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A high school dropout who became a billion
stanley cups aire roofing company executive and one of the nation s richest people died Friday after falling through his garage roof.Ken Hendricks, who was 66, was the 91st richest man in the U.S. with a net worth of $3.5 billion in September, according to For
stanley usa bes magazine.Hendricks grew up working side-by-side with his father, a Janesville roofer. After dropping out of high school, he started his own roofing business at age 21, according to a biography supplied by his company.Tired of dealing with multiple suppliers scattered around the country, he and his wife, Diane, started a national supply distribution chain in 1982.ABC Supply Co. - based in Beloit, Wis., about 60 miles southwest of Milwaukee - celebrated its 25th a
stanley puodelis nniversary this year, with 6,000 employees in 390 locations nationwide. It does about $3 billion in business a year. Hendricks was unfazed by his wealth. It doesn t make any difference to me: I can t spend it, he said in an interview with Inc. magazine in September 2006. I d have to sell the company, and I ll sell the company over my dead body. Hendricks was checking on construction on his garage roof in the town of Rock about late Thursday when he fell through, Rock County Sheriff s Department commander Troy Knudson said.He suffered massive head injuries and died in surgery Friday at Rockford Memorial Hospital in Winnebago County, Ill., according to his company and county authorities. Hendricks was lauded for h Xzmv SC Gov. Signs Flag Law
Legendary weird fiction writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer is back with a new trilogy, The Southern Reach, and the first novel came out last week. Called Annihilation, it a fascina
stanley quencher ting, poetic tale of a mysterious organization that sent a mission to explore Area X, a chunk of Earth that has been warped into an alternate reality. The organization is called the Southern Reach, and over the course of the three novels we ;ll find out what its true mission is 鈥?and what happened to Area X. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish all three volumes in the trilogy this year. Authority comes out in May and Acceptance arrives in September. Fans of VanderMeer politically-infused tales of science magic will be delighted with this novel, which reminded me of the Strugatsky Brothers ; classic novel of Soviet bureaucracy and alien technologies, Roadside Picnic. VanderMeer is on tour right now see the Southern Reach site for details , and during a recent reading in San Francisco he told the crowd that the geography of Area X is modeled on a wilderness trail near his home in Tallahassee, Florida. This excerpt was used wit
stanley thermos mug h permission from the publisher and author. Annihilation, Chapter One The tower, which wa
stanley becher s not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats. Beyond the marsh flats and the natural canals lies
