Christopher Zoukis's Blog, page 31
March 21, 2014
Farinelli - 1
By Christopher Zoukis 
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He died a lonely old man. He was seventy-seven years old.
His first grave was in the cemetery of the Capuchin monastery of Santa Croce in Bologna, Italy. He was interred wearing the mantle of the Order of Calatrava.
Santa Croce Cemetery itself is unruly: too much of everything, and messy. Monuments stand here, there and everywhere, as do floor slabs. And fifty percent of them are memorials for dead people who aren’t buried there. The va...
March 19, 2014
Correctional Officer
By Christopher Zoukis 
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Corrections officers work in jails, prisons, courthouses and detention centers. They deal with and handle people who have just been arrested, defendants, and inmates. Shift work is normal for corrections officers, as correctional facilities operate twenty-four hours per day. Their duties vary throughout the shift.
Corrections officers perform the following functions: booking prisoners, searching prisoners, guarding and watching prisoners, prev...
March 17, 2014
The Golf Ball Primer
By Christopher Zoukis 
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Golf balls must be at least 42.67 millimeters in diameter. In God’s feet and inches, that’s 1.68 inches. The reason this number is important is because a smaller ball will drive further due to less air resistance. So as one might expect, golf ball manufacturers tend to produce golf balls right at the size limit.
The weight of a golf ball cannot be more than 1.620 ounces or 45.93 grams. For you see, a heavy golf ball is slowed less by air resi...
March 14, 2014
Seven Exercises for Total Fitness
By Christopher Zoukis and Todd Broxmeyer / BlogCritics.org
There are many aspects of exercise that are exciting and productive, but one of the many components has to be the accessibility of the actual movements. No matter where a person is, whether it be the comfort of the home you grew up in, a hotel halfway around the world, or the Spartan confines of a 6′ by 9′ prison cell, accessibility is a must. These movements, or exercises, can be done alone or in any size group. So, if exercising is...
March 12, 2014
Prison Frisbee: Not Your Grandpa’s Ultimate Frisbee
By Christopher Zoukis / BlogCritics.org
The grass is spotty, the dirt patches shine through. The field isn’t what you’d expect for an Ultimate Frisbee league, as it is centered in the outfield of a prison softball field. Yet, a little over a dozen men, convicts, stand at the ready. Some wearing gloves, some shirtless with all manner of tattoos, and the field is marked with orange pylons commandeered from the prison flag football league. This is Frisbee, prison Frisbee.
When people think of fe...
March 10, 2014
Middle Street Publishing - Press Release
Middle Street Publishing Releases Prisons Facility Directory by Prison Education Advocate Christopher Zoukis and Dr. Randall Radic
Announcing the release of the ‘Directory of Federal Prisons: PrisonLawBlog.com’s Federal Bureau of Prisons Facility Directory.'
'Directory of Federal Prisons: PrisonLawBlog.com's Federal Bureau of Prisons Facility Directory'
This electronic guidebook enables [anyone] to quickly locate the contact information and inmate correspondence address of every prison withi...
March 7, 2014
Thanks To All Loyal Chronicles Readers
By Christopher Zoukis 
Image courtesy Middle Street Publishing
I'd like to take a quick moment to thank all of you loyal Chronicles of the Armchair Literati readers who have taken the time to buy a copy of my latest text, the Directory of Federal Prisons. And my double thanks to those who have gone the extra mile by posting a reviewon Amazon. Every review counts, and I very much appreciate each and every one.
If you have not yet had a chance to pick up a copy of the Directory, you can click th...
March 3, 2014
The Death of Honor
Where is the honor of taking the blame?
Where is the honor of being shamed?
Where is the honor of letting others get away?
Where is the honor of dying today? 
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The pride of life bolsters my chest.
But in the morning it appears to be regress.
The others joyfully loaded the gun.
They set me in the front; they told me to run.
So I ran and ran into the danger.
Heart beating fast; for me there is no savior.
At the point when I saw the whites of...
February 28, 2014
A Picture in the Paper - Poetry
By Christopher Zoukis 
Image courtesy dml.ucdavis.edu
I saw a picture in the paper today.
A picture of a time it was ok to play.
A picture of a girl I used to know.
A picture of Kelsie Snyder; a picture of hope.
I look at this picture and my heart is so empty.
My eyes tear over; the love that was once there strikes me over and over
It's not something she did; it's the memory of the past.
It's the lost love once again that always seems to last.
It's as if my life is a revolving door.
The lov...
February 26, 2014
Dark History: Mexico’s Drug Cartels – Part 4
By Christopher Zoukis / BlogCritics.org
Things continued to get worse. In 2010, the Gulf Cartel killed a member of the Zetas, Victor Mendoza Perez. Los Zetas declared war on the Gulf Cartel. Bloody battles, using explosives and helicopters, broke out all over. The news media refused to cover the clashes or report the number of dead bodies because the cartels had a nasty habit of murdering news reporters and editors who published such information. 
Arturo Beltran Leyva / "The Beard"
