"The release of widening participation funding will continue to depend upon the submission of satisfactory targets, and satisfactory progress towards those targets, " the council says.

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Last year's winner was Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan - whose film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was selected as Turkey's official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar.

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However, Nokia has sent a submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force saying it owns patents for innovations VP8 depends upon.

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