Ru Xin, male and from the Han nationality, born in August 1931, is a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu Province and a member of the Communist Party of China. He is a member of the Presidium of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Academic Divisions. In May 1949, he graduated from the department of politics of Saint John's University. In 1956, as a postgraduate, he continued his study of the famous scholar He Lin's Hegelianism. He is a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a PhD student advisor, President of the Chinese Society for Aesthetics and the Chinese Association of Political Science, and Vice-President of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies. He used to be Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and alternate member of the 14th Communist Party of China's Central Committee. His academic expertise is philosophy and aesthetics. In 1984, he won the "Young and Mid-aged Expert with Outstanding Contribution" Award. Since 1992, he enjoyed a special allowance awarded by the State Council. He was a foreign academician of the original German Democratic Republic Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Doctor of Keimyung University.
Wang Qi (Wang for short below): Mr. Ru Xin, I have gained some understanding of your academic thoughts through your published works in different periods. And I have also had some idea of your academic experience though the prefaces of Western Philosophy and Aesthetics and Optional Collection of the Members of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Your life experiences are colorful even seen from today. In the 1940s, you graduated from Saint John's University in Shanghai; in the early 1950s, you followed the Chinese People's Volunteers to the Korean Battlefield; in the mid-1950s, you were transferred out of the army and worked as an administrative staffer in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; then you became a vice doctoral student of Mr. He Lin. After graduation you made remarkable contributions to the research into Western Philosophy and Aesthetics. What's more, you also had experience of the administrative work in the institution and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which were humorously described as "not engaged in proper duties" in the prefaces mentioned previously. Would you please say something about the influence of these experiences on yourself and your academic research?
Ru Xin (Ru for short below): It was by sheer chance that I was engaged in academic research and related work, since I had never thought that I would do academic research when I was young. On the eve of the liberation of China, I studied in Saint John's University in Shanghai. At that time some of the students worked very hard, some of them just dawdled away their time to get their graduation certificate to find a good job, and some of them were "progressive young people" who were influenced by left-wing thoughts. And I belonged to the kind of students who participated in the student movements. During that period the student movements were so frequent that there was little time for us to concentrate on study.
Wang: Your study at Saint John's University at least laid a good foundation for foreign languages, right?
Ru: At Saint John's University, except that the Chinese language course and Chinese history course were taught in Chinese, others were taught in English, including The Three People's Principles, whether the teachers were Chinese or not. Influenced by the progressive thoughts at that time, I had always wanted to learn Russian. However, Russian was not taught in the university. As a result, I asked a Belarusian that fled to Shanghai to teach me Russian, but I did not learn it well. After liberation, I joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which was originally prepared for the liberation of Taiwan. Yet the Korean War suddenly broke out, I had to follow the army to the Korean battlefield. During the first two years' mobile warfare, hardly did I have time to study. Later when the positional war began, I was able to find a little time to study while working as an English translator at military headquarters. Before I went to North Korea, I bought a book by Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky so as to learn Russian well. Thus I started to study Russian intermittently. In the 1950s and 1960s there were no such good conditions of studying and doing academic research, like the endless movements and too important political tasks, thus all the time to study and write were all squeezed from spare time. The first article about Chernyshevsky's viewpoints on social politics, which was published after I was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was finished during the breaks of several Sundays. Under the conditions at that time, it was indeed difficult for someone to sit down and devote oneself to exploring a certain issue.
Wang: You took Hegel as the cut-in point into the research field of western philosophy, and you once said it was a "misunderstanding of history". I know that this choice had its inevitability in the specific historical conditions.
Ru: It is no exaggeration that the research into Hegel, I think, was a "misunderstanding of history". When I returned to china from Korea, I was assigned to the training department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. At that time Qian Weichang was the head of the department. I was responsible for organizing the scientific research staff, mainly the natural scientific researchers to study theories, especially philosophy. Great philosophers like Ai Siqi often lectured them. Another thing I did was to established the postgraduate education system in China referring to the vice doctoral education system in the Soviet Union. Since I personally took part in drafting the postgraduate education system, I thought of pursuing my postgraduate study to improve myself. Finally I was able to become a student of Mr. He Lin to study the philosophy of Hegel. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Hegel philosophy became my research emphasis, which was because of its relationship to Marxism. In addition to Mr. He Lin and Mr. Yang Yi in the department of western philosophy, Mr. Wang Jiuxing, who used to study European contemporary philosophy of existentialism, was found to be studying Hegel. Among all the postgraduate students who came into the philosophy institute at the same time, I had the weakest foundation in philosophy. According to my condition, Mr. He Lin made two training plans: the first one was to read the chief famous western philosophy classics of the great philosophers from the ancient Greek period to Hegel one by one. But under the same historical situations, the main research issues of western philosophy history were on materialism and dialectics. The second was his suggestion that I should translate them while reading. Then he was busying translating the Ethics of Spinoza and he asked me to do the proof-reading, from which I learned a lot.
Wang: Hegel was the model of western classical philosophy and the maker of the peakedness of the speculative philosophy system, which is something that his critics from later times could not deny. In this sense, what inspirations and horizons did Hegel bring to you in your philosophical research? Furthermore, what influences have the emphasis on Hegel and German speculative philosophy brought to the research of western philosophy in China?
Ru: Hegel philosophy was all-embracing and extensive with rich and profound thoughts, which greatly broadened my horizons. It was not until I seriously studied Hegel's works that I came to understand the theoretical origin of Marxist philosophy and its significance on the revolutionary reform of the human history of philosophy and ideology. Personally I appreciate his Aesthetics, because it enlightened greatly, that is, theoretical research must have a broad sense of history and historical horizons and it must value history, which should be based on a large amount of practical materials. Otherwise it may easily become chain talk. In China, Hegel's significance mainly lay in the influence of dialectics on Marxism. Under the guidance of dialectics, we can avoid being dogmatic or simplified. Besides, Hegel's generalization of ancient philosophy is also worth our careful study.
Wang: Among all your academic achievements, you took Hegel as a cut-in point and gradually extended your study into other fields of western philosophical history. Beginning with Hegel, you discussed and summarized the dialectic ideology in western philosophical history (Heraclitus and Dialectic). Later you criticized Croce, the new Hegelian, and Stirner, the leftwing Young Hegalian, and you studied Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard who attacked Hegel's viewpoints. So how did you extend the range of research?
Ru: Actually the philosophical studies after Hegel began as early as the 1960s. They were just the objects of attack. The previous standard viewpoint was that the Hegelianism reached the peak of the philosophy of idealism, the advanced part of which had already been absorbed and improved by Marxism. Modern philosophy, which was all reactionary, should be criticized. However, you should know something about those theories before you can criticize them. Therefore I helped sort out the materials in the western philosophical history department. Through Existentialism Philosophy and Modern American Philosophy, I came to know about Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, John Dewey, Sidney Hook, and Ceorg Lukacs. Of course, these materials were easy, but they were the very first studies on modern western philosophy. Nevertheless the real understanding of modern philosophy did not begin until China's reform and opening up to the outside world.
Wang: The SDX Joint Publishing Company published an interview called the 1980s in 2006, which mainly covers the artists and writers who became famous in the 1980s. Although the 1980s was not a strictly defined academic period, it was indeed a symbolic period. I went to college in 1986 and found that the western theories were quite popular with various ideologies, making us excited but meanwhile confused. In the early 1980s, you were once a visiting scholar at Harvard University, would you please review your feelings when you first touched upon western society and academia after a long period of isolation.
Ru: In 1981, I was sent to Harvard University as a visiting scholar by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Due to my studying at a missionary university sponsored by Americans, I knew some of the western cultures and I found that the distance between cultures were not that large but the distance between social life and academic research---I felt that we were not qualified to discuss academic issues with them. The largest merit of Harvard University is it is open and free. Famous scholars from all over the world would come to give a lecture when they passed by, and anyone could go to listen to their lectures. In the philosophy department of Harvard University you can find great philosophers like Quine, Rawls, and Putnam. Putnam was responsible for contacting me. However, after all the years of isolation we knew little of the outside world. It was only after I went abroad that I found we knew nothing about their research. Thus we could hardly discuss it with them. It was not the same as today when you can exchange information with people all over the world. A young scholar can communicate with foreign scholars once they are abroad. At first the field I wanted to study was History of American philosophy, thinking that as an important country in the world, the ideology from it must be of some strength. But when I told Putnam the plan, he laughed and said, "American Philosophy does not exist as an independent philosophy." The so-called "American Philosophy" actually refers to the religious ideology of Jefferson, the founder of the United States and some Puritan ideologists. There are some voluminous works on American Philosophy, but they are not spoken of highly in academic circles. After I realized this, I did not follow my original research plan. At that time Heinrich, President of the International Hegel Research Committee, was invited to Harvard and gave lectures on Hegel for a whole semester. Since I had contact with him and had learned something about Hegel, I was able to understand his lectures. But I did not attend other lectures because I was not clear about the issues rather than I couldn't understand English. Later on I made use of the large quantities of books in the Harvard library and knew something about Nietzsche's and Kierkegaard's thoughts. I only needed to apply for a reading card to enter the stack room of the library in Harvard University, where there were seats for you to sit. Once you finished reading the books you just needed to put the books on the desks, there was someone to put them back. That was where I read Nietzsche's and Kierkegaard's books and started to pay attention to the clues of thought emphasizing individual existence after Hegel. And I found that Harvard drew little attention from European Continental Philosophy. I could not find anyone to discuss Nietzsche with me. Yet now I regret that I did not take full advantage of the Philosophical School of Harvard University. It is a pity that I did not talk with such important philosopher as Rawls.
Wang: Analytical philosophy is very popular in the United States. I think that our interest and the depth of research range can never be compared with that of humanist philosophy in Continental Europe. What do you think has led to this?
Ru: The reason why humanist philosophy is emphasized in China may have something to do with our traditions. Analytical philosophy must be based on special training in math and logic, which is just not our traditional strength, as we emphasize humanity and are contemptuous of anything technological.
Wang: So, when you came to understand modern western philosophy in an all-round way, has your understanding of Hegel and western classical philosophy changed?
Ru: When I came to know about modern philosophy, I at first realized that the previous research on Hegel in China was quite limited. The past research was centered on the relations between Hegel and Marxism, focusing on the ideological development from Kant to Hegel and from Feuerbach to Marx, but the research on Hegelianism itself was not deep enough. Nowadays with the liberation of thoughts and the broadening of our horizons, I feel that the research on Hegel should also notice another opposite clue of thought featured by personal characteristics after Hegel. The sentence as said by Jaspers enlightened me: "Kierkegaard and Nietzsche make us open our eyes." In the past I was crazy about or even admired the system of Hegelianism and its vigor. However, when I had read modern philosophy, especially Kierkegaard's criticism of Hegel, I began to gradually doubt systematic philosophy. I used to think that the Hegelianism system was the most rigorous. But now the system was just the imagination of a human since some of them were too farfetched. The myth about the system can never be the solution to philosophical issues. So it is with the aesthetic system. I came to realize that philosophy cannot become something technical, or something that only few people can understand. The value and significance of philosophy lies in the fact that it needs to be related to people's life. In fact it was the case in ancient Greece. If philosophy became a specialized technology, a formula or a game, its social influence would be affected. Take Sartre for example. Though some doubted his philosophy, he did have great influence on western society. I have also read something about postmodernism, which I find reasonable to some extent. It is just that I have always thought that it is certainly correct to do away with superstitions in systems and authority, which is easy. But the problem is that it is difficult to set up something new and positive. Life is full of uncertainties. What shall we do when everything becomes uncertain?
Wang: Even seen from today, your research on the figures of philosophy and aesthetics history and their research issues are cutting-edge. In the 1960s you wrote an article about the aesthetic thoughts of Plotinus; in 1982 you wrote Comments on Kierkegaard's Thoughts. I investigated and found that it was the first article that comprehensively reflected Kierkegaard' philosophical thoughts; in 1983 you wrote The Life and Works of Max Stirner, and made the first in-depth research into this important figure. How did you get the cutting-edge sense of academic research when the opportunities and range of communicating were so limited? Is it academic inspiration that works?
Wang: But compared with the present situation where books are everywhere, maybe there are some advantages of limited materials. It would force us to think deeply rather than get lost in so many materials. Of course, this could only be seen as a pathetic advantage.
Ru: Indeed. After China's reform and opening up to the outside world, I was able to have the opportunity to read the books in the libraries of foreign universities, which made me realize our distance with them. Mr. Fu Anle once told me that when he had read the research works on the Middle Ages, he dared not to write. I wrote the article about Kierkegaard just because I first read some of his works and was shocked at his thoughts, since he set a new direction of philosophical research---that is to care about the issues of individuals and their life and death. If we want to know what man really is and research into human philosophy, we can never avoid such fundamental issues like love and death that everyone would inevitably meet in their lifetime. If Marxism wanted to enter the bottom of people's hearts and become the guidance of life, it would not only solve the problems of social development, but also answer the questions that concern everyone and that they are confused about, including having their own opinions on love and death.
Wang: Let's shift to the field of western aesthetic research where you made great achievements. As early as 1963, you published Collection of Western Aesthetic History. Though you modestly said that it was just practice for writing, you had being doing research on Plotinus, Lessing and Schopenhauer. The study of aesthetics history is indispensible from philosophy history. So how did you combine them? What are their positions in your mind?
Ru: The study of aesthetics history is indispensible from philosophy history. But according to my experience of many years, I found that the study of aesthetics history can never do without the history of literature and arts and practices. Social life is rich and colorful but contradictory, and aesthetic phenomenon and literature and arts are complicated. Thus the single and pure study of aesthetics from concept to concept is of little help for us to understand the arts.
Wang: The search for Aesthetics is the shift of your research in the aesthetic field. Your search for aesthetics is reviewed in the preface: from the research of the grand aesthetic system of Hegel to the exploration of possibilities of irrational aesthetics of Nietzsche and so on, and then to your devotion to nature. At last you focus on the study of works of art, where you found your spiritual home. Not only did you agree that aesthetics is not easy, but also you approve of the profound thought expressed in Goethe's verse---"All theory is grey, and the evergreen tree of life." Should there lie such great distance between the search for aesthetics and aesthetic theories, then is aesthetics the kind of science from the sense of Baumgarten and Hegel? How should the development of aesthetics follow?
Ru: The translation of aesthetics into "美学" (Meixue) restricted the range of research, which equals it to the study of the theory of beauty. However, if it were translated into "Theory of Sensitive Faculty" in Kant's works, it would be too broad. In a word, it is a great side effect to use "美学" (Meixue) to replace "aesthetics", the most obvious of which is that it seems that everyone could say something about aesthetics. Yet it is actually not the case, because the study of aesthetics is the most difficult. I doubt whether aesthetics is a kind of science or not. A scholar friend of mine once said that when natural science develops to a certain extent, the issues of works of art can be solved in a certain formula, which I doubted a lot. I have always advocated that we should substitute social science with humanistic study, which is to say the humanities. Social science can be applied. As for the question of how to develop aesthetics, it is still a big problem that I am still working on till now. Still I want to face the works of arts created by human beings directly. And study aesthetics with personal appreciation. Art is one of the self-conscious activities that represent liberty. It can provide us with the aesthetics in its most sophisticated, concentrated and cohesive form. Meanwhile humans can reinvent themselves dynamically and practically in the free and self-conscious creative activities of arts, objectify the nature of ourselves and reflect ourselves in the world of art created by ourselves. In a sense, the history of art is the real record of free and self-conscious human activities in the long historical process, which is not only the history of human's spiritual growth but also the creative history of aesthetics. In brief, the study of aesthetics should avoid the way from concept to concept and from theory to theory, because that way is of no help to our understanding of the arts. The world of art is the most lifelike and vivid world, in which the arts come before theories. Therefore art theories and the study of aesthetics should never have the wild wishes of guiding arts one day; on the contrary, what we can do through theoretical study is that it can help us to better understand the arts. In this way theory would play its own role.
Wang: The essence of The Search of Aesthetics gained benefits from your accumulation and achievements in western philosophy and the field of aesthetics. What is amazing is that there should be so many excellent sentences and paragraphs in these articles. What the paintings of Van Gogh can bring us is, you said, a kind of beauty that can't help but make you cry, that can make you not stand, and that can make you not breathe. This description is just in place! You humble yourself that you are an amateur of the arts. But how do you nurture your artistic culture? Do you think that researchers of aesthetics should be equipped with a certain art experience or refinement as the basis of research?
Ru: I am far from being artistically cultured. I am just a layman of the arts. For example, we may find abstract paintings utterly without a literary style when ordinary people look at them. Once I discussed this problem with a professor from the Central Academy of Art. He said that in the eyes of the experts, those paintings that seemed lawless are actually quite systematic. The reason why we can't realize this is that we are not professionally trained. Thus I think the study of aesthetics or art theory can only make sense when it is combined with specific art practices.
Wang: In the long catalogue of works, I find that you have translated a lot of Russian works and you wrote some articles about ideologists from the Soviet Union, which was of course due to the historical situation at that time. In the past we learned almost everything from the Soviet Union, but now there is only one young scholar in the whole philosophy institute who is studying Russian philosophy. Then what do you think of the theoretical achievements of these ideologists from Russia and the Soviet Union? What kind of historical height should we look at the significance and value of Russian ideology?
Ru: It is never wise to follow the trend in academic research. When you are in the trend, you cannot see some issues clearly, even the time to conclude these issues hasn't come. In addition to this, you have to finish the task within a limited time when it is still a trend. In this case it is unlikely to get good results. The scientific attitude should be that you need to stay relatively behind the trends to make your vision more comprehensive, the fruits of which can stand the test of time. In the past we swarmed to learn from the Soviet Union and followed their lead, which is obviously not right. But it doesn't make sense if we totally repudiate it now. For instance, the names of the previously honored Belinskiy and Chernyshevsky are no longer mentioned in the literary theory class in university today. However if you read Belinskiy's works, you may find some of his ideas are quite ingenious. So I think that after the trend, we should treat these theories practically. We should confirm and criticize when necessary, and this is the scientific way of study.
Wang: In your article the importance of "emancipating the mind" is frequently emphasized. I can fully understand the importance and significance of this phrase to scholars born in your generation. Therefore to the young scholars, does "emancipating the mind" still make sense?
Ru: "Emancipating the mind" is significant to anyone, to our generation in particular. In the past all academic activities served politics. As a result there were so many restricted areas in academic research fields, which were actually ideological imprisonment that we forced upon ourselves. I would like to tell you a story. In 1981 when I was at Harvard University, I talked about China with a famous professor of economics who worked as a consultant to President of the United States. China was still in a period of getting goods by vouchers. So I asked him now that China had an inefficient supply of food and goods, do you have any suggestions as a famous economist? After he heard this, he laughed, saying that it was not the problem of the question, because it was you that had lead to this situation. Only if you opened your prices and allowed people to produce and do business, would there be everything you need in the market. At first I didn't believe this, but later it proved to be true. This told us that we were confined by our imagined thoughts. But the emancipation of the mind is never for good and it should be a continuous process. The old doctrines and idols were given up, new doctrines and idols would appear; sometimes it is self-conscious, sometimes it is not. The world is changing all the time. If we should stop for a short while, our minds would become stiff, then there comes the need to emancipate our minds. "Emancipating the mind" exists in every generation and we should be alert to this all the time.
Wang: You worked as the vice president of the International Scientific Council for Philosophy and Humanities and the foreign member of the academy of sciences in the former German Democratic Republic. And you often visited a lot of foreign countries and did many academic exchanges with western educational circles. What do you think are the features of western philosophy and research of aesthetics in both China and western countries and what are their differences?
Ru: In the study of specific and partial issues of western philosophy, we cannot be compared with them. What we need to do is to bring our strengths into full play. I think that we Chinese emphasize integrity and the ability to do comprehensive surveys. It is similar to the difference between traditional Chinese and western medicine. In western medicine, they treat different kinds of diseases individually; while traditional Chinese medicine cures the disease from the root. This is our strength. We ought to maximize favorable factors and minimize unfavorable ones. Of course, if we just do research from an integrated point of view but ignore the study of specific problems, the result would not be good. Thus we need to abandon the impractical and find a balance between details and integrity.
It is very hard to achieve this. Besides we can gain some inspiration from western Sinologists. There are a group of scholars among western Sinologists studying practical issues. The reason that they can draw the attention of Chinese scholars lies completely in their brand-new angle of view. Their research can help us jump out of the conventions that result from history and so forth. Thus we need to study western philosophy in this way---use our own eyes and points of view and we are likely to see something that westerners could not see.
Wang: All these years you have focused on the issue of "civilization". And you organized a compilation of a 12-book series on the Systems of World Civilization, which is very popular among readers. Why did you shift your focus to the study of civilization? What are the ideological roots of it?
Ru: The study of the issues of "civilization" is very closely related to reality. After the Cold War, tremendous changes have taken place in the world structure and international situation. Even though the world is not peaceful now, peace and development has become the two major themes of the contemporary world. At the same time, though the trend of economic globalization is speeding up, world politics is still changing towards multi-polar, and cultural pluralism is becoming richer and varied. As a result, a lot of scholars pay more attention to the research of cultural strategies. They believe that the factors of civilization and culture are playing more and more important roles in the process of world development in the 21st century. Since China's reform and opening up to the outside world, the study of cultures have been very popular in Chinese academic circles. However overall, we are lacking general research on issues of civilization and cultures. We did not combine the research with the changes in the world structure and international situation. And we lack some in-depth analysis of the relative studies of civilizations abroad and their developing trends. Besides our research in world civilization seems to be too weak. However, at present we must and can work out a series of classic works that we Chinese study world civilization and its development on our own comprehensively and systematically. We need to apply the ideas of Marx to explore the discipline and the characteristics of world civilization and its development; we need to draw on the achievements of all cultures and to learn from other countries while carrying forward the fine traditions of Chinese culture; we need to formulate a set of strategies that can not only promote civilization but also effectively handle the challenges from foreign civilizations. This is an urgent mission, but from the point of long-term significance, this work has just begun.
Wang: Caring about people is one of the key points in your philosophical and aesthetic thoughts. You have often rectified the name of humanism and mentioned many times the importance of the research of individual philosophy and the fundamental issues of love and death. It took academic courage to write down these words at that time. Would you please tell me how do you regard the mission of a scholar? In this aspect, what expectations do you have for the younger scholars?
Ru: It is often said that before being a good scholar, one should first be a good person, then be a good Chinese and the next a good scholar. If you can't be a good person, what does it say about the significance of the mission of a scholar? A scholar should scrupulously abide by his duty.
Wang Qi, female and from the Han ethnic group, born in 1968 and is a native of Xi'an, Shanxi Province. With a doctoral degree in philosophy, she is now an assistant researcher in the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her major publications include An Abyss to Despair: on Kierkegaard's aesthetical world, The Emotional World in Western Aesthetics, On the Concept of "Ethics" in Kierkegaard's Works and so on.


My business partner, Neil Dabb has some excellent advice for those of us who self-publish in his article Formatting: The Other Critique. This advice can also be applied to the Professional and Technical Communication field; especially, when your business or company does not have a writer or editor on staff.
Other advice, check your photographs. For instance, if your work instructions state that safety guards have to be used on a machine that has a possibility of physical injury to employees, the picture or image should show the safety guard being used.
Images should also correlate to the step. In most cases, if you have five steps there should be five pictures. Not five steps on page 1 and an image on page 3 that may or may not show the employee what they are supposed to be doing.
If your employee manual states that employees should not wear jewelry when operating equipment, then the image should reflect that standard. In other words, your documentation should correlate on every level to your company, your training, your branding, and your marketing.
This will create a professional and educated work force that is positive about their job which leads to a better quality of product for your business.
PDF, RTF, TXT, DOC, DOCW…. Which file extension do I use?
Writers should be familiar with in order to survive.
A company will likely send a draft of what they want converted/translated/polished in a format using their preferred word processor. Yes, Word is popular, but there are still diehard Open Office, Wordperfect, and other word processor users out there and the extension (the three letters behind the dot that follows the file name) will be different for each.
Many word processors will convert files from other word processors to their format but the results may or may not be acceptable. PDF is another extension that is universal but typically information is lost and it is difficult to edit a PDF file.
There are two solutions to this dilemma. First, make sure that you have a working copy of every word processor used by any customer. This is the best solution but obviously this is impractical for most writers. The next best solution is to request that customers send files with a .rtf extension. Most word processors have a save as function and will allow users to send files with an RTF extension. The advantage is that RTF files can be opened by most other word processors. They can also be easily edited and saved into the same format without losing graphics and other information.
At a recent job fair, one of the recruiters said something to the effect, "They don't have those any more do they?" Many of the vendors at the fair were looking for engineers and other technical professionals, but I did find several firms looking for technical writers, many on a contract basis.
The question is, Is the field of technical writing going away? The answer is no, unless, engineers and other technical professionals learn to use language that clients and customers can understand and are willing to write the marketing and training materials that go with the procedures and products they produce. However, the technical writing field is changing.
I was recently reading a blog that was discussing changing the title of Technical Writing to something more current. The problem is, while the field of technical writing is expanding, attempts to change the title would only give upper management an excuse to lower the wages and professionalism of our field; not too mention create confusion among the field itself and emplyers. Currently, many firms are eliminating their full time technical writers and hiring contract technical writers or temporary technical writers as the need for documentation arises.
These new developments make work in the field of Technical Writing a different creature. There are challenges, but there are also opportunities to expand the field as well. The face of Technical Writing is changing.
DragonTech Writing, championing the cause for technical writers.
A broad definition of technical writing: Any non-fiction writing of a technical or business nature. Sub-groups may include: Computer software and hardware documentation, process documentation, training materials, presentation materials, marketing materials, HR manuals, business plans, resumes and cover letters, engineering documents etc. A technical writer also translates technical jargon into English the rest of us can understand.
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Waking Up the Neighbours (engl. für: "Die Nachbarn aufwecken") ist das sechste Studioalbum des kanadischen Rocksängers Bryan Adams. Es gilt sowohl als bestverkauftes Album des Künstlers, als auch als eine der erfolgreichsten kanadischen Produktionen überhaupt.

Hintergrund
Das Album wurde gegen Ende September 1991 veröffentlicht und enthält unter anderem den Song (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, welcher zu einem Welthit wurde und bis heute Adams meistverkaufte Single darstellt. Das Lied war der Titelsong des Films Robin Hood – König der Diebe, mit Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman und Sean Connery. Der Song wurde geschrieben von Adams, Mutt Lange und Michael Kamen. Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Laufe der Jahre 1990 und 1991 in den Battery Studios (England) und dem The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver. Produzenten waren Bryan Adams und Robert John "Mutt" Lange, der zuvor mit Bands wie AC/DC, Foreigner und Def Leppard gearbeitet hatte.

Kontroverse
Das Album wurde in Kanada neben dem großen Verkaufserfolg bekannt durch die am Album entbrannte Kontroverse über die "Canadian-Content"-Regelung der Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Diese besagt, dass in kanadischen Radio- und Fernsehsendungen ein bestimmter Prozentsatz von kanadischer Musik ausgestrahlt werden muss. Da Waking Up the Neighbours teilweise in England aufgenommen wurde und Co-Produzent Mutt Lange aus Sambia stammt, wurde das Album nicht als rein kanadische Produktion gewertet. Obwohl eines der erfolgreichsten Alben eines kanadischen Künstlers weltweit, konnte Waking Up the Neighbours in Kanada nach der "Canadian-Content"-Regelung nicht so häufig gespielt werden, wie es von den Sendern gewünscht wurde. Der an dieser Frage entbrannte Streit hatte zur Folge, dass die "Canadian-Content"-Regelung der CRTC gelockert wurde. Mittlerweile ist es ausländischen Künstlern zumindest teilweise erlaubt, an kanadischen Produktionen mitzuwirken, ohne dass es Probleme mit der Regelung gibt.

Titelliste
 Is Your Mama Gonna Miss Ya? (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 4:40
 Hey Honey – I′m Packin' You In! (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Russell, Keith Scott) – 3:59
 Can′t Stop This Thing We Started (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 4:29
 Thought I′d Died and Gone to Heaven (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 5:48
 Not Guilty (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 4:12
 Vanishing (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 5:03
 House Arrest (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Jim Vallance) – 3:57
 Do I Have to Say the Words? (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Jim Vallance) – 6:11
 There Will Never Be Another Tonight (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Jim Vallance) – 4:40
 All I Want Is You (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 5:20
 Depend on Me (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Jim Vallance) – 5:07
 (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen) – 6:34
 If You Wanna Leave Me (Can I Come Too?) (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 4:43
 Touch the Hand (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 4:05
 Don't Drop that Bomb on Me (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 5:58

Singles
Neben (Everything I Do) I Do It for You wurden die Lieder Do I Have to Say the Words?, Touch the Hand, Can′t Stop This Thing We Started, Thought I′d Died and Gone to Heaven und There Will Never Be Another Tonight als Singles ausgekoppelt.

Verkaufszahlen und Auszeichnungen

Musiker

Band
Die Band, die Bryan Adams unterstützte, firmierte unter dem Namen "The Dudes of Leisure". Sie bestand aus:
 Keith Scott – Gitarre
 Mickey Curry – Schlagzeug
 Dave Taylor – Bass
 Tommy Mandel – Keyboards, Hammond-Orgel

Gastmusiker
Die Gastmusiker firmierten unter der Bezeichnung "The Honourary Dudes of Leisure" und bestanden aus:
 Phil Nicholas – Keyboard
 Robbie King – Hammond–Orgel
 Bill Payne – Piano und Hammond–Orgel
 Larry Klein – Bass
 Ed Shearmur – Keyboard
 The Tuck Back Twins – Background-Gesang

Einzelnachweise

Album (Rock)
Album 1991
Bryan Adams
Nummer-eins-Album
Mehrfach-Platin-Album (Schweiz)
Mehrfach-Platin-Album (Vereinigte Staaten)
Mehrfach-Platin-Album (Vereinigtes Königreich)

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Schutzbunker im Lahar
Niederzissen
The bunker had space for 300 to 400 people.
Each family or group had its own niche.
For example, the nuns of the Franciscan monastery (eponymous for Klosterstrasse), but they only stayed until the second tunnel was constructed and then moved to another bunker.
The sparse furnishings had to be built in the bunker itself, as the tunnels were too narrow to transport larger objects into.
At best, it consisted of a bench that was first hewn out of the rock and then covered with a board, and a rough table.
There were no beds due to lack of space, blankets and coats were used to protect against the cold.
However, due to the large number of people, it got warm in the bunker anyway, so that apart from the light sources that also provided heat, no heating was necessary.
For safety reasons, tools were left in the bunker if they were spilled.
At the beginning, the bunker was only visited in the event of an air raid alarm, and long stays were only made towards the end of the war.
You went home to eat, but drinks such as tea or malt coffee were brought in jugs. Anyone who had to do their "business" went to the outhouses on neighboring properties or simply nearby bushes.
One of the "foremen" worked two wayside shrines into the tunnel walls. A mass was also held in the bunker.
Vulkanregion Laacher See
Kapellenstraße 12
56651 Niederzissen
Phone: (0049) 2636 19433
Fax: (0049) 2636 80146
Römerbrunnen & Römerkeller
The Roman cellar, made of tuff, was created when the volcanic rock was mined underground.
Sauerbrunnen "Brünnchen"
"Sauerbrunnen" or "Sauerlinge" are carbon dioxide-containing sources typical for regions with volcanic activity.
Volkesfelder Heilquelle
The "Sauren Buhr" near Volkesfeld is a state-approved mineral spring opened in 1967. Enjoy the healing effect of the tingly-cool "treasure" from the volcanic depths of the Eastern Eifel to the full!
Königssee
Basaltic lava quarry filled with groundwater, with a size of about one hectare and a water depth of up to 30 m.
Schloss Burgbrohl
First documented mentions in 1093 by the Count Palatine Heinrich, in connection with the Maria Laach Abbey Foundation. It is now home to a hotel with a restaurant.
St. Cyriakus
The old parish church of St. Cyriakus in Niedermenig is a Romanesque church from the 12th century. In the second half of the 15th century a Gothic chapel was added to the choir.

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The city's Transportation Committee, which is composed of five City Council members, placed a moratorium on e-scooter and e-bike permits on Tuesday for the duration of the dockless vehicle pilot program, which ends April 19. The order caps the number of dockless vehicle permits at 14,000—currently issued to five companies—and prohibits other companies from entering the San Antonio market at this time.
The city of San Antonio has issued permits for 14,100 dockless vehicles to six companies so far.
The moratorium will not apply to Spin, which was recently granted permits for 500 e-scooters, but has not deployed them. However, Lyft, which applied for permits for 2,000 scooters last week, will have to wait until the moratorium is lifted to launch.
"This is a form of mobility—what we're uncomfortable with is the overall numbers of (them) and, perhaps, the lack of regulatory control," District 6 Councilman Greg Brockhouse at the Transportation Committee meeting Tuesday. He added that dockless vehicles are being utilized in the city as viable transportation but need better accountability from operators.
The Center City Development and Operations department proposed other amendments after identifying recurring violations and accidents by dockless vehicle riders. In recent weeks, the city updated its 311SA smartphone app to allow user to report scooter violations. The app, which is used for submitting service requests to the city, has received 556 scooter violation reports this month.
» Impose hours of operation from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and require scooters and bikes in the greater downtown area to be picked up daily by the vendor—vehicles must be picked up by 11:30 p.m., and cannot be deployed until 5 a.m. This regulation was proposed to prohibit dockless vehicle usage all night and to alleviate cluttered sidewalks during morning rush hour.
» Vehicles parked in prohibited areas may be impounded without warning the companies. The impoundment fee will not apply. Dockless vehicles found in areas like the River Walk or Alamo Plaza would be removed by the city if their operators do not retrieve them in an hour—or, two hours if the vehicle is parked or deployed in an area that violates city ordinance, like blocking sidewalks and curb ramps.
» Encourage the use of designated parking zones—CCDO tested designated parking zones, using stencil and spray chalk, during Rock and Roll Marathon in early December and the New Year's Eve celebration, where they were used regularly, officials said. The city is also working to create other parking zones, or "corrals," for dockless vehicles, which could replace select single curb-side, metered parking spaces.
Other amendments to were also discussed, including increasing permit and application fees, prohibiting sidewalk usage, and enforcing geofencing technology to stop riders from entering Alamo Plaza or the River Walk. CCDO also wants to increase its number of code enforcers, who move scooters out of streets and from blocking sidewalks, from two to six people, using funds from permit fees to pay for the larger team.
The Transportation Committee acknowledged the increased use of dockless vehicles in the city, with people riding more than 1.2 million times since Dec. 1.
As of now, 9,500 vehicles are operational in San Antonio, CCDO officials said. Consisting of scooters (mostly) and bikes, there are 14,000 permits total. Local company Blue Duck is waiting for its 100 scooters to get permitted, but is allowed to operate because it launched prior to the pilot program's approval in October.
From October to mid-January, there have been 78 scooter-related emergency calls to the San Antonio Fire Department.
District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez said the scooters were a nuisance to police officers, who enforce riding violations. His constituents who live near the University of Texas at San Antonio's main campus regularly find them thrown in their yards. Pelaez mentioned dockless vehicles as a potential solution to the first mile-last mile problem of public transportation in the city—the oft-quoted ¼ of a mile people are comfortable walking to and from public transportation—but still had reservations.
"I'm not sure 12,000 scooters in the downtown area, clogging up our sidewalks, would make anybody look at it and say, 'Wow, there's a solution'," he said.
Pelaez wants a strict curfew on their usage, a severe reduction in the amount of permits issued, and a better partnership between the city and dockless vehicle companies.
District 5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales was more welcoming of dockless vehicles, and also wanted a partnership between the city and their operators.
"We could actually go further to make it safer, not restrict it," Gonzales said. She said the dockless vehicles should be treated as a transportation issue and not a recreational one.
District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval said regulations for dockless vehicles were not strong enough, specifically asking for more signage and data from the operators.
"I would challenge you to come back with something strong," she said.
CCDO is requesting access to "the raw data" from dockless vehicle operators to research why people are using them, where they're going, where most accidents are happening, and where to place them in the city after the pilot program.
The city also relaunched its dockless vehicle survey, which you can take here.


Here's a list of the upcoming pinball events in the Wisconsin area.
Madison Pinball is a group of local pinball enthusiasts and collectors that have come together in an effort to support pinball in Madison Wisconsin and bring back the opportunity to play quality pinball games on location. Check out the website for more information & dates.
7:00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Prizes for 1st - 4th place sponsored by Bremen Café and Brenner Brewing. IFPA points for all participants.
Apr-19-2019 Friday Night FIGHT CLURB!
Apr-26-2019 Friday Night FIGHT CLURB!
May-11-2019 Burnin' Down The House!


OPM is working with a well-known and established Games Development Studio. They encourage the 'Remote' working model and are just about to release a highly anticipated title.
Looking forward to their next exciting project, they are looking to recruit a Online/Network Programmer to their team of professionals.
This job is advertised on behalf of OPM using their internal reference 25725-1.


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Life goes on… he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms… Enthusiasms… What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?
The above quote is from the 1987 theatrical release, "The Untouchables." Al Capone, played with relish by Robert DeNiro is at a black tie dinner with his minions. Although the culmination of his speech ends rather harshly, this particular quote is a great lead-in for this week's post. As you know by now I have many such enthusiasms, but one particular joy has been with me since early childhood and has grown exponentially, and it is now part of almost all that I do – photography. I have found photos to be essential to the success of this blog, as they clearly illuminate my topics du jour (actually du week) and add color and excitement. Taking photos on my travels also augments my memory of places and events.
Basically the main delight is capturing moments – illusive and transitory and sometimes simply breathtaking. And, in keeping with my blog's mission statement this can be accomplished without taking an airplane to some exotic locale – there are fascinating and unbelievably beautiful vistas to capture right in my own backyard.
Presently I have over 20,000 digital photos on my Mac. I also have thousands upon thousand of hard photos starting with my dad's collection (he was a photofinisher and photographer) dating back from the early 1900's and ending with my post college years – these are slowly being digitized. I am also working on what may eventually be a published book of photos called "Scapes," and this is a challenge as I must cull down my multitude of landscapes, skyscapes, sunscapes, cloudscapes, moonscapes etc etc into a best-of assemblage befitting a coffee-table sized volume (or perhaps volumes).
As I review and catalog my photos, I have selected a bunch of local pics that I would like to share with you today. Most of them are not "Photoshopped" – the colors are original.
Unfortunately some of the delicate beauty of this dew on leaves of grass is minimized when blowing up the shot.
Just passing by this collection of leaves and thought it was a perfect representation of autumn.
The dew on these leaves took the morning sun and turned it into a sparkling silver sheen.
The last shot may appear to be a pretty fall scene – but it was actually taken a few weeks ago when I also got the full rainbow picks shown earlier. It was near sunset, the sky was still quite overcast with dark stormy clouds but off to the west there was a slight clearing. Since the sun was very low on the horizon only the deep orange rays were shining and the still leafless trees reflected that color as if they were all full of fiery orange foliage.
Hope that sitting through this post was enjoyable and not like being stuck a neighbor's home forced to watch a Carousel full of vacation slides.
This entry was tagged ASTRONOMY, BIRDS, CLOUDS, flowers, LANDSCAPES, MOON, PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOS, PLANETS, plants, RAINBOWS, seagulls, SKYSCAPES, STORMS, SUN, SUNRISES, SUNSETS. Bookmark the permalink.
Some really beautiful pics, Cindy!
Thanks Dom – it was so hard to choose- but it forced me to be very critical which I will have to be if I ever publish a book.


The Mitel Superset 4125, combined with the Mitel Superset TAPI software passes call processing information, such as caller ID, or call log information, from the SX-2000 telephone system to the PC.
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Phillip Boy pulled himself back on the last rotation to grab the gold medal. Some excellent performances, delighted to have found the free streaming link from Eurosport.
← Free LIVE coverage of the European Championships!!


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Last week, Redmi officially presents its first mobile phone after its separation from Xiaomi. The Redmi Note 7 is a terminal with a dual camera with a 48MP main sensor and an impressive selling price. It is currently the most popular smartphone for being a combination of mid-range specs at an entry-level price. Sincerely, we still do not know how does it, but Xiaomi always manages to deliver premium phones for a low cost. The news that concerns us today is that the company revealed that the Redmi Note 7 will be added the night mode of the Mi MIX 3 in the next update.
The news was shared by Xiaomi through Weibo. At first, a user shared some photos and expressed his joy because his Mi MIX 2S had been updated with the Night Mode. Xiaomi used the MIUI account to share this article and added that the company will launch Night Mode for the Redmi Note 7 in the near future.
The night mode was first introduced in the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3. Then the company continued to launch new updates to add this feature to the Mi 8 Pro and the Mi MIX 2S. This feature is not like any other night mode that is known, this allows users to take HDR photos at night, which makes them even brighter in low light conditions, even if the levels are quite low.
The principle of operation is simple, the night mode will capture a series of images (eight in total) with different exposures, then select some reference points, align all the photos and finally combine them into a single image to avoid blurring. The result is a bright picture with less noise. The camera can do this by combining 8 different technologies, including HDR, AIS, 4-axis OIS and multi-frame noise reduction.


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Project Veritas Confirms My Reporting On Fauci & DARPA
Posted on January 12, 2022 by Wes Rhinier
A new report from DARPA shows that the U.S. government has lied to the American people about everything related to COVID
By Emerald Robinson:
Project Veritas released a trove of documents today that originated from DARPA — which is the secret research & development wing of the U.S. military. The military documents directly contradict Dr. Fauci's testimony under oath to Congress regarding "gain of function" bioweapons research — and reveal much more.
The documents outline how Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance approached DARPA in March 2018 with a request for funding "gain of function" (bioweapons) research using bat coronaviruses. The proposal was ultimately rejected by DARPA over safety concerns — though DARPA did not voluntarily share these documents with the American public while Daszak and Fauci misrepresented their research work on a daily basis in the national media for two years.
There are bombshells everywhere you look in these documents — particularly in the report for the Department of Defense's Inspector General written by DARPA fellow and Marine Corps Major Joseph Murphy. The first sentences of Murphy's report state: "SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Lab of Virology…" This tells you right away that not only Dr. Fauci but the U.S. intelligence services and the U.S. corporate media have been deliberately lying to the American public for two years about everything related to COVID.
Major Murphy seems to confirm this nightmare scenario in a curious sentence at the end of his report: "The massive "Manhattan Project"-level of information suppression executed by the government and the Trusted News Initiative indicates that it would be covered-up if something bad happened." Major Murphy seems to be asserting that the U.S. government has collaborated with the vast majority of corporate media outlets to deliberately and knowingly mislead the American people about the COVID pandemic.
James O'Keefe asked DARPA the following question: "Who at DARPA made the decision to bury the original report? They could have raised red flags to the Pentagon, the White House, or Congress, which may have prevented this entire pandemic that has led to the deaths of 5.4 million people worldwide and caused much pain and suffering to many millions more." Who thinks that an honest answer to that question will ever be revealed?
O'Keefe is not the only one who has asked DARPA some troubling questions recently. Three months ago, DARPA began directly responding to some of my tweets regarding their role in Moderna's mRNA vaccine. The responses came from DARPA's official Twitter account. Here's a sample:
Read the Whole Article Here…
tom finley
The whole of our government including the military and all agency's is guilty of mass genocide. What will be our answer? I say vote from the rooftops and kill every last one of them.
Glincoln
Reply to tom finley
Funny I was thinking about the Rooftop Koreans from the LA Riots…only ones that protected their businesses.
Reply to Glincoln
Yea I was in L.A. during the riots, the only ones with balls were the Koreans.
The south Korean military nick name the rocks.
Round and round we go -gerbils on their wheel.
Re these vaccines and privacy. They lied to the world. They murdered humanity in cold blood.
They are not vaccines.
They are gene therapy.
Breaking news: Trump takes a shot at DeSantis re: patient/ doctor privacy.
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The very sad part to all of this is the left will perhaps ignore it all. Then, in a few weeks time, it will be just like the explosive expose on Planned Parenthood, Fake News, the Russian dossier, the Ukraine quid pro quo with Biden, on video, bragging about it.
Yes, they ignore it and there is anger and fist shaking on the right, and then it gets tossed into the waste bin of history. Sickening beyond measure but, this is what happens when there is rule of men, and not rule of law.
I've said this elsewhere; I believe we are already taken over by the globalists, as have the countries in Europe and down under. It just hasn't been announced yet.
NC Rob
"Here's where things get very dark and very interesting. In a 2019 article title "The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons" the author Edd Gent explains that DARPA wants to genetically "tweak" human beings. How is that possible? The article explains that DARPA "plans to use viruses modified to deliver genetic material into cells — called viral vectors — to insert DNA into specific neurons that will make them produce two kinds of proteins."
Are you awake yet? They want to use viruses that have been modified to deliver genetic material into your cells to change your DNA. How would that work? The article explains:
The first type of protein absorbs light when a neuron is firing, which makes it possible to detect neural activity. An external headset would send out a beam of infrared light that can pass through the skull and into the brain. Detectors attached to the headset would then measure the tiny signal that is reflected from the brain tissue to create an image of the brain. Because of the protein, the targeted areas will appear darker (absorbing light) when neurons are firing, generating a read of brain activity that can be used to work out what the person is seeing, hearing or trying to do.
The second protein tethers to magnetic nanoparticles, so the neurons can be magnetically stimulated to fire when the headset generates a magnetic field. This could be used to stimulate neurons so as to induce an image or sound in the patient's mind. As a proof of concept, the group plans to use the system to transmit images from' the visual cortex of one person to that of another.
The words that should stick out for you are: magnetic nanoparticles. That's usually another name for: graphene oxide. There are numerous reports that graphene oxide is an undisclosed ingredient showing up in the experimental vaccines. If that's true, then the question must be asked: why is such a thing being distributed secretly into the population (without their consent) using the experimental vaccines?"
Absolutely nothing to see here folks. It's all conspiracy theory. /sarcasm
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'Game of Thrones' and Amazon's 'Mrs. Maisel' lead Emmy nominations
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'Destiny 2' year two winds down with Moments of Triumph starting July 9th
Joystiq Weekly: Mordor's photo mode, The Evil Within review, Devolver's appeal and more
Thomas Schulenberg, @T_Schulenberg
Welcome to Joystiq Weekly, a "too long; didn't read" of each week's biggest stories, reviews and original content. Each category's top story is introduced with a reactionary gif, because moving pictures aren't just for The Daily Prophet.
As the Smash Bros. and Halo series have taught us, stopping the action to play around with in-game cameras can be oddly compelling (and gleefully annoying to rivals/co-op partners). If The Last Of Us: Remastered and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's inclusion of similar features are the start of a trend, we'd welcome it with open shutter arms. Repositioning the camera for the perfect shot of an epic summon in Final Fantasy 15? Showcasing the full scope of a crazy moment in the time-defying Quantum Break? Yes please!
There was plenty more to this week than snapping photos of an orc squadron's downfall though – Halo: The Master Chief Collection is expected to have a ~20GB day one patch, there were reviews for The Evil Within, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Bayonetta 2, and we got a full-frame perspective of publisher Devolver Digital. Check all that out and more after the break!
In I Am Bread, players use four inputs to control the corners of a slice of bread as it flops around environments. As if anyone else would have come up with the idea, I Am Bread is in the ovens of Bossa Studios, developer of Surgeon Simulator 2013.
Wanna play battlefield photojournalist when fighting back evil in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor? Well, lucky you – An update has added a photo mode to let players tweak angles, zooms, filters and more to make for the perfect snapshot moment, whether it be before, during or after a round of gruesome orc slaying.
No matter how many bouts you've conquered in Super Smash Bros. on 3DS, you've yet to build custom stages or find much of a board game-style experience. You might get your fill of both, however, should you also establish your champion status in the Wii U version.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection will likely be a prime chance to revisit the series' legacy, but you'll need about 20GB of free space on the day you get reacquainted with the Chief. On the upside, most countries will wield fresh energy swords on November 11, three days earlier than expected.
Anita Sarkeesian planned to appear at Utah State University, but was faced with a threat promising the "deadliest school shooting in American history" unless she canceled the event.
If you're an HBO fan, holding onto a cable subscription just to catch up on Game of Thrones should be a thing of the past in 2015. The network has revealed plans to launch a standalone subscription service next year, though what such a service may cost has yet to be announced.
The Guardian's call was strong enough to push Destiny to the top of this month's NPD report, with Madden 15, Super Smash Bros. and Shadow of Mordor trailing in respective order.
Speaking of Destiny, we're a month out from Bungie's call for heroes to curb evil and bond over cursing at the Crpytarch. Director of Online Services and Technology Zach Russel reflected on the early moments in the studio's latest fight for humanity, covering encountered issues and where the team hopes to take the cooperative shooter from here. Beyond humorous haunts, that is.
You don't have to keep an Xbox 360 or PS3 plugged in for Assassin's Creed Rogue, as Ubisoft has announced that PC fans can set sail across Rogue's seas in early 2015.
Among dashboard themes and support for archiving broadcasted sessions, an impending patch for the PS4 will add support for users to play tracks from a USB device in the background during gaming sessions.
While we're on updates, Xbox One users just got one this week. The download overhauls and adds options to the console's Snap feature for apps, with support for DLNA streaming and a Find My Controller feature also included.
This year will offer Halo fans more than a chance to relive the gussied-up past in The Master Chief Collection, as a top-down spinoff called Halo: Spartan Strike from 343 Industries and Vanguard Games is coming to PC and mobile in December.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel flew Senior Reporter Jess Conditt to the moon, where she found the incessant threat of limited oxygen to be a "subtle yet effective mechanic, as it adds a layer of strategy to battles and exploration." Still, Jess warns that "when the missions begin to drag on and the loot becomes overwhelming, The Pre-Sequel could be an over-eager, try-hard installment of DLC for Borderlands 2."
Seeing Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami's name on The Evil Within could make you eager for more survival horror, but Managing Editor Susan Arendt warns that you should go in expecting a focus on action, so that "at least your disappointment will be more accurate."
A City Sleeps is a bullet-hell shooter that weaves developer Harmonix's musical talents into its gameplay, tying attacks to a pulsing backing beat. Contributing Editor Danny Cowan found the concept admirable, but added that the results are "too unpredictable and unwieldy for a genre that hinges on precise movement and crisp controls."
Double Fine is delivering extra treats with Costume Quest 2, which filled Weekend Editor Sam Prell's bag with "Pixar-like humor where kids, adults and everyone in-between can laugh at the same joke for different reasons." Unfortunately, CQ2's tricks became a little stale, with Sam commenting that "rarely is a game so blatant and nonchalant about the fact that it is having you perform the exact same actions over and over."
Platinum Games' remarkable witch unleashes another arsenal of ludicrous, creative attacks in Bayonetta 2, a sequel that Contributing Editor Earnest Cavalli says "oozes style and boasts gameplay that's both refined and lacking in excess."
Dying wishes are a lot more tiresome when the subject's ghost is watching your every attempt to carry said wish out. Contributing Editor Justin Clark drug, swung and flung the coffin of a dead king through Chariot's puzzling landscapes, finding that its "constant stream of devious, brain-bending obstacles" paired with the satisfaction of its co-op are "enough to earn a recommendation, with the caveat that you'll have to deal with one awful, rotten third wheel along the way."
Reviews Content Director Richard Mitchell bundled up to face the final piece of DLC for Dark Souls 2, the blizzard-plagued Crown of the Ivory Kingdom. Richard found the frosted areas to be "another challenging, varied addition" to the game, one that "throws in enough changes to keep things interesting."
With Hotline Miami, Broforce and Luftrausers in its portfolio, Devolver Digital's small staff has built a sizable presence for the publisher in the industry. Contributing Editor Brian Shea spoke with developers that have worked with Devolver as well as the team's own Nigel Lowrie to get a sense of where the publisher started and what makes it attractive to smaller development teams.
Wondering if Managing Editor Susan Arendt could further explain what she didn't care for in The Evil Within? Need to contemplate a version of Top Gear that's co-hosted by Bayonetta? Or maybe you're just in it for the Far Cry 4? Editor-In-Chief Ludwig Kietzmann and Community Manager Anthony John Agnello join Susan and Earnest to cover all of the above in this week's Super Joystiq Podcast.
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AN ambitious Wyre Forest performing arts group will be getting their heads in the game with students staging a musical production with only a day's worth of rehearsal.
Students from Talking Props Performing Arts will perform High School Music at their studios to the public on June 30 at 8pm, following a ten-hour rehearsal session counting down from 10am the same morning.
Participating students are being sponsored for the rehearsal with money raised funding the studios' production of the classic West End musical Les Misérables which will be staged at the Stourport Civic from July 17 to 21.
High School Musical was the first show Talking Props performed back in 2015 and have since brought productions of Happy Days and Legally Blonde to Wyre Forest audiences.
Talking Props Principal and London theatre producer Michael Neri said: "I am so thrilled to be bringing another new show to Wyre Forest, this year is our biggest show yet, so we have decided to raise some extra funds with our sponsored staging to cover the cost of the enormous band this show requires, everything we raise will go directly into staging Les Miserable and we cannot wait to premier this to our Wyre Forest audience.
Tickets for Les Misérables are now available through the Civic and via the Talking Props site talkingprops.co.uk.


A flying version of the Bo.102, this was a larger single-seat version. Powered by an Agusta GA V, four-cylinder, double-piston engine. The helicopter still used the Bolkow single, counterbalanced fibreglass rotor blade. Built in 1959, it featured simple steel tube fuselage, a cockpit with transparent canopy open at the sides and a two-blade reinforced fiberglass rotor.
It first flew on 14 September 1961and proved to be stable, even allowing the test pilot, Werner Kurze, to perform several seconds of 'hands-off flight.
Although never reaching the production phase, the Bo.102 and Bo.103 were important in the early development of the rigid rotor and composite blades.


Allura Orthodontics does provide braces for adults and we have several options to fit your needs.
Many adults are choosing Allura Orthodontics because they understand the importance of improving their oral health, appearance, and confidence. Dr. Gautam offers solutions that are invisible, ("only you will know you are wearing braces") and comfortable.
Treatments are fast and customized to the appearance of your smile and your face. Dr. Gautam will not only give you the beautiful smile that you want, but will also position your teeth and smile in the optimum position relative to your face for youthful and esthetic appearance.
We do everything in our power to ensure that you are getting the best possible treatment that will deliver the most effective results in a timely manner. We offer several treatment choices to our adult patients and flexible payment options. We work with most insurances, flex spend accounts and easy payments.
Solutions include metal braces, clear braces for adults, Invisalign, Invisible Braces, and lingual braces (hidden behind the teeth).
Incognito is the latest & greatest technology for lingual braces also known as hidden braces, or invisible braces (invisibraces). Incognito hidden braces are a unique choice because patients can smile with confidence both during and after treatment. Placed on the lingual side (tongue side) of the teeth, Incognito Orthodontic Braces are completely hidden from view. They are contoured to hug the lingual surface of your teeth for optimal comfort and performance. Incognito Braces are also 100% customized to meet the unique orthodontic prescription of every patient. No two brackets are exactly alike. Customization of incognito can lead to a more convenient and comfortable treatment experience with decreased treatment time and expense. Incognito offers patients the benefit of braces and the advantages of nothing visible similar to Invisalign.
Incognito Light is a lower cost alternative to Incognito full. The goals for incognito light are limited to the front 8 teeth. This allows for a lower cost with the same great hidden invisible benefits. The only braces made for flirting – No one will see how you improved your smile, but this option is not for everyone. Request an appointment to see if you qualify for incognito light.
Invisalign is a very popular treatment option that involves wearing a series of clear, removable aligners that gradually move your teeth without wires or brackets. Invisalign is a comfortable, affordable, and effective way to straighten teeth. Patients do not have to avoid any foods while on this treatment program because the aligners are removed prior to eating. The aligners are nearly invisible and are a great option for adult patients. Since the aligners are removable, patients are able to keep their teeth very clean during treatment, which minimizes any side effects that we may see with traditional braces.
Invisalign offers four products for adults which is decided by the doctor during the initial exam. The treatment plan dictates which product can be used. If the treatment is very minor Invisalign 5 is a lower cost option that offers only 5 aligners for correction. Invisalign Express is a longer treatment with 10 aligners and the cost is slightly higher than Invisalign 5.
Damon braces are a system of passive, self-ligating braces that eliminate the need for elastic or metal "ties". With Damon tie-less braces you can experience treatment without tightening and less discomfort. Light high-technology shape-memory wires move teeth faster and require fewer adjustments.
The Damon System is a clinically-proven treatment approach that aligns your teeth and enhances your facial aesthetics – usually without extractions or rapid palatal expanders. Damon braces use a slide mechanism to hold the wire, which allows teeth to move more freely, quickly and comfortably. Smaller than traditional brackets, Damon braces are designed to be discreet, comfortable and easy to keep clean. Without the elastic ties which attract and collect plaque, Damon braces make dental hygiene easy during treatment. Treatment time is usually shorter than traditional braces. We now offer accelerated orthodontics with the Damon system.
Damon Clear is part of the innovative Damon System, for the more image-conscious, Damon Clear is comprised of clear brackets situated on the most visible teeth to deliver a discrete treatment experience with results that go beyond straight teeth. Treatment is extremely effective, and everyone is a candidate for the Damon Clear system of braces. We do not find the Damon clear braces to stain, wear, chip or break during treatment. Damon 3's are a hybrid half metal and half clear bracket offered at a slightly lower price with all the same benefits. The Damon Q's are the full metal self ligating braces that are slightly less expensive then the Damon 3's and the Damon Clears.
Recent improvements in traditional braces have resulted in smaller, stronger, more efficient and less conspicuous braces. Metal braces are most popular for placing color ties on the braces and they are the most noticeable. We offer a variety of Metal Braces options that are low profile and affordable. If you are looking for a low cost orthodontic solution this is it. Metal braces are the most familiar, and traditionally offer very effective treatment results in reasonable treatment times.


Last month we announced that a containerized version of the Threat Stack Agent was coming soon for customers who are using containers to deploy cloud workloads. Today, we are excited to announce that our Docker Containerized Agent is now generally available up on Docker Hub. As cloud infrastructure shifts more heavily towards containers, we are pleased to bring this option to market as a way to gain unmatched visibility into the entire infrastructure — hosts, containers, and the control plane — to ensure that our customers have the best cloud security monitoring and alerting in place across all their assets.
Containerizing cloud infrastructure has become the hot new thing to do — and for good reason. Containers bring a large number of benefits to DevOps teams that want the ability to move quickly and deploy as efficiently and effectively as possible. Easier write-test-deploy cycles, flexibility to explore new frameworks, and simpler workflows for updating resources are just a few of the reasons teams are moving towards containerization.
According to Data Dog, Docker usage drastically increased among adopters in 2018, and the average lifetime of a Docker container in an orchestrated infrastructure is just 12 hours. Increased usage with short container lifetime means that teams are spinning up and breaking down containers every single day. So as the shift to more ephemeral infrastructure becomes a reality in the cloud, it is critical that security tools be able to move just as flexibly while enabling a stronger security posture across your entire infrastructure.
However, the question of the "best" way to secure the containers themselves remains up to debate.
At one end of the spectrum, you have tools that stay outside the containers completely and just monitor container activity from the host itself. The issue here is that, as teams shift the balance of hosts and containers more heavily towards containers, they can lose visibility into what's going on in the containerized part of the infrastructure, unless they make special considerations for the host-based tools as part of their build process. Also, if you're leveraging an orchestration tool like Kubernetes, your security tool cannot deploy in the same workflows as your containers, and you suddenly have gaps in visibility.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have container security tools that require code to be deployed in each individual container. Now you have the reverse problem of host-only tools and lose visibility into what's going on at the host level. Again, you're presented with the scary possibility of a malicious actor crossing the container boundary and bouncing around your hosts or leveraging other cloud provider services without your knowledge. While the bulk of your infrastructure may lie in those containers, it's still crucial to have an eye on exactly what else is going on across all of your cloud resources.
Each of these viewpoints has its benefits, but also some critical pitfalls. Somewhere in between these viewpoints, you want an approach that is flexible enough but still provides the security coverage you need — in other words, you want one that is "just right." In practical terms, you want a security tool that can do two things equally well.
First, you want a tool that grants visibility into your entire infrastructure so you can efficiently investigate an incident by seeing movement between containers, into hosts, and on the infrastructure control plane level in order to understand exactly what the malicious actor did, where they were, and what they touched.
Second, you want to be sure you can deploy the solution in an efficient way that doesn't create more burden on your dev and ops teams. This means both deploying as an independent container or pod within each node and doing so via deployment options like Kubernetes daemonsets. Doing so ensures maximum security visibility into each container and any underlying hosts without sacrificing speed or efficiency.
To help illustrate these points, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently published a survey stating that customers should consider whether they will require a security implementation that is as portable as the application containers they are intended to secure. This point and the survey in general, are tightly aligned with the release strategy for our Docker Containerized Agent to ensure that customers have the most flexible deployment options that operate with their existing CI/CD workflows.
In the march to general availability of this containerized agent release, we have been working with a number of beta customers to ensure that we are delivering on these release goals. In every case, customers reported on their ability to deploy through Kubernetes daemonsets as well as noticeable increases in efficiency across the board while maintaining the same level of visibility into user, file, and network level activity — even when there were dozens of pods in each node. In each of these scenarios, customers saw how easily they were able to visualize user behavior across the container, host, and AWS control plane with Threat Stack CloudTrail activity monitoring in order to gain full visibility into malicious behavior. These customers were able to accomplish this by implementing the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform® into their existing build process — without having to alter their current development processes.
To learn how Threat Stack can be seamlessly integrated into your build pipeline or to learn more about how we can help you secure your evolving infrastructure, feel free to request a demo with one of our engineers.


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While parents have a general understanding that what happens in a child's early years can last a lifetime, many don't realize the critical importance of the first year of life. Understanding what children are taking in and learning during daily interactions can help parents nurture their child's healthy development.
ZERO TO THREE's National Parent Survey, Tuning In, conducted in partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation, revealed that a notable portion of parents miss the mark on what is happening with their baby's development by months, or even years. ZERO TO THREE calls this misalignment of knowledge and expectations the "Missing" First Year.
To address the "Missing" First Year, ZERO TO THREE has created resources designed to help raise awareness about the critical importance of connections in the first months and years of babies' lives. The materials provide tips that can help parents and caregivers nurture babies' brain development starting at birth, including building language and communication skills, raising a reader from the get-go, and putting brain science into action.


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Hi toddler, we've designed some sessions just for you, where we hand over the court to you and your buddies to enjoy, explore and have fun, without the risk of those pesky big kids ruining their fun!
What's more, we'll let your adult servant come and jump for free, so you can laugh at them and show them how it's done!
This is the perfect place to go for parents, childminders, nurseries and playschools.


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So you shouldn't be using . if you always want a period regardless of regional settings: you should use \. in that case.

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My name is Justin,:wave_cry: I have lost weight on Slimming World but put it back on again plus more! I feel really dissapointed with myself and want to do something positive.
I want to start Slimfast or Tesco's own equivalent, What i wanted to ask was can i mix these 2 shakes (ready made form) if slimfast is on special, i would buy it and if not i would use Tesco's.
your'll have to try both, I was doing sf for a while and then tried tesco's brand and didn't like it. But I think it was because I was used to the taste of sf.
I don't see any problems with going from one to another as they work on the same theory. You may find once you start that one keeps you fuller for longer?
Good luck, keep us posted with your progress it helps for motivation.
Thanks Hayley, I will go shopping tomorrow and get a weeks supply in, Im looking forward to starting it.
I didn't know that Tesco done their own sf type shakes, i'll have to look out for them. Do they do coffee flavour?
I havent seen coffee flavour either. i use Tesco and slim fast - if its on offer and seems to work for me. i can only drink slim fast when its really cold tho, or i think it tastes funny! i take the individual cartons to work for breakfast and lunch and then if i'm at home you can make ur own which tastes better.
wi - July 10 - (-5LB) AIM 135lbs DONE = TARGET 3rd JULY 2009!!
I did not see coffee flavour, only the usual ones, strawberry, choc, and vanilla.
I also went to Asda and they now do their own version of slimfast (slimtrim) or something like that? Cant remember how much they were? Cheaper than Tesco's own though.
Tesco's is the one for Slimfast at the moment, a six pack costs £4.65 and the individual bottles ar £0.85p both on offer untill 11/02/09.
Thanks for looking for me, i don't get to Tesco very often. I'll have to stick with the Slimfast then, i'm a fussy sod and only like the coffee one. I've seen it in my local chemist BOGOF, not sure which chain it is i'll check tomorrow and post when i get home from work.
I got a slim fast tin from Tesco recently and it was down to £3 something.. as they're on special.. might be worth buying some in - remember to think of it as food and remember what you'd spend on food and the cost won't seem so bad.


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It's that time of year again! Time to go through all of my favorite candid, unposed images from the year and pick out the best to enter in the WPJA (Wedding Photojournalists Association) end of year contest. I really enjoy going back and and re-living the wedding days - as much as I love to do some creative portraits (and fun detail shots), capturing these fleeting moments is really what it's all about for me. Some are funny, others touching, some are just interesting tidbits from the day. All of that together adds up to the story of the wedding day.


If you're a fan of Lost, you should check this post out.
Who knew that water guns would be such a hit yesterday. Instead of being in the Skinner Center for our worship gathering yesterday, we went outside to Peabody Park. A few of our regulars were out, but we had several new people show up for hot dogs, turkey burgers, and, as I said, a nice water gun fight. We're planning on doing another one in June.
Yesterday Adam stayed with his grandmother while Mandy and I went to the birthing class. I should mention that Adam's grandmother is known as Bugala. I'm not sure if that is the correct spelling, but it's at least close. Anyway, we left yesterday morning at around 7:45, and we took a couple of pillows with us for the class. Adam saw us do this. Later on in the day, Bugala was telling Adam that we had gone to school to learn about the new baby. His response: "Are they going to take naps?"


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The 1914 All England Open Badminton Championships was a badminton tournament held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, England from 3 March to 8 March 1914.

It would be the last Championship before being suspended for the duration of World War I. Defending champion Guy Sautter continued to play under the alias of U N Lappin and successfully defended his title. Lavinia Radeglia emulated Sautter by retaining her women's singles title.

In the Men's doubles Frank Chesterton & George Thomas retained the title. The instances of an alias being used continued, in addition to Sautter playing as Lappin, Archibald Engelbach played as A. Fee.

Final results

Men's singles
There were four first round matches - Sautter bt R. M. McCallum 15–3, 15–12, Chesterton bt Henry Hosken 15–12, 15–8, Smith bt William Hockin 15–12, 15-5 and Hawthorn bt G. M. Hill 15–9, 15–9.

Women's singles

Men's doubles

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Women's doubles

Mixed doubles
There were three first round matches - McCallum & Drake bt Charles Pierson & Lydia Swete 15–5, 15–9,
Bisgood & Gowenlock bt Inglis & Constance Pierson 18-13 15-9 and Uber & Hetley bt F. C. Lohden & Miss Drinkwater 15–9, 15–8.

References

All England Open Badminton Championships
All England
All England Open Badminton Championships in London
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All England Badminton Championships


Born and raised in Kokomo Indiana where her parents pastored for 30 plus years and her grandparents 30 years before that ministry has been her life. Yolanda attended Indiana Bible College where she received her bachelors in Music and Arts. She along with her husband Chris have been in full time ministry for over 15 years. She has a passionate hunger for the presence of God, advancing His kingdom and diminishing the kingdom of darkness! Yolanda leads worship for HML and resides in Columbus Ohio with her husband Chris and three children Shaden, Alondra and Princeton Degen.


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UPSKILLING RURAL AND REGIONAL TOURISM OPERATORS
The NSW Government has announced it will triple the number of free webcasts for the state's tourism operators this year, in response to the growing need for online learning among rural and regional tourism operators.
Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall said the NSW Government was expanding the NSW First program following the huge take-up of online learning among rural and regional tourism businesses last year.
"NSW First provides free online webcasts and webinars which aims to help NSW tourism businesses develop, promote and sell their products, no matter where they are in NSW," Mr Marshall said.
"The expanded program this year will help further develop the offerings of Sydney and rural and regional tourism businesses by including 18 interactive online training events, which is three times more than what was offered in 2016.
"As a result of last year's NSW First program and the advice and support of experts from the State's tourism agency, we are now seeing 37 new tourism products being offered in international markets, and more than half of those new tourism products come from rural and regional NSW.
"These workshops take a 'how-to' focus, giving the hard-working tourism operators advice on how to access funding, how to engage traditional and digital media, how to target specific sectors including youth or Aboriginal tourism, and how to become export-ready."
Mr Marshall said this was another example of the NSW Government's commitment to growing tourism in rural and regional NSW.
"We are entering an exciting time for tourism in NSW, seeing the sector reenergised through innovative reforms and record investment," Mr Marshall said.
"Tourism is the lifeblood of many of our rural and regional communities, the sector contributes $14.5 billion to the NSW economy and directly employs 85,000 people and I'm confident through initiatives such as this, we'll boost these numbers even further."
To view the initial list of events in the NSW First Workshop program for 2017, and to register, go to www.destinationnsw.com.au/nswfirst
$25,000 GRANT TO 'LIFT THE COUNTRY SPIRIT' IN TENTERFIELD
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