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Marriott Hotel Bournemouth HighcliffNumber of bedrooms: 160 Maximum number for private dining: 250 guests Star Rating: 4* Located on the seafront, the Marriott Highcliff Hotel has impressive views of the English Channel. The hotel has a great deal of facilities including a heated outside swimming...
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Our private events have a minimum charge but usually work out to less £20 per person including vat for the murder mystery entertainment. We have special packages including the welcome drink; room hire and 3 course meal, for more information on private events complete an enquiry form.
We encourage fancy dress at all of our shared party & private events, dress in the theme of the event- flapper style, mobster or Moulin Rouge the best costume wins a prize. At a shared event if you prefer not to dress up the dress code is smart casual. For a private event please check with your organiser.
Our shared dinner theatre events range from £39.95 to £80, we offer generous discounts for group bookings and there is also an Early Bird booking discount on some events by booking early online by credit card see www.murdermysteryshop.com for more details.
Before the evening starts, we work with you to help you ensure that you have all the elements that you need for the perfect deadly evening.
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Free venue finding service, or we come to your venue / office / stately home
The choice from a selection of original and witty plots created by our expert team of writers
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3 (Gold) or 4+ (Platinum) professional actors
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Great prizes of 2 bottles of bubbly for the table that correctly identifies the murderer and a bottle of red (Ribena that is!) for the losers.
A free prize draw
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Fancy dress encouraged with prize for "Best Dressed"
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For private murder mystery events you may choose the start time, but we recommend a drinks reception for either 7pm or 7:30pm. Advise all guests to arrive on time as we cannot start without all the suspects there!
Role-play murder mystery event and dinner theatre events tend to run for about 3 hours, so with a 7pm start the event would finish at approximately 10pm.
7:00pm Drinks reception. Meet at reception for pre-dinner drinks, where clue-packs and your character breakdowns are distributed. You will get to know who's who so keep your wits about you so you don't miss a clue.
7:30pm Sit down for dinner. Dinner is announced the guests take their seats; the two professional actors play out a dramatic scene, ending in who knows what? Bloodshed?
7:45pm Dinner is served. Each course is served and the comic plot unfolds. The actors guide you through, unveiling the story and its twists and turns. You might be questioned by the detective or reveal an important clue when questioned by a fellow guest during the main course. Word-games and quizzes are introduced during the evening, which may reveal clues to who the murderer is.
9:15pm You solve the crime. Just before the dessert it's your chance to be a super sleuth and figure out who did the deed! Then hand in your solution sheet in for judging, after which the dramatic denouement uncovers the dastardly villain whodunit. They may come to a sticky end…
9:45pm Prizes awarded. The star prize of one bottle of bubbly is awarded to the winning person and a booby prize to the most absurd solution. But there's still a chance to win with our limerick competition, free prize draw and best fancy dress!
10pm End of murder mystery event.
The Murder Mystery Dinner Party begins early evening with a drinks reception where you will meet the characters and receive your clue-packs – keep your wits about you so you don't miss any vital evidence. Next it's through to a three course silver service dinner as the plot unfolds. The actors perform comedic and clue packed scenes in between courses and table-hop whilst dropping clues, giving you the chance to play detective and question them. Word-games and quizzes are introduced, which may help you to reveal clues about the culprit. At dessert time it's your chance to figure out who did the deed. Then you hand in your solution sheets, after which the dramatic denouement uncovers the dastardly villain whodunit. They may even come to a sticky end themselves…
Our combination of interactive improvisation and scripted scenes means that your guests can get involved in the action as little or as much as they like, creating the perfect blend of fun, comedy and theatre. In short, we create entertainment to die for. Our events appeal to introverts (who enjoy working out the clues) and extroverts (who enjoy interacting with the actors) and because everybody loves a mystery, we have a broad appeal to both the young and old. Our actors remain in character throughout the entire evening. In terms of style – imagine somewhere between a Carry On Film and Agatha Christie.
Expect the unexpected! Actually the main thing to expect from any of our Murder Mystery Events (whether that is at a theatre presentation or a role play night) is laughter. Enter the room with an open mind and a willingness to suspend your disbelief. You are entering a world that will be filled with fun, silliness and lots of laughs. All the plots are based on humorous takes on classic films, books or stage plays. The humour is never cruel, but always warm, funny and engaging. By the end of the evening, you may find yourself completely engrossed in the events of the night.
The feedback that we have received time and time again tells us that people love the silly world that we create for the night, and the high numbers of rebookings that we receive confirm this.
For private events complete an enquiry form or give us a call on 0871 3300 155 and we'll create a quotation that suits your requirements, when you are ready to confirm complete and return the booking form along with the rest of the paperwork and a deposit. For shared parties you may check availability and book by credit card at our sister site www.murdermysteryshop.com.
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I am 4 months post wavefront lasik and have had pretty much every problem under the sun, dry eyes are the worst, but I've noticed a fairly major increase in starbursts around lights at night. Noticabley worse than immediately following surgery.
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The perennial sub-freezing weather has never deterred huge crowds for the annual March for Life, either in Washington D.C. or Topeka. For a story on Friday's D. C. March, estimated to have engaged 600,000 pro-lifers, see here.
On Tuesday, Jan. 22– the actual date of the infamous U.S. Supreme Court Roe v Wade ruling– approximately 2,500 citizens, young and old–mostly young–attended the annual Kansans for Life Rally for Life in Topeka. The day included educational workshops, religious services, and a rally at the Capitol steps to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ruling legalizing abortion.
Pro-life Governor Sam Brownback joined 1,800 Catholic young people for Mass, ate lunch with them and those who attended the Protestant service, and then marched with them all to the south steps of the state Capitol building. Among noted "Marchers" were Catholic Bishop Michael Jaekels of Wichita and Catholic Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas.
Gov. Brownback addressed attendees about the joy found in serving others and the joy of being pro-life. He asked the marchers if they were ever going to quit fighting for life, to which they responded with a resounding NO!
Kansans for Life Development Director, David Gittrich, announced each of the 40 legislators on the steps who slipped out of committee meetings to greet the crowd and receive their applause. (This year an estimated 110 out of 145 Kansas legislators are pro-life!)
KFL Executive Director, Mary Kay Culp, told the audience, "The cover of the new Time Magazine says that our opponents won a big victory 40 years ago with Roe v. Wade, then says 'They've Been Losing Ever Since.' Pro-life organizations, pro-life churches, pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life schools—all represented here today are a major reason they are losing and we are winning, and we thank you!


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Stevens Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Engineering Graduates Make a Difference in China
Three recent graduates of the Stevens master's degree program in pharmaceutical manufacturing and engineering (PME) – Long Zhao, Wenqing Jin and Zhen Li – are serving as an integral part of a project management team bringing a new aseptic manufacturing facility online in the northern province of Heilongjiang in China.
OncoGenerix Ltd. is building a fully self-contained manufacturing site which, when completed and commissioned in 2014, will manufacture highly potent chemotherapeutic products for cancer treatments using isolator systems that will meet CFDA (China FDA), U.S. FDA and EMA regulatory requirements. The 10 acre complex will include five buildings housing administrative and laboratory facilities, an aseptic manufacturing facility, a warehouse, central utilities and staff accommodations, including an onsite restaurant. The manufacturing capacity of the site is expected to reach 30 million vials annually.
The Stevens graduates have been integrated into the facility project management team, and will ultimately transition to key supervisory roles when the facility becomes operational. They are currently involved in managing construction, commissioning, and ultimately qualification of GMP equipment, HVAC systems and utility systems. They are also handling technical translation between the U.S. and European site construction management team and the Chinese subcontractors.
All three Stevens graduates credit the Stevens PME program with preparing them for their current roles.
Long Zhao is the documentation specialist and key contact for regulatory visits. His work includes inspecting contractors' work, helping to develop solutions for technical issues, and drawings management.
Wenqing Jin and Zhen Li are both project assistant engineers. During the construction phase they are helping with the electrical, water and fire systems.
"The knowledge we learned at Stevens is so extensive that it can be used from the construction phase to manufacturing phase," Zhen said. "The most valuable thing I got from the PME program is a correct understanding of the modern pharmaceutical industry. We know how a good pharmaceutical company should be and we are working based on high standards."
Long echoed some of these thoughts, saying, "The Quality in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing course taught teaches me that "quality" is the point you should think everything from. Quality cannot be compromised." He also credits his Bioprocess Technology in API Manufacturing, Modeling and Simulation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Systems, and Contemporary Concepts in Pharmaceutical Validation course with training him in important skills he is currently using on the job.
Wenqing stated that he is drawing from the Good Manufacturing Practice in Pharmaceutical Facilities Design course for his work with utilities like plant steam, hot water, chill water, HVAC, clean steam, purified water and WFI. The Design and Management of Aseptic Manufacturing Facilities course is helping him with requirements for documentation, project management, FAT and SAT execution, equipment, and procedures for aseptic filling.
All three recommend the PME program.
"The PME program gave us detailed engineering and project management skills, which helped us prepare for jobs in the pharmaceutical industry," Wenging said.
"The things you learn in the PME program are cutting edge knowledge," Long said. "All the professors use their knowledge and experience from the pharmaceutical industry to teach you. The knowledge you learn today you can use tomorrow."
"The professors in the PME program are amazing," Zhen concluded.
Dmitry Itkin, CEO of Solux Corporation and project director for the OncoGenerix project commented, "The knowledge the graduates brought from Stevens substantially reduced their learning curve when it came to understand the project objectives, technology employed and compliance requirements, and each graduate was contributing on site within 30 days of arrival. Their understanding of GMP requirements and their ability to articulate these requirements to the Chinese subcontractors has proven invaluable and will ensure that the facility will meet the highest possible construction standards for both regulated and non-regulated markets around the world."
Stevens PME Adjunct Professor Austin McDonald, who recruited Long, Wenqing and Zhen for these roles, said that they "are a credit to the university. The client has been so impressed with their abilities that they are seeking to hire more PME graduates."
The PME graduate program is a 10-course master's degree program that features coursework in pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, GMP facility design, quality tools, international regulation and compliance, project management, validation and other related topics. For more information, please visit http://www.stevens.edu/ses/graduate/pharmaceutical-manufacturing-grad.html.


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#1 Why dogs chase laser beams (and why it can drive them nuts)07-27-2012, 12:54 PMWhen a wiggly little bead of light catches a dog's eye, nothing in the world matters more than capturing it. Unfortunately, "it" is just an ungraspable bundle of massless photons. The lack of closure in laser-beam chasing could be messing with your dog's head.
Dogs (and some cats) instinctively chase these bright-red dots simply because the dots move, said Nicholas Dodman, a professor of animal behavior at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Movement automatically stimulates their innate prey drive, which explains why lower-on-the-food-chain animals such as rodents and rabbits often freeze in place as a survival strategy. Although dogs aren't so discerning when it comes to color, their eyes contain a high preponderance of light-sensitive cells called rods for top-notch motion detection.
A laser beam's incessant movement keys into this predatory system. "They can't help themselves; they are obliged to chase it," Dodman told Life's Little Mysteries.May the FORCE be with you!
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The people we got Nisa from thought this was a cool thing to teach a Border Collie.
Not a good idea. She will now chase or bark at light reflections on the ceiling, lightning bugs, flashlights and embers flying out of fires.
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At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
Saudi Arabia
Criteria: (iv)(v)(vi)
This property was the first capital of the Saudi Dynasty, in the heart of the Arabian Penisula, north-west of Riyadh. Founded in the 15th century, it bears witness to the Najdi architectural style, which is specific to the centre of the Arabian peninsula. In the 18th and early 19th century, its political and religious role increased, and the citadel at at-Turaif became the centre of the temporal power of the House of Saud and the spread of the Salafiyya reform inside the Muslim religion. The property includes the remains of many palaces and an urban ensemble built on the edge of the ad-Dir'iyah oasis.
Australian Convict Sites
Criteria: (iv)(vi)
The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18th and 19th centuries. The sites are spread across Australia, from Fremantle in Western Australia to Kingston and Arthur's Vale on Norfolk Island in the east; and from areas around Sydney in New South Wales in the north, to sites located in Tasmania in the south. Around 166,000 men, women and children were sent to Australia over 80 years between 1787 and 1868, condemned by British justice to transportation to the convict colonies. Each of the sites had a specific purpose, in terms both of punitive imprisonment and of rehabilitation through forced labour to help build the colony. The Australian Convict Sites presents the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts.
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
Marshall Islands
Criteria: (iv)(vi)
In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago. After the displacement of the local inhabitants, 67 nuclear tests were carried out from 1946 to 1958, including the explosion of the first H-bomb (1952). Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence that is highly significant in conveying the power of the nuclear tests, i.e. the sunken ships sent to the bottom of the lagoon by the tests in 1946 and the gigantic Bravo crater. Equivalent to 7,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb, the tests had major consequences on the geology and natural environment of Bikini Atoll and on the health of those who were exposed to radiation. Through its history, the atoll symbolises the dawn of the nuclear age, despite its paradoxical image of peace and of earthly paradise. This is the first site from the Marshall Islands to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the Royal Inland Road, also known as the Silver Route. The inscribed property consists of 55 sites and five existing World Heritage sites lying along a 1400 km section of this 2600 km route, that extends north from Mexico City to Texas and New Mexico, United States of America. The route was actively used as a trade route for 300 years, from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries, mainly for transporting silver extracted from the mines of Zacatecas, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí, and mercury imported from Europe. Although it is a route that was motivated and consolidated by the mining industry, it also fostered the creation of social, cultural and religious links in particular between Spanish and Amerindian cultures.
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi
Viet Nam
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(vi)
The Thang Long Imperial Citadel was built in the 11th century by the Ly Viet Dynasty, marking the independence of the Dai Viet. It was constructed on the remains of a Chinese fortress dating from the 7th century, on drained land reclaimed from the Red River Delta in Hanoi. It was the centre of regional political power for almost 13 centuries without interruption. The Imperial Citadel buildings and the remains in the 18 Hoang Dieu Archaeological Site reflect a unique South-East Asian culture specific to the lower Red River Valley, at the crossroads between influences coming from China in the north and the ancient Kingdom of Champa in the south.
Episcopal City of Albi
Criteria: (iv)(v)
On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble. Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries). Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red and orange colours, the lofty fortified Cathedral (late 13th century) dominates the city, demonstrating the power regained by the Roman Catholic clergy. Alongside the Cathedral is the vast bishop's Palais de la Berbie, overlooking the river and surrounded by residential quarters that date back to the Middle Ages. The Episcopal City of Albi forms a coherent and homogeneous ensemble of monuments and quarters that has remained largely unchanged over the centuries.
Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in "The Centre of Heaven and Earth"
Criteria: (iii)(vi)
Mount Songshang is considered to be the central sacred mountain of China. At the foot of this 1500 metre high mountain, close to the city of Dengfeng in Henan province and spread over a 40 square-kilometre circle, stand eight clusters of buildings and sites, including three Han Que gates - remains of the oldest religious edifices in China -, temples, the Zhougong Sundial Platform and the Dengfeng Observatory. Constructed over the course of nine dynasties, these buildings are reflections of different ways of perceiving the centre of heaven and earth and the power of the mountain as a centre for religious devotion. The historical monuments of Dengfeng include some of the best examples of ancient Chinese buildings devoted to ritual, science, technology and education.
Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong
Republic of Korea
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
Founded in the 14th-15th centuries, Hahoe and Yangdong are seen as the two most representative historic clan villages in the Republic of Korea. Their layout and location - sheltered by forested mountains and facing out onto a river and open agricultural fields – reflect the distinctive aristocratic Confucian culture of the early part of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The villages were located to provide both physical and spiritual nourishment from their surrounding landscapes. They include residences of the head families, together with substantial timber framed houses of other clan members, also pavilions, study halls, Confucian academies for learning, and clusters of one story mud-walled, thatched-roofed houses, formerly for commoners. The landscapes of mountains, trees and water around the village, framed in views from pavilions and retreats, were celebrated for their beauty by 17th and 18th century poets.
Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca
Criteria: (iii)
This property lies on the northern slopes of the Tlacolula valley in subtropical central Oaxaca and consists of two pre-Hispanic archaeological complexes and a series of pre-historic caves and rock shelters. Some of these shelters provide archaeological and rock-art evidence for the progress of nomadic hunter-gathers to incipient farmers. Ten thousand-year-old Cucurbitaceae seeds in one cave, Guilá Naquitz, are considered to be the earliest known evidence of domesticated plants in the continent, while corn cob fragments from the same cave are said to be the earliest documented evidence for the domestication of maize. The cultural landscape of the Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla demonstrates the link between man and nature that gave origin to the domestication of plants in North America, thus allowing the rise of Mesoamerican civilizations.
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
Criteria: (ii)(iii)
Sarazm, which means "where the land begins", is an archaeological site bearing testimony to the development of human settlements in Central Asia, from the 4th millennium BCE to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. The ruins demonstrate the early development of proto-urbanization in this region. This centre of settlement, one of the oldest in Central Asia, is situated between a mountainous region suitable for cattle rearing by nomadic pastoralists, and a large valley conducive to the development of agriculture and irrigation by the first settled populations in the region. Sarazm also demonstrates the existence of commercial and cultural exchanges and trade relations with peoples over an extensive geographical area, extending from the steppes of Central Asia and Turkmenistan, to the Iranian plateau, the Indus valley and as far as the Indian Ocean.
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)
The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new 'port city' built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic old town and the medieval port that encircled the old town and was accompanied by the repositioning inland of the city's fortified boundaries, the Singelgracht. This was a long-term programme that involved extending the city by draining the swampland, using a system of canals in concentric arcs and filling in the intermediate spaces. These spaces allowed the development of a homogeneous urban ensemble including gabled houses and numerous monuments. This urban extension was the largest and most homogeneous of its time. It was a model of large-scale town planning, and served as a reference throughout the world until the 19th century.
Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)
Built between the beginning of the 16th century and the end of the 18th century, this place of spiritual retreat in the Sufi tradition uses Iranian traditional architectural forms to maximize use of available space to accommodate a variety of functions (including a library, a mosque, a school, mausolea, a cistern, a hospital, kitchens, a bakery, and some offices). It incorporates a route to reach the shrine of the Sheikh divided into seven segments, which mirror the seven stages of Sufi mysticism, separated by eight gates, which represent the eight attitudes of Sufism. The ensemble includes well-preserved and richly ornamented facades and interiors, with a remarkable collection of antique artefacts. It constitutes a rare ensemble of elements of medieval Islamic architecture.
São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
São Francisco Square, in the town of São Cristovão, is a quadrilateral open space surrounded by substantial early buildings such as São Francisco Church and convent, the Church and Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the Provincial Palace and the associated houses of different historical periods surrounding the Square. This monumental ensemble, together with the surrounding 18th- and 19th- century houses, creates an urban landscape which reflects the history of the town since its origin. The Franciscan complex is an example of the typical architecture of the religious order developed in north-eastern Brazil.
Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)
Tabriz has been a place of cultural exchange since antiquity and its historic bazaar complex is one of the most important commercial centres on the Silk Road. Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex consists of a series of interconnected, covered, brick structures, buildings, and enclosed spaces for different functions. Tabriz and its Bazaar were already prosperous and famous in the 13th century, when the town, in the province of Eastern Azerbaijan, became the capital city of the Safavid kingdom. The city lost its status as capital in the 16th century, but remained important as a commercial hub until the end of the 18th century, with the expansion of Ottoman power. It is one of the most complete examples of the traditional commercial and cultural system of Iran.
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
The Jantar Mantar, in Jaipur, is an astronomical observation site built in the early 18th century. It includes a set of some 20 main fixed instruments. They are monumental examples in masonry of known instruments but which in many cases have specific characteristics of their own. Designed for the observation of astronomical positions with the naked eye, they embody several architectural and instrumental innovations. This is the most significant, most comprehensive, and the best preserved of India's historic observatories. It is an expression of the astronomical skills and cosmological concepts of the court of a scholarly prince at the end of the Mughal period.
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Central Highlands of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Criteria: (ix)(x)
Sri Lanka's highlands are situated in the south-central part of the island. The property comprises the Peak Wilderness Protected Area, the Horton Plains National Park and the Knuckles Conservation Forest. These montane forests, where the land rises to 2,500 metres above sea-level, are home to an extraordinary range of flora and fauna, including several endangered species such as the western-purple-faced langur, the Horton Plains slender loris and the Sri Lankan leopard. The region is considered a super biodiversity hotspot.
China Danxia
Criteria: (vii)(viii)
China Danxia is the name given in China to landscapes developed on continental red terrigenous sedimentary beds influenced by endogenous forces (including uplift) and exogenous forces (including weathering and erosion). The inscribed site comprises six areas found in the sub-tropical zone of south-west China. They are characterized by spectacular red cliffs and a range of erosional landforms, including dramatic natural pillars, towers, ravines, valleys and waterfalls. These rugged landscapes have helped to conserve sub-tropical broad-leaved evergreen forests, and host many species of flora and fauna, about 400 of which are considered rare or threatened.
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
Criteria: (vii)(ix)
The Phoenix Island Protected Area (PIPA) is a 408,250 sq.km expanse of marine and terrestrial habitats in the Southern Pacific Ocean. The property encompasses the Phoenix Island Group, one of three island groups in Kiribati, and is the largest designated Marine Protected Area in the world. PIPA conserves one of the world's largest intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems, together with 14 known underwater sea mounts (presumed to be extinct volcanoes) and other deep-sea habitats. The area contains approximately 800 known species of fauna, including about 200 coral species, 500 fish species, 18 marine mammals and 44 bird species. The structure and functioning of PIPA's ecosystems illustrates its pristine nature and importance as a migration route and reservoir. This is the first site in Kiribati to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
Criteria: (vii)(x)
The Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island site coincides with the core zone of La Réunion National Park. The property covers more than 100,000 ha or 40 % of La Réunion, an island comprising two adjoining volcanic massifs located in the south-west of the Indian Ocean. Dominated by two towering volcanic peaks, massive walls and three cliff-rimmed cirques, the property includes a great variety of rugged terrain and impressive escarpments, forested gorges and basins creating a visually striking landscape. It is the natural habitat for a wide diversity of plants, presenting a high level of endemism. There are subtropical rainforests, cloud forests and heaths creating a remarkable and visually appealing mosaic of ecosystems and landscape features.
Putorana Plateau
Russian Federation
Criteria: (vii)(ix)
This site coincides with the area of the Putoransky State Nature Reserve, and is located in the central part of the Putorana Plateau in northern Central Siberia. It is situated about 100 km north of the Arctic Circle. The part of the plateau inscribed on the World Heritage List harbours a complete set of subarctic and arctic ecosystems in an isolated mountain range, including pristine taiga, forest tundra, tundra and arctic desert systems, as well as untouched cold-water lake and river systems. A major reindeer migration route crosses the property, which represents an exceptional, large-scale and increasingly rare natural phenomenon.
New Inscribed Properties
Mixed property
United States of America
Criteria: (iii)(vi)(viii)(ix)(x)
Papahānaumokuākea is a vast and isolated linear cluster of small, low lying islands and atolls, with their surrounding ocean, roughly 250 km to the northwest of the main Hawaiian Archipelago and extending over some 1931 km. The area has deep cosmological and traditional significance for living Native Hawaiian culture, as an ancestral environment, as an embodiment of the Hawaiian concept of kinship between people and the natural world, and as the place where it is believed that life originates and to where the spirits return after death. On two of the islands, Nihoa and Makumanamana, there are archaeological remains relating to pre-European settlement and use. Much of the monument is made up of pelagic and deepwater habitats, with notable features such as seamounts and submerged banks, extensive coral reefs and lagoons. It is one of the largest marine protected areas (MPAs) in the world.
Significant modifications to the boundaries
Cultural properties
Churches of Moldavia
Criteria: (i)(iv)
These eight churches of northern Moldavia, built from the late 15th century to the late 16th century, their external walls covered in fresco paintings, are masterpieces inspired by Byzantine art. They are authentic and particularly well preserved. Far from being mere wall decorations, the paintings form a systematic covering on all the facades and represent complete cycles of religious themes.Their exceptional composition, the elegance of the characters, and the harmony of the colors blend perfectly with the surrounding countryside. The interior and exterior walls of the Church of the Suceviţa Monastery are entirely decorated with mural paintings of the 16th century, and this church is the only one to show a representation of the ladder of St John Climacus.
City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
The City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg bear witness to an exemplary model of the living heritage of a central European urban complex influenced by the secular presence of the Habsburgs and the cultural and artistic role played by the main aristocratic families. They are a harmonious blend of the architectural styles and artistic movements that have succeeded each other from the Middle Ages until the 18th century, from the many neighbouring regions of Central and Mediterranean Europe. They embody a diversified and highly comprehensive ensemble of architectural, decorative and landscape examples of these interchanges of influence.
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
The Upper Harz mining water management system, which lies south of the Rammelsberg mines and the town of Goslar, has been developed over a period of some 800 years to assist in the process of extracting ore for the production of non-ferrous metals. Its construction was first undertaken in the Middle Ages by Cistercian monks, and it was then developed on a vast scale from the end of the 16th century until the 19th century. It is made up of an extremely complex but perfectly coherent system of artificial ponds, small channels, tunnels and underground drains. It enabled the development of water power for use in mining and metallurgical processes. It is a major site for mining innovation in the western world.
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
, Spain
Criteria: (i)(iii)
The two Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley (Portugal) and Siega Verde (Spain) are located on the banks of the rivers Agueda and Côa, tributaries of the river Douro, documenting continuous human occupation from the end of the Paleolithic Age. Hundreds of panels with thousands of animal figures (5,000 in Foz Côa and around 440 in Siega Verde) were carved over several millennia, representing the most remarkable open-air ensemble of Paleolithic art on the Iberian Peninsula.
Côa Valley and Siega Verde provide the best illustration of the iconographic themes and organization of Paleolithic rock art, using the same modes of expression in caves and in the open air, thus contributing to a greater understanding of this artistic phenomenon. Together they form a unique site of the prehistoric era, rich in material evidence of Upper Paleolithic occupation.
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference
Criteria: (iii)(iv)(v)
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference is linked to the copper mines, established in the 17th century and exploited for 333 years until 1977. The site comprises the Town and its industrial-rural cultural landscapes; Femundshytta, a smelter with its associated area; and the Winter Transport Route. Completely rebuilt after its destruction by Swedish troops in 1679, Røros contains about 2000 wooden one- and two-storey houses and a smelting house. Many of these buildings have preserved their blackened wooden façades, giving the town a medieval appearance. Surrounded by a buffer zone, coincident with the area of privileges (the Circumference) granted to the mining enterprise by the Danish-Norwegian Crown (1646), the property illustrates the establishment and flourishing of a lasting culture based on copper mining in a remote region with a harsh climate.
Significant modifications to the boundaries
Natural properties
Monte San Giorgio
, Switzerland
Criteria: (viii)
The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245–230 million years ago). The sequence records life in a tropical lagoon environment, sheltered and partially separated from the open sea by an offshore reef. Diverse marine life flourished within this lagoon, including reptiles, fish, bivalves, ammonites, echinoderms and crustaceans. Because the lagoon was near land, the remains also include land-based fossils of reptiles, insects and plants, resulting in an extremely rich source of fossils.
Pirin National Park
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(ix)
Spread over an area of over 27,000 ha, at an altitude between 1008 and 2914 m in the Pirin Mountains, southwest Bulgaria, the site comprises diverse limestone mountain landscapes with glacial lakes, waterfalls, caves and predominantly coniferous forests. It was added to the World Heritage List in 1983. The extension now covers an area of around 40,000 ha in the Pirin Mountains, and overlaps with the Pirin National Park, except for two areas developed for tourism (skiing). The dominant part of the extension is high mountain territory over 2000m in altitude, and covered mostly by alpine meadows, rocky screes and summits.
Significant modifications to the boundaries
Mixed property
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
United Republic of Tanzania
Criteria: (iv)(vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest caldera. The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains. Extensive archaeological research has also yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years.
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Compute the band structures and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures.
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However, since this "MIT Photonic Bands" software use the libctl/Scheme scripting interface for input, the first-time user need to go through the libctl library. However, if the interface is in GUI/Drawing input form, or, in another word, the user just need to draw one cell of the periodic structure, it would be much more convenient especially for those who have no programming experience.
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NEW YORK – MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Tuesday that the league has learned from its past mistakes and will make a stronger effort this season to ensure all MLS players voted to the MLS All-Star Game can compete in the summer showcase.
MLS announced that the 2011 AT&T MLS All-Star Game will be held on July 27 at Red Bull Arena, with an opponent to be announced sometime within the next 30 days.
This year's match comes on the heels of perhaps the league's most successful All-Star match to date, when more than 70,000 fans flocked to Reliant Stadium in Houston to watch the MLS All-Stars suit up against Manchester United.
READ: Garber: Red Bull Arena a special place for All-Star
Unfortunately for the MLS side, however, more than a few players were hampered by a taxing and crowded schedule that overlapped with the All-Star Game. No Seattle Sounders players appeared in the match due to a CONCACAF Champions League match the same night, while the LA Galaxy played on the road against the Puerto Rico Islanders the night before the All-Star Game and were forced to make a quick turnaround to arrive in Houston.
Galaxy coach Bruce Arena – who doubled as the MLS All-Star team coach – was forced to relinquish his coaching duties to All-Star assistant and Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear during the lead up to the All-Star game while he was with the Galaxy.
"We're going to try and do everything we can to ensure that every player that's picked will be able to play in the game," Garber said Tuesday on a media conference call. "We have learned a little bit of the lessons from the past, and our goal is to ensure we have full participation."
The Seattle Sounders and FC Dallas will compete in the summer's CCL qualifying round, while Toronto FC or the Vancouver Whitecaps could compete in the stage as well if they qualify by winning the Nutrilite Canadian Championship.
That means that big names like reigning MVP and FC Dallas playmaker David Ferreira, Sounders scoring phenom Fredy Montero, Whitecaps defender Jay DeMerit or Toronto FC mainstay Dwayne De Rosario could face some scheduling issues if they're voted onto the MLS roster.
"It's fair to say that our goal is to be able to avoid the issue," Garber said. "The goal is to avoid the problem."


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Levi's History and Trivia | Brand History and Trivia
Levi's History: Levi Strauss & Co.: Levi Strauss & Co. is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Levi's History Tagline:
- Go Forth.
- A style for every story.
- Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's®?
- Quality never goes out of style.
- The Uniform of Progress.
- Levis. Original jeans. Original people.
- Our models can beat up their models.
- Dangerously low.
- Free to Move.
- Red Tab®: On 4 Life.
- Fit to die for.
- Opt for the original.
- Originals stand the test of time.
- The Original 501® button fly. Seen in all the wrong places.
- Levi's® Wide Leg Jeans. It's Wide Open.
- Levi's® Youthwear. Good Morning World.
- Levi's® Jeans that helped build America.
- Shrink to fit.
- Live Unbuttoned.
Levi's History Founders: Levi Strauss
- The "Arcuate", the double arch stitching on the back pocket, is a Levi's trademark, which the company has repeatedly defended in court.
- In 1886 the "Two Horse Brand" leather tag, showing a team of horses trying to pull apart a pair of pants, began to be sewn into the back of the company's "waist-high overalls," the term Levi Strauss preferred to "jeans."
- In 1890 the firm assigned its first lot numbers to its products, and the famous number "501" was assigned to the riveted pants.
- The red tab attached to the left rear pocket was created in 1936 as a means of identifying Levi's jeans at a distance.
Levi's History:
It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, (Kingdom of Bavaria) to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. In 1873 Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis received a U.S. Patent to make the first riveted men's work pants out of denim: the first blue jeans. The company briefly experimented (in the 1970s) with a public stock listing, but remains owned and controlled by descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss's four nephews.
Brand Ambassadors:
- Bruce Willis
- Stanley Tucci
- Jason Alexander
- Brad Pitt
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Nick Kamen
- Imran Khan
- Deepika Padukone
- Sushmitha Sen
- Priyanka Chopra
- Naima Mclean
- Akshay Kumar
- Shahid Kapoor
- Kangana Ranaut
- Christina Aguilera
- Mariah Carey
- Ben Folds Five
- The White Stripes
- Bipasha Basu
Levi's History Trivia:
- In World War II, blue jeans were declared an essential commodity and were sold only to people engaged in defense work.
- At the age of 18, Strauss, his mother and two sisters sailed for the United States to join his brothers Jonas and Louis, who had begun a wholesale dry goods business in New York City called J. Strauss Brother & Co.
- Jacob Davis, a Jewish emigrant from Latvia, was a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth made from hemp from Levi Strauss & Co.'s wholesale house. After one of Davis' customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn pants, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly. Davis did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Strauss suggesting that they go into business together. After Levi accepted Jacob's offer, on May 20, 1873, the two men received U.S. Patent 139,121 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- The patented rivet was later incorporated into the company's jean design and advertisements. Contrary to an advertising campaign suggesting that Levi Strauss sold his first jeans to gold miners during the California Gold Rush (which peaked in 1849), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870s.
- The company then created their first pair of Levis 501 Jeans in the 1890's, a style that went on to become the world's best selling item of clothing.
- The "Arcuate", the double arch stitching on the back pocket, is a Levi's trademark, which the company has repeatedly defended in court. During World War II it was deemed by the US Government to be decorative only, so the Arcuate was hand-painted onto the pockets.
- Contributing to the change in the lifestyle of the people of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a town whose growth reversed with the decline of the steel industry, the Levi's brand is committed to funding the refurbishment of Braddock's community center, a focal point of the town and their youth-based programming. Additionally, Levi's is supporting Braddock's urban farm which supplies produce to local area residents at reduced costs.
- Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.was a range of high-quality, affordable fashionable jeans and casualwear for the whole family.
- May 20, 1873 is now considered the official birthday of "blue jeans."
- The two-horse brand design was first used in 1886.
- The red tab attached to the left rear pocket was created in 1936 as a means of identifying Levi's jeans at a distance.
Video: Levi's "Fit to die for." advertisement campaign run with Deepika Padukone.


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Storm's impact makes waves in wrestling schedules
The Section XI (Suffolk) Division I wrestling championships scheduled for today were postponed and will resume Tuesday at Hofstra University at 9:30 a.m.
With the road conditions still not passable in many school districts in Suffolk, officials were forced to postpone the first day of wrestling. There is no wrestling for either county at Hofstra University today.
The Section VIII (Nassau) Division I wrestling championships will hold the semifinal round at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The finals are expected to start at 8 p.m. after the conclusion of the first day of the Suffolk sectional tournament.
According to Nassau wrestling chairman Ed Ramirez of Baldwin, the Suffolk sectional tournament should finish wrestling by 6 p.m. so the Nassau sectional tournament finals can begin at 8 p.m.
"We are hoping that we can coordinate the tournaments and keep everything flowing," Ramirez said. "We are working together to make this happen."
Suffolk will hold the second day of its tournament on Wednesday at a site to be determined.
The Nassau Division II tournament was completed Sunday at Carle Place High School. The Suffolk Division II tournament will be held at Center Moriches at a date and time to be determined.
The Suffolk Track State Qualifier, scheduled for Monday at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, has been postponed. The event will likely be rescheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday, according to Suffolk track coordinator Tony Toro.
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The first picture above shows a vernal pool (or a very good representation of one; there were railroad tracks nearby that may have dammed the swale). Vernal pools develop on the very old alluvial fan surfaces of rivers that flowed from the Sierra during the ice ages. The muddy rivers spread all over the plains, but when the glaciers melted away the rivers started flowing with clear water. The faster moving rivers carved deep channels and narrow floodplains that they have occupied for the last 13,000 years. The surfaces above the floodplains are pockmarked with numerous small basins with small interior drainages (caused by wind deflation or differential settling of the soil). The basins are lined with clay that causes water to pond instead of sinking into the soil. The vernal pools are an ecosystem pretty much unique to the Sierra Nevada foothills.
You can see a fairly sharp delineation in the vegetation at the edges of the pools. The normal grasses don't do as well being inundated with water for a few weeks in the spring, and being rooted in solid clay. A number of plant and animal species have evolved to thrive in the unusual environment. The vernal pools have been decimated by urban and agricultural development; they were a major issue during negotiations for the siting of the University of California Merced campus. The one we looked at was in a pasture and had been heavily trampled by cattle.
A lot of flowers were visible. It's pretty amazing that I can identify dozens of minerals without breathing too hard, but I have a mental block when it comes to any flower called something other than Poppy or Lupine. I'm guessing that this beautiful small blue, white, and yellow flower is a Bacigalupi's Downingia, based on a highly sophisticated internet picture search (looking at pictures is one of those things I tell my students not to do when identifying minerals; look at the properties, I say).


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A former Daily Mail and Daily Express journalist says the prospect of Lord Justice Leveson's report is intimidating and frightening journalists out of covering stories.
Kirsty Walker, who worked for the Daily Mail for seven years, revealed in a Spectator article that the "menacing post-Leveson culture in which journalists are already forced to operate" was one reason for her recent departure from the paper.
She says the UK already favours the rich and famous over the journalists, and expects Leveson to undermine press freedom further.
"The chilling effects of Lord Leveson are already being felt in every newsroom in the country – and it is the rich, powerful and influential who are reaping the benefit," she wrote.
"Few journalists will talk about it, but the rules of the game have changed. If you inquire about certain establishment figures or MPs, they make use of the tools they possess to intimidate you.
"Our political elite are using these tools all the time and appear worryingly confident that the £5.6m Leveson inquiry will hand them even more."
She said that before the Leveson Inquiry she personally had received "less than a dozen" PCC complaints – with none upheld – but that in recent times it had been "at least one a month", all of which required "mini-investigations".
She also blasted the UK's libel laws and said it is clear why London is known internationally as "a 'town named sue'".
Citing the case where the Daily Mail was taken to court for harassment by Chris Huhne's partner Carina Trimingham, she said: "I was lucky to work for a newspaper with the time and money to fight such cases: not all journalists are so lucky.
"Britain has become a place where the rich, famous and well-connected can take the newspapers to court (with the help of no-win, no-fee lawyers) for writing the truth."
She added: "How do we know that Lord Leveson's report will encourage the rich, the powerful, the venal and the pompous to intimidate journalists and frighten papers into not covering stories? Because the prospect of it has already done so.
"How do we know that an elite will attempt to decide what it is appropriate for the rest of us to read about over our cornflakes? Because Leveson is already doing exactly that.
"This is the judge who read a 200-word article in the Times about how The Thick of It was planning to satirise him in one episode — and promptly asked the editor of that paper whether it was 'appropriate' for him to run the piece.
"It is all too easy to guess what a judge with such an attitude to newspapers will do for press freedom."


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By C. David Chaffee | Posted: 10 March 2011
Andrew Bach, keynote speaker for the Service Provider Summit at OFC/NFOEC Wednesday morning, presented the daunting challenge the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is facing--having to transmit millions of trades in microsecond timeframes.
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By C. David Chaffee | Posted: 9 March 2011
"We are on the way to the gigabit society," said OFC/NFOEC 2011 keynote speaker Bruno Orth Tuesday morning at the plenary session. Orth defines the gigabit society as a mobile broadband photonic network that is all IP. "The price for WDM has gone down tremendously over the past decade," said Orth. Router performance is much better than Moore's law would estimate.
By Terry Unter | Posted: 8 March 2011
The explosive growth of the Internet is driving a "need for speed" in core and access networks. User traffic is expected to increase five times between 2009 and 2014. This is being driven by video content delivery to fixed and mobile users, video gaming, social networking, and voice over IP. Bandwidth is being provided by traditional telecom service providers and new-comers, such as Google and Facebook, who are creating their own captive networks.
By Alain Couder | Posted: 7 March 2011
This week I'll have an opportunity to present at the OSA Executive Forum, held in conjunction with OFC/NFOEC, on a panel titled "Where is the Optical Components Market Going?" This is going to be a very interesting discussion highlighting some of the challenges our industry is facing and how we overcome them to achieve long-term sustainable growth.
By Jim Theodoras | Posted: 4 March 2011
With OFC/NFOEC just around the corner, I thought it might be fun to guess at what the big news might be on the show floor. While predicting buzz can be a hazardous endeavor, the steady ramp up in press releases leading up to the big event, plus the program guide give pretty good hints.
By David Chaffee | Posted: 4 March 2011
Before the first trans-oceanic optical transport system, there were papers and presentations at OFC describing how seemingly fragile, hair-thin strings of glass would transmit millions of photons every second while resting on the ocean's floor.
By Rick Dodd | Posted: 3 March 2011
Conference Program. The buzz around this subject is justified – the benefits of coherent optical transmission will allow tremendous increases in capacity while simplifying planning and deployment. However, let me go out on a limb and say that I think the concept of coherent may be underhyped. Coherent is such a fundamental shift in optical networking that it allows an opportunity for the industry to "think big" about the possibilities.
By Biswanath Mukherjee | Posted: 2 March 2011
What do optical communications and optical networking do to enable cloud services, a necessity due to the high-bandwidth demands that people like you and I put on the network because of new video-enabled applications? How can our industry meet the demands of the exponential growth in traffic from these applications? And what does it all mean to our society? One of OFC/NFOEC's plenary speakers, Bruno Orth of Deutsche Telekom AG, will tackle this topic from the network operators' perspective. He'll talk about how providers are working to transform their networks to meet these increased demands. It's really a must-see presentation.
By Atul Srivastava | Posted: 1 March 2011
OFC/NFOEC is widely recognized as the premier conference in the field of optical communications. What I find is a real distinction for OFC/NFOEC is that the conference also features a strong trade show. The entire virtuous cycle connecting optical research with product development and then applications is represented. The combination of both the frontline research being presented at the conference and the presence of the latest products that are being released on the trade show floor give a full package to any person who comes and attends this conference.
By Chuck Joyner | Posted: 24 February 2011
Believe it or not, some of the programming at OFC/NFOEC this year is an experiment. As a program committee, we are focused on developing technical programming that is dynamic and responsive to the emerging topics in the industry.
The views expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) or its sponsors.


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Exploration Activity: Isotopic Analysis At Northern Basin & Range Region (Laney, 2005)
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Adam swallowed, trying to squelch his feverish attraction by recalling a long ago tea—a lifetime ago, it seemed to him—and a young lady's impertinent proposal. But the feisty woman confronting him was decidedly a woman, all of twenty now, not an impetuous eight-year-old suffering a bout of puppy love.
Her eyes flayed him as if only by stripping the skin from his bones would she know any respite from her grief. The starch that straightened her spine held her rigid as the chalk that formed the cliffs upon which they stood.
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Journal of Energy in Southern Africa
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J. energy South. Afr. vol.25 no.3 Cape Town ago. 2014
The energy profile of a low-income urban community
Philip Lloyd
Energy Institute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
As part of a household energisation experiment, a baseline survey was undertaken from a sample of 152 households in the informal settlement of Samora Machel. The survey covered energy needs for cooking, space heating, water heating, lighting and any other demands, the costs of energy and total household monthly expenses. The average home had 3-4 inhabitants in less than 2 rooms. Paraffin was the primary source of energy for cooking and space heating, and played a significant role in water heating and lighting. Electricity was quite widely available, but was used primarily for low-power services such as radios and cellphones. Only 10% of all homes had a refrigerator. 20% of all homes purchased LP gas regularly but only used it on social occasions. Fuelwood was collected rather than purchased, and mainly burned in an open brazier, both for cooking and space heating. Space heating was primarily by cookstove; only one home had a specially designed heater using paraffin fuel. The median household expenditure was R1 800/month and 20% of this was spent on energy services. About half the homes are at risk of energy poverty, where lack of energy could give rise to a range of health problems, particularly during the colder months.
1. Introduction
The use of paraffin in low-income homes is associated with a number of problems such as the death of children who drink it accidentally, the spread of fire when as many as 2 000 homes can be destroyed in a single blaze, extensive burn injuries and ongoing indoor air pollution with attendant upper-respiratory-tract infections. For these reasons, the Western Cape Provincial Government suggested testing an alternative fuel, and it was necessary to find a community where the effects of an intervention could be measured.
Accordingly, a search for a suitable community was initiated. We were assisted by a charitable organisation, the Mustadafin Foundation, a NonProfit Organisation that works across the Western Cape to uplift destitute communities through education, feeding schemes, health care programs, youth interventions and skills development.
They recommended the Samora Machel community, a typical informal settlement in the Philippi district of Cape Town. Figure 1 gives an aerial view of a typical section of the township, with the small crêche almost in the centre of the picture. The crossroads at the lower centre are at 34o01"02' S 18o35"07'E. After preliminary investigations, it was agreed that this seemed a suitable site, which would be confirmed by the survey.
2. Methodology
A questionnaire which had been developed previously for studying the energy profile of a rural community (Lloyd et al., 2004) was slightly modified and translated into Xhosa. A meeting was held with the community, in which the purpose of the survey was explained. The names, addresses and cellphone numbers of people who indicated they were willing to take part in the survey were captured.
Three interviewers from Mustadafin were trained in the administration of the questionnaire, initially by administering the questionnaire to each other, and then on volunteers who would not be taking part. A Mustadafin supervisor also took part in the training; he was to debrief the interviewers at the end of each day and to check the questionnaires for consistency.
Then the interviewers went house-to-house. The residents were first asked to complete a consent form, which outlined the purpose of the questionnaire and gave an undertaking that the information they provided would be treated as confidential and only published in an aggregated form. Once that had been signed, the interviewers administered the questionnaire. It took three interviewers four days to administer 155 questionnaires, of which 152 proved free of errors and thus suitable for analysis.
The data were entered on an Excel spreadsheet, which facilitated analysis. Some idea of the comprehensiveness of the survey may be gained from the fact that the spreadsheet was 148 columns wide and 152 rows deep (not counting title columns or rows.)
3. Results
The average home had three to four residents. The distribution of occupancy in all homes is given in Figure 2.
Very few were single occupancy and there were none with more than seven. The median home had less than two rooms, as shown in Figure 3.
Asked who made the purchasing decisions, 38% reported that it was the husband, son or male partner; 59% said that it was the wife or female partner; 3% reported that it was joint decision-making.
Paraffin was easily the most popular fuel for cooking, as shown in Figure 4.
Less than one house in five had access to electricity, and half of those used paraffin once their allowance of free basic electricity (50kWh per month) was expended.
Over 90% of the respondents cooked on a paraffin stove, and 8% cooked electrically. There were a few LP Gas cookers and one person cooked on an mbaula (brazier).
Asked why they chose paraffin for cooking, nearly half the residents said it was on the grounds of cost and 40% said it was because it was readily available. When the paraffin users were asked whether they liked cooking on paraffin, only 22% replied that they did, and of those, 10% said they only did so because it was cheap; 12% said they did so even though it made them sick; and 4% said they did so even though they knew it was unsafe. Those (88%) who disliked cooking on paraffin said it was dirty, expensive, made them cough and was unsafe. The problems experienced when using paraffin for cooking are given in Figure 5:
When asked for alternative fuel choices, many responded that paraffin was their only choice! This is shown in Figure 6. However, over 20% of the respondents would choose electricity, and of those, most reported that they would use electricity when they had guests. A further 20% said they turned to firewood as an alternative, and nearly all did so because they had run out of cash. More than 10% said they would turn to LP Gas, and about half of those said they would do so when they had guests.
Space heating
Paraffin also dominated the choice of fuels for space heating. Here wood played a larger role than it did in cooking, as shown in Figure 7:
The type of appliance used for space heating was, of course, highly correlated with the choice of fuel:
Some features of interest were:
- Over 10% of the homes had no means of heating;
- While paraffin dominated, only one person had a purpose-designed paraffin stove; the remainder used their cookstove to provide space heat;
- Those who burned wood mainly used an open brazier ("mbaula"); there were only two purpose-designed solid-fuel stoves.
The problems that people experienced with their appliances were very similar to those shown in Figure 5, except that significantly more (over 20% of the respondents) reported that explosion was a hazard when paraffin stoves were used as space heaters. This is supported by the earlier finding (Lloyd, 2002) that the longer paraffin stoves burned, the greater was the risk of explosion. Of course, the stoves would be used for longer in space heating than in cooking.
Water heating
Water heating was also dominated by paraffin, as Figure 9 shows.
It was of interest that nearly one-quarter of all homes used electricity to heat water. There were no electric geysers or solar water heaters in any of the homes. The appliances in use are given in Figure 10.
A feature of this is the relatively large number who heated water electrically. Only 8% cooked on an electric stove, but nearly 25% heated water electrically. Clearly, the community has worked out that they can afford the convenience of a short, sharp burst of electricity to heat water, but the need to linger over cooking makes the use of electricity unaffordable.
At least there is one household energy need that is not dominated by paraffin - less than half the homes are lit by paraffin lamps, as Figure 11 shows.
Nearly a quarter still rely on candles, and close to a third use electricity. As this is significantly more than are supplied with electricity, it is evident that some homes are lit via lifelines from electrified neighbours. The median consumption of candles was about 18 per month in the homes that used candles.
The appliances in use in SamoraMachel are shown in Figure 12. The large number of kettles seems surprising, until it is realized that most of these must be unpowered kettles, i.e. spouted containers for heating water which must be placed on a stove or fire. The low incidence of refrigerators and similar electrically powered appliances, which are almost universal in higher income homes, is noteworthy. Radio is generally battery-driven; most homes that were electrified had a television; non-electrified homes with television used batteries and complained about the cost.
Attempting to obtain a community's idea of cost-of-living expenses is fraught with difficulty. However, in the present case, some estimates were surprisingly good. For instance, one question asked how much fuel the user used each month, and another asked what the cost of the fuel was. In the case of paraffin, the results are shown in Figures 13 to 15.
The fact that the average price of gas determined in this way is close to the known price at the time of approximately R11.50, and that the estimated price is approximately normally distributed, gives some degree of confidence in the demand profile shown in Figure 13 and the use profile shown in Figure 14.
About 40% of the homes had some access to electricity and were able to report their average costs, which are shown in Figure 16. The median cost is about R110 per month, which would indicate a median consumption of about 150kWh/ month, inclusive of the 50kWh of free basic electricity which the poor are allowed.
This would be too little to run a fully electrified home, and indeed is what would be expected, given the general lack of appliances noted earlier.
A very similar study was possible for the data on candle use. The median candle consumption amongst candle users was 18 per month and the median cost per month was R22, giving an estimated cost for a packet of 6 candles of about R7.35 -compared to a recent actual cost of R7.49. Again, therefore, the estimates derived from the questionnaire were close to the known truth.
The respondents were asked to estimate their monthly expenses for a range of goods and services, namely food, clothing, transport, school fees, entertainment, servicing of loans, energy (coal, electricity, LP gas, batteries, fuelwood) and any miscellaneous expenses (which were mainly cosmetics). The total expenditure per month is given in Figure 17.
The median household expenditure of about R1 800 per month is close to the known household income of R1 800/month.
Figure 18 shows the monthly expenditure on energy, and Figure 19 shows the distribution of the ratio of energy to total expenditure.
4. Discussion and conclusions
This study of energy use in an informal settlement, Samora Machel, on the outskirts of Cape Town has given useful insight into how the poor actually live. The environment is crowded, with more people per house than there are rooms. The people rely on paraffin to a large extent for most of their household energy. They cook, keep warm, heat water and light their homes with paraffin. There is some access to electricity - 38% of the households have a monthly electricity bill - but the use of electricity is mainly confined to low-power demands such as radio and communications. There are few refrigerators and fewer still freezers.
Fuelwood plays a role in space heating, and candles play a role in lighting, but even in these areas, paraffin dominates. It dominates even though most homes reported considerable problems arising from its use. In particular, there were widespread reports of coughing, and these were confirmed in house-to-house visits. The community was also only too aware of the other challenges created by paraffin use, including poisoning of children and contributing to the initiation of fires.
A survey of monthly expenditure on a range of goods and services showed that the total expenditure was very close to the known household income. However, for many the cost of energy constituted a huge portion of the monthly expenditure. About a quarter of all homes lived in energy poverty, with energy costs more than 25% of monthly household income.
It could only be concluded that almost any intervention that would reduce paraffin use without imposing any financial burden on the community would be welcomed.
The Department of Economic Development and Tourism in the Provincial Government of the Western Cape is to be thanked for financial and managerial support during the course of this work. The Mustadafin Foundation, and, in particular, their project supervisor, Hani du Toit, made a huge contribution to the success of this study. My University, CPUT, is to be thanked for its ongoing support of the work. The Deputy Dean of Engineering, Prof Veruscha Fester, has been a pillar of strength in this regard.
Lloyd PJ., Dick A. and Howells M. The energy profile of a rural community. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 15 (3) pp 80-87, 2004. [ Links ]
Lloyd, Philip The safety of paraffin and LPG appliances for domestic use Proc 10th IntConf Domestic Use Energy, 12-13 May 2002, Cape Technikon, pp 79-84. [ Links ]
Paper presented at the Domestic Use of Energy Conference, 29 March - 2 April, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, and published in the conference proceedings. Reproduced with permission. [ Links ]


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Monday, August 18, 2008
[size=7][b]USC QB Sanchez hopes to be healthy for opening game[/b][/size]
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LOS ANGELES -- USC quarterback Mark Sanchez, who dislocated his left kneecap and was carted off the practice field earlier this month, is feeling much better and hopes to be ready when the No. 3 Trojans open the season at Virginia on Aug. 30.
"I'm optimistic about it, we're ahead of schedule," Sanchez said after taking some drops, throwing some passes and doing a bit of light jogging Monday. "Everything today felt good. That's a good sign. If it were up to me, I'm playing. [But] I want to be ready for the whole season. It's a marathon, not a sprint."
Sanchez, the projected starter for Southern California, was injured Aug. 8 after making a throw and landing awkwardly. He was taken for X-rays and an MRI, and team doctors said there is no ligament, cartilage or bone damage.
"It's painful to try to flex it too much, bend it all the way," Sanchez said. "It's more uncomfortable than anything. The swelling is mostly gone. For me to play against Virginia, I've got to be back Monday or Tuesday of next week. It's very possible. I can't not practice all week, do my rehab, fly to Virginia and play. I'll say Tuesday at the latest.
"As far as I'm concerned, I'm going to play. That's the way I've got to look at it. We'll be fine either way."
The Trojans will be heavily favored at Virginia, with or without Sanchez. Their other scholarship quarterbacks are third-year sophomore Mitch Mustain and redshirt freshman Aaron Corp. Mustain redshirted last season after transferring from Arkansas, where he started eight games as a freshman two years ago. The Razorbacks won all eight games.
Mustain and Corp have shared quarterback duties in Sanchez's absence, although Corp did most of the work with the first team in the past couple of days.
"He's getting close," Trojans coach Pete Carroll said of Sanchez. "He's going to throw the ball to receivers for the first time [Tuesday]. We'll see what happens. He's on course to make a recovery by next week."
Carroll said there's no deadline for Sanchez to be able to practice so he can play at Virginia, but added: "We'd love to have him for the week of preparation."
Sanchez, a fourth-year junior, started three games last season in place of injured John David Booty. He completed 69 of 114 passes for 695 yards and seven touchdowns with five interceptions in seven games.
After playing at Virginia, USC will have a week off before facing No. 2 Ohio State on Sept. 13 at the Los Angeles Coliseum in an early-season showdown between two of the country's highest-ranked teams.
Monday, August 18, 2008
[size=7][b]Trojans RB McKnight sidelined again with hyperextended elbow[/b][/size]
ESPN.com news services
USC running back Joe McKnight missed more practice this weekend with another injury.
Joe McKnight could bid to become USC's workhorse in the backfield after showing moderate promise as a freshman.
According to coach Pete Carroll, McKnight suffered a hyperextended right elbow in a scrimmage at the Coliseum on Saturday and sat out Sunday's practice with a near full-length brace on his arm, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Carroll told reporters after practice McKnight could miss several more workouts but downplayed the injury.
"It's not damaged or anything like that," Carroll said. "I don't think it will be but a couple of days."
McKnight was expected, along with junior Stafon Johnson, to spearhead USC's ground game after showing promise as a freshman.
McKnight, a 6-foot, 200-pound sophomore, is among a cadre of six talented running backs vying for playing time with the Trojans.
McKnight ran for 540 yards on 94 carries for a 5.7 per-carry average in 2007, when he rushed for three touchdowns.
The Trojans also used him extensively as a receiver last season, when he caught 23 passes for 203 yards and a touchdown.
This summer, McKnight was sidelined for parts of other practices after a teammate accidentally closed a door on his right hand, fracturing the tip of a finger and slightly injuring another, the Times reported.
He has also missed practice with a skin irritation.
The Trojans, ranked No. 3 in AP's preseaon poll and No. 2 in USA Today's coaches poll, open their season at Virginia on Aug. 30 before a highly anticipated showdown against Ohio State (No. 2 AP, No. 3 USA Today).
They host the Buckeyes Sept. 13.
McKnight declined to comment to the Times on Sunday.
"It's unfortunate, Joe keeps coming up with something," Carroll said, according to the Times. "He has missed a lot of practice already and it's killing him. He hates the fact that he has. The fingers are fine, he's ready to go, but something else popped up."


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Jason Segel first shared with the world his love of puppetry at the end of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," when his character, Peter, finally puts on his long-gestating vampire-puppet opera. At the time it seemed like a good bit—there was no way to know that Segel's love of the art form was as deep and real as "The Muppets," the feel-good movie of 2011, proves it to be.
Segel, who co-wrote the screenplay with longtime collaborator Nicholas Stoller, stars as Gary, a 30-something man who lives at home with his brother, Walter, who happens to be a puppet. When Gary decides to take his girlfriend, Mary (Amy Adams, who incredibly is able to segue seamlessly from "The Fighter" to this) to Los Angeles to celebrate their 10th anniversary, he convinces her to let Walter join them.
Walter, naturally, is a huge Muppets fan, and is dying to visit their old studio. But when they arrive, they find the place condemned, blanketed with cobwebs and in danger of being razed by the evil oil baron Tex Richman (a delightfully evil Chris Cooper). They quickly hunt down Kermit to share the news, and convince him that the only hope for saving the old place is to get the gang back together and put on a show!
From the first number, "Life's a Happy Song," until it's reprieve at the film's conclusion, "The Muppets" is raucous good time, full of great songs (most of the originals are by Bret McKenzie of "Flight of the Conchords" fame), rapid-fire wit, subtly brilliant sight-gags and mountains of heart. Both Segel and Adams possess a rare quality, the ability to be inexhaustibly cheerful without coming off as phony or insincere. Add to that their talent for song-and-dance numbers, and you have an unstoppable pair of movie stars sharing with you the time of their lives.
The great Frank Oz, who did as much as anyone this side of Jim Henson to create The Muppets, rather churlishly criticized the film last month, without even having seen it, saying, "I wasn't happy with the script. I don't think they respect the characters. But I don't want to go on about it like a sourpuss and hurt the movie."
It's a shame that Oz spoke without seeing the film, because for anyone who grew up watching "The Muppet Show" and "Sesame Street," the story Segel and Stoller have crafted is pitch-perfect. Like the original "Muppet Show," this new film simultaneously plays to kids and adults, keeping everyone entertained. And like their forebearers, this crew of Muppets masterfully wields their self-awareness, breaking the fourth wall, commenting on how clumsy dialogue sounds like important plot points and doing things like suggesting they "travel by map!"
The original songs composed by McKenzie are excellent, with the highlight's being "Life's a Happy Song," and "Man or Muppet," a duet between Gary and Walter, in which the brothers each face their own demons. And McKenzie's old "Conchords" director, James Bobin, who helmed this film, masterfully keeps the action popping.
In an age when each reboot, remake, adaptation and reimagining causes progressively more outrage, "The Muppets" stands as one of the year's very best films, a two-hour joyride that pays homage to the greatness of the source material while updating it to suit today, and tells a beautiful story about growing up, moving on and letting go—all the more reason for Frank Oz to see it.
Review: "The Muppets" Are Just as Good as You Remember
Jason Segel first shared with the world his love of puppetry at the end of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," when his character, Peter, finally puts on his long-gestating vampire-puppet opera. At the time it seemed like a good bit—there was no way to know that Segel's love of the art form was as deep and real as "The Muppets," the feel-good movie of 2011, proves it to be.


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Work has started on this site scaffolding has gone up.
Great news. Do you know who will design it?
Work has started on this site scaffolding has gone up.
walked by today, looks like the top floor of the corner building has already been demolished - should not be long until the whole corner is gone... the lot doesn't seem too big
Great! Hopefully, the Friday's and Bellmarc across the street will be the next to go!
This demo job is taking forever...
They've cleared the site and hauled off the scaffolding, getting this site ready for Midtown's latest violation of jus cogens
No new building permit yet.
any new plans for this one? I noticed the remaining structures on this lot were demolished in the past several weeks.
Not a big fan. Why didn't Bloomberg do anything to confront the rise of this crap when he was mayor back in the day?
Have you seen the design. I assume that what looks like an amazing, torqued tower is a reflection.
The missing piece!
Hopefully, someone will redevelop the Bellmarc and TGI Fridays across the street.
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Hüberli, D., Paap, T., Gower, K., Long, N., Dell, B. and Hardy, G.E.St.J. (2008) Does waterlogging influence phosphite protection of Banksia species against Phytophthora cinnamomi? In: ICPP 2008 9th International Congress of Plant Pathology, 24 - 29 August, Torino, Italy,.
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