Let's say you've met a major life goal, maybe your biggest life goal to date. You've gotten into that school, won that Olympic medal, made that breakthrough. Maybe your dream was to publish a book, and you've done it.
I've had the chance to watch many writers break through the book-publishing barrier, and I've gone through it myself. Generally what happens is that we instantly select new goals: to publish again, to write more, to write better, to be more widely read, to try something different or repeat a success. But after passing through that gateway, the path goes all over the place. It doesn't always go to happy places. Or, more likely, it doesn't go only to happy places. It goes up and down; it twists; it may go in circles or reach dead ends. It usually has many forks.
I've seen writers turn to new goals in other fields. They decide that being a parent, or a teacher, or another kind of artist, or something else, is really where they need to go from here.
I've seen writers publish more and have incredible success.
I've seen writers put together a career from trying this and that, doing some editing, doing some work-for-hire, trying different genres, turning to pseudonyms. One way and another, they're continuing to write.
I've seen writers disappear and I don't know what they're doing now: they might be writing under pseudonyms, or they might not be writing anymore. I'm not sure.
When we reach a big goal, we don't know how it will play out for us. The road of any life is seldom a straight one, seldom predictable and smooth. But life goes on, and it goes on testing us. And most people then have to ask that question (What next?) and make some choices, and for some of us it involves reimagining our futures. Most of us thought the answer to the question would be simply, "Publish more books," but there are other answers, other options.
"I don't like being around volatile people. I have no interest in being around geniuses. Those tempestuous volatile geniuses the media likes to hold up. But I had the deepest admiration for his artistry."
There's a difference between admiring someone's art and admiring that person, a difference between wanting to spend time in the world of an artwork and wanting to spend time with its creator. I don't think every genius has to be a "tortured genius," and a lot of the volatility Ajaye speaks of ends in self-destruction.
Art draws on real emotions, real events. But one challenge artists face is drawing that line between life and art, knowing what can cross that border and what can't.
I took my turn at YA Outside the Lines to discuss books I wish I'd written. I can only hope that some of these suggestions find their way onto your to-read pile.
Library - Avid patron, both school and public library. If I liked a book, I would check it out over and over again.
Scholastic book clubs - Ordered after reading the little descriptions and looking at the covers. I LOVED those newsletters that we ordered from; the synopses were an art in themselves. I invented my own little newsletters with imaginary books, based on the Scholastic ones.
Bookstores - Usually I didn't buy a book until I'd already read it in the library many times. I would make an exception for authors whose other books I already knew and liked. For example, anything by Judy Blume, Lois Duncan, Paul Zindel, Paula Danziger, Marilyn Sachs, I would snap up without having read it first. Occasionally I would take a chance on a new author. I only bought paperbacks.
Parents' bookshelves - This is how I came to read a first-aid manual, Shelley Berman's Cleans and Dirtys, Saroyan's Look at us ..., a 1970s poetry book with a psychedelic cover (which I now own), my mother's nursing-school textbooks, the John Jakes bicentennial series, and various other assorted titles.
Gifts - This is how I got a good portion of the Nancy Drew series, the Five Little Peppers, a 16-volume series of classics, and Grimm's fairy tales. Most of these were hardcovers.
Bookstores - As an adult, I discovered used bookstores. Philadelphia still has several, but at the time I first moved here, was especially rich in them. I rarely lived more than a couple of blocks from a used bookstore. During my time in Atlanta, the Oxford Too was a weekly habit. I often discovered authors in used bookstores, because it was easy to take a chance on a new author for a quarter or a dollar. Then I would start buying that author's newer books new (this is how I discovered Nora Ephron and Calvin Trillin, just to name a couple).
I also patronized first-run bookstores. In those days we had Doubleday, Encore, Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, as well as the independents. Then Borders came, and its first Philadelphia location was unbelievable. So many books! So much room! Indie or chain, I rarely left a bookstore without buying something.
Free shelves - For a while, I lived in a building with a "take a book, leave a book" library. A great way to find out-of-print books B.I. (Before the Internet).
Gifts - Again, people usually would buy fancier books for me than I would buy for myself. Hardcovers. My parents even gave me a collection of the Brontes' work with leather covers and gilt edges.
Library - The theme continues.
Internet - I now find out about most of the books I want to read online. I read many writers' and readers' social media sites, and I am always seeing recommendations and reviews. Before the internet, I rarely read book reviews. I didn't have too many other friends who read as much as I did, so I didn't get recommendations either. Now, I get so many recommendations from my online bookloving friends that I keep a running list next to my computer.
Bookstores - Sadly, the closest bookstore to my house closed a year ago. The joys of browsing in brick-and-mortar stores are rarer for me, but I appreciate them all the more now. There are still wonderful stores out there.
Also, I do buy books online--especially out-of-print books. I buy very few ebooks, usually only if the book isn't available in print. I don't have an e-reader but use an e-reader app on my computer.
One thing that's different now is that I buy far more hardcovers and new books than I used to. As an author, I know how important that can be to supporting the authors and stores I love. But I'll still buy paperbacks and used books, too.
Book fairs and book festivals - I never went to these before I was an author; I'm not sure I really knew they existed. Now I'm delighted to have discovered so many live book events.
Free shelves - My train station has one of those "take a book, leave a book" cases, and so does my workplace.
Gifts - This is where I get books I've specifically asked for, as well as books I might not have heard of on my own.
How have your bookfinding habits changed over time?
I just had a flashback upon viewing this post at Iceland Eyes. I was there, at Krysuvik, a few years ago: a place of natural hot springs, the land smoking as it does at Yellowstone, but far more isolated and (it seemed to me) more strongly sulfur-scented.
We were there in May, and we never really saw nighttime, although I think it still got dark for a few hours very late at night. Without the cues of night and day, we kept long strange hours. We visited many places where we were the only people anywhere around. Outside Reykjavik, the land was so sparsely populated that it was a little frightening but mostly invigorating. Being the kind of people who are fascinated by the Mid-Atlantic Rift (the seam between Europe and North America), we explored the rift in several places.
Iceland keeps creeping into various manuscripts of mine. I don't think any of them have been published yet, however. I have many places, and people, and events that are like that: I feel compelled to write about them, although I don't know how yet. I try them in one story and another. I feel them up there in the Muse's waiting room.
Backstory is an area in which writers often get tripped up, especially when first starting out. "I have to tell you about where he came from and what matters to him and why he's traumatized by the sound of bells and why there's bad blood between him and his archnemesis!" the writer says. "Otherwise, how will you understand what's going on, and why will you care?"
This can lead to gobs of exposition in the first chapter: a bunch of throat-clearing before the real action starts. But I generally say, in answer to the question of how much backstory we need: As little as possible. And sprinkled throughout the book, instead of front-loaded.
Think about how we get to know people and the world. Upon meeting a new person, we don't immediately exchange autobiographies. We get to know people over time, slowly. They might reveal one detail of their past one day, another detail later on. In the meantime, we're engaging with our new acquaintance in the present, and we're learning a lot from how he speaks to us and others, how he behaves, what he does.
We observe whether someone's actions are gentle or rough, thoughtful or careless, generous or selfish. We can tell, within a short time, whether the people around us are impetuous. Funny. Forgetful. Wise. Brusque. Gossipy. Shy.
We also learn, fairly quickly, what they care about--do they talk about their kids? Bring in new baked goods from the recipes they're always trying? Put up photos of their latest ski trip? Ask you to join in on a fundraiser for a charity? Leave books lying around? Invite you to the latest foreign film?
By showing what our characters are doing now, we can reveal a lot. And when the villain first shows up, it can raise tension if we just hint at bitterness between protagonist and antagonist, rather than rushing to supply a page's worth of explanation on why the two can't stand each other. We can dole out the clues as needed--only what's needed to understand the scene in front of us.
This weekend I visited Hooray For Books! in Alexandria VA, where I appeared with Dianne Salerni (author of The Eighth Day and The Caged Graves) and S. E. Green (author of Killer Instinct). We got to visit with some enthusiastic teen readers and talk about our favorite books.
And then there are the people. Protesters. People wearing identical T-shirts for a family reunion. Tourists visiting the Smithsonian. A man steering a pedicab and telling his passengers that his day job is as a teacher.
I've always found Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia to be good walking cities. This trip reminded me that Washington is high on the list. What are your other favorites?
The blog Three Guys One Book has a regular feature called "When We Fell in Love," in which writers talk about falling in love with stories. Recently, Jaime Clarke described how his writing career began, when the Hardy Boys joined forces with a teacher who was willing to challenge and mentor him.
A sample: "My teacher ... overheard me bragging ... that not only had I read all of the Hardy Boys mysteries, but that I could probably even write one if I wanted to."
It always looks easy until you try it yourself, right?
'Tis the graduation season, which reminded me of David McCullough's "You're not special" speech from a couple of years back.
McCullough had several other points in that speech: a call to seize the day, a call to selflessness. But mostly, what caught people's attention was that a commencement speaker started out his speech by telling the day's graduates, "You are not special." And many on the internet seemed to fall on that message with a sort of glee, to read it as a smackdown of privileged young people, a call for them to shut up and fall in line.
I don't favor that reading myself. Frankly, I think that despite all we might say about children being spoiled and thinking they're smarter than they really are, despite the view that they need to be more realistic and obedient and grateful--the truth is, it is not obedience that is the best hope for humanity.
It is usually not the most obedient among us who change the world. It is not the ones who settle for the world they have been given. It is usually the complainers, the malcontents. The ones who look at what's in front of them and say, "This could be better. This is not good enough."
We need the idealism of the young. We need to be challenged on our hypocrisies and our ethical compromises and our bad habits and our lies. We need to be reminded that along with all the gifts we give the next generation, we also pass on horrible problems: growing antibiotic resistance, nuclear waste, high unemployment, armed conflict. Just to name a few.
They will be told soon enough that they're not special. Over and over again they will hear it; over and over they will confront the indifference of the world. We all do. I actually think graduation day is one of the rare days in life when one is entitled to a few pats on the back, a few hours of feeling special. All too soon, life will revert to its normal menu of traffic jams, incomprehensible bureaucracies, incurable illnesses, fruitless job searches, and the like.
Of course, when I read McCullough's whole speech, I see him saying wonderful things like, "Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others ... . And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. ... Make for yourselves, please, for your sake and for ours, extraordinary lives."
Sadly, I think the speech will be remembered mostly as a "Get over yourself" message, when it really seemed intended to be a "Give of yourself" message. Either way ... go do extraordinary things, Class of 2014. It's your turn.
We writers sometimes compare ourselves to other writers, even though we know it's unrealistic and doesn't make a lot of sense. We're all on different paths of different lengths, with different starting points and different goals--yet the impulse to glance over and see where we are in relation to the person in the next lane is, apparently, irresistible.
It's not even about beating someone else, as in a race. I know very few writers who think that way. It's more like feeling that we need to "keep up" or "stay on track." It's about a fear of falling behind, getting lost, not measuring up. And so the internal monologue around this may go: I should be writing X words a day, because so-and-so writes that much. Or, I should be on my Nth novel now, because so-and-so's first novel came out at the same time as mine, and her Nth novel just came out. Or it could be about advances, sales, awards, guest-speaker slots, length of signing lines--any of the markers we try to use to gauge our success.
This is why I recommend Jody Casella's recent post, in which she says, "I also have to learn over and over to stop comparing myself to other writers." Her post also contains an invitation to other writers to share your process for possible inclusion (with attribution) in a conference presentation. That opportunity, with a deadline of June 30, is a way to celebrate and reinforce the fact that there are as many ways to write as there are writers.
1. First drafts are such a pain. Pulling ideas out of the air, doing all the heavy lifting of world-building. I can't wait to be editing this thing.
2. Foundational edits are the worst! Figuring out where whole scenes have to go. Adding and deleting characters. Major shifts in tone; addressing big-picture comments like, "Make character less boring," and, "Have more at stake." I miss the freedom of drafting, when it didn't have to be perfect or even good!
3. Ugh, line edits. These would be okay if I weren't so sick of looking at the story by now. Also, every change I make in one sentence means changing the next one. And going through a manuscript, deleting half the occurrences of the word "just," is not exactly thrilling. I can't wait to start something new.
4. If copy edits teach me anything, it is that the comma is a wily creature whose rules can never fully be known. I'd rather be line editing!
"In social psychology, this phenomenon is called the 'hedonic treadmill'--the shifting of desires relative to achievements."
erfectly-happy-and-fulfilled mindset, to wanting more and more with each goal achieved: earning out, foreign sales, stars or awards, bestseller status, selling another book, selling film rights, etc.
In one sense, it's natural to set new goals when we've met an initial goal. But in another sense, there should also be time to linger on the plateau of contentment, smelling the roses awhile.
"I'm not here to make sense"
I would like to have that on a magnet, or maybe a T-shirt. A T-shirt would be good, because perhaps it would lower expectations. It could serve as fair warning to those around me.
I say "with interest" because I have given up on every single one of my published books at one point or another. While writing The Secret Year, I was simultaneously writing another book, and I sometimes left The Secret Year for dead for days or weeks at a time, convinced that the other book was really The One. (That other book has still never been published.) While editing Try Not to Breathe, one of my editorial letters temporarily flummoxed me to the point that I wondered if the whole book was going to end up collapsing. And it's probably better not to even speak of my revision process for Until It Hurts to Stop, since I gave up on that manuscript weekly. It became such a predictable part of my routine that it even got a little boring.
2. Break up with manuscript; declare it over and done with.
I know I've heard from other writers that they, too, give up on manuscripts, and then find their way back into them. But what I like about Courtney Summers's April 28th tweet is that it lends itself so handily to a writing-office motto: "Remember you love zombies." I've never actually written about zombies myself, and I feel sort of neutral about them, but this motto stands for all the manuscripts I've abandoned and returned to. Something pulled me back to them.
As for giving up, I do it so regularly that it seems to be a natural, if strange and inefficient, part of my process for finishing a book. I just need to remember I love the zombies.


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Prof. emer. Dieter W. Pohl
Lecturer at the University of Basel 1998-2008
Titular Professor at the University of Basel 2002-2008
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Born 1938, I studied at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart (1958-1964) and of München (TUM, 1964-1968). My diploma and PhD theses were concerned with the just invented (1960) laser [1 - 9]. The fascination of its 'clean' and powerful light gave the direction for my professional life.
I joined the laser group at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (Rüschlikon) in 1968, studying primarily light scattering and nonlinear processes [10-43]. My research activities were interrupted by an assignment to the Director of Research's staff in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. in 1979/80 which imparted to me valuable insight into the management of a large research organization. The experience helped me later in my function as a group leader in the Rüschlikon physics department and as member of several advisory boards.
After return, the interaction of light with nanometer-size objects came into focus. It emerged from my occupation with the just invented STM which resulted in several STM-[51-58], AFM- [59-62] and instrumental [63-67] investigations. In 1982-1984 we demonstrated the first near-field optical (NFO) microscope [68-70]. It breaks the diffraction barrier of optical microscopy, known as Abbé's resolution limit (~λ/2) by at least a factor of 10. In the following years, NFO microscopy was further explored at IBM [71-105], in particular its relation with surface plasmon polaritons ('plasmonics'). In 1992, I organized together with D. Courjon (U Besancon, France) a workshop on "Near Field Optics" (NFO) that became the mother of the international biennial NFO conference series.
In 1998, I moved to the University of Basel where I became a Titular Professor in 2002. My group participated in the growing field of plasmonics research (comprising NFO)[106-118]. A breakthrough demonstration of optical antenna effects and their nonlinear optical sequelae was the last result before my retirement in 2007/2008 [113,114]. A by-product of this development was the investigation of an ion-conducting glass [110,115] which can be used, among others, as a field emission gun for Ag+ ions [116].
I retired 2007/08 but still keep some contacts with the community of NFO – plasmonics – photonics, in particular with the groups in Switzerland.
~ 121 publications (see below)
~ 20 patents, mostly on scanning probe microscopy, micromechanics, storage
+ diverse publications in the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin
A complete list of the publications can be downloaded here.
Four relevant publications from my time at the University of Basel are
Near field optics seen as an antenna problem
D. W. Pohl,
in Near-Field Optics: Principles and Applications / The Second Asia-Pacific Workshop on Near Field Optics, Beijing, China October 20 -23, 1999, EDITOR M. Ohtsu and X. Zhu, (World Scientific, ISBN 981-02-4365-0, Singapore,p.9 - 21), 2000 - [111]*
Resonant Optical Antennas
P. Muehlschlegel, H.-J. Eisler, O.J.F. Martin, B. Hecht and D.W. Pohl,
Science 308, 1607 (2005) - [113]*
Single Quantum Dot Coupled to a Scanning Optical Antenna: A Tunable Superemitter
J.N. Farahani, D. W. Pohl, H.-J. Eisler and B. Hecht,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 017402 (2005) - [114]*
Vacuum ion emission from solid electrolytes: An alternative source for focused ion beams
C. Escher, S. Thomann, C. Andreoli, H.-W. Fink, J. Toquant and D. W. Pohl,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 053513 (2006) - [116]*
*Numbers refer to the complete list of publications.
1996 Carl-Zeiss Research Award
1997 Rank Prize for Electro-Optics
1999 Humboldt Research Prize
1968-1998	various IBM internal awards
2013	Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society
Swiss Physical Society
German Physical Society

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Wharton Receives $50 Million Gift from Marc J. Rowan and Carolyn Rowan for Teaching, Research, and Leadership
Marc J. Rowan, W'84, WG'85
PHILADELPHIA, October 2, 2018 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the largest single gift ever given to the School – $50 million from Marc J. Rowan, W'84, WG'85 and Carolyn Rowan. Their generous funding will enable Wharton to attract and retain world-leading faculty and support the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), the University's groundbreaking economic policy analysis program. Mr. Rowan is chair of Wharton's Board of Overseers, a Penn trustee, and co-chair of the School's More Than Ever fundraising campaign.
The Rowans' gift will enhance Wharton's ability to address the most complex global challenges and opportunities head on through groundbreaking research and exceptional teaching. With this commitment, Wharton will recruit three Rowan Distinguished Professors who are global leaders in their fields, who will inspire faculty and students alike, and who will build bridges between academia and business. The Rowans' gift will also support the appointment of a select number of Rowan Fellows for five-year terms to recognize and support Wharton's most distinguished faculty in their commitment to innovative research and teaching.
Mr. and Mrs. Rowan's generosity to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, which uses big data analytics to promote evidence-based policymaking on the key economic issues facing the United States, builds upon their foundational commitment to the primacy of societal impact in the Penn Compact 2022.
"With profound gratitude to Marc and Carolyn Rowan, I anticipate the tremendous impact of their philanthropy on the University of Pennsylvania," said Penn President Amy Gutmann. "Their investment in Penn's future will strengthen our intellectual resources, provide our students with life-changing mentors, and mobilize our knowledge for the advancement of society."
"I am deeply grateful for Marc and Carolyn's extraordinary gift, which reflects their passion to bring to Wharton the most innovative researchers working on the world's most pressing and important questions," said Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett. "Their commitment is the cornerstone of a campaign that will empower Wharton, more than ever, to create leaders who will change the world."
"Inspiring Wharton faculty who were committed to cutting edge business education were catalysts for my success," said Mr. Rowan. "Carolyn and I are honored to join the vision of the Wharton community to bring the School's outstanding students face to face with the most important thinkers of our time. As top Wharton researchers advance and shape their fields, they transform the lives of their students, preparing them to make a difference in the business world and beyond."
Contributing to Wharton and Penn since 1984, Mr. and Mrs. Rowan's philanthropy has supported undergraduate and MBA financial aid, faculty, capital projects, the Dean's fund, Wharton Customer Analytics, The Wharton Fund, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the football program, Penn Medicine's Basser Center for BRCA, and Penn Medicine's Orphan Disease Center.
Mr. Rowan is a co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a leading alternative asset manager focused on contrarian and value oriented investments across private equity, credit-oriented capital markets, insurance, and real estate. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a BS and an MBA in Finance.
Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. With a broad global community and one of the most published business school faculties, Wharton creates economic and social value around the world. The School has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 9,000 participants in executive education programs annually; and a powerful alumni network of 98,000 graduates.
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Dierks Bentley Continues 'Black' Short Film With 'Pick Up' [WATCH]
Hannahlee Allers
Dierks Bentley has released the third installment of his four-part video series, all featuring songs from his upcoming album Black. The newest video, for his song "Pick Up," begins right where the last clip, for "What the Hell Did I Say," left off -- and has quite the twist at the end.
The Black video series began with a music video for "I'll Be the Moon," which introduced viewers to a love triangle. Things got more complicated in the clip for "What the Hell Did I Say," as the affair was discovered. "Pick Up" begins the story of the aftermath, with the jilted boyfriend showing his villainous side. All of the clips were filmed in black-and-white, adding an extra layer of cinematic drama to the story.
"When you're in the throes of a relationship, it can be crazy and lustful, even obsessive and jealous," Bentley tells Rolling Stone Country. ""Pick Up" drops into the sequence as that point when you just have to be closer to your girl. For the storyline and plot of these videos, Wes [Edwards, director] definitely takes it there and puts a shocking spin on it."
Black, a nod to Bentley's wife Cassidy's maiden name, is set for release on May 27. The video series is emblematic of the album as a whole, on which Bentley hopes to tell the story of a relationship, with all of its ups and downs.
"It's a romantic album, but it's not all happy," he says. "It's just about love ... the edgier and darker sides of it, too."
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But, keep trying.
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#scared
#kisses
The Halcyon (2017) - S01E03 Episode 3
But you'll keep trying.
Lost in Space (1965) - S01E04 Island in the Sky
Keep trying! Keep trying!
The Jetsons (1962) - S01E17 Comedy
Keep trying, Spacely. Keep trying.
Monsters at Work (2021) - S01E01 Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated
Keep trying, Mikey. Keep trying.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) - S03E15 Drama
But you'll keep trying, right?
But you gotta keep trying.
Life Sentence (2018) - S01E03 Clinical Trial and Error
But I'm gonna keep trying.
The Love Boat (1977) - S01E24 Musical Cabins
But you can keep trying.
keep trying.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
James Bond: Thunderball (1965)
Star Trek (1966) - S01E07 What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Star Trek (1966) - S01E29 Operation - Annihilate!
Madam Secretary (2014) - S03E13 The Beautiful Game (srt)


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2020 NHL Draft: Shots Fired
Anyone who hasn't read my stuff or listened to my podcast will believe me when I say that this piece was started on July 3rd. I have the proof on the page I'm currently typing on (every time I make adjustments it records the date and time), but there is no chance that after the Tampa Bay Lightning just won the Cup minus Steven Stamkos that people will believe that this has been my opinion for a long time now and that I was in the process of writing a piece like this. So believe what you want, I can't waste time arguing with anyone who calls me a liar. I know I'm not, I know the inspiration to write this was seeing scouts and "scouts"…drool over all the kids with big shots in this draft class.
This really doesn't have to go under the 2020 draft heading, it can be used for any of them. But as I'm going hard doing my final list for the 2020 draft, and simultaneously doing my 2021 rankings as well, I'm reminded a ton of something that bothers me with how others view and grade prospects. It bothers me because I flat out do not get how so many people get caught up in it, and it's a players shot. This draft in particular is loaded with guys who have a big shot, and all I'm hearing about with a lot of these kids is how great their shot is. Last year this was all I heard about with Cole Caufield is look at his shot. To say this logic is flawed…is a MASSIVE understatement.
So I thought I would dig into it a little deeper. There is nothing analytical about this piece. As much as I wish I could be a numbers guy, and as much as I like looking at them, I'm not the guy to talk them. What I did here is basically took a look back at what I had written and others had written over the last decade with these players. Snipers, shoot first, big shot, the type of player that frankly I've always found to be very overrated in the NHL. Those type of players might get overrated in the NHL, but from what I saw after taking a deeper dive into things, these players should have teams running as far away from them as they possibly can in the 1st round of the draft.
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Brett Connolly – "Had he not been hurt most of this season, he would have been right there with Hall and Seguin fighting to be the top pick." I'm paraphrasing here, but that is essentially what was said at the time. Funny thing is, I'm a huge fan of Brett Connolly these days. But the reason I am is that he added to his game after appearing to be a bust. It took him a long time to figure it all out. And even though he did, he still has never been a guy who you'd want to spend the 6th overall pick in a draft on.
Matt Puempel – He was the best example I could find. Truthfully, and maybe not surprisingly given how that draft ended up being much better than people believed at the time, there weren't many pure wingers taken in the 1st round of the 2011 draft. But Puempel was, and scouts who liked him really loved his shot despite concerns about his skating, playmaking, and play away from the puck. Puempel has 11 goals, 16 points in 87 career NHL games.
Nail Yakupov – I can't stick my chest out and claim that "I called this". I wish I could because I had major concerns about Yakupov. I hated what I saw at the 2012 WJC, it was an awful draft year where guys who may have contended for the top pick like Alex Galchenyuk and Morgan Rielly ended up missing most of the season, and it was almost as if Yakupov remained the top pick through that season by default. I CAN admit that on the day of the draft when rumours were all over the place that the Oilers were going to take Ryan Murray 1st overall, I was excited as I felt he would make the Oilers better than Yakupov would. But they didn't, and while drafting Murray wouldn't have made a BIG difference, it would have been better. Yak had no vision, awful foot speed, and lacked the hockey IQ needed to play the game he wanted to play. On top of this, the word was that he never wanted to work on his weaknesses, only his strengths.
Anthony Mantha – The big issue that people had with Mantha in his draft year (if I recalled correctly) is that he was so big, but so soft. He had a lot of Dany Heatley comps going into that draft, and if you're getting a Dany Heatley comp, you must have a pretty good shot. Mantha has worked out fine. He hasn't exceeded expectations, but he's met them. The thing with Mantha is he's a terrific skater and a big kid as well, so there was a lot to work with in terms of development. If Mantha were in this draft, I wonder how much different he'd be viewed? At the time, the knock was that he was soft, not that he was a one-dimensional player. He wouldn't be considered soft today though given how much the game has changed since 2013 when the Kings were in the midst of their run and the Bruins had just gone to their second final in three seasons. That size, that speed, and a big shot…I believe scouts would have him 4th, right behind the big trio.
Michael Dal Colle – Not the pure sniper type that others listed here were considered to be. But Dal Colle still had that reputation of being a big shot/sniper type winger. He appears to be scraping together a career after spending the better part of the last four seasons in the AHL. But for the 5th overall pick in the draft (the consensus 5th overall pick), he has been a major disappointment to this point.
Denis Gurianov – It wasn't JUST the shot with Gurianov. People loved his size, and loved his skating. But the big thing people loved was his shot. He finally emerged this season after struggling to find his way in North America for a few seasons. Jury is still out I'd say, but given how good that draft was and that Gurianov still doesn't look like he brings much else to the table other than speed and a shot, not sure he was worth a top 12 pick.
Brock Boeser – I'll likely be accused of fabricating things here to help my narrative, but I honestly didn't hear much about Boeser's shot. I heard about how he's a scorer, but Boeser to me was closer to what James Van Riemsdyk is where he had terrific hands and while he was a goal scorer, he was doing it in multiple ways. In fact, this is what I had for a write-up on Boeser in 2015, the first season I did a top prospects list.
"He scores. He'll get his nose dirty to score in front of the net (as pictured), he can score off the rush, he can score off the wall on the PP, he's just a scorer."
But even if the narrative was/is that he's a sniper, while he's panned out, who was the first player we've heard about possibly being dangled as soon as the new CBA was done? Boeser. Since his rookie season, his game has flatlined.
Patrik Laine – He was getting Ovechkin comparisons entering the draft. But the other thing to point out here is that Laine…while he's no bust…he's a bit of a disappointment. Not overly, but there is a reason that the Jets have been looking to move him the last few off-seasons. He's capable of being the top winger in the game given his size and skating ability. But the truth is that most nights he floats and just looks to score and do nothing else.
Kieffer Bellows – I was never too high on Kieffer Bellows, and to this point I'm not sure there is much of a player here. His AHL numbers haven't looked too good, he did have two goals and an assist in 8 games with the Isles this season, so not bad for your first 8 games in the show. But he's the type of player who is unlikely to ever be a checker. If he's not filling the stat sheet, he's not doing much else for your team. Not at all to say he should be written off though. I would have said the same thing about Brett Connolly around 2016. Lots of time for Bellows to figure it out.
Owen Tippett – This was where it all started for me. 2017 draft is when I basically transitioned from doing my own prospect list once a year just to accompany my mock draft to taking it much more seriously. And when I did, I found myself asking why people loved Owen Tippett so much? He's actually progressed ok. And as I'm going to say a lot here, it isn't as if I was suggesting he shouldn't be a 1st round pick. I ranked him 17th (in my 4th tier), but others had him in their top 10 all season and never really budged off that. This is what I wrote going into the 2017 draft.
"I just don't understand the love in for Tippett, and am starting to see more scouts see it this way. Don't in anyway confuse that for me not liking him, but I prefer mutli dimensional players and he in no way projects to be that. He's a lot like Kieffer Bellows in last year's draft, who lots of scouts seemingly loved more than NHL teams did. Speed, top two shot with Eeli Tolvanen in the draft, and decent size. For the right team, I think he'd be a great addition. But I've made this point the last few years and I'll make it again. Snipers are a luxury, not a necessity. Teams picking high in the draft are building a house and they need to make sure they have the foundation poured and a roof on over their heads before they start building the kick ass man cave."
Eeli Tolvanen – I brought up Corey Pronnman's name A LOT when I was looking at Tolvanen, because he loved him (I believe he had him 4th in his rankings) and I just didn't get it (I had him 23rd, 5th tier). In fairness to Pronnman though, he wrote a piece earlier this year talking about his mistakes he's made over the years when he's scouted players, and that wins BIG points with me. I'm not afraid to tell anyone when I was wrong, and I wish more people doing this had thick enough skin to be the same way. Anyway, I didn't see it with Tolvanen. I liked him as a 1st round pick, but wasn't getting carried away. I was stunned he fell all the way to 30th though! Here's what I said at the time:
"A winger who if he isn't scoring, isn't contributing anything, I am by no means suggesting he can't play or produce in the NHL, I just see a player of this ilk as an easy piece to acquire. A pure sniper with a tremendous shot, it's a sexy type of player. But something that I try to consider in a draft is a players stock value. Tolvanen could easily end up having better career point totals than some, maybe even a lot of the forwards I have ahead of him. A 5'10, one dimensional winger isn't exactly a tough find in the NHL. You can find this type of player for cheap in free agency, and they're always available at the trade deadline. Centres, defencemen, wingers with size, these guys are difficult to find. So while the bust rate might be lower on a guy like Tolvanen, the impact they actually have on a team is limited and should things go South they have virtually zero trade value. At least when considering a player like Tippett, he has decent size and great speed to go with that big shot. Something else I've read on Tolvanen is that he didn't interview well at the combine."
Oliver Wahlstrom – The "big shot" crowd broke me on Wahlstrom in 2018 and I've looked like a fool since. I stood my ground on him for a long time. This kid had a ton of skill, but what he brings to the table doesn't translate. But I snapped doing my final rankings that season and ranked him 7th. There was a difference with Wahlstrom. He wasn't just a shot, he's a VERY talented kid. But people adored his shot and believed he could become a tremendous sniper. It's FAR from over for Wahlstrom, so don't get this too twisted. I'm not writing any of these kids off. But so far, Wahlstrom hasn't been the prospect most believed he was pre-draft.
Cole Caufield – Which brings me to the latest in this series, and the one I've taken the most flack for. Why have I taken the most flack for it? Because I believe people can't park their fandom at the door when watching this kid play. You fall in love with how fun he is to watch. He's tiny, he works his ass off, he's fearless, and that shot is mesmerizing. So it felt like it became this game last season of "who can rank him the highest". But when I looked at him I made a decision to put the scout cap on. The size was probably the last issue I had with Caufield. The speed for a kid that size was probably the first issue I had though. Then I found the assist totals to be alarming. I've never seen a kid drafted with that kind of lopsided ratio of goals to assists who made the NHL. Also, his play away from the puck left a lot to be desired for me. So I had him 16th in my rankings. Again, 16th isn't 116th, but it may as well be to some. "Try hard not to offend, try harder to not be offended."
So, what is the common thread here? It's not that none of them have panned out. But what I have found is that Brock Boeser is the only guy who has truly met his potential. Laine is very close and I'd never suggest that he's even a disappointment of a pick, but he hasn't met his potential. Also, it isn't fair to judge guys like Tippett, Tolvanen, Wahlstrom or Caufield at this point. Hell, Caufield hasn't even played a game in pro hockey yet! So we'll see with those four. But there is a very consistent theme here with most of these players that they are getting drastically overrated in their draft years.
Which brings us to this draft. This upcoming draft is the KING of the "big shot" prospect.
Alexander Holtz
Jack Quinn
Jacob Perreault
Noel Gunler
Tyson Foerster
Brendan Brisson
All of these kids are getting a lot of love heading into this draft, mainly because they can shoot the puck. Buyer beware. Especially on Alexander Holtz. There is a LOT to dislike in that kid's game in terms of how translatable it is. His skating is ok but needs work, his puck management needs work, he plays on the perimeter far too much, and he's pretty bad away from the puck. I read somewhere that he "loves to score goals". I think these days when we as hockey fans hear or read that, we think (consciously or sub-consciously) "that's like Ovechkin!" But we maybe forget with so many of these players that Ovechkin was (still is) a 6'2, 220lbs power forward who can fly. That's not Alexander Holtz. Holtz is a kid with a terrific shot, but he doesn't really bring anything else to the table. So I'm not sure the ceiling is what people believe it is, and the floor is pretty low.
As I often say with all these types of players though, it completely depends on the landing spot. Last season, had the Oilers taken Cole Caufield 8th, I would have liked the pick because they have the type of centres a player like that needs to thrive. If Holtz were to be drafted by let's say the Oilers (not because it's my team, but some of the other teams who are set down the middle don't have 1st rounders), I think he'd be a home run. If a team like Anaheim, Minnesota, or Nashville takes him though, I'm not sure how he'll do because none of those teams have that stud centre who he can live off of.
Every year these types of players get big love in the draft, but the juice is so rarely worth the squeeze. I've said it a million times before, give me playmakers all day. Playmakers can play with other playmakers, shooters can't play with other shooters. Playmakers can learn to become snipers, but snipers can't learn how to become playmakers. Teams don't need snipers to win as we just saw with the Tampa Bay Lightning. They lost their big sniper and really didn't skip a beat. As I said in my write-up on Owen Tippett from 2017, it's a luxury. I'd love a Ferrari, but to live on the Canadian prairies, I need a truck. That Ferrari won't help me much in the middle of winter driving down a gravel road. It isn't to say that you can't draft these types of players. You absolutely can. But you better have the rest of your needs taken care of, or else it better be at a point of the draft where the value is just too good to pass up. Because as I just laid out, most of these types of players aren't worth where they're being drafted.
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Clarksville Area Ministerial Association to host prayer breakfast for elected leaders
Bishop Anthony Alfred, President of CAMA, and Pastor Greg Glover will welcome Tennessee State Senator and State Representatives and the Mayors of Clarksville and Montgomery County along with the City Council and County Commissioners respectively.
Clarksville Area Ministerial Association to host prayer breakfast for elected leaders Bishop Anthony Alfred, President of CAMA, and Pastor Greg Glover will welcome Tennessee State Senator and State Representatives and the Mayors of Clarksville and Montgomery County along with the City Council and County Commissioners respectively. Check out this story on theleafchronicle.com: https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/local/clarksville/2019/11/07/clarksville-area-ministerial-association-host-prayer-breakfast-elected-leaders/2518373001/
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Each year, CAMA hosts the Prayer Breakfast for the elected leaders of our area. This year, Bishop Anthony Alfred, President of CAMA, and Pastor Greg Glover will welcome Tennessee State Senator and State Representatives, the Mayors of Clarksville and Montgomery County, and City Council and County Commissioners.
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Attendees will hear from guest speaker Jason Hodges, the newly elected State Representative of District 67.
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Q: spark dataframe concatenate column name to values I have a dataframe which I want to modify in a way that each row
will containt the column name .
for example :
FirstName LastName
Jhon       Doe
David      Lue

to create the follwing
(FirstName=Jhon,LastName=Doe)
(FirstName=David,LastName=Lue)

I managed to do for df with 2 columns
val x = df.map { row => (names(0) + "=" +row(0) , names(1)+"="+rows(1)}

but how can I do it with for loop for any number of columns?
Thanks

A: One option is to use foldLeft on the column names:
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame

import sqlContext.implicits._
val df = Seq(
  ("John", "Doe"),
  ("David", "Lue")
).toDF("first_name", "last_name")

val x = df.columns.foldLeft(df) {
  (acc: DataFrame, colName: String) =>
    acc.withColumn(colName, concat(lit(colName + "="), col(colName)))
}

x.show()

Resulting in:
+----------------+-------------+
|      first_name|    last_name|
+----------------+-------------+
| first_name=John|last_name=Doe|
|first_name=David|last_name=Lue|
+----------------+-------------+

If you then want to convert it to an RDD of tuples, you can call a map on it:
x.rdd.map(r => (r.getString(0), r.getString(1)))

or even with Spark SQL's typed API:
x.as[(String, String)].rdd

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