2013 Oscar winners

Argo

"Argo" took top ceremoniousness at the 85th Academy Awards, acceptable the Oscar for Best Picture. The award, presented by Aboriginal Lady Michelle Obama from the White House via satellite, capped off an active awards division for director/star Ben Affleck, who abounding accept had been snubbed after a administering nod. The Iran earnest crisis abstruseness aswell won awards for Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Daniel Day-Lewis fabricated Oscar history, acceptable his career third Best Actor bays for his appellation role as the 16th admiral in Steven Spielberg's actual ball "Lincoln."

Recovering from a bit of a blunder up accomplish to the podium, Jennifer Lawrence breathlessly accustomed the Oscar for Best Actress for her achievement in the David O. Russell ball "Silver Linings Playbook."

Anne Hathaway dreamed a dream of Oscar gold and it came true, acceptable Best Supporting Actress for her about-face as Fantine in the blur adjustment of the hit agreeable "Les MisГ©rables."

Christoph Waltz claimed the aboriginal bays of the black with a win for Best Supporting Actor for his role as compensation hunter Dr. King Schultz in "Django Unchained," while writer/director Quentin Tarantino won Best Screenplay for his slavery-era animus thriller.

Ang Lee took home the Best Director bays for "Life of Pi," earning the busy Taiwanese filmmaker his additional Oscar in the category. He ahead won in 2005 for "Brokeback Mountain." "Life of Pi" becoming a absolute of four awards, including Oscars for Cinematography, Visual Effects and Original Score.

Director Michael Haneke accustomed the accolade for Best Foreign Language Blur for his acclaimed Austrian ball "Amour."

"Searching for Sugar Man," a documentary about the seek for a long-lost bedrock 'n' cycle legend, won the accolade for Best Documentary Feature.

Pixar's chance "Brave" won for Best Animated Feature -- the action studio's seventh Oscar in the category. Walt Disney's "Paperman" won for Best Animated Short.

Pop diva Adele won the Oscar for Original Song for her aerial titular affair from the latest Bond blur "Skyfall."

Below are the full list of the winners:

Best Picture: "Argo"
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Best Director: Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Animated Feature Film: "Brave"
Cinematography: "Life of Pi"
Costume Design: "Anna Karenina"
Documentary Feature: "Searching for Sugar Man"
Documentary Short: "Inocente"
Film Editing: "Argo"
Foreign Language Film: "Amour" (Austria)
Makeup: "Les Misérables"
Original Score: "Life of Pi"
Original Song: "Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
Production Design: "Lincoln"
Short Film (Animated): "Paperman"
Short Film (Live Action): "Curfew"
Sound Editing: "Skyfall" & "Zero Dark Thirty" (tie)
Sound Mixing: "Les Misérables"
Visual Effects: "Life of Pi"
Best Adapted Screenplay: "Argo"
Best Original Screenplay: "Django Unchained"

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Juventus prepare €14m summer splash for Ogbonna

Ogbonna

The Bianconeri are atrocious to abstain the bearings they begin themselves in with Marco Verratti, if they adjourned with the signing and Paris Saint-Germain swooped for the Italian starlet.

Ogbonna, on the added hand, is believed to accept admiring absorption from Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich - who will accept a new drillmaster in the anatomy of Pep Guardiola in the summer - with his top performances in Serie A over the accomplished brace of seasons.

Goal.com understands that Ogbonna would not be untouchable in Antonio Conte's starting agency but he would accommodate the ascendant Scudetto holders with a added complete squad.

It has been appropriate Juve's back-line attending attenuated after Giorgio Chiellini, and an accomplished Serie A apostle such as the Torino brilliant of Nigerian coast would advice abate such an effect.

A above barrier block in the alteration could be the two Turin-based team's huge rivalry. It is accessible that Granata administrator Urbano Cairo could scupper any about-face by opposing captivation talks with Juventus.

However, beforehand in February the Torino arch had appear Ogbonna could be on his way out of the Stadio Olimpico in the summer.

In December, it was appear the highly-rated apostle is admired by his accepted club at €19m, but Juve will be acquisitive their funds of €14m will be acceptable to force Cairo's hands.

The centre-back has 5 caps for Italy accepting fabricated his admission beneath Cesare Prandelli in backward 2011, and after fabricated the Azzurri band for Euro 2012 but did not play a minute of the side's run to the final.

Tottenham in talks over new Dawson contract

Dawson

The apostle about larboard White Hart Lane for QPR endure summer but is now in discussions with Spurs over a new four-year accord that will accumulate him at the club until he is 33 

The axial apostle was about awash to QPR for €9.2million actor endure summer but could now accomplish his abiding approaching to the arctic London club.

Dawson is beneath arrangement until 2015 but wants a pay acceleration and the 29-year-old's assembly accept opened talks over a new four-year deal.

The above Nottingham Forest man looked set to be arctic out by Spurs administrator Andre Villas-Boas at the alpha of the attack but has affected his way aback into the side, authoritative 20 appearances in all competitions this season.

Dawson, who has been capped four times by England, angry down a move to QPR in August and vowed to action for his abode at Spurs afterwards declining to accede claimed agreement on a about-face to Loftus Road.

He earns about €46,000-a-week at Spurs and is gluttonous an access to a ‚€69,000 bacon for the endure above arrangement of his career as he plays a key role in Tottenham's bid for a top-four finish.


He's accepted his charge over the years and he's a basic allotment of the first-team squad.

A four-year accord would accumulate Dawson at White Hart Lane until the age of 33 afterwards he abutting the club from Nottingham Forest in a €4.6m accord in 2005.

Dawson has become a key amount in the affection of the defence during his time at Spurs and took over as club captain afterward Ledley King's retirement endure summer.

Oscar Pistorius: So what next?

Oscar Pistorius

As the astriction and the calefaction axial the brimming attorneys congenital up, Cloister Desmond Nair fabricated his assiduous way through a arbitrary of the affirmation and arguments - with the casual apostrophe into acknowledged history - after appearing to accord case or defence a accurate acumen for confidence.

It was alone in the final few abnormal of his cardinal - accepting conceded that Oscar Pistorius was not a flight accident or a danger, but accepting aswell aloft doubts about his affidavit and assured that case and defence had finer fought anniversary added to a draw on the axial affair of whether the amateur had planned to annihilate his adherent or advised to shoot a burglar - that Mr Pistorius accept to accept that he would anon be a chargeless man.

But there was no abatement in the athlete's face. His amateur befuddled and he angled advanced on the bench, aggravating to accommodate his sobs, as his ancestor accomplished advanced to put a duke on his back.

It seems there can be no acceptable canicule for Oscar Pistorius appropriate now - just variations on a affair of grief, and affliction - whatever adaptation of the contest in that now acclaimed bath you accept to believe.

So what now?
For all the drama, twists and revelations of the accomplished anniversary - and the amazing akin of detail and agitation that alike - it's important to bethink that this was just a bond hearing, a baby footfall on the alley arise the annihilation trial.

All the key argumentative and ballistic advice has yet to be revealed. Months of assiduous plan lie advanced for case and defence.

The prosecution's case may not accept been helped by the adverse achievement of the advance detective, Hilton Botha, who squirmed and backtracked beneath cross-examination.
But in a way, that may prove to be beside the point.

Broken man
It's apparently fair to accept that the case aggregation never accepted to win the altercation adjoin bail. Instead their action was to force Oscar Pistorius to appearance his hand, giving a abounding annual of his adaptation of contest in adjustment to adverse the advised annihilation allegation aloft at the bond hearing.
Now the prosecution, with a cast new high-profile detective arch the investigation, has the affluence of months to aces afar the athlete's affidavit annual and admeasurement it adjoin the argumentative affirmation that will anon appear.

Interestingly, the prosecutor and cloister today both raised, in abstruse terms, the achievability of the accuse adjoin Oscar Pistorius getting bargain from annihilation to amiss assassination - something which could beggarly a accomplished or abeyant book rather than a continued bastille term.

We are a continued way from that happening, but accustomed the all-embracing spotlight now focused on South Africa's badge and administrative system, there will be burden to ensure that this case does not annoyance on, or do annihilation to discredit this country.

My own appearance is that, even by his own annual of events, Oscar Pistorius displayed the a lot of acute carelessness in battlefront blindly into a bankrupt door, after even the a lot of basal acknowledgment of who or what ability lie abaft it.

Perhaps he's getting punished abundant by accident the woman he told accompany he anticipation ability become his wife.

Having sat just over a accent abroad from him for the endure four canicule in court, I can acquaint you he is a torn man. But still it is harder to brainstorm he will airing abroad from a balloon after some anatomy of sanction, and with his activity and career afflicted always by four shots accursed into a toilet door.

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Apple smart watch efforts confirmed

Fresh affirmation that Apple has been alive on a acute watch abstraction aback at atomic 2011 has emerged in a apparent filing. 

The certificate describes a adjustable touchscreen affectation which would acquaint with a smartphone or added cyberbanking device.

It coincides with a address from a tech consultancy suggesting there is huge pent up appeal for such a gadget.

Apple describes a device which wraps itself around the user's wrist

But ABI Research warns that array action issues still charge to be addressed.
It says bold such problems can be resolved, about 485 actor wearable accretion accessories adeptness address by 2018, accouterment a cogent advance befalling for Apple and the added customer electronics industry.

Not all appear patents advance to absolute products, but Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times accept all appear letters this ages adage sources had accepted Apple was experimenting with a watch-like device.

Slap wraps
The US Apparent Office alone appear Apple's filing on Thursday, but the certificate dates aback to August 2011.

The mooted accessory is likened to a "slap wrap" - a attenuate bandage of metal covered in bolt which airtight about the user's wrist to anatomy a bracelet.

The toy was accepted with teenagers in the late-1980s, but fell out of favour afterwards complaints that it absent its adeptness to absorb its appearance over time,. There were aswell complaints that some users had accomplished injuries afterwards the bolt wore abroad to acknowledge a aciculate metal edge.

Apple suggests components would harvest kinetic energy

It suggests the apparatus could ascertain which allotment of its apparent was covered so that its readout would be bound to the apparent screen, with advice abounding over the join.

Apple suggests lights forth the device's bend could be programmed to blink if the user receives an alert, afore announcement the data on its screen.

It says the user could again accommodate a abrupt acknowledgment or use the armlet to command a wirelessly affiliated smartphone, book or laptop to haversack out addition action such as adjusting the adjustment of a song playlist or reviewing what contempo calls had been made.

Apple acknowledges that the almost attenuate attributes of a wrist bandage would absolute its uses, but suggests a added armband could aswell be developed.

"At the amplitude of a few inches the affectation can action to briefly appearance and dispense the awning of the carriageable accessory it is in advice with," says the paper.

"This adeptness be adorable if the carriageable cyberbanking accessory is stored in an annoying area such as a burden pocket, or the basal of a backpack.

"A above affectation is aswell added adorable for map viewing... as a traveller or charlatan can calmly advertence the advice with a flick of the wrist while exploring."

Recharge worries 
ABI Research addendum that several companies already advertise acute watches - such as Fossil, Pebble and Sony - while others (including Samsung and Martian) are accepted to be alive on such products,
For the time being, however, it says the area is bedeviled instead by action trackers - such as Nike's Fuelband and the Garmin Forerunner - which annual for an estimated 61% of the wearable tech market.

Some of these accessories do acquaint the time, but they alone action bound functionality above ecology exercise or the owner's beddy-bye pattern.

The consultants instead advance a abundant added ambit of uses giving the archetype of bond the watch to a home automation arrangement so that "a quick agitate of your wrist can about-face off/on allowance lights".
The abstraction of a smartwatch has been about for years - but the close says technology alone afresh bent up with our imagination.

"Bluetooth Acute has aswell brought us high-bandwidth, low-energy connectivity at a beneath than a dollar a dent and takes up little amplitude while alms able-bodied performance.

Nike

"But one agenda of attention is that if we attending at wearable technologies the use of ability becomes an issue. You don't wish to accept to be alive in four or 5 articles a night to recharge - activity agriculture or wireless recharging technologies are traveling to become abundantly important."

Apple's apparent confirms the aggregation is acquainted of the problem.

It suggests agriculture activity from the movement of the user's accoutrements and alone advancing out of standby approach if a sensor detects the accessory has been rotated to face a assertive way.

It adds that the use of an AMOLED (active cast ablaze abounding diode) affectation would aswell advice aback it can acquiesce alone pixels to be angry off, acceptance the watch to alone actuate the locations which are adverse the owner's eyes.