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Monsanto Stunned – California Confirms 'Roundup' Will Be Labeled "Cancer Causing"
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California has just dealt a blow to Monsanto as the state's Environmental Protection Agency has decided to list glyphosate, the highly toxic main ingredient used in Roundup, as a known carcinogenic.
Under Proposition 65, also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, the state is required to list and publish chemicals that cause birth defects, cancer, or other reproductive harm. If a chemical is found to be carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), they are required to be listed as well.
The IARC released a report, in March, that states glyphosate to be a 'probably carcinogen.' The report shows that the herbicide has been found to cause cancer in lab animals as well.
"Case-control studies of occupational exposure in the U.S.A., Canada, and Sweden reported increased risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma that persisted after adjustments to other pesticides."
The decision of California to list glyphosate on the toxic chemicals list is the first of its kind.
"As far as I'm aware, this is the first regulatory agency within the U.S. to determine that glyphosate is a carcinogen. So this is a very big deal," Dr. Nathan Donley of the Center for Biological Diversity said in an email.
California EPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) filed its 'notice of intent to list' glyphosate to be a known cancer agent.
Monsanto was baffled from this decision to place glyphosate on the state's list of close to 800 toxic chemicals. Charla Lord, spokesperson for the massive company, told Agri-Pulse that "glyphosate is an effective and valuable tool for farmers and other users, including many in the state of California. During the upcoming comment period, we will provide detailed scientific information to OEHHA about the safety of glyphosate and work to ensure that any potential listing will not affect glyphosate use or sales in California."
Roundup is used on crops all over the world, especially Monsanto's Roundup-Ready varieties – genetically engineered to accept large doses of Roundup to allow blanket application with harm to the crops.
WHO released its report naming glyphosate carcinogenic, it took less than a week for Monsanto to call for a retraction. The Biotech giant still claims that Roundup is safe when used as directed.
California seems to be leading the charge against Monsanto within the states, it shouldn't take long for other states to join in the fight.
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Disposable diapers are expensive, and cloth diapers can seem even more out of reach — after all, there is a start-up cost involved, and they need to be washed. A recent CNN article discussed how families sometimes struggle to come up with money for diapers, but the author believed that cloth diapers simply aren't an option for those who aren't able to wash at home. However, every year thousands of families demonstrate just how doable it really is, and a leading cloth diaper advocate hopes that this information can be used to inspire moms and dads who may be struggling to buy another pack of disposable diapers.
Kim Rosas, owner of Dirty Diaper Laundry, organized the first Flats and Handwashing Challenge. She was inspired after reading a news article that outlined some unsafe and unsanitary practices some families put into place because they could not afford to buy more disposable diapers — moms trying to wash and "air dry" disposable diapers or scraping out solid waste and reusing them.
"As a cloth diaper advocate I've always believed there are some exceptions to the rule and that disposables have a place, yet I knew that in desperate situations the money savings of cloth diapers would be an immense help to these families," she explained.
Parents who sign up for this challenge are encouraged to use flat diapers exclusively and only wash them by hand for an entire week. "Flats were the obvious choice — they are super cheap, available at major big box stores (as flour sack towels or burp cloths), and wash and dry easily," Kim told us. "Before advocating this method I had to 'put my money where my mouth was' so I started doing it at home. I invited others to try it and, surprisingly, a lot of people signed up."
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Jessica, mom of two, handwashed diapers when her youngest was a small baby. They washed them in their bathtub and got their older child involved in the action too — and made it fun. "It was worth the savings for us, especially at that time," she said. "We couldn't afford to diaper our 3-month-old with disposables anymore, and the Laundromat was too expensive for us at the time too."
Kim, along with other cloth-using parents, was dismayed at how easily cloth diapers were dismissed by the CNN writer. She recognizes that the author comes from a disposable diaper bank background — she is a founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, an organization that helps local diaper banks stock up on and distribute disposable diapers to parents in need.
Kim said that she wished diaper banks provided at least a little information on cloth diapers and how they can really help family budgets and keep babies warm and dry. "A package of disposables is a band aid, but a stash of cloth diapers is a cure for diaper need," she explained.
Starting a cloth diaper stash from scratch can seem daunting, but if you buy the more inexpensive types (such as flat diapers or prefolds) and do it a little at a time, you can have a couple dozen diapers in no time. "It might not seem like a lot of money when you buy [disposable] diapers every week, but it can add up to $1,600 for one child in two years of using diapers, much more if they potty train later," Kim explained. "Considering that minimum wage is around $8 (even less in many states) that adds up to 200 hours of work. That doesn't even include the taxes taken from their pay!"
Cloth diapering is a viable option in most circumstances and even using cloth part-time can add up to a lot of savings. Consider letting your friends know about cloth diapers and point them towards resources such as this piece from Dirty Diaper Laundry, which shows parents how to cloth diaper on a budget. Moms shouldn't have to choose between diapering their baby and putting food on the table — and with cloth, they don't have to.
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My latest attempt at the ultimate crayfish pattern. Here's the goal: A fly that moves like a crayfish A fly that looks like a crayfish A fly that is fairly quick to tie Its weighted to ride hook point up, so the tail dives when the line goes slack. This is the "year of the crayfish" for me, I've fished crayfish patterns all year long with good results Hook: size 2 down eye 6 xlong streamer antennae: peacock herl strands Mouth and forelegs: Green bucktail and orange marabou Legs: Green Saddle hackle Shellback: Ultrasuade colored with permanent marker (make template out of #100 card stock 3.25 inches long) Body: Lead covered with orange trilobal chenille. bead chain near eye for the dive effect This one takes about ten minutes, less if I find a way to cut two or three shellbacks at a time ( ultrasuade). Tie a woolly bugger with a bucktail tail. stop the hackle about halfway down the body. add bead chain eyes, whip finish. Flip over in the vise, Trim top of hacke, Then add shellback over the bugger body securing the first segment with tying thread (ten turns) and then moving down the body toward the eye of the hook. whip finish again. I know this color combination works well for western WA bass, I will be testing it out on yakima trout next weekend
Very nice. Thank you for the detailed instructions. Its especially nice that the hook rides up. I wonder in one could make it relatively snag-free by adding a wire weed guard. Steve
Size 8? Can you convert that to inches? This pattern is 3.25 inches which is about as large as I can comfortably throw with my 6 weight sage. The streamer hook is 6x long so its a bit hard to set the fly size by the hook size. I understand that smaller crayfish are like cocktail shrimp to smallies. From stomach pumping I know that medium sized trout will eat rather large crayfish. I have also heard that light colored crayfish that have just molted are greatly favored by many game fish. When fish see crayfish they eat them, its a kneejerk kind of reaction!:ray1:
When I go out to Pennsylvania in the summer, the lake I fish on has a great population of small mouth and pickerel (think pike). We occasionally keep a fish here and there and when I do keep fish I always like to check out the stomach. We kept one pickerel and I was suprised to see that it was CHOCK full of crawfish. The lake has a HUGE population of small fish, minnows, shad, etc. I guess catching crawfish is easier than catching small minnows.


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A major part of the problem is that existing equipment is designed only for oil fuels. For example, the worlds 11,000 airliners cannot run on natural gas, nuclear or coal.
Cost and decreasing availability of 500,000 known uses of oil: Fertilizers (farms/food supply),medicines, plastics, insulation, computers, asphalt, inks & toners, paints, glues, solvents, antiseptics, golf balls, CDs, trash bags, nail polish, detergents, chewing gum, etc.
Not only will the oil supply dwindle, but the shortages and climbing prices will obstruct industry as it attempts to convert society to other forms of energy.
Much uninformed literature says oil is plentiful and that better extraction will maintain adequate supply for decades. However, this sheet reveals:
Year when global oil supply first fails to meet global demand: about 2009
3% every year from 2009 onward.
Forever. Oil takes millions of years to form, in very special geological conditions.
More than 22 billion in 1999. (About 2 billion barrels per month)
Now about 6 billion of usual easy to get oil, plus about 8 billion of deep-sea and other hard-to-get oil. Discovery of oil fluctuates each year, but peaked in the 1960s, and has declined at an average of about 9 billion barrels per year over the past 40 years. Weve mostly just been using up huge old oil fields.
More than 70% of present global supply.
Ratio of oil consumed to oil discovered each year:Four consumed for every one discovered.
Discovered | Extracted | Consumed | |
USA during the 15 years from 1977-1991 |
5 billion barrels | 45 billion (40 billion barrels more than discovered) |
92 billion (47 billion were imported) |
World during the 10years from 1982-1991 |
91billion barrels | 221 billion (130 billion barrels more than discovered |
221 billion (equal to all extracted) |
Those figures, & the following graph of discoveries are at: http://users.knsi.com/~tbender/ivanhoe.html
40% (1997)
After a century of exploration, the earths geology and oil resources are generally well known. When the fields are emptying, money only helps to scrape out the hard-to-reach remainder. There are 210 billion barrels left to discover and 1000 billion barrels left to extract. This is indicated by the 40-year decline in discovery of oil. No amount of money will create oil that simply isnt there.
More than 500,000. In USA, 80% of the wells now produce less than three barrels a day.
20% to 60%. It relates primarily to the viscosity of the oil. You get less from a heavy oil than a light one because it sticks in the reservoir.
To compensate for the expected 3% oil decline (at todays 22 billion barrels a year), create and install, by year 2009, permanent supplies of portable energy, equivalent to 660 million barrels of oil a year. Then as oil keeps declining forever, increase this new energy it until it replaces 40% of the worlds energy supply (22 billion barrels a year) OR reduce energy demand equivalently as the global population increases by almost a quarter million people every day.
Increases in efficiency usually fail to reduce consumption (more m.p.g. just causes people to travel more or buy two cars, or other goods) unless they are personally determined to reduce their consumption.
20% of global energy supply (1997).
Demand for natural gas in North America is already outstripping supply, especially as power utilities take the remaining gas to generate electricity. Later in this web page there is a graph suggesting important effects of gas decline (in year 2007 or sooner) on the electricity used for computers, communications and control equipment.
Gas is not suited for existing jet aircraft, ships, vehicles, and equipment for agriculture and other products.Conversion consumes large amounts of energy as well as money. Natural gas also does not provide the huge array of chemical by-products that we depend on oil for.
Present use: 2.3% of global energy supply (1997).
Very small compared with 40% provided at present by oil. Unsuitable for aircraft and the present 722 million existing vehicles.
24% of global energy supply.
Is 50% to 200% heavier than oil per energy unit. Bulky and dirty. Would require expansion of coal mining, leading to land ruin and increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Tuning the rate of burn of oil and gas fuels is easy, but coal is different. It is therefore is used in power stations to make electricity, wasting half of its energy content.
Present coal-mining machinery and transportation runs not on coal, but on oil-based fuels.
A single coal-fired station can produce a million tons of solid waste each year. Burning coal in homes pollutes air with acrid smog containing acid gases and particles. Large pollution & environmental problems: (Smog, greenhouse gases, and acid rain).
Very inefficient, and huge amounts of water required.
0.07% of 1990 global energy supply. As with solar, energy varies greatly with weather, and is not portable or storable like oil and gas. Each wind turbine from Denmark produces an average of 698 kW averaged over a year.
US (only) 1998 consumption is 0.01% of global energy.
Shale, tar sand, coalbed methane, ethanol, biomass (from vegetation), etc.
Huge investment in research and infrastructure to exploit them, plus large amounts of now-expiring oil supply. 6% of US gas is from non-conventional generation.
The major problem is that they cannot be exploited before the oil shocks cripple attempts to bring them on line, and the rate of extraction is far too slow to meet the huge global energy demand.
Food grains now contain between 4 and 10 calories of fossil fuel for every 1 calorie of solar energy. Four percent of US energy budget is used to grow food, while 10 to 13 percent is needed to put it onto our plates. The worsening oil shortages will make production increasingly expensive. Putting food production closer to cities will be vital, feeding animals is questionable.
The meat feeds 1/5 as many people as the grain could.
131 million
North American pet food business is $30 billion/yr, and is growing.
Gasoline consumed now will deprive future agriculture of energy for producing food. Below are examples of how much future food a 30 mile-per-gallon vehicle is eating now. Also shown is the heavy physical labor humans will have to do in future when gasoline is unavailable for farm/industrial/office/home machinery:
Will end. (Fuel costs & scarcity).
Construction industry example: Energy to build an energy-efficient home is equivalent to 6,500 gallons of gasoline.
Over 500,000 including fertilizers (they are the most vital), medicines, lubricants, plastics (computers, phones, shower curtains, disposables, toys, etc.), asphalt (roading and roofs), insulation, glues/paints/ caulking, rubber tires and boots, carpets, synthetic fabrics/clothing, stockings, insect repellent.
For business and political reasons, there have been very misleading reports of sizes of stocks of oil:
The tables green areas show where countries reported that their oil stocks were not declining, even though oil was being taken out, steadily emptying the wells.
The red areas show where countries spectacularly increased the reported quantities of oil in stock, so that OPEC would recognize them as bigger suppliers and allow them to export more, increasing revenues. They were desperately competing with each other to make up their revenue by having a bigger slice of market share, because the price per barrel had plunged to about $12 per barrel. The history graph of the prices is at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/chron.html
Economists have taught us the illusory theory that market demand will always generate suitable solutions. This ignores any physical limitations of the earth, human resourcefulness, or time needed. Example quote:
Minerals are inexhaustible and will never be depleted. A stream of investment creates additions to proved reserves, a very large in-ground inventory, constantly renewed as it is extractedÉ How much was in the ground at the start and how much will be left at the end are unknown and irrelevant.
That is from Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Morry Adelman, who has long been one of the worlds foremost energy and resource economists and a leading analyst of international oil and gas markets. The quote is on page xi of his book, The Economics of Petroleum Supply, M.A. Adelman, published 1993.
Reduce energy dependence of family, home, lifestyle. The less fuels and goods you consume, the less the impacts will be, and the more we will delay the oil shocks.
Same. Work on it with friends: Workmates, neighborhood, city, governments. The ideal use for remaining oil and mineral reserves is into industries that create inexhaustible alternative energy equipment like windmills, solar water heaters, biomass (vegetation that creates fuels), etc.
Try to stay positive and active rather than ignore it or blame people for it. Where theres life theres hope, especially if we all collaborate and are creative.
Its not that new. Humans have always faced hardships, and many among us do so constantly now. Learn from them.
The USA has the exceptional position as the largest and a growing importer. US imports deny somebody else access to oil. For example, starving Africans result. Tax on gasoline is lower in the USA than in other countries by a large factor. So the US could easily curb its excess. In fact it has no option. The worst thing the US can do is press OPEC to increase production, which will simply make the peak higher and the decline steeper. It is just digging itself into a bigger hole, morality apart. Colin Campbell, in private email, June 2000.
You can obtain two versions of the Convince Sheet at http://www.egroups.com/files/RunningOnEmpty in various file formats:
This paper suggests that decline of natural gas may be the most disastrous event from year. 2007 (or sooner, see updates) because of resultant shortage of electricity for computers, communications and control equipment.
The following sites are conveniently keyword-searchable for research. They have lots of scientific and oil industry literature about energy resources and the ecology generally. They are heavily annotated with authoritative references and links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources (restricted membership at about 450, to prevent newcomers posting material already discussed, but there are nine thousand previous postings keyword searchable.)
www.groups.yahoo.com Running OnEmpty2 After 10,000 messages in RunningOnEmpty, this group continued the discussion, reserving R1 as a VIP conference egroup, and as an archive.
Bruce Thomson, who is a technical writer in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and is the moderator of that RunningOnEmpty2 internet forum. Members of that group have assisted in the research. There is no institutional financial sponsoring or influence of this web page or the forum.
Some moral authority to expose the Convince Sheet to the public was gained. After weeks of debate (3,100 forum message) there was a poll of 280 members. We all knew the announcement would be disturbing, with possibly serious impacts on the public, the stock market and general business and personal confidence. Of those 280 polled, 62 members responded, and over 85% of them voted in favor of exposing the truth.
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ICOMOS is saddened to announce the passing on July 12 of Hiroshi Daifuku, a signatory of the Venice Charter on behalf of UNESCO, Honorary member of ICOMOS, and Fellow and former Board member of US/ICOMOS.
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Rohit Jigyasu
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Michèle Laruë-Charlus
Hong Kong Style Urban Conservation
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Réflexions autour des interactions entre patrimoine et développement à partir de l'exemple de la patrimonialisation de l'architecture coloniale en République démocratique du Congo
Yves ROBERT
Heritage as a Driver of Development? Some Questions of Cause and Effect
Neil SILBERMAN
Patrimoine et développement local : pratiques institutionnelles et pratiques sociales
Laurence GILLOT, André DEL, Marianne COHEN
A win-win case: Samitaur Project in Culver City
Giora SOLAR
Walk to Global Vision: Driving Heritage Development by World Heritage Award: Macau - A Colony With East And West Culture
MOK Keng Kio
Virtuous Circle or Vicious Cycle: Modern Heritage and Development in Abu Dhabi
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Abdoul SOW
When Cities Shrink: Redefining Roles for Conservation, Development, and Investment
Ned KAUFMAN
The Peruvian Nothern Coast as a heritage driver development process
Alberto MARTORELL
Space is not nothing: heritage aesthetics and the struggles for space
Juliet RAMSAY, Feng HAN
Heritage and the Governance Agenda: Can historic urban environments survive the devolution of development control?
Chris LANDORF
The Pennsylvania Wilds: the role of cultural and natural heritage in landscape scale development
Brenda BARRETT, Nora MITCHELL
La Mojana : territoire de l'eau
Fernando MICHAELS DAVILA
Conservation of historical settlements and cultural industries from an urban and regional development perspective
Vasanta SOBHA TURAGA
Country residences and peat meadows
Mireille DOSKER
Expired experiment: Modern monument: The Heritage Significance of the Justus van Effen Housing Complex as Driver for Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability
Charlotte van EMSTEDE
The Sustainable Development of the Cultural Landscape of Jianan Irrigation System in Taïwan
WANG Chun- Hsi, FU Chao-Ching
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Le patrimoine rural, vecteur d'aménagement durable des territoires ruraux français
Jean-Marie VINCENT
Precautions for Heritage as a Driver for Regional Development: A Critical Review of Related Principles manifested in the ICOMOS Charters from a Development Perspective
PARK Sohyun
Les grands sites et leurs territoires : un fil méthodologique en treize étapes pour un patrimoine paysager
Anne-Françoise PILLIAS-PRUNIERES, Jean-Pierre THIBAULT
Learning from East Asian Heritage as an Alternative Model of Future Development
KIM Sungwoo
La construction de la ville « durable » : l'Archéologie, un regard nouveau
Jean-Paul JACOB, Odile LAVENDHOMME
Heritage assessment and regional development: a challenging dialogue
Ezequiel PINTO-GUILLAUME
Tools and Techniques for Preserving Agricultural Landscapes in the United States
James K. REAP
Sulina, ville dans le delta du Danube en Roumanie
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Patrimoine et développement local : le rôle des collectivités territoriales dans la gestion du site des falaises de Bandiagara
Lassana CISSE
How climate has changed the historical water management approach in the Netherlands
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Rohit Jigyasu
Stephen Kelley
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'Escuela Taller': a trainer's perspective
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Claire CORNU
Culture of Wood: Old and New
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Eric PALLOT
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The Impacts of the Enhancing Value of Traditional Architecture on Regional Development
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Raphael ALESSANDRI
Old and green: environmental performance of traditional Chinese housing
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Examination of the Effect of Building Construction Policies on the Conservation of Vernacular Building Techniques: Policies Adopted after WWII in Japan
Ayako FUKUSHIMA
Le patrimoine bâti et la protection incendie
Régis PRUNET
L'éloge des règles de l'art. Restaurer durablement le patrimoine. La qualité sans le poids des normes
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Gong Xuelan
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Luca CIPRIANI, Massimo BALLABENI
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Robert J. HOTES
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Joe LOBKO
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Fabien KIGADYE
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Gautier BICHERON
The Past for the Future: Design intervention and Heritage Conservation towards an Era of U-Cities
CHO In-Souk
La construction en terre crue dans les tropiques
Luis Fernando GUERRERO, Annick DANEELS
Eco-plasters revive the traditional plasterwork techniques of the past
Eunice SALAVESSA
Une meilleure efficacité des programmes d'habitat par la prise en compte des cultures constructives locales
Thierry JOFFROY
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Michel Trompert
Rapport / Report
Isabel Kanan
Rapporteur senior
Bianca Elena Benavides Barrera
Daiho Mo
Rapporteurs juniors
Stephen Kelley
Thème 3 / Theme 3 - tourisme et développement / tourism and development
Sue Millar
Session 1- Le patrimoine face au défi du tourisme : quelles stratégies, quels outils? / Heritage and the challenge of tourism:what strategies, which tools
Maria Gravari-Barbas
Heritage as a driver for development: Its contribution to sustainable tourism in contemporary society
Graham BROOKS
Tourism and Archaeological Heritage: Driver to Development or Destruction?
Douglas COMER, Willem WILLEMS
The Impact of World Heritage Listing
Henry CLEERE
Tourism and Development: Angkor's Away
Philippe DELANGHE, Peou HANG, Georgina LLOYD, Richard MACKAY, Sharon SULLIVAN
Globally Unique or Globally Uniform? Is cultural heritage as a driver of development resulting in the unique or the uniform?
Sharon BROWN, Alan OLIVER
Archaeology for Development: The Need for Holistic Planning
Chiara BONACCHI, Paul BURTENSHAW
New strategies for cultural tourism planning: quality and creativity as tools for development
Celia MARTÍNEZ YÁÑEZ
A tool for World Heritage documentation, management and decision making: the silk roads cultural heritage resource information system
Ona VILEIKIS, Koen van BALEN, Mario SANTANA QUINTERO
Heritage at risk: local development, a strategy for its control: historic quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
Ricardo BÉHÈRAN
Rapport / Report
Ana Paula Amendoeira
Rapporteur senior
Céline Lombart
Susann Harder
Rapporteurs juniors
Hervé Barré
Tourisme culturel et développement durable: le patrimoine au-delà du spectacle
Edgardo J. VENTURINI
Reinforcing the Authenticity and Spirit of Place of Indigenous Peoples to Promote Cultural Tourism at World Heritage Sites as a Development Approach: Learning from the Canadian Experience
Daniel ARSENAULT, Fergus T. MACLAREN
Heritage or theme park?
Teresa FERREIRA
Le patrimoine à l'état gazeux : comment le tourisme détourne notre conception de l'authenticité
Stéphane DAWANS/ Claudine HOUBART
Tourism and the Invisible Historic Sites in Antarctica
Maria Ximena SENATORE, Andrés ZARANKIN
Mise en valeur du patrimoine de Santa Maria La Mayor. Mise en scène de la première imprimerie du Río de la Plata
Graciela DE KUNA, Angela Beatriz RIVERO, Graciela CAMBAS
Développement et tourisme : un exemple probant au Havre
Laurence LE CIEUX
Revitalisation urbaine, un levier pour le développement touristique. Le cas de l'Iran
Nameh REZAEI
Looking ahead: the olive grove cultural landscape
Monica LUENGO
From a Military Front to a "Cold War" Heritage Site – a study of the prospect of Matsu Archipelago as sustainable tourism islands
FU Chao-Ching
Le Quartier des spectacles de Montréal, au cœur du développement culturel québécois
Yves DUMAS, Maria Inés SUBERCASEAUX
La mise en valeur des villes historiques et le patrimoine du XXème siècle : le cas du Mexique
Louise NOELLE GRAS
Rapport / Report
Angela Rojas
Rapporteur senior
Chloé Bellanger
Benoit Chiron
Rapporteurs juniors
Sheridan Burke
Revitalization of Borobudur: Heritage Tourism Promotion and Local Community Empowerment in Cultural Industries
NAGAOKA Masanori
Le développement du patrimoine culturel immatériel brésilien
Edson LEITE, Maria Cristina CAPONERO, Simone PEREZ, Maria José CHOTIL
Heritage as the Beginning of Developing Sustainable Tourism and Constructing Local Identity: Exemplified by a Cultural Project, "Old House with New Life", in a Historical City of Taiwan
WU Ping-Sheng, YEN Shih-Hua
Heritage Tourism Development and the Local community: Al-Salt Heritage City in Jordan
Nizar AL ADARBEH, Mohammad EL-KHALILI
The Mirage of Equity in Developing Country World Heritage Tourism
Jeffrey ADAMS
Continuity and Identity in Canberra: Can Tourism Development Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage?
Marilyn C. TRUSCOTT
Developing sustainable tourism destinations offering authentic folk Experience
Ananya BHATTACHARYA
Heritage Landscape and Cultural Identity: development as Tourism
Diane MENZIES
Towards a sustainable tourism: the case of the State of Guanajuato, Mexico
Celia Esther ARREDONDO ZAMBRANO, Julieta de Jesús CANTU DELGADO, Yolanda RAMIREZ MAGALLANE
Patrimoine culturel et tourisme dans la Région Métropolitaine de Mendoza-Argentine
Silvia Augusta CIRVINI, José Alejandro GOMEZ VOLTAN
Rapport / Report
Marc de Caraffe
Rapporteur senior
Kenrick demesvar
Maëlla Morvant
Rapporteurs juniors
Sue Millar
Thème 4 / Theme 4 - Développement et économie / The economics of development
Gideon Koren
Session 1 - Que nous apprennent les études sur les retombées économiques de la mise en valeur du patrimoine ?/ What do studies teach us on the economic returns of heritage conservation?
Anne Magnant
Les retombées économiques du patrimoine culturel en France
Michèle PRATS
De l'influence d'une politique tarifaire sur le développement d'un site, Pont du Gard
Paolo TOESCHI
Measurements and Indicators of Heritage as Development
Donovan RYPKEMA, Caroline CHEONG
Les conditions de retombées économiques favorables
Jean-Louis LUXEN
The Economics of Development in Brazilian Conservation Policy with special reference to the city of Rio de Janeiro Conservation Areas
Julio RIBEIRO SAMPAIO
Does Investment in the Built Fabric of Historic Towns Drive Economic Recovery?
Robert SHIPLEY, Alan REEVES
Industrial preservation as a key to urban regeneration – Some examples over forty years and many countries
Stuart B. SMITH
The stories we tell about (places and how they define the economic trajectory of communities)
James REBANKS
Rapport / Report
Minja Yang
Rapporteur senior
Marion Lacombe
Gabrielle Robiou
Rapporteurs juniors
Philippe Toussaint
Le Centre des Monuments Nationaux, un outil de développement de l'attractivité patrimoniale des territoires
Isabelle LEMESLE
Cultural Heritage and Community Development
Lazar SUMANOV
Historic Core of Split and the Peristyle of Diocletian's Palace: Economic Impact of Cultural Heritage Preservation
Sagita Mirjam SUNARA, Goran NIKŠI?
Economic Value of Hanok Regeneration Project in Seoul
LEE Kyung-ah
People and Places: industrial landscapes, liability or asset?
Neil COSSONS
Supporting Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Historic City Regeneration in Developing Countries
Guido LICCIARDI
Revitalization of historic inner-city areas in Asia. Urban Renewal Potentials in Jakarta, Hanoi and Manila
Florian STEINBERG
Residential Consolidation, Preservation and Rehabilitation Programme. Buenos Aires Historic City Centre
Gabriela Beatriz MAREQUE, Estefanía AIRALDI
Heritage in Socio-Economic Development: Direct and Indirect Impacts
Tüzin BAYCAN, Luigi FUSCO GIRARD
Heritage as springboard for creative enterprise
Stephen BROWN, Catherine SNELGOVE, Sharon VEALE
L'émotion collective au service du projet économique albigeois
Stéphanie GUIRAUD-CHAUMEIL
Rapport / Report
Jae-Heon Choi
Rapporteur senior
Aurélie Bouton
Yanan Li
Rapporteurs juniors
Donald Hankey
Regenerating Pretoria's Historical Core. Heritage as an asset for inner city development
Nicolas CLARKE, Jan Paul CORTEN
Leveraging heritage: public private partnerships and heritage conservation in the historic urban environment
Susan MACDONALD
The built Heritage as a location factor – economic potentials of listed properties
Jörg HASPEL
Integrating the Preservation of the Built Heritage Urban Site into the Local Economic Development (LED) Policy
Leah SHAMIR SHINAN, Nili SHCHORY
Le rôle de l'économie dans la conservation : le cas de l'Argentine
Beatriz AMARILLA
Quel paradigme pour les politiques publiques du patrimoine ?
Xavier GREFFE
The Conversion of Melbourne
Ray TONKIN
Heritage, Driver for Development and the Case of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
Joycelyn MANANGHAYA
La gestion économique du patrimoine par la ville d'Arles
Christian MOURISARD
Rapport / Report
Susan Duyker
Rapporteur senior
Jihane Chedouki
Lucie Benquet
Rapporteurs juniors
Gideon Koren
Session 1 - A. Le patrimoine industriel et sa contribution au développement / Industrial heritage and its contribution to development
Rolf Schaefer
Le Patrimoine industriel, entre "patrimonialisation" et développement économique
Louis BERGERON, Maria-Teresa PONTOIS
Un patrimoine industriel à l'encontre de l'industrialisation du patrimoine
Jean-Daniel JEANNERET
Beyond Heritage, Towards the Possibility of Creative Economy: The Case of the Reuse of the Industrial Heritage in Taiwan
Min-Tsung CHENG
A."place-based" approach to reusing industrial and cultural heritage assets
Regina BINDER
West Montserrat Textile and Design District
Graciela Isabel LABATO
B.Nouveaux outils, nouvelles méthodologies, nouvelles approches New tools / New methodologies, new approaches
Cédric Gottfried
Réflexions autour des inventaires, manuels et méthodes : outils opérationnels et pratiques exemplaires développés dans le cadre des projets Euromed Heritage
Christophe GRAZ
Le virtuel pour capitaliser notre patrimoine technique et industriel
Michel COTTE, Florent LAROCHE
Quantitative Modelling of Cultural Heritage Economic Behaviour
Marek SKLODOWSKI
To overcome or to overthrow the heritage and sustainable development dichotomy? Proposal for a renovation of the current heritage paradigm
Marion WOYNAR
C. Développement et défis touristiques et patrimoniaux au Moyen-Orient / Challenges for heritage conservation and development in the Middle East
Amira Mouaki
Safranbolu: d'un petit village anatolien à un centre de tourisme culturel
Nur AKIN
Une histoire de développement avec le patrimoine. La Région de Cappadoce, aspects positifs et négatifs
Can S. BINAN, Banu CELEBIOGLU
Development and Cultural Heritage in Iran
Bijan ROUHANI
Tabriz historical Bazaar in the context of change
Pirroz HANACHI, Solmaz YADOLLAHI
D. Patrimoine, communautés, identités / Heritage, communities, identities
Julia Gartner-Negrin
Heritage as ethical paradigms of balancing identity and change amid socio-cultural development
Vassilis GANIATSAS
Une collectivité face à la mise en valeur de son patrimoine architectural : le cas d'Oaxaca
Nizza SANTIAGO
Réflexion sur les rôles des communautés locales, du tourisme et des médiateurs externes dans la transmission des valeurs patrimoniales des paysages et espaces culturels
Françoise LEMPEREUR
L'appropriation du patrimoine par les communautés, outils pour la durabilité du développement du tourisme à Ngazidja, Union des Comores
Toiwilou MZE HAMADI
E. Enjeux d'acteurs et partenariats / Local stakeholders and partners
Emmanuel Garcia
The Role of Private Buildings in the Preservation and Development of Historical Cities in Brazil
Sandra MAGALHAES CORREA, Érica DIOGO
Assembling and Presenting Chicago's Architectural Heritage: Lessons and Cautions
Christophe KOZIOL
Linkages between Heritage Policy, Tourism and Business Enterprises in Luang Prabang
Wantanee SUNTIKUL
Toward a Locally-Based Ownership Paradigm: Case Studies in Sustainable Preservation and Development
Lawrence COBEN
A. Adaptation aux changements climatiqueset nouveaux défis environnementaux / Adapting to climate change and new challenges
Rolf Schaefer
Emerging Debates – Heritage Theory, Environment and Development
Louise COOKE
Are we wasting Embodied Energy—Time to Change (An Australian Perspective)
Rachel JACKSON, Ellis P. JUDSON
Technologie soutenable: rénovation de monuments historiques à Barcelone
Antoni CABALLERO, Sonia LOEWE, Marc SANABRA
The Siwa Oasis: Art of Building for a Sustainable Development
Attilio PETRUCCIOLI, Giacomo MARTINES, Calogero MONTALBANO, Mauro BERTAGNIN, Désirée DE ANTONI
Assessing Daylighting Performance of a Traditional Residential Neighborhood in Historical Cairo
Hisham ELKADI, Sura AL-MAIYAH
B. Tourisme : vecteur de régénération / Tourism: a driver of regeneration
Julia Gartner-Negrin
Dancing in the Park: Tourism and the sustainable development of the Heritage Assets of New South Wales National Parks, Australia
Olwen BEAZLEY, Natalie VINTON
The Impact of Tourism on Sustainable Settlement Conservation: The Case of the Reuse of the Vernacular Residences in Kinmen
Pei-Yao YANG, Chao-Ching FU
Discussion on the Development of Heritage Conservation through the Perspective of Heritage Tourism—The Case of the Grand Canal
Tingting WAN, Yuan WANG
Contemporary Approaches to Developing Sustainable Tourism: Turning a Threat into an Asset
Shanna C. RAINES
C. Témoignages : conservation et gestion du patrimoine - stratégies de développement / Heritage management and conservation case studies: development strategies
Amira Mouaki
Preservation of Historic Cityscape in Fort of Galle, Sri Lanka by restoration of private houses through public-private initiative
Samitha MANAWADU
Heritage Barns of Alberta Pilot Project – A Regional Heritage Initiative to Preserve the Rural Cultural Landscape of Alberta
Robert BUCKLE
The World Heritage Site of the Rideau Canal navigable waterway driver of development - A large digital screen on its shores
Linda DICAIRE
Cultural Landscape Conservation at a Regional Scale: Sustainability through Collaboration
Nora J. MITCHELL, Rolf DIAMANT
Cultural heritage and organizing capacity: A case study of Allariz town, Northwestern Spain
Laima NOMEIKAITE
Ksar Ait Benhaddou: Patrimoine Mondial générateur d'un développement durable
Said NAGGAY
D. Témoignages : conservation et gestion du patrimoine - cas d'étude français / Heritage Management and Conservation: French case studies
Natalia Zhukovskaya
Patrimoine architectural et culture équestre : moteurs du développement économique, touristique et durable. Etude comparée de Chantilly et Compiègne
Jean-Pierre BLAY
Le Patrimoine mondial au coeur du projet urbain de Bordeaux, Port de la Lune
Anne-Laure MONIOT
La Charte de Fontevraud en faveur de la protection, de la gestion et la valorisation des paysages viticoles
Carine HERBIN
Pour que vive le patrimoine de proximité
Guy SAVALLUARD
Le projet culturel et touristique du Grand Site de France Saint-Guilhem le Désert / Gorges de l'Hérault: la mise en valeur responsable d'un patrimoine unique
Samantha JONES
E. Situations d'urgence et conflits : le rôle du patrimoine / The role of heritage in disaster and conflict relief
Emmanuel Garcia
Cultural heritage for peace and reconciliation
Malin MYRIN, Hanna GÅRDSTEDT
Cultural Emergency Response
Deborah STOLK, Eléonore DE MERODE
The Economics of Heritage at Risk: using Stated Preferences methods to assess the impacts of heritage policies on regional development
Patrizia RIGANTI
Historic preservation and Economics in Long wave theory
Christian OST
Conclusion du symposium / Conclusion of the symposium
Benjamin Mouton
Déclaration de paris / Paris Declaration
Galerie photos / photo gallery
Biographies des intervenants / speakers' biographies
Remerciements / Acknowledgements
ICOMOS publishes an open letter concerning the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing Horizon 2020 - The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) /* COM/2011/0809 final - 2011/0401 (COD) */
Read the letter
Happy International Day for Monuments and Sites!
In 2012 we celebrate the "World Heritage"
"Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa's Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world's heritage.
What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage , adopted by UNESCO in 1972."
© World Heritage Centre
? Download the article presenting this year's theme by Alfredo Conti, Chair ICOMOS World Heritage Working Group: [English] - [Français] - [Español]
Picture: © John Roberts
18 Avril 2012 - Events
List of countries:
Argentina - Armenia - Australia - China - Costa Rica - Croatia - Dominican Republic - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - India - Ireland - Jordan - Luxembourg - Macao - Malta - Mexico - Morocco - Nepal - Nigeria - Pakistan - Peru - Serbia - Tanzania - Turkey - USA - Venezuela
International events
NB: The language of the descriptions is such as we received them.
Who? ICOMOS Argentina
What? 3 Conferences:
- 1. Conference on cultural routes Co-organised with Mendoza University. Mendoza, 26-27 April. ICOMOS Argentina General Assembly will be held on 27 April, including elections for the renovation of the Executive Board.
- 2.Conference "World Heritage and sustainable development: the role of local communities". Co-organised with the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Tourism. Buenos Aires, 15 May.
- 3. Conference on cultural landscapes. Co-organised with Patagonian National University. Río Gallegos, 13-15 June.
Who? ICOMOS Armenia, in friendly cooperation with the national committees of ICOMOS Germany, Guatemala, Tunisia, Iran, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Japan, China, Norway, Peru, Finland
What? An exhibition entitled "World Heritage archaeological sites". This exhibition consists of 20 posters, designed to increase awareness and responsibility for archaeological heritage. A special poster highlights the criteria for inscription on the World Heritage List. The exhibition will be inaugurated in the presence of Mayor of Yerevan, law officials and the embassies concerned.
When? From 18 April 2012 to September 1, 2012
Opening April 18, 2012 at 15:00
Where? Archaeological Site-Museum Erebuni - Address: 38, rue Erebuni, 020, Yerevan - Tel. : + 374 10 43 89 53
Download the complete brochure / Exhibition poster
Who? ICOMOS National Committee of Australia
When? 18 April 2012
Where? Hyde Park Barracks, Queens Square, Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000
What? INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR MONUMENTS AND SITES NSW SYMPOSIUM
Event info:
The 2012 Heritage Address will be held on Wednesday 18 April and features Emeritus Professor of History Graeme Davison AO speaking on 'Heritage in a Modern Society'.
Graeme Davison has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University (where he was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies) and at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities and an Adjunct Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.
He has been active as an advisor to heritage bodies, museums and in other fields of public history where his publications include A Heritage Handbook and The Use and Abuse of Australian History. His current projects include a collaborative history of the Powerhouse Museum and a history of suburban Australia.
The address is free, but bookings are essential.
Where: Museum Theatre, Lower ground floor, Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens
When: 6 pm start, Wednesday 18 April 2012
RSVP: firstname.lastname@example.com via email by 16 April 2012
"World Heritage; local perspectives" – an SA ICOMOS event
ICOMOS members and friends are invited to participate in a discussion and drinks. Speakers include:
- Anthony Coupe – 'The Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site, Mauritius
- Liz Vines – 'Pingyao and Kaiping (China) and Penang'
- Kevin O'Sullivan – 'Tales of Five World Heritage Cities: Verona, Venezia, Firenze, Siena & Roma'
- Iris Iwanicki – 'Woomera and the Cold War'
Date: Friday 27 April
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Venue: 'State Dining Room' Ayers House
Cost: $15 for members and associate members, $20 for non-members
RSVP: to email@example.com">Michael Queale via email by Monday 23rd April
Further information is available in the World Heritage; local perspectives flier.
Who? State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) and Wuxi Municipal People's Government, co-organized by ICOMOS China
When? April 10th—11th, 2012
What? "Wuxi Forum on Chinese Cultural Heritage Conservation - World Heritage?Sustainable Development"
Some 100 participants from world cultural heritage sites in China and provincial cultural heritage administrations, as well as experts from international organizations, such as Mr. Grellan Rourke, Chairman of ICCROM Council and Executive Committee Member of ICOMOS, Mr. Mounir Bouchenaki, Special Consultant of UNESCO, former DG of ICCROM and Mr. Guo Zhan, Vice President of ICOMOS, many leading Chinese experts, attended the forum. Presentations covered a wide array of themes including management, monitoring, heritage and economy, empowering local communities. The Forum was concluded with the adoption of Wuxi Proposal. Site visits were made before and after the Forum.
The Photo exhibition entitled Chinese World Heritage goes into Community was also held with the Forum.
Where? Wuxi, Jiangsu province
Who? State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) and Wuxi Municipal People's Government, co-organized by ICOMOS China.
When? April 16th, 2012
What? Celebration Ceremony of the International Day on Monuments and Sites. During the celebration, the three world cultural heritage sites in Henan were opened free of charge to the public or with reduced entrance fee, and the meaning of the International Day on Monuments and Sites was disseminated to the public through a series of activities.
Participants: Mr. Mounir Bouchenaki, Special Consultant of UNESCO, Mr. Guo Zhan, Vice president of ICOMOS, representatives from the provincial and municipal governments and local citizens.
Where? Luoyang, Henan province
Who? Sponsored by SACH and organized by IICC-X, with the participation of ICOMOS experts from abroad, including its President Mr. Gustavo Araoz, as well as leading Chinese experts in the field.
When? April 21st—24th, 2012
What? International Seminar on Cultural Route Monitoring and Management.
Through discussion between Chinese and foreign peers, the monitoring and management issues of cultural routes such as the Silk Road will be discussed. Representatives from the provincial cultural heritage administrations along the Chinese section of the Silk Road will also participate in the seminar. Visitation of sites of the Silk Roads at Xi'an will be held.
Where? Xi'an, Shaanxi province
Read the report of all the activities held on 18 April 2012 in:
- Wuxi, Jiangsu province Luoyang
- Henan province Chengde, a World Heritage site in Hebei province
- Xi'an, Shaanxi province
- Zhouzhuang and Tongli, Jiangsu province
- Suzhou, Jiangsu province
Costa Rica
Who? ICOMOS Croatie / Department of art history, University of Rijeka / Zagreb Society of Architects
- Scientific Conference "Conversationes about the Heritage" that we are organizing for the Intternational Day for Monuments and sites in cooperation with the Department of art history, University of Rijeka.
- We are organizing a series of lectures in cooperation with Zagreb Society of Architects about the restoration projects on UNESCO WH sites in Croatia.
When? 18.04.2012
Download programs (1 & 2) and the poster
Dominican Republic
Who? ICOMOS Dominican Republic
What? XXXI National Seminar on Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites, on the theme World Heritage and Sustainable Development.
Where? Colonial City of Santo Domingo
When? Opening on Friday 30 November 2012.
Who? ICOMOS France, En partenariat avec le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
What? Symposium: Les biens en série du Patrimoine mondial - Nouvel enjeu, nouveaux critères
When? 17 and 18 December 2012
Where? Poitiers, France
The Landesdenkmalamt Berlin and co-organizers invite the public to attend the Berlin Monument Day on 17th of April under the title "City under electricity - the heritage of the Elektropolis Berlin". The conference is dedicated to most significant examples of the built and urban legacy from the industrial age, such as Walter Behrens AEG-Turbinenhalle and Siemensstadt, and will discuss World Heritage potential of Berlin's industrial heritage.
Who? Hellenic ICOMOS
What? Poster dedicated to 18 Avril and to the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Who? Budapest College for Communication and Business in cooperation with ICOMOS Hungary and the Foundation for Information Society
What? Conference on the following topics: The role of UNESCO in our life, The recognition and future of the World Heritage List, World Heritage and tourism: the economic value of World Heritage, The relation of World Heritage to Intangible Heritage, The life of the Hungarian World Heritage Sites, World Heritage education.
When? 16 November 2012
Where? Campus of the Budapest College for Communication and Business
Who? INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and CUltural Heritage)
What? Fourth Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture: "Cities and political power" by Charles COrrea
When? 18 Apil 2012 at 6:00 pm
Where? Multipurpose Hall, India International Centre (Gate 1), New Dehli
What? Conference "Your Place or Mine? New initiatives in Ireland to engage communities in interpreting and presenting heritage" which aims to stimulate discussion on public participation in heritage policy and presentation in Ireland. The conference also celebrates International Day of Monuments and Sites 2012, the theme of which is 'World Heritage and Sustainable Development: the Role of Local Communities'.
- Jimmy Deenihan, T.D., Minister for of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Gustavo Araoz, President of ICOMOS International
- Neil Silberman, Chair ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation & Presentation
- Clare Tuffy, Bru na Boinne & Tomás Ó hOistín, Principal of Knockcommon National School, Co. Meath
- Pauline Gleeson, Archaeologist, Department of of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Loreto Guinan, Heritage Officer, Meath County Council
- Ciaran Mackel, Ard Architect, Belfast, Director '+100' - voluntary internship programme
- Alison Harvey, Planning Officer, The Heritage Council
- Michael Starrett, Chief Executive, The Heritage Council
- John H. Jameson, Vice-chair, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation & Presentation
Conference will include 3 Workshops in the afternoon session that attendees may choose from:
1. Building up from the Grass Roots: Community initiatives through heritage-led planning.
2. Heritage Brokers: The broader social relevance of the skill-set built up in heritage management.
3. How to make the most of great heritage sites in Ireland: What can local communities do with and for their heritage assets?
Who? Heritage Council / ICOMOS Ireland
When? Wednesday, 18th April.
Where? The Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Who? The Center for Natural and Cultural Heritage at the German Jordanian University
What? Seminar With wo lectures by Professor Moawiya Ibrahim and Dr. Fawzi Abu Danneh to interested students on World Heritage Sites in Jordan and the best way to protect them and expand the list and its impact.
When? On the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites 2012
For the members of COMOS Luxembourg only: à l'occasion de la Journée Internationale des monuments et des sites et du 40e anniversaire de la convention du patrimoine mondial, Icomos Luxembourg organisera une promenade historique à travers la ville de Luxembourg, patrimoine mondial.
Thème : Résidences nobiliaires et refuges ecclésiastiques.
Who? The students of the Heritage Management Programme of Institute for Tourism Studies
Where? Macao
What? Form of activity: Interactive Multimedia Presentation "A Tale of a Street – Community Heritage of Rua de Tomás da Rosa, Macao"
When? 20 April 2012, 10:00a.m.- 11:40a.m.
Website of the event - Pictures of the event
Who? ICOMOS Malta
What? Annual Symposium: World Heritage Sites: The Role of the Local Communities
When? 24 November 2012
Where? Hagar Qim Visitor Centre
Who? ICOMOS Mexico, TICCIH Mexico, the National Museum of Masks and the Dept. of Popular Culture of the Arts Center of San Luis Potosí
What?Conferences on Cultural Heritage. The general theme of the event is "Regional Heritage in thecontext of the Convention". The opening conference was given by Dr. Niklas Schulze: "The Heritage of Mexico 40 years after the Convention".
When? One conference per month from April to November 2012
Where?The National Museum of Masks
Qui ? ICOMOS Maroc
Quoi ? conférence La Convention du patrimoine mondial a 40 ans : qu'en est-il pour le Maroc ? Par Ahmed SKOUNTI
Où ? Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc
Quand ? 18 avril 2012 à 18 heures
Télécharger l'invitation, la présentation du conférencier, l'affiche de l'événement
Who? Youth Awareness Environmental Forum (YAEF/NEPAL)
When? April 17th, 18th and 19th 2012
"We cordially invite you on the occasion of the World Heritage Day's Celebration on April 17th, 18th and 19th 2012 with commitment to put slogan of the ICOMOS-World Heritage into action with the coordination of the Youth Awareness Environmental Forum YAEF. Your participation is our inspiration.
Our Programs:
- Environment Cycle Radio F.M. 104.2 MHz established by Youth Awareness Environmental Forum is Community based Radio. It will broadcast heritage related slogan on 17th, 18th and 19th April 18 hour daily and Culture Heritage Conservation documentary Program on 17th, 18th and 19th April 1/2 hour through community television Environmental Television ETV/Nepal.
- Our Forum will organize interaction program subject to the Important and Necessary of Heritage on April 18, 2012, in Lalitpur Godawari Area which is the major water resources area and most important heritage side in Kathmandu Valley."
Dr. Asta Man Kisee Maharjan - Executive Chairman and Chief Editor/Publisher
Who? Committee: NATIONAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION MOVEMENT, NEPAL Kathmandu-4, Dhumbarahi.
What? WORLD HERITAGE DAY-2012 CELEBERATION IN REMOTE AREA OF NEPAL
When? 1st April to 3rd April, 2012
Where? DULLU & DAILEKH OF BHERI ZONE, NEPAL 700 Km From Kathmandu.
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Who? The National Commission For Museums and Monuments Owerri celebrated this years 2012 international Day for Monuments and sites with in a Style.
What? The day was marked with a lecture delivered by Mr Adindu E.A a conservator II with the commission. The lecture aimed at sensitizing the staffs on the role of local communities in the management and protection of sites. The curator National Museum owerri Chioba Francisca Uboh gave a brief expository address stressing the need for the significance of the celebration.
When? 18.04.2012
Who? ICOMOS Pakistan, Department of Culture, GoS, and the Department of Archaeology and Museums
What? This year being the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention ICOMOS has announced 'World Heritage Sites' as the theme around which the 18th April celebrations are being planned all around the world. The two World Heritage Sites of Sindh (Makli Hills Thatta and Mohenjodaro) will remain open with 'FREE ENTRY' throughout the day. A lecture/ presentation by experts who have worked on these two sites is planned at the National Museum on the 18 April.
Where? At the National Museum, Burns Gardens, Karachi
When? 18 April 2012 at 4:00 pm
Invitation card and detailed program
Who? ICOMOS Peru with the support of the Embassies of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Japan and Mexico. Sponsored by the Peruvian Companies Photo A, Bodegas Villanueva, the Association of Companies of the Historic Center of Lima; and the newspaper "El Comercio".
What? Photo exhibition for celebrating the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
The event finished with an academic act and a round table with specialists in architectural heritage about the situation of the WH City of Lima, 21 years after its inscription on the WH List.
When? From Monday 3rd December to Monday 17th December 2012
Where? Cultural Center of the Mayor National University of San Marcos, "La Casona de San Marcos"
Who? National Committee ICOMOS Serbia
When? 18 - 19 April, 2012
Where? Monastery Studenica, Serbia
What? Workshop: "World Heritage – Terminology, Criteria, Role"
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Who? Committee Icomos Seychelles
What? Icomos Seychelles Heritage Award
Icomos Seychelles is pleased to announce the launching of the Icomos Seychelles Heritage Award on the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites
When? On the 18th April 2012.
The award is planned to be made on an annual basis in recognition of built and architectural projects which serve to conserve and enhance Seychelles built heritage and its cultural landscape.Icomos Seychelles is working with the support of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB)on the award and hopes to attract other partners in its organisation.
A copy of the press release which will be published in local newspapers on the 18th April is attached. Icomos Seychelles will be thankful for any input or contribution especially from members of the International Cultural Tourism Committee with experience of similar heritage awards. When? 18th April 2012
Where?Media Coverage in Seychelles
Who? ICOMOS TURKEY
What? Third ICOMOS TURKEY WORLD HERITAGE SITES MONITORING MEETING with the participation of the members of the National Committee and other national experts. This meeting was also associated with the celebration of the 18th April "International Day of Monuments and Sites" under the theme designated as World Heritage for this year. The morning session involved briefings about the inscription and management processes of the site, and it was followed by a site visit in order to monitor the current state of the site and evaluate the potential impacts of the projects proposed.
Where? World Heritage Site of "Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex" in Edirne, Turkey
When? 17 April 2012
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In addition to the monitoring meetings, the ICOMOS National Committee of Turkey designed a poster based on the theme of "World Heritage Sites" in order to raise awareness among young generations who will be responsible for the safeguarding of our cultural heritage in the future. It is aimed that these posters will be distributed in 3500 primary schools located in Istanbul with the approval of the Ministry of Education and the Governorship, and will contribute to the introduction of cultural and natural properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and the explaination of the significance and context of this day.
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Who? Zanzibar Stone Town Heritage Society
What? Clean-up campaign in the streets of Stone Town.
When? 18.04.2012
Download the posters (1 and 2) for the World Heritage Day campaign.
United States of America
Around the same subject but a bit later in the year: In 2012, US/ICOMOS organizes its annual symposium on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, to be held at the end of May. The 2012 US/ICOMOS Symposium Committee has developed a website for the symposium - please visit it at http://www.usicomos2012.com/index.html for the most updated information regarding the Symposium.
Who? ICOMOS Venezuela
What? Article to be published in a magazine of architecture of national circulation, on the occasion of the International Day of Monuments and Sites, and the 40 anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.
Read the article
ICOMOS International Scientific Committees
Who? ICAHM (ICOMOS's International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management)'S next annual meeting
When? November 27-30, 2012
Where ? Cuzco, Peru
What? ICAHM is pleased to announce its international conference on archaeological heritage management. Among the worldwide issues for consideration at this meeting are local stakeholder claims on archaeological heritage; sustainable development and community sustainability; tourism pressures and site preservation; heritage and rights; challenges to the validity and value of the World Heritage List as it quickly approaches 1,000 inscribed sites; the World Heritage List decision-making process; impacts of war, civil disorder, and natural disasters on archaeological sites; technical advances in archaeological heritage management.
Visit http://www.icomos.org/icahm/cuzco_home.html for more information.
Who? International Scientific Committee on Cultural Tourism
What? Annual Meeting & Workshop. "Cultural Tourism for Community Development - Working towards Sustainable Community-Based Tourism at Heritage Destinations". ICOMOS ICTC Annual meeting - Research Symposium – Capacity Building Programme
Hosts: ICOMOS Philippines & Augusto Villalon, ICTC Vice-President. Participants: ICOMOS ICTC members, representatives from other ICOMOS ISCs including Shared Built Heritage; and delegates from 'the least developed of developing countries' such as Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, South Pacific Islands.
A 'Call for papers' will be issued once arrangements are finalised. Case Studies will be sought representing the global reach of ICOMOS.
Where? Vigan, Philippines
When? 5th – 10th November 2012
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Presentation of this year's theme: the World Heritage
Author: Alfredo Conti, Chair, ICOMOS World Heritage Working Group - [English] - [Français] - [Español]
By regions By Categories of cultural heritage
Bibliographies by the ICOMOS Documentation Centre
- World Heritage in Asia and Pacific 2011 (August 2011)
- World Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean 2011 (Augustt 2011)
- World Herigage in the Arab States (August 2011)
- World Heritage in Africa (August 2011)
- World Heritage Historic Gardens 2011 (Augustt 2011)
- World Heritage Cultural Landscapes 2011 (Augustt 2011)
- Industrial and Technical Heritage in the World Heritage List 2011 (Augustt 2011)
- World Heritage Urban Sites 2011 - Part I (countries from A to J)
Part II (countries from K to Y) (August 2011)
- Modern Heritage Properties (19th and 20th Centuries) on the World Heritage List 2011 (August 2011)
- Rock art sites in the World Heritage list - 2011 (August 2011)
- World Heritage Hominid Sites (August 2011)
While each year there is a specific theme for the 18th April, each National Committee is free to choose a theme that is most relevant to highlight the heritage issues in their nation or region. Below are a number of general suggestions for nationally organized activities to mark this event:
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organized by the National Committee through its Scientific and Regional committees emphasizing local issues that require attention, support and/or promotion among the community, authorities and experts.
Spreading knowledge
- Written: Articles in newspapers and magazines
- Media: Television and radio broadcasts
- Publicity: Hanging banners in town squares, principal traffic arteries, universities, related organizations, museums, cultural centers, libraries, cafeterias, calling attention to this day and to the preservation of cultural heritage through the reference of local and/or international examples.
- Talks for Youth, Students and young professionals of the field, Experts, the General Public
- Inviting local or foreign experts, personalities academics, students and the community.
- Organizing discussions in cultural centers, city halls, and other public spaces
- Exhibitions and competitions of photography, drawings, paintings, etc.
- Publication of books, postcards, stamps, posters, etc.
- Awarding prizes to organizations or persons who have made an outstanding contribution to the conservation and promotion of cultural heritage or produced an excellent publication on the subject.
- Inaugurate a recently restored monument or rehabilitated site.
- Promotion of "twinning" opportunities between various National Committees, defining areas for co-operation; exchange of speakers; organization of meetings and seminars, or the editing of joint publications.
- The international Scientific Committee could be invited to debate around the chosen theme.
The essential aspect is to mark this day so that it becomes not only a day to celebrate your National Heritage, but also a day of International Solidarity in favor of strengthening and safeguarding Heritage world-wide.
If you are planning an event linked to 18 April or its theme – please inform the International Secretariat as soon as possible.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. — For the second day in a row, there was a power outage during the Women's ACC Basketball Tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum.
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Follow the Mars Express launch from one of ESA's establishments
ESA PR 32-2003. On 2 June at 19:45 CEST (Central European Summer Time, 17.45 GMT/UTC) ESA's Mars Express satellite will be launched by a Soyuz launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Europe's first mission to the Red Planet will reach its target in December, after a six-month journey. Mars Express will help scientists answer questions about the Martian landscape, atmosphere and the origin of life that remain open, although a wealth of information is already available.
Media representatives in Europe can follow the launch and initial orbital operations at ESA/Darmstadt (ESOC) in Germany, which will be acting as the main European press centre, or ESA/Noordwijk (ESTEC) in the Netherlands. ESA/Frascati (ESRIN) in Italy and the Italian Space Agency, ASI, are organising a joint event at the University of Rome. ESA/Villafranca (VILSPA) and the CDTI, the Spanish institution in charge of space issues, are organising a joint event in Spain at the Museo Principe Felipe de la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia. At each site ESA specialists will be available for interviews.
Media representatives wishing to attend are requested to complete the attached reply form and fax it to the Communication Office at the establishment of their choice.
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Polarisation: Horizontal
Symbol rate: 22 Msymb/s
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Details of the transmission schedule and satellite details for the various pre-launch Video News Releases can be found on http://television.esa.int.
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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express- Mars Express – ESA sets ambitious goals for the first European mission to Mars
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Mars_Express_ESA_sets_ambitious_goals_for_the_first_European_mission_to_Mars - ESA's Mars Express ready for launch
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/ESA_s_Mars_Express_ready_for_launch - Mars Express leaves for Baikonur
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Mars_Express_leaves_for_Baikonur - Mars Express launch accreditation form
http://www.esa.int/For_Media/Press_Releases/Follow_the_Mars_Express_launch_from_one_of_ESA_s_establishments - ESA Science
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How much has this week sucked for Jason Bateman? Hmm, well actually probably not too bad. He is a multi-millionaire, married to a beautiful women, has healthy children, a pretty cool sister, starring in a couple of movies this year, just launched a brand new company so the fact that he cut the line is probably not weighing too much on him right now.
That being said, he did apologize yesterday. On his Twitter he said, "Correction- If there were boos, I didn't hear them. If some were mad, I didn't see them. I wish I had. If you're out there, I'm sorry."
Apology accepted. I think I said it on the first day. The guy did wait in line. He showed up at 445am. The first person had shown up around 330am so by the time 10am rolled around Jason had been in line for 5 hours. It isn't like he sent an assistant to go stand in line or called Apple and begged for a phone. He did put in some time.I think the best part about this whole story is that Donald Glover, who is on Community, admitted that after he saw Jason cut the line that Donald tried to cut the line too and did a "don't you know who I am," but was denied. Blow to the ego there Donald. Donald did write one of my favorite episodes of 30 Rock though so he gets to have his picture in the post too.


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Passing into the channel of Nassau Bahamas at sunrise from cruise ship. Nassau Lighthouse.
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Nicely done. That little lighthouse has been photographed so many times poorly - glad you got a great image.
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dramatic light so awesome--this works so well
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Having some rough water helps I think. Sun just breaking behind the hotel. Wish they would light the darn thing up :)
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Fired UI professor says he will appeal
University officials said radiology professor's workplace behavior was disruptive
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Update: A fired University of Iowa professor says he will appeal to the state Board of Regents and file a court injunction halting the termination.
The UI fired Dr. Malik Juweid, a tenured radiology professor, this week after a judicial panel found he compromised patient confidentiality and acted inappropriately toward coworkers.
�Both the University and UIHC rely upon an atmosphere of collegiality among their faculty to function effectively,� the three-person panel wrote in a report released by the UI Thursday. �Dr. Juweid, by his actions, has shown that he did not work within the bounds of that required collegiality.�
President Sally Mason approved the termination in a letter this week: �I direct that the panel�s recommendations be implemented,� she wrote.
Juweid�s attorney, Rockne Cole, says Mason had a conflict of interest in deciding Juweid's employment because she is named in Juweid's lawsuit alleging discrimination by university officials. On these grounds, Cole will appeal to the regents and through district court, he said.
Tenured professors generally cannot be fired without just cause. These terminations are still rare enough that the Chronicle of Higher Education writes about individual cases across the country.
Juweid, 51, has been on paid leave since Jan. 12, 2011, drawing a salary of $245,683 in Fiscal 2011. He came to the UI in 2000.
The 44-page judicial panel report includes portions of Juweid�s emails to officials at the university and elsewhere. In a Feb. 23, 2008, email to a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Juweid called the man a �pathetic creature.�
�Did you read the United Nations resolution below equating Zionism with racism? You should in your position be above this, you prejudiced immoral Arab-hater!� Juweid wrote in the email from his university account.
Juweid was put on notice in September 2008 that further emails like this would be grounds for discipline, the panel reported. But Juweid continued to speak his mind in emails through 2010, when he filed discrimination complaints with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and the UI's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity.
On Jan. 11, 2011, the UI's threat-assessment team met with UI hospitals employees who had concerns about Juweid's behavior, according to the report.
UI officials who testified at a June 15 hearing before the judicial panel said Juweid frequently wished death upon coworkers who opposed him and pressured other employees to speak on his behalf.
Juweid, participating in the June hearing via Skype from his home country of Jordan, said wishing for someone�s death is common in Arabic cultures and shouldn�t be taken as an actual threat.
The team did not interview Juweid before deeming him a threat, witnesses said.
"He went from one of the top professors in the United States to a threat without a hearing," Cole said.
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This I Believe
When I first discovered NPR's This I Believe, I had just gone through a distressing process of realizing what I didn't believe. Since then, it's been easier to pinpoint what I don't believe than what I do. But listening to the segment helps me realize I don't want to define myself by my unbelief; I want to define myself according to what I do believe. In asking myself what I believe, I've come to see that the very exploration of belief is the important thing.
I believe that asking questions can be more important than having the answers.
Until I was in my mid-20's, I believed very strongly in the version of God I had been raised to believe in. This God was one that had already provided all the answers to life's great questions; how could one resist believing in such a God? When I reevaluated my belief system, I realized I simply could not be a part of something so religiously chauvinistic and so omniscient.
Leaving my belief system, letting go of that God and all his answers, was frightening and enlightening at the same time. When my world view came crashing down around me, everything I had ever believed, and everything I had thought I knew, came into question. Beyond all the dust and rubble of my old life, I saw a new life. It was as if light touched my skin for the first time, and there was a whole new world before me to discover. I began asking questions like I never had before in order to explore my new world and my new self.


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Below is a diagram of the current NAO and it is negative!
But the long term shows it going positive and that is favorable for a nice little minor "thaw". People are saying that the La Nina pattern is doing this. Well, on my site at http://wxmedia.blogspot.com/p/winter-weather.html I am calling for a nice snow season inland. But due to the warmer water temps, the coastline will see some less snow. That is the only part of the La Nina that will effect us mainly. Now, as the NAO is still negative it is forecasted to be negative until the middle of the month and then go positive once again.
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I wouldn't really consider it a real "Hurricane Season" for many reasons. One reason is because the hardest hitting storm was Hermine when it slammed through Texas causing tornado watches and warnings to go into effect. But the one that was really interesting to watch was Earl. This caused so much confusion up and down the east coast, where the impacts were going to be and where it made landfall. Especially for New England. Most people were puzzled as to where it would go but eventually hit Nantucket and the islands and gave them some nice sized winds. Igor was also one of the major storms that we were questioning is to where it would go. Here were some other interesting ones...
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10 Nov 2010
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... and annoyed the heck out of the mom. Then we went to the river for sundowners which are drinks. I drank more lemonade but Grandy and Boppa had African beer.
Before leaving the river and going back to the camp we just happened to see lots of huge footprints and elephants.
Then dinner and early bed. The day was fun and I learned a lot.
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Elephant Whispers
... us generally back along the route used yesterday. I reckon that our incorrect first day's drive to Pilgrims Rest has meant we have effectively driven the same road 3 times, with an extra unnecessary 250 kms. Never mind, it is attractive countryside. Hazyview is the largest town we have seen to date, with all modern facilities. We have been warned a number of times that the roads would be dangerously potholed, but we are finding that in fact they are all in ...
Two Shy or Too Shy
... game hunt, spotting more giraffe, kudu, elephants, and impala, but no luck with either a rhino or lion. But, given the abundance of other wildlife and the beauty of the surroundings, it would be difficult to be crestfallen with the absence of these two beasts. We returned to Skukuzu so that I could attend a seminar at the conference and to prepare for the night game drive and gala dinner that was hosted by the ...
Arrival at The Inyayti Game Reserve Krugar Park
... through periodically! Did tonight the monkey squealed a lot but we didn't see him!! After a small tea our guide Keith took us-and others out into the bush where we saw hippo Rhino a leopard with 2 small cubs giraffe and lots of elephants! My training on the Earnstry Hills with Rob was good as the jeep lurched from side to side and crossed muddy water!! Eventually as sun was setting and deep in the bush ...
The Starkey Hearing Foundation
... we could see the people lined up waiting patiently for their turn for hearing aid fitment. After the tour the medical clinic it was our turned to help fit some of the people with hearing aids. Yanik and I teamed with Danny, Bills' pilot who also volunteers on these missions. Danny showed us how to fit the devices and test to see if our patient could hear and how to adjust the volume properly. Our first patient was a 9 or 10 year old boy who was completely deaf. He ...


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The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late), The Chipmunks & David Seville
My daughter loves the nouveau chipmunks, but I have promised myself we won't go see their new movie Chipwrecked. Really. Please?
Not sure why their B-side, Percy, the Puny Poinsettia, never caught on.
Probably my favorite of the novelty songs. The cats hate this one.
I heard this one for the first time just a year or so ago. It has a weird, interesting history.
The followup to "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron," with a holiday theme.
Lots of kids in the '50s and '60s were probably threatened with this song by their parents.
The song was originally written in 1944, but this video doesn't just seem from another time, but another planet.


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Julie Kagawa's bestselling series The Iron Fey captivated the imagination--and hearts--of readers of all ages with its mix of magic, fantasy and romance. Enjoy this special bridge novella, which takes place between The Iron King and The Iron Daughter.
Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl...until she discovered that she is really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly Iron Fey, Meghan must follow through on her promise to return to the equally dangerous Winter Court with her forbidden love, Prince Ash. But first, Meghan has one request: that they visit Puck--Meghan's best friend and servant of her father, King Oberon--who was gravely injured defending Meghan from the Iron Fey.
Yet Meghan and Ash's detour does not go unnoticed. They have caught the attention of an ancient, powerful hunter--a foe that even Ash may not be able to defeat....
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Salvatore Ferragamo: Fall-Time Fabulous at MFW
Posted Monday February 27, 2012 1:02 PM GMT
Sure to be one of the shining stars of Fashion Week, creative director Massimiliano Giornetti sent Salvatore Ferragamo's latest fall-time offerings down the catwalk in Milan over the weekend.
Structured on a military inspiration balanced on a romantic theme, the house produced a the perfect collection for the ultra-elegant female.
Several chiffon frocks made their debut, however their delicate silhouettes were met with a masculine detail, as sturdy, tailored blazer topped off many of the looks.
As for the Ferragamo's accessories, fabulous, super-wearable velvet-adorned boots and handbags accompanied the runway ensembles.
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im no stripper xD just when it comes to .. (censored) ^^
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About Us
A1 Tools Trading Co has been selling tools and hardware to the professional companies in Middle East since 1988. Since the very beginning, we have concentrated exclusively on the marketing, sale and distribution of quality tools imported from worldwide.
We maintain a high level of availability from stock. We strive to provide our customers complete satisfaction and best service.
Our Goals
- Supply products that offer the best value in price and quality.
- Establish long term relationships with customers.
How YOU can benefit if you buy from us
- Low Minimum order quantity requirement
- Exclusive dealership agreements possible
- Variety of products under one roof
- Quick delivery
Product Range
The main scope of our business is the import of quality tools from all around the world. Our most popular products are All Kinds of Spanners used in Marine, Oil Field and Shipping Industry, hand tools, pliers, spanners, wrenches, hammers, power tools, screwdrivers, and circular saw blades.
Service of Products
To complement our extensive range of products and competitive prices, we also offer regular delivery to all Emirates in U.A.E. Through land cargo, the entire Middle East is within quick reach which includes Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Quality Assurance
You can benefit from brand names you trust, backed by performance, high quality service and strong distribution, all originating from one source. Most of the products we import meet international quality standards.
Customer Service
Our aim is to increase our product range on a regular basis. We can update you by e-mail (or regular air-mail) whenever new products arrive.
Our trained, experienced staff and modern inventory management system ensure that our products and services meet the customer's highest expectations.
Our staff is always reminded that our customers are the most important part of the business. With this in mind, our sales team will be more than happy to give any assistance you may require.
Our quality products, coupled with excellent service, high fill rates, quick shipping, and competitive pricing make us your profitable choice.