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(The solar hot water system on Am Hussein roof that he is now being forced to remove because the look of it offend privileged visitors to Al Azhar Park who supposedly want to look down from their www.wholesalecheapseahawksjerseys.com expensive meals in the park and see the roofs of the community restored to the way they looked 700 years ago)

(Am Hussein daughter and grandson demonstrate the way their family has been heating its water for the past 70 years, before they built their solar hot water system last month on a kerosene stove in the dark narrow stairwell, to avoid inhaling the toxic smoke and in an attempt to protect the children from getting burned. Now they must go back to this dangerous system because some park planners object to their solar roof.)

This is hardly Darfur, but the recent controversy in Cairo over the US AID Solar Roofs project is worthy of attention as yet another, albeit lowgrade, African tragedy in the making.

(Of course it could get much worse if Egypt, at a fork in the road between pursuing large scale solar projects such as the 20 MW solar thermal plant being built in Kuraymat, and pursuing the government recent announcement to counter Iran move by pressing for their own nuclear power program, chooses the latter. Far from merely having the of warm water leaks to deal with, Cairo will have to deal with Chernobyllike leaks of radiation (especially in a country where entire buildings collapse with alarming frequency because of inferior materials, workmanship and code inspections) and the possibility of terrorist appropriation of nuclear material!).

It appears that the Cairo urban solar roofs project in Darb Al Ahmar is stalled and under threat.

And there is something you can do about it by making your voice heard!

The issue at hand is the attempt by a group of obviously moneyed stakeholders who purport to align themselves with the Eskan Population Section (probably acting on advice of foreign consultants) to block the building of solar hot water collectors on the roofs of houses in Darb Al Ahmar along the Ayyubid Wall, stating that they are good looking beside the garden and will somehow the view from Al Azhar Park is what was told to Solar CITIES green collar trainers Hanna Fathy and Mahmoud Dardir and their team of Solar technicians when they tried to continue the US AID funded project in Darb Al Ahmar!

The official excuse given out to the media, of course (sadly reported and distorted at the conclusion of the recent National Public Radio piece on the project) is that the locally made solar hot water systems are as yet and leak and that by halting the creation of more solar roofs officials can buy time to out the kinks and problems before disseminating solar energy further. They claim that otherwise residents will be to accept solar energy, as though the people whom we have arranged to work with on the first 15 experimental systems (who must currently boil water on the stove with danger to life and limb) are reluctant to receive a free solar hot water system and training in its construction and use, especially with the guarentee we given that we will maintain it, if they aren satisfied we will remove it at our expense. The whole point of the program was that the first 15 systems would be systems and the residents know that. By stopping production of the remaining experimental systems you actually stop any ability to problems and simply shut down the initiative altogether. Thus, in claiming they are committed to the project but halting it to help build acceptance, the officials are in fact eroding confidence in the project and breeding more reluctance (in a patronclient state like Egypt the attitude can often be the officials don sanction it, or have put a temporary stop to it, there must be something wrong with it)!

The notion that the systems our team builds might somehow work was unfelicitously reinforced by a satement that I was recorded making when we were dealing with a minor float valve/ flow rate issue www.wholesalecheap49ersjerseys.com on Am Hussein system (the float valve was 5 cm too high, meaning that it stopped hot water flow to the house after a few minutes of use because the discharge rate was greater than the inflow rate. It was a truly minor problem that was easily corrected). NPR recorded me saying that we faced challenges building systems because there is no in the materials we buy in Cairo. I did not mean to say that we hadn or couldn surmount every challenge! It was true that in the development phase of our project a year and a half ago we had two minor incidents of leaking tanks that actually helped us come up with the pioneering and innovative idea of using Zahran float valves and plastic tank nipples. It was useful because the entire community uses blue plastic tanks for cold water storage and face the same leakage problems (which doesn stop them from using them!). By incorporating these same local tanks into our solar systems we came up with an innovation (using local inventor Magdy Zahran special plastic parts instead of the standard rust prone metal parts) that solved the leaking problem for everybody, solar and non solar users alike!

Furthermore, since that time way back then, before we were even awarded the US AID grant for dissemination, there have been NO leaks. But THE FACTS have historically never stopped people from finding ways to attack discredit or stall the solar industry! So Cairo is just going through the same battle we wen through in California in the 1970s and 80s, when similar issues were raised against solar heating that halted implementation for a good twenty years!

The for more testing excuse is of course contradicted by the fantastic success of the same program in Manshiyat Nasser, where 10 wellfunctioning systems are currently in operation, and more are being built every day, increasing the capacity, understanding and www.wholesalecheapsteelersjerseys.com acceptance of the whole community, and in Darb Al Ahmar itself, where the 3 systems we did install have been working well consistently, one of them for over a year.

Furthermore, stopping the solar builders from coming in and building more units stops any further testing and completely defies logic, since the only people who would be able to work out any kinks, if there still were any, are these same green collar Solar CITIES workers themselves, since nobody else works on solar hot water systems in the area or even cares to go and inspect them!

But the Solar CITIES team are being told not to do any more work, not even to go around any possible problems and the halt in building and possible experimentation thus puts them out of a job. Are they expected to sit at home and wait to see if they get a call saying a pipe is leaking before resuming their work? Or would you think they could better keep on top of things by working with the community on a daily basis to build a larger experience base?

The official and see excuse would also not explain why there is pressure for the residents along the wall who have perfectly well functioning solar systems to remove them!

It seems the nascent Egyptian program in increasing the number of green jobs is having the same growth pains other countries went through when our Zeitgeist still favored the status quo. Aesthetics and perception, and the desire to Disneyfy Darb Al Ahmar, I argue, are more to blame for this controversy over solar roofs.

But we CAN accelerate Egypt transition to a green economy if we pull together on this and make our voices heard.

Background and Importance of the Project:

Al Azhar Park, as some of you know, is the first space built in Cairo in over a hundred years. Until 5 years ago it was a massive garbage dump, an eysore and a health hazard to the communities surrounding it. Today, thanks to the magnificent planners and architects of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, it is a glorious botanical garden filled with fountains, lakes, waterfalls and meandering streams that hosts 3 beautiful fine restaurants. It has also been the host to several World Environment Day festivals.

At the base of the park is the newly restored ancient Ayyubid Wall, and behind that are the recently renovated homes of the urban poor who have put their faith, trust and confidence in the Aga Khan Trust for www.velvetbunnys.co.uk/available-animals Culture to help them improve their environment and their lives.

Most of the rooftops on the dwellings in this part of historic Cairo are now covered with garbage and broken furniture and create quite an eyesore, but on the roofs of the renovated houses the marvelous local Environmental NGO have started building rooftop gardens and solar hot water systems.

(This expensive hitech professional tube solar hot water heater, purchased from RSD technologies by the Environmental NGO El Shabab and donated as a gift to the AKTC restoration project, serves three families near the ancient Ayubbid Wall. It is also visible from the park and was intended as part of an awareness campaign for the potential of solar power in urban Cairo. Because there is often no water in the community, it requires an elevated cold water storage tank. We call this a form of architectural imperialism.

When Liane Hansen from National Public Radio came out to do an NPR special on Change and Cairo (airing this Sunday) the team was treated to a visit to one particular roof, that of local carpenter Am Hussein, who was born in and has occupied his building along the Ayyubid wall for 70 years. He was one of the first of those who had paid their 30% of the cost of renovating their ancient homes (the AKTC takes care of the other 70%) to actively request an experimental homemade solar hot water system built by the Roh El Shabab Solar CITIES team using the US AID small infrastructure funds. And he was proud to show it to the foreign www.wholesalecheapbroncosjerseys.com visitors, who were equally delighted to come up on his roof see it in operation, and glad to know others who couldn find the time to come into the ancient residential area could still see it in all its glory from the park.

Up until last month, when the It Yourself Solar Hot Water System was built and installed, Am Hussein and his family had been forced by economic circumstances to heat their water on a a traditional brass kerosene pump stove They had to light the stove and do their water heating in the narrow stairwell, because the stove gives off massive quantities of hazardous black smoke that fills the house and blackens ceilings and walls and the lungs of the children.

(Am Hussein curious grandchildren approach the smokey fire while their mother runs in the house to get a water can to heat to prepare their baths an all too typical dangerous moment in the daily life of the urban poor)

The use of these stoves not only makes it impossible to keep paint on the walls (because of the layers of soot they create) but, according to an Ain Shams Hospital report in , caused over 300 burns to children and an average of 13 children deaths over a 20 month period in their hospital alone. 56.7% of the children were victims of scalds from hot water and 38.6% of were victims of open flames, as shown in the pictures above.

These statistics, reported from Badawy and Mabrouk (1999) are reproduced below, and are particularly relevant to the Solar CITIES study, which showed that out of 463 families, 212, or 55.8% (66% of 232 Zabaleen families, and the 25.6% of 231 Darb Al Ahmar families), must heat their water on some kind of stove because they are unable to afford rising electricity and gas costs.

47.4% and 19.9%, respectively, heat their bath water in the kitchen, and, because many of the stoves are portable, many actually heat their water in the living room, or, as in the case of Am Hussein family depicted above, on the stairwell! These, then become additional sites of accidents.

( place of accident was the home in 223 cases. In 140 cases one of the parents or a guardian was present at the time. The kitchen was the commonest room followed by the bathroom especially in patients who lived in slum areas where water supply systems are deficient and kerosene stoves are used to boil water.

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A proposal by the diocese to demolish the walls and preserve the tower only was successfully opposed by the City of cheap jerseys London Corporation, and the church restored by Elidir Davies between 1966 and 1968. It is the last City church to be restored. St Michael's was opened by The Duke of Edinburgh on December 19, 1968 as Headquarters of the Mission to Seamen (now Mission to Seafarers), an Anglican organisation that supports chaplains in ports around the world. Before the Second World War the south front was hemmed in by buildings. Following bomb damage, these buildings were cleared and Whittington Garden laid out on their Cheap NFL Jerseys site, so that St Michael's main faade is now on the south, along Upper Thames Street. The south front is faced with Portland stone and has six roundheaded windows with cherub keystones. The less prominent north and east fronts are of brick. The roof is balustraded.[8]Entrance is through the tower in the south west corner. 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Maybe you've had a monster week at the office, been out of town or done a quiet 18month stretch in jail and haven't seen the boys for a while; perhaps you've been under the pump from your partner, your Russian mistress or you're not long over a rough breakup.

Whatever the case, sometimes you just want to catch up with a couple of mates and have a few quiet ales.

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Here's some blokes you won't invite .

The Ogler: This is a mate who, every time he goes out, appears to have just spent 11 years in Antarctica without a woman within 5000 kilometres. He is rampant. His eyes dart everywhere, at anything vaguely resembling a female, and you can barely hold a conversation with him such is his distracted state.

Any woman who does venture near The Ogler and your group immediately feels naked, then besieged, then like she should take a shower because he's slipping that many greasy looks at her.

Common utterances include: "I'd knock the back out that", "Have a look at her" and "I bet she'd be dirty."

The Punish: This is an old school friend who hasn't been happy about anything since Cathy Crawford refused to pash him behind the basketball court when he was 14. Everything has gone wrong in his life since and he's not shy about letting you know it.

He's human Mogadon. His mere presence UGGs Cyber Monday sucks the oxygen out of a room and, while having him along as part of a large group gettogether can be OK, in a small team for a quiet beer, he's a fullscale punish.

Common utterances include: "Yeah, you would say that", "I'm so over this", "I'll tell you what's wrong with gen Y."

Grass is Greener: You've just settled into your second beer, you're enjoying the vibe, the conversation's shifted to Paul Keating's legacy in the Labor Party or your football team's probable missing of the finals (because the chokers can't win close games and their friggin' captain fumbles more balls than a heroinaddicted fluffer).

Then Grass is Greener chimes in.

"Let's go to [insert pub just far enough away you have to catch a cab]."

Of course, if you don't go, he'll keep complaining every shout and, if you do go, he won't be satisfied at that venue either. You will wander like a wraith in the darkness all night following this bloke from pub to pub, party to party, never totally satisfied.

Common utterances include: "This is shit", "Let's go suss that new bar", "There's a party up the road."

Charles in Charge: It's meant to be a quiet night, a couple of beers, that's about it. Sure, if things happen to kick on and you end up dancing with Norwegian backpackers on their first night in town, you won't complain.

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If you stay out of the snowfields, Charles will invariably have one or two "faster" mates materialise, ready Cyber Monday UGG Boots to get on it with him and their energy will tilt your table's vibe from pub to club, laconic to slightly anxious.

Common utterances include: "My bloke says this stuff is insane", "Just have one you softcock" and "What have you got cheap air max uk to do tomorrow that's so important?"

The Interloper: So you find the right mix of company, go somewhere quiet, and you run into some guy you haven't seen in a while usually a local or workmate who is clueless as to his status in your social hierarchy.

He either bails you up for a good 30 minutes Cyber Monday UGGs Sale "catching up" when five to seven minutes would suffice, or he just parks himself (and invariably a friend of his you've never met) and sucks the life out of the gathering and/or monopolises your time.

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The Gibberer: He's not exactly stupid, he's not entirely drunk, he's possibly braindamaged and could have alcohol or personality problems. Whatever the case, he just talks absolute walltowall shit and will not 2013 Cyber Monday UGGs shut up.

The Gibberer is often an Interloper, because he bounces from one group to another at the pub, all of them trying to fob him off on to other unfortunates.

Common utterances include: Who cares? It's all gibber.

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The Stinker can be big, he can be small. He can be a mad wog or private school tool. He can be bogan, Asian, goodlooking or ugly as Cyber Monday UGGs On Sale a jar full of monkeys' arseholes.

I know one who gets itchy before he fights so, as soon as he starts scratching, I put him in a cab or bid him adieu.

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College basketball offseason can be exciting

This is an unusual time in the college basketball world.

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With each open job getting filled, another one usually pops open, leaving an employment frenzy that lasts until May.

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So it seems as though the Mavericks will be one of the favorites to win another Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference championship, if not the region.

But it never that easy, and last year rarely guarantees next year in any program.

Last week, guard Jimmy Whitehead announced that he be leaving after four years at Minnesota State. He was a valuable member of the rotation last season, and when he played well, the team was much better. He was often in the games at end, helping the Mavericks secure a victory with a key basket or defensive stop.

But he didn want to be a backup again, even on a squad that has potential to win a national championship, so he gambled team success for a bigger role elsewhere. That his right.

So the Minnesota State coaching staff now must replace two guys, which isn a monumental task. College coaches see opportunity in adding new players, and extra scholarship money at this time of the year is intoxicating.

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In a month, offseason workouts will be in full swing and rosters will be set, for the most part. College basketball will return to normal.

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