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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 25 September 2007 - Volume 07</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_veenker@atmc.net" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ronald Veenker <<a href="mailto:veenker@atmc.net">veenker@atmc.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: "The World" PRI</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ron,
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I was just coming toward my house a few minutes ago, listening to a</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">radio program called "The World" of Public Radio International. I</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">heard a five minute segment on "Where is Frisian spoken?" It was
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">quite fascinating to me. A linguist named Frankena (if I recall</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
correctly) was the expert being interviewed. The told of Frisian</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Public Radio that broadcasts among other things a pole vaulting
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">competition. I was pleased to hear this special feature.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ron Veenker</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Emeritus Professor, Religious Studies
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Department of Philosophy & Religion</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Western Kentucky University</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Bowling Green, KY</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <
</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Media<br><br>Thanks for sharing that, Ron! Fantastic!<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">> A linguist named Frankena</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="-1">Onno P. Falkena?</font><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>I don't know if we can receive Public Radio International here in the Pacific Northwest. I just checked (</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www2.pri.org/publicsite/listeners/programlocator.asp">
www2.pri.org/publicsite/listeners/programlocator.asp</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">), and the answer is "yes." The website: </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.pri.org/">
www.pri.org/</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I wish we could find a way of getting more media people interested in the things we care about here.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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