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[Rom][Stangroms] Super Senseless V1.0.2 [Updated: 26Oct2011]
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Hey guys, I told myself: "Self, I'll never do a Senseless". lol. Well that was a while ago and I been extremely bored here lately. So I figured I would give this whole Senseless scene a try. Maybe even show a couple of yall devs up a little, gatormark;)
Well anyway, on with the good stuff.
This rom is currently based off the latest OTA for the Incredible.
It is Android 2.3.4 with Sense 1.0 Desensitized
I may decide to swap bases in the future. Maybe just to Sense 2.1 though. Nothing major. We will see.
I lightened the system by a lot.
Click here for a list of Removed apk's
Installation Instructions
1. Put the Rom on the root of your SD Card
2. Compare MD5 Sum
NOTE: To verify MD5 you could use the program for Windows that I use here: MD5 Calculator
And for linux, just open the Terminal and type: md5sum [path to rom on your sd card]
3. Reboot to Recovery
4. Wipe these:
Main Screen:
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Wipe Battery Stats
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5. Install Rom from SD Card
6. Reboot and enjoy!
Guys, please do not remove and post the new animated clock or launcher2.apk with out my prior permission.
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To many to note. Big thanks to the devs that made the few mods in this Rom though.
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|Dr. Carl Horst Hahn
1 July 1926
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
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|chairman emeritus of Volkswagen Group
Dr. Carl Horst Hahn (born 1 July 1926) is chairman emeritus of the automotive concern Volkswagen Group. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Management of the group's parent company, Volkswagen AG (formerly Volkswagenwerk AG) from 1982 to 1993, during his tenure as chairman, he expanded the group's car production from two million units in 1982 to 3.5 million a decade later.
Early years[edit]
Hahn was born in the German state of Saxony and raised near Chemnitz, his father had been a senior manager of DKW and Auto Union, which later evolved into the Audi car brand. As a college student in Europe, he studied business administration at the University of Cologne and the University of Zurich; he also studied economics and politics in Great Britain and France. Hahn got his doctorate in Economics at the University of Berne in Switzerland, before joining Volkswagen, he first worked as an economist in Paris.
Hahn joined VW in 1953 as an assistant of chairman Heinrich Nordhoff, and he quickly became head of sales promotion in VW's export department. Hahn was a favorite of Nordhoff's, and the chairman made him president of the company's U.S. subsidiary, Volkswagen of America, in 1959.
President of Volkswagen of America (1959-1965)[edit]
Under Hahn's leadership, Volkswagen of America began a national advertising campaign to attract more attention to its quirky Beetle sedan and Microbus wagon. Hahn soon hired the Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency, which created some of the most memorable car ads in history.[citation needed] Its print and television ads for the Volkswagen brand respected the customer's intelligence, gave detailed information about Volkswagen's products, and made fun of the unorthodox qualities of the cars, the ads became cultural icons as much as the cars did, and Volkswagen enjoyed phenomenal sales in the U.S. in the 1960s and early 1970s. Hahn became a beloved figure in the United States before his return to Germany in 1965, having been affectionately nicknamed "Mr. Volkswagen" by VW enthusiasts. While stationed in America, Hahn married the sister of romance novelist Danielle Steel, and their four children were all born in the U.S.
Chairman of Volkswagen AG (1982-1993)[edit]
Hahn left VW in 1973, to lead the German tire company Continental AG, but returned in 1982 to become chairman of Volkswagenwerk AG. Under his leadership, Volkswagen bought a majority interest in the Spanish car brand SEAT in 1986 after a cooperation agreement in 1982, and eventually owned the entire company by 1990,[1] after the fall of the Iron Curtain, in 1991 Volkswagen entered as a foreign partner in a joint venture with the Czech company Škoda Auto.[2] Hahn's acquisitions made Volkswagen a global force, and affirmed its place as Europe's largest automaker; in 1985 alone, Hahn was able to push VW's earnings up 140 percent to $225 million based on sales of more than $21 billion, and he was credited for pushing VW beyond the one-car strategy left over from the era of air-cooled Beetles and the early success of the Volkswagen Golf Mk1 in the 1970s. The second-generation edition, introduced in Europe in 1983 and in North America in 1984, was one of the bestselling cars of the 1980s worldwide. Two out of every three Volkswagens sold globally were Golfs. Hahn also cleaned up VW's business practices, uncovering an inside foreign exchange fraud, but its $300 million cost to Volkswagen ate into the very profits Hahn had helped the company make.
Despite Hahn's earlier success in leading Volkswagen of America, VW sales in the United States dropped during his tenure as VW chairman, from 171,281 units in 1982 to 75,873 ten years later (1992), largely to due intense competition from the American and Japanese carmakers. Sales in Canada were hardly better. Substandard product was another issue in North America. Soon after Hahn became chairman of VW, he tested an American Volkswagen Rabbit (the North American name for the original Golf) built at VW's Westmoreland Assembly Plant, which had opened in 1978, and he was deeply disappointed. "It felt like a Chevrolet," he complained. "If you want a Chevrolet, you should go to General Motors." The car had been re-engineered to drive like an American family sedan, with softer suspension and shock absorbers. Hahn fired Volkswagen of America president James McLernon, a former Chevrolet engineer who had been tapped by VW to get the Westmoreland plant up and running. Hahn then brought in new management at Volkswagen of America and kept the Westmoreland factory open to produce the second-generation Golf as a hedge against currency fluctuation between the German mark (DM) and the U.S. dollar, but inefficient production and soft sales in North America caused VW to close the plant in 1988.
Although Hahn was applauded for making the Volkswagen Golf the most popular car in Europe, and expanding the company through the SEAT and Škoda acquisitions, Volkswagen was in financial trouble by the end of his tenure as chairman, having lost 770 million marks in the eighties surge of the European car market, maintaining a low after-tax profit margin of 2.8 percent. Pre-tax profits went from three billion marks in 1989 to 1.785 billion marks just three years later. Hahn could not keep manufacturing and development costs under control, the Volkswagen board decided that Hahn had been at the helm of Volkswagen too long, and replaced him with Piech.
Former Volkswagen of America president Bill Young, in an interview with journalist David Kiley, explained Hahn's record as chairman of VW: "Dr. Hahn had a lot on his plate in the 1980s, and [VW was] an organization that he was not suited or equipped to turn upside down the way Piech did." Automotive journalist David E. Davis offered a mixed review: "Hahn is a terrific man, and he did a lot of good things for Volkswagen, but he obviously lost interest in the American market by the time he came back in the 1980s based on the lack of attention the American division got."
- Keller, Marryann, Collision: GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and the Battle To Own the 21st Century, 1993.
- Kiley, David, "Getting The Bugs Out: The Rise, Fall and Comeback of Volkswagen in America", Adweek, 2002
- Automobile magazine, July 1989, Paul Lienert column.
- Hiott, Andrea, Thinking Small: The Long Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle, 2013.
- Imseng, Dominik, Ugly Is Only Skin-Deep: The Story of the Ads That Changed the World, 2016
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Cystatin C as a Marker for Detecting Early Renal Dysfunction in a Pediatric Emergency Department (CARING)
This study has been completed.
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
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First received: April 18, 2007
Last updated: June 27, 2011
Last verified: September 2007
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Acute renal failure (ARF) is a rare but serious complication of gastroenteritis and dehydration, the most common reason for pediatric emergency visits. Renal function is determined by the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Serum creatinine, the current marker of GFR, is insensitive and a late marker of ARF. Unfortunately, "gold standard" methods for measurement of GFR are impractical in the emergency setting. Recently, cystatin C (CysC) was introduced as superior marker for the measurement of GFR, particularly in children. A single random blood sample allows for accurate determination of GFR in the so-called "creatinine-blind" range and independent of the body composition. There is growing evidence that the determination of serum CysC concentration can detect ARF in adults earlier than serum creatinine or urinary fractional sodium excretion. No studies have examined this marker for the early detection of ARF in children at risk. We therefore propose a prospective study that compares CysC with other biomarkers of renal dysfunction for the early detection of ARF in children with dehydration due to gastroenteritis. Patients with minor trauma and a minimal likelihood of ARF will serve as a control. This study may establish CysC as an accurate and cost-effective marker for identifying patients at risk.
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Cystatin C as a Marker for Detecting Early Renal Dysfunction in a Pediatric Emergency Department
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Dehydration GastroenteritisU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario:
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|May 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- Rationale and hypotheses: Acute renal failure is a relatively rare but serious illness in children. Early detection is important in preventing life threatening complications that can arise from acute renal failure. Presently, most methods of determining renal function are either too cumbersome, too invasion or too unreliable to be used in children. Current evidence has shown that serum cystatin C is more precise and cost-effective in determining renal function. Our objective is to compare serum cystatin C with other biomarkers as an early diagnostic detection for renal dysfunction in children with acute renal failure in an emergency setting.
- Study design and methods: This is a prospective double cohort control study to compare the serum creatinine and serum cystatin C in detecting early renal dysfunction in children presenting to the emergency department. The study will be conducted in CHEO emergency department. A study nurse will identify eligible patients and discuss whether to approach the families with either the bedside nurse or attending physician before meeting them. Interested families are than given an explanation of our study. Once written consent is obtained, a copy will be given to the family. Additional tests will than be requested from blood and urine samples of the patients. Only patients that already require an intravenous needling are eligible for this study. No additional needling is therefore needed as part of this study. Urine sample will only be obtained through bad or voiding samples. No catheter urine samples will be requested as part of this study.
- Subject selection: Our target population are patients presenting to the CHEO emergency department with the diagnoses of gastroenteritis and dehydration, and requiring intravenous rehydration. Our control group are patients with traumatic injury requiring conscious sedation and intravenous access. We will exclude patients who are known to have underlying kidney diseases, renal transplantation, thyroid dysfunction, chronic systematic steroid uses, genitourinary trauma and patients transferred from another hospitals for ongoing assessment and treatment.
- Specify the number of participants drawn from CHEO and other centres: CHEO is the only designated centre for the study. 464 patients will be recruited to complete the study, 232 in each arm.
- Delineate the outcomes to be measured and analyzed: The primary outcome measures are to compare the sensitivity and the timing of detecting early renal dysfunction using either serum creatinine or serum cystatin C in the paediatric emergency setting. Our secondary outcome measures are to compare serum cystatin C to other surrogate renal markers for acute renal failure. Other renal markers include calculated Schwartz glomerular filtration rate, urine microprotein excretion, fractional excretions of sodium and urea, serum sodium, chloride, bicarbonate, urine Na/K ratio and regular urinalysis. Additional analysis will be conducted on the comparison of fractional excretion of urea to fractional excretion of sodium as an earlier marker of dehydration in children.
- Anticipated benefits/harms and how these will be addressed: Only patients who already require needling as part of their hospital care are eligible for the study. No additional needling is therefore requested. Additional tests will be requested that would otherwise not be part of the routine care of these patients. It is therefore possible that a kidney disorder will be identified in a child who was not yet diagnosed with this disease. We will discuss this possibility with the family before enrollment of the patient. All major abnormalities will be followed by both the attending physician and the principle investigators of the study and appropriate care will apply. We do not intervene with the ongoing care of the patients while the patients remain in hospital. The study will terminate when patients are discharged from the hospital.
- Data fields (if any) to be abstracted from the patient's health record: We will record patient's CHEO medical record number for the purpose of retrieving laboratory data; date of birth; biometric measurement (height, weight and sex). No other identifiable information will be record on the data sheet. No individual information will be used for publication or presentation.
Informed consent documents and any advertisement notices must be appended to the application. Both English and French versions of the consent forms and information sheets are enclosed with this application.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Children less than 18 years old who visit the treating pediatric emergency department.
Gastro cohort: children suffer acute gastroenteritis with signs of dehydration and require intravenous fluid rehydration Injury cohort: children suffer musculoskeletal injury that require intravenous sedation for the repair
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children less than 18 years old presented with acute gastroenteritis with dehydration, requiring intravenous fluid rehydration
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children with known renal diseases, renal transplantation, thyroid dysfunction, chronic systematic steroid uses, genitourinary trauma
- Children transferred from another facility for ongoing assessment and treatment
- Children under legal custody
- Voluntary refusal
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00462527
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00462527
|Canada, Ontario
|Department of Pediatric Emergency, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
|Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8L1
Sponsors and Collaborators
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
|Principal Investigator:
|Ron Tam, MD
|Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Ronald Tam, MD, Staff Pediatrician, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00462527 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 18, 2007
|Last Updated:
|June 27, 2011
Keywords provided by Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario:
Cystatin C
Acute renal failure
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Renal Insufficiency
Acute Kidney Injury
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Water-Electrolyte Imbalance
Metabolic Diseases
Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017


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Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
IIRC the 3M #77 is for graphic arts use, not a structural adhesive. They make different grades of adhesive for different purposes, i.e. if you want to glue an overhead headliner to the underside of a car roof, where it gets quite hot baking in the sun, you need to use the "headliner" adhesive which is designed to resist the heat. Other special grades do other special tricks, like bond to "unglueable" plastics including polyethlene.
They're not all the same.
And 3M has some of the best toll-free customer support in the world, call the number on any product and you'll get real answers, not just someone reading a book.
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
Headlining Replacement
That link has the how I did the aft cabin, plus a link at the end to the head redo. I also did the main saloon and V-berth area in a similar manner. ust not as many pics of those area's.
I second the 3M spray contact cement. I found the 88? worked as well as the 9x version, but did not smell as bad. The blue can, ie 77 was for the most part useless and a waste of $$$.
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
I just ordered some of that non-woven carpeting which fits the contours (ie "monkey fur"), it is essentially the same as what was there before. It is not for the headliner, only for the sides of the v-berth laying on the hull. The stuff which was there had gotten mildewed over the years and was a little nasty, so I ripped it out and now want to insulate since I've got it out already. I even have the old carpeting to act as a template for the new stuff.
I had considered a nice cedar lining for the v berth but frankly, it would cost double what the carpeting costs and take 5 times longer to do. It's cold out, and I have other jobs which need doing so I don't really have the time. Especially since I don't live aboard, and it's just an old Hunter 25 nothing special. I am not too concerned about mildew anymore, since I did a refit last year and now don't have a drop of water intrusion anywhere on the boat even in heavy rain.
I don't know about the spray adhesive because there will def be gaps between the hull and the insulation, and I am concerned that moisture will condense in these gaps. Plus there will be a very imperfect bond anyway. The surface of the underlying fiberglass is very rough and still has some hairs from the original carpet stuck to it in a few places. Ideally I would sand it smoother and remove all surface imperfections for gluing, but I feel that this is a bit overboard and unnecessary in this particular case. So I figured some sort of a gap filling sealant/adhesive would be best. However maybe I will just go with the 3m if that will be adequate... marine caulking is dam expensive and I would need ALOT of it!
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
I think you will find that the spray adhesives eats the insulation. Have been thinking about this myself. I was thinking water-base contact cement or just foam board adhesive. I don't see anything holding that would leave it easily removable. I was thinking of using the vinyl flooring that looks wood flooring. But it is so heavy I doubt any glue would hold it vertical or overhead on foam board. And it might not lay flat on all the contours. Well I hope someone pipes in with a tried solution. Kb3pwc solution sounds the best so far.
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
We're actually going about this project ourselves on our 34' seafarer. We were going to line it with the marine carpet something like this for the insulation benefit: Hulliner and Headliner 72"
It claims to be mold resistant but does anyone have experience with this? If we were going to use a vinyl or formica how do we insulate it? Does it need to be insulated?
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
We did the overhead in our previous vessel....31 foot, lots of curves and had to grind off the foam left by the old cloth on the overhead. An ugly job.
We insulated with the pink foam panels you can get a Home Depot. We cut with a box cutter to let it bend in the boat and glued up with Liquid Nails. We also put up wood lathe with the Liquid Nails to tack up vinyl covering for the overhead. The foam was between the lathe strips. You need wood to act as holders for the Liquid Nails to set so the boat looked like a stick forest as pieces were set up and cured.
I was able to sew the vinyl pieces so they fit exactly to the shape of the boat's coach roof. The over head vinyl was then tacked up with a staple gun, securing into the wooden lathe strips. Varnished finish strips were then put up covering the stapled vinyl using phillips head screws.
The whole job was a killer but very worth the effort. Totally changed the appearance of the vessel's interior. The insulation was even better than the appearance. We were cooler in the summer and warmer during the cold months. A very worthwhile project. Worst part is grinding off that glue and foam before you can start.
Good luck with your project.
s/v Tango, Cabo Rico 34
Lankford Bay Marina
Chester River, MD
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
Carpet is a guaranteed home for mold and mildew. Why go to the expense of closed cell foam, then cover it with a wet mop?
Go for the 3M, I like the roll on type for verticals.
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
Obvisouly there's room for confusion here.
Peter, are you carpeting the overhead? The hull? Or the cabin sole?
What you can do and how well that's going to work will vary with what you intend to carpet.
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
Agree with the 3M recommendations, but I'd like to talk you out of carpet... try some easier-to-clean vinyl, formica or anything else less likely to glom onto moisture, dirt, mold etc. Wood battens most nautical, and can give a very warm feeling, vinyls and formicas can be light coloured for more light/bright below...
.. but other than a small mat at the companionway I don't think carpet belongs on a boat anywhere....
Re: what glue for attaching foam insulation to the cabin interior?
http://www.amazon.com/3M-08090-Yellow-Super-Adhesive/dp/B0002JMPRK/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357092044&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=3M%C2%99+Super+Trim+Adhesive+08090 ... a bit 'stronger' than plain Super Trim adhesive and is used for 'heavy' headliners in vehicles.
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Interesting article on Report Buyer which says electricity could be generated from waste food about using localised digesters to convert food waste into biofuels.
Digesters are one part of the answer perhaps. Another useful part could be the use of pyrolysis to convert the remaining biomass into gasses. These gases could be burned directly (like old fashioned town gas from coal) or converted into liquid fuel. There would still be the problem of disposing of the ash from this process but the volume would be considerably smaller than the volume of landfill. Such a two-pronged attack on the situation would yield more biofuel than simply digesting and would reduce volume.
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Interesting article on Report Buyer which says electricity could be generated from waste food about using localised digesters to convert food waste into biofuels.
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It is a neat idea. A few companies in the US are already doing heat/power from waste. Typical capacities range from 10s of kWs to 1 MW.
Producing fuels will be more complicated. The main problem here is of scale. Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis of fuels from syngas (carbon monoxide + hydrogen mixture) produced from biomass/waste pyrolysis or gasification is not very economical at small scales. (For ex: Sasol produces ~16 million barrels of oil equivalent of F-T liquids, annually. In comparison, 1 MW of thermal energy is 0.05 million barrels of oil equivalents/year (accounting for efficiency losses)). Fermentation produces ethanol/alcohols, pyrolysis/gasification steps produce syngas which can be used to make either alcohols (mainly methanol) or CH2- type hydrocarbons. However, recently, a UK based company (Oxford Catalysts) is developing small-scale F-T technology.
My understanding is that the refuse left behind has a host of co-product application including fertilizer and heat. Adding a Pyrolysis unit to a Digester is probably more of an economic question then anything else.
There are loads of articles on German advances on Anaerobic digesters. Turn a corner in Germany and pow, another digester. We haven't caught up to the Germans yet, but the potential is certainly here, particularly since there are many digesters busily working away at the municipal level cleaning our sewage and leaving the rest of the potential energy uncaptured.
I caught up to a mobile digester out of the University of Guelph (Canada). The premise is so simple, waste in methane out, but it appears that for the smaller operator, they take time and understanding. Digesters are like living ecosystems. They are healthy and productive when they eat well.
David B. Benson 24 October, 2008 at 11:21 pm #
The prylosis methods I know about produce heating oils and biochar. No ash, except after the biochar is burnt.
larryhagedon 25 October, 2008 at 10:26 pm #
Exactly right Simon, again and again I see a need for multiple processes to wring all the goodies from these feedstocks.
I rather expect to see green algae coming into play again and again as a clean up process. Feed various waste substances from the other processes to the green algae.
Some of the resulting high protein green algae cake will be used as an additive for people food and animal feed, pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, but we will massively overproduce our needs for that, so pyrolysis into gasses for more fuel will be one way of utilizing the last crumbs of the cake.
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loosen oil plug, drain oil, unscrew and replace oil filter, changes oil plug washer with new one. tighten up, fill with oil. ....
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This is actually the correct way.
1. Get drain pan, place under drain plug on engine sump.
2. Loosen drain plug with a wrench (note: righty tighty lefty loosey)
3. Remove drain plug from oil pan.
4. Curse loudly because hot oil just ran up your arm and spewed all over the ground, splashing off the catalytic converter.
5. Wipe off hands with rag, being careful to not rip off the bits of skin torn loose when the wrench slipped in step 1.
6. Pour oil absorbant (stolen from cat litter bag when your wife isn't looking) on spilled oil.
7. Check if oil is finished draining.
8. Quickly slide pan back under drain plug, to catch the last bit, from where you shoved it when the oil first overshot the pan.
9. Put more cat litter down.
10. Replace drain plug.
11. Tighten
12. Remove drain plug again because you realize you forgot the copper washer.
13. Fish around in hot oil in the bottom of the pan for the washer.
14. Replace washer, replace drain plug.
15. Remove filter
16. Go in garage to look for filter wrench because you can't perform step 15
17. Go ask wife to go to autoparts store for filter wrench because you can't find yours and you're too oily to drive, and you don't want her seeing the cat litter stuck to your back.
18. Have a beer while you wait for your wife to come back.
19. Realize you don't have any oil.
20. Frantically call your wife's cell.
21. Go get ice to put on your foot you hurt kicking the Rover's wheel when you heard your wife's cell ringing in the kitchen.
22. Think of other option and quickly grab phone book, look up parts store number and dial frantically.
23. Put down the phone and rush outside when you hear your wife drive up, trying to act nonchalant when you ask her to turn around and go back for oil.
24. Ignore her rolling eyes as you carefully specify the exact brand and weight you want, giving her several other choices in case they are out of what you want, plus other stores to check.
25. Have a beer while you wait for your wife to come back.
26. Ignore the fact when she returns that she bought the store brand oil.
27. Remove the filter.
28. Use your daughters bike, yes, the one with the tassles on the grips, to bike to the store for an oil filter because you know better than to ask your wife to go again.
29. Have a beer when you get home to console yourself from the strange looks you got at the parts store.
30. Install new filter.
31. Add new oil.
32. Frantically replace drain plug because you missed step 14 because you couldn't be bothered to read the instructions. After all, you are a man.
31. Dump more cat litter on the ground since you'd moved the drain pain when looking for the washer.
32. Get owners manual because you've no idea how much oil it takes.
33. Try to wipe the oil smudges off the manual's pages.
34. Replace the oil filler cap, put tools away (hanging up filter wrench so you can find it next time).
35. Tell yourself you'll get it later when it falls off the hook and lands behind a cabinet, in spite of the fact you looked behind it and saw two filter wrenches.
36. Wipe the oil off your hands and go get a beer.
37. Try your best to look innocent as you hear your wife cursing the cat for tracking cat litter all over the house.
38. Sleep on sofa because your wife noticed the cat litter still stuck to your back.
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The Fremantle home of Matthew Lucas. Saarinen for Knoll tulip table from DeDeCe, a blue 40's chair found on the side of the street in New York at 3.00 in the morning ('there were two but I couldn't carry both!' says Matthew!), a Dinosaur Design glass vase, 60's Hollywood Regency lamp from a vendor on the side of E Houston St in Manhattan, and two of four country Chippendale chairs c1760. Photographs by Angelita Bonetti, production / styling by Anna Flanders for The Design Files.
Library – a Geo IVth mahogany desk bought by Matthew when he was 16! Red flocked Mao found in the Wolfsonian museum gift shop in Miami, eighteenth century bookcase – inherited. Photographs by Angelita Bonetti, production / styling by Anna Flanders for The Design Files.
Left – black and white photo of Matthew's father, Matthew's collection of hats (on an old piano leg a saved from a fire wood pile), and his mothers 19th century poetry collection. Right – Matthew's extensive library. Photographs by Angelita Bonetti, production / styling by Anna Flanders for The Design Files.
Matthew Lucas in his Fremantle apartment. 60's leather sofa from a thrift store on E 86th St in Manhattan -('it was a KILLER to move!' says Matthew!). Paintings by Arthur Borthwick, a piece by New York street artist Shepard Fairey from Guest Fine Art, a tiny oil of Portsmouth by W Jenner dated 1882 and a 30's oil of a priest by Virginio Monti. Photographs by Angelita Bonetti, production / styling by Anna Flanders for The Design Files.
I must admit, I haven't personally set foot in the amazing home we have to share with you today… instead, this little gem came to us by way of a tip off from WA-based writer and stylist Anna Flanders, who was super keen to see a little more Perth-based content on TDF! Of course after seeing Anna's intriguing snaps of this eclectic home, I was very happy to oblige – I am always trying to uncover stories a little further afield, and so was very excited to work with Anna and photographer Angelita Bonetti to produce this story! Our very first Fremantle home on TDF – can you believe it!?
Filled to the brim with antiques, collectables and incredible artworks, this apartment in Fremantle, WA belongs to one very colourful and creative character. Matthew Lucas has spent many years working in 'niche retail', and also has a background in theatre – writing, producing and touring plays. His passion for antiques and furniture began whilst he was still at high school, when he would do basic furniture restoration work in school holidays for Fremantle-based company Lauder and Howard Antiques Fine Art. Amazingly enough, more than 20 years later, he now works for that very same company!
Though Matthew's career has come full circle in recent years, his work has taken him all over the world. His early career included a stint in London, where he worked for Liberty ('Heaven in the 80's' recalls Matthew – 'at that time Liberty still had a buying department that travelled to Burma for uncut rubies!') and J.Dege & Sons – an old school Saville Row tailor. He also spent time living in Madrid, before studying drama at the VCA in Melbourne, and then spending 10 years working in theatre. After this, in 1996, Matthew was hired by iconic Australian design brand Dinosaur Designs for their Melbourne start up, and in 2002 moved to New York to launch the company there. Eventually Matthew left New York in 2008, and returned to Fremantle, where he now manages Lauder and Howard Antiques Fine Art., Ottoman Empire and L&H – three furniture / object / design based companies. He also consults for retail and interiors clients.
Matthew has been in this early 70's apartment block with views over the Swan River for three years. Upon first acquiring the apartment in 2008, Matthew knew a lot of work needed to be done here. 'I really had to redo the entire interior, as it was daggy and untouched with horrific apricot terracotta floor tiles throughout, no kitchen and a bad bathroom' he recalls.
A kitchen was added, with a splash back that incorporates a photo of Matthew's Grandmother and her best friend taken in 1928. An image was manipulated by Elsh Designs in Fremantle, and then printed on the back of toughened glass. 'I say hello to her every time I make breakfast' says Matthew.
Floating timber flooring was also added throughout, walls were knocked out to open up the space, and conversely, the existing front door was blocked up to create a study and integrate Matthew's library into the whole apartment. Window sills were added throughout, as were ebony door knobs – 'an indulgence I channeled Tom Ford for' explains Matthew!
Of course one of the most striking features of this museum-like home are the dense layers of detail on every surface, and the rich sense of history evident in each of Matthew's treasured artefacts. Matthew loves this eclectic, unexpected mix – 'In terms of design now, I love the idea of ethnographic objects mixed with fine 18th century porcelain and furniture, and a healthy dose of mid century classics!' he says. 'My vision for this place was 'a photographer for National Geographic in 1962 moves to Manhattan! – think early David Attenborough meets Steve McQueen…meets Cecil Beaton!'. Oh My goodness… I think he nailed it!
Massive thanks to Matthew for sharing his stunning home and for the epic captioning effort, and to Anna Flanders for producing these images with photographer Angelita Bonetti.


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I am downcast by a single sentence on the front page of today's Daily Telegraph (and here's a spoiler alert before I continue)…
In a story headlined "Householders asked if they would drink treated sewage water", the paper has dared to debunk a myth that I, and I'm sure, many others, have believed to be true for years.
The final paragraph stated simply and cruelly:
"The idea that Londoners currently drink water that has passed through at least seven other people is a myth."
I read that to my 12-year-old grandson this morning and he immediately replied: "That's got to be wrong! Everyone knows it happens."
See how the comforting power of an urban myth can be destroyed by just a casual, annoyingly factual, statement.
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Last month, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released a study on nursing education in the United States. In their research, they studied the nursing shortage in the country, and the extent of the problem is startling.
To meet current and projected shortages, nursing education programs need to increase their capacity by approximately 90 percent. However, these programs are faced with a severe shortage of faculty, making it difficult to expand; and the already small pool of qualified faculty is rapidly shrinking—almost a third are over the age of 55 and there is a dearth of baccalaureate-level nurses eligible to enter graduate programs. This has caused a sixfold increase in the number of applicants denied admission to nursing schools since 2002.
In other words, nursing schools need to almost double the number of students they graduate into the workforce. There is no shortage of students who want to enter nursing programs, but accreditation requirements mandate a very low student-faculty ratio for those programs, so the number of slots tends to be extremely limited. And, as the excerpt above indicates, the already-small number of faculty is dwindling, which further limits the number of nurses entering the workforce. As the shortage grows worse, the nurses already in the field are forced to work longer hours, which both increases the burnout rate and decreases the quality of patient care.
In short, we don't have enough nurses in this country to meet our healthcare needs, and those needs are only going to grow as the baby boom generation ages and requires more acute medical care. So what does this have to do with Obamacare? To answer that question, one only needs to look north, where the nursing shortage is reaching near-epidemic levels. Because Canada's healthcare is "free," there is high demand for those services and the available resources are consumed all-too-quickly, leading to shortages. How has that affected nursing care? I'll let the Canadian government explain:
As budgets have been cut in healthcare settings, nurses have been caught in the middle of a speed-up. Simply put, there are fewer nurses to do more nursing, and nurses are simultaneously expected to pick up non-nursing tasks that were not previously the routine responsibility of nursing staff. Nurses are educated to care for patients, but the shortage of support staff has meant that nurses must attend to ancillary needs while patient care is neglected. Unfortunately those other tasks cannot be ignored – patients need meals delivered, they need to get to operating rooms and they need supplies and equipment – and nurses are doing them.
Nurses have a finite number of hours in their shifts, so time they spend performing such tasks is time they cannot spend on direct patient care. Add into that equation the effect this has on nurse morale, and you have a perfect recipe for nurse burnout, which leads to nurses leaving the workforce and a further deterioration of quality in care. So where do those nurses go?
President Obama and the Democrats may denigrate the American healthcare system in order to pass their version of "reform," but it would be interesting to see them explain why, if our healthcare system is so terrible, nurses flock to our shores for the chance to work in it. There is a major difference between our nursing shortage and Canada's. Here, we lack the capacity to train enough nurses to meet our needs. In Canada, they lack the funds to pay enough nurses to sustain the system. True healthcare reform would seek a solution to the problem of supply in the interests of improving care. Obamacare, on the other hand, puts political correctness first.
Under the Democrats' plans, if a medical school wants to receive contracts and grants from the federal government, it must operate under a quota system and be able to prove it. On Page 909, the House bill states: "In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the (HHS) secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."
This policy may help fund nursing programs in some parts of the country, but it will do little to alleviate the shortage of medical care in geographic areas where there simply are not enough minorities to recruit into medical programs. Our shortage of healthcare professionals – nurses and doctors – is too serious to be subordinated to a misguided affirmative action program.
The Carnegie study is not the first to show the extent of the nursing shortage, but Democrats in Congress should fully understand the effects of their reform on that shortage as they 'debate' the bill behind closed doors.


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Saying as its only recaps, I wont be expecting full replies, but please leave a few comments, as there are a few pretty big title changes etc.
Survivor Series will be ready in time to be posted on Thursday, please leave predictions for the card too.
Run up to Survivor Series:
October 17th; Toronto:
Rhyno challenges The Hurricane in the opening match, for the Hardcore Title, scoring a victory, becoming the New Champion, with a Gore.
Backstage, Eugene offers to be a member on Team Foley at Survivor Series. Foley seems a little wary at first, not sure Eugene can cope with the War Games environment, but in the end, he makes the shocking decision of letting Eugene be part of the team, due to the desire, passion and heart Eugene has shown to help out Foley.
Evolution react to the news, watching on a monitor, and laugh at the decision, with Flair giving RVD a pep talk for his match with Eugene later.
Interview with Mr. Kennedy, just to get his character over a little more heelishly.
In a six man tag match, John Cena, Sting and Booker T defeat Luther Reigns and the DX Duo, with Cena pinning Cade, despite interference from Shawn Michaels.
Throughout the night, we see short clips of Shaniquas dominant one year title reign, which began 52 weeks ago.
Rob Van Dam defeats Eugene with the 5 Star Frog Splash, in a highly competitive match, with Eugene proving to be no slouch, but just not enough to take down a fired up Van Dam.
Backstage, Mick Foley runs into John Cena. Cena apologises for not stepping up to help Foley, but has his own problems with DX, which Foley understands. Foley makes a match at Survivor Series, with John Cena, Sting and two other men to be revealed next week facing DX in a Classic Survivor Series Elimination Match. If Cena wins, he gets a shot at the World Title at Armageddon, but if he doesnt, Cena never gets another shot at Michaels for the duration of his reign.
Carlito hosts the Cabana with Rey Mysterio. Carlito makes fun of Mysterio throughout, with the usual jokes, but Rey keeps calm, until Batista interrupts, and attacks Rey, leading to a short, 2 on 1 attack. However, the lights go out, and the Undertaker appears in the ring, helping his team mate. This leads to an impromptu match.
Carlito and Batista defeat Mysterio and The Undertaker, with Carlito pinning Rey, after blasting him with Reys own Intercontinental Title.
We get a pre-taped interview with Arn Anderson, who is asked about his experiences from War Games, with him selling the match as a vicious unforgiving contest, which can end careers.
In an interview with Shawn Michaels, he lets out his frustration at the match made for the Survivor Series, but promises to get Cena out of his life for good.
In the main event, Torontos own, Trish Stratus ends the monumental one year reign of Shaniqua, but not without a fight, after Shaniqua kicked out of the Stratusfaction, and a Chick Kick, before a second Chick Kick ended the match. The celebrations began for Trish, with Toronto well behind her, with confetti and pyro going off, showing how big a result this was, ending a full year of Shaniqua as Champion.
October 20th; Vancouver:
The show opens up with The Cabinet talking in the ring. JBL brags about his win at Nemesis, and says that tonight, the Cabinet will all have gold. The Bashams make a quick speech, as does Jamie Noble, before the opening match
AMW defend the WWE Tag Team Titles against The Basham Brothers, in the same arena that AMW won the belts at Judgement Day. However, lightning doesnt strike twice, and the Basham Brothers, thanks to Jamie Noble, become the NEW Tag Team Champions, in the same arena that AMW won the belts!!!
In an interview with Goldberg, he reveals that he has been granted permission to sign a match for The Rock tonight, and introduces his hand picked opponent for him Gene Snitsky. Goldberg then goes on to make a challenge for Survivor Series, to Rock and Austin to find 3 partners to face him, Snitsky and 3 others.
Brock Lesnar defeats Hardcore Holly in a hard hitting match up, cleanly with the F5.
In an interview with The Rock, he makes fun of Snitsky, before accepting Goldbergs challenge for Survivor Series, along with Austin.
Chris Jericho hosts the Highlight Reel, and before bringing out his guest, he talks about JBL, promising it isnt over between them yet. Jericho then brings out his guest, fellow Canadian, Chris Benoit. The two dont really get heated, with them mainly staying on good terms, until The System Success interrupt, and try to sell Simon System goods on the Highlight Reel. Benoit and Jericho dont take too kindly, and this leads to an impromptu match.
Benoit and Jericho pick up the win, with a double tap out, although it is Benoit that is the legal man, making Masters tap to the Crossface, whilst Jericho locks Dean in the Walls of Jericho, stopping him from breaking the count.
Backstage, a number of the lower level stars that Kurt Angle had spoken to last week, whisper about Bret as he walks past, with the GM overhearing their chatter, calling him a chicken. He looks set to explode, at boiling point from the pestering he has gotten from Angle recently, even getting other guys to do it for him now.
Paul London defends the Cruiserweight Title against Jamie Noble, and just like AMW, it is in the very arena, in which London first won the belt in May. However, unlike the former tag champions, Paul London manages to retain the title, with interference from The Cabinet backfiring, as Chris Jericho and AMW run in to fend them off, distracting Noble, allowing London to roll him up for the three count.
Backstage, we see Goldberg and Matt Morgan shaking hands, apparently agreeing for Morgan to be on Goldbergs Survivor Series team.
Following a commercial, we see Austin approach Chris Benoit in the locker room, and asks Benoit to be part of his and Rocks SS Team, with the Wolverine agreeing.
In the main event, for the second week in a row, we get a shock result, with Goldberg screwing The Rock out of a sure victory, costing him the match to Snitsky. They begin a 2 on 1 attack after the match, but run away, with Austin and Benoit coming to make the save.
October 24th; Atlanta:
Shawn Michaels and Luther Reigns take on the two un-named members of Team Thuganomics, who are revealed as Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin!!! TWGTT take HBK and Luther by surprise, taking it to them right from the get go, putting DX on the back foot.
Cade and Jindrak try to save HBK and Reigns, but Cena and Sting even things up, joining the match at ringside too, and eventually, they prove to be the difference makers, with Cena distracting Michaels long enough for Shelton Benjamin to roll up the World Champion, and gets the amazing three count!!!
DX are irate with the finish, and complain in the ring, with Michaels tasting his own medicine on this occasion. Cena and Sting celebrate with TWGTT up the ramp, getting one over their Survivor Series opponents, just two weeks from the big event.
In an interview with Trish Stratus, the NEW Womens Champion announces her first defence will be at Survivor Series in a ten lady, over the top rope battle royal.
Team Evolution hold a meeting backstage, declaring that Mick Foley has until the end of the night to find a fifth team member, or it will be 5 on 4 at Survivor Series.
In her Raw debut, Nidia defeats Molly Holly in a passable match.
Team Foley holds a meeting in Foleys office. He lets the troops know that he hasnt found a fifth member, with no one filling the criteria needed to represent him at the PPV.
The DX Duo retain the World Tag Team Titles against Booker T & Goldust, as usual via cheating, with use of the title belts assisting them.
In an interview with Rob Van Dam, RVD explains that the USA Network has ordered that he no longer uses expletives on their network. He says from this point on, if he isnt allowed to speak his mind, he wont speak at all. Todd Grisham asks him another few questions, but Van Dam refuses to answer, beginning his vow of silence.
Rey Mysterio defends the Intercontinental Championship against Batista. Batista dominates the match, due to his size advantage, but Rey stays in the match, giving The Animal a heck of a fight, and counters a Batista Bomb, into a Hurricanrana, sending him into the ropes. Mysterio then hits the 619, but once he drops the dime, Carlito and Christian run to the ring, with Christian distracting the official, allowing CCC to attack Rey. This then brings out Eugene, and Mick Foley for the save, but it isnt enough, as Ric Flair and RVD put the advantage back with the heels, until the lights go out, for at least ten seconds, before returning, and we see The Undertaker on the outside, whilst all of Team Evolution is out on the mats, and Mysterio is on top of Batista 1...2...3!!! The four Team Foley members overcome the 5 of Team Evolution on this occasion.
It is announced that next week The Undertaker will face Batista in a Lumberjack match.
In another interview with a past performer in War Games, Dusty Rhodes also talks about the effect that the match can have on a career.
Mr. Kennedy defeats Stevie Richards, continuing his winning streak, once again, with the Green Bay Plunge.
Team Evolution takes to the ring, and calls out Team Foley, asking for their final decision on a 5th member. Mick Foley enters the arena alone, and states he doesnt have a 5th member, and his team will go into Survivor Series one man down. Team Evolution make fun of Foleys popularity, and then each of his team mates, which results in Mysterio, Eugene and even The Undertaker (Taker enters alone to his own intro) to back up Foley.
This leads to a 5 on 4 brawl, with the man advantage helping the heel side, and looks like a sign of things to come, until RANDY ORTON returns, and makes the save for Mick Foley, handing out five RKOs to Team Evolution, before declaring he will be the fifth man on Team Foley, in a shocking development, considering the history between Orton and Foley.
October 27th; Charlotte:
The show opens up with a match between the two new members of Team Goldberg and the two new members of Team Bring It. Test and Scott Steiner are revealed as the final two men on Goldbergs team, whilst Rico and Ron Simmons are the two new members of Team Bring It!!!
The AFA win this tag team match, in flamboyant fashion, with Rico chasing Test away after grossing him out, allowing Simmons to hit a spine buster on Steiner for the win.
After a commercial, The Cabinet enter the ring, and have the gall to complain about how the CW Title Match ended last week. This brings out Chris Jericho, who reminds JBL of how their match ended at Nemesis, and how The Bashams won the tag belts last week, leading to a heated confrontation between Jericho and JBL, eventually bringing out the GM.
Bret Hart signs an 8 Man Survivor Series Elimination Match, with a twist, as the U.S, Tag and Cruiserweight Titles will be on the line, with The Cabinet taking on Jericho, London and AMW, and the winning 4 man team will take all the gold.
Gene Snitsky gets himself counted out in a match with Chris Benoit, after looking to be on the brink of defeat.
Bret Hart sets Kurt Angle straight backstage, telling him he is sick of the snide comments, and all the games he is playing, warning Angle to quit it. Angle plays innocent, pretending to not know what Bret is talking about.
Paul London retains the Cruiserweight Title over Shannon Moore in a fast paced match up.
Chris Jericho defeats Doug Basham, despite attempted interference from JBL.
Team Goldberg attack Team Bring It backstage, sending a message to their Survivor Series opponents, showing their power advantage could be a deciding factor.
In the main event, Triple H wrestles Kurt Angle to a No Contest with interference from Brock Lesnar ending the match.
October 31st; Hartford:
To start the Halloween show, Mick Foley addresses the fans, telling them if this is to be his last night in charge, he wants to have some fun.
In the opening match, Goldust faces Tyson Tomko in a Fancy Dress Match. Goldust dresses up as Frankenstein, whilst Tomko, who looks pissed off to be in such a degrading match, dresses up as Dr. Evil.
Tomko wins the match with his knock out big boot, and we find out from the commentary team that at Survivor Series there will be an eight man gauntlet, for the Hardcore Championship, with Rhyno defending against Tomko, Goldust, Booker T, Mark Henry, Stevie Richards, A-Train and The Hurricane.
Backstage, Randy Orton talks with Mick Foley, and the two shake hands, agreeing to put the past behind them. Foley thanks Orton for stepping up to back him up, with Orton telling Foley he can count on him at Survivor Series. Eugene then enters, and wants to trick or treat. This gives both Orton and Foley something to laugh about.
In a six man tag match, Shawn Michaels and the DX Duo defeat Sting and The Worlds Greatest Tag Team, with HBK pinning Benjamin in revenge for last weeks shock loss. After the match, Michaels calls Cena out, with The Dr. of Thuganomics answering, and beginning a brawl with Michaels.
Luther Reigns soon follows, sparking an eight man brawl, with everyone pairing off, and fighting up the ramp, or through the crowd, until all eight men are out of sight.
In a pre-taped interview with Sting, The Stinger talks about War Games, and his past experiences inside the structure, before saying he was never the same after any match he performed in War Games.
Rob Van Dam defeats The Hurricane in a pretty one sided match. Todd Grisham tries to interview Van Dam after the match, but again, RVD refuses to speak.
Backstage, Eugene runs into Christian and Carlito, as he tries to do some more trick or treating. They laugh at him, before attacking the poor little fella, and ruin all the treats he got, continuing to beat him up, until Rey Mysterio gets involved, and forces Christian and Carlito to run off.
Ken Kennedy defeats Danny Doring, with his Green Bay Plunge.
Backstage, Shaniqua attacks Gail Kim, Jacqueline and Molly Holly in the Womens locker room.
A Trick or Treat match between Lita and Stacey Kiebler ends, with Lita pinning Stacey. Just as she is about to reveal the trick, Shaniqua runs to the ring, and attacks both women, getting out more of her anger from losing the title a few weeks ago, heading into the Battle Royal at Survivor Series.
The fight between DX and Team Thuganomics continues backstage, into the parking lot, with DX eventually retreating, and hopping into a Taxi, getting away from Cena and his partners.
Backstage, Ric Flair delivers a final speech to his troops, in preparation for Survivor Series on Sunday.
The main event Lumberjack match, between The Undertaker and Batista, ends in a No Contest, with the lumberjacks, literally all the roster (bar DX and Team Cena) fighting, into the ring, with Team Foley and Team Evolution taking the spotlight, with their brawl ending the show, with neither side clearly on top.
November 3rd; Mohegan Sun:
Chris Benoit defeats Chris Masters with the Crippler Crossface, with Masters looking quite impressive at times, eventually not being enough for Benoit.
Interview with Brock Lesnar - just as build up for the Fatal Four Way Elimination match at Survivor Series.
We see Maven debut on Smackdown as the trade for Nidia to Raw. Bret Hart greets Maven, and walks him through the backstage area, where Chris Benoit offers a handshake, welcoming Maven to the brand, but Maven acts like a star, and rejects the handshake, which gets a sour reaction from Benoit, and a lot of the locker room who watch the exchange.
JBL & Jamie Noble team up to face Chris Jericho and Paul London. In a thrilling tag team match, The Cabinet are victorious, with JBL pinning Paul London, rolling him up, and pulling on the tights. Afterwards, Layfield and Noble run from the ring, not allowing any measure of revenge to be taken, before the major 8 Man elimination match at Survivor Series.
Backstage, Goldberg goes through a team talk with his four partners, ahead of their warm up match tonight.
A.F.A defeat William Regal & Lance Storm, in a short, comedy based match.
We see The Cabinet quickly leaving the arena, but they run into Spike Dudley, which angers JBL, and leads to a vicious 4 on 1 assault, taking their frustrations out on Spike.
Team Goldberg demolishes the thrown together five man team of Tajiri, Kidman, Scotty Too Hotty, Rikishi and Kanyon, eliminating all five men without losing one member. Scotty is gone first, after just 2 minutes and 11 seconds, following a Big Boot from Test. Kidman soon follows, @ 02:59, via the Pumphandle Slam of Snitsky, with Tajiri gone @ 04:23 due to a Powerbomb from Matt Morgan, Kanyon @ 07:40 due to passing out from the Steiner Recliner, with Rikishi being eliminated at precisely ten minutes by Goldberg, following an unbelievable Jackhammer.
After the match, Goldberg calls out Team Bring It, to give everyone a preview of this Sundays match. Rock, Austin, Benoit and the AFA enter the arena, and after a brief war of words, a brawl breaks out, with Team Goldberg getting the best of the fight, leaving Team Bring It, out on the mat, giving Team Goldberg the definite psychological advantage headed into Survivor Series.
In an interview with Team Highlight Reel, Jericho, London and AMW all send their message to The Cabinet, confident that JBL and cos luck will run out.
In the main event, Kurt Angle teams up with Matt Hardy to face Brock Lesnar and Triple H, with Angle forcing Lesnar to tap out, heading into Survivor Series on top.
Official Card for WWE Survivor Series:
6th November 2005
Manchester, New Hampshire
Event Music:
Shinedown; Fly From The Inside
WWE Championship:
Fatal Four Way Elimination Match:
Kurt Angle vs. Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar
w/ Paul Heyman
vs. Eddie Guerrero
Womens Championship Match;
10 Lady Battle Royal:
Trish Stratus vs. Lita vs. Shaniqua vs. Victoria vs. Jazz
w/Theodore Long
vs. Molly Holly vs. Gail Kim vs. Ivory vs. Jacqueline vs. Stacey Kiebler
8 Man Survivor Series Elimination Match;
WWE United States, Tag Team & Cruiserweight Championship ALL on the Line:
The Cabinet
Team Highlight Reel
John Bradshaw Layfield (
U.S Champion)
Chris Jericho
Jamie Noble
Paul London
(Cruiserweight Champion)
Basham Brothers
(WWE Tag Team Champions)
Americas Most Wanted
Hardcore Championship Match;
8 Man Gauntlet:
Rhyno vs. A-Train vs. Booker T vs. Goldust vs. Hurricane vs. Mark Henry vs. Stevie Richards vs. Tyson Tomko
8 Man Survivor Series Elimination Match:
---If Team Thuganomics win, John Cena recieves a World Championship Match at Armageddon
---If Team DX win, Cena never gets another shot at Shawn Michaels, for the length of his Title reign ---
Team DX
-----vs. -----
Team Thuganomics
Shawn Michaels
John Cena
Luther Reigns
Garrison Cade
Shelton Benjamin
Mark Jindrak
Charlie Haas
10 Man Survivor Series Elimination Match;
Team Goldberg
Team Bring It
The Rock
Gene Snitsky
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Matt Morgan
Chris Benoit
Scott Steiner
Ron Simmons
10 Man Survivor Series Elimination Match:
1st EVER WWE War Games Match; Elimination Style: Two Men begin, with another entrant every three minutes thereafter:
- If Team Foley win, Mick Foley remains Raw General Manager -
- If Team Evolution win, Ric Flair becomes Raw G.M, and Foley will be fired -
Team Foley
-----vs. -----
Team Evolution
Mick Foley
Ric Flair
Randy Orton
Rey Mysterio
Rob Van Dam
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A Teachable Moment
One of our student workers who was working in Interlibrary Loan came to me to ask for assistance locating an "article" she needed to retrieve. As I looked at the request, I noticed that the requesting library wanted to borrow 4 microfilmed rolls of the 1850 slave schedules. I told her that they were really wanting to borrow the microfilm (which we do not loan via ILL). She showed that the library had filled in the article line with "slave schedules." I decided to show her what the slave schedules were. I popped up the 1850 Jefferson County, Tennessee slave schedule and showed her how it listed the slave owners and the demographics for each slave. I told her that it did not name the slaves -- just the owners. It really caught her interest, and she began to ask questions. I told her that she could often find the names of the slaves in deeds and in probate records. She was amazed that these records still existed. I'm glad I took the time to show her what had been requested. I hope it may have sparked an interest in genealogical research.


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Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Athletics and the Oakland City Council announced a 10-year lease extension agreement that could have the team continue to play its games at O.co Coliseum.
The final hurdle will come from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on July 29, but the deal should receive swift approval.
"We are pleased to hear today that the A's owners are agreeing to the terms the City Council approved last week for a 10-year lease extension," Oakland mayor Jean Quan and City Council president Pat Kernighan said in a joint statement. "We want to thank the team's ownership, our colleagues at the County of Alameda, our negotiators and everyone at the City of Oakland who has worked tirelessly on our shared priority of keeping the A's here at home.
"Once the A's ownership and the County have approved the deal, we look forward to moving on to talking about the bigger goal: building a beautiful new ballpark for the team right here in Oakland."
A's co-owner Lew Wolff reportedly accepted many changes in the lease agreement from Oakland city officials. The lease agreement reportedly requires that Wolff have "good faith" discussions about building a new stadium in Oakland.
The Coliseum was built in 1966 and is the only multi-purpose stadium left to serve as a full-time home to both a Major League Baseball team and a National Football League team in the United States. The aging facility has had multiple sewage problems and electricity issues in the past year.
The A's, who have won four World Series Championships during their time in Oakland and are vying for their third consecutive American League West title this season, will celebrate their 50th anniversary of playing in Oakland in 2018.


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I have a moderately complex Module (cell is about half a page long) that
sets up 12 coupled linear equations; Solve[]'s these equations for two
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of the parameters in the equations.
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In his discussion of Gnosticism in Chapter 14, there is not much to quibble with in terms of the actual analysis of Gnostic thought and, to the degree we can tell anything about it, Gnostic praxis. Johnson is right that "however diverse the respective Gnostic systems are in detail, they are remarkably consistent with regard to their basic soteriology." (p. 215). One is saved by what one knows, not who one believes in. The key to salvation is revelatory knowledge, and if you don't have the wattage to understand it, then you can't be among the elect and saved. Salvation becomes a human self-help program for egg heads. Johnson is also right that the dramatic dualism of Gnostic soteriology (matter is tainted or evil, spirit is good) involves a repudiation of the creation theology found in the OT (and NT as well). Relgiousness C is indeed the order of the day— Gnosticism is a world denying religion, longing for the day that the soul escapes either spiritually or literally from this mortal frame. Any Gnostic could have said 'this world is not my home, I'm just passing through. My destiny is in the spiritual world.'
Gnostic anthropology breaks people down into three categories and is deterministic there are those completed bound up in and defined by matter, those able to choose between matter and spirit, and those completely defined by spirit. The first category is lost by definition and due to pre-determination does not matter. One of the benefits of the discoveries at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in the late 1940s is that these discoveries actually confirmed that when one makes allowances for the polemics in Irenaeus's arguments against Gnosticism, nonetheless, he has assessed the religion rightly. He knows its basic character and tenets. What Irenaeus accurately attests to is "That a significant number [we can never know how many] of those calling themselves Christians in the second century saw themselves as spirit trapped in matter, sought in Christ the revelation of their true identity, and longed for release from the entrapment of fleshly existence." (p. 221). What Johnson is prepared to say about these folk is that in regard to the people who wrote the Nag Hammadi collection of documents, "it is difficult to deny the sense that they were written by people who were motivated by religious convictions just as authentic as those held by Christians of Type A…and Christians of Type B….In many of these writings, it is possible to detect the classic impulses of mysticism. We find in them the longing for the absolute and eternal, driven by a sense of despair at being trapped in corruptible matter.": (p. 222). Johnson then concludes on this basis that "My argument that 'ways of being Christian' are in continuity with 'ways of being religious' in Greco-Roman culture is given real support by the presence, cheek by jowl, of Hermetic writings and Gnostic gospels." (p. 222) But there are significant problems with this entire way of viewing the matter.
In the first place, it must be doubted that Gnosticism can be seen as an 'authentic' form of early Christianity. Again the issue is not the sincerity of the devotees, or the reality of certain religious expressions or experiences they may have had. The issue is that there is such a fundamental denial and rejection of the OT and early Christian symbolic universe and narrative thought world, for example a rejection of OT creation theology, the goodness of matter, a rejection of much of what early Judaism affirms, even a rejection in various of its forms of monotheism, and from a Christian point of view, a rejection of the Incarnation of God's Son, the negating of the historical and soteriological importance of his life, earthly teachings, and death as a means of salvation, and also a rejection of the notion of bodily resurrection as the means of completing the salvation process.
When one puts all of this together, Gnosticism clearly falls out of bounds of what was meant by Christianity in the first century A.D. and in its foundational documents. This is precisely why there was such a strong reaction to Gnosticism by Irenaeus and other apologetes, and however much we may feel Ireneaus went beyond the bounds of speaking the truth to those who err in love, he was not wrong in his analysis. In short, Gnosticism is not a form of early Christianity, it is a hijacking and redefining of certain Biblical and Christian ideas, sprinkling them into a Hermetic and Plationic and mystical and radically dualistic soup and calling it good. Thus, while I quite agree that what you see in the Hermetic corpse and in Gnosticism is close at the level of ideation, this does not prove Johnson's thesis that early Christianity was like Greco-Roman religion in terms of its ways of being religious much less prove that apostolic Christianity should be dubbed a Greco-Roman religion.
I am of course aware that in the rising monastic movement, there were Christians with defective symbolic universes who thought that asceticism in itself was good, because they believed that the flesh was inherently evil. The difference between say a Tertullian once he became a Montanist and a Gnostic however is vast in other regards. Tertullian continued to affirm an orthodox Christology and soteriology in various ways. One could never claim the Gnostics did so. In short, there is a difference between an early Christian who has some defective theology or ethics or praxis, and a non-Christian.
The Gnostics do not deserve the label Christian, if the earliest Christian documents have a say as to what that term should mean, never mind in the OT has a say in what one ought to think about monotheism and creation. Gnostics want to neither be in the world or of the world. Christians are called to be in the world, and affirm the goodness of the world God created, without letting the fallen world ethos shape its way of viewing reality (Rom. 12.1-4). I am thus not in agree with Johnson when he concludes on p. 233: "the writers and readers of compositions such as the Gospel of Truth or the Gospel of Thomas represented, in reality, one of three ways of being Christian" (p. 233). While there is reason to see some of the material in those two sources as consistent with the meaning of the phrases 'Christian thought' or 'Christian ways of being religious', that cannot be affirmed of much of the stuff one finds in those documents, indeed too much of the contents of those documents. Calling those document Christian, is like calling the Book of Mormon a composition within the bounds of apostolic Christianity theology, ethics, and ways of being religious. But sadly, it isn't though it does involve a mythology as creative as some of the things one reads in early Gnostic documents.


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