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A group of Canadian scientists are working on a power plant that will use a controlled tornado to drive turbines, and they’re calling it the Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE)

An atmospheric vortex engine (AVE) uses a controlled vortex to capture mechanical energy produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atmosphere. A tornado-like vortex is produced by admitting warm or humid air tangentially into a circular arena. Tangential entries cause the warm moist air to spin as it rises forming an anchored convective vortex. The work of convection is captured with turbines located at ground level around the periphery [...]

Will it go pandemic like in 1918? Concern grows over H1N1 outbreak in Bolivia, 873 cases have been reported across the country; The current vaccine (California/7/2009) for H1N1 influenza might be losing its effectiveness in 2011

An epidemic of H1N1 flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives in Bolivia, health officials said Tuesday.

Although most of the cases occurred in the last few weeks, the outbreak does not rise to the level of a national epidemic, officials said.

“At the national level, the situation is under control. The most affected area is in the west,” Johnny Rada, director of the ministry of health’s epidemiology service, [...]

Jim Sinclair – QE To Infinity Certain With European Stabilization Mechanism Treaty

April 19, 2012, at 12:49 pm

by Daniel Duval in the category General Editorial

Dear CIGAs,

QE to Infinity is set in cement in the “European Stabilization Mechanism Treaty.” This is the new European Union and the euro. It will be in place and operative by July of 2012.

European Stability Mechanism 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is a permanent rescue funding programme to succeed the temporary European Financial Stability Facility and European Financial [...]

I was born in a country where abortion is completely illegal. No exceptions for incest, rape, danger to the mother. Nothing.

Abortion in El Salvador

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Abortion in El Salvador is illegal. The law formerly permitted an abortion to be performed under some limited circumstances, but, in 1998, all exceptions were removed when a newabortion law went into effect.[1]

Contents

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1 History of Salvadoran abortion law
2 Reform process and current law
3 Continued practice of abortion in El Salvador
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit]History of Salvadoran abortion law

El Salvador‘s 1956 Penal Code contained no explicit exception to its prohibition of abortion, although, under accepted principles [...]

Wikipedia: A total lunar eclipse will occur on December 10, 2011 and will be visible throughout Asia and the western United States

December 2011 lunar eclipse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Total Lunar Eclipse
December 10, 2011

The Moon passes right to left through the Earth’s shadow

Series (and member)
135 (23 of 71)

Duration (hr:mn:sc)

Totality
00:51:08

Partial
3:32:15

Penumbral
5:56:21

Contacts

P1
11:33:36 UTC

U1
12:45:43 UTC

U2
14:06:16 UTC

Greatest
14:31:49 UTC

U3
14:57:24 UTC

U4
16:17:58 UTC

P4
17:29:57 UTC

The Moon’s hourly motion across the Earth’s shadow in the constellation of Taurus

A total lunar eclipse will take place on December 10, 2011. It will be the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2011, the first having occurred on June 15.

Contents

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1 Visibility

1.1 Map

2 Related eclipses

2.1 Lunar year [...]

Zynga ‘Farmville’ with ‘virtual products for sale’ worth $1 billion, just as sock puppet was in pets dot com:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Pets.com online company. For the retail store company that currently owns the Pets.com domain name and hosts an online Pet Parent community, see PetSmart.

Pets.com is a former dot-com enterprise that sold pet supplies to retail customers. It began operations in February 1999 and closed in November 2000. A high profile marketing campaign gave it a widely [...]

Speaking of being prepared we may need calculators that handle plenty of zeros

Zero stroke From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zero stroke or cipher stroke was a term used to describe a mental disorder reportedly diagnosed by physicians in Germany under the Weimar Republic and which was caused by hyperinflation that occurred in the early 1920s. The disorder was primarily characterized by patients’ desire to write endless rows of zeros, which are also referred to as ciphers.

Cause

The disorder was supposedly caused by [...]

The FOMC – a cross section of America – all members of the Wall Street and academia complex, almost all Keynesians and inflationists

by JR

To introduce just one at the time of her Obama appointment:

Sarah Bloom Raskin, 49
Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation (Aug 2007 to present)
Prior positions: Managing Director, Promontory Financial Group; General Counsel, Worldwide Retail Exchange; General Counsel, Columbia Energy Services Corp; Counsel, Senate Banking Committee; Staff, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Staff, Congress’s Joint Economic Committee
Education: Harvard Law School, J.D.; Amherst , B.A. (Economics).

And Sarah’s husband, Jamie [...]