of office from Indian President Pratibha Patil at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, in Delhi. Mr Singh has displayed an ability to stand firm and outlast his most trenchant critics

The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder

Analysis: PM's tough agenda India's key new ministers What business wants Congress veterans Pranab Mukherjee, AK Antony and P Chidambaram were among those taking the oath. Sharad Pawar and Mamata Banerjee, who are among the key alliance partners, are also in the cabinet. The swearing-in will be followed over the next few days by announcements of other ministers. "This expansion will give due representation to allied parties," the prime minister's office said. On Friday, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari sent a message congratulating Congress. "May I also take this opportunity to assure youthat Pakistan remains committed to peace and prosperity in South Asia and will continue to work with India to resolve all outstanding issues between the two countries peacefully and in a just manner." Bargaining hard Indian economic analyst Paranjoy Guha Thakurta says the challenge for Mr Singh's government will be to meet the aspirations of India's youthful and upwardly mobile middle classes while widening social safety nets for the poor, especially those living in rural areas. But he says the Congress mandate is strong, with the weakening of parties on the left and right. In recent days, Mr Singh and the leader of his Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, have been bargaining hard with their electoral allies over the distribution of cabinet positions. On Thursday, the DMK left the


Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Lars Von Trier: "I understand Hitler but I think he did some wrong things yes absolutely but I can see him sitting in his bunker"

The Cannes Film Festival has banned director Lars Von Trier after he claimed to be a Nazi and that he sympathised with Adolf Hitler.

In a statement issued on Thursday, organisers said the Danish film-maker was now "persona non grata".

The director issued an apology on Wednesday for comments made at a press conference earlier in the day.

"I am not anti-Semitic or racially prejudiced in any way, nor am I a Nazi," he said in a statement.

The festival's pronouncement came after Wednesday's premiere of Von Trier's new film Melancholia, which remains in competition at this year's event.

Thedecision was supported by French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand who told reporters in Brussels that "there is a major difference between a film that was chosen in a calm atmosphere and a director who clearly blew a fuse".

He added Von Trier's remarks "did not have a place in the festival, or anywhere else for that matter".

Organisers said Cannes' board of directors had held "an extraordinary meeting" at which Von Trier was declared "a persona non grata... with effect immediately".

The director's comments, they said, were "unacceptable, intolerable and contrary to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the festival".

The festival's board of directors... regrets that this forum has been used by Lars Von Trier to express comments that are unacceptable [and] intolerable Festival


de Cannes

The 55-year-old is a previous winner of the festival's Palme d'Or award and is renowned for courting controversy.

Von Trier's off-colour remarks, purportedly made in jest, were the talk of the festival on Wednesday and prompted a swift rebuke from organisers.

The director stunned onlookers by stating he "sympathised" with Hitler and for saying that while he was "not against Jews... Israel is a pain in the ass".

The festival said it had been "disturbed" by the 55-year-old's comments and had asked him to "provide an explanation".

"The director states that he let himself be egged on by a provocation," its initial statement read.

"The festival is adamant that it would never allow the event to become the forum for such pronouncements on such subjects."

Von Trier and his stars were all smilesas they took to the red carpet on Wednesday at the official screening of Melancholia.

Image caption It followed a press conference Dunst (r) was heard to call "intense"

The mood was very different earlier, however, when the director's remarks were met by awkward, stony silences.

Spider-Man actress Dunst was heard to describe the occasion as "intense" as she left the podium.

In an interview later, the star admitted Von Trier had "run his mouth" and had "dug himself in a deep hole".

A family drama that takes place in the shadow of an imminent apocalypse, Melancholia also stars the French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and Britain's John Hurt.

Von Trier was last at Cannes in 2009 with Antichrist, a dark drama featuring graphic scenes of sex and violence that provoked a furore at that


has not been allowed to operate in summer by the Forest Service.

That changed a few years back when Congress instructed the Forest Service to allow more use of ski areas located on public lands during the offseason. The directive was to bolster summer use and promote recreation-based and financially sustainable year-round activities and tourism at ski resorts on public land.

It's taken a lot of applications and planning, but Meadows is ready to welcome the public with a couple of events this August, then will open its doors to full summer recreation next year.

Don't worry, it won't be a zoo up there, because the plan, according to resort spokesman Dave Tragethon, is to limit summer use to "chairlift rides, hiking, a BBQ on the deck, kids education and mountaingold teeth, as well as any gold bridgework and fillings".

Other kommandos depended on the job they were assigned to, such as woodcutting kommandos, factory kommandos or kitchen kommandos.

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AT BAADER BANK, ROBERT HALVER, SAYING:
"We are seeing a battle: geopolitics versus monetary policies. The geopolitical aspect is explosive because it concerns the German and the European economy. Yet Europe wants to decide on sanctions against Russia later this week. This is not good for the DAX."
Gross capital investment in Europe's biggest economy fell over 2 percent and construction investment dropped by 4 percent.
Even foreign trade, traditionally the driver of German economic growth, was slightly down.
But NAB's Tom Vosa says the problems aren't entirely related to Russia and Ukraine.
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"It's possible that Germany will end up in a technical recession by the end of the third quarter. Europe is going to slow because of this no net export led growth. Europe was slowing anyway and I think Russiansanctions on top yes it will hurt. But the underlying picture was one of very weak European demand, an economy that was slowing and an ECB, which unfortunately having cut rates, may have left it a little too late."
Italy also fell back into recession over the same period.
And France - already in it - stagnated, with manufacturing activity falling at its fastest pace in 15 months.
Overall euro zone manufacturing growth also slowed more than expected as new orders dwindled.
It's all adding to Europe's dilemma over the sanctions - and that's without the region's reliance on Russian energy.
They will be buoyed by one development though
Australia is escalating its sanctions.
It's banning arms exports and will deny state-owned Russian banks access to Australia's capital market.

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person. His cosmic energies were terrifying, marks even appeared in the air. He was getting closer and closer.

That person was shocked, how could he be so fast?

’’Gigantic Qi River!’’ Suddenly, the person stopped and moved towards Lin Feng at full speed, releasing terrifying amounts of Qi taht made the atmosphere shake.

What a terrifying attack!, thought Lin Feng when he saw the gigantic waves of Qi. Lights appeared around him and he shouted, ’’Kalpa Sword, die!’’

A Deva-Mara Kalpa Sword appeared, it seemed indestructible as it sliced into the Gigantic Qi River.

’’Talisman, go!’’ said the person. He didn't want to fight against Lin Feng anymore, so he immediately threw the talisman at him and left. Losing a talisman wasn't a problem, he could get one somewhere else. His life wasmore important, though.

Lin Feng moved like the wind in the direction of the lion voice.

At that moment, Tantai was fighting, the atmosphere was shaking. Many people had come after him when they heard him roar. Tantai was moving backwards and punches bombarded him. The battle was tough!

Tantai suddenly turned around and shouted furiously, ’’Piss off!’’ Tantai jumped like a lion and punched the atmosphere. Rumbling sounds spread in the air, the earth and the sky shook. His opponent was propelled backwards, and his golden armor broke apart. However, demon energies suddenly started moving.

’’Argh!’’ Tantai was furious. He punched the atmosphere in the direction of the demon energies, but they were too strange and still penetrated into his arm and veins.

Bzzz! A silhouette moved like the wind, that person


was surrounded. He had immortal strength in his hands.

’’Immortal Era.’’ The terrifying energies turned into immortal strength and moved towards the enemy at full speed. The guy jumped back, but the Immortal Era turned into an ocean in the wind and broke the golden hand apart.

’’Hand your talisman over.’’ The guy with the immortal strength groaned coldly and threw the talisman at the new arrival before leaving. They all knew they couldn't afford to waste time, and they didn't need to try and kill opponents here, it wasn't necessary. Defeating an opponent took time and energy;if they did too much in a battle, then the following ones could be fatal.

After stealing a talisman, the young man with the immortal strength didn't leave. He continued watching Tantai and theone, but what about five or six?’’ said the young man with the immortal strength, then he turned around and disappeared.

Tantai understood what the young man meant. He started running towards a castle in front of him. The young man was right. There were too many people sitting the exam. Some of them were starting to get eliminated, so it was dangerous. They had to be cautious. He wasn't worried about Lin Feng.

Many people checked the area and saw that nobody was fighting. For them, everyone was a potential opponent. If they didn't have talismans, they had to steal some.

By the time Lin Feng arrived, Tantai had already left. His eyes were twinkling. Lin Feng glanced around, the roar had come from there but surprisingly, there was blood.


Lin Feng frowned... was Tantai injured?

Lin Feng moved like the wind as fast as lightning. He flew above mountains and rivers.

’’Tantai.’’ At that moment, Lin Feng slowly rose up in the air, his voice resonated far away, many people raised their heads and looked at Lin Feng. How audacious, he dared fly high up in the sky, how audacious and brave.

Bzzz, bzzz! After Lin Feng rose up in the air, far away in the distance, two silhouettes rose up in the air as well. How audacious! Those people had confidence in their own abilities. Otherwise, they wouldn't have dared do that.

’’Prince Yu Wen, she's there too!’’ The crowd looked at the silhouette, it was Yu Wen Jing.

’’Lin Feng!’’ shouted someone at that moment on the horizon. Lin Fengaccelerated and found Tantai there. At Tantai there. At that moment, Tantai's Qi was floating around him.

Lin Feng landed next to him and asked, ’’Are you injured?’’

’’Some guy practices demon cultivation and controls demonic and corroding cosmic energies, he's dangerous. I wanted to use my physical body to fight against his demon spear and his attack corroded my body,’’ spat Tantai. He sounded annoyed. Now, his arm was sore. Cosmic energy was corroding his body.

’’Let me see.’’ Lin Feng grabbed Tantai's arm and released life cosmic energy which started flowing throughout Tantai's veins. Tantai was surprised. Lin Feng was extraordinary, especially since he only had the strength of the Zun Qi layer.

’’Even though I don't have powerful medicine like your tribe, at least, I can remove corroding cosmic


What Is Drew Brees' Net Worth?

Drew Brees is six feet tall. That's above average for the general population, but as a quarterback, it had NFL scouts terrified that he'd be far too short to ever succeed; the average NFL quarterback is about 6'3".

To say Brees' career defied those initial expectations would be an understatement; Brees is statistically one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the game, and has a realistic chance of retiring as the all-time leader in categories like passing yards and touchdowns. He's not just an NFL legend but a New Orleans legend, signing with the Saints less than a year after Hurricane Katrina and bringing the team its first ever Super Bowl Championship (not to mention his charitable endeavors for the city).

Brees hasbecome one of the biggest celebrities in the NFL, the face of a franchise, and has made very good money doing so. His height may have cost him some money in the beginning of his career, but it's hard to imagine he's complaining now.

What Is Drew Brees' Net Worth?

A lot. Net worth estimates may vary - Celebrity Net Worth values Brees at $80 million, while The Richest puts him at $130 million - but regardless of the actual number, Brees has been handsomely rewarded for being one of the top QBs of all-time, and one of the elite players of his era.

Drew Brees Contracts

He didn't start out elite, though. The height concerns led NFL teams to stay away from him for the entire first round of the 2001


NFL Draft; he was selected as the first pick of the second round, #32 overall, by the then-San Diego Chargers. Several months later he signed his rookie contract, worth $3.6 million over 4 years.

Brees saw the field in just one game his rookie year, and was shaky as the starting quarterback in the 2002 and 2003 seasons, leading the Chargers to draft a quarterback in the first round in 2004. This lit a fire under Brees, who started 15 games in 04 and had his best year yet, throwing 27 touchdowns to just 7 interceptions.

Unwilling to sign Brees long term, the Chargers put the franchise tag on him for the 2005 season, paying him $8 million. Brees again had a good year, but an injury in the finalgame of the season required surgery. Concerns about whether he could fully recover from the injury briefly hurt him in free agency after the season, as the Miami Dolphins spoke with Brees but decided not to sign him. Instead, Brees signed a 6-year contract with the New Orleans Saints, worth $60 million.

Drew Brees Saints Contracts

With the Saints, Brees went from above-average starting QB to NFL superstar, putting together a great 2006 season and leading the upstart Saints to the playoffs, making it all the way to the NFC Championship Game.

Brees improved statistically in '07 and '08 but the team missed the playoffs each year. In 2009, however, Brees exploded for an MVP-caliber season and led the Saints to an impressive Super Bowl victory over Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts,


Much Does He Have Left in His Contract?

After the 2017 season, Brees and the Saints avoided free agency by signing the 39-year-old to a two-year $50 million deal; meaning 2018, Brees will be one of the 10 highest paid players in the NFL.

Spotrac estimates that Brees, over the first 17 years of his career, earned more than $194 million. Should he make the entire $50 million of his new contract, that would put him above $244 million in career cash earnings through 2019.

Drew Brees Commercials & Endorsements

As Drew Brees became an elite quarterback and the face of the Saints, his face started showing up on TV more and more - not just for primetime games, but in commercials too. Brees' persona as the likable leader of the Saintsand a family man made him a favorite for companies looking for athletes for sponsoring.

Brees has appeared in commercials for a number of massive national companies, including Proctor & Gamble (for products such as NyQuil and DayQuil), Microsoft (for products like the Microsoft Surface and Xbox), Wrangler, Verizon, Monster and Visa.

Drew Brees House

Brees has been proud to call Louisiana his home ever since he signed his first contract with the Saints in 2006. Not long after the contract was officially signed, Brees and his family purchased a house in Uptown New Orleans. A 4-bedroom, 4,944-foot home, the house cost $1.5 million.

He hasn't played with the Chargers since 2005, but even though he's a Texas native who plays in New Orleans, Brees still calls California home part of the


year. In the offseason, Brees spends a lot of his time in the upscale city of Del Mar in San Diego County. Brees has established himself as a mainstay in the Del Mar area, even recently bringing his Football 'N' America Youth Flag-Football League to the area. His sons play in the youth league in both New Orleans and Del Mar.this country, believed his hospital was ready.

The hospital had completed Ebola training just before Thomas Eric Duncan arrived in their emergency department on Sept. 26. But despite being told that Duncan had recently traveled from Liberia, hospital staff failed to recognize the Ebola risk and sent him home, where he spent another two days becoming sicker and more infectious.

"The Texas case is a perfect example," said Micker Samios, a triage nurse in the emergency department at Medstar Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in the nation's capital.

"In addition to not being prepared, there was a flaw in diagnostics as well as communication," Samios said.

Nurses argue that inadequate preparation could increase the chances of spreading Ebola if hospital staff fail to recognize a patient coming through their doors, or


is tradition, the Super Bowl winners were invited to the White House.

Six of Brady's teammates said they would not attend the ceremony, most of them in protest against President Trump. Patriots owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick and Brady are all friends with Trump.

Former Patriots star Aaron Hernandez died early Wednesday after hanging himself in his prison cell, The Associated Press reported, the same day of the scheduled team visit.

The former Patriots tight end was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction in 2013. He played with the team from 2010 to 2012.105. Next, a portion that is to be a gate of a memory cell transistor of the polysilicon film 106 is etched in a slit shape.
Next, as shown in FIG. 1A, an oxide film, a nitride film, and an oxide film are stacked in order on the polysilicon film 106, thereby forming an ONO film 115. Thereafter, a polysilicon film 116 is fully stacked. Further, a photo-resist film 117 is formed on the polysilicon film 116, and this photo-resist film 117 is patterned in the shape of the gate electrode of each transistor.
Then, as shown in FIG. 1B, the photo-resist film 117 is defined as a mask, and the polysilicon film 116, ONO film 115, polysilicon film 106, and tunnel oxide film 105 are sequentially removed in order


insulation film 211 at a position eccentric at the source region 202 side on a channel region sandwiched by the source region 202 and the drain region 203; and a floating gate 205 is formed via a gate insulation film 212 at a position eccentric at the drain region 203 side. This floating gate 205 extends upwardly of the select gate 204 via an insulation film 214. These are covered with an insulation film 213, and a control gate 206 is formed on this insulation film 213.
According to the thus configured conventional semiconductor non-volatile memory, an area in which the control gate 206 is superimposed on the floating gate 205 is greater than an area in which the floating gate 205 is superimposed on the select gate 204,To gain a better understanding of the knowledge gaps, research directions, and approaches that could be useful in supporting the development of resilient coastal communities, the Gulf Research Program sponsored a study by the National Academies’ ResilientAmerica Roundtable within the Policy and Global Affairs Division. View the report...

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The US-led war in Afghanistan officially ended this week, after 13 long, hard, and costly years. The war's end is largely a technicality — US and other troops will remain, and the Afghan army is continuing to fight a losing war against the Taliban — but this is a still a symbolically rich moment in the winding down of Western involvement.

Few things sum up the bitterness of America's 13-year-effort in Afghanistan like the single sentence beneath this Al Jazeera headline, about NATO's ceremony officially "ending" the war. (Hat tip to Paul Szoldra, executive editor of the military news site WeAreTheMighty.com, for flagging this.)

Yes, that's right: the ceremony in Kabul honoring 13 years of mostly-American and British troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan had to be held in asecret location because the war has gone so badly that even the capital city is no longer safe from the Taliban.

It's not exactly like the 1975 fall of Saigon, when helicopters rushed the last Americans out of Vietnam from the rooftop of the US embassy, but it's a disturbing echo.

While the war largely succeeded in its initial aim of ejecting al-Qaeda from Afghanistan's government and eroding the group's strength, it has failed utterly in its larger effort to defeat the Taliban and turn war-ravaged Afghanistan into a stable, peaceful place — something that NATO implicitly had to acknowledge by holding this week's ceremony in secret.

The Taliban is still strong in rural areas of Afghanistan, and has been growing stronger, reaching even into once-safe Kabul to launch terrorist attacks.


start in local newspapers covering community news, local government, education and more before he joined the Business News Daily staff in 2013. He graduated from Ohio University, where he studied Journalism and English. Follow him on Twitter @BrettNuckles.serving as the Chief of the General Affairs Division in 1975, and although he quit being Chief of the Budget Division, he continued to perform in his other two positions until 1977, when he became Counseller of the Cabinet Legislative Bureau. In 1983 he was appointed as a judge of the Tokyo District, and a presiding judge of the Division.

From 1984 until 1991 he regained his position as General Secretariat of the Supreme Court; however, he also attained the status of Director of the Secretary and Public Information Division in 1984, which he kept until 1986 when he became Director of the Financial Affairs Bureau. In 1991 he became Chief Judge of the Kofu District Court and its Family Court. In 1993 he became Chief Judge of the


team from Britain’s Wellcome Sanger Institute and Oxford University and Thailand’s Mahidol University.

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites which are carried by mosquitoes and spread through their blood-sucking bites.

Almost 220 million people were infected with malaria in 2017, according to World Health Organization estimates, and the disease killed 400,000 of them. The vast majority of cases and deaths are among babies and children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria can be successfully treated with medicines if it’s caught early enough, but resistance to anti-malarial drugs is growing in many parts of the world, especially in Southeast Asia.

The first-line treatment for malaria in many parts of Asia in the last decade has been a combination of dihydroartemisinin and piperaquine, also known as DHA-PPQ. Researchers found in previous work that a strain ofWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, an avid sports fan who owns golf courses and once owned a franchise in the United States Football League, stays away from most sporting events.

Now we know why.

When his name was announced to the sellout crowd after the third inning of World Series Game 5 in the midst of the Washington Nationals’ regular salute to veterans, Trump was met by a torrent of boos. The noise was intense and long-lasting, a wave of negativity that washed up to the Major League Baseball suite where the president was watching the final game of the Series to be held at Nationals Park.

But the moment the big screen in center field switched from showing Trump to once again showing the veterans, the boos from the crowd


family, in their suite. Word was the Lerners didn’t want to have anything to do with him during his visit, a source who asked not to be named but was familiar with the situation told USA TODAY Sports.

The president arrived after the start of Sunday night’s game because he didn’t want to become a disruption for the thousands of fans streaming to Nats Park. But he was disruptive nonetheless. He caused extra long security lines for fans entering the stadium, as any president does, and a portion of the main concourse was closed for several minutes for his entrance and exit from the game.

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In addition to the robust booing thousands directed atA Polish white van man who was too sure of his sat-nav ended up neck-deep in a lake after ignoring road signs warning of a dead-end ahead, Polish police said today.

The road hasn't been used for a year after it was flooded out when an artificial lake was created.

It was dark and the un-named driver had been drinking, but he still managed to miss three signs warning him there was a lake ahead.

Police said the driver had 'The man took a road that was closed a year ago when the area was flooded to make an artificial lake serving as a water reservoir -- he ignored three road signs warning of a dead-end,' said Piotr Smolen, police spokesman in Glubczyce, southern Poland.

'It was still night time and he


didn't notice the road led into the lake. His GPS told him to drive straight ahead and he did.'

Mr Smolen added that the driver had been under the influence of alcohol.

The road ran straight downhill into the lake. The Mercedes mini-van was nearly entirely submerged and was unable to back out on its own after being inundated with water.

The driver and two passengers escaped unharmed from the submerged vehicle and waited on its roof for police and fire rescue crews.

The driver placed the first call to emergency services while still inside the sinking van.

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About The Author Bie, that's my name. Im just an ordinary blogger.Ea eam labores imperdiet, apeirian democritum ei nam, doming neglegentur ad vis. Ne malorum ceteros feugaitRiggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. King’s achievement not only helped legitimize women’s professional tennis and female athletes, but it was seen as a victory for women’s rights in general.

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King was born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California. Growing up, she was a star softball player before her parents encouraged her to try tennis, which was considered more ladylike. She excelled at the sport and in 1961, at age 17, during her first outing to Wimbledon, she won the women’s doubles title. King would rack up a total of 20 Wimbledon victories, in singles, doubles and mixed doubles, over the course of her trailblazing career. In 1971, she became the first female athlete to earn more than $100,000 in prize


money in a single season. However, significant pay disparities still existed between men and women athletes and King lobbied hard for change. In 1973, the U.S. Open became the first major tennis tournament to hand out the same amount of prize money to winners of both sexes.

In 1972, King became the first woman to be chosen Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsperson of the Year” and in 1973, she became the first president of the Women’s Tennis Association. King also established a sports foundation and magazine for women and a team tennis league. In 1974, as a coach of the Philadelphia Freedoms, one of the teams in the league, she became the first woman to head up a professional co-ed team.

The “mother of modern sports” retired from tennis with 39 GrandSlam career titles. She remained active as a coach, commentator and advocate for women’s sports and other causes. In 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open, was renamed in King’s honor. During the dedication ceremony, tennis great John McEnroe called King “the single most important person in the history of women’s sports.”

The 1973 match was the subject of a 2017 movie starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell.

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in an email.

Katherine Jackson sued AEG Live on behalf of herself and her son's three children, accusing the concert promoter of hiring Murray and creating a conflict of interest in his care of the pop superstar.

Murray, who was deeply in debt, was expecting to be paid $150,000 a month to care for Jackson while he prepared for a planned series of comeback concerts in London's O2 Arena. The singer died on June 25, 2009, after receiving an overdose the anesthetic propofol, which Murray was giving Jackson as a sleep aid.

Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 and released in October after serving two years.

The trial offered a look into Jackson's personal life as well as his routines as an entertainer and medical treatments for a variety ofailments.

Jurors who spoke after the verdict said their verdict did not mean they thought Murray was ethical in his care of Jackson. But they determined he was fit and competent to serve as the singer's doctor when he was hired.

AEG Live executives denied any wrongdoing throughout the trial and said there was no way they could have known that Murray was giving Jackson propofol in the bedroom of his rented mansion.


Ash Ketchum

Comparison of the voice actors who have been the voice of Ash Ketchum with sound clips and images.

Number of Comparisons: 3

Franchise: Pokemon

Ash Ketchum is the protagonist of the Pokemon anime series. His goal is to be the world's greatest Pokemon Master. His hometown is Pallet Town and his very first Pokemon was Pikachu.

Ash has traveled through many regions capturing new Pokemon and battling Gym Leaders to qualify for that region's Pokemon League competition. Ash also seems to have a close connection with various legendary Pokemon such as Ho-Oh; who he has seen multiple times throughout the series.

In the English dub version of the Pokemon anime series by 4Kids Entertainment Ash Ketchum was originally voiced by Veronica Taylor.

Veronica Taylor would voice Ash for 8 seasons of the Pokemonanime and 8 anime films.

In 2006 4Kids Entertainment lost the license for the Pokemon anime to Pokemon USA. Pokemon USA then made the controversial move of recasting all the 4Kids voice actors.

The 10th anniversary special Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon was a testing ground for the new voices. In this special Ash Ketchum was voiced by Kayzie Rogers under the pseudonym of Jaime Peacock.

Fans criticized the voice (among other things) so Pokemon USA then hired Sarah Natochenny to voice Ash Ketchum for the anime series and all future Pokemon films. Pokemon USA would later re-dub the Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon special with Sarah Natochenny as Ash.


The Bobcats are coached by former New Mexico, TCU, Alabama and Texas A&M head coach Dennis Franchione. Texas State competes in the Sun Belt Conference, and finished the 2014 season 7-5 overall and 5-3 in league play.

In addition to his on-field exploits in football, where he caught 39 passes for 682 yards and six touchdowns while adding four interceptions and two TD's on defense in 2014, Mims was also the 2015 Class 3A state champion in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.30 seconds.

Daingerfield coach Aric Sardinea is hoping that with the return of Mims and few other impact performers, the Tigers can rebound from a 1-9 season in 2014 -- Daingerfield's worst since 1964.

The Tigers begin the 2015 season Aug. 28 at home against Gladewater.

Mims andTuesday, November 22, 2011

The story of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge and his meetings with the ghosts of Christmas Past, present and of things yet to come.

The tale begins on Christmas Eve in the 1840's, exactly seven years after the death of Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge is a greedy and stingy businessman, who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change his ways Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts; each in its turn, accompany him to various scenes with his life in hope of achieving his transformation.The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to the scenes of his boyhood and youth, which stir the old miser's gentle and


trader in endangered animal parts after they were found by search dogs at an address in Watford.

Allawi Abbas, 53, was jailed for 14 years in November. A financial investigation found his illegal dealing had resulted in a criminal benefit of £961,777. His available assets were agreed to be £100,642 but a court ordered that any other funds or property gains he makes for the rest of his life should be removed to make up the difference.

Cash seizures include £240,000 found in a suitcase and a rucksack after a man was stopped in North End Road in Fulham, in February.

Alexander Guevara-Mejia, 40, of Tottenham, pleaded guilty to transferring criminal property and was jailed for two-and-a-half years in March.PeramaWhere the mountain meets the sea, Perama is a welcomed alternative to the beachfronts encroached by tavernas and main roads. Only a ten-minute drive from Corfu Town, Perama is a quiet and peaceful island town. Snorkelling is a favourite pastime here, the place where George Durrell first discovered Corfu rich underwater marine life. A stringmore of traditional bars and tavernas and some walking opportunities provide an alternative to lazing by the shore.


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Established in 1995, BPG Fine Art is an art gallery featuring only original artwork and primarily unique artwork in all media by some of the world's finest and most famous artists. From original oils on canvas by Goodnough, Impiglia, Pissarro and Warhol to limited edition works on paper by Dali, Fischl, Johns, Matisse, Oldenburg and Stella.held a black granule on her soft palm. It was formed when the shattered void was condensed… The general quickly turned around with lightning speed but his movements were like a snail’s pace in front of Zhi Zun. With a flick of her fingers, the frightening black seed shot towards the general’s forehead.

The holy armor of the Silver Armored General was penetrated like it was thin paper.

The black seed pierced through his brain.

It burst out from the back of his head.

A tiny hole appeared in the Silver Armored General head. The hole seemed natural, like the general had been born with it in his head… He seemed like he had more to say but he swayed, then fell helplessly, kneeling on the ground. His entire body soon slumped


His appeal raises the question whether the state introduced enough evidence to prove that his actions were the proximate cause of the death of the victim.

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Mr. Bishop thought someone had been breaking into his trailer home, so he rigged a gun inside the trailer, set to fire when the front door was opened.  A friend of his, James Ronnie Freeman, came to the trailer when Mr. Bishop was gone, opened the front door, and got shot by the trap gun.  The bullet glanced off his right thigh and entered his forearm.  Mr. Freeman's thigh wound was superficial, but his forearm wound was more serious, fracturing and exposing the bone.

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Mr. Freeman was taken from the trailer home to Humana Hospital.  Upon admission, a doctor treatedMr. Freeman's wound, operated on his forearm, and stabilized his condition.  He was transferred a few days later to Crawford Long Hospital for reconstructive surgery to his forearm.  There, a 19 X 15 centimeter skin graft was taken from his left lateral thigh, up near the hip area.  Tr. 129.  A bone graft was taken from the left lateral iliac area, higher up than the skin graft.  Tr. 129.  He also apparently had a surface nerve graft.  Tr. 120.  The treating physician at Crawford Long was happy with Mr. Freeman's progress, and after about two weeks in the hospital, he was released and went home.  Late that evening or early the next morning, he developed trouble breathing and died.

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are not commonly seen in persons Mr. Freeman's age, thirty-six years, Dr. Gilbert agreed.  Tr. 125.

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Dr. Gilbert concluded that the pulmonary embolism which struck Mr. Freeman originated in his lower left extremity, which was also the site of the source tissue for the skin and bone grafts.  Tr. 126, 128, 129-30.  He did not state definitely that the gunshot wound or resulting treatment caused the embolism, but he agreed that the wound, and the subsequent surgery and hospitalization "could have" brought about the embolism, and that it was "possible" there was a connection.  He agreed that it is "fair to say that but for a gunshot wound requiring surgery it's not likely that this clot would have occurred."    Tr. 126.

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Mr. BishopNo Mr. President, Larry Summers Did Not Resolve the Financial Crisis for a Pittance, He Just Papered Over the Problem

I passed up the obvious title: "Heckuva Job Larry!" That was the moment of President Obama's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that set all Americans cringing. Yes, he really said that Summers "did a heckuva job." The candidate that was gifted the opportunity to run against the legacy of one of the worst presidents in U.S. history has, as president, used Bush as his role model to continue many disastrous policies. It was strangely fitting that he would channel Bush's infamous praise ("Heckuva job Brownie") for the FEMA chief who failed New Orleans so badly in the hurricane.

President Obama understandably wishes to focus attention on the


economic disaster he inherited from President Bush. But Jon Stewart's question to him, which led to the president's gaffe, correctly asked about the message that Summers' appointment sent about the administration's commitment to fundamental change.

Summers had financial red ink on his hands at the time he was appointed. He was Rubin's chief minion in the successful effort to defeat effective financial regulation and supervision. (Yes, the effort was bipartisan and the Republican leadership shares in the guilt.) Summers was not simply wrong, but also arrogant and brutal, in blocking effective regulation at the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Summers was made rich by Wall Street in one of those sordid consulting arrangements designed to buy influence and reward past and future favors.

President Obama's appointment of Summersas his chief economic advisor made the administration's overall response to the crisis predictable. (Robert Kuttner gives a detailed explanation of the policies that Rubin's protégés championed in his new book, A Presidency in Peril.) The response would follow the disastrous Japanese model that has harmed their economy and damaged their integrity. The dominant characteristics can be summarized quickly: (1) the government would act for the benefit of the largest financial firms and their CEOs, even when they directed massive frauds, by (2) engineering a cover up of the banks' losses and the CEO's misconduct; (3) the administration would use the fictional reports generated to conduct the cover up to declare victory (due to their brilliance); and (4) the same strategy would impair the recovery. (For more on


administration's initial loss estimates it has become indisputable that fraud was endemic in liar's loans and that liar's loans were not simply enormous, but also far more common than was originally reported. We have discovered since the administration's initial loss estimates that it was common for the SDIs to lie about the liar's loans they originated, sold, and purchased. Fannie, Freddie, Lehman and many others falsely called their liar's loans "prime."

What else could affect losses on liar's loans and CDOs backed by liar's loans? The failure of the secondary market meant that sales of CDOs and packages of liar's loans had to be individually arranged. Has the secondary market in nonprime mortgages been restored since the administration's initial cost estimates? No. That is important because the administration initiallyaccounting rules so that most of the SDIs' losses disappeared. The Fed also took over a trillion dollars in toxic, largely fraudulent collateral -- and carefully avoided conducting due diligence to discover either the value or the fraud incidence of the collateral. In essence, the Fed took the toxic stuff off the balance sheets.

Creating fictional numbers and hiding losses at the Fed doesn't reduce losses. Unfortunately, it increases real losses. First, it leaves the looters in charge, lets them pay themselves enormous bonuses, and lets them cause greater losses. Recall George Akerlof's and Paul Romer's title -- Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit. They showed that even without a bailout the fraudulent CEO could grow wealthy by destroying "his" bank. With a bailout -- and the


17 at 9:59 p.m. EST).

Daisuki describes the story of Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin IV Eve of Destiny :

After the Dawn Rebellion, Char travels to Earth and meets a girl with mysterious powers named Lalah Sune.

Meanwhile, Amuro's father Tem Ray is working on the RX-78 development project. Learning of the defection of Doctor Minovsky, a key figure in Zeon mobile suit development, he heads for the moon. History's first battle between mobile suits unfolds in the twilight zone of the lunar surface.

Then comes Universal Century 0079. Side 3, the space city furthest from the Earth, launches a war of independence against the Earth Federation government under the name of the Principality of Zeon. An era of violent upheaval begins, in which half of the total human population willOn April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software. Originally based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Microsoft relocated to Washington State in 1979 and eventually grew into a major multinational technology corporation. In 1987, the year after Microsoft went public, 31-year-old Gates became the world’s youngest billionaire.

Gates and Allen started Microsoft—originally called Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software—in order to produce software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Allen quit his job as a programmer in Boston and Gates left Harvard University, where he was a student, to focus on their new company, which was based in Albuquerque because the city was home to electronics firm MITS, maker of the


Altair 8800. By the end of 1978, Microsoft’s sales topped more than $1 million and in 1979 the business moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where Gates and Allen grew up. The company went on to license its MS-DOS operating system to IBM for its first personal computer, which debuted in 1981. Afterward, other computer companies started licensing MS-DOS, which had no graphical interface and required users to type in commands in order to open a program. In 1983, Allen departed Microsoft after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma; he was successfully treated for the disease and went on to pursue a variety of other business ventures.

In 1985, Microsoft released a new operating system, Windows, with a graphical user interface that included drop-down menus, scrollbars and other features. The following year, the company moved its headquarters to Redmond, Washington, and went public at $21 a share, raising $61 million. By the late 1980s, Microsoft had become the world’s biggest personal-computer software company, based on sales. In 1995, amidst skyrocketing purchases of personal computers for home and office use, Windows 95 made its debut. It included such innovations as the Start menu (TV commercials for Windows 95 featured the Rolling Stones singing “Start Me Up”) and 7 million copies of the new product were sold in the first five weeks. During the second half of the 1990s, Internet usage took off, and Microsoft introduced its web browser, Internet Explorer, in 1995.

In 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 state attorneys general charged


the pilot, I thought for sure I knew what was going to happen. Lawrence Dobson, an undercover agent for the shadowy government organization called the Alliance, sneaks aboard the ship Serenity. Serenity is captained by Mal and his crew of mercenaries, who live on the margins of the universe in order to escape the Alliance’s control. Taking whatever odd jobs they can to survive, the crew has recently taken on several unsavory passengers. Dobson is in pursuit of two fugitives, Simon and River Tam, a pair of siblings with mysterious pasts. When the Serenity crew discovers Dobson is a Fed, they lock him up. But while Mal is out on another mission, Dobson escapes and takes River hostage.

I had seen this situation before. I was braced for acar. They had water waiting for me. We drove 6 hours across the Chinese country-side. I remember looking out into the dark emptiness searching for landmarks. Traffic would speed up, then slow down. Four lanes of traffic consisting entirely of huge trucks seemed to condense into a single toll booth. I would doze off and wake up to the same scenery, again and again.

After what seemed like yet another eternity, we drove past the Ramada (where I had booked a room), to the front of what looked like a hospital. It was nearly midnight, I walked in the front door. I instantly knew I was back in China. The concrete, the building, the smells and most of all the front doors. After the hospital door shut I could


had made it, but very concerned about Kenny. Ben and I made it up to the 20th floor, where it was still very cold. We made a right out of the elevator bank, walked to the end of the hall and entered his room on the left.

I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting, but I came into the room and saw a pale, thin, barely conscious version of my brother. As I walked in he could barely talk, but he did smile. I had made it.

The Road to Recovery

Nobody Home

Seeing Kenny smile was great, but I could see just how weak he was. It had been less than a week since I had last seen him, he was now incredibly pale and thin. He was always verya mile away, I had opted for two beds, so I quickly ran to the hotel and stripped down the room. I wrapped my arms around the bed sheets, blanket, pillow, and bath robe and walked them back to the hospital. Emily and I put fresh sheets (and a real pillow) under Kenny. Each morning I would take new sheets from the room and bring the old ones back to the hotel and pile them on the bed (Ramada graciously washed the sheets and re-made the bed each day).

That afternoon we convinced Emily to get some rest, she reluctantly went to my hotel room down the street while I stayed with Kenny. She had been by his side for at least 3 days now, most of the time


without even an uncomfortable chair. While she was gone one of the younger doctors came to remove one of the drainage tubes. I had seen the tubes going into his bandages. Once the bandages were removed, I could see where the tubes were going, where the surgeons had made the huge incision and just how thin my brother had gotten.

Frankenkenny

Leukemia

Earlier that morning, doctors had arrived around 9 AM. Ben had come back to help translate. Several doctors took Ben and I into the conference room to explain what had happened. The doctors seemed happy that I had arrived. They explained that he had lost nearly two liters of blood and they had to perform surgery to save his life. I imagine these conversations are very necessary for manyNo matter what was discussed, agreed, or signed, when you're in front of a Playboy lens, the nudity negotiation never ends. Olivia Munn learned that after two days with one of their more persistent stylists.

The stylist, whom she impersonated with a swishy, faux-frenchy accent, kept suggesting she try outfits that were plenty evocative of the oops-I-forgot-my-panties style of glamour photography. Then he reached into his costume trunk and pulled out the deal-breaker, a black fishnet number that was a swimsuit in name only. It left zilch to anyone's imagination, least of all what was in his.

She wasn't going there. "My vagina would have looked like a Honeybaked Ham," Munn said, sitting in a makeup chair and talking to Kotaku before Thursday's taping of G4's Attack of the Show,


On July 11, 1979, Plaintiff and co-worker, Julian Ramirez, were taking a lunch break and traveling together in the co-worker's pickup truck. While they were traveling, at approximately noon, Defendant Baldwin, Chief of Police for the City of Hartford, and Defendant Gaborik, Deputy Sheriff for the County of Van Buren, pulled the truck over to the side of the road. The reason given for stopping the vehicle is that Julian Ramirez had been mentioned as fitting the general description of a suspect being sought in connection with a criminal sexual assault case.
Baldwin and Gaborik approached the truck, after bringing it to a stop, with their guns drawn. Baldwin approached on the driver's side of the truck and asked the driver, Ramirez, for identification. A driver's license and otheridentification was produced by Ramirez thereby allowing Baldwin to immediately discern that Ramirez was the suspect being sought in connection with the aforestated criminal sexual assault investigation.
Gaborik, meanwhile, approached on the passenger side of the vehicle, identified himself, and asked the Plaintiff to step out of the truck. Plaintiff was then frisked in a search for weapons, was questioned by Gaborik regarding his immigration status, his place of birth, and was referred to by Gaborik as a "wetback". At the time of the questioning Gaborik did not inform Plaintiff of any rights.
At the conclusion of the questioning at the scene of the stop, Plaintiff was handcuffed and arrested under suspicion that he had effected an illegal entry into the United States. Following the arrest, Baldwin and Gaborik transported


Ramirez and Plaintiff to Faulkner Farms where Baldwin explained to Plaintiff, through a translator, that he had been arrested because he had entered the country illegally and that he would be sent back to Mexico. Plaintiff was then transported from Faulkner Farms to the Hartford Police station.
Chief of Police Baldwin then placed a call, at approximately 1:00 p. m., July 11, to the Detroit office of the US Border Patrol from the Hartford police station and spoke with William L. Duckham. On July 11, 1979, William L. Duckham was employed as Deputy Chief Patrol Agent for the United States Border Patrol and was performing in that capacity. His superiors were Chief Patrol Agent Jerald Jondall and Regional Commissioner Gordon Ruth.
Baldwin informed Duckham that he had a subject incustody who he believed to be an "illegal alien", or an "undocumented person from Mexico". Duckham requested that Baldwin allow him to speak with Plaintiff over the telephone.
Plaintiff thereupon was subjected to a telephonic interrogation by Duckham who inquired about Plaintiff's name, parents, *709 country of birth, documentation to be in the United States, and time and place of entry into this country. Prior to this questioning, Defendant Duckham admits that he did not inform Plaintiff of any rights.
At the conclusion of the telephonic interrogation Duckham spoke with Baldwin again and advised him that the subject was undocumented, that he was placing a hold on him, and that a confirming LEIN message would be sent.
After this interrogation Plaintiff was transported to the Van Buren County Jail, where he


was booked and charged for "illegal entry", and thereafter incarcerated in the county jail. Plaintiff remained in jail without having a face-to-face interview with anyone from the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the US Border Patrol from July 11 until July 13, 1979.
Moreover, it was not until July 12, 1979, the day following the phone interrogation of Plaintiff by Defendant Duckham, that Duckham instructed Border Patrol Agent Ronald Dowdy to travel to the Van Buren County Jail to execute the necessary immigration documents for the processing of Plaintiff. Duckham supplemented this instruction by specifically instructing Dowdy to go to the Van Buren County Jail on July 13, 1979. That date was the first day anyone from INS made face-to-face contact with Plaintiff.
In order to process someone for Voluntaryand Nationality Act shall be examined as therein provided by an officer other than the arresting officer, unless no other qualified officer is readily available and the taking of the alien before another officer would entail unnecessary delay, in which event the arresting officer, if the conduct of such examination is a part of the duties assigned to him, may examine the alien. If such examining officer is satisfied that there is prima facie evidence establishing that the arrested alien was entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of the immigration laws, he shall refer the case to an immigration judge for further inquiry in accordance with Parts 235 and 236 of this chapter or take whatever other action may be appropriate or required under


the laws or other regulations applicable to the particular case. If the examining officer is satisfied that there is prima facie evidence establishing that the arrested alien is in the United States in violation of the immigration laws, further action in the case shall be taken as provided in Part 242 of this chapter. After the examining officer has determined that formal proceedings under sections 236, 237, or 242 of the Act, will be instituted, an alien arrested without warrant of arrest shall be advised of the reason of his arrest and his right to be represented by counsel of his own choice, at no expense to the Government. He shall also be provided with a list of the available free legal services programs qualified under Part 292aclass of *715 officers enumerated in § 287.3. This duty was breached as soon as Plaintiff remained detained beyond 24 hours without having been so processed.[5]
It also appears that Plaintiff was detained in contravention of the directive of Gordon Ruth, who on July 11, 1979 was the Service Regional Commissioner for the Northern Region; a jurisdictional area which includes the State of Michigan. Exhibit 12 attached to Plaintiff's brief discloses that on January 10, 1978, Ruth informed all district directors and officers in charge within the Northern Region and chief patrol agents therein, via a memorandum, of the Service policy pertaining to apprehension and detention of aliens determined to be illegally in the United States. The policy statement provides in pertinent part:
It has been past practice to conduct


FANS OF THE Washington Nationals must be heartless. At least according to long-live-the-Expos supporter Katie Hynes. "I don't know how people in Washington can even go to a game," the Montreal native says. "If you give me a team from another town, I know somewhere in that town a kid is crying."

The pain runs deep for Hynes, who says she attended all but a handful of Expos games at Olympic Stadium from 1977 to 2004. She saw the Expos post the best record in baseball in 1994 before a strike wiped out the season, and she was watching a decade later when the franchise was decimated before ultimately moving south of the border. Retorts Hynes: "The Expos didn't leave. They were pilfered."

Enter ex-Expos outfielder Warren Cromartie, who seesa brighter future for a franchise in Montreal. He founded the Montreal Baseball Project in 2012 and has already raised $400,000 for a feasibility study that is looking into what it would take to bring a big league team back to the city where Jackie Robinson played as a Dodgers minor leaguer in 1946. "Montreal has lost its swagger since the Expos left, but we're still a viable city, a hungry city," Cromartie says. (In fact, it's the biggest North American burg without a pro baseball club.)

Also moving the needle is ExposNation, which organized a fan gathering at a July 20 Blue Jays game in Toronto. While Youppi didn't make an appearance, a swath of the outfield section held more than 1,000 fans clad in the traditional red,


"The later part of the year 2013 saw the government of Zimbabwe making lukewarm efforts to address challenges bedeviling
the mining sector that civil society groups working in this sector have been highlighting relentlessly for years with very limited response from government. Despite the mining sector failing to achieve the projected growth of 17.1 in 2013 statistics from the ministry of mines indicate that mining has significantly contributed to Zimbabwe’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from an average of 10.2 percent in the 1990s to 19.9 percent in 2009 and 2013 surpassing agriculture.
Similarly, figures from the Zimbabwe Investment Authority for 2013 also reveal an upward trend of the mining sector attracting 207 million out of the 660 million worth of investment with the remainder 460.30 million falling into other 5sectors of the economy. Between 2009 and 2013 the mining industry became the leading export sector accounting for over 60% of Zimbabwe’s total export earnings.Inspite of this growth, the mining sector’s contribution to fiscus has largely
remains insignificant due to lack of transparency and accountability prevalent in the governance of the sector. The mining industry in Zimbabwe is saddled with archaic laws and policy inconsistencies that are fuelling corruption in government and aiding plundering of mineral resources by foreign companies. The failure by government over the years to overhaul the mining sector and introduce policies that guarantee revenue inflows to fiscus in order to sustain the country’s developmental needs ,has impacted negatively on the economy and increased the vulnerability of communities living in
resource rich areas. Unconfirmed reports estimate that


serves as the primary nexus of clinical care for the south side of Chicago and as the principal teaching hospital for the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. With an inpatient capacity of 600 beds, the health system sees more than 20 000 hospitalizations per year and almost 500 000 outpatient visits annually. The medical center provides a full spectrum of care from primary care through tertiary and quaternary care. A team with expertise in patient satisfaction, clinical quality evaluation and improvement, and advanced analytics was convened to create, implement, and manage a patient experience analytics program headed by the chief experience and engagement officer. This initiative was deemed quality improvement and not human participants research and was therefore not reviewed by the institutional review board.

Data Sourcespatient experience outcomes.

**Heather M. Limper**, PhD is a research assistant professor at the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research and the associate director of the Implementation Science Core at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

**Alison S. Tothy**, MD is the former chief experience officer at the University of Chicago and is a certified patient experience professional. She is dedicated to driving transformational change to align patient experience and engagement with organizational missions, visions, and strategies. With a focus on reconnecting people to what matters most to them. she is a forward thinking innovator dedicated to constructing an engaging and collaborative culture that builds organizational growth, employee and physician engagement, and customer loyalty.


Eternal Memory: Very Rev. David Sedor

December 23, 2008

JOHNSTOWN, PA - The Very Rev. David B. Sedor, beloved husband of Eileen and father of Charissa and Stephanie fell asleep in the Lord on Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 after a short illness.

A son of St. Michael's Church in Binghamton NY, in addition to serving several parishes of the diocese, Fr. David most recently served as the pastor of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Altoona, PA. Fr David was a doctoral student in theology at Duquense University, the chaplain for the Orthodox Christian Fellowship in Pittsburgh and an adjunct professor at SS Cyril & Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh.

Saturday December 27, 2008. 9 AM Orthros and Liturgy for Nativity Holyday of St. Stephen in Holy Trinity G.O. Church followedyear that came from all 50 states and 14 different foreign countries. Riders ranged in age this year from 4 to 81, which is testament to the fact that RAGBRAI is for everyone. We cover the ride from the dipping of the back tire in the Missouri river to the final day where front tires are dipped in the Mississippi river. Along the way we see Iowa from the seat of a bicycle, take a look at some past RAGBRAI's, and talk to people on this years ride what makes RAGBRAI so popular. RAGBRAI XXV is set to music by musicians from the state of Iowa. Music by; James McNear Jr., Gayla Drake Paul, Bo Ramsey, Jeff Burak, Rob Lumbard, and Paul Micich.
Please note RAGBRAI XXV runs 55:21


changed the Vorwald family.
Phone response: You know you're in Iowa when...
Feature #2: Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Bill Hyland Phone: (515)277-6972
Address: 1521 62nd St. Des Moines, IA 50310
Storyline:
Even though baseball's popularity has waned in recent years, softball is more popular than ever. But what happens to softball players when they are considered 'over the hill?'
While many turn to physically-less demanding sports like golf, others have shown their determination to play on - in a 50-and-over league of their own. The story centers on 73-year-old Bill Hyland, former DSM Dowling prep star, former NY Yankees minor league ball player who's still enjoying his favorite sport. Bill says playing the game makes him feel young - and there's a video montage to the tune 'Young at Heart.'
Feature #3: Greetings Producer: heather
Contact: LindaPratt Phone: (319)294-2745
Address: 4104 Treeline Court NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52411
(fyi she moved after we shot and produced this feature)
Storyline:
In the age of e-mail, there's one Iowa woman who's bucking the trend. She has recently begun a career as a greeting card artist. We discovered Linda Pratt in her Dubuque [29 minutes]

Feature #1: 'In a Nutshell,' Acorn Feed Store sells feed with a little live music.
Feature #2: 'Swiss Family Jurgensen,' Giant treehouse near Marshalltown.
Feature #3: 'Puttin' on the Patina,' Nick Klepinger's bronze statues in Pella.
Feature #1:
Feature title: 'In A Nutshell' Producer: Laurel Bower
Contact: Dave and Harry Fronk Phone: (712) 325-9282
Address: 329 16th Ave Council Bluffs, IA
Storyline:
The Acorn Feed Store has been open nearly 14 years. The store was opened by father and son, Harry and Dave Fronk. It


started out as a feed and supply company, but when Harry started taking guitar lessons with his buddies, it became a tradition for people to gather and play music right there in the store. Every Saturday, people come to play in these jam sessions. They come from all over, several are locals, but visitors from out-of-state and even other countries come often to play music as well. It is a family oriented place with animals, antiques, nice people, and music. It's fun for the whole family and a great place for musicians of all sorts, no matter what their talent, etc. It has never been publicized, people just come by word of mouth.
Phone response: Sing your favorite childhood song.
Feature #2:
Feature title: 'Swiss Family Jurgensen' Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Mickengine comes to Boone.
Feature #3: 'The Art of Junk,' Ben Britton creates metal sculpture out of junk.
Feature #1:
Feature title: The Core of Discovery
Producer: Nikki Tundel
Contact: Blair Chicoine (Chkwin)
Phone: (712)279-4840
Storyline:
We'll follow in the waves of Lewis and Clark as we meet up with the creators of this year's PBS documentary 'Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery.' We'll sit down with Ken Burns, documentarian and creator of 'The Civil War' and 'Baseball', as well as Dayton Duncan, an Iowa native, historian and author, who worked alongside Burns to create this look back at the quintessential American camping trip. We caught up with the two filmmakers in Sioux City as they retraced the trail of Lewis and Clark and found out just what attracted these two men


travelling tractor show - rolling from Grinnell to downtown Des Moines at speeds of 10 miles an hour. It's a chance to climb up onto these vintage vehicles and see just what cultivates such a passion in their proud owners. We'll also meet Frank Jones of Winterset - who restored a 1941 John Deere for the event.
Phone response: What word or phrase is overused?
Feature #2:
Feature title: 'Shep' Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Dave Lensing
Phone: (515)342-4456
Address: 2308 Scott St. New Virginia, IA 50210
(w) 270-6900
Storyline:
Dave Lensing is a stock dog trainer who trains Border Collies for sheep dog trials at, for example, the Iowa State Fair. Shep was his first of more than a dozen Border Collies he's trained. The 8-year-old Shep is a wise, veteran sheep herding dog. Dave discusses theIII was in high school, he decided he wanted to take pictures for a living. In college, he learned the key to being a photographer: always point your camera at something that matters. For the last 12 years, John has been a combat photographer for the Associated Press. Although he's based in Des Moines, he's pointed his camera at scenes from Somalia to Bosnia, the Occupied Territories to the deserts of the Gulf War. We'll take a look at the world from John's point of view and hear what it's like to find yourself in the middle of the world's most violent and poverty stricken areas - and what it's like to then return to middle class, middle America. We'll sit down with John and talk about death,


violence, poetry and passion - as we take a look at the world through this Iowa photographer's lens.
Phone response: What were the best and worst things of 1997?
Feature #2:
Feature title: Monica Leo, Eulenspiegel Puppets Producer: Nancy Heather
Contact: Monica Leo Phone: (319)627-2487 (messages)
Address: 5691 Sioux Ave. SE, Iowa City, IA, 52240-8240 (home)
Owl Glass Puppetry Center, West Liberty, IA
agent: 515-347-5651 (Afton)
home: (319)341-9555 mornings
Afton Elem. School, Dave Turner, Principal: (515)347-8774 or 5411
Afton Elem. fax #: (515)347-5514
Storyline:
Enter the imaginative world of Monica Leo, half of Iowa's Eulenspiegel Puppetry team.
She claims she has the world on a string because she's doing what she loves: making puppets, and playing with them! She and her puppet partner, T.J. Breitbach, teach us about paper mache'and the zen of playtime, this week on Living In Io [29minutes]

Feature #1: 'Going Under,' Cold Water Cave & Wonder Cave Exploration.
Feature #2: 'First Class Murals,' Post Office Murals from the Great Depression Era.
Feature #1:
Feature title: 'Going Under'
Producer: Marlin Schram
Contact: See Producer
Storyline:
Morgan Halgren explores two caves in Northeast Iowa near Decorah with members of the Iowa Grotto, a local chapter of the National Speleological Society. Cold Water Cave is probably the largest cave in Iowa and gets its name because cold water is constantly running through it. The cave also has several large speleothems which are mineral deposit formations such as flowstones, stalactites and stalagmites. Another smaller but beautifully decorated cave is Wonder Cave, which used to be open to the public but now the Iowa Grotto members are removing old stairways and railings to return the cave to


its natural state. The groups goals are conservation and safety.
Phone response: Sing your favorite commercial jingle.
Feature #2:
Feature title: 'First Class Murals'
Producer: Marlin Schram
Contact: See Producer
Storyline:
The 'New Deal' was President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to cure the Great Depression during the 1930's. To help relieve the economic pressures of high unemployment, the W.P.A., Works Progress Administration was formed to hire workers for public building projects. Murals in many Iowa towns still remain in Post Offices, Public Buildings and Schools. Most have a distinctive style of the era. Government programs kept many young Iowa artists busy during a decade that might have been an artistic desert but it turned out to be one of the most fruitful in the development of American art. We interviewed artist John Bloom from Davenport andan Iowa farm boy to international super model. We'll look at photographs taken of and by Joel, he'll share his dreams of the future with us, and we'll learn what it is that keeps bringing him home to Iowa.
Phone response: If you could rid the world of one thing, what would it be?
Feature #2
Feature title: Lands of Langland's
Producer: Nancy Heather
Contact: Joseph Langland
Phone: (413)549-6517
Address: 16 Morgan Circle, Amherst, Mass. 01002
Storyline: The rolling hills and sparkling creeks north of Decorah are part of Joseph Langland's being.
He grew up on the border of Iowa and Minnesota, one of nine children in a Norwegian immigrant family. And while the other boys dreamed of farming or playing baseball, Joe hid away in a narrow limestone cave, writing poems with a stubby pencil by


candlelight. He followed his dreams, and
carved out a life as a poet, earning an endowed 'Robert Frost' professorship at the University of Massachussetts in Amherst. Robert's poetry paints impressions of his rural Iowa childhood,
not just rosy images, but remembrances which include his brother's death as a soldier in World War II. One poem, 'The Wheel of Summer,' describes his farm-boy experience of castrating pigs.
It was this poem which was once described as, 'The best poem ever written...on that particular subject!' Living In Iowa walks the land of Joseph Langland's childhood with a true Iowa son.
Feature #3:
[29 minutes]

Feature #1: Simon Estes Special
Producer: Chris Gourley
Contact: See Producer
Storyline: Simon Estes is 'The best small town Iowan to make it big' story that Register columnist Chuck Offenburger feels has come across hisdesk in 25 years. Growing up in a small town in Iowa would not be easy for any African American... But with a little help from people that believed in him Simon Estes has gone from helping his dad as a porter in a hotel in Centerville, Iowa to singing on stages throughout the world. While the 'Rags to Riches' story of Simon Estes is a good one... The real story is Simon Estes the humanitarian. From Des Moines, Iowa... to Capetown, South Africa...we go backstage with Simon Estes for a close look at the man behind the music. A man described by some as Iowa's Ambassador to the World.
Phone response: None
Close: Simon Estes and Chuck Offenburger sing the Iowa Corn song in Capetown shop.
Phone # 1-800-383-6124 This


could be seen in the skies over Iowa last spring (spring of '97). Winning the 'Best of Show Award' at the Iowa State Fair the picture John took has changed his life and touched the lives of many.
Phone response: What is your best advice for staying friends?
Feature #2:
Feature title: School of Hard Knocks
Producer: Laurel Bower
Contact: Pete Hathaway
Phone: (712)279-6816
Address: Woodrow Wilson Middle School, 1010 Iowa Street Sioux City, IA 51105
Storyline:
For nearly five years, Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Sioux City has made remarkable improvements concerning juvenile crime both in the school and on school grounds. These Improvements are largely due to the principal, Pete Hathaway. When Pete joined the staff five years ago, he took a look at the problem Woodrow was having and decided to make a change.In The Moon
Dr. Alexander Abian has truly gone were no Iowan has gone before. Currently an Emeritus professor in mathematics at Iowa State University, he is pushing the bounds of science and questioning our place in the universe. Dr. Abian, has gained considerable media attention due to one of his theories which suggested blowing up the moon in order to solve the earth's climatic and environmental problems. He believes that if the moon is jolted out of it's orbit, it will affect the tilt of the earth's axis, bringing an end to natural dilemmas such as draught, famine, hurricanes, and global warming. The driving force behind Dr. Abian and his theories is to challenge the 'status quo:' the existing order and existing truths, and to promote progress in


the human condition.
Feature #3: Do The Write Thing
It's hard to know much about black history in Iowa because so little has been written on the subject. However Dr. Hal Chase, a professor at the Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, and thirty other people hope to change that. Together they are writing a book titled 'Outside In:' African American History in Iowa. The books twenty chapters deal with everything from politics and social change, to the fine arts and agriculture and rural life. The goal of the book is to show how intertwined [29 minutes]

Feature #1: 'The Cave Dwellers' Virtual Reality at ISU.
Feature #2: 'Mad Dads' Eddie Staton organizes parents to fight crime in Omaha and the nation.
Feature #3: 'It e 2-legged dog.'
Feature #1:
Feature title: The CaveDwellers
Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Phone: 515-294-5685 cruz@iastate.edu also:Jill Shannon 515-294-3093
Address: 2062 Black Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
Storyline:
Carolina Cruz-Neira is a scientist who works in another reality reality that is. This former classical ballet dancer is one of the top virtual reality researchers in the U.S. Born in Venezuela, reared in Spain, and educated in both, as well as in the US, she was one of the first people in the world to earn her Ph.D. in virtual reality. She uses the VR cave for many purposes: designing VR programs that enable drug researchers to 'step inside' a microscopic world of drug and virus interactions, and for industrial purposes, as well n tractor parts in VR without spending a dime on prototypes. There is a flight simulator,


'Pet Spaw,' pampered pets at Avondale Pet Resort.
Feature #1:
Feature title: Toy Drive Producer: Nikki Tundel
Contact: Arnie Arledge Phone: (319)753 0436
Address: PO Box 1062 Burlington, IA 52601
Storyline:
Arnie Arledge insists that he While he was in the trucking business for most of his life, today this 82-year-old spends his days surrounded by life-sized dolls and animated toys.
Arnie runs the Toy Box, a Burlington museum of sorts, that is packed with what he calls the country to find unusual items for his collection ts his mind set on acquiring something, there swears that we s inventory was worth ot toy warehouse does have an extensive security system.
Arnie spends his days at the y (and many times that means old friends who stop by and tell dirty jokes.) He displays his collection'Ragtime in Randall' big ragtime concert in the small town of Randall.
Feature #3: 'Paul Micich' artist and musician.
Feature #1: Unlimited Possibilities Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Marilyn Vaughan Phone: (515)294-6469
Address: Iowa State University Museums, 290 Scheman Building, ISU, Ames, IA 50011
Storyline: The new Iowa State University mural titled, 'Unlimited Possibilities,' commissioned to commemorate the University sary, recently joined its counterparts in the Parks Library. The mural surrounds a huge doorway in the library y is decorated with 8 Grant Wood murals from the 30s. Des Moines native, Doug Shelton, designed the mural and also led a 12-member team of students and faculty artists as they helped produce the work. The mural is meant to depict the entire university and its future. Work on the painting was done across campus, in


a gallery not large enough to house the painting in its finished form, so it had to be done in three pieces. We were on hand for the installation and for some touchups, interviews with the principal
Phone response: Favorite day of the year.
Feature #2: Ragtime in Randall Producer: Marlin Schram
Contact: Ellis Anderson Phone: (515)328-3200
Address: PO Box 133, Randall, Iowa 50231-0133
Storyline: Popular in the early 1900 c was primarily written for the piano and made famous by Scott Joplin. Ragtime was the risqu hug with such dances as the Bunny Hug, Grizzly Bear and the Kangaroo Hop. Although primarily instrumental, words were written to several ragtime tunes and you c written by an Iowan and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Ellis Anderson of Randall sings with and accompanies Morgan andmust squeeze in his auctions between English class and math homework. We'll tour the Wise Family Auction Barn with 13-year-old Josh Wise and his father, Steve, and find out where their schooling led them. And we nd out how their love for auctioneering has turned into a family affair.
Phone response: What would you like to blame on El Nino?
Feature #2: Creating Community Producer: Nancy Heather
Contact: Rocco Buda Arts Resource Center Phone: 319-557-9384
Address: 434 Loras Blvd, Dubuque, IA 52001
Storyline:
It medium sized Iowa towns like Dubuque are facing problems in their inner-city neighborhoods. In Ruth and Russ Nash has come to the forefront, and a neighborhood organization has been looking for ways to keep the neighborhood safe and quiet. This winter, Ruth and Russ have taken a new tact at


saving their little corner of the world, they neighborhood tailor who loved opera, the Rocco Buda Art Resource Center is hoping to draw people together, and is one of the gazillion projects Ruth and Russ have sparked in their [29 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Double Vision' 10 sets of twins at Glidden-Ralston School.
Feature #2: 'Reflection' Sam Mulgrew makes caskets and searches for the meaning of life.
Feature #3: 'A Man For All Seasons' Herb Plambeck, farm radio broadcast legend.
Feature #1:
Feature title: 'Double Vision' Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Glidden Ralston Community School Phone: (712)659-3863
Address: Glidden, IA
Storyline:
We about all the twins in Glidden-Ralston Community School and had to get a first-hand look: in a school of about 450 students, there are 10 sets of twins, 7 sets in 1st and 2nd grades, with everywho u the impression that he is just another man making a living. But his past contains some stories that might surprise you. In 1956, a song called 'In the Still of the Night' climbed to #2 in the national pop charts the original 5 Satins, the group responsible for this hit single that has sold over 10 million copies to date. Perhaps, what makes Jim so interesting is the fact that he has never really made it known that he was part of that piece of music history. Even though he has toured with Rock and Roll legends such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Ruth Brown, and played at the Apollo with Little Richard, he humbly goes about his daily life and keeps his past to


himself. He was successful doing this until he was recently inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame along with a long list of other music pioneers. Jim looks back on his interesting life, his rise and fall from national stardom in the mid-Fifties, and offers insight on living life today. He is a fascinating and wonderful man, still every bit the same young boy from New Haven, Connecticut who cut one of America ds.
Phone response: What ure #2: Music for the Mind (Craig Bircher) Producer: Nikki Tundel
Contacts: Craig Bircher (402)346 4042, Adam Branting, PR, Omaha Symphony (402)342 3836
fax (402)342 3819, Thea [29 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Button Up' Elda Dolash button collector.
Feature #2: 'A Long Time' Baseball Manager George Long
Feature #3: 'Mozart is Missing' UNI professor finds lostMuscatine, Iowa. At 91-years-old, George Long, Sr. was the oldest manager in baseball history. We taped this story in the summer of 1997 and sadly George passed away in January of 1998. His life was dedicated to the game of baseball, his players and his hometown. The Muscatine Red Sox is a semipro team George started in 1931 and kept going through the depression. Back then many big-leaguers played exhibition games including Babe Ruth who hit two out of the park in a game for George. The Indianapolis Clowns were the 'Globetrotters' of baseball, a black traveling all-star team that George also owned and managed. George never owned a car and walked all over town selling advertising to raise money for the team. His spirit kept the team


going for what George said had to be a record, 67 consecutive winning seasons.
Feature title for air: 'Mozart is Missing' Producer: Shepard
Contact: David J. Buch Phone: 319-273-2761
Address: University of No. Iowa [27 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Lion Kings' Two town cats
Feature #2: 'Rhyme and Reason' Girls Group Home poetry
Feature #3: 'Farm Safety 4 Kids'
Feature #1: Lion Kings Producer: Heather
Contact: Spencer Library
Phone: 712-264-7290
Address: Vickie Myron, Director, 21 East 3rd Street, Spencer, Iowa 51301-4131
Contact: Kirby Phone: 515-366-2305
Ralph
Contact name cleared? YES
Storyline: Two tabbies who more Books, lion king of the Spencer Library, and Conrad om, who library cat. He has a diplomatic personality and a sense of fun that has captured the hearts of people from as far away as London. Tom is an equally pampered people pleaser. In Conrad, he cial mayor.in Iowa, both in urban areas, on man made structures. Bob Anderson dreams that someday the skies over Iowa will be filled with peregrines that will live not in cities but in the wild where they belong. To realize his dream Bob has given up his job, his home, and most of his savings to raise the peregrines which he will eventually release into the wild.
Phone response: What place you Shepard
Contact: Ann Zimmerman, The Public Relations Group HYPERLINK mail to:PRGDM@aol.com
Phone: 243-4123
Address: Hotel Pattee, 1112 Willis Avenue PO Box 307 Perry, IA 50220 Phone: (515)465-3511
Storyline: When Roberta Green Ahmanson was growing up in Perry, the Hotel Pattee was THE place for those important events like wedding receptions and anniversary parties. And she especially remembers Sunday lunches and sitting at


Phone: (515)479-2788
Address: Marshalltown
Contact name cleared? Yes
Storyline:
To put it simply, Jeff Crookshank likes things that are shiny. Couple that with his love for ice cream and you'll understand (well, at least to a small degree) his ice cream scoop collection. Jeff has over 175 ice cream scoops, but admits to actually using only one. He's also expanded his collection to include ice cream related collectibles - including 25 straw holders and a variety of ice cream fountain table and chair sets. And while he originally intended to keep his collection limited to an ice cream theme, he admits his eye has wandered and he now collects lawn sprinklers as well. He tells us they're really shiny.
Contact: Rich Michaels Phone: work 284 2996 at Meredith
Address: 4308 Maple Street home 223commentary about his life as a member of the Meskwaki Nation of Central Iowa near Tama. We dance by Ray, his wife, Stella, and their nephew, Rocky.
Phone response: What project are you working on that you e #2: Know News is Good News; Producer: Shepard, Gourley;
Contact: See Producers
Storyline: Iowa has more newspapers per capita than any place in the country and perhaps the world In an era when national media have become so dominant, it e small town newspapers and their editors and reporters are. This generation is aging and may soon be gone and forgotten. With them will go their stories and their insight. A group of U of I students and their two professors are busy making sure that these classic journalists and the skills they


honed are not forgotten. Through oral histories of over 100 Iowa journalists, they hope to preserve and honor the men and women who wrote the stories. Living i [28 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Out of Hitler's Reach' Scattergood Hostel
Feature #2: 'A Circular Argument' Crop Circles.
Feature #1: 'Out of Hitler's Reach' ; Producer: Tundel;
Contact: Michael Luick-Thrams
C/o Bud and Phyllis Luick
15118 Lark Ave.
Mason City, IA 50401
Storyline: Most people known about Oskar Schindler and the 1100 lives he saved during the Holocaust. However, few know of the Quaker farmers and college kids who saved 185 European refugees right here in West Branch, Iowa. From 1939 to 1943, the Iowa prairies became a safe haven for those trying to escape Hitler. Here Europeans found refuge at the Scattergood Hostel, a temporary community run byQuakers in what had been a Quaker boarding school. Unlike so many who turned a blind eye to the atrocities in Europe, a group of Quakers in the middle of the Iowa cornfields opened their arms and their hearts to those in need. With the help of these Iowans, the refugees were give an opportunity to live as well as a place to overcome the trauma of their experiences in Europe and find a new life in the United States.
This story was nearly lost - as most of the refugees had chosen to put the past behind them and the Quakers weren't interested in publicizing their own good work. However, through the research of Iowa native Michael Luick-Thrams, this story has been brought to light - and can


there's more than a glimmer in his eye. Jamie just loves everything Elvis: the music, the movies, even the clothes. And his friends are used to the fact that Jamie dresses like Elvis, combs his hair like Elvis, and even sings like Elvis. At age 17, this senior in high school has 14 years of experience in the business of 'Elvis Performer.' At the age of 3, he could be found at his father's knee, both of them decked out in flamboyant white bell-bottoms and vee-necked shirts trimmed with fringe and rhinestones. Yes, the Elvis impersonation act has been handed down from father to son, and Living In Iowa walks a mile in their blue suede shoes.
Phone response: Sing part of your favorite song.
Feature #2: TAKING IT TOTHE GRAVE; Producer: Nikki Tundel;
Contact: Roy Dixon; Phone: (319)752-4654
Address: Leyda, Burrus and Metz Monument Company
1500 Osborn Street, Burlington, IA 52601
Storyline: Unlike most children, when Roy Dixon drew pictures on the household walls, he signed his name to them. Even then, Roy knew he would oneday make his living as an artist. What he didn't know was that his canvases would be 500 pound granite slabs. For nearly 15 years, this Burlington resident has been a monument artist - etching his art into gravestones. In an average year, Roy will complete over 50 stones. The majority are for young adults and children. A handful are for babies. For each piece, Roy sits down with family members and just listens. Roy admits that he can't think of his subjects as


and how it's changed the Vorwald family.
Phone response: What one you know has overcome?
Feature #2: Producer: Jack Shepard; Contact: Bill Hyland;
Phone: (515)277-6972; Address: 1521 62nd St. Des Moines, IA 50310
Storyline: Even though baseball's popularity has waned in recent years, softball is more popular than ever. But what happens to softball players when they are considered 'over the hill?'
While many turn to physically-less demanding sports like golf, others have shown their determination to play on - in a 50-and-over league of their own. The story centers on 73-year-old Bill Hyland, former DSM Dowling prep star, former NY Yankees minor league ball player who's still enjoying his favorite sport. Bill says playing the game makes him feel young - and there's a video montage to the tune 'Young at Heart.'
Feature#3: Greetings; Producer: Heather; Contact: Linda Pratt;
Phone: (319)294-2745; Address: 4104 Treeline Court NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52411 (fyi she moved after we shot and produced this feature)
Storyline: In the age of e-mail, there's one Iowa woman who's bucking the trend. She has recently begun a career as a greeting card artist. We discovered Lin [27 minutes]

Feature #1: 'In a Nutshell,' Acorn Feed Store sells feed with a little live music.
Feature #2: 'Swiss Family Jurgensen,' Giant treehouse near Marshalltown.
Feature #3: 'Puttin' on the Patina,' Nick Klepinger's bronze statues in Pella.
Feature #1:; Feature title: 'In A Nutshell'; Producer: Laurel Bower;
Contact: Dave and Harry Fronk; Phone: (712) 325-9282
Address: 329 16th Ave Council Bluffs, IA
Storyline: The Acorn Feed Store has been open nearly 14 years. The store was opened by father and


son, Harry and Dave Fronk. It started out as a feed and supply company, but when Harry started taking guitar lessons with his buddies, it became a tradition for people to gather and play music right there in the store. Every Saturday, people come to play in these jam sessions. They come from all over, several are locals, but visitors from out-of-state and even other countries come often to play music as well. It is a family oriented place with animals, antiques, nice people, and music. It's fun for the whole family and a great place for musicians of all sorts, no matter what their talent, etc. It has never been publicized, people just come by word of mouth.
Phone response: What is your most unique talent?
Feature #2:
Feature title:'Swiss Family Jurgensen' Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Mick Jurgensen; Phone: 515-752-5756
Address: 1906 S. 5th Ave. Marshalltown, IA 50158 (w) 515-754-1070
Storyline: Mick Jurgensen is a grade school principal whose hobby over the last 14 years has been building a treehouse in his grandmother's backyard. It all started out as an idea for a deck, which his grandfather nixed, so Mick decided to hook the deck to the tree. 14 years later, it consists of 10 levels, climbs 55 ft. into the Maple tree, and covers 5000 sq. ft. It's been a family project, with his mother and wife helping with construction, and his grandmother leading tours. dog.'
Feature #3: ; Feature title: 'Puttin' on the Patina'; Producer: Pat Oswald;
Contact: Nic [27 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Core of Discovery,' Ken Burns publicity tour for


not like to see return.
Feature #2
Feature title: Lands of Langland's; Producer: Nancy Heather;
Contact: Joseph Langland; Phone: (413)549-6517
Address: 16 Morgan Circle, Amherst, Mass. 01002
Storyline: The rolling hills and sparkling creeks north of Decorah are part of Joseph Langland's being. He grew up on the border of Iowa and Minnesota, one of nine children in a Norwegian immigrant family. And while the other boys dreamed of farming or playing baseball, Joe hid away in a narrow limestone cave, writing poems with a stubby pencil by candlelight. He followed his dreams, and carved out a life as a poet, earning an endowed 'Robert Frost' professorship at the University of Massachussetts in Amherst. Robert's poetry paints impressions of his rural Iowa childhood, not just rosy images, but remembrances which include his brother'sdeath as a soldier in World War II. One poem, 'The Wheel of Summer,' describes his farm-boy experience of castrating pigs.
It was this poem which was once described as, 'The best poem ever written...on that particular subject!' Living In Iowa walks the land of Joseph Langland's childhood with a true Iowa son.
Feature #3:
Feature titl [27 minutes]

Feature #1: R.A.G.B.R.A.I. Special
Feature #1:
Feature title FOR AIR: RAGBRAI XXV Producer: Chris Gourley
Contact: Gourley Phone: 242-3188
Des Moines Register Newspaper Contact: Jim Green Phone: (515)248-8285
Storyline:
For 25 years The Des Moines Register has sponsored a bicycle ride that crosses the state of Iowa from the Missouri River to the Mississippi. The bike ride known as RAGBRAI (the Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) has grown from 300 riders in its first year to over


15,000 riders this year that came from all 50 states and 14 different foreign countries. Riders ranged in age this year from 4 to 81, which is testament to the fact that RAGBRAI is for everyone. We cover the ride from the dipping of the back tire in the Missouri river to the final day where front tires are dipped in the Mississippi river. Along the way we see Iowa from the seat of a bicycle, take a look at some past RAGBRAI's, and talk to people on this years ride what makes RAGBRAI so popular. RAGBRAI XXV is set to music by musicians from the state of Iowa. Music by; James McNear Jr., Gayla Drake Paul, Bo Ramsey, Jeff Burak, Rob Lumbard, and Paul Micich.
Please note RAGBRAIa lifetime opportunity comes once every 4,200 years. At least that's the case for John Wenck and the photo he took of the Hale-Bop comet that could be seen in the skies over Iowa last spring (spring of '97). Winning the 'Best of Show Award' at the Iowa State Fair the picture John took has changed his life and touched the lives of many.
Phone response: What is your favorite bumper sticker?
Feature #2: Feature title: School of Hard Knocks; Producer: Laurel Bower;
Contact: Pete Hathaway; Phone: (712)279-6816 ; Address: Woodrow Wilson Middle School, 1010 Iowa Street Sioux City, IA 51105
Storyline: For nearly five years, Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Sioux City has made remarkable improvements concerning juvenile crime both in the school and on school grounds. These Improvements are largely


due to the principal, Pete Hathaway. When Pete joined the staff five years ago, he took a look at the problem Woodrow was having and decided to make a change. Otherwise, the school doors were going to be closed. Pete's agenda was to open the doors to outside resources including the Department of Human Services, the Juvenile Courts, and other community agencies. Pete felt that the traditional closed door policy of schools was not for Woodrow. They needed to open the doors to other people in order to meet the needs of their diverse population of students. All of these programs are based in the school. They include a probation officer, police liaison officer, and outreach workers just to name a few. The school has made great stridesin mathematics at Iowa State University, he is pushing the bounds of science and questioning our place in the universe. Dr. Abian, has gained considerable media attention due to one of his theories which suggested blowing up the moon in order to solve the earth's climatic and environmental problems. He believes that if the moon is jolted out of it's orbit, it will affect the tilt of the earth's axis, bringing an end to natural dilemmas such as draught, famine, hurricanes, and global warming. The driving force behind Dr. Abian and his theories is to challenge the 'status quo:' the existing order and existing truths, and [26 minutes]

Feature #1: 'The Cave Dwellers' Virtual Reality at ISU.
Feature #2: 'Mad Dads' Eddie Staton organizes parents to fight crime in Omaha


and the nation.
Feature #3: 'Up for the Count' Auctioneering College and Family.
Feature #1: Feature title: The Cave Dwellers; Producer: Jack Shepard;
Contact: Carolina Cruz-Neira; Phone: 515-294-5685 cruz@iastate. edu also:Jill Shannon 515-294-3093; Address: 2062 Black Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
Storyline: Carolina Cruz-Neira is a scientist who works in another reality s. This former classical ballet dancer is one of the top virtual reality researchers in the U.S. Born in Venezuela, reared in Spain, and educated in both, as well as in the US, she was one of the first people in the world to earn her Ph.D. in virtual reality. She uses the VR cave for many purposes: designing VR programs that enable drug researchers to 'step inside' a microscopic world of drug and virus interactions, and forin their neighborhoods fighting against the [28 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Toy Drive,' Burlington Museum of life-sized toys.
Feature #2: 'Earning Their Wings,' Tuskegee Airmen reunite at Dubuque High School.
Feature #3: 'Pet Spaw,' pampered pets at Avondale Pet Resort.
Feature #1: Feature title: Toy Drive; Producer: Nikki Tundel;
Contact: Arnie Arledge; Phone: (319)753 0436; Address: PO Box 1062 Burlington, IA 52601
Storyline: Arnie Arledge insists that he hile he was in the trucking business for most of his life, today this 82-year-old spends his days surrounded by life-sized dolls and animated toys. Arnie runs the Toy Box, a Burlington museum of sorts, that is packed with what he calls the country to find unusual items for his collection s his mind set on acquiring something, there swears that we inventory was worth t toy


a group of the first African American fighter pilots to be trai [28 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Unlimited Possibilities'
Grant Wood style mural painted at ISU by Doug Shelton.
Feature #2: 'Ragtime in Randall'
Big ragtime concert in the small town of Randall.
Feature #3: 'Paul Micich'
Artist and musician.
Feature #1: Unlimited Possibilities
Producer: Jack Shepard
Contact: Marilyn Vaughan
Phone: (515)294-6469
Address: Iowa State University Museums, 290 Scheman Building, ISU, Ames, IA 50011
Storyline: The new Iowa State University mural titled, 'Unlimited Possibilities,' commissioned to commemorate the University ry, recently joined its counterparts in the Parks Library. The mural surrounds a huge doorway in the library is decorated with 8 Grant Wood murals from the 30s. Des Moines native, Doug Shelton, designed the mural and also led a 12-member team of students and faculty artists as they helped produce thework. The mural is meant to depict the entire university and its future. Work on the painting was done across campus, in a gallery not large enough to house the painting in its finished form, so it had to be done in three pieces. We were on hand for the installation and for some touchups, interviews with the principal
Phone response: What is the most ridiculous American custom?
Feature #2: Ragtime in Randall
Producer: Marlin Schram
Contact: Ellis Anderson
Phone: (515)328-3200
Address: PO Box 133, Randall, Iowa 50231-0133
Storyline: Popular in the early 1900 gtime music was primarily written for the piano and made famous by Scott Joplin. Ragtime was the risqu dancers to hug with such dances as the Bunny Hug, Grizzly Bear and the Kangaroo Hop. Although primarily instrumental, words were written to