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By Olivia Oran

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc raised the top end of the price range for its initial public offering by 25 percent and will close its books a day early, signaling strong demand for the most closely watched Silicon Valley debut since Facebook last year.

Amid a red-hot market for IPOs and soaring equity markets, Twitter raised its price range to $23 to $25 per share on Monday, from a previous $17 to $20.

The microblogging network, which has yet to turn a profit, kept the size of the offering at 70 million shares. That means it will raise up to $2 billion if the overallotment option of 10.5 million shares is exercised.

The new pricing would value the company at up to $13.6 billion, or about 12.5 to 13.6 times forecast 2014 revenue of $1 billion, according to eMarketer. Both Facebook Inc and LinkedIn Corp trade at about 12 times forecast 2014 revenue.

Several equity research analysts said they expect Twitter shares to rise after they begin trading, with some setting their one-year price target as high as $52.

"We would participate within the $23-$25 range, albeit, simple math would dictate that management should price at the bottom-end of the new range," BTIG's Richard Greenfield said in a note Monday after the price was raised.

Twitter's IPO is fully subscribed, meaning it has attracted more than enough investor interest, according to a source familiar with the offering.

The company plans to close the books on the IPO a day earlier than scheduled, on Tuesday at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT), because of strong demand, according to two sources with knowledge of the process.

The IPO is set to price on Wednesday, with shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

Twitter also said Monday it had received a letter from International Business Machines Corp alleging Twitter infringed at least three U.S. patents held by IBM.

RED-HOT MARKET

Year to date, 2013 has been the strongest for IPOs since 2007 in the United States, with more than 178 companies going public, according to Thomson Reuters data. Equity markets are climbing and investor uncertainty has subsided, at least for now, over the U.S. debt ceiling crisis and political gridlock in Washington.

Shares of Container Store Group Inc doubled on their first day of trade on November 1, joining strong debuts from more than half a dozen companies, including restaurant chains Noodles & Co and Potbelly Corp and software company Benefitfocus Inc.

Twitter management has been traveling the United States over the last week, speaking with potential investors.

Adam Grossman, an analyst at Boston investment firm Middleton & Co, with about $500 million under management, said his firm has yet to decide whether to buy into the IPO. The higher valuation "does make me more skeptical" of buying the shares, Grossman said.

But he noted that Twitter's bankers were conservative in not raising the size of the offering, which likely caused problems for Facebook's IPO.

Facebook's float was marred by an 11 percent drop in the stock on its second day of trading and successive declines over the next few months as investors questioned its ability to boost revenue through mobile devices. It didn't help that before its debut Facebook's underwriters raised the IPO size by 25 percent and also hiked the price range.

"This is not a surprise," senior analyst Kim Forrest of Fort Pitt Capital Group, which manages $1.5 billion in assets, said of Twitter's decision to raise the price range. "The people underwriting the IPO have a responsibility to the company selling these shares to extract the highest price it can. It has to walk a fine line to make it attractive to investors."

Goldman Sachs is leading Twitter's IPO, alongside Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

(Reporting by Olivia Oran in New York, Jim Finkle and Ross Kerber in Boston and Gerry Shih in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Jeffrey Benkoe)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-boost-ipo-range-23-25-per-share-142413856--sector.html
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November 04, 2013

The top executives leading Cisco's OpenStack efforts today said customers can run the open source cloud computing platform with its UCS (Unified Computing System) and Nexus hardware devices and that the company will provide advanced support to help customers deploy OpenStack clouds.

UCS already has support for running on a variety of cloud platforms, including VMware's vCloud Director and Automation Center, Microsoft Systems Center and Citrix's CloudStack. Now, Cisco has expanded support for a variety of OpenStack distributions from Linux companies to run on UCS as well. Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE versions of the OpenStack code are all now certified to run on top of UCS gear. UCS's combination of compute, networking and storage functions in a unified system provides customers with the underlying infrastructure building blocks to base their OpenStack clouds on, says Lew Tucker, who leads Cisco's OpenStack strategy and serves as vice chair of the project's board of directors.

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In addition to certifying OpenStack on UCS and Nexus gear, Cisco also rolled out advanced support for OpenStack clouds and accelerator Paks, which are pre-configured OpenStack architectures. Members of Cisco's Advanced Services team can now help customers plan a strategy and assessment for OpenStack clouds, and Cisco will add support for design and deployment services and optimization of OpenStack clouds by the end of the year.

The accelerator Paks come in three flavors: A compute intensive version with six UCS c220 M3 Servers, each wither 128GB of memory and two 900GB 10K SAS HDDs; a storage intensive option with eight UCS C240 M3 servers with 258GB of memory and 12 900GB 10K SAS HDDs; and finally a mixed compute and storage option.

Senior Writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing for Network World and NetworkWorld.com. He can be reached at BButler@nww.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW. Read his Cloud Chronicles here.

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Talk to certain folks and you'd believe Oracle is doomed, doomed. Its proprietary database solutions are a prime target for being displaced by the likes of open source contenders MariaDB and PostgreSQL. It's only a matter of time.

Well, sure, but the real question is: How much time? And what will it take to make leaving Big Red behind a real proposition for an enterprise that's got Java middleware, Sun servers, and Unbreakable Linux running all of the above?

The folks behind PostgreSQL and MariaDB do have a lot to crow about. PostgreSQL is widely respected as an enterprise-class database, even if it doesn't get the kind of press MySQL routinely did. One of the biggest PostgreSQL providers, EnterpriseDB, recently landed a plum spot in the "Challenger Quadrant" for Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems report. I'm just as skeptical as anyone else about the value of the Magic Quadrant reports, but there's little doubt that being featured there gets you the right kind of attention if you're a growing company or dark horse.

MariaDB, the MySQL fork, has also been flush with successes -- both strategic and financial. The company has made enough of a dent in the consciousness of the digerati that many longtime MySQL users are switching to MariaDB: Wikipedia and Google, just to name two. Given Oracle's shabby track record with MySQL and unfriendly pricing, it's hardly surprising.

MariaDB's also inspired others to take MySQL and beat Oracle at its own game. To wit: Percona, who has its own edition of MySQL 5.6 that sports variants on features found in Oracle's enterprise editions of that product. And the MariaDB folks have also benefited from a $20 million infusion of cash courtesy of SkySQL.

This is all great news, but let's not confuse any of this with a direct assault on Oracle's customer base or business plan. These things by themselves don't constitute displacement of Oracle, which has a staggering $37 billion revenue base as of 2013 and has even modestly goosed its profit margins across the past five years. Expecting Big Red to dry up and blow away any time soon is foolish.

Because so much of the press about Oracle revolves around its products and technologies, it's easy to forget that Oracle is primarily a services company -- one that just happens to be in the market of selling its proprietary products to Fortune 100 customers. Folks like PostgreSQL and MariaDB may not be able to tear those customers away from Oracle all at once -- not just because Oracle makes it difficult to leave, but because these customers are invested in Oracle as an application provider, not just a database provider.

That migration can happen in time, but it'll take a lot more than infusions of cash and a roster of success stories from companies that would never have used Oracle in the first place. If PostgreSQL and MariaDB are serious about moving people off Oracle's platforms, plural, they're going to need to provide all the things Oracle does: databases, apps, and support structure. The first and third, they already do; there's plenty of outfits from which to buy enterprise-level support for both competitors' products or which supply migration tools.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/mysql/bye-bye-big-red-escaping-oracles-not-easy-230102
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We forgive you if Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom(ed) out of mind since its announcement back in June -- it was nearly five months ago (or eons in mobile years). Now that we're leading up to the holiday season, however, AT&T's adding that hybrid Android device to its 4G LTE lineup for $200 with the ...

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Tarec Saffiedine went down in the history books as the final Strikeforce welterweight champion.

Since his title-winning bout over Nate Marquardt, though, he has been forced to stand on the sidelines due to a number of injuries.

Saffiedine is slated to finally compete inside the Octagon in 2014 when he takes on Jake Ellenberger in Singapore.

Recently, RM Sports sat down with Saffiedine to talk with the former champion.

Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/95724/tarec-saffiedine-im-the-most-underrated-strikeforce-champion/
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Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers.

My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/11/04/you_also_can039t_keep_your_doctor_319178.html
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Daniel Sarafian won’t call himself the TUF: Brazil winner if he beats Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira on Nov. 9 in Goiania, Brazil.

Sarafian, who earned his spot on the finale after three consecutive wins on the reality show last year, was pulled out of UFC 147 with an injury, and Sergio Moraes took his place against Cezar Ferreira. Moraes, who suffered a devastating knockout against Sarafian in the semifinal, ended up losing to Ferreira via decision.

Ferreira and Sarafian will finally meet at UFC Fight Night 32, 16 months after the final, but the reality show is in the past for Sarafian.

"He fought and became the champion," Sarafian told MMAFighting.com. "I fought once in the UFC and lost, and then I fought again and won the right to fight against the TUF Brazil champion. It’s wonderful to me.

"Defeating him would mean just a step ahead for me, and that’s it. He’s the TUF winner and it won’t change anything. TUF died that night. That fight was a relief for me because TUF became the past after that."

Sarafian suffered a close decision loss to CB Dollaway in his UFC debut last January. He then submitted Eddie Mendez to earn his first win inside the Octagon on June, and looks ready to add another win to his record on November.

"I heard millions of people saying I would have beaten him that night, others said I would have lost," he said. "And then millions of people asking when we would finally fight and I was tired of this. Now, the fight is on and we will finally see who wins, and TUF has nothing to do with this."

Sarafian and Ferreira used to train together at TUF: Brazil 1 when they both fought for Vitor Belfort’s team, and he doesn’t seem to worry about his former teammate’s weapons.

"He is a tall fighter, but that doesn’t say much," he said. "I’ve fought a lot of taller guys and won. He’s a good athlete, dedicated, has good wrestling, striking and jiu-jitsu. But so do I. But it’s hard to analyze someone, so I will analyze myself going into this fight. Get ready (Ferreira), because I will be ready."

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/11/3/4727860/daniel-sarafian-leaves-tuf-brazil-in-the-past-against-mutante
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Coming together for the first annual YouTube Awards, stars including Vanessa Hudgens and Lady Gaga walked the red carpet at NYC’s Pier 36 last night (November 3).

Eminem, M.I.A. and Macklemore were also in attendance, taking the stage for the live-streamed award show, which featured a slew of music performances and comedy sketches.

In addition to the entertainment, YouTube presented awards to a number of artists including the “Thrift Shop” duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis for Breakthough of the Year and Taylor Swift for her video “I Knew you Were Trouble.”

Check out the full list of winners below!

Breakthrough of the Year

WINNER: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Kendrick Lamar

Naughty Boy

Passenger

Rudimental

Response of the Year

WINNER: Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix, "Radioactive"

Boyce Avenue (feat. Fifth Harmony) "Mirrors"

Jayesslee, "Gangnam Style"

ThePianoGuys, "Titanium/Pavane"

Walk Off the Earth (feat. KRNFX), "I Knew You Were Trouble"

Innovation of the Year

WINNER: DeStorm, "See Me Standing"

Anamanaguchi, "Endless Fantasy"

Atoms For Peace, "Ingenue"

Bat For Lashes, "Lilies"

Toro Y Moi, "Say That"

YouTube Phenomenon

WINNER: "I Knew You Were Trouble"

"Diamonds"

"Gangnam Style"

"Harlem Shake"

"Thrift Shop"

Video of the Year

WINNER: Girls' Generation "I Got A Boy"

Demi Lovato, "Heart Attack"

Epic Rap Battles Of History, "Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney"

Justin Bieber (feat. Nicki Minaj), "Beauty and a Beat"br> Lady Gaga, "Applause"

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Mary Lambert) "Same Love"

Miley Cyrus, "We Can't Stop"

One Direction, "Best Song Ever"

PSY, "Gentleman"

Selena Gomez, "Come & Get It"

Artist of the Year

WINNER: Eminem

Epic Rap Battles Of History

Justin Bieber

Katy Perry

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Nicki Minaj

One Direction

Psy

Rihanna

Taylor Swift

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Costume designer Trish Summerville reveals secrets from 'Hunger Games' sequel set.

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Courtesy of Universal

"Lone Survivor"

Every week until the 86th Oscars on March 2, 2014, The Hollywood Reporter's lead awards analyst, Scott Feinberg, will post an updated "Feinberg Forecast," wherein he presents a summary of developments since the last update that helped to shape this one and then lists his revised projections. For more about Feinberg and how he arrives at his projections, scroll to the bottom of this post.

Screening notes: Universal's Lone Survivor was unveiled at a special screening on Oct. 30, which was followed by an emotional Tina Brown-moderated Q&A with producer-star Mark Wahlberg, costar Taylor Kitsch, director Peter Berg and the real-life inspiration for Wahlberg's character, Marcus Luttrell. I was out of the state and therefore unable to attend but, having seen the film some months ago, I am not at all surprised that many are calling it one of the most realistic war movies they have ever seen -- which could end up working for it (some Academy members will cheer its authentic portrait of present-day combat) and against it (others will struggle with its relentless and gruesome violence). The film will have its official world premiere at the AFI Fest on Nov. 12, at which time it may become a little easier to get a read on its prospects for the remainder of the season.

Box office: Summit's sci-fi epic Ender's Game debuted to $28 million in ticket sales this weekend, topping the box-office standings. It was followed by last weekend's topper, Paramount's Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, which took in $20.5 million, and two newcomers, CBS Films' Last Vegas and Relativity Media's Free Birds at $16.5 million and $16.2 million, respectively. As for Oscar hopefuls now in theaters, Warner Bros. Gravity, in its fifth weekend, grossed $13.1 million (bringing its North American total to $219.2 million), good enough for fifth place, while Sony's Captain Phillips, in its fourth weekend, grossed $8.5 million (bringing its North American total to $82.6 million), placing sixth. Fox Searchlight's 12 Years a Slave, generated $4.6 million in sales from just 410 locations (up from 123 last weekend), making for an impressive $11,220 per-theater-average. But the top p-t-a belonged to Focus Features' newcomer Dallas Buyers Club, which hauled in $264,000 from nine locations, which averages out to $29,333 per. Considerably less successful was EOne's poorly-reviewed Princess Diana biopic Diana, which tanked in its first weekend, taking in just $64,900 from 38 locations, or just 1,708 per.

Announcements: The AFI Fest announced that it will host a special tribute to American Hustle writer-director David O. Russell on Nov. 8, which has prompted speculation that Hustle might receive a sneak screening on that night, as well. (Russell's 2010 film The Fighter received a sneak screening at the fest three years ago.) ... Netflix scored some major Emmy noms just a few months ago for another politically-themed project, House of Cards. Might they crack the Oscar race next? The streaming service has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to The Square, the best documentary Oscar hopeful about the ongoing political turmoil in Egypt that I have been projecting as the category's frontrunner for several weeks now. ... Oscar winner Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) endorsed and agreed to "present" Morocco's best foreign language Oscar submission, Horses of God -- prompting me to dissect the explosion of big-name filmmakers "presenting" others' awards hopefuls.

Precursors: The International Documentary Association revealed its nominees for the 29th annual IDA Awards. Zeitgeist Films' Let the Fire Burn, a found-footage doc about a 1985 cops-versus-radicals incident, received a field-leading four IDA Award noms, including one for best doc feature. That category's other nominees are Drafthouse Films' The Act of Killing, Magnolia Pictures' Blackfish (which has been getting a lot of attention on CNN lately), Participant Media's The Square and Roadside Attractions' Stories We Tell. The IDA Awards will be presented on Dec. 6.

Moments in the spotlight: On Nov. 2, DreamWorks Animation hosted a reception at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for its best animated feature Oscar hopeful The Croods, which was attended by the studio's CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and the film's directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, producers Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell and sound designer Randy Thom. ... The best supporting actor Oscar race looks like it may come down to 12 Years a Slave's Michael Fassbender and Dallas Buyers Club's Jared Leto. Fassbender has ruled out Oscar campaigning for himself; Leto, meanwhile, has largely left it to his industry friends: Darren Aronofsky (his Requiem for a Dream director), Maria Bello, Peter Bogdonovich, Diane Kruger, Sarah Polley, Zoe Saldana, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei and Reese Witherspoon have all hosted Dallas Buyers screenings in his honor. ... On Nov. 2, James Franco, a long-shot best supporting actor Oscar hopeful for his portrayal of a white gansta named Alien in Spring Breakers, penned a blog post for VICE in which he asserts, "There will never be a movie or a character that is more important for this age than Spring Breakers and its protagonist Alien." Just the latest weird twist in the weirdest Oscar campaign of the season. ... On Oct. 26, at the annual Visual Effects Society summit, former Academy president Hawk Koch and current Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs seemed to endorse the idea that the Academy should consider adding a new category to deal with films that blur the lines between blurs animation, cinematography and visual effects, like this year's Oscar hopeful Gravity. Isaacs acknowledged, "Many members were confused between the Oscars for cinematography and visual effects on Life of Pi. We will be discussing the differences that have been made with these advancements." Koch suggested that a prospective new all-encompassing category might be called "visual imaging."

Potpourri: On Oct. 29 I had a fascinating hour-long conversation with Feng Xiaogang, a filmmaker who has been described as "China's Spielberg" -- and who directed this year's Chinese entry for the best foreign language film Oscar, Back to 1942 and was visiting Hollywood to have his handprints and footprints immortalized at the TCL Chinese Theatre -- about his life, career and the Chinese film industry's growth and ongoing practice of censorship. ... My colleagues Tim Appelo and Stephen Galloway and I spent the last few days at the 16th Savannah Film Festival, on the beautiful campus of the Savannah College of Arts and Design (SCAD). We participated on a panel entitled "The Hollywood Reporter: An Insider's Look," at which we discussed awards season history, logistics and strategies and shared our personal takes on this year's top Oscar races. You can watch video of the full conversation here. ... At the SFF, I also caught screenings of Ti West's horror flick The Sacrament (think Waco-meets-Jonestown), the Oscar-qualified doc Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (which joins Inequality for All and 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film as three must-see docs for people who want to understand America's current economic woes) and the across-the-board Oscar hopeful August: Osage County (which I first caught at the Toronto International Film Festival and enjoyed more on my second viewing), the last of which was preceded by a presentation of the fest's Discovery Award to the film's supporting actress Abigail Breslin. ... I also had the opportunity to ride a moped all over historic Savannah and stopped at a number of places where Forrest Gump (1994) was shot, including the site of his "Life is like a box of chocolates" bench and the long tree-lined street on which he is urged to "Run, Forrest, run!"

Coming attractions: There are now only four serious Oscar hopefuls that have not been officially unveiled: Sony's American Hustle, Disney's Saving Mr. Banks, Relativity Media's Out of the Furnace and Paramount's The Wolf of Wall Street.

Without further ado, here is the latest forecast …

BEST PICTURE
Front-runners
American Hustle (Sony, 12/13, TBA, trailer)
12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight, 10/18, R, trailer)
Gravity (Warner Bros., 10/4, PG-13, trailer)
Captain Phillips (Sony, 10/11, TBA, trailer)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount, 11/15, TBA, trailer)
Lee Daniels' The Butler (The Weinstein Co., 8/16, PG-13, trailer)
Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics, 7/26, PG-13, trailer)
Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features, 11/1, R, trailer)
All Is Lost (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions, 10/18, PG-13, trailer)
Philomena (The Weinstein Co., TBA, TBA, trailer)
Major Threats
Saving Mr. Banks (Disney, 12/20, PG-13, trailer)
Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films, 12/6, R, trailer)
Nebraska (Paramount, 11/22, TBA, trailer)
August: Osage County (The Weinstein Co., 11/8, TBA, trailer)
The Book Thief (20th Century Fox, 11/15, TBA, trailer)
Lone Survivor (Universal, 12/27, R, trailer)
Enough Said (Fox Searchlight, 9/20, PG-13, trailer) NEW
Possibilities
Before Midnight (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/24, R, trailer)
Fruitvale Station (The Weinstein Co., 7/12, R, trailer)
Prisoners (Warner Bros., 9/20, R, trailer)
Her (Warner Bros., 12/18, TBA, trailer)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects, 10/25, NC-17, trailer)
Rush (Universal, 9/27, R, trailer)
Long Shots
Out of the Furnace (Relativity Media, 12/6, R, trailer)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (The Weinstein Co., 11/29, TBA, trailer)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (20th Century Fox, 12/25, TBA, trailer)
The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros., 5/10, PG-13, trailer)
Mud (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions, 4/26, PG-13, trailer)
The Place Beyond the Pines (Focus Features, 3/29, R, trailer)

BEST DIRECTOR
Front-runners
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Major Threats
Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
Lee Daniels (Lee Daniels' The Butler)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Spike Jonze (Her)
Stephen Frears (Philomena)
Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club)
Possibilities
J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost)
Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station)
John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks)
Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said) NEW
Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners)
Long Shots
Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace)
Ron Howard (Rush)
Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
Ben Stiller (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby)
Brian Percival (The Book Thief)

BEST ACTOR
Front-runners
Robert Redford (All Is Lost)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels' The Butler)
Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)
Major Threats
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)
Possibilities
Joaquin Phoenix (Her)
Hugh Jackman (Prisoners)
Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight)
Mark Wahlberg (Lone Survivor)
Long Shots
Christian Bale (Out of the Furnace)
Ben Stiller (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Ralph Fiennes (The Invisible Woman)
Daniel Radcliffe (Kill Your Darlings)
Isaiah Washington (Blue Caprice)

BEST ACTRESS
Front-runners
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Major Threats
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said)
Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
Brie Larson (Short Term 12)
Possibilities
Kate Winslet (Labor Day)
Berenice Bejo (The Past)
Felicity Jones (The Invisible Woman)
Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)
Long Shots
Sophie Nelisse (The Book Thief)
Scarlett Johansson (Don Jon)
Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
Rooney Mara (Ain't Them Bodies Saints)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Front-runners
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Jeremy Renner (American Hustle)
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Major Threats
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Tom Hanks (Saving Mr. Banks)
James Gandolfini (Enough Said)
George Clooney (Gravity)
Chris Cooper (August: Osage County)
Steve Coogan (Philomena)
Harrison Ford (42)
Possibilities
Geoffrey Rush (The Book Thief)
David Oyelowo (Lee Daniels' The Butler)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Prisoners)
Alec Baldwin (Blue Jasmine)
Bobby Cannavale (Blue Jasmine)
Andrew Dice Clay (Blue Jasmine)
Long Shots
Daniel Bruhl (Rush)
Sam Rockwell (The Way Way Back)
Matthew McConaughey (Mud)
Josh Brolin (Labor Day)
Ryan Gosling (The Place Beyond the Pines)
James Franco (Spring Breakers)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Front-runners
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels' The Butler)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
Jennifer Garner (Dallas Buyers Club)
Major Threats
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Scarlett Johansson (Her)
Melissa Leo (Prisoners)
Possibilities
Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)
Lea Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
Naomie Harris (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
Sarah Paulson (12 Years a Slave)
Long Shots
Emily Watson (The Book Thief)
Margo Martindale (August: Osage County)
Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Zoe Saldana (Out of the Furnace)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Front-runners
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Before Midnight (Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
Major Threats
August: Osage County (Tracy Letts)
The Book Thief (Michael Petroni)
Lone Survivor (Peter Berg)
Possibilities
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (William Nicholson)
Labor Day (Jason Reitman)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Steve Conrad)
Long Shots
The Invisible Woman (Abi Morgan)
The Spectacular Now (Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Front-runners
American Hustle (David O. Russell, Eric Singer)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Major Threats
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Lee Daniels' The Butler (Danny Strong)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron
Saving Mr. Banks (Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith)
Frozen (Jennifer Lee, Shane Morris) NEW
Possibilities
All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
Prisoners (Aaron Guzkowski)
Rush (Peter Morgan)
The Way Way Back (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash)
Long Shots
Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper, Brad Inglesby)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Mud (Jeff Nichols)
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, Bob Coccio, Darius Marder)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig)
Bethlehem (Yuval Adler, Ali Wakad)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Front-runners
Frozen (Disney, 11/27, G, trailer)
The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibili, 11/8, PG-13, trailer)
Monsters University (Disney-Pixar, 6/21, G, trailer)
The Croods (DreamWorks Animation, 3/22, PG, trailer)
Ernest & Celestine (GKIDS, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Major Threats
Despicable Me 2 (Universal, 7/3, PG, trailer)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Sony, 9/27, PG, trailer)
Free Birds (Relativity Media, 11/1, TBA, trailer)
Epic (20th Century Fox, 5/24, PG, trailer)
Turbo (DreamWorks, 7/19, PG, trailer)
Possibilities
Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (20th Century Fox, 12/20, TBA, trailer)
Khumba (Millennium Entertainment, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Planes (Disney, 8/9, PG, trailer)
Escape From Planet Earth (The Weinstein Co., 2/15, PG, trailer)
Long Shots
The Smurfs 2 (Sony, 7/31, PG, trailer)
The Legend of Sarila (Phase 4 Films, TBA, TBA, trailer)
A Letter to Momo (GKIDS, TBA, TBA, trailer)
The Snow Queen (Vertical Entertainment, 1/3, NR, trailer)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Front-runners
The Square (City Drive Entertainment Group, 10/25, NR, TBA)
20 Feet From Stardom (RADiUS, 6/14, PG-13, trailer)
Tim's Vermeer (Sony Pictures Classics, TBA, TBA, TBA)
Stories We Tell (Roadside Attractions, 5/10, PG-13, trailer)
The Act of Killing (Drafthouse Films, 7/19, NR, trailer)
Major Threats
Let the Fire Burn (Zeitgeist Films, 10/2, NR, trailer)
American Promise (Rada Film Group, 10/18, NR, trailer)
Blackfish (Magnolia, 7/19, PG-13, trailer)
Dirty Wars (IFC Films, 6/7, NR, trailer)
The Unknown Known (RADiUS, TBA, TBA, TBA)
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Focus World, 5/24, R, trailer)
God Loves Uganda (Variance Films, 10/11, TBA, trailer)
After Tiller (Oscilloscope, 9/20, TBA, trailer)
Jodorowsky's Dune (Sony Pictures Classics, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (Lionsgate, 4/5, NR, trailer)
Call Me Kuchu (Cinedigm, 6/14, NR, trailer)
Casting By (HBO, 11/1, NR, trailer)
Inequality for All (RADiUS, 9/27, PG, trailer)
Crash Reel (Phase 4 Films, 7/5, TBA, TBA)
The Armstrong Lie (Sony Pictures Classics, TBA, TBA, TBA)
Gideon's Army (Trilogy Films, TBA, TBA, trailer) NEW
Possibilities
Muscle Shoals (Magnolia, 9/27, TBA, trailer)
Seduced and Abandoned (HBO, 10/18, NR, trailer)
Salma (Women Make Movies, 1/?, TBA, trailer)
For No Good Reason (Sony Pictures Classics, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Salinger (The Weinstein Co., 9/6, TBA, trailer)
Cutie and the Boxer (RADiUS, 8/16, R, trailer)
Our Nixon (Cinedigm, 8/30, NR, trailer)
First Cousin Once Removed (HBO Films, 9/13, TBA, trailer)
Sound City (Roswell Films/Variance Films, 2/1, NR, trailer)
99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (Participant Media, 9/6, TBA, trailer)
Rising From Ashes (First Run Features, 8/2, NR, trailer)
Blood Brother (Tugg, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Herblock: The Black & the White (TSC Dist. Services, 8/16, NR, trailer)
Long Shots
Leviathan (Cinema Guild, 3/1, NR, trailer)
12-12-12 Concert (The Weinstein Co., 11/15, TBA, TBA)
Terms and Conditions May Apply (Variance Films, 7/12, TBA, trailer)
Fire in the Blood (International Film Circuit, 9/6, NR, trailer)
Linsanity (Ketchup Entertainment, 10/4, NR, trailer)
Informant (Music Box Films, 9/13, TBA, trailer)
Narco Cultura (Cinedigm, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Running From Crazy (OWN and Vitagraph Films, 11/1, TBA, trailer)
At Berkeley (Zipporah Films, 11/8, TBA, TBA)
56 Up (First Run Features, 1/4, NR, trailer)
Valentine Road (BMP Films, TBA, TBA, trailer)
Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird (6th Avenue Productions, 10/11, TBA, trailer)
A.K.A. Doc Pomus (TBA, 10/4, TBA, trailer) NEW

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Front-runners
Iran (The Past)
Israel (Bethlehem)
Italy (The Great Beauty)
Denmark (The Hunt)
Saudi Arabia (Wadjda)
Others, listed alphabetically
Afghanistan (Wajma)
Albania (Agon)
Argentina (Wakolda)
Australia (The Rocket)
Austria (The Wall)
Azerbaijan (Steppe Man)
Bangladesh (Television)
Belgium (The Broken Circle Breakdown)
Bosnia-Herzegovina (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker)
Brazil (Neighboring Sounds)
Bulgaria (The Color of Chameleon)
Cambodia (The Missing Picture)
Canada (Gabrielle)
Chad (GriGris)
Chile (Gloria)
Colombia (La Playa DC)
Croatia (Halima's Path)
Czech Republic (The Don Juans)
Dominican Republic (Quien Manda?)
Ecuador (The Porcelain Horse)
Egypt (Winter of Discontent)
Estonia (Free Range)
Finland (The Disciple)
France (Renoir)
Georgia (In Bloom)
Germany (Two Lives)
Greece (Boy Eating the Bird's Food)
Hong Kong (The Grandmaster)
Hungary (The Notebook)
Iceland (Of Horses and Men)
India (The Good Road)
Indonesia (Sang Kiai)
Japan (The Great Passage)
Kazakhstan (The Old Man)
Latvia (Mother I Love You)
Lebanon (Blind Intersections)
Lithuania (Conversations on Serious Topics)
Luxembourg (Blind Spots)
Mexico (Heli)
Moldova (All God's Children)
Montenegro (Ace of Spades -- Bad Destiny)
Morocco (Horses of God)
Nepal (Soongava: Dance of the Orchids)
Netherlands (Borgman)
New Zealand (White Lies)
Norway (I Am Yours)
Pakistan (Zinda Bhaag)
Palestine (Omar)
Peru (The Cleaner)
Philippines (Transit)
Poland (Walesa)
Portugal (Lines of Wellington)
Romania (Child's Pose)
Russia (Stalingrad)
Serbia (Circles)
Singapore (Ilo Ilo)
Slovak Republic (My Dog Killer)
Slovenia (Class Enemy)
South Africa (Four Corners)
South Korea (Juvenile Offender)
Spain (15 Years Plus a Day)
Sweden (Eat Sleep Die)
Switzerland (More Than Honey)
Taiwan (Soul)
Thailand (Countdown)
Turkey (The Butterfly's Dream)
Ukraine (Parajanov)
United Kingdom (Metro Manila)
Uruguay (Anina)
Venezuela (Breach in the Silence)

About the Feinberg Forecast

Scott has been forecasting the Oscars since 2001 and has one of the strongest track records of all awards pundits. His best showings came in 2006 and 2013, when he correctly called 21 out of 24 winners. He was the only pundit to project best picture nominations for The Reader (2008), The Blind Side (2009) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), among many other surprises.

He factors into his projections personal impressions (based on advance screenings of hundreds of films each year), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers/trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (comparing and contrasting how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some awards groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others), and conversations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and awards voters).

Twitter: @ScottFeinberg

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She's seen weekly on her hit series, "Scandal," but this week fans will get an extra dose of Kerry Washington as she hosts "Saturday Night Live."

The 36-year-old actress looks stoked about the opportunity in a couple of new promos for the show, which features musical guest Eminem.

In one clip, the "Monster" rapper stands sullen and silent as Kerry shares her excitement with a cast member.

Another promo has the expecting Ms. Washington sharing their plans to go out for cupcakes after the show, to which Em replies, "I love cupcakes." Check it out in the player below.

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If Apple's done something, there's a chance it'll be parodied at some point, and the latest is Siri which has turned up in Springfield for a cameo role in a new episode of The Simpsons. However, as you'll see in the video above, Siri doesn't come up with the goods.

It's all in jest, of course, and not the first time Siri has been poked fun at – remember the much more blue efforts starring a frustrated Scotsman? Siri has been evolving over the years to add more features, become more reliable, and isn't nearly the same product that launched a few years ago.

But, it does put the same question back in our heads; How is Siri working for you these days? iOS 7 brought yet more to the table, and personally speaking I can't say I've had nearly as many problems of late with voice recognition as perhaps once was. Are you seeing any frustrations you wish would just go away, or is all perfectly peachy for you? Drop us a line in the comments!

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Rumor: Google’s Nexus 8 Tablet May Be Hiding in Plain Sight Online

A few rumours suggested Google might be planning an 8-inch Nexus tablet earlier this year, but nothing came of it. We got the new Nexus 7 and were happy about it. However, this pic may show the next slightly bigger thing being used by a Google promotional person. Nexus 8, anyone?