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Six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution—on time, on budget, and high qual-ity. Everyone in the project was pleased.

They solved the problem by using a high-tech precision scale that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box weighed less than it should. The line would stop, someone would walk over, remove the defective box, and then press another button to re-start the line. As a result of the new package monitoring pro-cess, no empty boxes were being shipped out of the factory.

With no more customer com-plaints, the CEO felt the $8 million was well spent. At the end of the first month, he reviewed the line statistics report and discovered the number of empty boxes picked up by the scale in the first week was consistent with projections, how-ever, the next three weeks were zero! The estimated rate should have been at least a dozen boxes a day. He had the engineers check the equipment and they verified the report as accurate.

Puzzled, the CEO travelled down to the factory, viewed the part of the line where the precision scale was installed, and observed that just ahead of the new $8 mil-lion dollar solution sat a $20 desk fan blowing the empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. He asked the line supervisor what that was about.

“Oh, that,” the supervisor re-plied, “Bert, the kid from mainte-nance, put it there because he was tired of walking over, removing the box and re-starting the line every time the stupid bell rang.”

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STRANGE BUT TRUEby Samantha Weaver

(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.• It was Spanish philosopher

George Santayana who made the following observation: “Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”

• On a per-pound basis, your brain uses 10 times the calories as any other part of your body.

• You might be surprised to learn that the U.S. state that is closest to Africa is Maine.

• Those who purport to predict the future usually have pretty poor track records. You might be sur-prised to learn, then, that in 1900, a journalist named John Watkins successfully predicted a number of significant developments that came to pass in the 20th century. In an article in the Ladies’ Home

Journal, Watkins wrote that within the following 100 years, “Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at op-posite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.” Also, “Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house”; “ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today, … equipped with electric stoves, coffee-grinders, egg-beaters, stir-rers, meat-saws, dishwashers and the like”; and “wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world.”

• If you listen to the radio for one hour, you will hear approximately 11,000 words spoken (or sung).

• It was beloved British author (and, of course, creator of Sherlock Holmes) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who introduced the sport of skiing to Switzerland, thereby transform-ing that snowy country into a pre-mier tourist destination.

• Those who decide to go into goat farming should know that the group of goats they’re raising could be called a flock, a herd, a tribe or a trip.

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Thought for the Day: “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” -- Spanish proverb

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A famous scientist developed a formula to bring statues to life.

He went to a local park to try it out on a statue of Gen. Ulysses Grant.

After the application, Gen. Grant began to move and soon was completely alive.

The scientist asked, “What’s the first thing you’ll do, general?”

The general answered while drawing his pistol

“I’m going to kill about a mil-lion pigeons!”

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Bloomer High School gradua-tion is one week from Friday. Look for our special graduation insert in next week’s Bloomer Advance.

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A hospital posted a notice in the nurses’ lounge saying, “Re-member, the first five minutes of a human being’s life are the most dangerous.”

Underneath, a nurse had writ-ten, “The last five are pretty risky, too.”

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Bloomer Middle School Band Holds Spring Concert

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The Bloomer Middle School fi fth and sixth grade band performs during the spring concert Monday, May 5. The seventh and eighth grade bands are pictured on page A1.

TEXT & DRIVEContinued from FRONT

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Participants and organizers in the anti-Texting and Driving assembly at Bloomer High School Wednesday, May 7 included (from left) BHS junior Mitchell Goettl, BHS guidance counselor Rhonda Herrick, BHS sophomore Ryan Ratcliff , BHS sophomore Jocelyn Zwiefelhofer, Wisconsin AAA Mary Miller, state Assemblyman Tom Larson, state Senator Terry Moulton, Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper Mark Walloch and BHS Principal Chad Steinmetz. Not pictured: Kent Disch of AT&T Wisconsin.

message while driving and im-poses a fine of up to $400. As a primary enforcement law, officers may stop and ticket drivers solely for texting and driving. Wisconsin is among 41 states that ban text messaging by all drivers.

AT&T first launched the It Can Wait® campaign in 2009 to educate the public about the dangers of texting while driving and encour-age consumers to take the pledge to never text and drive at www.ItCan-Wait.com. Since 2010, AT&T, AAA and the State Patrol have partnered together to hold events in 51 cities throughout Wisconsin, reaching nearly 25,000 high school students.

“Studies show teens continue to text and drive, even though they know it’s dangerous and against the law,” said Scott T. VanderSanden, president of AT&T Wisconsin. “We’re challenging all drivers, espe-cially our teens, to take the pledge to never text and drive and make it a lifelong commitment.”

The It Can Wait® movement is making a difference. One in three people who have seen the texting while driving message say they’ve changed their driving habits, and the campaign has inspired more than 4 million pledges to never text and drive.

Texting while driving causes

more than 200,000 car crashes on American roadways each year, according to the National Safety Council1. Those who send text messages while driving are much more likely to be in a crash.

Research shows that speaking up against texting while driving works. A ConnectSafely.org survey sponsored by AT&T found that:

• 78 percent of teen drivers say they’re likely not to text and drive if friends tell them it’s wrong or stupid.

• 90 percent say they’d stop if a friend in the car asked them to.

• 93 percent would stop if a par-ent in the car asked them to.

AT&T, AAA and the Wisconsin State Patrol are planning a series of high school events this school year. Events have been held at 26 high schools across the state, including at Bloomer High School, with 5 more planned.

For more information on the It Can Wait® campaign, please visit: ItCanWait.com.

AAA has also long been warn-ing the public about the dangers of distracted driving. For more infor-mation on

AAA’s national initiative to ban texting and driving in every state, please visit www.TeenDriving.AAA.com.

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Terry Sarauer grew up working with his hands on the family farm in rural Bloomer. But the 2011 Bloomer High School graduate didn’t want to pursue a career in ag-riculture. He found his path through the Machine Tooling Technics pro-gram at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC).

Sarauer was one of 621 graduates in 44 academic programs honored Friday night at the commencement ceremony held at UW-Eau Claire’s Zorn Arena. On Thursday, CVTC honored 46 graduates in five pro-grams at its River Falls Campus.

The number of graduates at Eau Claire was very similar to the spring

2013 graduation, which honored 626 graduates. The most popular programs among this spring’s graduates at the Eau Claire campus are Nursing, with 80 graduates, Business Management with 38 graduates, and Electrical Power Distribution with 30.

Eleven others joined Sarauer as Machine Tooling Technics graduates. They shouldn’t have too much difficulty finding jobs. In 2012-13, 94 percent of pro-gram graduates were working six months after graduation, with 88 percent in a related field, accord-ing to surveys of program gradu-ates. Sarauer will be working at Five Star Plastics in Eau Claire as a mold maker.

“A friend went through the pro-gram and he really enjoyed it. He works at Nordstrum EDI (in Chip-pewa Falls). I thought I would give it a try,” Sarauer said about his deci-sion to enroll in CVTC’s program.

“I like anything hands-on, and you’re almost guaranteed a job,” Sarauer continued. “Farming just wasn’t for me. I wanted to try something new. I’m excited about my future.”

Among the other graduates was student speaker Ashley Weiss of Menomonie, who is originally from Gilmanton, in the Administrative Professional program. She urged the graduates to have confidence that they can achieve their goals and overcome their failures.

“If you want something bad enough, what you have accom-plished here today should be enough to show you that you can absolutely reach any goal you set your mind to,” she said. “But don’t be afraid of failure on your way there. Sometimes those failures are what motivate you to do better and push yourself harder.”

Chippewa Valley Technical Col-lege delivers superior, progressive technical education which improves the lives of students, meets the workforce needs of the region, and strengthens the larger community. Campuses are located in Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Menomonie, Neillsville and River Falls. CVTC serves an 11-county area in west central Wisconsin. CVTC is part of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and is one of 16 WTCS colleges located throughout the state.

Bloomer Grad Finds New Path Through CVTC Program