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North Korea says enters "state of war" against South

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a continuing escalation of angry rhetoric directed at Seoul and Washington, but the South brushed off the statement as little more than tough talk. The two Koreas have been technically in a state of war for six decades under an armistice that ended their 1950-53 conflict. Despite its threats few people see any indication Pyongyang will risk a near-certain defeat by re-starting full-scale war.

Big depositors in Cyprus to lose far more than feared

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Big depositors in Cyprus's largest bank stand to lose far more than initially feared under a European Union rescue package to save the island from bankruptcy, a source with direct knowledge of the terms said on Friday. Under conditions expected to be announced on Saturday, depositors in Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros, the source told Reuters, while the rest of their deposits may never be paid back.

More trouble for Cohen's SAC Capital as Steinberg indicted in NY

(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged Michael Steinberg, a veteran portfolio manager at Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund, with insider trading in two technology stocks, the most senior SAC Capital Advisors' employee to be indicted in the government's long-running probe. FBI agents arrested Steinberg at his Park Avenue home in New York City at around 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT). Steinberg, wearing a blue sweater, pleaded "not guilty" to charges of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities when he appeared at a late morning arraignment.

No end to Italy deadlock despite president's efforts

ROME (Reuters) - Italy remained in political deadlock on Friday after a new round of talks led by President Giorgio Napolitano failed to break the stalemate created by elections last month that left no group able to form a government alone. Napolitano, 87, conducted a swift round of talks with the three main forces in parliament on Friday after the failure of a week of efforts by center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani to win support for a new government.

Muslims vanish as Buddhist attacks approach Myanmar's biggest city

SIT KWIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Muslims of Sit Kwin were always a small group who numbered no more than 100 of the village's 2,000 people. But as sectarian violence led by Buddhist mobs spreads across central Myanmar, they and many other Muslims are disappearing. Their homes, shops and mosques destroyed, some end up in refugee camps or hide in the homes of friends or relatives. Dozens have been killed.

Pope leads traditional Good Friday rite at Rome Colosseum

ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people holding candles turned out at Rome's Colosseum to see Pope Francis mark the first Good Friday of his pontificate with a traditional "Way of the Cross" procession around the ancient amphitheatre. Francis, who was elected on March 13, sat under a red canopy on Rome's Palatine Hill as representatives of the faithful from around the world alternated carrying a wooden cross on the day Christians commemorated Jesus's death by crucifixion.

U.S. B-2 bombers sent to Korea on rare mission: diplomacy not destruction

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The stealthy, nuclear-capable U.S. B-2 bomber is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Libya, but it isn't usually a tool of Washington's statecraft. Yet on Thursday, the United States sent a pair of the bat-winged planes on a first-of-its-kind practice run over the skies of South Korea, conducting what U.S. officials say was a diplomatic sortie.

Kenyans await ruling in disputed presidential race

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Supreme Court rules on Saturday on a challenge to Uhuru Kenyatta's presidential election win, a judgment seen as a test of the democratic system five years after another disputed vote triggered tribal bloodshed. The country's outgoing president called for calm ahead of the decision that will either confirm the victory of Kenya's richest man Kenyatta or force another vote.

China's Xi wraps up Africa tour in Republic of Congo

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - China's newly appointed President Xi Jinping wrapped up a six-day tour of Africa on Friday in Republic of Congo, where he signed off on infrastructure projects and pledged deeper cooperation between his country and the continent. Thousands of people, many wearing T-shirts bearing the president's likeness, turned out under a blazing equatorial sun to welcome the new Chinese leader to the former French colony's sprawling riverside capital, Brazzaville.

Central African Republic coup leader says will review resource deals

BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic's new President Michel Djotodia, who seized power last week, said on Friday he would review resource deals signed by the previous government and promised to step down at elections in 2016. Djotodia, a former civil servant turned rebel leader, said he would seek aid from former colonial power France and the United States to retrain the ill-disciplined army, which was easily overrun by fighters from his Seleka rebel coalition.

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Rubio: Reports of immigration deal 'premature'

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican Party?s search for a way back to presidential success in 2016 is drawing a striking array of personalities and policy options. It?s shaping up as a wide-open self-reassessment by the GOP. Some factions are trying to tug the party left or right. Others argue over pragmatism versus defiance. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican Party?s search for a way back to presidential success in 2016 is drawing a striking array of personalities and policy options. It?s shaping up as a wide-open self-reassessment by the GOP. Some factions are trying to tug the party left or right. Others argue over pragmatism versus defiance. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., makes a point as he is joined by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Sen. Michael Bennett, D-CO, during a news conference after their tour of the Mexico border with the United States on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in Nogales, Ariz. A group of influential U.S. senators shaping and negotiating details of an immigration reform package vowed Wednesday to make the legislation public when Congress reconvenes next month. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Even with one of the largest hurdles to an immigration overhaul overcome, optimistic lawmakers on Sunday cautioned they had not finished work on a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.

The AFL-CIO and the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce reached a deal late Friday that would allow tens of thousands of low-skill workers into the country to fill jobs in construction, restaurants and hotels. Yet despite the unusual agreement between the two powerful lobbying groups, lawmakers from both parties conceded that the negotiations were not finished.

"With the agreement between business and labor, every major policy issue has been resolved," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who brokered the labor-business deal.

But it hasn't taken the form of a bill and the eight senators searching for a compromise haven't met about the potential breakthrough.

"We haven't signed off," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

"There are a few details yet. But conceptually, we have an agreement between business and labor, between ourselves that has to be drafted," he added.

Yet just before lawmakers began appearing on Sunday shows, Sen. Marco Rubio warned he was not ready to lend his name ? and political clout ? to such a deal without hashing out the details.

"Reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature," said Rubio, a Florida Republican who is among the lawmakers working on legislation.

Rubio, a Cuban-American who is weighing a presidential bid in 2016, is a leading figure inside his party. Lawmakers will be closely watching any deal for his approval and his skepticism about the process did little to encourage optimism.

Rubio, who is the group's emissary to conservatives, called the agreement "a starting point" but said 92 senators from 43 states haven't yet been involved in the process.

The detente between the nation's leading labor federation and the powerful business lobbying group still needs senators' approval, including a nod from Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican whose previous efforts came up short.

"I think we're on track. . But as Sen. Rubio correctly says, we have said we will not come to final agreement till we look at all of the legislative language and he's correctly pointing out that that language hasn't been fully drafted," Schumer said.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., also noted the significance of the truce between labor and business but added that this wasn't yet complete.

"That doesn't mean we've crossed every 'i' or dotted every 't,' or vice versa," said Flake, who is among the eight lawmakers working on the deal.

Schumer negotiated the deal between AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue during a late-Friday phone call. Under the compromise, the government would create a new "W'' visa for low-skill workers who would earn wages paid to Americans or the prevailing wages for the industry they're working in, whichever is higher. The Labor Department would determine prevailing wage based on customary rates in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.

The proposed measure would secure the border, crack down on employers, improve legal immigration and create a 13-year pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already here.

It's a major second-term priority of President Barack Obama's and would usher in the most dramatic changes to the faltering U.S. immigration system in more than two decades.

"This is a legacy item for him. There is no doubt in my mind that he wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform," said David Axelrod, a longtime political confidant of Obama.

During the last week, an immigration deal seemed doomed. But the breakthrough late Friday restarted the talks.

Ultimately the new "W'' visa program would be capped at 200,000 workers a year, but the number of visas would fluctuate, depending on unemployment rates, job openings, employer demand and data collected by a new federal bureau being pushed by labor groups as an objective monitor of the market, according to an official involved with the talks who also spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.

A "safety valve" would allow employers to exceed the cap, the official said, if they could show need and pay premium wages, but any additional workers brought in would be subtracted from the next year's cap.

The workers could move from employer to employer and would be able to petition for permanent residency and ultimately seek U.S. citizenship. Neither is possible for temporary workers now.

"As to the 11 million (illegal immigrants), they'll have a pathway to citizenship, but it will be earned, it will be long, and it will be hard, and I think it is fair," Graham said.

The new program would fill needs employers say they have that are not currently met by U.S. immigration programs. Most industries don't have a good way to hire a steady supply of foreign workers because there's one temporary visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers but it's capped at 66,000 visas per year and is only supposed to be used for seasonal or temporary jobs.

Separately, the new immigration bill also is expected to offer many more visas for high-tech workers, new visas for agriculture workers, and provisions allowing some agriculture workers already in the U.S. a speedier path to citizenship than that provided to other illegal immigrants, in an effort to create a stable agricultural workforce.

Schumer, Flake and Axelrod appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press." Graham was interviewed on CNN's "State of the Union."

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Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed to this report.

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March 30, 1759: The Four Layers of Earth

In a letter dated to March 30, 1759 the Italian mining engineer Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) proposed to the physician and fossil collector Prof. Antonio Vallisnieri the subdivision of earth?s crust in various classes of rocks.

Based on his observations along the foothills of the Alps, Arduino recognized a stratigraphic column with 4 classes: unstratified or poorly stratified rocks (or ?Primary Rocks?, survived into the 20th century as ?Paleozoic?), stratified rocks (?Secondary Rocks?, or ?Mesozoic?), more recent, as yet unconsolidated, sediments (?Tertiary Rocks?) and as own category volcanic rocks.

Fig.1. Arduino used this famous section of rocks exposed in the Val d?Agno to explain his classification scheme. The numbers refer to the thickness of the strata, the letters to the description in the accompanying text. The extremely tattered state of the original drawing suggests that Arduino demonstrated it repeatedly to the many naturalists who visited him (image in public domain).

Bibliography:

VAI, G.B. (2007): A history of chronostratigraphy. Stratigraphy Vol.4 No. 2/3: 83-97

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Teachers who stomped American flag, Jesus are officially no longer teaching

You don?t tug on Superman?s cape. You don?t spit into the wind. You don?t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger. And, as two educators have recently learned, it?s also generally good advice to avoid stomping on Jesus and the American flag in public schools.

The Florida Atlantic University instructor who asked students to step on the word ?Jesus? has been placed on administrative leave on the same day that the high school teacher in South Carolina who stomped on an American flag in front of his students way back in December finally resigned.

The incident in South Carolina first flared up when Scott Compton, an honors English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., was placed on long-term administrative leave after he threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students.

Compton allegedly repeated the unpatriotic deed three times in one day. His goal, apparently, was to teach students that the flag is merely a symbolic piece of cloth. (RELATED: South Carolina teacher on leave for stomping on American flag in front of class)

Compton was already fired, reports The State, a regional newspaper. However, he had been fighting his termination until Friday, when he formally agreed to resign.

?Both Mr. Compton and the District agree that his resignation is at the best interest of everyone,? a joint press release announced.

Compton?s attorney, Darryl Smalls, had previously noted that Compton was nominated for Chapin High School?s teacher of the year several times prior to the flag-stomping kerfuffle.

At Florida Atlantic, communications instructor Deandre Poole is now on administrative leave after junior Ryan Rotela, a devout Mormon, was suspended from class because he complained about Poole?s Jesus-stomping assignment. (RELATED: Florida Atlantic Univ. student claims he was suspended for not stomping on Jesus [VIDEO])

School officials expressed concerned about Poole?s physical safety after he allegedly received death threats and racially-tinged messages on his voicemail. Poole is black.

?I?ve never seen anything like it on campus, the vitriol that has been released on this guy,? Chris Robe, assistant professor of communications and faculty union president, told the Sun Sentinel.

In an email to The Daily Caller, Lisa Metcalf, an FAU spokeswoman confirmed Poole?s employment status.

?As a result of the reaction to a recent exercise in Dr. Poole?s intercultural communications class, the instructor?s personal safety has been compromised,? Metcalf wrote. ?Dr. Poole will not teach any classes, conduct office hours or be present at any of FAU?s campuses or sites.?

The announcement comes after FAU already issued a groveling, nearly-touching apology and Florida Gov. Rick Scott blasted the school as ?intolerant to Christians.? (RELATED VIDEO: Florida Atlantic issues new groveling apology over Jesus-stomping)

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Algeria's southern unemployed demand oil jobs

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) ? Protests by the unemployed in southern Algeria are raising the specter of rising unrest in the country's sensitive oil regions, and are increasingly attracting the attention of al-Qaida.

Algeria's vast, sparsely populated Sahara only holds 10 percent of the country's population but it is home to this North African country's enormous oil and gas reserves ? the basis of the entire economy and the source of the government's power. Those who live there claim they aren't benefiting from that wealth, and can't get jobs with the oil companies.

Now al-Qaida has praised the protesters, raising the possibility that it is seeking support among the disaffected groups. The government is rushing to address the protesters' demands, but hasn't yet convinced them that it's serious.

Some 10,000 people ? an enormous number for the lightly populated region ?demonstrated on March 14 in Algeria's southern oil city of Ouargla, and thousands more later protested in another southern oil town, Laghouat.

"We want access to jobs in the oil companies, and not just the low-value ones like drivers and security guards; we want to be in the administration," Tahar Belabes, the head of the National Committee for Defense of the Rights of the Unemployed, which organized the demonstration, said by telephone from Ouargla.

"We just want the same employment possibilities. It's not normal that we live in the region where the oil and gas is located but don't benefit from it."

While youth unemployment is widespread in Algeria, and the rest of North Africa, the southerners say they are particularly discriminated against. There is also a widespread distrust of government officials, who are believed corrupt and skimming off the country's vast oil receipts.

Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal acknowledged on March 16 that the demonstrators' demands are legitimate and the government hurriedly announced a string of measures to address the perceived geographical bias in oil jobs. Oil companies will be obliged to give priority to job candidates from the south and recruitment must occur through registered employment agencies. The government announced that job-training centers would be set up to ready candidates for jobs with oil companies and hotels.

The demonstrations, however, have not stopped, and on Monday hundreds protested in the desert towns of Ghardaia, which the next day degenerated into widespread clashes with police that destroyed several government buildings and resulted in the arrest of seven young men for "vandalism and destruction of public property," the state news agency reported Saturday.

"The demonstrations are continuing because the young unemployed don't believe in official promises and they don't trust the local government representatives or their parliamentarians ? they want to negotiate directly with the government," said Kamal Zaidi, a member of an unemployed group in Laghouat and a human rights activist.

Most worrying for the government is that, on Friday, Al-Qaida's North African branch expressed solidarity with the demonstrations, slamming what they say is the corrupt use of the country's resources.

"The events of the south and the call of the people to protest in the streets is the natural response to the policy of marginalization and nepotism used by the corrupt Algerian regime," said the message posted on extremist websites.

Al-Qaida's signature tactic around the world has been to find marginalized groups in remote areas and espouse their cause, much the way they did with the disenfranchised Tuareg tribesmen in northern Mali, setting up a foothold that later became a de facto state before they were routed by the French in February.

In January, an al-Qaida-linked group for the first time attacked one of the country's remote desert gas plants.

While the leaders of Al-Qaida's Algerian branch are predominantly from the populous north, the leader of the attack on the Ain Amenas gas complex in January that left 37 hostages dead was a southerner ? Lamine Bencheneb, part of the radical Sons of Sahara armed Islamic group.

In the attack, the multinational team of militants appeared to know the complex inside and out, sparking reports that they may have had allies among the site's local drivers who had gone on strike over low pay just weeks earlier.

Geoff Porter, a veteran Algeria analyst with the North Africa Risk Consulting firm said the "unevenness" of past government investment programs have left a legacy of distrust in the south ? a region that also lacks the educational opportunities to produce the necessary skills for oil sector jobs.

Part of the problem, he added, is that the hydrocarbon industries don't require very much employment and there is little else going in these remote communities after the desert tourism industry dried up.

In attempt to curb the recent demonstrations, the government sent local parliamentarians, mostly from the ruling party, back to their towns in the south to hold meetings, but most of these were boycotted by the committees of the unemployed.

"The Algerian state has always had a policy of national investment and a great deal of money has been invested in the south, just like the other regions," said Mohammed Dhimi, one of the members of parliament from the south. "Perhaps the investments were not well thought-out or misdirected or didn't respond to the agricultural and industrial needs of the people."

"The protesters may sense that they have built up some momentum and that they are going to continue their protests until they see meaningful steps taken to deliver on the prime minister's promises," he said.

Belabes, the head of the unemployment committee, promised a new round of demonstrations in the coming days.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, about 30 chiefs of Algeria's Tuareg tribes, ethnically the same group that revolted against the government across the border in Mali, presented authorities with their own manifesto of demands, including more jobs, governorships, and high diplomatic positions for the nation's Tuaregs, reported the daily El Watan.

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Paul Schemm reported from Rabat, Morocco. Associated Press reporter Karim Kebir contributed to this report from Algiers.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/algerias-southern-unemployed-demand-oil-jobs-073417151.html

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Decimation of critically endangered forest elephant detailed

Mar. 28, 2013 ? African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE and supported in part by San Diego Zoo Global shows that a staggering 62% of all forest elephants have been killed across their range in central Africa, for their ivory over the past decade. The severe decline indicates what researchers fear is the eminent extinction of this species.

"Saving the species requires a coordinated global effort in the countries where elephants occur, all along the ivory smuggling routes and at the final destination in the Far East. We don't have much time," say Wildlife Conservation Society conservationists Fiona Maisels, PhD, and Samantha Strindberg, PhD, the lead authors.

The study -- the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant -- includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

The paper also shows that almost a third of the land where African forest elephants were able to live 10 years ago has become too dangerous for them. Results show clearly that forest elephants were increasingly uncommon in places with high human density, high infrastructure density such as roads, high hunting intensity, and poor governance as indicated by levels of corruption and absence of law enforcement.

Bethan Morgan, PhD, head of San Diego Zoo Global's Central Africa Program, stressed the importance of this study. "This is the largest collaborative study of its kind across the whole of Central Africa and really highlights the plight of this ecologically important species. Forest elephants are integral to a functioning forest in Africa, opening up the forest floor and acting as a vital part of the life cycle of many plant species through their role as seed dispersers. We have increasing evidence of a decline in certain tree species as a result of the local extinction of forest elephants."

Distinct from the African savanna elephant, the African forest elephant is slightly smaller than its better-known relative and is considered by many to be a separate species.

Research carried out by the CITES-MIKE program has shown that the increase in poaching levels across Africa since 2006 is strongly correlated with trends in consumer demand in the Far East and that poaching levels are also strongly linked with governance at the national level and poverty at the local level. This has resulted in escalating elephant massacres in areas previously thought to be safe.

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If World Cup draw was today ...

Let me pre-empt your comment and acknowledge: I know this is completely pointless. And in a way,?that?is the point.

I want to embrace the absurdity of looking too deep into early qualifying results. I want to see what the world would look like if Mexico kept struggling, Ghana didn?t get out of their group, or Portugal doesn?t track down Israel in Europe.

I want Uzbekistan?s name in draw, Venezuela in a finals, and nations like Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina to breakthrough.

Most of all, I want some kind of reward for all of the international soccer we?ve been subjected to over the last five days. I want to know this is leading somewhere ? that these constant jumps from the club world into this alternative reality will be rewarded. The only way for my frustrated, fatigued little mind to grasp the implications is to draw out the 2014 World Cup.

So here?s what I did: I took the current standings from qualifying tournaments around the world, assumed the teams? points-per-game rates played out, and then ?qualified? the appropriate teams for Brazil. When playoffs were needed, I went with FIFA?s higher rated team (for no other reason than to take my preferences out of the equation).

Beyond using FIFA ranking as a tiebreaker, I didn?t assume the good teams would automatically make it. Think Panama?s going to fade? Too bad. They?re in first now. Montenegro?s not going to win their group? Then they won?t part of the last time we do this exercise eight months from now. We?re living in the present, baby. Embrace the now!

Once the 32 teams were decided. I pulled out Brazil and the seven seeded teams (by FIFA ranking), and conducted the draw by normal procedures. The way it ended up after playoffs, eight European teams formed one pot, the African and South American teams formed another, while the Asian and CONCACAF teams formed the last.

And this is how it played out.

AGAIN, this is not meant to be anything other than a fun exercise. I don?t intend it to be predictive or in any way a reflection of anybody?s analysis. It?s just a goof.

Group A	Group B
Brazil France Cote d?Ivoire South Korea	Spain Switzerland Algeria Uzbekistan
Group C	Group D
England Greece Zambia Honduras	Italy Croatia Venezuela United States
Group E	Group F
Netherlands Belgium Chile Panama	Germany Russia Ecuador Australia
Group G	Group H
Colombia Montenegro Nigeria Japan	Argentina Bosnia and Herzegovina Tunisia Costa Rica

Perhaps once we?re further down the qualifying road we can put some analysis in this space, but we?re still a little too far down the road to be taking this too seriously. For now, it?s cool to seem some of the new names and potential groups ?

? but for now, I leave the analysis to you.

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/27/world-cup-2014-draw/related/

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Chief justice a victim of credit-card fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Chief Justice John Roberts has been a victim of credit-card fraud.

A Supreme Court spokeswoman said someone got hold of one of Roberts's credit card account numbers. The court did not provide any other details.

But the Washington Post's In the Loop column, which first reported the item, said Roberts told the cashier at a Starbucks in suburban Maryland that he had to use cash for his morning coffee because he canceled the card after discovering that someone else had the numbers.

The last reported criminal incident involving a justice was in May, when someone broke into the Washington home of Justice Stephen Breyer. No one was home at the time.

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Putin flexes Russian military muscle in naval exercise

By Alexei Anishchuk

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ordered large-scale military exercises in the Black Sea on Thursday, projecting Russian power towards Europe and the Middle East in a move that may vex neighbors.

Officials suggested the surprise drill would test reaction speed and combat readiness, but Putin's order also seemed a signal to the West of Russia's presence in the region.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Putin triggered the maneuvers as he flew back overnight from South Africa after a summit of the BRICS emerging economies.

Peskov said 36 warships and an unspecified number of planes would take part, but not how long exercises would last.

Putin has stressed the importance of a strong and agile military since returning to the presidency last May. In 13 years in power, he has often cited external threats when talking of the need for reliable armed forces and Russian political unity.

Late last month, Putin ordered military leaders to make urgent improvements to the armed forces in the next few years, saying Russia must thwart Western attempts to tip the balance of power. He said maneuvers must be held with less advance warning, to keep soldiers on their toes.

Putin, 60, has used his role as commander-in-chief to cast himself as a strong leader for whom national security is foremost. State media emphasized he ordered the exercises from a plane in the dead of night.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet, whose main base is in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, was instrumental in a war with ex-Soviet neighbor Georgia in 2008 over the Russian-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

In addition to Georgia and Ukraine, Russia shares the Black Sea with Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.

But Russian foreign affairs analyst Fyodor Lukyanov said the exercises were "more likely part of a wider attempt to reconfirm that Russia's navy and military forces in the south are still able to play a political and geopolitical role."

"It is flexing muscles and may have more to do with what is happening in the Mediterranean, around Syria, than in the Black Sea," said Lukyanov, editor of journal Russia in Global Affairs.

REGIONAL ROLE

Russia's modest naval maintenance and supply facility in Syria is its only military base outside the former Soviet Union, and the Defense Ministry recently announced plans to deploy a naval unit in the Mediterranean on a permanent basis.

Russia has clashed diplomatically with the West throughout a two-year conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people in Syria, using its U.N. Security Council veto to block Western efforts to push President Bashar al-Assad from power.

Moscow-based military analyst Alexander Golts said unannounced exercises are good for Russia's military, but the location could raise questions among Russia's neighbors.

"We will be watching these exercises very closely as Georgia has its own experience with Russia," Tedo Japaridze, head of the Georgian parliament's foreign relations committee, told Reuters. He said all Black Sea nations have the right to hold exercises.

The Kremlin portrays Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as a bellicose leader, and Russia said last week annual U.S.-Georgian training exercises that began this month in Georgia, far from the Black Sea coast, put peace at risk.

Meanwhile, disputes with Ukraine over Moscow's continued lease of the Black Sea navy base have been a thorn in relations with its former Soviet neighbor.

Peskov said the number of servicemen participating was short of the threshold requiring Russia to notify other nations of its plans, but Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted a spokesman for Ukraine's foreign minister, who was in Moscow on Thursday, as saying Ukraine had been informed in advance.

A NATO official said the Western alliance was not given notice and that "exercises are part of what the military do. NATO also conducts regular military exercises, which are not directed at anyone". But he said NATO would like to see greater openness from Russia, including on military exercises.

(Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow, Pavel Polityuk in Kiev, Margarita Antidze in Tbilisi and Adrian Croft in Brussels; Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Steve Gutterman; Editing by Jason Webb)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/putin-flexes-russias-military-muscle-black-sea-exercises-150222901.html

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Pockets of resistance still in Central African Republic

By Ange Aboa

BANGUI (Reuters) - Rebel forces and international peacekeepers mopped up pockets of resistance on Wednesday in Central African Republic after a weekend coup but life in the capital was mostly returning to normal after three days of looting.

Up to 5,000 rebels swept into the riverside town on Sunday, killing at least 13 South African soldiers in intense fighting and forcing President Francois Bozize to flee in the latest conflict to destabilize the landlocked former French colony.

The Seleka rebel coalition struggled to stamp out the chaos that ensued and was forced to appeal to peacekeepers from neighboring central African states to help control gunmen looting houses, business, U.N. offices and even hospitals.

"Security is okay but it is not perfect. There are still some pockets of resistance," said a senior United Nations official, adding there were still the dregs of pro-Bozize militias.

"Arms were distributed to youth in certain neighborhoods by the outgoing president," the official said.

He said conditions were slowly improving in the sprawling capital, easing fears of a major humanitarian crisis.

"Things are starting to pick up," he told Reuters. "We need doctors and nurses to come back to work, and supplies of power and drugs. I hope it will only take a few days to sort out."

A senior source with the FOMAC regional peacekeeping force said 100 government troops were holed up at a military base at Berengo, 60 km from the capital, refusing to surrender to rebel forces.

"They don't want to fight, just surrender and go home to their families. We will organize their evacuation," said the source, who asked not to be identified.

Keeping his promise to honor a power-sharing deal signed in January, self-proclaimed president Michel Djotodia officially reappointed Nicolas Tiangaye, a civilian opposition figure, as prime minister tasked with leading a transitional government.

The United States, France and regional powers have insisted the rebels must honor the Libreville accord, signed in January in the Gabonese capital, which called for a transitional unity government till elections in 2016.

SECURITY BEGINNING TO IMPROVE

Businesses reopened and traffic took to the streets of Bangui. A Reuters correspondent in Bangui said markets were open on Wednesday but many lacked food.

Electricity, cut off since Saturday when rebels struck a hydroelectric power station in a nearby town, had been restored in most neighborhoods but there was still no running water in many parts of the city, he said.

"The security situation is beginning to improve," Jean-Pierre Sandou, a sergeant with the roughly 1,000-strong five-FOMAC force, patrolling the crumbling city of 600,000 people.

South African soldiers battled the rebels for hours but troops from the FOMAC force did not try to prevent their advance, which came a decade to the month after Bozize himself seized power in a coup.

France's troops in the country also refused to intervene, saying they would only protect French citizens, as Paris steps away from its traditional role as Africa's policeman.

The United Nations and the African Union condemned the takeover, which came after a collapse in the January peace deal signed after a previous rebel advance to the gates of the capital in December.

Central African Republic has rich deposits of gold, diamonds and uranium but it remains one of the world's least developed and most unstable nations.

(Writing and additional reporting by David Lewis; Editing by Michael Roddy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pockets-resistance-still-central-african-republic-183945763.html

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Mass rally in Pyongyang in support of Kim Jong Un

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? Thousands of North Koreans have turned out for a mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader's call to arms.

Chanting "Death to the U.S. imperialists" and "Sweep away the U.S. aggressors," soldiers and students marched through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang on Friday during a 90-minute rally.

State media reported early Friday that leader Kim Jong Un called an emergency military meeting to order the army's rocket unit to prepare to strike the U.S. and South Korea in case of a "reckless provocation" by Washington or Seoul.

A full-blown North Korean attack is unlikely, though there are fears of a more localized conflict. Pyongyang has railed against the U.S. decision to send B-2 bombers for military drills with South Korea.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mass-rally-pyongyang-support-kim-jong-un-043129729.html

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Short OR Long posts? Which one to choose? - Blogging Tips

Many people like Brian Clark, Darren Rowse and Seth Godin had built their empire online writing small posts. Maybe they don?t do it now. But they built their multi six figure business online.

On the other hand, people like Glen Allsopp, Onibalusi, built their business online writing long posts. Sometimes they write more than 4000 words for just one post.

So which type should you write? This is all what the post is about.

So Continue Reading.

Short Posts:

Short posts are posts which are less than 500 words. Sometimes it?s 200 words.

Here are the advantages of short posts:

1- Easy to write:

The best thing about short posts is that they are easy to write. You can write multiple short posts a day or at least one. Give your readers a lot of content and then gain the benefits.

2- You go to the point directly without fluff words:

This is another thing about short posts. You can give your readers a lot of tips in just 500 words and by this way you don?t waste their time. ?And they will love your content and come for the good tips.

Disadvantages:

Most of them are ignored after short time:

As they are easy to create, they are easy to ignore. Most of the old posts on the internet are ignored. Do you ever hear about any short post written from a year.

This rarly happens.

Long Posts:

Long posts are the currency of the web nowadays. They are posts that have more than 2000+ words, sometimes 4000 words.

Whenver you go and check any of GLen Allsopp posts or Jon Morrow?s posts, You will find that they are very long and you get a lot of information from it.

Here?s why Long posts are used nowadays:

1- They offer high value:

Usually, long posts contains a lot of information. You can cover everything about one topic and make it all in one resource page that people will come to check again and again over time.

2- They attracts links, shares, traffic and most importantly more subscribers:

Another great advantage and the most important advantage of writing long posts is that they are great for attracting high quality links from big blogs. You can also get hundreds if not thousands of likes, tweets and +1s from big influencers.

All this will get you a lot of visitors. Those visitors can be subscribers who you can build relationship with and then get more money.

Did you see how it?s great to write high quality long posts.

Disadvantages:

• It needs a lot of time to prepare
• You can be bored and so you readers will.

So which one should you choose?

You should continue writing when you can continue providing great value. Giving a lot of fluff can ruin your repitition.

However, I recommend writing long posts. You can?t be noticed nowadays with small posts.

Yes, they are easy to create.

Yes, they have value that people will love.

But with over 175 million blogs nowadays, you can?t be noticed with small posts.

This is one of the new Blogging Rules that you should follow.

So I recommend you to write even one post every 2 weeks but offer high value and then kick your ass to promote it.

You may also read:?How To Create Super Engaging Blog Content.

Source: http://www.bloggingtips.com/2013/03/28/short-long-posts/

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Approaching Menopause in a Healthy and Natural Manner | Jackie's ...

Whether you have reached a turning point in your life, or whether you just feel like having a change and shaking things up a bit, this is the book for you. Plus-Size-Magazine.com is a site dedicated to women and men?s plus size fashion and we believe that you can look beautiful no matter what size you are.

Follow our EASY steps to looking great. This style guide will show you how to figure out your body shape, choose the right lingerie, style your hair and make-up, customize your clothes to save money, and the best places to shop online and offline.

?Makeovers for women: 40, Curvy, and Ready for a Change? is the best investment a plus size woman can make to gain know-how, tools, and advice on how to look expensive for little money. For instance, we tell you why finding the right bra can benefit both your health and your appearance. We give you easy tips to use immediately and an informative list of resources on how to dress up on the cheap.

As a leading online resource for plus size women seeking advice on Fashion and Lifestyle, we have put together this book to share with you our best secrets to achieving an affordable make-over that will leave you feeling priceless.

With over five years? experience in the plus size fashion industry, we know the trials and tribulations of plus size shopping, and the kind of problems Curvy Women encounter when trying to dress fashionably and on a budget. Fit, price, lack of availability, limited choices.... Sound familiar?

You are not alone in your plus size shopping frustration! Many of our readers have asked us for solutions to their problems, and over the years we have enlisted experts and professionals to help us answer them. Use our fashion advice to arm yourself with actionable tips that fit you body type. Hairstyle makeovers are one the cheapest ways to look better and we have found for you expert advice from a hair stylist that caters to full-figured women with round faces.

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From accessorizing your plus size dress to applying makeup on a round face, you will be able to change your looks with no diet and no surgery.

Buying countless new items and more and more makeup, might make you feel better, but it won?t help your cost cutting. We have created this book with the knowledge we have gathered together from years in the industry. We bring you insider tips from professionals, as well as fantastic recommendations from our readers.

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Icycle 2 takes nude bicycling and fish-kissing to a whole new level

The folks at Chillingo were showing off Icycle 2 at GDC 2013, and it broke my brain just a little. The game mechanics themselves are very simple; the controls are ultimately the most basic ones you could have for a platformer game. The real trip is in the art style and storyline.

Players control the chilly and lovelorn Dennis, who, for whatever reason, is chasing the woman of his dreams naked on a bicycle. Eventually, her head turns into that of a fish, but I'm not quite sure why. My demo of the game ended with Dennis mere millimeters away from smooching this aquatic goddess. Players are ranked out of three stars for each of the positively surreal levels based on how many little icicle pellets they pick up along their twisted route. Over time, players can unlock new and ridicuclous outfits to make sure Dennis doesn't have to do all of his chasing in the nude.

Those of you that have played Wonderputt will be familiar with the level of graphical polish and left-field thinking that the developer, Damp Gnat, is capable of. I'll go so far as to say that Icycle 2 is the most interesting and refreshing mobile game that I've seen between GDC and PAX East. The Chillingo folks are being coy about a release date, opting for a "it'll be ready when it's ready" approach, but expect it to cost about a buck in the App Store.

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Risk management tips for businesses | MWBEX News

Given the number of unforeseen events that can affect the smooth running of a business, it makes sense to have risk management strategies in place to ensure your company can cope with them.

Training

Spending a certain amount ? say three per cent of the company?s gross profits ? on staff training is one useful strategy. Whether it is training staff to work remotely, so that your business can handle periods of extreme weather, or health and safety training to minimise risks of illness or injury, this should reduce danger to your business.

Health and safety

Although it makes sense to train your staff, you should also make sure that you have a qualified medical professional selected to deal with injuries in the workplace, should they arise. Establishing this kind of relationship with a doctor based locally and specialising in workplace accidents can save money on more minor injuries to staff while in the office space.

Remote working

Any business based in the UK is likely to find itself dealing with periods of extreme bad weather, and the problems of getting to and from the office space can paralyse businesses for the duration. Implementing remote working strategies will ensure that your business has a way of maintaining trading and customer communications, even when employees are unable to travel due to conditions.

Insurance

Making sure that you report any injuries in the workplace as promptly and accurately as possible will reduce the risk of having to pay over the odds in costs, while also making thorough investigation of the accident much easier.

Source: http://www.mwbex.com/industry-news/index.php/2013/03/27/risk-management-tips-for-businesses/

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Richmond CA Bankruptcy Lawyer Recognized For Helping Locals ...

If you are having financial difficulties, a Richmond CA bankruptcy lawyer is there with all kinds of help. There are many things to know about current laws concerning bankruptcies and a trained and experienced attorney keeps up with all the important changes. Here are some reasons to consult qualified legal advice when one is not sure what to do.

When the economy stumbles many people lose their jobs, and it is through no fault of their own. Once this occurs, it may be very difficult to meet certain financial obligations. Yet, one does not have to endure these kinds of difficulties when qualified help is at hand.

When major illness strikes a family it can be devastating. In fact, it can easily deplete savings. One may have to take care of a pile of medical expenses, and it does not take long for these bills to completely overwhelm most families. There may be no possible way to pay them.

If you cannot pay all your bills, you could be placed under an enormous amount of stress. Bill collectors and credit services may be calling your home at all hours of the day and evening. In fact, you may be afraid to answer your phone because of harassing calls.

There are ways to take care of creditors and services that call and harass you. Your trained attorney can help you put an immediate stop to these things. You have someone you can trust that provides important advice. This way, you know exactly what to do and are less likely to make mistakes.

Your Richmond CA bankruptcy lawyer is familiar with all the problems that you are experiencing. Once you call a legal professional you can rest assured that your financial problems will soon be a thing of the past. This is a great way to reduce a lot of stress and help you relax and sleep well at night. Your attorney is trained to guide you through a very difficult time.

Find a review of the benefits you get when you consult a Richmond CA bankruptcy lawyer and more information about a reputable attorney at http://www.dowebankruptcylaw.com now.

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Multiple moves found harmful to poor young children

Mar. 28, 2013 ? Poor children who move three or more times before they turn 5 have more behavior problems than their peers, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the National Employment Law Project. The study is published in the journal Child Development.

Moving is a fairly common experience for American families; in 2002, 6.5 percent of all children had been living in their current home for less than six months. Among low-income children, that number rose to 10 percent. In addition, in 2002, 13 percent of families above poverty moved once, but 24 percent of families below poverty moved. Research has shown that frequent moves are related to a range of behavioral, emotional, and school problems for adolescents.

Using national data on 2,810 children from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal, representative study of children born in 20 large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, researchers sought to determine how frequent moves relate to children's readiness for school. Parents were interviewed shortly after the birth of their children, then again by phone when the children were 1, 3, and 5; in-home assessments were done when the children were 3 and 5. The study also looked at the children's language and literacy outcomes, as well as behavior problems reported by mothers.

The study found that 23 percent of the children had never moved, 48 percent had moved once or twice, and 29 percent had moved three or more times. Among children who moved three or more times before age 5, nearly half (44 percent) were poor; poverty was defined based on the official federal threshold. Moving three or more times was not related to the children's language and literacy outcomes.

But children who moved three or more times had more attention problems, anxiousness or depression, and aggressiveness or hyperactivity at age 5 than those who had never moved or those who had moved once or twice. These increases in behavior problems occurred only among poor children, the study found, suggesting that frequent moves early in life are most disruptive for the most disadvantaged children.

"The United States is still recovering from the great recession, which has taken a major toll on the housing market," notes Kathleen Ziol-Guest, postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, who led the study. "As housing markets have collapsed across communities, highly mobile low-income families have moved in search of work and less expensive housing.

"The findings in this study suggest that the housing crisis and its accompanying increase in mobility likely will have negative effects on young children, especially poor children."

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Spanning And Mozy Team Up, A Storage Marriage With Investment Questions Galore

Last week, ?Spanning, a Google Apps backup service, announced a $6 million investment from an unnamed strategic investor.

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Why you need a woman to run your website | Internet Psychologist ...

Yesterday I was on a panel of speakers discussing online banking. There were five men on the panel and one woman. As I travelled to the event I read a magazine for web designers where several leading web companies gave advice on how best to produce websites these days considering the vast uptake in mobile. All of the people quoted in the article were men. On the way home I picked up a newspaper and read the business section ? only one woman was mentioned. The world of business and online seems to be dominated by men.

And today we discover that this male dominated industry is in trouble. The Internet has been suffering a major international slow-down thanks to a concerted cyberattack.

But it is not just the web that is wobbling. The world?s financial systems are in turmoil as the Eurozone has been split into two thanks to the Cyprus issue. And what do you see in all those discussions in Brussels about the banking crisis ? loads of middle-aged men. And then you turn to look at the pictures of Wall Street or the City to see who is trying to repair the damage and what do you see? That?s right ? loads more men.

The Internet is prone to attack, the world is still suffering from the financial crisis of five years ago, the retail sector is in the doldrums ? and who is running businesses supposed to get us out of this mess? Men. Who got us into this mess? Men. Only 9% of company directors worldwide are women. But things could be about to change.

New research confirms that women make better decisions than men and that this has a significant advantage for business. And this is not for the reason you might think, that they are soft and fluffy and help people work together. In fact, one of the reasons behind the advantage of having women run businesses is that they are much more prepared to rock the boat than men. It turns out that men want to stick to rules and to do things ?the right way?, while women want to get the right results, even if that means adapting and changing.

The way online business is going you need to have skills which allow you to adapt and change rapidly as the technology shifts. Similarly, you also need to be able to co-operate because web development often requires a range of different professions. The new research shows that women are simply better than men at producing effective collaboration and encouraging change.

Which can only mean one thing ? if you want a successful online business, get a woman to run it. Goodness me ? that?s what Yahoo have just done?! And since appointing Marissa Mayer as their CEO, Yahoo?s stock price has gone up in value by 50%. Not bad for less than a year?s work.

Source: http://www.grahamjones.co.uk/2013/blog/web-business/why-you-need-a-woman-to-run-your-website.html

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Handling big data and small data in a sustainable way

Public release date: 28-Mar-2013
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DFG approves new funding program for research data infrastructures

This release is available in German.

As in other areas, science and research are generating digital data faster and in larger volumes than ever before. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wants to help researchers in every discipline, from Assyriology to Zoology, to use data more effectively. The Joint Committee of Germany's largest research funding organisation has decided to launch a new funding programme. Its purpose is ensure that quality-assured research data, which is frequently collected at great financial expense in a time-consuming process, is secured on a more permanent basis and made available for re-use by researchers at a later date.

According to current estimates, the global sea of data generated by our digital world doubles in size every two years. In Germany and in the rest of the world, this is giving rise to the question of how these huge flows of data in general, and research data in particular, should be dealt with. Against this background, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany formulated the "Principles for the Handling of Research Data" (2010), EU experts presented the paper "Riding the Wave" (2010) and the DFG approved the paper "Taking Digital Transformation to the Next Level" (2012). Furthermore, the German Council of Science and Humanities approved analyses and recommendations to develop information infrastructures in Germany (2012). In the view of all the organisations involved, a new way to manage research data should be given priority.

The new funding programme is the DFG's practical response to discussions and recommendations. The objective of the new funding offered by the DFG is to institute and maintain helpful structures for research data that are oriented towards the demand and requirements of science. The programme will fund projects to develop sustainable concepts and solutions ranging from transregional data infrastructures for one or more disciplines to enhancements to existing infrastructure, taking account of international standards and cross-border cooperation.

With the new funding line, the DFG is hoping that more disciplines will establish a structure that can be seen to encourage innovation. A crucial factor here is a change of awareness towards recognising the significance of quality-assured data management that will take steps towards the re-use of research data. The new funding programme is intended to make a contribution in this respect.

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Further Information

More information about the new funding programme can be found here: http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/research_data/index.html

DFG programme contact:

Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2212, Stefan.Winkler-Nees@dfg.de

Dr. Katja Hartig, Life Sciences 1, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2359, Katja.Hartig@dfg.de

DFG Press and Public Relations contact:

Dr. Rembert Unterstell, Tel. +49 228 885-2275, Rembert.Unterstell@dfg.de

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Contact: Dr. Rembert Unterstell
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49-228-885-2275
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

DFG approves new funding program for research data infrastructures

This release is available in German.

As in other areas, science and research are generating digital data faster and in larger volumes than ever before. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wants to help researchers in every discipline, from Assyriology to Zoology, to use data more effectively. The Joint Committee of Germany's largest research funding organisation has decided to launch a new funding programme. Its purpose is ensure that quality-assured research data, which is frequently collected at great financial expense in a time-consuming process, is secured on a more permanent basis and made available for re-use by researchers at a later date.

According to current estimates, the global sea of data generated by our digital world doubles in size every two years. In Germany and in the rest of the world, this is giving rise to the question of how these huge flows of data in general, and research data in particular, should be dealt with. Against this background, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany formulated the "Principles for the Handling of Research Data" (2010), EU experts presented the paper "Riding the Wave" (2010) and the DFG approved the paper "Taking Digital Transformation to the Next Level" (2012). Furthermore, the German Council of Science and Humanities approved analyses and recommendations to develop information infrastructures in Germany (2012). In the view of all the organisations involved, a new way to manage research data should be given priority.

The new funding programme is the DFG's practical response to discussions and recommendations. The objective of the new funding offered by the DFG is to institute and maintain helpful structures for research data that are oriented towards the demand and requirements of science. The programme will fund projects to develop sustainable concepts and solutions ranging from transregional data infrastructures for one or more disciplines to enhancements to existing infrastructure, taking account of international standards and cross-border cooperation.

With the new funding line, the DFG is hoping that more disciplines will establish a structure that can be seen to encourage innovation. A crucial factor here is a change of awareness towards recognising the significance of quality-assured data management that will take steps towards the re-use of research data. The new funding programme is intended to make a contribution in this respect.

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Further Information

More information about the new funding programme can be found here: http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/research_data/index.html

DFG programme contact:

Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2212, Stefan.Winkler-Nees@dfg.de

Dr. Katja Hartig, Life Sciences 1, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2359, Katja.Hartig@dfg.de

DFG Press and Public Relations contact:

Dr. Rembert Unterstell, Tel. +49 228 885-2275, Rembert.Unterstell@dfg.de

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HTC reportedly planning DROID DNA successor

By Brian Homewood March 28 (Reuters) - Swiss champions FC Basel, renowned for their youth development programme, face a constant battle to stop teenage players moving to English, Spanish and Italian clubs. President Bernhard Heusler told Reuters in an interview that parents often do not listen to the club when warned against taking their sons elsewhere. "We get enormous pressure from outside, including English clubs," said Heusler before adding Basel were powerless to stop their youngsters leaving before the age of 16. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/htc-reportedly-planning-droid-dna-successor-115028571.html

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