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Cesar Johnston Joins Energous Corporation as Senior Vice President of Engineering
(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 11 July 2014 Release date- 10072014 - PLEASANTON, CA - Energous Corporation (NASDAQ: WATT), the developer of WattUp, a disruptive wire-free charging technology for electronic devices that provides power at a distance with complete mobility under full software control, today announced the appointment of Cesar Johnston as the Company's Senior Vice President of Engineering.
Johnston will be responsible for leading Energous' team of engineers and working with key partners on developing WattUp.
'Energous is delivering a revolutionary wire-free charging technology that will truly transform the consumer electronics market and the way consumers power their devices,' said Johnston. 'I am thrilled to be working with Energous and our customers to bring WattUp wire-free charging to market.' Previously, Johnston was the Vice President of Engineering at Marvell, a leading semiconductor company, where he focused on developing wireless connectivity solutions. Before holding this position, he served as the Senior Director of Engineering for Wi-Fi products at Broadcom and as the Senior Director of Systems Engineering at ARC.
'Cesar's strong qualifications in mobile connectivity were a natural fit for Energous,' said Stephen R. Rizzone, CEO of Energous Corporation. 'I am excited to have Cesar join our highly experienced management team as we continue to focus on executing our strategic plan to finally deliver on the promise of a true wire-free charging solution.' About Energous Corporation Energous Corporation is developing WattUp, a wire-free charging technology that will transform the way people charge and power their electronic devices at home, in the office, in the car and beyond. WattUp is a revolutionary, patent- and trademark-pending solution that delivers intelligent, scalable power via the same radio bands as a Wi-Fi router. WattUp differs from current wireless charging systems in that it delivers meaningful, useable power, at a distance, while allowing users to roam while charging.
The result is a wire-free experience that saves users from having to remember to plug in their devices or place them on a mat. Energous will initially license WattUp to the wearable and mobile-accessory markets and will expand to other markets such as Wi-Fi routers and smartphones over time. For more information, please visit www.energous.com.
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Emails and social media posts which claim that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made some comments against the country's Islamic population are making the rounds. In reality, the official is once again the target of a hoax.
"IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians," Gillard is quoted as saying.
The hoax continues, "We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us. This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.
"But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'. If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted."
Hoax Slayer – the publication that dedicates its efforts to unmasking such hoaxes and other online threats – reveals that this is nothing more than a revamped version of an older scam which involved other Australian Prime Ministers.
In addition, part of the message represents the words of Barry Loudermilk, a US Air Force veteran and columnist. The article he wrote expressed his personal views on patriotism and immigration after the 9/11 incident and was meant for an American audience.
This is not the first time when Julia Gillard is the target of such a hoax. One year ago, a fake newspaper article clip in which the Prime Minister admitted she was gay was making the rounds.

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Figure drawing is a tradition in fine art education. The first time I drew a live nude model was in college. She posed for us on the second or third day of class in the Drawing 101 course. For a shy Midwestern girl like me, it was both shocking and fascinating to see someone take off their clothes in public. My artistic mind-set took over quickly, though, as I studied the model's figure and made the first few charcoal marks on the big sheet of drawing paper that was propped up on my drawing horse.
To artists, the human body is mesmerizing. The adult body has core proportions which are nearly the same for everyone no matter if the body is skinny, fat, young, or old. Once you know those proportions, drawing any person is much easier. You can study charts and graphs of human proportions, but there's really only one way to learn them so well that you can draw them instinctively; you need to draw nude human figures. Because most of us don't have access to life drawing courses, here are some alternatives that have worked well for me.
The most easily accessible model is you. All you need is a full-length mirror, a warm room with good lighting, a few sketching supplies, and a locked door. The bedroom is a good place to set up because you probably feel pretty natural being nude in there. If it's daytime and you have any windows that aren't too revealing, open those curtains and see how the light looks. Arrange a chair so that the light is shining on you in a way that doesn't cast a shadow across your sketch pad as you hold it. A freestanding full-length mirror would be perfect for this exercise, but if you don't have one, take yours off the wall so you can move it around. Experiment with the placement of the mirror until you can sit in the chair (or on the bed), hold your drawing pad in a comfortable drawing position, and see enough of your body to make an interesting pose. A pose that's slightly to one side or the other will give the best body view since the drawing pad will be in front of you. Now, lock the door, doff your clothes, and draw!
Drawing yourself is a psychologically revealing thing to do. Very quickly, you "hear" all the opinions you've ever had about your body, good and bad. We don't really "see" ourselves, and it can be insightful to just sit with yourself, while you quietly observe how you really look, as you draw what you see.
While drawing yourself is good practice, you'll eventually want to draw other people, too. If you have a significant other, they might be persuaded to pose for you. If shyness is a problem, or they don't like to be "stared" at, a strategically placed lightweight sheet gives a "covered" feeling to the poser while revealing enough of the body to be interesting to the artist. My own sweet husband doesn't have a shy bone in his body but can't sit still through a drawing session of any reasonable length, so I often draw him while he's sleeping. He sleeps very soundly and wears very little to bed, so, I just pull back the covers and, well, you get the picture.
I have two wonderful drawing buddies. In the beginning, we got together because they were interested in drawing and wanted me to show them how to get started, but drawing with them quickly turned into much more than just that. I learn a lot by sharing what I know, and they really make me think about how I draw when they ask questions. I'm sure, when we progress to the point of figure drawing, we won't have a bit of hesitation about being each other's models. If you have a group of drawing friends, suggest that you get together and sketch each other. If you don't feel brave enough to bring up the idea of full nude figure drawing, suggest that you all take off your shoes and draw each other's feet. Feet, hands, knees, and elbows, are notoriously hard to draw, so, even if you only draw those parts of each other, everyone benefits.
If all else fails, consider using a digital camera to take some photos of your model and then make a print yourself. Working from a photograph is not the same as drawing from life, but if you want to draw the human figure, and that's all you have to work with, you can make the most of it by not using any drawing aids except those used in traditional life drawing. Make a commitment to draw from the photograph entirely by sight, without copying or tracing in anyway. Make the photo large and tape it to stiff backing so that you can prop it up in a vertical position. Arrange yourself and your drawing tablet in front of the photograph so that you can take measurements with your pencil and thumb just as you do when drawing from life.
If you can draw from your computer screen comfortably, there's a good visual reference software called Virtual Pose. The original version's CD contains two nude models (male and female) in nine different poses each. You can rotate each pose 360 degrees so you really have many different angles to choose from. There are several different versions of Virtual Pose available now, with both clothed and nude models. They work on both Windows and Mac OS.
Figure drawing is essential to the development of your fine art drawing skills. If you want to draw people well, either clothed or not, you need to study how the human body is made. Even if there are no life drawing classes being offered near you, you can still find models to draw if you use a little creativity, sensitivity, and humor.
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A couple pose for a photo at the Registry of Marriages at Fort... News PhotoCouple - Relationship,Horizontal,Human Interest,Photography,Portrait,SingaporePhotographer Suhaimi AbdullahCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesSINGAPORE - FEBRUARY 14: A couple pose for a photo at the Registry of Marriages at Fort Canning on 14 February, 2013 in Singapore. Couples take advantage of Valentine's Day to tie the knot on the day of love, to make it more memorable. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)


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This Hip2Save.com Deal was hand-posted on Friday, September 14th, 2012 at 1:32 pm.
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Make sure to print the Kellogg's Pop-Tarts coupon right away, as I rarely ever see Pop-Tarts coupons this high in value! And paired with a sale, you should be able to score a super inexpensive box of Pop-Tarts!
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what zip code I only see $1 off 3 poptarts
I was only able to print once. It's now showing up as "print limit reached". Did this happen for anyone else?
I was able to print 2 pop tart coupons, but that was about an hour ago… maybe they ran out
My store doubles up to 70 cents!!! Cheap pop tarts :)
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Can anyone tell me if it's a manufacturer coupon, but says redeemable at a certain store, can I only use it at that particular store? Thanks
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Those confetti cupcake pop tarts taste like crap… They taste like chalk, feel like chalk in your mouth, and were a huge disappointment!
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Right-leaning heavy-hitters form a political consultancy aiming to remove the barriers between digital and traditional media.
The man behind a controversial video portraying Barack Obama as the messiah, and a recent video attacking the U.S. Attorney General, is just one of several partners of a just-launched Washington, D.C. political consultancy. Another partner was hired in '06 to help buffer Senator George Allen's image among bloggers following his infamous "macaca moment."
The group of right-leaning heavy-hitters from the online and offline campaign worlds has come together to form Craft, a consultancy aiming to remove barriers between digital campaign efforts and traditional disciplines such as direct mail and television.
"What we're able to do is blend all these disciplines together...to create a more harmonious and stronger message," said Web video producer Justin Germany, co-founder and partner of Craft.
Advertising agencies serving commercial clients have long sought to remove so-called silos from their internal structures which often separate digital teams from those handling television or other traditional media. What Craft may have going for it is the fact that it has originated with this goal in mind, rather than attempting to change a structure staffers have grown accustomed to.
When it comes to Germany's medium of choice - Web video - that means shooting for Web and television simultaneously. "When we shoot something for a client it's all multipurpose," he said. The lines between the two "start blurring, start disappearing." Germany has served as the McCain '08 campaign's director of online media and Bush-Cheney '04's online campaign videographer and editor. He'll be working closely with co-founder and managing partner Brian Donahue, the firm's resident TV expert. Donahue also worked on Bush-Cheney '04, and has done work with the Republican National Committee.
Partner Jon Henke gained notoriety in part through his outreach to bloggers on behalf of George Allen following his infamous "macaca" comment, which contributed to the Virginia Senator's 2006 re-election campaign loss. Henke later worked as new media advisor to the Senate Republicans, and consulted for Fred Thompson's '08 presidential campaign.
Another partner and co-founder is Matthew Dybwad, whose work as director of Internet strategy for political direct marketing company Emotive focused on data consulting and segmentation, online outreach, and fundraising.
Bush '04 campaign alumnus Michael Turk is the firm's fifth co-founder and partner. Turk's pedigree is primarily digital, having managed Internet campaigns for Fred Thompson 2008, Bush-Cheney 04, and Quayle 2000. He was also the RNC's first online campaign director. For Turk, the new agency's approach will curb the tendency to push for one medium over another.
"All of them are trying to get the biggest slice of the consulting pie, and as a result you end up with people advocating for things that might not be the best for the client," he said.
It helps to have partners who recognize the impact one medium can have on others. Germany, for example, stresses the value of earned television coverage garnered through Web video. The recent video aimed at U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is a prime example. According to Germany, his video - made for what he described as a "national security issues group" rather than confirming the group's name - was broadcast on Fox News multiple times earlier this week.
Germany was almost surely referring to a recent video from Keep America Safe, a group whose board members include Dick Cheney's daughter Elizabeth Cheney. The video asks Holder to reveal the names of what it calls "The Al Qaeda 7," Department of Justice lawyers who have represented suspected terrorist detainees. The video prompted people to flood the DOJ with phone calls asking about the attorneys; then a report naming them was confirmed by the DOJ.
Germany believes the video was successful in part because online, there are no time constraints, meaning messages don't need to be as simplified as in television ads. "It was one of those issues where it was pretty in the weeds and pretty nuanced."
"A lot of what you do with Web video is attempt to get earned media," said Germany, adding that campaigns should prepare for an influx of interest spurred by media coverage with site features, search marketing efforts, and social media. "What you want to be able to do is have all guns blazing at once."
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Positive: Positive results indicate the presence of one or more numeric chromosomal abnormalities commonly associated with urothelial carcinoma, within the cells collected in this specimen. Positive results in the absence of clinical documentation of urothelial carcinoma within the bladder suggest the possibility of urothelial carcinoma or other urologic malignancy from another site (including ureter, kidney, urethra, and prostate). In this circumstance, further clinical evaluation to exclude these as a source of the abnormal cells is justified.
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If you care a lot about ships, the Heritage Museum & Gardens has just the art show for you. "Saving Our Ships: the Sea Paintings of Charles Robert Patterson," continues through late October.
It's a classic collection of sailing vessels as painted on large canvases by Charles Robert Patterson (1878-1958), a mostly self-taught artist who, before he took up brush and palette in earnest, was a merchant sailor. He shipped out from his native England to Calcutta at the age of 13.
Patterson spent seven years as a seaman, crossing the oceans and traversing Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. He left the sailor's life in 1899 and lived successively in Victoria, British Columbia and Chicago and Philadelphia, working as a newspaper artist, commercial artist and cover art director for
Patterson's ships are far from tranquil. They do more than look like "Idle ships upon a painted ocean." This was a man who loved the sea with a passion that matched his affection and knowledge of the great wood and iron top-masted ships that were being replaced on the sea lanes of the world by steam-powered freighters, passenger liners and naval dreadnaughts. The old ships, many of great beauty, were being torn up for scrap, and there was danger they'd be forgotten by history as well as transport.
His years at sea uniquely trained Patterson to be a marine painter of distinction. The oceans that his ships cross are obviously those favored for long-distance runs over deep seas through rough weather.
With the passing of great sailing ships there arose a national movement after World War I to preserve whatever could be saved of the vessels themselves, wharfs and other shore buildings, marine artifacts,Sailor-Painter: the Uncommon Life of Charles Robert Patterson. Mr. Webb has been a curator at the Kendall Whaling Museum and the Maine Maritime Museum as well as a guest curator at other New England museums.
printed information like booklets, flyers and posters. Then just at the right time, Patterson showed up in New York in the early 1920s with sheaves of his marine paintings in hand. And nobody had seen anything quite like them.
This summer's Patterson show in Sandwich has a guest curator who is a leading authority on the artist and his work. He is Robert Lloyd Webb, author of the recent biography,
Webb points out Patterson's achievements by referring to the exhibit brochure:
"(Patterson) advanced ship-portraiture by depicting the ocean as it really appears far offshore; with the ship a patched and rusty yet elegant object upon it. He widened the perspective of vessels in the water, by showing them in quartering views, bow-on or becalmed.
"His place as a fine-artist was long clouded by his association with commerce. He readily accepted commissions from publishers and commercial advertisers who disseminated his art. Critics included him with the 'illustrators' who paint for income. His "public" art nevertheless brought him wide recognition, no more so than at the U.S. Naval Academy, where two 33-foot Patterson mural-paintings have inspired generations of future naval officers."
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Oven to Crockpot Conversion General InformationIt's difficult to give exact conversion information on translating traditional oven recipes to the crockpot. Below you will find some general guidelines for converting your favorite recipes to the crockpot. Since crockpots vary, you should consult your owner's manual for instructions.
• Crockpots may vary but generally, the LOW setting is about 200 degrees F. and the HIGH setting is about 300 degrees F. One hour on HIGH is approximately equal to 2 to 2-1/2 hours on LOW. Most crockpot recipes recommend cooking 8-10 hours on LOW. Some recipes recommend the HIGH setting based on the nature and texture of the food. You will have to judge your recipe accordingly. For example, beef cuts will be better cooked on LOW for 8-10 hours to get a more tender texture, where chicken can be cooked on HIGH 2-1/2 to 3 hours.
• Reduce the amount of liquid used in most oven recipes when using the LOW setting, since the crockpot retains all moisture that usually evaporates when cooking in the oven. Add liquids for sauces about an hour before done. You will normally end up with more liquid at the end of cooking times, not less. A general rule is to reduce liquids by half, unless rice or pasta is in the dish.
• Spices may need to be reduced or increased. Whole herbs and spices increase their flavoring power in crockpot cooking while ground spices may have lost some flavor. Add ground spices during the last hour of cooking. Whole leaf and herbs will probably need to be reduced by half.
• Rice, noodles, macaroni, seafood, Chinese vegetables and milk do not hold up well when cooked 8-10 hours. Add these to sauces or liquid about 2 hours before serving when using LOW setting (or 1 hour on HIGH). If you want to use milk in an 8-10 hour recipe, use evaporated milk.
• Browning meats before cooking is a personal choice. It is not necessary but it will reduce the fat content of some meats and increase eye appeal if you brown it before cooking.
• Sautéing vegetables (like onions, etc) is not necessary, (except for eggplant which should be parboiled or sautéed prior due to its strong flavor). Just add them to the pot with everything else. You may wish to reduce quantities of stronger vegetables since they will permeate the other foods in the crockpot with their full flavor.
• Dry beans can be cooked overnight on LOW as an alternative to soaking. Cover with water and add 1 teaspoon of baking soda. Drain and combine with other ingredients. Be sure beans are softened before adding to any sugar or tomato mixture.
• For best results, use long-grain parboiled/converted raw rice in recipes, and use standard liquid amounts instead of reducing the liquid. For mixed recipes requiring pasta, it's best to cook the pasta separately to al dente texture and add just before serving.
• For soups, add water only to cover ingredients. If thinner soup is desired, more liquid can be added at the end of the cooking time.
The following charts assume a normal oven baking temperature of 350- to 375 F.
|General Oven to Crockpot Cooking Time Conversions
|15 to 30 minutes
|1-1/2 to 2-1/2 hours on HIGH
or 4 to 6 hours on LOW
|35 to 45 minutes
|2 to 3 hours on HIGH
or 6 to 8 hours on LOW
|50 minutes to 3 hours
|4 to 5 hours on HIGH
or 8 to 18 hours on LOW
|Note: Most uncooked meat and vegetable combinations will require at least 8 hours on LOW.
|General Crockpot Cooking Times for Specific Foods
|Pot Roast
|8-12 hours on LOW
or 4 to 5 hours on HIGH
|10 to 12 hours on LOW
or 4 to 5 hours on HIGH
|6 to 8 hours on LOW
|Stuffed Peppers
|6 to 8 hours on LOW
or 3 to 4 hours on HIGH
|10 to 12 hours on LOW
|Swiss Steak
|8 to 10 hours on LOW
|Corned Beef & Cabbage
|6 to 10 hours on LOW
or 4 to 5 hours on HIGH
|4 to 9 hours on LOW
or 2 to 4 hours on HIGH
(stirring occasionally)
|5 to 9 hours on LOW
or 2 to 3 hours on HIGH
|Meat Loaf
|8 to 9 hours on LOW
|Dry Beans
|1 to 2 hours on HIGH
plus 8 to 9 hours on LOW
|6 to 12 hours on LOW
or 2-6 hours on HIGH
|7 to 10 hours on LOW
or 3 to 4 hours on HIGH
|2 to 4 hours on LOW
with liquid added
|Baked Potato
|8 to 10 hours on LOW
|6 to 8 hours on LOW
or 2-1/2 to 4 hours on high
(with water)
|Note: Remember to check the owner's manual for your particular crockpot for full instructions on usage. The above cooking times are only VERY general guidelines.
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Kenmore washer motor? switch.
Posted 24 July 2013 - 09:16 PM
Was reading some trouble shooting help. Question about wires to motor. blue wire should have 120 in agitate mode, is the black wire suppose to be hot as well. That adviser said no, and if black white is hot 120 vac, timer is bad.
I had a used motor switch and put it on but that did not fix. I dont realy know how that switch works, what wire supplies the netural to the switch harness.
Posted 24 July 2013 - 09:48 PM
... I wiggled white netural going to switch (thermal?)
Does the Motor "hum" when it's supposed to run, but doesn't ?
During Agitate OR Spin,
the Motor should have 120v between the Blue wire (#4) and the White/Black wire #3 (or the Grey wire #7)
The Motor direction is determined by which way (magnetic polarity) that the Start Winding gets momentarily energized
Black wire #1 (or Red # 10) and Yellow wire #5
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Posted 24 July 2013 - 10:17 PM
I saw where you could make a test lead for the motor. the diagram was for a maytag, would that work on kenmore. hey i'm trying to learn here and I guess dont get how a washer agitates. The test lead shows yellow and blue wires are swaped on a winding, to make it agitate. I don't have a digram so I'm really lost. question? does the motor switch make and break the netural, by centrifical rotation and that is how it agitates. sorry im brain dead havent got it pictured in the mind.
Posted 24 July 2013 - 10:20 PM
typed my comment before I refreshed my screen so let me study what you have given me , thanks
Posted 24 July 2013 - 10:24 PM
can white black wire carry 120 to ground, if timer is bad, the black white wire is suppose to be a netural, is that correct. Im pretty sure the black white read 120 to ground.
Posted 24 July 2013 - 10:26 PM
The H winding is the high-speed run winding.
The S winding is the start winding
For the Motor to run, H would need 120v continuously,
The momentarily 120v to the Start winding, determines Motor run direction,
which the Transmission uses to Agitate or Spin.
The Motor Centrifugal Switch disconnects the Start winding when it's up to speed.
(and sometimes switches speed from Hi to Low speed, if it was a multiple speed Motor)
... Im pretty sure the black white read 120 to ground.
the the Motor internal Thermal Switch is "open"
OR the Lid Switch is "open"
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Posted 24 July 2013 - 10:35 PM
the motor does nothing, you can put it in spin and it wont work either. no hum or sound.
Posted 24 July 2013 - 10:39 PM
You will read 120vac to ground on the white/black wire (and white or gray) if you have an open neutral. The white wire (or gray) is the neutral feed to the motor. It goes through the thermal overload and then to the high speed winding and also goes out on the white/black wire to the timer motor direction contacts. You can't use the Maytag test cable as the Maytag washer does not use a capacitor. You would have to rig a capacitor into the test cable to make it work on your washer. Your problem appears to be with the neutral connection at the motor.
Edited by fairbank56, 24 July 2013 - 10:40 PM.
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 12:11 AM
grey wire comes from top and is in harnes to motor switch, i have a white wire on bottom (fourth terminal) that goes to the thermal and then to the h winding. That white terminal at the bottom of the switch burnt off,. now if I'm seeing it right the wht black wire and white wire are the same netural, from what i can tell from the diagram grey netural, turns to white netura via connection in the motor switch, white then goes through thermal and winding H, netural. white black comes from timer to motor switch and then meets up with the white inside the motor. I dont see how white black could carry 120 unless it shorts to 120, not open. if a timer terminal welds shut on 14 or 7 then white black could become hot. I have to re-check that reading on the blk-white, and I will check for a open netural, grey wire. Thanks for your help, i may not still have it right in my head. I have a second washer from this customer with same symptoms, noticed burning on the white wire on it as well. last question as I look at diagram. is there an internal thermal in the motor , I see #7 and a hump then it goes to H winding. got some more studying to do just realized I dont understand some of the principles of the mechanics and electrical. will get it down. Thanks again for your help.
Posted 25 July 2013 - 12:28 AM
open grey or white wire path, would mean white black would not be netural, power from blue wire would pass through winding h and white black would be 120, is that what you were trying to tell me. I think I see what you were saying fairbank.
Posted 25 July 2013 - 04:11 AM
... white black comes from timer to motor switch and then meets up with the white inside the motor.
... is there an internal thermal in the motor ... I see #7 and a hump then it goes to H winding.
1) no, white/black doesn't "come from timer", it's neutral, going to the Timer Motor
2) yes .... yes
open grey or white wire path, would mean white black would not be netural, power from blue wire would pass through winding h and white black would be 120, is that what you were trying to tell me. I think I see what you were saying fairbank.
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 06:57 AM
https://www.dropbox....art Circuit.pdf
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 07:04 AM
Yes, if you have an open neutral, you don't have a complete circuit which means no current flow and no voltage drop across the motor winding. Your just reading the 120 volts through the winding. Be advised that taking continuity readings can be misleading. When you are checking continuity, your just using the low DC voltage and current of your multimeter. You could have a bad connection that still may read low ohms with your meter but when you apply full 120 volts and high current of the motor, the connection fails. Bad neutral connections are common on these washers and are usually on that thermal switch and/or the harness connector.
Posted 25 July 2013 - 10:29 AM
ok, when i flipped it over to repair pump the lid switch moved off, that was my loss of netural, right on fairbank, this switch may be damaged, have not replaced one like this, series 300. (going to look at new part pic) but there is always a but, it ran and then it stopped, getting hot. motor going bad, transmission drag ???? going to let it sit.. this is why the white wire burned off terminal. Thanks again for the help, my axe is not as dull now, remember go back and check the lid switch, even if it tested good the first time. Save the giblets as julie childs says (saturday night live skit).
Posted 25 July 2013 - 10:59 AM
Let it sit, started it up it drained, but did not move to spin cycle, turned off switch, tried to start, get the hummmm.
Posted 25 July 2013 - 11:35 AM
Will it agitate? This washer has a dry agitate function. There is an area on the dial just before drain where it will agitate even without any water in it. Find this point and mark it so you can use it for testing agitate without having to fill the washer. Sounds like a gearcase issue though if it will drain but then locks up when it should spin. If it was a problem with the basket or basket drive the motor should still run but the clutch would just slip. Did you check the voltage when the motor hums to see if your getting a big voltage drop due to a connection problem?
Posted 25 July 2013 - 11:37 AM
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 12:07 PM
Enlightment time. I watched viedo last night on transmission, became familuar with netural drain plate. Not sure how it kicks in to netural, has to go to netural to allow drain, that I understand, but how does it get there. My thinking is that when the motor is turned off, the transmission is suppose to always return to this netural position, which would allow room for motor to bump up, jog before hitting clutch. (loccked rotor condition exist if not in netural).
Posted 25 July 2013 - 12:19 PM
The neutral drain mechanism is "set" during the first few seconds of agitate. After agitate, motor reverses and drain without spin occurs. Then motor pauses which releases the latch on the neutral drain plate so that when it starts again, it goes into spin while continuing to drain. I created this image to show and explain how it all works. The view is as if you were looking down on and through the spin gear.
Edited by fairbank56, 25 July 2013 - 12:22 PM.
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Curmudgeon Notes 5.15.2013
Media musings from Cincinnati and beyond
• Some Cincinnati IRS employees violated IRS rules and maybe the law by harassing scores of Tea Party and similar conservative groups seeking vital nonprofit status. As an example of IRS intrusiveness, the Enquirer reports that the Liberty Township Tea Party received a questionnaire demanding information the IRS is not allowed to seek. "The letter was signed by a local IRS official, who did not return calls seeking comment," the paper initially reported. Who? Name names. If the IRS employee signed and sent an official government document, there's no reason to grant anonymity. Later in its initial full page A-section story, the Enquirer quotes Ohio IRS spokeswoman Jennifer Jenkins saying, "Mistakes were made." By whom? Again, names, please. Americans increasingly favor the passive voice, "mistakes were made" but no one made them. If the paper pressed for names of mistake-makers, it's not evident. And who was fired? Anyone? The Associated Press — whose reporter broke this scandal story — says the Cincinnati mess is at least two years old. This isn't new. We've seen IRS harassment of activists before and probably will again. Each time, it's a scandal. Or should be. Any loss of residual confidence in IRS nonpartisanship is a helluva lot more serious than the muddle surrounding the killing of four Americans in Benghazi or the murder of three spectators at the Boston marathon. I'm sure it's coincidence that the Cincinnati IRS harassment preceded the 2012 election. And I'm sure those employees were motivated only by zeal to protect the purity of the 501(c)(4) status from improper or illegal political activity. But I'm also sure that any agnostic or atheist Republicans are looking at this Cincinnati-born national IRS scandal as proof that "there is a God." Now, to keep that wrath boiling with hearings until 2014 elections. • The Associated Press says it's the target of a sweeping Justice Department search for the news service's confidential sources. Monday, AP reported the Justice Department "secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors . . . in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news. "The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls. "In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters." Maybe it's time to call in the Plumbers. • I'm no fan of public radio's Ira Glass. His whiney voice sends me to WLW 700 AM radio for something more insanely macho. Now, he's shoveling natural soil enrichment in recorded promos for public radio fund raising. I heard them on WVXU-FM's just-ended fund drive. His point: We should all be happy because everyone who listens to public radio helps support public radio. Not true. Never will be. At WVXU, fewer than 10 percent of us donate to its support. That means Ira Glass's everyone are mostly parasites, listening but not paying. (Our family is a sustaining member of WVXU and WGUC . . . ) • How do our local news media track Macy's commitment to ethical sourcing of its house-brand clothing from Asian countries where factory fires, collapses, etc., are just a cost of doing business? Contracts go where labor is cheapest. People work or go hungry. It's only going to get worse when huge numbers of youngsters mature. Macy's said the right things after hundreds died after a Bangladesh factory crumbled, but now it's up to reporters to stay on the story. • I glad Macy's says it will continue to buy products made in Bangladesh. Pleasing writers of anguished Letters to the Editor and leaving Bangladesh in a virtuous huff doesn't employ or feed anyone. I've been in and out of developing countries for half a century. Lots of cheap unskilled or semi-skilled labor feeds more families than one machine (that breaks and rusts unrepaired). Whether it's subsistence farming, breaking stones with hammers for roadbeds, pedaling a rickshaw or laborers carrying building materials up ladders in baskets on their heads, it's work that feeds. We can feel guilty, but walking away helps no one...else. • BBC accuses the Plain Dealer of racist news judgment over stories about kidnapped young women freed recently after a decade of imprisonment and abuse. BBC based its provocative judgment on its count of stories about two of the three young women, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry. "In Cleveland, the newspaper stories were mainly about the white girl," BBC News Magazine reporter Tara McKelvey wrote. "In the 10 years Berry was missing, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper published 36 articles about her, according to a search of electronic news archive Lexis-Nexis. During the nine-year period that DeJesus, who is Hispanic, was missing, the newspaper published 19 articles about her case." This is typical of American news media where MWW (Missing White Woman) gets more coverage than black or Hispanic girls and women, according to academics McKelvey quoted. But Chris Quinn, the Plain Dealer's assistant managing editor/metro, rejects McKelvey's accusation. He says it's not only wrong but "based on an analysis so simplistic we would have thought it beneath an organization such as yours." Quinn said his "much more thorough review" shows the reverse of the BBC tally. "The number of stories about DeJesus actually is greater than the number mentioning Berry, contrary what you assert. Your analysis did not include all variations of the DeJesus first name, a rather glaring lapse." Quinn continued, "Because of the racial aspect your network chose to focus on, we also included in our review stories about Shakira Johnson, a black child who went missing around the same time as Amanda and Gina. The hunt for Shakira was as big a community effort as the hunt for the other missing girls." Here's his tally: Stories mentioning Shakira Johnson and not Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry: 145 Stories mentioning only Gina DeJesus (or Georgina DeJesus): 24 Stories mentioning only Amanda Berry: 17 Stories mentioning Berry and DeJesus together: 8 Stories mentioning Berry, DeJesus and Johnson: 6 Stories mentioning DeJesus and Johnson together: 2 And Quinn closed, "The suggestion that this newspaper has used race as any kind of filter in its story choices is offensive in the extreme. We're shocked that such a poorly reported story could be posted by a network with your reputation." • You can thank Time magazine and writer Steven Brill for prying comparative hospital costs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Enquirer carried a sample for local hospitals. According to Poynter.com, the journalism website, Brian Cook at the department's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tells Brill the move "comes in part" because of Brill's article from March about health-care costs. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is also offering $87 million to the states to create what she calls "health-care-data-pricing centers." Poynter continues, saying the centers will make pricing transparency more local and user friendly than the giant data file. Brill says the report "should become a tip sheet for reporters in every American city and town, who can now ask hospitals to explain their pricing...If your medical insurance requires you pay a percentage of a procedure's cost, that's very useful information." • When are reporters going to call their bluff when speakers wax lyrical about the joys of good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns? Instead of spreading these fantasies, interview people who train others in the defensive use of handguns. Or talk to police and military firearms instructors and combat veterans on how difficult it can be to overcome the normal resistance to shooting another person. Look at news stories that describe how many rounds officers fired in armed confrontations; adrenalin does nothing to steady the gun hand or restrain how many times an officer pulls the trigger. And these are the best we have. I've used handguns for more than 50 years. I passed the official Ohio 12-hour concealed/carry course for a CityBeat cover story. If anyone thinks that training prepared them to provide armed response in schools, movie theaters, malls, etc., they're suffering a potentially deadly delusion. It's time reporters began to add that context to the debate of guns in our society. • College campuses are perfect for training student reporters. These schools typically are rich with conflicts of interest, executives with edifice complexes, misspent millions, and bureaucrats eager to escape blame or avoid offending alumni. The Columbus Dispatch reported this example last week about suburban Otterbein University, a United Methodist four-year school. It said Otterbein agreed to stop requiring students involved in sexual-assault cases to sign confidentiality agreements because student newspaper journalists discovered it was violating federal law. After initially denying it, the Dispatch reported, an Otterbein official told reporters for the student newspaper that he didn't realize Otterbein had had victims, as well as others, sign a nondisclosure clause. "We just followed the bread crumbs," Chelsea Coleman, a 21-year-old journalism and public relations major who wrote the Tan & Cardinal story with another student, told the Dispatch. • One need not agree with Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman to appreciate his recent criticism of how news media handle stories involving expertise. In his New York Times op-ed column, Krugman singles out the Washington Post but he could have included many if not most news media. Citing a controversial study by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the Post warned that Americans are "dangerously near the 90 percent mark that economists regard as a threat to sustainable economic growth." Krugman pounced. "Notice the phrasing: 'economists,' not 'some economists,' let alone 'some economists, vigorously disputed by other economists with equally good credentials,' which was the reality." Reporters can be too eager to substitute formulaic brevity for accuracy: doctors say, psychologists say, weight loss experts say, police say, reporters say, etc. My advice: beware of any news story that identifies someone as an "expert" without a clear explanation of their expertise.
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Defining and Re-Defining Allegiance
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0 Comments · Wednesday, April 24, 2013
We need a bit more mindfulness and maybe a little less blind, thoughtless passion. Let's make some hard decisions about who we are and acknowledge the "strange" diversity of our bedfellows.
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Typically, invoking a Great Man to settle an argument involves Lincoln, Twain, Stalin, Churchill, Chief Seattle, etc. Hitler is a provocative new favorite. Among some gun control foes, quoting Hitler proves what will happen if Obama has his way: gun registration, confiscation and tyranny.
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0 Comments · Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I swear there are days when it would be best to turn off the television, stay away from computers, the Internet and smartphones, maybe just remain in bed with the covers firmly clasped over my head to silence the ignorant noise spewing out of the mouths (and from the furiously tweeting thumbs) of politicians, commentators and lobbyists.
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State gets C in human trafficking, Kasich funds mental health, mall businesses evicted
An annual human trafficking report released by Attorney General Mike DeWine gave Ohio a C. The grade, which comes from Shared Hope International, was a step up from D's in the previous two years. But DeWine says it's not enough, and further action will be taken. Ohio has made some strides on the human trafficking issue, including passage of a new "Safe Harbor" law for sex-trafficking victims, new details for minor trafficking victims and the training of 24,000 law-enforcement officers to better detect and help trafficking victims. Gov. John Kasich is giving $5 million to mental health services to help curb and prevent violence. The news comes in the wake of school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 and a California high school yesterday. Mental health services are important, but so is gun control, as CityBeat pointed out here. Vice President Joe Biden is currently heading an investigation to make suggestions on gun control to President Barack Obama. The remaining businesses in Tower Place Mall were told to get out. Cassidy Turley, the court-appointed receiver of the mall, apparently filed eviction notices telling businesses to leave by March. The mall has been struggling for some time now, and the city of Cincinnati is currently in the process of trying to buy it. City Manager Milton Dohoney says the city had no part in the evictions. The city of Mason is apparently becoming a technology corridor. Since 2011, the city has brought in $110 million in investments and created 1,400 jobs. The new jobs are related to technology, robotics, automation, innovation and health care. Warren and Butler counties are apparently seeing a surge in sales tax revenue. The budgetary boost is being seen by some as a sign of further economic expansion. Surrounded by dogs, Gov. Kasich signed legislation effectively banning puppy mills. Previously, animal advocates claimed lax rules and regulations had made Ohio a breeding ground for abusive practices. The lack of oversight also helped enable Ohio's dog auctions, which CityBeat covered here. The new law will go into effect within 30 days. An Ohio school is apparently arming janitors. Previously, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters made a suggestion to arm school staff, but research shows it doesn't help deter or stop acts of violence. Natural gas is being slightly deregulated in Ohio. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) is allowing two companies — Columbia Gas of Ohio and Dominion East Ohio Gas — to eliminate regulated pricing for businesses, with some conditions. Supporters say the move will create more competition and lower prices, but the deregulation gives a substantial advantage to two big energy companies. Congress is apparently less popular than head lice, but it's more popular than Lindsay Lohan. Damn. Does that mean people prefer head lice to Lindsay Lohan? Even Nickelback and Ghengis Khan beat Congress. Poor Lindsay. Science has now found that animal grunts can act similarly to Morse code. Is this yet another warning of the impending animal takeover?
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NKY Congressman Tries to Loosen Gun Laws Near Schools
Bill Sloat
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 9, 2013
U.S. Rep. Tom Massie, the congressman who represents the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, used his first day in Congress to file a bill that would erase a 23-year-old federal ban that makes it a crime to carry guns near schools.
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Northern Kentucky Congressman Wants Guns In School Zones
Massie's first bill would repeal federal safety buffer enacted in 1990
U.S. Rep. Tom Massie, the congressman who represents the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, used his first day in Congress to file a bill that would erase a 23-year-old federal ban that makes it a crime to carry guns near schools.At the moment, Massie does not have any co-sponsors signed up. Details are sparse because the government printing office says it does not yet have the full text of the measure to put online. The existing Gun-Free School Act of 1990, which was adopted when former president George H.W. Bush, a Republican, was in the White House is viewable here. The bill was amended in 1995. As late as 1999, the National Rifle Association (NRA) was testifying in support of the measure, a position it seems to have dropped after the Sandy Hook massacre.Under the existing law, so-called "school zones" include but are not limited to parks, sidewalks, roads and highways within 1,000 feet of the property line of a public or private elementary, middle or high school. The law makes it practically impossible to travel in populated areas without entering a "gun-free school zone." People with state-issued licenses or permits to carry guns are exempted by the federal law, but the exemption is only good in the state that issued the permit.The law doesn't exempt out-of-state travelers who have permits, nor does it allow off-duty police officers to pack a weapon in a school. And it is a violation for anyone other than an on-duty police officer or a school security guard to discharge a firearm in a school zone for any reason. A state permit does not exempt a person from the discharge prohibition. Here is a copy of the bill that retired U.S. Rep. Ron Paul introduced while the Texan was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. He called his repeal measure the Citizen Protection Act, and he got no support from co-sponsors. Paul's bill died when the new Congress was sworn in yesterday, but Massie is now resurrecting it.Massie is a tea party adherent — elected last fall to replace Geoff Davis — who largely shares the political philosophies of Paul and his son, Sen. Rand Paul, who is also from Kentucky. Massie voted against John Boehner for speaker on the opening day of the 113th Congress, an act of open defiance against the Republican House leadership.
by Ben L. Kaufman
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Curmudgeon Notes 12.26.2012
Media musings from Cincinnati and beyond
• How a small weekly responds to an unimaginable disaster and scores a world scoop is a lesson in the best of journalism. Poynter online's Julie Moos described what happened after Newtown Bee associate editor Shannon Hicks heard the initial call over her police scanner. Hicks drove the mile and a quarter and arrived behind the first dozen police officers. She started taking photographs through her windshield and captured her image of a line of children being led away from the slaughter. "I'm conflicted," Hicks said about her photo. "I don't want people to be upset with me, and I do appreciate the journalists, especially, who have commented, saying 'We're just documenting the news.' It's harder when it's in your hometown and these are children we're gonna watch grow up, the ones who made it. I know people are gonna be upset, but at the same time I felt I was doing something important." Fellow editor John Voket explained what was behind that image. "Police and school system have a protocol" for evacuation. "Children get into a conga line, shoulder to shoulder, and the only person that's allowed to keep their eyes open is the locomotive at the front of the line, usually an adult. And every other kid has to keep their eyes closed from the minute they were exiting the classroom to when they got about a couple hundred yards into the parking lot." • Voket arrived about 20 minutes later and colleague Hicks "passed the baton" to him. Hicks also is a volunteer firefighter. The firehouse is next to the school. "I literally put on my firefighter gear . . . I was there as a firefighter probably for not even more than 20 minutes before my editor said he wanted me back in the office to work with him to coordinate coverage from there." • Voket continued reporting, but "We operate a little differently because our job is to take care of the community so we were inside helping to comfort victims and trying to provide human support without necessarily making reporting the No. 1 priority. The publisher came down to comfort some of the families a little later in the day." R. Scudder Smith has been Bee publisher since 1973; he is the fourth member of his family to run The Bee since they founded it in 1877. The paper, which has a full-time editorial staff of eight, circulates to about two-thirds of the community of about 29,000. • It was Friday and the weekly Bee front page was ready to print. It couldn't be changed. "We've been putting everything on our website," publisher Smith told AP. Voket added that the traffic surge repeatedly crashed the website until the Bee acquired "an intermediary service to supersize our bandwidth . . . We got back up and running this (Saturday) morning." The staff used social media to spread information about school lockdowns, re-routed traffic, and grief counseling. "Facebook and Twitter accounts have been a lifeline to our community and it shows because 20 percent of the community are following us." The Bee also was "looking at doing a special extra to be on the newsstands Monday." • For those of us outside Newtown, Conn., we can turn to the renewed duel over gun control. If it were a song, tired and familiar gun control lyrics would be among "Worst Hits Ever." It didn't take long for gun control advocates to embrace the Sandy Hook massacre and the bellicose NRA to opt for rare silence. Obama renewed his unredeemed calls for gun control although he and Mitt Romney dodged the issue in the just-ended campaign. It was a hornets' nest neither man opted to kick and reporters apparently were unable to raise with the candidates. • After the Sandy Hook slaughter, fair and balanced Fox News banned discussion of gun control from the cable network. Maybe Fox News feared we really would decide if they really reported. New York magazine said the ban spotlights the "growing chasm between Rupert Murdoch and [Fox News president] Roger Ailes." Ailes reportedly is a gun enthusiast. Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns Fox News, had tweeted a call for stricter gun control, imploring for "some bold leadership action" from Obama. • Let me be churlish when everyone else is sympathizing with families, survivors and first responders. Slaughtering 20 children is awful, but reporters and editors are familiar with how badly Americans treat urban, suburban, small town and rural children every day. In Obama's Chicago and many other urban areas, gunfire is an omnipresent fact of childhood. Possibly one-fourth of all American children live in poverty as defined by federal guidelines. For these kids, federally funded school meals might be more than a complement to home meals. Health care for poor and malnourished children isn't much better than their educations. Medicaid is among the anti-poverty programs high on the GOP priorities for absolute cuts and/or reduced annual increases. And let's not even get into continuing coverage of physical and sexual child abuse, trafficking minors and lifelong handicaps from poor or nonexistent prenatal care or maternal drug and alcohol abuse. • Only foolish or ignorant reporters credit pious assertions that legislation can prevent disturbed individuals from obtaining guns and killing as many people as they can. There are more than 310 million people in this country. Some are or will become seriously mentally disturbed and obtain one or more of the hundreds of millions of firearms Americans own. A Columbine or Sandy Hook could happen again any day. • Focusing on the shooting victims rather than shooters might reduce any copycat effect. Stories and photos elevating killers to celebrity have been blamed for further rampages. Even though the killer never was identified, that was the inference drawn from Tylenol poisonings 30 years ago; copycats tried to poison Tylenol capsules. When coverage began to fade, so did copycat crimes. • NRA leaders realized years ago that traditional (and valuable) Eddie Eagle gun safety comics and courses were insufficient to motivate and keep members and their dues. Fear and anger would be more effective. Real and imagined government controls became NRA's cause. Few modern American movements have been as durable and effective as the NRA. • NRA is powerful because we are a democracy. It can mobilize more than 4 million members and fellow travelers as voters, donors and voices in the news media. Elected representatives who want to keep their jobs quite reasonably try to avoid the NRA's opposition. Gun control advocates evince nothing like this single-minded devotion to their cause. • In 1994, the Clinton administration won a10-year limit on the sale of assault-style weapons and large capacity magazines for their ammunition. I went to a gun store in Hamilton to cover a rush to beat the ban. Chinese assault-style rifles and curved high-capacity magazines were selling as fast as staff could pry open crates. As I watched, the price rose $10 with each new crate: demand and supply. Men who talked to me said they were buying because of the imminent controls on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines. A few admitted fear of civil unrest or some undefined federal assault. Most said they wanted a military-style rifle for shooting targets or empty beer cans and this might be their last chance.That 10-year ban died in 2004 when Republicans owned all three branches of federal government and didn't seek renewal. However, recent killings that required assault-style weapons with large-capacity magazines might prompt reconsideration of the ban. Adam Lanza reportedly carried hundreds of rounds of ammunition in high-capacity magazines. No one knows why he didn't use them. • Any gun control measure that's not DOA will have to respect millions of long guns — rifles and shotguns — used by hunters, farmers and others. That distinction is an important part of this story already handicapped by the paucity of journalists who hunt or otherwise own firearms. • In addition to an unfamiliarity with firearms, partisan hyperbole also handicaps writing about guns and gun control. It can be hard to find neutral sources who share reporters' interest in accurate coverage. Stenographic reporting giving "both sides" isn't good enough; journalists must know enough to challenge obvious partisan misstatements. We are not obligated to report what we know to be untrue or to label it as such. • Unfamiliarity with gun control cropped up in a recent Enquirer story about a failed armed robbery attempt inside a suburban Sunoco station. Employees with a handgun and a shotgun fatally wounded the would-be bandit. The Enquirer story said it was unclear whether the employees had conceal-carry licenses for those firearms. Unless someone somehow cloaked a shotgun's 18-28" barrel, no conceal/carry permit is required. Unless the other Sunoco clerk carried the pistol under his clothes, he didn't need a permit. Wearing it openly or storing it under the counter does not require a conceal/carry permit. So what was the point of that line in the story? Just because a cop might have said it doesn't mean the reporter had to share it. That's what I'm talking about. • Missing in much gun control coverage is Congress' inability to craft sensible, workable bipartisan gun control specifics that can survive NRA opposition and Supreme Court scrutiny. Firearm confiscation is out of the question. So is universal registration which raises NRA-orchestrated fear of confiscation — by ATF, the UN or some other demon de jour — to hysteria. Moreover, the court affirmed an individual Second Amendment right to own guns in 2010 but it did not rule out federal, state or local regulations governing firearm use. • Reporters faced with new rage over shootings should remind partisans that we have gun control already. Forty nine states issue conceal/carry permits but specify where those handguns may not be carried. Illinois — State No. 50 — is under court order to replace its ban with a conceal/carry permit system. Many if not most municipalities bar gun owners from firing their weapons within city limits with the exception of self-defense. States commonly limit when hunters can use rifles and/or shotguns and they can require a certain size bullet for large-game hunting. Landowners may bar hunters from their property during state-sanctioned hunting seasons. There are federal limits on how short a "sawed off" shotgun or rifle barrel may be. There are laws limiting ownership of silencers and fully automatic machine guns and submachine guns. Federally licensed firearms dealers must run background checks on prospective buyers and turn away those who fail or won't comply. Dealers can deny convicted felons a gun under federal and many state laws. A legal purchaser may not buy a firearm for someone who would fail a federal background check. Mentally-ill customers can be turned away by dealers. • Few of the roughly 12,000 Americans shot to death annually are killed with shot with shotguns or rifles. They're shot with pistols. So when gun control is promoted, reporters should press advocates to say what they mean: handguns. • Before reporters share the lunacy of arming teachers, ask local cops how many rounds typically are fired from their handguns in an armed encounter . . . and how many of those bullets hit their target. Not many. It's very, very difficult for someone trained even at the level of police to accurately fire when adrenaline is pumping. The teacher might end up shooting more students than the intruder. Better to count on the low probability of an armed intrusion. Think about how rare this is. Awful when it happens, but very, very rare, even in communities where other shootings are far more frequent.
Make This Time Different
German Lopez
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 19, 2012
On Dec. 14, the United States was hit by another mass shooting. This time, a gunman forced himself into an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults.
by German Lopez
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Metal Detectors Could Come Back to City Hall
Councilman says more gun regulations unlikely at local level
In light of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, a City Council member wants metal detectors put back in City Hall. Democratic Councilman Cecil Thomas says he's always been concerned about security, and he hopes recent bouts of gun violence will make it clear more protective steps are necessary. Thomas argues City Hall should not be an exception to a practice that's carried out in other government buildings. He points to federal and county buildings and other city halls around the nation, which tend to use metal detectors. Thomas, who was a police officer until 2000, acknowledges metal detectors are a "little bit of an inconvenience" to visitors, but he adds, "These are times when a little bit more inconvenience can go a long way to possibly save a lot of lives."So City Hall could get more security, but what about the city as a whole? Earlier today, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls announced City Council will work on a resolution to encourage Congress to pass new gun regulations at a federal level. Beyond that, Thomas says not much is likely.The problem is state law trumps local law when it comes to gun regulations, so City Council's hands are tied on the issue. "I would like to see us be able to control our own destiny as it relates to gun laws, but, obviously, I have no control over that," Thomas says. Metal detectors were in place at City Hall until 2006, when Mayor Mark Mallory had them taken down to make City Hall more open to the public.
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Karl-Heinz J. Krenz, 65, of Wimberley and formerly of Fredericksburg, died Friday, Sept. 19, 2014.
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James Blake – "cmyk (Live at Pitchfork Fest 2011)"
Summer is well underway, and since we're in the season of festivals, I thought it appropriate to share one of my more recent finds while Youtube-crate-digging.
I'm still a little blown away that such a deep, soulful voice could come from a skinny, British white guy who looks like he's maybe 14. I'm also consistently impressed with how well this guy's music translates into the live setting. Electronic music is a tricky thing to replicate in a band setting as it is, especially in the case of James Blake's music. While his music exercises thought-out restraint and minimalist principles, it certainly has a tendency to erupt into beautiful moments of complexity, utilizing pronounced IDM elements. Blake and co. have managed to balance and blend those elements well on stage and his performance of "CMYK" at last year's Pitchfork Fest is a perfect example of that. The band gradually builds on top of a simple plucked guitar melody and mutates into this really nice, driving groove. I love the way the drummer erupts into this syncopated drum pattern in the middle.
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An actress who looks like going interstellar, A Royal Affair's Alicia Vikander has clearly caught of the eye of some serious Hollywood players, Tom Cruise included, in the past year or two. She's now in talks to join Cruise and Armie Hammer in spy caper flick The Man From U.N.C.L.E..
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