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Report - Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project, Belfer Center
Transforming the Energy Economy: Options for Accelerating the Commercialization of Advanced Energy Technologies
Findings of the Executive Session on Demonstrating New Energy Technologies at Harvard Kennedy School, December 1–2, 2010
This workshop was supported by a grant from Booz Allen Hamilton
On December 1–2, 2010, a group of senior representatives from government, industry, finance, and academia convened at Harvard Kennedy School for a workshop on "Energy Technology Demonstration." The purpose of the workshop was to discuss options for accelerating the commercialization of advanced energy technologies, which are needed to meet the mounting energy challenges facing the United States.
Given the diverse constituencies present at the workshop, the expectation was that a simple consensus would not emerge. Three shared policy goals, however, shaped the discussion: energy security, economic competitiveness, and environmental sustainability.
The focus of the workshop was on the demonstration stage of the technology innovation cycle. Current policies do not adequately address the private sector's inability to overcome the demonstration "valley of death" for new energy technologies. Investors and financiers fear that the technology and operational risks at this stage of the cycle remain too high to justify the level of investment to build a commercial-sized facility.
There is general acceptance that the government has a positive role to play in support of R&D. It is also accepted that the private sector is ultimately responsible for deployment and will only do so if it is incentivized by an adequate expected return or by regulation, both of which are influenced by government policy. There is less consensus on support for the more challenging demonstration stage, and limited support demonstration projects from current policies.
Many participants agreed that demonstrations are particularly important to the energy innovation system because: (a) they are currently a bottleneck and a rate-limiting step to the commercialization of energy technologies; (b) they test new business models that provide critical knowledge to different stakeholders; and (c) absent a clear price signal, the need to support innovative energy technologies becomes more urgent.
Several policy principles and recommendations are outlined in the report. The most important of these are:
- Long-term policy: The most consistent theme from the workshop was that if government wants to unlock private sector investment, it must create a predictable and sustainable policy environment.
- Materiality: Government support for accelerating the commercialization of energy technologies should focus on projects that have the potential to have a material impact on one or more of the three key policy objectives.
- Public-private partnerships: Because the ultimate objective is to enable the private sector to move any new capability forward into the market, government policy should emphasize working with industry, obtaining private sector input, and enabling private sector investment.
- Unproven technologies: Currently there are no permanent mechanisms for supporting the demonstration of unproven innovative technologies. While some of these may "fail," the potential benefit from those that do succeed could be huge and would dwarf a more risk-averse portfolio. Further, it is the unproven as opposed to the proven, where government support can create the greatest benefit.
- Information dissemination: There is a clear public interest in making the information acquired from demonstration projects more widely available, although this will need to be balanced with the protection of private intellectual property rights to ensure private sector participation in these projects.
- Exit strategy: Government support for technology demonstration and deployment projects should be conditional on performance and based on transparent performance benchmarks, and if these are not met, funding should be discontinued. In other words, the government should have a clear strategy for ending its support of under-performing projects.
- Targets and objectives: Targets for demonstration programs should be based on technical performance criteria as opposed to far-reaching, large-scale production targets, which can be expensive and inefficient, as their achievement often depends on technological advances and commodity prices.
- Portfolio approach: The government should adopt a portfolio approach that supports a range of competing technologies, and a variety of policy and financial mechanisms. However, given the large scale of investments, not all projects and technologies can be supported, and real-world constraints dictate a need to be selective. For instance, some participants prioritized support for CCS and nuclear energy, due to their potential to address the overarching policy objectives, and their high cost which makes it very difficult to attract private financing.
There was broad, although not universal, support for two policy initiatives currently being discussed by policy makers. One is the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), which was recently proposed by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to bring some much-needed coherence, stability, and predictability to energy policy in the United States. The other is the Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA), which was viewed by many as a useful policy tool for enabling energy technology demonstrations. The fact that CEDA has already received bipartisan support in the Senate was an important factor in the support.
There was substantial agreement that the U.S. government cannot wait to accelerate the commercialization of novel energy technologies: speed is of the essence. Even if the private sector were able to commercialize new technologies without government assistance in the long term, to the extent that government action could catalyze early adoption, the economic, security, and environmental benefits of such early adoption would justify expanded government intervention. In addition, some experts expressed the view that the United States risks ceding leadership in too many energy technologies to other countries. The United States continues to be a world leader in the invention and design of revolutionary energy technologies, but unless it recaptures its leadership in the commercialization of these technologies, other countries will capture greater market share, and the jobs and economic benefits will accrue to those countries instead.
This document reports on the policy guidelines and options discussed at the workshop. A complementary framing statement, prepared in advance of the workshop, addresses the challenges inhibiting the rate of energy technology demonstration in the United States. The framing statement is included in Appendix 3 and can also be downloaded here: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20728/
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Photos (from top to bottom): U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu takes questions from conference attendees after his address (Photo credit: Martha Stewart); Former Senator Bennett Johnston (D-La.) (center) offers comments with Steve Fetter, Assistant Director At-Large at the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the Whitehouse seated at his left and Finis Southworth, Areva, North America, CTO, at his right (Photo Credit: Sharon Wilke); Uma Chowdry, Chief Science & Technology Officer with DuPont, offers comments during the workshop while Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, takes notes and Arun Majumdar, Director of ARPA-E at the Department of Energy listens (Photo Credit: Sharon Wilke); Conference attendees hold a discussion (Photo Credit: Sharon Wilke).
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Oscar 2012: 84th Academy Awards Results, Fashion, Photos, Videos
Welcome to the Osecar 2012, th 84th Academy Awards. Join us for Oscar 2012 live streaming TV telecast, updates, film geekery and fashion sniping throughout the day. All times AEDT.
Oscar 2012 Results – Final List:
BEST PICTURE – The Artist
- BEST DIRECTOR – Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
BEST ACTOR – Jean Dujardin – The Artist
BEST ACTRESS – Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Christopher Plummer – Beginners
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Octavia Spencer – The Help
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – A Separation – Iran
BEST ANIMATION – Rango
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
BEST ART DIRECTION – Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Hugo – Robert Richardson
BEST SOUND MIXING – Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
BEST SOUND EDITING – Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
BEST ORIGINAL SONG – Man or Muppet, from The Muppets – music and lyrics by Bret McKenzie
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – The Artist – Ludovic Bource
BEST COSTUMES – The Artist – Mark Bridges
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – Undefeated
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT – Saving Face
BEST FILM EDITING – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM – The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM – The Shore
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
- BEST MAKE-UP – The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J Roy Helland
Here's a reminder of the Oscar 2012 nominations in the top categories.
Best Picture of Oscar 2012
- The Artist
- The Descendants
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- The Help
- Hugo
- Midnight in Paris
- Moneyball
- The Tree of Life
- War Horse
Best actor of Oscar 2012
- Demián Bichir, A Better Life
- George Clooney, The Descendants
- Jean Dujardin, The Artist
- Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Best actress of Oscar 2012
- Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
- Viola Davis, The Help
- Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
- Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Best supporting actress of Oscar 2012
- Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
- Jessica Chastain, The Help
- Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
- Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
- Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best actor in a supporting role of Oscar 2012
- Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
- Jonah Hill, Moneyball
- Nick Nolte, Warrior
- Christopher Plummer, Beginners
- Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best director of Oscar 2012
- Michel Hazavanicius, The Artist
- Alexander Payne, The Descendants
- Martin Scorsese, Hugo
- Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
3.40pm And that's a wrap folks! While The Artist may have triumphed on stage, the web is saying there was a different frontrunner at the ceremony – Angelina Jolie's right leg.
Jolie's lengthy pin now has it's own Twitter page @AngiesRightLeg which is posting messages like, "Leg here!" and "Look at meeee!!" and "Don't forget about me!!" There were 2,000-plus followers even before Jean Dujardin was named best actor! It's now approaching 5,500.
If that's not enough, here's the ten best pictures of the show-stopping limb.
It will now be known as the "Adele of The Oscars".
3.29pm A deserving Meryl Streep takes out Best Actress. If Streep was to have lost, she would have suffered her 15th defeat, but tonight is her night
"When they called my name, I had a feeling I could hear all of America going 'oh no, cmon, her?' But whatever."
3.18pm Natalie Portman presents the award for Best Actor. Jean Dujardin steals the statue from George Clooney's hot little hands. His first words:
"I love your country"
In Dujardin's entire performance he spoke just two words – "thank" and "you" – so it is fitting that he uses them again tonight, and several times over
3.01pm With a slow, sweet version of What a Wonderful World, Esperanza Spalding sings over the black-and-white images of the men and women who died over the past year, including Steve Jobs, Tim Hetherington, Jane Russell, Elizabeth Taylor and Whitney Houston.
2.51pm Best Director goes to Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
2.35pm The Bridesmaids cast are on stage to prove women can be funny – but they probably didnt need to use penis jokes and swig from liquor bottles to prove it this time. We all saw the movIE!
2.28pm Woody Allen couldn't be there to accept his award for best original screenplay, surprise surprise. He wins for Midnight in Paris
2.25pm Angelina Jolie looks FIERCE presenting the award for Adapted Screenplay to The Descendants. She's got a split that almost goes right up to her navel and she's not hiding it. She thrusts a leg out to distract everyone from her incredibly monotone delivery.
2.20pm There are only two nominees for Best Original Song and after much dropping of the cymbals by Will Ferrell and Zach Galiafianakis, Man or Muppet, from The Muppets wins. Miss Piggy will be carrying on like a pork-chop after that news…
2.15pm Penelope Cruz and Owen Wilson introduce the award for Original Score – not much to say here really except for The winner? The Artist!
2.05pm For any Perez-heads out there who are interested in his opinion of the ceremony, here it is:
Zzzzz! Falling asleep! #Oscars
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) February 27, 2012
2.00pm At the age of 82, Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest actor EVER to win an Oscar! Wins Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beginners. He looks at the golden statuette (which turns 84 this year) and says:
"Youre only two years older than me darling, where have you been all my life?"
1.52pm Steve Carrell gets all funny like with The Muppets cameo:
Miss Piggy gets my bacon frying.
— Steve Carrell (@SteveCareII) February 27, 2012
In animation you can be anyone you want to be. If you're a white man, you can be an Arabian prince. If you're a black man, you can be a talking donkey.
It almost doesn't matter that Rango wins the Oscar for best animated feature.
Meanwhile, even Eddie Murphy is having his say, on how he compares to er, himself:
Chris Rock will never live up to Eddie Murphy #Oscars
— Eddie Murphy ® (@_EddieMurphy_) February 27, 2012
1.44pm Robert Downey Jr is filming a reality TV show – The Presenter. It involves a lot of bickering with Gwyneth Paltrow. "What you're doing is disrespectful," says Gwynnie. Downey Jnr's reply:
"I turned down The Descendants to prep for this"
Hit! They're also handing out the award for best documentary feature. It goes to Undefeated. The film-makers like to swear. Talking of swearing Chris Rock is up next.
1.40pm Cirque du Soleil are on. Their performance is the largest cast the Academy has ever assembled for a single act. Providing the music is Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman (Batman, SPider-man, The Simpsons). This is second time Cirque du Soleil has performed during an Academy Awards telecast and all I can say is – wow! But where are ther monkeys? I want flying monkeys.
1.32pm Ali: An Aussie gets up! Kirk Baxter (who won last year for The Social Network) clearly did't have a speech prepared but he saved it with this:
"Lets get outta here – we're editors"
1.29pm The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo claims the award for best editing. No film is dominating the field yet.
Oops, I spoke too soon. Best sound editing Oscar goes to Hugo. Very weird acceptance speech – I'd like to thank everyone who has been born and hasn't been born. Someone's going to regret that one.
Best sound mixing goes to Hugo. A lot of screaming from the crowd (where's a good sound mixer when you need one). So that's Hugo out in front but will it have to make do with the technical awards?
1.25pm Billy Crystal to George Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Kiebler:
"You're a lucky girl – he's a very good kisser"
1.22pm Crystal introduces the first skit. Found footage of the first focus group's reaction to the Wizard of Oz. It looks as if this one has been written by Christopher Guest and co. Guest is best known for Spinal Tap. A lot of jokes about monkeys and who doesn't like monkeys?
1.17pm Spencer is the first victim of the dreaded time checkers.
"Please wrap up? I'm wrapping up, I'm freaking out. Oh God, I'm sorry."
1.09pm Batman is presenting the best supporting actress statue. Ooo, he's dark, moody and all British. The winner is …. Octavia Spencer, as expected. Standing ovation from the crowd. Here come the tears.
1.08pm Best foreign language film is A Separation. Good call. It's a great film.
1.04pm Now we have a bunch of stars talking about the magic of movies but it's coming across like a political advert or plea for money. Baaad.
1.00pm A bunch of other awards have been given out to people who aren't important. Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup goes to The Iron Lady, presumably for making Thatcher look like a human being.
The Oscar for Best Achievement in Costume Design goes to The Artist, so right back at ya Scorsese.
12.45pm Tom Hanks gives out the first award, for cinematography. The nominees are The Artist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, The Tree of Life and War Horse.
And the Oscar goes to Hugo. That's one for Scorsese. Nothing for the rest of the field.
And he's still on. Giving out the Oscar for best art direction now. The nominees are: The Artist, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, Hugo, Midnight in Paris and War Horse.
The winner…. Hugo. In your face, The Artist.
12.35pm Crystal is making much of the fact that he's an old has-been. Two minutes in and he's already singing. And it sucks. Bring on The Muppets … Actually, bring on Eddie Murphy. At least he only sings when he's a donkey.
12.30pm The show begins. Billy Crystal has inserted himself into scenes from the best picture nominees. The best gag so far – a kiss from George Clooney.
This one's pretty good too:
"We're here at the Chapter 11 Theatre"
12.00pm Kristen Wiig in yet another Nudie dress, why does she hate colour?
11.55am Gwynnie tweeted this pic from inside the limo:
11.51am Emma Stone turns up in Nicole Kidman's Oscar dress from 2007.. what a faux pas! Perez Hilton calls it a "serious fashion fail".
11.45am This is your last chance to see Octavia Spencer's chest before she treats herself to the celebratory boob-lift she spoke about last week. In other news, she's looking stunning in Tadashi Shoji.
Jonah Hill brought his mum as his date. Bless.
Tina Fey in Carolina Herrera and a fake bun …
11.31am Ryan Seacrest dares to interviews Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator. The interview finishes when the actor spills an urn containing Kim Jong Il's "ashes" all over his suit". But more importantly, what is Cohen wearing?
"I'm wearing John Galiano, but the socks are from K-mart. Saddam Hussein once said to me, socks are socks, don't waste money".
11.25am There's a lot of debate over exactly what colour the My Week With Marilyn star is wearing. She's called it coral, others have called it red. The peplum silhouette looks perfect on her.
Rooney Mara in WHITE! She's shunned her usual black. But people aren't talk about her gown, theyre talking about her brows.
Maya Rudolph in looks stunning in plum Johanna Johnson, but there was a little too much talk about shapewear! We don't need to know what's under that thing! Meanwhile, she spills her secret on how to survive the red carpet:
Meanwhile, Bret McKenzie, who's one half of Flight of the Choncords is getting some air time.
11.15am Sacha Baron Cohen's Admiral General Aladeen is here – perhaps not the best time to roll out a p***-take of Middle-Eastern dictators when Syria's tyrannical President Assad is slaughtering hundredd of his own people daily.
10.59am Comedian Albert Brooks was snubbed by the Academy despite winning over almost veryone else who matters with his menacing turn in Drive. He's on Twitter and being funny.
I was not on Twitter last year at this time so let me wish The Kings Speech the very best of luck.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) February 26, 2012
10.50am Russell Crowe, a man not known for subtlety is keeping his mouth shut about the Oscars. On his account he's talking to Bryan Adams.
10.42am Viola Davis is a vision in green, sporting some serious squoobs AND her natural hair by "Hair by Mae Alice Davis" (her mum!)
Meanwhile, there's a lot of praise floating on the Twittersphere for her wigless do:
Viola Davis + natural hair at the Oscars = a proud moment for black womanhood. Viola, thank you from the bottom of my scalp.
— Sonya Ross (@sonyagal) February 26, 2012
10.35am Melissa McCarthy knocks it out of the park. She's changed her look completely, the colour and beadwork on this dress is perfect combination. Best she's looked all season, I say.
10.32am We're used to seeing Jessica Chastain in pastels and blues, but she's mixed it up for the Oscars with a tricky gold and copper print on black. It's a difficult one to pull off, but this girl doesn't need any Help.
10.28am Meanwhile, George Clooney has turned up with Stacey in tow – take that rumour mill! This couple is still kicking it. Clooney says she's delighted with his nomination:
"I figure if I get hit by a bus today, I did ok."
Comedian Kathy Griffin reckons Stacy has a strategy:
Clooneys girlfriend is dressed LIKE AN OSCAR! Strategy people!!!
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) February 26, 2012
10.25am Our own Rose Byrne could turn up in a paper bag and look stunning, she's gone for a hat-trick combination of a Vivienne Westwood gown, Jimmy Choo heels and Chanel jewels – what a designer threesome! Black sequins are the new black.
10.22amMilla Jovovich in Elie Saab haute couture. True Hollywood glamour, looking like a Milla-ion dollars she is. Guiliana Rancic goes for a mildly reptilian look, but her hair is pulled back so tight my head hurts.
And here are some other stars wearing expensive clothes they have been paid to wear (if only real people's lives were like that). They are: Guiliana Rancic and Sarah Hyland.
Sarah Hyland dons regal purple – age appropriate and very pretty. This Modern Family starlet hasn't put a foot wrong this awards season
10.22am Milla Jovovich in Elie Saab haute couture. True Hollywood glamour, looking like a Milla-ion dollars she is. Guiliana Rancic goes for a mildly reptilian look, but her hair is pulled back so tight my head hurts.
10.17am Do you remember Penelope Anne Miller? There's no reason you should, because she was last a star almost 20 years ago in Carlito's Way. She's back now, riding on The Artist's wave of popularity, in which she stars.
10.00am You want pics of celebrities on a red carpet. Then today is your lucky day. Enjoy.
9.50am The most highly anticipated fashion reveal on the red carpet today? It's not Angelina, it's not Michelle, Gwyneth or Meryl. It's the muppet's resident fashionista, Miss Piggy. The porcine actress has confirmed she is a happy as a pig in the proverbial after being dressed for the evening by the magnificent Zac Posen:
"Moi will wear a trés fabulous dress designed especially for moi by Zac. It's a magnificent creation, just like moi. The theme for my dress is 'Wow! as in 'Wow, nobody else could pull that off except Miss Piggy. It's designed to catch your eye, and make George, Brad and Kermie drool all over me."
9.45am Could this be a little hint as to who Posh has been busy styling?
Happy Oscar day! Excited to see what Rooney Mara and Michelle Williams will wear x vb
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) February 26, 2012
9.35am Over to you Ali. Ryan Seacrest has just confirmed Sacha Baron Cohen WILL be attending the ceremony as the dictator to terrorise the red carpet.. Can't wait to see the bearded tyrant unleashed!
Just confirmed I will be interviewing the dictator today…trying to figure out what the heck to ask him, ideas?? #eredcarpet
— Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest) February 26, 2012
9.30am Talking of nudity, here's when the Oscars did it with taste. Over to you David Niven:
9.25am So why has the Academy turned to some old geezer who was last funny on screen in 1991? Because it was staring down the barrel of a public relations nightmare after the man hired to host the Oscars, Eddie Murphy, walked at the 11th hour. Murphy, another comedian who hasn't been funny on screen for even more years than Crystal (Shrek doesn't count), walked because the man hired to produce the Oscars, Brett Ratner, said "rehearsing was for fags" and then subsequently wrote this open letter to the entertainment industry:
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few days, I've gotten a well-deserved earful from many of the people I admire most in this industry expressing their outrage and disappointment over the hurtful and stupid things I said in a number of recent media appearances. To them, and to everyone I've hurt and offended, I'd like to apologize publicly and unreservedly.
As difficult as the last few days have been for me, they cannot compare to the experience of any young man or woman who has been the target of offensive slurs or derogatory comments. And they pale in comparison to what any gay, lesbian, or transgender individual must deal with as they confront the many inequalities that continue to plague our world.
So many artists and craftspeople in our business are members of the LGBT community, and it pains me deeply that I may have hurt them. I should have known this all along, but at least I know it now: words do matter. Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted. With this in mind, and to all those who understandably feel that apologies are not enough, please know that I will be taking real action over the coming weeks and months in an effort to do everything I can both professionally and personally to help stamp out the kind of thoughtless bigotry I've so foolishly perpetuated.
As a first step, I called Tom Sherak this morning and resigned as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards telecast. Being asked to help put on the Oscar show was the proudest moment of my career. But as painful as this may be for me, it would be worse if my association with the show were to be a distraction from the Academy and the high ideals it represents.
I am grateful to GLAAD for engaging me in a dialogue about what we can do together to increase awareness of the important and troubling issues this episode has raised and I look forward to working with them. I am incredibly lucky to have a career in this business that I love with all of my heart and to be able to work alongside so many of my heroes. I deeply regret my actions and I am determined to learn from this experience.
Sincerely, Brett Ratner
Murphy, who obviously makes his movies the heterosexual way, by winging it, decided he couldn't work for a producer who might make him rehearse and followed his mate Ratner out the door. Names of possible replacement hosts tossed around by the Academy included Ricky Gervais, Steve Martin and the bloke who plays Barney in How I Met Your Mother. They even considered hiring a bunch of Muppets, quite literally. Why? Because last year's hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, two names the Academy thought would persuade bored teenagers that award shows are COOOL, bombed (yes, remember Franco in the Marilyn Monroe dress?). Even Franco hated his performance and immediately afterwards took to Twitter to rip into the show's producers and writers. In the end, it being Hollywood and original ideas being few on the ground, they picked Crystal.
So we can only dream what kind of show Ratner and Murphy would have given us. Actually, it would have been exactly like this one but with less rehearsing and more tits and ass (see Ratner's back catalogue if you don't believe me).
8.50am So, let's talk about Billy Crystal. Time and botox has not been kind, and it would be better for all concerned if he had aged gracefully into something like this:
Rather than this:
If you're anywhere near the age of news.com.au's target demographic, you'll be wondering who this Billy Crystal is. To all those who don't have access to imdb, Billy Crystal is the bloke in that film about Meg Ryan faking orgasms in cafes. You know, When Sex and the City Met Hugh Grant. Billy Crystal is also Oscars royalty.
He has hosted the awards show eight times, second only to Bob Hope's 18 stints, and joked that he's only doing it this year "so the young woman in my local pharmacy will stop having to ask my name when I pick up my prescriptions".
His trademark is inserting himself into clips of the best picture nominees, which may have got giggles in 1990 but seems pretty lame in 2012. Here are a couple of videos of his greatest Oscar moments for those who want to get a taste of what we're in for over the next few hours.
8.15am A study published by the LA Times last week chips further gold off the little statue. Your average Oscar voter is a white, middle-aged man and the film tastes of white middle-aged men veer towards the conservative, which is why films like Driving Miss Daisy, A Beautiful Mind and Forrest Gump win awards and not Taxi Driver, Citizen Kane and Blade Runner.
And if that doesn't convince you that the Oscars are a sham, then the answer to this question posed by the LA Times should:
Of the following people, which ones are eligible to vote at the Oscars – Woody Allen, George Lucas, Meat Loaf and Chips actor Erik Estrada?
The answer: Meat Loaf and Erik Estrada. Yes, you read that right. Not Woody Allen or George Lucas, two of the most influential film-makers of the past three decades, but the man who'll do anything for love but won't do that and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello.
8.00am If you think the films up for best picture don't exactly scream quality, then you'll get a kick out of the following rant. If you loved Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, then it's best you skip this. In fact, don't. Because you need to be taught a lesson. By grumpy film critic Mark Kermode. And for all those unfamiliar with Kermode, watch him take apart Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
In Kermode's excellent book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex he scorns the idea that the Oscars are a serious indicator of quality cinema around the world:
All you really need to know about the Oscars is that they're the awards that didn't give a Best Picture Gong to Citizen Kane but did give one to Driving Miss Daisy. Just think about that for a moment, and try to imagine a world in which Driving Miss Daisy really was the best film you were going to see all. Be honest. You'd throw yourself off a bridge, wouldn't you?
He says the problem is how the Oscar-winners and nominees are picked. What is supposed to happen is the members of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are supposed to watch all the movies released in the US in the past year and cast their vote. But this is what actually happens: "Most of thenm can't actually be bothered to wade through all those boring movies, most of which they imagine are probably utter crap." To make things worse, voters "have become content to allow the initial selection process to be conducted on their behalf by a bunch of unaccountable drunken bozos – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association".
Kermode accuses the HFPA, or Backhanders as I like to call them although our lawyers will probably object, of nominating films for Golden Globes solely based on which celebrities they'd like to hang out with that year. It's a gag Ricky Gervais made while presenting the Globes last year and hinted at this year, which shows you the HFPA loves celebrities even when they're insulting them.
Kermode goes onto argue that "since Academy members don't have time to watch all the eligible releases, they tend to wait until the Golden Globes shortlist is announced and then make their selection from that random field. Thus a group of toadying numbskills effectively get to control the first stage of Oscar voting."
And that's why annoyingly cloy rubbish like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gets nominated.
7.45am And here's what a bunch of kids think about the best picture Oscar (Marky Mark, I don't mean you):
7.40am It's time for me to lay my cards on the table and tell you my predictions (plus tell you who I think should win).
Best picture
Will win: The Artist
Should win: The Artist. Michel Hazavanicius's celebration of Hollywood's past has been dismissed as a piece of cinematic fluff but is fluff a bad thing? The Artist is a clever, beguiling and thoroughly enjoyable piece of fluff. Honourable mention to Drive, which didn't get nominated but is our second favourite film of the year (you'll never get into a lift with Ryan Gosling again).
Best director
Will win: Michel Hazavanicius
Should win: Michel Hazavanicius, for making fluff with wit and flair.
Best actor
Will win: Jean Dujardin (sorry George, we don't think it's your night.
Should win: Gary Oldman for his melancholy spy George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, but the man who should win isn't even on the list – Michael Fassbender, whose performance as a sex addict in Shame was the best of the year.
Best actress
Will win: Meryl Streep
Should win: Meryl Streep, although as a Scot who lived through the worst excesses of Thatcherism, it pains me to write it.
Best supporting actress
Will win: Octavia Spencer
Should win: Melissa McCarthy. For this line: "It's coming out of me like lava!" In fact, it's a crime that Bridesmaids doesn't feature in the best picture, best director and best actress categories.
Best supporting actor
Will win: Christopher Plummer
Should win: Again, the man who should win is not even on the list because the Academy can't get its head around motion capture performance. Andy Serkis's Caesar, the smart chimp with a very big grudge, in Rise of the Planet of the Apes is nothing short of brilliance. And if you think it is all just special effects, then maybe this video will change your mind:
7.30am Someone on tumbler has tried to do the same thing with pictures of babies but it's not as funny. See what I mean:
And someone with too much time on their hands has reduced the best picture nominees to infographics. Here's a taste:
7.00am It's impressive list, but who has time watch everything on it? Not lazy armchair pundits so movie site theshiznet.co.uk has conjured up a fun guide to the big films vying for the golden statue. Here are some of them:
6.30am If previous awards are anything to go by, The Artist is the film to beat. It's certainly the most feel-good film of the year, and feel-good films play well with Academy voters, especially feel-good films made by and starring foreigners (see Life is Beautiful, Cinema Paridiso, La Vie en Rose, anything directed by Lasse Hallstrom).
6.00am It's Oscar day today. In just a matter of hours we'll know whether The Artist becomes the first silent film to win an Oscar since 1929. Back then the awards were a different affair. No tweets, no TV cameras, no Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet and possibly no Billy Crystal. In fact, the ceremony was over in 15 minutes flat, with the list winners published three months earlier in the LA Times, all bad if you enjoy watching glamorous people sweat on live TV at the mere sight of a Golden Envelope.


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Latinos love fortune tellers, bruja stories, cards, Ouija boards. Who wouldn't want to know their futuro? There are some impostors, like the one I blew $20 on at the County Fair, but, I bet you, como yo, can't help but crack open that fortune galleta.
I consulted Jyoti, a Colorado based astrologer with 40+ years experiencia. Astrologers consult the cielos and believe in a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the world. This is no Quija board shuffle and, the reading can have pinpointed accuracy with a birth date and time. I listened to Jyoti's reading and was blown away! So, I asked for a "beauty salon professional" forecast. Aqui is what she saw:
Aries: Expect the unexpected! Freedom is vital. Professional relationships transform. Communications thrive. That book you want to write or that conversation you want to have, now is the time! Dreams may be very revealing. Finances may be linked to travel. Adventure awaits!
Taurus: Travel with a partner is possible. You want deeper conversations. Marriage for some, signing legal documents for others. Expansion of finances. Dreams and visions may come to you. Business/career opportunities are energized. Be ready!
Gemini: Daily life feels bigger. Opportunities come to you to do the things you want to do. Community work may draw you. Take care of health: exercise, check diet. A stabilizing job situation for some. Relationships are seductive and you learn a lot. Pack your bags! Travel ahead.
Cancer: Relationships are key. Look at what is important to you. There's a guardian angel at your shoulder. Have no fear! A sense of adventure and risk-taking around work. Artistic endeavors want an outlet. Bring out the camera or paint brushes. It will feed you!
Leo: Work and business relationships are focus. Going into business with a partner could work. Social life expands and nurtures you. Family feels solid, place of refuge. Buying a house or land possible for some in the next two years. Money through creativity. Pay attention to health. Don't procrastinate!
Virgo: Children and artistic pursuits are focus. Do you paint, draw, photograph, throw dinner parties? You are transforming the way you see yourself. Home and family feel supportive. Turn workplace disagreements into cooperation opportunities. Career expands. Go for it!
Libra: Focus is on family: parents, children. You draw different kinds of people to relate with. They bring a new perspective. Alternative healing methods help you: massage, herbs, yoga, exercise. This year is about getting down to what's true for you. You may be nurtured through travel.
Scorpio: Taking responsibility for making your dreams a reality is vital. Possible money flow, changes in home and where you live. Healing issues from childhood may happen for some. Nurturing sensual/sexual experiences may find you. Be open!
Sagittarius: Risk-taking, sense of adventure, self-love and self-appreciation are focus. Relationships expand and flourish. Be of service where possible. If something doesn't feel right, you can't do it, no matter what the reward. Jump into what does feel good and don't look back!
Capricorn: It's about you making the first move in business and personal relationships and not waiting for the other person. You may surprise yourself and transform in front of your own eyes. Work and health may flourish. A move is possible. You may find yourself teaching others what you know.
Aquarius: Energized! Ready to go! You want to make something happen. Putting foundations in place in career and may formally teach others. Writing, speaking, networking. Social events are plentiful. Deep changes for the better in how you see yourself. Have fun!
Pisces: Be clear with yourself. Don't look at life through rose-colored glasses right now. Friendships will change. Career may expand. Home and family flourish and nurture you. Beauty and fashion infuse your professional life. If traveling, have some educational piece in your itinerary. It will off set delays. Others find you magnetic!
The Best of the Holidays and New Year to You,
Carlos Valenzuela
JyotiWind : an Astrologer, student of Metaphysics, writer for 43+years,[email protected];
Carlos Valenzuela, a Latino marketing consultant, licensed cosmo instructor, author, and motivational speaker. Contact Carlos at [email protected]
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According to Simmet, the one-week, June program at Michigan State University is a program intended to educate young women about the political process.
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Simmet says the program will allow girls to choose which branch of government they will study during their stay. She added, girls could then hold mock campaigns for public offices such as County Clerk or state Governor, hold public speeches and participate in caucuses.
Girls State not only teaches girls about the political process, but Simmet says it's an experience that will continue on with participants well after high school graduation.
"It makes them more secure with themselves," Simmet said. She added the interaction with more than 450 other participants helps the girls gain social confidence to help them in college, future professional relationships and potential career interviews.
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By NCLR Policy Assistant Jaan Williams
It was 2004, and I had volunteered for my school's Queer Straight Alliance to type the individual names of transgender women and men who had been murdered on cards for Transgender Day of Remembrance.
I sat in the computer lab at school, silently typing the name of each person, where they died, details of their murders, and learning with each key stroke about the violence that claimed their lives and how unsafe it is for trans people to simply exist.
The following summer, I realized, I too was transgender, setting off a stream of emotions that were far from the joy and relief I should have experienced in finally understanding who I was. Instead, at that moment, I flashed back to the names of the women and men I had silently typed the year before, recalling the ways they had been killed. In that moment, all I understood was fear. I shook with sobs, tears rolling down my face, as I thought about what my life could be as a trans man.
It's been five years since I began to transition. I pass now, and look male enough that most people don't notice me on the street. But I still fear for myself, my friends, and countless others. And I can't ever shake the feelings that I had when I first realized I was trans, or stop thinking about the countless women and men who lost their lives simply for being who they were.
According to a 2009 study conducted by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), 40 percent of hate murders committed against members of the LGBT community were against trans women of color. I cannot be content with the relative safety that I am afforded while knowing that trans women of color in my community are at such high risk of being targeted for violence.
Transgender Day of Remembrance, set for Saturday, November 20, is a day of remembering, of bearing witness, of not forgetting the names of the women and men who died, of demanding an end to the violence. This Saturday, I'll remember Tyli'a "NaNa Boo" Mack, a trans person murdered in Washington D.C. after I moved here in 2009, and the first for whom I attended a memorial service.
If hate violence stems from a belief that some lives don't matter, remembering those lives proves unequivocally that they do. We remember them because they were—and are—a part of us and our community, and because their lives run parallel to our own.
Someday, I hope that there will no more names to add to the list of women and men who we'll remember on Saturday. But until that day, I'll work to end the violence against our community.


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On Friday, Equatorial Guinean Secretary of State for Information and Press Federico Abaga Ondo stormed into the studios of government-controlled national broadcaster RTVGE and ordered producers to kill the microphone of presenter Juan Pedro Mendene, according to local journalists. Ondo then ordered Mendene, who was presenting his weekly hour-long, French-language call-in educational program "Détente Intégrale," (Total Relaxation) out of the studio, forbidding him to return to the studio, according to the same sources.
Speaking to CPJ today, Mendene--who
has been nicknamed by listeners "The Guide" because of the educational nature
of his show--mentioned the Libyan revolution in the introduction to his program.
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President Teodoro Obiang's repression of dissent and his iron grip on the media during his 32 years of rule have cowed the Equatorial Guinean press into self-censorship, preventing any probing coverage of ongoing international investigations of the ruling elite over of allegations of siphoning of oil revenue profits, according to CPJ research.


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Wyoming Officials Fire State Pension Officer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Retirement System has fired its chief investment officer following federal insider trading charges on transactions that predate his state employment.
Retirement system Executive Director Thomas Williams says he dismissed Chief Investment Officer John Johnson of Arvada, Colo., on Monday. An attempt to reach the 46-year-old Johnson for comment wasn't successful.
The Security and Exchange Commission last month filed insider trading charges against Johnson. He's accused of buying shares of a technology company in 2008 after a friend tipped him off that the company was to be sold. According to the complaint, Johnson made $136,000 on the deal.
Federal prosecutors in New York have announced Johnson pleaded guilty last month to securities fraud charges related to the same transactions.
Johnson started working for the Wyoming Retirement System in 2010.


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Lately, I have found myself playing with packages and my .emacs too much. Sometimes I had to comment the use of a package (e.g. smex) because it was not installed.
So, at the end, I wrote this basic elisp to install a package from the command line.
$ emacs --batch --expr "(define pkg-to-install 'smex)" -l emacs-pkg-install.el
The elisp script looks like this:
;; ;; Install package from command line. Example: ;; ;; $ emacs --batch --expr "(define pkg-to-install 'smex)" -l emacs-pkg-install.el ;; (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t) ;; Fix HTTP1/1.1 problems (setq url-http-attempt-keepalives nil) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install pkg-to-install)
For convenience, you can wrap it in a shell script and simply type:
$ ./emacs-pkg-install.sh smex
The shell script:
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Although this action was filed on February 17, 2014, plaintiff's counsel has ignored the explicit directive of this District Court's LR 5.2(f) that requires the delivery of a paper copy of the complaint for the assigned judge's use within one business day after filing.[1] To underscore the importance of that requirement to the case management procedures followed by this Court, the first paragraph in its website repeats the requirement, adding that a delivery to this Court's chambers on the date of filing, if possible, would be appreciated (although such earlier delivery is not essential).
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When Microsoft announced the Surface tablet, the industry was amazed particularly by the keyboard cover.
The magnetic keyboard comes in two varieties.
- The Touch Cover, which is a laser etched soft keyboard. It costs $119 and comes in five different colors black, white, red, cyan, and magenta. It has a fully functioning multi-touch trackpad with two buttons.
- The Type Cover, which retails for $129 comes in one color, black, and resembles a fully functioning physical keyboard with trackpad.
How good are these keyboards? Judging by the first wave of reviews, pretty darn good.
Joshua Topolsky of The Verge remarked about the Touch Cover's functionality:
On a desk or other flat surface, the Touch Cover works reasonably well. It doesn't come close to replicating a physical, tactile keyboard, but it does do a good job of reminding you where your fingers need to be...The Type Cover is another story altogether — it's one of the best portable keyboards I've ever used.
David Pogue of The New York Times commented on the idea behind the Touch Cover:
[The Touch Cover] is an incredibly slick idea, but the keys don't move. You're pounding a flat surface. If you type too fast, the keyboard skips letters. ("If you type 80 words a minute on a keyboard and 20-30 on glass, you should be in the 50s on the Touch Cover," says a Microsoft representative.)
Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD remarked about the style and usability:
These are better than any of the add-on keyboards I've seen for the iPad. And Microsoft has built in a standard USB port and a sturdy kickstand for typing on a desk.
There is a downside to these keyboards: They are almost useless on your lap. There is no hinge to keep the screen upright and the kickstand works poorly on your legs. Despite that, these features make the Surface better for traditional productivity tasks than any tablet I've tested.
Sam Biddle of Gizmodo is the only person really hating on it:
It's just a half-broken death march up the learning curve. The trackpad, sludge-like and jerky, is even worse—particularly galling compared to the super-smooth touchscreen—and unlike the keyboard, will never get better with practice.
Matt Burns of TechCrunch thought that the Touch Cover was essential:
Without a Touch Cover, the Surface RT feels incomplete in design and function. The problem here is that the Surface is basically a big laptop screen without the keyboard. The cover rights the design's wrongs by forcing the user to use the physical keyboard rather than the on-screen keyboard. Microsoft knows this. After all, Surface is rarely advertised without a Touch Cover, but that doesn't alleviate the sting of paying another $100+ for a keyboard.
Tim Stevens from Engadget liked the Touch Cover, but warned that there was a slight learning curve:
You wouldn't think a 3mm-thick piece of polyurethane could make for a comfy keyboard, but the pressure-sensitive Touch Cover is a compelling companion to your written missives. Just give yourself a little time to get used to it. Microsoft warns it could take four to five days to reach your peak touch-typing speed.
Peter Bright of Ars Technica wanted to hate the Touch Cover, but ended up liking it:
I expected to hate the Touch Covers. I wanted to hate the Touch Covers. As a fluent touch-typist who normally uses an extremely loud Dell clicky keyboard, the Touch Covers represent an affront to everything I stand for. But the damn things work, and work well, and I don't really know how I feel about that. They do take a little getting used to; it'll be a few days before you're really comfortable on them. 50 words per minute should be readily achievable, with an accuracy and convenience that surpasses any on-screen keyboard.
Matthew Honan of Wired backed up the learning curve notion:
It's actually quite fantastic. On this miniature keyboard, that has no actual physical keys, keystrokes fire as fast as you can type them. There is no lag. There is, however, a learning curve.
I struggled mightily with typos and finger placement for the first 24 hours. My left wrist hurt like hell. The pinkie and ring finger on my left hand were cramped. But by day three, my hands began to relax and I was typing quickly and, for the most part, accurately. After a week, I powered along at 90 words per minute. It's not the same speed I hit on a full size keyboard, and I still have typos galore (though far fewer) but given how much I've improved in a week, it's impressive.
Oddly, it is perhaps less effective as a cover than a keyboard. It folds over nicely, but doesn't stay closed as well as I'd like. Several times, I opened my bag to a glow, like something out of Pulp Fiction, to find the Surface had lit up as the Touch Cover came open inside.
Zach Epstein from BGR calls the Touch Cover, "brilliant":
I find it to be the perfect compromise between a traditional tablet typing experience (tapping on glass) and typing on a standard keyboard.
By supporting an ultra-thin, feather-light full keyboard accessory, the Surface instantly becomes one of the best tablets on the planet in terms of productivity without adding any bulk. Typing on a soft polyurethane keypad is not the same as typing on a regular keyboard of course, but I got pretty good with it after a few days of practice.
From what we gather, the cover is essential to the tablet. If you plan on purchasing a Surface, make sure that you pick up a Touch or Type cover because it really makes the device.
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