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The appointment with Big Blu comes back for the fourth time at the New Fair of Rome.
Beside the usual appointments related to yachting, services and accessories with BOAT SHOW ROMA and the inflatable dinghy with GOMMOSHOW, are arriving new themes with cultural events, meetings and conventions, spaces for entertainment, water sports, for innovation and interactivity. 

Nine days dedicated to professionals and lovers of sailing, sea, water activities and sport fishing, which will find more than 900 companies and 750 boats.

Big Blu comes back to the New Fair of Rome from 20 to 28 February.

From: “Big Blu awaits at the New Fair of Rome”

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One of the most important shows in the field of interior design is coming: IMM Cologne, the International Show od Design and Furnishings, will start in a few days, on January 19th till 24th.
For 6 days long, design will be the only topic in a show where big brands will meet promising new talents and new trends will born, as well as innovative ideas and future visions. If you are interior design addicted, this is the ideal situation for you, since in 286.000 sm witg more than 1.200 companies exposing coming from 60 different countries in the world, you can find all the new trends of the best interiors for your house but also ideas for commercial interior design, like  hotel interior design or restaurant furniture.

You might wonder how a businessman, philanthropist, and self-improvement guru has ended up catching the attention of Jay Adams. It is simply because Jordan Wirsz has “The Heart of a Fighter”, which is the title of the segment in which he will appear on Adams’ Brawl Call this December.

Jordan Wirsz is one man that cannot be kept down. He has been obsessed with personal-development since he was a child and he has proven himself again and again in business, peak performance coaching, and philanthropy. Now Wirsz works to help others find success with his company Jordan Wirsz International Inc.

Wirsz believes that even though we all have challenges to overcome, we must put ourselves up to the task. He says, “Those who settle for mediocrity in their lives, who fear themselves and others, are not accepting the gifts God has given them.” Wirsz has accepted his gifts and brought them to fruition.

Wirsz has overcome many challenges in order to rise to success. Peak performance is a must no matter what and Wirsz will discuss with Adams how this is relevant to everyone, including and especially UFC fighters. “If you are content, you are on your way to misery,” says Wirsz. “One thing is for sure. Life will change, and so will whatever you are content with.” This applies whether you are a fighter or a housewife.

Tune in to see Jordan Wirsz on Brawl Call this December. Peak performance and success are not only possible, they are necessary if you are going to live an extraordinary life and no person should allow anything to hold them back.

About Jordan Wirsz:

Jordan Wirsz is peak performance coach, life coach, business coach, and personal development guru. After a difficult childhood, he went on to create an incredible life of success and achievement, while remaining passionately committed to philanthropy. Now his company offers life coaching and business coaching services to people from all walks of life. His company employs teams of highly experienced and specialized coaches, while Jordan himself remains renowned as a coach for highly elite clientele. For more information call 1-866-592-3646 or email Admin@JordanWirsz.com.

UbiEst to provide mobile turn-by-turn directions and local content in Turkey

OCT 23, 2009 - UbiEst is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership agreement with Turkcell, the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, for the “off board” GPS Navigation solution in the Turkish market. Turkey was the 7th most visited holiday destination in the world in 2008 with 26.5 millions travellers. International smartphone users travelling to Turkey can now receive turn-by-turn GPS-enabled voice and on-screen directions directly to their smartphones. Local service and content are provided by Turkish Navsme, using the industry leading global digital map from NAVTEQ.Voice navigation and geo naming are tailored to the customers and available in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German. In contrast to the traditional systems, Turkcell’s new service “off board” navigation offers automatic online access to the most recent updates of the cartographic data without occupying additional memory space. Features include the ability to mark waypoints or points of interest.

“International customers roaming on the Turkcell network can now safely navigate with clear voice instructions in several languages. The service offers a complete set of 2D and 3D maps, directly onto mobile phones”, explained Altan Cingöz from Turkcell, Division Head of Interoperator Business

“We have always considered the cooperation among leading players the right way in order to offer the best services to end users. UbiEst is proud to be part of a winning and very innovative team with Turkcell, Navsme and Navteq to launch its mobile navigation service UbiNav on one of the most growing and evolving market.” says Nicola De Mattia CEO at UbiEst.

About UbiEst (www.ubiest.com)
UbiEst S.p.A. provides Location Solutions: interactive maps, navigation, location based services and geodemographic market analysis (geomarketing) on Internet and mobile connections for Business and Consumer markets.

UbiEst mapping services help leading companies meet informative and marketing requirements in terms of location, routing and proximity of geographic assets, road navigation market and positioning benchmarking.UbiEst offers ready-to-use products for web mapping, CRM/Call Center applications, fleet management, off-board navigation, geomarketing and other front-end applications. Our business solutions deliver geographic support onto corporate processes and functions like Strategic Planning, Marketing, Sales, CRM, Logistics and Communication.

Our approach is based on the assumption that every customer expects value generation, usefullness, competitive advantage from the adoption of UbiEst solutions. Therefore UbiEst enstablishes a unique relationship with each customer company in a plan of mutual value contribution.

The UbiEst added value relies not only upon technological innovation and service level, but more and more on meeting customers specific needs and requirements. Our solutions’ task is to support and exploit customers business and to solve their location problems: understanding industry processes, specific challenges and markets is part of our job and our distinctive competence. Each project resorts to consultancy envolvement of our specialist resources and their store of technical skills, professionality and experience.

We recognize creation of mutual value through the relationship of partnership: this approach has marked the evolution of company and gained us the opportunity of moving ahead the innovative and qualitative frontier of our solutions and improving our standards.

About Turkcell
Turkcell is the leading GSM operator in Turkey with 36.3 million postpaid and prepaid customers as of June 30, 2009 operating in a three player market with a market share of approximately 57% as of June 30, 2009 (Source: operators’ announcements). Turkcell, is the technology leader providing EDGE technology across the country. Turkcell also provides high quality data and voice services to 60% of the population (as at 30 July 2009) through the implementation of its 3G technology. Turkcell provides roaming with 628 operators in 206 countries as of September 18, 2009. Serving a large subscriber base in Turkey with its high-quality wireless telephone network, Turkcell reported $1.4 billion net revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 as per IFRS financial statements. Turkcell has interests in international GSM operations in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Northern Cyprus and Ukraine. Turkcell has been listed on the NYSE (“New York Stock Exchange”) and the ISE (“Istanbul Stock Exchange”) since July 2000 and is the only NYSE listed company in Turkey. 51.00% of Turkcell’s share capital is held by Turkcell Holding, 0.05% by Cukurova Group, 13.07% by Sonera Holding, 2.32% by M.V. Group and 0.08% by others while the remaining 33.48% is free float.

About Navteq
NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data that enables navigation and location-based platforms around the world. NAVTEQ supplies comprehensive digital map information to power automotive navigation systems, portable and wireless devices, Internet-based mapping applications and government and business solutions. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has approximately 4,400 employees located in 192 offices and in 43 countries.

The seventh edition of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence will take place from 5th - 13th December 2009.

The seventh edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from 5th - 13th December 2009. 650 artists coming from 78 countries will be exhibiting more than 2.000 artworks and there will be an extraordinary meeting of cultures, languages and diverse artistic styles. The Florence Biennale supports the United Nations program “Dialogue between civilizations”, to which the Biennale has officially adhered since 2001.

The Biennale will also see the presence of important artists. In the 2007 edition, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” career prize was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 edition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney. The 2009 Life Achievement award will be given to Marina Abramovic and Shu Yong for their contribution to the International Contemporary Art Scene.

The International Scientific Committee (I.S.C.), composed of 20 qualified members, categorizes the works in the categories of painting, sculpture, graphic, mixed media, installation, photography and digital art. The selection is done with no prejudice of style. Artists are selected based on the quality of their artwork and the cultural values their work represents.

The International Jury that assigns recognitions and awards to the invited artists is composed of distinguished figures such Elza Ajzenberg, exhibition curator of the MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Dominique Edouard Bacheler, art history professor and art critic, Paris; Pang Bang Ben, artist and professor, China; R.B. Bhaskaran, past President of Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Francesco Buranelli, General Manager of the Pontifical Commission for the Church’s Cultural Beings; Pasquale Celona, President of the Biennale, Florence; Piero Celona, General Manager of the Biennale, Florence; Gregorio Luke, past Director of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) Long Beach, California; Bianca Laura Petretto, Curator, journalist, expert on modern and Asian arts, Italy; Matty Roca member of AICA and President of the Arts Corporation in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico; Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center of Linz - Austria; Rosa Tejada, educator at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and Stefano Francolini, Artistic Director of the Biennale, former Director of the C3 Super of the Ministry of the Cultural Activities, Florence, Italy.

The Florence Biennale is organized by Arte Studio.
Fortezza da Basso Florence - 5-13 Decembre 2009 - hours: 10-20 - info: + 39 0553249173
tickets 10 euro
for further information: www.florencebiennale.org

Lorenzo il Magnifico award to Marina Abramovic
The Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence dedicated, as is customary, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico career ” award an international recognition of contemporary artistic culture to those particularly outstanding and that still continue to stand by their work.
The VII Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea of Florence awards the “Lorenzo il Magnifico career ” award to Marina Abramovic, one of the most important and interesting contemporary performers.
Of Yugoslav origin, active from the 1970s with a series of memorable performances, in which the artist’s body is the matter and central part of the work of her research on the limits of human physicality, Marina Abramovic, the experiences through violence to the point of putting her own body at risk with the presence and use of dangerous items including “On the table there are seventy-two objects that can be used at will on me. I am the object “(Studio Morra, Naples, 1974), truly involving her public, for example, in the famous performance weightlessness (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, 1977), made with the German artist Ulay ( Uwe Laysiepen), with whom she has an artistic partnership since 1976 and from which it split in 1989 upon completion of their performance ‘Great Wall Walk’: their meeting in the middle of the Great Wall of China, 2000 kilometers long, after a journey that lasted ninety days.
Through the testing of physical and psychological limits of her existence, Marina Abramovic withstands pain, exhaustion, fear and danger in seeking conversion of their emotional and spiritual sphere.

Marina Abramovic has presented and presents her work with images, sounds and video in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Since 1991 she has taught in Germany at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In 1997 the XLVII Venice Biennale has received the Golden Lion for ‘Balkan Baroque’, eight hour performance, during which Marina Abramovic cleans one hundred cow femurs, an action that becomes the symbol to cancel the atrocities that her countrymen have committed in ethnic conflicts, the Balkan in the 90s.

This work, together with the performances ‘The Hero’ (2001), ‘Count On’, ‘Nude with Skeleton’ (2003) and ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’ (2005), was part of her exhibition entitled “Balkan Epic” held Hangar Bicocca in Milan in 2006.
In 2003 Marina Abramovic received the New York Dance and Performance Award The Bessies for ‘The House with Ocean View’ a twelve-day performance at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.
In 2005 she presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York a series of performances entitled ‘Seven Easy Pieces’.
The works of Marina Abramovic are present in the most important contemporary art collections in the world.

Stefano Francolini
Artistic Director VII Biennale

Collateral events

5 December 11:00am
Opening

5 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe

6 December 11:00am
An Artist and a Scientist: a common way
Lecture by Francesco Saverio Pavone and Dony Mac Manus
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

6 December 5:30pm
Living Arts of Contemporary India
Lecture by Sushma Bahl

7 December 11:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
When The Last Sword Is Drawn by Takita Yojiro
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe

7 December 5:30pm
Octavio Paz Art and thought
Lecture by Gregorio Luke

7 December 7:30pm
Saint James Church
Artists projects: Paul Lorenz, Barbro Eriksson, Danielle Lindsay

8 December 11:00am
Mathematics as an Art form
Lecture by Vanni Noferini
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

8 December 5:30pm
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic meets Biennale’s artists
followed by the presentation of the award Lorenzo il Magnifico to Marina Abramovic

9 December 11:00am
Canvas, Paper, Plastic: Abstraction in 2-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz

9 December 5:30pm
Rufino Tamayo master of light and color
Lecture by Gregorio Luke

10 December 11.00am
Art and Chemistry as reciprocal sources of inspiration
Lecture by Cristiana Lofrumento
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

10 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
Tokyo Sonata by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe

11 December 11:00am
Can Carbon-14 be a suitable dating tool even for contemporary art authentication?
Lecture by Mariaelena Fedi
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

11 December 5:30pm
Stone, Bronze, Wood: Abstraction in 3-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz

12 December 11:00am
Art and symmetries
Lecture by Roberto Casalbuoni
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

12 December 4:00pm
Development of Art in China
Lecture by Zhang Hongbin
followed by the Lorenzo il Magnifico prize ceremony awarded to
Shu Yong

12 December 9:00pm
Gala Dinner

13 December 3:00pm
Awards ceremony

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The National Bride and Ceremony Dress Show, Accessories and Services for Marriage is the most waited for event by couples from all over Italy, in a large exhibition space and offers all the products and services essential to the marriage.

Over 2,000 brands represented by the best companies in the industry.
You’ll l find not only the wedding and full dresses, but also many proposals concerning the sections dedicated to fancy sweet box, to the reports and movies, travels, wedding lists, floral decorations, the beauty, the jewellery, furnishings, to vintage cars, catering, wines and champagne… and does not end here, for you there will also ready services and innovative financial packages offered by several banks.

What are you waiting for? The XXII edition of Roma Sposa is waiting for you at the New Fair of Rome from 14/01/2010 to 18/01/2010.

From: “Roma Sposa 2010 - New Fair of Rome”

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Eurotech presents Aurora, the lean, smart supercomputing solution that can grow with less. With Aurora, users can now have a Supercomputing system that is light on the TCO and easy to scale up to the PetaFLOP and beyond.

Portland, OR (USA) – 16 November 2009. Aurora has been designed to deliver more: more number crunching, more scalability, more energy savings and more compatibility with existing software applications and environments.
“Aurora is the smart system for a resource conscious world”, said Giampietro Tecchiolli, Eurotech Group VP and CTO, “With Aurora it is possible to achieve unprecedented scalability and energy savings; in designing Aurora, we have taken a radical approach to efficiency, both in raw performance and in TCO management”.

Sporting the new Intel® Xeon® 5500 processor, Aurora is Intel® Cluster Ready Certified and offers the fullest compatibility with the existing X86 software applications and development tools.

“Intel® Cluster Ready certification reduces the risks and challenges of deployment and speeds time to productive results for highly scalable HPC Clusters” said Richard Dracott, General Manager, HPC, Intel . “By establishing a hardware and software basis for clustered systems, Intel Cluster Ready certification helps HPC users rapidly realize the great TCO and performance benefits of Xeon 5500 based Aurora clusters.”

Aurora delivers high end features, such as 100Gb/s cluster interconnect bandwidth per node, with a 60Gb/s 3D torus and a 40Gb/s Infiniband interface; multilevel synchronization networks for highly efficient scalability, and an on board, programmable accelerator that can be used to implement highly optimized algorithms.
Another exclusive feature is the ultra-precise liquid cooling system, which keeps the tightest control over the temperature of every component, ensuring the best operating conditions and exceptional savings compared to air cooling.
In Aurora, the traditional sources of failure have been removed: there are no mechanical parts, thanks to liquid cooling and the Intel® Solid State Disks; memory reliability and performance are exceptional thanks to a groundbreaking coupling technology and the multi-level monitoring and control system provides a flexible infrastructure to implement fault tolerance schemes.

Visit Eurotech Booth #745 at SC’09 2009 and check out the live demo of the Aurora Supercomputing system.

For more information please contact:
Giuliana Vidoni, Aurora Marketing & Communication (giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com)
Walter Rinaldi, Aurora Product Manager (walter.rinaldi@eurotech.com)

Eurotech S.p.A.
www.eurotech.com

Experiences from the Meyer Hospital Florence, Marseilles and Manchester.
International conference
Saturday 28 November, 9am-6pm
at the Meyer Paediatric Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence, Italy

On Saturday 28 November, the international conference “Interferences, Art and the Hospital” will take place at the Meyer Paediatric Hospital of Florence from 9am to 6pm.

The conference is entitled “Interferences” because art in a hospital setting stands out and stimulates both on a psychological and on a social level, of who breathes the anxiety and the fears of the environment of a paediatric hospital. The Meyer hospital of Florence bears testimony to this, having art integrated into the new hospital complex of Villa Ognissanti. Works that colour the areas and break up spaces and fill in time, in the wards, clinic waiting rooms, corridors, infiltrating into the garden, the stairwells, filling the voids of the large skylights, offering itself as a stimulus in the relationships between the workers, the young patients and their families. The experience of the Florentine hospital is not intended to be art therapy or a Disney scenario, but rather an art that “stimulates reactions and relations between those who share it.”

Amongst the speakers at this international conference, organized by the Regione Toscana (Department of Culture, Department for the Right to Health) and the Meyer Foundation, are the semiologist Omar Calabrese and Peter Scher, from the Arts of Health from the Faculty of Health Art and Design at the University of Manchester. The most important international experiences will be presented, such as a project for the Hospital of Marseilles by Michelangelo Pistoletto, creator of Cittadellarte, who will be present with a contribution. The conference, which will begin with opening remarks by Tommaso Langiano, President of the Meyer Foundation, aims to build a path so that the “Art at the Meyer laboratory” and what has been achieved elsewhere, can be replicated in other hospitals. Art at the Meyer is not mere decoration but is an interaction with the children, even in the many laboratories active in the Toy Library.

In particular, to outline the planning capacity with the declared intention of making it possible in other hospital contexts, the conference Interferences, will be divided in two: in the morning the theme will reflect what has been achieved to date. There will be a whole session dedicated to artistic experiences already activated reflecting both national and European realities, according to a holistic view of the Hospital, which in turn should reflect a multiplicity of visions and perceptions, to contain and to recall from elements of everyday life to the fantastic and to the imaginary. Paolo Cocchi Councillor of Culture for the Regione Toscana (Tuscan Region) will speak in the morning.

In the afternoon, importance will be given to “The practice of doing”, to define the possible strategies for development and for consolidation. A round table is planned, to analyse the tools and levers used to activate other art experiences in the hospital setting; in occasion of the project proposed by the Regione Toscana for the construction of four new hospitals, where humanization and environmental aspects will run parallel to the design of the hospitals.

At the end of the conference at 6pm, ten panels inspired by the first book of Pinocchio by Fabio De Poli and made by the children’s crèche, Noé in Florence, will be presented.

How to participate.
Registration is necessary and should be completed via the web at www.meyer.it/interferenze

There will be a coffee break at the opening (9am) and closing (6pm) of the conference, offered by the Meyer Foundation

The experience of the Meyer Hospital.
The Paediatric Hospital of Florence, within the context of Meyer Art, a project desired and supported by the Meyer Foundation, houses works of art by artists such as Esther Albardanè, Altan, Dario Bartolini, Carlo Cantini, Sara Carlini, Fabio De Poli, Francesco Fagnani, Gianni Fanello, Sophie Fatus, Paolo Favi, Simone Frasca, Paolo Guidotti, Janet Mullarney, Daniele Nannini, Giovanni Pecchioli, Peppe Perone, Andrea Rauch (Artistic Director), Guido Scarabattolo and Sergio Traquandi.

Interferences: Art and the Hospital, 28 November 2009, from 9am -6pm,
Main Hall of the Meyer Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence www.fondazione.meyer.it
www.regione.toscana.it

Press Office: Roberta Rezoalli, Meyer Paediatric Hospital Meyer Foundation, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139 - Florence (Italy) tel. + 39 055 566 2302 mob. + 39 335 6860 677 www.meyer.it

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