UNESCO declared a World Day for Audio Visual Heritage to raise awareness of the significance of Audio Visual documents and to draw attention to the need to watch over them.

Every year, activities are organized by different institutions worldwide around a theme to drum up interest in the event. This year, the Coordinating Council for AV Archives Associations has adopted as theme “Fading Heritage: We Can Save It.”

AV documents, which are characteristic of the 20th and 21st centuries, have extensive and far-reaching influences in the everyday lives of people around the world. Yet, due to their fragility, much have been lost and continue to be lost.

Documentary heritage reflects the diversity of languages, peoples and cultures. It is the mirror of the world and its memory. But this memory is frail. Every day, irreplaceable parts of this memory disappear for ever.

UNESCO has launched the Memory of the World Programme to guard against collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination.

The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been identified by the International Advisory Committee in its meetings in Tashkent (September 1997), in Vienna (June 1999), in Cheongju City (June 2001), in Gdansk (August 2003), in Lijiang (June 2005), and in Pretoria (June 2007) and favored by the Director-General of UNESCO as corresponding to the selection criteria for world significance.

Included in the Registered Heritage is Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution, a documentary heritage by Philippines and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2003.

The collection of sound recordings of 44 audiocassette tapes and 1 mini-disc document the actual, unedited day-to-day radio broadcast of Radio Veritas, (a Catholic -owned radio station at the outskirts of Manila), DZRJ/DZRB, Radio Bandido, (a privately-owned radio station in Quezon City then under the Ministry of National Defense), DZRH (a privately-owned radio station in Manila) and Voice of the Philippines, a government-owned radio station taken over by the people led by Radio Veritas on the 24th of February, 1986.

The People Power Revolution was a unique political event of the 20th century which stirred the world: the peaceful overthrow of an entrenched dictatorship through a spontaneous popular uprising, documented and influenced by the 20th century medium of radio.

The unbroken radio record over four days in 1986 is an unvarnished chronicle of a nation and its people at a crucial time in its history. The world listened, watched and read. The event will forever be a reference point for the peaceful resolution of deep national crises.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal–Arroyo has issued Executive Order No. 788 to promote the role of the youth in national service. The EO tackles the need to include the youth aged 18 to 24 years in the national service program through the National Service Corps (NSC) and Youth Conservation Corps (YCC).

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The word pyramid has evolved through a long history, with at least one or possibly two or more major transitions. The modern word derived from the French “pyramide,” which is a word of Latin origin. It appears that Latin borrowed the word from the Greek pyramis, which comes form Egyptian word pimar.

The Egyptian term pimar can be broken down further into two syllables, pi + mar. Pi can serve as an article meaning “the” or “that” In other contexts it has been translated as “house.” Mar, derives from the Egyptian word “MR” which means pyramid. This word, has, in and of itself, a very colorful and interesting ancient history as found in the development of Egyptian and early proto-african languages related to Egyptian.

We can find additional clues about the origin of the syllable MR by examining its appearance in proto-African languages. In proto-Bantu, for example, a “MraMra” is a cone shaped configuration made by leaning spears together, atop the grave of the King. In various other proto-African languages related to Egyptian, the syllable MR or closely related ML have been discovered to mean alternatively a heap, a mound, clouds, (which heap up), and even the sky which is above the mound, in the sense that the summit of the mound or heap approaches the heavens. One famous cone shaped mountain in Africa is called Mt. Meru.

Putting the various derivations together, we can conclude that the MR was the special heap or mound created for the funerals of the Pharoah and his family. The addition of the syllable Po connotes the sense of “place” of the funeral mound, or “house” of the funeral mound, or “the” funeral mound or “that” funeral mound. not unlike the modern “funeral home.”

All of this ancient history of the word is obscured by the loose transition from Egyptian to Greek. While the Greeks preserved the “r” and “m” in pimar, they reversed their order. Historians are not even sure how the word pyramis came to exist. It is suggested that the Greek pyramis may have been derived from “pira,” a pyramid shaped funeral fire, + mid meaning amidst. Egyptians did burn incense inside the pyramids, although this wasn’t their major function. Alternatively the word is related to the purely Greek word pyramis meaning a wheaten cake, whose shaped vaguely resembled a pyramid. However, the Greek term was derived, it’s connection to the Egyptian origins appears loose.

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