Revised 1887 edition of Horace Ford's book The Theory and Practice of Archery.
Dr. Saxton Pope befriended Ishi who taught him how to make bows.
The book Ishi's Brain.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Cicada
Perhaps it was because I was small, but maybe they were really that much larger. Memory has them at around two inches. Their buzzing fascinated and early on became the marker of the arrival of summer.
As I sat on the veranda wondering in my deafness if they were still going on, I saw the carapace outlined against the sky.
Meaning to add it to my display case, lost the thought before I could act. When do we recognize dementia?
It was still there a few days later and Michelle retreived it. And she knew where to place it.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
It was last Oktober that I saw a landscape. Though I'm grateful for my sight, the urban wasteland does nothing for my soul.
This was taken yesterday. She's spending a week at Jemez Springs before going to Ghost Ranch for a month.
Birdsong
I remember driving past the Pueblo in '76, being awestruck by the beauty of the canyon and wishing we had the wherewithal to live there.
There were still a few hippies living at the hot springs then.
She tells me it's changed a little, but still soul-stirring. I don't 'spect I'll git there again.
She and I....
Daimler AG & Mercedes Benz eActros 600
Americans think electric vehicles are a plot; we're being left behind.
https://hub.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/int/en/trucks/eactros-600.html
The eActros 600 is Mercedes-Benz's flagship vehicle.
Though Freightliner's eCascadia does feature on their website, it's not given the great ballyhoo of eActros 600.
Martin Baum who has led Daimler AG since 1987, was, on Oktober 1st, succeeded by Karin Rådström.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Freightliner Trucks
Freightliner Trucks is an American semi truck manufacturer.[1] Founded in 1929 as the truck-manufacturing division of Consolidated Freightways (from which it derives its name), the company was established in 1942 as Freightliner Corporation.[2] Owned by Daimler AG from 1981 to 2021, Freightliner is now a part of Daimler Truck subsidiary Daimler Truck North America (along with Western Star, Detroit Diesel, and Thomas Built Buses).[3]
Freightliner produces a range of vans, medium-duty trucks, and heavy-duty trucks;[1] under its Freightliner Custom Chassis subsidiary, the company produces bare chassis and cutaway chassis for multiple types of vehicles. The company popularized the use of cabover (COE) semitractors, with the Freightliner Argosy later becoming the final example of the type sold in North America.
The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon (the city of its founding); vehicles are currently manufactured in Cleveland, North Carolina, and Mount Holly, North Carolina, and Santiago Tianguistenco and Saltillo, Mexico.[4]
Legal controversy
As of December 2020, Freightliner is under a court order to improve safety, and was fined $30 million by the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Adninistration) after an investigation found that Freightliner had failed to recall dozens of known safety defects in its vehicles.[5] In 2019 alone, Freightliner was forced to issue safety recalls 24 separate times by the NHTSA, and there have been over 100 recalls total on its flagship truck, the Cascadia. The judge found that Freightliner had no system in place to track faults, and ordered $5 million of the fine be applied to upgrading outdated paper-based systems and converting to recall software used by other automakers for decades.[6]
As of May 2021, Freightliner has at least three open investigations against it for electrical issues, including several fires.[7]
Several weeks after the fine was issued by the NHTSA, Freightliner CEO Roger Nielsen was replaced by John O'Leary, a senior executive from Mercedes Benz trucks, and former CFO of their parent company Daimler Trucks.[8]
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Why would you buy one?
Maybe Trump'll do away with the NHTSA. That'll take care of that.
Daimler Truck AG, the holding company that owns Daimler Trucks North America, has their corporate offices in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. Their company "about" page, says they employ over 100,00 people in over 40 locations around the world.
Daimler Truck's home page showcases their etrucks.
Here's a pie-chart that shows the distribution of the 823 million outstanding shares of Daimler AG as of August 9, 2024.
Freightliner, as mentioned in the Wiki article, is owned by Daimler Trucks North America, which is owned by Daimler Truck AG and is just one of their many brands.
I thought it interesting that the eCascadia on Freightliner's website gets almost no mention. Whereas on Daimler Trucks North America the top of their website features a video that includes images of a number of environmental issues and presents the company as concerned, forward-thinking and emphasizes they're leading the transition to autonomous driving.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Unauthorized Immigrants - Idaho
Original article from News From The States.
Report mentioned in article above describes Idaho’s unauthorized workforce and how their work, spending and taxes relate to Idaho’s economy.
The true story about why and how Haitian immigrants came to Springfield by The Springfield News-Sun - 20.Sept.24
Monday, September 23, 2024
Albuq - Inna Nut Shell
This review was posted two months ago (today is 23.Sept.24) on the Rio Grand Communty Farm reviews in Google Maps. My family and I arrived in 1976 and after all these years I'm posting this as an accurate depiction of the town.
Lavender festival is the last festival I’m attending in Albuquerque after attending a few here. Consistent lack of basic planning and forethought between festival planners and city/sheriff makes events like this a nightmare to attend. Community streets should have been managed with traffic directors for neighborly politeness to people living and passing down Rio Grande. You need to offer shuttles and have people managing cars parking in an organized fashion in diagonals on streets. Or just pick a better spot in town with less congestion.
I thought we would be in lavender fields hence the inconvenient location- nope! Just soaps and lotions and random cut overpriced bundles brought in from elsewhere.
Saying “no street parking” on the website is a joke. In a town where everyone drives massive trucks and roads are small, how have event and city planners not come together on this?
Other detractions: call it like it is- a ticketed craft show of the same vendors that attend all craft shows and sell in all stores in ABQ. The educational part was not obvious or easy to navigate and frankly, if a medical emergency happened on site there weren’t enough responders/support staff and I don’t know how you’d even evacuate someone given the chaotic mess of traffic.
Lay down hay on the waking paths, put paper cups or biodegrading cups out at the water stations so people can drink water- just basic things that make a nice seeming idea stay in the nice zone instead of encroaching on a cruel layer of purgatory. Honestly it was a waste of time and money and unsafe and unfun. I’m sad to say that, but it’s just the truth.
Unfortunately this checks out as par for the course in ABQ because events seem to be run with profit interests in mind only, while avoiding basic safety or maintaining high community event standards. Total hell. You couldn’t pay me $100 to attend this again.
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