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This shot is from the same heritage site.
In 1954, the government of Egypt decided to build the Aswan Dam (Aswan High Dam), an event that would flood a valley containing treasures of ancient Egypt such as the Abu Simbel temples. UNESCO then launched a worldwide safeguarding campaign, despite appeals from the governments of Egypt and Sudan. The Abu Simbel and Philae temples were taken apart, moved to a higher location, and put back together piece by piece.
The cost of the project was US$80 million, about $40 million of which was collected from 50 countries. The project was regarded as a success, and led to other safeguarding campaigns, saving Venice and its lagoon in Italy, the ruins of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan and the Borobodur Temple Compounds in Indonesia. UNESCO then initiated, with the International Council on Monuments and Sites, a draft convention to protect the common cultural heritage of humanity.
Convention and background
The United States initiated the idea of combining cultural conservation with nature conservation. A White House conference in 1965 called for a World Heritage Trust to preserve the world's superb natural and scenic areas and historic sites for the present and the future of the entire world citizenry. The International Union for Conservation of Nature developed similar proposals in 1968, and they were presented in 1972 to the United Nations conference on Human Environment in Stockholm.
A single text was agreed on by all parties, and the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.
Nominating process
A country must first take an inventory of its significant cultural and natural properties. This is called the Tentative List, and is important because a country may not nominate properties that have not already been included on the Tentative List. Next, it can select a property from this list to place into a Nomination File. The World Heritage Centre offers advice and help in preparing this file.
At this point, the file is evaluated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and the World Conservation Union. These bodies then make their recommendations to the World Heritage Committee. The Committee meets once per year to determine whether or not to inscribe each nominated property on the World Heritage List, and sometimes defers the decision to request more information from the states. There are ten selection criteria - a site must meet at least one of them to be included on the list.
Selection criteria
Until the end of 2004, there were six criteria for cultural heritage and four criteria for natural heritage. In 2005, this was modified so that there is only one set of ten criteria. Nominated sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one of the ten criteria.
I. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius";
II. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design";
III. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared";
IV. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history";
V. to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change";
VI. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria.)
VII. to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance";
VIII. to be outstanding examples representing major stages of Earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features";
IX. to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals";
X. to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-site conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.
Beemster (pronunciation) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Also, the Beemster is the first so-called polder in the Netherlands that was reclaimed from a lake, the water being extracted out of the lake by windmills. The Beemster Polder was dried during the period 1609 through 1612. It has preserved intact its well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, dykes and settlements, laid out in accordance with classical and Renaissance planning principles. A grid of canals parallels the grid of roads in the Beemster. The grids are offset: the larger feeder canals are offset by approximately one kilometer from the larger roads.
Population centres
The municipality of Beemster consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Middenbeemster, Noordbeemster, Westbeemster, Zuidoostbeemster.
History
Around 800 AD the area of the modern municipality of Beemster was covered in peat. The name "Beemster" has been derived from "Bamestra" (see Groenedijk, 2000), the name of a small river in the area. In the period 1150-1250 peat-digging by people, and storm floods, enlarged that small river into an inland sea, a lake in open connection with the Zuiderzee. Around 1605 private investors started to drain the Beemster lake. In 1610, this was almost complete, but the lake re-filled because of a break in the Zuiderzee dikes. It was decided to make the ring-dike a meter high above the surrounding country. In 1612 the polder was dry and the country was divided among the investors. In the earlier days of the polder, farmers occupied its lands for growing the crops necessary for long sea journeys by the VOC to the East Indies. It turned out that the farmland was so good that the project was considered then to be an economic success, in contrast to e.g. the Heerhugowaard. Since 1999 the entire Beemster polder has been on the UNESCO world heritage list.
The Beemster polder is home to the world famous CONO Kaasmakers, maker of the Beemster brand of cheeses. This co-op was formed in 1901 to create cheese made only from the unique milk that comes from the Beemster polder. Today Beemster cheese is sold not only in Europe, but in the USA, Canada, Japan and China.
World Heritage Site
Because of its historical relevance, and because the original structure of the area is still largely intact, the Beemster was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1999. Justification for Inscription is as follows:
Criterion:
1\ The Beemster Polder is a masterpiece of creative planning, in which the ideals of antiquity and the Renaissance were applied to the design of a reclaimed landscape.
2\ The innovative and intellectually imaginative landscape of the Beemster Polder had a profound and lasting impact on reclamation projects in Europe and beyond.
3\ The creation of the Beemster Polder marks a major step forward in the interrelationship between humankind and water at a crucial period of social and economic expansion.
Source: wikipedia.org
i had a major developing problem with this roll of polachrome; the film came out the processor totally dark.
i was about to threw it in the bin, when, taking a closer look, i saw the pictures on the film, in negative. so i proceed to remove the black, thick layer that should have been removed in the processor. under running tap water and using my fingers, i managed to remove the most of the dark layer, but, as you can see, the emulsion suffered major loss.
the lesson here is: never trash away your polachrome, the truth is under the thick black layer.
this polachrome film is expired in 1990
shot with a minolta srt101
האיור השבועי למדור ''תיק פלילי'' של גידי מרון בידיעות אחרונות. והפעם: ילדים בכתה ד' יוצאים לסיור בבית המשפט בשביל הצצה ראשונה במציאות.
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The fourth grade kids having their first peak of reality.
Editorial Illustration for 'Yediot Aharonot' Newspaper Criminal Section.
Financial Planning for a four year old.
The challenge was you were only able to use one light, but it needed to look like there was more than one.
Image of Saving Money Tiles. Perfect for articles, blogs on saving money, couponing, and more.
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A Reworking of 'Alice',Deep Dream Generator,Photoshop. Cyborg Alice Misused,Abused and Thrown onto a cyborg Scrapheap has been rescued by a mechanic and is now under Repair and Restoration..."Poor Alice"!
Prompt:- Spare Parts, modify composition by enhancing detail of spare parts, rust, tools, and enhance their distinctness, shine, etc and by showing the table, woman's head and shoulders on a table as she is being repaired with old rusty tools and spare parts.
If you are ever in Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and you venture to this gazebo at the end of the pier, there will be two gentlemen. These fellows were there every morning to greet the sun as I was. I would like to say hello again, if you ever reach the end of this pier, please say hello for me!
A saiga roams the steppe in Russia's Kalmykia region, which is a key stronghold for the species, and the epicentre of conservation efforts. The saiga are now in peril threat because of climate change. Due to bacteria that thrive in warmer weather, saiga populations are critically endangered. Poaching for their valuable horns makes the situation much worse. UNDP has supported the conservation efforts of these endangered species in Russia and Kazakhstan. Read more: stories.undp.org/saving-the-saiga
A 20x20 vig for the Admin contest in the 'Imperial Conquest' group game.
The Imperial Garrison on Kashyyyk was under attack by Rebel forces. Lieutenant Jon and I were both stationed there at the time. The Lieutenant was out in the front lines by the barricade when I saw the Jedi coming. Flanked by 2 Rebel Soldiers, he was a real threat to us. Jon shot one of the incoming Rebels but the Jedi was too fast and was about to strike him down! I took aim with my rocket launcher and fired...
I didn't hit the Jedi but I distracted him long enough for the Lieutenant to shoot him. We managed to stop the Rebels and were quickly rotated off the planet so a stronger garrison force could replace us.
I think that I should be an admin because I have been with the Conquest since the beginning and I have participated in every mission. I really enjoy building the new things that the Conquest requires and I hope to carry on with it for a very long time.
I found a bag of vintage craft felt at the thrift store in November for $.99 and have been using it to make Christmas outfits for Betsy McCall.
I ironed out the wrinkles by placing a wet cotton dishcloth over it and ironing on the wet towel.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
Airliners are difficult to preserve - there's a lot to maintain, bulky to move and display and of course lack the heroic glamour of a Spitfire or a Lightning.
During the 1960s and 1970s Heathrow was awash with Tridents and BEA purchased 65 of various models.
This is G-ARPO, a 1C model, and is one of three Tridents on public display within the UK. A fourth airframe is in store by the Science Museum, and a handful are displayed in China, their national carrier having purchased 37 aircraft.
The aircraft moved here in 2011, after having been a fire training aid at Durham Tees Valley airport. I was surprised to learn that this has now been repainted in Northeast colours, but still lacking wings and fin, although they are on site.
North East Air Museum, Sunderland
20th June 2013
20130620 IMG_3407 GARPO DTV
I'm sorry that I never could
quite say this to your face.
Always hiding behind melody lines,
hooks that keep me safe.
(This girl is amaaaaaazing, and I mean amazing in every sense of the word.)
So I cut myself some bangs the day before yesterday. Time for a change.
Cherryville High School DB makes a last second touchdown saving tackle of TJCA's Tucker Greene. Greene caught a go route during the first quarter of varsity football action.
saving and retirement
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Here are Arriva Buses Wales VDL Pulsars CX14 BYB 3165 & CX14 BYC 3166 are seen at the Bangor bus station as 3165 is on the route 5 to Llandudno and 3166 is on the route 5C to Caernarfon.
Everyday kinda objects are the saving grace of ideas for this 366 mission and ive never yet out of both years shot ice cubes yet,so thats what i put on the agenda for photo of the day. So i brainstormed a few ideas and knew that 2 things before i started this photo, i wanted some backlight and i wanted to light paint in some color with the image. So i took out the ice cubes and did my light testing for my flash first and the set up this composition by stacking the ice cubes. Now what i didnt think of before i took this photo was that of course the ice cubes will start melting and that they would fall down from the pyramid shape i built, so that ment i kinda had to work fast and get this shot going before everything was gonna crumble. So now was the harder part i had the background setup(a red piece of paper) and to light that i wanted to use my flashlight aimed behind the top 3 cubes, so i had to find a balance between my flash firing then letting my shutter stay open to let the flashlight light burn into the background(cause my flashlight is not as bright as the flash so it takes a longer shutter to compensate for that and as well i needed that extra time to light up the front of the counter with a blue flashlight, and all this needed to happen at 1/10 of a second ---which seems fast but is way super longer then 1/250th of a second (thats like going to the moon and back) so with my shutter opened for just that shot amount of time the 1/10th of a second it let enough light burn in from the flashlight lighting up the back ground and as well a second flashlight coming in from the right side and then i had a blue colored light in my hand and aimed it just at the right angel to light up the foreground and the flash lit the ice cubes. I was glad to see this on the back of my camera after all that setup and i took a photo of the setup and i swear 2 seconds after i snapped that setup photo the cubes tumbled down in the pile of melted water.
Specs and Strobist
Sb-800 1/128th camera back left aimed at ice cubes (diy snoot)
Garrision 140lumes flashlight camera right aimed at red background
Noma 60lumes flashlight camera back right aimed at cubes
Blue light in my hand to light the front of the counter
Shutter 1/10th of a second
Sooc
I was driving out the long road to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, when I came upon a sign pointing down a farm road: “Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery”. I had no idea in the world what that could mean, but how could I resist? Not very many bumps and potholes later I found an amazing little piece of history - a kind of “boot hill” site that turned out to be another unexpected highlight of my daytrip to Point Reyes National Seashore.
“IN A WINDBLOWN cemetery on the Point Reyes Peninsula, the bodies of four young surfmen, as members of the little-known U.S. Life Saving Service were called, lay buried for more than a century before the National Park Service and the Coast Guard discovered them. For the fifth Memorial Day, those first surfmen and the generations that followed them will be remembered in a convocation on Monday morning at the little cemetery near the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock. They will be honored for the lives they saved in the treacherous ocean along the Marin County coast, sometimes at the cost of their own.
The surfmen had the most daunting motto of all the services: ‘Ye have to go out but ye don't have to come in.’
Between 1871 and 1915 surfmen saved the lives of 178,000 people nationwide.”
From an article in the Marin Independent Journal, 5/25/2014 by Paul Liberatore
www.marinij.com/general-news/20140525/a-memorial-day-serv...