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Small Beginnings

Sometimes God whispers.   Perhaps He always whispers?

His voice is gentle and full of hope.

Lately, the phrase “don’t despise small beginnings” has been playing on repeat in my heart.

“Don’t despise small beginnings.”  Gentle and hopeful…

Starting in June of 2009, a series of events occurred in my life that totally derailed everything.

For three and a half years, I was living in survival mode, tending only to the most important things.  Things like budgets and exercise programs felt unattainable.   Things like  feeding and loving my kids and maintaining my marriage took priority.

Honestly, I could not handle any more than that.

I could barely handle that.

The rest of my emotional energy was spent just trying to keep from plummeting into the depths of depression

Thankfully, things are much better now!

I can breathe again…

However, there is a lot to catch up on.  I still haven’t lost the baby weight.  Our finances need to be better managed.  Our house needs to be more organized.  I want to be a better and more consistent writer.

I feel overwhelmed…  ALL. THE. FREAKING.TIME.

Then I hear “don’t despise small beginnings.” Gentle and hopeful…

So, I exercise 15 minutes a day and keep a food journal.  That is ALL I am going to do.

We wrote a budget (again)and we are keeping better track of our money. However,  we are NOT going all Dave Ramsey crazy.

I devote one afternoon a week to writing.  It’s practice and it’s therapy.

Small beginnings… Very small beginnings.

Do you feel overwhelmed?

It’s ok.  I do too.  I think God would speak the same thing to you.

“Don’t despise small beginnings.” Gentle and hopeful…

Do what you can.  If you are in a season where you are doing all that you can, be at peace.

The season will end.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… Romans 8:1

Defining Moments

In every person’s life there are events that change you forever.  You can look back and see a clear divide between before and after.   You were one person before and someone else after.

Defining moments

The birth of a child, especially the first child,  is that type of event for most parents.

Josiah’s birth was a defining moment for me but not only for the usual reasons.  His birth was the most traumatic event of my life.  When I look back, I feel like I don’t even know the person I was before.

I almost lost a child that day and my own life was at risk. It all happened so fast. The world became a scary place where any terrible thing could happen at any time.

It changed me.

I have often wondered why it has had such a dramatic impact on my life?  I think it comes down to this; before I believed that if I just made the right choices, behaved properly and believed the right things, I would be SAFE.

Theologically incorrect and self -righteous.

After, God’s goodness came into question in a devastating way- the questions that had previously been whispering to me, were now SHOUTING.

Is God real?

Does He love me?

Will he protect me?

Is He sovereign?

I told myself things like-  Your son is alive! He is healthy! You are alive! You should just be grateful!

Oh the guilt...

You know what??

However, that gratitude does not silence the grief of dreams and innocence lost.  It does not silence the guilt I sometimes still feel when I wonder “did I do something to cause it??” It does not silence the questions and doubts that arise from going through something that seems so senseless.

Grief and gratitude are not mutually exclusive and neither are faith and doubt!

I have had to adjust my theology from God will protect me if I do/say/think all the right things to God works all things together for the good of those that love him…  My “safety” is totally out of my hands.  My good deeds don’t save me in a spiritual or a physical way.

One of the most painful things about this season of my life was the feeling that I was alone.  I felt like people only wanted to hear the praise but not the pain

If you know a mom (or anyone) who has gone through something like this, even if they are spouting joy and praise, there is probably underlying pain, grief, guilt and doubt.

Ask them questions and don’t be afraid of the answers.

I say that knowing many people will be afraid of the answers.

I am not anymore.

Josiah’s birth was a defining moment in a messy and beautiful way.  As Glennon Melton from Momastery.com says, it was “brutiful.”  Both brutal and beautiful.

I may not remember the girl I was before Josiah was born but I am getting to know who I am now.  It’s messy and good.  I have more to offer a hurting world now…

I am a beautiful mess and He is truly bringing beauty from the ashes.

Confessions of a Less Than Perfect Mom

So, this whole “mom” thing is kind of hard for me.  I keep waiting for the “I was made for this” epiphany to take place.

Still waiting…

Sure, I have those wonderful moments.  You know the ones.  They are rare and last about 2 seconds. The house is clean, the bills are paid, dinner is in the crock-pot, and the kids are contently playing with each other.  Then, just when I am about to congratulate myself, Asha screams from the other room.  I run towards her.  Clearly, someone is murdering her…

As it turns out, the house is no longer clean… they dumped ALL the toys and squished ALL the goldfish deep into the carpet.  Asha will now scream for at least 30 minutes because Josiah took just ONE of her many necklaces.  Of course, he needs it to rescue Batman from the water…

Most of the time I feel like one of those Greyhound dogs at the race track.  They run hard after that rabbit but they never catch it.  My “rabbit” is contentment.

Such an elusive little rabbit.

Here is my big secret…. I wasn’t made for this.

Were you?

Please don’t misunderstand me.  I love my kids and would give my life for them. If I could go back in time and choose again, I would choose them a million times.

That said, being a mother means laying down almost everything that makes me feel like myself… the very things I do feel like I was made to do.

I know I am not the only mom that feels out of her element when it comes to motherhood.

Not many talk about it because of ugly “mom guilt.”

Here’s the thing, admitting that you don’t fit the mom mold doesn’t mean you don’t love your kids!

Admitting that being a mother does not fulfill your every desire does not make you a bad mom.

So, here I am admitting all those things.

My journey as a mother has not been all cupcakes and rainbows but one thing is for sure…

I heard recently that 40% of people will get cancer.  That statistic is not comforting for someone like me who tends to be anxious and fearful about such things.  For several days, I let that statistic take root and cause me to fear.  Then one day, I was reminded that I have a 60% chance of NOT getting cancer and even if I do become one of the 40%, many of those survive.

Suddenly, I was comforted.  Nothing changed.  I just changed my perspective on the exact same information.

Yesterday was a horrible day.  I keep thinking about what those families are going through and I am horrified. It’s unimaginable.  I don’t even want to put words to the images in my mind.

The temptation again is to fear.  In recent years, we have seen shootings in malls, schools, movie theaters, churches, mission organizations, workplaces etc…  My reaction is to want to avoid all these places.

Lately, when I go to the mall, I find myself paying extra attention and planning what action I would take if something were to happen.  I get nervous when Jaison goes to a late night movie with friends. I’m scared to send my son to preschool next week.

Fear and anxiety…

Yet, this morning, I am reminded that MILLIONS of children went to school yesterday and came home safe.  MILLIONS of people go to churches, malls, restaurants and various workplaces EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. and come home safe.

In one of the news reports, I read that Newtown, CT was once the “safest place to live in America” and known for its’ high quality schools. I’m not sure if that’s true, but it goes to show me that I cannot control my own safety simply by living or working in the right place.

I have to live my life, and trust God. I can not let the actions of evil people steal my life, joy and opportunity.  They have already stolen enough.

Picture Perfect

My life is not picture perfect.  I’m guessing yours isn’t either. However, social media sites like Facebook and Pinterest can give the impression that EVERYBODY else’s life is picture perfect, while mine or yours is kinda messy.

I wonder sometimes, how many people spend their lives pursuing a commercialized or social media driven perception of happiness? All the while, taking their potentially fulfilling real lives for granted.

I’ve used Facebook for a few years and I have watched everyday snapshots become more and more professional looking and commercialized.   It makes me wonder if we are subconsciously (or consciously) using social media to “market” a certain perception of ourselves rather than to share our reality?

If you could see a snapshot of my life at this very moment, you would see me sitting on the couch in a sweatshirt with no make-up.  The mess from lunch is still all over the kitchen.  There are toys everywhere.  Asha’s crazy curly hair is starting to dread because I haven’t washed it for a few days and she has snot on her face because I can’t keep her from wiping it straight up into her hair.  Yuck!  I probably won’t post our picture on Facebook today!

We post the highlights and occasionally the rants but not the “ugly” stuff.  Nobody puts “I forgot to pay my credit card last month and Citibank called me 75 times today and keeps calling even after I paid it” on their status.

Yep, that happened to me!  Why didn’t I post it? Because it’s kind of embarrassing ..what will people think of me?  They might think I’m so disorganized, I can’t even pay my bills on time. They would be a little bit right and I would rather hide that fact.

So, instead I/we post things like… “My husband is so awesome, he did such and such”  OR “My kid got 120% on everything and reads 200 books everyday…” it becomes easy to believe that everyone is perfect and happy when we only see their highlights and when they only see ours.  Then we compare our reality to other people’s highlights and we feel like a huge mess.

I do that all the time.

Perhaps I am the only one?  Probably not!

The truth is- Nobody’s life is perfect.  We all have strengths and weaknesses.  We post our strengths on Facebook and feel bad when someone else’s strength reminds us of our weakness.

The last few years, Jaison and I have been kind of just holding on.  Desperately trying not to fall into the grips of rejection, grief, anxiety and depression.  It’s much better now and there is starting to be “room” for more in our lives.  However, for a long season we just did what was necessary to stay afloat.  We kept it simple.  No elaborate projects or traditions. Just the basics.

Soooooooo, no fancy pictures of our house, yard, baby nursery, Christmas traditions, vacations, etc…

I’ll admit, I often have felt bad when I have seen other people’s pictures of their projects and traditions.  I have felt like I was somehow cheating my kids because they don’t have chandeliers and murals in their rooms or mischievous elves stalking them.

Here’s the truth- IT DOESN’T MATTER!

We made it through a horrible season of life while maintaining a simple but happy life for our children and a growing marriage. Our kids are happy, we have made some great memories and we have learned some awesome lessons.

There is no way to take a picture of that.

If there was, it probably wouldn’t be pretty. It would be all messy, blurry, totally unprofessional and I would love it.  I would love it even more than a professional picture that made me look really skinny!  I would love it because it’s my REAL life. Someone else might look at it and think “ugh, what a terrible picture”  but I will always know the beauty of it.

What would your real life picture look like?

Hope Surrendered

Life, doesn’t always go the way we hope.

Nobody likes to suffer.  Even Jesus prayed “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Something inside Him hoped for a less painful, less humiliating way.  Yet,  even knowing what was coming, He surrendered that hope.

His hope surrendered ultimately produced hope eternal.

To really know Jesus, I believe we have to know suffering…disappointment, rejection, humiliation, grief, and sorrow.

It has taken me a long time to accept this and these truths are still working themselves out in my life, but this passage means something so much deeper to me now; He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,  stricken by him, and afflicted…  Isaiah 53:3-4 NIV

For me, “hope deferred” (Proverbs 13:12) has become hope surrendered.  My posture before the Lord has changed to a “not my will but yours be done” posture in a deeper way than I have ever known before.

That’s not to say that I don’t have bad days.  I do.  I have really bad days.  Throw in the towel and become an atheist days.  However, I always end up with my hope surrendered.

May it become hope eternal.

Poem taken from “Streams in the Desert”  November 30

There is a peace that cometh after sorrow,
Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;
A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow,
But calmly on a tempest that it stilled.
“A peace that lives not now in joy’s excesses,
Nor in the happy life of love secure;
But in the unerring strength the heart possesses,
Of conflicts won while learning to endure.
“A peace there is, in sacrifice secluded,
A life subdued, from will and passion free;
‘Tis not the peace that over Eden brooded,
But that which triumphed in Gethsemane.”

Who Likes Change Anyway?

Not me!  Yet my life is about to change in some drastic ways.

When we started a family, all I wanted was to settle down.  For me, settling down meant  having an steady income, health insurance and a home of our own.  Pretty basic stuff.   We had that for awhile and let me tell you, it was the most peace-less season of my adult life.  I was miserable!

Now, we are about to leave all that behind, and I am afraid. I have a deep sense of peace about our decision to move but I am worried about the details.  Where will we live?  How will we pay for healthcare?   And, most importantly, will I have money for coffee????  Someone please tell me I will have money for decent coffee!  Please!

Yeah, yeah, I know the Bible says “do not be afraid”  a zillion or so times.  As well as saying things like “do not worry.”  And here I am, afraid and worried and strangely peaceful at the same time.  Seriously, how can all these emotions coexist in the same person?

Our pastor recently said to me “faith isn’t the absence of fear.”  Phew!  That’s a relief!

Unfortunately, I am a control freak who has to relinquish control to God at least a million times a day!   I feel like I need to take it all upon myself to make things happen and that  NEVER leads anywhere good… I still haven’t quite figured out I am not God.

Instead of trusting God with the details, I am obsessing over them, doing the math, and overwhelming myself.  The only place to find comfort, is in the Lord.  I need to BELIEVE Him when He says, “I am with you”  and “all things work together for good.”

Even….  Uprooting my kids?  Leaving my family behind?  Having a very uncertain income?  Leaving my house in the hands of strangers?  Drinking grocery store coffee?

Yes, even those things!

I don’t know what’s going to happen.  I CAN”T know what’s going to happen.  But I do know that God is in control and He has never left me alone.  I CAN know my past and I know that all things have worked (and are working) together for my good.

So, today I am going to live for today.  I’m going to face the things that are in front of me.  I am going to trust that God will be faithful, just as He always has been faithful.

Everything is going to be ok…right??

I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be “broken”  by the Lord.

It’s no secret, the last few years have been messy.  Disappointment, death, financial difficulty, depression, rejection, and indifference are just a few of the “trials” we have endured and continue to endure.

I have been leveled, isolated, broken.  I have been reminded of  who I would be without the redemptive power of Jesus.  It’s not good at all.

As much as I hate to admit it, I am thankful for the mess.  I can see glimpses of what it is producing in me and it is good.  I see surrender where there was battle.  Humility where there was pride.  Compassion where there was indifference.   Trust where there was fear.

Of course, there are still battles, pride lives on, indifference protects and doubt and fear creep in.  But, they control me less than they used to.

I have been healed and I am being healed.  God is good and scripture often talks about how God tears down in order to build up.  I understand that now more than ever before. He allowed some of the ugly stuff to be destroyed so He could re-build my broken life and make something beautiful out of it.

I have persevered (clung by a thread to my faith when I felt completely abandoned) and perseverance produces character and character produces hope.  I have hope again.

So, what does it mean to be broken?  In this season of my life brokeness came from having every high opinion of myself destroyed and ultimately coming to a place of surrender.

Whenever I feel the fight and anxiety coming back, I just put my palms up before the Lord and say “you know best.”

A Little Story and A Product Review

Fair warning-this post is about “girl stuff” but is not graphic or offensive!

Just for the record (in case someone fails to read to the end) I am NOT pregnant!!!!

A week or so ago, I suspected there may be a Samuel baby #3 in the works.  So, I went to Target to pick up a test.  I was feeling a little thrifty that day, so I opted for the Up & Up brand (Target)  box of three, instead of going with my usual preference for First Response Early Result.

I took my tests home and did what was necessary.  Despite being quite experienced in using these tests, I actually read the directions and followed them to the letter, since this was my first time using this brand.  Sure enough, after a minute or so, there was a blue line!  I am sure all of my blood drained into my feet and I almost passed out.  After all, positive is positive… Right?  Right?

I used all three tests and all three were clearly positive!  Jaison and I were bracing ourselves for all that would come with another pregnancy and baby… Then I decided to buy a box of my preferred brand of test, just to confirm.  The first one was negative.  What??  So was the second one as well as the third one.  What the heck?? All of this was happening over the course of several days.

I was quite confused because I know that the First Response tests are MORE sensitive than the Up & Up tests, so they should have been showing a positive result.  I decided to google Up & Up brand tests and found that there are TONS of people online complaining about false positives!

As it turns out, I am not pregnant!  I have always believed that false positives are VERY rare, but I had three of them in a couple of days!  I am not sharing this because I enjoy sharing the intimate details of my life on the internet.  I’m sharing because a false positive could be devastating to a couple struggling with infertility.  A false positive could also have a devastating effect on someone trying not to conceive.  Everyone who reads this should pass this info on to their friends.  I plan on contacting Target but they already know about the problem and are still selling the tests.

The good thing is this gave Jaison and I a glimpse into our own hearts.  We have been going back and forth about having a third baby for some time now.   When we thought I was pregnant, we were both excited about the “baby” but disappointed with the timing.  When we found out that I am not pregnant, we were disappointed that there is no baby but relieved about the timing.  So, I guess we can all expect that there will be a Samuel baby #3 in the works sometime soon (ish)!

Moral of the story? NEVER, EVER buy an Up & Up (Target) brand pregnancy test!

On The Shore of The Sea

Sometimes our destiny, calling or blessing lies across a deep, raging sea.  We stand on the shore,  knowing that we do not have the strength to cross.   The people around us tell us that there is no way to get to the other side.  It is impossible.  It is easier here on this side.  Safer.  They tell us, we tell ourselves, that we don’t have what it takes to succeed over there. They are right, but something compels us to get to the other side, to cross the raging sea.  Somehow we know that what we were made for lies waaaaay over there.  So, we stand here on shore of the sea…scared, overwhelmed,  doubting, questioning our own sanity.

I’m there.  Jaison and I are there together.  Standing here, looking towards our destiny.   Torn, between living a safe  life that we have not been called to, and moving forward across enormous challenges to continue the journey to our destiny.   Even as I write this, I am questioning myself.  Destiny?  That is just some whimsical idea.  Calling?  Whatever!  Yet, I truly believe in those things.  Somehow I know that God has things for us that we will only take hold of if we cross the raging sea.

You know, the Israelites were there too.  They left Egypt where their needs were met in slavery, only to end up on the shore of a raging sea. Their destiny lying on the other side.  Slavery probably looked good as their hearts filled with doubt  What? You want me to cross THAT?  With my kids? We will drown.  At least we had homes and food and jobs in Egypt.  It was impossible. There was NO way they were getting across the sea.   Until, Moses obeyed God and simply lifted his arms.  Seriously, how easy was that?  The sea parted and they saw the biggest miracle of their lives.

 Doubt became awe.

It is impossible for us.  There is no way we can cross the raging sea.  So, we stand here…but God is starting to tell us to move…to lift our arms…to just take the first step…be obedient…have faith.  It is terrifying, but we will see the impossible.

Doubt will become awe.

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Observations of anthropogenic global warming

New research – February 2014

Posted by Ari Jokimäki on March 4, 2014

Some selected papers as included in my New research stream in Twitter and in Facebook during February 2014. There are 155 papers, which makes it about 5.5 papers per day.

CMIP5 multi-model hindcasts for the mid-1970s shift and early 2000s hiatus

Record occurrence and record values in daily and monthly temperatures

Causes of past and future Arctic stratospheric temperature trends (open access)

A Lagrangian Investigation of Hot and Cold Temperature Extremes in Europe

Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series For U.S. Climate Divisions

Surface and tropospheric temperature trends in Armenia

Temporal and spatial variation of 10-day mean air temperature in Northwestern China

Temperature trends under climate change in the source region of the Yellow River, China

Homogenization via pairwise comparisons with application to Argentinean temperature series

Competing roles of GHGs and anthropogenic aerosols in Indian Ocean SST during the 20th century

Decadal variability of heat content in the South China Sea (open access)

European degree-day climatologies and trends for the period 1951–2011

Model simulation and projection of European heat waves in present-day and future climates

Northern Eurasian Heat Waves and Droughts

Attribution of temperature and precipitation changes to greenhouse gases in northwest Iran

Estimating climate sensitivity and future temperature in presence of natural climate variability

Statistical Significance of Climate Sensitivity Predictors Obtained by Data Mining

Impact of AMOC on ocean heat storage and transient climate change

Is AMOC more predictable than North Atlantic heat content?

Comparison of surface albedo feedback in climate models and observations (open access)

Uncertainty of concentration-terrestrial carbon feedback in Earth system models

On the alleged coherence between the global temperature and the sun’s movement

The controversial early brightening in the first half of 20th century: measurements in Madrid

China’s dimming and brightening: evidence, causes and hydrological implications (open access)

Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature

Volcanic forcing for climate modeling: a data set covering years 1600–present (open access)

Global survey of instantaneous linkages between cloud vertical structure and large-scale climate

Decrease in cloud cover over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1600

Extreme precipitation over Europe and its relationships with teleconnection patterns (open access)

Causes and predictability of the record wet east Australian spring 2010

Trends in precipitation extremes and return levels in Hawaiian Islands under a changing climate

North Sea storminess from a novel storm surge record since AD 1843

Projected changes in hailstorms during the 21st century over the UK

Climate change impacts on extreme events in the United States (open access)

North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and U.S. Flooding

Tropical cyclones in enhanced resolution CMIP5 experiments

A 66-year tropical cyclone record for south-east Africa: temporal trends in a global context

Climatic Change special issue: A new scenario framework for climate change research (open access)

Airborne high spatial and moderate spectral resolution imaging of methane (open access)

Special Workshop on Climatic Effects of Ozone Depletion in the Southern Hemisphere (open access)

Evolution of Total Atmospheric Ozone from 1900 to 2100 Estimated with Statistical Models

Future Arctic temperature and ozone: the role of stratospheric composition changes

Pollution trends over Europe constrain global aerosol forcing as simulated by climate models

Brown Carbon in the Continental Troposphere

Understanding and attributing the Euro-Russian summer blocking signatures

Extreme temperature events in Central Europe related to high pressure blocking situations (open access)

The varied impacts of El Niño – Southern Oscillation on Pacific island climates

The Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate

Observed decline of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation 2004–2012 (open access)

The implication of radiative forcing and feedback for meridional energy transport

Effects of changing winds and temperatures on the oceanography of Ross Sea in 21st century

Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63

Equatorward shift of the South Asian high in response to anthropogenic forcing

Robust response of the East Asian monsoon rainband to solar variability

Performance of CMIP3 and CMIP5 global climate models over the north-east Atlantic region

Multi-decadal global cooling and ozone loss following regional nuclear conflict (open access)

Modeling the impacts of a man-made lake on the meteorological conditions of the surrounding areas

Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models

Greenland Ice Sheet melt from MODIS and associated atmospheric variability (open access)

77% increase of ice discharge since 1973 from Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

Export and circulation of ice cavity water in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica

Contribution of snow and glacier melt to discharge for highly glacierised catchments in Norway (open access)

Modelled trends in Antarctic sea ice thickness

Changes in Arctic melt season and implications for sea ice loss

Cyclone impact on sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean (open access)

The role of the mean state of Arctic sea ice on near-surface temperature trends

Sea-ice extent and its trend provide limited metrics of model performance (open access)

Interannual predictability of Arctic sea ice in a global climate model (open access)

Summer Arctic sea ice albedo in CMIP5 models (open access)

Autumn Eurasian snow depth, autumn Arctic sea ice cover and East Asian winter monsoon

Spatial variations in snow cover and seasonally frozen ground over N China and Mongolia, 1988-2010

Snowfall time-series reconstruction in Italy over the last 300 years

New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes, but will it last?

Response of ice cover on shallow lakes of N Slope of Alaska to climate conditions (open access)

Local spring warming drives earlier river-ice breakup in a large Arctic delta (Mackenzie River)

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity (open access)

Amazon forest biomass density maps: tackling the uncertainty in carbon emission estimates

Heterogeneity of impacts of high CO2 on the North Western European Shelf (open access)

Tree mortality in response to climate change induced drought across Beijing, China

The imprint of climate within Northern Hemisphere trees

Effects of forest age on albedo in boreal forests

Phenology as a strategy for carbon optimality: a global model (open access)

Spring leaf phenology and the diurnal temperature range in a temperate maple forest

A 170-year spring phenology index of plants in eastern China

Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Landward migration potential of Mangroves in response to sea level rise (open access)

Climate change has confounding impact on Phytophthora cinnamomi occurrence risk in the SW USA

Estimation of environmental suitability for malaria vector development in Portugal

A continental (N America) risk assessment of West Nile virus under climate change

Larvae of the coral eating crown-of-thorns starfish in warmer-high CO2 ocean

Global warming will reshuffle areas of high prevalence of three avian blood parasite genera

Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds

Albedo-induced radiative forcing from mountain pine beetle outbreaks in forests (open access)

Evolutionary responses to global change: lessons from invasive species (open access)

Net terrestrial CO2 exchange over China during 2001-2010

Predicting ecosystem carbon balance in a warming Arctic

A Growing Oceanic Carbon Uptake: Results from an inversion study of surface pCO2 data

Influence of the oceanic cool skin layer on global air–sea CO2 flux estimates

Air–sea CO2 flux in the Pacific Ocean for the period 1990–2009 (open access)

Evidence for a differential sea level rise between hemispheres over the 20th century

On the ability of global sea level reconstructions to determine trends and variability

Sea level extremes at the coasts of China

Cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function sea-level reconstruction (open access)

Exploring local (California Current) adaptation and the ocean acidification seascape (open access)

Response of ocean acidification to gradual increase and decrease of atmospheric CO2 (open access)

Climate change drives coherent trends in physics and oxygen content in North American lakes

Impact of human population density on fire frequency at the global scale (open access)

Changes to the drivers of fire weather with a warming climate in southeast Tasmania

Fire weather and large fire potential in the northern Sierra Nevada

Radiative effect of August 2010 Russian wildfires (open access)

Long-term groundwater variations in Northwest India from satellite gravity measurements

Climate change generally increases water stress in USA (open access)

High-mortality days during winter season: comparing meteorological conditions across 5 US cities

Climate-driven variability of water scarcity in food production potential (open access)

The impacts of long-term and year-to-year temperature change on corn yield in China

Recent trends in international tourist climate preferences

Climate and security: evidence, emerging risks, and a new agenda

Impact of climate change on human-wildlife-ecosystem interactions in Trans-Himalaya region of Nepal

Climate change and energy security: an analysis of policy research

Quantifying the climate impacts of albedo changes due to biofuel production (open access)

Germany’s regional and local climate response to arable land bioenergy production

Perceptions of time in relation to climate change

Analysis of Ultimate Fossil Fuel Reserves and Associated CO2 Emissions in IPCC Scenarios

The future role of agriculture and land use change for climate change mitigation in Bangladesh

Geothermal Energy for Northern Canada: Is it Economical?

Carbon Footprint Taxes

Recent and future trends in synthetic greenhouse gas radiative forcing

The feasibility of a European-wide integrated CO2 transport network

Nitrous oxide emissions 1999 to 2009 from a global atmospheric inversion (open access)

Modern economies are not following a sustainable energy consumption path

The potential of microblogs for the study of public perceptions of climate change

Japan’s energy conundrum: Post-Fukushima scenarios from a life cycle perspective

Cold and warm spells and their impact on energy consumption in urban areas

Blame avoidance and problem denial in climate change policy-making

Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate geoengineering

Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments

Well-to-wheel analysis on greenhouse gas emission and energy use with natural gas in Korea

Changing consumption choices has high greenhouse gas reduction potential

The politics of climate change in the UK

Autonomous adaptation to climate change has already begun in agricultural region of N Europe

Communicating adaptation to climate change

From climate research to climate compatible development in the Netherlands

Global look at climate adaptation actions financed through the Global Environment Facility

Can sea ice albedo uncertainty reconcile data-model discord for Pliocene and 20th/21st centuries?

Precipitation reconstruction for the Czech Lands, AD 1501–2010

Interdependence of the growth of the NH ice sheets during the last glaciation (open access)

Little Ice Age on the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering mountains

Climate as a driver of ecological community change across the Anthropocene boundary

Hysteresis of Glaciations in the Permo-Carboniferous

High-resolution 1500-year chironomid stratigraphy from a southwestern Greenland lake

Middle- to late-Holocene storminess in Brittany (NW France)

Characterizing atmospheric circulation signals in Greenland ice cores

Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5 (open access)

The impact of climate-vegetation interactions on the onset of the Antarctic ice sheet

A glossary for biometeorology (open access)

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Welcome To Life! by The Elephant's Child

Who Was It Who Said Celebrities are Those Who are Famous Only for Being Famous? by The Elephant's Child

I am not watching the Oscars. I am only grateful that it marks the end of the seemingly endless exercise of the glitterati congratulating themselves for the remarkable wonderfulness of their contributions to the world’s culture. Oscars and Emmys and endless awards, borrowed dresses and borrowed jewelery and borrowed makeup. I don’t care who wins what. I don’t care who wears what. I am not interested. There are more important things going on in the world. And it may be astonishing, but there are way more important people, more important ideas and more important events.

The Oscars Live From Kiev. by The Elephant's Child

(h/t: American Digest)

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Could We Possibly Get to A Point Where We Are Not “Astonished” by Events? by The Elephant's Child

Politico report called it “a crisis no one anticipated.” The Daily Beast, reporting on Friday’s US intelligence assessment that “Vladimir Putin’s military would not invade Ukraine,” and quotes a Senate aide claiming that “no one really saw this kind of thing coming.” The American Interest noted that the mainstream media remains deeply convinced that President Obama and his dovish team are “the masters of foreign relations, nothing poor Putin did could possibly derail the stately progress of our genius president. There were, we were told lots of reasons not to worry about Ukraine. War is too costly for Russia’s weak economy. Trade would suffer, the ruble would take a hit. The 2008 war with Georgia is a bad historical comparison, Putin doesn’t want to spoil his upcoming G8 summit, or his good press from Sochi.”

How many times did foolishly confident American experts and officials come out with some variant of the phrase “We all share a common interest in a stable and prosperous Ukraine.” We may think that’s true, but Putin doesn’t.

We blame this in part on the absence of true intellectual and ideological diversity in so much of the academy, the policy world and the mainstream media. Most college kids at good schools today know many more people from different races and cultural groups than their grandparents did, but they are much less exposed to people who think outside the left-liberal box. How many faithful New York Times readers have no idea what American conservatives think, much less how Russian oligarchs do? Well bred and well read Americans live in an ideological and cultural cocoon and this makes them fatally slow to understand the very different motivations that animate actors ranging from the Tea Party to the Kremlin to, dare we say it, the Supreme Leader and Guide of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

As far as we can tell, the default assumption guiding our political leadership these days is that the people on the other side of the bargaining table (unless they are mindless Tea Party Republicans) are fundamentally reasonable people who see the world as we do, and are motivated by the same things that motivate us. Many people are, of course, guided by an outlook not all that dissimilar from the standard upper middle class gentry American set of progressive ideas. But some aren’t, and when worlds collide, trouble comes.

Canada has promptly recalled its ambassador to Russia, and cancelled their attendance at the G8 conference. The G7 are suspending their participation in any international summit in Russia. I think that The American Interest has it exactly right. The White House operates on the assumption that the people with whom we negotiate are really reasonable people who basically want the same things that we do.  Well, no they’re not. Has no one noticed that Putin has allied himself with Syria, Iran, North Korea. Moscow denounced the overthrow of Moscow’s man in Kiev, Viktor Yanukovych as the illegal work of fascist bandits.

Obama wants stability. He sees Ukraine as a crisis to be managed. Democracy must come organically from international developments, not imposed by outside intervention. What he does not understand is that American inaction creates a vacuum. Obama’s meaningless “red line” in Syria invited in Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Obama’s failure to get a status of forces agreement with Iraq invited in Iran and al Qaeda. And he is apparently ready to turn Afghanistan over to the Taliban. Obama’s lifting of the sanctions against Iran has allowed them the freedom to finish developing their nuclear weapons.

These are not reasonable people who want the same things we do.The citizens of these countries may be reasonable people, but their governments are a different bunch. The people of Iran were once quite cosmopolitan, but the Mullahs await the return of the Mahdi  and expect nuclear weapons to hasten the reestablishment of the Caliphate.

The Saudis and  the leaders of the Gulf States are deeply worried about Iran. One might assume that they are more familiar with their neighbors than we are. We should perhaps pay attention.

Putin has told us over and over that the fall of Soviet Russia was the world’s greatest catastrophe, and he clearly regrets the loss of superpower status. Part of restoring the Soviet Union would seem to be recapturing its former satellite states. If we paid attention, and knew our history, we might anticipate such crises. That seems a worthy goal.

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GAIA PORTAL: Stresses of Realignment are Currently Experienced by Many…

Stresses of Realignment are Currently Experienced by Many…
by ÉirePort

Stresses of realignment of human energetic structures with upgrading Gaia grids are currently experienced by many in the Hue-manity upgrade path. This was anticipated, and is being dealt with at Higher Levels. Details need not be known at this time.

Those with physical manifestations such as aches, general discomfort, unease with 3D earth tasks, may follow inner Higher Guidance (Intuition) for instructions to deal with these. All such physical manifestations are temporary.

This realignment process continues for several months. Polar realignments occur in this same period, which adds another component to this energetic stress.

Resulting from this, however, is a strengthening in humanity general ascension grids as well as DNA upgrade for all, on ascension timeline or not.

Attention to, and honoring of, physical signals is helpful at this time.

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Mecha Declaration of Year Start

I don’t normally follow anime as it airs, Gundam and, lately, Precure excepted. (I’m looking forward to Smiley’s Precure. Apparently the Cure colours will be grey, brown, and grey-brown.) Following a few seasons behind and gleaning up titles recommended by trusted minds more or less guarantees a steady stream of things I enjoy, while trying to catch things as they air would doom me to running into something I dislike. Oh, and, Gundam again excepted, robots seem rare at the moment. However, January brought a bunch of things I’d like to keep up with, and two of them even have robots!

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The Christian Post publishes a few of my articles…

I came a cross an angry atheist’s website who mocked my last name. Something about burritos. As a result, he linked me to the evangelical and nationally acclaimed Christian news website,  The Christian Post. And I was surprised to see that they … Continue reading

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A Four-Year Old’s Reaction to the Abortion Industry

Originally published at Kuyperian Commentary Response to Comments: I am pleased with the enormous response. As of now there have been over 500 views. The vast majority of responses were very supportive and expressed in one way or another the … Continue reading

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Why I am proud to be an American

In the best sense of the term, this has been a very patriotic weekend for me. It began on Thursday evening at the Banquet for Life hosted by Safe Harbor. Safe Harbor is a ministry the saints of Providence have … Continue reading

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Bring Out the Champagne! The Party Has Just Begun!

Easter is gone, right? Actually Easter has just begun! The Easter Season lasts for 50 days. It is glorified in the PENT-ecost season. According to the Christian Calendar, Easter lasts until May 19th (Pentecost Sunday). But didn’t we spend ourselves … Continue reading

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Wine Tasting and Psalm-Roar (with Christ Church, Providence Church, and Trinity Presbyterian)

Selection for our Wine and Psalm Roar Season of Lent, March 8th, 2013 Note: The pagination listed follows the Cantus Christi Psalter /Hymnal. The links are to various samples of each psalm. Christ Church, Providence Church, & Trinity Presbyterian 1)   Psalm 1, … Continue reading

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Guilt, Grace, and Galileans

The Gospel Lesson for this Lord’s Day is from Luke 13:1-13. Pilate’s brutality is fully on display right in verse one: “Pilate had mingled Galilean blood with their sacrifices.” “Are these Galileans worse than other Galileans because they suffered in … Continue reading

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God’s House of Healing

Healing is a highly liturgical act. Jesus demonstrates this in a variety of ways, and we too ought to demonstrate it. The idea of cessationism does not do justice to the normative function of the New Creation Church. Cessationism implies … Continue reading

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On the Role of Worship

Toby Sumpter elaborates on the purpose of worship: You see, this is actually the first work of the Kingdom here. This is where we lay our ambush; this is where we perform the great air war. This is where we … Continue reading

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Liturgy is Humbling

Joel Garver explores the nature of the liturgy in this wonderful piece. He concludes: Finally, liturgy is humbling. Our worship seeks a repeated encounter with our living Lord through word and sacrament to cultivate gospel-shaped lives for the sake of … Continue reading

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Why Do I Wear a Clerical Collar?

I have been wanting to write a history of this for some time, but Pastor LeCroy has provided a short history of the wearing of clerical collars in the Presbyterian/Reformed tradition. Rev. LeCroy observes: When Reformed pastors would enter the pulpit, … Continue reading

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Liturgy, Life, and the South

Being a Protestant Calvinist in the high-church tradition is not an easy task in the deep south. Apart from the few scattered Anglicans and Lutherans around town, we are surrounded by a largely Baptistic culture. Within the Baptist stream, the … Continue reading

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Liturgical Awareness Near Death

One of the things I distinctly remember about ministering in nursing homes in college and now as a pastor is that the elderly –though most mental faculties are gone–are still liturgically aware. “The Lord be with you” is promptly greeted … Continue reading

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Man Needs Liturgy

David Chilton in his delightful Revelation commentary The Days of Vengeance demurs Protestant rationalism, which has abandoned liturgical worship. He observes that the abandonment of certain liturgical practices actually “contribute to the outbreaks of individualistic pietism.” Chilton concludes succinctly: “Man needs liturgy and … Continue reading

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Farewell to Descartes

Rosenstack-Huessy dedicates an entire chapter bidding farewell to Descartes. He observes that “we do not exist because we think. Man is the son of God and not brought into being by thinking. We are called into a society by a … Continue reading

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What the Liturgy does…

Liturgy transports worshipers into the eschaton. The corporate expression of God’s people on the Lord’s Day is an eschatological experience. In worship, the Spirit pulls us from earth to experience a taste of the world to come in heaven. When … Continue reading

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I am not quite sure of Ridderbos’ sacramental theology, yet in his commentary on John he remarks that the early church viewed John 9 as highly sacramental. He writes that the narrative of the blind man in the Pool of … Continue reading

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At Strasbourg, Calvin used the following words of absolution in his French liturgy, which he composed working from Bucer’s German model: Let each of you confess that you are truly a sinner who must humble himself before God and believe … Continue reading

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Thoughts on High Worship

High church worship (Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism) fail at the fundamental level of dualism. They pit the body against the soul; biblical, Reformed liturgical worship undoes the dualism in favor of a Psalmic-led life and liturgy where bodies are … Continue reading

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Liturgical Distinctions between man and woman

Jim Jordan–as always–has a provocative thesis in his well-known article entitled Liturgical Man, Liturgical Woman. Jim’s thesis is that “the differences between men and women are, by creation design, fundamentally liturgical and only secondarily biological and psychological. To put it another … Continue reading

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Why do we go to Church?

I offered a few thoughts here last year.

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What the Liturgy does…

Aidan Kavanaugh writes: The Sunday liturgy of Christians addresses itself primarily to the object of the assembly’s ministry, the world. The Sunday liturgy is not the Church assembled to address itself. The liturgy thus does not cater to the assembly. … Continue reading

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Exhortation: Human and Divine Liturgy

Grace, Mercy, and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. In my sermon last week I mentioned that the body in Proverbs is central to the pursuit of wisdom. The Spirit guides the body. It … Continue reading

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Forgiveness of Sins!

Hear the good news! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us. Anyone who is in Christ is a new … Continue reading

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Children in Worship

We, in the CRE, are certainly in the minority when considering the question of children in worship. With children’s church curriculum abounding in typical evangelical and presbyterian churches, our message seems to be only a drop in the vast ocean … Continue reading

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Closing Hymns/Psalms

One of the main issues I face every week in preparing hymns and psalms for Providence Church is what hymn/psalm is most suitable for closing the service. The Cantus Christi provides several beautiful tunes with richly adorned theological lyrics, and … Continue reading

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Rayburn on the sufficiency of worship…

No Christian should come to God’s house thinking anything else but that everything necessary for life and for happiness and for satisfaction and for fruitfulness is given to him or her in this worship service.

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Posture is Important

Joel Garver writes: Posture in worship is important. If we don’t permit our teens to slouch, shuffle, and stare at the ground when we are addressing them, how can we say posture is unimportant when we come into the presence … Continue reading

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On Certain Forms of Contemporary Worship…

There is a familiarity, an ease, almost a glibness toward God in this worship that communicates to no one that he is a consuming fire, or that he is angry with the wicked every day, or that his eyes are … Continue reading

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Congregational Participation?

Rev. Robert Rayburn writes: But, that is true also even in the matter of congregational participation. The new contemporary service of American Protestantism is more a service to be watched by the congregation than even the traditional Protestant service of … Continue reading

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On Robes

At Providence the elders wear white robes. This is a shift from the traditional Calvinist black robes used by pastors for hundreds of years. Why the change to white robes? Paquier summarizes well our sentiments: The Genevan gown, this anti-liturgical, … Continue reading

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ETS can cause cancer

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or secondhand smoke, is a mix of chemicals that results from  burning tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes) and from exhaled smoke.

ETS is a known human carcinogen: it causes cancer. No level of exposure is safe. Breathing ETS can cause heart disease and lung cancer in adults. According to the CDC and EPA, ETS is the third leading cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking and exposure to radon. In Minnesota, lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men and women and the leading cause of cancer death.

ETS is especially hazardous to children

ETS is especially harmful to children because their bodies are developing, yet nonsmokers aged three to 19 years of age are among the most exposed groups of nonsmokers in the U.S.

ETS increases the risk for:

  • sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
  • respiratory illness
  • middle-ear disease
  • exacerbation (worsening) of asthma in children
  • low birth weight (a newborn's birth weight is closely related to its risk of early death and long-term morbidity)

ETS exposure can be prevented

Nonsmoking adults are most likely to be exposed to ETS at home or at work, while children are most likely to be exposed at home.

Since Freedom to Breathe legislation was passed in Minnesota in 2007, smoking was banned in most workplaces and other public indoor spaces. It appears that this legislation has reduced ETS exposure to nonsmokers in Minnesota. However, many areas are not regulated, including:  homes, cars, and outdoor spaces. To learn more about Freedom to Breathe legislation, go to the MDH Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act webpage.

Avoid exposure to ETS by choosing smoke-free restaurants, hotels, and having smoke-free rules for your home and car. These protect people from ETS and send a message that smoking is not healthy, especially around children.

To learn how to prevent ETS exposure, see the U.S. Surgeon General's How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Secondhand Smoke Fact Sheet. If you smoke, the best way to protect your family or children from exposure to ETS is to quit smoking. Visit www.quitplan.com or call the free QUITPLAN Helpline at 1-888-354-PLAN (7526).

What is being done about ETS?

  • The MDH Tobacco Prevention and Control Program connects people to resources about tobacco prevention including smoking cessation, the effects of tobacco use, educational materials to prevent tobacco use, and guidance on community-based programs.
  • The Minnesota Center for Health Statistics produces Tobacco Reports from the Minnesota Youth and Adult Tobacco Surveys.

E-cigarettes are devices that some people use to inhale vapor that contains nicotine and other chemicals. They are often designed to look like cigarettes, which can complicate enforcement of Freedom to Breathe and other smoke-free laws. There is no evidence that using e-cigarettes or inhaling their secondhand vapor is safe. Some Minnesota communities have banned the use of e-cigarettes, and it is illegal to sell them to minors in Minnesota. To learn more about e-cigarettes and what can be done to regulate them, see information on electronic cigarettes.

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No. 10 Florida State beats Virginia Tech 78-68

Feb 19, 2010 - 3:20 AM By BRENT KALLESTAD Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.(AP) -- Jacinta Monroe is warming up down the stretch.

The Florida State senior had a season-high 20 points and 11 rebounds Thursday night to lead the 10th-ranked Seminoles to a 78-68 win over Virginia Tech.

"She's really using all her tools right now," Virginia Tech coach Beth Dunkenberger said. "She's tough because she can hit the high-post jumper, she can take you off the bounce and she can really go to the boards."

It was the 6-foot-5 Monroe's third double-double in five games as the Seminoles (23-4, 9-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) stayed within a game of league-leading Duke in their bid for a second straight regular season title.

"I've been playing kind of stagnant throughout the season, and that's my fault," said Monroe, who became the first Seminoles player to record 200 rebounds in four straight seasons. "I've been kind of sitting back and letting things happen. I have to make sure I step up for my teammates and play better basketball, because we need that from everybody."

Florida State has won nine of 10 games since a loss at Miami on Jan. 10. Aside from a 73-43 loss Jan. 29 at Duke, the Seminoles have won by an average of 21.1 points a game.

"When we get comfortable, we're not very good," Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. "We've got to put pressure on ourselves so we don't get comfortable."

Monroe shot 8 for 13 and had five offensive rebounds. Courtney Ward had 14 points, including 4 for 5 on 3-pointers, Cierra Bravard scored 13 points and redshirt freshman Alexa Deluzio had 11.

Deluzio had a spectacular basket where she flipped a shot blindly up over her head after being knocked to the floor.

"She's extremely athletic," Semrau said. "She has a great knack for things."

Lindsay Biggs led Virginia Tech (13-13, 2-9) with 23 points and Porschia Hadley added 15

Dunkenberger's attempts to find the right matchups against the balanced Florida State attack were overcome by the Seminoles' outside shooting.

"We didn't get out on the shooters," Dunkenberger said.

With Ward leading the way, Florida State shot 7 for 14 from long distance.

The Seminoles built their largest lead 6 minutes into the second half at 51-35 on two free throws by Monroe. Virginia Tech pulled to 68-59 with 4:15 left on Biggs' 3, but could get no closer.

Deluzio's 3 with 6 seconds left in the half gave the Seminoles a 32-37 lead at the break.

Biggs and Hadley combined for nine consecutive points as the Hokies tied the score at 18-18 with 5:46 left in the half, but Monroe's layup gave the Seminoles the lead for good.

Florida State shot 44.3 percent and had a 40-28 advantage in rebounds.

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User review on Chevrolet Sail Hatchback written by nisha on 19 June 2015

Year of Manufacture : 2014 | Driven no. of Kms. : 2100

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    Overall rating: 3.75
  • Exterior
    Overall rating: 4
  • Suspension
    Overall rating: 4
  • Comfort
    Overall rating: 3
  • Safety
    Overall rating: 4
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April 24, 2008

Sandra Ruttan tagged me in the current meme that is appearing on many a crime fiction blog. The challenge is pretty straightforward. You open the nearest book to page 123, find the fifth sentence on that page, then post the next three sentences. Fortunately, I am not currently reading Faulkner. Here’s what I came up with –

“Your woman. Justine Dalvik. I know you heard what I said a few minutes ago. That we’ve been keeping an eye on her because she’s not on the up-and-up. But you don’t want to hear that. So you’re trying to pretend you didn’t hear it at all. It’s not going to help you, Bergmann. As soon as I’m gone, you’re going to be turning it over in your mind, again and again.”

Okay, that’s more than three lines, but it give just a slight flavor of the book. A touch of procedure, a dose of dread, a case that hinges more on psychology than technology. Oh, and characters named Dalvik and Bergmann. Yes, you got it – we’re in Scandinavia, smack in the middle of Inger Frimansson’s The Shadow in the Water. I snagged an advance copy of the US edition, being published very soon by Pleasure Boat Studio.

While I’m at it, Sandra reminded me of something embarrassing – I had meant to point out Marshall Zeringue’s wonderful Campaign for the American Reader in my host post for the Carnival. I’m going to fix that, but it’s one of the best sites around for whetting your appetite for books. The Page 69 Test is a fun way to not only find out what a book sounds like, but to hear the author reflect on how it fits into the whole. A truly novel way to sample a book. (And if that’s not enough, there’s also the Page 99 Test!)

The next thing the meme involves is inviting five other bloggers to play. So now, I tag … let’s see, who hasn’t already played? – I’ll try Mary Saums, the Material Witness, the Book Bitch, David Montgomery, and Bill Crider.


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  1. That’s what I love about kids! So, what ever happened to older males that they actually think those tattoo’s are any kind of art? Those grotty beards that they’re too lazy to shave off? That’s exactly why I love kids, YEP!

  2. I’ll have you know I’m tattooed and bearded. Heck David Beckham is so incredibly hot I almost started watching soccer (football for the snooty foreigners out there) because of him. But the gorgeous sons of his are a plus also!

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Dear Planet Earth,

I’m not sure if anyone can actually read this or not.  Every major website is still offline since the cyber attack on Sunday.  I was only able to access my blog after one of my friends showed me an easy way to hack in.  The coding is apparently a lot more simple than most “real” news sites.

You can imagine my surprise when I found this message on my blog and every other page on the Internet.  Like the last mysterious message that dominated cyberspace, this one is written with foreign characters (Korean), but it’s just one long string of nonsense.  I assume that this message was likewise meant to be typed on a different keyboard layout.

The biggest news, of course, is the fact that there is no news.  Every television and radio station is still broadcasting nothing but static and every GSM cell phone is now just a paperweight.  It’s hard to tell if we’re in a state of emergency or not with so many spam messages going around.  How/Could the government communicate to people in a situation like this?  Are we in real danger or are we just not able to communicate the way we did twenty years ago?

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    the new world order is making their moves. this was all predicted years ago but discarded as nothing more than “conspiracy theories”. obama/bush/clinton have been their puppets all along. wake up people!

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Upcoming Author Interviews December 30, 2008

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I have been fortunate enough to have been granted an upcoming author interview with a few of my new favorite authors. Instead of just telling you who they are, I’m going to see if they will participate in a version of Mystery Reader, or in this case, Mystery Author. If you haven’t read my earlier post about the classroom version of Mystery Reader from Beth Newingham, you can check it out here.

New Find: Literature Map

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While doing some on-line research I came across this tool, which is new to me. It is called Literature Map and allows you to put in the name of an author and it shows you what other readers of that certain author are reading. The closer an author is in the map to your author, the closer they are related. Try it out and see what you think. It’s kind of fun.

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things December 28, 2008

“If there were no school, my troubles would blast away, just like that. I would dig holes all day. I would play catch with my gunggung. I would watch cooking shows. I would keep an eye on things. It would be fantastic!”

                                                     back book cover Alvin Ho

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look and illustrated by LeUyen Pham is a fantastic book. I picked it up this fall at Cover to Cover and it had been slid to the middle section of my TBR (To Be Read) stack before NCTE. A couple of recent blog posts reminded me I had the book and was once again drawn in by the cover illustrations and title. I went and dug it up right away.

It is a fast and easy read. I loved it and could think of so many students that this would have been (and will be) the perfect book for. The illustration style and storyline will appeal to those who are stuck in a Wimpy Kid rut.  Boys finally have a voice. I love the main character of Alvin and how the book is narrated from his point of view.  I love that there is book for those transitional/reluctant MALE readers that has an engaging and sympathetic character similar to Clementine and Ivy and Bean.

My six year old son saw me reading this book and was also drawn in by the illustrations on the cover. He thought the title was very funny. He begged me to read it to him while we waited for my daughter’s basketball game to start. He liked it so much, he was pretty sure I could keep reading it to him even after the game had started.

Alvin’s “desk buddy” Sophie (aka. Flea) is also a very likable character. Her eye patch and longer leg are treated as badges of honor, not something to make fun of.  She sticks up for Alvin and through her loyalty, he is able to learn an important lesson about himself and about friendship.

His Performance Anxiety Disorder which turns his voice completely silent as soon as he gets off the bus, his costume as Firecracker Man, his swearing in “Shakespearean” at his therapist, his loss of his father’s childhood toy, all these things and more make Alvin Ho one of the most likable characters for the second to fifth grade crowd I have seen in a long time.

I can hardly wait to get my hands on the second installment, Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters (due out June 23, 2009) will go back and read the Ruby Lu books that I am not familiar with yet.

Christmas Books from Our Collection December 27, 2008

Amazing Peace by Maya Angelou

Drummer Boy by Loren Long

Christmas Farm by Mary Lyn Ray

An Orange for Franki by Patricia Polacco

Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco

Auntie Claus by Elise Primavera

I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford

The Reindeer Christmas by Atsuko Morozumi

Santa Calls by William Joyce

Guess Who’s Coming to Santa’s for Dinner? by Tomie dePaola

Trouble With Trolls by Jan Brett

Christmas Trolls by Jan Brett

The Night Before Christmas by Jan Brett

Mrs. Claus Explains It All by Love

Santa Claus by Rod Green

Olivia Helps with Christmas by Falconer

Olive the Other Reinderr by Vivian Walsh

Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner

Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson

God Gave Us Christmas by Lisa Bregren

Christmas in the Manager Board Book by Nola Buck

The Sweet Smell of Christmas by Patricia Scarry

Who is Coming to Our House by Richard

Santa’s Reindeer by Rod Green

Jan Brett’s Christmas Treasury by Jan Brett

Madeline’s Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans

Unwrapping the Christmas Creche by Lisa Flinn and Barbara Younger

The Christmas Miracle by Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski

The Christmas Alphabet by Robert Sabuda

Waiting for Christmas: A Story about the Advent Calendar by Kathleen Bostrom

I Smell Christmas by Mercer Mayer

Country Angel Christmas by Tomie dePaola

Cookie Count by Robert Sabuda

Santa Kid by James Patterson

Hurry Santa! by Julie Sykes

Jingle Bugs by David A. Carter

Frosty’s New Friends by Richard Cowdrey

Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano

100 Cupboards December 21, 2008

100-cupboardsimg_11862The funny guy in the photo is author  N.D. Wilson. I just finished listening to his 100 Cupboards in my car. It was one of those great audiobooks that make you want to hang out in your car or drive the long way home. The main character, Henry, has ended up living with his aunt, uncle, and 3 cousins in Henry, Kansas after his parents were kidnapped. You don’t learn much about those parents, except that they were wildly overprotective, and often not around to raise their only child (there was a nanny of course).

In Henry’s new bedroom, he soon becomes aware that there is a hidden door behind the plaster of the wall. Through a great deal of nighttime working and some help from his cousin Henrietta, Henry comes upon not just one cupboard, but 100 cupboards. One door allows a peek into what appears to be a mailroom with a postmaster walking back and forth putting mail into the boxes. Another allows wind and rain to blow through.

The cupboards in his room are also linked to a mysterious door that led to what was the family’s grandfather’s room. Since his death several years before, the family has been unable to open the door.  Henry and Henrietta find the secret to opening that door as well as traveling through to worlds on the other side of the cupboards.

While there are some creepy parts, the storyline is intriguing and I can hardly wait for Dandelion Fire, the second installment of the trilogy.

Random House has a clever little sneak peek of what might be found behind the doors.

Winter Break Begins December 19, 2008

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No School (for Kids) for two weeks. A chance to breathe, catch up, slow down, and maybe even read, sleep, or blog.

Like to read author interviews? December 16, 2008

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I know that everyone is as busy getting ready for the holidays, but Mary Pope Osborne is doing a week of Blog Interviews. Today she was at The Reading Zone, and also has stops at Big A, The Well-Read Child, Fields of Gold, and The Page Flipper.  Since we all probably know a child or student who loves the Magic Tree House books, you should go check it out!


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One of the largest missionary meetings ever held in Nashville for young people was held in the Sunday school rooms of Mt. Olive Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, February 17. The meeting was called to order at 2:30pm by Rev. W.L. Craft, who is the field secretary of the B.Y.P.U. Board. At this meeting a long step in the right direction was made which resulted in the organization in Nashville of what will be known as “The City B.Y.P.U.” Every Baptist church in the cit has been invited to join, and, in fact, all save one or two were represented either in person or by proxy at the meeting Sunday. Rev. C.H. Clark, the pastor, towering as he does above all others, encouraged the movement in the most hearty way possible. An excellent program was rendered. An opening chorus was sung by the Mt. Olive choir. Scripture was read by Rev. C.K. Wilson. Then came prayer. A song by the choir, then came the discussion, which was “The Union a Factor in the Missionary Development of our Denomination.” This discussion was led by Revs. Clark, Slaughter, Harding, Parr, Page and Matthews, and Rev. Draine and others were invited to make speeches on the subject. Miss Maud Roberts, of Walden University, was present and sang “Teach Me Thy Way” sweeter than it has ever been heard in Nashville.

“Our Needs” was discussed by the Dr. E.W.D. Isaac, the Corresponding Secretary of the B.Y.P.U. Board. Mrs. L.A. Davis played an instrumental solo. Possibly the most interesting and entertaining piece on the program was the trio by Miss Reed, Mrs. Henderson, and Dr. A.M. Townsend. Their voices charmed the audience. Every one strained their ears to catch every note of the sweet music made by them.

A committee on Organization was nominated and while they were out, Miss M.M. Kimball, of Louisville, who represents the Woman’s Auxillary Convention, addressed the audience. The committee reported the following officers as the first for the ensuing year: J. Blaine Boyd, Miss Mattie Matthews, Tabernacle Church, First Vice President; Mr. Jesse Voorhees, Kayne Avenue Church, Second Vice President; Mr. Wm. Cantrell, St. John Baptist Church, Third Vice President; Miss Maggie Stubbs, First Baptist Church, Recording Secretary; E. W. D. Isaac, Jr.; Spruce Street Baptist Church; Miss Matilda Williams, First Baptist Church, East Nashville, Treasurer; Mr. Wm. Sheffield, New Hope Church, Chorister; Dr. A.M. Townsend, Spruce Street Baptist Church, Organist.

It was agreed that the Union would meet once per month and that one month’s notice would be given for all churches to prepare special subjects and present their claims for those on program. The first monthly meeting will be held March 17, which is the third Sunday in March, at the Pleasant Green Baptist Church. The meeting will be called together promptly at 8 o’clock. Indications are that a large number of young people will be brought into this working organization.

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September 13, 2010

There is an art in avoiding detection. The classes that are obviously best at slipping under the proverbial radar are Druids and Rogues, using their stealthy ways. However, there are things any player can do to decrease chances of detection. (Pictured right, how not to do it.)

Shorten your Character name

If you turn off your title (and for preference, have a short name to begin with) you will be harder to spot from a distance. There’s only so far that nameplates above heads work, and names tend to pixellate at a distance – for example a short name like Seia could easily be barely visible at a distance, where as something like Abacadabacus, Champion of the Frozen Wastes is the PvP equivalent of a ‘shoot me now’ sign.

Hide behind things

One of the wonders of Warcraft is its camera system. Unlike a whole host of other games I could mention, (although admittedly not many MMOs, but my point still stands) WoW is not limited to first person perspective. Therefore there is no visual impairment if you hide in a bush, or out of line of sight behind a pillar, box or tree stump. You will be untargetable, easy to miss and best of all you can easily rotate your camera to still get a full eyeful of what’s going on. Mastery of this is essential for drinking in Arena Matches, by the way.

Take a non-obvious path

If given the chance, avoid people when carrying something valuable like a Flag. There are routes in a BG that people simply don’t bother guarding, patrolling, or even checking. Of course, they aren’t a guaranteed win, there are always those that buck the trend and camp the unlikely spots, but you can generally find one or two obscure paths in a BG that you can merrily trot up and down in several times before people catch on. This is mostly because A) It’s too far away for the enemy and his group, and they can’t be bothered, B) They didn’t spot you (thanks to the obscure nature of the path) or best of all C) They don’t even know the path exists and won’t be expecting you to take it. People in the C category tend to stand at the tunnel mouth in Warsong Gulch and shout rude words when they realised the flag carrier ‘got past them somehow.’ Here’s a quick guide to the paths a flag carrier could take in WSG, enough to flummox even the brightest of Blood Elves.

I recommend the Blue path. I’m also not liable if this gets you killed; but feel free to write and tell me if it does.

Don’t stick out like a Tauren at a Gnomish Tea Party

There’s a certain kind of moronic behaviour that might not seem moronic from the perspective of the moron. That is to say: Blithely announcing your presence to all and sundry. Here is my list of offending behaviours, in order of how hard your team-mates should hit you if you’re caught doing it.

  • /Yelling anything. Outside or inside an enemy city, out in the open, whatever. You’ve just notified most of the zone that you are in the area looking for trouble, and in a city raid, that can be the difference between success and failure.
  • AFKing randomly. You may have picked up this anti-AFK whilst PvPing vibe in my previous posts; let me re-instate it. An AFK target with PvP on is a sitting duck. Even decent players are tempted to descend upon an AFK enemy, blades whirling and spells a flying. There’s something about those 3 letters that brings out the worst in most people.*
  • Remember my handy box grid on what types of player there are? Don’t be a blue. Anyone half decent will spot you a mile off and head for you like a moth to a candlelight.
  • No massive mounts. Nothing is easier to click on than a Tauren riding a Mammoth with Bloodlust, conversely nothing is harder to target than a Gnome on a Mechano-strider with Noggenfogger shrinker on.

That’s about it really. If you’re wondering where the title of this post came from, why it sounded familiar, or simply want to see that famous Monty Python Sketch again, the link is here. Warning: Contains Dark British Humor. Those of a sensitive disposition should return to whining on the forums about Varian Wrynn’s Haircut.

Hide on!

*I’m aware that it’s technically now <Away> rather than <AFK.> However, technically be damned, if you’re AFK you’re AFK.

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  1. September 13, 2010 6:47 pm

    Operation Gnomeregan presents Alliancers with an additional tool in this regard – the Gnomish Pride trinket or whatever it is called – changes you to a Gnome for a few minutes. 4 hour cooldown, but still. I’m sure there are useful and inventive ways to use it.

    Now watch them turn it off in BGs and arenas, if they haven’t already.

    • September 14, 2010 12:23 am

      There’ll always be Noggenfogger and Pygmy Oil for the same purpose 😀

      And @Zal: Zomg, totally missed this post, was browsing my reader and caught the title and you know my obsession for Monty Python :p brilliant post too. I actually took the blue path.. but to the left of the map rather than the right when I got Ironman. Nobody even challenged me for the flag, nobody else tried to take it, one person tried to attack me and got owned, nobody noticed I was there! It was great. Those side paths are really awesome for flag carrying.

      • September 14, 2010 7:17 am

        @Grimmtooth, Gnomish Pride can’t be activated whilst in a BG, but you can enter with the buff on. Not sure if that’s a bug or not. And most certainly all form changes are disabled in arena… except for the Deathbringers will trinket transformation, which doesn’t defeat the purpose of the whole venture, obviously. ¬¬ But on the whole, yeah, transformation stuff is a fun way to throw people off. Sindorei orb works in BGs, I wonder if I’ve ever not been attacked in a split second by a Horde wondering if I was just a mind-controlled toon 😛

        @Jaedia Yes indeed 😀 It’s rather startling how many people will either focus on a zerg somewhere between the two tunnels or stand slack-jawed at the entrance! Got Ironman myself the same way recently, had a Shadowpriest helping me, random dude, very cool. 🙂

  2. September 13, 2010 8:16 pm

    AFK flag while sitting with a PvP flag. With 3 buddies stealthed around you.

    Good times, playing bait.

    • September 14, 2010 7:19 am

      I’ve done that before, it must be said. Mwahaha. Doesn’t even have to be AFK, I’ve seen my base is a lot more likely to be attacked if I’m just sitting down with my back turned to the action. Doesn’t mean I’m watching their every move, or indeed, stealthed people are sharpening their knives as people draw closer!

  3. September 14, 2010 1:37 pm

    AFK = A Free Kill

  4. September 16, 2010 8:19 pm

    In past experiences where I take the blue path (well, the mirror of the blue path) in the 10-19 bracket… I still get attacked a lot. >.>;; I think a lot of twinks who hang out in the 10-19s know to scan the sides while controlling the middle. But perhaps at max level you get more people who don’t know what to look for in WSG.

    Of course, while at 80 I’m probably a blue easy kill, so maybe that has something to do with it. 🙂

    • September 16, 2010 8:23 pm

      Hehe. I had a nasty experience today, ran down the blue path to find 4-5 waiting there. Highly unusual, and painful 😛

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What Is the New Perspective on Paul?

The New Perspective on Paul is an important shift in how scholars have understood Paul over the past 40 years. This movement reads and interprets Paul primarily through the lens of first-century Judaism’s cultural context. New Perspective scholars have reacted to a reading of Paul through the lens of the Reformation—especially Luther, Calvin, and their followers.

Who are the important figures of the New Perspective?

  • The movement began with E. P. Sanders, who wrote Paul and Palestinian Judaism in the 1970s. This book emphasized the importance of rabbinic writings in understanding Paul. Sanders argued that Paul’s concept of becoming part of the people of God had more to do with covenantal participation, and he argued against the prevailing Lutheran understanding of the atonement.
  • In the early 1980s, James D. G. Dunn developed Sanders’ thesis and coined the term “The New Perspective.”
  • Since then, N. T. Wright has written extensively on Paul. His magnum opus on Paul will be released later this year.

The New Perspective is controversial. The emergence of Sanders, Dunn, and Wright on the scene upended the way Christians have read Paul for generations. For example:

  • The New Perspective deemphasizes a works-righteousness interpretation of the law in Pauline writings.
  • The New Perspective places the covenant in a prominent role in Pauline writings.
  • A classic reading of Paul favors a penal substitutionary theory of atonement, while the New Perspective doesn’t give this theory as much prominence

As you can see, this is a significant reframing of how Paul is read and understood. And whether or not you agree with the New Perspective, it’s undoubtedly important to understand—even if your goal is to understand why you may not agree with it. One of the benefits of having a large and robust digital library is that you have the resources and tools to adequately research both sides of controversial issues.

On the New Perspective in particular, there are books and collections to help you understand every angle:


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