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I have an expensive Cuisinart coffee grinder that only worked for about a year. There is no sound when I flip the switch. I think all of the wires are connecting to and from the motor. I took it apart and checked them all by sight and jiggling. They seem solid. There was some black stuff on the copper parts of the motor that I could easily reach with a cotton swab. I cleaned them with cotton swabs and isopropyl alcohol. Still not working...no sound even. The inner rod (I don't know the proper names for the parts) with its surrounding copper contact plates spins easily if I move it by hand.

I was able to fix another Braun coffee grinder that was dirty and wasn't making the contact from the springy copper plate to the contact with the wiring that went to the motor when the button (which gets depressed by plastic rods leading from a plastic button on the lid) was depressed. These issues do not appear to be the problem with the Cuisinart grinder.

I have an old clothes iron for which the original wiring did not include a ground plug. The new wiring does include one, but I don't know if I can attach it to the metal part of the iron that heats up or if this will cause problems by breaking the circuit between positive and negative poles. I don't see any metal parts that are not part of the circuit. I prefer to ground the iron rather than removing the ground wire.

Or if there are hallmarks, does that mean that the item is sterling?

Can the wattage be too high or too low?

If so, what will the result be with too high or low wattage?

Are some brands better than others?

If so, which are the best and worst and why?

Is there any difference?

Why do I need a permanent magnet dc motor for a windmill and solar panel charging a dc battery?

I have a choice between a variety of inverters (80 - 5000 Watt continuous). I have a 45Watt solar panel and I will find a house fan to assist as a windmill in charging a car battery. The fan will sit in a 3rd story window facing the prevailing wind. The set up is for charging batteries for drill and other small equipment and running some lamps at a house where I can't afford to have electricity installed. I would like the setup to be the best I can get for future ramping up of solar/wind electrical. What are the problems I will face with too large or too small an inverter and too large or too small of a wire gage going both to and from the battery and the inverter? Can I just clip the wires from the fan to the battery? If so, how do I tell which is the positive and which the negative connection? Will hooking up a fan this way charge the car battery? Will it charge the battery if the switch on the fan is turned off? Do I have to change something on the fan's motor in order to charge the car battery? The inverters come in different Wattages, but each individual inverter doesn't appear to have a mechanism for varying the wattage or amperage. Is this a problem? Of what other problems should I be cognizant?

And why do older gold coins sell for such sharply lower rates when the condition looks to be the same as more recent coins? Shouldn't the older age of a gold coin increase its value over newer ones, not decrease it because it is has a collectible value as well as a gold content value?

If not, why not? What part don't you believe in: mutation or selection?

Are you against it only in limited cases? If so, what are they: Life/health of the woman? Rape? Incest? Under age? Inability to care for or financially support a child? Father is missing? The family already has 3+ children? Failure of birth control methods?

Are you against it under any circumstances?

Is it necessary because of world overpopulation?

How do you feel about recent immigration and why?

Are there too many immigrants? Not enough?

If too many, how many and who would you send home first? Second? Third? ...

If not enough, when do you think the USA will be full? 340 million? 350 million? 360 million? (For reference, before ImmAct1990, there were 250 million Americans and less than 5% were immigrants. Now there are 330 million Americans and ~25% are immigrants.

What do you think is the most important issue governing immigration? Sustainability? Relief of people from devastation of their home countries? Refugee status? the interests of US citizens? the desire for low cost/easily manipulable labor for employers in the USA? Other?

I would like to know what my fellow Ron Paul supporters think about other issues and how we might confirm or change the Republican Party.

Also, if you are a delegate/alternate to any convention, please say so.

Are you familiar with the equations? I have been interested in this type of work for decades, but didn't know that there were extensive equations for making such predictions. It seems to me that at least 1/2 of the world is suffering a great depression from lack of resources now and that the rest of us are sliding into economic depression rather rapidly. Have any of you looked at the studies and found them to be about accurate in your opinion? Do you think we will reach economic depression for 80% of the planet before 2030? Barring global pandemic, it seems to me to be a protracted time line from what I would expect. I don't think we will make it to 2020. What do you think?

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Most colleges and universities in the USA that get the majority of their money from the federal and/or state governments. Even so-called private colleges, such as Harvard, exist largely on government grants. So if you are a US citizen born to US citizen parents and you go to university at age 18, your parents paid taxes to build and maintain the education system for 18 years prior to your entry.

Foreigners take advantage of the education infrastructure that US citizens have paid for. Shouldn't they be charged for the 18 years of taxes they didn't pay taxes to US governments as part of their tuition bill? Reciprocity (aka:Exchange student system) is not really a good option.

For those of you who think that we need foreign students because US citizens don't want to work hard enough to get math/science degrees, here is a tidbit of info that might effect your decision: The USA graduates 3X's as many math/science students every year as it provides jobs for. Thus, every year, we generate thousands more unemployed math and science experts (at every level, baccalaureate to PhD). There is a glut of mathmaticians and scientists in the USA, not a dearth, as the universities would like us to believe.

The Catholic Church, via organizations such as Gamaliel Foundation, gets other church organizations and populist movements to act as front men for their political positions. Right now, they are changing the focus of the Occupy movement to allow illegal aliens in the US to vote by disallowing secure voter ID's. Have any of you seen this sort of thing happening in your community? If so, where, when and what were/are the issues?

Since Catholic Charities gets money from federal, state and local grants to fund programs that support the Catholic agenda, which often is diametrically opposed to the agendas of most Americans, shouldn't the Catholic Church be required to pay federal and state taxes?

OR maybe, since the Catholic Church is really a nation unto itself, with representation in the UN, members of the Church should have their US citizenship revoked until and unless they agree to separate from The Vatican, send all foreign-born priests back to their countries of origin and open up the priesthood to women, so they can stop promoting overpopulation techniques that are in place only to maintain the exclusively male hierarchy.

Stephen Mumford: "Large families yield priests. Small families do not yield priests."

Do you know any Catholics, who claim or give the impression that they are liberals or progressives but, who supported the Catholic Church's position that health plans for their employees should not include birth control and abortion, even when their organizations and, therefore, employees' salaries are funded by US government grants?

No accidental or unintentional ones please?

Reagan paid companies to move to the Caribbean. Since then, every president has signed "free trade" agreements worsening our trade deficit as we try to compete with countries that have too many people to support because of overpopulation and therefore can offer companies slave labor. This forces US companies to leave the USA or bring in slave labor because, otherwise, they can't compete with those who have slave labor. This to me is giving US companies, which are pieces of our country, piecemeal to foreign countries.

Don’t the President and members of Congress take an oath to defend the Constitution. Right up at the top of The Constitution, it says the reason we formed a nation was “in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” It doesn’t say we are forming a nation so we can be the policemen of the world, enslave a free people and take everything we and our ancestors have built and worked for and give or sell it to the rest of the world for the benefit of a privileged few. It doesn’t say we formed a nation so that we could neglect ourselves and our posterity but give education, health care, housing, technology, food, clothing and jobs to foreigners who are in dire straits because they have been largely irresponsible in their reproductive behaviors. If the Presidents and Congress blatantly ignore that oath, then isn’t that some kind of crime? If not treason, what do you call it?????