tree.saw repair

proj.gear/tree.saw/repair:
2.14:
. see if saw fits bolts,
saw does fit new nadle,
bolt will fit saw but not handle it came with .
2.15: breaks again:
. the inside of the handle has a plastic support
that fits a slot in the blades meant for that handle,
and it does seem to be supporting the new tree.saw blade
... but later I would find that the support would break off .
2.15: reinforced:
. what the tree.saw was designed to have for stability
was a duel screw system rather than a tab&slot .
. so I drilled a hole in the adopted handle
and found a screw to fit from a bike light kit .

cusion for trice Q seat

proj.gear/trike`seat/foam:


2.5: trike`seat/pipe`foam idea:
. looking through the mesh you can see the frame;
mark the inner edges of frame on mesh with cheap thread,
and then hand sew foam scraps to seat mesh
starting from thread guides
outward for as long as it takes foam to
do a 180 around frame .

2.19: proj.gear/trike`seat/foam:
. modified the co.trice idea of foaming seat frame
by sewing the foam to the fabric
instead of taping the foam to the frame .
. got the foam from trimming what's being used on the cot:
a backpack roll for under sleeping bag,
it's open-cell with a wavy pattern on one side,
I used 2 pieces together, so the both sides of product are smooth .
added 4 sets of stitches on either side
with carpet thread .
mis:
. see picts for how foam mis.migrated;
need to compensate the location to avoid that .

2.26: gear/trike/seat`foam/sheathing system:
. sewing the foam in place must be done by hand
and it must be done repeatedly if the foam gets flat;
hence, the need for a sheathing system:
. the sheath can be machine sewed, is reusable,
and old foam is quickly replaced .
. the sewing will also reinforce the binding of the straps
to the existing fabric .

shopping for velo' security chains locks

gear/trike/security

2.23 ... 2.24:

genetically modified alfalfa looms over grassfed animal products

2.24: news.pol/gmo/USDA must not approve GE alfalfa:

from Center for Food Safety
date Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM
subject Tell Congress to Hold USDA Accountable!

Call your Senators and Representative today and say
USDA must not approve GE alfalfa!

Monsanto wants to sell its genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa
and wants the USDA to approve its permit application,
but consumers, farmers, dairies, and food companies
dont want GE alfalfa plants and seeds released into the environment.

USDA's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) admits
that if GE alfalfa is approved:
* GE Contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa crops will occur
* GE contamination will economically impact small and family farmers
* Foreign export markets will be at risk due to rejection of GE contaminated products
* Farmers will be forced to use more toxic herbicides to remove old stands of alfalfa

Yet, unbelievably, USDA has decided that these impacts are insignificant!
And, USDA intends to approve Monsanto's Roundup Ready GE alfalfa anyway.

Call your Congressional Representatives today
and ask them to hold USDA accountable
by contacting Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack
and urging him to deny approval of Monsanto's GE alfalfa!

Tell them that you DO NOT support the deregulation of GE alfalfa,
for the following reasons:
* GE contamination of non-GE and organic crops would be inevitable
* You won't buy products that are GE-contaminated
* Alfalfa is a major food source for livestock
and GE alfalfa would destroy the integrity of organic dairy products
* You support the rights of farmers to grow the crops of their choice,
and GE contamination makes that impossible
* Ask your Representative and Senators to contact Secretary Vilsack
and urge him to deny USDA approval of Monsanto's GE alfalfa

Then email us at info@truefoodnow.org
and tell us who you called
and let us know what kind of response you got!

Background
In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS)
sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA)
for its illegal approval of Monsanto's
genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa.
USDA failed to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS)
before deregulating the crop, as required by law.
An EIS is a rigorous analysis of the potential significant
environmental, health, and economic impacts of a federal decision,
mandated under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
The federal courts sided with CFS
and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed
the impacts of the GE plant on the environment, farmers, and the public
in an EIS.

USDA released its draft EIS on December 14, 2009.
A 75-day comment period is now open until 3 March, 2010.
CFS has begun analyzing the EIS
and it is clear that the USDA,
in its recommendation to approve GE alfalfa,
has not taken into consideration the concerns of
non-GE alfalfa farmers, dairies, exporters, retailers or consumers ...
In fact, their [current] EIS states that consumers
don't care if their organic food is GE contaminated
and neither do organic farmers,
as long as farmers employ the organic practices required
under the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA).
Obviously, this is not true
and we need to push our Congressional representatives
to call upon USDA to deny the approval of GE alfalfa.
. review the EIS and other documents .

USDA must not approve GE alfalfa Tell-a-friend!

2.24: web.health/alfalfa/toxins that could get worse under gmo?:
. one of the hazards when gmo's involve gene shifting
is that the toxins and allergens already in the plant
can become more potent or effectively administered .
. natural toxins from alfalfa include medicarpin and Canavanine .
. medicarpin is useful for reducing plant population densities;
it's found in soils of the mature plant .
. Canavanine, an arginine analog,
is practically found only in the seed currently .


2.25: pol/gmo/gm-alfalfa invading organics:
. instead of beating the dead horse of anti-gmo,
we should push organics toward adopting
greenhouse technology,
both as a way of controling insects physically,
and for protecting crop genetics by
filtering out pollen vectors .

2.26: co.pol/gmo/linkedin.com/gm-alfalfa invading organics:
"(

If you want to avoid GMO's in Canada and USA
you need to buy organic since we don't label them here.
There are lobby groups trying to get the government to
label food products as GMO
but the companies against it have stronger lobby boards
that argue it will cause unnecessary fear among citizens.

)
my reply:
. If you want to avoid GMO's you need to buy organic ?
that won't work in the usa soon:
they are now approving GE alfalfa
(see Center for Food Safety)
. this is sure [to] end organic meats
unless organic turns to air-filtered greenhousing
[2.28: or gmo can be considered organic].

2.28: pol/gmo/organic meat is not grassfed:
. organic meat is not worth fighting gmo's about
because really healthy meat should be
completely grass fed,
whereas organics can be grain-feed .
. grassfed will not be an economic reality until
the entire world downsizes population -- faght chance --
so, instead of worrying about gmo silage,
the health-conscious among us
should instead be resigned to a meatless future;
(see legumes offering complete protein
-- black beans and kidney beans);
however, as with solar energy,
the production of eggs is within the grasp of homeowners,
and we should structure locals law so as to
encourage the production of homegrown grassfed eggs .
. most homes are far away from the industrial farmers
where most of the gmo silage usage will be contracted,
therefore, they are the best place to raise healthy eggs .

pim

1.1: proj.addn/log/rev and blog:

. look at site, fix page giving details of schiz case,

wonder about how to start blogging backward

the material written before blog started .

pos.addn/resolution:

. start acting more bloggable .

proj.addn/log/rev 2009 gear subj:

1.6:

. my prev'policy on logging project folders

-- like that for trike --

had been to copy proj folders from month to month

since I wanted the chance to quickly refer to

prior work of the same topic;

and also, use the prev'month's folder structure

as a template for filing the curr'month's notes .

. now I should go back and remove dup'y stuff .

1.7:

. I also found there was a lot that was

not marked as blogged,

and much that had been passed over

but that could be blogged with a little editing .

mis:

. there were even a few items

that had been overlooked somehow .

tech:

. from the month where blogging began, 0905,

and working backwards to 0910,

found gear folders and files .

. one very relevant topic -- sewing mach' repair --

needed it's own blog file,

and since it's now the wrong year,

I included the year into the file's title .

1.11: proj.addn/log/review 2009:

. 0904 mobi notes are blogged?

find where I left off with rev subj,

log 0905 was rev'd .

2030,

log 0904 was rev'd .

2043,

log 0903 .

1.14: pos.addn/blog/priority should be dev.mac:

. since actually getting the project on the ground

was embodied by the study of the impl'lang,

the impl'lang (dev.mac/obj'c)

should be the first to get blogged .

todo:

. the only file left in [addx 0905].folder

is adda .

1.24: proj.addn/blog/addx 0905 and earlier 2009:

. the only file left in [addx 0905].folder

is adda .

. review blog for places to put older files .

. review adda .

. found and fixed more problems with text eaten by

blog turning angle brackets into xml tags .

1.1: mis.addn/todo:

. the usual 99 todo/todo.txt is just for banking?

no, there was at first a 99 todo.txt

which was then combined into the [99 todo].folder;

so I should be combining those .

1.3: proj.addn/rdy xpw db:

. rev log's text parts on mac

for what to bring to xpw .

1.4: pos.addn/fs:

. getting around (mis.addn/xp/filename error)

the main goal of moving log files

is to share the mac files with xpw .

. to keep things sync'd,

the changes made by either platform

should happen to a copy that is on the removable .

. but to get some quick searches,

I should copy the files to hard drive .

. 2008 ... 2009 are going to be modified a lot,

so they are only on the shared vol .

. I may never get around to hand-sorting the rest of log,

it may be better to just copy the files of previous era's

and morph them as new files

without worrying about keeping track of

original vs current creation dates .

. that will involve some concerns about

how to keep track of what's been reviewed,

but there is much time before that happens:

just do the usual review with the current era for now .

1.9: mis.addn/forgot recording cleanup routine:

. how did I convert olympus pc files

to something audacity will import? .

1.9: mis.addn/fs/memory needs hard pos review:

. where is everything on mac?

been at pc too long, and my mem is shot!

I put the log and all it's picts

in the aspect encrypt?

what was I thinking picasa would do?

[... a false assumption about picasa limits]

it's not reaching in the crypt,

so I had moved them back,

but then I was finding it was

annoying not having the log together .

. I could picasa-import picts as they were produced .

1.10: mis.addn/fs/forgotten pos helps revise pos:

. org downloads on xpw,

mov [to be installed]s to where

admn acct can reach them:

. the shared.folder has some surprises for my failing mem!

. I had been putting all dowloads and docs

into the docs.folder of cf.card;

but shared.folder also has docs;

I try to corralling them into a subfolder,

but the [ada 2009 downloads].folder

is having permissions problems .

. it is letting me copy instead of mov,

so I can still do my next idea

of making sure that everything is in both places:

. the cf.card is there in case of

anything stupid needs to reinstall xp-fujitsu os .

. the shared.folder is searchable more quickly than card .

1.10: proc.addn/log/type-in of notes routine:

. the log has previously distinguished logging from

type-in of notes to log,

but writing notes is now so routine,

all logging should be considered type-in's

without having to say that explicitely .

1.15: mis.addn/log:

find missing ergo.kybd entry:

. not anywhere? write a summarizing entry now .

[@] proj.addn/usb.ergo`kybd/delete.key fixed

data loss:

. almost lost an article spacing out a paste to subj.file

after a complicated double entry:

writing about having to do an article reporting

not finding an expected article .

. my mem' had one paste lined up

and recalled already doing one

when 2 were needed .

book notes unreadable:

9.5.17/addn/dev.mac/obj'c:

. typedef can define a function

so that its id can be used in defining

ptrs to id .

cut&paste confusion:

. somehow I lost an article moving it from log to subj.file .

. did I just paste it into the wrong file? search .

. I just have a really bad mem:

I had placed it into the correct subj',

but then forgot which subj' I'd decided on .

. most obama`mail is co.pol,

but this plea to help for haiti

would be placed in gov (charity and consumer interests) .

1.24: mis.addn/lost data/paste buffer forgotten:

. I'm pretty sure that I had some content for

health/cancer/mold still #1 when on a low-fat diet,

but unless that was a false memory

(as in the title was the content meant to be expanded)

I fear that I fell prey to forgetting to unload my paste buffer .

. there should be this system where

if the cut doesn't get pasted

then it shows back up in the place it was cut from

just like the windows system does for files .

ms dev survey

1.10: ms`survey for dev'ers using vc++ express:

How did you arrive at the MSDN Web site today?

Via a link from a non-Microsoft Web site or newsletter

Which of the following best describes

the primary task you were trying to accomplish

with your visit to the MSDN Web site today?

download sdk

Please tell us in your own words

what specific information or resources you were looking for

during your visit to the MSDN Web site today.

. an openware said I could compile its code

using your free visual c++ express sdk .

most true of your visit to the MSDN Web site today?

I found what I was looking for

level of knowledge and skills related to the product

or technology you are researching today.

Intermediate

When do you plan to use the information you were looking for today?

In the next month

What is your preferred way of finding information on the Web

for the primary task you are performing today (download)?

I rely on search wherever possible.

I will quickly search again if a search result doesn't have what I'm looking for.

x I usually rely on search initially,

but when I click on a search result

I will often try navigating from there before searching again.

I rely on navigation wherever possible.

I think of search as a last resort when navigation is not helpful.

Please indicate which, if any, of the following methods

you used to look for information or resources

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Search tool on the site

Satisfaction with the Web Site

Please rate your level of satisfaction with the following features of the MSDN Web site.

no:

The ability to easily find the information that I am looking for

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ok:

Loading speed of the Web site compared to other sites

Up-to-date content

Links within the site content or articles

Search tool on the site

Site navigation (i.e., using links in the menu(s) or tabs on this site)

Overall, how satisfied are you with the MSDN Web site?

ok

What changes would you like to see to improve your

experience with the MSDN Web site? (Please be specific.)

. there are a lot of product choices;

please be immediately specific (all on one page)

as to intended target, price,

what you get for paying more,

or what you don't get

for using free tools .

Thinking about the resources currently provided by the MSDN Web site

(including documentation, articles, forums, blogs, code samples, downloads, training, etc.),

please rate your agreement with the MSDN Web site

ability to provide resources that...

5/10:

Help me get the most out of my Microsoft products

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Please indicate your level of agreement with

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Visitors can find and interact with

peers and experts on the site

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Please tell us how likely you will be

to recommend the MSDN Web site to a friend or colleague.

surely

How long have you been programming, either for school, work or non-work purposes?

4-6 years

Now, we would like to ask you a few questions about

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Please tell us how your visit to the MSDN Web site today

influenced your satisfaction with Microsoft Corporation.

5/10

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its products, its service and support organization,

how satisfied are you with Microsoft as a company?

ok

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what they could do if not held up by backward compat

and demand to giving dev's full stupid control .]

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Personal use

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including laptops, in your organization at all locations?

1 - 4 PCs

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in your organization at all locations?

1 (self-employed)

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net tripping

1.1: proj.addn/net.facebook.com/updating your privacy settings:

[not sure about how this turned out;

alarmed that there was no way give just friends my b'day;

must have been that I gave a false one]

Here are your new settings:

Everyone can see:

* About me

* Education and Work

Friends of Friends can see:

* Photos and Videos of Me

* Birthday

* Religious and Political Views

Your custom settings were preserved for:

... [other things] .

1.6: mis.addn/net.blogger.com/publish fails:

. tried to blog failed,

ok after got all pages to save to draft,

then got all drafts published later .

1.18: mis.addn/net/linked to unpublished knol:

. sent knol link to many

only to find later it was not yet published

-- may do well with general rule of

test important links in strange browser

before sending them .

1.19: sci.addn/net.twitter.com/lists:

. co.dev#feabhas has twitter? twitter has new feature"lists?

my acct is on lists? 4:

@SignalDService/architects-twibe

@davidgrotto/dietitians-twibe

@davidaknapp/christians-twibe

@JMC_Ministries/christians-twibe

1.24: proj.addn/net.blogger.com/profile`interests updated:

. be careful with the commas,

because the keywords help people find other bloggers

with similar interests .

* software engineering

* preventive health

* isotonics (weightlifting without gear)

* hormonics (hormonally balancing nutrition)

* productivity enhancement

* velomobile

* human-powered cars

* recumbent

* tadpole

* trikes

. removed some paren's since many others are interested in

trikes and recumbents .

1.26: web.addn/net.marilynvossavant.com:

. her diet seems ho-hum,

but she's got a perfect hdl/ldl .

. she has a discussion board where people are

ranked {scholar, intellectual, thinker};

there is discussion of big bang,

but she was not part of it .

. her articles (which include the comment on big bang)

are at parade.com

google site:parade.com/askmarilyn/2009/

but the googles go further back than 2009

when addressed that way, if at all .