The King of Denmark, HM King Frederik X (born 1968), has been the sovereign of Denmark since 14 January 2024. HM the King and HM Queen Mary got married in 2004 in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, and they have four children.
Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo da Vinci, and Pablo Picasso possessed some of the greatest minds and talents in history and they were dyslexic.
Being dyslexic does not stop the sufferer living a normal productive life.
If you check you will find most NATO members have paid in full and it is a voluntary contribution not a monthly bill.
Poland has contributed more than any other country due to the real threat of Russian incursion, thus proving that NATO is needed as much today as in 1949.
A former Boeing manager turned whistleblower has been found dead with a 'self-inflicted' wound, the authorities say.
A former Boeing manager who flagged concerns about the aircraft manufacturer's quality standards was found dead in South Carolina on Saturday.
John Barnett, 62, was found dead in his truck at a hotel car park in Charleston, just days after he started giving a formal deposition in a legal action against Boeing, the BBC first reported.
The Charleston County coroner's office said in a statement that Barnett had died from "what appears to be a self-inflicted" wound, per multiple news outlets such as The Hill.
Boeing told Business Insider in a statement: "We are saddened by Mr Barnett's passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends."
Police are investigating Barnett's death. He worked for about 32 years at Boeing before retiring in 2017, and for a time, was a quality manager at a North Charleston manufacturing plant for the 787 Dreamliner.
At this post, Barnett said he observed worrying signs of slipping standards at Boeing, saying that the manufacturer was rushing to assemble its aircraft.
"I haven't seen a plane out of Charleston yet that I'd put my name on saying it's safe and airworthy," Barnett told The New York Times in 2019.
That year, he told the BBC that a test in 2016 for 300 oxygen systems showed that a quarter of them failed to deploy. Barnett also alleged that he knew of at least one case at the plant where workers used parts from scrap bins to fit planes on the production line.
In January, Barnett told TMZ of cases where inspectors were given only two hours to find defects in a supplier's products, significantly hampering their ability to conduct proper checks.
Boeing has denied Barnett's allegations and said that while it found some defective oxygen systems, as Barnett reported, it removed them from production so they weren't deployed on any aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration visited the Charleston facility and found that more than 50 "non-conforming" parts were missing, appearing to add credibility to Barnett's claims of parts from scrap bins being used, per the BBC. Barnett was due to continue deposition, lawyer says Barnett had filed an AIR21 case against Boeing, saying it undermined his career because he had raised safety concerns at the Charleston plant. The AIR21 is a law protecting airline safety whistleblowers.
Barnett's lawyer, Brian Knowles, said the former Boeing manager was supposed to report for the third day of his deposition on Friday, per the Corporate Crime Reporter.
He was questioned by Boeing's lawyers on Thursday and then cross-examined by Knowles on Friday, but didn't show up or respond to calls on Saturday, Knowles said.
Barnett's lawyers asked his hotel to check on the whistleblower, and he was found dead in his vehicle, Knowles told the Corporate Crime Reporter. The BBC reported the same details surrounding Barnett's death.
Knowles did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours by Business Insider.
Boeing has, in recent months, come under scrutiny over safety concerns in its 737 Max planes after an Alaska Airlines flight in January had a door plug blown out of its fuselage while in the air.
The New York Times reported on Monday, citing a set of presentation slides, that Boeing had recently failed 33 out of 89 FAA product audits for its 737 Max production.
On Monday, at least 50 passengers were injured when a Boeing 787 Dreamliner run by Latam Airlines dropped suddenly due to a technical issue. The 787 is the aircraft that Barnett worked on at the North Charleston facility.
I enjoy a social beer or two, but it has raised eyebrows here that most guys around the bar drink two or even three bottles of San Miguel beer to my one bottle. I’ve been accused of being a cheapskate but I regularly buy a round, it’s all water off a ducks back to me, life is too short to get stressed over what others people think.
Cornell expert says Trump’s frequent phonemic paraphasia ‘are signs of early dementia’
“In the 2024 election, both party candidates have been accused by the other of having psychological deficits. This weaponizing of clinical concepts is no doubt confusing to voters and journalists. A careful consideration of these claims can demystify their use as ‘opposition research.’
“Objectively, Donald Trump has a documented history of lying that is so marked as to be considered 'pathological.' Politicians often say untrue things, but the frequency of Trump’s lying is so extreme as to meet criteria for sociopathic behavior, since he tells falsehoods across all life domains, from his personal relationships to business dealings and finally to politics. Recently, several clinicians have noted the ways he has begun to mistake words, lose his train of thought, confuse Biden with Obama, particularly during long rallies held in the evening. There are examples of phonemic paraphasia – swapping parts of words for others that sound similar; these are signs of early dementia, even though they are intermittent.
“The complaints about Joe Biden have been more vague – citing his advanced age, physical fragility and occasional mixing up of names. But there is no evidence of dementia onset, no ‘sun-downing,’ no reports from staff or cabinet members that he is failing to stay on top of legislative or international issues. This in contrast to Trump whose cabinet at the end of his term considered invoking the 25th amendment.
“This is not a partisan take. If the figures here were reversed, I would make the same judgment.”
I live on a tropical island, surrounded by coconut and papaya trees, I overlook a turquoise blue sea and a white sand beach, I have no need for any stimulants or alcohol.
Having said that, there are many ex-pats here who cannot miss a day without beer and or rum, I feel sorry for them.
Have you ever bothered to read the same media “fact checks” on Trumps State of the Union address? Instead of have a dozen incorrect statements there were so many in Trumps speech USA Today had to publish extra pages to show them all.
Voting for Trump will end the USA’s position as the world’s foremost leading nation. Hopefully he will lose as predicted by several political analysts.
Most of the world would disagree, his speech was forceful and made several important points, especially how trump had decimated the American economy, with thoughtless regard to the impact his decisions would make on the average American.
If Biden lied then spell them out. Let’s all hear them.
Why do you never criticise Trump’s proven lies but always pick up on Biden small exaggerations?
I think you will find it was Trump who put a stop to the plan Biden was pushing for that would have reduced illegal immigration on the southern border.
Why would any party veto a plan that they themselves wanted in the first place?
The Republicans are controlled by one man, in any dictionary that is not democracy it is dictatorship.
Voting for Biden is the only way the US will return to some semblance of normalcy and true democracy as described in the American constitution.
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RE: A rigged Russian election... how is that possible?
A corrupt company does not necessarily mean a communist country, but saying the US is communist makes you feel good about yourself, pathetic!