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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman disfigured by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009 was denied permission Friday to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that officials knew the animal was dangerous but didn't do anything about it.
The state claims commissioner released a five-page decision approving the state's motion to dismiss Charla Nash's claim, saying the law at the time allowed private ownership of chimpanzees and didn't require officials to seize legal animals. The state generally is immune to lawsuits, unless allowed by the claims commissioner.
Nash was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant after being mauled in Stamford in 2009. She reached a $4 million settlement last year with the estate of chimp owner Sandra Herold, who died in 2010.
Messages seeking comment were left Friday with Nash's relatives and her lawyer. They can appeal the decision by Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr. to the legislature.
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State Attorney General George Jepsen said the state shouldn't be held liable.
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State lawmakers did approve a ban on chimpanzees and other animals deemed dangerous a few months after Nash was mauled.
Nash, now 59, had gone to Herold's home on Feb. 16, 2009, to help lure her friend's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back inside. But the chimp went berserk and ripped off Nash's nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer. Nash now lives in a nursing home outside Boston.
Travis had starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola when he was younger and made an appearance on "The Maury Povich Show." The chimpanzee was the constant companion of the widowed Herold and was fed steak, lobster and ice cream. The chimp could eat at the table, drink wine from a stemmed glass, use the toilet, and bathe and dress itself.
Travis had previously bitten another woman's hand and tried to drag her into a car in 1996, bit a man's thumb two years later, and escaped from Herold's home and roamed downtown Stamford for hours in 2003 before being captured, according to Nash's lawsuit against Herold.
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The $4 million settlement with Herold's estate covers a small fraction of Nash's medical costs, according to Nash's lawyers, who have said she requires care and supervision around the clock.
"I hope and pray that the commissioner will give me my day in court," Nash had told reporters following a hearing last year before Vance. "And I also pray that I hope this never happens to anyone else again. It is not nice."
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ZEN Green Tea Liqueur photography contest :
With the popularity of such Asian influences as yoga, sushi and feng shui, the concept of ZEN has made its mark in American culture. The secret of Zen philosophy is that it can be expressed across a variety of artistic endeavors: writing, paintings, calligraphy and photography. ZEN Green Tea Liqueur, America's first super-premium green tea liqueur, invites consumers 21 and over to participate in the first ever "What is Zen?" photography contest for a chance to express their interpretation of ZEN and win a trip for two to Japan. The contest will begin on August 13th and run through December 15th. The winner will be announced January 4th, 2008.
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Zen is often described as vitality and the ability to see things as they really are. This philosophy embraces the principle of opposing but complimentary forces called Yin-Yang: Yin, is seen as the tranquil, receptive, dark force, while Yang is the creative, energetic, bright, active force. In the "What is Zen?" contest, ZEN asks consumers to submit photographs that convey both a positive, uplifting interpretation of their subject matter while, like Zen, maintaining serenity and balance. The winning photograph will be a modern expression of the Zen philosophy and one that demonstrates both passive and active forces in a stylish and exciting way.
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The winner will receive a seven-day, six-night package trip for two to Japan. This Includes: airfare from the US to Tokyo Narita airport, six nights in a Tokyo hotel, one day of guided sightseeing, and a traditional Japanese green tea ceremony. Photograph submissions will be judged based on the following criteria: concept (25%), composition (25%), overall quality of image (25%), and the degree to which the photograph evokes the qualities of Zen (25%).
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ZEN Green Tea Liqueur is a unique blend of the finest Japanese green tea leaves, premium herbs and natural flavors. It is also the first super-premium green tea liqueur ever introduced in America. The fresh and original taste of ZEN Green Tea Liqueur, which is primarily derived from the ceremonial Japanese Green Tea, results from the use of the finest ingredients available. The perfection inherent of the final product is the result of time-honored Japanese traditions of quality and craftsmanship combined with a modern sense of elegance and style. ZEN is available in finer bars, lounges and restaurants across the USA. ZEN is stylishly packaged in a tall, elegant 750ml bottles priced at a MSRP of $29.99.
Suntory Ltd. is one of the world's leading wine and spirits companies. Founded in 1899, Suntory was the first company to introduce western-style spirits to Japan. Suntory's businesses today encompass liquor, including whisky, shochu, wine and beer; food products; soft drinks; floral products; restaurants; and sports. Suntory exports a wide range of authentic Japanese whiskies and liqueurs to 35 countries, including the United States. Made with exceptional Japanese craftsmanship, these include the unique melon liqueur MIDORI, which is especially popular in the U.S., and YAMAZAKI Single Malt Whisky, Japan's premier single malt whisky. With its head office in Osaka, the Suntory Group comprises 170 companies with offices operating in 17 countries and over 20,000 employees worldwide.
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What's the best length for online news videos? Recent research
For many news organizations, a common approach to producing online video is that shorter is better. There is no industry standard for how to create news videos that are guaranteed to grab viewers' attention and keep an audience glued to a website. Media leaders have been experimenting with video for years, trying to figure out what viewers like and want while also trying to understand the success of videos posted on YouTube and other video-sharing platforms.
Meanwhile, many thousands of news videos, produced with considerable effort, continue to garner just a few hundred views at best, prompting news managers to question the return on investment of precious staff time.
Still, a 2014 report from the Pew Research Center found that more than six in ten adults in the U.S. watch online videos and that 36% of all adults watch news videos. A number of studies have focused on the length of videos on YouTube, which has more than 1 billion users. Pew, for one, looked at the issue in 2012 and found that the median length of the most popular videos was 2 minutes and 1 second — longer than the median length of a local TV news story but shorter than the most common length for a network evening news package. ComScore Inc., a media measurement and analytics company, released a report in 2014 noting that the duration of the average online video — not counting online video ads — was 4.4 minutes.
In 2014, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University released a multimedia report chronicling the challenges newsrooms face as they work to make video an editorial tool from which they can profit:
It is still unclear what the best length is for a news video — and it is possible that tastes and standards will change over time, as the differing opinions in the ongoing debate over shooting mobile vertical videos suggest. But new research from the University of Texas at Austin offers some insight. A 2015 study published in the Newspaper Research Journal, "Longer, Higher Quality Videos Preferred by News Viewers" examined the characteristics of video to gauge people's preferences. By using an online survey of 107 people, the authors sought to determine whether shorter news videos really are better. The authors of the study were Peter S. Chen and Gina Masullo Chen of the University of Texas at Austin and Nicholas Wilson and Chen-Wei Chang, both of the University of Southern Mississippi.
Key findings were:
- Viewers preferred high-quality videos over low-quality videos. While prior research indicates that people can tolerate lower-quality videos if they like the content, this study suggests viewers "would not tolerate content they found uninformative, bad, not enjoyable or not worth recommending to others."
- People liked longer videos better than shorter ones. Long videos averaged 2.08 minutes in duration. Short videos averaged 24 seconds.
- When both quality and length were considered, people preferred long, high-quality videos to other types of video, including short, high-quality ones.
- A video's quality influences what audience members think of a news organization, and having longer videos heighten that perception.
The authors note that their findings have important implications for news organizations, many of which have required reporters in recent years to take on the added task of producing and editing news videos, sometimes without much training. "The drive to get more videos online, particularly shorter ones, by staffs that lack visual training may backfire for news organizations over time," the authors state. "Like many solutions to the newspaper crisis, posting online videos will not solve the problem of attracting an online audience unless it is done with quality." The authors stressed the need for additional research into other aspects of video — for example, audio quality and composition — to understand what compels viewers to start and stop watching.
Related research: A 2011 report published in Journalism Studies focused on the popularity of YouTube videos and suggested that "more relaxed content practices are rewarded with a higher number of views, while adherence to traditional production practices does not predict popularity." A 2015 report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford examines the state of digital news across various countries.
Key words: online news, news websites, news video, newsroom strategy, multimedia, digital content, digital media
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Analysis assignments
Read the issue-related article from Nieman Lab titled "After the Launch of its Long-awaited Web Redesign, The Wall Street Journal Hopes to Spur Innovation."
- What key insights from the news article and the study in this lesson should reporters be aware of as they cover these issues?
Read the full study titled "Longer, Higher Quality Videos Preferred by News Viewers."
- What are the study's key technical terms? Which ones need to be put into language a lay audience can understand?
- Do the study's authors put the research into context and show how they are advancing the state of knowledge about the subject? If so, what did the previous research indicate?
- What is the study's research method? If there are statistical results, how did the scholars arrive at them?
- Evaluate the study's limitations. (For example, are there weaknesses in the study's data or research design?)
- How could the findings be misreported or misinterpreted by a reporter? In other words, what are the difficulties in conveying the data accurately? Give an example of a faulty headline or story lead.
Newswriting and digital reporting assignments
- Write a lead, headline or nut graph based on the study.
- Spend 60 minutes exploring the issue by accessing sources of information other than the study. Write a lead (or headline or nut graph) based on the study but informed by the new information. Does the new information significantly change what one would write based on the study alone?
- Compose two Twitter messages of 140 characters or fewer accurately conveying the study's findings to a general audience. Make sure to use appropriate hashtags.
- Choose several key quotations from the study and show how they would be set up and used in a brief blog post.
- Map out the structure for a 60-second video segment about the study. What combination of study findings and visual aids could be used?
- Find pictures and graphics that might run with a story about the study. If appropriate, also find two related videos to embed in an online posting. Be sure to evaluate the credibility and appropriateness of any materials you would aggregate and repurpose.
Class discussion questions
- What is the study's most important finding?
- Would members of the public intuitively understand the study's findings? If not, what would be the most effective way to relate them?
- What kinds of knowledgeable sources you would interview to report the study in context?
- How could the study be "localized" and shown to have community implications?
- How might the study be explained through the stories of representative individuals? What kinds of people might a reporter feature to make such a story about the study come alive?
- What sorts of stories might be generated out of secondary information or ideas discussed in the study?


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Wallisch, slopestyle find fast track to Olympics
By EDDIE PELLS
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For years, Tom Wallisch's focus in skiing was more about fun than fame or fortune.
An otherworldly video and a surprise decision from Olympic leaders changed his perspective.
Wallisch, the 2012 Winter X Games champion in slopestyle skiing, hopes to be among the new faces to watch on the U.S. team when the Sochi Games start a year from Thursday, bringing with them the debut of skiing events on the slopestyle course and in the superpipe.
"The whole thing's a little surreal," the 25-year-old Wallisch said of his sport's fast-tracked inclusion onto the world's biggest sports stage. "I definitely had not expected it. But it's good news."
Well known inside his sport's circles, Wallisch does some sponsorship work with North Face and has other endorsement deals. But he has considerable ground to cover to get into the same stratosphere with, say, Shaun White, Bode Miller or Lindsey Vonn, who hopes she'll be recovered from her season-ending knee and leg injuries in time to be at full strength for 2014.
Still, the potential is there for the Pittsburgh native, even if he didn't fully recognize it at first.
Wallisch put on his first pair of skis on at age 3, learned to ski at a small resort in Maryland called Wisp and, like so many daredevil athletes in the making, spent some outdoor time doing jumps off the roof of his parents' house.
Not until 2006, when a company in search of the next, great up-and-coming freestyle skier asked candidates to make videos showing what they could do, did Wallisch truly realize his potential. In one video, Wallisch works his way down the mountain, effortlessly gliding over rails, twisting and flipping off the ramps on the slopestyle course.
"I did the video and people out there were watching it and labeling it things like, 'If Jesus Skied,' and other stuff like that," Wallisch said. "I thought 'Whoa. These people think I deserve to be a pro skier. I guess I could try that. I might have to try a little harder at this.'"
Thus, a career on both the filming and competition sides of freestyle skiing was born.
Wallisch moved to Utah, where he had more time to work on his craft. The effort culminated in a gold medal in Aspen at last year's Winter X Games, which came only a few months after slopestyle got a somewhat unexpected invite to join the Olympics.
"We were thinking it could be another four, eight years before we ever got this chance, and we were fine with that," Wallisch said. "There were no slopestyle athletes pushing to get into the Olympics. It's something we've done for a long time and we love it."
In their latest push to bring a younger audience to their games, Olympic organizers added the ski events and also brought snowboard slopestyle in for the 2014 Games. The addition of snowboard slopestyle gives White, the two-time defending champion on the halfpipe, a chance to win another medal and entertain fans for more than just one evening during the Olympic fortnight.
"It's humbling. It's cool," White said. "If I can bring attention to the sport and help it along, that's exciting for me. Going back and doing a third time around in the halfpipe would've been fun and exciting but not nearly as exciting as it's going to be to compete in both."
With a year to go, White does not yet look like a shoo-in for the slopestyle gold. He finished fifth at the X Games, while 19-year-old Canadian Mark McMorris took his second straight gold.
A tireless worker who increased the difficulty of his halfpipe routine by adding his double-flipping, 1260-degree-turning trick before the last Olympics, White conceded after his most recent loss, "I've got some work to do in the slopestyle department."
And Vonn?
The defending Olympic champion in the downhill is looking at about an eight-month recovery once she's through with surgery on torn ligaments in her right knee. That would give her plenty of time to be ready for Russia. But her wipeout in Austria earlier this week certainly changed the dynamics of the 365-day lead-up to the Sochi Games.
"That was difficult for all of us because she's such a great champion," said her teammate and rival, Julia Mancuso, who added two silver medals at the last Olympics to go with the gold she won in 2006. "We're the same age. We've been skiing together our whole career. This is the first time she's had a real serious injury. If you're going to do it, this is the best time because she's got plenty of time to get ready for the Olympics."
At almost every venue in Sochi, the resort in the Caucasus Mountains the Russians are spending upwards of $51 billion to develop for the Games, the U.S. team will have medal contenders.
Expected to be among them: White and Kelly Clark in snowboarding; Meryl Davis and Charlie White in ice dancing; the men's and women's hockey teams; Vonn, Mancuso, Ted Ligety and Miller in Alpine; defending bobsled champion Steven Holcomb; Shani Davis and Heather Richardson in speedskating.
The addition of several events in the action-sports category will almost certainly benefit the United States, which has won 14 of the 24 medals awarded on the halfpipe since snowboarding was introduced in 1998.
Wallisch, who is recovering from a knee injury that hampered him at this year's Winter X Games, figures he'll be healthy enough to compete for one of freestyle skiing's new Olympic gold medals — one of the ultimate prizes in sports, but one that never entered his mind until the last few years.
"Growing up, I always dreamed of going to the X Games, or going out and skiing and filming for these movies," he said. "After last year and doing so well at Aspen, I reached a point where the thing that comes to mind is the Olympics. I'm a little older. I won't get too many shots at it. I'm definitely looking forward to this upcoming year."
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'Children of Men' Wins Scripter Award
The author and screenwriters of the film based on P.D. James' tale about infertility in the near future will be honored at Doheny Library Feb. 18.
British writer P.D. James published the book, her 12th, in 1992. Screenwriters Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby adapted the screenplay for the 2006 film, directed by Cuarón.
The Scripter is awarded annually by the USC Libraries to honor writers for the best achievement in adaptation among English-language films released during the previous year and based on a book, novella or short story.
The selection committee, led by screenwriter, novelist and USC School of Cinematic Arts Writing Division Chair Howard A. Rodman, chose "Children of Men" from a field of 45 eligible films released in 2006. The other four finalists competing in the last round of voting were "The Devil Wears Prada," "The Illusionist," "The Last King of Scotland" and "Notes on a Scandal." Rodman announced the winners on behalf of the selection committee and the Friends of the USC Libraries, which sponsors the award.
"This year's five nominated films were, all of them, heartfelt and elegantly wrought," Rodman said. "In that heady company, 'Children of Men' was first among equals. Messrs. Cuarón, Sexton, Arata, Fergus and Ostby took P.D. James' bracingly dystopic novel and crafted from it a film at once brave, subtle, shocking. This is writing and screenwriting of the highest order."
"Children of Men" depicts humanity's coming to terms with its impending extinction due to universal infertility. Set in near-future Great Britain, anarchy has overtaken once-ordered societies, leaving little hope for a dwindling population consumed with violence and factionalism. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Clare-Hope Ashitey star as humanity's last chance for survival.
Author James, 86, so far has published 19 books in her long career as a writer, member of the British Civil Service and magistrate. Other credits for the screenwriters include "Y tu mamá también" (Cuarón); "Live From Baghdad" (Sexton); "Spy Game" (Arata); and the upcoming "Iron Man" (Fergus and Ostby).
Universal Pictures distributes "Children of Men," and Vintage published a reprint paperback edition of the book in May 2006.
The black-tie Scripter gala honoring the winning collaboration will be held on Sunday, Feb. 18, in USC's Doheny Memorial Library. Henry Winkler will make his third appearance as emcee, with Hal Kanter returning as grand emcee for the seventh time.


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The Museum of Film Art - the ILUZJON Cinema is almost as old as Filmoteka Narodowa. The first screenings of classical motion pictures were organized in the late 1950s. In spite of numerous address changes Iluzjon has always been the meeting place for cinema lovers, who after a John Wayne western would stay to watch an equally appealing melodrama with Greta Garbo. Iluzjon was first located at Aleje Szucha, later in the Polonia Cinema, in the Pod kopułą Hall and in the Śląsk Cinema.
When, in 1996, the contract for Filmoteka rental of the latter location was cancelled, a demonstration of hundreds of University sudents walked through the Warsaw streets and demanded that the unfortunate decision be recalled. The officials, however, remained inflexible. Since February 1997 we have been hosting our events in the Stolica Cinema on Mokotów.
Almost all large festivals are accompanied by extensive publications presenting the output of European cinema classics. Those, frequently, have been the first comprehensive publications in the Polish language regarding a given topic. Since 2003 the first days of spring at the "Iluzjon" have witnessed the "Celebration of Silent Cinema" - during this unique event silent masterpieces are accompanied by conemporary music performed live.
From the start we have remembered our the youngest audiences. Sunday morning screenings present them with classic films for children. Everyday we present three films during afternoon screenings. Additionally, a free brochure presents reviews of films in the current programme as well as the achievements of the actors, directors, cinematographers, and composers.
In November 1998 in a readers' poll held by Gazeta Wyborcza our cinema received the title: "MAGIC PLACE"
In April 2001 the Warsaw City Council granted "Iluzjon" Cinema with the distinction of achievement and the medal for Contribution of Merit for Warsaw
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Get Out of That Pit
By Beth Moore
Thomas NelsonCopyright © 2007 Beth Moore
All right reserved.
Chapter OneLife in the Pit
You don't have to stay there. Even if you've been there your whole life, you can call it a day. Even if you deserve the pit you live in, you're still not stuck there. Maybe you're the noble type trying to make the best of your pit. You keep wondering why you can't get satisfied there. Why you aren't mature enough to be content where you are. After all, didn't the apostle Paul tell us that we should learn to be content in any circumstance?
Has it occurred to you that maybe a pit is one place where you're not supposed to be content? Maybe you should thank God you're not. Some things weren't meant to be accepted. A pit is one of them. Quit trying to make the best of it. It's time to get out. When Christ said, "Come, follow me," inherent in His invitation to come was the equivalent invitation to leave. The laws of physics tell you that if you try to go one place without leaving another, you're in for a pretty severe stretch. And you can only do the splits so long.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about picking up and leaving a physical place-although that may ultimately prove necessary. And if you're married, Lord help me, I'm certainly not talking about leaving your spouse. I'mtalking about leaving a dwelling far more intimate than the place where you get your mail-I'm talking about a shadowy home of the heart, mind, and soul so close and personal that, like mud on the set of tires, we drag it along wherever our physical circumstances move us.
No matter where we go, a pit can always fit. On any path we can spin our wheels and throw mud until we dig a ditch right into the middle of an otherwise decent job or relationship. Soon our hearts sink with the dismal realization that we're no better off in our new situation. The scenery around us may have changed, but we're still living in that same old pit. We start scrambling to figure out how we're going to dump an unpleasant person or position when the real solution may be to dump that pit we dragged in. The problem is the pit can be so close we can't see it.
My man, our two dogs, and I just got home from a seven-teen-hundred-mile road trip sewing five states together like a patchwork quilt. It's something we do several times a year. For hours on end Beanie sniffs the air conditioner in search of game birds (Beanie is one of the dogs, not the man) and Sunny never quits smiling unless she needs to scratch. The glee rolls on and the miles roll by until someone gets a little cranky. I'll not name names, but God forgives the lapses and has even extended many a tender mercy by providing a timely respite from the open road. He shows us all sorts of favor, like causing espresso bars to pop up in places so remote I end up wondering later if they were really there at all. I figure they were mirages we'd never find again in a million years. But as long as the refreshment hits the spot, I don't care if it's all in my mind. I've had the best medium-dry cappuccinos in the world in places so far out that an extra shot is what you take when you missed the deer the first time.
Unfortunately, our traveling snobbery only goes as far as our coffee. When you insist on traveling cross-country with two sizable canines, you get to save your cash on motel rooms. We mostly stay in lodgings that have numbers in the names. No matter what the chain, all discount rooms are nearly identical, with angular double beds covered by the same navy-blue spreads ordered from a catalog back in '72. The stitching has long since come undone, and when you turn over in the bed your little toes get tangled in the loose threads. I sleep between Keith (that's my man) and Beanie and, from the sound of things, each has a deviated septum. I respond by turning up the air conditioning unit which, in turn, responds by freezing up and shutting down.
A traveler at heart, I still wake up happy and start my abbreviated morning routine. The shampoo comes in a small single-serving pouch I have to open with my teeth. I spit out what gets in my mouth and quickly lather the rest of it on my head. I have a mass of hair so, understandably, I can't spare a drop. Keith ends up having to use the generic white bar soap on his hair. It tends to leave a film, but it's a small price for him to pay for my hair. Particularly small compared to what he pays for me to maintain my highlights. He can wear a baseball cap anyway.
Folks who know how much we travel sometimes ask me why we don't get an RV. The answer, in a word: the bathroom. (Or is that two words?) The small space and lack of fresh air in an RV makes the presence of a bathroom so ... well ... inescapable. They say you get used to it, but do I really want to? What does it mean when we no longer notice that smell? Nope, the way I see it, we were not meant to get used to some things.
Like living in a pit.
But unfortunately, we do. We can grow so accustomed to the surroundings of our pit that we wouldn't think of moving on without it.
Let's say for years you've been living in an old RV so small you can't stretch your legs or stand up straight. Visualize the clutter of too much baggage in too small a space. Imagine the unavoidable odor of that cramped lavatory. Your clothes even start to smell like it. Or is it your hair?
Now, imagine that you've been offered a brand-new home. A real one on a solid foundation with big closets and wide-open spaces. You can hardly wait to move in. Filled with anticipation, you rev up the motor of the old RV and plow it right into the new living room, taking out a wall or two on the way. Ah, finally! A new place to call home! You settle back in your RV seat, take a deep breath and poise yourself to feel something fresh. Something different.
Then it hits you: that deep breath tasted a lot like that old lavatory. You'd hoped for a change, but your soul sinks with the realization that, though you're somewhere new, everything feels and smells hauntingly familiar.
As disheartening as this realization may be, it could turn out to be the best news you've heard all year. If it wakes you up to the possibility that every situation you're in feels like a pit because you're taking your pit with you, you've just learned something you really need to know: you could quit driving that stinking RV around. This is a glorious exception to the "If the shoe fits, wear it" rule. Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.
If you figure out you're the one driving that old RV, please understand right now that the last thing I want to do is shame you. The only reason I recognize a mobile pit dweller is because it takes one to know one. I just may have stumbled on the one thing I'm an expert on: life in the pit. When it comes to pits, I guess I've lived in every conceivable kind. I've done the tour, trading in one model for another from childhood well into adulthood. A pit was my ever present hell in times of trouble. And the only reason I've got the audacity to write this book is because I'm not there anymore. I got out because something-Someone-worked for me. Trust me when I tell you this: if I can get out, anybody can.
I might have kept this pit stop to myself except for something a number of people recently told me. Several months ago God threw me into His Word to perform a sort of analysis of what a pit is exactly. I plopped open my trusty concordance, looked up every occasion where the term was used, and went to work. There in the pages of Scripture God showed me three ways we can get into a pit and a couple of ways we can get out. The message fell so fresh on me that in the months that followed I delivered some form of it at three very different gatherings. The first was a group of four thousand women of all ages in California. The second was also a group of thousands, but this event was comprised entirely of college girls. The third was a very polished studio audience at a taping for television.
Toward the end of each message I asked the same questions. The first: "After all you've learned biblically about a pit, how many of you would say you've been in one?" In all three groups, every single hand in sight shot up into the air. Not surprising. The second question: "How many of you have gotten into various pits all three ways I spoke about?" Almost every single hand came up, mine included. I asked them to close their eyes for the last question: "How many of you would say you are in a pit right now?" To my surprise, a stunning majority of timid hands inched up-only shoulder high, just in case their neighbors were peeking.
So, what's the big surprise? If I were a betting woman, I'd have wagered all three groups contained the cream of the crop of God-seeking, Jesus-following women. Many of them have been in Bible studies for years. Scads of them are considered successful by their peers. Others look to them as the examples. As for the college girls, significant numbers of them sense God's call on their lives. Plenty are spiritual ... and miserable.
I've come to the conclusion that vastly more people are miserable than not. Far more feel defeated than victorious. If pressed, tens of thousands would confess that "it" doesn't work as well as they'd hoped. Masses of believers are totally bewildered-if not in outright despair. Yep, poker faces aside, they're in a pit. Not without cause, but absolutely, across the board, unnecessarily. I've also come to the conclusion that some pits are just decorated to look prettier than others. Don't let any- body kid you, though. A pit is a pit.
That's the trouble. Too often we don't recognize a pit when we're in one. So why would we think we need to get out? One reason some of you nicer folks are in a pit without realizing it is because you mistakenly characterize pits only in terms of sin. In our Christian subculture, we think a pit of sin is the only kind there is. But as we perform a biblical analysis of a pit, we're going to have to think much broader than that. We need a way to identify pits and know when we're in them. So here goes: you can know you're in a pit when ...
You feel stuck. Isaiah 42:22 says that a pit is a place where you feel trapped. You tend to feel your only options are to misbehave (i.e., have a kicking and screaming fit, hoping your flailing can help you escape) or submit (i.e., consider you made your own bed and decide to die in it). Psalm 40 adds to the characteristics of a pit words like "slimy," "muddy," "miry." Together these words tell us one critical thing about a pit: you can't get yourself out.
Been there in more ways than one. Keith waited only a few months into our marriage before trying to turn his animal-rights wife into a hunter. He thought it wisest to start with creatures that were furless. Feathers, he reasoned, would make the hunt seem less personal. He dressed me for my first and only goose hunt in the last pair of rubber boots under a size 12 at the army surplus. He realized at the checkout that they were both right feet, but since they were a bit large he thought they'd work just fine. Smiling ear to ear like he'd bagged a ten-point buck, Keith plopped those black monsters right in front of me. I looked down at the tips of two boots making the same turn then stared at him for the longest. I told him that wherever we were going, I hoped it was to the right.
Dawn was unmerciful. I found myself trudging behind him way too early on a cold morning in a flooded rice field outside of Houston. Every third step I took, one of my right feet got stuck in the mud until finally one of them stuck so deeply that, for the life of me, I couldn't get myself out.
"Pull, Baby! Pull!" Keith cheered.
"I'm trying!" I yelled. "They won't come up!"
Every second I stood there, I sunk another inch. When the oozing mud began toppling into my boots, I finally did what any self-respecting woman would do: I bawled. Exasperated, Keith turned around and started back for me. He was muttering something under his breath that I couldn't exactly make out, but I was pretty sure somebody needed to wash his mouth out. I was also pretty sure he was in no mood for it to be me. He tugged and tugged until he pulled my stocking feet right out of my boots. We hiked back to the car early that day, birdless, bootless, and with me on his back. It wasn't the last time.
Sinking inch by inch. That's what happens in a pit. Jeremiah knew the feeling and, mind you, he hadn't even sinned his way into it. Jeremiah 38:6 describes his pit as a place of sinking down. Imagine how much worse it was with sandals. No matter what's on your feet, you can take this fact to the spiritual bank: a pit only gets deeper. Low ground always sinks. There's no living at maintenance level in a pit.
You'd think enough has already been said about the irony of Christians and substandard living ... even from my own loud mouth and scrawling pen. I don't know why, but it drives me nuts that people stay in bad places when they don't have to. That's a big part of what makes a pit a pit. Feeling stuck.
I guess it drives me nuts to see them living in those pits because I've been there. I was stuck quite a while myself before I realized I didn't have to stay there. And now that I'm no longer stuck, I want everybody else out of that trap.
You can't stand up. In Psalm 69:2, David cried out, "I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing" (NKJV). If you're not already convinced, it's time you accepted the biblical fact that your soul has a very real enemy, and he is not flesh and blood. We can't keep on ignoring someone who is systematically trying to destroy our lives. The passivity has got to go. Ephesians 6:11 implores us, "Take your stand against the devil's schemes." Your stand. No one can stand indefinitely for you. If you and I are going to be victorious people, we've got to stand with our own two feet on solid ground. Ephesians 6:13 exhorts, "Stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand."
One way you can know you're in a pit is that you feel ineffective and utterly powerless against attack. You can't stand up to assaults, trials, or temptations because your feet are in the mud and mire. You experience what the psalmist experienced and what I certainly experienced-you're in a place "where there is no standing." That's why the testimony of the person rescued from the pit paints this vivid picture of an all-new venue: "He set my feet upon a rock and gave me a firm place to stand" (Psalm 40:2b).
I beg you to see that your enemy has a tremendous investment not only in digging and camouflaging a pit in your path-way but also, should you tumble down, in convincing you to stay there after you fall in. He knows that in his pit you will feel powerless to stand up against him. There you are vulnerable to him and out of his way.
To the ancient Hebrew, a pit was a literal or figurative reference to the grave-to its threat-or to an abyss so deep the dweller within it felt like the living dead. Been there? Me too. Drawing from the figurative application, we'll define pit this way: a pit is an early grave that Satan digs for you in hopes he can bury you alive. Should you fall into it, make no mistake; he cannot make you stay. Ironically, neither will God make you leave. Like it or not, some things are simply up to us.
You've lost vision. Unlike that rank old RV, pit shave no windows. Scripture paints them as places of darkness. I'm not talking about demonic darkness, although if we go deep enough and stay long enough, we will certainly encounter the darkness of utter evil. I'm talking about something more basic than that. I'm referring to the kind of darkness that simply impairs our vision. A pit is so poorly lit we can no longer see things that may have once been obvious to us. That's another reason we often stay in a pit. Without windows we're convinced we have nowhere else to go. Yes, we can always look up-goodness knows that's the only opening we have-but we're often too focused on our sinking feet to crane our necks to the blinding sky. We become what the Bible calls stiff necked. The close confinement of a pit exhausts us with the endless echo of self-absorption. Visibility extends no further than six inches from our noses. We can't see out, so we turn our sights in. After a while, nearsightedness breeds hopelessness. We feel too buried in our present state to feel passionate about a promised future.
Created in the image of God, we are meant to brim over with creativity. Yes, that means you. Don't tell me you're not the creative type. I'm not talking right-brain-versus left-brain drivel. I'm not talking about accountant types versus actor types. All image-bearers of God were intended to overflow with effervescent life, stirring and spilling with God-given vision. That's partly what the apostle Paul was talking about when he prayed that the eyes of our hearts would be enlightened in order that we might know the hope to which Christ has called us (see Ephesians 1:18). The Amplified Bible calls it "having the eyes of your heart flooded with light." That's what you miss in the pit.
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Attorney Mark Dean returned to the Shelbyville City Council on Thursday night and closed the deal on getting the last stretch of Clubhouse Drive annexed into the city.
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Shelby County public and private schools are closed today because of the 3 to 4 inches of snow thta has pelted Shelby County since midnight. Cornerstone Christian Academy, Our Lady of Guadalupe/Corpus Christi High School and the Shelby County campus of Jefferson Community and Technical College all are closed. Temperatures are expected to plummet today, causing roads that had been treated to refreeze.
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BUCKNER -- When it really mattered, the Rockets were able to play smart basketball Friday night.
Consider the final minutes of Shelby's 61-58 victory at Oldham County a template for closing out games.
The Rockets went 6-for-7 from the line in the final two minutes. They didn't make any silly turnovers. And neither did they give up an open 3-point shot.
Anti-bullying, school violence program set for Feb. 12
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In no uncertain certain terms, she wanted to make it clear to her brother that he shouldn't bring his football along to the meeting.
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Donald Farabee died Wednesday at his home after a battle with cancer, and Bruce Langley, his friend and former co-worker, cheerfully remembered Farabee's personality.
Farabee, 59, was known as a man of many roles, but those who knew him said his unifying characteristic in all roles was his kindness and easy-going nature.
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