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AGCO Parts, NA Makes Waves in Customer Experience
AGCO Parts recently presented "Changing the Customer Experience: An AGCO Case Study," to attendees of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Customer Support Seminar in Milwaukee. The AEM Customer Support Seminar invites industry leaders to provide presentations, case studies and examples of technology working with dealer networks, the workforce and customers for company excellence.
Jennifer McMahan (Whitfield), Director of Customer Experience for AGCO Parts, NA, spoke to industry participants on Sept. 26 about how focusing on customer experience instead of customer service can transform an organization.
"Customer service needs to be effective, efficient and responsive since it builds your customers' confidence in doing business with you," said McMahan. "But, customer experience is more than just great customer service, it's how your customers 'feel' about doing business with your company. It's making sure you have the right people, the right process and the right tools to support your customers' needs. The ultimate goal of customer experience is reached when your customers become an advocate of your brand."
Jennifer spoke to a crowd of more than 120 industry leaders about how AGCO Parts, NA has begun to transform its customer experience system through evaluating how AGCO's people, processes and tools are affecting the dealer network they work with, as well as their customers. "Before, we gave it our best effort and we didn't have documented processes," she said. "We had limited cross-functional alignment and communication — informal expectations. Our data and our systems were not aligned with our dealers." McMahan added, "But now, we have made significant investments to create targeted performance metrics, process adherence and clearly documented expectations. We are investing in tools and systems to be better aligned with our dealers and have monthly scorecards for better transparency of information."
Jennifer presented a pyramid with several steps to achieving customer advocacy, and noted that we still have a long way to go to truly reach the top in customer experience. But, according to the results we have seen recently, we are well on our way. In 2010, we (AGCO Parts, NA) received best-in-class awards from the North American Service-Parts Conference in recognition for its service, quality and safety.
Additionally, according to the 2011 Heavy Equipment Parts Manager Survey of agriculture and construction companies by Carlisle Research, AGCO Parts experienced a double-digit increase in overall satisfaction. In addition, overall availability satisfaction rose 10 points, and new-model availability increased 12 points, according to the survey.
"It makes a difference if you take the time to be your own customer," concluded McMahan. She challenged the attendees to take a hard look at the way customers interface with each of their companies to encourage the same growth that AGCO Parts continues to strive toward.
Do you have a customer experience story of a time when a company's people, processes, and tools resulted in an outstanding customer experience? Share your story with us on Facebook.
New AGCO Equipment Purchases Can Mean Up to $500 in AGCO Parts Cash
The AGCO Parts Field Rewards program offers farmers in North America the opportunity to earn up to $500 in AGCO Parts cash with the purchase of any new AGCO Brand equipment from June 1, 2011, through July 31, 2011.
The AGCO Parts Cash can be used to buy genuine original equipment manufacturer (OEM) AGCO Parts. Farmers can count on the consistent OEM quality, dealer availability and competitive prices of authentic AGCO Parts all with a 12-month warranty. AGCO Parts has been recognized for its best-in-class parts quality by the North American Service-Parts Conference, a leading symposium for the service-parts divisions of prominent original equipment manufacturers in North America.
Farmers can utilize their AGCO Cash for preventative farm equipment maintenance as they prepare for the busy fall harvest season. With preventative maintenance, farmers are able to maximize farm equipment uptime and improve productivity.
In addition to earning AGCO Parts Cash when purchasing new farm equipment, farmers can also enroll their new equipment in the AGCO Parts preventative maintenance program called PM360, and receive additional offers to keep their equipment in top shape. For more on the PM360 program, visit www.agcopm360.com.
AGCO Cash is a certificate redeemable at participating North American AGCO Parts dealers. AGCO Parts Cash cannot be combined with any other promotions. One AGCO Cash certificate per transaction. One redemption per address during each redemption period. $500 AGCO Cash certificate requires the minimum purchase of $1,000 in AGCO Parts.
For more on the Field Rewards program, please contact your local AGCO Parts dealer or visit www.AGCOparts.com.
How will you use your AGCO Parts cash?
AGCO Parts to Be Featured on "This Week in AgriBusiness"
Recently, popular farm broadcaster Max Armstrong, host of "This Week in AgriBusiness" visited AGCO's Parts Distribution Center (PDC) in Batavia, IL, USA, to learn more about the inner-workings of farm equipment parts logistics. Max was also interested in recent service and quality enhancements of AGCO Parts, which have resulted in industry recognition.
His visit included a tour of the Batavia PDC and Customer Service Center. In addition, Max also conducted interviews with some members of the AGCO Parts leadership team. The interviews and tour will be part of a feature on AGCO Parts that will air during this week's episode of "This Week in AgriBusiness," a weekly recap of the nation's top agriculture news, weather and markets hosted by Armstrong and Orion Samuelson.
The program is available online at www.agbizweek.com and also airs four times each week on RFD-TV at:
- 7:00 a.m. (CT) on Saturdays
- 5:30 a.m. (CT) and 8:00 p.m. (CT) on Sundays
- 8:00 a.m. (CT) on Mondays
Check out the program and let us know what you think! Go to www.agcoparts.com/Contact or visit our Facebook page at Facebook.com/AGCOcorp to share your comments.
Commitment to Service & Parts Quality at Stockton PDC
On April 7th, AGCO Parts held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for our recently renovated Parts Distribution Center (PDC) in Stockton, CA, USA. This is just one of the latest examples of our efforts to provide best-in-the-field customer service and parts quality to our dealers and customers.
Over the past 18 months, we have made significant investments in training our service and support personnel and updating our processes and systems, particularly inventory management. We have actively sought input from our dealers and customers to create the best customer experience possible. Some of our recent improvements have included transforming our parts facilities into full-stocking PDCs, such as the one in Stockton.
By upgrading the facility, we are able to lessen the time it takes to get parts to our dealers and customers. This will help minimize downtime for our customers and help improve their productivity. In addition to reducing delivery time, moving more parts closer to our dealers and customers will lower shipping costs.
The renovations, which took five months to complete, included larger storage racks, additional storage bins, greater
bulk storage capacity and more outside storage. With the additional storage capacity, we doubled our inventory value and will now be able to ship daily orders, fulfill emergency requests and support backorders for AGCO Parts' customers in other regions.
The 38,500-square-foot Stockton facility is one of nine PDCs in North America. It was previously a Massey Ferguson warehouse. We moved our parts center from West Sacramento to the facility back in 1993 when we purchased Massey Ferguson. The Stockton PDC stocks parts for such farm equipment lines as Challenger, Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Valtra, Gleaner, Hesston, White Planters and Sunflower.
To learn more about our parts programs and promotions, please visit us at www.agcoparts.com.
How does using quality AGCO Parts make your business more efficient? We would like to hear from you. Go to Facebook.com/AGCOcorp or comment below to share your efficiency innovations.
Faster Parts Turnaround for AGCO Customers
AGCO Parts is conducting a ribbon-cutting ceremony this afternoon for its recently renovated Parts Distribution Center (PDC) in Stockton, CA. One of nine AGCO Parts' PDCs in North America, our Stockton facility has been transitioned into a full-stocking parts center to better support the parts needs of our dealers and customers in the western United States.
The 35,500-square-foot PDC in Stockton has expanded its storage capacity and doubled the value of its parts inventory. As a full-stocking PDC, our dealers and customers will receive their parts faster with lower shipping costs. Parts will be delivered in half the time or sooner, because transit time to dealers will be reduced to three days or less.
The Stockton PDC transition is part of our overall service commitment. Over the past 18 months, we have pledged to create the best customer experience possible. In an effort to become the "Best in the Field," we have invested heavily in training our service and support personnel, updating our processes and systems particularly with our PDCs and customer service center, and actively seeking input from our dealers and customers. Recent improvements have included transforming our parts facilities into full-stocking PDCs, such as the one in Stockton.
This customer commitment has paid off with recent industry awards for our service and quality. According to the 2011 Heavy Equipment Parts Manager Survey by Carlisle Research, AGCO Parts is the only agriculture original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to experience a double digit increase in overall satisfaction, which is more than double the increase in satisfaction of our nearest agriculture OEM competitor. In addition, our overall availability satisfaction rose 10 points and new model availability increased 12 points, according to the survey.
Last year, we received best-in-class awards from the North American Service-Parts Conference in recognition for our service, quality and safety. Also, we now have an industry-low of 10 days for backorders, a 75 percent improvement over the previous two years. To learn more about our parts programs and promotions, please visit us at www.AGCOparts.com.
How was your recent customer experience with us? We would like to hear from you about our customer service. Go to Facebook.com/AGCOcorp or comment below to share your story.


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Can Sago palm pups be separated from mother plant?
Has anyone here successfully separated Sago palm pups from the mother plant?
Years ago I heard Manuel Flores say that Sago palms were such a primative plant, being practically unchanged since the day of the dinosaurs, that their vascular system would not heal from a major wound and the pup and mother plant would become infected and die, but a friend told me that she has separated them and they were fine. She has sandy soil if that makes any difference.
I have always cut the fronds back from these pictured below.
But I'd like to separate a couple of the pups and plant them elsewhere if possible so if anyone here has been successful, or not successful, in accomplishing a division please let me know how to proceed ... or not.
How deep do the roots go? This is hard packed soil here and not easy to dig.
Thank you!
Yes, they can be separated and transplanted. I don't do mine because they prick my arms and legs, and it's very uncomfortable. Here is some information on removing the pups.
I have better luck, doing the separating in the spring. In the winter the soil is too moist and they do not do as well, and I lost half of them. I use a sharp shooter shovel, and lay backwards next to the pup, and just push, and the pup will pop off. On the older ones, you may have to use an axe, since they are apart of the plant. Don't worry, they will grow roots. I have one plant( that is planted in the sun) that always has pups. Plants in the shade do not multiply as fast.
Thanks for the tip! Nice to know you did it and didn't lose the mother plant.
Hope I don't have to use an ax and it just pops off, but they are old so may have to. I have used a little narrow saw to saw big roots off something I was trying to dig out so maybe, just maybe, that might work.
He had something mixed up in a watering can and poured it over his tools and the cuts. He didn't say what it was but I have started using wettable sulfur powder on my brugs when one gets broken and I noticed it seals up the would and keeps it from getting that rotting down the stem if I do it right away. Its what we used to use on potatoes when we would cut them in chunks with the eyes growing to keep them from rotting when we wanted to make new plants.
We have two giant sagos. About six feet tall and probably at least 12 feet or more diameter. There are many, many pups on each one. We need to harvest these as they are now encroaching on the driveway and we don't want to damage either the sagos or our cars. The link to potting them is intersting. I've always been afraid to take a sharpshooter to them but we're ready to try. We live about an hour west of Houston and have very sandy soil. Is this a bad time of year to cut the pups? Must they always be potted to save them or could we plant them directly into the soil, and if so, what is the best method to plant them and nurse them along?
Ken. Bellville, TX
My sago palms are that large as well. I'm looking forward to harvesting several pups from them next winter or spring. All I know about it is what's written above and from the informative site passed along by ltcollins. Maybe someone else will pass along their experiences and can answer your questions.
I just took pups from a large mother plant.
The easy ones pop off by just pushing them horizontally from one side. I used heavy bar with a bicycle handlebar grip against the pup to keep from damaging it. someof them I had to use the bar to pry them from the trunk.
For the tough ones, I used a reciprocating saw, AKA 'Sawsall', with a long wood cutting blade, but a hand saw will do too. I cut fron the top of where the pup meets the trunk at an angle towards the trunk. The angle is basically splitting the "V" between the side of the pup and the trunk in half. While cutting, you will see the pup nudge loose, that's far enough. You don't want to cut too deep into the mother trunk. then just push them off. I start with the upper ones first and work towards the base of the tree and continue this way all the way around the tree. If there are any pups grong out of the ground around the mother Sego, just dig under it and cut away the part the attaches it to the mother.
If the fronds get in your way, clip them off. You will be clipping them off anyway for potting as many suggest. I only clipped the old fronds at first. I will clip the rest as they begin to die off after potting. I just like how they look and I think they get energy from the sun. That's just my opinion, I am not an expert.
You may want to let them scab over before planting so you don't have to deal with fungicide. And be sure to let them dry a little between watering. The ones I have that survived from last year's harvest were allowed to dry out completely several times during the year. I don't know that the rest didn't survive. They may still be strugling to develop.
I have five good plants out of about 15 pups. This year I got them from a different plant and some are huge. One came from the base and already has roots on it. hopefully the fronds one that one will make it. If you would like to find out, send me an email next year, I don't know if I will remember to post here again.
Good luck and happy planting.
Here is a link that might be useful: Taft PC Services
I feel like a dummy but just exactly what IS a pup? Is it a large looking seed or is it the smaller 'shoots' (mini palms) that come up around the base of a mature plant. If it's the latter, can they be planted immediately or do you have to let them dry off as well?
Someone told me if I removed the 'mini palms' growing around the base it would kill the mama & the babies!
I surely don't want to do that but there are about 40 of them growing around the 2 trees on each side of my drive. They're about 12' tall & about 30 years old.
Blessings & happy green thumbs!
Sorry Merci Rose didn't receive a reply to the question she posed in April. The 'pups' are the little palms that come up from the sides of the mother palm and they can be separated.
Cathy, I think I'd be inclined to overwinter the new sprout inside just to be sure it survives in case we have another extra cold winter. Perhaps some others might have some personal experience concerning this.
When I was at Lowes 3 weeks ago, there was an older couple checking out. The lady was talking about the sago palm she wanted. I told her if she would come to my house, and bring a shovel, she could have all the pups she wanted. They were at my house within an hour, with the shovel. I showed her how to get the first pup, then they were on their own. They got some nice large pups, I never could get them that clean, they looked almost like a bulb with no white showing. I showed her how to remove all the leaves and only plant with 1/2 of the bulb in the sand, water and forget about it. When it starts to put on new leaves, it has rooted. Last year we used the truck to pop off the big ones. Took them to Finack's Nursery, he gave me $15 credit for each one that rooted. I went in the spring and used the credit to buy all my spring plants, it was like supermarket sweep. I do my pups in the spring, the nursery had a hugh greenhouse, so he was able to root them during the winter. He said they all rooted except one. Barbra
We had a house for 5 years with a 2 big sagos. I just used a crowbar and pried the pups away from the mamma. sometimes I had to dig the dirt away from the base to find where they connected. The people we bought the house from told us that was how they did it. I thought the plants looked nicer without all the pups sprouting up along the bottom so it just became part of my yearly maintenance.
most of the pups were softball sized (seen that size at selling between $15 - $25). Wish i had thought about taking them to a nursery for credit... that's brilliant!
I potted a few as gifts, but sent most to the landfill with my trash.
My mom got one of the first pups I potted (7 years ago now). It appered dead after the freeze this past winter, all soft and squishy in the middle. then in July 3 small leaves popped up around the base of the plant. so a "dead" sago can grow pups?
We got a large sago about 5 years ago from lowes on clearance. It was marked down to $50 from $150. It survived for about a year but the fronds started yellowing and we really thought it was a goner so we took it out of its pot and tossed it on a scrap pile of yard waste. I first cut all the yellowed fronds off before tossing it aside. I'm pretty sure it even spent the winter outside on the scrap heap (here in NJ it shouldn't survive the winter). I could not believe my eyes when the following spring it was sprouting new green growth on the scrap pile! We repotted it and it is doing really well now, its huge again, and even has 3 little pups, which is what brought me to this page because I'd like to try separating. I'm nervous about trying to separate the pups because I've read how fragile Sagos can be...then again, we may just have "super sago"! Now we put it in the garage over the winter but take it out on nicer winter days since it can handle a little bit of cold.
I have 2 pups from a friends plant from her yard. They both had leaves on them. I let them sit for a few weeks and rain got on them a few times.
I planted them in the yard and the leaves started turning yellow, plus I found out that I planted them too deep.
So, I pulled them up, allowed them to dry out for another couple of weeks, I thought they may be rotted or dead, but I felt them and the core is still very hard, not soft at all. I sprinkled rooting powder on the bottom, and planted them correctly in the right size pot. I did not water. I placed them in mostly shady area of the yard.
My question is should I have cut off the yellow fonds??
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot everyone!!!
Thanks for your advice!
I live in Los Angeles, where we are praying for rain. The winter thus far has been very mild. Days are mostly 70's or warmer. Go figure!
To be safe, and taking your advice in account, perhaps I need to bring them inside and place in the outdoor, enclosed patio. I have also placed a large plastic bag over each plant (who said to do that? LOL!), but maybe that is not good either.
I am praying that these pups make it because the mother plant has been growing with great health and beauty for over 30 years!
If/when I get new growth I will post a photo!
Thanks again~
I'm leaving the yellowed leaves on my Sago palms until spring. When the new fronds emerge I'll remove the damaged ones. In the meantime the small amount of green that's left will allow photosynthesis to continue and feed the plant.
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can I tea-die ribbon?
I'm making a wreath using wood cut-out stars. When I painted the stars, instead of bright red, I used a barn red paint, and antique white instead of regular white. I have some 100% polyester red/white/blue wired ribbon with stars and stripes, but the red and white in the ribbon is not the same shades of red and white that I painted the stars....they are bright red and regular white. Can I tea die the ribbon to make it look a little darker? Also, I'm wondering if I should use some kind of twine (or maybe something different) all around the wreath under each star. Hope this makes sense. Thanks.
Can you cut off an inch or so of ribbon and try it?
I'm not sure if this would work either, but what about watering down some brown paint and immersing the ribbon in that.
The twine might look nice if you're going for an older look. I'm picturing something that sort of wraps around like a vine. That may not be what you're trying to describe. It all depends upon how you put it together.
If the ribbon were cotton there would be no question, It will work. If it is made of poly it may not take dye. Knowing me, I would do it anyway but do not rinse the tea out. You can try it on a small piece first if you want to. If you do choose the diluted paint make sure it is super watery. I'd test a small on that too.
I agree with both of the posts, cut a piece off and try it and because it's poly, it might not work. Something you could try: Water down antiquing stain (I use Folk Art Antique Stain) and quickly dip the ribbon it in. I think if you use it full strength, it will be too dark. Another thought is to put the watered down stain into a spray bottle and spritz the ribbon. Or, do the toothbrush trick, dip the bristles into the stain and then run your thumbnail backwards over the bristles so it sprays onto the ribbon.
Hope you'll post a pic of your wreath when done, I'd love to see it.
Thanks all...I did cut off an inch to see if it would work. It didn't take at all. Guess I'll save that ribbon for another wreath. What I did instead was, I bought some homespun plaid fabric and cut a strip and tied it onto the wreath. I didn't put anything on it but the stars. It's not perfect, probably still needs something else. It's hard to find a nice looking grape vine wreath anymore. That one came from Michaels, and I think I could have made one just as good lol.


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native plant in Australia, Sydney
rosessecretgardenJuly 17, 2010
hey friends!
my cousin + sister is married to Australia Sydney and she is fond of plants. But she is been thinking which native plant would grow best in shade in that area? Can you help?
You might try this other forum.
Here is a link that might be useful: Native plants in Australia


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Richard Posner deserves the next Nobel Prize in Economics
Please consider using these links if you are ordering from Amazon: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.uk
Richard Posner deserves the next Nobel Prize in Economics
Please consider using these links if you are ordering from Amazon: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.uk
Posted by EclectEcon on June 27, 2008 at 04:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
According to Professor Wade at Occidental College, if you studied economics, you are likely to be a bad person.
Dr. Wade writes that if you have taken classes on Economics, you "are less likely to share, less generous to the needy, and more likely to cheat, lie, and steal."
She largely bases her belief on a study from 2010. In the study, students were asked if they would like to contribute money to a liberal political group or a group that is pushing for lower tuition, possibly by asking for more subsidies from taxpayers.
Students with an understanding of economics were less inclined to donate to these groups than students with other majors. And for that reason, Dr. Wade has declared that they are "anti-social."
But as the article points out,
The flaws in this assessment [are] blatant, however. The first and most obvious is that there were no conservative groups to donate to. To say that donations to liberal groups correlate with the goodness of people is patently ridiculous.
Second, it could very well be that people who understand Economics are more aware of the consequences of just giving money to political groups. Or perhaps they know more about the effectiveness of using money to solve a problem instead of having a plan to actually fix things.
These things do not run through Dr. Wade's head as she is all too happy to declare that Economics majors are anti-social. Further, she says that Econ majors need to take ""balancing" classes, ones that present a different kind of economics."
Here is the link to Professor Wade's piece [via J Alan, who notes the comments on her piece make good points as well.].
Posted by EclectEcon on March 31, 2015 at 05:27 PM in Economics, Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
This graphic highlights the enormous shift in immigration patterns into the US from pre-WWII to post-WWII. If you go to the source (here), the graph becomes interactive, showing actual numbers by country and by decade as you mover cursor over the graph.
Note that these are total numbers. As a percentage of the total population, immigratin is considerably less than it was in the 1920s. Note, too, that immigration dipped when there were sizable economic downturns.
Wouldn't it be interesting to see something like this for Canada! (or other countries, for that matter)
Posted by EclectEcon on March 31, 2015 at 07:53 AM in Current Affairs, Eclectic Miscellany | Permalink | Comments (0)
Jack reminded us the other day how poignant the introduction to Tale of Two Cities is:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way –
in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 30, 2015 at 01:18 PM in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Last week I came across this recipe for Cauliflower Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. It is low-carb, gluten-free, and vegetarian-friendly.
We made them yesterday morning, and they were certainly better than "not bad". And for a guy who detested cauliflower until just a few years ago, that's high praise.
Here is the recipe (annotated, of course) with photos of our progress:
Cauliflower Grilled Cheese
For the cauliflower "bread"
1 small cauliflower head, cut into florets (should yield approximately three cups of cauliflower rice)
1 Tbsp olive oil, plus extra to grease
1 free-range egg, lightly beaten [we used a double-yolk egg]
1 oz grated Parmesan
1 oz grated comté, appenzeller, or mature cheddar cheese [We shredded some old cheddar cheese.]
1/4 tsp fine sea salt
For the grilled cheese
1 Tbsp butter, room temperature
3 oz. comté and mature cheddar cheese
1 large pickled gherkin or jalapeño finely sliced (optional)
For the "bread"
1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and liberally grease it with olive oil. Set aside.
3. In a food processor, rice the cauliflower florets until they are a fine crumb.
4. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan on a low-medium heat. Add the cauliflower rice (about three cups) and cook for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring continually or until soft. You want the water to evaporate as much as possible from the cauliflower without developing color. The cauliflower rice needs to be dry, otherwise you'll end up with mushy dough. We did this for over 20 minutes, and there was still steam rising from the frying pan. We could probably have done it even longer.
5. Transfer the cauliflower rice to a mixing bowl, add egg, Parmesan, comté, salt, and mix well. We grated some old cheddar cheese and used grated Parmesan from a can:
Here is the mixed batter:
then spread the mixture onto the lined baking sheet and shape into four bread squares.
Place the baking tray in the oven and bake for about 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden.
6. Remove and let cool for ten minutes, then gently peel them off the parchment paper.
To Assemble
1. Heat a pan over medium heat. Butter one side of each slice of the cauliflower bread and place the buttered side down on the pan.
2. Cover the bread liberally with your chosen cheese, plus gherkin or jalapeño (if using) and top with the remaining slice of cauliflower bread, buttered side up.
I like what I call white "plastic" cheese --- processed slices; Ms Eclectic prefers havarti/jalapeno cheese slices. We used a LOT of cheese for each sandwich, and next time we might use even more.
3. Cook until golden brown, about two to four minutes, then gently flip and cook until golden brown on the other side.
4. Serve with spicy hot sauce, a salad, and your condiments of choice.
The cauliflower "bread" mixture actually held together like bread for awhile:
But in the end we decided to use a knife and fork.
Next time we will probably cook the cauliflower rice a bit longer to get rid of even more moisture from it, we might bake the cauliflower bread a tad longer, and we might let it cool longer before grilling the sandwiches.
Also we would likely consider eating them with ketchup or salsa, and we might even put pepper into the bread mixture. Alternatively, we would seriously consider using pre-shredded Tex-Mex cheese in the "bread" batter.
Overall, it was a fun but terribly inefficient process. It probably took us over an hour and a half to make these. That's a lot of work and time for just two sandwiches. But it was fun, they were pretty tasty, and they are on the Atkins diet.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 30, 2015 at 07:08 AM in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (0)
Don Boudreaux has a wonderful piece at Cafe Hayek, inaptly titled, "Applause for Fossil Fuels". His piece, while praising the rapid increases in the quality of life provided for so many people because of fossil fuels, goes beyond that. Here is a good-sized chunk:
I energetically applaud entrepreneurial experimentation with other energy sources – just as I applaud entrepreneurial experimentation to 'transform' transportation, or food production, or telecommunications, or hair-braiding, or whatever.
The world was made modern and the masses made rich by orgies of innovation and the resulting, on-going process of creative destruction. But the only such entrepreneurial experiments that are likely to work to enrich the masses are experiments done in competition with the status quo and with other entrepreneurial experiments – experiments driven not by politics (that is, not by romantic passions fueled with other-people's-money, and not by the greedy lust for special privileges) but by the visions of individuals who each risks his or her own money and efforts in the quest to profit from generating new products or processes that are voluntarily accepted by consumers and input suppliers as the best among all bargains currently available.
Do I believe that fossil fuels are perfect? Not at all. Do I believe that intellectual and political elites overestimate the scope and significance of these imperfections? Yes, absolutely. And do I believe that these same elites underestimate the ability of humans to adapt through the market to these imperfections? Yes again. Finally, do I believe that these elites enormously overestimate the ability of political institutions to deal well with whatever problems are caused by fossil-fuel use and to out-perform the competitive entrepreneurial market at potentially finding acceptable alternatives to fossil fuels? Yes, without question.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 29, 2015 at 11:26 AM in Economics, Energy, Environment, Gubmnt | Permalink | Comments (0)
I have written before about the economics of envy. In non-economics jargon, for envious people if someone else has more stuff, the envious people feel worse off, even if they have more stuff too.... especially if someone else has a lot more stuff.*
As Todd Zywicki recently wrote in a comment on Facebook,
Didn't envy used to be considered a sin? Rename it "inequality" and it is apparently a perfectly legitimate thing to talk about publicly. Praiseworthy even in some quarters. There's another difference between today and a century ago.
Envy and comparisons are not new, but something seems different to me. It is now considered politically and socially acceptable to say, "You have it; I want it. Or at the very least I want to tell you what to do with it.... and I'm going to use the force of gubmnt to make you give up a bunch of what you have."
Todd's remark was in reaction to this post by former student, David Henderson, in which about 10% or so of his audience said they would rather be wealthy in comparison with their peers, than be better off than that in any other sense but worse off relative to their peers. Talk about invidious comparisons!
Some people have called this "The Jones Effect" -- people comparing themselves to others. Some economists, following Veblen, refer to conspicuous consumption as a part of these invidious comparisons.
Also see this lengthy post about inequality by Scott Sumner.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 29, 2015 at 07:30 AM in Economics | Permalink | Comments (0)
A few weeks ago Margot Wallström, the Swedish foreign minister, denounced the subjugation of women in Saudi Arabia. As the theocratic kingdom prevents women from travelling, conducting official business or marrying without the permission of male guardians, and as girls can be forced into child marriages where they are effectively raped by old men, she was telling no more than the truth. Wallström went on to condemn the Saudi courts for ordering that Raif Badawi receive ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for setting up a website that championed secularism and free speech. These were 'mediaeval methods', she said, and a 'cruel attempt to silence modern forms of expression'. And once again, who can argue with that?
Posted by EclectEcon on March 28, 2015 at 06:35 AM in Freedom (Academic and Otherwise), International Affairs, Islam, Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Prez of The University of Western Ontario worked through his "administrative leave" and so he collected double salary last year. No foolin'. This is the guy whose main claim to fame (so far as I can tell) has been to change the name of the university from "The University of Western Ontario" to "Western University". From CBC:
The university based in London, Ont., issued a news release Friday explaining the salary jump this way:
"To ensure continuity of leadership at a critical time, Chakma received payment in lieu of a one-year administrative leave that was included in his first five-year contract, which concluded in June 2014. ...
Western's board of governors chair Chirag Shah told CBC News that instead of taking one year of paid administrative leave included in his contract, Chakma opted to stay and work through 2014 at what Shah said was a "critical time" for the university.
Doesn't that mean Chakma was essentially paid twice his salary for one year of work?
Shah told CBC News it doesn't. He says Chakma was permitted to take a year of salary for not working and instead chose to stay and work, meaning he was essentially entitled to twice his annual salary in one calendar year.
I can imagine a lot of faculty members would loveto forgo their sabbaticals and draw double salary. Look for the faculty union to be negotiating for this option in the future.
Sheesh. Critical time? Hunh.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 27, 2015 at 05:25 PM in Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
From the Elder of Ziyon. The American Library Association recently partnered with the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. Some of the books promoted at this book fair are examples of extreme anti-semitism.
The anti-Semitic books for sale at the fair were listed alongside mainstream books in various categories. For example, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was listed in the "Political Science" category. Among the other anti-Semitic books featured at the fair were:
- Blood for The Pie of Zion (The Jewish District) by Najib Al Gailany. This novel tells a story of a Christian priest from Damascus who was abducted by the Jews in order to use his blood for Jewish rituals. The story details how Jews danced and celebrated while Rabbis drain the blood of the elderly catholic priest. The book was listed in the "Novels" category and sold for 15 AED, or approximately $4.
- The Jews and the Secret Movements in the Crusades by Baha Al-Amir. The book, which suggests that the Jews played a role in the Crusades, includes an introduction in which the author claims that "God the almighty declares in his statement to the people that all wars were started by Jews." The book was listed in the "International Affairs" category and sold for 50 AED (approximately $14).
- Human Sacrifices and Talmudic Slaughtering by Jews and Pagans by Fathi Muhammad Zughbi. The book was listed in the "Faith" category and sold for 83 AED (approximately $23).
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hilter. This book was listed in the "General knowledge" category and sold for 20 AED (approximately $5).
The fair provided several grants and awards in various fields of literature. In the past, it reportedly gave a grant to Gilad Atzmon to translate his anti-Semitic book "The Wandering Who," into Arabic. The other problem is that if you try to register for the fair, in the list of countries you can be from there is one that is missing. Take a wild guess....
The EoZ adds,
So the ALA is now explicitly partnering with an event that activley promotes anti-semitism and discriminates against Israelis,
In the past, when principled organizations and prominent personalities told the UAE that they would not participate in activities that excluded Israelis or Jews, the UAE was anxious to drop the ban and do whatever they needed to do in order to not be embarrassed.
Clearly the American Library Association has no such principles.
And the UAE is purportedly one of the more moderate, modern Arab-Muslim countries in the middle east.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 26, 2015 at 08:16 AM in Anti-Semitism, Books, Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0)
From Western's ITS:
ALERT: Five Western faculties or business units are reporting new ransom-ware infections. This unnamed threat appears to be either an audio wave file attachment, an infected MP4 (movie file) or an email appearing to provide a user's resume. If you receive a resume unexpectedly (out of the blue) with an attachment, or with attached media files from someone not in your contact list, do not open the attachment.
Ransomware is software which scans a computer encrypting all data files it finds, basically hijacking the data. Unless backups exist, this data is unrecoverable unless payment is made to the virus author.
ITS is reporting our community is at risk. Faculty, Staff & Students are being targeted and victimized by a new ransomeware threat whose name is not yet known. Thankfully no faculty has lost data because all affected data was backed up, showing the importance of having backups.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 25, 2015 at 03:39 PM in Computer Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0)
I will definitely be making an effort to see/hear this. I expect it will be jam-packed.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 25, 2015 at 09:07 AM in Economics, Economics and Law, Economics, Money-Macro, Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Ever since I started writing this blog over a decade ago, I have argued that when "freedom of expression" and "freedom of religion" clash, I want us to choose freedom of expression.
I much prefer competition in the marketplace of ideas to stifling the expression of ideas. But, sadly, this competition is being blocked and thwarted by too many people with strong political voices, saying essentially, "If you say that, we will shut you down."
A recent example comes from Trinity University in Dublin [why is it so often universities that try to limit freedom of expression?]:
[T]he cancellation of yesterday's planned lecture on 'Apostasy and the rise of Islamism' by Iranian human rights activist Maryam Namazie is something that should worry us all. ...
There was a telling insight into the mentality of the organisers, the Society for International Affairs (SoFIA) who expressed concerns about their ability to host the event: "In a safe environment where individuals are free to express themselves without fear of being threatened after the discussion."
Just who did they think would cause a disturbance after the event? Namazie's fellow apostates who face an automatic death sentence in 11 countries around the world for seeing sense and leaving their faith?
Or maybe they were worried about how some of Trinity's Muslim students might have reacted? After all, the Trinity Muslim Student Association recently hosted a radical cleric called Sheikh Kamal El Mekki, who was there to explain why apostasy and infidelity are sufficient reason to kill people.
Freedom of expression for me but not for thee? This sounds amazingly unbalanced.
Universities used to be bastions of the defence of freedom of expression. They used to defend mightily their explorations of unpopular ideas. And yet, it appears, many universities nowadays shy away from challenging the extremist Islamists.
It's time for universities to regrow a backbone. It is time for universities to renew their role of encouraging students (and faculty members!) to explore diverse views and to provide a safe, if uncomfortable, environment for these journeys.
Addendum: See this, in which a professor strongly negative views about Hamas and is bullied by students at Connecticut College. It is a lengthy piece, but it looks as if he was targeted not just for that expression but for his other views as well.
Also, see this, which I wrote many years ago about my late friend BenS and his confrontation with the speech police.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 25, 2015 at 08:21 AM in Economics, Education, Freedom (Academic and Otherwise), Islam | Permalink | Comments (0)
"The Human Body is a treasure trove of mysteries, one that still confounds
doctors and scientists about the details of its working. It's not an
overstatement to say that every part of your body is a miracle. Here are
fifty-one facts about your body, some of which will leave you stunned...or... [via Jack]." I want to know (sort of, but not really) how anyone knows some of these.
1. It's possible for your body to survive without a surprisingly large fraction of its internal organs. Even if you lose your stomach, your spleen, 75% of your liver, 80% of your intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from your pelvic and groin area, you wouldn't be very healthy, but you would live.
2. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming
pools. Actually, Saliva is more important than you realize. If your saliva
cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
3.. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. The egg is actually the only cell in the body that is visible by the naked eye.
4. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue and the hardest bone is the jawbone.
5. Human feet have 52 bones, accounting for one quarter of all the human body's bones.
6. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades. The reason it doesn't eat away at your stomach is that the cells of your stomach wall renew themselves so frequently that you get a new stomach lining every three to four days.
8. The human lungs contain approximately 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) of
airways and 300 to 500 million hollow cavities, having a total surface area
of about 70 square meters, roughly the same area as one side of a tennis
court. Furthermore, if all of the capillaries that surround the lung cavities were unwound and laid end to end, they would extend for about 992 kilometers. Also, your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make
room for your heart.
9. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph, while coughs clock in at about 60 mph.
10. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil.
11. Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
12. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. It protects the
delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also
cleans and lubricates the ear canal.
13. Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins, who smell the
14. Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born. This is why one out of every 2,000 newborn infants has a tooth when they are born
15. A baby's head is one-quarter of its total length, but by the age of 25
will only be one-eighth of its total length. This is because people's heads
grow at a much slower rate than the rest of their bodies.
16. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206. Some of the bones, like skull bones, get fused into each other, bringing down the total number.
17. It's not possible to tickle yourself. This is because when you attempt
to tickle yourself you are totally aware of the exact time and manner in
which the tickling will occur, unlike when someone else tickles you.
18. Less than one third of the human race has 20-20 vision. This means that two out of three people cannot see perfectly.
19. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents. But if you are a woman, you are a better smeller than men, and will remain a better smeller throughout your life.
20. The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
21. The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first
trimester are frogs, worms and potted plants. Scientists have no idea why
this is so, but attribute it to the growing imbalance of hormones in the
body during pregnancy.
22. The life span of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. But don't worry, you must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.
23. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as an
encyclopedia. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream, and is itself made up of 80% water. Though it interprets pain signals from the rest of the body, the brain itself cannot feel pain.
24. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
25. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears
never stop growing.
26. By 60 years of age, 60% of men and 40% of women will snore.
27. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening, because
during normal activities during the day, the cartilage in our knees and
other areas slowly compresses.
28. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb, even while you are sleeping. In fact, the brain is much more active at night than during the day.
29. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per
hour. Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons.
30. It is a fact that people who dream more often and more vividly, on an
average have a higher Intelligence Quotient.
31. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
32. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. This is true
for men as well as women.
33. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.
34. A human fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
35. By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste
36. About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home. But don't
worry, a majority of these are harmless or even helpful bacteria.
37. The colder the room you sleep in, the higher the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
38. Human lips have a reddish color because of the great concentration of tiny capillaries just below the skin.
39. Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.
40. Like fingerprints, every individual has an unique tongue print that can
be used for identification.
41. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.
42. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
43. Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and frequently forgot what he was doing.
44. The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest blood
type, A-H or Bombay blood, due to the location of its discovery, has been
found in less than hundred people since it was discovered
45. Every human spent about half an hour after being conceived, as a single cell. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.
46. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
47. Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
48. Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints.
49. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet in the air.
51. Here is one more amazing thing the human body can do: If you remove half of your liver, it will grow back to the same size (it has memory) within 4 to 6 weeks. And, if they removed half, part of your liver is transplanted into another person, that half a liver will grow back to the same size as the donors liver in 6 to 8 weeks in the recipient .
Posted by EclectEcon on March 21, 2015 at 07:58 AM in Eclectic Miscellany | Permalink | Comments (1)
Lest you think from my various pro-Israel posts that I am an uncritical supporter of Israel, I'm not. In addition to questioning the continued expansion of settlements into the West Bank, I find some of the things mentioned in this article as disturbing as I would find them in any country.
The rest of the world was shocked, but the fact is that Israel has become a right-wing society where nakedly racist language is common. "Arab taste" is a well-known term for vulgar, ostentatious style, for example. Right-wing legislators have in recent years physically assaulted Arab Knesset members while they were giving speeches. There are many examples that would shock Western liberals but are shrugged off in Israel. Members of the Knesset have given speeches in which they referred to migrants from Sudan as "a cancer in our body."
Right, left, it doesn't matter. What matters is the apparent racism.
There are many things in that article which seem stretched or slanted, but there is no excuse for racism nor for pandering to racism. That should apply in Israel (and the arab countries in the Middle East!), as well as the rest of the world.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 20, 2015 at 01:48 PM in Current Affairs, International Affairs, Islam, Israel, Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0)
Charles Krauthammer has an excellent column in the Washington Post explaining the situation in the Middle East. It is brief, and hence misses many nuances I am sure, but it summarizes a lot of my own views about Israel.
If you grant that Israel has a right to exist (I do, but I am quite certain some of my friends do not), and if you grant Israel has a right and even an obligation to defend itself, then it is hard to blame just Israel for everything that happens there.
From Krauthammer,
I have news for the lowing herds: There would be no peace and no Palestinian state if Isaac Herzog were prime minister either. Or Ehud Barak or Ehud Olmert for that matter. The latter two were (non-Likud) prime ministers who offered the Palestinians their own state — with its capital in Jerusalem and every Israeli settlement in the new Palestine uprooted — only to be rudely rejected.
This is not ancient history. This is 2000, 2001 and 2008 — three astonishingly concessionary peace offers within the past 15 years. Every one rejected.
The fundamental reality remains: This generation of Palestinian leadership — from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas — has never and will never sign its name to a final peace settlement dividing the land with a Jewish state.
But please, PLEASE read the entire column. It explains a lot of what lies behind my fairly strong pro-Israel views.
For my previous blog posts on Israel, click here.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 20, 2015 at 10:37 AM in Anti-Semitism, Israel, Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0)
Over 30 years ago, when I first started reading and participating in newsgroups on the web (rec.humor, rec.sport.baseball, etc.), I was cautious at first. One reason was that I saw some quoted email to the effect that,
Isn't it wonderful that we can carry on our affair now using email and our spouses won't know about it.
That message had gone viral, to the extent that "going viral" happened in those days. It was circulated as a warning to all that anything we write on the internet can, and likely is, on some server somewhere. Nothing is private. I have tried to keep that lesson in mind myself ever since then.
If you need more of a warning, watch this very brief (two minutes?) video:
Posted by EclectEcon on March 19, 2015 at 09:32 AM in Computer Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0)
Remember the massive US gubmnt lawsuit against Microsoft over a decade ago? One of the major issues in that case was that Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, was included with Windows and that inclusion foreclosed the browser market to others, especially Netscape.
What a travesty that suit was. The policy makers/enforcers didn't foresee the specific potential entrants and so they myopically assumed there would be none. Hah!
Netscape is dead (much of it morphing into early versions of Firefox). And now Microsoft Internet Explorer is dying [see this]:
A commonly held belief among heavy web users is that it's only acceptable to use Internet Explorer for the purpose of downloading Firefox or Chrome.
Snarky as this sentiment may seem, for many who have purchased a computer running Windows in recent years it's also painfully rooted in the fact that Internet Explorer can no longer keep up with its competitors.
Once a market leader with a whopping 95 per cent usage share when it peaked in 2002, Microsoft's flagship browser has experienced a steady decline in its user base since Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome hit the scene in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
Today Internet Explorer holds just eight per cent of global internet traffic — and a reputation for being the "most-hated web browser" in existence.
Competition and entry limited Microsoft's market power and continues to do so. I stopped using Netscape when it didn't keep up with computer changes and the other browsers offered better options and control. And I rarely used Internet Explorer ever.
For one of my earlier posts about Microsoft and the antitrust suit, see this.
As I wrote early on when I started blogging, US anti-trust policy is so short-sighted it behaves as if it has these two rules:
Policy makers have little to no idea where the next innovation or competition might come from. As a result, when the more market-oriented economists ramble on about competition and entry but have no specific answers to the question, "But who will even consider entering against such a behemoth?", policy makers tend to overlook the extreme power of longer-run market forces, especially if the gubmnt doesn't get in the way of them.
The result? The entrants have displaced Internet Explorer and the antitrust suit against Microsoft was a monumental waste of resources for both the US taxpayers and Microsoft's stockholders.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 18, 2015 at 08:02 AM in Computer Stuff, Economics, Economics and Law, Gubmnt | Permalink | Comments (0)
A few days ago, my weight was down to within 2/10 of a pound of reaching my goal weight. That's right, I was 0.2 lbs away from my goal!
So what did I do?
Eat a truckload of pizza. Not only that, but I ordered more than enough for our family so that I have enough for huge breakfasts the next few days.
That has been the story of my dieting.... lose some weight, binge on carbs, lose some weight, binge on carbs, etc. But I'm still more than 40 lbs lighter than I was 5 years ago.
Leftover pizza for breakfast!!!! Yea!!!
Posted by EclectEcon on March 17, 2015 at 07:49 AM in Food and Drink, Health and Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)
On March 20 – same date as the 2015 March equinox – the moon turns new only 14 hours after reaching lunar perigee – moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit. Thus this moon is a supermoon – at the new phase – not visible in our sky, but having a larger-than-average effect on Earth's oceans. Plus this new supermoon swings right in front of the equinox sun on March 20, so that the moon's shadow falls on parts of Earth.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 16, 2015 at 01:48 PM in Science | Permalink | Comments (0)
A couple of days ago, I posted this picture to my Facebook feed:
I really enjoyed two albums by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention:
After I posted that picture, Rebekah post a link to this Youtube feed of Frank Zappa as a guest on the Steve Allen show in 1963:
It's a 16-minute selection which concludes with a jumble of sounds that reminds me of London Ontario's own Nihilist Spasm Band. [NSB]
[The Nihilist Spasm Band] uses homemade instruments. Indeed, most of the NSB's instruments are modifications of other instruments, or wholly invented by the members. ... The range of the improvisation is such that instruments are not tuned to each other, tempos and time signatures are not imposed, and the members push the ranges of their instrumentation by engaging in constant innovation.
I knew several of the members of NSB, and back in the late 1970s, I had the "honour" of sitting in with them during a session. The description is accurate, and it is very much like what Frank Zappa was encouraging Steve Allen and the others to do back in 1963.
Zappa was a musical genius ahead of the times in many ways.
Posted by EclectEcon on March 16, 2015 at 07:48 AM in Music | Permalink | Comments (0)


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Released two years after Fuel's third major-label album, Natural Selection, 2005's The Best of Fuel is a concise chronicle of the post-grunge quartet's brief moment in the sun. All of their charting singles -- which primarily appeared on radio charts like Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock -- are here with the exception of "Million Miles," the last single pulled from Natural Selection. It's not missed, since the group's biggest hits -- namely "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)," "Shimmer," "Bittersweet," "Bad Day," and "Falls on Me" -- are all here, which makes this useful for fans of any stripe, since it does an effective job of condensing the highlights from their otherwise spotty albums. That doesn't mean that The Best of Fuel will change anybody's mind about the band -- in a way, distilling them to their hits (and then sequencing them in non-chronological order) emphasizes not only that they sounded like a generic rock band, but that they're a bit samey -- but for those who liked the quartet, this is the best Fuel album they'll find. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Boil bacon? Such an atrocity! Everybody knows that bacon is best eaten raw.
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Game Releases 2012 - Games to Come Each Week
2013...a new year, a new thread.
Please visit this link for a concise list of upcoming monthly, weekly and daily releases, complete with TA Plays videos and links to each release's upcoming and release threads. Feel free to use the thread just as you always have this one; whether it's to post release dates, jot down what you'd like to buy each week, wonder why a certain release hasn't come out on time or even just talk about the games in general. It's no different from this thread.
Have a great 2013 and see you all in the new thread!
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But wait! Everybody knows that the public school system in this country is a dismal failure. Everybody says so and it's in the news constantly. Nooope. Everybody thinks it's *someone else's* public schools that suck. Actual approval parents have for their childs public school is quite high. You want to see the power of rhetoric though: here it is.


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From infant to toddler, our Parent and Child classes promote early development and provide a strong foundation for your child's critical first three years. Weekly classes will help your child achieve new milestones and prepare for more advanced challenges during each stage of growth. And since you're along for the ride, you'll be right there to celebrate every discovery with smiles, hugs and the occasional adult-sized giggle.
Gymnastics (3 to 6 years)Practically overnight, your little one changes from an unsteady toddler into a rambunctious child. At The Little Gym of Merrick, our gymnastics program for preschoolers and kindergarteners has been specially designed to help your child channel all that energy and reach developmental milestones. Independent enough to attend classes without parents, children in this age group still learn best in a structured environment where gymnastics activities are combined with a healthy dose of fun.
Gymnastics (6 to 12 years)Kids of this age are still growing like crazy, but now each is developing at a unique pace. That's why our gymnastics program for grade school boys and girls is a little different than that of our younger members. Classes have been segmented to allow for gender-specific disciplines and varying developmental abilities, giving students the chance to tackle new challenges at their own skill level. Celebrated with cheers and high-fives, each new achievement leads to newfound confidence, determination and a desire to continue improving.
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Next tie 7-8 February 2015
Germany will host Australia in a repeat of last year's World Group semifinal. The Germans won that encounter but trail the overall head-to-head between the two nations 8-5.
Last tie 8-9 November 2014
Germany finished runner-up against a strong Czech team in a final played in front of a vocal home crowd at the O2 Arena in Prague. The Czechs won the first three singles rubbers before Julia Goerges and Sabine Lisicki salvaged a point for the visitors in the dead doubles.
Germany have won the Fed Cup title on two occasions - in 1987 and 1992 - and currently lie in joint-seventh place on the all-time list of champions. Until 1990, German players represented F.R. Germany.
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Brian M. Chapman died on Thursday, August 20, 2009 in Denair, Cal., he was 40 years old.
Fransica Orellana, 52, entered into rest on Friday, August 28, 2009 in Modesto. She was born on Sept. 17, 1956 in Mexico. She was a resident of Ripon for over 20 years.
Robert E. Poynter Sr., 68, entered into rest on Sunday, August 30, 2009 in Manteca. He was born on Sept. 24, 1940 in Salam, Oregon. He was preceded in death by his mother Alma Poynter and son Gregory Guy Poynter.
Buddy Allen Chambers, 28, died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. He was born on August 10, 1981. He was the beloved son of Michael Chambers and Tanya; caring brother of Natasha Trester; loving uncle to Abigayle Trester. Buddy's beautiful heart and soul touched the lives of everyone he knew.
Brian M. Chapman died on Thursday, August 20, 2009 in Denair, CA, he was 40 years.
Patricia Horne died Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 in Mountain Home at the age of 81. She was born Wednesday, Aug. 8, 1928 in Fullerton, Nebraska, the daughter of Lawrence E. and Minnie P. Bloxom King.
Grave side services will be held Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 at 11 a.m. for Nancy Lea Rowe, 90, of Tracy, at Park View Cemetery, 3661 E. French Camp Road, Manteca.
Carol (Carrie) Coniglio, loving wife to Frank Coniglio for 58 years, was born on December 23, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah and passed away on August 25, 2009 in Manteca.
Stephen Mark Perez, 39, passed away on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at his home in Modesto. He died peacefully in his sleep. He is survived by his father Julian Perez. He was preceded in death by his mother, Patricia Perez. He is also survived by three beautiful children, Julianna, Stephen, and Mateo Perez. He was born in Palo Alto, Cal. on Feb. 16, 1970. He attended Nile Garden School in Manteca and graduated from East Union High School in 1988. He worked in the Bay Area and the Central Valley in sales.
Luis Manuel Raygoza, 69, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 27, 2009, just one day before his 70th birthday. He was born August 28, 1939 in él Refugio, Mexico to the late Natibidad and Juana Raygoza. A resident of Ripon for over 25 years he worked as a farmer his entire life before retiring nearly 8 years ago. He leaves behind his loving wife of over 38 years, Adela Raygoza, their children: Raquel, Lourdes, Agustin, Ana Isabel, Horacio, Monica, Rebecca, Victor and Alex. Siblings, Luis Raygoza and Basilia Raygoza. He was also blessed with 17 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.
Flora Mable Alves, 99, of Ripon, passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2009, in Manteca.
Joseph "JoJo" Chapman, age 4, was in the arms of Jesus on Aug. 20, 2009.
Flora Mable Alves, 99, of Ripon, passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2009, in Manteca.
Elvira R. "Cathy" Dadasovich passed away in her home surrounded by her family on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, after a short illness with leukemia.
Twilla Dee Galapon, 56, passed away on Thursday, August 20, 2009 in Stockton. She was born in Pleasanton, CA, on March 7, 1953 to Thor Cole Jr. and Jean Stettnicks.
Richard W. Marlin, 48, entered into rest on February 3, 2015 in Manteca, CA. He was born in Hawthorn, CA to the late Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Linda Marlin on January 30, 1967.
Dorothy Estelle Harris was born on September 23, 1918, in Albemarle County, Virginia to Wellington Miller and Carrie Belew Miller, passing peacefully on February 11, 2015.
Dorothy Jane Eitelgeorge, 76, peacefully passed away on February 9, 2015. She was born on March 1, 1938 in Pocatello, Idaho. Much of her childhood years were spent in Idaho but she lived the last 65 years of her life in Manteca. She married, as she would often say, "a dime among nickels", Charles Eitelgeorge, in September of 1962. They recently celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary.
Gerry L. Dufour, entered into rest on February 3, 2015. He was 73. He was born in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana on August 23, 1941 to the late Wilson and Oma Dufour.
Peter James Gretchen died peacefully at home on February 4, 2015 at the age of 92. Pete was born July 10, 1922 in Saskatchewan, Canada. His family was one of the original members of the Russian Colony that settled on 140 acres of farmland outside Manteca, California in the 1920's. A close-knit community, their values of hard-work, integrity, and respect for others stayed with Pete throughout his life. He was always generous with his time, offering his skills to friends and neighbors and community organizations such as the Manteca Historical Museum.
Clemente Mejia, 58, entered into the arms of his Lord and Savior on Sunday, February 8, 2015 surrounded by his loving family. He was born on January 30, 1957 in Fresno, California.
Born in Hardin, MO on July 16, 1931, Shirley Anne (Ferguson) Ireland lived, laughed and loved until her passing on February 8, 2015. She grew up in Dinuba, CA where in high school she was on the track team. It was during her sophomore year that she met and later married her first love, Gordon Ireland, that "blue-eyed, good looking senior" from the next town over. As Shirley proclaimed "boy were those other girls were jealous!" After they were married they lived in Dinuba and started their family, having two of their five children, Rick and Tom. In 1954, Gordon ...
Rosalie Correia, 97, entered into rest on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 in Modesto, California. She was born on September 2, 1917 in Saylor Bottom, Oklahoma to the late Bud and Sarah Coble.
Kevin, 58, of Turlock, passed away Saturday, the 31st of January 2015. He was born the 30th of August 1956 in Stockton, CA to Glen and Doris Allsup. He was preceded in death by his mother, Doris Yvonne House Allsup and his sister, Robin Allsup Shockley.
Dorothy Ann Faria, 82, entered into rest on January 31, 2015 in Manteca, CA. She was born on November 2, 1932 in Stevenson to the late Mr. and Mrs. Manuel and Frances Silva. In heaven she joins her parents and her husband James Faria.
Hector Martinez Lopez, 88, entered into rest January 31, 2015 in Manteca, CA. He was born March 12, 1926 in Pinole, CA.


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EBay Inc. and activist investor Carl Icahn stepped up their attacks on one another in an escalating clash over the company's board and its governance practices.
Bloomberg Markets' inaugural list of the world's richest people showcases the billionaires who pull the levers on the global economy. Their net worth totals $2.7 trillion, about the size of the gross domestic product of France, the fifth-biggest economy on the planet.
Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda topped a Barron's list of the world's 25 best philanthropists, surpassing last year's selections Pam and Pierre Omidyar .
David Rockefeller, Ronald Perelman , Larry Ellison , Sanford Weill , Ted Turner and Paul Allen joined a pledge started by Warren Buffett for billionaires to give more than half their wealth to charity.
Instead of running auctions for artillery shells, harpoons and zen gardening kits, a faster way for EBay Inc. to enrich its owners would be to split off PayPal.
EBay Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe is stepping up his offense against activist Carl Icahn, a sign of the rising stakes in his effort to keep from splitting off the e-commerce company's PayPal business.
"Scott and Marc are world-class directors with impeccable credentials. They have my full support."
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To those whose argument is that Twilight didn't kill the clones: I don't think it renders the fridge horror a moot point, because the clone had no idea what Twilight's spell was doing to the other clones and thus probably thought it was going to die.
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How did Deadpool get deadpooled? If any comic book character deserves to be a meme, it's him.
She does seem to get better with it towards the end.
Commented on It makes a lot of sense in context.
The season 4 finale of Adventure Time.
@Serious Business
Bonnie Zacherle is the original creator of My Little Pony.
That's putting it mildly. She's responsible for starting the whole franchise. And she definitely needs more respect from the fans.
Need to stop an evil overlord? Throw your wife at him!
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G1 Twilight: "Hey! I was here first, you noob."
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I fail to see how this ruined my childhood.
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If I were to guess, I'd say I'm a mixture between the lyricist/romantic, the inspector/pragmatist, and the humanist/empath.
Not all of Merriwether's episodes were bad.
I don't think that's a wolf. I think it's a husky or something like that.
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Gary Motherfuckin' Oak is the bearer of the Element of Swag.
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Although I do find Fluttershy cute at times, I just don't think she's all that great.
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Me and Scootaloo are going to become pokemon masters.
@Perry Casillas
Sorry, I don't see it.
His name is King Sombra. Also there's nothing to imply that that shadowy figure is him.
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@Da dancing Gummy
I was under the impression that it was a gay dude that did like MLP.
I don't care what others say, I would definitely wear this shirt.
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Well, at least it's going to be animated and not live action.
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I actually kind of like it.
Maybe it was because I just finished watching an episode of The Simpsons, but for some odd reason I read Gummy's lines in Moe's voice.
Normally I'm against suicide, but since it's Pinkie asking…
I actually liked the top one. In fact, G3 is the only MLP cartoon that I genuinely thought was bad.
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Morgan ploughs a lone furrow for the defending champion as wickets fall around him
Eoin Morgan tried to make a match of it, but it was Rajasthan Royals' night at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here.
Kolkata Knight Riders ran into motivated opposition, with almost every individual playing his role to perfection to fashion a 19-run win for the home team.
Rahul Shukla, a bubbling youngster from Jharkhand, came up with a lively show, accounting for Manvinder Singh Bisla and Jacques Kallis in the same over to jolt KKR early.
Seasoned seamer Siddharth Trivedi's double strike, again in the same over, to pack off Manoj Tiwary and Gautam Gambhir pushed KKR into a tight spot.
Yusuf Pathan's dismissal to a tempting offering from Kevon Cooper meant KKR had run into rough ground after having begun the chase in high gear with Gambhir blasting S. Sreesanth in the opening over.
Morgan kept the hopes alive but ran out of team and partners. The setting was pleasant when Rajasthan Royals was put in. Shane Watson brought solidity to the top but not consistency. A cleverly placed short-cover ended the burly Australian's innings when he repeated a cover drive.
But there was Rahul Dravid's innings to savour. Dravid brings quality to batting, even in an abbreviated format like the T20. He insisted the other day that he had not discarded proper cricketing shots, and there was this gorgeous cover drive off Kallis that rekindled memories of Dravid at his best. Everything about that drive was perfect as Dravid struck a classic pose and watched the ball race to the boundary. Kallis would have admired the shot too. KKR skipper Gambhir was in a highly innovative mood. By the eighth over he had used his fifth bowler. It obviously kept the batsmen thinking.
The run flow was impacted, and a couple of wickets pegged down the RR run-rate. Dravid lost his wicket to an ambitious shot, playing all over the ball and Rajat Bhatia was ecstatic.
So was Shukla when he removed Stuart Binny with his first ball. Binny, having struck a couple of well-timed boundaries, was surprised by in-swing.
All this while, Ajinkya Rahane was working away; a nudge here, a firm shot there.
In the end, Hodge's performance made all the difference as Royals held their nerve to win.


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Over 40 vendors featuring home grown, homemade products. Michigan fruits, vegetables, baked goods, meats, flowers, shrubs, sweets, wine, cooking demonstrations, organic produce and much more will be available. There will also be a Fine Arts Market and a Munchkin Market. Held in downtown Grayslake.
Orson Welles 100th Birthday Festival 2015
A world-class figure in twentieth-century culture, Orson Welles was a tremendous force who excelled in film, live theater, and the broadcast media of radio and television. Come to Woodstock, IL, the town Orson Welles called home, to celebrate his 100th birthday!
47th Annual Fair Diddley® 2015
The 47th Annual Fair Diddley® will take place on on the historic Woodstock Square! Over 300 crafters will exhibit their hand-crafted items! Join nearly 10,000 shoppers at this must attended event! Fair Diddley® will take place RAIN or SHINE!
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Blue Eagle Pottery
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Loyola University Retreat & Ecology Center
Welcome to 100 acres of prairies, savannas, woodlands, wetlands, and ponds- otherwise known as Loyola University Chicago's Retreat and Ecology Campus. Located in beautiful Woodstock, Ill., our retreat facility welcomes guests to visit our ecologically friendly campus and experience the great outdoors through a multitude of interactive team building activities. The Retreat and Ecology Campus provides a serene setting for overnight conferences, retreats, workshops, classes, and special events, while allowing individuals to connect intellectually, spiritually, and through nature.
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The Cary Coffee Station
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Miller's Dog N Suds Drive-in
Original 50's style drive-in restaurant with car hops serving frosted mugs of Homemade root beer, root beer floats, Coney Dogs & Texasburgers on a tray at your car or enjoy our picnic area. The menu also contains delicious shakes and malts made to order. We feature summer Classic Car Cruise-Ins every Saturday. Check our web site for information and calendar of events.
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Bacci Pizzeria
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Red Barn Market
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For over 100 years, Colonial Cafe and Ice Cream has been a family favorite restaurant - satisfying everyone's taste buds. All day, everyday our menu provides delicious options varying from eggceptional breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and ice cream!
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