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For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaksMatt. 12:34
What is theology network?
So you want to get stuck in with a Theology Network group? Fantastic! Read on: Theology Network groups are springing up all over the country, where Christian students studying theology, Biblical studies and religious studies are coming together to get to know God better, love Jesus more, and bring Gods word to their course-mates.
So what is a Theology Network group all about? Well, Theology Network is part of UCCF: The Christian Unions, an interdenominational evangelical movement. UCCF staff help the Christian Unions in universities and colleges all across Great Britain theyve been doing this for a while! The CUs aim to give every student an opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ, through groups of Christian students living and speaking for Jesus at university.
The Arm of the CU
In the 1950s, UCCF set out to help Christian theology and religious studies students take the gospel to their departments where although Christ was studied, he was not Lord. Ever since, Theology Network groups1 have been helping theology and RS students live and speak for Jesus among their course-mates. So Theology Network groups are the arm of the Christian Union in the theology department, taking the mission of the CU to students who study Christ, but do not love him.
Mission teams
So at their heart, Theology Network groups are not discussion groups where anyones idea of God can be batted about for amusement and the exercise of intellectual muscles. No, Theology Network groups are mission teams where the foundational truths2 of Christianity are thought through
and loved! They are there to help you know the true and living God better, to love his self-sacrificing Son more, and to bring his message of peace with God through the cross to your peers.
Out of the overflow of the heart
So in order to help theology and religious studies students in this task, TN sets out to so fill them with love for the One who first loved them that they cannot but speak his wonderful message to their friends and course-mates. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks, Jesus said so through teaching and discipleship Theology Network seeks to help develop groups of students whose hearts burst with confident love for Christ!
How does Theology Network do this?
So how does Theology Network do this? Well, theologynetwork.org is here for you to feed on hundreds of articles and mp3s on Christian theology to help you know and love God better, and to help you commend the gospel to your friends more persuasively. But you are not alone! Theology Network staff and your CU Staff Worker are there to help you put a programme together, answer any questions you might have, and give advice on booking speakers to come and talk to your group, all the while helping you grow in your love for Christ!
Whats the aim?
Theology Network is about a revolution the revolution of doing theology that transforms our minds to see the world as God sees it, and transforms our lives to be like Christ as we see him more clearly. We long to for theology and religious studies students to be confidently growing in their knowledge of God and their love for Christ, sharing this wonderful gospel with their friends, and preparing for a lifetime of Christ-exalting ministry.
How to run a Theology Network group
So thats what a Theology Network group is are you in?! Great, well heres how to run one
Rejoice in the gospel
Studying theology at university can be wonderfully mind expanding, but it can be dry and hard at times also. The most important thing to remember in running a Theology Network group, as with any form of Christian service, is that you must keep yourself in the love of God (Jude 1:21). Remain in me, and I will remain in you, Jesus said, No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me (John 15:4). The power for the transformation of our own lives and the lives of others, lies not primarily in what we can do or think or argue for God, but in receiving and rejoicing in what he has done for us. More than that: in Christ himself. So Theology Network groups should be characterised by a joyful confidence in this great gospel that makes sinners, even us, children of God, united to him through Christ.3
Stand firm in the gospel
And yet, often it is theology and religious studies students who are least confident in their Christian faith. They spend every day studying the arena of faith and religion from all kinds of perspectives, and yet in many places, the only position that it is not acceptable to hold is historic evangelical faith! Thats why Theology Network invites students to come and stand firm with us in the core truths of the gospel as given in Scripture. We hold to UCCFs doctrinal basis, which, in the tradition of the Apostles and Nicene creeds, affirms the basic truths of historic orthodox Christianity. To learn more about why we have a doctrinal basis, read Mike Reeves article. So we ask all leaders of Theology Network groups to sign the doctrinal basis, and ensure that the input the group receives is in accordance with these wonderful truths. Although it is true that you may find yourselves needing to guard the good deposit of the gospel (2 Tim. 1:14), this shouldnt lead Theology Network groups to become the departments theology police! But rather, as students think through and wrestle with these great truths, the groups will become more confident and joyful in the wonderful message that the DB summarises.
Unite in the gospel
It can be quite straightforward to get a Theology Network group started just advertise it in Freshers week and announce it in the CU and the theology department. That may be enough to attract a dozen or more people to your first few meetings. But if thats all you do, it probably wont last long. People will come for their own reasons, and may want to take the group in different directions. Thats fine, but if youre carrying the vision for Theology Network on your own, it will be very difficult to keep the group focused, and when youre ready to hand over the leadership, there may be no-one appropriate to carry the vision forward. What you need are like-minded brothers and sisters who will stand with you, united in purpose and in the gospel.4 So youll need to get talking: talk about your ideas and the need for a group, talk about theology that creates love for God, read the Bible with these friends and see Jesus and his gospel on every page (cf. Luke 24). Time is limited, so pray and think carefully about whom you should invest time in sharing the vision with theyll likely be people who are already confident in faith and passionate about the gospel these are the people who will be most able to understand the vision and run with it. It might be that you already have these vision sharers around you if so, go ahead and start advertising! But its just as likely that time is needed for you to share the vision with others, and more time for them to grasp it and own it, before you start organising a programme of events or meetings. So think people first, programmes second.
Get support
All this might sound like a big responsibility. But you are not alone! There are plenty of other Theology Network group leaders that you can connect with through facebook and UCCF events, and your CU staff worker and the Theology Network staff are here to help you every step of the way. And don't forget your CU - speak to your CU president about your ideas, and get the CU committee's support. It might be a good idea if you can go along to a CU committee meeting to explain what Theology Network is, and get the whole committee behind you - that will really help with spreading the word. Also, ask the president if you can get a slot at a CU main meeting to tell the rest of the CU about Theology Network and ask them to pray for you and the group. This will be a good opportunity to advertise the group to those who are doing single courses in your department, or just to students in the CU you didn't realise studied theology or RS.
So if starting a Theology Network group is on your heart, speak to your CU president, and then get in touch with us at Theology Network: wed love to have a coffee and a chat and start dreaming with you!
Here are the kind of dreams we have for Theology Network groups: wed love to see groups in every religion and theology department in the UK where Christian students, confident in their convictions, are making meaningful friendships with their non-Christian class-mates, spending time with them and boldly commending Jesus to them. And where Theology Network groups are, in their meetings and in evangelistic events, together prayerfully proclaiming the gospel of Jesus to their departments.
A danger
But heres a danger: its so easy for Theology Network groups to become cosy clubs for Christians, where we feel comfortable because nobody challenges us in our beliefs and everyone agrees with us. Theres nothing wrong with enjoying spending time with other Christians (in fact, theres a real problem if we dont! cf. Jn 13:35), but we have to be careful that the teaching in the group doesnt become a matter of training to win arguments, and that the evangelism we do doesnt become something like throwing gospel bombs over battlements. Instead, the focus has to remain on Christ and his great good news. We come together to encourage each other in the gospel, and equip ourselves for persuasive and winsome witness to our friends and then we go and hang out with them!
Every tutorial is an evangelistic event
Evangelistic events are good (well talk about that more later), but it is essential that, from the beginning, you communicate to your group that every tutorial is an evangelistic event! As a theology or religious studies student, several times a week you meet with a group of people in your tutorials that are at least interested in religion, and for an hour you discuss with them about God, the Bible, other faiths etc. Other Christians would long for this kind of opportunity! The Apostle Paul encourages us: Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone (Col. 4:5-6). So encourage the people in your Theology Network group to be wise in the way they act in their tutorials dont arrive not having done the reading! Study the texts you are given for each tutorial, pray over it and ask God to give you clarity of mind so that you are able to input in a way that guides people to the truth. Often, this will require hard work! And it may be that you end up doing twice as much work for tutorials than other students! After reading the set text you may want to read an evangelical view on the subject that you may know how to answer everyone. So pray faithfully for your tutorial groups, work hard, speak gracious and salty words, and make the most of every opportunity to commend this great gospel of Jesus Christ to your course-mates.
Incarnational evangelism
So lead your Theology Network group in seeing every tutorial as an evangelistic event, and every hour afterwards as a follow-up course! In a similar way that God in Christ left heaven to dwell among us, to teach us the truth and draw us to himself, we also must be willing to leave the comfort of our Christian groups and dwell among our non-Christian course-mates. So after the tutorial, go to the pub or for a coffee with them, get to know them as people, their beliefs and doubts, and make the most of every opportunity to share Jesus with them. Treat course-mates as people not projects, friends not targets: get to know them, join the department religious studies society or social action group, go to the canteen, pub or coffee shop with them; get to know them and share the love of Christ as His Spirit works in you.
Confident in the truth
Nobody is saying this is going to be easy! So many Christians choke with fear at the thought of evangelism to theology and religious studies students they know so much! Weve said already that the first thing to do in running a Theology Network group is to rejoice in the gospel. But many theology and RS students will find this difficult at times when they are dealing with big questions raised by their courses or friends. So you and those who are leading with you need to be getting yourselves equipped to help your group think through these questions. Direct them to theologynetwork.org where theyll find plenty of articles and mp3s on why we believe the Bible is true, the cross is central, God is triune, and many more. There are also a number of introductory books that will help give Christian students confidence in their faith while studying theology, BS or RS. Wed recommend Keeping Your Balance: Approaching Theological and Religious Studies, The Trials of Theology: Becoming a Proven Worker in a Dangerous Business, and Unapologetic Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies. You may also find our sister apologetics website www.bethinking.org helpful.
So get reading, get listening, get your group doing the same, and get speakers in to train your group in godliness and sound doctrine. So you need a programme thats next.
Putting together a programme5
So lets get practical. What should your Theology Network group look like? When should you meet and where? How should you organise your programme? Who should you get to speak? When should you do an evangelistic event and how?
A lot of this will depend on your context. But one thing is for sure: for a Theology Network group to work effectively there needs to be a well-organised, well-publicised programme for each term. The places where Theology Network groups are healthy and thriving are places where there are good programmes and students know the time, place, date and frequency of meetings as well as what will be happening when they do turn up. Of course, a programme doesnt guarantee a good Theology Network group, but it will really help!
Now, please dont be daunted by that because, having said the above, there are no hard and fast rules about what a programme should consist of, or how frequently you should meet its up to you to work out what you think would be best on the basis of your needs.
Programme Frequency
Some groups meet weekly, some fortnightly, some monthly. Most groups do meet weekly, but some groups have early morning prayer and praise for their weekly meetings and each month or fortnight they arrange Table Talks when a speaker is invited to talk and lead a discussion. It really is up to you! The key thing is gauging the levels of support and interest from other students it would be better to have a full complement of people at three or four meetings a term than one or two at a weekly meeting. That might free up time and energy for you to meet with others to share and pass on the vision, and to read the Bible with younger students. Maybe later in the year, or the following year, you will be able to increase the frequency of meetings and events remember, think people first, programmes second.
Another big factor here is trying to get a time and place that will suit everybody. This can be one of the biggest hassles, but dont let that put you off its a problem that every group has and in the end you wont be able to please everybody.
Programme Publicity
Letting people know when and where is obviously very important we have blank Theology Network posters which we can send to you for you to write on the details of when your particular group meets. Another very important idea is to try and get some printouts of the programme produced for the start of term so you can give everyone a copy. Try to get the email addresses of anyone who shows an interest, and set up a facebook group where you can let people know about each meeting, and share essential articles or mp3s from theologynetwork.org.
Programme Balance
Once you have decided on the frequency of your meetings, the next step is working out what to put in each meeting. The following is a suggestion about what a programme should ideally aim to include:
is there enough time for praying and sharing?
will people feel comfortable sharing their struggles and doubts?
are there good opportunities for the group to get to know each other and form good friendships?
is there help with the issues being faced in the lecture room?
are there good speakers?
are there informal discussions within the group on relevant topics?
is it being communicated and reinforced that the group is part of the CU and evangelistic?
are people being encouraged to work hard to commend the gospel during tutorials and after lectures in the canteen?
what kind of evangelistic events would work for this group and this department?
Freshers week can be the most crucial week for a Theology Network group; it is very important to try to contact evangelical Theology and RS students to introduce them to the CU and Theology Network and what they have to offer. So get in touch with the CU committee or the CU Freshers team before the summer and get a Theology Network event listed on the CUs Freshers week publicity material. Its usually best to do this Freshers event on a Thursday that will give you and others in your group time to meet Freshers at CU events and the Freshers Fair (volunteer for the CU Freshers stall!). Even before this, you may also be able to put a Theology Network flyer in the Freshers pack sent out by your theology department youll need to ask the department secretary about this.
Plan to have your main introductory meeting over a buffet lunch or supper and have a clear and well presented explanation of what Theology Network is, why it matters, and how they can benefit from being involved. Make sure you invite theology and RS students in other years, and anyone already involved in your Theology Network group. Its easier to get to know new students in a relaxed atmosphere, rather than a lecture-room setting and, of course, eating is always a good way of relaxing together and making friends. You can either do the speaking yourself if you feel confident about it, or one of the Theology Network staff would be delighted to come along and speak!
It is a good aim to have the first terms programme ready for this event, so that Freshers can be given a copy of the programme. New students will then feel they are fitting into something that has already got off the ground and is worth joining. You might also find UCCF's advice for welcoming freshers to CUs helpful - follow this link to read it.
Ideas for meetings
Once Freshers Week is over, here are ten different suggestions for the content of a Theology Network programme, although its very unlikely that youll be able to do all ten in one terms programme! Theyre just to give you some idea of the sort of things you could do, at whatever frequency you decide to meet. Some of the ideas you may want to use two or three times a term, others not at all.
Meeting 1 Combining Academic Theology with Personal Devotions: either reflections from someone in 2nd and 3nd year or an outside speaker.
Meeting 2 What I wish Id known: personal reflections from a final year student on their degree course things they struggled with, learnt, pitfalls to avoid and so on.
Meeting 3 Theology Network staff visit: arrange a visit from the Theology Network/UCCF staff member who covers your area. They could do a talk, do a question and answer session, bring news of whats happening in other Theology Network groups around the country, sell cheap books! They are there to help and will do just about anything you want them to and you wont have to pay their travel expenses!
Meeting 4 Prayer and Sharing: what are the groups current prayer needs? Start with a short exposition of Scripture to remind them of the gospel, and also remind them of the purpose of Theology Network groups. Then spend the rest of the time sharing and praying in small groups. Remember to encourage prayer for non-Christian friends.
Meeting 5 Hot Potato: is there something from the lecture room that is proving particularly difficult for evangelical students? Often, but not always, the root issue is the authority of Scripture. Discuss it together, with maybe one person responsible for leading the discussion.
Meeting 6 Bible Study: ask someone to be responsible for leading a Bible study that would have direct reference to theology students. You could study a book like 2 Timothy or study passages that have direct theological significance (e.g. Col. 1.15-20; Phil. 2.5-11). Aim to make these devotional and applied as well.
Meeting 7 Outside Speaker: a visiting speaker could speak on a topic that you have given them (see Programme Speakers below), which could either be an area that they are experts in or which has been particularly troubling for some in your group. The speaker could also speak on the hot potato topic which you have discussed a few weeks earlier that way you can let the speaker know in advance what the key issues are within the group. Follow this link for top tips on how to look after your speaker.
Meeting 8 Evangelistic event: the thought of evangelism among theology students can be quite daunting and there are particular challenges. However, you could organise a guest event and invite an outside speaker to do an evangelistic talk on a topic that would interest theology students e.g. A License to Kill? Christian faith and the Problem of Evil or The Bible Just Another Book? More on this below
Meeting 9 Article or Book Discussion: some groups have used a mid-term reading week to read a book together (you can usually get them dirt cheap second hand on amazon!) or an article from theologynetwork.org and discussed it (with food!) in a Table Talk at the end of the week.
Some ideas for books:
The Unquenchable Flame: Introducing the Reformation, Mike Reeves
Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God, Timothy Ward
Some ideas for articles:
First Things First and Last: The Authority of the Bible, Mark Meynell
The Freedom of the Christian, Martin Luther
Meeting 10 Table Talk: listen to one of the Table Talks on theologynetwork.org, Don Carson on Studying Theology, for example, and discuss it afterwards (tell people to take notes it makes sitting listening to a recording less awkward!).
Evangelistic Events
We would love to see Theology Network groups to aim to put on one evangelistic event a term in their department. The primary format for CU evangelistic events is the classic lunchbar. These work really well in a central place in the university, with free food and good publicity find out more about them on the UCCF website. Youll be the best judge of whether this format is immediately transferable to the theology department. Theres more chance of being able to attract a crowd during the CU mission week (see below). Certainly, lunchbars, and any evangelistic event in your department, will be a whole lot more successful if the group have been making friends and engaging in discussion about the gospel with non-Christian course-mates for the past term (or year!). Also, you might be able to prepare the group for the event by spending the previous two weeks meetings looking into the topic that the speaker is going to be tackling. This way your group will be better placed to continue conversations with friends after the event. It may even be possible to have the speaker whos to do the event come and do these sessions with your group.
There are other formats evangelistic events might take. You might organize a debate, a film night, a hot topic discussion or an evangelistic Bible study. But most of these will require that you and your group are in among your fellow students making genuine friendships and sharing your faith. Have a look at the evangelism section on the UCCF website for more ideas.
Linking with CU missions
CU Missions can be of great help to Theology Network. Find out from your CU president when the next mission is planned so that you can include something in your programme. You could either get the main missioner to speak at an event in the department or invite an outside speaker who would be willing to do an evangelistic talk. Your friends in the department might be more interested in coming along if it is part of a bigger week of events, and, if its advertised as part of the main CU mission week, then you may have students coming along from other parts of the university.
Programme Speakers
As a new leader of Theology Network group the thought of approaching outside speakers and organising topics for them to speak on can seem quite an intimidating task. In reality, there are many, many folks out there willing to help you out and a visiting speaker can be one of the highlights of a terms programme and one of the biggest encouragements to students.
The speakers you approach should be willing to sign the DB and this is very important just like a CU, the Theology Network group stands for the core truths of the gospel and we want to invite speakers who wholeheartedly affirm these truths and want to teach others more about them.
Booking speakers is an important aspect of planning a programme as it requires a good amount of forethought and organisation giving a prospective speaker as much advance warning about the date, time and place, and very importantly, the topic you want them to speak on is essential. It is customary to meet the speakers travelling expenses and, if at all possible, give a small gift, although for most Theology Network groups doing either of these things can be a bit of a struggle. However, dont let this put you off as there are ways around it for instance, you can make a small charge to the rest of the group to cover their costs; you could approach the CU to help with the costs; and if all else fails explain the situation to your speaker and see if they are still willing to come! Follow this link for more advice on how to look after your speaker.
If you would like further advice on booking speakers or want to have the contact details of any near you, then please dont hesitate to get in touch with us and well do what we can to help. A number of groups have taken a term to go through the UCCF Doctrinal Basis together, usually alternating between invited speakers and student-led discussions. However, here is a list of possible topics and titles you could ask speakers to speak on, although its obviously not exhaustive and some may not be relevant to your situation:
- An Evangelical Approach to the study of Theology
- Combining Academic Theology with Personal Devotions
- The Truth, the whole Truth? What do we believe about the Bible?
- Christianity and other religions
- Good God, Bad World? Christian faith and the problem of evil
- The Bible Just Another Book
- Gender Wars modern theology and the Bible
- Approaches to hermeneutics
- Christian Faith and Religious Studies
- Presuppositions in Biblical studies
- Issues in Pentateuchal Critiscism
- Aspects of Pauline Theology:
- Is justification central to his theology?
- Was Paul a misogynist?
- Pauls view of the law
- Did Pauls theology develop?
- Pauls theology of the Spirit
- John and the Synoptics in conflict or harmony?
The reliability of the Gospels
- Old Testament Law and Christian Ethics
- Social Action and the gospel: how do they go together?
Jesuss self-identification what did he believe about himself and his mission?
- Theologians and the Church
- Postmodernism: friend or foe?
1. Theology Network began its life as the Theological Students Fellowship (TSF), and later changed its name to the Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship (RTSF).
2. These foundational truths are summed up in UCCF's doctrinal basis, which can be read on the uccf website.
3. Highly recommended are Mike Reeves' talks on Union with Christ - follow this link to listen to them now.
4. In the spirit of Paul's charge to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:1-2.
5. This section is based on a previous booklet published by RTSF and written by Dr. Daniel Strange and Dr. David Gibson.


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The mBank Lotto Himalayan
Triptych 2006 Expedition � Broad Peak taken!!! Fatal accident in the
Austrian team.
Yesterday, on 8th July at 2p.m. local time Piotr Pustelnik (HiMountain
Team) and Peter Hamor (Slovakia) reached the summit of the 12th highest
mountain in the world, Broad Peak (8047m, via the normal route).
It�s the third 8000-er conquered by the mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006
Expedition this year. In April, Piotr Morawski and Peter Hamor summitted Cho
Oyu (8222m); in May Peter Hamor climbed the main peak of Annapurna (8091m);
while Piotr Pustelnik and Piotr Morawski reached its Eastern summit (8010m).
The bid for the summit of BP was launched from C3 (7200m) by the whole
core-team, including Piotr Morawski. However, at the altitude of about 7900m,
they met an extremely exhausted and deteriorating Austrian climber, probably
after a bivouac. Piotr Morawski assisted him safely down to C3 and will
make a solo bid for the summit on 9th July.
Higher up on the ridge Pustelnik and Hamor found yet another
mountaineer; tragically he had already passed away. After saying the last
rites, Pustelnik and Hamor continued their climb.
Broad Peak (8047m) was climbed for the first time in 1957, so far only 268
people (including 10 women and 12 Poles) have successfully repeated this feat.
Unfortunately, the mountain has also played witness to 19 fatal accidents.
The two members of the Pustelnik�s team, including Piotr Pustelnik himself,
gained the summit after 4 days of climbing. What is more, this was their first
climb during this third stage of the �Himalayan
Triptych Expedition�, as they arrived at the BP base camp only on 2nd July,
having left Poland on 20th June.
The team should
descend to BC (4500m) on 10th July, but the expedition will be far from over
then. They will then endeavour to ascent BP once more, this time via a new
untested route along the South ridge, and in alpine-style.
Finally, the two remaining members of Pustelnik�s team, Kinga
Baranowska (HiMountain) and Andrzej Rusowicz, are at C3 at the moment are
planning to get to the top via the normal route. As they haven�t yet
become fully acclimatised to the altitude, they will be continuing with their
climb but at a slower pace.
The mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006 Expedition, Broad Peak:
Unexpected summit push tonight!
Today (7th July), the mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006 core-team (Pustelnik
� HiMountain Team, Morawski, and Hamor) reached C3 (7200m) on the BP�s normal
route. They were planning to do this only in order to acclimatize further and
leave some tents and supplies to use on their descent when they have climbed
the mountain via a new route � alpine style � along the South ridge.
Having reached C3 though, probably encouraged by the continuing exceptionally
good weather, they decided to take advantage of this and launch a summit bid
via the normal route. The fine weather is forecast to last for the next 5-6
days. Another reason for the sudden decision is that yesterday (6th July) a
Dane Wilco van Rooijen and an Irishman Gerrard McDonnell summited Broad Peak,
hence the route is well marked and the ropes are fixed.
Some other teams have established C4 at 7800m, which Pustelnik�s team is
planning to pass by, but it�s a helpful safety measure in case of an
unanticipated emergency.
Despite not planning to attempt the summit, on the spur of the moment, having
analysed the current situation at C3, the three Peters have decided to go
ahead with the attempt.
Their decision is somewhat controversial as Piotr Pustelnik hasn�t got
suitable boots, but only ones that are used at lower altitudes (up to
6500m). �I�m a bit worried about frostbites but it�s remarkably warm,� he
wrote in his latest text message sent at 9 p.m. local time.
What is more, the last time the team was at altitudes of over 8000m, was on
21st May (during their expedition on Annapurna). This is over 40 days
ago, which is quite a long time, so tonight�s climb will be neither easy nor
fast. It�s also worth noting that this is the team�s first instance of
mountaineering activity during this expedition as they had only just reached
the Base Camp a few days ago.
The bid for the summit should begin tonight, 7th July, at 9 p.m. GMT
(or 8th July, 2 a.m. Pakistani time). It�s difficult to estimate the length of
the climb, as it can take from 8 to 14 hours.
Piotr Pustelnik has already attempted Broad Peak in vain three times in the
past. Each time the failure was brought about by accidents to his climbing
If the team�s endeavour proves successful, they will still try to climb
the new route along the South ridge. Perhaps after three unlucky
attempts, Piotr Pustelnik will reach the summit twice? Fingers crossed!!!
Earlier: According to a text message received last night,
the team is planning to split into two today. Kinga Baranowska and Andrzej
Rusowicz will remain in C2, while �Tres Pedros� (the three Peters) will go up
to C3. This is far from surprising as Kinga and Andrzej aren�t acclimatised at
all � reaching C2 at 6200m must have been demanding enough for them. If they
manage to rest and acclimatise a bit more now in C2, perhaps they will
go up as well. It�s possible, though difficult to predict. The weather is
forecast to stay fine until Monday
Day 105 (5th
of July): "Piotr Pustelnik - mBank Lotto Himalayan
Triptych 2006, part three Broad Peak; hello again."
A warm
welcome to everyone, this time from C2 on the normal route on Broad Peak
(approx. 6200m), which we have reached today. We have managed to find two
suitable platforms and pitch two tents. The whole team, all five of us, are
here now on our second day above the BC.
As you
probably know, yesterday we got to our C1, which is about 200-250 meters below
the usual C1. Though this is hardly important in view of the fact that our
high altitude porter broke his leg yesterday. He�s been safely evacuated to a
hospital in Skardu today... So, the five of us with heavier loads have climbed
up to C2.
The main idea
behind this climb, for the three of us that is, is acclimatisation and putting
up tents ready for our descent after sumitting via the planned new route.
While for the remaining two members of our team, it�s a routine
acclimatisation before making a bid for the summit via the normal route.
We�ll stay up
here for about 3-4 days, perhaps longer, depending on the weather forecast,
which we don�t know at the moment. At present the weather is fine, it�s even
too warm I�d say: Piotr�s thermometer was showing 44 degrees, which was rather
weird but was most likely caused by the scorching sun.
We�re all
feeling well, and apart from slight dehydration which we�re trying to
counteract by drinking, everything is going as expected.
We�ll have a
rest day tomorrow and then we�ll climb up to C3, which we�re hoping to set up
at around 7200m. We�ll pitch the tents there and spend the night, and
depending on the conditions decide whether we need any further
Once again
best wishes to everyone and we�ll carry on keeping you up to day about our
ascent. From a PlusGSM satellite phone, Piotr Pustelnik.
mBank Lotto Himalayan
Triptych 2006 - day 104
The mBank Lotto Himalayan
Triptych 2006 Expedition at C1 but a high altitude porter has had an
Today, 4th July, Piotr
Pustelnik and the rest of the team have reached the lower C1 on the normal
Broad Peak route.
Part of the team, i.e. Kinga
Baranowska and Andrzej Rusowicz, are planning to climb the normal route to the
summit; while Piotr Pustelnik, Peter Hamor, and Piotr Morawski, after
acclimatising on the normal route, are going to attempt climbing a new route �
alpine style � along the South ridge.
Unfortunately, today�s climb
started with an accident; a high altitude porter who was hit by a falling
stone on the very first fixed rope. It looked very serious � suspected broken
bone � hence he had to be carried back to BC. The team, however, managed to
get back on the route and climb up to C1.
�We�re all tired but fine.
Tomorrow, after reducing the amount of equipment, we will start climbing up to
C2,� said Piotr in his latest text.
Earlier: The mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006
Expedition reached Broad Peak Base Camp.
Without any misfortunes or unexpected delays, all members of
the expedition safely reached Base Camp. Unfortunately, the last few days on
the trail were no longer blessed with good weather, though the climbers did
get a glimpse of Broad Peak while trekking pass Urdukas. �We can see Broad
Peak. There is a lot of snow up there,� stated a short text message that they
�The weather is pretty grim at the moment but according to a
weather forecast, it should improve from Tuesday. I�ve got a bit of a cough
but I�m hoping that the day after tomorrow (4 July), we wll be able to start
climbing the normal route,� said Piotr Pustelnik (HiMountain Team).
The weather is expected to start clearing from Tuesday and the
window should last 6 or 7 days. All we can do is hope that the team will be
able to make best use of it!
The build-up of snow higher up is good news as it means that
the more difficult rocky parts of the route should be covered with snow,
making the climb easier on the normal as well as the planned new route. The
fact that 4 people have already summited Broad Peak recently, suggests that so
far the conditions are favourable for climbers this year.
This afternoon we received the following message: �The whole
team is leaving tomorrow for about 5-6 days, taking enough equipment for three
First dispatch: "A warm
welcome to everyone from Piotr Pustelnik - mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006
� in Karakorum. It�s the beginning of the third stage of our project, i.e. the
expedition to Broad Peak. At the moment all of us, as well as our porters, are
in Askole the final village before the start of the five-day trek to Base
Camp. So far everything has been going according to plan: no delays of any
sort and keeping our fingers crossed there won�t be any. Unfortunately, Don
Bowie hasn�t joined us yet and I�m slightly concerned that he may never do.
Still, we have a multilingual group of 13 here: apart from the five of us,
there�s also a group from Spain and two Italians, who have joined our climbing
permit. Tomorrow (27th of June) we will have the usual colourful procedure of
sharing the loads among the porters. I�ve seen it umpteen times yet every time
I find it just as moving; hence I�m looking forward to it this time
as well! The weather is fine, no particular problems so far. Apparently there
isn�t much snow in the mountains so I reckon we will get to Base Camp without
getting wet, which will definitely be a big bonus. Anyway, keep your fingers
crossed and we will do our best to move quickly towards the highest mountains
in Karakorum. Till my next dispatch then! From a PlusGSM satellite phone,
Piotr Pustelnik" Best regards, Wojtek Jemiolo
mBank Lotto
Himalayan Triptych 2006: In the last stage of the adventure,
Piotr Pustelnik bids farewell to the eight-thousanders. No Crown, but...
On June 20th a team led by
Piotr Pustelnik (HiMountain Team) left Okęcie airport for Pakistan. The goal of
the expedition was to climb the twelfth highest mountain in the world - Broad
Peak (8047m above sea level). This is the third stage of the climbing adventure
known as the mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006. Earlier, in April, the
mountaineers climbed Cho Oyu, and attacked Annapurna in May.
The triple expedition was organised with
the intention of enabling Piotr Pustelnik to win the Himalayan Crown (14 eight-thousanders);
only Annapurna and Broad Peak were left to be climbed. Generally known as the
�easy eight-thousander�, Cho Oyu was to be a place for acclimatising; to
minimize the time spent on dangerous Annapurna, and to climb it with one shot in
a bold, Alpine style. However, only Peter Hamor from Slovakia managed to reach
the main peak, and Piotr Pustelnik with Piotr Morawski (Marmot Team), having
trekked the eastern peak (8010 m), instead of continuing with the climb decided
to save the life of their Tibetan guide Lotse, who had lost his sight in the
After the dramatic expedition, and
during his brief stay in Poland, Piotr Pustelnik (HiMountain Team) declared his
career was over: �There will be no Crown� � he stated in an interview
with the local supplement of �Gazeta Wyborcza� in Ł�dź.
mBank Lotto Himalayan Triptych 2006
is not over yet. Piotr Pustelnik wants to climb Broad Peak: �.... I want to
bid farewell to the eight-thousanders and
Karakorum, where I started my adventure with climbing 16 years ago�
� he remarked just before leaving. What is more important is the fact that we
are not talking about collecting eight-thousanders. It�s not a matter of
conquering another peak. The mountaineers want to pave the way in Alpine style
on a new and difficult route running over the southern ridge. Just as throughout
the whole Triptych, the backbone of the team consists of Piotr Pustelnik, Piotr
Morawski, Peter Hamor and Don Bowie. In order to refresh their acclimatisation,
the climbers will first trek along the traditional route (supposedly up to a
level of around 7000m above sea level). At this stage they will be accompanied
by Kinga Baranowska (HiMountain Team) and Andrzej Rusowicz, who are determined
to climb the mountain using the traditional route.
In the end, Piotr Pustelnik has raised
the bar high and he is ending his adventure with the eight-thousanders in a
grand style. He proved this during his attack on Annapurna. The summit resisted
Piotr three times, just like Broad Peak.
Piotr is persistent....
Background: Piotr
Pustelnik is ending his career among the highest peaks of the world. Today he
leaves for his last expedition to Broad Peak (8047 m). - I�m done with
eight-thousand-meter-high mountains. It�s the end. It�s over - says Piotr
The world-famous mountaineer from Ł�dź has climbed 12
eight-thousand-meter high peaks. Only two mountains remain to be conquered in
order to win him the Himalayan Crown, i.e. all 14 peaks over 8 thousand meters
high. These are Annapurna and Broad Peak. But there will be no Crown. He
disclosed to us first that after 16 years he is finally ending his career with
the highest peaks in the world.
The decision was made during the attack on Annapurna (8091 m), which ended three
weeks ago. This was Pustelnik�s third attempt at conquering the mountain, and
the third time to no avail, though the peak was not far. - I don�t want to force
myself into the 14-mountain magic, as this mountain, which I tried to conquer
for the third time, sucked up all my climbing skills, my humanity - says Piotr
The Annapurna expedition was very dramatic. The weather was against them. Piotr
Pustelnik, together with Piotr Morawski, Peter Hamor from Slovakia and the
Tibetan climber Lotse spent a long time in their tents waiting for the weather
to improve. If this wasn�t enough, their rations ran low, and when the weather
finally did improve, all they were left with was soup in packets. Next, they had
one teabag per day, and in the end they drank only pure water. - Luckily we had
enough gas and we were able to boil it, but we had become too weak to climb to
the peak. We had to eat something, but there was nothing to be eaten - says the
The real drama lay ahead. When they started climbing the eastern peak of
Annapurna (8010 m), the Tibetan guide began to lose his sight. The experienced
mountaineers knew this was the beginning of snow conjunctivitis and which lasts
about five days, provided that the climber is brought down. Peter Hamor went
towards the peak (and conquered it), whereas the Tibetan Lotse together with
Piotr Pustelnik and Piotr Morawski started the descent. This time they took the
difficult route and secured themselves with ropes. During the descent Lotse lost
his sight completely.
The decision to retreat and give up the quest was not an easy one. - Piotr and I
told ourselves: there are two solutions: we behave humanely and stay with Lotse
until he regains his sight, or we turn away from him. The latter solution would
never allow us to look in the mirror again. We have to decide who we wanted to
be. Today, I can speak calmly of it, but those conversations were not calm in
the least - reveals Piotr Pustelnik.
Extremely exhausted, they continued the descent. Lotse regained his sight after
three days. Piotr Pustelnik entered the base camp with his mind fixed on
finishing with eight-thousand-meter high mountains.
I don�t want to trek along the eight-thousanders
"Gazeta": Are you sad?
Piotr Pustelnik: - I�m very happy to have made the decision. My capacity with
the high mountains is coming to an end. Sportsmen also come to the end of their
careers, it�s better to end it on a nice expedition rather than to get a kick in
the butt and return in shame with your tail curled up.
Why Broad Peak, then?
- I need to finish my �Himalayan Triptych� [Cho Oyu, Annapurna, Broad Peak -
ed.], that�s for sure. I want to bid the mountains farewell in Karakorum, where
I started my adventure with climbing.
What will you do now?
- I will climb smaller mountains; I will carry out other projects. I don�t want
to keep trekking the eight-thousanders, because I will lose my life to it.
You once received the Fair Play award for saving an Italian climber on K2. You
gave him intravenous injections while both of you were dangling on a line. You
brought him down with the help of Rysiek Pawłowski and you managed to get back
up to climb to the K2 peak. Now you deserve the Fair Play award again.
- Normal, humane behaviour should not be the subject of awards.
Interview by: Wioletta Gnacikowska
The career of Piotr Pustelnik
Piotr has climbed 12 eight-thousand-meter-high peaks and has been on them 13
times (climbing Gasherbrum II twice). Only Annapurna, which denied him success
for the third time now and Broad Peak remain for him to win the Himalayan Crown.
He has attempted to climb Broad Peak twice already. Now he is trying for a third
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from the it's-all-for-the-musicians,-huh? dept
- The deal was an investment, not a licensing agreement, meaning all that cash the labels got they don't actually need to share with the artists they always claim they're trying to protect. This was done on purpose.
- While Google and YouTube have apparently put $500 million in escrow to deal with copyright lawsuits from smaller players, handing over cash to the labels came with a promise that the labels wouldn't sue YouTube for at least six months.
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- ½ pound ground beef
- 1 small onion chopped
- 2 10.5 ounce cans of pizza sauce I use marinara sauce
- 1 Tblsp. cornstarch (or korunstarchia if you prefer)
- 1½ tsp. oregano
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- 2 cups cheddar cheese shredded
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- 1 loaf French bread
- Brown ground beef and onion; drain.
- Put meat, sauce, cornstarch, and spices in fondue pot.
- When cooked and bubbly, add cheese.
- Spear crusty French bread cubes, the dip and swirl in Fondue.
- This is also delicious with breadsticks.
Terri's Notes
~ I didn't need the cornstarch, pizza sauce was thick enough.
~ I don't own a fondue pot, but it was a tasty success heated through in the microwave and served in a warm pottery bowl.
~ We had leftovers! Spread on a lightly toasted English Muffins and heated under the broiler, made a fabulous, fast lunch.
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50 CJ-V35/UPosted in Project Vehicles on May 1, 2002
Bill Salka was wrong! Who is Bill Salka? Why was he wrong? And why would you care? Well Bill Salka is a guy who owns a flatfender, and despite being wrong he should be happy about being so. Why? Because the Jeep he thought was a plain-Jane 53 CJ-3A is not. It is one of the rarest military Jeeps ever built by Willys, the CJ-V35/U. The mistake is an easy one to make because these military Jeeps, built in 1950 for the Navy and Marines as radio trucks, were basically modified CJ-3As with snorkels, extended exhaust pipes, tailgates like the 3As of the time, and 6- or 12-volt generators to power radios. Only 1,000 were built, and Bill has one of em. As for Bill's registration of his CJ as a 53, the Jeep may have been sold as surplus around then and was thus registered as being built in 53. The olive drab flattie is very cool, but not only because it is one-of-a-thousand CJ-V35/Us, but because Bill spent time and money to build what he thought was a plain old 3A into a bitchin trail-ready resto-mod with lots of tricks and a few goodies.
Chassis & Driveline
To improve the looks and off-road capability of the old flattie, Bill slapped on a set of Rancho 2 1/2-inch springs along with some 1/2-inch shackles for a total of 3 inches of lift. This amount of lift works well with 32-inch tires without causing too much rubbing. One day when Bill was cruising a Jeep show he found a T-98 complete with the factory 134 four-cylinder adapters from an early CJ-5. He paid a price for this trick tranny, but it allows him to retain his original motor while gaining a much lower First gear. Speaking of Bill's engine, when the old L-head got too tired to drive, Bill paid a visit to Jack Clifford of Clifford Performance, of 6 = 8 fame. With the help and knowledge of Jack, the little four-cylinder mill was bored, balanced, and blueprinted in lieu of a reground cam, some stiffer valvesprings, and a Clifford header. Once the engine was back in the Jeep, the intake was bored about 38-percent larger and a two-barrel Weber carb was adapted to fit. The ignition system was upgraded by rebuilding the original distributor with newer Chrysler-style parts. Next item on Bill's to-do list involved swapping in an 80 Dana 30 in place of the original Dana 25. The replacement axle spins 5.38 gears and a limited slip, as well as disc brakes. What may be a factory original Dana 41 still lives out back, complete with 5.38 gears and a recently added Lock-Right. Bill also found and bolted on a Warn Overdrive to the back of the Spicer 18 T-case. As for the original PTO pulley that would have driven the Jeeps 6- or 12-volt generator, Bill still has it, although the generator itself was no longer in the Jeep by the time he bought it. Other improvements to the Jeep come in the form of a Saginaw manual steering conversion.
Body & Interior
The CJ-V35/U's body is in good shape and has been changed very little by time, or its owners. It still wears the naval plaque on the dash, the hood with a provisional hole for a snorkel, a tailgate, and the plug that the generator would be attached to above the single rear brake light. The Jeep also carries a very military-looking box in the back that may have carried radio equipment or parts. The only changes to the interior involve the addition of a rollcage, a center console, a CB radio, and the drivers-side seat has been stretched for a bit more legroom.
Wheels & Tires
Being from the school of using what you've got, Bill still runs the 15x8 American Racing slotted mags that were on the Jeep when he bought it. Around these rims Bill wrapped a set of four 32x10.50R15 Super Swamper TSL Radials.
Good, Bad, & What Its For
Bill has stuck with his original plan, which was to build a Jeep that looked about stock, but was vastly improved through a series of trick upgrades. His plan has worked, but since the L-head is difficult to build for more power and T-98s with four-cylinder adapters are so hard to find and expensive we know that this is not an easy setup to duplicate.
What We Think
There is no question that the improvements Bill has made to his rare military flattie are well executed and cool. Bill gave us the opportunity to drive his Jeep for a bit on the trail so that we could get a first-hand feel for the hot-rodded L-heads power and the improved gearing of the T-98. The Jeep definitely has added spunk from the engine and the gearing of the transmission adds a lot of control. We know that the T-98s First gear of 6.39 is a vast improvement over the original 2.79 First of the T-90. The T-98s Second gear is also lower, and thus better for off-road use. Bill's Saginaw manual steering conversion also works a lot better than the early Willys manual steering system which involves more drag links and pivot points than a county-fair Ferris wheel.


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Egypt 'Coup' Big Blow For Muslim Brotherhood
The removal of Mohammed Morsi as Egyptian president will come as a big blow for the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been trying to gain power for decades. Charles Levinson looks at the fallout for the brotherhood both in Egypt and in other Middle East countries. Photo: AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Alexander Skarsgard Hides in His Hoodie
Alexander Skarsgard tries to keep a low profile in a blue hoodie while running errands on Saturday (March 26) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 34-year-old Swedish actor recently grabbed a bite to eat at Joan's on Third – not once, but twice!
Earlier this month, Alex attended a party for Nylon magazine's March issue, which was hosted by girlfriend Kate Bosworth.
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Hi guys here is the saga to my war-against-worms. The system is XP with NAV2K. Here I go....
I had Norton 2k installed on my system which I kept updating in about once a month, few months back the live update subscription of my Norton got expired and for few months I was on my non-updated AV system. Then one day I experienced my PC slowing down and its performance degrading, on a closer look I found multiple unknown processes and number of unexplained network connections when I used my dial-up. Being a computer guy (but not a sys admin) I rushed of to Internet searched for all the suspected processes. I removed as many files/registry entries/services etc. that I could from the information I received on the net.
I followed this up with online scans from adwarwe, Norton and trend and some more. They did find two worms and cleaned them, I did a fresh round of complete scans and my system was certified clean of virus. Oh! I forgot to mention that I had to download a utility from Symantec to remove Norton, as the virus had made Norton incapable of doing anything (even uninstall !!). I finally got CA's EzArmor firewall+Av suit and installed it. I completed the process by updating my XP to SP2.
I though that I had done enough to get rid of the menace but I had a surprise waiting. I suddenly found my system getting realllllly slowed down, no funny processes but lots of svchost eating up huge memories and having lots of I/O reads (above 1000 in 5 minutes) same for my lsass process. I checked these figures with other systems and did find the I/O read property abnormally high , coupled with this after about 5 days of usage my dial/up broke and then my lan access broke. I mean now I can not connect to outside world, reinstalling drivers doesnt help (firewalls were disabled and there is nothing related to new AV or Sp2 that could be causing these problems) . Phew.... I could have easily formatted my system, but I was hell bent upon removing the worms/spyware without a reformat.
I just want to ask you guys one thing, What the heck did I do wrong. Is there something I can still do and get out of this mess. After my LAN-die out I really wanted to reformat my system, this is my last attempt to resolve this issue. Its been over a month and I dint keep track of my actions, thats why you see stuff like "few more", "etc', "few worms" and all.
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The state of Alabama founded AUM in 1967, at the request of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce. Then, like now, growing businesses desperately needed a deeper pool of educated employees. AUM's original mission involved support of government at all levels. Just seven miles east of the state capitol, today AUM continues to support a number of local, state and regional government functions, but our mission is much bigger.
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Clayton Town Council had several topics of conversation at their April 8 meeting, including discussion of an emergency alert system.
Possible equipment truck upgrade
The town will start looking into a possible future replacement of an equipment truck at the suggestion of Councilman Robert Lightcap. He asked for the Equipment Committee to begin looking into it and then to pass it on to the Budget Committee to put in the 2014 budget. Council decided to pass the topic on to the May reorganization meeting.
Grass cutting reminder
During his Street Committee report, Lightcap also reminded residents that the limit for containers with grass clippings is 50 pounds.
"If it takes two people to drag it [container] out to the street, one guy can't pick it up [and dump it]," Lightcap said.
Public Forum changes
Clayton Council will be looking into possibly changing how the public forum portions of meetings are handled, said Mayor Tom Horn. Council will discuss the change at their May reorganization meeting.
"Council is going to have a limit of what we're going to answer," Horn said.
Horn said there's been some discussion about whether or not council should answer questions that can be answered directly from an ordinance, a bylaw, or is a concrete answer from an employee.
"We're going to fine-tune that so we can give some answers. We'll have this all in some kind of form at the next meeting," Horn said.
Huntington Mills concerns
Resident Earl Brown, vice president of the Huntington Mills Homeowner's Association, asked council about what's going on with the empty lots in the development. Brown said the residents don't know what's going on or who owns the property, but he appreciates all the work the town has done as far as cleaning up the empty lots.
Town Foreman Jeff Hurlock said he had done some research and found out that the developer Zeccola Builders is in bankruptcy and was denied reorganization; now MT Bank owns it but will not foreclose on the property until they have a buyer. The remaining 30 lots in Huntington Mills and Old Country Farm are for sale as a package.
"Unfortunately the best thing to happen now is for the real estate market to come alive and those lots are sold," Hurlock said. "There is some interest right now and I'm telling anybody who buys those 30 lots they have to blacktop the streets."
Brown asked if there was any possible funding from DelDOT to blacktop the unfinished streets. Hurlock said if the streets are never blacktopped, the town could go to the legislatures, but suggested waiting a little bit longer because he's afraid if the town steps in, they'll never recover the money used to blacktop the roads.
Brown said State Rep. Trey Paradee would be meeting with the HOA regarding the issues.
As for the empty lots, Hurlock said the town will continue mowing the grass until he's told otherwise by council.
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It really isn't hard, you just have to find items that you really love or that you or the kids have made. Some of my most favorite art is art that the kids have made. And wow, do we love thrift shops and junk shops! You can even find things you would never imagine waiting at the curbside for the trashman.
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Remember that time I told you that my husband loved Harry Potter?
And also remember that time I made him a wand (uhhh...yesterday.)
Well that little goober gave my wand back, and went out and made his own.
I didn't have much faith in his crafting abilities,
but here is what was waiting on the dashboard as I got in the car this morning:
I had no idea.
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Rolled up paper, wrapped in hemp, covered in brown tissue paper and Mod Podge.
That little crafting prodigy. Who knew the boy could Mod Podge??


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I can't believe it's been so long since my last post: and I'd only just got them home from the hospital here!
It's been a mad few weeks: exhausting, tiring, but also wonderful. We've been astonished at how much time & effort it takes to look after these 2 little guys. I had been warned, but until I experienced it for myself it didn't seem real. Also I didn't really believe it. It's true, though, true I tells ya!
There is a seemingly never-ending stream of feeding & changing. Doesn't sound too bad, right? Your average newborn needs to feed about every 2 hours; feeding can take up to half an hour. They need to be changed after every feed. Do the maths. Multiply by 2.
Then there's the laundry. Babies are dirty! With several changes of clothes daily it's a struggle to keep them with clean clothes, let alone us. Then visits to the hospital, doctor's, visits from midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses. Getting the frequently needed supplies: formula, wipes, nappies. The nappies, the nappies! Finding enough bin space for them all has been – trying. We'd like to go green eventually but right now anything that saves time is essential. Cleaning, rinsing bottles for sterilising, preparing feed – it all takes a lot of time!
My in-laws were here for the first few days, & they were a great help. Then they left, & we realised just what we were up against. Then, while I'm busy tweeting about how lovely they are & how great it is to have them home – they go & get a bit sick. Poor little Jake got a sore little bottom from nappy rash, they both developed colic, & Ellie got acid reflux. Added to the regular stuff is having to look after sick babies & giving them the extra care & attention they need.
They both have need more holding after feeding as their tummies are usually upset; Ellie especially has needed half an hour at least. If she goes back in her basket straight away she brings up feed with reflux, it's painful for her (as anyone – like me – who's had reflux will know) & she cries. Jake has needed lotions on his rash; nappy changing has become painful & distressing for him: he screams the house down & needs a lot of TLC afterwards.
Ellie also projectile vomits, but that seems to be more my problem than hers; she doesn't seem to mind too much. Her head hasn't rotated 360 degrees yet, thankfully. It's always on me! And I thought she was Daddy's little girl…
It's been awful seeing these 2 little helpless babies we've only just met & who we love so much in pain & distress. We don't mind doing whatever we have to give them what they need: sounds soppy but we're acting out of love.
It's hard keeping your head together enough to organise yourself & them at the best of times: in the wee small hours when you've been awakened by crying – if you're lucky it's just 1 of them – to get it together while half asleep is hard! We kind of don't want to poison them either: feed only lasts 2 hours once out of the fridge & warmed, so you have to keep track. During the day it's often a struggle with the lack of sleep, trying to keep your head when there are 2 distressed babies screaming at once, & you can't find a clean bottle, & where's his dummy that calms him down (you're here aren't you?, you think you're funny don't you?), I don't know isn't it in the basket?, it's on the floor it needs sterilising, is there enough feed?, how old is that 1, why can I never find a bib!, why are there no muslins?, where are the tissues? We're actually (mostly) not that disorganised, but you get the picture…
We started both looking after them at once. That didn't work, so we alternated 8-hour shifts. Then I was struggling getting up in the middle of the night, but I was happy staying up late. Wifey was the opposite, so now I'm always on between 9pm – 3am, she takes over at 3 til 9am, & we alternate the 9am – 3pm, & 3pm – 9pm shifts. It's working well for us so far.
We're getting there!
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SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – It was a strong showing for the MIT women's tennis team at the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tournament this weekend. A pair of Engineer duos made the finals of the B Flight of the tournament, with sophomore Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) and freshman Meghana Vasireddy (Golden Valley, Minn.) coming out on top in the finals to claim the title.
In a tournament that includes a format in which each round pairs teams of two against one another and features two singles matches and one doubles match, MIT fielded five teams. Three of the teams were in the B Flight, and all three had success. Kong and Vasireddy were strong all weekend, picking up four wins to reach the final, all by scores of 3-0. In the opening round the pair defeated a team from NEWMAC foe Smith College and then followed that with a victory over a pair from Wesleyan University to reach the semifinals where they faced their own teammates, freshmen Iris Zhuang (Allen, Texas) and Alana Peters (Kenilworth, Ill.). Kong took a 6-2, 5-7, 10-5 win over Zhuang, while Vasireddy downed Peters, 6-0, 6-2. In doubles Kong and Vasireddy took an 8-5 decision to remain perfect. In the finals, which was decided by a doubles match, Kong and Vasireddy again faced a pair of teammates, this time sophomore Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) and freshman Sunnie Lampl (Bluemont, Va.). Kong and Vasireddy claimed the title with an 8-6 triumph.
Dutt and Lampl started the weekend with a 3-0 decision over a team from Babson, and then took a 2-1 decision over a pair from Trinity (Conn.) to move to the quarterfinals. There they defeated another duo from a NEWMAC school, taking a 2-1 win over a team from Wheaton. They then advanced to finals with another win over a pairing from Trinity, getting their third straight 2-1 decision.
Zhuang and Peters started their weekend with a 2-1 win over a pair from Brandeis, and then moved on to the quarterfinals with a 3-0 blanking of a team from Roger Williams. The Engineer's pair then defeated a duo from Babson, 2-1, to move to their semifinal match.
In the A Flight, MIT's team of junior Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christi, Texas) and freshman Victoria Tam (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) started the tournament with a 3-0 win over a team from Wesleyan, but were then forced out of the rest of the tournament due to injury. MIT's other team, senior Candace Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and junior Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) fell in their opener to a duo from Tufts by a 2-1 margin.
MIT will return to conference action this week, as the Engineers will look to defend their perfect conference record at home against Wheaton on Tuesday, October 16 at 4:00 p.m.


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Grammys 2013: Skrillex and Gotye In, Bieber Out
Here's a look at the 2013 Grammy Awards. From Skrillex to Gotye to Swedish House Mafia, this year's crop of nominees represent the changing face of music. Though big names like Justin Bieber and Bruce Springsteen were shut out of the major categories. WSJ's John Jurgensen gives a preview of the recording industry's big night.
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I ... eight Grammy Awards will take place Sunday in Los Angeles and unlike last year when productions can be summed up in one word ... Dell ... it's up for work as the winner this year ... you can expect to see a lot of fun ... because the rock band name bond nominated all for the top categories album saw ... record of the year ... along with bets you are ... the fund sweeps off or to be the first back to do so since Chris for products ... just YouTube right thing ... I major stuff this year ... with Justin Bieber scheme and eyes shut out of the raw ... data to Iraq also got to pre Springsteen didn't stop the top four categories ... of Bob Dylan was denied any nominations ... on the bright side this year's field of broad runners look more like the music industry of today ... surprising business were unconventional actually go to the looming years can sneak in a side door ... also keep an eye on the award of best dance recording ... electronic music has exploded ... the biggest nominated stars are teaching ... Calvin Harris ... acrylics ... Swedish House Mafia ... surprises no walls or ... obscure DJ who scored a nomination by networking with Academy members it's highly doubtful that a win ... but if he does back while hangover Grammy Awards for ever ... for The Wall Street Journal I'm John Jurgensen ...


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March 9, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In the programs' inaugural meeting, the regionally-ranked No. 10 MIT men's tennis team defeated Endicott College, 9-0, on Saturday. The decision lifted the Engineers' ledger to 5-1 while the Gulls fell in their season-opener.
David Iba and Jonathan Farm opened the match with an 8-0 victory over Marc Maloney and Gabiel Moraga in the No. 3 doubles position. Eric Beren and Ken Van Tilburg defeated Josh Schoen and Devon Locke, 8-1, in the top spot while Peden Nichols and Kevin Pang edged out Dan Murray and Scott Teller, 8-4.
In singles action, Pang did not drop a game in his 6-0, 6-0 decision over Teller in the No. 3 slot. Nichols topped Locke, 6-1, 6-0, at the No. 4 position as Van Tilburg defeated Schoen, 6-2, 6-0, in the No. 2 spot. Ryan Castonia upended Maloney, 6-2, 6-1, in the fifth slot while Beren recorded a 6-4, 6-1 win over Murray in the top spot. Manuel Rivera fended off Moraga, 6-1, 7-5, to cap the match in the No. 6 position.
MIT also captured both exhibition singles matches, with Rajat Bhalla defeating Darcy Wiart, 6-1, 6-0, and Iba sweeping Justin Nguyen, 6-0, 6-0.
Next up for MIT will be a home match against Gordon College on Monday, March 10. Endicott will resume action on Wednesday, March 12 when it travels to Saint Anselm College.
Endicott College vs. MIT
Final Team Score: MIT 9, Endicott 0
1. Eric Beren/Ken Van Tilburg (M) def. Josh Schoen/Devon Locke (E), 8-1
2. Peden Nichols/Kevin Pang (M) def. Dan Murray/Scott Teller (E), 8-4
3. Jonathan Farm/David Iba (M) def. Marc Maloney/Gabiel Moraga (E), 8-0
1. Eric Beren (M) def. Dan Murray (E), 6-4, 6-1
2. Ken Van Tilburg (M) def. Josh Schoen (E), 6-2, 6-0
3. Kevin Pang (M) def. Scott Teller (E), 6-0, 6-0
4. Peden Nichols (M) def. Devon Locke (E), 6-1, 6-0
5. Ryan Castonia (M) def. Marc Maloney (E), 6-2, 6-1
6. Manuel Rivera (M) def. Gabiel Moraga (E), 6-1, 7-5
7. Rajat Bhalla (M) def. Darcy Wiart (E), 6-1, 6-0
8. David Iba (M) def. Justin Nguyen (E), 6-0, 6-0


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I completed a round of benchmarks a month or two ago, but never got around to posting it.
The idea behind it was to observe Linux audio performance and how it scales under different API. I decided upon utilizing ioquake3 because of several reasons:
1) It is an older game that is fill-rate limited, thus it will allow greater headroom for analyzing the impact of audio performance (the graphics card is less important).
2) It provides audio output through multiple APIs - SDL and OpenAL.
3) Furthermore, both SDL and OpenAL allow one to manually override (specify) the audio device to be used. This can be achieved in OpenAL's configuration file, and in the case of SDL through an environment variable.
4) Lastly, the quake3 engine is well known for being a reliable (reproducable) benchmark.
Test System
Kubuntu 7.10
AMD 1.67Ghz Athlon XP
768 MB PC2100 Reg ECC (266Mhz DDR-SDRAM)
AMD 761 Northbridge (AGP)
ATI 9800 Pro 128MB AGP 4x
Creative SBLive! PCI
Graphics Drivers
Two drivers were tested along-side each other:
Xorg Mesa DRI and ATI's FGLRX (8.40.4)
These versions were the latest available to the distrobution at the time of testing. I later tested the ATI 8.42 driver, however it proved to be slower (yes slower), and the resolution of 1920x1440 did not function correctly (bugs, there were others).
Audio Drivers
The distrobution (default included) versions were used of: ALSA, OpenAL and SDL.
1920x1440 was unavailable to the opensource Mesa DRI driver on Kubuntu 7.10
Sound Disabled:
SDL ALSA Native:
OpenAL ALSA Native:
OpenAL ALSA 5.1 Surround:
Overall, the ATI FGLRX wipes the deck with the OSS Mesa DRI, but that is not the issue at hand,
Immediately, we can see in the transition from Sound Disabled to ALSA Native that ATI FGLRX takes a serious performance hit at lower resolutions (~30 fps). Mesa DRI also takes a performance hit (~15 fps), however Mesa DRI is already quite CPU-bound (limited to the power of your main processor) to begin with as it does more calculations on the CPU instead of on the 9800 Pro itself.
Going from SDL ALSA Native to OpenAL ALSA Native shows a slight hit in performance, although not nearly as bad as the previous transition. OpenAL is done in software on Linux, and this is the result of the positional calculations being done in CPU time.
At last, we can see in the OpenAL 5.1 Surround benchmark that the engine becomes entirely CPU-bound. This is unfortunate, for a couple of reasons:
1) The computer these tests were run on is not at all 'slow'. Requiring absurd amounts of CPU just for audio routing and positional processing is daft at best.
2) This was not always the case. Using the emu10k1 OSS drivers developed by Rui Sousa (still available on SourceForge), you can achieve very similar results (albeit 4-channel surround) with hardware surround decoding of both WAV and MP3.
With the myriad of options available to Linux users, there are ways to customize the gaming experience to become a very personal one. Hopefully in the future, performance of multichannel audio routing and positional adjustments using ALSA can be improved.
Please leave any comments or questions. I will try to answer them when I have the time. Thanks and I hope you enjoyed the banchmarks!
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Indeed... I was aware of the limitations of the OpenAL implementation by Purnell, and the design of the ALSA drivers. However I do believe that there had been since the he published this, modifications to ALSA's emu10k1 driver and other important ALSA intrinsic workings. I couldn't say if these changes address this, though. Theoretically (as reported by ALSA) the emu10k1/2-based cards support up to 32 hardware streams in the main DSP while supporting up to 8 in the secondary. At any rate, as you said this is not for the benchmark article to discuss this in. You, however seem to have more first-hand information (or experience) than I do, and most certainly a good in-depth ALSA article would be an excellent article and an interesting read.
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Originally posted by Thetargos View PostBy the way, there was supposed to be a special version of OpenAL that actually supported hardware OpenAL acceleration on EMU10K1 hardware (Live!, Audigy, Audigy2 [ZS]; NO Audigy Value, Audigy LS, Live 24-bit). This "special" OpenAL was designed to be used with UT2004, I still have the source tree, but I have lost the URL for the download site.
As you can see from the readme file, it only supports 20 channels. While his version does support pushing the streams through in hardware, it won't support any of the "whiz-bang" effects such as reverb or flange etc. in games such as UT2004 (neither does the software implementation) - i.e. running through a tube and hearing your gun echo or other player's screams echo and other environmental effects will be missing, just FYI.
I believe Purnell explains it in more detail on his website, or atleast in the documentation, why exactly there is a limitation to 20 channels. To be blunt it is due to the actual design limitations of ALSA itself (the way it couples channels and interprets 'stereo groupings', as well as ALSA even reserving channels).
The channel ceiling in the implementation is a rather serious limitation, which either not enough people care about (or should I say the right people care about) or just too lazy to fix. It is one of those cases where you won't actually see it in certain situations such as most 'regular' desktop applications, however unfortunately it does exist.
For example, Quake 3 Arena in "single player" mode (not networked) uses at most approximately 90 channels simultaneously - that would be using OpenAL with the ioquake3 port. Keep in mind that this does not even account for the most popular way of playing the game (which is online), where far more players can play each other simultaneously; nor does this take into account the mission pack: "Quake 3 Team Arena". In the mission pack a single chaingun firing can easily eclipse the in-hardware emu10k1 implementation by Purnell.
Also so anyone reading this realizes this, that when a game or application tries to use more channels than what the implementation supports those channels (sounds) are not heard at all.
BTW there was actually another version of OpenAL based on Purnell's version, but supporting any ALSA supported sound card that was capable of HWMIX. It didn't work for me on the SBLive!, and I no longer have the link to it. It seems to have vanished, but FWIW it was developed and tested only on one audio chip IIRC.
As you can see it's a rather lengthy discussion that I didn't want to go into in the benchmark article - it's really out of the scope of the document. It would be possible to have an article in itself discussing such things
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The Live! was "CPU intensive" with EAX, i.e, the card didn't actually do much EAX accel (it DOES have the DSP for it, but AFAIK the Live! drivers don't fully expose the chip or some such)
By the way, there was supposed to be a special version of OpenAL that actually supported hardware OpenAL acceleration on EMU10K1 hardware (Live!, Audigy, Audigy2 [ZS]; NO Audigy Value, Audigy LS, Live 24-bit). This "special" OpenAL was designed to be used with UT2004, I still have the source tree, but I have lost the URL for the download site.
From the README file:
The error:
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:324: (snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Cannot allocate memory
can be safely ignored in most cases. It is just the application trying to
allocate more sources than there are free hardware resources to accomodate.
This library can provide at most 21 sources. It may be more in the future.
Less sources will the avaiable if another application is doing audio playback.
If you are using UT2004 you can supress this message most of the time by
modifying your ~/.ut2004/System/UT2004.ini as follows:
If on a Soundblaster Live, in your ~/.openal-speakers you have volumes set
for any more than the first two speakers you should manually zero the
following mixer controls:
Wave Surround Playback Volume
Wave Center Playback Volume
Wave LFE Playback Volume
You may not need to do this on an Audigy or Audigy2 but I've not been able to
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Thanks, Michael
Originally posted by Melcar View PostOuch. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a dedicated sound card, thought last I heard the SBLive! line was rather CPU hungry (but that's in Windows).
I think most of the concerns about the SBLive were due to it not being "bit-correct" in it's audio reproduction, but what you are referring to is what I believe some people tend to call the "Creative Labs Windows Driver Phenomenon"
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Ouch. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a dedicated sound card, thought last I heard the SBLive! line was rather CPU hungry (but that's in Windows).
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Good work, edged!
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The Fubuki 63 Wood Shaft is the latest example of precision engineering achieved by controlling every step of the design and manufacturing process. In development for over two years, the "Blizzard", or Fubuki in Japanese, has been conceived by today's most demanding engineers for today's most demanding players. Using technology called MDT (Modulus Differential Technology) fibers with different responsiveness characteristics that typically do not go together can be joined and blended in extremely precise ways. By applying MDT technology in pinpoint locations along the shaft, it creates unparalleled performance in a range of shaft profiles. The Fubuki Tour shaft was first released in the prototype stage on the PGA Tour early in 2008. In 2008 it registered wins on the PGA Tour and European PGA Tour and has found its way into the bags of some of today's most demanding players.


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ZAP Jonway Plans Limited Edition of ALIAS for Production Fourth Quarter 2012
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Dec. 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ZAP Jonway (OTCBB:ZAAP.OB), a designer and manufacturer of new energy and electric vehicles (EVs), plans production of the ALIAS, ZAP's highly anticipated sports EV, in the fourth quarter of 2012.
This limited edition production is now planned due to popular demand. It will showcase the engineering excellence of the ZAP Jonway's EV power train and design. This 3-wheel version of the Alias is designed to be highway safety compliant and yet be able to expedite the long type approval testing process for entering into the U.S. market. Designed with decades of electric and automotive experience, the ALIAS serves a growing niche of automotive enthusiasts who want an affordable electric vehicle with the performance, looks and handling of an impressive sports car. The vehicle has a peak torque of over 200 kilowatts and range of 150 miles between charges. With one of the best engineered EV motors available supplied by Remy Motors, compact and light weight, the vehicle's performance, handling and ride is competitive with traditional Tier One sports vehicles. ==> Continued Click Here