Metaphor Without Properties

Virtually all currently discussed accounts advert to a shift or replacement of a property or properties in describing what happens to the ordinary words in metaphors. And the mechanism of this shift tends to involve an overt or sometimes hidden appeal to similarity, or to some notion that is essentially connected to it. In the first part of the paper, I argue that this route is a dead end, and in the second part I offer my own preferred alternative. That alternative is not argued for, or developed in detail – that is done in my book Objects of Metaphor – but my main aim in the paper is simply showing how radically it differs from the property route

Home/Screen: The Domestic Architecturalization of Television and Televised Space

As architecture becomes television, television becomes architecture. Televised spaces become extensions of residential spaces, creating windows into other realities. At the same time, spaces of these other realities are presented as flattened images. Using perspectives ranging from the social to the architectonic, this article argues that the television and the spaces it depicts are vital parts of our domestic architecture. Television has adopted spatial aspects and profoundly transformed domestic environments. The way in which we interact with television, and the type of content it depicts, greatly impacts the architectural implications of its presence. This article also examines changing methods of television consumption in the context of this relationship. The televised image and television itself are both aspects of domestic architecture, and they shape our ideas of domesticity. Regarding them as important elements of domestic architecture would benefit architectural discourse and help to contextualize the effects they have had on the design of homes, as well as the idea of “home.”As architecture becomes television, television becomes architecture. Televised spaces become extensions of residential spaces, creating windows into other realities. At the same time, spaces of these other realities are presented as flattened images. Using perspectives ranging from the social to the architectonic, this article argues that the television and the spaces it depicts are vital parts of our domestic architecture. Television has adopted spatial aspects and profoundly transformed domestic environments. The way in which we interact with television, and the type of content it depicts, greatly impacts the architectural implications of its presence. This article also examines changing methods of television consumption in the context of this relationship. The televised image and television itself are both aspects of domestic architecture, and they shape our ideas of domesticity. Regarding them as important elements of domestic architecture would benefit architectural discourse and help to contextualize the effects they have had on the design of homes, as well as the idea of “home.

Importance of Proactive Safety Analysis for Corridor Planning

A proactive safety analysis approach assists decision makers in addressing high-risk crash elements, particularly on low-volume roadways. Using corridor planning best practices and lessons learned, this presentation will explore creative and proactive approaches for holistic planning solutions. It will also validate 2020 pandemic crash data accuracy and highlight prioritization methodologies and AASHTO and FHWA guided countermeasures applied to at-risk locations

Complete Streets at Varying Scales: Challenges and Opportunities

Safe access for all users is critical regardless of corridor type or specific location. While urban Complete Streets are widely recognized, these solutions are also applicable in rural or underserved communities. This presentation will discuss varying scales of Complete Streets, illustrate use cases, and present thoughts on future use in Indiana and the Midwest. Attendees will also learn how public agencies are responding to multimodal demands, scalability techniques, and potential applications in statewide plans

Folk psychology and cognitive science

The author analyses the "eliminativist" claims according to which folk psychology must disappear within an evolved cognitive psychology. He shows that these claims can be evaluated only if it is determined to what extent folk psychology is a theory. He distinguishes several senses of such a "theory" and claims that folk psychology is a theory only in the loosest sense. The question of its elimination or of its conservation by cognitive psychology therefore cannot be answered and it is dubious whether psychology can in fact eliminate it.L'auteur examine les thèses « éliminativistes » selon lesquelles la psychologie ordinaire doit disparaître dans une conception évoluée de la psychologie cognitive. Il montre que ces thèses ne peuvent être évaluées que si l'on sait jusqu'à quel point la psychologie ordinaire est une théorie. Il distingue plusieurs sens d'une «théorie» de ce type, et soutient que la psychologie ordinaire n'en est une qu'en un sens lâche, ce qui rend la question de son élimination ou de sa conservation par la psychologie cognitive indécidable, et rend douteux qu'on puisse jamais s'en passer

The Invention of I.F. Stone: the early life and career of I.F. Stone 1907-1953.

When I.F. Stone died in June 1989 the Daily Telegraph described him as "the most notable radical publicist of his time" the Guardian called I.F. Stone's Weekly "essential reading for two generations of opinion makers" the Independent eulogized "the most famous crusading journalist in the United States." Stone's death made the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. It was also on all three U.S. network news broadcasts. Yet today I.F. Stone is practically a forgotten figure, a relic of the 1960s like sit-ins or manual typewriters. Even those who do remember Stone's enormous influence in the Washington Post's words "felt, though not welcomed, at the highest levels of government" know him only through the Weekly, his one-man newspaper whose 70,000 subscribers included Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Marilyn Monroe, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Invention of I.F. Stone is partly, then, a work of historical recovery. But it is also a study in post-Cold War history, and in the historiography of the American Left. By restricting myself to the period before the Weekly my aim is to show the personal, cultural, and historical roots of Stone's achievement. Like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, or Lincoln Steffens, I.F. Stone was a muckraker who wrote to change the world. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Michael Denning, Maurice Isserman, and Ellen Schrecker as well as my own extensive research on Stone's writings (published and unpublished), and over a hundred interviews with family members, colleagues, friends and opponents, plus the over 6000 pages released to me by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Freedom of Information Act I will show that just as Walter Lippmann came to personify the American establishment, so I.F. Stone became not just a symbol but an embodiment of dissent

Vacant Housing in Selected Neighborhoods of Pittsburgh

Internship report (M.U.R.P.)--University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affair

Hydrodynamic evaluation of high-speed semi-SWATH vessels

Thesis (S.M. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 62).High-speed semi-displacement vessels have enjoyed rapid development and widespread use over the past 25 years. Concurrent with their growth as viable commercial and naval platforms, has been the advancement of three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics codes that simulate steady and unsteady free surface potential flows around ships. The most promising of these computer-based simulations employ a variation of the Rankine Panel Method, or R.P.M. R.P.M.'s offer greater prediction accuracy than industry standard two-dimensional strip and slender-body methods, and are enjoying increased use in practical vessel design due to their reliability and low relative cost. This study uses one such code to examine the high-speed hydrodynamic performance of a slender, semi-SWATH, prototype catamaran with variable demi-hull separation. Hull separation's influence on vessel performance was studied in terms of calm water resistance and seakeeping response in a bare-hull state, and when equipped with quasi-active lifting appendage control. Analysis was performed on a 10.5m, 10,000kg reduced waterplane area catamaran designed by Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors.(cont.) In accordance with a non-disclosure agreement, specific hull geometry has been deemed proprietary and is not revealed. Principle vessel dimensions, body, and free surface meshing however, are discussed. The hydrodynamic characteristics of each hull separation and lifting appendage configuration were analyzed by the general purpose, potential flow, time domain, Rankine Panel Method, software package, SWAN2 2002. An acronym for Ship Wave ANalysis, SWAN2 2002 is a state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics code developed in MIT in recent years, and is utilized principally as a numerical towing tank.by Adam Guttenplan.S.M.in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineerin