Oscars 2012: 'The Artist' Wins Best Picture

Ode to silent film took home five trophies, tying Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' for an awards-show best.
By Kevin P. Sullivan


"The Artist" wins Best Picture at the 84th annual Academy Awards
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After leading the Best Picture field in the months before Sunday's (February 26) Oscars ceremony, "The Artist" took home the top prize. The film won five awards in total, tying "Hugo" for the most awards for a single film at this year's Academy Awards.

In a year filled with films that looked back fondly at the magic of going to the movies, no movie dominated the awards-show conversation quite like "The Artist." The odds-on favorite to win Best Picture, "The Artist" performed just as well as many expected it would on Oscar night.

The ode to silent film was considered the heavy favorite to win several of the major categories at the Academy Awards and took home Oscars for Best Actor (Jean Dujardin) and Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius).

Hazanavicius' win for Best Director signaled a turn in the tide for the night, which had been dominated by Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" in the technical categories.

"The Artist" also collected a good number of trophies earlier in the show, for Best Score and Best Costume Design, in addition to its top prize. It went toe-to-toe with "Hugo," which also took home five total awards.

The star playing a star, Jean Dujardin, won for Best Actor and signaled that the night belonged to "The Artist."

Though Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" had gained an early lead as a potential Best Picture winner, strong showings at film festivals and earlier awards shows locked "The Artist" firmly as the front-runner for the category. Few Oscar analysts expected any other movie but the silent film to take the category.

The MTV Movies team has the 2012 Oscars covered! Keep it locked at MTV.com all night and beyond for updates on the night's big winners and the best red-carpet fashion. Join the live conversation by tweeting @MTVNews with the hashtag #Oscars.

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Oscar Winners 2012: Who's Won So Far?

After months of build-up, countless red carpets and hours spent answering two big questions ("Do you have your acceptance speech prepared?" and "Who are you wearing?"), George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer and the rest of this year's Oscar nominees are packed into the venue formerly known as the Kodak Theatre to hear host Billy Crystal crack jokes -- and, of course, to find out who will take home the hardware at the 84th Academy Awards.

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Risks and Challenges Involved in International Business ...

International businesses have to face risks and challenges at many fronts. Some are similar to the risks and challenges a domestic business confronts and some are unique. Even the challenges that are similar by definition differ in nature. For example both types of businesses have to face financial challenges, but an international business will be facing many factors related to global financial markets that don?t affect domestic businesses as much. They are more of a challenge in nature than risks and most of them can be handled through proper planning. Keep reading to understand these challenges better.

The challenge of international planning & strategy:
The first challenge for an international enterprise is to make a global strategy and then implement it. The managers and those at decision-making positions often find it difficult to change their thought pattern, which is not used to work in global paradigm. There are many international businesses but just some of them have truly adopted a proper global strategy. Though the situation is improving with more and more trained graduates and professionals taking on the management roles. Nevertheless, international business management requires extra ordinary management, foreseeing and leadership skills.

Financial and economic challenges:
It starts from arranging the funds to start international business and includes everything such as fluctuation in exchange rate, global economic crisis (or some economic crises in the host country), shift in oil prices, global inflation or tariff barriers imposed by the host government, also the export related policies of your own government.

International Politics:
Political know-how is a must for everybody but it becomes all so important when operating at international level. If some policies were suitable for your business, a change in ruling party can bring drastic changes in those policies. Political chaos will bring down the economy and with that your business. To prevent your business from such negative impacts, you need to make sound political judgments.

Environment, natural disasters and warfare:
Many multinational businesses have to face serious opposition by some environment friendly organizations. Citizens are more concerned about air and water pollution these days as it is becoming a serious threat to their health. Some natural disaster like floods and earthquake, or some kind of civil war breaking out in the host country is also in the list of possible challenges. A new challenge that an international business has to bear now days in some specific countries is the threat of terrorism.

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AWW Feature: How To Speak In A Book by Paddy?O?Reilly

I am thrilled to host Paddy O?Reilly at Book?d Out today. Paddy O?Reilly?s latest novel, The Fine Colour of Rust, will be released in March, 2012 in Australia, the UK and the USA. The Fine Colour of Rust is a wryly funny, beautifully observed, life-affirming novel about friendship, love and fighting for things that matter. I was charmed by the protagonist, Loretta Boskovic, a single mother living in the tiny town of Gunapan, Australia and gave the novel a five star review.

Paddy?s short story collection, The End?of the World?(UQP) was released to critical?acclaim?in April, 2007. The stories in the collection have won a number of?national and international story awards including ?The Age?, the ?Judah?Waten?, ?Zoetrope All-Story? (USA) and the Commonwealth?Broadcasting Corporation (UK). The End of the World was chosen as one of the year?s?best books in various publications?from Australian Book Review to The?Financial Review. It was shortlisted in the Queensland?Premier?s?Literary Awards and commended in the Victorian Premier?s Literary?Awards. Her debut novel, The?Factory, was also in the best books of the year?lists in Australian Book Review and the Sydney?Morning Herald and was Highly Commended in the FAW Christina?Stead Award for Fiction.? It was broadcast in fifteen episodes as?the ABC Radio?National Book Reading during July?2009. Her novella ?Deep Water??was published in 2007 as one of four in the novella anthology, Love?and Desire. She has also written screenplays and worked as additional screenwriter for films?which have been nominated for AFI awards and screened nationally and?internationally.

Paddy?has been Asialink writer-in-residence in Japan, a fellow at Varuna: the?Writers? House, writer-in-residence at Kelly Steps Cottage, Tasmania,?and The Lockup, Newcastle, presenter and reader at the International?Conference on the Short Story?in Toronto and a full fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, USA. Paddy spent?several years working as a?copywriter?in Japan. She now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

How to Speak in a Book

My stories and books have been set in places all around the world, some taken from life, some invented. Each setting presents its own writing challenges, and several have been to do with the language of the place.

The Factory is a novel set in an arts colony on a mountain in Japan. One of the first decisions I had to make was dealing with dialogue. On the mountain, my two Australian characters were speaking English between themselves and Japanese to the native residents. The Japanese obviously spoke Japanese to each other. Sometimes, one of the Japanese characters would slip into English to say something to the Australians that he didn?t want his fellow Japanese to understand. The text of my book would all be in English, but how could I make clear, without mentioning it each time, which language was being spoken?

Looking through other books with a similar conundrum, I found that some authors wrote the non-English dialogue in a kind of broken English. That seemed a very unsatisfying way to handle the problem, as it made the location?s native speakers sound like they were in the wrong country. I thought that if you were going to use that technique, you should at least make the English speakers the ones unable to put a sentence together grammatically, since they were speaking the foreign language. Another solution some authors tried was giving the non-English speakers a kind of patois ? grammatically correct but spiced up with occasional words and phrases from the language of the location. Again, it seemed awkward, non? Then there was the attempt to use the syntax of the location language in the dialogue. ?But, signor, your automobile, she is broken!? which made me feel like I?d landed in an episode of Fawlty Towers.

In the end, my solution was the simplest. Trust the reader. I left the dialogue as natural speech. If I felt there was ambiguity I would tag the line of dialogue with a hint of the language used, but I soon discovered that I hardly needed to do that. Readers are smart. They figure this stuff out.

Another dialogue problem arose when I found myself writing a story called ?Speak to Me? about a tiny alien landing in someone?s backyard. It sounds like an weird concept, and maybe it is, but the story is actually very down to earth (excuse my pun) and human. ?This was a case where a tricky problem raised by the emerging plot of the story ended up forging one of the major themes of the work ?? how we communicate. As I was writing, a major concern was how to get my female protagonist speaking with an alien from another galaxy who looked like a small piece of seafood. No mouth, my character thought. Arms with sensitive suction pads. So she borrowed braille books from the library ? first the alphabet, then novels ? and the smart critter learned to read English. Trouble was, the library only had Regency romances in braille, so the alien learned to communicate like this: ?Dear Lady, if you will allow me to express my feelings??

My latest book, The Fine Colour of Rust, is set in a small country town in Victoria. I?d done the hard research, having lived in Warburton and Ballarat, driven around the state several times, and also spent a lot of time on a bush block in a tiny hamlet in Golden Plains Shire. My protagonist, Loretta, originally comes from Melbourne, but she?s been living in Gunapan long enough to pick up a hint of the local drawl. One of the original residents is her best friend Norm, the old junk man, who has been speaking Gunapan-style all his life.

I had no intention of creating some hokey country lingo, or a Henry Lawson feel. Yet I did want to capture that laconic pace you encounter in small country towns: the half-finished sentence that only an idiot wouldn?t understand; the silent dialogue between blokes expressed in shifts in the position of the feet and a bit of carefully timed nodding; the sudden smart comment that snaps past you like a whip crack; the exasperation at the state of the world bubbling through the pretend couldn?t-care-less attitude.

I found as I wrote the dialogue for these characters that, again, the writing process itself helped me to understand my characters better. Through their dialogue they came alive. Norm is the kind of bloke who plays everything down. In his parlance, a Level 6 cyclone would be ?a bit blowy?. A partly severed finger would be a ?scratch?.

The other day I met a man from Queensland who used that kind of understatement. I was commiserating with him about the floods.

?Yep,? he said, ?a bit more rain than usual.?

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NASA's Webb telescope: Revolutionary design, runaway costs

In deep, cold space, nearly a million miles from Earth, a giant telescope later this decade will scan for the first light to streak across the universe more than 13 billion years ago.

The seven-ton spacecraft, one of the most ambitious and costly science projects in U.S. history, is under construction for NASA at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s space park complex in Redondo Beach.

The aim is to capture the oldest light, taking cosmologists to the time after the big bang when matter had cooled just enough to start forming the first blazing stars in what had been empty darkness. Astronomers have long dreamed about peering into that provenance.

"It is the actual formation of the universe," said Alan Dressler, the astronomer at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena who chaired a committee that proposed the telescope more than a decade ago.

If the James Webb Space Telescope works as planned, it will be vastly more capable than any of the dozen currently deployed U.S. space telescopes and will be a dramatic symbol of U.S. technological might. But for all its sophistication, the project also reveals a deeply ingrained dysfunction in the agency's business practices, critics say. The Webb's cost has soared to $8.8 billion, more than four times the original aerospace industry estimates, which nearly led Congress to kill the program last year.

The agency has repeatedly proposed such technologically difficult projects at bargain-basement prices, a practice blamed either on errors in its culture or a political strategy. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that controls NASA's budget, said a combination of both problems affected the Webb.

"There was not adequate oversight," Wolf said. "And there were reports that the cost estimates were being cooked a little bit, some by the company, some by NASA."

It could spell a new era for the space agency, in which it will have money for just one flagship science mission per decade rather than one every few years as it has in the past. The Webb's cost growth, along with an austere budget outlook for NASA, is depleting the agency's pipeline of big science missions. A much-discussed mission to return samples of Martian soil to Earth, for example, may be unaffordable, according to the House Science Committee staff.

The Webb telescope was conceived by the astronomy community in the late 1990s as a more modest project with a smaller mirror for about $500 million. Then-NASA chief Daniel Goldin challenged the science community in a major speech to double the capability of the telescope for the same price.

Dressler, who was in the audience when Goldin gave the speech, recalled: "It astonished everybody. It made no sense that you could build a telescope six times larger than Hubble ? and have it come in cheaper. We were so stunned, we didn't know what to do."

The early lowball cost figures had no official standing, but they shaped political expectations many years later.

Not surprisingly, the price began to rise, first to $1 billion and then to more than $2 billion when the aerospace industry began submitting estimates. By 2008, when the program was well underway, the cost hit $5 billion.

NASA was running into technical difficulties in manufacturing almost every aspect of the telescope, and it was forced to stretch out the schedule, said Richard Howard, NASA's head of the Webb program and the agency's deputy chief technologist. The agency kept investing in the most difficult technologies for the Webb, leaving other parts of the project out of sync. As a result, some components will be boxed up and stored for years while other pieces are completed.

The delays boosted the cost even more. By last year, the cost estimate to build the telescope hit $8 billion, not including about $940 million in contributions by international partners and about $800 million NASA will spend for five years of operation. The launch date slipped from 2014 to 2018, meaning an army of experts will have to keep working years more on the project. In the past, NASA could tap reserves in its larger budget to get through technical problems, but those funding pools have dried up, Howard said.

The skyrocketing cost infuriated many in Congress. Last year, Wolf led an effort by House Republicans to eliminate all of the Webb's funding, though it was ultimately restored by a conference committee. But to those working on the program, the message was sent.

"It didn't feel good," said Scott Willoughby, Northrop's general manager for the project. "It is costing more than it should. But we didn't make any bad choices. The money was well-spent. We are building the telescope we originally conceived."

Indeed, an independent review panel commended the telescope team last year for its technical merit. The machine has required a whole list of revolutionary developments.

The 21-foot-diameter mirror will be six times larger in area than Hubble, focused by more than 100 motors on its back. Made up of 18 hexagonal segments covered in a thin layer of gold, it is so big that it must be folded up for launch ? another innovation.

To withstand the brutal temperature shifts in space and to save weight, the mirror is made of the rare element beryllium. Only a few companies in the world can polish beryllium so finely that mere atoms can be brushed off. One of those companies is L-3 Communications SSG-Tinsley Inc. in Richmond, northeast of San Francisco. The grinding and polishing process took seven years and required the company to build eight custom machines that cost $1 million apiece.

"We had to find a way to do this right," said John Kincade, a vice president with L-3. "The mirrors have to be perfect."

As ancient light traverses the universe, it shifts to the infrared region of the spectrum, requiring the Webb to have mirrors capable of collecting very faint emissions and detecting them with special sensors that must be kept at nearly the lowest possible temperature known to exist. The satellite will rely on four instruments, supplied by a European consortium, Canada, the University of Arizona and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Ca?ada Flintridge, with other partners.

To achieve those low temperatures, the Webb will have a sophisticated refrigeration system and a five-layer plastic shade to shield the mirror and instruments from the sun. The shade will stretch to the size of a tennis court, keeping temperatures on one side at minus-388 degrees Fahrenheit and the other hot enough to fry an egg at 185 degrees. If it all works, not only will the Webb see the first light of the universe, but it will spot new planets and even determine whether those distant bodies hold water, Howard said.

Howard is confident now that the cost will not increase further and that NASA can execute the program on the new schedule. If the cost does go higher, Wolf admits Congress is not likely to kill the program but says NASA will get hurt in many other ways.

"The real danger is not that [the Webb] will not be funded, but it will consume so many other NASA programs," he warned.

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I have made a lot of mistakes in my nine year Internet marketing career. One of the best things I did when I first got started was putting an emphasis on building an email marketing list.

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Internet Giants to Adopt a Do-Not-Track Button [Privacy]

While many browsers already feature a "do not track" button, in truth they're largely ineffectual, because advertisers and tracking companies hadn't agreed to honor the system. Now, prompted by the Obama administration's attempt to ensure our online privacy, that is about to change. More »


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Irda And Bluetooth | NY Essay

INTRODUCTION
Bluetooth is a wireless protocol utilizing short-range communications technology facilitating data transmission over short distances from fixed and/or mobile devices, creating wireless personal area networks (PANs). The intent behind the development of Bluetooth was the creation of a single digital wireless protocol, capable of connecting multiple devices and overcoming problems arising from synchronization of these devices. Bluetooth uses a radio technology called frequency hopping spread spectrum. It chops up the data being sent and transmits chunks of it on up to 75 different frequencies. In its basic mode, the modulation is Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK). It can achieve a gross data rate of 1 Mb/s. Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, telephones, laptops, personal computers, printers, GPS receivers,digital cameras, and video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) 2.4 GHz short-range

radio frequency bandwidth. The Bluetooth specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The Bluetooth SIG consists of companies in the areas of telecommunication, computing, networking, and consumer electronics.

Prevalent applications of Bluetooth include:
? Wireless control of and communication between a mobile phone and a hands-free headset. This was one of the earliest applications to become popular.
? Wireless networking between PCs in a confined space and where little bandwidth is required.
? Wireless communications with PC input and output devices, the most common being the mouse, keyboard and printer.
? Transfer of files between devices with OBEX.
? Transfer of contact details, calendar appointments, and reminders between devices with OBEX.
? Replacement of traditional wired serial communications in test equipment, GPS receivers, medical equipment, bar code scanners, and traffic control?

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