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Okay, friends, Greg Kockel here.

A standard reason is the show and I'm your host and we are well into December now and

Therefore we're well into our end-of-year financial strategy for STR.

And this is actually just about the only time all year long

that I draw your attention to the fact

that we are a listener and donor supported enterprise.

I mean, we sell product and many of you buy product from us,

but when you figure the overhead and the cost of products and the people that we have to pay to make the product and

distributed and mail it out. It's pretty much of a push financially.

It's just there not to help us as an organization, but to help you to provide that

product for you. Now all the rest of the things we do and all the payroll and all the overhead

and the rent and the electricity and the equipment and the

traveling and everything that makes our service to you and that's the way I think of it our service to you and our friendship with you and I also think of it that way

that way possible is a result of those who give generously and I use that in the broadest sense because some give

more than others but that doesn't mean those they give less are not giving generously

for their circumstance.

We are thrilled for every gift that comes in to stand a reason and it goes to good purpose.

We work hard.

But as I was trying to think about the best way

to introduce this to you and challenge you

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