French musician becomes first-ever passenger inside flying car: ‘Amazing experience’
NY Post | 4/24/24 | Patrick ReillyA flying car company made history this week by taking the world’s first car flight with a passenger in what could be the future of transportation.
Legendary French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre became the first to hitch such a ride, soaring twice through the Slovakian skies in KleinVision’s AirCar in front of captivated onlookers.
“One second you speak to the driver, and next, you are up there in the air. An amazing experience,” Jarre, 75, told Sky News.
Video released by the company shows the sleek, winged sportscar speeding down the runway on four wheels before suddenly, like something out of a sci-fi flick, it’s airborne, climbing into the sky. Jarre can be seen beaming in the passenger seat.
The vehicle, invented and piloted by Professor Stefan Klein transforms from an automobile to a flight-ready aircraft in just minutes.
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The car runs on a 1.6 liter BMW engine — but Zajac said he hopes to run on batteries when the technology catches up.
It flies at speeds of up to 120 mph at altitudes up to 8,000 feet high, The Sun reported.
In addition to a driver’s license, those interested in operating the AirCar must also complete a specialized two-to-three month flying course, according to Sky News.
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The 850-pound, two-seat car, first unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show last year, is an electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (eVTOL) capable of reaching speeds of 110 miles per hour in the air and up to 35 miles per hour on the ground.
That’s nothing. I’ll bet it can break the sound barrier going into the ground.
Beau used one to escape the cannibals.
Getting closer to the end but we won’t get there before the big dark of Walrus’s move. Last matches before that will run by May 22nd. So let us get cracking.
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Lorena Duran 89 Defeated Kate Bock 76
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Natasha Barnard 109 Defeated Sailor Brinkley-Cook 40
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Alyssa Miller vs Christen Harper
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Kate Upton vs Paige Vanzant
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MSNBC’s Wallace: ‘As With Racists, All the Conspiracy Theorists Are Republicans
Breitbart | 04/29/2024 | Pam KeyMSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show “Deadline” that it was not accurate to say everyone in the Republican Party is a conspiracy theorist but “as with racist
, all of the conspiracy theorists are Republicans.”
Kamala Harris Tour To Target Black Male Voters
UK Telegraph | 4/29/2024 | Rozina Sabur
Yecch. What is “Poultry Litter”?
Poultry litter consists of manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material that accumulate on the floors of the buildings that house chickens and turkeys. It can contain disease-causing bacteria, viruses (including H5N1), antibiotics, toxic heavy metals, pesticides and even foreign objects such as dead rodents, birds, rocks, nails and glass.
Yecch. Why should I care?
“It seems ghoulish, but it is a perfectly legal and common practice for chicken litter — the material that accumulates on the floor of chicken growing facilities — to be fed to cattle,” said Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with Consumers Union.
Yecch. And now, the Science!
Poultry litter causing the bovine cases of avian flu is considered “very unlikely, though not impossible” wrote Veronika Pfaeffle, in a joint statement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
Pfaeffle.
… epidemiologists scramble to figure out how dairy cows throughout the Midwest became infected with a strain of highly pathogenic avian flu … It is still unclear how the cows were infected — whether by contact with birds, or via feed made from litter waste — but litter has been associated with previous outbreaks of disease, including botulism.
— Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?
LA Times | April 18, 2024 | Susanne Rust
… Or being an intern …
California Cops, Firefighters, and Utility Workers Are Earning [Nearly] $800k a Year in Overtime Pay
Daily Mail | April 22, 2024 | Josh BoswellWatchdogs have slammed California local government for spending billions in overtime pay – with police officers, firefighters, linemen and utility workers earning up to $792,000 in a single year.
Short staffing, poor planning,
IMAO again!
generous union deals and expensive hiring costs all contribute to civil servants relying heavily on overtime, experts told DailyMail.com.
It has given frontline workers a golden opportunity to earn several million dollars since 2019. But tax watchdogs say it is a raw deal for the taxpayer.
Senior Los Angeles fire captain Jason Getchius had a salary of $169,764 in 2022, the latest figures provided by the city. But by racking up $502,681 in overtime pay, he was able to earn an eye-popping total of $792,467.
San Francisco sheriff’s lieutenant Ronald Terry had a salary of $179,676. With $374,503 in overtime pay, he earned a total of $738,432 in 2022.
Lington Gordon, an electric crew foreman in Santa Clara, made $703,621 with $363,013 overtime, and Oakland police sergeant Timothy Dolan earned $699,345 with $376,998 overtime.
Since 2019, Dolan has earned almost $2.3 million and Gordon $2,231,958.
The figures come from the California State Controller and the charity Transparency California, which compiles salary data on State workers.
Experts say the workers have not done anything wrong, and are merely maximizing their income from local government bosses who have failed to hire enough people.
Wish we could give you more but this is what he puts out for free which is all we can afford after taxes.
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