weather warning for the Earth. NASA: record heat, so never in a thousand years – diregiovani

Many of us will remember him or her for the candy at the end of visit or even for tears before entering the mysterious room, regardless of the memory or experience every child, from birth, he must have his pediatrician to access all the services and benefits offered by the national health Service (NHS), including the basic levels of care.

the pediatrician , also known pediatrician, is the doctor in charge of child protection, developmental and adolescence. Pediatricians are in fact involved in the prevention, care and rehabilitation of children and young people between 0 and 14 years.

The current agreement provides, from a purely formal point of view, the child from birth to 6 years to be followed by a pediatrician, while 6 to 14 can be followed both by the pediatrician that the general practitioner who takes care of adults. After 14 years there is the obligatory passage to the general practitioner, except in special cases such as those with chronic illnesses, which can remain under the care of a pediatrician up to 16 years.

few years is increasingly claiming the figure of the ‘ Adolescentologo , or your doctor adolescents. It is a pediatrician who has done further specialization on the age group ranging from 12 to 18/21 years. This is a very delicate period in which mind and body through major changes. The adolescentologo takes into account all the factors, both clinical and personal, collects all the problems related to age, with no overlap with the role of the psychologist.

The pediatrician, the adolescentologo and GP (also called GP) know well our health, and when the need arises, guide us in the whole course of treatment within the national community health system structures. Also interested to adhere to national prevention and health promotion campaigns.

You can contact one of these medical figures whenever you are living hardships that affect our health: specific pains or General that persist for a few days, or if the pain resulting from trauma; before taking new drugs; continuous fever or persistent; headache or dizziness, etc. In short, in all those cases in which the body sends signals of discomfort of concern and need further study.

More specifically, the pediatrician or family doctor provide the following services:

– medical outpatient and home visit;
– prescription medications, requests for specialist examinations and diagnostic tests both instrumental and laboratory (through the so-called difficult or red recipe);
– proposals for hospitalization;
– proposals for alternative home care to hospitalization;
– free release of the following medical certificates provided by the national agreement: readmission to school certificates, proof of eligibility for the performance of non-competitive sports activities both in schools, certificates for the workers of the disease.

It may be useful to know that, if for reasons of work or study you live in a city other than residence (for a period ranging from a minimum of three months to a maximum of one year), you can get through the ASL temporary assignment of a family doctor and, at the end of the period, to renew the request.

Finally, it seems important to remember that the primary care physician should be someone you trust to trust and with whom you can speak freely of difficulty, eating habits, lifestyle and everything that can help in ‘ history, in the tranquility of the doctor-patient relationship that is covered by professional secrecy.

If you need more information and clarification, please write to esperti@diregiovani.it

MyTaxi, the network goes global with Google Maps – The Republic

Now myTaxi, the most important European App taxi via smartphone called, will be integrated into Google Maps on mobile devices even in Italy, Poland and Austria. But as
It will operate the new service? If a user of Google Maps on mobile devices, decides, then, to take a taxi and has already downloaded the app on her smartphone myTaxi, Google Maps for mobile will direct them directly to the App myTaxi, which can easily order their vehicles. If, however, you have not yet downloaded the app, it will be directed to Google Play or the Apple Store, where you can download it for free. The integration of myTaxi in Google Maps for mobile devices will, in fact, now available for both Android users and iOS users.

“With the integration of myTaxi in Google Maps on mobile devices, users have Italians now another opportunity to easily get from a to B, “says Barbara Covili, General Manager of myTaxi Italy. “We are very pleased that Google has chosen myTaxi as a partner of the” taxi “world in Italy, as well as in Poland and Austria, where the integration is always launched today, adding to Germany and Spain, where it was launched last March, proving a great success. The integration marks an important step forward for the public transport service non-scheduled, which now becomes an integral part of the travel options of millions of Google Maps users throughout Europe. More and more passengers recognize, in fact, the benefits of the App myTaxi, that with one click allows you to order and pay for a cab no longer need to phone waits or cash. “
Founded in Hamburg in 2009 by Niclaus Mewes and Sven Külper, myTaxi has revolutionized the taxi industry, renewing it at the international level and adapt it to the 21st century needs. myTaxi works exclusively with licensed taxi drivers, integrating the potential of new technologies with the taxi industry tradition, and proving that you can be innovative within the rules and laws. MyTaxi in 2014 was acquired by Daimler AG.

Trenitalia on Google Maps, timetables and fares at last – Tom’s Hardware

From now on, to learn about times smartphones and sections of Trenitalia be able to assist Transit: , the tool to learn about timetables and public transport links integrated into Google Maps. In making the announcement was the same Trenitalia with a press release.

 
 

Travelers will be able to access through Google to the latest information for all routes served by Trenitalia , the railway company of the Italian FS Group, in a simple and quick both from PC and smartphone .

 
 
 
 

To view the results just introducing a point of departure and one arrival and on Google Maps: in addition to the usual icons for directions, we will also find those concerning railway stations and the Italian FS Group’s media, with lots of possibilities pass from information on the trip when buying a ticket through links. Also very high level of detail, which even include links to the public transport in urban areas.

 
 

According to Barbara Morgante, managing director of Trenitalia, the new initiative is an advance of “future strategic guidelines on the Italian FS Group digitization policies more geared to innovative multi-modal journey planning solutions. The cooperation with Google gives a further impetus to the Trenitalia policy that looks more and more attention to foreign markets and enhance the quality of our services, starting with the Frecciarossa to get to the regional trains, which are improving from month to month, in terms of comfort and reliability. ”

Apple, one that does not say Cook and his signature on agreements – The Republic

MILAN – It rails against Europe, just consider the taxes paid (or unpaid) in Ireland and the few who still paid In the USA. It recognizes that the mind of the group with his inventions is that here in California and who benefits and any tax levies. Tim Cook relies on a letter all his disappointment with the EU asks 13 billion in back taxes. It advances the credit for what Apple has done in Europe and in Ireland. Speaks in general of the group, the Irish and European subsidiaries, employees who work in Cork, but forgets to mention two Irish companies, Apple Operations International (Aoi) who brokered for Apple Inc sales in America and Apple Sales International (ASI), which handled the sale of the products in Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, Asia and the Pacific. And are the Americans themselves (mind you not the European Commissioners) in the survey report of the Permanent subcommitte on investigation (PSI) of the US Senate, entitled “Offshore Profit Shifting and the Us tax code”, dated May 21, 2013 to denounce what are the Aoi and Asi.
It ‘s true, as claimed by Cook in his letter, that Apple has opened up several companies in Ireland and in different historical periods has also created jobs. The Irish companies were incorporated in the Eighties and initially were really the headquarters of the group’s production. But what Cook does not say is that as a result of the crisis of the nineties, Apple has moved production to China, while maintaining the same corporate structure to take advantage of the related tax benefits. It is no coincidence that Cook did not even speak of Aoi, for example, the holding company that owns many foreign affiliates of the group and through which pass all receipts Use: Built-branch under the Irish legislation in 1980 , while sharing the same address in Cork of many other companies in the group, has not here or anywhere else in Ireland no physical presence.

Furthermore, the Aoi since its landing in Ireland, more than 30 years ago “does not never had no employees, “write the investigators Use citing the interrogation of one of its directors Cathy Kearney (occurred on April 19, 2013). At the time of the survey, the Aoi was staffed by two employees, both of California’s Apple Inc, Gene Levoff and Gary Wipfler, who lived in California, and covered the same role as directors for countless other companies of the group, and an Irish, Cathy Kearney fact, however, assumed by another company of the Apple (the Adi with the vice president of qualifying for European operations).
meetings of the Board of Aoi have always been held in the United States: ” of the 33 meetings held – the report says – between the years 2006 and 2012, as many as 32 were made at Cupertino and Kearney has participated in only 7 of these, 6 of which intervened by phone. ” Apple itself has stated that for Aoi did not exist or personal bank accounts in Ireland. Yet Aoi, by admission of Apple, received between 2009 and 2012, 29.9 billion dollars in dividends from the foreign network of the operating companies of Apple.
The US Senate report ( on page 23) reveals using the same Apple statements, as they are misleading the words of Cook: “the Apple explained that, although Aoi is incorporated in Ireland since 1980, has never declared to be resident in Ireland or in any other country, so that he never paid no tax of any national government in the last five years “. The company has been able to do this because in Ireland has declared that it was a company under control of an Irish mother company and the US said instead of not being a company incorporated under US law. In the same
condition of Aoi, no tax residence and no employees, there was also the Apple Sales International (ASI), the management of which has been active in the same Tim Cook, signing a cost-sharing agreement with Apple Inc. So if you true that by 60 employees of Cork in the 80′s it has come to 6 thousand people in Ireland, why not talk then of what job they have done the Irish Aoi and Asi and their weight in terms of personnel? An obscure work but brought into the spotlight by the Commission of the Senate she, like the EU, to the hunting of money escaped from Apple. Today, thanks to aggressive tax planning, in the group’s coffers are nearly $ 230 billion, many of them in offshore safes. And before which pales the request for 13 billion euro from the European Commission.

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Russian researchers capture mysterious signal from a star 95 light years from Earth – The Messenger

In the 70 A Come Andromeda , the television series adapted from a story by Fred Hoyle, was able to stick to the television screen 17 million viewers. But if the news of a mysterious signal coming from a star 95 light-years away were true, then the “viewers” of this unusual remake could be billions. But first things first.

THE DISCOVERY MADE IN RUSSIA

 The discovery of the signal is about one year ago, on May 15, and the “transmission” seems to indicate how provernienza the star HD 164595, a star that is nearly 100 light years away in the constellation of Hercules characteristics similar to our sun. A honest, it must be said that this is not a mysterious celestial body as Kepler, a space telescope to hunt for exoplanets, he has already revealed in its vicinity a planet the size of Uranus. but there’s more. Scientists believe the planet is part of a larger system and consider it likely that there are other planets in a rocky, like our Earth, the so-called habitable range. To receive the signal were Russian scientists working at the largest radiotelescope Ratan-600 Caucasus Mountains.

(The Russian radio telescope RATAN-600 on the Caucasus mountains)

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

 The Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is very interested in the news since the purpose for which it was created, but we go with feet of lead. Some years ago another signal had given hope that there might be someone there, but then the message analyzed at Arecibo in 2004 had proved a false alarm. “The signal detected by the Russians -Enter the technical explanation from their profile Fb Massimo Teodorani, INAF astronomer who was in the Seti project at the observatory of Medicine in Bologna-, is distributed over a very wide frequency band, a billion times wider bandwidth typically used by the SETI project in the Western world, so the signal, with all its harmonics, would be diluted and would look very weak. After the technical ad is these days for the Allen Telescope Array American astronomers (ATA) were immediately put to work for groped to confirm the signal found by the Russians. And then, since they work in very narrow band, they will have to scan a very wide range of frequencies to hope to find the signal of a specific radio band: for this reason the signal may be less weak to what appeared to RATAN-600. For now, the American astronomers can not confirm anything, and it will take a lot more work to cover 1 GHz bandwidth. “

THE TWO POSSIBILITY ‘

 “If the signal was confirmed -continuous Teodorani- that does not mean that this should necessarily be a SETI signal type. According to Seth Shostak, a spokesman for the American SETI, the signal may also be due to the “gravitational microlensing” phenomenon that amplifies very occasionally a signal (radio in this case) because of the relativistic distortion of light by a gravitational field, or it could be due to mere electromagnetic interference caused by us. So there are many problems to solve before saying the last word should be established two things: to confirm the signal; establish what exactly causes it. “

IF IT WERE REALLY ET?

 Professor Teodorani also analyzes the most amazing possibility, namely that we can really deal with a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization. “If indeed it were an intelligent signal -sintetizza still prof-, then there would be two more chances. If the signal is intentional and a targeted sent to our solar system then it would be from a Type I civilization (of a little more advanced than ours). While if the signal is non-intentional, that is part of a “broadcasting” which sends signals in all directions, then it would be from a civilization of Type II (able to harness the energy of their star). In fact the amount of energy that a hypothetical extraterrestrial civilization would place it identifies the kinds of increasing energy going to the Type I to Type III. Finally, to obtain a final confirmation of an intelligent extraterrestrial signal is essential that more radio telescopes located in different parts of the world they give confirmation and not one only, and that the signal is more or less persistent over time. A received signal only for a short time should be discarded. “

(The graph of the signal received by the radio telescope Ratan 600

 15 May 2015)

THE SUMMIT OF ASTRONAUTICS IN MEXICO

 Of this and other outstanding issues will be discussed on September 27 at the International Astronautics Congress to be held in Mexico, in the city of Guadalajara. The scientific program of the meeting is really full of initiatives. Among the many also one concerning the patron of Tesla and Space X, Elon Musk. The entrepreneur of South African origins will also speak of his most ambitious project: the colonization of Mars which will start after 2025.

STELIO Montebugnoli, MEMBER OF ITALY SETI

 Professor Stelio Montebugnoli is a veteran of Seti. For some time now he’s retired, but his passion looking for “interesting” signals, as he calls them, still more than before. “Meanwhile, we say that the signal must be reconfirmed explains the radiastronomo-, considering the fact that our Russian colleagues I have never picked up, you have to go with feet of lead. Currently there are several hypotheses, repeat assumptions, such as that of signals from satellites in orbit or travel to different planets of the Solar System. I repeat, we are still in the study phase and should never making mistakes as in the past. Besides, it is not even said that the signal arrives from that star, it could come from a star that is in the same direction but behind HD 164595, or in its immediate vicinity. In short, concluded Montebugnoli- expect any confirmation. “

WAITING AND SUSPENSE

 At this point there is nothing left to do but wait, if the proviente signal from the star in the constellation of Hercules actually has an intelligent origin, it must be verified in a capillary and precise. Moreover, the so-called Tabby star, the one on which system someone has ipoptizzato the existence of a civilization, is still under examination. But the horizons are expanded and there are many who believe that sooner or later the confirmation of alien intelligence is near.

THE planetary scientist MARCHIS: EYE THAT ARE THE SIGNAL OF A MICROWAVE OVEN

 But the case there are some who throw water on the fire as in the case of Franck Marchis, planetary scientist and member of the Seti Institute. He says: “The signal was detected in May 2015 and has not been repeated since. Unfortunately, although the international protocols require to alert the astronomical community for the detection of a mysterious signal, the russii have chosen not to. The signal was detected by a dedicated antenna but it could be an error-continuous Marchis-, the pointing quality is uncertain and then you might have caught what we call a false “parasitic signal. HD 164595, the host star is very similar to the sun (the same color, size and age). and ‘ninety light years from Earth and has a known planet HD164595 B, which is probably similar to our Neptune. orbit very close to its star every forty days. For now, however, an Earth-like planet around this star, and I do not think there’s one we have not yet identified. this is what the current theories on the formation of planetary systems are telling us. But there is no reason why life could not exist on the giant planet satellites present in the star system, but for now these are pure speculation. Finally, concluded ironically Marchis-, before being too excited, it should be mentioned the case happened in 2015 at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. In that case, the signal did not come from 95 light years, bensìda a nearby microwave oven whose door had been opened by astronomers. “

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Weather, Tuesday yellow alert on all Liguria – Il Secolo XIX

 

 Map Lookout, on the whole Liguria

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Genoa – the Civil Protection of the Liguria , based on the latest assessments carried out by the Center Weather dell’Arpal, has issued Alert yellow (lowest) to time throughout the country 5am ​​this morning at 18 tomorrow.

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As explained, “on the Riviera is incoming rapidly progressed determined by the approach of a frontal system coming from west. Showers and thunderstorms, with a low probability of strong phenomena, is already manifest from Monday evening to Tuesday to bringing conditions of marked instability on all areas , with a high probability of severe thunderstorms. The instability, that is, the possible occurrence of storms, could manifest itself until the early hours of Wednesday. “

In detail:” From the first hours of the day and until the afternoon of marked instability, with high chance of severe thunderstorms on all areas; temporary wind bracing. ” Finally, Wednesday August 31 : “In the early hours of the day, residual instability with possible, isolated phenomena thunder.”

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Weather, Tuesday yellow alert on all Liguria – Il Secolo XIX

 

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Genoa – the Civil Protection of the Liguria , based on the latest assessments carried out by the Center Weather dell’Arpal, has issued Alert yellow (lowest) to time throughout the country 5am ​​this morning at 18 tomorrow.

| The forecast of Secolo XIX |

As explained, “on the Riviera is incoming rapidly progressed determined by the approach of a frontal system coming from west. Showers and thunderstorms, with a low probability of strong phenomena, is already manifest from Monday evening to Tuesday to bringing conditions of marked instability on all areas , with a high probability of severe thunderstorms. The instability, that is, the possible occurrence of storms, could manifest itself until the early hours of Wednesday. “

In detail:” From the first hours of the day and until the afternoon of marked instability, with high chance of severe thunderstorms on all areas; temporary wind bracing. ” Finally, Wednesday August 31 : “In the early hours of the day, residual instability with possible, isolated phenomena thunder.”

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7 iPhone: Apple confirms September 7 – Webnews

The long-awaited moment is coming. In late yesterday evening, in fact, Apple has officially announced his now traditional Event in September , one usually dedicated to the news on the front of the smartphone. Arriving there may be iPhone 7 , although some analysts say the iPhone convinced 6SE for the choice of the name, given the small aesthetic differences with the predecessor iPhone 6S. Few signs emerged from the invitation, characterized by colored circles on a black background, in perfect bokeh style.

As already happened last year, and also to the recent launch of the WWDC event, Apple has chosen again the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium San Francisco for the presentation of new devices. The event will be held at 10 am on September 7 , then at 19 the Italian zone. The invitation, sent yesterday evening to some US newspapers, shows a color bokeh effect on a black background, with the addition of the slogan “ See you on the 7th “, or “I’ll see the 7. “

Not too many surprises, this event will of course be related to the news on the front of the smartphone, with the launch of the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 6SE if you prefer. The device will probably be presented in the now classic options of 4.7 and 5.5 inches, while the aesthetic opposite seems to be no very great change compared to the iPhone 6S: Apparently, in fact, that the dimensions remain the same, with a modification of the rear bars to the division of antennas, so that they are less bulky. This is referred to the elimination of the classic headphone jack with an audio routed to the Lightning port, and two pair of waterproof speakers, as well as new technologies for Touch ID. In terms of cameras, there were details about the 12 megapixels for the back lens with renewed shutter and aperture value. The high-end versions of the iPhone 7 Plus, however, could see the introduction of a dual camera, for 12 megapixel granted to each goal.

It is not known, however if Apple intends to present other products, such as the second edition of Apple Watch. There will certainly software updates, however, with the availability of the final version of iOS 10 OS and watch, while for MacOS Sierra must probably wait for the next October.

Apple, coming-billion fine by the European Union for tax evasion – The Huffington Post

Apple risks being delivered, just over a week after the submission of the iPhone 7, an account of several billion euro for the narrow tax treaty with Ireland to pay less taxes.

an EU Commission decision expected today, unless changes, according to the Ansa news agency has learned, in fact, will oblige Cupertino to recover and then pay in full what eluded so far thanks to a tax ruling considered illegal by Brussels. A decision that reflects those already taken by the EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager competition for Fiat in Luxembourg and Starbucks in the Netherlands in October last year.

The ‘maxi-fine’ that Brussels is preparing to impose Apple , according to Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the matter, it will be a “billion euro” as the EU Antitrust announce that Ireland has assured the house dell’Iphone illegal state aid in the form of tax breaks in exchange for the creation work in the country. According to the ‘Financial Times’, the verdict of the Committee, laid in 130 pages, Cupertino realizes that it would pay a tax rate of less than 1% on European sales, compared to 12.5% ​​however in force in Ireland. In recent days, it was also circulated an estimate of JPMorgan that, in the worst case, Apple would be called upon to pay out well 19mld dollars.

No coincidence that just last week the US Treasury, after many ‘ big ‘Use ended viewfinder Antitrust EU, published a’ white paper ‘in which he harshly attacked the Commission for having transformed into “a supranational fiscal reviewing the decisions of the member states” tax on income d ‘company. And, indeed, to Washington this “change of approach” sets “an earlier unwelcome that could push other tax authorities” to impose “retroactive recoveries broad and punitive to the company.”

The investigation of Apple was opened in June 2014 still under the former competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, along with those on tax ruling granted to Starbucks from Holland, Fiat Finance & amp; Trade Luxembourg, while a few months later, in October, had been opened that always linked to the Grand Duchy of Amazon. Commissioner Vestager, who took over the reins of the investigation, in October last year has led to the conclusion of the investigation Fiat and Starbucks, considering the tax benefits granted as a fact of state aid that avvantaggiavano illegally compared to other companies and to pay the amount not paid for a total of 20-30mln of euro each. The Commissioner then opened last December an investigation into the tax treatment granted to McDonald’s once again from Luxembourg.

A cold shower anyway for Apple, which is expected to launch the latest addition to the iPhone family the September 7: according to rumors circulating, should call their iPhone 7 and having a dual camera, a ‘Home’ button redesigned and deleting audio jack.

Zuckerberg: “I love Rome, the first undertaking of history” – The Messenger

 
                     Aeneas? The first undertaking of the story. At least according to Mark Zuckerberg, who in his Townhall Q & A with the students of Luiss has given his version of Virgil’s myth, “This man had a mission, serve its community by finding a new, big, city. He had a group of people, a strong spirit, with which to pursue it. And he managed to overcome the difficulties never surrender. ” Mission team, perseverance. These are the three keys to create something long-lasting, “How amazing the city” continues Zuckerberg, but also and above all, digital entrepreneurship. “We must have a clear mission, which may have an impact on society. You have to have a working group with whom to share it; none of the most important things in human history was made by a single person. We must insist, I have unfortunately seen many people abandon their ideas or not exploit them to the full, “replied Zuckerberg, in his classic gray shirt, the question of James, who asked him what was the recipe for success.

STUDENTS

 The meeting of the patron of Facebook (which followed the private papal audience in the morning and the meeting with Prime Minister Renzi at lunchtime), with more than 300 students, startupper and guests of honor, classroom 200 avenue campus of Romania began with a declaration of love for the city of Rome and with a thought for the earthquake that hit central Italy. “As soon as I heard about the earthquake I thought about what I could do to help – says Zuckerberg – I am proud of the fact that more than half of Facebook users have used the area Safety Check function to communicate to feel good to their friends and family” . “When events happen like that – he continued – the media attention and tough little people, but the suffering of the victims remains. For this reason we donated half a million euro to the Red Cross in advertising. ‘ Decision that sparked many concerns on the web.

CESARE AUGUSTO

 Zuckerberg’s passion for the capital was prodded by more questions, “I love Rome so much as to have studied Latin in high school. So much to be come on their honeymoon. So so much that my wife took me around because the pictures of the honeymoon we were always three: me, she and Caesar Augustus, “laughs Zuckerberg joked about the real reason for his roman presence:” Actually, I came to look for Pokémon ». The joke gives him an opportunity to introduce two of the issues that are part of the core mission of Facebook: virtual reality – Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $ 2 billion – and augmented reality. “They are the largest social platform ever invented. With virtual reality we could virtually go into content and total experience. Augmented reality, however, allows us to add virtual elements in the real world. “

Among the projects on which you are concentrating the Colossus of Menlo Park, there is also the mission of bringing the Internet to every part the world through the project drone solar Aquila: “We want the whole world is connected, but unfortunately a large part of the Earth does not have an internet connection for economic, geographic or knowledge. Internet is a value. With our drones we can bring connectivity in areas most in need. ” Zuckerberg also mentioned the Fair Group that deals with artificial intelligence, with the GPU Partnership Program that involves also the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, which will be given as soon as a server for the development of projects related to artificial intelligence.

FAMILY

 Zuckerberg was moved thinking of his daughter Max “who do not even know how to walk, but will do so soon, I think,” and how much joy to give her his crawl towards him: “It is happiness. This is the longest period that step without her. I think I have a great responsibility which is to drive it in the best of all possible worlds. My grandparents were migrants, they have made great sacrifices in order to study my parents. One day my mother sat me down next to her and said, “Your father and I are doctors, and we are happy with the impact that we have had in the world. But you must do even more. ” It’s the first time I think of this thing. “

KNOWLEDGE

 There have been awkward questions: like that of Alexis, who asked if Facebook has ruined the process of knowledge between people. “I do not think – laughs Zuckerberg – or rather, we encourage knowledge in person, face to face. What we do is to make possible the connection between people who can not be there at the same time, two distant people. I think me and my sister or my parents, or my daughter Max. Now I could connect to Facebook and greet each one of them. ” David, in video, from Naples asks if he sees himself as a publisher. Zuckerberg is categorical: “No. We are a technology company, not a media company. We do not create content, but the tools to disseminate them “, wriggling more stringent issues such as the question – still open – for recognition of copyright for content producers.

 
                 

Apple, September 7 event in San Francisco: the iPhone 7 – The Republic incoming

the exchange of gifts between Renzi and Zuckerberg . Matteo Renzi gave an old edition of the de amicitia Cicero Mark Zuckerberg during a visit to the Palazzo Chigi. A special gift for the founder of Facebook, fond of Rome and Latin literature, and that is the “symbol” of the link between Fb and Latin, as explained by the Prime Minister: “It is a book about friendship and Italian request friendship on Facebook it says ‘ask friendship’ … “. Zuckerberg countered by giving the prime minister a piece of server original Facebook, framed.

The meeting with the Pope . The founder of Facebook was then received by the Pope at the Domus Santa Marta. The interview lasted 20 minutes. “Zuckerberg – said the director of the Vatican press office, Greg Burke – was accompanied by his wife Priscilla Chan. With the Pope spoke of how to use communications technology to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and bringing a message of hope, especially for those most disadvantaged. “

the post of Zuckerberg: “I will never forget” . “We told him what we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and how he found new ways to communicate with people of all faiths around the world.” “We also talked about the importance of connecting people – he added – especially in those parts of the world without access to the Internet. The we gave an Eagle model, our airplane solar energy that will distribute connectivity Internet in areas that do not have it. We also shared the commitment of the ‘ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ‘ to help people around the world “. “It’s a meeting we will never forget. Can you sense her warmth and kindness, and how deeply cares about helping people.”

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Apple: is coming from the EU a blow-billion for the narrow tax treaty with Ireland – Rai News

The European Commission could force Cupertino to recover, and then to pay in full as far eluded thanks to a tax ruling considered illegal by Brussels. The EU Antitrust announce that Ireland has assured the house iPhone unlawful state aid in the form of tax breaks in exchange for the creation of jobs in the country

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29 August 2016 Apple risks being delivered, just over a week after the submission of the iPhone 7, an account of several billion euro for the narrow tax treaty with Ireland for pay less tax.

‘Waiting for tomorrow, unless last minute changes, an EU Commission decision that could force Cupertino to recover, and then to pay in full as far eluded thanks to a tax ruling considered illegal by Brussels. A decision that reflects those already taken by the EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager competition for Fiat in Luxembourg and Starbucks in the Netherlands in October last year.

The ‘maxi-fine’ that Brussels is preparing to impose Apple , according to Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the matter, it will be a “billion euro” as the EU Antitrust announce that Ireland has assured the house dell’Iphone illegal state aid in the form of tax breaks in exchange for the creation work in the country. According to the ‘Financial Times’, the verdict of the Committee, laid in 130 pages, Cupertino realizes that it would pay a tax rate of less than 1% on European sales, compared to 12.5% ​​however in force in Ireland. In recent days, it was also circulated an estimate of JPMorgan that, in the worst case, Apple would be called upon to pay out well 19mld dollars.

No coincidence that just last week the US Treasury, after many ‘ big ‘Use ended viewfinder Antitrust EU, published a’ white paper ‘in which he harshly attacked the Commission for having transformed into “a supranational fiscal reviewing the decisions of the member states” tax on income d ‘company. And, indeed, to Washington this “change of approach” sets “an unwelcome
precedent that might encourage other tax authorities” to impose “retroactive recoveries broad and punitive to the company.”

The investigation Apple had been opened in June 2014 still under the former competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, along with those on tax ruling granted to Starbucks from Holland, Fiat Finance & amp; Trade Luxembourg, while a few months later, in October, had been opened that always linked to the Grand Duchy of Amazon. Commissioner Vestager, who took over the reins of the investigation, in October last year has led to the conclusion of the investigation Fiat and Starbucks, considering the tax benefits granted as a fact of state aid that avvantaggiavano illegally compared to other companies and to pay the amount not paid for a total of 20-30mln of euro each. The Commissioner then opened last December an investigation into the tax treatment granted to McDonald’s once again from Luxembourg.

Hawaii’s largest marine reserve in the world – National Geographic Italy

How fitting end of the week of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, the US federal agency for the management of national parks and protected areas, President Barack Obama has made an important decision regarding the oceans and established the largest protected area on the planet. A portion of 1.5 million square kilometers in the remote waters of the Pacific, known for the extraordinary marine life that host and their importance in the culture of the Native Hawaiians.

The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, established in 2006 by President George W. Bush, already stretched for over 360 thousand square kilometers around the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian islands, in the state that gave birth to President Obama.

Obama has more than quadrupled the size of Papahanaumokuakea, bringing the reserve covers an area of ​​1.5 million square kilometers, more than all US national parks combined. Leveraging its enforcement authority under the US Antiquities Act has extended a large part of the boundaries of the marine monument -and the commercial fishing ban to his inside-beyond the limit of 320 km

expected from the exclusive economic zone.

Expansion protected marine area
Map of Riley D. Champine, Ng Staff
source: NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center

As reiterated the governor of Hawaii David Ige, the marine memorial and the fishing ban have sparked a huge debate in the archipelago. But in the end, he added, this expansion “has managed to reach a good compromise for the waters around the Hawaiian Islands, and will become a model of sustainability for the other oceans of the planet”.

Papahanaumokuakea is a sanctuary to many protected species such as blue whales, the Short-tailed albatross, sea turtles and the last monk seals in Hawaii. It is the home of some of the most northerly coral reefs and health of the planet, including those that are most likely to survive in a warming ocean due to climate change.

In these deep ocean, seamounts and sunken islands are home to over 7,000 species, including the oldest animals on Earth: the blacks corals, living here for over 4000 years. More than a quarter of these creatures is endemic, not found anywhere else. Many have yet to be identified, as the little ghost octopus recently discovered and nicknamed “Casper” by scientists.

According to marine biologist Sylvia Earle, explorer-in-residence of National Geographic, the announcement of Obama It brings with it the hope that the United States become the leader for the creation of a new network of marine protected areas, large enough to save and restore the oceans healthy. These “blue parks”, as named by Earle, “are not a luxury, a place to go party. Resilience to climate change is based on having their own large natural protection areas, for biodiversity and for all the elements that give stability to the planet. This is vital to protect the ecological system that keeps us alive. “

The announcement was made a few days before the start of the World Conservation Congress, in which leaders from all over the world gather to discuss protecting the planet.

the great battle for fishing

According to some scientists and conservationists fishing, mining and other types of exploitation should be banned in at least 30% of the oceans to protect marine life and the benefits it brings to humanity. With this expansion, the United States now have some 1,200 marine protected areas covering 26% of sea water, says Lauren Wenzel, director of the National Marine Protected Areas Center of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In most, however, they are permitted fishing or other types of resource extraction. The Papahanaumokuakea expansion increases the portion of the “no-take” (where it is forbidden to extract resources) 3-13% of US marine waters. Almost all, more than 98%, is located in Papahanaumokuakea.

The proposals to protect the latter caskets of biodiversity, like Cashes Ledge in the Gulf of Maine or the canyons and seamounts off the Continental Shelf New England, are very popular. Despite this, until now, in the Atlantic it was not created any marine monument. The power of the New England fishing industry, along with its four centuries of history, makes the company an even more difficult political challenge. To explain it is Kundis Robin Craig, professor of law at the University of Utah, specializing in the oceans. “Part of this expansion protection areas in which to get to such measures is easier,” said Craig, on the enlargement of Papahanaumokuakea.

This difference, along with the impact on Hawaiian fishing fleet longlines, it was the horse of the fishing industry battle against the expansion of the protected area, with advertising on TV and video on YouTube, but also through meetings in town halls and in the capitols of Washington and Honolulu.

In the end, the support of Hawaiian legislators contributed to the decision of the President. US Senator Brian Schatz has, however, achieved a compromise, preventing the extension of the eastern borders of Papahanaumokuakea. Here the fishermen of Kauai and Niihau will continue to work as they always have, within the exclusive economic zone.

Edwin Ebisui Jr., president of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, is not pleased with the compromise. Along with leaders of seven other councils, which manage the regional fishing industry along the US coast, he wrote to President Obama to get permission to continue to manage fisheries as before in all marine monuments created under the Antiquities Act.

But the fishermen with palomito who once fished for tuna in the area that is now part of Papahanaumokuakea, will have to stop. Despite the name of the monument is a tribute to the culture of the Native Hawaiians, who consider sacred the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Ebisui sees the expansion as a blow to that same culture. “For native access to marine resources is extremely important and it always will be,” he said. “I do not see how to quadruple the area where they can not fish is a way to protect their culture.”

“Much of our exclusive economic zone is already off-limits,” he added Ebisui, referring the long series of marine reserves established on the Hawaiian islands and the neighborhood. “Now it seems to be back Hawaiians to pay the price.”

Choose the foresight

Despite the Antiquities Act became law in 1906 thanks a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, the modern party not keen to see. So far, Obama has created 25 national monuments, some of which are single buildings. Republican election program this summer led to the meeting of the party, in Cleveland, he wants to change the law so that the establishment of monuments must be approved by both the Congress and the state legislatures.

Yet power Antiquities Act, as explained by historian Douglas Brinkley, author of the environmental background biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, lies in its ability to transcend the industrial or regional influences and protect lands and waters in the interest of all American citizens. “In the last year in office, presidents have to make visionary actions,” says Brinkley. “This is not ‘what I can do in the last year’, but to think about the long term. That is the essence of conservation “.

The Antiquities Act is a short document of one page, which you can read here.

When Congress passed the Antiquities Act, the main objective was to protect the prehistoric sites the south-western United States as mounds and cliff-dwelling, prehistoric dwellings built in natural caves overlooking the canyon. Less than three years later, when it came to an end with the task of Teddy Roosevelt, the President had used his new privilege also to protect 18 national monuments, among which there are iconic landscapes such as Mount Olympus in Washington state and Muir Woods forest in California, as well as various archaeological sites. The Grand Canyon became a protected area thanks to Roosevelt, a decision which found numerous opponents among locals, who considered him an important mining site.

Young Laysan albatross in the lagoon, Midway Islands, protected waters of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument .
Frans Lanting, National Geographic Creative

Hawaii’s largest marine reserve in the world – National Geographic Italy

How fitting end of the week of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, the US federal agency for the management of national parks and protected areas, President Barack Obama has made an important decision regarding the oceans and established the largest protected area on the planet. A portion of 1.5 million square kilometers in the remote waters of the Pacific, known for the extraordinary marine life that host and their importance in the culture of the Native Hawaiians.

The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, established in 2006 by President George W. Bush, already stretched for over 360 thousand square kilometers around the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian islands, in the state that gave birth to President Obama.

Obama has more than quadrupled the size of Papahanaumokuakea, bringing the reserve covers an area of ​​1.5 million square kilometers, more than all US national parks combined. Leveraging its enforcement authority under the US Antiquities Act has extended a large part of the boundaries of the marine monument -and the commercial fishing ban to his inside-beyond the limit of 320 km

expected from the exclusive economic zone.

Expansion protected marine area
Map of Riley D. Champine, Ng Staff
source: NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center

As reiterated the governor of Hawaii David Ige, the marine memorial and the fishing ban have sparked a huge debate in the archipelago. But in the end, he added, this expansion “has managed to reach a good compromise for the waters around the Hawaiian Islands, and will become a model of sustainability for the other oceans of the planet”.

Papahanaumokuakea is a sanctuary to many protected species such as blue whales, the Short-tailed albatross, sea turtles and the last monk seals in Hawaii. It is the home of some of the most northerly coral reefs and health of the planet, including those that are most likely to survive in a warming ocean due to climate change.

In these deep ocean, seamounts and sunken islands are home to over 7,000 species, including the oldest animals on Earth: the blacks corals, living here for over 4000 years. More than a quarter of these creatures is endemic, not found anywhere else. Many have yet to be identified, as the little ghost octopus recently discovered and nicknamed “Casper” by scientists.

According to marine biologist Sylvia Earle, explorer-in-residence of National Geographic, the announcement of Obama It brings with it the hope that the United States become the leader for the creation of a new network of marine protected areas, large enough to save and restore the oceans healthy. These “blue parks”, as named by Earle, “are not a luxury, a place to go party. Resilience to climate change is based on having their own large natural protection areas, for biodiversity and for all the elements that give stability to the planet. This is vital to protect the ecological system that keeps us alive. “

The announcement was made a few days before the start of the World Conservation Congress, in which leaders from all over the world gather to discuss protecting the planet.

the great battle for fishing

According to some scientists and conservationists fishing, mining and other types of exploitation should be banned in at least 30% of the oceans to protect marine life and the benefits it brings to humanity. With this expansion, the United States now have some 1,200 marine protected areas covering 26% of sea water, says Lauren Wenzel, director of the National Marine Protected Areas Center of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In most, however, they are permitted fishing or other types of resource extraction. The Papahanaumokuakea expansion increases the portion of the “no-take” (where it is forbidden to extract resources) 3-13% of US marine waters. Almost all, more than 98%, is located in Papahanaumokuakea.

The proposals to protect the latter caskets of biodiversity, like Cashes Ledge in the Gulf of Maine or the canyons and seamounts off the Continental Shelf New England, are very popular. Despite this, until now, in the Atlantic it was not created any marine monument. The power of the New England fishing industry, along with its four centuries of history, makes the company an even more difficult political challenge. To explain it is Kundis Robin Craig, professor of law at the University of Utah, specializing in the oceans. “Part of this expansion protection areas in which to get to such measures is easier,” said Craig, on the enlargement of Papahanaumokuakea.

This difference, along with the impact on Hawaiian fishing fleet longlines, it was the horse of the fishing industry battle against the expansion of the protected area, with advertising on TV and video on YouTube, but also through meetings in town halls and in the capitols of Washington and Honolulu.

In the end, the support of Hawaiian legislators contributed to the decision of the President. US Senator Brian Schatz has, however, achieved a compromise, preventing the extension of the eastern borders of Papahanaumokuakea. Here the fishermen of Kauai and Niihau will continue to work as they always have, within the exclusive economic zone.

Edwin Ebisui Jr., president of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, is not pleased with the compromise. Along with leaders of seven other councils, which manage the regional fishing industry along the US coast, he wrote to President Obama to get permission to continue to manage fisheries as before in all marine monuments created under the Antiquities Act.

But the fishermen with palomito who once fished for tuna in the area that is now part of Papahanaumokuakea, will have to stop. Despite the name of the monument is a tribute to the culture of the Native Hawaiians, who consider sacred the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Ebisui sees the expansion as a blow to that same culture. “For native access to marine resources is extremely important and it always will be,” he said. “I do not see how to quadruple the area where they can not fish is a way to protect their culture.”

“Much of our exclusive economic zone is already off-limits,” he added Ebisui, referring the long series of marine reserves established on the Hawaiian islands and the neighborhood. “Now it seems to be back Hawaiians to pay the price.”

Choose the foresight

Despite the Antiquities Act became law in 1906 thanks a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, the modern party not keen to see. So far, Obama has created 25 national monuments, some of which are single buildings. Republican election program this summer led to the meeting of the party, in Cleveland, he wants to change the law so that the establishment of monuments must be approved by both the Congress and the state legislatures.

Yet power Antiquities Act, as explained by historian Douglas Brinkley, author of the environmental background biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, lies in its ability to transcend the industrial or regional influences and protect lands and waters in the interest of all American citizens. “In the last year in office, presidents have to make visionary actions,” says Brinkley. “This is not ‘what I can do in the last year’, but to think about the long term. That is the essence of conservation “.

The Antiquities Act is a short document of one page, which you can read here.

When Congress passed the Antiquities Act, the main objective was to protect the prehistoric sites the south-western United States as mounds and cliff-dwelling, prehistoric dwellings built in natural caves overlooking the canyon. Less than three years later, when it came to an end with the task of Teddy Roosevelt, the President had used his new privilege also to protect 18 national monuments, among which there are iconic landscapes such as Mount Olympus in Washington state and Muir Woods forest in California, as well as various archaeological sites. The Grand Canyon became a protected area thanks to Roosevelt, a decision which found numerous opponents among locals, who considered him an important mining site.

Young Laysan albatross in the lagoon, Midway Islands, protected waters of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument .
Frans Lanting, National Geographic Creative

Mark Zuckerberg received by Pope Francis: “They talked about how to alleviate poverty through technology” – The Daily

” Use of communication technologies for alleviate poverty , encourage a culture of encounter, and to get a message of hope, especially to the most disadvantaged. ” This spoke Pope Francis with Mark Zuckerberg . The founder and CEO of Facebook has been received by the Pope, together with his wife Priscilla Chan , in a private meeting that took place in the morning of Monday, August 29 at the Vatican. This was reported by the director of the Vatican press office, Greg Burke .

“Priscilla and I have had the honor to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican – has written a few hours later on Zuckerberg her page -. We told him how much we admire her message of mercy and tenderness and how he has found new ways to communicate with people of every religion in the world. We also talked about the importance of connecting people, especially in those parts of the world without internet access. We gave a