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Electric Vehicle Rates
Charge and Save
Charge at Night to Lower Your Costs
Plug In Off Peak
Electric vehicles are great for the environment and can help reduce your fuel costs, plus you can see additional savings if you charge your electric vehicle during off-peak hours.
Start by reviewing the rate options below, then use the EV Rate Assistant. Whether you're ready to buy, lease, or if you already have an EV, be sure to call us at 1-800-4EV-INFO. We can help you switch your rate plan and answer questions about which plan will best meet your needs.
Electric vehicle owners have three options. You can either choose one of our two time-of-use rate plans which offer lower costs for charging your EV at night, or you can opt to stay on your current Residential Rate Plan. Additional information is provided below.
The new Residential Time-of-Use Plan may help to reduce your electric vehicle charging costs because it offers a longer off-peak period when electricity prices are the lowest, and a shorter on-peak period when electricity prices are the highest. Additional information is provided below.
Residential Plan
You can charge an electric vehicle on your current Residential Plan (Schedule D) or any applicable residential rate plan. As more electricity is used within any billing period, the cost per kilowatt hour increases.
Residential Time-of-Use Plan
The Residential Time-of-Use Plan (TOU-D) offers "super low" rates every day from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. that provides sufficient time to completely charge most Plug-in electric vehicles using standard outlets at Level 1 (120 Volts). Low off-peak rates are offered every day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Higher on-peak rates are on weekdays only between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Many customers may see a decrease in the annual cost of electricity on the Residential Time-of-Use Plan without shifting any of their existing household loads. If a few tasks (like clothes and dish washing or pool pump operation) can be switched to low cost off-peak and, preferably, to super-off peak periods, the Residential Time-of-Use Plan may help you save additional money on electricity. With this rate plan, rates change seasonally too, rising in summer and dropping in winter. Call us at 1-800-4EV-INFO to talk to one of our SCE Home Fuel AdvisorsSM to discuss if the Residential Time-of-Use Plan is a good fit for you.
See the full Residential Time-of-Use Plan details and view the chart below for more information on times.
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2 p.m. - 8 p.m.
All Other Times
Super Off-Peak
10 p.m. - 8 a.m.
Notes About This Rate Plan:
- Available to all residential customers (limited number of enrollments)
- Home and electric vehicle energy are measured using a single meter.
- The summer season is June through September. The winter season is October through May.
- Effective January 1, 2015
Electric Vehicle Plan
On the Electric Vehicle Plan (TOU-EV-1) electricity used to charge your electric vehicle is billed through a separate meter at a different rate than electricity used by the rest of your home. Lower rates apply during off-peak hours of 9 p.m. to noon. Rates change seasonally, and are higher in summer.
We will install the second meter as long as your home's electrical infrastructure can support it. If you are considering moving to this rate plan, you'll want to speak to a qualified electrician to understand the costs involved. See the full Electric Vehicle Plan details and view the chart below for more information on times. Call us at 1-800-4EV-INFO to talk to one of our SCE Home Fuel AdvisorsSM to discuss if the Electric Vehicle Plan is a good fit for you.
|Time-of Day*
Noon - 9 p.m.
9 p.m. - Noon
Notes About this Rate Plan:
- Rate is for separately metered electric vehicle usage. Energy used for the home will be billed according to your existing home plan.
- The summer season is June through September. The winter season is October through May.
- Effective January 1, 2015.
Getting Ready
Get plugged in about Plug-in Electric Vehicles with our video gallery
Charging at night — just one way an Electric Vehicle Power Plan from SCE can help you save money.
You've brought home your new electric vehicle, and you're ready to charge it up. We can make it easy
The fuel pump is no longer just at the gas station — now it's also at your home. And the fuel you'll be using is electricity, so are you prepared to "fuel up" at home?
Call us at 1-800-4-EV-INFO to make sure you're ready to charge your electric vehicle.
Electric Vehicles may be new to market, but who they get their power from certainly isn't. We're the new way to fuel — and we're here to help you get the most power for your pennies.
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Partes Contratantes > Protocolo de Madrid > Estonia
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|18 de noviembre de 1998
Declaraciones, Reservas etc.In accordance with Article 5(2)(b) and (c) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that the time limit to notify a refusal of protection shall be 18 months and that, where a refusal of protection results from an opposition to the granting of protection, such refusal may be notified after the expiry of the 18-month time limit.
In accordance with Article 8(7)(a) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that, in connection with each request for territorial extension to it of the protection of an international registration and the renewal of any such international registration, it wants to receive an individual fee, instead of a share in the revenue produced by the supplementary and complementary fee.
In accordance with Article 14(5) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that the protection resulting from any international registration effected under this Protocol before the date of entry into force of this Protocol with respect to it cannot be extended to it.

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Many answers to health problems are found in nature. Klorane believes in the power of nature to heal and to solve skin and hair problems. After researching and isolating plant extracts using rigorous standards set by the pharmaceutical industry, they identified key plant-based ingredients they use to formulate their skin and hair care products. Klorane believes in "plant power," but they back all of their products with extensive clinical research to ensure the product performs to the high standards you expect from products you put on your skin and hair. They believe in preserving the integrity of the plants they use to formulate their products.
As a result, their plants are grown using sustainable farming methods by farmers chosen for their commitment to these practices. With their plant-based components, Klorane skin and hair products are supremely gentle and won't irritate sensitive skin or scalps. Klorane believes in a simple, plant-based approach to skin, hair and scalp care, using only the most effective botanicals ingredients in their products. That's why their ingredient list is short. It's skin and hair care that's supremely green – and always gentle.
Extensive research at Klorane Laboratories has resulted in an extensive offering of gentle and effective products for every day use. Klorane is dedicated to providing top quality personal care products that improve the overall quality of the skin and hair.
Sometimes busy lifestyles make it hard to wash the hair every day. Klorane Gentle Dry Shampoo with Oat Milk makes it possible to skip a day or two. Klorane dry shampoo contains ingredients that absorb oils and impurities, leaving the hair fresh and clean without the need for water. Klorane shampoo dry contains natural oat extracts which nourish and protect both the hair and the scalp. This can be used every day and is suitable for all hair types. In addition to freshening the hair, the formula adds volume and leaves behind a clean, fresh scent that isn't overpowering. The formula does not contain parabens or sulfates. For those who prefer products that do not use an aerosol, there is an alternative formula; Klorane Gentle Dry Shampoo with Oat Milk – Non Aerosol. The powder formula can be sprayed gently into the hair. For clean and fresh hair while on the road, consider the Klorane Gentle Dry Shampoo with Oat Milk – Travel Size which comes in a convenient 1.06 ounce can that fits easily into a hand bag or purse.
Dandruff is a common problem but so many solutions on the market are hard on the hair. Klorane Anti-Dandruff Treatment Shampoo with Nasturtium Extract improves the condition of the scalp and is very effective at controlling and preventing the formation of dry dandruff. With regular use you can expect to see fewer flakes with a comfortable and hydrated scalp. This is a deep cleansing formula that rids the hair of impurities without causing irritation. Follow with a Klorane conditioner.


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Home > Services > Weight Loss Surgery > Patient Testimonials > Janet Mellema's Story
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Janet lost 105 pounds in 14 months with roux-en-y gastric bypass surgery.
We offer free weight loss seminars focused on surgical weight loss procedures and ongoing support group opportunities to help with your recovery. View a previous seminar.
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After weight loss surgery, everything in my life is better! I sleep better at night and wake up feeling rested and refreshed. That, in turn, makes everything in my day go better. I concentrate better at work and no longer have the extreme fatigue in the middle of day. I still have energy when I get home from work and don't feel like I just want to collapse in a chair for the rest of night. I enjoy getting out with friends in the evening again, to go out for dinner, to a show, or just out to visit. Physically, my blood sugar is now normal and my blood pressure is great! I no longer have back pain and get much fewer migraines.
I enjoy getting out for walks, going shopping again, and working on projects in and outside my home. Instead of being a chore I normally dreaded, shopping for clothes is now fun! I love being able to fit into so many different styles of clothes. My family life is better, too. I can play with my grandson and not get tired right away. He and I can fit in the same chair to read books and snuggle. We are making precious memories for both of us. My husband says he can hug me better now. I am getting out and about doing things with my family and friends again. I am looking forward being able to travel more and really enjoy it. I now fit in a theater chair, in a bus set, and in a plane seat.
But I think the biggest, and best, change is in the way I feel about myself. I love the way I look now. My self-esteem has improved dramatically which affects the way I now relate to other people. I am much more comfortable around others. I am less self-conscious about how I look and no longer have to worry if my size is invading someone else's space. I feel more professional and am able to project a more professional appearance and manner.
To put it in a nutshell, weight loss surgery has given me my life back. And I love my new life!
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Holyoke School District Re-1J Board of Education has scheduled its second meeting in March for Monday, March 17 at 7 p.m. in the board room, HJHS Room No. 218.
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A captivating look at the glamour and jet-setting lifestyle of this legendary hotel and its guests through the years. Edited by Robert Violette, photographs by Slim Aarons, John Swope and Juergen Teller.
€ 65 per book, signed by the owner. (Does not include shipment costs.)
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Gore Bike Wear Countdown 2.0 Plus Women's Shorts $0.00
While all-mountain riding covers a broad spectrum of styles and trail conditions, its definition remains poignant and absolute -- ride the entire mountain. And as you'd expect, designing apparel to fit this diverse range of needs becomes problematic for most manufacturers. Not so for Gore Bike Wear. With its Countdown series, Gore has created an entire Outfit System to meet the needs of the all-mountain women, and Countdown 2.0 Plus Women's Shorts reflect the pinnacle of this objective.
While many shorts that bear the self-appointed 'all-mountain' classification are constructed from materials like cordura or other stuffy and stiff fabrics like it, Gore used entirely different approach for the Countdown 2.0 Plus. Instead, Gore opted for a 100% polyester composition, ensuring the utmost in breathability, moisture management, and freedom of movement. This isn't to say that the shorts are flimsy, far from it. Instead, you'll find thicknesses of polyester is durable, abrasion-resistant, and highly breathable. This play directly to what Gore calls its Outfit Systems. Essentially, like the Countdown lineage, this system ensures the right tool for the job. It's comprised of three layers, each with its own purpose. Layer one provides moisture management, layer two (where these shorts fall under) provides thermo-regulation, and layer three provides protection from the elements. So, it's easy to see that these shorts perform their appointed function dutifully.
However, Gore wasn't finished with this ideology after it selected the fabric. Instead, a special focus was placed on both fit and construction. Starting with the latter, these shorts feature shifted seams that move the seams away from the locomotion of the legs. Accordingly, your legs aren't confronted with the seams during the pedaling motion, and thus, chafing as a result of movement is eliminated. Furthermore, the cut of the shorts lends itself to further reducing abrasion by essentially being pre-shaped to the cycling position. In simpler terms, the shorts are cut on a contour in order to adapt to your position in the saddle. So, while you move, the shorts move with you, not against you. Perpetuating this concept even further, Gore also incorporated stretch inserts in order to create an even higher level of flexibility and comfort.
Securing this fit is a partially elastic waistband and a concealed front zipper. There are also belt loops sewn into the waist, should you choose to don a belt on your ride. Additionally, the interior of the shorts feature a simple-to-use tape and snap system to secure the included Inner Lady Tights+ liner shorts. These shorts are highly malleable due to their composition blend of both elastane and nylon. Additionally, this structure makes them incredibly soft and highly effective at managing moisture, which is further propagated through the installation of mesh ventilation panels. So, given the past explanation of Gore's Outfit Systems, the Countdown 2.0 Plus features both layers one and two. You'll also find that these inner shorts include an Elastic Interface Technology (EIT) chamois. This insert provides anatomic support to the regions that need it most, not the one's that don't. As a result, the chamois conforms to your body, following your every movement in and out of the saddle. This means that chafing and pinching are both eliminated, accordingly providing an exceptional level of comfort.
For storage of your ride essentials, the Countdown 2.0 Plus includes two front hand pockets, one zippered side pocket, and a concealed rear zippered security pocket. Gore has also included reflective accents throughout the shorts in order to increase your visibility to motorists or fellow trail-users in low-light conditions.
The Gore Bike Wear Countdown 2.0 Plus Women's Shorts are available in six sizes from X-Small to XX-Large and in the color Black/graphite grey.
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Phoenix Suns Charities was founded in 1988 with the mission to benefit organizations that assist the needs of children and families in Arizona. Due to the generosity of fans and sponsors, and underwriting by the team, Phoenix Suns Charities has experienced steady growth and now distributes more than a million dollars annually to hundreds of local charities. Since its inception, Phoenix Suns Charities has donated more than 17 million dollars to worthy Arizona organizations.
Get your own Suns Arizona license plate!
You now have the opportunity to purchase the Suns license plates for $25.00 with $17.00 from each plate sold, benefiting Phoenix Suns Charities. The Suns license plates can also be personalized for an additional $25.00 annual fee. Plates are available online or in person at an MVD office.


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Serial/Series Title: Alliance Courier
Collection: Texas Digital Newspaper Program
Alliance Courier (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1892
Date: October 6, 1892
Creator: Perdue, J. M.
Description: Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Local schoolchildren were among the crowd giving a big housewarming party to the three Asian Elephants at the National Zoo today.
Kindergarten student Ethan Schipper, 3rd Grader Sarah Price, and 5th Grader Tony Phonemany all read aloud from their letters to the 3 elephants in the newly-revamped exhibit, Elephant Trails.
The project was 7 years in the making, and involved total collaboration between architects, planners, and the animal's caregivers. Dennis Kelly, the Director of the National Zoo, says, "We successfully transformed a 1930s building into a state of the art facility for animal care and animal research". Chuck Fillah, the Associate Director of Planning, adds, "Not only can they be indoors, they can all be outdoors, so... we provide them places to choose where they want to be".
Elephant Manager Marie Galloway says, "We hope to raise a family of mothers, sisters, daughters, and then the young males who will also have space to gradually separate from the herd as they choose to do so".
The old enclosure lacked the habitat diversity of this new space, which can accommodate at least 8 Asian Elephants. Elephant Trails has plenty of activities to keep the animals busy, and the visitors, too. It's a massive expansion from their former home, which now takes up nearly 30,000 square feet of the Zoo's space at a cost of $56 million. In order to make room, other popular animals (giraffes, African elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and pygmy hippos) were relocated to other facilities.
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Welcome, fellow slaves er, I mean community leaders!
Hello everyone!
I'd like to announce we have two new community leaders. Everyone welcome -Max- and Bogie! They'll be shouldering the heavy burden of keeping you clowns in line...That's not hard I'm sure, I'll try and find some background work for them to do. Beside's, Bogie tells me he wants a company car, that means he's got a LOT more work to do.
All Hail FlappyMap! Long Live MapFeed!
Robbie Powell - Site Admin
Welcome, fellow slaves er, I mean community leaders!
Saying congrats to Bogie today is starting to feel like spam
But congrats anyway, I'm sure you both earned the promotion. (Or the extra work, depending on if you take Diamond's comment seriously )
Welcome fellows, nice to have you on board!
Is there a list of the Community Leaders? Its seems to me as if a Generation shift has occured.
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Thanks everyone, and congrats to Max also!
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
Thanks all and congrats to my fellow promoted pair!


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Sarasota, FL (Sports Network) - David Price allowed only one hit and fanned
three over four scoreless innings in his final spring training start, and
Tampa Bay tied Baltimore, 4-4, in 10 innings.
Jesse Beal was the first of eight pitchers used for the Orioles, and he gave
up three hits and three runs. The O's were supposed to start Steve Johnson,
but he was scratched due to a sore lat muscle.
Evan Longoria homered in the sixth inning and knocked in two runs for the
Kyle Hudson's infield single scored Taylor Teagarden with the tying run in the
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Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Turturro was born on Feb. 28, 1957 in Queens, NY. His father, Nicholas, was a carpenter and construction worker, and his mother, Katherine, was a singer who performed in a jazz band with her brothers. Moving from Hollis to Rosedale, Turturro he grew up watching boxing and old movies on television, and was inspired by Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Zorro. In a lively, extroverted household full of mom's singing and dad's storytelling about his Sicilian homeland, Turturro developed a talent for impersonations, including Edward G. Robinson and James Bond, and even tried his hand writing skits for neighborhood parties. Turturro graduated from high school and pursued drama at the State Univers... Continue Bio >>
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Welcome to the GSG!The GSG (Graduate Student Government) is the governing body for all graduate students at the University of Maine. Public meetings of the GSG are held every two weeks. The GSG offers a number of services, including grants for travel to present, degree-related expenses, funding for graduate clubs, and social events. The GSG also sponsors the Graduate Recognition Ceremony and Graduate Research Exposition (the Grad Expo).
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American Indian Law (3280)
This course will present a current and historical analysis of the legal relationships existing between Indian tribes, states and the United States. The students will be instructed on the operation of tribal government and court systems. The students will be introduced to the various legal issues facing Indian tribes and the people of the State of Michigan. It is the primary goal of this class to prepare students to identify potential Indian interests and issues when evaluating legal matters. It is also a goal to sensitize students to the unique status Indians have in Michigan and in the United States.
Students who wish to enroll in the American Indian Law Practicum in the Winter Term are STRONGLY encouraged to enroll in this course in the Fall Term.
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Birth Place: Beverly Hills, California, USA
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Birth Place: Beverly Hills, California, USA
Born George Richard Chamberlain in Beverly Hills, CA on March 31, 1934, Chamberlain excelled at both sports and art while a student. The latter became his primary passion while attending Pomona College, and he might have signed with Paramount Pictures, had he not been required to serve in Korea for 16 months. After his return to the States, Chamberlain studied under noted acting teacher Jeff Corey and co-founded the Los Angeles theater group Company of Angels. He began landing his first screen roles in the late '50s and early '60s on TV series such as "Gunsmoke" (CBS, 1955-1975) "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (CBS/NBC, 1955-62) and in several undistinguished theatrical features.
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After I upgraded to the desktop version 7.2.2 build 1191, everything seemed fine...
After a while I noticed that zimbra was not sending emails :confused:, no errors are generated, no emails in the sent folder... nothing the email is lost without a trace.
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1939 Chevy Truck Firewall Fabrication - No Recess!Written by on September 1, 2009 Overcoming A Major Engine Setback With A Direct Sheetmetal Firewall
I can remember back when Total Cost Involved was about to drop the '58 Chevy 235 engine and Gear Star Turbo 350 trans in my '39 just as they finished up the suspension. Actually, what I recall the most was one very simple question they asked: "Do you want the firewall cut or not?" For those of you wondering why they'd even consider that, let me explain in a little more detail.
From day one, this project was always destined to retain an inline-six--but not the original 216 nor even an early 235 ... it had to be of the '56-62 variety, but the newer they get, the longer they get (from the water pump's perspective). So, while the additional length can be overcome with a couple different methods--either the modified pumps offered by Patrick's or the conversion kits to accept an early pump on a late motor--we thought it would be "cool" to stick with the factory equipment and squeeze `er in. To achieve a proper fit, TCI simply notched out the firewall "blister" enough for the back of the cylinder head and rocker cover. At the time, I never really put much further thought into it--patching the firewall was the least of my concerns back then.
As I got further along with the project (hanging the column, installing the intake/exhaust manifold, etc.), it started becoming quite clear that I would literally have my work "cut" out for me, as the seemingly simple sheetmetal patchwork was now looking more like a full fabrication job. Don't get me wrong, it could and can be done, but I just wasn't up for it, especially knowing that I could solve 90 percent of my problems (mostly labor and frustration) by just replacing the firewall altogether.
Fortunately, Direct Sheetmetal has patterns for not only '37-39 Chevy pickup firewalls, but floorboard and transmission tunnel kits as well. The more I thought about it, this was definitely the way to go. Plus, unlike the task of fabricating practically an entirely new center portion for the stock one, installing a new firewall was something I had no doubts of being able to pull off without nearly as much effort, yet achieve the results I was after--fit and finish. As for the floors, I'm still up in the air regarding the direction I'll go, but from the looks of it, I may end up integrating the Direct Sheetmetal toe boards and trans cover with the stock floor.
As usual, I went about this particular task a bit different than the instructions suggested--instead of fitting and welding the new firewall on the "outside" of the cowl, I trimmed it to fit from behind, just like the stock one. Ultimately, I wanted to retain as much of the original look as possible, and thus having the cowl flange still visible from the exterior would definitely help. This way, the DS firewall could be rosette-welded through the existing spot-weld holes; mounting from the outside requires a full perimeter weld. Either way you look at it, my major setback is now a thing of the past--now if I could just make up my mind and figure out just what I'm gonna do with the floor...
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While a '39 Chevy truck's original four-speed manual transmission is no featherweight by any means, it pales in comparison to the overall "girth" of the Gear Star Turbo 350 that's been mated to a 235 via a Buffalo Enterprises adapter kit (full story on that to follow). Combined with the increased setback of the 235, the stock firewall and floor need to be seriously addressed in order to make some breathing room inside the cab.Modifying the existing firewall is not out of the question, but in many cases, replacing it completely with one such as this from Direct Sheetmetal (DS) is the way to go--easy to install, plus it's made to accommodate all the interference issues thanks to a 4-inch recess. (The trans tunnel kit pictured below will be put to use when the floor is redone later.)Speaking of floors, DS also offers a complete replacement floor board kit. At this stage, I was undecided about what direction to go with the floor, as I'd like to retain the stock floor section and integrate the DS tunnel and toe boards.You don't have to tell me--I'm fully aware of the water pump mods that alleviate the need to set a later 235 so far back into the firewall. However, I chose to keep the stock '58 pump/fan combo and suffer the consequences of altering the firewall instead!To remove a '37-39 firewall, there are a number of rivets and even more spot welds (both inside the cab and in the engine compartment) that need to be properly removed.When I say "properly", there's a way to eliminate a spot weld without having to drill through both metal panels: HTP's Spot Mill. With this pneumatic tool, you can burr through the spot welds and not cause any damage to the underlying metal.The cowls on the '37-39s overlap the firewall, thus the spot welds are accessed from the engine side--which is fortunate, as there's not as much room to work with from inside the cab.With the HTP Spot Mill, just set the cutting depth by adjusting the red collar and use the appropriate-sized cutting bit. Typically, you'll know when a spot weld's cut loose when you hear the metal pop. (Since the stock firewall won't be used, you can drill through both layers of metal if desired.)
...use the Spot Mill, as the metal beneath the rivet heads (looking from inside the cab) will remain in use, so you probably don't want to damage it too much.Once you think you've eliminated any and all means of retention (there's a good chance you may have missed a spot weld or two), carefully take a thin chisel and try prying the firewall from the cowl lip, using the flat side against the cowl.Both toe board supports will need to be pried back (toward the doorjamb) in order for the firewall to come out in one piece--and to avoid fits of frustration on your part!Obviously, having the engine/trans out of the truck would seem to make the job a lot easier--but there're two reasons I left the drivetrain in place: the firewall comes out through the cab, and I wanted to be absolutely sure the new firewall would fit just right. (Notice that I've supported the cowl with a spreader bar just to be safe.)OK, here's where my strategy strays off course from Direct Sheetmetal's suggested means of installing the firewall on the "front" of the cowl: I wanted to retain some of the factory look, so I opted to install from behind, as it was before. Thus, the forward cab mounts/cowl supports will remain intact.Regardless of which side of the cowl you put the DS firewall, there will be some trimming required no matter what. To fit it in from behind, I needed to get the overall shape as close to the original as possible, so I laid the old one on top dead center and aligned.Using a Sharpie, I traced the outline of the old onto the new. Being that the DS firewall is sized to fit the outside edge of the cowl, there will be some areas needing as much as a 1/2-inch trimmed off.Nibblers, pneumatic/electric shears, or good old-fashioned tin snips--whichever your weapon of choice, choose wisely and use intelligently! If you're like me and rely on hand shears such as Wiss aviation snips, do yourself a favor and also grab a set of "right" and "left" cutters, if you don't already have them.
However, there will be some warped metal that you'll need to straighten out if you plan on installing the firewall from behind. Using a nice flat dolly and body hammer, go around the perimeter of the cowl flange and give it a uniform shape (it can be straightened even more once the firewall is in place).With the DS firewall initially trimmed and the cowl straightened out, it's time for a test fit. Unless you've got someone helping you, try using a self-tapping screw to hold the firewall in place (top center) while checking the fit.As mentioned, I was still up in the air regarding the direction to go with the toe boards--as you can see here, the relation between the angle of the stock flange and the firewall is pretty off; it can be adjusted, but I'll worry about that later.As for engine-to-firewall clearance, there's plenty of room now. But, had I gone and put the firewall on the outside of the cowl, I wouldn't have had a sufficient enough gap. The good thing is, the engine/trans can (and will) come forward at least a 1/2-inch.With the firewall positioned to my liking, I installed a dozen or so self-tappers (from the front through the remaining spot weld holes) to suck the firewall up tight. This will help determine if and where any further trimming is needed.Along with a few "high" spots along the top edge, it was necessary for me to trim out a small portion of the bottom flange in order to clear the top of the trans bell.For now, I kept the trimming to a minimum, as I didn't want to jeopardize myself by not leaving enough room in which to attach the top portion of the tranny cover. As it is now, there's over an inch gap.Once the firewall sucks up nice and tight to the cowl flange without causing any distortion, you know it fits. As you can see, I went ahead and trimmed out the lower corners of the firewall to follow the contours of the toe board flanges.Some further trimming and fitting should be all it takes to integrate the DS toe boards and transmission tunnel kit with the '39's stock main floor panel. More than likely I'll weld the tunnel pieces together and then attach everything with 1/4-20 nutserts in order for the panels to be removed if necessary.
And with a little notching of the DS toe board section, my indecisiveness regarding this portion of the floor started becoming a little more decisive, as things were shaping up in the right direction.If installing a firewall from the front, you'll need to fully weld the perimeter, which in itself is time-consuming and not something an inexperienced welder should attempt. On the other hand, installed from behind, all you have to do is attach with rosette welds through the existing holes in the cowl flange!


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The current is maximum through those segments of a circuit that offer the least resistance. But how do electrons know beforehand that which path will resist their drift the least?
This is really the same as Adam's answer but phrased differently.
Suppose you have a single wire and you connect it to a battery. Electrons start to flow, but as they do so the resistance to their flow (i.e. the resistance of the wire) generates a potential difference. The electron flow rate, i.e. the current, builds up until the potential difference is equal to the battery voltage, and at that point the current becomes constant. All this happens at about the speed of light.
Now take your example of having let's say two wires (A and B) with different resistances connected between the wires - lets say $R_A \gt R_B$. The first few electrons to flow will be randomly distributed between the two wires, A and B, but because wire A has a greater resistance the potential difference along it will build up faster. The electrons feel this potential difference so fewer electrons will flow through A and more electrons will flow through wire B. In turn the potential along wire B will build up and eventually the potential difference along both wires will be equal to the battery. As above this happens extremely rapidly.
So the electrons don't know in advance what path has the least resistance, and indeed the first few electrons to flow will choose random paths. However once the current has stabilised electron flow is restricted by the electron flowing ahead, and these are restricted by the resistance of the paths.
To make an analogy, imagine there are two doors leading out of a theatre, one small door and one big door. The first person to leave after the show will pick a door at random, but as the queues build up more people will pick the larger door because the queue moves faster.
They don't. Electrons follow the path of least resistance in the same way that water flows downhill. The electrons do not act collectively, each individual electron is driven away from other electrons, and driven toward positive charges. The collective result is well described by the statement that they follow the path of least resistence.
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No offense to DG, but he is not a pro prospect right now. What does he do well enough?
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No offense to DG, but he is not a pro prospect right now. What does he do well enough?
Well, he is only listed as the 15th best guy in the entire conference, so that's not saying much in the NBA draft, which only takes 60 guys total.
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No offense to DG, but he is not a pro prospect right now. What does he do well enough?
according to who? you?
no offense, but you are not an nba scout.
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The DG hate on this board is phenomenal. He's a really nice player who still has two years left. He was just a few assists away from being the best assist guy in the conference last season. ( 2009 Big 12 Conference Leaders for Assist Rate )
I have no idea why DG gets no love on here. We all saw his high school highlights on here and the kid scored a ton of points and had alot of assists because he was always running up and down the court. He hasn't done that at ISU. I think if he played in an offense that played to his strengths he would be a 14 pt 7 assist player easily.
I've been a DG supporter since his freshman year. The kid can play.
Love DG... love his D. If he improves again like last year he could be something special.
DG gets dogged here because he does everything except finish well. People remember the bad things that happen and getting to the hoop and missing a layup is memorable. Otherwise, he does many things well.
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I think he's ranked about right. To me, he's a 3rd team or honorable mention all conference type player. He's experienced and progressed well from his freshman to sophomore campaign. If he could develop his body more OR become a dependable perimeter shooter he would be very solid. Yeah, he has some turnovers once in awhile but he wasn't exactly surrounded by greatness last year. This year he will have an improved cast of characters around him.
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No offense to DG, but he is not a pro prospect right now. What does he do well enough?
Too many here focus on his weaknesses (which are correctable IMO) and ignore the fact that he has a very good ability to beat almost anybody off the dribble, has the length and quickness to be a good perimeter defender, and can run a team from the point. If (and not a big if) he gains more strength, improves his outside shooting some, and becomes a more consistent finisher at the rim, he has a chance to emerge an as all=conference type player and have a long=term professional career here or overseas.
I think DG gets dogged alot because ISU has been pretty spoiled with point guards in the recent past... Blalock and Tinsley left some VERY big shoes to fill...
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I think DG gets dogged alot because ISU has been pretty spoiled with point guards in the recent past... Blalock and Tinsley left some VERY big shoes to fill...
Tim Barnes was pretty solid for most of his lone season, too. Not great by any means but he wasn't a stiff and played great the last 8-10 games.
After four years, he should be really good. He is still getting better.
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NEW MARTINSVILLE - Big games? Shoot, the stars of Magnolia's baseball team have played in plenty of those.
That's why the Blue Eagles (30-4) are taking the opening of the West Virginia Class A baseball tournament in Charleston at 10 a.m. on Friday against Clarksburg Notre Dame as just another game, even though it obviously isn't.
"That's what we're really counting on," Magnolia coach Dave Cisar said of his players' prior experiences. "Kyle Elliott played a great deal of basketball, and played at a high level in baseball with the Huntington Hounds the last two summers.
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Magnolia catcher Grant Cain, above, and the rest of the Blue Eagles are up to the challenge ahead of them.
"Tanner (Hanna) quarterbacked our football team to the state semifinals and was probably one play from getting to the championship."
Many consider the Blue Eagles, who enter the tournament with a better record than anyone regardless of class, as the favorite. Cisar has heard that, but refuses to let any such thinking enter the equation.
"We consider ourselves pretty lucky because Wheeling Central gave us every ounce of effort that they had in the regional semifinal ... we had to score two in the sixth inning to win,'' Cisar said. "All these kids on the team are solid, solid kids. Not arrogant or cocky.
"All we're concerned about is playing our game whether we're favored or not.''
What exactly Magnolia's game is would be anyone's guess, which is exactly the way Cisar likes it. The Blue Eagles don't hit a ton of home runs, preferring to manufacture their runs by bunting, squeezing and stealing bases. In fact, their top seven players have attempted 96 steals and been safe 84 times.
"We want that team to know we're going to steal, hit and run and squeeze,'' Cisar said.
"We're not going to do the ordinary things right here.''
Elliott, a senior pitcher-shortstop, leads the way and will take the ball against the Fighting Irish (23-10). Elliott is 7-1, including six complete games, 87 strikeouts and an ERA of 0.89 to go along with five saves. Opponents hit just .188. Offensively he's hitting .437 with eight doubles, five homers, 43 runs and 42 RBI. Elliott walked 25 times and was hit by pitches 11 more.
Chandler Sapp, a senior outfielder-pitcher, has 66 hits, which Cisar said hasn't happened under his watch in the last 20 years. Sapp is hitting .532 with 10 doubles, three triples, 40 RBI and has scored 54 runs. On the mound, Sapp has a record of 4-0 and has struck out 44 in 40 innings.
The No. 3 guy in the rotation is junior Zach Wilhoite, a 6-foot-6 right-hander with a 6-0 record and 3.20 ERA. With the bat, he's hit .370 and driven in 46 runs.
Hanna also will see time on the hill after going 4-0 with 39 strikeouts in 35.1 innings. At the plate, Hanna is hitting .366 with seven doubles and has plated 27.
Ryan Walton, a returning all-stater in the outfield, hits .432 out of his leadoff spot and has committed just one error this season. When leading off an inning, Walton is 36 of 52.
"When you start your season, we knew we had good pitching," Cisar said. "I think many are excited because our kids who are playing are categorized as good kids and good students.
"We've taken a lot of people's best shot.''
Though this game would seem to some as a mismatch - Magnolia had a 19-game winning streak while Notre Dame won 23 all season - Cisar cautions about the type of competition the Irish plays during the season.
"The Clarksburg area is one of the best in West Virginia for Babe Ruth, Little League and Legion baseball,'' Cisar said. "Think of Bridgeport, Liberty and Lincoln. The whole city right there plays very good baseball.
"We're not taking Clarksburg Notre Dame as a cupcake, I guarantee that.''


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So I'm considering selling my anger because every last sniper in tf2 has one, and I don't want to look like everyone else...I thought about buying a cold killer, but then I realized I want a hat that helps me. So, any hats that make you harder to shoot, or that at least don't put a big target on your head? (not including unusuals)
I use the Master's yellow belt (painted black, of course) or other small hats.
The other larger hats may throw off some noob snipers, but I prefer to minimize my visual profile to avoid being seen as much as possible. Sometimes large hats can be seen over a fence or other obstruction when the sniper would normally remain unseen. The snipers nest area in hightower, for instance, has a fence leading up to the stairs that would allow a large hat to be visible behind.
Sniper battles are ideally won by attacking from an unexpected direction.
Ritzy Rick's Hair Fixative? (aka no hat)
Towering Pillar of Hats is obviously very conspicuous, but maybe people will try shooting the top of the hat and miss?
In reality it's going to make very, very little difference.
If you want to be an anti-sniper, you could consider using the Croc-o-Style Kit. Equipping the ol' snaggletooth hat along with the sydney sleeper, danger shield, and bushwacka, makes it so you cannot be killed by headshots. Out of any hats out there, this one by far gives you the most "utility".
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My hubby no longer works in the same office as me. What a weird phenomenon. This is the place I met Ethan nine years ago. These are the halls I would get all giddy running into him. I can't believe I'd ever miss seeing his life-size Gandolf staring back at me when I pass his office (yup. in radio we acquire eclectic things).
Ethan is taking on a whole new career outside of radio. It's probably the most selfless thing I've seen; to give up a career he loved and is damn good at, for better opportunities for his growing family.
Not only is he going back to college, but he has been taking care of our very active 18 month old son, Cole. And doing an awesome job, in the coolest way only Ethan knows how. Here's his latest FB post:
This morning, I showed Cole how to make eggs over-hard; we had an 80s dance party to Debarge's "Rhythm of the Night;" learned the lyrics to "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" by Old Dirty Bastard; jumped my old Matchbox car replica of the sheriff's car from "Smokey and the Bandit 2" over some monster truck toys and spices from the lazy susan; then went out to the playground to roll around in the dirt for an hour while I played hide-and-seek by standing behind a pavilion post that effectively hid nothing of my side profile. What did you do today? Did it involve bad coffee and parking like an a****** because some not-between-the-lines d******* in the parking lot set the standard for the entire row? Come to my house for a break. You need to park between lines properly. I need a break. You can watch my kid. I have good coffee. Win-win.
Their day started at 6a. Ethan could have forgivably plopped Cole in front of the tv, but he didn't.
Seeing this helps me get past the void at the office. Instead of seeing Ethan's quirky Gandolf poster at work, I'm greeted by all the fun toys Ethan and Cole play with throughout the day.
Ethan, you're putting your heart into this new job thing ... being an amazing Daddy. If you can do this with such finesse, I have no doubt you'll shine at your future profession.
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"[David] Lewis could kick my philosophical ass when it comes to modality—or just about any issue in metaphysics for that matter."
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David Lewis could kiss my ass on modality. How about that?
- September 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Anybody can kick anybody's ass on metaphysics (including interpretations of modality). Here is one way to do it: at a colloqium back in the 1990s, Lewis was giving a talk on something or other in the metaphysics of mereology. Some local figure responded to something in his talk with "But it is intuitively obvious to me that what you say can't be right". To which Lewis replied (in that robotic voice of his): "No. Your intuitions are wrong. Mine are right".
- September 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM
Wait, how is that supposed to show that anybody can kick anybody's ass on metaphysics? I don't get it.
- September 16, 2010 at 4:20 PM
@Anonymous 4:20
Well, try to imagine this kind of argumentation taking place at a math colloquium (not philosophy of math). I've attended enough of both, and I can assure you that objections which essentially amount to "That's what YOU say!" are plentiful in philosophy, but I'm yet to hear this kind of objection to a mathematical proof. (Of course, one may point out that the proof is not "intuitionistically valid" or that it is "non-constructive", but these objections still appeal to mathematical facts, not to one's "well-entrenched intuitions", "common sense", and such...)
- September 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Oh, I get it.
It's nice that you "can assure" me that objections like this are plentiful. Maybe you could cite some such objections from the published work of Lewis, so that something besides your (no doubt indubitable) anecdotes could be used as evidence.
- September 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM
CFP: "Kick-Ass and Philosophy"!
- September 16, 2010 at 6:13 PM
I wonder if different philosophical ass-kickings are worse than others. Of course ass-kickings by different people might be worse than others (an ass kicking by Fodor would likely be worse, more brutal, than an ass-kicking by Stich, say). What about an ass-kicking on modality vs. universals, color perception, or aesthetic properties. When you go home, bloodied, which one hurts worse? Which one gets you ridiculed on the playground more?
- September 16, 2010 at 6:50 PM
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I am not selling this anecdote - just relating what I've heard at a colloquium while a grad student long ago at one of those fancy, old East Coast universities.
As for published work by Lewis, you'd have to hire your own RA (or do the reading yourself). I am not much of a fan of Lewis' writings. He can be very entertaining, and I certainly wish I was 1/10 as clever as he was. But his metaphysics bores me. And those indisputably true claims of his - e.g., his completeness theorem for his axiomatization of counterfactuals - are fairly trivial for professional mathematicians (just as Kripke's completeness theorem is). Both can be massaged rather easily from a very old result by Tarsky (with some Scandinavian mathematician whose name eludes me at the moment) to the effect that every Boolean algebra with a closure operator (i.e., algebraically generalized modal logic) is isomorphic to a partially ordered set (whose elements one can call "possible worlds" if so metaphysically inclined).
Again, I don't mean to bite the hand that feeds me (I get my paycheck via Phil Dept), but there is something to be said about the fact that so many indisputably great mathematicians and scientists - from Gauss to Feynman and Weinberg - had nothing but scorn and contempt for philosophers (and in print to boot!) As I see it, the reason for this widespread attitude is precisely the fact that philosophy allows one to get away with the kind of bullshit which would lead to speedy self-destruction in mathematics and the natural sciences.
- September 16, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- September 16, 2010 at 7:40 PM
See Paul Grice's "Studies in the Way of Words," page 345: "This is pointedly illustrated by the famous story of the British mathematician G.H. Hardy, who in a lecture announced that a certain mathematical proposition was obvious, at which point one of his audience demurred and said that it was not obvious to him. Hardy then halted the lecture, paced outside the lecture room for a quarter of an hour, returned, and said 'It is obvious.'"
- September 16, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Oh, my mistake. Now I understand fully. Troll.
- September 16, 2010 at 9:31 PM
As someone who knew Lewis and heard him present regularly, I don't believe the anecdote described by 3:36 for a second. Either it never happened or 3:36 didn't understand what Lewis was saying. He never argued that way, either in print or in person.
- September 17, 2010 at 1:07 PM
I'm with 1:07.
- September 17, 2010 at 2:03 PM
I also confirm what 1:07 is saying. I would have said it earlier but I didn't think the original anecdote deserved a response.
- September 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM
Lewis' counterpart actually kicks my counterpart's ass. But of course, I have a counterpart that kicks one of his too.
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- September 18, 2010 at 10:24 AM
As I see it, the reason for this widespread attitude is precisely the fact that philosophy allows one to get away with the kind of bullshit which would lead to speedy self-destruction in mathematics and the natural sciences.
Philosophy neither permits nor prohibits. It may be that some philosophers allow people to get away with that kind of bullshit; but, on those occasions, aren't they just being bad philosophers?
- September 19, 2010 at 4:52 PM
3:36/4:52/6:52: "My discipline's daddy can kick your discipline's daddy's ass. So there."
Me: [runs home sobbing]
- September 21, 2010 at 3:26 PM
>>>> As I see it, the reason for this widespread attitude is precisely the fact that philosophy allows one to get away with the kind of bullshit which would lead to speedy self-destruction in mathematics and the natural sciences.
>> It may be that some philosophers allow people to get away with that kind of bullshit; but, on those occasions, aren't they just being bad philosophers?
I wish you were right. There are surely enough philosophers whose speculations are taken very seriously by scientists and mathematicians, at least those who bother with philosophy in the first place. (Putnam, Fodor, Earman, Batterman, Suppes come to mind, and there are others)
Alas, there are also plenty of big name philosophers who seem to be blissfully unaware of anything resembling a worldview informed by science and mathematics of the present. Hence we have such popular embarrassments as
"causal reducibilty of consciousness" (never made clear despite more than one book peddling this notion);
"supervenience of mental on the physical" (despite the trivial fact that classical PHYSICAL events/properties already do not supervene on the underlying quantum PHYSICAL events/properties)
"Science without numbers" (as if equations of gravitational interaction is all the mathematics one needs for a classical theory of gravity. Even a simply describable one-dimensional dynamical system may exhibit behaviors whose understanding requires the full resources of measure theory, ergodic theory, topology, information theory, and much more).
And the list can be continued for quite some time...
I'm sure it is easy to defend this kind of philosophy by dismissing the present(and some earlier comments) as those of a "troll". It is a lot harder to admit that philosophy's reputation among scientists and mathematicians is painfully low, and to give some serious thought (which is what philosophers are supposedly good at) to why this is so...
- September 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM
A lot of crap gets published in philosophy. I'll sign on to that. Does it publish more than its fair share? I don't know -- not being a mathematician or a scientist, I don't know the standards of the discipline, so I don't know the proportions of what counts as crap for that discipline that gets published.
But I do know that, whatever scientists think about the discipline (and whatever explains it), we shouldn't take it as evidence that we're not doing good work. When scientists foray into philosophical speculation, they tend to produce terrible material that we would send back to our undergraduates covered in red ink. There are exceptions. But witness Bohm's execrable Wholeness and the Implicate Order, or much of the incoherent doublespeak during the birth of quantum mechanics, or even the adjacent chapters in Hawking's popular The Universe in a Nutshell where he essentially (i) commits himself to scientific instrumentalism and then (ii) goes on to assert a bunch of anti-instrumentalist platitudes. If scientists can't in general produce good philosophy, it's hard to see why we should count them as competent judges of it.
Maybe the reason philosophy produces so much crap and scientitsts look down on it is that we're really all crap thinkers and should go teach high school. Or maybe philosophy is hard, but people who haven't really tried to do it systematically think it's easy.
Relatedly: 3:36/4:52/6:52 seems to think that Lewis's and Kripke's theorems not being of interest to mathematicians somehow undermines the interest of their work. This is to totally misconstrue why that work was interesting, though: Kripke's breakthrough wasn't the theorem itself, but the the observation that Kripke-style models could be used to interpret the several systems of modal logic developed by C. I. Lewis. Lewis's Counterfactuals breakthrough (shared by Stalnaker, of course) was the observation that a semantic analysis of counterfactuals (which stumped, well, everyone for decades before). The theorems were just tidying up loose ends. (And, while they might have been obvious to mathematicians, if Lewis hadn't shown the results plenty of philosophers would have complained about that, instead.)
Relatedly, 4:13 complains about Field's Science Without Numbers project because we need more than classical gravatation for science. Well, yeah --- which Field notes explicitly. The point of the book is to provide an essay on how we might go about with the project for more viable candidate theories, and to at least provide a prima facie case that the indispensability argument can be undercut --- not to completely undercut the argument by carrying out the project for a viable total scientific theory. Field is explicit about this; but readers who haven't paid careful attention to what he's up to are likely to miss the point.
What's the point? Just this: often people who think X, Y, or Z is crap in philosophy do so because they missed the real point of the work. I've noticed that "terminological dispute", as used by philosophers, is often coextensive with "dispute not carried out in my subdiscipline". We deal in subtle dialectical issues, and what's at stake isn't always obvious to outsiders. Arrogant outsiders conclude that's the dispute's/paper's/book's fault, rather than their own. It's even worse for people from outside of philosophy, who aren't used to the methods we're used to but who think they can do a better job because philosophy's easy.
- September 22, 2010 at 2:45 AM
Holy shit, Euthyphronics.
That comment is beloved by the gods, because it's so fucking pious.
- September 22, 2010 at 7:03 AM
It is not that much "crap" is published in philosophy. There is plenty of trivial and/or shoddy stuff published in the sciences, math and just about every other academic field. Rather, it is that huge reputations (up to immortality) are made in philosophy on the basis of speculations which show embarrassing lack of acquaintance with the relevant scientific and mathematical knowledge.
As for Field, it is not that there is more to science than gravity. The point was that there is a lot more MATHEMATICS that is required for classical gravity - in fact, the whole of mathematics.
Of course, if Field was sufficiently well acquainted with the subject matter of his philosophizing, he would see that the old and very well known representation theorems by Gelfand, Neimark and Riesz automatically guarantee dualities between QUANTITATIVE models in physics (C*-algebras, von Neumann algebras, etc. used as "quantity algebras") and QUALITATIVE state-space models (certain kinds of topological spaces uniquely determined by those algebras).
I think scientists and mathematicians always would take seriously philosophical speculations intersecting their areas of expertise so long as these speculations show acquaintance with the required technical knowledge in relevant fields. The fact that so much "big name" philosophy (from Kant and Hegel to Kim and Field) fails this responsibility is what irritates them (and rightly so, I think).
- September 22, 2010 at 8:09 AM
Isn't the topic of this thread supposed to be the quality the quality of the Francis sentence, rather than David Lewis' mathematical acumen and its effect on the reputation of philosophers among mathematicians? Just asking.
- September 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM
8:09: How you construe what Field's left out isn't relevant; the point is that Field explicitly notes that he has not shown that mathematics is indispensable on grounds of the same general sort (much more needs to be demonstrated) as the ones you allude to.
Your second, Gelfand-et-al comment isn't to the point (twice over, but I'll ignore one side of it). Even if Field re-creates results that are "well-known" outside of philosophy, that's totally irrelevant to whether the philosophy done with those results is good or not. Philosophers frequently have to be jacks of many other trades to ply their wares. That they have not mastered these other trades is irrelevant, if they have competently managed the parts of those trades relevant to their questions. (This red herring sounds so much like 6:52's misfire that I suspect you're the same person.)
huge reputations (up to immortality) are made in philosophy on the basis of speculations which show embarrassing lack of acquaintance with the relevant scientific and mathematical knowledge
False. Even if Science Without Numbers had been hack work (and even if his reputation is "huge"), Field's reputation is based in large part on his groundbreaking work in semantics, philosophy of logic, and truth. (Similar remarks apply to Lewis, whose reputation is based not just on his possible worlds 'speculations', but on groundbreaking contributions to linguistics ("Generalized Semantics"), decision theory, semantics, and to other "huge" philosophers.) Huge reputations aren't built by single books or papers, but brick-by-brick; even if some philosophers have a shoddy brick here or there by "external" standards, I don't know any "immortal" ones with an entire edifice of this sort.
...so long as these speculations show acquaintance with the required technical knowledge in relevant fields.
The problem is scientists and mathematicians often aren't qualified to know which bits of technical knowledge are in fact required for the philosophical questions pursued, either because they don't understand the question in fact answered or don't understand subtle issues in the dialectic. (You, for instance, seem to have this problem, as you seem to think eg that Field's philosophical project is undermined if he fails to know that someone else did some of the technical work first.)
OK, ok, sorry everybody. I'll lay of troll feeding from here on out, I promise.
- September 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM
And on my side I also apologize to everyone for so badly underestimating the extent to which philosophers are willing to confabulate a comforting picture of their profession.
I guess I was badly misled by Plato - that poor delusional soul - who inscribed "No one who does not know geometry shall enter here" above the entrance to the Academy (and presumably to Philosophy as a discipline)...
Mea culpa!
- September 22, 2010 at 4:27 PM
You're not just troll-feeding. I think it's important, in this kind of forum, for someone to call blowhards on their bullshit, especially when they name personal targets (not that Field or Lewis or Kim need are exactly vulnerable victims, but still).
By the way, many postmodern literary critics have a very low opinion of high-energy physics.
- September 22, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Anonymous asks: "It's nice that you "can assure" me that objections like this are plentiful. Maybe you could cite some such objections from the published work of Lewis, so that something besides your (no doubt indubitable) anecdotes could be used as evidence."
I've always found this passage rather remarkable:
"The reason we should reject this proposal [relevance logic] is simple. No truth does have, and no truth could have, a true negation. Nothing is, and nothing could be, literally both true and false. This we know for certain, and a priori, and without any exception for especially perplexing subject matters. The radical case for relevance should be dismissed just because the hypothesis it requires us to entertain is inconsistent.
This may seem dogmatic. And it is. I am affirming the very thesis that Routley and Priest have called into question and—contrary to the rules of debate—I decline to defend it."
(Lewis, D. "Logic for Equivocators," Noûs p. 434.)
There's quite an interesting literature on the topic of paraconsistency/dialetheism; and Lewis' article is otherwise informative. Still, this is a pretty good example of a priori intuitions being wielded as some kind of apodictic data source.
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Some of us remember cars from the "little pages" tucked way back in our minds; others recall V-8s that rattled windows, while others remember the experience of retina-detaching performance. Then there are many of us who remember what was, and wonder what could be.
Jim Eckford of Arroyo Grande, California, grew up in the Detroit area and experienced his first job at Ford Motor Company working in the chassis engineering department. "The '60s were a great time to work at Ford. It was the era of the Mustang, Cobra, Torino, GT40, and much more," Jim, who truly felt like "a kid in a candy store," says. He also remembers hot rodding around in his '34 Ford Tudor that soon became the platform for its first engine swap, taking out the Flathead and replacing it with a Buick Nailhead. Thus began a lifelong allegiance to the Nailhead that was reinforced by the likes of "TV Tommy" Ivo and Tony Nancy with their Nailheads.
Fast forward to Jim's introduction of the American Speed Company's Speed33, as it represents the classic lines of the '33-34 Ford roadsters but fitted with modern appointments, such as roll-up side glass and a retractable soft top, a great starting point to fulfill his requirements of answering the call for nostalgia while implementing today's technology.
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The all-steel American Speed Company Speed33 is coated in PPG black with cream scallops trimmed in red by Joe Belfiore of TRS but before this could happen two more of the TRS crew, Louis Dilisioand and Waltermire, applied their bodywork skills. The no-chrome appearance is accented with matte gray running gear and interior metal surfaces. Exterior appointments include the TRS custom mirrors, rear roll pan (which houses the LED taillights), and Ford commercial headlights on custom fabricated brackets.
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so the body of one black man is rag and stone is mud and blood the body of one black man contains no life worth loving so the body of one black man is nobody mama mama mamacita is there no value in this skin mama
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York, on June 27, 1936. Her first book of poems, Good Times, was rated one of the best books of the year by the New York Times in 1969.
Clifton remained employed in state and federal government positions until 1971, when she became a writer in residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed two collections: Good News About the Earth (Random House, 1972) and An Ordinary Woman (1974).
She is the author of several other collections of poetry, including Voices (BOA Editions, 2008); Mercy (2004); Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (2000), which won the National Book Award; The Terrible Stories (1995), which was nominated for the National Book Award; The Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1993); Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (1991); and Next: New Poems (1987).
Her collection Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (1987) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Two-Headed Woman (1980), also a Pulitzer Prize nominee, was the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize. She has also written Generations: A Memoir (1976) and more than sixteen books for children, written expressly for an African-American audience.
Of her work, Rita Dove has written: "In contrast to much of the poetry being written today—intellectualized lyricism characterized by an application of inductive thought to unusual images—Lucille Clifton's poems are compact and self-sufficient...Her revelations then resemble the epiphanies of childhood and early adolescence, when one's lack of preconceptions about the self allowed for brilliant slippage into the metaphysical, a glimpse into an egoless, utterly thingful and serene world."
Her honors include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Lannan Literary Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley Memorial Award, the YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award, and the 2007 Ruth Lilly Prize.
In 1999, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
After a long battle with cancer, Lucille Clifton died on February 13, 2010, at the age of seventy-three.