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The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, "How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It," though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.
Kees' friends in San Francisco, the future New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael among them, knew that Kees had been in a desperate state of mind and were in no doubt that he'd flung himself into the Pacific. But his body was never found, and others chose to believe that he'd vanished out of his own life (recalling the character Flitcraft in Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon"). Perhaps, it was speculated, Kees had fled to Mexico like Ambrose Bierce, another notable American melancholic who disappeared. Some years later, Kees' mother was convinced that she'd seen her son on the deck of a passing ship in Sydney Harbor.
From such stuff legends are woven, and the mystery and tragic romance of his end have invested Kees with a doomed F. Scott Fitzgerald glamour and helped turn him into a cult, a poet whom readers, and other writers, fall upon like a secret discovery they cherish thereafter. That this is so, of course, depends not only on what did or didn't happen one foggy summer day in San Francisco in 1955; before that, there was a remarkable literary career.
During the years of World War II, Kees, having left the West, was in New York, writing film and book reviews for Time, a small intellectual cog in the Luce publishing empire memorably evoked in Kenneth Fearing's brilliant noir "The Big Clock." With his lean matinee idol looks (back in Nebraska Kees had known the movie star Robert Taylor, then called Spangler Arlington Brugh) and bitterly ironic mind-set, Kees could almost have emerged out of the pages of Fearing's novel.
Kees published regularly in the New Yorker and the Partisan Review (no mean combo). He was a jazz pianist and a painter who exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists. He became art critic of the Nation and was friendly not only with Agee but with the cartoonist Charles Addams, novelists Anton Myrer and Conrad Aiken, poets Allen Tate and Kenneth Rexroth and critics Hugh Kenner, Manny Farber, Harry Levin and Edmund Wilson. He was never without important connections. Out West again in the early 1950s, he wrote a film script with Nesuhi Ertegun of Atlantic Records. In San Francisco he made art films and organized revues and performance events that prefigured the arrival of the Beatnik era. He co-authored "Non-Verbal Communication," a fascinating and provocative documentary book, illustrated with his own photographs. There were always dozens of projects.
This busy, public and increasingly restless and manic freelance energy never salved a hurt inner-life reflected in his poems. Perhaps the best place to begin is with the eerie, indelible handful of poems about a character named Robinson that were published in the New Yorker in the 1940s. In the first of these, simply titled "Robinson," Kees evokes the empty apartment of this ghostly alter-ego:
The pages in the book are blank,
The books that Robinson has read.
That is his favorite chair,
Or where the chair would be if Robinson were here.
All day the phone rings. It could be Robinson
Calling. It never rings when he is here.
Outside, white buildings yellow in the sun.
Outside, the birds circle continuously
Where trees are actual and take no holiday.
In "Aspects of Robinson," we meet the character face-to-face, skating fast over life's surface, as if trying to escape the secret fear that he might not exist:
Robinson afraid, drunk, sobbing Robinson
In bed with a Mrs Morse. Robinson at home;
Decisions: Toynbee or luminol? Where the sun
Shines, Robinson in flowered trunks, eyes towards
The breakers. Where the night ends, Robinson in East Side
In "Relating to Robinson," the poet-narrator thinks he sees this friend, or phantom, and pursues him through the New York streets:
Just as I passed,
Turning my head to search his face,
His own head turned with mine
And fixed me with dilated, terrifying eyes
That stopped my blood.
His voice came at me like an echo in the dark.
The very urban Robinson poems dance with repetition, with lightness and humor; yet their effect is desolate, and unique to Kees. Elsewhere his work can recall Auden (whom Kees professed to dislike) and Eliot, and also the late-1930s thrillers of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, writers who filled exterior worlds with threat and menace. Kees pursued this to an ultimate degree. "Looking into my daughter's eyes I read / Beneath the innocence of morning flesh / Concealed, hintings of death she does not heed," he writes in "For My Daughter," another of his best-known poems. "Parched years that I have seen / That may be hers appear: foul, lingering / Death in certain war, the slim legs green. / Or, fed on hate, she relishes the sting / Of others' agony; perhaps the cruel / Bride of a syphilitic or a fool. / These speculations sour in the sun. / I have no daughter. I desire none."
The final line is devastating, the bitterness real. Kees had no kids, and his wife Ann (who nonetheless survived him) went mad shortly before his disappearance, a contributing factor no doubt. The life, then, like Sylvia Plath's, endorses and amplifies the energy of writing that should come with a health advisory. "I'd heard it said by Michael Hofmann / that 'Collected Poems' would blow my head off, / but being out of print / and a hot potato, / it might be a hard one / to get hold of / more than a case of shopping and finding / nothing on the shelf between Keats and Kipling," wrote Simon Armitage in "Looking for Weldon Kees," the first of a sequence of Kees-inspired poems that provided hinges and reference points in his landmark 1992 collection "Kid."
Kees is back in print now, thanks to the scholarship and proselytizing of poets like Armitage, Donald Justice, Hugo Williams, David Wojahn and Dana Gioia, and to splendid publishing on the part of the University of Nebraska Press, which issues, not only the key text, "The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees," but also "Selected Stories of Weldon Kees," "Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters 1935-1955" and "Fall Quarter" (a novel that kept almost getting published in Kees' lifetime and never was).
Also available is "Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees" by James Reidel, a recent, well-written biography that, while never quite solving the central Rosebud mystery of why this glamorous man turned so dark, ensures the Kees cult will continue to spread.
Down the years I've collected various Kees editions. Favorite among them is the original University of Nebraska Press paperback, first issued in 1962, with a greenish cover that shows Kees under the Golden Gate Bridge with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, gazing into the water. This particular book was sold to me by a dealer in Helsinki who explained that it had once belonged to the acclaimed young Finnish poet Keijo Lappalainen, himself a suicide. Going through the book, I found that various Kees lines were lightly, almost lovingly, underlined, including: "Sleep is too short a death." Be warned -- Weldon Kees played it for real.
Richard Rayner's Paperback Writers column appears monthly at www.latimes.com/books.
"Wideawake Field" by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
"The prostitutes in Kabul tap their feet / beneath their faded burqas in the heat / For bread or fifteen cents, they'll take a man to bed -- / their husbands dead, their seven kids unfed -- / and thanks to occupation, rents have risen twentyfold, / their chickens, pots and carpets have been sold," writes Griswold in "Occupation," observing and re-styling historical event with a wry, laconic voice that is also intensely moving. In this, her first verse collection, Griswold -- who is an accomplished, indeed obsessed, foreign correspondent -- oscillates between the intimate and the political with the same sparing exactness. The poems are short, readily understood, sometimes brutal, at other times lyrical, but always operating with economy and, often, great power.
"The Ancien Regime and the Revolution" by Alexis de Tocqueville (Penguin Classics)
The questions of liberty and fraternity that obsessed Tocqueville still preoccupy us, as Hugh Brogan notes in his introduction to a new translation of this historical classic. Tocqueville, a Frenchman who loved what he'd seen in America, wrote with surprising even-handedness: He was as merciless toward the excesses of the French Revolution as he was toward the tyranny that preceded it. But what makes him still worth reading is his surprisingly modern methodology and the clarity and sharpness of his epigrammatic style. "The French want equality in freedom, and, when they cannot get it, they still want equality in slavery." Great.
"Twentieth Century German Poetry" edited by Michael Hofmann (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Hofmann, the swashbuckling poet and translator who introduced Simon Armitage to Weldon Kees (see above), presents an anthology that sweeps from Rilke and Celan to the present day. German poets, by virtue of their country's tormented history, have been forced to engage with the world in a unique way, most often as a counter-force, Hofmann argues. The result has been poetry that challenges while being determined to be understood. "This is all there is, and it's not enough. / It might do to let you know that I'm hanging on. / I'm like that man who carried a brick around with him. / To show the world what his house used to look like," wrote Bertolt Brecht, featured here in Hofmann's own translation. This book features hundreds of such gorgeous, limpid moments.
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe (Picador)
For those who might have grown weary of Wolfe's increasingly turgid fiction, here's a reissue to remind them that he was once the coolest, most vibrant reporter on the planet. The subject -- Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, the cross-country trip on a school bus painted in Day-Glo, the whole hippie/acid thing -- was a giveaway, and Wolfe dove right in, sentences screaming and paragraphs ballooning, to create a defining picture of the late 1960s. This, one of the books that invented the nonfiction novel, is just as good as it ever was, even if these days some might be inclined to feel more sympathy with Kesey's intentions than Wolfe's irony. The circle of time has turned, giving this unforgettable book yet another layer.
"The Biplane Houses: Poems" by Les Murray (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
"Fragrance stays measured, / stench bloats out of proportion: / even as rat-sized death, / not in contact with soil, is soon / a house-evacuating metal gas / in our sinuses; it boggles our gorge -- / no saving that sofa: / give it a Viking funeral." Les Murray, the veteran Australian poet, is a sorcerer, a bravura wordsmith who can be funny or emotional or aphoristic by turns. "No one can face their heart / or turn their back on it." It's not so much Murray's range that's astonishing -- although it is -- as his consistent dazzle and approachability.
"The War of the End of the World: A Novel" by Mario Vargas Llosa (Picador)
Here, in what may be his masterpiece, Vargas Llosa tells the story of the rise and tragic fall of the city of Canudos, a place without law or money that became an outpost for the damned and a caldron of the revolutionary spirit in 19th century Brazil. "The man was tall and so thin he seemed always to be in profile," goes the book's wonderful first sentence, drawing us into a thunderous and tragic epic. First published in 1981, this is a vividly achieved historical tapestry, and already a Latin American classic.
"Doveglion" by Jose Garcia Villa (Penguin Classics)
Known as the "Pope of Greenwich Village," Villa was an Asian American poet who lived and published in New York, and, in a famous photograph taken at the Gotham Book Mart in 1948, was featured alongside Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz and Gore Vidal. Villa advanced no cause, except that of poetry itself. "Great art is never born at room temperature," he wrote, and, "The future of bad poetry? Wonderful!" This original paperback, collecting all of Villa's published work, and much of his unpublished stuff too, reintroduces a writer determined to be clear and startling and moving in spite of his often experimental agenda.
"A Book of Memories"; "Fire and Knowledge" by Peter Nadas (Picador)
"A Book of Memories," first published in English translation back in 1994, is one of those huge, compendious novels that seems to be about everything. The book interweaves three parallel stories of love and betrayal which reflect and refract upon each other, creating an echoing and reverberating effect. Nadas, a Hungarian, worked on this sensuous tour de force for years, and Susan Sontag (no less) reckoned it the greatest novel written in recent times, comparable to Proust and Robert Musil. "Fire and Knowledge" collects short stories and essays in which Nadas -- whose style is accessible, and soul-baring, if chewy -- reflects on melancholy, fate and writing.
"House Held Together by Winds" by Sabra Loomis (Harper Perennial)
"I was not to be counted on, was the lesson / I was learning," writes Loomis in "The Trouble I Have in High Places." "Not normal, my words were bad, / and harmful to the natural sympathies of the world. / And I could be straightened out by a man, he said / but who would do it, who would take me on?" These heady poems chart a childhood of rebellion shadowed by a perspective of grown-up sadness. It's most likely that Loomis never did get straightened out, and her controlled writing shocks you with its remembered pain and emotion. The lovely lines of "Ziffy-Sternal," for instance, recall violence of a stepfather, launching out with his fists in a way that would be remembered forever: "The children understood / their wilderness had been trampled on."
"Castorp: A Novel" by Pawel Huelle (Serpent's Tail)
The Polish writer Pawel Huelle's surprising and very clever novel plucks a single line from Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" and riffs on it to recreate the student life of Hans Castorp, later to be confined to that famous tuberculosis sanatorium high in the Alps. "Castorp" tells a story of love and, eventually, murder that beautifully re-creates the atmosphere of middle-Europe before World War I. The best thing here, though, is Huelle's voice, which dances us lightly, ironically and with humor through a narrative in which the priggish Castorp is often oblivious to the events and disasters unfolding around him.


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Group A (Gothenburg/Halmstad)
Sweden (hosts)
Group B (Vaxjo/Kalmar)
Germany (holders)
Group C (Norkopping/Linkoping)
18.30CET, Svenska Mässan Exhibition and Congress Centre, Gothenburg, 9 November 2012
Three groups of four teams will be set by the draw, with each pool containing one nation from the top seeding section (automatically allocated), as well as one from Pot 1 and two from top Pot 2. Hosts Sweden are top-seeded and the 11 qualifiers are classified on the basis of the women's national team coefficient rankings.
Sweden are automatically placed in position one of Group A, played in Gothenburg and Halmstad. Holders Germany will be in Group B in Vaxjo and Kalmar and the other top-ranked side, France, are in Group C in Norrkoping and Linkoping.
England, the 2009 runners-up, former champions Norway and Italy, finalists in 1993 and 1997, are the seeds in Pot 1, and will be drawn into position two in the three groups. The unseeded sides – Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Russia, the Netherlands and Spain – will be drawn into positions three and four in the groups from Pot 2. There are no other restrictions on the draw.
According to the tournament schedule, the group stage will be played from 10 to 18 July, with the top two in each section and the two best third-placed teams progressing to the quarter-finals on 21 and 22 July. The semi-finals are on 24 and 25 July, with the final in Solna three days later.
Final tournament draw seedings
Top-seeded teams: Sweden (placed in Group A), Germany (Group B), France (Group C)
Seeded Pot 1: England, Norway, Italy
Unseeded Pot 2: Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Russia, Netherlands, Spain
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In attendance will be Karen Espelund (member of the UEFA Executive Committee and chairwoman of the UEFA Women's Football Committee), Karl-Erik Nilsson (SvFF president), Göran Havik (tournament director), Steffi Jones and Patrik Andersson (UEFA ambassadors).
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Delectable Christmas Candies and Treats
Sea Salt Caramels [1]
Caramels made in the microwave? Absolutely! And the only gear you need is a candy thermometer. Be sure to use coarse salt so it doesn't melt into the candies.
Golden Toffee Nuggets [5]
Dipping toffee pieces halfway in chocolate is way tidier and easier than fully coating them—and the result is more striking, visually. (We recommend melting chopped good-quality chocolate bars for dipping—chips have additives that affect their consistency.) For undeniable holiday wow, brush on some edible gold luster dust. It's a splurge, but applying it thinly with a paintbrush helps avoid waste.
Christmas Mice [9]
Kids or grandkids can help create these adorable, easy-to-make treats.
Christmas Mice [10]
Raspberry Truffles [14]
These five-ingredient truffles come together in a snap. Blending jam into the chocolate makes for a subtle fruit flavor perfectly balancing the rich, smooth chocolate. The recipe comes from Annie Marshall of the Indianapolis-based blog Everyday Annie.
Raspberry Truffles [15]
Chocolate bark [18]
Short on time? Make chocolate bark for gifts—or for your family. After melting and spreading the chocolate, it's just top, top and away!
9 Fun Ways to Top Chocolate Bark Candy [19]
Peppermint Marshmallows [22]
Homemade marshmallows are infinitely superior to store-bought—creamy and almost melt-in-your mouth soft. And peppermint is just one variation. In the baking aisle, find extracts like lemon, raspberry and cinnamon to customize your own marshmallows. The power of a stand mixer eases prep of this recipe, though a hand mixer works well.
Oreo Truffles [26]
These easy candies look elegant but are simple to make. This holiday dessert recipe comes from the Inn and Spa at Cedar Falls in Logan, Ohio.
Oreo Truffles [27]
Bing Candy [30]
People in Pukwana, South Dakota, come to bake sales just to buy Gwen Swanson's signature chocolate-cherry treat. Cherry-flavor chips create a red center between the chocolate layers. You can substitute peanut butter-flavor pieces if you prefer a peanut butter-chocolate combo.
Bing Candy [31]
Caramel Almond Stars [34]
These playful candies are sort of a mock turtle—all the texture and flavor minus the homemade caramel or fussy dipping. Sprinkle with Wilton's gold star sprinkles (sold online) or coarse sparkling sugar. For a flavor twist, substitute roasted, salted almonds or even smoked almonds.
Caramel Almond Stars [35]
Nutella Cherry Hazelnut Fudge [38]
Chocolate-hazelnut spread (Nutella) gives this fudge a smooth texture and luscious nutty flavor. The recipe comes from Annie Marshall of the Indianapolis-based blog Everyday Annie.
White Chocolate Christmas Fudge [42]
This five-ingredient fudge is simplicity, squared: Just melt, stir, spread, cool and cut. We love seeing festive flecks of orange zest in the fudge, but substituting orange-flavored dried cranberries will have a similar taste.
Dark Chocolate Almond Brittle [46]
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman of the blog A Beautiful Mess [47] share this sinfully good holiday candy recipe. Adding almond butter makes the candy a bit softer and more flaky than traditional brittle.
Maple Nutty Candy [51]
These bar cookies combine four winning flavors: peanut butter, maple, butterscotch and chocolate. The easy recipe, from a Wabash, Indiana, reader, makes about 6 pounds of candy. We suggest freezing the bars and thawing them out as needed.
Maple Nutty Candy [52]
Coffee Bean Meltaways [55]
If you've ever made butter mints, you'll recognize this no-cook powdered sugar mixture. The coffee flavor comes from instant espresso powder, which is widely available online and at specialty stores. It's richer and better-tasting than ordinary instant coffee.
Almond Meringue Bark [59]
This beginner-level candy is made by spreading meringue thinly and baking it until shatteringly crisp (so much simpler than piping into kisses). Eat it plain, or sprinkle it on berries and whipped cream or an ice cream sundae, like shards of nutty toasted marshmallow.
Almond Meringue Bark [60]
Caramel Heavenlies [63]
Graham crackers form the base for this bar cookie with layers of marshmallows, brown sugar, almonds and coconut. "I've made these cookies each Christmas since 1984," says Georgine Simmonds of Genesee, Michigan. "They're one of my family's favorites."
Caramel Heavenlies [64]
Fanciful Peppermint Fudge [67]
Mint flavor infuses this creamy, easy holiday fudge. If you like, use two cups mint-flavor semisweet chocolate pieces instead of the chocolate pieces and extract.
Candy-Box Caramels [71]
Dress up packaged caramel squares by dipping them in sprinkles, crushed nuts, and bits of candy. Drizzle with dark or white chocolate to add even more color.
Candy-Box Caramels [72]
Creamy Peanut Butter Truffles [75]
Minnesota's Saint Paul Hotel features these truffles at its annual Chocolate Lovers' Tea. We simplified the recipe by substituting candy coating for the chocolate used at the hotel.
Heavenly Hash [79]
Mix just three ingredients -- milk chocolate, marshmallows and pecan halves -- for this super-easy candy, from a St. Louis candy shop.
Heavenly Hash [80]
Latte Fudge [83]
A shot of espresso adds flavor and color to this holiday sweet. The recipe makes about five dozen pieces, so you'll have plenty to give as gifts.
Latte Fudge [84]
Mixed-Nut Brittle [87]
This fresh twist on peanut brittle takes just 15 minutes to make using your microwave. Be sure to use a heavy-duty glass measure that's free from cracks or chips to withstand high temperatures.
Mixed-Nut Brittle [88]
Terrific Toffee [91]
Make classic buttery toffee even tastier by combining two kinds of chocolate, toasted almonds and malted milk powder. Look for the malted milk powder near hot chocolate mixes or chocolate syrup in your grocery store.
Terrific Toffee [92]
Easy Candy-Bar Treats [95]
A mix of popular ingredients -- chocolate, caramel, and peanuts -- makes this easy and delicious microwave candy.
Hallelujah Chocolate-Peanut Butter Bars [99]
A cocoa-graham crust forms the base for these candylike bars, from the Eagle Ridge Inn and Resort near Galena, Illinois.
Chocolate Truffles [103]
Even novice cooks can master this simplified candy recipe. Just melt chocolate, add whipping cream and follow our easy instructions for Chocolate, Mint-Chocolate or Orange-Chocolate Truffles.
Chocolate Truffles [104]
Lemon Drop Bark [107]
Melt the candy coating, add the candy, and you're done. It's that simple. The crushed lemon drops give this sweet treat some pucker.
Lemon Drop Bark [108]
Nut candies [111]
Pair Chocolate-Caramel Pecan Clusters with quick and easy Salted Peanut Squares for the nut lovers on your holiday list.
Salted Peanut Squares [112]
Santa's Delight Peppermint Bark [116]
This super-easy Christmas treat uses just two ingredients: candy coating and either crushed candy canes or crushed round peppermint candies.
Date-Orange Bars [120]
Date-nut desserts can be cloyingly sweet, but orange juice brightens these simple bars.
Date-Orange Bars [121]


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Inventory of county records, Montague County Courthouse, Montague, Texas
Description: Inventory of records of Montague County housed in the Montague County Courthouse in Montague, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the County Clerk, District Clerk, County and District Attorney, Justice of the Peace, Tax Assessor-Collector, Sheriff, Treasurer, Auditor, and County School Superintendent. Also provides an index.
Date: 1975
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The week of 6/27/2010 sees the final public radio broadcast of Sound & Spirit. The show will continue to live here online, though, with past programs archived for on-demand listening! (We regret that we cannot offer podcasts, due to music rights issues.) Thanks for tuning in for the last 14 years, and please stay in touch. Ellen's farewell thoughts are posted on her personal blog.
Host Ellen Kushner began her public radio career at WGBH hosting the eclectic classical program NightAir. Other radio credits include PRI's international music series, Jewish holiday specials, and the WGBH world music program Caravan. In addition to her radio work, Kushner is a novelist.
Visit her personal website, ellenkushner.com, and check out Sound & Spirit's albums.
Sound & Spirit for the week of June 27, 2010: Marriage
Sound & Spirit's "Weddings" show has been one of our most popular - but what happens after the bells have stopped ringing? Ellen Kushner explores the many dimensions of marriage, from the joyous to the bittersweet (and even the disastrous!), in a wide-ranging program of music, myth, poetry, and wisdom.
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Elton Tyron Brand (born March 11, 1979 in Cortlandt Manor, New York) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the 1st overall pick in the 1999 NBA Draft, selected by the Chicago Bulls.
At the age of thirteen, Brand enrolled in Peekskill High School, where he was immediately added to the varsity basketball roster. He averaged 40 points and 20 rebounds per game, played AAU basketball with future NBA players Lamar Odom and Ron Artest, and by his senior year he was consistently ranked among the top high school basketball players in the country and was selected as New York State Mr. Basketball. At the same time, he became something of a cult hero in Peekskill, helping his team win two state championships while demonstrating a humble calm and an articulate intelligence. The former Governor of New York, fellow Peekskill native George Pataki, was once asked about being the town's favorite son, and he answered that Peekskill's favorite son was not the Governor but Elton Brand. Recruited heavily after his successful high school career, Brand decided to enroll at Duke University alongside a cluster of other high school stars, including Shane Battier.
As a sophomore, Brand was the dominant inside presence for a Duke team that is widely regarded as one of the most talented teams in recent NCAA history. After leading the Blue Devils to the championship game of the Final Four—where they were upset by the University of Connecticut—Brand was named the consensus National Player of the Year. He subsequently decided to leave Duke after his sophomore season and apply for the NBA draft, where he was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the first pick. Brand, along with William Avery and future teammate Corey Maggette, was one of the first players in Duke basketball history to leave school early for the NBA Draft. All three entered the 1999 NBA Draft instead of returning to Duke.


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Diane Kruger & Joshua Jackson: Bye Bye, Big Apple!
Diane Kruger and her longtime love Joshua Jackson arrive at JFK Airport on Friday morning (March 29) in Queens, NY.
The 36-year-old actress and Joshua were in town to screen her film The Host and attend the FX Upfront event.
"I hadn't read the book before I was offered the movie and then I did look into it, but it's sometimes hard because, obviously, a book is so much longer," Diane told JustJared.com on reading The Host. "And sometimes you feel like, 'Oh, why isn't that in the movie?' So I'm not sure I finished it 100 percent because I just wanted to concentrate on my task."
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Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social,
and Historical Dance introduces students to 60 dance forms across
the four categories. It features worksheets and teacher information
sheets in the book and as printable PDFs on the bound-in DVD, and it
includes 39 dance performances and resources for 21 more dance forms.
Reference for dance, physical education, music, and classroom
teachers K-12. Reference and supplemental text for university and
college instructors of history of dance, dance appreciation, folk dance,
world and cultural dance, and introduction to dance.
Helene Scheff, RDE, is a conference planner for the National
Dance Education Organization. She has taught all forms and styles of
dance for about 50 years in all sectors and venues, including K-12,
higher education, and the private sector. She has coauthored several
other dance books and conducted presentations at local, regional,
national, and international conferences and seminars.
Ms. Scheff is a member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance. In her leisure time she enjoys viewing
dance and theater and spending time with her family, including her 10
Susan McGreevy-Nichols, BS, is a national consultant in arts
education programming and curriculum. She was the founder and director
of a nationally known middle school dance program in Providence, Rhode
Island, and taught in public schools for 28 years before moving on to
higher education. She is also a guest teaching artist at the elementary
level in the Los AngelesUnifiedSchool District.
Ms. McGreevy-Nichols, who was the National Dance Teacher of the Year in
1995, serves as president of the National Dance Education Organization.
She is a past president of the National Dance Association and a senior
partner at the GriffinCenter for Inspired Instruction. Ms.
McGreevy-Nichols is also the coauthor of many books, including Building
Dances, Building More Dances, Experiencing Dance, and Dance
About Anything. In her spare time, she likes to travel, read, and
spend time with friends.
Marty Sprague, MA, teaches at the Providence Academy of
International Studies in Providence, Rhode Island. She has taught and
performed dance (concert, world, social, and historical) for more than
50 years, including various dance forms and styles at the elementary,
middle, secondary, and university levels. A coauthor of several dance
books, she has presented and consulted at the local, regional, national,
and international levels.
Ms. Sprague has been a member of numerous dance companies and was
artistic director of her own dance company. She codesigned
graduate-level coursework in dance certification and has been a
choreographer. In 2005, the National Dance Education Organization
honored her with the K-12 Dance Educator of the Year award. In her
leisure time, she enjoys taking dance classes, spending time with God
and her family, and reading.
Exploring Dance Forms and Styles is excellent. The book should be
part of every curriculum. It contains a wealth of information that can
be used by educators at all levels and in many disciplines.
Estelle Aden, Gainesville, Florida-Retired professor at Hofstra
University (theatre arts) and Professional Actor.
Exploring Dance Forms and Styles, is working very well with my 9th
grade students in the South Bronx of NYC!!! I have adapted many of the
lessons and worksheets to develop a small curriculum on the different
forms and styles of dance.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Roger Federer sets out to reach his 25th grand-slam final in the Australian Open semi-finals on Friday against Britain's Andy Murray, a player who could be on the cusp of overtaking the Swiss as the second best in the world.
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Federer's victory on the grass courts in south-west London last year inspired Murray to his gold-medal winning performance on the same courts a month later.
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Jackie Brown (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits the Tarantino classic, complete with Blu-ray/DVD comp caps...
Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a flight attendant with a rap sheet that keeps her working for chump change for a backwater Mexican airline. To help make ends meet she helps a gunrunner named Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) smuggle his money across the border. During one of her return trips ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and LAPD detective Mark Dargas (Michael Bowen) intercept her looking for dirt on Ordell, and find a stash of cocaine stashed in the cash. Jackie is imprisoned for possession with intent to sell, and fearing she'll give him up rather than spend time in jail, Ordell pays her bail with bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster), with the intent of murdering her before she can talk. Jackie anticipates Ordell's attack, and strikes a deal to continue smuggling his money in LA under the ATF and LAPD's noses. Secretly she forms a plan with Max to steal the money for herself. Meanwhile, Ordell's beach bunny pseudo-girlfriend Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda), and his former cellmate Louis Gara (Robert De Niro) get to know each other.
Jackie Brown is the film that finally brought me around to loving Quentin Tarantino. I admit I'm too young for this turn around to really mean anything, but I still haven't been fully sold on the supposed incredible merits of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, so I think my affection for Tarantino's generally less adored third film is still somewhat remarkable. I should probably be more specific. I love Jackie Brown. It's one of my favourite movies of the '90s, I like it more every time I see it, and in many ways it's still Tarantino's best film. Pulp Fiction broke more ground for post-modern filmmaking in mainstream, modern American movies, Kill Bill feeds more into my love of exploitation filmmaking, and Inglourious Basterds is the biggest all around achievement, but Jackie Brown is a measured exercise in smart storytelling, and the aging l'enfant terrible's most emotionally satisfying film. I understand that the film was partially created out of Tarantino's desire to prove to his detractors that he could make a more adult, naturalistic film following the hyper-stylized, hyper-violent excesses of Pulp Fiction[I]. Even if it is a transparent experiment in sating critical voices, [I]Jackie Brown loses none of its objective value, which kind of proves the point, I suppose.
The credit in this case must be divided between Tarantino and the story's original author (under the title 'Rum Punch') Elmore Leonard. Leonard's story makes up the structure of the film, and without his bones Tarantino's muscles and skin would dangle unaffectedly. At the same time Jackie Brown is still wracked with Tarantino's personality, and is not a literal adaptation of the novel. Fans and critics alike know that Tarantino works best from someone else's structure. Reservoir Dogs based quite a bit of its overall narrative on Ringo Lam's City on Fire, but had almost as much basis in French New Wave and '70s crime cinema. One third of Pulp Fiction was based on an unproduced Roger Avary screenplay (most of the 'Gold Watch' storyline), but has even more basis in classic era film noir. True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Kill Bill and Death Proof were each a jumble of several dozen genre and story influences. Jackie Brown is to be the only film the Tarantino based specifically on a single major literary/artistic prototype. Stylistically Leonard's prose also keeps Tarantino on track in terms of story momentum, and gives him a proper excuse to break from his preferred anthology style storytelling. Jackie Brown is still an ensemble effort (it isn't the tightest script in terms of character), and there are plenty of cut-backs in time as the plan is unveiled to the audience, but structurally speaking it's a rather straight ahead narrative.
Tarantino's punchy dialogue certainly punches up Leonard's already reasonably punchy dialogue, but his bigger addition to the mix is in tone. He found a way to infuse the story with a sort of modernist take on '70s blaxploitation movies. Changing the title character's race from white to black may have appeared arbitrary to fans of 'Rum Punch', but hiring Pam Grier was a calculated and brilliant move on Tarantino's part. Grier made a name for herself playing hard luck, tough as nails chicks in classic blaxsploitation flicks like Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba, Baby, and she carries all of this weight into the role. Jackie is the same hard luck, tough as nails chick, she's just older and wiser than Coffy, Foxy and Sheba. The film's story hints at Jackie's sordid past, which can be imaginarily filled in thanks to the unspoken background Grier brings to the character. This history, and the genre theme it hints at, turns Jackie Brown into more than just an adept adaptation of a witty book – the film becomes a thematic sequel to an entire motion picture movement. It's a taste of what happens to blaxsploitation heroines 20 years after they've avenged their sister, castrated the drug pusher, and put an end to evil in the hood. They have to return to the real world eventually, but they don't have to burn out themselves out, and sometimes the situation calls for a little old school spark (though Larry Cohen beat Tarantino to the blaxploitation recall punch with Original Gangstas, and included Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Richard Roundtree in his cast). Tarantino doesn't demand his audience understands this cinematic subtext, but those of us in the know get a little extra frosting on our cakes.
Tarantino pins a lot of the film's success on Grier, and she shoulders the burden with grace and screen strangling charisma. She was always fun to watch during her early blaxploitation career, and her guest roles leading up to Jackie Brown were often among highlights of mediocre movies, but it's hard to blame anyone for doubting her abilities in 1997. Her performances isn't just fantastic, it sits among the biggest Oscar snubs of the '90s. Grier did get a Golden Globe nomination (along with Sam Jackson), but the Oscars entirely ignored her. For the record Helen Hunt won best actress that year, which I suppose proves no one remembers a performance just because it won an Academy Award. Tarantino had better Oscar success with exploitation mainstay Robert Forster, who garnered a surprise nomination for supporting actor. If Grier was considered off the Hollywood casting radar, Forster wasn't even in the same ocean. His performance is a textbook example of understated cool (one might even call it medium cool), and his chemistry with Grier is arresting, making their on screen relationship one of my favourite understated romances in movie history. For some reason dirt always seems to fly into my eye during their bittersweet final moments. The rest of the cast is in top form as well, including Robert De Niro and Samuel Jackson, who invert and age the kind of tough guy archetypes they became famous playing, and Bridget Fonda, who pushes buttons like a pro, but the film's most consistently overlooked performance is Michael Keaton. Keaton, who in a rare case of major studio synergy also appeared as Ray Nicolette in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (also based on an Elmore Leonard book), embodies his character's negative cool and frustration, and reminds me how much I miss him as a more public entertainer.
Jackie Brown makes its belated Blu-ray debut with a solid, and relatively blemish free 1080p, director supervised, 1.85:1 transfer ( Jackie Brown marks the only time Tarantino has used the 1.85:1 framing for a full length feature to date). It's always been Tarantino's most naturalistic movie, and likely will continue to be, given his apparent (and lovable) predisposition for stylized camera use and colour timing. Jackie Brown is also one of cinematographer Guillermo Navarro's most modest pictures, outside of It Might Get Loud, which is a documentary. What is immediately clear is that this transfer is much more colourful than the DVD version, and even more vibrant than any of the HD television versions I've seen. I'm sure plenty of viewers will disapprove of these changes in contrast, brightness and general colour timing, but I mostly found the new look appealing (and never saw the film in theaters, so cannot compare this to the original release). There is some blow-out effects, and some of the more subtle white details are lost in the shuffle, but for the most part a more acrylic palette works very well for the film, and the colours are pretty impressive in their overall clarity. My vote for biggest improvement from the DVD to this Blu-ray is the brief scene where Jackie and Max discuss her case over drinks in a low lit bar. This sequence is basically just black and red, with some minor yellowish highlights, and in standard definition the consistent reds are covered with blocking effects. In 1080p there's almost no compression noise, and the black grain stays nice and rounded. That said, plenty of fans are going to be put off by how red some of the skin tones now appear.
Close-up detail, especially extreme close-up detail is quite sharp, revealing skin textures in even Bridget Fonda's flawless face. Navarro utilizes mostly wide-angle lenses during medium and wide shots, so background details are relatively consistent in that they're just slightly out of focus. Due to the general fuzziness of the DVD release I never noticed all the slight focus pulls during conversations before (keep an eye out). The more vibrant colour scheme and higher contrast sets some sharp edges even in the softened backgrounds, which is a little strange and blobby (sometimes it looks like a bad blue screen effect), but the quality of element separation is quite impressive. De Niro and Fonda's wardrobes feature relatively complex patterns that are smoothed over in standard definition, along with some of the busier mall backgrounds, and the wallpaper in Jackie's apartment. There are also very few noticeable aliasing effects on these sharpened elements, but I did notice some of what appear to be halo effects dangling off of some of the harsher whites (the ones that softly bloom on the old transfer). I was expecting more grain than this based on previous DVD and television viewings, but don't really see any sure signs of DNR enhancement either (I'm thinking the brighter quality has just overwhelmed the granules). There's certainly grain on the print, it's just fine and mostly consistent (there's a clear increase when natural lighting is heavily depended upon).
Jackie Brown features one of the best, if not the best soundtrack collection of previously released songs ever, and I love the way Tarantino uses it to mark the different characters as they come together for the climax. There are only a handful of similar collections I'd even consider more successful. It pays homage to classic soul, funk and Motown (along with themes from other Pam Grier films) without wasting time on popular, overheard disco mainstays. I own a copy, along with copies of several of the songs that appear in the film and didn't make the soundtrack, and I listen to them quite regularly. The music doesn't feature a heavy rear channel support, specifically not any discrete instrumental elements, but songs with backing strings like Bloodstone's 'Natural High' have a decent rear presence outside of simple echoes. The stereo effects sound fine, the centered quality of the vocals sound natural, and the bass lines are nice and warm. Outside the music Jackie Brown's audio mix follows the lead set by the visual style. Everything sounds natural, as if only boom mics were used to create the mix, and very, very few elements escape the center channel (the ambience of the mall, and a airplane effect as the camera pulls into a map icon is really it for surround effects). The lack of apparent ADR leads to some slightly 'off' noise reduction effects in the vocals, but is otherwise plenty effective given Tarantino's intensions. Many of the mix's most creative design elements come out of the location of the camera in relation to the sound. A good example is the scene where Ordell drives around the block to kill Beaumont. The scene's music comes from the car speakers, and the sound changes as the car pulls away, then off into the distance, where it disappears, then softly reappears as the vehicle comes back around the corner. All this sound sits pretty specifically in the center channel, of course, but still creates the general illusion of movement. Even aural elements that sound designers usually go to town with are pretty thinly presented, gunplay being an exception. When not appearing on Ordell's television, where it's muffled by the abilities of his set's speakers, gunfire is punchy, and rings out with an aggressive echo.
Most of the extras on this disc match the decent, but never entirely satisfying extras that accompanied Miramax's original DVD release, but there is one new feature, a roundtable discussion entitled 'Breaking Down Jackie Brown' (43:50, HD). The roundtable is moderated by critic Elvis Mitchell, and includes additional critics Scott Foundas, Stephanie Zacharek, Andy Klein, and personal favourite Tim Lucas (I awkwardly interviewed him once concerning his book on director Mario Bava), all of who have genuine affection for the film. I was most happy with Andy Klein's response, as he initially didn't like the film coming off the high that was Pulp Fiction, but Lucas and Mitchell offer the most potent insight.
From here things get more familiar. ' Jackie Brown: How it Went Down' (39:00, SD) is a ten part mixed vintage and retrospective featurette featuring interviews with Tarantino, producer Lawrence Bender, author Elmore Leonard, editor Sally Menke, actors Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michel Bowen, Sam Jackson, Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton, prop masters Steve Toyner and Caylah Eddleblute. It includes discussion on the book, changing the book, Tarantino's influences, the cast, and included plenty of behind the scenes action, along with part of Keaton's scene as Ray Nicolette in Out of Sight. 'A Look Back at Jackie Brown' (54:40, SD) is a rather inclusive interview with Tarantino circa 2002. Its length can be a little overwhelming, but covers a lot of ground, and between joyfully rambling about other movies Tarantino has some great stories about everything from talking to Steven Spielberg about Robert Forster, to the difficulty of using Keaton in both his film and Steven Soderbergh's. Also included is the 'Chicks with Guns' video in its entirety (4:50, SD), six deleted/alternate scenes with a Tarantino intro (15:30, SD), an except from the Siskel and Ebert at the Movies review (4:50, SD), a MTV promotional contest video (1:00, SD), video of the giveaway on MTV Live (14:20, SD), trailers, TV spots, poster art, a trivia track viewing mode, a chapter list that corresponds to soundtrack items, a collection of 13 vintage Robert Forster trailers, 19 vintage Pam Grier trailers, Pam Grier radio interviews, and trailers for other Lionsgate releases.
Jackie Brown has been given a bit of the second look over the years, but still hasn't reached the level of recognition achieved by most of Quentin Tarantino's films. The release of this new, lovingly remastered Blu-ray release is the perfect time to revisit the film's unique charms. The 1080p image is a little blown-out, and features slightly different colour timing than the DVD release, but otherwise is a rather sizable upgrade, more than I was anticipating. The DTS-HD Master Audio track isn't much of an update over the original release's compressed DTS track, and the extras haven't changed much, but there's no real reason for fans to not double dip.
* Note: The below images are taken from the Blu-ray and original DVD releases, and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Who did the caps?
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I took the Blu-ray caps, Gabe took the DVD ones.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Cool, at least I know they're right then!
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One of my favourite movies of all time. I thought it was going to be my fav Tarantino forever, until Inglourious Basterds took the crown. Regardless, this review is spot-on in terms of Grier's performance and use of non-verbal performance. Well done.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 4th October 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Breaking Down Jackie Brown, Jackie Brown: How it Went Down, A Look Back at Jackie Brown, Chicks with Guns Video, Deleted and Alternate Scenes, Siskel and Ebert At the Movies Review, Jackie Brown on MTV, Pam Grier Movie Trailers, Robert Forster Movie Trailers, Pam Grier Radio Spots, Trailers, TV Spots, Still Galleries, Trivia Track
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro
Genre: Comedy, Crime and Romance
Length: 154 minutes
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On August 12th, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto presented his long-awaited energy reform proposal, which is now awaiting approval from Congress. There has been quite a bit of speculation and debate, both before and after the proposal was unveiled, about its reach and potential impacts, especially on the national oil company, PEMEX. Even though the proposal was divided into two sections, oil & gas, and electricity, the latter sector has been largely left out of the public discussion. Furthermore, the President's proposal did not consider reforms for another important part of the energy sector: renewables.
State oil ownership in Mexico is a delicate issue, steeped in history and accompanied even by a national holiday, and with reason: oil is crucial to Mexico's economy, accounting for one-third of federal income. However, Mexico's oil production has been decreasing since 2004, as shallow reserves have started running low, and there is a lack of national technical capacity to explore unconventional sources. It is no mystery that allowing private investment in the oil industry could boost Mexico's hydrocarbon production and with it, its economy, but privatizing national resources is not a political option. President Peña Nieto's proposal seeks to attract investment without privatizing by reversing the constitution's ban on private contracts in upstream oil and gas development (i.e. exploration and production) and offering a share in profits. Other oil and hydrocarbon sector reforms include restructuring PEMEX and increasing its transparency and accountability.
The proposal's reform of the electricity market, which has largely missed the headlines, includes a simple yet powerful change: enabling private participation in power generation, while maintaining state control over transmission and distribution. Currently, the state-owned Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) holds a monopoly over electricity generation, distribution, and transmission. While amendments to the Public Electricity Service Act in 1992 partially opened electricity generation to the private sector, it did so only for self-supply, cogeneration, Independent Power Producers (IPP) exclusively selling to the CFE and planned under CFE's strategy, small production (less than 30 MW), imports to satisfy self-supply needs, and exports to other countries. In addition, since the CFE controls transmission and distribution, it also chooses from which power generators to purchase electricity. This in turn limits competition in the electricity sector and has contributed to electricity prices that are on average 25 percent more expensive than in the United States. The reform would also establish an independent systems operator to boost competitiveness by determining power producer participation in the electricity market based on lowest generation costs. If properly implemented, Mexico's electricity reforms will increase competition in power generation and help bring down prices.
So the energy reform could help bring down electricity costs, but how does it fit with Mexico's climate and renewable energy policy? While there is some language in President Peña Nieto's proposal regarding the need for the continued development of clean energy sources to transition into a sustainable energy and reduce Mexico's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there is nothing in the proposed reforms that affect the renewable energy sector directly. Nevertheless, if the reform passes, there will be indirect effects that should not be ignored. On one hand, the further development of Mexico's oil and gas resources will result in higher levels of GHG emissions; on the other, opening the electricity sector to private generators will allow more players in the market, including renewables, which are becoming cheaper every day.
Last year, Mexico set GHG emission reduction targets of 30 percent by 2020 and 50 percent by 2050, compared to baseline emissions in 2000. To meet this target, it is estimated that Mexico will have to generate at least 35% of its electricity from renewable resources by 2024. This mandate supports additional laws passed in 2008 for the development and financing of a sustainable energy system transition. Currently, however, less than 20% of the country's electricity generation is renewable, of which the majority (16%) is hydro. Of the 691 permits of private electricity generators that the energy regulatory commission has approved, only 125 were renewable energy projects (mostly wind and hydro installations). Mexico lacks fiscal incentives for large-scale deployment of renewables, and unless these and other measures are fully implemented, it will most likely fall short of its targets.
Experts believe President Peña Nieto's energy reform will get congressional approval, as it falls short from privatizing Mexican oil and gas, but the real extent of the reform will not be understood until the secondary laws, which will concretely describe how the bill will be implemented, are drafted. With this in mind, there is still hope additional language regarding incentives for the development of renewable energy will be included.


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Hypotaenidia owstoni
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hypotaenidia owstoni Rothschild, 1895
Common Name(s):
Gallirallus owstoni (Rothschild, 1895)
Rallus owstoni Rothschild, 1895 — Collar and Andrew (1988)
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Hypotaenidia owstoni (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) was previously placed in the genus Gallirallus.
|Identification information:
|28 cm. Medium-sized, flightless, but fast-running rail. Chocolate-brown above. Plain grey eyebrow, lower neck and upper breast. Remaining underparts and remiges boldly barred black and white. Yellow-brown legs and feet. Brown iris. Medium-length bill. Similar spp. Domestic chicken Gallus gallus much larger, chunkier, without barring. Juvenile Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus plain grey throughout. Voice Loud, screeching kee-yu and short series of kip notes.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Extinct in the Wild ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|BirdLife International
|Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
|Amidon, F., Lepson, J., Wenninger, P. & Wiles, G.
|Derhé, M., Dutson, G., Ekstrom, J., Mahood, S., North, A., Shutes, S., Stattersfield, A.
The last individual in the wild of this species died in 1987 following catastrophic declines owing to predation by the introduced brown tree-snake. A captive population survives in a snake-proof enclosure, and it breeds well in captivity. It remains classified as Extinct in the Wild until an introduced population becomes firmly established.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Hypotaenidia owstoni is endemic to Guam (to USA), where it was widely distributed until 1968 when, along with most other indigenous species, it started to decline (Jaffe 1994). In 1981, the population was estimated at c.2,000, in 1983 it was reckoned to number fewer than 100 and, by 1987, it was extirpated from the wild (Witteman et al. (1990). It survives in captive-breeding facilities in Guam and in 15 zoos in the USA (c.159 birds in total) (Ross et al. 2011). It was reintroduced to Guam in 1998 but a rapid population decline was observed during 2000-2002 and no rails have been detected since, either in the predator free zone (Area 50, 24 hectares) or the snake reduced open landscape (Wenninger in litt. 2007). From 1989-2007 853 captive reared rails were released on nearby Rota, Northern Mariana Islands (to USA), though this has experienced mixed success, with some populations rapidly declining to extinction, populations of 40-60 individuals in the Duge area and another of 20 birds at Apanon have persisted (Wenninger in litt. 2007). In 2011, 16 rails were released on Cocos Island, a small island off the southern tip of Guam, after rats were eradicated from the island. Evidence of breeding has been observed (F. Amidon in litt. 2012).
|Countries occurrence:
Regionally extinct:Guam
|Additional data:
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|No extant population remains in the wild.
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This flightless species was widely distributed in most habitats on Guam, including forest, savanna, scrub, secondary grassland, fern thickets and agricultural areas (Pratt et al. 1987) (but not in freshwater wetland habitats [Taylor and van Perlo 1998]). It forages along field edges and roadsides (never far from cover) for snails, slugs, insects, geckos, vegetable matter, seeds and flowers from low grasses and shrubs, and also the introduced giant African snail Achatina fulica which became an important part of the diet (Taylor 1996). It breeds throughout the year (birds attaining sexual maturity at four months) with a peak period during the rains in July-November (Haig et al. 1993). Nests are located on dry ground in dense grass, and clutch-size is 1-4, usually 3-4 (Taylor 1996).
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Not a Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
|Its decline and extinction in the wild is the result of predation by the introduced brown tree snake Boiga irregularis (Savidge 1987). Reasons for the failure of some of the introduction attempts on Rota are not known, but predation by feral cats was responsible for the failure of the reintroduction attempts on Guam (Wenninger in litt. 2007) and so feral cat control has been included as a recommended measure in the Rota release programme (F. Amidon in litt. 2012).
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation Actions Underway
Captive breeding started in 1984. Since 1987, efforts have been under way to establish a self-sustaining, experimental population on the nearby snake-free island of Rota (Haig et al. 1993). In 1999, birds bred there for the first time (K. Brock per G. Wiles in litt. 1999); birds have since been released at four sites and success has been mixed (Wenninger in litt. 2007). In late 1998, some captive-reared birds were released in northern Guam, into a small area (24 ha) protected from snakes by a barrier and trapping, and though these birds were breeding (K. Brock per G. Wiles in litt. 1999), this population is now extinct (Wenninger in litt. 2007). In 2011, 16 rails were released on Cocos Island, a small island off the southern tip of Guam, after rats were eradicated from the island. Evidence of breeding has been observed (F. Amidon in litt. 2012).
Conservation Actions Proposed
Continue the captive-breeding programme. Control B. irregularis and feral cats F. catus on Guam so that more introductions can take place (K. Brock per G. Wiles in litt. 1999). Undertake large-scale feral cat control program on Rota. Continue to manage the released populations on Rota to maximise the retention of the species's genetic diversity (K. Brock per G. Wiles in litt. 1999). Implement stringent measures to prevent the spread of B. irregularis from Guam to Rota. Before considering another reintroduction to Guam, control feral cats.
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A man who survives WWII comes to the US and starts a school with a "Dual Curriculum," combining Jewish and secular studies. This book resonates for me as a parent — I think of how schools try to churn out perfectly educated students while ignoring the individual's true gifts.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – Competing on the final day of the UW-Eau Claire Women' Basketball Tip-Off Classic, the Blugolds fell to Simpson College (Iowa) 70-52 tonight at Zorn Arena.
The game was a rematch of the first round NCAA contest from last season, a game the Blugolds (1-1) won 69-61. Tonight was a different story as the Storm led the entire way.
Simpson (2-0) got out to a five-point lead and while Morgan Rustad (So.-Hudson, Wis./Hill-Murray) scored the Blugolds' first basket of the game to get back to within three, the Storm then used a 7-0 run to build a 10-point lead (12-2).
The Storm steadily increased their lead throughout the first half and took a 21-point lead into halftime (42-21).
In the second half, after Simpson got up by 25, the Blugolds began to chip away at the lead and used a 12-4 run to get to within 17 with nine minutes remaining. But Simpson answered with a run of its own, 6-0, to get back up by 23.
Over the final five minutes, the Blugolds gave up just one more layup as they outscored Simpson 7-2 the rest of the way.
Courtney Lewis (So.-Prairie Du Chien, Wis.) led Eau Claire with 18 points while she and Rachel Egdorf (So.-Mishicot, Wis.) each pulled down six rebounds. Teenie Lichtfuss (Fr.-Oshkosh, Wis./Lourdes) also reached double figures in scoring with 13 points. Cady Roedl (Fr.-Beaver Dam, Wis.) tied for a game-high four assists.
Simpson shot very well from the field tonight, 59.2 percent (29-for-49) while Eau Claire shot 21-for-57 (36.8 percent). The storm committed more turnovers than Eau Claire, 21-18, and the Blugolds converted the turnovers into 21 points.
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Joseph Gragnaniello, 38, a heating and air conditioning mechanic working for Unity Mechanical Corporation, reportedly fell from a six-foot ladder while repairing a boiler in the basement of 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. in May 2013.
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The NFL will not fine Eagles safety Kurt Coleman for his hit on Austin Collie that knocked the Colts receiver out of Sunday's game, according to a league spokesman.
"Because the helmet-to-helmet contact was a result of Collie being driven toward Coleman by Mikell's legal hit, there will be no fine for this action," a statement read. "Though there will be no fine issues for this instance, the play was properly officiated. Officials have been instructed to err on the side of the player safety, and when in doubt, will penalize in situations such as this for unnecessary roughness."
The NFL is reviewing Kurt Coleman's hit on wide receiver Austin Collie Sunday, the league said.
Coleman, a rookie seventh-round draft pick, said the referees made a "good call," but said he has not yet heard from the league about the hit.
"They have a harder time out there than anybody," Coleman said for the referees. "I think the refs made the right call and that's for the league to decide whether or not they're going to fine me or whatever."
Coleman and fellow safety Quintin Mikell both hit Collie has he tried to bring in a pass, with Coleman drawing a penalty for hitting a defenseless receiver in the head. Coleman led with his shoulder and appeared to hit Collie's shoulder first. His helmet hit Collie's as he followed through. But the referees said they saw Coleman hit Collie in the head with his shoulder. They considered Collie a defenseless receiver because the pass was incomplete -- receivers are afforded that protection until they complete a catch and become a runner, the referees explained after the game. (There was some debate as to whether Collie had, in fact, caught the ball by the time of the hit, but the referees immediately ruled incomplete).
"I could see how the refs went through the play, because they were going by the rule," Coleman said. "It was just a freak accident the way it all went down."
Coleman said he prayed for Collie as the receiver lay on the ground. As a freshman at Ohio State, Coleman made a routine practice tackle that left a teammate paralyzed after the receiver hit his head on the ground. Coleman said he thought back to that moment, and prayed, as medical personnel examined Collie.
"I prayed for him. ... I said several prayers," Coleman said. "I kind of had a little bit of a flashback to my freshman year in college, but I didn't want to think that negatively."
Earlier, head coach Andy Reid seemed to see both sides of the issue, defending his player, but saying the NFL was doing the right thing in trying to cut down on dangerous hits.
"I don't see what else he could have done differently," Reid said of Coleman.
"I'm behind what the league's trying to do," Reid said. He later added, "In the heat of the battle, I can't sit here and tell you that I'm the calmest guy in the world when I see those things. But when you step back and you look at it, I understand the big picture things."


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March 17. 2014 8:32PM
Raymond woman, 20, out of bail, arrested and has new bail at $20,000
— A Raymond woman, charged with felony burglary for entering a Dyson Street apartment to assault an ex-girlfriend on the afternoon of Feb. 22, was ordered held on bail after a bail revocation hearing in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on Monday.
Police prosecutors filed a bail revocation motion because Olivia Fitzwater Duran, 20, of 5 Old Manchester Road, had been released on $2,500 cash/surety bail earlier the same day on charges of criminal trespass and possession of a controlled drug, with conditions barring her from committing a new crime.
On Monday, she was ordered held at the Valley Street Jail for lack of $20,000 cash or surety.
Fitzwater Duran, who that day gave an address of 302 Auburn St., was one of four people charged with criminal trespass after police responded to 140 Dow St., at about 3 a.m. on Feb. 22, in response to a report of a large party being held, without permission, in a vacant portion of the building's first floor.
Police said Fitzwater Duran was found in possession of heroin during the booking process and she was additionally charged with a felony of possession of a controlled drug. She was scheduled for arraignment on those charges March 12 in Circuit Court. When she failed to appear, an electronic bench warrant was issued for her arrest.
She was arraigned Friday on those charges and on the burglary charge, for which police obtained a warrant March 7. The burglary charge alleges Fitzwater Duran entered a Dyson Street apartment on the afternoon of Feb. 22, to assault an ex-girlfriend, who had been arrested with her that morning at Dow Street.
A man who said he was taking a nap with the victim when the assault occurred, told police Fitzwater Duran repeatedly punched the victim in the face and upper body and he heard her yell: "Where is my (expletive) money."
He said another woman, who is charged with criminal liability to burglary in connection with the Dyson Street incident, stood just inside the bedroom door while Fitzwater Duran was assaulting the victim. He said he asked that woman, identified as Lacey Lane, 23, of 96 Rockland Ave., what was going on. He said Lane told him she was there to back up Fitzwater Duran.
Lane, who is accused of bringing Fitzwater Duran to the Dyson street location, was arraigned Tuesday in Circuit Court, where a probable cause hearing was set for March 24.
Lane is also scheduled for a dispositional hearing three days later, on March 27 in Hillsborough County Superior Court North. She was indicted on felony reckless conduct and operating after suspension charges stemming from an early morning incident Aug. 18, 2013, in which she drove into a flatbed trailer on a closed portion of Mammoth Road. A front seat passenger sustained fatal injuries in that crash.
Probable cause hearings for Fitzwater Duran on the felony drug and burglary charges were set for March 25 and trial on the misdemeanor was set for April 23.
Gave false name
David Madol, 21, of 600 Front St., pleaded innocent Friday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to a misdemeanor charge of disobeying an officer and a violation of driving after suspension.
Madol, who is subject to a 72-hour probation hold on 2013 convictions for theft, allegedly gave a false name and date of birth after his arrest.
A former Trinity High School and Manchester Memorial High School basketball star, Madol was dismissed from the Southern New Hampshire University basketball team after his arrest in December 2012 on charges of theft and unlawful possession of alcohol.
Ex-girlfriend targeted?
Wilton man, accused of entering his ex-girlfriend's Manchester residence to assault her, was arraigned Friday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on a felony burglary charge and misdemeanor charges of simple assault, obstructing the report of a crime and criminal mischief.
Michael Robinson, 24, of 1001 Mason Road, could enter no plea to the felony, which alleges he entered the residence, through an unlocked door, to assault the woman.
He is accused of pushing the woman with both hands into a counter, grabbing her cell phone and smashing it on the floor so she couldn't call police.
A probable cause hearing on the felony was set for March 25 and trial was set for April 15. Police prosecutor Sgt. Stephen Reardon said Robinson has no criminal history, but he sought $20,000 cash/surety bail, saying: "He attacked her in her own home." Bail conditions bar Robinson from contact with the woman and her daughter and bar him from her residence.
Asks who called police
A Newport woman Friday wanted to know who got her arrested. She asked a police prosecutor in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division who made the call to police that resulted in her arrest earlier Friday.
Police prosecutor Sgt. Stephen Reardon said he didn't know, but her lawyer could get all the documents related to the case through the discovery process as he prepares for trial.
Erika Bressette, 34, of 80 Laurel St., pleaded innocent Friday in Circuit Court to a simple assault charge that alleges she punched her boyfriend while they were in the alley next to the Strange Brew Tavern, 88 Market St.
Bressette's bail was continued at $500 personal recognizance, with trial set for April 10. She didn't object to bail conditions barring contact with her boyfriend, but she did object to not being able to go to the Laurel Street address. She told Judge William Lyons that 80 Laurel St. is her residence, that she lives there with her parents.
The police department's victim advocate contacted the alleged victim, who said he was moving out, so bail conditions were modified to permit Bressette's return after 4 p.m. Friday. The police prosecutor suggested Bressette's father, who accompanied her to court, enter the residence first, to make sure the boyfriend was gone. He warned Bressette that if she has contact with the alleged victim, she could face a bail revocation motion and possibly be held until her trial.


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LONDON (AP) — Revenge thriller "Fatal Attraction" is the latest hit movie to get a stage adaptation, with a production opening in London's West End early next year.
Producers announced Friday that former Royal Shakespeare Company chief Trevor Nunn will direct the play, based on the 1987 thriller starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
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GREENVILLE, Ill.-- The Panthers could not overcome their early deficit to Spalding and lost the Conference game 10-2.
Derek Reckmann pitched four innings for GC. Reckmann faced 29 batters and allowed 10 hits and 8 runs. Cody Hinterscher was on the mound for three innings, faced 11 batters, and did not allow any hits. Brandon Cranford and Jesse Sneed both pitched one inning for GC. Cranford faced 5 batters and allowed 1 hit and Sneed faced 6 batters and allowed a hit and two runs.
Offensively for Greenville, Matt Reinholz hit a double that led to two RBI. Hunter Bryan also had a RBI for Greenville.
This loss moves GC's record to 6-11 (3-5 SLIAC). The team will play Spalding again tomorrow in a double-header at home.