren. The sons of Joseph and Mary. One of them, James, was afterwards the James of Jerusalem and the author of the Epistle of James. See Acts 15; also Matthew 13:55. They were unbelievers six months before (John 7:5), but now believed. James had seen the risen Lord (1 Corinthians 15:7).
And in those days. The interval of ten days.
Were about a hundred and twenty. This was the number of disciples at Jerusalem, but not all who were then disciples. See 1 Corinthians 15:6.
This scripture must needs have been fulfilled. Psalm 69:26.
This man purchased a field. He returned the bribe money to the priests, who used it to purchase the potter's field. Peter here intends to say that his money bought the field. The Greek verb rendered "purchased," has the form that means "caused to be purchased."
Falling headlong. Matthew 27:5 says he hanged himself. Peter tells some additional particulars, which Matthew omitted. He probably hanged himself on a tree projecting over the precipices of the Valley of Hinnom, and afterwards, on account of the rope or limb breaking, fell headlong with such force as to burst his body open on the jagged rocks. This is the traditional account of his death.
That field is called. The field bought with the bribe money of Judas. He came to such a bloody end that this, and the origin of the purchase money, gave the field its name.
His bishoprick let another take. Psalm 109:8. His office. This is, rather, an application of the spirit of the Psalm, than its exact words. It sets forth the desert of persecutors.
Verse 21-22
Must one be ordained to be a witness with us. These verses set forth the necessary qualifications of an apostle. In order to be a {witness,} he must have been a disciple of John, left him in order to follow Jesus, attended his ministry, and seen him after his resurrection. He must be able to testify of all these as an eye witness.
They appointed two. Not the apostles, but the brethren, men who met these conditions, then cast lots between them in order that the Lord might make the choice. The two men named are not mentioned elsewhere.
They prayed. That the Lord might choose between them. A choice of men for any responsible church work ought to be made with earnest prayer. It is likely that one of the apostles offered the prayer, all joining in the petition.
The lot fell on Matthias. Some have held that the choice of Matthias was unauthorized and that he was never accepted as an apostle. The reasons for this view are that he is not named again, and Paul was finally chosen as an apostle. To this it may be replied: (1) Neither are more than half the other names in the apostolic band again mentioned, Thomas, Thaddeus and Bartholomew, for example. (2) Paul was not an apostle to the Jews, but to the Gentiles, and hence, not one of the Twelve. (3) There is no hint anywhere in Acts, or elsewhere, that the selection of Matthias was not recognized. (4) In Acts 6:2, "the twelve" are spoken of, and he must have been one of "the twelve," for Paul was not yet converted. These facts show that such speculations as those referred to above are without foundation.
These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website.
Original work done by Ernie Stefanik. First published online in 1996 at The Restoration Movement Pages.
Johnson, Barton W. "Commentary on Acts 1:4". "People's New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pnt/acts-1.html. 1891.


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Félicie is a play by the French playwright Pierre de Marivaux. It was published for the first time in the Mercure de France in March 1757.

It portrays the education and discipline of a young girl experiencing passionate love, who was stopped just in time by a fairy before her passion could get out of hand. However, Pierre de Marivaux did not submit this as a theatrical piece. It was thought that the dialogue in the piece would be less likely to earn aesthetic appreciation and approval than if it were left to literary expression.

Characters
 Félicie
 Lucidor
 La Fée, the Fairy, under the name of Hortense
 La Modestie, Modesty
 Diane
 Troupe de chasseurs, Troop of Hunters

Synopsis
In a wonderland, a young girl, Félicie, is raised by a fairy. Her godmother can make her a gift, of her choice. Félicie chooses the gift of pleasing. The fairy grants her wish.

Plays by Pierre de Marivaux

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The cast of "Shrek" - L-R: Lawrence Cummings, Trent Mills, Alison Woods, and Mac Baron Ginsburg. (photo by Ed Krieger)
VCOS: When you stepped into this role, you obviously had your own vision on the direction you wanted 5-Star to go. But talk a little bit about what changes you want to see as you go forward.
PATRICK: Well, I'm only working on my first show, so it's still a big learning curve. I think the biggest thing overall, after being a resident here for thirteen years, is educating the community to the quality that 5-Star presents. Like I've said, there is no bigger quality in terms of presenting a musical. No better. No question. But also, you have to gauge what the community wants to see and then educate them on more obscure musicals that might not have a chance to play here. That's the tricky part. There are only so many Disney shows. And Disney shows are family shows, but can we broaden the scope of what are truly amazing entertainment shows yet get people to go out and buy a ticket to see it, despite the fact that they might not be familiar with it? My favorite composer is Stephen Sondheim, but it's very hard to sell a Sondheim show up here, only because I don't think people have been educated enough to know who Stephen Sondheim is, let alone know his work. So that is part of my mission: to branch out. And yes, we'll still have the family shows, we'll still try to attract complete families, but at the same time I'd like to do some more adult shows. But that's a process. You have to educate a community. And that's the other thing. Musicals were created in America. As much as baseball is the American pastime, so are musicals, in terms of the arts. We own that. And that's what needs to be nourished and supported and taught to the people up here.
VCOS: There was a time when Cabrillo Music Theatre would program one of these riskier shows in the Scherr. Is that a possibility for you?
PATRICK: Yes. I don't know if it's going to happen this season, but it's definitely something I'm considering. My creativity would love to reach out and try things that are a little edgier, but again, it's a step-by-step process. One of the things I'd like to incorporate and maybe even get to do as a fundraiser for this year are musicals in concert, where you put the orchestra on the stage and you do it either with scripts in hand and do the whole musical as a concert.
VCOS: We've needed that since Musical Theatre Guild left. How else would we have seen shows like Titanic, The Most Happy Fella, Irma La Douce, and Fade Out, Fade In?
PATRICK: I know Fade Out, Fade In because my old man did it.
VCOS: That's right! With Carol Burnett. So do you have a bucket list of shows you'd love to do that no one would expect to see done here?
PATRICK: Oh, gosh, I haven't thought about that because I'm just starting to think about 2019-2020, which would be my first official season. I have not talked about it with the board, so I have to keep it rather quiet, but I have 12 shows that are on my radar right now that I'm researching the licensing for to see if they will be available. These are shows that would definitely fit the concept of family shows and adult shows that are classics, so I've got a good array.
VCOS: So if one of those shows is one that isn't seen anywhere, how do you go about promoting it, not just to the board, but to the community? How do you educate the board so that they would agree to stage it and then educate the community so that they would buy tickets?
PATRICK: Well, it depends on the show. The shows that I am proposing are all very recognizable shows that cover different facets of the community in terms of their appeal. I want to find a classic that hasn't been done in a while, and then I want to find a newer family show. For this next season coming up, there are three gigantic musicals in a row, Shrek, Matilda, and then West Side Story. West Side Story is a more cast-driven show as opposed to one that focuses on sets and costumes. So then it's a matter of finding a hook to sell the show. One of the things I'm looking at for Shrek is to tie it into Halloween because the costumes are so elaborate and I'm looking for ways of attracting families that might want to have their kids dress up as these characters and take photographs of the characters. We might even bring some kids up on stage dressed as those characters.
VCOS: What about staying on top of more current shows? Matilda was a great get for you, but Once would be a great show as well.
PATRICK: Yeah, that's a great show. I was talking with someone who heads Columbia Artists International in New York about something like that. The problem there is that you have to get it so far in advance because we're a smaller market. The Pantages gets the best but then you also have to contend with Costa Mesa and others in the area. The L.A. market is not an easy one because if you're going to play Los Angeles, if you're within a 50-100 mile radius, they're going to be very closed to letting a company like 5-Star have it. So you have to get on lists.
VCOS: Can these other theater companies get first refusal?
PATRICK: The Pantages and the Ahmanson get everything first. They had Hamilton forever and they're bringing back Wicked. With a show like Once, which I love – I saw it at the Pantages – I don't think that would sell up here. I don't think anybody would know it. Very few people even know the movie, even though it had an Academy Award-winning song and it's a really great show. But that would be a really tough sell here. I'd love to go to it, but the average person is not going to be really familiar with it. But there are shows like Newsies, which is a terrific family show that is a little bit more recognizable. Even Footloose, which hasn't been done here, is a little older but hasn't been done except by maybe Theater League.
VCOS: Schools and community theater do it all the time.
PATRICK: I did it in Pittsburgh at the Civic Light Opera. It's good because it's a show that utilizes non-union performers because of its young cast.
VCOS: What are your thoughts about using a "stock crew," in other words, the same director, the same music director, the same choreographer for show after show after show?
PATRICK: In-house?
VCOS: Yes, an in-house team. A lot of smaller theaters do that and you begin to see the same actors, the same directors and crew members for every show, as opposed to consciously trying to reach out and give out opportunities to other people.
PATRICK: I'm all about that. I'd rather give out other opportunities. I'm not saying that I wouldn't have three or four people in each position who rotate. I know Cabrillo was built on that, giving new people an opportunity, and I really agree with that. I'd like to find three or four musical directors, I'd like to find ten directors and a few lighting designers or stage managers. Each department is different. The one department where it would be great to find one or two perfect people would be costuming. Costumes is a tough department to rotate because it's a mechanism that has to work smoothly under the time constrictions we have. If you have someone who really knows how to coordinate as well as design, that's something I'd like to lock into.
VCOS: Outside of the theater operation itself, can you talk about some ideas you have for outreach in the community? Cabrillo was known for that.
PATRICK: I want to build that back up. The Kabrillo Kids are now called the Starlight Kids. It had really fallen off a lot of late and I really want to build that program back. In addition, there's the education program. We want to train these kids not just in the art form but to get out to places in the community, like to Rotary clubs, assisted living homes, and to businesses. So I want to build that community of kids and then they would have an opportunity to audition for the shows. The really nice thing about that is we have Matilda coming up. I mean that's a kids show! What a better way to get local kids – to be able to perform in a 5-Star show? And I want to get people who have gone on to pursue their dreams, who were raised here. In Shrek, our Fiona, Alison Woods, is a tremendous talent who played Liesl in The Sound of Music for Cabrillo. She's an incredible talent, lives in New York City but also has a house here, and is coming in here to play Fiona. There's one right there. She was raised here, went to school here, did a Cabrillo show, and is now pursuing her dream on Broadway, making a living at it. The more I can get of those, the better, the Cassie Silvas…
VCOS: Also Stephanie Block, Tessa Grady, Jonalyn Saxer…
PATRICK: Yup. Those people would be great, and I'd like them to come back and do master classes with our education program. So I'm urging them to stay involved locally and show kids what can be accomplished.
VCOS: How about using the Civic Arts Plaza's community room for fundraisers with celebrity performers. Cabrillo did that with Sally Struthers when she was doing Cinderella and there was also a recital with Richard Sherman of the Sherman Brothers.
PATRICK: Yes, I'm talking about something like for the future, like Q&As with people who have been in movies, so the idea is to have people associated with theater or movies associated with our shows come in and do stuff like that.
VCOS: Any other pet projects you'd like to get started on at some point in the near future?
PATRICK: I really want to utilize the Scherr Forum more, such as finding musicals that are not that expensive to produce that have smaller casts. I'd like to try and get a winter show back and we could do something like that in the Scherr. I have a couple of ideas for that. We're even talking about doing a fundraiser in New York City for 5-Star.
VCOS: What things do you need to brush up on yourself, with regard to learning how to do this job?
PATRICK: That interview would take three months (laughs). The learning curve for this position is so gigantic. It's not a curve, it's a circle. A gigantic circle. Every day, I come into the office and by the time I leave in the afternoon, I've grabbed another nugget of knowledge. But it's so massive. I love it. It's sometimes frustrating, it's sometimes overwhelming, but at the end of every day, I've gained something else. It's amazing how you can be in a business for forty years and then come into a job and feel like you're a baby learning to walk. And yet, I have a tremendous support team around me, not only in the office but throughout the community. Lewis Wilkenfeld has been an absolute gem, but everybody's been like that. So I'm really grateful.
VCOS: It's like growing a new set of muscles.
PATRICK: It really is. I feel like a baby. What I said to the board on the first day was, this is a collaborative deal. All across the board. Theater is a collaborative thing. I bring something to it, this board member brings something to it. This volunteer brings something. This stage manager. It's a complete collaborative effort that makes this thing run, and run well, because no one person has been able to do it by themselves. Not Lewis, not Will, and certainly it won't be me. But with everybody getting involved and excited and chipping in, that's what will make this thing build. I'm very transparent about what I know and what I don't know, so allowing people to exercise their opinion and their influence is just what it will take to make this thing happen.
VCOS: How many years do you see yourself doing this?
PATRICK: Oh, man, this is a new career for me. I can always go back to acting and performing but I got to do that my whole life and this is really what I want to do now. And I'm going to take it one day at a time.
VCOS: Will you perform here?
PATRICK: If I have the time. But I have no hankering to do it. I got to do it at the highest level for a long, long time. I don't want to say that I would never perform in a 5-Star show, but it is my inclination not to. I'd like to direct one, not this season, but in 2019-2020 there's something that might be a good fit, but for right now, I'm focusing on this job and I'm really enjoying it.
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club By Don Lattin
by Via the House · Published May 11, 2010 · Updated February 5, 2015
Originally published in 2010 'The Harvard Psychedelic Club' by Don Lattin is a work of narrative non-fiction. It biographically examines the lives of four men, involved in various ways with what was originally called the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Based on interviews with the surviving members and written accounts, Lattin's book is a highly readable text of the impact these men had on both one another and wider society.
The four men in question are Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (now Ram Dass,) Andrew Weil and Huston Smith; who are respectively given the monikers the Trickster, the Seeker, the Healer and the Teacher. The structure of the book, a narrative non-fiction, follows the lives of these four people; from their younger days, to when their paths intersected with one another at Harvard University during the late 50s and early 60s, to the subsequent impact their lives and careers have had on society.
In understanding the picture that Lattin paints of these people it is important to bear in mind the monikers he has labelled them with; for not only do they give indication of the circumstances of their lives but they irrevocably determine their characterization in the text.
Leary – the Trickster – is the smart professor, whose provocative style helped lead to a popularization of psychedelics in Western society and who some blame for the subsequent prohibition of psychedelics. Yet simultaneously he developed some of the key methodology in psychedelic research. And Professor Richard Alpert – the Seeker – with his animated desires and personal problems, which unwittingly helped bring an end to the Harvard Psilocybin Project but that also set him off on a life-long spiritual journey, in which he even found a new name for himself – Ram Dass.
Lattin notes: "Social and political activism was never a priority with Leary or Alpert. They were not out marching to stop the war in Vietnam, nor even talking about it, In fact, they helped set the tone for the political disconnectedness of much of the human-potential and New Age movements." Along with Ralph Metzner however, Leary and Alpert produced a whole series of texts about the psychedelic experience – both books and in the journal 'The Psychedelic Review – and I believe it is wrong to think that their publication is not a form of social activism for the psychedelic movement; even if they appear to be A-political.
It was Andrew Weil – the Healer – who added the discourse to the mix. He felt he got a bad deal from the professor's behaviour at Harvard, which included debarring him from research and he denounced them in the press, which eventually helped lead to their expulsion. It is Weil though whose own path led him to need reconciliation with them both and whose own later career came to put him in similar circumstances, before eventually finding popular appeal in the 1990s as a health guru.
Finally, Huston Smith – the Teacher – who never fully broke from his own academic faculty and remained, throughout the psychedelic journey, on the very far edge of the social movement. Though his appraisal of the religious significance of the psychedelic experience has now become standard discourse, his greatest lasting legacy is arguably the book 'The Religions of Man' now titled 'The World's Religions', which has sold more than two million copies. His is the element of continuity that really runs the gamut of the text.
"All four of these characters played a role in the social and spiritual changes that made the sixties such a pivotal decade in recent American history. They stirred up the water and then rode a wave of social change. The difference is that Timothy Leary never found an anchor, the stability needed to bring those changes into his life in a positive, long-lasting way. Instead of finding an anchor, Leary tried to walk on water."
This observation is loaded with the text's foundational discourse, which defines the characters and the narrative in a socially utilitarian manner; namely it is a measurement of popular impact. Whereas Alpert, Weil and Smith all had a subsequent influence on culture – through spirituality, through health, through academia – Leary's impact waned from his Sixties heyday. Lattin believes that, unlike the others, Leary never found his "anchor" and continued living in a manner that excluded him from such aspirations. Whether or not this can be read as a failure in the man though is, of course, debatable.
Aside; it is interesting to note how psychedelic literature had already begun reimpacting on the social with various consequences; for example when the Leary group first left Harvard and went to Hotel Catalina: "For Leary, it was a glimpse of utopia, a glimmer of something that would not last. At first, they felt like they were living out Huxley's vision in Island. But before long, the scene began to feel more like Brave New World. That peaceful, easy feeling soon gave way to creeping paranoia."
The Harvard Psychedelic Club is a valuable glimpse into one of the key episodes of the era in which the rise of psychedelic culture in Western society really took off. It profiles, with some journalistic legitimacy, key figures and events and cleanly maintains a very accessible, creative non-fiction narrative throughout the text. For history and biography Lattin's book is a very entertaining read.
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SWIMMING: King out-touches Efimova twice, plus two more wins for Sjostrom in Champions Series in Indy
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Olympic and World Breaststroke champ Lilly King (USA) (Photo: USA Swimming)
There aren't a lot of well-known feuds in world-class swimming, but the Rio rivalry between breaststroke stars Lilly King of the U.S. and Russia's Yulia Efimova is one that even fans outside of the sport know well.
And they matched up twice on the first day of the final leg of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Indianapolis at the famed IU Natatorium, with King scoring two victories in different styles:
● In the 200 m Breast, King's weakest event, she took the lead immediately and had the race in hand through the first half. But Efimova charged into the lead on the third lap and continued with the lead through the last turn. But King ramped up the pace of her strokes and wrestled the lead away in the final 25 m for a 2:21.29-2:21.59 win, moving the American to no. 2 on the world list for 2019 behind fellow American Annie Lazor (2:20.77).
● The 50 m Breast has King as the world-record holder, and she stormed out from the start and produced a world-leading time of 29.63 – 0.40 better than her 30.03 at the Tyr Swim Series at Bloomington, with Efimova at 29.93. How good was King's swim? All-time, only she (world record 29.40), retired Ruta Meilutyte (LTU: 29.48) and Efimova (29.52) have ever swum faster!
There has been very little competition for Sweden's sprint star Sarah Sjostrom in the Champions Series and she won her 10th and 11th races (in 12 tries) in the circuit, taking the 100 m Butterfly in a world-leading 56.42, then followed up with an impressive final lap to take the 100 m Freestyle in 52.97.
Sjostrom completed sweeps of all three legs of the FINA Champions Series in both events; she has two more possibilities tomorrow. Brazil's Nicholas Santos won the 50 m Fly to sweep all three meets in that event.
American Chase Kalisz was the other two-event winner, powering through the 200 m Fly and 200 m Medley with decisive wins by more than a second each over Justin Wright (+1.02) and Michael Andrew (+1.67).
There were impressive wins by Ryan Murphy of the U.S. in the men's 100 m Back, timing 52.99 for no. 3 on the 2019 world list, and by Lithuania's Danas Rapsys, who won the men's 200 m Free in 1:45.56, the second-fastest time in the world this year.
Prize money was $10,000-8,000-6,000-5,000 for the four placers in the individual events. The meet continues tomorrow, and will be shown on NBC's Olympic Channel beginning at 7 p.m. eastern time. Summaries from day one:
FINA Champions Swim Series
Indianapolis, Indiana (USA) ~ 31 May-1 June 2019
(Full results here)
50 m Freestyle: 1. Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 21.65; 2. Michael Andrew (USA), 21.86; 3. Bruno Fratus (BRA), 22.202; 4. Anthony Ervin (USA), 22.68.
200 m Free: 1. Danas Rapsys (LTU), 1:45.56; 2. Townley Haas (USA), 1:47.09; 3. Gabriele Detti (ITA), 1:47.29; 4. Pieter Timmers (BEL), 1:48.74.
100 m Backstroke: 1. Ryan Murphy (USA), 52.99; 2. Matt Grevers (USA), 53.37; 3. Jacob Pebley (USA), 53.40; 4. Robert Glinta (ROU), 54.33.
100 m Breaststroke: 1. Cody Miller (USA), 59.26; 2. Arno Kamminga (NED), 59.72; 3. Anton Chupkov (RUS), 59.90; 4. Kevin Cordes (USA), 1:01.27.
50 m Butterfly: 1. Nicholas Santos (BRA), 22.94; 2. Andrew (USA), 23.11; 3. Andrii Govorov (RUS), 23.14; 4. Oleg Kostin (RUS), 23.29.
200 m Fly: 1. Chase Kalisz (USA), 1:56.91; 2. Justin Wright (USA), 1:57.93; 3. Zach Harting (USA), 1:58.83; 4. Jack Conger (USA), 1:58.96.
200 m Medley: 1. Kalisz (USA), 1:58.41; 2. Andrew (USA), 2:00.08; 3. Josh Prenot (USA), 2:01.13; 4. Harting (USA), 2:08.33.
100 m Freestyle: 1. Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 52.97; 2. Pernille Blume (DEN), 53.68; 3. Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED), 53.72; 4. Penny Oleksiak (CAN), 54.22.
400 m Free: 1. Leah Smith (USA), 4:03.86; 2. Melanie Margalis (USA), 4:06.35; 3. Hali Flickinger (USA), 4:09.72; 4. Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 4:12.30.
50 m Backstroke: 1. tie, Kylie Masse (CAN), and Anastasiia Fesikova (RUS), 28.20; 3. Kromowidjojo (NED), 28.71; 4. Etiene Medeiros (BRA), 28.85.
200 m Back: 1. Margherita Panziera (ITA), 2:06.64; 2. Hosszu (HUN), 2:06.94; 3. Masse (CAN), 2:07.59; 4. Fesikova (RUS), 2:12.41.
50 m Breaststroke: 1. Lilly King (USA), 29.63; 2. Yuliya Efimova (RUS), 29.93; 3. Molly Hannis (USA), 30.40; 4. Bethany Galat (USA), 31.72.
200 m Breast: 1. King (USA), 2:21.29; 2. Efimova (RUS), 2:21.59; 3. Micah Sumrall (USA), 2:23.88; 4. Galat (USA), 2:24.33.
100 m Butterfly: 1. Sjostrom (SWE), 56.42; 2. Kelsi Dahlia (USA), 57.55; 3. Oleksiak (CAN), 58.44; 4. Farida Osman (EGY), 58.67.
4×100 m Freestyle: 1. Team 4 (Michael Andrew/USA, Jacob Pebley/USA, Kelsi Dahlia/USA, Ranomi Kromowidjojo/NED), 3:28.27; 2. Team 2 (Ryan Murphy/USA, Nicholas Santos/BRA, Etiene Medeiros/BRA, Kylie Masse/CAN), 3:30.94; 3. Team 3 (Jack Conger/USA, Cody Miller/USA, Sydney Pickrem/AUS, Hali Flickinger/USA), 3:33.85; 4. Team 1 (Zach Harting/USA, Josh Prenot/USA, Lilly King/USA, Yuliya Efimova/RUS), 3:39.13.
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Mark Stoops recaps Middle Tennessee, perfectly sums up Kentucky's recent slump
Stoops knows exactly why his team has struggled as the season has wore on.
By Jason Marcum and Aaron Gershon Nov 17, 2018, 5:24pm EST
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It was an emotional day at Kroger Field. The day saw a loaded senior class play their final game in Lexington and Josh Paschal make his long-awaited return from malignant melanoma.
On the field, the Wildcats finally got back on track with a 34-23 win over Middle Tennessee State.
The defense struggled at times for a third straight week, but the offense played better as It was the first time Kentucky scored more than 20 points since their 24-10 win over South Carolina back on September 29th. Though it is worth noting that one of those scores came off a pick-six from Mike Edwards, while another touchdown came on a short field after Edwards forced a fumble, so the offensive issues are far from being solved.
After the game, head coach Mark Stoops actually had a great explanation as to why Kentucky hasn't looked the same recently as they did earlier in the year.
"We're not a very good football team when we're satisfied."
Recently, it's been clear Kentucky hasn't had the same fire as they did when they beat a top-15 Florida team in their own building earlier this season, then hammered a top-25 Mississippi State team at home.
Kentucky was playing hungry then. Lately, they don't have that same hunger, and it's been showing on the field. Hopefully, they're able to find enough motivation to put on a show at Louisville next week.
As for today, junior running back Benny Snell Jr. led the way with 115 yards and two touchdowns in what may have been his final game at Kroger Field if he chooses to head to the NFL a year early.
As for some of the seniors:
Josh Allen broke Kentucky's program sack record with a crucial fourth-quarter sack that all but ended any Middle Tennessee comeback hopes.
Edwards put on a show in his final home game as a Wildcat with a 66-yard interception return for a touchdown and forced a fumble.
Lastly, C.J. Conrad had his biggest game of the season with 51 yards and a touchdown.
Here's what head coach Mark Stoops had to say after clinching the program's first eight-win season in over a decade, courtesy of UK Athletics:
MARK STOOPS: Obviously very pleased to get the eight victory of the season. Definitely not easy. We knew that going into it. Got a lot of respect for Middle Tennessee and Coach Stockstill and his son and Tony Franklin, the offensive coordinator. They do a really good job and we knew it was going to be a tough, hard fought game. They kind of beat us at our own game, kept the ball, possessed the ball the entire game and it really kind of got a little aggravating. We had some big stops that were critical that we needed, but it really limited possessions for our offense. It really felt like our offense was, you look at the overall numbers and you're wondering, but the possessions were very low. The first, I think the third quarter, looked up there and we had one possession for a touchdown and they had a possession for a touchdown. There was four minutes left before the second possession of the third quarter. And I thought the possession to start the second half was huge by our offense and just like they did to start the game.
So hard fought victory, 8th victory. When you're doing things that haven't been done in 34 years or whatever it is, it's not meant to be easy, it's not easy. I have great, great appreciation for this team, but especially this senior group. The way they stepped up again tonight and the way they played and what they have done for this program. There's some very good players there and greatly appreciate their effort and their leadership and what they have done and you saw it there today.
We need to play better. We really, frustrating really, mostly defensively, just frustrated with the way our position on the ball and leveraging the ball and some of that. And, again, give them credit. There was a ton of deception in there in getting us on our heels a little bit and eye violating a little bit and not playing as good as we can on the perimeter. And so we got to get some things cleaned up. There will be a lot to look at and improve on from this game.
Q. What does it mean to you and the players to see Josh back out there again today?
MARK STOOPS: Yeah, it was, it meant an awful lot to us. You guys know from my, from covering me every day and I've been telling you the truth, that he has been working his way in there the last two, three weeks. And I don't know what he just said to you now, but he was trying to come back a few weeks ago and just the foot was bothering him and in different, from where he had the surgery. And that really disappointed him because he was ready to go a few weeks ago, trying to get back for the Georgia game, I want to say, and just wasn't ready. And we certainly wouldn't put him out there until he's ready to go. We played him at a spot because we were really thin at the outside backer, extremely thin there this week, and so we played him there because it was really a comfort zone for him. It's a little bit -- he played there all year. And to put him back inside where he had never done that before would have been a little bit tough on him, and we needed the help at Jack, so it worked out good. And we gave him the start just because we thought it was right and it was good and it was inspiring to the team and fun and we got off to a really good start with the two turnovers there defensively. And then I just thought we lingered around there a bit after that.
Q. When you say that we need to get some things cleaned up, what in your mind is mostly what you need to be cleaned up?
MARK STOOPS: Well, I just thought we were sloppy on the perimeter. When in basic football, when you leverage the football, tackle the football, stay off cuts, there was some aggravating yards out there that, those are things that we need to do a better job of fundamentally, and just position on the football and little things like that. And, again, it was a, it was a good job by them and they controlled the clock and limited our offense. You look at the drive chart there and in the first half we had one possession where we didn't score. And in the second half there again, really only four possessions in the second half. The kneel down on the fifth. So that's a defense and we got to do a better job.
Q. Was it a difficult decision to not suspend Tymere today?
MARK STOOPS: No, it wasn't a difficult decision. Tymere and I talked about it and I actually gave him an option on a couple games.
Q. Do you expect Mike Edwards to come out and have not only a game, but even a first quarter like he did on senior day?
MARK STOOPS: Yeah, it doesn't surprise me with Mike. If you look at him and as I'm out there giving those guys a hug and saying goodbye for their last game here at home, there's some real players there and guys that have contributed quite a bit and what about Mike? I mean, he is just absolutely consistent for years. One of the better players in the league. Just really consistent player. He's been very reliable.
Q. I assume their game plan was partially to negate Josh Allen?
MARK STOOPS: Yeah.
Q. Have you ever had a defensive player have a better season than he's had?
MARK STOOPS: I can't say that I have. I've had a Thorpe winner and a couple runners-up and been in the Thorpe several times. But just the way he impacts the game being a big guy, he's really remarkable. And he's so unselfish. You see players so often in situations like that and he won't blink an eye if we're not rushing him. And the way their run game was we were stacking them some and couldn't get him coming off the edges as much as we would like to. It was even aggravating to me. I was like, hey, let's get Josh going here. But he's just, he doesn't even think about it. If he gets, when he gets his opportunities, he's going to go. And he wanted the record, but not at the expense of our defense and what we're doing and game planning.
Q. What have these guys meant to the future of your program, the seniors?
MARK STOOPS: What have they meant to the future? Well, they have just set such a great example for our younger players because of their work ethic, so many things. But they have been leaders, they have been, they have had a great work ethic. They have been very unselfish and really about the team and far from perfect, but they have really, they really have great hearts and their minds are in the right place and they really want to lead and set a great example and set the precedent for the future.
Q. How nice was it to finally get a little breathing room early in the game? You were up 14-0 and then 24-7 and things like that?
MARK STOOPS: Yeah, it was good. And then it really was and unfortunately we got to just play better defensively. When we get the score to go up 21 to start the second half, and then we give up a long drive. And then even at the end we have them stopped again and get the penalty and just silly things. But it was good. And we just got to get the offense more opportunities because we just felt like that was just too much, too many possessions -- or too much time of possession for us, the defense on the field. Just we got to get off the field.
Q. You had a pretty successful year. You still don't seem fully satisfied. What would it take to satisfy you to finish out the rest of the year strong?
MARK STOOPS: Well, we go one more regular season game and that's extremely important and that's what I just told the team. And I told the seniors how much I appreciate them and go enjoy the night with their families. They all have family and people in town and they get to go spend some quality time with them. But we, we're not a very good football team when we're satisfied. We have a big game left and so we got to finish this season strong and that's what I told them. Enjoy the night and let's get back with the right mindset. I thought they did that this week. They came back with a great energy and attitude and really had some good practices and we can play better.
Q. I know Benny's not a senior, but he may be in the same position as some guys who decided to come back this year. I assume you will sit down with him at the end of the year and talk about his future?
MARK STOOPS: I will. But I think that position and what he's done is totally different from some of the other guys. And I'll let Benny make that announcement at the appropriate time and what he decides to do. But that position is clearly different and what he's done, and the upside, he stands some to lose by coming back where other guys, they all gained by coming back. That position's really different. You have to look at it differently, so, you know. I don't think it will be a long conversation.
(Laughter.)
But I don't want to steal his thunder, you know what I mean?
Q. You talked about winning the conference, another hundred yard game for him today, he's kind of impressive what he's done. How important was he today?
MARK STOOPS: Yeah, it is, it's impressive. I think Mike, people were telling me Mike Edwards was in the 300 club for tackling, second defensive back and Josh Allen broke the sack record and I think C.J.'s very close on tight ends and touchdowns and Benny, of course -- I'm not sure how far he is from the all-time record, but I think it's important, how far is he?
Q. 207?
MARK STOOPS: He needs 207 more?
Q. Yes.
MARK STOOPS: Well we better get going. But he's got two games and you know, just he's meant an awful lot to us. I do look at him a lot like I do the senior class, just because he's been so solid, he's been productive for three straight years and really has meant a lot to us.
Q. You mentioned that Kentucky hasn't won eight games in a regular season since 1984. What does it mean to you personally to get to that mark?
MARK STOOPS: You know, it's important. I think that human nature I'm just like the fans, I'm mad about the ones that we let get away. I want to continue to work and we're not going to sit at the table of success very long, we're not very good when we do that as a team. We can't, we just can't stay satisfied and our team doesn't play good that way and we need to have an edge about us here this week. And we got to go play a rival and they're not having a great season, but they have nothing to lose and I'm sure they're going to play very, very tough and hard against us. So we need to just kind of get our sights on that.
Q. Do you think your team's come to grips with being the hunted rather than the hunter?
MARK STOOPS: I said that and I think it's true. We're better when we're the hunters. So we, I thought we responded today to a team that, you know, we were better than, but we know how well they're coached, we know how much pride they have and any team that's sitting at the top of their conference is a good football team. So it felt like our guys did, we started good and -- but again I just think there's so many things we can do better. And I'm really most frustrated defensively to be honest with you. Offensively I thought we, again, we had some things set up, we got to get the ball -- we had some opportunities down the field and we want to continue to do that, get the ball down the field and create some big plays, but we certainly came out and were physical and I don't know what the rush yards were but again when we rush for 203 to 99 for them and again you're going to win football games when you do that. You've seen us on the wrong end of that and you've seen us on the right end of that. And it's a very important statistic.
Q. Was there a conceded effort to try to get it to C.J. a little bit today?
MARK STOOPS: Well, we always do. We always do. Everybody always wants to say but some of our RPO's are there sometimes and sometimes they're not. And when we're playing these SEC teams, they're not going to give him those. They're not giving him any freebies. There was some good reads today by Terry and there was some, there was an effort by us on some to draw the player in and him on a RPO and we had some opportunities there. Today our offensive coaches did a nice job at half in adjusting the route. The one early in the first half when we were just sticking him, the defensive player made a nice read where he came in on the run and then he saw Terry pull it and he shot right back out. That's when Terry read it and pulled it back down and ran it. I believe Terry had a good long run on that. But later we adjusted the route so we wouldn't allow him to play both and we started slipping it in behind him there, running it deeper. And it created some opportunities there in the second half. I think we hit them on that play twice and that was a run, both plays were run/pass options and good reads, good throws.
Q. Terry had a really great scramble almost getting ready to get sacked and threw it to C.J. for great touchdown. Do you think that's kind of a glimpse of what we're going to be seeing the next couple years?
MARK STOOPS: Yeah, I hope so. That possession there I thought was really aggravating to me as well because we had the ball at the six-inch line and get the hold and then get a negative yardage play or a zero yard gain. And then Terry makes a great individual play right there, it was a big play, in a big moment. But those are things that we can't do. We can't take a penalty there on the six-inch line.
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I was inducted to the world of Enigma by listening to the Piotr Sounder Lewandowicz Remix of Sitting on the Moon and I was mesmerized by it, leading my to look up the whole album and that go me to fall in love with the whole discography of the legendary Michael Cretu, whose music used to be played by my family since my early childhood. Even though the name Enigma was also common in my life, yet I never got to experience the entire journey till 2014, and I'm eternally grateful for this unique musical journey. I truly wish to see new music by Enigma coming till the end of time, because today's music lacks the creative brilliance, the depth and the meaning that Enigma brings to the world. I'm insanely excited for the 8th record.


So much for stockpiling pictures - I just had to post this one! I guess I'll have to take some more soon to keep this blog going.
What an absolutely beautiful photo! I stumbled across your blog just browsing around! Nice to see another Canuck out there!


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Q: Quicksort Recursion So I've successfully implemented a quicksort that uses the leftmost element as the pivot every time. I've been trying to implement quicksort using the middle element and having some complicated results. I have been working off of examples that has quicksort recursively call itself without wrapping the calls in any sort of condition and, as you might imagine, it gets stuck on the first call to itself.
The first calls to partition with the samples I've used partition the array correctly, then as it approaches the end, just swaps the two of the elements at the beginning over and over again.
The strategy that I am attempting is to pick the middle element from the list as the pivot, stow it away at the end of the array and then proceed to swap indices. After that pass it complete, I put the pivot between the partitioned arrays. Looks good after a couple of passes, but as I mentioned, gets stuck early on and never gets to the call that should sort the second partition.
any nudges would be greatly appreciated - I also was working in groovy, if you see anything off (and hopefully that isn't causing any issues, but I avoided duck typing for this
the original array is
[100, 305, 2, 2002, 18, 99, 211, 30, 50, 1000, 403, 4, 400, 77]
and when stack overflow is reached the array is
[2, 4, 18, 30, 50, 99, 77, 100, 211, 1000, 403, 305, 400, 2002]

class OtherQuickSort {

static void sort(int[] array){

    quickSort(array, 0, array.length - 1)

}

static void quickSort(int[] array, int first, int last){
        int pivotIndex = partition(array, first, last)

        quickSort(array, first, pivotIndex - 1)
        quickSort(array, pivotIndex, last)
}

static int partition(int[] array, int first, int last){
    int pivotIndex = (first + last) / 2
    int pivotValue = array[pivotIndex]

    swapIndices(array, pivotIndex, last)

    int indexFromRight = last - 1
    int indexFromLeft = first

    while(indexFromLeft <= indexFromRight){
        while(array[indexFromLeft] < pivotValue){
            indexFromLeft++
        }
        while(array[indexFromRight] > pivotValue){
            indexFromRight--
        }

        if(indexFromLeft <= indexFromRight) {
            swapIndices(array, indexFromLeft, indexFromRight)
            indexFromLeft++
            indexFromRight--
        }
    }

    swapIndices(array, indexFromLeft, last)

    indexFromLeft
}

static void swapIndices(int[] array, int left, int right){
    int leftValue = array[left]
    array[left] = array[right]
    array[right] = leftValue
}
}

A: You need to update your quickSort method. Value at the pivotIndex is already in its sorted position so you need not pass it again.
static void quickSort(int[] array, int first, int last){
    if(last > first){
        int pivotIndex = partition(array, first, last);

        quickSort(array, first, pivotIndex-1);
        quickSort(array, pivotIndex+1, last);
    }
}

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As we celebrate this EASTER SEASON!
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This Totally Renovated One (1) Bedroom apartment, with enclosed TERRACE, is a well laid out apartment with dining area, that is, currently, being used as a baby's nursery. Both the kitchen and bathroom have been renovated. The Kitchen has granite counters and stainless steel appliances. It has a Sunny Southern exposure and has Garden Views. There are ample closets, including a Walk-In Closet. This is a centrally located building in the Golden Triangle of the Upper West Side. Just steps away from the entrance of the Riverside Boulevard Promenade, Lincoln Center and Central Park. The building is convenient to all transportation and shopping, including Fairway, Great Gourmet Markets, boutiques and entertainment!


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A Belgian mother who biked for charities all over the world had to have both her legs amputated after they were severely mangled in Tuesday's terror attack in lower Manhattan.
Marion Van Reeth, 54, was one of twelve people hospitalized following the attack, along with her husband and 16-year-old-son, who both suffered neck and head injuries.
She was initially listed as having "massive trauma to both legs," but a Belgian government official in New York, who insisted on anonymity, confirmed the worst case scenario, adding that the family has given strict instructions that they wished to be left in private.
Van Reeth is a marketing communications manager for Brussels Airlines, according to their website, and was part of the company-sponsored charitable program "Bike for Africa," which took her on long expeditions through Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Senegal and Gambia.
The family lives in Antwerp, where husband, Aristide Melissas, 47, works as an executive for a plastics company his family founded in 1948.
The list of seriously injured also includes Martin Marro, 48, a Boston resident and Argentina native who lost five friends in the attack. Other Argentinians who survived the attack visited Marro in the hospital late Thursday to tell him for the first time that his friends had been killed.
Among those shaken up but not seriously hurt was Noah Salz, a 17-year-old, who was on the school bus hit by the attacker's rented Home Depot truck.
"I heard a loud crash sound and the bus matron landed right on me," the teen told WABC.
Salz was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital with minor injuries—but insisted on going to school the next day so he wouldn't ruin his perfect attendance.


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Q: Google Maps update map based on if drive is active I'm making an uber clone app
this is my code and it checks if there is any drive active if so it updates the rider location
    if (driverActive != false) {
        LatLng userLocation = new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude());
        mMap.clear();
        mMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(userLocation, 20));
        mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(userLocation).title("Your Location"));

    }

android studio shows a warning driverActive != false' can be simplified to 'driverActive'and it doesnt update the rider map
but if I remove driverActive if statement it works and updates the location of the rider...
any help would be appreciated

A: It turned it outs just the ParseUser functions that didn't log the anonymous user and thus making it crash because when the check function gets the info it gets nothing making driverActive null while crashing my app..
Thanks anyway


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Aaron Hernandez House: What Happened to This Former NFL Player's Massachusetts Estate?
Aaron's House Photos
North Attleborough Home
Sarah Paschall
Aaron Hernandez was a former New England Patriot tight end who was convicted of murder in 2017. While the public image of Aaron Hernandez painted him as a talented, driven football player with a bright future, there were many signs early on that trouble was brewing beneath the surface. No one, however, could have ever imagined that those troubles would lead to a homicide. Keep reading for more on Hernandez's career, the Aaron Hernandez house, and the crime that put him in prison for life.
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Where Did Aaron Hernandez Live?
The Aaron Hernandez home in Attleboro, MA, is a spacious 5-bedroom, 5 full bathroom and 3 half-bath estate in Westwood Estates. Hernandez purchased the home in March 2016 for $1.499 million. Were it not for the dark history of its prior owner, this home could easily be considered prime real estate. Features include a formal living room and family room, an office, dining room, and a huge eat-in gourmet kitchen.
Between the kitchen and formal dining space is a full wet bar complete with a subzero wine cooler and ice maker. The master suite also features a wet bar as well as an en-suite with a bathroom with cathedral ceilings, a jacuzzi, and a shower. As if there weren't already a sufficient number of wet bars in the home, there's an additional one in the fully finished basement. Some noteworthy amenities include a private theater, sauna, outdoor grill, saltwater pool & waterfall, and a pool cabana with its own half bath and bar.
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Aaron Hernandez House Address
The Aaron Hernandez mansion is located at 22 Ronald C Meyer Dr, North Attleboro, MA 02760. It's part of a luxury neighborhood in the Bristol County area.
What Happened to Aaron Hernandez House?
After his conviction, fiancé Shayanna Jenkins filed a request with the court to give her more authority over Aaron Hernandez estate. Her request was approved in April 2017, only a week after Hernandez committed suicide. Jenkins would go on to sell the North Attleborough home to real estate investor, and patriots fan, Arif Khan, for $1 million the same year. When speaking to Realtor about the purchase, Arif Khan said "Nobody wants to buy a house with Aaron Hernandez's name on it, but I feel a name change and a little upgrade on the property will increase its value." At the time, he estimated the home would need around $150,000 in repairs. "It was honestly in pretty bad condition. There were doors broken down I assume by police. There was also a big water leak in the garage. The garage has to be gutted."
Despite his initial optimism for making a profit on the Aaron Hernandez mansion, it seems things didn't go as planned. Less than a year after purchasing the home, and after making renovations, Arif put the property back on the market for only $1.6 million. According to property records, the home underwent several price drops before finally selling in 2019 for $1.050 million.
What Did Aaron Hernandez Do?
Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez was charged with first-degree murder on April 15, 2015. On June 17, 2013 – police discovered Odin Lloyd shot to death not far from the Aaron Hernandez estate. It was later found that Lloyd was shot by Hernandez and two other individuals after Hernandez had become upset by something Lloyd had said at a bar. Odin Lloyd was dating the sister of Aaron's fiancée at the time.
The overwhelming slew of evidence, including text messages indicating that Odin and Aaron planned to meet up that night, led to Hernandez's arrest and conviction. Despite this being the charge that put Hernandez in prison, it wasn't the first time he had found himself in hot water for alleged violent crimes. In 2013, Hernandez was accused of a double homicide involving Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. The story goes that Hernandez became angry after one of the men accidentally bumped into Hernandez, making him spill his drink. Later that night, Aaron reportedly opened fire on the men's vehicle at a stoplight, leading to their deaths. That same year, former friend Bradley Alexander, who was with Hernandez at the time of the alleged shooting, claimed that Hernandez shot him in the face after Alexander mentioned the shooting. Bradley lost his right eye from the attack. While Hernandez was acquitted of the double homicide, he was given an additional 4-5 years to his life sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm.
Did Aaron Hernandez girlfriend get a settlement?
Shayanne Jenkins money woes with the New England Patriots gained widespread media attention following Hernandez's death. Comments in his suicide letter indicate that Hernandez believed his suicide would make his murder conviction null. In doing so, he thought this would allow his family entitlement to the money from his contract with the Patriots. The Patriots, however, stated that they had released Aaron after his 2013 arrest for the murder of Odin Lloyd. Thus, they refused to pay him the remainder of his guaranteed money. He had a $3.25 million in deferred signing bonus as well as $1.3 million and $1.137 million in base salaries. Additionally, the New England Patriots also declined to release the $82,000 workout bonus that Hernandez had earned in June of 2013.
As of 2021, Shayanna Jenkins has not received any of her late fiancé's money. In 2018, she announced via Instagram that she had given birth to a baby girl with former football player Dino Guilmette.
Who Was Aaron Hernandez?
Aaron Josef Hernandez was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL). Hernandez was drafted by the New England Patriots in the 4th round of the 2010 NFL Draft and played with the Patriots for 3 seasons. A Bristol, Connecticut native, Hernandez attended Bristol Central High School as a teen and played for the school's football team, the Bristol Rams. He originally played as a wide receiver before becoming a tight end. As a senior, he became the state's Gatorade Football Player of the Year after achieving 67 receptions for 1,807 yards as well as 24 touchdowns, 72 tackles, and 12 sacks.
Hernandez's skill on the field did not go unnoticed. Urban Meyer, head coach for the University of Florida football team, flew to Connecticut and persuaded Aaron's principal to allow him to graduate over a semester early so he could play for Meyer's team. Hernandez would go on to join the Florida-based team shortly after his 17th birthday. College records, however, would later reveal that Hernandez was in no way ready for such a shift in his life. His history of drug dependency and childhood abuse had created a deeply troubled youth that was prone to anger. After 3 years playing with the college team, Meyer told Hernandez he would not be invited back to play a 4th year and would have to try for a pro team in the 2010 NFL draft. This was mainly due to Aaron's constant marijuana use at the time. In the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft, Hernandez was selected by the New England Patriots, the team he would continue to play for until his arrest.
Aaron Hernandez Net Worth
At the time of his death, Hernandez had $200,000 in retirement accounts and roughly $50,000 in his bank account. Most of his money having been spent on legal fees, Aaron only had a net worth of $0.15 million.
Aaron Hernandez Contract
Aaron Hernandez signed a 4-year, $2.37 million contracts with the New England Patriots on April 27, 2010. The contract also included a $200,000 signing bonus. While the normal bonus would have amounted to $500,000, the team limited the bonus for Hernandez as a precaution. It was stated that Hernandez could receive an annual salary like that of a third-rounder eventually, but only if he reached all escalators and bonuses.
Aaron Hernandez Gravesite
After his invite-only funeral was held in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut, Aaron Hernandez was cremated. According to records, Hernandez's ashes were given to a family member following the cremation.
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