Anti-jackknife module

  We have designed a system to quickly restore alignment of a sideward-skidding semi-truck tractor with its trajactory.  The controling-components are contained in a module mounted on the steering column.  The system activates brake-releasing valves in the front-brake lines if the tractor is skidding sideward and is steered in the direction of skid.  This action allows the front wheels to roll freely if and when they are aimed in the alignment-restoring direction -- this being the drivers instinctive response to sideward skidding.  The brakes respond to the brake peddle normally when sideward skidding stops or steering ceases to be in the direction of skid.

The control module is equipped with a steering-direction sensor, a lateral-acceleration sensor and a relay.  The sensors pass current from the brake-light circuit to the relay trigger when inertia and steering are both rightward or when inertia and steering are both leftward.  The relay when so triggered passes current from the key-on circuit to both effector valves (left front and right front).  The activated valves block their respective brake hoses and deflate respective front-brake chambers.

We welcome inquiries from possible manufacturers at:

Ingrid Regen: ingrid@dimp.com

Sam Regen:  bogus_id@comcast.net

Brian Hoffman: brian.hoffman.123@gmail.com

Interested parties may download our 3-d printer files shown below.  

In addition to the printable plastic parts, a module contains four 10-mm cylindrical neodymium magnets oriented in the same direction, one 10-mm spherical neodymium magnet, two 4-mm diameter mercury tilt sensors, two 60-mm-long spirit levels, one 1-inch square (cubic) relay HDR185, four 3-inch long 3/32-inch diameter copper-rods curved to a 60-mm diameter arc, four 2.5-inch 1/4-inch bolts, one 1-inch 1/4-inch bolt, nine 1/4-inch friction nuts, two hose clamps, a few dabs of glue.

 

The four 3-D-Printer Files

Click on .stl file name to download

 

Dazzling_Duup_35.stl

Dazzling_Duup_34.stl

Stunning_Esboo-Snaget_18.stl

Stunning_Esboo-Snaget_19.stl

              

Steering-direction Sensor

Lateral-acceleration Sensor

                                    

For love of dog

We have designed a device that greatly eases dog-toenail clipping.  Specifically, it is a thimble 100 that fits over the shear 22 and adjacent parts of a Resco clipper 20.  The thimble is secured by a tiny dab of gum 24 under the rear edge.

The thimble helps guide a toenail into the shear and limits the length of toenail sheared, thereby avoiding tedium, stress, pain and bleeding.  Mass producing the thimble seemed impractical, so we are providing it as a 3-D-print file and asking that users add $2.00 to our PayPal account for each successful printing.  FYI: it took us about two years to optimize outer and inner dimensions of the clipper guide.

To download the 3-D-printer file, 

click this link.

If satisfied, pay $2.00 to PayPal account of xmsdavidr@gmail.com.

The printer file includes eight versions of the thimble.  A set of four that fit the clipper in one orientation and a set of four more that fit the clipper in the opposite orientation.  Each set provides a choice of four clip lenths: 3 mm, 4 mm, 5 mm and 6 mm.

We now present the clipper guide in a website:

https://dogclipperguide.neocities.org/

Links to songbook files

To open a file:

1) Drag highlight any link  (https://mail  . . .  &zw)    

2) Right click the highlighted link,   

3) Left click the  Go To Https:// . . .   

Gospel Supplement: Lyrics & Chords for Pickers -- cover pages

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Gosspel Supplement: Lyrics & Chords for Pickers -- inside pages

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Gospel Supplement: SATB Scores for singers and keyboard -- cover pages

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Gospel Supplement: SATB Scores for Singers & Keyboard -- inside pages

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Country Pathos/Country Soul -- cover pages

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Country Pathos/Country Soul -- inside pages

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Future of manned space flight

  In my opinion there should be very little manned-space-flight future –  for several reasons.

The scientific value of sending people beyond our atmosphere was gained some years ago.  It’s time to cease our manned space program.

We will never colonize another planet.  We will never send people to another star system.  We will never create a self-sustaining, habitable satellite.

We know all we need to know about the physiological and psychological effects of weightlessness – most of which were predicted.  We have devised methods of slowing and limiting those effects – methods for which there is no compelling need.

Our expertise in space flight can remain sharp with more practical programs like GPS and meteorology, and scientific programs like geology and astronomy – and military programs like ICBMs and scuds.  So the space-flight technology will advance after manned space flight ceases.  One might imagine a time when ICBMs can be abolished.

Earth’s resources are limited.  It is unethical for our generation to consume far more than needed. 

Political preference

 

Here is why I prefer the Democratic Party:

Suffering matters.  More suffering is bad.  Less suffering is good.  Nothing else matters.

Overpopulation increases suffering.  Republicans did the gag rule, preventing international family planning.

Resource depletion increases suffering.  Republicans belittle efforts to slow consumption of nonrenewable resources.  Drill baby drill!

Climate change increases suffering.  Republicans oppose efforts to limit global warming – Paris Accords.

Ignorance increases suffering.  Republican media spread many lies every day, every hour.  Few if any scholars or experts appear in Republican broadcasts.

Hate increases suffering.  Listen to Republican pundits a few hours, eg Mark Levin, Sean Hannity.

Poverty increases suffering.  Republican tax policies favoring  the wealthy have decimated the middle class.

Injustice increases suffering.  Democrats are more hospitable to social justice.

It seems to me that:

 

1.  Our society is embracing technologies that will diminish total human satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6iuXmJ6uM

2.  Several financial services unjustly transfer wealth from ordinary people to plutocrats.

3.  The dollar could be preserved by judicious taxation of total wealth (realized and unrealized).

4.  Republicans Made America Greedy Again.  We now leave food rotting in fields and in shipping containers while brown children starve.

What if we were ethical?

By “we” I mean my tribes, kind, ilk and generation: American, white, Christian, male, middle class, contemporary.

By “ethical” I mean honest, respectful, just, restrained, considerate, kind, not criminal.

I want us to be more ethical.  I get a thrill when I see or hear of ethical or virtuous acts.  I feel shame when I consider the people that I have failed or abused and when I consider the crimes that my tribes have committed – against non-white foreigners, against non-white American citizens, against foreign peoples, against non-Christians, against our descendants.

We are much more sensitive to harm to our tribe (Pearl Harbor, 9/11) than to harm done by us to other tribes – genocide of native Americans, theft of Mexican territories, abuse of southern neighbors.  Until recently, conquest and exploitation were noble pursuits.

Today I want to consider the counterfactual reality, if America had avoided its many post-war crimes.  What if we had not bombed and poisoned Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and their neighbors?  What if we had not interfered in the struggles of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, Lybia, etc?  I believe that those actions prevented their maturation, corrupted our leaders and sullied our reputation.  All of our post-war leaders are guilty of this, including my favorites.  I can not see how those crimes have improved our lives.

These foreign actions appear to have been directed by mega-rich arms dealers for their profit.  Greed is insatiable.

The counterfactual is, of course, the impossible, since events of one moment follow inevitably from those of the preceding moment.  Yet I wish otherwise.  I wish we were ethical.

Then there is the question of my generation's over-exploitation of resources and environmental destruction, including global warming.  Can we treat future generations more ethically?