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Millennium Development Goals

VOLMETER UNWTO delivery in Portugal the awards during a forum on tourism and science. The Spanish company Ingelia this award for a biofuels project. Among the winners there are administrations, companies, NGOs and associations. These days the World Tourism Organization on tourism and Science Forum is being held in Portugal: rapprochement between theory and practice. The town of Vilamoura, on the Algarve, hosts representatives from around the world in these discussion sessions, which in addition the UNWTO Ulysses Awards will be handed out between 1 and June 3. These awards are granted to initiatives and projects undertaken by public institutions of tourism, tourism businesses and non-profit organizations that have made an important contribution to the progress of tourism through innovation and in tune with the development goals of the United Nations for the Millennium, explains in its press release the World Tourism Organization. Projects awarded during the dinner gala on Thursday, is they delivered the prizes corresponding to the year 2011 in different categories.

The awards for innovation in governance will be for: the China Tourism Academy, by index of satisfaction of tourists; the Ministry of foreign trade and tourism of Peru, by the development of the Moche route; and the Regional Secretariat of tourism and transport of Madeira (Portugal), by the introduction of the environmental certificate establishment friend of the environment. Takes one of the awards for innovation in enterprises in the tourism sector this year the Spanish project Artemis, of transformation of organic waste into biofuel, developed by Ingelia. In addition, will be recognized OHL developments by the Mexican resort Mayakoba, as an example of sustainable and responsible tourism, and the Belgian company TCI Reserch by index of competitiveness TravelSat, as a model of global competitive rrenciacion of satisfaction of tourists and the quality of the journey. Also organisations do not Government have their category. Additional information at Kidney Foundation supports this article. In 2011 is will reward the tourist volunteering project to protect biodiversity on the island of w. James Whyte, of the Australian NGO Conservation Volunteers.

Will also receive the award two entities that work accessible tourism: the Slovenian Association for Mental Health (SENT) by the PREMIKI project for people with special needs, and the Canadian KEROUL, that has put in place a suitable route for Quebec. The special jury awards will be for the project of development of cultural villages of the cooperative association saudi Alghat, the Ministry of tourism and Uruguayan sport by the UruguayNatural.tv channel, and the European route of cemeteries, which has developed the Association of significant cemeteries in Europe, based in Italy. The Ulysses prize for scholars will be awarded to Kaye Chon, Dean and Professor j of the management school of hospitality and tourism of the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. The agenda of the Forum but the Ulysses awards ceremony will be only one of the events that will take place during the Forum of the Algarve. These symposiums organised by the UNWTO knowledge network will have parallel working sessions that will address three subjects: development and competitiveness; climate change and sustainability; governance and tourism policy. The program, which will also address the strategic positioning and innovation in products and processes, including discussions and plenary sessions that will be voted on resolutions that will define the framework of the consensus of the Algarve, which will form the basis for subsequent performances by the World Tourism Organization.

The Pilots Will Run In Japan

Never say this water I’ll not drink, said Jorge Lorenzo, in English, to the astonishment of the international press, which did not understand where walked kicks, unaccustomed as they are to the Spanish proverb. The issue at hand, recurring in the latest press conferences in the circuits for months, was attendance at the Grand Prix of Japan, who was suspended because weeks should be held after the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated the Japanese Coast last March. And for which it sought a new date: October 2. York City was the first to reply. Since they met when that appointment should celebrate pilots openly showed his reluctance to run on the circuit of Motegi, about 120 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power, fearful as they were by the possible effects of radiation before the news that had been happening on uncontrolled leakage of this plant in. However, after dozens of meetings, after motions with a mutiny, and demand more and better information about radioactivity in the area in which the shed of MotoGP remains about five days, the pilots will run in Japan. Source of the news:: riders will run in Japan

Der Blaue Reiter Lyonel

HELENA CELDRN New York’s Whitney Museum organizes the most complete exhibition so far of the artist who went to Berlin to study music and became a painter. Sample offers, alongside the best-known oil paintings, figurative paintings, architectural photos and comic strips. Feininger belonged to Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter Expressionists artistic groups and was a prominent member of the Bauhaus. Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) painted scenes whose elements seem to see fragmented, as through a broken glass. He started studying music, left him and became a cartoonist, then she fell, German Expressionism and the architects, designers and artists from the Bauhaus school. It absorbed everything naturally, with the lust that provokes curiosity. New York’s Whitney Museum exposes Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World (Lyonel Feininger: on the edge of the world), the first retrospective in 45 years of the artist in the United States and the first opportunity to contemplate the versatility of his work. Sample best known meets their exquisite oil paintings (than there are three in the permanent collection of the Museum Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid), his artistic side.

But the Whitney goes beyond and delves into the different facets of Feininger. A pioneer of the modern comic with great detail, the Museum has gathered his lesser-known close to German Expressionism figurative works, architectural buildings of the Bauhaus and New York photos, the Ethereal late works that portrayed to the Big Apple. Even presents the comic strips in the American newspaper Chicago Sunday Tribune that won in their early life and now current cartoonists like Art Spiegelman considered to be pioneers of modern comics. Although he was born and grew up in New York, Lyonel Feininger was moved to Berlin at the age of 16 to study music, but was effectuated artistic environment that promoted Expressionism and knew that paint was what I needed his spirit. He was part of the artistic groups of Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter, was later a member of the Bauhaus.

Hitler came to power in 1933. The campaign to revile modern art and that his wife was Jewish forced him to return to his country after 15 years out. The mixture of European abstraction and American imagery earned him recognition. Critics classified as purely European art: he lived divided between two continents, lacking always the place in which it was not. Source of the news: Lyonel Feininger, the New Yorker who was always European

Portuguese Football Federation

As regards international matches, including the Champions with Real Madrid. He abandoned the concentration of the Portuguese selection alleging disrespect. To this end, the Portuguese Federation must propose punishment previously. The Portuguese Center on Real Madrid Ricardo Carvalho risks not playing from one to three months in international matches – including those of Champions – by his sudden abandonment of the concentration of the selection lusa. According to specialists in sports law cited by the Portuguese media, Carvalho, 33 years, could meet a sanction tensile testing of UEFA if the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), prior punishment the player, so requests the body that governs European football. However, the FPF still not officially confirmed the opening of disciplinary proceedings – which could lead to the aforementioned suspension – and just ahead of that before enacting any sanctions they will listen to the merengue dnsa. Ricardo Carvalho, 75 times international, left without Notice the concentration of selection last Wednesday to the allege lack of respect, while the coach, Paulo Bento, condemned the attitude of his former pupil and accused him of turning your back on your country. According to Bento, the Real Madrid central deserted lusa concentration to Intuit that he wasn’t going to be headline in the clash between Cyprus and Portugal’s qualification for the finals of Euro 2012 and it held in Nicosia today. Source of the news: Ricardo Carvalho risks carry a penalty of three months