Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Insko
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Living Present

The Ever-Present Now: Time, History, and Antebellum American Writing begins with Garrison’s experience of the present moment’s dire intensity, because for him and a number of his contemporaries, that experience exemplifies an attitude and stance toward history and one’s own place in it that is the central focus of this book. The introduction establishes the Romantic concern with “the living present” as an ethico-political imperative through readings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s well-known poem “A Psalm of Life” and William Lloyd Garrison’s little-known 1857 speech “The Living Present and the Dead Past.” The introduction argues that in their devotion to the present, Longfellow and Garrison give expression to a historical disposition at odds both with modern historiographical injunctions against “presentism” and with political moderation.

Trading with the Dead

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter T. Leeson
Keyword(s):  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Self Enforcement ◽  
Living Present ◽  
Equal Concern

Abstract Late medieval Englishmen provided for their wellbeing in the hereafter by purchasing intercession for their souls. They traded valuable landed endowments for the promise of posthumous Masses and prayers whose daily observance contractual counterparties agreed to underwrite for decades, centuries, even eternally. Intercessory foundations so contracted were called chantries. Chantry contracts constituted trades with the dead in the sense that the promisees were deceased when the promisors were supposed to perform. I study the special problems that chantry contract promisees faced in enforcing their rights from the grave and analyze the devices they used for that purpose. Chantry founders wary of their fates in the afterlife showed equal concern for the challenges their contracts would encounter in this life long after they were gone. Founders met those challenges by leveraging the economics of incentives to develop a strategy of chantry contract self-enforcement: profit the living, present and future, for monitoring the contractual performance of promisors and promisors’ agents, and for punishing them should they breach. Chantry founders’ strategy was successful, enabling trade with the dead.

scholarly journals The Isle of The Dead Benchmark, the Sydney, Fort Denison Tide Gauge and the Ipcc Ar5 Chapter 13 Sea Levels Revisited

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Albert Parker
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Tide Gauge ◽  
Relative Rate ◽  
Time History ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Tide Gauges ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Key Sites

Abstract The paper revisits the Isle of the Dead benchmark and the Sydney, Fort Denison tide gauge to confirm that long term, high quality tide gauges are acceleration free, consistently to the analysis of key sites suggesting the sea levels are not sharply raising following the carbon dioxide emissions. The paper also discusses the flaws of the IPCC AR5 Chapter13 Sea levels. The time history of the relative rate of rise computed by linear fitting of the data locally collected by tide gauges is the best parameter to assess the effect of global warming providing length and quality requirements are satisfied. There is no reason to search for less reliable alternative methods because the climate models predicted different trends. The Global Positioning System (GPS) inferred vertical tide gauge velocity suffers of significant inaccuracies. Larger inaccuracies are provided by the satellite altimetry Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) that is a computation and not a measurement.

An Alternative Method for Identifying a Failed Engine in Twin-Engine Propeller Aircraft

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Andrey K. Babin ◽  
Andrew R. Dattel ◽  
Margaret F. Klemm
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Traditional Group ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
Alternative Method ◽  
Indicator Group ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Engine Failure ◽  
And Performance

Abstract. Twin-engine propeller aircraft accidents occur due to mechanical reasons as well as human error, such as misidentifying a failed engine. This paper proposes a visual indicator as an alternative method to the dead leg–dead engine procedure to identify a failed engine. In total, 50 pilots without a multi-engine rating were randomly assigned to a traditional (dead leg–dead engine) or an alternative (visual indicator) group. Participants performed three takeoffs in a flight simulator with a simulated engine failure after rotation. Participants in the alternative group identified the failed engine faster than the traditional group. A visual indicator may improve pilot accuracy and performance during engine-out emergencies and is recommended as a possible alternative for twin-engine propeller aircraft.

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