i like venison broil. like london broil. the humanization, they used this throughout the conference call. the humanization of pet trends. humans are feeding human food. i had dog food early on in the series of the shows and i did throw up. anyway, even though the quarter wasn't so hot, petsmart still posted double-digit comps in their higher margin categories, which means this trend of people spending a fortune on their pets, it's not going away. it's very much intact. and petsmart isn't just a retailer. they also provide all sorts of pet-related services. do you know the company has a kennel business with 196 pets hotels, many of which would be considered at least four stars in a canine tripadvisor. as well as a vet business, 791 vet hospitals. but it's services like these that keep people coming back to the stores because they can't be duplicated online. you have a pethotel.com? no! over the past five years they have been optimizing their assets via better merchandisers. a lot of the moves we've seen from home depot. and i

she would turn the stove on all the way to broil, and it would heat up like a furnace, and then she would turn it off, and then put her stuff in and cook it. if it got too cold, she would turn it on again. it drove my parents crazy, but she made wonderful food. she was never going to learn this technology, but she had adapted to it. we recognize that people do that. if people have something that works, you leave it alone. another issue that people have on computers is -- and it is a real frustration for a lot of seniors -- that things do not show up in the same place. we try to set up people's computers so that it is recognizable. if you are using a macintosh, and it has the dock that has all the controls on it, you set it up so that it is always visible. you put the icons in place so they will always show up, so they are always recognizable. i gave my mother recently and ipad, and it is a brilliant piece of technology for seniors because it only has one button on the front of it. if you do not know what to do, you press that and go back to the home screen and start over. she really loves

conversation came over lentil vegetable soup and broiled sea bass served with roasted vegetable ragu. >>> just the night before the president dined, 12 top republican senate members, all those senators described the talks as optimistic. boehner added "if" to the dialogue. >> i did have a conversation with the president about last friday. it was really kind of interesting that this week we've gone 180. now he's going to -- after being in office now for four years, he's actually going to sit down and talk to members. i think it's a sign, a hopeful sign. and now i'm hopeful that something will come out of it. but if the president continues to insist on tax hikes, i don't think we're going to get very far. >> president obama has signed a bill that not only renews the violence against women act but extends the law with new protections for victims of rape and domestic abuse. the bill which first authorized in 1994 now offers programs to native americans, members of the lgbt community and undocumented immigrants. in signing the legislation the president dedicated the moment to those who have

on the other hand, you've got 30 windows, and the sunshine in the day could just make the place broiling. and at night all of those windows let in the cold. so they advised people to put up curtains. they'd have little oil lamps, coal stoves, little oil/coal stoves. but it was a challenge. it was sort of part of the romance i think. it's like camping. >> how long did the fad last? >> the height of it, this all really takes off around 1897, 1898. the height of it is really the turn of the century. 1900 we're talking about 200 cars. after the earthquake in 1906, that's when it starts declining a little bit because more conventional houses start taking over and more people live permanently year-around. they're not just using it as a party pad. so it's after the quake it starts declining a little bit. >> is there a d.b.i. record as cable cars were moved to a site that there wou before the earthquake, you often don't have a record. then, yeah, you're right. it goes down to some of these pictures i found by basically finding the names of people who lived in carville and then tracking down thei

senator robert menendez of new jersey was not too long ago when broiled in a sex scandal two prostitutes in the dominican republic gave interviews claiming he paid them for sex the started as a conversation about men and his is other inappropriate actions including a look into his relationship with a donor in florida and then does allegedly flew on the donor's private jet to that in dominican republic a few years back but that may be where the wrongdoing as turns out those women were paid to say what they said about the senator or so they say and now looks like mendez is bouncing back take a look at this poll from the quinnipiac university poll and institute it has he has jumped four points in overall approval approval ratings since being exonerated just this week on charges of underage sex they project that this will climb another ten points but even politicians who admitted to sex scandals found their reputations pretty easy to rebuild and one glaring example former president bill clinton he was impeached for lying to a federal grand jury and remarkably left office with a historic sixt

broiled kebabs and pasta and boiled veggies are on the menu during the voting process.xt leader of the roman catholic church is chosen, white smoke will rise from the historic chapel. >> catherine: take a look at this. a golfer in illinois -- swallowed up by a sink- hole. mark mihal fell 18 feet while on the fairway. his friends first tried getting a ladder -- then one of them went into the hole to rescue him - using a rope. mark hurt his shoulder - but is otherwise ok. he says he noticed a little depression in the ground. and it just gave way. mark says he was holding onto mud -- hoping it wouldn't give way again. sinkholes are common in south-western illinois - as many as 15-thousand have been recorded. but most don't take golfers down with them. this of course follows the florida sinkhole a couple weeks ago that killed a man while he slept. >> jacqueline: to take a look at the current temperatures. it is pressing to the golden gate. along the coast from reduced visibility however, we are going to see the wind died down. we will take a look a your favorite temperature

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yes. >> i love that i can broil it. i love that i can go up to 500 degrees. it's terrific. worry about it. >> the fact that the temp-tations can go right from the freezer to the oven, without having to worry about it cracking, chipping, breaking is amazing. >> you can get a lot in this one baking dish without it taking up a tremendous amount of room. but, something you've probably never seen before is that you can now take this, which is a cutting board. you could use it as a cookie sheet, you can make your quiche on this if you wanted to or serve it on here. but now you can go ahead and put a lid on your 13 x 9 baker. >> all: wow. >> so now imagine doing your lasagna and doing all your garlic rolls right on top and cooking this at the same time. >> can you bake on the top, too, as well? >> you can bake on the top absolutely. you can cut on it. it's the same beautiful temp-tations stoneware. so you can cut on it. it's gonna be naturally non-stick. forget about these metal cooking sheets. you can make your cookies right on here, if you want to. there's nothing that you can't

also talking about all of the scandal and broil the catholic church.egations of gay rings of graft of corruption. all these allegations swirling around nut pope whoever he is going to have to get a grip on that and also suggestions of major reform within the bureaucracy of the vatican. so we're very full agenda here. some of the cardinals haven't even arrived yet. but most of them have. there are a few that have still going to turn up who will vote. about 106 of the 10 1--- 115 that will vote here. when they're all here, perhaps tomorrow we will get a date for the conclave and finally know who the new pope will be. >> a quick question, we do have a little bit of delay but i know that there has a lot of tourism at vatican. is that being impacted at all? >> reporter: they haven't actually shot the sistine chapel yet because it's up to the general congregation to set the date so there's still people coming and going. this will be all locked down pretty soon. but right now still open and plenty of service around the rest of rome. >> all right. thank you. >

necessarily what everybody is sort of looking at him through the lens of this scandal that hazem broiledmessy. do you agree with that? >> i think what we'll see with the book deal, he's shopping around washington, trying to tell the broader story, put his career in perspective and create a narrative that does talk about petrae petraeus, the general, petraeus the cia director, and petraeus the man who made a mistake. i think he's trying to move on. >> lee, you attended the speech he gave -- or dinner i guess he was attending the night before, and you had an opportunity to talk to him, because you know him personally. what did you talk about? did he give you insight into his future? >> yeah, he really hosted a dinner for all of the rotc staff at university of southern california. and his focus, he really opened it up to us, if we had questions for him. you know, as part of the military profession, he knows he's had some great experiences and he wants us to -- really gave us the floor to ask questions. but the focus really was on the military profession, on moving forward and some questions

squeeze out the moisture and lay them down on bread, lay slice of your favorite cheese on top and broilt melts and you're sort of good to go. but you know, great food ideas can be super simple. we feel in our hearts like everything has been tried before. and maybe it has. but you know, you might not have tried it. good ideas need reinventing presenting again you know, it is wonderful to realize that we're not at the end of the line as far as food creativity is concerned. all it takes is to open up an old cookbook from 1919 to see some pretty wild ideas. >> peter: how many of these sort of ideas -- because a lot of people look -- some people call it lard core, the cooking coming from the south. other people just look to the southern region of america as the hot food thing right now. you guys have been doing it for awhile. these are not new groundbreaking ideas. >> yeah. >> ted, you go ahead. >> yeah, i mean the thing is what's exciting about looking to the old books is that you see ideas there that really haven't been addressed in awhile and we do that in our books. try to reach back int

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