The picture of Abraham lifting a knife to slay his only son is definitely thought-provoking. It makes us wonder about the kind of love and faith that was driving him to offer his greatest treasure in such unquestionable obedience. Most importantly, we are granted a glimpse at a shadow of what God, the Father did with Jesus, His Son; in which case, unlike Abraham, His Son was not spared (Romans 8:32). The Father left His Son to die in the hands of men out of His love for us. He did this while we were still His enemies.
Abraham was willing to offer up Isaac to the God who gave him everything; God offered up Jesus for Man who owed Him everything.
That the timeless God of the universe went past the proclamation of His love and stepped into our reality to express this love towards us defies reason in all its forms. He stepped out of eternity into time to offer up all He had. He did this by completely sacrificing Himself on the wooden altar of a cross; for His enemies. This is a holy demonstration of love – His eternal Love which is and which flows from Him and into us; such love as brings and binds us to Him in perfect, eternal union.
A glimpse at this truth helps us take a cue from God in making our love for Him and others a holy demonstration.


This model of the solar orb shows the Sun lodged in a system of three partial orbs. The third—which lies between the external and internal ones—carries the Sun around the Earth on an eccentric path relative to the Earth. This is the physical equivalent of the geometrical-mathematical theory expounded by Ptolemy in the Almagest. The model is carried by a brass satyr on a turned wooden stand. Provenance: Vincenzo Viviani bequest.


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#ifndef DALI_PROPERTY_INDEX_RANGES_H
#define DALI_PROPERTY_INDEX_RANGES_H

// INTERNAL INCLUDES
#include <dali/public-api/common/dali-common.h>

namespace Dali
{
/**
 * @addtogroup dali_core_object
 * @{
 */

/**
 * @brief Enumeration for the property index ranges.
 *
 * Enumerations are being used here rather than static constants so that switch statements can be
 * used to compare property indices.
 * @SINCE_1_0.0
 */
// clang-format off
enum PropertyRanges
{
  DEFAULT_OBJECT_PROPERTY_START_INDEX           = 0,                                                                     ///< For all objects deriving from Handle (including Actors). @SINCE_1_0.0
  DEFAULT_ACTOR_PROPERTY_START_INDEX            = DEFAULT_OBJECT_PROPERTY_START_INDEX,                                   ///< Start index for Actor. @SINCE_1_0.0
  DEFAULT_ACTOR_PROPERTY_MAX_COUNT              = 10000,                                                                 ///< Actor range: 0 to 9999 @SINCE_1_0.0

  DEFAULT_DERIVED_ACTOR_PROPERTY_START_INDEX    = DEFAULT_ACTOR_PROPERTY_START_INDEX + DEFAULT_ACTOR_PROPERTY_MAX_COUNT, ///< Property start index for classes deriving directly from Actor. @SINCE_1_0.0
  DEFAULT_PROPERTY_MAX_COUNT_PER_DERIVATION     = 10000,                                                                 ///< Second-level and onwards derived objects should increment their start index by this. @SINCE_1_0.0

  DEFAULT_GESTURE_DETECTOR_PROPERTY_START_INDEX = DEFAULT_DERIVED_ACTOR_PROPERTY_START_INDEX,                            ///< Used by PanGestureDetector. @SINCE_1_0.0

  DEFAULT_RENDERER_PROPERTY_START_INDEX         = 9000000,                                                               ///< Start index for Renderer. @SINCE_1_1.44
  DEFAULT_RENDERER_PROPERTY_MAX_INDEX           = DEFAULT_RENDERER_PROPERTY_START_INDEX + DEFAULT_PROPERTY_MAX_COUNT_PER_DERIVATION-1,///< Renderer range: 9,000,000 to 9,009,999 @SINCE_2_1.13

  PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_START_INDEX             = 10000000,                                                              ///< The index when registering a property should start from this number. @SINCE_1_0.0
  DEFAULT_PROPERTY_MAX_COUNT                    = PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_START_INDEX,                                     ///< Default Property Range: 0 to 9999999 @SINCE_1_0.0

  PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_MAX_INDEX               = 19999999,                                                              ///< The maximum index supported when registering a property @SINCE_1_0.0

  ANIMATABLE_PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_START_INDEX  = 20000000,                                                              ///< The index when registering an animatable property should start from this number. (SceneGraph properties per type) @SINCE_1_0.0
  ANIMATABLE_PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_MAX_INDEX    = 29999999,                                                              ///< The maximum index supported when registering an animatable property @SINCE_1_0.0

  CHILD_PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_START_INDEX       = 45000000,                                                              ///< The index when registering a child property should start from this number. (Event side properties per instance) @SINCE_1_1.35
  CHILD_PROPERTY_REGISTRATION_MAX_INDEX         = 49999999,                                                              ///< The maximum index supported when registering a child property @SINCE_1_1.35

  PROPERTY_CUSTOM_START_INDEX                   = 50000000,                                                              ///< The index at which custom properties start (SceneGraph and Event side properties per instance) @SINCE_1_0.0
  PROPERTY_CUSTOM_MAX_INDEX                     = 59999999,                                                              ///< The maximum index supported for custom properties @SINCE_1_1.45

  CORE_PROPERTY_MAX_INDEX                       = PROPERTY_CUSTOM_MAX_INDEX,                                             ///< The maximum index that Core properties can go up to @SINCE_1_1.45
};
// clang-format on

/**
 * @}
 */
} // namespace Dali

#endif // DALI_PROPERTY_INDEX_RANGES_H

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Go Forth and Innovate!
Innovation, Commercialization, Entrepreneurship, and University Research
These Boots Were Made For Walkin'
By Keith McDowell
Or maybe not! Much to my chagrin, my favorite well-broken-in hiking boots separated the sole from the upper boot near the heel during a three-mile walk this past Sunday. And it happened on both boots at nearly the same moment. So much for glue versus stitching!
With all due respect to Nancy Sinatra and her hit tune of 1966, hiking boots have always been the bane of mountaineers or even those people who enjoy simple hikes. Whether it's blisters, sore feet, black toe, jammed toes, or numbed nerve endings, boots have a way of bringing a halt to the heartiest of souls. I should know. After over 500 backpacks and summit attempts spanning some forty-five years, I've experienced it all.
I especially remember a moment back in the early 1970s when I realized that I had lost the feeling in my right foot when I touched it following a long week of hiking using my old-fashioned, leather winter boots – years of melting silicon "bear" grease into the leather had made them heavy beyond belief. I couldn't afford the fancier double-lined boots of that era. I visited with a medical friend who was also a mountain climber and he told me: "Don't worry. Do nothing. Your nerve endings will spring back into life one day." Yeah, right! But he was correct. A year or so later, I woke up one morning with my foot on fire. Feeling had returned.
So, it is with regret that I toss a reasonably comfortable pair of boots into the trash bin and contemplate my next move. Should I purchase some inexpensive, soft, and light-weight hiking boots with cleated soles or go for the much more expensive, hard, and heavy mountaineering boots? And how about glued-on soles versus stitch? Of course, I could shoot the moon and go for the best of the best – a pair of Peter Limmer boots.
But time is of the essence and I need to get a new pair broken in. You see, at 69 years old, I'm headed for Colorado in July to join my son, my nephew, and my brother to climb Pikes Peak and a few other 14'ers. My brother has never climbed a mountain so this should be an interesting adventure.
Boots aside for the moment, the world of mountaineering and the gear used by mountaineers have changed significantly over the past fifty years. Innovations abound in just about every aspect of the sport – hmm, is mountaineering a sport or an extreme activity?
Take, for example, the use of electricity. We've gone from batteries used to power headlamps and radios to solar panels, whether the hard foldup variety or the flexible ones. What can I say? It's essential that we power-up those laptops and connect to social media while chilling out in our tents in the Colorado back-country or the base camp on Mt. Everest. And for the truly bleeding edge – I'm not talking about the blisters on your foot, how about a flexible computer display that rolls up? Oh, and don't forget to take along your favorite GPS device. It's important to know your exact coordinates in case you get lost.
My old ripstop nylon tents with aluminum poles that are guaranteed to attract nearby lightning have been replaced with Sierra Designs free standing, ultralight tents featuring ExoFusion technology and DAC Featherlite® NSL poles. And my tent pegs that must be pounded into the ground with your boot – tough to do when there is only rock or snow around – have been replaced by a Jake's Feet™ corner anchor system. Shucks! If only I could afford all this new technology.
Fellow hikers whisper and point at me these days when I travel into the back-country with my old Kelty external frame pack from the 1960s as shown in the photo at the beginning taken in 2005 with my sons prior to a hike to the west side of the Grand Teton. I think it was called a BB4 pack and was one of the last of the so-called "green packs." My sons as well as Kelty have moved on to the modern contoured frame systems that claim to provide enhanced stability. In my day, it was all about getting all the weight over your center of gravity. These days, I'm happy just to get my center of gravity moving. I think I'll pass on this one since my backpacking adventures are just about over and the BB4 still works for me.
Speaking of packs, there is no end to the choice of day packs. Many people including my youngest son prefer to accessorize with a hydration bladder in order to drink fluid at any time during the hike through a tube hanging next to the mouth. Stopping to rest is optional. My daypack is an Alpine Designs pack purchased in the late 1960s. It's been my constant companion ever since and is part of my ritual.
I particularly recall a day in 2002 while hiking back down the "road" from the microwave towers on Mt. Princeton after a training hike when I passed some folks going up. They purposely stopped me to "admire" the museum piece on my back and couldn't believe that one was still in service or that the leather bottom and leather straps had not long since decayed. Such is life when one is old and a cheapskate.
And then we have the clothing. Personally, I still like my old corduroy knickers and my navy blue Peter Storm wool sweater imported from England. I look just like a Swiss guide in that outfit. But wait, knickers no longer stop just below the knee. They've become convertible pants and a host of other marketing slogans. And Peter Storm sweaters – they've been replaced by fleece jackets, vests, anoraks, shirts and pants. I have to admit that I like my North Face fleece jacket, but I've always wondered whether fleece actually describes the nature of the material of which it is made or the effect on my pocketbook.
I still remember when Gore-Tex became the replacement for wool in the late 1970s. Now-a-days you can find all kinds of brand names and fabrics that claim active stretch fits to one's body, anti-wicking, sun protection, and even sweat-activated. I have several different varieties and they do keep me warm and dry on 14'ers. All and all, the innovations in clothing and fabrics have been a real plus for mountain hiking.
Oxygen remains a serious issue on 8,000-meter peaks with POISK oxygen cylinders manufactured in St. Petersburg, Russia still the standard. One would think that innovators could come up with something new, but no such luck so far. But then entrepreneurs have perfected the concept of oxygen bars where one can go to get a snort and hang out with like-minded folks. My brother suggested we take an Oxygen Plus Elevate Pack along with us this summer. You get over 50 flavored breaths per "tank" for a mere $35.99 including system and three "tanks." And it only weighs one-half pound! I'll keep his suggestion in mind when I'm panting like a dog at 14,000 feet on Pikes Peak.
Innovation remains important for mountaineering as more and more people take up the sport. I have an extreme suggestion. Let's invent a bio-nanostructured suit similar to the one on the TV show Continuum that is flexible, covers the entire body, and has a function not unlike body armor or powered exoskeleton suits. The skin could absorb light and convert it into electrons similar to photosynthesis. The electrons could flow through a fractal-like network that self-assembles into a complex circuit that moves the electrons to nanostructures that produce heat on the interior side when the temperature drops, but shut down when too hot, thereby regulating the person's perceived warmth and avoiding frostbite. The extra electrons could flow to a collection point that recharges batteries used to provide power to all electronic systems including a heads-up display on one's goggles showing oxygen supply and other vital body and systems parameters. The suit would come with all kinds of built-in communication systems. I'll leave it to the reader to supply additional functionality. Trust me! Such a suit will eventually be created and marketed.
But then, as always, we must return to the issue of my feet and the procurement of a satisfactory pair of hiking boots. Let's hope my choice doesn't "walk all over me."
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In 1981, Daryl Hall and John Oates released the now famous rock and roll tune "Private Eyes" whose lyrics begin with the line "I see you, you see me." It's one of my favorite songs, but it also hauntingly symbolizes a major theme of the horrific events that unfolded last week at the Boston marathon; namely, the exponentially growing presence of electronic surveillance and monitoring of our daily activities, whether by private or public sources, and no matter the intention, whether accidental or deliberate.
None of us doubt that the immense volume of electronic data collected and the subsequent use of crowdsourcing through all forms of social media including old-fashioned television led to the identification and capture of the perpetrators in a relatively short period of time. And none of us doubt that massive amounts of data are being generated and collected every second and every minute of every day about us.
We all applaud the successful outcome late Friday evening and thank the heroic efforts of all the first responders from the depths of our hearts. Like you, I was deeply affected by the obvious emotional trauma imposed on so many people who saw things no one should ever have to see or have to experience. And who can forget the stories of those who died and those who suffered grievous injury. President Obama eloquently captured my own feelings as a former graduate student at Harvard and a resident of greater Boston for five and a half years when he said: "This is personal!"
But like 78-year-old Bill Iffrig who was knocked down by the blast near the finish and who was helped to his feet by a first responder, we must travel the final fifteen feet and cross the finish line. And that means for one thing coming to terms with the flood tide of data about us accumulating on IT disks around the globe. Is our future going to be one where an all invasive computer system accesses all electronic nodes and watches over us à la the plot line in the TV program "Person of Interest?"
Who owns all that data and who should have access to it? Do your iPhone data and images belong to you? How about the content of your personal emails? And just what are the rules for accumulating and deleting data, if any exist? Furthermore, what do we mean by the term "data" or the term "access" when it comes to data?
I will never forget an experience I once had as a university administrator at a public university while attending a meeting of the faculty senate. I'll leave the name of the university a mystery in order to protect the guilty. Several of the faculty were outraged that the university was requiring them to accept a new smart ID card that had a strip capable of opening locked doors when properly swiped, thereby controlling access to buildings and facilities. Such swipe cards are now routine in most hotels.
But the faculty members were absolutely certain that the smart cards contained a GPS tracking system capable of following their every move and reporting back to university administration. If only that were true! For several days thereafter, I had fun taking out my ID card at various meetings, holding it in front of my face, and speaking the following in a loud voice: "Scotty, you still there? Please beam me out of this meeting!"
Such nonsense aside, GPS tracking is a formidable tool and convenience. In 2011, I had a tire blowout on I-85 in northern Georgia. After attempting to change the tire on a slope and watching my poorly constructed car jack bend from the stress, I hopped into the car and dialed OnStar. They instantly knew my location, sent out road service, and followed up until I had a new set of tires on my car. Now that's a great use for GPS.
But how about the GPS in my cell phone, or those surveillance cameras on every street corner, or the airborne drones – autonomous or not – flying overhead, or the satellites in orbit checking out babes on the beach, or the interception of all forms of electronic communication including juvenile tweets, or the cataloging of our medical conditions in health databases, or the data mining of our online activity and purchases, or whatever else it is that pushes your hot button when it comes to privacy? Of course, the National Rifle Association and Congress have made sure that we still don't have taggants in gunpowder in order to track down the bad guys since that would be an invasion of privacy.
For me the principle is simple: there can be no expectation of privacy in public places or forums independent of the manner in which the surveillance is carried out or how the related data is accumulated. From that principle, our legal system should branch out in typical Talmudic fashion to parse the meanings of the words public, private, data, access, and all the other related terms in our vocabulary while maintaining the fundamental principles enumerated in our Constitution. Like many, I believe we have fallen far behind the legal curve in this arena.
We live in a new information and knowledge era exponentially changed and accelerated from previous experience. While social media and data have always been present in our lives and have always been used to solve crimes, nothing in our previous history really compares to what happened in Boston. Who could have guessed that crowdsourcing – including the peculiar and somewhat old-fashioned brand of shutting down Boston for a day by common consent – would help solve the marathon bombing in close to real time? Shades of the SETI@Home personal computer project!
Claire Cain Miller in a recent New York Times article entitled Data science: Tracking the numbers of our lives captures the essence of how society has changed. Data science, a subset of network science in some measure, has now become a full-blown discipline with academic curricula available to inquiring minds. And let there be no doubt, jobs aplenty are there for people trained and educated in data science.
Information in all its many manifestations pervades our daily experience in an unrelenting stream and drives much of our decision-making. Whatever the future holds for us as individuals and as a society, it is imperative that we embrace that future by taking the time to understand where we are as a civilized society and by learning from transformative events that occur, even tragedies.
We are all Boston.
EndNote: Credit for the amazing image of Bill Iffrig at the beginning of this blog goes to John Tlumacki of The Boston Globe. I recommend that you visit his website and peruse the many excellent photographs posted by him. He is truly a gifted and talented photographer.
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What the "nav.toc" is this?
Am I angry, frustrated, flummoxed and depressed? You bet! And it's all due to my self-publishing experience at Amazon with their Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. I've been run over by an innovation engine driven by a pack of technology geeks who are directed by some apparently clueless managers lacking good business sense.
Harsh words? Undoubtedly! But you don't kill the geese – namely, ebook authors – who lay the golden eggs simply to advance technology for profit under the guise of being more "end-user friendly." Whatever happened to "content-creator friendly" and the important business concept of "self-publishing?"
Don't get me wrong! I'm a strong proponent of end-user friendly for created electronic content across all devices whether a computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. But does it have to be so "nav.toc" complicated for the content creators, especially those who want to self-publish ebooks? Here's my story.
Several years ago, I wrote and self-published with Amazon an ebook entitled Go Forth And Innovate! and followed that up last year with a genealogy ebook entitled Together Forever. Initially, it took me several months in late 2010 to understand what kind of file was required for upload to Amazon and how to markup that file with appropriate HTML tags. I'll get to the format of JPEG images in a minute.
You have to know that I cut my teeth writing machine language and Fortran II code beginning in 1964 and have produced probably a million lines of code in my lifetime including a very complicated web system that produced over 300 different types of freshman chemistry questions. It ran for over five years from 1997 to 2003 and was widely used by both college and high school students to practice for chemistry tests. Needless to say, I became a Javascript and HTML guru after spending about 600 hours writing approximately 30,000 lines of code. But then, I had to prove to my sons that the old man could still function as a programmer in the Internet age.
So, imagine my surprise in 2010 when I discovered that formatting the code for a Kindle ebook was primitive HTML at best and poorly documented on the Kindle website. Of course, the original Kindle reader itself was the leading edge in the market of ebook readers as a standalone device and one could forgive Amazon management for not seeing the future. Nevertheless, I accepted the situation and was pleased that producing ebook files in native HTML wasn't very hard to do.
Fast forward to last Friday as I sat before my computer prepared for a login to KDP to begin the process of uploading my latest two ebooks. One is a novel set in the Civil War period that is based on the factual history of some of my ancestors from the Stoner and Morgan families of Rowan County, North Carolina. It's my attempt to define what they were really like as people. The second book is a massive genealogy tomb on the Stoner family and intended as the non-fiction companion to the novel. It took me two years to produce the content in these books including a fastidious compliance with the primitive HTML rules imposed by the rendering software at Amazon circa 2010 and 2011.
Imagine my horror last Friday when I realized that the new Kindle Previewer which apparently uses something called KindleGen to render the ebook from an HTML file now requires HTML 5 and Cascading Style Sheets unless one wants a crap presentation format for your ebook's contents. In one step, we go from the primitive to the bleeding edge of technology.
After walking a few miles in my shoes on Friday afternoon, I visited the local bookstore on Saturday and purchased a sufficiently thick and weighty HTML 5 bible to serve as a bookend for my previous collection of HTML and Javascript bibles documenting earlier versions. I'm now past page 100 on my way to page 1017. Somewhere after page 200 I'll hopefully learn about the new "nav" element that's essential for making the table of contents functionality – that's TOC to the heathens among us – in ebook readers work properly. I certainly want those who purchase my ebooks to "Go To" TOC when their hearts or minds so desire.
Am I right to be mad about this? Well, yes! And let me explain why by giving several examples.
Back in the good ole days of the early to mid 1970s, IBM produced a mainframe computer known as the 360-series. Like many practicing theoretical chemical physicists of that era, I wrote Fortran IV code and ran on those computers using their Job Control Language (JCL). Just for the fun of it one day, when several fellow graduate students and I were all bored with reviewing hexadecimal numbers from our core dumps, we attempted to communicate with each other using only JCL. That didn't last very long, but here's the point. Hypothetically, if you wanted to understand how the delimiter "blocksize" worked, you looked it up in manual number 87 which pointed you to two other manuals. After an hour of such navigation through the manuals, guess what? You were back at the original definition of "blocksize" having learned very little. IBM manuals of that era were a beautiful example of a self-referential system. I always suspected that there were precisely 128 manuals in the long row of them since that number equals the number 2 raised to the 7th power – 7 being a mystical number throughout history.
So what did Amazon do with their giant leap forward for ebooks? They created a Kindle Publishing Guidelines document that is mostly worthless, not really usable, and creates confusion. Of course, there is also a guide for the Previewer that is quite long and then, my favorite, hyperlinks to technical specifications and documents on the Web. Shades of the 128 IBM self-referential manuals! I went to the links about the navigation element and TOC. I can only assume that there is a sinister conspiracy going on between major publishing houses and Amazon to eliminate self-publishing if their best answer for help is to link one to these documents. Even a confirmed computer jock like me can only cry: what the "nav.toc?"
And how about JPEG images? Come on guys! Give us some simple information. I start with an image that has a fixed length-to-width ratio. I open it with Photoshop and increase the image size until either the length or the width hits the maximum permitted by the KindleGen rendering software. I save the image in the web format to reduce size and work to achieve maximum quality. At that point, either the image is worthy of publication or it looks too fuzzy or whatever. End of story. So, please tell me a maximum length and maximum width criterion along with maximum size permitted for the JPEG file and we're done.
As all competent computer jocks know, less is almost always more. Simplicity is always the correct answer – unless you're some creative artist who wants a finely tuned ebook. I'm happy for you if that's the case, but how many people actually use all the bizzillion features in Microsoft Word? I'm absolutely sure that by the time I read all the new Amazon verbiage and get to page 1017 in my new HTML 5 bible, I'll have constructed a simple template in which to imbed an ebook that will satisfy most circumstances with minimum tinkering required. It's always that way. But I'll put a "nav.toc" amount of effort into getting there and reformatting my two ebook files. So why can't the folks at Amazon provide everyone with that simple bulletproof template to begin with?
I truly feel sorry for the average self-publishing ebook author. For now, you're screwed. It doesn't have to be this way. As a society and especially as one that has endured many technology transformations, we know how to do these things right. It's not a mystery and we don't have to invoke the mystical "seven" to get it done.
So stay tuned! You'll soon be able to enjoy reading my salacious novel Never To Return on your iPhone but do you really want to plow through my genealogy ebook on that device?
Skip the Cheese Crackers?
Travel is always the first to go. Whether due to another effectiveness and efficiency purge, budget reallocations, or the current game of sequestration, travel by our nation's scientists and engineers is always viewed as a nonessential activity and one ripe for the budget ax. And true to form, the White House Office of Management and Budget last year on 11 May 2012 produced the latest incarnation of just such a travel restriction memorandum.
Not to be outdone or ignored, the pundits have opined, national laboratory leaders have rebuked, university presidents have scolded, and STEM trade journals have reported. Take, for example, the recent article by William G. Schulz entitled The Road Less and Less Traveled published in Chemical & Engineering News on 25 March 2013.
Schulz emphasizes the "unintended and negative results" of such travel restrictions including increased bureaucracy, frustration, falling behind the curve, and the ability to attract top talent to national and government laboratories. Do we really want the C-team managing the cradle-to-grave timeline for our nuclear weapons arsenal? Or quoting Sandia National Laboratories Nancy B. Jackson, a former American Chemical Society president, from the Schulz article: "How can scientists do their work without collaborating, brainstorming, hearing other views, and finding out how similar problems are solved?"
Jackson goes on to add: "I don't understand why Congress is so intent upon doing all they can to drag us down from the number one global position in science and engineering research. … American exceptionalism cannot overcome a lack of support for science and collaboration among scientific peers." True indeed! Jackson eloquently states the obvious.
But what's the real story behind travel restrictions and life as a scientist facing the uncertainties of one's chosen career path? Is it really a path paved with such "sturm and drang?" Well, yes and no! Here are some of my personal experiences.
It was the spring of 1979 and I was scheduled to be a speaker at the annual Sanibel Conference hosted as always by the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida. Of course, the conference was no longer being held on Sanibel Island, but at a luxury hotel on Florida's Palm Coast. I didn't have any travel funds to attend the meeting, so I did what any self-respecting scientist would do. I conned my wife into believing that the meeting would be a fabulous vacation for her and our newly born son, then about eight months old. She agreed, packed our gear for a beach trip, and off we drove from Clemson, South Carolina, to the Florida coastline north of Daytona Beach. But alas, Mother Nature didn't cooperate. It was a cold and windy week with no opportunity for sunbathing or even a walk on the beach. So much for that junket!
Of course, there were other Sanibel Conferences. I especially remember the year that I drove to the Palm Coast but stayed at a really cheap and rundown motel on the mainland about a twenty minute drive from the expensive conference hotel. The many motorcycles in the parking lot accompanied by their potbellied and leathered owners should have been a clue for me, but what the heck? It was an experience, especially the breakfast conversion at the adjoining diner over a meal of greasy eggs, burnt bacon, and congealed grits. Who could have guessed that the Hell's Angels or their clones were interested in theoretical chemical physics?
And then there was the travel office at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) during the 1970's and early 1980's. Upon filing a travel request and getting it approved, one visited the travel office and received a generous travel advance, typically in the form of a fistful of $100-dollar bills. The game, of course, was to best one's personal record for minimizing travel expenses and hence maximize one's financial return against the guaranteed daily expense rate. And the secret: cheese crackers!
That's right. LANL scientists were known for their ability to survive for extended periods of time on a diet consisting principally of cheese crackers and water. I've always wondered what the KGB personnel who inspected the luggage of LANL scientists visiting Russian nuclear sites in the Ukraine thought about those boxes filled with cheese cracker packages – not to mention custom agents at the more exotic locations where physicists typically host their conferences.
And then there was the infamous "skyjacking" memorandum of the 1980's related to travel restrictions. Unfortunately, I no longer have the memo but it was basically a list of "do's and don'ts" for LANL personnel travelling around the world and how to avoid being singled out for torment or torture by a skyjacker should such a skyjacking occur. Prominent on the list was a comment about travelling and eating cheese crackers or other such unusual activities that singled one out as a scientist. But, of course, my wife claimed she could always immediately spot a scientist or engineer and she was right.
The list also contained such items as wearing mismatched socks, reading technical journals on the airplane, engaging one's fellow passengers in the mysteries of quantum mechanics, or discussing other technical matters related to the safety of the airplane. It was also strongly suggested that one not remind fellow passengers about life in the City of Los Alamos. At the time, laboratory employees had a lot of fun coming up with possible fake identities we could assume for the purpose of international travel.
"Surely you jest" is likely your response, but, yes, the memorandum really did exist pretty much as I've characterized it. And the cheese crackers? You bet! I still eat them when I travel.
Travel restrictions have always been with us during times of budgetary austerity and national security. It's a cycle that endlessly repeats and never ends. And for each and every scientist or engineer, it's a story that plays out in its own unique and sometimes humorous manner.
But for our nation, such shortsightedness is a prescription for failure in the game of global competitiveness. As Shirley Ann Jackson, the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently said, we must "invest in serendipity, because without it, there is no vitality in the innovation ecosystem. Indeed, there is no innovation." And that means travel to conferences by our nation's scientists and engineers.
Or as Alivisatos, Isaacs, and Mason stated in a recent article about sequestration in The Atlantic: "This sudden halt on new starts will freeze American science in place while the rest of the world races forward, and it will knock a generation of young scientists off their stride, ultimately costing billions in missed future opportunities. New ideas, new insights, new discoveries – these are the lifeblood of science and the foundation of America's historic culture of innovation and ingenuity."
Should we skip the cheese crackers and stay at home? I think not.
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Keith McDowell
Keith McDowell is a scientist and research administrator widely known for his research in theoretical chemical physics on quantum dissipative systems and for his leadership as the vice chancellor for research and technology transfer at The University of Texas System as well as vice president for research at The University of Texas at Arlington and The University of Alabama. Dr. McDowell is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Harvard University. An Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and awardee of the University of Texas Chancellor's Award for Teaching, Dr. McDowell is currently a retired professor of chemistry from The University of Texas at Arlington residing in Austin, Texas. Keith is an expert genealogist with several books and manuscripts to his credit (www.mcdowellgenealogy.com) and an avid mountaineer with over 500 ascents spanning forty years.
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The main beneficiaries of the US surge in subscriptions since 2016 have been liberal newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post. The Times has increased digital subscription revenues by almost 50% in the last year as it heads for a target of 10m subscribers globally. The Washington Post does not give official numbers but an internal memo revealed digital-only subscribers had reached more than 1 million, doubling in the last year. Almost all the growth in the last two years has come from those who identify on the left or in the centre – along with under 35s.
This raises a concern that high-quality news is mainly available to those who can afford it. Keeping the news free (as with the Guardiannewspaper in the UK and NPR in the US) relies on voluntary memberships. According to the report, people with knowledge about how the news industry is financed were more willing to pay for or donate to independent fact-based news organizations.
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JFD Australia Secures Major Defence Industry Contract
December 21, 2019 DP Press Releases	0 Comments	Attack-class SSK (RAN), Australia, Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group), James Fisher Defence (JFD), Submarine
JFD Australia was awarded a $7.2 million contract by Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) to build and pressure test ring stiffened cylinders modelling submarine-like hulls.
The hull is the most structurally important part of a submarine as it allows the submarine to withstand incredible amounts of water pressure as it dives deep below the ocean's surface.
Working with the DSTG, Australian partners and JFD's global testing centre in Scotland, JFD Australia will assist DSTG to test and validate analysis methods and procedures that will be relied upon in the future for assurance and acceptance of the pressure hull design of the Australian Attack Class Submarine.
"It is impossible to underestimate the critical significance of a submarine's hull or the expertise and experience required to ensure it is pressure tested to the world's highest possible safety standards," said Mr Toff Idrus, Managing Director, JFD Australia (himself, a former submariner).
"Safety will always be JFD's number one priority, notably keeping Australian submariners safe."
"As the prime system integrator, JFD Australia will partner with other leading Western Australian defence industry firms over the duration of the four-year contract which will focus on testing three pressure vessels to simulate a submarine hull and apply pressure to the point where the hull collapses".
It will be managed from JFD Australia's headquarters and advanced production centre in Bibra Lake, south of Perth where a project management team has already commenced preliminary work on engineering and fabrication for the test cylinders.
Specialised transport crates, cradles and pallets and packaging needed for transportation will be made at JFD's manufacturing and fabrication facilities at Warners Bay near Newcastle.
Importantly, JFD Australia will also draw upon the global experience of JFD, whose parent company James Fisher and Sons plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and delivers safe under-water systems to 80 nations and 33 navies.
JFD's world-leading hydrostatic testing facility in Aberdeen, Scotland, will be used for the final pressure tests.
"This is an excellent example of Australian defence industry companies working together to deliver a world-class service and with the added global backing of JFD through its world-leading capability in pressure testing," said Mr Idrus.
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At the outset, I am giving this book two thumbs up. Meticulously planned, brimming with fresh insights, and fun to read, it rewards the reader at every turn of the page.
For example: Apart from the question of her historicity, Eve is the first person in scripture whose words are recorded. The fortune-telling slave-girl in Acts (16:16–19) is the last. Freeman makes the connection: the slave-girl is spiritual kin to Eve in their mutual desire for freedom and self-realization.
One has the impression in reading Bible Women that the words of women are overwhelmingly (but not always) positive in their courage, spirit of enterprise, and profound spiritual insight.
Bible Women brings into focus how often the words of women change the course of events. One example is the woman of Bahurim (2 Samuel 17:17–21), whose clever ploy saves David's life. In eight words, "They have crossed over the brook of water," she misdirects those who would have overtaken David's men.
Another example can be cited. Deborah, whose words in Judges 4–5, powered by prophetic insight, summoned Barak to vanquish the Canaanites. Nor should we overlook Judith, who speaks at length in the Apocrypha, trusting in God but formidable in planning and action. She invokes God's blessing upon the ensnarement of Holofernes, then does what has to be done to save her people from the relentless marauding of Nebuchadnezzar.
Freeman compares Judith with Paul and Job in her theological speculation on God's providence through all human experience of suffering and oppression. She opines that Judith's "similar words of wisdom" have gone (mostly) unacknowledged.
Then we meet the courageous mother of seven sons who were threatened with torture and death (2 Maccabees 7 and 4 Maccabees 16–18). She urges them not to betray their faith but to stand fast in the hope of resurrection life. God's power and provision, active since the universe was created, would be unfailing. This is a lead-in to the later suffering and resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament.
We also meet women who are immature in their faith, but teachable. When Salome, mother of James and John (Matthew 20:22–23), asks for preferential treatment for her sons, she is admonished by Jesus; some matters are up to God.
A defiant group of women in Jeremiah (Chapter 44) deserves our sympathetic attention despite their somewhat unorthodox theology. They are women who fled to Pathros in Egypt, persisting in the worship of the Queen of Heaven (Asherah). When challenged by Jeremiah, they retorted that life was better when they poured out libations and offerings of cakes known as "goddess cookies." Freeman notes that one scholar suggests the women saw the Queen of Heaven as connected to the God of Israel, and, thus, the women's intentions were not without merit.
Then there are women who are less than admirable in the face of adversity. Job's suffering—the loss of his children, social standing, and health—was calamitous for his wife as well. Her lament in Job 2:9 still reverberates: "Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God and die!" I think this poor, unnamed woman was venting and really meant, "I want to be happy again." Freeman puts an unusual spin on the story, casting the wife in the role of skeptic whose remarks lead, ultimately, to a better understanding of the ways of God. At the conclusion of the book of Job, we see that tragedy is often random, and not a sign that God has forsaken us.
Finally, in the New Testament, we hear from Pilate's wife. Do not condemn that innocent man to death, she warned, unnerved by a vivid dream that night. Her warning went unheeded, but Pilate's wife will always be remembered as the woman who intervened to try to save Jesus, speaking truth to power (Matthew 27:19).
How does Freeman's work compare with other books on women in the Bible? One obvious difference is that she focuses on the words of women rather than stories about them. Women speak for themselves.
The book is comprehensive; even the women in the Apocrypha are included – 93 women in all, named or unnamed. It is interesting to note that only 49 are named.
Back-of-the-book statistics and suggestions for use are thoughtfully planned. There is even a list of the number of words spoken by each woman, in descending order. For those seeking more scholarly details, the endnotes will prove rewarding.
Another point of departure from most books in this category is in the presentation of the text. Chapter headings and a highlighted summary of the main points make reading and comprehension easy. Despite the summary form, all salient points are there, including the biblical context.
Freeman's sense of humor is irrepressible, but she skillfully navigates the pitfalls of wit. That is, she is colloquial but always in good taste. Her adroit choice of words is seen where she describes how "Laban shuffles Leah into the wedding tent instead of Rachel" (italics mine).
I find no material fault with Bible Women. Of course, the number of words spoken by each woman varies with translation. This is not an oversight; the NRSV was chosen deliberately.
Working with a dedicated team of laypersons at Trinity Episcopal Church in Excelsior, Minnesota, Freeman has accomplished what she set out to do with thoroughness, originality, and flair.


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Perjury and the Power of the Court
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This week, we are featuring "Perjury and the Power of the Court," a paper by Daniel Mark who is a graduate student from the Politics Department. His paper raises issues of legal interpretation (and what justifies theories of legal interpretation), legal authority (and what gives judges the power to offer authoritative versions of law), and legal authorship (and to what extent textual ambiguity should be resolved in favor of non-textual sources of law).
The paper begins with a question about perjury in Jewish law: why the court punishes perjurers who are caught before the falsely accused defendant has been punished but not perjurers who are "lucky" enough to be caught only after the defendant has been punished. The paper explores possible explanations for the rule in question, including the court's desire to withhold atonement as received through earthly punishment, the court's desire not to execute further people, and its desire to protect its own legitimacy by not vacating a judgment that has already been carried out through punishment. I locate the court's power to effectively ignore the guilt of the perjurers (by not punishing them) in favor of its original judgment within a larger discussion of the nature of Jewish law and the power of the rabbis to announce legal fictions that take the force of reality. The different explanations for the special rules in this case of perjury suggest different degrees to which the divine element in Jewish law might be playing a role in the court's actions.
For those who just can't get enough, the paper concludes with an appendix in which I align this case study with the critique of Robert Cover by Suzanne Stone that Jewish law is fundamentally not comparable to American law because of the centrality of the divine element in Jewish law. This peculiarity in the laws of perjury is an example of this difference because the explanation for the peculiar rule depends upon the divine element in Jewish law which allows the court to defy our ordinary sense of justice (that more severe crimes should be treated no more leniently than less severe ones). This argument may overstate the difference between Cover's points and my own and needs to be rethought, which is why it appears in an appendix
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Historia: särskilda händelser & ämnen
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Maurice Bassett
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In the winter of 1963-?64, American psychologist Abraham H. Maslow taught ?Experiential Approaches to Personality? at Brandeis University. An exercise in experiential learning, the course explored ways to recover neglected and often repressed aspects of personality and become aware of the unconscious and preconscious operating within the psyche. In practice, Maslow?s unconventional class became a remarkably stimulating blend of lectures and far-reaching discussions that often reflected the conflicting viewpoints and tumultuous events of an America on the cusp of major social changes. Maslow encouraged students to think for themselves, to engage with and challenge his views and their own, and to accept the mantle of responsibility that life thrusts upon us all.
Now, for the first time, readers can take their own front-row seat in this groundbreaking course. Personality & Growth: A Humanistic Psychologist in the Classroom contains the transcribed recordings of Maslow?s remarkable work with his students. With a contextualizing introduction by Maslow?s graduate student assistant, annotations, and an extensive bibliography of the works discussed in class, Personality & Growth is a rich resource for psychologists, students, and anyone interested in the ?farther reaches of human nature.? What shines throughout these compelling transcripts is a unique picture of ?Abe? Maslow: teacher, psychologist, scientist and human being?a creative and compassionate thinker possessing a unique and lively genius.
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"we have long been gifted by the legacy of abraham maslow's foundational writings in humanistic psychology, but Personality and Growth is a new genre of his work that yields fresh insights into his remarkable talks in the classroom. With this work Bassett has unearthed a treasure-trove of heretofore unpublished presentations Maslow made to his Brandeis students highlighting an experiential understanding of personality development. This understanding covered self-actualization, love, transcendence, being-motivation vs. deficit motivation, and so on. I highly recommend this book to any readers, academic or otherwise, who value Maslow's key illuminations of what it means to be fully, experientially human, and who relish, as I do, the enlivening seminars he held on these matters."
~ Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, and author of The Spirituality of Awe, The Polarized Mind, and (with Fraser Pierson and James Bugental) The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology
"Personality and Growth offers a fascinating, detailed, and unprecedented picture of this brilliant thinker in the college classroom during the 1963-1964 period. The unabridged transcriptions of the classes particularly reveal Maslow's evolving ideas on peak-experiences, strengthening positive emotional expression, and the importance of self-awareness in forging close relationships with others. I strongly recommend this book to all interested in Maslow's work and its legacy for the 21st century."
~ Edward Hoffman, Ph.D., author of The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow
"after reading Personality and Growth you may recognize changes in yourself and your perspective. In fact, I have good reason to believe you will never be the same again. How can I make this prediction with such assuredness? Simple: I took the same class with 'Abe' three years after these recordings were made. It changed my life in ways I never imagined possible, profoundly and for the good. This book is more than an historic account of events occurring over half a century ago. It is a powerful retelling of those Maslowian concepts that, when actualized, can change both you and your world."
~ Louis Ari Kopolow, M.D., DLFAPA, ACP, Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University, President Emeritus Suburban Maryland Psychiatric Society, and author of the forthcoming book Reaching Your Peak: Following Maslow's Path to Self-Actualization and Happiness
Abraham H. Maslow is known for his pioneering work on human potential, motivation, and self-actualization. He was a co-founder of humanistic psychology and a former president of the American Psychological Association.
acknowledgments............................................................................ ix
Foreword........................................................................................ xiii
Introductory Note: Contextualizing and Editing the Transcripts... xix
Introduction: A Humanistic Psychologist in the Classroom........ xxiii
Part I: Lecture & Lab Summaries................................................... 3
September 30, 1963........................................................................... 5
October 7, 1963................................................................................. 8
October 14, 1963............................................................................. 12
Part II: The Transcripts.................................................................. 17
Introduction to the Transcripts....................................................... 19
Lecture.......................................................................................... 21
Laboratory for SelfKnowledge.................................................... 53
Laboratory for SelfKnowledge.................................................. 102
November 11, 1963: Armistice Day............................................. 123
Lecture........................................................................................ 125
Guest Speaker: Richard G. Abell, M.D...................................... 279
January 22, 1964: Final Exam....................................................... 393
Appendices...................................................................................... 395
Appendix A: Experiential techniques and experiments................. 397
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Just Mercy Movie Review: An intriguing example of Reciprocal Humanity
Updated: Jan 16, 2020, 16:02 IST | Johnson Thomas | Mumbai
While the incidents in this film are affecting, they don't exactly help achieve memorability in any measure. The performances are competent enough but there's no standout here.
A still from Just Mercy
U/A; Drama
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Cast: Marcus A. Griffin Jr., Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rob Morgan
This story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised, wrongly condemned, including Walter McMillian, a man facing death row simply because he fit in as a convenient scapegoat, brings to mind Hansal Mehta's Rajkumar Rao-starrer, 'Shahid' which told a similar story - about discrimination and injustice. Though Cretton's film is a period piece focused equally on Stevenson and his clients on Death Row, and Mehta's film was rather biographical, concentrating around the principal character's trials - they both mirror the injustices of the period they are set in.
Cretton's film might not have any connection with contemporary India but the thematic resonance on the aspect of injustice and bias against minorities is tangible enough to power this experience. This movie sends out the message that "hatred, in all its terrible power, will never be as powerful as justice."
We get to experience Stevenson's privileged nobility (a rare Harvard educated Black Lawyer, in those discriminatory times) and suppressed rage at the systemic maleficence which sees nothing in putting a fellow black man on Death Row for a crime he did not commit. That said, 'Just Mercy' doesn't go beyond the common stereotype for such films.
Cretton and co-writer Andrew Lanham adapt Stevenson's memoir highlighting Stevenson (Micheal B Jordon) and Eve Ansley's (Brie Larson) role in awakening the system to its injustices (through their 'Equal Justice Initiative') while pinpointing undervaluing of Black lives w.r.t. White lives, shadowing a veteran whose PTSD left unchecked leads to disastrous consequences, corruption among law officials, justice system imbalances and, even shows how a disadvantaged white man (Tim Blake Nelson) is used to incriminate an even more disadvantaged black man.
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True stories have their impact on the collective conscience - especially if presented in an inspirational manner. This film, unfortunately, is more interested in presenting Stevenson's memorable quotes than in unveiling his true grit through the mechanism of authentically developed drama. The quotes are, of course, unforgettable gems that stand validated even in today's troubled times - be it in Trump's America or far off India. While the incidents in this film are affecting, they don't exactly help achieve memorability in any measure. The performances are competent enough but there's no standout here. Even aspects of cinematography (Brett Pawlak) and music (Joel P. West) are pretty much standard issue here.
This film may not be a brilliant cinematic experience but it is, like Bryan Stevenson says, "about how easily we condemn people in this country (and others) and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us."
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Novatek Ships Yamal LNG to Japan, Uncertain if Delivery Was Made Via Arctic
The Christophe de Margerie in the port of Sabetta. (Source: Courtesy of Novatek)
Published at: Jun 28 2019 - 07:51 / Updated at: Jun 28 2019 - 07:51
The Russian energy company announced that Japan received the first shipment of LNG from the Arctic Yamal project. It remains unclear however, if the delivery came along the Northern Sea Route or followed the conventional route via the Suez Canal.
from Malte Humpert
Novatek has previously delivered LNG to far away countries like Brazil, India, South Korea and China, in additional to its regular deliveries to ports in Western Europe. As part of the company's partnership with the French energy major Total, Japan is expected to receive significant amounts of natural gas from the Yamal LNG project.
"Commencing LNG shipments to the Japanese market represents an important milestone for the Company as Japan is an important LNG market and one of the priority destinations in our LNG marketing strategy," explained Leonid Mikhelson, Novatek's Chairman of the Management Board.
Questions remain if the delivery was made via the shortcut of the NSR or via the Suez Canal route at almost twice the distance. Satellite tracking data on the current fleet of thirteen, out of an eventual total of fifteen, specialized ice-class Arc7 LNG carriers plowing the Arctic waters for Novatek and its shipping partners, indicate that none of these vessels currently operates in proximity to the Tobata LNG terminal in Japan.
Furthermore, Novatek's press release makes no mention if the NSR was used for the delivery. "Further development of our logistical chain using the Northern Sea Route and a transshipment terminal in Kamchatka will expand LNG supplies to Japan as well as strengthen trade and economic links between our respective countries," Mikhelson concluded.
No deliveries on the NSR before July
As the eastern reaches of the NSR are still clogged with ice it appears likely that the delivery occurred via transshipment in western Europe where LNG was transferred from an Arc7 carrier to a conventional LNG carrier. Novatek did not respond to inquiries from HNN.
Ice coverage across the Arctic Ocean on June 26th. The Eastern Part of the NSR remains blocked by ice. (Source: Courtesy of Spreen, G., L. Kaleschke, and G.Heygster, Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR-E 89 GHz channels J. Geophys. Res.,vol. 113, C02S03, doi:10.1029/2005JC003384.)
In 2018 the first delivery via the NSR was made in the middle of July by a convoy consisting of the Vladimir Rusanov and Eduard Toll. The arrival of the vessels at the port of Jiangsu Rudong was celebrated by Russian and Chinese officials. At the time Mikhelson heralded the journey as the beginning of a new era of Russia LNG shipment to Asia.
The Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, where the Yamal LNG project is located, is home to the world's largest natural gas producing area. It represents approximately 80 percent of Russia's current natural gas production and approximately 15 percent of the world's gas production. Novatek's strategy to use ice-capable vessels to expeditiously deliver LNG to Asia is an important part of delivery Russian gas to the global markets.
Year-round to Asia?
While Novatek, at least publicly, remains confident that it can provide LNG deliveries along the NSR to Asia during most of the winter months, reality, at least thus far, remains starkly different. As the company cannot ship in an eastward direction during winter it is utilizing the transshipment of LNG off the Norwegian coast near Honningsvåg. The operation began in November and is expected to be completed by the end of June. As of June 22nd, at least one Arc7 LNG carrier, the Nikolay Yevgenov, was located in the reloading zone transferring LNG to another carrier.
The gas company maintains that with the introduction of a new fleet of powerful Arktika-class nuclear icebreakers, operations along the NSR will be possible for about nine months out of the year. In order to provide year-round access to Asia via the NSR, the massive yet-to-be built LK-100ya Lider-class icebreaker will be required.
Japan steps up engagement
In addition to receiving LNG shipments, Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corporation, two of Japan's largest general trading companies will acquire a 10 percent stake Novatek's new mega project, Arctic LNG 2. Additionally, financing assistance will come from the Japanese government. The deal is slated to be formally agreed to later this week at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
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Nathalie Baartman (Borne, 2 september 1973) is een Nederlands cabaretière en columniste.

Biografie
Nathalie Baartman kwam op achtjarige leeftijd voor het eerst in aanraking met een orgel. Ze was op slag verliefd op dit instrument met de indrukwekkende knopjes. Ook al in diezelfde tijd begon ze verhaaltjes te schrijven, met stuk voor stuk een tragische afloop. Haar grote voorbeeld was Oma Knots (van de televisieserie De Familie Knots).

Op haar zeventiende verhuisde ze naar Nijmegen om psychologie, filosofie en ontwikkelingsstudies te studeren. Vanuit haar idealistische wereldbeeld was ze voornamelijk geïnteresseerd in de fundamentele fout van de mensheid die zoveel ellende in de wereld veroorzaakt. Na een jaar denken werd het tijd daar iets aan te gaan doen. In een landelijk gebied in Duitsland leefde ze haar idealen uit. Tussen de echte hippies leefde ze milieuvriendelijk. Aan demonstraties had ze een dagtaak. Eenmaal terug in Nederland volgde ze een opleiding tot dramatherapeute. Ondertussen schreef, (buik)danste, zong en speelde ze. Ze volgde lessen op de amateurtheaterschool in Nijmegen en doorliep het eerste jaar docent drama op de HKU te Utrecht. Al deze ervaringen leidden er uiteindelijk toe dat Nathalie kleinkunst wilde maken.

Ze werd aangenomen op de Koningstheateracademie in Den Bosch. Voor haar eerste programma STAM kreeg ze de persoonlijkheidsprijs tijdens het cabaretfestival Cameretten 2004 en de 'Voor de Leeuwen'-trofee 2005: een onderscheiding voor eindejaarstheatermakers van alle hogescholen voor de kunsten. Daarna werkte ze STAM uit tot een avondvullend programma, waarmee ze tussen 2006 en 2008 langs de theaters trok. In april 2008 startte ze de try-outs van LOS, en speelde deze voorstelling tot in 2010. In maart 2008 speelde ze mee in Girls Comedy Night. In het najaar 2010 begint ze met de try-outs voor het cabaretprogramma RAAK. Eind 2010 speelde ze ook mee in een 'vrouweneindejaarsconference' Wachten op Vrijdag, die enthousiast werd onthaald door pers en publiek. In maart 2011 verzorgde ze voorleesochtenden in het kader van het Toon Tellegen festival in Enschede.

Nathalie schrijft sinds 2007 columns voor de zondagskrant van De Twentsche Courant Tubantia. Deze eerste reeks van deze columns is in boekvorm verschenen in Ik heb iets met prutsers. Nathalie is ook gastcolumniste van TM en bij Vroege Vogels radio.

Bronnen
 nathaliebaartman.nl
 kikproductions.nl - nathalie baartman
 web.archive.org - Raak - Nathalie Baartman

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In January 2019, Colleen and I traveled to Cape Charles, VA for a few days. While there, we invited the next door neighbors, Mike and Terry, over for dinner. They brought a wonderful bottle of French wine and dessert. For the dessert, Terry made a dish called "Crack". The name fits it well because you take one bite and it tends to get one hooked on it.
I've seen this recipe online but this one seems to be a variation by Terry. Anyway, easy to make and even easier to eat!


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National Debtline provides anyone with debt difficulties in England, Wales and Scotland with free, confidential and independent advice. In this first article in a series from the charity, it outlines some golden rules for coping with debt.
If you follow these golden rules, you won't go far wrong.
Don't ignore the problem. It won't go away and the longer you leave it, the worse it gets.
Don't borrow money to pay off your debts without thinking carefully. Get advice first. If you own your home, this kind of borrowing could lead to you losing your home.
If you have lost your job, or are off work because of illness, check whether your payments are covered by payment protection insurance. Check your credit agreement.
Check you are claiming all the benefits and tax credits you can.
Use this sheet to help work out your personal budget. Make sure you show it or send it to your creditors when you tell them about your difficulties.
Make sure you show it or send it to your creditors when you tell them about your difficulties.
Get in touch with your creditors straight away and explain your difficulties. Go and see them, or phone or write to them.
Make sure you tackle your priority debts first – for example, debts which could mean losing your home or having your gas or electricity cut off.
Work out a reasonable offer to repay the money you owe. Don't worry if it appears very small if that is really all you can afford. Creditors prefer you to pay a small amount regularly than make an offer you can't afford.
Contact everyone you owe money to. If you make arrangements to pay some creditors but not others, you could run into difficulties again.
If the first person you speak to is unhelpful, ask to speak to somebody more senior who may be able to agree to what you want.
Don't give up trying to reach an agreement even if creditors are difficult.
Fill in the reply forms to court papers and let the court have all the facts. The court will use this information to decide if you owe the money and what instalments you should pay.
Always go to court hearings. Take a copy of your personal budget with you. Don't think that going to the county court makes you a criminal; it's not that kind of court. They will not send you to prison and there is no jury.
Always keep copies of any letters or court forms you send or receive.


America's railroads have endured a number of high-profile accidents over the past few months, resulting in widespread service disruptions and economic costs across the country. From Montana to Tennessee to Pennsylvania, several freight and passenger trains have derailed, prompting action on safety from policymakers in Washington and beyond. Rapidly aging and increasingly overloaded with traffic—including large volumes of highly flammable energy products—many rail corridors face a long list of infrastructure upgrades to reliably and efficiently handle more passengers and goods over time.
Yet, despite the sudden spike in accidents, railroads are actually becoming much safer overall, building off a number of public and private efforts to boost infrastructure investment. This environment of overall safety increases coupled with more disruptive accidents should inform efforts to improve rail safety policy.
According to the latest Federal Railroad Administration data, freight trains continue to see a drop in overall accidents, particularly derailments. Last year, there were 1,202 freight derailments nationally, nearly half the total of 2004 (2,350). This decline, moreover, has come even as freight trains cover more miles, which are up almost 17 percent since they bottomed out during the recession in 2009. Still, the extent of damage from these derailments can vary widely, depending on the accident location and type of goods carried; this is especially true as the number of rail cars carrying hazardous materials, like Bakken oil, has risen over time.
Passenger trains have seen a similar fall in derailments. Amid booming Amtrak ridership—including a 44 percent increase in passenger train miles since 1997—the number of derailments has steadily declined, down to 58 last year from a recent high of 113 in 2001. In addition, the severity of these and other related passenger train accidents, such as highway-rail incidents, has dipped over the past two decades. The rate of passenger injuries and accidents exceeding $100,000 in damage, for instance, have both fallen relative to the growing number of train miles covered.
In turn, derailments across many individual states continue to nudge downward, speaking to the tremendous regional variety in goods movement, passenger ridership, and rail performance. For example, while Texas ranks among the largest states in total rail miles (10,469), carloads (3.1 million), and derailments (184) annually, these types of accidents have fallen by 20 percent since 2012 alone, due in part to various signal and track improvements. California, Ohio, and Louisiana, likewise, represent states with extensive rail infrastructure that have seen their derailments fall by nearly 10 percent or more over this same span.
Railroads have traditionally offered a safe way to carry passengers and goods compared to many other transportation modes, but ongoing infrastructure improvements will be crucial. Although private freight rail firms have already demonstrated how capital improvements can result in fewer derailments, policymakers at the national, state, and local level still have more work to do. This is especially important in dense urban areas that handle the rise in crude-by-rail shipments. Developing stronger plans, forming innovative partnerships, and implementing new technologies are among the range of strategies needed to drive further upgrades in years to come.


A view of the west side of St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh on the occasion of the re-opening in 1883. The ornately carved entrance is surrounded by an awning draped with flags. A procession of clergymen files into the cathedral. There are two rows of soldiers in highland dress consisting of kilt and bearskin hat. They carry rifles. There are other men wearing top hats and tailcoats and carrying canes watching the procession. In the foreground is a horse and carriage.
A view of the west side of St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh on the occasion of the re-opening in 1883. The ornately carved entrance is surrounded by an awning draped with flags. A procession of clergymen files into the cathedral.
There are two rows of soldiers in highland dress consisting of kilt and bearskin hat. They carry rifles. There are other men wearing top hats and tailcoats and carrying canes watching the procession. In the foreground is a horse and carriage.


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Red Sox History: A Look Back at Two Fueling Pieces of a Great Rivalry
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During the late 90s and early 2000s, elite shortstops were available in abundance around the major leagues. Among this vast and wide-ranging group, were two rivals: Derek Jeter and Nomar Garciaparra. Due to their many similarities and the frequent intersection of their careers, Jeter and Garciaparra were easily comparable during their time in the MLB. Even with all their similarities, their careers took two very different paths. One had a career that was derailed by injuries, and one experienced glory, praise, and success as a member of a dynastic and iconic team.
The similarities are obvious
Both Jeter and Garciaparra began their careers in an era where power hitting was at its peak. But neither of these iconic players necessarily fell into the power-hitting category. During the beginning of his career, Garciaparra was a pretty solid home run hitter. But his injury-plagued 2001 season muffled his previous power abilities. Jeter also struggled with power, as he never achieved a season SLG % >.560.
Despite their lack of power, Jeter and Garciaparra were both able to be continuously productive for almost 15 years. In 1997 alone, Jeter and Nomar accounted for approximately 25% of all WAR among shortstops (10.4 out of a league collective 42.6). Both did this while competing in one of baseball's toughest divisions. Their values were impressive for playing such a difficult position. And their high level of talent sparked a new age rivalry for the Yankees and Red Sox.
Defense makes a difference
In an era that included both Omar Vizquel and Ozzie Smith, Nomar Garciaparra cemented himself as a defensively gifted shortstop. Throughout his career, Nomar amassed an 18.8 Def (or fielding runs + positional adjustment). A rule of thumb is that around 20 Def is excellent, so over Nomar's career, he proved to be a consistently excellent defender. For comparison, Jeter ended his career with a collective -19.8 Def. Most note Jeter as an excellent defender but stats like UZR (ultimate zone rating), Def, and DRS (defensive runs saved) omit the credibility of these notions completely. In 2 out of the 5 years that Jeter earned the honor of a Gold Glove (2005 and 2006), his Def was negative, which denotes these seasons as below-average defensive performances. Jeter won these awards with poor performances. While Nomar, an elite defender, never added the achievement to his resume.
Similarities don't provide the same outcome
With their many similarities, it could be expected that these two shortstops had similar careers in the big leagues. This inference would be wrong. Jeter was a part of the powerhouse Yankee's dynasty of the 90s and early 2000s. He experienced lots of success throughout his 20-year career and earned the respect of almost all of his opponents. Jeter also collected fourteen All-Star selections and won five World Series titles.
As for Nomar, injuries plagued his promising career and eventually exiled him from the game after the 2009 season. His eventual trade from the Red Sox during the 2004 season may have led to them winning the World Series. Even with his absence during their 2004 title run, Nomar is still a Red Sox legend. Nomar may have been a better player than Jeter. But, in the end, his lack of involvement in the winning aspect of baseball may be the cursing roadblock that prevents him from being acknowledged as one of the greats.
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Cranberry Seed Oil, cold pressed from the seed of the super fruit, is unique among the fixed oils because it contains a very high essential fatty acid profile, along with a good mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) content, high phytosterols, and a 1:1 ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 essential fatty acids which gives it excellent anti-oxidant activity and skin nurturing benefits.
Cranberry Seed Oil contains one of the highest anti-oxidant and phytosterols content of any of the vegetable / fruit oils, making it an excellent addition to your natural sun protection products where it will help to prevent photo damage. Anti-oxidants that are consumed can reach the skin but, with free radical damage being the heaviest assault on the skin, and the cause of almost all of the signs of aging and unhealthy skin, it is beneficial to apply them topically where their protection can go to work immediately.
Cranberry Seed Oil is also the perfect choice for all of your bath, body, skin, and baby care, products where it offers excellent skin protection and will also help to stabilize and improve the anti-oxidant activity to extend the shelf life of your other, more fragile, oils. An excellent choice for all of your active moisturizers.
NOTE:: The high level of Sea Buckthorn Oil, in the World's Best Oil blend, will make this oil a dark orange color. If you prefer a lighter color just reduce the Sea Buckthorn Oil to 1% and add the 4% difference to Squalane, for additional anti-aging benefits or to Avocado, for additional dry skin benefits, or to Hazelnut for faster absorption. The Avocado will make it absorb faster as well.


Any ideas on what to do to fix that?
Maybe post them to the Hubpages social sites?
Thanks. I do sporadically do that, but generally to no avail. I even put them all in one, big happy group so I could do them all in one shot.
Pictures are nice to look at.
Maybe cat topics have reached saturation point.
A bit like c a t "o. d"
I prefer cats and have a lot of fond cat memories.
Updates On Hub Posts & Accolades, Are They Being Ignored?
Updates On Hub Posts & Accolades, Are They Being Ignored?My Profile Seems Not Being Updated Anymore Specially The Accolades and Recent Hubs, Please Check It Out? Is There A Chance To Be Heard?
Why does respond to Ad inappropriateness gets ignored?