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Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the United States.

Eco City Farms in Edmonston,Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a workingclass community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets.

Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is very valuable. "I like coming out here," he says, "You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more."

Margaret Morgan started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community brings people together," she continues, "Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have an ecofriendly community." she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste.

Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks, but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the green houses use a geothermal system.

Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest.

"I like eating the vegetables," says fiveyearold Owen Moss.
1. Who started Eco City Farms?
2. Does she think people can learn to live better there?
3. Where does the farm get it's electricity?
4. How long is the growing season at the farm?
5. Which neighbor's go weekly in winter?
6. How do they get there?
7. Does Owen like veggies?
8. What city is the farm in?
9. Is that in Vermont?
10. Where?
11. What's it near?
12. What kind of place is it?
13. Do people have much money in the community?
14. Do they attract volunteers?
15. Like who?
16. Does she have kids?
17. How many?
18. Do they attend public school?
19. Where do they get their education?
20. What's Marcy's son's name?

Numbered answers:
1. Margaret Morgan
2. yes
3. from the sun
4. all year
5. Chris Moss and her three children
6. bicycling
7. Yres
8. Edmonston
9. No
10. Maryland
11. shopping centers, car repair shops and homes.
12. a place where people can learn to live healthier lives
13. no
14. yes
15. Marcy Clark
16. yes
17. four
18. no
19. at home
20. Alston Clark

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(CNN) -- "I don't know the ins and outs of his politics (but) for his procession to become President I was in America and his speeches were spine tingling. Barack Obama can talk, and coming after Bush it was something to behold. In my humble opinion, if he loses the next election to the other bunch then, good Lord, I will run myself."

So says Noel Gallagher, former creative force of British band Oasis and one of rock 'n' roll's biggest mouths. Singer-songwriter, brother to Liam and now a U.S. presidential candidate: 2012 promises to be quite a year for the 45-year-old whose song-writing talent has taken him from unemployment in a city called Manchester in northern England to sell-out stadium tours around the world, playing to millions.

By September, Gallagher will have completed the tour of his first solo album since the demise of Oasis in 2009; an expedition entailing 81 shows across Europe, the Pacific (Japan and Australia) and America as well as being a voyage into the unknown for the forthright backing-singer-now-frontman.

It was initially intended as a small affair, but such has been the demand for the new record -- "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds" topped the charts in the UK in October 2011-- theaters have rapidly been upgraded to arenas to cope with demand. A move that surprised the man himself and maybe explains the overriding mood of calm satisfaction the guitarist exudes from beneath a leather jacket as he sits down with a coffee to talk to CNN.
1. Who was the creative force behind Oasis?
2. Does he have a small mouth?
3. What size is it?
4. Does he have a brother?
5. What is his name?
6. When will Noel finish up his tour?
7. Is he touring with Oasis?
8. Are they still around?
9. When did they disband?
10. What is the name of his new album?
11. Was the tour originally planned to be extensive?
12. Where were the shows planned to take place?

Numbered answers:
1. Noel Gallagher
2. No
3. Big
4. Yes
5. Liam
6. September
7. No
8. No
9. 2009
10. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
11. No
12. By September, Gallagher will have completed the tour of his first solo album since the demise of Oasis in 2009; an expedition entailing 81 shows across EurEurope, the Pacific (Japan and Australia) and America

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Chapter 32 The Disposal of a Bonanza

'SUCH was Ritter's narrative,' said I to my two friends. There was a profound and impressive silence, which lasted a considerable time; then both men broke into a fusillade of exciting and admiring ejaculations over the strange incidents of the tale; and this, along with a rattling fire of questions, was kept up until all hands were about out of breath. Then my friends began to cool down, and draw off, under shelter of occasional volleys, into silence and abysmal reverie. For ten minutes now, there was stillness. Then Rogers said dreamily--

'Ten thousand dollars.'

Adding, after a considerable pause--

'Ten thousand. It is a heap of money.'

Presently the poet inquired--

'Are you going to send it to him right away?'

'Yes,' I said. 'It is a queer question.'

No reply. After a little, Rogers asked, hesitatingly:

'ALL of it?--That is--I mean--'

'Certainly, all of it.'

I was going to say more, but stopped--was stopped by a train of thought which started up in me. Thompson spoke, but my mind was absent, and I did not catch what he said. But I heard Rogers answer--

'Yes, it seems so to me. It ought to be quite sufficient; for I don't see that he has done anything.'

Presently the poet said--

'When you come to look at it, it is more than sufficient. Just look at it--five thousand dollars! Why, he couldn't spend it in a lifetime! And it would injure him, too; perhaps ruin him--you want to look at that. In a little while he would throw his last away, shut up his shop, maybe take to drinking, maltreat his motherless children, drift into other evil courses, go steadily from bad to worse--'
1. Who had told a narration?
2. Who was informed of this?
3. What was their immediate response?
4. Was it brief?
5. What did they do afterwards?
6. Did they eventually become quiet again?
7. Who broke the quiet?
8. How much money was involved?
9. Was it to be sent immediately?
10. Who had asked about that?
11. Did the narrator find this question to be unusual?
12. Did the narrator intend to send the entire sum?
13. Did he pause to reflect?
Numbered answers:
1. Ritter
2. two friends.
3. a profound and impressive silence
4. No
5. both men broke into a fusillade of exciting and admiring ejaculations
6. Yes
7. Rogers
8. Ten thousand dollars
9. Yes
10. the poet
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Yes