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WICKHAM CP, FL—I have been working with Michelle for about two years now (she's my only student), and because her sense of self has weakened so dramatically, She/God is starting to awaken within her.
In other words, the miracles are starting to happen.
This is big for a number of reasons:
- For myself, it confirms that a step-by-step approach (Mortal-Soul-Radiance-Emptiness-Oneness) can be shared, learned, and "transmitted" to others. Having never attempted this, it is validation of what I could previously only have hoped was possible.
- The increase in synchronistic events is a powerful indicator that Michelle's sense of self is weakening. While not getting attached to the "miracles" is critical, the increase in these events acts as a sort of feedback on the spiritual seeker's progress (the fading of identity). The less there is of Michelle, the more there is of God.
- Michelle is gaining confidence in surrender. Seeing first-hand how she directly benefits when she surrenders control, makes surrendering far less scary. It strengthens her belief in the wisdom of surrender.
- Michelle is learning how to hear the whispers of God (something I suspect each person will hear differently)*, and at the same time is gaining the confidence to trust in those whispers.
The next post will have more details of Radiance (where Michelle is operating from) and the steps beyond (Emptiness and Oneness).
*Note: I wrote the draft of this post a few days ago but, synchronistically, this morning I received a note from Michelle on how she hears Her/God's whispers (Michelle wasn't aware I was writing this post):
I have kept experimenting with little things and see that there are many different layers to intuition, which helps me to see where I have gone wrong in trusting my "intuition" in the past, which was really a deeper impression of my hopes or fears about situations. When I really check into the deepest source, there is an undeniability and a totally different quality, but it definitely involves a deeper level of listening, and not just listening to the impressions of my hopes and fears.
I want to emphasize a very important point Michelle has realized and why surrender is so critical to the spiritual aspirant's progress: Her/God's whispers lie below (are quieter than) your personal hopes and fears ("there is an undeniability and a totally different quality, but it definitely involves a deeper level of listening"). This is distinctly different from the Law of Attraction, wish fulfillment, Wiccan spells, most prayers, etc.. It's not about getting what you want, it's about surrendering and doing what She wants.
God doesn't wake up in self-centered individuals.
It's Time To Wake Up
Mystical Oneness and the Nine Aspects of Being is a step-by-step guide to enlightenment and beyond.
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It's Time To Be Happy
We live in divisive times.
It's Time Let Go
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JAZZ NOTES: Hope Way, Green Film, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sistas'
9/16/2016, 2:05 p.m.
The late pianist St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was ushered into jazz history based on his musicianship, and as a genius composer and arranger. Last weekend his legacy was enhanced with the co-naming of Lyman Place as Elmo Hope Way—Jazz Pioneer (in the Bronx).
Elmo Hope, wife Bertha and baby daughter resided on this tree-lined block after relocating from California. There he wrote some of his best music, and many musicians came to visit, including his closest friends, the pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell.
T.S. Monk III (Monk's son) noted, "Naming a street after Elmo Hope is a great thing. It demonstrates how important this music called jazz is and the significant contribution made by Elmo."
There were comments by NYC Councilwoman Vanessa L. Gibson (16th District, Bronx), Bob Gumbs, Bobby Sanabria and professor Mark Naison, Fordham University.
Teary-eyed Bertha Hope noted what it took to make this day happen and how proud she felt on this special occasion, and how honored Elmo would feel for such recognition. Joan Allen-Canada from California offered a heartfelt poem.
After the unveiling, a reception took place at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab, where Bobby Sanabria is the co-founder.
Bertha Hope and her trio (bassist Kim Clarke and drummer Lucianna F. Padmore) performed Elmo's tunes "Stars Over Marrakesh" and "One Second Please." She was later joined by guest trumpeter Jimmy Owens (who also grew up in the neighborhood), drummer T.S. Monk, saxophonist George Braith and vocalists Keisha St. Joan and Monica Hope (daughter).
The Bronx has such a rich history of great musicians, and Elmo Hope Way is yet another aspect to inspire generations to come.
The guitarist Grant Green died at the early age of 43 and although he was not a household name, he was able to make an undeniable mark. His sound can be detected within the first few notes of playing. He had jazz veins mixed with his style of blues and funk as his albums "Blues for Lou" (Blue Note 1999 release) and "His Majesty King Funk" (Blue Note 1965) demonstrate.
Green spent his recording career (1961-65) at the premiere jazz label Blue Note, where the alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson introduced him to Alfred Lion (the label's founder).
During the 1960s Green had a regular stand at the then popular, no frills Slug's Saloon, located on the Lower East Side. When not in trio mode, Green sat solo in a wooden chair center stage and wowed the audience with his stylistic virtuosity.
Sept. 18, The Grant Green Story, a documentary on the late jazz guitarist, will premiere in Theatre C of MIST Harlem (46 W. 116th St.), at 4:10 p.m., as part of the 11th annual Harlem International Film Festival. The film features many individuals he met while living and performing in New York, as well as in Detroit and St. Louis, cities that he once called home.
The film was made with the assistance of Grant Green Jr., youngest son of Grant (not to be confused with his brother Greg who plays guitar professionally under their father's name). Sharony Green, who was married to Grant's youngest son, is the film's executive producer. Detroit-area filmmaker Charles Cirgenski assisted Sharony as a co-producer and co-director. Pre-production began in 1994. The film's running time is 59 minutes.

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Mary's Success Story
Mary shares her transformation story in an interview. She is an amazing success and challenges me to stay one step ahead of her. Here are some of the quotes from her interview.
"You are my first trainer that I've worked out with that had me cut back on my cardio. THANK YOU!"
Q. What was the immediate result you received from our first personal training session together?
A. "For the first time in years I was looking forward to working out again. And I like that you gave me different programs so I could change my workouts daily."
Q.What secondary benefits did you derive, as a result of our personal training sessions?
A. "I was actually starting to lose weight and keep it off. I also felt so much stronger then I have for a long time. My pant size went from a 12-14 to a 0-3!!"
Q. What was the single biggest result or benefit you received from doing personal training with me?
A. "That I have lost around 40 lbs. and I have been able to keep it off for over 2 years now with doing the programs that you have set up for me. Today I'm 42 and I feel as strong and healthy as I did when I was in my 20's if not better."
Q. What was your health and fitness life like before you started working with me?
A. Boring. I would do 1 hour of cardio 4 times a week and I would workout with weights if I had the time which usually did not happen.
Q. Specifically, what challenges did you face?
A. I would drop 1 -2 lbs. a week and gain it and sometimes more back over the weekend. This went on for over 5 years and I was about to give up since I figured I could never lose the weight."
Thanks for sharing Mary! You deserve everything you've achieved! - Mac


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Bill Carmody had seen enough. With just over 16 minutes to play Wednesday night, the Northwestern coach called timeout, peeled off his jacket and went to work in a huddle.
His Wildcats had led by 10 points late in the first half, and now they trailed by two.
But things got no better from there. In what could prove to be a damaging loss come NCAA tournament time, the Wildcats fell 57-56 before a sold-out crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
The Wildcats finally did stage a rally after going down 55-47 with 1:43 to play.
JerShon Cobb hit a free throw, and Alex Marcotullio hit a 3. Illinois' Meyers Leonard missed from in close, and Cobb fed John Shurna for a 3-pointer with 36.3 seconds to play.
The Wildcats tied it at 56-56 on a Drew Crawford tip-in with 30 seconds to play.
Illinois' Brandon Paul drove the lane and Crawford stepped in to take a charge, but none was called. Myke Henry got fouled on his tip-in attempt and made one free throw.
With six seconds left, Crawford drove it the length of the floor. Leonard swatted his game-winning shot attempt.
Northwestern went as Shurna did. He scored 17 first-half points, hitting a 3-pointer to give the Wildcats a 36-26 lead, their largest of the game.
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But he didn't score again until 36 seconds remained in the game, a span of nearly 23 minutes.
Illinois' Brandon Paul did a terrific job defending him in the second half, as Shurna went just 1-for-7 after the break.
Drew Crawford had a tough night, scoring nine points on 3-for-11 shooting. Same for freshman point guard Dave Sobolewski, who didn't score until 37 minutes into the game and missed all four of his 3-point tries.
The Wildcats fell to 11-4, 1-2 in the Big Ten. And they'll be big underdogs in their next four games (at Michigan, Michigan State, at Wisconsin, at Minnesota).


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To many Spring Hill residents, the bubbling waterfall at Spring Hill Drive and U.S. 19 has been a fitting landmark for as long as they can remember.
Although not fancy, it has been a source of sentimental pride to the community's 92,000 residents and has been the site of holiday celebrations, veterans ceremonies, even a wedding.
But in recent years, the curved, brick wall structure had fallen into disrepair. Marred by neglect, the waterfall had become something of an eyesore. At times, it even lacked the flowing water that made it the eye-catching feature it was intended to be.
Things got even worse last fall when the Hernando County Parks and Recreation Department cut funds for the maintenance of the waterfall and its surrounding area. In January, members of the Spring Hill Garden Club took over maintenance of the site.
With community support, the group raised more than $6,000 in donations and in-kind services for improvements, including new shrubbery, an irrigation system, even a new pump to replace the aging one that had often failed to deliver the sheet of water that made the structure a showcase.
"It was an all-out effort by the community," said garden club member Shirley Jacques. "And with that, we've been able to make a huge improvement at the waterfall."
At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, the Spring Hill Garden Club will hold a public rededication ceremony to thank supporters of the project and to show off the results of their efforts.
"We were delighted by the response we got," Jacques said. "But the big concern is that people may think we're done with it. We're not. We still have a ways to go."
The Deltona Corp., developers of Spring Hill, built the original waterfall during the 1960s, when U.S. 19 was a two-lane road. When the highway was widened in the early 1990s, a new waterfall was built across the street.
Jacques said her club has cared for the landscaping near the site for the past several years.
However, maintaining the waterfall and the adjacent park took resources that were beyond the club's capabilities.
The club had hoped to raise $12,000 through donations to complete the renovation project and have enough left to continue regular maintenance at the site, but the members fell short of that goal.
Saturday's ceremony will feature a guest speaker, Sheriff Al Nienhuis, plus the Springstead High School color guard and band. After the ceremony, the club will serve cake and beverages at the Nature Coast Botanical Gardens at 1489 Parker Ave.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post7234162896477631125..comments2020-07-31T19:09:40.896-06:00Comments on DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog: FamilySearch begins public beta of "Family Trees"DearMYRTLEhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-69815846313881598322011-03-01T11:56:09.440-07:002011-03-01T11:56:09.440-07:00You are correct that the IGI is searchable online....You are correct that the IGI is searchable online. However, the ability to SORT or search only by BATCH ID is missing.

This is problematic if one wishes to deal with one parish in particular.DearMYRTLEhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-45888404909921072632011-03-01T11:47:10.597-07:002011-03-01T11:47:10.597-07:00I may be wrong but isn't the IGI available to ...I may be wrong but isn't the IGI available to search in the regular, recently updated, FamilySearch.org? (By that I mean the newly changed, updated FamilySearch.org, not NFS or the old, since 1999, FamilySearch.org) I thought that the IGI was taken apart and the submitted info put into NFS trees, and the extracted info put into the record search on FamilySearch.org. I know you can't just click on a collection called the "IGI" but isn't that info available in the many different collections like "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"?email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-40636237285293364642011-02-28T21:19:49.943-07:002011-02-28T21:19:49.943-07:00The lack of Batch #s has meant that I have foregon...The lack of Batch #s has meant that I have foregone the use of the new FamilySearch, and only use the old IGI. I dread the day when that is eventually taken off line, because there doesn't seem to be any way to sort the wheat from the chaff. Most often I use the Batch #s to search for records within a particular parish. I'm well aware of its limitations, but it's an extremely valuable resource to indicate which parish registers (in the UK) to search next on microfilm (or county Register Office). If this facility is gone, what am I to do?Brett Paynehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-80079513827214613462011-02-28T18:11:40.983-07:002011-02-28T18:11:40.983-07:00Myrt,Thank you for explaining why's and why-fo...Myrt,Thank you for explaining why's and why-for's to this old email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-65990382056426049762011-02-28T17:58:50.902-07:002011-02-28T17:58:50.902-07:00Excellent article on "Family Trees." Pa...Excellent article on "Family Trees." Patience is the key word when working with this program as the engineers are working daily to improve the site. In the near future expect to see the ability to mark incorrect relationships as incorrect and edit obviously incorrect information like the 1989 for 1889, etc. Remember the site is a beta site and still developing.Robert Givenshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-29769825188017404322011-02-28T17:52:28.499-07:002011-02-28T17:52:28.499-07:00This is a good review. Patience is the key word w...This is a good review. Patience is the key word when it comes to "Family Trees" as it is still a work in progress. Many changes will come in the future as the engineers work to make this "product" more helpful to the genealogical community. In the not too distant future we should be able to make incorrect relationships that can't be broken in the tree as "incorrect" and also edit out those obvious typos, etc.Robert Givenshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-1848006447588121852011-02-28T11:30:23.513-07:002011-02-28T11:30:23.513-07:00Everything Family Search is pushing out is extreme...Everything Family Search is pushing out is extremely interesting these days.

Thanks for the in-depth coverage of this, Myrt.Geni Granthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Funeral of King Edward VII
Well .... John Crawford and Jane Walker (Peter's adoptive parents), and most of their contemporaries and friends grew up in the short interval between the First and Second World Wars.
It shaped their attitudes and tastes - and those attitudes and tastes had a direct effect on the their adopted son.
|Treaty of Versailles
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge wrote a book about the period and called it 'The Long Weekend' - which in one sense was very appropriate, despite the fact that it was a period of unprecedented change which dramatically altered the everyday lives of practically everyone - at least everyone in the developed world.
The world of 1919 was very similar to the world of 1914, despite the technological advances that had been made during the war.
|Oxford Street 1914
|Oxford Street 1939
The 'Long Weekend' was a period of many things, but most significant were the changes in everyday life and in society that undoubtedly contributed to the economic and political instability that precipitated the Second World War.
So what were these changes ?
There is, of course a strange fantasy about the twenties and thirties in England that focusses on the Wall Street Crash, Great Depression, the Jarrow Marchers, political unrest, including the rise of the Oswald Mosley and 'Blackshirts', the Spanish Civil War - and much else.
It is often pictured as a grey, depressing time, recorded in grainy, block and white photos and films - usually projected at the wrong speed.
There is almost alway tinges of Orwell, 1984, and 'Newspeak' surrounding this period, as if ordinary people were subjected to the apalling deprivations and anxieties of the dystopia that Orwell so skillfully portrayed.
Well, it was not a decline into abject poverty, as so many people imagine.
There is a myth that the Twenties were relatively prosperous, while the Thirties were a time of unmitigated unemployment slump and poverty.
In fact the later part of the Thirties, particularly in some parts of Britain, were a period of unparalleled growth and development.
The extreme west and the north of of the United Kingdom were badly affected by the Wall Street Crash, and the slump that followed.
The South of the UK, and particularly the south-east of England, however, were able to quickly recover from the Thirties slump, and by the late middle to late Thirties were experiencing a a tremendous boom.
There was a vast expansion of the suburbs - which is still visible today - and the area around London was christened 'Metroland' as many of those suburbs we conveniently connected to London by the Metropolitan Underground Railway.
|1930s Bakelite Wireless Set
The south was also the home of new developing industries such as the electrical industry, which prospered from the large-scale electrification of housing and industry.
Mass production methods brought new products such as electrical cookers, washing machines and radios into the reach of the middle classes, and the industries which produced these prospered.
Nearly half of all new factories that opened in Britain between 1932 and 1937 were in the Greater London area (see Great West Road above).
|1930s English Agriculture - Ploughing
|1930 Austin 7 Tourer
For cities that had a developed motor industry such as Birmingham, Coventry and Oxford, the 1930s were also a boom time.
Manufacturers such as Austin, Morris and Ford dominated the motor industry during the 1930s, and the number of cars on British roads doubled within the decade.
British Agriculture also flourished in the 1930s.
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In 1911, a compulsory national unemployment and health insurance scheme had been put in place by the Liberal government of Herbert Henry Asquith (see Liberal reforms).
This scheme had been funded through contributions from the government, the employers and the workers.
At first, the scheme only applied to certain trades but, in 1920, it was expanded to include most manual workers, however, the scheme only paid out according to the level of contributions made rather than according to need, and was only payable for 15 weeks.
|1930s Government Employment Exchange
In effect, millions of workers who had been too poorly paid to make contributions, or who had been unemployed long term, were left destitute by the scheme.
With the mass unemployment of the 1930s, contributions to the insurance scheme dried up, resulting in a funding crisis.
In August 1931, the 1911 scheme was replaced by a fully government-funded unemployment benefit system.
This system, for the first time, paid out according to need rather than the level of contributions.
This unemployment benefit was subject to a strict means test, and anyone applying for unemployment pay had to have an inspection by a government official to make sure that they had no hidden earnings or savings, undisclosed source(s) of income or other means of support.
The response of the average English family to the experience of the First World War, particularly in the 1930s, was in many ways predictable.
Families turned in on themselves.
Those husbands and fathers, who had survived the carnage of the trenches, had had quite enough of 'adventure'.
What they wanted were the quiet joys of a relatively simple family life.
This was seen particularly in the expanding suburbs (see Metroland above).
For those, particularly in Southern England, who had settled down and married there was the prospect of buying, (rather than renting) a home.
In the developing, light industrial economy of the South, jobs were well paid and secure, and mortgages were easy to obtain.
All over Southern England estates of new homes sprung up.
But the style mirrored the attitudes of a nation shocked by the trauma of an industrial war.
Not for them the white painted concrete, flat roofs and tower blocks favoured by Corbusier and his like.
No - the people of England looked back to a more peaceful and tranquil time.
'Heroic' architecture was not for then. Instead they longed for a quiet domesticity.
For them a new style was created - 'Tudorbethan'.
This style represents a subset of Tudor revival architecture; the word is modelled on John Betjeman's 1933 coinage of the 'Jacobethan' style, which he used to describe the grand mixed revival style of circa 1835–1885 that had been called things like 'Free English Renaissance'.
'Tudorbethan', however, took things a step further, eliminated the hexagonal or many-faceted towers and mock battlements of Jacobethan, and applied the more domestic styles of 'Merrie England', which were cosier and quaint.
'Tudorbethan' is also used synonymously with 'Tudor Revival', and more specifically 'Mock Tudor'.
The emphasis was on the simple, rustic and the less impressive aspects of Tudor architecture, imitating in this way medieval cottages or country houses.
Half-Timbering is the 'trade-mark' motif of the style, although the appearance of solid beams and half timbered exterior walls is only superficial.
Artificially aged and blackened beams are constructed from light wood, bear no loads, and are attached to ceilings and walls purely for decoration, while artificial flames leap from wrought iron fire-dogs in an inglenook often a third of the size of the room in which they are situated.
When it came to furnishing the new 'Tudor' home, the 1930s home-maker would be able to buy affordable oak furniture that recreated a Jacobean or Tudor style.
Lifestyle magazines such as 'Good Housekeeping' showed the latest home styles.
These new and influential magazines encouraged the lady of the house to keep up with the 'Jones' and the man to use his spare time on DIY projects.
Furniture would often be large, boxy geometric shapes.
English Oak was popular but because of a shortage of wood, veneer and decorated plywood was greatly used.
The living room would often be carpeted.
In larger homes halls may have had panelled walls and parquet floors.
In kitchens they would have used linoleum or quarry tiles for the floor and plywood and Melamine for the units.
The bedroom more often of had fitted furniture, dark varnished floorboards and an electric fire.
Downstairs coal fireplaces were fitted with an oak or tiled surround.
The sun rising pattern was often found repeated in stained glass in doors and windows.
The garden became a focal part of the new domesticity.
Instead of digging trenches, the man of the house would be digging flower-beds and tending his roses.
Having spent years dedicated to killing, the men ho survived the was dedicated themselves to growing living things from the soil - and this was the origin of the average Englishman's obsession with his garden.
There was, however, another aspect to this apparent 'retreat from modernity'.
For some there was an acceptable face of 'modernity'.
Such people were usually 'upper middle-class' and well educated.
|English Moderne 1930s
Theses people chose a style now known as Moderne (note the intentional 'e' at the end of the word).
During the 1930s, Art Deco had a noticeable effect on house design in the United Kingdom, as well as the design of various public buildings.
Classic Art Deco then morphed into Moderne.
Moderne was typified by straight, white-rendered house frontages rising to flat roofs, sharply geometric door surrounds and tall windows, as well as convex-curved metal corner windows, were all characteristic of that period.
The London Underground is also famous for many examples of Art Deco architecture, and many of the suburban stations in Metroland were designed in the Moderne style.
Du Cane Court, in Balham, south-west London, is a good example of the Moderne style.
|Dominion Cinema - Hounslow - 1930s
|Saltdean Lido - Sussex - 1930s
Where the war had destroyed bodies, the new era 'glorified' the fit, slim, healthy sun-tanned body.
This was the era of suburban parks, with tennis courts, golf courses and bowling greens, and paddling pools for the children.
An other entertainment there were public libraries, dancing and of course the cinema, many of which were built in the Moderne style, (particularly the Odeon chain).
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I would like to start with the phrase "There was a time when things were simpler" but that's untrue. My life has never been simple. In some ways, my knowledge and understanding of my three different genders has made some things easier to understand. In others, it has made them more complex.
However, one thing always sticks on the back of my mind–the disconnect between sexuality and relationships–and I figured I'd try to flush it out.
The definitions to the following terms are directly from Merriam Webster. As each word had several definitions, I chose the ones that dealt with the meaning in this post.
What are Relationships?
Relationship: a romantic attachment
What is Sexuality?
Sexuality: the quality or state of being sexual: expression of sexual receptivity or interest especially when excessive
What is Gender?
Gender: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
What is label?
Label: a descriptive or identifying word or phrase
So… why am I giving you a definition lesson? I'm not, but I wanted to have these definitions set so that you can read what I have to say within those confining labels.
Have you ever noticed how confining labels are? Male. Female. Gay. Straight. Liberal. Conservative. Religious. Open.
Each one of those words, no doubt had an image (or more) flash into your head as to what they mean. You've instantly boxed whatever that label means, and anyone you have attached that label to.
Let me state I have always been against labels. Whenever I've been given a label, or even accepted it as part of me, I also rejected it. Being branded with a label, to me, is kind of like being pushed into a box that doesn't fit. Because no label fits all of me. It may fit this bit… or this bit… or even that bit… but I am a vast amalgam of genders, sexualities, identities, thoughts, beliefs, snarkiness, shyness, reserve, brashness, openness, intelligence, confusion, attitude, love, and… I could go on into infinitum.
But if I allow one label to overshadow me? It pushes away the other 99.9% of who I am.
This was brought front and center 8 days ago.
For the sake of this post, I define myself as a trigender sapiosexual–I have three genders: masculine, neutral, and feminine and am sexually attracted to intelligence–who is attracted to a tiny, itty bitty percentage of the male population. (But I am so much more, so don't squish me into a box!)
Ahem, back to what I was saying… 8 days ago, I spent several annoying hours in the ER of a local hospital when my dad had an attack and we called 911. So while we're sitting in my dad's ER room, in walked his doctor. Now let me state that I never find someone attractive right off the bat. I have to get to know him first. Plus, having grown up around hospitals, I know for a fact that doctors are never attractive. However, that said, I was automatically attracted to this particular physician. Tall with blond hair, a little salt and pepper at the roots, lithe, intelligent… let's just say YUM. Oh yeah, and he was probably two feet taller than me. LOL
We saw him three times before he stated they were keeping my dad overnight and that the attending physician in the hospital side was coming in to talk to us. So, we sat there and waited and a new doctor walked in and introduced themself. And for the second time in one night, I found myself attracted to someone. Which is shocking enough. Instant attraction just doesn't happen to me. The difference is, in this instance, the doctor was female.
The automatic zing that went through me as she introduced herself and shook my hand was a bit of a surprise. I'm open enough that I can state it wasn't shocking. But it did open my eyes to the fact I had bought into a label: that I was only attracted to men. Now, as I've never been attracted in that way to a woman before, it's possible she may be the only one ever. OR, now that I've noticed it, I may find myself attracted to more women in the future. Or, and this is most likely in my opinion, I'll not notice because I usually DON'T notice attraction to either sex just by seeing or talking to them. Usually it takes getting to know them.
Now, where am I going with this? I do have a point, believe it or not 😉
The way we define relationships is wonky. When I fully recognized my three genders, it was with a relief, though it did screw up the way others defined me. The problem I see is that the world defines its capacity for loving relationships by their sexuality.
What is the problem with definining relationships by sexuality? (and by the way, I caught that typo the moment the word was finished typing, but it sounded so exceptional in my head that I left it.)
If you are gender: masculine and occupy a male physical body and are sexually attracted to gender: feminine in a female body, you classify yourself as heterosexual. Or, if you are that gender: masculine male and are sexually attracted to other masculine males, you classify as homosexual. And that doesn't even bring in all the multitudes of mixtures of gender and physical body and attraction factors.
Defining one label is so limiting. Because what happens if in twenty years you realize that definition doesn't fit? What if you find you are more than you thought you were? By then you've dug in waist or throat deep and everyone knows you as "X, Y, or Z" and can you dig your way out? Because that's what labels do: they shrink who we are by putting strict definitions on our heads. And if we change, others do their best to put us back into our box because that's where they are more comfortable.
Just as bad, it is defining a possible loving, romantic relationship by sexuality. Which doesn't necessarily mesh. Wouldn't an attraction that creates a long-lasting relationship be more based on gender and personality than sex? Sure, sexual attraction can be important depending on one's sexual needs. And don't get me wrong, I have a high libido and need a high level of sexual activity when in a relationship. But a relationship is built on more than sex. If it wasn't, nobody would stay married to the same person for 60 years. Hell, nobody would get married at all.
So what's left? How about not defining it at all. Or going by one term. Humanity. Because who we are sexually attracted to and who we are emotionally attracted to might get wonky, especially as the limited paradigm of male/female is dumped.
Want a what if? Try being a trigender individual who has a strong masculine side which comes out when I date. Now try being the het guy who dated me. At least I now know why I acted the way I did back when I dated and why the guy either went running in the other direction or became my best bud.
We need to expand our ability to see beyond the label, to see beyond what we think of us and those we associate with. And most of all, we need to be open to who we are and who we might become.
It's taken me 5 decades to figure out so many things about myself. It makes me kind of excited for the things I'll find out in the next 5 decades.
In conclusion, I don't know if the connect and disconnect in my brain between sexuality, gender, and relationships will ever be figured out. Back when I 'thought' I was a crazy person living in a female body, what others said 'sounded' simple—the whole dating, relationship, marriage conundrum—but never was. Now, I know much more about who I am, nothing is simple anymore. Dating, relationships, sexuality… it's all a crazy mess.
Wouldn't it be nice to be a person looking for a companion without all the other shit in the way?
I dream of the day when a label is nothing more than a post-it note on someone's calendar. Not their life.


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Police believe a 78-year-old man shot and killed his 21-year-old wife early Saturday, then set their home on fire before killing himself.
It happened at about 1:15 a.m. in a quiet neighborhood on Southwest Kamchatka Avenue.
"A white male called 911 and said he had just killed his wife and was going to kill himself," police spokesman Tom Nichols said. "Before he turned the gun on himself, he set the house on fire."
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Peter Mullan's violent alcoholic forms an awkward friendship with Olivia Colman in this tough but absorbing drama.
You can tell from the opening scene that actor Paddy Considine's hard-hitting debut as a writer and director is not going to be an easy watch.
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What follows is, in places, even more brutal, yet this drama enables us to understand Mullan's character and offers him a kind of redemption through middle-class charity-shop manager Colman, in whose store he takes refuge after another violent affray.
His life is clearly deeply troubled, but behind her respectable facade lurks an even more disturbing history of abuse.
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Few world music ensembles combine the suppleness of Indian Classical with the vigor of Swedish jazz in a more subtle way than Mynta, whose music is fresh, delicate, liberating and smooth. Whenever Indian and Western fusion is mentioned, John McLaughlin's Shakti is the most familiar name. That group was a fusion of instruments, taking Indian classical as the dominant sound, though breaking away from its strict realms of composition to a more improvisational quality. Shakti closely missed being a fusion of two different sounds. The apparent following and regard received by Shakti (with such heavyweights as McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram) was well-deserved.
Mynta is a perfect fusion of two very different sounds, emancipating a unique compositional blend of unity and individuality where sounds are intertwined closely, yet each retains a distinct character. It's comparatively a rare band in the world of East-West fusion. Besides having developed an incisively personal style, the band has a concentrated completeness and expressive body of work, each maintaining a consistent integrity, yet subject to seasonal changes that define its coming to age.
The first three songs of the compilation are from the 1988 album Indian Time, one of Mynta's early albums and supposedly the one that would exemplify the group for years to come. The characteristic features here are laid-back rhythmic elements, high levels of improvisation from the entire group, and safe-sided lesser experimentation. Hot Madras, recorded in 1991a free-bop-styled album, evidently portraying the band's move towards more vigoris the source of the next three songs.
The next six songs come from Nandu's Dance (1994) and First Summer (1997), considered to be the most experimental albums by the band at its creative heights. "First Summer" is Mynta's signature song, even incorporating rap vocals. Legendary classical vocalist Shankar Mahadevan collaborated with the band for the first time here, and it's altogether a different ride. The last three tracks are from Teabreak (2003), a dazzling experimental entity. Though a surprise to many of Mynta's fans through its incorporation of electronic beats, Indian Classical vocals and heavy bass-laden sound, the album is a perfectionist choice, displaying a group that has come a long way together.
Given the sheer volume of this storied band's recordings, Hot Days introduces us to some, but hardly all, of the main instrumental contributors in the band's history. With a bonus live DVD at Fasching, Hot Days becomes an essential addition to the Mynta canon.
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Indian Time; Seventh Heaven; To Fazal; Hymn of India; Hot Madras; Banfora; Nandus Dance; Sounds; Hey-Ho; first Summer; Rapatal; Serra Yeah Yeah; Teabreak; Fuzzy; Red Departure.
Fazal Qureshi: tabla; Shankar Mahadevan: vocal; Nandkishor Muley: santoor; Sridhar Partasarathy: mridangam; Anders Hagberg: soprano, flute; Max Ahman: guitar; Christian Paulin: bass; Michael Hedenquist: percussion; Mikael Nilsson: percussion; Ola Bothzen: percussion; Johan Soderqvist: keyboard; Jan Radesjo: keyboard; Stefan Blomquist: keyboard; Magnum Coltrane Price: rap; Santiago Jimenez: violin.
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Title: Mynta - Hot Days | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Free Spirit


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Perhaps you've seen the movie Inglorious Basterds, (2009), Quentin Tarantino. It's an alternate history story about an assassination plot on Adolf Hitler that succeeded. In actual history, none of the assassination attempts on Hitler's life succeeded.
According to history, Hitler committed suicide in Berlin while hiding in his underground bunker on April 30, 1945. According to several of my former patients, Adolf Hitler was alive and well living in a compound somewhere in South America run by the US Government with John F. Kennedy.
That was back in the 1990's. Given the passage of time, I'm thinking both Hitler and JFK have to have gotten dead by now…
My former patients who spoke of this claimed that they had been kidnapped by an unknown agency of the government, probably the CIA, and taken to the top secret South American compound to participate in a double top secret drug test. Once the testing was over, they were returned to the US, and, of course, no one believed their story afterwards.
You're going to have to decide which of those two versions of history you want to believe. I find the latter credible simply because more than one stark-raving mad lunatic told me the same story. My question to them was this: Was Elvis in the compound, too?
None of my former patients had seen Elvis, but they had heard he was there at one time. He either escaped or was set free after the government was done experimenting on him.
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I get a chuckle out of the Facebook posts that compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, mostly because there's nothing to compare.
The Adolf was a puppet master with a twisted agenda whereas The Donald is merely a puppet who has no idea what the hell he's doing.
You're probably wondering where the hell I'm going with this. You're not the only one. This is either going to be an illuminating and entertaining post, or it'll end up being the worst thing ever written by anyone.
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Have you ever heard of The Trolley Problem? It's a thought experiment in ethics. The general form of the problem is this:
You see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the tracks. You are standing next to a lever that controls a switch. If you pull the lever, the trolley will be redirected onto a side track and the five people on the main track will be saved. However, there is a single person lying on the side track. You have two choices:
- Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track.
- Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.
Which is the most ethical choice?
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There's a similar problem called the Killing Baby Hitler Test. If you had a time machine, would you go back in time and kill infant Adolf Hitler? This was a question I debated with a few of my co-workers one night when we were bored.
I was working with a couple of nurses, Randy Easter and Russ Bacon. Randy was kind of a spacey dude. Now that I think about it, everyone I've ever known named Randy has been kind of spacey.
Randy was the guy who initiated the debate. He was taking a course on Ethics. If I remember correctly I told him, "Personally, I don't have any ethics or morals, but I've always admired people who do."
Little Known Fact About The Killing Baby Hitler Test: it's a test designed to figure out how much of a psychopath you are. I'm guessing The Trolley Problem serves much the same purpose.
I've previously written about the hazards of time travel to change the course of history. One of my former patients, Forrest Gump's Smarter Brother, needed a time machine to go back and fix some horrendous deed he had committed in his youth.
I finally convinced FGSB that if he went back in time to fix something, he'd end up creating even worse problems in the future. He decided he didn't want make things even worse, and finally stopped asking to use the time machine he knew the government had installed in the basement of the Minneapolis VAMC.
If my theory about time travel is correct, we can flush this whole thought experiment down the toilet. If you knew killing Baby Hitler would only result in someone worse than Hitler, why bother?
There are other considerations. Killing Baby Hitler might prevent the Holocaust, but it probably wouldn't have prevented World War II. And there's this: Hitler wasn't the only twisted sister governing a nation at that time. And there's also this: you're not going back in time to kill grown up, evil men. You're going back in time to kill babies.
Apparently, that makes a difference.
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If you don't know anything about World War II, you might want to brush up on your history before you read this. If you really want to understand the causes of WWII, you should start by reading about the end of World War I, which was without a doubt the most significant event of the Twentieth Century.
You also have to factor in the rise of Fascism in not only Germany, but in Spain and Italy. You have to consider the imperial designs of the military government of Japan. Plus a shitload of other socioeconomic and cultural factors far too numerous to mention in this hopefully short blog.
When you take all of those things into consideration, killing Baby Hitler probably doesn't accomplish much of anything. From my point of view at the time of this discussion, if you were willing to go back in time to kill Hitler, why stop there? Why not kill all of the crazy motherfuckers who started the war?
Hitler didn't rise to power in a vacuum, and he had a bunch of equally unbalanced assholes in his Inner Circle. Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess. Any one of those guys were equal to Der Führer in terms of political ambitions and mental instability. Clearly, they needed killing as much as their boss. And that was just the tip of the iceberg in Germany. Seriously. Most of the highest ranking Nazis were batshit crazy.
Japan was an equal dilemma of who do you start killing and how deep do you go? Hideki Tojo was the Supreme Military Leader who started his country on the road to ruin, so he clearly needed to got dead, and probably most of his high command, too. The Japanese weren't just crazy, they were fanatically crazy.
The Japanese army is responsible for the Nanking Massacre, the Bataan Death March, and a thousand other war crimes and petty misdeameanors. What scale do you use to compare atrocities? Are those events lesser than the Holocaust?
But wait, there's more.
Benito Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy during WWII. He was Hitler's ally during the war, and that might be reason enough to kill his ass. Beyond that, I'm sure he did some hinky shit to secure power. But I've always looked at Mussolini as if he were a caricature. And if he had been stupid enough to start the war, it wouldn't have lasted a year.
The Italian army in WWII was nothing like the Roman legions of old in terms of fighting ability. I'm not sure the Italian army won a single battle, let alone helped win a global war. A troop of determined Girl Scouts could probably have defeated the Italian army. When the Allies invaded Italy, they didn't battle Italians. They fought against the Germans.
Therefore, I failed to see the need to enact retroactive birth control on Il Duce. He probably would have self destructed if left to his own devices.
Maybe that makes me less of a psychopath, but I'm not done.
Joseph Stalin was the psychotic despotic leader of Communist USSR, and depending on whom you talk to, he might have been worse than Hitler. So killing him to death certainly fell into my criteria for saving humanity. The fact that he was our ally during WWII shows you just how desperate the situation was.
Stalin's paranoia is legendary. He saw almost everyone who worked for him as a political rival. His solution to this problem was brutally simple. He had pretty much everyone around him executed. More than once.
There's a story that one of Stalin's aides handed him a sheet of paper with a long list of names on it. Stalin looked it over, and put a check mark in the corner, then handed it back to his aide without saying a word.
The aide was too afraid to ask what the check mark meant, so he ordered everyone on the list to be executed. You know, just in cases.
So, yes. I would have killed Baby Stalin, too.
And what about the Allied leaders? Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had to know that they were dealing with the devil in the form of Joseph Stalin. Does that make them also culpable for his crimes? Shouldn't they also be considered for time traveling justice? Or was the fact that they were fighting the evil Nazis enough to make blind Justice look the other way?
Why stop with WWII? You have a time machine. You could stop any number of assholes all throughout history. The problem with this problem is it never ends. Once you start down this path you have a seemingly never ending list of sanctioned murders you can commit, all for the sake of preventing others from being killed to death.
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I'm pretty sure I flunked the Are You A Psychopath Test conducted by my spacey co-worker in the middle of the night almost thirty years ago. Or, I passed it in so many flying colors that I'm an off the chart psychopath of unprecedented depth. If the Minneapolis VAMC really had a time machine in the basement, Randy probably would've felt compelled to have me locked up for the good of humanity.
And then I would have had to kill him, too. Probably. I'm not sure I would have actually killed anyone back then. It was just a question we debated to stay awake, and I took the most provocative stance I could. Randy and Russ were stunned by my responses. It was worth it just to see the looks on their faces.
And yet…
Part of me thinks that Young Idealist Me really would have killed all of the baby future Nazis, all of the baby Japanese future fanatics, and Baby Stalin if I had been given the means and the opportunity. The Me that argued for doing it didn't have any qualms about the details. My only question was how I'd get away with it, even with a time machine.
And, would I be paid for my efforts as the savior of some of humanity. Hey, I was on a fair amount of drugs back then. And I liked to drink. A guy's gotta make a living.
The reverse is also possible. You could conceivably save the lives of people who would have otherwise been lost. Anne Frank. Mahatma Gandhi. I'd add John F. Kennedy, but he might not have been killed after all…
That scenario is also probably some sort of kooky test designed to figure out some aspect of the human personality. Clearly, there are people who have way too much idle time on their hands…
With age comes wisdom. I hope that's actually true. I'd answer that question much differently now. And I'd probably be willing to go back in time to prevent Young Me from killing a bunch of babies who would grow up to be responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
Everything happens for a reason.
That's the only reason I need now to let history stand pat. And now you have a better idea of why I want to stay outside of my mind.


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The WGA has announced their nominees for Best Original, Adapted, and Documentary screenplays today and because so many great films were ruled ineligible, these nominees are kind of a joke. Avatar is getting way more love for its spectacle than its story (protect the Hometree from the Sky People), (500) Days of Summer's structure is impressive but the characters and story are completely vanilla, Julie & Julia is half a good movie, and Crazy Heart is a two-hour commercial for Alcoholics Anonymous.
Now here's a list of movies that were rule ineligible: Inglourious Basterds, District 9, In the Loop, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up, and A Single Man. I suppose the only bright spot of all this is that The Hangover received a nomination, which is hilarious.
Hit the jump for the full list of nominees. Winners will be announced on February 20th.
- (500) Days of Summer, Written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Fox Searchlight
- Avatar, Written by James Cameron; 20th Century Fox
- The Hangover, Written by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore; Warner Bros.
- The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark Boal; Summit Entertainment
- A Serious Man, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; Focus Features
- Crazy Heart, Screenplay by Scott Cooper; Based on the novel by Thomas Cobb; Fox Searchlight
- Julie & Julia, Screenplay by Nora Ephron; Based on the books Julie & Julia by Julie Powell and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme; Sony Pictures
- Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher; Based on the novel Push by Sapphire; Lionsgate
- Star Trek, Written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman; Based upon Star Trek, Created by Gene Roddenberry; Paramount Pictures
- Up in the Air, Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner; Based upon the novel by Walter Kirn; Paramount Pictures
- Against the Tide, Screenplay by Richard Trank; Moriah Films
- Capitalism: A Love Story, Written by Michael Moore; Overture Films
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We left Haarlem on March, 19th to the start of a new barging season. We left earlier than last year because we will go to Groningen first to go into dry-dock and to do a bit of work on the hull.
After six stationary months we left, neighbours waving us goodbye – we are settled in Haarlem – on a beautiful, sunny spring day.
Our plans originally were to go North via the Randmeren, but at the last moment – going down the North Sea Canal (Noordzee kanaal) we decided to go to the Flevo-polder, first cruising the Markermeer and entering a lock near Almere.
The weather was very calm, so crossing the Markermeer was no problem. We will do the Randmeren on the way back as we go to Amersfoort.
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But first we cruised the IJ, passing the newly built Film Museum and the Central Station, feeling Amsterdamers again.
The welcome in the Flevo-polder was a bit confusing as at the first opportunity for mooring we came across this sign.
But, no problem, cruise a bit further and we spent the night in the Noorderplassen, pitch dark, very quiet and heaps of stars. Really no comparison to Haarlem.
What to say about the Flevo-polder, it really is a polder, flat, rather barren, windmills and the A6 highway all over as background.
|lots and lots and lots of windmills
|architect played around with colours in Almere, this is modest
But also vista's, beautiful skies, remarkable architecture in Almere, Easter eggs on the bank and nature reserves like the Oostvaardersplassen and the park near Lelystad. But also vista's, beautiful skies, remarkable architecture in Almere, a kind of "Easter eggs" on the bank and nature reserves like the Oostvaardersplassen and the park near Lelystad.
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|Easter eggs, Hunnebeds, whatever
This picture shows the water level of the former Zuiderzee – now IJsselmeer, we did go down some 6 meters when entering the polder.
|the water level was at the top of the pole
Like the Schokland harbour in the midst of pastures we came upon the remains of a ships wreck, a 17th century fishing boat in the middle of this wood.
After the drainage the wreck became visible because of the surrounding land going down as a consequence of lowering the water level. The wreck was now drying and exposed to the air it was a feast for fungi.
They made a very ingenious construction, covering the wreck with earth, having an underlayment of plastic sheeting and now the wood is wetted by rain and conserved in a kind of tumulus.
We left the Flevo-polder through the Ketellock and then cruised the Keteldiep, the Ramsdiep and the Zwarte Water (Black Water) and via Zwartsluis to Meppel.
There we were entering well known territory because we cruised the Drentsche Hoofdvaart in 2010, when going from Groningen to Meppel.All the more fun because we knew that Smilde offers very good French fries!
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We are the first ship to cruise the canal this season, very quiet and nowhere we had to wait as the man who operates the locks and bridges accompanies you all along this stretch.
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...Mary did not understand even the practical usefulness of an occasional resort to the devious. Her indiscretions were always open and forthright and in many ways one could say she was "like an open book." Of course, everything interesting depends upon which book is open.


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Paul Pfingst is accused of secreting evidence
A deputy district attorney suggests criminal behavior by former DA
Paul Pfingst, a prominent criminal defense attorney and a former District Attorney for San Diego County, might face criminal investigation by California's Attorney General, according to a prosecutor.
Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe made a number of allegations in papers he filed in San Diego's North County Superior Courthouse, dated September 16, 2013.
"Days after the murder, Mr. Pfingst removed $27,000 to $30,000 in cash that was found in defendant's 'get-away' bag, prior to seizure by police," the prosecutor stated in a 32-page document. "The money Mr. Pfingst took is evidence relevant to this crime."
Paul Pfingst was retained to represent a woman accused of murdering her husband the same day as the shooting, on August 7, 2012.
"Mr. Pfingst then assisted in the secretion of defendant's 'get-away' bag in a garage attic," the prosecutor claimed. "Mr. Pfingst never informed police about the 'get-away' bag or the removal of the $27,000 to $30,000. Instead, this information came to light months after the murder during the preliminary hearing. His actions are being reviewed by the Attorney General for potential criminal and State Bar violations."
Paul Pfingst's client, defendant Julie Harper, is accused of shooting her husband Jason Harper in the master bedroom of their Carlsbad home, while their three children watched television downstairs. The shooting occurred before 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Julie Harper surrendered herself to police the next day, about 3:00 p.m. Wednesday. "Between the time of the murder and Defendant's surrender, numerous items of evidence had been moved, removed or altered, including vehicles, cell phones, and the murder weapon," prosecutor Watanabe stated.
After the shooting, Julie Harper reportedly met with her father and then they met with attorney Paul Pfingst, that same day. Before midnight, attorney Pfingst telephoned police and advised officers to do a "welfare check" on the second floor of the Harpers' home at 2420 Badger Lane.
Four months later, during a hearing in December 2012, the father of defendant Julie Harper testified with a grant of immunity.
Witness John Cihak said that Paul Pfingst came to his Scripps Ranch home some days after his daughter surrendered, and together they inspected the contents of a blue backpack, which the prosecutor characterized as a "get-away bag."
The prosecutor stated that Cihak described emptying the backpack onto his desk; inside was a .32 caliber semi-automatic handgun registered to the defendant, two cell phones that belonged to the deceased husband, passports of the defendant and her children, birth certificates of the children, the last will and testament of the defendant and her husband, and the defendant's wallet and wedding ring and jewelry.
The backpack also contained approximately $30,000 cash, and all the items were replaced in the backpack except for that cash, the prosecutor claims.
Prosecutor Keith Watanabe stated: "Mr. Pfingst took physical evidence related to the crime (the $27,000 to $30,000 in cash) and converted it to his own use."
The prosecutor further suggests that Paul Pfingst indicated a hiding place for the backpack. The prosecutor quoted the witness as saying that after Pfingst and Cihak discussed the dangers of leaving a firearm in the backpack, "it was at that point that Mr. Pfingst motioned to the garage attic and said, 'Well, maybe you ought to put it up high.'"
"Specifically, Mr. Pfingst asked Mr. Cihak to 'retain the bag in a safe place where it could not be interfered with by other people.'" Cihak said he did put the blue backpack in the garage attic, but it was discovered when police searched his home a second time, on August 16, 2012. Investigators insisted the backpack was not there when they searched the home the first time, on August 8, 2012.
"Mr. Pfingst's involvement with defendant's 'get-away' bag has been referred to the California Attorney General's Office," prosecutor Watanabe stated.
Prosecutor Watanabe has also alleged, "Mr. Pfingst removed the cell-phone from its original location and brought it back to his office."
On August 10, two days after defendant Julie Harper was taken into custody, investigators learned that Paul Pfingst had custody of her cell phone. "Mr. Pfingst refused to disclose how he received the cell phone," according to the prosecutor. "He also stated he did not have any other evidence."
The prosecutor asked a superior court judge, Honorable Blaine Bowman, to order Pfingst "to produce all contents of the backpack" including the cash and "to produce the murder weapon if it is within the possession of counsel or the defendant."
The alleged murder weapon has never been recovered, the prosecutor said.
"Forensic analysis of the bullet removed from Jason's body showed that it was not fired from any of the firearms recovered in this case," according to prosecutor Keith Watanabe.
Besides the .32 semi-automatic found in the bag, a loaded 12-gauge shotgun was found in the Harpers' home, in their master bedroom closet. Julie Harper also has a .45 pistol registered in her name, according to the prosecutor.
"The people intend to call Mr. Pfingst as a witness," prosecutor Watanabe declared. The prosecutor suggested this creates "potential conflicts," and stated that a trial court may remove defense counsel, even over defendant's objections, to eliminate conflicts.
"I can understand why the prosecution would want a less experienced or capable defense attorney on this case," attorney Paul Pfingst stated after a superior court hearing today, October 2, 2013. "However all of the evidence was handled according to decisions handed down by the California appellate Courts. If the prosecution has a complaint it is with the courts, not with defense lawyers."
The prosecutor stated that he wants a hearing in which Pfingst will be questioned "as to his observations regarding the backpack and its contents as well as the circumstances into which it came in to his possession."
The next hearing on this matter is scheduled before Honorable Judge Blaine Bowman on November 22, 2013, in department 12 of San Diego's North County Superior Courthouse.
More like this:
- Yay! Got the cash and pills — April 14, 2015
- Julie Harper may claim self-defense — Sept. 4, 2014
- Shot dead in bedroom — May 13, 2014
- Pfingst and murder defendant win pre-trial hearings — Jan. 4, 2014
- Former DA Pfingst and accused murderer Julie Harper — Nov. 22, 2013
Pfingsto hasn't been doing all that well lately with his defenses. He might still be DA if he had not left a trail of folks who thought he was a crook. This is all getting "verrry interrresting." In fact, these accusations of his conduct may overshadow the prosecution of this bizarre case.
Since the prosecution has her cold, the only thing to be determined is the degree of severity of the killing. After a year of silence on this prosecution, the wheels of justice are finally creaking into action, and now we have the defense accused of complicity. Oh boy!
One thing we might note is that a year in the slammer hasn't slimmed Julie noticeably. Of course, what has she been able to do while incarcerated but sit around and eat jail chow?
The DA is probably trying to work a deal with Cihak: The DA goes easy on the daughter in exchange for Cihak's help in destroying Paul Pfingst. Dumanis probably wants to settle an old grudge by putting the kibosh on Pfingst's legal career.
While I have no good feelings for Bahnee, Pfingst deserves no slack or breaks when he falls into his ethical void. Go get him, Keith!
Julie Elizabeth Harper, 40, was able to post $2 million bail in mid-September 2013. She has been at liberty for some weeks, fitted with an "ankle bracelet" that is monitored by the bond company that posted her bail, according to well-placed sources. During the hearing October 2, the judge modified the conditions of Julie Harper's release, allowing her to travel to Orange and Los Angeles Counties, in order to "assist in her defense." Certain family members of the deceased man, Jason Harper, reportedly reside in those areas and it was stated in court that they are fearful of the accused woman. Julie Harper denies all charges.
The premium paid to the bail bondsman used to be ten percent of the bond needed, hence she would have had to come up with $200,000, basically non-refundable. Apparently those costs are now negotiable, and can be less, but there's no doubt that plenty of money changed hands. Or, various family members (and friends?) would have had to pledge their assets, such as their homes, in the full amount. That seems unlikely. So, one would wonder where the funds came from.
Sounds more sensational than true to me. I have always believed Paul Pfingst to be an honorable man and an excellent lawyer.
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We are pleased to announce the release of the IMA Ds Insertion lines generated by Prof. Sundaresan and collegues from the National University of Singapore and the associated flanking sequences to match these germplasm lines. These lines contain (mostly) single copy insertions of modified maize transposable Dissociation (Ds) elements within the Landsberg ecotype. Each Ds element carries a kanamycin selectable marker and is stably integrated. The elements are capable of remobilization if the Ac transposase is provided, e.g., by crossing with one of the Ac starter lines (CS/N8043 - 8049). These Ds elements also carry the GUS reporter gene designed to act as an gene trap (SGT or GT) or enhancer trap (SET). For details of the Ds elements and the transposon mutagenesis system please see: Sundaresan, V., Springer, P., Volpe, T., Haward, S., Jones, J.D., Dean, C., Ma, H., and Martienssen, R. (1995). Patterns of gene action in plant development revealed by enhancer trap and gene trap transposable elements. Genes Dev. 9, 1797-1810 Regions flanking the Ds insertions for the transposant lines were amplified using TAIL-PCR (Liu et al., 1995). The ensuing sequences were then analyzed by BLAST searches in two public databases: NCBI GenBank and Arabidopsis GenBank in Stanford. Information relating to the flanking regions sequences have been deposited in the 'Arabidopsis Genome Resource' (AGR) at [ http://ukcrop.net ] and in 'The Arabidopsis Information Resource' (TAIR) at [ http://www.arabidopsis.org ], as well as being available directly through the stockcentre ordering pages Stocks can be ordered in the usual way from the NASC (http://nasc.nott.ac.uk) web site. Individual lines (see http://nasc.nott.ac.uk/ima.html ) may be ordered as part of the normal user fee system described on our catalogue website. These lines have a materials transfer agreement associated with them. Please read the brief instructions carefully before filling out the MTA to save time later. You will be reminded of the need for an MTA and instructions will be easily available as you browse and order the stocks. Sean_May at nasc.nott.ac.uk Director, Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) University Park, Nottingham University. U.K. NG7 2RD. FON: +44 (0)115 9513237 FAX: +44 (0)115 9513297 Catalogue: http://nasc.nott.ac.uk Genomics: http://ukcrop.net Transcriptomics: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/garnet/garnet.htm ---


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Robin Stevens'ın MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE Down the Rabbit Hole!'de
Robin Stevens'in ilk romanı Murder Most Unladylike, çocuk kitaplarına odaklı yeni radyo programında orta yaş grubu çocuklara yönelik bir kitap olarak tanıtıldı. Down The Rabbit Hole radyo programına Book Trust'dan Sanat Projesi Yöneticisi Katherine Woodfine, ve Water Stones'un Çocuk Kitapları Başı Melissa Cox, başkanlık etmekte
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Susie Day, author: "I absolutely loved it – it's charming and witty and there's so much in terms of in-jokes and she really grabs hold of all the traditions of this type of story and runs with them. You've got bunbreak, squashed fly biscuits and dormitories...but at the same time as this thrilling murder mystery."
Tom Percival, author and illustrator: "Characters really engaging and I enjoyed the dynamics of this 'best friend' relationship that had lots of insecurities and jealousies. I got so caught up in their relationship and friendship....really exciting and engaging."
Melissa Cox, Head Children's Buyer Waterstones: "Nice balance struck between including the character and being inclusive in the writing but also acknowledging the difficulty of having a girl from Hong Kong in that (historical) context. Really cleverly done and unexpected for what I thought would be a straightforward whodunit caper. It really added an extra interesting element and good on Robin for doing it."
Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells and Wong Mystery
Agent: Gemma Cooper
Genre: Middle-grade
Random House Children's Publishing UK, May 2014. UK and Commonwealth.
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Spring 2015. North American. Publishing as MURDER IS BAD MANNERS
Manuscript available.
Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't, really.)
But then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She thinks it must all have been a terrible accident—but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls know a murder must have taken place…and there's more than one person at Deepdean with a motive.
Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove a murder happened in the first place. Determined to get to the bottom of the crime before the killer strikes again (and before the police can get there first, naturally), Hazel and Daisy must hunt for evidence, spy on their suspects and use all the cunning, scheming and intuition they can muster. But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test?
"Plotting is what sets this book apart; this is about who was where at the time of the murder, and it's about finding the chink in the alibi. Stevens's duo – Daisy, who hides her sharpness under a chummy exterior, and Hazel, recently arrived from Hong Kong and out of place in an English boarding school – are interesting enough to hold up a second volume." –Lorna Bradbury, The Telegraph UK
Next in the Wells and Wong Mystery series:
Arsenic for Tea: A Wells and Wong Mystery Book 2
Agent: Gemma Cooper
Genre: Middle-grade
Random House Children's Publishing UK, February 2015. UK and Commonwealth.
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Spring 2016. North American.
It's the Easter holidays, and Daisy has invited Hazel to her country manor for Daisy's fourteenth birthday. Lady Hastings has planned a birthday party—but when the guests arrive, it becomes clear that this party isn't really about Daisy at all. Daisy's furious, and Hazel's feeling more and more out of place—even the arrival of Daisy's dashing Uncle Felix, the black sheep of the family, can't cheer the girls up.
But then, at Daisy's birthday tea, one of the guests is taken ill. He dies a few hours later, of arsenic poisoning - and it soon becomes clear that someone in the house must be to blame.
Daisy, of course, can't wait to begin the investigation. Hazel, though, is more cautious. It was Lord Hastings, Daisy's father, who handed the victim the poisoned cup of tea—what if he really is the murderer? Hazel thinks Daisy could be ignoring how serious the situation really is. Can the Detective Society solve their second case—and do they even want to?
A Wells and Wong Mystery Book 3
Agent: Gemma Cooper
Genre: Middle-grade
Random House Children's Publishing UK. February 2016. UK and Commonwealth.
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Spring 2017. North American.
After their exploits at Easter, Daisy and Hazel are ready to pass their summer in an adventure of a different kind: a visit to Hazel's family in Hong Kong. But murder seems to follow them around, and they find themselves investigating a suspicious death on board a steam liner.
Robin Stevens' Bio:
Robin Stevens was born in California but grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life. She studied crime fiction at University, and now she works at Orion Children's Books in London. She blogs athttp://redbreastedbird.