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Jitter Playback of huge files
Dear all,
I'm working in a project for reactive cinema and am having a problem.
Basically it is a short film that has alternate scenes which are selected in real time based on audience's response.
We are using large files, full uncompressed 1920 1080 25fps Quicktime RLE .mov. It plays well each of the scenes but when changing from one to the next there is a noticeable stutter of about half a second in the video.
The video runs on a dedicated (and rather powerful) PC running the patch in the runtime environment. It only gets OSC messages to change the clips.
I would like to know if there is any way I can optimise my patch to get frame accurate playback with such large files.
Here is what I have at the moment:
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– Miguel
Hey Miguel:
1-Maybe you can start by playing with different codecs. If you have access to FCP maybe you can try ProRes, i have a rather good experience with it. Also check if you need the alpha channel of your files.
2-try to avoid using two metros. better have just one and distribute your bangs accordingly.
3-try to move your rendering to videoplanes using the openGL objects in jitter(jit.gl).
4-optimize your play back with Vade's nice tips:
5-maybe it would be a good idea to enable the adapt attribute on your qt players
6-are you crossfading between files or they are played consecutively? use a umenu object with pointing to your source folder and enable the autopopulate attribute. Link the list with a prepend read.
Hi Emmanuel,
Wow, thanks for your input.
1- I have suggested recoding the files but the producer and director are quite keen in not doing so. They hired some really expensive camera for the shooting and want to see it at its full resolution. Will try playing around with ProRes and see if they notice the difference.
2,- will do that
3.- Is there any real gain? I always thought that using openGL helped mostly for operations in matrixes. Didn't think it would make a difference for straight playback.
4.- will have a read at it.
5.- will test.
6.- No crossfades, just jumping from one video to the next. I have message boxes on the patch linking to the files which are in the same folder. I couldn't post example of the videos for obvious reasons (The smallest scene is 13 seconds long and 700Mb)
– Miguel
Hey Miguel:
Test the codecs. I can imagine that the filmmaker would love to see his footage as good as possible, but codecs can be the bottle neck of things like this. Check the alpha channels, those can be really heavy.
The gl objects can help you to optimize the performance as you will be using the GPU: movies will be passed as textures and bound to a geometry, in this case a plane. That will be a huge relief for your cpu(which is the one managing the loading of the movies).
If you are only using one context to render you really don't need two video players(as you are mentioning there are not crossfades between the files). In the case you want to keep both qt players stop banging the one you are not using.
Read the Vade's optimization page, it can give you good pointers of how to use some slabs to improve your performance.
Option w, if your main concern is to have an optimized movie player you can try to wrap your own player and send osc messages to it(there are some nice c++ toolkits for such thingies). In my own experience I had some bad moments optimizing jitter for this kind of tasks.
can you make it into one huge file and jump frames? that's way better in my experience. loading any new file into jit.qt.mov causes a bit of a pause.
there are tricks you can do with a single file to get an xfade effect, jit.xfade into itself with a speedlim delay, or jit.slide.
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The country's assistant treasurer, David Bradbury, said Google Australia was among the companies targeted by the planned tax changes. Google used a web of offshore holding companies in Ireland and the Netherlands to minimize its Australian tax payments, in a so-called "Double Irish Dutch sandwich", Mr. Bradbury said in a speech to accountants on Thursday. Australia's company tax rate is 30%, compared with 12.5% in Ireland.
"While the day-to-day dealings of Australian firms advertising on Google might be with Google Australia, under the fine print of contracts Australian firms sign with Google, they are actually buying their advertising from an Irish subsidiary of Google," he said.
Google said it abided by all Australian tax laws.
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Customs Amendment Bill 2004
WARNING: This Digest was prepared for debate. It reflects the legislation as introduced and does not canvass subsequent amendments. This Digest does not have any official legal status. Other sources should be consulted to determine the subsequent official status of the Bill.
Passage History Purpose Background Main Provisions Concluding Comments Endnotes Contact Officer & Copyright Details
Date Introduced: 8 December 2004
House: Senate
Portfolio: Justice and Customs
Commencement: The Bill has been passed through both Houses and has commenced operation.
The Customs Amendment Bill 2004 (the Bill) will prescribe commercial quantities for all illicit drugs prescribed in the Customs Act 1901.
Australia s approach to illicit drugs has been characterised as embedding harm minimization strategies and a robust treatment framework in a strong law enforcement regime. (1) Significant penalties for commercial traffickers have long been a feature of the law enforcement regime.
On 2 November 1997, the Howard Government launched Tough on Drugs , a strategy designed as a part of a national effort to combat the menace of illicit drugs. (2) This strategy is a significant part of Australia s overarching National Drug Strategy which, in the government s view, is to provide a balanced and integrated approach to reducing the supply of and demand for illicit drugs .(3) In its paper The National Drug Strategy Australia s integrated framework 2004 2009, the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy noted that the reduction of supplies of illicit and other drugs is to be achieved by disrupting the production and supply of illicit drugs, especially by engaging law enforcement, health and other regulatory agencies. (4)
Tough, publicly pronounced penalties are designed to act as a strong deterrent for offenders and society in general.(5) Such penalties are intended to make it clear to the offender and to other persons with similar impulses that, if they yield to [the commission of crimes], they will meet with severe punishment .(6) The introduction of tough penalties can also be seen as an indication that the legislature considers a particular crime particularly abhorrent.(7)
Certain drug offences, including smuggling, unlawfully importing or exporting certain narcotic drugs on a commercial scale, have been identified by the government as particularly heinous crimes.(8) The legislature has considered that the commitment of such offences should attract a maximum term of life imprisonment. Under subsection 235(2) of the Customs Act 1901, courts have the discretion to hand down this maximum penalty when satisfied that:
the drug offence was committed in relation to a narcotic substance for which the Customs Act 1901 prescribes a so called commercial quantity, and
the quantity of the narcotic substance was not less than the commercial quantity prescribed in the Customs Act 1901.
Central to the offence attracting the life sentence is the term commercial quantity . Commercial quantities for individual narcotic substances are prescribed in column three of the table set out in Schedule IV of the Customs Act 1901 and are expressed in kilograms (kg). Examples range from 1.5 kg for heroin, 2 kg for cocaine and up to 100 kg for cannabis.
However, currently only a minority of narcotic drugs are allocated a prescribed commercial quantity. In other words, regardless of the quantity of drugs involved, offences committed in relation to the majority of the narcotic drugs specified in the Customs Act 1901 will not attract a maximum penalty of life imprisonment (unless the offender is a repeat offender for a trafficable amount under section 235(2)(c)(ii) of the Customs Act 1901.)
Recently, this gap has been criticised by Finnane J of the New South Wales District Court. In the matter of R v Zhang and ors (unreported decision, dated 4 December 2004) Finnane J sentenced two drug dealers to 25 years jail for the possession of over 320 kg of the designer drug Ice , one of the street names for methamphetamine.(9) In his judgment, His Honour mentioned that:
The Commonwealth of Australia has, through the Customs Act, over many years prohibited the import of narcotics. Schedules to that Act set out quantities of various types that constitute various offences. Although this drug is obviously a very dangerous one, the Commonwealth did not apparently consider it necessary to prescribe any commercial quantity of it. The only relevant offence is dealing in a trafficable quantity; the maximum penalty for which is twenty-five years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $500,000. I would urge those who are responsible to create a category of offence which prohibited the importing into Australia of more than some quantity which they could devise as being a commercial quantity. The quantities of drugs imported here and the likely profits to be made would be equivalent, in my opinion, to the type of commercial dealing in heroin and cocaine. It is difficult to see why the most serious offence of importing this drug is one of importing a trafficable quantity.(10)
His Honour also noted that:
If this drug were heroin or cocaine clearly the applicable sentence would be one of life imprisonment.(11)
The proposed amendments will close this apparent gap by prescribing commercial quantities for all remaining narcotic drugs listed in Schedule IV of the Customs Act 1901 providing the courts with the ability to hand down life sentences in appropriate cases in relation to all drugs listed there.
Item 1 to item 109 will insert the commercial quantity for the remainder of the listed narcotics. The amount is expressed in kilograms.
Item 110 prescribes that the commercial quantities will become applicable to offences after the commencement of the amendments to the Customs Act 1901.
The quantities prescribed by the amendment are based on quantities prescribed under state and territory laws as well as under the Commonwealth s Crimes (Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act 1990. However, the measures in this Bill are only intermediate measures. In his second reading speech, Senator Ellison, Minister for Justice and Customs, pointed out that:
Next year, the Government will be bringing forward further improvements, including new serious drug offences for inclusion in the Criminal code.(12)
In the meantime, the amendments in this Bill will allow the courts to impose the maximum life sentence for the most serious drug offences. This does not mean that every offender who is arrested and charged under the Customs Act 1901 with importing a commercial quantity of narcotic drugs will in fact be sentenced to life imprisonment. Rather, the maximum penalty will only apply to the:
worst type of case falling within the prohibition or, as it is expressed by Dwyer CJ in Reynolds v Wilkinson (1948) 51 WALR 17 at 18, for the worst cases of the sort . That expression should be understood to be marking out a range and an offence may be within it notwithstanding the fact that it could have been worse than it was.(13)
G Bammer, W Hall, M Hamilton and R Ali, Harm Minimization in a Prohibition Context Australia , The Annals of the American Academy, Vol 582, 2002, p. 80.
J. Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, Tough On Drugs - Launch Of The National Illicit Drug Strategy, Launch of the National Illicit Drugs Strategy, The Ted Noffs Foundation Randwick, Sydney, 1997.
Department of Health and Ageing, National Illicit Drug Strategy, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/Publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-strateg-drugs-illicit-index.htm, accessed on 13 December 2004.
Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, The National Drug Strategy Australia s integrated framework 2004 2009, http://www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au/pdf/framework0409.pdf, accessed 13 December 2004, p. 7.
[1] This is only one aspect of sentencing. Fox and Freiberg identify retribution, proportionality, rehabilitation, denunciation, incapacitation and the protection of the community as further aspects. R. Fox and A. Freiberg, Sentencing State and Federal Law in Victoria , Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1999, p. 202 232.
Radich [1954] NZLR 86, p. 87.
Fox and Freiberg, op. cit., p. 233.
Subsection 231(1) of the Customs Act 1901 (Assembly of persons with the intention of: importing prohibited imports, smuggling or preventing the seizure, or rescuing after seizure, of any prohibited imports or smuggled goods), section 233AC (the master of a ship or aircraft must not use or allow the use of the ship or aircraft for smuggling etc. of narcotic goods) or subsection 233B(1) (Prohibition of importing, possessing imported narcotics or conveying imported narcotic drugs).
See generally J. Norberry, Illicit Drugs, their Use and the Law in Australia , Background paper, no. 12, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 1996 1997.
R v Wei Liang Tu And Anna Zhang, Unpublished decision of the District Court of New South Wales, Finnane J, dated 3 December 2004, pp. 3 4.
ibid., p. 4.
Senator Chris Ellison, Minister for Justice and Customs, Second reading speech: Customs Amendment Bill 2004 , Senate, Debates, 9 December 2004, p. 1.
R v Tait and Bartley (1979) 24 ALR 473, p. 484 485. Brennan, Deane and Gallop JJ cited with approval Burt CJ in Bensegger v R [1979] WAR 65, p. 68.
This paper has been prepared to support the work of the Australian Parliament using information available at the time of production. The views expressed do not reflect an official position of the Information and Research Service, nor do they constitute professional legal opinion.
ISSN 1328-8091 © Commonwealth of Australia 2005
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The research found that in Newcastle-under-Lyme, residents are asked to sort their waste into nine different bins and bags.
A further 20 councils provide seven bins for food waste, different recycling streams and other rubbish. More than 100 town halls ask residents to sort rubbish into 5 or more bins.
Residents in these areas say it is impossible to find room in the house for all the different bins and complain that the system is too complicated and complex.
In Newcastle-under-Lyme Council, north Staffordshire, residents are asked to dump food waste in a silver slop bucket for food waste, which is then emptied into a larger, green outdoor bin every week. There is a pink bag for plastic bottles, a blue box for glass, foil, tins and aerosols, a green bag for cardboard, a white bag for textiles and blue bags for paper and magazines, which are all collected on alternate weeks with garden waste and black bin bags.
Sylvia Butler, 59, a retired teacher and former councillor in the area, said many residents are just dumping recycling in black bin bags rather than bothering to sort waste.
It is too complicated and too complex, she said. Other areas have three containers, we have nine, it is just too confusing, she said.
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Coming to a town near you?
what are those bins made out of?
The fundamental dishonesty of the environmental movement is appallingly brazen.
Parts of Japan have been doing something like this for a while. Makes sense to assign some of the responsibility to the consumer.
In others, = In other words, < /yawn>
Or to train them to take orders from their environmental overlords.
Are you serious? Makes sense does it?
Recycling in the home is a waste of time, effort and money. Besides forced recycling is contrary to everything we stand for. Go to the liberal Kos sites.
I think "train" is the operative word here. People get brainwashed pretty easy. - We recycle after a fashion in a countrified way. Newspapers go to the local auction house for people to wrap their purchases in; we garden and have composted for almost 25 years. Our dogs covet every bite of scrap and vegetable juice left over. Plastic bags go to the thrift shops for bagging things they sell. No way I'm gonna heat the water to wash out glass mayonnaise jars and tin cans.
"Parts of Japan have been doing something like this for a while."
Yeah, and not too long ago they were making Banzai! charges and crashing flimsy airplanes into big metal ships.
Somewhere, Tojo is still laughing at that.
There is no saving the English this time.
When our town transfer station implemented state mandated "recycling" I joked to the town treasurer that we ought to get a rebate on our transfer station bumber stickers. She got really serious and told me she had to pay BFI $60,000 a year to haul the "recyclables". Most of them went to a landfill in Michigan. That's on top of the residents' and town's cost and hassle of handling the different bins.
I made a point of placing putrifying, unwashed catfood cans in the bins in July.
Who benefitted? Not the "environment", we just moved from a local landfill to one a thousand miles away, which is clearly environmentally counterproductive. The beneficiary was BFI. For a lousy $60,000 a year they made the whole town jump through hoops. Of course they were aided and abetted by nitwits in the statehouse, including Bill Weld.
BTW, Ontario was doing the same thing, abluting themselves in an act of overarching moral preening, while shipping landfill to Michigan.
The Germans started in a simple fashion...separate paper from regular garbage. Then they tagged on plastic as a separate deal. Then batteries, etc, etc. They aren't up to nine but I would suspect they will be there by 2020. It is true...'train' is the key phrase. To back up the training...you also need garbage police walking around, to examine your bins, and then you turn into a police-garbage state.
I guess it depends on how you look at it.
I guess we think differently.
I know most people have seen this, but go to 1:15 in...that was the first thing tat I thought of ...:)
If people aren't separating garbage for the purpose of it going into a plasma arc power station, then it's useless.
Course...those guys in the gun mounts probably weren't laughing, though...
See my post at #15...:)
It is like the sodomy laws...whether you condemn or accept homosexuality, the bottom line is...do we want to have laws in place that would mandate an level of intrusiveness to enforce (if you aren't going to enforce them, why have them on the books?)
You are correct. Of course, Garbage Police can have other types of things to keep an eye on as well.
Here in our community it's optional but costs more. We compost but don't recycle. Our son's girlfriend was disturbed by that and asked several times where to put her soda cans. My husband did his master's thesis on recycling 35 years ago and told her more than once that it expends more energy to recycle aluminum that it does to generate it new from ore. Glass is made from sand and water. He does take plastic bags back to the grocery store and we don't buy stuff in plastic bottles as a rule. The other conversation with son and his now former girlfriend is whether to burn at our farm out in the country. I burn old client files and we also burn a lot of brush. They thought we should shred the files. We point out that a truck burns fossil fuel to pick up the stuff, shred it, and then dump it in the land fill where big trucks push it around. We just burn it. Clear flame, little residue. Natural process.
Sunshine and unicorn farts. Now shut up and sort. ; )
Best post of the morning...:)
Where I live there is a separate recycling bin that gets dumped at the dump with the other trash. It's just an excuse to fine people.
They ought to be paying Mr. T royalties for this clip.
Aluminum cans always get put in the recycle bin. Those always have value. Glass bottles and newspapers do but only for convenience. They probably go into the landfill. Half the time glass goes in w/ regular garbage
In UK the eco-freaks are in control.
The socialists and their long march to control.
See posts 1, 19, 20, 22.
At first, I interpreted "rubbish" to mean its more common definition of "nonsense." Then I realized they were using it to mean "trash." It makes a lot of sense the way I first (mis)read it.
In Newcastle-under-Lyme Council, north Staffordshire, residents are asked to dump food waste in a silver slop bucket for food waste, which is then emptied into a larger, green outdoor bin every week.
I can see some major health issues here. Throughout history, epidemics have been initiated and maintained by poor sanitation conditions that allow pathogens and disease carrying pests to fluorish. It's nice to see that England has forgotten its disease-ridden past and is going back to the old ways (/sarc).
They're violating the open flames ban with that cake.
Liberals always over reach, they can't help it. They're like a camel pushing into the tent. It's never enough and any opening you give them leads to dumbing down, dependency and the eventual decay of society.
Time to recycle our way of thinking about the circus act they've set out for us to perform.
It's true!
The guilt! Oh the guilt!!
We're BAD if we don't do it.
I don't think I really know what you're talking about.
My trash pick up is not included with my taxes, I pay a contractor $50 quarterly to pick it up. Officially, they won't accept old tires or yard waste, other than those two items, they pick up whatever I put to the curb, in cans or bags. If I have an old stove or refrigerator, they will pick that up too, all I have to do is give them a couple days notice.
The actual pick up guys have told me "unofficially", that they will pick up tires too and yard waste, if it isn't too excessive. It probably doesn't hurt that I give them Christmas presents every year and thank them occasionally for doing a great job. I have even written to their company commending them. If the occasional raccoon knocks over a can or tears into a bag, they pick that up too.
For $200 per year, I pile it out there on Wednesday and they pick it up. Free enterprise is great.
I think the English will rally. If they don't, they're dead meat.
Socialists always make more noise than their numbers.
Time for the rest (the cowed majority busy sorting their rubbish like trained seals) to get back in their faces.
The push back against "multiculturalism" by England, Germany and France is a good sign. Hope it will be more than a whimper.
That's the way I read it too. I still read it that way. No other interpretation makes any sense.
Move on then.
If all the town residents lined up every morning on Main Street, dropped their pants, got down on their hands and knees, and waited patiently while the town police "did" each and every one of them, one at a time, who would you find more despicable, the people or the police?
Of course both, but still...
Can you spell S H E E P
I wonder if he wore that for Tipper.
Much like yearly "safety" inspections on cars!
Just send us the damn tax bill!
If you can't explain, ok.
There would be some dissent, I'm sure. Some group would be protesting, demanding the town council supply knee pads.
Some group would be protesting, demanding the town council supply knee pads.That's true. The RINOs.
Your lack of cooperation is ruining Act I. How can they move on to Act II if you don't do your part?
Recycling is BULL SH*T. It's a waste of time, money and resources and uses far more energy than it "saves".
I bet you can remember when it was possible to call your doctor, go in the same day or the next day, get time with the doctor and pay your bill before you left. And carried a health insurance policy for catastrophic health costs.
People would die in the streets from their injuries, because of people like you and me, who don't want the government to supply knee pads and free medical care.
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At United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS ), rules are religion. Without them, UPS could never move 13.5 million packages to their destinations on time each day. But two years ago, Mark J. Colvard, a UPS manager in San Ramon, Calif., had to decide whether to buck the system. A driver needed time off to help an ailing family member, but under company rules he wasn't eligible. If Colvard went by the book, the driver would probably take the days anyway and be fired. If Colvard gave him the time off, he would catch flak from his other drivers. Colvard wound up giving the driver two weeks, took some heat--and kept a valuable employee.
Six months earlier, Colvard admits, he would have gone the other way. What changed his approach? A month he spent living among migrant farmers in McAllen, Tex., as part of a unusual UPS management training experience called the Community Internship Program (CIP). After building housing for the poor, collecting clothing for the Salvation Army, and working in a drug rehab center, Colvard said he was able to empathize with employees facing crises back home. And that, he says, has made him a better manager. "My goal was to make the numbers, and in some cases that meant not looking at the individual but looking at the bottom line," says Colvard. "After that one-month stay, I immediately started reaching out to people in a different way."
CIP began in 1968 as the brainchild of UPS founder James Casey, who wanted to open up the eyes of UPS's predominantly white managers to the poverty and inequality exploding into violence in many cities. By now, nearly 1,200 current and former middle managers have moved through the program. And it has evolved into an integral part of the UPS culture, teaching managers the crucial skill of flexibility at a company that is trying to fit a diverse base of employees into its rigid rules-based culture, which prescribes everything from how delivery people should carry their keys to how many steps they should take per second. UPS needs rules, but it also needs managers capable of bending them when necessary. "We've got 330,000 U.S. employees," says Don B. Wofford, the CIP coordinator and a graduate of the program. "There are all kinds of personalities and all kinds of diversity. We need managers who can manage those individuals."
Therefore, each summer UPS plucks 50 of its most promising executives from the company's 2,400 managers and brings them to cities across the country, where UPS partners arrange for daily community service projects aiding local populations. The problems encountered there--from transportation to housing, education, and health care--are the kinds of issues many UPS employees confront every day. By forcing managers to grapple with the same problems, UPS hopes to awaken them to the difficulties many of their employees face, bridging the cultural divide that separates a white manager from an African-American driver or an upper-income suburbanite from a worker raised in the rural South. This is a necessity for UPS, where minorities--many from poor neighborhoods--make up 35% of the workforce and 52% of new hires. Three out of four managers, meanwhile, are white.
In New York this summer, eight managers visited the emergency room at Bellevue Hospital, tutored inmates at Sing Sing in interviewing skills, and provided meals to the homeless. The experience took them far outside their comfort zones in ways large and small--whether it was using public transportation for the first time in years or an initial encounter with violent crime such as the triple homicide that took place a few steps from the Henry Street Settlement, the community center where they lived. "A lot of rising stars going off to this program have gotten sure of themselves. That leads them to be quick with solutions," says Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, an associate dean at Yale University's School of Management who has studied UPS. After CIP, "instead of reacting, they would listen. They learn incredible skills of empathy."
UPS values those skills highly: In 34 years, it has never scaled back the program, even during the cost-cutting that accompanied September's terrorist attacks or the Teamsters strike in 1997. Excluding the cost of paying managers' salaries throughout the program, UPS's costs now amount to $10,000 per intern, or $13 million since CIP's inception. UPS concedes that it has no concrete evidence that the program works. But that's not surprising, says Noel M. Tichy, a University of Michigan B-school professor who ran General Electric Co.'s renowned training program at Crotonville, N.Y., in the 1980s. The impact of even the best programs is hard to measure. "You think we ever measured what you can get out of a Crotonville course?" Tichy says. "It's anecdotal."
But managers who have been through the UPS program say it made them more likely to search for unconventional solutions. Patti Hobbs, a division manager in Louisville who spent a month on New York's Lower East Side in 1998, remembers being impressed by the creative ideas of uneducated addicts for steering teens away from drugs. Realizing that the best solutions sometimes come from those closest to the problem, she immediately started brainstorming with the entire staff instead of just senior managers. Says Hobbs: "You start to think there's no one person, regardless of position, who has all the answers. The answers come from us all."
One month living among the poor won't change the world. But it might help UPS managers see their employees as more than just a cog in a very efficient machine.
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In Part Two of our midseason report we look at individual superlatives and pick every conference
One of the critiques of the 2012-13 college basketball season has been a lack of eye-popping players vying for player of the year awards. Think of Player of the Year performances and competitions in recent years by Anthony Davis, Jimmer Fredette, Kemba Walker, Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant, Greg Oden, Tyler Hansbrough and Michael Beasley.
Adding to the confusion, the top prospect for the NBA Draft is unsettled, too.
That's made selecting the midseason All-America team that much tougher. Just take a look at the point guards: We have Trey Burke on the first team, Phil Pressey on the second and Michael Carter-Williams on the third. That order could be re-shuffled a week from now.
In Part Two of our midseason report, we picked our midseason All-Americans, our midseason All-Freshman team and midseason All-Breakout team. We've also revised our Final Four and conference championship picks for the season's stretch run.
College Basketball Midseason Report: Part 1 - Surprises and disappointments
G Trey Burke, Michigan (6-0/190, So.)
Sunday's loss to Ohio State and Burke's 4-of-13 performance from the field, the sophomore has been the nation's top point guard this season, averaging 18 points and 7.1 assists per game. Burke has improved his shooting percentage from 43.3 percent to 52.
G Ben McLemore, Kansas (6-5/194, RFr.)
McLemore was worth the wait for Kansas. The Jayhawks knew he'd be a key player in 2012-13, but they may not have anticipated McLemore making a run at All-America and Big 12 Player of the Year honors. McLemore's also making a bid to be Kansas' best freshman since Danny Manning in 1988. Manning averaged 14.6 points that season. McLemore averages 16.4.
F Doug McDermott, Creighton (6-8/225, Jr.)
McDermott is tied with Lehigh's C.J. McCollum, who is sidelined with a broken foot, for the national lead in points per minute (0.77). In his final season at Creighton, McDermott has improved his long-range shooting and free-throw shooting, all while taking more attempts of both.
F Anthony Bennett, UNLV (6-8/240, Fr.)
Bennett was a big-time recruit who raised the expectations for UNLV's season with an announcement late in the recruiting process to join the Rebels. But few expected Bennett to be UNLV's top player and a candidate for the top freshman in the nation. He's averaging 19.6 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and he's had a double-double in seven of the last 10 games.
F Mason Plumlee, Duke (6-10/235, Sr.)
Yet another senior who has taken a major step in his final year, Plumlee has set career highs in almost all categories. He's averaging 17.5 points and 11.4 rebounds. But what's most impressive is a boost in shooting (from 57 percent to 62) and free throws (from 53 percent to 65).
Related: Key stats from the week include Michigan, Duke
G Phil Pressey, Missouri (5-11/175, Jr.)
Dazzling passer had 19 assists against UCLA, 11 against Illinois and 13 against Alabama in his last five games.
G Russ Smith, Louisville (6-0/165, Jr.)
High-risk, high-reward guard has been rewarding the Cardinals on both ends of the floor this season.
G Brandon Paul, Illinois (6-4/200, Sr.)
He's a shooting slump now, but he's been the focal point of Illinois' surprise season.
F Deshaun Thomas, Ohio State (6-7/215, Jr.)
Now in the spotlight for the Buckeyes, Thomas leads the Big Ten at 20.3 points per game.
C Cody Zeller, Indiana (7-0/240, So.)
A testament to the Hoosiers' balance, Indiana doesn't need him to be a national player of the year. He's still averaging 16.6 points and 7.8 rebounds.
G Michael Carter-Williams, Syracuse (6-6/185, So.)
First-year full-timer fell off his 10 assists per game pace but still leads nation by wide margin at 9.4 assists per game.
G Victor Oladipo, Indiana (6-5/214, Jr.)
He could make the case he's Indiana's MVP. Oladipo leads the nation in effective field goal percentage (which gives weight to made three-pointers) and is second in true shooting percentage (which measures two- and three-point field goals and free throws).
G Jamaal Franklin, San Diego State (6-5/205, Jr.)
Still topping 17 points per game, Franklin has improved from 7.9 rebounds per game to 10.3 and from 1.5 assists per game to 3.5.
F Jack Cooley, Notre Dame (6-9/246, Sr.)
Only three players have had more than Cooley's 10 double-doubles this season.
C Jeff Withey, Kansas (7-0/235, Sr.)
His 4.8 blocks per game are impressive, but how about four blocks for every personal foul. The second best in that category averages three blocks per foul.
G Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State (6-4/225)
G Jahii Carson, Arizona State (5-10/175)
G Ben McLemore, Kansas (6-5/194)
F Shabazz Muhammad, UCLA (6-6/225)
F Anthony Bennett, UNLV (6-8/240)
G Quinn Cook, Duke (6-1/175, So.)
G Andre Hollins, Minnesota (6-1/200, So.)
G Tyler Haws, BYU (6-5/200, So.)
F Otto Porter, Georgetown (6-8/205, So.)
C Kelly Olynyk, Gonzaga (7-0/238, Jr.)
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2013-02-07, 12:17 | Link #421 |
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
I really hope Raishin undergoes some kind of character growth. Almost everyone else has; he's the one who desperately needs it at this point.
New type of spirit magic? This far into the story, it feels like an ass pull, particularly since there wasn't anything in the previous volumes hinting towards something like that. Maybe the onmyoujis in Vol 8 were supposed to be the precursor to that, but it still feels like the timing is just way too convenient. I'm not really a big fan of the whole superpower out of nowhere shounen trope. Also, this might be a Vol 10 thing, but I don't like how the author is pushing Spoiler:
2013-02-24, 18:49 | Link #427 |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: California
^ Yes, she is. She also has quite the criminal mind as she planned on "attacking" Raishin while he couldn't move.
And then later planning on beating or killling him for his unfaithfulness(not really) to her.
2013-03-03, 11:49 | Link #432 |
Join Date: Nov 2011
Hi, I just start following this series through the manga, and one point got me interested: Has it been revealed who is the last ranked of the students in the school?
Since the MC is the second last, it makes sense to think that the author probably has some plan in mind for the last-ranked guy (or girl). |
2013-03-06, 21:21 | Link #434 |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: California
Here, then no. Sorry.
But there is plenty of spoler on the on the other volumes on this thread.(Start here)
2013-03-09, 16:28 | Link #435 |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Kuou Academy
new social group for the series Edit 13/03/13 new manga chpter http://www.mangareader.net/unbreakable-machine-doll/31
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2013-03-25, 08:18 | Link #440 |
Join Date: Dec 2003
Finally finished vol9...
I actually took some notes while reading the novel as a summery of each section. However due to the large number of names involved (never realize finding proper english names can be a pain), as well as not knowing what is important and what is not I gave up half way -_-. Might come back to this later. Last edited by Flying Dagger; 2013-03-25 at 08:37. |
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I'm so happy to be visiting Rachel's blog today! She's one of my best friends in the world of writers, always generously supportive and encouraging!
Monday, January 23, 2012
Do you remember your first...?
I'm so happy to be visiting Rachel's blog today! She's one of my best friends in the world of writers, always generously supportive and encouraging!
16 comments:
- Barbara Longley said...
My first Harlequin Romances were Kathleen Eagle's cowboy books. Still love a good western! Congrats on your release day, Veronica!
- January 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- Joanne Dannon said...
Hi Veroinca - I love the sound of your book, it sounds like a fascinating read. I don't normally read paranormal but with the background in ancient Egypt, it sounds like a real winner! Congrats on your new release.
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of my first romance book - LOL. I read "Sweet Dreams" when I was in my teens and was drawn to HMB when I was older.
I love category and have read sooo many books over the years. It's part of the reason why I started writing :) - January 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM
- Veronica Scott said...
Thanks again for having me here today! Barbara, I love a good Western romance as well - those strong, silent types GET me. And Joanne, I agree with you, reading a good book always sets me off to want to write. Best wishes!
- January 23, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- Louise Reynolds said...
Congratulations, Veronica. First sales are so exciting. Your book sounds fascinating and I love that it arose from research and was obviously a story that just had to be told. Gorgeous cover btw. Hmmm, first romance (this dates me) was probably King of The Castle by Victoria Holt.
Hope your book sells its socks off. - January 23, 2012 at 4:54 PM
- Veronica Scott said...
Thank you, Joanne! I used to love Victoria Holt as well...
- January 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM
- Veronica Scott said...
Thank you *Louise*, WE share the love of Victoria Holt! An author who could definitely weave a story....
- January 23, 2012 at 5:36 PM
- Rachael Johns said...
Thanks so much for visiting Veronica and everyone else :) I just realised I didn't answer the question about MY first romance. It was Barbara Hannay's Having THe Boss's Babies. LOVED it. Before that, I read mostly chick-lit but not strictly romance.
- January 23, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Helen Lacey said...
Hi Veronica - your book sounds fabulous.
The first romance novel I read - well there were two in one day - Winds of Enchantment by Rosalind Brett, and Bride at Whangatapu by Robyn Donald. Both fabulous and memorable and set me on my love for romance.
Great post! - January 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM
- Leah Ashton said...
HI Veronica! Your book sounds fascinating, what a great premise! And a gorgeous cover, too.
I read a lot of teen romance novels, one that really stands out is California Girl by Janet Quin Harkin, I adored it! My first category romance was A Stroke of Genius by Gina Wilkins (a Harlequin Temptation), I just recently ordered it secondhand from the US as I lost my copy years ago, and I've been wanting to re-read it for years. - January 24, 2012 at 5:49 AM
- Ruthie said...
My first was a Loveswept -- which is funny, because now they're publishing my debut! It was called Warm Fuzzies, by Joan Scott Picard, and it was about an injured football player named Acer Mullaney and a woman named Lux who owned a stuffed animal shop called Warm Fuzzies. I re-read it recently -- didn't hold up, but it hooked me!
- January 24, 2012 at 6:09 AM
- Cathryn Hein said...
I read the header to your post, Veronica, and immediately thought it was about first loves, which then reminded me of a discovery I made the other day. My niece is now best friends my first teenage crush's daughter and she thinks it's hilarious. All I feel is OLD and more than a bit hot faced and squirmy. Honestly, does the embarrassment of that time ever pass?
Ahh, well. Such are the joys of growing up. Anyway, back to first romances...
I'm sure I must have read other romances before the one I'm about to mention but I honestly can't remember them. The title that sticks with me is Jilly Cooper's fabulous bonkbuster Riders, featuring the deliciously naughty toff, Rupert Campbell-Black, a cast of hugely enjoyable side characters, and lots of horses. I still have my original copy, poor battered thing. It's now held together with packing tape, its pages covered in red wine and food stains, and the corners ragged with dog ears. I'm sure if you look closely there are kiss marks on the cover. Yes, I've loved it to book death.
Congratulations on the release of Priestess of the Nile. I spent my little girlhood torn between wanting to be an Egyptian archaeologist and an Olympic equestrienne, so this is right up my alley. And how lovely that you reached your dream with a Harlequin company!
Wishing you all the best, Veronica, and thanks for another great post, Rach. - January 24, 2012 at 12:43 PM
I can't remember my first Harlequin either. sigh.... too long ago!
Like Joanne, i read sweet dreams first.
Love the sound of your book Veronica!
Bec - January 24, 2012 at 2:15 PM
- Veronica Scott said...
Sorry I was stuck at the day job today, JUST getting to the Comments, all of which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was fun reading about the various books we fell in love with "a while ago" so to speak! I remember Rosalind Brett - seems like I must have had her book as well,Helen! It's funny to now BE a California Girl, Leah because when I was reading my first romances I definitely *wasn't*!
- January 24, 2012 at 6:35 PM
- Veronica Scott said...
Congratulations on *your* debut as well, Ruthie, hope it does GREAT. Just think, your book will be someone's first...Really enjoyed Cathryn's story about the crushes coming full circle (and wish I'd known about "Riders", bet I'd have LOVED it). Thanks for the kind words, Bec...and THANK YOU, Rachel, for having me here as a guest this week! HUGS.
- January 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM
- Heather B. said...
Congrat's on your debut novel. I loved this book and definitely recommend it to other's.
I can't remember ever not having a book in my hand but some of the first Harlequin's I can remember reading were from Penny Jordan. - January 25, 2012 at 7:46 AM
- Veronica Scott said...
Thank you, Heather! MUCH appreciated!!! I remember Penny Jordan too...lots of good memories in all these posts and thanks again to Rachel for inviting me over! (Or is it downunder? LOL)
- January 25, 2012 at 8:25 PM