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Using gypsum to improve soil quality is a popular topic for farm and agricultural inflencer audiences. Please contact our communications consultant Karen Bernick at 1-866-GYPSOIL (497-7645) if you have questions, need story ideas, photos or want to set up interviews with a GYPSOIL team member. GYPSOIL also participates in many national trade shows and meetings including Ag Media Summit, Commodity Classic, National No Tillage Conference and Farm Progress show to name a few.
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May 31, 2013, Chicago, IL...Gypsum applied to alfalfa fields can help growers increase tonnage and quality, says Ron Chamberlain, director of gypsum programs for GYPSOILTM/Beneficial Reuse Management, Chicago.
Here are five reasons why gypsum is good for alfalfa:
No. 1: Excellent sulfur source
As federal regulations require power plants burning coal to meet stricter regulations there's less sulfur deposited on farm fields. Alfalfa is a sulfur-loving crop and deficiencies are not unusual. In fact, 82% of soil samples in one Midwestern state in a recent research study tested low for sulfur.1 In addition, a 2010 University of Wisconsin plant tissue study showed that 64 percent of samples were low in sulfur even when the majority of alfalfa plants appear normal.2
"For every 10 pounds of nitrogen used to build protein in alfalfa, one pound of sulfur is removed from the soil," Chamberlain says.
GYPSOIL brand gypsum is calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4•2H2O). It is produced during the removal of sulfur from the flue gases of coal-fired utilities, and from fermenting corn for food products. It contains 13-16 percent sulfate sulfur.
"The sulfur in GYPSOIL can supply crop needs and because it is sulfate sulfur it is immediately available to plants," Chamberlain says. Ohio State University research trials demonstrated that gypsum applied as a sulfur source improved alfalfa yields by 18% over a three year period.3
No. 2: Reduces Water Stress
The stress from having too much or too little water is the top reason why crop yields vary, says crop consultant Joe Nester, who owns Nester Ag, Bryan, Ohio.
"You've got to move water and air through the soil," Nester says.
Nester advises growers to look at soil tests, check the CEC and see if water infiltration is a problem. In soils with a higher CEC and more clay content, Nester says he is more concerned about calcium and magnesium levels.
"I would address the calcium needs first and then apply gypsum to manage magnesium levels where they are detrimental to water infiltration and soil health," Nester says. "Gypsum is like a firecracker. When you use it on those high-clay soils, it helps separate the clay particles, so water and air can enter in."
No. 3: Fights Compaction
When the soil is compacted, biological activity can be limited because there is less oxygen in the soil, Chamberlain says.
"Oxygen needs to be present in the soil for the biology to work efficiently," Chamberlain says. "In waterlogged soils the biology shifts from aerobic to anaerobic. This drastically slows the decay of crop residues, and you don't get optimal mineralization of nutrients from the soil parent material."
Applying GYPSOIL helps reduce soil compaction because it contains calcium. The calcium creates a chemical shift, balancing the calcium, magnesium, aluminum and sodium present in the soil, explains Chamberlain. "By balancing calcium and magnesium, the stability of the soil particles and the aggregation of the soil improve and more water can infiltrate into the soil more quickly," he says.
No. 4: Feeds The Soil
A direct connection exists between soil health and feed digestibility, according to Tom Weaver, who is director of Kow Consulting Association, Darlington, WI.
"Dairy nutrition needs to start in the soil," says Weaver, who consults with dairy farmers in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois. "Balancing calcium and potassium has the benefit of improving both fiber digestibilty and non-fiber carbohydrates. Gypsum typically contains about 20-21% calcium, much of which is water soluble."
Weaver continues: "The readily available sulfate-sulfur in gypsum is essential to build high quality protein in forages," he says.
5. Enhances Hay Quality
Alfalfa growers that use gypsum often comment on how much healthier their alfalfa looks after even one application. The greener and leafier appearance is likely due to the improved nutrient status and improved soil structure over time. Healthier soils contribute to healthier plants that withstand stress and weather fluctuations. "When we look at test strips the gypsum-applied fields typically look much more robust and thriving," Chamberlain says.
Know the Cation Exchange Capacity
The soil's cation exchange capacity (CEC) shows how much nutrients the soil can hold. The higher amounts of organic matter and clay in the soil, the greater the CEC and the more nutrients soil can hold. Growers can change the critical balance of nutrients within the CEC by applying GYPSOIL, Chamberlain says.
When the CEC is under 10, apply 1,000 pounds of GYPSOIL per acre as a soil amendment, Chamberlain says. If the CEC falls between 10 and 15, apply 2,000 pounds per acre. If the CEC exceeds 15, use 4,000 pounds of GYPSOIL per acre. When gypsum is used as a nutrient source only, then apply 300 to 1,000 pounds per acre.
For more information about using agricultural gypsum, visit www.gypsoil.com or call 1-866- 497-7645.
1 The Fertility of North Amercian Soils, Bulletin Summary, International Plant Nutrition Institute, March 2011.
2 Chen et al., Flue Gas Desulfurization Products as Sulfur for Alfalfa and Soybean, Agronomy Journal, VOL, 97, January-February 2005.
3 Laboski et al, University of Wisconsin, 2010.
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|Words on a Screen - by Cat LeDevic
Oh, how the gods laugh. The following happened to a good 'friend' of mine we'll call Pal.
|Celebrity Big Brother Celebrities Revealed
Meet to celebrities entering the first Celebrity edition of Big Brother (US)
|Group Psychosis, Communicated Insanity & The Social & Serial Bullying Dynamic in "The Big Brother House"
"Folie ŕ deux-Communicated Insanity"
|#BigBrother19: "Bullies, Banshees & Clowns"
A Bullying Circus Hits the House
|The Voice Finale: Broken Hearts & Exploding Farts
Just this ole country girl's thoughts on Voice winner.
|Bored? Here are my favorite clicks from TheBoredButton.com
Beware... some of these will keep you busy for hours!
|#BBOTT Finale, Last Moments
#BBOTT Last Moments: Pride For the Final Three . #BBWARRIORS All.
|BB OTT: Shane's Eviction Interview
Joker's speaks with the latest BB OTT evictee, Shane.
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Snake Joke
Final thoughts on the finale, and out of context quotes
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Social Justice
The varied meanings of "social game", end of the season awards, and out of context quotes.
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Rodeo Clown
Tracking James's bizarre Big Brother devolution, and out of context quotes
|Paul's "roommate" analysis of himself and the 15 other Houseguests he's spent the summer with
Paul gives the lowdown on how shady it is to live with some of the Houseguests
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Revolution
Showmance hell, reconsidering Paul, and out of context quotes
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Feminism Type Thing
Paulie's take on feminism and Jersey girls
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Girl Power
The resurgance of the Spy Girls, and the many complications of America's Care Packages
|Big Brother 18 "To Vic"
A poem better than Victor's
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Mateship
James accidentally says too much to Da'Vonne, and Bridgette's Big Brother life without Frank
|BB18 - Meow: Claws will Clash with Class
Meow: Claws vs. Class
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: It Ain't Me, Babe
Big Brother interventions, and Bridgette vs. the Mean Girls
|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Just Kiddin'
The comedic stylings of Frank, and Nicole as America's Player
|Big Brother 11 - Live feed facts about Natalie:
Nat played a game, told some lies, got people evicted, got other's to do her dirty work & made it to F2
|My Evening With Jeff & Jordan at the Seattle RP Chat!
A review of my night at the Seattle Real Player Chat with Big Brother 11 house guests, Jeff Schroeder & Jordan Lloyd!
|Jeff and Jordan Real.com Interview
Are they together? Here's the answer!
|Jeff and Jordan, it's all swell but what happens when the swelling goes down?
Will Jeff and Jordo last?
|As the Nation goes, so goes....Big Brother?
In a good, old-fashioned showdown of Good vs. Evil - Good prevails and Jordan Lloyd is crowned the winner of Big Brother 11.
|Farewell Natalie
Back peddle all you want, even now when you are out of the house, but the live feeders saw it all.
|The BB11 Sultry Summer of '09 fades into memory...
BB11 Final Thoughts and Ramblings of the Deranged One Known as Zenny
|What the Future Holds for the HG'S of Big Brother 11
A glimpse into the possible futures of this seasons cast.
|Good Bye Big Brother 11
A Good Bye Poem for Season 11
|Nat. A Lie.
In the Interests of Science
|Big Brother 11: I was 2 feet from Big Brother's front door!
A Fans View From Inside The Studio
|The Rise and Fall of Jeff
Jordan Tries in Vain to Fall on Her Sword for Jeff
|What have we learned from BB11?
A humorous post on things we learned from the HG's of BB11. Mostly satire, mostly.
|Knife Play
Jeff and Russell Stop Short of Pulling Out a Ruler
Expect the expected, the unexpected, and things that don't make any sense.
|Three Dorks and a Funeral
Episode summary for Big Brother TV show, Sunday August 16, 2009
|Chima Drama: Inquiring minds want to know (really, really bad)
Chima grows some and gets shown the DOR.
|The Case of the Missing Saint
Yet Another Chima Article
|Big Brother Fogie Edition
Be careful what you wish for..Less crazy is less interesting
|What really happened with Chima? A Producers Opinion
Having worked as a producer for many years, I have experienced many of the issues the BB production team likely dealt with last night. Here is my take on why Chima was more likely REMOVED as CBS suggests, instead of having simply quit.
|In Which the Social Experiment Goes Awry
Chima Simone Benson leaves Big Brother 11
|On Chima's Departure: In Defense of Allison Grodner
A defense of Allison's Grodner's integrity
|Oh What a Night.
Recap of Jessie's live eviction.
|A good bye poem for Jessie.
A good bye poem for the latest evictee.
|'Twas the Night Before Eviction
The poem to end all poems. LOL you have to read THIS one!
|Ronnie's Farewell Speech: Fact or Fantasy
A reaction to remarks made by a HG we all came to mistrust as the curtain closed marking his final act
|The Tension and Paranoia is Palpable!
Thoughts on feed viewing from August 1st thru 2nd.
|BB11 Houseguest Bios: Annotated Version
Dusting off a gimmick from his BB9 pre-season article, Scart looks beneath the surface of the official houseguest bios, and exposes more surface.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Angèle Kingué has been selected as the first David Morton and Leanne Freas Trout Professor of French and Francophone Studies, President Brian C. Mitchell announced today. The endowed position recognizes a distinguished teacher-scholar at the University for academic and teaching excellence and provides the recipient with resources to pursue scholarly interest in the field.
The professorship is part of a recent gift to Bucknell from Leanne Freas Trout, Class of '50, in memory of her late husband, David Trout, also Class of '50 and an emeritus member of the University's Board of Trustees. It is the first endowed faculty position funded by the University's $400 million comprehensive campaign.
"Bucknell's academic strength depends on teaching and scholarship at the highest level," said President Mitchell, "and we are grateful to Leanne Trout for this commitment to the core mission of the University. Her gift will benefit the University for generations to come."
Renewable appointment
The professorship is a renewable appointment of up to five years awarded to a current faculty member through a highly competitive process. It provides the recipient with funding for research related to the pursuit of scholarly interests. The position also provides revenue that will enable French faculty to develop new courses based on scholarly study pursued during year-long sabbaticals.
Trout's gift includes two endowed scholarships for outstanding students of French. The professorship and both scholarships will benefit the University in perpetuity.
"Mrs. Trout's support for both student scholarships and professorship recognizes the importance of the teacher-student relationship at Bucknell," said Provost Mick Smyer. "We appreciate this generous commitment to our students and teacher-scholars and the benefit it will bring to our French program long into the future. She has made a fundamental investment in the excellence of our University."
Cameroonian author
Kingué, a native of Cameroon, has taught multiple courses on Francophone African since her arrival at Bucknell in 1988. Her scholarship and teaching focus on Francophone literature of sub-Saharan Africa. She has combined her specializations in foreign-language pedagogy and African literature in many articles and presentations at national and international conferences and universities. Most significantly, Kingué is a world-renowned Cameroonian author who has published novels, short stories and children's stories. The longtime director of the Bucknell en France program, she will spend the 2010-11 academic year on-site at the Université François Rabelais in Tours.
During her Trout Professorship, Kingué will finish her current novel, which examines the adoption of a Rwandan girl by the Amish community in central Pennsylvania. She will also embark upon an oral history project in which she will interview members of various Cameroon communities, record their life stories, and post them online to facilitate dialogue among members of these different ethno-linguistic groups as well as the African Diaspora.
Related scholarships
Leanne Trout, who majored in French at Bucknell, also established the Leanne Freas Trout Scholarship in French and Francophone Studies. Two renewable $5,000 awards will be given to outstanding French majors who maintain at least a 3.5 GPA in French, demonstrate leadership in the classroom, and spend a semester or year abroad in the Bucknell en France program. Jillian O'Mara and Jeffrey Church, both Class of '12, are the first recipients of the new scholarship.
"Mrs. Trout's gifts strengthen the entire program," said Associate Professor Renée Gosson, director of French and Francophone studies. "The professorship will enrich our academic program through the development of new course material grounded in original research, while the scholarships reward student achievement and encourage further excellence in French studies. It is a tremendous opportunity, and we are grateful."
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New Delhi: Kannada actor-director Ramesh Aravind, who is directing "Uthama Villain", says that Kamal Haasan is not only playing the lead, but also writing the script of his movie.
The film will go on floors in November.
"The current working title is 'Uthama Villain', we are working on the script right now, Kamal is writing the script for the movie," Ramesh told IANS.
This is not Ramesh and Kamal's first film together. Both of them have acted together in films like "Sathi Leelavathy", "Panchathanthiram" and "Mumbai Express".
The duo share a good friendship off the screen as well.
When asked what kind of movie it will be, Ramesh said: "Just give us two weeks and we will let you know more about it."
What about the lead actress?
"Nothing has been decided yet," said Ramesh.
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India's economy probably expanded near its slowest pace in three years in the quarter to September, according to a Reuters poll, suggesting little signs of an early turnaround, despite reform steps taken by the government to lure back investors.
Gross domestic product rose 5.4 percent year-on-year in the July-September period, slightly lower than the 5.5 percent increase in the previous quarter, and only just above the three-year low of 5.3 percent in the quarter to end-March, the median consensus of 39 consensus showed.
Forecasts ranged from 5.0 percent to 6.2 percent.
Asia's third-largest economy is growing faster than many other countries, but the pace is way below the 9 percent growth that the government has targeted to provide jobs for a booming young population.
Data on factory activity showed slowing global demand hurt exports and falling investments weighed on the manufacturing sector, which has been the biggest drag on overall growth in the quarter to September.
"There have been no signs of an upturn in India," said Andrew Kenningham, chief economist at Capital Economics.
"Available data on industrial production and the PMIs point to little change in growth, while exports have been even weaker in the quarter to September. Overall, therefore, a small further decline in growth rate is most likely."
The government has launched a slew of initiatives to boost growth, including raising subsidised diesel prices and opening sectors like supermarkets to foreign players.
However, it has since struggled to enforce the reforms and failed to break a deadlock in parliament over opening up the retail sector.
"The relaxation of restrictions on inward investment will have no impact this year, and probably minimal impact in 2013," said Kenningham.
The central bank has so far rebuffed calls for interest rate cuts, saying prices are still rising too fast to risk loosening policy much, and it also wants the government to bring down a worryingly high fiscal deficit.
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Big Spender: $10,000 Gold iPhone Case
Why settle for just a golden-hued iPhone 5s when you can buy an iPhone case made of the real deal? Charles Passy joins the News Hub with a look at a 14-karat gold option for your gadget. Photo: Miansai.
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Use Me Lord
Solo recording by Christian artist Kevin Inafuka as he sings his praise to
the Lord, and prayerfully asks Him to use him in a great and mighty way. Kevin's
personal testimony, but you will discover it is your testimony also.
Kevin Inafuku shares his testimony through heartfelt messages in song.
1) O Come and Sing Unto the Lord
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2) This Poor man CriedYou Are God
3) Redeemed
4) Amazing Grace, Amazing Love
5) Jesus, I Am Resting, Resting
6) Sing Out With Splendor - Listen
7) In All Things God Works for Our Good
8) I Will Serve You
9) Here I Am
10) Hark the Voice of Jesus Calling
11) Take Me, Lord - Listen
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13) You Are God
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Pearls Of Wisdom - Fire And Ice by Robert Frost - Poetry Reading
Fire and Ice - A poem by Robert Frost. About the poet - Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 -- January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of his generation, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry. For more videos log on to http://www.youtube.com/pearlsofwisdom Also find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pearlsofwisdomchannel
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Ultimo coilovers from Raceland are designed for drivers seeking better suspension performance over stock while retaining the ability to lower their vehicle to their desired ride height. According to the company, they have been improved over the standard kit to allow a better ride quality at lowered ride heights. The larger and shortened shock pistons, along with stiffer spring rates and stronger shock valving, ensure you get the stance you seek without sacrificing ride quality. Powdercoated shock bodies and gold-anodized spring perches add an extra level of corrosion resistance to extend the life of the coilover.
Aeromotive's 340 Stealth fuel pump is similar to other OEM replacement pumps in its fitment into factory fuel tanks and hanger assemblies, but boasts over 340 lph of flow at 40 psi. These high-output electric pumps are direct bolt-in replacements for more than 65 popular EFI applications. The 340 is also ideal for use as a universal replacement for applications that require more flow to support forced induction systems. It's also ideal for applications requiring more flow while retaining the factory fuel lines and mounting provisions available in the OEM configuration.
Amsoil has now added 0W-20, 5W-30 and 10W-30 formulations to round out its new Signature Series line of synthetic motor oil. The new series features all-new packaging and represents the very best motor oils the company has to offer, allowing motorists to take advantage of maximum extended drain intervals. The Signature Series oils are recommended for intervals of up to 25,000 miles or one year (15,000 miles or one year in severe service conditions). The Signature Series joins Amsoil OE and XL lines of synthetic lubricants, providing customers with three distinct levels of synthetic protection.
AFE's Mach Force XP exhaust for the 2011 VW Golf TDI is constructed from big, mandrel-bent 2.5-inch 409 stainless steel tubing. It uses welded-on, bayonet-style hangers and band-style clamps for a hassle-free installation that won't shift under high heat or vibration conditions. This system is a direct bolt-on two-piece design that requires no cutting to install. In addition, AFE claims it is five pounds lighter than the factory system. Dual 3-inch polished 304 stainless tips are included. $329
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Students Blogging from Chile
Students enrolled in professor Carmen Galarce's Spanish travel course titled, "Discovering Latin America," are blogging about their adventures and classes in Chile. Click here to read their blog and see photos.
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Sabine Hossenfelder writes a lot of wrong texts, especially about issues that depend on some nontrivial calculation. But she is often reasonable when she discusses certain conceptual issues, including the general properties of quantum mechanics (and the absence of non-local influences in QFT etc.).
The latest example of the penetrating texts is
No, we probably don't live in a computer simulationI've discussed the proposals that "our world has been programmed by our overlord, Ms Simulator" in 2011, 2013, 2016, aside from other moments.
But let's look primarily at the comments by Hossenfelder and her readers – who surprisingly seem to agree.
First, she mentions a philosopher named Nick Bostrum who loves the idea that we've been programmed by Ms Simulator and we should be worried that she presses the button and turns us off. (She may also selectively turn those people off who don't read TRF or have never... Oops, I removed the joke about the corrupt simulator and donations after I received two. It wasn't really my goal! I have no evidence the simulator is selectively turning people off.) Brian Greene was among those who have promoted these ludicrous ideas. Hossenfelder describes the intellectual motivation of the fans of this concept as follows:
The simulation hypothesis, as it's called, enjoys a certain popularity among people who like to think of themselves as intellectual, believing it speaks for their mental flexibility. Unfortunately it primarily speaks for their lacking knowledge of physics.Even though I can't reliably see into their skulls, I tend to completely agree. Fans of this simulation paradigm want to prove that they are flexible – and it may be true even for the likes of Brian Greene or Neil deGrasse Tyson. They have opposed religions and they internally agree with some of their critics who say that the atheist proponents of science are "spiritually narrow-minded". So they picked this replacement religion to show that they can also "think big", like the believers, and they're not narrow-minded, after all.
A problem is that their "simulation paradigm" isn't just "big". It suffers from the very same problems as most of the religions.
As physics, the simulation hypothesis sucks, we read at Backreaction, because the purpose of physics is to explain the observed phenomena and patterns in them and the simulation hypothesis just doesn't explain any. It's worse than that: the hypothesis sends us back to the age of mythology. It wants to replace the conventional physics in the very questions where physics seemed relevant – but it pays no attention to the arguments and insights about the laws of Nature that physics has actually accumulated. I completely agree with that.
Now, when you actually try to use this hypothesis to produce predictions, you should admit that you create predictions such as the "deja vu cats" – typical programming glitches – and the violation of the seemingly continuous symmetries in Nature. If the simulation runs on a "computer" with discrete information – whether it is classical bits (totally hopeless to simulate a quantum world, Hossenfelder agrees) or quantum bits – you should observe violations of the continuous symmetries. It's very hard to avoid this prediction and the general simulation hypothesis really predicts that those violations shouldn't be small. They are more likely to be of order one. But we haven't observed any.
If we were doing physics, the theory would be abandoned. However, the champions of Ms Simulator tell us:
It doesn't matter that this is predicted. Ms Simulator has arranged things so that we don't notice the manifestations of the discreteness, computer glitches, or other contradictions.Fine. But this quote really says "let's not pay attention to the empirical evidence, all of it may be fake". And once you stop paying attention to the empirical evidence, you stop thinking as a scientist.
This point isn't just about some arbitrary definition of what is science and what isn't science. The problem is that science, as conventionally defined, is the only way that works how to find out something about the rules underlying the world we inhabit. When you decide that you don't pay attention to the empirical data, you will simply not find any justifiable insights about the world. What you will think about the world will be pure prejudices.
I always find it important to add that even if some divine entity were deliberately obfuscating some deep truths about our world, if She did it really well, the moral duty of the scientist would be to exactly find out what She wants us to think. If some deep features of the world can't be found even in principle, then they literally don't exist according to the scientific definition of existence. If it always looks like the statements \(A_i\) are true in our Universe according to all observations, then a scientist should agree that the statements \(A_i\) really are true. If Ms Simulator masks things perfectly, so that the hidden features and unusual predictions are unobservable even in principle, then she manages to change the truth, indeed. If you disagree with this notion of the truth, then you think as a non-scientist.
Also, props to @TheDailyShow @Trevornoah for this take on it... 😜 pic.twitter.com/IzedPc48lq— BBC Comedy (@bbccomedy) March 14, 2017
Kids have the duty to dance in front of cameras to amuse grownups. Original BBC footage from an expert in Japan. In the same way, scientifically inclined folks have the duty to pursue the scientific method to amuse Ms Simulator, even if She knows that they're finding things that aren't fundamental in Her world. (She doesn't know that Her world is a simulation, too LOL.)
So you should better pay attention to the predictions done by the simulation hypothesis (just like any hypothesis in science) and compare them fairly to the observations. And they just don't seem to agree with anything we observe. The hypothesis predicts deja vu cats, there aren't any. It predicts things will generally be discrete and not rotationally symmetric or Lorentz-invariant. But they are continuous, and so on. The comparisons with the experiments say Bad, Bad, Bad. Again, if you don't care, you're not thinking as a scientist.
One aspect of the simulation hypothesis is that the data on which "we run" are fundamentally discrete. As I mentioned, it seems to contradict the continuous symmetries we seem to know in physics and other manifestations of the fundamental continuity in Nature. But even if the contradiction didn't exist, I would find these people's assumption that "discrete is better" to be a totally irrational prejudice. Criticisms of discrete physics on this blog are numerous.
For example, these people may want to assume that the simulation needs a finite number of bits and a finite number of binary (or, in the case of the more sophisticated proponents, qubit) operations per second. But why would they assume such a thing? The only rational reason to make a similar assumption is that we know that if we consider machines we can create in this world, they have this property. We need to do some particular piece of work if we want to add one bit to a RAM memory chip, or to make a CPU capable of manipulating with an extra bit etc. And we know that we may only make a finite amount of work in our finite lives so everything we produce will only manipulate with a finite number of bits etc.
But while these limitations on the "finiteness of memory" etc. are justifiable for man-made objects, they are absolutely unjustifiable for "divine entities" that were creating the world. Those entities aren't necessary equivalent to us, or like us, so it makes no sense to assume that they have a trouble to work with continuous functions or numbers that in principle require an infinite number of bits to be reproduced or similar things. Instead, the evidence is rather clear that the fundamental laws of physics start with objects that may remember some continuous information – that would need an infinite number of bits to be really exactly simulated etc.
Just like we said that Ms Simulator Herself is in principle the same thing as God, just described with some would-be atheists' spin, we may also say that the discreteness assumed by these people is just a modern-era counterpart of the anthropomorphic appearance of Ms Simulator or God. Our man-made objects (computers etc.) seem to store the information digitally. But that doesn't mean that the same holds at the natural, fundamental level. We're not equivalent to the creators of the Universe so there's no reason to assume that we have the same characteristics. In fact, it's pretty obvious that we don't.
The crazy thing is that many advocates of the simulation hypothesis – including folks like Brian Greene – are self-described atheists who often tend to say that it's naive to assume that the creator of the world looks like a man who may fly on his cloud etc. But the assumption that He uses some gadgets that store "discrete information" is pretty much equally anthropomorphic. So if they were fair, they would mock themselves by exactly the same observations – to assume that God is anthropomorphic is childish – as they mock the religious believers. But many of these people think that because their religion is newer or because they have been called scientists by themselves or others, they're immune against being childish as the religious people.
Well, you are not immune at all. If you suffer from equivalent prejudices, commit similar logical fallacies, or equally fail to eliminate the hypotheses that disagree with the empirical data, you suck as a scientist to the same extent as the believers do. It's really the same and your pretending that you are better for some reasons is absolutely silly – and very arrogant, too.
Hossenfelder correctly divides the "simulation hypothesis" approaches to those that work with discrete classical information – I am sorry, Stephen and others, but this is just damn silly and I don't even want to spend a whole sentence on it – and those with qubits. But even the latter (Hossenfelder mentions proposals by Wen et al.) are almost certainly inconsistent with the observations. To admit that the information in our world is fundamentally quantum information is just one step. But another step is to realize that it is not in any natural sense parameterized in terms of isolated qubits. Qubits mean that all the Hilbert spaces have dimensions that are powers of two, everything is revolving around base-two number systems. There is absolutely no reason to think that something like that holds in the world around us. A spin \(j=1/2\) particle may have two states of its spin but a \(j=1\) particle has three and a spin \(j\) particle has \(2j+1\) of them. None of the values of \(j\) seems to be more "metaphysically real or fundamental" than others and starting from harmonic oscillators and atoms, we know lots of systems with infinitely many irreducible states.
Later, Hossenfelder spends some time with the proposal that Ms Simulator makes sure that we don't notice the contradictions and computer glitches. She observes:
If the programmer could predict in advance what the brain will investigate next, it would be pointless to run the simulation to begin with.Exactly. Our thinking is almost certainly one of the most complex processes running in the simulation. If Ms Simulator knew in advance – because it was used in Her program – how to interpret the patterns in our thinking finely enough to figure out "what we're planning to find out", then the whole simulation would be useless. She could deal with the "psychological" problems she was simulating directly.
Again, you may see that an anthropomorphic character of a deity is being assumed by the proponents of the simulation hypothesis. Just like the religious people assume that the creator of the Universe may listen to our prayers or have similar moral values as we have, the proponents of the simulation hypothesis assume that Ms Simulator can think about our wishes to analyze a scientific question in the same psychological way that we find relevant. Just like I said before: One has double standards if he mocks religions but praises these "clever ways" to protect the simulation hypothesis from being eliminated because the "clever ideas" of religions and the simulation hypotheses are basically identical.
In the following paragraphs, Hossenfelder says that it's difficult to create simulated minds and nations will only create one or two artificial clever brains with consciousness and use them as presidents' advisers. Maybe the technical problem is hard, maybe not. I don't think we can predict it.
But what I am pretty much certain about is that the anthropic reasoning that "we have to be simulated" if it's easy to create artificial brains is simply wrong. Even if there will be trillions of simulated brains in the future, it doesn't mean that we should belong to this set, too. There exists no logical basis for the "typicality" reasoning that we have to be "generic". This anthropic reasoning is particularly bad if you assume that the future events (will?) affect the events now, e.g. the question "who we are and what is our past". Such acausal influences are impossible and all reasoning that derives facts about the world from such influences is just wrong. I discussed this ludicrous fallacy and many others e.g. in the latest assault against the Boltzmann Brains including Carroll's. ;-)
Returning to Backreation, Hossenfelder also correctly says that the simulation hypothesis indicates that we should only observe a part of the Universe, not a whole one, and the resolution on short-distance physics should be rather lousy. Why? Simply because Ms Simulator, whatever She is, is supposed to follow similar basic qualitative limitations as programmers in our real society. In particular, She has finite resources and She doesn't want to completely waste them by simulating a space of radius 14 billion light years with the accuracy better than \(10^{-19}\) meters if the main goal is really to figure out what some humans in the simulation will think.
Again, if we were doing science, we would say that the simulation hypothesis makes some predictions – the Universe is probably not much larger than the place with interesting events; and the shortest distance scale at which the QFT-like laws work is probably not much shorter than the size of the neurons that are needed for the interesting phenomena. But both these predictions and many others are falsified by the evidence, once again, and they are falsified rather brutally. So the hypothesis just doesn't work. The advocates may still say "it doesn't matter, Ms Simulator is just playing games with us". I've explained why this only excuse means that the proponents aren't doing science and can't therefore reliably find any important insight about Nature.
Hossenfelder cried a few tears when she read a Stephen Wolfram's answer to John End-of-science Horgan:
"[Maybe] down at the Planck scale we'd find a whole civilization that's setting things up so our universe works the way it does."LOL. By the way, I doubt that John Horgan could have been happy about the new civilization we will find at the Planck scale because it would mean that science hasn't ended yet, after all! ;-) As I've discussed many times, this idea of fractal substructures and civilizations is very old. Before Stephen Wolfram, it was promoted by Vladimir Lenin:
The electron is as inexhaustible as the atom, nature is infinite, but it infinitely exists. And it is this sole categorical, this sole unconditional recognition of nature's existence outside the mind and perception of man that distinguishes dialectical materialism from relativist agnosticism and idealism.If you want to be a true Marxist-Leninist, you simply have to believe in a civilization of little green men inside each electron and a civilization of little green submen inside the little green men's subelectrons.
The only problem with the self-similar Universe is that it is demonstrably rubbish. At the Planck scale, geometry breaks down so there can be no things with structures much shorter than the Planck scale. But even without this observation that the "march towards ever shorter distances" cannot continue indefinitely, we know that a Planck cube or an electron cannot be whole Universes that carry a huge amount of information. If electrons carried something inside, two electrons couldn't be identical, and wave functions of their positions couldn't be exactly antisymmetric etc. The permutation operator wouldn't exactly commute with the evolution operators in time so the permutation symmetry (antisymmetry) couldn't be imposed.
There's surely no known, usable theory in which there would be a substructure with objects inside an electron or every Planck-sized cube. Hossenfelder adds something else I totally agree with:
Again, however, the details don't matter all that much – just take my word for it: It's not easy to find a consistent theory for universes within atoms. What matters is the stunning display of ignorance – for not to mention arrogance –, demonstrated by the belief that for physics at the Planck scale anything goes. Hey, maybe there's civilizations down there. Let's make a TED talk about it next. For someone who, like me, actually works on Planck scale physics, this is pretty painful.Right. Underlying is the assumption that anything goes at the Planck scale. If they – including Stephen – still had some respect towards the actual learning, they would know that it's extremely hard to design theories at the Planck scale that aren't immediately falsified – and theories of his type are. One can make talks about the paradigm postulating some non-existent little green men theories at the Planck scale but it's foolish and arrogant to pretend that they differ from any other crackpottery that is out there.
The only problem with Hossenfelder's assertion is that she has written a dozen of paper with "anything goes at the Planck scale" herself. In particular, all of her double special relativities and similar things are perhaps a little bit less obviously childish than Lenin's or Wolfram's proposals but they're still ludicrously wrong examples of "anything goes". Whether you like it or not, phenomena at the Planck scale must follow the laws of string/M-theory – or at most something that is conceptually equally abstract and advanced and morally equivalent.
Well, except that she hasn't made it beyond the late 1960s and still knows nothing about string theory even though she claims to study the very same questions, I am going to almost fully subscribe to her final two paragraphs:
In summary, it isn't easy to develop theories that explain the universe as we see it. Our presently best theories are the standard model and general relativity, and whatever other explanation you have for our observations must first be able to reproduce these theories' achievements. "The programmer did it" isn't science. It's not even pseudoscience. It's just words.Amen to that.
All this talk about how we might be living in a computer simulation pisses me off not because I'm afraid people will actually believe it. No, I think most people are much smarter than many self-declared intellectuals like to admit. Most readers will instead correctly conclude that today's intelligencia is full of shit. And I can't even blame them for it.


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The Stockholm Transport Museum released photos from their archives to Flickr today, including these of cyclists.
1947 traffic
We haven't ridden in Stockholm, but think it's probably much the same now.
Stockholm 1948
A quick search and yes it is, as this photo from Eric N. shows.
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Anyone interested in a hike and meet up please let me know in this thread. The only day that would ever work for me is Sunday since its my only day off every week.
Before the idea of Hawk Rocks or the Pinnacle were tossed out there. I think they are great ideas and we should stick to that. Any more potential locations are welcomed. As far as dates, any ideas? Please check in often and contribute to dates and times if you are serious about making this happen.


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Costly fourth inning sends Gallardo to first loss of '14
CINCINNATI -- Yovani Gallardo's season, until Saturday, consisted mostly of strong outings, few runs allowed and a lot of wins -- for his team, that is.
Gallardo hadn't actually recorded a win since the first week of the season, but his team was humming right along with him on the mound, winning four of his six starts in a first month of the season where very little went wrong.View Full Game Coverage
CINCINNATI -- Yovani Gallardo's season, until Saturday, consisted mostly of strong outings, few runs allowed and a lot of wins -- for his team, that is.
Gallardo hadn't actually recorded a win since the first week of the season, but his team was humming right along with him on the mound, winning four of his six starts in a first month of the season where very little went wrong.View Full Game Coverage
That streak came to an end on Saturday night when the right-hander allowed four runs and was tagged with the loss as the Reds topped the Brewers, 6-2, before a packed house of 38,243 at Great American Ball Park.
But this wasn't as much about Gallardo losing as it was about Reds starter Johnny Cueto dominating. There wasn't much for Milwaukee's offense could do against the ace right-hander, who yielded three hits over eight innings, walked one and struck out 10.
The Brewers have seen this Cueto before, and they weren't surprised that he showed up tough again this time.
"At the end of the day, a loss is a loss, but some losses mentally hurt more than others," Mark Reynolds said. "Today, we just ran into a good pitcher. You can't do anything about it. You just move on and get ready for tomorrow."
It wasn't great timing for a sputtering Brewers offense that has run into a difficult stretch of late. In their first game since Ryan Braun went on the disabled list, Milwaukee's three hits consisted of solo homers by Aramis Ramirez in the second and Reynolds in the fifth, and an infield single by Jean Segura in the eighth.
That was it.
"He's always good," Roenicke said. "He's always really good. But this ... we got two hits 'til that eighth inning. He wasn't in the stretch until the eighth inning. His changeup's fantastic. His fastball's great. He throws a cutter, he commands the ball great. He didn't throw as many curveballs as he usually does, but his fastball was great.
On the Brewers' side, Saturday wasn't by any stretch a terrible start for Gallardo, but it was, by comparison, flawed. The fourth frame served as the springboard: Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce singled, and Gallardo then loaded the bases by hitting Todd Frazier. Phillips scored in a single by Ryan Ludwick, and two more runs came home on a base hit by Brayan Pena.
The loss -- Gallardo's first this year -- marked the first time he has allowed more than three runs in any start.
"'Yo' wasn't quite on today," manager Ron Roenicke said. "He battled again, kept us in it, but he wasn't quite on it."
The difference, in Roenicke's estimation, was Gallardo's curveball, which wasn't as effective as it had been in the past.
"Two outings ago, it was a good as I've seen it," Roenicke said. "We need to get that pitch back and he's got to have something that's offspeed that they have to worry about instead of everything hard, instead of just cutter, fastball."
Gallardo, for the most part, agreed with that estimation.
"It definitely wasn't as sharp, but they put the ball on the ground," he said. "There's not much I can do after that."
Mediocre pitching wasn't exclusive to just Gallardo. Tyler Thornburg has unquestionably been one of the Brewers' most effective pitchers this year, holding opponents to a .122 average while posting a miniscule 0.61 ERA over 14 relief appearances. He had an off night this time, yielding two doubles and throwing two wild pitches in the seventh, allowing the Reds to pad two more runs onto their lead.
With the best record in baseball at 21-10, the Brewers could lose their first road series of the year with a loss Sunday.
"With these guys [the Brewers], it's going to be a heavyweight fight," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "They have the best record in baseball, but we've never backed down. I've got to give my teammates a lot of credit. We beat a tough team and a tough pitcher."
The Brewers, in the meantime, will continue to search for answers to their struggling offense. Tweaking the lineup, at this point, doesn't appear to be on the front-burner.
"We're not swinging the bat that well," Roenicke said. "The combination of what we have -- we put some more left-handers in today with [Caleb] Gindl and [Logan] Schafer. We thought it would be a little bit better against Cueto. It's hard to say what to do with the lineup. The guys are playing enough and if somebody's hot they're going to be in there more. As a group, we'll get it going."
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From pregnancies to drugs to bad public behavior, check out 12 celebrities who were fired from hit TV shows.
1. Lynn Redgrave
House Calls was a TV show that ran from 1979 to 1982. In it, Redgrave played Ann Anderson, a hospital administrative assistant who was romantically involved, but often at odds, with Dr. Charley Michaels. In 1981, Universal Studios released a statement saying that Redgrave had left the CBS series because the studio wouldn't meet her salary demands, according to an article posted on the Los Angeles Times.
However, Redgrave told a very different story. She asserted she was forced off the TV show because she wanted to breastfeed her 5-week-old daughter on set, per People. Universal denied this claim, but a phone call transcript recorded Pete Terranova, who was a negotiator for Universal at the time, saying that the breastfeeding "is the biggest problem of all for us."
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Titles you've worked on: "Flash," "Legion of Super Heroes," "Spider-Man," "The Avengers." Current title is "The Regulators" for Advent Comics. How long have you been drawing comics? My first published work was in 1980 for DC Comics, a splash page for "Unexpected." So I guess you could actually say my career started in horror. Or was it "Mystery in Space?" It's been so long! How long have you been reading comics? Fantastic Four No. 1 hooked me for life. The advantages of comics as a medium? There are many. The ongoing serial aspect to the story and character development over time is nice when you're on a book for a while. Also, the explosion of the independent books has led to much more opportunity for other than mainstream' work to be published and seen. ... I guess creating a world and characters that fans grow to love and respect and come to think of as almost alive (see "Big Bang Theory"), and knowing your work touches so many, is a very nice thing.
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Madison Leigh Vaughn, a rising senior at West Henderson High School, has been selected as this year's Apple Ambassador.
Madison Leigh Vaughn, a rising senior at West Henderson High School, has been selected to serve as this year's Apple Ambassador.
Vaughn will represent the Apple Festival throughout the year and attend many events at the festival on Labor Day weekend. She will be awarded a $2,000 college scholarship. She is the daughter of Ray and Tamra Vaughn.
The first runner-up is Lindsay McNair Patton, a rising senior at North Henderson High School. The daughter of Jeffrey and Stephanie Patton, she will be awarded a $1,000 college scholarship.
The other representatives are Kasey Marie LeClair from North Henderson High School, Carmen Elizabeth Cunningham from East Henderson High School, Margaret Anne Dillon and Alaina Nichole English from Hendersonville High School, and Megan LeeAnn Raxter from West Henderson High School, according to a news release from David Nicholson, executive director of the N.C. Apple Festival.


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Consultation on effective child sensitive counseling, complaint and reporting mechanisms Geneva, 30 September – 1st October 2010
Background In resolution A/HRC/RES/13/20 adopted by the Human Rights Council on 26 March 2010 entitled "Rights of the child: the fight against sexual violence against children" the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children are invited to report to the Council at its sixteenth session on effective and child-sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms to which children can safely report incidents of violence, including sexual violence and exploitation. The Human Rights Council invited them in doing so, to cooperate with other relevant partners such as the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, States, National Human Rights Institutions and ombudspersons for children, United Nations agencies, regional organizations, civil society organizations and children themselves. (para. 18).
As part of the preparation of the report, a consultation with selected experts will be organized by OHCHR and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children. The consultation will take place on Thursday 30 September and Friday 1st October.
Objectives The UN Study on Violence against Children recommended the creation of accessible and child-friendly reporting systems and services. It recommended States to establish safe, well-publicized, confidential and accessible mechanisms for children, their representatives and others to report violence against children. All children, including those in school, care and justice institutions, should be aware of the existence of mechanisms of counseling and complaint. Mechanisms such as victim counseling, support and reporting offices and free telephone help lines, through which children can access information and advice, report abuse and speak to a trained counselor in confidence should be established. The creation of other ways of reporting violence, including through new technologies should be considered. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, in its General Comment no. 2 (2002) encourages State Parties to establish independent institutions for the promotion and monitoring of the implementation of the Convention. The institution, whatever its form, should be able, independently and effectively, to monitor, promote and protect children's rights.
With this in mind, the consultation is aimed, inter alia, at exchanging experiences and providing input to the report requested to the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children by the Human Rights Council. It is also a follow up activity to the UN Study on Violence against Children.
In particular the consultation will:
Aim at providing an overview of the different models of accessible and child-friendly counseling, complaint and reporting mechanisms established at governmental level and by independent institutions and civil society organizations.
Draw attention to challenges and good practices in the use of such mechanisms (i.e help lines, child clubs, confidential counseling, national independent human rights institutions, and ombudspersons for children) by children and their representatives, particularly issues of accessibility, confidentiality, knowledge about rights, child participation, safeguard of privacy and protection of victims of violence, including sexual violence and exploitation.
Identify obligations, roles and responsibilities of different actors at different levels (community, district, national and international level) including Governments, law enforcement officials, judges, social workers, teachers, doctors, ombudspersons, civil society, internet service providers, faith leaders, etc.
Make recommendations as to how to develop and strengthen effective child-friendly violence counseling, referral and reporting mechanisms, respecting the rights of the child and offering children the necessary protection (including the protection of their privacy, and avoiding the risk of re-victimization and reprisals) independently of the setting where violence occurs (home and family, educational, care and detention settings, the workplace and the community).
Format and participants The consultation will last one and a half days (Thursday 30 September and Friday 1st October 2010). It will bring together around 20 experts with demonstrated experience and knowledge about counselling, complaints and reporting mechanisms, including Government representatives, representatives of United Nations Agencies, members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Ombudspersons for Children, and NHRI. The consultation will take into consideration perspectives and recommendations arising from the questionnaire sent to Governments, UN Agencies and NHRIs. It will also consider recommendations made by children and young people on the subject. The consultation is open to member states.
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This range of onesies - you know, those awesome little suits babies get to wear - are fashioned in the style of Pokémon. And they're available for grownups.
An Etsy seller called All for Onesies makes these to order, meaning you can pick your favourite Pokémon, pay up and soon you'll be spending your time battling other pocket monsters and avoiding pressing questions from your family and loved ones.
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Molly Huxley Room
University House
The Australian National University
Acton, ACT 2601
Join us for a night of Shut-Up & Write (SUAW).
These evenings are offered every week to support ANU Higher Degree Research students who cannot attend regular SUAW sessions to make progress with their thesis. We will use the Pomodoro Technique (25 minutes writing; 5-minute breaks) to make the evening as productive as possible. You can work on anything you like, so long as you are writing.
To ensure you get the most out of this session, we ask you must commit to attending the whole evening (from 5.30 to 9 pm) at registration. Dinner is free. There will be vegetarian and gluten-free options available. If you have special dietary requirements, please feel free to bring your food on the night.
Please note that SUAW Nights will now be twice a week. Please only register for a maximum of FOUR out of this month's nine sessions. Due to limited places, we cannot allow participants to attend all sessions. If you have registered for more than four sessions, your tickets will be cancelled at random until you are registered for only four sessions.
What to bring?
1. Laptop computer
This session is about getting as many words written as possible. While you may choose to write by hand on paper for some of the time, you will need a laptop to get the most out of the session. If you do not own your laptop, you may ask to borrow one from a friend or family member or your College IT people. Note: You will be able to charge your laptop during the session.
2. Key texts only
If you were stranded on a desert island and had to write your chosen thesis section, what three books or journal articles would you take with you? This is how you should think of SUAW session – you do not require backpacks full of tomes.
3. Things that make you comfy
We do our best to provide you with a safe and comfortable environment for the duration of SUAW. Remember, however, that you will be sitting down for many hours on the day - though we highly encourage regular stretching and short breaks.
Have questions? Please email firstname.lastname@example.com
The location for the day is Molly Huxley Room at University House; the entrance is at the arrow below.
Strictly limited places.
By registering for this event, you are committing to attendance. If you are no longer able to attend the event you have registered for, please notify us at firstname.lastname@example.com and cancel your ticket on Eventbrite. If you fail to attend and do not contact us with an explanation, this may limit your attendance at other SUAW events.
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Molly Huxley Room
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This Southwestern quiche is an oldie but goody. I am not sure if you noticed, but it has been a couple weeks since I have posted a recipe and even longer since posting what is going on in Oshkosh. We have been crazy busy, so thank you for that, but it has left me a bit behind in my blogging duties. I just have not had the time to try new recipes or come up with anything, so please forgive me. I think you will like this recipe though. It has a little zip and great garden goodness.
Southwestern Quiche – Severs 6-8
6 eggs, 1 tsp. salt and pepper, 1 1/2 C shredded hash browns (thawed), 1/2 C diced red pepper, 1/2 C sweet corn or canned or frozen, 2 green onions thinly sliced, 2 TB chopped cilantro, 1/4 C pepperjack cheese, shredded, 1/2 C shredded cheddar, and 1/2 C milk.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a pie pan. Whisk 1 egg with a dash of salt and pepper. Stir in thawed, shredded hashbrowns. Put potato mixture in the greased pie pan. Press down to form a crust. Bake 15 minutes.
After baking sprinkle crust with diced red pepper, corn, green onion and cilantro. Top with cheeses.
Whisk together remaining eggs, milk, remaining salt and pepper. Pour over vegetables and bake 25 minutes.


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For example, the new 1000-peso note (pictured above) features a portrait of Ignacio Carrera Pinto, a 19th-century war hero, on its face, but the back of the note shows the granite pinnacles of Torres del Paine. The notes don't occupy much wallet space, as they're only about three-quarters the size of a dollar bill but, more interestingly, they have a small transparent insert that duplicates the face on the front. Presumably this is a security measure, to deter counterfeiting.
One of the pitfalls of guidebook research and publishing is the unpredictability of exchange rates. In all my Moon Handbooks, I use the US dollar as a baseline currency, because it's so widely accepted throughout the Southern Cone, but that has its drawbacks. When I researched the third edition of Chile, three years ago, the peso traded at about 600 to the dollar, even spiking up to 650, but for most of my recent two-months-plus in the country, the rate hovered around 480. Despite Chile's low inflation rates, the country had grown significantly more expensive in dollar terms, and the new edition – due out at year's end - will reflect that.
Since I returned to California about three weeks ago, though, the dollar has climbed above 500 once again, but that's the rate I had already decided to use as a baseline for the upcoming edition. Still, it emphasizes the need to pay attention to exchange rates even if, in general, relative prices stay the same. The most basic accommodations remain the cheapest, the most elaborate restaurants the most expensive, and so it goes.
Relative prices remain the same in Argentina, but the dynamics of the economy are less predictable. The official exchange rate is barely creeping up, at around 4.5 to the dollar, but independent economists calculate an annual inflation rate of roughly 25 percent, about triple what the government admits. At the same time, foreign exchange controls have contributed to a black market on which the dollar is trading at roughly 5.5 pesos.
That breach between the official and informal dollar, which is regularly reported on the front page of Buenos Aires newspapers, suggests the government's measures – including the deployment of 300 dollar-sniffing golden retrievers – have been less effective than it had hoped. The state-run TV network Visión Siete is running an obvious propaganda spot (see below) that shows the dogs at work.
It's also sent AFIP tax agents into the street to apprehend the street changers known colloquially as arbolitos (so-called because, like trees, they're planted in one spot), but that's had only minimal effect in a country where outwitting officialdom is the national sport. Former central bank president Martín Redrado, fired by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2010, says the government's restrictions are an unsustainable "dead-end street" (Redrado, for what it's worth, had been appointed by Fernández's late husband, Néstor Kirchner).
It's risky, meanwhile, for foreigners to tread in the black market. Unless you're dealing with a trusted friend, changing dollars for pesos is inadvisable. For the government, though, the best remaining alternative might be importing Dutch boys to plug the dikes.


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3689 James Road Memphis, TN 38128
3689 James Road • Memphis, TN 38128
Sale Amount: $3.6 million
Sale Date: June 6, 2013
Buyer: Advantage Way LLC
Seller: 215-39 Jamesbridge Holdings LLC
Details: A California company has bought the 432-unit Jamesbridge Apartments at 3689 James Road in Raleigh for $3.6 million.
Advantage Way LLC, which lists a Vista, Calif., address, acquired the Class C multifamily complex in a June 6 special warranty deed from 215-39 Jamesbridge Holdings LLC.
The seller was a single-purpose special servicer related to Bethesda, Md.-based CWCapital Asset Management LLC. It bought the multifamily property in February following a foreclosure for $7.5 million in a substitute trustee's deed from R. Spencer Clift III of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC.
A first-run foreclosure notice was filed in January against the former owner, Jamesbridge Group LLC, which had defaulted on a $13.5 million loan through Lehman Brothers Bank FSB dated Sept. 21, 2006, and later owned by LaSalle Bank NA.
The Jamesbridge sits on 29.8 acres on the south side of James Road in Raleigh. Its addresses are listed as either 3689 James Road or 3815 Advantage Way Drive, between Jackson Avenue and Highland Road.
The complex contains 351,020 square feet and is dotted with lakes and pedestrian bridges. Its 2013 appraised value is $7.3 million, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property.
Built in 1986, the complex has 24 three-story buildings, each with 18 one- and two-bedroom units. It also has a clubhouse/office building and swimming pool.
Jamesbridge Group bought the property in 2006 for $15.7 million from Jamesbridge Associates LP, financing it with the loan that went into default.
3946 Lamar Ave.
Memphis, TN 38118
Loan Amount: $9.3 million
Loan Date: June 19, 2013
Maturity Date: July 1, 2023
Borrower: Willow Wyck LP
Lender: Magna Bank
Details: The owner of the 366-unit Shadowbrook Townhouses at 3946 Lamar Ave. in Oakhaven has filed a $9.3 million loan on the property.
Salt Lake City-based Willow Wyck LP filed the multifamily deed of trust, absolute assignment of leases and rents and security agreement (including fixture filing) June 19 through Magna Bank.
Paul D. Montgomery signed the trust deed as president of Property Asset Management Inc., general partner of the borrower.
Built in 1972, the Class D apartment complex contains 449,612 square feet in multiple buildings on 24.8 acres east of the intersection of Lamar Avenue and New Getwell Road.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal of the apartment complex is $5.7 million.
Memphis, TN 38016
Loan Amount: $7.5 million
Loan Date: June 13, 2013
Maturity Date: N/A
Borrower: Westco-Lightman #1 LLC
Lender: State Farm Life Insurance Co.
Details: The owner of the 91,464-square-foot Kroger store at 9025 U.S. 64 in Cordova has filed a $7.5 million loan on the property.
Westco-Lightman #1 LLC – an affiliate of Weston Cos. – filed the deed of trust and security agreement June 13 through State Farm Life Insurance Co.
Michael M. Caldwell signed the trust deed as president of Westco Development #32 Inc., managing entity of the borrower.
The property sits on 12.1 acres on the south side of U.S. 72 between Rockcreek Parkway and Fletcher Trace Parkway.
Kroger's website lists the address as being Lakeland, although it sits just south of the Memphis-Lakeland boundary.
Built in 2004, the Class A retail store has a 2013 appraised value of $10.4 million, according to the current data listed on the Shelby County Assessor of Property's website.
4778 Summer Ave.
Memphis, TN 38122
Loan Amount: $3.4 million
Loan Date: June 11, 2013
Borrower: Bell Property Group GP
Lender: Independent Bank
Details: Bell Property Group GP has filed a $3.4 million loan on the Bell Plaza Shopping Center on Summer Avenue in Berclair.
The company filed the deed of trust, security agreement and fixture filing June 11 through Independent Bank.
William M. Bell III signed the trust deed as president of Bell Properties Inc., the managing partner of the borrower.
The main parcel of the shopping center is 4778 Summer Ave.
That property includes 38,404 square feet of retail space on 3 acres at the northeast corner of Summer Avenue and Avon Road. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.4 million.
Another parcel in the Bell Plaza Shopping Center is 4862 Summer, which includes 16,800 square feet of retail space on 3 acres to the east of the 4778 Summer property.
That parcel has an appraised value of $724,400.
Bell Property Group owns other parcels in the area, including 4818 Summer, 4838 Summer, 661 N. Mendenhall and 670 N. Mendenhall.
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"Meals on Wheels" here means food which can be stored/carried while you travel without worrying about spoilage. I have spent 2 wonderful years blogging and during this time I have come accross foodies who are creative and intelligent. Many food events have made us think out of the box and surprised ourselves of the hidden talent we have :D . SWC this time will be on TOM and the theme is food which can be carried while you travel without worrying about the spoilage. The shelf life of the food which you blog for this event must be 2 days. Think think think...and send in your entries before 31st March 2009 :).
1. Food shelf life = 2 days (without refrigeration)
2. Veg and Non Veg both accepted
3. From Chutneys to Chapathi to Rice you can send any dish which falls under the above category.
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