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Nevada Becomes the First State to Test Fully Automated Passenger Drones

I do like what one of the replies said: Quote: Al Kene • 13 hours ago
I can't wait to get up in the air with absolutely no control over my situation in a Chinese-manufactured product.
What could go wrong? End Quote:

Quote:June 9, 2016

By James Holbrooks
The China-based manufacturer of a fully automated, passenger-carrying transportation drone was given permission on Monday to run test flights in Nevada, marking the first time such technology has come to the United States.
Ehang, Inc., unveiled its prototype Ehang 184 drone at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in January. That’s where Mark Barker, business director for the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems — the state-sponsored nonprofit group that approved Ehang’s request — first encountered the vehicle.
“It caught everybody’s attention,” Barker told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Since then, Nevada officials and Ehang representatives have been working toward a partnership. Now, with official government approval to test within the state, Barker and his associates at the institute can help the Chinese company achieve accreditation under Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) guidelines.
“We will help them submit necessary test results and reports to the FAA and all that kind of stuff,” Barker said. “It’s a big deal to Ehang and it’s a big deal for NIAS and the state of Nevada because we will be helping them to test and validate their system.”
Compact and lightweight — the Ehang 184 is only four feet tall and weighs under 450 lbs — the vehicle would target short- to medium-range transportation needs for single passengers at a time.


After hopping into the cab and customizing settings such as lighting and temperature, passengers enter their destination into a touchscreen, tap a button, then sit back and enjoy the flight.

Governmental drone regulation has proved tricky, as officials try to balance the benefits of what the growing commercial industry can offer against the inherent dangers of this largely untested technology.
But many see bright days ahead for the future of commercial drone manufacturers.
“Passenger drones have huge potential,” Dr. Mirko Kovac, director of the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, told the BBC.

Quote:They can decrease congestion, offer flights in challenging environments and in developing countries where the road infrastructure is not as developed.

While acknowledging that, currently, “people are afraid of drones” — most notably due to UAVs fast becoming an icon of military combat — Dr. Kovac feels those fears will eventually be put aside.
“I think society will overcome this once the technology is more proven,” he told the BBC.
As for Ehang’s choice of Nevada as their testing ground, that decision makes perfect sense. The state has long been lobbying to bring what it sees as an industry on the rise within its borders.
Citing a report by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), a 2015 article by Nevada Business magazine claimed that “Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the U.S. would create more than 100,000 jobs and have an economic impact of $82 billion nationally by 2025.”
Tom Wilczek, of the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development, sees an opportunity. “Even if we only see 10 percent or only capture 10 percent of the market, that’s $9 billion,” he said of AUVSI’s numbers.
And the state appears ready to accommodate.
Already, Nevada is one of only six sites FAA-authorized to conduct trial research on UAVs. And more and more, universities and private nonprofits are working with state lawmakers to hammer out the best way to cultivate what signs suggest could soon be a booming industry.
“That’s what’s really exciting about it,” University of Nevada-Reno’s Warren Rapp told the Nevada Appeal back in January. “It’s a whole new chapter for Nevada.”
This article (Nevada Becomes the First State to Test Fully-Automated, Passenger Drones) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to James Holbrooks and UndergroundReporter.org. If you spot a typo, please email the error and the name of the article to undergroundreporter2016@gmail.com. Image credit: Flickr/ETC-USC

Yes, that is just the way it is Folks  :biggrin:
I'd have to say, those are new Trump Voters :thumbsup: Yes,,, Don't look so shocked there Democrat  .
Not to worry, when it comes to Democrat's Voting, The Dead Well Walk In And Vote. 
 

Quote:Hillary received 15,899,116 votes this year.
Bernie Sanders received 12,193,152 votes.

Hillary and Bernie received 28,092,268 total primary votes this year.
In 2008 Hillary Clinton received 17,493,836 primary votes.
So this year Hillary received 1,594,720 FEWER primary votes than in 2008.
And she lost in 2008!
Horrible.
More than 35,029,294 votes were cast in the 2008 Democratic primary.
So Democrats lost nearly 7 million primary votes this year compared to 2008.
This is devastating news for the Democrats.

Yes The Super Elites will met again this year, it seems they're concerned with the up raising of certain groups of citizens that have been quite and in the background.
They are worried that the Silent Majority Have Grown Tired Of Taking It In The Ass!

Quote:For when Davos isn’t exclusive enough, there is Bilderberg. The Bilderberg Meeting is an annual gathering of world leaders, executives, and assorted grandees, established in 1954 and named for the Dutch hotel where the secretive group first gathered.

Amid heavy security, around 130 people—including three prime ministers and 30 CEOs—will hold talks on the world’s most pressing issues this week. The four-day retreat starts on Thursday (June 9) at an undisclosed location in Dresden, Germany.
This year’s agenda includes predictable topics like “China,” “migration,” and “cyber security.” But one talking point is particularly intriguing, addressing the “precariat and middle class.”
The what? The “precariat” is a term popularized by British economist Guy Standing, describing a growing class of people who feel insecure in their jobs, communities, and life in general. They are…

Quote:…the perpetual part-timers, the minimum-wagers, the temporary foreign workers, the grey-market domestics paid in cash… the techno-impoverished whose piecemeal work has no office and no end, the seniors who struggle with dwindling benefits, the indigenous people who are kept outside, the single mothers without support, the cash labourers who have no savings, the generation for whom a pension and a retirement is neither available nor desired.

This marginalized group—“alienated, anomic, anxious, and angry,” according to Standing—is fueling the rise of populist politicians like Donald Trump in the US and similar rabble rousers in Europe and beyond. (Discussing this group alongside the middle class, which isn’t doing great either, is telling.) The resulting turmoil in politics, markets, and economics is a factor in nearly all of the Bilderberg meeting’s other agenda items.

Quote:So what will the bigwigs do about it? Conspiracy theorists may think that Bilderberg members are in league with the Illuminati, Freemasons, and Lizard People, hatching the New World Order from their secret hideouts. More likely is that the politicians and power brokers meeting in Germany this week are as taken aback by the travails of the increasingly marginalized masses as anybody else.

But what the Bilderbergers really think will remain a mystery. According to the group’s code, “There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.”

You have to consider the why and where all this will end up ? I for one am sure these types of things are but a prelude to more things a coming. Call me "whatever" but a realist has always been one of my finer points.
http://pamelageller.com/2016/06/muslim-m...kids.html/
Muslim Migrants BURN 5 British teenagers with ACID, leaving one ‘BLINDED IN ONE EYE’ and 4 others horrifically injured as they waited for a train - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/06/muslim-m...gGicO.dpuf

Quote:—- Young group were standing at Ockendon station, Essex, when attacked
— Doused in corrosive liquid by group of Muslim assailants who then fled
— One of the teenagers left blind in one eye while a second badly burned
—Three others also hurt but released from hospital with minor injuries - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/06/muslim-m...gGicO.dpuf

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Quote:                           Politics You've got to know how to "game" the system
 
 
            So I told my son "I want you to marry a girl of my choice!"
            He said "NO!"
            I told him its Bill Gates daughter!!!!
            He said "OKAY!"
            Got in contact with Bill Gates & told him "I want your daughter to marry my son!"
            He said "NO!"
            Told him my son was the CEO of the World Bank!
            He said "OKAY!"
            Went to the President of the World Bank & told him to make my son CEO of the Bank!
            He said "NO!"
            Told him my son was Bill Gates Son in Law!
            He said "OKAY!"
 
            *That's Exactly how Politics works....*

Very interesting story about Hedwig Kiesler - a/k/a  Hedy Lamarr....

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Quote:In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked.  Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period.
 

 
The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.

 
Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the  most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable.  Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.

 
The star of the film, called Ecstasy, was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid." In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She'd grown up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her.

 
Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history.

 
Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made - and spent - $30 million in her life.

 
But her greatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect, and her invention continues to shape the world we live in today.

 
You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler's nose. After fleeing to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star, her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the  U.S. Patent Office.

 
Today, when you use  your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called "long-term  evolution" or "LTE" technology), you'll be using an extension of the technology a 20- year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler.

 
At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria's leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis.

 
Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl's favorite topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes.

 
Wireless weapons offered  far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that  prevailed at the time.

 
Kiesler sat through these dinners "looking stupid," while absorbing everything she heard.

 
As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her husband's business ambitions.  Mandl responded to his willful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau.

 

 
In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid's clothes and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to London.

 
(She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Mandl's factory. He was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. Later, he became an adviser to Argentina's iconic populist president, Juan Peron.)

 
In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer. She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM  movies was a blockbuster.

 
But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies. At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn't be "jammed." She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis.

 
By the 1940s, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of single-frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler's ex-husband had been peddling. The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the appropriate frequency and "jam" or intercept the signal, thereby interfering with the missile's intended path.

 
Kiesler's key innovation was to "change the channel." It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message would still  get  through on one of the other frequencies being used. The problem was, she could not figure out how to synchronize the frequency changes on both the receiver and the  transmitter.  To solve the problem, she turned to perhaps the world's first techno-musician, George Anthiel.

 
Anthiel  was an  acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for creating intricate musical compositions. He synchronized his melodies across twelve player pianos, producing stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard before. Kiesler incorporated Anthiel's technology for synchronizing his player pianos.  Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon's receiver and its transmitter.

 
On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was  granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey,"  which was Kiesler's married name at the time.

 
Most of  you won't recognize the name Kiesler. And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it's a fair bet than anyone reading this newsletter of a certain age will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood's golden age ~ Hedy Lamarr.

 
That's the name Louis B. Mayer gave to his prize actress. That's the name his movie company made famous.
 

 
Meanwhile, almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler - a/k/a  Hedy Lamarr - was one of the great pioneers of wireless communications.  Her technology was developed by the U.S. Navy, which  has used it ever since.

 
You are probably using Lamarr's technology, too. Her patent sits at the foundation of "spread spectrum technology," which you use every day when you log on to a wi-fi network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. It lies at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called fourth-generation "LTE" wireless technology. This next generation of cell phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless signals across the entire available spectrum.  This kind of encoding is only possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.
 
SHE HAD 6 HUSBANDS, AND DIED AT AGE 85....A CHARMED LIFE TO SAY THE LEAST ! ! !  
 
And now you know the rest of the story.

This is as fantastic story !

Quote:How a [b]Medal of Honor Dog Hugs a Baby[/b]  ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

I thought you might like to know about this dog and his history.

The ending is quite amazing after you read the beginning

 

The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord.
He's huge - part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops the scales at 200 lbs.
His handler took the picture.
Brutus is running toward me because he knows I have some Milkbone treats, so he's slobbering away!
I had to duck around a tree just before he got to me in case he couldn't stop, but he did.
Brutus was the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
last year from his tour in Iraq ..
His handler and four other soldiers were taken hostage by insurgents.
Brutus and his handler communicate by sign language and he gave Brutus the signal that meant 'go away but come back and find me'.
The Iraqis paid no attention to Brutus.
He came back later and quietly tore the throat out of one guard at one door and another guard at another door.
He then jumped against one of the doors repeatedly (the guys were being held in an old warehouse) until it opened.
He went in and untied his handler, and they all escaped.
He's the first K9 to receive this honor.
If he knows you're ok, he's a big old lug and wants to sit in your lap. He enjoys the company of cats. Talk about animal intelligence and bonding with humans!
Remember that they can't do a lot of things for themselves and they depend on you to make their life a quality life! 
Instructions for properly hugging a baby 
(from a dog's point of view):
1... First, uh, find a baby.


2. Second, be sure that the object you found was indeed a baby, by employing classic sniffing techniques.

3... Next, you will need to flatten the baby before actually beginning the hugging process.


4. The 'paw slide': Simply slide paws around baby and prepare for possible close-up.

5.Finally, if a camera is present, you will need to execute the difficult and patented 'hug, smile, and lean' so as to achieve the best photo.
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Even tho Hillary has to wait until DNC Convention in July to be declared the Dem Nominee, she is already carrying on like it is official now.
Including reaching out to Sanders supporters

Quote:Hillary Clinton directly appealed to Bernie Sanders supporters to unify behind her in a Tuesday night speech that embraced her historic role as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party.
 

“It may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now — but don’t worry, we’re not smashing this one,” the Democratic front-runner told a roaring crowd in Brooklyn.
 
“Thanks to you we’ve reached a milestone: the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee,” she said.
 

Clinton won't officially be the party's standard-bearer until she is formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention next month, but her delegate support makes that all but certain.

The speech was the first time she declared herself the Democratic Party's nominee. Ahead of the Brooklyn rally, her campaign released a new video highlighting those who have fought for women's rights and calling on people to "keep making history.”

Quote:"I want to congratulate Sen. Sanders for the extraordinary campaign he has run. He has spent his long career in public service fighting for progressive causes and principles and he's excited millions of voters, especially young people," Clinton said.

"Let there be no mistake: Sen. Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise income, reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, have been very good for the Democratic Party and for America."