Monday, November 30, 2015

Bari, agreement Common-AQP for the remote reading of water – La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno

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BARI – The most advanced measurement technologies and the adoption of sophisticated self-reading: are the latest innovations planned for the Aqueduct Pugliese city ​​of Bari. At present the project, the result of an agreement between the AQP and the Municipality of Bari, the sole director of the company via Cognetti, Nicola Costantino, and the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro.

It is a package of value-added services, designed for the largest customers of AQP, including, there is the city council of Bari, which with its 637 contract positions of users and 530 thousand cubic meters / year water consumed, it is the second highest use of water in Puglia. Highlights of the new technology plan are the introduction of water meters and the latest digital service smart city, centered on the reading distance and with greater frequency of consumption data. The new technological device can count on 500 electromagnetic flowmeters, to replace current mechanical meters, with an advanced technology of high-precision measurement, already integrated with a communication system. The service will also cover the radio reading, detecting and recording on-site consumption every 30 minutes, collect the data from the meters, with a frequency of 2 readings per month, the monitoring of utilities based on consumption profiles times.

“We are very pleased that the City Council once again, can encourage the fruitful cooperation with the AQP – said Mayor Antonio Decaro -. A report not only institutional but that translates into concrete operations that make Bari the first city in Italy to experience this form of intelligent energy monitoring of public water “.



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Bioplastics, stem, stained glass hi-tech here that innovates Italy – Il Sole 24 Ore

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Skin regenerated through the stem. Or plastics produced by bacteria and totally biodegradable. Or still cold curvature of the glass for the construction of facades of buildings hi-tech. I asked, Bio-on and Focchi are just three examples, three stories among many that testify to the vitality of the Italian entrepreneurial system to innovation. Not only followers, then, but also the ability to produce and propose innovations to break, with the chance to win not only in Italy but also across the border.

Drugs lifesaving

“Yes, for ten years – said Andrea Chiesi, director R & amp; D Portfolio Chiesi group – we wondered how to deal with the future, which for a pharmaceutical company is clearly evolving.” The group’s answer has been to focus heavily on research, continuing on product areas increasingly complex, “because – said Chiesi, paraphrasing what happens in agriculture – the lower branches have already been collected.”

The experimentation has resulted in a number of areas, some developed thanks to spin-offs, a way to harnessing the different skills of the territory. Thanks to these collaborations, for example, Chiesi has been able to develop the first product in the world based on stem cells able to reconstruct human corneas “insults” from the fire. Other advanced testing, one that leads to heal permanently a rare skin disease that affects children, and that in the absence of treatment inevitably leads to death. “Our goals – explains Chiesi – were to aim for growth and exploitation of cross-disciplinary knowledge, because the research is not always possible to do alone.”

Microbes factotum

“We started from a former rabbit hutch, today we are in the bag.” Pretty route one told by Marco Astori, President of Bio-On, a company that was able to dust off an invention 100 years old and never fully utilized so as to produce plastics from agricultural waste. The fermentation of certain wastes, such as sugar cane, sugar beet, carried out through microbes, indeed leads to the production of plastics of very high quality, fully biodegradable. “You see – explains to the audience Astorri Opificio Golinelli the day of onset of Travel in Italy in which Innova launched by Sole 24 Ore with Confindustria and in cooperation with EY – this chair by Philippe Starck was first made of polycarbonate, today through” our “microbes”.

Invention leading the company to market the licensed around the world, with 12 open negotiations for the creation of as many production facilities. “From carousels Bramieri with Moplen – explains Astorri – the road was great and our history shows that not necessarily a company can innovate through production, we do not do. Yet, from a rabbit hutch, we are now listed on the stock exchange. “

Not only design

Game 101 years ago by building steel plows, today Focchi is an international leader in the construction of exterior walls de buildings of great complexity. Among the strengths of the company is, for example, the ability to bend cold large windows, enabling designers, engineers and architects, experimenting with new solutions. Focchi is of such a project for the London Stock Exchange, as well as the new building of the City totally glass baptized Can of Ham, canned ham. “To get to develop this work -s explains to the group of Focchi Maurizio Focchi – we have worked for over a year. It is a major breakthrough in technology, which allows the development of complex geometries. As you continue to grow? Doing research, developing new solutions and going to sell them in a larger number of countries in the world. “

Milking hi-tech

Innovation is possible even in traditional sectors, such as that of milking. “And our ability to innovate – says the general manager of InterPuls Gabriele Nicolini – was the main reason that convinced a large multinational group to rilevarci, but making our company the world research center of the group. How to nurture innovation? First with the skills: 20% in our staff graduated in science. “

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Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos: the big hi-tech join forces for … – The Republic

THERE ARE (almost) everyone in the large group. Bill Gates , of course, is the leader of the fight for renewable energy and thus climate change, the central theme of the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention of the United Nations started today at the Parc des Expositions le Bourget Paris. Together with other colleagues, let’s call them, the founder of Microsoft has decided to launch the Breakthrough Energy Coalition , a holy alliance that, to the sound of money, can push the best innovation projects related to green energy all over the world. The stated goal is a bit ‘as the strategy Mark Zuckerberg Web in developing countries, so that the production of energy from non-fossil sources and pollutants is not really to everyone.

The name of the founder of Facebook is not accidental. In the group of investors decided to join Gates in fact appear, along with the future father and founder of the social network most populous country, also Jack Ma , the big boss of the Chinese portal (increasingly oriented to break through in the rest of the world) Alibaba, Jeff Bezos , the deus ex machina of Amazon, Reid Hoffman , the founder of the professional social LinkedIn, the inevitable Richard Branson (Virgin Group) and George Soros and Meg Whitman , CEO of HP. Just to mention the leader of the new, ambitious project.


“Priscilla and I join Bill Gates in the launch of the Breakthroug Energy Coalition to invest in new technologies in favor of clean energy – Zuck said in a post on his profile – solve the problem of clean energy is essential for building a better world. We will not be able to achieve any significant progress on other challenges, such as education or the world more connected, without energy and secure a stable climate. The path to a sustainable energy system is too slow, do not encourage the kind of innovation that serve, and that would lead quickly to the objective. “

But what they will do concretely the large (and very rich) heads hi-tech international, along with some multimillionaires, venture capital funds and philanthropists? Invest. Put money on ideas that have the potential to “transform the way we produce and consume energy,” said Zuckerberg. The announcement was therefore not accidental: in conjunction with the important conference that opens at this time in the City of Lights – which moreover is even Bill Gates himself – such a message pointing to stir doubts and resistances of Representatives of many countries to conduct, on 11 December, the signing of a binding agreement seriously and that it can enter into force quickly. Although many observers will be extremely complex.

Of course, not the first step of these pachyderms green technology in the world: many of them, all of Apple (who does not seem, for now, have taken part to ‘alliance for renewables), fed by the time of its production, the plants, the date of the factory and futuristic campus in clean energy. Now, however, the direction changes to: from the inside out, from its energy self-sufficiency – and shares some important but often little more than symbolic – the stimulus to new revolutionary ideas for the sector. Along with the free for all and health, the environment appears therefore more and more powerfully as macroambito strategy on which the protagonists of technology and web services will focus in the coming years.

28, investors from half the world – from Silicon Valley, of course, to South Africa via China – on which Gates can count today in Paris. Besides those already mentioned, will be the game also Ratan Tata , owner of the Tata Group, Mukesh Ambani , CEO of Reliance Industries, Neil Shen , managing partner of Sequoia Capital, and the South African multimillionaire Patrice Motsepe of African Rainbow Minerals. The idea is to provide private companies and new business venture capital flexible resembling appropriations government: “The private companies will develop these new renewable energy – Gates said in a statement – but their work will consist of works research that usually only the government funds allow you to perform. ” Gates obviously alludes to the US context, not to the more disheartening picture European and Italian in particular.

“We will focus on companies in the early stages that have the potential to develop energy with zero emissions of CO2 – we read on Site alliance – some key principles to choose how and where to invest will invest quickly on most areas, from agriculture to transport, in a deep, intelligent and preferring the countries that have signed the shareholders Mission Innovation “.

It does not end it with the new initiative, the founder of Microsoft. Also during the day today with President Barack Obama, the prime minister of India Narendra Modi and French François Hollande will present its Mission Innovation: with 17 other countries, the United US, France and India will announce plans to double within five years, 10 billion they spend collectively in research on clean energy.

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“Sisal, paid services exceed gaming and betting” – Reuters

A turning point for Sisal. “For the first time, the main activity of Sisal is no longer that of the gaming and betting but payment services, which at the end year will exceed 50% of gross revenues,” says the managing director, Emilio Petrone. For the rest of this 2015 “is objectively a difficult year,” warns the manager. “On the one hand you bet on innovation and diversification of activities it allows us to be a company that is better than other companies in the sector and continues to grow stronger.” But it is also true that, on the other hand, “the regulatory uncertainty that characterizes the way the gaming industry is regulated in Italy and the constant increase in taxation which we are subjected make company management more difficult and risk ruin these results. ”

Too many taxes, Dr. Petrone?

“The taxation on gaming machines in the past year has been raised and this year , the Stability Law, is expected to further retouching higher. Two increases in two years, compared to those who were the concessions agreed and signed, creating uncertainty. We are an Italian company, but we have to convince our international shareholders that Italy is still a better deal than other countries. ”

How do you handle the situation?

“With innovation and diversification. In the gaming industry it is going well the digital part, where we launched several new online betting, even from smartphones. It has proved successful also opening outlets under direct management. ”

Then there is the other half of the business.

“Since 2008, when I joined the company, we open payment services for bills, car tax, mobile phones and so on. The idea is liked by the consumers as well as centers operated by us, can count on the bars and betting shops. ”

You are more capillaries of Post …

“The post offices are about 12 thousand, we have over 40,000 points which you can access our services. ”

How much is the payment system for you?

“I think that already in 2015 will come from services account for more than 50% turnover. So, already this year can be defined as a company Sisal payments rather than “gaming”. ”

As you evolve your offering?

“There will be new, especially technological, because otherwise we cover already more than 500 services . If anything, we make them more and more extensive and easy to use, extending to the entire network can also pay by debit and credit. As for games, even in this area we are increasingly digital, payments can be made not only in our physical points but directly online, on our website. ”

As you grow up?

“That payment is a huge market of 100 billion euro, of which we will we run short 8. There is more than over 90% of the market that we can win, in a context where banks are decreasing more and more doors in the territory. ”

Are you going to turn you into a bank itself?

“We already have the banking license of first level, like institute payment. We are also regulated by the Bank of Italy. ”

In the future you will develop other banking services, in addition to the payments?

“It’s a possibility, but we have not taken any decision in that sense. ”

Sisal year ago he missed by a whisker the appointment with the stock market it is still an option?

“It’s an examination which it is to our shareholders, rather than to management. ”

We have talked about contacts with Lottomatica for a possible merger. Confirm?

“I prefer not to comment.”

In short, you will participate in industry consolidation?

“This is for sure. In recent years we have made nine acquisitions in a market very pulverized. Our industry will be consolidated, I think it is necessary: ​​there are too many workers, often too small. We continue to evaluate opportunities that gradually appear. ”

Sisal back in profit this year?

“We do not know. In recent months, the sportsbook gave less positive margins in previous months. We’ll see. However we aim to close the year with a turnover of close to 15 billion. ”

The weak are affecting Italian football bets?

“No, if anything the area has become more global. The chances of the game, thanks to digital, have multiplied. ”

What about the football pools?

“It’s a historic game to which we are attached, but if we consider only the volume should be closed . From the set piece ritual Sunday has been transformed into a continuous event, the board, bound to a schedule, has given way to bet. Today will be worth yes and no 0.5% of revenues. Instead another historic game as the Superenalotto is still a very important game. That soon we will relaunch “.

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

The best is yet to come – Il Sole 24 Ore

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Normally, we tend to believe that scientific discoveries represent one of the causes of technological development: when the physics and chemistry better, inventors can design new products and materials. But it is also true: the more scientists are put in conditions to have better tools (the work of skilled craftsmen), the more they can improve their skills, which in turn will lead to other technological advances. This creates a virtuous circle that we need those events miracles, led by technology, they have created the modern economy.

It is not easy to indicate when the virtuous cycle has begun, but there was an event salient in the seventeenth century, when for the first time developed microscopes and telescopes that enabled scientists to see things never seen with the naked eye. The development of the barometer led to the discovery of the atmosphere, which would follow the steam engines (ie, atmospheric). The process accelerated after 1750. Another example: the biggest breakthrough in medicine of the nineteenth century – the discovery that germs cause disease – was made possible by the best microscopes. The modern economic growth would certainly damped, if it were not for the way in which science and technology have been strengthened with each other.

If we think of the tools that we have available today for scientific research, those of Pasteur seem primitive artifacts. It is not just a matter of Information technology or telecommunications. Huge databases are easily available, simulations of quantum chemistry, and highly complex statistical analysis are just some of the tools that the digital age offers science. Digital technology is everywhere, from molecular genetics to nanoscience the research on medieval poetry. Quantum computers, which are also still at an experimental stage, this promise to increase computing power of several orders of magnitude. In some recent work, it is very stressed the importance of the information and communication technology on production and productivity – and indeed it is of great importance. But we must keep in mind, however, that the indirect effects of science on productivity, by means of these search tools, could, in the long term, overshadow the direct effects. An interesting example is the growing use of ultra-powerful computers and software that is radically innovative materials science.

As the science gets in new fields and solves problems that could be solved even imagined, here they are sticking inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs eager to use this new knowledge to invent new gadgets and processes, which will help us continue to improve our lives. The interaction between science and technology is a process self-rafforzantesi, or auto-catalytic, that seems limitless.

Imagine what the next technology to establish themselves is difficult. There is much talk of robots and artificial intelligence: on the one hand offer much promise (who likes making beds?) And on the other are feared as potential “killers” of whole trades. The ICT is a field in which the best is yet to come, and all speak of ” Internet of things “as the next revolution. But perhaps the real news will come from fields ranging less fashionable. Try putting together the new materials with so-called “print” three-dimensional, and the chance of “customization” of mass, a concept for a revolutionary manufacturing has not seen since the industrial revolution. “Nanobombs” that physically penetrate the membranes of bacteria and other cells are the next weapon in the endless war of mankind against microbes, and possibly even cancer. Their progress in a very few had expected was the use of ICT technologies in favor of an increasing rate of utilization of physical assets such as homes and cars, as well as human capital. Companies like Airbnb, Uber, Lift and many more are creating rental markets for goods that were previously unproductive for most of the time. Many of these activities are not “on the horizon” are already with us. The crisis may have put the economy against the wind, but the wind in its sails technology blowing like a tornado.

(…) Why is it so important that technological progress continues? The inhabitants of the industrialized economies are not already rich enough? Why do not we just share our chances with nations less fortunate? Why are we obsessed from acquiring technology, in addition to all that we already have? Not even the most ardent of the techno-enthusiasts would argue that innovation is never just a benefit. The new technologies have disruptive effects on our lives in many ways: they can force people to abandon practices family and comfortable, make talents and tools become obsolete, and have an alienating effect on that part of the population that finds it hard to adapt. The digital divide separates the young and the old, the educated and the uneducated, the rural and urbanized. It makes people miserable, frustrated and disconnected. But we have no other choice but to continue to innovate, technologically. And if we do not, someone else will.



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Mercedes SL, Matrix on the muzzle and sporty look … – La Gazzetta dello Sport

Completely new front of the Mercedes SL that debuts at the Los Angeles (20-29 November). It is a very complex revision that goes with many new mechanical and technological. The new SL is approaching and much in the style of the supercar “star”, the AMG GT. It not by chance is to change the whole grid adopting the new texture Matrix, as well as the full-LED headlights. Changes also to the rear lights, as well as to the bumper and tailpipes.

under the hood – As for the engine range should not change and then propose the 3000 V6 twin turbo 333 hp, 4700 cc V8 twin turbo and 455 hp versions AMG SL 63 with 5500 cc V8 twin turbo 585 hp and SL 65 with 6000 cc V12 twin turbo 630 hp. The new mechanics should be the replacement of the seven-speed automatic with the new 9G-Tronic nine reports that ensure better performance and greater efficiency. The novelty of the passenger instead concentrate sull’infotainment: the new SL receives the Comand last generation, with tablet at the center of the dashboard and the new controller with touch surface on the tunnel. Finally the debut of the new SL in key European markets is planned for the middle of next year.



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Mercedes SL, Matrix on the muzzle and sporty look … – La Gazzetta dello Sport

Completely new front of the Mercedes SL that debuts at the Los Angeles (20-29 November). It is a very complex revision that goes with many new mechanical and technological. The new SL is approaching and much in the style of the supercar “star”, the AMG GT. It not by chance is to change the whole grid adopting the new texture Matrix, as well as the full-LED headlights. Changes also to the rear lights, as well as to the bumper and tailpipes.

under the hood – As for the engine range should not change and then propose the 3000 V6 twin turbo 333 hp, 4700 cc V8 twin turbo and 455 hp versions AMG SL 63 with 5500 cc V8 twin turbo 585 hp and SL 65 with 6000 cc V12 twin turbo 630 hp. The new mechanics should be the replacement of the seven-speed automatic with the new 9G-Tronic nine reports that ensure better performance and greater efficiency. The novelty of the passenger instead concentrate sull’infotainment: the new SL receives the Comand last generation, with tablet at the center of the dashboard and the new controller with touch surface on the tunnel. Finally the debut of the new SL in key European markets is planned for the middle of next year.



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Europe is at war but Italy is neutral: who is wrong? – The Republic

AS PART of a global society in terms of economic and technological However, significant differences remain with regard to politics, culture and the distribution of resources among the various levels of social categories, those who once were called classes. Born from these deep differences of welfare mobility of peoples and the evolution of the birth rate of the different populations.

Politics, culture, mobility of peoples, religions: these are the dynamic factors that drive the planet, which is only right add the need to protect the climate, as we face an ever-increasing pollution of the air we breathe, the winds, the storms and the melting of glaciers.
In this framework explode even wars, one of which is bloodying the West and the Middle East, with peaks in the Maghreb, Arabia, Central Africa, the Philippines, Bangladesh.

We Europeans are in the middle of this war that, despite appearances, It is among civilizations and even of religions. It is a war between fundamentalists and liberals, between classes evolved and suburbs, between wealthy and poor, corrupt and honest and even between young and dissolute young people aware. So is the crisis of an era and is also a global crisis because its fires are scattered across all continents and are intertwined and feed off each other.
Europe is widely devastated by this crisis and the resulting war, fundamentalism and terrorism; to fight in the name of freedom, freedom is also forced to more restrictive limits.

It happened in ancient Rome, when the war was more intense and the outcome uncertain, the consuls were replaced by a dictator with full powers to combat it. We are not in this, but the political powers tend to be concentrated in a few hands and alliances to be led by those who act on the ground and where the war is more intense.

In Europe, at least so far, the tragic theater It takes place in France, in the Middle East in Syria and Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan. The coalition against the Caliphate encompassing not only the West but also Russia and that’s the big news: Putin has as its main interlocutor Hollande, at least in appearance, but in fact Obama is the real party and the role of the French president is to to mediate between the two, in Europe, however, the leaders of this phase is Hollande and the hymn of the Marseillaise war.

This is the situation and made the shape.

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Italy is the only country that, while supporting the need for a grand coalition which also includes Russia refuses to get down on the ground military beyond the commitments already undertaken by time, which consist three Tornado mission almost daily sighting and indicating targets. Three days ago he met at the Elysee Hollande Renzi and they talked for twenty minutes. The French request involves replacing percent military with as many soldiers in the Italian contingent of “blue helmets” of the UN in Lebanon. Renzi has agreed upon the eventual approval of the Parliament and that is all.

Our Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, at a press conference last Friday recalled the traditional Italian politics of the last forty years: we have always maintained a policy of friendship with the Arab world and Iran from the times of Fanfani and Andreotti and it is not our intention to move away from this tradition.

Gentiloni has forgotten or perhaps preferred not to remember a Another character who actually decided our policy towards those countries: Enrico Mattei, president of Eni. It was he who decided our policy in those countries to make use of the oil that was extracted from the wells and made in those countries to facilitate economic and political conditions such as to oust the power hitherto exercised by what were called the “Seven Sisters “American corporations, English, Dutch. Mattei had absolute powers regarding Eni. In Italy he was funding the Christian Democrats but did not neglect the Socialists and even Communists and fascists of the MSI. He decided who was to be appointed Minister of State Participations and it was he who told the minister what he should do, rather than the reverse. Even financed the Algerian national liberation movement by focusing on the fact that at a time when the French were gone from Algeria, the new state would grant Eni the use of oil and gas and building the necessary pipelines to carry the feedstock to refineries Italian Eni. Then Mattei for a plane crash due to bad weather or perhaps to other causes, died. Enemies had only two, the “Seven Sisters” and the Mafia.

These things Gentiloni not know or most probably knows but does not tell her, but our policy in the Middle East can only be explained as well.

However, the current point of view we are essentially irrelevant in the Middle East and we have a large weight in Europe. Renzi claims a role of mediator in Libya to reconcile the various factions fighting. Leon did not succeed after many months of work under the aegis of the UN. It seems unlikely to succeed Renzi.

Allow me now to add my suggestion contained in last Sunday’s against our Prime Minister. I think it should open, after obtaining the necessary permits, the camps on the Libyan coast, where the migrants should be treated with decency and dignity, mobilizing doctors and psychologists and also by initiating rapid recognition of identity and verification of the status of each of the persons hosted by camps: those who invoke the right of asylum and have solid reasons for applying for it may be transferred on the southern coasts of European ships Italian or foreign; others should be repatriated to their home countries where our diplomacy it would return with all the guarantees of the case.

Of course, the relief camps should be militarily defended against possible raids by thieves or troublemakers a military contingent of two or three thousand men, largely sufficient to protect the security.

I also suggested in my article in Renzi’s become a promoter of the transfer of sovereignty to the European authorities of the powers relating to the common defense and foreign policy, similar to transfers of sovereignty already made in economic matters which properly uses the Central Bank, and Mario Draghi, who chairs.

It is highly unlikely that the members of the Union to accept at this time transfers the sovereignty of individual states to a Europe which would thus become increasingly federated than it is now but it is especially unlikely Renzi share this hypothesis because – he thinks – this declasserebbe nation states, depriving them of a very important part of their existing powers. If you think so, and I think that you think, you do not see very far; for Europe to become a global company where federal states have continental dimensions, it means that prefers small states without international weight but where each is master in his own house. Europe would not resist very well done and Italy still less of others but who is “master” at home obeys said “who is content enjoys” (but not the country).

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I conclude with a completely different topic. I saw a few days ago in a private viewing movies very nice and even moving, entitled “Call me Francis” directed by Daniele Luchetti, produced by Valsecchi and as first actors Rodrigo de la Serna and Sergio Hernandez.

The film , which will be in theaters on December 3, recounts the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio in his youth and then maturity, since he was a simple priest then promoted to head the provincial of the Society of Jesus, then coadjutor bishop of Buenos Aires and finally archbishop and Cardinal of Argentina. As he clashed with the dictatorship of Videla, author of horrible crimes and continuous; his love for the poor, his reserve toward priests and theologians of liberation theology, considered para-communist and then excommunicated by Pope John Paul II.

Bergoglio in the film is basically sided with the poor and the dramatic events of this location is the devil Videla from which in every way, even the most dramatic, Bergoglio tries to rescue those who Videla threat. I do not know to what extent corresponds to truth his gap left by the priests; the fact is that a few weeks after Bergoglio became Pope beatified Bishop Romero who was killed while celebrating Mass in the cathedral of San Salvador. Pope John Paul II had expressed this intention but had never implemented; Pope Francis made her immediately and Bishop Romero was certainly a politically left.

Pope Francis will return tomorrow from his African trip, from Kenya to Uganda where he was welcomed by millions of faithful. Reaffirmed once again the spread even widespread corruption and the need to fight even in the Vatican.

This is what the Pope says and he did so in the course of this trip to the existence of a single God and this leads him to fraternize with not only all the various Christian communities but also with Jews and especially with Muslims and to fight against fundamentalism everywhere normally surface, including the Catholic Church.

I think it’s worth emphasizing the ‘ importance of this pontificate and the brotherhood of religions to fight fundamentalism and terrorism that results. The Church of Saint Francis is one of peace, love for the poor, for the excluded and for all the people aware and geared true the good of others. It is the world’s deep sense of the term, and never as in these sad times of a man of this hardening of this authority and the world needed.

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Europe is at war but Italy is neutral: who is wrong? – The Republic

AS PART of a global society in terms of economic and technological However, significant differences remain with regard to politics, culture and the distribution of resources among the various levels of social categories, those who once were called classes. Born from these deep differences of welfare mobility of peoples and the evolution of the birth rate of the different populations.

Politics, culture, mobility of peoples, religions: these are the dynamic factors that drive the planet, which is only right add the need to protect the climate, as we face an ever-increasing pollution of the air we breathe, the winds, the storms and the melting of glaciers.
In this framework explode even wars, one of which is bloodying the West and the Middle East, with peaks in the Maghreb, Arabia, Central Africa, the Philippines, Bangladesh.

We Europeans are in the middle of this war that, despite appearances, It is among civilizations and even of religions. It is a war between fundamentalists and liberals, between classes evolved and suburbs, between wealthy and poor, corrupt and honest and even between young and dissolute young people aware. So is the crisis of an era and is also a global crisis because its fires are scattered across all continents and are intertwined and feed off each other.
Europe is widely devastated by this crisis and the resulting war, fundamentalism and terrorism; to fight in the name of freedom, freedom is also forced to more restrictive limits.

It happened in ancient Rome, when the war was more intense and the outcome uncertain, the consuls were replaced by a dictator with full powers to combat it. We are not in this, but the political powers tend to be concentrated in a few hands and alliances to be led by those who act on the ground and where the war is more intense.

In Europe, at least so far, the tragic theater It takes place in France, in the Middle East in Syria and Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan. The coalition against the Caliphate encompassing not only the West but also Russia and that’s the big news: Putin has as its main interlocutor Hollande, at least in appearance, but in fact Obama is the real party and the role of the French president is to to mediate between the two, in Europe, however, the leaders of this phase is Hollande and the hymn of the Marseillaise war.

This is the situation and made the shape.

* **

Italy is the only country that, while supporting the need for a grand coalition which also includes Russia refuses to get down on the ground military beyond the commitments already undertaken by time, which consist three Tornado mission almost daily sighting and indicating targets. Three days ago he met at the Elysee Hollande Renzi and they talked for twenty minutes. The French request involves replacing percent military with as many soldiers in the Italian contingent of “blue helmets” of the UN in Lebanon. Renzi has agreed upon the eventual approval of the Parliament and that is all.

Our Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, at a press conference last Friday recalled the traditional Italian politics of the last forty years: we have always maintained a policy of friendship with the Arab world and Iran from the times of Fanfani and Andreotti and it is not our intention to move away from this tradition.

Gentiloni has forgotten or perhaps preferred not to remember a Another character who actually decided our policy towards those countries: Enrico Mattei, president of Eni. It was he who decided our policy in those countries to make use of the oil that was extracted from the wells and made in those countries to facilitate economic and political conditions such as to oust the power hitherto exercised by what were called the “Seven Sisters “American corporations, English, Dutch. Mattei had absolute powers regarding Eni. In Italy he was funding the Christian Democrats but did not neglect the Socialists and even Communists and fascists of the MSI. He decided who was to be appointed Minister of State Participations and it was he who told the minister what he should do, rather than the reverse. Even financed the Algerian national liberation movement by focusing on the fact that at a time when the French were gone from Algeria, the new state would grant Eni the use of oil and gas and building the necessary pipelines to carry the feedstock to refineries Italian Eni. Then Mattei for a plane crash due to bad weather or perhaps to other causes, died. Enemies had only two, the “Seven Sisters” and the Mafia.

These things Gentiloni not know or most probably knows but does not tell her, but our policy in the Middle East can only be explained as well.

However, the current point of view we are essentially irrelevant in the Middle East and we have a large weight in Europe. Renzi claims a role of mediator in Libya to reconcile the various factions fighting. Leon did not succeed after many months of work under the aegis of the UN. It seems unlikely to succeed Renzi.

Allow me now to add my suggestion contained in last Sunday’s against our Prime Minister. I think it should open, after obtaining the necessary permits, the camps on the Libyan coast, where the migrants should be treated with decency and dignity, mobilizing doctors and psychologists and also by initiating rapid recognition of identity and verification of the status of each of the persons hosted by camps: those who invoke the right of asylum and have solid reasons for applying for it may be transferred on the southern coasts of European ships Italian or foreign; others should be repatriated to their home countries where our diplomacy it would return with all the guarantees of the case.

Of course, the relief camps should be militarily defended against possible raids by thieves or troublemakers a military contingent of two or three thousand men, largely sufficient to protect the security.

I also suggested in my article in Renzi’s become a promoter of the transfer of sovereignty to the European authorities of the powers relating to the common defense and foreign policy, similar to transfers of sovereignty already made in economic matters which properly uses the Central Bank, and Mario Draghi, who chairs.

It is highly unlikely that the members of the Union to accept at this time transfers the sovereignty of individual states to a Europe which would thus become increasingly federated than it is now but it is especially unlikely Renzi share this hypothesis because – he thinks – this declasserebbe nation states, depriving them of a very important part of their existing powers. If you think so, and I think that you think, you do not see very far; for Europe to become a global company where federal states have continental dimensions, it means that prefers small states without international weight but where each is master in his own house. Europe would not resist very well done and Italy still less of others but who is “master” at home obeys said “who is content enjoys” (but not the country).

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I conclude with a completely different topic. I saw a few days ago in a private viewing movies very nice and even moving, entitled “Call me Francis” directed by Daniele Luchetti, produced by Valsecchi and as first actors Rodrigo de la Serna and Sergio Hernandez.

The film , which will be in theaters on December 3, recounts the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio in his youth and then maturity, since he was a simple priest then promoted to head the provincial of the Society of Jesus, then coadjutor bishop of Buenos Aires and finally archbishop and Cardinal of Argentina. As he clashed with the dictatorship of Videla, author of horrible crimes and continuous; his love for the poor, his reserve toward priests and theologians of liberation theology, considered para-communist and then excommunicated by Pope John Paul II.

Bergoglio in the film is basically sided with the poor and the dramatic events of this location is the devil Videla from which in every way, even the most dramatic, Bergoglio tries to rescue those who Videla threat. I do not know to what extent corresponds to truth his gap left by the priests; the fact is that a few weeks after Bergoglio became Pope beatified Bishop Romero who was killed while celebrating Mass in the cathedral of San Salvador. Pope John Paul II had expressed this intention but had never implemented; Pope Francis made her immediately and Bishop Romero was certainly a politically left.

Pope Francis will return tomorrow from his African trip, from Kenya to Uganda where he was welcomed by millions of faithful. Reaffirmed once again the spread even widespread corruption and the need to fight even in the Vatican.

This is what the Pope says and he did so in the course of this trip to the existence of a single God and this leads him to fraternize with not only all the various Christian communities but also with Jews and especially with Muslims and to fight against fundamentalism everywhere normally surface, including the Catholic Church.

I think it’s worth emphasizing the ‘ importance of this pontificate and the brotherhood of religions to fight fundamentalism and terrorism that results. The Church of Saint Francis is one of peace, love for the poor, for the excluded and for all the people aware and geared true the good of others. It is the world’s deep sense of the term, and never as in these sad times of a man of this hardening of this authority and the world needed.

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BeeMood, a new app to exchange experiences – Gazzetta di Reggio

REGGIO EMILIA. Born in Reggio Emilia the app that allows you to meet supply and demand for odd jobs: babysitting, lessons, moving, shopping or cook at home, and more. Based on the philosophy of sharing opinions and reviews permits, such as the most popular app airbnb or blah blah car, it offers the chance to review the online users and create a trusted environment thanks to the same group of participants. The app called BeeMood and is the brainchild of a student of literature and philosophy of Reggio Emilia, Cecilia Ferrari.

Cecilia draws the project and meets the confidence of the Chamber of Commerce that it provides a useful first funding the development of a first realease of the app and the first launch in the city of Reggio Emilia. The idea of ​​Cecilia was born in front of some practical needs, such as finding a babysitter trusted by his sister, or the will to impart lessons to support his studies. “Our mission – says Cecilia Ferrari – is to give the opportunity to a wide set of people to contact connecting people and experiences.”

The app is available for free is paid from the moment when the user decides that he has an economic value and can give him the same economic value as it considers just.

The name BeeMood was inspired both by the extraordinary industriousness of the bees, and by the fact that this industry is in favor of the development of the community of which they are part. The logo has been structured as a hexagon, which takes the shape of a beehive, but it hides a deeper meaning: just as the sides of the hexagon that are all the same but equally necessary to the figure, BeeMood part by equal opportunity and meritocracy; all users have the same opportunity to demonstrate their skills without favoritism construed as advertising opportunities or affordability of contacts and more; you can emerge high on the list of research only through user evaluation. The app was created as a means to allow people to find the point of reference they are looking for and that person to do that kind of experience required in many other works. “Everyone is looking for experience and no one is willing to let it get to do – says Cecilia – through BeeMood try to give an answer to this problem.”

Reggio Emilia has been chosen as the city adapts to the launch of the app, not only for the origin of Cecilia, creator of the project, but because sull’operosità of this city, on the care which puts the technological innovations you think would find a consumer reactive and proactive. For more information on the operation of the app, please visit the website www.beemood.it.

But look more closely at how the idea of ​​this app. Cecilia Ferrari is a girl of 26 years with five grandchildren, a dog and, in short, a degree in philosophy. From student away from home living the difficulties that arise when you have to balance family, study, work, sports and entertainment, and so, to find a solution and make things easier, it begins to design and implement this project. “Gaining giving private lessons – he explains – taking a walk the neighbor’s dog or doing babysitting are just some of the possibilities that offers BeeMood, the main purpose is to give importance to you and to your time.” “My intenzione- continues – is not to create a new form of social recruitment agency but, with all the effort possible, meant to produce a practical tool to enable young people to get involved in the easiest way possible, increasing their skills and allowing them to compete with their actual ability and aptitude. “

Cecilia firmly believes that success is given” by knowing how to add value to the people you work for, because if you add value, if you are helpful, if you contribute to improve results can hardly do without you, and experience after experience your competence will grow. ”

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Count down to launch Vega, the Avio: “It ‘a historic turning point” – Adnkronos

  sixth flight for the European launcher Vega . The carrier, almost all based on Italian technology, will start next Wednesday, December 2 , at 05.00 am (Italian time) from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana . Vega will bring the satellite into orbit the European satellite Elisa Pathfinder, ESA’s first observatory dedicated to the study of gravitational waves, a scientific mission based on the theory of relativity of Einstein. But not only. It this launch “marks a historic shift Vega” underlines the CEO of Avio, Ranzo Julius, interviewed dall’Adnkronos.

  This launch of Vega , the last contract Verta (Vega Research Technology Accompainment fans) because the next flights will be of a commercial nature, marks a change of pace “because the space activity acquires Italian an additional thickness “, reinforcing” the excellence that already expressed both in the ground and in the pitchers’ remarks Ranzo, leading the joint venture (81% Finmeccanica Cinven 14% Top management 5%) by 2 October last year.

 And it’s Avio Group and realizes the Vega , in which the subsidiary ELV (30% owned by the Italian Space) is prime , to allow it to be present in the few countries in the world capable of producing a complete spacecraft. “The ability to make the prime contractor, that is driving the launch capability, and it means the possibility of access to space, it is a catalyst for growth” technological and economic Italian, comments Ranzo. Why, he notes, “Vega drags the opportunity to develop other skills that gradually are making it necessary” in space.

 Avio is focusing a lot on the Vega and the pitcher is growing. The ESA’s decision to use the same engine, the P120C, for both the Vega C, new generation of leading European launcher orbiting small loads, that for the future Ariane 6 , is a key decision, because, explains Ranzo, “is a testament to the fact that the technology developed for Vega is absolutely excellent.” The point of being “a cornerstone -spiega- to create a successor product of the Ariane 5, Ariane 6, since the new element of the next generation of these pitchers are our booster.”

 For this, Avio has just opened at the plant in Colleferro the yards in the new industrial plants that will be used to working launchers Ariane and Vega C 6, supporting an investment of 35 million euro by 2019, funds “partly private and partly public, as typical in our industry,” said the number one company. Vega, therefore, allows you to look “more optimism and pride to the development of the space industry and Italian Avio”.

 “But then -avverte Ranzo- we also put a lot of tenacity because we have to keep the conquered positions , positions that do not remain forever given the great international competition.” There are many people, admits the manger, that “envy us this position and would like to capture it. So now that we have won the leadership in launchers, we like Italy, at the institutional level, defend, promote and export it around the world in all its dimensions: from commercial relations with foreign countries “.

 The Vega , in fact, in his next seven flights will allow at least six different countries to access space . Countries like Vietnam, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Peru, Turkey. “Scenario that opens up possibilities for strategic relations to Italy, according to Ranzo. And,” more surprisingly, the CEO of -stresses Avio- in this squad there are also the United States. “The US” are certainly a country with no technological resources, yet one of the company Google, Skybox Imaging “, founded as Silicon Valley startup and specializes in the collection of images of the Earth from space, ” decided to put in orbit satellites using its own Vega “.

 Element indicates Ranzo, “quite extraordinary”. Not only. Vega “is a tool, not a means, not an end, but a means to accelerate the process of technological growth” Italian. It also in terms of the fight against international terrorism, the European launcher made in Italy, which leads in low orbit satellites also can realize high-definition images of the Earth, shows “a capacity that “can also be used for purposes of military and intelligence.”

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Lumiere: the lights and shadows of San Gimignano – The Citizen online

San Gimignano. Lumière tells a dreamlike view of the city through the suggestions created by the lights and shadows, in contrast, reveal a city dream and dreamer, reaching out to new technological and artistic. The streets and squares will be pervaded by the night sounds of the forest floor, strange figures protrude from the windows or backyards of homes, leaving the visitors a sense of indefiniteness, between imagination and reality, suspended.

The Cathedral will stage two performances of live art Andrea Montagnani will show a work of interpretation of medieval miniatures linked to the cycle of the months and the seasons, thanks to a visual map and Alessio Trillini (aka Alt ) illustrate the sonnets of Folgore from San Gimignano recited by a narrator, with the art of light drawing .

St. Augustine’s Square will be dedicated to children , which will show their natural creativity in enchanted forest and characters that inhabit it , recreated games between light and shadow. The enchanted forest and many of the effects along the way will be made by the lighting designer Claudia Tabbi .

Sunday, December 6 to 19 The church of St. Augustine notes reverberate with Christmas Lux Nativitas a concert by the polyphonic choirs Senesi and the Polyphonic Choir of San Gimignano and directed by Raffaele Puccianti Antonio Morelli .

September photographic light brushstroke and Raft of Medusa of Thèodore Géricault sprout from various points of the city and will be the exclusive location of second edition of the talent show on photography Ph Contest . The format, directed by Mauritius Panicucci , starring the photographers will compete shots of image in a competition based on light and shadow and exceptionally for the event will involve photography enthusiasts, bringing them closer to the technique of light brush stroke.

The play of light and shade offered by Lumiere transform San Gimignano in a film set night: during the event, the director Paul Welcome students Film Production Laboratory of the University of Florence will resume some moments of the event to turn a documentary film of San Gimignano.

The event is part of the series of events “It happens in the winter” and San Gimignano is made by the CCA and sponsored by the City of San Gimignano with the contribution of Estra : input gratuito.

The program Lumière 2015:

Port St. Matthew and the Porta San Giovanni The city gates will be the doors of perception that lead you from light to the darkness, and from there, to dream. Some silhouettes signal the entry into the world of light and shadows, immersed in light and fog. The streets will be covered with a black carpet and along the way you’ll meet natural shadows and strange figures, the night sounds of the forest floor will keep you entertained in the indefiniteness between imagination and reality, suspended.

Via San Giovanni A moonlight will accompany the photographic sets prepared at the church of San Francesco. Looking up at the tower and the arch of Cugnanesi Becci, you’ll notice the shadows that will spy.

Piazza della Cisterna A light will invest well, revealing an interpretation of the Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, the set of Ph Contest, and will cast shadows on the Devil’s Tower.

Piazza del Duomo The facade of the cathedral will be interpreted with the visual map Andrea Montagnani and performance light drawing Alessio Trillini. In the background, the narrator of the sonnets of Folgore from San Gimignano and the sweet sounds of a flute.

Piazza delle Erbe The square in front of the Cathedral will host a magic lantern, the matrix of all modern narratives.

Via San Matteo How to Via San Giovanni, you will find photo shoots positioned in front of the church of St. Bartolo and Don Grassini in the square just before the Porta San Matteo.

Piazza Sant’Agostino The square will the place of fantasy and fun for the kids with an enchanted forest and the characters that inhabit it, especially at night.

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Audi RS6 Avant and RS7 Sportback performance: expressions of … – Motorionline

Mariano German

Audi RS6 Avant and RS7 Sportback performance – Versions more performance of bulky sedans of the Rings back protagonists in new video focusing on forms and stylistic details

Avant Audi RS6 and RS7 Sportback performance: expressions of power to large [VIDEO]

Audi RS6 Avant performance

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After the debut took place recently at the Los Angeles Motor Show 2015 , the lines sharp and gritty details of Audi RS6 Avant and RS7 Sportback , version performance , appearing in two other movies that mark the aesthetic details and the nature of performance.

Already proposed in the German market, talking of figures for ‘ Audi RS6 Avant Performance is part of 117,000 euros, while a’ Audi RS7 Sportback Performance from 121,700 euros, according to the directions.
versions feature a gritty style enriched by glossy black finish on the front grille, air vents slightly bulkier and a new rear diffuser design more pronounced . The RS6 Avant performance in the video always covered by a sparkling red, while the Blue Ascari who wears the livery of the broader performance RS7 Sportback is another of the new products, entered by now in the range colors . Moving on to the passenger, as well as inserts in carbon fiber, Alcantara and technological devices of quality, you notice peculiar RS sports seats .

The most significant increase of power registered by V8 4.0-liter TFSI, under the hood of two cars . The massive metallic heart are that were added 45 horses, allowing an increase in the thrust of 605 horsepower and reaching that of the Audi S8 Plus , the most powerful version of the flagship of Ingolstadt.
Of Consequently, the ncremento power allows Audi RS6 Avant and performance RS7 Sportback performance touch to steady 100 km / h in 3.7 seconds and reach 305 km / h top speed . In addition, both models performance adopt a variant of the advanced Tiptronic eight-speed, rear sport differential with active torque split, adaptive air suspension and braking systems can be enriched with carbon brake discs -ceramici and aggressive 21-inch alloy wheels for 285/30 tires, in the case of the RS 6 Avant, and 275/30, if we talk about the RS7 Sportback .

Video : via YouCar

28th November, 2015

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We enter the season of making the agenda here is because – Digital Agenda

Alessandro Perego, Scouts Digital Innovation

 Thursday we presented the results of the Research Observatory Digital Agenda and we were able to take stock of the implementation of the Digital Italian along with many representatives of policy, institutions, businesses and public administrations. It showed a picture of lights and shadows, in which compared with results that are slow to arrive, you can look to the future with positivity digital of our country.

 If we will just look at the results it seems that Italy is increasingly relegated to a marginal role in Eastern digital counts. Only 23% of the Italian population using eGovernment services against the European average of 47%. Only 5.3% of our online business sells its products against 15.1% of the European average. Only 47% of Italians have digital skills base while in Europe the figure rises to 59%. Considering these numbers is not surprising that the DESI – the indicator introduced in June by the European Commission to measure the status of implementation of AD – positions us in 25th place, ahead of only Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.

  An analysis of the digital environment Italian last year, however, we find a number of important innovations that make us hope for a breakthrough digital country. First of all we have a strategy. Although not without its shortcomings, the plan of Digital Growth – drawn dall’AgID March – has the advantage of drawing a path for the digitization of the country which defines the objectives to be achieved, the critical aspects to be safeguarded, the timing reference and the resources necessary for implementation. Even the approval of plans on ultra wide band and the digital competences they can frame between the initiatives undertaken in the last year to clarify the implementation of the Digital Strategy.

  Another positive factor is the strong focus on effective “execution” i mpresso all’AgID by its new director. Took office in May, Antonio Samaritans identified in Italy Log catalyst project that will serve as the frame of reference to the whole national digitization strategy and decided to focus his attention on some key projects: SPID, Single Register, Electronic Payments, Open date, Digital competence and guidelines of websites for the PA. The premises are good to get the same results as part of e-invoicing, where over 20 million bills are passed through the system Interchange from March 31 (date of the obligation of electronic invoicing to all PA) to October 31.

  At local level there is a significant ferment. Half of the Italian Regions appointed a contact person for the implementation of the Digital and almost all had already developed or is in the pipeline in the production of documents which explain the strategies and priorities of digitization. In March, the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces then set up the Special Commission Digital Agenda, which is the political interface unique, strong and unified between the regions and all other stakeholders concerned with the Digital Agenda, with the tasks of decline locally the national strategy, suggest priorities for action shared and coordinate the implementation processes of regional Digital Agenda.

 Last year, Europe has adopted almost all the national and regional operational programs through which the central and local PA have negotiated the availability to the structural funds of the new programming framework. This means that they are now finally available many resources with which to support the interventions planned digitization of both central and local levels. Our research reveals a good availability for businesses, thanks to the many calls for funding launched by the Government to which you can nominate digitization initiatives.

  The collaboration between public and private is then finally back to the center of the debate among the experts due to the revision of the procurement code and the transposition of European directives that frame public procurement as a powerful policy lever economic and industrial. Once adopted, the guidelines could give a new impetus to the simplification and transparency of procedures for the award of public contracts, making compatible the time of procurement processes with those of technological change.

 They seem muted the concerns of public spending cuts in digital technologies provided in the first draft of the financial statement at the end of October by the Government. The passage in the Senate has meant that the cuts were to be implemented only to current expenditures, spreading them over the three years 2016-2018 and retrieved using the resources to invest in technological innovation. It seems you want to go in the direction of a much-desired redevelopment of ICT expenditure of the PA rather than a mere rationalization. I am confident that the parliamentary debate of recent weeks confirm these trends.

 Positive signals are also coming from the recovery of investments in digital by the private sector. After years of great difficulty, the demand has started to grow, with an increase of 1.1% expected by the end of 2015 (data Assinform). To drive this change are the most innovative and emerging segments like the Internet of Things, Cloud and Analytics that – according to data of the observers – grow by at least 15%, offsetting the decline in structural more traditional segments.

  In summary, the past 12 months have been quite turbulent and rich of news for the Italian Digital Agenda. Although there is not yet a quantum leap forward in terms of effective implementation, are certainly many foundations were laid to fill, at least in part, the differences that separate us from countries that are a point of reference in Europe. New strategic plans with specific objectives and clear priorities, a strong orientation to the implementation dell’AgID, enabling projects, a renewed governance by new mechanisms of coordination between the center and periphery, European resources finally be used, a new framework for public procurement and a digital market that started to grow after years of compression. They are all extremely favorable conditions that were unthinkable just last year.

 Just in these conditions renovated the title alludes Research that we presented on Thursday 26 in Rome: there are no more excuses to make. This is demonstrated by the analysis of more than 100 digital innovation initiatives that have applied to the “ Awards Digital Agenda ” proposed this year by the Observatory. Examples of success are there. What is lacking is awareness, adequate levels of collaboration between public and private, solid skills and – above all – such instruments should finish the implementation of the Digital Agenda, translating strategies into measurable results. It is in this spirit that the Observatory, in this year of research, is committed to develop evidence, models, tools and proposals to facilitate and accompany the most of the digital transformation of our country. In the coming weeks we will provide some of the principal results.

 We are more convinced than ever that every actor-us included- should accompany the complaint right obstacles and delays, initiatives and concrete proposals. The Digital Agenda can then pass from the definition phase of the plans to that of their execution.

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Friday, November 27, 2015

All saved by zombies – the poster (Registration)

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poster (Record) The main News – concerning campaign and multiplayer – relate to upgrades of super soldiers. … Episode and the shambles created worldwide by the super terrorist Raoul Menendez, in a planet where the coalition defense

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