The unincorporated hamlet of Keene is beyond Mojave (home of "the 25 cent cup of coffee" and the "$29 a night" motel), strip mall to truckers and the nearby Edwards Air Force Base. Keene, population 130, is reached by heading up out of the Mojave Desert and into the 7,000-foot Tehachapi range, snow in the wooded hollows, drillpressspeeds fine horses in lush mountain meadows, then dropping rapidly a couple of thousand feet down toward Bakersfield--"Trucks, use low gears," warn the signs--35 miles away.Off the highway, a cracked concrete mountain road leads past Keene Eats, and the post of rice that closes for lunch, to La Paz. A few UFW families, such as president Arturo Rodriguez, live in modest homes on the land.It''s a tranquil spot. Chavez named it for Our Lady, Queen of Peace.If alive today, Chavez would be 76. As it was, as a son of parents who lived into their 90s, Chavez''s death "took us completely by surprise," said Rodriguez. "We didn''t anticipate it. We didn''t prepare for it--in the sense there had been no discussion as to what would happen when that day came."

Buyers and equipment specialists for most of drillpressspeeds the larger chains do a commendable job of communicating their concerns and requirements, but what about the other 80 percent of the marketplace that drillpressspeeds doesn''t have a voice representing them?We all need to take responsibility communicating our needs to those manufacturing and selling the equipment we use. We need to be more vocal about our concerns with equipment that fails to live up to reasonable expectations. If you don''t come forward and advocate good equipment design, then you have no reason to complain either when equipment breaks down in your kitchen of when there is a lack of new solutions and better products coming to market. CHICAGO -- The North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers said it plans to shift the dates of its biennial equipment-and-supplies trade show from the fall to February.

Yatsu said, however, the ministry will first conduct research for up to two years to assess what impact the opening of the gates would have on the sea before opening them.''''We cannot open the gates immediately because the panel has recommended that we conduct research while keeping the gates closed,'''' Yatsu said.But the opening of the gates ''''will become necessary during the two-year period during which we will conduct research on the Ariake Sea,'''' he said.When the gates can be opened ''''remains unknown because the timing depends on the findings of the research,'''' he said.The panel, headed by University of Tokyo professor emeritus Makoto Shimizu, has been looking into the cause of this season''s poor seaweed crop in the inland sea in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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