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Panoramic Maps 1847-1929
Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1900.
Ionia, Ionia Co., Michigan 1868.
Ipswich, Mass. :
[Bird's eye view of Chatham, Ontario.
[Bird's-eye-view of Battle Creek, Mich.
[Bird's-eye-view of Brooklyn]
[Bird's-eye-view of Manhattan and adjacent districts, New York City].
Ironwood, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886.
Irvona, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
Irwin, Pennsylvania 1897.
Ithaca, N.Y. /
Jacksonville, Florida.
Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 1897.
Jefferson, Ohio 1901.
Jermyn, Lackawanna County, Pa.
Jewett City, Conn.
Johnsonburg, Elk County, Pennsylvania.
Johnsonville, N.Y. 1887.
Johnstown, N.Y. 1888.
Kalamazoo, Michigan 1874.
Keeseville, N.Y. 1887.
Kennebunk, Me., 1895 /
Kingfield, Me., Franklin Co., 1895.
Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 1896.
Knoxville, Tenn.
La Crosse, Wis.,
La Crosse, Wis. 1873.
Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas.
Lake City, Wabasha Co., Minnesota 1867.
Lake Superior's Queen City (Marquette, Mich.) 1897.
Lakeport, Lake County, California,
Lakeside summer resort and camp ground, near Sandusky, Ohio.
Lancaster, N.Y. /
Lands End, Rockport, Mass.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania 1900.
Le Roy, N.Y.
League Island U.S. Navy Yard Philadelphia /
Lebanon, Grafton County, N.H., 1884.
Leominster, Mass. 1886.
Ligonier, Pennsylvania 1900 /
Lincoln, Neb.,
Lindsey, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
Little Falls, N.Y. /
Livermore Falls, Maine.
Lonaconing, Maryland /
Lonsdale, Rhode Island, 1888.
Los Angeles 1909.
Los Angeles as it appeared in 1871.
Los Angeles, 1909.
Los Angeles, Cal.,
Los Angeles, California, 1894.
Lowville, N.Y.
Ludlow, Vt.
Ludlow, Vt. 1859
Luzerne, N.Y. and Hadley.
Lyndonville, Caledonia County, Vermont, 1884.
Machias, Me., 1896 /
Macon, Ga.
Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 1893.
Madison, State capital of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin 1867.
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.
Main business district periscopic Seattle.
Malone, N.Y.
Manchaug, Massachusetts /
Mannington, West Virginia 1897.
Map and view of St. Louis, Mo.
Map of Cazenovia, Madison Co., N.Y. /
Map of Winona County, Minnesota. 1867.
Map of great western Central City /
Map of the city of Cincinnati /
Market Street, Lynn, Mass., as it appeared in 1820.
Marlborough, N.Y. /
Martin's Ferry, Ohio 1899 /
Matteawan, N.Y.
Maynard, Mass. 1879.
McDonald, Washington County, Pennsylvania 1897.
McKee's Rocks, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1901.
Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1903.
Mechanicville, N.Y.
Medford, Massachusetts :
Medford, Wis.,
Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
Meredith Village, N.H.
Merrimac, Mass.
Meyersdale, Pennsylvania.
Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Middlebury, Vt.
Middletown, Conn. 1877.
Middletown, N.Y.
Middletown, N.Y. 1887.
Middletown, N.Y. 1922.
Middleville, N.Y.
Midland, Maryland /
Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
Milford, N.H.
Millers Falls, Mass.
Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania 1894.
Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1894.


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You may be aware that on late Sunday nights, Turner Classic Movies presents foreign films under its "Imports" collection. Tonight's overseas showing is what is known as the Three Colors Trilogy by Polish director/writer Krzysztof Kielowski (a mouthful, I know).
The three movies are simply titled Blue, White, and Red, but they contain far from simple concepts. These were Kielowski's last three films, his opus if you will, which he made simultaneously from 1993 through 1994, before his death two years later. In the late 60's, he began his filmmaking career by mainly directing documentaries. In fact, it was when he desired to explore deeper realms of humanity, such as the conscience and the soul, that he knew he had to break from the documentary form in order to create and capture such elusive elements. Think of it as using a camera to create rather than to merely record.
Each movie of this trilogy is a seemingly stand-alone tale, though they all receive their names from the tri-colored flag of France, where the colors symbolize Liberty (blue), Equality (white), and Fraternity (red). Those themes are present in each of the designated movies, but they also explore other realms such as love, loss, justice, and humiliation to name a few. The three are masterfully-crafted, charged with endless layers of artistic and structural technique. Through meticulous staging and camera methods, the director aims to reach his viewers through their subconscious. It's a goal that is well achieved. As viewers will quickly notice, the physical, titular color of each film plays a dominate part in its corresponding movie as well. Its presence is so strong and meaningful that the color itself is, in a way, a primary character in the story.
You will want to record these to watch later, unless you aim to pull an all-nighter.
A woman's life changes without warning when she loses her family in an accident. Emotionless, the young widow chooses to wander, aiming to be obligated to no one, and to have no one obligated to her. There are certain truths in the world, however, that are inevitable and cannot be escaped. Despite her desire to live a new carefree life, where she will be spared from any further tragedy, we learn people weren't designed to live free from others and that the appealing ideal of liberty is not nearly as fulfilling as being bound to another person.
Blue starts the trilogy at 2a.m.
At the surface level, this second film doesn't appear as heavy as its trilogymates, maybe owing to the jovial soundtrack. However, White actually holds a gritty underlying theme. It begins with a bumbling, Polish hairdresser trying to get by financially and matrimonially in France. He is a fish out of water, vulnerable, and doesn't speak the language well at all. As a result of his inability to please his beautiful French bride, they are on unequal footing. Frustrated, she divorces him leaving him broke and beaten. Now he must find a way back to his home country and rebuild his life. But what are his motives?
Watch White at 3:45 a.m.
Through a series of events, a young model finds friendship in a retired judge who has become cynical in his older years. From a life of handing out verdicts, the judge's understanding of true justice had become blurred. There is more to the movie than this short summary, but much of it is told by visual cues. It explores the life that almost could be: Potential love and potential relationships, missed opportunities and opportunities one doesn't know he or she has missed. Red prompts the viewer to wonder "What if?" and to lament with a yearning "If only."
This one brings the three films to a close at 5:30 a.m.
(Reece Kelly, a native of East Liverpool, studied film at Regent University. Let him know what you thought of this week's featured films by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com)

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Old Mortality (1816)
by Sir Walter Scott
No current Talk conversations about this book.
Old Mortality is not as well known nor is it as popular as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe or Kenilworth, all of which followed it in the five years subsequent to its publication in 1816. It also precedes The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, both of which were part of Scott's series of novels "Tales of My Landlord". But Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels.
Under the reign of the last Stewarts, there was an anxious wish on the part of government to counteract, by every means in their power, the strict or puritanical spirit which had been the chief characteristic of the republican government. The novel takes its title from the nickname of Robert Paterson, a Scotsman of the 18th century who late in life decided to travel around Scotland re-engraving the tombs of 17th century Covenanter martyrs. The first chapter of the novel describes a meeting between him and the novel's fictitious narrator.
The novel tells the story of Henry Morton, who shelters John Balfour of Burley, one of the assassins of Archbishop James Sharp. As a consequence Morton joins Burley in an uprising of Covenanters (who wanted the re-establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland) which was eventually defeated at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679, by forces led by the Duke of Monmouth and John Graham of Claverhouse. The bulk of the novel describes the progress of the rebellion from its initial success at the Battle of Drumclog, and the growth of factionalism which hastened its defeat. Henry's involvement in the rebellion causes a conflict of loyalties for him, since he is in love with Edith Bellenden who belongs to a family who oppose the uprising. Henry's beliefs are not as extreme as those of Burley and many other rebel leaders, which leads to his involvement in the factional disputes. The novel also shows their oppressors, led by Claverhouse, to be extreme in their beliefs and methods. Comic relief is provided by Cuddie Headrigg, a peasant who reluctantly joins the rebellion because of his personal loyalty to Morton, as well as his own fanatical mother.
This novel is both interesting and exciting in its historical detail. More importantly it addresses the questions of the relative merits of 'enthusiasm' and moderation, of extremism and consensus, when the nation is swept by rebellion and violent change.
Anyone who thinks jihadism is utterly foreign to the Western mind should this book, or some other account of the religious wars of Europe. "Christ and no quarter."
The situation Scott sets out in Old Mortality lends itself to facile parallels with the modern world: a small but vocal religious minority have resorted to assassination and terrorist action to try to overturn a secular, foreign-sponsored puppet administration and establish a government based on their own religious principles; the army is perpetrating human rights abuses in trying to put down the insurgency and maintain public order with the help of foreign troops; decent, ordinary people are caught in the middle between the two sides. Obviously, there are ways in which all religiously-motivated civil wars are much the same wherever and whenever they take place, but we shouldn't get too carried away...
The real problem Scott had to deal with in putting his case for moderation was the classic one of constructing a story with a good, moral hero at its centre without making it dull. In this particular case it was exacerbated by the need to give the hero, Henry Morton, ideas about religious tolerance, human rights, and the rule of law that aren't really plausible for someone living 30 years before the birth of David Hume. This anachronism is probably more obvious to a modern reader than it would have been to Scott's contemporaries, and it rather undermines the credibility of the rest of the story. Probably because of this, I found it much more difficult to identify with the moral arguments than in The Heart of Mid-Lothian, where Scott found a clever way to rearrange the conventional romantic structure of the narrative to keep the "hero" offstage and put a much less obvious character at the centre of the story. It also doesn't help that we have to fight our way through several levels of narrators before we get to the start of the actual story.
On the other hand, there's a huge amount to enjoy in Old Mortality. Scott dealt very creatively with the problem of language. The Covenanters' Old Testament rant and the Scots dialect of the working-class characters probably aren't really any more authentic a representation of 17th century dialogue than the standard English of the gentry, but they give the characters who use them an intelligible but very individual voice, and add greatly to the pleasure of reading the story. For most readers, the really memorable characters are going to be Cuddie Headrigg and his mother Mause; Poundtext, MacBriar, and the other preachers; and of course Lady Margaret Bellenden and her memories of Charles II taking his disjune at Tillietuddlem Castle.
A very early (1816) historical novel set in Scotland in 1679 during the religious wars against the last Stuart kings. Scott is recognised as having created the genre of historical novels in the Waverley series, and this book seems like a fully fledged modern historical novel - a mix of fictional and real characters set in a realistic context. It is good stuff, but the Scots dialog is a little inpenetrable, and needed 100+ pages of noted to translate, and to explain. The author balances the views of the different sides - enough good and bad on both sides to allow the reader to draw their own conclusion. Seems very modern for its time, but includes the fantastic plot twists that are familiar from other 19th century fiction. Read February 2009
Isn't it nice to find a person who knows history almost entirely by tradition? History to Scott means the stories remembered in the old families, or sometimes the stories remembered by sects and villages. I should say he was almost the last person in modern Europe who did know it that way: and that, don't you think, is at the back of all his best work. Claverhouse, say, was to Scott not 'a character' out of Macaulay (or Hume or Robertson) but the man about whom old Lady so and so tells one story and about whom some antediluvian local minister's father told another...
But of all the Scott characters I know, I give the palm to three above all the others - the Baron of Bredwardine [in Waverley], Cuddy Headrigg [in Old Mortality], and Baillie [Nichol] Jarvie [in Rob Roy].
- from a 13 April 1929 letter to his brother, in The collected letters of C.S. Lewis, volume I
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140430989, Mass Market Paperback)The story opens dramatically with the repercussions of the murder of the Archbishop of St.Andrews by a group of "Covenanting Whigs" and spans ten years of tumult: from the defeat of John Graham of Claverhouse by the covenanters at Drumclog, and the victory of the Duke of Monmouth over the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, to the aftermath of the batle at Killiecrankie in 1689.
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Published in 1816 and set in seventeenth-century Scotland, this historical novel is part of the series Tales of My Landlord . Henry Morton joins the rebellious Covenanters, fighting for the reestablishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland during the reign of the Stuarts. Morton's loyalties are torn, however, as he is in love with Edith Bellenden, whose family opposes the rebels.… (more)
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Yet another addition to the never ending amount of annoying internet acronyms, 'smc' means 'suck my cock'.
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<the_dude> smc
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The Boy had SAid "SMD ,Then the gurl had said "SMC" Back
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smc or SMC, an acronym for "Shit My Chair", is an element of internet slang created in response to ROFL, which one really can't be doing while typing. If you see something truly amazing and/or hilarious while sitting at your computer then shitting your chair is the pinnacle of reactions.
Hey - check out this picture of your boss making out with a goat!
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How to increase your visibility on LinkedIn by 1000%
Mon 22 August 2011
, Stephanie Ward, http://www.fireflycoaching.com
You're probably posting interesting updates on LinkedIn that your connections find extremely valuable.
And when you post an update it is only visible to your connections. You may have a few hundred connections, maybe more. And that's awesome.
But what you're missing out on is a super cool way to leverage your updates so that they reach thousands to tens of thousands of people (this is not hype or an exaggeration, stick with me and I'll explain).
Get Yourself Hooked Up With Groups
First off you need to join some Groups on LinkedIn; you can join a maximum of 50 groups. You want to join groups that your ideal clients are members of.
To find groups to join simply go to the top navigation bar and go to the search bar on the top right. Click on the drop down menu and choose 'Groups'. Then start typing in keywords of your target market and industry and you'll see options for groups.
For example, if you're a Nutritionist you might type words like: health, nutrition, wellness, etc. If you're a Sustainability Consultant you could try words like: environment, renewable, energy, etc.
There is also a 'Similar groups' link that is to the right of the group description and above the 'Join Group' button that will show you groups that are similar to that one.
Each group has a short description as well as the number of members in the group. Look for groups that are a good match and have a large number of members.
Once you find a group you want to join simply click on the button to the right of the group description that says 'Join Group'.
Let the Sharing Begin
To get started, update your status with a description of the content you want to share. The types of updates that receive the most response are ones that include a link to content.
The link can be to: an article, a video, a blog post, etc. Be sure to add a link to the content by clicking on the link that says 'Attach a link' which will say: 'Add URL:' once you click on it. After you add the link click on 'Attach'.
Once you've done that simply click 'Share' and now your update appears in the stream under 'All Updates'. That is usually as far as most people go. The next step is where the magic of massive leverage happens.
How to Skyrocket Your Visibility
Now that you see your post in the stream, click on the link underneath your post that says 'Share' (it will be the fourth choice in a row of these options: Like – Comment – Send a Message – Share).
Once you've clicked on the 'Share' button you'll see a box and you'll want to uncheck the box that says, 'Post to Updates' because you've already done that.
You do want to check the box that says, 'Post to group(s)' where you'll have the option to add as many groups as you'd like. To add a group, simply start typing the name of the group and you'll get a drop down list of options.
A handy way to do this is to go to your list of groups (you'll find this in the top navigation, click on 'Groups' and then on 'Your Groups') and then copy and paste the list to a Word document and save it or print it out. That way you can easily refer to it when adding groups.
After you've added all of the groups you want to share your update with you can add a couple more things. Underneath where you added all of your groups you can also add a 'Subject:' line and add information to the 'Detail' section.
Once you've done that, just click 'Share' and your update will be sent from LinkedIn via e-mail to every member of every group you sent it to and it will show up in the discussion area of each group.
Results You Can Expect
So if you're a member of 40 groups and each of those groups have 1,000 members your content will go out to 40,000 people! Many groups have in excess of 1,000 members to your reach may be even greater. That's a colossal difference from reaching a few hundred people with your updates. Are you feeling me?
Oh yeah, and don't forget that you can do this for free! It may sound complicated and I promise it's not. Once you've joined your groups and you've done this one time you will see how easy it is and that it literally takes only minutes.
Try this right now and increase your visibility by sharing your juicy content with an enormous amount of people and watch your business grow.
© Stephanie Ward
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|Date: October 4, 1996
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Dr. Rudolph's letter regarding surfing and swimming zone boundries at La Jolla Shores.
The San Diego Coastline is estimated to be some 26 miles in length. Of this, the vast majority is open to both surfing and swimming, with surfers tending to dominate except at major beaches when lifeguards are present. At these beaches, where high numbers of swimmers congregate, water activity zones have long been designated to separate swimmers and surfers for reasons of public safety.
Three major types of water activity zones are designated by the San Diego Municipal Code, with the boundries set by Council resolution: swimming, surfing, and control. Swimming is prohibited in surfing zones and surfing is prohibited in swimming zones. Control zones are open to both users during the off-summer months when attendance is lower, but become temporally variable zones in summer. Specifically, in summer these zones are for swimming from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and for surfing at other times of day (morning and evening).
The reason control zones exist is to address the variations in water use during summer. Typically mid-day, swimmers are the vast majority users, but in early morning and evening hours, they are less intensive users. Thus, control zones allow us to provide more space to the relatively higher numbers of swimmers mid-day, but to give that area back to surfers when swimming crowds decline.
If La Jolla Shores is viewed as a continuum beginning at the south end of the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (which many view as private beach) and ending at the rocks north of Scripps Pier, during summer, the zones at La Jolla Shores are divided roughly as follows:
|La Jolla Beach andTennis Club (private beach area with quasi-public swimming
|Main swimming zone from boat launch to main lifeguard station
|Scripps swimming zone
|Total swimming
|North restrooms at La Jolla Shores to Scripps swimming zone
|North side of Scripps Pier (this is technically swimming, but unenforced)
|Total surfing zone
|Main lifeguard station to north restroom building
In Summer, La Jolla Shores has the most dense swimming crowd of any of our beaches by a significant margin. Swimmers tend to congregate near the parking lot, which is adjacent to the main lifeguard station and near the boundary with the surfing area. In fact, the swimming crowd is so dense mid-day, that this is the only beach at which lifeguards are regularly assigned to simply stay in the water on the boundary line to keep swimmers and surfers separated. In particular, the swim crowd tends to bulge northward due to congestion.
The short control zone at La Jolla Shores thus provides a small amount of additional area to swimmers, who are by far the majority users mid-day in summer, but gives this area to surfers in morning and evening hours. The rest of the year, it is a defacto surfing zone.
Although there is some confusing history about the boundries (which is related to a change in the location of the main lifeguard station at La Jolla Shores), prior to the 1994 change in the Council resolution, the effective border between the swimming and surfing zones was roughly half way between the main lifeguard station and the north restroom building. In other words, it was at the center of the public parking lot, where Tower #22 was most recently positioned. There was no control zone in between. There was however, a designated control zone just south of the Scripps swimming zone. This northern control zone was underutilized by swimmers due to its distance from the main parking lot and was effectively given up to surfers.
The 1994 change eliminated the northern control zone to expand the designated 24-hour surfing zone north to the Scripps swimming area and inserted a control zone between the main lifeguard station and the north restrooms. The net effect is that the area available to surfers was expanded slightly in morning and evening hours in summer and shrunk slightly mid-day.
Obviously, there is no complaint from surfers about the increase in surfing zone in morning and evening hours represented by the change. The complaint involves approximately 0.05 miles of beach that is now given to swimmers mid-day.
According to Dr. Rudolph, this "... destroys an excellent surfing zone." He also states that the affected zone includes, "... a rip current that can catch bathers. Surfers know of it and are not affected."
Clearly the surfing zone at the Shores has not been destroyed, although this may be an issue of semantics. Rather, what has happened is that the most crowded swimming zone we oversee has been expanded slightly during mid-day in summer to accommodate the majority users and to help maintain a safe separation between the two user groups. During morning and evening hours, the surfing zone has been expanded, which is reflective of the relative decline in swimmers at this time of day.
As for the rip current issue, under the Municipal Code (63.20.2) lifeguards are empowered to adjust designated activity zone boundaries from day to day based on weather, crowd conditions, special events, or other factors, but may not permanently change the boundaries. Therefore, if a rip current is pulling strongly in the control zone at La Jolla Shores, lifeguards may adjust the boundary southward to keep swimmers out of it. This was done for much of the spring and summer of 1996. While this action effectively gives up the area to surfers, surfing is generally very poor in rip current areas and most surfers therefore avoid them.
Rip currents on sand beaches vary in intensity and location from year to year, from season to season, and even from day to day. While there was a strong rip current prevalent just north of Tower #22 during spring and early summer of this year, toward the end of summer, the intensity of the current subsided. This allowed lifeguards to utilize the established boundaries and provide additional area for swimmers according to established boundaries.
In summary, the actions taken by Council in 1994 had the effect of slightly expanding the zone available to surfers during morning and evening hours in summer and slightly expanding the zone available to swimmers mid-day in summer. The beach remains roughly divided 50/50 between surfing and swimming at all hours during summer.
Considering these factors, we recommend the changes made by Council in 1995 and do not believe that a change in the current boundaries would be appropriate.
Response by ( B.Chris Brewster signature )
B.Chris Brewster, Lifeguard Chief
Fire & Life Safety Services


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It's good to take a look at how we deal with family dynamics – during these social, often stress-filled times. Emotions run the gamut. Spirits are happy and soon they can be in the dumpster.
People who usually make us smile, can cause us to frown. Stress levels seem to escalate, and then we can have the most reflective, warm feelings.
If we put etiquette into this social-time equation, it might elevate our actions and keep us free of tensions and pressures.
Kind, sensitive actions will surely set a good tone within our group circle. How we can elevate the level of our interaction with family and friends, co-workers and colleagues during some social-pressured times?
Whatever the adults and parents in the family do by example will set the stage for the children in that household – for a very long time into the future.
Civility will be the key to a forever calm and joyful party atmosphere.
Elevate the climate:
If brother-in-law George is a cranky person and due to arrive at your graduation party this afternoon, set a positive tone within yourself, and then prime your children to go up to George with a happy smile when he arrives, and say "hello." Suggest a few comments the children can say to George that will make him feel welcome: "Hi George — we're glad you are here — and we baked your favorite cookies for you. Are you ready to have one?" This keeps the climate positive, and could shift the energy in the room. George may become "uncranked" before your eyes.
Being interested
is a compliment:
In anticipation of the next social occasion, always show respect for your relatives: aunts, uncles, cousins, and extended family. Try to create an interesting experience with each person in the room, by learning more about them.
Asking questions is a compliment; it shows you are interested in that person. Find out what their latest news is, or what exciting time they've just had.
You may find out something fun and surprising – and this will keep the relationship upbeat.
Praise can take it from chore to charm:
When it's time to make a visit to older, senior relatives, create the feeling among your family members that this is something to enjoy – and not a chore.
This trip may mean you and your kids are giving up something you really like to do – but put that attitude aside, and rehearse some special news or jokes you can all share that day.
Help Grandpa maneuver his wheelchair and tell him how chipper he looks that day. Share a poem or story with Aunt Margaret that will make her smile.
It may help to set a time of arrival and departure ahead of time, so everyone knows what to expect and how to best fill that time.
Praise the children for a job well done – and parents, pat yourself on the back too for being a good role model.
Punctuality pleases:
Being punctual is such a respectful act. It minimizes tensions. Being tardy is stealing a very precious commodity — someone's minutes or hours of a day.
Talk about the value of being on time with your family members, and then practice it with them. If you are a party guest — arrive no more than 10 minutes after the designated invitation.
Leaving on time is appreciated also.
Entertain only the positive:
TV shows have entertained us with scenarios of "in-law" relationships. In reality, we can choose to be very successful with our extended family members. Staying calm, stepping in the other person's shoes with understanding, and not taking anything personally — will put us closer to achieving the goal of being "one big happy family" or at least one civil family.
Allow only positive comments to be spoken, and ignore any negative or rude comments; shift the topic if that occurs, and remember that emotion is commotion. Do not fuel any negative dialogue.
Pitch in:
If you are a houseguest for a few days during a holiday, be a generous visitor. Pitch in to help as much as possible with chores, or preparations of a party.
Run errands for your host if it helps them with time constraints. Do not add to their workload — but help lighten their to-do list.
Applaud and Acknowledge:
Acknowledgments during any stressful time or event are a big diffuser of tension.
Praise people for the little acts of kindness you see them doing — bringing you a cup of your favorite tea when you're totally exhausted, or running to the store when you've forgotten an important item or ingredient.
Applaud again for the bigger acts of kindness — like taking your car to be washed and detailed before you pick up guests.
Thank people for simply understanding when you feel out of sorts. Tell them something you think is wonderful about them.
Tensions can melt with this recipe.
Place your tone in 'kindness' gear:
Even if you do not like the relatives of your spouse or partner, you owe it to your loved one to be polite to these people.
This will go a long way in keeping feelings unhurt. You don't have to like anybody ... just be accepting and polite. Keep the tone of your voice in "kindness" gear.
Putting all of these kind acts together — and pushing the civility elevator button to up may help in making this one of the best social seasons you've experienced. That's a great gift to you and everyone else.
Louise Elerding is a manners, etiquette, and personal appearance coach, and the author of "You've Got Manners!" — an illustrated series of children's books. For information on table manners classes held at the Salt Creek Grille in Valencia, and to submit questions for the "Ask Louise" column, call (800) 326-8953 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Web site: www.youvegotmanners.com


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The Answerby Philip Wylie
In this ingenious and unforgettable twentieth-century parable, a world on the brink of war is thrown into chaos when angels fall from heaven Major General Marcus Scott is a seasoned veteran of combat, a loyal American, and a skeptic in a volatile world. But amid the aftermath of a nuclear weapons test in the South Pacific, everything Scott believes--and refuses to believe--will be turned upside down. In a pool of clear water lies a single casualty of the blast, a beautiful winged being certainly not of this earth. And when a second celestial creature is discovered following a Russian H-bomb test, the military establishments of two major powers are thrown into chaos. Sworn enemies, each pledged to the other's destruction, they must now deal with the unthinkable and the impossible: that the Cold War has transcended the boundaries of the world, reaching into heaven to bring down angels. A provocative tale as beguiling as it is disturbing, Philip Wylie's The Answer is a captivating fantasy of the nuclear age. Set at the height of the United States-Soviet arms race, it is a page-turning thriller that taps into the anxieties and paranoia of a bygone era, offering a heartfelt plea for peaceful coexistence while decrying the suicidal insanity of war.
The Answerby Philip Wylie
Both Americans & Russians discover beautiful celestial beings. Is it a plot or have the tests actually dislodged angels from their dwellings? And could this development signal a new possibility for living together in peace?
Crunch & Desby Philip Wylie Karen Wylie Pryor
Philip Wylie's enthralling tales of saltwater fishing have been entertaining readers of the Saturday Evening Post since 1939. Captain Crunch Adams, skipper of the charter boat Poseidon , and his friend and partner Des Smith adventure high and low in the waters of Florida, coming face to face with big fish and bigger personalities along the way. Featuring 22 of Wylie's best Crunch and Des stories, this is a delightful compendium of every thrill fishing has to offer. These beloved adventures include: "Widow Voyage" "Light Tackle" "Fifty-four, Forty and Fight" "The Way of All Fish" "The Affair of the Ardent Amazon" "Smuggler's Cove" And more favorite classics!With each Crunch and Des story selected by the author's daughter, these tales begin a journey of saltwater nostalgia, marine adventure, and warmhearted personalities that will last far beyond the last page.
Denizens of the Deepby Philip Wylie
A Collection of Stories about Fish, Fishermen, and Favorite Fishing Spots with Action on Every Page The incomparable Philip Wylie is here writing about one of the things he likes best--fishing. Anyone who has ever wet a line, and perhaps those few benighted souls who haven't, will be thrilled to read these true tales about the big ones, hooked (and sometimes lost) in tropic waters. In Denizens of the Deep, which was originally published in 1947, there are wonderful chapters on marlin, the "admirable" barracuda, and the shark, whom Wylie calls "that misunderstood fish. " The bursting pride when you catch that first big one is recaptured with fine nostalgia in the essay "What Makes a Great Day's Fishing?" and the tragedy of the clean getaway in "Listen to This Tale of Woe. " Serious fishermen with an interest in the pastime's history will also find much valuable information in the chapter on the International Game Fish Association.
The Disappearanceby Philip Wylie
This brilliant classic of speculative fiction imagines the aftermath of an extraordinary global occurrence that forces Earth's men and women to exist in parallel dimensions Like every other family, the Gaunts are devastated by the unexplained phenomenon that occurs one Tuesday afternoon in February. In an instant, every female on Earth is mysteriously transported to a different plane, forced to live apart from the males, who have been left behind. Suddenly trapped in two parallel realities--with the bonds of love, trust, sex, and stability that formed the foundation of their relationship abruptly severed--Bill and Paula Gaunt must separately reexamine who they truly are and what they are capable of as existence itself becomes a struggle in one world that descends into violence and brutality, and another that is soon plagued by famine and despair. Originally published more than half a century ago, Philip Wylie's provocative science fiction classic remains a masterful work of intelligence and imagination. The Disappearance is a breathtaking, thought-provoking exploration of gender roles and expectations that reveals stark truths about who we are as men and women--and as the interconnected members of a fallible human race.
The Disappearanceby Philip Wylie
"The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature. " On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically; social stability and peace in the other are offset by famine and a widespread breakdown in machinery and science. And as we learn from the fascinating parallel stories of a brilliant couple, Bill and Paula Gaunt, the foundations of relationships, love, and sex are scrutinized, tested, and sometimes redefined in both worlds. The radically divergent trajectories of the gendered histories reveal stark truths about the rigidly defined expectations placed on men and women and their sexual relationships and make clear how much society depends on interconnection between the sexes. Written over a half century ago yet brimming with insight and unsettling in its relevance today, The Disappearance is a masterpiece of modern speculative fiction.
An Essay on Morals: A Science of Philosophy and a Philosophy of the Sciencesby Philip Wylie
A Science of PHILOSOPHY and a Philosophy of the SCIENCES "a Popular Explanation of the Jungian THEORY of HUMAN INSTINCT "a new Bible for the BOLD MIND and a Way to Personal Peace by LOGIC "the HERETIC'S HANDBOOK and Text for HONEST skeptics, including a Description of MAN suitable for an ATOMIC AGE" together with a compendium of MEANS TO BROTHERHOOD in a Better World" and a VOYAGE beyond the Opposite Directions of Religion and Objective truth, to UNDERSTANDING" -Front Cover
Generation of Vipers (War Edition)by Philip Wylie
"Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise. Wylie's classic, written with devastating wit and a pen as sharp as a barber's razor, wages war on all forms of American hypocrisy. Remarkably, or perhaps not so, what Philip Wylie has to say rings as true today as when he first wrote Vipers, and no doubt it will continue to offend and outrage both the Left and Right. Harsh, bitter, and filled with venom toward those who have corrupted the America that "could have been," Generation of Vipers will be read with pleasure and indignation a century from now. "--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Gladiator: The Enduring Classic That Inspired the Creators of Superman!by Philip Wylie Gerard Jones
Thanks to his father's genetic experiments, Hugo Danner is born with superhuman levels of strength, speed, and intelligence. Hugo feels compelled to conceal his gifts from a suspicious and uncomprehending world, but he doesn't take on an identity as a costumed crusader. Instead, his struggles to find a place in society that will accommodate his extraordinary skills lead to a checkered career as a boardwalk strongman, Foreign Legionnaire, politician, and archeologist. Gladiator, first published in 1930, preceded Superman's debut by eight years and formed the archetypes further developed in subsequent superhero comics and literature. Fans of comics, graphic novels, science-fiction, and fantasy literature will be captivated by this timeless tale of an outsider's search for acceptance and fulfillment. Introduction by Gerard Jones, author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book.
Los Angelesby Philip Wylie
A stark and terrifying vision of an apocalyptic, environmentally ravaged near-future world from a twentieth-century master of thought-provoking science fiction In a writing career that spanned six decades, Philip Wylie created an astonishing body of work that ranged from science fiction to suspense to philosophy to social criticism, while inspiring the creation of such iconic characters as Superman, Flash Gordon, Doc Savage, and Travis McGee. In Los Angeles: A.D. 2017, based on Wylie's own teleplay written for the hit 1970s TV series The Name of the Game and directed by a young Steven Spielberg, the author imagines a dystopian future in which environmental disaster has driven the remnants of humankind belowground. By the year 2017, a series of ecological catastrophes have eliminated most of the earth's population while destroying the America we once knew. The few who have survived live in underground bunkers beneath the ruins of the nation's major cities, controlled by ruthless corporate entities that have remolded the devastated society into USA, Inc. This is the nightmare into which crusading magazine publisher Glenn Howard awakens after forty years of sleep. As a powerful twentieth-century entrepreneur, Howard is expected to join the elite. But in this dark future age, population numbers are strictly controlled by computer; the aged, infirm, and unproductive are mercilessly eliminated; and all dissent is punished by death. For an idealist like Howard, accepting the new status quo is unthinkable. But the alternative--working with a secret rebel committed to overthrowing the cruel corporate masters--could prove the most dangerous route of all, a path that leads inexorably to one unthinkable outcome: erasure.
The Murderer Invisibleby Philip Wylie
A vengeful scientist uses his brilliant discovery to unleash terror on the world in this timeless science fiction classic from an early-twentieth-century master The scientific community has always shunned William Carpenter. A strange, hulking giant, a talented biochemical investigator, and the self-styled "greatest mind in the western world," he has locked himself inside a house with no windows, in the most desolate reaches of New Jersey, where he can conduct his experiments in peace and isolation. Here in his personal sanctuary, Carpenter has found something astonishing that could alter life on Earth as we know it: a chemical compound that can render all matter invisible, from rocks to plants to people. But the twisted genius has no intention of using this breakthrough to benefit the planet. Instead, he is about to declare war on all humankind by launching an unseen campaign of terror and destruction. For years the world has ignored William Carpenter, labeling him insane, sociopathic, or worst of all, insignificant. And now the world will have to pay. The early works of novelist, editor, short story writer, essayist, and screenwriter Philip Wylie were primary influences on the creation of characters like Flash Gordon, Superman, and Travis McGee. First published in 1931, The Murderer Invisible takes H. G. Wells's classic Invisible Man several giant leaps further, resulting in a chilling tale of madness and science run amok that is at once a gripping adventure and a prescient commentary on man and society.
The Murderer Invisibleby Philip Wylie
In this Franklin Classic Storybook, our hero can't go to sleep without his favorite blue blanket. One night he can't find his tattered old blanket and must try to get along without it. This fixed-layout ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book, features read-along narration by the author as well as music and sound effects.
Opus 21: For the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Ageby Philip Wylie
The events in Opus 21 takes place over a three-day weekend, when the character Philip Wylie is in New York to have a biopsy taken of a possibly malignant growth he's discovered in his throat. His growth is diagnosed as a benign anomaly.
The Smuggled Atom Bombby Philip Wylie
A graduate student stumbles across an insidious plot to unleash nuclear terror on America's greatest cities in a blood-chillingly prescient tale from one of thriller fiction's twentieth-century masters Personable, good-looking, and a whiz at physics, graduate student Allan Diffenduffer "Duff" Bogan has a bright future ahead of him. But while staying at the home of an invalid widow in Florida, Duff makes a discovery that freezes his blood: a cache of uranium hidden in the locked closet of a fellow guest. The FBI is initially skeptical, but Duff knows all too well what his findings portend. Suddenly, not only is his future in jeopardy, the fate of millions of Americans hangs in the balance as well. If he cannot expose the horrific plot his nation's enemies set in motion years before, entire cities will be reduced to piles of radioactive rubble in an unthinkable nuclear nightmare stretching from coast to coast. And time, it seems, is rapidly running out.
The Spy Who Spoke Porpoiseby Philip Wylie
A circus performer turned superspy is caught up in a Cold War web of conspiracy and death when the body of a murdered CIA agent is discovered in a Hawaiian marine park By any definition, Ringling Wallenda Grove is an extraordinary man. The son of expatriate Russian former circus owners, he mastered the arts of acrobatics, animal training, and magic at a young age, distinguished himself as an officer in World War II, and went on to amass a fortune of several million dollars before going into semiretirement. But there is another side to this man that few know about. R. W. Grove is a master spy, having honed his trade as a postwar intelligence agent with the OSS. Now the murder of a Company agent, whose body was found floating among the aquatic animals in Honolulu's popular Sea Life Park, is pulling Grove back into the game. A deadly international conspiracy is afoot, involving the nation's most bitter and dangerous enemies, and it centers on a covert CIA operation code-named Zed--an undertaking so secretive that even the president can know nothing about it. Renowned for his provocative, stunningly realized speculative fiction, Philip Wylie joined the ranks of John le Carré, Len Deighton, Robert Ludlum, and other masters of the espionage thriller when he first published The Spy Who Spoke Porpoise. Brimming with action, intrigue, and ingenious twists and turns, the novel brilliantly captures the fears, anxieties, paranoia, and rampant conspiracies that hallmarked the Cold War era.
Tomorrow!by Philip Wylie
A chilling what if? tale of nuclear apocalypse in the American heartland Philip Wylie's gripping parable Tomorrow! describes a time in America when doomsday threatens to dawn at any moment. A nation's worst nightmare is made palpably real, seen through the eyes of a diverse group of ordinary citizens in two adjacent Great Plains metropolises. Wylie brings this holocaust to life with blood-chilling detail in his extraordinary science fiction classic whose power to shock and terrify is as strong as ever more than fifty years after its original release. An unthinkable tomorrow is on the horizon. For the citizens of the neighboring Midwest cities of Green Prairie and River City, today marks the end of everything. Some are prepared to face the unthinkable; some refuse to believe it could ever happen. As the winter holidays approach, two young lovers share their dreams for the future, a corrupt bank officer fears the exposure of his crimes, and a wealthy matron, concerned only with status and prestige, wonders how she can ensure a marriage between her daughter and the scion of one of the city's most important families. But on Christmas Day, when a terrible fire lights up the sky, all these petty human concerns become meaningless. And the destruction and horror wrought on that awful morning will only be the beginning of the end.
Tomorrow!by Philip Wylie
This book may change your life. It may save it. It is one of the most important--and most shocking--books ever written.<P> Tomorrow! is a story of average, nice Americans living in the neighboring cities of Green Prairie and River City in Middle America. It is--until the sudden blitz--the story of the girl next door and her boyfriend; of the accountant who saw what was coming, and the rich old lady who didn't; of engaging young kids, babies, "hoods," a bank official who "borrowed" from a customer's account.<P> Then, at the height of the Christmas shopping season, Condition Red is sounded, and this down-to-earth story of America's Main Street becomes a shattering, vivid experience of the nightmare that human beings have cooked up for themselves.<P> Tomorrow! can be read as a novel of pure suspense--if you dare. It is a thriller in which the apocalyptic technology of today is superimposed on the future. But the novel is also designed to show Philip Wylie's conclusions about America's dangerous vulnerability to dread, hysteria, and panic, as well as his recommendations about what must be done.
Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder): How Seeking a Diagnosis in Adulthood Can Change Your Lifeby Philip Wylie Luke Beardon Sara Heath
As awareness and understanding of Asperger Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder increases, more adults are identifying themselves as being on the spectrum and seeking formal diagnosis. This book discusses the process, the pros and cons, and the after-effects of receiving an autism diagnosis in adulthood. Outlining the likely stages of the journey to diagnosis, this book looks at what the individual may go through as they become aware of their Asperger characteristics and as they seek pre-assessment and diagnosis, as well as common reactions upon receiving a diagnosis - from depression and anger to relief and self-acceptance. Combining practical guidance with advice from personal experience and interviews and correspondence with specialists in the field, the book discusses if and when to disclose to family, friends and employers, how to seek appropriate support services, and how to use the self-knowledge gained through diagnosis to live well in the future.
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After my first novel, The Spellman Files, was completed, I often found myself in situations in which I had to answer the question, "What's your novel about?"
The rest of the conversation would go something like this:
Me: It's a novel about a family of private investigators and how the tools of the trade affect their family life.
Other person: What's it called?
Me: The Spellman Files.
Other person: It sounds like a mystery.
Me: It's sort of a mystery.
The covers of mystery novels often display the word "mystery," which helps booksellers place it in the store. Both of my books simply say "novel," but if you go into a bookstore, you're more likely than not to find it in the mystery section.
I have a mixed reaction to all of this. On the one hand, the mystery audience is huge, and many mystery readers wouldn't pick up my books if they thought it was just a comedic novel about a family. On the other hand, "mystery" creates certain expectations that my novels weren't intended to fulfill--there's no murder, no drug rings, nothing terribly sensational in the plot, no giant twists or turns (a few minor ones), and the story focuses fairly little on the external cases the Spellmans solve. At an early publicity meeting with my publisher, months before publication, my editor was adamant that we not push the novel as a mystery. "It doesn't succeed as a mystery," she said.
She was right. I never conceived The Spellman Files as a mystery. I read and enjoy all kinds of mystery and crime fiction, but they're not genres I felt inspired--or equipped--to write. If pressed to choose a genre for the Spellman books, I guess I'd call them comedic novels (sounds kind of blah, but the shoe fits). I liked the apparent contradiction of a novel about a family of private investigators that wasn't a mystery.
About a decade ago, I worked for two years at a private investigative firm in San Francisco. I'd like to repeat again in writing that I was never a licensed private investigator. I was an assistant at a private investigative firm--the lowest on the totem pole, in fact. I answered phones, I generated bills, and when business was really slow, I was sent to the basement to shred old files.
While I had a few intriguing assignments--I managed to work my way onto one or two surveillance teams--for the most part it felt like any old office job. In the two years I worked there, we didn't solve a single "mystery." What we did was answer questions. Sure, sometimes the "plot thickened." For example, say a wife was having her husband investigated for having an affair; maybe we'd learn that he was not only having an affair but also gambling away their retirement fund. (This specific twist never happened, but it illustrates the kind of turns investigations sometimes took.)
What we didn't do was hunt serial killers or uncover child pornography rings. We might have been asked to look into a cold missing-persons case, but we didn't solve it. As far as I recall, no one got into a fistfight, fired a gun, or was followed by a shady character who thought we were getting too close to the truth.
My point is, after gaining some insight into the real world of private investigators, I wanted to write a novel that took a more realistic approach. From the start, I always knew that what I was writing was only "sort of" a mystery. I used the PI angle as a way into family dynamics and the mysteries of everyday life.
So maybe what I'm trying to suggest is that we broaden our scope about what a mystery is. Anytime you have an unanswered question, it's a mystery. Watch a complete stranger on the street for 15 minutes. I bet you'll notice something--however small--that seems completely inexplicable. And if you do figure it out (let's go double or nothing), I bet it'll be weirder and more intriguing than your initial puzzlement.
Recently I was walking down the street behind a guy carrying a baseball bat. He was dressed in street clothes, wasn't carrying an athletic bag, and didn't exactly fit the profile of a mob goon. When I couldn't stand it any longer, I walked up alongside him. "Hey," I said. "What's up with the bat?" He proceeded to tell me a very long story about getting a paw print for his friend's dog. Somehow the bat was involved, but his explanation was so long-winded and nonsensical, I never uncovered the truth. Like so many real mysteries, that one too remained unsolved. --Lisa Lutz
Comments (3)
Great topic.
Posted by: Nike Air Force One | Thursday April 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM
I'm glad to read this, because I think the same things. When I read a mystery, part of what I like is that things get resolved, even if it is just one murder in a bigger world of messes that don't tidy up. I haven't read your second book yet, but in your first, I thought the Spellman Family ended up providing Izzy a shelter against the messy world, and the comedy made things resolve in a way that provided the same kind of satisfaction resolving a mystery does. So I did think your book was a sort-of-mystery, rather than either a mystery or not a mystery. (And I really liked it -- Izzy is great fun.)
Thanks, and I promise the second book is on my dressing table to be read very soon.
Posted by: Sheila | Friday April 25, 2008 at 9:53 AM
You've told us a lot about your book and your process, but nothing about what you like to read and watch...
Posted by: Trevor | Thursday April 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM


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WEST AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 28, 2012– Summa Health System celebrated last night the opening of the Summa Center at New Seasons in West Akron. The 10,000 square-foot health center is the anchor commercial tenant in the Village at New Seasons, which opened in April 2011 across the street from The House of the Lord.
The Summa Center at New Seasons will provide the community with primary care services, health education and public health solutions through evidence-based protocols and community partnerships. Under the leadership of Dr. E. Demond Scott, along with Drs. Teresa Myers and Elina Shakya, the facility aims to transform the health of the community through prevention and education.
West Akron is home to some 20,000 residents, most of them African-American, many affected by obesity, hypertension and diabetes. West Akron also is a medically underserved neighborhood, which means that when residents ended up in the emergency department it was sometimes because of non-urgent issues, other times because they had no other option and many more times because of conditions that were preventable but had gone untreated for too long.
"Our goal is to get and keep people healthy and we'll achieve that by providing high-quality care and empowering people to take an active role in their health," said Dr. Scott, executive director of health equity at the Summa Center at New Seasons. "But we didn't want to just open our doors and wait for people to come – we want to be a part of the community and work alongside residents and local businesses. We encourage individuals to not only come to us for healthcare, but also to share with us ideas on what health education and services are needed and how we can best provide them to the community. In order to make healthy changes, we need to be in this together."
The Summa Center at New Seasons includes six exam rooms, plus a procedure and phlebotomy room as well as LabCare for laboratory testing. The 1,900 square-foot community room, which can be divided into three separate areas, features computer work stations available to the public, space for classes and meetings and a demonstration kitchen for cooking classes. There also will be a children's area, meeting rooms and research offices. Summa Physicians Inc. Drs. Scott, Myers and Shakya will be available to begin seeing patients on March 5, 2012.
"We believe this model of care will lead to decreased visits to the emergency department, decreased admissions, decreased acuity and a decreased length of stay for those who need to be admitted," said Summa Foundation COO Steven P. Schmidt, Ph.D. "For example, if we can teach individuals how to effectively manage their diabetes through diet and exercise, the potential downstream impact could be a decrease in amputations from diabetes complications."
According to the Summit County Health District's Office of Minority Health, African-American adults in Summit County are more likely to die from diabetes or conditions brought on by high blood pressure.
To make an appointment or for more information, call 330-865-5333.
How It All Started
In 1974, Bishop Joey Johnson founded The House of the Lord in West Akron with a congregation of four. Today, the church has 7,000-plus members. Several years ago, The House of the Lord purchased land across the street where an abandoned shopping center stood but was unable to raise the funds to develop the property. Bishop Johnson also began to realize that the health of his congregation was failing – and there was something he could do about it.
He approached long-time partner Summa Health System and together, came up with a plan to build a health clinic. Knowing that simply inserting a new facility in the decaying shopping plaza wouldn't work, Summa reached out to Testa Companies. From there, the vision grew to include retail space and affordable housing for senior citizens – another long time dream of Johnson's. Testa then brought in the East Akron Neighborhood Development Corporation (EANDC) to develop and manage the senior living apartments.
In the end, on a site that sat vacant with an empty shopping center collecting dust, graffiti and trash, became home to the Village at New Seasons, an $11.4 million complex with senior living apartments, retail space and the Summa Center at New Seasons. The more than 115,000 square foot facility was developed through the combined efforts of the House of the Lord, the East Akron Neighborhood Development Corporation, Testa Companies, Summa Health System and other investors. The residential space encompasses nearly 75,000 square feet and includes 50 one- and two-bedroom apartments for senior citizens. The 40,000 square feet of commercial space includes retailers and the Summa Center at New Seasons.
About Summa Health System
Summa Health System is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in Ohio. Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, a physician-hospital organization, a multi-specialty physician organization, research and multiple foundations, Summa is nationally renowned for excellence in patient care and for exceptional approaches to healthcare delivery. Summa's clinical services are consistently recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (Magnet® status), U.S. News and World Report, Thomson Reuters and The Leapfrog Group. Summa also is a founding partner of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron. For more information, visit www.summahealth.org or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/summahealth and Twitter at www.twitter.com/summahealth.
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'Into Darkness' upholds 'Trek' tradition, but isn't much fun
The giddiness of "Star Trek" is gone, but "Star Trek Into Darkness" maintains its love of character and pathos, the other great points of this rebooted sci-fi franchise. There's action in abundance and some production design flourishes that are as eye-popping as any science fiction ever to hit the screen.
But as Ricardo Montalban said 30 years ago in "The Wrath of Khan," the best "Star Trek" film: "It is veery coooold in space." "Into Darkness," for all its dense textures and epic scale, left me cold.
Director J.J. Abrams commissioned his screenwriters to do a riff on "Wrath of Khan," an alternate history of the Khan myth. But remaking "Wrath" while not actually actually remaking it muddies the message and robs the villain and story of their mythic staying power.
In terms of tone, "Darkness" is balanced between the original series and the more pacifist "Next Generation" -- an action film with a staggering body count, and characters protesting the morality of combat by remote control.
Everyone has his or her ethics, courage and convictions tested by a new villain, a terrorist (Benedict Cumberbatch) whose agenda is a mystery even more puzzling if you remember "The Wrath of Khan."
In a bravura intro, Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) try to intervene without intervening on a primitive, red-foliage planet on which simple natives are about to be wiped out by a volcano. Kirk wants to act; Spock wants to lecture him on "the Prime Directive."
Kirk faces demotion, the Enterprise crew may split up, and then the mysterious terrorist starts blowing stuff up. Is he with the Klingons? Can a bad guy be taken out by photon torpedo drone strikes? Can Kirk convince the admiral that only he can save the day?
There's humor aplenty to leaven all the weighty questions. But the movie's a muddle. The confusing conflation of past films and alternate universe story is burdensome.
"Star Trek" is still boldly going its own way, even as it references classic "Trek" canon. But somewhere, Abrams got lost in the Galaxy of Not Much Fun.