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From the beginning to the end of a season, one of the most important elements in every great operation is communication. Terrain parks are no exception. Think about how many departments are involved with terrain park operations, and how these departments work together to create and maintain a safe and fun product.
At Bear Mountain, as at most resorts, grooming, park staff, and ski patrol make up the "park triangle." While there are other departments involved, strong lines of communication between these three departments are essential. Do yours have solid relationships?
It's easy to say that you will get together throughout the season and keep one another informed; however, once the season begins everyone gets caught up in their own departmental needs and people often find it easy to make excuses not to meet. It's important to have these meetings and keep the communications flowing.
To kick off the season right, assemble the three departments for a meet and greet. It's well worth the time and energy for these crews to talk about issues from the season before and address safety concerns for the coming winter. It's a great chance for everyone to get to know one another and forge strong relationships. In addition, these departments will become a little more familiar with each other's operations.
Set simple goals for these departmental communications. Hold each department responsible for meeting a few times a week, or even once a day, to talk about concerns, possible changes, maintenance issues, and any other relevant topics. Ensure that the department heads are working together and creating a safety philosophy throughout the terrain park and general mountain operations. Encourage department leads to share information with their front line crews, such as the mountain's stance on terrain park safety.
It's also important to document this communication. Create a safety log sheet to verify that these meetings are taking place. Documents prove that there is a line of communication between key players.
Holding these department head meetings in the park is the best way to really understand what is happening there.
Triangular Talking
A great deal of communication has to take place when one part of the triangle—the grooming department—works at night. Good communication can mean the difference between an awesome gift to the park or a closed feature that waits to be redone because it's the wrong shape, size, or location. Poor communication can create unnecessary expense as well as degrade the quality of the park.
Ski patrol is often the foundation of the terrain park triangle. Big Bear Mountain Resort's ski patrol not only communicates with park staff on park issues, but also works closely with our grooming department for other needs on the mountain. This group prides itself on open lines of communication and training. Meeting with patrol to talk about trends on features, schedule contest and photo shoot dates, and discuss park flow issues and other concerns builds a strong relationship between these crews.
Lack of communication can have monetary consequences. In one injury case, a park staff and the ski patrol head had no known relationship or communication when it came to issues in the park. Park staff was maintaining proper documentation on the feature, but no real communication had occurred. This particular situation ended in an expensive verdict. The lack of communication between the two departments didn't help their case.
This is one of the many reasons why there should be communication and mutual respect between these leaders. More opinions from different perspectives are always a good idea. Every issue in the park should be treated as important, no matter how small it may seem.
Communication in the Park
Park staff is the most hands-on of the departments in the triangle. They spend all day in the park, communicating with the customers and other on-hill operations and witnessing what takes place. They can address park safety with ski patrol and contribute to accident investigations. When ski patrol has a concern, it can approach park staff on the issue. Park staff can also give feedback to the groomers on features, changes, maintenance, and improvements. This information is typically communicated on a daily basis through the park supervisor.
Literature is another effective tool for educating your departments on the use of safety and communication. Employees want the tools they need to make a great park, and this includes written materials they can access for education, as well as others on general rules, regulations and safety practices. Guides like the Smart Style Notebook can educate your three key departments and set a consistent tone. The Notebook can act as a reference guide and can help stop park issues before they start.
I like to say that "the relationship is more important than the task." If the parties have a good relationship, they will take care of the task. When grooming, park staff and patrol work together you can maximize your park's potential. With open communication, anything is possible!


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The MIT men's and women's track & field squads traveled to Capital University for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship over the weekend and had a number of impressive results. On the strength of 14 All-America performances, the women's team brought home a third place finish while the men placed five on the All-America podium en route to a 28th place standing. This was the third consecutive third place result at Nationals for coach Halston Taylor's women's program, as the Engineers were among the top three at this year's Cross Country Championship and the Outdoor meet in 2010.
Hazel Briner got things started on Friday morning in the pentathlon. Briner entered the meet seeded ninth and got off to a strong start with a fourth-place finish in the 55-meter hurdles. After ninth (high jump), tenth (shot put) and 11th-place (long jump) results in the next three events, Briner stood on the outside looking in at All-America honors. She saved her best for last, winning the 800 meter race with an NCAA Championship record time of 2:22.51. However, the win was not enough to propel the junior onto the awards stand, as she finished in ninth overall, just 27 points out of an the All-America level.
Later in the day on Friday, Portia Jones positioned herself well for Saturday's finals with a pair of solid preliminary races. Jones qualified with the second fastest time in the 55HH (8.19 seconds) and third overall in the 400 meters (57.01).
In the final event of the night, Tech collected its first All-America honors as the Distance Medley Relay team of Louise van den Heuvel, Martha Gross, Jamie Simmons and Anna Holt-Gosselin finished in sixth place with a time of 12:01.83, just over three-tenths of second out of fifth.
The men's DMR also took sixth, with the quartet of Logan Trimble, Daniel Ronde, Patrick Marx and Kyle Hannon running a time of 10:04.49.
Nathan Peterson landed on the awards stand on Friday as well, setting a new MIT record in the pole vault with a 16-9.50 foot vault, which put him in a tie for fifth place. Peterson has steadily improved down the stretch of the season, improving his height by over a foot in the last two weeks.
The women were back in action on Saturday afternoon, as three pole vaulters, along with Jones, Holt-Gosselin and the 4x400 relay would take part in event finals during the second day of competition. Karin Fisher led the way for the MIT in the pole vault, finishing as the National runner-up with a jump of 13-4.25 feet. Lauren Kuntz and Briner received All-America distinction and earned quality points for the Cardinal and Gray with sixth and eighth place finishes, respectively.
Jones went back to work in a pair of event finals on Saturday. The junior was placed in the second of two final heats of the 55 meter hurdles. Despite winning her heat with a time of 8.11 seconds, Jones came in just 0.01 seconds off the winning overall time, which came in the first heat, to finish in third place. Jones collected the ninth All-America honor of her career in the 400 with a fourth place showing.
In the 5000 meters, Holt-Gosselin was an All-America performer for the second time on the weekend with an eighth-place result in a time of 17:12.00.
Tech stood in third place entering the final event of the Championship, the 4x400 meter relay, and was in good position to land on the awards podium once again, as none of the other teams immediately behind it had an entry in the relay. Simmons, Briner, Gross and Jones posted a solid time of 3:54.03, good for fifth place and the third consecutive All-America finish for MIT's 1600 meter relay.


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, July 26, 2010
Backyard Pond Safety
Backyard Ponds, Water Gardens, Ornamental Ponds and Fish Ponds. Lovely to look at, relaxing to behold, and dangerous for young non-swimmers. If your backyard contains an open, natural water feature of depth greater than 6 inches, precautions for safety should be addressed.
Many lucky owners of backyard ponds may not realize the hazard that an open body of water brings to their property. And many more may have built their pond before more stringest safety standards existed. Many localities now require a fence on water depths greater than 18 inches.
Farm lagoons, Irrigation ponds, Retention ponds, Backwaters, Bayoos and other bodies of water can be made safer with just a little effort.
Your Backyard Pond - How to Keep it Safe
- Add a combination of rigid fencing and tight low hedges.
- Remove visual obstructions around the body of water.
- If your backyard pond is seasonal, consider a mesh safety cover.
- Katchakid has an innovative pond safety net that will stretch over any size pond.
- Install a Rescue Post with ring buoy and sign.
- Alarm any doors leading outside to the pond.
- Teach the Children
- Don't ever go to the pond alone!
- Don't ever swim in the pond!
- Don't get too close, you may fall in!
- Don't drink or play with unsanitary pond water!
- Do! Enjoy it's beauty and serenity from afar, with me! (you)
- Don't ever go to the pond alone!
Your Backyard Pond - How to Keep it Legal
- Your local ordinance likely requires a fence - contact your zoning authority online.
- Some states require a pool alarm for bodies of water deeper than 36", the recommended depth for Koi ponds.
- Remember the legal phrase "Attractive Nuisance" used to establish negligence on behalf of property owners.


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Nouriel Roubini, the economist known as Dr. Doom, has lived up to his name in "Is Capitalism Doomed?," a commentary decrying the world's broken economic models.
Roubini chronicles the economic problems that have brought the world to the brink of a double-dip recession in his article published Monday on Project Syndicate, where he notes that the advanced economies are idling as the fast-growing emerging markets are experiencing sharp slowdowns. And he laments that monetary authorities lack the tools to bring about recovery while fiscal policies are acting as a drag on economic growth.
Citing global demonstrations fueled by "growing inequality, poverty, unemployment and hopelessness," Roubini writes: "So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct (though his view that socialism would be better has proven wrong)."
Meanwhile, apart from his article, the NYU economist remained in the news through his defense of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in the face of a threat, rhetorically at least, from Texas Governor Rick Perry.
On the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination, Perry was videotaped saying: "If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion."
Roubini, who launched a series of Tweets assailing Perry's remarks, showed himself capable of pretty strong rhetoric himself:
"Perry's remarks on Bernanke are criminal. This Texan thug is making murder threats on the Fed Chairman bit.ly/oavIA1"
And in his subsequent tweet:
"The mind of Rick Perry (his sick words on Bernanke) is not much different from that of the Norway mass murdered. Loaded words cause violence."
Amid all the gloom, Roubini point by point in his article suggests that we are running out of options. Further bailouts, whether of banks or countries, are unaffordable both politically and economically, he says.
Europe lacks the resources to bail out Italy and Spain should they be shut out of credit markets, so that "coercive restructuring" of countries and banks as has begun to happen with Greece may soon be the order of the day, Roubini warns. He also foresees currency wars as countries fruitlessly seek the same advantage through weaker exchange rates, as Japan and Switzerland have already begun to do.
Condemning both "the Anglo-Saxon model of laissez-faire and voodoo economics and the continental European model of deficit-driven welfare states," the New York University economist calls for further fiscal stimulus in the short term combined with longer-term fiscal discipline. He adds to that list more progressive taxation, more monetary support to forestall bank runs and tighter financial regulation.
Roubini's remarks amplified his comments in the The Wall Street Journal on Friday, in which he affirmed Marx's prediction about capitalist self-destruction. "We thought the markets work. They're not working," Roubini said. "We're creating zombie households, zombie banks and zombie governments, and you can have a depression."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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We are working to become a cloud services integrator and in the process of redesigning our website and materials.
Our clients are small to medium sized businesses non-profit organizations, government entities, and small businesses who are doing social good. Existing clients are in the Health and Human Services vertical market - mental health services, after school programs, working with at-risk youth, social work, people with developmental disabilities. Clients are located across the USA. Many of them are not highly technical so we want to appear friendly rather than too-cool-for-school.
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Elena is a tall brunette coed from Pargolovo, Russia. She's bisexual and loves to share guys with her girlfriends. Elena is a full time student who loves to pick up cute girls on campus.


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MONTREAL — On a warm fall day in a scruffy suburb of this Canadian city, some familiar sights appear. French-language road signs note estimated distances in kilometers. Beret-wearing soldiers stand guard. A restaurant offers a poutine special.
And then, suddenly, some less familiar ones: large sections of the White House, built to scale and scattered across several neighborhoods of the city. The elegant South Portico, fronted by a lawn big enough for a couple of military helicopters. An elegant pool, in which, at the moment, a sturdy armored car known as "The Beast" is flipped on its back. A gallery of presidential portraits in a carefully appointed room.
No, the local populace hasn't developed a sudden love affair with the topography of Washington, D.C. The buildings are sets for "White House Down," a Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx action movie directed by Hollywood's go-to explosion maestro Roland Emmerich ("The Day After Tomorrow"). And by the looks of things, with sections of the facade scorched and shell casings everywhere, our national landmark is not doing well.
In a filmmaking culture heavily reliant on computer-generated images, massive structures built from scratch would be odd. That the structures form one of the most recognizable buildings in the Western world makes it even more surreal, a Tower of Babel-like project where American political and pop-cultural landmarks are erected by a German-born director in a city proud of its French heritage.
"It's something, yes?" noted Emmerich, a ballcap pulled tight over his head as he took a break from blowing up Washington by grabbing a seat in his air-conditioned trailer. "In 'Independence Day,'" continued Emmerich, 57, referring to his alien-invasion blockbuster, "when I wanted to show the White House, I put up some blue curtains and a sign, and that was it. I didn't want to do that this time."
After all, things have changed in the 17 years since that movie came out. Audiences in this post-"Cribs" world expect access to famous residences.
Sony Pictures opens "White House Down" — in which Foxx plays a peace-seeking president and Tatum a wannabe Secret Service agent who, through a series of coincidences, ends up with the leader during a terrorist attack on the White House — on June 28, moving it up from November for our Fourth of July blow-em-up pleasure.
Although the Montreal sets (shot here for tax credit and space reasons) were built in the service of popcorn entertainment, their ambition raises larger questions: Is there room for physically constructed effects in an era when most illusions are designed on a computer monitor? And can iconic governmental symbols move an audience possibly numb to the sight of entire cities blowing up every other weekend at the multiplex (not to mention the evening news)?
Apt re-creation
Emmerich and his team went to great lengths to re-create the White House for the film, where characters fight and escape through not just the recognizable sites but also catacombs, elevator shafts and secondary kitchens.
The director and his production designer, Kirk Petruccelli ("The Incredible Hulk," "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"), took several White House tours. They spent days poring over books, looking at where passageways lay, or when and how changes were made in the building's 222-year history. Much of the White House's Byzantine layout is out there if you look hard enough.
"I want Obama to look at this movie and say, 'How did they know all of that?'" Petruccelli said, standing in front of one set that he said took hundreds of crew members working round-the-clock for several days to build. Nearly all of the major wings and rooms were reconstructed, including almost half the complex in a giant indoor space the crew nicknamed "The Bubble."
Nor was the design limited to the buildings. To re-create the Beast — the heavily armored presidential car whose details are a tightly guarded secret — they undertook a different kind of effort. Graham Kelly, a crew member with the Emmerich-ian title of "action vehicle supervisor" tried to work sources, including a friend of a friend who worked in the White House garage.
"I'm surprised I wasn't arrested by the end," said Kelly as he stood in a structure fiddling with one of several replicas he helped design for the movie — a vehicle that will shortly be pummeled into oblivion in a heavy-duty action sequence.
In real life, the White House has endured a pretty much peaceful existence since it got out of the 19th century. But it's come under fire a lot since then in the movies. In fact, it's been shot at, assaulted, set ablaze and otherwise abused so often that Disney keeps a replica of the Oval Office on its lot that filmmakers can rent. Emmerich and producers opted against this.
"You'd have to return it pretty much unscathed, and we couldn't really guarantee that," said Brad Fischer, one of the film's producers. So the production built it from scratch in giant warehouses that they flooded with light to make the action appear as if it's happening outside.
Emmerich layers his big spectacle with bits of self-knowing comedy (e.g., "Can you not hit me in the head with a rocket launcher while I'm trying to drive?," as said rocket launcher is then put to good use). He then combines it with an earnestness that has characters making proclamations like, "Our country is stronger than one house."
Though the film is designed for maximum escapism, Foxx nonetheless said that he believes it features a timely message. "There are parallels to what's going on with America," he said, referencing past and potential conflicts in the Middle East. "Our plot is about reaching out to countries that are in turmoil, and we're figuring out to how to make the world a little better."
The throwback quality to the film comes not only with its God-and-country idealism but also in the mechanics of the story. Tatum is a well-meaning underachiever given a chance to finally do something heroic, not necessarily (but most probably) in a blaze of gunfire — a conceit that seems right out of, well, a 1990s-era Roland Emmerich fantasy.
But though the filmmaker helped usher in the modern summer effects movie, he is unhappy with what he has wrought. "I don't really like comic-book movies," he said. "I don't believe them when I'm watching them. I wanted to make this film to show that heroes can be real people, which I think we've forgotten about."
(Lest the filmmaker be accused of destroying a sacred symbol of democracy, the script, from "The Amazing Spider-Man" screenwriter James Vanderbilt, offers a permission slip of sorts with a scene that has Tatum's character gazing at Tom Freeman's famous painting of the White House burning during the War of 1812. This has happened in real life, the movie seems to say. So it's OK to munch on Milk Duds and enjoy it happening again.
The movie also exempts itself by supplying a group of historical arcana to its audience, a "2012"-like spectacle by way of a seventh-grade class trip. If you didn't know that President Gerald Ford built secret tunnels to the swimming pool to avoid being spotted by reporters in his bathing suit, you will after seeing the film.)
But those involved say the main goal is to tear up the famous landmark. During the shoot, Tatum is wearing a commando outfit with bullets slung across his chest and black makeup smeared on his face. He seems to relish firing a gun over and through some pretty upscale artwork. "I want to buy some of these paintings," he tells a reporter, admiring James Monroe and George Washington with bullet holes ripped through them.
Taking a break, he said, "You can believe my character is trying to do the right thing and also redeem himself with his daughter, who he hasn't always been there for. But you can do it with some old-fashioned excitement."
Producers hope that this, along with the authenticity, will draw busy summer filmgoers. "When do you see anything like this in a big-budget Hollywood film?" asked Harald Kloser, Emmerich's producing partner and composer.
As he walked out of the East Wing past French-speaking crew members, Kloser recalled that one day, he began flinging open the doors to find a bathroom where they were shooting, only to realize that it wasn't an actual bedroom and contained no adjacent facilities. "Until you step outside," he said, "it's hard to remember you're not in the White House."


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AP88 wrote:I've recently stayed at trefalen farm campsite in Pembrokeshire - Looks right out over broad haven beach and is only 20min drive to Freshwater West (If the army aren't shooting stuff on the artillery range). Its only £5 a night. One downside is that there are no showers but there is a cold water one in the National Trust car park close by.
Kyle wrote:Gwithian Farm is really good.
Is there anywhere good in Devon? I want to go in a few weeks, but don't want to drive to the beach!
Kojak wrote:Chris F wrote:Best we have found for Northumberland is http://www.beachcomber-campsite.co.uk/ good for Northerly crags too. Big beach that may or may not get swell, but close to Bamburgh. No pub in walking distance though, but a lot cheaper than any of the other campsites in the area.
That beach is pretty poor, sandbanks are virtually non-existent! Definitely a good campsite though, my aunty stays there for a night or two when she comes to visit and loves it!
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Is there anywhere good in Devon? I want to go in a few weeks, but don't want to drive to the beach!
WaterMonkey wrote:anyone surfed Ireland? Ill be there for two weeks in August and would love to add it to the list. site recommendations would be very appreciated and very welcome.
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We're sedentary people. We're not out as herdsman or farmers. When I was working on a farm, we were up at five in the morning. You got through about 9:00 at night, and you worked your head off. We stuffed ourselves with food, but nevertheless, we didn't have a problem with getting fat.
Pat Robertson
The only way to do it is slowly and with a lot of aerobics, a lot of aerobics, and a lot of walking and running. Your skin will gradually tighten up. But if you're talking about knocking off 100 pounds and you're doing it in a matter of a few months, that stuff is going to flab on you. Maybe the only thing available is to go to a plastic surgeon and get it cut off. But if you do it gradually, your skin will gradually tighten up -- unless you've been so obese that it's just gone completely. At that time, there are plastic surgeons who can give you a little help.
Kristi Watts
Yes, but at the same time, weights really, really help tone. After I had my son, my stomach was just a mess. When I started to work out, that stuff started to tone up tight.
Pat Robertson
It will do it. It replaces with muscle. But it's the exercise, the aerobics and also, of course, the weights. Weights are always good.
Wrong solution. What you need to do is have the shake like I showed you here. Or you can get a high protein, low-carb type bar that you can eat. But absolutely, when you get through working out that's when your muscles are open to protein, and that's when you need to feed them protein -- when you need to feed them glutamine.
You can have that stuff all prepared if you want to right at the gym. But the last thing you want to do is to head for a candy bar.
Your muscles are looking for high glycemic calories right after you get through exercising. They're depleted of these things, and they want some more. So it doesn't hurt to, along with the protein shake or a protein bar, have something that's got some sweet in it. That's the one time that you can go high glycemic, because your muscles are saying, "Fill me up with glycogen and get me back in shape."
I think it is true. What you've got to do is cut back on animal fat. As a matter of fact, I would eliminate animal fat entirely from your diet. You could go with the healthy fats like olive oil and flax seed and fish oil, which would be very good. Again, back to my old standby, alpha lipoic, and vitamin E and vitamin C in rather large quantities.Then exercise. You can start by walking. You don't want to go out and gut it through a four or five mile run. You'll drop dead of an aneurysm. But what you need to do is to get those capillaries open. I think soy is extremely helpful. There are substances in soy protein that would help clear out your arteries. And your arteries, it's all part of the same body, and you need to clear it out. That's one of the reasons you're having strokes, because you've got blockages. You've got plaques in your arteries.
Twelve minutes is very good for walking. I think that is excellent, and if you do a couple of miles of that, you will do aerobic. Aerobic has to do with getting oxygen into your system. That's what aerobic is. Anaerobic has to do with weight training, so you need a balance. You need weight training.
No. 1, of course, don't smoke.Don't drink alcoholic beverages. No. 2 stay away from second-hand smoke if you can. You have got to be aware of all of the carcinogens that are in the air, whether it's formaldehyde or chemicals. I was at the bedside of somebody dying from lung cancer who worked in a car place where they did interior work, the detailing, but they did it with some chemicals. So she breathed these things into her lungs, and it killed her. She also had a husband who smoked, and she was victim to second-hand smoke. I recommend strongly taking CoQ10. I recommend vitamin C and vitamin A very much. Take plenty of vitamins. Eat vegetables and fruits and lots of them, fresh vegetables and fruits. When you drink water, I have a distiller in my house for water. It's ten gallons, and it takes out some of the impurities. There are a lot of bad things in municipal water supplies. If you get a distiller, it distills the water, so you're drinking the pure, distilled water. You can connect that to your ice maker and also to your regular faucet. That's a very helpful thing to -- either that or some of this bottled water. But some of the municipal water has some carcinogenic elements in it. Other than that, keep a healthy attitude and praise the Lord, because there is just a lot of cancer, and if you sit around worrying about cancer, I think stress, grief, that sort of thing, can lead to cancer. So a merry heart doeth good like medicine.
Pat Robertson
Well, of course, there is. First of all, there are some differences in metabolism. Some metabolisms are just a higher level than others. It's like a furnace, and it just burns hotter. But how do you start your metabolism working? Well, to begin with, have a workout on an empty stomach when you get up. Have your devotions first, please, and then spend some time, 20 minutes or whatever, either lifting weights or walking on a treadmill or something. Get that motor running early. Next thing, eat a good breakfast. You can eat five or six different meals a day, smaller meals. Don't try to just eat one or two. You get hungry, and your body says, "Okay, well, I'm in fasting mode, so I'd better hold the weight." So you need to level out the furnace that you're cooking on. The next thing, watch what you're doing. I saw the other day a piece about two people. One was kind of chunky. The other was skinny. They put a pedometer on the skinny person. She was walking all the time. She was always on the go. The other one was sitting on the couch watching TV or else at a desk job working the computer, and there wasn't much physical activity. You've got to keep going. You can burn the calories if you will move it. And so you can't blame it all on your metabolism. Those things will work, and, of course, try a decent diet program. I'm a great fan of the one I designed, because I think it works. We've had a lot of success stories with it. You can get it from CBN.com, Pat's Diet Challenge.
Kristi Watts
Plus, it would encourage everybody, too. Because really, when it comes to women, when it comes to people, we all have different body shapes, because we have different genes in our body. So where one person might be 5'7 and 120 pounds and naturally skinny, another person might be like me, 5'7 and a little bit extra meat on you. But it's all good. Genetics. Seriously, genetics.
Not true. They're just as bad as the sun, sometimes worse, because they will lull you into a false sense of security. You don't feel how hot it really is, and it will burn you. Especially if you have fair skin, you are at high risk of getting skin cancer, which can develop into deadly melanomas, which can kill you. So we're talking about serious. If you have to go to a beach party, just leave your bikini at home and wear a top and take it easy.
The truth is that as far as colon cancer, colorectal cancer, the incidence of that jumps dramatically with a high beef diet. I would certainly recommend fish, recommend chicken and recommend plant proteins or whey protein, soy protein, etc. You can get all kinds of substitutes that will do you some good. So I just think ease off, three ounces or so, oh, maybe three times a week of red meat is not going to hurt. But be careful, because it is carcinogenic.
Well, the answer is yes to the second one particularly. If you drink a lot of coffee, if you drink sodas -- especially if you drink diet sodas with NutraSweet or if you drink the sugared sodas -- if you eat crullers, donuts, sweet rolls, all that kind of stuff. When you feel stressed out, the answer is yes. You're flagging your body. It's like you've got a whip to your adrenal glands, and you're just beating them to make them perform, and you're dragging through the day. What you need is high protein. If you have protein snacks or if you've got some of these high protein bars, and about 11 o'clock you start feeling down a little bit, eat one of those things. In my diet program, we recommend some protein material that is very good for you. You can get it at Nutrition Express or some of these other stores that have this. But you could get whey protein or soy protein. But you need something that's a protein snack. Level it out. So if you want to try eating little snacks, about five to six meals a day instead of one big one. But make sure you get a good breakfast. I don't know. I wish I could tell you happy foods. Whatever you do, don't try a chocolate bar. But there are bars that have a couple hundred calories. They have about 20 grams, 25 grams of protein. They will really level things off for you.
I see nothing wrong with doing Pilates. It has to do with stretching and very interesting exercises. Some of these yoga teachers come with their little chants and little bowls and towels and all of this stuff that goes along with yoga, including special spiritual breathing exercises. But as far as I can tell, Pilates is just good exercise -- if your body will take it. It is the hot thing in England and the hot thing in California, but it doesn't seem to have any spiritual connotations. The fact that you pick up something that is helpful from someone does not necessarily mean that the thing that you picked up is bad. For example, some of the shamans, the medicine men down in the jungles of the forest, came up with incredibly wonderful healing from plants. Well, from that if we get quinine or some drug that will help us get better, the fact that it came from somebody who supposedly is a medicine man to me doesn't diminish the effectiveness of what it is.
God's Provision for Adam and Eve was fruit and grain. Most dieticians today recommend a diet replete with fruits, vegetables, and natural grains.
To me, soybeans are almost the perfect food; they have twenty out of twenty-two essential amino acids, making them an almost complete protein. They have the right balance of fats and carbohydrates, and they contain the substance genistein that fights cancer. The soybean is a remarkable source of protein, and it doesn't cause the allergies that can be caused by certain milk products.
According to the Bible, the ancients ate meat. However, their
livestock weren't fattened in pens and shot full of growth hormones.
In Jesus' day, the people ate a great deal of fish, lentils, and
olive oil. They also ate yogurt they called it curds which is
also very healthy: Diets low in fat may reduce cholesterol, but
they also sharply reduce testosterone. We need animal proteins
and healthy fat from fish or vegetable sources such as flaxseed.
Scripture mentions certain foods that were considered ceremonially unclean and were avoided. Interestingly, many of these are not healthy foods.
God did not prescribe a specific diet that all people should follow, but in Ezekiel 4:9, God gave the prophet directions for a loaf of bread that consisted of a number of types of grain mixed together, including barley, beans, lentils, spelt, millet, and wheat. My 700 Club cohost and I tasted bread made from this mixture, known as Ezekiel's fasting bread. It tastes absolutely wonderful, is extremely healthy, and could be a fabulous replacement bread for people wanting to lose weight. Following our feature on "Ezekiel's Bread," Full Cup Coffee House, the Atlanta-based company that produces it, was inundated with calls from around the world.l in contrast, at the beginning of the twentieth century, many American milling companies began removing the wheat germ and other essential minerals from the flour used to make bread. The result was processed white flour, which had almost no nutritional value but looked "cleaner." They then artificially replaced some of the vitamins and labeled the resulting mess "enriched." Such flour and bread are not enriched at all! Quite the contrary! These breads are deprived of the basic nutritional value that God put into grain in the fIrst place.
Many people fail to realize that our bodies react to simple carbohydrates, such as white flour and sugar much as they do to alcohol. These foods evoke a craving for more because they do not satisfy the body's basic need for proteins and minerals.
Too often, many of our "Christian fellowship" opportunities are frequented by silent killers. At many church suppers or pot luck dinners, you can usually find a wonderful assortment ofbiscuits, rolls, fried foods, cakes, pies, ice cream and other delicacies loaded with sugar. Those foods are killers! They will poison your system and can lead to cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity. How ironic that in the midst of plenty our bodies are being starved of vitamins and minerals! Sadly, such American starvation shows up most often in the form of fat rather than the malnutrition we've seen in places such as Ethiopia.
To live healthier, you must shift your diet to include more complex
carbohydrates found in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains such
as oatmeal. Beware of anything that includes hydrogenated fats
or oils found often in margarine and bread, crackers, and peanut
butter. Changing to a more healthy diet will indeed be a more
"spiritual" diet, since you will be taking better care
of the temple of the Holy Spirit, your body!
Definitely. You could fast on juice or water for a couple of days, and you'd find it would kick-start your weight loss. But the secret of going through that plateau is to step up your cardio. So if you can get on a treadmill, even if you're just walking, if you can take it up to as much as an hour, you will be amazed. Your weight will start falling off again. So you do hit plateaus, and that's typical. So don't stop. But the way to do it is to push through with cardio. But a couple of days of fasting every two weeks or so would give you a further boost in your weight loss.
All the above. It's making it harder. It will lead to health problems. The yo-yo diets are killers. And I've explained on this program a long time ago, we have a set point. Your body has a set point, and it's going to fight like crazy to get you to that set point. And if you fall below the set point, it's going to do everything it can to slow your metabolism down until you get back up to the set point. But usually you'll go past it, and so you'll wind up with more. That's why exercise is so terribly important. Dieting alone won't do it. You have to have exercise along with it, and you'll also have to have balance in what you're doing. You need a lot of protein, heavy protein, but you'll also need carbs. The carbs are the fire to burn. And you need a certain amount of good fat, the omega-three or omega-six oils. So it's important to do that. But yo-yoing is very bad for your health.
It's okay to celebrate once in a while. But the truth is, sugar's poison, and it takes away your strength. If you're working out, you don't have as much strength, you don't have as much endurance and so forth. It's just something that you don't want to do. It has no benefit at all, except it kicks your sweet tooth. It's like drinking alcohol. You set up a craving. The more sweets you eat, the more you want to eat. On this one it's better to go cold turkey. Fruits? No problem. Your taste will develop so you'll really enjoy it.
My program is stuff-yourself-silly diet. You eat so much, you're not hungry. And if you eat the right things, like protein—and we would be glad if you'd log onto our website and look for Pat's Weight-Loss Challenge. The program's all laid out. It's a lot of salad. And the biggest thing about dieting is stay off of high-glycemic food. That means white bread, white potatoes, pasta, white rice, all kinds of sweets, carbonated sweet drinks and a few other things. And I think juice is, too, which are very high glycemic. And start snacking on something else. That's all. And it's easy to do. If you want a help group, be may guest, but I don't think it's necessary. If you are full from protein, and if you're eating about six small meals a day, you will stay on your diet and you'll lose weight. If you eat a huge meal at night and you go fasting all day long, you're going to have problems. So eat a big. I have a big shake in the morning and one of these protein bars in the middle of the day and a light lunch and then something in the afternoon and a light dinner. And you'll lose weight. And then something before you go to bed. You won't have any problems. You don't need to go to Weight Watchers or any of these groups. But if going to groups makes you happy, join Curves. They have a nice program for ladies to lose weight.
No way is he going to diminish anything. But the question is, what's a diet? Are you feeding him sugared snacks in the morning? Does he eat sugared cereals? Is he eating cakes and pies and ice cream and cookies? Do you think you're being a loving mother if you stuff him full of all those sweets? And does he load up with potatoes and gravy and a lot of fat? Well, all you have to do is start giving him vegetables and fruit and lean meat and things of that nature, and he'll be fine. But he needs to do exercise. Kids ought to be out running and jumping and playing all day long instead sitting in front of the TV or in front of a computer. So get him out of the house. But it's dangerous. Doctors say it will be fine. It won't be fine unless he cuts it down.
They used to say that something at night was bad. But some of the exercise people, the ones, for example, who are into body building, say you need protein at night before you go to bed, because your body builds muscles while you sleep. So the fact that he's eating a little bit of yogurt before he goes to sleep, it'll make him sleep better. It's a question of overall calories during a 24-hour period, not when you eat it. I think if you exercise on an empty stomach, you will start burning more calories than if you exercise on a full stomach.
Any exercise will help you lose weight. And the answer is, if you spread it out, that's fine. As far as cardio, you need to get your heart rate up to a point, whatever that is. And then you have a maximum heart rate, and you want to get it up to something in the neighborhood of 80 percent of what your max is. So there's scales that tell you for your age and so forth what the maximum heart rate should be, and you usually have to do sustained cardio to get that up there. And unless you do, the cardio benefits won't be there. So if you just do a couple of minutes or three minutes of cardio—but you can sure do three or four minutes of weightlifting and then three or four minutes more of weightlifting; it won't hurt you. But, really, all things being equal, given the routine we all have, it's better to do about 30 minutes and get it over with.
Rejoice that you're like you are. People are fighting weight all the time. You'll probably live to be 120, so don't fight it. Just make sure you get nourishing food, that you nourish your body with the proper vitamins and minerals. And if you're a little thin, say, "Praise the Lord," because everybody else is fighting fat these days.
It depends on what "maximum" means. If you want to build muscles, get that three or four times. You don't want to use the same muscle group more than about once a week, because you'll tear your muscles down as you build them up. So certainly you want rest in between. Most exercise people are saying three or four times a week is plenty. Now, if your goal is to strictly lose weight and you're doing aerobics, you could do that every day of the week if you felt like it. I think you ought to take Sunday off, but you could certainly go six days a week if you wanted to do that. It'll help you lose weight. But which is better? I mean, it depends on what you want to do.
Yes. Say, "I saw this on television. I was watching The 700 Club, and here's this little packet. These people are doing exercise and diet that they say is just wonderful. I've read this. I like it, and maybe you'd like it." End of story.
Ice cream has a relatively low glycemic index. If you're giving them the low-fat type of ice cream, that's mostly sugar. So one scoop of real, honest-to-goodness ice cream, the fat that's in there will buffer the sugar, and it really won't hurt them. So it may be they have a sensitivity to sugar. You might want to get sort of a glucose tolerance test. Get a doctor to check their blood and see what it is. It also may be they're loaded up with sugar snacks, cereals, soft drinks and things like that all day long. So this just kicks it over the edge. But one scoop of normal ice cream has a low glycemic index, and it's not going to hurt somebody.
Yes, they do gain more weight when they get older, because certain metabolic functions slow down. What also slows down is the DHEA and the testosterone in your system and other hormones that keep the motor running. That's why you need to continue to exercise, and you need to moderate your diet as you get older. You need less calories as you get older than you did when you were a teenager -- especially the human growth hormone. That goes away very rapidly after you reach about 19 years old. It just goes downhill very rapidly. So the answer is, you step those things up by exercise, keep the fires going, and you won't have to worry about it.
None of the above. I think you start out by going to a doctor and having him check your heart, your blood pressure, and all your vital signs to make sure that there's not something ready to blow. You start violent exercise, and you might just wind up with a stroke. So go see your doctor and get checked out before you start exercise. Then, the diet I've got is not starving yourself. It's eat yourself silly. It's very high in protein; relatively high in carbohydrates; and very low in simple sugars and all the things that make you fat. So you have satisfied your appetite. If you do 30 minutes [of exercise] a day for three days a week, it'll be the right way. If you want to do it five or six -- and most diet programs it's five or six -- start off by walking. Just walk for 30 minutes. Don't try to get out there and act like you're 18. Then do a little bit of weights with light resistance. Use little five- or ten-pound weights, get used to it, and then build up. And you need the cardio and you need the weights. If you get on a Total Gym or a piece of equipment like that, the weight will start going off dramatically.
Well, you're not going to do that much, but the answer is yes, you'll burn probably twice the calories working out on an empty stomach. If you don't eat for, say, an hour after that, your body is consuming more calories. It isn't a question of whether it's in the morning or night. It's a question of whether you're doing it on an empty stomach. But, no, you will not pass out at all.
That is absolutely the wrong thing to do. My program was set up for bodybuilders, and it just happens to work for losing weight, too. The big thing about any bodybuilder will tell you, you've got to have a balance of proteins, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, and a lot of salads. You must eat breakfast. You've had a fast all night long, and your muscles are depleted. There's no way that your body's going to burn the fat. The metabolism won't be working properly. So by all means, take my shake and drink it for breakfast.
You need to keep your fire going all the time rather than up and down, up and down. And great big meals are not good for you, and all the nutrition experts say "frequent feedings," as they call it, is better. So five or six smaller meals a day are much better, because you balance off the carbs you've got, which just kind of like keeps your fire going, keeps the metabolism up. So take smaller meals.
You don't ever have a sense of deprivation. If you have that, then you're going to go off your diet. Otherwise, you're not dieting; you're just enjoying yourself.
They were based ephedrine -- that ma huang, which was ephedrine, that turned out to be a killer. I don't think diet pills are the answer. You've got to establish a healthy eating regimen with low-glycemic carbs, lots and lots of healthy protein, and the good fats. Then you've got to have healthy exercise. If you do that, you'll lose weight. But diet pills don't work. They may work to take off some of the weight, but they'll come right back.
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"Do you like potato chips in general?"
I would read this as meaning: "Do you like potato chips as a type of food (without considering particular brands or flavours)?
An answer might be: "Yes, I eat them a lot, although I hate the vinegar ones".
For the meaning I think you are suggesting in (1), a more usual form would be "Do you generally (usually, normally) like potato chips?"
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Miggy among 13 up for GIBBY Hitter of the Year
There are no special caveats when it comes to voting on this season's GIBBY Award for Hitter of the Year.
There is no arguing over the word "value." There is no attempt to factor in defensive metrics or speed. There is only one question: Who was the best hitter in Major League Baseball during the 2013 season? And the choice is yours.
There are no special caveats when it comes to voting on this season's GIBBY Award for Hitter of the Year.
There is no arguing over the word "value." There is no attempt to factor in defensive metrics or speed. There is only one question: Who was the best hitter in Major League Baseball during the 2013 season? And the choice is yours.
As simple as that question is, however, the answer isn't quite so obvious. Reigning winner Miguel Cabrera certainly seems to be a favorite, but Mike Trout, Paul Goldschmidt, Chris Davis and Andrew McCutchen all have compelling cases.
And they aren't the only ones who could challenge Cabrera. In total, 13 hitters -- with 10 Silver Slugger Awards between them -- are among the candidates for this season's Greatness in Baseball Yearly (GIBBY) Award for baseball's best hitter.
Major League Baseball's A-listers will take home 2013 GIBBY trophies -- the ultimate honors of the industry's awards season -- based on votes by media, front-office personnel, MLB alumni, fans and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Along with Cabrera, Trout, Goldschmidt, Davis and McCutchen, Robinson Cano, Adam Jones, Edwin Encarnacion, David Ortiz, Adrian Beltre, Joey Votto, Matt Carpenter and Michael Cuddyer are candidates in the Hitter of the Year category.
This year's GIBBY Awards feature nominees in 22 categories. Individual honors will go to the MLB MVP, in addition to the year's best starting pitcher, hitter, closer, setup man, rookie, breakout hitter, breakout pitcher, comeback player, defensive player, manager, executive and postseason performer.
GIBBYs also will be awarded for the year's top play, storyline, hitting performance, pitching performance, oddity, Cut4 topic, regular-season moment and postseason moment, from MLB.com's Must C highlight reels.
In the past five years, fans have cast more than 50 million votes across the various GIBBY categories, none of which were restricted to individual league affiliation. Fan voting runs through Dec. 1.
Winners will be presented their GIBBYs at the MLB.com Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards extravaganza during the Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
There is no denying Cabrera's incredible offensive season, which by some metrics was better than his Triple Crown-winning campaign of 2012. Cabrera posted a better batting average (.348), on-base percentage (.442) and slugging percentage (.636) than a year ago. He also equaled his home run total (44) and came two RBIs shy of last year with 137.
And Cabrera would have won a second straight Triple Crown, too, if it weren't for the remarkable season of fellow GIBBY candidate Davis. The Orioles' first baseman came from relative obscurity to lead the American League in home runs and RBIs.
"No, I couldn't have [imagined this season's numbers]," Davis said earlier this month. "I've said that before. I think growing up, even in the Minor Leagues when you start to get a sense of what player you are going to be and what you are capable of, I always thought 40 was a big number. Never dreamed of hitting 50 home runs, much less breaking the [Orioles'] single-season record."
Trout had his typical brilliant offensive campaign as well, hitting .323 with a .988 OPS. Despite his lightning speed, Trout managed to lead the AL in walks with 110, and he scored 109 times -- also the best in the Junior Circuit.
Asked what he was most proud of this year, Trout said: "The runs -- scoring a lot of runs for the team. And the walks. I like walks. It makes me feel like I have more discipline this year, not swinging if I don't get my pitch."
The National League has its share of deserving candidates as well. Both Pittsburgh's McCutchen and Arizona's Goldschmidt are among the finalists for the NL MVP Award. McCutchen hit .317 with a .911 OPS, while Goldschmidt led the league in home runs (36), RBIs (125) and slugging percentage (.551).
"He wants to be a world champion, but he also wants to be the best at everything he does," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said of Goldschmidt last week. "We've had the opportunity to watch him work and develop, and reap the results of his belief and his willingness."
As usual, the AL East is loaded with big-time bats. The one knock on Cano's game has been his ability to get on base. Well, in 2013, he posted a career-high .383 OBP, while hitting .314 with 27 homers and 107 RBIs.
Jones may have had his offensive talents overshadowed a bit by Davis, but he slugged .493 with 33 homers and 108 RBIs. Encarnacion, meanwhile, carried Toronto offensively, leading the team with his 36 homers, 104 RBIs, .370 OBP and .534 slugging percentage.
And then there's Ortiz, whose incredible regular season has been lost in the shuffle thanks to his historic postseason. Ortiz hit over .300 (.309) for the third consecutive season, and he added 30 homers and 103 RBIs, marking the seventh 30-100 season of his career. Then, of course, Ortiz terrorized St. Louis pitching in the Fall Classic, hitting .688 with a pair of homers.
Speaking of St. Louis, Carpenter burst onto the scene this season as arguably baseball's top leadoff man. He led the Majors in runs with 126, and pounded out 55 doubles. Carpenter tied Beltre atop the Majors with 199 hits. Beltre had another superb offensive year, hitting .315 with 30 homers.
Cuddyer, meanwhile, took home the first batting crown of his career, hitting .331. Votto, meanwhile, led the league in on-base percentage and walks -- nothing new, after all, as he's done so in each of the past three seasons.
The criteria is simple: Who was the best hitter in 2013? The choice -- your choice -- among 13 candidates as talented as these, is most certainly not.
AJ Cassavell is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ajcassavell.


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The fall of Jesse Jackson Jr.
The once-promising political career of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. came to a crashing end Wednesday, when the Illinois Democrat announced he would resign his seat in Congress immediately amid treatment for mental illness, stories of marital infidelity and a pair of federal investigations.
The Illinois Democrat, the son of the civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., has been absent from the House since June 10, when he cast his last vote and then disappeared from public view, only to emerge later under treatment for bipolar disorder.
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( PHOTOS: Jesse Jackson Jr.'s career)
Jackson Jr., 47, has been under federal investigation for alleged campaign finance improprieties, including reportedly using donor dollars to remodel his home and purchase personal gifts, a potential criminal violation.
In a two-page resignation letter sent to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday, Jackson said he is "doing my best to address the situation responsibly, cooperate with the investigators, and accept responsibility for my mistakes, for they are my mistakes and mine alone."
Jackson also said he is praying that he "will be remembered for what I did right."
( Also on POLITICO: Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation letter)
Jackson has also been implicated — but never charged — in the scandal surrounding now-imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempt to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat.
Shortly after Obama won the White House in 2008, Jackson lobbied Blagojevich about being appointed to the vacant Senate seat. Jackson reportedly directed Raghuveer Nayak — an Illinois businessman — to tell Blagojevich that he would raise $6 million for the governor's reelection campaign in return for the Senate appointment, according to a report by the Office of Congressional Ethics. Jackson denied the allegation.
Nayak was indicted June 20 by the Justice Department on a variety of federal tax and fraud charges, shortly after Jackson disappeared from Capitol Hill.
Nayak also paid for two round-trip airline tickets for a "social acquaintance" of Jackson's, a Washington restaurant hostess, to fly to Chicago. In September 2010, Jackson issued a public apology for his interaction with Giovana Huidobro but never explicitly admitted to an extramarital affair.
Jackson's defense team released a statement on Wednesday saying that he is "cooperating" with federal investigators, but noted it may take "several months" to work out a potential resolution of the case against him.
"Mr. Jackson is cooperating with the investigation. We hope to negotiate a fair resolution of the matter but the process could take several months," said the statement from Reid Weingarten and Brian Heberlig of the law firm Steptoe & Johnson, and Dan Webb of Winston & Strawn. "During that time, we will have no further comment and urge you to give Mr. Jackson the privacy he needs to heal and handle these issues responsibly."


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As several media outlets consider the move towards nonprofit journalism, Religion News Service recently took the plunge with a $3.5 million three-year grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. RNS, the only nonreligious service covering religion and ethics exclusively, becomes a nonprofit tomorrow under Religion News LLC.*, a new parent company over Religion Newswriters Association.
Kevin Eckstrom says that while most religious subscribers have held on during recent cutbacks, about 25 to 30 percent of daily newspapers unsubscribed to the service in the last five years. The news service also dealt with reduced staff over the past 4-5 years, especially since Newhouse News Service shut down in 2008. Eckstrom says that while content will not change under the move, it will expand from three to four and a half employees and seek funding for multimedia journalism, Jewish beat coverage and theme story coverage of areas like Islam in America and religion and politics.
Eckstrom, who has been at RNS for 11 years and editor for five, will move to an office at the National Press Club while reporters Daniel Burke and Adelle Banks will work from home. I recently spoke with Eckstrom about RNS' changes, future Patch-like religion hubs and what to expect from mainstream religion coverage during the industry changes.
How do you feel about all the changes? It's been a rocky ride. It's been a good ride on the other hand because we have really good staff and we've had really good owners. It's been frustrating to try to keep up the same quality and quantity with fewer people. By being forced to pick and choose the stories I think they've gotten better. Lean times force you to make choices.
Do you think more media outlets will try to move to a nonprofit status? It doesn't work for everybody. The scrutiny that the IRS conducts is extremely heavy. It took us much longer than expected to get approval. You will see more of it, but I don't think it's necessarily a panacea for the industry.
How do you differentiate your service from the Associated Press or religious publications? Do you see the AP as competition? Historically we have, but that's changed last couple of years. The AP has resources and reach that we will never be able to have. If you're an RNS subscriber, you can count on getting anywhere from 25-35 stories a week and you won't find that consistent, knowledgeable coverage in other places. We're trying to reach people on the Huffington Post, in USA Today, Christian Century, Christianity Today, so we have to write for a pretty broad audience.
People seem less interested in their particular region and self-identify more with maybe their hobbies or interests. Are people interested in broad religion stories simply because they are religious? We never had a public following before, but that changed when we started to put stuff online. We're on Facebook and Twitter, and we have the religion news round-up and an e-mail subscription. Judging from the subscription lists, readers tend to work in religion, have an interest in it, are religious themselves or they're part of the new atheist crowd. Judging from the comments, Catholics tend to comment on Catholic stories and evangelicals tend to comment on evangelical and general Christian stories. We get a lot of people interested in ethics.
If newspapers are cutting off your services, what does that mean for religion coverage in the mainstream media? You're not seeing it regularly. Sometimes it's in metro, sometimes it's on A1, sometimes it's in living. It tends to revolve around controversy, scandal or celebrities, and it gets superficial. When you're not doing it all the time, you're joining the herd on some big sexy story. That being said, there are a lot of people who are writing about religion online. I worry sometimes about the lack of professionalism where it can devolve into people in their pajamas spouting off. Their version of truth is different from everyone else's but there's no editor to tell them that. The online universe is a beast that needs to be fed constantly and is never satisfied.
Part of your plan is to create 20 local community-based websites for local/national religion coverage, which sounds like Patch.com. It's kind of like if Patch.com and RNS got together and had a baby this is what it would look like. The idea is to create religion coverage where there isn't anyone already. The entire state of New Jersey and places like Wyoming and New Hampshire do not have full-time religion reporters. Some of the content will filter up to RNS, and some RNS content will filter down.
Who will contribute to the sites or edit them? Each of the seven or eight sites will be run by a full-time veteran journalist who will rely on freelancers edit the content, post it, do sales and marketing and raise support on the local level. We already have a person to oversee the whole thing. I don't know if it's public yet, but it's someone who is well known to RNA and to the beat in charge of orchestrating the whole thing.
You're starting these in the coming year? We're hoping to have the first test run in Columbia, Missouri in partnership at the folks at University of Missouri as a laboratory, starting it by the fourth quarter of 2011. Ad revenue will be a part of what we do, but you can't run a business off of ad revenue online.
As part of your online strategy, do you worry about competing for traffic with your subscribers when you post stories? That's a good question. We want to build an audience. When people are reading our story on Huffington Post, we're happy they're reading our story period. We wish people are reading it on our site. We know not everyone knows to find us and we're not able to put everything on our site. We're trying to build the brand, the audience and the visibility.
You've mentioned a push towards multimedia. Will you hire someone to do that or will you hope your current reporters do that? The plan is to have a semi-full time multimedia editor to figure out how to tell stories in a visually and audio. The model would be NPR, the gold standard in how to tell stories in various formats. We're not going to give our reporters a Flipcam and tell them to do video and give us an 800-word story because it's not realistic.
What kinds of religion stories do you think people want to see through multimedia? The way we're thinking about it initially is not that there is print content, video content and audio content. There's content and it comes in different forms as companion pieces. Maybe you pull together the best 2-3 minutes for audio excerpts from an interview. Instead of producing a fancy eight-minute piece, throw up a couple YouTube clips from previous speeches.
You seem to be producing more 2-300-word briefs instead of a few longer pieces. Before, we had at least three pieces and it had to be at least 350 words long. We felt like it was a straightjacket. We're able to cover more things and give it the length it deserves. I noticed that when I read the paper, the briefs were three paragraphs when our briefs were seven or eight. Shorter is probably what people are going to read anyway.
With your D.C. presence, are you concerned with a potential political filter? D.C. makes a lot of sense because there are so many institutions here and so many stories that traditional media might not cover. For example, we were writing about the chaplains in "don't ask don't tell" six months before other outlets. Obviously CT did that, too. There are other stories here related to religion and international affairs, the Supreme Court and the budget. We'll probably always have a Washington presence, but we're so virtual that we'll be in New York and we're looking at possibly being in the Chicago area. It would be hard to write a lot about religion and moral values and national priorities from somewhere other than here.
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3-2 over BC, 9-2 over Merrimack. Michigan stands 4-0-0 on the year.
The Notes
- ETA on "Hobey Baker" chants for Johnson: 2 weeks, and he'll deserve each and every one of them. Incredible player who can literally do it all. He crushes opposing forwards. He skates with them. He dekes them out of their jocks. He can shoot hard an on target from anywhere with little provocation. He makes all the right passes.
- Cogliano scored his first points of the year with 2-2-4 against Merrimack but his best play was a straight nasty bit of stickhandling that got him past two Warriors and garnered a hooking call. I was disappointed with him in the first few games but he's beginning to assert himself.
- We are going to have trouble scoring on a consistent basis. We've got Hensick and Cogliano, Porter and Kolarik, and Hunwick and Johnson, but there's very little after them. Ebbet and Kal will score periodically but they're not to be relied upon. I miss Tambellini badly.
- David Rohlfs got skated around on almost every shift against BC. He's going to have to be protected against skilled teams. Ditto Tim Cook, who many say is improved but... uh, yeah. I don't see it.
- Only two goals against BC sounds good but both were very soft and made me think uncomfortably about that guy from last year who liked punching people. Ruden was his usual self: solid positionally and completely unable to control rebounds.
Jesus Christ... #1, #1, #1. Thanks for nothing, polls. Michigan reacts to a #1 ranking by immediately choking away whatever the next game on the schedule is, which happens to be Michigan State.
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There's a distinct possibility that the CCHA doesn't blow this year. A lot of teams have opened up with very strong results:
- Michigan is 4-0 with a win over BC.
- MSU is 2-0 and beat North Dakota.
- Alaska-Fairbanks took 3 points from Minnesota in Minnesota.
- UNO is 2-0 with a win over UNH.
- Lake State took 3 points from ECAC contender Colgate.
- OSU split with Colorado College.
Games to keep an eye on this weekend:
- ND is going into the lion's den (OMG CATHOLICISM!) with a road weekend against DU and CC. A split here would be a tremendous result for the CCHA. Wouldn't get your hopes up, though, Jeff Jackson or no.
- Northern has a home and home with and improved but still bad Michigan Tech team. If NMU is going to be one of the CCHA's better teams (and they probably should be) dropping more points to WCHA bottom feeders will not help matters.
- Fairbanks travels to Alaska-Anchorage for a pair. If UAF can take 3 or even 4 points from a meh UAA team in their second consecutive weekend on the road they'll announce themselves as a CCHA contender and greatly help the PWR comparisons. Michigan also takes on UAF next weekend for a pair at Yost. They could come in smokin'. [UPDATE: I'm mistaken on the location of the UAF series. It's at Fairbanks, making the weekend look even more daunting. Thx to reader Puckhead.]
- A two part cheer directed at BC freshman Brett Motherwell: "I did your..." "Moooootherwell."
- Students screaming "dance" in the first period against Merrimack whilst up 6-0 and again up 7-0.
- A treasured "Goalie Goalie Sieve Sieve Sieve" against the Warriors.
- "If you're not good at hockey, go to Merrimack /
If you're not good at hockey, go to Merrimack /
If you're not good at hockey and you know you really suck, go to Merrimack"
One game against Michigan State at Yost. State's gotten out of the gate well and this one will be a typical MSU-UM game in which the Wolverines badly outplay and outshoot the Spartans but can't put it away due to Angry Michigan Safety Hating God. I have doubts about Sauer's preparedness but none about Vicari's. Call it 3-2, MSU.


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Being pregnant doesn't even compare with being killed. This is an incredibly weak argument for the pro-choice community.
If its aborted when its still a mass of cells its no different than contraceptive. S perm is a cell and condo ms collect and kill them. Is that murder? Learn both sides of the issue before you make an ignorant decision. What happens to the kids who are born but not wanted? Well either the parent who cannot care for them keeps them and they live in poverty and even homelessness, or they go into the system where there are more bad caretakers than good. Little girls getting raped. What a glorious other side. And then if they come out as a criminal or as suicidally depressed at least you let them live to get to that miserable existance. "Which would be worse– to have tens of thousands of babies that NO ONE wanted, or to silently make them go away before they were even born?" -Unwind. And yes, I have a right to say this since I was almost aborted myself.
I'd have to say that life starts at conception. A "mass of cells" is still a human being. Recall that many organisms are "just cells" and they're still alive. Of course, bacteria are not as valuable as human life, but it's still life, and we have no decision to decide who dies and who doesn't, we don't have the place to play God. Many reknowned people we remember today were almost aborted or killed after birth, for example, Beethoven, who was the last of 4 brothers whose parents were dead broke, yet somehow, they managed to feed him, and he became one of the world's widest known musicians.
Ok a good handful of people made it… what about the other thousands that weren't so lucky and lived horrible lives? I figure if you didn't know they were born in the first place, then who would be the wiser? You would never have known a person existed if you never saw them… imagine walking in the park and seeing people, you then realize "oh wow that person exists" but if you never saw them, then how would you know? Just like you don't grieve every moment of the day as someone in the world you never met nor knew existed has died, is murdered or robbed? Same with abortion, it never knew what life is, has yet to exist and be noticed by the people arguing pro-choice and pro-life. How would it know it ever lived or died, if it never came into conscious existence. When did you yourself consciously realize you were a living breathing being that could die? When you know that, then you exist. To think is to be, is it not?
Life does not begin at conception, and here's why. A pregnant woman has a 10 to 20% chance of miscarrying up to 20 weeks into her pregnancy. 80% of those miscarriages happen in the first 12 weeks. The body can and does abort on its own, and it does it with some frequency. That is not murder. So why is removing a group of unwanted cells from a uterus vs the uterus flushing the cells out considered murder? Murder should be reserved for a fully formed human being that can survive on its own outside the womb.
A collection of cells is also not a human being. It is just that, cells, and most people would not be able to tell those cells from the cells of anything else.
The most offensive thing about the man's sign is this: Those people do not care what happens to the fetus once the mother has decided to keep it. They do not help her in any way, shape, or form. They do not help the child either. And if they're not willing to help out a fully formed human being, they should have no right to an opinion about an unwanted zygote.
Way to go Xia.
Well said, Xia.