Balance Sheet Basics for Non-financial Managers (Wiley Series in Finance & Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers)

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The more you manage your employees, the more dependent they become-and the tougher your life becomes. It's the key paradox of management-and Powerful Leadership helps you cut right through it. This book distills seven powerful leadership principles into a natural, efficient, complete approach to unleashing your employees' potential - and your own. These principles simplify your life, reduce your stress, and transform management into an opportunity for unprecedented personal growth.

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Well-Grounded Advice.......2002-07-11

Many managers never seek to refine their management style. Subconsciously, they feel that their "many years of experience" or innate intelligence has rightfully propelled them to their current position. For other managers, who constantly strive to improve their performance in the workplace, this book is for you.

At first glance, the topics covered may seem intuitive. Readers may initially shun chapters that underscore the importance of ethics, employee independence, and worker satisfaction, dismissing them as old hat and self-explanatory. Upon further inspection however, the unsuspecting reader will discover that the book's true power lies in its explicit detail of the benefits associated with these seemingly well-trodden concepts. The book does an exceptional job of weaving the topics back into a bigger picture of organizational success.

In order to help readers incorporate the book's seven essential changes into their own affairs, the authors include several memorable narratives in the latter chapters. Told from a very personable and realistic standpoint, readers should find these stories easy to understand and easy to relate to.

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On the surface of Mars lies a formation that looks remarkably like a humanoid face. Forever staring up into the vastness of space it has attracted our attention. Some think that that is why it is there, beckoning us to come and explore. Others believe that it is simply an odd looking geological landform - a formation carved over the ages by the random forces of nature. It is our imagination and our desire to find other forms of life in the universe that makes us see it as an intelligently crafted object.

Opinions about the possibility of life on Mars have changed over the years from Percival Lowell's canals, to the dead planet image by the early Mariner missions to Mars, to the enormous volcanoes, great canyon systems, and channels carved by water seen by Mariner 9 and Viking. In the first edition of The Martian Enigmas, Dr. Mark J. Carlotto presented a detailed analysis of the controversial Viking photographs. The revised edition greatly expands on his early work and constains new research results that further supports the claim that these objects may be precisely what many scientists have sought for decades: the first hard evidence that we are not alone.

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Who knows? NASA!.......2002-01-02

It really looks like a civilization existed on Mars, but the only way to know for sure is to go there. Is NASA hidding the truth? If you found out NASA hid the truth all this time would you be supprised.

Strong scientific case for artificiality.......2000-07-21

Carlotto brings state of the art image analysis techniques to bear on the enigmatic objects of Mars' Cydonia region. He shows that there is a high degree of probability for artificiality, something that NASA and Michael Malin vigorously deny - to this day. This book is a must-read for any serious student of the artificiality hypothesis.

The standard reference for extraterrestrial archaeologists.......2000-06-25

Mark Carlotto's book is a must-buy. Every page is a discovery in itself; the author makes his case, and makes it extremely well: Mars is probably home to non-natural features well within our technological ability to investigate (preferably through manned exploration).

"The Martian Enigmas" is a satisfying piece of popular science that effectively sounds the death toll for "skeptics" who insist it's all our imaginations.

Superb title for Mars Images and Advanced Image Processing.......1999-01-14

This book explores the fundamentals of image processing as applied to satellite photography. The author also details the processing of the images of constructed features on the surface of the planet Mars. Mr. Carlotto was able to demonstrate in very easy terms the methods used to illuminate these breathtaking images. I eagerly await any book from this author on the latest set of images taken in 1998.

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The first comprehensive treatment of energy transfer (ET) nucleic acid probes. Hands-on experts thoroughly describe all the major probes, both fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based and non-FRET-based, and provide a complete set of techniques to monitor DNA and RNA reactions, including hybridization, amplification, cleavage, folding, and associations with proteins, other molecules, and metal ions. Optimal design strategies for customized ET probes are presented, as well as techniques for distance determination in protein-DNA complexes and the detection of topological DNA alterations, mutations, DNA breaks and single nucleotide polymorphisms. Merging work on nanotechnology, and fluorescent probes, authors describe in detail the design and application of ET-using molecular devices, such as biosensors, molecular machines, and logic gates for molecular scale computation.

Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer and of Micellar Environments Using Solubilized Phosphorescent Probes (parts 1 and 2)

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Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer and of Micellar Environments Using Solubilized Phosphorescent Probes (parts 1 and 2)
Michael Petrin
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Resonance Energy Transfer
David L. Andrews , and Andrey A. Demidov
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Resonance Energy Transfer

The resonance transfer of energy between molecules, or between sites within a large molecule, plays a central role in many areas of modern chemistry and physics. In biophysics, for example, this process defines the migration of excitation energy within photosynthetic systems (commonly the Frster mechanism). Another important area is in crystals, laser and other laser materials.

Resonance Energy Transfer contains a large amount of cutting-edge research which has never before appeared in book form. It is the first comprehensive modern survey of the field, offering a broad, yet detailed view of the mechanisms of energy transfer. The broad range of applications of fluorescence and fluorescence energy transfer to studies in molecular biology and biotechnology ensures that resonance energy transfer will be a vital component of the new science and technology of the next millenium.

This book is written for those working with materials, both experimentally and theoretically, as well as for biophysicists and biochemists interested in studying protein structure and dynamics.

ISBN 0 471 987328 (Cloth)

Foreword supplied by Professor Graham Fleming FRS, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Cover shows the Peripheral Light Harvesting Complex (LH2) of Rps.acidophila kindly supplied by Dr. Stephen M. Prince, University of Glasgow, UK.

Application of multivariate curve resolution for the study of folding processes of DNA monitored by fluorescence resonance energy transfer [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Application of multivariate curve resolution for the study of folding processes of DNA monitored by fluorescence resonance energy transfer [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
P. Kumar , K. Kanchan , R. Gargallo , and S. Chowdhury
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The study described in the present article used fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to monitor the folding of a 31-mer cytosine-rich DNA segment, from the promoter region of the human c-myc oncogene. Spectroscopic FRET data recorded during experiments carried out in different experimental conditions were individually and simultaneously analyzed by multivariate curve resolution. The simultaneous analysis of several data matrices allowed the resolution of the system, removing most of the ambiguities related to factor analysis. From the results obtained, we report the evidence of the formation of two ordered conformations in acidic and neutral pH values, in addition to the disordered structure found at high temperatures. These ordered conformations could be related to cytosine-tetraplex structures showing different degrees of protonation in cytosine bases.

Europium(III) chelate-dyed nanoparticles as donors in a homogeneous proximity-based immunoassay for estradiol [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Europium(III) chelate-dyed nanoparticles as donors in a homogeneous proximity-based immunoassay for estradiol [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
L. Kokko , K. Sandberg , T. Lovgren , and T. Soukka
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Nanoparticles containing thousands of fluorescent europium(III) chelates have a very high specific activity compared to traditional lanthanide chelate labels. It can be assumed that if these particles are used in a homogeneous assay as donors, multiple chelates can excite a single acceptor in turns and the energy transfer to the acceptor is increased. The principle was employed in an immunoassay using luminescent resonance energy transfer from a long lifetime europium(III) chelate-dyed nanoparticle to a short lifetime, near-infrared fluorescent molecule. Due to energy transfer fluorescence lifetime of the sensitised emission was prolonged and fluorescence could be measured using a time-resolved detection. A competitive homogeneous immunoassay for estradiol was created using 92nm europium(III) chelate-dyed nanoparticle coated with 17@b-estradiol specific recombinant antibody Fab fragments as a donor and estradiol conjugated with near-infrared dye AlexaFluor 680 as an acceptor. The density of Fab fragments on the surface of the particle influenced the sensitivity of the immunoassay. The optimal Fab density was reached when the entire surface of the particle participated in the energy transfer, but the areas where the energy was transferred to a single acceptor, did not overlap. We were able to detect estradiol concentrations down to 70pmoll^-^1 (3xSD of a standard containing 0nmoll^-^1 of E2) using a 96-well platform. In this study we demonstrated that nanoparticles containing lanthanide chelates could be used as efficient donors in homogeneous assays.

Fluorescence energy transfer probes based on the guanine quadruplex formation for the fluorometric detection of potassium ion [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Fluorescence energy transfer probes based on the guanine quadruplex formation for the fluorometric detection of potassium ion [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
S. Nagatoishi , T. Nojima , E. Galezowska , and Gluszynsk
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Dual-labeled oligonucleotide derivative, FAT-0, carrying 6-carboxyfluorescein (FAM) and 6-carboxy-tetramethylrhodamine (TAMRA) labels at 5'- and 3'-termini of thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA) sequence 5'-GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG-3' and its derivatives, FAT-n (n=3, 5, and 7) were designed and synthesized. FAT-n derivatives contained a T"mA spacer (m=2, 4, and 6, respectively) at 5'-end of TBA sequence. The probes were developed to estimate the spacer effect on FRET efficiency and to identify the best probe for sensing of K^+. Circular dichroism (CD), UV-vis absorption, and fluorescence studies revealed that all FAT-n probes could form the intramolecular tetraplex structures after binding K^+. Association constants of particular K^+/FAT-n complexes were determined using different experimental approaches. Suitability of particular probes for sensitive monitoring of K^+ in intra- and extracellular conditions was examined and discussed. Calibration graphs of fluorescence ratio were linear in the K^+ concentration range of 2-10mM for extracellular conditions showing sensitivity of 1.2%mM^-^1 K^+ and for intracellular conditions in the range of 100-200mM with sensitivity of 0.49%mM^-^1 K^+.

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for DNA biosensors: FRET pairs and Forster distances for various dye-DNA conjugates [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for DNA biosensors: FRET pairs and Forster distances for various dye-DNA conjugates [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
M. Massey , W.R. Algar , and U.J. Krull
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the extrinsic dye labels Cyanine 3 (Cy3), Cyanine 5 (Cy5), Carboxytetramethyl Rhodamine (TAMRA), Iowa Black Fluorescence Quencher (IabFQ), and Iowa Black RQ (IabRQ) has been studied. The Forster distances for these FRET-pairs in single- and double-stranded DNA conjugates have been determined. In particular, it should be noted that the quantum yield of the donors Cy3 and TAMRA varies between single- and double-stranded DNA. While this alters the Forster distance for a donor-acceptor pair, this also allows for detection of thermal denaturation events with a single non-intercalating fluorophore. The utility of FRET in the development of nucleic acid biosensor technology is illustrated by using TAMRA and IabRQ as a FRET pair in selectivity experiments. The differential quenching of TAMRA fluorescence by IabRQ in solution has been used to discriminate between 0 and 3 base pair mismatches at 60^oC for a 19 base sequence. At room temperature, the quenching of TAMRA fluorescence was not an effective indicator of the degree of base pair mismatch. There appears to be a threshold of duplex stability at room temperature which occurs beyond two base pair mismatches and reverses the observed trend in TAMRA fluorescence prior to that degree of mismatch. When this experimental system is transferred to a glass surface through covalent coupling and organosilane chemistry, the observed trend in TAMRA fluorescence at room temperature is similar to that obtained in bulk solution, but without a threshold of duplex stability. In addition to quenching of fluorescence by FRET, it is believed that several other quenching mechanisms are occurring at the surface.

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer disposable sensor for copper(II) [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer disposable sensor for copper(II) [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
C. Cano-Raya , M.D. Fernandez-Ramos , and Capitan-Vallve
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A disposable sensor has been developed for the measurement of copper(II) concentration in aqueous solution based on a change in the fluorescence of porphyrazine 2,7,12,17-tetra-tert-butyl-5,10,15,20-tetraaza-21H,23H-porphine (TP). The sensor was constructed by spin-coating a polyester support with a PVC solution containing TP, a plasticizer, the chelating agent Zincon and the ion-pairing benzetonium chloride. The measurement principle is based on the radiationless resonance energy transfer (RET) from TP immobilized in membrane, and acting as fluorescence donor, to Zincon acting as an acceptor induced by copper(II). The absorption spectrum of the Zincon-Cu(II) complex presents adequate overlapping with the emission spectrum of TP, producing a useful analytical signal by the RET process. The disposable sensor responds to copper(II) irreversibly over a dynamic range from 0.039 to 14@mmolL^-^1 (2.5-890@mgL^-^1) with a sensor-to-sensor reproducibility (relative standard deviation RSD) of 1.9%, as log a"C"u"^"2"^"+, at the medium level of the range and a response time of 10min. The performance of the optical disposable sensor was tested for the analysis of copper in different types of natural waters (river, well, spring and swimming pool), validating results against a reference procedure.

Homogeneous assay based on low quantum yield Sm(III)-donor and anti-Stokes' shift time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy-transfer measurement [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Homogeneous assay based on low quantum yield Sm(III)-donor and anti-Stokes' shift time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy-transfer measurement [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
V. Laitala , and I. Hemmila
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Non-overlapping fluorescence resonance energy-transfer (nFRET) is a highly sensitive, time-resolved, assay technology. It utilizes lanthanide chelates as donors together with non-overlapping acceptor fluorophores, which have their absorption maximum energetically at a higher level than the emittive transitions of the donor. In this report the nFRET was studied using a low quantum yield Sm(III)-chelate as the donor in a homogeneous dF508-DNA hybridization assay. Despite the low quantum yield, Sm(III) could function as an efficient donor in nFRET, which resulted in strong energy-transfer induced acceptor emission in the assay. Further, the induced acceptor emission of the assay showed non-Forster-type decay characteristics and allowed the sensitive anti-Stokes' shift FRET measurement, in which the induced acceptor emission was measured at a wavelength region shorter than the main emittive transitions of the donor. The detection limit for the dF508 DNA-target was 12.0pM (S/B=2). The assay sensitivity was surprisingly similar with the corresponding Eu-based nFRET-assay, despite the approximately 90-fold lower quantum yield of the Sm-donor. The results confirm the exceptional properties of the nFRET induced acceptor signal and support the theory of energy-transfer taking place from the excited energy levels above the emittive energy level of the lanthanide donor. We conclude that nFRET-technique is well suited for highly sensitive DNA assays and that the assay sensitivity is not limited by the emittive quantum yield of the donor.

Homogeneous non-competitive bioaffinity assay based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Homogeneous non-competitive bioaffinity assay based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
T. Kokko , L. Kokko , T. Soukka , and T. Lovgren
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A homogeneous non-competitive assay principle for measurement of small analytes based on quenching of fluorescence is described. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) occurs between the donor, intrinsically fluorescent europium(III)-chelate conjugated to streptavidin, and the acceptor, quencher dye conjugated to biotin derivative when the biotin-quencher is bound to Eu-streptavidin. Fluorescence can be measured only from those streptavidins that are bound to biotin of the sample, while the fluorescence of the streptavidins that are not occupied by biotin are quenched by quencher-biotin conjugates. The quenching efficiencies of the non-fluorescent quencher dyes were over 95% and one dye molecule was able to quench the fluorescence of more than one europium(III)-chelate. This, however, together with the quadrovalent nature of streptavidin limited the measurable range of the assay to 0.2-2nmolL^-^1. In this study we demonstrated that FRET could be used to design a non-competitive homogeneous assay for a small analyte resulting in equal performance with competitive heterogeneous assay.

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Focusing on modeling applications, this outstanding reference provides a step-by-step, non-mathematical approach to constructing and using realistic workable groundwater models on a daily basis. Extensive detailed drawings, case studies, practical examples, and sample models illustrate important concepts. Includes data on hydrogeologic features and pollutants plus a glossary of terms.

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What is a senior moment? Merely a pause, a mental hiatus, a backward glance to the heavenly days far removed from this oft phony, plastic, cordless world we call modern times. It?

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Forgive Us Our Senior Moments.......2003-09-26

Walter A. Atkinson is brilliant. Not only does he compare the simple life of the 30's, 40's and 50's with wit and the comedic wisdom of a Will Rogers, he makes the comparison with today's society and drives a conservative knive into the heart of the misguided liberal agenda. I loved this book! Atkinson had me rolling on the floor with laughter only to make me stop, reflect and realize that, yes by golly, he's right. How in the world DID we get from there to here? How did it happen in such a short period of time? Even if you can't remember what it was like during a time of elderly respect, manners, REAL movie stars, true heroes, and a grand life style even without credit cards and cell phones, you'll be transported back to those days with many a smile and an occasional grumble. There's another reason I cherish these recollections; BECAUSE I'M IN THEM!

It Was Simply A Way Of Life.......2003-01-07

ýIn the [19]40s we were raised on B flicks about war, espionage and westerns . . .
didnýt care about dialogue or structure. . . . A sub-plot . . . was either a German U-boat
movie, or subsidence at the cemetery. We didnýt know from subtle emotions to
pie-in-the-face. Every spy movie . . . used . . . the same actors to play the same characters.
We never got enough of them.ý Thus writes Walter A. Atkinson railing against the demise
of yet another sub-culture from ýhis good old days of yore.ý Forgive Us Our Senior
Moments is Atkinsonýs first book and he has fun with it. Itýs one manýs interpretation of
America--how it used to be and how it is today. The writing is droll and delightfully
sardonic, with a touch of nostalgic, old-fashioned patriotism thrown in for good measure.
One can almost feel Atkinsonýs perverse glee as he takes his forty year supply of ýprivate
gripes and wisdom pearlsý and just ýlets it rip.ý Truly a volume on senior reflection and
opinionated thought, these essays connect practically every social problem in America
today to a self-proclaimed ýcultural revolutioný of the mid-1960s.
Chapters cover ancestors, retirement, sex, music, sports, religion and lots of
politics. On retirement, and a riveting sense of impending doom, Atkinson states, ý. . . if I
had my druthers, Iýd be shouting the line Anita OýDay was singing with Gene Krupaýs
band in 1941, ý. . . just let me off uptown.ýý He talks of family and friends, and adventures
while growing up in a small Pennsylvania community. A whimsical essay on religion looks
forward to year 3001 and the evolved theology of Presleyanity amid the pomp of a world
class event celebrating the 1,024th anniversary of Elvis Presleyýs death. The religiosity of
all humanity is literally absorbed there in a ceremony of August 16th and a holy pilgrimage
to the sacred city of Graceland, diocese of the Most Holy Apostolic Presleyan Heartbreak
Hotel & Church of America, for the annual observation of Rockabilly Requiem. This
chapter, alone, is worth the price of the book.
The writing is an ýenlightenedý citizenýs wistful return to the Great Depression,
World War II, and the early Fifties--a journey with roots, so to speak--critiquing now . . .
today, relative to more traditional times when America as a different place made a
difference. Atkinsonýs message will hit home with thousands of seniors who are living out
final days balancing sacred moments of joy and sorrow from the authorýs aptly described
blue ribbon years, against his ýinane, do as you please, liberal tripeý of the last several
decades. Most will relate to Atkinsonýs throwback passion for family, country and God,
and his repetitive query, ýHow did America ever get from there to here?ý
Naturally, as any thesis with a political slant will do, folks of another viewpoint
will be totally bent out of shape by much of the authorýs intended wisdom. Liberals will be
particularly upset as Atkinson hammers away with gleeful redundancy on foibles at the
heart of their core beliefs--the first and foremost being: Scare the hell out of old folks, and
keep doing it year after year, after year, after year, ad nauseam. He takes certain notable,
liberal politicians to task, citing, where apropos, their public, decadent personal lifestyles,
as well as their innate inability to fool the people-at-large if ever they should be of a mood
to posture as statesmen in public. As Atkinson states in his preface, ýWhere convictions
differ feel at liberty to consider my view a senior moment.ý

AN INSPIRING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER A GENTLER TIME.......2002-11-07

Atkinson has achieved much with this little book. It's a wonderful collection of essays which harken back to a time when things were different in America. Not for liberals, this book will thrill conservatives of whatever age.

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The hilarious account of the antics that go on in a state prison from the viewpoint of the officers. No imaginative writer could invent the tricks that actually go on in front and behind the officers. Come take a peak inside to learn how the inmate mind works and is usually one step ahead of the men sent to watch him.

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quick read.......2003-08-09

This book addresses the dangerous, the legal technicalities, and the "seamy" side of containing prisoners. Yet Mr. Grunska describes this gauntlet with compassion, wit and humor as he tells what the guards and supervisors had to do to calm and solve the comical situations. It's a rapid-read collection of individual incidents! I loved the chapter "High Tech and Us". It reminded me of earlier years when school admimistrators gave us computers, students, and orders for "immediate use effectively."

Loved it!.......2003-08-01

This book was very entertaining, funny and easy to read.
The chapter about the dancing girls was hilarious and I really identified with the story about the computer mixups.

The Southern Zone by Kip M. Grunska.......2001-08-18

Each chapter is a funny story in itself. Who ever thought prison life was dull? This author finds the humor in every situation, bizzare as it may be. I especially liked The Dancing Girls Frolic and The Pink Panty Scenario. Who would ever suspect such shinanigans took place in such a setting?

It seems like the inmates are more clever than the guards and spend most of their time outwitting their keepers!

I highly recommend this fast paced, light reading for sheer enjoyment of a little known subject. Treat yourself to some fun.

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