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I think having the ability to speak one or more foreign languages is an asset. However, relating to legal immigrants (the only kind that should be here), they should subjugate to the American way of life......and that includes adopting English as their primary language. If I was king for a day, I would have English declared the official language of the United States......because it should be. I assume this murderer is an economic (illegal) migrant. He didn't come here to stay and become an American, rather he came here for a temporary period of time to profit and send money back home. He has no intention of spending the bulk of his untaxed earnings in the US.

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Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts killed by illegal alien Associated Press / August 21, 2018 A illegal immigrant from Mexico has confessed to kidnapping college student Mollie Tibbetts while she was jogging in her small Iowa hometown, killing her and dumping her body in a cornfield. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 20-year-old Tibbetts, whose July 18 disappearance set off a massive search involving state and federal authorities. Rivera led investigators early Tuesday to a body believed to be Tibbetts in a cornfield about 12 miles (19 kilometers) southeast of Brooklyn, Iowa, where Tibbetts was last seen running, Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Rick Rahn said. Rivera is being held at the sheriff's office in Montezuma on $1 million cash-only bond. President Donald Trump noted the arrest and called for immigration law changes at a rally in West Virginia. "You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly, from Mexico and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman," Trump told the crowd in Charleston. "Should've never happened. Illegally in our country. We've had a huge impact, but the laws are so bad. The immigration laws are such a disgrace, we're getting them changed, but we have to get more Republicans. We have to get 'em." Iowa's two GOP U.S. senators also described Tibbetts' death as a tragedy "that could have been prevented," and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said residents were heartbroken and angry. "We are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community, and we will do all we can to bring justice to Mollie's killer," said Reynolds, a Republican. Trump has claimed widespread crime by people living in the country illegally, citing among other things the indictments of 11 suspected MS-13 gang members from El Salvador charged in connection with the slayings of two Virginia teens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that it lodged a federal immigration detainer for Rivera after he was arrested on the murder charge. That move means the agency has probable cause to believe he is subject to deportation. Investigators said they believed Rivera had lived in the area from four to seven years. Rahn described Rivera as someone who lived in a rural area and kept to himself. Investigators zeroed in on Rivera after obtaining footage from surveillance cameras in Brooklyn. The footage showed a Chevy Malibu connected to Rivera that was driving back and forth as Tibbetts was running in the area. Rivera admitted to investigators he got out of his car and started running alongside Tibbetts. Tibbetts grabbed her phone and said she was going to call the police. Rivera panicked and then said he blacked out. Rivera next remembers seeing her earphones on his lap, and taking her bloody body out of the trunk of his car. "The defendant further described during the interview that he dragged Tibbetts on foot from his vehicle to a secluded location in a cornfield. Investigators had earlier searched the area for Tibbetts but didn't find her, noting the body was covered by corn stalks when recovered early Tuesday. An autopsy would be performed on the body Wednesday by the state medical examiner's office, which would assist investigators in understanding whether Tibbetts had been assaulted or tried to fight him off. Rivera's initial court appearance is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday in Montezuma. A conviction on first-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole in Iowa, which doesn't have the death penalty. .

U.S. prosecutors say FCA wanted to 'buy labor peace' from UAW Automotive News / August 21, 2018 DETROIT — The U.S. says Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sought to "corrupt and warp" its relationship with the UAW to obtain advantages in contract agreements "in an effort to buy labor peace." The latest allegations in the ongoing federal corruption case involving FCA and UAW officials were reported Monday by the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News. A 14-page memorandum of sentencing for Alphons Iacobelli, FCA's former labor relations chief, stated: "FCA sought to obtain benefits, concessions and advantages in the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements with the UAW in an effort to buy labor peace. High-level officials of the UAW sought to enrich themselves and live lavish lifestyles rather than zealously work on behalf of the best interests of tens of thousands of rank and file members of their union." Iacobelli and others are accused of misusing funds intended for the UAW-Chrysler Training Center in Detroit. Iacobelli, the highest-ranking FCA official charged in the scandal to date, in January pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Labor Management Relations Act and for subscribing a false tax return. He could face eight years in prison under terms of a plea deal. He is scheduled to be sentenced Monday, Aug. 27. The memo also notes that, for certain aspects of FCA's negotiations and relationship with the UAW, Iacobelli reported directly to the automaker's late CEO, Sergio Marchionne -- though it doesn't mention Marchionne by name. It was the first time the government referred to Marchionne by title, the News reported. Last week, the News reported that Marchionne gave an expensive watch to UAW Vice President General Holiefield and failed to disclose the gift to federal investigators. Holiefield, who died in 2015, has been implicated in the scandal. His widow, Monica Morgan, pleaded guilty to one count of failing to file a tax return. She was sentenced to 18 months in prison in July. Others who have been charged are former FCA financial analyst Jerome Durden; former FCA employee Michael Brown; ex-UAW Associate Director Virdell King; UAW official Keith Mickens; and Nancy Johnson, a former top aide to ex-UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell, who was charged with misusing funds but has not yet been arraigned. Jewell has been implicated in the scandal but not formally named as a conspirator by investigators. Morgan, Iacobelli and Durden are also being sued by the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center to recover more than $4.4 million in damages.

Bob, it really was a great article. No fluff, just the facts....and they are facts. I agree with every sentence, each one an important point.

Gee, do you think there's an issue there?

What was Kenworth's product name for that proprietary electric deflector? Does anyone recall?

The last time I flew Singapore Airlines to San Francisco, my miles bumped me up to first class at no charge, and there's Mark in first class with no less than three of their legendarily beautiful stewardesses chatting with him. And the subject of milk didn't come up.

Kenworth offered an electrically risen roof deflector for many years that was a sharp set-up. If you could find a used one.............. Airodyne is Paccar's supplier and they sell what you're looking for.........http://www.airodyne.com/fuel_savings.asp

You're very welcome. Please let us all know how it turns out for you.

Scania Group Press Release / August 20, 2018 Core deal with Corebon to enable top-class carbon fibre components Scania Growth Capital has invested SEK 35 million in Corebon AB, a Swedish materials tech start-up that has developed a revolutionary method for producing carbon fibre components. Corebon has invented the world’s fastest production process for carbon fibre reinforced plastic. This has resulted in a new higher standard of composite materials, lower costs and minimal impact on the environment. The patented process is based on induction heating, and it enables Corebon to produce carbon fibre components at significantly higher speed than through existing established methods. The quality of the carbon fibre components produced is also superior, and the energy consumption in production is considerably reduced. 10 times faster production cycle times Tobias Björnhov, founder and CEO, Corebon AB, says: “The Technology results in up to 10 times faster production cycle times, up to 95 per cent energy savings, and the highest fibre-volume fraction composites ever manufactured.” It all began over 10 years ago in the French Alps with a group of friends who had a passion for skiing and an idea for making better skis using carbon fibre. “We had limited financial assets so we needed to find a much faster and cheaper way to develop the skis,” says Björnhov. “We then discovered that we could heat the material they were made of from within instead of adding heat to the outside, using the carbon fibre contained in them as a heat source.” “Thanks to this technology, the heat can be controlled more easily, less plastic needs to be added, and a high fibre volume fraction is achieved”, says Rasmus Olsson, founder and CTO, Corebon AB. Wide range of products This method is applicable to a wide range of products in the automotive, telecommunication, aerospace and robotics industries. “We are in an acceleration phase and we are growing both our production capacity and our organisation. To have Scania Growth Capital as an investor, both with financial resources but also with their skills and experience, is extremely important to us.” Per-Arne Eriksson, Head of Customized Truck Development at Scania, will join the board of directors of Corebon. “The strategy has been to invest in companies that have strategic relevance to the ecosystem in which we operate and Corebon fits very well,” Eriksson says. “In the rapidly changing automotive industry, we see many opportunities to expand the use of carbon fibre composites to more applications as an enabler in product development, including in vehicle electrification.” .

Hold on, I didn't say the USDA was or wasn't accountable for anything. I never mentioned the USDA. That said, a manufacturer is responsible (accountable) for what it sells.

Rudkin-Wiley evolved into Airshield Corporation, which was acquired by Core Molding Technologies in 2001. Give them a call..... (614) 870-5012. Here's another one to call......http://www.spectrumcomposites.com/aerodynamic-deflectors/

I actually attended a party at Mark's Sausalito home. Did I say home? I think it has a larger floor plan than the White House.....couldn't find the front door. His view of the Golden Gate Bridge is breathtaking. Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) lives two doors down. He allowed some scenes of "The Presidio" to be shot there, met Sean Connery and still earns royalties from the picture.

Though not a pedigreed drivetrain, the R754s are a personal favorite.

If Oshkosh did offer them to you Paul, their price would send you running. Why not buy NOS from a military vehicle surplus business? Just a suggestion, call George at White Owl Parts Co. (252-522-2586) in Kinston, North Carolina and see what he says. Super guy, honest and knowledgeable.

Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) / August 20, 2018 Daimler Trucks North America LLC is recalling as many as 9,093 Freightliner Business Class M2 medium-duty trucks from the 2018 and 2019 model years for an incorrectly installed steering shaft assembly, according to federal records. The steering shaft assembly on the trucks may have been installed incorrectly, which can cause a loss of connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels. This increases the likelyhood of a crash. The Business Class line includes the M2 106, M2 112, and eM2 trucks and is available as a class 5-8 chassis cab truck. The M2 was the successor to the FL-Series trucks introduced in the 1990s. DTNA has notified owners, and dealers will inspect the steering assembly installation, repairing it as necessary, free of charge. The recall began August 9. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-781. Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to Safercar.gov.

Don't listen to him, he wants you to buy an MP8 only because he's a multi-millionaire Volvo stockholder. He bought Volvo shares in 2002 at $2.95 and sold a large stake last January near $21. Five homes, a car and truck collection, he doesn't like to talk about it. Running milk is just something to pass the time.

Cereal manufacturers have a responsibility to check the quality of the ingredients they buy.........quality control. Every car and truckmaker performs quality checks on what their suppliers provide. It's an essential part of manufacturing.

If you go to the top right corner of the BMT website and type "MP8" into the search box, you'll find a long list of posts related to your question. Also, you can use Google, and enter "MP8 problems".

Cherry

Daniel L. Davis (U.S. Army retired), The National Interest / August 19, 2018 Whether its North Korea, Iran, or even Russia, there are far too many in Washington’s foreign policy establishment who advocate reliance on the military to solve any real or perceived international problems. This overreliance on military instruments poses a dangerous and counterintuitive problem—the more the United States uses it, the greater America’s insecurity. Most Americans agreed that a military response was necessary to seek justice for 9/11. By mid-2002, however, the Taliban and al Qaeda were destroyed in Afghanistan. At that point in time, President George W. Bush should have redeployed U.S. troops, refocused efforts to repair the breach in security exposed by 9/11, and set about building a stronger country. Instead, Washington doubled-down with actions that both extended and expanded American insecurity. In 2003, the U.S. took what had been a strategic nuisance in Saddam Hussein's Iraq and after removing the strongman from power, turned it into a terrorist breeding ground (for there had been no international terror threat coming from Iraq before the regime change). In 2005, a handful of U.S. troops faced a small—but irritating—insurgency in Afghanistan and instead of closing out the mission, expanded it to include 140,000 U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops. In more recent years, Washington has increased the use of lethal military power into places such as Syria, Libya, Yemen, Chad, Niger, and Somalia. America has increasingly used both direct and veiled threats of military force to compel North Korea and Iran to bend to Washington’s will, and every Administration since 9/11 has used (or expanded) the scale of military exercises in Europe to counter Russia and in Asia to counter China. This strategy has cost the blood of tens of thousands of American sons and daughters (6,971 killed; 52,682 wounded in action since 9/11, according to official Department of Defense casualty figures ). How has this strategy protected U.S. national security interests? If the answer is a reduced terror threat, more stable relations with Russia and China, and a strengthened U.S. military, it may well be argued the price was worth it. Instead, for this extraordinary charge in blood and treasure, America has purchased very nearly the opposite. Had the United States left Saddam Hussein in his strategic box in 2003, Iraq would most likely still be contained . Had President Bush withdrawn the military in the summer of 2002 after successfully routing al Qaeda and the Taliban, America would not have spent the next seventeen years there in futile search for a victory. Had America not joined in the attack against Libya in 2011, or the fight in Yemen, or expanded lethal military operations into a dozen states in Africa, those areas might have still descended into chaos, but they would have been purely local challenges that posed no threat to U.S. national security. To end this overreliance on military power and increase America’s chances to prosper as a nation, the United States must make several changes to its grand strategy. First, Washington must recognize that American military power is not going to solve political, ethnic, or religious problems. Second, U.S. leaders must accept that America cannot solve every problem in the world—nor should it try. For the past thirty years, China has been expanding its economy and modernizing its military, but still remains far behind matching U.S. power. Russia is a shell of the military power the Soviet Union was during the Cold War and with its economic, geographical, and demographic limitations, it will remain at most a regional menace. Both states are nuclear powers, but neither can challenge American conventional power and America's advanced nuclear deterrent constrains both. America has blown out of all proportion the threat posed by North Korea and Iran. As the United States has successfully deterred Russia and China for seventy years, it can deter the tiny nuclear arsenal Pyongyang has and the strategically impotent conventional military both Iran and North Korea wield. In short, the actual threat to U.S. security posed by the totality of all potential adversaries is real, but nowhere near as pervasive and offensive as is routinely claimed. The primary purpose of the U.S. government is to keep Americans safe, defend its borders from attack, and ensure its ability to prosper as a nation. Maintenance of a strong military is an important component in accomplishing those objectives, but it is not the only one. True global leadership is led by sustained diplomatic and economic engagement. Through the effective give-and-take of hard-nosed diplomacy, the United States can find mutually beneficial trade relations with its allies around the world to foster continued prosperity for its country. Likewise, America can leverage those favorable relations and its own economic power to positively influence its competitors in ways that constrain behavior antithetical to U.S. interests while limiting the risk of retaliatory measures. Due to America’s powerful nuclear deterrent, globally dominant conventional military, and its position as the world’s most powerful economic engine, America can indefinitely deter Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, or any hostile nation on earth from attacking U.S. soil or U.S. citizens. Should deterrence and diplomacy fail to dissuade any bad actor around the globe from attempting to harm U.S. interests or citizens, the U.S. military will not hesitate to use whatever means necessary to properly defend the homeland. But even here it is critical to distinguish when military force should and shouldn't be applied. Lethal military power should be used sparingly and only when American lives or property have been attacked (or are in imminent danger of being attacked). Failure by America to merely get its way is not a justifiable reason to kill others. Nor is attacking others justified because of what might happen in the future. Adopting such a guiding philosophy is not only moral and right—it is also the best path to a consistently successful outcome at the strategic level. .

I'm confused now by your talk about Monsanto. I said the maker of Cheerios cereal, General Mills, was responsible (for the product they produce, i.e. ensuring it doesn't contain impurities like.....poison). I never mentioned Monsanto. On another note, the formula for Roundup (weed killer) must have been changed because many long-time users have been reporting in recent years that the performance is noticeably down from what it used to be (not the price, just the result). I've observed it myself.

360 Truck / August 18, 2018 Shaanxi Automobile Group (aka. Shaanqi, Shacman), one of two Chinese truckmakers with whom Cummins has engine-building joint ventures, has introduced an all-new 4x4 military tactical truck with a strong resemblance to the legendary Mercedes-Benz Unimog. Like its German benchmark, the Shaanxi Model SX2108S has a fully independent suspension system. Specifications: Cab 2-3 person single row or 4-6 person 4-door crew-cab Wheelbase 3600mm or 3800mm GVW 10,200 kg Curb Weight 5,640 kg Engine Dongfeng-Cummins sourced 180hp 4.5L ISD (Chinese market ISB) .

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