You get what you set out to do.

The rate of obsolescence in computer and electronics industries is so incredible that you have vast quantities of waste entering the waste stream, and the infrastructure to deal with that hasn't developed.

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

He's a very good mentor. I want to continue what we started in Tom's office in encouraging agricultural entrepreneurship and value-added agriculture issues such as energy. We're off to a great start with the ethanol industry. I think we're at the dawn of an exciting era in agriculture.

Conditions in our end markets continue to point to an extended, strong global mining cycle. We face the challenge of increasing capacity to meet demand, while managing a tight supply chain.

We believe this capital cycle in mining equipment is different from those in the past two decades, specifically in length and strength,