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WASHINGTON – Partisan gridlock was on pause this Valentine's Day for a good cause on Capitol Hill.
"When I heard there were some dogs and cats in here I wanted to come by and see them," says Florida Rep. Jeff Miller. "There are too many pets that don't have a good home."
Rescue groups from around the D.C. area brought more than 50 adoptable pets to the Cannon House Office Building Thursday to highlight the plight of millions of animals awaiting adoption at shelters throughout the country.
Some of these four-legged lobbyists were so small they would fit in the hand of a congressman. Others, like one great dane that weighed 145 pounds, were enormous.
"We need to all go adopt our animals and give those wonderful homeless animals a shot," says Nancy Perry, senior vice president of ASPCA government relations.
Nationally, more than 7 million animals pass through shelters each year.
"It brings to light the fact that we have so many homeless animals," says Glenda Dacosta, who brought the great dane. She works with a great dane rescue organization.
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The Enchanted Forest theme park closed for good in the 1990s. But the owner of a nearby farm has moved and preserved many of its parts.


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Glee News Roundup! The Hottest Stories of The Week — December 29, 2012
Plenty of new Glee stories this week, so which ones did fans like you click on the most? Here are Wetpaint Entertainment's top five most-read Glee stories of the week.
1. Glee Creator Ryan Murphy Welcomes a Baby Boy!
Congrats to the new parents! What do you think of the little guy's name?
2. Lea Michele and Cory Monteith Are Definitely Dating — It's Finally Official!
Okay, we totally knew this already. But it's still pretty awesome to hear it confirmed.
3. Glee's 4 Worst Holiday Songs of All Time
Here's our pick for the four worst holiday songs the show has ever done.
4. Did Lea Michele Spend Christmas With Boyfriend Cory Monteith?
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A terrific leap forward for justice has happened in New York City. The City Bar Justice Center applauds the New York City Council's allocation of $4.9 million in new funding for the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) in this year's city budget. Continue reading
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Fractured Land
A modern Indigenous warrior. A Goliath industry. A new way forward. Filmmakers Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis document the journey of Caleb Behn to protect the health of his land and people from the ravages of Big Oil and Gas.
Time for some sci-fi?
How about the wonderful Silent Running (1972)?
Mark Kermode is a big fan, and here's the trailer:
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Time Out
wow - never heard of it. amazing
Ken Loach's new documentary The Spirit of 45 is released on 15 March and there's a special matinee event on Sunday 17 March with a live streamed Q&A with the director.
"Love Hate and Everything In Between"
Man's capacity for kindness and compassion is overshadowed only by his ability to be as cruel and destructive. Can empathy resolve issues of aggression and subjugation, where wars, politics and economic sanctions have failed? Love Hate and Everything in Between looks into the world of neuroscience, psychology, education and technology to explore the extraordinary relevance of empathy in today's increasingly interconnected world.
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Growing Change
A journey inside Veneuela's food system
Film website
released March 2013
MIDWAY is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy
Midway Atoll is a collection of three small islands in the North Pacific, and one of the most remote places on earth. In many ways, this film could be shot in many places on the planet where we find tragedy and despair, but here- about halfway between the U.S. and Asia- on an island teeming with life and wonder, it is the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
The MIDWAY film will take the viewer on a stunning visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy.
Near the heart of the Pacific Ocean, Midway Island is one of the most remote places on Earth, and the iconic site of a world-changing naval battle. Today Midway is inhabited by a million Laysan albatrosses-- magnificent and beautiful seabirds who range over the entire Pacific from their home base on the island. Midway is a multi-layered kaleidoscope of natural wonder and human history, and it also serves as a powerful lens into a shocking environmental tragedy: tens of thousands of albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch.
Returning to the island over several years, our team has witnessed and filmed cycles of birth, life, and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our time. With internationally acclaimed artist Chris Jordan as our guide, our film will walk directly into the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy—and our own complicity—head on. And in this process, we discover a unexpected doorway to a deeply felt experience of hope, beauty and reverence for the mystery and miracle of our world. Stepping far outside the stylistic templates of traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY will take viewers on a lyrical guided tour into the depths of their own spirits, delivering a profound message of renewal and love that is already reaching an audience of millions of people around the globe.
Due for release Q4 2013
Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time.
The film follows Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, on a 40-day pilgrimage down India's once pristine Ganges river, now polluted and dying. Facing community opposition and personal doubts, Singh works to shut down factories, halt construction of dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat their sacred "Mother Ganga" with respect.
Across the globe in northern Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own "David and Goliath" struggle against the world's largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit larger than the state of Florida. A young mother and native Denè, Deranger struggles with family challenges while campaigning tirelessly against the Tar Sands and its proposed 2,000-mile Keystone XL Pipeline, which are destroying Indigenous communities and threatening an entire continent.
And in Australia, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman searches for investors willing to risk millions on his conviction that nature's own systems hold the key to our world's ecological problems. Harman finds his inspiration in the natural world's profound architecture and creates a revolutionary device that he believes can slow down global warming, but will it work?
Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering commitment to protecting nature, the characters in this story are complex, flawed, postmodern heroes for whom stemming the tide of environmental destruction fades in and out of view – part mirage, part miracle.
released in spring 2013
The new Ken Loach is a documentary about the great 1945 reforming government, Spirit of 45
Occupy Love is a moving, transformative, heartfelt film, featuring Ripper's signature stunning visuals and rich soundscapes. A powerful cinematic experience that will leave audiences inspired.
A journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet.
From the Arab Spring to the European Summer, from the Occupy Movement to the global climate justice movement, a profound shift is taking place: humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is collapsing. Endless growth on a finite planet cannot be sustained. The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound transformation: millions of people are deciding that enough is enough – the time has come to create a new world, a world that works for all life.
Woven throughout the moving, action oriented backbone of the story, is a deep exploration of the heart of the movement, the meaning of love, and concrete examples of just what "another world" could look like, featuring some of the world's key visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and empathy.
community release begins April 11, 2013
CONTINUUM is a feature documentary about our interconnection with each other, the biosphere, and the cosmos.
The journey will take us from the first stirrings of life to the emergence of a global brain; from the complexity and wonder of a single plant cell to the emerging biomimetic technologies that are changing the way we build the future; and from the appearance of modern humans to the planetary crisis we face today.
Along the way, multiple perspectives guide the journey – both scientific and philosophical, ancient and modern – in an attempt to see things as they are. These insights show that the deepest and widest sense of identity we can have encompasses not just the story of all life on this planet, but the legacy of matter and energy running back in time through the stars to the origin of the universe.
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Video: Liz Crawford At Powerless Polling Station In High Point
Video: High Point Poll Sites Without Power
Video: High Point Voting Site Darkened By Crash
Guilford County, NC -- Several polling sites in High Point and Jamestown were without power following a car accident Tuesday afternoon.
Police say someone drove their car into a utility pole on E. Fork Rd. around 2:20 p.m.
At 4:30pm, Duke Energy said only 32 customers were without power, down from 2300 immediately after the accident.
In the hours following the outage, Duke Energy worked with the Guilford County Board of Elections to get generators to those sites.
In the meantime, voters and poll workers at the Triad Baptist Community Church on Eastchester Rd. used flashlights and candles as a light source. The dark and chilly location didn't stop voters from turning out.
"This is the most important thing there is. This is what makes you American. And to vote is something that is very important. Everybody needs to vote," said Thomas Hayes.
Hayes was at the voting machine when the power went out. He said the machines went black and started beeping. He came back around 6:30 to cast his vote.
Duke Energy said at one point 2,300 customers were without power. That includes Jamestown Town Hall, along with Triad Community Baptist Church, Deep River Friends Church and Turner's Chapel AME Church in High Point--all polling places.
George Gilbert, executive director of the Guilford County Board of Elections, said backup generators made their way to each polling site.
Police are still investigating the collision.
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Nugent, G., Twigg, L.E., Warburton, B., McGlinchy, A., Fisher, P., Gormley, A.M. and Parkes, J.P. (2012) Why 0.02%? A review of the basis for current practice in aerial 1080 baiting for rabbits in New Zealand. Wildlife Research, 39 (2). pp. 89-103.
Twigg, L. (2011) Fluoroacetate-bearing vegetation: Can it reduce the impact of exotic mammals on wildlife conservation? Pacific Conservation Biology, 17 (4). pp. 299-302.
Twigg, L.E., Lowe, T.J., Taylor, C.M., Calver, M.C., Martin, G.R., Stevenson, C. and How, R. (2009) The potential of seed-eating birds to spread viable seeds of weeds and other undesirable plants. Austral Ecology, 34 (7). pp. 805-820.
Twigg, L.E., Taylor, C.M., Lowe, T.J. and Calver, M.C. (2008) Can seed-eating birds spread viable canola seed? Pacific Conservation Biology, 14 (1-2). pp. 119-127.
Hampton, J.O., Spencer, P.B.S., Alpers, D.L., Twigg, L.E., Woolnough, A.P., Doust, J., Higgs, T. and Pluske, J.R. (2004) Molecular techniques, wildlife management and the importance of genetic population structure and dispersal: a case study with feral pigs. Journal of Applied Ecology, 41 (4). pp. 735-743.
Hobbs, R.P., Twigg, L.E., Elliot, A.D. and Wheeler, A.G. (1999) Evaluation of the association of parasitism with mortality of wild European rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.) in southwestern Australia. The Journal of Parasitology, 85 (5). p. 803.
Hobbs, R.P., Twigg, L.E., Elliot, A.D. and Wheeler, A.G. (1999) Factors influencing the fecal egg and oocyst counts of parasites of wild European rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.) in southern western Australia. The Journal of Parasitology, 85 (5). p. 796.
Hobbs, R.P. and Twigg, L.E. (1998) Coccidia (Eimeria spp) of wild rabbits in southwestern Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 76 (3). pp. 209-210.
Calver, M.C., King, D.R., Risbey, D.A., Short, J. and Twigg, L.E. (1998) Ecological blunders and conservation: the impact of introduced foxes and cats on Australian native fauna. Journal of Biological Education, 32 (1). pp. 67-72.
Thomas, C., Finn, M., Twigg, L., Deplazes, P. and Thompson, R.C.A. (1997) Microsporidia (Encephalitozoon cuniculi) in wild rabbits in Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 75 (11). pp. 808-810.


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Which of these sound familiar?
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• You've brought home plant after plant from the nursery, but, somehow, your garden just doesn't look the way you envision it.
• Your water bill is skyrocketing and you keep looking at the sprinklers watering the lawn, thinking, "Do I really need that?"
• Your children have grown and you need help creating a "grown-up" garden.
If any of these applies to you, it's time to call a landscape designer. Professional landscape designers are the wizards of garden design. They transform tired out, obliterated or greedy gardens into spaces that give you joy.
Working with a landscape designer is like working with any design professional. The more you understand what they do and how to work with them, the more successful your project will be.
According to Pamela Berstler, president of California chapter of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, "landscape designers are the people who work with homeowners to design their landscapes. Landscape design involves client consultation, research, planning, analysis and design with an emphasis on water conservation and pollution prevention. We create design drawings, do cost estimates, and offer our clients coaching and support."
Before you hire a landscape designer, do your homework.
Notice gardens and plants you like, and even those you don't like. Since design is visual, collect photos, take snapshots and browse the Internet as well.
Keep in mind that your garden should complement your home's architecture, and work in your location. A Japanese garden, for example, fits a Craftsman style home beautifully, but looks out of place with a Mediterranean home. Similarly, thirsty plants don't mix well with drought-tolerant ones; shade-loving plants fry in a full-sun garden, while full-sun plants fade away in the shade. Creating well-matched combinations is one reason your garden designer might steer you away from some favorite plants and toward new ones.
If your household has multiple decision makers, know each other's dreams, hopes, and desires for the new landscape, not that you all have to agree. Your designer might find an elegant way of fulfilling what seem to be conflicting desires.
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If you live in an HOA, ask it about design review, what kind of documentation to submit, whom to submit to, when to submit it, and how long reviews take.
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Similarly, for hardscape and plants to work together, they need to be designed as a whole. I've received calls from homeowners who have redone their hardscape and are in search of planting plans. That's a big mistake.
Expect to sign an agreement that describes the project, designer's work scope, milestones, expectations and payment schedule. Most designers ask for a deposit as well.
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That is correct. Ralph Nader is considering a run for US Senate on the Green Party ticket, challenging Christopher Dodd in Nader's home state of Connecticut (hat tip to the Left Coast Rebel for this excellent find):
"Ralph Nader says he wants to gauge the level of grass-roots support before deciding whether to make a bid to represent Connecticut in the Senate."
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How incredibly iconic would it be for Peter Schiff to challenge and defeat Christopher Dodd, one of the chief architects of the bubble that popped so destructively and hurt so many Americans in the past couple years? And if Ralph Nader makes a run for it, he'll likely split a lot of votes with Chris Dodd and help Schiff out a ton.


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I have shot a couple yotes with 45 gr hollow points because they were the first 250 bullets I found (it was an emergency! lol) but none made a hole quite thed big! LOL I usually shoot 55 gr vmax.
My dad just got a Savage in .17WSM and he really likes it so far. It is really light and alot of fun to shoot. Not sure on pelt dammage yet but we are planning a trip out next week.
I have shot a couple yotes with 45 gr hollow points because they were the first 250 bullets I found (it was an emergency! lol) but none made a hole quite thed big! LOL I usually shoot 55 gr vmax.
holly crap bigshot, looks like ya shot that thing point blank with a 20 gage
Yea I'm starting to realize its all about bullet placement, I have to train myself to wait and aim behind the front shoulder and between the two rib bones! I'll get it one of these days....lol. My buddy shot a coyote that way last night with a .223 and 50gr nosler balistic tips I reloaded for him. It was perfect, the bullet entered behind the shoulder making a dime size hole and exited with a hole about the size of a nickle on the opposite side. The dog dropped in its tracks, 80 yard shot!
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I use a 204 ruger they have 32 and 40 grain and crazy fast
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I will have a 204 Ruger too if DMPS ever makes the barrel for it that was supposed to be in stock 3 weeks ago. lol
You could look at 220 swift. Flat and fast. Good for distance. You have to be a reloader to shoot this gun as ammo is few and far in between. Plus if you do find it prepare to pay. I love my swift.
220 swift is a good round but the 22-250 is very close in performance and there is alot of factory ammo available for it (well there used to be anyways). I think the 22-250 is alot of why the swift is not as popular. If the 223 is damaging pelts I dont thing a 220 swift is going to help the situation. lol
Dad just used the 17wsm to shoot a coyote on Wednesday (first one with the new caliber). It was about and 80yd heart shot. The coyote ran about 150+yds before he went down. I think it might be a little light for yotes event though it got the job done but it is going to be awesome for fox and bobcats from what I have seen so far.


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Such a lovely comment, Ira! You always see all the little details of my pictures, and you understand the story and the feelings. So happy you like my moons and the dandelions. I'm really happy Kitty is better!!! Big, big hug for you and her. Thanks for coming by, Ira!
One of my favorites from you Judith!
I'm so happy to hear that, Rachel! Makes all the work worth while :-) I worked on the sketch alone for days until I was happy with it.
I love this work. It is fun and provocative all at once. You have a great sense of color, shape and pattern. The drawings feel edgy, yet very disciplined. They are simple, yet full of surprises. How long have you been doing this? I'm wondering how your style evolved?
I love this work. It is fun and provocative all at once. You have a great sense of color, shape and pattern. The drawings feel edgy, yet very disciplined. They are simple, yet full of surprises. How long have you been doing this? I'm wondering how your style evolved?
Hello Michele, and thanks for your comment and interest. I really like how you see my drawings. It's really been a long (and still ongoing) process to get to the style that you see right now. I started out with b&w ink drawings, but because I constantly ask myself what is important to me, and what I want to show within my pictures, and because I look at and study the work of artists whom I admire, my style kept and keeps changing. I ask myself all the time why I like somebody elses work, why it works, what I like about it, and learn from that. Plus I constantly play around with my pastels and ink, trying out new color combinations and tools. I've been seriously working on my drawings again for about 12 years, after having taken a very long break after finishing my ceramic painter apprenticeship. Thanks again for your very nice comment and your interest, Michele!
You take us to such incredible places with your work............ Ditto Michele! your work is such a blending of so many things.... greatness!
This specific piece is woooooooonderful! Very winter, very dreamy! Magical.
Thank you ever so much, Joy and Rachel! Your opinions mean a lot to me, and so do your comments!
Fabulous sweetheART 5*****zz ;~} Valz
Thanks so much, Valerie!
Very Pretty:)
Thank you, Brandon, for stopping by! I appreciate the comment!
Another beautiful piece. Two moons, twice the magic.
Hello Andre! So happy you like the picture. Really appreciate your nice comment.
I see doubles.... wonderful doubles. Moons, braids and dandelion spheres ....floating in the moonlit night. The seeds become fairy dust, sprinkled on a dreaming bird. I just love all the details in each one of your images.
Wow! Thanks so much, Tracey, for this comment. Believe it or not, I didn't even notice that there were so many doubles in this picture! I just love how you see the picture! Thanks for the comment!!!
I love your work Judith!!! Your whole portfolio is so beautiful!!!
Thanks so much, Sharon. All I can say is: same right back at you!!! Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for the lovely comment, MoArt! Really appreciate it :-)
This is full of poetry and life!
Thanks for your kind words, Angelo!
wow............totally gorgeous...such detail...
lovely... i love it
So happy you like it, Sergio!
Wonderful art work!
Thanks, Isabelle! I really appreciate your comment!
awe to the sum!
I thank thee, black ghost!!
Oh, pardon me: black ghöst!
Wonderful to see your outstanding art here Judith :)!
Hallo, Iris!! Mensch, wusste gar nicht, dass Du jetzt auch hier bist! Bin schon ein Weilchen hier. Hoffe, Dir gefällt es hier!
Find es hier super :) Ich schreibe Dir ne mail, Du Liebe :)
What a calming image :)
Thanks so much, Polkip!
Love your work Judith! It's really beautiful!
Hello, Garima, and thanks so much for the nice comment! It really means a lot!
Thank you very much, Luca!
Beautiful work Judith!
So happy that you like my work, Garima, and nice that you came by!
Gorgeous! Really like your style and portfolio. Keep it up, Judith!
Thanks so much for your visit, Balazs, and the great comment! Really appreciate it!
this drawing makes me feel happy! i love your overall style so much Judith!
So happy to hear that the picture makes you happy, Allan!! Can't ask for more than that! Thanks so much for your lovely comment.
i love your style very much and also this one is one of my favorites!
Very clever Judith and beautifully portrayed
so beautiful....such a very nice style.
Thanks so much, Karien!
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ 👍 !!!
I'm so happy you like this one, Wayne and Cynthia! Thanks for the comments!
@Wayne: and really sorry again for the very late reply! I have no idea how I missed all those comments :-(
Thank you very much, Anne and RichCaspian!
Thanks so much, catspaws! Really happy you like it!
Thanks, rosalina, for the lovely comment!
Wonderful :)
Thanks so much, Petal to Petal!
L*O*V*E* this sooo very much!*
Thanks, dear Manu! This is still one of my favs, too ;-)
Absolutely beautiful, magic work
Thanks so much, doviArt!!!
Thanks so much, Cathie, and thanks for stopping by :-)
Nice! Beautifully executed and composed. The amount of details is amazing! Good work :)
THANK you, Joao!!!
Love this so much! Just wonderful!
Thanks so much for the lovely comments!!
Very happy you like it, the greener pastures! Thanks so much!
Quiet and beautiful :)
Thanks so much, Jennifer, for this lovely comment!
How lovely!
I'm happy you like it! Thanks so much, nabisori33!
Love your details! Wonderful work :)
Thank you so much, Miss Shelly!
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After years of dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has decided waiting for the right one is taking too long. Determined to become a mother, she commits to a plan, makes an appointment and decides to go it alone. On the day of her artificial insemination, Zoe meets Stan (Alex OLoughlin) a man with real possibilities.
Trying to nurture a budding relationship and hide the early signs of pregnancy becomes a comedy of errors for Zoe and creates confusing signals for Stan. When Zoe nervously reveals the reason for her unpredictable behavior, Stan commits fully and says hes in. Never before has love seen a courtship where a wild night of sex involves three in a bed Stan, Zoe and the ever-present massive pregnancy pillow. Or, where date night consists of being the focal point at a near-strangers water birth which does for kiddie pools what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean. The real pregnancy test comes when both of them realize they really dont know each other outside of hormonal chaos and birth preparations. With the nine month clock ticking, both begin to experience cold feet. Anyone can fall in love, get married and have a baby but doing it backwards in hyper-drive could be proof positive that they were made for each other.
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Written by: Kate Angelo
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The Wachovia way
As one of Tar Heel businesss most famous brands fades away, one of the CEOs who gave it luster recalls what made it shine.
Its roots were in the Piedmont, where soon the maples will drop their yellow leaves on Old Salems shake roofs and the marble tablets of Gods Acre, resting place of Moravian dead since the 1770s. His roots are farther east, near the Johnston County town of Benson. He was born there during the Depression into a farm family that raised whatever we could make a little money growing crops such as cotton, corn, soybeans and watermelons.
This month, for the first time in 132 years, no banks will bear the name Wachovia, taken from the tract covering much of what is now Forsyth County settled by the German-speaking Moravians, a Protestant sect that predates the Reformation. Not in Winston-Salem, where the bank began, or at its 317 Tar Heel branches or anywhere in the 21 states and District of Columbia where it once operated. John Medlin, sensible man that he is, knows that institutions dont live forever. His tenure in banking spanned the era of brass teller cages to the age of megabanks. But Wachovia will always be indelibly etched on my mind and in my heart, he says. It was my life for 40 years or so.
San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. bought Wachovia nearly three years ago, and when its last sign is replaced by Wells Fargos, a transition to be completed by Oct. 15, few will feel the change as poignantly as John Grimes Medlin Jr., 78, who shaped Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. into a national financial powerhouse. They call it legacy Wachovia now, the bank that existed from 1879 until its $14 billion acquisition by Charlotte-based First Union Corp. in 2001. First Union adopted the name, but by then banking and Wachovia wasnt the same. Now even that vestige is passing, and with it, one of the last reminders of the bank culture he personified.
He joined Wachovia in 1959 as a trainee, worked in all departments, became chief executive 17 years later and chairman in 1988, then served from 1994 to 1998 as nonexecutive chairman of the board. Since April 2000, he has been chairman emeritus. Wachovia was not a product of me. I was a product of Wachovia. Truth be told, it was more of an even split.
Financial World, the nations oldest business magazine, selected him as CEO of the Decade of the Eighties for Southern Banks in 1990 and best CEO in the nation in 1993. American Banker, the industry trade paper, named him most admired CEO in 1991 and 1992 and gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. Wachovia has been referred to as the J.P. Morgan of the South, says Don Jud, a longtime business professor at UNC Greensboro. People had great respect for Wachovia and its business judgment and integrity. And John Medlin was a banking leader not just in North Carolina and the South but the nation. When people thought about banking, they thought of John Medlin.
Like the wavy, crisscrossing lines of the blue-and-green Wachovia signs coming down this month, the life of Medlin and the history of the bank are intertwined. They were an odd pair. He was a farm boy who knew the feeling of dirt under his fingernails. Wachovia was born 54 years before him to serve the budding, later iconic, industrialists in Winston, the commercial, secular town that grew up on the outskirts of once communal, theocratic Salem.The towns merged in 1913 to become Winston-Salem. That clicked. So did the merger of Medlin and Wachovia.
Wachovia was rooted in the Moravian culture, Medlin says. It was a hardworking culture, one in which you cared about your employees, your customers and your shareholders. By the time he arrived, America felt the chill of the Cold War, but to customers the bank still felt much the same as when William Lemly founded Wachovia National Bank in 1879. In 1911, it merged with Wachovia Loan and Trust Co. to become Wachovia Bank and Trust, the Souths largest bank and largest trust operation between Baltimore and New Orleans.
During the Depression, Wachovia was sound enough to lend money to the state to pay its employees. When the nation went to war, it sold bonds and raised money to defeat Hitler and Hirohito. Some 130 miles to the east of the Twin City, those times were shaping Medlin. I was a product of the Great Depression and World War II. I was old enough by the late 30s to know a little about the hardships of the Depression, particularly in a farming community. You learned sacrifices.
At UNC Chapel Hill, where he graduated in 1956 with a business degree, he was in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and, following three years of active duty, sought civilian work. I had just gotten back from an overseas cruise in 1959, to the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean. I didnt have much time to look for a job, so when Wachovia offered me one, I took it without looking around much. I was impressed with the culture and heritage.
The postwar economy was booming, regulations were relaxing, and banks were plunging into new products such as installment loans. The baby boomers began to come through in the late 60s, and the culture of society changed, Medlin says. It influenced banking. Lending was more liberal, although still not as crazy as it got to be later on. It was a good, comfortable culture in a way, but it was a culture of high expectations.
Wachovia was changing too, but more cautiously than other banks. It was known as the steadfast bank for trusts and pensions, the starched-collar bank for well-to-do Tar Heels and corporate chieftains. The bank where bankers acted like bankers instead of riverboat gamblers. That was the atmosphere I felt comfortable with. In the Navy, accountability and standards were pretty strict, and I didnt see much change. My upbringing on the farm had involved more traditional values.You went to church on Sunday. Thats what people did back in those days.
Wachovias traditions were ingrained. Medlin followed in the banking-purist footsteps of predecessors such as Archie Davis, who had joined Wachovia in 1932, the year before Medlins birth, and risen to chairman in 1956. When I got there, you still had some loans made during the Depression that hadnt been fully collected, farm loans in particular. So you learn. I got a feel from some of the old-timers who were still there what it was like to go through the Depression. It was a good experience for a young banker.
Like the union of farm boy and finance, the bank itself was a paradox. It handled money conservatively, maintaining low ratios of loans to deposits and deep reserves, but its operations were entrepreneurial. They always had been. Wachovia Loan and Trust President Francis Fries had opened what amounted to the states first branch banks in Salisbury, Asheville, High Point and Spencer in 1902-03. Robert M. Hanes had run Wachovia Bank and Trust from 1931 to 1956 like a growth company, buying smaller financial institutions to create the first statewide banking network, aided by the fact that North Carolina, unlike almost every other state, didnt confine banks to local markets. We were disciplined entrepreneurs, Medlin says. We took risks, but we took knowledgeable risks, calculated risks, where we knew we had a good chance of winning.
The bank, though, was not too cautious. We made loans in which you were taking risks on people who had good character and ability but not strong finances at the time you made the loan. In the 70s and 80s, we pioneered employee stock-ownership plans. In the 80s, we were one of the first to have variable-rate credit cards. When rates went through the roof, you had a better chance of selling somebody a credit card because you could tell them their rates would go down when overall rates went down. We pioneered variable-rate home loans.
When technology hit banking, Medlin led Wachovia with the same mix of old valuesand new pragmatism that had attracted him there to start with. We had something called the Sundown Rule. If a customer called and had a need or a problem, the rule was, you didnt leave that day until you had the need satisfied. You didnt let the sun set on unfinished business. At the same time, he pushed the bank to become an early adopter of computers, bending them to fit Wachovias strong customer bonds. Early in his career, it had seemed to him as if banking was stuck in its inkwell-and-quill days. If somebody wanted to know how much money they had in their savings account, you looked in one ledger. If they wanted to see how much wasin their checking account, you looked in another ledger. If they had a loan, you looked in another. We developed a computer program called the retail-accounts information system. You no longer had to go on a treasure hunt to find customer information.
Using computers to manage accounts, Wachovia introduced its Personal Banker program in the 70s, then hired lawyers to fend off other banks that attempted to poach the concept. Each customer got an account statement with a bankers name and contact number. One call, all the answers. The banker could also say, I see you dont have a credit card. Would you like one? We capitalized on those kinds of marketing opportunities and trained bankers to do more than just open accounts. In the early 70s, Wachovia automated teller machines could provide account information, along with cash.
With Medlin at the helm, the bank grew steadily, both organically and through acquisitions. In 1985, it bought First Atlanta Corp. for $15.5 billion, thrusting the Winston-Salem bank into the national spotlight and splitting its headquarters between Winston-Salem and Atlanta. We often were accused of being too conservative, but our basic mantra was always soundness, profitability and growth, in that order of priority, Medlin says. We wanted to make money for our shareholders and to be able to reinvest to serve our customers. And you wanted to grow. But growth was never the No. 1 priority. It was always the other two.
In 1991, Medlin led Wachovias acquisition of South Carolina National Bank. It was driven by necessity: By then, bank consolidation meant buy or be bought. But it also fit culturally. South Carolina Nationals roots were deeper even than Wachovias, dating to the American Revolution, and its predecessor bank was the only one in the South to survive the Civil War. It was Medlins present to L.M. Bud Baker Jr. when he handed over the CEO reins in 1994. That, and $36 billion in assets and a bank with offices in, among otherplaces, Tokyo and London.
Medlin became chairman of the board, but clouds were on the horizon. In Charlotte, a competitive North Carolina National Bank had launched a string of takeovers in the Southeast and a trajectory that morphed it into NCNB, NationsBank and, ultimately, todays Bank of America Corp. This was no environment for a good but modest-size bank, even one that American Banker had praised in 1992 for its enviable performance record and its place as one of the highest and most stable earners. Wachovia was tugged, reluctantly, into the fray. It acquired two Virginia banks, Jefferson Bankshares Inc. for $542 million and Central Fidelity Banks Inc. for $2.3 billion, in 1997. Two years later, it closed its acquisition of Charlotte-based Interstate/Johnson Lane Inc., a securities brokerage.
Behind the scenes and unrevealed until now Medlin had seen the future, and it looked a lot like the present. Back during my day and Bud Bakers day, there were conversations between Wells Fargo and Wachovia. Wells Fargo was a very respected, revered name since the mid-1800s. We had a lot of common philosophies and ways of doing business. Six years after Baker succeeded him as CEO, Medlin stepped down from the board. Exactly a year later, in April 2001,
Wachovia after fending off a hostile takeover bid by Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank Inc. agreed to be bought by Charlotte-based First Union Corp. for $14 billion. As part of the deal, the Wachovia name would live on, while First Union relinquished its. Their brand had some baggage, I guess youd call it, Medlin says. Wachovia hadnt had a perfect past, but we had a pretty good name.
He began watching, as he says, sitting in the stands, observing rather than playing. First Union was reeling from disasters such as its 1998 purchase of California-based The Money Store, which it had to close at a $1.7 billion loss a year later, and its heavy-handed efforts to force customers into online banking had shattered goodwill and drained deposits. But he also saw positive changes, as legacy Wachovias customer-service creed seemed to take hold in the new Wachovia. Internally, though, the new Wachovia looked little like the legacy one.
It had trouble integrating acquisitions, especially Oakland, Calif.-based Golden West Financial Corp., the nations second-largest thrift. The $25.5 billion deal, announced at the peak of the housing boom in 2006, turned into a world of woe as the industry slid into the subprime-mortgage crisis. In April 2008, the new Wachovia suffered its first quarterly loss. On a Friday the following September, customers started a silent run on the bank. On Oct. 3, Wells Fargo struck a deal to buy what now had become one of the banks too big to fail. It paid what many considered a pittance: $15.1 billion.
On a late-summer day at his second home on Grandfather Mountain, John Medlin reflects. Veterans of legacy Wachovia, such as Stan Kelly, who headed its wealth-management division, remain with Wells Fargo, bridging the old and new. That brings him comfort. And Medlin knew and respected such Wells Fargo executives as Dick Kovacevich, his counterpart there, and the man who succeeded him, John Stumpf, the chairman and CEO now changing those signs. Its a good fit, Medlin says. The way I look at the disappearance of the Wachovia name is that I cant think of another name Id rather be identified with or have our company merge with. That is, he adds, if it had to happen.


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The sea's our field of harvest,
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We'll reap the teeming waters
As at home they reap the plain.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
– Vincent Van Gogh
terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy.
It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely,
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An investigation is underway into the plane crash near Waskada that killed as many people Sunday as all the deadly flights in Manitoba last year.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Should you be devastated as a Redskins fan? Not at all. Read my take on Washington's 27-23 loss to the New York Giants, arguably the best team in the NFL.
1) Have you ever been that excited during a Redskins game?
This loss will sting Robert Griffin III and the Redskins. RGIII's talent and mindset honestly has his team believing they are now competitive enough to win every game they play. Washington has proved throughout the entire 2012 season they are finally no longer an easy win. All four of their losses are by a touchdown or less. And each loss has come down to the final minute. With some more experience, these close games are one recipe for how successful football teams are built.
The superhuman Griffin did everything in his willpower to ensure Washington had a chance to win the game. He threw for 258 yards on 20-for-28 attempts and notably rushed for 89 yards on nine carries.
It's the individual plays that'll stand out the most about Griffin's day, which will be considered a failure in his eyes. The three fourth quarter fourth down conversions -- especially the 4th and 10 where bobbed and weaved around the pass rush like a snow skier, finding tight end Logan Paulsen for 19-yards -- are football plays Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning make, not something a 22-year-old is already supposed to be able to do. Later on in that drive Griffin galloped for 24-yards down the sidelines before he launched a an MVP-caliber touch pass to Santana Moss for a 30-yard touchdown.
Hang in there Redskins fans. More exciting games, with finishes you'll like better, are coming in the future.
2) The Redskins could make the playoffs if they had an average defense
Manning had a below average game by his standards (26-for-40, 337
yards, one game-winning touchdown, two interceptions) yet he was still
able to hammer the Redskins secondary. The 77-yard touchdown to Victor Cruz was heartbreaking, but it wasn't an accident. Throwing the football is a pretty
upfront way in torturing the Redskins. The last four Redskins opponents
have thrown the ball at least 39 times, all with much success.
will say the Redskins didn't address the secondary woes because of the
$35 million fine the NFL laid on the franchise. Fine, do that. But in a
league where the best team's have elite quarterbacks and speedy
receivers, ignoring your secondary will cost you wins. The front seven
didn't help much either. Manning was sacked just once, and often looked
like a statue in the pocket due to the lack of pressure.
Hindsight is obviously 20/20, but you wonder if the 'Skins front office brass
could do it over again, would they have pursued an upper echelon
cornerback over Pierre Garcon? Or even using draft picks higher than the seventh round on secondary help.
3) Washington was due for a sloppy game
The Redskins 3-3 record was largely that good because of the team's ability to protect the football -- just five turnovers in the first six games was phenomenal for a rookie lead offense. Sunday in the Meadowlands, that streak crashed and burst into flames. In the second half alone, Mike Shanahan's dynamic backfield rookie duo coughed the football three times, and Santana Moss' fumble sealed his team's fate with under a minute to play.
And, still, despite all these offensive gaffes, Washington had the ball with a chance to win the game at the end. It's quite reassuring for the Shanahan's that their offense didn't unravel after several would-be disastrous plays.
4) The option was the most effective it has been all season against one of the best defensive line's in the entire NFL
I will tweet out the total number of pistol plays later in the evening when I re-watch the game tape, but the amount the Redskins relied on the option fake was borderline obsessive. For the most part, offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan called an undeniable gem of a game. Washington finished the day with 248 yards rushing on 38 carries -- good for 6.5 per play. Those are vindicating statistics to prove this "East Coast Offense" is working.
5) How much will the newest injuries hamper the team?
Logan Paulsen, four catches, 76 yards, had a career day following Fred Davis and his season ending Achilles tendon injury. But is he really the best option at the number one tight end spot? Reserve tight end Niles Paul looked abysmal in pass coverage situations. The Redskins may have to phone in a call to the bullpen and ask Chris Cooley for help. But will he be in tip-top shape?
As far as London Fletcher is concerned, this may be a blessing in disguise. The 37-year-old has noticeably been less impactful this season (an Ahmad Bradshaw run comes to mind from Sunday). It may give Perry Riley, and/or Keenan Robinson a chance to develop into a more important player for the Redskins future.


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STANFORD, Calif.- The Iowa State soccer team (4-4-0) dropped a hard fought battle to the third-ranked Stanford Cardinal 3-1 Sunday at Laird Q. Cagan stadium in Stanford, Calif.
Turning point of the game
With the score tied 1-1 in the 59th minute Stanford's Courtney Verloo scored a goal on an assist from Natlie Griffen to put the Cardinal up 2-1. Stanford (5-0-1) would put the game away in the 82nd minute with another goal and a final score of 3-1.
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WHEELING - Given a choice, Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero would prefer the National Hockey League lockout end soon. If it doesn't though, fans of the Wheeling Nailers can expect to see a lot more of the organization's brass this season.
Shero took in Nailers practice Tuesday at WesBanco Arena along with assistant GM Jason Botterill and player development coach Bill Guerin, who was on the ice to help Nailers coaches Clark Donatelli and Zach Sonnefeld.
''It's 45 minutes from Pittsburgh and it's worked out very well in the past for us, as well,'' Shero said of having a farm team in such close proximity. ''Especially this year with the work stoppage in the National Hockey League, getting guys like Billy Guerin down here with the guys more frequently is really good.
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''If we were in Topeka or something like that, it wouldn't be so good. Wheeling is a great situation having it so close, and it always has been. We're very fortunate and these kids are fortunate as well.''
It will not just be those three guys frequenting WesBanco Arena, either.
''Jason Botterill is down here a lot anyway and with Billy Guerin starting up with us half way through last year, he'll be down here,'' Shero said.
''We'll get Dan Bylsma down here and Todd Reirden is scheduled to come down I believe in the next week to work with the defensemen.
''It's going to be good for the kids here and certainly good for our guys as well.''
Shero and company chose to attend Tuesday in large part due to the fact seven prospects - Reid McNeill, Dominik Uher, Cody Chupp, Steve Zurevenski, Tom Kuhnhackal, Adam Payerl and Patrick Killeen - were sent down a day earlier from Wilkes-Barre. Several of those players wouldn't be in Wheeling if not for the lockout, but Shero made it clear each guy is expected to take this seriously.
''What we've said to them is you better respect the league because it's going to be good,'' Shero said. ''It usually is, and especially with the players that are going to be down here to start the season.
''Whether they go to Wilkes-Barre or some of these kids will have the opportunity to go somewhere else, I think it's good coaching here, good drills and really good facilities.
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Particularly, Shero said, for Wheeling fans. They can expect to see a higher level of skill and players of a larger physical stature this season, and that was evident quickly during the group's first practice.
''It's good for the (ECHL) and it's certainly good for these players we have down here that are under contract to Pittsburgh,'' Shero said. ''Now with the lockout, a lot of really good players are getting pushed down and the fans here are going to be the benefactors of that.
''Watching their practice here is almost to a 'T' what they are doing in Wilkes-Barre.''
Shero said he wanted to make sure the guys that were just sent down understand that it's not a demotion and that management will have multiple sets of eyes on them regardless of where they play.
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For many individuals, Feb. 14 is a day to celebrate their sweethearts and warm the emotions of their loved ones. But for Berks Encore Centers, the date will serve as a day to warm the feet of the homeless.
In conjunction with a sock drive, which has a goal of receiving 300 pairs of socks, the six senior center locations are collecting the clothing goods to donate the items for the homeless individuals at Hope Rescue Mission and Opportunity House, both in Reading.
The sock drive, for which the senior centers began receiving donations on Jan. 15, runs until Feb. 14, which is deemed "National Socks for the Homeless Day" in Pennsylvania. The February day received the designation following the efforts of Pa. State Senator Daylin Leach (D-17th District) to bring awareness to state residents of the health risks posed to homeless people by a lack of clean, dry socks.
"Socks are a vital barrier to all sorts of disease and injury," said Leach, in a memorandum to fellow Pa. Senate members. "The health of a homeless person could very well hinge on their access to a clean, dry pair of socks."
The state senator became aware of the clothing need for the homeless in Pa. through the nonprofit organization The Joy of Sox. The nonprofit, founded by Radnor resident and Chestnut Hill College business professor Tom Costello, Jr., provides new socks for the homeless throughout the state.
Costello said many established charities will provide all types of clothing for the homeless but rarely do the donations include socks. When he first became aware of the need and handed out the clothing items for the first time, his interaction with a homeless woman tugged at his heart and urged him to begin his nonprofit.
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Becker said she would like to see the Hamburg center donate at least 30 pairs of socks toward the overall goal of 300. She received two pairs of socks on the first day of the drive: one pair of athletic socks and one dress pair.
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CG5 declination motor just stopped working!
Posted 08 July 2012 - 11:33 AM
Last night I was at a star party for the ALCon2012 convention. My second star party this week. My mount worked perfectly fine at the Wednesday night star party and was working fine the first half of last night's star party.
At one point, someone asked if I could slew to the moon since it had finally just cleared the trees on the horizon. I punched the command into my scope and off it went. Except it was widely off track. The RA axis was moving as it should, but the DEC axis not moving at all. I tried slewing to a different object, and the same thing happened. RA motor would slew and track but the DEC motor wouldn't move a millimeter. After the scope would come to a stop after slewing in the RA, it would just sit there. The hand controller still had the spinning thing in the display indicating that it was still trying to slew even though it wasn't moving anymore.
I turned off my mount and moved back to the index marks. Started the mount back up and tried to perform a two-star alignment. No go. The RA would move but not the DEC. I unplugged and replugged in the DEC cable from both ends and tried again. No go. I repeated this cycle a couple more times to no avail.
Eventually, I grew tired of messing with it and decided to just start hand-pointing my scope to targets and letting the RA axis continue its tracking. It made for a VERY slow rest of the night at the star party. Star hopping with an inoperable CG5 mount is tedious and slow!
So, anyone have any ideas what may be causing my issue? Is my DEC motor burned out? Is there loose connections in the DEC port? Bad DEC cable? I won't have any time to pull it apart and start looking at it for a few days. So I'm hoping to get some ideas from y'all in the meantime. Thanks!
Posted 08 July 2012 - 11:42 AM
Good luck,
Posted 08 July 2012 - 12:02 PM
And by "not move," do you mean you can't hear the motor running at all, or just that the scope is not moving?
Posted 08 July 2012 - 12:08 PM
You should check the connections of the Dec motor first. Make sure that the Dec cable is full seated in the sockets at both ends. You should also look into the sockets and insure that the wire contacts are clean and properly aligned. If you have the capabilities, check the Dec cable for continuity. The RJ12 connectors are known to have connection issues. If you have the crimping tool or know someone that does, try re-crimping or replacing the connectors. The next thing you will want to check is the connections from the MC board to the power board and the connection from the Dec board in the Dec cover to the motor. You can swap the Dec and RA motor connectors on the motor board and see what results you get. If the dec motor runs, but the RA motor is now inop, then the problem is with the board. If the Dec motor still doesn't run the problem is with the Dec motor or connections.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 12:43 PM
If it's dead silent, the procedure in Stan's post above is what you're doing.
If it clicks or bumps or grunts, but doesn't turn, then check the leads to the motor and make sure no debris is in the gears. Or it may be the motor has died. As a last resort you can try pulling the motor out of the drive train and make see if it and the worm function normally apart.
If the motor runs at full speed but the axis doesn't move, look for a loose gear set screw. If the mount had this problem its accuracy in GOTO should have mysteriously dropped off shortly before the failure.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 08:19 PM
In my case I know the DEC motor is good so now I just need to isolate the issue. Could be the DEC board but I don't think so. (Recently replaced) Could be the main power board (which is only $20). Could be the motor board as well but I don't think it is since that has already been replaced also.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 10:40 PM
Of course, I was fully expecting the DEC axis to be inoperable again. So I planned to just align the sun as best as I could and let the RA motor handle the tracking. Lo and behold, the DEC axis was working after setting it up. So, I'm very happy that it's not dead.
However, I am still concerned that there may be a growing problem. I've had several instances in the past couple months where my GoTo mount has just stopped working in one axis or another. If this continues to happen, I will definitely keep a log of which axis is acting up and the circumstances surrounding it.
To answer rdandrea's question, I received no error on the hand controller. The DEC axis just wouldn't move. I could not hear whether the motor was still running or not as there were many people talking around me. The hand controller continued to display the spinner indicating that it was still trying to slew, but it wasn't moving anywhere.
Posted 09 July 2012 - 07:16 AM
Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:11 AM
If you do not see and obvious problem with the DEC cable, then you should remove the RA motor housing and take a look at the cables. If the cable is damaged, but not too bad, then some electrical tape will take care of the problem.
Posted 09 July 2012 - 03:12 PM
Ed, I will definitely take the casing apart and check on the wires inside to be on the safe side. The DEC axis seems to be working fine again now. It operated flawlessly for several hours yesterday in the blazing sun as I had the scope set up for solar observing at my nephew's birthday party. So, it definitely seems like an intermittent issue, but I want to take care of it before it gets worse. BTW, thanks for a great product. I purchased the DIY Hypertune kit a year and a half ago and tuned up my mount real good. Works great now; nice and smooth with no more backlash!
Posted 12 July 2012 - 07:24 PM
Posted 13 July 2012 - 11:52 PM
I was able to manually point my scope and then engage the clutch on the RA access to keep it tracking. So the evening wasn't shot by any means. Just took a little longer and a little more fussin' to get things centered. Thank the stars for GLPs and finder scopes!
I'm definitely going to have to try and find time this weekend to take the casing off the DEC housing and see what's going on in there. I really hope it is an easy fix.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 12:53 AM
I thought I had it licked this time. A week or two ago, I had taken the housing off the DEC motor and checked to make sure all wires were okay. Everything seemed to be in good order. Lots of testing after that with the mount only didn't turn up any problems.
Now that I've gone back and re-read some of the suggestions here, I see that Ed recommended opening up the RA housing (not the DEC housing) to check that the wires from the motor board to the DEC connector are okay. I'll have to try that next. Also, I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and get a new DEC cable to be on the safe side. Another thought is whether it's possible the hand control could be having some type of problem that may cause this?
Posted 30 July 2012 - 09:45 AM
Unlikely it's the HC at all. If the HC can no longer talk to one of the motor controllers you'll get an No Response 16 or 17 error message. Just stopping is usually a cabling or problem with the motor itself.
I'd follow Ed's suggestions very closely, he probably has more experience working with the internals of the CG-5 than all the rest of us on this thread combined.
Posted 30 July 2012 - 11:34 AM
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 11:37 PM
Once I pulled the DEC housing off, the DEC motor started working again. I'm thinking that maybe the wire connection on the back of the DEC socket jiggled loose somehow. I can't be sure as I don't remembered exactly what I did just prior to the DEC motor working again. Could have been a couple different things.
In any event, I grabbed a roll of electrical tape and taped down all the wire connections on the boards and sockets just to make sure that stay nice and secure. I sat in my kitchen/"workshop" and put the mount through its paces without the OTA or any counterweights. It works perfectly fine now. I won't know for sure if I finally fixed my problem until I get out in the field with my setup again for a few hours at a time. I really hope I got it taken care of this time.
Posted 05 August 2012 - 08:59 AM
The reason for the issue with my (almost) brand new CG-5 dec motor was a loose connection in the RA casing, right behind the Dec port on the board. Note that it was not the connection of the Dec port to the board, but rather the connection of the cable to the board, behind the dec port. A little playing around and my dec motor works normally now. Note that visually there was absolutely nothing wrong, I just had to move the connector to the sides a few times before my mount started working again.
I guess the issue might re-occur, but I will think of a permanent solution if it comes to that.
Hope this helps, in case anyone stumbles on the same problem (God forbid).
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 12:52 AM
Tonight, I was volunteering at an outreach event/Perseids Meteor Shower Party. My DEC motor wouldn't work at all from the moment I powered up the mount. I have no idea where to go from here. Which part I should fiddle with, fix, or try to replace. From all accounts that I have read in my research on this problem, it could be anything from the DEC cable to the Power Board to the Motor Board to the wires rubbing on the housing to the DEC motor itself.
So, which part(s) do I start trying to replace first? I guess I'll start off with the cheapest ones and work my way up from there. I'll get the DEC cable, DEC board, and Power Board first. If those don't fix the problem, then I guess it's on to the more expensive items on the list. Let's see what happens. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Posted 13 August 2012 - 04:21 AM
Posted 13 August 2012 - 02:04 PM
The couple of times I've had the mount inside to take off the covers and inspect everything, I did not have my OTA on the mount. I just had the mount on the tripod while working on it. So, I don't know if it is the DEC motor really starting to go out and it is able to work fine with no load on it. And then once I put the OTA and counterweights on, it is too much for the the DEC motor. Or maybe there is something else loose somewhere, and packing up my mount and transporting it knocks that connection loose every time. I don't know. So, I am going to start by replacing the cheaper parts inside and then test it out under full load. If the DEC motor still cr@ps out on me, then I know it is either the motor itself or the Motor Board. At that point, I will perform your test to see if it is the motor or the board. We'll see!
Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:21 PM
Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:54 PM
turned out to be a broken wire. the wire was broken on the inside, but no damage to the insulation. I found it by stretching the wires.
Posted 18 August 2012 - 01:32 AM
UPS says replacement parts should be delivered this coming Tuesday. So, now my question is: does ordering mundane, internal repair parts invoke the astronomy curse? I would hope not. It's not like this is some new EP or other astro toy that I'm really excited to get. I'm just trying to fix my broken mount!
Ordering the parts doesn't. Getting the mount fixed an working does.