earnest brown, our clinical director, and helen parker and jessica cohen. the students who are here with me are austin, peter, and hugo. as a first-year student at our school, we are required to find and pursue a learned interest. you are -- we have -- [inaudible]. cognitive reasoning and social reasoning which is social studies and history, communication which is learning how to express our ideas and lastly personal qualities which is what you came and did over the year. at this time i'd like to hand it over to elena vasquez to talk about her interests. >> good evening, everyone. my name is elena and i'm 17 years old. i've been attending p.b.c. for two months and this is my first exhibition on comparing honduras with san francisco after only three weeks. after completing my essay comparing san francisco and honduras, i became more interested in the culture and history of honduras. i want to learn about pre-colonial times in honduras and how things have changed from then until this present day. one of the things that affects people in honduras is a fever. i

finally, we're going to have helen parker, which is one of our advisors, read for one with of our students who couldn't be here tonight. the poem is entitled "me" and it's a.m. an example of the positive -- and it's an example of the positive transmation big picture brings about -- transfer mation big picture brings about. >> me. i feel like i'm not me, like i lost myself at sea, something's changing, i don't understand, i feel like a whole new woman. i'm becoming mature, it's time to be me. to change my ways for me, my family. and to -- i feel refreshed and i feel whole. maybe i finally found my soul. through all the darkness i see the light. i'm a new person and this one i like. by rochelle swanson. thank you. . . claque that concludes the students -- >> that concludes the students' presentation. commissioner maufas: thank you so much for coming, students. i really appreciate you being here. can you tell me -- you are called the principal center. can you come here so you do not have to keep getting up? that way i can just ask you and you can decide to answer as you see fit. you just push

. >> you are shorter than jack parker. helen to make sure that we did that. chairman, ranking member brown and the members of the subcommittee. i am pleased to discuss the work on the postal service. i will briefly discuss the financial condition, a key issues, and the postal delivery fleet. addressing the broader challenges. the postal service is on the risk of the agencies because it needs to realign the business model. total volume decrease 3% in the second quarter of this fiscal year. that is compared with the same time last year. the postal service is reporting a loss of $2.6 billion. the project they will reach the debt limit this year had defaulted on a $5.5 billion payment for health benefits. the postal service needs to modernize its operations and prepare to upgrade delivery fleet. the delivery fleet has 192,000 vehicles, most of which are custom built in the 16-23 years old that are approaching the end of the operational lives. the commercially available minivans with respect to the operational life of 10 years. maintaining the delivery fleet costs