After Dhaka garment factory collapse, chances for supply chain changes low

A factory collapse in Bangladesh left some 300 dead, and prompted calls for improved regulations of the country's sweatshops. But veteran campaigners to improve factory conditions say pushing for change is harder than ever.?

By Ryan Lenora Brown,?Correspondent / April 26, 2013

A Bangladeshi woman weeps as she holds a picture of her and her missing husband as she waits at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday.

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As Bangladeshi rescue workers continue to pull survivors and bodies from the ruins of a Dhaka, Bangladesh factory where some 300 were killed in a building collapse Wednesday, thousands of protesters took to the streets across the city to express their outrage at?negligence that has racked the world's second-largest garment-exporting country for years.

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Blocking traffic and vandalizing garment factories that stayed open during today?s official day of mourning, protestors smashed cars and clashed violently with police, demanding accountability for what The New York Times is calling ?one of the worst manufacturing disasters in history.?

Among those at the receiving end of the rage are not only unscrupulous local factory owners and lax regulators, but also the Western corporations whose demands for cheaply-made garments have fueled the precarious working conditions in Bangladesh?s 5,000 clothing factories.

Plucked from the rubble of the eight-story factory were labels from several Western brands, including some sold in major chains such as Wal-Mart, JC Penney, and Spanish retailer El Corte Ingles, who immediately began to issue a flurry of sympathetic press releases. British retailer Primark said it was ?shocked and deeply saddened by this appalling incident? and the Canadian retailer Loblaw said it was ?extremely saddened? by the tragedy, the Times reports.

None, however, went so far as to implicate themselves in the disaster.

?These companies have come up with some very effective approaches to distance themselves from responsibility in tragedies like this,? says Heather White, founder of Verite, an independent auditing group.?Indeed, she says, Western companies often bring their garments from factory to store through a tangled and globally sprawled cluster of middlemen ? subcontractors, auditors, consultants ? who not only drive down their prices but also help ensure that responsibility for corporate stumbles are spread thinly.

That leaves many Western consumers, even the most conscientious, flummoxed by how to react to tragedies like the factory collapse, Ms. White says. Short of switching to niche-marketed fair trade brands?think American Apparel or TOMS Shoes ? there?s ?no real way for your average consumer to use their buying power to mobilize around these issues,? she says.

But it wasn?t always that way.

In the late 1990s, a widespread campaign against labor conditions in Nike factories helped shame the company into adopting a code of conduct in its factories for the first time. Responding to massive protests, sit-ins, and hunger strikes, a large number of universities forced the suppliers of their branded athletic apparel to institute labor code reforms in return for their business.

?It was amazing to see how people bought in [to the campaign],? remembers Kirsten Moller, organizing director for the human rights group Global Exchange, which helped lead the Nike campaign. ?They really had no idea what was happening, no idea under what conditions these products they loved were being made.?

So what changed?

As the issue slid from the front page, "people got tired of protesting,? Ms. Moller says.

Many of the activists from the 1990s ? immortalized by their chaotic protests at the 1999 summit of the World Trade Organization ? moved on to new causes, White says, with many becoming deeply involved in anti-war efforts in the early 2000s.?

And perhaps more importantly, the corporations simply caught up. ?They co-opted the language of human rights and social responsibility,? she says, ?because they realized their consumers now cared about that.?

As a result of the Nike movement, she says, most corporations now at least pay lip service to the idea that transnational companies have a responsibility to the people who work for them and the land they work on.

?But we?re nowhere near where we should be,? she says.

In the streets of Dhaka today, it seems there are many who would agree with that.?

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Celts top Knicks 97-90 in OT, avoid playoff sweep

BOSTON (AP) ? Jason Terry scored Boston's last nine points and the Celtics weathered a strong comeback by the New York Knicks, avoiding a sweep with a 97-90 overtime win on Sunday.

Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 29 points as they forced a fifth game in the series, but it was Terry who provided the finishing touches.

In Game 3, he had been elbowed by J.R. Smith, and the NBA suspended the Knicks guard for Sunday's game.

New York had tied the game 84-84 after trailing by 20 points early in the third quarter. It was 88-all before the Celtics regained control and took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Terry. Carmelo Anthony, who led the Knicks with 36 points, hit a short jumper, but Terry connected on a 15-footer with 50 seconds remaining for a 93-90 lead.

After Anthony missed a 3-pointer with 21 seconds to go, Terry was fouled and sank both free throws. He added a layup to close out the game.

But the Celtics still have a huge deficit in trying to become the first team to win after trailing a series 3-0.

Game 5 is Wednesday night in New York, where the Knicks can win their first playoff series in 13 years.

Jeff Green scored 26 points for the Celtics and Terry finished with 18.

The Celtics showed renewed energy early after being held below 80 points in each of the first three games. They led 54-35 at halftime and 59-39 three minutes into the third quarter before their recent second-half woes returned. In previous first halves, they scored just 25 points in Game 1 and 23 in Game 2. On Sunday, they were outscored 30-14 in the third quarter and led just 68-65 heading into the fourth.

Boston held a 65-51 lead when Anthony went to the bench with 3:35 remaining. The Knicks outscored the Celtics 14-3 the rest of the way behind 11 points from Felton and a 3-pointer from Iman Shumpert. Felton finished with 16 points in the quarter and 27 in the game.

The Knicks played the first half as if they had taken shooting lessons from the Celtics. New York hit just 28.9 percent of its shots (11 for 38) after Boston made only 39.5 percent of its attempts in the first three games.

The Celtics found their range from the start and connected on 51.3 percent (20 for 39).

Notes: The Knicks were 19-2 in their previous 21 games. The Celtics were 5-14 in their previous 19. ... For the Celtics, Garnett, Green and Brandon Bass each had four fouls five minutes into the third quarter. Bass committed his fifth with 5:10 left in the period and fouled out with 4:27 to go in the games. ... Anthony committed his fourth with 4:08 remaining in the third.

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LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Arsenal will keep with tradition and form a guard of honour for new Premier League champions Manchester United when the sides meet at The Emirates on Sunday. "That is part of the tradition of English football and I want that, of course, to be respected," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told a news conference on Friday. "I'm French, I work in England and the English tradition should be respected. When you work somewhere abroad you have to respect the culture of the country," he added. ...

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New York drops damages claim in suit against ex-AIG chief

By Jessica Dye

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general is dropping a claim for damages in a high-profile civil lawsuit accusing the former chief executive of American International Group Inc, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, of defrauding investors, according to a letter sent by the attorney general's office on Thursday.

The 2005 lawsuit filed by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer against Greenberg and former AIG chief financial officer Howard Smith sought as much as $6 billion in damages.

In an April 25 letter to the New York Court of Appeals, New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood wrote that the state would still be pursuing the civil fraud case against the defendants but would not be seeking damages, in order "to avoid further delay and expedite the trial of the state action."

The office will continue to pursue other remedies against the defendants, including a potential ban on working in the securities industry or serving as an officer or director of a public company, the letter said.

"Attorney General (Eric) Schneiderman feels strongly that individuals in the financial services industry who perpetrate fraud, no matter how wealthy or powerful, must be held publicly accountable, and that is why we believe justice will best be served by proceeding to a long overdue trial of Mr. Greenberg as quickly as possible," New York attorney general spokesman Damien LaVera said in a statement.

A lawyer for Greenberg, David Boies of Boies Schiller & Flexner, said in a statement that the action "finally brings down the curtain on a series of issues of claims that were never justified and should never have been brought in the first place."

The decision to withdraw the claim for damages in state courts follows an April 10 order approving a $115 million settlement reached by AIG shareholders with Greenberg and other defendants over alleged accounting improprieties at the insurance giant.

Lawyers for Greenberg argued that the $115 million settlement in federal court would effectively preclude Schneiderman from seeking "duplicative damages" from Greenberg in state court.

The attorney general's lawsuit centered around two reinsurance transactions in 1999 and 2000. It was brought under the Martin Act, a law that allows New York's top state prosecutor to pursue criminal or civil fraud cases involving suspected corporate wrongdoing.

The case is currently pending before the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.

The case is People v. Greenberg et al, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, No. 401720/05.

(Reporting by Jessica Dye; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/york-drops-damages-claim-suit-against-ex-aig-025803123--finance.html

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Dozens rescued, hundreds missing, as Bangladesh toll tops 270

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2013 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARDS

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[April 25, 2013 ? New York, NY]?? The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the Conrad New York in New York City.?The Festival runs through April 28, 2013.

The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 14 countries. Best New Director prizes were awarded to a first-time director for both narrative and documentary films, selected from a pool of 24 feature films throughout the program. Awards were also given for the best narrative short, best documentary short and student visionary films in the short film competitions. This year?s Festival included 89 features and 60 short films from 38 countries, programmed by a team led by Tribeca?s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore, Artistic Director Frederic Boyer, Director of Programming Genna Terranova, and?Programmer Cara Cusumano.

This year the Festival introduced a new award, the Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia, for the new juried Storyscapes section, created in collaboration with BOMBAY SAPPHIRE? gin. Also announced at the awards were the Tribeca Online Festival feature and short film winners selected by the online audience.?The winners of the Heineken Audience Awards, determined by audience votes throughout the Festival, will be announced on April 27.

?It is a pleasure to share a diverse range films with our audiences at Tribeca and to introduce new storytellers from every corner of the globe,? said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival. ?We are grateful to the incredible group of talented filmmakers who shared their work with us and with the New York and film communities.?

?With such a wonderful and diverse selection of films in our competition sections, the jury has had quite the challenge in awarding just one per category,? said Frederic Boyer, TFF Artistic Director. ?Their selection recognizes films depicting worlds that are seldom seen on screen and to which we are given the rare opportunity to experience through unforgettable characters and remarkable subjects.

Screenings of all winning films will take place throughout the final day of the Festival, Sunday, April 28, at various venues. Specific times and ticketing information are available on the Festival website,www.tribecafilm.com.

In addition to cash awards and in-kind services provided by sponsors including American Express,

AKA, Bombay Sapphire, Citizens of Humanity, Company 3, Kodak, Persol, and Sony Electronics, the Festival presented the winners with original pieces of art?created by acclaimed artists, including Joyce Pensato, Dustin Yellin, William Wegman among others.

Following are the winners, awards and details on the jury who selected the recipients:

WORLD NARRATIVE COMPETITION CATEGORIES:

The jurors for the?2013 World Narrative Competition?were Bryce Dallas-Howard, Blythe Danner, Paul Haggis, Kenneth Lonergan, and Jessica Winter.

??????????The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature???The?Rocket,?directed by Kim Mordaunt (Australia). Winner receives $25,000, sponsored by AKA, and the art award ?Two Voices #1? by Angelina Nasso. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.?

Jury Comments:???The Rocket?is a spectacular achievement that is powerful and delightful in equal measures. Artfully structured and gorgeously shot, it chronicles the struggles of a displaced family while steering well clear of either sentimentality or despair. Complex in its tone and characterizations, the film takes an unflinching ? and edifying ? look at the suffering caused both by a legacy of war and the new status quo of economic globalization. And yet, while never losing sight of those grim realities, it also offers us a transcendent tale of hope and perseverance in a world that few Westerners ever have the chance to see.?

-Special Jury Mention?--?Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, directed by Sam Fleischner. The announcement was made by Kenneth Lonergan.

??????????Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film?? Sitthiphon Disamoe as Ahlo in?The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt (Australia). Winner receives $2,500. The award was given by Blythe Danner.

Jury Comments: ?One of the great pleasures this year was the discovery of this young, non-professional actor, who plays his role with an irresistible blend of pluck, stoic determination and vulnerability. Sitthiphon Disamoe carried a big, ambitious production on his small shoulders, with charm and grace to spare.?

??????????Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film?? Veerle Baetens as Elise Vandevelde in?The Broken Circle Breakdown,?directed by?Felix van Groeningen?(Netherlands, Belgium). Winner receives $2,500. The award was given by Bryce Dallas Howard.

Jury Comments: ?We?ve selected a woman who shows herself to be a totally committed and fiercely versatile actress. Veerle Baetens? character goes from a sunny free spirit to grieving wife and mother, and no matter where we are in the course of that journey, this actress shows us the light burning inside her character, one that both sustains and destroys. She is the heart and soul of the movie, and her performance is nothing short of a tour de force.?

??????????Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature Film?? Cinematography by?Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen, for?Before Snowfall, directed by?Hisham?Zaman?(Germany, Norway). Winner receives $5,000, sponsored by Sony Electronics; a Sony Alpha A99 Full Frame Camera and a Sony NEX-VG900 Full Frame Camcorder;?and $50,000 in post-production services provided by Company 3. The award was given by Blythe Danner and Alec Shapiro, President, Sony Professional Solutions of America.?

Jury Comments: ?Before Snowfall?packs a visual punch to match the force and ambition of its story about a teenage boy who pursues the honor killing of his own sister. Shot in four countries and capturing everything from a rural village to multiple European cities, from intimate domestic scenes to teeming street life, from a harrowing border crossing to a bleakly beautiful Nordic landscape in winter, it invites us into many vivid worlds and fulfills many possibilities for cinematography as an art form.?

??????????Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film???The Broken Circle Breakdown,?written by?Carl Joos and Felix van Groeningen?and directed by Felix van Groeningen?(Netherlands, Belgium). Winner receives $5,000. The award was given by Paul Haggis.

Jury Comments: ?The Broken Circle Breakdown?is a true original, starting with the eclectic ingredients in its dynamic screenplay: a romance of opposites, a battle between spiritual faith and secular humanism, triggered by unthinkable tragedy, a Flemish bluegrass band. With dialogue that spans the sweetly flirtatious and the operatically confrontational -- and with dollops of humor and a pure, deep love of music ? the film leaps nimbly back and forth in time to conjure vivid characters who face down literal life-or-death issues. They win both our rapt interest and our greatest empathy; they make us both think and feel.?

BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR:

The jurors for the?2013 Best New Narrative Director Competition?were Naomi Foner, Tony Gilroy, Ari Graynor, Radha Mitchell, and Stu Zicherman.

???Best New Narrative Director???Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, director of?Whitewash??(Canada). Winner receives $25,000, presented by American Express; $50,000 in post-production services provided by Company 3; and the art award ?New Elands Bay? by Erik Parker. The award was given by Tony Gilroy, Radha Mitchell and Deborah Curtis from American Express, Vice President, Entertainment Marketing & Sponsorships.

Jury Comments: ?Whitewash?is funny, strange, emotionally honest, tense, pathetic, and ultimately haunting -- a broad canvas for even the most experienced director to paint. It quickly became clear that we were in the hands of a filmmaker with the intelligence, imagination and bravery to carry off this very tricky piece of material. The ability to mix tones and the guts to stage odd, random moments and make them inevitable is one of the least-appreciated tools in a filmmaker?s skill set. The taste and attention to detail required to deliver a story this unsettled and delicate is the work of a director -- and a team -- that this jury hopes will continue for many movies. Their story is so credibly and invisibly constructed -- and the filmmakers have such control of the material and trust in the audience -- that the film reaches for metaphor without ever having had to ask for the privilege. It is a remarkable first feature, and we extend our congratulations to all involved, including two spectacular lead actors in Thomas Haden Church and Marc Labr?che.?

-Special Jury Mention:?Harmony Lessons,?directed by?Emir Baigazin (Germany, France). The announcement was made by Naomi Foner and Ari Graynor.

WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION CATEGORIES:

The jurors for the?2013 World Documentary Competition?were Joe Berlinger, Sandi DuBowski, Whoopi Goldberg, Mira Sorvino, and Evan Rachel Wood.

??????????Best Documentary Feature???The?Kill Team,?directed by?Dan Krauss?(USA).?Winner receives $25,000, sponsored by Citizens of Humanity, and the art award ?Harley Before the White Prom? by Gillian Laub. The award was given by?Mira Sorvino and Gareth Baxendale from Citizens of Humanity.

Jury Comments: ?The Kill Team?examines the fundamental flaw in the preparation of young soldiers for war that allows them to see people as targets without humanity, a culture of killing that looks to express itself even in times of peace. It masterfully combines verite' footage, talking head interviews and a private look into one family's desperate fight in a seamless cinematic undertaking.? As the drama unfolds we are faced with issues of both institutionalized responsibility and culpabilty within the military itself, the extreme importance of individual acts of courage, cowardice or allegiance to authority, and an expiation of guilt of one tormented soldier's decision to blow the whistle, too late.? We feel it raises questions that demand to be answered by our military and society at large, so that these ever enumerating acts of senseless violence cease.?

-Special Jury Mention:?Oxyana,?directed by Sean Dunne (USA). The announcement was made by Joe Berlinger.

??????????Best Editing in a Documentary Feature???Let the Fire Burn, edited by?Nels?Bangerter,?directed by?Jason Osder (USA). Winner receives $5,000. The award was given by Whoopi Goldberg and Sandi DuBowski.

Jury Comments: ?Let the Fire Burn?tells a story we were stunned to realize we didn?t know. It offers a time capsule, taking us to a horrific moment in our nation?s history with a masterfully structured edit that vividly mines a trove of blistering period archive images without voiceover narration. The film ensures that a criminal and senseless destruction that cost eleven deaths -- five children, six adults -- shakes us to our core and is remembered with utter visceral power.?

BEST NEW DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR COMPETITION:

The jurors for the?2013 Best New Documentary Director Competition?were Jared Cohen, Taraji P. Henson, Riley Keough, Jason O?Mara, and Josh Radnor.

??????????Best New Documentary Director???Sean Dunne?for?Oxyana?(USA).?Winner receives $25,000, presented by American Express; and the art award ?Untitled (#5), from the Men in the Cities Photo Portfolio? by Robert Longo, courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures. The award was given by Taraji P. Henson and Deborah Curtis from American Express.

Jury Comments: ?Sean Dunne's?Oxyana?is a major accomplishment, deeply sad without being sentimental, fearless, unblinking and deft in the filmmaker?s ability to coax harrowing stories from his subjects. It is not an easy film to watch. It could be read as hopeless, but by the end, something of the light of each person shone through. It presents an acute awareness of the severity of their situation mixed with an inner battle to not let this film be the final story of them or their once-proud town. We will never forget the faces of these people, their stories and their struggles.?

-Special Jury Mention?--?Let the Fire Burn,?directed by Jason Osder. The announcement was made by Riley Keough and Jason O?Mara.

SHORT FILM COMPETITION CATEGORIES:

The?2013 Best Narrative Short Competition?jurors were Christine Baranski, Kassem Garaibeh, Jessica Hecht, Chris Milk, and Sheila Nevins.

??????????Best Narrative Short???The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars, directed by?Edoardo?Ponti?(Italy). Winner receives $5,000, sponsored by Persol; 10,000 feet of film stock donated by Kodak; and the art award ?Study: Northern City Renaissance, Mauve Dawn (Mass MoCA #79-R)? by Stephen Hannock. The award was given by Christine Baranksi and Andrea Dorigo, President of Luxottica, North America.

Jury Comments: ?The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars?expresses love in its many dimensions and literally gets to the heart of the matter.?

-Special Jury Mention:?Yardbird,?directed by?Michael Spiccia (Australia). The announcement was made by Christine Baranski.??????????????????

The?2013 Best Documentary and Student Short Competition?jurors were Abigail Breslin, Bobby Flay, Eva Longoria, Jason Silva, John Skipper, and Danny Strong.?(John Skipper recused himself from the final vote in the Documentary category.)

??????????Best Documentary Short???Coach,?directed by?Bess Kargman?(USA). Winner receives $5,000, sponsored by Persol, and the art award ?Psycho? by William Wegman. The award was given by Jason Silva and Andrea Dorigo, President of Luxottica/Persol.

Jury Comments: ?In just 15 minutes,?Coach?brilliantly shows us a world in which pain and tragedy can lead to triumph and success. It takes us through a national scandal that was handled by the film?s subject with her signature passion, grace and dignity. All together, it shows us why C. Vivien Stringer is a hall of famer and one of the great college basketball coaches of all time.?

-Special Jury Mention:?Royal American, directed by Michael Scalisi (USA). The announcement was made by Jason Silva.

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??????????Student Visionary Award???Life Doesn?t Frighten Me,?directed by?Stephen Dunn?(Canada). Winner receives the art award ?Platonic Haircut? by Dustin Yellin. The award was given by Danny Strong.

Jury Comments: ?Life Doesn?t Frighten Me?is a sweet coming-of-age story that displays its writer/director?s unique voice through humor, drama and whimsy, in a way that brings true depth to his charming yet conflicted characters. Effortlessly shifting from comedy to drama, this work definitely showcases a young director with a skilled hand and a bright future ahead of him.?

-Special Jury Mention?--?Reporting on the Times: The New York Times and the Holocaust,?directed by Emily Harrold (USA). The announcement was made by Danny Strong.

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE AWARD FOR TRANSMEDIA

The 2013 BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Award for Transmedia jurors were?Thomas Allen Harris, Jeff Gomez, and Frank Rose.

??????????Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia:?Sandy Storyline, created by?Rachel Falcone, Laura Gottesdiener, and Michael Premo (USA). Winner receives $10,000, presented by BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin, and the art award ?Study For Austin Courthouse? by Clifford Ross. The award was given by Thomas Allen Harris and Ned Duggan, Brand Director, Bombay Gins.

Jury Comments: ?We were treated to five extraordinary, transmedia works, and the winner stood out for its powerful demonstration of the potential of communal storytelling.?Sandy Storyline, created by Rachel Falcone, Laura Gottesdiener and Michael Premo, leverages the innovative Cowbird storytelling platform, creating a fully realized transmedia account that demonstrates both the therapeutic power of storytelling and our responsibility to bear witness. This project will be of use not only to people today but also to future generations seeking to understand a signal moment in our stewardship of the planet. Moreover, thanks to its admirably simple user interface, its elegant design both online and in physical installations and its effective yet unobtrusive curation, this project serves as a model for narratives surrounding future moments of crisis.?

TRIBECA ONLINE FESTIVAL CATEGORIES:

The 2013 Tribeca Online Festival winners were voted on by visitors to?tribecafilm.com.

??????????Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film:?Lil Bub & Friendz, directed by Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner (USA). Winner receives $10,000 and the art award ?Blk. Candy Series 5?, by Curtis Kulig The award was given by Geoff Gilmore.

??????????Tribeca Online Festival Best Short Film:?A Short Film About Guns,?directed by Minos Papas (USA, UK). Winner receives $5,000. The award was given by Geoff Gilmore.

FULL LIST OF ELIGIBLE 2013 TFF FILMS IN EACH CATEGORY OF COMPETITION:

World Narrative Feature Competition:

??????????Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: 12 films

??????????Best Actress in a Narrative Feature: 12 actresses

??????????Best Actor in a Narrative Feature: 12 actors

??????????Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature:??12 films

??????????Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature:??12 films

World Documentary Feature Competition:

??????????Best Documentary Feature: 12 films

??????????Best Editing in a Documentary Film:??12 filmmakers

All feature sections, first time directors with films making their North American, International, or World Premiere

??????????Best New Narrative Director: directors selected from 12 films

??????????Best New Documentary Director: directors selected from 12 films

Short Films in Competition:

??????????Best Narrative Short: 38 films

??????????Best Documentary Short: 17 films

??????????Student Visionary Award: 5 films

Storyscapes?Projects in Competition:

??????????Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia: 5 projects

For more information on all of the films in the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, please visit?tribecafilm.com.

Tickets for the 2013 Festival:

Tickets for the Festival are $16.00 for evening and weekend screenings, and $8.00 for all late-night and weekday matinee screenings and can be purchased online, by telephone, or at one of the Ticket Outlets, with locations at Tribeca Cinemas at 54 Varick Street, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea at 260 W. 23rd Street, and AMC Loews Village 7 at 66 3rd Avenue. The 2013 Festival offers ticket discounts for evening and weekend screenings for students, seniors and select downtown Manhattan residents. Discounted tickets are available at Ticket Outlet locations only. Additional information and further details on the Festival can be found at?www.tribecafilm.com.

About the Tribeca Film Festival:

The Tribeca Film Festival helps filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enabling the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema and promote New York City as a major filmmaking center. It is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors.

Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling.

The Tribeca Film Festival has screened more than 1,400 films from more than 80 countries since its first edition in 2002. Since inception, it has attracted an international audience of more than 4 million attendees and has generated an estimated $750 million in economic activity for New York City.

About the 2013 Festival Sponsors

As Founding Sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival, American Express is committed to supporting the Festival and the art of filmmaking, bringing business and energy to New York City and offering Cardmembers and festivalgoers the opportunity to enjoy the best of storytelling through film.

The Tribeca Film Festival is pleased to announce the return of its Signature Sponsors: Accenture, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Bloomberg, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE? Gin, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), Brookfield, Cadillac, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, ESPN, GE FOCUS FORWARD (in partnership with cinelan), Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Heineken USA, JetBlue, Magnum? Ice Cream, NBC 4 New York, NCM Media Networks, The New York Times, and OppenheimerFunds. The Festival is also honored to welcome the following new Signature Sponsors: AT&T, IWC Schaffhausen, PepsiCo, and Sony Electronics.

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Yahoo! Japan Injects $20M Into Softbank Capital's Early-Stage Technology Fund '10

Today SoftBank Capital, the NY-based venture arm of Japan's largest wireless provider Softbank Corp., has strengthened its ties to Japan even further, announcing that Yahoo Japan will be injecting $20 million into SoftBank's early-stage Technology Fund '10. The $20 million investment and partnership will help U.S. startups at any point in their development, from early-stage companies who need funding to more mature companies looking to expand into new markets. Yahoo Japan's investment will be an addition to the $100 million early-stage fund, which is a complement to the freshly announced PrinceVille fund.

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Looking for life by the light of dying stars

Apr. 24, 2013 ? Because it has no source of energy, a dead star -- known as a white dwarf -- will eventually cool down and fade away. But circumstantial evidence suggests that white dwarfs can still support habitable planets, says Prof. Dan Maoz of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy.

Now Prof. Maoz and Prof. Avi Loeb, Director of Harvard University's Institute for Theory and Computation and a Sackler Professor by Special Appointment at TAU, have shown that, using advanced technology to become available within the next decade, it should be possible to detect biomarkers surrounding these planets -- including oxygen and methane -- that indicate the presence of life.

Published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the researchers' "simulated spectrum" demonstrates that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to be launched by NASA in 2018, will be capable of detecting oxygen and water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf after only a few hours of observation time -- much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a sun-like star.

Their collaboration is made possible by the Harvard TAU Astronomy Initiative, recently endowed by Dr. Raymond and Beverly Sackler.

Faint light, clear signals

"In the quest for extraterrestrial biological signatures, the first stars we study should be white dwarfs," said Prof. Loeb. Prof. Maoz agrees, noting that if "all the conditions are right, we'll be able to detect signs of life" on planets orbiting white dwarf stars using the much-anticipated JWST.

An abundance of heavy elements already observed on the surface of white dwarfs suggest rocky planets orbit a significant fraction of them. The researchers estimate that a survey of 500 of the closest white dwarfs could spot one or more habitable planets.

The unique characteristics of white dwarfs could make these planets easier to spot than planets orbiting normal stars, the researchers have shown. Their atmospheres can be detected and analyzed when a star dims as an orbiting planet crosses in front of it. As the background starlight shines through the planet's atmosphere, elements in the atmosphere will absorb some of the starlight, leaving chemical clues of their presence -- clues that can then be detected from the JWST.

When an Earth-like planet orbits a normal star, "the difficulty lies in the extreme faintness of the signal, which is hidden in the glare of the 'parent' star," Prof. Maoz says. "The novelty of our idea is that, if the parent star is a white dwarf, whose size is comparable to that of an Earth-sized planet, that glare is greatly reduced, and we can now realistically contemplate seeing the oxygen biomarker."

In order to estimate the kind of data that the JWST will be able to see, the researchers created a "synthetic spectrum," which replicates that of an inhabited planet similar to Earth orbiting a white dwarf. They demonstrated that the telescope should be able to pick up signs of oxygen and water, if they exist on the planet.

A critical sign of life

The presence of oxygen biomarkers would be the most critical signal of the presence of life on extraterrestrial planets. Earth's atmosphere, for example, is 21 percent oxygen, and this is entirely produced by our planet's plant life as a result of photosynthesis. Without the existence of plants, an atmosphere would be entirely devoid of oxygen.

The JWST will be ideal for hunting out signs of life on extraterrestrial planets because it is designed to look into the infrared region of the light spectrum, where such biomarkers are prominent. In addition, as a space-based telescope, it will be able to analyze the atmospheres of Earth-like planets outside our solar system without weeding out the similar signatures of Earth's own atmosphere.

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Smartphones Are Dominating At AT&T

AT&T just released its first-quarter financial statement. Things are looking good at Ma Bell where profits are up although revenue missed expectations. The company managed to get more consumers to sign long-term wireless contracts, and best of all, wireless margins increased on the back of smartphone sales where they accounted for 88% of the company’s sales in the quarter. In short, smartphones are ringing in the money for AT&T. AT&T has long sought after the best smartphones. From the iPhone to the original Lumia 900, and most recently, to the HTC First, AT&T seemingly strives to have the latest and greatest smartphones. I’ve often criticized this strategy, pointing to these exclusives when devices fail to capture a large market share. While the limited release might hurt the device’s sales, AT&T clearly isn’t suffering. With this quarter’s numbers in the ledger, 72 percent, or 48.3 million, of AT&T’s postpaid phone subscribers owned smartphones, up from 61 percent, or 41.2 million, a year earlier. AT&T sold 6 million smartphones during the first quarter, which is a record and even more impressive considering there wasn’t a major smartphone release during that time. As AT&T continues to hone its game, wireless margins grew driven by improved operating efficiencies and further revenue gains from the company’s lucrative smartphone subscribers. Its first-quarter wireless operating income margin was 28.0 percent versus 27.8 percent in the year-earlier quarter.

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Skin Cancer Linked to Higher Risk of Other Cancers

People who have had common skin cancers may be at an increased risk of getting cancer again in their life, according to a new study.

The study found that women with nonmelanoma skin cancers (such as basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma) were 26 percent more likely to later develop another form of cancer, compared with women who didn't have these skin cancers. In men, the risk increased by 15 percent, the study found.

The study included more than 150,000 people who were followed for more than 20 years, so the findings strongly add to the growing evidence of a link between skin cancer and later development of other cancers, said Anthony Alberg, a professor of epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

The increased risk of cancer seen in the study isn't high enough to warrant recommending that people with nonmelanoma skin cancers undergo cancer screening tests earlier or more often than generally recommended, said Alberg, who was not involved in the new study. It does, however, raise the question of whether more screening might be beneficial for this group, and future studies might look at this, he said.

Nonmelanoma skin cancers are "so common we can't even count them," so the findings have public health significance, Alberg said. A 2006 study showed there were 2.1 million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer in the U.S.

The link may also help researchers to better understand cancer biology, he said.

The new study is published today (April 23) in the journal PLOS Medicine.

How cancer risk increases

For the study, researchers led by Jiali Han, an associate professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, looked at cancers among people participating in two large studies ? the Health Professionals Study, which began in 1986, and the Nurses' Health Study, which began in 1984. By 2008, about 29,500 cases of cancer had been diagnosedin the 153,600 people in these studies.

Results showed that people with nonmelanoma skin cancer were at an increased risk of developing the deadly skin cancer melanoma, and that women with nonmelanoma skin cancer were at increased risk of lung cancer and breast cancer, according to the study. The researchers accounted for factors that could affect the results, such as people's ages, smoking, and for women, the use of hormone replacement therapy.

Alberg said that previous studies have linked common skin cancers with an increased risk of other types of cancers. In the new study, there was increased risk of other types of cancer as well, but these increases did not rise to the level of statistical significance. Still, the fact that 23 out of 28 cancer sites examined were trending toward an increased risk means there is likely something underlying the links, he said.

"The increase really doesn't map well with any specific cancer? there's more of a general increase in cancer risk," he said.

Why the link?

The link between nonmelanoma skin cancers and developing melanoma later may be due to sun exposure, the researchers said.

But the reason for the general increased risk of other cancers is unclear. Some researchers suspect that the cellular machinery involved in DNA repair may not work as well in some people, leaving them at an increased risk for any type of cancer, Alberg said.

By studying people who have developed more than one type of cancer, a situation called "multiple primary cancers," researchers can develop a better understanding of cancer biology, he said. The skin cancers in the study are common, and unlike other primary cancers, they are not typically treated with radiation or chemotherapy, both of which have been linked to increased cancer risk later on.

"Looking at these cases, we might really be able to find what causes these risks," Alberg said.

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The Daily Roundup for 04.22.2013

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Watch Levi Sherwood "Shaolin" Backflip His Motorcycle At 1000 FPS

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Finally, Revis a Buc (almost)

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With the NFL Draft approaching, we?re taking a team-by-team look at the needs of each club. Up next is the team with the No. 30 overall selection, the Atlanta Falcons. They have a total of 11 picks, and aren?t afraid to make bold moves, so their picking somewhere north of 30 is a real possibility.

Defensive end: There?s already noise about the Falcons wanting to move up in the order, and it makes sense that their target would be a pass-rusher.

John Abraham was still producing right up until the time they released him, and they have to find someone to replace that production other than Osi Umenyiora, who has not produced at the same consistent level. If they can get into the top half of the first round, they can find someone in the Abraham mold, before the run starts.

Cornerback: This would be the other drastic need that could be the target for a move-up. It seems like forever ago they were three-deep with excellent players. But with Brent Grimes gone to Miami and and Dunta Robinson released and resurfaced in KC, they?re down to Asante Samuel and a bunch of guys.

Linebacker: You could probably run down the list of defensive positions, and the Falcons could stand to upgrade. Sean Weatherspoon is quite good, but the rest of their linebacking corps is fairly ordinary.

Tackle: The thinking is the release of Tyson Clabo opened the door for Lamar Holmes to start at right tackle, and that could work. But they still need cover here, particularly if newly rich left tackle Sam Baker goes back to the 2011 version instead of the 2012 salary-push version.

Guard: The retirement of Todd McClure leaves a big hole, but they could slide 2012 second-rounder Peter Konz over from right guard. But that leaves another vacancy. They have some in-house candidates, but need depth here.

As good as they are, they?re not as well-covered as you?d think. They have nothing to speak of in terms of depth on defense. Heck, they don?t even have a full complement of starting-caliber players on that side of the ball.

But their offensive skill-position talent is so good, it might not matter. As long as Matt Ryan, Steven Jackson, Julio Jones, Roddy White and Tony Gonzalez are together, the Falcons are going to be among the best in the NFC.

But until they get at least a little bit better on defense, it?s going to be hard for them to make the next step.

Their offseason efforts have focused on retaining their own, and making a few surgical signings of veterans who came looking for rings. Their team is good enough that 11 draft picks aren?t making their 53-man roster, so they might as well make some moves, and see if they can plug some starters in on defense.

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