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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Internet News Option 3A: The Conjuring Debuting at the L.A. Film ...
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FILM INDEPENDENT AND NEW LINE CINEMA TO DEBUT THE CONJURING AT THE LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL ON JUNE 21
LOS ANGELES? ? Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by Film Independent, in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. LIVE, announced it will debut New Line Cinema?s The Conjuring from filmmaker James Wan (Saw, Insidious) at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival.? The film, which stars Academy Award? nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Bates Motel), Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Ron Livingston (Office Space, Adaptation) and Lili Taylor (Hemlock Grove), will screen in two theaters at the Regal Cinema at L.A. LIVE on June 21, first at 10:00 pm in Regal House 11 and 10:30 pm in Regal House 10 with both screenings followed by a Q&A with Wan.? The film is set for release on July 19 and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. For more information on purchasing tickets for this and other Festival events please visit www.lafilmfest.com.
?A classic haunted house story for today?s smart sensibilities, we are thrilled Sue Kroll and her team chose the Los Angles Film Festival to debut this gem,? said Festival Director Stephanie Allain. ?We know our Festival audiences are going to love this supernatural thriller.?
?Taking inspiration from the case files of two real life ghost hunters, James Wan has crafted a thriller that will definitely get under audiences? skin,? said Associate Director of Programming Doug Jones. ?Creating an atmosphere of dread, one unsettling event at a time, Wan ratchets up the tension until it?s nearly unbearable and delightfully scary.?
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville.? Based on the true-life story, The Conjuring tells the tale of how world-renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse.? Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
Wan directs from a screenplay by Chad Hayes & Carey W. Hayes (The Reaping) and is produced by Tony DeRosa-Grund, Peter Safran and Rob Cowan, with Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers.? Reuniting with the director are members of his Insidious creative team ? director of photography John R. Leonetti, editor Kirk Morri, costume designer Kristin M. Burke, composer Joseph Bishara ? and his Saw production designer, Julie Berghoff.
Passes are currently on sale to Film Independent members and the general public. In addition to screenings and events, Festival passes provide access to a series of networking receptions and entry to the Filmmaker Lounge, where Festival pass holders can interact with Festival filmmakers and professionals in the film community. All Access, Fast, Industry and Cinema Pass holders have access to sold out events. General admission tickets to individual films go on sale beginning May 21.? Contact the Ticket Office for passes, tickets and event information by calling 866.FILM.FEST (866.345.6337) or visit LAFilmFest.com.
For the eighth year, the Los Angeles Times will serve as the Festival?s Presenting Media Sponsor and will produce the Official Film Guide, the comprehensive source for all movie info, screenings, locations and related special events. The Film Guide will top the paper on Sunday, June 9 in Los Angeles and Orange County, and will be made available throughout downtown Los Angeles during the ten-day event.
The Los Angeles Film Festival is presented in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times, Premier and Closing Night Sponsor DIRECTV, Premier Sponsor American Airlines, Principal and Family Day sponsor Hasbro Studios and Platinum sponsors Stella Artois, Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, EFILM, HBO, Volkswagen of America, Canon U.S.A., Inc. and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Special support is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Official Screening Venue is Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14. Stella Artois is the official beer.?Renwood Winery is the official wine provider. Shellback Caribbean Rum is the official spirit.? The Los Angeles Athletic Club is the Official Host Hotel. WireImage is the Official Photography Agency and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent.?
ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
Now in its nineteenth year, the Los Angeles Film Festival, supported by L.A. LIVE and the Los Angeles Times, showcases the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to some of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world.
The Festival features unique signature programs including the Filmmaker Retreat, Music in Film Nights at the Grammy Museum, Poolside Chats, Master Classes and more.? Additionally, the Festival screens short films created by high school students and has a special section devoted to music videos.
Over 200 features, shorts and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, make up the main body of the Festival.
The DIRECTV Narrative and Documentary Grand Jury Prizes are cash awards for best narrative and documentary features selected by an esteemed panel of jurors each year. ?The Festival also hosts best narrative, documentary and animated short film jury awards as well as a jury award for best performance in the narrative competition. Audience awards are also presented to best documentary, narrative and international feature, short film and music video.
The Los Angeles Film Festival is presented in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times, Premier and Closing Night Sponsor DIRECTV, Premier Sponsor American Airlines, Principal and Family Day sponsor Hasbro Studios and Platinum sponsors Stella Artois, Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, EFILM, HBO, Volkswagen of America, Canon U.S.A., Inc. and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Special support is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Official Screening Venue is Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14. Stella Artois is the official beer.?Renwood Winery is the official wine provider. Shellback Caribbean Rum is the official spirit.? The Los Angeles Athletic Club is the Official Host Hotel. WireImage is the Official Photography Agency and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent.?
More information can be found at www.LAFilmFest.com
ABOUT FILM INDEPENDENT
Film Independent is a nonprofit arts organization that champions independent film and supports a community of artists who embody diversity, innovation, and uniqueness of vision. Film Independent helps filmmakers make their movies, builds an audience for their projects, and works to diversify the film industry. Film Independent?s Board of Directors, filmmakers, staff, and constituents, is comprised of an inclusive community of individuals across ability, age, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexual orientation. Anyone passionate about film can become a member, whether you are a filmmaker, industry professional, or a film lover.
Film Independent produces the Spirit Awards, the annual celebration honoring artist-driven films and recognizing the finest achievements of American independent filmmakers.? Film Independent also produces the Los Angeles Film Festival, showcasing the best of American and international cinema and the Film Independent at LACMA Film Series, a year-round, weekly program that offers unique cinematic experiences for the Los Angeles creative community and the general public.
With over 250 annual screenings and events, Film Independent provides access to a network of like-minded artists who are driving creativity in the film industry. Film Independent?s Artist Development program offers free Labs for selected writers, directors, producers and documentary filmmakers and presents year-round networking opportunities. Project Involve is Film Independent?s signature program dedicated to fostering the careers of talented filmmakers from communities traditionally underrepresented in the film industry.
For more information or to become a member, visit www.FilmIndependent.org.\
ABOUT LOS ANGELES TIMES
The Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of 1.5 million and 2.6 million on Sunday, more than 23 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.1 million. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Times has been covering Southern California for more than 131 years.
The Los Angeles Times Media Group (LATMG) businesses and affiliates also include The Envelope, Times Community News, and Hoy Los Angeles which, combined with the flagship Los Angeles Times, reach approximately 5.2 million or 39% of all adults in the Southern California marketplace. LATMG also owns California Community News, LLC, operates Tribune Direct LA, and is part of Tribune Company, one of the country?s leading media companies with businesses in publishing, the Internet and broadcasting. Additional information is available at http://latimes.com/aboutus
ABOUT L.A. LIVE
L.A. LIVE is a 4 million square foot / $2.5 billion downtown Los Angeles sports & entertainment district adjacent to STAPLES Center and the Los Angeles Convention Center featuring Club Nokia, a 2,300 capacity live music venue, Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, a 7,100-seat live theatre, a 54-story, 1001-room convention ?headquarters? destination (featuring The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles and JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE hotels and 224 luxury condominiums ? The Ritz Carlton Residences at L.A. LIVE ? all in a single tower), The GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE, the 14-screen Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 theatre, ?broadcast? facilities for ESPN along with entertainment, residential, restaurant and office space.
Visit L.A. LIVE today at www.lalive.com
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Xbox chief: we have a product for people who can't get online, it's called Xbox 360
Did you think the Xbox 360 was being kept around just for the budget market? It turns out Microsoft's got another sort of customer in mind for the revamped last-gen hardware: the crews of nuclear submarines. Xbox chief Don Mattrick, in response to the backlash over the Xbox One requiring an internet connection, said that "fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360." As an example, he referred to a crew member on a nuclear submarine, who would be better off with the 360, as it's an "offline device." The full quotes are after the break, along with the video -- oh, and Sony's message to submarine crews too.
Filed under: Gaming, Microsoft
Via: NeoGAF
Source: GameTrailers
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Panel backs introduction of digital learning in US
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A week after President Barack Obama's call for U.S. schools to be outfitted with high-speed Internet within five years, an independent panel that studied the lack of technology at school says digital learning, including the super-fast Internet connections, can be introduced even sooner.
The LEAD Commission is finalizing a five-point plan to speed the adoption of digital learning in schools by 2016. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the panel's blueprint on Wednesday; the full plan is expected to be formally released in the coming weeks.
The commission was created in March 2012 to research the state of and figure out how to speech the introduction of technology in U.S. schools. The president of Columbia University and a former U.S. education secretary are among the panel's four co-chairmen.
Last week, Obama visited a Mooresville, N.C., middle school to see the digital learning that takes place there, including how students do their work exclusively on laptops. He also called on the Federal Communications Commission to use a program that pays for Internet access in schools and libraries through a surcharge on telephone bills to meet his goal of connecting 99 percent of students to super-fast Internet within five years, or by sometime in 2018.
"In a country where we expect free Wi-Fi with our coffee, why shouldn't we have it in our schools?" Obama said.
Most U.S. schools have Internet access, but the connections don't have enough capacity or are slow, according to the blueprint.
Like the president, the commission calls for the FCC to update its E-Rate program to pay to connect schools to high-speed Internet. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said the agency could start the process of updating the program as soon as this summer.
Jim Steyer, one of the LEAD Commission's chairmen, said it would cost at least $6 billion to wire schools.
The panel will call for a public-private initiative to put laptops, tablets and other devices into the hands of all students by 2020, beginning with middle school students and making sure that low-income students and those who attend schools in poorly funded districts are included. Money that is no longer being spent to buy printed textbooks, as is the case in Mooresville, could be redirected to help pay for the devices.
The commission's other recommendations include:
?Speeding up the adoption of digital curricula, including by creating an independent certification program to identify approved, high-quality programs.
?Highlighting the work of model schools, such as in Mooresville, to encourage other schools.
?Spending more money to train teachers to use digital curricula and other technologies.
Gene Sperling, an economic policy adviser to Obama, said the blueprint is an important step toward the president's goal of "bringing classrooms across America into the 21st century and allowing our students to engage in the individualized digital learning that will help them compete in today's economy."
The commission was tasked by the Education Department and the FCC with coming up with a plan to move the U.S. education system toward digital learning to help improve student performance and help the U.S. stay competitive with other countries, such as South Korea. All classrooms in South Korea have high-speed Internet and printed textbooks are being phased out, Obama said last week.
Besides Steyer, who teaches at Stanford University and is CEO of Common Sense Media, the panel's three other chairmen are Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, former U.S. education secretary Margaret Spellings and Jim Coulter, co-founder of TPG Capital, a private equity firm.
Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, said in an interview that the commission is trying to convey through its report that the proposed transformation of the U.S. education system "is possible and it is possible to do it in the relative near term."
Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, said the administration is "absolutely committed" to meeting the president's goal.
"If we don't act, we won't make the kind of progress our students deserve," he said in a statement.
Mignon Clyburn, acting FCC chairwoman, said the agency looks forward to considering the panel's recommendations.
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PS Plus subscription required to play online games with PS4 ...
I?ve just returned to my hotel from the most entertaining conference I?ve ever seen, and there is not much bad that came from it. Not even this morsel of news whereby online gaming on PlayStation 4 requires a PS Plus subscription, as Xbox 360 requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription.
While the details of this fact were stepped over carefully during Jack Tretton?s stage presence tonight so as not to disrupt the momentum of good selling points, comparison?s between the rival services can now be made at a level playing field. ?PS+ is not required for playing PS3 games online and instead was there to offer gamers access to hundreds of dollars in great games across PS3, Playstation Network, and PS Vita for just $50.
This holiday season, anyone with a Plus subscription can add PS4 to that list with the bonus of ?having access to the online features of their games. Without Plus means no online gameplay. Although, without Plus means everything else about your PlayStation experience remains unchanged. All video services and Music Unlimited remain accessible unlike on Xbox Live without Gold.
Again, having Plus has always had the primary perk of free games by way of the Instant Game Collection for PS3 and Vita. With PS4?s launch we?ll see a special PS Plus edition of DriveClub hit PSN for free with that Plus subscription. Additionally, three of the six or so indie games announced as exclusives to PS4 will be free with Plus. These include Don?t Starve, Secret Ponchos and Outlast.
Source: http://ps4daily.com/2013/06/playstation-plus-subscription-required-to-play-online-games-with-ps4/
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Effective privacy protection in social networks
June 11, 2013 ? Researchers are working on new methods to help them gain a better understanding of the usage habits of participants in social networks. The results will be incorporated in the development of user-friendly tools for privacy protection.
In principle, social networks such as Facebook are a good things: users can communicate with other people around the globe, contacting their closest friends in all places and at all times to share experiences with them in real time. Yet many users have problems publishing posts and photos in a way that will protect them from the undesirable side effects to their online identities. To support users' desire for "interactional privacy" -- protection of the user's private sphere in online dealings with other people -- suggested improvements have already been made for networks such as Facebook. In a practical setting, however, these improved means are either too rigid to do justice to users' multifaceted habits, or they are very complicated to manage because they try to solve a host of different problems all at the same time.
"If we want to develop truly user-friendly tools, we have to understand users better," according to Andreas Poller of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt. Together with researchers at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, for five years, now, he has been working on a project, "Software Design for Interactional Privacy within Online Social Networks," that will create new methods of collecting and evaluating data on usage habits in online social networks (http://dipo.sit.fraunhofer.de/). In contrast to previous studies, researchers not only want to identify the weak spots in privacy management but also want their work to support the design of more effective privacy tools.
Ingenious study design
Initially, researchers focused their attention exclusively on qualitative interviews. Since then, they have begun combining their surveys with analytical software developed at SIT to document Facebook activities by study participants (http://code.google.com/p/rose-browser-extension/). "To make sure that this tool does not influence user behavior -- as would be the case, for instance, if a study participant felt he or she was being monitored by the software -- we have intentionally designed it to give study subjects full control over their data," Poller explains. The software runs on the user's computer, and not on an external server. Content is not recorded -- only the technical functions used. A special commentary function provided by the software inserts itself into the Facebook user interface to give users an opportunity to comment directly, "on site," on their usage behavior and experiences. Data are not automatically transmitted; instead study participants must forward them to the researchers. In a form of protocol, they can first review the documentation and modify it wherever they wish.
"Thanks to the close dovetailing of the two research methods, we can interpret technical facts from the user's perspective," Poller points out. While qualitative interviews often reveal interesting aspects and statements of the problem, they cannot be implemented on a one-to-one basis in specific software design. "You also have to know what problems are specifically a result of the technology involved," Poller says. Designs developed purely on the basis of technological expertise, on the other hand, lack any reference to users' habits. A knowledge deficit about the ways in which people and technology interact can also lead to false conclusions -- as in the case of the "privacy paradox" in which users indicate that they attach great importance to their privacy but have selected very open settings for their Facebook account. "At first glance, this looks like a contradiction. In fact, though, it may well be that the user has only provided spare information in his or her profile and doesn't post anything and thus needs no restrictive protective settings at all," Poller explains.
With their work, the researchers want to help improve the design process of software for social networks. The results of the study are regularly presented to the community of researchers, and the analytical tool is available as open source software. In March of last year, the project team was presented with the coveted Google Faculty Research Award for their efforts on behalf of improved privacy protection.
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This Is the Last Time I Will Ever See You
When you are in the throes of wedding planning, it seems inconceivable that somewhere in this group, the group of people that you are closest to in the entire world, are dear friends you will never see again after your wedding day Courtesy of Kevin Dooley/Flickr
Last night I was showing my daughter our wedding album, and I saw a ghost. There, grinning at me back at me from July 20, 1997, was a face that had once been as familiar to me as my brother?s.
?Who?s that?? my daughter asked.
?That?s Matt M.,? I replied.
?Who?s Matt M.?? she asked.
Who?s Matt M.? Once I had watched in awe as Matt?a polite, slow-talking Westerner?persuaded a furious cop not throw us out of the Bend, Ore., park where we were illegally camping. During the most terrifying hour of my life?a 3 a.m. drive through a Georgia hailstorm in a deathtrap Toyota?Matt sat calmly by my side in the passenger seat, switching up the mix tapes. I had seen him torn up by love, and he had seen me the same. He was the dearest of friends, and 16 years on, he was a stranger.
When you are in the throes of wedding planning?the epic, Iranian-nuke-level negotiations with your fianc?e about invitations, the masterful diagramming of every possible seating permutation to maximize hookups and minimize family arguments?it seems inconceivable that somewhere in this group, the group of people that you are closest to in the entire world, the people with whom you will share the most extraordinary moment of your life, are dear friends you will never see again after your wedding day. You don?t know who the last-timers are?in fact, you can?t know?but they will be there on the dance floor and in photos. And suddenly, one day?two, five, 20 years on?you will think to yourself: I haven?t seen her since our wedding. And then: How did that happen?
When I talk about last-timers, I don?t mean those old friends of your parents who got invited over your protests. Of course you?ll never see them again. I also don?t mean the various disposable plus-ones. Any wedding of any size will be populated by boyfriends, girlfriends, and even spouses who will have been dumped or divorced by the next time you see your friend. My brother-in-law?s then-fianc?e is all over our wedding photos. She was on her last legs as a fianc?e, but we didn?t know it at the time. Sweet, kind Liane: Where are you now?
No, the last-timers I?m talking about are real friends, but the friendship has entered a slow fade to black that is obscured by the euphoric fog of the wedding. Sometimes, geography is to blame. A decade ago, my wife Hanna attended the wedding of a friend who was marrying a Swede?and moving to Sweden. Hanna hasn?t seen her since. The ties that they might have maintained had they lived 200 miles apart frayed and finally split at 3,000 miles.
Another kind of last-timer is the friend that your spouse doesn?t really like. One of Hanna?s bridesmaids was an old friend I could never abide. As I courted Hanna, this friend and I pretended to tolerate each other. But after the wedding, when Hanna had picked her side (mine), and our social calendar was fully combined, this friend never quite made it on any list, and was never included at our newlywed dinner parties Hanna discovered she didn?t care enough about her to overcome my dislike, and their friendship withered. For 16 years, we?ve lived and worked in the same city, and have never seen her. A bridesmaid! ?
But the most poignant last-timers, the ones who really matter, are the people who once were profoundly important?stalwarts in a terrible time, co-adventurers, the dearest of dear?who, not because of geography or profession, but because of the eddying currents of life, are already drifting away from you by the time of the wedding, even if you don?t realize it. There is no break, just the conspiracy of inconveniences. You have a little less to talk about: Brian was once a journalist, but now is a businessman, plus he?s come out as gay, and is committing his time and energy to the love life he never had before. Matt?s living in a slightly far-flung city, and neither of you has the time or money to travel. You invite them to your wedding because?god, how could you NOT invite Matt or Brian to your wedding? The wedding draws them back. In the golden haze of the reception, your friendship feels restored to all that once was, but that?s the wedding mirage. The gap begins the next day.
If you had asked me on July 20, 1997: When?s the next time you?ll hang out with Matt? I would have guessed a year. Instead, it?s 16 and counting. Until yesterday, I hadn?t even Googled him.? I didn?t know where he was or what he was doing.
Wedding websites are skeptical of last-timers. The Knot insists that the very first people you should cut from your list are the ?college friends you?re pretty sure you?ll never see again.? Another site?with a rather chilly utilitarianism?urges you to consider ?who you will be friends with in the future [rather] than trying to include old friends you don?t keep in touch with.?? This is, of course, very sensible advice. Why waste $200 in catering and calligraphy on people who are streaming toward the exit door of your life?
I reject this. For starters, you truly can?t be sure who the last-timers really are. The friends I haven?t seen since my wedding are not the ones I might have predicted. And even if you knew, as a matter of Euclidean certainty, who the last-timers were, you should still invite them. When, if not your wedding day, is the time for profligate, romantic gestures? What better way to end a friendship than with joy? What better than to have your final memory of each other be of your best, happiest wedding selves?
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