Busan Fest to Help Distribute, Sell Closing Film 'The Dinner'

BUSAN — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) wraps up its 18th edition on Oct. 12 with Kim Dong-hyun’s The Dinner, which the South Korean event plans to further support by handling distribution and overseas sales. No Korean independent film has ever opened or closed BIFF, and the choice reflects the festival’s determination to support the growing local indie film sector, organizers say.

"Choosing a film as an opener or closer implies that the festival will assume responsibility for its distribution and overseas sales," BIFF festival director Lee Yong-kwan told the press Thursday.

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"When I first saw The Dinner I had no idea Kim Dong-hyun had directed it, nor that it was an incubating project at the 2011 Asian Cinema Fund. I was just happy to come across such a well-made film," he said, referring the festival’s funding initiative. “I did, however, want to show an indie film as an opener/closer one day. This year a record number of indie films were made in Korea, but the indie industry is still struggling. Over 100 indie titles were made, but I wonder how many of these will actually be released in theaters. This is where the Busan International Film Festival will step in."

Kim said his film’s selection as BIFF’s closer means a lot to the local indie industry. "It is a great honor that my film was selected to close the festival. I think it holds great symbolic meaning -- my film was chosen not so much because it was a great piece but because the festival is paying attention and supporting the indie/arthouse scene. As much as mainstream Korean cinema is flourishing, there are also a lot of talented indie/arthouse filmmakers out there."

He went on to say he does not have box-office expectations for his film, which was made with a miniscule budget of $92,877 (100 million won). "It would be great to be distributed in a lot of theaters, but I don’t have any expectations because breaking even would mean very little for such a tiny budget. But considering that [the record-breaking Korean indie film] Old Partner began with just seven theaters -- not that I dare compare my work to this film -- I really believe in the power of the script more than anything else to bring in audiences."

The Dinner is the third feature by Kim, whose 2005 film A Shark was previously invited to BIFF. It is a stark drama about the tragic downfall of a normal middle-class Korean family as its members are beset by divorce, unemployment, and ill health among other misfortunes.

 

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Will.i.am says Pharrell's trademark is too similar

NEW YORK (AP) ? Will.i.am says a trademark Pharrell's company tried to register is too similar to his "I AM" trademark.

Will.i.am has owned the "I AM" trademark since 2001. He filed oppositions in March and May against Pharrell's company, i am OTHER. It launched in 2010.

In a statement Thursday, will.i.am's attorney Ken Hertz says trademark lawyers for will.i.am and Pharrell "discussed the matter for several months." He says because of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's deadlines, will.i.am "had no choice but to lodge his objection at the time he did."

Hertz says the lawyers for the musicians first spoke in December.

Pharrell says in a statement he's "disappointed" and "surprised" by will.i.am's opposition.

Will.i.am uses "I AM" for a number of his businesses, including his charity foundation I AM ANGEL.

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Unexpected discovery of the ways cells move could boost understanding of complex diseases

June 23, 2013 ? A new discovery about how cells move inside the body may provide scientists with crucial information about disease mechanisms such as the spread of cancer or the constriction of airways caused by asthma. Led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), investigators found that epithelial cells -- the type that form a barrier between the inside and the outside of the body, such as skin cells -- move in a group, propelled by forces both from within and from nearby cells -- to fill any unfilled spaces they encounter.

The study appears June 23, 2013 in an advance online edition of Nature Materials.

"We were trying to understand the basic relationship between collective cellular motions and collective cellular forces, as might occur during cancer cell invasion, for example. But in doing so we stumbled onto a phenomenon that was totally unexpected," said senior author Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology in the HSPH Department of Environmental Health and co-senior investigator of HSPH's Molecular and Integrative Cellular Dynamics lab.

Biologists, engineers, and physicists from HSPH and IBEC worked together to shed light on collective cellular motion because it plays a key role in functions such as wound healing, organ development, and tumor growth. Using a technique called monolayer stress microscopy -- which they invented themselves -- they measured the forces affecting a single layer of moving epithelial cells. They examined the cells' velocity and direction as well as traction -- how some cells either pull or push themselves and thus force collective movement.

As they expected, the researchers found that when an obstacle was placed in the path of an advancing cell layer -- in this case, a gel that provided no traction -- the cells moved around it, tightly hugging the sides of the gel as they passed. However, the researchers also found something surprising -- that the cells, in addition to moving forward, continued to pull themselves collectively back toward the gel, as if yearning to fill the unfilled space. The researchers dubbed this movement "kenotaxis," from the Greek words "keno" (vacuum) and "taxis" (arrangement), because it seemed the cells were attempting to fill a vacuum.

This new finding could help researchers better understand cell behavior -- and evaluate potential drugs to influence that behavior -- in a variety of complex diseases, such as cancer, asthma, cardiovascular disease, developmental abnormalities, and glaucoma. The finding could also help with tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, both of which rely on cell migration.

In carcinomas, for instance -- which represent 90% of all cancers and involve epithelial cells -- the new information on cell movement could improve understanding of how cancer cells migrate through the body. Asthma research could also get a boost, because scientists think migration of damaged epithelial cells in the lungs are involved in the airway narrowing caused by the disease.

"Kenotaxis is a property of the cellular collective, not the individual cell," said Jae Hun Kim, the study's first author. "It was amazing to us that the cellular collective can organize to pull itself systematically in one direction while moving systematically in an altogether different direction."

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apple-1 in first bytes: iconic technology from the twentieth century

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apple-1 in the first bytes: iconic technology from the twentieth century exhibition / auction

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christie?s just announced 'first bytes: iconic technology from the twentieth century', an online-only auction featuring vintage tech products. the sale will be open for bidding from june 24 through july 9, and will include the original apple computer, now known as the apple-1, which was designed and hand-built in 1976 by steve wozniak, who later signed his work. all browsing and bidding for the works featured in the two-week sale is done completely online, with the click of a mouse. registration and bidding are open to both new and established clients located anywhere in the world.

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consignor of the apple-1, ted perry, was first introduced to apple computers in 1977 as a project director for san juan unified school district, who received the first title IV-C microcomputer grant in K-12 education. he was tasked with the goal to select the computer company to best support the project, and eventually reached out to steve wozniak (woz) who was very supportive of its use for education.? the project was disseminated to over 3,000 school districts across the nation, and K-12 schools for the first time ever, had a computer (apple II) that allowed them to provide their own curriculum to the students.

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hand-built in steve jobs's parents' garage, the apple-1 was the first step in apple's long-term success in the personal computing world. only about 200 were built and the estimate for the apple-1 is $300,000 - 500,000. it will be quite the profitable turnaround, particularly since?ted perry was given the computer for free more than 30 years ago.

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additional highlights from 'first bytes: iconic technology from the twentieth century' include the 20th anniversary macintosh computer (1997), the apple lisa computer (the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI), released in 1983), and a translucent Mac SE (circa 1987-1990).

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the apple lisa computer from 1983, was produced for only one year, and was one of the world's first mouse-controlled computers.

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this Mac SE (1987-1990) is one of ten clear prototypes that were produced into fully working units; apparently 8 have survived.? the first Mac, from this article we learn that they used a fan for its cooling, they needed to do smoke tests with these units to see how the air flowed inside the machine and move components on the power sweep / analog board accordingly, to provide adequate cooling to them.

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tracing the rise of apple from its inception in 1976 to its 20th anniversary celebration in 1997, the auction showcases 10 lots, which, with varying degrees of commercial success, symbolize the entrepreneurial spirit that shaped one of the most dynamic american businesses of the 20th century.

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exhibition of apple-1: computer history museum, 1401 n shoreline blvd., mountain view, CA 94043. june 24-27. free and open to the public.

Source: http://www.designboom.com/technology/apple-1-in-first-bytes-iconic-technology-from-the-twentieth-century/

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Congo defends Chinese mining companies

GOMA, Congo (AP) ? Congo's information minister described a recently published Amnesty International report on working conditions in the country's mines as "unfairly targeting" Chinese companies.

In a media briefing Saturday, Minister Lambert Mende said the government had taken note of the serious accusations in the report and was concerned about conditions for miners, but he questioned why Chinese firms had been singled out for criticism.

He said: "Mining companies in Katanga (the Congo's copper belt province) are of 30 different nationalities, and none of them offer their employees and clients different conditions to the Chinese companies."

The Amnesty report details three case studies including two directly involving Chinese companies. The latter cases involved the forced eviction of 300 families and a confrontation with police in which a protestor was shot dead.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congo-defends-chinese-mining-companies-005751519.html

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Will Smith Not In 'Independence Day 2,' Director Roland Emmerich Says

"Independence Day" is finally getting the sequel fans have awaited for nearly two decades, but its biggest star won't be coming along for the ride.

Will Smith, whose role in the 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster helped propel him to megastardom, will not be appearing in "Independence Day 2," director Roland Emmerich told the New York Daily News on Saturday. "He's too expensive," Emmerich lamented.

That admission comes hot on the heels of Thursday's announcement that 20th Century Fox would be bringing the highly anticipated sequel to big screens on July 3, 2015. The news capped more than a decade of speculation about the long-gestating sequel, but it was not immediately clear whether or not Smith would be involved. That uncertainty wouldn't last long.

"Will Smith can not come back because he's too expensive," Emmerich told the Daily News, "but he'd also be too much of a marquee name."

"It would be too much," he said.

Smith, whose latest film, "After Earth," was a rare box-office miss, has been linked recently to several other blockbuster sequels/prequels, including "Bad Boys 3," "Hancock 2," and I Am Legend 2." His next film, an adaptation of Mark Helprin's celebrated fantasy novel "Winter's Tale," finds the actor in a supporting role for the first time in years.

Bill Pullman, who played a United States president-cum-fighter pilot in "Independence Day," has already indicated that there's a role for him in the sequel. While Emmerich has not yet revealed what other actors from the original might be returning, he did hint that several of the movie's primary characters have been written into the sequel's screenplay, which he co-wrote with producer Dean Devlin and James Vanderbilt.

"We have like maybe half of the people that you know would know from the first film (in the script)," Emmerich told the Daily News, "and the other half people who are new."

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Alpinestars' Atem Might Be the Safest Motorcycle Jacket You Can Buy

Nearly all motorcycle jackets available today have bits and pieces that are CE certified but never before has an entire garment?not just the elbows, shoulder and back armor?been CE certified for rider safety, like Alpinestars' Atem jacket and suit. After a 12 month-long gestation period and a myriad of new testing processes, the Atem is about as high tech as any modern high performance motorcycle.

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