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Over the course of Tamako Market's run I noticed that it had a mixed reception, especially among Kyoto Animation fans. I may be mistaken as to how many people really disliked it, but I've seen enough to want to say something about it. As for myself, I had considered it an interesting and welcome step forward for the popular studio, and wondered what could be the source of this difference in opinion. After some conversations with friends, I think I've figured it out.
To put it simply, for the most part the girls of Tamako Market do not have, in their presentations, visual designs, or their personalities, the sort of near-tangible qualities that have made people in the past fall in love with Kyoani characters. The girls are comparatively less "moe," and they certainly aren't tragic, which leaves the show with a different sort of appeal that may seem alien to fans of Kyoto Animation's existing body of work. The main character Tamako herself is simply a smart and capable but naive girl who loves mochi and who, to a small degree, reminds me of Madoka from Rinne no Lagrange. Dera the talking bird is as far from "cutesy girl" as one can possibly get, and seems to have been particularly unpopular. The main exception seems to be the carpentry girl Kanna (pictured above, left) whose eccentric personality, to be fair, does kind of steal the show.
(I'm fond of Shiori, the girl on the right, myself).
The best way I can describe Tamako Market's appeal is that it's not so much about showing off an ensemble cast consisting of various characters with easily identifiable quirks like how K-On! is, but about showing the residents of the Usagiyama shopping district as a small community of people. While many of the side characters are never really developed, they don't really need to be, as they add to the feeling of an oxymoronic slow-paced hustle. Seeing the small developments that occur in the residents' lives feels not so much like "slice of life," but like a low key-yet-silly comedy.
Someone asked me what anime out there was similar to Tamako Market. After some thought, I realized the answer: Sazae-san, a popular comedy anime about a Japanese housewife and her family, and which 1969 has continued to run on Japanese TV making it the longest-running anime ever. That's probably the furthest answer from Haruhi possible, so I think that might say it all about how Tamako Market is different, and why I think it's the sort of show that could've gone on forever.
In one of my earliest posts I ever wrote for Ogiue Maniax, I talked about my desire for Kyoto Animation to go beyond its own limits, to go from just adapting work to making their own original material. Though my opinion of Kyoto Animation isn't quite as rosy as it was back in 2007, with their new original anime Tamako Market I actually feel like they've finally fulfilled those expectations to a fair degree.
Kyoani is known primarily for two things: really solid animation and cute girls. Together, the resulting product is a soft, delicate quality that is unmistakably Kyoto Animation (and which shows like Kokoro Connect and Sora no Woto have tried to mimic), and it affects different adaptations in different ways. For Haruhi and their Key game adaptations it lent weight and significance to characters' movements, while in K-On! and Nichijou, two manga with sharp and abrupt humor, it caused the anime versions to slow down in terms of comic timing. In the end, it seems to all come down to the cute girls.
Tamako Market is the first Kyoto Animation show I've seen to really let the animators spread their wings. Tamako Market has allowed Kyoani to show personality through movement in a greater variety of character types of all shapes and sizes, from small children to geriatrics, to even a person of ambiguous gender and a silly talking bird. The show then places them in a deliberately slow-paced setting in the form of a small-town shopping area, which makes that Kyoani "slice of life" style feel appropriate. What's more, even though there are indeed still cute girls in Tamako Market, all of the other characters are portrayed differently from them, giving the viewer not only Kyoani's bread-and-butter but also something even more substantial.
Given the sheer amount of character variety in Tamako Market, I have to now wonder if it wasn't just that their old shows didn't allow them to "push their envelope," but that having to adapt works limited them due to the contact of the original sources. Most of what Kyoto Animation has adapted has come from dating sims, light novels, which often times are all about cute girls, or manga which center around cute girls. While I think Kyoani isn't ideal for making certain types of works, it's clear to me from Tamako Market that their strengths, namely their ability to have characters move with almost a sense of tangible liveliness, go beyond what's expected of them.
Fans would pay through the nose to own AUTHENTIC REPLICAS OF REAL ROCKS AND PEBBLES that the characters collect.
Don't you want to feel a little closer to Wakana? I'm sure you do. I've got a couple of things in my pocket to help you out.
Mizuhashi Kaori is one of my favorite voice actors, and not just because she's the voice of Ogiue. Her range is quite impressive, and it often makes it difficult to initially figure out that a character is indeed her. As for her role as everyone's favorite fujoshi character, Mizuhashi has talked before about how she had to learn and practice Ogiue's Tohoku dialect, not being from that area.
This makes her recent role in Nichijou (aka My Ordinary Life) all the more interesting. Playing the angel character in the bizarre "Helvetica Standard" skits, in episode 9 she tries to teach a demon how to pronounce "chirashizushi," a dish which is comprised of sushi rice (i.e. vinegared rice) with sashimi on top. Think of it as a pile of deconstructed sushi. Try as she might though, the demon slurs all of the syllables in a distince Tohoku-ben fashion, turning "chirashizushi" into "tsurasuzusu." "Sushi" when spoken in Tohoku-ben sounds like "Susu."
I have no idea if this influenced her hiring as the Helvetica Standard Angel, but I think it makes for an interesting circle, going from having to learn Tohoku-ben to successfully play a character with that accent to playing a character who is trying to teach another character not to speak in that fashion.
K-On!! episode 8 kind of disappointed me.
Before anyone knew that there would be second season, I was reading K-On! manga. In one chapter, Yui is having trouble deciding her possible career path, and everyone else gives some idea of where they're headed after high school. This includes Mugi, whose response clearly contains an underlying meaning.
If it wasn't obvious before (and it was pretty obvious), Kotobuki Tsumugi plays for the other team. Not only that, but the sharper girls picked up on it long ago. She's a lesbian, and others know she's a lesbian. I laughed pretty hard when I first saw this, and it's still one of my favorite moments from the manga.
So of course I was looking forward to this very scene in full color and animation once K-On!! was announced. And right when I realized episode 8 would be the episode, I sat there, waiting for the gag to hit. I waited, and waited, and then… they removed it entirely?!
The only reference to it is that Mugi mentions going to an all-women university, but then it completely bypasses the setup and goes into some thing about the difficulty of the school she's applying to.
Adapting a 4-koma manga into a full half-hour TV show requires adding extra material, but what gives? Did the K-On! manga cross some line that was unacceptable for Kyoto Animation? Are they worried that it damages Mugi's image in some way? They animated a scene hinting at Mugi's preferences in season 1, but in a situation where it's made almost explicit, they shrink back in fear? Could it be that they think having her so clearly in the other camp might alienate some of her more devoted fans? Or perhaps their vision of Mugi doesn't line up with the original author's. It's almost as is Kyoto Animation saw this and went, "Whoa! Too far! Are you trying to break the illusion?"
Maybe it's the fact that it pretty much reveals Mugi as a lesbian lesbian, who likes girls, as opposed to just the one girl as you so often see in yuri material (especially yuri material written for guys). There, like in yaoi, the love seems to go "beyond" gender, but with Mugi that's just how she is. So then I have to wonder if the problem is that it's just too much to just outright state her sexual orientation in that manner.
Hopefully I'm wrong and they're just saving the gag for another time. In that case I apologize for ruining the joke for people.
Oh and if you're wondering, no, Mugi is not my favorite member of the band. I'm on Team Ritsu. But actually my favorite character is probably Nodoka.
In college, a teacher gave me some good advice on animation. He was a 3-D animation teacher, and he knew full well how time-consuming it could be, and how rewarding it was to make something really impressive. His advice, however, was a message of artistic prudence. I don't remember the exact words, but the message was basically, "Don't get so attached to a bit of strong animation that you reuse it to excess." I was reminded of his words while watching K-On!! (the second season of K-On!).
In the new opening, there's a very distinct part where the camera pans around the five girls of Houkago Tea Time, and it's really some impressive animation, especially because while the background of the clubroom is 2-D, the girls themselves are still animated in 2-D, and overall it looks pretty natural.
So it looks really nice. But then they use the effect again. And then a third time. At that point, I think it's just excess.
The opening for the first season also had something similar, a shot where all the girls are playing together that gets reused about three times total. However, in my opinion the recycling isn't as jarring for a number of reasons. First, it doesn't have that three-dimensional rotation effect going on like the new opening, where that piece is so different from the rest of the opening that you notice it immediately. The shot in K-On!! sticks out like a really nice-looking sore thumb, and it becomes all the more obvious when they use it another two times. Second, the first opening changes the background between usages of the stock animation, and while this can be seen as simply being lazy, the change in scenery makes the reuse more comfortable to the viewer.
If they really, really wanted to use the revolving camera effect that much, I think a good solution would have been to put more camera movement in the scenes right before that animation to ease the transition into it.
Not that Kyoto Animation is reading this blog, of course.
Historians have recently discovered that animation fandom has existed in Japan for much longer than originally expected, and that Kyoto Animation, the studio behind Haruhi, Lucky Star, and K-On! was originally founded shortly after the capital of Japan moved from Kyoto to Edo, currently known as Tokyo.
At the time, children and adults alike were entertained by Kyoto Animation and their inventive animation system known as the "moetrope."
No I am not pitting each cast of girls against each other to see who would win in a fight, but rather I want to talk about the ways in which these three shows differ beyond a superficial level. You'll sometimes hear people say that Kyoto Animation's about is all the same, and I will agree with them as far as saying that they know their audience, i.e. otaku, but when you actually watch these shows you will most likely get a different vibe from each one.
I won't be discussing the Key adaptations because that's another beast entirely.
With Haruhi, you'll notice an air of mystery that permeates the show due to the supernatural aspects of it. Sometimes it's more obvious, but other times simple actions can imply greater things, and it gives a certain sense of intrigue to the series. It's still all about a bunch of high school kids hanging out and doing dumb things, but even the dumb things are given a sort of significance as a result of the setting. You can always feel that Haruhi is moving somewhere (right to what the light novels have already spoken about!).
Lucky Star is not just otaku pandering, it is active otaku pandering, and that's also what makes the show enjoyable. More than either of the other two shows, Lucky Star asks if you're an otaku, then asks one more time just to make sure, and then high fives you because you watch a lot of anime. In fact, Lucky Star probably does this more than any other show, but don't think that all the humor is in-jokes with no setup; all I'm saying is that the show rewards otaku.
K-On! meanwhile does away with the pretenses of the other two and is simply about what it advertises: cute girls playing instruments and not being too obsessive about it. There are no undercurrents, no subtle themes at work here. At the same time, I wouldn't call K-On a shallow anime, as the humor derives from the characters' personalities very heavily, possibly more than Haruhi or Lucky Star.
All three shows feature groups of girls having fun, but the effects they have on the viewers will vary tremendously due to the inherent differences in each show. If you hate one show you might not necessarily hate the others, and if you do like all theree, there's a good chance you'll be liking them for different reasons.
So they tried to sneak an ALL-NEW episode of the Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu into the season 1 re-airing, but tripped up in the end and left people anticipating its arrival. No more tricks, no more magazine covers to mock the fans. The episode's come and gone, and fun was had by all. Of course, there's nothing to stop them from doing this over and over with anything Suzumiya Haruhi-related, and the fans will gladly punch themselves in the stomach for it. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as the makers and distributors of Haruhi have a unique relationship with their fans.
We saw it with Lucky Star and its meta-self-referential humor which knocks down not just the 4th wall but keeps charging and makes a gigantic hole in the wall behind you as well. Kadokawa even licensed and created a mini-series out of the hit doujinshi series Nyoro~n Churuya-san. They are so aware of their fanbase that they might as well be standing on a pedestal dangling Haruhi merchandise and offering goods in exchange for your undying love and devotion and fan-generated content. It's kind of like Gainax, but only a step further as Gainax has at the very least presented an air of distance, unlike Kyoto Animation which is right there in the thick of things high-fiving the audience and taking photos with them. And yes, I know my two metaphors just contradicted each other. Let's just say that they decide to occasionally jump down from that pedestal.
And this newfangled Haruhi has something else to say:
"Enough with the DANCE openings and endings. We are laying to rest the beast we created. Move on, anime! Move on, fans! Well not too much, we still want you to do our Haruhi and Lucky Star dances."
Will anyone heed their advice? Only time will tell.
Give it let's say… about 16 years.
Now this is an interesting shot from episode 6 of K-On!
All four characters are in the same place, and just from this one still you can get a basic idea of their personalities. On the flipside, if you already know the characters then you can definitely see that this is instantly accurate.
In general, K-On! pays a good amount of attention to these sort of things, and I think it's characteristic of Kyoto Animation in general. Some wonder why others are so fond of Kyoto Animation's various works, from Haruhi to Lucky Star to various Key adaptations, and the answer is care. These are not just moe blob shows with no real content, they're visually rich with a good sense of timing and comedy (or tragedy as the case may be). K-On! is no exception.

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Posted by micnificent28 on 20 February 2014 - 11:39 AM
I don't understand the statement made by the poster. Just because you sign with roc nation doesnt mean anything. Nicks is still free to accept what he wants. Fact is he hasn't had a thousand yard season since his rookie year. He isn't going to demand the money he thinks and roc nation is scraping the bottom of the barrel after missing out on several of this years to draft talents.
Posted by micnificent28 on 19 February 2014 - 03:33 PM
Khalil Mack runs like a safety. Explodes off the edge. One of elite edge guys in draft. I've yet to find a hole in his game. Top-five talent.
This is the deepest and best draft class he's seen in 10 years.
"You can find different 'flavors' of running backs in the second round on. Dolphins have to hope one of those flavors is 'good.'"
You can go three or four rounds deep this year and get a starting offensive tackle.
Mike Mayock prefers Brandon Thomas at tackle (as opposed to guard.) And Mayock projects him late 2nd round.
Nevada OT Joel Bitonio is a likely second round pick.
"My favorite nickel CB in the draft is Jason Verrett from TCU. He's ideal for the slot. Quick-footed, tough."
Mike Mayock said on first viewing Johnny Manziel looked like a combination of Fran Tarkenton and Doug Flutie.
Mayock on Manziel: He doesn't like being confined. The more he was in the pocket, the more frustrated he got.
Johnny Manziel has the arm strength, ability, passion. Top-10, maybe Top 5 pick. "I believe in the kid."
He really likes Washington running back Bishop Sankey. He wants to see Bishop Sankey catch the football in Indy. Didn't see enough of it on tape.
"Dennard and Fuller, the two corners, I think they're awesome but my concern with both of them is long speed."
"Eric Ebron to me is a top 10 pick, and in today's NFL he might even go in the top 10 just because of what he brings to the table."
Kent State RB Dri Archer is among prospects he's most interested in seeing perform at combine.
Ra'Shede Hageman will be a guy to watch at the Combine.Said he has "freak ability" and interested to see how he runs.
Jake Matthews safest pick in the draft.
"Taylor Lewan is a little top heavy, but he's got a nasty finish. I think he's very similar to Fisher and Joeckel from last year." Mayock says Lewan is worthy of a top 10 pick. But he's got him No. 3 on his tackle board.
Mike Mayock on Kony Ealy: "He's not quite as athletic as Aldon Smith, but he's a little more physical, better against the run. A 4-3 end."
"Chris Borland is one of my two or three favorite players in the draft. He could be the Kiko Alonso of this year's group."
Mayock on Jared Abbrederis: Understands routes better than most receivers. Needs to get stronger. 3-4th round.
"Calvin Pryor is a bigger Bob Sanders." Mayock says Pryor is more of a box safety while HaHa Clinton-Dix is a "complete" safety.
Mayock believes Sammy Watkins will be the only top-10 WR taken. Mayock said he'd have trouble taking Lee or Evans top 10 in this draft, but both should go top 20.
Mike Mayock said Blake Bortles is the most undeveloped among top-three QB selections.
"I think all three could fit (Bortles, Manziel, Bridgewater) the Browns depending how they feel about each individual."
"I think Kyle Fuller is a first-round talent and a first-round lock with sub-4.5 40."
"Amaro would be logical at 29. So would Hageman. I think the other top guys (at DL/TE) will be gone." (Mayock on the Patriots' pick)
Michael Sam is a "tweener" and that's why people are having a hard time evaluating him for the NFL.
Mike Mayock says Michael Sam likely a third-round to fifth-round projection. "Tight-hipped, don't think he can play linebacker."
Mike Mayock on Jadeveon Clowney: "I know he's got the physical makeup to be the best player in the draft." More upside than Mario Williams.
"I wouldn't be surprised if Jets pick multiple WR this year. You can't go wrong with Marqise Lee of Mike Evans." (Mayock on the Jets' pick)
"Quarterback they believe in makes most sense. They do have so many needs. Just need good football players." (Mayock on the Raiders' pick)
Mayock said Khalil Mack can play in both 4-3 and 3-4 schemes, and that if a 4-3 team takes him they have to free him up as a rusher, too.
Mayock is concerned about Jadeveon Clowney's "mental makeup.... Is he just going to be happy to be a millionaire?"
"They need an edge guy. If Mack was sitting there, he & OT would be of interest to me. They need a new-age TE." (Mayock on the Buccaneers' pick)
Mike Mayock said Teddy Bridgewater is the most ready because of the offense he played in. Reads whole field, throws to all levels of field.
Mayock said he likes Tajh Boyd in the mid to late rounds. Calls him a playmaker. Needs time to develop.
Mike Mayock said he thinks South Carolina CB Victor Hampton has second round talent but may not go that early.
Mike Mayock said Utah CB Keith McGill has the ability to be a second or third round pick but needs to be more consistent.
Scott Crichton is a "poor man's Chris Long."
Mike Mayock says he'd be surprised if Eric Ebron is still there for Ravens' first-round pick.
"Taylor Lewan might make it to No. 12. If he does, the Giants should jump all over him." Mayock says not to count out a receiver for the Giants.
"Zack Martin, Cyrus Kouandjio, David Yankey makes sense at No. 27 for Saints right now."
Darqueze Dennard is a top-15 pick. "My favorite corner in draft."
Derek Carr fits into the end of the first round.
A.J. McCarron is a second-round pick.
"Timmy Jernigan can step in and be special early."
Without injury, still don't think Zach Mettenberger is first- or second-rounder. Not a guy who can start from Day One.
"Sammy Watkins has the toughness. He blocks people. He's got an attitude like he wants to be the best player there is."
Seantrel Henderson one of biggest boom-or-bust guys in draft. ... Probably a fourth-round pick this year.
Mike Mayock on Bruce Ellington: "He reminds me a little bit of a bigger Ace Sanders. And I really liked Ace Sanders."
Mike Mayock said he wouldn't be surprised if Notre Dame DL Stephon Tuitt goes anywhere from pick No. 25 to pick No. 50.
If the Texans trade down from No. 1, they may be willing to move down farther than usual because of quality of draft.
If a quarterback the Jaguars love isn't there, both Clowney and Mack make sense at No. 3.
"One of my favorite players in draft is LSU's Jarvis Landry. Reminds me a little bit of Hines Ward."
"Jimmie Ward is one of my favorite safeties in this draft. I don't see him getting out of the second round."
Colt Lyerla a first- or second-round talent. Would guess, because of character concerns, he'll get picked on third day of draft.
Cyrus Kouandjio up and down last season. Had bad Sugar Bowl. Meetings with teams at the Combine will be important for him.
Dominique Easley went from top-25 pick to third- or fourth-round pick after second ACL injury.
If Carlos Hyde goes in first round, won't surprise me. With the running back position being devalued, he probably goes in second.
"Trent Murphy reminds me a little bit of Mike Vrabel."
Sammy Watkins would make sense for Browns at No. 4 if they waited on a quarterback. Carr could be option at No. 26.
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Posted by micnificent28 on 15 February 2014 - 02:34 AM
Truth is his hands aren't that bad. He makes spectacular catches on the regular but, he will drop an easy one if he's not tuned in 24/7. I think he will impress at the combine with his athletic ability and will catch fairly well in drills.
Posted by micnificent28 on 12 February 2014 - 05:03 PM
Not sure what you're talking about.
Gman didnt draft Godfrey and with a bad contract + injury he could likely be gone. At this point, no one can assume that Mitchell and Mikell are locks. There's a high chance that Mitchell is back, but not an aging Mikell. Lester played well as an udfa, but I'm not sure Rivera feels comfortable with him being the starter just yet.
For whatever I know, Rivera was linked to two "safeties" in consecutive years: Mark Barron (2012) and Kenny Vaccaro (2013). I'm pretty sure that Rivera will take a hard look at Pryor during the draft process. Atm, safety is as big a need as everything else.
Godfrey's contract is so big that if we were were cut we would leave 5 million in cap on the table as dead money. That said cutting him isn't realistic. Add to the fact mitchell played at a pro bowl level he likely returns as well. With lester there in the wings Signing a safety in the first round isn't realistic Even if we factor in mikell is gone(no word yet). Just not gonna happen unless mitchell walks even then i dout the team is uncomfortable with lester where as to draft a safety to play ahead of him in the first. Godfrey staying pretty much messes up the whole idea of that which is why NO ONE has mocked a safety to us. This would be about as likely as us drafting a RB in the first.
Posted by micnificent28 on 12 February 2014 - 03:59 PM
This isn't going to happen. Sorry for safety wanting fans but,with Godfrey likely to on the roster not to mention lester and mitchell and maybe mikell likely to return. The Need just isn't there. were losing all receivers ginn,lafell hix and so on. Not to mention the big hole on the offensive line. It's just not really possible and would be a black eye to the franchise(and cam) if this were to happen. END.
Posted by micnificent28 on 07 February 2014 - 12:12 AM
Olsen is Overrated in my eyes as a TE. The guy is closer to a WR than aTE. He's not much of a redzone threat and he's not a very good blocker and has nothing after the catch. I like him as a catching option but,i don't think he's worth 8 million a year. I'm not saying he's not a good player or push him out the door but come on something needs to be done.
Posted by micnificent28 on 03 February 2014 - 10:04 PM
Posted by micnificent28 on 03 February 2014 - 09:59 PM
LOL@benjamin being there when we pick at the"back" end of the second. That pick alone throws the rest out the window.
Posted by micnificent28 on 01 February 2014 - 01:31 AM
you're kidding yourself into thinking I said that. physically gifted sure but that isn't what carried this team. He was physically gifted last year and the year before but we had no D. What has changed? it was a team effort in general but there is no way you cannot give the credit to the D as the major contributor to the improvement this year. They carried this team above anyone else.
Yes i agree the defense has a big part into us going 12-4. Your right in your thinking of that. But that doesn't change the way he has developed into making less mistakes and throwing less ints while also still remaining effective as a the biggest threat we have on offense. You can't just take cam out of the equation like your doing,NO other QB is asked to do as much for his team as Cam Newton. Thats what makes him one of a kind. Take payton manning away from the broncos still a good team. take russell from the seahawks still a good team and so on. Take cam from our offense the rushing goes down the 3rd down conversions go down. The total touchdowns period would drop off greatly. As Gettleman and so many others have said as Cam Newton goes so goes the panthers. This kid was in MVP conversations at the midway point up until the end of the season. You can't just say he has nothing to do with it.
Posted by micnificent28 on 31 January 2014 - 03:18 PM
Where Did They Catch the Ball?
The table below represents the percentage of catches in each zone, it is color-coded so that an above-average number of receptions is greener and a below-average number is redder.
- Sammy Watkins' receptions stick out like a sore thumb. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched Clemson that 57% of Watkins' catches came off screens. We'll examine his yards after the catch in relation to screens later in the piece, but that doesn't discount the fact that you'd like to see more than 30% of his receptions come past 6 yards – just for some variation.
- The most normalized reception chart belongs to Mike Evans, who was the closest to average among the top tier. Much will be made about Manziel and Evans' connection and reliance on each other for deep balls. However, we still have to be impressed by the fact that at 6'5" Evans has caught the highest percentage of receptions past 20 yards amongst the top 15 WRs in this class.
- Like Evans, 25% of Benjamin's receptions came on throws deeper than 20 yards. Benjamin's receptions are well distributed among the various zones with the exception of screens. He caught 3 screens on the year where he totaled -8 yards. The screen game is not going to be strong for Kelvin at the next level.
- Lee's receptions are the most stunning, as only 3.5% of his catches (2 receptions) came deeper than 20 yards. He actually dropped more deep passes (3) than he caught. Other than that, we can see the influence of Kiffin's passing game where the majority of Lee's receptions came on short passes designed to get yards after the catch.
What Did They Do After They Caught It?
- As alluded to earlier, Marqise Lee was put in situations where he could catch the ball short and take it for good yardage. His 7.05 yards after the catch is top 5 in the class, although his paltry 3.7 yards after the catch on screens leaves a little something to be desired.
- We can see the effects of Benjamin's deep receptions as he caught the ball an average of 13.4 yards from the line of scrimmage, proving to be a solid deep threat. However, his 4.89 yards after the catch is the lowest among the top 15 WRs. That's not necessarily a problem with a bigger WR as that's not 'where he wins'. However, we still have to take that into account when comparing him to other similarly sized WRs.
- Benjamin's YAC becomes relevant when compared to Evans who averaged 7.63 yards after the catch. His yardage wasn't just racked up on broken Manziel plays. On screens he averaged 8.92 yards after the catch, displaying an innate shiftiness/burst that he may not always get credit for.
- I was a bit hard on Watkins earlier for his lack of receptions downfield, however we have to be impressed with his YAC. Despite catching 70% of his passes within 5 yards of the LOS, where defenses were keying in on him – he averaged the highest YAC of this class gaining 8.48 yards on average. Most importantly he still averaged a solid 6.1 yards on non-screen passes showing he can get it done all over the field
How Did they Catch the Ball?
The chart below represents the final break each WR made before catching the ball. The goal isn't to tell you exactly what routes each WR ran, but the variety of breaks they made as well as how those affected their production. For instance, comebacks typically yield very little YAC (2.5 yards on average) while posts/corner/slants yield high yards after the catch. The chart has factored out screens.
- When he's not running screens, Watkins has the most normal distribution of route types. This makes his overall YAC on non-screens all the more impressive because we know he's not running an excess of routes that lead to exaggerated YAC totals.
- As many have surmised via his tape, nearly 44% of Mike Evans' catches are from coming back to the QB. Whether that's on a scramble drill or designed route, that high number of comebacks takes away from his experience running sharp-breaking routes like square outs. Although we must consider Evans' high YAC as a positive sign despite catching so many comebacks.
- Most interesting here is Benjamin and FSU's utilization of the go route to take advantage of his height mismatch, nearly doubling the average for that specific type of route.
- Nearly 43% of Marqise Lee's receptions came on short breaking in/out routes designed to put him in a position to gain yardage after the catch. I'm personally a bit surprised by the lack of post/corner/slants that have seemed to factor more heavily into USC's past offenses.
How Are Their Hands?
Here are the drop rates for each of the WRs. I defined drops as balls that were easy receptions and likely bounced off the hands of a WR, not passes that a WR 'could have caught' with an acrobatic play. I won't provide any commentary since it's pretty self-explanatory.
So much of a WR's numbers depend on the quarterback, so we can't always use stats as effectively as we do for other positions. However, that doesn't mean there isn't value in them. Whether you use them to identify problems with a prospect's hands or examine a WR's YAC in depth, there is merit if you understand their potential and limitations. That's all I have for now. I'll answer any questions and tweet out additional info I have on Twitter @NU_Gap. Thanks for reading.
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This cut opened up on Nauset Beach 5 years ago and has since become the major passage into Pleasant Bay and Chatham Harbor (and not just for the great whites :eek:) On the upper right of the picture there's a point where some asshat had just built a huge mcmansion the year before and then proceeded to post his land. If you've ever seen the cover of Lou Tabory's book Inshore Fly Fishing, that picture was taken at the mussel bar rip right in front of this house. Anyway... it's karma time |
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It's amazing how people can build in places like that Rip! That inlet reminds me of the one that opened up in Moriches LI! Sometimes it helps the fishing sometimes it hurts! Really don't want the great white and seal situation you got up there! Although the amount of seals at Montauk has multiplied ridiculously recently! Same inside Long Beach last winter! Takes a toll on the herring run which in turn effects the stripers! Oh boy!
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I don't know if these correlate but here is a vision I had and posted about a while ago. Involving Nov 13th and a earthquake and eruption, lmk what you think OP
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Very interesting mate!
because I've had similar visions/dreams.
and I think there are many others as well.
for example, in one of my recent dreams, I recall a BEACH area (sunny day) somewhere while an 8.5+ hit followed by a massive Tsunami.
As a side note .... last year someone intrigued by my 113 warnings/writings, sent me a message explaining a vision they had that was so REAL, they decided to make a youtube video on it.
Now whats interesting about their vision and video, was that not only did they previously know nothing about my videos or writings on 113, but their vision was about a 9.5 QUAKE that struck off the coast of CALIFORNIA and created a 200 foot TSUNAMI (I think that was the approx description) that literally put SAN FRANCISCO and LA (from what I recall), UNDERWATER.
The DATE had 113 in it and his video was TITLED 113
In fact, I think i have that video somewhere in my archive if its still up on youtube.. I'll check around and post it here if I find it.
Oh, just remembered one other PERSON that also had a VISION about CALIFORNIA BEING COVERED IN MUD soon all the way up to SF...
anyone remember who I'm talking about? ;)
While I support "HER" first warning and feel she could be right about CALI... unfortunately, I've also criticized her after attempting to HELP her around the time just before her "FALL" into the abyss with paranoia and subsequent failed warnings. Quite sad actually because her first vision WAS validated and the SOURCE who gave her the information and message, was not her "imagination".
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Arrows to move, Space/up to jump.
Play through the story of a lone survivor trapped on a barren planet and fearing for his life.
Rated 1 / 5 stars
Bad poetry? Check. Poor collision detection of spikes? Check. Frustrating controls? Check. Random mismatched ice tiles? Check.
This game is like a party. The only thing missing is fun.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Ok, I'm not going to repeat what everyone else has been saying. I have a few other things to say, though. First off, the music really fit well with the mood of the game. It became more intense as the story did. Secondly, you did a great job of putting the story right on the game screen, so we don't have to sit and watch cutscenes. Thirdly, the game was challenging without being frustrating, so even though I often messed up and died, I didn't want to quit. Great job, and I can't wait to see more from you in the future! Don't listen to the haters, the game isn't frustrating/crappy like those first few reviews made it out to be.
Thank you! I mean it's far from perfect but those are problems I'll fix in future games
Rated 4 / 5 stars
i hate the ending.
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add medals i like medals..
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I enjoyed this very much, I was waiting to see if some big climax was going to happen, it kept building and building, the sun getting lower and lower in the sky, what would happen once the sun goes down? and then.. The end?! Curse you for making me want more! lol
Thank you! Yes the ending and indeed the whole plot seems to have a been an abject failure.. But oh well! At least I know to fix it now.


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Drunk on moral superiority: public health lobby's nonsensical alcohol policy
The Puritans are at it again. Those DrinkWise ads are clever and likely to work, judging by the comments on Youtube.
Whatever would we do without Bernard! Spot on again. There are times when my fellow health professionals' self-righteousness and moral certitude makes me sicker than a few nice cold beers ever could.
Great article Bernard. The wowsers are at it again.
Prohibition could be fun though…
So what make Mike Daube change his approach? As an academic he probably has a reason.
I saw this yesterday on upworthy absolutely applauding the ads. I do think a bit of humour goes a long way and the ads are fanatic.
Use of an anonymous source is bad practice. The critics are on the record, and this person wants to slam them from behind a veil of anonymity, while maintaing the cred of "senior public health figure"
The alcohol industry sells alcohol. Ergo, nothing it endorses will reduce the amount of alcohol sold. Lots of people like drinking, ergo people will resist anything that reduces the amount of alcohol available to drink. Many people are in denial about the cost and health effects of alcohol consumption, ergo they will endorse anything which pretends that a non-challenging, fun campaign will be effective, and they will shoot any messenger which says otherwise. Public health does not have a problem with smugness, it has a problem with being the field of medicine most involved in telling people things they just don't want to hear. Generally, eventually, people either stop listening - and society just lives with the downside - or people wake up - and something effective gets done like reducing access, increasing cost and dispensing with ineffective genuflections to the pretence of education influencing the behaviour of rational actors. I guess we'll just have to see what the chronic disease, violence, and general mayhem tolerance of Australia is. The US has 30K gun deaths each year and I don't see them listening to any smug advice, so when you can get people turned around a society can put up with quite a bit.
Bernard is one of those commentators who also decries any restrictions whatsoever on alcohol, despite overwhelming evidence that it's effective. I'm pretty sure Bernard would have been vehemently opposed to the NSW government's 3am alcohol cut-off. Yet we've seen stunning results in Newcastle from a similar approach, with multiple studies coming out recently showing the dramatic reduction in violence that can be achieved through reduced trading hours (4000 less assaults over the past 5 years). Meanwhile, the first big weekend of the new laws in Sydney already had St.Vincent's hospital thrilled with the lack of emergency admissions (and it was Mardi Gras weekend!) and the Police equally excited based on early signs. Yet the industry couldn't have been more opposed to these laws; laws that will help to change the alcohol culture in Sydney and save lives.
"The logic of demonising alcohol as like tobacco, though, is obvious to the public health industry: work at it long enough and you might be able to restrict and then start banning alcohol altogether. Perhaps it also gives public health campaigners a warm moral glow that they're fighting more forces of evil now that tobacco is receding as a threat."
Pretty clear who's got the issues here.
The prohibitionist "war on drugs" has an inflexible, morally superior outlook, ergo it is currently having a negative net effect on manufacture and distribution.
I just used the term "ergo" in a sentence, ergo I am an utter tosser.
Alcohol availability is not the problem, and taxing it to the bejeebus will not help. Changing attitudes to alcohol consumption ie how much and when, will. And this is a generational thing, it will not occur overnight. The public health lobby need to realise this and take the blinkers off, or they are no better than those hell-bent on getting a skinful and starting a fight.
I have serious concerns about the the cancer council at the moment, having largely won the battle against tobacco they seem at a loss at what to target next and sound bizarrely extreme every time they open their mouths. After hearing one of them on ABC News breakfast describe "the coming tsunami of cancers" because older people aren't dying of heart disease anymore I think they have a serious problem with accepting the fact that we are all going to die someday.
Well said John Quiggan, Andrew Pengilly, Northy & Michael Jones.
This is desperate, strawman bullshit, BK - if Tamas Calderwood agrees with you, you know you have got it wrong. -
Shaniq'ua: Um. Not even we deluded, self-important, morally-oh-so-superior medico's think we can prevent death. What most of us in the "hypocritical" health-industrial complex try to do is minimise the suffering on the way to death. Just because it hasn't happened to you yet, doesn't mean you and those who you care about are going to be spared. You can't buy your way out, and biology beats denial every time. You do realise that alcohol is a co-carcinogen don't you?


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Stars 4, Blue Jackets 2
Sheldon Souray's new teammates don't like being in front of the net when he fires a slap shot.
The feeling must be even worse for opposing goalies.
Souray and Michael Ryder scored third-period goals and the Dallas Stars defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2 Saturday night.
Souray took a pass from Mike Ribeiro at the left point and sent a shot over Columbus goalie Steve Mason at 1:36 of the period for his first goal of the season.
''He was screened on that. He didn't see it,'' Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel said.
That might have been a good thing for Mason.
''He bombs it,'' Stars captain Brenden Morrow said of Souray's hard shot. ''They're coming in pretty hot. I don't like standing in front of them, but I know they don't either.''
The Stars signed both Souray and Ryder as free agents July 1. They each scored their first goal for their new team.
Dallas added a power-play goal at 13:52 of the third. Morrow sent a pass across the goalmouth to Ryder.
Ribeiro added three assists.
The victory gave the Stars (4-1-0 overall) a 4-0 home record. Columbus (0-4-1) is still looking for its first win. Mason made 29 saves for Blue Jackets, who were outshot 33-15.
''Today shows our players that we have the ability to play a certain way and if we play that way, we're going to put ourselves in a position to have success every night,'' Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan said. ''We took a little step towards that.''
Arniel had a different view.
''It was an ugly game,'' he said. ''The first 10 minutes was not bad, but after that wasn't good. When you lose a game like that, there's no positives.''
The Blue Jackets got their first power-play goal this season to open the scoring at 6:46 of the first.
Vinny Prospal redirected Fedor Tyutin's shot from the top of the left circle past Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen. Prospal's third goal this season ended the Blue Jackets' 0-for-20 drought with a man advantage.
The Stars tied the game at 11:25 of the first after Ribeiro sent a pass across to Morrow. He one-timed the puck into the net past Mason.
The teams each added goals in the second period.
Columbus made it 2-1 at 1:13 of the second on Alexandre Giroux's first goal of the season. He took a pass from R.J. Umberger, got past two defenders and moved in to beat Lehtonen from short range.
Dallas' Loui Eriksson scored on a cross-ice pass from Steve Ott from just outside Mason's left shoulder. Jamie Benn also assisted on the goal at 9:21 with a pass behind the net to Ott. It was the 100th point of Benn's career.
''We gave up three backdoor goals,'' Arniel said. ''Usually that happens once every 15 games.''
''It's not something that we really saw that they did bad,'' Morrow said. ''It's just hockey sense. You just feel where the place is to go.''
The teams play next at Columbus on Tuesday.
''We have to dig deeper,'' Blue Jackets captain Rick Nash said. ''We're a desperate team right now.''
Notes: Giroux was playing his first NHL game this season, and first for Columbus, after being recalled from Springfield of the American Hockey League. He has played in the AHL during each of the past 11 seasons, with 341 goals there. The 30-year-old has six career goals in the NHL with the Rangers, Capitals, Oilers and Blue Jackets ... Columbus has not scored more than two goals in any of its past eight games against the Stars. ... Dallas improved its record against Columbus to 28-8-5.
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VLAN 1 Question?
I have been reading alot about best practice and not using VLAN 1 for inband management. I'm alittle confused on setting the IP address on a L2 switch to the management Vlan. I have been trying to set this up in my home lab and looking for an IP scheme. Im going to list my equipment and IP scheme.
Cisco 1841
fa0/1=10.0.0.100/24 Connects to Verizon Fios Modem
fa0/0=172.16.16.1/30 Connects to 3550 switch
NAT to fa0/1 to allow 10.0.0.0,192.16 8.55.0, 172.16.0.0
Cisco 3550 48 port Root Switch for Vlan 1,55,100
fa0/1=172.16.16.2/30 no switch port, connects to 1841
fa0/2 - 47 on Vlan 1
fa0/2= Connects to DHCP server *scope 10.2.76.1-10.2.79.255*
Gig 0/1= SFP Trunk to 2950 48 port
Gig0/2= SFP Trunk to 2950 12 port
fa0/48 VLAN 55 Cisco WAP4410 Access Point
VLAN 1=10.2.76.1/22 ACME.corp Lan
VLAN 55=192.168.55.1/24 Wifi.
VLAN 55= ip dhcp pool 55=net 192.168.55.0, GW 192.168.55.1, DNS 220.127.116.11
VLAN 100= 10.0.0.1/24 Management Vlan
VLAN 2= *option 10.2.76.1/22 to not use VLAN 1*
Cisco 2950g 48 port
fa0/1 - 47 VLAN 1
fa0/48 VLAN 55, WAP 4410 Access point
Gig0/1 - 2 Trunk Ports
Int Vlan 1= 10.0.0.2/24 default router 10.0.0.1
Cisco 2950g 12 port
fa0/1-11 VLAN 1
fa0/12 VLAN 55, WAP 4410
Gig0/1-2 Trunk Ports
Int VLAN 1= 10.0.0.3/24 default router 10.0.0.1
My question is, how do you change it so the current Vlan 1 that auto populates all the switches now becomes say VLAN 2 "ACME.lan" and not use VLAN 1 at all other then setting the ip addresses on the L2 switches? Is it the **switchport trunk native vlan 2** command on all trunk ports? Will the switches automatically swith the untagged ports over to my new vlan 2 or do you have to assign them all with the *switchport access vlan 2* command? Also, is the only way to manage the L2 switches is by telnet/ssh from the 3550 switch?
Any input on this would be great.A+,NET+,SEC+,ME CP,CCENT,CCNA
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If you have your L3 switch in VTP server and your L2 switches as client then when you make changes to VL's (add/remove) the L2 switches will change their VL.dat DB.
Between the 1841 - 3550 you must have both devices using the native VL as VL2 (or the same NVL). If you are trunking then from the 3350 to both the L2 switches you can have whatever you like as the native VL from the L3 to the L2's as again it is the same on both sides.
Yep - Telnet or SSH using your L3 as the jump box to both L2.
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Im routing between the 3550 and 1841 with EIGRP. I was suprised that changing the native Vlan was so easy just by going onto the trunk ports and using the *switchport Native vlan {vlan ID}* command. The part that through me off alittle was setting the ip address of the L2 switches to the new native vlan by using the *int vlan 1* *ip address* command. Wasnt making sense until it worked. Cisco should change that command to something like Enterasys does. *set ip address 10.2.76.5 mask 255.255.252.0 gateway 10.2.76.1* command. Maybe Todd can come out with a Cisco best practices book.
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I would write to John Chambers mate!
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We've talked before (and will talk again) about the importance of networking and how to do it, and clearly knowing someone in a position to influence the process is a great way to rise above the pack. However that's not the focus of this post. Here I want to explore some other ways to stand out, and most specifically for the right reasons.
Let's start with the fact that any time there is a job with a significant number of applicants, someone is going to have to go through and narrow the pool. This person may or (often) may not be the ultimate decision maker, but there is a level of screening that must go on to get the number down to a manageable few. The key here is NOT to distinguish yourself in a NEGATIVE way! Typos, grammar mistakes, not filling out all the forms or submitting all the requested documentation are all quick and easy ways for someone to take a group of 100 resumes and get it down to 60 or 70...easy...done. Is that fair? Perhaps not. But it's reality and you need to prepare for and deal with it. So step one is to avoid eliminating yourself with silly, self-inflicted mistakes.
Okay you've made the first cut. Congratulations! Now comes the second cut, and again it's more a matter of not eliminating yourself. The scrutiny at this stage is in many ways an extension of the prior analysis, only deeper. For example, the cover letter may not have any typos, but does it make sense? Does it tell anything about the candidate that the employer can't pick up from the resume? Is the resume well thought out and put together, or is it confusing and tough to follow? And just like that, we're now down to around 40 candidates.
By eliminating careless errors and not making mistakes, you've made it to the Top 40! Up until now, you've almost wanted to NOT stand out, because that would have got you eliminated. But when it gets to this stage you want to stand out for all the right reasons. Here are some keys:
We'll talk more next week about how to distinguish yourself in a positive way in the interview and beyond. I intended to include it in this post, but I couldn't do it without violating #3!
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Decoupled Deformable Model For 2D/3D Boundary Identification
Mishra, Akshaya Kumar
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Active Contour, Active Surface, Image Segmentation, System Design Engineering
2010-07-26 (submitted on: 2010-07)
The accurate detection of static object boundaries such as contours or surfaces and dynamic tunnels of moving objects via deformable models is an ongoing research topic in computer vision. Most deformable models attempt to converge towards a desired solution by minimizing the sum of internal (prior) and external (measurement) energy terms. Such an approach is elegant, but frequently mis-converges in the presence of noise or complex boundaries and typically requires careful semi-dependent parameter tuning and initialization. Furthermore, current deformable model based approaches are computationally demanding which precludes real-time use. To address these limitations, a decoupled deformable model (DDM) is developed which optimizes the two energy terms separately. Essentially, the DDM consists of a measurement update step, employing a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimator, followed by a separate prior step, which modifies the updated deformable model based on the relative strengths of the measurement uncertainty and the non-stationary prior. The non-stationary prior is generated by using a curvature guided importance sampling method to capture high curvature regions. By separating the measurement and prior steps, the algorithm is less likely to mis-converge; furthermore, the use of a non-iterative ML estimator allows the method to converge more rapidly than energy-based iterative solvers. The full functionality of the DDM is developed in three phases. First, a DDM in 2D called the decoupled active contour (DAC) is developed to accurately identify the boundary of a 2D object in the presence of noise and background clutter. To carry out this task, the DAC employs the Viterbi algorithm as a truncated ML estimator, curvature guided importance sampling as a non-stationary prior generator, and a linear Bayesian estimator to fuse the non-stationary prior with the measurements. Experimental results clearly demonstrate that the DAC is robust to noise, can capture regions of very high curvature, and exhibits limited dependence on contour initialization or parameter settings. Compared to three other published methods and across many images, the DAC is found to be faster and to offer consistently accurate boundary identification. Second, a fast decoupled active contour (FDAC) is proposed to accelerate the convergence rate and the scalability of the DAC without sacrificing the accuracy by employing computationally efficient and scalable techniques to solve the three primary steps of DAC. The computational advantage of the FDAC is demonstrated both experimentally and analytically compared to three computationally efficient methods using illustrative examples. Finally, an extension of the FDAC from 2D to 3D called a decoupled active surface (DAS) is developed to precisely identify the surface of a volumetric 3D image and the tunnel of a moving 2D object. To achieve the objectives of the DAS, the concepts of the FDAC are extended to 3D by using a specialized 3D deformable model representation scheme and a computationally and storage efficient estimation scheme. The performance of the DAS is demonstrated using several natural and synthetic volumetric images and a sequence of moving objects.
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