It's well done. Especially when you don't feel like coding these sorts of things. Its probably a fair price as I am not aware of the value such a thing can have on the market.
Am buying it anyways, even just for trying if I like it on my game.
I am having troubles with the shader.
1- if the base object is created before my initial settings, it messes my transitions and at the second transition my game makes, it just stops working. Certain of my messages also appear on top!
2 - If I create the object after my initial settings are done, it still messes the transitions and it doesn't appear at the right size either.
I am not grasping what do I have to do in order to make this work. I hope can help me (or anyone that is).
show_debug_overlay(0);                     // shows some debug info on screen like memory use, texture swaps, etc  REMOVE FOR RELEASE!!
if(global.MonitorW>=1600 && global.MonitorH>=900)       // full HD!
//---------- Scale x 2.5 -------------------           // 27 inch monitors?
//---------- Scale x 3 -------------------             // projectors and huge tvs?
//---------- Scale x 4 -------------------             // 4k baby!
global.WindowStyle="Full";              // by default the window style is "fullscreen"
Can someone help me figure out what's messing everything up?
are you using gms1.4 or 2?
I've been very close to make make it work.
- In the Filter_draw script, the buffer surface is also set at the application surface size. At the end of the script, instead of your original draw command, I target the application surface and draw the bugger surface on it.
- I call the "Filter_Draw" in a Post Draw event right before my application drawing code in my object responsible for drawing. This object is also handling transitions in a Draw Event.
- The shader effects always appear after 1 second or 2 after a room change. This means the game looks unfiltered and then it one second after its ok.
- In certain rooms it takes up to a minute for the shader to start working!!
- If I turn off the application surface in-game, I crash.
- If I change the scale in-game, all sizing messes up.
That seems to make the scanlines look good on my setup.
Suggest you try something similar, set the scan_line count to 1/2, 1/3 or a 1/4 of your game_lines variable, and see if that works.
@Alexandre Ribeiro de Sá may have more information on the correct settings.
What do you prefer Alexandre?
We discuss the issues here or in PMs?
I want to work on this and understand what's not working. We can even work it simultaneously on Skype if you want.
I just want to settle if this can work or not. If it doesn't I'll have to ask a refund on the store. I don't even know what's the time limit to do so!!
Kinda clunky but you get the idea.
Problem is, the scanlines are at the right number with the righ spacing when I put 224.
I will try 225 since my height is 450. 112,5 makes the scanline really bad looking.
Will get it once I'm just a tiny bit less broke. Looks fantastic.
You should add this marketplace link to the OP, so it's easier to spot. This looks great! I'm impressed.
but, the there a very dark think on those disasters, bad people who tries to take some advantage... I saw some things on facebook, so, if you want to help and didn't live near any of these disaster location, go to the redcross (https://www.redcross.org/ns/apology/disaster_homepage.html), do not deposite money in accounts you find in facebook posts!
now, let's talk about the filter!
so, he sent what he is doing, it's a really clever way to optimize the game, and sure some more advanced developers are doing the same! so, it's important to find a solution for this!
Samuel Venable and RangerX like this.
I hope you and everyone you know are OK! Dang, that's a lot to go through in just one weekend! I'm really sorry to hear that.
but when this issues happen?? in my tests we had some issues when you do something out of the box, that means, when you to something different from the default engine behaviour... and the gamemaker is the first engine that I saw that give the developer the method to say, don't render the stuff this way, I'll code my way!
if you want to test the gb filter just send a pm, @RangerX, I'll send to you for sure!
what can I say, I've got some screens from games using the filter! WANT TO PLAY ALL OF THEN!!!
so! it's a really awesome project! the true is, I'm working on it for almost one year... it took my time a lot, but I really hope it gives the security that I need to keep working in my own stuff... I really want to return to develop my own games too... today I have some devkits, even nintendo devkits, but some of then I never used, it's makes me really depressed I love games, I love to create stuff and love to see people having fun with my creations!
second spoiler, I played Maldita Castilla (linux arm build) on it :3 so, gamemaker will can build for it some day!
Am ready to test it.
dude, can i control when the effects showed and when it's not? like this room but this one not? or in this statement and this one not?
Thanks! Will be using this in my EGA platformer. Gonna be neat!
I have just purchased the OLD TV Filter, and was wondering if there's a way to use the effect only on a specific object instead of the whole screen. I'm used to applying shaders on specific objects, turning them off and on independently. I'm trying to create a TV screen within the game with this effect, whilst the rest of the game around it remains normal.
I'm using the most updated GameMaker Studio 2. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I'm having some issues with the shaders and effects disabling or interfering with other GUI items like healthbar, menu screens etc.
OP hasn't been on the forums since October 2017 guys, he isn't gonna see any of these posts.
Might wanna send him an email, contact him on Twitter or use the Contact Publisher button on the marketplace.


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Q: Show a page header only if there is data on the page I need a suppression formula that shows my page header only on the first page with data (which is not necessarily the first page of the report), and hides it afterward. I'm using a flag to suppress the page header after it's been shown once, so that part shouldn't be any trouble.
The tricky part is counting what's on the page. Sounds simple, but these things don't work:
1) A Running Total, because it's evaluated after the page's records are printed so its count doesn't show up until the next page.
2) A "Count" formula, because it counts every record in the report, not just on the page.
Any ideas?

A: Think I got it. Might be overly complicated but this is what seems to be working (note I didn't use a count after all).
This goes in an always-suppressed formula in the Details section that, if shown, I want to see the Page Header (but only once, as stated in the question):
whileprintingrecords;
global booleanvar ShowPageHeader := true

Then this goes in the suppression formula for the Page Header:
whileprintingrecords;
global booleanvar PageHeaderAlreadyShown;
global booleanvar ShowPageHeader;

if PageHeaderAlreadyShown then
    true
else if ShowPageHeader then
(
    PageHeaderAlreadyShown := true;
    false
)
else
    true

The "PageHeaderAlreadyShown" flag hides the page header after it's been shown once.

A: Not knowing any of your fields, you would probably be able to use something like:
WhilePrintingRecords;
{table.field} = ""

That should suppress it if a certain field has no data.

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Brighton & Hove City Council welcomes eight million visitors to the city each year. It operates several off-street car parks including four in the centre of Brighton, four in Hove, and a further nine in the area, as well as a large number of on-street pay and display parking spaces.


Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan.
Stoneham, MA – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan today issued a county-wide water safety alert in response to the recent drowning fatalities across the Commonwealth as part of the Middlesex District Attorney's Office "Summer Safety" awareness campaign.
District Attorney Ryan was joined for today's announcement by Stoneham Police Chief James McIntyre, Stoneham Fire Chief Joseph Rolli, Boys & Girls Club of Stoneham & Wakefield Executive Director Adam Rodgers, and Action Ambulance Proprietor David Portman. The Stoneham Fire Department Dive Team demonstrated a simulated drowning and rescue operation to show how long it takes to rescue a victim, even with emergency rescue workers nearby.
"While our trained professionals are available on a moment's notice to rescue drowning victims, our first priority is making sure the public is informed on water safety measures so that our department does not receive that emergency call," said Stoneham Fire Chief Joseph Rolli.
"We are pleased to partner with the Middlesex District Attorney's Office on this important and potentially lifesaving initiative," said Action Ambulance Proprietor David Portman.
Middlesex County has 131 ponds and lakes and 22 rivers and streams. According to the Center for Disease Control, every day 10 people die from unintentional drowning. Drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional death in children under the age of 14.
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· Head is low in the water, with mouth at water level; head may be tilted back with mouth open. A child's head may fall forward.
· Sometimes the most important indicator is that the person doesn't look like he's drowning. Ask "Are you all right?" If he can answer, he probably is. If you encounter a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to him.
· Children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you need to get to them immediately.
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· Teach children to swim and about water safety.
· NEVER SWIM ALONE – swim with a buddy.
In addition to educating the public about water safety, MDAO's "Summer Safety" public awareness campaign aims to prevent accidental child deaths or serious injury by preventing window falls and reminding parents to never leave a child alone in a car. District Attorney Ryan has hosted "Summer Safety" events recently at seven locations across Middlesex County to educate the public and to offer free car safety seat checks.
Middlesex County is the most populous county in Massachusetts and one of the most populous counties in the country with 54 towns and cities and 26 colleges in urban, suburban, and rural areas, comprising over one quarter of the population of Massachusetts. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office has offices throughout the county, including in Ayer, Cambridge, Concord, Framingham, Lowell, Malden, Marlborough, Newton, Somerville, Waltham and Woburn.


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Local Rep. Sponsors Assault Weapon Ban Legislation
By Andy Sheehan December 24, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Filed Under:Andy Sheehan, Bob Casey, Connecticut School Shooting, Gun Control. Weapons Ban, Guns, Legislation, newtown, Shooting
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — In the wake of Newtown, there is talk of an assault-style weapon ban in congress — and now one in Pennsylvania.
"There will be a new assault weapons ban introduced in the state of Pennsylvania that is comprehensive, that will deal with a broad definition of assault weapons and deals with high capacity magazines," Rep. Dan Frankel said.
Frankel of Squirrel Hill has sponsored similar bills that have gone nowhere. But he says Newtown has changed the debate as NRA supporters like senators Bob Casey and Joe Manchin are now open to the idea of a federal ban.
"I think the fact that they are willing to discuss some reasonable gun laws in this country tells us that the dynamic has changed in this state and in this country," Frankel said.
"If they want to curtail the buying sales, they're pushing the sale," George Romanoff with Ace Sporting Goods said.
But at Ace Sporting Goods in Washington County, gun owners and buyers vigorously oppose such a ban and are voting with their wallets.
They've snatched up all the semi-automatic rifles in stock for fear they'll be banned.
"There has been a lot of panic buying on the AR 15 platform rifles and AK 47s and now it's extended over to handguns," Romanoff said.
Romanoff calls a weapons ban misguided.
"It's very misguided," he said. "The real problem is with mentally ill people."
Frankel says the ban should be part of a comprehensive policy that will eventually reduce the number of semi-automatic rifles in the state and throughout the country.
But at Ace, talk of a weapons ban continues to have the opposite effect, sales have never been better.
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What does it take to go from outsider to major player? In "Dreamers and Doers" FastCo. Works and Dark Horse Wine present stories of those successful entrepreneurs who have overcome seemingly impossible odds. Here, Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck and rewardStyle's Amber Venz Box share how they built remarkable companies when everyone thought they didn't have a shot.
Gather a group of industry leaders in fashion and finance, and it's soon clear that Amber Venz Box and Sallie Krawcheck are the ultimate dark horses among industry luminaries. The two epitomized the term "outsiders" in hypercompetitive fields where industry contacts and proximity to major industry centers like New York City can make or break careers.
Dallas-based Box tapped a lifelong obsession with fashion and accessories to build rewardStyle, a novel ecommerce platform that enables bloggers and influencers the world over to monetize their fashion expertise. Her seven-year-old startup has tallied more than $2 billion since its inception in 2011. Krawcheck, a Charleston, South Carolina native and college journalism major, built a legendary 20-year Wall Street career. She rose from junior banker to arguably the highest-ranking woman on the Street before the 2016 launch of her popular personal finance and investment platform for women, Ellevest.
While the specifics of their career journeys, obstacles, and industries differ, Box and Krawcheck share a great deal: a similar sense of fearlessness, ingenuity, and gritty determination.
In high school, Box turned to jewelry making, creating and selling knockoffs of luxury necklaces and earrings. Later, in college, she started her own fashion blog to highlight her work as a personal shopper. She garnered attention but was still frozen out by snooty fashion editors and retail buyers.
With the help of her now-husband, Baxter, she turned her site into a platform that allowed her to make a commission whenever people bought her recommendations. That led to the creation of rewardStyle, which she then offered to other bloggers to monetize their work.
One of the first indications that Box was onto something big came when she was 23. A representative from leading fashion merchant Shopbop contacted her about working together. She walked downstairs and told her father the news.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Krawcheck started out wanting to be a journalist, a field where her dogged determination would have a meaningful impact on the world. But the paltry economics of journalism were no match for finance. She moved to New York and found herself fighting for respect in the ranks of mostly male analysts at Smith Barney.
"I was two days into my job, and I was sitting at my desk and smelled cigar smoke. This big huge guy who seemed super old at the time—I think he was all of 33—comes up behind me and looks me up and down in a way that you would be arrested for today and goes, 'What kind of effing discount maternity wear is that?'" she recalls.
That report helped her become the number-one analyst in her first year on the job. It was an unprecedented achievement.
Krawcheck's career was taking off, but she was haunted by "what if, what now" insecurities. The night the top ranking came out, she says, "My husband came by, and we were walking down Fifth Avenue, and he wanted to buy me a gift to celebrate. And I remember being on the verge of tears. I was having so much fun with the fight, and now that I've made it, what do I do now?" she recalls.
Both Box and Krawcheck routinely encountered roadblocks that could have derailed their ambitious goals. Even as rewardStyle was attracting a growing audience and top social media influencers, members of the notoriously exclusive fashion industry dismissed Box. And Krawcheck butted heads with dismissive male coworkers in finance before outperforming them, rocketing from being the top-ranked analyst to the executive ranks. Sometimes, the founders had to dig deep to come up with the fortitude to keep going and figure out the best ways to move toward their goals.
Box was inspired after seeing an interview with a company founder who was dealing with a crop of copycats. "He was asked, 'What do you think about this XYZ company that just popped up and says they do what you do?' And this founder said, 'They have no soul, so they will not win.' And it's true, as people see your success, they then want to jump into this industry, but they don't get it. They don't have what we have, the real-life experience of knowing what customers need," she says. The combination of vision and work ethic helped each keep going, even when it was tough or when they had to find a new path to get to where they wanted to go.
"I think about all the times I tried to work in the industry and was declined. That would be the story. But we don't need the industry's permission anymore," Box says.
"Society makes us think you have one path," Krawcheck says. Having a drive to succeed means finding a way to make your vision work, one way or another.
Ultimately, that drive is perhaps what these entrepreneurs share the most. You can trace it between a dorm room in North Carolina and a teenager's bedroom in Dallas. It can be found in a bold Wall Street report as well as an emerging fashion blog. And, now, it's evident in both Ellevest and rewardStyle, two startups in different industries led by successful women. It's the very drive that led these dark-horse founders to overcome new obstacles and seek out new opportunities—a drive that never stops.


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Q: Filter objects in array by value I have, what I believe to be, an array of objects:
[{"Id":1,"productId":122,"product_quantity":1}, {"Id":1,"productId":133,"product_quantity":2},{"Id":2,"productId":144,"product_quantity":1}]

I am using this code to get all the values:
$.each(JSON.parse(myArray), function(key, value){ // stuff }

I am trying to filter on Id and return the results associated with it.  I have tried nesting .each and using if(value.id = myVariableID) but nothing seems to work.
I would like to return (where Id = 1):
id : 1 | productID : 122 | product_quantity: 1, id : 1 | productID : 133 | procuct_quantity: 2

as an example.

A: Why just don't use Array's filter():

var myArray = [{"Id":1,"productId":122,"product_quantity":1}, {"Id":1,"productId":133,"product_quantity":2},{"Id":2,"productId":144,"product_quantity":1}];

var res = myArray.filter(i => i.Id == 1);
console.log(res);


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At first I didn't get it either. For those who don't know — because his team is already irrelevant — Tim Anderson is the shortstop for the White Sox. Decent MLB player, but nothing crazy. Off to a slow start this year, hitting .237. He does have 3 dingers in 16 games, which, if he maintains that rate he could finish with 30 if he plays in all 162 games.
Now that you know everything about Anderson, he and Justin Verlander apparently yelled at each other a bit last night.
So I guess Anderson had the White Sox' first hit Friday night against Verlander. It came in the fifth inning when is was 5-0 'Stros, so you can imagine Chicago was feeling the pressure a bit.
Anderson get on base and takes second — only Verlander walked the batter on that pitch, so he didn't get a steal. And if you watch the GIF above, you'll Anderson was visibly excited.
Basically the gist of it was, Verlander wasn't worried about Anderson anyways and Anderson was actually celebrating that he ran 90 feet, when he could've just walked had he been patient. That annoyed Verlander, which I respect. Hate when people celebrate or get angry over something stupid.
And no, this isn't something stupid, it's principle.
Later in the inning, Anderson tried to steal third like an idiot and Verlander pulls the old carousel and catches him in no man's land. Then Verlander celebrated. Apparently Anderson said something back to him, though what he said specifically wasn't told to reporters.
Actually, Anderson said pretty much nothing about the whole thing with Verlander to reporters. Smart move. He only would've looked more like a fool.
Displaying excitement in baseball is absolutely fine by me. You hit a dinger, don't care if it's 250-feet to right in Yankee Stadium you deserve to do what you want. (Might be a tick off with my measurements, that's at least what it feels like at times.) You steal a base, do a damn backflip for all I care.
But this was just dumb on Anderson's end.
THAT BEING SAID, not a big fan of the way Verlander handled it either. I respect being annoyed by that, but this is too stupid a thing to jaw at a guy about. It's fine that he did something, but I guess it's more that he turned it up a few too many notches.
I feel like that was more a laugh in your face moment when Verlander picked off Anderson than a yell at you while I walk away with my Cy Young Award, MVP and World Series Ring so we can finish this train wreck of a game off so I can go see my model wife moment.


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Four red panels have "RISE" written across them. Beneath each letter are hands holding up fists, signs, and open palms. Signs include "BLM," "Change the Inevitable Growth Is Optional," "Stand. Act. Vote." "Silence Is Not An Option," "Stop Being Afraid Of What Could Do Wrong And Start Getting Excited About What Could Go Right," and "Change Is Needed Now!"
From the contributor: "My wife and I went downtown to photograph the protest art as we knew that it would not last (for a variety of reasons). The military was still on the streets, a curfew was still in place, and police were still assaulting innocent protestors. Columbus is the capitol of Ohio, so much of this was around the capitol building."
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Possibly utilize all the freshman or men and women familiarized with the several duties to realize what the job is all about. The interesting issue is that they don't really show up to take care of my existing occupation as something more than the indicator I'm , honestly, hireable. In the end of the day, a PM's task would be to create things come about.


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Adam Cathcart
Lecturer in Chinese History // University of Leeds
SinoMondiale Blog
Cultural Power Battle Threads
3Jan 2012 3 Jan 2012
From the May Fourth Generation to Today
– The Telegraph reports in alarmist fashion about Hu Jintao warning, as the newspaper headline puts it, of "cultural warfare from the West"
– A closer examination of the story indicates that Hu Jintao's "battle cry," above, was a speech given on October 18, 2011, that was republished yesterday in the preemminent journal for CCP theory, Qiushi (Seeking Truth / 求是).
In fact most of the speech is not at all about the West, but the need for more powerful socialist culture. However, the key detonating sentences in this long and rather boring speech are, after a discourse on China's rising soft power, as follows:
同时,我们必须清醒地看到,国际敌对势力正在加紧对我国实施西化、分化战略图谋,思想文化领域是他们进行长期渗透的重点领域。我们要深刻认识意识形态领域斗争的严重性和复杂性,警钟长鸣、警惕长存,采取有力措施加以防范和应对. At the same time [that we develop our cultural industries and gain international advantage thereby], we must see with utmost clarity that hostile international forces are currently stepping up the implementation of Westernization in China, attempting to do so via in a variety of strategies; their long-term focus is on infiltration [渗透/shentou] in the ideological and cultural fields. We should thoroughly understand the seriousness and complexity of this ideological struggle, remaining vigilant (lit. "always keep the bell ringing"), ever alert, and taking effective measures to prevent and respond to [the challenge of cultural infiltration].
The full text of the article is available in rough English via Google Translate here.
– My own evidentiary contribution to the discourse on Hu Jintao's retrograde and conservative tendencies with regard his extensive work in "socialist culture" are described in this essay about some materials I found about Hu Jintao in East German archives in 2009.
– As usual, with reference to cultural diplomacy and the soft power discourse, JustRecently is already well ahead of the curve. His website has the most extensive open-source translation available of the Party's "cultural document", a document which stemmed out of the same meetings at which Hu Jintao weighed in above.
– In reading headlines about Hu Jintao's fear of Western "infiltration," I think it's important to note that there are far more nuanced Chinese examinations of soft power out there. PRC scholar He Zengke published a rather wide-ranging article this past December 23 in a reformist journal surveying French and German modes of exerting soft power, noting:
France was one of the first countries to understand the role of cultural soft power. Napoleon once said that a pen was equal to 1,000 Mauser rifles*), and a former French minister of culture said that culture and the economy are one and the same battleground. French people believe that a cultural mission can take the place of a country's military power.[9] In 1883, France established the Alliance Française to promote French culture. Starting in 1959, France began to define the "First Five-Year Plan for the Expansion of French Cultural Activities", and afterwards, 25- and 35-year plans etc. were gradually developed. From the total amounts spent and per capita, France belongs to the first-ranking countries worldwide.[10] From that, it can be seen that France attaches great importance to the development and use of soft power.
法国是最早懂得文化软实力的地位和作用的国家之一。拿破仑曾经说过,一支笔等于1000支毛瑟枪。法国前文化部长曾经说过:文化和经济是同一场战斗。 法国人认为,文化使命可以代替国家武力。[9]1883年法国就建立了法语联盟,在世界各地讲授法语,推广法国文化。从1959年起,法国开始制定"关于 在国外扩张和恢复法国文化活动的第一个五年计划"(1959-1963),后来又陆续制定了"二五"、"三五"计划等。法国的国际文化交流支出从总数和人 均来看都居于世界第一的位置。[10]由此可见法国对发展和运用文化软实力的高度重视。[Translation here by JustRecently]
He's essay reminds us again:
-For all the huffing and puffing about Confucius Institutes, the "hanban" is still behind such institutions as the Alliance Française when it comes to enrollments and influence globally, a fact which I reported in July 2010 (from a cafe in Seoul, awash in K-pop, WiFi signals, kimchee and bubble tea) via a translation of a Huanqiu Shibao interview with the Hanban head.
– Finally, the magazine Monocle (which I fittingly tend to read in international airports; this one was in Tokyo) recently did some comprehensive "soft power ratings" in which the US was #1 but France not far behind. China, by the way, was #17.
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Juchechosunmanse says:
The resistence by the Chinese is futile. There are several factors/reasons working against China's wishes to expand its cultural soft power: (1) The fact that the PRC is a non-democratic, authoritarian state is detrimental to the expansion of Chinese cultural soft power as such a nature is an automatic turn-off to a lot of people, especially those in the "democrazed" western world. (2) The fact that culturally the world is still very much dominated by the west, especially the United States means non-western countries such as China will have a long long long way to go to vie for cultural popularity, let alone cultural dominance. At this time most non-western countries can only play the "exotic" card. Even Japan, who is by any means a very successful example in terms of exerting cultural soft power, is for the most part still being considered an "intriguing exotic culture" by westerners. South Korea on the other hand has once agained exaggerated the impact of Hanryu, K-pop and Korean food (even though dishes like Bibimbab have become more accepted). They are really insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
kingtubby1 says:
Soft power for the French has always been its education system going back to colonial times. The locals getting to be too nationalistic, give them a scholarship to Paris.
Bristish soft power has been a mixed bag of sanitary engineering and cricket.
Korea doen't need to exert cultural soft power, due to global dependence on its digital products. # Japan digital products and cars.
Who need literature and cinema! Buying into a perception of their product excellence is as good as it gets for both Korea and Japan. (I don't know, but Japanese cinema is pretty mainstream in my part of the world.)
China's problem is the surfeit of negative charisma it generates, and this has everything to do with its system of govt, even though its cuisine is a favourite in most countries across the globe.
I am beginning to think that aysmmetrical Sino-West soft power discussions are a bit of a cul de sac. All they do is provide opportunities to jeer at aspects of contemporary Chinese governmentality and the society it is attempting to construct.
slim says:
4 Jan 2012 at 11:08 am
"China's problem is the surfeit of negative charisma it generates, and this has everything to do with its system of govt,"
Pretty much every serious exploration of soft power in the PRC context boils down to versions of this.
Adam Cathcart says:
Thanks for the comment, Slim! Makes sense, esp. in in the sense that they are rearranging deck chairs. Intimations of control, Mao's 1942 Yanan forum hasn't been too meaningfully revised in many ways.
I'd add one more point, which is the fact that the PRC is still a poor, developing country does not help. No poor, developing country is beaming with cultural clout that others want to emulate and immitate.
Until the west ceases its total domination of the world (which is unlikely) and the PRC democratizes, western cultural infiltration and its 和平演变 efforts will continue, to the chagrin of many.
@Jushecchosunmanse. You have stated things far too baldly.
Think about music, one of the most important tranmission belts for cultural soft power. Countries like Jamaica, Nigeria, Senegal and even land locked Mali, all with crap economies, hopeless govts etc, still manage to attract massive listening audiences with their indigenous musical output. Go to Paris and then turn the dial on the radio. This is an evidence based post.
King Tubby,
Perhaps I have. I certainly do not doubt your experience, however I'd like to think the followers of those music are mostly French of African descent? Just like the South Koreans love gloating about the popularity of K-pop and they say it has somwhat conquered Europe and America. Really? Until millions of young American and European boys and girls make the switch from Justin Bieber (or his European counterparts) to some overrated South Korean troupe (소녀시대? Wonder Girls?), I'd like to think it is just hype.
Plus, music alone doesn't necessarily extend one's soft power, I'd think. I for one enjoy Indian music and dancing but does it change how I see India? I always thought first it is the country behind "it" (whether be music, fashion, whatever) that sells "it", like the mighty US helps extend the influence and the popularity of the American pop culture, and subsequently that country rakes in the dividends – making people become more attracted to that country. If you are country that has very little to offer, no amount of nice music etc. will convert into soft power that in the end helps the country. I mean no offense, I just don't see French and other foreigners flocking to Jamaica, Nigeria, Senegal..
If you are country that has very little to offer, no amount of nice music etc. will convert into soft power that in the end helps the country. I mean no offense, I just don't see French and other foreigners flocking to Jamaica, Nigeria, Senegal.
(I was thinking of Western caucasian audiences not African diaspora communities which goes without saying.)
Agreed. But at least folk in other countries don't view the above governmental disasters I mentioned in a hard negative light as they do the PRC.
Factoid. the world sales of ethnic music cultures as the ones I mentioned (I could cite additional examples) are vastly under rated and undercounted because they are distributed by a diverse range of independent distributors.
I live in the southern hemisphere and can access about 30 hours of such sounds every week on govt funded stations, and believe me they have large audiences. Not to mention a ton of packed out music festivals.
Lady Ga Ga's global gloss hides a large and very diverse global music culture of ethnic sounds.
Of course, countries like Jamaica, Nigeria and Senegal can not compare to the PRC when it comes to the negative vibes it emits (or so we are told it does). Rightly or wrongly, the PRC these days has become the new "Evil Empire" that the west loves to hate. Often I feel it doesn't really matter what China does, it just can't win. To the suspicious and more or less brainwashed western mind who is brought up to believe nothing good ever comes out of "socialist", authoritarian countries and that communism is pure evil second only to terrorism, of course China is being narrated the way it is currently.
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@Juchechosunmanse – "Chinese Economic Miracle" – It's real, it happened and it's very compelling to countries poorer than China.
On whom does Beijing wish to exert this so-called soft-power? Typically, countries without legitimate democracies.
I think you guys have got it wrong about this democracy thing. No one gives a rat's ass. People want IPads before the right to vote.
I like the succinctness of the "I-pads trumping democracy" notion. After 2011 where whole careers were spawned by people writing about how Facebook and Twitter or whatever changed the entire world political landscape, the CCP seems rather bound to prove those particular pundits wrong. As has been written in a few other places, the Party is continually mobilizing a rather formidable apparatus well beyond the standard censors to ferret out Western "soft power" implements like Voice of America, student exchange programs, etc., and effectively quarantine those which may be harmful to China's perceived national (read "Party") interests.
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it's a bit confusing that the Telegraph would react so strongly to a speech by Chairman Hu, who is almost on his way out, while there had been so few reactions to the central committee's "cultural decision" last year, which, after all, was most probably drafted by a politbureau where both the outgoing and the incoming leadership had their (unknown) shares of influence.
Besides, the CCP is seeking control at home first and foremost. They certainly want to have everything in place which could help to project a nicer picture of China abroad, but whenever the choice seems to be between a safe environment for totalitarian rule at home, and a nicer picture abroad, domestic concerns will carry the day.
Frankly, I can't tell if they believe that their propaganda concepts could have any appeal abroad (even democratic politicians can be carried away by their own potential as they see it), or if the CCP leaders just see successful propaganda abroad as something that might work some time in the future, and possibly in the rather distant future. Given that at least a small collective was at work there, the foreign-propaganda aspect may be little more than a booby prize for the minority which thinks of a postive global image as a thing that matters.
China's foreign-diplomacy industry will care for sure. But I'm not that sure if they have meaningful influence among the CCP's top-nine officials / the politbureau's standing committee.
Precisely — another opportunity for more drive-by journalism. Remind everyone that China is on edge, intractable, whatever, and "setting the tone" for the new year. With material that is three months old? I suppose so. Some poor graduate student is going to be parsing over this stuff ten years from now and wonder how we as Anglophone readers put up with such schlock. By the same token, in spite of its false alarmism, I am glad to have read the Telegraph article simply because I am not a regular reader of Qiushi and welcome the chance to bathe so to speak even briefly in those rather frigid waters. "A journal founded by Mao" — scary!!! Would that there were more discussion of Hu Qiaomu, old Mao's pen (after Chen Boda, that is), and his role in crafting what was safe and what was unorthodox in the PRC.
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An injured Cruciate Ligament can only be corrected by surgery. There are numerous surgical corrections currently being performed at Allwest Animal Hospital. The most common are 1) Extra Capsular Repair(ECR), 2) TightRope (TR) Procedure (a variation of the ECR), 3) Tibial Plateau Leveling Operation (TPLO), and 4) Tibial Tuberosity Advancement (TTA).
TTA is the newest procedure, and probably the best repair in some cases. The forces within the knee are very complicated and change as the knee is rotated through its range of motion. In a normal standing position, there is a tendency for the lower end of the Femur to slide backward on the tilted Tibial Plateau, this is called Tibial Thrust. This force can be corrected by either cutting the Tibial Plateau and rotating it into a more flat position (TPLO) or by counteracting this force by changing the angle of pull of the very strong Patellar Tendon by advancing the Tibial Tuberosity (TTA).
For more detail about ACL disease, criteria to decide which procedure your dog would need, look under TPLO. Hospital stay, post-op care, and recovery are almost similar to the TPLO procedure. Some dogs return to normal walks quicker than other procedures.
The normal Knee Joint (also know as the Stifle joint, has multiple structures which are important to its function. This drawing shows a view from the front with the muscles removed. It is important to note that the Patellar Tendon, a vital structure in the joint has been removed, so that you can see "behind" it. The Patellar Tendon is a thick, tough band that runs from the Patella (green dot) to the Tibial Tuberosity (red dot).
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(New City, NY) Today Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) announced in a video posted to social media that he is running for Congress in the 17th district.
In the video, Senator Carlucci praised Congresswoman Nita Lowey who recently announced her retirement after 31 years in office.
"Congresswoman Lowey has always been a fighter for us in Washington, and now that she has announced her retirement we're at a crossroads," said Senator Carlucci.
Senator Carlucci went on to explain why he is the best candidate for the job, citing his 9 years of experience in the New York State Senate where he represents Rockland and Westchester County residents.
"Since being reelected to the State Senate last year, I've been able to pass more legislation to make it to the Governor's desk than any other lawmaker in the State of New York."
In the State Senate, Carlucci has contributed widely to the Democratic Majority's historic legislative accomplishments. He helped pass historic voting reforms, the Child Victims Act, the Reproductive Health Act, and made the property tax cap permanent.
In the video, Carlucci also took a jab at President Trump, stating he has created a "toxic environment" in Washington.
Carlucci said that as a Member of Congress, he will be focused on fighting for affordability for the hardworking families of Westchester and Rockland County, as well as focusing on education, climate change, gun reforms, women's rights, and comprehensive immigration reform to repair the harm done by President Trump.
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Q: Rescale raster in R What's the best way to rescale a raster with range 0, 200 to range -1 to 1 in R?  I'm currently using gdal_translate, but this requires that I write out a new file with the updated range.  If possible I'd like to simply store the new rescaled raster as a variable in R.
gdal_translate(src_dataset = "input_data_path", dst_dataset = "output_data_path", scale = c(0, 200, -1.0, 1.0))

A: If the original data was rescaled to 8-bit it should be 0-255 and not 0-200. That aside you can take a normalization approach but shift the centrality over so the distribution will bound into the negative. Two normalization formulas that will do this are:
Formula 1: [(x - "x min") / ("x max" - "x min") - 0.5) * 2]
Formula 2: ["new min" + (x - "x min") * (("new max" - "new min") / ("x max" - "x min"))]
In R parlance these are easy formulas to translate to code. Here we create a random vector ranging 0-200 and plot the distribution.
x <- round(runif(100,0,200),0)
  plot(density(x), xlim=c(0,200))

We then normalize the data, using the first formula, so it ranges -1 to 1 and check to make sure that the distribution did not change shape.
x.scale <- ((x - min(x)) / (max(x) - min(x)) - 0.5 ) * 2
  plot(density(x.scale), xlim=c(-1,1))

To apply this to a raster we can use exactly the same logic and syntax. To pull the min and max raster values we use cellStats.
library(raster)
r <- raster(nrows=100, ncols=100)
  r[] <- round(runif(ncell(r), 0, 200),0)
  r.min = cellStats(r, "min")
  r.max = cellStats(r, "max")

r.scale <- ((r - r.min) / (r.max - r.min) - 0.5 ) * 2
r.scale
plot(r.scale)

Here is the second formula put into a rescale function that would work, given the correct arguments, if passed to calc. It should work with a single value or a vector distribution. The examples illustrate normalizing single values into the expected distribution based on the definition of current and defined min and max values.
rescale <- function(x, x.min = NULL, x.max = NULL, new.min = 0, new.max = 1) {
  if(is.null(x.min)) x.min = min(x)
  if(is.null(x.max)) x.max = max(x)
  new.min + (x - x.min) * ((new.max - new.min) / (x.max - x.min))
}

rescale(200, x.min = 0, x.max = 200, new.min = -1, new.max = 1)
rescale(100, x.min = 0, x.max = 200, new.min = -1, new.max = 1)
rescale(0, x.min = 0, x.max = 200, new.min = -1, new.max = 1)


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Published June 03, 2020 (last updated July 22, 2020) Author: Employsure
The Fair Work Commission has recently clarified the way some Award provisions apply, and made minor amendments to the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020 itself.
What Are the Changes?
There are two broad changes that have been made, effective 29 May 2020:
The Award now also applies to vehicle manufacturing employers and employees who were previously covered by the Vehicle Manufacturing, Repair, Services and Retail Award 2010 (the Vehicle Manufacturing Award), and
The Award has been updated to a 2020 version, with minor amendments made to the Award itself.
Vehicle Manufacturing Industry
The Fair Work Commission has confirmed that vehicle manufacturing employers and employees are now covered under the Award. This means:
That there is now a new stream within the Award for vehicle manufacturing.
There has been a change to the rate of pay for work on a Saturday. Previously, ordinary hours could be worked on a Saturday which was paid at ordinary time. However, under the Award ordinary hours are no longer applicable to Saturday work. Therefore, any work done on a Saturday will be paid for at time and a half.
The remainder of the clauses that applied to vehicle manufacturing employees in the Vehicle Manufacturing Award have been transferred over to the Award without variation.
Specific Manufacturing Award changes
The year in the Award name has changed from 2010 to 2020. The Award is now called Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020.
Our Pay Rate Schedule has been updated to reflect the new 2020 version of the Award. Some rates of pay may have changed by 1-3 cents.
The Fair Work Commission has clarified that employees who earn above the award minimum rate must be paid this higher rate when taking annual leave.
The facilitative provisions have been expanded to include other clauses in the Award which can be altered with mutual agreement, including annual leave in advance, cashing out of annual leave and substitution of public holidays.
Confirmation that ordinary hours for day workers, non-continuous and continuous shiftworkers cannot exceed 8 hours per day.
Confirmation that an unpaid meal break cannot be less than 20 minutes. In addition, by agreement an employer and an individual employee or majority of employees can agree to work over 5 hours without a break, but not more than 6 hours. In this situation, the employee will be paid for the 6th hour at the rate immediately prior to the end of the 5th hour.
Confirmation of the rates of pay an employee is entitled to in the event that they work through their break on weekdays, weekends and other occasions.
'Advanced diploma of laboratory operations' has been added as a minimum training requirement for classifications C3, C4, C5, C7 and C8.
Check your rates of pay to ensure you are meeting your minimum pay obligations.
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When Migraine threatens our social life, we need to take action.
Social connection is a biological imperative. A rich social life is good for our physical, emotional, or spiritual health. Migraine attacks can be unpredictable and may interfere with special occasions. We may start to decline invitations "just in case" we have a Migraine attack. When Migraine threatens our social life, we need to take action. Sitting at home alone, waiting for others to reach out to us doesn't solve the problem. We must find ways to enjoy a rich social life, even with Migraine.
That was just the gentle wake-up call I needed. Waiting for Migraine to go away hadn't worked. I couldn't keep waiting for someone to reach out to me, either. Instead, I decided to put myself back out into the world, Migraine or not. I made purposeful, intentional steps to revitalize my social life with Migraine.
Not all social activity needs to be face-to-face to maintain a sense of belonging. Leverage the power of technology to keep in touch with friends and loved ones. A phone call, text, or brief chat online may be all that's required to keep a friendship going. Make a point to remember birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions. Even if you can't attend that special occasion, you can take a few moments to send a note, make a call, or order a gift.
We may have few people in our social circle who understand Migraine. That's an opportunity to expand our circle. Migraine friends are an important part of a good treatment plan.
Ask your own Migraine doctor if there are local Migraine support groups available or start one of your own. Local libraries usually offer meeting space to support groups at no charge.
Move Against Migraine is a growing online community of patients. The group hosts Facebook LIVE events featuring leading Migraine doctors and patient advocates. For more information, see Move Against Migraine Campaign in Full Swing.


In a city where the rich stage decadent parties as the poor suffer in squalor, where assassins prowl and king's men keep order with truncheons and force, where gangs of children run like dogs and addicts die in the streets, a demonic strain has taken hold. The shape shifting priestess and priest of Erin have come to Dogsland stalking a fugitive, half-breed Senta Rachel Nolander, and plot to burn her to cleanse the world of her demon-tainted blood. Led ever onward by Rachel's corrupted lover's crying skull, Erin's agents seek their hapless quarry, a frightened girl guided by one promise, one hope, one prayer... We Leave Together.


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Dick Dinman Takes Greenbriar Inside 60's Exhibition
Most of you already know Dick Dinman from his website plus many and fabulous radio broadcasts about Classic Hollywood. He has for years hosted weekly coverage of DVD releases, recordings of great film scores, and best of all, one-on-one interviews with Golden Age veterans, many of whom have talked with Dinman and no one else about their fabled careers. I remember being astonished (yet again) when he scored a chat with famously reclusive Eleanor Parker, who to my knowledge, had never looked back with such detail on stardom years. Dick has lately been in touch with Greenbriar, having read Showmen, Sell It Hot!, which prompted him to reveal another aspect of a lifelong biz career, previously unknown to me. I was delighted to hear of Dick Dinman's background in exhibition, a boots-on-the-ground showman who sold them hot back in the 60's. Further revealed in our correspondence was his being at ramparts of Bonnie and Clyde's Los Angeles first-run, Dick's account of which made me immediate-reply (and apply) for permission to share the eye-witness account with GPS readers. Here it is, then, in Dick Dinman's words:
John, Just finished your book and as someone who has spent more than a decade in exhibition (at National General/Mann Theaters) I feel qualified to confirm that your book is an out-and-out masterwork. So many chapters brought back memories, but perhaps it was your BONNIE & CLYDE chapter which brought back the most. How well I remember the preview at the Village Theater in Westwood with Warren Beatty, who was sitting in front of me, constantly jumping up and charging to the projection booth when the projectionist kept turning down the sound during gunshots that Beatty had purposely designed to mimic George Stevens' "cannon in a barrel" blasts in SHANE. We expected nothing when we booked BONNIE into the Vogue Theater on Hollywood Blvd. for a locked four weeks to get us to the Christmas opening of BILLION $ BRAIN. BONNIE'S first week was respectable but unspectacular and you can imagine our surprise when the gross doubled on the second week, and continued to rise in the third to such an alarming degree that we called UA branch manager Dick Carnegie to try to get out of playing BILLION $ BRAIN so we could play BONNIE through the holidays, and beyond. We were "in bed" with UA at the time and when Carnegie threatened to end our association and take away the James Bonds, etc., we capitulated and opened BILLION $ BRAIN for Christmas, which totally died. Since all the other theaters on Hollywood Blvd. were booked, a porn theater across the street from the Vogue hastily cleaned up and played BONNIE for months to the tune of astounding grosses. Again my congratulations on a fantastic book which I plan to revisit time and time again.
Cheers, Dick
Many thanks to Dick Dinman for a unique, and first-hand, look at an exhibiting phenomenon. Greenbriar highly recommends further peruse of Dick's amazing backlog of broadcasts, including all the interviews he has gathered. There is more film history here than in a hundred books.
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The National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) registration exercise was launched nationwide but was temporarily suspended in Kisumu on Wednesday.
The suspension was linked to registration officials failing to show up at the designated stations on Wednesday.
According to the Kisumu County Commissioner Pauline Dola, some crucial documents which were to facilitate the 45-day exercise were missing.
Kisumu residents were left stranded at major registration centers as the venues remained locked the entire Wednesday.
The exercise which seeks to register all Kenyans in the new digital database is however expected to resume on Thursday upon receiving the documents whose nature she didn't reveal.
Well, according to a copy of the registration form, one is allowed to list up-to 5 spouses, something that has elicited heated debate online.
Many feel Africans are naturally polygamous and that the 5 spaces for filling in the spouses' names is just ordinary.
Another section of critics however think that this is a way of fueling multi-partner relationships which in most cases have ended up breaking homes.
For starters, NIIMS is a mass biometric registration system introduced by the government to create, manage and store Kenya's population data.
Biometric data means unique identifiers or attributes including fingerprints, hand geometry, earlobe geometry, retina and iris patterns, voice waves and DNA samples.
The system will require data for Kenyans aged six and above, and foreigners living in the country.
NIIMS will integrate GPS monitoring for persons applying for new identification cards as they will be required to provide information about their postal address, land reference number and plot or house number.
To register, one is required to carry original copies of their identification documents such as ID, birth certificate, driving license, KRA pin and most importantly, their physical presence at the station.
Upon registration, one will be given a Huduma Namba which will assign a personal unique identification to facilitate government services.