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• 23:23 I'm tired of this election. Mainly the back and forth of name calling and things that have little to do with issues at hand. #
• 23:38 Ministry & Meteo?: Christianity is totally hijacked tinyurl.com/628vwe #
• 23:38 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/6fhl5t #
• 01:37 Ministry & Meteo?: Am I really a fundamentalist? tinyurl.com/62kvx2 #
• 14:14 Cool things are happening with the Chosen conference! chosennow.com #
• 14:18 The PIT NYWC starts today. Of the YS convention cities I have been to, PIT is still my favorite. Wish I was there. nywc.com/live #
• 14:33 Just doing some testing on plugins. #
• 16:48 Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. - C. S. Lewis #
• 17:14 Working the forecast desk tonight. High pressure...Aaah...A nice relaxing night. #
• 17:32 Finding Jesus on Facebook, and Checking Podcasts for a Pew That Fits - NYTimes.com (ping.fm/0ezMT) #
• 20:07 Retweet Weekend wx: An Early Preview of 7-9 November forecast: On my Twitter feed, I wa.. tinyurl.com/6xjhb8 #

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Am I really a fundamentalist?

I don't do a word for word literal interpretation of the Bible.

I do believe in Jesus dying for my sins and rising on the third day to give me a new life.

I do believe, that life begins at conception, not because its in the bible (because it's not), but because as a scientist that is the conclusion I have come to.

I believe that a Christian should be generous and that our hope is not found in the government.

I'm not sure that I agree with the redistribution of wealth that Obama proposes. I think that like the Hebrews began to enslave Hebrew during Jeremiah's time that American corporations are enslaving Americans through debt.

I don't agree with McCain in the campaign finance, doesn't that limit the freedom of speech?

I'm beginning to see that I am more libertarian and I am conservative or liberal. Although, I'm not 100% sold on the libertarian ideas either.

I get tired of the name calling, the half truths and things taken out of context. Like Obama being  a Muslim and Palin being as right wing as they say.

I get tired of the conspiracy theories, on the left and the right. But I can see how some things appear to be like they do.

I guess this last month of the election has tired me out that I don't want to approve either side. I want my voice heard.

I'm tired of the making fun of the other side. It is leading to anger in this country. An anger that we cannot afford to have.

I love all. I try to help all. I try...

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• 23:37 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/5ofsab #
• 14:38 Retweet Weekend wx: 31 October - 2 November 2008 forecast: The NWS has such great Weath.. tinyurl.com/6xwo6p #
• 16:46 Working the evening shift. Got the phones updated. I can get things ready for the balloon. #
• 19:46 Balloon launch went well. Now to get the soil temperatures. #
• 22:12 BeTwittered isn't working. It won't load into my iGoogle page. #

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Christianity is totally hijacked

Now that the Republican party has hijacked what being a Christian is, and with stories like this, I predict that despite the Christians in the Democratic party, that there will be larger backlashes that what we have seen for people of faith.

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• 23:37 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/5qv4rw #
• 14:03 Have been sitting at the Data desk today. Did an interview with the Soo Evening News about the Halloween forecast. #
• 14:30 I've been really tired the last few days. Mostly from converting back to days after mids last week. #
• 15:22 Doing the Fire Weather...believe it or not, once the snow is off the ground and with enuf dry air, the dry leaves could cause a problem. #
• 15:42 Fire weather is out. Nearshore is on the radio. Waiting for the zones. Isn't this exciting? ;-) #
• 16:19 Phones are updated. #
• 16:56 Getting ready to leave. Youth group next. #
• 22:50 Back from Youth Group. I don't work until the afternoon, tomorrow. #

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• 23:37 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/5569d7 #
• 08:52 On long term again. We got 0.6" of snow yesterday evening. Some places got 2 to 3 inches overnight. #
• 09:36 In only got 52 out of 100 on my grade. See: twitter.grader.com/jslutz They have the grading on line. #
• 12:31 Got done with the BROO. Other than tonight, it looks like the snow will go away. There will be a seasonable weekend and No Snow thru Tuesday #
• 15:58 We're in the home stretch! issuing products. #
• 16:52 9 minutes and counting. #
• 17:09 Retweet Weekend wx: Preview 31 October - 2 November 2008: Well, if this holds, then the.. tinyurl.com/5wm3la #

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• 23:37 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/6737ou #
• 10:14 Last night, I didn't think that I had to work. Then Mary told me she looked at my schedule and I am supposed to work today. #
• 10:15 Luckily She caught it before bed last night. #
• 11:48 Working long term today. I don't have to deal with the Precipitation type forecast for tonight. That's looking kind of nightmarish. #
• 11:49 First few snow falls of the year are hard to get your mind wrapped around. #
• 12:58 Doesn't matter how much chicken I eat, I still seem to feel hungry. #
• 14:40 Our IT hates snow. He is very depressed today. #

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• 23:54 Reading: "MoneyLife – Help, Hope & Insight" (tinyurl.com/5939jw) #
• 20:11 It seems like I have been busy all day. I'm just now going through my RSS feeds. #
• 21:25 Got through my RSS feeds and Tweets. #

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• 23:36 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/6dyryt #
• 06:20 Typical can't sleep past 400 am, on my post mids schedule. #
• 07:09 I think I may try and go back to bed. #
• 13:31 Just hanging today. May get a new router, just seein' what we have for money. #

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• 02:27 The last night. I'm ready to be done. While the week itself was ok, I'm just ready to join the rest of the world in normal hours. #
• 02:50 Finally got a email group for the adult Youth leaders. It will be easier for me to send stuff I find to them. Uh oh. ;-) #
• 03:35 I already have put this on Facebook and even my blog earlier in the week, but I need to think a little harder about what I type on mids. #
• 07:58 The day is done. I will go home and nap for a few. Then begin to recover my sleep pattern. #
• 08:58 I'm at home now. Contemplating sleep. I do have some things to work in though. #
• 17:08 Retweet Weekend wx: 24-26 October 2008 Forecast: This is the map for Saturday morning. .. tinyurl.com/5d4qn6 #
• 17:52 We're at B&T's. I'm still a bit tired. #

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• 00:06 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/5crq7w #
• 03:45 A nice, quiet night with little in the weather today. It will be very dry though. #
• 05:07 Retweet Weekend wx: Preview 24-26 October 2008 forecast: It looks like a slow moving st.. tinyurl.com/5qneva #
• 17:04 Sleep was short, but this is my last mid. On our way to youth group. #
• 21:27 Youth group was great. We had a Q & A session. Family went home. I'm hanging playing Rock Band 2 at church. #

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• 23:36 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/5udawr #
• 00:43 Ping.fm looks like they got hijacked. Or they didn't renew their domain name. I hope that they get it straightened out quickly. #
• 00:45 Just a couple of mids to go. I'm glad they only come around every 6 weeks. #
• 02:36 Ministry & Meteo?: My news consumption tinyurl.com/6omc5g #
• 02:46 Reading: "Ping.Fm down?" (tinyurl.com/5bdl3w) #
• 02:54 Looks like the problems with Ping.fm are due to transferring the domain or something like that. #
• 03:21 Wow!! Rusted Cage by Soundgarden. I haven't heard that song in a looong time. #
• 03:23 Are we challenging our youth group kids? #
• 03:24 However, Are the kids so challenged that they are burned out by everything else? Do they know how to be still before God? #
• 03:26 Better yet, do we, as adults, show them how to be still before God with all of our busy schedules? #
• 06:42 prepping the radiosonde. Getting ready to go outside to prep the balloon and launch. #
• 06:43 I have most of my products out for the morning. Just have to do Fire Weather and the balloon launch, and one ob. #
• 07:25 It was a good launch. The only thing left is the soil temperatures and the 12z ob. #
• 07:57 Time to go. #
• 20:30 Good to see ping.fm is back up. Now my posts will go to all my sites. #
• 22:06 Getting my stuff together for work. Leaving in a few. #

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My news consumption

I admit it. I'm a news junkie. I sometimes drive Mary crazy with the news things that I listen to. I have never lost the thought on how, I would sit with Dad and watch the news. In a way, it is part of who I am because some of my early conversations with my dad was sitting down to watch the news. However, as my life as changed over the years, my news consumption hasn't, but it has changed forms.

My main news was through the TV when I was younger, but as podcasting and blogs caught on (i.e. RSS). I began to gravitate to news sources that had good feeds of information. Well, I realize now that with the advent of Twitter, another piece of the puzzle has filled in. So here is my daily news consumption:

I get up and load my iPod Nano with the podcasts that have come in overnight. Two of the podcasts are the ABC News webcast and the NBC Nightly news. I listen to these on my way into work as well as the first part of my day in the office. Then there are various niche news and media critic podcasts that I listent to as well. Next, I go back over my Twitter timeline to scan for the news and people that I follow back to about when I last saw them day before (I have a few news sources, MLive.com, CNN breaking, NPR top stories, NBC news, and Breaking News On).Then comes the RSS feeds, with local news papers and various blogs and an alt news website (Pajamas Media).

I filter through all of these sites and more through the day. Being an analyst, it is then fun to poke through and distill this information into usable things. Most of which goes into my youth ministry.

I don't read everything, but I read what I think I can. Otherwise, I would get overloaded. Eventually some these stories bubbles up into a though that ends up on my blog. You are reading some of the end results of this process.

Twitter posts of the day!

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• 23:36 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/55nb9w #
• 00:36 Reading over my Twitter posts of the day and my brother-in-law pointing out the context, I need to explain the hearing God remark. #
• 01:09 I'll put the hearing God remark in a post since it is too long for a Twitter post. #
• 01:45 My Explanation to what I said yesterday is in a post and should be popping up in twitter.com/jslutz shortly. #
• 02:36 Ministry & Meteo?: Hearing God...an explanation tinyurl.com/63ne7x #
• 03:10 Working the Data Ac desk tonight. No power. That's good. I get too tired when working as the main forecaster for too many days in a row. #
• 05:47 I launch the balloon this morning. This can be pretty fun...depending on the weather. #
• 05:54 Looking at: "Youth Specialties | Parent's Newsletters" (tinyurl.com/5o9hjb) #
• 06:04 The radar just told us that there is a new cell out there. Duh! There's been rain on the scope most of the night! #
• 09:23 At home. Am going to sleep now. Have a Chosen Coordinators meeting tonight. #
• 18:07 Ministry & Meteo?: More stuff from Mary's Trip to Nigeria tinyurl.com/5kophq #
• 18:36 I'm at a Chosen coordinators meeting. Go to ping.fm/8Slpb to see what the event is about. #

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More stuff from Mary's Trip to Nigeria

Embedded Video

This just popped into my browser today. Luke Chaffee, who was on the mission trip to Africa with Mary, just released some new video on his YouTube site.

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Hearing God...an explanation

Here is a remark I made yesterday on Twitter: 

Second time today that God has said don't look at your feet while listening to a sermon.

Where upon my brother-in-law responded:

Without context, may I gently point out just how crazy this makes you sound? - Brendon

I agree it sounds quite weird. However, after working my 9 hour shift, I don't always communicate what I'm thinking in a clear way. Not to mention that I've always had a bit of a crazy streak, just ask my sister, my wife, my kids, and former roommates.

Okay, the explanation.

Toward the end of the shift, I was listening to Rob Bell on the Mars Hill Bible Church (Michigan) and he mentioned that there is a rabbinical tradition that says and I'm paraphrasing, you need to keep your head up and see that God has parted the sea for you, or else if you constantly look at your feet you'll begin to complain that the mud is getting all over your feet.

Then while I was in early service at Gaylord Community Church, Pastor Steve made a remark that you need to keep your head up and not stare at your feet.

I took that as a gentle reminder from God that I need to remember to keep my head up and look to where God is taking me, rather than looking down at my feet, i.e. my current situation and grumble about it.

Actually, now that I thnk about it, I'm supposed to tell that to somebody else, but that's another story.

So no, I'm not hearing voices in my head.

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• 23:06 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/643uy9 #
• 23:36 Sleep was ok, Mary, Brandon, and I watched TV, while Mary worked. Karlie had a couple of friends over. Now at work. #
• 23:39 DVR/DVD-RW died the other day. So no movies and no recording. If I get a chance, I'll have to get the family to use HULU or online stuff. #
• 01:06 Trying to get excited about the forecast. Other than some rain, Sunday night into Monday, it looks quiet. #
• 04:52 Forecast is out. No big surprises. Rain late today and into Monday. Cool air, then really dry air. Then more rain. #
• 06:06 Weekend weather The color of northern Michigan: From Blog for 17-19 Oct. 2008Here is a look.. tinyurl.com/6o5r8f #
• 07:06 Ministry & Meteo?: Lip Balm tinyurl.com/6rajsr #
• 07:39 19 minutes to the end of the shift. Just have to write the aviation forecast discussion. #
• 08:32 Just got done talking to the day shift. Just killing time before church. #
• 10:00 Second time today that God has said don't look at your feet while listening to a sermon. #
• 20:48 We're at Ami and Josh's near East Jordan. #
• 22:13 We're home again. I go in later tonight. #

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Lip Balm

I had these two college roommates when I was a sophomore at Grand Valley State. When the three of us were running around together, we called ourselves the "Three Amigos."  This was a classic clip that was hilarious to us. I found this on Hulu.com:

Twitter posts of the day!

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• 23:36 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/6bt54u #
• 01:55 Sleep was pretty good. We had Trisha and the boys over. Josh and Amy came over as well. Karlie had her friend Dorenda over as well. #
• 01:56 I though that we were starting our new operating schedule on mids, but I was mistaken. So instead of being at Data Ac, I'm forecasting. #
• 01:57 I'm not in charge, though. I have a senior forecaster here tonight. So I'm back to having no power. ;-) #
• 03:09 I'm just finishing up my grids. I need to start writing my forecast discussion soon. #
• 06:00 Products are out. I'm feeling the let down. I need a nap. #
• 08:45 Micah 6:8 #

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• 23:36 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/55emhm #
• 00:48 Sitting in on the forecast desk tonight. There was a schedule swap so I am the forecaster tonight. The power is all mine!!!! Wahahahaha!! #
• 06:31 The main package is out. I'm monitoring the TAFs right now. I'll put out a new package of TAFs in about an hour. #
• 07:33 TAFs are out, and so is the vaunted TAF AFD. #
• 07:43 15 minutes to the end of the shift...Yea!!!! #
• 16:37 sleep was ok, I'm awake know pondering my next move. Maybe food. #

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• 23:19 Everyone is asleep. I am surfing and reading. #
• 23:30 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/3fljgb #
• 02:34 Ministry & Meteo?: A youth worker conference tinyurl.com/4zcnza #
• 02:34 Ministry & Meteo?: A cool song for the Youth worker tinyurl.com/3t98zz #
• 02:36 I've been doing some short posts on youth ministry. I'm trying to do link some stuff for our Adult leaders to look at. #
• 06:06 Ministry & Meteo?: Showing mercy...with Rock Band? tinyurl.com/4cp2td #
• 18:49 I am awake now. I slept ok until noon then couldn't sleep. Took some Tyenol PM cause my back was hurting. Then woke up around 6. #
• 20:21 time to shower and get ready for work. #
• 21:19 Am all cleaned up and ready to go. I'm going to look at my podcasts to see if there are any to put on my nano before I leave. #
• 21:46 Reading: "Wildfire Today: Fire weather stations on your Google page" (tinyurl.com/5rkjsz) #

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Showing mercy...with Rock Band?

I was listening to Brian Zahnd at the Word of Life church podcast from a couple of weeks ago and he was doing a series about showing mercy. Pastor Brian had pointed out any interesting thing, that the Pharisees said to get your act cleaned up and then come to the table to eat.
However, Jesus says come to the table to eat and I will help you get
cleaned up.

I guess I am wondering aloud, how do you reach out to show mercy? If you have read Mary's Rock Band Post then you know that there has been a little thing about Rock Band and using it as an evangelistic tool. The thing I see is that most kids that walk into our church come from families that don't know love and aren't clean in one way or another. So if we can show them that we aren't that different, that a lot of us like to play Rock Band or on the Wii or any other video games, won't that let them open up so that maybe they will see that they can sit at the table and we will help them get clean?

One other point that I need to say as well. One of the objections was that there is a screen that shows skulls with wings coming out of them. I thought about it a bit, and this is what I realized...Didn't God create the skull? wings? How did these things get associated with evil? I think that while God creates, we as humans use them to worship them for other purposes. Well, I remember that God had Ezekiel prophesy over the bones and they came to life. Didn't the apostle Paul use the altar to the "unknown god" and quote poems from Greek poets while preaching at Mars Hill?

So if we can invite some kids to come into our midst, to show them mercy, compassion, and love, then do you think that maybe we can use Rock Band for a good purpose?

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A cool song for the Youth worker

I saw this as a video that a church is using to set up their mission trip to the Dominican Republic, but it has some great thoughts on outreach and youth ministry.



Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes from Brandon Heath on Vimeo.

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A youth worker conference

I like youth worker conferences and conventions. I have been following the NYWC that YS puts on each year. I would love to go back to one. Well, Group publishing and SYM have teamed to put together a conference in Columbus, OH. It sounds like NYWC but on a somewhat smaller scale. It would be cool to go, but funding will be the problem.

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• 23:42 Everyone else is asleep. I am trying to stay up all night, sleep all day. #
• 01:31 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/4u3c9r #
• 01:31 Ministry & Meteo?: Big Ticket Festival expanding to 3 days next year tinyurl.com/3eu5bm #
• 01:31 Ministry & Meteo?: KATIE GRANJU NOTES a reporter ... tinyurl.com/4ve4kc #
• 01:31 Ministry & Meteo?: Help Thousand Foot Krutch Win- Taco Bell's Best of the Beat! tinyurl.com/4bw78n #
• 07:25 Getting sleepy. I fell asleep earlier. I'm heading to bed. We'll see how much sleep I get today. #
• 15:50 I HAVE REAWAKENED!!! Okay time to get ready for youth group. I slept off and on. The real test is on Friday when I work my first shift. #

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Help Thousand Foot Krutch Win- Taco Bell's Best of the Beat!

Taco Bell is doing a battle of the indy bands on their site. I was quite surprised to see so many Christian bands on the list. However, I'm not surprised to see One of my favorite bands in the mix.

From TFK's MySpace blog:

Thousand Foot Krutch needs you help to show their stuff.  Head over to www.feedthebeat.com, click on lineup, find Thousand Foot Krutch and nominate the band to win the Best of the Beat!  Tac...

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KATIE GRANJU NOTES a reporter ...

I think the difference will be that the anger will be suppressed. I'm not sure that you will see the Obama equivalent to the Bush derangement Syndrome. Not to mention, I doubt you will see someone making movies about assassination fantasies from the right. Not that I care. I would prefer everyone in the middle.

From Instapundit

KATIE GRANJU NOTES a reporter at MSNBC covering for Obama. "I think McCain should find more meaningful things to talk about on the campaign trail. But to many Americans, the Ayers issue is not insignificant, and it's not up to the reporter writing a supposedly straight news piece to take a point of view on the matter. I don't see the biased reporting by the "liberal mainstream media" behind every tree that a lot of conservatives do, but I will call it when I do see it. And I see it here."

I'm afraid that the way the media is covering for Obama is generating a lot of anger that will make it harder of Obama to govern if elected. Some may see this as a plus, but I see it as furthering the already excessive polarization in our society. I think the media tilt, and the ACORN controversy (which are connected, of course), will be for a lot of people on the right what the Florida recount was for a lot of people on the left.

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Big Ticket Festival expanding to 3 days next year

I'm glad to see that the Big Ticket will go to 3 Days. We can't go to Ichthus do to cost, so It's great to have some of the rock groups come here.

GAYLORD -- Organizers of Gaylord’s Big Ticket Festival are bumping the Christian rock event up from two to three days for 2009 and are again asking the city if they can use a vacant lot as a camping area for concert-goers.

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• 23:29 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/3jj5nx #
• 11:26 Good Morning! Router looks like it died yesterday. I'm Direct connected into our line. Mary is using her MotoQ. Looks like Router shopping. #

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• 23:29 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/3qhxnx #
• 08:59 Going through the news feeds this morning. It's going to be close to 80 here. It will be 80+ everywhere else. #
• 12:13 finished lunch. It feels like the weekend, since the office staff are off due to Columbus Day. #
• 18:01 The forecast was a little more difficult than the last few days. So I couldn't message as much today. #
• 18:02 We are at B&T's for supper. #
• 20:29 Playing Yo Gabba Gabba vids Ethan. #

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• 23:32 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/494xg4 #
• 06:15 Walking Mia. Good morning! #
• 11:07 Things are easy again this morning with high pressure again dominating the western Great Lakes. #
• 14:30 Pittsburgh is on a bye. They need to rest. Seattle plays GB tonight, I'm not real optimistic. #
• 21:21 I been watching the live blogging at the NYWC in Sacramento. I wish Mary and I could go. No money :( #

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• 23:30 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/4k6kh2 #
• 09:07 Another quiet day at work, especially on the weekend. Just going through the late weekday email from Friday and the news. #
• 14:01 A Beauty of a day in the northwoods of Michigan! #
• 17:02 Yea! I'm done for the day going to hop in the car and head home. #
• 18:26 Mary and I are alone! We think that we will go shopping and eat at BW2. I'm hoping. #

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• 23:32 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/4xjq3h #
• 11:31 Today is much less busy. I actually am able to send out updates. #
• 11:48 Just did the BRiefing Of Office (BROO). Time for lunch and work on the Airport forecasts. #
• 15:59 Forecast products out. Time to relax and monitor high pressure weather. #
• 16:34 We are having a discussion about the bailout. #
• 21:59 We watched the boys tonight. I spent most of the night with Dylan sleeping on me. ping.fm/4Phvy #

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• 23:31 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/4mrfan #
• 08:48 I am sitting in a Chosen meeting this morning. Brandon and I came over this morning with Mary. Karlie has the car and will come over for YG. #
• 08:53 For those who don't know, Chosen is youth conference started by our youth pastor. See at ping.fm/8Slpb #
• 09:15 I'm at Brothers Coffee and Tea. #
• 09:55 Chosen meeting is over, now we are talking youth group stuff. #
• 10:19 ping.fm/p/2PlrT - We new the business was going to get done when Zach showed up. #
• 10:44 Out of meetings. Going to bank and then the church. #
• 12:15 Doing lunch at The Alpine Oven. #
• 14:52 James, Brandon, and I have been "Tweeking" the Rock Band set up for youth group tonight. #

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• 23:20 I'm going to bed too. #
• 23:30 Ministry & Meteo?: Twitter posts of the day! tinyurl.com/45pv4k #
• 11:09 Morning! I'm now up. Mary and I are home together for once. Oh! the life of a shift worker. #
• 17:29 I've been reading my RSS feeds. Things are quiet today. I got the lawn mowed. #
• 17:54 After listening to the news while mowing, am disappointed at the direction of McCain camp. His advisers are dumb. #
• 18:33 Ministry & Meteo?: Low Self-Esteem of Girls tinyurl.com/46fbxy #
• 18:33 Ministry & Meteo?: apophenia: teens, dating, friendship, and school dances tinyurl.com/4mchrj #
• 22:38 I'm getting ready for bed. Will get my iPod ready for the morning. #

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apophenia: teens, dating, friendship, and school dances

apophenia: teens, dating, friendship, and school dances

Danah Boyd starts out with:

When I read the Chicago Tribune's coverage of why teens have eschewed dates for school dances, I wanted to scream.

I did too, well maybe not scream, but the conclusions of the article she writes about to me are wrong. There has been a slow movement toward not coupling in high school for  a long time. The only thing that I would add to Danah's article is that what I notice is that even though there is a movement away from the mating ritual as far as dances are concerned, the pressure to have a significant other in high school is still just as strong as anytime. I see this in the youth at church. I may do security duty, but the main thing with us is to be relational. The kids tell me a lot and most of their dramas is do to trying to find a someone to be boy/girl friend with.

Actually, if there is another reason for the non-couple of school dances it is partly from my previous post about girls self-esteem. However, that is only part of it. The guys have to be more encouraging so that the girls aren't more prone to have low self esteem.  Anyway, read the whole thing.

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Low Self-Esteem of Girls

New National Report Reveals the High Price of Low Self-Esteem

Being an adult youth leader, I am always looking at youth culture articles and studies so that I can get a glimpse of what is going on in the culture. This was an interesting article with some interesting statistics:

-- 67 percent of girls ages 13 - 17 turn to their mother as a resource when feeling badly about themselves compared to 91 percent of girls ages 8 -12

-- Only 27 percent of girls ages 13 - 17 will turn to their father for help when feeling badly about themselves compared to 54 percent of girls ages8-12. Interestingly, at 16, girls become more likely to seek support from male peers than from their own dads.

We are seeing this in the girls in the youth group, and as much as we try to encourage communication with their parents, most still think that their parents don't know what they are experiencing. Read the whole thing.

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