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officials in the republican controlled attorney general's office say their investigation will focus on transactions involving cancers pipeline partnership and other related companies run by weight those buildings are alleged to have cost more than one hundred and forty five thousand natural gas customers in kansas millions of dollars in higher rates to the complaints again slightly were made by republican political leaders like overland park mayor ed ireland and veterans they said that god spoke the network show me but it has denied any wrongdoing toronto sell spokesperson for house democratic leader tom sawyer says the public should be suspicious of stumbles investigation it was purely political elites that unfortunate that the attorney general used her office for this type of pluto gets attorney general store will admit their offices so far found no proof of criminal conduct by the state democratic party chair so we'll describe the investigation at this stage as purely fact finding in nature at the state house this is mccain's reporting the ongoing joke about the bridges of madison county clint eastwood's newest motion picture adapted from the novel by

robert lawler is that it takes twice as long to watch as it does to read well maybe that's funny i don't know i've not read the book so forgive me if i approached the movie fresh it is almost two and half hours long however and it tells a story familiar to many of you robert kincade dashing middle aged photographer goes out in the field to do a cover story of a a graphic story for national geographic about the covered bridges of madison county francesco that's meryl streep is also on the field she's the proprietress of a farm that her husband and children are waiting for several days on a trip and she meets robert kincade well it appears to be love at first sight and indeed their affair stretches over several days the ongoing question in the movie of course as it was in the book is what will they do about it i will tell you that for reasons of their own they are ready to make commitments but for reasons of their own maybe they should not only thing stretches out interminably times it seems there are long conversations there are long episodes where nobody talks at all but gee dont you wish they would and there are these sequences were

marilyn clint are in the clinch and we hear a number of songs by singer johnny hartman know this we're fine the first time around slowed moody torch songs father to caress but then it happens again but i gather the third time i'm saying clear we've had this effect before let's get on with things so yes i was a little bit impatient watching bridges of madison county but you know on the other hand all have to say this is a most elegant and classy piece of filmmaking making beautiful use of the iowa locations i think on that count a low in terms of its sheer craft and loving detail bridges of madison county i b plus a minority and there are a lot of critics out there a lot of cynics and you know who you are you all hate this picture made you're predisposed to hate the novel but if like me you can approach this film on a first time basis and if you're prepared to maybe wait out some of those long stretches i think you'll find bridges of madison county a pretty elegant afternoon's entertainment this job cadets i'll talk to you next time about the movies

mohegan is a former commander of the bethesda naval academy in suburban washington university of kansas chancellor robert henderson says will higgins first duties will be discreet no problems surrounding the medical center's heart transplant program the kansas city kansas hospital is currently the subject of several investigations which are looking into why the facility turned out if we don't offer their dog or a ten month period while at the same time admitting patients at a news conference by shrapnel hagan said he knew little about the controversy and would take no action until the results of legislative an internal investigations became known university officials say kagan was picked for the job because of his background with the navy in dealing with managed healthcare programs medical education and research into portland is effective september first for kansas public radio this is mccain's recording last week news reports indicated that two centuries of drought devastated classic maya civilization it seems a cruelly ordinary fate given extraordinary vision of these people's alliance of creation is

set forth in a text called a pope over you but it's also a story etched in the sky the story's heroes are a trickster twins represented by the sun and moon or the sun and eunice mai experts haven't decided which what we think of but orion's belt them i envisioned as a turtle's back they sell the constellation gemini is too wild pigs having sex the milky way was the road should bother the land of the dead as land could be glimpsed in places other than the night sky the mine and sought for example when we looked into the open mouth of a deadly serpent in their art they sometimes show the sky percent within a snake's jaws caves or another entry way to ship all are that my belief in july all likewise linked phenomena that for us have little in common too low is a flowing liquid that infuses all life but you know a volcano's was lava that you know of trees was set up of people blood of the underground

mercury following the example of trees which exudes the maya had a thing for lowering blood came appears as peanuts and my arches were pierced with thorns through her mouth our knowledge of the mei is incomplete says john hoopes groups is interested can says anthropologist who taught a course the spring and my history to teach one this summer on is all american civilizations only for their books remain spanish priests destroyed arrest the book's pages or deerskin coated with a thin layer of plaster pictures and text or combine in a series of panels looks like a comic book group says but the mine's stories told mostly in other media in temple inscriptions and on pots jewelry and sarcophagus williams the work of decoding my in hieroglyphs was slow until discoveries by a couple of russian born scholars it had been thought that the hieroglyphs were stylized pictures the russians found they were instead phonetic representations of words

it had been assumed the right hand my and monuments was metaphysical gobbledygook the russians established that documented individual lives with these discoveries the pace of decoding has accelerated in fact a lot of hoops is undergraduate students david maron who has guests as a translator of the language is working with a duke university art museum curator on a book about my own heart the speed up and breaking them i encode thrills hoops a sacred text is being reconstructed one he believes will rival the bottle the car and and other holy books in its significance he says there've been perry's when jews did not have the target that was returned social movements sometimes happen after a text is returned to a people who haven't had it we're reconstituting the lost literature for native americans for the rest of us the game is a universe we've never seen before so these sweet a forty three year old realtor from topeka knows firsthand how the acts of a sexual offender can

devastate a life back in nineteen ninety it sweet was sexually assaulted while visiting the home of a client who told her he was interested in selling his property he ended up forced to take off my top and my brought ten pando when pressed he an ordered me to take off my skirt and underwear at that point you know you're in this denial phase that this happens to somebody else it never happens to you and he tried to force me to give him for a show and i told him i would vomit so he settled pretty masturbated and it forced me to like him well what happened this week may sound terrific it is mild compared to the types of sexual assaults prosecutors in kansas are now dealing with locked away at the law that correctional mental health facility in the central part of the state as some of the worst sex offenders in kansas and there's like leroy mix of wichita was admitted to molesting ten young children hendrix is

being held on eight as part of the state's one year old sexual predator law state officials insisted the measure is not meant to punish offenders but to treat them sexual predators to a healthier a purposely not call inmates but residents they don't wear prison uniforms but are instead allowed to wear their own clothes they're also not required to do any work assignments the state spends forty four thousand dollars a year on each of them the hell that law made to pay for that treatment that's more than double what was spent on inmates at the state's other prisons victims like sandy sweet says she appreciates the fact that kansas is trying to do something to keep sexual predators off the streets but she says to spend thousands of dollars trying to rehabilitate them is a wasted taxpayers' money i don't think rehabilitation work some cases sex offenders i don't know treatment short of castration is going to work in a sexual manner experts on sexual deviance are increasingly recognizing that there are no

miracle cures that will prevent sex offenders from committing more crimes ironically even castration which sweep recommends has not been shown to be effective in several european countries where it's been tried even with surgical castration you get us a sexual recidivism rate of four percent that is four percent of the gatorade he's reinvented factually dalton isn't alone is a professor of psychology and criminal justice at rutgers university he says the recent castration doesn't work with everyone is that some sex offenders don't commit their crimes just for the pleasure of sex he says oftentimes it's more about the desire for power and to dominate that's why instead of penetration with a penis occasionally offenders will use other objects like screwdrivers and it was well psychologists a living more and more about what goes on in the mind of the sexual predator polygamy it's there's still a long way from knowing how to prevent offenders from engaging in sexually deviant behavior some experts blame that on a lack of research money being devoted to the subject

of a federal government spend one hundred and twenty five million dollars on studying depression last year only one million dollars was spent on studying sexual deviance despite that lack of funds though some treatment programs are showing signs of success like the work being done with a bit short showed the list is at the johns hopkins sexual disorders clinic in baltimore using aggressive of vision therapy coupled with the use of drugs that help the mission offenders sexual drive clinical staff of managed to reduce the rate at which pedophiles re offend to just seven percent that rate is in sharp contrast to official government figures that show that eighty percent of all sex offenders will commit new crimes if they don't receive treatment i can't imagine anybody in america not really i don't know that john the font is professor of law at seattle university and a national expert on sexual offenders he says while a seven percent re offense rate is low it's a little use to officials he admits unless they know which seven percent of offenders out repeating their crimes dr

thomas walk a consulting psychologist at the law that sexual predator program says the profession is a long way from knowing that our ability to accurately predict who is essentially violent predator in likely to re offend is probably better than fifty percent it's those poor odds that has prompted the kansas legislature to assume that no repeats sex offender a safe to be let back out into the community representative clyde graber of leavenworth is vice chairman of the kansas house judiciary committee he says the mood of the legislature at this time is that sexual predators spend the rest of their lives behind bars i had to record them better in the past record of the psychologists it might be a different matter but at the present time my feeling is the general public does not have confidence in the judgment of those people that have in the past said oh this person has been turned around we can let them back in society that record is not good representative graber says the only reason kansas is even attempting to

provide treatment to these sexual predators and on it is to get a role us supreme court rulings that says states can pass new laws that punish offenders for crimes committed before the law was passed however tempting looking ups sex offenders for life though could prove a disastrous strategy in the long run it's doubtful whether kansas or any other state can afford to warehouse so many people that's why some experts are now saying that treatment should not be targeted at those who were already involved in a hopeless cycle of violence but towards young people you still have a chance to change judges randy is a sex offender treatment counselor at the lansing correctional facility i cannot believe that men who rape did not prevent even possibly some indication issues with power and control issues the airport expansion and anger and when we see these things that we learn that up into a dressing room with our young children go faster because they are appropriate ways of

expressing some states though have adopted such an early intervention programs in schools have even been some programs developed help children as young as six were acting out sexually with their peers such interventions know are controversial critics argued that since sexual exploration is a normal part of childhood labeling children as deviant may itself have ill effects meanwhile at rutgers university psychology professor nathan brown says the problem of dealing with increasing sexual violence is not a hopeless pursuit he does not give up on the notion that one day scientists will find a way to prevent sex offenders from ever committing further acts of violence i am sure that by the year two thousand and the neurosurgeons will have developed a laser beam technique that destroys certain areas of brain tissue that way or the highway i'm not absolutely

will happen we're not clear yet and when that technology becomes available to us we go huge societal decision to make as to whether we want to do that then then you've got to deal with the whole big brother staff of who's in the catbird seat deciding what's appropriate and what's inappropriate behavior for many that notion sounds like an orwellian nightmare for others it may be high but nonetheless acceptable price to pay to make society safer until though such high tech treatments are available sexual predator laws may be the only tool states have to prevent sex offenders from claiming more victims it's not certain know how long such laws will stay on the books similar measures like that passed in kansas are being challenged in some states on the grounds that they violate the constitutional rights of criminals not to be tried twice for the same offense it's predicted that the us supreme court will eventually have to make a determination about whether such laws are indeed constitutional for kansas public radio this is mccain's

reporting surrounded by a twenty foot high barbed wire fence and behind false sense of heavy steel automatic who was resigned to western sex offenders in kansas this is the law that correctional mental health facility where serial child molesters pedophiles and rapists to help as part of the state's new sexual predator law so far only four residents here but a slew of new sexual offenders are expected over the next few years as inmates now completing their prison sentences go before a special review panel that will decide whether they're safe to release inmates like billy jack hayes who's currently serving a twenty five year sentence at the lansing correctional facility for raping and sodomizing to win and he says he's been obsessed with sexual violence since his childhood surrounded by a twenty foot high barbed wire fence and i guess in a sense of heavy steel of automatic doors reside the worst sex offenders in kansas this is the law made mental health correctional facility where

see real child molesters pedophiles and rapists to help as part of the state's newest sexual predator law so far there are only four residents here but a slew of new sex offenders are expected over the next few years as inmates now completing their prison sentences global for a special review panel that will decide whether they're safe to release inmates like a billy jack hayes who apparently is serving a twenty five year sentence at the lansing correctional facility for raping and sodomizing to winning he says he's been obsessed with sexual violence since his childhood and i'm i was in the room for the greatest even though he's been involved in a sexual offender treatment program now for several years hayes admits the babies like free chances are you repeat his crime

and cheered boehner's no hundred percent that that aren't really selling great again i believe that the current system has failed to make sure a violent offenders don't repeat their crimes prompted the kansas legislature to cosset sexual predator law in the first place one clinical staff applauded have been directed to attempt to rehabilitate the sexual predators in their care chances are most of the residents here will spend the rest of their lives behind these walls that's because in order to be considered for release the law requires that law and officials provide an assurance that the sexual predator will never have them again dr thomas lock lawrence a psychologist to help set up a treatment program atlantic says that's almost impossible to prove these guys are worried is very troubled individuals who had a track record that's miserable in terms of and controlling their sexual behavior in the human impulses so i think professionals are going to be very careful in some cases reluctant to say that a person who has been labeled a predator is no longer

at high risk to engage in a behavior well look says the odds of successfully rehabilitating these offenders are not good he says that should not stop them from crying the treatment process of law it begins with a battery of tests that try to assess the exact nature of offenders sexual deviance says as predators tend to minimize or deny the full extent of that behavior that can be a difficult task the director of the unity jack mcclellan says that's why clinical staff use lie detectors and state of the art of technological devices like the play feist or a graph to aid them in their work the plot by sneaker of its only instrument through which males examined to determine the difference between what they say are rouses them sexually and what does not it's a penile the reptile testing instrument with a monitoring device attached to the pianist the president is subjected to a barrage of ordeal images describing different violent sex acts to examine his arousal the offender is also presented with pictures of various types of individuals not engaging in any

sense for lead behavior that individuals to see but that was where because it in mind so you can engage early on boeing could get close so that we don't have a pornographic material is talking about something you wanted to see a couple of years the information gain from such testing is then passed on to psychologists like dr locke who can confront the inmates with their findings or something of that nature where us military is not known to them that there's some offenders you can save dozens and that indicates that you're experiencing some sexual arousal a year of those where you could say no i wasn't aware of that and they could be telling the truth so that information can be used and i think it is going to the process he was very much aware that has sexual preferences for your letters and we can confirm that with the rapid growth of the offender and

you're going to go for it george burns i have no interest in being different so far only two out of the four residents being held and lawmakers say they do want to change their behavior and are willing to try anything to do so they will go through a vigorous treatment program that officials say will take a minimum of three years to complete it will involve group therapy sessions individual counseling and aversion therapy to try and modify the residence baby up univision therapy deviant images the defendant find stimulating up and with an unpleasant stimulus if an offender shows sexual arousal one showed a picture with a duopoly for instance he may be forced to break the noxious fumes all the subject to an electric shock when kind of

those you're trying to get them can receive a name cruz doctor looks as elusive therapy treatment has produced impressive results over time in sexual offender programs across the country but he admits that too often the power of such methods fate was the therapy stops and the offender is left to his own devices back in the community for that reason patients and love that are also trained to spot the high risk situations that may have led them to commit their crimes in the first place for instance eighty percent of rapists and more than half of all child molesters whether the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time they committed their sexual assaults most agile vendors probably have the belief that the behavior that they're engaging in his involvement in the investigations and kind of activity that doesn't have been scrambling to something's going on

so it's a lot of money predators are also given the tools to help them avoid putting themselves in situations that might encourage them to fantasize a child molester for instance would be advised to take a different route to and from work to avoid passing a schoolyard he may also be told to immediately throughout the coupon section of the sunday newspaper because the glossy ads often depicted tract of child models buckle says even if a sexual predator has managed to successfully complete the treatment program working on controlling is deviant behavior could become a twenty four hour a day occupation we never talk about cure for this we talk about controlling the expressions of their deviant sexual urges but we never talk about curing affect the sexual offenders to come in and say i'm karen and i were going to do this again and senior traders is and it's very advanced at all because it reflects or a lack of appreciation for the vigilance that they're going to have to

exercise probably for a good portion of the rest of their life in order to control the deviant behavior the success of such intense treatment programs like that and awaited loan aid is difficult to assess only a handful of states are doing anything is comprehensive and they have only limited track records the state of washington was the first state in the country to pass a sexual predator law in the four years since that measure took effect twenty one credit is a gone through their treatment unit so far only one of those predators has been released meanwhile here in kansas no one is willing to say yet whether any of the foil sexual predators being held at live aid will ever see life beyond prison walls for kansas public radio this is mccain's reporting the great historian callback or one stroke whatever's been achieved in kansas has been achieved under great difficulties kansans i've been subjected to a succession of reverses and disasters to the border wars succeeded on weekends

gods and grasshoppers callback or no you are history folks but then so the old timers in here kansas you see i walked into that caught the other day and said to god enters but to be a grandson tells me they've just finished the west masons at ninety two had eleven point eight two inches i think that sometime ms cicala anderson but don't you go from getting it three you remember when no mile creek swelled my pigs floated oh you're here before they climbed upon a fried bits shed roof as big inroads said bonnie bonnie a lot of my great granddaddy used to tell the story of the letters cheer in here eighteen seventy set everybody lived in the dugout and god dose or groups could link pens all over the tables chairs and forced to catch the waterfall and then the texas capital came through in that last cattle drive to haiti as they stampede and ran

right on top of half the dugout when they fail to those rules folks wonder how a good rain shadow us are there was a beef cow in every pot that year robi final thought it better than grasshoppers and well so tell her peterson my great grandmother used to tell us about the great grasshopper invasion of eighteen seventy four grasshoppers everywhere eight kansas all the way to the ground today on the curtains for dessert course they fell into the well and then drowned and rotted away durango our coffee all for black that year were mostly awful my great grandmother like to say elise she had coffee said mabel beam water during the dirty thirties when we report as church mice and prices reverend we stirred dusty and water and garlic coffee bop or huntsman who love sugar with his cup is just miraculous barry lips and say there's nothing

sweeter than the kansas saw that's not what they said in missouri or illinois or ohio said connie anderson i think you know he still asked tons of the topsoil gone to give us a rebate on illinois corn we buy to feed our cattle at least you've got cattle to feed said i'll humble why i remember my great uncle robert talking about the blizzard and at eighty six kansas cattle fans huddled together and they froze to death robert had to learn all the furniture in his house to stay warm half the word for women two before they could get outside the fire is largely kansans i've seen hard times our folks i went home and i call my tibia grants so you had a little rain i said and i telling the cop catalog of kansas disasters sorry i meant to say not grant

know about a person just keep in mind this weapon they will be something to talk about that is if you can wait fifty years or so doing that being an email it's been an honor as his house his car and is protected by free speech rights granted to members of the legislature

this week though the shawnee county judge presiding over the case said that was pre speech rules didn't apply in instances where the charges that it was involved over the next few days about a dozen kansas legislators are expected to testify as witnesses in a case at the statehouse that has mccain's recording those public schools good job and social and moral issues

in the political integration well being i appreciate it i was thirty seven years old my father was sixty seven and it was the first time i had ever uttered the words i love you dad he was dropping me off at my office before he picked up mama your house to start a five hundred mile trip back to their home and

forth i'd been through something of a midlife crisis in a condo for their support my simple expression wasn't premeditated it just came out if i had given it any thought i probably would've expected him smile repeat the words back to me and that was the case he drew a quick and ragged breaths the shark only could manage was you take care now why do men have such a hard time saying the words i love you and why do i want so much to hear my father say them to me author robert bly his book iron jaw makes you forty on women's movement of the nineties says it reflects what he calls father hunger is what you got later in life if you knew that didn't make arrowheads together in your youth something like that bryce book suggests it had to get in touch with the wild man in me that have to all be running naked through the woods beating on drums sides we record together

my research tells me that my knees are also a byproduct of the women's movement that movement somehow made it acceptable for us to experience and express what were once considered only feminine feelings it even turned many of us and do what folk singer christine lavin calls sensitive new age guys you know what she means guys with hyphenated last names like to talk about their feelings and rambo movies are upsetting yeah i guess i've got a sensitive side or lose to do it comes to saying i love you to my son and daughter that was real easy when they were young children doubled there in the twenties and i find the words a little more uncomfortable to say i feel more emotional the same nest and a couple of things first son and daughter have laws of their own away from our home and we listen a lot of second i'm so very proud of them and most of us feel very fiercely for children i would like to thank my father feels that fierceness for me

it even could be that he feels it's so much that it would be impossible to say i love you without embarrassing display of emotion like even two years there's not a product of mine this movement are a byproduct of the women's movement is a child of the great depression and the war years is you know sensitivity and he loves me and my home even if we don't say the words it's been more than a year now since melvin you felt was first accused of blackmailing richard albright a democrat lawmaker from harper it's alleged that neufeld <unk> that unless he changes vote on a bill going through the house he would tell his wife he had been cheating on her but a preliminary hearing into the case yesterday showing county judge james violently said that he knew of that conduct prove to be true it's not blackmail as defined by kansas law the judge said that under state law blackmail is it a

gaming or attempting to gain something of value by using a threat or it means compelling someone to do something against their will judge by ok reason that alleges that the road isn't something about you because it doesn't constitute monetary gain he also noted that because representative although it didn't change his vote as a result of the alleged threat he had not been compelled to do something against his will kansas attorney general koster well whose office has been prosecuting this case so she'll appeal the judge's decision in a written statement sturgell said that it alleges that the quote was not considered something of value to be guarded from coalition of fred what assurance that the public have that their elected representatives where voting based on sound reasoning and not just because they were being influenced by inappropriate means at the state house this is mccain's reporting other americans view kansas do they see it as the home of one of the nation's great general's dwight d eisenhower was presidential library in abilene is one of the state's top twist attractions or isabella known for its connections with the wizard of

oz for dorothy and toto image may resonate with some people unfortunately for many americans that perception of kansas might not be that flattering their country is very hip down backwards hits small minded people and you know nothing to do man these perspectives of kansas from two tourists recently traveling through the state from las vegas to defy the kind of public relations nightmare tourism officials in kansas like more recruits are up against we had people stop at the travel convention center said they would run joking and services center the stat now in states and turned to gravel hear just a little bit further down the route that they become a kansas city they literally thought that we were cowboys indians at that time we're not going to have all the creature comforts that they're used to if that's the image of kansas to many americans that it's no wonder the state has difficulty attracting visitors the question is how do you change that image and let people know what's here that maybe any interest to them the state has taken that question to philip jones

a top official within the united states travel of tourism administration in washington dc you can outcompete what was with the other states that have the majestic beauty of the rocky mount so that the beaches of floor california realize that you do have things to offering kansas to visitors both domestic and international that they can't find anywhere else or to make sure you walk it that common sense to dictate that if you know if you don't know what is offered by kansas and that will come here in short jones says kansas needs to advertise that something the state has been notoriously bad at doing not necessarily a lack of creativity but almost certainly through a lack of funds last year kansas spent just one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars on advertising the state to visitors that puts kansas around the bottom among the fifty states and the amount of money it spends too only with tourists while kansas can only affordable and small ads in regional magazines like midwest living the state's neighbors like missouri a spending as much as

eighty million dollars a year on color spreads in national magazines and newspapers and have the money to do expensive television advertising we have a lot of kansas people come in and talk to us and say listen i hear all these tv ads from the syrian and now i'm hearing all of these need native american audience for marble hallways kansas now we've had with a kansas people who really really seem very perturbed that we ran out there at that level noreen cruz the director of the kansas division of travel and tourism says the reason states like oklahoma missouri have so much money to broadcast tv ads is because both states have passed laws that allow part of their state's sales tax revenues to be used towards promoting their tourism industry as that effectively means raising taxes legislators in kansas have been reluctant to do that here but in this small effort to make up for that financial disadvantage the new head of the kansas department of commerce and housing gary shearer as promised to add two hundred thousand dollars to the state's tourism advertising budget next year that will more than double what

the state is currently spending items kansas well for the first time have the money to produce some tv ads but now officials know they have the funding in place are desperately trying to figure out what kind of thing they should be promoting while arkansas is depicting himself as the natural state in its tv commercials and oklahoma draws on its native american heritage one image should kansas concentrate on for the last eighteen months of focus groups to be eating around the state to try to come up with a suitable theme that would run up to her tunes to possible slogans one of them playing a wizard and really important and i think a tourism in kansas is our western heritage history pioneer west all that so the two possible slogans that we sort of get down to work can says there's no place like home in kansas where the west is still wild what was it about movies sidney has a universal appeal more than

twenty five thousand visitors are expected to flock to what's believed to be bought these houses here in liberal kansas thousands more will go through the displays at the wizard of oz memorabilia exhibition at when we go halfway between to be good at what happened and that evidence of the ground at more than a million visitors will converge on kansas he cheered when the opening of the land of oz amusement park in kansas city kansas which will use the mgm movie as needed despite the popularity of the movie both in the us and abroad who says this seems to be a lot of resistance about some influential people in the state about using the wizard of oz as the single theme kansas will convey to the world there's a real strong concern with a business development community he has in the movie from start to finish the emaciated give kansas is the spill days black and why you know

terrible winds are that an end and we are much more progressive state than we were back in the thirties such resistance to the wizard of oz theme has left tourism officials in the state with no choice but to concentrate on the other slogan that came out of their focus groups kansas where the west is still wild indicative of dodge city which is still remembered as well the wildest towns in the west but cruz says the state's marketing consultants argued that slogan was not without its problems either this was planned a german tourist had been killed in florida we were a little bit concerned about using its game kansas where the west is still wild i went into a spat hurt and you know what so what problem might we have been with people saying you know the state tourism office that it was going to be wild and kansas city recently changed it a little bit and said wild about kansas just like opium like

many many years ago about kansas team is not being aired on radio ads across the state with tv ad scheduled to run next year cruz says that so far be disappointed with a number of people who were calling for a free travel guide to using the one eight hundred number mentioned in the commercial should mr riyadh is still too new to assess its full effect of this new world there are those who believe that even if kansas what to spend ten million dollars every year in advertising it still wouldn't attract that many more visitors as because they argue they're simply isn't enough to do here while crews disputes that claim she says kansas is working on ways to improve the state's attractions in fact in the last three years kansas has developed a fund that gives businesses up to forty percent of the costs associated with building or expanding existing attraction but cruz

says there are a growing number of twists coming to the state not of those attractions but to see what life is like in the small towns of mid america fed up with the theme parks like disney world many visitors want to explore american history for themselves at the us travel and tourism administration in washington phil jones says that trend is backed up by what overseas visitors are saying as well many of them he says have done the east and west coasts are looking for something different and a resurgent shows that eighty seven percent of visitors who would come visit united states would receive these are real america you take it any more american any kid in kansas currently jones says the us government is aggressively marketing a new package to a call the santa fe trail that will take visitors through kansas down to new mexico following the route of the early pioneers more businesses will simply mean more money for kansas already business and leisure travel in the state is a twelve billion dollar a year industry bringing in more than a hundred and fifty

million dollars in additional sales tax revenue tourism officials in kansas say that's what the state is making out with limited advertising imaginable win for kansas can expect as the state embarks on a new more aggressive marketing campaign at the state house this is mccain's reporting his business in nineteen sixty eight for her student simon kenton and alice tribune co founded the king center as a six member all male vocal ensemble of his performance everything from amazon's music of the beatles all over the world at the end of nineteen ninety three and carried and decided to retire from the perils of full time travel and rehearsing and performing to tasso waters of academia

mr kerridge explains how does reserve of several previous performances in the area what became the city of his choice ways to keep these three by five cards onto it and they're done in a sense is a time never go that year you saw the perils of low points in the day when decisions are inching their struggles and once i read of the summit is a very nice place but sometimes i think you have the fees to really awful because of her majesty or we're getting there was a high street in downtown salt lake city this is the item is after that when the king singers were formed in nineteen sixty eight carrington and you had no idea what was in store for the international travel recording a major classical label and worldwide fame were not all what they expected as carrie kahn explains but anti immigrant had so many professional commitment and opportunities they couldn't just walk away from a greater privileges of his own company for a couple years really

develops and as i understand you were instrumental in the early stages of growth of the buildings on land we did that ten years and then it was just on somebody that the va faced who will be the six friends can carry all of these guys thought we'd all of us the robbery professional edition five patients in that time only replaced about every two three years somebody would drop out twentieth anniversary a nineteen eighty eight and i think then we both we call is that than someone have told those ovens evolving into trouble this kgb officer jesus by the time curator retired as was was by no means true but it did become more of a challenge to blend with younger voices that were becoming a part of the group he says that was at that age changes color and is more capable of operatic styles rather than the homogeneous sounds of the groups such as the king singers you got the technique and so on you can do that in this group says it's the scope of song which is what makes it interesting

so fresh and crispy let's do this in the seventies things he's sixteen who allow other character isn't officially associated with thinking seems other than a few mulligans he receives describes as emotional attachment to the group has won a fatherly interest you recently traveled i want to attend a performance of the group for the first time since his

departure and we were like just for the coals went into the sea just a vote for him and that allstate of the sixties tanzania's and his top circle which was always the triple ceiling fresco right but as a city well i learned that i wasn't wrote some who was hated used to rely on to become a given moment of law mr carrington has had to adjust from chamber music to large scale works and large ensembles is also had to conform to the differences between dealing with a couple of professionals and college today because with its students you called goldwater there wouldn't get close

very very picky all the time and you didn't such a way that joint carrying them and pushing them to rise to have a great hines knows what kind of challenges all the time one of the other challenges carrington has had to tackle since coming to the university of kansas is the contrast between the historic tradition of english choral music and a more american style which is accommodating to the solo voice his concern surprisingly enough current centered around land which is a trademark of traditional english choral music and the consumers wanted to do for the idea for flights to say in a very positive and one way or millions of rough places and the language is a bit of calm sometimes including english until i retold his bidding cities english poetry of judgment was reporting walt whitman wendy dickinson or something then they can see in american action the movie opens not a single live was a new show at all why the victorian poet or something i did find have been promoted in english and that is tricky and

places that to clear the midwest will only they try to remember the scale nonetheless been a fixture here is the university concert performance comes thousands of auto know yeah as we speak

and its concern just to minnesota's risers and like that almost any musical endeavors fundraiser character believes though he's present only an obstacle not a possibility when it comes to recruiting and actually improving performance quality i think we can draw quitting as he i think my work on likeability most notable is that it will not allow the easy at the controls citizen from out of state and i think the greatest competition gives birth to you it helps with tuition to buddhism school where the music department there is not just for people from kansas missouri the midwest states and i like to think the drawing i'm going about four students from further away and i took on more negative students from the east and the west in becoming visually can do musically you're listening i want to give them all the handy as i can do everything from posting of benjamin button so no restrictions that i will please don't changes scheduled so ahmed eleven fire

simon carrot and returns to lawrence from european journey in august and will begin his second year as director of choral activities at the university of kansas in the fall or pay a new hampshire law it is gone folks when i first moved in with me she made changes inside a house that was fine with me curtains on the windows suddenly seemed like a good idea if you know i mean you know bedspread replaced the faded jeans the old linoleum went to after all it was nothing but big black stained in front of the stove sink in refrigerator i didn't even object when she went to wichita and bought a soft fabric toilet seat cover with matching rub it nestles up his tool bomb easier to waters around them before she said why hadn't noticed the dirty floor but

i held my tongue because i know that standard for cleanliness can be different between two people and i don't mean to paint iowa and he has some kind of an odd couple or is a dagwood and blondie we've agreed to get along and to get the job right then i got home from three months in topeka representing here in the kansas house of representatives you should've seen the list of chores and enlarges things i was going to do inside the house the first thing on the list was by a grassy simple enough i thought until i was it william it's time we had on well when i ask what's that folks in all my ninety plus years i've never happen on city folks have lawns i reminded iona i've always had a yard i don't care what you call it she said i'm talking about a small plot of ground with more grass and weeds that seems like a

small enough request she led me to the window and pointed to the yard so beautiful yellow dandelions were in for crab grass was doing its wonderful crawl out from once all the corner lambs quarters and doc had push themselves towards certain live along the warm spot where my old dog here used to run honeybees but the clover to the coastline where you call that ideal as a yard i said a fallen kansas yard wears the dress she asked i soon have been appointed vaguely out the window there's two blades i said right next to the door of cherries you know mark you want the documentary william and within in southeast kansas i had a lawn i had one place where first you grew a uniform agree to a uniform height it was like a beautiful chord i

prefer the beauty of biodiversity i said you prefer laziness to work said iowa and her little jokes to helping me to do this little thing i don't know i said next you want to trade are screened porch for rwanda our patio for a deck our clothes line for a clothes dryer a compost heap for a garbage disposal artist and hands for a dishwasher well i shot up when i will put her finger to my lips you're not in the legislature she said i don't need a speech i need a lot and folks since democracy doesn't always work in relationship when out and lots of rescue besides there's nothing wrong with a little bit on for iowa state even if it down other tests you can give an infant that accurately foreshadow adult intelligence psychologist used to say no no that's beginning to change case western universities joe fagan has found that

if you show a baby a picture of a face for sixty seconds then put a picture of a different face nearby smarter babies show a preference for novelty they stare a little longer at the new face that the old one now before he rushed your crops to test your precious ones iq be warned john colombo of the university of kansas says the taskforce only modestly well in predicting smarts here's another mind heart test for tots this one from denver university's marshall hate the flash pictures alternatively on the left and right side of the screen some babies are quicker to shift their gaze they'll salute to guess what's coming and make the shift before a new slide appears members of this group compared to those with slower response times square little better at age three other stanford and eight iq test even staring behaviors used to guess at like staring is the research focus of colombo a human development specialist he's found that up to three months old most babies just stare and stare from three to seven months stare time drops off them around eight months it

starts to lengthen again that's the norm but there are plenty of individual differences for example some kids in the three to six month brecker continued to be long workers researchers other than colombo have found that those who shortened their days during this period do a little better iq tests later in life the globe and piles and warnings about making quick assessments of your child stomach upset ear infection is shot all those and much more can turn short workers into long knockers recently cohen's been trying to figure out what's going on in the mountains of those three to six month old along workers in a study to be published next year in the journal child development he and graduate student jane frick exposed short workers and long workers to pictures squares inside squares when the researchers blank at the corners of the squares the loggers behaved as if they're no longer recognized the squares the short workers still did maybe colombo says long workers get an image into their head slowly piece by piece and tell the parts on to the

conclusion square not all the pieces they don't reach that final some may be short workers first see the hole and then the parts as you may have guessed from all of congo's warnings he's no fan of using these tests to discover genius or to sort kids and alpha's and eight as some people are starting to market their measures he says but it wouldn't do that with the measure we use at this point he says the need is simply to construct a dictionary of the basic abilities of babies it's a welcoming perspective in a world gone mad with labeling reckoning and ranking the kansas department of wildlife and parks manages more than sixty recreational areas across the state everything from a four thousand acre stretch of land at the old rio state park just east of wichita to a tiny five acre park called mushroom rock near the central kansas town of the novelist but the future of many of these taxpayer supported parks and fishing lakes is now in jeopardy the new head of the wildlife and parks department steve williams says longtime underfunding by the legislature

has made it nearly impossible for his agency to continue maintaining all of its facilities we have no problem with her tiny park service says that some things to go the plague and so on and that kept the system as best as they can be expected given the limited that funding is about eight million dollars a year a figure that's remained relatively unchanged for the last five years the result williams says is the shower and toilet facilities in parks across the state are in a woeful state of disrepair road system the security lighting and campgrounds are not being adequately maintain that dismal picture was reinforced last year when the state legislatures investigative arm its division of post on to probe the workings of the parks department sharon patnode led the investigation it seems like they're state parks are having problems or problems with facilities that are

not being taken care of maintenance is not being done as as it should be or at least as park employees told us it should be on their employees that are they're not real happy because it seemed to us that they're out there working and trying to keep parks and in and keep things good for the public but the money just isn't there and that money is not likely to come anytime soon with so many other issues are vying for the legislatures attention lawmakers appear to have little interest in substantially increasing the budget for state parks sensing that the department has announced it will raise the fees will all next year in january camping fees will almost double an annual motor vehicle permit to increase by almost ten dollars but given the scale of the problem confronting parts officials author sharon patnode says the state may have to take more drastic action gunpoint decisions to be made by the legislature will put more general fund money in the parks we warner allow our permit fees to go up and of course you have to decide how far can you go with an orderly or

a park proportions of state parks that no one within the parks department is willing speculate yet on which parts of lakes would have to close one option would be a completely shut down entire areas of state parks some of which are still closed due to the damage from the massive flooding of nineteen ninety three but wildlife and parks a secretary steve williams says no final decision on closing any state parks will be made without the input of the legislature and the public for kansas public radio this is jay shafer reporting the us interior department has decided that the prairie band called one army can open up a casino on their historic reservation land about twenty five miles north of topeka as willie i were tried compact approved by federal officials on friday the parliament he will be allowed to offer a roulette blackjack poker cramps and those types of dice and card games are male and while federal approval the cold that means indian gaming in the state is not foregone conclusion it'll be a while yet before

kansans will be able to start gambling that's because the state legislature during the nineteen ninety six session but still cause a law that would establish a state gaming control board that would issue regulations for the operation of the casinos kansas officials say that along with other people would delay the opening of any indian gaming facilities until at least the fall of next year at the state house is as mccain's recording sixty seven year old gospel a republican from shawnee has served in the kansas legislature for twenty one years as chair of the senate ways and means committee he has had a major say in where and how the state spends its money in fact some political observers and lobbyists of argue that you know will get so much power in the position that i could almost single handedly decide whether a state agency or program brought more fines are not that perception isn't building that reputation as the hard math of kansas politics but that hada good the image fit into tears yesterday

hasbro announced his resignation at a statehouse news conference poking his resignation from the legislature doesn't mean he's out of kansas politics for good he has accepted an offer from governor bill graves to take on a more lucrative job as a member of the kansas board of tax appeals a five member board rules on disputes over tax issues at yesterday's news conference building that refuse to single out any one reason for his decision to leave the legislature he says it was the combination of different reasons including his desire for new challenge looking ago admitted that the seventy seven thousand dollars salary attached to the tax appeals job was an enticement at the state house this is mccain's reporting the next justice on the kansas supreme court off the bleep i'm a thirty nine year old johnson county district court judge and two current court of appeals justice is edward larson of

haiti's and robert lewis about what the head of the supreme court nominating commission leeward attorney lynne johnson says the final selection now rests with kansas governor bill graves and frankly in my opinion from the three nominee that even submitted he cannot make a mistake he cannot make a political error because any one of those three would be a wonderful addition to the score any one of those three would be someone who's anywhere in the state would be happy to appear in front of this will be governor graves first opportunity to select a supreme court justice he has sixty days to announce his tryst at the statehouse but says mccain's reporting attorney general store launched an investigation of langley back in mid april a maid complains that the democratic party state chair had used its political influence with members of the kansas corporation commission to secure favorable gas contracts with hutchinson based utility company around to and a half months into the investigation found no evidence of any

wrongdoing found house democratic leader tom sawyer says it's time the probe was called off at a statehouse news conference yesterday saddam accused struggle of taking up the case only because of pressure from a former boss outgoing republican attorney general actually the lawyer representing the company good morning the median income meanwhile attorney general store will continue to deny that their investigation is politically motivated she says she decided to launch a long investigation quiet whoever being contacted by bob stephan at the statehouse but says mccain's reporting