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RIP: A Guard Who Knew The (Golden) Rules
by Chandra Bozelko | Dec 3, 2012 12:21 pm
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The thrill of going commando lasts only so long. It had been five days since I last wore underwear.
The Friday before, three guards and a lieutenant led me into the Restricted Housing Unit, depositing me on the maximum security side of the housing unit. Cells here look like dungeons and house only one inmate.
When staffers bring an inmate to Restricted Housing, or "seg," they lead her in, hands cuffed behind her back, one guard holding each of her arms; a lieutenant and a cameraman trail the inmate-guard trio. Once in the seg unit, they put the prisoner through a strip search and confiscate her clothes—including underwear and bra—replacing everything with a set of scarlet scrubs, cotton pants and a V-neck shirt. The inmate should receive her underwear and bra back once the medical and mental health staffs decide that she will not use them for self-harm.
People on the outside rarely see the danger in undergarments but inmates will try to use anything to hang themselves. I once witnessed an inmate's chin resting on a teal sports bra in a suicidal gesture.
After the strip search, one of the unit counselors is supposed to retrieve the prisoner's underclothes from her property, belongings that have been packed by the prisoner's former cellmate and staff members from her last housing unit. Because the panty chain of custody is often weak and inmates go for days, even weeks, without underwear, women who know they're headed to seg wear several pairs, one layered over another, so that they have a week's worth of underclothes when staff hands them back their incoming clothes.
I did not expect to land in seg that Friday because I went not for misconduct but a capital "I" investigation. So I wore only one pair of panties at the time.
Speaking to my father on the phone, I noticed staff remove other inmates from the hallway and then head to me.
When the squad walked me in a few minutes before shift change that Friday in December 2010, my original underwear never found its way back to me. Weekend staff pleaded "business hours" when I asked for personal underpinnings. Monday, they promised, would arrive with my Hanes Her Way collection from my property.
Tuesday morning brought undergarment desperation. Zoo animals don't wear underwear when they are confined. When a woman is caged against her will, one of the nods to humanity, one thing that separates her from flora and fauna is that she can wear normal clothing.
One Guard's Approach
The animosity between guards and prisoners is as old as the concept of captivity itself. Correction Officer Jeffrey R. Johns (his real name) was one of maybe three guards (out of hundreds) who dissolved this tension. He was kind, fair, and limitlessly patient when inmates dunned him with requests. Mr. Johns toured restricted housing that Tuesday morning to take a head count.
"Mr. Johns, I'm sorry to bother you because I know you're busy…" I called through the crack of the cell door.
"No problem. What's up?"
"I have no underwear. Like none. I'm not even wearing a pair."
"How long have you been in?" he asked. He looked at the orange magnet on my door that announced the date on which restricted housing took me in. His eyebrows went up as he calculated 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th ... "Why didn't they get your property for you?"
"I'm not sure. I came in sort of near shift change last Friday, so maybe people forgot as they were leaving for the weekend?" I offered, trying to downplay what Officer Johns knew was either incompetence or negligence on the part of the unit counselors in the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario was that the staff was intentionally screwing with me.
"But it's Tuesday and no one's given you anything. Let me call property and see what's going on."
"Thank you, Mr. Johns."
He descended the steps to my tier a few minutes later. His timing told me that he had made calling for me a priority when he returned to the control desk.
"They're saying that they're searching your property for an investigation and they can't release any of it until it's done. And anything you wore in is not upstairs where it's supposed to be."
"So I can't have panties?"
"I guess not, Bozelko. I'm really sorry." Mr. Johns always apologized for not being able to do more to help an inmate; administrative directives constrained his consideration for us.
"Thank you, Mr. Johns. I appreciate what you did. Don't apologize; you already went above and beyond."
I lay down on my bed for a nap with the seam of my extremely used, red cotton pants going right up my ass, unfettered.
Baby New Year
The double thud of the opening trap door woke me. Each cell door in restricted housing has a smaller trap door through which guards hand us meals and mail, so that the guards never need to open the entire door and expose themselves to airborne feces, flying fists or Styrofoam cups filled with urine spilled on them. Through the small opening came gleaming white cotton, bunched and waving.
"What size are you? Can you wear a size 10?" Mr. Johns asked me, offering four new pairs of underwear.
Because I was not considered an "indigent inmate"—meaning that I had more than $5 to my name in the past 90 days—no one would give me new underwear. I would have to buy the size 5 underwear I needed, a purchase that was not even possible for me from restricted housing. Still, Mr. Johns went over to Admissions and Discharges to secure for me the underwear that no one wanted me to have.
"Thank you, Mr. Johns. Thank you so much."
I tried on the Size 10s. They were so oversized on me that the elastic waistband came up over my boobs. I looked like Baby New Year returning to his old diaper after a 30-day crack binge. But I had panties and could lie on my bed with 100 percent cotton protecting my ass from encroaching seams. I needed to double about nine inches of the white cotton fabric over the waistline of my red pants so that the crotch would not hang so low.
When Mr. Johns toured my tier later and a flash of white clothing around my hips (where there should be only red) caught his vision, he stopped.
"Oh no, Bozelko. Oh. Those don't fit," he lamented.
I feared he would tell me to take them off, that the white overhang was interfering with my red uniform's ability to signify that I was, at least allegedly, a bad inmate.
"No, they're good. They're perfect. They're just fine," I blurted out so I could keep the undies.
"If you can handle them," he said, "then so can I."
If any place in God's creation drives home the saying "little things mean a lot," that place is a prison. Nothing required this guard to go out of his way to bend over tubs of women's panties to find ones for me. He did it, anyway, to be kind. Other guards would have done nothing but laugh at me. Mr. Johns never, as the inmates say, "got it sideways," which means disrespected inmates. Nor was he "sometimey," which means inconsistent. Jeff Johns was ethically upstanding all of the time.
About six months later, when I was well out of seg, Mr. Johns worked in my unit. He stood watching as another officer served my cellmate and me disciplinary reports for "Unsanitary cell conditions" because my cellmate had left her 14-year collection of correctional tchotchkes improperly stored.
Later that night, I was on the phone warning my family that I would not be able to call them for a week. Through the glass walls of the tier, Mr. Johns raised his arms at me and mouthed: "What the hell is going on?"
I thought he wondered why I was using the phone after just receiving a "Loss of Phone" sanction.
I hung up on my mother and alighted the stairs to where Mr. Johns sat behind the housing unit's control panel.
"I thought that my sanctions didn't start until tomorrow," I said, hoping to preempt any scolding by him.
"I don't give a shit about that," he responded. Then he motioned for me to hand me the copy of the disciplinary report.
After he read it, he told me: "OK, so loss of commissary doesn't matter because you work in the kitchen and you can eat all you want there. Loss of rec, when I'm on, don't worry about it. Today's my Monday [York-speak for the first of his five regular workdays, even though it was a Friday]. So I'll be here for four of the seven days. You never come out of your cell, but if you want to rec when I'm here, go ahead.
"I won't post your sanctions on the board," he continued, which meant that other officers who worked when Officer Johns was gone might not know of my troubles unless they really went looking for them and I could leave my cell without risk of reprisal.
"As for loss of phone, I don't know how they do it, but go ahead if they don't turn your access number off," he continued. "This ticket is bullshit. You're doing a good job, Bozelko, so I don't want you to be punished for her stuff," and he handed the paper back to me.
Mr. Johns had no power to stop the disciplinary report. But he did what was within his power to delete any interdiction lodged against my name.
"Thank you, Mr. Johns."
Informal AA
Mr. Johns was working outside the gym this past September when my housing unit filed in for our strip searches. I saw an older inmate lean over to him:
"Thank you Mr. Johns," she told him, "for what you did for me."
A relapse dragged this woman into York after she fatally stabbed a man. She needed an AA meeting.
One might expect a prison that runneth over with drug devotees would impose 12-step meetings on everyone whether they want them or not. But prisoners must apply, sit on a waiting list and wait for official written acceptance to attend an AA meeting; it's easier to get into Cornell than to attend a recovery meeting here at York Correctional Institution.
Because the older inmate was a relatively new admission to the prison, she was not an approved addict. A guard denied her entry to an AA meeting here on the compound.
Mr. Johns sat and talked to the woman, allowing her to vent and get out what she would have said at the meeting. Mr. Johns ended their two-person conference by joining the inmate in the Serenity Prayer.
As we filed out of the gym after bending, squatting and coughing, Mr. Johns leaned back toward the older inmate and whispered: "Thank you for telling me that." That too, was Officer Johns: grateful to someone else when she was grateful to him.
A New Guard Post
Alas, Correctional Officer Jeff Johns passed away during the first week of October. The other officers seem stunned; they are as sad as the inmates are at his loss. "We always lose the good ones," echoed everywhere for the week after his death. We miss him.
Women in prison attend religious services for one purpose: to talk everyone around them to death. Church in prison is loud. At the Catholic mass on Oct. 5, one of the prison chaplains, Deacon Dennis Dolan, asked us to pray for Jeff Johns.
For the first time in five years, I heard all of the inmates fall into silence voluntarily and remain there while they offered prayers of thanksgiving that York employed Mr. Johns and prayers of petition that God send another guard like him.
During every mass, Deacon Dolan asks us to pray for all of the prison's staff members that "God may uphold them in all the good that they do." The not-entirely-subtle implication is that there are some not-so-good behaviors belonging to the guards. Looking down from where he is now, Jeff Johns will keep his colleagues upright, consistent and, hopefully, striving to be as decent a person as he was.
Thank you, Mr. Johns.
Chandra Bozelko is an inmate at York Correctional Institution in Niantic. Readers can write to her at:
Chandra Bozelko
York Correctional Institution
201 West Main Street
Niantic, CT 06357
Previous prison diary entries:
• Behind Bars, 2 Reasons For Thanksgiving
• In Prison, Sandy Packed A Different Punch
• A Favor Turns Into An Investigation
• Behind Bars, Colors Complicate Halloween
• Earthworm vs. Inmate Evolution
• The Power Of The Pen
• The Sandusky-Komisarjevsky Connection: Today's Victim Is Tomorrow's Killer
• Inmate's Court Journey: Dump-Dumped & Probed
• Love As Contraband
• Why I Faked A Suicide Note
• This Seat's Not Taken
Tags: jeff johns, niantic, Chandra Bozelko
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posted by: Miss E on December 4, 2012 8:00am
I do not often read these stories when they are printed here, but something just caught my attention. I love the way this officer carried himself according to the lady telling this story. Not everyone that is jailed is a maniacal, murdering criminal that needs to be put in their place or disrespected. I pray this man will rest in peace.
posted by: Edward_H on December 5, 2012 2:30am
Funny title. Had the felon who authored this tripe follwed the Golden Rule maybe she would not be locked up. I guess a 250K education is not all it is cracked up to be.
posted by: Miss E on December 5, 2012 10:38am
Eyes on the bigger picture please. The story really wasn't about the one telling it, but about a person who was kind and decent to the writer. Simply a story of humanity. Any and everybody already knows if you don't want to be treated like some kind of criminal, dont go to jail.


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Seven ASA National Champions crowned10/4/2009
OKLAHOMA CITY — Seven Amateur Softball Association (ASA) National Championships, including five in the Hooters Championship Series, were decided Saturday and early Sunday morning at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, Okla. Teams taking home first place trophies are Tharaldson Enterprises (Men's B), West Coast Dynasty (Men's C), Virginia Select (Men's D), Low Bob's (Women's C), PDX Softball (Women's D), Long Haul Trucking (Men's A) and Enough Said (Women's Open). Because of the predicted weather conditions for late Sunday morning when the Men's A, Men's D and Men's C titles were scheduled to be decided, all games were played on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Play wrapped up at 1:15 a.m. local time. Check out www.asasoftball.com/tournaments/hooterschampionships.asp for complete coverage of the event. Men's B Division Tharaldson Enterprises is taking the Hooters Championship Series Men's Class B National Championship trophy back to Fargo, N.D., after shutting out Checking/Worth 13-0 Saturday morning. It is the first time in the history of the tournament that the Western Champions have claimed the top spot in the nation. "We knew we had a good team but we respect the opponent," Coach Mark Riggs said. "We knew we were going to play a good team from Connecticut but we're confident in our ability. We've been trying to this for several years now. Last year (we lost) and this year we got it going." On Friday, Tharaldson defeated Checking/Worth 18-8 in six innings then topped them again 8-7 for the advantage in the best of five series. The fourth and fifth games were not necessary for Tharaldson to take the championship, thanks the extraordinary efforts tournament MVP Chaun Demars. "It's always nice to win but it's a little extra special when you can lock down an MVP trophy," said Demars (Becker, Minn.), who went 7-for-9 from the plate with 12 RBI over the three games. "Those don't happen very often." Demars started Saturday by hitting his sixth home run of the tournament — a two run blast in the bottom of the first. After Demars was intentionally walked in the third and fourth innings, he still made an impact for Tharaldson, scoring on a Jim Schlieman (Fargo, N.D.) sacrifice fly to centerfield and a Schlieman three RBI double. First baseman Schlieman led Tharaldson on the day with three RBI. But the greatest contributions to Tharaldson Enterprises may have been from someone on the bench — team sponsor Gary Tharaldson, who flew to Oklahoma City on Friday to support the team. "We did this for Gary," Riggs said. "I've coaching Gary Tharaldson's team for 10 years now. I'm not just saying this because he's our sponsor but he's the best sponsor in the nation," Riggs said. "At this level, we get unlimited support from Gary. He's a softball fanatic. He loves ASA Softball." Men's C Division The Men's Class C Division started Saturday with some drastic changes as the No. 1 seed into bracket play Softball Times (Lexington, Ky.) was disqualified from the tournament for the use of an illegal player. With the changes, eventual champion West Coast Dynasty (Colton, Calif.) entered the bracket at No. 1 with a bye in the first round as No. 2 Double Deez (Preston, Iowa) fell to No. 3 CSC/Gutterworks (Cookeville, Tenn.), 12 to 11, to start the day. West Coast Dynasty opened up their first game on Saturday with a 16 to 4 thumping of CSC in five innings. Steven Lopez (Wilmington, Calif.) led the contest with five RBI going 3-for-3 with two home runs. Chris Boggs (San Diego, Calif.) recorded two triples with two RBI. Five other West Coast players each contributed two hits a piece while CSC was stumped with just nine hits. Brian Fogle (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) led CSC going 2-for-2. CSC then dropped down to play Double Deez in an elimination game and stayed alive with an exciting bottom of the seventh walk off RBI double. With a 13-13 tie and two outs in the bottom of the seventh, CSC's Chris Stacy (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) earned a walk before Chad Ferrell (Manchester, Tenn.) ripped the game winning double to left field plating Stacy for the win to advance to the title game. Ferrell topped the stat sheet going 5-for-5 with four RBI in the contest. The championship game was back and forth with a 7 to 6 CSC-lead after two innings, but a 13-run fourth inning for the West Coast Dynasty would eventually seal the championship title with a 21-9 defeat. From the pitching rubber, Masami Countryman (Oceanside, Calif.) earned the victory while six West Coast players earned multiple hits. Lopez was named the Men's Class C Most Valuable Player earning a .833 (15-for-18) batting average with a team leading 13 RBI and three home runs. The Dynasty completed the tournament with a 4-1 overall record outscoring opponents 64 to 29. Men's D Division Virginia Select (Crozet, Va.) won the Men's D Division in the Hooters Championship Series with a 10-9 victory over the LA Strokers. It was the third victory of the day for the Select, which beat the Strokers 11-0 in the morning and topped Victory Custom Athletics 11-9 in the evening, to advance to the championship. With the Championship Game tied at five in the top of the sixth, Andy Shreve hit an RBI double to left center that scored Select pitcher JR Estes, who led off the inning with a double of his own, and the game broke open for the Select. Another two runs went on the board with a Brian Whetzel blast . The Strokers trailed 10-7 heading into the bottom of the seventh. Codey Boutte, running for Bryan Roberts, scored on a Bourque sacrifice fly to right field. Eloy Cornejo hit an RBI double to right center that plated Blake Brown but it was not enough for the Duson, La., team to pull out the win. After an impressive 4-for-4 performance with three RBI in the Championship Game, Estes of Stuart Draft, Va., was named the Men's D Division MVP. He had 18 RBI on 15-for-21, hitting .714 over six games. Women's C Division Despite dropping the Saturday morning game 12-11, Low Bob's prevailed to win the Hooters Championship Series Women's Class C National Championship over the Springfield Crush of Missouri. Low Bob's won the Sunday nightcap 19-9 in five innings to secure the title three games to one. "The Hooters Championship Series is a top of the line softball tournament that everyone wants to play in," Low Bob's Coach Ted Carter said. "That is what we set our goal towards in the beginning of the year. To come out here and play so well, I'm really proud of them. I just put them out there and let them do what they do." Patricia Wimsatt — who is called "Hammer" by her teammates because of her offensive attack — received the tournament MVP honors. In the Championship Game, she went 3-for-4 from the plate with four RBI. Wimsatt went 11-for-13 overall at the plate with five RBI for the tournament. "I was shocked to be named the tournament MVP. I am totally shocked because we have so many good players who deserved to win this honor," she said. "It's my first time playing in the Hooters Championship Series so I'm really surprised. I'm very honored." Springfield came out dominant in the 6 p.m. game with a 9-5 lead heading into the bottom of the fourth inning. But a walk plated a run for the team from Frankfort, Ky., and it was all downhill for Springfield from there as Low Bob's went on to score another nine runs in the inning. Low Bob's also scored four in the fifth to win in a run rule. Springfield pushed the best of five series into four games with a 12-11 victory in the morning. Down 11-9 in the bottom of the seventh, Ashley Arbon singled through the left side to bring in Christal Beckner, who was walked, to lessen the deficit to two runs. Cristal Hoovens followed with a single to left field that plated Rhonda Thornton, who was also walked. An RBI single from Patty Trump secured the game. But Springfield could not replicate the success in Game 4, although Jami Bauer did for 2-for-3 with four RBI. "I don't know how much longer I will have to play so to win the national championship today is great," Wimsatt said. "No matter how or when I go out, I will always be an ASA National Champion. I'm very proud to say that." Women's D Division PDX Softball (Newberg, Ore.) captured the Women's D Division in the Hooters Championship Series with a 12-7 win over BW3/K&G (Champion, Ohio) for the first Champion crowned of the tournament. PDX had an outstanding tournament, hitting .529 as a team with outfielder Erika Meier (Milwaukie, Ore.) earning MVP for her efforts. "I don't know if you heard about our Western National Finals but we had to play through the night so our championship game was at 5:30 in the morning as the sun was coming up in Oregon," Coach Chris Gross said. "So it's exciting to be here in Oklahoma City playing for the title. It's the first time any of us have ever been here. To play on the Stadium Field where the Olympic Team has played is just priceless and it is even better to win." BW3/K&G proved it was here to play and would not go home without a fight as they took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning. BW3/K&G held the lead through four innings increasing it to seven to PDX's three runs. Highlighting the BW3 scoring drive were two doubles to lead off the first and third inning by Andrea Gibson and Carrie Playforth. After scoring only three runs through the first four innings, PDX mounted their comeback in the fifth scoring nine runs off 10 hits to take a 12-7 lead. The team used seven singles and two doubles to pluck away at the lead which BW3/K&G was not able to come back against. Meier was instrumental in the win with three RBI on 3-for-4 hitting. "She's one of those people that rose to the occasion of the tournament," Gross said. "She hit extremely well with a base hit almost every time. Defensively, she made some really spectacular catches for us. She caught some tough hits that were tough to get a hold of. She did really, really well for us." Meier could have taken it easy in the tournament considering she only returned to the sport in the spring. "About seven months ago, I gave my dad my right kidney so my doctors didn't know if I would get to play softball this year," she said. "I started back up in April and I'm finally starting to play like myself. Both my dad and I feel great now." Her coach could not speak highly enough about her character on and off the field. "She's a great person — the most positive person that you could ever imagine being around," Gross said. "She's just a great person. She's a great player." Men's Class A Long Haul Trucking of Lakeland, Minn., captured the 2009 ASA Men's Class A Slow Pitch National Championship early Sunday morning (1:15 a.m.) at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex with an impressive offensive performance with a 39-14 victory against Fence Brokers of Bryant, Ark. Long Haul pounded out 40 hits to only 15 for Fence Brokers in finishing the championship as the only undefeated team (4-0). Fence Brokers, which wasn't picked as one of the teams favored to win the Class A championship, surprised many by winning four straight games in the losers bracket while finishing at 5-2 overall. Third place went to Chaney's/WCS/Easton of Escondido, Calif. Which lost to Fence Brokers 20-15 in the losers bracket final, with TCP/Pipac/Easton of Burlington, Iowa taking fourth. With rain in the forecast, the ASA rescheduled nine games and decided to finish the tournament on Saturday evening instead of Sunday morning. In its earlier games, Fence Brokers had gotten off to a fast start in going through the losers bracket to gain the championship game. In the championship game, however, it was Long Haul which got off to the fast start, jumping out to a 16-5 lead after two innings before settling the issue with eight runs in the third inning and 15 again in the fourth. Fence Brokers never got on track against the Long Haul onslaught and for its players it had been a long, long day considering it played almost non-stop starting with its first game on Saturday at 4 p.m.. In that game they held off the Armed Forces, 18-17, after splitting its first two games. The championship game didn't start until 12:10 a.m. and lasted just one hour and five minutes. While Fencer Brokers were fighting their way through the losers bracket, Long Haul, meanwhile, was able to rest for about five hours after defeating Chaney's 32-9 earlier on Saturday. Geno Buck hurled all of the Long Haul wins and allowed 45 runs in walking away with the tournament's MVP award. Buck also batted fourth for Long Haul and had a three-for-five performance in the championship game including a two-run homer in the second. It was one of eight homers hit by Long Haul. Third baseman Mike Rhines and shortstop Brett McCollum had two homers apiece to lead Long Haul. Fence Brokers hit seven softballs over the fence with Dennis Schrum leading the offense with a three-for-three performance. Long Haul opened the tournament with a 24-2 win over CSI/JSA of Oklahoma City, then defeated Team Combat of Kent, Wash, WA, 29-18, in the semi-finals before run-ruling Chaney's 32-9 in six innings to advance to the championship game. Long Haul used the big inning to its advantage in its earlier wins. Against Team Combat, for example, it held only a one-run lead, 18-17, before putting the game away with a 11-run sixth inning to take a 29-17 advantage going into the top of the seventh. Team Combat, however, didn't answer and scored only one run in the seventh. Against Chaney's, it wasn't one big inning but two big innings with 13 runs in the fifth and nine runs in the sixth inning. Until the two big innings, Chaney's had stayed within striking distance and trailed only 10-8 through four innings. But Chaney's scored only once the last two innings and finished with only 11 hits compared to 33 for Long Haul. Long Haul took the ball out of the yard when it when it needed and finished with eight round trippers to only three for Chaney's. One of the game's up and coming players, Long Haul shortstop McCollum of Lakeville, Ill. Continued to impress and went five-for-five against Chaney's including hitting three homers to account for seven runs. McCollum has a rifle of an arm, the range and the power to play on the bigger ball fields and certainly is one of the most promising of the next generation of softball's stars. Chaney's opened with a 26-11 win over Fence Brokers of Bryant, Ark. Before getting past TCP/Pipac/Easton of Burlington, Iowa, in one of the tourney's lowest scoring games, 9-7, before getting shocked by Long Haul to drop into the losers bracket. Against TCP Chaney's, they scored five in the third and twice each in the fifth and sixth innings to advance with Donovan Pokarka's two-run homer in the sixth inning the margin of victory. The ASA Men's A All-Americans are: Infielders Andy Schiltz (TCP/Pipac/Easton), JD Genter (Long Haul), Kevin Bazat (Long Haul), Brett McCollum (Long Haul); Outfielders Brian Wegman (TCP), Raul Cardenas (Fence Brokers Inc./Gametimesupply.com/Worth), Reggie Schulte (Fence Brokers Inc./Gametimesupply.com/Worth), John Bailey (Chaney's); Utility players Ralph Hogdon (Armed Forces), Jeremy Isenhower (Long Haul Trucking), Chris Larson (Long Haul), Joey Tautge (Fence Brokers Inc./Gametimesupply.com/Worth), Tim Bowser (Fence Brokers Inc./Gametimesupply.com/Worth); Catcher Brett Helmer (TCP/Pipac/Easton) and Pitcher Chaun Demars (Fence Brokers Inc./Gametimesupply.com/Worth). Demars is the Home Run Champion. In a four way tie for Men's Class A Batting Champion with an .800 average (12-for-15): Kevin Bazat (Long Haul), Brett McCollum (Long Haul), Ralph Hogdon (Armed Forces) and Andy Schiltz (TCP/Pipac/Easton). Women's Open Division Throughout the four games Enough Said played in the Women's Open Division, the team from Tallahassee, Fla., outscored opponents 84-18. Twenty-four of the runs came in the 24-6 Championship Game, which turned out to be unbeaten Enough Said's second pounding of the United States Armed Forces. "We appreciate the Armed Forces," Enough Said Coach Ian Houston said. "They are a good softball team. We appreciate what they do for our country in terms of protecting our walls so no matter what the story is and what the outcome of the game is, we always hold them in our hearts and keep them in our prayers because they're taking care of us." Enough Said also beat Armed Forces 13-4 earlier Saturday afternoon to advance to the final. On Friday, Enough Said topped Ft. Hood Ballers (Killeen, Texas) 28-1 in three innings and Iowa Aces (Urbandale, Iowa) 19-6 in five innings. 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Nugent also nabbed the MVP honor with her impressive 12-for-14 (.857) performance at the plate, which included four doubles. Over Enough Said's four games, she had seven RBI and nine runs scored. "She's a young lady that I worked so hard with," Houston said. "She played fact pitch in Tallahassee, Fla., at FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University). There was a transition period for her from fast pitch to slow pitch because it is a different game. Ruby and I just worked so hard together the past two years to make her the dominant player that she is today. She has really bloomed from the cocoon to a beautiful butterfly." Home Run Champions are Sirene Johnson and Misty Smith, who each hit .800 (12-for-15) in the tournament. Three players tied for the honor of Women's Open Batting Champions: Christan Dowling (Enough Said), Sabra Gamel (Armed Forces) and Cara Coughenour (Iowa Aces). 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Why I threw the shoe by Muntazer al-Zaidi "I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents "I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot." <snip>.... "I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated. "When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora."
What would have happened if he threw a shoe at Saddam, Udday or Qusay????? They cared so much about the people of Iraq as you can tell by this article. We are not talking about stories from NewsMax, or Little Green footballs. We are talking about CNN (As liberal is it get's). We are not talking about Bill O'Rielly or Glen Beck. We are talking about Christiane Amanpour. CNN.com - Transcripts
This guy simply did what a lot of Iraqis and Americans alike wanted to do to Bush. I will say that the Chimp has some excellent reflexes. By the way, why are left wingers so dead set on talking about Bush still? The guy has been out of office for almost eight months now. In case you haven't heard, we have a whole new train wreck in office. I could care less about Bush now. If/when he gets prosecuted for war crimes then call me and let me know.
They did it with Reagan for a long time whenever they wanted to b!tch about something their favorite comeback was "during the reagan years". Reagan can rest in peace now they've got Bush even this Jerk Obama does it he doesn't say the word Bush much he has his own sneakylittle way of doing it, he says "the previous administration" BUSH CREATED KATRINA UP ON THE ROOF OF THE WHITE HOUSE BY RUBBING TWO CHICKEN BONES TOGETHER
Wonder if he threw a shoe at Saddam over the mass graves and gassing the Kurds? Probably not he didn't want to go into Udays plastic shredder I guess.
Distraction from the stalled bills in Congress...the same reason why the Carter racism claims were brought out. Anything to keep the focus off Congress and the President on someone else, distraction from reality.
Yes, the America haters know they can get away with murder because America always gives others lots and lots of consideration; Americans always ask: "what did I do wrong?". Meanwhile, dictators and fascist/communists always kill anybody who even breathes the wrong way. But the day of turn-around is coming. Keep the faith in what is true and right. Never give up. Never. //
this is such complete and utter bullsh*t... please dispense with the misinformation. i don't know about other left-leaners here, but I don't deflect from anything... genius. My message has been clear for years here... They are two factions of the same corporate entity. Just because I don't take my eyes off Bush League accountability hardly means I'm deflecting away Congress drama nor the healthcare fiasco. Not for a moment. What kind of lame piss-poor rationalization IS that, anyway? Is your argument so bankrupt that you need to make up a straw man argument of love for the goofy Democrats? LOL... You won't be getting away with that tired ploy here. It's the kind of weakass tripe this forum expects from goofy Fog. Not you, efin. Back up, reprogram. This was an important NEW story of the shoe thrower out of jail finally, and I linked to it. Get over it. His message IS news, whether you like it or not. If there's ANYONE trying to deflect the past 12 months, it's YOU guys in the "bomb first, ask questions later" camp.
Exactly the reply I expected from the left wing members...and the exact person I expected it from. The "story" is ancient news, the only reason it is even being brought up again is to distract from other news stories especially the one big story that has stagnated- the health bill. Classic misdirection through the media- look over here and remember this story, don't pay attention to the real story.
"Goofy" Fog here (but not voting too often for any "goofy" Democrats ): Yup, a NEW story here: the guy who threw his shoe apparently liked the "good" ol' days of Saddam and his demented sons, wreaking summary death havoc onto anybody who sneezed the wrong way .... or who played bad soccer (Iraqi soccer no kick under Odai / Players, coaches describe acts of sadism by Hussein son). I mean, how come he didn't throw any shoes at them??????? The ONLY "message" from this guy is: "I never threw any shoes at Saddam or his sons because I knew I'd be dog meat within minutes; but I know I can get away with throwing my shoes at the weak Americans because I know they will never dare to give me the punishment I so richly deserve." There you go, oh-so-"non"-goofy PressBoy!!! //
Again: The Shoe Thrower: Who Gives A Sh!t About Him We'd Rather Talk About ACORN And Michelle Planting Collard Greens On Top Of A Septic Tank.
The shoe thrower is full of sh!t, the reason he threw the shoe was he knew he would be a Hero & Legend in every Muslim House in the world and he is, he is also a hero to the Sore Losing American Bush Haters. God Willing The Shoe Thrower Can Kiss My A$s......... Bush was no bargain but he was our President, f-ck that muslim bastard and his whole god damned family and all his friends and his friggin donkey. I would feel the exact same way if they threw a shoe at Jug Ears, he's my president.
so what have we learned (had reinforced) from the pro war camp? make no mistake, it essentially goes like this: "so we killed a few thousand women and children? too bad... they're still dead, nothing we can do now.... anyhow, be quiet! ... you're distracting me from ACORN obsession!"
In truth regarding this "shoe throw" guy, it goes like this: "Yeah, he's a 'big man' now!! Yeah, he can vent his rage and throw his shoe at the U.S. president because he KNOWS the worst he'll get is a little roughed up; he KNOWS he has RIGHTS TO DO THIS KIND OF CRAP AND GET AWAY WITH IT under the U.S. presence in Iraq, something [highlight]he could NEVER GET AWAY WITH under Saddam's bloody, vindictive, petty dictatorial regime, the kind of regime only dictators and their fawning minions love.[/highlight] And, btw, the Obama administration has already REVERSED the U.S. course of opposing dictators by SIDING with the tin horn despot Zelaya in Honduras, the guy who doesn't want to follow his nation's constitution, doesn't want to recognize the separation of the three pillars of the government -- Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary -- because HE WANTS TO DO IT ALL, just like his "heroes", Fidel Castro and Hooooogo "Chavy" Chavez in Venezuela. This "wannabe a dictator" crap floats to the surface is needs to be removed from the pool lest the entire population become infected. "Pro-war"??? Against dictators???? Every single time. There, fixed it for you, free of charge. At some point, however, a substantial fee will be required. //
Maybe fog they'd rather have someone that they knew that kept the trains running an the overall violence down. Now there free to vote but they can't escape the mayhem of every day life.
Like Mussolini and Hitler .... they kept the "trains running on time". Yeah because not everybody joined the cause, circled the wagons, and did the job of uniting the country of Iraq. The moment the terrorists sensed the least bit of fraction among the peace-makers in Iraq they exploited it to the max. Same thing the left did in the Vietnam war. Exactly the same. Sow seeds of disunity, then watch the in-fighting sap the will to win. //
Stop the nonsense fog, i thought getting rid of saddam was a good idea. Inever took the time to consider that saddam kept three groups that had been killing each other for hundreds or thoudsands of years in check. It the same as the situation in yougoslavia, as soon as Tito died the place fell apart. And yes,at this moment maybe the people there remember the days of saddam as being better as in having electricity, water, jobs, and realtive peace. As being better than being able to vote Maybe they like the good ole days when you just kept your mouth shut, as opposed to having your door kicked in by some militia group and your family shot. Or getting blownup in the market place buying some tomatoes.


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"Well, Larry, as you know, I'm in the under 55 generation, from the X-generation," Ryan told CNBC's Larry Kudlow in excerpts released early from an interview to air this evening.
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AN inquest into the death of a woman whose body was discovered in the river Stour is due to open today.
Shirley Christiana Cassman, 68, from Melford Road, Sudbury was found dead in the river at Brundon Lane on December 13.
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The southern part of Columbus County has always been considered a hotbed for youth baseball. On Sunday, the South Columbus All-Stars faced Southpark, a team out of Charlotte.
South Columbus scored their first run of the game in the first inning when Mason Benton's RBI double plated Hunter Shelley. But runs were hard to come by Sunday afternoon for South Columbus. They end up losing 4-2 and must work their way through the loser's bracket to stay alive for a state title.
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Leland also has a baseball team in the State Ten and Under Dixie Tournament. In a loser's bracket game, Leland definitely came to play against Tryon. Shaquan Graham ripped a hit in the fifth inning, as Jaheed Cason scored easily from 3rd for the go-ahead run. Leland ended up a 7-6 winner and they too stay alive in the Dixie Ten and Under State Baseball Championship.
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4035 Broadway
Grove City, OH 43123
Tel.: 614-277-3000
Fax: 614-277-3011
Hours: M-F 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Cincinnati | 102 mi |
Cleveland | 151 mi |
Indianapolis | 178 mi |
Pittsburgh | 190 mi |
Louisville | 200 mi |
Detroit | 213 mi |
Nashville | 375 mi |
Chicago | 357 mi |
St. Louis | 420 mi |
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Washington DC | 422 mi |
Charlotte | 422 mi |
Toronto | 438 mi |
Milwaukee | 448 mi |
Philadelphia | 471 mi |
Raleigh | 476 mi |
New York City | 543 mi |
Atlanta | 561 mi |
Memphis | 582 mi |
Economic Development
The City of Grove City Economic Development Department is excited to contribute to what this growing community has to offer. Whether a new business is interested in establishing itself or an existing business is interested in expanding, the City offers technical and financial tools, resources and assistance to all. We promote economic development, facilitate redevelopment and provide business retention services. Long-range planning activities for Grove City include: evaluating current conditions, identifying trends, the analyzing of future issues and opportunities and aiding in planning to achieve its goals for the future.
Located less than 10 miles southwest of Ohio's capital, Grove City offers residents the opportunity to experience the flare and feeling of big city living while providing all of the comforts and conveniences of small town life. While our geography and easy accessibility provide many dining, shopping and entertainment advantages to our residents, those same geographical and accessibility advantages benefit businesses. Grove City is located within a day's drive of 51 percent of the U.S. and 40 percent of the Canadian populations and within 600 miles of 53 percent of all U.S. manufacturing facilities. With Grove City's business-friendly environment, our community has seen continuous growth of business and employment opportunities and due partly to competitively lower costs for business and residence have ensured a promising future for Grove City.
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When replacing a clock mainspring, the repairman usually finds the closest match in his
supplier's catalog to the mainspring being replaced. Frequently this may be incorrect because it
may be too strong or too weak, or of an incorrect length. The best way to determine the
correct mainspring is to build up a database of mainspring data: record the information about
the mainspring and the clock for each clock that you overhaul. By the time you have fifty clocks
recorded, you will develop an idea of what strength of spring is suitable for what type of clock,
when a spring is too powerful and should be replaced with a weaker one, or vice-versa. In
general, the strength of a spring is proportional to the cube of the thickness: if you double (2)
the thickness, the spring is eight (=2x2x2) times stronger. The width is directly proportional to
the strength: if you double the width, you double the strength. This assumes, of course, that the
steel and the temper are the same in both springs being compared, which cannot reliably be
ascertained, but we can at least use this information as a guideline at the bench. Below is a
chart that you could use, showing the relationship between thickness and strength of two
otherwise identical springs. When the relationship is expressed in percentages, it could be
applied to any situation. where L is length, T is thickness, r(a) is the arbor radius (half the diameter of the arbor), and r(b) is the barrel radius (half the inner diameter of the barrel). This formula could be entered into a computer spreadsheet as:
Below is also a spreadsheet that you could download and use for yourself. If you enter the dimensions, it would give you the answer. The diameter of the barrel and the diameter of the
arbor are measured in millimetres and should include an allowance for the barrel hook and the
arbor hook. The thickness of the spring is measured in inches because the suppliers do not all
list the thickness in millimetres. This is confusing, but I have had to learn to live with it. Enter the
data into cells B1, B2, and B3.
Here is the spreadsheet you could use to calculate mainspring lengths. You should be able to
download it into your computer and save it. This is a ZIP file and contains an MS Works 4.0 and an Excel 4.0 file (Win95) and looks like the chart below. The
numbers in bold are where you enter your data.
Mainsprings for American Clocks
where f is force (or strength), b is the base (or width of the mainspring), and h is the height (or thickness of the mainspring). This means that the 0.014 inch mainspring has 47% of the strength of the 0.018 spring. I would be very careful in replacing a mainspring with one that is less than half as strong as the former.
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NOTE : This question does not involve breaking any laws. It has to do with company policy.
This question is for anyone with any knowledge about search dogs and what the can and cannot detect, when it comes to weapons.
Hypothetical Scenario: Say a person lives in the state of Texas and has a CHL. They work for a major corporation that has a no weapons policy that includes the parking lot. In Texas the law generally does not include the parking lot as part of the property for no carry laws. \"Premises does not include any public or private driveway, street, sidewalk or walkway, parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area. Of course company policy is a different matter. Being a right to work state you do not have any leg to stand on if you are fired for having a legally carried weapon in your vehicle even though premises does not include the parking lot.
My question has to do with search dogs. Say this employee wanted to legally keep a handgun in their vehicle for protection, even though it violates company policy for employees. Of course they also dont want to lose their job. If the company did a random walk through the parking lot with dogs (for example to search for drugs), what would it take for the dog to detect a weapon? Is it the ammo that they can smell? If it was a cleaned weapon, but the magazine with the ammo was not in the vehicle, would the dogs detect it?


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Bedrooms are decorated throughout in a warm traditional style using decorative wallpapers, antique furniture and tasteful upholstery. The hotel comprises of superior double, standard double/twins and single rooms which are either located in the main hotel or the former stables which have been lovingly converted to provide additional accommodation. Many rooms have views over the pretty terraced garden with a 300 year-old cockpit, one of the few remaining in England, which is now the hotels fishing tackle shop.
Created by the resident Head Chef, who has the rare honour of being elected one of only 80 Master Chefs of Great Britain. Food is always meticulously prepared and beautifully presented, using only the finest quality produce which is sourced from local suppliers, the hotel has gained an excellent reputation both locally and nationally for creating outstanding modern British cuisine. The AA 2 Rosette restaurant attracts many who not only come to enjoy the quality of the food but also the elegant surroundings. Complemented by fine wines and attentive, friendly service this offers the perfect dining experience.
This has been one of England's premier fishing hotels for more than half a century and has 20 miles of exclusive fishing rights on the Tamar and six of its tributaries. Here you are alone all day, fishing a mile of river for wild brown trout, in the late spring the first salmon arrive and by mid-summer shoals of sea trout bring out the night fishers. The hotel has experts on hand who run courses for beginners and give friendly help and advice.
Devon and Cornwall can offer you a unique and unforgettable holiday experience. Discover green rolling hills, coloured patchwork fields, high sided lanes and bustling market towns. Venture into Cornwall and find yourself on sandy beaches, coastal paths and in picturesque fishing villages. Wherever you go in the South West there is not only spectacular scenery but also an array of places of interest to visit. The Eden Project which is known as the 'eighth wonder of the world' along with the regions famous national Trust properties such as Lanhydrock & Cotehele are only a half hour drive away. If you are interested in more energetic activities then visit Cornwall's famous beaches such as Polzeath which is the ideal location for surfing and within easy striking distance. Or if you would like to stay closer to the hotel there is horse riding at St Leonards Equitation Centre or the spectacular Dartmoor National Park to explore. Whatever your interests The Arundell Arms is the perfect holiday location.
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The AEK 906 Pistol is conventional in most respects but has one highly unusual feature: Unlike other revolvers, the barrel is aligned with the bottom chamber of the cylinder, rather than the top. It is claimed that this provides better balance and also transfers recoil directly up the firer's hand, improving controll ability. A metal prong extends from the muzzle back over the top strap, holding the forward sight and giving additional strength.
Aside from this feature, the AEK 906 revolver operates in the traditional fashion. It features a swing-out cylinder and composite grips. Am≠munition is loaded with 6-round speed clips, which are supplied with the weapon. The trigger guard is shaped to facilitate a two-handed grip.
Variants: The AEK 906-1 Pistol Revolver is identical, except that it is chambered for the 9mm Parabellum caliber.
AEK 906 Revolver Specifications
Damage: 2d6 Magazine: 6 cyl
Critical: 20 Size: Small
Damage Type: Ballistic Weight: 2 lb.
Range Increment: 30 ft. Purchase DC: 15
Rate of Fire: S Restriction: Lic (+1)
Magazine: 6 cyl
Critical: 20 Size: Small
Damage Type: Ballistic Weight: 2 lb.
Range Increment: 30 ft. Purchase DC: 15
Rate of Fire: S Restriction: Lic (+1)
This APS Stechkin Pistol was designed in the 1960s as an automatic pistol for use by military and KGB offi cers. It uses a modifi ed version of the Walther PP's blowback action (considerably scaled up) and fi res the 9mm Makarov cartridge. The mechanism is highly complex. It is expensive to manufacture, and it requires an inordinate amount of maintenance to ensure reliable operation.
The APS Stechkins most unusual feature is that it is capable of selective fire. Unfortunately, it is nearly uncontrollable in automatic mode and is useful only when fi red in short bursts. Various shoulder stocks can be fi tted to improve accuracy, including a hollow wooden one designed to double as a holster. The Stechkin was generally considered unsuccessful, and after only a few years, it was replaced by the AK-74SU submachine gun and the ordinary Makarov pistol.
Variants: A modernized version, the OTs-33 Pernach, has recently been made available (see separate entry below).
Who Uses It: The Stechkin was withdrawn from active service; however, despite its problems, it has proven popular with terrorists and criminals.
d20 Modern Rules: This weapon is unreliable when used to make autofire attacks
This Stechkin APS Pistol is diffi cult to control when used on the autofire setting. When used to make autofire attacks (including the use of the Burst Fire feat), the 1 penalty for machine pistols (see page XXX) is increased to 2. The penalty is 1 if the weapon is fi red with both hands. There is no penalty if it is used with the shoulder stock. Attaching or detaching the stock is a move action. If you have a base attack bonus of +1 or higher, you can attach or detach the stock
as a free action when moving. With the stock attached, this weapon is considered Large.
Stechkin APS Pistol Specifications
Damage: 2d4 Magazine: 20 box
Critical: 20 Size: Medium
Damage Type: Ballistic Weight: 3 lb.
Range Increment: 30 ft. Purchase DC: 17
Rate of Fire: S, A Restriction: Res (+2)


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Sweepstakes, Contests & Games
- Consultation through the entire promotion cycle –– design, execution and conclusion – by a dedicated
account team. - Provide concept evaluation to identify potential legal, administrative and cost issues during program
development. - Development of Official Rules to govern the promotion –– rules unique to your promotion.
- Provide mandatory disclaimer copy for point-of-sale, website, banners, print, packaging and media
advertising. - Review all supporting material (print, point-of-sale, web copy, radio and TV) to ensure consistency with
the Official Rules. - Registration and post-filing of sweepstakes and games in the U.S. and Canada, as required.
- Assistance with securing Games of Chance Surety Bonds.
- Winner determination: random selection of potential sweepstakes winners; receipt and verification of
instant win claims; judging of contest entries by experts. - Development of instant win game parameters to ensure winners are determined randomly and fairly.
- Security printing and secure seeding of instant win game pieces.
- In-depth review of Sponsor's manufacturing and distribution process to legally and securely execute
in/on package programs. - Expert guidance in the development and execution of mobile marketing and social networking
promotions, including avoidance of the risks/hazards often associated with such efforts
(e.g., content rights/ownership, third party aggregators issues/requirements, site security,
privacy issues, COPPA, etc.). - Affidavit clearances and liability releases from all potential major prize winners.
- Winner notification; prize development, procurement, coordination and fulfillment; and winners list
fulfillment via mail, email and/or online. - Tax reporting on prizes to the IRS and issuing 1099 forms to winners.


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Finding Aid
Publication Date
The Poetry Journals and Chapbooks Collection provides a representative sample of the poetry published in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. The collection includes poetry chapbooks and journal issues, literary catalogs, publishing guides, magazine and press directories, broadsides, art prints, and other items. Most of the poetry journals and chapbooks were produced by small presses in the United States. A few of the journals contain interviews with writers and poets and some contain articles of poetry criticism. The journal titles include Big Moon, Bug Tar, The Chowder Review, Green's Magazine, Kayak, Vagabond, Wind, and The Wormwood Review. This collection is arranged into two series: Series I. Poetry Journals and Chapbooks 1930-1984 (bulk 1972-1983), n.d.; Series II. Miscellaneous Poetry 1970-1984 (bulk 1973-1979), n.d. In addition, there are a few feature poems by Charles Bukowski located in Series II.
© 2010 Trustees of the California State University. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Poetry Journals and Chapbooks Collection, MSS-2010-10-04 , San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives.