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It's well understood that existing companies of all sizes constantly create – and destroy – jobs. Conventional wisdom, then, might suppose that annual net job gain is positive at these companies. This study, however, shows that this rarely is the case. In fact, net job growth occurs in the U.S. economy only through startup firms.
The study bases its findings on the Business Dynamics Statistics, a U.S. government dataset compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old.
The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year. By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.
Further, the study shows, job growth patterns at both startups and existing firms are pro-cyclical, although existing firms have much more cyclical variance. Most notably, during recessionary years, job creation at startups remains stable, while net job losses at existing firms are highly sensitive to the business cycle.
Because startups that develop organically are almost solely the drivers of job growth, job-creation policies aimed at luring larger, established employers will inevitably fail, said the study's author, Tim Kane, Kauffman Foundation senior fellow in Research and Policy. Such city and state policies are doomed not only because they are zero-sum, but because they are based in unrealistic employment growth models.
And it's not just net job creation that startups dominate. While older firms lose more jobs than they create, those gross flows decline as firms age. On average, one-year-old firms create nearly one million jobs, while ten-year-old firms generate 300,000. The notion that firms bulk up as they age is, in the aggregate, not supported by data.
This study is part of the Kauffman Foundation research series Firm Formation and Economic Growth.


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Once apple picking season starts, you'll want to go off to the orchards to fill the cart with all the fresh fruit you can find. When you get back home, get work on one of the easiest baking projects ever, and whip up these crisp wonton cups that cradle sweet, cinnamon laced apple cubes.
I promise you'll fall in love with this fall dessert. Serve it alongside a bowl of ice cream, and it'll be quite a treat.
This simple chicken dish is enhanced with wine and combined with cream sauces. It's good for the family or great for company.
Simply layer the ingredients casserole-style. Cook this in a crock pot or else cover and bake it in the oven. Cook it low and slow and go about your regular routine of activities. Come back to it and uncover an amazing dish filled with savory, succulent chicken simmered in wine, mushrooms, potatoes and a luscious sauce base. Serve this on a bed of egg noodles, paired with a green salad and great wine.
Take a bow and accept the applause.
April 26th might be Pretzel Day, but here at Quirk, we're celebrating Pretzel WEEK. Check back for fun pretzel recipes all week long. Because hey, we're from Philadelphia. Pretzels are our thing.
Here's a simple, tasty casserole that starts easily and ends beautifully. Just combine hearty boiled potatoes and sweet slices of apples with sautéed onions and sausages in a skillet coated with Irish butter for a homemade meal that's comfort in a dish. The exceptionally creamy flavor of rich, Irish butter makes a wonderful base for this rustic, stovetop-to-oven meal, and the topping is perfected with crunchy bacon bits. This homey combination of flavors makes a great entrée or side dish for any meal, any day of the week.
This dish starts out with a little of everything, but sums up to a big, huge entree with layers of flavors and generous portions. Twirl your chopsticks through the silky, glass-like thin noodles which serve as the bed for the savory Asian-flavored pork meatballs, zesty beef slices, crisp vegetables all held together by the irresistible sauce.

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Hey Jar Jar,
I agree that this was the one of the best stories I've read. I couldn't put it down. I loved it, but one thing bothered me. The Emperor's Royal Guards were useing double bladed light sabers. Is this a bit far fetched and a little out of contex or is it just me. I don't know tons about the EU, but from what I know of the moveis this shouldn't be. Should it? Still, I like how Han picked one up and sliced up some bad guys.


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December Daily™ 2011 | Day Seven
Welcome to December Daily™ 2011 | Day Seven.
Last night we attended a Christmas concert for Anna's preschool class. It was awesome.
Such a fun group.
I'm blurring out the faces of the other kids for their privacy.
Both pages were created in Photoshop and printed here at home.
Text art on these two photos is from my new Outline Christmas Brushes And Stamps set.
On top of the printed photo for page 1 I included a little star from the Echo Park chipboard package.
To add a little bit of something I used embroidery thread and a needle and wrapped it around the chipboard star (used a needle to go through the photo paper).
I repeated a bit of embroidery thread on the second page - stitching it around the American Crafts White Macaw Glitter letter A.
Pattern paper on this page is My Mind's Eye Wrap It Up.
As a side-note today I just wanted to say how fun it is to see how people from all around the world approach this project. I love this one I saw from Vee yesterday in the Studio Calico gallery:
I love the colors and the layers and the texture and it just feels fun.
Lots of fun examples floating around out there.
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Department of Homeland Security Unable To Define 'Homeland Security'
from the we-have-one-thing-to-do-and-that-is-[tbd] dept
If the government agency was crafted in "response" to a tragic event, the problem is both magnified and accelerated. As Wired reports, slightly more than a decade on from its formation, the Department of Homeland Security is having trouble defining the very thing it's in charge of.
What is "homeland security?" The federal bureaucracy doesn't know, and that's problematic for a government that has been fighting the ill-defined "war on terror" following 9/11, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.The varied definitions given by the DHS and the White House still put the main focus on "terrorism," but others list "Homeland Security" responsibilities as including border/maritime security, immigration, natural disasters and "other hazards."
In short, "homeland security" is whatever the government says it is.
Thirty federal entities — among them agriculture, education, labor, treasury and social security — are receiving "homeland security" funding. The actual Department of Homeland Security, created in the aftermath of 9/11, receives 52 percent of the "homeland security" money pie, according to the Tuesday report.
"Ten years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. government does not have a single definition for homeland security," the report said. "Currently, different strategic documents and mission statements offer varying missions that are derived from different homeland security definitions."
According to the Congressional Research Report, posted at Secrecy News, this lack of definition undermines the very "security" the agency is supposed to be providing.
"An absence of consensus about the inclusion of these policy areas may result in unintended consequences for national homeland security operations," the CRS report [pdf] said. "For example, not including maritime security in the homeland security definition may result in policymakers, Congress, and stakeholders not adequately addressing maritime homeland security threats, or more specifically being able to prioritize federal investments in border versus intelligence activities."Part of the problem here is the large number of entities who receive funding under the "Homeland Security" banner. Trying to craft a unified front is nearly impossible as each entity has its own "mission statement" to justify its funding. Speaking of which, the report thinks the funding itself could be adding layers of fuzziness to the "homeland security" definition.
"The competing and varied definitions in these documents may indicate that there is no succinct homeland security concept. Without a succinct homeland security concept, policymakers and entities with homeland security responsibilities may not successfully coordinate or focus on the highest prioritized or most necessary activities."
At the national level, there does not appear to be an attempt to align definitions and missions among disparate federal entities. DHS is, however, attempting to align its definition and missions, but does not prioritize its missions; there is no clarity in the national strategies of federal, state, and local roles and responsibilities; and, potentially, funding is driving priorities rather than priorities driving the funding.Unsurprising, to say the least. This sort of normal government agency behavior does very little towards cutting through the vagueness surrounding it. This lack of clarity is the last thing you want to see in the DHS, either in its role as a "protector" or as a "respondent." This results in redundancy and inefficiency which hampers proactive and reactive measures, resulting in less of the safety and security the agency was created to provide.


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Again, there was a lot of hyperventilating in henhouses on Thursday after a federal judge ruled that California may ban eggs from the state that are laid in too-small cages. The predictions were that it will harm Iowa's egg industry, and that surely these onerous regulations will spread to other areas (like hogs). It's all exaggeration.
Let's start with a stark fact:
By ART CULLEN
Gov. Terry Branstad has not hit his goal of creating a net of 200,000 jobs during his most recent four-year term. But Iowa must be doing something right, as employment in all but a few counties rose over the past year while rural employment in Nebraska and South Dakota badly trailed the Tall Corn State.
If wind turbines cause human or animal health problems, one would think those maladies would have cropped up around Storm Lake by now. We have not heard of anyone finding dead birds or other critters at the base of those many giant towers. We have not heard of anyone suffering from more than 157 illnesses reputed by various skeptics.
Bruce Braley will have to do better — much better — than he did during a debate with Joni Ernst on Sunday evening if Democrats hope to retain control of the US Senate. He appeared to be unprepared for unfounded criticisms of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare, as Ernst called it), misleading comments on immigration and a misrepresentation of Ernst's position on renewable fuels.
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm when they've seen Gay Paree? Iowans have struggled with that question for time immemorial. I am the latest iteration. We want our kids to stay in Storm Lake, or at least in Iowa, but once they've danced with Prince at First Avenue in Minneapolis it makes the demo derby at the BV Fair seem quaint.
We lost a dear friend and Buena Vista County taxpayers lost a tireless advocate when Treasurer Kathy Bach breathed her last Tuesday night in Storm Lake. Bach, 63, was diagnosed several months ago with colon cancer, and it claimed her. Our personal loss is profound because she was always in our corner from the day we started in 1990, and we were in hers.
"Madame Treasurer," we called her.
The Storm Lake School Board allowed us to heave a sigh of relief last week when it decided not to be rushed on the disposition of South School. The board had been presented a reasonable, if sketchy, plan from the Seldin Company of Omaha to convert the original 1923 Storm Lake High School into apartments for senior citizens. A Seldin representative pressed for quick action by the board to promise to give the property to the cause and still meet a December application deadline for federal housing tax credits.
IPTV debate set for Oct. 23 at BVU
Boone Democrat Jim Mowrer says he would beat Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, on Nov. 4 with or without a televised debate.
But now he has one.
The Storm Lake City Council has been talking about the need for more housing as the community has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. All that tillage appears to be paying off as more housing starts actually gain traction. And that is more important than ever, as The City Beautiful is on something of a roll right now.
The Storm Lake School Board was all ears and smiles as Michael Fallesen of Seldin Company of Omaha told members that he would like a purchase agreement for the South School campus locked down in 30 to 60 days. He had just told the board that Seldin would like to develop 42 units on the property. But a December deadline looms with the Iowa Finance Authority for the project to receive federal housing tax credits.


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First off, I don't ususally lay fish on the side of the river to take a picture, but i had the camera ready and it was only momentary. There is a story that goes with this.
I was on the SF of the Boise, which is an unbelievable tailwater fishery located a little over an hour east of Boise. There is a spot that is used as a pullout for drift fishermen called Indian Rock. It basically is a rock outcropping that is around 40' high that overlooks the river. I'd frequently stop there and look down at the pool underneath - where there frequently would be 20-30 fish that you could watch. It had some steep access from the road, but with so many fish visible the pool did receive some angler attention.
As I traveled with the rod in the truck and was between tasks I stopped one afternoon at the very tail end of the salmon fly season. As I was watching the pool I noticed a much larger fish sipping naturals off the surface to my right. This fish was just off the shore, in a protected pocket created by the outcropping I was on, and using some overhead brush as cover. I rigged up the rod (6wt), tied on a caddis imitation and slid down the bank to take a chance at the fish. I got lucky and the fish took the fly within a 1/2 dozen casts. It put a real nice bend in the rod, as it went out into the main current and bulldogged around for about a 1/2 minute before the hook came out and it was gone. I was bummed out, but still excited to have fooled it enough to have it on for a brief period.
The next day I had to make a couple of trips the length of the river and each time I would stop as I passed Indian Rock and look down to see if the fish was back in its position. Luckily during one of those stops in the afternoon - there it was, right back in the same position, and feeding again. I had the rod already rigged up and broken in two and just needed to put on the waders before I could go at it again. I tried with the caddis again, but there was no moving the fish, and getting the correct drift seemed much harder than the day before. Getting a little frustrated, I picked what appeared to be the most profitable meal for a hungry fish - the salmon fly. Earlier in the day I had seen two salmon flies, and these things are big 1.5" and during the hatch these things are equivalent to filet mignon to us. I tied it on and took a cast. I swear the fish came out of the water to meet the fly before the fly even touched down. Same tactic as the day before out into the faster current and all around the pool in an effort to come free. This time I was lucky and after about a 3 minute fight I was able to bring the fish in to land it.
I had brought my camera down just in case and was prepared to take the picture. As I was alone I resorted to laying the fish down, straighting up and snapping two pictures. I removed the fly revived the fish and sent it on its way. I measured it by holding it in my right hand with its tail in the bend of my arm and the nose extending to the end of my middle finger. The fish was 18.5 (FL) and had some nice girth. Keep in mind when you look at the fish that the fly in its mouth is 1.5" long. I was so excited afterwards that I left without grabbing my boots which were by the drivers door. Too bad the picture isn't better, but the camera was beat.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Oracle Spatial & Wildebeests
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my time is valuable and I have better things to do with it. I'm just trying to get a feel for what interests you (the reader). I'm sure there are those of you who would much rather discuss the migration habits of the West African Wildebeest during the dry season or how histograms for join predicates only work if you stick your tongue out in the right place. Sorry Dave, you know I have to mess with you :)
So Often I read peoples blogs and it looks like they threw up a paragraph or two of gibberish just to take up virtual space and to make it look like there's activity. I refuse to succumb to that. You take the time out of your day/evening to come and pay this place a visit the least thing that the contributors can do is write decent content that will make your time spent here either enjoyable or knowledge gained. Nuff Said?
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- Anonymous said...
as a former Wildebeest ( a now defunct Dallas Rugby club), I never use Oracle spatial, so I wouldrather discuss how I migrated from Dallas to LA to Philly
- chris stephens said...
i certainly would be. we license arc gis here because my manager believes (and is more than likely correct) that spatial is light years behind arc gis.
i've never worked with either but would be interested in reading other peoples experiences. - 9/27/2006 01:25:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
I don't think that there is a high percentage of people that do visit this blog who are actually using that product.
We certainly are not. Out of the 10 oracle shops in my area that I am most familiar with none of them are using it.
Oh well. - 9/27/2006 05:52:00 PM
- Joel Garry said...
As someone who doesn't use these things but has often suddenly had to be an expert on something I know nothing about, my feeling is, blog away. When I do have to use it, then I can find it.
Don't judge the usefulness of blogging by the response, it is entirely possible that many people thank you silently. Content and timeliness are only an artifact of blogging, content by itself is most useful.
Of course, this only applies to technical content blogs, 99+% of general blogging is just crrrrrrrrrrrrap.
I once knew a rich person who stated stock market investor behavior is remarkably like that of the wildebeest. Later his son lost it all because of a gambling problem and had to go to work as a car salesman at 50. - 9/27/2006 08:11:00 PM
- Noons said...
what Joel said!
withj a loud THANK YOU!, by the way. - 9/27/2006 08:41:00 PM
- Pete_S said...
I'd love to see the spatial stuff. Too few people use spatial (or its FOC brother locator) - Oh taht the world changes
- David Aldridge said...
>> it looks like they threw up a paragraph or two of gibberish just to take up virtual space and to make it look like there's activity.
well, we've alll been tempted! - 9/28/2006 06:47:00 PM


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Well, we've given out our awards for 2012; now it's time to see how MBC distributed its honors. And if past years are any indication, there are bound to be some head-scratchers and some obvious political choices. Then again, that's sort of the name of the game all across the board, isn't it?
The thing about this station is, every year I see MBC's award list and think, "Oh right. The station did have some hits after all," which makes me wonder whether I'm misremembering the year as a sparse one for the broadcasters. And then I think a little more and realize that basically, this was all they had. Wasn't much competition within categories, which is why you got dramas cleaning up in multiple categories, 'cause what else would've taken it?
MBC also has the habit of creating categories or altering them without explanation, which just reinforces the idea that they've got a list of shows they need to give awards to, and would rather fit the categories to the shows than vice versa. Ah, dramaland.
Daesang (Grand Prize): Jo Seung-woo (Horse Healer)
Drama of the Year: The Moon That Embraces the Sun
Top Excellence, Miniseries, Actor: Kim Soo-hyun (The Moon That Embraces the Sun)
Top Excellence, Miniseries, Actress: Han Ga-in (The Moon That Embraces the Sun)
Top Excellence, Special Production Drama, Actor: Jo Seung-woo (Horse Healer)
Top Excellence, Special Production Drama, Actress: Sung Yuri (Feast of the Gods)
Top Excellence, Serial Drama, Actor: Kim Jae-won (May Queen)
Top Excellence, Serial Drama, Actress: Han Ji-hye (May Queen)
Excellence Award, Miniseries, Actor: Park Yoochun (I Miss You)
Excellence Award, Miniseries, Actress: Lee Yoon-ji (The King 2 Hearts)
Excellence Award, Special Production Drama, Actor: Lee Sang-woo (Horse Healer, Feast of the Gods)
Excellence Award, Special Production Drama, Actress: Sohn Dam-bi (Light and Shadow), Sung Yuri (Feast of the Gods)
Excellence Award, Serial Drama, Actor: Jae Hee (May Queen)
Excellence Award, Serial Drama, Actress: Seo Hyun-jin (Feast of the Gods, Oh Ja-ryong Is Coming)
Actor of the Year, awarded by PDs from all three broadcasters: Lee Sung-min (Golden Time)
New Actor Award: Kim Jaejoong (Dr. Jin), Lee Jang-woo (I Do, I Do; Oh Ja-ryong Is COming)
New Actress Award: Kim So-eun (Horse Healer, Oh Yeon-seo (Oh Ja-ryong Is Coming)
Child Actor Award: Yeo Jin-gu (The Moon That Embraces the Sun, I Miss You)
Child Actress Award: Kim Yoo-jung (The Moon That Embraces the Sun, May QueeN, Kim So-hyun (The Moon That Embraces the Sun, I Miss You)
Golden Acting Award, Miniseries, Actor: Jeon Gwang-ryul (Light and Shadow, I Miss You), Lee Deok-hwa (May Queen)
Golden Acting Award, Miniseries, Actress: Yang Mi-kyung (The Moon That Embraces the Sun, May Queen), Jeon In-hwa (Feast of the Gods)
Writer of the Year Award: Sohn Young-mok (May Queen), Jin Soo-wan (The Moon That Embraces the Sun)
Popularity Award: Kim Soo-hyun (The Moon That Embraces the Sun), Yoon Eun-hye (I Miss You)
Best Couple Award: Lee Jun-ki, Shin Mina (Arang and the Magistrate)
Hallyu Star of the Year Award: Yoon Eun-hye (I Miss You)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jo Kyung-hwan
Voice Acting Award, Foreign Dubbing: Jeon Soo-bin (CSI Miami Season 10)
Voice Actor Award, Radio: Choi Sang-ki (Bae Han-sung's Classics)
I find it amusing that MBC dropped their Daesang last year and instead awarded a "Drama of the Year," which means that there was no grand acting prize. This year they brought it back and awarded it to Jo Seung-woo for Horse Healer, though they also kept the Drama of the Year category in play. I wonder if Cha Seung-won is shaking his fist in the direction of Yeouido in indignation (having had to settle for a Top Excellence last year when he was pretty much a shoo-in for the nonexistent Daesang).
Kim So-eun, Jo Seung-woo's costar, has been stirring buzz for her winning performance in Horse Healer, which comes as no surprise since she's just winning in general. I wish I could say the same for her prim white gown, though I guess she IS the cutest Pilgrim bride ever.
No surprise at all that Kim Soo-hyun got the second-biggest acting award after basically anchoring the adult portion of The Moon That Embraces the Sun. He's getting that superhero strut down to an art form, I swear.
I say this with all the affection in the world, because I have an inexplicable fondness for Han Ga-in: But any awards ceremony that gives her what is basically the Best Actress trophy sort of destroys any credibility it was going for in the first place. She got the job done in The Moon That Embraces the Sun… but just barely, and that's if you're being generous. She's got one performance mode, and it's set firmly in neutral, and she hasn't improved a bit in the last ten years.
That said, she looks amazing. She's adorable and seems very sweet, and I enjoy envisioning scenarios where she and her Vampire Prosecutor hubby just sit around being adoring and awesome together.
Um. Now on the other hand… I almost couldn't recognize Kim Min-seo, aka Bad Moon from The Moon That Embraces the Sun, who looks like her dress started falling apart, and instead of trying to sew it back together she opted to tape her chest with Ace bandages and pass it off as avant-garde.
Kudos for pulling off the bold attitude to go with the bold look. ("If you act like it's on purpose, people will think it's on purpose! Pose! Strut! Glower!") Next time, she might wanna keep a sewing kit in the car for emergencies, just sayin'.
Her Moon/Sun co-star Nam Bora went in the opposite direction, going for pink and sweet. I kind of think she looks like a stiff sugar statue on top of a wedding cake, but she does look very sweet (hur) and pretty, with a fresh and youthful glow.
Jeon Mi-sun was probably the other adult anchor in Moon/Sun, though I doubt she expected to be that much of a central role when she signed on to play the shaman. There was an awful lot of white and beige and light pinks on the red carpet, but hers stands on its own; it's regal and elegant in a sea of ingenues.
Gah, I love Yeo Jin-gu (I Miss You, The Moon That Embraces the Sun), and not just because he's adorable, although he is that and more. He's just got so much emotional sincerity when he acts, and he sucks you right in. He has the talent and the charisma to follow in Yoo Seung-ho's footsteps, career-wise, which would be fantastic. Especially since we're losing Yoo Seung-ho for the next two years…
I love this look from Kim Yoo-jung (May Queen, The Moon That Embraces the Sun), which is sweet and adorable, but kept from being too precious by its clean structure and the black bows against the white dress. She's a gorgeous girl, but it's her acting chops that make her compelling to watch.
Kim So-hyun is growing up so nicely as she heads into her teenage years, and her I Miss You turn hinted at a bright future to come. She looks beautiful in an age-appropriate way, and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. (You know dramaland's childhood romances have a special magic when it causes a little bit of pang to be formatting these red-carpet photos and you find yourself separating the I Miss You lovers with that other true love from that other drama where they weren't meant to be. But what can ya do?)
At the very least, at least their adult counterparts can be together. Here's Yoon Eun-hye in a bold color, and while the dress itself isn't my favorite look, I do love the orange. And the fact that it's different.
Aw, not loving the hair on Yoochun, but I do think it's fun seeing him with his groupmate Jaejoong, since both had MBC dramas this year. Dr. Jin netted Jaejoong a New Actor award (which went to Yoochun last year for Miss Ripley), while Yoochun took home an Excellence award for I Miss You.
Hm. Don't love or hate this gown on Han Ji-hye, though at least it has some detailed layering going on and lots of texture, which keeps it interesting. She took home an award for May Queen, which earned several awards (since it did keep ratings up for MBC during the weekends).
Kim Jae-won, also of May Queen, also won a Top Excellence award. He was host for the evening, along with singer-actress Sohn Dam-bi, who picked up a prize for her role in the period serial drama Light and Shadow.
Aw, Jae Hee looks happy; he did get an award for May Queen. I'm liking the gray tux with the dark trim, given that everyone else seems to have stuck to the usual formal black, with the occasional blue thrown in the mix.
I don't think May Queen's Park Ji-bin has quite the onscreen magnetism of other noteworthy child stars (like, say, Yeo Jin-gu or Lee Hyun-woo) but he's a solid child actor who's been steadily working over the past few years. I'll be curious to see whether he can make the transition into adolescent roles as well; for now, he's still got a total baby face, which might hold him back. Would you believe he's actually two years older than Yeo Jin-gu?
Lee Yoon-ji (The King 2 Hearts). Just perfect. She rocks. Is that really all I need to say? Okay, I do wish she'd gone a little bolder with the makeup, but really, she's a pro at this whole looking-fabulous-and-blowing-everyone-outta-the-water game.
To be honest I was a little surprised she got an Excellence Award because I wouldn't quite have put her supporting role in the same category as other leading actresses. But maybe she was just that awesome.
Aww, Jo Jung-seok (The King 2 Hearts). He always wears that impish look on his face at these events, which makes me think he's bursting with hilarious thoughts he's keeping to himself despite dying to launch into a little joke bit or maybe a comic dance number. Share, Jo Jung-seok, share!
Lee Sung-min technically won his award for Golden Time, but I'm thinking he just may be more memorable as the king/hyung in The King 2 Hearts.
Sung Yuri (Feast of the Gods): One part dominatrix, one part red carpet gala? I get that it's fashion-forward and interesting. But that doesn't mean I find the asymmetrical leather bustier or the shiny hip wings to be flattering.
I'm happy Lee Jang-woo got a nod for I Do, I Do, because he really was the heart of that show and my favorite thing about it. I'm not sure I get what the long coat is going for, other than maybe I'm-cold-and-dammit-my-tailor-can-turn-my-tux-into-a-parka-if-I-pay-him-enough, but I think he's fresh-faced and adorable. Which I did NOT think of him a year ago when he was being all mean and angry in Man of Honor. So congrats for I Do. As well as his more recent daily drama Oh Ja-ryong Is Coming, which is still airing.
Oh Yeon-seo took the other New Actress award, and by all accounts is very cute paired with Lee Jang-woo in Oh Ja-ryong Is Coming. I like her dress. I hate her hair. Though on second look, she kind of looks like she could pass for a debutante, maybe in an Austen novel. Minus the platform stripper heels, that is.
I'm pretty sure we all know Seo In-gook more from his cable phenom Answer Me, 1997, but he's here at the MBC awards for his weekend show Rascal Sons…
…as is Shin Da-eun, his co-star (who also had another MBC drama in Light and Shadow). The short, flirty red dress feels appropriate for the holiday season—though those shoes should be shot.
Jeon Gwang-ryul pretty much rules in everything ever, and when he is unceremoniously killed off early in terrible narrative ways I tend not to take it well. He got an acting award for the two MBC dramas he did this year, Light and Shadow and I Miss You. Seriously, given the way those names keep cropping up, you'd think MBC only had three dramas this year, wouldn't you?
Maybe it's better that we think of it that way, though, since Kang So-ra's Dream High 2 is better off forgotten. As is her gown. Why is this talented young 22-year-old actress dressing like she's 50? Just no.
Synchronized posing from the ZE:A boys! That's cute. Here are Kwanghee and Im Shi-wan, who both took on a couple of acting projects this year: Kwanghee in To the Beautiful You and Vampire Idol, while Shi-wan was even busier with Moon/Sun, Equator Man, and Standby. I ended up warming up to Shi-wan quite a bit over the year and would like to see him keep acting. Kwanghee… already has a full-time idol gig. Maybe he could do that some more.
All these idols, workin' my Navering skills. Here's Lizzy from After School, who has a role in weekend drama Rascal Sons.
Seo Hyun-jin is steadily building up her resume, though she hasn't quite broken through to the next level of name or face recognition. She got an award last year as well (for The Duo) and had two this year, for Feast of the Gods and Oh Ja-ryong Is Coming. Her dress is okay. She looks pretty. Ho-hum.
What a difference a haircut (and a layer or ten of Goryeo costuming) makes? Here's Park Yoon-jae, whom you may not recognize, even as Chae Rim's little bro, without the descriptor of wily Prince Deok-heung (and poison aficionado) in Faith. Which… is an SBS show. Huh, is he crashing the MBC party? Sure, why not; his is tomorrow night.
I never found Lee Pil-mo sexy till he grew out that hair for Light and Shadow, and for that reason, despite the fact that he looks like he's part shaggy dog, I'm not gonna complain.
Sohn Eun-seo had two dramas this year, one of them being MBC's May Queen; I'll assume we'll see her over at the KBS awards tomorrow for Love Rain. She goes for flowy and white, which was a popular trend of the night.
Uh, isn't Hong Ah-reum (God of War) about twenty years too old for this? I want to say that I get what she was going for and that it plays up an innocent, ingenue-like image… but I can't really say that. It's strange and infantile and the orange shoes make it even more disjointed. If you handed her a huge lollipop I'd be convinced she was in cosplay for something.
Here's Han Sun-hwa, of idol group Secret. My gramma will be so pleased to know that her old brocade curtains didn't go to waste after all.
I dunno. This dress seems inoffensive enough on Hwang In-young (Can't Live Without You), but it doesn't really do anything for me either. Maybe it's the casual hairstyle or the simple silhouette, but it doesn't quite feel red carpet-ready.
Neither does this dress on Park So-hyun (We Got Married), but for entirely different reasons. There's a detailing pattern in the dress that makes it look like rays of sunlight around the cutout (the sun?), which… okay. I guess it's a concept.
Meanwhile, somewhere out there is a bordello throwing a party while its overbearing madam's out of town goin' to the big party in her best cocktail loungewear. Fancy!
(Can you believe this is the same nurturing and patient mom, Yang Mi-kyung, from Moon/Sun? Maybe you can only be sedate and demure for so long before your inner diva demands to be let out, with sequins and sparkles and feathers and glitter.)
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My first mother, at the tragically young age of 36, had died a mere fifteen months before, and to say that the earth shifted on its axis would be an understatement. No Brady Bunch scenario here...shell-shocked kids making a transition from mother to mother...a new brides' s transition from being a single professional to a mother of seven (shortly to be nine, then ten)...
and wife to a grieving widower, out of town for work more often than not.
Let's just say it wasn't always pretty.
Lack of understanding, of comprehension, of empathy...in both a cosmic and personal sense...was exhibited all-round...no matter the age, sex, vulnerability, lack of experience, or degree of PTSD of each individual in the family.
Still, we all survived... and, somehow, later, as adults, thrived.
A mere four months after the wedding (on November 22, 1963 to be exact -- does this sad date ring a bell?), my father picked up his brood and his new wife and moved from Indianapolis to Knoxville, Tennessee...where within a year, a set of twins was born.
By this time, we had surely shot the top off of every stress index barometer out there..
Most of this time is understandably fuzzy for me. No doubt for both emotional and developmental reasons. But one specific memory does stand out.
At about the same time we got a new mother, a huge white porcelain pitcher with matching white basin appeared. It lived on the hearth of the brick fireplace, and was FILLED to overflowing with
a HUGE bouquet of different types and colors of plastic, long-stemmed flowers.
It may seem like an exaggeration, but I don't remember having ever seen such color. I loved it, and in my sometime gray new world, it brightened up my young life. Those were IMPORTANT flowers... an IMPORTANT memory.
Despite my affection for this plastic bouquet, I now, as a long-time flower garden enthusiast,
have developed an admittedly snobbish disdain for synthetic bouquets. Plastic, silk, anything fake...(okay, preserved, doesn't bother me...)
But to everything there is an exception---and here is mine...and a great little tip.
I love orchids, especially white ones. And even though orchids are prized for their long lasting blooms, the foliage is far more long lived, and given time and much TLC will flower again.
But here's the thing.
I DON'T WANT TO WAIT or even provide all the TLC...being lazy and quite impatient in this regard.
So this floral purist, cheats. Yes, cheats. After the orchid has dropped its last petal, but while the foliage and plant itself are still as fresh looking as ever, I cut off the dead flower stalk and
insert a fake blossom in its place. And without serious sensory investigation, I defy you to tell the difference.
First, in full view; then a close-up. Let's call this 'Orchid 1' for future reference.
And now for 'Orchid 2'...
Aren't we sneaky, though?
And who ever said flowers aren't important...


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There is an urgency to the work that Satisfact must accomplish. The modern world is cold and lonely. These stark truisms are expressed in Satisfact's ever-growing body of work without their being reflected in them. Here you will find bleak geometrical landscapes tempered with hope, anonymous cubicles illuminated by a single shaft of light. There is "Misprint" and there is "Are You Gifted". There is "Moods for Moderns" and there is "Perfect Sleeper". Modern technology interacts with our human forms in unnatural ways. These pieces are the sound effects of their intercession.
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How to use Twitter's Vine to create stop-motion video [tutorial]
Learn how to use Twitter's new video sharing service to make your own quirky animation with our tutorial for iPhone and Android smartphone
Learn how to use Twitter's new video sharing service to make your own quirky animation with our tutorial for iPhone and Android smartphone.
Vine is a new way to create and share short, snappy, looping videos. The app, which was released with much fanfare earlier this year in conjunction with Twitter, has already amassed a sizeable following of users keen to capture movement in video. Abbreviation is the name of the game here – Vine videos are only six seconds long. No longer, no shorter. Its duration is aimed at falling in line with Twitter's 140-characters per tweet limit and developers argue that the limit inspires users to be creative.
Vine is a community very much in its infancy, but it's clearly already attracting a lot of users keen to show off their video-taking skills, as one look at the app's Explore feature proves. Much like Twitter, you'll find yourself spending a lot of time moving from one trending hashtag to the next.
In this tutorial we're going to show you one of the more creative things you can do with Vine. Stop-motion animation is over a century old, and was made universally popular by Aardman Studios and its Wallace and Gromit films in the Nineties. You used to need an expensive array of equipment to create something professional, but now all you need is an iPhone or Android smartphone, the Vine app, and a steady hand. We'll go through the basics and let you use your imagination. There are plenty of examples already on Vine, and it won't be long before you've got the knowledge to join in. Let's get started.
Step 1: Sign in
Although Vine is inextricably linked to Twitter, you don't have to have a Twitter account to use it. You can sign in with an email address, but we found it much easier to create an account via Twitter.
Step 2: Get started
You'll be taken straight to Vine's homepage. Hit the camera icon in the top-right to start recording. Have a play around and create a normal clip by tapping and holding on the screen to record.
Step 3: Planning
To create a stop-motion clip, you'll need to plan meticulously. It's not something that you can do off the cuff. You need to be aware of your surroundings, the tools at your disposal, and your plan of action.
Step 4: Take one
You'll be surprised at how long six seconds is in terms of animation. Keeps things simple. Cut frequently to create the animation-style footage you're after by simply taking your finger off the screen to create multiple shots.
Step 5: Final cut
As you build up the number of cuts you film, your stop-motion clip will begin to take shape. Don't be afraid to mix up the style of shot for that added element of surprise. When you're happy, hit Next.
Step 6: Showcase
Now you can show off your creativity. You can share it on Vine (a default setting naturally) and to Twitter or Facebook. Don't forget to add some hashtags and a location if you deem it necessary. Recently, Vine has also added the ability to embed videos into websites, so you can do this:
Have you enjoyed this tutorial? Did you find it helpful? Feel free to add your Vine tips to our comments section as well as post your own videos!


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Oh ok. Added the option.
Oh ok. Added the option.
Na mate.
Does anyone have any multipass GLSL/SFML shader bloom effect that I can borrow *steal*
It's really not that hard. You'll learn a lot more if you do it yourself.
Render the world, store image (do not clear.)
Shader 1: Threshold (make anything below a certain brightness black), blur horizontal.
Shader 2: Blur verticle.
Add starting image.
Of course, this would give you a box blur. If you want, you can box blur again (before you add the starting image) to approximate a gaussian blur.
EDIT: For more street credz, make the blur size based on the pixel brightness. Also, make the threshold smooth. (Either do a lovely s-curve or linearly interpolate between some minimum and maximum value.)
Actually, wait, you can't threshold in the same pass as you blur horizontally. They need to be seperate.
However, this means you can store the threshold pass as another texture, and sample from it to determine how much to blur each pixel.
Wait, can't you blur just by sampling pixels in a circle (or square for performance) around the current pixel?
I was thinking about what would be a great feature in a scripting language.
Imagine if you could do something like this:
maze = new Maze(50, 50) maze.Start = new Point(0, 0) maze.Walls.Add(new Point(10, 10), new Point(20, 20)) pathFinder = new PathFinder(maze) path = pathFinder.GetPathTo(49, 49) foreach (step in path) Output(step)
Without defining any of the classes or structures.
It obviously doesn't do what you want. Yet.
The classes are generated automatically.
Maze class has a constructor that takes two number (assumes ints), it needs a public Point Start and public Something Walls.
The type of Walls is not named yet, but it exists and has a method Add that takes two points (the idea is that it takes a variable amount of points but that can't be inferred).
Similarly PathFinder needs to be able to output the path and the path has to be a collection of some sort whose members can be written as strings.
The environment (the whole thing is probably more of an IDE feature than a language one) would have a Generate missing command that parses the code and for each variable or member looks through the code for all the ways it's used, then generates a new type that supports all of those if there already isn't one.
Then you can just go through those generated classes and implement the actual algorithms in them (and name the ones that don't have a name yet)
Ugh. More research this morning over an empty stomach. I'm too head deep into productivity to properly take care of myself.
One great thing about Source is that if you want to do something, there are enough resources out there for a smart person to utilize to bend Source to their will. This can be done by a single person, or a team of modders.
I'm looking into getting saverestore data to work properly with multiplayer. But I can't do it plainly with Source's (public) SDK, in the cooperative play manner I'd like (for the Campaign gamemode we have). This lies in the engine. Specifically, this bit:
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Purpose: // Output : int //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- int CSaveRestore::IsValidSave( void ) { if (cmd_source != src_command) return 0; // Don't parse autosave/transition save/restores during playback! if ( Demo_IsPlayingBack() ) { return 0; } if (!sv.active) { Con_Printf ("Not playing a local game.\n"); return 0; } if (cls.state != ca_active) { Con_Printf ("Can't save if not active.\n"); return 0; } if (svs.maxclients != 1) { Con_Printf ("Can't save multiplayer games.\n"); return 0; } if ( svs.clients[0].active ) { Assert( serverGameClients ); CPlayerState *pl = serverGameClients->GetPlayerState( svs.clients[0].edict ); if ( !pl ) { Con_Printf ("Can't savegame without a player!\n"); return 0; } if ( pl->deadflag != false ) { Con_Printf ("Can't savegame with a dead player\n"); return 0; } } // Passed all checks, it's ok to save return 1; }
Though, as the code clearly states, this is only to validate if we should be -able- to save.
The string "Can't save multiplayer games." never pops up in Synergy. Fuck. Okay, so they're sigscanning or using their Steamworks leverage to get multiplayer to work. It's unlikely the latter, because Synergy wasn't always a Steamworks mod. So they're writing over memory in engine.dll. It's not like Half-Life 2: Sandbox doesn't already do questionable shit like this already, but it's annoying to have to do, and puts modders in a situation where only the most dedicated and talented of programmers are able to do anything decently practical with Source. I don't really know for sure, maybe they've rewritten the save system using leaked code to assist them or something of the sort. Okay. That's fine, I'm a decent programmer, I can grab the signatures and fuck with functions if I need to, and I can accept that significant progress for anything will always be made by the people most dedicated to their respective projects and goals.
The thing is, some of the more notable mods and addons in the Source modding community are packed with hacks like this sort of shit. You'd think that maybe more small fragments of code would be exposed to not create nearly explicitly defined hell for modders, but there are things like these which create thresholds for developers to break through. Things like these separate the boys from the men in the development community, but even then I wonder if such accomplishments go noticed by Valve, or if they even care.
More what am I doing, with a dash of ranting, but I guess I'm just getting tired of certain things with Source development being awkward. You need at least a small arsenal of questionable things in your toolbox to get good work done, and some of these things are like the Valve codebase leak, your own sort of signature scanning package with maybe some vtable work on the side (though generally you never have to use this), and it's annoying.
By doing horizontal and vertical passes you reduce the number of samples you do dramatically. If you did a 7x7 sample size, you'd need to do 49 lookups per pixel. However if you do horizontal, then vertical, you only do 14 per pixel.
I know absolutely nothing about how to source engine works, but if sv.maxplayers isn't read only, then you might be able to set sv.maxplayers to 1, save the game, and then set it to whatever again before it kicks everyone.
Again, I know nothing about the source engine, but that's what I'd do if it's possible.
Decided to pick up my C++ project again. I haven't written any code for a while.
I decided that the first thing I'd do is plug my console library into GWEN. Was surprisingly easy, and more astoundingly my old code works
Can someone explain GWEN_CONTROL_INLINE to me? I can't figure out how it works, only how it's used.
You're right!
That's actually pretty smart.
Just by looking at this code, it's one of the few things people would instantly assume to be possible. So I can understand that but "sv" is an engine value. No matter what, I'd need to do something to obtain a memory address and write over where that memory is - it if I took that path. So it's not something I can cleanly take on.
I have reason to believe that Source is able to restore multiplayer states, but the engine won't allow saving them:
void CEntitySaveRestoreBlockHandler::Restore( IRestore *pRestore, bool createPlayers ) { ... else if ( (pEntInfo->edictindex > 0) && (pEntInfo->edictindex <= gpGlobals->maxClients) ) { if ( !(pEntInfo->flags & FENTTABLE_PLAYER) ) { Warning( "ENTITY IS NOT A PLAYER: %d\n" , i ); Assert(0); } edict_t *ed = INDEXENT( pEntInfo->edictindex ); if ( ed && createPlayers ) { // create the player pent = CBasePlayer::CreatePlayer( STRING(pEntInfo->classname), ed ); } else pent = NULL; } ... }
Spent the last couple of days working intensively at finishing my coursework videogame project, Maze Blitz.
Designed by my friend, written and implemented by myself while learning the Java language, overall a project I'm proud of, despite level one just simply being broken.
To mark the finishing of the project, I made a dev diary containing detailed comments, time-lapsed development with music, and game footage.
Do enjoy watching; I'll post the game itself soon :)
in today's episode of "source engine gems":
int C_PlayerResource::GetFrags(int index ) { return 666; }
so classy, so ~source~
My game with Bob Marley song, recorded.
thanks I prefer visual basic for its superior speed, syntax and features
this isn't FUNNY damned
superior speed uh
superior syntax uh
superior features (what) uh
yeah, taking all bets: troll or just ignorant?
i can't tell if you're being sarcastic
speed and features are identical to C# as they both produce the same CIL bytecodes (minus a few minor features exclusive to C# or VB). The syntax is awful though.
this isn't the first time he's done the whole "vb is better" thing, so I doubt it's sarcasm.
yeah, but he doesn't even say what he's comparing it to.
Why don't we just have a "passing" thing for each language? First C#, then Lua, then other languages people would like to use such as Java, Python, Visual Basic(god forbid), etc.
Am I the only one that likes working with grids to make every little detail perfect, but only on the computer, not so much in real life(Probably because I can't make straight lines at all, they always look slanted)
Then the program would be slow as fuck and buggy.
I'm pretty sure he meant a DIFFERENT program for each language...
holyshitholyshitholyshit in sdl 2.0 you can alt+tab in fullscreen on linux
I know.
It's a lot slower to have to start a bunch of different processes to run your program than to do it all in the same program. Bonus slowness if each process is a child of the process before it, meaning each process has to exist for the duration of the program.
I'm sorry, what?
No you're still not getting it, it's not a bunch of processes running for ONE program, it's multiple DIFFERENT programs, each one written in a different language and gets passed around to whoever wants to work on it next.
Are you high?
If it was in separate programs for each programming language used, if each program is a child of the program before it (I.E. parent closes, child closes), that means that you'll have to have every program running at once. That'll use up a lot of memory.
Who in their right mind would try and create a game using that many seperate processes all written in all of those different languages? It would be completely pointless, not to mention extremely difficult and slow
linus torvalds
You need to make the enemies get pushed back when you hit them, like at 6:12 in this:
Much to my chagrin, it seems that Lua wins:
So Lua + Love it is then :D
We should make a game similar to rythm heaven
Don't worry, we both know deep in our hearts that Javascript is vastly superior.
OK so who is going to start this out? It sounds really fun!
Xeon06 because he made the poll.


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