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explain what the resource center will be able to do for teachers a teacher i thought father whoa are teachers to come to the printer and copy material that they can take back to their classrooms and you have a political base there'll be a variety of her lesson plans for them to change from flight path that programs that they can take back with them videotaped the bacon use a whole library of fly they can do their own slide presentation is struggling and self help area the teacher comes in and make copies of the materials that he or she wants an end to take them back they've become teachers property is the air after here so they'll have to duplicate decide they want to write everything will be duplicated amniotic band for the teachers to provide their own blank paid and the film further slide are duplications know we're not just teachers in the hutchinson area correct

that the good point we are a branch of johnson space center at johnson space center serves eight states in the midwest and we have been privileged to be a regional teacher a source enter a branch of johnston's place so we can serve teachers in oklahoma colorado nebraska south dakota north dakota you know any antibody in the midwest region of the united states can have access to them for teachers or center here in hutchinson no humans and it's a self help things i have to be there in person that's right yeah and that they're going to make it difficult for detainees from omar nebraska hopefully they'll feel like it's worthwhile to come to watch and from where we can spend time that air and give them five times to go over to the teacher a source better than they were for the planet oh we'll try to do a little bird

malian request we will we will send back a tape geared toward secondary education one geared toward middle schooler geared toward elementary where teachers who are able to visit the center of that that's just more of a service to to get them appointed with the center of the actual benefits will become will come from teachers actually coming in and doing the copying in finding out what's available you know when you work with teachers a lot of the time what you know the demand is there for a service like this i think it's just that demand that we are finally able to breath i think for years teachers have wished they have unit from their supply of textbook dealing what they find when you talk to students about the ways you automatically have a and attentive audience they've basically the shelby launched they dream about becoming an astronaut day they know that the space program could be a big part of their future but in the

regular classroom even with plants bugs are not addressing and our teachers because they have so many other subject matters they have to deal with they don't have time to go home every evening and do research on america's space program in order to prevent a unit fill this will do the work for them and if we can help in any way with the teacher and pulling together a little additional plans we'd be glad to do that if it's going to be a wonderful opportunity i think for teachers to feel like there's a support system in aiding them what their curriculum have you found that teachers are becoming more and more interested in learning more about space maybe those who've been in the profession for quite a while in space wasn't as a big of a deal in school was when they first began teaching and found that those types of teachers are now more interested in what the cause for offers and now will probably be interested in this new a resource center are very definitely thought that the teachers that we have coming into the cosmos appear have shown a big interest in art teacher

in service training which is the today programme where they come and spend to really busy and tense dave gathering curriculum at the hearing talks about the space program and then to be able to supplement what they do with materials from the teacher is source center i feel like that in the world coming up when new horizons for them and it i no teachers are eager to get into this particular part of the curriculum and they fire ovitz been a row joined for us to work with teachers who come in wanting more information now this center is located actually had a c c here and that's something we really want to emphasize the cooperation of hutchinson community college because an asparagus facility is limited in they've eliminated we don't have a faith ought to put the teacher enforcement or float community college have agreed to share part of their faith in the kennedy library they've given us around

in the kennedy library for us to put the teachers' source senator patrick tam director library services have been tremendous to help us get equipment down there playing out she's just been great to work with and they've been the most quote primitive and allowing us to use though every facility every area to have the teacher is source center however andrew is the senior space science educator at the kansas cause was fear i'm nancy finken curry says most influential members are easy to identify their in the leadership or cherokee committees there are others according to the national journal a weekly magazine out of government and politics who deserve recognition in their own right kansas congressman dan glickman is a one of the thirty one people who were chosen as leaders in congress by the weekly magazine national journal richard cohen wrote the article

so latinas deadlines deals or criteria to decide who was in full and so on and below in the article glickman as listed under the advocate category saying even the best ideas are not likely to make progress without someone willing to press relentlessly for action behind the scenes as well as publicly among

them and an amalgam of bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum legal issues rich cohen is the author of commerce's designated hitters in the national journal a weekly journal reporting on government and politics in washington dc god when god is inclusion on the list and honor saying i attribute this to hard work common sense and the fact that i always remember i'm here working on behalf of kansas in hutchinson i'm nancy finken experts say the use of drugs by athletes as increasing last summer's

olympic games showed some of the most successful athletes like ben johnson were using drugs to enhance their performance the university of kansas has a comprehensive program to combat drug use by their athletes their program they say is the first university in the country to implement such a program which includes a regular drug in sport class for all freshman athletes also drug testing and classroom work in addition dr david cook a team sport psychologist and underwriting trigger director of kay's athletic drug education program have produced a videotape series the series involves administrators coaches athletes and trainers from around the country talking about drugs reid's use this series is to be distributed to all and see double way schools that did trigger says steroids era when the most common no we didn't

do you know i do and a competent and billing the government bailout of lean body mass dr triggers as those using steroids will express an increase in fats in the bloodstream all in the skin only personality meaning a more aggressive personality for men a sex drive increase however the testicles or shrink resulting in a low amount of sperm the body create and for women a deepening of the voice and hair growth that did trigger says there are other drugs athletes use which are also discussed in the tape including dire red x an amino acids and that's where the harm caused by steroids use triggers as its hard at this point to

prove anyone on girl and people are many people who are working in the field that a lot more a lot more that people are being creative in the degeneration of the arm driggers says in his opinion steroids i easily obtainable nationwide and right here in kansas and a reasonably affordable price the other guy you professor who worked on the video series as doctor david cook director of sport psychology he says in today's society it's no wonder athletes feel pressured to do anything to win including taking drugs cook says the series explains why athletes are at risk

thirty three and the other here we go though for what video series is how drugs and the

college athlete dnc devil a finance the production and each and sea devil a school across the country is getting free of charge a copy of it cook and trigger of also put together a text book on the same subject over the last two fiscal years the governor's office has made one hundred thousand dollars available to the region's for substance abuse education of that amount ten thousand dollars was allocated for publication of the textbook in hutchinson i'm nancy finken in kansas and it won infants canal into the world with a name and social security number to come around cairo setting as the administrator for the social security office in hutchinson when they go up the birth certificate the hospital all we need to do is cooperate or information it's going to be on it and they've put an additional blocked all my application in and decided that we could use that and all we need to do is check that box and the child automatically

painted social security numbers for the birth certificate project sent here says already happened the state to switch to this new system of hr going into the system as of january first it was positive and not allow iowa new mexico in indiana last year it worked out very successfully i gets approximately seventy percent of the apparent selected to have a court issue right away secular says under the new system the baby's car should be received by the parents within forty five to sixty days which is still quite a bit faster than the old method prior enlisted people would have to bring in a birth certificate from the hospital or from the state along with their identification and company offers usually came to the office a lot redder application form and we would semitism but with a surly will have to do that anymore and is to be especially helpful for people who live in outlying areas where there's no social security office do many is that with the kansas internal revenue service says social security numbers for children claimed as

dependents on their parents' income tax returns are much quarterly on the jury you have a social security number or your parent wish to claim them as a dependent of the tax return are talking about a lot of money there are beginning to be returned at age requirement will drop down to age to so far as i'm concerned since the social security number is such a universal thing into banking i really really want don't put their social security number on the return home it a purse a very modest about five dollars for admission however the more expensive it will be if you will is that you're a really huge reduction will be this voluntary be talking about a substantial cut into recovery tax bill many zak says the mandatory social security number for certain

age children was the result of some inaccurate claims of dependence on tax returns requirement were really cruel point in a really cool way to help eliminate the whole point boiling point the record for social security number of a tribal leader of the age to eliminate all of that of course will be a benefit to the taxpayer because we're picking up the bill for that sort of abuse jim menus at public affairs officer with the kansas internal revenue service in hutchinson i'm nancy finken a lot more than we're going to just begin to start replacing soil moisture i don't see any it won't be going all reeling from what little we

have right now oh caro grover is the wildlife manager at cheyenne bottoms the area has been recognized as internationally significant to millions of shore birds in waterfowl but mother nature and increased irrigation by farmers using the r kansas river have put cheyenne bottoms in a touchy situation again and quite frequently and so an extremely limited but over time and the view of one of the two you know putting in the elephant them in the way we tried a lot of people our driver and the one theme of the pool without because they are a group that nothing were basically backyard historian

richie million were starting to look at maybe more water forty five percent of the northward migrating north american shorebird star but cheyenne buttons each spring which is made up of five pools however as grover points out today not all five pools are full right now boy we've got a neighborhood of three into the water and a man who for about two or three engage in about a third of the pool portray the twenty acre the water and pulled through and poor are completely there would stand your mom's needs calmly insist would you like to see well that we know through the end of june would be in pretty good

shape on providing shore bird habitat because they don't like the shallow waters and more thorough for one well we would like to help only one pool would have but haven't made it into the water and killed if we hang on the water we've got right now through the interview we should view of a good habitat for sure beyond and more tolerable grover says he's not very optimistic that they can hold on to the water levels they have now until june so what happens to the migrating birds is cheyenne bottoms is that what it used to be and it's in their migratory path isn't really sure that year but they were they didn't go in with a poetry while interviewing and re reviewing a homeowner that reader if they ever got the bottoms is

not sufficient to allow him to read replenish that readers in the probability that they are going to read you really made it would go farther breeding ground and the mayor who we are porsche grover says eventually this piece he's not being well served by shy and bottoms would start to decrease he hopes that doesn't happen but again it's mother nature holding most of the cards governor dayton has asked in his latest budget for over a million dollars to be used at cheyenne bottoms so people there can help make better use of the little water the area receives in hutchinson i'm nancy finken la county public works director dan harmon says the kansas health and environment

department required a year ago that the county's landfill because by june thirtieth of nineteen ninety and region close to that location point and consequently direct threat hartman says the landfill was created in nineteen sixty three and at the time was thought to be a major improvement from having folks burn or dispose of their own trash but since that time studies have shown the landfill and probably many others like it are unsafe gordon says the danger comes when rainwater flows through the garbage and then drains off taking from the trash potentially hazardous waste one byproduct is a methane gas a highly flammable gas which could easily see been to nearby basements and cause explosions of exposed in the slightest spark well obviously the need is grave the county has a big responsibility they'll have to cover the area

thirty inches on top and put enough slope was about iranians no will drain off instead of through the garbage they'll be required to maintain that for thirty years hardin explained some are planning involved now how to maintain their garbage blow after they closed the spill you know in a way people are usually old i'm going to go when he read out what you want to do that you are you know what led to the north pole they

get sick mm hmm that's the way of gold's where we meet for a quote wake of the old landfill horn says the japanese have a remarkable rate of recycling at fifty percent in this country he says twenty five percent is considered great and alas manhattan survey showed seven percent of their garbage was being recycled one thing that might encourage riley county residents to cash in their aluminum paper a glass products is the cost to be incurred every county creates a new landfill do you have to develop leaders cite three year old boy enters the political edge of

a monitoring requirements expenditure of dollars to develop or in jail we're doing it although the order of a very unusual what coalition of the region will got to know about eight dollars and that will only those

players the political situations statistics showed manhattan residents protest one hundred thirty five tons of garbage per day and his heart and said the cost to dispose of the waste will be twenty dollars per ton using the required higher standard landfill partners asked for an extension on the june nineteen ninety deadlines so riley county can maybe be a part of a regional garbage disposal plan in hutchinson i'm nancy finken in today's fast paced deadline oriented world technology keeps moving on we need it now and there's no time to waste fax machines are becoming the instant communicator the eighties and soon to be the nineties a facsimile copy your insurer is a long distance copier using regular telephone lines hard copy can be sent across the state across the country all around the world and central kansas office systems and hutchinson tom woodworth says fax

machines were first invented in eighteen forty two by alexander payne and have come a long way since then thing that changed american was an invention of digital technology and since then they've become more more commonplace in the offices and officially and home offices that one and how sophisticated the machine and a copy can be sent as quickly as fifteen or thirty seconds per page or with older models it might take three or six minutes per page woodworth says fax machine sell for around a thousand dollars and up but once you've purchased the machine the majority of the costs and the telephone lines one of the advantages is that businesses can program these fax machines to dial the number after eleven o'clock when the telephone rates decrease others about four basic benefits won't be adverse to communication which means things like over the telephone you're saying this part number as a p as in paul rimbey as

in boy with a fax machine you don't have an exact copy of that it would be speed transmission well you'll have to describe it and take a ton of events to just slap it in his an instant transmission as opposed to an overnight the thing cost effectiveness and you can see immediately of phone calls would cost much less and overnighters ten dollars fifteen dollars another way it saves costs is if you were to reports or any kind of thing like that you're not really asking a person in la and how the weather is out there advantages versatility how we can do a number of features on such is sending drawings and first generation video marketing and hutchinson nick slater says that he is in office mates faction see now but up until two years ago slater had no idea how

many that machine could be the client asked if they had won a fellow more pro shop so we called around only the printing shops in hutchinson they didn't have one eventually we got a lead for somebody in saliva is going back two years now so i know so this guy gets in his car drives all it's a lawyer with its pages had to be there's no question dr an outsider to this print shop with a copy to put in the fax machine in the meantime one of the people from our neighbor down the car became them said i understand you're a looking for a fax machine and we said you know what a fax machine is a lot of the show you were going back office slater says they use that fax machine now on a regular basis a lot a lot of times we have clients have stayed calm to require script changes in a hurry ah but moreover our biggest use of it has been to ship finished television or video screens to voice talent if you're thinking of purchasing a fax machine experts say most fax

machines are compatible your brand and group number facts will be able to respond to communicate with most other brands and groove numbers in any other city but the experts a group three machines either recommend a tie because of the digital capabilities what's difficult for consumers to know is when is the best time to jump on the facts bandwagon again tom morning ten essential kansas office systems technology advances so first you never knowingly did all of the conveyor belt i would say that for the next three or four years you approach be ok but who knows what the future holds for what the future holds could very well be a fax machine almost every office and many homes it on television stations are beginning to give off x numbers of the air for listeners to communicate with them enter contests or submit suggestions and what does the future hold for overnight couriers with long distance line so highly competitive with what it would cost to send a letter or a document by mail overnight it looks like fax machines may be getting an edge on the market and

hutchinson i'm nancy finken communities across kansas will soon be receiving more educational programming on television a kansas regions educational communication center at case stayed in manhattan is the organization in charge of providing that programming in nineteen eighty six congressman pat roberts and senator bob dole or leaders and securing federal funding for the facility which is designed to use telecommunication is as a way to bring education to all areas of the state the federal grants over the past couple of years of trouble just under six million dollars it's estimated another three or four million will be needed to totally furnace the center now just eighteen is the center's director and he says gramley broken on the k state campus the end of april with the construction completed in about a year he says the incentive to reach a variety of audiences

we are going thank you robert bork at a time when communities in kansas are less close together chair stained says educational telecommunications has the opportunity to bridge those geographic gaps

thank you the bigger wow liar l o r o r is this project in kansas catching

us up with other states are making a silly fantasy of a world where both of the border thank you you liane well no communication

center is being built a k state there will be temporary facilities on campus for some other telecommunication work that needs to be done which is a separate program called star schools kansas is one of a handful states chosen for the star schools program star schools it's the brainchild of senator ted kennedy in response to president reagan's initiative for strategic defense justin says kennedy thought of star wars was going to get money social education most schools let me and i think that's right

you're welcome appointed here rather than programming for a baby or more of your fuel just ain't says in response to a state like questionnaire teaches expressed a need for telecommunication courses in i schooled for foreign languages sciences math and art appreciation the schools receiving those meeting prince he discussed our first satellite dishes and they'd be able to pick up the programming from k state and also from other programs in the midst of a consortium which includes oklahoma mississippi alabama and missouri alastair school's project is only funded on a temporary basis so to speak

was states allowed to receive only two consecutive years of funding after that time just aim says he hopes the program can support itself in hutchinson i'm nancy finken it's inevitable than it is to talk about to say is what i think to be very honest and i think it's about it and i do not drink i know exactly you know i've never had to think for now i'm an older sister who used to drink heavily in prison stripes gm to their travel around now she's telling different person nice i want i wasn't me and anyone

come on not knowing bin laden went missing articles of clothing when and where they were santa's in edmonton dollars purse the elementary last friday night and i just don't like this a couple times i mean you are funny frederick my freshman year and how it can hurt people in fact say that the last to leave my best friend my life and it's just so it was hard and they don't drink as much as they used to either they'll instead they drink they usually stanley singer happens at all i did not like those people i don't get

drunk why can't you know they were able in a way the couple to assume that all you need is a kind of see jane wants just had a curiosity to see you know how it would affect me i didn't get back into my sister has no want of drinking at our attention she's fifteen and she knows it and she doesn't actually know like sneaking this doesn't want to be like me as far as doing this next question i'm curious do you those kittens

definitely yes yes which is verizon's here that go out on a friday night that for me nervous and drink their heads up next day so hung over they can't function as well and a lot of it is to me that kids that his bomb out now seen of them but they are sometimes sent back in the back of a swaying and thinks the school is now i don't want i don't think it's fair to myself but other people can go to someplace not know where you are not know who you with and so i understand that the consequence of that is parents and school school classmate escape peers to be close it's all want

it to be would have to actually try to curb is a nice guy is fighting here parents anna's governor here alive and had a voice i know dickinson poem parents parents and get out here at our main engine no question to me with that seizure drinking so much and french and many drinks and friends she would stay someplace paris cola called tyler jensen can i go through drug rehab is the mess all around she went in one time kansas teenagers talking to david friedberg producer of thinking about drinking tonight thinking about drinking is untitled teach your children well

and on alcohol and kansas my guests include area treatment counselors teens and parents will take your questions on the air as we discuss alcoholism and teens that's nights thinking about directing program at seven o'clock and alcohol in kansas at seven thirty reporting campaign contributions at the local level in kansas and lowering the amount that state legislative candidates can receive from special interest groups make up the meta of a new bill introduced in the house election committee last week house majority leader robert h miller wellington is sponsoring that measure would require a video recorder around and the boys five hundred dollars

it would require that any body that gave over two hundred dollars to a candidate would have to less than any other occupation on the campaign report it would require that all the campaign records reported that are now required to be filed in the church they thought that would be filed and the courthouse and the county but that the candidates were running in and it would also bring him all the local candidates school board community college city and county bring them under a wall of gray white officers now they were going to marry over five hundred dollars in each reporting period that would eliminate most troubled character who don't spend that much money but were there was a major campaign going on their computers would be known by the voter now explains why he thinks the changes need to be made to

local actions there is no current and quite often there are cases where the public wants that candidate advertising has finally billboards are your tights newspaper ads and watch a lot of money being put into it a local campaign effort the part of the bill dealing with vocal limitations on a special interest contributions in the last fifty years the amount of money and special interests on campaign has grown enormously in it every dollar they don't buy it worried about individual we don't have that

this is going very rapidly toward what we have been in washington dc where the special interests actually control of the campaign treasury for almost every candidate for representative tim shellenberger is the vice chairperson of the elections committee he says requiring local candidates to disclose campaign contributions may hurt the system because some qualified candidates may shy away because of the hassle of are pouring their money for a job that pays nothing and as for the pac money money from special interest groups shellenberger says he favors lowering the dollar amount from seven hundred fifty to five hundred dollars but not the fifty fifty match he says the idea that incumbents have an unfair advantage with pac contributions is blown out of proportion we very often

a backhoe out what they think that that in that bill have been blown out of proportion i think that the i don't give you money thank you or don't have very creative mind and they're not going to do another big comedian eu and whether they will contribute to your opponent so is as fair as it by buying votes than but the fact they're made up of people who were a big part of what your party on a politic are in the plain plane and i think that it did it's likely to be a people out where to get more money from the farm bureau the urban people and get more money from the chamber of commerce and i think the governor approve the verdict and i mean

that and the part of the bill that there that indicate that the contributions would be lower by thirty three percent to five hundred dollars in it there are three of them but i don't i don't see anybody debate over the issue will continue this week with a vote expected later on this week to see if it gets out of committee in hutchinson i'm nancy finken alcoholism in the workplace is a problem like us businesses large sums of money each year to not thinking about drinking and alcohol in kansas the topic business and those david friedberg is the producer and thinking about drinking the national institute on

drug abuse says about sixteen percent of employees have trouble with alcohol or other drugs no particular industry seem to have a monopoly on excessive drinking or those certain styles of work life carry a greater risk for example people who work alone or out of the range of close supervision and occupations where alcohol was a traditional component of the job like salespeople who sealed the deal with a drink executives at professionals are vulnerable because they often set their own schedules and can drink without being noticed and because most subordinates are afraid to confront the boss about so touchy a subject as alcoholism in the case of john goodman strider of a large state agency a new york heavy drinking became a way of life his job performance slowly deteriorate it took several years before he can admit he was in trouble i was never to my knowledge either maryland was i never answered

arwen of relate it was like if i was home over there was all the more reason for me to be there on time shining but what would happen is just said make them eating them and i get them through the meaning and then there'd be an hour of staring at the wall the economic consequences for businesses who employ alcohol and employees can be quite high and disruption from alcohol adds up to an expensive price tag for business absenteeism to drinking totals an estimated thirty six million person days per year almost half of all industrial accidents some ten million injuries a year involve boots and alcoholics use the health care system about three times more often than other workers excessive drinking can cause dozens of ailments many of which may not be recognized as alcohol induced dr bob rosen is a specialist on corporate healthcare at the george washington university medical school sixty to seventy percent of all visits to general practitioners are or

were stress related ailments many of which are drinking and just make it manifest as physical health care problems and also much of the physical health expenditures that companies pay him disability and health care costs are mediated by medical factors and substance abuse factors and i think that we have got to appreciate that link between mind and body many businesses now have outreach programs where employees can receive treatment and counseling for personal problems including alcoholism it's the corporate worlds way of saving not only money in lost employee time but saving lives as well more on tonight's thinking about drinking alcohol in kansas shows when the topic is business andrews it begins at seven o'clock eradicate cc kate cd