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- Here on the closed guard, trying to

break his posture here while we letting me

work open the lapel, OK, I will then

use the knee to make more room.

I have more lapel to use, I switch around,

bring the hand to this hand, once I'm here,

I wanna drive my elbow to his chest really tight OK?

Keep this pressure, and be patient here,

'cause my initial idea is to try to switch.

Most of the time what I like, I like to put my hand

and let my opponent see it, so once he come to block

I grab his arm, and I'm gonna put a little,

a fast spin, put my hips around

so they go around his arms, and go for the armlock.

You can keep holding, but it's better,

you have a little more leverage if you

switch the hand quickly to the wrist.

So the key point is, the rule:

we want to be patient on this grip.

Be really tight in here with the elbow on his chest.

You can bring his head down a little bit

and climb a little bit more with the legs, OK?

So once it's time to push, closed my legs are, hard to be,

hard would be for him to have a reaction.

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Meet Icarus: The Farthest Star We've Ever Seen - Duration: 6:06.

[♪ INTRO]

When you look up on a clear night,

virtually all of the stars you can see are part of the Milky Way.

Even the farthest one you can find without a telescope is less than 20,000 light-years from you.

That might seem really far away, and yeah it is, but space is way bigger than our little neighborhood.

It's so huge that it's hard to study the billions of stars outside the Milky Way.

In fact, the farthest star we've isolated is in a galaxy only 55 million light-years away.

At least, that's what used to be true.

According to a paper published this week in Nature Astronomy,

that record was blown out of the water.

Now, the most distant single star we've ever seen is 14 billion light-years from us!

Yeah, billion. With a B.

In general, it's not that uncommon for astronomers to observe faraway objects.

For example, with telescopes, they can see the brightest supernovas

up to 10 billion light-years away.

But individual stars are normally impossible to make out even a hundred times closer than that.

Unless they're gravitationally lensed.

This is what happens when a large amount of mass, like a galaxy, or an entire cluster

of galaxies, bends, distorts, and magnifies the light from objects behind them.

It's a phenomenon that happens because objects with a lot of mass

actually distort the space around them.

On average, galaxies experiencing gravitational lensing

get magnified about 50 times their 'normal' brightness.

But this new star, which was found behind a galaxy cluster

around six billion light-years away from here, got magnified 2000 times!

That star's name is officially MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1.

But the team that found it unofficially calls it Icarus.

Thank you, astronomers!

Scientists first found Icarus almost by accident, when they were studying images

of a supernova the Hubble Space Telescope took in 2016 and '17.

While studying the pictures, they noticed a second bright spot not too far away.

It was also varying in brightness over time, but not the way that supernovas do.

Specifically, the colors of light coming from it didn't change over the months of observation.

Further analysis of those colors revealed the object was a blue supergiant.

These are stars much larger, more massive,

hotter, and up to hundreds of thousands of times brighter than our Sun.

You know, just in case you needed another reminder that space is pretty hardcore.

All blue supergiants have similar profiles, so by comparing Icarus's light against stars in our galaxy,

the astronomers were able to calculate its distance.

They found that the light it's emitting is 9 billion years old,

and because the universe is expanding, that puts it about 14 billion light-years from us.

But how did Icarus manage to be magnified 2000 times,

when the regular amount from gravitational lensing is a measly 50?

The answer is microlenses, small objects within the larger lens,

like individual stars, that provide their own additional magnification.

Lenses within lenses.

That boost is only temporary,

because the microlenses will constantly be moving into and out of alignment.

But if the timing's right, the effect is massive.

Microlensing has even been used to find exoplanets outside the Milky Way!

Icarus isn't just a star for the record books, either.

By studying the pattern by which it gets magnified over time,

astronomers will be able to model exactly how matter is distributed in the lensing galaxy.

That includes its mysterious dark matter, which we can't see

but which has gravitational effects on other bodies.

So besides smashing records, Icarus probably has a lot more to teach us.

In other news announced this week, the Milky Way might be… getting bigger.

At least that's what astronomers presented this week at the

European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.

Our galaxy has been around for a while,

and it's grown as new stars formed over millions and billions of years.

Previous work has shown that stars of different ages now exist in different parts of the galaxy.

For example, in the central bulge and galactic halo, there are lots of older stars,

because there isn't much raw material left there to make newer ones.

Meanwhile, in the outer edge of our galaxy's disk,

studies have identified star-forming regions where baby stars form all the time.

And general models for galactic evolution suggest that the new stars in these regions

will slowly cause the galaxy to grow.

If you think about, it makes sense.

It's like a city growing because people keep

building new neighborhoods on the outskirts of town.

Still, it's hard to actually study this happening in the Milky Way, 'cause

we're kinda stuck inside of it.

To get around that, a team of astronomers studied two other galaxies

that might have similar spiral structures to ours.

If these galaxies seem to be getting bigger from star formation at their outer edge,

then it's not unreasonable to infer that the Milky Way is, too.

By collecting optical, ultraviolet, and infrared data of young, blue stars in these galaxies'

outer disks, scientists were able to calculate their vertical movement,

how much they were moving up and down compared to the disk.

Then, they could convert that into a galactic growth rate.

These stars appeared to have velocities of about 500 meters per second,

so the Milky Way could be growing at that same rate.

That seems pretty fast, but it's really not too speedy on a galactic scale.

In about 3 billion years, it means our neighborhood would only have grown by 5%.

Then again, that growth rate might be completely messed up by then,

because our galaxy will collide with Andromeda in about 4 billion years.

But hey, no matter what happens, studying how galaxies grow

still helps us better understand the universe.

Because even though the Milky Way is our home,

there's a whole lot we don't totally understand about our corner of space.

But that doesn't mean that there's not a ton to celebrate about our corner of space!

We recently restocked SciShow Finds, which is a site

filled with objects that we curated from this lovely planet of ours.

So if you need the most powerful refrigerator magnets in existence, or a science lab you

can carry around in your pocket, or just a reminder that honeybees are really great,

you can go to scishowfinds.com, and if you ever order something from there for yourself,

or as a present for someone that you like,

just know that you're supporting SciShow when you do it.

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Barfly (1987) - Movie Review - Duration: 6:20.

Hello Youtube and fellow drunks.

I am Torstein from Cinema Terror and today I am doing a review of Barfly in honor of

my good friend, The Swedish Wargoat, who I am going to guess is already drunk off some

scotch and water.

If you are still in the state of understanding anything that I say here, then happy birthday

buddy!

Barfly was chosen for this purpose due to mine and my friends admiration for the work

of writer Charles Bukowski and especially his legendary semi-biographical Henry Chinaski

character.

With the combination of Bukowski's own written screenplay, a crazy French director in Barbet

Schroeder and the equally or more crazy production company Golan-Globus Productions, Bukowski

was able to see his creation of the worlds most beloved and hated drunk come to life

on the big screen.

Arriving in theaters on October 16, 1987, Barfly puts the young up-and-coming actor

Mickey Rourke in the role as Henry Chinaski.

We see him in his everyday life, which is mostly spend being drunk and getting into

fights at a local bar.

He has moments where his mind is able to function enough to write some poems and short stories,

but he has no belief in that any of them will get him anywhere.

He meets a love interest in the fellow alcoholic and broken soul Wanda, played by Faye Dunaway.

We see their relationship in all its fucked up glory and the movie ends the way it started,

in a dirty, local bar.

The idea of bringing a Bukowski story over to the big screen makes sense, but the question

would be what direction they should have taken the story in.

You could make a small, dirty movie about Chinaski, but who would have willingly seen

it?

Personally, I would have loved a dark, depressing Henry Chinaski movie in a world setting like

Buddy Giovinazzo's Combat Shock, but I doubt any studio would put any money behind something

like that.

Barfly might play with some depressing topics, but it does so with a humerous undertone through

it all.

The characters are able to laugh at their situations and they want us to do the same.

I would have liked it if they had went a bit darker as that could have given us a much

more emotional involvement, but I guess that's not the style they wanted as this is Hollywood

after all.

The film is very shiny and nice to look at.

While the places that we see might look dirty, they look Hollywood dirty, if that makes sense.

Mickey Rourke's take on Chinaski is exciting and gets you interested right from the start.

Rourke's Chinaski is an oddball, a loser in society and at times a scumbag, but there

is still some heart and charm to be found inside his broken, alcohol filled body.

Rourke's performance especially comes to life once Faye Dunaway enters the picture.

It's the scenes those two have together where the dialogue gives the punch it wants to give.

You can see that both actors are enjoying their moments and that gives this toxic and

caring relationship endearment.

And I shouldn't let the

chance to talk about director Barbet Schroeder skip away.

He had spent eight years trying to get this film into production and when it nearly collapsed,

he threatened producer Menahem Golan that he would cut off his limbs, starting with

his fingers, if he did not put up the budget for the film like he had previously agreed

to.

It was obviously a love project for him and the final result makes it seem like he was

trying to balance the film by respecting its author, trying to make it commercial enough

to be succeesfull while still trying to tell a story.

I don't think the balance was all the way right, but I have to give the guy some admiration

for being able to create an enjoyable and different film where he let the talents in

front of the camera time to show the world their acting skills.

There might not be much of a story in Barfly.

After all, it shows the life of an everyday drunk who has gone against the wishes of society.

He has no grandious tale to tell.

He has no life lessons to give.

He is just like the rest of us losers of the world.

Perhaps that's why we enjoy him.

Barfly might be a Hollywood version of Henry Chinaski and some might wish for more grittiness,

but if you accept it for what it is then you have a nice, fun, charming film that can be

enjoyed by Bukowski fans and others.

Barfly gets a score of 3.5 out of 5.

There are two things that I want to add to Barfly.

This wouldn't be the last time Chinaski was brought onto the big screen as he would return

in 2005's Factotum, portrayed this time by Matt Dillon.

The second thing I want to add is that Bukowski wrote a Henry Chinaski novel called Hollywood

while this film was in production and I absolutely love this book!

It's a mixture of a Chinaski story and a hilarious look at the madness that was the Hollywood

movie business at its time.

Even if you've never read another Bukowski book before, I would say that Hollywood is

an excellent book to pick up if you are just interested in the movie industry.

So, have you seen Barfly?

What did you think of it?

And did you watch it as a Bukowski fan?

If so, how did it represent what you wanted out of

a Chinaski movie?

I'll end this on another congratulation to my buddy the Swedish Wargoat for making it

another year on this earth and with a Bukowski quote: «We are like roses that have never

bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted

with waiting».

Drinks up my friends and I'll see you next time on Cinema Terror.

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Trade War Between the U.S. and China - Duration: 27:46.

Tough trade talk could have dramatic consequences

as President Trump's moves on China escalate.

But Iowa's farm economy could be caught in the

crosshairs.

We sit down with the Iowa Farm Bureau's Craig Hill

and pork producer John Weber on this edition of

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For decades Press has brought you

politicians and newsmakers from across Iowa and

beyond.

Now celebrating more than 40 years of broadcast

excellence on statewide Iowa Public Television,

this is the Friday, April 6 edition of Iowa Press.

Here is David Yepsen.

Yepsen: Throughout a nearly two year campaign

for the White House, Donald Trump railed

against China as a trade partner in need of tough

negotiations.

But now 14 months into his presidency the talk has

become trade policy with tariffs against China

beginning to spiral towards a trade war.

Reciprocal tariffs from the crucial Chinese market

for Iowa pork, soybeans and more could have

devastating consequences on Iowa farmers and our

state's economy.

To check the pulse of the farm sector, we're joined

by Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill and

John Weber, past President of the Iowa Pork Producers

Association and the National Pork Producers

Council.

Gentlemen, welcome to Iowa Press.

It's good to have you with us today.

Weber: Thank you, glad to be here.

Hill: Glad to be here.

Yepsen: Across the table, Erin Murphy is Des Moines

Bureau Chief for Lee Enterprises and Kay

Henderson is News Director for Radio Iowa.

Henderson: Gentlemen, you're both active

farmers.

Craig, what was your first reaction when you heard

that the tariffs were going on?

Hill: Well, there's been many, many proposals that

have gone on this past week and I tell you, I

woke up Wednesday morning to a 50 cent loss in

soybeans, a 17 cent loss in corn, that's 5% of the

market.

And agriculture is very vulnerable today.

We're at a very fragile place.

I don't want to say we're unstable.

We are not.

But we've had four years of declining farm income,

twelve year record low farm income.

The pork producers have done pretty well but corn

and soybeans have not done so well.

We have grown our way out of this, our economy is

fragile and then this proposal comes along and

wipes out what would be any potential for profit

for the year.

So it's very alerting and a very scary proposition.

Henderson: John?

Weber: Yeah, I was listening to a radio

program on the way down that said this was the

longest, it seemed like the longest week and I

feel a little bit that way in what has happened here

in our business.

But pork was one of the first sectors to have the

tariff announced early last week.

And by the way, the pork tariff is implemented, it

is added to what we're already paying going into

China.

And so as you commented earlier we have been

anticipating this possibility of happening

for almost two years, a year and a half to two

years now, with the tough trade rhetoric that went

on through the campaign.

So it was a day of reckoning.

It just shows how critical, and vulnerable

as Craig said, we are in agriculture to these type

of events.

Henderson: Craig, you have people from the Trump

administration saying ho, ho, ho, we're just

negotiating, this $100 billion that we just

slapped on, talked about on Thursday night, is not

actually implemented yet, we're just in the

negotiating phase.

Does that make you feel better?

Hill: The cavalier comments that came from

Wilbur Ross, our Secretary of Commerce, when he said

even shooting wars end in negotiation, well shooting

wars don't end in negotiation, shooting wars

end in casualties and collateral damage.

Whether it's a victory or a defeat or some

settlement we are in a trade war and trade wars

don't end well, they're unpredictable.

History doesn't show a very good light on

positive outcomes from trade wars.

It led into World War II, the Smoot-Hawley Act,

Depression, the embargo by Jimmy Carter in 1980 led

to the farm depression.

This is not a very good place to be in a trade

war.

They're unpredictable, the duration, the impact.

So I'm a little taken back by this attitude that has

come from the White House.

This is a very serious matter and Iowa is going

to be the first casualty, agriculture, Iowa,

soybeans, pork.

This is what is going to hit the hardest.

And so the target is on farmers' back and it's a

very bad place to be.

Henderson: John, you keep nodding your head.

Weber: Yeah, well the impact is very real.

Markets do not like uncertainty and that's the

period we're in.

We're in a very uncertain period as to the future of

exports.

Are these tariffs going to be implemented or are they

not?

And that is the price we have to pay to get through

this period until negotiations are held or

until we find out what is going to happen and

certainly hope for the best case scenario.

Murphy: So you talk about that impact.

What is that?

What is going to happen?

What are Iowa farmers worried about?

Maybe especially the younger farmers who are

just getting in and don't have their operation built

up as some of the larger operations.

What are the tangible effects of this?

Weber: I think those folks are the most vulnerable.

Obviously we have encouraged our producers

to be prepared for the possibility of this

happening but you can only prepare so much.

And the thing I think we often forget is these

types of negotiations are long-term.

They're not something that happens in a week or a day

or a short period of time.

It will take a long time to recover from the

tariffs that have already been implemented, they're

already talked about, and these negotiations are

long and tough and difficult and we are

entirely dependent on trade in the state of Iowa

and as pork producers in particular.

Murphy: Yeah Craig, you're a farmer yourself, you

talk to farmers all the time obviously.

What are they saying?

What are the concerns out there?

Hill: It's very concerning.

They're very anxious, very apprehensive.

There was a sliver of a prospect for hope of

profit this year and that has been dashed away,

particularly for pork producers.

And I'm a pork producer, we lost $20 a

hundredweight pretty rapidly after the 23rd of

March and the future looks very glim.

These trade relationships are built over time,

decades, rules are drafted, we have the WTO,

we have agreements, free trade agreements all

around the country.

We have disposed of TPP, set that aside.

NAFTA negotiations going on, KORUS, Korean, that

was not signed by the President after it was

finally negotiated.

So we're in limbo.

This is a very bad time for agriculture.

Yepsen: Mr. Weber, explain to a lay audience, a

non-farm audience, what it means to a young pork

producer.

What is the value of a hog?

What has happened to the value of a hog?

Are they making any money?

Explain how this works.

Weber: Okay, well I can kind of summarize a couple

of things.

The pork industry has come through a period of

relatively good, stable profitability since 2014

after the feed prices declined and we got

through the episode of PED-V.

We have come through a rather long period of

profitability in the pork industry, one of the

sectors in agriculture that has continued to do

well despite some really marginal returns in the

row crop sector.

All through that same time period our organization

and our industry, we focus on export markets, that's

our job.

Free trade agreements we have worked diligently on

and I've often said that we're building up a little

enthusiasm here in our industry and then suddenly

starting 18 months ago we had the new investment in

the processing side of our industry with the five new

packing plants being announced, a couple of

them here in the state of Iowa.

And so there was this hidden enthusiasm for

producers to keep going.

And if you looked at the most recent hogs and pigs

report this industry is still in a growth mode in

preparation for that.

There was a lot of enthusiasm and

anticipation about participating in a whole

new marketplace with TPP.

Obviously that was done away with or bowed out of

and we invested a lot of time and resources into

TPP so it kind of dashed the hopes of a lot of

producers.

And now the continued rhetoric on trying to

rebalance existing free trade agreements, as Craig

mentioned we got through renegotiation of the KORUS

agreement, we're still very uncertain as to what

is going to happen with NAFTA.

If we have difficulty in NAFTA it would be

catastrophic for U.S.

agriculture.

Yepsen: You mentioned three different trade

agreements that have been scuttled or are being

reconsidered by the Trump administration.

Mr. Hill, I want to ask you a hard question here.

Rural America voted for Donald Trump.

Did you make a mistake?

Hill: Oh I wouldn't say we made a mistake.

I would say that we will see what the outcomes are

and I think if producers are damaged to the extent

that I think there could be there will be some

minds changed.

Currently I don't see a ground swell of

anti-support for the Trump administration.

But I will tell you if what I think could happen

does happen it will not play very well at all.

Yepsen: John, same question to you.

Weber: I would have to say the same thing.

I don't think producers are willing to give up on

the Trump administration.

I visited with my neighbors and friends and

neighbors all the time and think there's a lot of

positive things that this administration is doing

and certainly has done for agriculture, especially on

the regulatory side, has done a lot for us.

And it takes tough negotiations.

I think agriculture is willing to do its part in

the near-term but when you're the pawn that is

being played with or moved it becomes very, very

serious.

Murphy: Well, and Craig you mentioned Iowa could

be one of the first to be impacted by this.

These tariffs also include cranberries, which will

hit Wisconsin, auto making which will hit Michigan.

It sounds to me like China is reading an electoral

map.

Hill: About $19 billion goes to China from the

U.S.

in terms of ag commodities and $12 billion, $12 to

$14 billion of that is soybeans.

We're the number one, or number two, soybean

producer, we volley back and forth with Illinois.

Pork we export 25%, 27% of our pork.

Corn, China just took on an ambition to have 10%

ethanol blend in all of their fleet vehicles by

2020.

That's going to take a billion bushels of corn,

which they don't have.

So all of these things come right down to center

in honing in on Iowa and Iowa's farmers worse than

any other part of the country.

Murphy: And I ask because if you add those other

states you're talking about states that the

President won in this last election and in some cases

flipped.

Is China playing a political game here?

Are they playing a game of 3D chess to the

administration's checkers?

Hill: Oh sure, and we had initially $3 billion in

tariffs and $50 billion tit for tat another $50

billion, $100 billion announced Friday, April

6th and there's not $100 billion to put a tariff on

or a tax on, on goods coming into the U.S.

So what will China do?

You can't, this cascade of events may get completely

out of control.

Henderson: The President -- Weber: One thing I

would say that would hold the glue together for this

administration would be to get some positive news for

producers and for farmers on trade.

We need to begin negotiations on bilateral,

he stressed throughout his campaign the importance of

bilateral free trade agreements, negotiating

one-on-one for good trade deals with other countries

and we would really support that, we would

really get behind that, we will be there to help

negotiate new free trade agreements.

But it's time, it's time to get these started.

Henderson: The President said he had directed Sonny

Perdue to come up with a shield for farmers.

Does that mean crop insurance is going to

apply to manmade disasters, Craig?

Hill: Well, I don't know how you indemnify

producers.

We're not one dimensional farmers.

Different farmers are going to be impacted in

different ways.

The Farm Bill is yet to be drafted.

There's no money, Congress doesn't have the money to

fix this.

So there's a lot of problems.

I don't know how you make farmers feel better with a

promise of some reward from government and it

will be years before that happens.

Murphy: So the flip side of this all is, when you

talk to leaders here in the state, is that they

acknowledge there is an issue with some of the

trade relationship with the U.S.

and China, intellectual property, so there are

steps that need to be taken.

They just don't, as you mentioned John, they just

don't want ag to be held as a bargaining chip in

that.

So what is the administration to do?

How do you tackle some of those things without

disrupting the Midwest ag economy?

Weber: Well, you often think that there should be

other avenues or political means of solving these

issues whether it's the WTO, trade disputes, those

kinds of things.

All of those take a significant amount of

time.

It seems to have been the practice of this

administration to call people out on the table up

front and negotiate later.

Maybe that tactic will work but believe me it's a

very uncomfortable time for those of us that are

involved.

Yepsen: Mr. Hill, what is an American President

supposed to do?

The Chinese have been stealing intellectual

property from this country for years, there's no

arguing about that.

What other things could a President do?

Hill: I think there's lots of options other than a

trade war.

Yepsen: Give me some examples.

Hill: To give an example direct to trade, the

reason you negotiate over years and come to

agreement on a trade agreement is so you have

dispute resolution, you have rules to the game,

you have standards of which everybody abides to

with penalties.

The WTO, NAFTA, there are dispute settlement

mechanisms there if you have grievances or

problems.

And so you don't blow it up and renege on your

agreement to create a new one, actually you go back

to the original agreement and go through the

process.

Weber: And I really think a little bit of a mistake

that may have been made, agriculture has been the

number one sector of this economy that has helped

offset the trade deficit and yet we become an easy

target.

Yepsen: Talk about the ripple effects of this.

Mr. Hill, the old saying is if the farmers don't

make it in Iowa nobody does.

Is that still true?

What is the effect on rural communities out

there that are already struggling?

Is there a future for young people in farming?

Big questions.

Hill: It is said that about 10% of Iowa's jobs

are export related in terms of agriculture, but

it grows to 20%, it's hard to put a fence around what

is agriculture in Iowa, financial services and a

whole host of other industries, manufacturing,

so it may be 20% of our workforce is dedicated to

an export proposition of some fashion.

And so yeah, it affects Iowa greatly in all of our

communities, all ages, all investment.

It affects our bankers.

How timid will they be now to make investment and to

allow young producers to borrow money?

Weber: The ripple effect to me is huge.

It's also almost more than individual farmers.

And one other thing I think we need to remember

and remind producers of that I think is going to

actually have more of a financial impact on

producers is the cost of the tariffs that were

implemented or will be implemented on steel and

aluminum.

Some of the stories I'm already hearing from

Midwest suppliers of ag equipment, grain bins,

buildings for pork producers are just

escalating rapidly.

And I think that is going to have a huge impact on

future plans, future growth of the industry.

That impact may very well have more of an impact

than a country imposing tariffs on our product.

Henderson: Craig, speaking of growth, farmers

probably aren't going to be planting in the snow.

But will they change and plant corn instead of

soybeans?

Hill: I don't know if we're going to shift any

planting decisions in Iowa.

We may, on the margins of the country there may be

some shifting of acres.

But most of our planting intentions are made and

until we get after the 1st or 5th or maybe even 10th

of May there won't be probably a whole lot of

shifting.

Henderson: Will pig numbers drop?

Weber: We're certainly not in that mode today and we

don't want to be in that mode.

It is our goal to negotiate free trade

agreements.

The growth of our industry is entirely dependent on

future export markets.

We are already exporting 26% and we need, if we're

going to grow our industry, keep it stable,

we need to have access to these countries.

Henderson: Real quickly, we have been focusing on

China, but you mentioned NAFTA and pork, boy.

Weber: NAFTA makes this discussion seem minute.

Hill: 50% of all of our pork goes to either the

NAFTA countries or Korea, South Korea, so those

three countries are 50% of our pork exports.

Henderson: Gentlemen, Craig, if we could shift

just quickly.

There was action at the legislature this week

where the Governor has signed a bill that will

let Farm Bureau sell a Wellmark product called a

health benefit plan.

Will farmers, independent farmers out there be able

to buy this if they have diabetes or --

Hill: Well, so the Iowa Farm Bureau has provided

benefits to members for 100 years.

We're a century old organization as of this

year.

But for nearly 50 years we have been a partner with

Wellmark.

We have provided health insurance to our members.

In 2014 when the Affordable Care Act took

effect we were disqualified from offering

that benefit to our members.

What we're doing is restoring that opportunity

for us to work with our members and work with

Wellmark, to partner with Wellmark --

Henderson: Do you know what you're going to

sell to people now?

Hill: This is the individual marketplace.

Employer plans, we're probably not going to have

people coming from an employer plan.

The subsidized Affordable Care Act guaranteed issue

contracts.

We're not going to be bringing those people

over.

It's going to be that farmer, that self-employed

individual, that small business owner with an

individual policy that is looking to save what we

hope to be maybe half of their premium in another

product.

Murphy: Is there a danger that you'll be siphoning

healthy people out of the individual marketplace and

causing -- Hill: This just provides another option.

Every individual can look at their choices and they

can make a decision.

We think that we can provide a benefit to our

membership and that is what we're pursuing.

It has been done in Tennessee, the Tennessee

Farm Bureau currently does this.

There's maybe other models but that is the one that

we looked at primarily.

Yepsen: I've got to leave it at that.

We're out of time.

Thank you both for taking time to be with us today,

appreciate it.

Weber: Good.

Hill: You bet.

Yepsen: Before we go, Iowa Public Television lost a

leader this past month with the passing of former

colleague, friend and General Manager Dan

Miller.

Dan spent 37 years at this network in roles including

Executive Producer of Public Affairs,

Programming Director and General Manager.

And as we look back at his life and career, it's

clear his lasting legacy continues.

♪♪

♪♪

David Yepsen: Iowa Public

Television would not be today what it is had it

not been for Dan Miller.

Dean Borg: When I think of Dan Miller I think of a

person who walked the line of integrity and enforced

that on those with whom he was leading.

Paula Kerger: When you work in an organization

like public broadcasting you have pressures that

come from many different places and so your compass

has to be set very carefully and you need to

follow it and that is what Dan did.

Molly Phillips: I don't know where Iowa Public

Television would be.

It wouldn't be the powerhouse that it is now.

There's no debate about that.

It would be a very, very different network if it

wasn't for Dan Miller.

Let me play devil's advocate for a moment.

♪♪

I'm going to turn to another member of our

convention coverage team, Dan Miller, who was up

very late last night covering a district

caucus.

Borg: Dan Miller was extremely proud of Iowa

Public Television and the influence.

He saw potential.

A couple of weeks ago you told our network that you

believe that, your words, public service is the

place that you thought you should make your

contribution.

What is it that Bob Ray wants to be remembered

for?

Borg: Dan Miller was an intellectual --

How do you go about convincing the public that has always

treated its prisons as out of sight and out of mind

that they need to think about it a little bit

more?

Borg: He was extremely defensive of the

independence of Iowa Public Television.

Is that fair?

Is that a fair thing to say?

Yes it is a fair thing to say.

Yepsen: He also understood that the function of

journalism is to serve the community and in the case

of Iowa and Iowa Public Television it was making

this state a better place to live in everything that

is done, the arts, cultural things, politics,

trying to inform people and move this state

forward.

Borg: Many times after a program I would either

seek Dan out or call him on the telephone

afterwards and ask him about his evaluation of

that program and he was never bashful about

critiquing when I sought it and sometimes when I

didn't seek it.

Yepsen: He wanted the Iowa Press show to move along

and what will stand out in my mind is if we weren't

being sharp enough, we weren't being point

enough, he was in this little earpiece snoring,

wake me up when it's over, letting us know that we

needed to step up our game out there.

I'll always remember getting that little wake

up call.

♪♪

♪♪

Hello, I'm Dan Miller, Director of

Programming for Iowa Public Television.

Beginning March 3rd this stage will be alive with

the sights and sounds of Festival, Iowa Public

Television's two week programming spectacular

showcasing the very finest of what this network has

to offer.

As Program Director, Dan Miller assumed many

duties, including hosting efforts during annual PBS

pledge drives.

His colleagues would later surprise him in studio

with one of his favorite IPTV guests and Dan's

mother.

And here comes the two-legged dog Rusty, the

two-legged dog that Dan is --

My goodness.

They did on Living in Iowa this incredible two-legged

dog.

It is a dog that the show has received more comments

than anything they've done and we knew this was his

birthday and Danny just loves this dog.

Danny was always the perfect child.

Perfect.

He was the youngest and perfect, absolutely.

We expected him on St. Patrick's Day but as

always two days late.

He's been that way ever since.

I thought I better tell it tonight.

♪♪

Phillips: He really put Iowa Public

Television on the map nationally I would say

with PBS, CPB, APTS.

People really started talking about Iowa Public

Television when he became GM.

Kerger: I was always struck by his intellect,

by his, frankly his intellectual curiosity but

also his kind and beautiful heart.

He really touched so many people in our industry and

there are many of us who are always beholden to his

great joy in life.

♪♪

Yepsen: A very colorful guy, quite

profane although very careful about not doing it

around all these microphones.

♪♪

Phillips: Dan meant the world to me.

I would say that he was almost like another father

to me but he would be so mad if I said that because

he's not that much older than me.

So I would say he's like a big brother.

Borg: Would Iowa Public Television have been

without Dan Miller I don't think as effective, nearly

as effective as it is today in tying Iowans

together and letting them know the various things

that are going on in this state and instilling a lot

of pride in Iowans.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Funding for Iowa Press was

provided by Friends, the Iowa Public Television

Foundation.

The Associated General Contractors of Iowa, the

public's partner in building Iowa's highway,

bridge and municipal utility infrastructure.

I'm a dad.

I am a mom.

I'm a kid.

I'm a kid at heart.

I'm a banker.

I'm an Iowa banker.

No matter who you are there is an Iowa banker

who is ready to help you get where you want to go.

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