Update: my Arab taxi driver saved two girls at the Nova festival.
Says he saw the paragliders coming and got them out at 06:40. Said his hands were shaking on the steering wheel. “They’re not Hamas, they’re ISIS. They murdered Arabs and Muslims too.”
@arieljalali I was on a @Lyft ride on oct 8 and he had the tv on his phone showing the revelry of the killings and I had to endure it as a Jew for 17 miles
@arieljalali That is beautiful. The same happened to me in a NYC cab, "This driver launched into a whole antisemitic thing about how the Jews control the world". I had to ask him to stop immediately, and the conversation was not so nice.
It was the early 1950s, and "I Love Lucy" had America enraptured. The show was so popular that, as Lucille Ball, the star who played "Lucy" would say,
"In 1951-52, our show changed the Monday-night habits of America. Between nine and nine-thirty, taxis disappeared from the streets of New York. Marshall Fields department store in Chicago hung up a sign: 'We love Lucy too, so from now on we'll be open Thursday nights instead of Monday.' Telephone calls across the nation dropped sharply during that half hour, as well as the water flush rate, as whole families sat glued to their seats."
But in 1952, the show nearly came to a stop. Lucille was pregnant. She and her husband, Desi Arnaz, were expecting their second child.
Joyful it was for the couple but problematic for the show, considering the societal taboos around depicting pregnancy on television. Sensing an opportunity to be bold and help shift social norms, the executives and writers wrote Lucille's real-life pregnancy into the show, though they used the word “expecting” instead of “pregnant.”
As Lucille's pregnancy unfolded on screen, the show handled it with warmth and humor, delighting viewers and adding to its immense popularity.
On January 19, 1953, Lucille gave birth to Desi Arnaz Jr., and just 12 hours later, 44 million viewers – 72% of American households – tuned in to see Lucy welcome Little Ricky into the world. The episode garnered more viewers than President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inauguration the following day.
I am pleased to share that we completed first taxi tests and have been issued an FAA experimental airworthiness certificate, clearing us for the first flight of the world's largest (by far) hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft
It works! First propeller spin entirely on #hydrogen fuel cell power. Now the fairings come on. Taxi testing footage is coming soon. Stay tuned for that.