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There are many tools on the market today that can save you a lot of time and effort. There are also lot of seo tools out there that are a waste of money.
These are some of my favourite seo tools for 2015 (I keep this page updated). These are the time saving tools, browser extensions and desktop software packages that help me do seo day to day. I am a bit stuck in my old ways and I don't rely on too many tools but the ones I do, I use constantly.
SInce I originally wrote this post (which I keep updated year to year), I've developed a free seo tool of our own, which is a prototype for a much more extensive tool set I'm beta testing at the moment, and we are already using in-house.
Here's simple version of the Hobo Tool that will check your site for free for obvious issues – http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/auditor/:
Crawlers & Broken Link Checker Tools
If you're not running tools like these, then you're probably not getting a full picture of your site, as most search engines find it. These tools can quickly help you identify any major issue
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Screaming Frog SEO Spider (For Mac & PC) is a very popular crawl tool, and a favourite of mine. It's a tool for search engine optimisers, website managers and web developers, that spiders a site in a similar way any search engine spider would.
This is a GREAT tool to audit your website from a technical point of view, and can quickly collect a lot of the important information you need to help audit your site.
It's available for PC and Mac. As a Mac user, I'm often confronted with software that slows my mac down a little, so it was a pleasure to see this thing run in the background in a quiet, efficient manner.
Run the spider and it will grab information on your pages, links, page titles, redirects, 404s, heading tags, status codes, attribute lengths, anchor text, alt text and numbers of internal back links, numbers of external links on each page – and some juicy information for seo like click depth, canonical tags or meta-refresh detection, and more.
You can also output this report to CSV to have a closer look at.
As the title says – highly recommended for seo and web designers everywhere. I ran this tool on a small site and on a site with more than 10,000 urls, and it worked no problems. You can get a free version too to test it out.
Run the spider and read up the general advice laid down in our on page seo topic page on this site.
Integrity For Mac Only
Find broken links on your site (a free tool for Mac SEO and Web Designers). Broken links are a pain in the backside – for one broken links are a waste of link strength, not to mention what a bad user experience they are. Integrity for Mac users is a cool little tool.
Unless you enjoy clicking every single link on your site followed by the back button, then you'll need to use a website crawler like Integrity!
This is a free desktop tool for mac seo and website designers that spiders your website and picks out broken links. It will also extract URLs from a website to a CSV.
It's perfect for checking a small site once complete for any broken links or missing images without having to dig through it manually.
Apparently it can generate an XML sitemap suitable for submission to Google too, and help check a site for unique page titles. Apart from this, for seo, you can see at a glance links with 301 redirects, or canonical issues, or even old links to dev servers etc.
Another great addition is the ability to actually see at a glance your most linked to pages and how many links EXACTLY they have, and from where.
Not bad at all. A no brainer especially for Apple Mac designers.
If you are a PC user check out a free, older bit of software (but still reliable): Xenu Link Sleuth.
Website Auditor Software (For Mac & PC)
Sometime ago I paid for a copy of Website Auditor (Aff*) to have a play about with and I like it.
You can download a free version to trial (ZIP FILE (Aff*)) before you part with any cash, too.
Basically it's a tool for spidering, checking and evaluating the links and pages on your website. It's ideal for seo and web developers alike who are tasked with maintaining a website.
I like it to get an idea of the structure of a site – to see how many pages have the least/most links, which pages have external links and finding broken links. it can do a lot more, though.
It's quite powerful, and can certainly help you audit a site – it's purpose.
WebSite Auditor will help you easily find and fix the following problems:
- Broken links
- HTML code errors
- Duplicate content
- 404 and other server response code errors
- Not indexed webpages
- Missing or too long titles and meta description
I found Website Auditor pretty easy to get to grip with, and it does have a few powerful features:
- Site architecture and internal linking analysis
- Most linked-to and linked-from webpages
- Google PageRank distribution across all pages
- Link Value that each webpage can pass per link
- When each page was indexed and cached in major search engines
- Not indexed webpages
- Complete website SEO health check
- Domain's and each webpage's performance in search engines and social media sites
- Keyword density and prominence in each page element on your site and among top 10 competitors
- Most popular keywords and keyphrases used by your site and top 10 competing sites
It has a cool REPORTS feature that will even let you print a client friendly report if you need it.
I really like this tool. The only downside for me is the actual reporting function. NOT the reporting function itself – that is cool, more the metrics it focuses on.
It suffers from the same shortcomings a lot of tools suffer from – reporting focuses on a few metrics and scores them in a way I don't think is as valuable as it could be to the overall seo process. But then again, effective seo is not as machine-friendly as some seo software companies would hope it to be.
REPORTS formats are editable though so i will remove the factors I wouldn't waste time on (keyword density, keyword meta tags etc).
All in all a good seo tool for auditing your website structure, I'll be using it for a while, and test it out more, I think. Available for Apple Mac and PC.
PS – A review of Rank Tracker coming soon too – that's good as well. You get that with this software as part of the SEO Powersuite (Aff*), which Website Auditor (Aff*) is also bundled with.
Keyword Research
SEMRUsh (and Google Keyword Tools)
The Google Keyword tool is still invaluable – even if it is inaccurate, steers you down transactional roads, and is not as useful as it once was. With API in hand – it's the first place to look when doing SEO. But if I want a LOT of data quickly – I usually get it from SEMRush. Also – try out Ubersuggest for some quick Google autocomplete research.
I must say I am enjoying using SEM RUSH (Aff), a keyword research tool for, well, professional keyword snoopers. I had, in the past, steered clear of most of these types of tools as I had traditionally found them, while useful, very U.S. centric.
- My interest was renewed when I was told about the new SEMRush UK keyword database (as I am UK based obviously):
- Currently indexing top 20 results on 6 million keywords across more than 6,4 million domains. 47768 users. Last update: 29 of May 2010
Well – I like it. This tool lets you see:
- which keywords seem to be popular in your niche,
- related keywords, phrases and terms you might consider weaving into your content and linkbuilding strategies
- gives you an idea (when you aggregate the data) which natural listings in Google are providing competitors unpaid traffic
- lists top ranking sites competing for those keywords
- shows you on average how much a click on this keyword is worth in Google Adwords (although it would be nice to see that in Sterling (£) rather than dollars
- illustrates how competitive this term is (in Adwords at least, by number of competition)
- how many (on average) times the keyword or phrase is typed into the UK version of Google
- you can get a cool firefox plugin as well and export research data to usual formats
- …and more
You can really do some neat stuff if you are a keyword monkey. SEM rush has databases for US, UK, Spain, Germany, France & Spain markets if you need to international.
I'm using it at the moment (or I would hesitate to actually blog about it) so here's the aff link again – there's a FREE ACCOUNT OPTION with limited features to give you a feel what it's all about – Click here to find out more about SEM Rush.
Link Analysis Tools
I love Majestic SEO – it's the first place I look when looking at the back links of a competing website. It's been the BEST link building tool available for as long as I can remember – way before Yahoo Site Explorer was mothballed. Majestic SEO seems to be built into everything these days – but standalone it is still a brilliant link prospecting tool. I do LOVE Link Research Tools though – much better for reporting back to clients for instance. Hat tip to Open Site Explorer, too, but I've not used MOZ tools for a while.
Link Research Tools, is also one of the very best link research tools I've used recently. In fact, having these tools running in the background is a bit like having an extra member of staff.
If you are into fancy charts, they are there. If you just want the data for export, you can do that too. I usually just want the data for my own purposes – and the Backlink Profiler Tool is probably my favourite. The Common Backlinks Tool is pretty useful too. I should say the tools are REALLY easy to use as well. Link Research Tools connects with the other well-known search engine optimisation tools on the market so you can grab a lot of data for lots of pages. The more data, the better.
Pricing is pretty reasonable too. My only real gripe with the tools is I'd like to be able to run more of the tools FASTER – but I think this limit is by design at the moment. I found myself wanting to set up campaigns and run multiple tools with fewer clicks – but I think that 'speed limit' is in place by design too. Still, I can live with that.
I use the competitive link analysis provided by tools like these:
- to look for any obvious short cuts to take advantage of – it's always nice to impress new clients immediately, and get them involved (I should do this more, in fact)
- to see which competitors are really spamming it up and getting away with it
- for ideas about posts for a client site that attracts links
- to see which newsworthy items pick up links from the press for instance
- to identify when the site pushes for traffic via linkbuilding
- to pick out the links from quality, respected sites that I might have problems getting – for discussion with client's marketing department
- to get an idea the type of sites that will link to a competitor
- to look at the soup of links that a no1, no2 and no3 site especially can get away with and still rank top in Google
- to LEARN how other sites have got where they are.
- to learn the idea i might not have thought of
- to learn a bit about the client's industry and competitors
- to tell clients the task at hand (yesterday I noticed a competitor of my clients had links from The Wall ST Journal, NYTImes etc etc – it helped me point out to the client his main competior was REMARKABLE, actively engaged in sucessful online marketing ALREADY – a player. Another client noticed from my Competitive Link Analysis once a PR7 that linked to his competitor, was actually a site his GOOD FRIEND OWNED. I wonder what will happen to that link…
Often, I use competitor backlink analysis to gather historic and realtime data to recommend to a client or show them how they SHOULD be marketing their business to achieve online popularity, while I set about making them popular online.
I will point out while these search engine optimisation tools are GREAT, it's how you interpret the data, and how you go about making this data relevant to your business, that will see you succeed in your own link building efforts. I don't agree with every measurement made by these tools, or with every result they provide. You don't need the same links as your competitors to rank, remember.
If you are a creative marketer, you don't need any tools to be a 'link builder' – I hate that term.
But…. if you want to see how the other guys are doing it, have an easy job where all you need to do is collect the data, or are looking for a bit of backlink-inspiration, or needing a backlink profile you can be proud of – Link Research Tools are just about as good as it gets.
Link Prospector
Majestic SEO is GREAT for getting link building ideas – but as tool like Link Prospector can REALLY expand upon those ideas, once you've identified a particular type of link you'd like to focus on. Link Prospector is a brilliant tool for doing this. With it you can look for links pages, guest posts, directories, forums and blogs out there, that there is a high probability you could get a link from. It's a mountain of data you get back, so make sure you use this tool in a very focused manner.
Used properly, Link Prospector (and the other great tools that come with it) can save you HOURS of work. Expect to spend some time in an excel spreadsheet after you get the data – but it is worth it!
I just spent the weekend playing with this tool and the amount of excellent link data it spat out for me was astonishing. I tested around 10 niches, and it didn't disappoint in any of them. There are no affiliate links of any sort in this independent review.
In short, Link Prospector is a link building tool to help you find places you can get links from other websites. It helps you narrow prospects in a niche based on keywords you want to focus on. You can find link opportunities like guest posts, links pages, directories and forums, to name but a few – essentially websites that link to 'your sort of thing'.
The tool REALLY delivers – scanning a good sized data-set and outputting a mountain of link prospects in the niche you are interested in.
It's easy to use too, though I have seen some other reviewers talk about data overload, and that deep down, the results you get are a little messy.
True – it can get a little messy if your data mining is too broad. But if you really focus on the types of links you are looking for – once you export that data to excel and have a play with some filters, you can really dig up a lot of opportunities.
If you are wise enough to know that you need links, Link Prospector is just about the best tool out there for helping you identify more places to get these links.
TIP – In a post penguin world, it's online marketing ideas you are looking for. You do not want to be using the exact same methods as everybody else. You can use Majestic SEO to to get a handle on why the top competition ranks where it does. If you take some of those ideas to Link Prospector and look for more of those types of link opportunities, it can deliver some really good opportunities.
Highly Recommended – Link Prospector is a great tool for finding where you can get links. If you are serious about link building, you are crazy not to give this tool a go. Enough said.
*Link Prospector also has some great support tools!
Google Analytics is the defacto analytics software, and the only tool for checking lots of data – but I find I log into my Clicky account more than I do GA these days – if all I want is a quick and dirty analysis of a page or keyword. Brilliant tool.
When I find a simple tool I like I usually stick with it forever. I'm amazed at the simple things Clicky (AFF*) does so effortlessly. The control panel seems so much more intuitive than for instance Google Analytics. Instantly accessible.
I tried a few real time web stats analytics packages out (I like software with a free trial) and I must say, Clicky is brilliant.
- See who is on your site AT THAT VERY MOMENT
- See where traffic is coming from AND track outbound visitors too
- See your valuable incoming links in action
- See a MORE ACCURATE bounce rate for your pages
- Too much good stuff to mention
…and best of all, Clicky might very well be FREE if you don't have more than 3,000 page impressions a day – ideal for small businesses.
They even give you an easy affiliate link to promote the software if you like it – which I very much do (so I am using that affiliate link).
Telling you. Try Clicky PRO out FREE. (AFF*) Excellent analytics, and easy to install too.
Rank Tracker Software
Advanced Web Ranking
I've tried a lot of ways to check rankings in search engines over the years and generally speaking I've been disappointed with most if not all of them. Advanced Web Ranking (aff) is probably the best rank checking tool at the moment.
So much so, that we've resorted for many clients to manually checking them / and or developing our own tools to ensure the results we get are what the customer is seeing too. The problem with this type of rankings check is how much time it consumes in the studio. The problem with a lot of automatic website rank checkers of course is that they could well be software packages that violate Google webmaster guidelines for instance.
It automatically runs a ranking report checking keyword positions in Google, and automatically sends me a keyword rank check report via email with details of each keyword position (and over time, this generates a cool graph of ranking activity).
It's a pretty comprehensive tool and it certainly seems to perform very well, with a good support forum too to ask any questions.
A very neat feature if you run one site is the sheer number of search engines you can can track your rankings on too (thousands of them from what I can see) – not that I bother with search engine submission at all these days of course.
The keyword position reports too are quite comprehensive and you can run as many search engine ranking reports and projects (multiple websites and rank checks) as you wish.
It's fairly intuitive and easy to set up and use after you play about with it, although trialing it I found I'm having a few problems sending email reports (although I think that may be just me and the way I have it sending emails out).
The software also can check your Pagerank and Alexa rank too (if either of them are important to you) and can keep an eye on competitors rankings too.
If you want to trial it free for 30 days, you can download it here. It's available for Mac & PC and is desktop based.
Note – I'm still not that obsessed with individual keyword rankings – I'm much more interested in creating good content on a site and acquiring back links as naturally as possible to build domain trust – and then unlocking that domain authority by publishing even more content, but in competitive sectors where the linkerati seem to be thin on the ground, for specific keyword phrases, link building is still a must of course.
I've been testing out the rank check tool AWR Website Ranking on a small personal site (after being advised it does not break Google's guidelines – although, if you go by the letter of the law, I wonder if that is wishful thinking, by ALL rank checker tool providers):
First of all, I would like to put one thing aside. There is no way that Google or any other search engine can ban you for using our software' And this is because for Google, AWR looks like a regular web browser. We send the EXACT data web browsers send. There is no way for Google to find out that you are using a tool like AWR.' And even if they knew, they have no way of knowing your website domain. AWR sends queries that only contain the Keywords, NOT the URL. It then searches the URLs in the results Google sent back. This means they have no way of making a connection between the IP address of your computer, where AWR runs from, and your website. If this was possible, then I could fake this information to look like my competitor domain and then get him banned!
It works as expected, and played nice with my Mac Book Pro.
Link Assistant Rank Tracker Software
I purchased a copy of SEO Powersuite (AFF*) to have a play about with and for review purposes, and I like it. I reviewed it's stable mate Website Auditor above, which is bundled with Rank Tracker (AFF*) in SEO Powersuite, and I like that too.
Rank Tracker is pretty simple to set up, and as accurate as it can be, when checking your websites search engine rankings for multiple keywords, on multiple engines.
- pick a website
- pick your search engines you want to monitor, and
- tell it which keywords you want to track
- find out the number of searches and competition for a particular keyword or phrase
- schedule it to check for keywords at any set time of the day
- schedule reports to print or export to web, pdf or csv etc
It can also check the competition for the key terms and track your competition if you are interested in that.
You can schedule when it checks your rankings, and you can schedule reports to publish when you want, too.
It tracks everything about your keyword so you can see it's performance over time. You can get a FREE TRIAL DOWNLOAD (AFF*)(Zip File!) to play about with it too.
It looks ideal for small businesses to track rankings if you prefer a piece of software you run on your pc or mac rather than a hosted solution.
Spreadsheets, Browsers & Other Tools
I have spent a lot of my time in Excel spreadsheets, more so in the last few years. Google Spreadsheets are cool too…. but with too many limitations for me to make it a daily tool. Excel lets you automate just about everything – and I do these days.
There's nothing more satisfying than taking 30 days work and automating it. You can manage entire sites with an excel spreadsheet – and if you're not on some level, you're missing out big time.
Excel Tools For SEO Plugin
If you're not running your own functions with Excel – Excel Tools For SEO is a great place to start. This is a fantastic tool set – once you start with this stuff you can't live without it. Great for combining Adwords data with page specific data and looking for opportunities like under-optimised page titles etc. Tip – Get a Google Adwords API.
Chrome Extensions – I don't really like third-party tool bars – but I do have the odd plugin installed. Chrome Notepad is a free tool for Chrome browser – ideal for taking quick notes – and FREE. I also have SEO For Chrome installed – good for a quick glance at things and it highlights nofollow links on the fly which I find useful.
SEObook, SEOmoz & Raven have good online offerings these days – some more aimed at reporting to clients. While I do have accounts for all, neither is something I visit daily. I have found tools from these sites tools to be VERY useful on the ODD occasion though – and I know some people swear by them. I suppose it depends on what you're employed to do, which should influence which tools you invest in.
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SEO Powersuite (LinkAssistant.com)
SEO Powersuite is definitely one of the best all in one desktop seo packages available for Mac and PC. Check your rankings, your competitors, back links and crawl your website. It's a great tool for beginners. Check here for discounts on SEO Powersuite. I use this tool set to have a poke around but my favourite out of the tools is Rank Tracker to run quick ranking audits which comes on it's own, or with SEO Powersuite.
If you are using a desktop rank tracker or any other rank tracker software you'll need a VPN/Proxy. This thing is so easy even I got it working.
You can set up one computer to run ranking queries via rotating proxies (every few minutes or so) via hidemyass and save the results to a Dropbox folder to look at it when necessary (from another machine). I would also recommend you sign up with LOGMEIN – so you can remotely sign in to the rank checker computer in case you need to restart the application. Also good for visiting sites you don't want tracking you, or incognito scraping (hat tip to Scrapebox BTW).
I don't use it for soul destroying nefarious purposes like spamming or anything like that but lots probably do.
Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster tools can provide useful insight to your site, but I only really look into these when I am digging deep, or looking for links I am not getting the benefit from.
There are a lot of tools out there that are a total waste of your time, and some are an out and out scam I've had direct experience with all the tools I have reviewed here, and over a decades experience in search engine marketing.
If you are thinking of buying any software, remember, there are little 'cheats' these days in seo for the beginners – a good tool with only give you work to do.
Keep in mind:
- Competitor Backlink tools can give you ideas where and how to get links but remember you don't need the same links as your competitors, you just need, well, credible links from reputable websites
- Keyword density is not something you should be focusing on at all if you are writing your articles after doing some basic keyword research.
- Page relevance tools – whatever they might key off of, it's probably not what Google is. It's incredibly important to create a semantic and contextually relevant page but you just need a keyword tool (again, probably pretty inaccurate at least when it comes to the numbers)
- Search engine webmaster tools – I use them for identifying if a search engine has any difficulty accessing particular content on a site, and some backlink analysis
- If you have a WordPress blog (you should be using the WordPress SEO plugin) we built a simple plugin that will track Googlebot and track keywords people find your site with – WP Bot Tracker – ideal if you have simple requirements.
The tools I use most often are Majestic SEO (for historic link reports at the beginning of a project),SEM Rush for keyword research, Advanced Web Ranking for checking rankings on a few sites, Clicky for real time website stats, Google Analytics for quick traffic analysis. I also use a couple of different tools for spidering a site and checking syntax I will blog about later.
Rich, accessible, relevant content and editorial links from reputable sites (hey low quality links still work for a while) are what you need to get more visitors safely from Google in 2015. You should be thinking of how am I going to make my site better, how am I going to keep people on my site longer, will the next page I make keep people on my site longer than any other, where is my next quality link coming from?
Analysis paralysis is pretty common with any tool set, so watch out, and good luck.
If I time, I will add the rest one day!
SEO Software Survey 2011 infographic By Skyrocket SEO – I didn't take part but it's a good info graphic, which could do with being updated.
NOTE – I've used affiliate links for some of the tools in this post. If I really like something I usually get an affiliate account (that means if you were to buy it, I would get a commission). I have also nofollowed all links on this page to external sites to basically comply with search engines easily.


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The suites at The Villa Renaissance are perfect for a caribbean family vacation. Consisting of two & three bedrooms, en-suite bathrooms, fully equipped kitchens, and beautiful panoramic views of Grace Bay, they make an ideal location to spend time together. Play board games, swim, snorkel, have dinner nights out and pajama parties in. Villa Renaissance Concierge service can help plan perfect family reunion vacations before you arrive, just let us know what you want!
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3. Extended Family vacation ideas are not difficult to come up with. Make sure you plan your holiday so that everyone can be occupied. Is it beach, exploring a private island, a yoga retreat, or water sports that you are looking for?
4. Remember Grandparents are more mobile and energetic than ever before. Make sure that you plan to keep them happy as well. Most will not be content to sit in a lounger and read.
5. Work out the Budget: Who is paying for the vacation? Is it a treat or is everyone pitching in?
6. Make one person responsible for each separate job. a organizes accommodation, b organizes activities and c organizes dining.
7. Choose your correct accommodations. Vacation condo and house rentals are far less costly than booking multiple rooms in a hotel. There is also the added benefit of a sense of togetherness, simple things like washers and dryers, games around the dining table and even pajama parties.
8. An apartment vacation rental is perfect for extended family vacations. Families can take advantage of the kitchen to make a lunchtime snack, saving funds to splurge at dinner.
9. Remember, you cannot please everyone all of the time, but for everyone to have a real interest in the trip let everyone in the family help choose the vacation and the activities. Send out a questionnaire to members, including the children, asking them what they want to do and collate the information.
10. Remember to schedule activities around family members normal routine. Does Grandpa have a nap in the afternoon and want to be in bed by 9.00pm? Does Tiny Tot rise at 5.00am and will your teenager stay in bed until lunchtime?
11. The Caribbean is perfect for this type of travel. Grandparents and small grandchildren can play in the pool, older grandchildren can learn to scuba, go snorkeling , play tennis or laze on the beach with an iPod and parents can well, just chill!
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Multi-generational and extended family travel has recently become one of the fastest growing areas of the travel industry. And its not just mom, dad and the kids going away, Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins are going too!
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Pierangelo Valtinoni
b.11 January 1959, Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza)Biography
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Pierangelo Valtinoni studied Organ and Organ Composition, Choral Music and Choir Conducting, Composition and Orchestra Conducting. As an organist he has attended numerous interpretation courses with important musicians and has carried out intensive concert work. He is currently dedicated to composing and conducting, with a particular focus on the twentieth century and contemporary music.
He was the founder and conductor of the Paralleli Ensemble of Vicenza and has for some years conducted the Icarus Ensemble of Reggio Emilia, performing concerts in Italy (Venice: Festival Galuppi; Milan: Nuove Sincronie, Scuola Civica; Turin: Società Casella; Palermo: Musica su più dimensioni; Reggio Emilia: Di Nuovo Musica, etc.), Europe (Munich: Hochschule für Musik; Gasteig; Amsterdam: Gaudeamus Week 1998) and Mexico (Guanajuato: Festival Cervantino; Mexico City: Festival Donatoni). He has conducted several orchestras, including the Orchestra di Roma, with which he recorded the soundtrack of a film broadcast by the Italian television channel RAI 1, the Shoumen State Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico Città di Vicenza.
His compositions have been played in Italy, in Europe, in Asia and America, have been recorded for the Ariston-Ricordi, Tactus, Discantica, Internationales Forum Junge Chormusik, Osnabrücker Jugendchor and Song & Music Production labels and have been broadcast by Deutschland Radio, Radio Berlin rbb and the Italian Radio 3. He has published by Boosey & Hawkes, Sonzogno, Carrara, Carus-Verlag, Feniarco and Cipriani.
In 1995 he wrote the musical tale "Il ragazzo col violino" with the libretto written by Roberto Piumini, published by Sonzogno.
In 1996 he wrote "Capriccio italiano", the soundtrack for the short film of the same name and presented at the Metropolitan in New York.
Also in 1996, the Internationales Forum Junge Chormusik of Rotenburg-Wümme (Germany) commissioned him, as sole representative of Italy together with important European composers, to write a composition for a cappella choir entitled "Ad honorem regis summi" which, after a preview in Rotenburg and Lescar and a recording on CD, was played in Santiago de Compostela as part of the European El Canto project.
In 1998 he composed the "Sinfonia per organo italiano", a compulsory piece in the Gaetano Callido international organ competition in Borca di Cadore, 1999. The piece is published by Carrara and is recorded on a CD promoted by the Provincia di Vicenza and on new CD published by Fugatto. In 2001 composed "Pinocchio" on the verses written by Paolo Madron commissioned by the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico Città di Vicenza, presented at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and now published by Boosey & Hawkes.
In 2006 the Komische Oper Berlin produced a new two-act version in German of the opera Pinocchio which was performed 13 times during the 2006-2007 season, 9 times during the 2007-2008 season and 6 times during the 2008-2009 season. A new staging was developed by the Staatsoper in Hamburg in 2008 which was performed 12 times and another new production by the Società del Quartetto di Vicenza was performed 3 times at the Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza in November 2008. Pinocchio was performed at Pala Bassano the 4th and 5th of December 2010 by Opera Estate Festival Veneto and at the Teatro Regio di Torino the 12th and the 13th of May 2011. Pinocchio will be performed at the Teatro Regio di Torino also during the 2011/2012 season.
In 2002 he had commissions from the Festival Organistico Internazionale M.E. Bossi of Salò and from the KlavierTheater 2002 Festival of Treviso, for which he wrote the music for the show "Il pianista invisibile".
He wrote music for film and for theater. He won the prize for the Best Musical Score at the 60th Festival Nazionale di Arte Drammatica di Pesaro with the music for the theatre piece "Un teatro per Jules - L'ultima rotta di Verne" by A. Marcolini.
On October 24, 2010, at the Komische Oper Berlin, was performed the new opera "Die Schneekönigin" (The Snow Queen - La Regina delle nevi) with the libretto written by Paolo Madron and the German translation of Frank Harders-Wuthenow and Werner Hintze that has been commissioned him after Pinocchio's great success. After 13 performances at the Komische Oper Berlin, another new production of the opera, developed by the Hamburgische Staatsoper, was performed 13 times in Hamburg at Kampnagel in 2011. This opera was performed in the original italian version at the Teatro Comunale di Vicenza the 30th of April and the 1st of May 2011 by the Società del Quartetto di Vicenza. It is published by Boosey & Hawkes and will be performed 8 times at the Komische Oper Berlin during the 2011/2012 season.
He gave lessons on his own compositions to the "IV Franco Donatoni Composition Course" in Mexico City, to the "Kinderchor Opern Neue Musik" Symposium in Berlin and on choral composition to the "European Seminary for Young Composers" organized in Aosta (Italy) by Feniarco. He will give lessons on choral composition in Aosta also in 2012.
Recently, commissioned by Boosey & Hawkes, he has completed the orchestration of the last part of the Opera buffa "Koukourgi" by L. Cherubini which had the world premiere on September 16, 2010 at the Stadt Theater in Klagenfurt (Germany).
In 2005 he participated in the reconstruction of the opera "Malombra" by M.E. Bossi which enjoyed its world premiere on September 16, 2005 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. He was a member of the jury for the first intermediate music schools and workshops music presentation organized by the Veneto I.R.R.E. and of the International piano composition competition - 23rd G.F. Malipiero Prize of Treviso.
He has won three national competitions for music conservatory teaching posts and currently teaches at the Vicenza Conservatory where he was the Vice-director from 2004 to 2009.
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4 The Cotivri.hl, \'Ui. Iiy fin Coixtor News ews VOLUML IX. No 9 BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1922 Price 10 Cents SCENE FROM "COUNTESS CATHLEEN" PALESTR1NA CHOIR SINGS IN FIRST MONDAY CONCERT Choral Music from Tenth Century to Cesar Frank Illustrated The Palestrina Choir of Philadelphia gave the first of the Monday evening con- 'certs in Taylor Hall, last ni(�ht, upon the "Development of Music." Mr. Montani, conductor of the choir, gave a shefrt talk, followed hy singing of the choir. Mr. Montani began with an historical sketch of the development of Choral Music and a descriptive analysis of the works to be performed. He then led the singing of the, Palestrina Choir of Philadelphia, of eighty voices. Mr. Nicola A. Montani is a composer as well as a conductor. The idea of the recital was to illustrate church music from the tenth century, using the old organum and descant, singing the Gregorian Chant in antiphonal style according to the traditional custom of the Cathi lie Church, through the sixteenth century, the high-tide of polyphonic music, with examples from the productions of Palestrina and Arcadelt, up to the modern Italian,'Russian and Bel- gian schools .with illustrations from Casi- miri, Tschaikowsky and Cesar I'ranck. An orgajt accompaniment was, of e"oiirsc, im- possible, hut the Cesar Franck was accom- panied hy Mr. Albert J.'Doorier at the piano. The choir itself /wore their cus- tomary Palestrina colics, and looked very impressive standing on the platform espe- cially constructed for them. Mr. Weber sang a solo from one of the Russian folk songs, the purity, variety of expression ami volume of his voice being Of a piece with the general excellence of the recital. BRYN MAWR WILL SEND HOCKEY PLAYERS TO TOURNAMENT Ten Bryn Mawr hockey players will probably try out for the All United States Team at the tournament to be held during Thanksgiving vacation, at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Four of these will be sure to compete: E. Page.'23, E. Tuttle '24, M. Buchanan "24 and E. Harris '26. The- other entries that are uncertain, are: V. Corse '23, M. Adams '23, V. Brokaw '23, E. Pierson '24. M. Faries '24, and M. Gardner '26. The individual tryouts will be held on Saturday morning, December 2., Thursday and Fri- day, the Inter-City teams will play off the preliminaries, the finals coming .Saturday An All United States Team will be chosen during the tournament by a com- mittee appointed by the Executive Board of United States Field Hockey Associatiqn. The Association has l>een invited to send a team to England this winter and the ques- tion of doing so will be decided at a meet- ing of the Association on December 1. "COUNTESS CATHLEEN," LYRICAL IRISH PlAY GIVEN BY SOPHOMORES TO SENIORS SATURDAY t � Etheline Hinkley and Helen Grayson Divide Honors in Principal Parts; Countess at Best in Love Scene, Oona Consistently Good � in Gesture and Make-up SETTING OF SECOND SCENE AND MUSIC PRAISED [Specially Contributed by Dr. ILlen Sard] The cuphomore class presented Williarr Butler Yeats's lyrical drama, The Countess Cathleen, in the Gymnasium on Saturdav �vening. November 25, in honor of the Class of 1923, The production, which was coached by Miss Frances Fuller, could not be entire!) a finished performance, since'three weeks of the time allotted had been spent upon tin- rehearsal of' another play relinquished on 'account of difficulties with the copy- right. Though' a trifle rough, yet in the ntcrpretation of two or three of the major vi.-on.. of the drama, and in the excellent business of several minor ones, in the set ting of the second scene, and in the charm- ing incidental music, it was distinctly interesting. The play itself is a difficult blend of allegory and folk-tafe in irregular blank ,erse. with the supernatural never made jnite so credible as Mr. Yeats succeeds in making it in The Land of Hear ft Desire, for example. Though often1 produced, and not infrequently by amateurs, this drama lias from the first shown structural weak ih sses which have led the author to fre-. qtient revisions. The original version as given at the Irish Literary Theatre in 1W9, lacked the love scene between the Countess and Aleel. which was added with great advantage before the play was brought to America. Again in 1911 Mr. Yeats, in an effort to adapt the play for performance at spirits), and gives time for the setting of the rcar^ stage for the final scene. It seemed, however, on Saturday night, that the problem of scene-shifting was compli- cated and not accelerated by an act which added little to the effect Of the whole. In deed to ihc present reviewer, the grotesque walk of the merchants introduced an 'in- congruous element of farce not implied by the stage directions, "The two Merchants follow silently." The Steward, likewise, though inter- preted by Miss Chisolm with amusing vigor, was essentially a pompous Shake- spearean servitor, and not at all out of Yeats. These attempts to secure comic re- lief or contrast appeared a violation of the unity of tone, the subdued and wistful mood in which the poet had conceived his dramatic legend of a world in which the trohble of the poor is but "a harsh and radishy sauce" for the meat of the rich, a world ''� which simple folk sell for bread and gold that little vapoury tiling men call a soul, a world in which the emissaries of the Master of all Merchants appearin urt- earlhly power and splendor to wring profit from the world's need, a world in which. tn quop; the dramatist's own words, "the Countess Cathleen is simply a soul or hu- man spirit which perpetually makes the sac- rifice she made) which perpetually gives itself into captivity for the service of good causes, and in the end wins peace, because ATHLETIC MEETING VOTES FOR OUTSIDE BASKETBALL Soccer and Walking Wanted forEx- ercie in Winter�Council Decides the Abbey Theatre, rewrote the first- two lev cry high motive is in substance peace." scenes almost completely, with considerable In the interpretation., 61 the principal gain in coherence. At this time also he wrote the form of the final scene per- formed Saturday night to take the place (if the original version which called for an assemblage of the heavenly hosts dis- covered o^thc mountain-side by the kneel- ing peasants in the'half light of vision. The substitution for this of the scene with the single angelic visitant was admittedly a concession to the technical limitations'of the Abbey stage. Even this simpler end- ing, however, if it is to keep anything of the .original poetic quality and illusion, must be played in that half light of vision in which the natural and the supernatural meet A somewhat long performance might have been shortened by the omission of the fourth act, a short scene on the front stage which presumably draws together the strands of the story (peasants, demons, and characters, honors seem divided between Miss Hinkley's Aleel and Miss Graysrfn's portrayal of the First Merchant. Occa- sional indistinctness e.f enunciationtblurted Miss-Hinkley's lines, but in voice quality. In a certain .freedom of action, anel in power to work up with, swift intensity at such points as the scene with the merchants in the final act, she showed fitness for the part quite asiele from the charm e>f her singing and her appearance. As the First Merchant, Miss Grayson did good, sustained acting at several points. She held the stage through long declama- tory speeches, and even when silent made her diabolical presence unforgettable. Her acting, however, was somewhat over-done at times, with too constant movements of occult significance. Miss Tinker made a girlish Countess CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Beginning with the election of K. .Kaht, "23, as college cheer leader, the Athletic Association passed motions yesterday re-' garding basketball games, I}. M.'s fe>r ten- nis' anel basket-ball, and took senses of. the meeting em walking anel soccer as exercise. The question of whether tennis should be permitted on Sunday was likewise dis- cussed. Since some of the opposing teams in basket-ball come from a long way, we must pay quite a*large ameiunt ixjt their trans- portation. The question was raised whethci a girls' rule game was worth the depletion of the treasury, which was already a little meagre' localise' of the $197 paid out foi Varsity's new trousers, but a motion was unanimously Mated that these games bt continued. � It was then discussed whether soccer lie Counted as a winter spor). It used to be making an inter-hall game of the social hockey variety, but. because of sudden and inclement weather changes, its practice died nut. Counting only as unorganized exer- ci.se. it would allow sennething in the open bride if chilly, rather than a lackadaisical indoor sport. The decision of this question is ne>t in the power of the Athletic Asso- ciation, but a sense of the meeting was passed in favor of it for use in the Council meeting before which it is to be' brought. Whether swimming anel apparatus lie inv c ON list i n o\ PAGE 6 � CHRISTMAS PARTIES COME THIS YEAR ON DECEMBER 20 In the usual tradition, Christmas parties will be given in all the halls on the eve of the vacation. This is an evening, illuminated both by the pleasure qf the moment and the antici- pation of the morrow's relief, anel no mat- ter what entertainment is produced it i-> received with the meist enthusiastic ac- claim. iKach hall will give its customary, skit or traditional cerememy, and all will later meet in Pembroke elining room, te> be audience for a sheirt play given by the Freshmen, anel then tei the dance at the fancy-dress ball. Last war "A Very Naked Boy" was most uniquely staged, and the dance culminated in high spirits with the awarding of the dancing prizes to E. Dona- hue '22 and E. Pearson '24. Marion Holt has been made a member of the Senior Reception Committee in the place of Harriet Scribner. who resigned on account of work.
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cormac wrote:i don't know about that guy but i know why my suit would be yellow if i did that wow ... that's just freaky cool ... but ... i wonder how physically strong you need to be or if the wings kind of support themselves ... looks like it would be physically taxing
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Global Burden of Dengue
The mosquito-borne viral disease known as "breakbone fever," is three times more prevalent than originally thought, according to a research paper published today in Nature and co-authored by dengue expert Thomas Scott of UC Davis.
In their research paper, titled "The Global Distribution and Burden of Dengue," Scott and the 17 other team members estimated that 350 million people are infected each year--more than triple the World Health Organization's current estimate of 50 to 100 million.
Professor Simon Hay of the University of Oxford led the research as part of the International Research Consortium on Dengue Risk Assessment, Management and Surveillance.
"Dengue takes an enormous toll on human health worldwide, with as many as 4 billion people at risk," said Scott, a UC Davis professor of entomology and worldwide expert on the epidemiology and prevention of dengue. He chairs the mosquito-borne disease modelling group in the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program of the Science and Technology Directory, Department of Homeland Security, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health.
"The results of our study and infrastructure that created the dengue maps fill a critical gap in the battle against dengue," said Scott, who maintains field research programs in Iquitos, Peru, and Khamphaeng Phet, Thailand. "Prior to this, without rigorously derived dengue estimates that can be continuously updated, it was not possible to know with confidence where and when to direct interventions for greatest potential impact or to objectively assess the effectiveness of regional and global control efforts. That kind of knowledge was among the most important missing information for developing enhanced dengue prevention programs."
The highly infectious tropical and subtropical disease is spread by the bite of an infected female Aedes aegypti, a day-biting, limited flight-range mosquito that prefers human blood to develop its eggs. Dengue is caused by four distinct, but closely related, viruses. The most severe form of disease is life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF.
The researchers assembled known records of dengue occurrence worldwide and used a formal modelling framework to map the global distribution of dengue risk. They then paired the resulting risk map with detailed longitudinal information from dengue cohort studies and population surfaces to infer the public health burden of dengue in 2010.
"There are currently no licensed vaccines or specific therapeutics, and substantial vector control efforts have not stopped its rapid emergence and global spread," the researchers wrote.
Dengue has now begun to appear along the southern border of the United States, including Texas. Florida has also reported cases of dengue.
Of the 96 million clinically apparent dengue infections, Asia bears 70 percent of the burden, the research paper revealed. India alone accounts for around one-third of all infections.
Professor Thomas Scott, a worldwide expert on dengue, is pictured in Kenya.
Global dengue risk. Areas in red indicate high risk for dengue occurrence while green areas indicate low risk. (Map courtesy of Jane Messina)
Temperature Fluctuations Affect Population Growth Rate of Dengue Mosquito
The PLOS ONE journal published "Effects of Fluctuating Daily Temperatures at Critical Thermal Extremes on Aedes aegypti Life-History Traits," written by lead author Lauren Carrington and four other scientists from Thomas Scott's Mosquito Research Laboratory and the Center for Vectorborne Diseases (CVEC).
Their work analyzed how natural temperature fluctuations affect the population growth rate of the dengue mosquito. Basically, temperature effects on larval development time, larval survival and adult reproduction depend on the combination of mean temperature and the magnitude of fluctuations.
"The effect of temperature on insect biology is well understood under constant temperature conditions, but less so under more natural, fluctuation conditions," said Carrington, who completed her three-year postdoctoral fellowship last December in the Scott lab and continues research projects with the lab. She is now based at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia.
The research is expected to lead to greater accuracy of applications for mosquito surveillance and disease prevention.
"An improved understanding of mosquito responses to natural temperature variation," Carrington said, "will enhance the effectiveness of vector control strategies, thereby reducing transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever." By using constant temperatures, scientists can under- or -over estimate values, she said.
"In the field, mosquitoes, and other insects, are exposed to a constantly changing environment, with fluctuations in temperature throughout the day, every day. In the lab, however, experimental protocols generally try to minimize as much variability as possible, and temperature is often the first element to be standardized."
Co-authors are Veronica Armijos, Christopher Barker, Louis Lambrechts and Thomas Scott.
Dengue is spread by an infected female Aedes aegypti mosquito, a day-biting, limited flight-range mosquito that prefers human blood to develop its eggs. Dengue is caused by four distinct, but closely related, viruses and the most severe form of disease is life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF.
Some 500,000 people with severe dengue are hospitalized each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and about 2.5 percent of those affected die.
"Dengue takes an enormous toll on human health worldwide, with as many as 4 billion people at risk—half of the world's population--and 400 million new infections each year," said Scott, a professor of entomology at UC Davis and active in CVEC.
Dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Fighting Dengue
And compelling.
In an article published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the UC Davis medical entomologists and their colleagues found that human movement—people going from house-to-house to visit their friends and relatives—is a key component to driving the virus transmission. (Read PNAS paper)
The research site is Iquitos, nestled in the heart of the Amazon rain forest of northeastern Peru. It's considered one of the world's primary "open laboratories" to study the transmission of the virus.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a day-biting mosquito and we humans are its favorite host/target.
The ground-breaking research shows why it's crucial to focus on people movement, not just on the traditional mosquito control-and-prevention methods, such as applying insecticides and eliminating water-filled containers that can provide a larval habitat.
As lead author/medical entomologist Steve Stoddard said: "This finding has important implications for dengue prevention, challenging the appropriateness of current approaches to vector control."
"Interestingly, it didn't matter how far away the visited houses were," Stoddard said. "The mosquito that transmits dengue virus prefers to stay in small areas, say in less than a 100-meter radius, but the distance between houses was often much greater than this. So it only makes sense that humans are frequently spreading the virus around as they commute between their homes and the homes of their friends and family. Altogether the data demonstrate what we expected, that human movements are really key to the transmission of this mosquito-borne virus."
Said Scott, professor of entomology at UC Davis and director of the Mosquito Research Laboratory: "Dengue takes an enormous toll on human health worldwide, with as many as 4 billion people at risk—half of the world's population--and 400 million new infections each year. The results from our study are focusing attention to the role human social networks in virus invasion and epidemic spread.
"At our Peru study area, we found that infection risk is based on the places a person visits and transmission dynamics are driven by overlapping movements of people who recently visited the same places, like the homes of their family and friends."
Bottom line: The scientists found that people movement not only defined individual infection risk and local patterns of incidence, but resulted in the rapid spread of the virus and marked heterogeneity in transmission rates.
Next phase of the research? It's aimed at "understanding how variation in human behavior influences transmission and applying that knowledge in enhanced disease prevention strategies," said Scott, the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded grant.
With some 4 billion people worldwide at risk, and with 400,000 million new infections each year, dengue is indeed taking its toll. Every year some 500,000 people with severe dengue are hospitalized, and 2.5 percent die.
Aedes aeypti, also known as the dengue mosquito. (CDC Photo)
Street scene in Iquitos, Peru. (Photo courtesy of the Thomas Scott lab, UC Davis)
An Important Message
It's Halloween tomorrow (Wednesday) but what's really frightening is Aedes aegypti, a mosquito that transmits the deadly dengue. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the world's most rapidly spreading mosquito-transmitted disease.
Some 2.5 billion people, or about 40 percent of the global population, are at risk from dengue, WHO says. The disease infects between 50 to 100 million people a year. The most severe form afflicts some 500,000 a year, killing an estimated 2.5 percent or 22,000.
Enter Sarjeet Gill, professor of cell biology and entomology at UC Riverside. He'll speak on on "Bacterial Toxins in Disease Mosquito Vector Control" at a seminar from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31 in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Building, UC Davis.
His longtime colleague and good friend, Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology at UC Davis, will host him as part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology's fall seminar series.
"Aedes aegypti is an important vector of human diseases, such as dengue fever and yellow fever," Professor Gill says. "Its control has been attempted by eliminating breeding sites, using predators and with chemical insecticides. However, such control is still difficult because of operational limitations and the development of insect resistance. Therefore, Bacillus thuringiensis has been used for decades instead of physical and chemical control methods. B. thuringiensis israelensis is highly active against Aedes aegypti."
"The high insecticidal activity and the low toxicity to other organisms," Gill says, "have resulted in the rapid use of B. thuringiensis as an alternative for the control of mosquito populations. B. thuringiensis israelensis produces a variety of toxins that act synergistically to cause toxicity to larval populations."
Gill says his seminar "will discuss our current understanding of the mode of action of these toxins and provide evidence on how resistance to these toxins has not occurred in Aedes mosquitoes in the field even though B. thuringiensis israelensis has been used for more than three decades."
Gill's laboratory focuses on two principal research activities. "The first area attempts to elucidate the mode of action of insecticidal toxins from the Gram positive bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis and Clostridium bifermantans," he says. "This research aims to identify novel toxins, and to gain a molecular understanding of how these toxins interact with cellular targets and thereby causing toxicity. The second area focuses on understanding mosquito midgut and Malpighian tubules function, in particular ion and nutrient transport, and changes that occur following a blood meal."
Gill, who received his doctorate from UC Berkeley, joined the UC Riverside Department of Entomology faculty in 1983. He helped establish the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience and also served as chair. Currently he is the co-editor of the journal Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
A noted scientist and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Gill received his doctorate in insecticide toxicology in 1973 from UC Berkeley. See his website.
If you miss his seminar, not to worry. It's scheduled to be recorded and then posted at a later date on UCTV. (See the index of previous Department of Entomology seminars posted on UCTV.)
Aedes aegypti transmits the deadly dengue. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Professor Sarjeet Gill at a malaria conference at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on Dengue
So are researchers from the Thomas Scott lab at UC Davis.
Scott, a medical entomologist who directs the state-funded UC Mosquito Research Laboratory, and his field director Amy Morrison, based in Iquitos, Peru, know their foe well.
Their goal: to save lives through research, surveillance and implementation of disease prevention strategies.
Morrison talked about the research efforts today on National Public Radio (NPR).
Morrison told Charles: ""What's fascinating to me about aegypti is it's probably the mosquito that's most closely associated with human beings, and the most adapted to human beings."
The tiger-striped mosquito, is a daybiting mosquito that prefers human blood. Some 2.5 to 3 billion people, primarily in tropical and sub-tropical countries around the world, are at risk for dengue, which Scott describes as "the world's worst insect-transmitted disease." See feature on him on the UC Davis Department of Entomology website, with links to significant research work.
Aedes aegypti is out for blood. And so are the UC Davis-based researchers tracking it.
Aedes aegypti transmits dengue. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).


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Download our Eurovision Party posters, add your own personal touch and display them in the venue and around the local area. Charge entrants £2, £5 or £10 to join the fun and choose whether to include some delicious nibbles from our recipe ideas or fun Eurovision games.
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