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Ran (UK - BD RB)
Marcus enjoys his first Kurosawa in HD. Look at all those pretty coloured flags...
Aging warlord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to step down from his rule and pass the power over to eldest son Taro (Akira Terao). Causing outrage from youngest son Saburo (Daisuke Ryu) and general unrest amongst many of the Great Lord Ichimonji's advisers a falling out between father and son occurs and Taro is banished from the kingdom.
With Great Lord Ichimonji's request in place, it's not long before Taro and his father cross paths in the kingdom. When Ichimonji kills one of Taro's men, Taro asks his father to put his pledge to give his son full control of the kingdom in writing (and blood) and Ichimonji sees this act as one of disrespect and decides to leave the family's first castle and head to the second to stay with his second son, Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu).
Taking no nonsense, Taro decrees that his father's entourage is not allowed entry to his brother's castle. Finding this out upon his arrival, Ichimonji walks away from the last of his sons, bitter with his family's decision and their disrespectful abuse of the power he'd granted to them.
Ran is one in the many classics from Akira Kurosawa and as with much of his best work , delivers a multi layered and epic tale that covers everything from family politics to philosophy. Here he focuses on a family that, while once strong and united, is now falling to pieces because of a disagreement and three sons' intentions for the kingdom that their father is handing over to them. Within this structure we get to see how these characters' decisions affect all of the other family members as well as the kingdom's key players and watch as everything that was once great about this kingdom falls apart.
There's so much to talk about with Ran that I could go on for ages, but choosing to highlight the elements I love the most I have to say that Tatsuya Nakadai performance as Ichimonji is stunning. Completely over the top, insanely dramatic and just a character that's a joy to watch. As he goes through his bouts of over-confidence, anger, utter madness, near death and of course that little smile just before all of his turmoil comes to a dramatic end, it's near impossible not to feel the enormity of this story just from his character alone.
The other performance I adore is Mieko Harada's Lady Kaede, who's a twisted, evil, she-fox of a character and eats up all the scenes she's in with ease and provides one of the best 'plotting for her own ends' characters in the movie history and those painted high eyebrows freak me out a little bit too.
As for the movie itself, Kurosawa's ability to paint memorable images with film is even more breathtaking when he's painting everything with all of this colour. Things like the brother's army colours glowing off of the grassed battle field or how some of the wildly colourful costumes pop off of the screen is just so impressive here, especially when Kurosawa places them so specifically to draw your eyes in to his perfectly crafted iconic images.
Even more than that, the staging of his scenes is just beyond the realms of standard filmmaking. The slow coming together of the horse backed armies is celebrated and not done in shorthand like many other movies. Each row enters the battle and we are left to watch as the numbers grow. Whole armies crossing the river on horses is relished in it entirety rather than going for the dramatic zoom in or the quick edits of today's movie climate but most astonishing is Kurosawa's depiction of the battle at the second castle.
How all of this comes together is master filmmaking unravelling before your very eyes. The armies taking each other out in savage frantic war countered with Ichimonji sitting in amongst flying bullets and flaming arrows as he slowly loses his mind is such a powerful set of moments that when the scene comes to its climax and this maddened figure steps out of the burning castle and into the on looking horse backed warriors, the realization that all of this is done practically and feels like it's a classic painting coming to life before your eyes leaves you wondering why movies ever even bothered to find alternative means of creating this sort of thing in a computer.
I'm not sure if I'd consider this transfer good for a movie made in 1985 (a whole lot later than I'd realised by the way) mainly because there are much better examples of the era in HD out there. Ran has more the look of a sixties movie to me, with bright bold colours, gorgeous locations and a style that seemed lost by the time the eighties rolled around.
The colours are really what make the difference here. They range from natural to striking and all work wonderfully within this HD upgrade. Fabrics of the many brightly coloured robes look incredible, especially when bathed in sunlight and the glowing reds of gun fire or flames on flaming arrows all look impressive. As for little details, they're good but never fine, at least when compared to modern movie transfers, but elements like Lord Hidetora Ichimonji's intense eye makeup, locations and some of the grass covered hills have never looked better, though it has to be said, in HD those bald caps ain't fooling anyone.
As expected there is a constant presence of grain, giving the movie a nice classic movie feel and while it never imposes in the naturally lit open fields scenes or well lit sets it can be a bit over bearing in a few of the darker scenes and some of the battle sequences. One example of this is some of the shots during the attack at the third castle. The grain can make everything look pretty grubby what with all the dust clouds and murky lighting and all the more noticeable when contrasting shots show the glorious bright reds and yellows of the army flags as well as the vast amounts of 'red paint' movie blood everywhere.
I opted for the Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, though hopped into the English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 from time to time. The English dub is a very respectful translation and a whole lot more watchable than most dubs out there (which I tend to avoid at all costs). The 5.1 Japanese track is where the good stuff is at.
Ran comes with a very atmospheric track, filled with many a bird chirping, cricket cricketing and wind blowing subtly around the room. The use of music and abstract sound really has a dominating presence in the overall mix and the intense gruff dialogue shared in many of the arguments all sound clean and strong in the front speakers.
The part I loved most about this track was the small pieces of score, the piece used during the attack of the third castle being the most impressive. Within the movie it's a beautiful contrast to the unravelling carnage and here it just sounds great and very Star Wars-y in its dramatic feeling.
Many of the features here feel a bit dated in their style, they are also French produced and because of that are in French with English subtitles. For the most part, the vintage feel to the documentaries works wonders, for the rest it can be a bit of a slog in places but if you're out to learn about Kurosawa, this is a fine place to start.
The biggest and also the best of the documentaries on offer is 'AK' (01:11:00 SD) with has the good sense to let long pieces of footage play out as we watch Kurosawa at work directing Ran. There's plenty of rehearsal footage and samurai extras wandering around car parks full of eighties cars (which just looks cool) and of course plenty of watching Kurosawa tweak performances with those all important nuances that make his movies so special. The voiceover is subtle and respectful of what's on display and having this sort of insight tells much more than the more traditional movie documentaries that follow.
'Akira Kurosawa: The Epic and the Intimate' (41:49 SD) focuses more on the Kurosawa techniques and innovations. There's lots of input from people who have worked with him as well as those who have studied him and there's plenty of stories about his camera work, some of those fantastic shots he achieved and many other elements of his approach to film making.
'Akira Kurosawa by Catherine Cadou' (14:04 SD) is a straightforward interview with the French interpreter who worked with Kurosawa while he was in Europe and she provides a very personal viewpoint into what the filmmaker was like in everyday life.
'The Samurai' (52:57 SD) is a step away from being Kurosawa specific and is quite a typical History Channel-type affair looking at the ancient warriors, their armour, their swords and their way of life. Complimenting this further is 'Art of the Samurai' (41:11 SD), which has a French expert on the subject who runs through much of the same aspects of the previous documentary covered but in more of a specific Kurosawa approach.
Lastly, there's the Trailer (02:00 SD) and BD-Live and even though I didn't get to see it with this check disc, a booklet in some rather spiffy looking book style packaging.
Even though I'm not someone who watches Kurosawa's movies regularly, I have to say that I love all of his work and when I sat down to watch Ran I wondered why it'd taken me so damn long to come back.
Ran is a classic and this Blu-ray release does a fine job at upgrading it. What's more, it comes packed with great documentaries that while a little dated in their style they do give you a fine insight into the many elements that Ran has, whether it be movie making at its finest or the historical warriors it celebrates. This release is highly recommended.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Ran, above all Kurosawa's films, is surely worth the HD upgrade.
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Was this really a 12 in the UK? I'm surprised. It's pretty brutal.
This is one of my all time favs, and since I don't see an R1 release on the horizon I'm going to be importing this one.
This is one of my all time favs, and since I don't see an R1 release on the horizon I'm going to be importing this one.
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It used to be 15:
But was downgraded to 12 for the Warner DVD release in 2004 and Optimum DVD release in 2006:
And: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/...
Terminator was originally 18 but is now 15. I guess the BBFC don't consider it as bad as they used to.
But was downgraded to 12 for the Warner DVD release in 2004 and Optimum DVD release in 2006:
And: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/...
Terminator was originally 18 but is now 15. I guess the BBFC don't consider it as bad as they used to.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 28th September 2009
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 Japanese, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 English, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 German, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Italian, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Japanese, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish
Extras: Art of the Samuraï: Interview with J.C. Charbonnier (41 Mins), The Epic and the Intimate: Documentary on Kurosawa (50 Mins), Interview with Kurosawa by Catherine Cadou (13 Mins), AK Documentary by Chris Marker (70 Mins), The Samuraï (52 Mins), BD-Live, Booklet: Analysis by David Jenkins, Writer and Critic for Time Out London Magazine/Excerpts from an Interview with Paul Verhoven
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu
Genre: Drama
Length: 162 minutes
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Save the Salinger Archives!
Even if we have to save them from Salinger himself.
Do you know about this new J.D. Salinger lawsuit? True: The number of people who lose sleep over Salinger's strange saga may no longer be enormous, but he still has a cult following, and there are also those of us who—without being cultists—think he's an important figure in American literature whose work (and whose subsequent 45-year-long nonpublishing silence) are both worth paying attention to.
And the new suit focuses on the three great Salinger mysteries: 1) Has he been writing? 2) What will become of what he's written after his death? (He doesn't seem inclined to publish anything before then.) And, finally: 3) If it exists, how good is it?
(How do we know he hasn't just been writing "ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY" all this time in his snowbound New Hampshire digs?)
In the suit, the 90-year-old author seeks the "recall and destruction" (subtly oxymoronic?) of a novel that had been set to be published in the United Kingdom this summer and in the U.S. this fall. The book is 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by a pseudonymous writer who calls himself John David California.
In the novel, as was first reported by the U.K. Telegraph and then the New York Post and other U.S. outlets, a 76-year-old man called "Mr. C" (who is said to be a stand-in for Salinger's Holden Caulfield character, the troubled and rebellious teenage protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye), escapes from a nursing home, encountering, as part of his travels, "a Salinger-like figure" as he seeks to retrace Holden's youthful steps.
According to the Post, Salinger—seeing this book as an "unauthorized sequel" to Catcher and a misappropriation of his Holden Caulfield character—not only wants all copies of it "recalled and destroyed"; he also wants cash: "unspecified damages" from the alleged "copy-cat" author, because his copyright "is worth an enormous amount of money."
Here's where the similarities to the recent contretemps over Vladimir Nabokov's last unfinished manuscript, The Original of Laura, occurred to me. (Refresher course: Laura was a draft of a novel that existed only as 138 handwritten index cards—Nabokov's method of initial composition. Before his death, he asked that they be burned. His wife failed to do so, and the decision has come down to his son Dmitri, who, after much agonizing, decided that his father would now want him to contravene his wishes and cash in by permitting publication. The draft is scheduled to be published, with much fanfare, this fall.)
The similarities between the Salinger and Nabokov cases have to do with the disposition of the final works of two of the most distinctive writers of our time. Conflicting accounts have emerged of what Salinger's been doing in the years since the 1965 publication of his last story in The New Yorker, "Hapworth 16, 1924." Since then, he's beenholed up in a hilltop house in New Hampshire, and I've heard unofficial reports that he's produced several novels whose manuscripts—like Laura's—have been stashed in a bank's safe-deposit vault. Or that there are manuscript pages stacked to the ceiling in his house but no certainty about their state of completion.
Other reports make him seem so strange that it's possible he could be typing out the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit over and over again. (Eastern religions played an increasingly important role in his post-Catcher work, starting with the famous epigraph to Nine Stories,the Zen koan: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?") Perhaps he's writing not for publication but for God, which would mean there'd be no need to preserve any material traces of his work. For all we know, he's planning on destroying it—or has already.
But what if there were real stuff up there? Real Salinger-esque stuff. (Wouldn't it be a brilliant jest on us all, for example, if Salinger himself had actually written the Holden Caulfield sequel 60 years later, hired this (apparently) Swedish guy to impersonate the pseudonymous author, then sued himself to insure no one would guess the real author? It reminds me of radio talker John Calvin Batchelor's brilliant stunt: a mock-scholarly speculative essay published in the mid-'70s considering whether Salinger was Thomas Pynchon, who would then have been not a recluse but a pseudonym.)
If there is real manuscript stuff there—and I'm inclined to believe that there is, that he made a decision that he didn't need to publish what he wrote while he was alive—I want to know what will happen to it after his death. As far as we know, no decision has been made.
What if, like Nabokov, he decides that it's not finished? What if Salinger—perhaps prompted by Dmitri's decision to contravene his father's wishes posthumously—decides to take action before he dies? And by "action" I mean consigning years of work to the flames so no opportunistic estate can decide to enrich itself at his expense by publishing it. It comes down to the question of how much control a writer should have over the fate of his work, particularly his unfinished work, after he dies.
While I've come to disagree with Dmitri Nabokov's decision about Laura—I think a writer's greatness should not, paradoxically, deprive him of a right we accord to ordinary humans, the right to have their deathbed wishes observed—Salinger is still alive and, who knows, might be open to persuasion, which is what I'd like to try.
Before getting into my proposal about the Salingermanuscript mystery, a few more words about Holden and the so-called "copy-cat" book Salinger opposes. I can see arguments on both sides. Some might say Holden Caulfield has escaped the novel to become an independent cultural entity like Huck Finn, available for other novelists to use as they see fit. But I'm sympathetic to Mark Helprin's recent argument in Digital Barbarism that our default position should be in favor of writers, which means being in favor of copyright enforcement.
Writing is hard; memorable writing like Salinger's, even harder. His writing made him sweat blood. You can feel it in the later work, not always to its advantage, admittedly, but it's there, the blood, sweat, and tears.
It's pretty remarkable—amazing, isn't it, when you think about it—that he stopped publishing when he was only 46, half a lifetime ago. He stopped publishing but may not have stopped writing. For all we know, he may be withholding what will turn out to be the eighth wonder of American letters. Or not.
And why would someone as publicity-intolerant as Salinger go to the trouble (ultimately, if the case goes far enough, he might even have to testify in public) of suingthe author of the Holden sequel? Perhaps because he still cares about the character and the way it's been read and he doesn't want any more naive misreadings—by pro- or anti-Salingerites—to distort the nature of his work.
Indeed, these misreadings may be the problem that caused Salinger to retreat from the world in the first place. The cult that reads The Catcher in the Rye as an endorsement of Holden Caulfield's callow, purist point of view and obsessively badgered Salinger as a kind of guru could have driven him into hiding. In fact, I once wrote a piece in which I essentially blamed the assassination of John Lennon on the misreading of Catcher by assassin Mark David Chapman, who carried around a copy of the book and proclaimed that he had killed Lennon because he'd become a "phony," just like the ones Holden hated. Of course, anyone who brings to Catcher a somewhat more sophisticated sensibility than Mark David Chapman, an awareness that novelists often use unreliable narrators and, you know, ironic distancing, can see that it's a novel about the conflict between Holden's naive and narcissistic juvenile romanticism (the world is full of "phonies"—duh!) and the kind of accommodations he needs to make to its corruption to survive.
Is Salinger a recluse because of his misguided cult? Or because of his own oversensitivity? That was a question I addressed back when it was first announced, about a dozen years ago, that he was going to allow "Hapworth" to be published in hardcover. (Copies of the New Yorker version circulated like sacred relics; I called it "the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Salinger cult.") It would have been a small step, since it had already been published in a magazine and wasn't a new work, but I hoped maybe he was testing the waters for new material.
But then a heavyweight critic published a pre-emptive attack on "Hapworth." An attack that seemed to be as much an attack on the Salinger mystique as it was an attack on the work. (Late Salinger is like late James: Sure, it's mannered, but it is what it is. Should he have started writing like Cormac McCarthy?) And after that, plans for publication of "Hapworth"—or anything else—evaporated. The sad episode ended with nothing old or new forthcoming in the succeeding dozen years and nothing likely to come out while he's alive.
Shortly after the Hapworth incident, I wrote a story about Salinger's silence, about driving up to New Hampshire to seek out Salinger's house, a kind of iconic American literary pilgrimage. It was a story about finding the house on the hill, and then just standing outside the verge of his driveway unable to cross and transgress his privacy. And, finally, being unable to resist writing a letter to Salinger in a nearby Denny's, calling attention to my explication of "the sound of one hand clapping" as adumbrated in the opening paragraph of his short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." (You might recall the story opens with the soon-to-be-suicide Seymour Glass' wife waving her hand back and forth to dry her nails. One hand clapping! That's allegedly the answer to the Zen koan: Make that one-hand-waving gesture and you get … silence.)
I know: This is the kind of obsessiveness that probably scares him. But I did offer one amusing factoid about Salinger in the story that I still think holds up in a way. A woman I know stood in line behind him at a grocery store and discovered he was buying … doughnut holes! Those round balls of sugary fried dough. Doughnut holes: the junk-food equivalent of the sound of one hand clapping.
Anyway, I wrote the story as a tribute to the power of Salinger's emblematic resistance to the publicity-industrial complex (my coinage!). I called his silence, this repudiation of celebrity culture, "his most powerful, his most eloquent, perhaps his most lasting work of art." But a few dolts misread it in a simple-minded Mark David Chapman way because it did not fit their preconceived image of a celebrity profile. It was an anti-celebrity profile! The misreading made me understand Salinger's anger: Why put up with idiots when he could write as he pleased and let the misguided hacks hack away at him when he was dead? He had a vision and he had a right to pursue it his way.
But every time I wrote about Salinger I used to get into nervous discussions with my old friend Jonathan Schwartz, a writer and radio man, who was convinced Salinger was writing but worried that he might decide to destroy it all out of pique. We both fantasized about someone breaking in and saving the manuscripts. And in fact I just learned that a Kindle book has just been published called J.D.: The Plot To Steal J.D. Salinger's Manuscripts. I want to make clear I don't approve, but clearly the cult is getting antsy.
How is Salinger's silence different from Nabokov's burn notice? For one thing Nabokov is dead but his wish was unequivocal. Salinger is alive and equivocal. Or if not equivocal, certainly withholding, uncommunicative. But at least we have a chance to communicate with him.
There is also a critical difference between the two finicky writers: Nabokov was a finisher. Look how many dozens of books he wrote in two languages in his life. True, he tried to burn Lolita. (It was saved only by his wife.) True, he was a perfectionist, but, I'd argue, one who came to recognize that there was a time finally to publish. That a work was, at a certain point, as perfect—as perfectly Nabokovian—as it would ever get. Salinger seems—in his parentheses-choked later works, at least—to believe he could never get as Salingerian as he wanted. And that his work had to be not as good as he could make it but as good as God could make it. Which suggests nothing can ever be truly finished. Maybe that's his problem.
You might ask why it will be important to read whatever Salinger leaves behind. I think it will certainly be more important to our understanding of Salinger than Laura's note cards will be to our understanding of Nabokov.
Forty-odd years of work in silence! It feels like a tragedy or, at least, a mystery: Was he inscribing more and more on less and less like biblical angels-on-pinhead types? Or did he take off and grow and soar in some way beyond our expectations?
I don't think Salinger was anywhere near what novelist Nabokov was at his best, but he published only one novel. Who knows what he was capable of?
So here's my plea: Mr. Salinger, forgive me my genuinely earnest and well-meaning if intrusive-sounding request, but could you reassure us that—if you have been writing all this time—we'll get to see some of it before … we die?
Must I drive up to New Hampshire and put another letter in his mailbox? Anyway, I started reading Catcher again. It's still good. If you don't misread it.

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Public invited to attend Hackberry Flat Family Fun Day Sept. 13
The Hackberry Flat Wildlife Management Area Family Fun Day on Sept. 13 will be a day of celebration of the enormous success of this southwest Oklahoma wetland jewel.
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The festivities for the Family Fun Day will kick off at 8 a.m. with a birding tour of the area.
"There will be experienced birders pointing the many different species on the area. We especially want you to join us if you are new to birdwatching. It will be a lot of fun," Hickman said.
Also beginning at 8 a.m. new hunters can get their hunter education certification – just in time for the fall hunting seasons. The home study course is free, but participants must pre-register by calling (580) 335-2126.
Families will get a chance to try shooting a shotgun through the Wildlife Department's Shotgun Training Education Program (STEP). STEP introduces both youth and adults to shotgun shooting techniques and the proper handling of firearms.
Educators will certainly want to see the Oklahoma Archery in the Schools program in action at the family fun day. The program, coordinated by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, is part of a national program that creates partnerships between state wildlife agencies, schools and the nation's archery industry to introduce students to the sport of archery. The program curriculum is designed for 4th-12th graders and covers archery history, safety, techniques, equipment, mental concentration and self-improvement.
Beginning at 1 p.m. visitors will be able to take an old-fashioned hayride with a few stops along the way with information about the restoration of the wetland.
The staff from the Oklahoma Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance and the Quartz Mountain State Park Nature Center will be there all day with fun, hands-on activities. The staff from the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site will be on hand to provide insight on the unique history of the area. The conservation-minded, volunteer group, Friends of Hackberry Flat, will also be there to share their love of the area.
The first 750 visitors will receive a complimentary, commemorative Hackberry Flat WMA water bottle. Families are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs and picnic suppers about 5 p.m. A dessert will be provided.
Hackberry Flat WMA covers 7,120 acres of southwestern
For more information about the Hackberry Flat WMA or the Family Fun Day call the
Wildlife Expo offers outdoors, music, shopping and more
Visitors to the 2008 Oklahoma Wildlife Expo Sept. 26-28 can try over 100 hands-on activities, taste wild game prepared by a master chef, check the latest outdoor gear and even hear a few country music tunes.
The state's very own Devin Derrick will be at this year's Expo singing and celebrating the outdoors with fellow Oklahomans.
Devin is a native Oklahoman, born and bred. He was born in
Since 1994 he has been touring all across the country to perform at state fairs, rodeos, major concert venues, and he recently recorded at the Cash Cabin Studios in
He is excited about the opportunity to be on stage at the Wildlife Expo.
"This event combines my two passions – music and the outdoors. Hunting, fishing and the outdoors are a big a part of my life. The only thing I like as much as singing and performing for a crowd is going fishing," Devin said.
Also appearing at this year's Expo is Ada-based country singer Clancy Davis. This up and coming performer will take the stage Sunday, Sept. 28 to entertain the crowd.
The Expo is the state's largest indoor and outdoor recreation event, drawing thousands of people to the Lazy E Arena north of
Among many other activities, Expo visitors will be able to fish, shoot shotguns, kayak, ride mountain bikes and ATVs, see and touch wildlife, attend dog training seminars and learn about recreation in the great outdoors. They will also be able to win a variety of free prizes thanks to the Expo's generous sponsors.
Expo visitors also will have a chance to shop for outdoor products and services at the Expo's Outdoor Marketplace, a huge tent where many of the state's outdoor businesses will be selling merchandise, services and memberships to outdoor organizations.
"I'm really looking forward to the Expo. Expo admission is absolutely free, so there is no excuse not to come join us," Devin said.
To stay up to date on details for the upcoming Oklahoma Wildlife Expo, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Wildlife Department employment exam scheduled
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation will be holding an open employment exam Friday, Sept. 26, and though the test is scheduled at Rose State College as usual, it will take place at a different location on campus than normal.
"Due to renovations by Rose State College, the Wildlife Department's standardized employment exam will be held at the Professional Training and
Taking the test is the first step in the hiring process for individuals seeking positions as game wardens, biologists, fish hatchery assistant managers or technicians with the Department.
The standardized employment exam is set for 10 a.m. The exam is free, and participants must have photo identification upon check-in. Late arrivals will not be permitted to enter the examination room after 10 a.m.
"The Department looks for the best wildlife conservation employees available, and we want those who are interested to begin getting involved," Gutierrez said. "This test is a great first step."
Specific job and education requirements for Department positions as well as suggested study material for the exams are listed on the Department's official Web site at http://www.wildlifedepartment.com.
Individuals may take the exam once in a 12-month period. Test scores are valid for 12 months from the test date, and top scorers will be invited to submit an employment application. When a job opening becomes available, selected applicants from the test register will be scheduled for an interview. For more information, contact the Wildlife Department's Human Resources office at (405) 521-4640.
Waterfowl seasons
set; STEP receives donation
Waterfowl hunters will get another generous duck and goose season now that the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission has set the dates and limits for the 2008-09 migratory bird hunting season.
"The federal framework sets our guidelines for the season, and then we set our season according to our situation," said Alan Peoples, chief of Wildlife for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "This year nothing really has changed. We're going back to the same seasons we had last year, only adjusting the calendar dates."
In zone 1 (most of northwest Oklahoma), the first half of the duck season will run Oct. 25 through Nov. 30, with the second half beginning Dec. 13 and running through Jan. 18, 2009. Pintail and canvasback season will be open Oct. 25 - Nov. 30, and then re-open on Dec. 13 and run through Dec. 14. Youth waterfowl hunting days in zone 1 will be Oct. 11 and 12.
In zone 2, the duck season will run Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 13 - Jan. 25, 2009. Pintail and canvasback season will open Dec. 18 and run through Jan. 25, 2009. Youth waterfowl hunting days in zone 2 will be Oct. 25 and 26.
Panhandle counties will offer the longest duck season, running Oct. 11 through Jan. 7, 2009. Pintail and canvasback season for the Panhandle counties will be open Oct. 11 through Nov. 18. Youth waterfowl dates for the panhandle will be Oct. 4-5
Hunters will be allowed a daily limit of six ducks combined, no more than five of which can be mallards. Of those, only two mallards may be hens. No more than two scaup, two wood ducks and two redheads may be included in the daily limit, and no more than one pintail and one canvasback may be included during the specified time period in each of the established duck seasons.
The statewide Canada goose season will run Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 13 - Feb. 15, 2009. The daily limit is three birds. The season for white-fronted geese will run Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 13 - Feb. 6, 2009. The daily bag limit is one. The regular season for light geese (snows, blues and Ross') will run Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 13 - Feb. 15, 2009. The daily bag limit is 20.
Sandhill crane season will be from Oct. 25 – Jan. 25, 2009, west of I-35 only. The daily limit is three birds.
"Fortunately, we've been able to stay in a liberal package with our duck seasons, and now all we have to do is wait for the season and the ducks to arrive," Peoples said.
Hunters who wish to participate in the waterfowl season must have a resident or non-resident hunting license, a 2008 Federal Duck Stamp, and unless exempt, a 2008 Oklahoma Waterfowl License, a Fishing and Hunting Legacy Permit and a Harvest Information Program Permit. The federal duck stamp costs $15 and is available at U.S. Post Offices. Hunters pursuing sandhill cranes must also purchase a separate sandhill crane hunting permit.
Hunters should consult the "2008-09 Waterfowl Hunting Guide," available soon at hunting and fishing license dealers statewide, for complete hunting regulations and license requirements. Hunters also can obtain complete regulation information from the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
In other business, the Commission accepted an $8,400 donation from the Oklahoma Station Chapter of Safari Club International to build upon its Shotgun Training Education Program (STEP). Through STEP, the Wildlife Department offers a broad range of learning opportunities for beginners as well as experienced hunters with special emphasis on teaching basic shotgun shooting techniques and fundamentals. The program projects a positive image toward hunting and general acceptance of responsible gun ownership. Another important purpose for the program is the recruitment of new hunters for future interest in wildlife conservation and outdoor activities.
"The Oklahoma Station Chapter of SCI is pleased to contribute to the ODWC STEP program as it is vitally important that we introduce outdoor sporting activities to youth and the public in general if we want to pass on the heritage of hunting and conservation to our next generation," said Scott Holmes, current president of Oklahoma Station Chapter of SCI.
The STEP program currently operates out of 12 STEP trailers, and this donation will be used to purchase two additional trailers with target throwers and equipment.
"Thanks to partnerships with groups like the Oklahoma Station of SCI, the Wildlife Department can do more to introduce newcomers to hunting," Peoples said.
The new Ouachita Wildlife Management Area – Cucumber Creek Unit was established as a walk-in only area when Commission voted for the finding of an emergency to establish regulations for the area, which will be open to public hunting this fall. The property, which covers 3,270 acres in
The Wildlife Department and The Nature Conservancy are also partnering with the US Forest Service, which owns approximately 13,000 acres on three sides of the Cucumber Creek WMA. The three organizations will work cooperatively on a variety of habitat projects. Combined, the area will provide about 16,000 acres of walk-in public access.
Southwest Oklahoma's trophy-bass-designated
According to Barry Bolton, fisheries chief for the Wildlife Department, the lake will not permanently remain closed to bass harvest.
The Commission also accepted sealed bids to lease portions of the Department's mineral interests on the Washita County Wildlife Management Area in Washita Co. and the Stringtown Wildlife Management Area in Atoka Co.
Several Wildlife Department employees were recognized by the Commission for tenure, including John Stahl, northwest regional fisheries supervisor, for 30 years of service; Bill Wentroth, north central region fisheries supervisor, for 30 years; Rod Smith, southwest region wildlife supervisor, for 30 years; Craig Endicott, northeast region wildlife supervisor, for 25 years; Jon Cunningham, warden supervisor, for 25 years; and Steve O'Donnell, fisheries research lab technician, for 20 years.
The Wildlife Conservation Commission is the eight-member governing board of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Wildlife Commission establishes state hunting and fishing regulations, sets policy for the Wildlife Department and indirectly oversees all state fish and wildlife conservation activities. Commission members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate.
The next scheduled Commission meeting is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 6 at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation headquarters (auditorium), located at the southwest corner of 18th and
Two new bird species spotted in
On Wednesday, Sept. 3, seven species of birds that are rare in
David Arbour, the biologist aid for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation who documented these birds, said open-ocean birds sometimes get caught in the high winds of hurricanes that can carry them for hundreds of miles across the ocean and even inland. Since the eye of Hurricane Gustav passed directly over Red Slough WMA Sept. 3, these birds almost certainly must have been on a long ride.
The unusual birds documented on that day included a Cory's Shearwater, a Magnificent Frigatebird, two Red-necked Phalaropes, three Sabine's Gulls, a Royal Tern, ten Sooty Terns and a Parasitic Jaeger. All of these birds are rare in our area and are typically found along the
"In the case a hurricane comes inland, you will never know what you could spot. Seeing these birds here in
But when an open-ocean bird is that far inland, how does it make its way back out to sea? Arbour says that is simple.
"Birds that travel across the open ocean have a well-developed sense of direction and can quickly re-orient themselves. Additionally, they tend to orient toward water and can easily follow the major river drainages like the Red and the
It is rare to see oceanic birds in
Besides bird watching, there are many other activities available, including hunting and fishing. Waterfowl are present in good numbers along with deer, rabbits, and furbearers. There are also plenty of opportunities for fishing for bass, sunfish and catfish. For more information about the area, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
"Ranch Conservation III" forum scheduled in Buffalo
Land owners, land managers and others interested in learning more about the updated status of the lesser prairie chicken will have an opportunity at the "Ranch Conversation III" scheduled for 6 p.m., Sept. 23, 2008 at the Community Building, Harper County Fairgrounds in Buffalo.
"Almost ten years ago, High Plains Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council, together with many other partners in the five state historical habitat area of the lesser prairie chicken undertook an effort which involved the creation of an open forum for all stakeholders, called 'Ranch Conversations,' followed by extensive efforts to place acres under voluntary habitat management as well as research," says Tom Lucas, coordinator for the High Plains Resource Conservation and Development Council.
Two of those Ranch Conversations were held in
"We are now in the tenth year of that effort, and much has happened," Lucas says. "We feel that it is now time to hold Ranch Conversation III in order to update the stakeholders on the status of the lesser prairie chicken and provide everyone an opportunity to speak and chart a course for the future."
Speakers for the event include Doug Schoeling, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, who will provide the current status of the lesser prairie chicken. The implications of an Endangered Species Act Listing will be presented by Jerry Brabander, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Don Wolfe,
The meal will be served at 6 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Registration for the meeting is free, and a meal will be provided. Please RSVP by September 19 for food planning purposes. Registration is available by e-mail to the High Plains RC&D at firstname.lastname@example.com, phone at (580) 735-2033, Ext 4, or online at the High Plains RC&D website at www.highplainsrcd.com
The meeting is
being hosted by the High Plains RC&D, Oklahoma State University Extension
Service, Quail Forever, Oklahoma Wildlife & Prairie Heritage Alliance, The
Nature Conservancy,
ATV course shows Expo guests a thrill; one visitor to win a John Deere Gator
Many outdoorsmen know the value of a good utility vehicle, but those who don't can test-drive one at this year's Oklahoma Wildlife Expo, and one lucky sportsman will take one home with them.
The fourth annual Oklahoma Wildlife Expo is slated for Sept. 26-28 at the Lazy E Arena, just north of
"Everyone at the Expo needs to swing by the ATV course at the Expo and see a John Deere Gator in action," said Rhonda Hurst, Expo coordinator for the Wildlife Department. "But first they need to make sure they pre-register for the event so they can have a chance to win one."
Along with the Gator, those who pre-register become eligible to win a lifetime combination hunting and fishing license, a $775 value.
Other prizes will be given away every hour at the Expo to guests who enter drawings during their visit. Stop by the prize registration booth at the Expo to enter.
The Expo is a free three-day event hosted by the Wildlife Department and designed to perpetuate an interest in the outdoors and conservation through hands-on education and learning opportunities. Visitors to the Expo have the opportunity to shoot shotguns and archery equipment, catch a fish, ride a mountain bike, float in a kayak, build a birdhouse and more. More than a hundred booths and activities are available that are designed to expose visitors to different outdoor pursuits and educational opportunities, and seminars are held on a number of wildlife and outdoor topics ranging from land management to training hunting dogs.
Expo visitors can also shop for outdoor gear at the Expo's Outdoor Marketplace and hear music from native country music singer Devin Derrick on Saturday and Sunday and
The Wildlife Department works with a range of organizations, individuals and outdoor-related companies to host the Expo — an event intended to promote and develop appreciation for
To pre-register for the Oklahoma Wildlife Expo, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Lake Record Fish Program still adding to the books
Anglers are still adding to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Lake Record Fish program's record books this year, most recently with the landing of a 22.3-lb. striped bass at
The striped bass was caught by Luke Cobb,
The Lake Record Fish Program started Feb. 1 to recognize the biggest fish from certain reservoirs and the anglers who catch them. Currently, thirteen major lakes are included in the pilot program, including Arbuckle, Broken Bow,
Species eligible for spots in the lake records book include blue, channel and flathead catfish and largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass in addition to crappie, paddlefish, striped bass, striped bass hybrids, sunfish (combined) walleye/saugeye and white bass. Minimum weights are set for each species are detailed on the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
Anglers who catch a potential record from a participating lake should contact designated business locations around the lake that are enrolled as lake record keepers. A listing of official lake record keepers is available on wildlifedepartment.com.
Once it has been determined that an angler has landed a record fish, the media is notified and the public will be able to view information about the catch on the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
An easily-operated search feature is available on the Web site that allows those interested to view a wealth of lake record fish information, ranging from the size of record fish caught to what kind of bait or rod and reel was used to catch them.
All past and current state record fish are registered in the Lake Record Fish Program as records for their respective lakes.
For pictures and more information about these and other lake record fish, log on to the following Web pages or wildlifedepartment.com.
Kaw Lake striped bass: http://lake-record.ou.edu/fishsite/public/fishView.php?id=520
Lake Eufaula flathead catfish: http://lake-record.ou.edu/fishsite/public/fishView.php?id=519
Expo to
feature unique fisheries field trip – sign up today
Anglers have been enjoying fishing in Oklahoma for decades, but it's hard to imagine fishing being any better than it is today. But just what exactly goes into managing a quality fishery like the ones found all across
The field trip provides everyday anglers the chance to get an inside look at the daily activities of a fisheries biologist with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Visitors will take a barge ride and observe the process of electrofishing (shocking) and trap netting to collect largemouth bass, crappie and other game fish. The field trip also will include an opportunity to learn how biologists age fish and see how these are used to maintain quality fisheries around the state.
"Anyone, no matter your age or skill level, can enjoy good fishing in
Those interested in taking the field trip must pre-register before Sept. 25 to reserve a time, but spots may be filled before then. Pre-register by calling Carol Lee at (405) 521-3721 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Space is limited on the trips, and sign-up is on a first-come, first-served basis. Five trips will be taken during Expo Sept. 26-28, including 6 p.m. Friday and at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Participants are encouraged to bring sunscreen, bug spray and appropriate clothing for outdoor conditions. Life jackets are required and will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own life jacket if possible. Cancellation of trips is possible due to weather and safety conditions immediately prior to the session.
The Fisheries Field Trip is only one of hundreds of activities and events featured at this year's Expo, held at the Lazy E Arena just north of
The Wildlife Department is partnering with a wide range of other state agencies, private individuals and outdoor-related companies to host this huge event. The Expo is designed to promote and perpetuate the appreciation of
Expo hours will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. each days.
For more information about activities available at the Oklahoma Wildlife Expo, or to see how you can win one of several prizes thanks to the generosity of Expo sponsors, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Archery season fast approaching
While deer gun season is still more than a month away, thousands of
Last year, an estimated 74,194
"Archery hunters have a great opportunity to get out there and see the woods and deer activity before everyone else," said Jerry Shaw, big game biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
According to Shaw, the state's 2008-09 archery season looks good for hunters in terms of deer population and herd health, and after last year's tough hunting conditions, hunters can expect another successful year in the woods.
Last year's total deer harvest, including those taken during muzzleloader and gun season, was 95,891 deer, down from the year previous when a record-setting 119,349 deer were harvested.
According to Shaw, last year's heavy spring rains led to thick vegetation and abundance of natural food sources that kept many deer isolated and concealed, making it difficult for hunters to harvest them.
The secret to harvesting a deer early in the archery season, according to Shaw, is really no secret at all and is something all hunters know is important — scouting and knowing the area where a hunt will take place.
This year's archery season will see some changes from previous years, particularly in the last 15 days of the season (Jan. 1-15) when harvest will no longer be limited to antlerless deer. Additionally, hunters will enjoy an increased archery season limit of six deer, of which two may be bucks.
Archery season in
Hunters age 10-35 who have not completed hunter education can use the Wildlife Department's apprentice-designated license program to hunt while accompanied by a licensed hunter 21 years old or older who has completed the hunter education course, or a licensed hunter 21 years old or older who is otherwise exempt from hunter education (includes those 36 years old or older, those honorably discharged or currently active in the Armed Forces or members of the National Guard). Hunters under 10 years old must complete a hunter education course to hunt big game or to buy any big game hunting license. For more information on apprentice designated hunting licenses and deer licenses, consult page 8 of the "2008-09 Oklahoma Hunting Guide" or log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Nonresident archery deer hunters are exempt from a hunting license, but they must possess a nonresident deer archery license for each deer hunted as well as a fishing and hunting legacy permit or proof of exemption. Nonresident lifetime license hunters are not exempt from purchasing deer licenses.
Upon harvesting a deer, all annual license holders are required to complete the "Record of Game" section on the license form. In addition, all hunters, including lifetime license holders, must immediately attach their name and hunting license number to the animal. The attached item can be anything, such as a business card, that will remain secure to the animal until checked at the nearest open hunter check station.
All hunters who harvest a deer must check in their animal at the nearest open hunter check station or with an authorized Wildlife Department employee. A county-by-county listing of hunter check stations is available in the "2008-09 Oklahoma Hunting Guide" or at wildlifedepartment.com.
The archery deer season limit is six deer, of which no more than two may be antlered deer. Deer harvested during the archery season are included in the hunter's combined season limit of no more than six deer, of which two may be antlered deer.
For additional regulations, check station locations, other deer season dates and a wealth of other deer hunting information, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Plan for hunter education now; avoid the rush
Those who plan to attend a hunter education course this year have plenty of opportunities to take the free course before deer gun season.
According to Lance Meek, hunter education coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, there are still over 100 classes scheduled across the state between now and deer gun season, including traditional eight-hour courses and home study classes.
"Now's the time to attend a hunter education class if you plan to before the fall hunting season really gets underway," Meek said. "You can find out all you need to know about attending a class, including where and when they are held and what you need to do, if anything, to pre-register for a class, on the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com."
The best place for sportsmen to view hunter education course options and class schedules in their area is to log on to the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
About 15,000 students enroll in hunter education courses each year. The course covers hunter responsibility, firearms safety, wildlife identification, wildlife conservation and management, survival, archery, muzzleloading and more.
Individuals eligible for the Department's apprentice-designated hunting license are still encouraged to attend a hunter education course, according to Meek.
"While the apprentice-designated license is a good option, I still recommend that everyone take a hunter education course," Meek said. "Whether you end up hunting with your mentor or not, the skills you pick up in a hunter ed class will make you a safer and more skillful hunter."
Hunting licenses can be purchased online at wildlifedepartment.com. In addition, licenses are available at more than 800 outlets across the state, including Wal-Marts, sporting goods stores and tackle shops. For more information about hunting licenses and hunting in
Oklahoma's outdoors featured this weekend
Fall has arrived in Oklahoma, which
often means family gatherings, making memories and time spent outdoors —all
of which can be done this weekend at the fourth annual Oklahoma Wildlife
The Wildlife Expo, sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and coordinated by hundreds of volunteer organizations and individuals, is slated for September 26-28 at the Lazy E Arena, just north of Oklahoma City. The event offers three days of nonstop outdoor action for all ages and levels of experience with the outdoors. And it's free.
The Expo takes a hands-on approach to educating visitors about the outdoors. Guests can try their own hand at shooting a shotgun or bow and arrow, riding a mountain bike or ATV, floating in a kayak, building a birdhouse, catching a fish and more.
Booths and other activities inside the arena offer information and facts about more outdoor opportunities than visitors may have even known were available to them in Oklahoma. Visitors can learn about fly fishing or deer hunting or even go inside a "butterfly tent" to get an up-close glimpse of a variety of winged-wildlife.
Snacking at the popular Taste of the Wild" booth gives visitors a sample of wild game meat, and attending a seminar can enhance their knowledge on a number of outdoor topics ranging from aging deer on the hoof to training hunting dogs.
Additionally, shoppers have a chance to glance at and buy some of the best outdoor gear available at the Expo's Outdoor Marketplace, a huge area at the Expo where vendors are set up to display and offer for sale a varied selection of outdoor-related products and services.
"The Expo is a fun way to learn all about the outdoors, and it's all completely free," said Nels Rodefeld, information and education chief for the Wildlife Department. "It draws tens of thousands of people who come for a day of fun and learning, and people leave with a better understanding of the value of conserving the outdoors."
The Wildlife Department will be working with a range of organizations, individuals and outdoor-related companies to host the Expo — an event intended to promote and develop appreciation for Oklahoma's wildlife and natural resources.
Expo hours are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 26-28. Admission and parking are free.
Wildlife Expo offers outdoors, music, shopping and more
Visitors to the 2008 Oklahoma
Wildlife Expo Sept. 26-28 can try over 100 hands-on activities, taste wild
game prepared by a master chef, check the latest outdoor gear and even hear
a few country music tunes.
The state's very own Devin Derrick will be at this year's Expo singing and celebrating the outdoors with fellow Oklahomans.
Devin is a native Oklahoman, born and bred. He was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in the Guthrie and Edmond area. After graduating from Edmond High School, he decided to make his passion his life and be a full-time musician.
Since 1994 he has been touring all across the country to perform at state fairs, rodeos, major concert venues, and he recently recorded at the Cash Cabin Studios in Nashville.
He is excited about the opportunity to be on stage at the Wildlife Expo.
"This event combines my two passions – music and the outdoors. Hunting, fishing and the outdoors are a big a part of my life. The only thing I like as much as singing and performing for a crowd is going fishing," Devin said.
Also appearing at this year's Expo is Ada-based country singer Clancy Davis. This up and coming performer will take the stage Sunday, Sept. 28 to entertain the crowd.
The Expo is the state's largest indoor and outdoor recreation event, drawing thousands of people to the Lazy E Arena north of Oklahoma City each year.
Among many other activities, Expo visitors will be able to fish, shoot shotguns, kayak, ride mountain bikes and ATVs, see and touch wildlife, attend dog training seminars and learn about recreation in the great outdoors. They will also be able to win a variety of free prizes thanks to the Expo's generous sponsors.
Expo visitors also will have a chance to shop for outdoor products and services at the Expo's Outdoor Marketplace, a huge tent where many of the state's outdoor businesses will be selling merchandise, services and memberships to outdoor organizations.
"I'm really looking forward to the Expo. Expo admission is absolutely free, so there is no excuse not to come join us," Devin said.
To stay up to date on details for the upcoming Oklahoma Wildlife Expo, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Young outdoor writers to share their heritage, win trip of a lifetime
Every year, young people across
Oklahoma share their outdoor heritage by competing in a youth outdoor
writing contest for a chance at a trip of a lifetime, and you need only ask
Coweta High School student Shane Ellison if it was worth his time to enter
the contest.
The essay contest, sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and Oklahoma Station Chapter Safari Club International, took Ellison on a New Mexico antelope hunt after he won the senior division of the contest last year.
Ellison, accompanied by his dad, attended his hunt at the Martinez Ranch in August and found just the right setup for his hunt.
We had picked a spot the day before on the top of a ridge with a valley on one side of it," Ellison said.
After a 30-minute wait, a nice buck antelope showed itself and gave Ellison a hunt to remember.
"I sat on the side of the ridge for about an hour while the buck was slowly approaching. When he got about 300 yards away, he sat down and was facing away from me. I got up and slowly started walking towards him until I was about 250 yards away. This is where I took my first and only shot to harvest my antelope!"
According to Colin Berg, education supervisor for the Wildlife Department, the essay contest is an ideal way for youth to show their love for the outdoors and, in the process, possibly win a vacation in the great outdoors. There are two age categories (11-14 and 15-17), and one girl and one boy winner are chosen from each one.
To participate, students must be 11-17 years of age and currently enrolled in any Oklahoma school or home school. Winners of the 2007 contest are not eligible. Applicants must have successfully completed an Oklahoma Hunter Education course by the entry deadline, which is Nov. 19, 2008. Students also must use the theme of "Hunting: Sharing the Heritage, Archery: What I like about Archery in the Schools and Bowhunting" or the concept of the theme to develop an expository essay or short story.
Winners in the 15-17 age category (one boy and one girl) will receive a guided antelope hunt in New Mexico, and winners in the 11-14 age category are competing for scholarship for the Apprentice Hunter Program at the YO Ranch in Mountain Home, Texas. Safari Club International's Apprentice Hunter Program is a unique, hands-on course designed for girls and boys aged 11-14. The program covers topics such as history of hunting, the ethical basis of modern sport hunting, wildlife management, field identification, tracking and interpreting sign, game cooking and the SCI Sportsmen Against Hunger Program. There are three sessions, each one week long, during the summer of 2009.
The four statewide winners and their legal guardians will be invited to Oklahoma City to attend an awards ceremony in March. In addition, the top 25 essay entrants will receive a one-year youth membership to Safari Club International. The winning student essays will be published in the OSCSCI newsletter "Safari Trails." Publication qualifies the winning entries for the National Youth Writing Contest sponsored by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Several past national winners have come from Oklahoma.
One educator also will be awarded an all-expenses-paid scholarship for an eight-day conservation education school at Safari Club International's American Wilderness Leadership School (AWLS) at Granite Ranch near Jackson, Wyoming, according to Berg.
The AWLS program is conducted during the summer and presents an outdoor program for educators that concentrates on natural resource management. Participants learn about stream ecology, map and compass usage, fly tying, shooting sports, wildlife management, the Yellowstone ecosystem, camping, white-water rafting, educational resources, how to implement outdoor education ideas and language arts and creative writing in an outdoor setting.
Both the essay contest rules and teacher scholarship applications are available from the Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
Essays and applications must be postmarked no later than Nov. 19, or delivered by Nov. 19 in person to the Department of Wildlife's Jenks Office at 201 Aquarium Drive, in Jenks. Address entries to: Essay Contest, Attn: Education Section Supervisor, ODWC Jenks Office, P.O. Box 1201, Jenks, OK 74037.
After heavy rains, flooding and a
cancellation, BioBlitz is back on.
Oklahoma's eighth annual BioBlitz will showcase the natural world as scientists, educators, students and volunteers gather at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge and Great Salt Plains State Park Fri., Oct. 10 and Sat., Oct. 11, near Cherokee, OK in north central Oklahoma.
Volunteers from across the state will scramble for 24 hours to find as many living organisms as possible. Everything living is fair game, from plants and insects to mammals, fish, birds and microorganisms in the soil. The inventory area includes the state park and the National Wildlife Refuge.
Priscilla Crawford of the Oklahoma Biological Survey at the University of Oklahoma has been on board for all of the past gatherings but recently volunteered to coordinate the event.
"It's exciting to watch kids and adults learn about things they've been living next-door to their entire lives but never known about. You don't have to go clear around the world to find biodiversity. We've got it right here in our beautiful state," Crawford said.
Crawford said volunteers are welcome for a hands-on experience. The inventory begins at 3 p.m. Oct. 10 and ends at 3 p.m. Oct. 11. No experience is necessary, and there is no charge. A Friday night cookout and camping area will be provided for all volunteers. To be included on an inventory team, download a registration form at http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/BioBlitz/BioBlitz2008.html.
For those that would like to simply stop by to learn, BioBlitz is open to the public all day Sat., Oct. 11. There will be many activities to participate in such as a bird walk, plant identification and even a pollinator activity.
Crawford said the event has "really evolved over the years thanks to great event sponsors."
The Oklahoma Biological Survey at the University of Oklahoma organizes BioBlitz, which is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Department of Biological Science, Cameron University Kids Investigating the Discovery of Science Camp, WILD in Southwest Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation.
BioBlitz occurs in a different Oklahoma community each year. It has previously been held in Norman, Broken Bow, Woodward, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Altus and Lawton. For more information about BioBlitz visit http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/BioBlitz/BioBlitzabout.html


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Silly, Amazing, & Strange: Design Concepts for The Kitchen
We mostly focus on the practical, here at The Kitchn. We like good ideas for everyday cooking and recipes that anyone can make. But we also like to keep an eye on the fanciful and the creative! There are many designers out there who are working on new concepts for kitchen gadgets and tools. Some of these are slightly unhinged, but some seem like great ideas.
Here's a gallery of some interesting design concepts for the kitchen. Which is your favorite?
• Pepper Fork and Salt Spoon - Keep your salt and pepper in your fork and spoon.
• Integrated Cutting Board and Scale - This is one simple idea we love.
• Espresso Machines from Room69 - Fanciful espresso machine concepts.
• Sexy Rice Cooker! - We featured this sleek little concept last week.
• Strappo Wine Cork - A clever way to repurpose your wine cork.
• Gaggenau Lift Oven - This one is actually a concept in production, but it looks rather sci-fi to us!
• Tetras Trivets - Another concept that was popular enough to go into limited production. Chicken feet!
• Dish Drainer/Herb Garden - Would you let dishes dry next to dirt and herbs?
• Wearable Cutlery - Half a dozen concepts for wearable cutlery!
• Stix Eyewear - And if those earlier cutlery concepts weren't enough, here's a way to carry your chopsticks in your glasses.
• The Kitchen Sync - A new generation of cookbook for your kitchen.
• Gibli Ortal Juicer - A very, um, impressive design.
• Fridgy - The Folding Refrigerator - A folding fridge, just what you've always wanted.
What do you think? Are any of these concepts good enough to market?


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The U.S. senators from Montana and South Dakota have introduced emergency disaster assistance legislation aimed at helping farmers in the Western states through what some are calling the worst drought since the Dust Bowl.
The Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act of 2002, S-2800, would provide up to $5 billion in aid to all farmers who suffered crop losses due to weather or other natural disasters in 2001 or 2002.
In introducing the bill, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said meteorological studies show that some areas of his state of South Dakota are now more drought-stricken than they were at the height of the Depression in 1936 because of the ongoing lack of rain in the West.
"As the situation worsens, so does the need for a bigger response," he told reporters during his weekly press briefing, referring to earlier bills that sought less funding.
Daschle's legislation is the latest in a series of attempts to pass new disaster assistance dating back to last fall when Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., also a sponsor of S-2800, sought unsuccessfully to add $2.8 billion in emergency assistance provision to a supplemental appropriations bill.
Sources say the Congressional Budget Office estimates the crop loss provisions of S-2800 would cost $3.8 billion and the livestock assistance provisions could run as high as $1.2 billion.
Because the legislation asks for an emergency declaration, the spending would not have to be offset by reductions in other programs.
Shortly after the introduction of S-2800, 20 farm organizations sent a letter to the Senate urging that its members support passage of the legislation that was also introduced by Sens. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Tim Johnson, D-S.D.
The National Farmers Union, American Farm Bureau Federation and most of the major commodity organizations, including the National Cotton Council, signed the letter. The NCC said it supports the disaster legislation if it does not require any modifications to the new farm bill.
According to a summary, the bill would provide disaster assistance to farmers who experienced losses in yield and quality due to severe weather, pests and diseases in 2001 and 2002.
It would waive a provision in the Federal Crop Insurance Act prohibiting emergency disaster assistance and directs the secretary of agriculture to make emergency financial assistance available from Commodity Credit Corp. funding.
The legislation establishes the same loss threshold as used in previous legislation, which covered 2000 crop losses. The bill also makes funds available for livestock losses for 2001 and 2002 in any county that has received an emergency designation by the president or the secretary of agriculture.
Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, scheduled a mark-up session for the legislation on Aug 1. But no definitive action was taken on the legislation.
Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., have also introduced disaster assistance legislation that would provide $620 million for the Livestock Assistance Program. The cost of the Hagel-Enzi bill would be offset by spending reductions in the new farm bill.
And several House members from the Midwest have introduced legislation to provide emergency assistance to farmers who suffered crop losses in 2002. The CBO has scored the cost of their bill at $2.4 billion.
Rep. John Thune, R-S.D., one of the authors of the House bill, said that funding for the emergency assistance bill could be taken from an estimated $6 billion that he said would not be spent on farm programs during the remaining two months of the 2002 fiscal year.
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Join us on June 28 between 7-10pm for the opening reception of our 3rd annual Pride exhibition That's So Gay. Exploring notions of queer gender identity and objectification through many diverse lenses, here's a look at L. J. Roberts whose work is featured at That's So Gay on the 3rd and 4th floors
L. J. Roberts holds a MFA in Fine Arts and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California. Her studio practice primarily consists of large-scale, site-specific knitted installations created with children's toy knitting cranks. Her installations occasionally include guerrilla actions and maintains a critical writing practice that bridges craft and queer theory.


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Perhaps we call all pray to the newly proclaimed St Philoumenos to intercede before the throne of God for a peaceful and just solution to the middle east problem. Maybe then will his brutal and senseless murder have a purpose-Orthodox Saint murdered by Jewish fanatics:A web page about St. Philoumenos:http://www.angelfire.com/va/ALLSAINTS/martyrs/nmphilou.htmlhttp://www.angelfire.com/va/ALLSAINTS/martyrs/images/nmphilo1.gifIt was later determined that the person that did the actual murder was an American Jew. Instead of being imprisioned for this act by the Isreali government, he was merely deported back to the U.S. where he freely walks the streets.Orthodoc
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Kent Franzen, 63 - December 10, 2008
Kent G. Franzen, 63, of Lexington, formerly of Gothenburg, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington.
A memorial service was held on Monday, Dec. 8, at Grace Lutheran Church of Lexington with the Rev. Megan Morrow officiating. Burial was held prior to the service at Zion Lutheran Cemetery at Gothenburg.
Franzen was born on Nov. 19, 1945, at Gothenburg to William and Lillian (Elliston) Franzen.
He was raised in Gothenburg and attended school, played football and graduated from Gothenburg High School with the Class of 1964. Following graduation, he joined the Nebraska National Guard.
On Aug. 7, 1966, he was united in marriage to his high school sweetheart, Dianne Lysinger, at the Zion Lutheran Church of Gothenburg. To this union, three children were born.
In 1967, the couple moved to a farm east of Lexington to raise their family and raise crops and cattle.
He began his own trucking company called Justa Truck Trucking Company. He built the company into a successful business, and along with the trucking, he continued to ranch and farm.
Franzen sold his trucking business due to declining health, but continued with his cow/calf operation, as he enjoyed spending time on the land he loved, said family members. He also spent time at the Grand Generation Center and enjoyed showing his card tricks.
?He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, his church family and enjoyed singing, according to family members. He was known as a character and a kind-hearted person.
Franzen was preceded in death by: his parents; a stepbrother, Gene Aden; stepsisters—Shirley Hite and Darlene Arnall.
Survivors include; his wife, Dianne Franzen of Lexington; a daughter, Gwen (Jerry) Tinkis of Colleyville, TX; sons—Chad Franzen of Lexington, and Luke (Amy) Franzen of Callaway; a brother, Bill Franzen of Gothenburg; two sisters—Marj (Bob) Plank Gothenburg, and Marilyn (Don) Brockman of Bermuda Dunes, CA; seven grandchildren—Rachel, Marissa, Claire, Gus, Grant, Dane and Colt.
Memorials are suggested to Grace Lutheran Church Stained-glass window project, the Lexington Volunteer Fire Department or the donor's choice.
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Artisan's Advantage Memories incorporate technology to address many of the latest DFM (design for manufacturability) issues. This technology includes methods developed by Artisan and key partners to create high-yielding designs and to provide enhanced results with nanometer mask data processing and silicon fabrication procedures. Additionally, the memories provide support for detection and correction of soft errors. Soft errors caused by high-energy particles and cosmic rays are of concern for certain types of SoC applications.
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January 4th, 2014
Del Potro in Sydney; ATP/WTA Tennis Previews
Notes: Sam Stosur still injured?…Tough draws for (3) Vesnina against the Puerto Rican riser Puig, and (5) Pennetta against the former No. 1 Venus…Venus on the small-tournament guarantee-cash circuit this year?…Wildcards went to Aussies Casey Dellacqua, Olivia Rogowska and Storm Sanders…Storm Sanders is an awesome sports name, period…Pulling from the tournament were Nadia Petrova, Ashleigh Barty and Stefanie Voegele…Vesnina in last year's final beat Barthel…Returning former champs in the field are Vesnina (2013), Barthel (2012), and Jie Zheng (2005).
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January 4th, 2014
Serena, Nadal, Ivanovic, Li Win WTA/ATP Titles
"Every victory is important and the title today means a lot to me," Nadal said. "It is the first time in my career that I am able to start the season with a victory. That's always important."
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April 25th, 2009
Mattek-Sands Beaten, Glatch Saves U.S. for 1-1 Fed Cup Tie
The 19-year-old Glatch recorded a 6-1, 6-2, victory over world No. 29 Iveta Benesova to even the tie after Czech Petra Kvitova overcame Top 40-ranked Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. 6-3, 7-6(2).
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August 7th, 2008
U.S. Olympic Tennis Preview: Tough Draws for Blake, Men
Ginepri opens against world No. 3 Novak Djokovic, while Querrey has two winnable matches before a potential third-round meeting against world No. 2 Rafael Nadal. Blake, the No. 8 seed, opens against big-serving Aussie Chris Guccione, and hopes to make a quarterfinal meeting against world No. 1 Roger Federer.
Posted by Richard Vach @ 12:22 pm in Olympics, Tennis | 12 Comments »
July 20th, 2008
Tennis-X Weekend Wrap: ATP in Court; Serena Off Court at IW
In a final that will never make the cover of a women's fitness magazine, Canadian qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak upset No. 6 seed Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-3. Wozniak became the first Canadian since 1988 to win a WTA Tour singles title.
Posted by Staff @ 11:22 pm in Tennis | 32 Comments »
July 12th, 2008
Chang Enters Tennis Hall of Fame, But How?
I am quite certain that at some point today, Thomas Muster, Sergi Bruguera and perhaps a few other former Grand Slam champions all scratched their head upon hearing the news that Michael Chang officially entered the Tennis Hall of Fame.
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July 6th, 2008
Venus Trumps Serena in All-Williams Wimbledon Final
"I can't believe it's five," said Venus of her fifth Wimbledon title in seven finals, and unfailingly producing public relations on the difficulty of playing her sister. "When you play Serena Williams, five seems so far away."
Posted by Staff @ 1:00 am in Tennis, Wimbledon | 2 Comments »
July 4th, 2008
Federer v Nadal, Williams v Williams in Wimbledon Finals
"The fact was that Rafa beat me so easily in Paris and went on to win at Queen's," Federer said. "He has been playing fantastically but don't write me off too quickly because this is my part of the season, Wimbledon and the US Open…I don't think it matters really a lot if I'm the favorite or not. I'm on an incredible winning streak on grass. First somebody has to be able to break that before we start talking differently."
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July 4th, 2008
Nadal is not facing a radically depleted or wounded Roger Federer in the final. Federer won all 10 sets he played in picking up his 5th Halle title. Marcos Baghdatis and Nichols Kiefer stand out as solid wins in the quick transition from clay to grass. The Fed has also posted straight set wins over Robin Soderling, 2002 Wimbledon Champion Lleyton Hewitt, 2004 Wimbledon semifinalist Mario Ancic, and the enigmatic talent of Marat Safin. Nadal made a similarly quick and impressive transition from clay to grass, but he did so with the wind of victory at his back not the sting of humiliation. Federer has looked sharp at Halle and at Wimbledon.
Posted by Dan Martin @ 10:05 pm in French Open, Grass season, Halle, Hamburg, No. 1 ranking, Queens, Wimbledon | 58 Comments »
July 2nd, 2008
Federer, Nadal Cruise Into Wimbledon Semifinals
"I was too nervous to play well in the beginning," Safin said. "I got a service break and played better. I had to calm down. I was too nervous to make anything happen."
Posted by Staff @ 11:20 pm in Tennis, Wimbledon | 36 Comments »
July 1st, 2008
All-Williams Final Calling at Wimbledon; Heavy Rain Coming?
"I would never sit here and say she's the favorite when I'm still in the draw," Serena said. "That's not me. I always believe I'm the favorite. Even if I'm not the favorite, I'm always going to believe that I am."
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June 30th, 2008
No Heimlich for Choking Gasquet from Murray at Wimbledon
But the real story Monday at the All England Club was the comeback by homecountry hero Andy Murray against the mentally-fragile Frenchman Richard Gasquet.
Posted by Staff @ 8:39 pm in Tennis, Wimbledon | 19 Comments »
June 27th, 2008
Ivanovic Out-ovic at Wimbledon; Federer v Hewitt Next
"I think I know what it takes to win Slams or to go far," Federer said. So I have the proper preparation. I have the belief…Playing at Wimbledon always creates extra pressure because it's what's closest to my heart…I want to prove it to myself I can do it again here."
Posted by Staff @ 11:31 pm in Tennis, Wimbledon | 18 Comments »
June 24th, 2008
Wimbledon Day 1 Dish: Federer, Ivanovic Cruise; Serena's Trenchcoat
The slew of upset-makers Tuesday were Casey Dellacqua (d. (12) Patty Schnyder in three), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (d. (17) Alize Cornet in two tiebreaks), Vera Dushevina (d. (19) Maria Kirilenko), Evgeniya Rodina (d. (27) Virginie Razzano after getting bageled in the first), and Jie Zheng (d. (30) Dominika Cibulkova).
Posted by Staff @ 1:11 am in Tennis, Wimbledon | 51 Comments »
May 30th, 2008
French Open Dish: Loser Murray Says Fear Me; Both Williams Exit
"I think I proved I'm a good clay court player," the Brit said. "You saw by the way that he reacted at the end of the match that it was a tough match. To win against me on clay is a very good result. I'm not someone that's going to be taken lightly on this surface in the future I don't think."
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Instructional design theory and practice has evolved over the past 30 years from an initial narrow focus on programmed instruction to a multidimensional field of study integrating psychology, technology, evaluation, measurement, and management. The growth of instructional design (ID) has occurred because of direct needs, problems, and goals from society. Its application in planning instruction first developed in the United States with the Department of Defense during World War II with the purpose of meeting immediate concerns for effective training of larger numbers of military personnel. From the beginning, ID has rapidly expanded into applications in industrial and executive training, vocational training, classroom learning, and professional education. Although ID has its roots in the U.S., applications and theoretical growth is an international activity. However, literature at the international level is still limited to either individual author contributions or collections primarily represented by single countries. As a result, there is no standard reference source that contains the rich variety of theories and applications to form the international foundation for the field. The goal of this two-volume set is to establish international foundations for ID theory, research, and practice within the framework of the two following objectives: * to identify and define the theoretical, research, and model foundations for ID, and * to bridge the gap between ID foundations and application. Volume I includes chapters on philosophical and theoretical issues on learning theory and ID models. Volume II provides an overview of the state of the art of solving ID problems. The contributors offer contrasting points of view which provide a rare opportunity to see the diversity and complexity in the field. The editorial committee has selected a wide range of internationally known authors to make presentations in the topic areas of the field.Reigeluth, C. M. (1983). Meaningfulness and instruction relating what is being learned to what a student knows. Instructional Science, 12, 197-218. Reigeluth, C. M., aamp; Merrill, M. D. (1984). Extended task analysis [mice/lures (ETAP): Usera#39;sanbsp;...
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STOCKTON - The gunfire that claimed the life of a 21-year-old man on March 10 can be heard in the background of a cellphone video released by police Thursday.
STOCKTON - The gunfire that claimed the life of a 21-year-old man on March 10 can be heard in the background of a cellphone video released by police Thursday.
Officers responding to the scene near the intersection of East Eighth and Scribner streets around 7:30 p.m. that evening found 21-year-old Francisco Martinez suffering from a gunshot wound. He died later in a local hospital, according to the Stockton Police Department.
Investigators believe Martinez was not the intended target and was hit by a stray bullet and are asking for help from the public.
The video shows people in the distance at dusk, with the camera panning back and forth between some people on a sidewalk and others crossing a street, when the gunfire begins.
The camera begins to shake as the first of eight or more steady "pops" can be heard in the background. Then the scene fades in the distance, as if the person shooting the video was in a car that was driving away.
Right before the shooting begins, a voice can be heard saying something that sounds like: "(Garbled) why are you running in the house?"
Investigators are asking for witnesses to come forward and are asking people with information to call the department at (209) 937-8377, the Investigations Unit at (209) 937-8323, or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600. Callers can remain anonymous.
Tips can also be submitted through the Stockton Police's Facebook page or be texted to CRIMES (274637) by typing the keyword: "TIPSPD," and then the tip. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000 for information that leads to an arrest.