#wera — Public Fediverse posts
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Lovely but high pressure repair morning at the #repaircafe. This doll has a ir remote and was packed full of motors etc to do gymnastic routines... one of the battery tabs had corroded to a high resitant state.... luckily surgery was successful and it performs again! 6yr old owner watched entire process nervously but was delighted when "Georgia" was repaired. Some photobombing by nice @iFixit and #Wera tools. #repair
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Sektenführer soll sich unerlaubt „Pastor“ nennen
Nach der Razzia am Gemeindezentrum der Duisburger Wera-Sekte kommen immer w…
##Duisburg Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Duisburg #bestätigt #Deutschland #Duisburger #Gemeinde #Gemeindezentrum #Germany #Gründer #Nordrhein-Westfalen #Pastor #Razzia #Sekte #sektenähnlicher #Sektenführer #Sektengründer #Sitz #Staatsanwaltschaft #Waffe #Waffenbesitzes #Wera
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Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license
For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.
That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.
In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.
When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.
WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:
The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.
But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.
(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)
Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.
(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)
Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.
You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.
But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.
#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD
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Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license
For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.
That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.
In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.
When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.
WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:
The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.
But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.
(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)
Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.
(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)
Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.
You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.
But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.
#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD
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Arlington’s embarrassing waste of a low-power FM license
For the first time in many months, I tuned the radio in our car to 96.7 FM Thursday evening and realized I hadn’t missed anything: WERA, Arlington County’s sole low-power FM station, was once again playing a canned loop of instrumentals, without a live human voice to be heard.
That this rated as an improvement over the dead air previously on that frequency shows how far WERA has fallen from the promise of “LPFM” after years of funding problems compounded by what seems to have been rampant mismanagement bordering on fraud. All of this ineptitude, as ArlNow reminded me in a report Wednesday afternoon about the station’s unexpected but unstaffed return to the airwaves, has left the station in a zombified state.
In other words, WERA has become the sort of lifeless broadcaster that it was created to counter.
When this station went on the air on December 6, 2015, dozens of guests packed Arlington Independent Media’s studio in Clarendon and toasted its debut with sparkling wine in plastic cups. Advocates of LPFM had spent a decade lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ignore the opposition of incumbent broadcasters and authorize a class of nonprofit, hyperlocal stations; almost five years after President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law, listeners next door to Washington finally had their own indie LPFM listening option.
WERA almost immediately earned a preset on our car’s radio for its delightfully eclectic mix of music and talk programming, which the limited reach of its 21-watt signal meant I could only hear within a few miles of the station’s transmitter. As I wrote at Yahoo Finance in late December of 2015:
The station has since served up a free-form mashup of music that you almost never hear on commercial FM. One DJ with his medium on his mind followed R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe” with Donna Summer’s disco hit “On the Radio” and Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio,” but the selection has also extended to French chanteuse Edith Piaf and 1950s mambo king Pérez Prado.
But over subsequent years, the ongoing decline of cable TV left less of a subsidy for Arlington Independent Media from taxes paid by Comcast on that revenue. Arlington’s government chipped in, but the real problem was not income but expenses. In March of 2024, ArlNow reported that the county had suspended further payments until it could complete an audit of AIM, while AIM staffers alleged “reckless” management of the station’s funds.
(The irony of one small, independent local-media organization doing such a good job of covering another small, independent local-media organization while the Washington Post has ignored this story is duly noted.)
Days later, AIM sacked its entire staff and took WERA off the air. The county’s audit, finally published in February of this year, revealed seriously sloppy financial management under former CEO Whytni Kernodle that included inadequate documentation of more than $1 million in expenses over two-plus years. The County Board referred the matter to a special prosecutor who then declined to file charges against Kernodle.
(My wife works for the county government’s IT department but thankfully has had no role in any of this.)
Things could be worse: The lack of paid employees somehow did not stop WERA from getting back on the air in time to prevent the FCC from revoking its license. But as ArlNow’s Dan Egitto wrote Wednesday, the entire operation seems otherwise dead on the inside. Would-be AIM turnaround president Amanda MacKaye told him that she’s no longer on AIM’s board or otherwise involved with the organization, nobody still on the board answered his questions, and the County Board seems set to wash its hands of this whole ugly affair.
You shouldn’t read this an indictment of LPFM, which was and remains a good idea and a useful antidote to soundalike corporate FM. The D.C. area’s other LPFM station, Takoma Radio, has been on the air since 2016 at 94.3 FM, and the chance to listen to WOWD on the way to and from D.C.’s Costco makes the traffic a little more pleasant. I’m listening to its stream as I type this.
But you absolutely should read WERA’s miserable saga as a stupid squandering of cultural potential. And everybody in media-policy circles who worked so hard to make LPFM a reality should be angry about it.
#943 #967 #ArlingtonIndependentMedia #ArlNow #broadcast #freeFormRadio #hyperlocal #indieMedia #lowPowerFM #LPFM #mediaReform #radio #RadioArlington #TakomaRadio #WERA #WERALP #WOWD
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📢 Mein Paper wurde für die WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education (25.–27. September 2025 in Schweden) akzeptiert! 🎉
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📄 Ich untersuche, wie bildungspolitische Vorgaben in Deutschland die Ganztagsschulangebote beeinflussen – oder eben nicht. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen: Policies zu Schulöffnung, ganzheitlicher Bildung und Familienunterstützung gehen mit einem vielfältigeren #Ganztagsangebot einher.
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📢 Mein Paper wurde für die WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education (25.–27. September 2025 in Schweden) akzeptiert! 🎉
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📄 Ich untersuche, wie bildungspolitische Vorgaben in Deutschland die Ganztagsschulangebote beeinflussen – oder eben nicht. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen: Policies zu Schulöffnung, ganzheitlicher Bildung und Familienunterstützung gehen mit einem vielfältigeren #Ganztagsangebot einher.
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#Bildungsforschung #Ganztagsschule #ExtendedEducation #WERA #Bildungspolitik -
📢 Mein Paper wurde für die WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education (25.–27. September 2025 in Schweden) akzeptiert! 🎉
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📄 Ich untersuche, wie bildungspolitische Vorgaben in Deutschland die Ganztagsschulangebote beeinflussen – oder eben nicht. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen: Policies zu Schulöffnung, ganzheitlicher Bildung und Familienunterstützung gehen mit einem vielfältigeren #Ganztagsangebot einher.
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#Bildungsforschung #Ganztagsschule #ExtendedEducation #WERA #Bildungspolitik -
📢 Mein Paper wurde für die WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education (25.–27. September 2025 in Schweden) akzeptiert! 🎉
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📄 Ich untersuche, wie bildungspolitische Vorgaben in Deutschland die Ganztagsschulangebote beeinflussen – oder eben nicht. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen: Policies zu Schulöffnung, ganzheitlicher Bildung und Familienunterstützung gehen mit einem vielfältigeren #Ganztagsangebot einher.
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#Bildungsforschung #Ganztagsschule #ExtendedEducation #WERA #Bildungspolitik -
📢 Mein Paper wurde für die WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education (25.–27. September 2025 in Schweden) akzeptiert! 🎉
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📄 Ich untersuche, wie bildungspolitische Vorgaben in Deutschland die Ganztagsschulangebote beeinflussen – oder eben nicht. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen: Policies zu Schulöffnung, ganzheitlicher Bildung und Familienunterstützung gehen mit einem vielfältigeren #Ganztagsangebot einher.
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#Bildungsforschung #Ganztagsschule #ExtendedEducation #WERA #Bildungspolitik -
In case you are in Manchester at #WERA/#BERA: today is the panel discussion at 16:00: Global perspectives on #OpenAccess (#OA): Addressing issues of equity and inclusion by Geovana Mendes (WERA president), Ingrid Gogolin (WERA former president), Marit Hoveid (@EERA president), Nick Johnson (BERA), Christoph Schindler (@dipf_aktuell, EERA NW)… @FachportalPaedagogik @peDOCS #OpenScience #EduResearch
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Erhält jeder die bestmögliche Krebstherapie? Von #WERA entwickelte Methodik macht Patientenzugang zur #Präzisionsonkologie transparent.
@Uniklinikum_Wue @Uniklinikum_ER @presse_ukr #Universitätsklinikum Augsburghttps://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/27/erhaelt-jeder-die-bestmoegliche-krebstherapie
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Erhält jeder die bestmögliche Krebstherapie? Von #WERA entwickelte Methodik macht Patientenzugang zur #Präzisionsonkologie transparent.
@Uniklinikum_Wue @Uniklinikum_ER @presse_ukr #Universitätsklinikum Augsburghttps://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/27/erhaelt-jeder-die-bestmoegliche-krebstherapie
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Erhält jeder die bestmögliche Krebstherapie? Von #WERA entwickelte Methodik macht Patientenzugang zur #Präzisionsonkologie transparent.
@Uniklinikum_Wue @Uniklinikum_ER @presse_ukr #Universitätsklinikum Augsburghttps://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/27/erhaelt-jeder-die-bestmoegliche-krebstherapie
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I recently acquired some new #knipex and #wera tools. https://blog.cavelab.dev/2024/02/new-tools/
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Hey, #Wera - I realize English is not the first #language in the country you originated in... but you might consider running your #marketing copy by a native speaker before using it.
"[T]ools that have turned the familiar into the ordinary." is not, perhaps, the slam-dunk marketing win you thought it was.
😂
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Hey, #Wera - I realize English is not the first #language in the country you originated in... but you might consider running your #marketing copy by a native speaker before using it.
"[T]ools that have turned the familiar into the ordinary." is not, perhaps, the slam-dunk marketing win you thought it was.
😂
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Hey, #Wera - I realize English is not the first #language in the country you originated in... but you might consider running your #marketing copy by a native speaker before using it.
"[T]ools that have turned the familiar into the ordinary." is not, perhaps, the slam-dunk marketing win you thought it was.
😂
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Hey, #Wera - I realize English is not the first #language in the country you originated in... but you might consider running your #marketing copy by a native speaker before using it.
"[T]ools that have turned the familiar into the ordinary." is not, perhaps, the slam-dunk marketing win you thought it was.
😂
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Hey, #Wera - I realize English is not the first #language in the country you originated in... but you might consider running your #marketing copy by a native speaker before using it.
"[T]ools that have turned the familiar into the ordinary." is not, perhaps, the slam-dunk marketing win you thought it was.
😂
