European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 stars and stripes sunday april 1 2007 photos by Paul the Skyline of Sydney Australia normally looks like this at night but it was much dimmer for an hour saturday night while the City shut off All Nonessen dial lights to conserve electricity and draw attention to global warming Sydney snuffs City lights for Earth hour by Rohan Sullivan the associated press Sydney Australia Australia larg est City plunged itself into near darkness on saturday night when City officials thou Sands of businesses and Many More Resi dents Cut the lights for Energy conserva Tion the normally gleaming White sails of the Sydney opera House darkened As did the Arch of the cites iconic Harbor Bridge big chunks of the downtown Skyline and count less Homes in the City of 4 million in a Ges Ture of concern about global warming organizers said ahead of time that if it proved successful they hoped it would be come an annual event that would eventually be adopted by cities around the world tonight is a Call to action said Sydney mayor Clover Moore whose officials shut Down All nonessential lights on Cit owned buildings we All have to act to reduce our ecological footprint we Are asking people to think about what action they can take to fight global warming restaurants throughout the City held can Delight Only dinners and families Gath ered in Public places to take part in a count Down to lights out sending up a cheer when the lights started going out at pm there was no master switch though and it took a while for the effect to take hold As buildings went dark on Byone some floors in City skyscrapers remained lit and Security and Street lights those at Commer Cial port operations and at a sports stadium stayed on while downtown was significantly Darker than Normal the Overall effect As seen in television footage from overhead Heli copters was that the cites Patchwork of millions of tiny lights had thinned not Dis appeared we were expecting a big difference straight away but it was just a Little bit said Sonja Scholley who took sons Harry and James to a Park to watch the Skyline it was quite Sweet actually because the kids started chanting turn them out turn them out you can see now the cites a bit Dit timer children waved Glo Sticks and sparklers while parents Pic nicked and sipped wine organizers Hope saturdays event which about 2000 businesses and More than 60000 individuals signed up for on line will get people to think about regularly switching off nonessential lights powering Down computers and other Sim ple measures they say could Cut Sydney greenhouse Gas emissions by 5 percent in the next year the amount of Power saved by Satur Days event was not immediately known but Greg Bourne chief executive of world wildlife fund Australia and one of the architects of the event said Sydney Power supplier Energy Australia had estimated it could be 5 percent of Normal usage on a night of similar conditions global warming has emerged this year As a mainstream political Issue in austra Lia and prime minister John howards government has announced initiatives such As the phased withdrawal from Sale of ener Gyi efficient incandescent bulbs to Blunt criticism of his refusal to sign the Kyoto protocol supporters said saturdays Earth hour As it was billed showed that Small individual actions can make a differ ence to a global problem Sydney is not the first place to Cut the lights for conservation in february Paris and other parts of France dimmed the lights for five minutes in a similar gesture which also took hold in Rome and Athens architect solves making of Pyramid by Laurence Joan Range the associated press Paris a French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about How Egypt great Pyra mid of Khufu was built with use of a spi ral ramp to hoist huge Stone blocks into place the construction of the great Pyramid 4500 years ago by Khufu a ruler also known As Cheops has Long befuddled scientists As to How its 3 million Stone blocks weighing 25 tons each were lifted into place ending eight years of study on the subject architect Jeanpierre Houdini released his findings and a computerized 3d lockup assault system sap a 3d computer image released Friday Fay French company assault systems shows a Section View of the theory of French architect Jeanpierre Houdini of an internal ramp built and counterweights used for the construction of the great Pyramid Houdini showing How workers would have erected the Pyramid at Giza out Side Cairo the most widespread theory had been that an outer ramp had been used by the egyptians who left few traces to help archaeologists and other scientists decode the secret to the construction Houdini said he had taken into account the Copper and Stone tools available at the time the Granite and Limestone blocks the location of the Pyramid and the strength and knowledge of the workers according to his theory shown in a computer Model Avail Able at the builders put up an outer ramp for the first 140 feet then constructed an inner ramp in a Cork screw shape to Complete the 450foot Structure concert sets record despite Strong quake by Hiroko Trabuc Fol the associated press Tokyo japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a Strong earthquake to set the record for the worlds longest concert Satur Day playing nonstop for 184 hours in a program that ranged from Beethoven to the beatles More than 900 musicians aged 6 to 89 took turns performing in the 9day Marathon with Breaks of no More than 5 minutes Between a Small railway station in Shikone City in Western Japan according to organizer Kuniko Teramura an official from the guinness Book of world records was on standby to certify the record at 10 am on saturday she said the previous record for longest concert was set in Canada five years ago and lasted 182 hours according to the guinness web site on March 25 a magnitude69 quake in Northwestern Japan jolted the didst Stop a determined pianist from blowing on with her tune said Hiroshi Mizutani another organizer a break in the performance would Tiave ruined the Challenge because musicians were not Al Lowed to Stop playing less than Kyodo new sap a resident looks at the debris of a House destroyed by a March 25 earthquake in Anamizu Japan two minutes into a song said Mizutani whose oldies band played three times during the concert this pianist was amazing the whole place was shaking quite badly but she went right on play ing Mizutani said even an earthquake Stop us everybody erupted in cheers when we reached 182 hours said Teramura a local piano teacher who said she had hardly rested since last week
