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No.34 – Lobed Vase (2004)

This is a classic form with a narrow foot rising to a sturdy belly and a broad rim.  Perfect for a flower arrangement on an early autumn day.  Made in England at Toff Milway’s studio.  It has a heavy salt glazed surface on one side and a quiet surface on the other indicating the direction of the flame.  Potters often describe putting a “face” on the pot using the flame to mark one side.

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How to hack firmwares and get away with it

It is with interest we in the Rockbox camp checked out the recent battle in Creative land where they shot down a firmware (driver really) hack by the hacker Daniel_K as seen in this forum thread.

We’re of course interested since we do a lot of custom firmwares for all sorts of targets by all sorts of companies, and recently there are efforts in progress on the Creative series of players so could this take-down move possibly be a threat to us?

But no.

In the Rockbox community we have already since day one struggled to never ever release anything, not code nor images or anything else, that originates from a company or other property owner. We don’t distribute other’s firmwares, not even parts of them.

For several music players the install process involves patching the original firmware file and flashing that onto the target. But then we made tools that get the file from the source, or let the user himself get the file from the right place, and then our tool does the necessary magic.

I’m not the only one that think Daniel Kawakami should’ve done something similar. If he would just have released tools and documentation written entirely by himself, that would do the necessary patching and poking on the drivers that the users could’ve downloaded from Creative themselves, then big bad Creative wouldn’t have much of legal arguments to throw at Daniel. It would’ve saved Daniel from this attack and it would’ve taken away the ammunition from Creative.Lots of Rockbox Targets

I’m not really defending Creative’s actions, although I must admit it wasn’t really a surprising action seeing that Daniel did ask for money (donations) for patching and distributing derivates of Creative’s software.

So far in our 6+ years of history, the Rockbox project has been target of legal C&D letter threats multiple times, but never from one of the companies for which targets we develop firmwares for. It has been other software vendors: two game companies (Tetris Company and PopCap games) fighting to prevent us from using their trademarked names (and we could even possibly agree that our name selections were a bit too similar to the original ones) and AT&T banning us from distributing sound files generated with their speech engine software. Both PopCap and Tetris of course also waved with laywers saying that we infringed on their copyrights on “game play” and “look” and what not, but they really have nothing on us there so we just blanked-faced them on those silly demands.

The AT&T case is more of a proof of greedy software companies having very strict user licenses and we really thought we had a legitimate license that we could use to produce output and distribute for users – sound files that are to a large extent used by blind or visually impaired users to get the UI spelled out. We pleaded that we’re an open source, no-profit, no-money really organization and asked for permission, but were given offers to get good deals on “proper” licenses for multiple thousands of dollars per year.

Ok, so the originating people of the Rockbox project is based in Sweden which may also be a factor as we’re not as vulnerable to scary US company tactics where it seems they can sue companies/people who then will have to spend a fortune of their own money just to defend themselves and then you have to counter-sue to get any money back even if you were found not guilty in the first case. Neither is Rockbox an attempt to circumvent any copy protections, as if it were it would have violated laws in multiple countries and regions. Also, reverse engineering is perfectly legal in many regions of the world contrary to what many people seem to believe.

If this isn’t sticking your chin out, then what is? 😉

Update 4-apr-2008: Creative backpedals when their flame thrower backfired.

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11. “The Fatty Crab” UPDATE !!!!!

As all you avid readers will recall from our previous post on “The Fatty Crab” we were unable to get into the restaurant because of the crowds of patrons waiting for tables.

WELL.. Steven and Lynda along with Mervyn, Carina and children managed to get a table on Friday 28th March.

Have a look at the pictures and short video we put together (sorry about the quality, hard to film in crowded restaurants) Listen to the noise of the people and the cracking of crabs ON the table. We wondered why the table cloths had dozens of holes in them when we arrived. Then we found out 🙂

Sorry also that you weren’t there but probably not as sorry as you are 🙂

FYI: We dined on: Stir fried rice with prawns, whole steamed fish, steamed crab, sweet and sour crab, chicken and beef sate’s, chicken wings, prawns and lots of Tiger beer 🙂

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Click here to go to: 12. Following our chance meeting.

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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Heavy Metal Be-Bop #13: Matt Mitchell

I'm proud to announce the arrival of Heavy Metal Be-Bop #13! This is the first new installment of HMB — for those just tuning in, my interview series dealing with the intersection(s) of jazz and metal — in roughly 20 months. The subject is none other than Matt Mitchell, a pianist who over the past five years or so has become a ubiquitous avant-jazz breakout star, anchoring killer bands led by Tim Berne, Darius Jones, Dave Douglas and many more while also advancing his own severely advanced composition/bandleading aesthetic on an increasingly ambitious series of Pi Recordings discs. The latest — A Pouting Grimace, out next week — is an exhilarating and throughly batshit marvel than any lover of any kind of radical, progressive or just plain weird music needs to hear:

As you'll read, Matt is a serious head when it comes to metal, and he and I went deep on his many underground faves, including Portal, Virus, Jute Gyte and Incantation. He also offered some insight into how his steady intake of outré heaviness might have informed his own new music.

Check out the "theatrical release" of the interview here, via WBGO. (A big thanks to Nate Chinen for hooking this up.) And read the considerably lengthier director's cut here, at HMB HQ.

PS: Mitchell and Kate Gentile, the kit drummer on A Pouting Grimace, both also appear on Gentile's recent Skirl release, Mannequins. If the head-spinning complexity, insane textural variety and overall relentless rush of fresh ideas heard on the Mitchell disc appeal to you, I strongly urge you to pick this one up as well. I'm still digesting Mannequins, and that may be the case for years to come, but I can easily say that along with A Pouting Grimace, it's one of the most striking records I've heard in 2017, in any genre.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

Creature of the margins: Goodbye, Walter Becker

RIP, Walter Becker. Via Rolling Stone, a quick rundown of 10 essential Steely Dan songs. [Update: 9/13/17] And a roundtable Walter Becker podcast with RS staffers Brian Hiatt, David Browne, Rob Sheffield and myself, as well as Steely Dan engineer Elliot Scheiner.

Do you ever get a kick out of the idea of hearing a song as dark and strange as “Deacon Blues” on classic-rock radio?

Yeah, I think that’s great. That’s sort of what we wanted to do, conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation, and I think that a lot of kids our age were very alienated. To this day when I read some text that somebody writes about alienation, I always think to myself, Gee, they make it sound like it’s a bad thing! So yeah, I think that’s great. Naturally that’s very satisfying to us to hear that something has slipped through the cracks.
Asking Walter Becker the question above and having him respond so eloquently was easily one of the highlights of my journalistic life so far. We know him and Donald Fagen as consummate deflectors, masters of evasion, but when I spoke to Becker in '08, for a piece timed to the release of his second solo album, Circus Money, he couldn't have been more open, direct and generous with his time.

We may never know the true division of labor in Steely Dan ("Sometimes we really work very closely, collaboratively on every little silly millimeter on the writing of the song and certainly of the records, and sometimes less so," Becker told me when I asked about it), but one thing that's clear is that his and Fagen's partnership was a) nearly telepathic (their non-versation over the mixing board in the section on "Peg" in the Classic Albums doc on Aja is an all-time masterpiece of snide shorthand) and b) extraordinarily fruitful. In just nine years, they put together some of the most profoundly idiosyncratic yet paradoxically pleasurable pop songs ever composed. One could argue that they were snobs in some ways — from reading Eminent Hipsters, I doubt Fagen would dispute this characterization — but they never looked down on the magic of pop, the fact that a three-(or four-, or five-, or six-)minute song could contain an entire universe. (They never looked down on their fans either, even if they poked fun at them sometimes, as I can attest from having seen four of their legendary Beacon Theater shows over the years, at which Becker always played the good-natured ringmaster.)

 Even without fully knowing what they mean, I have become more lost in Steely Dan's songs, from "Bad Sneakers" and "Haitian Divorce" to "Sign in Stranger" and "Razor Boy" than those of almost any other band. What gets glossed over in all the knowing shorthand — "smooth," "jazz," "yacht-rock," "cocaine," etc. — is just how tender and empathetic their music can feel (I think of songs like "Deacon Blues," "Gaucho" and the haunting masterpiece of a B side "Here at the Western World") even when it's at its most barbed and venemous.

In some ways, Becker's solo work was even more so. He was a limited but soulful singer, and, on his own, a songwriter who knew how to blend satire and deeply felt humanity in intensely poignant ways. For one thing, he nailed the bruise of soured love like few others have. To wit:

"Junkie Girl":

"Book of Liars":

"Downtown Canon":

Donald Fagen can of course be masterful on his own too, but as Fagen's statement from today suggests, there's little doubt that each artist's finest work came out of their partnership. Together, they created a sprawling catalog of, in Becker's words, America's many "mythic forms of loserdom" that's pretty much without parallel.


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Saturday, September 21, 2019

Feast of the Epiphany's 'Practicing Loss': An invitation

The below are some thoughts I put down last year regarding Practicing Loss, a then in-progress album by Feast of the Epiphany, one of the many musical outlets of my good friend and sometime collaborator Nick Podgurski. The album is out now, and I encourage you to explore and enjoy. (A vinyl edition is also available via Kincsem Records, a label founded by members of the excellent Couch Slut; for ordering info, write to KincsemRecs [at] gmail [dot] com.) See also this older piece, written after experiencing Practicing Loss live in 2015. -HS

Blissful incomprehension: Listening to Feast of the Epiphany's 'Practicing Loss'

I don't pretend to know the meaning behind Practicing Loss, or to be able to comprehend its methods and materials. On the contrary, spending time with this music — as with much of the music my friend Nick Podgurski makes and has made under the names Feast of the Epiphany and New Firmament — is for me a process of coming to terms with its otherness. We have all these tactics of reckoning with art, and a lot of times, we grasp for the "next closest thing," drawing what it is we're hearing nearer to what we already know.

In the case of Practicing Loss, the more time I spend with it, the more I feel I would be doing it a disservice by likening it to anything else. I don't hear it as a difficult work. In fact, the less I try to bring it into some kind of familiar orbit, the more it draws me in. What at first seemed alien and impenetrable now feels serene, sturdy, utterly at ease with its own structure and presentation.

What I can say, in a very general way is that I hear roughly three extended "movements" in the work. The first is a kind of ambient ballad, in which an insistent, incandescent synth drone sort of beams itself through the center of the music, as gently unfurling "riffs," played by keyboard or guitar, move in their slow orbits. Soulful, patient vocals center the piece, orient you in its fundamental song-ness. I picture an intricate mobile, suspended from the ceiling, with four or five components each spinning on their own axes, at their own speed, the whole creation moving in exacting multifarious harmony.

The piece begins to build into a kind of refrain around the 15-minute mark ("Light and darkness both shall be burned"), leading to a brief pause and what is to me the climax and highlight of Practicing Loss. The patiently unfolding quality of the first section gives way to a brisk, dancing feel, what sounds to me like a song opening up and tumbling ahead with its own momentum. There is this gorgeous repeated refrain ("We are burned! We evaporate!) that drew me in like an efficient pop hook the first time I heard it, and still gets my fist pumping every time I put the record on. The combination of catchiness and vast, elusive complexity in this second section to me gets at the heart of the Feast of the Epiphany listening experience. I don't pretend to "understand" its order, and in fact, during any given listen, I often feel like more of its details are eluding me than not, but I feel absolutely sure of its own sturdiness within itself. I hear an inspired onrushing of ideas, a steady stream of marvelously choreographed events (for one, a totally unexpected and brilliantly situated guitar solo) that may take years to fully grasp.

The third section is to me the most "difficult," the most other — the least, for me, relatable to anything else I've heard. Again, the twisting, interlocking rhythmic feel of the first two sections, but sort of slowed and blurred, with an almost perverse play between disparate harmonic feels. Sometimes, the synth chords that underlie the piece feel curdled, almost queasy, then twisting into sudden beauty.

Practicing Loss ends with a sort of high-density coda, an echo of the more "uptempo" feel of the second part. The music glinting and rising into this sort of marchlike riff. The whole thing sounds like some sort of extended fanfare or annunciation, phrases dancing and intertwining in sublime tribute.  And then a final refrain — "Lust for loss / Die trying, there is nothing else" — building in its final minute to a brief and thrilling vocal eruption, with Podgurski digging deep into his guts and testing the harsh limits of his remarkable range.

I write the above not as a roadmap but as an invitation. It's possible that the less you take in with you — preconception, will to classify or "understand" — the richer your experience with this work will be. I still couldn't tell you what Practicing Loss is on any fundamental level, but I feel confident in deeming it a marvelously rich soundwork that only seems to bloom further with each listen. You, the listener, are in good hands.

Hank Shteamer, May 2018

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We all know that computers and networks are vulnerable to hacking and malicious actors, but what about us, the humans who interface with these devices? Con games, scams, and strategic deception are far older than computers, and in the modern era, these techniques can make humans the weakest link in even the most secure system. This episode, security consultant and master social engineer, Christopher Hadnagy, joins us to share his stories and wisdom. He describes what it was like to be a social engineer before the world knew what social engineering was and tells some of his amazing stories from his long career in penetration testing.

A big thanks to Christopher Hadnagy from social-engineer.org for sharing his stories with us.

Check out his book Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, affiliate link here.

Check out his podcast called The Social-Engineer podcast.

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Pharmacokinetics of Ruxolitinib in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis Treated With Ruxolitinib Cream: Data from Phase II and III Studies

Am J Clin Dermatol. 2021 May 12. doi: 10.1007/s40257-021-00610-x. Online ahead of print.

BACKGROUND: Pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (AD) involves the Janus kinase (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway. A cream formulation of ruxolitinib, a potent selective JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor, was developed for topical delivery.

METHOD: Pharmacokinetic data were obtained from three double-blind, vehicle-controlled studies in patients with AD: a phase II study with ruxolitinib cream 0.15%, 0.5%, or 1.5% once daily or 1.5% twice daily (BID), and two phase III studies with 0.75% or 1.5% BID. Effects of baseline characteristics on pharmacokinetics were examined. Correlations were attempted between plasma concentrations and change in hematological parameters over time.

RESULTS: Ruxolitinib plasma concentrations at steady-state (Css) increased with cream strength in a less-than-dose-proportional manner. In the phase III studies, overall mean (standard deviation [SD]) Css after ruxolitinib cream 0.75% and 1.5% BID (23.8 [35.0] and 35.7 [55.0] nM) were a fraction of the half-maximal inhibitory concentration for thrombopoietin-stimulated phosphorylated STAT3 inhibition (281 nM), a JAK/STAT signaling marker. Three covariates were identified for Css: dose, percent body surface area (%BSA) treated, and baseline Investigator’s Global Assessment score. Mean (SD) bioavailability of ruxolitinib cream 1.5% BID was 6.22% (7.66%). There were no correlations between Css and any hematological changes except for a transient increase in platelets at week 2.

CONCLUSIONS: Plasma ruxolitinib concentrations after treatment with topical ruxolitinib cream in patients with up to 20% BSA affected by AD are not expected to lead to systemic plasma concentrations that may be associated with adverse effects commonly associated with oral JAK inhibitors. CLINICALTRIALS.GOV: NCT03011892; NCT03745638; NCT03745651.

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Hidden Treasure & Fine Pearls

What is it that has some folks continually making bad decisions and finding themselves in the dump of life? Do they enjoy their isolation? Do they revel in their private hell? Don’t they see the trail of tears in their rearview mirror?

I’m no psychiatrist, but I have some experience with this sort of thing and I believe that most people don’t want to live this way. So why do they persist in their destructive decisions and fleshly behavior?

Now before you suppose that I’m about to tell you that the Christian life is all care bears and sunshine, I want to make it clear that I’m well aware of the challenges and, as Mike Yaconelli put it, the “messy spirituality” of us all.

None of us have it all together. I got it. We all get it. We have all made bad decisions at one point or another. And sometimes life just happens.

No, my heart is heavy for those that continually ignore sound advice and biblical wisdom—allowing their emotions to steer their ship into a whirlpool of more pain and death. They invite darkness upon themselves.

They see the signs, they hear the warnings, but their foot remains on the pedal as they speed past one stop sign after another. They say, “I’m gonna do what I want.” They avoid total surrender to Christ.

These folks will usually find someone to comfort them and affirm their destructive way. The world is filled with plenty of people wandering around in the dark claiming to know a thing or two.

We have all been there. You can surround yourself with ungodly counsel and feel good about it, especially when they tell you what you want to hear.

But listen to the biblical sage in Proverbs 2:1-8:

My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands. Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding. Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures. Then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord, and you will gain knowledge of God. For the Lord grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity. He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him. (NLT)

Jesus told a series of parables about the “kingdom of heaven” in Matthew 13. In the Gospel of Matthew the “kingdom of heaven” is synonymous with what the rest of the New Testament refers to as the “kingdom of God.” The kingdom is at the forefront of Jesus’ message.

Jesus says, “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need” (Matt 6:33). Let there be no mistake, Jesus was all about kingdom.

So what is the kingdom? Entire books have been written on the kingdom. I’ll just sum it up this way:

The kingdom is God’s reign and rule in the cosmos. It’s God’s divine program!

We don’t really use “kingdom” language anymore. A “kingdom” is literally a king’s domain. Jesus preached that God had arrived to establish his reign and rule on the earth—to claim it as his own! That’s why Jesus prayed that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven. He was praying for the very reign and rule of God upon the earth (Matt 6:10).

The kingdom—his reign and rule—always looks like Jesus.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that Jesus would call his followers to “seek the Kingdom of God above all else” because it is where real rewarding life happens. When we are participating with Christ in allowing God’s reign and rule to saturate our lives, and in the lives of those around us, we experience what it means to truly live.

When we live for kingdom, our lives are being built upon the solid rock of Christ.

In order to experience this “abundant” life of kingdom, we must be willing to deny ourselves and sell all that we have to take possession of it (Jn 10:10; Matt 16:24). It’s the only way.

Listen to this short parable of Jesus.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.”  Matthew 13:44

What do those frustrated folks I mentioned above share in common? Simple. For whatever reason, they have not found Christ and his kingdom a treasure worth reorienting their entire lives around. Some “thing” or some “body” excites them much more than Christ.

It’s no secret that their persistence in making poor decisions is evidence that Christ is not central and supreme. There is one throne in their life… and they are sitting on it.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.”  Matthew 13:45-46

If you are not a follower of Christ, please know you can trust that the yoke of Jesus is easy and his burden is light (Matt 11:28-30). The yoke of the world is hard and the burden of it will eventually crush you. Are you willing to sell all that you have to purchase that field… to acquire the fine pearl? Or would you rather take your chances with the world?

If you are a follower of Christ, I want to remind you that your salvation began with a passionate love of Jesus and his kingdom. Have you forgotten your first love? What are you loving more than Christ?

Dear friend, God loves you and wants to supply you with true nourishment for the soul. He alone will satisfy. How long will you turn to temporal things for your identity, security, and self-gratification?

What has become more important to you than the kingdom of God? Jesus said, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God” (Lk 9:62). What has you looking back? Can’t you see you’re plowing crooked rows?

Listen to wisdom. Respond to the voice of the Spirit of God. Put your hand to the plow and don’t look back. What’s past is past. Make your next decision for Christ and the furtherance of his kingdom.

You won’t be at peace until you do.

D.D. Flowers, 2011.

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David received a B.A. in Religion from East Texas Baptist University and a M.T.S. in Biblical Studies from Houston Graduate School of Theology. David has over 20 years experience as a pastor and teacher in and outside the church. He currently pastors an Anabaptist congregation in Pennsylvania. View all posts by David D. Flowers

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Florida State 68, Duke 67

Those of you who know me know that I am not, by nature, an emotional person. Nor am I particularly eloquent at expressing emotion. I find much more comfort and familiarity in the realm of objectivity, in statistical expression, in quantifiable answers. And yet, the more I watch this year's Blue Devils, the more emotional my connection to the team becomes, and the less satisfied I am in turning to numbers to explain performance.

My attachment to the Devils is relatively new - I've spent less than a decade with Duke as "my" team. My experience with Duke is a 221-37 record (prior to this season), with a national championship (which I saw live), another final four appearance, and 6 ACC championships (with 7 title game appearances). I've seen some of the best players ever to put on the Blue and White, I've stormed courts, I've burned benches, I've tented, I've driven 20 hours overnight to Minneapolis, and I've seen almost every minute of every game since my freshman year. Heck, I even named my dog Cameron. I watched my entering class (Williams, Dunleavy, Boozer, Sanders, Horvath, Buckner) grow up, and I matured along with them. I spent my last year on campus welcoming the next version (Redick, Williams, Randolph, Dockery, Thompson, Melchionni) and seeing their highs and lows up close. I got so worked up during the "Gone in 54 Seconds" comeback that I hit my head on my dorm room ceiling. I got so worked up during the loss to Maryland in overtime in 2005 that my roommate's girlfriend was scared of me for a good week solid. I made enough noise jumping around my apartment after Duhon hit the coast-to-coast layup in the Dean Dome that my neighbor came over to make sure everything was alright. Suffice it to say, I've built an emotional connection with the Duke Blue Devils that matches few I've been lucky enough to have in my life.

And yet, with all the exceptional teams that have come through in the past decade, I can say, without reservation, that this year's is my favorite. I love the feeling of not "assuming" before a game starts - not assuming a win, not assuming a star (Carrawell, Battier, Williams, Redick) will pull it off if the team is struggling, not assuming that opponents will wilt in Cameron. I love watching a team fight for everything it gets. Watching Redick last year was amazing, but in a different way - by the end, no shot he hit was surprising - his ridiculous exploits became commonplace. With this year's team, flashes of brilliance, of exceptional talent, of rewind-worthy play seem to come out of nowhere, completely without expectation. McRoberts can look completely contained and pedestrian for 25 minutes, then pull out a behind the back dribble between two defenders on a full court break, or come out of nowhere for a block or reverse alley-oop, and there's this "there it is!" feeling that's almost impossible to verbalize. Paulus can go from dribbling the ball of his foot out of bounds and throwing passes 10 feet over people's heads to nailing 3s drifting sideways and making passes that bring you off your feet. I could repeat these comparisons about everyone - there's so much unrealized potential that seems just waiting to spring forth. I'm constantly on the edge of my seat, thinking this is going to be the game that does it, or that's going to be the play that does it, or they're finally going to put it together at the same time. This year's team is a roller coaster, and I'm strapped in for the ride.

So today's game disappointed me, but not in the way that some might be disappointed. In the past, when we'd lose, it was always easy to point out failings. We became an eight-year Ademola Okulaja - seemingly only capable of beating ourselves. Every loss seemed like a tragic accident; something that wasn't supposed to happen. And as a fan, it was frustrating. I found myself becoming mad at the team for letting themselves down - totally ridiculous, but that was the air around the program. I objectively (not just the subjective opinion of a biased fan) expected them to win every game. But today when we lost, I was disappointed not because I felt we played poorly, or made too many mistakes, or gave up too many good looks. Instead, it was because we fought so hard, and came up just barely short. The team deserved to win today (not to say that FSU didn't), and in the end, they just couldn't quite get it. I've heard that Coach K and Coach Dawkins sounded drained and heartbroken after today's game, and I felt the same way - I rode the whole gamut during this game, from 7-0 to start, to 27-10 at the 10 minute mark, to the turnover filled stretch that brought FSU back into it, to the chippy play and atmosphere resulting in two technicals, to three good looks at the hoop from 5 feet away in the final seconds.

Duke has seven conference games left. We play UNC, at Maryland, at BC, Georgia Tech, at Clemson, Maryland, and at UNC.
All of these opponents are currently in the top 36 in the Pomeroy ratings. I said earlier this year that this stretch of games will define the season for Duke, and I stick by it. I find a strange comfort in saying that I have absolutely no idea how it will turn out. But I know one thing - every possession of every one of these games, the five guys with Duke on their jerseys are going to be playing their guts out. They're going to make every game a fight, and they're going to make sure every opponent knows they've just played a full 40 minutes of basketball. This team leaves it all on the floor because when it comes down to it, they aren't necessarily more talented than their opponents, and there's no single player they can turn to to rescue them in the end. Most importantly, they make Duke, and themselves, proud every time they lace em up and take the court. As far as I'm concerned, I'll take this kind of team and this kind of season any year. Now let's bring on the Heels...

Ok, enough schmaltz - back to what I do better, numbers and objective analysis. Here's the table for the game. ACC stats and Duke stats are updated through this weekend. Tune in this week for special Carolina preview features.

O Poss. Points OPPP D Poss. Points DPPP
McRoberts ON 55 58 1.055 55 57 1.036

OFF 9 9 1.000 9 11 1.222
Scheyer ON 44 49 1.114 44 45 1.023

OFF 20 18 0.900 20 23 1.150
Nelson ON 59 62 1.051 60 63 1.050

OFF 5 5 1.000 4 5 1.250
Paulus ON 62 62 1.000 61 65 1.066

OFF 2 5 2.500 3 3 1.000
Henderson ON 36 40 1.111 38 45 1.184

OFF 28 27 0.964 26 23 0.885
McClure ON 34 39 1.147 34 31 0.912

OFF 30 28 0.933 30 37 1.233
Thomas ON 21 16 0.762 19 23 1.211

OFF 43 51 1.186 45 45 1.000
Zoubek ON 9 9 1.000 9 11 1.222

OFF 55 58 1.055 55 57 1.036

Duke Overall
64 67 1.047 64 68 1.063

CHRIS said...

I usually go to your site for the statistical analysis but I really enjoyed the post. I can remember every single game since 1996 and I've been a fan since 1990 so I feel your pain. I understand what your saying. Last year, it wasn't even enjoyable to watch because a loss was catastrophic and unexpected. This year, although I would certainly rather them win the games, it is refreshing to see this team find ways to win and see them battle like crazy even though they aren't the most talented team or most physical team anymore. I will link your blog on my site. Good job, keep it up.

Anonymous said...

And definitely compared to last year, I get so worked up during the games... extremely tense during every posession, as if I were trying to will help to this great young team. Last year, most games ... (hold on a sec... just caught the end of the first half of the GT v. NCST game... wicked 3/4 court shot at the buzzer... WOW!! Ok.. back to the post) most games was just sitting back in awe of what JJ's offense and Shelden's defense was doing to teams. This year, 9:00pm games are really difficult because win or lose, I'm so worked up it takes me hours to decompress before I can sleep.

I can't wait for tomorrow!

Unknown said...

I likewise enjoyed the post, but have a completely unrelated question.

Do you have any data on how often Scheyer/Henderson/McClure/Thomas were substituted for one another? What I'm particularly interested in is whether there are a couple of players who tend to be on (and off) the floor at the same time as part of a fairly regular "unit." Are there such patterns in Duke's substitution patterns this year?

Paul Rugani said...

I do have the substitution information available, but it'll take a bit to put it all together. Check back Friday or Saturday, and I'll have the answer in a main post.


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Author Pamela Erens Talks About Her First Children’s Novel, Matasha

In her new novel, Matasha, Pamela Erens, the acclaimed author of Eleven Hours, The Virgins, and The Understory, writes for children for the first time.

Matasha earned a Kirkus starred review and this rave review from Meg Wolitzer in the New York Times “the many pleasures of this novel include its empathy and poker-faced wit, and the charms of its main character.”

Dead Darlings is pleased to bring you Pamela Erens.

I’ve read and enjoyed your previous novels very much, particularly Eleven Hours and its depiction of childbirth. I’m curious as to why you decided to write a book for children. What was the journey like?

At the time, I was in between books, and National Novel Writing Month was coming up. I saw NaNoWriMo as a really great challenge. I tend to write slowly and self-edit a lot, so I wanted to see if I could write 50,000 words in a month. I didn’t have a lot of investment in the outcome, so I took on something entirely new. After I finished, I put the manuscript aside for a while. When I read it again, I thought it was terrible. It sat in my file cabinet for about ten years. One day, I was talking to a writer friend who mentioned starting NaNoWriMo, and it reminded me of my own attempt. I took it out and reread it. While it needed work, I found some genuine freshness and pleasure in it. It still needed an ending. I spent a couple of months fixing it up, then sent it out to a couple of trusted readers.

Were you reading children’s books along the way?

I wasn’t, and there wasn’t time to do that. There was some sound I was chasing, and I didn’t want other books to influence me.

My daughter, who is nine, was reading the book along with me, and she told me she thought the mother character was lonely. I found that interesting, as I saw her in a more off-putting light, as more unlikeable. How do you describe your portrayal of the mother?

It’s interesting your daughter saw the loneliness there; that’s very empathetic. I didn’t consciously think of depicting the mother as either lonely or off-putting. While I’m drafting, I’m in a less self-conscious state, and the specificity comes when I go back and revise. In any case, nothing would be interesting in fiction if people didn’t do unlikeable things. Characters can do unlikeable things, they can do cruel things. Everybody is a mix of motivations, and we all do kind and loving things, and also commit unlikeable acts. I don’t see why fiction shouldn’t reflect that. It’s a rare character in a good book who’s completely unlikeable. Perhaps, in Matasha, a few of the classmates are. Still, we’re seeing them from a child’s perspective, so it’s not going to be really nuanced. As an adult, she’d probably see more sides.

As this book takes place in the 1970s. Did you think about its relevancy to contemporary children?

I didn’t consciously think about making it relevant to contemporary kids. I was a kid in the 70s, and I didn’t think I would be successful writing from the eyes of a kid now. For an eleven-year-old today, social media and pop culture references play such a big part. I felt as if it would be a strain to understand that. Whereas the memories of my own elementary-school years were accessible to me. Still, people’s emotional lives don’t change from generation to generation, if at all. If I did a good job, I thought, a kid today could relate. Kids today read Little Women, for example. It’s all about getting the human life and emotions into the book.

Is this story based on real life? Were you like Matasha as a kid?

Definitely, there is some of me in her—the bookishness, the earnestness. The situations were completely invented. Because I was drafting so quickly, I kept having to throw in drama to keep generating words! There is a lot of drama—the boy who disappears, for example, and the mother leaving. I worried that it was going to come off as unrealistic and melodramatic, but drama is all in how you work it. I have a tendency to be afraid of plot, and so NaNoWriMo was a helpful exercise to get beyond that.

I was surprised at some of the revelations toward the end, as they felt very “adult.” Were you ever worried they would feel too “old” for the book?

I did have a bit of concern about that material. I removed a couple of sentences that I thought were too much. Still, kids are very aware of divorce and parents having other girlfriends and boyfriends.

What was the hardest part of writing a book for children?

I hadn’t written a children’s book before, and I didn’t know if anyone was going to think it was any good. In revision, I did a lot of thinking and sorting things out, wondering if it was too dense or introspective. Still, it was a very fun project, and it really allowed me to stretch myself.

What else have you been working on? What’s next for you?

I have a book coming out, very different, on Middlemarch, for Ig Publishing’s Bookmark series. It’s a hybrid memoir/literary appreciation, in which I describe what that book has meant to me at various stages in my life and why.

Pamela Erens is the author of three novels for adults—Eleven Hours, The Virgins, and The Understory, which were named finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award

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  1. Deborah Good

    This is a great interview with a wonderful novelist and a friend to Novel Incubator. Pamela Erens was my second reader in Year 4 and I’ve turned her to her since then for MS consultation. This YA novel sounds smart, sensitive and funny. Looking forward to diving into it.

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Swamp Thing Will Not Be Renewed for a Second Season

The series only premiered a week ago, but it has already been given the axe after a tumultuous production.

By Chris Morse

Swamp Thing may have only premiered just last week, but the series has already been cancelled on DC Universe, but apparently not for any reasons relating to its quality. The production was always an uncertain one, with rumors swirling a month before its debut that the show had been shut down. It also didn't help matters that the season order was reduced from 13 episodes down to 10.

The official news came earlier today with a myriad of explanations, ranging from creative differences to the influence of parent company WarnerMedia, but it seems like the true reason had to do with finances. According to a Twitter thread detailing recent stories regarding film funding in North Carolina, the studio was intent on taking advantage of grants to help bankroll the heftily-priced production, but a miscommunication about the pilot funding compared to that of additional episodes apparently cost big.

It's a common practice for various cities and states to invest in films and TV shows, as the economic impact of bringing these productions over is typically substantial. Often, the amount of money invested or tax breaks offered is usually far outweighed by the revenue brought in as a result of the production, which is why these moves usually make sense. However, it would appear that a misunderstanding over the exact values invested in Swamp Thing would prove too costly for the series to continue.

The remaining episodes from the first season will air as scheduled, but no second one will follow. Simply put, this is a way-too-early end for a series that had already made a good impression after undeniably starting off on the right foot. This is truly unfortunate for fans who wanted to see a darker, horror-oriented take on the classic monster-hero.

Based on the DC characters originally written and drawn by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, Swamp Thing will follow Abby Arcane as she investigates some kind of swamp-born virus in a small Louisiana town. She soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets that soon prove no one is safe as unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the marsh.

Starring in the series is Andy Bean (It: Chapter Two) as Alec Holland, the scientist who transforms into the titular monster, Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees in 2009's Friday the 13th) as Swamp Thing himself, and Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf) as CDC researcher Abby Arcane. The cast also includes Ian Ziering as Daniel Cassidy, Jennifer Beals as Sheriff Lucilia Cable, Maria Sten as Liz Treymane, Will Patton as Avery Sunderland, Virginia Madsen as Maria Sunderland, and Jeryl Prescott as Madame Xanadu.

Swamp Thing is executive produced by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, both of whom wrote the first episode, alongside Wan, Len Wiseman, and Michael Clear. Wiseman also directed the first installment. The series is currently airing its first and only season on the DC Universe streaming platform.

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Apple announced its second-gen AirPods on Wednesday and black-turtleneck-donning fanboys haven’t been this hot and bothered since that U2 album automatically downloaded on iOS devices.

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Just Not Good Enough.

The other training group, a great bunch of decathletes and heptathletes.

The weeks are sure starting to fly by quick, another week gone, another week closer, another week less to realise my dreams.

Training did not go as well this week, I pushed it hard but I felt that the fatigue from the first week has just rolled on to the second. I’m just not recovering fast enough.

Truth be told, it’s pretty clear that if I keep going on like this I will be nowhere near where I need to be by the end of the season in 2012. And as this is probably my final season, if I don’t make it then all the work I’ve put in for the past 3-6 years of my life would have counted for nothing.

Yes I’m pushing myself hard, but it’s just not good enough.

You see the picture of the other guys above? Well they’re a great bunch of multi-eventers (the decathletes there all scoring past 7k) and even they are struggling to make it to the Olympics.

Watching them train made me realise exactly how hard everyone is working now. I did my 1min grass runs which left me absolutely wrecked, but they were doing circuit work with 200m sprints and they were pushing hard all the way.

All these years I’ve always struggled to keep up with the level of training compared to these guys, I push as hard as I could but physically I just never was able to keep up. I would push hard for a couple of weeks and then get injured.

I feel like I’m trapped by the Red Queen theory (which refers to the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland), because the world is moving ahead, to stay still I have to run. I can’t stop because I’ll just go backwards but to get to anywhere I have to run twice as fast.

I’m running out of ideas on how to run any faster.

But maybe the key isn’t about figuring out how to run any faster, for that may be too abstract a concept.

Maybe it’s just about running every single damn stride right.

I reflected on myself and the hard truth is that no, this is not my absolute best and not everything that I give to make this one last shot count.

There are all those small little things, like not preparing my recovery meal beforehand and ending up eating rubbish due to the lack of time before my lectures start; missing a stretching session at night because of too much nonsense I do on the computer before I sleep; or not filming my throws because I forgot to put the SD card in my camera. I have to get all these small little things right.

Time is a premium this year, between the Masters program, the training and trying to make some money to pay the bills, there isn’t much room for error.

I have to follow every lead, chase down every prospect.

I have to keep my mind clear, focused and work till something sticks.

It’s a brand new week tomorrow, let’s not waste it.

Got to get my left leg fixed.

  1. Samuel Goldberg says:

    I see a an interesting contradiction in your recent blog, perhaps you can enlighten me, if you have the time. For example your comment:
    “I have to follow every lead, chase down every prospect.”.

    Although you started a bit ahead of me ( I did 3550-1st decathlon I ended up at 7276) and I offed to help you several months ago(see my earlier blog reply)…….yet even though you can not find another decathlete who remotely models our same beginnings or my success(I have unofficial world decathlon NET points world record(net points are difference between first and best decathlon scores-and not one decathlete in history has exceeded 3000 net points my record is 3600+ net points-not to mention I ended up running all-time world decathlon bests (8th fastest all-time 400m 58.9 to 48.4 (1967) and 13th fastest all-time 100m.(12.3 to 10.7(1967)).you said no thanks, saying you didn’t know me and I only found you via the internet. How interesting. Take a look at the outdoor progression of Winatho Wassana while I was her coach during the 2007, I was Thailand’s head coach Heptathlon-Decathlon. Notice not one coach whether Thai or foreign has taken her past the 5 individual event PB’s and all-time highest Heptathlon score she posted since our 2007 season together. I really wonder about this. Please enlighten me as I am always willing to learn. Coach Sam Goldberg(retired decathlete)

    • Yong Sheng says:

      Hello Coach Sam,

      I do wonder what kind of enlightenment you are looking for from me.
      Why I said no to your help? Oh no don’t get me wrong I’m interested in all kinds of ideas you might have. But every single coach, including the Olympic coaches, that I have worked with are all happy to share and learn the different training philosophies and techniques around. I intend to pass everything I learnt on to the rest of the community back home in Singapore so that I can help move the sports scene along some day. You on the other hand offered your ‘secret technique’ to lower my 100 timing in your mail to me and you wanted me to promise that I would not share this with the rest and no I can’t do that. So as to keep to my word and not disappoint you, I choose not to. Besides, put yourself in my shoes, would you work with a group of people who know what they are doing around you, or would you work with someone who knows what they are doing half way around the world?

      As I said I do not doubt your achievements or skills, but what I’m facing is a very different set of problems that yourself. What I’m running out of is space, time and money, and unfortunately I already realised that only I can solve those problems. And no I’m not getting injured frequently because of my weights program, it’s because once upon a time I did my best to serve my country.

      I said I didn’t know you and you only found me via the internet when you wanted me to recommend you to my association back home. I’ll ask you this, would you recommend someone to your employer and vouch for him if you got completely no idea who he was? It’s as simple as that.

      And I’ll give an honest advice, people have asked me about you back home because you seem to be really active on the internet contacting the people in South-East Asian track and field circle, and perhaps you don’t realise it but sometimes doing too much makes you seem like an internet troll. As I told you before you achievements are grand and if your qualifications and skills match the needs of these associations they will get you a position. If not perhaps you need to ask yourself is there really a market for someone like you here. Realistically the funding for sports in this region is very low and thus paid foreign coaches are a rarity.

      I hope you understand I harbour no ill feelings, I hope the floods in Thailand hasn’t affected you much and I wish you the best in life.

  2. Samuel Goldberg says:

    Hello and thank you for taking the time to clairify your thoughts.

    Please allow me respond to your concerns. First, I hope you would agree an athlete or a coach can and should only be defined by what they have accomplished, which unfortunatley is currently not in vogue in Singapore. Perhaps when you were asked about me by anyone involved in our sport in Singapre, the proper answer was simply- look at what he accomplished, compare this to others seeking or holding the same position and judge him on that.

    The IAAF official athlete’s bio website (see her outdoor progression and dates of her PB’s)shows what happened to Winatho Wassana during the short season I was Thailand’s head Heptathlon/Decathlon in 2007. 5 individual event PB’s and her all-time hightest heptathlon score. And, these were set while she already had been a top rated and experience competitor, not a beginner where improvement comes rather easily. Next consider that not one of these PB’s has been surpassed by any coach Thai or foreign since. That’s 4 years under many types of “experts” What else can a coach do? What else would any athlete or nation require?

    I began the same as you with a 12.3 100m and finished with the 13th fastest all-time world decathlon best time (10.7)(1967). Consider our similar first official decathlon 400m times. I turned my 58.9 into the 8th fastest all-time world decathlon 400m time (48.4)(1967). How about our 110MH times. I turned my pathetic 19.4,110mh, into a victory over the UK’s Alan Pascoe, europe’s greatest all-around hurdler(Olympic Silver medalist 4x400m relay, Munich 1972; 4th in the Munich 400mh finals. He also had a 13.5110h as the photo I sent you shows (60yd HH all-comers meet at the US National Decathlon training Center, while I was our running and hurdles head coach and several UK and foreign national athletes came there for training stints). In prep for the 1973 USA-Russian Indoor Meet, I ran 7.4(60yard HH) the fastest time posted by any decathlete in the US(1973).

    Now, consider our shot put marks. I turned my 28(feet) into 45 feet while standing 6’/158 lbs. As an ardent anti-steroid athlete I reduced my weight to 158lbs, to show my commitment to the highest ideals of amateur sportsmanship while many of my fellow competitors like the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion Bill Toomey and former world decathlon recordholder Russ Hodge(1964), who later became world decathlon shot putt recordhold (62ft) opted for steroid use. Interestingly, as my sport resume to you also showed, based on an objective pound for pound analysis conducted by Dr. Evans head of the San Francisco State University Kinesology/Exercise Physiology Department confirmed, my shott PB based on hight and weight and distance thrown with the Olmpic weighted 16 pound shott, placed me 1st as the all-time best US decathlon shot putter and substancially ahead of the steroid using world decathlon shot putt record holder Mr. Hodge (62feet) who finished 2nd (see my face book posting for more on this).

    As a serious and dedicated decathlete, you above all others should be intimately familiar with what such improvements must entail, after all you have been trying for how long. 4,5,6 years? How does your improvement compare? How does it compare to any of your fellows you have been aware of over that same period? How would you consider yourself, if you had those same accomplishments as of today? Certainly you would not feel another Singaporean or foreign coach would be better suited to recreate such improvement in others would you? Such words as grand etc. pale before the momentus tasks such accomplishments required. Yet, even you seem unable to embrase what such an effort must have required and the price in pain and dissapoint to overcome in order to sustain the effort in isolation and without the support of fellow competitors who saw the task as unreachable and even mental.

    Let me end with a candid rely about coaching. How many of Singapore’s coaches and especially how many employed Singaporean or foreign coaches have produced equal or better records with Singapore’s “mature” senior athletes , or even your UK fellows, as compared to my work in Thailand over one short season? None save Steve Yeo, pole vault can find their way onto such a list. One might mention Singapore’s russian coach Mr. Valeri Obidko, of the SSS, yet he only deals with young children who naturally grow and develop rather quickly, so much of what he accomplished had that momentum behind him as an additional aide to boost his intellectual assistance. And he been there since 2004. How many senior level champions has he produced in 7+ seasons. Consider Mr. Melvin Tan, arguably Singapore’s best sprint coach who has been coaching your top 100 and 200m sprinters for several seasons. As the record shows all of them came to him already running in the 10.5 ranges and none, not one from Elfe to Calvin or Gary have posted new PB’s since their postings back in the 2007/2008/2009 seasons. In fact, every one of them has progressively run slower since they recorded their PB’s and even as of September/2011 they are struggling to recapture what they once could do. If Mr. Tan, who I believe is a good coach and a dedicated and good soul were a corporate CEO based on results, I think it is fair to say his shareholders would be looking for a replacement. Of course, this has been overlooked, by the highly regarded new Singaporean 4x100m relay records with Singapore’s first sub-40sec time he has produce.

    Unfortunately, from my analysis the truth is this is this. Singapore, like Thailand have resolved, they cannot improve on what its top sprinting athletes bring to them, based on their own god given talents, and in the face of the historical failures of all its local and foreign experts to create new PB’s for any of your top sprinters since 2008 and even before that, have resolved their only hope for national pride is to focus their success on the 4x100m relay as their only hope for gold in the sprints, since slower sprinters with superior handoffs can beat faster sprinters with poor baton techniques.

    While I offered the SAA to coach on a voluntary basis and be paid on a merit based contract base on payment only for results, they opted to say there was no place in Singapore’s SAA program for me. And yet the SAA saw it in Singapore’s best interests to consult and pay for Japan’s top sprinting coach, Prof. Hirokazu Kobayashi, director of Japan’s National Training Center to conduct seminars in cooperation with the SSS. It was interesting to me to note, an objective analysis of Japan’s sprint program since 2007 showed almost exactly the same results produced by Mr. Tan over the same 4 year period.

    As the IAAF’s athlete bio’s and outdoor progression record will show, over the last 4 years, Japan’s sprint program under Prof. Kobayashi’s leadership has not been able to improve the 100m speed in “any” of its national relay team members. The exact same results produced by Mr. Tan. And, over the last 2 years Prof. Kobayashi, has only caused a .08sec and a .05 sec improvement respectively in Japan’s other 2 top open 100m sprinters. I will be happy to send you the IAAF athlete’s bios and outdoor progression records if you like.

    Regarding my use of the internet to contact the 2 or 3 national athletics organizations I felt might be interested in my level of expertise. Unfortunately, I lack the friendships to aide my introduction so I simply contacted 3 or 4 athletic bodies and 2 or 3 athletes who the internet showed were without current coaches to introduce both myself and my achievements. For example, Rachel Yang was reproted to be leaving Singapore for China due to dissagrements with the SAA, so I was considering coming to Singapore on my own to help her if she wanted. However, this report was apparently inaccurate and she told me she was now with Mr. Yeo, who seem to be a very good vault coach. I also fail to see how such efforts to contact you to offer assistance to a fellow decathlete or offer my resume to countries I feel represent a challenge I feel more than qualified to conquer are or were appropriate. After all, why do you publish your blog and why did you provide the means to reply?

  3. Samuel Goldberg says:

    Please note typo in final paragraph, it should read:

    I also fail to see how such efforts to contact you to offer assistance to a fellow decathlete or offer my resume to countries I feel represent a challenge I feel more than qualified to conquer are or were NOT appropriate. After all, why do you publish your blog and why did you provide the means to reply?

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