Learn Italian in Tuscany

One of the best Italian Language Schools in Italy, Il Sasso is recognized by the Ministry of Education and ISO 9001 certified. Since 25 years it offers courses in Italian Language, Culture, Art, Wine, History, Literature, Italian for Business, Preparation for CELI and CILS. The school is open all year round both for group and individual teaching. The teachers are specialized in the teaching of Italian as a foreign and second language, and are particularly experienced in instructing adult students. The school of Italian Il Sasso is in Montepulciano, in the heart of Tuscany, half way between Florence and Rome. It is located in a historic building in town. It has 8 large, airy classrooms and a hall for conferences. There is a terrace with a lovely panoramic view as well as free Internet Point for students and free WiFi access. The Italian language School Il Sasso offers to its students a wide variety of excursions and afternoon activities - guided tours, wine, olive oil and cheese tastings, cooking lessons, walks in the countryside and the opportunity to study or watch films at the school. Students are of every age group and come from all parts of the globe. Class sizes are from four to nine students. The classes of Italian Language and Culture are divided into six levels based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the European Council, with an additional level for students who wish to concentrate on conversation. The principal objective of our language courses is to get our students, even those in the beginner and elementary levels, to the point where they're able to communicate in Italian.

Scuola di Italiano "Il Sasso"
Via di Gracciano nel Corso, 2
53045 Montepulciano (SI)
Italy

http://www.ilsasso.com/
e-mail: info@ilsasso.com
tel.: +39-0578-758311
fax: +39-0578-757547
Skype: ilsassomontepulciano

New Charming Gay Hotel in Florence

Mr. is an exclusive micro-resort designer for men; Mr. Resort is a guesthouse based on a personalized and exclusive idea of hospitality. It is not the usual design hotel but an "experience destination" which gives deep emotions to the guest, a small urban oasis which is much more than just a place to relax.
Mr. will be an integral part of your experience in Florence, it will make your discovery of the never-ending beauties of the city more intense and satisfying.Mr. intends to offer a lifestyle, preferably fluctuating and in transformation. It prefers sensuality to advanced technology.In Mr., comfort and elegance are born in an environment which is filled with memories from the past.

The materials used in the common areas of this High quality Inn are the ones that communicate with the sight and the sense of touch: antique wood, terra-cotta, antique majolicas, stucco, slaked lime and stone.In the rooms, glam and glitter accents accompany precious materials such as crystals, mirrors, gold, velvet, the ebony colour of the lava stone used as a coating in the washrooms and the Plexiglas of very modern illuminating machines. Everywhere there are evocative objects which light up the fantasy.

Entrance is at Via delle Ruote 14/a, a typical Florentine road, characterised by private homes, ancient palaces, and a few fine restaurants frequented by a local regular clientele.
Piazza San Marco and Galleria dell’Accademia (which hosts the marvellous David by Michelangelo) are only a block away; the Duomo, Piazza San Lorenzo and Cappelle Medicee are only at a 5 minute-walk.The Galleria degli Uffizi is at about 15 minutes walking, and you can easily reach it through all the most famous streets for shopping (Gucci, Prada, Ferragamo, Versace, D&G, Armani etc).The Ponte Vecchio will offer you all the beauty of the city seen from the river.For who loves jogging, it is possible to reach the garden of Fortezza da Basso (three-minute walk from Mr. Hotel), where Pitti Uomo fashion shows take place during some months of the year.

For further information:
info@mrflorence.it
tel./fax +39 055 283955

MR Resort Gay Hotel in Florence

Industrial cleaning: specific products for machinery and environments

From small business to large industry, the common factor of a good level of cleanliness ensure the reliability of machinery and development of work.

Many and specific products are dedicated to industrial cleaning from simple tools, such as the brooms of magnitude 30 -50 cm commonly used every day by employed people with cloths, paper towels, bags and dispenser provided up to more innovative systems for Industrial cleaning such as cryogenic cleaning, commonly called with dry ice.
This system uses precisely the dry ice as cleaning substance which has among its features the fact of not leaving any trace of moisture to its passage.

Its peculiarity makes this system very suitable for cleaning food sector as well find wide use in cleaning electrical installations. These professional systems that require the use of special machines, are offered by specialized companies and firms that increasingly developing equipment for guarantee preventive maintenance to ensure optimal degrees of hygiene and deep cleaning of machines in a few hours of work.

Is then available for daily cleaning a wide range of products from disinfectants solvents to be used manually, until the machinery for industrial cleaning, which washer-floors, washer-dryer, washer mobile stairs and vacuum cleaners.
A variety of products for every need of cleaning from environments to small machinery, specific elements for each sector by typography to alimentary; every kind of dirt finds its most effective way to get maximum cleanliness in the shortest possible time and with the least effort possible.

Detergents, degreasers and stains remover are used for small plans and places while there are more demanding instrumentation as equipment for steam cleaning along the "portable" steam generators to backpack and vacuum cleaners and steam cleaner to obtain a good degree of cleaning and disinfection with a contained fatigue for cleaners.

Companies involved in the production of these products for industrial cleaning ensure the reliability of machinery and usual accessories with a particular regard for the safe with regard to machinery, while the various solvents, detergents and degreasers are specifically designed to avoid damage to health as allergies or other things for people who use them or they are naturally contact.

Modern cleaning systems, like the one above that uses the dry ice, joins a wide variety of equipment and products tested that ensure cleanliness and thus a good use of machinery of factories and companies that are reference point of the work of many sectors.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from barredoras. For any information on Eureka, visit barredora industrial or surfing on-line maquinas barredoras.

Holidays, time of sea and comfort

Summer, time of holidays and the preferential destination is the sea.

Sand and crystal clear water whether our holiday is on our coasts in Italy or we are among the lucky few who reach beautiful island for a fabulous stay, certainly not want disfigure in terms of clothing.

So to spend hours lying to sunbathe between a dip and another, the choice of new costume must follow the new fashion trends beach becomes obliged. For a woman we find new beach bikini lines by strong colours, to create a "rainbow" on the beach, flanked by modern semi-one piece swimwear costumes that play to see and not to see until to come to the simple clothes with tight strep, with necklines on the back to wear even for walks or evening to fully enjoy the sea breeze.

Even for a man strong colours for the costumes tand shorts by sea for all tastes, Hawaiian patterns beaches that attract foreign but also more sober colors for lovers of classical style.
There is the known pareo, convenient for her but also used by him, perhaps in dyed with the costume, the garment is becoming faster and convenient for the beach and other.

The desire for sea and want to stay comfortable, even when walking and then how not to use simple flip-flop, comfortable even on the shore of the beach but very appreciated also to walk in the streets of the city, from the most Spartan, rubber and plastic until most elegant, perfect for the evening, with rhinestones, finishing in silver and gold, together with light summer dress, complete the dress perfectly.
Convenient since the departure until the arrival on the beach and practice even during our shopping in the city centre, can not miss the bag, our hand luggage that gives us the air a little 'nomadic and chic that contains everything that we need in an entire day, from morning to evening;
When we are lying on the beach and want a nice cushion enough to fill a little 'and the canvas bag will also practice in this!

The fashion this year really satisfied anyone and who don't love the flip-flop also in the evening, but doesn't want hight-helled sandals and doesn't love the wedge-helled shose, these are the sandals by metallic style the flt sandals are the accessory most used in this summer. Many models for the convenience of all, the important thing is these are sparkling like gold and silver.

So feel like holiday and siutable dresses and this year the offer satisfied all from accessories, such as glasses, perhaps with ebony and ivory frame that recall a precious style , to the simplicity colored flip-flop in rubber appreciated even by ' man for their comfort (thong bikini).

Towels with a thousand colors to sunbathe in joy but also lighter clothes and elegant evening for evenings outdoors. For the holiday of her and him the choice for comfortable clothes, simple and summer sure is much.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from beach bikini. For any information on Chiarugi, visit one piece swimwear or surfing on-line thong bikini.

Passion for Life at the Grand Palais in Paris

The Salon des Artistes Indépendants will host the Passion for Life art exhibition in support of the Institut Curie at the Grand Palais: Together in the fight against cancer, 15 international artists will exhibit their artwork.

The next group art exhibition Passion for Life will be held from November 21-30, 2008 at the Grand Palais in Paris, in support of the Institut Curie. Following severa l art exhibitions in Italy, Mexico and the Principality of Monaco, Passion for Life has been offered the opportunity to exhibit in Paris, France, under the banner of the prestigious Société des Artistes Indépendants. Following the invitation of the President of the Society, Mrs. Franckie Tacque, and her Board of Directors, 15 international artists will exhibit their art for a humanitarian cause: the fight against cancer.

A small group of innovative artists, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Camille Pissarro and the founders Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Henri-Édmond Cross, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, founded the Salon des Indépendants in 1884. In a movement of defiance, these Néo-Impressionist painters, tired from being refused by the juries of the official Salon, decided to create their own Salon - the Salon des Indépendants - with the fundamental principle of "no jury, nor reward".

One of the objectives of the Passion for Lif e program is to collect funds for the fight against cancer. The program was founded by Antoine Gaber, impressionist artist painter and cancer researcher in drug development mostly for cancer therapies. In each country where the Passion for Life exhibition has been held, the funds raised have been entirely donated to a charitable organization or a pre-selected, local association. In this upcoming event in November in Paris, Passion for Life will be supporting the Institut Curie. Founded in 1909 based on a conceptual model created by Marie Curie, the Institut Curie now brings together 2000 researchers, doctors and health care professionals, all working with the same aim: to find cures for cancer with speed. As a recognized Foundation with public support since 1921, the Institut Curie aims to make quickly available the most recent advancements in research with a multi-disciplinary approach, whilst bringing the best available treatments to cancer patients.

Participating Artis ts: Figen Begen, Mary Brilli, Diana Calvillo, Jean Pierre Faucher, Antoine Gaber, Marybel Gallegos, Sumio Inoue, Maz Jackson, Kosmas Kroussos, Leticia Leal, Sinae Lee, Martin J.A. Nijman, Marieta Reijerkerk, Goga Trascierra, Karel Vreeburg.

Partners: A.P.E. Association de la presse étrangère; Le Nôtre; Poilâne; Espace le Scribe-l'Harmattan; Fondazione Franco Bombana; Sagat.

Salon des Artistes Indépendants - ART en CAPITAL – at the Grand Palais, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt - 75008 Paris

Exhibition schedule: daily from 11.00 to 19.30

Opening (by invitation only): Friday 21 November from 17.00 until 22.30

Evenings: Wednesday 26 and Friday November 28 until 22.30
Tickets: 10 euro / reduced 6 euro

For transport by subway: line 1, 9 and 13 - station: Champs Elysées, Clemenceau or Franklin Roosevelt
For transport by bus: numbers 28, 32, 42, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93

Exhibition Organization: Studio Abba and Mary Brilli

Press contact Paris: Mary Brilli: 01 47 95 19 32, marybrilli@marybrilli.com
Press Services: Vito Abba – info@studioabba.com
www.studioabba.com tel./fax +39 055 29 20 82

For further details visit :

www.passionforlifeart.com
www.antoinegaber.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/passionforlifeart/

Amalfi coast villas by Sea and Sky

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Professional Photographers Photo Software Enhancements

MomaPIX- The online archive management and sales service for professional photographers and photo agencies - launches a Web2.0 version of its online photo service for professional photographers and photo agencies

MomaPIX (www.momapix.com) - The online archive management and sales service for professional photographers and photo agencies - have released a new edition of its software utilising the latest Web2.0 technologies and it is now available throughout the global market.

The new release greatly advances MomaPIX's usability and simplicity and introduces many new features such as an activity log, batch upload of images via ftp and automatic photo distribution using ftp/http.

MomaSoft (www.momapix.com/features) , the Italian company that produces MomaPIX, states that its services is distinguished from other online archives by its focus on the needs of professional photo agencies and freelancers. The service is tailored to meet the needs of each individual user by providing a dedicated suite of services instead of the usual "one size fits all" shared packaged solutions. The MomaPIX (http://www.momapix.com/features/fast_usability) service has evolved over many years and is based on co-operation with photo professionals through a continuous process of feedback and improvement.

MomaSoft's intention is to continue to utilize their winning formula of mixing superior technological competencies with personalised collaboration with its customers, which has been the basis of its strong reputation in the past. Using to this formula MomaPIX will continue to provide a simple user-friendly product but complete with all the features and technologies essential to efficiently manage, promote and sell a professional digital photo archive.

MomaPIX – Organize Your Creativity
WEB SITE: www.momapix.com

UbiEst announces the mobile location based service for family peace of mind

UbiSafe will be available for on-line purchase on italian market from 18 september

SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 8 -- UbiEst SpA, leading Italian developer of location-based mobile services, today announced at the DEMOfall 08 conference a mobile application for personal security, contact locating and emergency needs. UbiSafe can be used for monitoring elder or invalid persons in need of attendance, for personal safety (at night, in walking risk zones, etc.) or for our children's security.

Unlike other already-marketed "child locators" working from a Web-based interface, UbiSafe is an all-mobile application bringing portability and everytime/everywhere access to contact locating directly from mobile phones. Furthermore UbiSafe is a mobile-to-mobile application that doesn't require dedicated GPS trackers, as localization can leverage on any GPS equipped handset.

UbiSafe comes as a mobile Java (and Java RIM) client enabling: verification and tracking of family memb ers' positions on the map; the ability to send/receive emergency messages; the set up of personalized "safe" zones (geo-fencing); and the creation of personalized notification rules (ie. when child leaves location).

Two main features bring UbiSafe in the forefront of technological innovation in LBS for personal security: parents can create a "virtual leash" for preventing children from moving out of sight and activating a chasing mode to track simultaneously the child's movements related to the parent's while trying to reach him. A graphic toolbar helps approach the target with basic colors: red for target moving apart, yellow for constant distance and green for approaching target.

The second feature is aimed to help adolescents enjoy greater freedom of movement ensuring tranquility of the parents: thanks to a GPS receiver, parents can be warned if a newly-licensed son/daughter exceeds an agreed-upon speed-limit by car or if a sudden breaking occurs.

"UbiSafe leverages the demand for contemporary solutions for safety and care in the family. It's a brilliant example of cutting-edge advanced technology applied to universal and down-to-earth needs," says Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences.

UbiSafe is planned to be marketed worldwide by TelCo Operators on a subscription model. In addition, it is appealing for device manufacturers (and retailers) and OEMs with post-sale code activation, promoting uptake of new advanced smartphone models.

UbiEst will also activate a direct selling channel from a dedicated ecommerce platform at www.ubisafe.com.

SOURCE: UbiEst SpA

PRESS CONTACT: Brina Francavilla at UbiEst SpA +39 0422 210 194,
brina.francavilla@ubiest.com

Web site: www.ubiest.com

ABOUT DEMO
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit www.demo.com

ABOUT UBIEST
Founded in 2000 and based in Treviso (Italy), UbiEst SpA provides location based solution on Internet and Mobile connections for Business and Consumer markets.
Despite being an early stage comapny counting 40 employees, UbiEst holds a strong leadership in italian B2B market of Location Based Services and is among NAVTEQ main EMEA partners.
The company has developed its own mapping technology in order to provide state of the art and highly performing Internet and mobile solutions, available for in-house or SaaS (Software as a Service) and provides provides the location technology, the expertise and the infrastructure to develop new value added location based services for business and consumer markets.
Currently the company provides a suite of mobile location based products for fleet management, personal security, off board navigation and workforce management. Significant customers: Fiat, Trenitalia, Vodafone Italy, Ferrari, Enel, Telecom Italia, etc.

Travelling to Italy it's not just a dream

When you dream about Italy from the other side of the world and all you know about it is what you remember from your grandfather’s stories or what you have seen in a movie from the 50ies, you can either be in your 40ies or a senior college student, that all you want to do is just traveling around living the country and its magic on yourself.

There are many ways to travel around the world, but for sure there is one better way to travel in each part of the world. If you are planning your trip to Italy and you want to live it on your skin, there is no better way of doing than having enough time to walk around to enjoy the different landscapes and to get to know the people who make this country so fun and famous. This is one of the plus: you don’t need a car and either that your hotel is downtown or in the country, you are able to visit a whole city and all the points of interest around it and enjoy the walk. Actually in Italy there is the great chance to book cheap hotels downtown, that give you the chance to live also the nightlife.

As we all know, there is not only the historical side of this old country, beyond the chapels and the museums, Italy and Italians are also famous for enjoying life in all its sides. From food to music, Italians love what they do, they love having fun and they want the people around them to have as much fun, this is why it is necessary avoid being shy and just have fun in one of the most beautiful countries in Europe!

Enjoy the best food in the world, the most amazing places and the best people, you will think you are living in a Fellini movie, walk in the endless country among Umbria and Tuscany, taste the best wine and buy fresh food from the farmers…

You may go to Italy for many different reason, but there is no way that you leave without having it in your heart. In great historical cities as Naples, in the most wild country, like Tuscany, or in the cosmopolitan Milan you’ll find the best hospitality and the comfortable atmosphere that make you feel at home without taking away its classical and so suggestive sensation of living in a dream.

Summers increasingly hot, especially in northern

The last hot of these days added with very little precipitation of the last two weeks, is forebode torrid July and August, along the lines of 2003 record summer.

Fortunately, the spring was full of rain and for this the emergency drought and electrical blackouts seem averted.. Anyway, the Italian civil protection ensure that the worst is not yet past and will appear in the next two months, fortunately devoted mainly to holidays and summer vacation.

As every year, however, the indications from various institutions are useful and to respect for oneself but above all for the environment, such as to dole out the water of their water taps.

In particular, for the health of the elderly and children, the authorities always advised to avoid the dehydration by drinking at least 1.5 litres of water a day and avoid the hottest hours of the day, especially after lunch, where the organisation is already involved in digestion. In these terms, another valuable advice is to eat mainly fruit and vegetables strictly cold and in any case to stay light, without to get heavier too.

Usually to avoid, these boiling hours, it is advisable to pass them at home without taking the sun and avoid any physical activity and effort. In particular it is recommended, for who can to install air conditioners to wall and impose these with temperatures not less than 5-7 ° C compared to room temperature.

Of fundamental importance for the health, is the maintenance of these coolers and all the accessories for air conditioners used. This is to prevent malfunctions of this can lead to wrong measurements and observations, both temperature and humidity, which could be extremely harmful to the body that would suffer too many sudden changes between internal and external dwelling.

In particular, it should also be checked annually all vacuum pumps that if with a malfunction can lead to big energy wastage electric as regards the fuel gas, affecting significantly the performance with resulting damage, more than anything else , for the environment (greater demand and therefore more energy inputs to generate the same source cooler).

Precisely to avoid further problems related to the transmission of gas (fuel) from the counter to the air conditioner it should be reviewed periodically all the copper piping and the welds that eventually could be deteriorate and to exhale inside the gas with all the risks that it entails.

All this to say that it is exact try to combat the heat with the technology, but we must bear in mind other key issues: the environment, thanks to efficiency of equipment, and their health, security controls to avoid unpleasant drawbacks.

This will easily overcome these hot summer months, without incurring risks to their person and especially for the environment, which we must never forget we are directly and indirectly responsible and depend.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from A/C vaccum pumps. For any information on Eurotec BT, visit hvac tools or surfing on-line gas leak detector.

Venice, the enchanted city by the shining glass

Venice, capital of the Veneto region, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, imposes itself on the Venetian lagoon as that magical and special city that you remember for its particularity and splendor.

Its lagoon territory is made up of many islands that take various events as well hide historical past and valuable architectural monuments.

Among the best known islands, which each year have welcomes the mayor tourists flow, the Lido, gives life to that part of the coast that marks the border with the Adriatic, and it is here that stand the greatest beaches and the beaches are crowded with tourists while each year repeats the International exhibition of art cinema of Venice that welcomes a large number of celebrities.

In the north-east of Venice, stands silent but important, the island of Murano, a small group of seven islets, linked together by bridges, known worldwide for the activity that for ages takes place here: the glass craft. The Venetian art glass has very ancient origins, the findings suggest already the VII century BC. Amurianum, as was once called Murano, increased over the centuries for its glass art, unique and particular, developed with the teacher Angelo Barovier who marked the transition torward the'400 to use of white glass very similar to crystal.

Today with the real Murano glass, guaranteed by its seal of quality, arose with the regional law in 1994, are produced beautiful objects of fine crafts, lamps, vases and more, which stand out for the care of shapes and shine of crystals. Very significant for the tourist is the visit to the furnaces, where you can really admire the magic of the production process that leads to the creation of this particular glass of Venice.

The Venetian craft is just one of many features which make the city known worldwide. Venice is a city full of art and as such hold's in the original works of many Italian artists, and simply walking around the city we will find monuments and rich churches in history.
The most extravagant and majestic, the Venice Carnival, recreates a single magic through the streets and squares of the city that for ten days are colored by Venetian masks and costumes in a single meeting of music and entertainment.

The lack of the car and the only chance to turn the city on foot or in the characteristic "gondola", crossing the Venetian canals, do Venice the "City of lovers", where you can make long walks accompanied by sweet noise of the water.
Venice a unique mix that everyone wants to visit an enchanted city that offers its visitors a fairytale stay.

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Exciting new vision on art: WORLD ART VISION 2008 to be launched in Cancun

WORLD ART VISION will take place from 5 to 14 December 2008 at the Cancun Center, Cancun, Mexico. It is the first edition of this contemporary art fair that is to become essential to the art scene of the Americas.

Over 100 artists from 5 continents will participate in WORLD ART VISION, which will feature painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, prints, installation art, video and digital art. Arturo Garcia Bustos and Rina Lazo, who were, respectively, pupils of and assistants to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera will be present during the exhibition, therefore bringing an exceptional artistic testimony to WORLD ART VISION: CANCUN 2008.

The idea of WORLD ART VISION comes from a desire to invest in contemporary art in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico; not only to further increase the number of tourists, but also to make it a meeting point for the Americas for collectors, critics and interested parties, to visit a fair where the artists stand beside the art, without the representation of a gallery, to give a vision of contemporary art worldwide. WORLD ART VISION will be located at the Cancun Center, the modern, well equipped exhibition centre located in the heart of Cancun’s prestigious “zona hotelera”, one of the world’s preferred tourist locations.

Sietze Groenewold, fellow artist and member of the Selection Committee of WORLD ART VISION, said “WORLD ART VISION is a chance for individual artists to exhibit their most recent work. But it is also an opportunity to meet with the other artists present and attend the exciting program of collateral events and conferences which are being organized and of course, to meet with the public, visitors, collectors and critics”.

WORLD ART VISION is offering the artists various incentives including discounts on accommodation, travel and local entertainment during their stay in Cancun and two social highlights during the ten day period of the exhibition: the opening Vernissage cocktail and the gala dinner. The gala dinner will be a not to be missed opportunity for all artists and the public to savor Mexican cuisine on the exclusive terrace of the Cancun Center with the accompaniment of the exciting Mariachi.

An important artistic incentive for all participating artists is the opportunity to be part of the Vision Virtual Gallery where their art works will be on sale via the web for the year following the WORLD ART VISION: CANCUN 2008.

The artists who participate in WORLD ART VISION are picked by the Selection Committee, that is made up of important critics, journalists and artists: Fabrizio Borghini, Diana Calvillo, Argelia Castillo, Sietze Groenewold, Betty Jonker, Luisa Noriega, Matty Roca, Agnese Sartori, Mirella Setzu and Giampaolo Trotta. The Artistic Director of WORLD ART VISION is Matty Roca, Mexican art critic and historian and member of AICA. She has said recently, “this is a marvellous opportunity for artists to meet with each other, with the public and potential buyers, Cancun being a resort with extremely high level tourism and trade and we are extremely grateful for the encouragement and for the support given by the Ayuntamiento Benito Juarez Cancun and the State of Quintana Roo in the organisation of this event”.

For further information for journalists prior to the exhibition, please contact the press office:
Studio Abba - Corso Italia, 6 - 50123 Florence - Italy
tel. /fax +39 055 292082 - info@studioabba.com - www.studioabba.com

For artists interested in participating please contact the WAV Organisation team at
info@world-art-vision.com www.world-art-vision.com

Eurotech announces the new Low Power ISIS PC/104+ board based on the Intel® Atom™ processor

Eurotech has been working with Intel Corporation as an early adopter of Low Power Intel® Architecture (LPIA) devices. As a result of this work Eurotech have now released the new ISIS single board computer.

ISIS is a PC/104+ format device offering levels of functionality and performance traditionally requiring a high performance x86 board, but at a significantly reduced power consumption to less than 5 watts. This fanless x86 compatibility is achieved by harnessing the low power capabilities of the next generation embedded Intel® Atom™ chipset.

Using Intel's Hi-K 45nm technology the Intel® Atom™ Z500 series processor delivers the benefits of Intel x86 architecture in a robust, ultra-small package with exceptional performance-per-watt. The processor is matched with an Intel® System Controller Hub (SCH) US15W which is a highly integrated device combining a graphics memory controller and I/O controller into a single 22x22 mm package.

A full range of on board peripherals are provided including 8 x USB 2.0 ports, VGA, LVDS, HD-Audio, RS232/422/485, Ethernet, GPIO and IDE. Expansion requirements are well covered by a combination of PC/104 (ISA), PC 104+ (PCI) and PCI-Express Mini Card, so interfacing to real-world I/O or the latest wireless technology is easy.

The ISIS offers a choice of 1.1 and 1.6 GHz processor parts and comes with up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM and up to 4GB of soldered-down Flash for security and durability. Further solid-state Flash expansion is available via an SDIO socket. An optional ITrax300 GPS receiver with full Position/Velocity/Time functionality is also available.

Having all this performance in such a small package is a truly compelling offering that makes the ISIS ideally suitable for applications such as infotainment, interactive kiosks, access control, HMI, medical and industrial control.

A key feature of the ISIS is it's full compatibility with a wide range of desktop and pre-installed, ready to run, embedded operating systems including Windows Vista, Windows CE 6.0, Windows XP/XPe and Linux.

Eurotech designs and manufactures a wide range of innovative Embedded Single Board computers, Applications Ready Platforms and Configurable Systems for customers who operate within the Transportation, Communications, Defence, Security and Industrial engineering industries.

Eurotech is present in Europe, North America, China and Japan. Eurotech develop digital technologies for a better world making every d ay life safer and more comfortable, today and for tomorrow.

For further information please contact our sales team (welcome@eurotech.com) or visit www.eurotech.com

Italian language school for foreigners in Florence

Galilei Institute is an Italian language school that provides Italian courses, cooking lessons, art courses in Florence.

It is a school for foreigners, specializing in full immersion, personalized courses designed for students, but also for professionals.

It works in Florence since 1985, providing its services to the international leading companies, teaching Italian language and culture to foreigners.

The secret of its success is high quality, rigorous attention to the individual linguistic needs, excellent teachers and technologically equipped classrooms.

The institute also specializes in qualified linguistic services: editing, translation, revision, updating and correction of texts for speeches, reports, conventions or advertising.

Galileo Galilei: the best language and culture school.

INSTITUTE GALILEI
Via degli Alfani 68
50121 Firenze - Italy
Phone +39 055 29 46 80
Fax +39 055 28 34 81
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La dieta macrobiotica

Più che una dieta la macrobiotica è una vera e propria filosofia di vita, da makros e bios, letteralmente lunga, grande vita. Come la quasi totalità delle grandi filosofie proviene dall'oriente, dove è radicata da almeno 5000 anni. Niente di nuovo sotto il sole, ma per noi europei ed il resto del mondo questo tipo di alimentazione è nota dai primi del '900 quando George Ohsawa la portò alla ribalta del grande pubblico.

Alimenti base nella cucina macrobiotica sono i cereali, che devono essere non raffinati ed integrali, i grassi, tra i quali sono consentiti il burro di sesamo e l'olio extravergine di oliva (no a burro e margarina), i legumi, la cui acqua di cottura è consigliata come bevanda e le alghe.

Gli alimenti sono classificati in base alla loro componente Yin e Yang. Immaginiamo una scala graduata da 0 a 7, da una parte Yang positivo (da 0 a +7) dall'altra Yin negativo (da 0 a -7), ogni alimento avrà una sua classificazione in base al contenuto Yin e Yang. Sono Yin i cibi a componente acida, ad esempio latte, yogurt, frutta, tè, spezie. Sono invece Yang gli alimenti con componente alcalina, come la carne, il pesce, pollo, uova, sale. Tutto ciò che è agli estremi è dannoso ma può essere utilizzato come "medicina" quando è necessario curare uno squilibrio nella componente opposta. Il concetto è un po' difficile e non facilmente illustrabile in poche righe, per cui si rimanda alle centinaia di pubblicazioni specifiche per un approfondimento più completo.

Occorre evitare tutti i tipi di cibo pesantemente trattati e conservati a livello industriale e le ricette di cucina a base di prodotti troppo lavorati, è necessario utlizzare prodotti quanto più possibile non lavorati e naturali, soprattutto biologici. E' da eliminare tutto quanto dolcificato con zucchero e miele (crostate, torte, ecc), sono da evitare patate, pomodori, melanzane, latte e latticini in genere. E' da preferire il consumo di pesce alla carne ed è sconsigliato l'utilizzo di sale comune e/o spezie a favore del solo sale marino naturale. Un pasto sarà armonico se conterra conterrà il 50% di cereali integrali, il 25% di proteine di cui il 10% di origine animale e il 15% di origine vegetale, il 25% tra verdure (cotte e crude) e frutta. Per gli utensili da cucina sono consigliati il legno per i mestoli ed il bambù per i cestelli per cottura a vapore. Per le pentole e tegami è da utilizzare l'acciaio inossidabile o la terracotta. Da evitare gli utensili in alluminio perché andrebbero a modificare le proprietà ed il gusto dei cibi. Le cotture più indicate sono quella a pressione per cereali e legumi, e quella al vapore per i vegetali, pesce e carne, quelle sconsigliate sono quelle maggiormente elaborate quali sformati, torte salate, sughi grassi ed intingoli vari.

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Italian food tradition: the polenta

Compared to the whole world Italy is a really small country but it has a very particular aspect that makes it different: having century of history and traditions that gave to Italy a deep variety in every single region of its territory.

Italy is composed of 21 districts and everyone of these has his own traditions and dialects and obviously every one has his own food tradition. The main Italian foods worldwide are pasta and pizza but if can travel Italy from North to South you can taste the local dishes unknown to the world.

For example the North of Italy, during Winter time, has a typical food made just with corn flour, the polenta. The versatility of polenta allows Italians to offer it in several ways but the most famous polenta recipe is to serve the authentic Italian polenta on a wood made dish with meat juice and sausages with Parmiggiano cheese. It needs to be served hot and in the North of Italy is a real tradition eaten almost every day during the cold winters. It is important to eat polenta with a good red wine.

The traditional polenta requires a long preparation that in the North of Italy becomes almost a family event. The polenta get usually eaten with many people or with the whole family so, since the early morning they begin to hot water and to stir the great quantity of polenta that needs hours to be ready to be served.

After a full morning of skiing it is traditional to drink wine and to eat the Italian polenta; in the last years to face the taste of more people possible, they started to offer polenta not only with meat juice but also with mushrooms, without juice, just with cheese or with some nouvelle cuisine ingredient like rare fish or vegetables.

In any case, the traditional polenta remains another precious element of Italian traditions and allows many people to enter in contact with the history of a part of Italy , the North one, full of history and traditions.

Verona: historical heritage chanted by Shakesperare

Among the places and cities more visited in Italy, there is certainly the city of Verona, the second town in the Veneto, by number of inhabitants, crossed by the river Adige, is known by majority for Roman amphitheatre became a symbol of the city itself : Arena.

Where today the famous lyrical festival well as many other concerts are carry out. In addition, the city was chosen by William Shakesperare for his famous work Romeo and Juliet that is today the memory in the Juliet’s house. Verona every year received a large numbers of tourists who come to visit the many artistic treasures as well as to participate in various events.

The city that ries at the foot of St. Peter’s hill, along the banks of the Adige river, has always been a strategic point of trade for the terrestrial and water transport, today recognized by UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains many historic monuments and places to visit. In addition to Piazza Bra, where is the famous Arena, certainly see Grasses’s Square and Piazza dei Messrs’s square to immerse yourself in the history of the city.

A typical area of Verona, active for the feast of dad dumpling is San Zeno’s square that on the occasion of the feast fills typical markets, such as antiques and participating in this celebration you can immerse fully in the climate and in the life of the country, being equally within the city. Verona hosts many events and shows including the most famous and known is certainly the already mentioned lyric festival that reigns supreme in every summer since 1913 when it was inaugurated with Giuseppe Verdi's Aida to which celebrities came from all over the world.

At the Roman theatre takes place every year since 1948 when it was inaugurated with the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, theatre Summer that also collects many distinguished participants. Lately have added also musical performances with major jazz and dance bands. Among the events the Palio of Verona was renewed recently, known as the green drape, a race which dates all'800 and is the oldest in the world, reached the 591 th edition.

Among the many features of the city there is certainly his newspaper "the Arena", which is one of the oldest of Italy founded in 1866.
A rich city in history and life, that impose itself for its architecture and its events becoming a reference point for the nation and the world.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from prenotazione hotel Verona. For any information, please visit dormire s San Michele or albergo 3 stelle Verona.

Websites: new technologies open the door to the world

The advent of new technologies, but especially the widespread use of the internet has completely revolutionized the world of communications.

Since first hints of internet around the years'90, in a few years the development and growth of the web was extremely fast and has established itself as communications system for both the private and the professional use; today many companies are born precisely through the network. Use the internet allows to have the entire world at your fingertips, there are no boundaries and within seconds you can have on your computer any information, photos, details and anything of a state from end to end of the planet.

The website has become the new "shop", the new "showcase" essential to who is running an activity, from the small shop that sells clothes for children to the great company that has an opportunity to bring its services directly into home's computers.

The first websites created only through what is the basis of language network, html, have been gradually developed and implemented by the new codes such as JavaScript, a real programming's language, the language CSS (stands for Cascading Style Sheets) continuous updating, which allow today to create dynamic sites dynamic and with attractive graphic effects, overcoming the static that is the prerogative of html code. Today we realize sites in PHP and ASP (Active Server Pages) that allow to create sites with any characteristic you want.

Lately then are included as management systems content on a site also Content management system (CMS), making it possible to standardize the style of all the pages of a site simply by changing a file.

The development of the Web is so fast and continuous that to tread the network's steps is practically impossible, the greatness of the Internet and the sea of information and exchange of information that allows people from opposite side of the world makes the study and birth of new languages and programs hectic expansion.

Recently, is also give birth to a variant of the website, known as blog, which allows users to participate actively in the site, making them become real actors in the network, in fact through the blog and a registration system you can post their articles directly and leave their comments on the texts of others, thus creating a chain of communication unique.

There are now many companies and professionals who gave life to their own activities using the channel of the Internet, offering directly as developers of websites. The technologies and programs, languages constantly evolving have started thus new jobs that meet technical and artistic elements and of image.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from web design for any information, please visit realizzazione siti web or for internet insurance visit web agency.

The best day of your life: why not in Italy?

The marriage is the greatest moment in a love story. It is the beginning of a new life among a man and a woman, the starting time of a brand new life spent together. This is the reason why it should be the perfect day in a lifetime.

An important aspect of a perfect wedding is the location. A great and unique place becomes the perfect witness of the happiness of lovers. During the preparation of a marriage a great part of time is absorbed by the choosing of location. The place were a marriage take place is the main aspect that characterize the ceremony because it represents the first impact for guests.

It is becoming very popular in USA or in the North of Europe to get married in Italy. Italy is one of the most fascinating countries in the world with thousand years of history and traditions that remained the same during the times. The are places in Italy that represent the best place to live for every single person: the country of Tuscany , Rome , Naples with Capri and Sorrento and Venice . These are the well known Italian cities that represent the ideal destinations for tourists.

These locations also represent the ideal location to host a wedding ceremony in Italy. Every one would like to get married having Italy and its landscape has stage for the wedding.

Having a marriage ceremony in a foreign country is becoming a perfect way to mix together the beauty of a ceremony and the possibility to offer to the guests a great moment in a unique place.

Every wedding should represent the best day in your life, it should be the childhood dream that becomes real, Italy represent the perfect place were finding romance, beauty, history and passion.

No matter if you have planned a big family wedding or a small intimate affair, Italy offers you any kind of location able to make your dreams come true. A big city like Rome or Venice or small and typical places like Capri or Sorrento . These place will become the first witness for your happiness.