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Octopus and Squid Dishes at Lionfish
At Lionfish, we bring fresh, sustainable seafood right to the Gaslamp Quarter. Our fresh-catch cuisine, prepared with seasonal ingredients, has quickly become a popular local choice. San Diego chef JoJo Ruiz works his magic by developing a network of fishermen and produce growers, so you're receiving only the freshest foods when you dine at Lionfish.
While our menu offers a whole host of seafood, poultry, and beef dishes, our octopus and squid dishes have largely become the favorites among our diners. If you have a taste for squid or octopus, then we'd suggest the following dishes.
Chilled Shrimp & Octopus Salad
A flavorful cold plate, our Chilled Shrimp & Octopus salad is a beautiful blend of textures and tastes. It features olive, fennel, onion, and garbanzo, as well as shrimp and octopus. A roasted tomato vinaigrette tops the salad, bringing the whole dish together and adding in even more flavor that complements the dish beautifully.
Stuffed Squid
Hearty and delicious, our Stuffed Squid is a perfect example of our innovative and flavorful dishes. The squid is stuffed with shrimp, Italian sausage, tomato relish, and herb pistou. Served hot, this dish is satisfying and delectable.
Spicy Grilled Octopus
This just might be the most popular dish on our menu! Our Spicy Grilled Octopus features fermented chile, crispy garlic, crispy potatoes, and cilantro aioli. It's a wonderful variation on a traditional octopus dish, and packs just enough of a punch to delight, without being overwhelming.
Octopus Sushi
Our sushi selections are anything but boring here at Lionfish. We offer a number of sushi and sashimi variations, one of which is octopus. Try a few different variations, or order a few options and share with your whole party.
While we're delighted that our octopus and squid dishes are so popular, we hope that you'll try some of our other popular menu items, too. You're always welcome to order your favorite dish again and again – and we have many diners who do – but we also have so many choices that you could order something new each time you returned.
If you're looking for a fulfilling dish that's sure to satisfy, then you need to try our Butter-Poached King Crab Leg. This dish is just as rich as it sounds, featuring caviar, leeks, and a generous crab leg with an amazing lemon and roasted garlic butter.
Our Pan Roasted Swordfish also can't be beaten. This dish includes chanterelles, smoked carrot, puffed quinoa, and saffron butter. The flavors are refined and beautifully complement the natural flavor of the swordfish.
Don't forget to try our oysters, too! We offer East Coast, West Coast, and Baja oysters. They are served with a White Balsamic Migonette and lemon, and they're perfect for sharing with your whole table before your main course arrives.
Our Golden Boy specialty roll is another popular choice. It's a delectable blend of spicy tuna, salmon, striped seabass, cucumber, radish sprouts, myer lemon kosho, and white garlic ponzu. It packs a little bit of heat and spice, plus plenty of flavor.
If you'd like to try something other than seafood, we have plenty of options for you, too. Our Half-Roasted Mary's Chicken is full of flavor, and our Maple Leaf Duck Breast is another favorite dish.
Whether you opt for an octopus or squid dish, or decide to try something a little different, with our extensive drink menu we'll sure to have just the right pairing for your meal. We have an amazing selection of wines that pair beautifully with our seafood dishes. You can order many of them by the glass, or opt to order specialty wines by the bottle.
Our specialty cocktails are also delicious, full of flavor, and memorable. We have a selection of popular draft and bottled beers, including Stella Artois, Corona, Bud Light, Michelob Ultra, and more. And, of course, our huge menu of spirits – including rum, scotch, whiskey, tequila, and more – mean that we're sure to have something for any craving.
If you've never been to Lionfish before, now is the perfect time to make your first visit. Our Happy Hour runs from 5 to 7 pm on Monday through Friday, and is the perfect time to have a pre-dinner cocktail and appetizer at incredible special prices (did we mention $1 oysters!?). Of course, be sure to make a reservation for dinner, too, and then try out one of the dishes that we've mentioned above.


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By Shuguang
In March, it was still cold. Hit by a gust of cold wind on the face, Yang Fan couldn't help but shudder from the cold. She rode her electric bike along the road where there were fewer and fewer pedestrians. The very thought of meeting her long-parted husband and son made her inevitably feel somewhat excited. And immediately, a string of questions echoed through her mind: How is my husband's work? Has my son gotten taller? Has there been any improvement in his study? Without me, how do they live? …
At the thought of this, Yang Fan felt especially awful, full of mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. Since being pursued by the CCP government in 2012 because of her belief in God, she had begun to lead a homeless life. As a result, her home was no longer like a home. From then on, her young son lost maternal love; her husband had to take care of their son by himself at home, and moreover, he was forced to deal with the interrogation and interference from the CCP police. At this moment, how Yang Fan should like to immediately go home to cherish her son and care her husband, restoring her home to the previous one full of love. But given the situation that CCP government has been unceasing in its persecution of believers in God and there are spies of the CCP police everywhere, it was very clear to her that she would be arrested by the CCP police before her home was restored if going home dangerously. In such a case, it would bring greater suffering to her family.
When Yang Fan thought of this, her tears flowed down her cheeks. She couldn't help crying out in her heart, "We believers in God pursue the truth and follow the right path. What's wrong with that? It is right and proper for us to worship God. The CCP government actually persecutes us like this to such an extent that I must separate from my son and husband." Then Yang Fan counted up the years, and found she had been away from home for five years due to the CCP government's persecution. Living away from home, she had a profound understanding of the following passage of God's word: "For thousands of years this has been the land of filth, it is unbearably dirty, misery abounds, ghosts roam its every corner, tricking and deceiving, making groundless accusations, being ruthless and vicious, trampling this ghost town and leaving it littered with dead bodies; the stench of decay covers the land and pervades the air, and it is heavily guarded. Who can see the world beyond the skies? The devil tightly trusses all of man's body, it puts out both his eyes, and seals his lips firmly shut. The king of devils has rampaged for several thousand years, right up until today, when it still keeps a close watch on the ghost town, as if it were an impenetrable palace of demons; this pack of watchdogs, meanwhile, stare with glaring eyes, deeply fearful that God will catch them unawares and wipe them all out, leaving them without a place of peace and happiness. How could the people of a ghost town such as this have ever seen God? Have they ever enjoyed the dearness and loveliness of God? What appreciation have they of the matters of the human world? Who of them can understand God's eager will? Small wonder, then, that God incarnate remains completely hidden: In a dark society such as this, where the demons are merciless and inhumane, how could the king of devils, who kills people in the blink of an eye, tolerate the existence of a God who is lovely, kind, and also holy? How could it applaud and cheer the arrival of God? These lackeys! They repay kindness with hate, they have long since disdained God, they abuse God, they are savage in the extreme, they have not the slightest regard for God, they plunder and pillage, they have lost all conscience, and have not a trace of kindness, and they tempt the innocent into senselessness. Forefathers of the ancient? Beloved leaders? They all oppose God! Their meddling has left all beneath heaven in a state of darkness and chaos!" ("Work and Entry (8)"). Ever since God began to do His work of the last days, the CCP government has continually been persecuting, obstructing and disturbing His work, and arresting and seeking to kill God's chosen people. This causes countless believers in God have been arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and countless Christians' families have been torn to pieces…. As to Yang Fan, she just is one of these Christians who have suffered the pursuit and persecution of the CCP government because of their belief in God. During these years, she had been on the run and hiding herself here and there, suffering considerable hardships and shedding countless tears in this ghost town covered by dark clouds. Without God's guidance, she would have not followed until now.
"Beep-beep! Beep-beep!" Her thoughts were interrupted by a burst of honk. She wiped the tears away. She thought: When meeting my husband and son, I cannot shed tears before them. I'll communicate God's intentions with them, so that they know only God is our reliance and therefore we need to rely on Him to continue our future path with strength no matter what dangers and adversities come upon us…. With this in mind, Yang Fan wore a resolute expression. Before she knew it, she had already arrived to a crossing. She slowed down her electric bike and looked around habitually. After making sure nobody was tracking, she turned to a small path through the field with an easy mind. Not far away, she saw her husband and son waiting for her there.
As soon as Yang Fan stopped her electric bike, her son run to her and threw himself into her arms, asking apprehensively, "Mom, why are you so late? Dad and I have waited for you for a long time. Are there evil policemen tracking you?" Seeing her son became taller and more sensible, Yang Fan felt gratified. She touched her son's head lightly, tears in her eyes. Then she crouched down and said to her son smiling, "Don't worry. The evil policemen didn't follow me." After that, she raised her head and looked at her husband. She found her husband, in his thirties, had another few streaks of grey. At this time, Yang Fan tried hard to hold back her tears.
The family of three chatted and showed concern for each other for a while. Seeing the mother and son giving affection to each other, the husband hesitated and then said, "How about going home to stay a night when it is dark and there is nobody outside the door?" As soon as his father finished his words, the son said in a panic, "Mom, you mustn't go home!" And then he turned to his father saying, "Dad, have you forgotten that the evil police often came to our house and arrested Mom? What if Mom is arrested after going home? In that case, I'll have no Mom." Looking at her son's uneasy expression, Yang Fan asked her husband, "In this period of time, the police have come to our house to search for me? Did that give our son a big shock?" The husband knitted his brows and nodded, saying, "Yes. In that year, the police broke in and forcefully searched in the middle of the night. Our son was startled out of his sleep by them then. Failing to find you, they still didn't give up, so they searched our house thoroughly. And several evil policemen crowded around our son and questioned him about your whereabouts. They also arranged for our neighbors to watch our house. From that time on, it cast a shadow on our son, so that he will feel scared once hearing the noise in the night. Oh, yeah. Recently, the police came our house to find you several more times, and they also went to our mother's house to ask your whereabouts. Alas, our son is right. You'd better not go home. At least, you are safe outside for the moment. Besides, on the run from the police, you have the care and protection of God, and the help and care of our brothers and sisters. We feel at ease." And he added, "Just perform your duty properly to repay God's love. Don't worry about everything in our home. I will take good care of our son. On top of that, we're accompanied by God. I will pray and rely on God with our son when meeting difficulties." The son nearby said, "Right! Mom, you can ease up. I'll listen to Dad, and often pray to God."
What her husband and son had said surprised Yang Fan. They had more strength and faith than she imagined. She deeply knew this was all due to God's protection! She gave thanks to God from the bottom of her heart. Then, Yang Fan enjoined them, "The environment now becomes more serious. The CCP government investigates openly and inquires secretly everywhere. Many brothers and sisters have been forced to be taken photos and arrested. Nevertheless, the work of God's gospel is rapidly spreading to foreign countries through the Internet. The more the CCP resists crazily, the more we should not be weak and negative then—this is God testing us. So we should have faith to God. At ordinary times, you must often come close to God and read His words more…."
In the fields, with spring breeze, pale green wheat seedlings were waving their straight bodies, full of vitality. As the minutes ticked away, all three of them encouraged and comforted each other….
In the evening sun, Yang Fan checked her watch. She knew she could not stay there any longer. The longer she stayed there, the more danger she would be in. After saying good-bye to them, Yang Fan mounted on her electric bike for departure. This moment, the son was reluctant to part with his mother with his eyes shining with tears, yet he still enjoined his mother again with his fresh young voice, "Mom, remember, you mustn't go home!" After Yang Fan heard her son's words, her tears spilled from her eyes one more time. She nodded to them, and then rode away with the setting sun.
On the way, a hymn of God's word Yang Fan often sang repeatedly echoed in her ears: "As a created being, you should of course worship God and pursue a meaningful life, pursue a meaningful life. As a human being, you should expend for God and endure all suffering, endure all suffering. You should gladly and assuredly accept the little suffering you are subjected to today and live a meaningful life, like Job, like Peter. You are people who pursue the right path, those who seek improvement. You are people who rise up in the nation of the great red dragon, those whom God calls righteous. Isn't that the most meaningful life?"


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|August 8?
|August 8?
Lucy: Into the Storm?
After-all I did write a post a while back called
Moore Storm Syncs?
which is a big rambling post about the town of Moore that got hit twice by a huge tornado years apart.
In that Moore post I wrote about my syncs with Australian Rugby League team names and scores the weekend the twister ripped through Moore, and I mentioned a guy known in Australian Rugby League circles named Peter "Bullfrog" Moore.
There is also a main character named Donnie (Donnie Darko?)
Cory Monteith and Stormy Weather?
And I couldn't help thinking where I had seen a similar picture of jumbo jets being in a bad storm before?
The plane in my post with a gazillion hits called -
Storm Season Starts In Brisbane
The characters even take refuge from the storm in a drain,
or sink hole , oddly enough.
Then I started to get a little paranoid and thought maybe there is more than just coincidence going on here, and I decided to check out who wrote the script for the film.
|John Swetnam
I've got a feeling,and I could be wrong, but I think John has somehow stumbled across my blog posts and taken a few ideas for the film.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad if he did and good luck to him, it's not like those ideas and thoughts in the posts he may have read as research on the film can be copyrighted anyway.
I just would like to know if John is a closet Sync-Head
(such as naming the head storm chaser Peter Moore;-),
or whether we just happen to both be influenced by
the Collective Unconscious,
like Jung would probably say.
Either way John, congratulations on a fantastic film,
whether you found inspiration in my posts while writing it, or not.
I couldn't help but think that one of John's upcoming projects
"When Casey, a dancer who is discovered on YouTube, gets thrust into the modern world of internet celebrity and culture, she must find a way to balance her true identity with her online persona, or risk losing everything she cares about."
Breaking Through
|Joe Alexander
but having a You Tube presence in sync films he
was making under a You Tube avatar.
Life is stranger than fiction as they say.
(from Type 1 Radio...click on the link at the bottom...episode 71, to listen to a podcast with other Sync-Heads and PsoNik having a chat)
and I have been having some big syncs together since meeting up last weekend for a trip to a wildlife sanctuary in Oz.
There will by a post about that day soon.
Just before I set out to see "Into the Storm" at the cinema PsoNik posted this photo of him running into a guy in a tiger suit in Sydney on his Facebook page,
which set me off on the book and movie "The Life of Pi".
I asked him was that tiger named Richard Parker by any chance?
What did I eat for lunch on Saturday at the zoo?"
and I sent him this picture of a guy in a boat eating pie.
Then I said to him, since PsoNik makes music,
"On the subject of "The Life of Pi" and sync, have you ever heard of a musician by the name of Hiroshi Watanabe and his album "Sync Positive" PsoNik?
I wrote a post a while back about his music and
his name being in the book "The Life of Pi". "
Hiroshi Watanabe Sync
After all that, I set off to the cinema only to do a double take and turn my car back round to go and take a picture of what I couldn't believe I just saw.
An inflatable tiger slide someone had put up in their front yard for a kid's birthday party.
You just couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.
|Episode 71: ArcheTypeOne (Adult concepts discussed)
"The Best Years of Our Lives" and I've been playing my favorite song of his (Deep Water) over and over while I've been reading it.
I decided to track down what album the song was off today and you'll never guess what it was called.
"Goodbye Tiger"!?
Richard actually sang the song "Goodbye Tiger" the night I went to his talk in Byron Bay, the weekend of the Byron Writer's Festival, but I never knew it was off the same album as the song I like the most of his,"Deep Water".


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Ready for predictive maintenance? It's easier than you might think
Manufacturers can build on nearly any PMM, MES or CMMS platform with machine learning and computer vision capabilities
It's an eight-letter word certain to make manufacturers cringe. If your systems are idle, you're likely losing money.
How much money? The International Society of Automation estimates that globally, manufacturers lose $647 billion each year to machine downtime. Gartner sets the cost as high as $540,000 for every hour that assets, workers, infrastructure, systems or networks are unavailable.
That cost—coupled with the sheer unpredictability of idle systems—are two reasons the global manufacturing sector is eager to embrace machine learning. Harnessing your manufacturing data in new ways is a game-changer for productivity, maintenance and of course, your bottom line.
Machine learning moves mainstream
The opportunity for manufacturers is to move from reactive to proactive. In this case, from unexpected repairs and unscheduled downtime to predictive, planned maintenance that minimizes disruptions, reduces costs and streamlines operations. Machine learning provides the tools to make it happen.
While it sounds complex and expensive, companies have deployed machine learning for years; today, it's the widespread availability of cloud computing power that's bringing the technology into the mainstream.
We interact with machine learning every day:
- Navigation suggestions that avoid traffic jams
- Fraud detection that knows if "you" are really making those online purchases
- Vehicles with lane departure warnings and accident avoidance alerts
- Customized playlists based on your personal musical tastes
The term applies to any computer system that leverages algorithms and statistical models to perform specific tasks—without requiring explicit programming or instructions.
- First, data scientists teach the system to recognize patterns and make inferences, or conclusions and predictions based on data.
- Next, a supervised training period occurs where staff actively monitor and adjust the system's performance.
- Finally, the system moves to unsupervised training and truly lives up to its name: a machine that learns on its own. The more data it consumes, the stronger the insights it produces.
Employing machine learning to solve manufacturing challenges is a logical extension of its capabilities.
Preventive techniques lead to over- or under-maintenance
Today, most manufacturers rely on preventive maintenance management (PMM) to keep equipment operating smoothly. Preventive maintenance employs time, usage and event data, such as hours in operation or replacement dates of a component. Tracking those milestones enables manufacturers to perform maintenance activities on a set schedule.
Dozens of platforms exist, including manufacturing engineering systems (MES) and cloud-based maintenance management systems (CMMS), to help manufacturers monitor their equipment. However, analyzing PMM data and making decisions still falls to humans. Operators must log information. Analysts must crunch numbers. Managers must make decisions—often weighing the value of PMM data against their gut instincts.
Preventive maintenance also excludes numerous important inputs. For example, issue logs from the company ticketing system, images of wear-and-tear on internal components or vibration patterns from machines in operation. All are key variables that affect performance and maintenance timing—but difficult to track and integrate in a typical PMM platform.
As a result, preventive maintenance often leads to over- or under-maintenance. Both situations can be costly. Unnecessary maintenance adds up with the cost of replacement parts and idle systems. Infrequent maintenance may extend the usable life of a component, but raises the risk of unscheduled outages. Neither is ideal.
Predictive maintenance increases uptime, reduces costs
Predictive maintenance using machine learning and computer vision is the next step forward for manufacturers. It builds on the foundation established with preventive techniques, with several key differences.
Predictive maintenance:
- Leverages more data sources
- Requires less human intervention or analysis
- Allows customization to your specific manufacturing environment
- Yields far greater precision in maintenance recommendations
For example, predictive maintenance systems can analyze qualitative data, such as ticketing system entries, alongside quantitative metrics from sensors and operation logs. Examining multiple data points provides more accurate maintenance insights.
These smart-systems can also detect correlations faster than their human (or PMM) counterparts. Machine learning intelligence may spot previously undetected patterns that lead to equipment issues or failures, such as vibration levels in equipment.
Computer vision is a particularly useful element. This tool combines one or more cameras mounted on critical equipment, with a machine learning system that's been trained to recognize minuscule differences in images. The applications are numerous. For example, manufacturers can inspect product quality and detect defects in areas where it's not feasible for human viewing. Computer vision provides high-speed operation in multiple locations on a manufacturing line.
Computer vision can be especially valuable for medical device manufacturers or those in regulated industries, where any equipment modification triggers a costly and time-consuming recertification process. Innovative medtech companies can now identify visual changes on a manufacturing line without requiring recertification. This approach accelerates the ROI for predictive maintenance systems.
Reduce maintenance costs by 25 percent
Predictive maintenance shows great promise across a wide spectrum of manufacturing sectors. McKinsey estimates that manufacturers with predictive capabilities can increase asset availability by 5 to 15 percent, and reduce maintenance costs by 18 to 25 percent.
Predictive maintenance can improve quality, reduce defects and scrap, and detect suboptimal performance in manufacturing equipment.
The technology can also complement the work of human quality inspectors. For example, every hour, a quality inspector may review hundreds of finished products for subtle differences in finish quality, color, hue, or other qualitative attributes. The inspector then flags a few dozen each shift for further review.
Computer vision with machine learning could then examine the flagged products at a deeper level—and with greater precision—to identify the exact source of the discrepancies. In this scenario, quality inspectors gain more time to focus on higher-value concerns.
Advantages of predictive maintenance:
- Increase uptime and availability of key equipment
- Decrease maintenance and repair costs
- Reduce defects and scrap
- Improve overall quality of production
Predictive maintenance tools have manufacturing applications beyond day-to-day operating performance. Imagine having a near real-time knowledge of your inventory levels in the field—without needing an expensive RFID system or changes to your packing model. You could configure a computer vision and machine learning system to measure inventory use, expirations and redeployment triggers across the supply chain. The resulting insights would increase efficiency and provide a competitive advantage.
It's another reason the global manufacturing community (and we at Agosto) are so excited about machine learning's potential.
Early adopters will gain a competitive edge
Despite all its potential, some manufacturers are hesitant. Common concerns include complexity, data quality and system integration.
The good news? Getting started with predictive maintenance is easier—and less complicated—than you may think.
We recommend these four steps:
- Take an iterative approach.You can "go big" with machine learning and an enterprise-wide business transformation that takes years—or you can start small, prove the technology's effectiveness and gradually grow machine learning's footprint across the organization.At Agosto, we're big fans of an agile approach where we work quickly and collaboratively, learning as we go. In this fashion, manufacturers can accelerate value and see results in weeks or months, rather than years.
- Start with your existing data.Data is another perceived obstacle that doesn't need to be a hurdle. No one's data (repeat, no one's) is perfect! A good technology partner will assess your data readiness and help build out from your current foundation.If you're like most manufacturers, you already have a rich store of data for machine learning to use, including MES, PMM or CMMS data, your ticketing system and other databases across the company. Machine learning can even access unstructured data that's "trapped" in PDFs, emails or other documents.Another key point, you don't need to move your data offsite to deploy predictive maintenance. Today's flexible, cloud-based systems can typically access your data from anywhere, which helps you get up-and-running quickly.
- Deploy a structured proof of concept (POC).A POC uses just enough data and functionality to show stakeholders (and skeptics) the value of a machine learning application. It's a great way to see the tool in action, in your own environment, without a large investment of time, money or resources. From the POC, you can identify requirements and build the business case for a full-blown predictive maintenance project.
- Enlist the experts.There's an art—and a science—to structuring your data for optimal machine learning. Outside resources with experienced data scientists and proven manufacturing expertise are a wise investment. They'll pay for themselves in strategy, best practices and hands-on implementation that's efficient and intelligent.
Machine learning shows great promise for manufacturers—especially those who start now. The earlier you harness your data, the more time your machine learning application has for supervised and unsupervised training. Early adopters will gain a definite competitive edge.


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XBox One NFL app gets Next Generation Stats; Surface Pro 3 coming to teams
Microsoft today is announcing updates to its NFL app for the Xbox One console that will give fans a better sense of what's happening at games in real life. Meanwhile, on the sidelines, Microsoft said today that it's outfitting NFL coaches and players with new Surface Pro 3 tablets to replace the Surface Pro 2's they were using before.
Microsoft is talking today about what's possible with specific devices, but really the company is thinking more universally than that.
"We are building a Windows 10 app that is designed to be the best companion for NFL games," Microsoft executive producer Todd Stevens told VentureBeat in an interview at Microsoft's Loft One facility in San Francisco this week.
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For Microsoft, the NFL represents an opportunity to demonstrate how technology — both hardware and software — can provide better experiences for both sports consumers and professionals. This is a big year for NFL — in February 2016 the league will hold its 50th annual Super Bowl — and Microsoft is taking the season seriously with the 2015 season coming up. Xbox and Surface have both remained important to Microsoft through multiple corporate shifts, and now Microsoft can point to this app as an example of what's possible across devices with Windows 10, which is now available.
Not that the tech company has ignored the NFL all this time. In recent years Microsoft has brought together fantasy and reality in its NFL app and figured out how the Surface can help teams track players' concussions. Microsoft has now gone further.
Big football data
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the revamped Xbox One NFL app, available starting in late August, is its dependence on real-time data.
Every player in every game this season will be wearing a pad containing a computer chip connected to sensors. Every NFL stadium now features equipment to be able to track the data. The presence of all this technology means that onscreen, people will be able to see where players are, how far they travel during each play, and how fast they move. NFL calls this Next Generation Stats — or Next Gen Stats for short.
Last season a few game broadcasts included data from the chips, but fans weren't able to do everything they can do inside the new app. Now, in the refreshed app, they'll be able to check out performance of players in specific highlight clips from games.
"For the first time, NFL fans almost act like coaches and analyze plays like a coach would," Stevens said.
The data makes it possible for the app to recreate plays with colorful lines and arrows.
"That's the kind of stuff you've never been able to do before," Stevens said. "The broadcasters will do it for you [traditionally]. Now I can do that on any highlight that I want."
Microsoft didn't stop there. It went and created a competition with the new data called Next Gen Stats Pick'em. Each week, fans will be able to answer a few questions, like which player ran fastest.
There will be a big prize — a ticket to the Super Bowl — for the person who proves to be the best at Pick'em. And every time a fan answers a Pick'em question, they enter a sweepstakes, for prizes such as a signed helmet.
The app also offers a greater degree of personalization than it did before. You have to name your favorite team the first time you use it, and from there you can easily get to the videos involving that team. You can "like" videos and thereby develop customized video playlists. You can share videos with others on Xbox Live, too.
Want to follow an upcoming game? No problem. Just check in to it. Xbox will notify you when it starts. And if you play fantasy football, you can get updates for your team, too. The app now supports NFL.com, CBS, and Yahoo fantasy teams. (ESPN fantasy football isn't supported; it's available in the separate ESPN Xbox One app.)
Altogether, Stevens is very excited about how the new NFL app will be received.
"This feels like Madden to fans," he said.
For professionals only
But fans aren't the only ones who are in for a treat this year. On the field, coaches, players, and even referees will enjoy the benefits of a device that's better suited to its environment.
The Surface Pro 3 has a larger screen than the Surface Pro 2, so more video clips will be immediately visible to quickly choose from. It's lighter, more rugged, and able to tolerate being dunked in water or Gatorade. The Surface Pen can make notes even when the screen is wet — "unlike any other tablet on the market," Jeff Tran, director of sports marketing and alliances in Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group, told VentureBeat as he showed off the device at Loft One.
With the Surface Pro 3, coaches can annotate on plays and draw on virtual whiteboards in multiple colors, not just yellow. Clearer diagrams could help teams save seconds, Tran said, and seconds count in a game like football.
Referees can use the new tablets to watch and zoom in on instant replays. It's better than watching on a big screen television, Tran said, because referees can examine plays more carefully and thereby make more accurate decisions, Tran said.
Microsoft does not currently have plans to make this Sideline Viewing System available to consumers, Tran said.
But Microsoft is developing other cool technology for fans.
"We are working with the NFL on a HoloLens implementation," Tran said. "You'll start seeing it more in the future."
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February favourites
The shortest month of the year felt super long to me!
I FINALLY went self hosted and got my own domain name! I'm so happy to have taken the leap at long last, and can't wait for the next chapter of my blogging life.
I also moved house this month, and handed in my first ever draft of a chapter in my thesis so theres been a lot happening!
Heres a monthly round up of what I've been loving this month. What have you guys been up to? Let me know in the comments or on social media!
Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Oil
I started using this cult product from Kiehl's back in the New Year, and ever since I haven't looked back! The results definitely took about 2-3 weeks to really start showing, but since then my skin has been SO much happier in the morning. Its so much softer, retains moisture and smoothness all day, and I've been loving using it on areas which are prone to drying out, like the highs of my cheeks.
Pierre Bonnard Exhibit
I would highly recommend anyone in London to visit the Pierre Bonnard exhibit. If you love art or just a weekend looking around and discovering something new, this is the perfect activity! Pierre Bonnard was a French artist who painted mostly in watercolours. His work is displayed in an array of 13 rooms, starting from the beginning of his career, and even includes his final painting before his death.
The Tate Modern is also a super fun way to spend your weekend, and all the other exhibits are free! If you're aged under 25, make sure to sign up for the Tate Collective membership (free!) to get your tickets for just £5!
Trek bar
My friend introduced me to these a couple of weeks ago, and I've become obsessed! This protein packed flapjack is perfect if you find yourself hungry in-between meals and craving a sweet treat. Its much healthier than snacking on crisps and chocolates, and although my favourite is cocoa flavoured, it has the perfect amount. Its also dark chocolate so easily justified!
I've been loving the Drops language app, available on both iOS and android. They have all kinds of languages on there, from english to Japanese. I'm currently learning Spanish (Mexican) to aide me in my travels! They make learning vocab so much fun, and not only does it training you in listening, spelling and reading, but the way it teaches you forces you to learn the language as it is, instead of translating every single thing back into english. I find this such a great way to learn, and associate the new vocab with actual things rather than english words!
Russian Doll
My final favourite of the month is Russian Doll, which is a Netflix 10-part series. Its a story that, in my opinion, really makes you think. What seems to be quite a comical and weird situation becomes quite a lot deeper and self reflective, and the way they present the characters is really interesting and pulls you into the storyline with them. I'd recommend this if you're looking for something new to watch! It also has really REALLY catchy music.
Thats it for my favourites this month! Thank you so much for joining me, and let me know what you've been loving this month!
See you in the next one,
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I love this post idea! You do such a nice job at summarizing all of the new things in your life in a great way. Feeling inspired for my own blog! And also, it sounds like you've had a great month. Congrats on the self-hosting and the exhibit looks especially inviting. Thanks for sharing!
Rina Kay
Thank you so much!! You are so sweet 🙂 Thanks so much for reading! X
I have to try Drops for relearning Spanish and maybe learning some Czech.
Rina Kay
Ohh Czech would be so cool! I'm really enjoying the Spanish learning on Drops right now, also watching some Spanish shows on Netflix to speed up my learning (hopefully!)
Congratulations on handing in your draft girl! 🙂 February definitely felt long to me too haha. That exhibit looks really cool, I'd totally go! Thank you for sharing Rina <3
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Rina Kay
Thank you Geraldine! I'm so happy – definitely feels like a milestone!
You really need to come to London some day! 😍😍😍
Thanks for reading ❤
Sarah Winton
I'm loving Russian Doll too!
Rina Kay
Isn't it great! I really hope theres a season 2!


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Northrop Grumman engineers are set to conduct final tests on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope after they have unloaded optical and scientific instruments from a shipping container at a company facility in Redondo Beach, California.
The company aims to ensure that the space observatory is ready for its mission before it heads to a Kourou, French Guiana, launch site, NASA said Monday.
JWST will carry science payload containing a 21.3-foot golden primary mirror that forms half of the telescope
Northrop received the payload after the agency completed a series of tests at the Johnson Space Center and Goddard Space Flight Center.
The agency noted the integrated spacecraft features a sunshield that currently undergoes final assembly and will soon be subjected to environmental tests.
NASA will launch Webb using an Ariane 5 rocket and expects the telescope to deploy its mirrors once released from the rocket and reach the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point.
JWST is designed to examine the solar system and planets surrounding other stars.


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UPDATE: Following an investigation, the prosecutor's office determined the officer acted reasonably and in self-defense when he shot Shelly L. Haendiges. No criminal charges will be brought against the officer involved.
KOKOMO, Ind. (June 16, 2015)--The family of a teenager shot and killed by a Kokomo police officer has retained a wrongful death attorney.
Attorney Richard Waples, an Indianapolis based attorney, tells FOX59 the Haendiges hired him in the days following the shooting. According to his website, Waples has over 25 years litigating wrongful death, false arrest, constitutional claims, consumer class actions and police misconduct cases.
The 17-year-old allegedly attempted to rob the Casey's General Store in Kokomo Friday night.
As police arrived,they say Haendiges was pointing a gun at the store clerk. Once the responding officers ordered her to drop her weapon, she allegedly pointed the gun towards police.
"The officer identified himself and ordered the female to drop the weapon at which time the female pointed the weapon at the officer. The officer then fired two shots," said Major Brian Seldon with the Kokomo Police Department.
Shelly Haendiges,17, loved the outdoors, looking after her animals and she just finished her junior year of high school. She was also baptized in the fall.
Kokomo police later discovered the teenager wasn't carrying a real gun. Police say she had a CO2 powered semi-automatic handgun.
"When the threat was presented to the officer, I mean the officer had to make a split-second decision so at the time we don't know," said Seldon.
Jeff Jacobs is the general manager at Dark Armies paintball in Indianapolis. He is an expert when it comes to CO2 powered weapons.
"Paintball guns are not realistic, but BB guns and the new air-soft guns are made a lot more realistic--I think more realistic than they should be. They are so realistic that you can't even tell the difference," said Jacobs.
"We have a split-second decision to make out here on the street therefore if we feel the threat is toward the officer or threat toward a witness or individual we have to make a decision whether to use deadly force or not," said Seldon.
Police say 10-year Kokomo police veteran Roy Smith fired his weapon twice.
The Kokomo Police Department is still investigating the case.


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The People's Republic of China (PRC) is positioned to make significant future economic strides, including the re-emergence of an internationally recognized stock market, based on its impressive track record over the past decade. However, the actual realization of the stock market's re-emergence may be a product of fiction, unless Chinese leaders resolve the inherent conflict between state ownership and efficient markets for privately-owned stock.
Section II gives a brief history of the recent development of the Chinese securities market. China entered the 1980s with a desperate need for capital to support the growth of its then anemic centrally planned industrial and agricultural economy. Following state-controlled experimentation with stock issuance and trading in the late 1980s, the Chinese stock market "re-emerged," after more than forty years in dormancy, in the early 1990s, when two stock markets sprang to life in Shanghai and Shenzhen.(1) As a result, individuals currently may purchase publicly-traded shares of joint-stock companies.(2) Despite the impressive development of the stock market since 1990,(3) the nascent Chinese stock market has not truly re-emerged due to the limited number of publicly traded shares.
Section III examines the PRC's long-term commitment to resolving the ideological "counter-socialist dilemma" presented by capitalist reform and to developing an independent and internationally competitive stock market. While China has already made impressive strides in developing its socialist market economy, conservative Communist leaders have signaled their reservations about the pace of capitalist-laden reforms. Consequently, the PRC has enacted various regulations that effectively cabin the capitalist experimentation by limiting Chinese enterprises' access to the emerging stock market, restricting the flow of information to the stock market, and maintaining a high level of state ownership in publicly-traded stock companies. However, despite the ideological quagmire confronting Chinese leaders, evidence shows that they are committed to resolving the "counter-socialist dilemma," some more conservatively than others, in order to move China forward in the global marketplace. It is now a question of how to resolve this dilemma, rather than whether to resolve it.
Assuming that the ideological barriers are not insurmountable and that Deng Xiaoping's successors will continue to implement economic reforms, China should take certain fundamental steps in the near future to realize the true re-emergence of its stock market in the twenty-first century. Section IV shows that in order to enable the Chinese stock market to attract the abundant personal savings of Chinese nationals.(4) as well as foreign investors. China must stabilize and improve the efficiency of its stock market through the enforcement of a comprehensive national securities law and the repeal of its censorship policy.
From Mao to Markets
China has supported a stock market during several recent periods(5) in its long history,(6) but none has ever grown into an "independent institution"(7) strong enough to survive China's political turmoil. For instance, during the 1940s, the Shanghai Securities Exchange was the largest stock market in Asia and more influential and internationally supported than that of Hong Kong,(8) but the 1949 Communist takeover(9) caused its abrupt demise. Under the rule of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party believed that capitalist stock markets contributed to corruption, bureaucracy, and smuggling.(10) Once again, political forces in China effectively wiped out the securities market.(11)
Although Chairman Mao and his supporters had used tightly centralized control with some degree of success in restoring China's ailing post-war economy in the 1950s and 1960s,(12) post-Mao leaders of the PRC realized that such strict Communist rule had stifled the country's economic development over time. Thus, in late 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaopeng,(13) the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced its "open door policy," under which the CPC would focus its attention on economic development, rather than class struggle.(14) The economic reforms sought three main objectives: (1) to decentralize the economy; (2) to bolster reliance on market forces and on material incentives as a means for achieving desired economic behavior and resource allocation, and (3) to encourage foreign investment.(15) Following decades of economic isolation, these pragmatic policy reforms created a literal "opening to the outside world" for China.(16)
The Chinese government has gradually implemented economic reforms in the form of experiments at both local and national levels. China initially overhauled its financial sector by allowing the state-controlled banks to allocate financial resources more efficiently(17) and by creating non-bank financial institutions.(18) Prior to 1979, China's financial system had consisted of only a few specialized banks(19) which had acted merely as "the government's cashiers," while the state had controlled almost all resource allocations.(20) The later transformation of China's banking sector inevitably led to the re-emergence of its financial markets.(21)
China represents the first known example of a centrally planned economy supporting a securities market.(22) China's financial markets re-emerged primarily as a result of the decentralization and rationalization of investment activities and the increase in the financial autonomy of enterprises.(23) Debt securities first appeared in 1981 when the PRC issued government bonds to finance its budget deficit.(24) In the latter half of the 1980s, the national economic policy reforms led to the emergence of joint-stock companies and stock issuance.(25) After the opening of the first over-the-counter (OTC) stock exchange in Shenzhen on August 5, 1986, other regional markets quickly developed in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai,(26) Tianjin, and Wuhan.(27) During this same year, a reorganized state-owned enterprise publicly issued shares for the first time.(28) The subsequent emergence of the national securities exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen occurred on December 19, 1990.(29) and July 3, 1991,(30) respectively. As of December 31, 1996, 237 and 293 joint-stock companies had listed their A-Shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges respectively.(31) Furthermore, a total of eighty-six companies had issued their B-Shares on the two exchanges.(32)
Chinese Stock Market Participants
On July 1, 1994, the 1993 Company Law of China,(33) which combines the Chinese socialist market economy with Western forms of capitalism, took effect, creating a law with distinct "Chinese characteristics."(34) The main goal of the Company Law is to provide a unified standard for more efficient and productive modern corporate organizations operating under non-state-controlled management.(35) In furtherance of this multi-faceted goal, the Company Law (as a supplement, modification.(36) and codification of prior regulations) regulates the public issuance of stock by any company organized as a "company limited by shares," commonly referred to as a "joint-stock company" (JSC).(37) Pursuant to the Company Law, a JSC can issue shares to the public only after obtaining permission from the State Council and meeting fairly strict requirements, such as having a minimum of fifty million yuan (approximately six million U.S. dollars) in capital, having at least 1,000 shareholders, and having earned profits during the preceding three years.(38) Due to the state's retention of majority ownership in JSCs,(39) the Company Law should be viewed as the catalyst for "corporatization" rather than "privatization."(40)
Various types of business enterprises compose China's economic system. The non-stock business forms currently operating in China include state-owned enterprises (SOEs),(41) collectively owned enterprises (COEs),(42) private enterprises (PEs),(43) and foreign investment enterprises (FEEs).(44) Under China's Company Law, stock companies may exist in two forms: limited liability companies (LLCS)(45) and JSCs.(46) These stock companies are owned by stockholders,(47) managed under the direction of a board of directors, and characterized as limited liability enterprises. While LLCs may privately issue stock, only JSCs may access the stock markets,(48) assuming they meet the relevant national and local regulations in force at the time of the issue.(49) Non-stock enterprises, including SOEs, cannot issue stock, unless they do so through a stock-form holding company or reorganize into an LLC or JSC before such issuance.(50)
Both national and foreign investors may participate in the Chinese stock markets, although they must purchase different types of shares. Chinese individuals can own the A-Shares of a company, while foreign investors(51) can purchase B-Shares. The first B-Shares, which are denominated in reminbi, but traded in foreign currency,(52) began trading on, the Shanghai and Shenzhen Exchanges in February of 1992.(53) A-Shares trade among domestic shareholders on various local or OTC markets as well as the national stock exchanges. B-Shares, on the other hand, trade only on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges among foreign investors. Besides these differences, A and B shareholders enjoy the same rights.(54)
Upon regulatory approval by the state, Chinese companies may also list their stock on foreign exchanges, such as in Hong Kong(55) or the United States.(56) For investors weary of the speculative Chinese stock markets, these investment alternatives are attractive because they provide the upside of China's strong economic growth without the unpredictability of its still emerging stock market. Section IV suggests some steps China should take to increase the efficiency and stability of the...
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Ciara Jones decided during her sophomore year at Richlands High School in eastern North Carolina that she wanted to study aerospace engineering. But until the summer between her freshman and sophomore years at NC State, she had never actually flown in an airplane.
"I love them, but I'm not in them," she said.
That changed on May 16, when Jones and a group of fellow students began a 19-hour trip from Raleigh, NC to Beijing, China.
As an early-morning American Airlines flight rumbled down the runway at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Jones covered her mouth with her hands as if in prayer. Friends Kaylee Saaranen and Chandra Manivannan, seated across the aisle, had spent time as the airplane taxied away from the terminal trying to help with her apprehension.
As the jet broke free from gravity's constraints and began its climb over the Triangle suburbs, Jones breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone laughed when Jones said "Oh my god. I feel closer to Jesus already."
Started 10 years ago, NC State's annual study abroad trip to Zhejiang University in Hangzhou was revived in 2016 after a three-year hiatus. Though the trip is open to students from all colleges on the NC State campus, it has long had a strong engineering presence. Most of the group was made up of engineering majors, but they were joined by students from the Poole College of Management and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The program offers students a journey outside of their comfort zone. While two of the 25 students on the 2017 trip had not flown before, several others had never traveled outside of the United States.
Students spend five weeks living and attending classes in the International College at Zhejiang University. Along with seeing the sites in this green, vibrant city known for its beautiful scenery and burgeoning technology sector, students also experience Beijing, Huangshan (Yellow) Mountain and Shanghai during their 42 days away.
For engineering students, the program offers a unique chance to work side by side with Chinese engineering students on a design project for an international company with a manufacturing facility in China.
Apart from taking summer-session classes that count toward graduation, they are immersed in a culture completely apart from their own. The students quickly bonded as they worked as a group to figure out how to shop for groceries, where to eat and how to do laundry. They searched for good wi-fi and coffee, tried to overcome the language barrier and figured out how to access their university Gmail-based student e-mail accounts in a country that blocks access to Google.
"I think a trip like this can be an eye-opener for a lot of students," said Dr. Jeffrey Eischen, associate professor and director of undergraduate student affairs in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and one of the faculty members involved in the program. "It gives them a larger view of the world."
The program is partially supported by revenue generated from the College's Engineering Enhancement Fee. The fee, introduced in 2015, helps fund enhancements to the learning experience for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and computer science as the College deals with reductions in state funding.
College leaders believe that this is one initiative that can help move the College from a good engineering school to a great one and help make its graduates not just great technical thinkers, but engaged global citizens who can thrive in an economy that knows few borders.
Beijing and beyond
Sporting travel neck pillows and bleary eyes, a somewhat dazed group arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday, May 17, with multiple suitcases in tow. Boarding a tour bus, they got their first look at the enormity of Beijing.
Jiang Chao Yi, the group's tour guide, asked to be called Joey because it's a close translation of his first name. He explained that, just as in the United States, this city of 30 million people has developed rings as growth necessitates a new circular highway, then another as the growth moves further out. Beijing has six such rings.
Dr. Clifford Griffin, associate professor of political science and director of the program, reminded students that the university's code of student conduct is in effect on the trip and asked that the students be mindful that they are in a different country with a different culture and that they be respectful of that culture.
The next day, the group visited Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the Chinese Imperial Palace from the 15th century through the early 20th century. Then it was on to a section of the Great Wall outside of Beijing, where the students spent more than two hours scaling the steps of a particularly steep section of the wall that climbed up and over a mountain.
Along the way, students were exposed to authentic Chinese cuisine and learned to use chopsticks.
"You've got to go for the big chunks of rice," Liam Truong, a rising sophomore from Charlotte studying nuclear engineering told the students at his table during one lunch. "The bigger the chunk, the easier it is to pick up."
As the group traveled out of Beijing to tour the Great Wall, Jalen McGee, a sophomore from Durham, NC studying electrical and computer engineering, talked to Joey about the differences between higher education in China and the United States. Saaranen, another rising sophomore from Raleigh who had not decided which engineering department to join, watched the scenery pass by outside the bus window and reflected on how far she had traveled.
"I never imagined myself going to China my first year in college. But here I am."
Just like home
The group left Beijing on a high-speed train to Hangzhou, a trip that took just six hours to travel 800 miles at speeds of up to 186 mph. They settled into the international dorm at Zhejiang University amongst Chinese, French and American students.
Some of them were already friends or at least recognized each other from classes they had taken back in Raleigh. Others they had met only twice, during two orientation sessions that had taken place in early spring where Griffin walked the students and a smattering of parents through the process of applying for a passport and Chinese visa and what to pack. Griffin, who has been a part of the program since 2008 and director since 2012, talked about how the group would stay safe, what they shouldn't eat or drink and how to negotiate prices for gifts to take back home to loved ones.
"I have learned to do the walk away," he said, mimicking his tough negotiating style.
With the beginning of classes the following Monday, the students settled into a daily routine not unlike what they were used to in Raleigh. They attended classes in the morning and spent the rest of the day reading, studying, exercising or exploring the city.
A cluster of businesses right across the street from the dorm, including a bakery, coffee shop, fruit stand and convenience store, provided most of what they needed on a daily basis. More coffee shops and restaurants (including one that served cheeseburgers, pizza and Mexican food) and even a Wal-Mart were available within a 10-minute walk. Mindful of the faculty members' requests that they go out in groups both for safety and to ensure that quieter students were not left out, the students used a text messaging app called GroupMe to coordinate meals, study sessions or grocery runs. Many rented bicycles, fitting into the local culture and gaining an economical way to explore their surroundings.
Students could take a class in basic Mandarin taught by a Zhejiang faculty member and choose two of three classes taught by NC State faculty members who traveled with the group. Griffin's Introduction to International Relations class examined how and why countries work together. Lisa Marshall, a lecturer and advisor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering who also serves as the department's director of outreach, retention and engagement, taught Geographies of Energy — "How a nation assesses resources and why a nation does what it does with energy sources," she told the class on the first day. Both classes touched heavily on China but other countries as well.
Dr. Laura Bottomley — a professor of electrical engineering and director of the College's Women in Engineering program and The Engineering Place, the College's K-20 engineering education program — referred to her Electrical Engineering 331 class as "circuits for nonbelievers." Using hands-on demonstrations of how electric circuits are built and work, it was designed to appeal and be useful to students in civil, mechanical and other engineering programs.
Bottomley, who traveled to Hangzhou for the first time in 2017, led the students' interaction with Chinese engineering students and Apex, NC-based Caterpillar Machine Design Center.
Project-based approach
Dr. Carl Zorowski wasn't planning on going to China in 2007.
Zorowski, Reynolds Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was having lunch with an engineering faculty associate who had wanted to travel on the first study-abroad trip to Hangzhou following NC State's signing of a cooperative agreement with Zhejiang University. But he didn't have a passport, and it was too late to get one.
Zorowski had a passport and had been to China before. He and his wife, Louise, were soon making plans for a trip, along with faculty members from political science and management and 17 students.
"The first year we were there we were basically trying to figure out where the bathroom was and how to live in China," he said.
But the program grew stronger year by year. After giving an invited lecture at Zhejiang, Zorowski met Professor Gu Daqiang, a member of the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Both had an interest in teaching classes that were project-based. What if Zorowski offered the Mechanical Design Engineering course he taught in Raleigh to both NC State and Zhejiang students?
"We had a lot in common in our educational goals," Zorowski remembers. "Conversation was initially difficult. Prof. Gu spoke only a little English and I no Chinese. With the help of an NC State graduate student, Sonny Wong, serving as translator we did agree to collaborate on offering a combined NC State – Zhejiang engineering design class the following year."
In 2009, NC State engineering students worked with their Chinese colleagues to redesign a component on a front-end loader manufactured by Caterpillar, Inc. at the company's facility in the city of Suzhou.
"The thing that most pleased me was that Caterpillar actually adopted one of the students' designs, and if you look at a Caterpillar front-end loader today you will see that student's design," Zorowski said.
The collaborations with Caterpillar have been part of the trip ever since, with Eischen taking over teaching of the course from Zorowski and Bottomley joining after being recruited by Marshall. Students now visit a newer Caterpillar facility in the city of Wujiang, a couple of hours from Hangzhou by bus.
In 2017, the engineering course offered to students was in electrical engineering rather than mechanical, but the work with Caterpillar continued; Bottomley and her students were asked to develop a lightning detector for Caterpillar equipment so that operators on a construction site would know when an approaching storm was close enough for them to stop work.
Each year, the students present their completed projects to Caterpillar engineers, who both attend physically in China and virtually from Clayton, NC.
It's a tremendous experience for today's engineering students. Even if they aren't traveling overseas in their jobs, Zorowski said, they will likely be working digitally with colleagues overseas, overcoming language barriers, dealing with time-zone differences and learning how to collaborate on complex tasks using email and video conference calls when they can't be in the same room.
It's also a more enriching undertaking than many university study abroad programs in which students might be physically located in another country but are only interacting with each other and the professors who traveled with them.
"You're there with your group, but you may not get a lot of that experience of actually working on a project with the local people," Eischen said.
Here for the experience
Most of the engineering students on the Hangzhou trip recognized the need for international experience to prepare them for a career as a 21st-century engineer.
Many preferred a study abroad trip during the summer rather than one that would take up an entire semester during the academic year. Add to that the fact that the classes offered were ones that many of the students needed to graduate.
McGee, the sophomore in electrical engineering from Durham, found a mentor in Bottomley while attending engineering summer camps in high school. It helped lead him to NC State and on the trip.
Others were convinced after talking to Griffin about the benefits of the trip. Or they had friends who were interested in the program and encouraged them to sign up.
Six of the students are part of the Goodnight Scholars program started by NC State alumnus and SAS founder Dr. Jim Goodnight. Their scholarship includes funding to study abroad.
The group included six NC State students who were born in China. Several took the opportunity to visit home either before or after the trip. Their language skills and familiarity with Chinese culture were an invaluable asset for the rest of the group.
Several said they were interested in seeing what university life in China would have been like had they stayed in their native country.
Ben Jiang first came to the United States as a junior in high school to live with a family in Indiana as an exchange student. He is now a junior at NC State studying electrical engineering. He left Raleigh right after spring semester finals to visit family in Nanjing, China and then met his fellow students after they had arrived.
"For me, it's not like study abroad," Jiang said. "It's study and come home."
Doug Moore, a junior from Rocky Mount, NC studying civil engineering, said he thought traveling to China would provide a broader cultural experience than a trip to western Europe.
That seemed to interest Evan Grant, a sophomore in mechanical engineering from Cullowhee, NC as well.
"I have never been abroad before so I wanted to do the extreme and go to a country where I didn't speak the language and it's on the other side of the world," he said.
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My sister, I do not say to bulldoze the world into submission but will overthrow all religions and will always be the one accepted by the God fearing, rational and unbias beings. It is the religion with reason and answers to all human challenges. In a fair ground with any religion Islam makes it faults. Go to Youtube and get the debates with the Muslims.
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A discussion of God's self-revelation in the Christian tradition, arguing that revelation is better understood in terms of faith rather than knowledge.
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In this challenging and engaging discussion, F. Gerald Downing draws on evidence from Ancient Jewish and New Testament scriptures in his analysis of the changing history of the concept of 'revelation' within Christianity. Through the discussion of central concepts in the philosophy of language, such as reference and identity, Downing provides a comprehensive analysis of our notion of the concept of knowledge through revelation and self-revelation.
Formation for Knowing God contains an overview of the history of the debate regarding the methods and extent of God's revelation, specifically, his self-revelation. Downing argues that the conviction that God is self-revealed stems from eighteenth-century Enlightenment debates, and has no roots in the early Christian tradition, from which we learn that God is incomprehensible. Downing rejects the view that it was the primary purpose of Christ's death to show God's love, claiming that this is unsupported by the scriptural evidence. The positive thesis argued by Downing is that what has been revealed to us is not a matter of knowledge but a matter of faith.
Downing's Formation for Knowing God will challenge the assumptions of its readers, providing an alternative and thought provoking approach to the nature of knowledge and certainty within Christianity.
1. Seeking and Securing Clarity and Unity in Talk and God-Talk
2. "Reconciliation", "At-one-ment", "Self", and "Revelation" Today
3. Ancient Jewish Scriptures
4. New Testament Scriptures
5. Ongoing Christian Tradition
6. Hide and Seek with the God of Love
7. Imaginative Faith While Being Transformed for Knowing as We Are Known
8. A Very Brief Agnostic (Unknowing) Systematic Theology for Awaiting God's Self-Revelation
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Subject Index
F. Gerald Downing is an Anglican priest, retired from ministry in parishes and among students in their ministerial training. He has written many articles in a range of journals, and books with various publishers, from Has Christianity a Revelation? (1964) and A Man for Us and a God for Us (1968) to God with Everything (2008) and Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century (2013).
In a world of brittle religious certainties and defensive theologies, Downing provides a statement of Christian faith – not as a form of pseudoknowledge – but as faith; as unknowing yet reasoned and imaginatively engaging. Accessible, lively, and enriched by an easy familiarity with a breadth of scholarship, Formation for Knowing God is a welcome and compelling read. Duncan Dormor, St John's College, University of Cambridge
...this is a thoughtful and stimulating book. ...Downing's central point is carefully nuanced, and well-made: claims for the importance of revelation are often muddled, misleading and frequently overstated. Alan Le Grys, in Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol 38, No 5


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The president has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice.
Buzzfeed News reported late Thursday, citing two law-enforcement officials, that Mr. Cohen had told special counsel Robert Mueller that Mr. Trump directed him to tell Congress in his 2017 testimony that negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow had ended in January 2016, when in fact they had continued through June of that year—a month after Mr. Trump effectively won the GOP nomination. Buzzfeed also reported that Mr. Mueller had evidence corroborating Mr. Trump's direction of Mr. Cohen, including interviews and documents.
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Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (German: Johann Salvator, Italian: Giovanni Salvatore; 25 November 1852 – declared dead in absentia 2 February 1911) was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was Archduke and Prince of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Tuscany. After renouncing those titles, he was known as Johann (John) Orth. He disappeared while sailing with his wife in July 1890 and is believed to have died when his ship encountered a storm near Cape Horn. Salvator was declared dead in absentia in February 1911.
Johann Salvator was born in Florence, the youngest son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies. He was baptized in Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni as Giovanni Nepomuceno Maria Annunziata Giuseppe Giovanni Batista Ferdinando Baldassare Luigi Gonzaga Pietro Alessandrino Zanobi Antonino.[1] He pursued a career in the Austrian Army and was a good friend of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, with both sharing liberal opinions.[2]
After Bulgaria was granted autonomy by the Ottoman Empire, Johann Salvator was an unsuccessful candidate for the throne.[3] Prince Alexander of Battenberg would be elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1879. During the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the Ottoman territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, he was put in command of a division of the occupying army and won numerous honours.[4][5]
On 16 October 1889, he resigned his army commission and renounced his title and the privileges he enjoyed as a member of the Austrian Imperial Family.[6] After renouncing his titles he assumed the name "Johann (or John) Orth", the surname Orth derived from the name of a castle he had owned, Schloss Orth.
In 1889, Johann Salvator married Ludmilla ("Milli") Stubel, an opera dancer in London.[7] Shortly after his marriage, he purchased a ship named the Santa Margareta, on which he and his wife sailed for South America. In February 1890 he set off from Montevideo, Uruguay, heading for Valparaíso in Chile.[8] He was last seen on 12 July in Cape Tres Puntas, Argentina. It is believed that his ship was lost during a storm off the coast of Cape Horn.[9] He was officially declared dead on 2 February 1911 in Vienna.[10][11]
In the years following Salvator's disappearance, numerous sightings of him were reported. Rumors persisted that he and his wife sailed to South America and assumed new identities.[2] Several men also came forward claiming to be the "missing Duke". One of the more publicised claims came in May 1945 when a German born lithographer living in Kristiansand, Norway named Alexander Hugo Køhler made a deathbed confession claiming that he was Johann Salvator. Køhler claimed that, as Johann Orth, he "bought" the identity of Alexander Hugo Køhler and assumed his life. Køhler claimed that the real Alexander Hugo Køhler posed as Salvator and it was he who died at sea.[12] In 2007, relatives of Køhler requested that his grave be opened so that a DNA test could be performed. Should Køhler and Johann Salvator actually be the same person, Køhler's descendants may be entitled to Johann Salvator's heritage, including Schloss Orth.[13]
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Embattled in NWFP, the US nurses the hope that Pakistan will fight to finish her Taliban/Al Qaeda battles. The home-bred TTP is ideologically far more entrenched and cohesive. No Pakistani regime can underestimate the fallout of obliterating it from Pakistan's political landscape.
Obama administration is more than willing to pay a price, billions of dollars already having changed hands. Yet Pakistan is eyeing something substantial that would contribute to the stabilizing of the present regime and vindicating Pakistan's long standing greed for Kashmir.
Policy planners in Islambad's civil and military establishments do not find an opportunity better suited to bring in Kashmir as prime element of any deal. They have succeeded, at least, in weaning away US think-tanks from their long-standing policy of apparent neutrality on Kashmir to deeply interested partisanship.
Pentagon Sultans scurrying in tandem with ISI sleuths seem to have convinced Obama administration that New Delhi's is likely to succumb to sustained pressure for undoing status quo in Kashmir. In their calculus this would disengage India-Pak build up along the border and thus help Pakistan columns return to NWFP battle front with much more fire power.
This line of thinking became clearer when two prime ministers meeting on the sidelines of Sharmu'l Shaykh conclave issued somewhat uncommon and non-conventional joint statement with oblique reference to Baluchistan. Pakistan won the first round of astute diplomatic thrust.
That two prime ministers were egged on to make forward movement for reaching some agreement on Kashmir and other problems common to both is no more a matter of surmise. Manmohan Singh had little choice either to exclude the reference to Baluchistan or to budge on talks on Kashmir.
New Delhi could not prevent ethnic cleansing of the valley from the Hindus in 1990. the Today, the Home Minister of India says in the Parliament that the displaced persons are not willing to return to Kashmir. Its is to hide government's incompetence Those who heard his harangues in the Parliament should have asked him what plans for their safety, security, sustenance and majority good -will were worked out by the government.?
The attitude of the government towards the aspect of ethnic cleansing in the valley will never be raised or discussed because nobody has any interest in either secularism or
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