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O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference DiscontinuedPosted by: | Comments
Tim O'Reilly announced today that the annual conference will be suspended and the company will no longer run its digital publishing conference in New York.
Since 2007, the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference has been the seminal event for professionals and companies engaged with the challenges and opportunities of new publishing technologies and business models. The company had engaging speakers and was often one of the best breeding grounds for new ideas and for industry professionals to meet up and chat about the current state of affairs. Tim mentioned in a statement today, "The decision to discontinue a popular conference was not one we made lightly. But after TOC 2013, we realized that a conference was no longer the best vehicle for us to contribute to publishing's forward movement."
O'Reilly seems to be doing away with conferences and focusing more on its tools group. It seems as though the company has all of the intelligence it needs and a better understanding of the industry to push out a series of digital publishing tools that it will market online and offline. The new project is called 'Atlas' and is a work in progress.
Tim wrapped up a digital publishing legacy by saying, "TOC was a great ride, and we'll miss many things about that annual gathering of the future-positive publishing community. Ideas and connections from TOC will continue to inform our work and, we hope, yours. I especially want to thank TOC program chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert for the passion, creativity, and commitment they brought to their work. I wish them well, and am confident that they'll continue to help shape the publishing industry's future."
Tools of Change – Closing Keynote – Thrillbent ComicsPosted by: | Comments
Mark Wald of Thrillbent participated in the closing keynote speech of the Tools of Change conference in New York. He said that "Comics have a problem in the digital space because they are in portrait format almost exclusively. They tend not to work well in landscape mode, which is how they are displayed on tablets and laptops. Many comic pages are too large and dense to display well on current readers. We tried to solve this with something called motion comics, which has a few effects and are a bit livelier on the page."
Wald founded a site call Thrillbent which is designed to display comics in a way that they can be appreciated on current readers. All the comics are free at this point. Mark gives a demonstration that is completely visual and can't really be described. Instead of "turning pages" images are added and subtracted to continue the story. It's very hard for comics to deal with exposition. It's a terrible use of comic real estate. His model makes necessary exposition much more interesting. It takes advantage of what digital does. Panels load dynamically, no page reloading, with optimized fonts and responsive movement.
Comics are doing well as a medium, but he wanted to take advantage of what technology can do now. Nowadays, the most expensive part of a comic is printing. For a $4 comic he gets about $1.60 back and $1 of that goes to printing. Add another 50 cents for other expenses and not a lot is left. The company decided to go digital first; do each installment weekly, add some other material, and then sell through Comixology. This way Thrillbent can recover the production costs. A lot of other models are available that they haven't tried yet. An iPad app will be coming out soon. And the whole process is done by three people in their spare time.
Tizra's Web-Based Publishing Platform Helps Establish Direct Business for PublishersPosted by: | Comments
Even though ebooks and digital publishing are a relatively new concept to most consumers and in its current form has only celebrated a few birthdays, digital publishing on the web is actually a concept nearly as old as the internet itself. It is the companies who not only had a strong adoption of early digital publishing and managed to adapt to the current models who have withstood.
Web-based publishing company Tizra, which began in online content in the early 1990s but moved to its current model in 2006, was founded by someone who began in the original XML standard for document engineering.
"Tizra has a culture of combining a deep, profound understanding from a computer science perspective with a real interest and enthusiasm for reaching an audience with what people care about," says Abe Dane, president and chief operating office of Tizra. "That goes all the way back to that newsstand experience in trying to get people's attention along with getting people to renew or subscribe."
Tizra combines that technological understanding and experience with a drive to enable publishers to become reader-centered. They are also interested in fostering open standards in order to best reach customers.
"We're all about open standards and allowing people to use the content formats that they have, and allowing readers to use the tools that they are accustomed to. It's really taking advantage of what's there already. People know how to use a browser.
"We give publishers all the tools they need to present, sell, and deliver digital content directly to their users. It's all web-based, the control panels and the administrative tools, and they're really designed to be easy to use so that the capabilities can be diffused within the publishing organization."
This diffusion allows different departments within a publishing house can each work on their areas of expertise without relying on IT or developer support to implement the idea. Tizra's standardized platform allows all members of the publishing team to enact their input in a seamless way.
"You're not locked into anyone's infrastructure," continued Dane, "it's the open web."
eBooks vs. Web Apps for Interactive ContentPosted by: | Comments
Bill McCoy of the IDPF and Sanders Kleinfeld of O'Reilly discussed whether web apps or an ebook format was better for publishers. McCoy pointed out that publishers needed to scale and they were in the business of making multiple titles. Because of this they need tools that will scale with the enterprise. On the whole, he said, design and content are best handled by designers and authors and not by programmers. Programmers should be used to develop tools and it doesn't scale to hire a lot of programmers to develop web apps for multiple projects. Further, he said that HTML 5 is capable of developing ebooks, websites, and apps and this leads to a a consistency across titles. Companies should not think of building each title as a piece of software.
Kleinfeld felt that apps are the future of digital publishing. e-Readers don't support a lot of the things that can be done with HTML5. By doing a web app, one can avoid the compatibility problems that the readers present. Web apps are useful because they are online and can be social and the way they are developed makes sharing and discovery very easy. Web apps can be done now and don't have to wait for various e-readers to catch up. eBooks are software and whether you like it or not if you do ebooks you are a software developer.
Both agree that dedicated ereaders are on the way out and will be replaced by phones and tablets.
The Elusive "Netfix of eBooks"Posted by: | Comments
Travis Alber of Read Social moderated a session on ebook subscription services. Included were Christian Damke of the German company Skoobe, Justo Hidalgo of the Spanish company 24Symbols, and Liza Daly of Safari Online.
All three said there is a definite market for a "Netflix" of books and consumers are more than willing to pay for the ability to rent a book online. Skoobe's customers start at age 30 and go to age 88. Skoobe has found that people will buy in parallel. They will buy the hardcover for use at home and then rent a version to read on their phone while they commute. 18% of their customers tried the book on Skoobe and then bought the book and 11% will buy the ebook even though they have the ability to read it on Skoobe. Users tell them that they usually read more after they become a subscriber and they take their reading time from watching tv and sleeping.
24Symbols reported that about 45% of their subscribers read their books directly on the web and the next largest number use the iPad. Both agreed that DRM is not an issue with their readers, but it is with the publishers, because the readers don't own the books and so aren't concerned about it. Safari Online does not use DRM, but this is not an issue because all of their content is streaming. A bigger issue for them is people sharing their accounts with others and they monitor this. However, this type of abuse has dropped considerably. All parties do not share individual reading data with publishers, but they do provide aggregated data. In terms of privacy, 24Symbols said that they started with a login through Facebook, but people strongly objected to this and they had to provide an alternate login method.
Both 24Symbols and Skoobe said that they wished publishers were willing to experiment more and be more willing to try out new methods of distribution and sales. 24Symbols pointed out the the subscription model worked well because if the customers like the service they tend to forget about how much it is costing them and this takes pricing out of the equation. In one interesting question from the floor an author who has one of her books listed at one of the services mentioned that she gets $6-8K/month on royalties from her book, but only pennies from the service. It was pointed out that royalties are completely between the author and the publisher and the subscription service has no control over this. Also, the European services are quite new and they are expecting to grow in the future.
Publishers as Booksellers?Posted by: | Comments
At any event in publishing, there are commonalities or themes to the discussions and panel presentations. Sometimes the themes are outright and printed in the program, but other times they are nothing more than running commentary or buzz generated by attendees throughout the event.
One of the often-discussed topics among exhibitors at this year's TOC is the concept of publishers forgoing their relationships with the major online retailers and opting to open their own ebook marketplaces under their own brands. No less than three of the companies exhibiting at this year's Tools of Change conference serve only to help publishers of any size distribute their digital content and sell it under their own online ebook shops.
iPublish, under the company Impelsys, is one such company that works to help publishers sell their content and gave a breakdown of the reasoning for this in an interview with GoodEReader.
"People are nervous about Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and they're worried about putting your content out there with someone who could own 51% of your revenue," said a spokesman for iPublish. "What we want to do is keep publishers in control of their options in respect to ebooks by creating their own branded sites and use our tools and features."
One of the issues that comes up with publishers selling their content through distributors is the faceless nature of their reading customers. Publishers receive a quarterly sales report, and little else. With a customized retail website, publishers can instead get to know the customers who buy their books and can tailor their content to what their customers gravitate towards.
"Some publishers have used our services to create websites for their franchise books," which means those titles that are already highly-searchable and marketable because people have come to know them.
That discoverability is one of the issues that publishers and authors will face when deciding whether to stay with retailers or develop their own online sales presence. While many of these publisher-specific websites can be linked to their existing sales channels for print, book discovery is always an issue that consumers and creators will face.
ReadSpeaker Supports Browser-Based Content Read AloudPosted by: | Comments
Everything about Tools of Change focuses on looking ahead to the future, in this case, the future of publishing. The TOC conference is a place for forward-thinking entities involved in some arm of publishing to not only showcase what they can do, but to also highlight where they plan to take the future of books.
One of the futures that has long been anticipated for digital publishing is an increased accessibility for visually impaired, learning disabled, or low-literacy level individuals, but that future has been slow to become a reality. Many companies work diligently on the technology behind greater access to printed or digitally formatted words, and are spreading the adoption of this technology every day.
Holland-based ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech service provider that publishers can subscribe to that will enable readers to simply click a button to listen to the content. The publishers who subscribe are from various fields, including reference articles from around the world, news features, and ebooks.
"This has become so easy for everyone to use," said ReadSpeaker's Joop Heijenrath in an interview with GoodEReader at TOC, "not just blind people, but all the segments in the market who want to use this service, it means about 15 to 20 percent of readers in the Western world."
One of the potentially overlooked benefits to using a seamless tool like ReadSpeaker's is to be found in the educational setting. Not only can the visually and learning impaired students benefit from the read-aloud feature in textbooks and reference materials, it also fosters a bimodal learning experience for any learner. Listening to the text while watching the highlighted feature on the screen allows learners to engage more strongly with the material and utilize two of their four learning styles at the same time.
The days of opening every page of material on the web or tapping a button on the screen of any ebook and hearing the text are not here, but as more users and publishers take advantage of the obvious benefits, the reach of text-to-speech capabilities will continue to grow.
Tools of Change – Booksellers and ChangePosted by: | Comments
Oren Teicher, American Booksellers Association.
Booksellers represent a combination of the old and the new. ABA is the trade association of the independent bookstores and was founded in 1900. Independent bookselling has changed a lot in 15 years and is seeing a reniassance in the US with an 8% sales growth in 2012 as compared to 2011 (in book unit sales). For most of 2012, we were seeing double digit increases over 2011. For ABA online sales, there was a 28% increase over 2011 and a much greater increase from 2010. Web sales are becoming an important revenue stream for independent booksellers. For the third year in a row ABA membership has grown and more independent bookstores are opening. 43 stores opened in 2012 and one even raised money by crowd-funding site Indiegogo in order to open the store.
One key factor in the increase in sales is that independent bookstores are actively implementing technology. They can offer an online commerce experience through the ABA site, with each company having a fully customizable site. The debate about whether an independent bookstore should be online is long over. ABA partnered with Kobo to offer ebooks, but earlier partnerships, such as that with Google, provided an unsatisfying experience for customers. Through the holiday season, about 400 stores signed up for the Kobo plan. They like the fact that Kobo uses recognized standards and so their readers are not locked into a particular device. Independent bookstores are now outperforming earlier attempts to do this and revenue is increasing. Since the costs of this type of technology has come way down, independent bookstores can now afford to do a lot of stuff they couldn't before. About 15 ABA stores have print on demand with the Espresso Machine and rather than buying books through the machines it has turned out that the major revenue from the machines comes from the self-publishing business of their customers' books.
ABA believes that the publishers steps with regard to ebook agency pricing benefited readers and publishers and they feel, despite the DoJ, that agency pricing actually resulted in lower prices. They feel that the DoJ settlement does nothing but increase prices and help give monopoly power to Amazon. The ABA feels that the settlement will be destructive to book selling.
Independent bookstores are benefiting from the general localization movement in the United States. The move of consumers to independent local stores is an encouraging trend for all independent businesses. The "Buy Local" movement is a success and in five years of surveys they show that indie businesses are growing. The localization movement has reached a tipping point and bookstores have been in the forefront of this for years.
There is no substitute for the importance of indie bookstores in book discovery and the numbers show that this is the case. Indie bookstores perform a showrooming experience for purchasers who may decide to make their purchases elsewhere. Publishers are beginning to recognize this and a number of new initiatives are under way. One example of this is that Amazon had to release the Kindle to stores because they found that discovery of the unit on the Amazon site was not good enough to get them the sales figures they wanted.
Tools of Change – Afternoon Keynote With Jeff JaffePosted by: | Comments
Jeff Jaffe, CEO of WC3 spoke today at the Tools of Change conference in New York. His main point that he tried to get across during his keynote was "that publishing = web and web = publishing." Web people tend to understand this concept, but many people in the publishing industry do not. 20 years ago the web came into being and became an additional form of publishing, but no substitution for print. Eventually tools came out, such as blogging platforms, that turned everyone into a publisher. Now, a lot of core technology changes have made the web a rich place for publishing.
What is the future? The impact of the web will continue and intensify. Screens, typography, and layout will get better and better. Links will raise asset value exponentially and rich media will enhance ebooks. The web's impact on publishing will probably be greater that the impact on other industries. TV and entertainment are moving to the web and away from the television set. But what publishing is trying to do with the web is different from what other industries are doing. Other industries are using the web as a delivery mechanism, but the web is more intrinsically tied to the purposes of publishing. For some parts of the industry this is easy to see, such as magazines, but it is harder for book publishers to see. In the future, publishing will be the web. HTML5 and CSS3 provides cross-browser interoperability and rich content management. Just about everyone is moving to this technology. It's easy to say this, but its hard to do because the web community and the publishing technical community have not been talking to each other. This is causing a lot of sub-optimization. WC3 will be trying actively to encourage a dialog and want to address: matching current publishing practices, leveraging value-add of the web, supporting diverse business and distribution models, and satisfying diverse consumer behaviors.


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Imagine your delighted shock if, after living with type 1 diabetes since infancy, you suddenly learned that you weren't type 1 after all. If you were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within the first six months of life, especially if your birth weight was low, there's a chance that instead you have permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM).
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After-meal glucose levels can vary in women with gestational diabetes depending on when they take the measurements, say researchers in Israel.
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A more dilute glucose solution was used by the University of Texas Health Science Center ant San Antonio to screen women for gestational diabetes, and the results seem promising for women who dread taking the test.
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A study from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Rigshospitalet, Denmark, has concluded that women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus have a considerably increased risk of developing diabetes later on in life. The report was published in the September 1992 issue of Am J Obstet Gynecol.
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Make the most of the snow this weekend at Milton Winter Carnival
The 21st annual Winter Carnival is scheduled to begin Friday at 6 p.m. in the Moose Lodge #1298, which will host the Chilli Willi Chili/Chowder Cook-off, the Mark Goodell Memorial Pool Tournament and the first Death by Chocolate silent auction and sampler.
The bulk of the cold-weather activities are set for Saturday at the Town Beach and the Emma Ramsey Center, both of which are along Route 125.
After the recent snowfall, Recreation Director Karen Brown, who's been involved with the carnival for the past two decades, said conditions are ideal for the carnival, which was far less successful without snow last year.
What a difference a year, and two feet of snow, makes to help drum up anticipation for the winter carnival, Brown said. "I think people are itching to get out in the snow," Brown said.
Fishing fans of all ages will come to compete in the annual family derby, which kicks off at 8 a.m. Younger participants have until noon, while adults have until 3 p.m. to test their skills. Registration forms are available online.
Brown said firefighters will check the thickness of the ice Friday and Saturday and have crews at the carnival as a precaution while Explorers will be on-hand to help keep participants warm at a beach-side campfire. Additionally, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., firefighters will also answer questions about new equipment, the conditions of the existing fire station and plans for a new facility, which is on the ballot this year.
To keep costs down and interests up, Brown said several area snowmobile clubs - including Evergreen Valley, Seven Lakes, Powder Mills and Wolfeboro SMC - teamed up to organize the Poker Run, which should last about 2½ hours.
The cost is $10 and registration begins at 9 a.m. at Milton Pump and Filter Shop. The event will begin at 10 a.m.; registration ends at 10:30 a.m.
Members of Moose Mountain Regional Greenways plan to take children and adults on an hour-long family snowshoeing trek beginning at the town beach at 9:30 a.m.
At 10 a.m., volunteers from the New Hampshire Farm Museum will start drilling and cutting into the ice as part of their annual ice harvesting demonstration. While many older residents remember how ice harvesting used to be a booming industry in many communities with freshwater lakes, Brown said younger crowds are fascinated to see the process and learn about the days of ice boxes.
For more information, or for a schedule of events, go to http://www.miltonnh-us.com.
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EDINBURG - A South Texas man is jailed on a manslaughter charge after his infant son was found drowned in a canal.
Officials say 21-year-old Enrique Medina was drunk when he lost track of 2-month-old Enrique Medina Jr. after the vehicle in which they were riding crashed near Edinburg. The crash killed the child's uncle, 21-year-old David Lopez, who was at the wheel, and injured the child's mother. The infant's body wasn't found in a canal until more than 24 hours later.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said all three adults in the vehicle were drunk when the crash happened. He said the mother handed the father the child and asked him to get help. As Medina wandered in the dark early Sunday, he slipped into a canal and lost the child.
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We had a very exciting line-up of speakers this year. Sherita Golden (Hugh P. McCormick Family Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) spoke about "My Scientific Journey: A Marriage of Epidemiology, Molecular Endocrinology, and Diabetes." Michelle L. Thaller (Assistant Director of Science for Communications, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) discussed "Living in a Big Universe." And then Dr. Allison N. Wack (Associate Veterinarian, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore) spoke about "The Roles of the Veterinarian in the Modern Zoo."


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Magic Your Way plus Dining credit questions
My husband and I have always done the Magic Your Way plus Deluxe Dining in the past. However, for our trip this year, we are interested in purchasing the Magic Your Way plus Dining instead. My question is in regards to the substitution of credits. For the deluxe dining we would be rewarded with our total credits and if we wanted to eat 3 quick service meals a day, then we could. If we wanted to eat 3 table service meals each day then we could do that as well even though the plan states you are awarded 2 table service meals and 1 quick service per day. For the Magic Your Way plus Dining, it includes 1 table service and 1 quick service per day. So does this mean, that if we want to eat 2 table service meals in 1 day we can? The way it was explained to me was that we will be awarded 2 sets of points (we are staying for 8 days), 8 table service credits and 8 quick service credits and if we were to eat 2 table service meals in 1 day then that leaves 6 table service meals and 8 quick service meals. With the Deluxe plan we would just get a collective total of credits to spend however we choose. Is that not how it works with the plus Dining plan? With the plus Dining, does it recognize whether or not a restaurant is a table service or quick service even if it only takes 1 credit? It wasn't like that with the Deluxe Dining. It didn't matter how many table service or quick service meals the plan stated. You just had 1 collective total of credits and wherever you ate at, it just deducted however many points it was worth. Many thanks to the people who can answer this for me!!
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The bottom line answer to your questions - yes, the system and the restaurants recognize the difference between TS and CS credits on your card.
So you can eat 2 TS in one day and it will use 2 of your total TS credits (unless it's a signature or show which takes 2 TS credits per meal vs. 1).
The Plus dining plan doesn't work like the Deluxe plan from that standpoint.
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This is the deal with the regular (DDP) dining plan as opposed to the deluxe.
On the regular plan, TS credits and QS credits are separate. You cannot trade them up, but you can possibly trade them down.
This means that you can never use your QS credits to purchase TS meals. However, you may be able to use your TS credits to purchase QS meals. It's a straight 1 for 1 trade - one TS credit equals one QS meal. There are also reports out that you are only able to do this when you have used up your QS credits.
It used to be widely allowed to trade QS credits for 3 snacks at all resort QS places. That may not be possible any longer. Some have been able to do it and some have been told they cannot. We have one report from someone who was permitted to trade one QS credit for one snack.
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On the regular Dining plan, you get 1 TS and 1 QS credit per night per person. So, for an 8 night stay, you would get a "pool" of 16 TS and 16 QS credits. And 1 snack credit per person, per night, for a total of 16 snack credits.
You can use these credits in any combination for the duration of your stay, but QS credits cannot be used for TS dining. For example:
On day 1, if you decide to eat at 'Ohana (1 TS credit each) for breakfast, Cosmic Ray's (1 QS credit each) for lunch, and Le Cellier (2 TS credits each because it is a Signature restaurant) for dinner, you will be using 3 TS credits and 1 QS credit each that day for a total of 6 TS credits and 2 QS credits used of your "pool".
You now have 10 TS credits and 14 QS credits left for the other 7 days of your vacation. Once you use up all your TS credits, you only have QS credits left. You cannot "trade in" QS credits for TS dining.
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One thing I did notice, you state the DxDDP (Deluxe Disney Dining Plan) offered 2 TS and 1 CS credit per night. This is not the case, it simply offers 3 credits, usable anywhere, per night of stay. This may be where some confusion is coming in.
DDP (Disney Dining Plan, aka "Plus Dining") does separate out the TS from the CS, and as such, you must use CS at CS locations and TS at TS locations. There is some leeway to use TS at a CS place, but only at a 1 for 1 ratio. CS to snacks is hit and miss as mentioned already, plan to not be allowed.
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We mention it here because the final few days of National Dog Bite Prevention Month are upon us. It ends Saturday. And last week, May 18-24, we observed National Dog Bite Prevention Week in unison with the American Veterinary Medical Association, as well as a slew of Cleveland and Bradley County veterinarians who understand the unique relationship between dogs and the owners they love.
Another who often sees the painful results of unexpected clashes between dogs and people is Michael Hoops, M.D., Cleveland's only full-time, board-certified plastic surgeon. Hoops is not alone. It is likely many Cleveland and Bradley County physicians have treated injuries suffered by men, women and children from dog bites.
We mention Hoops by name because over the years he has served as a leading advocate during National Dog Bite Prevention Week, as well as the entire month. In his practice, Hoops surely has seen the unfortunate side of conflict between people and their dogs that too often leads to personal injury.
Such attacks can often be avoided by practicing common-sense measures — whether they involve a family pet or a stray.
According to information provided by AVMA, and distributed to members of this community by Hoops, "Did you know that children are the most common victims of dog bites? Many dog bites that affect children happen during everyday activities and with familiar dogs."
Such a fact points to the importance of the common sense practices mentioned earlier. It also attests to the importance of adults serving as proper role models for their children on how to treat, and to play with, the family pet.
As provided by AVMA and Hoops, and most likely other organizations and medical professionals who share similar concerns, the following are labeled "10 Things We Can Teach Our Children to Prevent Dog Bites."
They include:
1. Avoid dogs you don't know. If you see an unknown dog wandering loose and unsupervised, avoid the dog.
2. Ask before petting! When the owners are with their dog, always ask permission to pet their pup. Even if it's a dog you know, asking first can help prevent sudden movements that may startle the dog.
3. When confronted, don't panic. If a dog confronts you, walk confidently and quietly away. If a dog goes after you, stay calm and stand still, keeping hands low and clasped in front of you. It's important to take a defensive position so the dog won't think you are trying to harm him.
4. Don't make it worse. Avoid escalating the situation by yelling, running, hitting or making sudden movements toward the dog. All of these actions will make the dog feel threatened and can make the dog more aggressive.
5. Let sleeping dogs lie. When a dog is sleeping or eating, leave the dog alone.
6. Never tease dogs. Don't take their toys, food or treats, and never pretend to hit or kick them. This could create distrust in the dog and make him or her more aggressive.
7. Playtime has a beginning and end. A dog has to want to play, but when the dog leaves that's your cue that playtime is over. The dog will come back for more play if he feels like it.
8. Never pull a dog's ears or tail. Pain makes a dog feel like he is in danger and he could respond by biting.
9. Dogs aren't toys. Never climb on or try to ride dogs. Not only could this scare or anger the dog, it could also injure the dog if he cannot support the weight or tries to get away.
10. Dog crates are safe spaces. Don't bother a dog when he is in his crate. Dogs need a comfortable, safe place where the child never goes. Remember, dogs need alone time too!
None of the suggestions above is complicated. All practice common sense and each can be taught by adults to children. It is based on courtesy, awareness and mutual love.
As we said, the title "Man's Best Friend" has been lovingly earned by dogs over time. But even best friends can sometimes squabble. The key is understanding how to avoid such conflicts.


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The AP reports here, and the running mates are now addressing a rally in Ohio. What do you think?
The AP reports here, and the running mates are now addressing a rally in Ohio. What do you think?
a SOLID Conservative, the liberals are in a panic already attacking her knowing this is GAME, SET, AND MATCH FOR NoBama's chances.
Looks like NoBama and Biden can return to the Senate, with Hillary.
McCain-Palin 2008……..BRILLIANT!
Barack who???
Years of Executive Experience/Gender:
O'bama 0/Male
Biden 0/Male
McCain 0/Male
Palin 2/female
It is interesting to watch all the men on the news shows (like CNN/NBC) trashing another woman like they did will Hillary over the past 15 months.
They conclude that Palin has no experience when in fact she has more executive experience than the three men combined.
Boy oh boy … mcBush is sure going to make the paid hacks that come here earn their money with this DISASTROUS pick!!!
Good luck spinning this as a positive kids!!! ROTFLMAO!!!
As a Democrat, I'm thrilled. This is a ridiculous choice for McCain – he couldn't have found someone less qualified to be a heartbeat away. I love the fact that they're spinning that she has military experience because she's commander of the Alaska National Guard. The Alaska National Guard? That's a small step above cub scout den mother.
I LOVE Sarah Palin. And when I say LOVE, I don't mean politically.
good choice. hey no corruption up there in far away alaska,…………….
She has 20 months experience, and was the mayor of a town of 6500 people 20 months ago.
Great choice. Let the pundits take their best shots. She beats Sen. Biden hands down. The next few months will be spectacular in many ways. Hold on tight!
McCain made a great choice — a woman, mother, and fighter. Obama made a mistake — not wanting to share the spotlight with Hillary Clinton, a capable woman. Democrat's selfish loss — Republican's win — and a win for women.
The Obama camp could not have been less prepared for this if they tried. There's no spinning this with their "more of the same" slogan they've come to love. "More of the same" would have been if McCain had picked for a running mate someone who was the consumate Washington insider; someone who has served in the US Senate for 35+ years; someone who's son was a registered lobbyist while he campaigned against "special interests." Now that would be "more of the same" that we're so used to seeing. Picking a nationally unknown figure that is renowned in her own state for fighting corruption within her own party and maintaining an approval rating that hovers around 80-90%? That's just ballsy and a game changer.
This will keep the spotlight on the McCain camp solidly over the weekend and through the convention and it has completely stunted any bounce Obama might have gained from his speech last night. What you witnessed last night in Denver was political theater. The role the McCain campaign played today was political genius.
For those who say a state governor like Sarah Palin can not be VP or President consider this:
Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter elected President in 1976
California Governor Ronald Reagan elected President in 1980
Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton elected President in 1992
Texas Governor George Bush elected President in 2000.
Interesting, we will have to see how this plays out. If Palin were a man with a 6 month old with Down's, how would the media play it? Will it be different because it's a Mom?
She descibes herself as a "hockey Mom". Does she pick up the soccer Mom vote based on the connection, or do soccer Moms question how you can be one while running for VP?
What of the female vote. Most of her positions would seem to be antithetical to the woman's movement. Do they vote gender? Hard to believe.
Remember Joe Biden badgering Anita Hill before Congress.
Sarah Will Crush Biden in the debate NOW.
Go Girl Go…
This is a gift from the Gods to the Democratic Party!!!
A clueless, scandal ridden, anti-woman's rights, right-wing extremist is the best mcBush can do???
"Most of her positions would seem to be antithetical to the woman's movement."
Well, if the women's movement is all about killing babies. Sure.
Attacking a woman is a non-starter for Obambi/Bydone, it just highlights how
stark the differences are between the empty list of accomplishments for Obambi and the LONG list of accomplishements of McCain/Palin.
Palin is an "ethics reformer" and a tax cutter and for small government – unlike the NY Republican Party or the Democrats. She's a real REFORMER.
ETHICS REFORM, the NYS GOP could learn from her and they should also try to get some candidates her age, 44, how refreshing!
#13Elmer — You mention the women's movement — what do you mean? choice? This woman made the choice to carry to term a life that other women might have terminated, however I would guess more women choose giving life to ending life — especially if they have previously given birth and held a baby in their arms. Elmer — do you know how many women try to carry 'fertility enhanced' mulitple births (twins, triplets) long enough so they aren't born so small and tiny that the odds of a normal life aren't good? In my opinion the women's movement stands for a woman's choice between the woman and her physician. And I doubt soccer moms — or many moms will criticize a woman running for office. Don't underestimate the unity of women.
Interesting comments about the choice of Palin. I've heard a boatload of sexist, derisive comments about Sarah Palin – from Democrats.
And SmokinJoe, your comment of:
"A clueless, scandal ridden, anti-woman's rights, right-wing extremist is the best mcBush can do???"
without the facts to back up your assertion, your comments are just that – your comments. If that's the best *you* can do, I think Palin will be a good choice.
Clearly McCain's first choice must have said "no," because this is an embarrassingly weak option for Republicans.
Palin's selection ends the Republicans ability to continue pushing their foreign policy/experience line. She has neither.
Alaska has fewer residents than small cities like Fort Worth, Texas.
Wasilla is about the size of Hudson, New York.
She is anti-choice, believes evolution should be taught in schools, denies global warming, opposes listing polar bears as endangered species, and is in the pocket of the oil industry.
Plus, she's knee-deep in a scandal in which she pressured a State commissioner to fire her sister's ex-husband, then fired the commissioner when he refused.
Palin is a total lightweight who will not attract Clinton voters because of her extreme right-wing views. Obama is going to run away with this election, mark my words.
Sheila—you say the woman's movement is about choice between the woman and her physician, but you also caution against underestimating the unity of women. That conundrum was my original point, in that in this case those ideas are mutually exclusive. Palin doesn't accept the choice position, which may or may not be right but certainly will not unite her with most women.
I love it! Palin has more experience (and executive experience at that) than Obama did when he announced his candidacy for President. I assume that for those for whom experience is such an important issue you were planning on voting for McCain, right? And the point about Obama's experience isn't the number of years he's served in office but the fact that no one can name a single thing that he's accomplished. At least she's run something.
How stupid do you think we as women are? Replace one woman candidate (Hilary) with another? They are so different just like the male candidates. Palin is governor of Alaska. Who/what other than reindeer live there? No wonder she could lower taxes. Yes, the mother of the year can be vice president and maybe the leader of the free world given McCain's age and health history. Talk about scary! Oh, and don't forget the town she was mayor of? Jerry Jennings could have been a vp candidate too!
The Glass ceiling is about to fall NOW.
NOW for Sarah.
#23 So you're pro-woman ONLY if the woman is liberal? Marcia Pappas would love you.
#20 Hudson – The left-wing hit machine is in full force already, eh? Well lets clear up a couple of your (honest) mistakes about Gov. Palin:
Palin does not "deny" global warming, and in fact has been outspoken on the needs to address the issue. Palin also could not be further away from the "pockets of big oil," considering she has been an outspoken critic of Alaskas powerful oil industry. What views might Palin have that fall under the "extreme right-wing" category? After all, it was her first veto that blocked legislation that would have made it illegal for same-sex couples to obtain benefits for their partners. (Wasn't that something Gov. Paterson was pushing for earlier this year? I guess he's just an ole right-winger too, huh?)
As far as being "anti-choice," I believe Gov. Palin made the hardest choice any woman could have this year when she made the choice to have a child knowing that it would be born with problems.
This pick effectively silences the Obama camp. McCain can continue to hammer Obama on his lack of "executive" experience just fine, but the Obama camp can NEVER go after Gov. Palin for her lack of experience without drawing more attention to his own deficiencies in said area.
#21 Elmer — I don't think there is a conundrum, or that positions on choice are mutually exclusive. Let's put this discussion on hold until after you give birth, ok? Is choice the only issue you think women think about? Don't take Sarah Palin's unconditional love for a child away from her or any woman — even for argument's sake.
Sorry Sheila, but the facts don't back you up. Depending on the source and the country studied, where the test is available, 80-90% of fetuses testing positive for Down's are aborted.
I think Governor Palin is a grand slam as a VP choice. I see her as bright, likeable, conservative, principled, down-to-earth (unlike Obama, big time), unafraid to cross party lines, young, tough (anybody who can give a political speech when she is starting to go into labor gets my respect), and attractive. I think a lot of voters of both sexes will like her and identify with her, even if they disagree with her on issues. On the experience front, Obama can't say anything about her lack of experience because he is just as inexperienced as she is.
I am already disgusted at how the people who call themselves "pro-woman" have already begun bashing and trashing Governor Palin as anti-woman simply because she has the audacity to believe that no one has the right to dispose of an unborn human being. As the Feminists for Life (with whom Governor Palin has been linked) like to say, women deserve better than abortion. Pro-life and pro-woman are not mutually exclusive ideals. One consolation here is the fact that Obama and Biden would look like complete idiots if they tried to paint a woman as anti-woman, so they won't be able to directly use her pro-life position against her (although I notice they have a female spokesperson going after her already). They are probably getting the feeling that the tide is turning against them.
# 20: Did you denigrate Bill Clinton when he ran for President after serving as Governor of a small state? Or are you only trashing Palin because she's pro-life and conservative? Is it possible to disagree with someone's issue positions without trashing her and impugning her integrity? Also, to say that Governor Palin is "knee deep" in a scandal is stretching things a bit if you have read anything at all about the situation. From what I have read about the "scandal," it seems to involve an at-will employee's termination and an injudicious phone call made by one staff member, and it's not clear (to me at least) that Palin engaged in any wrongdoing whatsoever. This is not the kind of stuff that derails careers. By the way — have you done any blogging about Barack Obama's real estate dealings with his buddy Tony Resko?
FAR more experience than the street organizer Obama. Great choice by McCain. Her 'lack of experience' illustrates perfectly just how wet behind the ears Obama is.


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Children´s Church School Classes: Offered Sunday, February 16:
• Infant Nursery — 0-23 months Room 107
• Toddler Nursery — 2 yr. olds - young 3´s Room 106
• Children & Worship (toilet trained) — Older 3´s – Pre K Room 204/201
• Infant Nursery — 0-23 months Room 107
• Toddler Nursery — 2-3 years Room 106
• One Room Schoolhouse — 4 years-Grade 2 Room 202
(One Room Schoolhouse children begin in worship with their parents. Following the Children´s Moments, they are dismissed to class.)
**Worship bags and Children´s Pages are available in the narthex with activities that allow for children to participate in worship at their own level.**
Please contact Annette Erbes at 451.2879 or firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.
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FAITH TRAVELERS MISSION OFFERING The K-4 Faith Travelers church school classes have selected Family Promise of Grand Rapids as their mission offering focus for February through May! The goal is to raise $100 for new toys for our Family Promise guests. Monetary offerings can be brought to any Faith Travelers class. Any questions? Please contact Annette Erbes, Director of Children´s Ministry, at 616.451.2879. Did you know that…1,800 children have been supported by Family Promise and that 90% of families have found a new home?!
WOMEN´S RETREAT Inviting Mary into our Martha Lives - Seeking Attentiveness Even in Chaos March 28, 4:00 pm – March 29, 4:00 pm at Geneva Retreat Center (Holland, MI). Cost $75.00 per person. Martha is worried and distracted by many things. Jesus reminds her there is need of only one thing and that Mary has chosen this better part. Is it possible for Martha to know what Mary knows? Join us as we discover the gift of attentiveness while seeking to live faithful lives. Reserve your spot by sending a check to Sharon Sorenson by March 19. Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
YOUTH SERVICE Join us this Sunday, February 16, for our youth-led worship services at 9:15 and 11:00 am! Invite your family and friends! Also, if you´d like to help support our summer mission trip, envelopes will be available on Sunday morning to make donations. This summer, we are working with Reach Workcamps to repair homes for low-income families in North Carolina.
FEBRUARY 16TH IS YOUTH SUNDAY! In order for families to enjoy this worship service together, no Faith Travelers (elementary age) classes will be held this Sunday. Infant and toddler nurseries will be available at both services. Children & Worship (Older 3 Yr. Olds-Pre-K) class will be held at 9:15 a.m. The One Room Schoolhouse will be held for ages 4 Yrs. – Grade 2 at 11:00 a.m. Children´s bulletins will be available at each entrance and children´s worship bags will be available in the back of the sanctuary.
2ND BEST SALE is on Saturday, May 3! With Spring just around the corner, it´s not too early to start cleaning closets or the garage with the 2nd Best Sale in mind. Gently used clothing, books, and household goods are all in high demand by our faithful shoppers. Mark your calendar to donate, volunteer and shop our bargains. Sunday, April 27 is when you may start to drop off items. Please multiply your faith by contributing your gently used items, time and energy to help make this annual fund raising event a success.
IPADS FOR MLK – A CHALLENGE FROM THE LEGACY MINISTRY A request came to Legacy Ministry for the purchase of 15 iPads, one for each tutoring station at the Martin Luther King Leadership Academy - FUMC Tutoring Center. The request includes the purchase of educational apps, and equipment that will appropriately provide security against theft. According to Jer Hon-Hawkins, iPads would "expose our students to current technology so they will be competitive learners in the future." The estimated cost for this project is $9,500. Legacy does not have the full amount available for this request, therefore, they would like to challenge the congregation. Legacy Ministry will match up to $5,000. If you are willing to help with this project, please specify iPads for MLK on your giving envelope. Thank you for all you do to help with the vital ministries of our church!
USHERS NEEDED! USHERS CRUCIAL! USHERS ESSENTIAL! Have you ever wanted to serve, but didn´t know where to begin? Being an usher gives you an opportunity to share your gifts of hospitality and service in a tangible way. Ushers work as a team and are guided by a team leader. Sign up using the Sunday bulletin for this low-commitment opportunity for one Sunday a month for either the 9:15 or 11:00 am service. We are in great need of ushers for the third Sunday of the month, for the 9:15 am service. Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
JAZZ VESPERS, featuring the Tyler Vander Maas Sax Quartet, on Saturday, February 15 at 6:00 pm weaves scripture, a pastoral message and prayer into a celebration of faith, hope, and the love of God. Please join us!
CARING CONNECTION The next meeting is on Wednesday, February 19 at 8:00 am at New Beginnings Restaurant (1455 Michigan St NE). We welcome anyone who would like to participate in caring for our homebound with phone calls, note-writing, and visits.
ALL-CHURCH BIRTHDAY DINNER Join us Sunday, March 9 as we celebrate everyone who has a birthday, which includes you! Following the 11:00 am worship service, we will gather and get to know others with the same birthday month. We are looking for table hosts. A table host is responsible for decorating the table and hosting the table for the meal. Please sign up using the Sunday bulletin insert. If you have any questions please contact Emil at firstname.lastname@example.com. Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
HOLY LAND TRIP Lynn and Kay DeMoss, will lead a trip to the Holy Land and Jordan from September 15 - October 1. While all the usual holy sites will be visited, the focus of the trip is meeting people - Jewish, Christian and Muslim. Experiences unique to this trip will include a meal with a Christian family, following the Palm Sunday path, exploring ancient Megiddo, meeting with religious leaders of all three faiths and visiting Christian ministries. Brochures giving full details can be found in the North Lobby.
41ST ANNUAL JURIED SPIRITUAL ART COMPETION, Art Exhibit Hours: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm daily through March 4 and 10:00 am to 1:00 pm; March 5, Ash Wednesday. For more information visit www.theCelebrationoftheArts.com
Special Guest Exhibit: The Spectrum Health Expressive Arts Program Under the direction of professional staff, the residents and patients in this therapeutic program express themselves as individuals, gaining independence and the motivation to be artistically creative. Visit our main floor gallery to view this inspiring exhibit.
Special Events:
• Artists´ Reception, Friday, February 21 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm in Wesley Hall. Presentation of awards, jazz, and special desserts! Open to the public.
• Gallery Walk-Through Celebration of the Arts, Sunday, February 23 at 9:30 am and Wednesday, February 26 at 12:00 pm in Wesley Hall. Experience this year´s show through the special insight of Nancy Clouse, artist and faculty member from Grand Rapids Community College.
• Early Music Michigan, Sunday, February 23 at 4:00 pm in the sanctuary. Early Music Michigan is devoted to the lively interpretation of music from earlier eras.
• Celebration Sunday, Sunday, March 2 at 11:00 am in the sanctuary. A festive morning service on the last Sunday before Lent, featuring a Dixieland band, led by Bob Nixon.
• Ash Wednesday Service, Wednesday, March 5, 6:00 pm in the sanctuary. The service features music of Taizé in a reflective and solemn setting.
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Concerns & Prayers for:
• Lynne Beals
• David Crawford
• Dale Ewalt
• Don Far
• Ken McCaw
• Robert Newell
Service Personnel
• Chris Bolhouse
• Scott Grifhorst
• Stephan Mathos
• Jesse Mounts
• Trevor Norton
• Shawn Seher
• Peter Taylor, Jr
The love and prayers of the congregation are extended to Katie and Jeff Flermoen and family on the death of Katie´s grandfather, Del Rector, on February 5th.
Dear Friends at FUMC,
Pat and I wish to extend to you our deep gratitude for remembering our son Robert in your prayers and the cards you´ve sent to him. He says to also extend his heartfelt thanks. Prayer is powerful medicine that is a crucial part of his treatment as well as the wonderful care he is receiving at Lacks cancer center. As he continues his medical treatment, please continue your prayerful treatment on Robert´s behalf. We have so much to be thankful for.
In Christian Love, Pat and Jim Newell
Dear FUMC Friends,
Thanks so much for the prayer quilt! I think warm thoughts of you all each time I use it.
With my love and appreciation, Don Far
Many thanks to all my FUMC family for all the cards, prayers, and meals I received during my knee replacement. You certainly made me feel loved and cared for. I am so blessed to have so many loving friends.
Blessings, Sherry
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Worship Services
9:15 and 11:00 am
Sunday, February 16
"Keeping Up with the Christ"
Youth Service
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This has been a grueling winter by all accounts! There have been few like it in recent years. Each new day brings the next new storm and the next white-knuckle commute. We´ve learned about polar vortexes and have experienced minus double digit temperatures. How many of us have consoled ourselves with the thought that it is now February and this simply won´t last much longer?
I know that as bad is it is, the days are getting longer, the sun is getting higher, and the temperatures are inching (albeit slowly) in the right direction. And next week we experience that most hopeful day when… "Pitchers and Catchers Report"!
As we latch on to these signs that the season is changing for the better, remember that there are many in our midst who experience a new storm in their lives every day- with little hope of an improving forecast. The storms of sickness, unemployment, loneliness, and poverty roll in on them every day. They feel about as much in control of these situations as we do the weather- but they can´t take comfort in the notion that "spring is just around the corner".
At First Church, our mission is to bring sunshine and the hope of a balmier future to those among us who feel helpless and hopeless. Our giving and our personal participation in ministry make a tremendous difference. Every dollar we give and every minute we serve brings a little ray of sunshine for someone.
So, as we think fondly of the coming spring as a way of getting through the treacherous winter we are enduring, let us give thanks to God for the opportunity to be hopeful. And let us show our gratitude by committing ourselves fully to discipleship and stewardship. A joyous and grateful servant responds with generous abandon so that others can have hope for a warm and sunny future.
Thanks to all at First Church for continuing to find new ways to give and serve in the name of Jesus Christ. Think Spring!
Chris Hawkins, Finance Committee
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YOUNG ADULTS: ICE CREAM SOCIAL WITH OUR HEARTSIDE NEIGHBORS Young Adults (age 18-30) are invited to join us for an Ice Cream Social with our Heartside neighbors. Meet at The Vine on Wednesday, February 26 at 6:00 pm to carpool (or walk together). Please eat dinner before you arrive. If you´re able, sign up to bring a topping (message firstname.lastname@example.com).
TRANSPORTATION NEED We have two people who would like a ride from Porter Hills (3600 East Fulton St) to the 11:00 am worship services on Sunday mornings and then back home. If you are able to help with this transportation need, please contact Marj Timmerman at 901-9224 or email@example.com. Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
VALENTINE´S DAY HOE DOWN to benefit the FUMC Adoption Ministry! Wondering what to do that is fun and new for Valentine´s Day? Come to the Hoe Down in The Vine on Friday, February 14 from 6:30 - 9:30 pm! Music will be provided by "Gooder n´ Grits." You can´t dance? Our band and caller will teach you. Light refreshments will be provided! Suggested donation of $14 per person. There will be a silent auction and all proceeds will go to the Adoption Fund. Come and bring your spouse, date, whole family, and friends, and help us bring Raymond home from Hong Kong.
VALENTINE COOKIE BAKERS NEEDED! FUMC traditionally provides decorated cookies for each MLK Class. We are in need of cookie bakers of all ages to meet in the FUMC kitchen on Thursday, February 13. Baking and cookie-decorating will start at 12:30 pm and will finish up about 2:00 pm. Feel free to bring along some holiday sprinkles for decorating! Please use the Sunday sign-up sheet or call the Tutoring Center at MLK (819.1745) to let us know we can count on you! Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
ADULT SUNDAY CLASS: NOOMA A two- week drop-in series featuring Rob Bell´s Nooma videos. The class will be video- and discussion-based. Classes are Sunday, February 23 and March 2 at 9:30 am in the parlor. Led by Kurt and Randy Kimball.
ADULT SUNDAY CLASS: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE JUSTICE SYSTEM A four-week class featuring speakers and videos. Classes are Sundays, March 2 - 23 at 9:30 am in room 3107. Our first speaker will be Linda Zeller. Led by Ruth Chisnall. Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
LENTEN STUDY Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations by Bishop Robert Schnase. You are invited to embark on a journey this Lent. The church has entered a new era. People are seeking spirituality, but not necessarily organized religion. How will the church respond? What will speak to the people of today? Robert Schnase tells us that people are searching for a church shaped and sustained by Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Faith Development, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, and Extravagant Generosity. Let´s get talking about how we might use these practices to make disciples for Jesus today and into the future. Sign up online at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/sign-up-sheet
• Wednesday AM – March 5-April 9, 10:00-11:30 at Clark, with Dick Youells
• Thursday PM – March 6-April 10, 5:30-7:00 pm Church, with TBD
• Thursday PM – March 6-April 10, 7:00-8:30 pm at Kurt & Randy Kimball´s
• Sunday AM – March 9-April 13, 9:30-10:30 am at Church, with TBD
• Sunday PM – March 9-April 13, 5:00-6:30 pm at Church, with Pastor Bob
• Sunday PM – March 9-April 13, 6:00-7:30 pm at Dave & Peggy Thompson´s
• Monday PM – March 10-April 14, 7:00-8:30 pm John & Marianne Warnock´s
• Tuesday PM – March 11-April 15, 7:00-8:20 pm at Allyson Cave´s Home
• Wednesday PM – March 12-April 9 (or 16), 6:30-8:00 pm at Church, with Laure Mieskowski
CHURCH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Substance abuse and addiction affect the entire family. If you need help, we are here for you. Call the CAP Hotline at 455.6210. They will answer the phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will set you up to meet with a trained counselor. The first two, one-hour sessions will be at no charge to you by telling them you are a member or friend of First Church! So don´t wait any longer – call today!
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Wednesday, February 5
Taize Sung Prayers ........28
Sunday, February 9
Worship 9:15 am ........78
Worship 11:00 am ........195
Church School ........119
Evening Activities ........33
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Do our writing means change our written ends?
In the future, you will talk to your computer. Voice, the predominant mode of human-to-human communication, has been migrating
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Already, voice interfaces have become commonplace in the telephone customer-service industry, have long been of assistance to the blind, and are increasingly used by doctors for transcribing patient information. Even your less-tech-savvy relatives may have seen, for example, the recent profile of Nuance Communications in the New York Times. Nuance is the big fish in the small pond of dictation programming development, and the force behind Dragon, the highly-regarded though still expensive dictation-software package, as well as Siri, the iPhone 4S personal-assistant application, and the Ford "Sync" system's voice-command interface. Google's concept video for "Project Glass" includes voice-to-text translation.
So it seems as though our voices may some day displace our keyboards and mice as the primary means through which we manipulate our computing devices. But while to command by voice is one thing, to write by voice is another, and the question remains whether -- or how -- this shift in technology will shape the words we "pen."
The relationship between writing technology and writing itself is by no means clear, but we can look to history for insights into past shifts in popular writing tech. For example, in a series of lectures in the 1940s philosopher Martin Heidegger fretted over the growing influence of the typewriter:
In the time of the first dominance of the typewriter, a letter written on this machine still stood for a breach of good manners. Today a hand-written letter is an antiquated and undesired thing; it disturbs speed reading. Mechanical writing deprives the hand of its rank in the realm of the written word and degrades the word to a means of communication. In addition, mechanical writing provides this "advantage" that it conceals the handwriting and thereby the character. The typewriter makes everyone look the same.
Writing technologies do not by themselves appear to compel us to write or think in one way or another... at the same time, these technologies do have some influence on our writing and thinking.
If the shift from handwriting to typewriters raised such concerns, what of the shift to computers? Though the keyboard was more or less the same, would the distinctions of computerized word processing shape writing in subtle ways? Susan Sontag thought no, that computers were much the same as typewriters. She explained, "Someone was marveling that I moved with so much pleasure to the word processor. And I said, 'The leap is from writing by hand to the typewriter. From writing with a typewriter to using a computer is no leap at all.' " But for Joan Didion, the particularities of the computer did seem in some ways distinct from her typerwriter, and more efficient to boot. She said:
I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer, so finally after about a month I got proficient enough that I could actually work on it without being distracted by it, and in fact then it started making me a whole lot more logical than I ever had been. Because the computer was so logical, it was always right, I was wrong ... and the time saved.
Other writers have observed that efficiency and opted against it. For example, biographer David McCullough prefers a vintage typewriter, reasoning that, "I don't want to go faster. If anything, I probably ought to go more slowly... When rewriting, I'm not just typing it all over again, I'm thinking through it again, rethinking, rewording where need be, saying it a little differently on second thought." That is, a disadvantage that comes with the time saved by computerized writing is that it discourages the moments of contemplation afforded by less efficient writing technologies.
Two important points emerge from these snippets from the history of reflection on writing technologies. First, writing technologies do not by themselves appear to compel us to write or think in one way or another. It seems at least possible to express the same general thoughts with a pen, typewriter, or word processor.
Second, and at the same time, these technologies do have some influence on our writing and thinking. Writing technologies appear to incline certain styles, disincline others, lean authors toward more or less reflectivity, and supply both conveniences and inconveniences. As Nietzsche said, "Our writing instruments contribute to our thoughts."
So discussions of how our method of writing affects our writing are nothing new. As we begin to think about how a future of dictated writing will look, we should keep in mind that dictation is nothing new either, and we can look to the past for evidence about what dictated writing will be like. For example, Milton was blind by the time he wrote Paradise Lost and is said to have composed the entire epic through dictation. A discussion has emerged over the later writing of Henry James, incited by the expansive biographical work of Leon Edel, about whether changes in James' style are attributable to a move to dictation. And Amy Rowland has recently argued -- based on her own experience taking dictation for journalists and also on accounts of historical figures such as Dostoevsky's "collaborator" (and, later, wife) Anna Grigorievna -- that there are substantial differences between a responsive human transcriptionist and automated dictation software. Rowland claims, "past authors have dictated to humans and their corporeal responses have contributed to aesthetic production, if in untraceable ways."
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Back in the mid-90s, a book hit the bestseller list and was a run-away success, selling millions of copies and changing the lives of readers all around the world.
The book? "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy." The author: Sarah Ban Breathnach. Almost overnight, it made Breathnach a household word for women who longed to learn how to live a more authentic, simpler life.
Why do I bring up a book now almost 20 years old? Because Brethnach was recently interviewed by Oprah, because, it seems, she failed to follow her own advice. Seduced by her new-found wealth, she went on a spending spree that included air flights on the Concord as a matter of course and buying a historic chapel in England to turn into her personal writer's garret.
Her espousal of simple abundance became conspicuous consumption. And now, she sat before Oprah contrite and totally broke — a sadder and wiser woman — full of remorse at not having followed her own advice. Oh, and by the way, she noted, her new book about her experience was just being published.
Although I found it ironic, I wasn't surprised. I guess it's hard to lead a simple life when one is being seduced by an abundance of money.
However, there was one reflection in Breathnach's book that made an impression on me all those years ago. It was the reflection that happened to fall on my birthday and was entitled "Bloom where you are planted."
Comparing gardening to life and the act of creation, it struck a chord in the gardener in me. I found personal meaning in the simplicity of planting, watering, weeding and nourishing.
So, in what ways have you found meaning in living more authentically through simplicity?
Ellen Carter, Schererville: I've reached an age where I found I no longer needed a lot of "stuff." I literally woke up, looked around and started tossing. I don't need to cover every inch of my tables and shelves with dust catchers. I don't need four sets of dishes. I don't need 100 pairs of shoes or a closet crammed with clothes I haven't worn in years. It took me several months to clear out the lot but, in the end, I find it amazing how much bigger my house became.
Cate Bohlen, Highland: Years ago, I simplified my life by learning to say "no." I never wanted to hurt anyone's feelings so I agreed to everything — chairing fundraisers, school projects, room mother, library volunteer, dinner parties at my house. I couldn't say no and I was exhausted. One day, while complaining to my sister, she told me to grow a backbone and just say no. Trust me, that simple little word was liberating.
Seth McAvey, Lowell: I was a workaholic, becoming a stranger to my wife and children. In typical business mode, I began scheduling family time in my calendar, along with a weekly date night with my wife. After a couple of months, those times came to be so important to me that I no longer see them as appointments, but rather priorities.


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Chicken Egg Drop Soup Recipe
Who wants takeout when it tastes better homemade? This quick and easy soup is ideal for chilly days. You'll love the addition of tender chicken.
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 10 min. Cook: 30 min. YIELD:1 servings
- 1-1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 slice peeled fresh gingerroot (1/4 inch thick)
- 1 small garlic clove, peeled
- 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/4 cup cubed cooked chicken
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tablespoon sliced green onion
- 1. In a small saucepan, combine the broth, ginger and garlic; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes. Remove and discard ginger and garlic.
- 2. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; gradually stir into broth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add chicken; heat through. Reduce heat. Drizzle beaten egg into hot broth, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat; stir in onion. Yield: 1 serving.
Nutritional Facts
1 cup equals 178 calories, 8 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 243 mg cholesterol, 956 mg sodium, 6 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 21 g protein.
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