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Latest Posts to Summitlake.com : Excerpted listings below are placeholders. These announce posts anywhere on our site. The hyperlink to read the entire post is usually found in the announcement's text. HOME page announcements have the link to the full post in their title.

Amazon e-book Price Dispute
The manufacturer's cost of printing and reproducing an e-book is about zero. If e-books catch on, legacy book publishers would sell more titles and more books, but not at hardcover prices! This sounds like that old music industry deja vu, all over again. Shame on Macmillan. Excerpt and MarketWatch article link in Commentary. Posted February 02, 2010

Perry v. Schwarzenegger

No matter where you thought you stood on "gay marriage", it's time to brush up on the constitutional issues and new legal developments. Perry v. Schwarzenegger may yet be the case that decides which U.S. citizens will be permitted the full rights and prerogatives of U.S. citizenship. If this fails, it will be understood as further proof that the law still sanctions selective discrimination in the United States. Read Perry vs Schwarzenegger in La Parola.
Posted February 01, 2010

A House Come Alive
"Let's compare the human community to a house, a sort of building. Within this building there dwells a spirit - no, not a ghost, but a real and living being ..." New vignette by Fred Leeds. See A House Come Alive, in Writing. Posted January 28, 2010

2COR4:6
What's to say about a gunsight model number? Not much, unless it happens to be the code to the Christian Bible passage in chapter 4 verse 6 of Corinthians. This hit the news yesterday. A small and very devout Michigan firm makes the gunsights, which include some of the finest military rifle scopes in the world. Read 2COR4:6 in Commentary. Posted January 22, 2010

Wind Power

Wind power is already here. It's here to stay, already connected to the grid, and already contributing to a reduced dependency on fossil fuel solutions. We posted some cost calculations to Scientific American ... Read Wind Power in Commentary.
Posted January 22, 2010

News & Updates
1. HTML. We've integrated the HTML indexes with their host WordPress departments. This replaces our old "blue glass" Index buttons, while leaving the user in the WordPress environment.

2. SPAM. The spambot auto-mailers are back! Most Summitlake departments will require users to be registered and logged in to a particular host department to post comments to its articles. Subject to frequent revision. Click the excerpt title to read more on both topics. Posted January 21, 2010

 

Anfy slides: below are some of our hundreds of images found in our popular PHOTO Department and in Alex's Gallery. We have expanded the slide show to include many never published before. You can click any image for a screen-size picture.

 

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Random Portraits: selected thumbnails below from our Pans & Portraits page, featuring our collection of larger format portrait images and oversize panoramas in PHOTOS. (Random images reload when this page loads).

 

Click image to view our Gallery of all our Portrait-orientation Outdoors images

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Use the table below, or use our Recent Master browser. See "At A Glance" in the sidebar to find most recent department updates. Additionally, legacy HTML articles may be indexed in realtime, on the sidebar under "Permalinks-Summitlake." Sidebar information and links are available in all Wordpress departments.

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News in a Nutshell

  1. Can't find an old legacy HTML page? It may have been converted to WordPress. Look in the sidebar links for its department.
  2. "What's New" site news and major new postings are now handled by this HOME department.
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At A Glance

Our little real-time sidebar utility helps locate where new posts are found on the site. The date a department was last modified is displayed.

History

Our site has been online continuously since 1995. For a little background on site history, you might want to check out these two posts:

Credits

This website was originally uploaded to the Best.com server, from a Power Macintosh 7100, on October 18, 1995. The appearance, content, client platform and a lot of the methodology have all changed since then. The host server has been changed (or acquired) six times. We've been hosted on the WestHost servers since November 2002. Much of our legacy HTML content has been absorbed into the WordPress databases. The basic concept of this site has always been to feature the original written word on the web, and we're still committed to that. The following credits, excerpted here, were first posted on November 25, 1995.

Special thanks to my friends at Poor Richard's (now LDResources) for encouragement and direction ... Thanks to Ted Wagner, for egging me on. And most of all, thanks to Bob, who added both his enthusiasm and his patience with this 14-year ongoing project.

A special heartfelt "thanks!" to my friend Al, who has been a pioneering booster and supporter of these pages since the very beginning.

In recent years, support and contributed material from readers and fans have helped Summitlake.com mature and broaden its scope. To Al, Dave, Swan and Gary in particular, our thanks and gratitude. To Joe Tranchina, who taught so many of us the thrill of the written word, everlasting thanks for your inspiration and leadership. To all of you who write in or post comments, and those Guest Authors who grace our pages, your extra input helps us focus on our readers.

User Reference In A Nutshell

  1. Registration. Users may register in each Summitlake department used frequently. Registration requires a real name and email address. E-mail addresses are not posted to the public domain (you would have to intentionally include an email in a comment). Some privileges do come with registration, such as the ability to update your Profile, and bypass CAPTCHA security.
    More Info: see our Register link, in the sidebar of most site pages.
  2. Subscribe to our RSS feeds. You do not need to register to subscribe to RSS. How? See How to Subscribe to RSS.
  3. Comments. Comments are queued for moderation unless comment author has a previously approved comment. Departments may require registration and log-in to post a comment. Comments may be disabled after a period of time, indicated by the caption Comments Off, but you can click the Write Us button at any time.
    More Info: see our Posting Guidelines link, in the sidebar of most pages on Summitlake.com.
  4. Site Navigation. We provide several different ways to help you browse the site.
    More Info: Visit our Site Navigation page link, in the sidebar of our HOME department pages on Summitlake.com.
  5. Manuscripts and Submissions. We encourage submission of original articles, creative writing and photos that have not been published elsewhere.
    More Info: see our Manuscripts page link, in the sidebar of our HOME and WRITING department pages at Summitlake.com.
  6. About Us: Summitlake.com is a small, privately operated and controlled, noncommercial web site. We provide a home for original creative content. Cookies are used on interactive "login" pages (for example, to leave a comment) but are not used for general browsing. No user information is ever sold, mined or given to others. We do not use cookie "tracking".
  7. For more information: see sidebar links under "Pages", including: About This Website. We use WordPress® to serve up most content. Most posts are open for comments. We hope you enjoy your visits to our site. Thanks for stopping by!
 
 

 

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