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Separatist religious extremists behind anti-Islam film causing violence
Mohammed or George as
he is referred to in film
By now most of the world has experienced the violence that has resulted from a film-clip promoting the movie currently called "Innocence of Muslims," with some reverting to violence, others reacting in revulsion. The actors recruited to do the film thought they were making an adventure film of some 2,000 years ago named, "Desert Warrior." Many say they were duped but that will be hard to understand once you watch the minute-long trailer gone viral on You Tube.
Film trailer that created all the violence:
The rioters are angered over the film's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed depicted as a "womanizer, buffoon, ruthless killer and child molester," according to CNN. After looking at the trailer, I get something of a different idea of George, Mohammed's name used when the film was shot, but I will leave this up to your judgment. The man behind the film is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who was convicted of bank fraud in 2009 and has an array of aliases.
Nakoula taken into custody
Nakoula is a Coptic Christian who lives in Cerritos, Calif. The church's foundation is based in Egypt and has followers worldwide. Coptic Christians apparently date all the way back to the second century where a portion of the Gospel of John written in Coptic was found. It is an oppressed community in Egypt, particularly following the riots from the film. Once the film's trailer was translated into Arabic—after two months on You Tube—all hell broke loose.
There are varied versions of what the actors and crew were told the film was about. Judging from watching the trailer, it should be obvious to anyone it was an insult to Mohammed and the Muslims. Lines were definitely changed with voice-over, but it is still clear that the intent was to ridicule the Islamic faith. Steve Klein, another Californian and anti-Muslim activist and script consultant to the movie, said the film was called, "innocence of Bin Laden."
Fla radical pastor Terry Jones
Klein and Nakoula both knew there could be repercussions from making the movie and Nakoula commented in an interview that even after the violence, he was glad he had made the film. Defending one's religion is one thing, but degrading another's, especially when you know how Muslims feel about insults to the Prophet Mohammed, is contemptible. Shades of Terry Jones's Quran-burning that started Afghan riots. Jones was asked to help distribute the movie.
In addition to this questionable kind of freedom of religion, there is also the protection of the 1st Amendment. It does apply here but have these radicals pushed the envelope? So far there have been no major uprisings in the U.S. and Nakoula has apparently been taken into custody by police on suspicion of parole violation. My gut feeling is that it was more likely for his own protection. The fact remains that due to the riots many have died and more wounded.
Four Americans were killed in the violence including Libyan Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. President Obama says the U.S. will not rest until those responsible are brought to justice. So far, four have been arrested. Although there is no excuse for this kind of retaliation against Americans, isn't it also likely that these religious extremists—first Terry, then Nakoula—have gone much too far in the pursuit of their rights by this kind of condemnation of Islam?
Each of these radicals has given terrorists the excuse to promote their cause, in this case burning the Libyan Embassy killing four Americans, including the American Ambassador Chris Stevens. One writer, H.A. Hellyer naively comments that "…the Coptic Church should never be placed in the position of having to apologize for the actions of a few of its members." His premise is right but the minute Nakoula identified himself as a Copt, the connection was made.
And, argues Hellyer, the Muslim community at large shouldn't be obligated to apologize for a group of extremists led by misfits like Jones and Nakoula who are pushing their own agenda at the sake of sacrificing the lives of others. But isn't this what has been going on in the U.S. for the last few years? Good Muslims are living among us in this country but at gatherings my wife and I have attended, the Islamic community is condemned as a whole based on limited incidents.
Americans must stop looking for people or causes to hate and encouraging others like them to take up the gauntlet against what they wrongly perceive as their enemies. Karl Rove under GWB introduced hate to politics, the state of Arizona welcomes and thrives on hate groups, and racial hate once again reared its ugly head in Mississippi recently by the murder of African-American James Craig Anderson by young people, not the normal old time racists.
Labels: Coptic Christian, Innocence of Muslims film, Libyan Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Mohammed, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Steve Klein, Terry Jones
Mike Ellis September 19, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Are you defending what these islamic nutjobs are doing? Why is it that when people make fun of christianity and judaism there is no uproar, no rioting, and no killings, but when islam is made fun of the insane muslims lose their shit. People like you need to stop normalizing this behavior. We have a right to free speech and we will not appologize for that right nor will we try and coddle fanatics that dont like what we have to say.
Nasty Jack Buzz September 21, 2012 at 3:04 PM
The answer to your first question, which should be obvious, is no. The answer to the second, because most of us are more civilized in this country. And re. my "normalizing" this kind of behavior, if you get this from my post, you need a good course in interpretive reading. How would Christians feel about a video depicting Jesus as having sex with his mother? And the right to free speech is exactly why this kind of video can be published in America, even though most of us find it revolting.
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"It is the fundamental obligation of every faithful Catholic to stand up for the honor and glory of God and the honor of the Mother of God."
Two important calls for prayer from the great Raymond Cardinal Burke:
First, as you may be aware, a group of satanists are to put on a black mass today, with the specific intention-- in addition to the usual, horrible blasphemies ordinarily occurring therein-- of desecrating an image of Our Blessed Mother and committing blasphemies against her. Cardinal Burke is calling on all Catholics to pray the Rosary today in reparation. From Gloria TV:
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
I am outraged and most profoundly saddened by the news that a public sacrilegious Black Mass is scheduled to take place in Oklahoma City on the 15th of August, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I have also been informed that, after the horrible sacrilege of the Black Mass, a further blasphemy will be perpetrated directly against the Blessed Virgin Mary. All of this is being done with the official sanction of the legitimate authorities.
For this reason, let us turn to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, through the recitation of the Holy Rosary, to storm Heaven with our prayers to make reparation for these sins and blasphemies that further provoke God's just wrath upon our beloved Nation.
It is the fundamental obligation of every faithful Catholic to stand up for the honor and glory of God and the honor of the Mother of God. In this critical hour, may we not fail to fulfill our obligation of love and devotion toward Our Lord and His heavenly mother.
I ask and beseech each of you to unite with me on this day as I offer Holy Mass and pray a Holy Rosary in reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Let us also pray for the poor souls that are perpetrating these blasphemies.
I urge you to invite your family members, your friends and other fellow Catholics to join in this act of reparation.
Yours devotedly in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
Secondly, today begins a 54-day Rosary novena endorsed by Cardinal Burke to pray for our guilty country in her crisis of the moment-- political, cultural, but of course at its root spiritual-- brought about all too predictably by our sinful actions and rejection of God. From the post at the Holy League site:
"There is no doubt that our beloved nation is in one of the worst crises which it has ever experienced, a profound moral crisis which generates division on all levels and results in an ever-greater more pervasive violence and killing. For Roman Catholics, who have always been known for their faith-filled patriotism, the first response to this crisis is fervent prayer and, in particular, prayer through the intercession of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Mary Immaculate who is also the patroness of our nation.
One of the most powerful prayers which is ours in the Church is, in fact, the Holy Rosary. I think, for instance, of the Battle of Lepanto and the victory which was won on October 7, 1571, over the Saracens who were bent on conquering Christian Europe. Let us now turn to the powerful prayer of the Holy Rosary, asking Mary Immaculate to intercede with Our Lord to bring healing to our nation and to inspire in her citizens the holiness of life which alone can transform our nation.
I wholeheartedly endorse the Novena for Our Nation (Starting August 15) and the Rosary Rally on October 7th next, the 445th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto. I urge as many as are able to participate in these great spiritual works for the sake of our entire nation. In a special way, as the spiritual advisor to the Holy League, I urge all members of the Holy League to give strong leadership in this great campaign of prayer for our nation."
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Storefront Festival opens doors in Kingston
Kick and Push debuts festival that use empty storefronts to break through theatre barriers
Chloe Payne in the Storefront Festival's production of Fake Nerd Girl.
This July, a series of productions took place along downtown Princess Street, using abandoned storefronts as their stages.
The concept of storefront theatre began brewing in Toronto when struggling theatre troupes that couldn't afford costly stages took theatre to abandoned buildings.
The Kick and Push Festival used this format from the fringe and put it at the forefront of the Kingston drama community.
Brett Christopher, artistic producer of Theatre Kingston and one of the organizers of the Storefront Festival, said the idea hit him in the middle of the night as he was brainstorming new ways to "bring innovation" to Kingston theatre.
"Kick and Push is all about making theatre projects that are interesting and new, and bring a fresh perspective on how people experience the art", Christopher said. "Nobody had spearheaded a fringe festival here, despite there being a lot of student work and emerging artists."
The unique spaces offered an affordable outlet for aspiring playwrights and actors to debut, while also encouraging business flow to the recently reopened Princess Street.
As audience members shivered with anticipation in the dark of a Blockbuster at 226 Queen Street, the Storefront rendition of the classic Canadian play Danny, King of the Basement convincingly turned the space into the basement where homeless Danny Carter begins to build a home.
Two hours later, Anybody Can Be Pussy Riot transformed it into a garage for an uproarious punk band.
"It's interesting how it's possible to adapt these spaces," Christopher said, noting the deserted Indigo location on Princess Street had been a construction space when the festival began work on it. It became the most successful of the three venues, the third being the former XO Lounge.
However, it wasn't only the space that challenged the norm. The festival featured multiple productions that openly denounced traditional thought and discussed real experiences of oppression.
Fake Nerd Girl, written and starring Chloe Payne, is a proudly-nerdy, feminist one-woman comedy. It's so approachable and well thought out that even angry nerd boys would be hard-pressed to find anything bad to say about it.
Payne plays the character of Olive, a girl in love with nerd culture — in this case, comics, video games, and sci-fi — since she started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in grade school. Olive goes through multiple encounters with men who harass her in online video games and question the authenticity of her love for comics.
The script is painfully real to the experiences of women in the subculture, and Payne's acting and comedic timing is so good, the audience was alternating between laughing and crying from minute to minute.
The best-selling of all the Storefront productions, Anybody Can Be Pussy Riot, makes a point of not making their audience cry, but getting them angry. In a simultaneously hilarious and beautiful performance that combines scripted characters and real-life interviews, Pussy Riot was more of an experience than a show.
Rebecca Benson and Tracey Guptill play two women from the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot, who were arrested and persecuted for their protest performances that demanded religious freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and labelled Russian President Vladimir Putin a dictator. The duo are fabulously funny and have a great chemistry on stage. Under their makeshift masks, they make the audience laugh, but also discuss serious themes with guests like journalist Meredith Dault and Aboriginal rights activist Georgina Riel.
In between breaks, the punk rock band PELT plays accompanying live music that bursts the eardrums and Kala Seraphin amazes with interpretive dance. At the heart of it all is a comically-wrapped refusal to accept the patriarchal status quo.
Anybody Can Be Pussy Riot was one of the festival's most popular productions.
Benson and Guptill, as well as the hilarious Anna Sudac, a guest performer, target local examples of oppression — such as Kingston's love of Sir John A. MacDonald.
Throughout the show, they encourage people to examine the world with a critical eye — everyone has it in them to challenge authority.
The Storefront Festival certainly brought a refreshing addition to the mid-July calendar. With both humour and heart, shows like Fake Nerd Girl and Pussy Riot showed another side of Kingston.
"Pussy Riot is a little on the risqué side," Christopher said. "A friend of mine said, 'I didn't think Kingston was like that.' But we are. We're here."


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The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health
Can we feed a future population of 10 billion people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries?
The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health brings together more than 30 world-leading scientists from across the globe to reach a scientific consensus that defines a healthy and sustainable diet.
The Commission is delivering the first full scientific review of what constitutes a healthy diet from a sustainable food system, and which actions can support and speed up food system transformation.
To access the EAT–Lancet Commission Hub page at The Lancet, click here.
For the full report Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems (Walter Willett et al.), click here.
Learn how the EAT-Lancet Commission was funded here.
Learn more about the relationship between EAT-Lancet and the World Health Organization (WHO) here.
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EAT-Lancet Explained
Co-chairs of the EAT-Lancet Commission, Prof. Johan Röckstrøm and Prof. Walter Willett take you through the groundbreaking report.
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Five Questions on EAT-Lancet
Answers to five questions about the planetary health diet and the Commission.
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Can healthy food save the planet?
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The EAT-Lancet Commission presents a global planetary health diet that is healthy for both people and planet.
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The Summary Report
Available in eight languages
The Summary Report of the EAT-Lancet Commission is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
What is the EAT-Lancet Commission?
The EAT-Lancet Commission consists of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries from various scientific disciplines. The goal of the Commission was to reach a scientific consensus by defining targets for healthy diets and sustainable food production. The findings of the Commission provide the first ever scientific targets for a healthy diet and sustainable food production within planetary boundaries that will allow us to feed up to 10 billion people by 2050.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre housed the EAT-Lancet Commission's secretariat and co-led the Commission's research activities with EAT.
Why is this report so important?
Today, global food production is the single largest driver of environmental degradation, climate instability and the transgression of planetary boundaries. At the same time, global population health is increasingly pressured by several forms of malnutrition. Unhealthy diets are now the leading risk factor for global burdens of disease with growing rates of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancers. Vast global undernutrition is adding mounting pressure to these challenges. Effectively, how we grow, process, transport, consume and waste food is hurting both people and the planet.
If we want to live in a future where people's health and the environment are not irreversibly damaged, the world needs to start living within scientific boundaries for health and the environment. Meeting the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement requires an urgent and fundamental shift in the ways that we produce and consume food.
While there is substantial scientific evidence that links diets with human health and environmental sustainability, the absence of globally agreed scientific targets for healthy diets and sustainable food production has hindered large-scale and coordinated efforts to transform the global food system thus far. It was this gap that the EAT-Lancet Commission sought to address.
What sets this report apart from similar reports?
The EAT-Lancet Commission's report provides the first ever scientific targets for healthy diets and sustainable food production based on a broad specter of the latest scientific literature. It was published in The Lancet, a world-leading scientific medical journal, and combines research on health, nutrition, agriculture, environmental sciences and political sciences, and presents the correlating result.
The results presented by the Commission have gone through a comprehensive peer-reviewing process, a process that can be lacking when institutions produce reports. Peer-reviewing involves a handful of anonymous scientists acting as reviewers who scrutinize the findings of the report. The Commission had to address the reviewers' comments to ensure the report's academic rigor before it became published as part of the public record and the global academic literature. The supplementary material presented in the Appendix of the Commission's report contains additional results, data and a more detailed description of the methodology used. This can be downloaded from The Lancet's website along with the full publication.
The Commission's report lays the groundwork for flexible practices by proposing clear scientific targets within the safe operating space for healthy diets and sustainable food systems, including the lowest and highest possible levels. Instead of presenting strict guidelines with little room for amendment, the report's findings allow for independent decisions and local adaptation.
Finally, the Commission is also unique in embracing multiple environmental dimensions: climate, biodiversity loss, nitrogen and phosphorus loss to the environment, land system change and freshwater use. Many studies focus on a few rather than all six of these environmental limits.
The planetary health diet is a global reference diet for adults that is symbolically represented by half a plate of fruits, vegetables and nuts. The other half consists of primarily whole grains, plant proteins (beans, lentils, pulses), unsaturated plant oils, modest amounts of meat and dairy, and some added sugars and starchy vegetables. The diet is quite flexible and allows for adaptation to dietary needs, personal preferences and cultural traditions. Vegetarian and vegan diets are two healthy options within the planet health diet but are personal choices.
Why is this diet good for both my health and the environment?
Today, food is a defining challenge of humanity by contributing to both poor health outcomes and severe environmental degradation. Increasing food demand and the adoption of unhealthy diets including persistent hunger, generalized overconsumption as well as overconsumption of unhealthy foods lead to incredible strains on public health and has severe consequences on natural resources and the environment. As it stands, the global food system cannot meet the nutritional demands of a growing world population projected to increase to 10 billion by 2050 without irreversibly damaging the planet.
To change this, the planetary health diet sets out scientific targets for healthy diets that will optimize human health. Adopting the guidelines can result in a reduction in undernutrition, overnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases, which are continuously on the rise globally. Global uptake of the planetary health diet, however, can reduce approximately 11 million premature adult deaths annually, effectively contributing to a 19-23% overall reduction in premature mortalities per year.
In addition, the report also identifies environmental limits for sustainable food systems that define a safe operating space for food production within planetary boundaries. The targets emphasize those environmental processes most impacted by food including climate change, freshwater use, contamination of water by nitrogen and phosphorus, and the loss of biodiversity. It also recognizes the significant land that has been appropriated for food production and the contribution that natural ecosystems make to climate regulation, provisioning of freshwater and the conservation of biodiversity.
How does a diet based on global assessments apply to me as an individual? And how strictly do I have to adhere to it?
The planetary health diet is flexible by providing guidelines to ranges of different food groups that together constitute an optimal diet for human health and environmental sustainability. It emphasizes a plant-forward diet where whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes comprise a greater proportion of foods consumed. Meat and dairy constitute important parts of the diet but in significantly smaller proportions than whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes.
In addition to the targets set within each section, the dietary targets also suggest that the average adult requires 2500 kcal per day. While this amount will vary based on age, gender, activity levels and health profiles, overconsumption is a waste of food with both health and environmental costs.
The EAT-Lancet Commission's scientific targets for healthy diets allow for individuals to prepare and consume meals in the total amount, composition and proportions that fit within the ranges of different food groups. The dietary pattern allows for flexible application of these criteria with room to tailor foods and amounts to the different preferences and contexts to reduce the risk of poor diets and environmental degradation.
Why should I decrease my meat consumption?
Current overconsumption of meat in Western diets is a significant contributor to poor health and increases a person's risk of becoming overweight, obese or developing certain noncommunicable diseases. Projections show that a global adoption of a Western diet high in meat intake matched with global population and economic growth will drive significant health burdens and push food systems well beyond environmental limits – multiple studies make the same predictions.
Allocating increasingly scarce, high value agricultural lands or converting high carbon or high biodiversity ecosystems to agricultural land to produce foods is problematic – this guarantees the continued degradation of public health and a collective failure to meet both the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. This will also contribute to the growing social and economic costs of poor public health, climate disaster relief and environmental degradation.
Avoiding these risks calls for a significant reduction of unhealthy food consumption – particularly poorly produced meat – in high- income countries, in addition to avoiding increasing consumption trends in middle-income countries. At the same time, it is critical that the food system ensures sufficient access to healthy levels of protein that are sustainably produced where hunger and malnutrition persist. Although this is a generalization supported by global trends, the EAT-Lancet Commission urges individuals, companies and government officials to use the scientific targets provided by this report to develop context-specific plans of action to ensure a healthy and sustainable future for all.
What does the report mean for the agriculture industry and their employees? Has the Commission considered the economic and social costs linked with the recommendations?
The EAT-Lancet Commission has not calculated the economic or social costs of the recommendations. It does flag that there are significant economic and social values to the recommendations, including in reducing national and individual healthcare expenditures, improving quality of life, and collective contributions to environmental security with significant implications on disaster spending.
Food will continue to be one of the most important industries and global employers with significant innovations and improvements in food production, processing, transportation and preparation are needed to meet global food and environmental security targets. While we anticipate that demand for some crops will decrease locally and regionally, these decreases will need to be replaced by increased production of other crops and food items. For example, the Commission notes that the production of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will need to more than double to meet global needs by 2050.
Actions that help ensure dignified employment in the food sector from production, preparation to reutilization are important solutions. Policies that support transitioning rural economies toward the production of healthy foods with environmental benefits will be critically important.
Wouldn't it be more effective to focus on ways to reduce fossil fuel emissions instead of food?
The EAT-Lancet Commission agrees that the number one priority for combating climate change is the transition to a carbon free economy by 2050. However, achieving the Paris Agreement requires halting conversion of high carbon ecosystems to carbon, and food production must also increase to meet the needs of 10 billion people by 2050 with agriculture's current greenhouse gas emission budget of 5 GT CO2-e. This is not an insignificant challenge and calls into question increasing meat and feed production – notably beyond dietary needs – in the face of acute underproduction of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes required in healthy diets.
However, the Commission does flag that even with the assumption that the world fully decarbonizes by 2050, reaching the Paris Agreement requires three important contributions from agriculture: 1) halting land expansion into carbon rich ecosystems; 2) reducing methane and nitrogen dioxide emissions from agriculture, notably rice production and enteric fermentation from livestock; and 3) increased carbon storage in agricultural lands through improved cropland, pasture and rangeland management practices.
Food is by no means the only means to achieve global climate targets, but it is an important contributor nevertheless. Hence, the focus needs to be on both the reduction of fossil fuel emissions and the changing of diets. The Commission states very clearly that global decarbonization is necessary, emissions must be halved by 2030 and net zero carbon emissions should be achieved by 2050. However, even if all these goals are achieved but dietary patterns see no shifts, the world will fail to meet the Paris Agreement. While CO2 and decarbonization are absolutely critical, food does matter. The EAT-Lancet clearly demonstrates that success on both fronts are required.
The EAT-Lancet Commission Launch in Oslo
Venue: The Aula, University of Oslo, Karl Johans Gate 47 Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019 Time: 14:30 – 16:00
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The Commissioners
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Co-chaired by Prof. Walter Willett and Prof. Johan Rockström, the EAT-Lancet Commission brings together world-leading researchers in nutrition, health, sustainability and policy from across the world.
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Together with our partners, EAT will curate a series of launch events across at least 35 sites around the globe. Stay tuned for more information.


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In a sign that the Chinese are redefining global travel, the industry's most recent statistics show that the Chinese are now the world's number spender on travel. This is a key milestone that demonstrates China's increasing global presence.
China has overtaken the U.S. and Germany as the world's biggest spenders on travel, with Chinese travelers spending $102 billion on international travel in 2012, an increase of over 40 percent from 2011.
The second annual Chinese International Travel Monitor (CITM) released today by Hotels.com, the world's leading hotel booking website, reveals significant insights into the changing behaviors of Chinese travelers and how the global hotel industry is adapting.
Surveying more than 3,000 Chinese international travelers and more than 1,500 hoteliers around the world, the Hotels.com report found 75 percent of global hoteliers say Chinese travelers now account for up to five percent of their business. Nearly half (45 percent) say they have experienced an increase in Chinese guests over the last year, with the greatest increases coming in APAC (61 percent). Hoteliers see China as a positive growth market over the next three years with one in 10 expecting to see an increase of more than 50 percent and almost half (47 percent) anticipating an 11-50 percent rise.
According to the Hotels.com report, the majority of overseas Chinese travel (96 percent) has been for leisure purposes, while just over half (52 percent) have also visited other countries for business or education.
In a growing trend, nearly two thirds (62 percent) of Chinese travelers say they prefer to travel independently and not as part of a group. This development was confirmed by the hoteliers surveyed, who say 70 percent of Chinese guests now travel independently, compared with a much more even split in 2012.
In addition, the CITM highlights areas for continued improvement for accommodation providers. The ability to accept Chinese payment methods is seen as the single most important offering from hotels, with over one-fourth (26 percent) of Chinese travelers feeling this is a key area for improvement.
Three-fourths (75 percent) of Chinese travelers say hoteliers need to improve the provision of translated items, such as welcome literature, websites, TV programs and newspapers, while almost half (42 percent) say that they would like to see more Mandarin-speaking hotel staff.
Highlighting a disconnect between the desires of Chinese travelers and provisions made by hoteliers, one-fourth (25 percent) of hoteliers say they offer cultural awareness training to staff but 11 percent offer welcome materials in Mandarin. Additionally, just over half (56 percent) of hotels globally have invested less than $10,000** in developing programs and products specifically catered to Chinese guests over the past 12 months.
When it comes to researching and booking travel, personal recommendation plays an increasingly vital role, with almost one-third (30 percent) of Chinese travelers saying they rely on advice from family and friends, followed by online travel booking and review sites.
More than one-fourth of Chinese travelers (27 percent) use social media to help them make decisions on vacation destinations, with this figure rising to 33 percent among travelers under 35.
"In addition, programs being implemented by many governments and tourism authorities to attract and facilitate for Chinese travelers are a positive step in the right direction, but the pace of growth in the volume of Chinese travelers appears to be outstripping the pace of change in the hotel industry," he concluded.


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What is it with Pat McCrory and the Department of Health and Human Services? Yesterday, news outlets across the state reported that Secretary Aldona Wos had made yet another political hire with an inflated salary. So when I heard McCrory was calling a news conference, I expected to hear about "changes" at DHHS.
Instead, McCrory doubled down. He defended Wos and said the criticism of her had been unfair. If that's true, why can't anybody give her a reasonable defense? Nobody has explained how a department can have such bad press for so long and nobody is responsible. Until yesterday, the only explanation McCrory has given is to blame outside groups and the press.
McCrory says that he's concerned that the public having "details of recent hires might deter people from seeking jobs in government." There is an 8.9% unemployment rate in the state. I doubt it's a problem. The rest of us are more concerned about the government hiring political cronies at inflated salaries to do jobs that they can't handle, like keeping the Department of Health and Human Services out of the news or delivering assistance to needy families.
My real question, though, is who is directing those hires? Is Aldona Wos lone-wolfing it and scraping up every unemployed political hack or wing-nut activist she can find? Or is somebody in McCrory's administration telling her to hire these people either to hold them until the next election cycle or pay off some political debt?
Regardless, it's utterly tone deaf and conduct unbecoming a governor. McCrory claims he wants to run government like a business but would a business keep people who can't do the jobs they were hired to do? Morale in that place must be in the dumps, and not from the problems left by the previous administration, but by the blatant incompetence of this one.


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Munroe Falls é uma cidade localizada no estado norte-americano de Ohio, no Condado de Summit.

Demografia
Segundo o censo norte-americano de 2000, a sua população era de 5314 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 5260, um decréscimo de 54 (-1.0%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
7,3 km², dos quais 7,1 km² cobertos por terra e 0,2 km² cobertos por água.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 8 km ao redor de Munroe Falls.

Ligações externas

Cidades do Ohio

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Richard Davies (c.1777–1859) was a Welsh Anglican priest in the 19th century.

Davies was born in Brecknockshire and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was Archdeacon of Brecon from 1805 to 1859.

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A companion piece to "United 93" as a portrayal of American reaction to 9/11.
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So vivid and convincingly realistic is the physical depiction of Baghdad in the early days of the American occupation that the introduction of trumped-up thriller elements feels like an unwanted intrusion in "Green Zone." A companion piece to "United 93" as a portrayal of American reaction — this time misguided — to 9/11, Paul Greengrass' high-voltage action drama does a better job of defining where the U.S. went hopelessly wrong on Iraq than it does in creating a plausible suspense scenario. The acclaim for "The Hurt Locker" notwithstanding, the commercial jinx of Iraq War stories has yet to be broken, although, with a vigorously virile Matt Damon leading the charge, this Universal release should go a bit further at the B.O. than its predecessors.
Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland have devised a storyline, involving a committed but quickly skeptical soldier's search for weapons of mass destruction, that comfortably doubles as an incisive critique of the false premise upon which the Bush Administration based its invasion. The interlocking of form and content remains intact for at least the first half of the picture, but once Damon's one-man truth squad goes off the reservation and starts behaving too much like Jason Bourne for comfort, the film begins not only spilling more blood but also leaking crucial credibility.
Notably, the picture is credited as having been "inspired" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran's superb book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" rather than "based" on it. Having covered the Middle East and the Iraq War for the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran wrote a pointed nonfiction tome that detailed the arrogant, absurd and tragic aspects of the Americans' behavior, naming names and documenting everything, but with a tone that often recalled the darkly comic vein of "Catch-22" or "MASH."
This prompts the question of whether the public is ready for a bleakly humorous cinematic treatment of Iraq. The answer to that is, in the right hands, any subject is fair game for humor. But Greengrass is very far from being that sort of filmmaker. Employing his customary whiplash style of shooting and editing, he wants to plunk the viewer right down in the hellish anarchy that Baghdad soon became in 2003 after the Americans rolled in and were faced with far greater challenges on the ground than they anticipated.
Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) has a single objective: to find the WMD the U.S. government is certain Saddam Hussein has hidden in various sites around Iraq. As every location he and his small unit search turns up empty, it doesn't take long for Miller to conclude there's something wrong with Pentagon intelligence. But the last guy who wants to hear this is Washington's newly arrived viceroy, Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear), who can't be bothered with doubts that might interfere with his mission to reshape Iraq into a Middle Eastern bastion of American-style democracy.
Also on the scene is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan), whose articles have long seconded the administration's conviction about WMD due to intel provided by a confidential source called "Magellan." Amusingly, the character who is depicted in the most favorable light, in that he recognizes the game for what it is, is old CIA hand Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson). Grizzled and cynical like a character out of Graham Greene, Brown is derided by Poundstone as a "dinosaur," but he provides Miller with an unlikely source of support and backdoor assistance.
From the opening scenes, which first depict Iraqi officials' flight in the wake of "shock and awe," then Miller's initial mission as his men take out a sniper firing from an alleged WMD hideaway, Greengrass again asserts himself as the foremost practitioner of "you are there" filmmaking. Locations in three different countries — Spain, Morocco and the U.K. — are brilliantly integrated to rep Baghdad, Saddam's grandiose palace and surrounding areas, and production designer Dominic Watkins deserves a special salute for the verisimilitude of what's onscreen at every moment.
Would that the invented scenario were as entirely convincing. Once Poundstone realizes Miller is no longer onboard with the administration's program, the gung-ho soldier is forced to go rogue. Increasingly functioning as a proxy private detective or investigative reporter, Miller, aided by a wonderful local character named Freddy (Khalid Abdalla), is able to pursue the Magellan mystery when he locates a cabal of former Saddam insiders, leading to a frenetic and rather protracted nocturnal action climax that feels far too concocted as a genre film payoff to play well here. A number of far-fetched coincidences and contrivances add to the undesired impression of narrative artifice.
Press notes quote Greengrass to the effect that "Green Zone" was not designed to promote any political agenda — a disingenuous remark, to say the least, when his film concludes with a shot of a giant oil refinery. Basically, the picture is the first narrative feature to have digested and synthesized the essential information expressed in Charles Ferguson's superlative 2007 docu "No End in Sight," about the misconceptions, miscalculations and misrepresentations involved in Bush's Iraq policies. And while the usual disclaimer insists that all the characters herein are fictitious, it's crystal-clear that Poundstone is Paul Brenner and Dayne is former New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
The jittery camerawork, familiar from Greengrass' previous work and here implemented by Barry Ackroyd, achieves visceral reactions at times, but at other moments one yearns for the sort of visual sharpness with which similar scenes of urban combat were shot in "Black Hawk Down." Visual effects make possible some exceptional panoramic vistas of Baghdad under siege.
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Production: A Universal release presented in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media of a Working Title production. Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lloyd Levin, Paul Greengrass. Executive producers, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin. Co-producers, Mairi Bett, Michael Bronner, Christopher Rouse, Kate Solomon. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Screenplay, Brian Helgeland, inspired by the book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
Crew: Camera (color, widescreen), Barry Ackroyd; editor, Christopher Rouse; music, John Powell; production designer, Dominic Watkins; art directors, Mark Bartholomew (U.K.), Mark Swain (Spain), Frederic Evard (Morocco); set decorator, Lee Sandales; costume designer, Sammy Sheldon; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS), Simon Hayes; supervising sound editor, Oliver Tarner; re-recording mixers, Michael Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor; visual effects supervisor, Peter Chiang; digital visual effects, Double Negative; special effects supervisor, Joss Williams; stunt coordinators, Markos Rounthwaite, Gary Connery (U.K.); assistant director, Chris Carreras; second unit directors, Chris Forster, Dan Bradley; second unit camera, Florian Emmerich; additional editor, Mark Fitzgerald; casting, Amanda Mackey, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Dan Hubbard, John Hubbard. Reviewed at the Landmark, Los Angeles, March 1, 2010. (In Film Comment Selects, New York -- closer.) MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 114 MIN.
With: Roy Miller - Matt Damon Clark Poundstone - Greg Kinnear Martin Brown - Brendan Gleeson Lawrie Dayne - Amy Ryan Freddy - Khalid Abdalla Briggs - Jason Isaacs With: Igal Naor, Raad Rawi, Said Faraj, Michael O'Neill.


Carvel Collins: Homage to a Role Model : Tribute: How the late Faulkner scholar and university professor influenced a writer's life.
After 42 years, the paper I typed the short story on has gone brown at the edges. It's the kind of paper--favored by time-short college students who have to turn in first drafts--that erases easily and smears just as easily.
The penciled notes Carvel Collins made on my story are hard to make out. But they come back to me, partly by deciphering, partly out of memory because I've read them so often. In the story, did she poison her husband or didn't she? It wasn't really a lady-or-the-tiger situation, as Prof. Collins pointed out, merely unclear.
"But I'll take once more the risk of asking you to write a novel," he wrote in his easy scrawl. Then, at the bottom of the page, almost as an afterthought, he added, "One of the editors of Life has asked me to recommend a writer to him. I'd be glad to recommend you if you were interested. If you are, let me know."
Collins, who died last week in Vista, Calif., at the age of 77, was in 1948 also teaching the first seminar devoted fully to the work of William Faulkner. He knew Faulkner and told stories about their meetings that made the author and his Mississippi come alive. At his death, he was one of the best-known Faulkner experts in world.
I was an ex-GI, a senior that year, eager to take Collins' one-term writing course, whose only assignment was to write 1,000 words a week in any form. The mention of the Life job was not quite the honor it sounded. It was an undergraduate course and I was one of the few seniors, allowed in on a dispensation as a veteran. Few in the class were graduating.
Still, the note was a blessing as from heaven. I wanted to get married; I didn't have a clue as to a job or even what to do with my life, except that it somehow had to involve putting words together.
As Mignon McLaughlin once wrote, "Everybody can write; the trouble with writers is they can't do anything else." Do anything else and be happy, she meant, and she was right.
I went to Prof. Collins' office and together we drafted an outrageously flattering letter to the magazine. I cut commencement to go to New York for a bafflingly inconclusive set of interviews, in which various editors looked at me and grunted, as if there were clues to my worth in my haircut or the way I tied my tie.
But in August, Life offered a job as a trainee, and my association with the Luce empire lasted 17 years, until I joined this newspaper. I didn't see or have any contact with Carvel Collins for more than 20 years, though I heard he had gone from Harvard to MIT and then to Notre Dame, all the while continuing his researches into Faulkner's life and work, preparing for what was to have been the absolutely definitive two-volume critical biography.
Then a mutual friend, Meta Wilde, who had been the love of Faulkner's life when they were both working for Howard Hawks at Warners, learned of our mutual acquaintance with Carvel Collins, who by then had retired from Notre Dame and was living in Vista.
One night Meta and her husband Arthur invited me to dinner, and when I walked in to the living room, Prof. Collins was there, looking as tall, slim, elegantly casual and unacademic as he had in class a couple of decades earlier. For the first time, I had a chance to say in person, thanks for my professional life.
Over the years, I had come to see what an incredibly good teacher he had been (quite apart from the note about the Life job). When he talked about Faulkner, he was partly the passionate reader, finding the real meanings in the texts and partly the private eye, seeking out the life for clues to both the man and the work.
Collins led the upwardly revisionist view of Faulkner as a world-class talent rather than a colorful regional writer (a view confirmed by the Nobel Prize Faulkner received a decade after Collins was giving his pioneering seminar at Harvard).
His pursuit of Faulkner was a magnificent obsession. If we are lucky, we find the right role models and mentors in life, and Collins' pursuit of a particular truth was an inspiration as long as I knew him. Not least, he ravaged his modest professorial earnings acquiring Faulkner materials. At last he had something like three dozen fireproof file cabinets of material. When he retired, trusting no one, he rented a U-Haul truck and drove the files from South Bend to Vista himself.
He edited and published some early Faulkner work and wrote many articles about him, which another of his students hopes to gather in a single volume. But Collins' health and his time ran out before he could move from the note-taking to the writing of the definitive biography. The rich material he had gathered will have to be refined by a later generation of scholars.
Leaving the biography undone was surely deeply distressing to Carvel Collins as it was to the Faulkner faithful who anticipated a portrait that would have been the fairest, most sensitive and informed yet.
But the materials he had unearthed and the insights he voiced are now part of the literature. And there are those hundreds of us, at least, from the several places he taught, who can say that we may have done a little better that we might have with our lives and our gifts, thanks to him.
I've never tried the novel he encouraged me to write, but if I should it will be dedicated to Carvel Collins, who accepted me as a writer before I was really sure I was.


The distance between Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Chios, Greece is approximately 8,744 km or 5,433 mi.
To reach Winnipeg, Manitoba in this distance one would set out from Chios bearing 326.7° or NNW and follow the great circles arc to approach Winnipeg, Manitoba bearing 221.9° or SW .
Winnipeg, Manitoba has a warm summer continental/ hemiboreal climate with no dry season (Dfb) whereas Chios has a Mediterranean hot climate (Csa).
Total annual precipitation averages 151.4 mm (6 in) less which is equivalent to 151.4 l/m² (3.72 US gal/ft²) or 1,514,000 l/ha (161,857 US gal/ac) less. About 3/4 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 11.5° lower in Winnipeg, Manitoba than in Chios.
The table shows values for Winnipeg, Manitoba relative to Chios. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Chios vs Winnipeg, Manitoba.


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Paint Music on the Bright Side of Tears
'I paint music' started as a love-song. But it changed after I heard stories about people who, suffering from the corona-virus, had to wait at home, behind glass, in quarantine. People forced to stay at home, while loved ones are in the hospital fighting for their lives.
Songtext for original love-songDownload
These stories changed the composition into music about the fear of loosing loved ones, not being able to hold their hands. Being stuck behind a glass window, not being able to say a final good-bye.
The music comes visually alive by the inspiring sand-show designed by sand-artist Immanuel Boie.
Paint Music on the Bright Side of Tears, sand-art I. Boie, Music&Lyrics A. Wolters.
The composition is written for a small symphonic orchestra, 30 people, including the conductor. The main sound in the middle register: viola's. The orchestra will be supported by a Tuba-Euphonium quartet and 3 saxophones to provide a warm, golden sound. 4 voices are added, but a small choir could also do the trick.
This orchestration is not 'regular': The goal is to unite instruments and people that normally wouldn't play together. Strings, Singers and Brass play in different types of ensembles, but I think that in these difficult times for music, a composition should also unite people from different musical backgrounds.
Paint Music on the Bright Side of your Tears, MIDI, by A. Wolters.
Download the score:
Paint Music on the Bright Side of your TearsDownload
1,5 meter corona-proof rehearsals
This composition can be played with less performers on stage than a normal orchestra. Corona-proof compositions can be played with max. 30 musicians incl. conductor, given the present Dutch regulations.
Even few players per part or soloists will do, when smaller orchestra's are required. The percussion is organized in 'pits', so there is no walking at the stage during performances.


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