European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 stars and stripes Mideast edition photos by Paul the Skyline of normally looks like this at night but it was much dimmer for an hour saturday night while the City shut off All Nonessen tial lights to conserve electricity and draw attention to global Sydney snuffs City lights for Earth hour by Rohan Sullivan the associated press Australia Australia larg est City plunged itself into near darkness on saturday night when City thou Sands of businesses and Many More Resi dents Cut the lights for Energy conserva the normally gleaming White sails of the Sydney opera House As did the Arch of the cites iconic Harbor big chunks of the downtown Skyline and count less Homes in the City of 4 million in a Ges Ture of concern about global 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 tonight is a Call to said Sydney mayor Clover whose officials shut Down All nonessential lights on Cit owned we All have to act to reduce our ecological we Are asking people to think about what action they can take to fight global restaurants throughout the City held can Delight Only and families Gath ered in Public places to take part in a count Down to lights sending up a cheer when the lights started going out at there was no master and it took a while for the effect to take hold As buildings went dark some floors in City skyscrapers remained and Security and Street those at Commer Cial port operations and at a sports Staci stayed while downtown was significantly Darker than the Overall As seen in television footage from overhead Heli was that the cites Patchwork of millions of tiny lights had not Dis we were expecting a big difference straight but it was just a Little said Sonja who took sons Harry and James to a Park to watch the it was quite because the kids started chanting turn them turn them you can see now the cites a bit children waved Glo Sticks and sparklers while parents Pic nicked and sipped organizers Hope saturdays event which about businesses and More than individuals signed up for on line will get people to think about regularly switching off nonessential powering Down computers and other Sim ple measures they say could Cut Sydney greenhouse Gas emissions by 5 percent in the next the amount of Power saved by Satur Days event was not immediately but Greg chief executive of world wildlife fund Australia and one of the architects of the said Sydney Power supplier Energy Australia had estimated it could be 5 percent of Normal usage on a night of similar global warming has emerged this year As a mainstream political Issue in austra 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 supporters said saturdays Earth hour As it was billed showed that Small individual actions can make a differ ence to a global Sydney is not the first place to Cut the lights for in Paris and other parts of France dimmed the lights for five minutes in a similar which also took hold in Rome and 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 the construction of the great Pyramid years ago by a ruler also known As has Long befuddled scientists As to How its 3 million Stone blocks weighing tons each were lifted into ending eight years of study on the architect Jeanpierre Houdini released his findings and a computerized 3d lockup concert sets record despite Strong quake assault system sap a 3d computer image released Friday by 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 Houdini showing How workers would have erected the Pyramid at Giza out Side the most widespread theory had been that an outer ramp had been used by the who left few traces to help archaeologists and other scientists decode the secret to the Houdini said he had taken into account the Copper and Stone tools available at the the Granite and Limestone blocks the location of the Pyramid and the strength and knowledge of the according to his theory shown in a computer Model Avail Able at the builders put up an outer ramp for the first 140 then constructed an inner ramp in a Cork screw shape to Complete the 450foot by Hiroko Tabuchi the associated press Tokyo japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a Strong earthquake to set the record for the worlds longest concert Satur playing nonstop for 184 hours in a program that ranged from Beethoven to the More than 900 musicians aged 6 to 89 took turns performing in the 9day Marathon with Breaks of no More than 5 minutes Between acts at a Small railway station in Shikone City in Western according to organizer Kuniko an official from the guinness Book of world records was on standby to certify the record at 10 on she 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 a magnitude6 9 quake in Northwestern Japan jolted the stage but didst Stop a determined pianist from blowing on with her said Hiroshi i another organizer in the performance would have 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 two minutes into a said i whose oldies band played three times during the this pianist was the whole place was shaking quite badly but she went right on play Mizutani even an earthquake Stop everybody erupted in cheers when we reached 182 said a local piano teacher who said she had hardly rested since last
