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13: Fear Is Real — Two Buried Alive!
January 07, 2009 07:34 PM by Ryan Haidet
In a scary twist to the reality genre, the CW has attacked the airwaves with 13: Fear Is Real. This game takes 13 brave contestants (or victims — whichever you prefer) and sets them in scary situations where they face all sorts of frightening twists and turns. After competing in a series of challenges somebody will be "killed off." And tonight, two were buried alive to kick off a great show that any horror or reality fan can appreciate.
The brain power behind 13: Fear Is Realincludes executive producers Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, two men behind the Evil Dead movies — a series of horror films that have established an avid following (Raimi is also known for directing all three Spider-Man movies). At the end of it all, one person will walk away with the grand prize of $66,666 — creative, huh?
It all began with the 13 contestants riding in a bus together heading for their "final" destination in the Louisiana bayou in the middle of the night.
The bus came to a stop and the driver kicked them off, forcing them to walk the rest of the way. They grabbed their bags with no real idea where they were supposed to go. "We're going straight into the wilderness," said Cody, who is a self-proclaimed horror fan and professional ghosthunter. It was almost like they had been thrown into a horror movie.
After their seemingly short walk, they spotted a cabin. "This is a cozy-lookin' little shack," one of them said. They popped the door open and walked inside. Cody compared it to a set from a Friday the 13th movie — he loved it. But many others weren't so thrilled with the whole thing because it was dirty and there were bugs. "It was just disgusting," Kelly said. In a confessional, Leah admitted that she is afraid of the dark. Ummm…maybe coming on a horror-related reality show wasn't such a good idea.
The First Frightful Task
Nasser, who goes by the name Show, rapped a little bit for everybody inside the cabin. Then something pounded on the outside of the cabin, which brought several screams. The group walked outside with flashlights in hand to see a note attached to the outside of the cabin with an ax. It said, "Answer the phone." Moments later, the phone rang, but nobody knew where the phone was hidden. That's when they found a secret panel in the floor. When they answered it, "The Mastermind" was on the other end. He gave them their first instructions. One person was told to stay there alone, which Cody volunteered to do. The rest of the group was told to pair up and send one member of their pair down the path.
The 13: Fear Is Realpairs were broken up like this: Erica with Ted; Ryan with Melyssa; Adam with Laura; Rodney with Leah; Nasser with Steffinnie; and Lauren with Kelly. (For more information on each of these players, visit our bio page)
The rest of the group waited back with Cody at the cabin until "The Mastermind" called back and said they all had to go to the deserted road north of the cabin immediately. "What are we getting ourselves into?" one of them asked as they walked along the path.
Moments later, the group who had left the cabin first were shown tied to chairs with blindfolds and gags on in the middle of the woods. They were all screaming for help. Their partners were forced to take video cameras and try to find their teammate. The last pair to return to the start would have a "terrible" fate to face. Since Cody was the person who volunteered to stay behind, he was the only person promised safety.
In Blair Witch Project style, the 13: Fear Is Realcontestants were running through the woods and screaming for their partner.
After several teams had already found each other and began heading back to the start, Rodney thankfully rescued Leah who was screaming and crying while she was tied to the chair. The mind games were already taking their toll on her. With all teams now back together and all partners rescued, it became a race to get back to the start. Kelly and Lauren were the last to arrive and told they were condemned to the "Execution Ceremony" where they were to face off to determine which of them would be going home first.
The Death Box
The next day, everybody seemed nice and calm. They played cornhole and sat around talking about their personal lives. Nasser, who was wandering around in the woods, found a small cage with a tape player laying on top. "I have something to show you," the voice on the tape said. "Play this only when all of the guests are here." So everybody gathered. They learned that inside the cage was the Death Box. Whoever has it in their possession can kill off three other guests. But they must steal the Death Box in secret and make sure nobody knows they have it in their possession. If they are discovered as the killer (having the Death Box), they are automatically sent to the Execution Ceremony. Instructions to the Death Box were inside.
Paranoia started instantly leaving the group with mixed emotions. Cody said he was going to be watching everybody closely. Leah said she was mad the box was there and wanted nothing to do with it. But one of them was ready to take on the killer's role. Steffinnie walked back to the cage and put in the combination of 0-1-3 and opened the lock. She took the Death Box and became the first killer. She took it in pure daylight, too, which left me wondering why nobody else was watching her. With everybody so worried about it, how could they possibly let her get it so easily?!?!?! Instead of holding it in her possession, she threw the box in the woods and returned to the group at the cabin.
Moments later, Leah, who was already annoyed about the box, ran to the woods and discovered that it was gone. Instantly, everybody started pointing blame on everybody else. In a confessional, Steffinnie said that she was so terrified after taking the box. So she returned to the woods, found the box and placed it back inside the locked cage.
Shortly after, for some unknown reason, two people went back to the cage and saw that the box was back where it had started. This brought a sense of relief to the group.
The First Execution Ceremony
After the sun set, the phone rang telling Kelly and Lauren that it was time for the Execution Ceremony. They were told to walk to the end of the road and blindfold themselves. From there, the Mastermind's minions would take over. But before they left the cabin, each was asked to take a video camera and film their final words — since one of them wouldn't be returning.
After blindfolding themselves under the full moon, the women were led to a cemetery for the Execution Ceremony in which they were to be buried alive. They were ordered to step into a wooden coffin before them. Very apprehensively, both stepped inside and laid down. The lids were then nailed shut and lowered into the ground as the Mastermind's minions dumped dirt on top.
Lauren was breating extremely heavy while Kelly said a prayer. Then they heard the Mastermind above them say that the first to escape would continue in the competition. The person still buried alive would be "killed off." Each of them struggled, but Kelly escaped first by kicking out the bottom of her casket. Trembling, Kelly climbed out of the dirt, which left Lauren the first to be executed.
The Mastermind then ordered Kelly to return to the cabin and play Lauren's final words.
After they all watched her goodbye message, they grabbed a night's rest before a shocking morning surprise.
The next morning, three of the contestants went for a walk in the woods and saw that the Death Box had been taken by somebody else. A killer was now among them — and maybe this time, the person won't put it back!
Photos by Patrick Wymore/The CW 2008 The CW Network.
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Paulene Hinds Says:
January 7th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I was expecting scarier things to happen in this show! It is too much like a Halloween haunted house for me, but I will continue to watch it as my children got a good kick out of it!


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November 20, 2011 - Joselyn King
Those visiting the West Virginia Senate chamber these days are going to see something that didn't see a year ago -- at each Senate desk is now an iPad.
Before this, members didn't even have computers at their desks in the chamber. They opted instead to have their computers in their Senate offices.
Over in the House, the reverse has always been the norm. Computers were available to delegates on the House floor, but many used their own laptop computers in their offices.
New Senate President Jeff Kessler , D-Marshall, said the iPads made their debut in the Senate this fall, and it is among the technological upgrades coming to the legislative body. Their computers in the offices are going to be getting upgrades, he noted.
Other technological changes will benefit constituents' access to government. Kessler said he has already given the order that all Senate votes be posted on line beginning with the upcoming regular session in January (the House already does this) . Plans also are being discussed to broadcast legislative sessions online.
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Technology also made it possible this week for Sen. Erik Wells, D-Kanawha -- presently serving in Afghanistan -- to cast his vote for Senate president. While it was possible for him to vote through iPad, Kessler said, Wells cast his vote through the use of the Skype internet video service.
Kessler acknowledged the iPads will make it possible for lawmakers to cast their votes from home, but he added that probably won't happen as legislators "need to be in the chamber." He termed the situation regarding Wells "an extraordinary situation with a member serving in our military overseas."
My own hope is that technology will lead to legislators more often staying in their home districts, cutting their need to be in Charleston, Columbus or Washington. It's where their constituents live, and shouldn't they be keeping company with them rather than political types seeking to influence their decisions. Just a thought.
It should be noted the West Virginia Legislature has an excellent website that allows public to easily track legislation. It can be accessed at www.legis.state.wv.us/
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Sort of… For the first time in the history of the game industry digital sales have finally passed retail sales in the United States, according to new data released by NPD Group for the second quarter of 2011. Of course, the numbers they present are not all digital sales; NPD's category for "digital sales" is an amalgamation of digital sales, used game sales, and game rentals.
In the second quarter, NPD estimates that digital revenues were right around $1.74 billion, exceeding the $1.44 billion spent on physical sales in the same period. In the first quarter retail sales totaled $2 billion, while digital sales were right around $1.85 billion.
While this is interesting news for those selling in the digital space, it comes with caveats because a good chunk of the aforementioned figure comes from used game sales. And because we don't have a breakdown of used game sales in the quarter, calling this a victory for real, pure digital sales would be premature.
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Davidson said Dishmon's last known address was Tulsa.
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"The trucker swerved to miss the (suspect's) wrecked car and crashed," said Miami Police Chief George Haralson. He (trucker) left the road way and turned (the rig) over on its side."
Haralson said the trucker, whose name was not released pending notification of next-of-kin, was southbound on U.S. 69 north of Quapaw.
The suspect was northbound on the highway fleeing from authorities and driving erratically during the high-speed pursuit when he crashed his vehicle, he said. After the crash, the suspect ran into the woods, Haralson said.
Haralson said several law enforcement agencies were combing the wooded area north of Quapaw and south of Baxter Springs, Kan. looking for the suspect. He was later apprehended.
The suspect went into the IBC Bank in Miami about 10:30 a.m. and handed a teller a note saying, "I have a gun. I want all your money," police said.
"For some reason he got scared and ran away," Haralson said.
Haralson said a gun was never displayed and the no money was taken.
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Factory-backed by the Plymouth Division in late 1964, Ronnie Sox and Buddy Martin were no strangers to A/FX racing-they had been at the heart of it since 1962. But Buddy remembers that they were not ready for what Mopar had brewed for 1965 when they arrived in Detroit for a preview of their new Plymouth race car.
"Frankly, that was unbelievable," Buddy says. "A lot of mouths dropped open when we saw that first car. We had just come to Chrysler, and we could see the potential of the program, so it was pretty exciting for us."
The factory had moved the front wheels and rear axle forward, creating among the first of the Funny Cars. Sox & Martin raced that car, named the Paper Tiger, five times a week. They received a second SS-legal race car, Paper Tiger Too, that spring.
"Right after Bristol in June, we moved the rear wheels forward, and I had Dick Branstner do the front end," Buddy says.
Both '65 models were sold to the Buckeye & Vernon team in Maryland. The first hardtop, weak from acid dipping, came to an end with them. The sedan, seen here, was sold in Detroit in 1969 and ran C/Altered before being parked in an alley.
"It ended up in that alley for 14 years until a guy named Chris Taddy bought it," says Mike Guffey, the collector who did more than anyone to put these wild Chryslers back on the map. "Danny Crites of Baltimore ended up with the first Sox & Martin Paper Tiger. He told me it was held together with tape and was so weak that they finally just cut out the suspension parts and junked the body. Once I was convinced that the original car was destroyed, I decided to try and buy the Paper Tiger Too, which wasn't for sale."
Mike was persistent and he ended up with the weathered Sox car. It was never acid-dipped and therefore structurally sound, but it went to the back burner.
"A guy I knew named Mike Flynn began making noise about wanting that car," Mike says. "So eventually, I sold it through Flynn to Todd Werner, though I didn'tknow it at the time. I suppose I should have kept that Sox car; it's a pretty important piece of history."
The car had its original fiberglass, Dana, unmodified firewall, and front suspension, plus parts from Mike. After bodywork by Eric Lindberg and paint by Heath Hite, it was delivered to Todd at the '08 All-Hemi Reunion in Ohio (see Jan. '09 Hot Rod).
Early Funny Cars have become celebrated icons of the '60s era. After a second year of Funny Car action in 1966, Sox & Martin returned to more sedate machinery and greater success in Super Stock, but the Paper Tiger Too is the sole survivor from their foray into match bash action. Thanks to all these guys, the Tiger Too has teeth again.
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The special stainless steel K-frame engine support was relocated to move the front wheels to right behind the bumper. Everything that Dick Branstner had done in 1965 is still on this car. Also of note here are the wheels-the Sox & Martin team was one of the few buyers of Howard's mag wheels, and vintage photos show them on the hardtop and the sedan. Mike Guffey had found this set years ago at a swap meet and has never seen another. He sold them with the car to make the restoration correct.The first '65 Hemi in the Paper Tiger Too was long gone. Eric Lindberg built another using many vintage parts, including the short Hilborn injectors often used on four-speed cars. The tall stacks were used on the automatic entries favored by most other drivers.The Hemi-Powered Plymouth logo appeared on several of Plymouth's '65 drag cars, including the Golden Commandos, Richard Petty's Barracuda, and Sox & Martin's machines. It is why some early '66 street Hemi Belvederes had a small HP2 emblem added to their decor.As has been fondly remembered, Ronnie Sox was a master at banging gears, and the car used this white-knobbed stick to go down the quarter-mile. Increasing speeds resulted in many AWB cars getting the ubiquitous TorqueFlite automatic, though that device could have explosive complications when mechanical parts failed.


text: Former PANTERA manager Kimberly Zide Davis, who joined Concrete Management in 1994, and served as vice president of artist management until the organization ceased operations in 2003, was interviewed for Guitar World's January 2010 issue, which pays tribute to late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.Guitar World: How do you think the growing rift between [singer] Phil Anselmo and the rest of [PANTERA] in the late Nineties affected Dimebag in particular? Zide Davis: From Dime's perspective, I think it was hard for him to understand how you can be in a band with someone, and one day they're great and they're your buddy, and then all of sudden they're dark and not the person they were for the last 10 years. I think for Dime, in particular, it was really hard. He and Philip had been really close. And they were also the two main creative people — a lot of the interaction in the band in that regard was between the two of them. All of a sudden it was like Philip was on another planet. Guitar World: Following the aborted tour for "Reinventing The Steel" in 2001, was there ever a point where you felt you were close to getting Phil and the band together again? Zide Davis: Unfortunately, no. I don't think that moment ever existed. I literally spent the years from 2001 to 2003 trying all that I could with Concrete to get them to communicate. But numerous conference calls and other things were set up, and Philip never responded — or in some cases he responded in the press rather than actually just communicating with the rest of us. So I don't believe it would have been fixable. Twenty years down the line, who knows? But when people say, "If Dime had lived, do you think PANTERA would have gotten back together?" I would have to say, from the point that I know Vinnie [Paul Abbott, Dimebag's brother and former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer] and Dime were at when Dime was killed, no. Guitar World: When Dime and Vinnie formed DAMAGEPLAN, do you feel it was with the intent that there was no going back to PANTERA? Zide Davis: I believe their intention was for DAMAGEPLAN to be their band for the rest of their lives. I saw them play twice with that band, and it was really endearing to me, because there had been a point in time where they didn't know if they would ever play again. They had been burned, and hard. Dime picked up the pieces and he moved on. But it wasn't easy, and I think he was very clear about the fact that it wasn't easy. Guitar World: Do you think they always hoped that one day PANTERA would reunite? Zide Davis: Sometime toward the latter half of 2003 I remember having a conversation with Dime where he said, "I'm officially finished. I'm picking up and I'm moving on." Until then, he and Vinnie hadn't been able to move on. They felt very stuck in a pattern that just went around in circles. And it wasn't until they were both at peace with the fact that PANTERA was done that they started doing DAMAGEPLAN. Guitar World: Is there still no interaction between Phil and Vinnie? Zide Davis: There is not. And I don't believe there ever will be. And truthfully, I don't know if they would be interacting even if Dime hadn't been murdered. But his death sealed it. I don't think Vinnie will ever be able to communicate with Philip again, and I don't really blame him on a lot of levels. During the Guitar World interview, Zide Davis also revealed plans for PANTERA to release 20th-anniversary reissues of the "Cowboys From Hell" (in 2010), "Vulgar Display Of Power" (in 2012) and "Far Beyond Driven" (in 2014) albums containing extra material. For more information, visit www.guitarworld.com. Pictured below: Kimberly Zide Davis with Dimebag


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It was a remarkable moment in the somber courtroom Friday when the companion of Morgan Fick Williams turned to the man who killed her in a horrific head-on collision in April and said Williams would have forgiven him.
King County Superior Court Judge Bruce Heller wasn't feeling as magnanimous, however, and sentenced wrong-way driver Michael Anthony Robertson to 10 years in prison for vehicular homicide and driving under the influence, just six months short of the maximum sentence the law would let him impose.
Robertson, who remains in a wheelchair from injuries he suffered in the crash, tearfully promised the judge and Williams' family that he would work to educate people about the perils of drinking and driving.
"I wish I could have known Morgan Williams," the 25-year-old Robertson said after prosecutors played a video depicting her life and family. "She was the kind of person I strived to be, but lost along the way."
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The 90-minute hearing was painful for everyone involved. The gallery was filled with Williams' family and friends, many of whom repeatedly wiped away tears.
Her daughter, Erin Kinch, said her mother's death was a "tragedy" and a "travesty," but was "no accident."
Robertson was awaiting trial for a December drunken-driving arrest in Pierce County and had five prior speeding tickets when he apparently made a U-turn and drove westbound into the eastbound lanes of Highway 520 early April 4.
He collided head-on with Williams, of Seattle, who was driving to her job at Eddie Bauer's corporate headquarters in Bellevue. The charges said that state troopers found a nearly empty bottle of whiskey in the front seat and that Robertson, with two broken ankles, kept trying to get out of the car to "go home."
"This was a preventable death," Kinch told the court. And while Robertson has expressed remorse for the crime, including pleading guilty as charged to avoid putting the family through a trial, Kinch was unmoved.
If Robertson hadn't driven drunk, she said, "then he would have no reason to be sad and remorseful today."
Jerry Esterly, Williams' companion for the past five years, told Robertson that he believed Williams would have liked to have known him, as well.
"You would have loved her. Everybody did," he said. "Morgan has forgiven you. I have not. I am trying."
Williams, Esterly said, had worked with inmates at the Monroe Correctional Facility while with Eddie Bauer, and she was disturbed by the effects of long prison terms.
Esterly, a longtime Seattle private investigator, told Robertson he believes Williams would want him to use his time in prison to better himself, "to learn so you can help others."
"You look to me to be the saddest guy I've ever seen," Esterly told Robertson, who has wept openly after every court appearance.
"You have powerful things to say about what happens when you drink and drive," Esterly told him. "You could be a powerful voice."
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CANNES 2001: More Cannes Deals; Newport Lineup; Method Fest Plans; and the Castro Renovation
by Eugene Hernandez and Anthony Kaufman/indieWIRE
>> CANNES 2001: Festival is Over, But Dealmaking Continues; Trio of Cannes Films Acquired
(indieWIRE/05.22.01) -- Execs and festival-goers returning from Cannes
yesterday (Monday) may have missed the news, but three more Festival
competition films have apparently found a home.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired Jacques Rivette's "Va Savoir," according to trade reports Monday. The Hollywood Reporter indicated that Sony made the deal with Celluloid Dreams.
In other deals, Paramount Classics nabbed Raoul Ruiz' Cannes closing night film, "Les Ames Fortes," according to yesterday's Hollywood Reporter. Also,
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>> Newport International Opens "Closet," Closes with "Party"
(indieWIRE/05.22.01) -- The 4th Newport International Film Festival (June
5-10) will open with Francis Veber's "The Closet" and close with Jennifer
Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming's digital debut "The Anniversary Party," the festival announced yesterday.
Newport's narrative feature competition is an eclectic mix of international
entries, including the world premiere of Joe Furey's "Love and Support"
(U.S.), the North American premieres of Harata Marada's Berlin entry
"Inugami" (Japan) and Assaf Bernstein's "Run" (Israel), and such notable foreign festival favorites as Anne-Sophie Birot's "Girls Can't Swim"
(France) and Lukas Moodysson's "Together" (Sweden). In addition to Furey's film, other U.S. competitors include Joel Hopkin's "Jump Tomorrow," Peter Callahan's "Last Ball," and David Wain's "Wet Hot American Summer."
10 films will also vie for attention in the festival's documentary
competition. World premieres include John Walter's "How to Draw a Bunny" (U.S.) about the mysterious death of artist Ray Johnson, and Ian Darling's "Woodstock for Capitalists" (Australia) about the cult of financial guru
Warren Buffet. Other notable entries include recent Doubletake winners,
Stephen Ives's "Amato" (U.S.) and Marie De Laubier's "Avant de Partir" (France), and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" director Mel Stuart's non-fiction foray "Running on the Sun."
Newport has also nabbed an impressive round of special screenings, including
the world premiere of Billy Bob Thornton's family comedy "Daddy and Them," the U.S. premiere of Spike Lee's "A Huey P. Newton Story," East Coast
premieres like Bill Plympton's "Mutant Aliens" and Michael Corrente's "Shot at Glory," and the premieres of two new episodes from "Six Feet Under," "American Beauty" scribe Alan Ball's anticipated new HBO series which is profiled in this week's New Yorker magazine. A music sidebar will also screen the world premiere of Gillian Grisman's Jerry Garcia doc, "Grateful Dawg." [Anthony Kaufman]
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>> Method Fest Brandishes "Bully" World Premiere
(indieWIRE/05.22.01) -- Larry Clark's latest film "Bully" will have its
world premiere at the Los Angeles-based Method Independent Film Festival. To
be released by Lions Gate this summer, "Bully" tales the true tale of Bobby
Kent, a teen bully who was murdered by his friends in suburban Florida. Now
in its third year, The Method Fest, named after the renowned school of
acting founded by Lee Strasberg and the only U.S. film festival devoted to
the actor, runs from June 15-22, and will feature a number of other
independent world premieres. The festival closes with the Los Angeles
premiere of Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes' Spanish film "Sobrevivire" ("I Will Survive"). [Anthony Kaufman]
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(indieWIRE/05.22.01) -- The last continuously operating movie palace in San
Francisco -- the Castro Theater -- will be restored nearly 80 years after it
opened. The recently formed Castro Foundation, founded by Tom Rielly (also founder of PlanetOut), will make the announcement today.
Located in the city's predominantly gay and lesbian Castro District, the
theater is a home to many film festivals in San Francisco. The San Francisco
International Film Festival, the Jewish Film Festival, the San Francisco
International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the San Francisco Silent Film
Festival, are among the events that call the venue their home.
"The Castro Theatre is the secular cathedral and anchor of our
neighborhood, as well as a citywide cultural venue," Rielly said in a
prepared statement. "It's time for the community, gay and straight alike, to
work with the Nasser family to return the Castro Theatre to its original
opening night splendor." [Eugene Hernandez]
>> MONDAY in indieWIRE DAILY NEWS: Moretti's "La Stanza Del Figlio" Takes the Palme d'Or, While "La Pianiste" Wins Three and Coen and Lynch Tie for Best Director
(indieWIRE/05.21.01) -- The winners of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival were
announced Sunday night in France. A complete list of winners is available
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Patient expectations can be a sensitive and critical issue to address both pre-operatively and post-operatively with not only the patient undergoing the surgery but with the patient's family and friends. Post-operative outcomes for cochlear implant recipients can take many recognizable forms, including sound awareness (known as detection) at the most basic level to open-set speech recognition in noise, which represents the pinnacle of achievement for cochlear implant users. A nice schematic is provided to address the various levels of achievement.
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The life and death of America's largest urban farm makes for a rather ugly contemporary tale of race-on-race conflict, backroom political deals and questions about the viability of property rights in Scott Hamilton Kennedy's blatantly partisan "The Garden."
The life and death of America's largest urban farm makes for a rather ugly contemporary tale of race-on-race conflict, backroom political deals and questions about the viability of property rights in Scott Hamilton Kennedy's blatantly partisan "The Garden." More of an agitprop piece than reportage, doc promotes one side — the gardeners — in a battle over the once-thriving South Central Community Garden at 41st Street and Alameda, south of downtown Los Angeles, and demonizes the garden's opponents. SilverDocs feature prize and strong reception at Los Angeles fest will secure further fest and tube interest.Kennedy's original title was "Tierra y libertad," suggesting the militant, communitarian mood and predominantly Latino community that made up the garden and the battle over it, which seems a sure subject for a future Ken Loach film. Kennedy's left-wing perspective is exactly in line with Loach's, and anyone seen as disagreeing with the farmers — dissenters include the late Juanita Tate, whose environmental justice work in L.A. remains legendary — is viewed here in a remarkably negative and harsh manner. So harsh, it should be noted, that during the pic's first Los Angeles fest screening, a graphic stating that Tate died in 2004 elicited applause from some members of the audience. Pic begins with a loving survey of the garden, whose workers grew everything from zucchini to bananas, cilantro to papayas. (Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters is later seen good-naturedly chiding the farmers for not growing traditional Southern and African-American foods like collard greens, underlining South Central's brown-black divide.) The 16-acre plot was formerly owned by Ralph Horowitz, who lost it to the city in 1986, and was the site of a proposed incineration plant that Tate and her Concerned Citizens of South Central, against long odds, successfully fought in the 1980s. In the wake of the 1992 riots, the city granted the property to local Latino neighbors desiring to grow their own food. Through group initiative and some serious green thumbs, the once-barren plot quickly turned lush and fecund. Kennedy (on camera and sound) follows the group and its battle against not only Horowitz, but also City Councilwoman Jan Perry and Tate's Concerned Citizens, the latter of whom pushed for a community sports center (depicted as a sorry-looking soccer field). It becomes clear that a more thorough, objective and serious journalistic approach was required once the story delves into the intricacies of the property's murky history. As "The Garden" terms it, Horowitz may have never been the property's legitimate owner, although this continues to be a hotly debated matter. To the film's detriment, Horowitz was either never contacted for an interview or refused an on-camera appearance with Kennedy. Whichever is the case, pic never articulates this cardinal journalistic point. After depicting Horowitz in the most negative terms — with only a passing mention of reportedly anti-Semitic comments directed at him — pic grants him screen time only with a vid recording of his deposition during his court case against the growers. Tate, who did speak with Kennedy, is seen walking out when she apparently senses she's not being fairly interviewed. Scene is edited in such a way to make the always opinionated Tate look unpleasant, even obnoxious. To Kennedy's credit, he observes an internal conflict among the growers (the details of which remain blurry) that illustrates how difficult it can be to keep a collective intact. A last-minute effort by Hollywood celebs, including Daryl Hannah, Danny Glover and Rage Against the Machine's Zak de la Rocha, and even a visit by Congressman Dennis Kucinich during his losing Democratic presidential campaign, draws local media but doesn't finally win the day. In the aftermath, with the property barren during pending legal appeals by the growers (and with Horowitz planning to build warehouses there), Juarez and some of her compadres are growing produce on a much bigger plot of land north of Los Angeles. Whether or not this can be seen as a victory is up to the viewer's judgment — and biases. It's worth noting that Kennedy's account fails to acknowledge other successful, though much smaller, urban gardens in the Los Angeles area, projects unencumbered by the political knots and tangles that bedeviled this one.
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A Black Valley Films production in association with Katahdin Prods. Produced by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. Executive producers, Julie Bergman Sender, Stuart Sender. Co-producer, Vivianne Nacif, Dominique Derrenger. Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
Camera (color, DV), Kennedy; editors, Alex Blatt, Tyson Fitzgerald, Kennedy; music, Gabriel Tenorio, Doug DeAngelis; sound (stereo), Kennedy; supervising sound editor, Paul Hacker; sound re-recording mixer, Hacker. Reviewed at Los Angeles Film Festival (Free Screenings), June 21, 2008. (Also in SilverDocs Film Festival, Silver Spring, Md. -- competing.) Running time: 79 MIN.
Rufina Juarez, Tezozomoc, Josefina Medina, "Don" Eddie Luvianos Rumbos, Deacon Alexander, Miguel Perez, Jan Perry, Juanita Tate, Dan Stormer, Ron Kaye, Larry Frank, Doris Bloch, Antonio Villaraigosa, Daryl Hannah, John Quigley, Joan Baez, Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Zak de la Rocha. (English, Spanish dialogue)


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A man serving a sentence in Arizona for raping a young girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to raping the same girl while living in Missoula.
Prosecutors say Stanford Allen Lewis raped the girl in 2004 when she was six or seven years old. The girl was staying in Missoula in the basement of a friend's home.
Lewis is already serving a time for molesting the same girl in Arizona, but pleaded not guilty to the Missoula County charge.


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Manned and unmanned planes in the Navy's future
100 Years of Naval Aviation
|About 200 aircraft will fly over San Diego on Saturday, Feb. 12 as part of the Centennial of Naval Aviation. The "Parade of Planes" begins at 1 p.m. when vintage planes fly over San Diego Bay. The aircraft will arrive from the south, passing over the Coronado Bridge.
The future of Naval aircraft
The Navy's drones
The Pentagon increased its spending on unmanned aircraft tenfold between 2001 and 2008, according to a RAND Corp. report. The Navy's arsenal of drones is less advanced than that of the Air Force, which has been flying Predator and Reaper aircraft for some time. But the Navy is poised to launch a new aircraft carrier drone and expand its use of helicopter-like drones and far-ranging surveillance craft, all produced by Northrop Grumman.
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D)
• Function: To prove drones can land on aircraft carriers.
• Testing: First successful flight Feb. 4. Expected tests aboard carriers in 2013.
• Next-generation model: Carrier-based stealth drone that will perform surveillance and carry weapons.
MQ-8B Fire Scout
• Function: Helicopter-like drone takes off and lands vertically.
• In field: Two aboard the frigate Halyburton in the Arabian Sea; three headed to Afghanistan later this year.
• In the news: In August, MQ-8 became temporarily unresponsive to commands and entered restricted Washington, D.C., airspace.
MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) system
• Function: Has look of conventional airplane; designed to conduct surveillance missions of up to 30 hours.
• How it works: Taking off from land, it patrols over the water, providing a broad view of the maritime domain.
• Predecessor: Based on the Air Force's RQ-4B Global Hawk
The Navy celebrates its centennial of flying today with a massive aerial parade over San Diego Bay, where the first brave naval pilot came to earn his wings.
But looking ahead to the next 100 years, or even the next decade, Navy aviation may be a tailless airplane, flown by a nonpilot with enlisted stripes on his sleeve.
That's a vision that might thrill the hearts of some Americans, especially those with joystick calluses on their fingers. But it may chill those who remember life before Xbox, or who feel attached to the century-long history of winged naval aviators and their daring exploits.
Navy brass say the burgeoning use of unmanned aerial drones could mean fewer bright-eyed young officers will be minted into pilots in the coming generation.
Instead, what's possible is rooms full of sharp, enlisted drone operators working eight- to 12-hour shifts as their vehicles stay in the air for a day or more.
"I believe this is the new dream of being a pilot to the new generation," said Senior Chief Stephen Diets, 36, a sailor currently operating a Fire Scout helicopter drone.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who arrived in San Diego Friday for today's aerial parade, said he expects to see a steady increase in the use of drones.
"We cannot allow our technological lead to evaporate," he said. "Last year, the Air Force had more pilots in unmanned systems than they did in manned systems. And I think that that's a trend."
But the Pentagon is also investing in manned jets for the Navy. The United States has spent $50 billion to develop the F-35, a new class of fighter jet that is supposed to be stealthier, more reliable and a technological wonder. Given this major investment of tax dollars, most observers say the human military pilot will not be placed on the endangered species list anytime soon.
Drones will be used for the jobs that are dull, dirty and dangerous: around-the-clock surveillance, reconnaissance in contaminated areas and "suicide" missions to draw enemy fire, for example.
And piloted aircraft will be called when the Navy needs split-second decision-making at the scene.
But the advent of drones will shake up Navy culture and doctrine.
"Naval aviators, one of the three big naval 'aristocracies,' are going to see their influence wane," said Craig Hooper, a San Francisco-based defense analyst.


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I've been tagged by Creating Abundant Lifestyles to participate a "blog Apocalypse" project. A project that will generate some charity and links. It all started from Urban Monk who is donating $1 per every link he gets. The idea of the project is to write a blog entry, as if it was your last one.
Here's what my entry would like – if this would have been my last chance to blog:
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Be nice to each other.
I believe this summarizes everything pretty well, in a simple and short manner. As that was only a pretended 'last blog post', I'm glad I don't have to say that for real and can keep publishing new content every day. To keep this project going, I'm tagging more people and hoping to hear what they would say in their last blog post.
Jake Birkett – Games, Aikido, positive thinking.
Seth Godin – it would be nice to hear what the marketing professional would say in his last blog post. (By the way, his Purple Cow book is a must read about marketing)
Problogger – Darren's great blogging site is the number one place to find information about blogging, I wonder what his last blog post would be all about…
Jay Barnson – I bet Rampant coyote's last story would be worth reading.
Cliff Harris – guy behind Kudos, and upcoming Rock-Legend games to name a few.
Guy Kawasaki – His business advice is priceless. Let's see what he would say if he would need to do his last blog post.


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In Britain, the biannual charity extravaganza that is Comic Relief has a great track record for creating one-off comedy sketches, many based around established British shows and comedy characters. Past classics have included skits based around the likes of "Doctor Who," "Blackadder," "Gavin and Stacey," "One Foot in the Grave," "Da Ali G Show," "I'm Alan Partridge" and "Father Ted." Ricky Gervais has been involved many times before, perhaps most notably for the time he created an extremely funny sketch in which he appeared to be recording an appeal for aid from Africa. Well, Gervais returned with a new sketch at this year's Comic Relief, and this time he brought back David Brent.
Aside from a couple of cameos on the U.S. version of "The Office," the last time that we'd seen Brent was when "The Office" Christmas specials aired back on December 26th and 27th of 2003, making this year a decade since the character finally stood up to Chris Finch and got as happy an ending as that character could possibly have. It's probably particularly apt that Gervais has decided to revive Brent for Comic Relief, considering it was while in fancy dress for the event that he was made redundant from Wernham Hogg back during the second season. The entire 10-minute short, entitled "The Office Revisited," is now available to watch online, and you can watch the new slimline version of David Brent below.
The short sees Brent now as a traveling salesman, and given the character's fondness for music -- with past hits including "Freelove Freeway" and a cover of "If You Don't Know Me By Now" -- it should come as no surprise that the impetus in this short is the recording of a new song. In addition to the short, the entire music video for "Equality Street" is available to watch, so you can hear all of Brent's reggae-inflected Biddly Biddly Bongs alongside the extremely game British rapper and comedian Doc Brown. The consensus seems to be that it was the highlight of this year's Comic Relief, but it's up for debate whether this is as funny as the character in his prime.
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OSU coach Mike Gundy: 'College football has turned into March Madness'
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder: "We gave away two touchdowns at the very outset of the ballgame, and I was very proud of our football team because it was a replica of last week's ballgame with the exception of the fact that we came back and played a little bit better in the second half. By and large, we beat ourselves, and good football teams don't do that."
OSU coach Mike Gundy: "I've said this now for awhile — college football has turned into March Madness and starts in September. I just don't know that there are going to be many teams that can make it through to the end that don't have some close calls."
Snyder on the game's final plays: "We didn't have a timeout. So we didn't have any options but to throw the football. One of the plays that we did was an either-or with a running play, but we didn't have enough time to do it."
Gundy on the game's final plays: "I told them in the locker room that I've been involved with Oklahoma State football for almost a quarter of a century and I've been here a lot of years when an opponent had a first down on the 4-yard line at the end of a game and we didn't stop them. I've been around our defense now for a couple of years, and they are finding a way to stop people."
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"DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF PLASMA BUBBLES AT 20 MHz
by Professors John C. Mannone and Wanda Diaz
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers 2004 Conference
Tuesday June 29, 2004
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Green Bank, WV
Charge deficient holes in the F-region, called plasma bubbles, are
typically detected above the equatorial zone. Some of the traditional techniques of detection involve sensitive receivers
called riometers tuned to 30 MHz to record time variations or rocket-borne Langmuir probes measure the fluctuation of electron
number density. In this work, the electron number density variations are recorded indirectly. Astrophysical radio waves are
modulated by these variations as they travel through the ionosphere. Spectral analysis of decametric radio signals acquired
with 20 MHz antennas will provide similar information about the ionosphere. The behavior of the radio noise floor will show
if radio light is scintillated. This technique is applied to data from Puerto Rico. Though just north of the magnetic equatorial
zone, power spectra disclose radio twinkling by the sudden post-sunset onset of plasma bubbles just before local midnight.
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Advice from the (Little League) stars
They hung with players from opposing teams, absorbing ping-pong thrashings administered by players from Japan and Taiwan.
"They were dead serious about (ping-pong)," said Graft.
Of the overall experience, Graft said, "It was the chance of a lifetime, just hanging out with your friends and coaches all day. It was kind of like 'the life.'"
But with all that adulation, attention and competition come some negatives.
Pointing out that some parents complained about playing time or even where he was hitting in the batting order, former Park View president Rod Roberto said, "I think parents knock out teams more than kids knock out teams."
Luke Ramirez said that if the Eastlake players win the LLWS, they should be prepared to deal with jealousy when they return home.
"You just have a target on your back," said Ramirez, adding that many people gloated if he struck out after Little League.
"You're that Little League kid," he said. "And people are always out to get you. It comes from parents, it comes from umpires. It comes from other coaches, players.
"It's unfortunate but inevitable. There are nasty people who want to beat you so bad."
Of the 12 Park View players, 11 are still playing baseball.
One family built a virtual shrine to the LLWS experience, displaying their son's three bats, glove, batting gloves, pins, a Lakers autographed basketball and Chargers autographed football inside a living-room case.
Others are more low key.
Garcia keeps a team ball autographed by his teammates and his Park View baseball card on a shelf in his bedroom.
"I've got a hat somewhere," he said.
As to advice for the Eastlake players and what awaits them at South Williamsport, Garcia said, "Appreciate all the blessings that are given to you. Enjoy every minute because you won't get it back. This is your only chance."


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"He pitched well down the stretch and closed out the games he had to close out, and therefore he earned the spot to be our closer going into the season," Melvin said.
Qualls finished the season strong, going 2-0 with seven saves in September, which included a streak of 13 scoreless innings.
As for how rest of the bullpen shapes up, Melvin said that will be determined in the coming weeks. Only three other relievers at this point are assured of spots on the Opening Day roster - setup men Jon Rauch and Tony Pena, and left-hander Scott Schoenweis.
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Django Stars Leonardo DiCaprio And Jamie Foxx Reunite For A Detective Movie
By Nick Venable 2013-06-27 17:29:01 comments
Three days ago, Warner Bros. film chief Jeff Robinov left the studio and was replaced by three other executives, with Warner exec Greg Silverman placed in charge of production. Instead of starting out with a small, risk-free project, Silverman has landed a potential blockbuster for his first deal.
Deadline the studio acquired S. Craig Zahlers upcoming novel Mean Business on North Ganson Street, which is already a good deal, since Zahler is quite a talented writer. But the big news here is that the future film will re-team Leonardo DiCaprio with Jamie Foxx, albeit in roles on the opposite side of the universe from the ones they played in Quentin Tarentinos Django Unchained.
After the greatness of Django these two could be attached to an adaptation of this...
...and it would still attract audiences in droves.
DiCaprios production company Appian Way, which is becoming a mini-powerhouse, will provide non-Warner production duties. For the screenplay, Zahler will adapt his own novel, which is in the process of being shipped to publishers.
In Mean Business on North Ganson Street DiCaprio will play a hardened detective contacted by a man whose wife has gone missing. When the detective implies that the man's wife is a whore, the man commits a desperate, tragic act in the squad room, after which a disgraced DiCaprio is sent to the increasingly violent shittown of Victory, Missouri. Hes paired with another ruthless detective who got into trouble for publicly beating up a suspect. Foxx will be playing that abused suspect. Cops start showing up dead, murdered execution-style, and Im guessing our hardcore dicks are put to task figuring out whos behind it all.
I kind of wish Foxx and DiCaprio could be on the same side, but if Foxx is going to be a cop executing madman in this one, Im willing to jump on board. I wonder if all of the cops will be white, thus extending his white people-killing pride that he got out of Django?
Mean Business is Zahlers third novel, after 2010s A Congregation of Jackals and the recently released Wraiths of the Broken Land. He wrote the screenplay for Alexandre Courtès surprisingly enjoyable horror thriller Asylum Blackout from last year. He also wrote the screenplay for what will be his directorial debut, the western horror Bone Tomahawk, which has an impressive cast including Timothy Olyphant, Kurt Russell and Peter Sarsgaard.
You can find Foxx dodging explosions this weekend when Roland Emmerichs White House Down hits theaters, and hell be shocking audiences next year as Electro in Marc Webbs The Amazing Spider-Man 2. DiCaprio, meanwhile, ruled theaters for a while as a rich man in Gatsby and will rule them again as another rich man in Martin Scorseses The Wolf of Wall Street in November.
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