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You won't believe what's in the modern "General Store." All that's missing is the warmth of the stove, the odors of leather, rope, ground coffee and apples, and the creaking sound of a rocking chair.

You can link to any of the following main sections, the chapters of this electronic on-line cybercatalog, the inventory of the General Store. "Goods and services" may have been a good way to think of human needs and markets, of "economics" in the past, but now we are now, and the General Store has the following offerings:

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Services Products Opportunities Views Information Ideas Inspiration Events Memberships, and Memories

SPOVIIIEMM

We even award citizens, Right Rural members, from our profits!

By the means of this cybercatalog, we offer for "you," the folks of Rural System, new ways to:

Sell Buy Trade Recycle Inform Get "How-To" Instruction Get involved Get ideas, and Look ahead

Nine Ways to Help Build Rural System, Serving You

Why Support Rural System action and locally-owned businesses? Local Character and Prosperity In an increasingly homogenized world, we help rural communities preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character... and make it available to Earth citizens. Community Well-Being Locally-owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes. Local Decision-Making Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the lasting impacts of those decisions. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy Prosperous private land owners and their helpers cycle a large share of their revenue into the local economy, enriching the whole community. Job and Wages Such businesses create jobs and wages locally, and through the diversity and actions of Rural System tend to stabilize employment. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship fuels the region's and America's economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to take full advantage of technology and make economic advances. Public Benefits and Costs Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make efficient use of public services. Rural System contributes financially, in proportion to its successes, to rural community government. Environmental Sustainability Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact town centers - which, in turn, are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, wildlife loss, and air and water pollution and improving energy conservation.The vibrant local market tends to reduce exploiting local lands and waters. Competition A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses and their customers through the General Store is the best way to ensure innovation, low prices, high quality SPOVIIIMM (the above list) and individual as well as rural community economic advantages over the long-term. Product Diversity A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products, services, and opportunities based on their own interests and the needs of their local customers as well as options offered by the expanded world-wide markets of the General Store guarantees a broad range of choices for dynamic modern people and their families.

This is a new electronic catalog, a cybercatalog, for the diverse set of offerings of enterprises and concepts that make up Rural System.

New River Symposium comments, 2007 and The free book completed by Bob Giles in November, 2007 Rural System? Just Dreaming ...

Here we offer you our unique for-profit corporation connecting with existing local businesses. You should buy here, participate with us, because of all of the reasons in the box at the left. We have many great things to offer.

Behind the way we do business		About Rural System
	The need: what's behind Rural System	The groups or enterprises of Rural System
Cooperators and memberships	Our land management work

The Catalog Table of Contents or Index

We hope you will shop around. We have fixed prices and a first-come, first-served procedure. We also have a "one-step forward" procedure, that, for a small sum annually, moves your order up one buyer in the sequence in which orders are filled. We have a standard shopping-cart procedure, one similar to other Internet sites. You may deposit an amount of money (interest drawn on it and "one-step" funds goes to land improvement) or simply use your check or credit card within our secure site procedures. You'll be amazed by the speed of delivery.

The offerings of the General Store are organized in the above SPOVIIIEMM list but also in groups that work primarily indoors and those that deal primarily with outdoor topics. That organization served poorly. The cybercatalog is hypertext, meaning that it is designed for you to "jump around" within it easily to explore your interests and relations in many dimensions.

A better way to see the cybercatalog is through the offerings, opportunities, and ideas of its groups. First, you might look at a sample of the unusual products it has for you. (These change seasonally and almost weekly as we move ahead for strengths within the rural community.) Check out the entire list of products.

     Key or Featured Products

• Sourdough "starts" of several flavors.
• Rural Rounds is a special hard cookie for hikers, anglers, and everyone (especially school lunches).
• Unique strings of beads made from local stream stones.
• Casts of local spear points used by residents over 11,000 years.
• A unique walking stick. It has over 30 uses by people in the wildlands.
• The Big Bandana - for assisting in game habitat surveys.
• A colorful autumn leaf-pickup cloth
• Specialized outrigger fences for gardens and other areas
• Rural Ruffs - boot and ankle protection devices
• Temperature maps (e.g., local plant hardiness)
• Garden compost (with organic certification)

See all of the Groups or enterprises of the conglomerate

Rural System is the conglomerate that has developed and that is now ready to provide you with the above products, services, benefits, etc. We're working hard for the citizens of the rural areas. Not only are we meeting needs, but we're providing employment and financial ability to stay in the region ... and improving the productivity of the land. A proportion of all financial gains is returned to improve private land productivity. When we say "you can count on it," we mean it, for we post our progresslink here). There are more than 70 Groups (or enterprises) already present or forming that together are the means for doing profitably, sophisticated modern natural resource management. See the list and then link to any of them for their services, memberships, and potential opportunities for you to become involved with them. Joking, we can say we have a few problems and real needs in the rural environment. We have to work together to solve or overcome them.

Search the entire WWW.RuralSystem.com system for any key word to help you understand and use the Catalog well. You may be surprised by the growing resources with real benefits available here for you.

5 Levels, the hyperspace of The Country General Store

1. The cyberCatalog     2. Services, Products, Opportunities,Views, Information, Ideas, Inspiration, Memberships, and Memories     3. Descriptions of Items or Actions   4. Sources, Information, Background, Assumptions, and Justifications 5. Ideas, Proposals, and Prognostics

We're pleased that you have visited the General Store and hope that you will return often. We have hundreds of high quality offerings described here.We hope that we can have a long, lasting relationship as we work together to increase or at least stabilize your rural land and water productivity. We know that electronic media relationship cannot be very personal but it is important to us. We hope that you will email us your ideas, experiences, and ways that we all can work together for the good of you and the general rural system. We've tried to explain some of our goals in the links available to you above. We're eager to provide you with high quality, often special and unique products and other net gains for you. We're changing and gaining new employees who bring great energy and expertise for us all. If you ever have concerns, questions, or issues that you want to address, please let us know. Expert sales and technical support are just a click or phone call away. (We're always open for editorial suggestions since errors and oversights creep into a project of this size.) We'll get back to you within a day. We're dispersed, by design, and do not now have a central office. Maybe some day you can visit us in person. Until then, please join us and work with us as we try to help improve conditions for you and others in the rural areas of Earth.

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Caution

This document is not intended to be an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. No offering or solicitation has been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 ("the Act") or any applicable state law. The shares of the corporation are not required to be registered under the Act nor qualified under any state or provincial law. No federal or state agency has passed on the merits of the shares of the corporation or made any finding or determination concerning the fairness of investment in the corporation. No securities commission or similar regulatory authority has passed on the merits of the corporation's securities nor has it reviewed this document and any representation to the contrary is an offense.

Forward Looking Statements

This plan consists of statements that are not historical facts; rather they are "forward looking statements." Forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "expects," "projects," "plans," "will," and words of similar import. These forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the company or the industry in which it operates to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or suggested by the plan.

Technical and Other Support

We offer you:

• Personalized support with priority direct access for questions and requests
• Technical support for the catalog, purchases, and real-world problems in the rural outdoors
• Personalized telephone and e-mail support.
• An Online Discussion Forum
• A place to share ideas and techniques with other users and with our team
• Direct access to support, vendors, consultants and those who really understand "helping"
• Announcements of new services, products, etc.

Rural System does not accept orders and/or instructions regarding your accounts transmitted by e-mail. Rural System will not be responsible for carrying out such orders and/or instructions. Please be advised that this e-mail is not an official transaction confirmation. Official confirmation of transactions will be sent to you under separate cover. E-Mail is not a secure medium and should not be used to communicate confidential or personal information.

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correspond with RHGiles [at] RuralSystem dot com. Last revision: Novemebr 19, 2007