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Anglican Church Women
The diocesan Anglican Church Women (ACW) was originally found in 1886 under the name of the Women's Auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, Quebec Diocesan Branch. To this day a number of congregations have a local ACW group who support their churches and wider communities in many different ways.
At the diocesan level, the ACW is active in a number of charitable projects and educational support for students from remote parts of the diocese, they also hold a diocesan wide biennial meeting.
For more information on the diocesan ACW and its activities, contact its president, Marilyn Mastine.
Student Bursaries
Each year the diocesan ACW provides small bursaries to students from outlying regions of the diocese who are pursuing post-secondary studies. Click here for the bursary application form.


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Audi Press Release
Ingolstadt, March 9, 2015 – When Lucas di Grassi (BR), Loïc Duval (F) and Oliver Jarvis (GB) start the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in April, they will do so as established Audi drivers. Still, the situation will be completely new for each of them, as they're forming a driver team for the first time.
In these three drivers we've got a strong squad on the grid that is set on competing with our three-time Le Mans winners Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer," Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich is certain. "Our driver line-up for 2015 is balanced, experienced and strong. I can fully rely on them. They're an important element in the WEC battle with the other three manufacturers."
Photo credit: Audi Communications - Motorsport

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Abraham's One Offspring
Today's passage reminds us that we receive the promised blessing of God not by genetics but through personal trust in the Messiah. Thus, the true children of Abraham are those who have faith — whether Jew or Gentile. In this ...Read More
The Mosaic Covenant
By revealing His law to Israel after redeeming the nation from Egypt, our Creator establishes the basic principle of sanctification. Strictly speaking, we do not make ourselves holy. First, God saves us from sin and sets us apart as His ...Read More
Rahab and the Spies
Do you trust in Christ and yet harbor fears that He may not really be able to forgive you? Do you think that your past is so horrible that God could never accept you into His kingdom? If so, remember ...Read More
The pattern of Gabriel's bringing a message directly to Zechariah and Mary shows that angels speak to God's people at decisive points in redemptive history. Since the next decisive point in salvation history will be the return of Christ, we ...Read More
The Pharisees' Hard Hearts
The Pharisees' meeting with the Herodians to plot Jesus' death confirms their evil (Mark 3:6). Dr. R.C. Sproul points out the irony in his commentary Mark: "Could there have been a worse way of violating the sanctity ...Read More
The Insanity of Luther
God's demand for holiness is absolute. We have to be holy just as He is holy (Lev. 19:2), and we deserve His wrath when we fail. All men merit this judgment (Rom. 3:23), but in His grace the Father has ...Read More
The Curse of the Law
The curse to which Paul refers is nothing less than exposure to the unmitigated wrath of God Almighty. It is a frightful and dreadful thought, eclipsed only by the reality that this is the destiny of all those who do ...Read More
The Final End of the Wicked
The fear of the Lord is not only the beginning of wisdom (Prov. 1:7); it is also the prerequisite for eternal life. It is not that such fear is a meritorious work that God rewards with eternal life; rather, such ...Read More
God Remembers Us
We know that the love the audience of Hebrews had for Christ was not perfect. In 6:10 they had to be reminded of two things perfect love does not forget: God's justice and faithfulness. Imperfect love is the standard for ...Read More
Spiritual Adultery
David Brainerd, missionary to Native Americans, comments, "Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honors, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none" (The Life and Diary of David Brainerd). The pleasures this world has to offer, while not ...Read More


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I'm not a fan of taking a couple of days off from working on the site and leaving people hanging, but sometimes a mixture of shitbox racing on Saturday nights, as well as messing around with a new game get in the way of pissing off fanboys on a daily basis here at PRC.net.
It's probably a good idea to start the week off by addressing the elephant in the room: Codemasters unleashed Formula One 2016 upon the world three days ago, and aside from some pretty catastrophic hardware issues that were quickly rectified with a pair of emergency patches, a whole bunch of sim racers have been pleasantly surprised with the title. This is a rare occurrence for the current group of individuals working under the Codemasters banner, as the quality of games released after their 2011 masterpiece, DiRT 3, have taken a tangible nosedive towards mediocrity. In particular, the licensed Formula One titles were typically met with scathing reviews by hardcore Grand Prix fans for an abundance of technical issues and lackluster artificial intelligence; the lone entry in the series worth playing (F1 2013) was merely saved by the inclusion of historic bonus content.
With Codemasters receiving a unanimous thrashing by both critics and fans alike for shipping an empty, shallow, and most notably broken game in F1 2015, the general consensus from multiple online communities is that Codemasters have redeemed themselves as a developer thanks to F1 2016. Ideally, we'll have our resident Formula One aficionado Sev give the title a proper shakedown in the coming days, but for those wanting a final verdict right away, I can assure that it's really fucking good. This is basically the vision everybody had in their minds when Codemasters acquired the license back in 2009; it's just a shame it took so long to get to this point.
Anyways, for those of you who've purchased the game and have spent the majority of the weekend turning laps, you've probably figured out that the computer opponents are absurdly quick on higher difficulties, and like all modern racing games, that final bit of pace will be picked up in the garage menu. However, the five baseline setups F1 2016 offers in the garage menu as a quick fix rarely warrant any on-track improvements, and since it's a Codemasters game, you just know real-world setup tricks probably won't work here. This is a game rooted in reality, but the physics have indeed been manipulated for mass market appeal. Personally, I don't mind them one bit. The game drives a bit like the old FSOne mods for rFactor; much simpler compared to the other stuff out there, but in the context of a huge game with ruthless AI and a massive offline career mode, it's nothing to complain about. I saw someone on reddit make the comment that the game is "70% simulation, 30% arcade", and that's a pretty accurate summary.
My only word of warning, is that Codemasters appear to simulate turbocharger behavior by tying it directly to your own personal throttle input. With traction control turned off, you simply can't roll on the throttle and still turn competitive times as you would in other simulators. It's like the game engine intentionally ignores the kind of light throttle input you'd use on a similar car in Automobilista or rFactor, and amplifies anything over 50% pedal input to exaggerate turbo behavior. The result is that you more or less can't modulate the throttle at all. I'm usually against turning on assists in any type of racing game, but F1 2016 is simply unplayable on a competitive level without turning traction control to the Medium setting. This still lets the car wiggle around a whole bunch on exit, and you'll indeed need to wheel the thing to post a respectable time, but getting rid of traction control entirely in the pursuit of realism will straight up fuck you over from winning much of anything in F1 2016.
As is the norm whenever I load up a new game, I went straight to F1 2016's Time Trial mode as a way to figure out what kind of lines, setups, and driving styles are needed to be fast in this strange new world. The Time Trial mode in F1 2016 functions much like Forza Motorsport's Rivals feature, where the game throws you the ghost car of a player just a few spots ahead of you each time you improve your personal best, and it's a fun little diversion from the main meat of the game. As an added bonus, you can copy your rival's setup for use in your car at the click of a button, and you're also welcome to bust it open and make changes as you wish – something Forza doesn't let you do. What you can probably deduce from the above screenshot of the Interlagos leaderboard, as well as the title of this post, is that Columbia University's Mattress Girl is one hell of an F1 driver.
After about two hours messing around in Time Trial mode, I can safely say that real world setup techniques that you've used across other racing simulators indeed work in F1 2016, there's just a limit to their overall effectiveness. Climbing through the leaderboards while left to my own devices, I was initially able to stick to basic modifications that I would use in other sims as well to earn a couple tenths here and there. So I can imagine someone who's strictly an offline player actually enjoying the Career mode in F1 2016, as the adjustments you'll make to your car in between sessions actually make sense. However, once I got into the elusive Top 50, all hell broke loose, and I pretty much had to load other people's exploit setups to remain competitive.
Let's take at what I adopted from CQR Takumi to snatch the record at Interlagos.
I'm quite satisfied with the aerodynamic values you're forced to use. The front wing setting can remain somewhere in the middle at 7, while the rear wing can be lowered to 5. This obviously makes the car a bit unbalanced given the fact that you're generating more downforce at the front than the rear, but what you're trying to achieve here is the magic number of 341 km/h in 8th gear while in a DRS zone. If for whatever reason you can't hold on, you can run 6 or 7 clicks at the rear. Anything higher, and you'll lose speed.
You can get away with a fully locked differential while using the medium level of traction control. Again, these cars are basically unplayable at competitive speeds without TCS, so just throw these numbers at the car and be done with it. Don't frustrate yourself when you don't have to.
Maximum negative camber at both ends of the car is the way to go, even on high speed tracks, as cornering performance is infinitely more important than tire temps or straight line speed.
You'll want to stiffen the front end of the car – both the sway bar and the springs to the maximum value – while the rear end remains as soft as possible, and I'm told this is close to what the real cars are running as well. Even though the values may appear absolutely crazy, this stabilizes the car to an extent you simply won't receive with a conservative approach. Ride height numbers can be left at 5 clicks on each end; I've gone lower in my own testing, and it's made me slower, presumably thanks to bottoming out.
Brakes are actually quite integral to your success in F1 2016, and even though the tire model is incredibly simplified compared to the plethora of modern simulators available, the four wheel drift you want to achieve on corner entry still exists and is highly beneficial. You'll want to leave the brake pressure at 73% and always give near-full pedal input at the 100 metre marker to slow the car down in time, though dialing the brake bias back to 57% lets the rear end of the car break free and points the nose towards the apex when you lift off the pedal on corner entry. While on-track, the game allows you to adjust the brake bias in increments of 2%, so use 56% if you're confident in your driving abilities, and 58% for a conservative approach that won't allow the car to slide as much. Yes, you can feel the difference between those two values. Pretty impressed at that, to be honest.
Oh boy, tire pressures. This one's pretty easy; the lowest possible tire pressures give the highest amount of grip. During my own personal testing, I played around with jacking these up a bit to increase straight line speed, but the lack of grip in the corners negated pretty much anything I'd attained during the speed sections. Drop them to the minimum value and be done with it.
Lastly, we have the weight distribution, which again is a setting which relies on an extreme value. You'll want to push all the ballast towards the rear of the car, so the back end doesn't slide around a whole bunch on corner exit. This is a setting I do not recommend deviating from; I've tried values towards the center of the slider, and it just doesn't work. The car handles like shit.
In conclusion, setups in F1 2016 are pretty simple once you've tossed this baseline, record-holding setup into your game. You can run this configuration basically anywhere in the game, and be met with satisfactory results which place you well ahead of the competition, online or off. Some people will surely cry that this game lacks simulation value for how little work you need to do in the garage area, but in my opinion, it's really no different than any other modern simulator in terms of developing a baseline before making minor adjustments. I've been using a similar theory to my setups in both Automobilista and RaceRoom Racing Experience, so this isn't exactly unfamiliar territory.
When it comes to adjusting this setup for use in other locations, there are basically two things you need to change to accommodate the particular track you're visiting.
- You can leave the rear wing at 5 clicks on most tracks, I'd bump it up to 6 or 7 for places with a lot of technical corners – or if you can't keep the rear end under you.
- If you're confident at a particular track and need a few tenths, lower the brake bias to 56% instead of 58%, and really attack the corners with both heavy/late braking & heavy/early throttle applications.
Enjoy the game, and we'll have a full review up at some point. You can grab the setup for F1 2016 off the Steam Workshop by clicking HERE.


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The swelling Rio Grande flowed over a levee Wednesday, sending water cascading onto the golf course and some ranch land in this dusty-turned-muddy West Texas border town.
The levee had not failed, said Presidio County Attorney Rod Ponton, but an area on the eastern end of Presidio was turned into a chocolate-brown reservoir marked by partially submerged trees, bushes and power lines. No homes appeared under threat.
A levee broke across the Rio Grande in neighboring Ojinaga, Mexico, where Presidio Mayor Lorenzo Hernandez said homes and other buildings received up to 10 feet of water.
Muddy water covered roads and structures within eyesight of the shuttered border crossing in Ojinaga. Two large chunks of earth were ripped from the narrow levee that once held back the river. Mexican officials in boats were seen Wednesday patrolling the flooded area that extended at least a half mile from the border crossing.
Flood waters had risen to rooftops of homes and other buildings in some spots on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
Officials in Presidio, a town of 5,000 people about 250 miles down river from El Paso, have been watching the Rio Grande for nearly two weeks. Heavy rains and water releases from the flood-swollen Luis Leon Reservoir in Mexico pushed the Rio Grande over its banks, filling wide channels between the earthen levees on both sides of the border.
By late Wednesday morning, the river level had dropped slightly, though the swirling water appeared to be just below the top of the levee at the international bridge connecting Presidio to Ojinaga. Presidio officials were also told that water releases from the Luis Leon had been slowed, Ponton said.
Ponton said the city could remain threatened for several days after record water levels filled the wide channels between earthen levees on both sides of the border.
"These levees are not designed to be dams," he said. "The water pressure could find a weakness."
Low-lying parts of Presidio are under mandatory evacuation, but schools remain open even as the elementary school serves as a temporary shelter for about 80 displaced residents.
Ponton said if the levee does break, low-lying parts of the city, including hundreds of homes, would be gradually swamped.
"If it does go it could be the same effect as in Ojinaga," Ponton said. "But we're just talking about water gradually rising up ... making homes uninhabitable and roads impassable. It would rise slow enough that people would be able to leave."
The flood threat had prompted officials in Presidio to go door-to-door urging people to leave. They made the same plea from a helicopter. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials also shut down the international bridge.
Earlier this week, officials said the evacuation affected about 500 people in the Presidio area.
Presidio Police Chief Marco Baeza said a few older residents living in low-lying areas have opted to stay.
"One said, 'I've been here 58 years and nothing's happened before and nothing's going to happen now,'" Baeza said.
The recent rains and flooding aren't related to Hurricane Ike, which hit hundreds of miles to the east.
The U.S. Border Patrol said Wednesday that it had located a plane that had been carrying the U.S. and Mexican heads of the International Boundary and Water Commission that had disappeared Monday with four people on board.
The agency, which maintains the border levees on the Rio Grande, which seperates the two countries, said all four of those on board were dead.
The Border Patrol said it found the plane's wreckage in a rugged section of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico, about 20 miles northwest of Presidio.


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Blog Archives
Élie Ayache's The Medium of Contingency – A Review
[All art by Tatiana Plakhova. Review in pdf here]
Élie Ayache, The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market,
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015, 414pp., $50.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781137286543.
Ayache's project is to outline the ontology of quantitative finance as a discipline. That is, he wants to find what distinguishes it as a genre, distinct from economics or even stocks and bonds—what most of us associate with 'finance'. Quantitative finance, dealing with derivatives, is a whole new level of abstraction. So Ayache has to show that economic and social concerns are exogenous (external) to derivative prices: the underlying asset can simply be treated as a stochastic process. His issue with probability is that it is epistemological—a shorthand for when we don't know the true mechanism. Taleb's notion of black swans as radically unforeseeable (unknowable) events is simply an extension of this. Conversely, market-makers—those groups of people yelling at each other in old movies about Wall Street—don't need probability to do their jobs. Ayache's aim is thus to introduce into theory the practice of derivatives trading—from within, rather than outside, the market. And it's reasonable to think that delineating the ontology of this immensely rich field will yield insights applicable elsewhere in philosophy.
This is not a didactic book. People coming from philosophy will not learn about finance, nor about how derivatives work. Ayache reinterprets these, assuming familiarity with the standard view. Even Pierre Menard—Ayache's claim to fame—is only given a few perfunctory mentions here. People coming from finance will not learn anything about philosophy, since Ayache assumes a graduate-level knowledge of it. Further, Ayache's comments on Taleb's Antifragile are limited to one page. The only conceivable reason to even skim this book is that you'd like to see just how abstract the philosophy of finance can get.
I got interested in Ayache because I write philosophy of economics. I wanted to learn what quantitative finance is all about, so several years ago I read through all his articles in Wilmott Magazine, gradually learning how to make sense of sentences like "Only in a diffusion framework is the one-touch option…replicable by a continuum of vanilla butterflies" (Sept 2006: 19). I've made it through all of Ayache's published essays. Now I've read this entire book, and I deserve a goddamn medal. I read it so that you don't have to.
Much of Ayache's reception so far has been quite silly. I recently came across an article (Ferraro, 2016) that cited Ayache's concept of 'contingency' as an inspiration behind a game based on sumo wrestling. (You can't make this stuff up.) Frank Ruda (2013), an otherwise respectable philosopher, wrote a nonsensical article comparing him to Stalin![1] Philosophy grad students occasionally mention his work to give their papers a more 'empirical' feel (which is comparable in silliness to the sumo wrestling), especially Ayache's clever reading of Borges' short story on Pierre Menard—from which these graduate students draw sweeping conclusions about capitalism and high-frequency trading.
Ayache expects the reader to have already read The Blank Swan, which itself is not understandable without reading Meillassoux's After Finitude. Thus, for most readers, decreasing returns will have long set in. My goal here is to summarize the main arguments and/or good ideas of each chapter, divested of the pages and pages of empty verbosity accompanying them. I try to avoid technical jargon from finance and philosophy except as needed to explain the arguments, though I do provide requisite background knowledge that Ayache has omitted. So first, let's cover the most important concepts that the reader may find unfamiliar.
Proofs and Calibrations: An Interview with Élie Ayache
Only Élie Ayache could take something as tedious as plugging variables into a formula and turn it into something charming. The costs of entry to his corpus are high—readers must be familiar with avant-garde Continental philosophy plus actively interested in the materiality of options markets. Nevertheless, Ayache earns a place alongside such thinkers as Bataille, Klossowski, Baudrillard, Deleuze/Guattari, and Lyotard, who smash the concepts of political economy into brick walls to see what remains intact—the concepts or the wall. And yet, The Blank Swan is so much more. The syntax of options ('optionetics', to pilfer a lovely phrase) lies entirely outside the purview of post-Marxist 'critical' theory that has grown crusty at best, procrustean at worst. "Cantor's transfinite seems to be materially operative in our derivatives world," notes Ayache (après Meillassoux), as derivatives create new intensive 'surfaces' on which yet more exotic derivatives can be written. The market is therefore untotalizable, im-probable (beyond the very category of probability); it is not meaningful to speak of 'capitalism' as such.
As with Nietzsche or Niels Bohr, to write 'about' Ayache places the preposition in conflict with itself. "The market proposes a way of thinking of the future that is no longer mediated by knowledge" (2006: 34). One tries to find a position from which to describe, or critique, but finds the ground pulled out from underneath: "The market never starts. You are immediately in the middle of it or you are nowhere." (Local, 12:27–12:44). Philosophical 'depth' has no meaning for the surface of the market, in which "the infinite is often the best approximation of the finite" (2007: 262). Thus the following interview is not an introduction to Ayache's work, but outlines some less obvious aspects that help to illuminate the whole.
In one of your essays you said that Meillassoux referred to your notion of the market as an 'arché-market', but it's not clear to me how it's analogous to the arché-fossil. Could you explain the link?
If I understand Meillassoux well, arché-fossil is what provides evidence to science that dates back to days when thought and as a matter of fact life didn't exist and when givenness of being to thought didn't exist; so arché-fossil is the light reaching from the outermost recesses of the universe or the fact that decaying isotopes can help science to establish contact with periods of time that predate thought, etc. Arché-market is something different. In conversation with Meillassoux, I once pointed to him that the 'market' wasn't limited to my eyes to the financial market or even to the market in the sense of exchange of goods against prices. Rather, the market was a new logic or a new category of thought, a medium that conducts contingency 'instantaneously' without the apparatus of possibility and probability. Ideally, I wanted to convince him that my 'market' is the register where his whole factual (i.e. non metaphysical) speculation should be conducted. He then advised me to no longer call this category by the name of 'market' but, in order to avoid confusion, by the more venerable 'arché-market'. For one thing, a contingent event can make the 'market' disappear; however, the arché-market as higher category and register cannot disappear as it is the very medium of contingency.
How does your philosophical position account for the fact that relativistic effects cause minute differences in the 'same' price in different regions of the world, noticeable only on the nanosecond scale in HFT? This strikes me as a crucial issue for your own theory, especially since you focus on the market as 'surface', whereas relativistic arbitrage would imply 'ruptures' in this surface.
HFT is not really my cup of tea. It is a necessary and unavoidable development of the technology and this is all that I have to say. Financial theory holds that prices should verify arbitrage instantaneously and I can only welcome a technology that now applies this ideal requirement of financial theory. Doubtless financial theory understands 'instantaneous' arbitrage in pre-relativistic terms and doubtless there must be interesting extensions of arbitrage to relativistic physics, and doubtless the HFT technology may be hitting on that limit. However, all this is of no interest to me; the market is not equal to HFT. Sadly, HFT is distracting the attention of thinkers and of philosophers away from the hard problem of the market, which is the real metaphysical and ontological problem that derivatives pose. Surely HFT is attracting money and investment from the banks and surely the sociology of finance should look into it. However those banks are (in my opinion) investing in HFT because they have abandoned the thought of derivatives. The hard problem of the market is the smile problem. To solve the smile problem you need something else than probability; you need a new metaphysics. This is what I am trying to develop both technologically in my company (ITO 33) and philosophically in my personal research and writing. The smile problem is simply that statistics and the corresponding paradigm have to be replaced by the prices of contingent claims. The smile problem is that we imply volatility from the option instant prices and not from the historical series of prices of the underlying. Why this is essential and not accidental, why this is a crucial problem and not just an 'approximation' or a temporary defect of the theory/technology, is a question that I am still amazed that neither the bankers nor the quants nor the philosophers of probability have started to tackle. And why are derivatives so important? Because the definition of the market to me is the place where underlying and derivative trade on the same level and floor. Why a surface? Because of this identity of levels and absence of depth or hierarchy between underlying and derivative. There are no possibilities and states of the world underlying the prices of the underlying and consequently evaluating the derivatives. All there is is the surface of prices of derivatives and derivatives on derivatives. While derivatives can certainly be traded by HFT as proxys of the underlying, the problem which they pose really, or the smile problem, is a very 'slow' problem in the sense that it requires calibration and recalibration to all the prices of all derivatives written on that underlying at once. To repeat, time and time series are not the proper dimension here. Place and writing is.
What is your opinion of Taleb's latest book Antifragile?
I think Antifragile is a very clever concept. Taleb is trying to generalize convexity (of options) to life and beyond the strictly financial realm. But with this he is becoming less and less of a dynamic trader and more and more a fan of static hedging (take care of your losses and your profits will take care of themselves). By contrast, I advocate dynamic hedging and the dynamic trading of derivatives. There is a constant battle between convexity and time decay (the cost of convexity) which Taleb seems to (want to) ignore. This battle is what the dynamic market is all about. My work is to try to generalize the matter or the category of the market beyond the financial realm.
How did you discover philosophy? When did you become interested in writing?
At the age of six, on my way to school, I once wondered whether the pedestrian crossing the street in front of me would have accomplished the same act and crossed the street if, for some reason that day, say because of illness, I had not gone to school. Then I realized that I wouldn't have been there in the first place to even notice the pedestrian and even conceive of his being.
When I found myself stuck in a military camp in Lebanon in 1982 with nothing really interesting to do and wasn't allowed to travel to France to study. I then discovered how writing was there and had nothing to do with time.
Like many readers, I have a hard time getting my bearings in Part III of your book, despite your insistence that it's the most important part. You claim that the virtual cannot be theorized, only narrated, which is understandable (and reminiscent of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy), but your writing often reads more like a Hegelian bildungsroman than like Deleuze. Could you perhaps spell out what you're trying to do in Part III? Why did you choose Barton Fink, of all films?
Barton Fink is the key to my philosophy. From possibility (Barton Fink in his room) to the total of possibilities (Karl Mundt) to the writing surface (the liberation of Barton Fink at the end). Also notice that he ends up writing the same play as in the beginning of the movie, in true Menard fashion.
Part III: The book is the arché-arché-market
Most of your essays over the past few years have been revisions to The Blank Swan. Have you thought of writing another book, perhaps a sequel of sorts? (Or does your book place under erasure any attempt at doing so?) If so, what sort of problems and material would you want it to address?
I am currently completing a book. More strictly critical of financial theory. More metaphysical. Better. Harder.
"There is no economic world."
There is no economic world. There is only an abstract economic description. It is wrong to think that the task of economics is to find out how the economy is. Economics concerns what we can say about the economy…
This thesis (adapted from Niels Bohr, the father of quantum theory[1]) is, to anyone not thoroughly debauched by philosophy, clearly nonsensical—the sort of postmodern tripe that embodies everything wrong with 'theory'. Yet, it is quite the opposite. François Laruelle argues that any notion of 'world'—as a priori/mnemotechnic cognitive mapping—is a product of philosophical thinking; in fact, he often uses the words 'philosophy' and 'world' interchangeably. Therefore, if the corpus of economics has a 'world', this implies that any worthwhile statements it makes are translatable into philosophy, which thus becomes privileged as a meta-discourse in relation to the 'regional knowledge' of economics. Such a role has been traditionally claimed by Marxism, as well as obliquely by disciplines such as psychoanalysis, whose proponents believe that they can have knowledge of the economy by imposing their concepts a priori upon whatever data is at hand (regardless of whether said theorist knows minutiae such as the difference between stocks and bonds…). To subvert this hierarchy—to argue that economics is properly non-philosophical, thus eliminating all grounds for the use of postmodern tripe—the thesis that 'there is no economic world' becomes essential. This paper presents a unified theory of economics and philosophy, arguing that economics consists of nonknowledge rather than knowledge (episteme/technē), that economics operates through unwriting or deconceptualizing the material of the other social sciences, and that economic models should not be viewed as attempts to represent the world, but as a radically non-Bayesian method of framing events in their contingency.
§1. World versus 'World'
There is a famous story involving the British analytic philosopher A.J. Ayer and the French continental philosophers Georges Bataille and Georges Ambrosino, in a midnight conversation in January 1951 (Bataille, 2001: 111-3). Ayer introduced the simple proposition that "the sun existed before man," which as a scientific realist he saw no reason to doubt. Ambrosino, a physician steeped in French phenomenology, insisted that "certainly the sun had not existed before the world." Bataille, on the other hand, was agnostic. As he wrote afterwards (111):
This is a proposition that indicates the perfect non-sense that a reasonable proposition can assume. A common meaning must have a meaning within all meaning when one asserts any proposition that in principle implies a subject & an object. In the proposition: there was the sun and there were no humans, there is a subject without an object.
The easy way out of this dilemma (or as Bataille put it, this "abyss between French philosophers and English philosophers") is to say that while Ayer was talking about the sun (as a well-defined scientific object composed of various elements, etc.), Ambrosino and Bataille were talking about 'the sun' (as ideal representation of the Real).[2] While Ambrosino had taken a purely idealist position, Bataille's stance is much more interesting: he had, in fact, hit upon a problem that would later become known as the 'arché-fossil'. This idea would be central to Quentin Meillassoux's attempt to philosophize in a way that avoids what he calls 'correlationism'—that is, the idea that "we only ever have access to the correlation between thinking and being, and never to either term considered apart from the other" (2008: 5), with 'thinking' and 'being' meant in the sense of 'models' and 'objects'. In more visual terms, Meillassoux is searching for a way of doing philosophy that doesn't just involve the imposition of a 'grid' of concepts (or 'syntax') upon the mass of data comprising the world—as has been the norm in philosophy since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.[3] An arché-fossil is any sort of scientific object or datum describing the state of the universe prior to the existence of subjects (e.g. humans) that could experience it—or, recalling the above anecdote: the arché-fossil describes the state of the world prior to 'the world'. After introducing this concept, Meillassoux goes on to outline the 'mechanics' of why this idea is so immediately absurd to philosophers in the phenomenological tradition. The existence of 'ancestral' data implies (15):
- that being is not co-extensive with manifestation, since events have occurred in the past which were not manifest to anyone;
- that what is preceded in time the manifestation of what is;
- that manifestation itself emerged in time and space, and that consequently manifestation is not the givenness of a world, but rather an intra-worldly occurrence;
- that this event can, moreover, be dated;
- that thought is in a position to think manifestation's emergence in being, as well as a being or a time anterior to manifestation;
- that the fossil-matter is the givenness in the present of a being that is anterior to givenness; that is to say, that an arché-fossil manifests an entity's anteriority vis-à-vis manifestation.
The notion of the arché-fossil underscores the tension between the world and 'the world'. From the perspective of 'the world' there is either 'world' or 'non-world', whose boundary is set by the existence of an experiencing subject. Yet, by carbon-dating a meteorite (for example), it is possible to state that the 'non-world' and the world existed simultaneously (or: co-extensively), and moreover, that the evidence for this is given to us within 'the world'. Philosophically, this is clearly unacceptable. Yet, it sheds some light upon an old Daoist koan:
"Hide the world in the world and the world will never be lost—this is the eternal truth." ~Zhuangzi[4]
Zhuangzi is the same person who, upon waking up from a dream that he was a butterfly, wondered if he was actually a butterfly dreaming that he was a man. The anecdote is no doubt as popular as it is because of its stark opposition of 'world' (dream) and world (reality). A dream, after all, proceeds according to an internal logic where any sort of (arché-)hints that it is a dream, e.g. words on a page changing the second time you look at them, somehow don't count. The most absurd events may occur in the most bizarre of settings, but any sense of contingency (the idea that it could be otherwise) is lost. If we take the lack of contingency in dreams as a principle, however, the very fact that Zhuangzi can ask whether he's a butterfly or a man proves he isn't dreaming! Zhuangzi's query creates a false partition—with 'dream' and 'non-dream' as the only members of the state space—and is thus self-defeating: nonknowledge is in fact the most useful kind of knowledge he can have. So in order to avoid a performative contradiction, Zhuangzi must accept that the principle can't be psychologically necessary. This gives rise to a fundamental contingency, where in order to make a convincing case that he is a butterfly, Zhuangzi has to argue that the current rules of psychology (and perhaps even of nature) would have to be able to be other than they are—the same position as Meillassoux!
For Meillassoux, this division of world and 'world' is the problem, and ought to be gotten rid of; Zhuangzi's stance is similar, though his method eliminates this opposition in an entirely different way—which is the same as that of economics. Anyone accustomed to think in philosophical terms may be inclined, on reading the following sections, to suppose that the argument rests on a tacit assumption of this dyad. If such a supposition is found helpful, there is no harm in the reader's adopting it as a temporary working hypothesis. In fact, however, no such division is made.
§2. Econo-fiction
To verify the claim 'oil prices are manipulated by the USA', a researcher could (in theory) physically go to each stage of the oil production/distribution process, from oil wells to spot or futures markets, to various nodes along logistical networks, to gas stations, etc. In the above claim, 'oil price' is well-defined as a variable; moreover, its role as subject of the sentence makes the former claim 'economic' in its genre. (Cf. the political statement 'the USA manipulates oil prices', with its focus on agency.) 'USA' is of course vague, but suffices for the problem at hand. The verb 'to manipulate' reifies (in this context), but is in principle observable. Our researcher could measure the 'value added' in each stage as it is expressed in price, then perform an (unavoidably qualitative) analysis of how fluctuations in the magnitude of this value-added (with respect to production costs, etc.) can be causally traced to the USA. In this context, economic methods would not per se be needed, only mercantile arithmetic. Economics is often thought of as simply an armchair version of our poor researcher's task (implying that an ideal model is one that is just as complex as the real world). Yet, in the above statement economics acknowledges not the subject, verb, or object, but the preposition 'by': in a sort of econo-fiction, it shows the numerical properties that make 'manipulation' meaningful.
Economics can be defined as the science of non-discursive social relations, with a broad definition of 'discourse' such that one could equally say 'non-conceptual'.[5] In fact, economics takes place through a process of deconceptualizing the findings of business, finance, and politics. As soon as you think you can understand an economic notion (e.g. an algebraic relation) intuitively and talk about it lucidly, economists develop a way to formalize it (via econometrics and so on) so as to make it entirely untranslatable into normal language. John von Neumann once remarked: "in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." This is exactly what Bohr was saying! By continually deconceptualizing its former results economics systematically prevents itself from creating a 'world'. As in Roland Barthes' famous formulation, the task of economics is to inexpress the expressible.[6]
Parkinson's Law and the Neoliberal Theory of Bureaucracy
The main prescription of New Public Management (hereafter NPM)—that public administration should be operated similarly to a business—is the brunt of much criticism, while at the same time gaining many faithful adherents. Liberals such as Inwood (2004: 321, 389, 408, 410-1, 414) view NPM as little more than facile economism, and pine for a return to Keynesian policies. Nevertheless, such curt dismissal ought to be the cause of some suspicion: it may well be, after all, that Liberalism proceeds from such radically different premises than NPM that the former must necessarily oversimplify the latter in order to say anything about it at all. This, as will be shown below, is indeed the case. Through an examination of the policy area of human resource management, it will be argued that NPM policy possesses a sophisticated theory of subjectivity (as manifested in its capacity to deal with matters of knowledge management) which may prove flexible enough to supersede controversial issues such as affirmative action.
The most common view of the role NPM in human resource management is to identify redundant staff members and work practices which can be cut without damaging performance capacity. Yet, a strong reply to this is that the structure of bureaucracy may be more intricate than appears at first sight, relying on uncodified (and perhaps uncodifiable) practices—known as tacit knowledge—in order to implement whatever policy is important at a given time. According to a quantitative study of knowledge management in the workplace (quoted in Smith, 2001: 312), "99% of the work people do is knowledge-based" and furthermore, "90% of the knowledge in any organization is embedded and synthesized in people's heads" (ibid., 311). This presents significant problems when it comes to measuring workplace performance, since firing any particular worker risks altering the tacit workplace dynamic. As well, the key role of tacit knowledge in the workplace presents a trade-off between unhindered intra-organizational 'flow' of knowledge and the 'democratic' introduction of special interest groups into the decision-making process (Wiig, 2002: 228). Such problems, insofar as they are uncodifiable, present seemingly insurmountable problems, pointing toward persistent expansion of bureaucracy for fear of endangering the system, contrary to the prescriptions of NPM.
When viewed in terms of C. Northcote Parkinson's theory of public administration, however, the prescriptions of NPM may be seen to be quite sensible. He takes as a premise his eponymous 'Law' that "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" (Parkinson, 1957: 2). This is due to two "almost axiomatic" motive forces: "(1) 'An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals' and (2) 'Officials make work for each other'" (ibid., 4). As he makes clear in subsequent chapters, this law may be generalized such that instead of 'time' only, it applies to resources of any sort. This is often viewed as facetious, but can be interpreted in an entirely serious light: in fact, in addition to Parkinson's own data (ibid., 7-12) taken from military records, Klimek, Hanel, & Turner's quantitative study (2009: 3939) of the formulae derived by Parkinson from his eponymous Law concludes that they "hold empirically to remarkable levels of significance." Parkinson's conceptual innovation is to take the quality of work as a constant, while leaving as variables the amount of resources available for the work's completion and the degree of the work's ostensible complexity. This assumption is legitimate in the case of public administration, since much of the work (e.g. paperwork) can only be done so well; in the terminology of economics, the marginal productivity of effort spent on a project drops to (or, at least, toward) zero at a certain fixed point.
Following Laruelle (2000), it can be said that NPM views the matter of budgets as a "unilateral duality"—defined as any scenario where from the perspective of x, both x and y exist, but from the perspective of y, only y exists. To illustrate, Laruelle's main inspiration here is Marx, whose base-superstructure model posits that in the last instance, all elements of society are determined by the relations of production (cf. Inwood, 29-30). So according to NPM's Parkinsonian logic, all the incidental details comprising the completion of a project are effectively epiphenomenal, since they are determined-in-the-last-instance by the budget.
Moreover, Parkinson's Law possesses an interesting sophistication in that it posits an asymmetrical distribution of possible amounts of resources to assign for a given project: while there is an obvious limit in terms of parsimony, there is no limit when it comes to abundance—thus accounting for stereotypical bureaucratic wastefulness. What the concept of unilateral duality contributes to our understanding of budgets is this: since allocating more resources to a project than are strictly needed causes the knowledge networks related to the project grow more and more complex, this redundancy can be deliberately managed in order to create intellectual capital for use in future projects related to the present one (cf. Wiig, 2002: 232; Taleb, 2012: 72-3). This idea may be expressed rather clearly in the distinction made by Clausewitz (1909: bk II, ch. 1)—which should obviously be taken figuratively—where "tactics is the theory of the use of military forces in combat" and "[s]trategy is the theory of the use of combats for the object of the war." Rather than budgets progressively increasing, according to the Parkinsonian view budgets should be steadily decreasing as the 'learning-by-doing' allowed by each project increases administrators' productivity. By use of Parkinsonian logic, then, NPM is capable of overcoming cynical views of bureaucracy as wasteful—instead, by means of 'strategy', NPM is able to reflexively redirect the inflationary tendencies of bureaucracy toward productive ends. IBM consultants, for instance, were able to encode their personal heuristics for proposal writing into a database, which subsequently "cut proposal-writing time from an average of 200 hours to 30 hours" (quoted in Smith, 2001: 312-3). So, in much the same way that Taleb (2012) recommends that institutions be set up in such a way that they gain from volatility, from Parkinson's Law may be gathered a prescription of purposively making use of redundancy.
It is now possible to return with a critical eye to the arguments about knowledge management raised above. Although Parkinson's Law precludes any arguments about 'ruining' the tacit knowledge dynamic of the workplace, there is still the problem of the trade-off between 'democratic' participation and uninterrupted flow of information. To address this problem, the subtopic of affirmative action will be discussed initially, and its conclusions applied to remaining subtopics. As Inwood (2004: 295) notes, the education requirements for administrators are becoming increasingly stringent, to the point where schools intended specifically for training management workers have been opened. As Schmidt (2000) argues, the main purpose of professional education of this type is twofold: to instill standardized knowledge and practices for practical use in the workplace, and to impart specific modes of thinking and dealing with problems. Qualification criteria are expressed in standardized tests, and grades are thus viewed as positively correlated with merit. Since affirmative action policies relax the grade requirements for minority applicants, there is resistance to affirmative action on the grounds of a trade-off between inclusion of minorities and overall benefit to society. Looking at the matter in terms of tacit knowledge, however, Schmidt argues that this dichotomy is a false one. The problem is simply that qualification criteria have limits: "a professional is more than someone with technical knowledge" (2000: 108). In many cases, Schmidt observes that there are many instances in which professionals draw upon tacit knowledge related to their socioeconomic background in order to relate to clients, make causal inferences to diagnose problems, and to make ethically informed choices; he uses the example (ibid., 108-9) of a doctor who realizes that a patient's illness is psychosomatic, that is, brought about by his or her work conditions, and is motivated to take steps to try to bring about change—as opposed to 'mechanistic' and palliative treatment of an isolated body part. Schmidt's conclusion is that despite Wilsonian objections as to the objectivity of public administrators, the decisions made by professionals of all types are inherently political.
So the prescriptive conclusion that we should draw from the above points in conjunction is as follows. Considering that "[n]early two-thirds of work-related information that is gradually transformed into tacit knowledge comes from face-to-face contacts, like casual conversations, stories, mentoring, internships and apprenticeships" (Smith, 2001: 314-5), efforts should be made to facilitate interdepartmental communication in an attempt to transmit tacit knowledge among departments. One workable idea is provided by Smith (2001: 317), who describes the online 'social tactical system' developed by Xerox:
Technicians write up 'war stories' to teach each other how to diagnose and fix machines. Service reps access over 5,000 tips a month for a 5 percent saving on both parts and labor. Field service reps create and maintain the tacit knowledge base by contributing and renewing all the tips and information and maintaining the system. Each time reps contribute a tip, their name goes on the system.
Given that flexible boundaries for budgets, according to Parkinson's Law, only serve to motivate unnecessary complexity, these are to be avoided. In short, in order to run the government more like a business, finances must be tightly controlled from the top down. Affirmative action is to be encouraged (though not necessarily to excess) among departments, though this need not extend to executive positions, whose qualifications typically depend on traditional standards of competence more than do other administrative positions (cf. Inwood, 2004: 281). Such policies as described above are quite similar to those which currently obtain under NPM (cf. Inwood, 2004: 70-1), or are at least within the horizon of its potentiality. Future examinations of the Parkinsonian model of NPM in less parsimonious, and perhaps more quantitative, terms may prove fruitful, though this is beyond the scope of the present essay.
- Clausewitz, C.; Graham, J.J. (trans.). (1909). On War. London : N. Trübner.
- Inwood, G. (2004). Understanding Canadian Public Administration, 2nd Ed. Toronto: Prentice Hall.
- Klimek, P.; Hanel, R.; Thurner, S. (2009). To how many politicians should government be left? Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388(18), 3939-3947
- Laruelle, F.; Smith, A.P. (trans.). (2015 [2000]). Introduction to Non-Marxism. Minneapolis, MN: Univocal Press.
- Parkinson, C.N. (1957). Parkinson's Law, and other studies in administration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Smith, E. (2001), The role of tacit and explicit knowledge in the workplace. Journal of Knowledge Management 5(4), 311-21.
- Schmidt, J. (2000). Disciplined Minds. Lapham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Taleb, N. (2012). Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder. New York: Random House.
- Wiig, K. (2002). Knowledge management in public administration. Journal of Knowledge Management 6(3), 224-39.


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Holden is set to surrender the hot-hatch market to sister brand Opel after saying it had no immediate plans to introduce a higher-performance version of its new five-door Cruze.
The new hatchback Cruze is expected to make its Australian debut in concept form at Friday's Melbourne motor show, but the local car maker says the variant will simply mirror the line-up of the existing sedan when it joins the Adelaide production line in October.
Holden boss Mike Devereux says the highest trim level of the Cruze, which doesn't gain a more powerful engine or sportier suspension compared to other models, will be the star of the range "for the time being".
"Our SRI-V is really our halo model [for Cruze] going forward," says Devereux. "Its take up rate is very high.
A number of the Cruze's key small-car rivals offer hot-hatch variants, including the Mazda3 MPS, Volkswagen Golf GTI and Ford Focus XR5 Turbo.
It means Holden will continue catering only for driving enthusiasts who want a V8-powered Commodore, though Devereux denied it was making space for an Astra GTC hot-hatch that will arrive in 2012 with other Opel products.
He seemed to confirm expectations, however, that Opel models will be priced higher than equivalent Holden vehicles.
"The Opel product line-up when it hits our shores will obviously be planned in an intelligent way to work in concert [with holden models]," he says.
"Psycho-graphically, those two brands [Holden and Opel] are going to be positioned very differently in this market place and contented differently, but that doesn't hold our ability to content Cruze with all the bits and pieces we would want to [add]."
The Astra OPC – for Opel Performance Centre – hot-hatch is likely to have more than 200kW of power. The Cruze's most powerful engine – a diesel rather than petrol - is just 110kW.
The OPC's 177kW predecessor was sold in Australia in recent years as the HSV VXR, though its success was limited.
Devereux stuck to the company line when Drive asked whether he would be happy for Opel to offer an Astra hot-hatch when there was no Holden equivalent.
"I'm happy for Opel to be as successful and make as much money for General Motors in Australia as possible. Absolutely," he said with a smile.
There was a glimmer of hope for keen drivers who would like a Holden-badged performance vehicle to rival the likes of the highly popular VW Golf GTI.
"Holden will do what it needs to do to satisfy its customers. If that means higher-performance models then that's what we'll have," said Devereux.


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For our first Mickey Mouse Party we made an elaborate Mickey Mouse Cupcake Cake but for this party EASY was the main goal so we tried something a little different. We used black and red M&M's to decorate a three-layer birthday cake and WOW did our Mickey Mouse Cake turn out great! Sometimes simple is best!
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Our Mickey Mouse Cake was a three layer cake – we wanted the colors to coordinate with the red, black and white theme of our Mickey Mouse Party. The first layer was chocolate, made from a simple box cake mix.
Our second layer was a variation of a Red Velvet cake in that we added Americolor Super Red Food Coloring to remaining batter from our chocolate cake mix.
Finally, we baked a third white layer using a white boxed cake mix. (We used the remaining batter to make our Mickey Mouse Marble Cupcakes.)
For frosting, we made up a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. You can find the recipe and directions here. This frosting is delicious and the perfect consistency for frosting a cake.
Using a spreader, we covered the cake in Buttercream Frosting.
No fancy frosting decoration this cake, just a simple but delicious layer of Buttercream Frosting is all that is needed.
Our cake decoration could not be easier. You'll need a bag of Mega M&M's and a bag of Regular M&M's. Use the Mega M&M's for the Mickey head and then add two regular M&M's as Mickey's ears. This is so easy, it would be a great cake decorating project to do with the kids.
We added a random combination of red and black Mickey Mouse heads to the top of the cake.
As well as the side of the cake. Super adorable!
The cake was super moist and delicious. The Buttercream Frosting tasted great with the chocolate and white cakes. The three colored cake layers were so pretty.
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French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde says serious flaws in Caisse d'Espargne led the bank to lose EUR 700 million.
27 October 2008
PARIS - A probe into how France's Caisse d'Epargne bank lost EUR 700 million in trading revealed "serious gaps in the (bank's) control system", Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Friday.
The comment came just a few days after the bank's chairman and director general quit over the loss at the height of the global finance crisis.
The bank said it lost nearly EUR 700 million in trading from mid-September to early October as world share markets were crashing.
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Emma Ann Herman, 99, Larkesville, passed away Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at Manor Care Nursing Center, Kingston.
Maxine, 87, passed away peacefully on June 30th at the Alexander Cohen Hospice House in Hughson, CA, surrounded by loved ones. She was born in Oklahoma to Floyd and Argie Reddell; the 6th of 12 children. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 66 years, Harold L. Wadlington (2009) and all of her siblings except for one sister. She is survived by her 2 daughters; Joanie Lindquist (Harold) of Turlock, Jeannie Jensen (Gerry) of Turlock, and her sister, Norma Lee Gadberry of Caruthers, CA.
Frank Charles Youngdale Jr., 87, of Turlock passed away peacefully on Friday, June 29, 2012, with his loving family by his side. He spent his last day on our family vacation at the ocean.
Eldora Schwab, 91, of Turlock, CA went peacefully into the presence of her Lord and Savior on June 15, 2012. Born in Turlock in 1921, and graduating from Turlock High School, she attended Modesto Junior College and Samuel Merritt Hospital (RN course) in Oakland. Later, she also took courses at Columbia Bible College in South Carolina.
Jim Parker, 69, a longtime resident of Turlock, passed away at the Alexander Cohen Hospice House on Sunday June 24th 2012, after a lengthy illness. Jim was born in Berkley, CA and spent his childhood years in Hayward, CA.
Louise Marie Fisher went to be with the Lord on June 24, 2012. She was beloved by all who knew her.
Gilbert E. Townsend, 85 of Turlock, passed away peacefully in the comfort of his home with his loving wife, Sara, by his side. Gilbert was born and raised in Minnesota, and moved to California in 1962. Formerly of Newark, Ca, Gilbert came to Turlock in 1987, at which time he became an active member of the Berkeley Ave Baptist Church and has remained a faithful member until his passing.
Jonathan Dru Bohrer, 53 of Turlock, passed away Monday, June 25, 2012 at his residence in Turlock. He was born in Newman, California and graduated from Turlock schools.
Charlene was born in Ashland, Kentucky to Charles and Addie Lawson in 1920 and is one of six children. She spent her childhood living in several West Virginia towns and graduated from Parkersburg High School. If you asked her where she was from she'd always say she was proud to be a West Virginia mountaineer.
Mavis Kronberg, 92, died peacefully in Turlock. Mavis was born in Trade Lake, Wisconsin, the oldest of five siblings to Carl and Esther (Larson) Brask. She was raised in rural Wisconsin, earned a teaching certificate, and taught in a one-room schoolhouse. In 1948 she married Joe Kronberg and moved to the Kronberg farm in Hilmar where they worked side by side and raised four boys.
Gilbert E. Townsend ~ 85 of Turlock passed away peacefully in the comfort of his home with his loving wife, Sara by his side. Gilbert was born and raised in Minnesota, and moved to California in 1962. Formally of Newark, Ca, Gilbert came to Turlock in 1987, at which time he became an active member of the Berkley Ave Baptist Church and has remained a faithful member until his passing.
Alva went home to be with her husband Willie Yeley. They were married for 66 years.
Marge Nunes, 92, passed away peacefully on June 18, 2012, at her home in Keyes after living with Parkinson's disease since 2008. Marge was born Margaret Irene Souza on January 6, 1920 to Tillie and John Souza at their home, also in Keyes. She attended Keyes Elementary School and graduated from Turlock High School in 1938. Marge married George Nunes in 1939. Two years later they moved into the home they would share until his death in 1993 and where she would continue to live on her own until her own death.
Grace Niehaus, 88, passed away in Modesto, CA, on June 14, 2012, after a lengthy illness. She was born on November 30, 1923, in Hughson, CA, to John and Mary Sequeira. Grace attended and graduated from Livingston High School in 1941. She was employed by Bank of America as the first teller at the Livingston branch and later became an Escrow Officer at various title agencies in Merced and Fresno.
Tan Nguyen was born on January 1st, 1924 in Vietnam. He married at the age of 24 to his sweetheart Sang Pham. Together they had 11 children. He was self-employed as a Purchasing Agent.
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Waseca Birthday blitz: Former sheriff celebrates his 98th birthday
WASECA, Minn. (KMSP) - Laughter filled Waseca's Lake Shore Inn garden room Sunday during an early birthday celebration.
"It was a surprise and it's pretty nice. I love it!" exclaimed former Waseca County Sheriff, Mert Schwarz, who turns 98 on Monday.
"I don't believe it," chuckled Shwarz with a wide smile.
Last month the Waseca County Sheriff's office asked Facebook friends to give Shwarz a birthday blitz he wouldn't forget. Generously, they showered him with cards and at least 30 were mailed in.
"He enjoys people a lot," Ann Shwarz, Mert's daughter, told FOX 9.
"There [are] a lot of them that I don't know who they are," said her father of the cards he opened.
"He was in the military, and fought in the wars, and then he was a deputy, a chief deputy, he was a sheriff, he was a part of our sheriff's posse he got it structured when he was a deputy and he stayed on even when he was retired," said Doug Gerdtf, a Waseca County Sheriff's Deputy.
The posse, Gerdtf explains, allows unlicensed personnel to assist whenever the Sheriff's department needs help for things like search and rescues, parades and more.
Mert does, however, have a reputation with the posse. One he blames on his mean lasso.
"There's a young man that was stealing cars all across the United States and he was in Minnesota and he was in Waterville. I found out he was out of gas and drove the car into a cornfield. I went out looking for him on a horse and I found him. Put a rope on him and led him out of the cornfield," Mert recounted proudly.
"One time a plane crashed in the cornfield and Mert deployed the posse and when the FAA showed up they said it was the best protected plane they'd ever seen," laughed Gerdtf.
"Whether they were arrested by Mert or whatever contact they may have had with him they still talk about him and he's been retired for 40 years," Gerdtf smiled.
Since Mert last removed his Sheriff's hat he has had several adventures.
"I've ridden the whole Continental Divide on horseback. It took six years two weeks at a time," he nodded.
Mert also hopes to rope in a few more.
"Just never say woe in a horserace," he laughed.
A nugget of wisdom Mert imparts before revealing he actually hopes he lives to be 100.
"As long as I'm here, might as well keep going," Mert smiled.


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The Friendlies Celebrates our Exemplary Supporters
The Friendlies honors community members, partners and volunteers who help us build & support the community. We gather each spring to recognize their outstanding contributions of time, talent and treasure.
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2015 Award Winners
Friend of Friendly House Award
This award recognizes individuals, families, groups or businesses that have provided exceptional support to Friendly House by sharing their time, energy, or resources.
Ellen Goldschmidt, SELCO Community Credit Union, Clear Creek Distillery, Jen Hendrickson, Evergreen Consulting, Mike Clark
Past recipients: Alice Harris, Angel McMillan, Jud & Barbara Longaker, Briggs & Crampton (1998); Dorothy Dixon, Forest Park Credit Union, Dr. George & Ethel Long (1999); Kristi Holden, Dan Fleming, Bob and Dorothy Poznanski, and Mike Price (2001); Ann Van Orman (PCC), Allan Classen (Northwest Examiner), Linfield College Student Nurses, Northwest Trader Joe's, Rick Michaelson, CC Chung, Nancy Stevens, Hoffman Construction (Cary Bubenik, Mick McKay, & Jeff Stewart) (2002); Ted Kaye, Legacy Health Systems/Good Sam, Vaughan Hill (2003), Claire Turner, Northwest Portland Ministries and SIM (2004); Catriona Madill, Trilogy Video, Tony Carson, and Ellen Goldschmidt (2005), Templeton Foundation, Elizabeth Lory (posthumous), Hazel Sherwood (posthumous) (2006); Mary Ann Watson, Friendly House Senior Quilters, Linfield School of Nursing, Dr. Charles Bleusko, Murphy McGrew, Jayne Morris, Angel McMillan (2007), Amy O'Neill and Ruth Roth (2008); Con-Way, Sarah and John Ferguson, Slabtown Community Festival Committee (2009); Alleyn Yasskin, Sharon Messerschmidt & Jo Hamilton, Consuelo Tolosa, Street of Eames (2010); Jud & Barbara Longaker Family, Steve & Vicky Byers, Lexie Mobley, Ambiance Committee, Pomarius Nursery/Peter Lynn (2011); Meyer Memorial Trust, Steve & Vicky Byers, Judie Dunken (Keller Willliams), Ted Kaye, HomeStreet Bank (2012); Debra Lande, Bill Hart, John Calvin (2013).
Volunteer Award
Given to an individual or group that has made a significant volunteer contribution to one or more of Friendly House's programs.
Kate Levine, John Huth, Jo Prestwich, Jazz McGinnis, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, Tim Godfrey, Jonell Kraus, Anna Zamarripa
Past Recipients: Dee and Alan Lassen, Jessica Marlitt, Scott Rotter (1999), Autumn Bradley, Steve Fradkin, Manny Tailblum, Dave Reinertson (2000), Bernie Lowenthal (2001); Kim and Larry Diener (2002); Daniel Castleton, Bob Kelly & Ed, Charlie Metcalf, Francesca Hartman (2003), Rachel Borken, George McCargar, Rayne Miller, Allan Peterson and Kevin Moore (2004); Megan Wentworth, Jeff Brown, David Wilson, Marla Gardener, Joan Johnson, Steve Aman, Nicole Pittman, Patty Kearns (2005), Betty Marino, Prentice Ross, The Loy family, Mayumi Sekigawa, Linda Stadler, Lisa Hamilton, Jaime Cropper, Anne-Merle Geuverink (2006); Tom Chamberlin, Louis Sargent, John Utz, Frank James Mabry, Tom Lipsett, Carol French (2007), Eugene Woodworth, John Knapp, Koll Reynolds, Peg Henwood and Kathy Svani (2008); Tyler Calhoun, Roy Simengaard, Marvin Mitchell, Billy Callis, Eileen McClary, Wendy & Earle Blanton, Maria Torres, Senior Program Newsletter Folders (2009); Mimi Newhouse, Judy Chuang, Rachel Borkan, Linda Cameron, Margarita Rangel, Howard Begay (2010); Max Micozzi Jones, Nancy Allen, Mathew Hill, Erin Plattner, Chris Edwardsen, Scott Glazer, Corbett Gordon, Anne Hughes, Ric Miller, Cynthia Chilton (2011); Bob Graves, Leiza Price, Barbara Slaughter, Jack Anliker, Lynn Takata, Starbucks, Steve Frison, Rosetta Forbes (2012); Vicky Hahn, Tammie Martin, Linda Sprau, Leslie Black, Megan Malone (2013).
Community Partner Award
Given to an organization(s) with whom Friendly House partners formally (i.e. by contract) and whom we feel have been strong partners in providing service to our community.
Carolyn "CJ" McGrath, Yoshida
Past Recipients: Multnomah County Aging and Disability Services, with special recognition to Chris Wilson and Paul Iarrobino, Chapman Elementary School, (2003) Grant High School Vocational Mentoring Programand First Immanuel Lutheran Church (2004); Legal Aid of Oregon, Senior Law Project (2005), SHIBA (Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance) (2006); Store to Door (2007), AARP of Oregon, Easter Seals CSEP, Food Front Cooperative Grocery (2008); Chapman Elementary School, Hand 2 Mouth Theatre (2009); Morrison Child & Family Services, Providence ElderPlace (2010); Metropolitan Community Church, Forest Park Federal Credit Union (2011); Portland Children's Levy, Metro Central Enhancement Fund, VIEWS (2012); Multnomah County ADSD, Neighborhood House, Northwest Neighborhood Veterinary Hospital (2013).
Evelyn Hall Award
Adopted from SHARE in 2012, recognizes a volunteer whose efforts support LGBT causes.
SAGE Housing Committee
Past Recipients: Glen Ulmer, Neil (Nikki) Heilpern, Bruce Meisner (2012); Gay & Grey Speakers Bureau, Peg Hackenbruck (2013).
Ruth Roth Lifetime Achievement Award
Honors individuals whose careers and life's work have greatly contributed to the advancement of Friendly House's mission.
Mike Ryerson
Past Recipients: Ruth Roth (2012).
Rev. Edd W. Crawford Service Award
Established in 1998, awarded to an individual or organization that has made outstanding contributions to the community through Friendly House.
Past recipients: Hazel Sherwood (1998); Nick Santangelo (1999); Gloria Gray (2000); Pauline Sharkey (2001); Bonnie Groshong (2002); Frank Dixon (2003), David Miles & Susan Smallsreed (2004); Joan Shireman (2005); Preston Holt (2006); Rick Michaelson (2007); Mike Ryerson (2008); ESCO (2009); Dale Jackson (2010); Anonymous (2011); David & Linda Swanson (2012); Mary Crawford (2013).
Youth Volunteer Award
Given to a young person or group of young people (under age 21) that has made a significant volunteer contribution to one or more of Friendly House's programs.
Past recipients: Jill Pollard and Taylor Stevenson (1999); (Not awarded in 2001); David Shambry, Alexandra Lewis (2002); Emily Forsyth, Class Academy (2003), Haley Freedlund and Anthony Miles (2004), Johanna Steinbrecher (2005); Michael Love, Tigard High School CE2, St Mary's Academy (2007), Westview High School Key Club, Jesuit High School, and CHINOOKS Reading Buddies (2008); Griffin Gaffney, Jonathan Mena (2009); Beth Smilkstein, Steele Tsoumas (2010); Bishop Family (2011); Julia Sheets (2012).


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With the Nationals shoring up what could be a very talented pitching staff and the extension given to the "face of the franchise" third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, it's been a pretty good week for the team from South Capitol Street (the loss of No. 6 prospect Sammy Solis to Tommy John surgery, notwithstanding).
As recent as 2009, it was difficult to find positive national recognition for what the Washington Nationals were doing, but another indication came down the World Wide Web pike this week as Jayson Stark wrote in his ESPN blog that the Nationals are one of 14 teams with a legitimate shot at playing in the World Series this season.
As a matter of fact, Stark said that "every team in the NL East" has a legitimate shot at making the Fall Classic, "except for the Mets."
Of course, every team has a shot of making the World Series, but this is more interesting prediction because Stark asked five general managers, two from the American League and three from the National League, and they came up with similar lists. Stark whittled it down to 14 teams.
There are questions with every team about whether or not they can put it all together for that run to a title. The Nationals have questions about their offense, center fielder, leadoff hitter and a healthy pitching staff, but so do several other teams.
This prognostication from Stark is at least an indication of how good the NL East is becoming if these general managers believe that the Phillies, Braves, Marlins and Nationals all have a better chance of making the World Series. It is obvious the division is stocked with some of the best pitching in the Senior Circuit, plus its share of quality hitters and, ultimately, wild card contenders.
Which is where this all starts, I believe, for the Nationals. You just need a ticket to the dance. That entry can be stamped "wild card." Just ask the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals. Maybe Edwin Jackson can share those stories of how it can happen with the men this month in Viera, Fla.


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In the spirit of the Halloween holiday, I decided to list the most notorious spots on Route 66 where ghosts and other unexplained phenomena occur.
Literally dozens of locations along the Mother Road have seen such weirdness over the decades. I narrowed it down to the top five:
- Spook Light, near Quapaw, Okla.: Also known as the Hornet Spooklight in a rural area near the Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas border, it appears as a distant ball of light at dusk or night. It pops up regularly enough that Waylan's Ku-Ku restaurant in Miami, Okla., provides maps so you can check it out for yourself. Some think it's the ghost of a miner and his lantern; others think it's the ghost of an Indian. "Roads to Quoz" author William Least Heat-Moon and others say the light is caused by headlights from old Route 66 to the west. However, the light has been documented even before the invention of cars.
- The Oatman Hotel, Oatman, Ariz.: The ghost that reputedly haunts this 1902 hotel is of miner William Ray Flour, who drank himself to death behind the hotel in 1930. The spirit of Oatie reputedly opens windows, plays bagpipes, and yanks off bed covers. The hotel also reportedly houses the ghost of a chambermaid in one of the rooms. And hotel staff have heard the long-dead Clark Gable and Carole Lombard whispering and laughing from their honeymoon suite.
- Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, Ariz.: The hotel boasts so many ghost stories, it has devoted a section of its website to them. It includes apparitions of a bank robber, prostitutes, a bellboy, a baby, a dancing couple, and "The Meat Man." The hotel says Room 305 is its "most active" in terms of paranormal activity, including a rocking chair that rocks by itself.
- Tri-County Truck Stop, Villa Ridge, Mo.: The now-closed restaurant has been investigated by Missouri Paranormal Research after reports of strange activity, and a story about that sparked more than 50 comments on Route 66 News — many with their own weird stories about the place. One of the ghosts is "George," who reputedly has gotten fresh with the restaurant's female help.
- KiMo Theatre, Albuquerque. The 1927 theater reportedly is haunted by a 6-year-old boy, Bobby, who was killed in a boiler explosion in 1951. Bobby supposedly behaves himself if treats are left on a water pipe for him in the back of the theater. But if the treats are removed, all sorts of technical problems occur during shows or movie screenings.
As I've said, this isn't a comprehensive list of spooky places on Route 66 by a long shot. A few Route 66 travelers have reported spooky experiences of their own, as the comments in this post from 2005 show.


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While I am sure this all sounds great, anyone who has been tasked with managing a blog's content and creating new articles on a regular basis will attest to the fact that coming up with ideas for those articles can be a daunting task.

Let's take a look at a few ways you can use to brainstorm some fresh topics for your site's articles.

Think About Customer Conversations

One of the best ways that I have found to establish topics that will make relevant articles is to think about the questions that clients ask me and the conversations that I have based on those questions. These questions are absolute gold because they give real insight into what your audience is thinking about and looking for. If your customers are asking these questions, it is very likely that other people are asking them as well. If you write articles that address these questions and which offer valuable information, your site has a great chance of being found by people looking for those answers.

Discuss Changes in Your Industry

If there is something new or interesting happening in your industry, this is an opportunity to lend your voice to that topic of conversation and create an article that is very timely. For example, Microsoft recently announced that on January 12, 2016 they would end support for older versions of their Internet Explorer web browser. A few days before this end-of life date, I was sure to publish an article about this change. This allowed me to not only come up with fresh content, but it was also very relevant to conversations that people were having at that time.

Industry changes can be a wonderful source of ideas for new articles. Done well, these pieces will not only be timely and relevant, but they will also help to establish you as a thought-leader in your industry and someone whom people turn to for the latest news on that industry.

Review What Other Authors are Publishing

Don't be afraid to look at what other people, including your competitors, are publishing on their sites and in their blogs. Adding your voice to those conversations, whether you have additional thoughts and perspective to contribute or perhaps a different opinion you'd like to share, is another great way to come up with new ideas and to further stablish yourself as an industry expert.

Look to Current Events

Similar to industry changes, current events (which may or may not be related to your company and your offerings) is another resource that can be mined for relevant, timely ideas. Obviously, there are some current events that may be a bit sensitive and which you may want to steer clear from, like politics and very heated debates about certain social issues. On the other hand, you may choose to convey your feelings on these hot-button topics in order to spur conversations and comments from readers.

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One of Nashville's oldest neighborhoods, Historic Germantown, will be celebrating the season with our annual Holiday Tour. Historic meets new urban design this year as we showcase some of our neighborhood's magic.
This event will benefit Crossroads Campus.
We are excited to announce the Tour will begin at The Flats at Taylor Place.
A creative, urban community where the past and present meet in perfect harmony, they are a good neighbor. Bask in the stunning design, open spaces and urban décor.
Tempered's Staci Bockman will treat us to an expert chocolate tasting and wine pairing. Tempered Café and Chocolate is the creation of 312 Pizza Company founders (Staci Bockman, Daniel Bockman, Stormy Wolff, Bill Wolff, and Kimberly Wolff). Staci Bockman's dream to open a chocolate shop came to fruition when the Germantown storefront became available. December will hallmark their second anniversary. Nothing tastes better with chocolate than red wine or champagne, so you will be in for a treat.
Stroll historic streets, stopping at festive homes and churches. Enjoy new friends and old, while relishing all that makes our community splendid in every way, especially during the holiday season.
Last stop on the Tour will be Cochon Butcher | Nashville, a butcher shop, a sandwich counter and a wine bar. Inspired by old-world meat markets, Butcher specializes in house-made meats, terrines and sausages. GM, Gabe Fairchild, will offer an assortment of charcuteries to please your palate. This favorite spot opened its doors in the Spring of 2015. A New Orleans original, Butcher's culinary delights remind many of the days when Germantown was the center of good meats in Nashville.
Historic Germantown Neighborhood Association is pleased to donate proceeds from the Tour to Crossroads Campus. Most are aware of their work with homeless animals, yet their commitment to fostering underserved youth has been equally successful. StyleBlueprint recently interviewed Crossroads' founder, Lisa Stetar.
Lisa Stetar of Crossroads Campus: FACES of Nashville
November 6, 2016 – Alex Hendrickson
With the aim of putting the healing power of the human-animal bond to work, Lisa Stetar founded Crossroads Campus, a Germantown-based nonprofit that works to help neglected animals and homeless Nashvillians by nurturing a bond between the two and helping them to learn and heal from — and with — one another. Through her work, Lisa is able to enrich the lives of those with whom she works. Today, she gives us a closer look into the nonprofit, offers ways you can get involved, shares her favorite spots in Germantown and suggests a few good reads. It is with great joy that we welcome Lisa Stetar, Founding Director of Crossroads Campus as our newest FACE of Nashville.
Mark your calendars, tell your friends and bring your family and loved ones on Sunday, December 4, 2017, from 4-7PM.
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