Boeing 787: the “Dreamliner” authorized to take the air for flight tests

Grounded since January 16 after two incidents occurred on January 7 electric in Boston on a plane JAL, and January 16 in Japan on ANA's B787 device will resume the air. Without passengers. The aviation authority (FAA) has authorized Boeing Thursday to conduct new tests flights to help determine the cause of two fires that occurred in January of batteries on long-haul 787. "As part of our ongoing efforts to determine the causes of the recent incidents of lithium-ion Boeing 787, the FAA will allow Boeing to conduct test flights of 787 to collect additional data," he the regulator said in a statement.

New report in 30 days Possible damage to the battery due to a "mechanical impact" were excluded possible causes, and the NTSB is now interested in multiple tracks: how cells were loaded, making Battery and design, including the isolation of individual cells, or contamination by particles flammable detailed the President of the NTSB. Having said Wednesday that the investigation would probably still "weeks", the President of the NTSB noted that there was "a lot of work" and that this point of the investigation related to the 787 incidents was probably not the last. The NTSB should provide a new progress report in 30 days.

And 'the child dead car engulfed many kids crying in church

PERUGIA Pray for my child. The cry of mother Laura the last instant of pain that leaves a stunned city as a whole. Andrea, four years, died this morning at the Department of Intensive Care Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital after being hit yesterday lunchtime. He was returning home with his father and two sisters, crossed the road race and was hit by a Seat Ibiza conducted by an Ecuadorian than 28 years. The impact was terrible, but the doctors have made it 118 to keep alive hope. Hope you off early this morning. Too serious head injuries reported by the child who a week ago had a birthday. Investigates the dynamics of the municipal police. The file, in which the young motorist Ecuadorian years resident in Perugia, it will be registered for manslaughter, on the table of the prosecutor Antonella Duchini. The police report already arrived prosecutor. It is not excluded that motorists are challenged certain violations of road traffic related to the peculiarities of the area where the accident happened and the configuration of the road. Situations in which the speed must be further reduced. For the death of Andrea annulled the carnival to be held in the parish of Santa Maria di Colle three hundred yards from where Andrea was invested. At four in the afternoon, the local church was packed. In front of Don Pietro Nettle many children. Friends and classmates of the sisters of Andrew. Everyone was given a white piece of paper that says "To dear little Andrea." And each one has left a thought that will be delivered to the parents of the baby that everyone remembers as wonderful. Evening prayer vigil in the parish 21.

Geox founder Polegato: “The market is hungry for new ideas”

Of course, it was given the jacket from his own collection. Mario Polegato that carries only Geox shoes, is no longer surprising. Finally, he has a complicated, high-tech breathable sole, with his company has become known once invented himself. Meanwhile, the founder makes in fashion – jeans, jackets, coats. Enough choice to clothe him completely, even to this day. Polegato, 60, is one of Italy's best-known entrepreneurs. Within a few years he has built up a global Geox shoe brand. Turnover totaled in the first nine months of last year to around 700 million euros. These were, however, about ten percent less than the year before. The culprit is the crisis in his country and across Southern Europe, a very important market for Geox.

They often speak with students at the university. What role have you as a business in Italy, in this difficult situation?

I encourage students to invent and build something. The market is hungry for new ideas. When I invented in the early 90s, the breathable sole, I wanted to make no shoes. I've been looking for two years for a partner. I offered the technology all the major shoe manufacturers. No one believed in me. So I took it up in Italy itself.

In Italy, in Germany, in France, everywhere there are people who have a good idea. But sometimes they do not have the ability to start their own business. The decisive factor is education. European schools teach little about entrepreneurship. But in a time when Europe needs to recover economically, it is fundamental to promote innovation.

We invest more in design and quality, a more fashionable collection introduced. The first numbers we are very satisfied. And we will open in the next three years, 400 new stores in China.

Our headquarters are in Italy. Here we take care of design, technology, marketing, finance. Making shoes, we have outsourced. To Eastern Europe, the Far East, to Brazil. Our products are Italian but still – the design, the technology, some of the raw materials, all Italian. We limit the outsourcing of the production – as, for example, Mercedes makes.

The fit of the shoes, for example, we need to change, because people in China have a different foot shape than Europe. You need to find in any country, what consumers want. A good entrepreneur is very sensitive to.

“Harassed for months by my boss Expulsion from Filcams for revenge '

Franca is the trade unionist, and she likes her job. He would never have left. "It is a great satisfaction to help people," especially those canteens in problem areas of Milan. Franca Imbrogno, 47 years old, married with two daughters, was in Filcams. It was, as from 31 December, the CGIL decided to push it away, to revoke the posting union that according to statute runs only for "good cause." Reasons that she has never been disclosed. "The truth is that I have tried to report harassment within the organization. For this I was sent forth. And who helped me had the same treatment. " A serious charge. Who has decided to formalize a writ filed at the Court of Milan, which, it says, asks for damages and the cancellation of the order. But the Labour disagrees: "The two facts are not related. The Secretariat has decided to revoke the posting when he did not know of the problem situation. If the harassment there were, the will try and encourage you to go forward. "

"CONTINUE THE HARASSMENT" – a complicated situation that sees, in fact, a director against Franca Imbrogno. She does not hesitate to call the whole thing "a nightmare." Imbrogno Filcams enters the union in 2010. "Right from the start I noticed a very strange attitude by my Secretary of reference." From him no collaboration. For a year, "I also arranged and well, since the entries have increased." Then at the end of 2011 begin ambiguous calls by the Secretary. "He and I we compared daily on certain disputes. And at the end of each call asking me to leave. " Phrases like: "Let's go to dinner so we'll talk more." Or: "Come tomorrow morning at the office." The calls are so frequent that she does not know what to do. "Six months of hell." He decides to turn to Graziella Carneri, head of Filcams of Milan. Make an appointment, but his secretary in front. Held a meeting in which unanimously decided to push her away. And she returned to her old job, canteens, part-time.

"LEFT ALONE" – "My first reaction was anger. Then I went to knock on every door. I wrote letters, one even Susanna Camusso. " Has tripped Committee warranty, because the secretary has sued for defamation. Each closed to the committee, "the crime does not exist." In the meantime, call a lawyer, Salvatore Lo Schiavo. It also decided to appeal to the national office that has not yet been realized. Only a colleague decided to stay close to her: it is an executive Filcams that after giving her support loses all his posts to be removed.

CGIL: NO VIOLATIONS – The head of Filcams of Milan, Graziella Carneri, we would like to clarify: "The removal is normal, we have a right and a duty. It happens often. In any case, she did not get along with your voice. " So much so that it says "astonished" and from a certain point of view "offense" because "if I had the feeling that the Imbrogno was experiencing harassment, I would not hesitate to intervene." And he repeats: "The two things are totally separate. Especially since there are no violations in our statute. " And if "she was able to prove these acts of harassment, please feel free to go ahead." A little 'as has happened in Padua: the Chamber of Labour, in particular Filcams, was ordered to pay compensation of 43 thousand euro for bullying. Now the word is up to the judiciary.

Euro: why the proposal of François Hollande has no meaning

There would therefore be that yet another complaint against the "strong euro" as all French leaders have done since the introduction of the single currency and regardless of the level of the common currency. But such an analysis will not take into account the specificity of speech François Hollande who has not lamented the exchange rate and has not increased demand action from the ECB, but asked exchange policy for sustainable euro have a "stable", the value "reflects the real economy" and no longer "subject to the vagaries of the market." So this is much more than the current level of the euro is at stake: it is a real alternative to the current management of the euro. But management is realistic?

Before discussing, it should be recalled based on theoretical foundations which the current management of the euro. The ECB has, as we know, only one goal: "to ensure price stability in the medium and long term. "As often reminded Jean-Claude Trichet, this is" the only compass needle "of the institution in Frankfurt. Obviously, the evolution of the euro is not neutral in this goal, but it is only one element. And it is precisely monetary policy, ensuring price stability, can "anchor" a proper exchange rate. Current doctrine, without denying that there may be market distortions, therefore believes that the euro can not "evolve whim of the markets" as claimed by François Hollande. Instead, the market price is a reliable indicator for judging the appropriateness of monetary policy.

The proposal of François Hollande is truly revolutionary. It implies that the market is a poor indicator of the relative value of the euro and the need to introduce a correction externally. Why? Because the criterion of the value of the currency should not be for François Hollande, price stability, as indicated by the Maastricht Treaty, but competitiveness and thus growth and employment. This is the meaning of his words when he speaks of the value of money "in line with the real economy."

French President reintroduced by a debate between the comparative advantages of fixed exchange rates and floating that has long agitated economists in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger, recently recalled that the debate was very lively in Switzerland before the decision on 24 January 1973 to float the Swiss franc and to abandon the fixed exchange rate. The American economist Milton Friedman, founder of the monetarist school was in 1969, defended the principle of floating currencies, reversing the opinion that so far kept this principle the sad examples of crises of 1848, the First World War and the Great Depression of the 1930s. But it is obviously Richard Nixon, August 15, 1971, gave the advantage to the principle of floating currency by raising the link between the dollar and gold. We remember, however, that it is to defend its economy against inflation that Germany, in March 1971, abandoned the system. Therefore, attracted by the German rate and the "stability" of its currency, investors sold dollars to buy their massively mark. Before the collapse of the U.S. gold reserves, Nixon then decided to let the dollar float and stop "temporarily" gold convertibility. We thus see how the Germans can be attached to a floating exchange rate. . .

However, we can certainly judge that Francois Hollande has exaggerated his remarks exceeded his mind and plead for more exchange rate "mastered" as have the countries of the European mechanism of exchange rates (ERM-II) the antechamber of the euro, or Switzerland, which set a floor for the parity of the Swiss franc against the euro. But if we examine how this policy, we must recognize that the proposal of François Hollande is quite unrealistic and contradictory.

The first solution to "stabilize" its currency, the exchange control which allows to control the flow of currency into and out of the currency area and thus influence the course of the euro. This method preserves, at least in appearance, the independence of the central bank. It is used today by the Chinese government, despite the greater flexibility of the yuan against a "basket of currencies". This method does not seem appropriate, however, to the euro area. It is indeed quite daunting for international investors and trade. The rest is for this reason that the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of François Hollande, Laurent Fabius, who was at his side on Tuesday in Strasbourg, was discontinued in 1985 when he was prime minister. If China can still afford it, it is because it has a competitive advantage in terms of cost that can offset the negative effects of exchange controls and attract capital. The eurozone does not have this lever and European countries very open to the outside refuse this type of practice.

The only solution would be to compel the ECB to intervene or to establish a minimum and maximum for the euro. But we must change its constitution and, as we have seen, his logic. It would also say goodbye to his independence. Note that in the case of Switzerland, as in the case of Japan, central banks do not have the same objectives as the ECB. The Swiss National Bank is required by section 99 of the Federal Constitution, "to serve the interests of the country", which is not all to do the same mission that strict price stability. As the Bank of Japan, it is still closely linked to the government. Recent events have once again proven. However, Germany and the north of the eurozone will never accept that the ECB serve interests other than the "price stability."

Then one last lever: the international agreement. While the world seems to engage in a currency war, this is more of a dream than realism. Of course, this could work once, in 1984, at the Plaza Accords that brought down the dollar in a concerted manner. But again, the collaboration of central banks was required and this policy has had a major setback: the 1987 stock market crash, the bursting of the bubble caused by the falling dollar and the housing crisis in Japan, the country still suffers, and which was caused by the cash flow to Japan dollar sellers. Since any attempt to "global monetary system" has failed. Nicolas Sarkozy, who had made a priority during the presidency of the G-20 there has been a bitter defeat.

And if at the European level, it is possible in the ERM-II control the exchange rate, it is because central banks Latvian, Lithuanian and Danish sole objective the exchange rate of their currencies with the euro. They therefore any latitude to influence the course of their currencies. But if one wants to apply this system to a euro-dollar rate, the ECB will lose monetary sovereignty. It must, to prevent the variation of the euro against the dollar, to determine its monetary policy in response to the Fed, as the Danish central bank does whenever the ECB changed its rates. The euro will become a currency of dollar vassal, that probably does not want anyone in Europe. Especially that U.S. monetary policy is probably not driven by European economic interests.

Finally, François Hollande will implement the project because the eurozone has no common interest in the exchange rate of the euro. According to national economies, rates "ideals" of the euro are very different, as shown by a recent étudede Deutsche Bank. As a result, discussions on setting the rate at which the euro must remain attached may be very harsh. And if we take an average weight of Germany and its allies is such in the economy of the euro area, the rate chosen may displease many, including Paris and Rome.

It must therefore be recognized: the proposal of François Hollande did not make much sense. It is a nostalgia for the gold standard and germinal franc is no longer relevant today, but it is mostly entirely inconsistent with maintaining the independence of the central bank. In short, the French president is first delivered to a communication company to appear before the summit on Thursday and Friday "champion of federalism."

Zeman leaves Trigoria: applause and choirs of fans

TOTTI AND MANAGERS-Zeman does not feel like to shift the blame of his exemption to the formation and yellow. "I have felt abandoned by the players, I do not think that the team has played against me." The Bohemian, leaving Trigoria, said he was sorry to say goodbye to the bench Romanist ("surely I can not be happy …") and admitted that he had spoken "with Totti" and with management. "Yes, I spoke with them, I have also come to this – the words of Zeman -. If I expected all this affection from the fans? I can. " And a supporter of Rome, seeing out by Zeman Trigoria behind the wheel of the SUV his deputy Cangelosi, gave the coach his subscription claiming to not want to set foot at the Olympic Stadium after the exemption of the technician. "Never mind, Roma always walks forward – however, was the response of Zeman -. When you need them you will give it back. "

Parties are under current

Altmaier himself has confirmed his intention before the election would introduce a bill in the Bundestag. "I want the law to limit the green levy in early July in the Official Gazette, make it 1 August can enter into force. I am determined to take every chance that the "successful, he said the FAS price of electricity is like the price of bread. "Therefore, the energy transition are shown only positive if the price question is answered and the people need not fear that prices continue to rise," said Altmaier further.

A bill by the Minister of Environmental Protection would require approval in the opinion of red-green state politicians. It might, in the Bundesrat to accident, if they agree in their coalitions. Since the state elections in Saxony-Green state governments have a majority in the Bundesrat design. Altmaier relies on an agreement with the SPD. "For the Green voters the price of electricity is not so important. But the SPD white clientele with their employees very well how much their constituents are affected by the price of electricity, "he said.

The Baden-Württemberg Minister President Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) rejected the idea of ​​a power brake price. "Affordable electricity prices are important, but from capping the expansion of renewable energy thwarted by the back door. There is thus no security for planning, since no investor takes the risk, possibly for several months to get any more compensation, "he said of the FAS would run counter to the energy revolution. "The expansion of renewables can not be held responsible for any price increases, electricity prices have in the past – that is, even before the energy revolution – has risen," said Kretschmann.

SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel said the "Bild am Sonntag", the government should return their higher revenue from VAT to the current customers by offering lower the current tax. "That will be the suggestion of the SPD, which we go into the negotiations with the federal government. "Is under consideration in the SPD to suspend the current tax for 1000 kilowatt hours. This would amount to a discount of 20.50 euros per current customer. Altmaier rejected the proposal as ineffective, evaluated him as a sign of willingness to negotiate the SPD.

Stefan Wenzel, chief negotiator for the Greens in the coalition negotiations with the SPD in Lower Saxony and expected future environment minister, said the FAS, endangered Altmaiers proposals' technology leadership in one of the most important industries of the future and at the same time tens of thousands of jobs. "Altmaier and previously Minister Rösler had unsettled the green power sector and heavy investments already stopped. Wenzel asked how Löhrmann to abolish subsidies for companies with high energy consumption. It would be a big relief when the declining stock market electricity prices would be passed on to domestic consumers and SMEs, he said.

The prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff (CDU), said, "we'll make a big throw not in an election year probably. But Environment Minister Altmaier triggered the discovery process, in which he integrates the countries closely. Now it is much on his communication skills. "Red-Green was well advised in the sense of one's own energy policy not combat everything. The Social Democrats also knew "lost that support for energy transition, if the prices continue to rise. "

Ludivine suicide: a drama and issues

From the warning given by his parents Wednesday morning, major research facilities land and air – up to a hundred investigators – were mobilized. "The woods, caves dating from the First World War, water points" were searched. Especially with dogs "track" operating-smelling, or "quest" which "is given a specific perimeter and must determine a human, alive or not," explained the morning the commander of gendarmerie Olivier Lefebvre. If an autopsy and toxicology tests have been ordered to allow, among other things, determine the time of death, one might think that the girl went to action Tuesday night. She had told her parents she was going to her boyfriend. When he assures, according policeman he "did not see".

Why the investigators did they then not discovered earlier? "The places are in the area, very rough," said Captain Lefebvre. "The woods where she was found" is particularly ". A tracking dog was well past close," before leaving the east side, where she might have gone before, not the west side. "Besides the "density" of wood that did not allow the helicopter to see it, said the gendarme, "Only as a sweep this morning, online, possible to find it. "He confided in the morning three tracks considered suicide, runaway or track criminal and stated" none took precedence over the other. "Nothing now," suggesting not to something other than suicide " says he. Shortly after the disappearance of the girl, the prosecutor confided an "element" particularly "worrying": "The latest Facebook pages have been deleted."

He did not say more, however, on what exactly was deleted. Constable referred to the deletion of the profile, a judicial source some messages on the "wall". "Only specialized technicians know more," admits the policeman later, when someone on a Facebook page to support relatives of the girl was posting in the afternoon, a link to which seemed to be the profile of the young woman, inaccessible since. "Everything about the girl who left his parents' home Tuesday at 20 hours, was turned off at 19:50," repeated Captain Lefebvre: "Computer, phone, bank account, …" According to numerous testimonies the schoolgirl riding and passionate nature encountered no particular difficulty.

A friend reportedly told investigators that she had expressed suicidal ideation. "She told him that in December," said the prosecutor only. Like his computer and its activities on the Internet, mobile phone Ludivine found on it, is currently under analysis. "Is there a call, photo, sms to understand?" Asks an investigator. "If nothing tells us, we must also ensure that there was no message or other incentive," adds the attorney. Interviewed this morning on the time of the disappearance of Ludivine, a year to the day after the beginning of her relationship with her boyfriend, Jean-Baptiste replied that Bladier track of heartbreak was not excluded. "I'm madly in love couple and since January 29, 2012," can be read on the blog of the girl. "This is a possible explanation," he book a few hours later, adding that it "seems that the two young men have broken last Sunday."

Water, the Authority: pay increases in bills

ROME – At the start the process to return the amounts unduly paid, from 21 July to 31 December 2011, water bills, after the referendum of June of the same year, he does know the Authority for Energy, to ' day after the opinion requested the Council of State, which finds no consistent criteria for calculating bills. Via refunds. The Authority for Energy, said in a statement, has approved a specific measure for the definition of the criteria for determining the amounts to be returned to end users, corresponding to the return on invested capital and paid water bills in the period post referendum, from 21 July to 31 December 2011. The decision comes in the wake of the opinion that the Authority itself had requested the Council of State on the exact starting time of its powers in the field of water charges. The referendum. In fact, in the public consultations held in 2012, had emerged divergent positions on Title to dell'Autorit to intervene in earlier periods the allocation of control functions of water services occurred with the dl-Save Italy in December 2011. To identify the portion of the fee to be returned to end users with respect to the period between 21 July and 31 December 2011, it is also said, the Authority intends to follow the criteria already used for the definition of the so-called method tariff transitional covering the years 2012-2013, in which already have considered the effect of the referendum. These criteria are also confirmed in Opinion 267/13 of the Council of State when it is said that even under the assistance of the refund must be assured that the principle of full cost recovery.

The forbidden feelings – What to do with my jealousy?

Sarah shines with her new hubby and the glaciers to race, she poses happily in front of a ski slope in St. Moritz. Boris and his merry gang toasting with drinking coconuts into the camera – Greetings from Mexico. And when Martin rose over the weekend obviously a wild party.

Is usually secretly envied in private. Because we do not talk about envy. The feeling is socially taboo and is displaced. Engelbrecht explains what to envy so sensitive, "Who revealed himself as envious admits to the fact that he feels inferior to others. "

Realize that what you see in social networks, not a reflection of reality. There is a double selection: Facebook users photograph almost only pleasant situations. Then they select again, what photos they post. Target: self-expression. What you see on Facebook and is tuning and never the whole truth. Engelbrecht: "The dark side remain hidden. With such a distorted perception of envy receives food. "The psychologist, theologian and author Dr. Beate M. Weingardt advises:" Do not be fooled by the smooth surface and the beautiful facade "!

Take advantage of emerging feelings of envy, to verify your values: Do you really want to travel five times a year, or are you looking to home? They are actually envious of the management colleagues, the posting by 22 clock in the evening from the office of his successful business deal Do you really want to be every night at a party – and sacrifice the next day, the cat? You will notice that you much of what others are wearing on the web or elsewhere to show, do not want. And you are aware that everything is going well in your life already.

If you have realized that you do not want lots and lots already own, you will also learn to compete on your own terms. Weingardt psychologist: "Envy can only arise in comparison with others. If we learn to with what we have, to be happy, we are literally resistant. "And these are particularly invisible things: inner harmony, friendship, family, health. So: Never compare, never compete: not compare you, you can not compete! It will only wear down.

On the other hand, your envy be an important guide to own dreams, desires and needs. Weingardt: "envy can set things in motion. Suddenly we pack on what we wanted to tackle ever. "The psychologist sees envy as a good opportunity to deal with one's own salvation. What do I need? How could I achieve it? Maybe some people will be motivated to shut down, to mingle with people and make a new life.

Imagine with the envied in a common framework: If your colleague lands a super coup, you are happy that you are part of such a productive team. Or be proud that you have friends who live a glamorous life, which eventually also shed light on you.