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I just did a cooling system overhaul on my '03 330CiC (5 spd) yesterday, which went off without a hitch thanks to great write ups like this and having a Bentley on hand. One thing I would highly recommend while you're in there is to spend another 10 minutes and pull the radiator. It's amazing how much crap and crud collects between the condenser and the radiator. While you've got the radiator out, you can back fllush it with a garden hose, and use compressed air or the hose to blow years and miles worth of leaves, bug bits and debris from the fins. You can do the same thing to the condenser, although compressed air is the way to go unless you want to soak your garage...
Unfortunately I didn't have a camera handy, but R and R is covered pretty well in the Bentley manual, or I bet there's a DIY on here too. Basically it's two plastic 'bolts' that hold it in from the top, although the manual does miss one torx bolt near the upper hose neck that helps secure it. Take those three out, tilt back from the top and lift. That's it.
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Just a thought: based on what I know (and I realize I don't do this for a living), you don't want to run tap water through the radiator, as the minerals in the tap water will cause corrosion inside. So, if you are flushing the radiator, you should use distilled water. Cheers
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TAIPEI -- China announced six measures aimed at promoting further exchanges with Taiwan Sunday, saying that there are another 25 in the pipeline.
Zhang Zhijun, head of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, made the announcement at a cross-Taiwan Strait forum in the Chinese city of Xiamen, saying that he was authorized to unveil six of a total of 31 measures that the Chinese government is taking to increase exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan.
He did not say when the other measures will be made public.
The spate of the new measures seemed to be China's latest effort to woo Taiwanese hearts and minds after Xi Jinping took over the rein of power in March.
In response, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said that it would study the measures before making an official comment.
The Tourism Bureau, however, welcomed a measure that will make it easier for Chinese nationals to apply for travel documents to come to Taiwan.
Speaking at the forum, Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also made an overture to supporters of Taiwan independence.
"Even those who once supported and promoted Taiwan independence, or followed those who do, so long as they are willing to help improve and develop cross-strait relations, will be welcome to visit the mainland and to join us in promoting exchanges and cooperation between the two sides of the strait," he told the delegates.
According to the New China News Agency, the six measures announced by Zhang include:
— Facilitating travel and increasing convenience, for instance by increasing from nine to 20 the number of provinces and cities where Taiwanese nationals can apply for new travel documents allowing them to enter and exit China; allowing qualified Chinese citizens in 31 provinces and cities to apply for travel documents to visit Taiwan, regardless of the location of their official residence; and extending the maximum length of visits to Kinmen by residents of Xiamen from one day to two;
— Expanding job opportunities for Taiwanese in China, including opening the certification examinations of 10 professions to Taiwanese residents and providing support to Taiwanese who want to start a business in China after earning a degree there;
— The Supreme People's Court of China will issue an explanation allowing the recognition and enforcement of civil settlements reached by the mediation committees of Taiwanese local townships, in order to better protect people's rights;
— Increasing the number of designated bases for official cross-strait exchanges from 17 to 28, with the new ones including the Confucius Temple in Shandong Province and the Mausoleum of the 72 Revolutionary Martyrs in Guangzhou;
— The establishment of the first 10 designated bases for official cross-strait cultural exchanges, including the National Art Museum of China; and
— The establishment of a cross-strait copyright trading center and a base for the digital publishing industry in Fujian Province.
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Advent and Advents
by Robert Saley
We often think of Advent as the liturgical season of waiting. But it's worth taking some time to ask "Just what exactly are we waiting for?"
We often think of Advent as the liturgical season of waiting.
But it's worth taking some time to ask "Just what exactly are we waiting for?" Any honest answer to this question must confront a basic difficulty. We know the Lord Jesus has already come and that he, in fact, remains with us. So what is there to wait for?
Three Advents
One catechetical resource that can stimulate reflection on this question is a famous Advent homily by one of the Church's most eloquent preachers, St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153). In his homily, St. Bernard suggests that we think not of the advent of the Lord, but the advents. Specifically, he proposes, we can consider three advents: the past advent when "the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14), the future advent when "all flesh shall see the salvation of God" (Luke 3:6), and the advent right now in the present when Jesus comes to dwell in our hearts. (For a selection from St. Bernard's homily, see the Office of Readings for Wednesday of the First Week of Advent.) Even though we're no longer waiting for the past advent of Christ, we're still in suspense about his future advent—and perhaps his present one.
There are many ways catechists can help students make sense of these "three advents" for their lives today.
Christ's Past and Future Advents
* The practice of
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* Divide students into groups. Have one member of each group read aloud one of the Advent "O Antiphons" (the texts can be found in
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Christ's Present Advent
Christ's presence comes into human hearts as a gratuitous gift, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't prepare ourselves to receive him. Catechists can help students "prepare the way of the Lord" (Luke 3:4) in many ways.
* Encourage students to receive the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation during Advent. Use the questions in chapter 18 of the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults as a springboard to a discussion about how this sacrament helps prepare us for Christ's present advent.
* Christ's present advent is related to our keeping his word, as Jesus says in John's Gospel: "Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him" (14:23). Teach students about one important way we can keep Christ's word, by practicing the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Discuss concrete examples of how we can perform these works of mercy.
The Eucharist and the Three Advents
Perhaps the best resource for teaching about the three advents of Christ is the Eucharist, which is at the same time a memorial of Christ's past coming into and departure from the world, a promise of his future return, and the way he comes to us today. Read St. Bernard's prayer J
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St. Bernard's idea of the three advents, whether it's presented through the activities described here or others you create, can help students more deeply understand the season of Advent—both what we're waiting for and what we're not.
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UNTIL I ran into the Armory's Scott Ward the other evening, my weekend plans had not included attending a scheduled plane crash in the Arroyo Seco.
And now they do. Wouldn't miss it. You ought to come, too.
Because it's a plane crash with a name, and a theme - a political agenda, even. In other words, it's performance art.
The work will be created from Richard Jackson's spectacular notion of crashing a paint-filled, radio-controlled model version of a military plane into a 19-foot wall.
The resulting splash on canvas, however it turns out - Expressionist or Minimalist, Color Field or Op Art, though the smart money's on something like a carnival swirl painting - will hang in the Armory Center for the Arts with the title "Accidents in Abstract Painting."
It will be exhibited beside Jackson's "The War Room," described as "an ode to the second Iraq War and the George W. Bush regime" in which "Ducks dressed as generals run the show."
The Armory, 145 N. Raymond Ave. in Old Pas, was in its day just that, a National Guard center where training was done and much ammo was stored, so this is rather an appropriate venue.
Really, though, I'm focusing here on the crash. As a youth, my brilliant brother Bart Hibbs, who went on to take a degree in aeronautical engineering at Caltech, flew many a radio-controlled plane at the scene of this crime, Area H, just south of the Rose Bowl. Few crashes, though they did occur. There was that time Bart put a mouse in the capsule of one of his model rockets and ... I digress. Be a witness to unimaginably high art. Sunday, Jan. 22, 4 p.m. high.
All of us who grew up in a certain era and certain way were educated about the blues and a whole spectrum of African-American music by listening to "The Johnny Otis Show" on the radio. "Johnny Otis! Johnny Otis!" screamed the opening falsetto theme. He not only produced but was given writing credit on the original "Hound Dog" - no, not the Elvis version. The original Big Mama Thornton. And yet, we discovered years later, Johnny was as white as, well, me.
I love that he made, as he put it, the choice to be black after growing up in his Greek immigrant parents' grocery store in the then mostly black flats of Berkeley. "Yes, I chose," he said, "because despite all the hardships, there's a wonderful richness in black culture that I prefer."
How perfect that he then chose to live in Altadena, that soulful town, that few-rules anarchy, that racial melange, with its long history of mixed neighborhoods and mixed marriages - and the only place I know of outside the South with a coterie of black equestrians.
How very American, and human, to choose an identity out of love for its culture. From drum lines to Preservation Hall to bebop to sweet soul music to Otis's essential rhythm and blues to hip hop, what a great culture it is. It didn't matter whether Johnny Otis "was" black or white by some artificial notion of ethnicity; what he dug was what mattered. More of us should learn to follow that bliss.
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Vibrational spectroscopy of the basic copper phosphate minerals: pseudomalachite, ludjibaite and reichenbachite
Frost, Ray L., Kloprogge, J. Theo, Williams, Peter, Johnson, Therese, Martens, Wayde N., & Leverett, Peter (2002) Vibrational spectroscopy of the basic copper phosphate minerals: pseudomalachite, ludjibaite and reichenbachite. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 58(13), pp. 2861-2868.
The vibrational spectra of pseudomalachite, reichenbachite and ludjibaite have been obtained at 298 K using a combination of FTIR and Raman microscopy. The vibrational spectra of the minerals are different, in line with differences in crystal structure and composition. Some similarity in the Raman spectra of the three polymorphs pseudomalachite, reichenbachite and ludjibaite exists, particularly in the OH stretching region, but characteristic differences in the OH deformation regions are observed. Differences are also observed in the phosphate stretching and deformation regions.
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......One can only hope ................
I just got off the phone with a friend living in northern
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He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly
waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way
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He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in.
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The first test of how strictly Lee's Summit will enforce its new architectural standards for downtown is underway.
A proposal for a dental office, by Lee's Summit orthodontist Craig Grider, prompted some objections by Downtown Lee's Summit Main Street, Inc. and by Planning Commission members who don't like modifications he is seeking for the project at 101 SW Third St., on the corner of Third and Market streets.
The City Council is expected to hold a hearing on the project on Sept. 19.
The Commission voted 5-4, Aug. 27, to recommend denial of approval for the redevelopment where Grider would relocate his practice. Grider said he was surprised at the vote.
"I think we've got a project that's pretty good and a vast improvement over what's there now," Grider said.
He intends to tear down a former gas station that's been vacant for some time, and erect a one-story brick building.
He originally wanted to use synthetic stone corners and brick facade, but changed his plan after meeting with city staff, which also strongly urged locating the building close to the property line on Third Street.
He said when he began planning the project a year ago, city staff told him standards were being developed, but weren't exactly sure what their final form would take.
The plan mostly meets the standards, passed by the City Council in March, according to city staff, but Grider is seeking several modifications with staff support.
Brad Culbertson, a member of DLSMS's board of directors and design committee, asked for strict adherence to the standards at the commission meeting.
"If in the very first project, if we don't really adhere to the standards, we're setting a poor precedent for the future," Culbertson said.
One question was spacing between of three windows on either side of the front door, which was off center, so the distances between were slightly wider on side. The standards call for windows to be symmetrical.
Grider said in an interview that he was changing the design to use larger, six -foot-wide windows, that had more of a retail look and would make the spacing more even.
"In the end, I liked it better," Grider said, "Hopefully they'll like it."
Instead of a solid brick wall to screen the parking lot, Grider wants to use a decorative, wrought-iron fence with brick columns, which city staff said meets the intent of the ordinance. Grider said a solid wall would be too expensive for his budget.
He is also asking for modifications for the setbacks so he can use the same street entrances for the lot and so the front door, which must swing outwards to meet fire code, won't interfere with the sidewalk.
The alignment would be compatible with other buildings on the street, being close to the Third Street property line, staff said.
Planning Commission members reactions varied, some supporting the small modifications, but others even wanting a larger building.
Frank White, John Reece, Fred Delibero, and Kurt Pycior voted to recommend approval, Kathy Smith, Steven Hilger, Colene Roberts, Fred DeMoro and Jason Norbury voted no. Roberts said she just didn't like the building and preferred a structure that would extend to the east to the corner of Market, saying the current proposal is a "tiny building on a great big parking lot."
Roberts said the historic core of the business district covers only a few blocks.
"That's all we've got, and I guess we can't compromise," Roberts said.
Kurt Pycior, who redeveloped the Hartley block of downtown, said being inflexible is not the right approach. He noted that the city's codes have been revised many times to reflect changing or unanticipated conditions. He said individual projects frequently need to be allowed modifications to be practical.
"I think we have lost our way," Pycior said. "This is great, I supported (downtown standards) but you have to give and take a little bit."
Grider said he also will ask the city for tax incentives to help with costs of demolishing the gas station and stripping away the old parking lot. He also has to remove a 300-gallon oil tank buried on the site and do some environmental cleanup.


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I almost fell for it but after doing the research my wife and I found this site and others discussing the exact same approach with a recruiter making initial contact and Joe Langer doing the follow-up and using some of the same references mentions in other complaints. Funny thing the exact scam seems to have been run for a while with the earliest I have located being in 2003. The website and all others appear to be 2001 trademarked so it would not surprise me that this has occurred before 2003. Related websites we (wife & I) located include: abchealthsystem.com, testfornutrition.com, trackyourhealth.net, and livecustomhealth.com. The one thing all of the sites have in common is that you ultimately end up at the same site but all with different web addresses.
Scam is a $12K investment for a territory of one million (+/-) population base. Business model was to by exclusive territory which included 150 ea- Custom Vitamin Brochures and 125 ea - Urine analysis kits (valued at $10K). Cache in on the growing health boom with a proprietary process the matches vitamin need based on questionnaire and 24 hour urine test.
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The fact that we are but a collection of atoms is one thing. But the surprise is that 99.9999999999999% of an atom is empty space. Which means on an atomic level we barely exist. However, if you can extract all the energy contained in a human body from an atomic position, there's enough in there to provide 0.1% of all the energy used by the entire planets human population in one year.
So that's 10 humans a year, seem a bargain. Obviously I'm too small to be worth the effort...
er I did put the first bit up then thought to lighten up on the physics so stopped there.
Blows my tiny mind! Or to put it another way...
"If you imagine a nucleus scaled up to the size of a tennis ball, then the tiny electron would be smaller than a mote of dust orbiting at a distance of a kilometre."
- p9, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen.
T.mouse, wouldn't that be a 1000?
So all we need to do is work out how to split the atoms in a human? Then work out a plan for appropriating body parts, criminals anyone? Then hey presto, free electricity for everyone!
No doubt it would need more energy to extract the energy from the atoms than we would gain...
...er yeah, my maths stopped at 1% then the numbers got to big and I ran out of fingers.
But still, a tiny proportion of the human population as to be negligible is what my head was telling me.
I guess being mostly water, would we provide our own cooling system as well?
So if a coal fired power station could use live humans as fuel (I'll go with Lard arse's criminal masses) at the standard 22% efficiency we could burn just short of 5,000 live criminals per annum and Bob's your uncle.
It may be lacking in the absolute Physics but it's a start
Couldn't you just use dead bodies? We're talking about reactions on an atomic level, not cellular, so presumably you don't need a supply of living humans?
Anyway, if we're going to last any amount of time as a species without killing ourselves to oblivion because of the energy crisis we need to start harnessing nuclear fusion. I'm sure it will work just as well on potatoes...
EKGO I think you're confusing combustion with atomic, I don't believe burning people would release atomic energy otherwise come November the 5th we'll have nuclear fall out everywhereand we'll be wearing NBC suits (what you don't burn real people as guys where you live?)
Phil, potatoes and dead people wouldn't be as fun would it?
Lard Arse, yes I get the science, I was thinking more of the practical elements, and unless you try these things you just don't know.
Anyway we are an Island made of coal, surrounded by Oil and Gas fields, we laid cables in the late 70s to sell excess power to the French to subsidise our own economy. Now we buy French Nuclear power at inflated rates using our own cables, and we use Gas to make Electricity, so burning criminals begins to sound sensible.
we are currently
I was surprised by the atom stuff, also surprised when I discovered that even at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second, nippy) it would take 100,000 years to go from one side of our galaxy to the other.
or that the nearest galaxy to our own is.......(guess how far away)
or that there's as many stars as all the grains of sand on earth, (what!)
Potatoes might be fun if you could get them to explode.
I'm still on for burning criminals though.
but does it have to be living people, or just people ... surely the dead (or more accurately the recently dead) would still stock a fair old number of serviceable atoms that could be put to use ......
actually thinking about it if this is true then why are crematoriums so bloomin' expensive .... me thinks someone is making a mint here !
Or why not just bang atoms together (fusion) - much more energy available that way..... it is kind of hard to do though.
'we' (as in scientists in general) are working on it though.
Physics is fun people
Just forked out for a copy of 'Advanced Physics for you', expensive. The 'you', is the youth in our house repelling gravity via the sofa.
LOL - We have so many physics books in our house - DH currently writing part of new curriculum physics course - do you want to borrow one?
Thanks for the offer, the lad says he has all the books he needs for now. Though not sure if that means they'll be others required.
The hardest bit about an atomic physics course is finding the energy to open the books.
Anyway, back to the discussion about the inside of an atom. All of a sudden we see that 0.0000000000001% of everything is actually nothing. (Keep up), Therefore all matter, and anti-matter can be compressed to that percentage of its currently perceived size. However, this fact means that London, being about 40 miles across, could now be compressed into a circle that is a mere 6.4x10 to the -11 meters. That's a thousand thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The whole of planet earth would be compressed into a sphere that is 1/10 the diameter of human hair, providing that the original quote was correct. You think that's mind boggling? Wait. This tiny speck would still weigh the same as the whole earth.
All of a sudden, the concept of a singularity and a big bang don't seem too unusual.
PhilPub wrote (see)
"If you imagine a nucleus scaled up to the size of a tennis ball, then the tiny electron would be smaller than a mote of dust orbiting at a distance of a kilometre."
It takes up a bit more space than that mote of dust though.
There isn't ANYWHERE on its one kilometre radius sphere of orbit that you can point to and say "the electron isn't there, that bit there is empty space"
It's got the whole damn thing covered
Okay then - go break out the Schrodinger..... haven't seen any bra's or ket's for a while.
(shudder at the very thought)
All of a sudden we see that 0.0000000000001% of everything is actually nothing.
Shouldn't that be the other way round? Only 0.0000000000001% of everything is something.
Anyway, could it be less than that? There might only be one electron in the universe.


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Encana Pays $5 Million in Conspiracy Charge
Attorney General Bill Schuette says one of the two North American energy giants charged in a collusion scheme to suppress the prices at Michigan oil and gas lease auctions, agreed to plead no contest to one criminal charge as part of a settlement.
Encana pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of attempted antitrust violations. As part of the settlement that also brings a $5 million fine, a high misdemeanor charge of antitrust violations relating to a contract or conspiracy will be dismissed.
Charges against Chesapeake Energy, Encana's alleged partner in the bid-rigging, remain pending.
The charges are the culmination of a nearly two-year investigation that began following a report by Reuters in 2012 that revealed a conspiracy between the two companies to bid in separate areas of the state and avoid competing against each other in the same auction to prevent driving up the price.
Schuette says the state's May 2010 auction saw an average lease price of $1,510 per acre, but that fell to less than $40 an acre at the October auction, and the alleged conspiracy may have been a factor.


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U.S. Food Aid: We Pay for Shipping
In the midst of a worldwide hunger crisis, Congress signed on to a food aid program last month that sends hefty paychecks to agribusinesses and shipping companies, but an ever-shrinking supply of food to hungry people. Critics of the farm bill passed into law by Congress over President Bush's veto on June 18 say the inefficiencies in U.S. food aid will only exacerbate food shortages.
The U.S. earmarks about $2 billion per year on food for the world's hungry, more than any other country. Nearly two-thirds of that, however, is spent on items other than food. The $290 billion farm bill, like others before it, requires commodities be bought in the U.S. and shipped to needy countries. And as shipping and delivery costs have risen, the amount of actual food the U.S. sends overseas has fallen dramatically—by 52% between 2001 and 2006—according to one government report. The situation is even more dire this year, due to sky-high prices for commodities like wheat and corn, as well as for fuel.
President Bush asked Congress to modify the farm bill this year so that up to 25% of the food aid budget would be spent on food purchased in other countries, instead of shipping it from the U.S. He even mentioned the proposal in the State of the Union address in January, generating a round of applause. But when the clapping died down, Congress essentially passed the same food aid package it has in previous years.
Congress Opts to Go Slow
Granted, buying food in the U.S. and shipping it overseas has important advantages. There are undeniable political and diplomatic benefits of sending abroad food stamped with the letters USA. Supporters of the current way of doing things also say buying hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of food in developing countries could destabilize agricultural markets and lead to new problems.
Whether those benefits outweigh the inefficiencies of the U.S. program received little debate during consideration of the farm bill. In the House, a proposal to boost local and regional purchases died quietly in the Rules Committee. The Senate was willing to study the idea, but not to divert much money toward it. Eventually, the bill included $60 million over four years—less than 1% of the likely food aid budget over that period—to fund a study and pilot program for local-food purchases. A supplemental funding bill added $50 million more for local and regional purchases. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said, "It is important that we act cautiously [and evaluate] the effectiveness, efficiency, and any potential consequences" before altering the food aid program.
Others were disappointed by the go-slow approach. "I was very upset that they did that in the middle of a crisis like this," said Andrew Natsios, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, from 2001 to 2006 and now a professor at Georgetown University. "We don't need a pilot like this. It works. We know it works."
Aid Groups Struggle with Inflation
Getting food to developing countries efficiently has taken on a new urgency this year. Hunger crises, brought on by record high commodity prices and droughts in Ethiopia and elsewhere, have led to rioting in more than 30 countries, and could help push an additional 100 million people into extreme poverty this year, according to the World Bank.
Aid groups have been struggling to keep up (BusinessWeek.com, 6/3/08). The World Food Program, which is run by the U.N., has spent $650 million on 1.15 million tons of food through the first six months of 2008, compared with the $400 million the program spent through June 2007 to buy about the same amount of food. A report released in May by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO, showed the number of undernourished people has held steady at about 850 million, despite a pledge by 180 world leaders in 1996 to cut that number in half by 2015.
Regardless of what methods countries use to donate food, there are simply too many hungry mouths this year. But even so, other countries have taken steps to stretch their food aid dollars.
Most other countries have shifted their food aid programs so that they give cash instead of commodities. Canada decided a few months ago to move to a cash-only system. The World Food Program, which distributes about half of the food from USAID, buys most of it in developing countries. World Food Program officials contend that process is more efficient, because it cuts out the cost and delays of shipping the commodities. It can take up to six months for food to get to its destination, Henrietta Fore, the administrator of USAID, said in testimony before Congress earlier this year. Buying locally also helps support farmers in developing countries.
CARE Says No to U.S. System
"It's one of the tools we can use to stimulate production, market efficiencies, and market capacity throughout the world," said Kenn Crossley, the deputy director of U.S. relations at the World Food Program.
Neither USAID nor the World Food Program could estimate how much the U.S. would save by buying locally. But Gawain Kripke, the policy director at Oxfam America, said he thinks moving to local and regional purchase could cut costs by 40% to 45%, based on two studies that looked at the cost of shipping food vs. buying it locally.
USAID's inefficiencies extend beyond the cost and speed of shipping. Aid groups actually sell tens of millions of dollars' worth of USAID commodities in other countries to fund development projects, a process called monetization. That means taxpayers are buying food in the U.S. and paying to ship that food, so aid groups can turn around and sell it for cash. Even the groups themselves acknowledge that this is not the most efficient way to pay for aid. But they say it is necessary to pay for long-term projects.
The inefficiencies in the aid program have become so glaring that the Cooperative for Assistance & Relief Everywhere, or CARE, a large global charity, announced last year it would pass up millions in aid and no longer monetize food.
Some aid groups contend politicians are simply too beholden to large U.S. business groups to change the system. In fiscal year 2008 the government has awarded contracts for more than 40% of the commodities for USAID to Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Cargill—more than $150 million worth for each—according to the U.S. Agriculture Dept.
Bounty for U.S. Shipping
Shipping companies like Maersk Line Limited also play a large role in the food aid process, and have lobbied against changes to the program. Ocean shipping costs have become increasingly burdensome. USAID spent $340 million to ship food aid over the past 12 months, and has seen average shipping costs jump from $160 per ton in June 2007 to $270 per ton last month.
Government investigators found that requirements in the farm bill make shipping food particularly expensive. The bill mandates that 75% of the commodities travel overseas on U.S.-flagged ships, which charge more than other ships, a GAO report found. U.S. shipping companies acknowledge that because of regulations, it often costs more to ship with them.
"In the current conditions it's a scandal that we're taking more than half of this money and giving it to these companies," said David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, an advocacy group that lobbies to change food aid policies. "This is a clear case of waste." The shipping companies argue that aid groups that buy food in developing countries also incur expensive transportation costs.
Indeed, some who follow the aid process think there's more to it than greedy business interests imposing inefficiencies. Emmy Simmons, a development consultant who worked at USAID for 30 years and was a top administrator there from 2002 to 2005, said, "It's a little more complicated than pork-barrel spending" and has to do with the history of the program.
USAID's Food for Peace program started in 1954, when the government was wondering what to do with its surplus grain. Along with the food, the U.S. was exporting goodwill. USAID's motto is "From the American People," and bags of American-made food that arrive in troubled regions serve as a potent symbol. Sending U.S. food is politically more palatable than sending a check, and aid groups such as World Vision worry that a change in the program would lead to a decrease in popular support for food aid.
Risk in Changing the Program
"There was a concern that you'd lose the resource," said Robert Zachritz, the director for advocacy and government relations at World Vision, which opposed the President's proposal to source 25% of food aid locally.
Groups lobbying against more regional purchasing point out that donations from the European Union dropped after its food contributions switched to cash. Even people who support regional purchases recognize the political danger of changing the program.
Beckmann, of Bread for the World, says the program "is understandable for historical reasons." But he thinks Americans are more internationally minded than they once were and would be willing to embrace a better aid program. "There is more concern than there was in the '90s. Taxpayers are willing to put more money in."


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Sarah Connor Chronicles and Game Thrones star about her role in the upcoming Judge Dredd reboot . . .
Here's what Lena Headey had to say about her role as the villainous Madeline "Ma-Ma" Madrigal in the upcoming Dredd movie also starring Karl Urban (Bones in 2009's Star Trek):
"She's a prostitute who then kills her pimp and takes over his drug-running business. And Ma-Ma is a bit of a man-hater. I think of her like an old great white shark who is just waiting for someone bigger and stronger to show up and kill her. She's ready for it. In fact, she can't wait for it to happen. And yet no one can get the job done. She's an addict, so she's dead in that way, but that last knock just hasn't come. This big, fat, scarred shark moving through the sea and everyone flees and she's like, 'Will someone just have the balls to do it? Please?'"
In the movie Headey's character runs the so-called Peach Tree City Block gang who comes into conflict with Judge Dredd, the future Mega City One's top lawman.
Here's what Headey also had to say about the upcoming movie:
"The world [in the film] feels really British, and I don't know if that's because it's so dirty and dark. And it's … violent. Just in terms of gunplay, they're not afraid to show blood and gunshot wounds. And it's set up in this concrete sort of shanty town – it's shanty but they're blocks – concrete favelas."
The release date for Dredd is September 21st, 2012.
It stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Jason Cope, Warrick Grier, Joe Vaz, Langley Kirkwood, Deobia Oparei and Francis Chouler. The movie is directed by Pete Travis from a screenplay by Alex Garland (The Beach, Sunshine).
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to everyone who responded, esp. Dave Armstrong (the first response,
off-list) and Neil Shephard who points out:
<excerpted> The module that achieves this in Perl is the LWP (Library
for WWW in Perl). This allows you to write a script which posts form
data. There is even an O'Reilly book on it, and an accompanying
web-page with (presumably) excerpted samples can be viewed at
so now I have my Google API key and am running perl scripts in a
Cygwin shell on a Windows box, and eagerly awaiting some books to come
from Amazon. How many more non-Stata tradenames can I fit in one
Statalist post? The reason for the query is partly loyalty to Stata,
but partly convenience: I know how to program in Stata, and the
meta-analysis will be run in Stata, so it would be helpful to have the
database of studies (perhaps with codes for study characteristics) in
The smaller point is this: running a Search interactively, getting 650
results and then clicking to get copies of some and bibliographic info
is just to painful.
I was *hoping* someone would have programmed a script to scrape Google
in C that could be adapted to become a Stata plugin.... ah well, can't
always get what you want...
but I did find, I got what I need.
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The Walking Dead (PC, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network) :: In Telltale Games' episodic take on the comic by Robert Kirkman, even the simplest choices can have far-reaching implications. As an escaped convict attempting to care for an orphaned girl, players are forced into one impossible moral conundrum after another. The gameplay is hardly challenging — its simple puzzles and streamlined action scenes never tax your brain or your reflexes — but The Walking Dead's ethical quandaries challenge what's in your heart.
Trials Evolution (Xbox Live Arcade) :: How hard can it be to ride a dirtbike up a hill? After your 100th failed attempt to clear a near-vertical ramp with a metal pipe sticking out of the top, you'll know it's harder than you could ever have imagined — and, somehow, immeasurably more satisfying to accomplish.
Spec Ops: The Line (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) :: It looked like a generic military shooter. It played like a generic military shooter. But Spec Ops: The Line thwarted players' expectations of the genre by delivering a thoughtful, probing story about mission creep and the human costs of war.
Mark of the Ninja (Xbox Live Arcade) :: Klei Entertainment's downloadable stealth game is a masterwork of interface design. With a streamlined graphical approach to representing sound, movement, and illumination, Mark of the Ninja eliminates the cheapness that often plagues stealth-action games. It's a gem.
Diablo III (PC) :: About eight hours into Diablo III, I wondered what the big deal was. About 40 hours into it, I began to fear for my marriage, my employment, and my sanity. Blizzard's action-RPG opus was worth the 12-year wait.
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Black: Unemployment Numbers Offer Some Relief, But More Pro-Growth Policies Needed
Washington, D.C. (Friday, March 9, 2012)—Today, amid news that the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.3% and the economy added 227,000 jobs in the month of February, U.S. Representative Diane Black (R-TN), praised yesterday's passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), and called on the president and U.S. Senate to join the House in passing more pro-growth policies.
"While our economy is showing small signs of recovery, more than four years after the start of this recession things are not getting better fast enough," said Black. "I and my colleagues in the House of Representatives are committed to getting Americans back to work—that is why we have passed nearly 30 jobs bills to date, and just yesterday overwhelming passed the JOBS Act, a package of six bills designed to help startup companies and entrepreneurs launch new businesses and create jobs."
According to the Kauffman Foundation, startups have created nearly 40 million jobs since 1980 and the Small Business Administration shows small businesses generate over 60% of new jobs in this country. Unfortunately, policies from the federal government have made it harder for small businesses to start up and grow. According to the World Bank's annual "Doing Business" report, the U.S. fell to number 13 in ranking for "ease of starting a business."
The JOBS Act was designed to increase small business competitiveness and growth, removing barriers for investment and making it easier for more small and medium size companies to go public. Proposals within the JOBS Act have all received strong bipartisan support in Congress, from the President's Jobs Council as well as from the business community.
"The backbone of the American economy has always been the small business owner and entrepreneur," said Black. "For too long, barriers and red tape have gotten in the way for those who wanted to launch a startup—this bill is a crucial step in jumpstarting our economy and giving entrepreneurs the tools they need to grow their business. We in the House are working to get our economy moving again. With unemployment still above 8%, too many Americans are out of work. I call on the Senate to quickly pass the JOBS Act—and the almost 30 other bipartisan jobs bills—and send them to the president's desk for his signature."
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As Outback House and Monarchy show, we're fascinated by the past. But are we driven by a thirst for knowledge or a hunger for escapism? By Brian Courtis.
Blisters swell, grizzling flies swarm around every poisoned orifice and, in their pioneering drought, the daggy, bleeding, dying sheep sour every hope of an idyllic vision splendid. The reality of Australia's past is not as pretty as a picture, the hardships not as neatly exhausted as we remember them in the TV dramas Against The Wind, Timeless Land or The Man From Snowy River.
So why do we still go back? What is it that keeps us with our past? Are television programs such as SBS's The Colony or this week's new ABC series Outback House really likely to produce the link, or sense of continuity, that we appear to seek to a seemingly less complex Australia?
The past may not be perfect, but history is hot entertainment. Television has become our folk museum, allowing us to forget an unhappy present and taking us away from an uncertain future. If somebody else is willing to test it to see whether we could have been survivors, then so be it.
At first glance, executive producer Ivo Burum's eight-part "living history" show Outback House promises to be sunnier, less claustrophobic and more attractive to the romantic eye than that earlier trip to The Colony. But first impressions are deceptive; the hardships soon become clear, the tears soon flow.
Burum's reality TV series aims to recreate the life of a squatter, his family, the pastoral station hands and an Aboriginal worker setting up a new property, Oxley Downs, in the NSW of 1861. It's another attempt to look at what people might have gone through to settle 19th-century Australia.
From several thousand applicants, 16 volunteers ready to abandon a pampered 21st-century life were chosen. A few would bow out before the series was completed, and they were replaced along the way.
The role of squatter, the boss making his move towards colonial aristocracy, was filled by Paul Allcorn, son of a rubber plantation owner, born in Singapore and educated in England. He has lived in Australia for the past 18 years. Allcorn's animal-handling skills are minimal and for the past 10 years he has been running his own IT consulting firm. With him in the series is his wife Juli, an artist and ballet teacher, and their three daughters, Persephone, 13, Pierette, 10, and nine-year-old Portia.
Completing the class-structured set-up for Oxley Downs is an overseer, a senior station hand, three station hands, two shepherds, a governess, cooks and two maids.
Rough and ready though it may seem, Oxley Downs was well prepared for the three-month live-in. Production designer Robby Perkins, with credits for designing many period TV sets, was given the task of making sure this one actually played its part as a working sheep station. Bridges were built, period building styles followed, and a vegetable garden and orchard laid before the pioneers arrived.
Costume designer Michael Chisholm had the extraordinary task of creating a 19th-century wardrobe. There were four directors, historical and architectural consultants, a food consultant, a psychiatrist and animal handlers galore to advise on the bullock wagon, the sheep, geese, rooster and chooks.
Achieving a sense of reality, as we will see, soon enters the realms of the surreal. For Paul Allcorn, it clearly calls for a sense of diplomacy as well as a willingness to muck in. He is under no illusions. "It's like going to prison for three months ... or to Jurassic Park," he says.
It is probably toughest for those urban recruits who have no country background. What we don't see is just how much, or how little, training the Outback House party gets before it slips off into history. But it is obvious that even the boys from the bush find it hard using the old non-technology. Even before they start, they are at a relative disadvantage to the actual pioneers who grew up with this stuff.
There is no script, just 10,000 acres of bush. And, thanks to shepherd Bernie's enthusiastic desire to get going, squatter Allcorn has an immediate problem. The wethers have been mixed in with the pregnant and lambing ewes in his mob of 1350 sheep and he risks losing some if he moves them with the bullockies. And, no, this time he can't check out what to do on the Internet. Still, that's soon going to seem small stuff. The men go on ahead to prepare a home for their women. And it's surprising how quickly civilisation and democracy can get left behind. Tension builds, egos come to the fore, the blisters multiply, and those outback flies grow as fat as emus as we get drawn in to Oxley Downs to vicariously experience the realities of our past.
Without such opportunities at his disposal, historian David Starkey clearly feels he must bellow the past into us. By shouting his lines throughout Monarchy he seems to believe we may come to understand it all a little more. This is how the English have always passed on information to the deaf or to non-English-speakers.
Starkey is, however, on familiar ground. He is back in December 1154 with one of his royal champions, King Henry II. Poor Henry, we're reminded, was cursed "with a turbulent family who did much to undercut his extraordinary achievements". Sort of like Tony Soprano's problems.
In this week's fourth episode of Monarchy, Starkey uses his buzz words to keep us agog. So we hear of "the man they had to do business with", the "charismatic personality" and a "medieval superstar".
Well, that really is unnecessary. Henry's hold on France and England, the horrific Murder In The Cathedral story of his clash with Archbishop Thomas a Beckett, those thuggish barons, the wrangling over the Magna Carta and start of a modern parliamentary system hardly needs a raised voice or slogans.
While Outback House brings us history through experience, Starkey delivers it to us here as a "lives of the rich and famous". It's dramatic storytelling; entertaining, informing and exciting history. He creates reality for us, noisy as it sometimes appears. No wonder we're dazzled by our past.
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At the moment, there isn't a proven market for mini-notebook computers—shrunken versions of standard laptops, with 7- to 9-in. displays. But leading tech companies, including Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and Taiwan's Asus, keep trying to convince us otherwise. The hardware is attractive, but the whole proposition isn't going to fly until someone designs a software package that makes sense.
The focus of today's minuscule business in minis is the education market. The One Laptop Per Child project got things going with its perky green XO mini. Intel countered with the Classmate which, like the XO, is pitched mainly to the developing world. Meanwhile, the Asus Eee PC has developed a cult following among hard-core techies.
HP's new Mini-Note 2133 is also aimed at schools. But unlike its less costly competitors, which make do with shrunken keyboards and limited amounts of solid-state storage, the Mini-Note is a fully fledged laptop with an 8.9-in. widescreen display, a 120-gigabyte hard drive, and a standard keyboard that's nearly full size.
There's really nothing all that unusual about a 2.7-lb. notebook—about what a Sony (SNE) VAIO TZ weighs and only a few ounces lighter than a MacBook Air or a Lenovo ThinkPad X300. What distinguishes the Mini-Note is its price. Small and light has always carried a hefty premium, with the Apple (AAPL), Lenovo, and Sony notebooks fetching from $1,800 to $3,000. The Mini-Note starts at $499, a price that makes it affordable both for the education market and for business use as a secondary notebook computer.
Will the low price work its magic? My conclusion, after using the Mini-Note for a few weeks, is that it could be a game changer—but only if smart people sit down and write software specifically for this class of product.
The Mini-Note is offered with a choice of Windows XP (MSFT), Vista Home Basic, or Linux. HP sent me the Vista version, which is probably the worst choice, since this stripped-down edition includes all of the overloaded complexity that makes Vista annoying without the visual grace notes that ease the pain. The Via C7-M processor made for slow, unhappy computing. The high-resolution display should be ideal for video, but the Mini-Note sputtered even when playing low-resolution YouTube (GOOG) clips. Intel's upcoming Atom chip, designed for just this sort of product, would probably boost performance.
I got a little happier when I installed the less power-hungry XP. But there's no getting around the fact that Windows, no matter what flavor, doesn't work well on displays smaller than 12 inches. Icons are too small, targets are too hard to hit with the cursor, and text is hard to read. Linux does best with both the low-powered processor and the small screen. That's fine if you want to use the Mini-Note mostly for Web browsing. For business users, the inability to run standard Windows programs is likely to be a big problem.
A small, light, inexpensive notebook could win over a lot of users. But Microsoft—or a rival, for whom this might be an opportunity—has to get beyond the lazy habit of merely scrunching software designed for much bigger systems. The iPhone is a great example of the right way to shrink programs to fit the device. Apple equipped the iPhone with a version of its OS X software, but completely—and brilliantly—rethought the user interface so that it works on the device's much smaller display.
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Customer experience management (CEM) has become a marketing buzzword for technology vendors as of late. While this isn't surprising given the current energy around customer experience in general, it is a problem. Here's why:
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For the past five years, I've been leading Forrester's research on measuring customer experience. With the recent explosion of interest in customer experience overall and the perennial popularity of metrics as a topic within that space, we've decided to expand the team that covers it.
I'll continue to write reports about general measurement best practices and how to apply them in an enterprise-level experience measurement program. My colleague Adele Sage is adding to that body of work by exploring how the latest experience measurement theory applies in digital channels like Web, mobile, tablets, and whatever new channel they dream up next. And in fact, she just published her first two reports in this research stream:
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Earlier this year, I ran a workshop designed to help customer experience professionals get a jumpstart on the process of transforming their organizations to be more customer-centric. We got great feedback from that session, so we've decided to run it again on September 20 at Forrester's brand new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hello race59; I made this press and I love it. I don't use any of the extra holes, not needed. I shoot Hoyt , Martin and Jennings . All press easily with no effort. Thanks , now I'll have 300 to stick into something else.
Any new improvements to this unit?
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Done very well, and more importantly, cheap !
This is simply brilliant. I've got a couple pipe clamps in the back yard. Now I know what i'm going to do with one!!!
this is great,
I experienced an issue with my bow fisher today, and have to remove to string,
was going to take to the shop, but decided for a cheaper option incase it happens again
thanks all!
I realize that this is an old thread, but hopefully, I'll get a response to my question. I'm about to build this press, my question is with my Hoyt Contender w/ xt3000limbs will I have to back off the limb bolts or can I leave the set to max weight. The biggest pain that I have in tuning the bow, ie, making all of the necessary adjustments, is always turning the bolts in and out after each adjustment.
I realize that this is an old thread, but hopefully, I'll get a response to my question. I'm about to build this press, my question is with my Hoyt Contender w/ xt3000limbs will I have to back off the limb bolts or can I leave the set to max weight. The biggest pain that I have in tuning the bow, ie, making all of the necessary adjustments, is always turning the bolts in and out after each adjustment.
A press is a press is a press.....I don't know about Hoyt, but if you have to back it down to press it, then you would do the same with this one! I built one that I no longer use, PM me if you are interested.
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That is such a great idea! I'm going to make one this would be perfect for me to tie in peeps and change strings.
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That is a freakin' awesome press idea...perfect for what I need, but how could I make some fingers to work with a Destroyer 350
^ I should have pics in a few hours of my invasion in the press...time to call it a night though. I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS THREAD!
Once I find some were to buy fingers I'm going to make one of these,simple,cheap and effective!
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I finally built mine a couple of months ago. I used oak for the fingers, as I don't have a welder. It works better than I thought it would. I've pressed an old Browning Trophy Maker, 2005 PSE Primos STL, Hoyt Ruckus, and 2010 Elite Z 28 which is considered past parallel. This press has saved me a ton of time and money doing my own tuning and tinkering. Thanks so much for the great idea.
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Nice idea i really like how simple it is
Made one of these up last year. Tried using it on my Insanity. I have the fingers like the post above. As I was removing a cable the finger bent and the bow came popping out out. pretty scary. Is there any way to make sure the fingers don't straighten back out?
Fingers straighten out? As in bending? I have made these with 3/16" and 1/4" steel and it won't bend. I have built them with 3/4" oak with no problem. If the length of the fingers is increased I would use thicker material or reinforce it.
yes the fingers went from the 7 or 10 degree bend to past straight the other way. I have 1/4 inch steel. I am trying to figure a way to reinforce or somehow harden them when they are bent back to the 7-10 degree angle. Any ideas?
once bent it will be weaker than original. welding a piece of flat stock perp to the back would be the only way i could think of reinforcing it.
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Has anyone tried using an I-Bar clamp to make this press? Seems like it would address some of the slipping concerns and be much stronger. $82.00
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I just finished mine this weekend. I have about $40 in it for just the clamps, pipe, 3/8x2" steel and rubber tubing.
If I had it to do over again I would just go the hardwood route for the fingers.
It is amazing how easily this presses my bowtech.
Thanks for the write up I am still ahead of the game not having to spend the money on gas to watch someone that may or may not actually know how to work on my bow and then charge me $35!
I just used it to swap cables/string and sync my cams.
Good job.
Doesn't seem like this design would be able to fix a string that has popped off a cam... or am i missing something ?


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Lars Ohlin speech-BHS class of 2012
By Lars Ohlin
The song goes "Don't worry about a thing, because every little thing is going to be all right." The person who wrote this believed in a single person's ability to make a difference. We can change the world in many ways, no matter how many people analyze it, and put it into their own emotions or thoughts. Many of us maybe believed that one day I will change the world, how everyone thinks, or something along these lines. Maybe we will! Even though this may not be the world you thought you were going to inherit, the ability to change is what we are given. Change is good! You have changed mine; you changed your friends, classmates, faculty and family. Professional athletes and actors and supermodels is what we all dreamed of being, maybe besides shooter, figure skater, but at some point we all figure out some things change. For the better, and we find out college is creeping closer, a family is a near step away, and these bleachers, we will eventually be sitting in.
Education has been one of the greatest things to ever happen to us, and our parents! What would they do without all the decorations at Christmas we made for them? Every one of my teachers has left an impact on me, and I have left them with a few headaches I'm sure! But hopefully we showed them the young adults they helped shape us into being. I know we all wished that our parents could have been there to help find our way through the halls and help us with problems, but we had another great mom watching out for us, and I know the students will agree with me when I say, Mama Rusk, we could never choose another principal over you! Even after a couple days of detention. Just joking, Mrs. Rusk.
I applaud you students, through months of work, we made the best role models anyone could ask for in the class of 2012. Now as I look into the eyes of our proud parents I know they have been preparing, working hard and waiting for this day as much as we have. So as you leave tonight and you take those last big steps toward a diploma and a new future, stand tall and take these last photographs at Brainerd High with an extra big smile for your parents because they deserve the most support and gratitude, more than anyone else here. We were looked upon and pressured, but we succeeded and made it to the day we have been dreaming of for 12 years. Go on to college and work and show where we were from, and remember who helped us get there. This life is ours. So take it by the hand and make it the one we want it to be.
Three little birds sat on my doorstep this morning, singing sweet songs, a melody pure and true, telling me this is my message to you. This will be the day you remember and look back upon as the years of freedom and know, but also rejoice we will never see these glory days again when were living young and on the edge of opportunity. This is the day that we have waited for, yet it may be sad to watch you go. It brings excitement and promise to a well-earned future. I wish you the best of luck class of 2012. I will cherish every moment you have given me and the happiness that has come with it. Thank you and become who you were born to be, wherever that path takes us. Senior Brainerd Danceline rules!
LARS OHLIN is a member of the Brainerd High School class of 2012.