text:
The Business of Tech: AMD Q4 2009by Ryan Smith on 1/22/2010 12:00 AM EST
- Posted in
- Ryan's Ramblings
30 Comments
Back to Article
Morbid666 - Sunday, February 21, 2010 - linkThe Future is Fusion Reply
MJinZ - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - link"Nehalem regulating AMD to the sub-$200 market"..
I think you meant to use "relegate". Reply
nilepez - Monday, January 25, 2010 - linkYou beat me by 2 days....too bad they don't read the comments. Most tech sites really need editors that catch this type of error, as well spelling and grammatical errors. I'd also welcome an end to the passive voice. Reply
Sahrin - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkWhile I haven't read the text of the settlement, I know that it doesn't include any admission of guilt on the part of Intel - making this sentence pretty misleading. I agree with it in principal, but using the word "official" lends the authors' opinion undue authority. Reply
blowfish - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkare you a lawyer or something?
One thing that really gets my goat is when people, say Ken Lay, for example, come up for trial, they have a lawyer who says to the TV cameras something to the effect "my client is innocent, and this will be proved in the forthcoming trial". Of course, the trial goes badly for Ken Lay, he's found guilty, and banged up to rights. At least he then did the decent thing and topped himself, so there is some justice. But the effing scumbag lawyer never comes back to the TV people to say "oh I'm sorry, I was wrong, my client was guilty all along, I'm sorry I tried to mislead you".
Well so it is with Intel. They are a dirty company, they used (and probably continue to use)dirty tricks to further their agenda, and just because they were able to settle without admitting liability doesn't mean they were innocent. I'm sure you know it yourself, why would an innocent party cough up $1.2B? It certainly wasn't because AMD had more money to spend on legal representation. At least the Justice Department might not have finished with Intel yet. Reply
Sahrin - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - linkNot a lawyer, just someone with a healthy respect for the truth. The job of a journalist is not to report what the facts should be, it's what the facts are. It's fine to say, "guilty in everything but name" or "got off like OJ" or whatever. It's not OK to imply something is true that isn't - specifically, that Intel has officially admitted culpability.
Why is it important, you ask?
As you so rightly pointed, out, Intel hasn't had to say they were stealing yet - and while it may be a line in the sand for some, I believe it's very important for them to have to face their actions. By sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring their mistakes, we are allowing them to avoid confronting them.
Your animosity towards lawyers is grossly misplaced. A lawyer is REQUIRED to represent his client as the client sees fit - that's why attorney-client privledge exists. When a lawyer stands up to say, "my client is innocent" - he's operating a legal strategy that's in the best interest of his client. To not do so would be even more dishonorable. I think everyone would agree society would be a pretty terrible place if lawyers were allowed to ignore their responsibility to their clients if they thought their client was guilty.
And finally, it's the FTC that's investigating Intel at the moment, not Justice. Details matter, if only because if makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about to those who do. (I DO NOT claim to be someone who does). Reply
drunkenmaster - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkGlobal foundries being fully bought out isn't actually fantastic for AMD's stock/long term value, but not bad either. Their losses are short term, they are spending HUGE right now to get up and running, when they are, frankly, they'll be a massive player, with higher quality than realistically any other foundry group out there. These are good things for AMD and their stock price, short term $100mil losses are nothing in a game this big, and the future stock sharing of profits for AMD specific shares would be far more beneficial than the short term losses. In the real world of owners though, the same guys who own AMD also part own Global, just under a separate name, so the split of the companies doesn't make a jot of difference to them, their pockets get filled when the companies do well, their cheque's just have a different name on them.
But the difference between last year and this year in losses, is also manufacturing. Foundry costs dwarf chip R&D costs, production R&D is far more intensive than chip design R&D. Look at the New York State fab, its costing about $7billion to build, only $1.5-2bil is construction the rest is equipment. Actually I guess I stated it wrongly, the R&D isn't more expensive(well it probably is) but the massive cost difference is the equipment, outfitting the $2billion building will cost them in the region of 4-5billion, of which every new process will require a new 2-3billion of equipment, which means every single 2 years you're chucking out 3-4billion on new equipment.
This is the difference between AMD of the past, whose profits are killed by spending 3-4billion every 18-24 months, and AMD of now/future, where Global Foundries takes all that cost over, and AMD also drop all the process R&D which is very costly, and they only have costs of their chips now. Meaning once they start selling chips, everything is pure profit for them, that money isn't being saved up to sink into buying new equipment. When you realise AMD has been spending the same on process R&D as intel for decades, and has been paying more for equipment per fab than Intel, that being only a few billion in debt, when they've been spending that every 2 years on new equipment is actually very well done.
The reason this works and Global Foundries can make a profit, is instead of spreading the R&D and equipment costs against a single company making a single chip stuck at 20% market share, they can now make chips for more people in more fabs, the same R&D and equipment will be used for longer, on more products, on far more chips. Intel has a better margin because its always been able to spread its costs over 4 times the amount of chips AMD sells. Now AMD/Global combo can do the same, or even dare say it, better.
Anyway, from this point on that sucking unavoidable spending of 3-4billion simply won't happen anymore. AMD will continue to have profitable quarters from now on, and with Global footing the bill for process's, and spending big to get them out on time we have several huge benefits for AMD.
If AMD can get a killer architecture again Global can afford to push into Intel's market share, at AMD's best they were stuck at 20-22% market share because, quite simply their fabs could not produce more chips, and you can't sell more than you make. if they had 50% more fab capacity, they could have pushed to 30% market share quite easily at that point. Global opens this possibility in the future. LIkewise Global is now fighting for business and has the cash to get new processes going fast and on time without delaying new processes till they can afford the equipment, this means within 1-2 process nodes, Intel will never be noticeably ahead on process technology anymore.
In other words, the future is very bright for AMD, and Intel finally has a competitor that has the financial/production capacity to hurt it if it gets behind on technology again.
Will Global ever hurt AMD and not give them preferential treatment? No because while AMD might not own any of Global soon, Global(and their owners and several Abu Dhabi investment groups) own a good 15-20% of AMD already, with a commitment to buy whats set to be over a billions worth of more shares in a year or two, so they'll move up to anything up to owning 30% of AMD. Global and AMD are a single company in everything other than name, in so much as they both heavily rely on each other, and Global will always favour AMD and do whatever it can and offer them fantastic pricing. Reply
BSMonitor - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkI totally agree! Missed your post by 2 minutes, I am above! Reply
BernardP - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkThis seems as good a place as another to post my Special Request to AMD:
Please give us an Athlon II X4 640 BE - 3 GHz, unlocked multiplier, 95W TDP, no heatsink.
Thanks in advance :-) Reply
ambientmf - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkIt's nice to see AMD finally getting out of their financial hole. They basically have no competition from Nvidia on the GPU front and their Phenom II quad's are a much better value than Intel's Lynnfield/Bloomfield chips.
Especially after the disaster of Phenom I... Reply
Spivonious - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkGetting out? They lost almost a billion dollars before the Intel settlement. Unless AMD comes up with a real competitor to Nehalem I don't think they'll be around in 5 years. Reply
bsoft16384 - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkWell, whether or not Bulldozer is a competitor to Sandy Bridge, AMD is going to be around in 5 years. Now that they don't have an unprofitable fabrication business dragging on the balance sheet, even the graphics side of the business is enough to keep AMD afloat.
Intel has shown that getting into the GPU business isn't as easy as it looks. There are basically two players: AMD and NVIDIA, and NVIDIA keeps shooting themselves in the foot with GPUs that are too late and too expensive. The bulk of the graphics business is in mainstream and mid-range parts ($50-$150) and ATI has a much stronger lineup for the foreseeable future.
Then we have design wins with things like Congo, AMD's more-competitive low-end and mid-range parts (Athlon II and Phenom II), and the upcoming launch of the new 890GX chipset that should have no problem humiliating even the "new and improved" Intel GMA.
We're probably not going to have another "Athlon 64 / Opteron" moment. Intel doesn't screw up as badly as they did with Prescott very often. The dominance Athlon 64 was a combination of Intel's inability to scale P4 to the clocks they wanted combined with AMD's best executed design since the Athlon. There's no "real competitor" to Nehalem coming for a long time.
What (hopefully) will happen is that AMD will improve power consumption in mobile parts, get better chipsets with lower power consumption, better graphics and features like USB 3.0, and continue to execute well in their graphics division. Reply
BSMonitor - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkFunny. How can one talk about AMD financial success and Global Foundries financial woes seperately. It is all Accounting nonsense. So you take the cost of development and upgrading chip-making Fab's and stick on a seperate balance sheet called "Global Foundries". Global Foundries only real revenue comes from AMD.
AMD makes a few dollars profit now.. Because the cost of chip-building is on a different balance sheet. Well guess what, the cost of chip-building is still too much for "Global Foundries" and they consistently lose money. Eventually Global Foundries goes bankrupt and AMD has no chip-builder...
Ask GM and Delphi(or its many other suppliers) how well this works. Reply
subflava - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkYou would be right if Global Foundries didn't plan on doing anything else except make chips for AMD. It would be just an accounting trick in that case. However, I assure you that the guys that bought Glo-Fo, (Abu Dhabi ATIC), did not spend $2.1B out of kindness to AMD. In addition they have since gone and spent another $3.9B for Chartered and merged the two companies. They plan on turning Glo-Fo into a legitimate foundry business to compete with Taiwan Semiconductor. This move was definitely about more than just accounting shenanigans. Reply
Penti - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - linkRemember GF bought Chartered which already did have other customers on the AMD APM process. They already has all the tools for others to use them, both in Dresden and Singapore. And AMD was already fabbing CPUs at CSM. AMD plan to move some of the ATi-graphics stuff to GF. As well as chipsets. GF got plenty of other customers today which will scale up their business with them if GF offers a good deal to them. AMD only wants one fab to deal with that's pretty clear. (For CPUs, chipsets, APUs any way). They can streamline all the tools then. And it's not TSMC. There's plenty of companies ready to use and are using something other then TSMC. So all they need to do is get people designing for their plants. Something Chartered already has plenty of experience with. Reply
cocoviper - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - linkYep- I spoke with some ARM individuals at CES and they intend on doing a massive push for 28nm with GF.
It won't be AMD only for long... Reply
Taft12 - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkEventually Global Foundries goes bankrupt and AMD has no chip-builder...
Why does Global Foundries need to be the chip-builder for AMD? Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkI don't think any other foundry will be able to keep up with Intel's fabs. Reply
OCedHrt - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - linkTSMC is ramping 28 and starting 22. In terms of keeping up in that area, they're doing fine..in terms of capacity...well that's another story. Reply
Hector1 - Monday, January 25, 2010 - linkRe "TSMC is ramping 28"
You've misread whatever you read. "Ramping" implies volume production has begun and that the volume is being increased week-to-week.
TSMC has not started volume production of 28nm. Their press release of Jan 10 states "TSMC is currently conducting R&D for 28nm" and "will hand 28nm to the Phase 5 facility for volume production in the fourth quarter of 2010" They're a long way from shipping production units. They say they just fixed their yield problems on 40nm. It's unlikely that they'll be shipping real 28nm production volume until 2011 at the earliest Reply
The0ne - Monday, January 25, 2010 - linkIntel does have good yields and this is in part due to their manufacturing processes. Once they have the processed "right" they locked it down preventing any further changes. This is arguable but it does work to a greater extent.
Intel is the only company I know of that does this to maintain their yields. Typical manufacturing environments are constantly changing. Someday I'm going to have to visit these factories to truly observe how things are done :) Don't ask, I'm a Mfg Engineer myself. Reply
hyvonen - Sunday, January 24, 2010 - linkTSMC is way behind Intel - if you recall, Intel was already showing a working 22nm wafer at the last IDF, while 32nm is mature enough to manufacture chips at yields high enough for sales... All this while TSMC has been struggling to get their 40nm to reasonable yields.
subflava - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkExactly...no one can keep up with Intel's fabs and that's why everyone has stopped trying. This is exactly why the foundries exist in the first place. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - linkIntel's process tech it top notch because Intel is the first to buy the new manufacturing equipment needed for smaller nodes. They pay top dollar for that machinery, which is why Intel typically launches the highest-end CPUs on the newest process technology. The yields aren't great, but the prices are very high, so they get their investment back until the yields gets good enough for the rest of the product line. AMD on the other hand, has typically adopted new process tech much later, and they use the smallest nodes to sell their cheapest CPUs. As they improve the process, they ramp up speeds. It's basically the way a small volume company works versus a large volume company. Intel has to depend on tried-and-true processes to fill demand, while AMD depends on tried-and-true processes to compete at the high end. Both are valid approaches, and I really think that it works decently for both companies. Intel can react better to a bad node-shift versus AMD, so they can afford the risk. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkLooking at AMD's stock chart, it seems that players have been pricing in the intel settlement long before it happened.
At 65% margin, intel is making 100 million for every 35 million they spend. That is highway robbery! If people had half a brain they would boycott...
Want to see something funny? http://tinyurl.com/yda4ten">http://tinyurl.com/yda4ten This is a vietnamese thread talking about which is better, HD3300 or a 7300GT. Its funny as hell, but not too useful. I would go with the 7300GT, but I really wish you guys did more IGP vs discrete tests so I knew for sure.
nofumble62 - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkMargin don't include all those payment. Reply
Hrel - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkwho taught you math? If intel sold chips that in total cost 35Million and turned a 65% profit they'd bring in 57.75Million. Which is a profit of 22.75Million. Intel's profit margin would have to be 285% for 35Million in sales to bring in 100Million. Reply
je1117 - Sunday, January 24, 2010 - linkGross profit margin is gross proft (revenue - cogs) / total revenue. What he was saying is that AT 65% profit margin, Intel is making 100m for every 35m in selling costs. (100 - 35) / 100 = 65%.
Profit and profit margin are two different things, who taught you business? ;) Reply
Hector1 - Friday, January 22, 2010 - linkDo you think AMD wants Intel to lower prices so Intel's margin gets smaller ? What would happen ? AMD would be forced to lower prices as well, which would cause them to lose more money. Reply
fintel - Thursday, April 22, 2010 - linkAs far as blog is concerned here are so many interesting information Reply


text:
Every year, during the first week of December, the Potomac river lights up with over 5o festively decorated boats for the Holiday Boat Parade of Lights. The best place to see the parade is from the docks of the Alexandria Marina where Santa will be also arriving. Check out some pictures of previous years and come enjoy this holiday tradition with us!
Gabriel, Innkeeper
American Guest House in Washington DC

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The dollar ($) was the currency of the United States of America, equal to one hundred cents. This denomination was also used in Canada, and could be found in the form of a coin known as a looney. (DS9: "Blaze of Glory")
In 1893, a hotel room in San Francisco cost "six bits a day, or four dollars a week" according to the doorman when he talked to Data. (TNG: "Time's Arrow")
When he traveled back in time to 1947, Quark asked General Denning what they used as currency. Quark had never heard of dollars. (DS9: "Little Green Men")
In 1986, a garbage man got into a fight with his significant other over buying a toaster oven that cost sixty dollars. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
After noticing that the Dodge Ram they "borrowed", while in the year 2004, was nearly out of gasoline, Jonathan Archer told T'Pol that in order to buy more fuel, they would need US currency, which he later procured from an ATM. (ENT: "Carpenter Street")
In 2063, Zefram Cochrane told William T. Riker that he had not built the Phoenix to improve Humanity, but to make lots of dollars, so he could settle down on a tropical island full of naked women. (Star Trek: First Contact)
In 2375, several Deep Space 9 residents helped to steal several million dollars from Vic's lounge, which had been taken over by gangsters. After Carl Zeemo saw the money was gone, the holoprogram reverted to its original style. (DS9: "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang")
Comparative dollar values Edit
While visiting 1930s Earth, Captain Kirk and Spock paid $2 per week for the apartment they stayed at. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
The price for a horse on a former Skagaran colony planet in the Delphic Expanse was $20. (ENT: "North Star")
Dixon Hill's services cost $20 a day, plus expenses. Jessica Bradley paid him with a "C-note", a $100 bill. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
Also, when Admiral Kirk traveled back in time to 1986, he was unfamiliar with the value of the dollar, commenting when he was offered $100 for his broken antique glasses, "Is that a lot?" (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
In an alternate timeline, the Germans were offering $10,000 for information leading to the capture of Jonathan Archer. (ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II")
In the Bashir 62 holoprogram, Vic Fontaine, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin lost $15,000 in a blackjack game in 1958. Fontaine referred to dollars as "big ones". (DS9: "His Way")
In the novel Hotel Royale, the sale price of the hotel was 12.5 million US dollars. (TNG: "The Royale")
Fort Knox, the largest repository of gold bullion in Earth's history contained a volume of over fifty metric tons worth over nine trillion US dollars. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
In 2375, Benjamin Sisko placed a hundred dollars' worth of chips in a game of craps, although Vic Fontaine advised him to make it two thousand. (DS9: "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang")
See also Edit
External link Edit
- Dollar at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Dollar at Wikipedia


text:
Boot Barn Item #: 2008395
Color: Click a button belowcolor
size: Click a button below Size Chartsize
width: Click a button belowwidth
- Suede uppers
- Faux shearling lined
- Western scroll stitch
- Rhinestone detailing
- Eva sole
- Round toe
- Rubber outsole
A blend of casual design and western design, these Shearling Western Boots by Roper take the best of both worlds and combine the two to create a comfy warm boot that your little one will not want to take off. It has the classic western scroll embroidery along its shaft and vamp with rhinestone detailing. The boot is faux shearling lined.
Style(s): 09-017-0532-0692, 09-017-0532-0693, 09-017-0532-0694
Toe Type: Round
Outsole: Rubber
Lifestyle: Western
Heel Type: Walking
Upper Material: Leather
Material: Leather
Color: Black
Product Weight: 3 lbs
Closure: Pull-On
Print Roper is America's authentic western wear. No imitations. You'll find superior design and quality. Hard work, vision and a dream. That's how the west was won. That's why Roper is America's first choice in authentic western wear and everyday casual fashion styles.


text:
Ray Washburne, who runs M Crowd Restaurant Group — the Dallas-based company that owns Mi Cocina, Taco Diner and other eateries — was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition today, talking about his fundraising for GOP candidates. Seems Washburne was an early supporter of Tim Pawlenty for president, and was disappointed when he dropped out. That meant Washburne had to refocus his fundraising efforts on another candidate, and naturally he chose … Mitt Romney. Yep, not Rick Perry, for whom he has been an ardent monetary supporter as Texas governor. Seems that even a Texas Republican who would benefit having another Texan in the White House, and one he has endorsed in the past, thinks Perry isn't qualified for the job. You can listen to the audio here.
Now to me, that's the story — it's what I intended to blog about as soon as the audio came available. But waiting in my inbox when I arrived at work was an email from a gay Dallasite, encouraging gays not to patronize any of the M Crowd restos."Before you spend another dime at Mi Concina, Taco Diner or the Mercury you may want to reconsider where you[r] money is going and it's going to candidates that support anti-gay causes."
I can't say I fully agree with my friend on this point. I don't think giving money to any Republican candidate is, by nature, supporting anti-gay causes. Does Mitt Romney favor same-sex marriage? He most certainly does not — he's said as much. You know who else has said he does not support same-sex marriage? Barack Obama, who has also made that bias perfectly clear. So, as far as same-sex marriage goes, Romney and Obama seem identical. That does not, of course, mean that Obama is more hostile to gay causes in general, or that Romney is a good candidate for gay voters; it just means that if donating money to a Republican means that your business is "anti-gay" …. well, I think there are a lot of restaurants in town gays might have to boycott.


text:
Undergraduate wins $25,000 prize at Tuck competition
The Dartmouth
April 16, 2012
At the Greener Ventures Entrepreneurship Contest at the Tuck School of Business on Saturday, first-place finisher Alison Stace-Naughton '11, who developed what was initially a prototype for an introductory engineering course into a practical tool to prevent tissue damage in endoscopic surgery, received a prize of $25,000.
The prize awarded to the company came from a pool of $50,000, which was split between the first, second and third place winners, as well as six honorable mentions, according to Stace-Naughton.
Stace-Naughton's product is a vacuum-assisted tissue stabilization tool to help prevent stomach movement during endoscopic surgery. The device uses vacuum-driven suction to grab and stabilize organs while doctors perform surgery, according to Stace-Naughton.
Spiral-E is specifically designed for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure in which surgeons operate through orifices such as the mouth.
"We're going to have less failures and better outcomes in the fastest growing area of minimally invasive surgery," she said.
Stace-Naughton originally designed an initial prototype of the device with three other students for her Introduction to Engineering course, after which she consulted professors at Dartmouth Medical School for advice on how to improve the device's design.
The product has already been tested in vitro on pig stomachs at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, though the device must also undergo in vivo testing inside live organisms to gain regulatory approval.
Stace-Naughton plans to raise around $400,000 to create a medical-grade prototype of the product, gain regulatory clearance and complete intellectual property filing.
"We are pursuing a highly capital efficient development strategy and looking for an early exit," she said. "I know I'm not going to be competitive around the big players on my own."


text:
Penn (6-3 overall, 4-2 Ivy) looks to keep the momentum in its favor against Harvard (7-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy), after winning three duals in a row including last week's victories over West Chester and La Salle.
Against West Chester, the Quakers won 11 events and also broke a pool record in the 200 free relay. The "A team" – junior Alex Porter, sophomore Eric Schultz, junior Dillon McHugh, senior Rhoads Worster – swam the event as an exhibition heat, breaking the time of 1:22.55, after touching the wall at 1:22.05.
The 11 event wins against the Golden Rams included the 200 medley relay, 50 & 1000 free, 100 & 200 back, 100 & 200 breast, 100 & 200 fly, and 1 & 3 meter dives.
Penn took on La Salle the following day, coming out with another victory and 10 first place finishes. After locking up the overall win, the Quakers competed in exhibition heats in the 50 fly, 1 meter dive, 200 IM, and 200 free relay and would have had three additional first place finishes.


text:
School gardens provide a dynamic environment where classroom lessons come to life. Gardens allow students to apply what they learn and see the results. Use the resources below to find what you need to know about how to start a garden at your school or youth center.
Successful school gardens have been initiated by parents, teachers, science coordinators, administrators and parent groups. Getting started with the right ingredients is the key to success in your first growing season.
- Take the "Starting a Community/School Garden" class
- Information on Getting Started at your School
- How Urban Harvest Can Help
- The Importance of Being Organic
See also, Getting Started in the Community Garden section since many of the materials, considerations and planning are the same for school gardens.
Volunteer times for the Urban Harvest Teaching Garden:
SUMMER: July & August 2017
Every Thursday, 9am-12pm
This is a great volunteer activity for parents and their school-age children, teens looking for community service hours & neighbors who want to improve their "hands on" gardening skills! Activities include cultivating, planting & harvesting. Individual volunteers are welcome to show up during hours listed. Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, 1101 Taft St.
Please wear closed toe shoes, long pants, hat and bring a reusable water bottle.
To volunteer with groups of five or more, please email us or call 713.880.5540.


text:
At The Bella Foundation, we believe that every animal should receive the best possible care regardless of the owner's ability to pay. When an owner brings an animal into a clinic for care and cannot afford the cost, the attending veterinarian can contact The Bella Foundation for assistance. If assistance is given, the owner must agree to volunteer at least 8 hours of their time at a local animal shelter. Stray or abandoned animals are cared for with no stipulation attached.
The Bella Foundation takes the placement of animals in homes very seriously and our goal is to do everything possible to match the right animal with the right animal. Our adoption application can be found on our website.
We hold adoption reaches every Saturday at PetSmart locations around Oklahoma City.
1st Saturday - Pennsylvania & Memorial PetSmart
2nd Saturday - Pennsylvania & Memorial PetSmart
3rd Saturday - 19th St. in Moore PetSmart
4th Saturday - NW 63rd & May PetSmart
Each of the pets in our adoption program are spayed or neutered, fully vaccinated, heartworm tested (dogs), FLV/FIV tested (cats), dewormed, given flea, tick, and heartworm preventative, and are microchipped before being adopted. Cats one year old and older are $75 and kittens under one year of age are $100 to adopt. Dogs & puppies are $175 to adopt.
Thank You!
Your message has been sent to The Bella Foundation.
You'll receive a copy, too, at to help you keep track of which pets you've inquired about, and which shelters and rescues you've emailed.
NOTE: Some shelters have physical locations you can visit; some of these shelters may only have pets for a limited time, so please do not wait for a reply—just go visit the shelter! Other organizations are rescue groups run by busy volunteers who may take a while to reply. You can find information about the shelter or rescue group caring for this pet, and their adoption procedures, on the pet's details page on Adopt-a-Pet.com.


text:
Jumbo Jalapeno Cheddar Rolls Recipe
5 2 2
Add some excitement to your Christmas or New Year's spread with these colorful rolls. The cheddar and jalapeno flavors are mild, but everyone loves the zesty taste.
Recommended: 55 Snacks for Your March Madness Party
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 cups warm milk (110° to 115°)
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 6-1/2 to 7-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped seeded jalapeno pepper
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons water
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm milk. Add the eggs, salt and 4 cups flour. Beat on medium speed for 3 minutes. Add cheese and jalapeno. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a firm dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into 12 pieces. Shape each into a roll. Place 3-in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Combine egg and water; brush over rolls. Bake at 375° for 16-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Originally published as Jumbo Jalapeno Cheddar Rolls in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2009, p37
Reviews forJumbo Jalapeno Cheddar Rolls
My Review
Click stars to rate
Any changes to your rating or review will appear where you originally posted your review
Average Rating
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2015
"Very nice taste and texture! I was hoping by cubing cheese instead of grating I would have little pockets of cheese but they were all crumbled in the kneading process. Also used pickled jalapeno slices hoping to see actual pieces of peppers, but they also disintegrated during kneading. Next time will add my cheese and peppers towards the end of the knead process and see if I can keep them more whole."
Reviewed Sep. 9, 2011
"These are great! I was looking for a recipe similar to rolls I had at Double Musky in Girdwood Alaska and this recipe was perfect. They also freeze very well."


text:
The Lehman bankruptcy was five years ago, as you may have noticed. Five years on, it is surprising what aspects of the pre-Lehman landscape have survived, and which have vanished. This came out in today's Note video with Larry McDonald, author of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, and a Lehman alumnus:
Note that while the recovery in the financial system has been in many ways remarkable, the securitisation market remains as dead as a dodo. These charts tell the story. First, here are the figures for asset-backed securities:
So there is a recovery in auto loans, but securitisation of home equity loans, by which Americans turned their homes into ATMs, seems to have ended. Next we can look at CDO issuance (not for the squeamish): Read more


text:
Snow Day in Calgary
Meralomas and Wicket Maidens Win Big in Calgary
July 3, 2011
Jonathan Snow produced a gusty half-century pulling his club from the brink of disaster to deliver a John Ross Robertson championship for Meraloma's Cricket Club.
Set to chase 204 by Crown Cricket Club (Calgary), Meraloma's were reduced to 100-6 and on the ropes. Snow shared partnerships with the tail, batting sensibly and farming the strike for his 90* as Meraloma's got over the line in dramatic fashion in the penultimate ball of the match.
Also in Calgary, the Wicket Maiden's from BC won the Western Canadian Women's Championship putting up comfortable wins in both matches in the tournament . Edmonton were the runners up with hosts Calgary coming in third place.


text:
Testicles apparently they have none. …
- Tags: Censorship, Comiket, Crime, Doujinshi, Events, Mental Illness, Police, Tokyo Big Sight
Comment on Comiket Caves To Terrorism: "Rather Ban Than Cancel" by Charismatic Vampire:
Testicles apparently they have none.
Charismatic Vampire made other comments on this post:
- Comiket Caves To Terrorism: "Rather Ban Than Cancel":
Depends what country that is. I heard conflicting stories some saying they are very bad a shame to a first world country and others saying they're not so bad. It might be like the US where it depends which prison you end up in and how you act while in it. I heard prisons in Wisconsin are not so bad esp if you obey the rules but prisons in some parts of California and Texas are like being in a special place in hell. Then there's the fact minimum security is far less horrible then maximum …
- Comiket Caves To Terrorism: "Rather Ban Than Cancel":
That is true the CIA funded and trained the people who eventually form Al Qaeda in for the purpose of making the Soviet Union loose the Soviet Afghan war and probably contributed to it's collapse. But like a Frankenstein monster the CIA's creation eventually turned on them. They thought they could just train these crazies and forget about them once they achieved their goal. Also didn't consider that the Soviets taking over Afghanistan probably would have clean up the region.
- Comiket Caves To Terrorism: "Rather Ban Than Cancel":
Probably not heck they probably can't even obtain a fire arm.
Recent comments by Charismatic Vampire:
- 2D Dating, China Style:
It has a surreal kinda feeling to it.
- PS4 Japan Sales = 320,000 "As Bad As The Vita!":
The hardware is mediocre except for the amount and speed of memory and they pushed to hard on useless social features so no one is impressed. I think the PS4 will still be mildly successful because everyone else screwed up worse but it likely will be much shorter lived then the PS1 PS2 and PS3.
- PS4 Japan Sales = 320,000 "As Bad As The Vita!":
@ Anon 03:45 I touched on the X86 thing they could have at least choose a good X86 architecture vs something so low end. Even an old Core 2 quad or quad core FX would beat it across the board when paired with a good graphics card. Heck some very fast clocked i3s duals probably are just as fast. From a hardware stand point they're not even trying.
- PS4 Japan Sales = 320,000 "As Bad As The Vita!":
Editing is broke The system should in theory be easy to crack then the PS3. But even PS2 emulation may be a difficult on the PS4 due to the use of 8 shit tier X86 cores vs four fast ones. The emulator would have to be fairly multithreaded like anything else on the console must be. There is Gaikai streaming but it's at best a half assed solution that would demand a fast connection and nearby servers to be useable plus the ridiculousness of paying for old games.
- PS4 Japan Sales = 320,000 "As Bad As The Vita!":
Most consoles don't need an internet connection to play single player games even Steam's off line mode is kinda crappy so you end up having to crack your steam games if you want to play them off line. BTW I covered to lack of backwards compatibility on the PS4. The fact they used 8 shit tier X86


text:
Cowboy Skull - Gothic Punk Emo Rockabilly Skull Necklace Set
This necklace is so unique and very cool. Made with resin, cowboy hat and eye pacth have decorated with crystal studs, cord necklace, and come with a pair of matching earrings. Limited edition necklace and earring set, so there are only few available. Also available in Black cowboy hat and Teal cowboy hat.


text:
Twin Towers Video Software
Twin Towers Memorial Theme 1.0 is a beautiful theme that was created as a memorial to the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.Major Features:Features the Twin Towers wrapped in angel wings while angles hover in the distance.Includes ALL theme elements plus IE. ...
- 116691-twintowers-50371.zip
- ExtremeThemes.net
- Freeware (Free)
- 3.2 Mb
- Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2
God Won't Bless America is a shoot'em up game in 2D and 3D."In the near future and during a half-century, the aliens will colonize the United States of America in order to establish a military base and a scientific research center.They will eliminate the unfriendly forces that could screw up their project and will leave Earth to continue their galactic exploration.
- gwba.zip
- Sylvain Seccia
- Freeware (Free)
- 27.72 Mb
- Windows 7, Windows 7 x64, Win Vista, Win Vista x64, WinXP
Merge audio or video files into a single output file! 123 Audio Video Merger is a freeware utility that provides a fast and easy way to do this.
- 123avm.zip
- Manitools Software
- Freeware (Free)
- 1.11 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000
Quickly and easily join, split, crop, modify color, rotate, overlay, blur your AVI video files, along with sequences of JPG and BMP images or photos from your digital camera.
- ftb2_3_3.exe
- Thoughtman Software
- Shareware ($44.95)
- 1.66 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000
Not only an outstanding multi-format movie and still viewer, FMV5 lets you edit, cut, copy and trim your audio and video in real-time. You can add effects and transitions to your video, color correct, change speed and create overlays in real-time.
- fmv50.exe
- Slipstream Systems Limited
- Shareware ($59.99)
- 16.7 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000
SnatchIt! Video Screen Capture software takes screen caps of MPEG,AVI,WMV,DivX files to create high-quality thumbnails. Features include the ability to navigate frame by frame to capture a frame of video and auto-trimming the borders around images.
- SnatchItInstaller.exe
- EOF Productions
- Shareware ($25.00)
- 1.09 Mb
- Win98, WinME, WinXP, Windows2000
honestech Video Editor 7.0 est une puissante suite de montage vidéo qui vous permet de créer des films d'une grande qualité avec voix off, musique, effets de transition, titres et effets spéciaux.
- htvideoeditor70sharefr.exe
- Honestech, Inc.
- Shareware ($49.99)
- 30.46 Mb
- WinXP, Windows2000
Image Video Converter is an very easy to use image-to-video,video-to-image, flash-to-image converting software. ...
- ImageVideoConverter.exe
- DanDans Media
- Shareware ($29.95)
- 11.23 Mb
- Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003, Windows Vista
Trim or split videos from 3GPP/3GPP2, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, DV, MOV, MP4, MPEG-1, RM/RAM, WMV, and Xvid to AVI, WMV, DivX, XviD, or DV. Frame accurate. Preview video to set the exact frame. Easy to use operations to set the trim and split timecode. ...
- videoslice_setup.exe
- River Past Corporation
- Shareware ($29.95)
- 2.13 Mb
- Win98, WinME, WinXP, Windows2000
Easy-to-use video converter software. Convert from 3GPP/3GPP2, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, DV, FLC/FLI animation, animated GIF, IVF, Matroska MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG-1, OGG Media OGM, RM/RAM and WMV to animate GIF, AVI, MOV, WMV, DivX, XviD, DV, MKV, OGM, MP4. ...
- videocleanerpro_setup.exe
- River Past Corporation
- Shareware ($79.95)
- 2.91 Mb
- Win98, WinME, WinXP, Windows2000, Windows2003, Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows Media Center Editio
Video fun box is more than just a video titling package. It includes a wide range of fully customizable digital video effects that are so flexible that the only limit is your own creativity!
- vfb_setup.exe
- Jellypie Software
- Shareware ($39.95)
- 1.66 Mb
- Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000
Yasa Audio/Data/Video CD burner is a powerful and easy to use for creating audio CDs, Data CDs and Video CDs. Yasa Audio/Data/Video CD burner consists of Music CD Burner, Data CD Burner,Music CD Ripper, and VCD Burner.
- yasacdburner.exe
- Shareware ($29.95)
- 1.79 Mb
- Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000
Related: Twin Towers Video - Twin Towers Agi - Petronas Twin Towers - Twin Towers Pics - Twin Towers Collapse


text:
Your cart is empty!
An established reliable store where you can purchase Navarre Bibles, Ascension Press Bible studies and other select Catholic resources, all at some of the best prices on the internet. We price match, so if you find the same item cheaper, email us a link and we will match or beat it.
Daily Roman Missal - Bonded Leather - Black
Price: $62.95
In Conversation With God
Price: $109.95
Understanding the Scriptures - Textbook
Price: $50.00
Introduction to the Catholic Church
Price: $51.00
Acts: The Spread of the Kingdom - DVD set
Price: $299.95
Didache Complete Set
Price: $179.00
The Bible Timeline DVD set e/Jeff Cavins
Navarre Bible New Testament 12 vol Softcover
Price: $139.95


text:
Hemp Tote from Barneys New York
Barneys has gone green! Naturally, the result is very chic - no pun intended! This organic hemp tote with napa leather rolled handles and trim is great for everyday wear and showing the world that eco-friendly style is the wave of the fashion future.


text:
Finally! Signs of life everywhere have begun to show! After what seemed to be an interminable winter, our day lilies and hostas have popped up, and our magnolia tree is in full bloom. While the green grass and pretty flowers are beautiful to see, the real excitement for a chef this time of year is the start of the food growing season.
Fortunately I have developed relationships with several area farms who have greenhouses and can provide me with some vegetables year round, so it never feels like complete famine. But the variety of vegetables and fruits I will be able to source will increase dramatically as the weeks progress and summer gets into full swing.
Particular favorites this time of year for me are the abundant fresh greens I have been getting, including arugula and claytonia. For those who do not know claytonia, it is also called miner's lettuce and was discovered by the gold miners growing wild in California. It is a tender and sweet green that has an almost clover like shape and is fantastic as a garnish in soups as it does not wilt like spinach. And of course arugula is fantastic in both salads and in pesto. I also am extremely fond of asparagus and cannot get enough of the fresh specimen. I use it for soups, salads, roasted, grilled, shaved raw ... you name it.
As the season progresses, not only will I continue sourcing from local farms, but I will be expanding my herb and vegetable garden here at the inn. I confess I am eliciting the help of a professional because I have a black thumb. Blame it on my roots in California where nobody has space to grow anything and living in Las Vegas, where nothing grows. Needless to say, once it is in the kitchen, I know what to do with it, but while it is in the ground, it eludes me. I guess we all have our strengths and weaknesses, right?
But I digress. Because of the special help we are getting this year, we are planning on planting numerous heirloom varieties of tomatoes, several types of eggplant, a rainbow of colors of beets, cucumbers, peppers and a myriad of herbs including multiple types of basil, cilantro and parsley. If you're thinking this sounds an awful lot like a Mediterranean salad of some kind, you'd be right. All the key ingredients you need for healthy Mediterranean cuisine. I can't wait!
Something that is important to me is that we grow our food organically and that we source our food from farms that do the same. I'm not so insistent on organic certification per se, but rather knowledge first-hand that food was grown as such. I think our food has enough chemicals in it without adding more. If that means my yield isn't as high or that my fruit isn't perfect, so be it. A farmer once told me, if there are no bugs on your food, you probably shouldn't eat it either. That being said, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say I have to supplement some of my food with conventionally grown items from the grocery store. But the less I have to do that, the better. Not only do I know where my food is coming from, I am supporting the local economy in doing so.
Finally, this time of year is also when the farmers' markets kick into full swing. What a great opportunity to get fresh produce and incorporate a leisurely walk in the fresh air. Farmers markets can actually be extremely affordable because most of the food you get there is grown and harvested in season. You aren't trying to buy something that is only available in the winter in Costa Rica, but rather something that was grown locally that is available now in abundance. Take advantage of that.
A second option for keeping cost down on organic produce is to join a CSA or community supported agriculture plan. There are many, and they all have slightly different ways of operating; but the basic gist of it is that you pay for a share of the crop that a farmer is growing. They do the work, and each week, you reap the benefits from the fresh fruits and vegetables that are available that week. An average share is about $20 a week and is more than enough produce to feed a family of four. You can locate CSAs as well as other local farms through websites like www.localharvest.org or feel free to contact me at the inn, and I'd be happy to connect you with the farms I use. Eat well!
Monika Sudakov is the chef and innkeeper at the Chestnut Street Inn in Sheffield. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Boot Barn Item #: 2009169
Color: Click a button belowcolor
size: Click a button below Size Chartsize
- 100% polyester
- ¾ sleeves
- Sheer material
- Paisley print
- Peasant blouse fit
- Lace ribbon along collar
- Machine wash cold inside out on delicate cycle with like colors
Greet Spring with this beautiful Paisley Print Blouse by Ariat. Constructed with ¾ sleeves with a billowing form, like that of a peasant blouse, this features a paisley print design with lace ribbon lining the collar. Match this with a bandeau or tank top beneath it and pair with denim shorts and cowgirl boots for an outfit with bohemian and rustic touches.
Style(s): 10010739
Lifestyle: Western
Material: Polyester
Color: Pink
Product Weight: 1 lbs
Print Ariat International has been providing boots since 1993. Co-founders Beth Cross and Pam Parker both realized in 1990, that many traditional English and Western riding boots were not suitable for equestrian riding. With their expertise and with a footwear background, they realized there was a need for improved riding boots for men, women and kids. Using their knowledge in athletic footwear, they began making performance enhancing changes to their riding boots, giving these athletes an edge. Ariat Boots quickly became known as the most innovative and performance riding boots. They provide the same technology in men's riding boots, women's riding boots and kids riding boots. They totally redesigned the traditional outsole, arch support and last shape and took Ariat Boots to the next level in riding boot technology. While building the technology into these western riding boots, Ariat had hundreds of top riders help design and develop their final product. Today Ariat is the world leader in performance equestrian footwear as well as offering the most stylish western boots on the market. Ariat Boots offers a wide range of products from English and Western riding boots, work boots and casual boots. Their forward thinking and performance lines outfit today's most avid equestrian riders and enthusiasts. If you are the professional rider who absolutely demands performance boots or the novice who likes to ride around from time to time, Ariat definitely has the boots for every man, woman or child. We have all of the top styles including the Fatbaby boots, Heritage Western, the Dixie and the QuickDraw. These styles are all must have for men's western boots, women's western boots or kids western boots. The casual look and performance driven Ariat Boots will provide you with long comfy rides in the country or a relaxing day in the sun. Get yours today!


text:
(Geruton: Guuijin no Kugutsu) – Gel Release: Manikin drones
Rank: S
Type: Offensive, Supplementary, Defensive
Range: Short - Mid
Chakra cost: 40 (+ 10 per extra drone)
Damage points: 80 (if orbs used as direct attacks)
Description: The user will manipulate their chakra to create clear like bodies that are capable of being used in many ways. They attain a body that is resistant to taijutsu and absorbs the blows reducing them to nothing and in doing so can cause the opponent to be stuck. They can act on their own and can be used to attack or defend against the opponents by being used as a shield. They can shoot from their body orbs of gel that can be used to deal damage by having a strong density or can be used to disable the targets movements.
Note: Can only make a maximum of 2 manikins each time.
Note: Orbs of Gel count towards the users 3 moves per turn.
Note: can only be used twice with 3 turns before each use.
(Shainingumizu no Jutsu ) - Shining Water Release Technique
Rank: C
Type: Offensive, Supplementary, defence
Range: Short - Long
Chakra cost: 15
Damage points: 30
Description: The user is able to manipulate shining water chakra to create a multitude of attacks, from projectile bullets, flowing river of water, shields or walls of water.
-Declined- separate this into jutsu for each object you mentioned (bullets, a river, shields)
(Shainingumizu: Dai Taka no Dama) - Shining Water Release: Great Hawk Bullet
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Range: Short - Long
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: The user will make the ram hand seal and then they will create a orb of shining water which will release a flash of light right before the release of a hawk of shinning water will be released at the opponent at a fast speed causing the target to be unsure of the approaching attack.
(Geruton no Jutsu) - Gel Release Technique
Rank: C
Type: Offensive, Supplementary, Defence
Range: Short - Long
Chakra cost: 15
Damage points: 30
Description: The user will manipulate their chakra to create multiple gel objects ranging from orbs or shields or dense projectile weapons of gel that can cause more physical damage rather than a supplementary affect compared to the gel orbs.


text:
Top Holiday Recipes, Lightened Up: Alton's Free Range Fruit Cakeby Dana Angelo White in Healthy Holidays, Meal Makeovers, December 23, 2010
Love it or hate it, 'tis the season for fruitcake! Alton Brown's version is a recipe worth trying, but all the brandy, dried fruit, and nuts can weigh you down. Here are 6 ways to lighten up this famously heavy holiday treat.
- Use smaller amounts of dried fruit – most average out to 350 calories per cup.
- Downsize the portion of nuts – they have up to 800 calories per cup.
- Cut skinny slices – each ounce has about 110 calories and 5 grams of fat. Plus, it lasts forever, so you don't have to worry about it going bad before you polish it off.
- Brandy-soaking is a fruitcake must, but each cup adds over 500 calories – use less.
- Slim down the fat in the cake using these tips.
- Top a little yogurt with crunchy fruitcake bits for a satisfying, seasonal snack.
TELL US: Is fruitcake a holiday staple in your house?
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »
You Might Also Like:
More posts from Dana Angelo White.


text:
• inveigle •
Pronunciation: in-vay-gêl • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: 1. Cajole or lure into doing something, to persuade using questionable tactics. 2. To obtain by cajoling or persuasion based on questionable tactics.
Notes: Today's word contains a superfluous "i" in its midst that is easy to overlook when spelling this word. This is the only caveat we have for inveigle. The person who inveigles is an inveigler up to inveiglement. There is not much else to say about this word.
In Play: From the Meaning above, we see that the sense of this word roves from inveigling people to inveigling things from people. Inveigling people goes something like this: "I don't know how I allowed May O'Naise to inveigle me into preparing a seven-course meal for her, but I'll never cook more than five courses for her again!" Inveigling things is slightly different: "I don't know how I let May O'Naise inveigle a seven-course meal from me but I'll never cook more than five courses for her again!" Either approach is fine.
Word History: Today's Good Word entered Middle English (1066-1485) as envegle "to win over by deceit, seduce", an alteration of Old French aveugler "to blind". The French verb is based on the adjective aveugle "blind, sightless", a descendant of Vulgar (Street) Latin *aboculus "blind" from Latin Latin ab "away from" + oculus "eye". It is probably a loan-translation of Gaulish exsops "blind" made up of exs "from" + ops "eye". Latin oculus turns up in several borrowed English words, such as ocular and the well-known two-eyed binoculars. In Old Norse the same root emerged as auga "eye". English borrowed the Old Norse vindauga "wind-eye" and honed it over the years to the window it is today.


text:
SANFORD, Fla. - A bold robbery caught on video shows a man break into a Central Florida motel and hold a gun to a woman's head.
Sanford police released the security video of the violent attack nearly two weeks after the man robbed the Budget Inn on South Orlando Drive just before 11 p.m.
"It appeared that he had cased the joint and he's seen this woman was working alone," said Sanford Police Captain James McAuliffe. "It was very bold. A person that does this kind of crime, I can only anticipate becoming more bold as he goes on."
In the video, the man smashed through a glass door, hopped the counter and headed straight for the clerk in back office.
But the clerk was not alone. As the robber held a gun to her face, her young son watched just feet away. Police said the robber knew he was there and even stepped on the boy's homework to get his mom to open the register.
The robber then ducks when an SUV drives by the front window, which may have scared him. The robber appeared to run off toward nearby apartments, but after that, police lost his trail.
Police fear the violent robbery may be repeated if the man is not caught soon. Despite wearing a black shirt around his face, police think a single clue may help catch him.
"One of his eyes appeared to have a bruise on it," said McAuliffe. "A guy with a black eye on Valentine's Day might stand out."
Copyright 2013 by ClickOrlando.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
BACK to full strength, Minety seconds proved too much for a 14-man Supermarine in Dorset & Wilts Three North.
At the half it was 26-0, with tries from Ashley Windle, Richard Garbett and Milo Hartley, plus one from Dellam Murray, who also kicked three conversions.
Playing down the slope after the break, Minety proved too much for a tiring Supermarine.
Prop Matt Hooper crashed over while Windle, Garbett and Hartley all added their second tries. Man of the match Windle added a conversion.
Gareth Snoad crossed to take Minety over the half century.
FOR MORE RUGBY NEWS, REPORTS & PICTURES SEE THURSDAY'S GAZETTE & HERALD AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @gazsport


text:
Tags :
#Konkona Sen Sharma
#Kunal Kapoor
#Madhuri Dixit
#Akshaye Khanna
#Aaja Nachle
Copyright Violation
Offensive or Abusive
Sexual or Pornography,
Hateful or Racism,
Violent or Repulsive
Rangoon - Official Trailer
Commando 2 - Official Trailer
The Ghazi Attack - Official Trailer
Emma Stone is on a roll!
New Song 'Kendi Menoo' From The Upcoming
Will Kajol And Dhanush Starrer VIP 2 Lalkar
Does Gurinder Chadha's Partition:1947 Reveal
Bareilly Ki Barfi Released Today But Was It
What is Karan Johar's secret formula for a
Pahlaj Nihalani's last stint as CBFC Chief
The 'Toilet' talk is not over yet!
Sushant Singh Rajput may want to go through
Leonardo DiCaprio has been the News maker,


text:
Treasurer Wayne Swan has challenged the opposition to reveal how much its election promises are going to cost once the federal budget numbers are released in May.
Mr Swan says the government will account for its big spending on education and the national disability insurance scheme through savings in the budget on May 14.
With the federal election date set for September 14, the opposition has no excuse not to reveal its costed policies after the budget is brought down, the treasurer told ABC TV.
"Failure to do so will very clearly indicate what their agenda is, which is not to put out detailed policies based on forecasts based on either information from the budget or the Parliamentary Budget Office," he said.
The opposition's strategy was to release as little of their costings as possible, he said.
"They're out there saying that they will have lower deficits, lower taxes and of course more spending," Mr Swan said.
"That is just a magic pudding."
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has said the May budget numbers will be questionable and the coalition would rely only on figures from the pre-election fiscal outlook (PEFO).
The departments of Treasury and Finance will release the PEFO 10 days after the writs for the election have been issued on August 12.
Mr Hockey said on Wednesday the coalition had submitted more than 50 initiatives to the Parliamentary Budget Office for costing, but it was struggling to get through them.
Finance Minister Penny Wong said there were no easy savings measures.
Ms Gillard said on Wednesday the government would announce savings in the May budget to pay for its investment in education and the national disability insurance scheme.
Senator Wong said areas where Labor had found past savings gave an indication of the party's approach in paying for future policies.
Previous savings had been made with changes to the private health insurance rebate, removing various tax breaks, such as the dependent spouse tax offset, and amending the arrangements for fringe benefits tax, Senator Wong said.
"They are yielding benefits to the budget now, but more importantly, they will continue to yield benefits to the budget in years to come to enable the room to fund other priorities," she told ABC TV on Wednesday.


text:
Was a metamaterial lurking in the primordial universe?
Jan 5, 2012 5 comments 2012-01-05T14:19:36+0000
A scientist in the US is arguing that the vacuum should behave as a metamaterial at high magnetic fields. Such magnetic fields were probably present in the early universe, and therefore he suggests that it may be possible to test the prediction by observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation – a relic of the early universe that can be observed today.
One of 2011's strangest predictions in physics was the suggestion by Maxim Chernodub of the French National Centre for Scientific Research that, at incredibly high magnetic fields, superconducting states can emerge from the vacuum. This was particularly interesting because one of the main difficulties facing scientists working on traditional superconductivity is preventing superconducting states disappearing in the presence of even moderate magnetic fields.
Soup of quarks and antiquarks
In April Chernodub argued that an extremely high magnetic field should make the vacuum superconducting along the axis of the field – with the vacuum remaining insulating in directions perpendicular to the field. This prediction was based on quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which describes the interactions between quarks and gluons. QCD treats the vacuum not as empty space but as a boiling soup of virtual quarks and antiquarks constantly popping into and out of existence. An up quark can combine with a down antiquark to produce a rho meson.
These rho mesons are normally so unstable that they vanish almost instantaneously; but Chernodub calculated that, at magnetic field strengths greater than 1016 T, the mesons would become massless and therefore stable. This, he predicted, would lead to a superconducting state. However, it would be impossible to test this in the lab today because scientists on Earth have real problems producing fields of more than 100 T.
Now Igor Smolyaninov of the University of Maryland has built on Chernodub's work to show that parallel magnetic field lines in a vacuum would arrange themselves to form a triangular lattice in the plane perpendicular to the field – much like an Abrikosov lattice in a superconductor. The vacuum near to each field line would be a superconductor, while the regions between the field lines would be an insulator.
Bizarre properties
This configuration is very similar to that of certain man-made metamaterials that are made from lattices containing regions of conducting and insulating materials. Smolyaninov has shown that this magnetic-field-induced lattice would function as a hyperbolic metamaterial. Such metamaterials possess the bizarre, counterintuitive optical property of having a negative refractive index and have been used to create superlenses capable of resolving features smaller than the diffraction limit imposed on normal lenses.
While physicists do not have access to magnetic fields strong enough to test Smolyaninov's theory, the magnetic field in the universe in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang may have been strong enough to give rise to Chernodub's superconducting state. The universe as a whole may, therefore, have behaved as a giant metamaterial superlens, argues Smolyaninov. Although he has yet to make a definite, testable prediction, Smolyaninov suggests that it should be possible to test the metamaterial idea – and, by inference, the whole idea of vacuum superconductivity – by looking for imprints of this lensing effect on the present-day structure of the universe, and in particular on the CMB.
"Right in front of my nose"
Chernodub is impressed and explains that while continuing to work on vacuum superconductivity, he had also been thinking about metamaterials in high-energy physics without ever connecting the two concepts. "Then Smolyaninov comes along and says 'Hey, you know your superconductor is a perfect metamaterial'," he laughs. "It was as if I was looking for a coin and he pointed it out right in front of my nose." He questions, however, whether or not the extremely hot, dense conditions in the very early universe may have been so far from the zero temperature and pressure model used in Smolyaninov's paper – and his own – that superconductivity, and therefore metamaterial lensing, would have been impossible.
Cosmologist Andrew Jaffe from Imperial College London is also sceptical about the potential to test the idea using evidence from the early universe. "I think there is one major sticking point, which is that many of the ideas for generating very strong magnetic fields would happen when the universe was small compared with the radius of the rho meson. Hence, I'm not sure that Smolyaninov's calculations would apply. By the time they did apply, I suspect the magnitude of the field would have been too small to have the vacuum-polarization effect."
The research is described in Physical Review Letters.
About the author
Tim Wogan is a science writer based in the UK


text:
Looking for more information about Ethel Stern?
Search through millions of records to find out more.
Search through millions of records to find out more.
1919 — Warsaw, Poland
Ethel was born to a Jewish family living in Warsaw. When she was 9, her family moved to the town of Mogielnica, about 40 miles southwest of Warsaw. Ethel's father spent much of his time studying religious texts. His wife managed the family liquor store. Ethel attended public school during the day and was tutored in religious studies in the evening.
1933-39: Ethel had always wanted to be a teacher. At age 14, after attending religious school in Lodz, she began to teach in the town of Kalisz, where her brother lived. There she was introduced by a matchmaker to Zalman Brokman, who first asked his rabbi and then Ethel's father for permission to marry her. In March 1939 they were married. When war began in September, Ethel returned to Mogielnica, six months pregnant.
1940-44: Ethel gave birth to a baby boy in January 1940 in Warsaw. By November, the Jews in Warsaw were confined to a ghetto. Ethel's husband traded gold pieces for food and goods. When mass deportations began in late 1942, those with sewing machines were allowed to remain in a factory to sew military garments, so Ethel's husband bought two machines. Ethel worked at the factory until it was liquidated in 1943.
In May 1943 the garment factory workers were deported to the Trawniki labor camp near Lublin. Ethel was never heard from again.
Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Citations
Anyone can contribute to this page. Please sign in or sign up—it's free.


text:
In February 2012, West Virginia University opened the $24.1 million, 64,000-square foot Basketball Practice Facility, allowing both the men's and women's programs to continue to reach new levels of success on and off the court, while honoring past achievement and tradition.
Split down the middle, the Basketball Practice Facility is symmetrical in that the men's side is a mirror image of the women's side. The only shared areas include the Hall of Traditions, a center conference room, the weight room, equipment room and training room. The facility was designed with easy access to each court from the locker rooms and athletic training room.
The facility, which is located West of the WVU Coliseum at the Red Gate, is equipped with:
Robinson/Petroplus Hall of Traditions
- Trophy and artifact cases that celebrate the history of men's and women's basketball incorporated with interactive touch screens, a theatre and displays to celebrate the timelines and history of each program
Central Atrium
- 14-foot high definition video board with a ribbon board
- Equipped with one and a half courts
- Gatorade Stations
- Treadmill locations
- Ipod docking stations
- Flatscreen TV with playback functions
Locker rooms
- Equipped with 15 lockers, which were modeled after LeBron James' locker when he played with the Cleveland Cavs
- Each locker is equipped with its own power supply and a shoe tower that holds seven different pairs of shoes
- Players' lounge with kitchenette suite, flat screen televisions with surround sound and computer stations
Athletic training room
- Underwater treadmill
- Hot and cold pools
- 103-inch television with smartboard capabilities
- Seating for 25
Weight room
- Fully equipped dumbbell rack with weights from 5-150 pounds
- Two cable pulley systems
- Various upper and lower body machines
- Two neck and grip machines
- Various training equipment including: kettlebells, chains, trap bars, log bars, farmers walks, atlas stones, physioballs, medicine balls, sandbags, jump boxes, ropes, and bands
- Cardio equipment including: Treadmills, stairmaster, and versa climber
- Gatorade hydration station
- Flatscreen televisions
- Built in Ipod dock and satellite radio
Offices and conference rooms
- Glass walls allow natural light
- All office rooms and conference rooms are equipped with flat panel televisions
- Staff offices overlook the court
- Video coordinator offices have camera balcony overlooking court
- The head coach suites include a three-way fireplace, lounge, outdoor terrace and balcony overlooking the practice court
Equipment room
- Equipment room stocked with team gear
- Mobile storage with a caster-equipped system
- On site industrial size washers and dryers


text:
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 10/5/2013 (1563 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Rachel Starkey has the enthusiasm of a travelling evangelist when she talks about her African-based textiles company.
"We're part of something. It's the next Google in terms of women in emerging worlds," says the Calgary native. "Transformation Textiles is the last thing I think about when I go to sleep and the first thing I think about in the morning," she says. "We have developed an incredible product that is revolutionizing girls in Africa."
And what's the product that will challenge Google for world dominance?
"The next great thing is underwear. And you're going, 'OK, what does this have to do with anything?' One in 10 girls in Africa, they don't have a pair. And all of my female counterparts, if you just let your imagination run with you a little bit until the middle of the month, what would you do without a pair of underwear? That's exactly what they do. They stay at home."
The former nurse says more than 850,000 Kenyan girls miss six weeks of school every year and women miss time at work. Girls drop out sooner, and many then marry very young.
"Something that gives them the ability to stay in schools transforms lives."
Starkey and her husband moved to Egypt 14 years ago. She started a small textiles company, employing 300 people. They began making cloth diapers but expanded into clothing. She says a light went on for her when she was walking through her city's textiles zone and saw all the scrap fabric destined for landfills. She estimates 60,000 kilograms of scrap are tossed each week.
"I thought, 'Isn't there something we could do with this? Can't we recycle it somehow?'
"When you're making mass production with a million T-shirts for Walmart or some big-box store, there's a million neck holes that are thrown away. When we did the math on a million T-shirts, you can get a quarter-million underwear without having any more waste of fabric."
Starkey already knew African girls and women have limited access to sanitary hygiene products. If they're available, they can't afford them. Even if they had them, many women don't own underwear.
She came up with a tie-on design that will fit every woman but doesn't depend on elastic that can break down in the African heat. Reusable cloth pads slide inside. A full kit of two pairs of panties and six pads costs about $5. They'll last three years.
The panties are easy to make, using the cut-out scoops of fabric from T-shirts and other clothing. She says 16 of her staff have produced 500,000 pairs of underwear.
"We're not making Gucci bags here. It's very, very simple."
Transformation Textiles has two pilot projects underway. The first has 10,000 kits packed into rain barrels and sent to Malawi. The barrels keep the underwear safe from pests and rain and can be used by communities when they're empty. The second pilot has 30,400 pairs arriving in Kenya for distribution. There, Starkey's company is working with Zana Africa, a non-profit dedicated to helping African girls thrive.
Any proceeds from the pads will fund health, education and policy initiatives.
Starkey says she pays her workers not just a "fair" wage, defined as comparable to other factories, but a living wage.
"I ask them their dreams. That's the second question, after their name."
She would like to see the menstrual kits work as a micro-financing program, with profits being turned back into production. She says she isn't planning to get rich from the next great thing.
If you're interested in learning more, Starkey will be speaking at an African-themed dinner at 6 p.m. today at Calvary Temple.
A Winnipeg chapter of Transformation Textiles is in the process of forming. Their email is firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
SPECTATORS lined the streets of a small Dales town to catch a glimpse of some of the world's top cyclists yesterday (Saturday).
Thousands of people descended on Hawes and packed into its cafes and shops as the Tour de France rode into town.
Many waited for hours to bag the best views and were not left disappointed as the 198 riders whizzed past at around 2.30pm.
Organisers said a staggering 10,000 people were on Buttertubs Pass, which featured as one of two King of the Mountains climbs on day one.
Aged 42, Jens Voigt is the oldest rider in this year's race but the German crossed the top of the pass almost three-and-a-half minutes ahead of his closest rivals and more than four-and-a-half minutes in front of the peloton.
But it was 26-year-old Marcel Kittel who won the yellow jersey for the 118-mile stage, which began in Leeds, as he broke away in the final straight in Harrogate to a rapturous applause.
It was a disastrous end for crowd favourite 'Manx Missile' Mark Cavendish who was involved in a multi-bike crash at the sprint finish. 'Cav', as he affectionately known, was taken to hospital and there were fears he had broken a collarbone.
Tests revealed the 29-year-old had infact dislocated his right shoulder and suffered ligament damage.
The Omega Pharma - Quick-Step rider pulled out of the race Sunday morning.
Defending champion Chris Froome, of Team Sky, finished sixth.
- Born in 2017: Meet South Lakeland and Eden's newest arrivals
- 'Speed table' to be installed on Aynam Road at Kendal
- Three historic South Cumbrian pubs feature in new Campaign for Real Ale book
- Ulverston man delivers perfect proposal from the sky
Among those watching in Hawes was Ian Nicol, headteacher of Leven Valley Primary School with his children Holly, nine, and Callum, seven.
"We came to soak up the atmosphere," he said. "It was a chance to see an international event close to home that we couldn't pass up."
Joining him was Keith Morris and wife Ann, of Allithwaite, and Paul Platt with his nine-year-old daughter Katie.
"We just had to be here," said Keith. "It is a real sense of occasion."
Elsewhere friends Jody Ketteringham and Vi Tar, both 36, drove up from London and slept in a lay-by overnight.
"I've been to a few tours and was on the Champs-Elysees when Chris Froome won last year," said Jody. "We chose to come to Hawes because of the climbs and being in the countryside is great."
Meanwhile businesses in the town have reported a boom in trade - with many spectators choosing to camp or stay in B&Bs overnight.
The five-bedroomed White Hart Inn on Main Street served 100 meals Friday night and customers were filing in for their hearty breakfast since 6am yesterday.
"The Tour de France will put Yorkshire on the map," said landlady Pat Kirkbride. "Pictures of Yorkshire will be beamed around the world. It's just fantastic."
Butchers and bakers J.W. Cockett & Sons opened two hours early to help fill the stomachs of cycling enthusiasts.
"It's really good for the town," said one of the three partners in the business, Louise Firmage. "The way the town has pulled together to decorate it is incredible. It will create a really good impression."
And Richard Allen, owner of Elijah & Son convenience store, said: "I don't think people in Hawes have seen anything like this before.
"People have really got behind it and a lot of effort has been put in to make the town look great."
If you have any pictures send them to firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
You have no items in your shopping cart.
- Home
- Brands
- KitchenAid
KitchenAid Stand Mixers and Appliances
KitchenAid's celebrated stand mixers, which include the KitchenAid Artisan and Kitchenaid Professional 600, are among our best sellers here at Everything Kitchens. All of our KitchenAid mixers, home blenders, coffeemakers, and other small appliances are sold new-in-box with full warranty coverage through the manufacturer.
There are no products matching the selection.
KitchenAid Mixers, Blenders, and Housewares
Shop By
Currently Shopping by


text:
Flames NewsFlames Home > Field Hockey Home > News
Field Hockey NCAA Tournament Selection Show Highlights
On Sunday night, the Liberty Lady Flames field hockey team, along with members of the Liberty athletics staff and friends and family of the team, gathered together to watch the NCAA Field Hockey Tournament selection show.
During the evening, Nick Pierce of the Liberty Flames Sports Network was able to catch up with head coach Jodi Murphy and get her thoughts on the Lady Flames NorPac title run and their NCAA play-in game against No. 17 Delaware. Pierce also interviewed Liberty's three All-Tournament team honorees Natalie Barr, Bethany Barr and tournament MVP Ann Jefferis.
The Lady Flames will square off against the Blue Hens on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Delaware's Rullo Stadium. Liberty (17-4) punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament by upsetting No. 10 Stanford, 2-1, on Saturday to claim the NorPac Championship title. Delaware (16-4) earned a berth into the NCAA Tournament by winning the Colonial Athletic Association title on Sunday with a 5-1 victory against Northeastern.
A full preview of Wednesday's NCAA play-in contest to come tomorrow on LibertyFlames.com


text:
Owen Farrell is not Jonny Wilkinson. Nor should we want him to be. Farrell is not a saintly figure, a man inclined to turn the other cheek, to hit hard and walk away.
He is a spiky, niggly, forthright character, out to rile the opposition, to put them off their game by any means possible. He is a scrapper to Wilkinson's fighter, inclined to mix it as much as for his own ends as for anything achieved in putting off an opponent. Wilkinson's warrior spirit extended to dumping his man on the deck with a rib-cruncher.
Farrell has the same heavy-tackling ability, yet he is not content to leave them gasping for air on their backsides. He has got to ruffle their hair as he runs past.
It is not a distraction for him, an unnecessary add-on to his physical impact on a match. For Wilkinson it is enough to impose himself in the tackle. For Farrell it is not. Let us not neuter him. Let us not corral those tendencies. They are what make him what he is - a raw-edged competitor with a tough inner core and an on-field presence that already makes opponents ponder the value of coming down his channel.
To argue that he ought to be concentrating solely on his game and not on winding up the opposition, as he did several times at Twickenham on Saturday, is to miss the essence of the man. He felt he needed to roar into the face of Yoann Huget, the France full-back. He felt he needed to give Morgan Parra a dig as he ran past as payback for some previous entanglement. It stokes his inner fires. It puts him on edge, antennae tuned.
Did Farrell overstep the mark? A referee or a citing commissioner will decide that. That fine line is not a fixed point. Some officials let things go, others do not. On this occasion, for the little contretemps with Parra, Farrell is in the clear.
Only if he is sanctioned will Farrell react and rein back if he needs to, for there is one thing that can be said with certainty about him - he is in it to win it. If his actions cost his team yardage or points or a man in the bin, then Farrell is savvy enough to realise what would need to be done. He does not do any of these things for selfish gratification. He does it to give himself, and therefore his team, a better chance of victory.
You may groan at some of his antics. You may tut-tut about a supposed lack of grace and sportsmanship. Well, if you do, do not bother cheering when he flattens Mathieu Bastareaud. Do not throw your hat into the air as he bangs yet another penalty through the posts. For the Farrell who is performing these feats is the same Farrell who is being an occasional pain in the butt. You cannot admire his mental toughness in one breath then decry him in another for apparent petulance. They come from the same source. Farrell has been praised for a maturity beyond his years (21). He cannot be a wise old head as well as a childish pillock.
His game has always been based on competitiveness. Those who have known him since he really was a youngster testify to that hard-nosed temperament being present from an early age. He was way beyond his peers in that, never fazed on the field, never affected by pressure, never intimidated. That is what made him a prodigy - the ability to deliver under duress.
This is not the mark of a man prone to fits of pique, to someone losing his poise just because he is jostled or hit with a cheap shot. Farrell is in the mix, loud, ratty, energised, because that is where he wants to be. And, crucially, because that is the environment in which he is most potent and productive.
As for the notion that opponents might target him in an effort to exploit that temperament - well, let them. That is what Farrell wants. He has not yet allowed things to spill over. As for any skirmishes putting him off his stroke, take a look at those kicking stats and come back with a better argument. One moment a firebrand, the next a metronome.
Aggression is in the genes. His father, Andy, was a brute of a figure on the field. He is now the same as a coach, drawing people to him by his very presence in their midst, inspiring them with his steely outlook. Owen is chiselled from the same block. Yes, he may get a clip round the ear from the old man and be told to watch himself. More likely, he will be told to continue getting into people's faces.
Test rugby is not muscular ballet. It is about collision and confrontation as much as it is about feint and sidestep. Never a backward step.
The Farrells realise that. You do whatever it takes. So let us leave Owen Farrell alone. Value him for how he is and what he is. His worth is considerable.
The Telegraph, London


text: You can see by the name that Eero Niemela is Finnish but for all practical purposes, this kid is a born-again Canadian, complete with the lifted truck, modified snowmobile, and the Squamish tuxedo to prove it. Since earning TransWorld's Rookie Of The Year award back in 2005, Eero has spent every winter of his pro career in the powder proving ground of the legendary Whistler backcountry. Through relentless exploration and filming in the Canadian alpine, Eero has emerged as one of snowboarding's most consistent and versatile backcountry badasses. From the blind drops to the car-sized pillows to the massive natural step-downs the region is famous for, Eero always holds his own. And there's plenty of evidence out there showcasing Eero's ultra-smooth, anything-goes approach to shredding pow. The long list of video credits include seasons spent with Whiteout, Mack Dawg, TransWorld Productions, and The People Crew, as well as annual appearances in the underground 8-Mile Crew movies created by his close friend Mikey Rencz. As Eero continues to push his riding on his own terms among a supportive and talented crew of his peers, the confidence and style apparent in his riding extend to his off-hill activities, where he spends his time golfing, surfing, and pursuing the good life with uncanny ability and a permanent smile on his face.


text:
'K' Words #2Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In this teaser I have provided you with some simple sentences that contain words with the letter 'K' in them. The problem is, I have deleted the word (except for the letter 'K' itself). Your job is to figure out what the missing word is. Have fun!
1. Three consecutive ---- K -- is called a --- K -- .
2. For many years, Massachusetts has been served by Senators K ------ and K ---- .
3. At the delicatessan, he ordered K --- K ----- with ----- K ---- on his sandwich.
4. The --- KK ----- --K --------- the errors.
Answer1. striKes and turKey
2. Kennedy and Kerry
3. Knockwurst (or KnacKwurst) and sauerKraut
4. booKKeeper and acKnowledged
What Next?
See another brain teaser just like this one...
Or, just get a random brain teaser
If you become a registered user you can vote on this brain teaser, keep track of
which ones you have seen, and even make your own.
There are no comments
Back to Top


text:
Sign into your email account to send this page to a friend:
Outlook, Apple Mail
or other default program
When you have a John Deere, you have the John Deere dealer network at your disposal. You'll appreciate the difference you'll see in the knowledgeable sales staff, the certified service technicians, and the well-stocked parts inventory.
View a list of all technical publications for this product. Some Operator's Manuals are available for viewing in electronic format.
Look up parts quickly and easily using the John Deere Parts Catalog.
We strive to ensure that John Deere products are of exceptional quality. Safety is our top priority.
"We've seen them do things that none of our other pieces of equipment can do out here." Peter Schmidt of Forest Trotter Contracting
"You can double and triple up your drags and be able to handle it comfortably." Dustin Clauson of Clauson Logging
"It's a heck of a machine." Mitch McGill of McGill Timber Company
"We can rely on the John Deere skidders to get the job done." Frank Krammes of Frank Krammes Timber Harvesting and Excavating


text:
Inspired by Toby, I set out this morning to procure some pork chops. These are just a tad different however from what one may ordinarily be accustomed to seeing. These come already smoked, as the package indicates:
To the pit... started them indirect, then finished direct
My goodness, these were the bees knees! My thanks to Toby for making me get them. Tasted like "ham chops." Plated them with a nice big hot potato with crema and chives, and special imported green beans from France.