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If this woman never gets her children back, it will be too soon... Just sick... Mom let man abuse boy for cash NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida (AP) -- A woman confronted a neighbor accused of sexually assaulting her 7-year-old son and threatened to call police, but then accepted $600 in hush money and let the man molest the boy again, authorities said. The 30-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with capital sexual battery and child abuse. The neighbor, Nicholas Quiles, 48, has been charged with capital sexual battery. Both are being held without bail. The alleged sexual assaults happened the first two weeks of February, Lt. Jeffrey Harrington said. The boy told his 11-year-old sister that Quiles did "bad things to him," the girl told detectives. An anonymous tip led investigators to the neighbor and mother. The boy, his sister and their toddler brother were removed from their home, Harrington said. There is no evidence so far that the other children were sexually abused, he said. "There are definitely oddities to this case," Harrington said. "I hope we never have to investigate anything like this again."

"Dr. Landy tell me you're not just a pedagogue..." - "Brian Wilson," The Barenaked Ladies

Yes, I got it. It's great. Similar to "Musicology," but not too...

Again - http://www.dovesong.com/MP3/MP3_BlackGospel.asp Have fun! Thanks for the link, Jim. I'll be downloadin' and burnin' for some time to come! Praise be!

I got "Morph," which I'm enjoying, although I feel that I need to give it a few more spins to really appreciate it. This has been a good season for new albums. Van has a new one out (a country album) which is excellent, as does Prince.

It's a good sleeve note, but I wish there had been some discographical information (aside from which company liscensed which cut). I would like to have dates and personnel for each selection.

But Clem, *why* is this compliation "shoddily done?" Can you be specific rather than just being negative? It seems to me that you've got a beef against Joel Dorn and you're determined to find fault with this collection just because he was involved with it. Again, have you *heard* this disc? How do you know it's "shoddy" if you haven't heard it? Can you tell me with absolute certainty that you've heard every single cut on this disc and that each and every selection is the most inferior possible example of this given artist's work? Or are you upset with what Dorn "left out?" Or do you just hate the idea of compliations in general? Isn't it possible for a compilation to be less than definitive but still enjoyable? I imagine that you're the sort of person who would blanche with horror to learn that everything I know about country music I learned from Elvis Costello. Well, it happens to be true. "Almost Blue" was my road map to country. I sought out the original recordings of each song, which is exactly (I'm sure) what Costello was hoping that people would do when he recorded the album in the first place. Because of him, I now have discs by George Jones, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, and others. But I'm sure that this is an unacceptable way of learning about music. After all, why would anyone NEED an album of country tunes by a limey pop star anyway?

Too late. Yeah. Don't have one. Although I have been substitute teaching lately. That's a lot of fun (not joking). You get to hang out with the kids all day (and mostly watch movies!) and there's no grading or messy clean-up afterwards!

So has anyone besides me actually LISTENED to this set (yeah, I'm talking to you Clem)? The music is amazing. It doesn't claim to be definintive in any way. It is simply what it is: A fantastic single disc compliation of some wonderful sounds. I certainly am not considering it the "last word" on Gospel music. I'm also not saying, "Well, I've got the Hyena disc...I'm done!" I've got the "Goodbye Babylon" set. I've got several discs of the Soul Stirrers. I've got Mahalia... Is there more I don't have? Good lord, yes. Am I interested in feedback (like Jim's) that might point me to some good stuff? Hell yes. But for fuck's sake, Clem, do ya have to be such a wet blanket? No one's asking for your permission or approval. Trust me. I just wanted to pass on some info on a good disc I picked up. Can I get a witness?

What does it say when you reverse the polarity?

Again, I'm sorry to make light of a man's death, but this story continues to have some funny elements... Minister's widow 'sorry for everything' Friend says suspect offers no explanation for slaying Monday, March 27, 2006; Posted: 8:22 a.m. EST (13:22 GMT) SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- The preacher's wife charged with murder in the death of her husband wanted his congregation to know "she was sorry for everything she has done," said a friend who visited her in jail Sunday. Well, thank goodness she's sorry! Now we can all go to the church basement and eat flavorless white cake, right? Church member Pam Killingsworth visited Mary Winkler after Sunday services and said the preacher's wife gave no indication why her husband of 10 years was shot. These names just keep getting better and better! It's like a Dickens novel! "She just said she was sorry and for me to write a note to the church saying that she was sorry for everything she had done," said Killingsworth as she walked away from the jail in tears. Winkler, 32, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the preacher at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in this small town 80 miles east of Memphis. Her initial court appearance is scheduled for Monday. The congregation held its first Sunday services since the shooting death and were warned by elder Robert Shackelford not to speculate about why their popular, young minister was killed. Friends have described the Winklers as a happy couple with no outward signs of discord, and authorities have refused to talk about a motive for the murder. "Perhaps over time we will better understand why this has happened," Shackelford said at an adult Sunday school class. "Be very cautious about what you say or even what you think." Yes! Goodness knows we don't want anybody thinking in a church... Mary Winkler was locked up at the McNairy County jail after being returned Saturday from the coast of Alabama, where she and her three young daughters were found by police following a multistate search. Church members found 31-year-old Matthew Winkler dead in a bedroom of the couple's parsonage Wednesday night after his family missed a church service. Mary Winkler and the children were nowhere to be found. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has refused to discuss a motive, but said investigators did not believe it was because of infidelity. The agency refused comment on whether Winkler had been accused of domestic abuse. Court papers offered no hint on a motive. After Mary Winkler's arrest, an Alabama judge released her children -- Breanna, 1; Mary Alice, 6; and Patricia, 8 -- to the custody of their paternal grandparents in Henderson. Neither the grandparents nor the Winkler children attended the church services Sunday. No relatives of Mary Winkler attended either. What?! Skipping church?! And the Minister's family no less! Shackelford urged the congregation to pray for the children, their grandparents and Mary Winkler. "Mary is a member of this church family," he said, adding that forgiveness is a cornerstone of their faith. She was a member of her husband's family too and we all saw how well that worked out! "If we don't have forgiveness, then we don't have anything," Shackelford said. Church elder Wilburn Ashe reminded members that only a few facts about the killing were known for sure -- Matthew Winkler is dead, his wife is in jail, and their children are without their parents. And the part where Matthew Winkler's wife confessed to his murder. Forgot that fact. "Those children have got a good home that they're in, but it's not mama and daddy," Ashe said. The church must hold together, he said, and not be torn by speculation and loose talk about the slaying. "We've got to do two things," Ashe said. "We've got to remain close to God and we've got to remain close to one another." God does such a good job of looking out for his followers too... Members put up a large bulletin board in a church hallway covered with snapshots of the Winkler family. Photos showed the older Winkler children playing basketball, posing with kittens and rolling in the snow with their father. Matthew Winkler flashed a big smile in one photo taken at a church social while balancing plates of food in each hand. Other snapshots showed Mary Winkler laughing and holding her youngest daughter up for the camera. The snapshots of Mary Winkler laughing and holding a .44 Magnum were wisely left in the box... Mary and Matthew Winkler were married in 1996. They met at Freed-Hardeman University, a Church of Christ-affiliated school in Henderson where Matthew's father was an adjunct professor. Matthew Winkler's funeral is scheduled for Tuesday in Selmer.

I've owned two different CD versions (the McMaster and the RVG) and both have concluded with the line, "Is that what you wanted, Alfred?" Never heard of a CD version (domestic or import) that cut that part...

It's the message of the film, man! The message! As Walt Kelly said..."Don't take life so serious...it ain't nohow perminent!"

What do you bet that this guy never saw...

You know, I don't wanna knock on a 100 year-old guy, but to miss only ONE day of work in 75 years spells - to me - a fucked up set of priorities. As he will soon discover, no man wishes on his death-bed that he spent more time at the office...

Just got this today. Has anyone else heard it? I realize that this is going to sound weird coming from me (although I've always listened to religiously inspired music) but this disc is FUCKING AMAZING!!!! Every track is a knock out. This is without question the best single disc gospel compilation money can buy. I especially LOVE "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep" by the Swan Silvertones. There were also very few overlaps with stuff I already have in my collection (the Mahalia Jackson and Soul Stirrers tracks) and since it seems to be all post-WWII material (the one flaw is the lack of liner notes and dates for the recordings) there is NO overlap with the "Goodbye Babylon" box set. Really incredible stuff. HIGHLY recommended for anyone who enjoys black music. Or music in general. Or breathing.

I just started listening to this a few minutes ago (I'm on "Little B's Poem" now) and I'm already declaring this the greatest new CD of 2006 thus far... It's just SO fucking GOOD!!!!!

I guess I'm a real classical music low-brow (which wouldn't surprise me a bit) because I ADORE Mozart. I love the "Requiem Mass." Talk about moving... And yes, I do own a copy of "Amadeus" on DVD...

Aside from a few tracks on compilations, I don't have any Fletcher Henderson (an omission I keep meaning to fix). I only have one Benny Carter disc. A small handful of Coleman Hawkins (five or six discs). Basically, any artist of whom I have fewer than ten discs, I feel like to I need to get more...

I was in the Post Office earlier today, and I noticed that the radio was playing "Act Naturally." I remember wondering if Buck Owens had died, since you so seldom hear him on the radio (even country radio) anymore. I'm sad to hear that this is the case. He was one of the greats of his generation... It's kind of sad that he's being remembered primarily as the co-host of "Hee Haw."

I don't mean to make light of a serious situation (I mean, a man died here), but this story is just so funny. It has more to do with the way its written than anything else, but some of the things the police and the locals say are just so damn stupid... 'Perfect wife' confesses to preacher's slaying, police say SELMER, Tennessee (CNN) -- To people in the congregation of the Fourth Street Church of Christ, Mary Winkler was "the perfect mother, the perfect wife." She and her husband, preacher Matthew Winkler, were an ideal couple, congregants said. Um...Evidently not... But that image was shattered on Friday, when, according to police, Mary Winkler confessed to killing her husband. Selmer police investigator Roger Rickman said the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, which is taking part in questioning Mary Winkler, informed police of her confession. Winkler said she killed her husband Wednesday, the same day he was found, Rickman said. Winkler, 32, faces a charge of first-degree murder. "First-degree murder is premeditated," Rickman said. "No shit, Sherlock," everybody who has ever watched an episode of "Law and Order" said. But police were still looking for a motive. "Our concern at this point is why the crime took place," Rickman told The Associated Press. "There have been no specific accusations made by Mrs. Winkler." The body of Matthew Winkler, 31, was discovered Wednesday night at the family's home. Mary Winkler, found later with her children in Alabama, was questioned by authorities Thursday night and Friday morning. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it gathered enough information to charge her after speaking with her and getting search warrants for several locations. Mary Winkler has not made a public statement. When Matthew Winkler failed to show up for a midweek service at the Fourth Street Church of Christ, congregants went looking for him. They went to the church parsonage and entered when no one answered, police said. Congregants found Winkler dead in the bedroom. He had been shot in the back, but there were no signs of a struggle, police said. "We didn't know for more than 28 hours his body was in that home," TBI spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson said. Right...otherwise you would have found it... After the body was found, authorities issued a nationwide Amber Alert for the couple's three children: Patricia, 8, Mary Alice, 6, and Breanna, 1. Children unaware Police in Orange Beach, Alabama -- nearly 350 miles from Selmer -- spotted the family's minivan and stopped it Thursday evening, Assistant Police Chief Greg Duck said. Greg DUCK? Is he related to Donald? Duck said the children were in "very good condition" and were on the way to get something to eat when an officer pulled over their Toyota Sienna. Rickman said Mary Winkler indicated the children did not know what had happened. The slain preacher's parents have requested custody of the three children, who are in the custody of Alabama authorities, the TBI said. Winkler waived extradition rights Friday and will be sent back to Tennessee, authorities said. Investigators have found no evidence of a history of domestic violence, Johnson said. 'Perfect mother, perfect wife' Selmer residents said they were shocked at the preacher's death. "Words cannot describe how we all feel about this," said church member Pam Killingsworth, assistant principal at the elementary school where the two older children went to school. She described Mary Winkler as always seeming like "the perfect mother, the perfect wife," with very loving children. "Everybody is just totally shocked by what has happened." "The kids are just precious, and she was precious," Killingsworth told The AP. "He was the one of the best ministers we've ever had -- just super charisma." Wilburn Ash, an elder at the Fourth Street Church, said Winkler was hired there in February 2005, according to the AP. He preached straight-by-the-Bible sermons, the AP reported, delighting congregants. Church members described Mary Winkler as a quiet, unassuming woman, the AP reported. She was a substitute teacher at the elementary school. "They were a nice family," former Selmer Mayor Jimmy Whittington, who worked with the preacher collecting donations for hurricane victims last year, told the AP. "They just blended in." Church member Sharon Pinckley told The Jackson Sun newspaper that Matthew Winkler "had a really true concern about saving people's souls and inspiring people to rethink their habits." "He was such a great preacher, very uplifting and encouraging," she told the paper. "You felt good when you walked away from his sermons." Pinckley also told The Sun the Winklers seemed an ideal couple. "They were such a good couple - happy," she said. Right. Happy people are always killing one another...

Funny, I LOVED the album with Harris (which was one of my first exposures to Jacky) and I got "Smile" as a result. I enjoy it, although I haven't listened to it in a while...

Because I have the K2 of "Saxophone Colossus" and an SACD of "Relaxin'", I opted not to pick these up in the RVG edition. In fact, the only ones I already owned were the two Coltranes ("Lush Life" and "Kenny Burell and..."). The new editions sound much better than the old OJCs, of course. I also got the other items (the Dorham, the Hawkins, the Ammons, the Dolphy and the Garland), none of which I owned. All are WONDERFUL sessions, well worth getting if you haven't already!

Think of what changes that tortoise has seen in its lifetime...it staggers the imagination. When it was born the United States didn't even exist. Britain was the world's greatest colonial power. Movies, recorded music, television, the telephone, computers...all of the things we take for granted were invented during this being's lifetime...and it probably wasn't aware of any of it. It's kind of humbling...

Another funny way to handle this would be have Chef appear, but never speak. Not just appear in the background, as he's been doing, but rather have him become (for all intents and purposes) mute. He could wave his hands and act like he's trying to say something. Or he could occasionally open his mouth to speak and be constantly interrupted by other characters. Chef: (Starts to speak) Mr. Garrett: Chef is right! We should go teach those Scientologists a lesson!