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After researching various design fields Ellen decided to study Art & Design specialising in Graphics with Multi Media and graduated in 2000. Since then she has been running her very successful business, developing design and technical skills and expanding a portfolio of clients which includes: WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Penny Kennedy, Intelligent Fluid Solutions and many more. Ellen has clients all over the UK and Europe.
Ellen keeps up to date with skills using industry standard programme's such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks & Freehand.
I have various interests. I am a Girlguide Leader and Outdoor Activities Advisor for Perth and Kinross Guiding. In 2007 I was selected as Assistant Leader for a group of Guides who visited Singapore. I regularly take part and help to organise guide camps, outings. I enjoy every minute of it, especially meeting a whole new group of friends from various different backgrounds, all with a common interest in helping girls and young women to develop their potential. I have recently started with Duke of Edinburgh (Perth Open) as an Assistant Leader on Expeditions and love the outdoors environment, no matter the weather.
I really enjoy walking, abseiling and climbing, as a personal goal am currently working through various qualifications to progress in these fields with the view to using these skills to benefit kids in GirlGuiding and Duke of Edinburgh schemes.
On a backpacking trip Ellen worked with a production company in Australia Neil Cameron Productions. They specialise in colossal theatrical Fire Events; Ellen helped his stage props and sets for "The Wicker Man" and "Dantés Inferno" in 1995/96.
"I had a fantastic time while assisting Neil Cameron Productions, I helped with design and build of stage sets and props. I realised then that I would like a career in Design of some kind, but wasn't sure what. After my travels I decided to research various design courses and embarked on my 3 years of study in Graphic Design."
The stage props were made using bamboo for the frame which was then covered in grease proof paper, alu foil and pvu glue.
This combination of bamboo, foil and glue makes the prop relatively sturdy and suitably fire retardant for the performance.
The Boat: this took several weeks to build and was lit up from inside during the performance.
All people taking part had to be covered in clay to reduce the risk of burns from sparks or getting too close to the fire.
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RE: DISCUSSION1 - obama on afghanistan
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there are no real alternatives. The ones from the north are cost prohibitive
(taking the financial and geopolitical aspects) and offer limited advantage.
Similarly Iran is going to be problematic geopolitically and logistically it
is also limited to the southwest. Getting supplies to Bagram will be a bitch
using the Iranian route. Therefore, what you are left with is Pakistan,
where the sense is that money can do wonders.
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also the supply lines are going to come under increased threat in
pakistan. it makes no sense to automatically jump to the conclusion
that the need for alt supply lines has evaporated
On Mar 27, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
> no, a big part of the strategy is still to *diversify* the supply
> lines to make us less dependent on pakistan and so we can pressure
> them more. obama isn't going to say that outright in his speech
> On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Peter Zeihan wrote:
>> $1.5b a year for Pakistan over the next five years
>> - this is a return to the strategy of the past eight years of
>> attempting
>> to bribe/encourage Pakistan rather than pressure/corner it
>> - means the US is abandoning (or at least deemphasizing) the effort
>> to
>> pressure Pakistan into doing more
>> - as such the political need to have an alternate supply route has
>> evaporated (there may still be some logistical need)
>> - which means that the need for a deal with Russia on Central Asia is
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Running for Mayor - at Microsoft
If Seattle is the Puget Sound region's 900-pound gorilla, the city's mayor is its handler. This week, eight of the current candidates for that office trooped out to Redmond for a noontime forum before a bunch of busy Microsoft employees who listened while munching the contents of their Boar's Head lunch boxes.
Sighting a Seattle mayor in the 'burbs is rare, but frontrunners and wannabes found their way to the charmingly named Building 122 to answer questions in one minute or less. The forum was billed as focusing on technology, STEM and transportation. But Microsoft invited the candidates out to Redmond, not simply for the convenience of employees who live and vote in Seattle, but because it has a corporate interest in the next gorilla handler. With tens of thousands of employees living and working all over Pugetopolis, Microsoft wants a Seattle mayor who can operate regionally.
That message apparently got through to the candidates, all of whom (with the exception of socialist Mary Martin who did not attend), spoke to that broader issue.
Mike McGinn touted his regional leadership in getting regional pols to sign on to stop coal-trains and mayors to pull together so that, united, they could go to Olympia for help funding Metro.
Peter Steinbrueck emphasized that "Seattle needs to get out of the bubble," and passed out copies of an article he wrote for Crosscut in 2011 called "Urbanism Needs to Move Beyond City Boundaries," evidence that his year at Harvard is germane to his run for mayor.
Ed Murray, as he has at other forums, reminded the audience that as a leader in Olympia, he had to bring together regional representatives on transportation budgets.
The trickier part was in the details, as when the panelists were asked what the Seattle mayor could do to advance progress on the west side of the new 520 bridge project. That's a potent symbol of (some of) Seattle's dysfunction. The new bridge is being built from east to west; the Redmond side of the lake is abustle with concrete and cranes. When the highway hits the Arboretum it comes to a screeching halt. Why? One big barrier is how to pay for the expensive work -—, and mitigations — required to get all the way to I-5? The money hasn't been found yet.
Collectively, the candidates reflected the kind of Seattle second-guessing that Microsoft transportation planners are probably tired of hearing. The 520 bridge is a project all of the mayoral candidates are to some degree inheriting, yet they'll have to move it along: A bridge to nowhere is bad enough, half a bridge to somewhere is even worse.
Charlie Staadecker said he didn't like the idea of tolls (on 520 and I-90) which are almost certainly required to fund the project. He predicted that tolling will divide the region east and west and wants to see higher gas and excise taxes instead.
Kate Martin prefers a big lid to cover the highway mess. Joey Gray called 520 too car-centric. Steinbrueck too criticized the lack of high-capacity mass transit lanes on the bridge and urged faster adoption of regional mass transit. McGinn said he got the Washington State Department of Transportation to modify the plan so the bridge could potentially carry light rail in the future.
Ed Murray seemed to blame Greg Nickels for making the 520 project a lower priority than the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement with his "one bridge at a time" strategy; Murray also argued that the I-90 toll was essential to the bridge's completion and long-term success. Bruce Harrell allowed that the project was complicated by having to satisfy neighborhoods, businesses, Sound Transit and the University of Washington.
In other words, no one grabbed ahold and proclaimed: "The plan's been made and vetted and I'm going to get 'er done!" Seattle ambivalence contrasted with the Eastside's eager beaver-ness, all made worse by the fact that no one has signed a check yet to pay for it all.
In the pander department, Murray said he would woo Microsoft to locate more employees within the city. When he claimed that, for the most part, Microsoft was absent from Seattle, some in the crowd attempted to correct him. The company has 500 to 1,000 Seattle-based workers. Murray stood by his qualification "for the most part" given that the company has over 40,000 Puget Sound employees. Still, if Microsoft simply moved desks across the lake, it might have simplified the 520 issue.
No one worked harder than Harrell to please the crowd. He got a laugh and a cheer by saying "let me put my Windows phone down for a moment." He reminded the crowd that his wife Joanne is a Microsoft exec, which gave him great sympathy for the hard work and long hours of its employees. Harrell said that as mayor he would be the "biggest evangelist for what you're doing" and a "champion" for Microsoft, steering city government to become the first to embrace the Microsoft model of doing things. Does that mean Steve Ballmer for deputy mayor?
Steinbrueck closed with his regional pitch. "We need a regional mayor," he said, someone who will "get out of Seattle and make friends with our neighbors." He said we're not using our regional power in Olympia effectively either, a not-so-subtle swipe at both McGinn and Murray. Looking beyond the mayor's race, Murray countered by saying that he looked forward to working with the new state senator from the 43rd District, Peter Steinbrueck.
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"...steering city government to become the first to embrace the Microsoft model of doing things."
WE need experience in the Mayor's office, not someone drooling over half a million and growing beta testers who pay the city for the privilege of suffering through the long term consequences of trying stuff out. That's the MSFT model.
Posted Thu, Jul 25, 5:39 p.m.
I wrote this after the primary in the last Mayoral race. Waiting till we are down to two...
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It is disgusting Seattle Candidates go and kow tow to Microsoft. What is the point of elections anyway in Washington State? Microsoft buys all of the candidates.
Also, the idea that Microsoft "transportation planners" should matter to any of the candidates, or any Citizens, is another instance of the fascism of Microsoft. Maybe if Microsoft paid its taxes, and quit demanding the huge subsidies it receives, there would be enough money for transportation projects.
Mide as well quit pretending voting matters in this State, and Seattle. We should just end the charade of elections, and have Microsoft take over, as Microsoft is running Seattle and State government anyway. Shoot, at least Harrell comes right out and says he wants Microsoft running Seattle. Fourth Reich of the Rich.
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Hey gang,
I am leaving in three days to go to WDW and I bought a Dining Guide to help me choose where I would like to go on my trip.
I want to try three different nice restaurants for the three days I am there. I also want to go somewhere different then where I went before.
I am stuck on where I should go in Epcot. I have already been to Rose and Crown, Akershus, and Beirgarten.
I am having trouble deciding between Le Cellier, Marrakesh, L'Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante, and Les Chefs de France.
I don't really care for Chinese/Japanese or Mexican food so that leaves out those.
So whatever you can tell me between those four (prices, food choices, atmosphere) would be greatly appreciated. I wanted to try Marrakesh but wonder if I will enjoy the food. I am not an extremely picky eater but not always willing to try something totally new either. Especially if I am paying big bucks.
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Answer to Tincup.
I ordered 15 #1 grade southern yellow pine boards from Lowes.
I recall that the price was about $13.50 each.
The boards were 2"x12" and were 12 feet in length. This length allowed me to make the 1 1/2 " by 8 foot boards for the top and still have enough out of the remainder to make the laminated legs, stiles for the end frames, and chops for the vises.
I had two boards left which I used to make a clamp on bench 14 " tall , 5 feet long and one board wide to put on top of the bench for close up work such as fine chisel work, sanding, routing, etc. This allows me to do this type work without stooping to the level of the main bench. I also plan to build a Moxon vise out of the remaining wood. I had very little waste due to the quality of the #1 grade boards.
I also cut a piece of masonite to fit the top of the bench complete with dog holes to match those of the bench top. It is kept in place by placing two dogs in matching holes. I use this to protect the bench top when doing rough work.
Re: workbench
Answer to questions from artagain.
I put a deadman on the back side so that that side surface can also be uded to hold boards, or panels for edge work. I drilled dog holes in the face of the legs which with a dog clam can easily hold a large piece in conjunction with the sliding deadman.
I used 2 1/2 swivel casters from Lowes. They each have 150 pound capacity.
I attached thick saddle leather to the faces of all vises with double stick carpet tape. This makes it easily removable and replaceable.
I mortised the back face of the vise into the end board and lag bolted to the bench. The long grain gives a stronger attachment than bolting into the end grain. After mortising the metal back face into the first piece of walnut, I then covered it with another piece of walnut for a smooth surface to mount the leather.
I used both books by Chris Schwarz as well as others to design the bench. I like the SYP since it is as dense and stiff as maple and other hardwoods.
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After carefully removing the nail from my left thumb, I place the severed nail against the wedge of the plane. Then, I am ready to plane a perfect thumbnail profile on the edge of this workpiece.
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First-in-Humans Study of New Immunotherapy Agent
Name of the Trial
Phase I Study of Intravenous Recombinant Human IL-15 in Adults with Refractory Metastatic Malignant Melanoma and Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer (NCI-10-C-0021). See the protocol summary.
Principal Investigators
Dr. Thomas Waldmann and Dr. Kevin Conlon (Associate Investigator), NCI Center for Cancer Research
Why This Trial Is Important
The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to stimulate or restore the ability of the body's immune system to attack cancer cells. Although some evaluated treatments have demonstrated an ability to help boost or activate immune responses against cancer cells, immunotherapy is still a relatively new area of cancer research and much remains to be learned. For example, researchers need to learn how best to incorporate immunotherapy in cancer treatment strategies, which cancers are most susceptible to immune system manipulation, and how to reduce or avoid serious side effects.
The immunotherapy agent interleukin-2 (also called IL-2 or aldesleukin) has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of metastatic melanoma and metastatic renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer. IL-2 is a type of cytokine, a naturally occurring protein that helps regulate immune responses.
Despite its anticancer activity in some patients, IL-2 therapy has several drawbacks. IL-2 plays a dual role in the immune system by 1) stimulating the proliferation of cells that can attack and kill pathogens, including cancer cells, and 2) suppressing immune responses to keep the immune system from attacking the body's normal cells (autoimmune responses). As a result, IL-2's stimulation of cancer-killing cells, such as cytotoxic T cells and natural killer (NK) cells, fades rather quickly, necessitating the use of high doses of IL-2 to be effective.
However, high doses of IL-2 often produce serious side effects that may adversely affect a patient's quality of life, compromise treatment, or even result in the patient's death. Therefore, doctors are eager to identify other immunotherapy agents that provide benefits similar to IL-2 but with fewer drawbacks.
Another member of the interleukin family, interleukin 15 (IL-15), may be one possibility. In preclinical studies, IL-15 has been shown to stimulate many of the same immune cells as IL-2 but with much longer-lasting effects. Unlike IL-2, it does not act to suppress immune responses. IL-15 also stimulates the proliferation of immune cells that have a "memory" of the cancer, so the immune system can recognize and attack the cancer again, possibly enabling it to head off recurrences. Furthermore, animal studies with IL-15 suggest that it may also have a better side effect profile than IL-2.
"Both IL-2 and IL-15 stimulate T cells and B cells, and they are involved in the generation of natural killer cells, but they are clearly different," said Dr. Waldmann, who co-discovered IL-15 in 1994. IL-2 prevents autoimmunity, explained Dr. Waldmann. IL-15, in contrast, produces an immune response of very long duration.
"In studies with nonhuman primates, we've seen natural killer cells increase sevenfold and cytotoxic T cells increase 80- to 100-fold following administration of IL-15 as a 10-day continuous infusion. So [in IL-15] we have an agent that is a superstimulator of natural killer cells and cytotoxic T cells," he explained.
Laboratory and animal testing with IL-15 has generated a great deal of interest in bringing the agent to clinical testing in cancer patients. In fact, immunotherapy experts participating in the NCI Immunotherapy Agent Workshop in 2007 ranked IL-15 as the most important agent to bring to clinical trials.
"Researchers have been waiting a long time for clinical grade IL-15, but pharmaceutical companies have largely gotten out of the business of producing new cytokines following some early clinical disappointments [with immunotherapy]," said Dr. Conlon. "So, NCI has invested in developing and producing the agent through its Developmental Therapeutics Program to allow clinical testing of this very highly anticipated cytokine to proceed."
In this first-in-humans study of IL-15, patients with metastatic melanoma or metastatic renal cell cancer who have not benefited from other therapies will be given IL-15 by intravenous injection once a day for 12 days. Doctors will assess the tolerability of IL-15 therapy in the patients and determine the maximum tolerated dose and dose-limiting toxicities.
"We're currently in the process of planning additional studies of IL-15, using different routes of administration so that we can better inform future phase II monotherapy and combination studies to be conducted through the new Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network and by other extramural and intramural researchers," Dr. Conlon added.
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Neil Gaiman may well have faced an audience of 125 students Friday afternoon who want something akin to the success that he's had.
The accommodating Gaiman, a 53-year-old author who appeared at the Billings Public Library courtesy of the library foundation and the Friends of the Library, told middle and high school students just how to do it: sit down and write every day, no matter how they feel.
"When I'm having a bad day, I just write something," said the author of best-selling books, comic books, short stories and poems for readers of all ages, including "The Sandman," "Stardust, "Coraline," "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book."
Unlike some writers, "librarians would never say they have library block. You would mock them," he said. "Some days everything is rubbish, but if you look at it the following day, you say, 'This isn't bad, if I move a few sentences around.' One thing I can promise you: When you get the galley proofs back from your publisher, it all reads like it was written by the same person. You can't tell the beautiful days from the terrible days."
Gaiman's afternoon crowd included students who have formed book clubs to discuss his work and others who completed art projects based on his fiction. On Friday evening, Gaiman delivered a talk in a sold-out Babcock Theatre.
"Students love his use of imagination," said Lyn McKinney, the librarian at Senior High School. "He has a wonderful sense of fantasy, in the magic of the written word."
Gaiman wove that magic by reading some of it to students. In one story, written as a "calendar of stories" for BlackBerry, a boy's father loses everything — shirt, wallet, the works — playing poker with a flock of ducks, including a mallard who deals from the bottom of the deck. "It took a flick of a wing to put cards where he wanted them," Gaiman said. "The ducks took my father for everything," and he had to walk home in only his underwear and socks — apparently, ducks don't fancy socks, or they'd have taken those, too. "That was the April," the story concludes, "my father learned not to trust ducks."
Gaiman also told a charming tale for October's page of a genie freed from his bottle by a contented woman named Hazel who really doesn't want any of the three wishes he's willing to grant her. "Thanks, I'm fine. It's good," she tells the genie.
He goes to her house where she fixes him a meal while he rakes her leaves. He spends the night in her spare bedroom, and eventually, as weeks pass, moves into her bedroom. One day, well into their relationship, Hazel asks him what he would wish for if their roles were reversed. The genie puts his arm around Hazel and tells her, "It's OK. I'm good."
He said he wrote "Coraline" after hearing stories about parental abduction told to him by his then four-year-old daughter, Holly. The book came about after he asked his local bookstore what they had in the way of horror for children 5 and under. It turns out the store had nothing, so he wrote the novella, slowly, a few sentences each night before going to bed. Partway through, he sent what he had to his editor, who wondered what happens next. "I said, give me a contract and we will both find out," he said.
On his website, Gaiman describes his youth this way: "I was a feral child raised by librarians." That wasn't much of an exaggeration, he said. "Books were places you could go, and they seemed more safe than the real world," he told students. "I loved the fact that I was genuinely learning about the world I was put into."
Fiction, he said, "gives you the ability to look out through someone else's eyes. You realize you are not alone."
Gaiman received a gift basket full of books following his talk. He thanked the students for "such wonderful questions" and urged them to "use the library; use it well."
Afterward, Kate Giffin, a sophomore at Skyview High School, praised Gaiman's talk as "insightful." The takeaway for her was Gaiman's idea that students can write and be published if that's what they're put on Earth to do. During the talk she took notes on what one of her favorite authors had to say.
"If you have a challenge put before you, just do it," she said, paraphrasing Gaiman's message. Giffin, 16, has written short stories and two unpublished novels. She said she especially appreciated what Gaiman had to say about writer's block.
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In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point… (plus)
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There were probably a thousand people in that march, and maybe 50 living in tents around the Federal Reserve building in San Francisco. They had a library, kitchen, the drummers, information tent — all these things that would become a part of my life in the coming months, but I didn't know it yet. That night, three nights after the first tents went up in San Francisco, the police came.
Over the course of long and terrible hours, the SFPD evicted the camp. The police were cocky and condescending in ways I found shocking. My own memories seem so guileless to me now. My thoughts about the protesters and police in the early days feel like the memory of another person, so naive that she didn't even understand that she didn't understand how the world worked. That night's eviction had been one of the more violent things I'd seen in civic space since the 1992 riots in my hometown of Los Angeles, just as I was becoming an alleged adult. The stuff of people's lives was destroyed with little reaction from either side. Perhaps the most violent and shocking thing was the resignation of people losing the materials of their regular lives.
In Oakland, a few weeks later, I called my Wired editor to tell him I needed to expense a gas mask. "I want to tell you that's ridiculous," he told me, "but I can't." He agreed, and I got my mask.
Oakland was hard for me to work, both logistically and emotionally. They hated the press more than any other Occupy, and faced more violence. But they had the biggest actions, too, and the happiest and most hopeful people I saw in the movement. Children danced at the Port of Oakland closure, marching bands played. "We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!"
It felt true, until night fell. The old women and children who had closed the port or marched in the street would go home. For those who remained, the nights often came to resemble a moving street battle more than a protest. Lines would advance and fall back, barricades went up, guns were fired, lives were destroyed. The next day, they would rebuild their camps. The camps were ragged, but beautiful too — hung with colored ribbons, cloths, the endless and endlessly decorated signs.
The first time I got teargassed was in Oakland while the line was slowly advancing on the plaza from the north. The police were dark against the night, the lights and flashes glinting off their riot face shields or gas masks. There was a press gaggle to the right of the protesters.
Just as I was running to join the gaggle, someone on the police line popped off a canister at the press. It hit the ground in my path, about six feet away from me. A small fire, a noise, and then white, smoke-like powder rose into the air. Everything in my body tried to run, but I managed to come back after a few steps away. I wasn't really able to think. In my head, a voice was asking what the hell I was supposed to do now. "I'm one of the press," I said to myself. "I should go stand with them." I was very short compared to the other reporters, and the only woman. No one knew me, and no one talked to me. I wasn't local.
I walked tentatively toward the line to take pictures, but the police kept using high-powered LED flashlights to screw up our light meters. They would do this at every Occupy. People in Boston called it Hippie Mace. In time, the Occupiers and the press got used to it, and got sneakier about taking pictures. But at that point, I was still standing around trying to act like I understood what was going on.
An old and confused homeless man started walking toward the line. He got within 25 feet of the police when one of them shot him in the leg with a less-lethal round. He screamed like an animal, and collapsed against a wall. Out of nowhere, Occupy Oakland medics rushed to him, carrying him into the cover of a recessed doorway. I took pictures until they carried him out, rushing him in front of the police line, to a station they'd set up that was full of teargassed occupiers.


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- Posted by housefairy (My Page) on Sun, Nov 8, 09 at 22:46
If this is a top loader, my first thought is the switch that senses that the lid is closed. |
Please describe the problem in more detail. What's going on inside when the problem occurs? Does the machine beep an error? What pattern of lights is on the panel? With no clothes in the machine, set it on the Regular or Heavy cycle, advance to the final spin, press Start. What happens? Check the Fault Code and test the lid switch and out-of-balance switch via this procedure: Report your findings here. |
no lights in fault code with dadoes fault code check lid switch ok OOB switch ok spin cycle it pumps (recirclates ?) water in tub then goes to pump out / spin it doesn't, it beeps, and wash rinse and spin lights come on and remain on |
spin cycle it pumps (recirclates ?) water in tub then goes to pump out / spin it doesn't, it beeps, and wash rinse and spin lights come on and remain onThe lights that are on when it's beeping probably are a fault code. Again, you must specify exactly which cycle progress lights are on by number (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) from left to right ... along with any other lights on the panel that may be lit or flashing. There are eight cycle lights (several for the wash phase, two for rinse, final spin). Each light has a different meaning when displaying a fault code. There shouldn't be any recirculation via the pump during spin. Recirculation occurs only at the start of a cycle, during the Eco Active wash phase (basket rotates at 25 RPM), and possibly one time for a few moments during rinse. If you are getting recirculation when the machine should be draining, then your diverter valve is probably bad. Test it via this procedure. Is there water in the machine now? It needs a few gallons to do this test. If the pump recirculates when it shouldn't or drains when it shouldn't, then the diverter valve is either broken or clogged with lint. The valve mounts under the tub near the pump. Has three hoses attached ... one coming from the pump, the drain hose, and the recirculation hose. It's not an expensive part to replace. Also, VERY IMPORTANT ... examine the pump for signs of leaking. The pump on GWL10 is part of the machine's power supply circuit to the controller board. If the pump motor windings get wet/corroded from a leak, even a small leak over time, the pump can short-out or go to high resistance and zap the controller board. |
- Posted by Suzanne(email@example.com) onSat, Apr 23, 11 at 1:15
On my Eco-Smart, I washed a rug, and it quit spinning. I took the agitator and the tub out, but couldn't see any problems other than some rug lint and lime build-up. When it still wouldn't work after cleaning and reassembling, I took it back apart and my 11 yr. old son helped me realize the cover over the drain was removable, so we took it off, and there was a huge wad of rug pieces clogging the drain hole. After starting the machine over with no clothes, it ran through all the cycles with no problems. |
We too have a problem. At the end of the wash cycle, the machine stops for about 3 minutes, then beeps, showing the 3, 6, and 8 lights. During the 3 minute pause, there is an electrical "hum" from the machine, but the pump and spin cycle before rinse does not commence |
Code 37. Pump blocked. The machine is supposed to be draining but the controller board has sensed that that the water level has not changed for 3 minutes.Since you're hearing a humming sound and the pump doesn't run, it's probably frozen-up with bad bearings or jammed with debris. DO NOT run the machine any more until you fix the problem ... doing so can kill the controller board. |
Code 14, 30, 75 & 1 Trusty F&P after many years of reliable service sounds sick. Any suggestions, help great fully accepted and appreciated |
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WOW! Very graphic---I could SEE what was taking place...VERY impressive! Very. I'll think of this poem as the thunderstorms that are boomeranging off Atlanta this morning, head this way---maybe this time it won't be snow; maybe it will be a |
"The edge of Winter crumble" states it so beautiful, something to keep in mind, love it! |
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Wed, Mar 30, 11 at 20:26
Yes, the winter crumbled. It held on with a fury until a couple of days ago and then came spring weather. |
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Hope it crumbles some more soon. It's wet-cold out there, 34 degr, windchill 27. Love the poem. |
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Subject Title
Eco-productivity In The Workplace 2
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Building on Eco-productivity in the Workplace 2, students engage in field work with industry experts, and liaise with a community business or non-governmental organization. Students perform a green report card, and communicate the environmental and cost-saving benefits of becoming an eco-efficient workplace. Students conclude the course with a presentation of audit findings and recommendations to a business owner, non-governmental organization, or industry specialist.
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3. Understand the importance of integrating energy conservation and sustainability into a corporate agenda.
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Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, November 12, 2011, at First Baptist Church in Mound Bayou with Pastor Earl V. Hall officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Garden No. 2 Cemetery in Mound Bayou.
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Mr. Mitchell was born on November 20, 1949, in Mound Bayou.
Survivors are his wife, Curtistine H. Mitchell of Mound Bayou; 10 children, Lenanza Holland of Lynwood, Ill., Sabrina Holland of Arlington, Texas, Calvin Mitchell of Gary, Ind., Brian Mitchell of Dayton, Ohio, Christopher Mitchell of Indianapolis, Ind., Nedra Frith of Gary, Ind., Tyra Frith of Indianapolis, Ind., Brandi Rucker of Evansville, Ind., Natalie Johnson of Memphis, Tenn., and Justin Frith Mitchell of Mound Bayou; five sisters, Montre Moore of Indianapolis, Ind., Vanessa Little of Merrillville, Ind., Valarie Jean Davis of Gary, Ind., Linda Asin of Indianapolis, Ind., and Cynthia Robinson Grisby of Gary, Ind.; three brothers, Charles Mitchell of Natchez, Percy Mitchell and Ray Mitchell, both of Gary, Ind.; and 20 grandchildren.


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12 Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel; | 12 Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel. |
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I'm seriously considering getting into bee keeping and have a friend who's open to building me a hive. What's the best hive type and what would I need to get started in bee keeping. Thanks. |
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- Posted by konrad___far_north 3 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 13, 10 at 22:24
This looks nice.....simplicity is what I aim for but this system would make it awkward to work the hive, taking the outer shell off and on,...not talking about building it. Go with something what's proven, the Langstroth works good...no need to re-invent the wheel. Konrad |
- Posted by tonybeeguy (My Page) on Wed, Oct 27, 10 at 15:18
I agree with Konrad in that the outer shell isn't necessary> In fact I wonder what the reason is for having it. I assume looks? If you want to go the least expensive route, build a top bar (kenya)hive. You can google it and get lots of information |
Stick with the standard Langstroth hive. It is what everybody is using. Everything you can buy is based on that setup. |
- Posted by steverocks none (My Page) on Fri, Dec 30, 11 at 4:41
Yeah go with a simple standard langstroth hive, it will the easiest for a begining beekeeper. |
- Posted by GreenDean7 North Ga. (My Page) on Fri, Jan 6, 12 at 15:56
What would be the initial start up cost of beginning a bee hive hobby? |
Start up cost would interest me, also. When I had the responsibility of young kids, getting set up seemed expensive, as there were too many demands on what money we had. That was a lifetime ago. Cannot imagine what it must cost, today. Great fun, and the honey was appreciated. Did find a person anxious to sell his stuff, and those used boxes and extractor were dirt cheap compared to the ones a nearby provider would sell me. He supplied the local farmers with everything they wanted. |
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It is perhaps understating things to say that I'm not the world's biggest fan of Kyle Wellwood. However, given my previous criticism of his play, I think it's only fair that I acknowledge how good he has been since joining the San Jose Sharks.
I did not expect things to go this way. Wellwood was returning to the NHL after a less-than-stellar half-season in the Kontinental Hockey League, where he was getting outscored by people like Zbynek Irgl and Alexei Glukhov. He was not in the KHL because of his stellar work in the NHL either.
Yet his results in San Jose have been very, very good, as a quick glance at some of his advanced Behind the Net statistics shows. All numbers are from the regular season, and over an average of 60 minutes at even-strength:
- Goals For: 2.07
- Goals Against: 0.65
- Shots For: 33.6
- Shots Against: 22.2
Wellwood's had an easier Zone Start number in the playoffs, but the other numbers are very similar: with him on the ice, the Sharks are outscoring their opposition at a rate of 3:1, outshooting them by an average of 33 to 26.
It's been an extremely impressive return, especially for a guy who has been a fringe NHL player for the majority of his career.
Plus, it's hard not to love the chutzpah of a guy who can criticize the Canucks for being "scared of losing" while wearing a Sharks' uniform.


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Hi! I've successfully grown a clematis that is coming back to life for the first time! Its called Sarco Gem. I have it in a 15 in clay pot right now. What size pot should it go in? Any suggestions for planting soil? If I remember right it grows to about 8 feet. I plan on planting it after it blooms....I wanted to make sure it was alive before I invested in a pot....I seem to always kill them....Thanks in advance! |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 27, 13 at 16:04
That would be 'Scartho Gem' and a very nice choice for a container. I typically use a 3 gallon container as a minimum size for any of my containerized clematis but ultimate size depends heaviy on the size of the vine. A 15" diameter pot is pretty close to a 3 gallon capacity so I'm not sure I'd go much larger. Container growing does have some requirements that inground growing does not. You need a very good quality potting soil (not something like Miracle Gro) and you need to pay very close attention to both watering and fertilizing. You should also repot relatively frequently - even high quality potting soils break down over a season or two and need to be replaced. And your vine should be root pruned at that time as well. |
Thanks gardengal for the good advice...I think I will repot this year after summer. It has blooms coming already! This was last year: |
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Announcing the next cycle of Battle Packs for Warhammer: Invasion |
Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game | Published 15 March 2010 |
The Old World is rife with animosity, and each of the six major factions has its own powerful nemesis – one enemy faction that stands apart from the rest as an object of scorn. This summer, the ancient hatred of the Old World will explode onto your tabletop with The Enemy Cycle, the second exciting series of Battle Packs for Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game!
The Enemy Cycle, beginning this summer with The Burning of Derricksburg, explores the seething hostility between factions, expanding each one's ability to specifically battle its sworn foe; as the Dwarfs face off against the Orcs, the Empire takes on the forces of Chaos. Meanwhile, the High Elves carry out a blood feud against their dark kin.
What's more, The Enemy Cycle expands the breadth of deck-building options for each faction. With more use of new and existing traits, such as "Knight" for the Empire and "Disease" for Chaos, exciting new strategies will open for your Warhammer: Invasion deck!
James Hata, Game Designer here at Fantasy Flight Games, recently took the reins of Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game. As the designer of this new cycle (and future Warhammer: Invasion products), James is busy building on the strong design foundation that makes Warhammer: Invasion so popular. Despite his many projects, James took the time to write this brief introduction:
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Hello, Warhammer: Invasion fans! My name is James Hata, and I'm happy to announce that I'm the new developer for the Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game. I will be taking charge and ensuring the success of this product line going forward.
Now, many of you might be asking yourselves, "Who is this guy? Why was he put in charge of our game?"
Let me begin by sharing a bit about my gaming background. I was first introduced to Collectible Card Games in the sixth grade with Magic: the Gathering. From that point forward, I was hooked! The customizable deck building experience and the breadth of different play styles were all endlessly fun and interesting to me. Since then, I also played many other CCGs including Yu-Gi-Oh!, VS System and Universal Fighting System.
Eventually, I started entering tournaments for UFS, hoping to gain some gamer glory. I was fortunate and won the 2007 US. National Championship and World Team Championship. I was also able to win the World Championship at Gencon the following year, getting hired at Fantasy Flight Games soon afterwards to be the new developer of the UFS product line.
After joining Fantasy Flight Games, I learned about and played each of our LCGs. I participated in our staff tournament for Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game and various other events as well. When Eric Lang started talking about designing a new LCG, I was honored to be one of the people asked to help.
I've been involved on and off with Warhammer: Invasion from the beginning (in fact, I helped break an initial version of the system and provided feedback when asked about some core concepts of the game). I am an avid player, and I'm excited about its continued growth going forward.
But enough about me. What are my plans for Warhammer: Invasion?
I can't say too much yet, but The Enemy Cycle continues to explore the depth of each faction, providing them with new tools to expand upon their strategies to win. This cycle places an emphasis on the natural rivalries that take place between the six factions in the game - Dwarfs vs Orcs, Empire vs Chaos, and High Elf vs Dark Elf. What's more, the Battle Packs will contain a series of short stories that serve as a primer for those of you Invasion fans who aren't entirely familiar with Warhammer Fantasy but want to learn about your favorite faction.
Finally, remember that The Enemy Cycle is the first series of Battle Packs to adopt the new collation format, meaning that in each Battle Pack, you'll receive three copies of each card (for a total of 60 cards).
We have a lot of other exciting plans for Warhammer: Invasion going forward, and I hope you'll enjoy the ride!
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Thanks, James! Look for The Burning of Derricksburg, the first Battle Pack in The Enemy Cycle, when it hits shelves this summer!
In Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game, designed by Eric M. Lang, two players develop their kingdoms and lay waste to their foes. Each side is comprised of either the forces of Order or the forces of Destruction as they seek to extend their empire to include the entire Old World. The Living Card Game™ format allows players to customize their gaming experience with monthly Battle Pack expansions to the core game.
I agree with all the above, Warhammer invasion is shaping up to be a fantastic system. With the new collation format and means you will not get spares etc, i think this this means that its affordable to most people and the system is not ruled by those who have the cash to get all the rare/ultra rare cards (for all those who remember the debockal of the WOW TCG distribution error, meaning you could buy six boxes from one supplier and never get a Leeroy Jenkins card and one box could have six in it from another supplier).
This means this game is strict deck building,stategy and luck... not the always the highest "E-bay" bidder winner like other TCG formats.
Hopefully this expansion will address the current metagame of rush decks..... hey, I can hope!
I love the LCG format. I love the collation format. I love Wahammer: Invasion! Seriously though, I cannot wait until this cycle or the Assault on Ulthuan for that matter. The Dark Elves are shaping up to be a pretty interesting faction. That slave whipping card is a great way to get some extra use out of unit that is about to die from combat damage anyway!.
I like "Mining Tunnels". Very useful.
And the secret gaming life of Hata is finally revealed!
Cards look good, theme looks good too (just please no or little "gets BLAH when fighting X faction" abilities... if only i'd been involved or given the warning earlier. lol)
Looking for Los Angeles/South Bay players!
Yay stories! Very interesting & exciting - will definitely make things even more fun, but i also hope that although rivalries will be given tools to deal with one another, that at the same time it'll give [pure] Dwarfs and easier time with [pure] Orcs & likewise with Chaos with Empire. The two cards previewed definitely seem useful in general right now! :D
Yes, hopefully there are useful cards in general. Very insightful commenting...
Awesome. Hopefully these Faction-specific cards between sworn enemies are also just useful cards in general, too. :)


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (1560 votes).
In short: Awesome. Great support, beautiful run in a great city.Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: FantasticIn full: My first marathon and got round in 4 hours. I was very pleased even in the heat. I hope this race survives because I would do it again next year. As it was my first marathon it will always be special for me.Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: A good first timer marathon, but beware the hill at the end!In full: I've completed this marathon twice now, and the hill at 23+ miles didn't get any easier the second time round! Apart from the disgraceful lack of loos at the start (same problem last year), this race is very well organised. The first energy station had run out by the time I got there (I was one of the slow ones at the back), but there was plenty of water and lucozade at the other stations. It was a nice touch that there were motorcycle marshalls going up and down the course carrying extra water and lucozade for those of use who needed it, and a minibus checking up on everyone - we were all suffering in the heat! The route between Ocean Terminal and Portobello is awful though - its completely flat but an industrial wasteland - I've often thought that the organisers should run the race in reverse so at least you've got some good views as you struggle to the end.Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: Hot and a little bit hilly!In full: Either I'm going mad or I don't know what a hill is, but I did not think this race was flat! Long stretches of it were admittedly, and there also lots of nice downhill sections too, but there were plenty of gentle and not so gentle inclines (especially at 23+ miles) that were very testing in the scorching heat. Then again, I did no hill training so that may explain it. This was my first marathon, indeed my first ever race of any description, and despite the torturous conditions, I had a brilliant day. Edinburgh is stunningly beautiful, esp. in the sunshine and the start and finish locations were picture perfect.I have no gripes really, although the energy drinks at the first station had run out by the time I got there (am a v slow runner). Plentiful drinks elsewhere though, even though most of them were warm! Got mixed up with all the relay runners at the start but it wasn't really a problem. The marshalls and supporters were all fantastic and encouraging, the sprinklers and hosepipes a welcome relief. The worst bit for me was the industrial estate at around mile 10/11 - completely deserted, sun beating down, no cloud cover, no wind and seemed neverending. Also by the time I got to Portobello beach I had to weave in and out of daytrippers and sun worshippers - who all seemed oblivious to the fact there was a marathon going on. All in all, I was just pleased to get round especially after reading about all the dropouts in the press today. I would definitely do this race again if I was ever considering doing another marathon, which up until Saturday, I wasn't. But you never know.Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: Great for a first marathonIn full: Nice and flat with great views and good support from locals banging saucepans and sprinkling the runners with hose pipes.Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: Very well organised on race day. Lovely flat scenic run.In full: Positively chilly after Blackpool last year, but still too hot for me. Great support from marshalls and crowd. Regular water stations.Definite PB potential on a better day. Well done to the race day organisers.What was the expo all about? A real pain as we could only fly up on Saturday afternoon and then my envelope had my name and address on it. A second class stamp is somewhat cheaper than a taxi ride from the airport!Entry fee was a complete rip off and yet the race still made a big loss? Something gone wrong somewhere. Perhaps the organisers and Edinburgh Council should get together for an economics lesson.Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: They have to support it to let it grow properlyIn full: No one in Edinburgh wanted the festival and the fringe when that started. Would they cancel that now? I don't think so!The course was good and I went to some bits I had not been to before. If they want to follow London, get the pubs open and get the music playing.Play anything you want as long as it's loud Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: Enjoyable RaceIn full: Even though the weather was scorching and the course challenging in places, I have to say it was a great day.My only gripe is the mile markers in places were off putting as I know that were not accurate. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and it was a great pleasure to take part in this event and hope to do it again in years to come. Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: Great event, heating bill must have cost...!In full: Having done the last three, I have seen a definate year on year improvement with this year being by far the best. It would be a sin to let it fold and can only hope some major orginisation sees the potential in putting their name to it. Whoe sais it only rains in Edinburgh!Date of review: June 12, 2006
In short: Who the hell runs for fun in fancy dress??????In full: 1st Marathon and a glorious city to start...Loads of winter,windy sub zero training runs really prepared me for today's heat!!!I don't think but got to 19 miles without stopping before adapting the walk/run strategy till the finish which is a PB.Great support and hats off to the Save The Rhino guy, The Womble and the bloke with crutches brandishing the huge St Andrew's flag!!!!! Fair play to you all.Only real gripes are the Relay runners..... Too selfish to let the hardcore nutters through first and delay everyone's start and then unbelievably some walking before mile 1 and even more taking on board water and glucose-gels for a 5 mile stint!!!!! Unbelievable...Other than that a memorable first and good banter towards the Croatia shirt I was wearing (Safer than the England shirt me thinks!!!!)Date of review: June 12, 2006


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