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It is strange how sometimes a piece of fiction can influence one's perspective. 1984 by George Orwell is one of such pieces. Both book and movie adaptation bring special message – people remain people regardless of the system, they can be controlled by pressing on their weaknesses.
A lot of people see the parallels between the system in this book with the system of the Soviet Union, and rightly so. This book was written in the 1950 and shows a very plausible scenario of great power concentration in the hands of a small group. People have very strong self-preservation instincts and will choose self-preservation before common good most of the times. Ignorance is a great tool to use against masses, as personal survival instincts declare that being with a group is much safer than being on your own. To belong to a group means to follow the same rules and, eventually, the same ideas as others. No system is perfect and there will always be people, who will try to swim in the opposite direction, but will it be worth the effort?
The movie adaptation I chose to watch, which was actually from 1984, closely depicts the book and would be a good substitute for a lazy reader, but the book goes much deeper into ideological manipulations and ways of creating a flock of mindless people, who will believe anything the government implies, no matter how ridiculous it is.
The story tells us about a fictional division of the world, where only 3 main mega-countries remain – Oceania; Eurasia; Eastasai. Winston Smith, main protagonist, tells about a period of his life, when he works for the Ministry of Truth, and basically earns his living by altering the history on daily basis. He was not born into the system and questions it. But he can't tell anyone about it – The Big Brother is watching all the time, and there is no crime as bad as the Thought crime. Winston meets a young woman named Julia, who appears to be a passionate follower of the party, but she is not. They start to meet in secret and fall in love. They know that one day they will get caught but keep meeting and even rent a flat, where there are no screens to monitor them. Winston gets a revolutionary book and starts reading it. It describes the system and how people get controlled by the government. Eventually they get caught and separated. Tortures are inflicted on Winston to an unbearable level that he is ready to agree that 2+2=5 and is ready to swap places with Julia, his true love, just to ease his own pain. The Big Brother wins again – Winston is cured! His thoughts get cleared out and now he must return to the society to wait until one day he will get shot.
This story is very difficult to ignore mostly because it is exactly what might have happened to the USSR, if Stalin lived longer. After his death a lot changed for good, but propaganda, devotion to the party, collectivism, shortage of mass produced products and other points mentioned in the book remained in place until the very end. I was too little to remember socialism in detail, but I do remember long queues to buy food, being happy about getting certain products, especially from Western Europe or the USA, dressing in horrible clothes because there simply was no other choice, having the same toys as everyone else. I was lucky enough to be born at the verge of change, but many people lived this life for many years. My grandmother is still afraid to talk about many things she experienced. This fear sticks to the bones and never leaves. This is very close to what is happening in North Korea and it seems that the world simply doesn't care. No one will save you, you are alone against everyone.
I can very easily believe that mind-control to such level is possible. People can be broken no matter how strong they are. Mass media has incredible influence and it is very easy to persuade masses to believe false facts. Inflicting pain and mental torture will make one say and believe anything. Prospects of such terror can be stimulation enough not to go out of line and follow the rules as a mindless sheep. This book is very disturbing and powerful. It sticks and changes the perspective of looking at government, media and prospects of possible futures. I can see the parallels of the screens in the book with smart-phones and other gadgets we use in real life – they work equally well for 24/7 surveillance. Only nowadays people deliberately share all their thoughts with the rest of the world. I rate the book by 10 out of 10. The movie was not, bad but I think it emphasised the events more than ideas, the actors were not particularly convincing and visually it was not distinctively vivid. Because of it I give the movie only 6 out of 10. Definitely recommend to everyone interested in politics and social phenomenon of brainwash.


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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Are you Voting?
Yup, if you didn't know it, today is Election Day! It's time to get out and vote.
So why when all the results are tabulated does it feel like so many didn't vote? Simple answer is that they didn't. I can even understand why too!
Often times, what we vote for wins, but then somewhere down the line, it seems to get shuffled under the carpet by politicians, government officials or whomever is responsible to making sure that is simply fades away.
Some people will often say, my one vote doesn't matter. They will simply do what they want anyway. The system is flawed, when you pick one, it selects something else entirely. So why bother!
I would argue that yes, it does have flaws, but it is a right so many countries and their people don't get to do and an honor we simply shove aside because in our minds it doesn't matter. What if we all felt that way.
Our elections would stop having a value and we might as well fall under a dictatorship instead of a democratic process we have now.
Sure the results can be skewed. Sure the things we vote on might not ever happen.
But our one single vote matters.
Our founding fathers fought for the right to vote. To have a public say in what you believe. Imagine their horror to learn how far we have fallen in regards to our most precious right to vote.
If you simply don't have the means to get out there and vote, consider signing up for the absentee ballot. One's you mail in instead of heading to the polling places. Ask a friend or family member to drive you.
It's important for our children to see that we are taking our responsibility seriously and not teaching them our bitterness in refraining from voting.
We need to make sure that all those mailings we get during election season in the mail, those annoying automated phone calls, or even all the voting guides that we pick up, we thoroughly research through on our own end.
In this age of technology, the knowledge is literally at our fingertips on a specific candidate or proposal. Make sure you do your research and see what these people have done in the past, who appointed them into office and what their actions have shown in what they have done up to this point.
It is easy to make claims to make yourself heard, but we can rest assured we can follow their work history and see where their heart really lies on certain issues that are important to us.
In fact, out of all the "Voting Guides" I received in the mail, I found so many of them were very biased on what information they gave me. It's hard because often times, you don't know what is coming on the ballot until we get there and see it for ourselves. That is why all those irritating flyers we get in the mail is important for those that like to visit the polling locations. You will know what issues and candidates you will be voting for and have the time to research them before you go.
Be prepared ahead of time by doing your research and your homework. Take notes with you when you go, and please pray for each of the people you are voting for as well as those propositions that will have huge impacts not only on the economy but on our communities and states.
True knowledge is definitely powerful and God instructs us to appoint the leaders who stand for the truth and aren't afraid to speak out about it. Pray for God to guide your voting decisions and then remember that no matter the outcome, continue to pray for the leaders that are elected. It truly is the most powerful weapon we have as believers in God. We may not know the outcome of those prayers, but God does and someday we will too. So please be sure to get out and vote!
And yes, I did vote! I love the absentee process. You can vote early and even call to ensure your ballot was received.
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Regulation of PCNA and CAF-1 expression by the two tuberous sclerosis gene products.Tuberous sclerosis is an autosomal dominant tumor suppressor gene syndrome affecting about 1 in 6000 individuals. Two genes have been shown to be responsible for this disease: TSC1, encoding hamartin and TSC, encoding tuberin. A variety of tumors characteristically occur in different organs of tuberous sclerosis patients and are believed to result from defects in cell cycle/cell size control. In this study, we performed two-dimensional gel electrophoresis with subsequent mass spectrometrical identification of protein spots after overexpression of TSC1 or TSC2. We found expression of PCNA and the p48 subunit of CAF-1 to be regulated by two tuberous sclerosis gene products. CAF-1 and PCNA interact as major regulators of chromatin assembly during DNA repair. We suggest that deregulation of the control of chromatin assembly might contribute to development of tumors in tuberous sclerosis patients and provide important new insights into the molecular development, especially since deregulation of chromatin assembly and DNA repair results in genomic instability, a hallmark of tumor development.[1]
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Plaintiff: Judy Dugan and David Craft
Defendant: United States of America and Regents of the University of California
Case Number: 3:2010cv00042
Filed: January 6, 2010
Court: California Southern District Court
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County: San Diego
Referring Judge: William McCurine
Presiding Judge: Jeffrey T. Miller
Nature of Suit: Contract: Recovery Medicare
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
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I've always been intrigued by my family history, not for any grandiose reason, but simply to know where we started and where we came from. I have always hoped of being able to track our ancestral lines back to where my family reckon we all originated from.
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As a teenager, I had a burning desire, a passion to become a shipbuilder, like my grandfather before me, that was soon put to rest as my parents were not keen on the idea at all and pretty much told me it was not going to happen, that they would not give me permission to leave my education to start an apprenticeship.
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Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
I received this link from Google Partners when I first signed up.
(PDFs attached)
Please let me know where I can go in the Adwords or Partners consoles to generate these types of reports every month.
Thank you for you help in advance!
Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
Hi @DrWebSolution, I'm afraid I don't know how to get that specific report any other way than through your partner's email. This is the forum for Google My Business related things though, you might have better luck posting in the Google Partner forum here, or, if you're more interested in what other kinds of reports are available to you, you can post in the adwords forum here.
You can create and schedule a TON of different kind of reports with adwords beyond just that partner report you got, you can even get your hands dirty and script some automatic reports yourself using their system. You can read a little about what you can do easily using their options here.
Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
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Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
These seem like pretty straightforward reports to me - have you considered looking into Analytics dashboards at all? Might also be a good option if your looking to simply report on data from AdWords & Analytics.
Did you find any helpful responses or answers to your query? If yes, please mark it as the 'Best Answer.'
Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
@Dylan B, quality score takes much more into consideration than just keyword score, such as your overall account quality.
For starters, take a look at your ads, landing pages, ad groups, and CTR (click through ratios) ...and stuff like that and you should find some ways to improve, which will improve the quality scores on these auto generated reports Google sends. I have scores much higher than 5.0 so I know it is possible.
Also, be sure to utilize lots of the features within Google Adwords to best gain an edge for your clients. By doing so, your scores will go up, too.
Finally, Adwords Best Practices should always be front & center in all you do. This is something I live by, yet I hear of many that thinks it is optional.
Best of luck... and be sure to seek further help. There are plenty here willing.
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Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
April 2016
Thanks for the reply but I guess I didn't word that question properly. I fully understand Quality Score. However, on the monthly client report email you get referenced above, that score given in the bottom left, (showing 5), seems to be uncorrelated to the actual overall quality score of all the keywords. I have tested it over months and found no correlation. So I'm still confused as to how Google is getting that # or why it's even shown.
Re: Adwords Monthly Performance Report
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@Shanee_Kirk, while Google does not give out or admit to an account level quality score... it does exist.
Why do I say this?
They score Ads.
They score Keywords.
They score the use of features within Adwords.
They score the MCC account for agencies that are badged (and most likely all others).
If one does not utilize best practices, does not actively optimize accounts (features sets: keywords, ads, etc.), and lets our accounts go, as a badged partner, our performance gauge will drop, which means our score has dropped. I have received plenty of these monthly reports and studied them in detail by comparing them to actual Adwords accounts... and the score on these reports are a sum of many account level factors.
So while they do not give us an account score to stare at... there is a gauge (think: score) on the quality of work we do... or do not.
@Dylan B even states that after months of keyword study, the score stays at 5.0-5.1 and has no correlation to keyword scores. If other areas of the account is affected positively, that score will go up.
That my take away on this. Great discussion topic, by the way.
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William Blaylock was living in the household of Charles Blaylock in Wilson County, TN in 1850.
William Blaylock was head of household in Wilson County, TN with his wife Mary J in 1860.
Their daughter Martha was born in 1853.
So I searched the marriage records of Wilson County, TN and found…
James D. Blalock, married Mary Jane Tatum in Wilson County, TN on October 9, 1851.
Who the heck is James D. Blalock? Why is William Blaylock torturing me? Why can't he marry, leave wills, deeds, and the occasional Bible Record laying around like every other ancestor on the face of the earth? Why are the only records I can find of him is one arrest in 1870 in a county that I can't find him enumerated in during the same year?
I'm not even sure I share this man's DNA. We certainly have little in common. Despite an uncommon last name, for 44 years I have consistently spelled it the same way. His is speled differently every time I find it. (That is when I find it.)
So now while I follow on my theory that they married in another county, I also have to follow the theory that he had as many illegitimate names as illegitimate children. And I have to figure out who the heck James D. Blalock was.


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I can see myself at a NIADA conference, taking credit card payments using this... Or doing a street fair, a farmers market, a craft fair, etc.
I got a Paypal debit card (even with my bad credit!) because I use and have used Paypal for all my online buying and selling. It is just wonderful to have a separate business account. It really helps at the end of the year, to know how much I've been spending and making on my own business. So, I was hoping that Paypal would get an app I could use with my smart phone... And now I see they have one on the way! I am so excited about this! I watched the little video they had on their website, and it looks like it will be even more helpful than the one I'm using.
So, here's the info. The app I am currently using is from Square Up. You can download it for free from the iTunes App store. It works with any smart phone, where you can use the screen to sign, etc. It works really well with my iPhone, which I got from AT&T, because I can be on a phone call, put it on speaker, and just tap the Square icon to start typing in the info they are giving me on the phone. Really handy!!! I say get AT&T for two reasons. You can talk and surf at the same time (what I just described) and you can get refurbished iPhones for just a penny! Just go to AT&T and look for phones. Looks like they are not even charging that penny. You can get some for free. Square Up is here. Or you can do a search on your smart phone at the App Store. Paypal has the news about their app on their sign-in page. Click on "Learn More." to watch a video and sign up to be one of the first to get the new app. These are really handy ways to accept credit cards wherever you are! The Square app is free, and so is the card reader. I don't have details on the Paypal app or card reader, but if they want to stay competitive, they'll offer it for free.
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I'm having such a busy week with school. I had my children's book due on Tuesday as well as having to teach a science lesson to 4th graders... today I had a huge math test... tomorrow I have a genre study due and I have to lead a panel discussion in science............ I haven't been to the gym since Saturday..... the good news? I lost 2 pounds last week! This means so far I've lost 4.5 pounds.... I hope I haven't put any on with my lack of gym time.... I'm going to go hard at the gym Thurs.- Sun. and not weigh in until Monday morning. I would really like to stay on track to losing 10-11 pounds before I leave for Oregon.
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The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler, due out April, 2012
I love Anne Tyler books. Pretty much every single one of them. Though in looking over the list, I don't think I've read all of them, and I know I don't remember much about most of them, but still. When I have my own bookstore (called Opening Soon), I shall have an Anne Tyler section.
She writes the best quirky characters. They are just like everybody you know, but with great quirks. Actually, everybody you know has quirks, but they hide them from you. Anne Tyler just writes them out there for all of us to read about. It's not even that I fall in love with her characters, but I do always seem to understand them. Plot? Well, yes, there's usually a plot, but it's really just about life.
I also appreciate her because her books have grown up with me. The first ones I read were about young adults, and often their parents/siblings. Then she moved onto characters with spouses and children. And then about growing older. There's lots of self-worth and self-realization issues, but always written with humor and quirkiness and readability.
So it was with great glee and anticipation that I grabbed the ARC of her newest novel, The Beginner's Goodbye. Here's the quick review:
After a childhood illness left him with a crippled right arm and leg, Aaron has always fought to be self-reliant. He finds the love of his life in an equally self-sufficient woman, Dorothy. After 10 years of marriage, Dorothy is killed in a freak accident and as Aaron grieves and tries to put his life back together, he begins to learn the true cost of his independent ways.
It caught me by surprise that in this book, Tyler writes about love and loss and grieving, but not about an old person. Aaron is only in his mid-thirties when he loses Dorothy. Because Tyler's characters have seemed to get older with later books, I wasn't expecting this character – and at times I was definitely reading him as an older man. Part of this is because his marriage was a little stale, a little taking each other for granted, a lot of complacency, which strikes me as a hallmark of a marriage longer than 10 years, but it is the marriage that Aaron and Dorothy had, and you realize why as the book develops. And Dorothy returns to Aaron. This is not a spoiler, the first line of the book is, "The strangest thing about my wife's return from the dead was how other people reacted." Yes, for a moment I was afraid that Anne Tyler had fallen under the spell of zombies-for-fame-and-profit. But no, it's all OK.
The title of the novel comes from Aaron's employer. He works in the family business, a small publishing house. They do a lot of vanity press work, where people/authors pay them to put their book in print. They also have a fairly successful line of books called the Beginners Guides, much like the actual For Dummies series. There are some great scenes where they are discussing new marketing strategies for the beginners guides and also painfully accurate assessments of so many self-published books.
The Beginner's Goodbye is classic Anne Tyler. Complete with the happy ending. Life can be good, even when you have to learn to say goodbye.


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Shirley Elaine DowlingJuly 11, 1952 ~ August 29, 2017 (age 65)
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Shirley Dowling passed away August 29, 2017 peacefully in her sleep at the age of 65. She was a lifetime resident of Dunnellon, Fl. Shirley was passionate about protecting our Florida wildlife, springs and waterways, and an avid animal lover. But most of all she will be remembered and missed for her loving friendships, her kind heart, love of nature and her adventurous spirit.
Shirley was preceded in death by her parents W.B. and Elaine Dowling, and her beloved dog "Cali." She is survived by her loving canine companion "Isaac", and many cousins.
A celebration of her life will be held at a later date with notification being posted on Social Media.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that you consider donating to Humanitarians of Florida, Inc., in Lecanto, Florida.


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Here is the 9th and Final Lesson "Managing Lawn Diseases" in our Lawn Challenge Series from the University of Illinois. terry
Managing Home Lawn Diseases
Patch Diseases Serious Problem
Perhaps the most serious lawn disease likely to occur in northern Illinois is summer patch and necrotic ring spot, two separate diseases that attack grass roots and previously were referred to as fusarium blight. Research continues to look for information on these diseases. Brown patch may also attack lawns. These "patch diseases" are similar in appearance and management in lawns.
Summer patch and brown patch tends to be most active in hot weather, while necrotic ring spot tends to be most active in late spring and in fall. Disease symptoms often show under lawn stress in summer, however. Crescent shaped or circular patches of dead grass, often with clumps of green grass inside, are a characteristic symptom (often called "frogeye"). Lawns with advanced disease development may show irregular dead areas and streaks.
Brown patch may infect well-watered and fertilized lawns in hot, humid weather.
Patch diseases typically develop on lawns with stress factors such as excessive thatch, poor soil conditions, sod installed over a poorly prepared site, irregular/excessive nitrogen fertility, and related problems. One typical situation in which these diseases occur is recently sodded lawns (within 2 - 5 years) put down over a clay soil, usually with good care (high watering & fertility) to keep the grass green and vigorous. This condition leads to poor root penetration and development, and also often a problem thatch layer.
Management of these diseases consists of correcting soil problems and implementing proper cultural practices, overseeding dead areas, and possibly fungicide applications. Improving conditions for root growth and reducing problem thatch is critical. Practices such as core aerifying and topdressing, along with sound fertilizing, mowing (avoid mowing too short), and watering are suggested. Light, frequent irrigation may help reduce stress of summer patch.
Stress on this sodded front yard over heavy clay has allowed patch disease to invade.
Core cultivation (aerifying) will help improve soil conditions and reduce thatch. Spring and fall are suggested times for aerifying, assuming lawns are actively growing. Avoid heavy spring applications of nitrogen fertilizer. Focus most applications on the fall period. Fertilizers containing controlled-release nitrogen are suggested. Overseed dead areas with perennial ryegrass and resistant Kentucky bluegrass cultivars in late August or early September.
These management suggestions may not bring immediate results, but will get the patch disease under control in the long run. Fungicides are an option to help prevent further development on unaffected grass, but will not reverse the factors causing the disease or eliminate the disease. Fungicides treat the symptoms but not the cause of the problem.
Rust Turns Lawns Orange
Orange powder on lawns, usually during slow growth, is characteristic of rust disease.
Rust can be very common in the late summer to early fall period, especially when the weather is dry. Rust develops on lawns growing very slowly, and appears as an orangish powder (spores) on grass blades. Rust spores can easily be tracked into homes. Watering and fertilizing at the next suggested time period (such as early fall - see Watering, Mowing and Fertilizing Lawns) should increase the lawn vigor and cause the rust to decline.
Powdery Mildew Turns Lawns White
Finally, powdery mildew is a common disease of lawns in shade areas. Powdery mildew is easy to identify; as grass appears whitish in color. Powdery mildew develops primarily on Kentucky bluegrass in the shade. Choose shade-tolerant grasses and follow shade lawn management practices


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With a rising number of company formations and a falling number of company closures, Stanmore is becoming a great place for business start ups to locate
Stanmore, Greater London (PRWEB UK) 9 February 2013
The Duport Business Confidence Report for Q3 in Stanmore suggests the economy of the area is doing well, despite tough economic conditions.
The report shows that there was a 9% rise in company formation during the third quarter of 2012. There was also a slight drop in company closures during this period, leading to an overall rise in net company growth.
The third quarter also saw a rise in the UK company share of Stanmore. However, there was fall in the percentage of young director appointments and female director appointments.
Managing Director of Duport.co.uk, Peter Valaitis commented:
"It is great to see a growing number of people in Stanmore are forming their own companies."
"With a rising number of company formations and a falling number of company closures, Stanmore is becoming a great place for business start ups to locate."
The Duport Business Confidence Report for Stanmore provides up-to-date economic data that provides an insight into the local economy. More information and statistics can be found at http://www.duport.co.uk/stanmore.
Duport Business Confidence Reports are generated and released by Duport Associates Ltd. The data contained in these reports is assimilated and analysed by Duport using public record data from sources including Companies House, Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey. Duport Associates Ltd is a leading UK company formation agent, established in 1997 and registering around 10,000 new companies each year through its Companies House approved software.


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Avon Scouts - Bear Hunt
On Saturday 7th May was Avon Scouts 'bear hunt'. Simon took some scouts from Bathampton to this and many people from WSJ were also there. At the event we were lucky enough to meet chief scout - Bear Grylls and got him to sign some 'Avonasaurus' merchandise.
You can read more on what I have to say on this on the new Bathampton Scouts website which I have just finished : http://www.bathamptonscouts.org/2011/05/bear-hunt/
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I have to wonder, this Christmas Day, 2011, whether it would be a good thing to spend the day with a newborn infant and his family in a stuffy, or drafty barn stable with beasts breathing grainy exhalations into our shared air, and moving their bodies around the stalls—I hear the horse shifting weight on the floor, and munching a morsel, and hear the barn cat mew, hoping for some handout from the strangely milky-smelling people who are camping in the corner.
We are suffering a near-Dickensian downturn in our society this year—people are hungry and homeless—a lot more people than we have ever had before, and it's not "bums" and "panhandlers" who have chosen their fate, but we find ourselves mingling with those same people by another label, unemployed, foreclosed, evicted for non payment of rent, bankrupted by overwhelming debt, and without a place to put the stuff that used to be their lives. Had we ever before thought about the real inner life of that panhandler who tried to hit us up in Pioneer Square, or wherever we happend to be shopping?
Some are young families who have little children and some are pregnant. They will possibly deliver today.
Could it be that God is allowing us to suffer this difficult passage to put us in the stable with the child who came to save us?
What can we learn from being "away in the manger" with the Christ Child? Straw is stickery, and the dust makes you sneeze. It's good to be near parents. Large beasts are warm. Stay away from their legs. Even in a stable there is cuddling. Food comes from the breast of the mother, not from the supermarket. The part of the group with the greater wealth of food, shelter, clothing support the ones who have nothing. The ones who know how to do things use their knowledge to help everyone. Life is not a bowl of cherries. There is discomfort, and temporary distress. Dirt happens. Life goes on anyway, and there is joy and humor and goodness even in the most inconvenient circumstances.
Not all the inhabitants will live very long. There are animals in this stable who are there for the express purpose of being dispatched summarily for the purpose of feeding the humans. Life is not always kind. But it has a carefully engineered way of getting to God's purposes. We don't always get into the planning meetings. And the child we honor today did not live long… only thirty some years. But what he did in those thirty years changed everything, forever.
I am trying to put myself in the stable today. I am a traveler, in a way…far from my family this Christmas although just down the highway by about two hours. I got the flu or something that kept me from the festivities. I have been in bed with rain on the roof and the computer in the corner along with the tea and Gatorade, and the bathroom happily around the corner. Not exactly the stable. It's warm in here, and I am not having to clean stable sorts of stuff away to get from here to the kitchen.
It's good to be quiet, I find. All I have done other than keeping an eye on the email for messages from loved ones, is a lot of not successful Sudokus! Well I did solve some, but my brain doesn't think it's important to really solve them. Just to exercise as much as is good, and then to quit when it becomes stressful. I'm only sorta good at Sudoku.
So, I am heading back to my bedroll, with my bottle of Gatorade, and a freshly filled hot water bottle. The kids will call later on and give me a report. The best part is the report from the four and six year old youngest grandchildren.
Mary and Joseph didn't have a phone. I will try to remember that.
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Author: John W. Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University
So far in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Latour has thickened a program found in much of his previous writings. He has combined the philosophical categories developed in We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with his ethnographic method developed with Steve Woolgar in Laboratory Life (1979). The program, however, begins to shift in chapter 5. Latour now introduces concerns recorded in "Irreductions" (1993): "Nothing is, by itself, either reducible or irreducible to anything else" (The Pasteurization of France, p. 158). He slowly builds conduits to circulate us within veridiction conditions for a pluralistic ontology of modes of existence.Latour begins the chapter with his continued polemic against "the Moderns." Latour notes how the moderns create and attempt to purify of dichotomous domains:
dualism has its charms, but it takes the anthropologist only a few months of fieldwork to notice that dichotomies do not have, among the Moderns in any case, the extraordinary explanatory virtue that the anthropology of remote cultures so readily attributes to them. The raw and the cooked, nature and culture, words and things, the sacred and the profane, the real and the constructed, the abstract and the concrete, the savage and the civilized, and even the dualism of the modern and the premodern, do not seem to get our investigator very far. It might almost make us doubt the ultimate light that such plays of contrast are supposed to shed when they are applied to the 'others' (p. 146).
Latour exploits one of these bifurcations, the dichotomy between "Science" and "Politics" to advance his cause.
Ironically, while recognizing the necessity of diplomacy and allies to make reality more enduring, Latour puts forth his "ethnography of the Moderns" as the work of a single, heroic field ethnologist. He bends his sexder (the hybrid of the modern dichotomy of "sex" and "gender") through the real fictional character of his female ethnographer. Latour does not stand alone to wage battle against the battle between the modernist and the postmodernists. Other allies could help him – and us – to deepen the conduits of his analysis of the "modern constitution" and its project of purification. Louis Dupré in his Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture (1993) writes, "in this book I intend to investigate the origins, the process, and the effects of this double breakup: the one between the transcendent constituent and its cosmic-human counterpart, and the one between the person and cosmos (now understood in the narrower sense of physical nature)" (p. 3). Charles Taylor in his A Secular Age (2007) has analyzed the same dichotomy in terms that approach Latour's language: "the pure face-off between 'religion' and 'science' is a chimaera, or rather, an ideological construct. In reality, there is a struggle between thinkers with complex, many-levelled agendas, which is why the real story seems so confused and untidy in life of the ideal confrontation" (p. 332). Alasdair MacIntyre speaks of two opposing traditions within the modern: the "genealogical" and the "encyclopaedic" in his Gifford Lectures published as Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990) – a dichotomy that enlarges his earlier typology of the "manager" and the "therapist" (see Macintyre, After Virtue, Third Edition, 2007). Robert Bellah et al. expand this dichotomy in his social anthropological analysis of American life into two distinct realms: the rational, objective domain of the "managerial" and the subjective, meaning domain of the "therapeutic." (see Bellah et al, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, First edition with a new preface in 2007). Latour has allies in other networks for the construction of reality so that "experience will have become expressible" (p. 149) – the telos or end of Latour's project. While none of these thinkers have developed the distinct program of modes of existence, their analysis and constructive projects perhaps remain for others to construct conduits between their work and Latour's.
Perhaps most pertinently for this chapter, Latour could find a profound ally in Talal Asad. In Asad's Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) conducts an anthropology of the modern through Kant's essay "What is Enlightenment"? He concludes, "A crucial part of the liberal tradition to which Kant contributed is the distinction between two quite separate conceptual realms: one in which unquestioned obedience to authority prevails (the juridical definitions upheld by the state); the other consisting of rational argument and exchange, in which authority has no place (the omnicompetence of criticism). Kant therefore proposes both a sociological limit (the literate, scholarly minority to whom the privilege of public criticism belongs) and a political one (the conditions in which one must refrain from open criticism)" (p. 204).
Latour frames chapter 5 in this distinction between "Science" ("the literate, scholarly minority to whom the privilege of public criticism belongs") and "Politics" ("the conditions in which one must refrain from open criticism"). The problem arises from what Latour polemically designates "straight talk" – the conviction that humans "could maintain from one paragraph to the next a path that would pass from necessity to necessity, through simple DISPLACEMENT, without ever jumping through any operation of TRANSLATION . . . They would speak straightforwardly, with no detours, about what is patently obvious, under the heading of 'common sense'" (p. 125).
Straight talk, the referential language of "science" stands opposed to the "crooked talk" of politics. "Science" differentiates itself from "politics" to bring "politics" in line with "scientific reality's" direct reference to the world as it really is and has been and will be in order to close off debate – a political trump card for pure rationality to close off the corrupted realm of the political. As Latour notes, "the claim of straight talk [is] that it obeys the movement of knowledge, but for polemical reasons, battlefield reasons" (p. 126). Latour's ethnologist scribbles in her notebook: "'The moderns are those who have kidnapped Science to solve a problem of closure in public debates'" (p. 129). Or more in rhetoric of Latour's own literary persona: "Against the dangers of Politics, Reason must be able to serve as a counterweight; otherwise, they threaten, all hell will break loose" (p. 130). What Latour does not explore is the romantic, genealogical, postmodern inversion of this claim: "against the danger of Reason, politics must be able to serve as a counterweight; otherwise, the postmoderns threaten, all hell will break loose." The realms remain the same; the threat remains the same; the battle line remains the same; one has only snuck over the battle line from one camp to the other. Fortunately, for Latour and for us, "frontal opposition doesn't impress us any more than factitious confusion does" (p. 131).
Latour exploits the incoherence of the political reason for scientific "straight talk" to advance the cause of "science" for "political ends." He refuses to join forces in the battle. Scientific reference has its own mode of existence with its own conditions of veridiction. He begins his move from the ethnography of "the Moderns" to an ontology of "modes of existence." The networks of reference constructed by various scientists do not compete with existence of the networks of political for existence, nor does each give "different perspectives of the same world." Domains have no existence for competition with another. Domains lose their territorial stability and borders and transmogrify into nonreductive modes of existence: "Nothing is, by itself, either reducible or irreducible to anything else." Nor do the scientific networks of referential networks stand hermetically sealed against the networks of political networks: crossings constantly occur between the holes of the nets of each network: "nothing prevents us from substituting the CROSSING between two modes of veridiction for the great battle between demonstration and rhetoric" (p. 131-2). Latour gestures toward a new pluralistic ontology of modes of existence, an ontology of networks rather than domains, a realist world of irreduction in which truths and falsities occur within different conditions of truthful speech dependent upon the mode of existence of which one speaks:
The investigator now knows the three criteria by which one can recognize a mode of existence. First, thanks to a category mistake: she feels vaguely, in the beginning, and then more and more precisely, that she is missing something, that she isn't getting what is said in the right tonality, that she hasn't preceded it with the right PREPOSITION. Alerted by this feeling that she has blundered, she understands that she must look second, to see if there is some type of discontinuity, some HIATUS that would account for a particular type of continuity and that would thereby trace a TRAJECTORY, its own particular PASS. Finally, she knows that she has to find out whether there are FELICITY AND INFELICITY CONDITIONS that would make it possible to say of a mode of existence in its own idiom under what conditions it is truthful or deceitful. (p. 132)
Politics has its own mode of existence, distinct (though not separate) from the referential mode of existence built from the networks that constitute the laboratory. For Latour, politics has a different mode of existence, a mode of existence spoken by the word "autonomy":
Through its capacity to obtain unity from a multitude, a unified will from a sum or recriminations; and then through another capacity, its ability to pass, by just as dizzying a series of discontintuities, from provisional unity to the implementation of decisions, to the obedience of those who had been uttering recriminations, despite the continual transformation that this multitude imposed on the injunctions while resisting through every possible means. . . . this is the price of autonomy. This continual renewal of REPRISE of a movement that cannot rely definitively on anything is probably the most characteristic feature of political speech: the obligation to start everything all over again gives political speech perhaps the most demanding of all felicity conditions, and it explains the choice of the adjective 'crooked.' . . . it is indeed a matter of ceaselessly retracing one's steps in a movement of envelopment that always has to be begun again in order to sketch the moving form of a group endowed with its own will and capable of simultaneous freedom and obedience – something that the word AUTONOMY captures perfectly. (p. 134)
Unlike the pitched battle between "truth is power" (i.e. politically constituted) and "truth is objectively referential" (i.e. achieved by a universal human scientific rationality), Latour speaks of the truths of perduring existence through constructed networks held together, for humans, by natural speech.
Make no mistake, Latour does not advocate a relativism of the relativist in which truth becomes a perspective on a common withdrawn "reality." It now becomes "possible to replace a false opposition (the one between Reason and Rhetoric) by recognizing a crossing between two forms of veridication, each of which misunderstands the other by translating it into its own terms" (p. 136). To justify his position Latour goes to the philosophy of natural language:
To tell the truth—to the the truths – natural language lacks for nothing. This is to draw the positive conclusion where Wittgenstein, obsessed by his critique of rationalism, drew only the negative. One can perfectly well ask language to speak 'with rigor,' but without asking it for all that to pretend to progress from necessity to necessity by laying down a string of identical entities. . . . the only rigor that matters to us is learning to speak in the right tonality, to speak well – shorthand for 'speaking well in the agora to someone about something that concerns him.' (p. 139)
The dichotomy between "language" and "reality" in which language mediates or gives access to a 'reality' out there, dissipates. Language participates in reality. Unlike the dichotomy suggested between sticks and stones and words given in the saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may never hurt me," words, amplified with sufficient force may institute the same or worse physiological damage on a human being than a stick or stone. Sound waves bounce off ceilings into ears; formed marks on a page interact through corneas to stimulate optic nerves. Language flows, bounces, retreats, increases volume, whispers, repeats. As Latour speaks through the traces on a page, translated into this cyber paper, "The operation of turning to reality in and through language can now take place in two phases: by finding space again, and thus room to breathe. Because in order to speak, we have to have air in our lungs" (p. 141).
It seems to me that what Latour has written so far through his book reaches a hinge point on pp. 141-143. He has circulated the words and the reader to a crossing between ethnography and philosophy. He does not move from an ethnographic domain to its "philosophical implications" nor translate "ethnographic description" into a philosophical domain. He stands at an intersection of networks and describes the conditions in which his two different modes of existence, the referential and the political, may cross without reduction of one to the other, yet without constructing distinct domains within or perspectives on the same "reality." Perhaps at this point we should let Latour's words do their work by physical re-placement rather than by commentary:
Let us note first of all that with the notion and even the connotations of the word "network" we have gained room and space where we can collect values without merely mouthing the words. If we get into the habit of speaking of trajectories and passes that are limited and specific to each occasion for the paths of persistence [REP], chains of reference [REF], law [LAW], or political autonomy [POL], the landscape spread out before the observer is already entirely different from the one that obliged him to believe himself surrounded on all sides by an 'eternal material world' that would have invaded the entire space and that would have forced all the other values to retreat little by little. But to go where? Into the mind? Into the brain? Into language? Into symbolic? No one knew. It was a black hole. Stifling. Suffocating. . . .
From this point on, observers no longer find themselves facing a world that is full, continuous, without interstices, accessible to disinterested knowledge endowed with the mysterious capacity to go 'everywhere' through thought. . . . we have become able to discern that narrow conduits of the production of equipped and rectified knowledge as so many slender veins that are added to other conduits and conducts along which, for example, existents can run the risk of existing. These networks are more numerous that those of references, but they are no less localizable, narrow, limited in their kind, and, too, a sketch of their features – this is the essential point – reveals as many empty places as peaks and troughs. The stubborn determination of things to keep on existing does not saturate this landscape any more than knowledge could. . . .
Once we have accompanied knowledge [REF] in its networks – finally giving it the means to go as far as it wishes, but always provided that it pays the price of its installation and its extension – and above all, once we have accompanied the beings of the world in the conduits where they find the consecution of their antecedents and their consequents [REP], neither knowledge nor beings can fill in the landscape with empty padding. . .
The networks have in fact relocalized the DOMAINS. . . .
What matters in all these somewhat awkward metaphors is the attention they allow us to pay to materiality rather than to words, and to the empty space rather than the full ones. And they allow us in particular to feel the unfettered circulation of one value no longer has the ability to make another one completely disappear by disqualifying it from the outset on the pretext that there is 'no place' for it to go. The one can no longer derealize the other a priori. They can all start circulating side by side. . . .
To move forward in this inquiry, we need an ontological pluralism that was scarcely possible before, since the only permissible pluralism had to be sought perhaps in language, in culture, in representations, but certainly not in things, which were entirely caught up in that strange concern for forming the external world on the basis of an essentially argumentative matter. . . .
We are going to be able to restore to discussion the task of bearing, for each case, its reality test. . . . we shall no longer be able, a priori, without any test whatsoever, to discredit entire classes of beings on the pretext that they have no 'material existence,' since it is matter itself, as we have understood, that is terribly lacking in material existence! It is in the public square and before those who are primarily concerned by it that we have to run the risk of saying: 'This exists, that does not exist.'
Latour, "the Prince of Networks," gives us a realistic ontology that refuses the modern dichotomy of humans/culture/social construction versus science/nature/facts. The battlefield deflates with no enemy now to fight. Swords are turned into plough shares. Turf wars end as domains dissolve. We are left with the necessity of therapies of language – language that also allows "things" to speak – because speech itself is a thing.
Latour thus embraces a good, deeper relativism of irreductive networks over a bad pluralism of human perspectives on an inert or a linguistic pragmaticism of a constantly withdrawing reality. One referential, scientific, universal rational truth no longer may rule supreme as the Ring of Power and in darkness bind all others to itself. Nor does truth dissipate into constantly deferred arrivals that never come until the working out of the dialectical end of history and the last man. Latour clarifies:
Our method thus does not imply asserting that 'everything is true,' 'that everything is equal to everything else,' that all the versions of existence, the back as well as the good, the factitious along with the true, ought to cohabit without our worrying any longer about sorting them out, as is suggested by the popular version of relativism. . . . It implies only that the sorting out will have to take place, from now on, on a level playing field, contingent on precise tests, and we shall no longer able to endow ourselves with the astonishing facility of asserting that these particular beings exist for sure while those others are, at best, mere 'ways of speaking.' We see why the expression 'to each his own (truth)' not only has the relativist tonality people often grant it; it also implies the daunting requirement of knowing how to speak of each mode in its own language and according to its own principle of veridiction (p. 143).
Veridiction – the articulation of the conditions of truthful speech within a particular mode of existence – now become the crucial task to determine truth and falsity of a claimed mode of existence. As the chapter closes a mere ethnographic analysis of "the moderns," it opens into an account that must, before proceeding, interrogate a final modern dichotomy: the bifurcation between construction and truth.
Latour rightly says, "It takes time to learn to talk" (p. 149). The truthfulness of modes of existence depend upon the construction of the conditions of truthful speech. Shaped by modern and postmodern dichotomies in the reductive battle of domains, a long period of linguistic therapy awaits us to speak well within the crossing of networks within a non-contradictory, realistic pluralism of modes of existence. I'm sure that this summary, already much too long, stutters deeply along the way.
One closing question. If I may allow my commitments to classical Thomistic language about God and all things related to God to surface for a moment (a language not foreign to Latour in his study under Henri de Lubac, if I understand correctly, and his initial work on Peguy and Bultmann – see his recently translated, Rejoicing: The Torments of Religious Speech, 2013). John Milbank of the University of Nottingham, after all, circulated me into Latour's work. I wonder if we might complement Latour's analysis of different modes of existence with different conditions of veridiction with a simultaneous language of intensities of participation in reality. To suggest a great modern heresy, Is there a hierarchy of modes of existence that permit humans to participate more deeply in the real, even with the holes, the fluidity, the circulation of the networks, that never can fill in the holes? Are there certain interstices where crossing of modes of existence participate more deeply, intensely through a confluence and ordering of conditions of veridiction? May one move beyond a listing of modes of existence into a fluid, shifting, but nonetheless deepening natural language of participation so that experience may be articulated more thoroughly through a constant ordering and reordering of these modes of existence in their crossings with each other? Is it perhaps even necessary to do so?
Perhaps nostalgia has overwhelmed me. I sometimes think so myself. As Latour's ethnography of the moderns, repeating insights also found in networks into which I have been pulled, moves into a pluralistic ontology of modes of existence, it at least is the question that pursues me. After all, while modes is plural, existence remains singular. His work so far emphasizes the plurality of the modes; yet the singularity of existence itself haunts his project, the presence of an absence, a silence that perhaps shouts. Perhaps the theological dimension of Latour's work, as seen in Rejoicing, does not represent an incidental idiosyncrasy of his person, but fundamentally defines the networks of his program.