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Florence Daily News, swipe it on your iPad!
Florence Daily News looks just fine when you view it in an iPad but what every iPad user gets very soon used is swiping across to turn pages. Now, it would be a good addition to our web site on iPad. You are able to provide this functionality. The new functionality is essentially developed for iPad.
Florence Daily News, read it in the new mobile theme
Now you can easily read Florence Daily News on your Iphone, Ipod touch or other mobile device. The new mobile site by WPtouch transforms Florence Daily News into an application-like theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects when viewed from the most popular mobile web browsing devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile devices and more.
Mayor Renzi to attend at the DNC in Charlotte
Equality and Economic Opportunities in 21st Century Cities: “Lessons from the U.S. and Around the World” Organized in partnership with the Charlotte 2012 Host Committee, the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Featuring: Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School professor; Mayor Anthony Foxx, Charlotte; Mayor Matteo Renzi, Florence, Italy, and more.
The meeting of EPP: watch Mario Monti’s address
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will visit the EUI this Thursday 6 September, to open the meeting of the Presidency of the European People’s Party in Florence. Monti’s opening address will be streamed live and accessible to all. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 13.00. Watch the event here. The EPP group will discuss on how to restore economic growth in Europe and the defense of the values .
The musician Piero Farulli died at 92
Piero Farulli died at 92. He was one of the protagonists of Italian musical life and founder of the School of Music of Fiesole (Florence, Italy), which has revealed the death. For 30 years he played the viola with the Italian Quartet, from 1977 Farulli resumed his activities violist with the Trio di Trieste and the Amadeus Quartet.
Syracuse debate, health care and humanities
Rebecca Garden, PhD, Associate Professor Bioethics &, Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, NY); Exec. Director, Consortium for Culture & Medicine presents “First Person, Culture, Place and Society: The Humanities and Health Care”, September 5. Prof Garden will outline a new model to approach to health care keeping in mind the key word : compassion for the patients.
Mayor Renzi to run for PD primaries
Florence mayor Renzi said the PD will come out stronger of its primaries, and whoever gets more votes wins. “Whoever gets one vote more than the other wins. Mayor Renzi few days ago said he will run with his primary campaign on September, 13. He strongly criticized the party leaders and defined Pierluigi Bersani’s opening to the civil society “a trick”.
“Poppea” is expected to come with rain
End of August under the rain. Raining already in the Northwestern regions and the Alps; now Northbound. These are the first major signs of weather changing. Tomorrow Pompea, the cyclonic vortex, is expected, the first autumn storm, with rainfall and storms from the Northwestern regions and Tuscany, bound to the central regions downh to Campania in the evening.
NYU debate: “What is wrong with the Euro?”
The Euro zone has been the most recent hotspot of the global economic crisis. The political and economic interdependence of European Union countries has been brought home by the crisis of the Euro. “What is wrong with the Euro?” will take place September 5, 2012, 6 pm at Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy.