Not much is happening.  Sure, Tuesday was a small election day in the U.S., Donald Trump showed more disgruntlement in court and the Israel-Hamas War sort of continues.  Maybe the most newsworthy might be:  Third GOP debate:   Five candidates qualified for tomorrow's third GOP presidential debate in Miami: former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.   One candidate fell short . Meanwhile, Donald Trump   will skip the debate   (again) to rally in a city that is 95% Hispanic and where he has broad support.  About our cruise, I've visited Nagasaki at least a dozen times in the past.  Their Peace Park is a more rewarding visit than the one at Hiroshima, which is more famous.  Some highlights from the past. Here is my  posting of 2010  where I mentioned that on an earlier trip my wife and I discovered Nagasaki pork tonkatsu. Not quite the smooth transition, but

I arrived on the Stanford University campus in September of 1958.  The first two years there all engineering students pretty much took the same courses.   According to this historic view  of the Stanford Chemical Engineering Department, in 1960, Professor David Mason got a Ford Foundation grant to begin the program.  Those below have served as department chair: Mason was chairman of the department when in our junior year he rushed into one of our ChE classes and proudly announced that we had gained accreditation.  First, I did not know that I was in the very first class, and second, I always thought we were already accredited.  Same for the rest of my classmates.  Informally, there were 75 or so of us who had selected chemical engineering as their major in our freshman year.  When I graduated in 1962, there were only 8 of us.  Ten years later, Stanford ranked #1 in all the chemical engineering departments of the country.  For the record,  U.S. News and World Report  still has Stanford