Domenica in Belgio la Rossa correrà il suo 900° GP, una storia lunga 65 anni che ne ha fatto il simbolo dello sport motoristico.
900 Grand Prix
900 volte rosso quindi, 900 volte in cui a Maranello si sono sentiti un po’ padroni del Mondo (giustamente visto cosa significa il marchio anche per chi di motori non si interessa); 900 corse che hanno visto alternarsi i più grandi piloti di tutti i tempi e che, grazie anche alla monoposto di rosso vestita, sono diventati grandi; 900 volte in cui la Formula 1 ha saputo che, senza la Ferrari, non sarebbe stato lo stesso. Già, perché il connubio F-F (Ferrari – Formula 1) è inscindibile e vincente, grazie all’una e all’altra. Oltre ad essere la scuderia più presente nella storia del circuit, la “rossa” è anche la più vincente con 223 Gp vinti, 688 podi, 207 pole position, 15 Mondiali piloti e 16 Mondiali costruttori.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a libido-enhancing drug for women that has been dubbed “female Viagra”.
Flibanserin, a drug produced by Sprout Pharmaceuticals, recently passed an FDA advisory committee meeting.
The pill is designed to assist premenopausal women regain their sex drive by boosting levels of certain brain chemicals.
The drug has been criticised as having marginal effects.
La Spezia – “Voglio dire una cosa a Gabriele Volpi. So che non ci sentiremo più probabilmente perché ha molti impegni, quindi lo faccio attraverso CDS. Si contorni di persone che vogliono lavorare nello Spezia perché lo amano, e non per mero opportunismo”.
The volcanologist Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, one of the greatest scholars of Vesuvius and its activity, has warned more than once: “We are on a time bomb that will not leave a chance.” But why exactly Vesuvius and the possibility of its next eruption is a mortal danger to the people living on its slopes? We ‘just a risk to a natural event, or we have made things worse?
And then, on the one hand there is the Vesuvius, on the other hand there are the Campi Flegrei. The area potentially closer to an eruption is incredibly lacking a contingency plan and evacuation.
But what would happen in Naples in case of eruption of Vesuvius? What would be the effects on people and things?
Among widespread illegal, dangerous roads and streets under sequestration, evacuate the villages of the “red zone” would be a mission in some cases impossible.
A photo impressive, disturbing. What you see is the deformation of magma beneath the Campi Flegrei and the area of Pozzuoli, in Campania, view from the satellites. At a depth of only 3 kilometers there is created a real lake of 2-3 km in radius, with the earth raised approximately 10 cm in the last 3 years. All this because the magma is pushing to rise to the surface. Not surprisingly, in 10 years the land has risen by 30 cm and the Civil Protection raised its alert level on the area from green to yellow (caution). The blue color in the coastal area of Pozzuoli indicates the maximum proximity of magma to the surface.
“The brand name they have made. Apple products are next to perfection. Or rather they were. The way they have engineered their products is what makes it special
Be it the body antenna introduced in the iPhone 4s. The magnetic charger. The fan design to reduce noise. They thought about everything. They make a product even you Granny can use.
I say that Steve has become successful today, because even after his demise. The Apple still dazzles people. Owning Apple is nothing but a status symbol. That’s the jist”
Sharon Chalkin Feldstein founder of Expert Management started her company when it became evident to her that people needed real knowledge from real experts. In other words, moving away from celebrity’s opinions towards the expert’s advice.
Expert Management acts as personal managers guiding their clients in achieving their goals, which may include hosting, publishing, endorsements, multilevel media, and product creation.
On a personal note, Sharon has enjoyed many years as a celebrity stylist, trend expert (creator of the infamous “Sparkle Cell Phone”), costume designer, while teaching master classes on these subjects at the FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology in New York). Sharon divides her time between Los Angeles and New York City.
Lo Zimbabwe ha avviato la procedura per chiedere agli Stati Uniti l’estradizione di Walter Palmer, il cacciatore del Minnesota che ha ucciso il leone Cecil, una vicenda che ha scatenato una ondata di proteste in tutto il mondo e nella cittadina in cui vive il dentista, costretto anche a chiudere la sua clinica. Palmer avrebbe versato 50mila dollari per poter partecipare alla caccia grossa vicino al parco nazionale di Hwange, nello stato africano, in cui ha colpito il leone.
Thinking about this situation in terms of game theory isn’t terribly illuminating. The academic discipline that goes by the name is a branch of mathematics founded in the interwar years by the brilliant polymath John von Neumann, who was also involved at Los Alamos in the construction of the first atomic bomb. According to Neumann’s theory, human beings make rational choices aiming to achieve results that are best for each of them. Applied in the context of the post-war nuclear stand-off, the theory produced “mutually assured destruction” – the balance of terror that has prevented full-scale war between nuclear-armed states. It has also been applied widely in economics and business management, and with some success.
The trouble with game theory is that it assumes human action is essentially strategic or instrumental in nature – in other words, that humans act in order to achieve some definite result or pay-off. In many situations this model fits reasonably well. It can be useful in thinking about how to get a pay rise, or bargain for a lower price when buying something you want. Politicians often apply game-theoretic strategies in their dealings with opponents, by presenting them with policy options that reveal their vulnerabilities, for example. Game theory can also be useful in military situations – not only nuclear stand-offs, but also in identifying targets of terrorist activity and computing the optimal paths of missiles.
Europe and USA compare Games and strategies
But not all of human behaviour fits a model of strategic reasoning. We humans don’t act only in order to bring about results. We also act to express ourselves, to show the kind of human being we are or want to be. Behaviour of this expressive kind can be admirable and noble. It would be difficult to come up with compelling strategic reasons for Winston Churchill’s decision to lead Britain in fighting on against Nazism in May 1940. Churchill may have thought that Britain would be better off being defeated, even in strategic terms, than it would be if it reached some sort of compromise with Germany, since there was little reason to believe that Hitler would keep to the terms of any deal. But the real reason for Churchill’s decision was a conception of civilisation that precluded a shameful peace with the worst sort of barbarism. Fighting on was better, even if the consequence could be known in advance to be certain defeat.
Acting without regard to consequences is part of what it means to be human. By acting in this way we give meaning to our lives. But this human trait becomes dangerous when leaders pursue a project that not only can’t succeed, but is destroyed by the very process of trying to achieve it. The euro is one such project. It was known in advance that it couldn’t work. To go on with the project isn’t simply to compound the error that was made when the currency was set up. It’s an act of folly.
Having identified themselves with an unrealisable project, European leaders are committed to pursuing it to the bitter end. It’s not just their reputation and pensions that are at stake. The euro embodies a vision of an ideal Europe that has become part of the meaning of their lives. Conceived in the aftermath of World War Two, the European Union was meant as a way of leaving behind forever the conflicts between nation-states that had wracked the continent in the past. The paradox is that by pursuing this dream, Europe’s elites have locked themselves into a project that can only deepen Europe’s divisions and inflame the forces of nationalism.
John von Neumann 1903-1957
Born in Hungary, von Neumann was one of the world’s foremost mathematicians by his mid-20s
Pioneered game theory and was one of the conceptual inventors of the stored-program digital computer, alongside Alan Turing and Claude Shannon
Also performed pivotal work on quantum theory and the atomic bomb
Encyclopedia Britannica: John von Neumann
INTERESTING LINKS
HOW THE GAME THEORY WORKS – INTERACTIVE GAMES ONLINE
www.gametheory.net/html/applets.html
BIMATRIX GAMES SOLVER
http://banach.lse.ac.uk/form.html (arbitrary number of strategies)
MATRIX GAMES SOLVER
http://banach.lse.ac.uk/form.html (at most 5×5 strategies)
REPEATED PRISONER DILEMMA
http://www.lifl.fr/IPD/ipd.html.en
Repeated games of two players (for various strategies combinations):
http://www.lifl.fr/IPD/applet-match.html.en
Tournament (number scores of various strategies):
http://www.lifl.fr/IPD/applet-tournament.html.en
The evolution of a population with strategies in question:
http://www.lifl.fr/IPD/applet-evolution.html.en
The harsh Arctic conditions make developing and transporting natural gas a daunting challenge. Total is studying a design for a new LNG carrier able to do its own icebreaking and make its way across glacial waters at -40 °C. – See more at: http://www.total.com/en/energies-expertise/oil-gas/trading-shipping/projects-achievements/arctic-lng-carriers#sthash.6DwY6yTN.dpuf
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