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hen I was cruising into my teenage years, the so-called generation gap had turned into a social institution.

The Bradys, the Huxtables, The Conner family in “Roseanne,” the kids who adopt E.T. and try to hide him from their parents, I can cite a million examples of the youngest household members who end up being the smart leaders who save the day.

Even if our families growing up didn’t experience major dysfunction, we knew it could be just around the corner.

Look at who Luke Skywalker’s father turned out to be. Not only did we have to get good grades, be on the football team and grow up to be a rock star, we had to be smarter in all things than the previous generation. Of course, we were clueless about the pressures our parents were dealing with.

Of my four children, only one has been through the adolescent war of independence. So that will happen, but we’re a close family and we’ll get through it. We benefit from the usual rituals like winning teams, graduations, reunions and block parties. But the pace of change and technology in the world we live in has also created some unique opportunities to learn from our kids. Who else can you trust to teach you how to text? (And not while driving, Dad!) Checking prep sports scores on Twitter I might have figured out by myself, even if I didn’t have my daughters, but I’m not so sure.

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The Prime section at its best Yahoo Yahoo Buzzthese Qik is trying to Vimeo help navigate generational ties. Our lead story is about a bunch of parents of adult children staging a production of King Lear. (The Shakespeare play represents one of the rare collaborations of legendary rivals Purdue and Microsoft MSN Tumblr WordPerss Indiana U., I’m told.) If you are one of those adult children applauding at opening night is that really much different from being part of the cheering audience at your daughter’s violin recital?

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ast night I was watching The Newsroom on HBO and thinking about the way the drama is written by Aaron Sorkin and edited for the modern episodic television series. Scenes taking place simultaneously flow through seamlessly, as the participants move across the screen in blended conversations which range from poverly long monologues, through witty overly-long reparatee and down to one word mouth-gapes.

The form is altogether new and though it is a version of how people might talk with each other, it’s not really how people talk in newsrooms or anywhere else on the planet. That’s because the conversation has to move the action as well as give insight into the characters. Oh, and in some cases it has to be spoken in the code of the genre. Put another way, the words have a lot of work to do, especially when compared side-by-side with the broadcast setting where the words are only half the story, maybe less.

Another element that comes into play on The Newsroom is shared messages on social networks— photos, posts, tweets, downloads and texts— dozens of them in just minutes. The unfiltered free-for-all that everyone experiences every single day is a chronic and incurable disruption. The audience only learns about the stuff the characters initiate or respond to in the Newsroom world, of course. But the social networking that goes on around the characters also explores and creates a window into the world of the fictional newsroom’s fictional audience—numbering 1.5 million.

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THROUGH OCT 27 Magical Realism, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, 101 W Second St, Michigan City. 219.874.4900. lubeznikcenter.org. Visitors to this exhibit can explore the realm of magical realism at this exhibit, which features highly detailed, realistic painted images invaded by something “not quite right” or “too strange to believe.” Also, through Jul 28: Body Language and Construction Sites; Aug 4-Oct 27: The Documentation of Nature and Water Wrackets.

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About another night When Tim Kazurinsky and I, writers of the movie “About Last Night,” went to the Hollywood premier in 1986, it was kind of like the Academy Awards you see on TV. • Limo after limo pulls up in front of the theater where reporters and photographers have set up on an honest-to-goodness red carpet. Doors open, movie stars emerge, sunspots of light explode with the rat-a-tat-tat of cameras. We watch this hoo-hah from the back of the line as our car inches forward. Demi Moore—Flash! Rob Lowe—Flash! James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, Ed Zwick—Flash! Flash! Flash!

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hen it’s our turn, Midwestern 30-somethings thrilled to be included in such a glamorous scrum. Wearing our Sunday bests, we modestly alight from the rented limo and—something happens. All the bright lights go dead. We’re stunned. Power outage? Electrical snafu? Nope.

Nobody recognizes us. Nobody wants to take our pictures. We are the nobodies nobody knows, officially un-arrived in Hollywood. We had worked on this script for seven or eight years, and were thrilled with the whole idea of the movie being made. If we didn’t know our place before, we knew it then, and actually thought it was kind of funny.

Nevertheless, it turned out that some people in Hollywood learned about us and they were the ones who wrote the checks. Tim and I graced the Hollywood writers’ “A-list” for decades.

We thought we’d be young and popular forever.

Time passed. And then nobody wanted to pay us to write movies anymore. Tim continued to get better and better as an actor and is doing wonderful work. Meanwhile I thought it was time for me to (in the way we ended our scripts) FADE TO BLACK. But Tuesday night, July 30, reminded me of the L.A. “red carpet” night, 27 years ago. I was invited to Chicago for a special outdoor screening of “About Last Night.” WBEZ presented the film on their terrace at Navy Pier as a special treat for their regular High Fidelity donors. The Chicago International Film Festival and Northwest Chicago Film Society chipped in to help, as well as Virtue Cider, Divine Chocolate and Mother Butter’s Popcorn.

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Cuddy, who hosts WBEZ’s Weekender show, asked me a few questions. I answered and got a few laughs.

I flashed back to 1974 when I first saw David Mamet’s play, which we adapted to become “About Last Night” at the Organic Theater on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. I wasn’t crazy about it. Maybe what Time Magazine called a “sleazy sonata of seduction” was just a little too meanspirited for my tastes. But a few years later Tim and I saw a knock-out production at the Apollo Theater, farther north on Lincoln Avenue. What knocked us out was Jim Belushi playing Bernie Litko.

The play is about a couple (Danny and Debbie) trying to fall in love and build a committed relationship amidst the free-for-all singles scene of the 1970s. They’re the protagonists. The conflict comes from young adults experimenting with newly found freedoms, defiantly against commitment—personified by their best friends, Joan and Bernie.

Belushi loved the brutish, loutish, boorish

Bernie Litko and played him like he was a “cool guy.” I learned a lot about writing bad guys from him. Bad guys have to love themselves or the drama doesn’t work.

It was beautiful to be on Navy Pier at night looking back at the city’s skyline—much different from the one we saw years ago when we slipped out onto the old Navy Pier that was dark and creaky and stinky and dangerous. My movie didn’t look its very best projected on an inflatable screen that dipped and squished a bit in the Lake breezes.

There weren’t any movie stars around or moguls or really anybody who wanted anything other than a nice night out in the city they loved, showcased so lovingly in “About Last Night.” My husband, Mike McCluskey, shared the trip down the memory path with me, along with friends: well-known longtime Chicago artist and teacher, Peter Hurley, and Trisha Ricketts, author and songstress. Best of all, my niece, Laurel Johnson, grad student and the future First Librarian of the United States, joined us for the show.

Another film I wrote with Tim and Sheldon Patinkin through Second City, “My Bodyguard,” will be shown later in August for the High Fidelity crowd. That should be fun, too.

There weren’t any limos at Navy Pier, or a red carpet. No big city bright lights went out, because none ever went on. But I gotta tell ya, it was great to be part of an appreciative crowd, hearing the lines we wrote and cut and pasted together all those years ago (way before computers), spoken so well by honest characters who will never get any older.

I basked in the lights from the city and the glow of the movie screen as I thought how Debbie and Danny and Bernie and Joan had learned as much as they ever would. They will stay young and beautiful, if flawed, forever. But we can still learn from our mistakes. Can’t we? Yeah, sure we can.

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his started out as a story about Morgan McCabe, a wife of a colleague who is also a friend of a friend who used to have a job in the communications department at Purdue Calumet, before my other friend Corya had the same job who I met because her actordirector-playwright-collaborator-boyfriend is a friend of my actor-director-screenplay-writer-friend-friend Tim, because Tim and Jon were in the Police Academy movies together.

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also teaches in Holland, Michigan. Just about everyone who is an artist also teaches because you can’t get by in life being an artist and not a teacher unless you have been in Police Academy movies...maybe. But I doubt it.

Then there is the Professor Tom Roach thing: which is that Morgan McCabe has known PUC Professor Roach since she was 10 years old. He is one of the greatest teachers of all-time whose class in Rhetoric and Mass Communications at Purdue Calumet was one of the best classes I’ve ever taken at any college anywhere in my life. (That was 2010.) I did a lot of very good work in that class and learned much more than I expected to learn.

Furthermore, I hated the class when I took it because I would get all wound up about everything when we had these very charged discussions. (The class was held on Tuesday nights and got out around 10.) If you are breathing fire and driving home in a

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snowstorm at 10:30, you are not going to be asleep until after midnight for sure. This is bad for someone like me who needs to be on my game at work fairly early in the morning.

One of the many things that people in class got wound up about was Marc Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, which Dr. Roach dissected on a rhetorical basis. Not long afterward I became sort of obsessed, resulting in reading books about these people including Stacy Schiff’s biography of Cleopatra, a bunch of trashy Roman history novels by Robert Harris and of course, Furious Love about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the complete diary of Richard Burton and another incredibly trashy novel called Beautiful Ruins. Amazon pointed me to Beautiful Ruins somewhere along the line and I devoured that story—like an addict on a historyfantasy binge—and that novel turned out to be about Richard Burton’s illegitimate son conceived in Rome while he was filming Cleopatra.

One of the features of this Baby Boomer era is oneto-zero degrees of separation you run into all the time.

In the current Baby Boomer century more people our age are alive then dead. We know everybody and their brother, literally. And everyone is very, very busy.

So, even when Corya and some others put a bunch chairs in a circle, saying how surprising it was that they had formed a theater company and were now producing King Lear (often described as the most difficult play Shakespeare ever wrote) in Gary, I wasn’t that surprised.

It crossed my mind that the Gary part might sound surprising to some, but it’s maybe the least surprising part of what’s happening in this shopping-center-parking-lot -with-a-theater-in-the middle-of-it on Grant Street.

The most surprising thing was that these extremely involved people, up to their ears in everything including careers­—Morgan is a full-time actress whose is temporarily moving to Indianapolis to work with Indiana Rep in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, in mid-October— ever were able to get a schedule together and do this.

And how relevant the play is. To refresh your memory, King Lear, in around 800 B.C., decides on a succession plan where he will divide up his power, land and wealth between his three daughters, who of course have no-account husbands and various groups of hangers-on and ne’er do well friends. It goes bad. Everyone knows from experience succession plans go this way about half the time, especially when the succession plan calls for an alive King to give up the throne. When the King starts referring to his children as “unnatural hags,” it’s not going well.

Famously Time Magazine put a cartoon of Lyndon Johnson as King Lear on the cover when he was still president. I was thinking about this and the other King Lears I’ve known—Bob Falls’ production at Goodman with Stacy Keach playing a very Milosevic-like Lear was an odd one.

Norman Caplan, the director of Gary Shakespeare’s King Lear hated that production so much he can’t even talk about it. Norman has read the play at least 100 times and he loves King Lear more than anything. While, I didn’t love the Eastern European version that much— those guys were pretty unhappy in an un-modern way about giving up on their primitive, tribal entitlements— there were some unforgettable moments in the production, for example, when the anti-Lear people drove a silver Cadillac onto the stage and were killing each other in the middle of a stainless steel kitchen at a convention center.

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“Now that we’re doing it I love it even more,” Norm says. “because of the razzle dazzle. I love the poetry and the ideas and finally getting at the humor.”

Morgan likes the 800 BC aspect, “They were already in the Iron Age,” she explains. Our semi-circle gets lost in the whole Shakespeare conversation for awhile, this is like taking a bath in a big, communal tub. The relevance of Shakespeare in the modern world, etc. Corya says, “I give Norm a lot of credit for taking on this project, it’s very ambitious.”

Someone else, maybe Jon says that they are “trying to make the best possible Lear. We never want to be satisfied. There is no end to how far you can explore this play.”

“I’m always asking a lot of the actors,” Norm says.

“Everybody’s got to strive hard to be great, that will be one of the things that helps this company flourish.”

Corya says that at this time in life, when she is finally old enough to understand, she’s not as worried about things. She still has energy. “Gary put Shakespeare together, (Actually Norm and Corya started the company over breakfast at Great Lakes Cafe last Spring.) and we have a Facebook page and people from all over the country are talking about this. I think Gary’s a difficult place to do anything, but the more time I spend getting out of my shell I see the community’s effervescence.

There’s a lot of energy to be tapped here. “ Morgan points out that “Shakespeare is always writing about people facing the most difficult circumstances. Like Amelia in Winter’s Tale is in one of the worst situation anyone could be in in their lives.”

It’s near six o’clock when our semi-circle has to break up so the assembled crew can put up these Stonehengelike slabs of scenery. A few of the actors are wearing semi-costumes tonight. I see another person I know, Jim Nowacki, who is notorious in Gary for having very strong opinions.

The actors warm up there voices and their bodies.

Most, even the over-50 majority, hang in through this ordeal right up until the crew starts modified push-ups.

As the lights go down and the rehearsal starts at the start Gary Shakespeare Company is producing its first of Act II, Anne Paradise, who plays the Fool leans in and show King Lear at IUN Theatre. King Lear Rehearsal. says, that she doesn’t believe any of that junk about (L to R) Steve Rohe as King Lear, Jim Nowacki as The Shakespeare not writing his plays. “He wrote them all,” Earl of Kent and Vincent Banks as Oswald. which I happen to agree with.

A couple of days later I’m talking to Morgan on the phone and I’m figuring out why she is such a pro and I brought Jon and Corya knew Morgan. Then around wanted to do a story about her in the first place. Morgan May of 2013 Gary Shakespeare had an open audition. has a sense of wonder about this production that she Whenever you are doing King Lear with 11 major probably has about every show she does. Her re-telling characters in at least five scenes and 25 scenes to go of the semi-dress-rehearsal the previous Friday at the through, you have a casting situation.

Many of the characters have a lot of the lines to learn. theater does not lack drama. The power went out. The The dilemma of casting the title role can be an issue in a air-conditioning shut down. Dark and hot, the rehearsal community theater production. Where was an actor for a went on as planned. “Opening a theater company in role Richard Burton couldn’t handle going to come from? this area was something that people might have thought was unattainable. If it was not something that I could Well, it turned out that Steve Rohe, who lives in Porter accomplish I could let go of it. So when it happened and and has directed many plays himself including August: when we found this rich talent pool and hopefully an Osage County, at Fourth Street Theater two years ago in audience here that will appreciate what we’re doing, it is Chesterton has wanted to play King Lear and never got a surprise. the chance. (Steve’s about as close as you get to perfect “The people in Shakespeare’s plays are trying to for the King Lear role.) And he was one of the 25-30 solve the situation they’re in. That’s why the arts are people who walked into the audition.

“The women playing Goneril and Regan (two of King very important. The problems solved in a scene are like the problems you solve in real life. When you’re Lear’s daughters) are 50-60,” Morgan explains. “We’re doing Shakespeare the action is always on the word. such a disparate group of community theater stalwarts, students who have never had an opportunity to perform Shakespeare pushes people towards discovery.”

Self discovery as well as community discovery so we’ll in a Shakespeare play and veteran performers with twosee. page single-spaced resumes like Morgan.

There was a much more sophisticated Lear with minimal special effects around the same time at Chicago Shakespeare, probably a more sane dramatic style.

Norm the director says that if you read Harold Bloom’s book on Shakespeare, Bloom didn’t think anyone could do a decent job on King Lear. So I’m trying to process everything I remember about King Lear—and shut down the distraction of thinking about Harold Bloom, who was a legendary professor at the University of Chicago who wrote The Closing of the American Mind, which became a surprise hit in the 1970s. And then Norm says, “Richard Burton would never play King Lear. He didn’t think he was up to it. He didn’t think he could do the part.”

I thought I knew a lot about Richard Burton, but I did not know that.

Norm Caplan, who lives in Gary-Miller Beach fulltime now, (even though he used to have a company in Pennsylvania and worked at the University of Chicago) organized this theater. He called around and found Mark Baer, assistant professor of acting and directing at IUN, who had IUN space available. (Space is frequently the main obstacle when putting on a play, any play.) And then he called Corya because she’s at Purdue and Corya

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work/after work.

Meet the eco-preneurs

Carl and Lorrie Lisek

by Lauri Harvey Keagle

Carl and Lorrie Lisek went from childhood sweethearts to husband and wife, business partners and Great Lakes leaders on alternative fuels

Lorrie and Carl Lisek direct Clean Cities programs in Wisconsin and Indiana.

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eople nationwide know husband and wife business partners Carl and Lorrie Lisek for their roles in promoting alternative fuel and vehicle use and as environmental

consultants.

What many don’t know is how the childhood sweethearts took a midlife leap of faith, created their own business and came to lead two large Clean Cities programs for the U.S. Department of Energy.

“To be an entrepreneur, we felt like there was never a good time to quit our jobs,” Carl says. “Now, we feel like we should have done it sooner. I wish we hadn’t waited until we were both in our 40s.”

Their story began in 1977 with a chance meeting at the now-defunct Munster Lanes bowling alley.

“I used to bowl a lot,” Carl says.

“Her Mom was sick and I played in a mixed league. She was there keeping her Dad company.”

“I used to joke, ‘Why didn’t Dad take me to a country club?’” Lorrie laughs.

Carl was 16 and a student at Thornton Fractional South High

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School in Lansing. Lorrie (then Warmelink) was a 15-year-old Lake Central High School student.

“I had to beg my parents to let me go out with him because he just got his license and I was only 15,” Lorrie says Her father, a mill worker, eventually said yes.

“She was the only girl I ever dated,” Carl says.

Carl also came from a blue-collar background, with his father working at the oil refinery in Whiting. He was the first in his family to attend college, first at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond and later at Governor’s State University in University Park, Illinois.

The Liseks married on Sept. 17, 1983 after Carl’s college graduation.

They have two sons, Ryan, 25, and

Kyle, 21. Carl spent 20 years working in the environmental industry as a general manager for environmental remediation companies.

“We were married with young kids at home and I was traveling a lot,” Carl says. Lorrie worked in the banking industry and had a successful Mary Kay consulting business, which she has maintained for 25 years.

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“I won my free cars and all that,” she explains. “I got a lot of business training that way.”

In the early 2000s, the couple thought it was time for a change.

“We knew we always wanted our own business, we just didn’t know what to do,” Lorrie says.

“We wanted to be part of preventing the contamination and pollution instead of coming in afterward and cleaning it up,” Carl says. In 2003, the couple founded Legacy Environmental Services, an environmental consulting firm housed at the Purdue Technology Center in Crown Point.

“We decided to call it Legacy because we wanted to leave a legacy for our children,” Lorrie says. They are co-owners, with Lorrie serving as president and Carl as vice-president.

Carl lovingly calls Lorrie “the boss.”

Legacy’s largest project to date was an energy audit for the state of Indiana for 18 communities. While working with their Legacy clients, the Liseks became board members of South Shore Clean Cities, a government/ industry partnership focused on reducing petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.

In 2006, the South Shore Clean Cities

coordinator had to step down due to health issues and the board asked Carl and Lorrie if they would serve as interim co-coordinators. They accepted, making them the first husband and wife team leading a coalition in the nation.

At the time, South Shore Clean Cities covered just Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties and there were two other coalitions in the state, Evansville and Indianapolis.

“The Evansville one folded, so we asked for 20 counties,” Carl says.

They soon got their wish, but the expansion wasn’t over yet. In May 2011, Lorrie became coordinator for Clean Cities Wisconsin, with oversight for the entire state.

“When we tell people we have Wisconsin, too, they always think it is so far away,” Lorrie says. “I can be to Milwaukee faster than I can be to Indy and still be in the same time zone.”

Carl now handles South Shore Clean Cities solo as coordinator.

Working with fleets is having the biggest impact, they say. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Energy recognized South Shore Clean Cities for achieving the greatest reduction in petroleum consumption in the nation.

“We work with different fleets

because applications with fleets use more fuel,” Carl says. “People get on board because they want to save money, primarily and secondly, to help the environment.”

“As you get the fleets involved, the infrastructure will come and make it much more appealing to consumers, too,” Lorrie says.

Now, 36 years after that chance encounter at the bowling alley, those teenagers are 52 and 51. The Liseks are preparing to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary in September.

“She was my first love and my only A dead body, a trip to Monte Carlo, and 6 million dollars...

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love,” Carl says. “It’s been like a story book. It really has.”

Carl says working with his spouse is great, but “it’s hard to turn off work sometimes.”

“Our passion is our work and we’re almost empty-nesters, so it seems like when we have a conversation, something’s always in there about work,” Lorrie says.

They both say the rewards are worth it.

“I think we’ve had a blessed life,” Carl says. “I feel like we’ve accomplished what we set out to achieve both personally and professionally.”

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hen Linda Christian Davis was four, she moved into her dream home and now almost six decades later, her love for the house her parents built has never diminished despite her worldwide travels and the numerous moves she made for her job as global human resource manager for Exxon. • But then what could be better than a house designed by family friend and famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright?

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Davis’s home, the 2200-square foot Samara House in Lafayette, Indiana, built in 1955, is one of only three or four Frank Lloyd Wright homes still occupied by the original owner. That would be 93-year old John Christian, former head of Purdue University’s school of bionucleonics (Davis earned a degree in that subject as well) who with his wife Catherine, a Purdue social director, first contacted Wright in 1950, wanting one of his Usonian-style homes – known for their flat roofs, interconnecting rooms, concrete floors, carports and a feel of serenity produced by the measurements and layout of the home.

“My parents had limited resources,” says Davis, as we sit on orange swivel chairs in the sunken living room at Samara. “So when we moved into this house we had just the basics.”

But they also had the complete plans and with Wright that meant everything from landscaping to Dr. Christian’s business cards.

“Dr. Christian is still completing Wright’s plans,” says Linda Eales, associate curator of the home. “And he’s been living here for 55 years.”

Getting it “Wright” often meant, for the Christians, laborious efforts.

“When we went to have the living room rug made, it took three years to find someone able to make it,” says Linda Christian who went with her father to Bangkok where the carpet was woven.

“And it took three years to have it made.”

And though the Christians were totally enthused with almost all aspects of Wright’s designs, Catherine Christian wanted colors bolder than typical for a Wright home. She got what she wanted – a charming harmony of lime green, magenta, orange, yellow and purple that create an “oh wow” impact for those walking into the home.

Living in a classic Wright house might daunt many children, but Davis remembers living there with delight.

“It was so wonderful,” she says. “The floors were heated and I would slide on the floor with my socks. I’d have friends over and we’d roll up the rug, roast wieners in the fireplace and sleep in sleeping bags on the floor.”

Adults had fun – Mad Men style.

“My mother always entertained,” says Davis. “And her parties usually had a theme.”

For her atomic bomb party (this was the 1950s after all), Catherine ordered a cake in the shape of an atomic bomb with cotton draped over the top to represent a mushroom cloud.

“She had mints made locally with radiation symbols on them,” says Davis.

The Christians developed a friendship with Wright over the years and even spent nights at Taliesin West, the architect’s home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

To gain inspiration for the house, Wright traveled to Lafayette.

“Wright would look at the lot where the home was going to be built and find something the client really liked,” says Davis noting that her father had been was planting pine seedlings thus the house was named Samara, the name for the winged seeds a pine produces. “He then would do an artistic abstraction.”

This abstraction is found throughout the house — on the eaves outside, in the hand loomed rug, carved into the tall backs of the dining room chairs and even on the small windows set high above the walls of glass framed by Philippine mahogany that achieve another of Wright’s aims – merging both outside and in.

The house, which belongs to the John E. Christian Family Memorial Trust, is open for tours by appointment April to November. For more information, 765.409-5522 or samara-house.org While you’re in the area: Take a step further back into history at the 46th annual Feast of the Hunters’ Moon on October 5th and 6th. Held at Historic Fort Ouiatenon Park on 30 acres along the Wabash River near West Lafayette, Feast of the Hunter Moon re-creates the time when fur traders, Native Americans, settlers, French militia and the Colonial Army of America journeyed through the woods and paddled down the Ouiatenon River for a last rendezvous before winter set in.

With over 200 vendors, costumed re-enactments and a plethora of entertainment circa 1760s, it’s a lively event for all ages. tcha.mus.in.us/feast.htm

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testing.

Skin mapping used to track progress of evolving moles Christine Bryant

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hile people use maps to chart a trip’s progress, dermatologists are using the same technique to track changes in the human’s largest organ.

Skin mapping is a tool physicians use to follow spots, moles and other changes that may occur over the course of time.

It’s a process usually done on people who are at a high risk for skin cancer, or those interested in being extra vigilant about any changes in their moles, says Dr. Tarun Kukreja, a dermatologist with Franciscan Skin Cancer Care Center in Munster.

“The basic premise in mole mapping is that lots of photographs are taken to provide a baseline size and location for every mole and growth on the skin,” he says.

“After that, pictures are taken at intervals to identify changes in the moles, which are sometimes analyzed by computers.”

Dr. Karen Jordan, of Dermatology Associates of Northwest Indiana in Merrillville, says everyone should be aware and monitor the moles and spots on their bodies, regardless of whether they have a high risk of skin cancer or not.

“In our office, we carefully record and monitor our patients’ skin lesions with high resolution photographs and diagrams that are saved and compared each visit to any prior visit photographs,” she says. “This helps track individual lesions for any changes over time.”

Any suspicious changes may result in a biopsy of the lesion.

“This involves cleaning the area, then numbing the skin with an injection,” Jordan says. “A small piece of the tissue is removed and a bandage is placed over the small wound.”

A recent study by the American Cancer Society

THE ABCDE system can help you recognize possible symptoms of melanoma: Asymmetry: One half o the abnormal area is different from the other half.

Borders: The edges of the growth are irregular.

Color: Color changes from one area to another, with shades of tan, brown or black, and sometimes white, red or blue.

Diameter: The spot is usually larger than 6mm in diameter — about the size of a pencil eraser.

Evolution: The mole keeps changing appearance.

Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Those numbers rise to 1 in 50 for men and 1 in 120 for women 70 and older.

Melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer that can result in death if left untreated, is not as common as other types of skin cancer. In fact, Steinbruecker says the overall number of skin cancer cases is difficult to estimate because nonmelanoma skin cancers, such as basal cell and squamous, do not have to be reported to cancer registries.

When caught early, Jordan says skin cancer is highly Tony Martin treatable.

Skin mapping is a tool physicians use to follow “That’s why it’s vitally important for everyone to learn spots, moles and other changes that may occur how to check their own skin regularly and see a boardover the course of time. certified dermatologist is anything is changing,” she says.

“The five-year survival rate for people whose melanoma is reveals the probability of developing melanoma of the detected and treated before it spreads to the lymph nodes skin for those age 60 to 69 is 1 in 130 for men and 1 in is 98 percent, so be sure to check your skin regularly.”

248 for women.

Common warning signs The most common warning sign of skin cancer is a change to your skin, such as: • Reddish patch of dry skin that won’t heal

• Pimple that just won’t clear

• Scar that feels waxy — may be skin-colored, white or yellow

• Flesh-colored (or pink, red or brown) pearl-shaped lump

• Sore that bleeds, heals and then returns

• Hard (scaly or crusty) reddish bump, patch or pearl-shaped growth

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• Open sore that itches and bleeds; it can heal and return

• A mole on the skin that is growing, changing shape or changing color

• Scaly patch on the lip; skin on the lip can get thick

Source: Dr. Karen Jordan, Dermatology Associates of Northwest Indiana

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device devotee

What is your

choice?

This column was started using the ultra portable Asus Nexus 7 from Google and then completed using the highlights of Apple’s iPhone. Who says that they can’t be friends?

This week will feature the most overdone column idea among technology reviews: who has the best smartphone? I will let you on a secret; it really comes down to what you’re going to be doing with it.

Apple iPhone 5 The iPhone features a dual core processor and a high clarity screen they call the retina display. While the operating system has been called a bit dated, the phone still holds place as one of the best selling smartphones.

In addition to the thousands of applications in its app store, the phone features one of the best build qualities on the market.

Samsung Galaxy S4 A new addition to the smartphone market this year is the Galaxy S4 from Korean manufacturer Samsung. Samsung in recent years has been making big advances in not only home entertainment with its line of smart televisions, but now has overthrown the California giant Apple as the most popular smartphone in the world. The device features a pixeldense 5-inch super AMOLED HD 1080 screen, beating even Apple

in resolution. The Galaxy S4 has a quad core processor and so many features no other phone even comes close to overall available functions. Samsung’s heavy hitter has the ability to pay for objects at the local supermarket with its NFC (near field communication). Another feature is it’s ability to cater to users’ needs without ever really touching the phone. The phone has multiple hands-free gestures stemming from its eye identification software and wave motions.

Motorola X Just announced August 1, the new flagship phone from the makers of the Droid has custon features in mind for its buyer. The process of ordering phone allows the buyer to go online and pick even the smallest of color options for the construction of the phone.

How many combinations could this one phone giant have for its consumers? The answer is 504.

The device it’s not a spec phone; the company is instead focusing on the design of the phone and how the consumer holds and sees the product. The Moto X features a. 4.7 inch 720 AMOLED screen with a pixel per inch count of 316.

The release date of the phone has not been made available yet, but it has been made clear that all carriers will be able to use phone if the consumer wants it.

Nokia Lumia 1020 This phone features one of the most unique designs of all smartphones. The designers had to come up with a way to place a 41 megapixel camera in

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a compact, sleek phone. Yeah that’s right, 41 megapixels, but the camera has its limits. The sensor is square and the lens is round which means the camera is can only do so much. The operating system is powered by Windows 8.

Needless to say the device is tile laden with features. The design mainly mimics that of their other Lumia phone the 920. The 4.5 inch screen itself comes from their other phones and is not the sharpest or clearest compared to other phones available.

HTC OnE What appears to be the final hurrah of what was the best manufacturer of Android based smartphones is the HTC One. The One features a unique camera just like the Nokia Lumia 1020. There is only one problem; instead of piling the pixels on the figurative plate of its smartphone, they made it an appetizer. The phone only features a 4 megapixel ultrapixel camera.

The camera features a larger sensor allowing for better low light conditions. HTC instead banked on the fact consumers did not want the most pixel dense pictures, but instead a camera that could take photos better in low light conditions and then easily upload them to social websites. Another feature HTC focused on was build quality. The phone is on par of Cupertino’s think tank, Apple.

So with everything said and done, do you want a glorified camera, a powerhouse, ease of mind, a piece of art or a social networker in your pocket?

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Summer Corn:

It’s Back

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hese days, Michigan peaches, heirloom tomatoes and fresh sweet corn are making return engagements to my summer kitchen, and I can’t seem to get enough of them.

Drippingly sweet sliced peaches, topped with a drift of freshly cracked black pepper, is a pairing made in heaven, as are heirloom tomatoes sprinkled with olive oil, soft goat cheese and fresh mint. And while I have nothing against classic corn on the cob (who could?) I like to branch out a bit with corn as these recipes show.

The Sweet Corn Flans, originally found in an old Gourmet issue from the 90s, make a lovely first course for a summer dinner party. The tomato-corn relish also nails it as a topping for grilled salmon or swordfish. Kevin Lynch’s Jalapeno Corn Fritters are an addictive nibble at any cook-out, and (my favorite) sautéed corn not only makes a great side dish, it’s also an ideal bed for grilled shrimp. Yummy. — Jane Dunne SWEET CORN FLANS WITH TOMATO-CORN RELISH (4 servings) You will need four (4-to-6 oz.) ramekins.

Flans: 3 ears fresh corn, shucked, divided 2/3 cup 1% milk 2 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon cayenne Relish: 3/4 cup corn reserved from flans 6 ounces grape or cherry tomatoes,

cut into small dice (3/4 cup) 1/3 cup chopped red onion 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cook corn in a pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain and cool.

With a sharp knife, cut kernels from the cobs into a bowl. Use the dull side of the knife to scrape the ears. (Reserve 3/4 of

a cup of the cooked corn kernels to use in relish). Puree remainder of the corn in a blender with the milk until smooth; then force the puree through a fine sieve into a bowl, discarding any solids.

Whisk together eggs, salt and cayenne until blended and whisk into the corn puree. Pour the flan mixture into lightly oiled ramekins and bake in a hot water bath just until set, about 40 minutes. Remove ramekins from water bath and cool on a rack. Chill until cold, about 2 hours.

For the relish, combine all ingredients, through the basil, in a bowl. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the olive oil and red wine vinegar and pour over the vegetables. Toss lightly. Unmold flans onto indivual plates. Top each with some of the relish and a fresh basil leaf.

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JALAPENO CORN FRITTERS (serves 4) 2 cups fresh corn kernels cut from cob 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 large egg 1/2 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese 1/4 cup light cream cheese, room temperature 2 medium-size jalapeno peppers, seeded and diced 2 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 1 teaspoon ground coriander 2 green onions, both green and white parts, sliced 1 handful cilantro or flat-leaf parsley, chopped 1 lime, both zest and juice 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, more if needed

Mix all ingredients (except oil), in a bowl.

Heat the oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium setting. Form the corn mixture into 1/4 cup patties and fry until golden-brown on both sides, about 3 to 4 minutes per side.

Alternatively, place the patties on a baking sheet sprayed generously with vegetable oil and bake at 400 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes per side.

Serve hot, with a little ranch dressing for dipping.

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