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	Ministry of Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Culture is born by the contributions of ones roots and ones environment.
		Cultural programmes aimed at the Tourism or Marketing T and T Nationally and Internationally in songs music and dances should be nation-building, jovial and celebratory material and not base on malice animosity and divisiveness and character assassination with the inclusion of all groups eg.Dimache Gra.
		Cultural field officers should be employed to visit the cultural projects, groups to determine their needs and to insure compliance and not to wait on invitations.
	www.ajeetpraimsingh.com /ministry_of_culture.htm (924 words)

	Culture Minister in Barbados
		Damian Greaves left the island yesterday for Barbados to attend the tenth meeting of the forum of Ministers of Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean.
		The forum of ministers of culture and officials responsible for culture policy is an institutionalized body established for the purpose of working towards the cultural cooperation and cultural integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
		The minister is expected to return to the island on July 20, 1997.
	www.stlucia.gov.lc /pr1997/culture_minister_in_barbados.htm (213 words)

	Minister of Culture (France) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Minister of Culture and Communications is, in the Government of France, the cabinet member in charge of national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic) in France and abroad; and managing the national archives and regional "maisons de culture" (culture centres).
		The modern post of Minister of Culture was created by Charles de Gaulle in 1959 and the first Minister was the writer André Malraux.
		His famous phrase "économie et culture, même combat" ("economy and culture: it's the same fight") is representative of his commitment to cultural democracy and to active national sponsorship and participation in cultural production.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minister_of_Culture_(France) (753 words)

	Department for Culture Media and Sport - home (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a rare and lavish court mantua and petticoat of silver-brocaded ivory silk, believed to date from the mid 1760s.
		Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has thanked Jack Lemley for his contribution to the Olympic Delivery Authority, after it was announced that the American businessman was stepping down as the body's Chair.
		Culture Minister David Lammy on press freedom and diversity: "The right to be offensive doesn't mean it's right to be offensive." [18 October]
	www.culture.gov.uk.cob-web.org:8888 (213 words)

	Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
		Gil sees his role as revolving around both “the economic dimension of culture and the cultural dimension of the economy.” Above all he wants to validate cultural endeavors as an integral part of Brazilian society and development.
		Gil’s cultural program aims to strengthen the capacity of individuals, particularly in slums and rural areas, to produce and share their art.
		For example, there are plans to create a lottery to help fund the community cultural projects as well as the creation of public-private partnerships that give tax breaks to corporations that invest in culture.
	www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001 /Events/spring2005/02-17-05-gil/index.html (1191 words)

	1stopKorea - Culture Minister Interview
		Minister Park: It's now the 21st century and we are at the beginning of new millennium.
		Minister Park: We have not only traditional cultural properties but also excellent entertainment areas such as Itaewon, and Namdaemun market - which are very attractive to people from other countries.
		Minister Park: I would recommend Kyungbok Palace or any of the other palaces, Sorak Mountain, Cheju Island and Kyongju shouldn't be missed.
	1stopkorea.com /interview-culture-minister.htm (1119 words)

	Iraq Minister For Culture Resigns
		The gap left when al-Husseiny quit was promptly filled through the appointment of Suleiman al-Jumeily as new minister for culture.
		The new minister for culture, al-Jumeily, belongs to the Iraqi Accord Front, a Sunni group with strong ties to the Iraqi Islamic Party.
		After British prime minister Tony Blair's visit to Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged to find suitable figures for the roles of minister of interior, minister of defence and minister of security as soon as possible.
	www.aina.org /news/20060523124848.htm (187 words)

	Ministry of Culture
		Innovative and distinctive projects are making our libraries a great place to visit, Minister of Culture Caroline Di Cocco said at the launch of Ontario Public Library Week on October 16, 2006.
		Ontario Culture Minister Caroline Di Cocco co-chaired this year's meeting of federal, provincial and territorial Ministers Responsible for Culture and Heritage, which took place Sept. 28 and 29.
		The minister launched the three-year $7.5 million fund September 21 at a special event at Bitcasters studios in Toronto.
	www.culture.gov.on.ca /english/index.html (324 words)

	CNN.com - Iranian minister denies resignation - October 5, 2000
		Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ayatollah Mohajerani has been under sustained attack by religious conservatives who charge him with being too liberal and failing to stem the tide of "Westoxification" in newspapers, books and cinema.
		The minister blamed the media for falling for reports of his resignation in the hardline Resalat newspaper which has spearheaded a campaign against him.
		The official IRNA news agency said on Thursday the minister had addressed a tourism conference in the central city of Isfahan.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/10/05/iran.minister.reut (402 words)

	French Culture \| French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres Trip: Nov. 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres (upper right) visited Georgia, New York, and Louisiana in early November 2005 to express France's cultural solidarity with the United States, especially New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
		In New York, the Minister hosted a dinner at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for supporters of Act French: A Season of New Theater from France, a festival of French theatre performances and readings at more than 15 theaters in New York City, which is taking place in autumn 2005.
		The Minister also decorated Mary Young, Ursula Cliff, and Catherine Davison - board members of the Florence Gould Foundation - with the medals of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
	www.frenchculture.org /perfo/events/05vabres.html (366 words)

	Scottish Minister samples Malawian music, culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Scottish Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Patricia Ferguson, who toured the country last week, took part in the commemoration of Africa Day on Thursday during cultural performances that took place at Makuzi Bay in Nkhata Bay district.
		The Scottish minister could be seen shaking her head in response to tunes that were being played by the band and the vimbuza singers.
		On Tuesday, the Scottish minister also had a chance of sampling Malawian culture when she visited Ku-Ngoni Art and Craft Centre on the lakeshore district of Dedza.
	www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=16986 (350 words)

	CNN.com - Brazil's Gilberto Gil, minister of cool - Sep. 1, 2003
		Not many government ministers wear their hair in dreadlocks but not many are also world-renowned music stars like Brazil's Gilberto Gil, who will be lauded at the Latin Grammy awards show on Wednesday.
		Gil, culture minister in the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, says he sees both roles as part of a single project.
		When Gil became minister, many critics said he would be unable to deal with the complexities of the job.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/09/01/brazil.people.gil.reut (577 words)

	ABC News: Swedish Culture Minister Resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Culture Minister Cecilia Stego Chilo issued a statement saying she could not carry out her duties after it was revealed that she evaded taxes by paying a nanny under the table and failed to pay her mandatory TV license fee.
		The mandatory license of about $200 per year is the main source of funding for Sweden's public broadcasters, which she would have overseen as culture minister.
		The resignations rocked Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's four-party government, which took office Oct. 6 after defeating the Social Democrats in national elections.
	www.abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2572194 (260 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Technology \| Technology \| Minister of counterculture
		But you soon remember that, as well as the serving culture minister of Brazil, you are in the presence of one of the biggest Latin American musicians of the 60s and 70s when you ask him about his intellectual influences and he cites Timothy Leary.
		Gil and his ministry team have an opposing theory: tough intellectual property law is a 20th-century idea and most of the blossoming of world civilisation has happened perfectly well without it.
		Time Warner won - "for the moment" - but it is characteristic of Gil that he regards the experience as a largely positive and most certainly rather amusing one.
	technology.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,16559,1592359,00.html (1262 words)

	Speaking with Greece's Minister of Culture: The Parthenon Sculptures
		The most important item on Greece's cultural agenda is the return of the sculptures removed from the Parthenon between 1803 and 1812 by Lord Elgin, Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (see "The Parthenon Marbles Custody Case," May/June 1999).
		Prime Minister Tony Blair is on record as telling a Greek newspaper in March 2001 that "The Marbles belong to the Britsh Museum which, as I have been informed, does not intend to return any part of its collection to the country of origin.
		In February, Alan Howarth, a former Education Minister, wrote in The Guardian that, "It has often been asserted by those who wish to send the Elgin marbles to modern Greece that they are a special case and we should be able to treat them in isolation without opening a floodgate of similar requests....
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/venizelos/parthenon.html (989 words)

	French culture \| performing arts: France Moves - Tasca Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On April 27, 2001, French Minister of Culture and Communications Mme.
		As France's Minister of Culture, it gives me special pleasure to witness this demonstration of the vitality of French dance and choreography and its warm reception abroad.
		The French dance scene stands as an example of the cultural diversity which France promotes through education and creation across the artistic and cultural spectrum.
	www.frenchculture.org /perfo/events/01tasca.html (1325 words)

	Boing Boing: Finnish Culture Minister: citizens concerned about copyright are "terrorists"
		The Minister of Culture is calling the worried citizens who sent the e-mail terrorists!
		The ex-minister of culture, Kaarina Dromberg (who was responsible for the first version of the law) has been making statements that the members of parliament are victims of e-mail terrorism.
		The current minister of culture (ex-miss Finland Tanja Karpela) has said that there are certain forces behind the e-mail flood.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/09/16/finnish_culture_mini.html (355 words)

	Ministry for Culture and Heritage - homepage
		At the request of the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, the Right Honourable Helen Clark, the New Zealand Flag is to be half-masted on all Government and public buildings on 16 August 2006 to mark the death of Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, the Maori Queen.
		The Minister of Broadcasting, Steve Maharey, has released details of a new government approach to shaping regional and community broadcasting policy.
		Prime Minister and Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Helen Clark said a new government-funded website launched today has the potential to enrich New Zealand's cultural life by harnessing the web to promote activities and events.
	www.cultureandheritage.govt.nz (295 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Heritage minister loses seat in political shift
		Heritage Minister Liza Frulla was among the high profile Liberal candidates defeated in Monday's election, possibly paving the way for Conservative culture critic Bev Oda to step into the spotlight.
		Frulla, 56, was the former minister of social development and, most recently, in addition to being minister of Canadian Heritage, also served as minister responsible for the Status of Women.
		During Frulla's tenure as culture minister, major issues on her plate included the introduction of satellite radio to Canada and the continued call for increased, stable funding for institutions like the Canada Council, the Canadian Television Fund and the CBC.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2006/01/24/election-frulla-oda.html (1630 words)

	Georgios A. Voulgarakis, Minister of Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During 1989-1990, George Voulgarakis, was Secretary of the Greek Parliament, while he also served as Deputy Minister of Environment, Planning and Public Constructions.
		Since the 7th of March elections won by the New Democracy, George Voulgarakis performed the office of the Minister of Public Order.
		After the 14th of February government reform, he has been appointed Minister of Culture.
	www.culture.gr /2/20/minister.html (221 words)

	UK culture minister attacks videogames \| The Register
		Culture minister Kim Howells has followed up his controversial comments last week on rap music by launching a broadside against film, television and videogames in the pages of the Independent newspaper.
		Howells, who is a father of three, criticised the "heartlessness" of videogames, accusing them of creating a "pornography of violence" and of "playing to the lowest common denominator, which is a kind of vicarious pleasure in spilling blood".
		The minister stopped short of accusing games of being directly responsible for violent behaviour, however.
	www.theregister.com /2003/01/14/uk_culture_minister_attacks_videogames (397 words)

	Kazakhstan Minister of culture and Information has complaint against a TV-channel again - Culture - REGNUM
		As the REGNUM correspondent stresses, according to the released information, Minister Ertysbayev accused the CTVC of strongly pressing country’s leadership after Altynbek Sarsenbayev was murdered.
		The minister stated that after Atynbek Sarsenbayev’s murdering CTVC was strongly pressing country’s leadership for several days.
		As the REGNUM corresponded reminds, when Information and Archive Committee of Kazakhstan Culture and Information Ministry replaced leadership of republican Kazakhstan Radio and TV-Corporation (KRTVC): Nurtileu Imangaliuly replaced Galym Dosken last week, the ministry got into crisis situation with more than 120 employees, who left it in accordance with their own wish.
	www.regnum.ru /english/cultura/632658.html (761 words)

	Pravda.RU Deputy Minister Of Culture Of Ecuador To Sing In Moscow
		Famous singer Beartiz Parra, Deputy Minister of Culture of Ecuador, will give a concert in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory Monday as part of the festival of the Ibero-American culture in Moscow.
		The Days of the Russian Language in Germany opened in Berlin Monday under the motto "Mutual Learning of Languages and Cultures: the Dialogue in the Name of Progress." They are being held within the framework of the International Year of Languages announced by the Council of Europe.
		As part of the 2nd festival of Ibero-American culture in Russia which is now running in Moscow, musicians and vocalists from Uruguay and Venezuela will perform on October 19.
	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2001/10/29/19452.html (1632 words)

	AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Former Culture Minister Lee Kyoo-hyun Passes Away at 82
		Lee Kyoo-hyun, former minister of culture and information, died of a chronic disease on Wednesday.
		Though he briefly worked in Japan as an information official in 1961, Lee started building a career as a public official in 1972 and later served in the public information department within the Culture and Information Ministry, as its director, deputy minister, and chief.
		Lee also became chief secretary to the prime minister, as well as an ambassador to Canada, Dominica, Norway and Iceland.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=9035 (357 words)

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		The one who ministers to young people must be cultured.
		It is important for a man to be cultured, for human culture is a part of a person’s total make-up.
		The Christian individual must read about contemporary civilizations and cultures, leaning about human history, becoming aware of the lessons of the past and looking forward to a better age.
	www.youthbishopric.com /library/ArticlesLibrary/English/78.htm (1910 words)

	tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management
		She has consulted with companies on implementing leadership competencies, shifting cultures from compliance to commitment, and re-working so-so ideas into high-impact projects.
		She is a speaker on the topics of "organizational culture shock," exploration, innovation, and the heroics of change.
		Never satisfied with the status-quo, she championed a culture change initiative that positioned Customer Outcomes as the focus for all activities (amazing concept!), opened new channels for distribution, and watched the revenue roll in.
	www.tompeters.com /tpc/bios.php (3658 words)

	Lawrence Lessig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But Thursday night, we visited the Youth Camp, which in part this year is devoted to demonstrating and developing tools to support free software and free culture.
		Here’s a Minister of the government, face to face with supporters, and opponents.
		I’d heard conflicting reports about his government connections though, although most of the Brazillian wannabes in the United States I know thought it was pretty cool that he could be the Minister of Culture… Thanks, Mr.
	www.lessig.org /blog/archives/002400.shtml (2436 words)

	Speaking with Greece's Minister of Culture
		In early February, Evangelos Venizelos, Greece's Minister of Culture, was enroute to the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
		While in New York, he spoke about issues such as the ongoing efforts to ensure the resitution of the Parthenon sculptures and the debate about the controversial Olympic venue at Marathon with ARCHAEOLOGY's executive editor, Mark Rose.
		The renewal of Greek initiatives to help preserve Afghanistan's cultural heritage and news about Greece's own battle against the illicit antiquities market were also discussed.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/venizelos/index.html (219 words)

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