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A Digitally Usable Period Room – by Anne Higonnet
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Image courtesy of www.metmuseum.org.
Can a period room be brought back to life? In the spring of 2015, twelve Barnard and Columbia undergraduates and I made the attempt, in a seminar called "A Virtual Enlightenment." We had the support of the Mellon Foundation, the collaboration of Metropolitan Museum of Art curators Jeffrey Munger and Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, and the skills of Alex Gil from the Columbia Digital Humanities Center. Our goal was to make one of the Met's Wrightsman Galleries period rooms, the Tessé Room, digitally usable.
By "digitally usable" I meant two things. The first was to make visible or legible the uses to which the room and its contents had been put. The second was to train undergraduates to use digital technologies. Those two aspects of the project proved to be intertwined. At "usable" the eighteenth century met the twenty-first.
As I prepared and taught "A Virtual Enlightenment," I became convinced that digital technology, at the very least, enables us to see uses of the decorative arts invisible since the eighteenth century. I now would argue that digital technology inspires attention to use, and summons questions that before would have been inconceivable. We may be at one of those moments in the history of the history of art at which some essential moves forward are not only about content, but also about form.
This may be truer of three-dimensional than of two-dimensional art, and truest of the usable three-dimensional arts. And where better to start than with the material culture of eighteenth-century France, which swerved the daily life of ordinary people in such a decisively modern direction? Our century's digital knowledge can build a bridge back to a lived Enlightenment knowledge. Meanings that were forgotten can now be perceived. A new era of decorative arts scholarship could be emerging.
Needless to say, a collection like the Met's might not, at first, seem appropriate to such a project. The Met's decorative arts collection was assembled according to aesthetic or technical criteria, and sometimes according to provenance. What might seem to distinguish the Met's period rooms and their contents is their luxury and opulence, along with the exceptional rank of those who commissioned and owned them. Decorative arts scholarship prior to about the 1990s was largely devoted to the aesthetic quality judgments and factual research that assembled such collections.[1] For generations, finely grained knowledge accumulated about style, authorship, and techniques. Without this knowledge, we would have no foundation on which to build new sorts of inquiries.
One student team did work on an exceptionally beautiful furniture pair by Jean-Henri Riesener, a secrétaire and a commode, with a magnificent provenance. They first belonged to Queen Marie-Antoinette. Rather than stop the furniture's story there, however, students used authorship, technical prowess and pedigree to launch projects about issues that innovative scholarship has recently introduced us to: projects on the global trade that brought to France the furniture's Japanese lacquer panels; on the personal child-parent relationship between Marie-Antoinette and Empress Maria-Theresa, whose gift of a lacquer collection inspired her daughter's commission from Riesener; and on the commodity culture that promoted luxury goods.
These sorts of student projects showed how points or arguments that scholars have been making over the past two decades can be reinforced when they are combined with their digital visualization. One student, for instance, used Photoshop to pull apart the Riesener secrétaire's Japanese lacquer from its quintessentially French gilt-bronze mounts, in order to compare and contrast their color schemes and styles. Another project used Photoshop to put Maria Theresa's lacquer collection gift right back into the rooms at Versailles where Marie-Antoinette first displayed them.
Alongside studies of a global eighteenth century, and studies of individual identities constructed with things, historians of eighteenth-century "decorative arts" have drawn increasing attention to the meanings of use. Attracted by the simple fact that many (though not exactly all) the decorative arts were designed to be used, historians have initiated what I would call a phenomenology of use. Desks, in particular, have been compellingly re-thought. Desks' kinetic complexity, delicacy, lockable drawers and keyholes have all been revealed. Desks, it turns out, were privacy machines. Here too, "Virtual Enlightenment" students realized how use could be digitally recreated. One did an animation of Riesener's secrétaire, so that its many drawers and compartments gradually open before our eyes. Then, virtually, the student put some of the Queen's most personal possessions into the opened drawers.
Spurred by each other's digital experiments, students discussed the meanings of use. We are accustomed to the textual enunciation of ideas. Of course, words express ideas, for instance a declaration of equal rights in words. But things, too, express ideas, to some extent in their transformation of raw material or treatment of form, and more as they are used. Some meanings, especially in the decorative arts, could be considered latent in form, or inert, until use.
Use enunciates ideas. Equal rights, to return to the previous example, are declared when everyone in a group sits on a matching chair or sofa. Individual self-actualization is felt while reading and writing on comfortable upholstered chairs with ergonomically designed arms and legs. The written declaration of equal rights has the advantage of concentrated eloquence. The seats have the advantage of long and repeated use. Things create habits of body and habits of mind.
Four seminar sessions at the Met, where Munger and Kisluk-Grosheide generously allowed students to look closely and hold real objects, incited students to believe that use by owners can be encoded in materials and form. High-resolution details allowed them to present objects as if they were in use, to reconstruct an experience of them, with a visual intimacy lost behind vitrine glass or period room cordons. This could be called a part of the material turn in art history. But it was striking to me that undergraduates needed no historiographic prompting to take that turn, only the combination of physical experience and huge digital files.
After, for example, Munger had shown students how snuff boxes were twirled in the hand, and how, therefore, all six sides of snuffboxes were decorated – whereas snuffbox backs and bottoms can rarely be seen in a vitrine – one student realized that the handling of a snuffbox looked very much like the conventions of movement in 3-D Rhino modeling. As a result, now one of the Met's most important snuffboxes rotates in space online, at your command. Another student was fascinated by how bright the colors invented by the Sèvres porcelain manufacture looked in person at close range. She designed solid color blocks to bring out the hues, and recreated the visual effect of an eating surface covered with plates.
Reconstruction of a table set with Sèvres eighteenth-century porcelain.
These and countless other possible digital devices enhance visibility to such a degree that the borderline between the visual and the tactile becomes very fine. The digital sight of something can be so intimate, so close or so mobile, that it convincingly evokes the sense of touch. Once touch is evoked, it becomes inevitable to summon the bodies that did the touching.
From the start of the seminar, students wanted to repopulate the Tessé Room. To begin with, they felt that many aspects of the room's use were hard to imagine without the scale and clothing of human beings. Did a desk designed for women not look much more feminine when its legs vanished amid the billowing skirts of a woman pulled up to it in a chair? If the angle of a chair-back was exactly the same as the angle of a set of stays, would women not be rather more at ease in a chair than we might assume? Several projects digitally reinserted members of the owning class into the room.
More important to the seminar students, however, was the reinsertion of people who might have seemed invisible in a room like the Tessé Room even in the eighteenth century. Servants are the feature most sorely missing from every period room. The more lavish the room (the more, that is, like a Met period room) the more servants it required. Teams of servants spent entire adult working lives managing, cleaning, repairing, or guarding the decorative arts. Their experience was a kind of use as vital as use by owners, and as productive of meanings.
One of the easiest accusations to make against a period room like the Met's Tessé room is its ostentatious expense, which could seem to make it relevant only to a tiny aristocratic or royal elite. Yet the opposite is true, and we can make that truth visible. We can visualize the work that put servants in constant physical contact with the decorative arts. That work, furthermore, can be productively understood through a new attention to materials and form. The instant students looked closely at a great silver coffeepot by François-Thomas Germain, for example, they began to contemplate how long it would take to polish all its details. Whatever expansion of an owner's world horizons was suggested by drinking coffee imported from Africa, Sumatra, Java, Brazil, or Martinique out of silver imported from South America, some version of the same must have occurred to the servants who served the coffee and polished the silver.
Close attention to materials and form also brings artisans back into the period room. Once the extraordinary degree of finish and intricacy of any of the eighteenth-century decorative arts becomes inescapably visually evident through close up or animated digital imagery, it immediately confronts us with the skill involved in their making. Both the quality and the quantity of labor become visible. Or rather, they become publicly visible. The evidence was always there, in the object itself. Yet inside a vitrine, behind a period room cordon, it can hardly be seen, especially when light levels are low for conservation reasons. A favorite seminar example was lace. Until high resolution images makes visible every knot and stitch, it is impossible to understand the labor that produced lace. The minuscule part demands a calculation of the whole. If every stitch had to be made by hand, how many hours did it take to make a single engageante sleeve ruffle, or for all the lace represented in one portrait to be made? From the oblivion of history, work resurfaces.
As student website projects got underway, plates from books about the arts et métiers, especially the Encyclopédie, became an increasingly appreciated resource. The more students saw in objects, the more they valued the tools and hands that had made what they saw. The evidence of the visible led from tools to hands back to raw materials, just as Denis Diderot intended. And in the spirit of Diderot, a website can easily re-join any object in a period room with the type of artisan who made it and with the conditions of its making, through an arts et métiers plate. Channeling Diderot, a finished object and its maker can also be reunited with raw material, through a photograph much more realistically colored and textured than a black and white engraving.
In the end, "A Virtual Enlightenment" pushed furthest away from existing decorative arts scholarship when it tried to do for artisans what scholarship has done for the owning class. If the post-creation use of decorative arts by owners performed meanings, I would argue that the creation process did so too. The ideological usability of objects, "A Virtual Enlightenment" proposes, begins the moment a design process originates and extends throughout the entire execution of objects. A seamstress updating the style of a sleeve was absorbing consumer culture. A locksmith making a keyhole was learning about privacy or freedom of thought.
And again, as in the case of servants' relationships to decorative arts, the luxurious excellence of the sort of decorative arts in the Met's collection only magnified their ideological impact on artisans. The longer it took to make something, or the longer it had taken to acquire the skills to make it, the more evidently valuable must its ideas have been to the one who did the making. Perhaps, for instance, the new buying power of women was not articulated as an abstract concept or a written text in Martin Carlin's workshop, where porcelain plaques painted with flowers were integrated into delicate tables dedicated to feminine occupations. It was certainly, however, an idea learned during countless hours of labor.
Ultimately, I would hazard this proposition: that workers in the arts et métiers experienced the Enlightenment first and foremost in the making of things, at its most refined level, in the making of decorative art objects. First, because chronologically, the decorative arts of the Enlightenment came before its great textual enunciations. Foremost, because it was learned as skill, as knowledge inculcated by years of apprenticeship and gradual mastery.[2] Skill is knowledge that works on both sides of the divide between mind and hand. "A Virtual Enlightenment" dedicated itself to those historically specific meanings skill invented during the extraordinary burst of creative invention between about 1680 and 1720, perfected in the following decades, and culminated – arguably — in the French Revolution.
Like skill, the word "usable" swings alternately toward practical use and toward knowledge. This from your nearest online dictionary: "us·a·ble/adjective: useable/able or fit to be used, as in: 'usable information'." The meanings expressed in the decorative arts could be considered usable information.
If the word "usable" sounds familiar, it is because it has been become a mantra of digital information technology. It is tightly associated with the new digital concept of "universal usability." Universal usability, according to Wikipedia – the namesake of Diderot's Encyclopédie, which also, in its time, aspired to universal usability – applies equally to designers, developers, and users. A useable period room, I would say, is one whose original meanings, experienced by its designers, makers, and users, are made universally accessible by today's digital designers and developers to museum and internet users.
The usable period room website is a work in progress. Two current senior essays continue to add to it. The seminar will be held again in the fall of 2016, which will expand the website in unforeseen directions. Other period rooms could be added, from the Met, or potentially from other museums. Other topics or approaches could be tried. Other schools could join the project. All suggestions are welcome.
Anne Higonnet is Professor of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University, NY
[1] Especially helpful to students were: Dena Goodman, Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009), Part III: "The World of Goods"; Mimi Hellman, "Furniture, Sociability, and the Work of Leisure in Eighteenth-Century France," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 32:4 (Summer 1999), 415-445; Daniel Roche, La culture des apparences. Une histoire du vêtement (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Paris: Fayard, 1990), "Introduction: Culture and Material Civilization," "Clothing and Appearances," and "From Scarcity to Luxury"; Carolyn Sargentson, "Looking at Furniture Inside Out: Strategies of Secrecy and Security in Eighteenth-Century French Furniture," in Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg, eds, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past (New York: Routledge, 2007); Katie Scott, "Framing Ambition," Art History, 28:2, (April 2005), 248–290; William Sewell, "The Rise of Capitalism and the Empire of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century France," Past and Present, 206:1 (2010), 81-120; Kristel Smentek, Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East (New York: Frick Collection, 2007); and Michael Elia Yonan, "Veneers of Authority: Chinese Lacquers in Maria Theresa's Vienna," Eighteenth-Century Studies 37:4 (Summer 2004), 652-672.
[2] This is of course not new to the eighteenth century, indeed it calls to mind Pamela Smith's Making and Knowing Project, concerned with the sixteenth century.
Cite this note as: Anne Higonnet, "A Digitally Usable Period Room", Journal18 (2015), https://www.journal18.org/224
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SANTA FE – Thousands of New Mexico college students might be eligible for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, commonly known as food stamps, announced the New Mexico Human Services Department and Higher Education Department.
"The pandemic has created many economic challenges particularly for college students and families with limited resources," said Cabinet Secretary David R. Scrase, M.D. "Jobs for college students are scarce. College students have either had their hours reduced or lost their job altogether, making it difficult to meet their basic needs. We look forward to working with the Higher Education Department to spread the word and extend food benefits to New Mexico college students and urge congress to make this a permanent change."
"Food insecurity should never be a barrier to academic success," said Acting Higher Education Department Secretary Stephanie Rodriguez. "It is our job to reflect the needs of students during this pandemic and beyond, and action is vital to ensure that no student goes hungry. We're working with our partners at colleges and universities across the state to raise awareness about the expansion of SNAP benefits for college students and their families."
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, temporarily expands SNAP eligibility to include students enrolled at least half-time in an institution of higher education, who either:
Are eligible to participate in state or federally financed work study during the regular school year, as determined by the institution of higher education, or
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Beginning on Jan. 16, 2021, students who meet one of the two criteria outlined above may receive SNAP if they meet all other financial and non-financial SNAP eligibility criteria. This eligibility will remain in place until 30 days after the public health emergency ends. Since the Biden Administration has advised that the declaration will most likely remain in place at least until the end of 2021 and states will have 60 days-notice before it ends, this policy change will more than likely be something that can help families for the remainder of the crisis.
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/**
 *
 * @file ztrsmpl.c
 *
 *  PLASMA computational routines
 *  PLASMA is a software package provided by Univ. of Tennessee,
 *  Univ. of California Berkeley and Univ. of Colorado Denver
 *
 * @version 2.4.2
 * @author Jakub Kurzak
 * @date 2010-11-15
 * @precisions normal z -> s d c
 *
 **/
#include "common.h"

/***************************************************************************//**
 *
 * @ingroup PLASMA_Complex64_t
 *
 *  PLASMA_ztrsmpl - Performs the forward substitution step of solving a system of linear equations
 *  after the tile LU factorization of the matrix.
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @param[in] N
 *          The order of the matrix A. N >= 0.
 *
 * @param[in] NRHS
 *          The number of right hand sides, i.e., the number of columns of the matrix B. NRHS >= 0.
 *
 * @param[in] A
 *          The tile factor L from the factorization, computed by PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv.
 *
 * @param[in] LDA
 *          The leading dimension of the array A. LDA >= max(1,N).
 *
 * @param[in] L
 *          Auxiliary factorization data, related to the tile L factor, computed by PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv.
 *
 * @param[in] IPIV
 *          The pivot indices from PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv (not equivalent to LAPACK).
 *
 * @param[in,out] B
 *          On entry, the N-by-NRHS right hand side matrix B.
 *          On exit, if return value = 0, the N-by-NRHS solution matrix X.
 *
 * @param[in] LDB
 *          The leading dimension of the array B. LDB >= max(1,N).
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @return
 *          \retval PLASMA_SUCCESS successful exit
 *          \retval <0 if -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @sa PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile
 * @sa PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile_Async
 * @sa PLASMA_ctrsmpl
 * @sa PLASMA_dtrsmpl
 * @sa PLASMA_strsmpl
 * @sa PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv
 *
 ******************************************************************************/
int PLASMA_ztrsmpl(int N, int NRHS,
                   PLASMA_Complex64_t *A, int LDA,
                   PLASMA_Complex64_t *L, int *IPIV,
                   PLASMA_Complex64_t *B, int LDB)
{
    int NB, IB, IBNB, NT;
    int status;
    plasma_context_t *plasma;
    PLASMA_sequence *sequence = NULL;
    PLASMA_request request = PLASMA_REQUEST_INITIALIZER;
    PLASMA_desc descA, descB, descL;

    plasma = plasma_context_self();
    if (plasma == NULL) {
        plasma_fatal_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl", "PLASMA not initialized");
        return PLASMA_ERR_NOT_INITIALIZED;
    }
    /* Check input arguments */
    if (N < 0) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl", "illegal value of N");
        return -1;
    }
    if (NRHS < 0) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl", "illegal value of NRHS");
        return -2;
    }
    if (LDA < max(1, N)) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl", "illegal value of LDA");
        return -4;
    }
    if (LDB < max(1, N)) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl", "illegal value of LDB");
        return -8;
    }
    /* Quick return */
    if (min(N, NRHS) == 0)
        return PLASMA_SUCCESS;

    /* Tune NB & IB depending on N & NRHS; Set NBNB */
    status = plasma_tune(PLASMA_FUNC_ZGESV, N, N, NRHS);
    if (status != PLASMA_SUCCESS) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl", "plasma_tune() failed");
        return status;
    }

    /* Set Mt, NT & NTRHS */
    NB    = PLASMA_NB;
    IB    = PLASMA_IB;
    IBNB  = IB*NB;
    NT    = (N%NB==0) ? (N/NB) : (N/NB+1);

    plasma_sequence_create(plasma, &sequence);

    descL = plasma_desc_init(
        PlasmaComplexDouble,
        IB, NB, IBNB,
        NT*IB, NT*NB, 0, 0, NT*IB, NT*NB);
    descL.mat = L;

    if ( PLASMA_TRANSLATION == PLASMA_OUTOFPLACE ) {
        plasma_zooplap2tile( descA, A, NB, NB, LDA, N,    0, 0, N, N   , plasma_desc_mat_free(&(descA)) );
        plasma_zooplap2tile( descB, B, NB, NB, LDB, NRHS, 0, 0, N, NRHS, plasma_desc_mat_free(&(descA)); plasma_desc_mat_free(&(descB)));
    } else {
        plasma_ziplap2tile( descA, A, NB, NB, LDA, N,    0, 0, N, N   );
        plasma_ziplap2tile( descB, B, NB, NB, LDB, NRHS, 0, 0, N, NRHS);
    }

    /* Call the tile interface */
    PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile_Async(&descA, &descL, IPIV, &descB, sequence, &request);

    if ( PLASMA_TRANSLATION == PLASMA_OUTOFPLACE ) {
        plasma_zooptile2lap( descB, B, NB, NB, LDB, NRHS );
        plasma_dynamic_sync();
        plasma_desc_mat_free(&descA);
        plasma_desc_mat_free(&descB);
    } else {
        plasma_ziptile2lap( descA, A, NB, NB, LDA, N    );
        plasma_ziptile2lap( descB, B, NB, NB, LDB, NRHS );
        plasma_dynamic_sync();
    }

    status = sequence->status;
    plasma_sequence_destroy(plasma, sequence);
    return status;
}

/***************************************************************************//**
 *
 * @ingroup PLASMA_Complex64_t_Tile
 *
 * PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile - Performs the forward substitution step of solving a system of linear equations
 * after the tile LU factorization of the matrix.
 * All matrices are passed through descriptors. All dimensions are taken from the descriptors.
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @param[in] A
 *          The tile factor L from the factorization, computed by PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv.
 *
 * @param[in] L
 *          Auxiliary factorization data, related to the tile L factor, computed by PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv.
 *
 * @param[in] IPIV
 *          The pivot indices from PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv (not equivalent to LAPACK).
 *
 * @param[in,out] B
 *          On entry, the N-by-NRHS right hand side matrix B.
 *          On exit, if return value = 0, the N-by-NRHS solution matrix X.
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @return
 *          \retval PLASMA_SUCCESS successful exit
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @sa PLASMA_ztrsmpl
 * @sa PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile_Async
 * @sa PLASMA_ctrsmpl_Tile
 * @sa PLASMA_dtrsmpl_Tile
 * @sa PLASMA_strsmpl_Tile
 * @sa PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv_Tile
 *
 ******************************************************************************/
int PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile(PLASMA_desc *A, PLASMA_desc *L, int *IPIV, PLASMA_desc *B)
{
    plasma_context_t *plasma;
    PLASMA_sequence *sequence = NULL;
    PLASMA_request request = PLASMA_REQUEST_INITIALIZER;
    int status;

    plasma = plasma_context_self();
    if (plasma == NULL) {
        plasma_fatal_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "PLASMA not initialized");
        return PLASMA_ERR_NOT_INITIALIZED;
    }
    plasma_sequence_create(plasma, &sequence);
    PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile_Async(A, L, IPIV, B, sequence, &request);
    plasma_dynamic_sync();
    status = sequence->status;
    plasma_sequence_destroy(plasma, sequence);
    return status;
}

/***************************************************************************//**
 *
 * @ingroup PLASMA_Complex64_t_Tile_Async
 *
 *  PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile - Performs the forward substitution step of solving
 *  a system of linear equations after the tile LU factorization of the matrix.
 *  Non-blocking equivalent of PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile().
 *  Returns control to the user thread before worker threads finish the computation
 *  to allow for pipelined execution of diferent routines.
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @param[in] sequence
 *          Identifies the sequence of function calls that this call belongs to
 *          (for completion checks and exception handling purposes).
 *
 * @param[out] request
 *          Identifies this function call (for exception handling purposes).
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * @sa PLASMA_ztrsmpl
 * @sa PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile
 * @sa PLASMA_ctrsmpl_Tile_Async
 * @sa PLASMA_dtrsmpl_Tile_Async
 * @sa PLASMA_strsmpl_Tile_Async
 * @sa PLASMA_zgetrf_incpiv_Tile_Async
 *
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int PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile_Async(PLASMA_desc *A, PLASMA_desc *L, int *IPIV, PLASMA_desc *B,
                              PLASMA_sequence *sequence, PLASMA_request *request)
{
    PLASMA_desc descA = *A;
    PLASMA_desc descL = *L;
    PLASMA_desc descB = *B;
    plasma_context_t *plasma;

    plasma = plasma_context_self();
    if (plasma == NULL) {
        plasma_fatal_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "PLASMA not initialized");
        return PLASMA_ERR_NOT_INITIALIZED;
    }
    if (sequence == NULL) {
        plasma_fatal_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "NULL sequence");
        return PLASMA_ERR_UNALLOCATED;
    }
    if (request == NULL) {
        plasma_fatal_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "NULL request");
        return PLASMA_ERR_UNALLOCATED;
    }
    /* Check sequence status */
    if (sequence->status == PLASMA_SUCCESS)
        request->status = PLASMA_SUCCESS;
    else
        return plasma_request_fail(sequence, request, PLASMA_ERR_SEQUENCE_FLUSHED);

    /* Check descriptors for correctness */
    if (plasma_desc_check(&descA) != PLASMA_SUCCESS) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "invalid first descriptor");
        return plasma_request_fail(sequence, request, PLASMA_ERR_ILLEGAL_VALUE);
    }
    if (plasma_desc_check(&descL) != PLASMA_SUCCESS) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "invalid second descriptor");
        return plasma_request_fail(sequence, request, PLASMA_ERR_ILLEGAL_VALUE);
    }
    if (plasma_desc_check(&descB) != PLASMA_SUCCESS) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "invalid third descriptor");
        return plasma_request_fail(sequence, request, PLASMA_ERR_ILLEGAL_VALUE);
    }
    /* Check input arguments */
    if (descA.nb != descA.mb || descB.nb != descB.mb) {
        plasma_error("PLASMA_ztrsmpl_Tile", "only square tiles supported");
        return plasma_request_fail(sequence, request, PLASMA_ERR_ILLEGAL_VALUE);
    }
    /* Quick return */
/*
    if (min(N, NRHS) == 0)
        return PLASMA_SUCCESS;
*/
    plasma_parallel_call_6(plasma_pztrsmpl,
        PLASMA_desc, descA,
        PLASMA_desc, descB,
        PLASMA_desc, descL,
        int*, IPIV,
        PLASMA_sequence*, sequence,
        PLASMA_request*, request);

    return PLASMA_SUCCESS;
}

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attached third car garage space or woodshed or anything you want it to be.
Original 1850s Maine Farm House, has been lovingly restored, maintained and updated to meet today's living standards.
Troy Bilt lawn tractor, small spreader, antique corn planter, tree trimmers, and weed wacker.
MANY fresh, recent upgrades to property, including fresh paint/stain inside and out, some new roofing, new security lighting, new heating system upgrades, new flooring and lovely new bathroom updates, added to all the previously completed restoration and remodeling.
Through the 1800's and early 1900's this was a 400 acre dairy farm, until it was sold off piece by piece. Remaining is the original farm house on just over three acres.
"When I moved here over 30 years ago, I wanted to save this house and have a small family farm. Extensive organic gardens were created and produced bountiful amounts of food. Free range chickens were raised and eggs were sold at local stores. Apple trees, raspberries, grapes, and perennials, were either planted or saved. Current owner needs to retire and pass this wonderful property on to a new generation, to love and care for it."
The location of this property is ideal for a small family farm. It is within an hour of both the seaside and mountains. It is very private, yet close to town and all amenities. It is close to Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Common Ground Fair, Unity and Colby Colleges, farm markets, natural food markets, Johnny Selected Seeds, and forty-five minutes from or/to Belfast Co-Op. Abutting and near by land is very likely to lease, if needed.
This river front property consist of just over three acres with a tillable pasture/hay field along the Sebasticook River. Around the house there is space for extensive gardens. Apple trees, raspberries and grapes, grow nearer to house, with space for much more. There is space for much more to be added.
Original 1850s Maine Farm House, has been lovingly restored, maintained and updated to meet today's living standards. It has been insulated extensively and has insulated replacement windows and doors throughout for energy efficiency. Electricity wiring has been updated, and security lighting added. Heating is hot water baseboard with two zones, with a wood/coal furnace added to work alongside the oil furnace. Quality restoration has been completed while preserving home's rich character. Warm and cozy country kitchen with all modern features, includes an atrium door overlooking large back deck, private yard, gardens and chicken coop. Desirable features include rich wood floors, porcelain tile, some carpet, original woodwork and brass hardware. Bright and cheerful upper interior offers three bedrooms, large relaxing bath with antique soaking tub. Ground floor offers one or two bedrooms, large bath with jetted tub, and laundry facility, large living room with huge bay window and cozy wood stove, lovely formal hall which opens to large front farmers porch. Also on first floor is large cozy kitchen, side entry with walk in closet, large pantry, large utility room, and handy access to bonus room--a rustic summer kitchen with hand hewn beams and atrium doors facing west for river views and gorgeous sunsets. This space was previously used as a furniture/antique shop and opens up to an attached third car garage space or woodshed or anything you want it to be.
This section of the house could easily be used as a business space and or made into separate living quarters. House has fresh paint throughout, three-five bedrooms, two full baths, and is move in ready. Property is very adaptable for many different possibilities and perfect for a small family farm, home business, or farm business. There is also an oversized two car garage and workshop area, which may be adapted for many uses.
Equipment: Troy Bilt lawn tractor, small spreader, antique corn planter, tree trimmers, and weed wacker.
When contacting owner, please leave a message if you do not reach them right away.


After 21 years of owning and operating a beautiful pet resort ... we are retiring......we LOVE DOGS and CATS. We have 5 pets of our own (they stay at home with our adult children). We have a Labrador, a Moodle and a Maltese and 2 cats. We love pets they have been our lives for our entire LIVES. Our business is now sold and we are living the dream. We "love love love" interacting with dogs and cats (if they'll let us). We love going walkies.....we do medications - special diets - sleep on the bed whatever you need. We are non smokers - very clean and tidy. Sam is an wannabee author so we don't go out that much. We have plenty of references and can travel most places.
Sam and Jack looked after our four dogs and watered our garden for just over two weeks and did a fantastic job. They communicated clearly and did not overfeed our dogs which was wonderful. Sam even left dinner in the fridge for us and the basic essentials which was greatly appreciated as we had been on a 22 hour flight so did not feel like doing a food shop. I have no hesitation in recommending them.
Sam minded our 2 fur babies, a much loved cat and dog and house sat for us for 6 weeks in Feb-March whilst we were overseas. It was a difficult time for us to go away as our elderly dog passed unexpectedly 2 days before we were to leave, but Sam was wonderful, spoiling our other dog Monty and sending lots of pics from home. Apart from the wonderful care and looking after our pets as if they were her own, the house was immaculate on our return and Sam had left us dinner which was so appreciated ... MORESam minded our 2 fur babies, a much loved cat and dog and house sat for us for 6 weeks in Feb-March whilst we were overseas. It was a difficult time for us to go away as our elderly dog passed unexpectedly 2 days before we were to leave, but Sam was wonderful, spoiling our other dog Monty and sending lots of pics from home. Apart from the wonderful care and looking after our pets as if they were her own, the house was immaculate on our return and Sam had left us dinner which was so appreciated after a long 22 hour flight home. I can not speak highly enough and recommend Sam without hestitation. If you are lucky enough to book her, your fur babies will have the time of their lives. We would welcome Sam back anytime to our home. Monty is missing the long beach walks and outings Sam.
Returned home to find the place well looked after, but more importantly, the doggos even more well looked after. Feedback and updates provided where required/necessary. Highly recommended, no concerns here!
Love Sam and Jack. Not only were they great with the dogs (one a Kelpie so very energetic) but when we returned home Sam had left lunch and dinner in the fridge. I don't really want to post this as they may be too busy for us in the future. They are great!!
Sam and Jack looked after our fur baby while we were overseas getting married. They did a great job, sending us updates and keeping us informed. They left our house clean and neat and we are incredibly grateful for their stay.
Sam & Jack looked after our elderly dog & reported to us which was great. They even made a meal for us on our return after a long day. Thank you guys awesome.
Sam enabled us to enjoy our holiday without any concerns that our dogs would be taken care of. Sam encountered a few challenges however dealt with them very professionally. To top it all off we came home to a beautiful dinner. Thanks Sam for all you did for us whilst we were away.
We'd highly recommend Sam and Jack as house sitters. Their communication was excellent. Our dog and two cats were happy and healthy when we arrived home, and our house well cared for. Thanks again Sam and Jack - we'd love to have you return in future!
Sam was amazing! She called me when I had just lost a housesitter and was in a panic. She made me feel very comfortable about leaving my pooches in her capable hands. I had mentioned that I was not a 'needy' owner and was happy in the knowledge that I would be informed if it was required should anything be wrong with my dogs. I arrived home after 3wks away to a beautiful clean house, happy dogs and a dinner for the following day made and ready to be cooked in the fridge. I was amazed! I am so ... MORESam was amazing! She called me when I had just lost a housesitter and was in a panic. She made me feel very comfortable about leaving my pooches in her capable hands. I had mentioned that I was not a 'needy' owner and was happy in the knowledge that I would be informed if it was required should anything be wrong with my dogs. I arrived home after 3wks away to a beautiful clean house, happy dogs and a dinner for the following day made and ready to be cooked in the fridge. I was amazed! I am so grateful that I had Sam to mind my doggies and would absolutely recommend her and her husband and would have them mind my dogs again in the future should the occasion arise.
Thank you so much for house sitting our property and the fantastic care that you took of our puppy, fish and house. The house was immaculate when we arrived home, and there even was a very yummy dinner for us in the fridge, which was wonderful after a days travel. I would definitely recommend them as house sitters and hopefully we will have both of them back next year when we travel again.
Sam and Jack looked after our house and more importantly our big dog. We were happy to come home and find everything as we had left it thanks to their care.
Sam & Jack were a great find. They are a friendly and capable couple and clearly adore all animals. My furkids were all happy and well when I got back from my trip - the house was spotless and there was even a yummy meal in the fridge for me ! Would not hesitate to have them back again.
Sam & Jack were absolutely great. We got updates whilst we were away and came back to a spotless house and a very happy puppy. We can't recomend them enough and will happily have them back.
It was a delight to meet Sam and Jack and we fe.t immediately that our home and furkids were in good hands. We returned home to a sparkling house and 4 contented animals and even a lovely dinner waiting for us in the fridge. They also kept us updated with news from home.. we would have no hesitation in recommending them to any homeowner and would happily welcome them back anytime..
Sam & Jack were great! The pooches were thoroughly spoilt. We had no doubt they had a wonderful holiday too! We came home to very contented fur babies and a very well looked after home. Would be very happy to recommend them for any future sits.


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Dr. Mark Downey selected for Sorensen Institute's 2019 Candidate Training Program
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership has selected Mark Downey, M.D. as one of its 2019 Candidate Training Program's members.
The Sorensen Institute's Candidate Training Program (CTP) is an intensive, four-day program focused on the fundamentals of a winning campaign for office.
Participants explore the nuts and bolts of building a strong campaign from the ground up—all within the context of ethics and principled public service. The curriculum does not prescribe a particular set of campaign guidelines or rules, but does provide candidates with a framework for developing their own code of conduct to run a winning and ethical campaign. Participants in the program represent a broad range of ideologies and a diversity of communities from throughout Virginia. The CTP was first offered in 1999 with support from a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Seven graduates of our 2009 Candidate Training Program were elected to office the same year— 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats and 1 Independent. That includes 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats of the CTP 2009 class who were elected for the first time to the Virginia General Assembly on November 3— all four of whom were brand new to state-level campaign politics until they participated in Sorensen. Each year, graduates of the Candidate Training Program go on to run successful campaigns for office at all levels of government.
The Candidate Training Program will meet March 21-24 in Millwood, Virginia, to learn about the fundamentals of running an ethical and winning campaign for public office.
"I'm honored and excited to be invited to the 2019 Candidate Training Program at the Sorensen Institute at the University of Virginia this year! As with all my endeavors in life, I strive to learn as much as I can to be prepared for what comes next!"
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spreadsheeter. steady. boater. loyal. husband. father.
Mike has worked with Spectrum since 1996 and has been a partner since 2011. His experience in planning, marketing, sales, sales training, customer service, and product design has assisted over 50 Life Plan Communities succeed through major expansions, multi-site sales and marketing, and repositioning. Mike has recently lead the marketing efforts in Houston, Texas, for Brazos Presbyterian Homes' expansion of Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor, The Gateway Promise expansion at Aldersgate in Charlotte, NC and the expansion and recent opening of Phase II at The Cypress in Raleigh, NC. Mike holds a B.A., Business Management, North Carolina State University.
Favorite phrase: "steady always wins." We work with marketing teams to establish proven, work principles that connect seniors and open a path of discovery for new perspectives in senior living. Steady and appropriate follow-up combined with good advice works wonders.
Let's be smarter in the design for senior living. Listen to our future residents and provide the best of the 4 H's – modern and practical Housing, Hospitality services delivered well, Holistic Wellness that enhances their lifestyle, and the assurance of quality and compassionate Healthcare.
3 must haves if I were stranded on a desert Island.
18 years of developing sales teams and implementing marketing plans frames his expansive knowledge empowering sales professionals with proven tools to enrich the lives of seniors and increase occupancy in their communities; and is a requested and frequent speaker on senior living trends and best practices. His perspective, knowledge, and insights have helped create industry-leading marketing and sales campaigns with startup pre-sales, expansions, and repositioning's. Hoppy holds a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves on Spectrum's Leadership Team.
One of my greatest passions as an advisor/mentor/coach is to create an excitement…a buzz…a quest for understanding. There is nothing more rewarding than to see that "Aha!" moment in a residency counselor's eyes; the realization that he/she "gets it" and now knows how to share it with prospective residents. Creative and critical thinking enables counselors to better understand the options that our customers are weighing.
As senior living continues to evolve to meet the desires and needs of the changing customer, there's a promising traffic pattern starting to emerge that gives me hope for the future: the four-way intersection of great housing, hospitality, healthcare and holistic wellness.
frequent flyer. go-getter. creative. bacon-lover. happy. problem-solver.
health nut. early riser. analyst. facilitator. joyful. team player.
30 years of experience as auditor, controller, VP/Finance, and CFO offers Greg the insight necessary to guide Spectrum's corporate financial planning and operations. Expertise covers strategic planning, budgeting, accounting, financial systems, mergers and acquisitions. Greg is a graduate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and serves on the Spectrum Leadership Team.
There is a passion to be the best for our partner, the client; not only to do whatever it takes, to be the best, but to be creative and innovative in achieving results.
Embrace change, innovation and disruption in order to lead our partners in servicing the new senior consumer. Spectrum will use its 40 years of experience to forge new frontiers in the industry and accelerated us into the next generations.
Since 1993 Lonny has served in the senior housing and services arena and provides Spectrum's clients with strategic planning, product development and project management. Formerly, Lonny was with Erickson Retirement Communities for 16 years as VP of Operations, serving as Executive Director of two Life Plan Communities; served as Marketing Director for four Erickson communities. Lonny holds an M.A., Marketing from University of Maryland University College; a B.A., Business Administration from Shippensburg University; graduate studies in Theology from Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary. Lonny serves on Spectrum's Leadership Team.
The rapidly changing consumer is driving the future of Life Plan Communities. To stay relevant, we must constantly be listening to consumer desires and respond with creativity.
The new consumer's focus on wellness brings endless opportunities to create environments that enrich the lives of entire organizations. Exciting!
facilitator. communicator. family-man. organizer. latte-lover. team player.
enthusiastic. data nerd. fun-loving. detail-oriented. caring. thankful.
Eileen has worked with Spectrum since 2004 and offers clients significant experience in training, lead management & generation, event planning, sales and marketing. Eileen is a certified CRM trainer and provides clients with in-depth database system analysis and training. She has worked with more than 64 communities to streamline the process, create meaningful reports, and increase staff database utilization. Eileen was the Marketing Consultant at Providence Point; a start-up community in Pittsburgh, PA. She has worked on startups and expansions at Brazos Towers in Houston, TX and The Ranch in Stillwater, OK. She has a Bachelor's degree from Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania, was a licensed real estate broker.
One person can make a difference, a team can create a transformation. With God all things are possible.
Incorporate wellness into all aspects of our residents' and staff's experiences for a purposeful, meaningful life.
David founded Spectrum in 1978. With over 300 senior living communities in his portfolio, David's recognized corporate leadership and direction guided Spectrum's well-respected reputation for over 40 years. David led organizations through complete planning processes, from market research to final project development. He holds a B.A., Finance and Real Estate from the University of South Carolina.
The next decade will transform the senior living industry with innovative and exciting new products in the 4 H's – Housing, Hospitality, Holistic Wellness and Healthcare.
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Two of the three prominent speakership aspirants from the North-Central geopolitical zone have joined forces against the candidate of the All Progressives Congress and Majority Leader of the House of Reps, Femi Gbajabiamila, The Punch can report.
The lawmakers, Mr Mohammed Bago of Niger State and John Dyegh of Benue State, have insisted on the zoning of the speakership seat in the Ninth National Assembly to the North-Central zone, claiming that the area had not produced a Speaker or Deputy Speaker since 1999.
It was learnt that Dyegh, on Tuesday, visited Bago at his campaign office in Abuja, calling for a joint struggle for the recognition of North-Central by the APC in the sharing of leadership positions.
Speaking on his discussion with Dyegh, Bago, in an interview with The Punch, said he had agreed to work with his co-aspirant to fight Gbajabiamila at the speakership poll.
Bago said, "He (Dyegh) came to us, to identify with our cause and that he also believes in the North-Central speakership project. Therefore, he wants us to form an alliance so that we can foster the aspiration of the North-Central. If we are able to achieve that, then we will choose among ourselves one person that will go for the position.
"Don't forget that Dyegh was the Director-General of Mohammed Wase's campaign organisation. But he has visited me for collaboration."
Bago also noted that he started the campaign for North-Central speakership, accusing the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, of desperation while alleging that Gbajabiamila was imposed on the party as its speakership candidate.
He stated, "I started this issue of equity, justice and fairness, and all of them have lent their voices to my struggle because it is a collective one. When somebody was addressing me, he said he read in the newspapers that the (Niger) state Chairman of APC said they were (members) with the party (on Gbajabiamila). I said it was in order and I did not have issues with that.
"As a state chapter of the party, they must also comply with the directives of the national body. But they cannot ask why the party is doing this. Is it the decision of the National Executive Committee or National Working Committee. Who decided; who and who sat? We need the minutes of the meeting that decided that they would endorse people. You can macromanage the situation to say, 'take it to this zone or that zone', you cannot microzone to an individual. It shows desperation of an aspiration.
"The 'coup de'tat' that brought the APC to government was orchestrated in the National Assembly, particularly in the House of Representatives and (the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola) Tinubu, from outside, was part of the coup de'tat. He provided the tools that were used and the awareness of members. Because we understand his ways, we are very wary of what he wants to do."
When contacted on Friday, Dyegh also confirmed the meeting and the planned alliance with Bago.
"It was a solidarity meeting so that the speakership will come to the North-Central. Bago is not my enemy; he is my friend. My visiting him was in solidarity, to show to the world that this thing that we are doing is in friendship and it must come to the North-Central. We must work together and make sure that it comes to the zone," he said.
When reminded that there were about 20 speakership aspirants who were also demanding that the Speaker should come from their zones, Dyegh said, "We feel it is ours; any other persons doing it are just trying their luck."
When the lawmaker was also reminded that the APC had already zoned the speakership to the South-West and endorsed Gbajabiamila as its candidate, he said, "It is not over until it is over. We still think there is room for negotiation. We still feel very strongly that the party made a mistake by taking it to the South-West which already has the Vice-President.
"If they are taking the speakership to the South-West, they should take the Senate presidency to the North-West. If you are giving the Vice-President, the Speaker; give the President, the Senate President to balance it.
"Nigeria belongs to all of us; it does not belong to individuals. The North-Central has worked for the unity of this country for the APC and the government of the day, particularly President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election.
"Why would they think that our votes don't matter? We brought the third largest votes over and above the South-West. So, why would they take what rightly belongs to us and give it to the South-West which already has the Vice-President? These are the points we are raising."
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The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the robotic arm of NASA's InSight lander, took this picture of the Martian surface on Nov. 26, 2018, the same day the spacecraft touched down on the Red Planet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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There are a many great slide guitar tones. One of the hardest to achieve is a cleanish tone with sustain and a gentle whine.
It's one of those tones you don't just plug straight into an amp and achieve. It takes a bit of manipulation. The clean sound from most amplifiers is bright with a lot of attack and very little sustain.
Lack of sustain doesn't only sound different, it makes you play differently. It changes a lot of your musical expressions. For instance, the way you might slide from one note into another note without attacking it.
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There are plenty of times where I like overdrive and distortion for slide. But, there are times when nothing will do but a nice clean tone.
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I have typically found this hard to nail pre recording. Maybe because I don't have George in my name? Pedal compressors just don't have the same sound as vintage rack compressors. Until now.
I can't tell you how many pedal compressors I've been through. Enough to get discouraged.
In the studio I use an 1176 compressor to achieve that clean slide tone. Anyone thats used an 1176 knows there is something unique not only in the compression, but the pre amp.
Recently, I got called to do a session for actor/musician Ryan Eggold from the tv show The Blacklist. He wrote and directed a film. We were working on the soundtrack. I was asked to play slide.
When I showed up to the studio, the producer suggested I try the Origin Effects Slide Rig Compact Deluxe into a Super Reverb. I can't say I really get along with Super Reverbs.
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I was completely shocked when I plugged in the slide rig. It brought the Super Reverb to life. I had all the sustain I could want. All the sustain I could ever need. The Slide Rig was really quiet for a compressor too. I also really loved the flavor of the pre amp.
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We've been spending a lot of time together these days. Turns out we have a lot in common. I think we might even get engaged.
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The Slide Rig Compact Deluxe has changed my playing. There were things I knew I could play. But, they just weren't coming through. It's allowed my voice to come through clearly.
Often we talk about tone on pedals. We don't often discuss how a certain piece of gear changes our playing. How it could allow us to express ourselves more freely.
As a slide guitarist, this is one of my most important pieces of gear.
The Slide Rig is essentially two 1176 compressors in a pedal. It allows you to chain both 1176's together. This is a trick the great slide guitarist Lowell George used to do in the studio. It's how he got his signature clean slide tone.
Lets watch a video with the Slide Rig Compact Deluxe in action.
For this composition I was using an American Standard Stratocaster into the Slide Rig into a UAD Apollo using the Fuchs Train II amp sim.
The Fuchs can get a nice clean sound with flattering mids. It's a really nice sounding amp sim.
As mentioned earlier I'm using a glass medicine bottle slide. I put some red felt inside to prevent it from slipping off my finger.
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The Logic of the Body (Lexham 2020)
Ludwik Fleck on "thought collectives"
August 24, 2016 August 24, 2016 Matthew A LaPine
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
A thought collective is defined by Fleck as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction (1935a, II.4). Members of that collective not only adopt certain ways of perceiving and thinking, but they also continually transform it—and this transformation does occur not so much "in their heads" as in their interpersonal space. It is easy to observe this phenomenon in everyday life. When a group of people speak about something important, they start to speak about things which would not cross their minds if they were alone and which they would not tell if they were in another group of people. There arises a thought style characteristic for that group. There also arises a certain collective mood which straightens up the ties among the group members and inclines them to act in a certain way.
Some collectives last shortly—even only as long as an individual conversation lasts. When social forces connecting people operate for a long time, there arise thought collectives lasting for many generations. They take forms of religious movements, folk traditions, art or science. Long-lasting collectives create social institutions which enable and regulate the method by which next generations are added to a given collective: educational systems and social rituals accompanying the admission of new members.
All members of small ethnic groups belong to the same thought collective: everybody perceives and thinks in the same way, just like everybody performs the same or very similar actions. Within more developed societies there are many various collectives: religious, artistic, scientific, astrological, and those related to fashion, politics, economy, medicine, quack, sport, etc. When a thought style, developed and employed by a collective, becomes sufficiently sophisticated, the collective breaks into a small esoteric circle—a group of specialists which "are in the know"—and a wide exoteric circle for all those members, who are under the influence of the style, but do not play an active role in its formation. Members of the first group are those "initiated"—priests and theologians in the case of religion; artists and art critics in the case of art; scientists in the case of science etc. The corresponding exoteric circles for those groups are: lay believers; art-lovers; school teachers of physics, chemistry, and biology, and also engineers and all people interested in science.
Exoteric circles have an access to a proper thought style only through esoteric circles—for example through listening to sermons given by priests, or reading popular literature written by scientists. Members of exoteric circles trust the initiated. But specialists and members of esoteric circles are not independent of exoteric circles: this is the "public opinion" which justifies the efforts of specialists and gives them a stimulus to continue their work.
In contemporary societies almost everybody belongs to many thought collectives; e.g. a scientist may be also a member of a certain church, political party, mountain climbing club. An individual usually belongs to distant thought collectives, so that conflicts between thought styles coexisting in him/her do not arise. Most of people belong only to exoteric circles; only few become members of any esoteric circle, sporadically belonging to more than one. Everybody also belongs to a wide "everyday life" collective (which also differs from culture to culture).
Within the esoteric circle Fleck distinguishes the following subgroups: (1) vanguard, "the group of scientists working practically on a given problem", (2) the main body, "the official community", and (3) the group of stragglers (1935a, IV,4). In other places he omits stragglers and introduces a distinction between professionals (specialists sensu stricto) and more general specialists (1936, VI).
I care about this because I have a strong desire to point out that exoteric "believers" in scientism are more similar than dissimilar to the exoteric believers of a religious viewpoint. Everybody is taking someone's word for it and talking in ways that are clichéd. But even among professionals, competency is so limited by human finitude, that I am not sure that life's really difficult questions are fully within our reach. Scientism has a methodological problem with value, but its exoteric adherents are happy to trust their "studies" to deliver technique and call it value.
Fascinating claim on the importance of "social pressure" for research: "[the constitution of a research collective] happens when an appropriate mood arises… [A example given by Fleck was] a common demand for effective means for curing syphilis which was considered as an embarrassing and reuptation-damaging disease. (Fleck brought forward a controversial claim that the absence of any analogous success in the struggle with tuberculosis was related to a common approach to tuberculosis as 'romantic', which in turn resulted with insufficient social pressure to overcome it.)" SEP
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