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The searing slavery drama 12 Years a Slave was crowned best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards British filmmaker Steve McQueen's powerful film, isbased on free black man Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir of being kidnapped and spending more than a decade enslaved. 12 Years a Slave is also the first film directed by a black filmmaker to win best picture. Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o earned best supporting actress for her blistering turn as the tormented slave Patsey — her first major role after attending the Yale School of Drama THE OSCAR GOES TO
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The searing slavery drama 12 Years a Slave was crowned best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards
British filmmaker Steve McQueen's powerful film, isbased on free black man Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir of being kidnapped and spending more than a decade enslaved. 12 Years a Slave is also the first film directed by a black filmmaker to win best picture.
Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o earned best supporting actress for her blistering turn as the tormented slave Patsey — her first major role after attending the Yale School of Drama
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Gravity won seven awards including best director Alfonso Cuaron
Dallas Buyers Club, directed by Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée, snagged a trio of Oscars, including best actor for Matthew McConaughey, whose performance as the scrappy, HIV-positive cowboy-turned-alternative medicine champion Ron Woodroof
Jared Leto, who had taken a six-year break from acting before tackling the film, picked up the evening's first award — best supporting actor — for his turn as an HIV-positive transgender prostitute named Rayon.
The fourth acting category was rounded out by Cate Blanchett's win for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, a contemporary portrait of a woman in caught in a downward spiral.
The Oscars are the culmination of the annual movie awards season. Hosted by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, the star-studded, televised gala was broadcast live to more than 200 countries.
American Hustle and Wolf OF Wall Street were highly nominated films that went home empty handed
Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled his forces back from the Ukrainian border on Tuesday yet said Moscow reserves the right to use all means to protect Russians there.
He accused the West of encouraging the coup in Ukraine and driving it into anarchy. He also declared that any sanctions the West places on Russia will backfire.
The remarks were Putin's first comments since Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kyiv last month and landed in Russia. Ukraine's new government wants to put him on trial for the deaths of over 80 people during protests in Kyiv.
UKRAINE REVOLT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL COUP, PUTIN SAYS
Earlier Tuesday, the Kremlin said Putin had ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops participating in military exercises near Ukraine's border to return to their bases.
The massive military exercise in western Russia involving 150,000 troops, hundreds of tanks and dozens of aircraft was supposed to wrap up anyway, so it was not clear if Putin's move was an attempt to heed the West's call to de-escalate the crisis that has put Ukraine's future on the line.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said that Russia is "on the wrong side of history" in Ukraine and its actions violate international law.
Tensions are running high in the Black Sea peninsula since Russian troops — estimated by Ukrainian authorities to be 16,000 strong — tightened their grip over the weekend on the Crimean peninsula, where Moscow's Black Sea Fleet is based.
Ukraine has accused Russia of violating a bilateral agreement on conditions of a Russian lease of a naval base in Crimea that restricts troop movements, but Russia has argued that it was acting within the limits set by the deal.
White noise machines used to help infants sleep are often capable of producing industrial-scale levels of sound that could have harmful effects to children overexposed to them, suggests a new study.
The study says the maximum levels of 65 sounds in 14 different infant sleep machines were tested at three distances: 30 centimetres (to simulate placement on a crib rail), 100 centimetres (simulating placement near a crib), and 200 centimetres (to simulate placement across the room).
INFANT SLEEP MACHINES HAVE DANGEROUS NOISE LEVELS, STUDY SAYS
In all cases Dr. Blake Papsin of Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital, and co-author of the study said the machines exceeded the current recommended 50 dBA noise limit for infants in hospital nurseries.
As for parents, Papsin acknowledges that they might not stop using the machines completely, but that the goal of the study was to start a conversation.
He urges parents to use the machines minimally, as far away from the children as possible, with less frequency and at the lowest volume.
