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Recent Posts by Comfortably Numb
Feb 20, 2011Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Just Asking.....
If we could only get someone to mute your posts that are irrelevant to this site….
Feb 20, 2011Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Privitazation of some of Ohios' prisons
I'm still here. Just been busy for some time. Was told back in October by a pretty high up in management that there will be 2-5 closures coming with the budget, but that was before the residents of our fine state lost their minds and elected this new clown as Governor. Who knows now. SB5 is dangerous not only as far as collective bargaining goes, but read the bill. It starts out with language to begin the privatization of our prisons. It's a reality if this thing goes through. What the Republican leaders who are pushing for this (most of who also have their hands on stock in private prisons) fail to mention to the public is while on the surface it may appear to look like they can save money by privatizing prisons, they do it now by hand-picking their inmates from our system. If the inmate becomes a problem child, they ship him back to us. If the inmate developes medical issues that may result in any substantial amount of money being spent on them, they ship them back to us. The state also pays a fee to them for each inmate and a penalty if the inmate has to be shipped back for behavioral issues. If I could hand pick "honor inmates" that weren't going to ever get sick or be unruly, I could run a day-care too. Apples to Apples they can't do it as chep as we do. But as the smoke and mirrors show keeps being put on by the GOP and it's followers get their "news/facts" from Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh, noone seems to want to point out silly things like facts, one being the republicans who own stock in private prisons have been itching for this for years. Being able to blame the economic crisis on public union employees may just be the scam they've been looking for…
Apr 01, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Comebacks
Hummingbird, We'll try to remember that the next time we're supervising you…."heard 'em all", wonder why? How many numbers do you have?
Apr 01, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: A Broader View / Is it really as negative as it sounds?
Hummingbird, I think you stumbled onto the wrong site, this is corrections.com, not iamaformerinmate.com
Some of your requirements make sense though. If you barely managed to graduate high school, that may be a plus, because as I've found over the years when you try to talk intelligently to most inmates, they just look at you slack-jawed with that 1,000 mile stare because you're talking way over their heads' and they have no clue what you mean. So being closer to their level of intelligence may help with that communication barrier.
And you do have to have a high tolerence for incompetence, because most inmates are just that, incompetent. They were raised that way.
Jan 16, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / Personal Phone calls?
Yes, that's what they are intended for. I was just pointing out the fact that I carry one to work everyday, and find no need to be on it calling all my friends/family all day while on the job.
Jan 14, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / No lunch breaks?
Read your contract. Either the one agreed to by your union or the one you signed when you were hired. Most deparments put in a line about how you agrre to work straight 8 without a formal lunch break. That's how they get around it. You signed on the line and agreed to it and no one forced it on you. That's how they bypass many of the afformentioned Federal laws.
Jan 13, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Security Central / What cell extraction tools do you wish you had?
Coming from the only tools we use are OC and the typical shield smash and grab team, anything new would be useful. Tasers & Canines come to mind first. Also why not utilize something in between the cells in the access panels where we shut off their water? Why not install some type of piping the can be cleared with pressurized air if blocked, and then used to disperse chemical agent? I'm sure I could come up with all kinds of interesting ideas if I had unlimited funds, but I'll settle for some basics for now.
Jan 13, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / 20 years and out
At this point, I'll just be happy if there are any funds left in the retirement fund when I get there, whenever it may be.
Jan 13, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / CCW
Been thinking about it for a few years. Still haven't found the need to get mine yet. Of course I could "what if" it to death with all the scenarios of running into inmates on the street etc. But if it's me against an inmate and 6 of his gangster buddies, I'll be out gunned anyway, right? Also with young kids in the house, it's not a convenient thing to have lying around. Of course, I could "lock it up" so they don't get to it, but that would pretty much defeat the purpose of having quick access to it in a time of need, right? Like I said, I just haven't found the need to get it, to be responsible and legal with it, it's just not convenient or practical.Wouldn't a ballistic vest be a better investment? Lol. What if his aim is better than yours and he's more of a "professional gunfighter" than you are?
Jan 13, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Professional Gunfighters?
I'm with Shakey on this one, Crank up the PINK FLOYD!!!
Jan 13, 2010Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / Personal Phone calls?
Had my SRT cell phone almost a month now. Still haven't had any real use for it. Guess the institutional phone and radio is good enough for me.
Dec 23, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / Personal Phone calls?
Recently, our institution held a staff shakedown unexpectedly one morning. Two medical employees were fired for bringing in cell phones. One had it in her pocket and had a lame excuse about how it didn't work, and the other had one wrapped in plastic and hidden in her mashed potatoes…. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
On the other hand, our SRT team were issued our cell phones last week, and I have yet to have the urge to use it. Guess it all depends on the person and if they are responsible enough to handle doing their job without having to be on the phone with their "homies" while on the clock. I'll probably never even use this thing.
Dec 20, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: In Memory of... / Neil Jalowiec, Corrections Officer, LORCI
Elyria man charged in fatal crash
ELYRIA — The man behind the wheel of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that plowed into the back of a Buick LeSabre in a fatal car crash Tuesday was drunk, according to police, and has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.
Elyria police Lt. Andy Eichenlaub said Emelio Hernandez Perez, 23, was charged Friday after police learned a blood test showed him having a blood alcohol content level of more than 0.30. Under Ohio law, the legal limit for alcohol in the blood is .08, meaning that Perez was more than three times the legal limit when he was tested after the crash.
Additional charges against Perez are likely after the case is presented to a county grand jury, Eichenlaub said.
He said police are still trying to determine how fast Perez was driving when he smashed his SUV into the car driven by 65-year-old Neil Jalowiec, who died of internal chest and abdominal injuries, according to Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus.
No one else was in either vehicle at the time of the crash, but Eichenlaub said witnesses have said Perez was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic just before the crash.
Donna Hagdis told The Chronicle-Telegram earlier this week that Perez sped past her, missing her car by inches. She said the only reason Perez didn't slam into an oncoming semi was because she slammed on her brakes so he could get back over.
She said she was about 100 yards behind Perez when his SUV hit Jalowiec's car, which was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of state Route 57 and West River Road. Hagdis said she never saw brake lights.
Perez was treated and released from a Cleveland hospital and Eichenlaub said Perez hadn't talked with police yet, but has hired an attorney.
Perez is a Mexican national who is living in Elyria and Eichenlaub said police are trying to determine whether he is in the country legally.
Dec 18, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: In Memory of... / Neil Jalowiec, Corrections Officer, LORCI
Wrong place at wrong time: 'Daddy's little girl' reminisces about father killed in crash
GRAFTON — Two days after Neil Jalowiec was killed in a car crash, his daughter, Leesha Doehr, is trying to understand why her protector and role model had to be taken away from her so soon.
"It is so unfair," Doehr said. "I am an only child, so I was always daddy's little girl. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Jalowiec, 65, was driving his Buick south on West River Road when Emelio Hernandez Perez, the driver of a Jeep Cherokee, slammed into the back of his car at high speed. Doehr believes her father was going to or coming back from the bank before the accident Tuesday afternoon.
No one has been charged in the accident yet, Elyria police Lt. Andy Eichenlaub said.
A former member of the U.S. Marine Corps, Jalowiec and his family moved to Grafton in 1989. Jalowiec, who began to compete in body-building competitions when his family lived in Coral Springs, Fla., won The Sunshine State Award for bodybuilders in the older than age 40 category in 1988.
"He never tried to get me to work out, but he did always threaten all the boys when I was in high school," Doehr said. "He would walk through the school during conferences and everyone would say he was a white Mr. T."
Shortly after moving back to Ohio, Jalowiec started work as a corrections officer with the Lorain Correctional Institution in Grafton. Doehr said several of her father's co-workers stopped by his house yesterday to offer their condolences. The institution was forced to call in bereavement help because so many people were upset when they learned of her father's death, she said.
"My dad was very loved and he was a good man and people knew that," Doehr said. "His co-workers were upset. Even the inmates were upset."
When Jalowiec wasn't spending time with his family or working out, he could be found fishing with a friend at a nearby, private pond.
During the summer, Doehr said her father would spend hours out on the lake, relaxing and enjoying the peace and quiet. "He had a connection with that pond," Doehr said.
Yesterday, Elyria police officers continued to investigate what caused Perez to crash into Jalowiec's Buick.
Jalowiec was wearing a seat belt during the accident, according to Elyria fire officials, but were unsure whether Perez, 23, was strapped in.
Perez was brought to EMH Regional Medical Center following the accident, and was flown to Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center for treatment. He was released yesterday, according to a nursing supervisor.
The Bauer-Laubenthal-Mercado Funeral Home will be handling Jalowiec's services. A wake will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday.
He will be buried at Resthaven Memory Gardens in Avon on Saturday with full military honors by the U.S. Marine Corps.
Dec 18, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: In Memory of... / Neil Jalowiec, Corrections Officer, LORCI
Crash victim was longtime prison officer, Vietnam vet
Filed by Melissa Hebert December 17th, 2009 in Top Stories.
Jalowiec, a 65-year-old Grafton resident, was killed in a car accident on Tuesday at the intersection of state Route 57 and West River Road in Elyria. The tan Buick LeSabre he was driving was rear-ended by a red Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Emelio Hernandez Perez, 23, of Elyria.
The force of the collision pushed the two cars all the way across the intersection and pushed the back of Jalowiec's car up to the back of the front seat.
Lorain County Coroner Dr. Paul Matus said Jalowiec died on impact of internal chest and abdominal injuries.
Perez was transported by helicopter from EMH Regional Medical Center to MetroHealth Medical Center in
Jalowiec's family declined comment Wednesday through a family friend. Jalowiec leaves behind a wife of 42
"He was very, very respected," LORCI Warden Marc C. Houk said of Jalowiec, who was named correction officer of the year for the institution in 1994. "He was considered one of our best officers. Everyone called him 'The Rock' because you could always count on him.
"He had a very good rapport with both staff and inmates," he said. "Whenever a new officer would start, he'd inevitably spend a day with Neil during training because of how solid he was, and what sort of leadership and guidance he could give."
Jalowiec was the second employee in less than a week to die in a car accident. Edward Drake, a 33-year-old maintenance repair worker from Ashland, was killed Sunday in a one-car accident in Jackson Township. Drake, who started in food service in 2000 before transferring to maintenance in 2003, was described by Houk as a "very dependable, hard-working, dedicated professional" whose love of sports led him to be a lead volunteer in maintaining the facility's softball fields and playing on the institution's softball team.
Houk said the state's Critical Incidents Stress Team was on hand at the facility to help employees deal with the losses.
Jalowiec was a Vietnam veteran, serving in the Marines as a sergeant for two years and eight months, with his tour of duty in Vietnam spanning 1966 and 1967.
He was a lifetime member of Veterans of Foreign Wars post 3341 in Grafton.
Helen Hahn of Grafton, a fellow VFW member, said Jalowiec stopped by the VFW hall almost every day, rarely staying long, other than to say hello and have a quick chat.
Hahn said that Jalowiec had recently been doing the paperwork to get on Medicare, and often would ask her questions about the process. She added that he hadn't told her when he would retire, but that he wanted everything in order.
Jalowiec was getting ready to start a new chapter, she said. "And it's so sad that he won't be able to enjoy it. I'm just crushed."
Donna Hagdis of Wellington was driving in the left lane southbound on state Route 57 Tuesday afternoon, heading to St. Jude school to pick up her children, when she said Perez passed her on the left by going into the median.
"He came up on me so fast, I never even saw him until he was passing me," she said. "It was scary. I'm just glad my kids weren't in the car."
Hernandez missed her car by inches as he passed, Hagdis said, and only by her hitting the brakes was he able to get back into the left lane to avoid being hit by a semi truck approaching in the opposite direction.
Hagdis estimates she was about 100 yards behind Perez when he struck Jalowiec, who she says was stopped at the intersection of 57 and West River Road. She said she never saw Perez's brake lights go on.
Dec 17, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: In Memory of... / Neil Jalowiec, Corrections Officer, LORCI
Corrections Officer Neil Jalowiec, 65, was killed Tuesday December 15th, 2009 in a tragic traffic accident. Neil's vehicle was stopped at a traffic light when it was struck from behind by another driver travelling at a high rate of speed. Officer Jalowiec was pronounced dead on the scene. Officer Jalowiec was one of the best people, and THE best officer I have ever known. He was the first officer they sent me to when I started day one, to show me the ropes. I came to find out later this was the norm, and he has trained probably over half of our institution in this manner. Officer Jalowiec had been employed as a Corrections Officer at the Lorain Correctional Institution in Grafton, Ohio since 1992. Jalowiec was also a former Marine who had served in Vietnam. He was in many ways a father figure to the majority of the officers here at the institution. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
We all miss you Neil. Rest in Peace, it will NEVER be the same without you…
Dec 17, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: In Memory of... / Ed Drake, Maintenance Repair Worker, LORCI
Ed Drake, 33, was killed Sunday December 13th, 2009 in a tragic car accident. His vehicle lost control on an icy road, veered off the road striking a tree. Drake had been employed at the Lorain Correctional Institution in Grafton, Ohio for almost 10 years in various positions, most recently as a Maintenance Repair Worker. He leaves behind a wife and a four year old son. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
Rest in Peace Drake. We all miss you.
Oct 25, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Security Central / Covering Obs Cell camera's
You mean just asking them nicely and saying please doesn't work? lol.
Oct 25, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Security Central / Which cell extraction methods work best?
OCCD do you know of any video available anywhere of a K-9 involved extraction?
Oct 25, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / Can we deny inmates access to newspapers, magazines as an incentive for better behavior?
According to your thinking, and your belief in this study, maybe we should eliminate Segregation units altogether? Why bother locking them in Seg if the incentive of getting back out into GP for their freedoms doesn't work? Just let him continue to cause a disturbance and be assaultive in the housing unit.
For every one of these studies you see done, you eventually see another one that counters what the other study came up with. I'm wondering if these "smarty pants educational types" just make half of their results up in order to keep getting grants.
I mean, I read a study recently that talked about the great benefits of drinking your own urine. I, however, choose to go ahead with common sense on this one too….You can try it and let me know how it goes though.
Oct 25, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Ohio DRC
We still have not had the previously mentioned positions cut yet. Not sure how they came up with the spots they did to cut. Sounds like they are continuing to put Security on the backburner to payroll. They are actually going to cut one of the Perimeter positions on 3rd shift leaving us with only one Perimeter officer on duty on the shift they always preach is the one an inmate will most likely try to escape on. Common sense seems to be taking a backseat on this one too.
No word on the recanvass talks. Seems too many people do not want it to happen. Which is fine with me. I don't really mind either way.
As far as the institutional seniority talks you referred too. I for one wish we could go to straight state time, I would probably transfer out of this madhouse pretty quickly if they did. That's the only thing keeping me here. I've been to numerous institutions across the state doing clear-outs for SRT, and none of them are like LORCI. This place is a zoo, and the animals are running it instead of the zookeepers. Wishful thinking would be for the tide to turn back in our favor as to how we run things around here, but the liberal BS just keeps coming down the line while we keep getting cut. We all know what it took for the tide to turn back the last time (Lucasville), and none of us want that to happen ever again. Hopefully we get some positive change before it comes to that again. Not sure how much longer we can keep our finger in the dam before it finally bursts.
Oct 01, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Do You Have Uniform Inspection?
Mudflap, we don't have to turn our old uniforms in anymore, they stopped doing that about 2 or 3 years ago at our place. We've been getting them much easier now. The last time I needed some I just shot an e-mail to the Sgt. handling the uniforms, and about 3 weeks later, there was a bag with my uniforms waiting for me in the entry building. Much nicer now. Used to be the same as yours and a real pain.
Sep 24, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / Can we deny inmates access to newspapers, magazines as an incentive for better behavior?
You don't think denying access to an inmate is an incentive for better behavior? And you claim you've been in corrections for 23 years? Have you spent all 23 years of that in an office behind a closed door?
Put a housing unit on lockdown for bad behavior. What do you get? A housing unit of inmates on their best behavior to get their priveledges back. Happens all the time and it works.
I'm tired of the Mommy & Daddy didn't hug them enough excuse. At some point you become an adult, and know the difference between right and wrong either your mommy & daddy taught you, school taught you, or you've seen enough of your "homies" go to prison for doing stupid things. You learn the difference one way or the other. After that it is a choice of which route to take.
So you keep your hug-a-thug mentality, we'll keep order on the block.
Sep 02, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: Letter of The Law / Can we deny inmates access to newspapers, magazines as an incentive for better behavior?
Jon, if a person knows the consequences of breaking the law are coming to prison, and they willingly break the law anyway, they are in a round about way volunteering themselves up for prison life. It's not like we drafted these guys to come here & I don't think anyone is forcing these individuals to break the law against their own free will.
Sep 02, 2009Comfortably ... 154 posts
Topic: The Club House / Ohio DRC
Yeah, I'm still here. Just haven't been on lately. We here are losing positions too, mostly on our Special Duty shift. I'm sure a recanvass will follow as our union president is on that shift. Nothing has been set into motion that I know of yet though.
We are also preparing for a new Major. Our old one went to TCI, and we're getting the one from TOCI. I haven't heard any good words about him from TOCI staff, but time will tell. LORCI is a whole different world from parent institutions.


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29 Tips, Ingredients & Recipes for Gluten-Free Baking
It's Gluten-Free Week at The Kitchn and we've done a lot this week (and previously) on gluten-free baking. Baking is probably the most difficult thing to adapt to in gluten-free cooking, and we're always looking for ways to improve our skills in this area. Here's a look at some of our past discussions on gluten-free baking, as well as some of our favorite yummy baked recipes.
First, The Basics
Gluten-Free Baking Ingredients
• Gluten-Free Baking: How to Make An Easy Flour Substitute
• Gluten-Free Flour Substitutes: Which One Is Your Favorite?
• Coconut Flour: Is This the Best Gluten-Free Flour?
• What's the Deal with Xanthan Gum?
• The Oat Conundrum: Are Oats Gluten-Free?
• Ingredient Spotlight: Buckwheat Flour
• Cocoa to Cornstarch: Are These 10 Ingredients Gluten-Free?
• Good News! King Arthur Now Carries Gluten-Free Flours
Gluten-Free Baking Tips & Discussions
• Can You Recommend Good Gluten-Free Resources?
• What Are Good Recipes for Gluten-Free Tart Dough?
• What Are Some Good Wheat-Free Recipes for Gifting?
• Holiday Cooking and Baking Without Sugar or Flour?
• The High Cost of Celiac Diets
• Good Question: Gluten-Free Baking
Recipes for Gluten-Free Baked Goodies
• Chocolate Cupcakes (Vegan! Gluten-Free!) & Coconut Icing
• Internet Sensation: The No-Flour, No-Butter Peanut Butter Cookies Revisited
• Recipe Review: Gluten-Free Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp
• Gluten-Free Breakfast Recipe: Apple-Cinnamon Toastie
• Sweet Recipe: Gluten-Free Cherry Walnut Oatmeal Cookies
• Gluten-Free Chocolate Whoopie Pies & Marshmallow Cream
• Gluten-Free Dessert Recipe: Marking's Bibingka
• Recipe: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Monster Cookies
• Recipe: Peanut Butter & Fudge Oatmeal Cookies
• Afternoon Snack Recipe: Maple-Cinnamon Popcorn Wafers
• The Best Chewy Chocolate Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too)
• Crispy, Chewy, Gluten-Free: Socca (Chickpea Pancake)
• Cookie Recipe: Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies – Not inherently gluten-free, but one commenter says that she substituted gluten-free flour and it worked perfectly in this recipe.
Got any tips or product recommendations to add to these?
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Christ Church is leading a major expansion of the university's undergraduate teaching in Computer Science by creating a Centre of Excellence at the House. The university has one of the longest-established Computer Science departments in the country, founded in 1957, but in 2017 the university received over 1000 applications for only 60 places. This makes Computer Science one of the most over subscribed courses in the university, and we are committed to working closely with the department to expand the Computer Science Programme at the House and provide a model for the rest of the collegiate university.
Computer Science
Computer Science is about learning and understanding the mathematical, scientific and engineering principles underlying every kind of computing system, from mobile phones and the internet, via systems that interpret natural language, to the supercomputers that forecast tomorrow's weather or simulate the effects of disease on the human heart. The research output from such work is currently and will continue to have major and possibly transformational impacts on many of our lives.
Christ Church as Centre of Excellence
In 2017 Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, was appointed to Christ Church as a Senior Research Fellow with Yarin Gal, an expert in Machine Learning, joining him as Associate Professor. The first four undergraduates in Computer Science ever to be recruited at Christ Church started in October 2017.
Christ Church will next appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, three new Graduate Student Scholars (over 5 years), a second Computer Science tutor and grow undergraduate places to 8 per annum over the first 5 years. The community of undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and Faculty will build resilience as they learn and research together.
Making it Happen
If you would like to support Christ Church's Computer Science Programme, please get in touch with Philippa Roberts, Development Director.
Corporate Sponsorship
We are keen to work closely with the corporate world and are inviting expressions of interest to sponsor the expansion of Computer Science at Oxford. In return for financial support sponsors will gain direct access to leading edge thinking and research, and access to high quality young computer scientists. To set up a meeting in Oxford or London, please contact Philippa Roberts.


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The General Manager (Public Relations) of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMET), Mr. Muntari Yusuf, who was reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday along the notorious Kaduna-Abuja expressway, PRNigeria authoritatively gathered was freed Friday evening by his abductors on the eve of his daughter's wedding.
The NiMET's spokesperson who recently survived a ghastly motor accident with multiple fractures, also successfully gave out his daughter, Hassana Mukhtar Yusuf, to Saifullah Abdulaziz, in marriage this Saturday.
It was learnt that family members and well-wishers of the NiMET senior staff, rallied round to raise the money for the kidnappers, four days he was taken into hostage.
On how Mr. Yusuf was abducted, a reliable source disclosed that the kidnappers came with two cars with the first blocking the front that forced the NiMET's spokesperson official car, a Peugeot 408 to stop, while the car behind closed on them.
"The hoodlums fire sporadic gunshots in the air before they whisked him away," he added.
Meanwhile, PRNigeria earlier gathered that the kidnappers had demanded N50 million as ransom, in a recorded telephone conversation between Mr. Yusuf, his brother, Nura, and one of the abductors.
But when the family successfully raised N6 million, the kidnappers bluntly rejected the offer, describing it as 'rubbish'.
Yusuf was then heard in an emotion-laden voice directing his brother to withdraw N2 million from his account and sell off his Honda car to augment the initial offer.
In the conversation, he also cautioned them against taking the issue with levity or speaking harshly to his kidnappers.
But despite the tragic incident, PRNigeria gathered that the wedding Fatiha ceremony was held at the Barhim Housing Estate's Jumuat Mosque in Katsina State, 11 am today, Saturday after his freedom.


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Amid Boston Overdose Crisis, a Pair of Harvard Students Are Bringing Narcan to the Red Line
At First Cambridge City Council Election Forum, Candidates Clash Over Building Emissions
Harvard's Updated Sustainability Plan Garners Optimistic Responses from Student Climate Activists
'Sunroof' Singer Nicky Youre Lights Up Harvard Yard at Crimson Jam
'The Architect of the Whole Plan': Harvard Law Graduate Ken Chesebro's Path to Jan. 6
The University will open the gates to Harvard Yard to the public on Thursday, nearly six weeks after it limited entrance to people with Harvard IDs because of security concerns connected to the encampment of the Occupy Harvard movement.
The decision, which follows Occupy Harvard protesters' decision last week to remove their tents, will allow the general public to access the Yard between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Harvard affiliates first erected tents in front of the John Harvard statue in early November to show support for the Occupy movement that swept the nation this fall. Even with the tents gone, former campers say they will continue to work to forward the message of the protest. Further, a weatherized geodesic dome—initially erected as part of the movement's occupation—will remain in the Yard.
In an email circulated to members of the Occupy Harvard movement, the University stated that it would continue to evaluate its regulations regarding Yard access as the situation evolves, outlining a number of conditions that Occupy Harvard protests would be required to meet.
The email banned erecting new tents and sleeping overnight in the remaining dome or allowing individuals not affiliated with Harvard to utilize it. The University has also told Occupy protesters to ask the City of Cambridge to inspect its remaining tents to ensure that they meet safety codes.
Although it has not taken steps to expel Occupy Harvard's presence in the Yard, the University expressed its desire that the group move elsewhere.
"It is the University's strong preference that Occupy Harvard dismantles the remaining tents and pursues its educational and outreach objectives through established mechanisms afforded other student and staff groups on campus," Lars P. K. Madsen, special assistant to University President Drew G. Faust, wrote in the email. "The University would be happy to help facilitate access to space for these activities."
Madsden also reminded protesters of the University's recent announcement that it would evaluate its investment in the controversial company HEI Hotels and Resorts—an investment which Occupy Harvard members have demanded that Harvard pledge to cease.
—Staff writer Justin C. Worland can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Chapter 1
They say a witch lives in the old house under the interstate bridge. Always in the shadows, draped in ivy and sorrow, the house waits for a child too daring for his own good. And inside, the witch sits with her black eyes and toothless sneer. They say she can foresee your death in return for a lock of hair. She can make someone love you for the small price of a pinky finger. And, of course, she can kill your enemy if you give her your soul. Some people think it's only a silly tale to scare children, but it's true. Every word.
I should know, she is my grandmother after all, and right now I could steal her pudding stash for what she did to Winn Carter. "Nana! He was just talking to me!"
She sits at her large mahogany desk, a variety of feathers and animal bones arranged just so. She won't look at me. She never does when I catch her cursing my classmates. "Josephine, my dear, his intentions were clearly impure."
I pinch the bridge of my nose. "What have I told you about spying on me at school?"
She frowns.
Letting out a long sigh, I sit in the throne-like chair her victims usually inhabit. "I am safe. Probably safer than most kids, what with all the charms you make me wear." I jingle the bracelet, riddled with runes and tiny organs incased in glass baubles. I tell my friends they're medicinal herbs. As if that's so much better.
"I know." She grabs her ivory cane and hobbles over to me. As she puts her hand on my shoulder, I can't help but feel bad for scolding her. "You are just so precious to me. I cannot bear to lose you."
"You won't." My mother died when I was seven—a bad curse not even Nana couldn't undo—and ever since then I have been kept under tighter security than the President of the United States. It seemed important back then, but ten years later I just want a little wiggle room. Maybe a boyfriend. If whatever killed my mother was after me, they would have shown up a long time ago. "And you can't give a guy a face full of pimples because he smiled at me, especially when they just appear like that. Your reputation is bad enough, and most of the town doesn't believe you're real."
She cackles. It's just how she laughs. At least I've never heard anything else come out when she makes a joke. Of course, her jokes are usually on the morbid side.
"Nana, I mean it. Winn is a nice guy. Get rid of the zits."
"Oh, fine." She plops down in her chair, the old floorboards creaking even at her meager weight. She rearranges the feathers and bones, and then holds her hand over them. In the center, a flame sparks and consumes the feathers. "There."
I smile. "Thank you."
"In return, I need you to collect thirty spiders. I'm running low."
The smile is no more. Should have figured. There is always a payment—the number one rule of magic. You cannot get something for nothing. Nana lives and dies by that rule, even when magic isn't involved. "Fine."
Before I leave her apothecary, I grab a spare jar and fish out a frog eye from the bowl by the door. Gross stuff like that has never bothered me, probably because it's just part of the job. Ever since I was a kid, I can remember hunting for snakes, frogs, salamanders, spiders, and other creepy crawly reagents. The only thing that still gets me is the dead carcasses. They stink.
Standing at the front door, I hold out the frog eye and close my eyes. I picture the door I need; the one that leads to the ivy-covered home under the bridge. The magic pools in my hand, and I concentrate on what I desire it to do. It's work switching doors. Usually I keep it set on the house in the heart of town—the house my friends and acquaintances think is real. It is, in a way, since it leads here just like the other house.
This door is heavy and black, with a large bronze knocker in the shape of a gargoyle. It always groans when it opens, like most things in this house do. I've never bothered to sneak out, since I'd have to either crack open my screeching window or tiptoe across about two hundred squeaky floorboards.
Once the frog eye dissolves, I open my eyes. The brown door is now black and old and menacing. I turn the gilded knob, and the sound of freeway traffic overhead greets me. Checking to make sure the coast is clear, I step onto the front porch. Not that many use this road anymore, since ours is the only house still standing out here and people are afraid to even speak of it.
It's always cool under the bridge, even in the hot, humid summers. Sun gleams from either side, providing enough light to see. The tree in the yard is more moss than leaves, and the grass is thick and wet. I breathe in the air, full of dampness and magic.
That is, after all, why my great great grandmother moved here.
Normal people tend to think magic comes from inside a person. That's partially true. Witches can store magic in their bodies, but without a source to replenish that power they lose it. Magic, real, pure magic, is in places. It seeps into the ground, grows in the plants, lives in whatever inhabits its realm.
This house, this land, is one such place that simmers with magic. And no matter what comes, we Hemlocks will never give up this place.
I don't have to go far to find my first spider. Half the front window is covered in webs, and I pluck one from its perch and drop her in the jar. In the corner behind the rusty swing, there's two more. By the time I step off the porch, I already have seven. The dark places under the stairs earn me eight more. I comb the ivy all the way to the back of the house until I get the rest. As I head to the front again, they struggle over each other to climb the slick glass jar. "Sorry, guys, there's no escaping."
"Excuse me," someone says.
I look up from my jar, freezing in place. A man in a suit stands at the weathered iron gate, his hands in his pockets. He reeks of money, or maybe that's just the fancy convertible that gleams even in these shadows. I take a few wary steps forward. "Yes? Do you need something?"
His eyes go wide as he takes me in. I grab the ends of my jet black hair, wondering if I have web in it. Nothing.
"What do you need?" I say again when he doesn't answer.
He shakes his head, as if coming out of a daze. "Um, does a Carmina Hemlock live here?"
It's my turn to be taken by surprise. Who on earth would be looking for my mother after so much time? Before I know it I'm saying, "She's dead."
"Dead?" he croaks. "When?"
"Ten years ago."
"Oh." He looks away, and for a moment I wonder if he might be fighting tears. "I'm sorry."
I don't like this. This isn't Nana's usual clientele. I should have known just by the look of him, but sometimes the rich still believe in old ways. If he's not seeking a spell, he doesn't belong here. "You'd better go."
"I..." He stares at me, a strange sort of longing in his eyes. "Are you related to her? You look a lot like her."
"Leave." There's something cold on the other side of the gate. Something waiting. This man brought darkness with him. There's no way in hell I'm letting him in, even if he did know my mother. "Don't come back."
I take a few steps back before I dare turn, and then I run for the door.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Happy Writers Society: Sharing Your Stories
27 comments:
Ooh, I love it! Thank you for sharing. Now I must get back to writing so maybe someday I can be this good. :)ReplyDelete
Daaang, that's intense for a first chapter. I'm sensing either Darth Vader vibes or something else. Awesome! Love the grandmother, she's probably my favorite so far. She's just so quirky!ReplyDelete
This is really good! I was disappointed when it ended because I definitely wanted to read more!ReplyDelete
I love this!!!!!ReplyDelete
Natalie - Thank you so much for your beautiful post about sharing your stories, and of course for sharing your story with us!ReplyDelete
I loved this first chapter. I want to know more about Josephine, Nana, the magic, and this mysterious man!
My favorite part? "There is always a payment—the number one rule of magic. You cannot get something for nothing."
Great job, and thank you again for sharing!
Quitting My Day Job
*sigh* I love reading other people's writing. I really like this story too. I hope you finish it, and I will someday get to read it. I love your voice, the characters, and the tense.ReplyDelete
Oooo! I like it! *shivers at the thought of collecting spiders*ReplyDelete
Love your writing. The story, characters and setting remind me when I read a Roald Dahl story and get sucked in this beautiful, weird world. You should finish this story!ReplyDelete
Whoa... There are some AWESOME lines in here, and a lot of hints about the kinds of problems that are going to arise. I'm TOTALLY intrigued! I know you probably won't post more (or at least not much more) but I appreciate this glimpse. Is this what you showed your agent that she liked so much, or is that a different project?ReplyDelete
Kristan, I haven't showed this to Anna, but I suppose she'll see it if she checks in on my blog! heh. I'm still in very early stages. Only like 30 pages written, and I'm still kind of feeling things out.ReplyDelete
Oh, man! I'm in. :)ReplyDelete
I love it Natalie! Really, a lot. Great work.ReplyDelete
Awesome! Great work. And please...keep the webs out of her hair.ReplyDelete
Awesome! I love sharing stories. You are totally right. There is something we learn about people when we share like this.ReplyDelete
Please, can I have some more? Seriously, that was great.ReplyDelete
This is awesome! I love dark, creepy things. So, so good!!ReplyDelete
BTW,that's your early draft? My fifth drafts aren't that good. Le sigh.
Yay! You're right, stories do need sharing. And it's especially fun to read stories written by other people! (At least, for me). This was awesome, thanks so much for posting it!ReplyDelete
- Melissa Down UnderFebruary 11, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Great first chapter! I really enjoyed it and loved that I already have a sense of the MC and her Nana. I also thought it was a beautiful introduction to the character that will obviously start some changes in her life.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing!
Nice!! I loved it!ReplyDelete
Cool stuff batman.ReplyDelete
This is great. I was totally engrossed as soon as I discovered the witch was her grandma in paragraph 2. Good luck. I want to read more.ReplyDelete
You completely pulled me into Josephine's world! I'm intrigued!ReplyDelete
Love it, Natalie!
You cruel, cruel woman. You know once you show me that I can't resist. It's REALLY good, Nat. Like really, REALLY good.ReplyDelete
Cool beans. I just did the same thing on my blog w/ my first two chapters. Keep it coming.ReplyDelete
I love this premise--the nana being the witch. It's such a creative idea, I would love to read more. I've never really been into 'witch books'--definitely could never write one--Harry Potter was such a major exception I never thought I'd be intrigued again...but I like the characters so much already--the girl is so intriguing and pimples on the boy who smiled at her--that is awesome. It's so relate-able--great job!ReplyDelete
Love it! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Ahh. I love everything about this post. Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete


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The Christian Israeli owner of the Ohio restaurant attacked last week by a machete-wielding assailant shouting "Allahu akbar" says his answer to the attack is to put up an even larger flag than the one he normally has displayed from his motherland bearing the Star of David.
"Actually, I have another flag, and I am going to get a bigger flag, and I am going to get a Star of David necklace and put it on my chest, and I am going to get a tattoo," Hany Baransi — who describes himself as an Israeli Christian Arab — told The Tower, a publication that covers issues related to the Middle East.
"Honest to God, I am not kidding. They don't scare me. We are Israelis. We are Israelis. We are resilient, we fight back," the restaurateur said. "We are used to these bastards."
Police talk inside the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant where they say a man attacked several people with a machete Thursday. They say the man fled the scene and was later fatally shot by police. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
Given what happened the night of the attack, Baransi disputes police statements suggesting his establishment was targeted at random.
Baransi told The Tower that the assailant, 30-year-old Mohamed Barry, at first came to the Nazareth Restaurant & Deli in Columbus — a Mediterranean-style restaurant that serves hummus and falafel — to inquire where the owner was from. After learning from a waitress that the owner was from Israel, the assailant left and returned half an hour later with a machete.
Baransi said that the assailant yelled "Allahu akbar" then hacked four people, injuring them.
Police said that diners threw chairs at Barry and that a restaurant employee used the bat kept behind the counter to chase him away.
Police shot and killed him after a car chase culminating with Barry lunging at officers with his knife and machete, police officials told local media outlets.
Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said that Nazareth's diners "were just randomly attacked, spontaneously, without warning."
The owner had a different take.
"Is it a random attack? Yes, but it wasn't a random attack like you're walking in the street and there are 10 shops and you pick one," Baransi told The Tower. "It was a random attack [insofar] that I was one of the Israelis [picked] between all of the Israelis that are around here. It was a terrorist attack."
Baransi told the Columbus Dispatch Sunday that FBI agents told him they believe the incident was terrorist in nature.
NBC quoted law enforcement sources who said that the FBI had investigated Barry four years ago over expressing extreme Islamist views. The news network, quoting family members, reported that the assailant was originally from Guinea in West Africa and lived in the U.S. since he was very youg.