At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete,
the suspending cables on each side will be removed.Extra vertical columns will then be installed on the arches to carry the road.
The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called the Mike O’Callaghan-
Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and an American Football player from Arizona
who joined the US Army and was killed in Afghanistan.Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should finish next year. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day.The dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco .
The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead , is 110 miles long and took six years to fill.
The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.
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Hoover Dam ByPass
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First piloted aircraft just on fuel cells takes off
Fuel Cells, July 21 2009 (The Hydrogen Journal)– In another first for Hamburg’s hydrogen fuel cell industry, the first piloted aircraft able to take off just using fuel cell power, has been demonstrated at Hamburg airport on July 7 2009.
The aircraft, Antares DLR-H2, was developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR).
The propulsion system was developed by DLR Institute for Technical Thermodynamics (Institut für Technische Thermodynamik – Stuttgart) in collaboration with its project partners, Lange Aviation, BASF Fuel Cells and Serenergy (Denmark)
To date, fuel cells have been tested on aircraft to provide auxiliary power (eg cabin lighting), and they have been used to fly unmmaned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but this is the first manned aircraft just using fuel cell power for main propulsion and take-off.
“We have improved the performance capabilities and efficiency of the fuel cell to such an extent that a piloted aircraft is now able to take off using it,” stated Prof. Dr-Ing Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the Executive Board at DLR.
The aircraft has a wing span of 20m, and was constructed by Lange Aviation. It has a cruising range of 750km, or flying time of 5 hours.
The fuel cell is hung under the left wing and the hydrogen tank under the right wing – the hydrogen tank has a capacity of either 2 or 4.9kg.
The total additional weight under the aircraft wings is 100kg – the wings had to be made out of new materials to ensure that it could be safely carried.
The aircraft can fly at up to 300 km/h without any wing flutter, although the current propulsion system only allows 170 km/h speeds.
The fuel cell can provide 25 kW of electrical power, but only needs 10kW to fly in a straight line.
The total efficiency from tank to powertrain (including propeller) is around 44 per cent, compared to 18 to 25 per cent for systems powered by kerosene or diesel.
The fuel cell was developed by DLR Institute for Technical Thermodynamics in collaboration with BASF Fuel Cells (electrolytic membrane and catalysts) and Serenergy A/S (stack subsystem).
In the future, DLR hopes to improve efficiency, extend service life, and optimise cooling systems, fuel cell architecture and components. “”At this stage, we have only tapped into a fraction of the performance capabilities of this technology for aerospace applications,” says Project Manager Dr-Ing. Josef Kallo.
DLR is aiming to demonstrate that fuel cells could be a reliable source of on-board power for commercial aircraft.
DLR article
The Hydrogen Journal
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Obituary – Turkan Saylan
Dermatologist, founder of Turkish Leprosy Relief Association, and women’s rights activist.
Born on Dec 13, 1935, in Istanbul, Turkey, she died of liver cancer on May 18, 2009, in Istanbul, aged 73 years.“You, my dear daughter”, reads a letter addressed to Turkey’s girls from dermatologist Turkan Saylan, “Stop asking yourself, ‘Why am I born a girl?’ and aim at becoming the best you can be.” The letter, which was read at Saylan’s funeral in Istanbul, conveyed a message close to the heart of this woman whose life was devoted to medicine and social activism.Saylan was one of the fi rst female dermatologists in Turkey, and a leading fi gure in the fi ght against leprosy. In 1976, she founded the country’s Turkish Leprosy Relief Association. Later, she helped found the International Leprosy Union and served as a consultant to WHO on the disease. But she will perhaps be best remembered for her women’s rights activism, and for her eff orts to bring education to girls living in the impoverished Turkish countryside.
In 1989, she helped found the Association to Support Contemporary Life (CYDD), a non-governmental organisation
(NGO) that works to place young girls in school.CYDD was inspired by the years Saylan spent working in rural Turkey, where girls, for cultural and fi nancial reasons,
are often left behind at home when their brothers go to school. CYDD has built schools in rural areas and awarded
scholarships to young girls. “The aim of this NGO is to protect and advance Ataturk’s Turkish Republic and secularism”,
Filiz Mericli, the new head of the organisation, told The Lancet “She [Saylan] thought the only way to make this come
alive was to make all children have the same opportunities to have an education.” Despite Saylan’s death, this work will
continue. “Of course she is a great loss, not only for CYDD, but also for Turkey and even for the world”, Mericli said, “But she has shown us the way to make her dreams come true.”An uncompromising secularist and a fi rm believer in the principles of Kemal Ataturk, Saylan’s life was controversial
until the end. Along with other members of CYDD, she was recently placed on a watch list compiled by public prosecutors looking into allegations of a planned military coup against the Islamic Justice and Development Government. Weeks before her death, police raided her home and office and confi scated private and professional documents.Condemning the raid on state television, a terminally ill but defi ant Saylan said: “We want democracy and contemporary values to rule. Therefore, we are ready to fi ght for this cause as long as it takes.” She said she favoured neither a coup nor the introduction of Sharia, the Islamic legal code.
People who knew her are full of praise. “Dr Saylan was one of the most active, energetic, positive, humble persons who managed to accomplish lifetimes of work in a single life,” said Filiz Odabas-Geldiay, vice-president of the Ataturk
Society of America, an NGO that aims to promote Ataturk’s legacy. Saylan was awarded the organisation’s Ataturk
Award in Education and Modernisation in 2001. But Saylan was known as a modest person who disliked all the praise she received. “I very much dislike people who praise me saying ‘if only we had ten more people like you, Turkey would have been so much more advanced by now’.” Saylan told Voice of Ataturk, a publication of the Ataturk Society of America, a few years before her death. “My response to them is ‘why aren’t you one of those people yourself? Stop praising me and be the kind of person you want to see’.”Saylan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University in 1963 with a specialisation in venereal
diseases and dermatology. After further studies in the UK, she taught at Istanbul University, becoming a professor in
1977. She was the head of Istanbul Leprosy Hospital for 21 years between 1981 and 2002, when she retired.Saylan received several international awards, including the International Gandhi Prize in 1986. She published seven
books in Turkey, including the autobiographical The Sun Rises Now Out of Hope. Here, Saylan gives intimate details
from her career and private life. It was a spectacular life, but also one plagued by health problems. As a medical student, she spent 13 months lying face down in bed to recover from spinal tuberculosis and she was diagnosed with breast cancer 19 years ago. By 2002, the cancer had spread to her liver.Saylan is survived by two sons, Cinar Orge, a physician, and Caglayan Orge, a graphic designer, and two grandchildren.
She married twice, to Mustafa Orge and Cevdet Bilgin, but remained single for the last years of her life.Kristin Solberg
kristinelisabethsolberg@gmail.comSource : www.thelancet.com Vol 374 July 4, 2009
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Cyber Attack Knocks Out Major US Websites
A “massive” cyber attack which shut down the websites of several US government agencies could be linked to a similar outage in South Korea.
The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department sites were all down at various points over the weekend and into this week, officials said.Some of the sites were still experiencing problems on Tuesday evening after the attack, which started on July 4.
The agencies, including some which are responsible for fighting cyber crime, were working with their internet service provider to resolve the problem, the officials added.
Government agencies and banks in South Korea also had their websites paralysed by a suspected cyber attack on Tuesday, with some still unstable or inaccessible yet.
The problems in the two countries appeared to be linked, said Ahn Jeong-eun, a spokeswoman at the Korea Information Security Agency.
The US sites experienced a “massive outage”, according to Keynote Systems, a company which monitors 40 government sites in America.
Ben Rushlo, director of internet technologies at the firm, said of the transportation department site problems: “This is very strange. You don’t see this.
“Having something 100% down for a 24-hour-plus period is a pretty significant event.”
He added: “The fact that it lasted for so long and that it was so significant in its ability to bring the site down says something about the site’s ability to fend off (an attack) or about the severity of the attack.”
A computer emergency team from the Homeland Security Department has issued a notice to federal departments about the problems, spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said.
The message advised agencies “of steps to take to help mitigate against such attacks”.
Networks in the US are targeted every day and measures have been put in place to minimise the impact on federal government websites, Ms Kudwa added.
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Swine Flu as Biological Warfare Weapon?
Swine Flu as Biological Warfare Weapon?
Do you think that the H1N1 strain of swine flu is likely to be a CREATED weapon of mass infection? Consider the logistics involved in order for this virus to have combined itself the way it has. From an article on NAtural News….
(NaturalNews) Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of influenza — which includes genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu spanning three continents — there is considerable speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made……..
Is there any hard evidence of laboratory origins?
As of this moment, I have not personally seen any conclusive evidence of laboratory origins for this H1N1 swine flu. I am open to the possibility that new evidence may emerge in this direction, however, and I am suspicious of the genetic makeup of the virus as one possible indicator of its origins.
I am not a medical specialist in the area of infectious disease, but I have studied microbiology, genetics and a considerable amount of material on pandemics. What seems suspicious to me is the hybrid origin of the viral fragments found in H1N1 influenza. According to reports in the mainstream media (which has no reason to lie about this particular detail), this strain of influenza contains viral code fragments from:
• Human influenza
• Bird Flu from North America
• Swine flu from Europe
• Swine flu from AsiaThis is rather astonishing to realize, because for this to have been a natural combination of viral fragments, it means an infected bird from North America would have had to infect pigs in Europe, then be re-infected by those some pigs with an unlikely cross-species mutation that allowed the bird to carry it again, then that bird would have had to fly to Asia and infected pigs there, and those Asian pigs then mutated the virus once again (while preserving the European swine and bird flu elements) to become human transmittable, and then a human would have had to catch that virus from the Asian pigs — in Mexico! — and spread it to others. (This isn’t the only explanation of how it could have happened, but it is one scenario that gives you an idea of the complexity of such a thing happening).
A news report on the alternative media website “InfoWars” says the following…
During the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Summit in Montebello, Canada in 2005, the “three amigos” (Bush, Harper and Calderon) released “North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza,” described as a “collaborative North American approach that recognizes that controlling the spread of avian influenza or a novel strain of human influenza, with minimal economic disruption, is in the best interest of all three countries.” The plan outlines how “Canada, Mexico and the United States intend to work together to prepare for and manage avian and pandemic influenza.”….
On Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stoked the fear of a global flu pandemic. He said the Mexican flu outbreak is the “first test” of the “pandemic preparedness work undertaken by the international community over the past three years.” Ban Ki-moon said if “we are indeed facing a pandemic, we need to demonstrate global solidarity. In our interconnected world, no nation can deal with threats of such dimension on its own.”
For Ki-moon and the global elite, “global solidarity” in “our interconnected world” translates into yet another push for world government. Ki-moon’s dire warning falls on the heels of the G20 summit where plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the U.S. dollar’s role as the world reserve currency. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and others repeatedly called for “global governance” and a “New World Order.”
If this is your first introduction to the idea that our governements could be so devious, take a deep breath, and just consider that all is NEVER what it seems. Granted InfoWars reporting tends to be a little on the outside of extreme sometimes, but I do believe that there is a distinct probability that away from the option of one world government control (and all that) … that this is just a simple biological warfare weapons test. Well not all that simple, however, it is a fairly well known fact that governments the world over are testing out new strains of viruses and bacterium.
I am also going to encourage you to compare how this virus is behaving when held up to typical flu pandemics.
If you don’t think that governments would intentionally spray or test anything on humans then think again. You really need to watch this YouTube video on ChemTrails – It may not convince you but it should get you thinking. OK I know only wierdos talk about chem trails but this is a news story with real laboratory confirmed testing of what falls. It’s a very short clip worth watching.
What do you think? Have you considered the possibility that certain world governments are using Mexico (and the world) as their own personal petri dish for the swine flu?
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Deutsche Telekom wants asset swap for T-Mobile UK
FT names Vodafone Turkey as likely candidate to swap assets with German operator’s U.K. unit.Deutsche Telekom AG executives would prefer an asset-swap deal with any suitor for its T-Mobile UK unit, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing two people familiar with the company.
The executives are interested in swapping T-Mobile for an asset in another country rather than selling or merging the business, although they acknowledge it would be a difficult deal to consummate.
The sources said Vodafone Turkey – a unit of Vodafone Group PLC, which is reportedly mulling a bid for T-Mobile – is the ideal for an asset swap. One of the sources said EUR3 billion would be the “absolute minimum value” for T-Mobile if Deutsche Telekom opts to sell.
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