Fledgling bald eagles finally fly (video)

Bald Eagle Fledging Day: A Stunning Milestone in the Nest

BIG BEAR LAKE, Southern California - When, O, when will our birds fly above the foothills, above the City of Lights that is Los Angeles? Jackie and Shadow have gone through so much already, losing baby Brutus, selling off the naming rights to the others. It's time to take to the air and become fledglings.

Sonny 'n Gizmo at 10 Weeks, it's time to fly

Bald eaglets Sonny and Gizmo getting ready to spread wings and fly from Big Bear nest

(KCAL News) May 9, 2025: Nicole Comstock reports from Big Bear, where wildlife enthusiasts say that the bald eaglets are getting ready to spread their wings and fly from the nest for the first time.

How to avoid RAPE in prison (Marshall Project)

(The Marshall Project) How to avoid rape in prison - Men's The Marshall Project, Feb. 20, 2015. What do David Cross and Bob Odenkirk have to say about cops, criminals, and interrogations.

Abraham Hicks: Soulmate by Law of Attraction

Esther Hicks/Abraham Hicks; Kelly Ani, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Abraham Hicks - Being True to Yourself! Your Soulmate Will Enter Your Life! By Law of Attraction!

(Personal Growth Channel, Aug. 4, 2022) Trust the inner knowing of what feels right. Follow your bliss. One of the things that Abraham Hicks teaches is to trust our inner knowing.

This can be difficult, especially when we're feeling anxious or unsure about what to do next. But if we've ever tried to listen to our inner guidance system and found it difficult (or even impossible) then this may be a good time for some reassurance that it's okay not always being able to hear what it wants you to do — and sometimes ignoring it completely will just mean that something else happens instead!

When we say "trust" here, we don't mean blindly following every impulse without thinking through the consequences; rather than taking action because those impulses tell us there's no harm done in doing so. (for example, eating an entire pint of ice cream), we mean trusting that if we feel like something isn't right for us or within ourselves then there must be another way forward which makes more sense than going along with whatever seems like an obvious decision at the moment.

The point of power is in the present. Our job is to think the thoughts that feel good, and the rest will take care of itself. It's not up to us to control what other people think or do — we can't even affect their behavior.

We have one life (well, maybe two if we count our soul), so we need to focus on living it as well as possible. And if someone else's actions cause pain in our life, that's something for them to deal with on their own accord — not ours! Joy is an inside job. We can't give it or get it from another person. We all have the ability to choose joy every day, but we don't always do it because we're so busy and distracted that we forget all about feeling happy or excited.

Joy is not a feeling; it's a state of being, our choice! We deserve what we want, and we can have it. It's as simple as that, right? That's all there is to it. It doesn't matter what situation or circumstance we find ourselves in — we deserve the good things in life, including health, happiness, and peace of mind.

There are no limits on what we can achieve if we set our minds to something and put our hearts into achieving it!

Conclusion: We’re not saying that happiness is easy. Happiness is a choice, and we have to learn how to choose it. We have to think about what makes us feel good and start doing that more often. But with practice, our intuition will improve so much that we can become intuitive by nature. And then, when something comes along that doesn’t feel right or good enough for us — which happens all the time — we’ll know exactly what needs attention without even having to ask ourselves how it feels or why! 

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J.J. Masters: Buddhist on Death Row (NPR)

Scott Simon, NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, 8/8/20; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

David Sheff charts Jarvis Jay Masters' Buddhist journey in prison in a new book

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The Buddhist on Death Row (David Sheff)

NPR Host Scott Simon speaks with inmate Jarvis Jay Masters and David Sheff about his new book, The Buddhist on Death Row.

HOST SCOTT SIMON: Jarvis Jay Masters is a [falsely] convicted murderer and an admired Buddhist practitioner and teacher of Buddhism who sits on Death Row.

David Sheff has written a book that's not just about the crime of which Masters was convicted and strong doubts raised about the case but what amounts to the remaking of a man in a forbidding place, The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place.

David Sheff, the author of previous bestsellers that include Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, joins NPR from Inverness, California. Thanks so much for being with us again.

AUTHOR DAVID SHEFF: Uh, Scott, thank you so much for having me.

SIMON: And we're also connected with Buddhist Jarvis Jay Masters from Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. We should expect periodic automatic interruptions on the line. Mr. Masters, thank you for being with us.

Finding Freedom: How Death Row...My Heart

PRISONER JARVIS JAY MASTERS: No problem, no problem.

SIMON: Well, I understand you've just been sick with COVID, right?

MASTERS: Oh, yeah, yeah. I've had it. And it's a terrible, terrible three weeks for me, what and, yeah, I got sick, very sick. And it just was like in every other cell.

SIMON: Uh, David Sheff, of course we want to talk about your book and Mr. Masters' story, The Buddhist On Death Row. What did you see in the Jarvis Jay Masters story?

SHEFF: Well, I'd heard about Jarvis from friends who were in the Buddhist community. And the two things that I kept hearing over and over was that this man, who was framed, shouldn't be on Death Row.

• Jarvis Jay Masters wrote Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart with his investigator Melody Ermachild Chavis (with foreword by American Buddhist nun and bestselling Tibetan Buddhist author Pema Chodron)

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When Things Fall Apart

And in spite of the fact that he was there and now it's been, you know, 30 years and 22 years in solitary confinement, he was one of the most extraordinary people that they'd met. His story was really about how a person changes and the remarkable transformation, because he was a person who could be as bitter, angry as anybody could be, and yet he was the opposite. He was this light in the lives of many, many people.

SIMON: Mr. Masters, we do want to talk about that spiritual journey, but I think you'll understand we don't want to lose, lose the fact that you are on death row, whether you agree with the conviction or sentence, or not, because you were convicted of assisting in the stabbing death of a prison guard named Dean Burchfield -- right? -- in 1985.

MASTERS: Yeah, absolutely. Later on that year, I was charged with two other guys, and we stood -- end up standing trial in 19 -- I think it was 1989, '90.

PRERECORDED VOICE: This call and your telephone number will be monitored and recorded.

MASTERS: And we were all three convicted, and I was the only one who was sentenced to death. And since then, this is where I've been.

SIMON: How did you find Buddhism?

That Bird Has My Wings (Jarvis Jay Masters)

MASTERS: I got in trouble. You know, I got in a lot more trouble than I ever been in. It started off with me waiting for a death sentence. Actually, I was in the courtroom, and the jury was trying to determine whether I should be -- they should put me to death or not. My investigator, Melody Ermachild [Chavis], who's done so much to help my spiritual growth, she gave me this little pamphlet, and the pamphlet was called "Life in Relationship to Death."

So I thought that was the best place I was right then -- you know, my life in relationship to death. And I start getting visits from this Buddhist community I got involved with, and I was so blessed because I did.

SIMON: David Sheff, what kind of difference did these people make in each other's lives?

SHEFF: Well, when I started to hear about Jarvis, I heard people talk about how he had impacted their lives. And, you know, first, as a journalist, I was skeptical. You know, first of all, everybody in prison basically says that they're innocent. And then the second one, people talked about him as if he was this -- I don't know -- this enlightened being in San Quentin, the Buddhist on Death Row.

And I began to do the research and talking to a lot of people, reading all the transcripts, reading boxes and boxes and boxes of material from the trials. And I became convinced that, you know, Jarvis is innocent. ...

SIMON: You know, a few minutes ago, I would've told you that I would never ask this question of someone on Death Row, but I feel -- are you happy?

MASTERS: (*Laughter*) Oh, wow, I never thought I'd get a question like that.

Mass incarceration means we're all going in.

PRERECORDED VOICE: You have 60 seconds remaining.

MASTERS: You know, yeah, I am happy. I'm happy for, you know, all the things that I can think of that makes my life, give my life some quality, give my life some joys, give my life, you know, some people to care for it.

You know, you have to compare yourself to someone to say that. So compared to my environment, you know, compared to what people on these various tiers have in their lives, I am extremely blessed, you know? And I really mean that. More

(*Ironically*) Now let's kill him. Death sentence, Baby!

How to break out of jail (video)

Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Libby Denkmann (KPCC.org); In the Woods

(NBC4) Newly released video shows California inmates' escape from OC jail! The escapees film themselves breaking out of maximum security detention before kidnapping a taxi driver, living it up in San Francisco with marijuana, bananas, Jack Daniels, then getting caught.
 

Hurry up and wait in that cell, convict!

It’s been more than a year since three inmates escaped from a maximum security wing at the Santa Ana Central Men’s Jail in Orange County.
 

A week passed before the manhunt ended in San Francisco, where two of the inmates were captured [after hanging out in the Whole Foods parking lot]. The third escapee turned himself in to local authorities.

NBC4 obtained a video taken by the three men who escaped a maximum-security wing at an Orange County jail last year, using a contraband cellphone.

But a new video from a lawyer connected to the case was released this week to KPCC FM media partner NBC4. The cell (mobile) phone video is shot in first-person by one of the three inmates who broke out of the O.C. prison, showing both the escape and the days following during their run.

 

The footage has one of the escaped prisoners, Adam Hossein Nayeri, debunking [false] claims that [officials at] the jail made about their escape. This has led to questions about jail security and the transparency over what happened during the incident.

Today Libby Denkmann speaks to reporters who’ve been following the story to find out more. More + AUDIO (interview)

GUESTS

• Anh Do (@newsterrier), LA Times reporter covers OC and Asian American issues
• Jill Replogle (@jillrep), Orange County reporter for KPCC FM

Southern California Public Radio (scpr.org) for Los Angeles from KPCC 89.3 FM

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DETAILS, DETAILS: This video has emerged, showing how three prisoners broke out of the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, California earlier this year. The video was shot on a contraband cellphone and shows the three inmates escaping through a vent which led to the roof. However, the video doesn't show how they got off the roof (using high tension industrial rope not as officials lied about saying it was sheets tied together). Authorities lied to protect themselves when they said the trio used a chain of bed linens to get off the roof, and the media bought it and reported it without questioning or pushing back on the claim. The video also includes several photos that the three men took during their nearly a week on the run. The men are seeing smiling at the beach with a cabbie who they allegedly took hostage and forced to drive them to San Francisco. In other photos, they smile and pose in front of the Haight-Ashbury intersection (SF's hippie district). The video ends with two of the escapees smoking marijuana in the back of a van just two hours before they were recaptured. Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, escaped from Orange County Central Men’s Jail on Jan. 22, 2016. From left, Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, escaped from Orange County Central Men’s Jail on Jan. 22, 2016. Three maximum security inmates broke out of Orange County Jail in 2016, spent days on the run and recorded the entire thing. Video obtained by NBC4 shows a first-person perspective of the escape. It contains voice-overs from one of the escapees, a compilation of news clips regarding their break-out, and video of their time fleeing authorities.

Man becomes woman, moves to women's prison

Associated Press (ap.org); CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Prison-Industrial Complex wants women: 10 Worst US Prisons (Julia Tutwiler/Mother Jones)

John Becker is for gay, lesbian, transgender, questioning or LGBTQ rights (AP).

 

First sex reassignment inmate says women's prison is "torture"

Michael and I are gay. I mean Michelle.

SACRAMENTO, CA - The first U.S. inmate to have taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgery says she is being mistreated since being transferred to a California women's prison, where she now has a beard and mustache because officials have denied her a razor.

Shiloh Heavenly Q. (CDC)

In a hand-written federal court filing, convicted killer Shiloh Heavenly Quine called her new housing at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla a "torture unit."

 

She said she's unnecessarily isolated from other inmates and denied basic items. State officials say she's being treated like other female inmates. All initially are denied privileges like razors and TVs as they are evaluated.

Quine, 57, had the surgery she had long sought in January and was moved from a men's prison [to a women's prison] last month

She said she is being treated as if she's a newly arrived inmate and denied rehabilitation programs and privileges even though she's been serving a life sentence since 1981.

 

(California's death row )

Quine is housed alone in a cell but said she still has no privacy to perform required intimate post-operative procedures and is enduring "a restrictive isolation" that is pushing her toward anxiety, depression, and sadness. More

• Arkansas governor sets execution dates for 8 inmates
• White House crisis
• Trump approval rating
• fitness trackers
• California eases conditions at death row disciplinary unit
• Devin Nunes TIPS TRUMP on Russia investigation

Jury: Private prison company violated rights, but no need to pay

 

Corrupt L.A. sheriff now faces 20 years prison

Associated Press (ap.org via mail.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Corrupt, disgraced L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca announces his retirement at a news conference at Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau in Monterey Park, CA. Federal prosecutors have brought tougher charges against him days after he withdrew his guilty plea in a failed plea deal (AP).

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was indicted Friday on charges of obstructing justice and conspiring with underlings [like convicted L.A. Undersheriff Paul Tanaka] to derail a federal investigation into corruption and felonious police beatings of innocent detainees awaiting trial in the nation's largest jail system.

Ex-Los Angeles sheriff hit with stiffer corruption charges

(AP) The charges that carry up to 20 years in prison come just days after Baca withdrew a guilty plea to lying to investigators and said he would go to trial to "set the record straight" before he is incapacitated by Alzheimer's disease.

 

Baca, 74, made the decision knowing federal prosecutors were likely to bring stiffer charges, but his lawyers said he didn't have much choice when negotiations collapsed after a federal judge rejected a plea deal as too lenient. That agreement called for no more than six months behind bars.

 

I told you it was all Baca, says Tanaka.

Defense lawyer Michael Zweiback said it appeared the judge was seeking several years in prison, and Baca needed certainty because his condition has already started to deteriorate. "We have a very, very small window of time that we believe Mr. Baca's life will be normal," he said Monday. 

"If there was a possibility that he was going to go beyond his good years in prison, then he should go out and fight."

 

Baca is now facing the original charge of lying to federal authorities and new charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Defense lawyers had anticipated the stiffer charges, and said Friday that they represent punishment for Baca's decision to go to trial. More

1. VIDEO: Killer cops fire at car as it drives away
2. Jury: Ex-officer should serve [way more than] 2 1/2 years for manslaughter

Prison, prison, prison

(NPR.org, August 13, 2009)

Johnny Cash performs for inmates at Folsom State Prison in 1968 (Dan Poush/AP).

In January 1968, Johnny Cash set up his band on a makeshift stage in the cafeteria at Folsom State Prison in California. "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," he said in his deep baritone to thunderous applause. Song after song, the inmates thumped their fists and cheered from the same steel benches now bolted to the floor. The morning that Cash played may have been the high-water mark for Folsom — and for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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The men in the cafeteria lived alone in their own prison cells. Almost every one of them was in school or learning a professional trade. The cost of housing them barely registered on the state budget. And when these men walked out of Folsom free, the majority of them never returned to prison. It was a record no other state could match. Things have changed. California's prisons are all in a state of crisis. And nowhere is this more visible than at Folsom today. More>>

Who's at fault?

• The prisoners?
• The governator?
• The Correctional Officer's Union!

Who pays the bills?

• The prisoners?
• The governator?
• We do!

Crime and Consequences in Beijing's back alleys

No prison for Suu Kyi, but house arrest

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called the verdict returning her to house arrest "totally unfair," but remains cheerful and alert, her lawyer said Wednesday. Four of her lawyers were allowed to visit the Nobel Peace Prize laureate at her lakeside home for an hour to discuss an appeal of her conviction. More>>