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This week's writing prompt takes us to a future filled with flying cars and the sky-high gas stations that service them. See if you can come up with a story set at this aerial station, which sells both fuel and fried dough.
This piece, by Alejandro Burdisio, is just one from his series of flying heaps of junk, via The Art of Animation. This is actually the second prompt I've posted featuring a gas station; what can I say? I love stories that intersect with road trips.
Here's my story. Post yours in the comments.
Maribel set down her horchata and slid open the window, the scent of exhaust assaulting her nostrils as the outside air flooded in. She pulled up her oxygen mask and smiled with her eyes, the way her mother had taught her. "What can I get you?"
The driver didn't bother rolling down his window; instead his face—pale, hair greased back—appeared on his window screen. "Your pumps are locked down," he said, frowning.
Maribel leaned onto the counter, strumming her mask with her fingers. Her mother would have scolded her, but this guy wasn't here to buy churros. "We hit our cap for the day. Come back tomorrow. Early." She reached for the window handle, but the man interrupted her.
"Your secondary pumps are open."
She shrugged. "Well sure," she said. "That's for mass transit vehicles. You got a common carrier permit, you're welcome to welcome to use those pumps."
A gold credit key appeared in the driver's hand. He tapped it against the window, as if he were merely fidgeting with it instead of waving it before Maribel's eyes. "You can operate the pumps."
"If I want to lose my operator's license." She leaned out the window, pointing north northwest. "There's a Ho Lin Petrol station about an hour's putter from here. They've got twice our cap."
"What about your private stockpile?"
Maribel froze. "What about it?"
He stopped tapping the key, bringing it instead to his lips. "I know all you gas stations have your own fuel supply in case you need to suddenly relocate." Maribel didn't like the way he said that last word, all silky and slow.
"We do, but it's not graded for sale."
The gold key disappeared from view, but Maribel was certain it was as good as hers. "Miss," he said, "do I seem like a man concerned about government grades?"
Maribel's mother appeared a few minutes after the man left, bringing a lunch of rice and eggs. "Did I see a car pulling out of the garage?" she asked.
Maribel grabbed the steaming bowl, shoveling a forkful of rice into her mouth before setting it down on the counter. "He wanted a barrel from our private fuel supply."
Her mother whipped out a scolding index finger. "Maribel Yolanda Bettina Rivera!" she gasped. "Did you con that man into buying a barrel of used frying oil?"
PV's Story:
Gotta love the wacky things people get into nowadays. Flying cars that look like something out of that insane history book my kid brought home from school on his digi-pad! You wonder what makes me work this life? Well... its interesting!
Oh, I've been around a lot. Seen a lot of places, not just through history books. Most of the cities I've been in are something: all gleaming silver, high-tech and futuristic. But that's Noram and Souam. Out here, we're in the hind-end of the planetary dumpster. And people make due with what they can slap an old Aegis Repulsor onto for a few thousand creds. Be honest, though, its kind of fun seeing how people make due while trying to make due yourself.
My granddad used to tell me about the old buses they'd use in Africa, back when it was all backwards and people still had open land to argue over. Funny, calling it backwards - hellish was more what it was - people killing each other for no reason, or every reason - just none that would make sense to reasonable folk. Way too much hate, way too little care. Times have changed though. Now they're decent folk, and they've got their act together. Funny that way history works. Winners turn into losers. Losers turn into winners. But the common man is still the common man, no matter where you find him.
As for Panasia City, well its just a little better than the slime that squirms around most of the Asian Rot today - too much of it former Americans coming to pursue the 'American' dream in Asia. They run around trying to turn a cred at the expense of whomever they can backstab - complaining about the Noram socialist government or some such nonsense. Didn't they hear? Most of this land used to be Communist. Well... it was before these shining bright-eyed boys from the former US came in. They're the reason the city below us is what it is now.
Too bad, too. Noram is getting better. That civil war, the LA sprawl and NYC sprawl rebuilding everything into shiny cities... the central Noram plains being rejuvenated and whatnot. Then there's the Souam Jungles - last massive greenspace on Earth - and its being grown to massive proportions to make up for the losses elsewhere. They've pushed the cities out to the sea - which wasn't a big burden. Eventually though LA and NYC are going to meet in the middle, and start working their way down. Seems that the Capitalistas leaving just made everything in Noram better. But not as good as what Africa's managed.
Africa is mostly big city and desert, more city than desert anymore, and plenty of gear heads went back to the giant scrapyards on the coasts and harvested those old beat up 20th century buses and cars and brought them back here to the Asian Rot. Many a man from here turned a cred or two by helping the African's out, managed to wiggle free of the sludge and slime that flows through the streets just a few hundred meters below my little slice of heaven here. Lots of the people from around here that could afford to do so moved there. Those that weren't taken to the moon by the Chinese government, that is. Yep. Those lights you see on yonder moon? That's new China. All 1.8 billion of them. Strip-mined everything, built their colony ships, and left behind the Asian Rot.
Oh, what? I'm here complaining, running a gas station? Bah. You can throw just about anything into the Mighty-Mite fusion reactor and get useful joules out of it - enough to run that fiftieth-hand Aegis anyways. Truth be told, the fuel we sell is what we need to dispose of after running our primary business - that's the food stand. Big thing, we've got the least pollution on the continent here, and the gas station, people gotta fill up when they're filling up. Health inspectors from Noram gave it a five star rating, just goes to show that Noram's have some taste. Don't have any rad-roaches at least, and that's saying something considering some of the crud these truckers haul along with them.
Yeah, those truckers, they just want the chili, and are darned rude when asking for it - that clipped accent and stench of some burnt plant matter on their breath. Hasn't been real tobacco for almost a decade now, especially since the Noram tobacco farms were bought out and were buried about a thousand feet under the latest towers of New-York-City sprawl - last I heard.
Besides, those tobacco companies moved on to more addictive things - like vat-grown meat and such. Well... we don't buy from them, their VGM rots in the transport containers and has chemicals laced all through it. Probably kill you faster than anything those trucker's were smoking.
Anyways, these truckers, no respect for the guys in the line or at the window. Wonder how they'd feel if they knew that some of their joules were coming from the second hand deposits of last night's dinner, and I'm not talking about the stuff we liquified and pumped right into their tanks for 30 creds a litre.
The food decent folk get is a bit better than that. Really. We get awards for running one of the best diners this side of the clouds. Helps that the smog from Panasia City below doesn't really get this high, and that the air, while a mite thin, is breathable enough. Can't see the city though, old construction, only two towers over a kilometer, and none of those are in eye-shot. Storms something fierce, though - magnetic storms that linger over the industrial sections and sometimes reach out here. So we burn a lot of our own product moving around. People still seem to go out of their way to find us though. About 2,500 orders a day, about 2,500 fillups too. Pretty good work at an average of 50 creds a visitor.
Be honest, I like the life. I got a good staff - all of them former bio-bots of some sort. They're decent compared to most. Then there's my wife, she's been enjoying the quiet time up here. Especially late at night. See the stars and all... don't get that from the ground. Sometimes I take us out to sea - you can see the city-glow from the smog, but also get the stars pretty clear. We're not a 24 hour place, after all.
Still, one of these days, I might move my shop to one of those African cities. After all, not much left below except angry masses and those left behind. Eventually, the creds will stop and nothing much tying us here anyways. Be like the rest of the world and move on when the feeling rises. Sometimes the best things in life are the things you have yet to do.
We'll, got another customer and Frannie is too busy cooking up a batch of today's special. See you around.
AmonSemper's Story:
In 2118, Earth had finally expended it's natural resources. No longer were we able to simply waste our fuel on such things as cars and giant motors. No, oil and it's byproduce were a coveted scarcity now.
As we saw World War Three close in 2084, the Eastern Allied Nations having been beaten out of Siberia by a combined force of French, Russian and American forces, oil prices had skyrocketed. Drilling operations in the palatial frozen tundra continued to turn out what minuscule amounts of raw oil they could, which barely maintained Europe and America's consumption needs.
But even as the western world clung to it's past, the East in it's terrible defeat was forced to move on. Not only had the United Nations forced trade embargoes and prevented localized drilling, they had outright banned the production and consumption of oil to much of India, China, Unified Korea and Japan. Thus are the dues of being the aggressors.
In light of this development, the Eastern Allied Nations turned their eyes from the centuries-old standby of oil, and became increasingly dependent on alternatives: Solar, natural gas, bio-fuel crated from a combination of re-processed waste plastics and waste oil from produce. But slowly a new technology emerged, and it revolutionized the way the E.A.N. operated, and it would soon change the world. From a research lab lead by the top minds from Unified Korea, Japan, and India came a tiny, game-changing device. A small electric motor that ran on a super-dense oxygen battery, which used a set of powerful electro-magnets to equalize the earths magnetic field to it's own, essentially allowing it to hover several feet off the ground without the assistance of rockets or other propellants.
In their paper, published in The New Allied Nations Science Monthly, they were quick to point out it wasn't any sort of anti-gravity device, but rather a magnetic-defiance device. But it was to little effect, as papers and magazines all over the world bore the title and headlines of "Anti-gravity discovered, fuel issues to come to an end?", and "The End of Big Oil: Brought to you by Eastern Allied Nations?" - It was a world-changing discovery, and brought comparisons to the original iPhone, and to the later-released Google Glass for how it changed the market, and respectively the world in which it would operate. In the same way those devices had revolutionized personal and mobile computing, this would revolutionize transport on all levels.
And that's precisely what it did over the next several decades. After the researches patented it, they sold the rights to GE for a large sum of money. And with that single action, the world began to change. No longer were automakers looking for ways to squeeze the most efficiency out of the least fuel. No longer were airliners sweating over having to use hydrogen fuel instead of gasoline, and worrying about the associated risks.
And so as 2118 trickled around, we had seen the world changed entirely. Vehicles with wasteful rubber tires were a thing of the past. Emissions no longer clouded our atmosphere and we didn't have to choke each time the window was rolled down. In order to serve these new paradigms, charging stations became a common site along the skyline of massive cities, and out along country roads. Earth-bound fuel stations came to be a quaint and somewhat depressing reminder of the past, despite the fact that the new, off-ground models looked very similar.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to you then, reader, that our story begins in one of these off-ground stations, as a long black Lincoln Towncar, converted to the magnetic-battery system hovered in and docked with the charging station. The acrid smell of a cigarette waftes gently from the barely cracked window, and inside a man in a dark blue suit grins a grin that isn't quite welcoming, but more... dangerous.
ShirtBloke's story twists an old joke:
"Fill her up please."
"You're a new face round here."
"Yeah, just took over the route. I'll be a regular from now on."
"What happened to Harvey? Did he retire?"
"You didn't hear? Harvey died."
"Oh no! He was such a sweet old guy. How did it happen?"
"They say he died peacefully in his sleep."
"That's good."
"Which is more than you can say about his passengers."
"Oh no!"
yellowdingo's Story:
"Yeah...Whats a churro?" The guy with the overly burdensome rocket pack just seemed to hover at the hover-through window expecting a long conversation as to what it was he was going to pay twenty seven dollars for. Nemarati looked at the chart. A red X was painted over the black image of individual with large rocket pack.
"Sorry Sir, your vehicle is on our 'Do not Serve at the Hover-through' list. I'm afraid you need to come around to the counter to place your order..." Harvard had just been reduced to Pedestrian class.
"You do understand this is a registered vehicle in the eyes of the Law. This isn't some anti-grav belt you know. This is a Rolls-Royce MK 12 Rocket Pack." Nemarati looked up from the cooker having not heard anything the customer was saying.
"If you would care to preview our Pedestrian-Safe Menu for a moment and order when you are ready." The Attendant turned to serve the next in the hover-through.
angusm's Story:
"What," asked Blaine suspiciously, "are churros?"
"According to the 'pedia, they're a pastry made of deep-fried dough, fried until crisp and sprinkled with sugar," said Yolanda. "Food," she added, seeing that Blaine still looked confused.
He frowned.
"Doesn't sound very nutritious," he said.
"I think they were eaten more for enjoyment than nutrition."
Blaine shook his head in a way that implied ever so slightly that he thought Yolanda might be as crazy as the ancients had been.
"And we can make them with the raw materials that we have?" he said. Yolanda nodded. She had done her research before proposing the project.
In the end, Blaine gave in, as he always did. He always grumbled at first but in the long run he could never deny Yolanda anything. She hugged him and pressed the button that launched the nano-assemblers to execute the design she had prepared.
All night long, the floating station lurched and trembled as the nanos worked. She had programmed the assemblers to tuck the shack in below the main fueling area, perched on top of the reserve tanks. It probably wasn't very authentic, but she had to stay within the design constraints of the lifter modules. The trim compensators had a hard enough time coping with the quirky aerodynamics of the station as it was.
While the station reconfigured itself, Yolanda climbed into the biotank to make some alterations to her own appearance. Immersed in a warm soup of programmed enzymes and catalytic gene-tweakers, her skin slowly darkened to a rich brown. Her hair changed from honey-blonde to jet-black. Her nose became small and snub, and her lips realigned themselves to match those of the girl in the archive photo she had chosen as her model. There wasn't time to do anything about her height but she had programmed the machine to take a little weight off her hips and bust, giving her the gangly look of a teenager. When her physical transformation was complete, the manipulators in the tank carefully braided her thick black hair into two long plaits.
Wearing a pair of faded denim coveralls and a white T-shirt, she went down into the newly-built shack. Everything was perfect, just as she had envisaged it. The surfaces were scuffed and worn and there was even the faintest build-up of grease in the hard-to-clean places around the lip of the fryer. A first batch of churros lolled in their wire basket, slowly turning golden-brown in the hot oil. She reached for the sugar shaker, smiling in contentment.
The second batch was already drying on the rack when Blaine came down. If he was surprised to find that Yolanda had turned into a teenage Mexican girl overnight, he didn't show it. He rubbed his eyes and looked around the shack.
"Chop-chop," Yolanda told him, shaking sugar onto the second batch of churros. "First customer will be here soon. I left a program for your new look in the tank."
Blaine frowned.
"Dammit, I liked being Swedish," he said. Yolanda pouted unsympathetically. Blaine had a fondness for the Nordic look. If he had his way, they'd live out their whole lives as Scandinavians.
"Is this actually how these things looked?" Blaine asked.
"It's as authentic as it can be without putting it on the ground," Yolanda told him. Blaine shuddered.
"Let's not take it that far," he said.
"Let's not," Yolanda agreed. No one wanted to live on the ground among the toxic remnants of a dead civilization, wrapped in a miasma of wind-blown dust and chemical smog. Life in the clouds might have its downsides, but at least you could breathe the air.
Blaine had barely left to make his change when the first visitor of the day appeared, maneuvering his battered 2CV alongside the station with what he probably intended to be Gallic aplomb. Yolanda approved the authenticity of his beret and the replica Gauloise dangling from his lower lip.
"What is 'churros'?" the man asked.
Yolanda held up the most geometrically-perfect of the first batch, its golden sides sparkling with tiny crystals of sugar.
"They're deep-fried pastries," she said. "Quite delicious."
The mock Frenchman shrugged.
"I've already eaten," he said. He rummaged under his feet and came up with a flat white cardboard box, its underside slightly translucent with grease. A dab or two of melted cheese still clung to the lid. He held it for a moment, just long enough for Yolanda to see the red lettering and the crude graphics on the top of the box, then tossed it out of the window of his vehicle.
"Where did you get that?" Yolanda asked, as the empty box flapped open and began its slow descent, spiraling downwards to mingle with the other detritus that carpeted the ruined earth below.
"Air station about five miles west of here," the man said. "Nice place. All very authentic." He released the magnetic anchor and engaged the lift drive. "Well, 'bonne chance' with your pastries."
When Blaine emerged from the tank, his newly-black hair slicked back and his jaw dusted with dark stubble, he found Yolanda leaning against the doorpost with a murderous expression on her face.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"It's my sister," Yolanda said. "Bitch opened a pizzeria."
TinyPterosaur's Story:
You're on an island, tropical and wild. Jungle life surrounds you, great palms and crying monkeys and birds. The sand is white and pure, and the waters around you are filled with corals whose colors span the rainbow. Salts stings your nostrils as a cool breeze wafts over the sands, carrying the clean ocean spray, and the moon begins to rise over the dark, cloudless sky.
A figure approaches you, dark and alluring, clad in nothing but the ocean spray and flecks of sand that cling to a perfect frame. The figure reaches out, and strokes your cheek, and invites you-
God damnit, Miller thought. She'd been sure that this was a real dream and not one of the projected ads. The companies claimed that they only introduced dreams when you wouldn't otherwise have one, but she swore that she had fewer of her own dreams nowadays.
The sound of a voice from the real world crackling over the station radio shocked her to life and she flailed wildly to her feet, succeeding only in tipping over her chair and falling to the floor, landing painfully on her side.
"Uhhh..." She rolled onto her back, moaning and feeling the heavy vibration of the station's engines through the dirty, ash-stained floor. She sat forward, blinking and rubbing her side.
Well, at least now I'm awake, she thought.
"Miller!" The radio crackled again, and she groaned. Not who she wanted to talk to. Especially not who she wanted to have catch her sleeping again. She pushed herself to her feet, wiped some marijuana ash from her hands and clothes, and clicked the radio on.
"I'm here Boris, cool your jets."
"My jets are going to be far worse than cool if you don't get me some god-damn fuel!" The Soviet accent dripped vitrol even through the hazy radio static. "What, were you sleeping again? Can't even be bothered to turn on the auto-attendant?"
"Auto's broken." She said, swinging over to the control panel with its arcade-style control sticks. She moved one of the sticks with practiced ease, and outside the station, the manoeuvring rockets on the fuel arm piped to life, moving the boom out towards Boris' bus. "We've put in an order with the Xr for some new parts but we're pretty far down the waitlist."
Dust sifted from the rafters as boom connected solidly with the bus and started pumping. "You need learn to bribe better," Boris said over the radio.
"I'm not sure what I can bribe the Xr with." Miller snorted. "We already gave 'em the planet, what else could they want?"
"Dad, da, this is problem - now we have nothing to bribe them with. We already give biggest bribe. Perhaps you find Xr who enjoys human sex, you bribe with body. Always work for my sister when she need extra rations."
Miller imagined those long, cold claws on her skin, those segmented mandibles kissing her, and gagged. "No thank you. I think we'll do well enough without the auto attendant for now. I don't think there's anything that I would need desperately enough to fuck a Xr."
"Bah! You just wait until your primary repulsor goes and you fall out of sky. Then you will have wished to listen to Boris and find some Xr to fuck and give you best things!"
The boom rattled again and a button lit up on her panel. "Alright Boris, you're all full. Did you want a crate of churros before you left?"
"Bah, these things give me indigestion."
Tell me about it, she thought. The station shook again as she retracted the boom from the beaten up bus. "Alright, we'll see you next week."
"Farewell, capitalist pig!"
As Miller watched Boris fly away, smoke pouring from the alien repulsors tacked underneath the human-made school bus, she wondered what had become of their world. Miles below, the earth swarmed with aliens from another world, while humanity puttered through the sky on borrowed wings.
It was a poignant and profoundly depressing thought.
Like Icarus, or some shit, she thought. Somewhere, there had to be a Greek myth that perfectly foretold this situation.
A Citroen lifted up to the station, repulsors burning blue, and honked three times.
Well, she thought, at least someone wants churros.
corpore-metal's Story:
Chatuda and Tom looked at the same thing and each saw something different.
"I love the Mid-Century Modern of the station and the vehicles!" Tom enthused, his hat committing the images to long term memory, "It's like calling back to the futurist visions of the Twentieth."
It was an air race of whimsical vehicles, all hurtling around a floating service station one kilometer above Rocha, Uruguay. Bundled in warm clothing, Tom and Chatuda were sitting in an open air bleachers hovering at the same hight near the race course.
"It must cost ten to fifteen thousand commercials a day to keep that thing aloft and on station," Chatuda sneered. He was an engineer, and thus paid to worry about things everyone else took for granted. "Dirigibles would be far cheaper. It's a trivial waste of negative mass stabilizers."
"Come on, they're hobbyists! Let them have their fun!"
"Obviously it's a hobby," Chatuda flopped his hand dismissively in the direction of the 1955 Citroen zooming by leaving an entirely artistic and completely unnecessary trail of smoke in its wake, "These flying cars have no practical use otherwise. The futurists of the Twentieth Century were wrong. Flying cars weren't the future, robot ground cars were. And yet, again and again, they repeated these fantasies of flying cars and jet packs."
"Shut up and enjoy the spectacle!"
GORNMagazine's Story:
"Twenty on #5."
"...one more time and I will walk right the fuck out of there..."
"You should do it..."
"Lemme get two with custard filling, two plain..."
"Ten on pump 3."
"...catalyzer fried on this one- these guys would have been sucking monox in three more days."
"Gimme ten on pump 8."
"...so he comes at me with all three arms, and the tail, pinche cabron- what was I supposed to do?"
"It wasn't like this, back then- we had a sense of what was right. I signed up, my brother signed up, my cousins signed up. We were going to fix this...make it right. Now look- we're doing business with them like Wolf 818 never even happened..."
"I know you?"
"Yo, ten on pump 8!"
"Can I get two with chocolate?"
"New chronodelinator...new diff...fluids and gasses. Will that be cash or genome?"
"...three more cycles on the contract, and then my ass is relativistic, you get what I'm saying, guey?"
"Hey. what happens in Vega, stays in Vega."
"echo uniform sierra three quebec uniform romeo eight juliet echo tango tango bravo"
"Hey, can I get ten on pump number eight?"
"...and we're fully three parsec across demarcation, and suddenly two of their cruisers are on top of us, like the emp we dropped wasn't even there. You want to know why I think the treaty was bullshit?"
"...not really."
"Hey! Ten on eight!"
"...know anywhere a man might find a drink...and some company?"
"Two with cinnamon, please."
"...so you're telling me that not even six rotations after I have the warp variable replaced, now the entire four plane orientation transom has to come out, along with the smoker? Man, I'm just trying to get to my sister's in time for the hatching- that's like three systems over! I can't afford a major repair right now! I can barely even afford the rods to get me there!"
"Well, you could always take the bus..."
"Never mind. Fix It Again, Tchattatchakk."


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Perth Town Council has taken the bold, even if obviously necessary, step of creating a formal Downtown Heritage Conservation District.
It comes in the form of a by-law which outlines the boundaries of the district – North and Harvey Street (to the south) and Wilson and Drummond Streets on the west and east sides, respectively. There are also a few encroachments across these boundaries south of Harvey and north of North Streets.
A staff report to Council stated that by approving the Plan, Council would "ensure that the Town's heritage conservation objectives and stewardship will be respected; strengthen the relationship of our heritage brand and cultural tourism goals and objectives; ensure a culturally and economically vibrant downtown core; preserve the Town's built heritage; set the stage for the Town's 200th Anniversary celebration in 2016; ensure that guidelines pertaining to emergency preparedness are in place in the event of a natural disaster. (Ex. Town of Goderich)"
Well done Perth!

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I'm seeing something like this:
Jehora Jeheyu - Likes exchanges of damage, enjoys a little randomness, dislikes dirty fighting.
Brawler - 10 piety
Removes poison ability
Removes death protection
Removes dodge
Removes first strike
Removes life steal
Adds 10 max hp.
Strength - 25 piety
+5 physical damage.
Fight Club - 25 piety (repeatable)
Creates a random experience-giving enemy of your level, carrying a random item, nearby. It will disappear (and piss Jehora off)if you level up without killing it.
Lovin the Shovin - 30 piety
pisorf deals an extra 10% base damage.
fireball is replaced by a pisorf glyph(whether it is on the ground or in inventory.)
Whirlwind - 50 piety
You deal 25% of your base damage to enemies adjacent to your target.
Polymorph - 50 piety (repeatable)
Randomly change the type, but not level, of all enemies.
Piety start: Random between 10 and 5+ yourlevel*5.
Piety loss: (All avoidable if you use brawler)
Poison enemy, benefit from death protection, dodge, attack an enemy while you have first strike, steal life -5
Might as well make it a double whammy when intentional: use apheelsik, use cydstepp, use quicksilver potion,use getindare -5
Piety gain:
Use enddiswal, Use pisorf, use weytwut +1
Every 150 cumulative damage dealt +(random, 1 to 10)
Every 100 cumulative damage taken +(random, 1 to 10)
Desecration Penalty:
All enemies attack and hp increased by 0-15%.


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Book of Saints – Anne
(Saint) Mother of Our Blessed Lady (July 26) (1st century) Saints Joachim and Anne, both of the tribe of Juda and of the Royal House of David, are venerated by the Church as the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary It is believed that Mary was their only child, and the Mary mentioned in the Gospels as the sister of the Mother of God was in reality only her cousin, such manner of speaking being not unusual in the East. Holy Scripture makes no mention of Saints Joachim and Anne, but they have been honoured by the Church as Saints from early times. Churches were dedicated under their patronage, and the Fathers, especially those of the Oriental Churches, dilate on their privileges. The relics of Saint Anne are said to have been brought from Palestine to Constantinople in the eighth century. Saint Anne is usually represented as teaching her little daughter to read the Scriptures.


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New Era For The Hall of Fameby Beth Swift • September 18, 2013 Share:
This year at Homecoming the inductees are sports teams. With this in mind, here is a little background on the Hall of Fame coach of the 1908 basketball team to be honored at Homecoming, Ralph Jones.
This picture of Jones is from the Wabash Magazine of June 1908. Jones was inducted into the Wabash Hall of Fame in 1984. The write-up for that induction gives us a great look at this outstanding coach.
"Jones came to Wabash as head basketball coach in 1904-05 and was an immediate success with an 8-0 record, including two wins each over I.U. and Purdue. He coached the Crawfordsville High School team, the YMCA team and the local business college team, all at the same time, while guiding the Little Giants to a five-year record of 75-6 and two undefeated seasons (1905 and 1908). His 1908 team went 24-0 and was heralded "world champions" by the Indianapolis papers. Ralph coached football for one season in 1908 upon the departure of Francis Cayou. He went on to coach both sports at Purdue and the University of Illinois, then to Lake Forest Academy and on to the Chicago Bears, where he developed his earlier Wabash innovation – the Bear-T. His Chicago Bears won the NFL championship in 1932 in the league's first playoff game. He later accepted an appointment at Lake Forest College, where he coached all sports until his retirement in 1949. He passed away July 25, 1951 at the age of 70."


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Personal income rose in 2011 in all of the nation's 366 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for the first time since 2007. Personal income growth ranged from 14.8 percent in Odessa, TX, to 1.0 percent in Rochester, MN. Personal income in the United States rose 5.2 percent in 2011, up from 3.8 percent in 2010. Inflation, as measured by the national price index for personal consumption expenditures, accelerated to 2.4 percent in 2011 from 1.9 percent in 2010.
Odessa and neighboring Midland, TX—which ranked second in personal income growth for MSAs at 14.6 percent—had strong earnings growth in mining and related industries, while Rochester's personal income was affected by a decline in health care earnings.
For more information about personal income, read the full report.


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Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, and William Powell star in this crackling screwball comedy about a cut-throat newspaper editor's scheme to prevent a libel suit that ends up exploding in everybody's face. Tracy plays Warren Haggerty, the managing editor of a newspaper that mistakenly prints a story declaring the rich Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) has stolen away another woman's husband. Connie retaliates by suing the paper for $5 million. This happens right before Warren is about to marry his fiancee Gladys (Jean Harlow). As he has done several times in the past, Warren delays the wedding in order to stop the libel suit. Warren hires Bill Chandler (William Powell), a former employer who is desperate for a job, to marry Gladys in name only and then court Connie. That way, Gladys can sue Connie for alienation of affections and get Connie to agree to drop her lawsuit if Gladys will drop hers. Bill hops an ocean liner to accompany Connie and her father (Walter Connolly) back to the United States, but along the way Bill and Connie fall in love and Bill tries to convince Gladys to drop her suit so it won't hinder his relationship with Connie. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Petch House Noir
These are the photos I submitted with the application to add my house to the National Register of Historic Places.
"Forget it, Petch. It's Eurekatown."
These are the photos I submitted with the application to add my house to the National Register of Historic Places.
"Forget it, Petch. It's Eurekatown."
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Wow! What great details on your house. Boy would I love to have a house that looked like that. :) Good luck on the registry.
B & W is a good way to check to see if your color values are correct. Great pics. Good luck!
Great shots of great house.
Wonderful stairs! What detail!!
In picture 6, is that an image of a dog on the metal fireplace cover?
Also, what is the small cabinet near the wood stove in picture 7?
(dumb waiter?)
Aimee & Jen,
Thanks. That is a horse on the fireplace cover. He looks like he has been shot and there is a broken cannon in the scene as well. It is very dramatic, and at first I didn't care for it. Now, I really like it. I think it is Civil War inspired.
The little door rolls up in to the wall. It is between the dining room and kitchen and is used to pass food back and forth.
And not that you asked, but the reason I show 2 sunburst designs is because one is original and one is a reproduction.
The National Parks Service requires B&W photos. I was never sure why. In this case, because they are digital, they also want the color originals in uncompressed TIF format supplied on a CD.
I am on the mission to find some the "summer covers" for the fireplaces in our house. So they always catch my eye. Our house is missing 3. They must be pretty rare, because they seem to be quite pricy, when you find them. And most of the time they come with the surround. We have the cast iron surrounds.
The reproduction sunburst looks perfect.
One thing which I understand these "stick" houses excelled in were an excellent traffic and usage pattern inside. A good use of available space and traffic patterns. I would like your opinions on this.
That's interesting. Now that you asked, I don't think I've ever been in one of the tall narrow stick town houses I've been showing. I imagine that are much like the inner-city row houses of the day.
The best color pictures are often just black and white. You do some very nice work.
I used to use an old Mamiyaflex double reflex 120 camera. Light meter, manual shutter speed and aperture control, completely manual control all the way.
That built-in kitchen dining set brings back memories of my grandparent's old house on Pacheco Street in San Francisco. Bright yellow and white.
Thanks. Yea, I like the B&W. It really defines the detail.
When I bought the place, that little table was out b the trash. I asked why they were throwing it away. Answer: "Its old".
I suggested I put it in the garage and let me decide after I bought the place.
Did you finally decide if Petch house is Eastlake Stick Victorian? And while I am here why did you paint the down stairs bathroom floor green. Thanks.
The Petch House is Queen Anne all the way. The name confusion was about other the tall, narrow square bayed houses Mowry built. Those, it has been decided, are "Stick Town Houses".


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Glenn Beck's Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism, and Racism - by Stephen Lendman At a time of 24-hour news and a proliferation of television and radio talk shows featuring hatemongers and demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck may stand out as the most unhinged and extremist of all as evidenced by his jihad against anyone to the left of his views, disadvantaged minorities, Muslims, Latino immigrants, and progressive change in some of his most outlandish comments, including: -- calling Barack Obama a "racist (who) has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture; I don't know what it is....This guy is, I believe, a racist;" -- calling Van Jones "an avowed, radical, revolutionary communist," then saying "Jones is the tip of the iceberg" as part of his over-the-top campaign against anyone less extremist than himself; -- stating "The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell do you mean we're out of missiles;' " -- saying "We need to be the first ones in the recruitment office lining up to shoot the bad Muslims in the head....In 10 years, Muslims and Arabs will be looking through a razor wire fence at the West;" -- telling Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison to "prove to me that you are not working with our enemies;" -- advocating disposing of Guantanamo detainees by shooting them in the head; -- accusing Al Gore of creating a new "Hitler youth" by promoting environmental awareness, and called for kicking California out of the union; -- in 2003, telling listeners he was praying for a gruesome death for Democrat presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, and in 2005 saying he fantasized about strangling filmmaker Michael Moore; -- characterizing Obama's new regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, as a crazed animal rights activist who believes that rats matter more than people; and -- in September 2005, expressing open "hate" toward Katrina victims, calling them "scumbags" for not waiting patiently for emergency aid at a time their lives were devastated, and the Bush administration was forcibly removing them to distant locations, then preventing them from returning so predatory developers could exploit their neighborhoods for profit. In May 2008, a Media Matters Action Network report titled, "Fear & Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News" highlighted undocumented Latino immigrant hatemongering by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck, each making outlandish claims, including: -- an alleged connection between undocumented Latinos and crime; -- how they exploit social services and don't pay taxes; -- the "reconquista" myth about a supposed Mexican plot to take over the US Southwest; and -- an epidemic of Latino voter fraud. According to Beck, "It's time to wake up in this country. We are dealing with an illegal alien (read Latino) crime wave, and drug smuggling is just the beginning." He opened a special 2008 "Border Crisis" program saying: "America's border crisis. Rape, drugs, kidnapping, even murder. It is beginning to look a lot more like a border war....Every single illegal immigrant is guilty of a crime, every single one....Every undocumented worker (read Latino) is an illegal immigrant, a criminal and a drain on our dwindling resources." He added: -- "I've got a quick message for illegal aliens if you happen to be watching; you better start packing your bags; and to the politicians in Washington who are soft on illegal immigration, start packing up your office, because when the terrorists strike, which they will, and when we find out that they're here illegally from some other country, we will be telling all of you to get the hell out;" -- earlier he said "I told you about the five-part plan that I believe may lead to the end of the West as we know it; I called it my 'Perfect Storm;' one of the elements....is illegal immigration; it is still a great way for terrorists to come here and mess with us; but even if that doesn't happen....at the very least (they're) attacking our culture, and our way of life; they are not melting into our melting pot; they're here for the cash;" and -- "I also know our country is on fire, and the fuel is illegal immigration; they (threaten) our national security;" they come for "three reasons: one, they're terrorists; two, they're escaping the law; or three, they're hungry (because) they can't make a living in their own dirtbag country." This is what passes for American mainstream "journalism" that's in no worse form than from Glenn Beck - on Fox News, the radio outlets that give him a platform, and the sponsors that make his kind of programming possible. More on them below. Joe McCarthy's Earlier Jihad Against the Left In the 1950s, Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts against alleged communists, those on the left, and Democrat administration and other "subversives" included Secretary of State Dean Acheson whom he called "a pompous diplomat in striped pants," General George Marshall when he was Secretary of State for being "soft on communism" and being "a man steeped in falsehood," and many others on his so-called "blacklist." In 1950, with no proof, he said he had a list of 205 known communists in the State Department, later reduced the number to 57, but said they were passing secret information to the Soviets. He claimed: "The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government (and the private sector) we can give." He characterized enemies as "card-carrying communists." Others as "loyalty risks" or being "soft on communism." For political gain, he vilified patriotic Americans, created years of hysteria, targeted anti-American books in libraries and got them removed, then overstepped enough to be hung on his own petard with publications like the Louisville Courier-Journal reporting that: "In this long, degrading travesty of the democratic process, McCarthy has shown himself to be evil and unmatched in malice." On December 2, 1954 the Senate censured him and took away his power base. Later ill with cirrhosis of the liver from years of abusive alcoholism, he died a broken man on May 2, 1957. Today, the term "McCarthyism" is synonymous with baseless malicious slander, unscrupulous fearmongering, vilifying the innocent, accusing them of disloyalty, and calling them terrorists, Islamofascists, illegal immigrants, and unpatriotic for supporting progressive change and ideas to the left of right wing views. McCarthysim Redux Through the Right Wing Media Nightly on Fox News, Glenn Beck delivers some of the worst of it to his estimated 2.3 million faithful and millions more on The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show aired by Premiere Radio Networks (a Clear Channel Communications subsidiary) throughout the country on over 300 stations, according to a Premiere Speakers Bureau promo about him stating that his program "is presently the third highest-rated national radio talk show among adults ages 25 - 54." It said that he debuted on CNN's Headline News in May 2006 "with his self-styled topical talk show and quickly soared in popularity." CNN at the time called it "an unconventional look at the news of the day featuring (Beck's) often amusing perspective on the top stories from world events and politics to pop culture and everyday hassles." In early January 2007, he also joined ABC News' Good Morning America as a regular contributor with its senior executive producer, Jim Murphy, saying: "Glenn is a leading commentator with a distinct voice. At times, he is the perfect guest for many of the talk topics we cover on morning news programs." In 2008, Beck won the Marconi Radio Award for Network Syndicated Personality of the Year from the National Association of Broadcasters. Previous winners included Rush Limbaugh and Fox News' Sean Hannity. After his award, Premiere Radio Networks president, Charlie Rahilly, said: "Glenn's conversation with millions of Americans weekly on The Glenn Beck Program....makes him a familiar voice in our culture. We salute his work, creativity, and humor, and congratulate him on his genuine recognition by our industry." He regularly features guests like Karl Rove, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, and an array of the most extremist Republican members of Congress, others from right wing think tanks, and former Bush administration officials. His syndicator, Premiere Radio, is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the world's largest radio broadcaster, concert promoter, and billboard advertising firm. It's also a major player in US television and Spanish language broadcasting, and very much to the right of center in ideology. As one of America's most powerful media companies, it's played a leading role in destroying media diversity by airing the same content on many dozens of its stations simultaneously, suppressing everything not supportive of its views. In 2002, Clear Channel attracted the attention of Senator Russ Feingold and several other members of Congress over its anti-competitive behavior and alleged shady business practices. In 2009, the company remains a powerful force, ranking ninth among the top 20 US media companies ahead of The New York Times Co., the Washington Post Co., Hearst Corp., and McGraw-Hill. More on Beck's Background He's written three New York Times-listed bestsellers, publishes the entertainment Fusion Magazine, and tours the country twice yearly in his own one-man show to promote himself as a national institution. Instead of condemning his extremism, on December 4, 2006, The New York Times described him as a "tearful rising star" in calling him "brash (and) opinionated (with an) unfiltered approach (in) saying what others are feeling but are afraid to say." Writers Brian Stelter and Bill Carter said he "has a gift for touching the passion nerve (by) tapping into fear about the future." They quoted Old Dominion University's Jeffrey Jones saying Beck engages in "inciting rhetoric. People hear their values are under attack and they get worried. It becomes an opportunity for them to stand up and do something" without realizing how destructive Beck's extremism is to their own well-being. Even Beck once said about himself: "I say on the air all the time, if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot." His Premiere's Speakers Bureau bio says he debuted in radio at age 13 in Seattle, and grew up in nearby Mount Vernon. After high school, he got jobs "as a Top 40 DJ" in Baltimore, Houston, and New Haven, CT. It also explained that at age 30, he became consumed by alcoholism and drug addiction, then regained sobriety and "found a new direction." He remarried, became a baptized Mormon, and decided to pursue talk radio after being offered his own show on Tampa, Florida station WFLA-AM. In his first year, it became number-one rated, and within 18 months, Premiere Radio Networks offered him national syndication. In January 2002, The Glenn Beck Program debuted on 47 stations. Today, he's on over 300 as well as XM satellite radio. LDS Living Magazine (for Latter Day Saint Mormon families) provides more details about Beck's background. It said he was fired from his first three radio jobs in Washington State. Six months later, he returned on WPGC in Washington, DC. Was again fired. Then he became program director and "morning guy" on a small Corpus Christi, TX station. After two years of "moving around from city to city, he ended up in Baltimore." He also worked at WRKA in Louisville, KY and WKCI-FM in Hamden, CT. Three days after converting to Mormonism, he was offered his first radio talk show in Tampa. It propelled him to national prominence and his current positions at Fox News, his syndicated radio program (first from Philadelphia in January 2002, now in New York), and as a hot topic on other programs, including MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's war of words with Beck. He posted a September 6 request on The Daily Kos to "Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck." He added that he'll "expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enables, Ailes (head of Fox News)...." It may simply be a PR stunt to boost ratings and get added revenue for General Electric, MSNBC's owner, that certainly can stop this if it wishes. Sponsors Bailing Out on Beck To date, over five dozen decided they'll no longer be associated with his kind of antics, fearing, of course, it may harm their image and hurt sales and profits. In 2005, Van Jones (now inactive) and James Rucker co-founded ColorOfChange.org "to strengthen Black America's political voice" toward the goal of making "government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone." In the wake of Beck calling Obama a "racist" and attacking Van Jones, it sent a letter to his sponsors urging them to boycott "the kinds of views and tactics" he espouses and cease all advertising on his program. FoxNewsBoycott.com joined in as part of its campaign "to help people realize that Fox News Channel and its personalities are a detriment to journalism and journalistic integrity." It urges supporters "to boycott, not only Fox News Channel, but Fox News sponsors and companies that air Fox News in their places of business." To date, over 60 companies no longer advertise on Glenn Beck, including: -- AT & T -- Bank of America -- Bell & Howell -- Best Buy -- Campbell Soup -- Capital One -- Clorox -- Berkshire Hathaway's GEICO Insurance -- General Mills -- HSBC -- Johnson & Johnson -- Kraft Foods -- Mercedes-Benz -- Procter & Gamble -- Sanofi-Aventis -- Sprint -- Travelers Insurance -- UPS -- Verizon Wireless, and -- Wal-Mart Many others still advertise, but more keep pulling out, showing the effectiveness of the national campaign, backed by many tens of thousands of signatures from ColorOfChange.org and FoxNewsBoycott.com supporters. The Internet's power is real and proves when enough committed people back progressive issues, constructive change follows. If if works against Glenn Beck and Fox News, why not in a campaign to reclaim the kind of America people deserve and can have if they work hard enough for it. If not now, when? If not us, who? If not soon, maybe never? If that's not incentive enough, what is? Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15190
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U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Oct. 29 that China intends to re-open the Chinese market to United States pork and live swine, consistent with science-based international standards.
The announcement was made at the conclusion of meetings with Chinese officials at the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT).
"Two-way trade of agricultural, fish, and forest products between the U.S. and China has grown in recent years to over $21 billion per year, opening increasingly important connections that can benefit farmers, ranchers and consumers in both countries," said Vilsack. "China's intent to remove its H1N1-related ban on U.S. pork marks an important step forward in cooperation between the countries on agriculture issues."
"I look forward to China resuming imports of U.S. pork products and live swine," said Kirk. "Based on our discussions, we expect China to base its opening on science and internationally agreed standards."
In 2008, China was the U.S. pork industry's fastest growing market, accounting for $560 million in U.S. exports. China's May 2009 H1N1 restrictions have stopped U.S. pork exports to China. In discussions with Vice Premier Wang Qishan and Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai, Vilsack stressed the need for China to remove all restrictions on trade in pork products related to the H1N1 virus, given clear guidance from international bodies like the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), World Health Organization (WHO), and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), that there is no risk to humans from consuming properly prepared pork and pork products.
In his first visit to China as Agriculture Secretary, Vilsack took part in the meeting of the JCCT, a bilateral forum for resolving trade issues, co-chaired by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. Leading the delegation for China was Vice Premier Wang Qishan.
Throughout his travels in China, and earlier in the trip for a trade mission to the Philippines, Vilsack emphasized the need to keep markets open and promote food safety and workable international regulatory standards that protect consumers without creating artificial trade barriers.


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That's a really interesting study, but I believe that a lot of that can be reveresed.I lived in China for a few years. At first I had a terrible time distinguishing features, but over time people looked more and more unique.
Racism affects different races differently. Just because you and your parents choose to not care about race as much as those before you doesn't mean that other races have the same privilege. Those affected most by racism aren't presented with the choice of toning down racism. I'm glad that there are optimistic people like you and your future children, but it seems like (from your post) that you don't get it. That's ok though. The fact of the matter is, racism has been around forever. There are those of us that won't just let it fade away waiting for every White person to take your path.
Okay, I'm not going to read this thread, because it would just piss me off. But the title of the thread is so unbelievably wrongheaded that I have to weigh in: OP, you're a moron. Big time.I'm not even going to explain why, that's how stupid I think you are. Read a book, jackass.
something about baseless assumptions.
I'm not saying "ignore it and it will go away"I'm saying that my children will probably not be influenced by race, so why do black churches have to insist on shoving "the white man is out to get you" down the throat of their patrons?Do you think that makes blacks less racist? no way.


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From the ancient caves of Lascaux to the 21st century towers of Dubai, there has always been something magical about the ways in which humans convert nothingness into spaces for living.
Fascinating though the process may be, though, it rarely goes as planned. And sometimes it's the unexpected wrinkles — the shelf in the wrong size that gets turned into a lovely coffee table, the windows placed too low but leaving room for paintings — it's these little twists in the process that alchemize the mere physical object of a house into memories, and a home.


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Consumer Co-ops: Introduction to Consumer Food Cooperatives
Michael Cook
Department of Agricultural Economics
More people are becoming interested in establishing cooperatives to handle groceries. The interest stems in part from the tight economic situation faced by many families. The new National Consumer Cooperative Bank has also sparked interest in the cooperative way of doing business.
Cooperatives have proven to be valuable in providing supplies and markets for farmers. They have also been highly successful in providing insurance. Many cooperatives in other fields have failed, although there are examples of successful cooperatives providing groceries, housing, recreation, nursery care, automotive repair, and other goods and services. On the other hand, consumer cooperatives have been successful in Western Europe.
One reason for many cooperative failures has been the unavailability of loan capital. The new National Consumer Cooperative Bank proposes to serve this need.
What is a cooperative?
A cooperative is one way of doing business in a market economy. There are four unique and necessary characteristics of a cooperative.
Member/patron owned
The people who use the cooperative own the business. The major objective of the member/patron is to secure the goods or services desired at a reasonable price. Other forms of business organizations are owned by investors whose objective is making a return on the investment.
Some cooperatives do business only with members, but many will do some business with non-members. A true cooperative, however, will do the majority of its business with members.
How a person becomes a member is specified in the bylaws. The usual means is the purchase of a membership or a share of stock and by doing business with the cooperative. Membership may be open to anyone or limited as specified in the bylaws.
Operation at cost
A cooperative provides goods and services to members at cost. Two ways are open for following the principle. One way is to set prices at a level where operating costs are exactly covered. A second way is to set prices at a level that is expected to cover more than costs and then to give back to members at the end of the year the net returns (profits) in proportion to the volume of business each member does with the cooperative. Such payments are called patronage refunds. The refunds may be paid in cash or as equity capital certificates or a combination of the two. Retained patronage refunds are a major source of equity capital for many agricultural cooperatives.
Democratic control by members
Most cooperatives give one vote to each member, regardless of the volume of business a person does with the cooperative. In other forms of business the control is in proportion to the investment of the owners, usually one vote for each share of common stock.
A cooperative also needs to educate its members about its purposes and organization as well as the values of cooperation. In some cooperatives members learn primarily through participation. A cooperative that does not educate its members effectively cannot expect to last longer than a generation and a half.
Limited return on equity capital
Missouri statutes limit the payment on equity capital to 10 percent annually. Most cooperatives pay nothing on equity capital. Further, a member can sell the equity capital only to the cooperative and at its discretion and never for more than cost or book value. A member of a cooperative secures benefits through prices and services. In other forms of business, benefits accrue to the investor either as dividends or changes in the value of stock or both.
Except for the distinctive features just mentioned, cooperatives are identical with other forms of business. All must be economically feasible and all require capital, management and use of sound business practices. The economic and legal systems give no special advantages to cooperatives.
Types of food cooperatives
There are two types of cooperatives in Missouri providing groceries. They are called pre-order/buying clubs and stores.
Pre-order/buying clubs
In this type of cooperative, members pool orders, make the purchases from a supplier and arrange to distribute the food to the members who ordered it. Members usually perform the work involved in compiling orders, exchanging money and distributing goods. Most pre-order cooperatives are small, but they do not have to be. The small pre-order will probably not hire anyone or invest in much equipment. However, there will be a coordinator who voluntarily takes on a management role, and there will be some initial expenses and "capital" investments (such as a refrigerator) that are covered by a membership fee.
The pre-order organization makes it possible to secure items such as natural foods that may not be readily available. Prices are also usually lower because of selection of good rather than fancy quality, purchasing in bulk, and performance of the normal retailing functions by members. Many of the cooperative stores started as pre-order operations.
A store has goods and services similar to other types of grocery stores. They usually carry a limited line of merchandise, feature good rather than fancy quality and eliminate all "frills" that add to the cost of retailing. Most stores use members as volunteer workers who receive a break on prices in return for their labor.
A store requires more investment and a more sophisticated organization. The members elect a board of directors to establish and monitor policies and management. The board employs individuals who are responsible for management and day-to-day operations. The store has the same operational concerns as any other grocery business and needs high quality management.
Both types of cooperatives must have a dependable source of supply for groceries. Small local units may find it desirable to work together to establish their own warehouse. A warehouse is a necessary feature in the food business. The members of a co-op warehouse are the local co-ops. This is known as the federated approach. It is the approach used by Missouri Farmers Association and Farmland Industries, large agricultural cooperatives. The warehouse should grow from the locals and not vice versa.
If the cooperative is intended to be a continuing organization and do a significant volume of business, it should be incorporated. Incorporation provides for perpetual life, limited liability for members, and a means of accumulating and managing capital. The only statute open to food cooperatives for incorporation in Missouri is Chapter 357 of the Missouri Statutes. While the statute appears complex, the provisions include essential features of a cooperative and prove to be quite manageable in practice.
Cooperatives are sometimes referred to as not-for-profit or non-profit organizations. This has led some groups to incorporate under Chapter 355, the not-for-profit corporation law. This chapter, however, expressly prohibits incorporation of an organization "on the cooperative plan."
Points to consider when starting a cooperative
Need and economic feasibility
The most basic concern is whether there is a need that can be served in an economically feasible manner. Some of the most successful co-ops were organized to provide goods or services that were not readily available. Goods at a lower price is an almost universal need or desire. A cooperative may be able to provide goods or services at a lower cost if there is inadequate competition in the local market or if it proposes to operate on a different and lower cost structure than the competition. Examples of how stores can operate at a lower cost are by using volunteers, limiting the line of merchandise, and working in "bare-bones" facilities. It will be difficult for a cooperative to operate like its competitors and show substantial savings.
Economic feasibility depends on more than an established need. The cooperative must address other questions, too, such as those relating to size, sources of supply, dependability of the market, capital requirements and supply, labor, management, facilities, health and safety requirements, and local licensing rules. These questions should all be resolved before organization proceeds.
Interest of potential members
A sufficient number of persons must have the interest to make the cooperative economically viable. An attitude of curiosity, "wait and see" or "if it gets started I will be a part of it" is not enough. The organizing group should determine the minimum number of persons necessary for a viable organization. The best test of true interest is to require either payment or a firm promise to pay some significant membership fee. The size of the fee will depend on the economic status of the prospective membership and the type of operation planned. It should be large enough that a person will not simply ignore the investment. Further, the co-op will need all the money it can get for capital.
The necessary equity capital can be raised
The most serious hurdle is likely to be securing equity capital. Some members will have limited resources. Most will have some reluctance to invest in a new enterprise. Another major problem is the regulations and restrictions relating to the sale of securities.
Agricultural cooperatives have certain exemptions from state security regulations, but such are not available at this time to consumer cooperatives. It is impossible to get a concise, easily understood statement about the evidences of equity capital invested in a consumer cooperative that are exempt from regulation. The intent is fully as important as the type of instrument. For example, the major purpose of a modest membership fee may be ascertaining interest of people and accumulating a list of people who want to be included in all activities. Even though such fees generate equity capital, the membership certificate would likely not be considered legally as a "security."
Retained patronage refunds have been the major source of equity capital for the agricultural cooperatives. The courts have consistently ruled that notices advising members of patronage refunds earned but retained are not to be treated as securities from the standpoint of regulation. The cooperative should maintain a record of the amount retained from each member.
Capital retains are another frequently used and good method of acquiring capital. This entails some modest mark-up (one or two percent) on purchases that are earmarked for a capital account. Records are maintained showing the retains collected from each member.
Stock, common and preferred, is an ordinary means of raising equity capital. Chapter 357 of the Missouri Statutes provides for common and preferred stock. Most agricultural cooperatives treat the common stock as a membership fee, issuing only one share with a modest face or par value per member. Solicit expert advice about security regulations before moving far in issuing any significant number of shares of stock and shares with a significant par or face value.
The most common source of capital for all types of business firms is profit generated from internal operations. Cooperatives, while making no profits, can accumulate surpluses or net savings, other names for profits. Income taxes must be paid on such surpluses. It is not sound for a cooperative to use such a method extensively for securing capital, as it violates a basic cooperative principle. Many cooperatives use the approach of tax paid surplus as one method of getting some capital. If the earnings (profits, surplus) are quite small, it may often be more practical to place them in a tax paid surplus account rather than to allocate patronage refunds to many members.
Some cooperatives keep no earnings derived from member business but strive to make a profit on non-member business, pay taxes on the earnings and allocate the remainder to the capital account. Be careful to always have member business as the primary goal, or again it becomes something less than a true cooperative.
Some food cooperatives use the "direct charge" approach. An estimate is made of operating costs for some future period which is then prorated equally among all members. It is not a solution to long-term equity capital, but it does help build operating capital.
Steps in organizing a co-op
Do not rush organization. Consider all eventualities and alternatives. The organizational process can have a vital effect on the eventual outcome. Hence, a process with wide involvement is best. It is not the only way and it is slow, but it is probably the soundest approach.
Exploratory meetings
- Hold exploratory meetings to discuss and formulate tentative answers to the following questions:
- How many persons in the community are interested in organizing a cooperative?
- What kinds of services should the proposed cooperative perform?
- What are the problems with respect to the desired services? Are they already available and, if so, can they be improved through a cooperative?
- What has been the experience in the community with other kinds of cooperatives?
- What are the available community assets in terms of potential members, leaders, financial resources, facilities and potential productivity capacity?
- Who wants a cooperative — the people who will use it or someone else?
Establish working committees
- If a cooperative looks promising after the exploratory meetings, establish working committees. Address the following issues; a separate group for each will broaden participation and spread the work load.
General survey
- This group would gather and develop firm data on the services to be provided, costs, benefits and whether or not a co-op is the only or best way to secure the services.
- This group would evaluate realistic size of potential membership and volume of business.
- Even a simple pre-order cooperative needs some place to operate. This group should match the size and type of cooperative with facilities and equipment needed and available.
- This group should determine capital requirements for facilities, equipment, and operations and determine possible means of securing the capital.
Legal documents
- This committee should consider articles of incorporation, bylaws and any necessary licenses or permits.
The chairperson of the working groups might serve as the steering or coordinating committee.
Additional information
The best source of advice is some successful cooperative in the same line of business. Most are happy to share expenses.
Staff in your local MU Extension center may not always have the answers, but often they can get them.
The new National Consumer Cooperative Bank is a source of information. The Bank's Washington address is 2001 S Street, N.W., Washington D.C., 20009.
The Cooperative league of the USA, located at 1828 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036, has a great deal of general information on cooperatives.


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If you read this blog, you know the story well. A few years ago, after replacing my kitchen's tile countertop with white marble, my yellow walls looked horrible. Since all the rooms downstairs open up to each other, I was forced to paint them all a new color - Feathered Gray by Pratt and Lambert – which is a warm gray shade that looks taupe in certain light. But after the walls were repainted, nothing went together anymore. My yellow silk curtains looked terrible against the new paint color, as did all my other fabrics.
For the past two years, I've been slowly changing out the curtains and the fabrics so it looks more like a decorator with some sense of color lives here. The last room that finally got its new fabrics was the dining room. Thinking back on all the dining rooms I've ever had – starting with my first single girl apartment - I realized that I've always had a skirted dining table. This actually surprised me, I hadn't been aware that I've been using the same design element over and over and over again. Was there a lesson in this? I suppose if you really love something, you should go for it, regardless of what the current trend is. If I listened to trends, I would have replaced my skirted table with a Rough Luxe unstained wood table that so many of the young are buying these days.
So, today, I thought I would bore you to death by looking at the evolution of my dining rooms through the years. Actually, I probably should say the non-evolution of my dining room skirted table. Enjoy!!
The Rough Luxe table by Restoration Hardware that everyone under 40 wants to buy.
Twenty two years ago, right after we were married, Ben and I rented this cute, tiny cottage. For the dining room, I brought my skirted table that had been in my pre marriage apartment. I updated it with a new, cream faux silk poly-something fabric with a huge puddle that I spent hours arranging "just right." I added the set of French chairs that my aunt gave me and a painted secretary from my parents house. We happily lived here for two years - Elisabeth was born while we rented this house. We loved the two bedroom, one bathroom house, but mostly we were thrilled to be living in West University – our dream location. I had gone to look at this house after seeing an ad in the paper and when the landlord answered the door, I said "I'll take it" without even stepping inside. Not that there was much to tour, you could see everything from the front door. The rent was $600. We were so excited to live in our doll house. My father though, was less so. He took one look at it and said "I worked my whole life to get you out of a house on concrete blocks." He didn't see the charm of living in a house without a solid foundation like we did. We left this house to move to Ft. Worth – which was supposed to be for a lifetime. Instead, we only lasted 1 1/2 years away from friends and family before we moved back to Houston.
In Ft. Worth, we bought our first house – a brand new patio style home. While I copied Dan Carithers taupe and white linen living room, I used my old dining room set up. I did add an antique chandelier from my parents house and two woodcuts also borrowed from them. I don't think we ate one meal in this room, instead we always used the breakfast room where we had a French wood farm table.
And finally, we ended up in our present house in West University. I don't have a picture of the round skirted table with the draping cream cloth, but I know I used that same set up when we first moved into this house. I do have an early picture of a party tablescape. I had Shabby Slips make up a table skirt out of taupe and white plaid linen to fit over a conference table for when we entertained. I topped that with a white tablecloth. Those French chairs were actually from my breakfast room. Overhead we used the same chandelier. And here, you can see there used to be a window in this room instead of the French door that we installed a few months after we moved in. It looks so strange to see the old window there!
A few years later and I'm still using the conference table for entertaining. The French door is now in place instead of the window and by then, I had bought that antique hutch to hold my newly acquired collection of blue and white transferware. Of course I stole that idea from design great Carol Glasser. I bought those vintage cane chairs from Lewis and Maese. Still no curtains and no rugs. Elisabeth is modeling her outfit of the hour – my bathing suit sarong which she turned into a long skirt. NOTE: After this party, everyone went home with red knees from the cotton table cloths! Be sure to wash those cottons that come from India first.
Sorry all these pictures are no bad! I had no idea I would have a design blog when I took these photographs all those years ago. Here, I had finally started to get somewhat serious about my dining room. I had an oval table custom made to fit the room and seat 8 – so, now I could finally quit dragging out the conference table whenever I entertained. For the skirt I splurged on a Bennison fabric which cost more than a dining room table would have. But, as you can see, I've always just preferred a skirted table in the dining room over a wood one. There something so romantic and soft about a beautiful skirted table – and I'll probably never have a proper wood table. Over the years, the puddling hem was drastically shortened, and the glass top was eliminated. When this picture was taken, I was still using those old German woodcuts which I later replaced with more plates. And, I had put up sconces – that today are in my office.
About six or seven years ago, I decided to change the Bennison cloth out for this silk plaid in yellow. At this time, I also painted all the walls a soft golden yellow with gray trim. Along with the paint, we finally got silk ticking curtains in the living room and dining room and custom cut seagrass throughout. The curtains and the seagrass made a huge difference (as did a new camera.) My parent's antique chandelier went to the breakfast room and I bought this fixture from a friend who was redecorating her house from English country manor to Swedish. New sconces from Tara Shaw were added.
Finally, I changed out my blue and white transferware for some creamware – trying for a quieter look. I honestly thought I would keep this dining room setup forever. I still love the way it looks, but the yellow just didn't go with the gray walls or the new ivory linen slipcovers in the living room or the white marble in the kitchen. So, new curtain and tableskirt fabrics were ordered to tie it all together. Here's how the dining room looks today:
The biggest change to the room were the new fabrics – gray taffeta for the curtains and a white matte taffeta for the table. The only expensive fabric was for the table – from Rogers and Goffigon - but the draping and the matte look were important to me and I couldn't get that look with a cheaper fabric. The silk taffeta at the windows is Schumacher and that fabric was very reasonable.
The chair slips are actually two pieces, one piece covers the back and one covers the seat. There is a down cushion inserted into the bottom slip to make the chairs look and feel softer. Ties run down the back of the slips. The skirts are double pleated for extra frill. The checked linen is Chelsea Editions and is very, very reasonable.
The view of the hutch with the creamware collection. I wonder if I should trade this out for a gray painted Swedish hutch. Maybe in a few years!
A closeup of the back of the slip with the ties.
Here you can see how pretty the seat crowns with the attached down cushion.
We left the wood arms exposed on the host chairs. I like that small touch of wood showing through.
On the table, I added some creamware plates to make it look casually styled. Where is Eddie Ross when you need him????
Two of my favorite things in the room – the sconces from Tara Shaw and the antique barometer I got for a steal on 1st Dibs.
While all the changes made a big difference, the slipcovers made a huge, huge difference. I am really happy with the way they turned out. They make the room look dreamy and feminine and so soft. Right now, I am in love with them!!!
So, that's it. It took a while to update all the fabrics downstairs. They always say, when you change one thing in your house, it all dominoes and that was true with me. The white marble countertops dictated the way my entire downstairs looked – something I hadn't really thought about when we made that initial change, but truthfully, I probably was just in denial. Changing out the fabrics room by room made is easier on the pocketbook. Plus, Ben wasn't really aware of what it all cost in the end since it was such a drawn out process. He loves the way it all looks now, but if I would have come to him and said – I'm redoing every room next month, he would have had a heart attack and had me committed. It was more subtle this way. He likes my decorating style, he just doesn't like what it costs. AND, he is under the misguided impression for some unknown reason that slipcovers are cheap! SSSSHHH – let's keep it a secret, ok? Thanks!
I'm wondering if I'm alone out here, using the same design element over and over and over again – like the skirted table? That's really the only thing I can think that I've used since I had my first apartment up until my current house – over 30 years of using skirted dining room tables. Do you have an element or style you use over and over again? Something you have loved since you left college, married and had children? Let me know what it is – I would love to hear what you are addicted to!!!
If you are a Rachel Ashwell fan, you will love her new book. It's really beautiful – filled with flowers everywhere and gorgeous shabby chic styling. It features the home of many European friends this time – a switch for the Californian Rachel. It also shows her new Texas property, The Prairie. It's totally heavenly. So, if you are a Shabby Chic lover, I highly recommend it HERE.


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Andrew Upton is staying on at the Sydney Theatre Company, assuming the position of sole artistic director starting in January. For the last four years, Upton and his wife, actress Cate Blanchett, have served as co-artistic directors of Australia's most prominent theater company.
Upton's decision to continue leading the company has come as a surprise because he and Blanchett had announced their decision to both step down at the end of 2013. The couple was recently in New York for the company's staging of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," starring Richard Roxburgh, Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Jacki Weaver.
Since Upton and Blanchett began their tenure, the Sydney Theatre Company has seen its international profile soar with touring productions of "Hedda Gabler," "A Streetcar Named Desire"and "Uncle Vanya."
All three plays starred Blanchett, whose Hollywood connections helped to lure other marquee names to the company, including William Hurt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liv Ullmann and Steven Soderbergh.


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Robert E. Gilbert, age 56, died on Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 7:32 p.m. at his residence.
He was born on February 14, 1961 in Lima, Ohio to Robert E. and Marjorie A. (Deubler) Gilbert. Both are deceased. Robert married Jane M. Ericson on March 15, 2013 and she survives in Kenton, Ohio. He was formerly married to Kathy (Friedrich) Rison of Van Wert, Ohio.
Robert attended Delphos Jefferson High School. He was employed for nearly 26 years at Grief Brothers in Van Wert, Ohio. Robert then worked at Lakeside ProBass shop in Lakeview, Ohio. Robert was a U.S. Army Veteran serving from 1983-1986. He was a former member of the Van Wert American Legion Post #178 and Van Wert Moose Lodge #1320. He was an avid fisherman; loved NASCAR and he played bass guitar in several bands. He loved the O.S.U. Buckeyes.
Also surviving are his children: Christina A. Gallimore of Convoy, Robert E. (Brittany) Gilbert, Jr. of Van Wert and Maria R. Gilbert of Ohio City. Grandchildren: Joscelynn G. Gallimore, Blake A. Wagoner, Jacoby D. Gallimore, Summer R. Gilbert, Carson D. Gilbert; five brothers: Franklin C. Gilbert of Van Wert, Steven D. Gilbert of Kalida, Michael P. (Susanne) Gilbert of Ft. Jennings, John A. (LaToshia) Gilbert of Columbia City, Indiana and Jason A. Gilbert of Van Wert; two sisters: Rhonda K. Brown of Kalida and Rebecca L. (Benjamin) Williams of Kalida; Step-children: Jessica Ericson of Connersville, Indiana, Andrea (Jesse) Boyd of Alger, Daniel Helton of Vandalia, Danielle Helton of Kenton, Jadyn Jones of Kenton and Nicole N. Jones of Kenton; step-grandchildren: Camdyn Boyd, Ava Helton, Sarah Harris, Adam Harris, Olivia Harris, Kiegan Boyd and Grayson Slone.
Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, December 29, at Hanson-Neely Funeral Home, Alger with Pastor Kevin Stirratt. Burial will be in Roundhead Cemetery, Roundhead, Ohio. A graveside military service will be held by the Ada VFW Post #9381 Honor Guard.
Friends may call from 2:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 28, at Hanson-Neely Funeral Home, Alger and until time of service on Friday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the benevolence of the family in care of Hanson-Neely Funeral Home P.O. Box 41, Alger, Ohio 45812
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We've seen a lot of strange things on the Internet, but this dead cat turned into a remote-control flying helicopter may be the strangest yet.
The cat helicopter was conceived by Dutch artist Bart Jansen, and debuted for the public at the KunstRai ArtFair in Amsterdam that ended Sunday. Jansen calls his creation the Orvillecopter and describes it as "half-cat, half-machine."
The Orvillecopter is exactly what it looks like: A taxidermied cat with a plastic propeller attached to each paw. No animals were harmed for this project. The cat, who was conveniently named Orville, belonged to Jansen and died after he was hit by a car.
RELATED: Orvillecopter sparks global outrage
"After that he received his wings posthumously," the artist writes in a description of a YouTube video showing the Orvillecopter's first flight.


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This column by Jarvis DeBerry is required reading.
The issues of the poor often intersect with those who are racially oppressed, but not always. We see the conflicts between the two groups when black people with money wage campaigns against those who are without.
Eastern New Orleans has often been a battleground for this kind of intra-racial class warfare because that part of the city has included beautiful mansions and huge unsightly apartment complexes -- one of which I used to call home. Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis gave the impression soon after Hurricane Katrina that she spoke for the entire area when she trumpeted the phrase "right to return."
She's fought mightily for homeowners -- that is, those who have already acquired some semblance of wealth. However, she has shown herself to be indifferent -- if not outright opposed -- to the interests of low-wage residents who require affordable-housing options to return to the city.
In leading the opposition against a developer looking to build 36 affordable single-family houses near Lake Carmel at an average cost of $200,000, Willard-Lewis said the interests of current residents are her chief concern. So much for everybody else returning.
The City Planning Commission voted 6-2 to approve the legal subdivision developer Harold Foley needs to start his project. The New Orleans City Council, however, voted 5-2 against the project. The only two members to show Foley support were James Carter and Shelley Midura.
In voting against the project, the City Council isn't showing itself to be any different than the St. Bernard Parish Council, which has twice been scolded by a federal court judge for violating the Fair Housing Act.
The judge found that St. Bernard officials have withheld a routine re-subdivision request for a developer planning to build apartments because parish officials are trying to keep out black people.
See Judge Ginger Berrigan's order.
The City Council is employing the same strategy St. Bernard officials have used. It's difficult to imagine a judge looking any more kindly on the city's blockade of this project. The federal court would be unfairly punishing St. Bernard if it allowed New Orleans to do the same thing.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team fell 60-53 to Quinnipiac (Conn.) on Saturday at an invitational tournament at Brown University.
Cari Reed led the Wildcats (3-3) with 13 points. Kelsey Hogan scored 11 and Lauren Wells scored 10 for UNH.
Samantha Guastella (13 points) and Felicia Barron (10) were the top scorers for Quinnipiac.
The Wildcats trailed by as many as 13 points, 33-17, in the first half but a Hogan jumper and consecutive baskets by Wells lifted UNH within 33-23 at halftime.
UNH plays host Brown today.
Women's hockey loses to Northeastern
DURHAM — The UNH women's hockey team fell 8-1 to No. 9 Northeastern on Saturday at the Whittemore Center.
The loss puts the Wildcats at 6-10-1 on the year and 3-3-1 in Hockey East play while Northeastern improves to 9-4-2 overall and 5-3-1 in conference action.
Brittney Redlick scored UNH's only goal. The two teams go at it again today in Boston.
Anderson shines for UNH men's track
BOSTON — James Anderson turned-in a first-place showing and four other Wildcats added runner-up finishes as the University of New Hampshire men's indoor track team kicked off the season at the Jay Carisella Invitational Saturday at Boston University's Track & Tennis Center.
Anderson got his season off to a great start as he came up victorious in the 800 meters with a time of one minute, 54.94 seconds.
Kevin Greene finished runner-up in the mile, crossing the finish line in a time of 4:16.74. Zachary Chabot and Dean Bhatt placed sixth and seventh in the event, respectively, at 4:19.24 and 4:19.81.
In the field, the Wildcats went one-two in the weight throw as George Jumpp placed runner-up with a toss of 56 feet, 10 inches and Cameron Lyle took third at 53-11.75. Lyle also added a runner-up finish in the shot put with a toss of 48-01.25.
In the 500 meters, Andrew Albin came up with a third-place finish as he crossed the finish line in a time of 1:06.40.
Sophomore Nicholas Sullivan (Newport, N.H.) placed fourth in the 200 meters in a time of 22.56.
On the women's sice, Rosemary Read, Elise Beattie and Cassie Kruse each posted runner-up finishes. UNH placed three runners in the top-three in the mile, led by Beattie with a runner-up finish in a time of 4:55.32. Kruse kicked off her rookie campaign with a runner-up finish in the 1,000 meters as she crossed the finish line in a time of 2:59.71. Read placed second in the weight throw with a toss of 50-09.50, while Keyla Salazar was fourth at 48-09.00.
UNH roundup: Women's hoop falls at Quinnipiac
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team fell 60-53 to Quinnipiac (Conn.) on Saturday at an invitational tournament at Brown University.


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Whether you realize it or not, shocks play a huge roll in your everyday comfort…that is unless you ride a camel, donkey, or horse to the local "Stab-n-Grab" for $50 worth of '87 octane, corn bread-coated meat on a stick, and a soda pop. That's because every time your Jeep hits a bump on- or off-road, your shocks help to soften the blow. And with the degradation of roads across the country, we are bet you hit your fair share of bumps along the way whether you are headed to the mall or the trailhead. A nice set of shocks is gonna make your Jeep that much more comfortable for both commuting and playing in the dirt. Also, since your Jeep's shocks are constantly being used, chances are they are worn out and you could use a new set. That means shocks make a great gift for just about any Jeeper.
After replacing our standard YJ lift-springs on our "Ground Up" '56 CJ-5 project ("Zoot Scoot Suspension," Oct '13) we quickly realized that in order to get the most out of our high-end leaf springs, we should probably upgrade the fairly standard shocks we were running. So we ended up treating ourselves to a set of 12-inch-travel Fox 2.0 Performance series IFP shocks ($127.99 each). These shocks feature an aluminum body that dissipates heat better than steel and a 5⁄8-inch hard chrome-plated, heat-treated alloy steel shaft. The body also conceals an internal floating piston (IFP) that separates shock oil from a high-pressure nitrogen gas chamber. This allows a superior and predictable ride.