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'I ejected': Pilot of crashed F-35 jet in South Carolina pleads for help in phone call Kayla Jimenez and Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY Thu, September 21, 2023 at 8:15 PM CDT·3 min read 757 Emerging details from a four-minute phone call made by a military pilot to an emergency dispatcher show he was pleading for medical help after he ejected from an F-35 fighter jet and into a South Carolina resident's backyard. The resident of the home, in North Charleston, first tells the dispatcher: “We got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we’re trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please." The pilot then gets on the call to say: “Ma’am, a military jet crashed. I’m the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling. I’m not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected.” (FILES) A US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II, a short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, flies past during a preview of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on February 13, 2022. A stealth-capable US fighter jet vanished on September 17, 2023 -- not from prying eyes but rather from the American military, prompting an unusual call to the public to help locate the missing multimillion-dollar plane. After what authorities labeled a "mishap," a pilot flying an F-35 in the southern state of South Carolina on Sunday afternoon ejected from the craft. The pilot survived, but the military was left with an expensive problem: it couldn't find the jet, leading Joint Base Charleston to ask for help from local residents. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)More The pilot's account comes the same day that a federal accountability office released a 96-page report urging the Department of Defense and the military services to "reassess the future sustainment strategy" of the aircraft model as it plans to spend $1.7 trillion on 2,500 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets. Over the weekend, a $100 million military aircraft went missing and flew without its pilot for 60 miles before crashing north of the Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina. Pilot ejected after 'mishap': Missing F-35 jet flew for 60 miles without a pilot Debris from the jet was located Monday in Indiantown, South Carolina, 80 miles north of the base after a malfunction caused the pilot to eject from the aircraft and land in a residential backyard about one mile north of the Charleston International Airport on Sunday. Little is known about what caused the jet to go untraced because the U.S. Marine Corps hasn't released much information on how the "most expensive" aircraft went missing and crashed. The Marine Corps has said the plane was flying at an altitude of about 1,000 feet and it has a flight control software that could explain how it continued to fly without a pilot, the Associated Press reported. “This is designed to save our pilots if they are incapacitated or lose situational awareness," the Marine Corps said in a statement, according to the AP. There is an investigation into the case. The F-35 that crashed in South Carolina is one of about 450 owned by the DOD, the report says. The Government Accountability Office laid out several concerns in a new report released Thursday, including several about the maintenance costs of the aircraft model. Of the $1.7 trillion the DOD plans to invest in the F-35 planes, $1.3 trillion is "associated with operating and sustaining the aircraft." Missing jet located: Missing F-35 jet flew for 60 miles without a pilot, who ejected into backyard after 'mishap' Government Accountability Office: F-35 aircraft performing 'far below program goals' What did they find? A summary of the report says the Government Accountability Office found the aircrafts were performing "far below program goals." "The F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions—was about 55 percent in March 2023... in part to challenges with depot and organizational maintenance," the summary reads. The office also details further maintenance concerns. "At the same time, organizational-level maintenance has been affected by a number of issues, including a lack of technical data and training," the document continues. It arrived at its conclusion by reviewing "F-35 program documentation, reviewed readiness and performance data, visited two F-35 depots and three operational installations, conducted a survey of all 15 F-35 installations, and interviewed officials," the summary reads. What do they recommend? The Government Accountability Office is recommending the Department of Defense work on: "Reassessing F-35 sustainment elements to determine government and contractor responsibility and any required technical data," and; "Making final decisions on changes to F-35 sustainment to address performance and affordability." The Department of Defense has reviewed and concurred with all of the recommendations, said Jeff Jurgenson, a spokesperson for the department.

Bionic silkworms with spider genes spin fibers 6x tougher than Kevlar By Bronwyn Thompson September 20, 2023 Transgenic silkworms have produced fibers that have both high strength and toughness Junpeng Mi VIEW 1 IMAGES For the first time, scientists have successfully produced full-length spider silk fibers using genetically modified silkworms. With high strength and toughness, this silk has the potential to provide a scalable, sustainable and better-quality alternative to current synthetic fibers like nylon. “Silkworm silk is presently the only animal silk fiber commercialized on a large scale, with well-established rearing techniques,” said first author Junpeng Mi, researcher at the College of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Donghua University, China. “Consequently, employing genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk fiber enables low-cost, large-scale commercialization.” The fibers that silkworms build their cocoons with has been cultivated for thousands of years, but while plentiful it’s famously brittle. Spiders, meanwhile, produce enviably tough and strong silk, however, cultivating it on any sort of scale has been out of reach. The “cannibalistic nature of spiders,” note the researchers, makes it impossible to house spiders together without a fight to the death of nearly all animals. This latest study could be the best of both worlds, and a game-changer in the quest for sustainable production of this elusive natural material. Scientists have been trying to perfect this bionic 'recipe' for more than a decade. To engineer silkworm with unique spidey senses, Mi and colleagues focused on a small silk protein from Araneus ventricosus, an orb-weaving spider found in East Asia. Using CRISPR-Cas9, the MiSp protein was inserted into the silkworm’s DNA, in place of the gene that codes for the silkworm’s primary silk protein. The scientists were able to also achieve "localization,” with the gene successfully activated in the silkworm’s DNA, without it interfering with any other aspects of the animal's natural silk production. “This concept of ‘localization,’ introduced in this thesis, along with the proposed minimal structural model, represents a significant departure from previous research,” says Mi. “We are confident that large-scale commercialization is on the horizon.” The resulting fibers exceeded researchers’ expectations, combing high tensile strength (1,299 MPa) and toughness (319 MJ/m3). Not only that, the fibers were far more flexible than expected; the MiSp protein is better known for producing silk that’s strong but not stretchy. “Spider silk stands as a strategic resource in urgent need of exploration,” said Mi. “The exceptionally high mechanical performance of the fibers produced in this study holds significant promise in this field. This type of fiber can be utilized as surgical sutures, addressing a global demand exceeding 300 million procedures annually.” The new fibers have broad commercial potential, including in smart materials for the military, aerospace technology, biomedical engineering and garments. The silk produced is six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. The researchers now plan to develop genetically modified silkworms that produce spider silk fibers from natural and engineered amino acids. “The introduction of over one hundred engineered amino acids holds boundless potential for engineered spider silk fibers,” said Mi. The research was published in the journal Matter.

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Oh, lol, never recalled seeing him with short hair..sorry.

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Biden claims he was ‘raised’ in synagogues, adding to ever-growing list of exaggerated background claims Jessica Chasmar, Brandon Gillespie Tue, September 19, 2023 at 4:00 AM CDT·5 min read President Biden’s latest claim about being "raised in the synagogues" of Delaware follows a long history of the octogenarian president exaggerating his cultural background in an attempt to connect with people he's speaking to. "I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I’m kidding, I’m not," Biden told a group of rabbis during a call Thursday ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year holiday that began Friday. The president, who calls himself a devout Catholic, has made the claim before, though there’s little evidence to support it. "I probably went to shul more than many of you did," Biden said last year during a speech marking Rosh Hashanah. "You all think I’m kidding … I’m not. I’m not." BIDEN’S HISTORY OF CONTROVERSIAL RACIAL COMMENTS President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Biden said at the time, "I received my education" at the Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Delaware. But neither of Biden’s memoirs make any mention of Beth Shalom or attending synagogue, the New York Post previously reported. Biden also told the rabbis Thursday that he "got involved with the civil rights movement" before becoming a senator – a claim that Biden himself acknowledged wasn’t true during his 1988 presidential bid that was derailed over plagiarism allegations. "During the '60s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement," then-presidential candidate Biden said in 1987. "I was not an activist. I worked at an all-Black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were thinking, in what they were feeling." "But I was not out marching, I was not down in Selma," he continued. "I was not anywhere else." Biden has also frequently claimed to have attended a Black church as a teenager despite longtime congregants insisting that they never saw him. "Let's lay one thing to rest. I may be a practicing Catholic, but used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the Black church," Biden said. "Not a joke." In February 2015, Biden raised eyebrows after he claimed he had "an awful lot" of Somali friends who drove taxis. President Joe Biden takes questions from children during an event marking Take Your Child To Work Day April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. "Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community," he said. "I might add if you ever come to the train station with me you’ll notice I have great relationships with them, because there’s an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I’m not being solicitous. I’m being serious." The Washington Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, called the claim a "whopper" and argued that the vast majority of refugees who settled in the area hailed from West African countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, not Somalia. In February, Twitter users piled on Biden after he boasted about growing up in a Polish community while visiting the country. At the time, Biden met with Polish President Andrzej Duda regarding the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine entering its second year. While speaking to the media, the president recalled his own connections to Poland, saying that his childhood home was in a Polish community. Joe Biden smiles from the front seat of his Corvette Stingray in a 2020 campaign video push to revitalize the American auto industry. "I was, as a young man, I was born in a coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood. Then when coal died, we moved down to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, Delaware, which was a working-class town, but everybody in town was either Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in an S-K-I or an O," Biden said. He continued, "But all kidding aside, the connection between — I was telling the president, the pride, the overwhelming, demonstrable pride that Polish Americans feel about Poland and the role you are playing now, we were talking about it, it is extreme. It is. You would be — if you haven’t seen it, you should come and see it." Several social media users have also pointed out that Biden has frequently claimed to have grown up in various communities, depending on his location, most notably the Puerto Rican community. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Prince George's Community College on September 14, 2023 in Largo, Maryland. In October 2022, President Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday in an effort to express support for the island following the impacts of Hurricane Fiona, saying he was raised in the Puerto Rican community on the U.S mainland in a political context. "We have a very… large Puerto Rican population in Delaware," he said. "I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically. We came here for a long time as part of both business and pleasure. I'm committed to this island." Additionally, Biden insisted during Greek Independence Day 2009, "I’m an honorary Greek — not only today but every day!" He also stated on another occasion, "We haven’t had a Greek in the White House, but now we have Joe Bidenopoulos."

Kansas mom, 2 sons found dead in a camper at a motocross competition Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY Updated Tue, September 19, 2023 at 12:58 PM CDT·3 min read 1 A mother and her two sons were found dead Saturday in a camper at a motocross event in Kansas, according to law enforcement and multiple reports. Authorities have not confirmed what caused their deaths, but family friends shared on a GoFundMe page that the woman and two children died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. In the post, the woman was identified as Felecia Richey, while family have told multiple local media outlets that the boys' names were Tysin and Bentley. A mother and her two sons were found dead in a camper Saturday at a motocross event in Kansas. Family have identified them as Felecia Richey and her children Tysin and Bentley. The McPherson County Sheriff's Office, which is leading the investigation into their deaths, has not officially named the victims. Felicia Richey was pregnant at the time of her death, according to the GoFundMe page, which had raised more than $41,000 as of Tuesday morning. "We are asking for your help with removing the stress from the family on the cost of arranging their three funerals and time away from work to grieve," the post read. "If you can not support financially, please keep this family in your prayers and share with others." What do we know about what happened? The bodies of the three victims were reportedly discovered Saturday in a camper at a race track in Inman, a city located a little more than 50 miles north of Wichita, the McPherson County Sheriff's Office said in a media release. The sheriff's office said it is investigating the deaths with the help of the Inman Police Department, but released few other details, including the names of the victims or how they died. Inman Motocross, the organization that was hosting the Kansas Motocross Championship Series, postponed the competition for a day as a result of the deaths. Today we hug our loved ones extra tight and say I love you an extra time," Inman Motocross said in a Facebook post. "Our heart goes out the family as they work through this time." The series resumed the next day, with Inman Motocross indicating in a Facebook post that grief counselors were available on site. What is carbon monoxide poisoning? Because it is both odorless and colorless, carbon monoxide is commonly referred to as a silent killer. More than 400 American die each year from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning not linked to fire, while more than 100,000 visit emergency rooms for treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The lethal gas is found in the fumes produced by the burning fuel of vehicles and other engines, as well as gas stoves, lanterns and furnaces, the CDC says. In vehicles, carbon monoxide poisoning is often caused by leaks in the exhaust system. The poisonous fumes can quickly build up to fatal levels indoors, poisoning people and animals who breathe it in, according to the CDC. Symptoms often appear flu-like in nature and include headaches, dizziness, weakness, upset stomach, chest pain and confusion.

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They found it.

Hid'in Biden was much worse.

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She does have a License to bar tend and used to do it years ago including here down the road, she hated it.

Wife makes $14 at Walmart.

What is a fair wage now a days? A guy I know here that gets $34 per hour working at a Bar north of us.

"statue"? Hunter Biden’s lawyer says gun statue unconstitutional

Paul Stender's Jet powered school bus.

‘I don’t know what he’s done’: In the UAW president’s hometown, autoworkers lash out at Biden Adam Wren Fri, September 15, 2023 at 5:15 AM CDT·5 min read 8.6k KOKOMO, Ind. — At a union hall here in United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain's hometown, a half-eaten pizza and a bag of Werther's Original candies were spread out across a conference room table. Uncertainty about what would happen next — and frustration with the Democratic president, Joe Biden — hung in the air. It was just after 9 p.m. on Thursday, and a dozen or so of the 150,000 union members employed by the Big Three automakers huddled at the Local 685, waiting on word from Fain ahead of an 11:59 p.m. expiration of their contract. Along with their fellow union members in this blue-collar city surrounded by farmland, they wanted the automakers — Stellantis, Ford and General Motors — to make concessions on pay, benefits and the workweek. “Forty-five minutes — showtime,” said Garry Quirk, the president of the local. Quirk, 60, had spent half his life as an auto worker in Kokomo, where he was born and raised. Before that, he’d worked in a meatpacking plant and served a stint in the U.S. Army. Now, for the first time in his three decades, Quirk was waiting to hear whether his union would participate in a targeted strike against all of the Big Three automakers. He’d spent the last day arranging for enough porta potties for his workers to survive hours-long picket-line shifts — to the tune of $2,000 a month. Earlier in the afternoon, he mowed his yard and downed a Monster Energy Drink. Depending on how things shook out in less than an hour, Quirk might soon be on the picket lines. At that moment, though, Quirk was preparing for Fain to livestream his decision about which plants would strike if an agreement wasn’t reached by midnight. Would Fain, the Kokomo native who had risen through the ranks alongside Quirk, make a point out of one of his hometown locals, and have it lead the targeted strike? “I wish I knew,” Quirk said. “If I did, I wouldn’t be here.” Quirk sunk into his seat inside a conference room in the union hall and thumbed his phone before looking back up at the TV. A CNN chyron read: “AUTOWORKERS ON BRINK OF HISTORIC WALKOUT”. Had Fain asked for too much? A 40 percent wage increase over the next four years? “I think he did,” Quirk said. “And I think he set high standards and I think everybody knows that you gotta shoot high and then you can always go lower. In the past, we’ve always set low and we’ve settled for crumbs.” Quirk voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and then Donald Trump in 2020. Had President Joe Biden, the self-described “most pro-union president in American history,” done enough to forestall a strike? “I don’t know what he’s done,” Quirk said. “Ask him. I don’t think he knows what he’s done. Seriously. I’m not trying to be mean.” Quirk wasn’t freelancing: Fain and the union haven’t yet endorsed Biden’s reelection, throwing into doubt Biden’s standing in autoworker-heavy communities like his. Biden had spoken that day with Fain and auto company CEOs. The chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers said this week that Biden had been “very much engaged.” But his efforts weren’t resonating inside the union hall. Next to Quirk sat another committee member, Denny Butler. At 52, he was born in this town and would likely die in this town. Earlier Thursday, he left the union hall around 4 p.m. and, to calm his nerves, poured himself a cocktail: a Captain and Diet Coke. He wasn’t supporting Biden or Trump at the moment, and he didn’t think either party was truly on autoworkers’ side. “They’re all full of shit,” Butler said. “We haven’t had a president in there for years, with the exception of Trump, that was really for the people, all the way back to the Reagan days.” “Historically, man, if you didn’t vote Democrat years ago, and you were in the union, sometimes you got your ass kicked,” he said. “Democrats were for the working people. That shit has changed. I’m telling you what, the Democratic Party was not what it was 20, 30 years ago.” And there was Dave Johnson, a 64-year-old union committeeman. At 3 p.m, he had gone home to prepare for a strike. His wife was sick. He’d made her chicken noodle soup, and he ordered a pie from the local Pizza King — the one he brought to the union hall for others. Johnson didn’t vote for Biden in 2020. And he won’t be voting for him next year. “Terrible,” he said. “Can’t remember his own name. It needs to be someone else besides those two guys. I’d vote for Obama.” Finally, at 9:53, p.m. seven minutes before his scheduled Facebook livestream, Fain’s decision came. A text flashed across Quirk’s screen from the UAW. It said that the first strikes would be at a GM plant in Wentzville, Mo., a Stellantis factory in Toledo, and Ford’s Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne. “We didn’t get the first nod,” Quirk told the room, adding that he was surprised Fain’s Kokomo was spared — for now. As 10 p.m. approached, the TV switched from CNN to Fain’s Facebook live feed. “We are using a new strategy,” Fain was saying. “We are calling on select locals to stand up and go out on strike.” Still, the room knew the rolling strike could soon be here in Kokomo. “Cut the checks,” a man in the back of the room yelled. “Solidarity,” said another. They spilled out into the parking lot beneath a milky black Indiana sky, and headed to meet with workers at the local’s four different plants to manage the fallout. There were tempers to tame, next steps to plan, and unnecessary porta-potties to manage. “Unfortunately, I think we’re going to be in this for a while,” Butler said. CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misspelled Gary Quirk's name.

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Close EXCLUSIVE I’m a mechanic who’s fixed thousands of cars – EVs cost more money, don’t last as long and AREN’T better for environment acob Jaffa Published: 11:00 ET, Sep 12 2023 Updated: 11:24 ET, Sep 12 2023 AN expert mechanic has revealed that EVs cost more, don't last as long and aren't actually better for the environment than internal combustion. Speaking exclusively to The Sun Online, Scotty Kilmer savaged the case for transitioning to electric cars, saying they are 'worse' than traditional motors. 1 Expert mechanic Scotty Kilmer explained how EVs are actually terrible for the environmentCredit: Youtube / Scotty Kilmer Scotty, who has over five decades of experience in the industry, claimed that the argument that EVs are more environmentally friendly is "BS", taking away one of the key arguments for owning one. He said: "Electric cars are not an advance...[they] really are worse transportation than gasoline cars. "Take the United States, 60% of all electricity is generated from fossil fuels so you're just changing where it came from. And the lithium pollutes. "Anybody who thinks they're greener is just out of their mind." Lithium is a key element in making EV batteries but is intensively mined using environmentally harmful methods, often in more deprived areas of the world. According to a report from Friends of the Earth, lithium mining is: "increasingly affecting communities where this harmful extraction takes place, jeopardising their access to water". Likewise, the Guardian reported in 2021 that workers in the Congo's cobalt mines were working in slavery-like conditions for 30p an hour to "power the green vehicle revolution". Beyond the debates around relative environmental costs, Scotty finds that EVs are far less reliable and efficient than their fossil-fuel-powered equivalents. 'He explained: "Recharging takes too much time and they say 'we have superchargers' but if you supercharge a lithium-ion battery you're going to lose probably 80% of its lifespan. "They need to charge slowly, the faster you charge it, the faster you wear out the battery. They have so many problems with electric cars. "For small cars it makes sense. They should have started electric cars like the VW Beetle. Small, inner-city great for people in England, in Europe where they don't go far. "But electric motors are very inefficient when they either pull loads or go at high speeds." Finally, he hit out at the high cost of electric cars, especially amid the global cost of living crisis. He even claimed that one manufacturer in the US had received pleas from their dealers to stop sending new stock as they couldn't shift the cars already in their showrooms. Scotty used an example of a customer who brought in a new Volvo C40 to his shop, only to discover that it had massively depreciated already. He recalled: "The guy brings me this brand new car that was $70,000. "So I looked up in my local area on my phone, there were already scores of these things sold used for £23,000. "The people didn't like the lifestyle with it. Say it takes 45 minutes to charge a car, what if there are five people in front of you? "They say in the US they would need three million fast chargers around the country, there's presently 35,000. The infrastructure doesn't exist." It comes after Scotty revealed the biggest rip-off he's ever seen in all his time as a mechanic.

Joe Biden’s latest press-conference disaster: When will staff decide to put him back in the basement? By Post Editorial Board Published Sep. 11, 2023, 4:37 p.m. ET President Biden’s press conference Sunday seemed almost designed to add to already-rampant doubts about his age. Bizarrely, he announced, “I tell you what, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to bed” — but kept answering questions shouted from the press pool. At which point Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre grabbed a mic to interrupt-announce, “this ends the press conference” — and Biden stayed on stage to answer another query, albeit inaudibly. Before then, he cleared up the mystery of that “dog-faced pony soldier” insult he threw out during the 2020 campaign: It turns out to be an Indian’s line in a John Wayne flick, one the prez’s brother has long repeated. We guess that means the insult is supposed to show he’s calling out a really brazen lie (rather like his also-weird whispering shtick that seems meant to indicate his words are extra-important). Though a presser in Vietnam (where, for some reason, he made a point of only taking questions from women) is a pretty odd time to finally give the context. Also striking is that he went there over a question about the lack of any agreement at the G20 Summit on fossil fuels, except he went on: President Joe Biden looks on during a meeting with chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue at the National Assembly in Hanoi, on Sept. 11, 2023. AFP via Getty Images/SAUL LOEB “Well, there’s a lot of lying, dog-faced pony soldiers out there about — about global warming, but not anymore. All of a sudden, they’re all realizing it’s a problem. And there’s nothing like seeing the light.” That is, he went on about the “liars” who he says are now “seeing the light” when the non-agreement shows that some other world leaders aren’t “realizing it’s a problem.” Maybe this wasn’t Biden’s worst press conference ever; the competition’s pretty stiff. But the unsettling performance comes as most Democrats are saying he’s too old to run for another term (especially with Kamala Harris as his veep), while the party has rearranged its 2024 primaries with an eye to making his renomination a mathematical lock as quickly as possible. It feels like a race to make him utterly inevitable before his handlers decide they just can’t let him out in public at all.