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05/23/2013 22:48

Hoffenheim against Kaiserslautern, the first leg. That TSG in the eternal Bundesliga Table 1882 points behind the first FCK ranks, enriches the drama of this duel, but the outcome is irrelevant. A glance at the statistics of past relegation matches is promising. Decisive factor was often something that the British call in football'' Momentum'', ie the duration of a movement, the swing. 2010 Mönchengladbach could still save the relegation place after a bad Hinserie because the Borussia won 26 points in the second half. Tailwind helped Dante, Reus and Arango in the relegation to triumph over VfL Bochum. Kaiserslautern has not necessarily wind at your back, but some actors who can decide games. Against Fortuna Dusseldorf, the Red Devils would therefore have been the favorites. But not against resurgent Hoffenheim, where the'' momentum'' is undoubtedly one of the wonder of Dortmund.

Dresden against Osnabrück, the return game. Dynamo is poor. What's more: But the annual rent for the happiness Gas stadium amounts to 2.1 million euros, the operating costs will also come added yet. The damp Dresden does help with cash injections, but the duel with Osnabrück means struggle for existence. Only the athletic presence is cause for hope. Peter Pacult trained an intact team that import 13 points from their last seven games of the season. Dresden total score of 37 is impressive – never had to play in the relegation with so many points, a second division team. Should the Dresden outwardly presenting in their current form, they will earn a comfortable starting position. Two years ago there was the same encounter. Even then kept for a strong dynamo away the upper hand. A replay would be more than half the battle.

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05/23/2013 17:02

This is the kind of challenge that suits him. The sulfur German Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has to don the clothes of the great defender of the right to intellectual property. A role against type for the founder of Megaupload fire, the famous site used by millions of users to illegally download movies, TV shows and other songs that the FBI has closed on 20 January 2012. At the time, Kim Dotcom was considered the United States as the number one enemy of the copyright, and more generally intellectual property.

"I've never pursued, I am a follower of the free flow of ideas but I could make an exception given that the United States currently suffer me," said Kim Dotcom on Twitter. Currently based in New Zealand, he gives, in fact, a real legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States where he is wanted for aiding and abetting piracy and infringement of copyright. Of conflict that cost him more than $ 50 million in legal fees.

Not sure, however, that Google & Co. take the offer seriously. As noted by the U.S. site specializing in new technologies The Verge, "it is probably a new shot com 'to rally public opinion to his cause by posing as the victim in this case." Still, this time, Kim Dotcom also want to remind the world that before he founded a controversial site, he was also an innovator.

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05/23/2013 8:44

The scene takes place a few weeks ago in San Francisco. Simply the best of the American high-tech met Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce. com, Paul Maritz, the former CEO of VMware, as well as leaders of Linkedin and those of the company Web Storage Box. com. They all responded to the invitation for a meeting with senior executives of an "old" European IT services company Capgemini. For several days, participants exchange and debate on topics popular in the industry as "cloud computing", the "big data" social networks or mobility issues. Capgemini and its leaders, the goal is clear: it is to raise awareness to the teams that can work with big stars of Silicon Valley and develop common solutions able to support future business.

This is the new strategic challenge of the French IT company, which also poses other industry giants. And it turns out already complex ahead. The European leader in IT services including sales exceeded 10 billion euros in 2012, decided to turn innovation by developing more and more new ranges of solutions for its customers. A new trend that puts intellectual property at the center of the group's concerns. The problem with this position is that it is precisely to contradict the strategy put in place during the previous decade, which led to standardization and commoditization of its offerings, having more use of offshore resources. The great strategic gap is provided. Paul Hermelin itself, the group's CEO, admits: "These two seemingly contradictory trends. But we must nevertheless juggle these issues, because it will determine the future of the IT services industry in the years to come. "

For ten years, Capgemini has accelerated the process of industrialization of its offerings, by progressively moving the center of gravity to India, the new stronghold of the computer world. Since 2009, the continent country became the first group in terms of numbers, followed by France. Today, more than 40. 000 Indian IT services company working for the French and its largest customers, a total of about 120. 000 employees. Capgemini's presence was almost zero ten years ago. The acquisition of Kanbay U.S. in 2006, the majority of teams was based in India, truly launched the offshore strategy. This is expected to continue at the same pace in the coming years. 2015, Capgemini plans to employ 80. 000 IT offshore, 70. 000 in India.

The pursuit of this strategy responds to the intense competition between the giants of IT services and pressure on prices resulting. The economic crisis has accentuated the phenomenon. The services provided in India indeed cost three or four times cheaper than those made by European engineers. Companies like IBM and Accenture also keep one step ahead in the race for competitiveness – the latter now employs two-thirds of its workforce in offshore and recently opened a new platform in the Philippines. No question, however, for Capgemini try to emulate the strategy of Indian giants TCS, Infosys and Wipro. In terms of costs, the battle is already lost. The strategic orientation of the most innovative offerings is a way to differentiate themselves to compete and play positively on margins. External growth remains one of the main levers used to accelerate the transition to more innovative solutions. As such, the acquisition of French Prosody, in 2011, to 382 million euros, was a founding element of the new strategy of Capgemini.

The company, which operates in the border areas of telecommunications and computing, is a specialist in multi-channel relationship, transactional solutions and hosting Web applications. Prosody is also considered one of the best French players of "cloud computing," a substantial future growth market. With this acquisition, Capgemini is also changing its business model. Innovation is not only measured by the integration of new technologies in the IT services offerings. It also has marketing methods: billing services use, popularized by the phenomenon of "cloud" is changing that in the IT services sector and requires to adapt. The novelty also come from changing relationships with customers. Forget the trade negotiations with one (DSI management information systems), all trades in the company (marketing, sales, finance, etc..) Are now capable of making their own needs and order from IT services. The "cloud" facilitates access to technology and services for all.

This new strategic project begins, even another, equally important, ends only. Since the late 2000s, Capgemini trying to limit its dependence on economic cycles. This sensitivity to changing economic conditions is one of the characteristics of IT services. In times of crisis, investments in IT tend to be the first to be sacrificed in business – even if the growing dependence on information systems and new technologies has somewhat evolved practices. The growth of the sector and its leading companies, so that traditionally follows the global GDP. In addition, the main asset of a software company is its human capital, its cost structure remains extremely rigid and leaves little scope to adapt to the economic downturn.

The cyclical nature of Capgemini has increased with the acquisition in 2000 of giant Ernst & Young. This major transaction ($ 11 billion) has certainly allowed the French group acquired a new status in the industry, opening up new prospects with the largest multinationals in the world. But it has also made it more sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations.

To reduce this dependence, the French group has sought to rebalance its geographical presence. If France remains the historic market Capgemini since its inception in 1967, it is not the largest in terms of revenue: it was surpassed in 2012 by the United States, which are driving growth in two years. SSII also accelerated its investments in emerging markets. It has set foot in Brazil in 2010 with the acquisition of CPM Braxis, and benefits from one of the fastest growing IT markets in the world. Five years ago, the share of the group's business conducted in Europe was 80%. The goal is to bring it to 60% in two years.

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05/22/2013 23:35

Casually dressed, Jean-Louis Borloo receives in his office at the National Assembly, deserted by MPs in Whit Monday. Itself is only a brief passage, the time of interview for which he has to shave. Anxious to embody a "constructive" opposition, former minister Sarkozy has spared no efforts to promote its program of "national recovery", for which it called on the government and the UMP to the Republican consensus. Jean-Louis Borloo. Not. I am not in favor of a national unity government. There is a majority and opposition, I am in opposition. That is why they plébiscitent people who put hands dirty, which are humble and whose objective is concrete action. They do not think in terms of political or personal affinities, they do not have the temptation of extreme. What they want is a team of national recovery. When you make a mistake or vision that you had to, to win the presidential election, to build your campaign on a wrong thought pattern, you have to accept everything again from scratch. The French want a recovery plan efficient, concrete and immediate. There are a dozen topics on which we all agree, then let's go! The reduction of charges 6% for businesses, the VAT reduction to 5.5% in construction, the package promoting human services, do them right away. Leaving aside the posturing and work together. Yes. We have detailed my proposals line by line and talked together for more than an hour. I explained the importance of services to the person that his government has slowed. But I guess he did not need me to understand that he had to return to the tax exemption of overtime or at least drop some ballast. On 9 September, a year to the day after making that promise, Francois Hollande will meet with the nation. I believe that this day will raise the question of dissolution of the National Assembly and the formation of a new government team of technicians and field workers. For my part, I will organize a dinner around economists and forecasters to celebrate this anniversary. And I invite the Head of State. In 2005, Jacques Chirac (then President of the Republic, Ed) was in the same situation. He had just lost the European elections and decide the priority of his government, it was the job. He then called me and told me, "Jean-Louis, is what you think we can really reduce unemployment today? "I asked him fifteen days of reflection, I took my rough book and imagined what it would take to reverse unemployment as growth stagnated. Thus was born the social cohesion plan. In eighteen months, unemployment has risen from 10.2% to 7.7%. I do not want to play the head of government, but each position, I would choose someone who specializes in the most sensitive area or the most affected by the crisis. For Education, for example, I would take an expert toddlers, because this is where it all happens. In this time of crisis and recession, you have to get the skills where they are and call personalities like Thierry Breton (former CEO of Thomson and France Telecom and former Economy Minister between 2005 and 2007 note), to mayors or local councilors, who are faced with the complexity of things, like Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon (PS), and Philippe Richert, president of the Regional Council of Alsace (UMP). It would restore the confidence of French signifying them that there will be no increase in the tax burden until 2017 and returning to the tax exemption of overtime. Consideration should also be a strong and clear debts of a million families caught in the spiral of indebtedness and which are bona fide social movement. For we must help the French breathing.

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05/22/2013 7:30

Relocations are not a myth but a fact. For ten years, car production is falling in Western Europe and climb to the East to the point that, today, one out of four cars (and soon one in three) out of a European factory Meeting the other side of the former Iron Curtain. Considered a crime by some, this shift to the East is not only losers. The boom in manufacturing in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Turkey until first per3mis consumers to enjoy more cars equipped for price increasing much. In the computer, it is the progress of semiconductors that enhance quality at constant prices in the automobile, they are offshoring. Manufacturers have also benefited financially from this migration. And the people of the former Soviet bloc that have a priority plants have also benefited from the industrial renaissance. If a middle class develops in the East, it is because multinationals set up there.

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05/22/2013 3:37

The conservative opponents of gay marriage have not said their last word. Monday, while Bill, a first version was adopted in February, made his return to the Assembly, the right wing of the party planned to do everything possible to thwart the plans of Prime Minister David Cameron. She tried to pass an amendment in the evening to make available the equivalent of civil unions to heterosexual couples. An amendment to egalitarian claim that the author, Conservative MP Tim Loughton, said loud and clear that it is intended to fix an unfair situation.

Gay marriage is only one of many areas of conflict that deeply divides the Conservative Party, the right-most branch does not feel listened to by a Prime Minister that it considers too low. Sunday, 34 local party leaders signed a letter to David Cameron in which they talk about the "crisis of conservatism," with three major problems "destroy the party": Europe, gay marriage and "contempt" of the party leadership to its base. According to the theorist right Benjamin Harris-Quinney, author of the letter, if nothing changes, more and more Tories will join the ranks of the separatist party and Ukip prevent a victory in the next election: "Some are gone forever, and others will think unless the bill on gay marriage is abandoned or the party leadership changes. "

Defending gay marriage, the Prime Minister has once again drawn the ire of right-wing activists, it seems very difficult to control. According to the president of the polling firm YouGov Peter Kellner, David Cameron is in "the worst possible situation." For Kellner, based on statistics, a majority of Britons believe that Cameron wants to pass the law not by conviction but to improve its image. He is battling "for a cause that is very important to some people, for reasons that few people respect and increasing the reputation of a divided party."

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05/22/2013 1:48

But it did not speak of the Lord Club. He took refuge in the cloudy formulation, the "pressure" on his coach had become too large, so large that – but because his sentence lost again in general, and he no longer spoke of "The Special One", the he had taken in the summer of 2010 to break the dominance of FC Barcelona, ​​but of humanity as such: People would make a border. Who ever put high demands on themselves, suffer the appropriate wear.

Can you record a part of the presidential speech as Spanish courtesy, another falls into the category of brazen deception. "In England, a game lasts ninety minutes," Perez said, "plus two hours before and after. It takes seven days a week. "That might look different, the coach of the Premier League. "Between the understandable pressure and another who is no longer traceable, sometimes with insults and abuse. . . "Again his sentence broke off and blew away in vagueness. "For everyone," Pérez put new in, "has a family that has children and lives in a community. "

Now the journalists should have the tears come in the round, because everyone knew what the real boss alluded: that Mourinho's son had been bullied at school. Because of the famous father. In no time, the Portuguese stood as a heroic Daddy, who had persevered in the toughest league in the world, until his family had come to the limits of endurance.

Who had desired, however a few frank words to failure of the coach, looked disappointed. The provocateur, the petty and arrogant but he was Mourinho! Not for Perez. Mourinho's balance sheet consists in a "significant jump in quality," he said, "both sporty and in competitiveness." Argument successively served as the President of three Champions League semi-finals. "The balance," Perez said, "is positive. "But it is unlikely that the Mourinho years will shine brighter in retrospect, as now, in the days of lackluster end.

Not only against Barcelona, ​​the sovereign brought the league title back, even against Borussia Dortmund in the semi-finals of the Champions League and even against Atlético Madrid in the Copa final last Friday got real on the nose. Why always brought the other "big points"? But probably because there was a lack of concentration, motivation, tactical maturity. Dortmund that the Merengues administered three goals in sixteen minutes was a debacle and a crying symbol: Mourinho, said that did not make it in the third year to forge a force that dominated their football.

A few days ago, the coach known to have failed: The past season was the worst of his career. Now begins the clean-up at Real. As the successor to Carlo Ancelotti Paris Saint-Germain is traded, but rumor was also the name Jupp Heynckes. Who knows what can a flower in Madrid. After he had taken in 1998 with real against Juventus Champions League, he was discharged, and the courtesy with which Mourinho now the door is rejected, the German could only dream of.

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05/21/2013 21:11

"Dreaming with BRICs". The study published in 2003 by Goldman Sachs teams to emphasize the inexorable rise of four major emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China, has created a concept that since n ' not disappointed. Between 2004 and 2011, the average growth in China was 10.8% and India's by 8.3%, to mention only the two main. It is undisputed today emerging markets economic dynamism and appetite for performance. Not only do they contribute more heavily to global growth (36%), but they should, barring accidents, represented by 2020 about a third of global GDP. Yet an undeniable economic weight from a set for less heterogeneous! For it must be recognized that the only common point is to be big or very big. The size of the Chinese economy is higher by almost 30% in the other three countries combined (figures from 2012). Levels of GDP per capita are also the big difference. Russia and Brazil appear as middle-income countries, especially China and India are still playing in the courtyard of the poorest. Population sizes are even more diverse.

Four, they went to five, with the inclusion of South Africa in 2010, much smaller than the other four. BRIC became BRICS. A set that now two permanent members of the Security Council, three … two nuclear powers and authoritarian regimes. Sufficient to change this purely economic linkage to a more political capital structure. Basically, this group feeds on the same ground: the refusal of Western supremacy over the world. Over the years, the voice of emerging is heard in international forums playing a partition other than that of globalization, in which, however, they are developed.

They defend the UN. But they want to democratize this instance all by acquiring greater weight. At the World Trade Organization (WTO) organization, they set themselves up as spokesman for the poorest. In creating the G20 in 2003, they began to show their teeth opposing arguments put forward by industrialized countries. In 2009, the Copenhagen summit on climate change has been blocked by the emerging, which have succeeded in isolating the Europeans and their measures for the environment. The same year, the first summit of BRIC – which were still only four – organized by Russia had shown during the preparatory meetings, how the group leaders wanted to make a machine anti-Western war. Finally, member countries have openly claimed greater representation in international financial institutions and requested a more open selection process for the heads of these organizations. Without saying so openly denouncing the presidency of the World Bank and the IMF, reserved in the United States and Europe. In 2011, the top of Sanya, China, called for reform of the UN, including its Security Council. Most recently, the Durban summit confirmed the trend. The five BRICS agreed to establish a Development Bank that would be for the World Bank. They also wanted to raise a portion of their foreign exchange reserves to create a fund and thus does not depend on the IMF.

Let there be no mistake: they are out of the economic anonymity, remain major emerging political dwarf. Their cohesion is built within their own bodies, or in multilateral fora. Bases remain fragile. Their anti-Western theses soon be shattered when their national interests are at stake Thus, the Libyan case, the BRICS were against the intervention, while South Africa had voted for few time before the Security Council, which is non-permanent member. The same types of disagreements were observed about Syria, which shows the first fractures among member countries of the BRICS. On the one hand, Russia and China in 2012, opposite twice vetoed the Western resolutions supported by the Arab League. On the other hand, India and South Africa – after consultation with Brazil – eventually supported or abstained. The assertion of a principle of pacifism is also divergence factor. Thus, when Russia harshly represses separatist groups, the other members are experiencing a real annoyance to protest. Inside the club, the attitude of China is not without worry some other members of his arrogance and his desire to dominate the proceedings, even engulf the organization. At the last summit in Durban, the only question of the seat of the future development bank could not be determined due to lack of consensus.

It is in this immense fragility lies the main weakness of the BRICS. Today, the question is not whether the five major emerging structures can influence world trade, but, even more, if they can continue to grow together in the political sphere. Of two things: either they endow real leadership and a political line, or they expand their community to other countries become. With governance risks that entails. Unless they prefer to return to the status quo ante. India, Brazil and South Africa were already grouped together to form a three who wanted multicultural, multiethnic and … democratic.

Emerging countries alone already provide 36% of global growth. Barring accidents, they should represent, in 2020, about a third of global GDP. The hitch BRICS is a very heterogeneous: the size of the Chinese economy is higher by almost 30% to that of India, Russia and Brazil combined. Levels of GDP per capita are, too, the big difference: Russia and Brazil appear as middle-income countries, China and India are still playing in the courtyard of the poorest.

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05/18/2013 16:37

Nigeria since Wednesday mne a major offensive against the Islamist group, dployant several thousand troops in states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, in the north-east, where the state of emergency has t DCRT reconqurir passes for areas under control of insurgents. This operation could be the largest ever leads against the Islamist group and this is the first time that Armea use of air strikes on its own soil for 25 years. The network of mobile telephony does not work practically in the entire state of Borno, since the establishment of the state of emergency.

The weapon had announced Friday that you "dozens" of insurgents and have destroys camps "terrorists" and "heavy weapons, including anti-tank guns and antiariens". The fighting concentrs on low populated areas Until now, could be many more victims if they s'tendent the cities of the region. A military helicopter has t touch by insurgents "but he was able to return to base without casualties," a military source adclar Saturday on condition of anonymity .

Residents of Marte, a district contrls by Boko Haram in the northern state of Borno, fled Saturday towards the Cameroon border, effrays by the sounds of explosions. "C'tait scary the past three days, planes and combat helicopters have not ceased to roam the sky and standards distant explosions could be heard," a report Buba Yawuri , a villager from Kwalaram, Marte, who has found refuge in the city of nigriane frontalire Gomboru Ngala.

"We were asked not to go, Boko Haram fighters were pursued by the soldiers, we had no water, no food, I could not stand," he recounted. Mr. Yawuri ad flee secretly, because "the soldiers have authorized the women and children go." The boundaries positions far inoccups "t have all supported by the security agents to avoid leakage or infiltration of insurgents", the adclar weapon in a statement.

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05/18/2013 13:22

The banner of the opening procession of the Fiom in Rome (ANSA) ROME – Against the crisis and the austerity policies and 'the right to work, education, health, income, citizenship, social justice and democracy ": these are the reasons for the march organized by Fiom on Saturday 18 he marched to Rome from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza San Giovanni, where many protesters have called a general strike. At the head of the procession, with the banner "We can not wait any longer," the secretary of Fiom Maurizio Landini and the founder of Emergency Gino Strada. Expected 50,000 protesters, but according to the organizers are at least twice as much.

THE ABSENCE OF PD-controversy is due to the absence of the Democratic Party, which emphasizes Landini, "governs with the PDL but is afraid of us." Some Democrats are present only in a personal capacity: among others, the deputies Matthew Orfini ("You can not desert the streets in such an important moment") and Marco Miccoli ("We are here because it is right"), the former secretary of the CGIL Sergio Cofferati ("An error the absence of the Democratic Party"), the former Minister Fabrizio Barca. For Paolo Ferrero, secretary of the PRC Communist, "is just" that the Democrats do not detach due with the metalworkers. Because, he explains, "here is the people who want to change and asked to elections, but the Democratic Party is preventing this change together with the PDL: they did the worst thing they could do."

"AT THE HEART WORK" – Landini noted that the show "is not against anyone, but to claim the proposal for change." Fiom stands ready to deploy all its efforts to change the economic policies. "The choices of governments Berlusconi and Monti – said the leader of the blue-collar – are at the root of the situation that we are experiencing heavy. We need to put the center of the work. " Even if the fault is not only the last tenants of Palazzo Chigi, in particular pensions, Landini admits, "the union, put me there as well I did not do all he had." At this point the decree passed Friday by the Council of Ministers "is a first step, but it is not enough." It takes another: "We need to think – says the secretary of Fiom – beyond the emergency. It should block the layoffs and the reform of social safety nets, with the extension of unemployment benefits by making everyone pay a contribution. " You also need to "introduce the citizen's income to combat insecurity" and not completely eliminate the IMU: "It shall be for the large property." Taking into account that "it is not a priority." But the risk you run is that of a government "stuck under the blackmail of Berlusconi," a government that "without discontinuity will not have a long life."

THE PROPOSED VENDOLA – "I beg to transform the five-month extension of the contracts of public administration in a stabilization process, as did the Prodi government." This is the proposal of the Prime Minister Nichi Vendola Enrico Letta. The leader of Sel will be on stage for the final campaign rally together with Stefano Landini overspend (who had the honorary membership card Fiom), Gino Strada, Sandra Bonsanti and Fiorella Mannoia (not sing). The protest also joined the Five Star Movement, communist PRC, PDCI, IDV, Civil Revolution, students, Anpi and environmental associations. At the parade there will be Sandro Medici, president of the X Hall and mayoral candidate: "It is essential to participate – notes – because it will be the first mobilization against the government Letta-Alfano."

PATH – The parade will follow the following route: via the Baths of Diocletian, via Cavour, Piazza Esquilino, via Liberiana, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Via Merulana, wide Brancaccio, via Merulana, viale Manzoni, Via Emanuele Filiberto, ending precisely in Piazza di Porta San Giovanni.

MEASURES OF POLICE – Saturday morning before 7 in Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza di Porta San Giovanni will be removed all vehicles, not just cars, but also motorcycles, scooters and taxis. In the same bed, a ban the parking of hawkers and removal of containers for municipal solid waste. Metro Station A Saint John will be closed from 13. Closed to the public the gardens of Via Carlo Felice and Via Sannio.

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