Sediment-laden icebergs are rarely sighted in Antarctic waters. However, during the recent Deep Freeze 79-USCGC Glacier expedition to the George V Coast and the south-western Ross Sea, nine sediment-laden icebergs and several pieces of pack ice with surficial sediment layers were observed. These observations include basal debris zones, debris slumped on to glaciers and floating ice, and englacial debris believed to have been incorporated along shear zones.Sediment samples collected from icebergs were texturally and mineralogically variable. Some were unsorted mixtures consisting of a wide variety of angular minerals and rock fragments; others consisted primarily of slate clasts, quartz sand, and rock flour.

To expand markets for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) beyond enthusiastic early adopters, investments must be strategic. This research characterizes a segment of EV adoption that points the way toward the mainstream: EV consumers with low or no initial interest in EVs, or “EV Converts.” Logistic regression is utilized to profile EV Convert demographic, household, and regional characteristics; vehicle-transaction details; and purchase motivations—based on 2016–2017 survey data characterizing 5447 rebated California EV consumers. Explanatory factors are rank-ordered—separately for battery EVs (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs), to inform targeted outreach and incentive design. EV Converts tend to have relatively “lower” values on factors that might have otherwise “pre-converted” them to EV interest: hours researching EVs online; motivation from environmental impacts and carpool-lane access; and solar ownership. PHEV Converts more closely resemble new-car buyers than other EV adopters, and BEV Converts actually tend to be younger and less-frequently white/Caucasian than new-car buyers. BEV Converts also tend to: lack workplace charging, be moderately motivated by energy independence, and reside in Southern California or the Central Valley. Predictors that not only help target consumers, but also help convert them, include rebates for BEV consumers and, modestly, fuel-cost savings for PHEV consumers.

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Every one who thinks about religion in other than a servilely traditional fashion hopes to make progress in his theology. And all such thinkers expect great progress in the theological thought of the Christian world at large. The reason why this hope burns brightly at the present time is not far to seek. Periods of discovery are periods of doubt, of destructive criticism, and atdissolution of traditional forms of stating truth, but they are followed by periods of readjustment, restatement, reconstruction. For example, the titanic systems of thought of the seventeenth century naturally followed, and could not possibly have preceded, the discoveries, the intellectual ferment and the relatively new ideas of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.For very many years the world has been passing through an unequaled period of research, experimentation and discovery. The fateful question whether the old beliefs or the old forms of belief could endure the light of the new knowledge has been inevitable. This question has come as a challenge, uncompromising, insistent, often clamorous. The "burning fiery furnace" of criticism has been heated "seven times". It has slain the faith of many of the men who made it hot. Some traditional religious ideas, professedly representative of true religion, unat Kungl Tekniska Hogskolan / Royal Institute of Technology on July 25, 2015 rae.sagepub.com Downloaded from