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An important part of the MBA program is not just the participants, it is their partners and families. Suhani Arora shares her experiences from the perspective of an MBA partner.
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The great stories of Kings and Queens have always intrigued me, so when there was a mention of the Vandiyur Mariamman Teppakulam, Madurai, I loved to hear how the temple and the associated structures were built by the King Thirumalai Nayak. The tank or the pond is said to be connected to the Vaigal River. Towards the centre of the tank is the Mandapam or the Central Mandapam, which has the Vinayakar Temple. The temple is surrounded by lush gardens, which pleases the people who visit it.
I spent considerable time there but the more I discovered about the place, I missed coming here during the Float Festival that is in the months of January and February when the entire temple premise is lit up for the occasion. The deities of the other temples are also supposedly here in large floats and that I am sure they would have been an amazing sight. Madurai as such is an amazing place with beliefs and faiths of the people that keep the people together and makes up for the culture of the land. No other city in India is quite close to the experiences that I felt here. There is peace and quietness, order and piety and people just do not visit the temples, they believe in them with all their hearts and it is the way of life for them.
As I made my travel arrangements back to my city, I too felt like a part of the city. I feared that if I would have spent any more time in the city visiting the holiest temples like the Vandiyur Mariamman Teppakulam, Madurai, I may even convert myself like the locals and be completely influenced with their ways of life. But for me life cannot be just living in this land of beliefs and temples, it also requires me to get back to reality where my job waited and my family too with their expectations. The urban city was a far cry from the way of living of the locals here and I would never be prepared for anything like this.

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|Fluorescent fibronectin (Cat. # FNR01) treated MCF10Acells (image kindly provided by A. Varadara and M. Karthykenyan, Univ. S.Carolina,Columbia, SC).
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Laminin-1 is purified from EHS tumor tissue and is free of the laminin binding protein entactin which is a common contaminant in some laminin preparations (150 kDa). Protein purity is determined by scanning densitometry of Coomassie Blue stained protein on a 4-20% polyacrylamide gel. The laminin is >90% pure (Figure 1).
The protein is modified to contain covalently linked rhodamines at random surface lysines. An activated ester of rhodamine [(5-(and 6)-carboxytetramethylrhodamine succinimidyl ester] is used to label the protein. Labeling stoichiometry is determined by spectro-scopic measurement of protein and dye concentrations. Final labeling stoichiometry is 2-5 dyes per protein molecule (Figure 2). The material is guaranteed to contain <15% of free dye and >85% of dye conjugated to laminin. Rhodamine laminin can be detected using a filter set of 535nm excitation and 585 nm emission.
Laminin runs as individual subunits on SDS-PAGE with an appar-ent molecular weight of 400 and 225 kDa (Figure 1). LMN01 is supplied as a pale pink lyophilized powder. Each vial of LMN01 contains 20 μg protein.
Purity is determined by scanning densitometry of proteins on SDS-PAGE gels. Samples are >90% pure.
Legend: 20 μg of unlabeled laminin (Lane 1) and 20 μg of rhodamine laminin (Lane 2) was separated by electrophoresis in a 4-20% SDS-PAGE system. The unlabeled pro-tein was stained with Coomassie Blue and visualized in white light. The rhodamine labeled protein was visual-ized under UV light. The alpha sub-unit runs at 400 kDa (top band) while the beta and gamma subunits run as a 225 kDa doublet (lower band). Protein quantitation was determined with the Precision Red™ Protein Assay Reagent (Cat. # ADV02). Mark12 molecular weight markers are from Invitrogen.
Legend: LMN01 was diluted with Milli-Q water and its absorbance spectrum was scanned between 250 and 750 nm. In this example, rhodamine labeling stoichiometry was calculated to be 2.7 dyes per laminin protein using the absorbancy maximum for rhodamine at 565 nm and the Beer-Lambert law. Dye extinction coefficient when protein bound is 70,000M-1cm-1 .
1. Kelly T. et al. 1994. Invadopodia promote proteolysis of a wide variety of extracellular matrix proteins. J. Cellular Physiol. 158: 299-308.
2. Tronchin G. et al. 1997. Expression and identification of a laminin-binding protein in Aspergillus fumigates conidia. Infection & Immunity 65: 9-15.
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Answer 2: Rhodamine labeling stoichiometry was calculated to be 2-5 dyes per laminin protein using the absorbancy maximum for rhodamine at 565 nm and the Beer-Lambert law. Dye extinction coefficient when protein bound is 70,000 M-1cm-1.
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A while back, a friend suggested I write something about Fruition - something about clarifying the purpose of the book, or my intentions, or something. Anyway, here goes.
First up - Fruition is all about that classic question –
'If you could live your life over again, knowing what you know now, what would you change?'
I've thought about that a lot. Unlike Piaf I think I can honestly say I regret almost everything. One period in my life especially that I've wished and wished I could go back to and do again is my late teens and early twenties. What a mess!
It's a period that still haunts me. I could so easily have become one of those sad individuals in his thirties, still living with his parents, with his fish tanks or his model soldiers, unemployable and spurned by women. But I am aware that, under slightly different circumstances, with a less tolerant family, things could have been much worse. I don't think I would ever have killed myself (I didn't have the will and I was always oddly hopeful) but events could have spiralled. I was never into dangerous behaviour, drink or drugs, but I could have just let things fall apart. I could have had an accident, or, without a home to go back to, I could have simply failed to hold down a job, to make friends, to pay the rent. I could imagine that happening to me. In Fruition, this is where Gabriel Fortune's story starts.
One thing I didn't want the book to be was autobiographical. If I found myself trying to faithfully describe something that actually happened, or a place or person that actually existed, I'd have to chuck in some occurrence or characteristic from somewhere else, just to force myself to create something new. Trying to describe what actually happened to me sounds like an awful chore and what I've written above about it is as far as I want to go with that here. The themes though - of how a person can get into such a mess without resorting to the predictable narrative devices of violence or addiction interests me. It happens all the time - people simply fail to thrive. Without any dramatic gestures they simply fall away and hardly anyone even notices they're gone. I was very influenced in this by a book called Stuart: A Life Backwards - not so much because of the character (who's life included plenty of violence and addiction) but because its reverse narrative put his earliest experiences (and hence the explanations for what happened) at the end of the book and hence provide a thrilling conclusion. I'm not sure how well I've achieved it, but a question I'd like the reader to be asking almost from the beginning is How on earth does a person end up like this? What has happened to him? The usual suspects - childhood neglect and abuse are hinted at from early on but again I wanted to avoid the usual. Sometimes it is something far less obvious - something that seems ordinary, or at least unexceptional, but which, under certain circumstances can contaminate everything. The full explanation, in as far as there ever is such a thing, is not revealed until book 4.
Books 1 and 2 are basically alternative versions of the same lost life. Books 3 and 4 are about how he changes that. The overall story is not about perfectibility but about the possibility of change. In many ways it is a long meditation on another classic question – 'What is The Good Life?' This inevitably (to me) raises all sorts of exciting philosophical and political questions and I give Gabriel plenty of opportunity to debate with the various characters he meets, especially on the boat. On the other hand I've (perhaps surprisingly) hardly touched on questions of God and spirituality. The fact that when they die everyone suddenly discovers that the afterlife is nothing like what they expected makes the whole subject somewhat moot and that's quite subversive enough in my opinion. Ultimately though, Gabriel's real preoccupations are far less cerebral. Mainly he wants to know how to make a living without selling out (the quaint old 20th Century notion that doing as well as possible and making as much money as possible aren't the same thing), and in particular he wants to find a woman to love. Fruition is very much a love story, although this doesn't become obvious until book 2 and it is not resolved until the very end. Childhood and parenting are also major themes throughout the book. Remaining anti-autobiographical though, the events in his early life - the descriptions of his family and home, are completely different to mine. I wanted to see what it would be like to have sisters instead of a brother, and to be much younger than everybody else in the family (an unplanned late pregnancy) as my mother was in her family. I couldn't resist using the house we lived in though because it was just such an amazingly ugly old place. Gabriel wants to become a painter where I wanted to be an ecologist. We both like gardening though.
My warped idea of reincarnation is of course just a narrative device, not a belief system of mine (although it seems no less plausible than the alternatives. Who's to tell?) I'm always intrigued by the things people come to believe in and I made this system up partly as a sort of mischievous 'See? I can play that game too'. I also wanted The Afterlife to be a whole huge other world – one that would involve an immense journey overland, alone or with just a few companions. This had two purposes - one was to provide a place where Gabriel could think about and talk about his lives through a sort of quasi-therapeutic conversation. (I like books that use therapy as a device to tell us what our hero thinks is going on.) The other purpose was to give Gabriel an enormous and extraordinary landscape to travel through – and one that doesn't work by the usual rules. Having this apparently limitless new world to play with meant I could set my characters in the landscapes I'd had swimming about in my brain for decades - places I'd been to and stories I'd told myself to stop the 'real world' colonising my mind completely. As Gabriel says in book 1:
"Everybody said I ... was always 'off in my own little world', but they were wrong. It wasn't a little world at all. It was enormous. There were landscapes and characters they wouldn't even have come across in their weirdest dreams. I spent a lot of time getting it all down on paper – writing about it or drawing and painting. I did some huge scenes – part map, part landscape, with gargantuan shaggy beasts and archaic birds, engaged in incomprehensible behaviours among misshapen trees and alien fungi. Offshore, vast dead-eyed fish and primitive whales turned among forests of coral and kelp. I don't know where it all came from. Nobody ever asked me about it. Dad and mum just shook their heads and tutted and went away. In my world there were settlements too, some of exquisite architecture and peopled by gentle and tolerant souls. Others bristled with armaments and dripped with pollution. And always there was a woman, and she looked past all the crap and saw me as I really was, and we'd be happy together."
It's difficult to pin-point any direct literary influences here but one unlikely source was Peter Jackson's three films of The Lord of the Rings (I find the books unreadable.) They have just this sense of the tiny figure moving through a huge and ancient landscape. There's a lot of ecology in Fruition too. The animals and plants we find there are all real or plausible, though they might not appear so to the non-biologist.
At the same time I hope my book doesn't fall into the standard genres of 'fantasy' or 'science fiction' or 'horror'. I have trouble with these sorts of books because often they don't seem to feel the need to be even a bit rooted in real experiences and emotions, hence they can have anything happen and I'm left not caring. To really feel the otherness of these strange places, I think we need to be regularly reminded of what it's like to live in normal everyday life. I always liked the wardrobe device in the Narnia books but I felt they should have gone back and forth more, to refresh the feeling of wonder. Doctor Who seems to amaze someone with the Tardis every other episode.
On the other hand, I find the entirely 'realistic' novel - historical or contemporary, just too pedestrian for words. They say that the difference between fact and fiction is that fiction must make sense, but I'm not so sure. Life does not always make sense, and fiction should be able to reflect that. I hope any books I write (I have two more on the way - one almost complete, the other still in my head) will always feel as if they could be partly dreamed or hallucinated but always set alongside everyday life. The novelist should not feel the need to explain every incongruity. Children's books don't seem to feel this need to tie up every loose end. (I sometimes like to think of Fruition as a children's book for adults. Is it just me or do modern authors seem very reluctant to make stuff up?) 'Magic realism' always seemed too self-consciously clever. Something's missing... Perhaps I don't read as much as writers are supposed to but I so rarely find anything I want to read these days, unless you count non-fiction, which I read a lot. That feels like a terrible thing to have to admit. Mind you, I don't like most of the music I come across either but I can usually find something new to listen to. Perhaps I'm just out of the loop.
I think I'm a very 'visual' person, and very affected by music too - Fruition seems very connected in my mind to the Fauré Requiem (which will definitely be the record I'll be running into the waves to save when they have me on Desert Island Discs. Gabriel Fortune - Gabriel Faure? I hadn't noticed that before. How curious.) TV and film seem more free to invent things without going all post-modern on us (I particularly like the work of Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, and Jos Whedon.) On reflection, I think the books that have had the most (subconscious) influence on Fruition would probably be Cider With Rosie, The Time Traveller's Wife and Moominland Midwinter.
I've also become discouraged from reading other people's books by the fact that so many seem to have such a knowing, world-weary take on the human condition, where nobody really seems to like anyone very much and there's nothing anyone can do to change anything. (I'd love some recommendations to prove me wrong on all this by the way.) I really wanted to give Gabriel not exactly a happy ending, but something hopeful – something redemptive. I wanted him to find himself among friends in a way he never did in life. Although personally I've always found people difficult I do believe in generosity and humanity when I think a lot of writers don't. Apart from anything I actually don't think their pessimism is very realistic. It feels lazy and smug – why bother to try when everything will probably go badly anyway? Better to just enjoy the spectacle. So I also wanted to avoid what I suspect would be the normal cynical ending where he would find that no matter how he tries to change, something new inevitably springs up to thwart him. How drab. How very predictable. At the same time of course there can be no simple, clean happy-ever-after, but those aren't the only two options.
In short, what I wanted to write was the book that I'd always wanted to read but could never find.
So there came a time when my embryonic career in ecology was aborted and I was about forty years old and I had all this in my head. I looked at my life and realised that although I wasn't exactly old, I really was at the end of my main attempt at life. I didn't know what I was going to do next - I was single, homeless and unemployed again. Although I guessed it was some way off I had a very strong sense of the end of my life being out there somewhere. It wasn't a bad feeling. I just knew it was there in a way that I hadn't before. So this book is also about death, but not in a morbid way (or only in the literal sense.) I don't believe in any Afterlife but I'd quite like to think that when death comes I'll find myself in a sleeping bag in a deck chair on a boat heading out into a frozen ocean...


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Beef jerky is essentially beef that has been cut into strips with the fat trimmed off, then marinated, and dried with low heat, usually under 160 deg F (70 deg C). The result is a low fat, natural beef snack of hearty flavor. Varieties of flavors are achieved by marinating with different spice mixes.
It takes 350 g of best beef to make 100 g high quality beef jerky. It is 97%
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You can choose between Premium beef jerky and Beef Bites. What's the difference? Beef Bites are much more softer and have bit less calories and protein in. Here is nutritional comparison :
Beef Jerky Beef Bites
energy 268 kcal 264 kcal
protein 50g 44g
fat 3g 6g
carbohydrates 9g 9g
Here is nutritional value for each and every flavour (per 100g) :
Original - Energy 1126 kj / 266 kcal, Protein 50g, Fat 3g (of which saturates 1.5g), Carbohydrates 10g (of which sugars 2.5g), Salt 5.5g. Ingredients: Beef (96%), salt, sugar, spices, dextrose, maltodextrin, soy protein isolate. Preservative: sodium nitrite.
Classic - Energy 1135 kj / 268 kcal, Protein 49g, Fat 3g (of which saturates 1.5g), Carbohydrates 9g (of which sugars 2.2g), Salt 5.5g. Ingredients: Beef (96%), salt, sugar, spices, dextrose, maltodextrin, soy protein isolate. Preservative: sodium nitrite.
Smoked - Energy 1153 kj / 272 kcal, Protein 50g, Fat 3.5g (of which saturates 1.7g), Carbohydrates 10g (of which sugars 2.5g), Salt 5.5g. Ingredients: Beef (95%), salt, sugar, spices, dextrose, maltodextrin, soy protein isolate. Preservative: sodium nitrite.
Teriyaki - Energy 1205 kj / 285 kcal, Protein 48g, Fat 3.2g (of which saturates 1.6g), Carbohydrates 18g (of which sugars 6.8g), Salt 5.5g. Ingredients: Beef (95%), salt, sugar, spices, dextrose, maltodextrin, soy protein isolate. Preservative: sodium nitrite. Antioxidant: Ascorbic acid.
Cajun Hot - Energy 1123 kj / 265 kcal, Protein 48g, Fat 3.5g (of which saturates 1.7g), Carbohydrates 10g (of which sugars 2.2g), Salt 5.5g. Ingredients: Beef (95%), salt, sugar, spices, dextrose, maltodextrin, soy protein isolate. Preservative: sodium nitrite. Antioxidant: Ascorbic acid.
Natural style Beef Jerky - Peppered flavour - Energy 1360 kj / 325 kcal, Protein 56g, Salt 3.5g, Fat 2.5g (of which saturates 1.3g), Carbohydrates 1.5g (of which sugars 1.3g). Ingredients: Beef (93%), spices, black Pepper (0.9%), fructose. NO ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVES ADDED! So if you are looking for nice clean product - then this is for you!
Origin of beef - HOLLAND
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The word "Jerky" comes from the Spanish word for jerked meat "charqui". English speaking people heard this word and changed it to a word that was easier for them to pronounce "jerky". Jerky is a nutrient-dense meat that has been made lightweight by drying. Because most of the moisture is removed, it is shelf stable and can be stored without refrigeration, so making it a handy, nutritious, wholesome food for backpackers and others who don't have access to refrigerators. So, whether you're walking, mountain climbing, camping, fishing, body building, trekking, cycling, or just watching TV - our Beef Jerky is just perfect anytime anywhere snack.
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Solution to Marketing Mysteries: the Real Revenge of the Nerds October 31, 2006Posted by David Card in Media.
Ahh, the naivete of academics. At a Washington symposium this month, the Times reports Cornell prof Jon Kleinberg waxing poetical on the power of computing to solve life's mysteries:
- �We�re really witnessing a revolution in measurement,� Dr. Kleinberg said.
The new social-and-technology networks that can be studied include e-mail patterns, buying recommendations on commercial Web sites like Amazon, messages and postings on community sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the diffusion of news, opinions, fads, urban myths, products and services over the Internet. Why do some online communities thrive, while others decline and perish? What forces or characteristics determine success? Can they be captured in a computing algorithm?…
�This is the introduction of computing and algorithmic processes into the social sciences in a big way,� Dr. Kleinberg said, �and we�re just at the beginning.�
Riiiight. Let's see, there's a $16 billion US online advertising business trying to solve that measurement problem, not to mention the $280 billion spent off-line in the US. But no, it's social science grants that'll do the trick! Don't tell Google, or their PhDs will all go back!


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Monday, December 20, 2010
we do like pretty things.
and there was Ballet in the kitchen.
and tidyin' up. there's only one more day to make the house ready before our Holiday begins in earnest... Solstice comes!
my family agreed -mostly not very enthusiastically- to go downtown for a little skating adventure.
turns out, in this Mama knew what she was talking about, and it was, indeed, a Very Fine Time.
"Wow!!" said Little Son. "Look at this! Downtown! Outside! Christmas lights! Totally appropriate Christmas music! Awesome!"
and the actual skating was fun, too. (he's like his Mama, I guess - atmosphere and charm count for a biiig part of the ordinary life magic.)
dinner downtown.
storm's blowin' in....
snow's comin'.
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Lovely, empty ice-rink. That's on my list, for when our lot of snow clears up a bitReplyDelete
And atmosphere makes all the difference :-)
Wonderful! I wish we had ice skating in or out in our city. Have a great and blessed holiday.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/20/2010 8:33 AM
Isaac's never been skating and I think it's because I'm not very good on skates. Nothing worse than an unsure mama pulling her boy down. But you've inspired me (again) and I think tonight after dinner we'll head down to the park and attempt some skating.ReplyDelete
I hope your holidays are lovely and are providing tons of beauty and magic. They certainly looks as though they are.
Much love,
So nice to have a 'real' city to visit, downtown to go to. :) The things I miss about big(ger) city life.ReplyDelete
Did you have that whole rink to yourselves??
Denise -ReplyDelete
in total there were probably a dozen people there besides us, some left right after we got there.
The rest of the time there was a couple and a small family. :)
I don't think our outdoor rinks are ready yet - they will be by Wednesday as that's the last day of school...yours looks lovely...we're due for more snow today...yikes! - we have enough for a while...ReplyDelete
Ooo I missed Soul of Sunday!! Bummer. Love all the pretty little wrappings :)!!ReplyDelete
LOVE ice skating! I've never been to an outdoor rink, though, and I shudder at the average winter temperature of an area that such a thing implies.ReplyDelete
Sweet! Music, skating and sparkly lights in a big city almost all to yourselves. Sounds perfect. :)ReplyDelete
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- Take a trip down the north side of Bene't Street in the centre of the city of Cambridge in England and you'll notice a buzz of lunchtime drinkers and patrons enjoying a pint in a pub with some special history.
When you first walk into The Eagle pub, the first thing that you may notice is the seemingly dirty ceiling with its graffiti covered brown display. There are five rooms in this huge pub and the RAF bar was a regular haunt during the Second World War by Royal Air Force airmen who burned their markings into the ceiling with petrol lighters. They probably used each other's shoulders to reach the eight-foot high ceiling.
The beer garden at the front is overlooked by university rooms and lecture halls. Run now by Greene King Breweries, the land is now owned by by
Corpus Christi College
- one of the more ancient colleges of the University of Cambridge - founded in 1352.
Originally called
The Eagle and Child
the pub dropped the "Child" and rebuilt the RAF bar in the 19th century.
In 1953 when the university's Cavendish Laboratory was still located on Free School Lane the pub became hugely popular for a lunchtime tipple or two for the staff working at the university. It then became the place where Francis Crick and James Watson had
"discovered the secret of life"
after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA.
Watson and Crick had proposed the double helix or spiral staircase structure of the DNA molecule.
For further reading on the
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You never know you could be inspired with a life changing notion at this busy city centre pub.
Inside the RAF bar at The Eagle in Cambridge. The RAF bar to the rear of the pub has writing burnt into the ceiling with cigarette lighters dating from World War 2
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Check out the ceiling! The RAF bar to the rear of the pub has writing burnt into the ceiling with cigarette lighters dating from WWII
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The book is part-autobiography, part-anthropological report. Frank begins by introducing us to his mother Edith, who comes across as a distinctly difficult character - a neurotic social and cultural snob who was burdened by a desperate desire to prove that being a religious nut was compatible with good breeding, table manners and Bach. Father Francis, for his part, was a mass of contradictions. A depressive, autistic loner who exercised a warm, charismatic charm over all comers; a literary intellectual who was prone to flying into violent rages; an extreme Bible fundamentalist who had a heartfelt love for secular art and philosophy; a boy from the back streets who became a mentor to presidents. At one point, he even came close to converting Timothy Leary. Frank writes:
Dad had one big idea: God has revealed himself to us through the Bible. And he spent a lifetime trying to fit everything into that one idea, and explain away anything that didn't fit.Francis was formed by the bitter theological battles of the 1920s and 30s, and hung onto his fundamentalist beliefs well into the era of microchips and space travel. But he was quite different from most of the footsoldiers of the Religious Right that he helped to found. He got caught up in the 60s hippy counterculture. He denounced "plastic Christians" with their "petty bourgeois rules". He agreed with the hippies' critique of middle-class capitalist culture; but he argued that the answer was not drugs and free love but Jesus Christ. He helped to build a movement that became filled with people he would have hated. In his own lifetime, he described men like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as "idiots" and "nuts" - just not in public.
Another oddity is that the Schaeffers didn't spend that much time on American soil. Their base was their religious community at L'Abri in Switzerland, and Frank was sent to boarding schools in England. The ethos at L'Abri was exclusivist. The Schaffers grudgingly accepted that there were good Christians to be found elsewhere, but they despised the mainstream churches. Before the 60s hit, they forbade drinking and dancing. Yet there was also genuine compassion. The Schaeffers made real sacrifices of time and money to serve their residents. They denounced racism long before it became fashionable to do so. They welcomed people who were mentally disturbed or handicapped. They treated homosexuals kindly, by fundamentalist standards. L'Abri represented the inherent contradictions of a family which wanted to turn an inherently narrow and restrictive creed into something benign and welcoming.
Francis didn't become famous until Frank was in his late teens. By this time, Frank had got into painting and was hanging out with rock stars. His next step was to get into the Christian film-making business. Soon he was learning how to fundraise, making pitches to fundamentalist businessmen about "taking our country back" from the liberals and secularists. He wrote several forgettable mass-market books.
The turning point in the Schaeffers' campaigning was the US Supreme Court's famous ruling on abortion in the case of Roe v Wade (1973). Francis initially dismissed abortion as a "Catholic issue", but it soon became apparent that this was something which could be used to ignite the Evangelical grassroots - assisted by pro-choice activists whose hamfisted tactics seemed almost designed to alienate middle America. As a cause, the abortion issue was both deeply divisive and deeply political. It turned out to be a golden opportunity for the Republican Party to hoover up millions of Democrats.
Frank makes the good point that the mainstream media largely ignored the antics of him and his friends in the 1970s, with the result that a lot of people in high places got an unexpected shock when the Religious Right came roaring onto the national stage. Liberal America was losing a battle it didn't even know was being fought. The Schaeffers began to get into dangerous ground, flirting with the idea of mounting resistance to the US government through civil disobedience and worse. They gave aid and comfort to the likes of "Theonomists" who wanted America to be governed under Old Testament law. Strangely enough, the only Evangelical leader who seriously resisted the politicisation of the movement was Billy Graham, who had learned a hard lesson from his past association with Richard Nixon.
Frank came to realise that the stormtroops of the new Religious Right were not conservatives in any traditional sense of the word: they were "anti-American religious revolutionaries". They were different from the old American Right of secular anti-socialists like Herbert Hoover and Barry Goldwater. Falwell was a small-minded bigot; Robertson heard voices and saw visions; and James Dobson was "the most power-hungry and ambitious person I have ever met". Frank noticed that they seemed to want American society to fail - and to fail apocalyptically. Their worldview required it. Hence, for example, their eerily satisfied reactions to 9/11.
But the Schaeffers kept their mouths shut. They failed to denounce the dangerous theocratic politics that they had helped to create. Francis himself hardened from his hippy days. He banned his own son-in-law from teaching at L'Abri for holding liberal theological views. As he approached his death in 1984, he began to realise that he had been fighting on the side of "lunatics"; but by then it was too late. Frank had been changing too:
There were three kinds of evangelical leaders. The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed - sort of - but knew that the evangelical world was shit, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else. I was turning into one of those, having started out in the idealistic category.Frank argues that the ayatollahs of the Religious Right ultimately failed. In their arrogance and stupidity, they ended up allowing themselves to be manipulated and used by politicians who cared more for their votes than their moral sensibilities. They sold their souls to the Republicans - and for what? For men like George W. Bush, "the "Christians'" president", who put the interests of the oil and auto industries above God's creation and inflicted carnage on the Christian minority in Iraq.
This is a unique and very honest book. Frank is not necessarily a likeable narrator, and his prose was not always to this reviewer's taste. But he has a story that nobody else has, and he manages to tell it well.


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Behind the Lens with Richard Payne, FAIA
An icon and indisputably the dean of architectural photographers in Texas, Richard Payne, FAIA, has been a registered architect since 1964 and a full-time architectural photographer for almost 45 years. Payne has been commissioned to photograph work by renowned architects such as Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Charles Gwathmey, and Ricardo Bofill and has worked all over the world — Spain, France, Germany, the Middle East, Australia, and across North America. But he has also kept himself deeply rooted in Texas with five beautiful portfolio books to his credit that focus solely on the architecture of his home state.
He is perhaps best known for his stunning photographs of the work of Philip Johnson, produced primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, that became the iconic images through which the world got to know the buildings of one of the most influential architects of his generation. Payne shot 140 projects for Johnson. The architect commissioned Payne to photograph every building completed after 1970, and then, through a grant from the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, Payne photographed Johnson's earlier projects beginning with the Glass House in New Canaan. This work led to the publication of the largest of three monographs on the architect, published in 1979, 1985, and 2001.
Payne's relationship with Johnson began when Payne shot a black-and-white picture of the Pennzoil Building in Houston when he was just beginning his photographic practice in 1970. He sent it to a marketing director for the building's developer, Gerald Hines. And they sent the image to Johnson, who asked Payne to come to New York; the architects met and began a professional relationship and friendship that lasted until Johnson's death in 2005.
The sleek, dramatic images of Johnson's internationally renowned buildings are complemented in Payne's work by poignant, often gritty, images of the places he loves and reveres closer to home. He has authored two books that document the architecture of the kind of small towns he knew as a young man growing up in Texas: "Guerrero Viejo" and "Texas Towns and the Art of Architecture," published in 1997 and 2006, respectively. In the latter, he notes, "I have always looked for opportunities to describe for the layman, in simple, human, and understandable terms, what the art of architecture is all about, and how its effects and influences stem not only from the practical need for buildings and civic development, but from the dedication, hopes, and dreams of architects, builders, and their customers."
Payne captures the life of architecture in images. He is adamant that he is not "in the business of fixing architecture." He just tries to capture an image of a building "when it looks good." The process involves painstaking efforts to get to know the building itself well, and to study the conditions of weather, light, and activity around the building to find the perfect moment to portray it.
"The big issue is the weather — wonderfully unpredictable and uncontrollable," Payne notes.
Whereas the human eye easily and naturally adjusts to variable light conditions, the camera is not so accommodating. "We see with the magical ability to compensate for the excessive contrast of bright, harsh light that has befuddled photographers for generations," he says. "Excessive contrast, ever present during daylight hours in regions such as Texas, can defeat efforts to be clear about details in shaded areas and where there are major changes of plane."
These days, contrast can be controlled to a certain extent with software in digital photography, but Payne prefers to deal with it on site by working with the weather. In summer in Texas, he does not take photos between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. He prefers the richer color of morning and afternoon light, but he also feels shadows are too deep at mid-day, making the details in them too hard to capture. At all times of the year, he watches clouds very carefully and will often select a particular cloud moving across the sun and use just its edge to soften the light. Clouds are also important as a means to "make glass be glass" through vivid and memorable reflections. He loves winter cirrus clouds in Texas and hates the summer "cotton balls."
Just as Payne carefully monitors the sky and light, he also watches activities around and within the building that animate it and indicate its social and cultural role. He generally tries to visit a building without his camera before he actually shoots it just to get a sense of how it is inhabited and used.
Then, through the gift of digital technology, says Payne, he can take a dozen frames and later select an image in which "the light, the position of the clouds, the location of the people, and other elements necessary for a sense of scale and animation come together to define the architecture and its function and context."
Payne comments, "Digital photography has not changed what I and other photographers try to do, but it has dramatically improved how we do it." He and his wife and partner, Amy Claire Ladner, are thrilled with the opportunities presented by digital technology, but they use it with great restraint. They are painfully aware of what they see as abuses of the new medium, creating scenographic images that lack authenticity. Payne knows he can place a sunset in any image, but he says, "I prefer to be there during the sunset and not miss the magic moments when luck is on my side and the light is exactly right."
Payne is strikingly modest about his role as a photographer, in spite of his success and renowned work. His endearing lack of pretension springs from a strong belief about what the goal of photography should be: "Photography, at its best, has always been a matter of presentation. Personal interpretation and unrestrained image manipulation is better left to other art forms."
He explains: "If someone, after a review of my work, should detect some semblance of style — the way I look at buildings and work with the light, or how I might apply some digital trick — I would be surprised and disappointed. A personal style is the last thing I want because it would mean that I have failed to prioritize my client's interests, and have tried to 'affect' architecture — alter the truth of it to make it fit my portfolio."
This modesty is evident in the potency and authenticity of Payne's images. While they carry powerful and poignant messages, they are not speculative or slick. When Richard Payne creates great photographs, he embodies many of the same traits that other excellent architects use when they make great buildings — the ability to see and perceive situations deeply, craft careful and elegant solutions, create responsive and original work, and check their own personal egos.
Larry Speck, FAIA, is principal at PageSoutherlandPage and teaches architecture at UT Austin.
This article is was originally published in Texas Architect, July/August 2013


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Georgia law provides for the protection of elders and those who are disabled and living in long term care facilities. As with other areas of the law that provide certain populations protections, the care of our disabled or elderly citizens also makes sure that these protections are backed-up with consequences, not just words. Georgia law (the Official Code of Georgia title 30 chapter 5 section 8) provides that it is unlawful to abuse or to neglect or to exploit these populations. Anyone who does so with the "specific intent " to do these things to disabled adults for example will be met with very clear penalties.
So, for example a person who is living in a long-term care facility and is suffering from dementia of different types or is either mentally or physically impaired, and is harmed by the actions of a caregiver is protected by harsh punishments. The law holds those who own, run or serve on the board of one of these facilities criminally liable for the acts of a caregiver or other person who works at the facility and is convicted of harming the individuals protected by these laws.
And what happens to those who violate the laws that protect the elderly and disabled? They will be guilty of a felony for their actions proven in a court. Not only that, they will be imprisoned for between one and five years for this criminal conduct. In addition, those who fail to report abuse of the elderly or disabled and fail to report this will be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The families of the elderly or disabled whose relatives are living in these facilities must know that the law protects their relatives. This is not something that many people know, but they should know this. It is reassuring to know that if you suspect that something has happened to your relative, you have options to correct this issue which is a very serious one.
And for those disabled adults or elderly adults who are competent to understand their rights, they need to know that they are not alone and that if there is a problem with their care, there are people who MUST report this and those responsible will be held accountable. This is difficult because behind closed doors, we cannot know what is happening and how these individuals might be harmed.
That is why the law protects them. They are vulnerable and must be protected and the criminal penalties for abuse or neglect or exploitation are helpful. A felony is a major crime and stays with a person for the rest of their lives. Anyone who is caring for the elderly or disabled should know that not only can they be imprisoned for this and be found guilty of a felony, failing to report this is also a misdemeanor.
Those who run these facilities have great duties as well. They are bound to report and can be held liable for criminal misdemeanor for failing to do so. This is serious indeed and it is crucial that the public know about these laws so that if they see something, they say something and contact authorities immediately.


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We always knew that having a great partner was helpful in life. (Two heads are better than one and all that.) Since it's the week of Valentine's Day, there seemed no better time to discuss the importance of one's love in one's life. If you're not sold, read these little known facts about Walt Disney's better half, Lillian. Seriously.
1. The oldest object at Disneyland was a gift to her.
During their marriage, Walt gave Lillian a petrified tree for her birthday. It's still on display. Take that, history.
2. She used to work in the Ink and Paint Department at Disney.
This needs no further explanation, except to say that Roy O. Disney's wife also worked there. We know, right?!
3. She inspired the pivotal opening scene in Lady and the Tramp.
The gift of a puppy in a hatbox was based on a true story, when Walt gave a puppy to his wife Lillian. Say it with us, "awwwww."
4. She has a train car named after her at Disneyland.
It's called the Lilly Belle and it runs on the Disneyland Railroad. Must make mental note to wave next time we're at Disneyland.
5. She named Mickey Mouse.
Walt Disney originally wanted to name his iconic character Mortimer. Lillian, however, convinced him that Mickey Mouse had a much better ring to it. Now that's a brilliant suggestion. We hope he bought her something nice as a thank you.


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Ramesh Ponnuru explains why the trifecta of ongoing news stories that are widely seen as harmful to President Obama (Benghazi, IRS, and Associated Press) might not help Republicans in the midterm elections:
The biggest danger for Republicans in giving themselves over to scandal mania is one that the conventional retelling of the Clinton impeachment neglects. Republicans didn't lose seats simply because they overreached on Clinton's perjury. It is true that his impeachment was unpopular, and public approval of the Republicans sank as they pursued it. Still, only 5 percent of voters in the 1998 election told exit pollsters that the scandal had played a role in their decision, and Republicans got a majority of those voters.
Social Security was the top issue for more than twice as many voters, and Republicans lost that issue by 18 percentage points. Even more voters cared about education, which Republicans lost by 34 points. They lost on health care and the economy by similar margins.
For the most part, Republicans didn't campaign on impeachment in 1998: They didn't say, "Vote for me and I'll do my level best to oust Clinton." Their strategy was more passive. They were counting on the scandal to motivate conservatives to vote while demoralizing liberals. So they didn't try to devise a popular agenda, or to make their existing positions less unpopular. That's what cost them -- that, and the mistake of counting on statistics about sixth-year elections, which also bred complacency.
Republicans have similar vulnerabilities on the issues now. They have no real health-care agenda. Voters don't trust them to look out for middle-class economic interests. Republicans are confused and divided about how to solve the party's problems. What they can do is unite in opposition to the Obama administration's scandals and mistakes. So that's what they're doing. They're trying to win news cycles when they need votes.
Congressional Republicans were right to press for hearings on all of these issues. But investigations of the administration won't supply them with ideas. They won't make the public trust Republicans. They won't save them from themselves.


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Amsterdam city map with OpenStreetMap Cycle Map and Yahoo Satellite layers
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Dear Grandkids,
Lots of people have asked me about my trip to Washington, D.C. to be at President Obama's inauguration. And I want to tell them about it, but most of all I want to tell you. All of us that are grown up understand and appreciate the history that has been made by electing the first African-American president. It gives us all hope for the future that we haven't felt for a very long time. But even if only some of our hope and dreams come true, it is all of you that will benefit the most.
You will grow up watching the president's two children, Malia age 10 and Sasha age 7, grow up with you. You will see how their parents, each with very difficult jobs, will always make sure they know that they are loved and important. It is because they are so important that I know that Mr. and Mrs. Obama will do everything they can to make a better world for them and all of our children.
So, let's get to the story.
I wanted to go to the inauguration but I might not have if it wasn't for a telephone call I got late at night from C who lives just outside of Washington. She told me that she could get us tickets to one of the inaugural balls and that I could stay with her if I wanted. I didn't think about it twice, I said yes. All I needed were train tickets and a tuxedo and I would be on my way. I left on the train from New Haven at 9:00 Monday morning, the day before the inaugural. I brought a book to read on the long six hour ride. I did read some, but I also talked and listen to the other people on the train. You see, the train was absolutely 100% full and everyone was going to the same place for the same reasons. So we talked and laughed and shared stories. We were like a big family travelling to a reunion.
The train station in Washington was just like the packed train. There were so many people moving shoulder to shoulder and trying to find a way to get where they wanted to go. Some needed taxis, some wanted the Metro (subway) and others just looked confused. If you were rushing too much you might have missed that something unusual was happening – no one was irritable, no one was pushing to get by. I'm not sure I can do a good job of explaining the mood of the crowd, except to say is was something I would experience among all of the crowds I came in contact with for the next two days. Picture Uncle Denny hours after the Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl. The incredible excitement and joy has passed and he is sitting back on his couch and smiling. The combination of happiness, contentment and satisfaction is the best I can do.
I took the Metro to meet C where she works in Arlington which is just across the river from Washington and together we drove to her house just a few miles away. Later we met her boyfriend in Georgetown, a neighborhood in Washington, and had a great diner at a restaurant named Clyde's.
The next morning I left for the inaugural around 10:00 with C and her roommate. The City of Washington was closed to automobiles so we took the Metro. We barely fit on the train. Everyone was stuffed together, but everyone was either smiling or were hiding a smile just behind their lips. Again, I saw that incredible mood of the crowd. We got off the train with everyone else maybe a mile or so from the Lincoln Memorial. We met up with C's boyfriend and our plan was to watch the inaugural somewhere between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials. Closer is only good if you can actually see with your own two eyes the swearing-in of the president. With millions of people there including many who had gotten there at dawn, we knew that wasn't going to happen. Besides, I just wanted to be among the crowd on the same ground and in the same place where so much history had been made. Here, where almost a half century before Dr. Martin Luther King made his "I Have a Dream" speech to 250,000 people that had marched with him to Washington. So there we stood in front of an enormous television with even bigger speakers and watched and listened to what was happening at the Capitol building. Even before the ceremony began the crowd yelled each time the camera caught a glimpse of Barack, Michelle or the children. I won't describe the swearing-in ceremony since I'm sure you saw it for yourself. What I will tell you is that the emotions of all the people around us were on display. Families hugged, children sat on shoulders and tears of happiness were shed, including more than a few from Papa. We hung on every word and didn't leave when it was over. No one wanted to leave. Everyone wanted to feel the way they felt at that moment forever. If only we could.
Leaving was slow and very, very peaceful. If someone caught your eye there were smiles and words such as "Isn't this amazing". When I smiled at a woman walking beside me she said, "I never thought I would be back to this place again in my life. The last time I was here Dr. King was talking about his dream". There were many other such moments. There were no strangers in that crowd.
I haven't said that it was freezing cold out there because if you watched the ceremony you saw and heard about how cold it was. Even though it was cold, we decided not to take the Metro and instead we walked probably two or three miles to C's office where her car was parked. We walked with lots of other people on highways that had been closed to traffic. As a Stephen King fan, it looked like a scene from The Stand. We stopped at a pub, ate stew and drank Guinness to get warm before leaving for home to get ready. We were going to the New Jersey Garden State Ball later that evening.
We had heard some stories about how disappointed many people had been when they attended presidential balls in the past. We had recent experience to think about because C's roomate and her friend had gone to the Illinois Ball the previous night. They waited three hours outside in the cold before they got in. But our experience at the New Jersey Ball turned out to be fabulous. There was no waiting, the food was great, the band was great and we danced and sang the night away. The president didn't come to our ball but he did go to ten other balls. I'm not sure of the exact number, but I believe there were between twenty and thirty presidential balls that night. We stayed out late and slept late.
The next morning we went out for a big breakfast and afterwards C and her boyfriend drove me to the train station. I looked forward to the long train ride home to relax and enjoy the memories of the last two days. But like the train ride to Washington, the train home was also 100% full of people that had gone to the inaugural. Sharing stories and hopes for the future made the ride home a continuation of the spirit that I felt from the start of my journey.
I thought my story would end there, but it didn't. The taxi driver that drove me to my house asked me if I was returning from the inaugural. In that fifteen minute ride home two grown men shared our hopes and dreams as if we were brothers. And the next day, before going to work, I had to make a stop at a medical building. When I was leaving a very elderly and frail woman using a walker was ahead of me at the door. Her middle-age son was behind her giving her additional support. I moved to help with the door when a young man in a Yankee baseball jacket that was coming into the building opened and held the door. As the woman moved slowly through the opened door I heard the son say softly to himself, "Maybe things can change". And with an equally soft voice the young man said, "Yes we can".
With all my love and hope,
23 January 2009
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It was late afternoon on Friday and I was headed into town to begin my weekend cruising. At nineteen years old, cruising in a small Indiana town was just the thing to do. I came to a stop sign on Blue Creek road and kind of slowed my way through it like I had done a hundred times before. About a half mile down the road, I noticed blue flashing lights behind me. The lights were in the grill of a green car. In all of my three years of driving experience, I had never seen flashing lights in the grill of a car. I thought that Police and emergency vehicles only had lights on the top. To me, this was either a joke or someone was trying to rob me.
My teenage wisdom and instinct told me not to stop. I just kept driving the speed limit and the green car kept getting closer. I chuckled to myself, "jees is this like the tree police or what?" The green car driver soon began honking his horn and turning his headlights on and off. I was now, only about a mile from town so I just kept driving and the green car just kept honking! As both cars were going over the Whitewater River bridge, I could hear the green car driver screaming obscenities which made me more determined to keep going. I knew that the Franklin County jail house was only a quarter mile further and that was my determined destination.
While going up the hill, just before the jail house, I looked in my rear view mirror and saw that the man's arm and head were out the window and his face was extremely red with anger. I braked and whipped into the jail house parking lot, without using my turn signal and the green car squealed to a halt behind me. Lucky for me, Deputy Lee Davidson was in the lot watching an inmate wash his car. I had known Lee for years and I nicknamed him Barney while he in turn called me Goober. As the green car guy got out in his green uniform, he was screaming more obscenities and Deputy Davidson stopped him just before he reached me.
Deputy Davidson told Mr. Green Guy," calm down now, just calm down and tell me what is wrong." It turned out, the guy was a Game Warden. The Game Warden loudly told the Deputy that I had ran a stop sign and refused to pull over. Between the blubbering of more obscenities, I think there was about ten more offenses.
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Deputy Davidson got him calmed down, he looked at me and said "well Goober, what is your story"? I nervously told them that I had no idea that he was any kind of law because I thought all cops had lights on the tops of their cars. I went on and told them that I just drove to the jail house where it would be safe.
Deputy Davidson walked the Game Warden to his green car that still had the lights flashing and talked to him for quite a while. The Deputy came walking back with a grin on his face while the Game Warden got in his car, still mumbling obscenities and drove away. Deputy Lee Davidson put his hand on my shoulder and said, " Goober, under the circumstances you did the right thing by coming here but you surely have to understand why that guy was so mad."
He went on saying," that guy followed you for three miles, past the grocery store, past the feed mill, past the gas station and past the car dealership and you could have stopped at any one of those." I kind of hung my head and said, " he looked and yelled like he wanted to kill me so I just drove here." Deputy Davidson chuckled out, "he did want to kill you!" My lesson of the day was to stop at stop signs and if you're not sure about who is pulling you over, just go to the nearest populated place.
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That is a funny story about "a failure to communicate".
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Ha Ha! Working as a Constable in England I can honestly say I have never heard of anything like this happening before!
Totally hilarious!
Awesome story man! There are many more stories here, If you'd like to share!
Great Hub, ;)
This is another funny story with a moral lesson. Your readers can learn from it. I have fun reading your hubs.
Have a great week! :-D
Thats a great and interesting story. I'd never ever stop for any car that wasn't obviously a police car, you'd think there'd be some law against it! My friend's boyfriend is being taken to court because he didnt stop for a policeman on a motorbike because it was unmarked ... and presumably the policeman was wearing regular clothes. I think he has learnt a similar lesson ... he shouldnt have been speeding in the first place!
very funny story thanks
It's a good job that you knew someone because i could imagine an unmarked car chasing you then it calls for backup and they manage to stop you and then you just say "i didn't want to stop because it wa unmarked" and they would say "well that's a load of BS"
my sister once infuriated a smalltown fire police chief in our hometown on christmas morning. great story, reminded me of that christmas :)
That was so cute. But useful also, especially for women. Thanks for sharing.
Tom, it must be the way things are in Indiana. I was driving one night through St. John or some town and saw a speed sign for 20. I drove 20 MPH for about 3 miles with an Indiana Trooper driving next to me at the same speed. Odd. I kept that pace for another 4 minutes and then he pulled me over. Apparently I didn't see the sign change to 45. Oh well. It must be Indiana.
I'd love to see the ticket "Green Man" would've written up if you *had* stopped! And the judge laughing himself silly that a game warden "bagged a live one". lololol!
Seriously, you did the right thing. I happened to park across from a sedan yesterday that had a strip of flashing lights along the front of the dash...*very similar* to those now used by our state's highway patrol instead of bubble gum lights on top of the car. I shudder to think why the owner has that light strip in the first place, and what could happen if he pulled up behind a car on a rural highway after dark. Some auto "accessories" should *not* be for sale to civilians.
Great story and excellent thinking for a kid. It is always wise to not stop for someone you are unsure about. There are many stories in which this has saved a life. One girl did this as someone with flashing lights tried to get her to pull over in a remote area. She had the benifit of a cell phone and called it in. The real cops came and got the guy, he had been involved in several rape murders using fake lights and uniform!
THANKS FOR SHARING! Bo
Game wardens can write up traffic infractions? Every day, new information. Thanks, Tom.
This is such a good story, it makes me appreciate Indiana.
You certainly had the right instincts. Good lesson there for everyone to heed if ever followed by an unknown type of car whether it has flashing lights or not.
lol.....that was great laughs! I wonder how many beers the game warden must have had that following evening...hehehe
That is a funny story and you did exactly the right thing. In the Washington, DC area there have been cases of fake cops pulling people over; you were perfectly justified in your actions.
Barney and Goober. Too good. LOL. I think I would have done the same thing you did, bypassed the businesses and headed straight for the jail house. In my case, that would have been to the local police station. Let Chief Bart, my best friend's father, deal with the red-faced guy in the green car. And he would have, just like Barney did. Very enjoyable read, full of "color".
That cop car calls for a kodak moment!
good lesson!
Oooh! Me too, k@ri!!
The mental image is pretty good, though.
Funny story, I can just see him chasing you! I would have loved to have been one of the people at grocery store or gas station watching you two go by :)


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