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Naraka Chaturdashi – Killing of All Wrongs

In this week's Spot, Sadhguru looks at the legend behind Naraka Chaturdashi, when Krishna slew the demon Naraka, and explains how it is still relevant to us today.
Naraka Chaturdashi – Killing of All Wrongs

Diwali is also known as Naraka Chaturdashi because Naraka requested that his death anniversary should be celebrated. Many people only realize their limitations at the moment of death. If they realize now, life could be improved. But most people wait till the last moment. Naraka is one of them. At the time of his death, he suddenly realized how he wasted his life and what he had been doing with it. So, he requested Krishna, “Today you are not killing only me, but all the wrongs that I did – this must be celebrated.” So you should not celebrate the killing of Naraka’s wrongs, you must celebrate the killing of all the wrongs within you. That is when a real Diwali happens. Otherwise, it is just a lot of expense, oil, and firecrackers.

You should not celebrate the killing of Naraka’s wrongs, you must celebrate the killing of all the wrongs within you.

Naraka came from a good background. The legend says he was the son of Vishnu. But this happened when Vishnu had taken the form of a wild boar, so he had certain tendencies. More than that, Naraka became friends with Mura, who later on became his general. Together they fought many battles and killed thousands of people. Krishna first killed Mura, since there was no way to deal with Naraka if both of them were together. The reason Krishna has the name Murari is because he slew Mura. In the legend, Mura was said to have magical powers in battle, which made him in such a way that nobody could stand against him. Once Mura was taken off, Naraka was more of a ceremony.

Naraka was put to death because Krishna saw that if you let him live, he will continue the same way. But if you bring him close to death, he is capable of realizing. Suddenly he realized he unnecessarily gathered too much nasty stuff. So he said, “You are not killing me, you are taking away all my bad stuff. This is a good thing you are doing to me. Everybody should know this. So they must all celebrate the death of all the negativity I gathered because this has brought new light to me and it should bring light to everyone.” So this became the festival of lights. The entire country goes up in light on this day, so you are supposed to burn all your stuff. It is good to do it now. For Naraka, Krishna told him “I am going to kill you.” But for you, no one may tell you – it may just happen.

This happened in Tennessee. A lady went to a gun shop. It is very common in Tennessee for people to go buy new guns periodically. So she went to the gun shop and said, “I want a revolver and a few bullets for my husband.” The shopkeeper asked, “What brand would he like?” She said, “I’ve not told him that I’m going to shoot him.”

All of us are made of the same stuff but see how differently each one has become.

When life gets you, it may not tell you. That is why Diwali is a reminder that you can die a conscious death and take on a conscious birth, rather than waiting for someone to shoot you. We don’t know whether a man, woman, bacteria, virus or your own cells will shoot you down. Someone will get us. Better make use of Naraka’s desire to remind everyone that, “I could have made myself into something but I gathered bad stuff and became like this.”

All of us are made of the same stuff but see how differently each one has become. The question is only what the hell are you gathering every day? Are you gathering and manufacturing poison within you or will you manufacture the fragrance of divine within you? This is the choice. This legend about Naraka being of good birth but going bad is significant. At the moment of death Naraka realized, the only difference between Krishna and him is what each had made out of themselves. Krishna made himself godlike, while Naraka made himself into a demon. Each of us has this choice. If we had no choices, then what is the use of those who have made themselves into shining examples? It is not because a person is lucky or they were born that way. It takes a lot of kneading and breaking to make oneself in a certain way.

Either you wait for life to whip you or you whip yourself into shape – this is the choice. So Naraka chose that Krishna should come and whip him. Krishna chose to whip himself into shape. That is a big difference. One gets worshipped as a god, another gets put down as a demon – this is all it is. Either you beat yourself into shape or life will one day beat you into shape – or out of shape, whichever way. Diwali is a reminder of this. Let’s light it up.

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Scope of this test is to verify that the system is installed, you can login into it and sshd is up and running.

Boot from CD or USB in real hardware or run the image in Testdrive
Choose the desired language
Select "Install Ubuntu Server"
Choose the language
Select your location
Configure locales
At configure keyboard page, select NO
Select the country of the keyboard
Select the keyboard layout
Select hostname ubuntu as default
Inser the name for the new user
Insert the name for the account
Choose a password
Reinsert the password
At encrypt request select NO
Verify or setup the timezone
At partitioning select "Guided - Use entire disk"
Select disk to partition
At "Write changes to disks", verify that everythings is right and select YES
At "http proxy" request, leave it blank and press enter
At managing upgrades select "No automatic updates"
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Wait that the system reboot and login
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From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination

From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination

Corporate media like to present themselves as holding the current administration to account, in reality they offer little meaningful resistance to its foreign policy adventures.

by Alan Macleod Reposted from FAIR

After Donald Trump’s election, both the New York Times and Washington Post saw huge jumps in subscribers, all hoping that the outlets would hold the president to account. Both papers tapped into this sentiment: In February 2017, the Post adopted the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on its masthead; Times ads have used the slogan, “The truth is more important now than ever.”

Trump has played his part, attacking media that bother him as “failing,” and reportedly telling all federal agencies in October to cancel their Times and Post subscriptions.

Yet when the president does indeed carry out dangerous, aggressive actions, such as the assassination of Iranian general and political leader Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3, “resistance” turns to assistance from the corporate press. FAIR studied every editorial and opinion piece on Soleimani’s killing published by the two newspapers, from the attack until January 7 (around three dozen articles), and found their pushback to Trump’s actions to be distinctly limited.

‘Indisputably an enemy’

Opinion writers and editorial boards took great pains to emphasize the disgust and contempt they held for Soleimani, a “terrorist mastermind” (Washington Post1/6/20) “as evil as Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Bahdadi” (Washington Post1/3/20). As Gail Collins wrote in the New York Times (1/7/20), “There seems to be a wide range of opinions about Soleimani, none of which are that he was a great guy the world will miss.” The millions of people who attended his funeral may beg to differ; two-thirds of Iranians rated him “very favorably,” according to a 2018 University of Maryland poll.

Some people in Lebanon and Yemen who received his support against foreign aggression, and citizens of Iraq and Syria who no longer live under the ISIS caliphate he helped defeat, may also have a perspective on Soleimani that went largely unrepresented in leading US papers. As Noam Chomsky (Truthout1/7/20) remarked of Iraqi Kurds:

They have not forgotten that when the huge, heavily armed US-trained Iraqi army quickly collapsed, and the Kurdish capital of Erbil, then Baghdad and all of Iraq were about to fall in the hands of ISIS, it was Soleimani and the Iraqi Shia militias he organized that saved the country.

There was little deviation in the Times or Post from the idea that Soleimani was an “evil” (New York Times1/3/201/7/20Washington Post1/6/20), “blood-soaked” (New York Times1/4/20) “terrorist” (New York Times1/3/20) who “had it coming” (New York Times1/4/20), a monster comparable to Nazi Holocaust leaders (Washington Post1/6/20). For New York Times columnist Bret Stephens (1/3/20), certain Nazis were, in fact, too good to be compared to Soleimani: “To think of him as a worthy adversary — an Iranian Erwin Rommel — is wrong,” he wrote. Meanwhile, Thomas Friedman (New York Times1/3/20) labeled him “the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle East.”

The chief reason for Soleimani’s nefariousness, the Times editorial board (1/3/20) explained, was that he was “indisputably an enemy of the American people…and an architect of international terrorism responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans.” The claim that Soleimani had killed hundreds of Americans was repeated, word for word, in many articles in the papers of record (e.g., New York Times1/7/20Washington Post1/3/201/3/20) as well as across the media (e.g., Boston Globe1/3/20Fox News1/6/20The Hill1/7/20).

These “hundreds of Americans” were US forces killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the Iraq War, supposedly made in Iran and planted by Iranian-backed Shia militias. As professor Stephen Zunes pointed out in the Progressive (1/7/20), the Pentagon provided no evidence that Iran made the IEDs, other than the far-fetched claim that they were too sophisticated to be made in Iraq—even though the US invasion had been justified by claims that Iraq had an incredibly threatening WMD program.

The made-in-Iran claim, in turn, was the main basis for pinning responsibility for IED attacks on Shia militias—which were, in any case, sanctioned by the Iraqi government, making Baghdad more answerable for their actions than anyone in Tehran. Last year, Gareth Porter reported in Truthout, (7/9/19) that the claim that Iran was behind the deaths of US troops was part of Vice President Dick Cheney’s plan to build a case for yet another war.

Even if one is inclined, against all experience, to take US claims about an official enemy on faith, the language that Soleimani killed “hundreds of Americans” is a deliberately nebulous. American what—children? Civilians? Indeed not. The allegation is that he targeted US troops or “contractors”—i.e., mercenaries—stationed not at home, but in a region on the other side of the world that the US illegally attacked and has occupied for most of this century. “Soleimani provided effective military resistance to foreign occupying forces,” though, sounds very different from “killed hundreds of Americans.”

Minor quibbles about protocol

Iraq were about to fall in the hands of ISIS, it was Soleimani and the Iraqi Shia militias he organized that saved the country.

In the papers studied, the majority of articles carried a similar, cookie-cutter structure: agree that Soleimani was a bad guy and deserved to be killed, but worry about the consequences and criticize the president on technical grounds. The Times’ editorial board (1/3/20) wrote that “the real question” wasn’t whether Soleimani’s killing “was justified, but whether it was wise.” Meanwhile, the Post (1/3/20) made exactly the same point: “Yes, Soleimani Was an Enemy,” the editorial board declared. “That Doesn’t Mean Trump Made the Right Call.”

Criticism of the government’s actions was largely limited to worrying it might escalate tensions and spark a hot war—something for which US corporate media have been laying the groundwork for months (FAIR.org7/2/19) if not years (Extra!3/12). Complaints included that the US lacked a clear grand strategy (New York Times1/7/20), that it was a “rash and shortsighted” (Washington Post1/6/20), that there were “no more adults in the room” (New York Times1/6/20), that it would “bolster” the Iranian regime (New York Times1/6/20) or could “trigger a bigger conflict” (Washington Post1/3/20) that risks “ensnaring” the US in a wider encounter (Washington Post, 1/6/20). (In corporate media mythology, the United States is always an innocent party getting accidentally trapped into going to war, rather than actively pursuing it—FAIR.org6/22/17.)

The Times and Post offered some meager objections based on congressional technicalities. “Why didn’t the White House alert senior Democrats in Congress, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi?” asked the Times (1/3/20). The Post (1/6/201/6/20) made similar criticisms, as if had Trump done so, there would be no legal issues with killing a foreign leader in another country.

There were some exceptions. Law scholar Karen Greenberg (New York Times1/6/20) wrote that the general’s killing was illegal and an “inevitable outcome of our dangerous ‘war on terror’ policy.” Iranian-American writer Azadeh Moaveni worried about the effect of war on Iran and noted that Soleimani was considered a “war hero” inside the Islamic Republic (New York Times1/6/20).

Opposition to war from the Times’ regular columnists was more about who was carrying it out. Michelle Goldberg (1/6/20), condemning Trump’s “unstable” actions, presented Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis as a moderating force, although she did note that, “To Iranians, after all, America is the aggressor.” Paul Krugman (1/6/20), meanwhile, acknowledged that Iranians would not accept Trump’s right to kill their leaders, but also claimed that before Trump, the US was “relatively trustworthy” and “clearly stood for global rule of law,” always behaving as “no more than first among equals.”

But across the spectrum of dozens of articles in America’s two most influential newspapers, there was little difference in outlook. Contempt for the commander in chief? Sure. But scrutiny of the state? Not so much. As Stephens reminded Times readers, “What shouldn’t be in doubt is the justice.”

Embarrassing predictions

With all the confidence of White Star Line Executives in 1912 proclaiming HMS Titanic unsinkable, opinion columnists in our most influential media made a number of utterly terrible predictions or assertions that were immediately disproven.

The Times editorial board, echoing official claims, wrote that Soleimani likely “had come to Iraq in part to plot the next move against United States military personnel or civilians.” In reality, he had been invited to attend regional peace talks with Saudi Arabia by the Iraqi prime minister, who had personally asked Trump for permission for Soleimani to attend. Trump agreed, then used the opportunity to assassinate him.

Less than two days later, the Iraqi parliament voted overwhelmingly to expel all US forces from Iraq, which made Times top columnist Thomas Friedman’s assertion that protests against the US embassy in Baghdad were staged to “make it look as if Iraqis wanted America out when in fact it was the other way around” seem distinctly foolish.

Meanwhile, both the Post (1/3/20) and the Times (1/3/20) published articles confidently predicting that “the killing will have the effect of deterring further Iranian attacks on Americans, such as the rocket strike that killed a US contractor at an Iraqi base last week,” and that Iran “will prefer to tread lightly,” with the assassination “bring[ing] a sense of realism to the Islamic Republic’s thinking.” Needless to say, the dozens of Iranian rockets raining down on US bases in Iraq have proven these predictions woefully incorrect.

While corporate media like to present themselves as holding the current administration to account, in reality they offer little meaningful resistance to its foreign policy adventures. As with Trump’s efforts to overthrow the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia (see FAIR.org1/25/1911/15/1911/26/19), media are essentially lining up shoulder to shoulder with the president. When it comes to opposing or even questioning an aggressive foreign policy, the resistance™ is useless.

Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. His latest book, Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, was published by Routledge in May 2019.

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Cogeco Outage in Saint-Sauveur, Laurentides, Québec

Cogeco offers cable television, internet and home phone service. Cogeco service homes and businesses in multiple areas, mainly in Ontario and Quebec.

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  • Phone 2.74% Phone

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Biometrics[edit | edit source]

A sensor is

[h]ardware found on a biometric device that converts biometric input into a digital signal and conveys this information to the processing device.[1]

General[edit | edit source]

A sensor

[is a] peripheral input device which senses some variable in the system environment, such as temperature, and converts it to an electrical signal which can be further converted to a digital signal for processing by the computer.[2]
[c]onverts a pressure, temperature, or other physical parameter into an electrical signal, often for use in a control system.[3]
[is] equipment which detects, and may indicate, and/or record objects and activities by means of energy or particles emitted, reflected, or modified by objects. Note. The energy may be nuclear, electromagnetic, including the visible and invisible portions of the spectrum, chemical, biological, thermal or mechanical, including sound, blast and earth vibration.[4]
[is a] device that produces a voltage or current output that is representative of some physical property being measured (e.g., speed, temperature, flow).[5]
is a special device that perceives certain characteristics of the real world and transfers them into a digital representation.[6]

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A sensor is

an electronic utility (eUtility) that measures physical properties such as temperature, acceleration, weight, sound, location, presence, identity, etc. All sensors employ mechanical, electrical, chemical, optical, or other effects at an interface to a controlled process or open environment.[7]
[a] portion of an IoT device capable of providing an observation of an aspect of the physical world in the form of measurement data.[8]

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Sensors are a type of electronic device that must produce the miniscule amount of power required to convey information at a usable error rate. Sound, light, atmospheric conditions, vibrations, and other environmental signals are all fair game for sensor designers.

Basic properties, assumptions, recommendations, and general statements about sensors include:

1. Sensors are physical; some may have an Internet access capability.
2. Sensor output is data; . . . Analog sensors such as microphones and voltmeters are counterexamples.
3. A sensor may also transmit device identification information, such as via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
4. Sensors may have an identity or have the identity of the "thing" to which they are attached.
5. Sensors may have little or no software functionality and computing power; more advanced sensors may have software functionality and computing power.
6. Sensors may be heterogeneous, from different manufacturers, and collect data, with varying levels of data integrity.
7. Sensors may be associated with fixed geographic locations or may be mobile.
8. Sensors may provide surveillance. Cameras and microphones are sensors.
9. Sensors may have an owner(s) who will have control of the data their sensors collect, who is allowed to access it, and when.
10. Sensors will have pedigree — geographic locations of origin and manufacturers. Pedigree may be unknown, and suspect.
11. Sensors may be cheap, disposable, and susceptible to wear-out over time.
12. There may be differentials in sensor security, safety, and reliability, e.g., between consumer grade, military grade, industrial grade, etc.
13. Sensors may return no data, totally flawed data, partially flawed data, or correct and acceptable data. Sensors may fail completely or intermittently. They may lose sensitivity or calibration.
14. Sensors are expected to return data in certain ranges, e.g., [1 ... 100]. When ranges are violated, rules may be needed on whether to turn control over to a human or machine when ignoring out-of-bounds data is inappropriate.
15. Sensors may be disposable or serviceable in terms of calibration, sensitivity or other forms of refresh. Complex and expensive sensors may be repaired instead of replaced.
16. Sensors may be powered in a variety of ways including alternating current (AC), solar, wind, battery, or passively via radio waves.
17. Sensors may be acquired off-the-shelf or built to specification.
18. Sensors acquire data that can be event-driven, driven by manual input, command-driven, or released at pre-defined times.
19. Sensors may have a level of data integrity ascribed.
20. Sensors may have their data encrypted to void some security concerns.
21. Sensors should have the capability to be authenticated as genuine.
22. Sensor data may be sent and communicated to multiple NoTs. A sensor may have multiple recipients of its data. Sensor data may be leased to one or more NoTs.
23. The frequency with which sensors release data impacts the data's currency and relevance. Sensors may return valid but stale data. Sensor data may be "at rest" for long periods of time.
24. A sensor's precision may determine how much information is provided. Uncertainty of sensor data should be considered.
25. Sensors may transmit data about the "health" of a system, such as is done in prognostics and health management (PHM).
26. * * * When classified as an eUtility, humans can still act in a sensor-like role by manually feeding data into a NoT's workflow and data flow.
27. Humans can influence sensor performance through failure to follow policy, sensor misplacement, etc. (or their positive analogs). Humans are potential contributors to sensor failures.
28. Security is a concern for sensors if they or their data is tampered with, stolen, deleted, dropped, or transmitted insecurely so it can be accessed by unauthorized parties. Building security into specific sensors may or may not be necessary based on the overall system design.
29. Reliability is a concern for sensors.

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  2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Glossary of Computerized System and Software Development Technology 26 (Aug. 1995) (full-text).
  3. Miniaturization Technologies, App. B, Glossary, at 44.
  4. Glossary of Communication Electronic Terms, at 2-136.
  5. NIST Special Publication 800-82, at B-7.
  6. Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems, at 17.
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A man who phoned in a bomb hoax about a Singapore Airlines flight while he was drunk has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Sanjay Korat, 40, from New South Wales in Australia, falsely said that there was a bomb onboard a service from Mumbai to Singapore on 25 March 2019, despite the fact his own mother and another family member were travelling on the flight.

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He later stated: “I am not a terrorist, I am a common man.”

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Korat told police he had become angry after spending 40 minutes on hold when he phoned Singapore airlines, in addition to having to call Mumbai Airport to provide extra information in order for his relatives to travel.

He was also intoxicated at the time of the bomb threat, the court heard.

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The Humoral Immune Response to Type 1 Oral Poliovirus Vaccine in Children Previously Immunized With Enhanced Potency Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine or Live Oral Poliovirus Vaccine

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• Sixty-one children who had previously received three doses of enhanced potency inactivated poliovirus vaccine (epIPV) at 2, 4, and 18 months of age and 56 children who had previously received oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) according to the same schedule were challenged with a single dose of monovalent, type 1 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV1)between 19 and 52 months of age. Before the OPV1 challenge, the previously epIPV-immunized recipients had a geometric mean poliovirus type 1 microneutralization antibody titer (geometric mean titer [GMT]) of 11.1 IU, which was significantly higher than the prechallenge GMT of 2.2 IU among the children who had previously received OPV. Three weeks after the OPV1 challenge, the GMTs for the epIPV-immunized recipients and the OPV-immunized recipients were 35.3 IU and 5.1 IU, respectively. For the epIPV-immunized recipients, both the prechallenge GMT and the postchallenge GMT were dependent on the D antigen content of the vaccine that they had previously received. A fourfold or greater rise in poliovirus type 1 antibody occurred after the OPV1 challenge in 50.9% of the epIPV-immunized children and in 28.6% of the OPV-immunized children; this difference was statistically significant. For both groups, antibody boosts were inversely correlated with the prechallenge serum antibody titer. However, the epIPV-immunized children consistently were more likely to boost than the OPV-immunized children at equivalent levels of prechallenge antibody. This experience indicated that OPV1 administration effectively raises the level of serum antibody in children previously immunized with three doses of epIPV, especially in children with lower levels of preexisting antibody. This booster response was superior to the booster response of children who received three doses of OPV.

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Masks--need I say more? We all got used to having to wear them in public and were quick to remove them once we got into our cars after going to the store. They made people look like surgeons in regular clothes. Some people took selfies in masks for their Facebook profile pictures, but I'm not tempted to do such a thing. And there were humorous photos like these:

 And as Halloween neared:

And these were another thing that was hard to locate in stores at first, forcing some (including me) to make their own out of cloth, once the mandate was set in place.

Breathing was hard for some in masks, especially in the summer time. And recently doubling them made me feel even more out of breath, like I was about to have a panic attack. Which I nearly did all year long. More on panicking to come.

I was always used to reaching into my wallet for my forms of payment. But once the pandemic hit, I began putting my Safeway card and whatever method of payment I chose for the store or for fast food, including cash when stores were able to accept it and when I could give the exact amount (when there was a coin shortage). And it did feel weird asking people to put my change in a plastic bag when I getting money legally. And going into the bank to deposit money. I always try to prepare my money-handling bag before going into the store or going to the drive-thru at a restaurant. I hadn't seen very many "exact change only" signs lately and was surprised to see one the other day. This meant digging out extra coins (I had already placed two dollar bills in my plastic bag), which I thankfully had. I also got into the habit of sanitizing my cards and cash after leaving the stores.
I never got more excited about getting the mail until now. I still get Netflix DVDs (don't judge, please!) and like everyone else, was eager to receive my stimulus checks last year. And then there were the books I ordered from Amazon and through the library's Zip Books program, and clothes from Lane Bryant. And I got a free book from participating in the Birth Year Reading Challenge (which is not occurring this year). Most of the Zip Books came in the mail, though at least two came by UPS. I've never gotten anything via Fed Ex and am not an Amazon Prime user, though I did see plenty of those trucks roaming around town. I still pay bills by mail and I chose to file my unemployment claims through mail as well, so as to keep the mail service working. And there were plenty of people at the post office each time my mom and I went to mail our bills, some mailing or receiving packages.

The days, weeks and months seemed to blur together once the shelter-in-place orders began. There were times I asked, "Is it really (month) already?" I had to remember when it was Thursday, since our garbage gets picked up on Fridays. And what night it was, so I would know when the shows I watch are on. Yet, even I still got mixed up as far as days. Forgetting it was Memorial Day and seeing the
pharmacy at Safeway closed was one such mixup. Every day was feeling like an extra Sunday, not just the legal holidays. It didn't help that the 4th of July was on a Saturday. I didn't aways forget what day it was, though it was often confusing.

Didn't it seem like there was always more stuff to come? As if the coronavirus wasn't enough, murders took place, causing subsequent protests, and forcing outdated produced logos that seemed racist to be changed. And suddenly there was something called murder hornets. Hearing that freaked me out a little at first, as the year was already seeming apocalyptic because of Covid. Now an insect was invading the earth, making the current state of the world seem even more dystopian. Yet, this is what seemed to happen:

I never saw any murder hornets, did any of you?

There certainly was "more to come," starting with the protests (more on this to come). And in my neck of the woods, there were the fires and the heatwaves (see previous posts on these). And what more can there be now?

Concluding for today.

  1. Hari Om
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  2. When it's cold outside I actually like to wear a mask, my nose is not frozen ;))
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Antoinette Manganas to perform at AL N RUBENS in Washington Pa

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Antoinette Manganas to perform at AL N RUBENS in Washington Pa

Time: January 14, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Jefferson Avenue in Washington, Pa
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Antoinette will perform at AL N RUBEN'S on Thursday, January 14th, from 6 p.m.- 9 p.m. Accompanied by keyboard player and singer Mark Vennerri.

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Marc Antoine Perrio, guitare
Ariel Tessier, drums
Simon Tailleu, double bass

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Thirty years ago today, the music died.  Again.  I hate when that happens before the song is over.  Yet, somehow, miraculously, the music still lives on.  Rest in peace, John.

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One Year Later

Where am I?

Here I am, in the quaint town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  I flew down here 1 year ago this week, ready to take on the world by teaching math to children with learning disabilities in an economically disadvantaged middle school, by continuing to build my jewelry business, and by helping my family adapt to southern living.

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Most of us know how the teaching gig went, right? I always had the utmost respect for my children’s teachers – but now??  HOLY FUCKSHIT THEY NEED TO BE CANNONIZED.

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I asked, “What is the formula for perimeter, Jose?”

“Add all sides!” he proudly replied.

“Great!  Now tell your neighbor, Jonathan.”
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I then said, “Jonathan, please tell your neighbor, Daniel, the formula for perimeter.”

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I was teaching a Life Skills class, switched out of said Life Skills class into resource classes, then criticized 5 days later for not making significant impacts in the resource classes.  After teaching these children less than 1 week.

I began to dread coming in to school.  I was leaving my home at 5:45 every morning, getting to school at 7am, working nonstop until 4:30, then driving home for an hour and then continuing to work from home on lesson plans and activities, trying to run my business which was floundering, and deal with the fact that my husband, who suffers from bipolar disorder, was not adjusting well at all to our new life, AND let’s not forget I’m a mother with 3 young kids at home (and an adult kid that I miss terribly) really hit me hard.

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The past destroyed my self-esteem and here I am at age 44 still trying to build it up. I was on an upward swing because here I was, accepted into a prestigious program that tens of thousands of people were vying to get into, hired by a school I thought was going to work well for me, and giving my husband and kids the better quality of life they deserve.

And then school happened and I felt myself slip backwards into a quagmire of self-loathing, anxiety, depression, and a constant fear that something bad was going to happen. It was debilitating.

Always Keep Fighting and I am Stigma Free

At VegasCon I had the privilege of speaking to Jared Padalecki about the Always Keep Fighting campaign.  Jared had just launched the campaign and was selling shirts to raise funds for the cause.

I had designed a bracelet that I felt best represented the message: an aluminum cuff stamped simply with the words “always keep fighting”.  I had chosen aluminum because it’s lightweight and meant to make us feel as if burdens are being lifted away by the message; it wasn’t weighing us down.

I explained to Jared that I wanted to sell these bracelets and donate a portion of the proceeds to the cause and his words were, “This is  awesome! I say go for it!”

With his blessing I began to make the bracelets.

Always Keep Fighting - Jared Approved, SPNFamily Supported

Always Keep Fighting – Jared Approved, SPNFamily Supported

AKF Leather

I created a leather version as well for those who have metal allergies or just prefer the look.

The response from all of you has been so overwhelming.  I am beyond grateful for your support!

Mitch Kosterman has his Always Keep Fighting cuff - and he also helped me understand I am Stigma Free

Mitch Kosterman has his Always Keep Fighting cuff – and he also helped me understand I am Stigma Free

In speaking with Mitch Kosterman, I realized that not only do we need a message to remind us to always keep fighting, but we need to address the judgment that is passed by those who don’t understand mental illness.  The assumptions that are made.

“Oh, man up and get over it already.”

“He’s just being lazy.”

“Throwing a pity party.”

“Looking for attention.”

“Trying to get out of working.  I saw him laughing earlier, there’s nothing wrong.”

These are all things I’ve heard either about myself or a loved one that is suffering from a mental illness.

Mitch really helped me understand that it’s a widespread issue and not just my own isolated experiences.

So I introduced another piece, I am Stigma Free.  I believe that both messages support each other and that we cannot be successful in fighting if we don’t shed the stigma that comes along with our illness.

I am stigma free - never apologize for who you are

I am stigma free – never apologize for who you are

I am donating 50% of the proceeds from each and every Always Keep Fighting and I Am Stigma Free bracelet.

To date, we have raised $1,208 for Always Keep Fighting.  I am so proud of us.

Paying it Forward with Rock the Monkey, Homeboy Industries, & SupportSPN

Rock the Monkey:

Part of what helps me heal is doing things for others.  I have a Random Acts approved fundraiser called Rock the Monkey where I am donating 100% of the proceeds to the cause.  Here’s Osric modeling one of the barrettes (coming soon!).

Osric is the perfect model for the upcoming Rock the Monkey barrettes!

Osric is the perfect model for the upcoming Rock the Monkey barrettes!

Available right now are earrings and necklaces!

Rock the Monkey Necklace Round Style!

Rock the Monkey Necklace Round Style!

Rock the Monkey Teardrop

Rock the Monkey Necklace Teardrop Style!

Rock the Monkey Earrings

Rock the Monkey Earrings!

Homeboy Industries:

The lovely Lauren Tom introduced me to Homeboy Industries at SeaCon several months ago – the good that this organization does defies description.  They provide so many free services to former gang members in the LA area.  You can help by donating to my Homeboy Industries page where I am raising funds to benefit this awesome organization! View my page here:

The beautiful Lauren Tom wearing the Love of Mrs. Tran, which she Lauren auctioned off in Europe to raise funds for Homeboy Industries!

The beautiful Lauren Tom wearing the Love of Mrs. Tran, which she Lauren auctioned off in Europe to raise funds for Homeboy Industries!

Carry On

This site is a plethora of support for Supernatural fans and their friends and families.  I designed a bracelet where a portion of the proceeds is donated to this wonderful group:

Now What?

I finally got it through my head that the only time I work well is when I work for myself, so I’ve thrown myself full time into my jewelry.  I’m determined (desperate??) to make this work.

If you want to know how you can be a part of making this happen and also to earn gift certificates towards my jewelry, you can do so via my GoFundMe page:
My Go Fund Me campaign allows me to buy supplies, cover travel expenses so I can vend at conventions, and keep my business afloat until it’s strong enough to sustain itself.

I also have a livestream show, So Get This  on my YouTube channel where I chat with you about Supernatural, being a Supernatural fan, and sometimes have kick ass guests such as previous guests Briana Buckmaster, Nicki Aycox, Ruth Connell, Lauren Tom, Katherine Ramdeen, and YOU!  Shannon Price of Chickie and Bean, Carrie Anderson, and Debbi Bachman have all graced me with their presence and you can catch their episodes here on my YouTube channel:

I’m still struggling with anxiety and depression.  I always will, it’s engrained in who I am.  I’m not apologetic for it – I refuse to be.  Are people apologizing because they have heart disease or diabetes?  Of course not.

I am not apologizing for being sick.  I am stigma free.  I will always keep fighting, thanks to you, my #SPNFamily.


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I got an email from the Nero folks about their Black Friday discount for Nero 12 until November 25. I used Nero long ago for ripping, and backing up my computer, but haven't used a late version. If anyone is using Nero 12, how well does it work with JAWS?

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up?

Sat, Dec 22, 2007

Note: This article was originally published in the November/December 2007 issue of the now-defunct Sentient City Magazine.

The stories told of the development of most religions once those religions have been established seem to start with the rules. First, a religion is codified, institutionalized, and spread; then revisionist historians, mystics, and advanced practitioners go back to seek the truth of the revelation or inspiration that preceded what has become the official version of the religion. And those mystics and seekers usually assert the primacy of their connection to the source of the religion through a secret (and often supernatural) lineage that parallels the official history of the religion. More orthodox (or skeptical) observers, on the other hand, might see those insights as evolving from the contemplation of the official version of the religion’s teachings.

The evolution of the Abrahamic religions offers several examples of this process. In the second chapter of Genesis, immediately after Yahweh put the finishing touches on creation, He started handing down rules to Adam and Eve. And the remainder of the Torah is the story of how He adjusted those rules with Noah, Abraham, and Moses. The little historical evidence available to us suggests that Christianity may have begun as one of many Jewish movements emerging at the same time that sought a more direct communion with God and focused less on adherence to a specific set of rules. But shortly after the death of Jesus, Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee and persecutor of the followers of Jesus among the Jews, was struck by a blinding light on the way to Damascus and became a follower of Jesus himself, as Paul the Apostle. In his new identity as an apostle of Jesus’ (and, thus, God’s) love, he traveled tirelessly among the nascent community of followers of Jesus, proselytizing and, ironically, handing down the rules that would govern what his efforts transformed from a Jewish sect into a religion of its own (a religion that came to assert the primacy of its connection to the Jews’ God through Christ, the Son of God prior even to the first chapter of Genesis). The remainder of the Christian bible was likely written after Paul’s epistles, so it’s impossible to know if or how much those accounts of Jesus’ experiences and teachings were transformed by subsequent interpretation, codification, and transmission by Paul and others. What we have instead is a set of rules with only tantalizing glimpses of what Jesus may have experienced, written down long after the fact. And within Christianity, countless movements, from the early Gnostics and the Cathars to the Mormons, have emerged claiming a connection to Christ prior to those writings, whether through Jesus’ brother James, the apostle Thomas, or the thirteenth tribe of Israel.

Islam, another religion claiming descent from Abraham, began with Allah dictating the Qur’an to Muhammad for the Arabs. Among other things, the Qur’an contains the set of rules by which one may live a life in accord with the wishes of Allah and secure His blessings. It established a direct connection between the Arabs and Allah that didn’t depend on (but also didn’t contradict) Judaism or Christianity. And as Islam evolved after Muhammad’s death, Sufism, an Islamic mysticism, developed. Sufis, like Jewish and Christian mystics, seek a direct personal experience of God or Truth, which is pervasive and without duality, and look beyond the conventional reality of a God, separate from creation, handing down rules of conduct to those within that creation. And like Jewish and Christian mystics, they claim a direct connection back to the source of their religion, in their case through Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, and others (though Louis Massignon, a Catholic scholar of Islam, claimed that, “[i]t is from the Qur’an, constantly recited, meditated, and experienced, that Sufism proceeded, in its origin and its development”).

In his unfinished Ethics, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German minister who was executed by the Nazis for his alleged participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler, describes the distinction between direct communion with God and the rules handed down by God as follows (as translated by Neville Horton Smith):

The knowledge of good and evil seems to be the aim of all ethical reflection. The first task of Christian ethics is to invalidate this knowledge…

Already in the possibility of the knowledge of good and evil Christian ethics discerns a falling away from the origin. Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.

I take this to mean that the rules handed down to us through religions are a conventional substitute for the ultimate experience of unity with God or Truth, wherein rules would be not just unnecessary, but meaningless. Bonhoeffer makes this more explicit in his discussion of Jesus’ dispute with the Pharisees:

…Any distorted picture of the Pharisees robs Jesus’s argument with them of its gravity and its importance. The Pharisee is the extremely admirable man who subordinates his entire life to his knowledge of good and evil and is as severe a judge of himself as of his neighbour to the honour of God, whom he humbly thanks for this knowledge. For the Pharisee every moment of life becomes a situation of conflict in which he has to choose between good and evil…

These men with the incorruptibly impartial and distrustful vision cannot confront any man in any other way than by examining him with regard to his decisions in the conflicts of life. And so, even when they come face to face with Jesus, they cannot do otherwise than attempt to force Him, too, into conflicts and into decisions in order to see how He will conduct Himself in them… The crucial point about all these arguments is that Jesus does not allow Himself to be drawn in into a single one of these conflicts and decisions. With each of His answers He simply leaves the case of conflict beneath Him… Just as the Pharisees cannot do otherwise than confront Jesus with situations of conflict, so, too, Jesus cannot do otherwise than refuse to accept these situations. Just as the Pharisees’ question and temptation arises from the disunion of the knowledge of good and evil, so, too, Jesus’s answer arises from unity with God, with the origin, and from the overcoming of the disunion of man with God…

This could, I suppose, be seen as the thinking behind the “What Would Jesus Do?” movement. That question is meant to get at not what the rules say about a situation, but at what Jesus, in His unity with God, would do in that situation. The practical problem with this approach is that we can only know what Jesus would do if we ourselves are in unity with God, which I suspect is more often mistaken for true than actually true. Without the unity with God, our guess as to what Jesus would do will be based on what we’ve read and what we’ve heard, and under those circumstances, it’s probably better to follow the rules that have been provided for that situation. Though flawed and incomplete, the rules are more likely to be correct than we, in our disunion from God, are. This suggests that we should aspire to unity with God, but rely on the rules until we achieve that. Even the mystics, who seek only unity with God or Truth, would seem to agree, given their emphasis on the personal transmission of their teachings only to those who have the capacity to properly understand them, and a significant component in the process of developing that capacity is generally an extensive regimen of rules and practices, though those rules and practices tend to become progressively less normative and more focused on transformation. (And such precautions aren’t always successful–the history of religion is filled with mistaken mystics, prophets, and visionaries who took their conventional understanding to be ultimate Truth and caused all sorts of suffering for themselves and others.)

A similar progression can be found in Buddhist practice as I’ve learned it. If anything, Buddhism is even more explicit both about the potential for every one of us to ultimately be a Buddha and about the need for conventional guidance as we work toward that realization. The sets of practices dedicated to conventional guidance are called the Hinayana, and those dedicated to ultimate realization are called the Mahayana and Vajrayana. Westerners tend to see these sets of practices as two (or three) different versions of Buddhism, as Catholicism and Protestantism are different versions of Christianity, but I don’t find that view useful. Though the word Hinayana is usually translated as “lesser vehicle” (and Mahayana as “great vehicle”), implying its inferiority, I find it more helpful to understand it as the “narrow” or “precise” vehicle, which constitutes the basis of all other practices. Just as writers are obliged to learn to make sentences and paragraphs correctly before they can become great writers, and artists are obliged to learn to draw correctly before they can become great painters, Buddhist practitioners are obliged to learn the Hinayana practices before they can effectively practice the Mahayana and Vajrayana. And just as great writers never abandon the practice of making sentences and paragraphs and great painters never abandon the practice of drawing, great Buddhist practitioners never abandon the Hinayana practices. Even Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who taught and practiced almost exclusively from the perspective of ultimate realization, exhorted his students right to the end to “remember the Hinayana” as the basis of their practice.

It is from the Hinayana, the Buddhist realm of rules of conduct, and specifically the Four Noble Truths (and still more specifically the Noble Eightfold Path), that we receive the teaching of right livelihood, which, like the rest of the Noble Eightfold Path, focuses on harmful activities from which one should refrain. Though the individual tenets of the Noble Eightfold Path are positively named, they are generally negatively defined. This is because the focus of the Hinayana is liberation from Samsara, so its practices usually identify what to let go of, rather than what to grab onto. The teaching on right livelihood doesn’t identify professions that are meritorious, wholesome, and fulfilling (that would likely be seen as perfecting Samsara); it only identifies professions that are positively harmful. The teaching on right livelihood, and the Hinayana in general, won’t urge us toward creativity and self-actualization in our work; it only urges us not to lie, cheat, steal, or harm. It can be tempting to infer exemplary professions to be pursued from the teaching’s short, straightforward list of what not to do for living, but the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Hinayana in general, offer no such guidance. And though it may seem reasonable to expand the teaching’s short, specific list for guidance in our current context by asking what the Buddha would tell us now, to properly answer that question would require the Buddha’s realization, just as the question of what Jesus would do could only be properly answered by someone who, like Jesus, is in unity with God.

The practices of the Mahayana and Vajrayana, on the other hand, take a more expansive view of our experience and offer insights into how to live a life engaged in Samsara. The crucial underlying difference between the Hinayana and the Mahayana and Vajrayana is that the Mahayana and Vajrayana are based on shunyata, generally translated into English as “emptiness.” The introduction of shunyata shifts the practitioner’s perspective from one where, to quote Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche from his Gateway to Knowledge (as translated by Erik Hein Schmidt), “all knowable phenomena are complete and simultaneously clear and distinct” to one where “they are also equally devoid of a difference between subject and object in the nature of one taste, free from attributes.” Where the Hinayana teaches the conventional attainment of Nirvana through liberation from Samsara, the Mahayana and Vajrayana teach that ultimately Samsara and Nirvana, like all phenomena, are not separate. Where Hinayana-only practitioners can rely on clear rules to guide their conduct, Mahayana and Vajrayana practitioners engage in specific practices seeking to experience their Buddha nature (or “basic goodness,” according to the Shambhala tradition) and, ultimately, to act based on that understanding. If strict Hinayana-only practitioners could be seen as Pharisees by Bonhoeffer’s definition, then Mahayana and especially Vajrayana practitioners, like the mystics of other religious traditions, can be seen as aspiring to a perspective similar to that of Bonhoeffer’s Jesus. And aspiring to that perspective, and understanding the truth of shunyata (that they aren’t separate from any aspect of reality or the suffering it entails), Mahayana practitioners take the Bodhisattva Vow to liberate all sentient beings from suffering. The practices that follow from that vow offer guidance for all situations, but that guidance is not something that can be codified or generalized, and the motivation and fruition of those practices are different from those of the Hinayana practices.

The Hinayana teaching on right livelihood can certainly be applied to modern employment situations: Don’t work for a defense contractor; don’t work for a tobacco company; and so on. But the value of this guidance, though correct, will be fairly limited for most Buddhist practitioners. Beyond this guidance, how can we make decisions about how to earn a living? Simplistic pronouncements against working for or with corporations, for example, are mistaken attempts to apply a Hinayana teaching outside of the specific context in which it was offered (unless the practitioner genuinely believes that corporations and corporate activity can only ever be harmful). For guidance beyond the specific situations addressed by Hinayana teachings, we must engage in the practices of the Mahayana. Corporations employ the bulk of Western workers and, arguably, have a greater influence on the world than any other force. From a Mahayana perspective, to dogmatically eschew participation in them as a means to our personal fulfillment would be to seek retreat into some illusory non-corporate Nirvana without regard for the bulk of humanity left in the equally illusory corporate Samsara. Corporations are human constructs composed of those who work for them and defined by those who interact with them. And corporations, like any other conventional phenomena, are impermanent and subject to transformation. We are none of us separate from corporations, and we are all responsible for their effect on us and others. Yet participation in corporations in a mindful way can be overwhelmingly complicated and fraught with endless effects and implications, as is true of any genuine participation in reality. If we’re going to look beyond the fairly simple guidance offered by the Hinayana to the deeper practice of the Mahayana and Vajrayana, then Buddhism offers no alternative to the assumption of the Bodhisattva Vow and, with it, the abandonment of clear, simple distinctions like right and wrong, or pure and impure, in favor of full engagement in the nature of reality.

Given this, the interesting (and realistic) question isn’t whether to participate in corporations; instead, it’s how to participate in corporations to the benefit of sentient beings. Answers to that question might typically focus on the effect of corporations on those outside of them, and that’s certainly crucial. But because so many people work for or are supported by people who work for corporations, the effect of corporations on their employees is also vital. And for most corporate employees, it’s far more practically feasible to have an impact on our coworkers than it is to have an impact on those outside the corporation. The urging of the Hinayana’s teaching on right livelihood not to lie, cheat, steal, or harm will likely prove useful here, but the Mahayana’s Bodhisattva Vow to take responsibility for and end all suffering (our own and the suffering of others) will prove even more useful. Properly engaging in these practices in a corporate environment will reduce the suffering of those who share that environment with us. Furthermore, the corporate activities in which we’re engaged will be more effective, moving the corporation toward greater success and, in the process, bringing us professional advancement. We can then use that advancement to further increase our positive influence on the corporation and its activities. Of course, this won’t be any simpler in a corporate environment than it is in other environments. For unenlightened beings, attempts to cultivate happiness and avoid suffering most often lead not to happiness, but to further suffering, and there’s no reason to expect that to be any different in a corporation. The possible causes of failure in this endeavor are many, including becoming attached to our success or to a burgeoning sense of superiority, failing to expand our perspective as our influence expands, and becoming overwhelmed and cynical as the scope and difficulty of our task grows. This is true of any Bodhisattva activity, and that is why the Mahayana offers paramita practices to cultivate the generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation, and wisdom that will facilitate our success.

In my personal experience, Mahayana practices are endlessly helpful to a corporate manager, and corporate management provides the opportunity to have powerful positive effects on the lives of those to whom a Bodhisattva seeks to be of benefit. The parallels are powerful and instructive. Like Bodhisattvas, the most effective managers became managers not to satisfy any narrow personal ambition, but because they’ve taken an interest in and responsibility for the larger issues around them and their work, and have sought to be useful in a broader sense. Like Bodhisattvas (or mystics of other traditions), managers, as they advance, will find less and less conventional guidance and be forced to rely more and more on their own experience and insights. Perhaps that’s why the notion of mentoring has been in such vogue among corporate managers. It can serve some of the same purposes that lineage and gurus serve in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. And managers fail in the same way that Bodhisattvas do, by becoming attached to themselves and their personal success, and losing sight of the success and happiness of those around them. Like Bodhisattvas, managers benefit from the wisdom of shunyata, which sees that none of the efforts that might serve as a source of such stress and satisfaction are ultimately real, but only as long as that wisdom is counterbalanced with compassion, which sees the conventional suffering that is can be the result of those efforts done poorly. So if, like me, you find yourself working for a corporation, don’t lament, apologize, complain, or spend forty (or likely more) hours a week incompletely engaged in your experience. You won’t gain anything that way, and you won’t be of benefit to anyone else. You may as well be a Bodhisattva. But then, that’s true no matter where you might find yourself working or what you might find yourself doing.


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Valpo’s Brits

18 Mar

Valparaiso shelters a number of immigrant cultures in the city; German, Italian, Croatian, Spanish, Irish and British. Saint Paul’s Anglican Church of Valparaiso is a contribution from the British community. It was the first protestant church built in Chile. The church is one of the places in the city where you can get a really close look at the European immigration of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Its English Neo Gothic style is the reflection of its period, when religious freedom did not exist and protestants had to handle a low profile. At the time it was built, 1858, Chile was a Catholic country.  The church was required by the Catholics in control not to have any outward sign of religious affiliation. Exterior crosses and icons were banned.

Its most complex and beautiful treasure is the Queen Victoria Memorial Organ, an imposing musical instrument that was designed exclusively for this church and was installed about 1902, in homage to the Queen who passed away in 1901. It was donated by the British community of Valparaíso and was designed by William Lloyd and built by the Fosters & Andrews Company in Britain.

Considered the best of its type in South America it has been restored and is constantly repaired and taken care of by a specialized musician. Every Sunday, at 12:30, free concerts are given for the public. The day we were there the pastor played sacred pieces of British origin.

The architectural details of the church reflect its era and its ties to its British Anglican roots.

DSC06519We enjoy exploring the architecture of the countries we visit. The buildings illuminate the history of the place and its people. St. Paul’s is a great example.

4 Responses to “Valpo’s Brits”

  1. Ursula Freer March 18, 2013 at 6:12 pm #

    Your historical reports are quite interesting and Dana’s photography is delightful. How well you complement each other!

    • Jill March 18, 2013 at 7:47 pm #

      Working on the blog together has been a highlight of the trip.

  2. Neil Freer March 18, 2013 at 4:01 pm #

    Mornin’ , well here anyway…. some of us do not want to eat fish and sea products from the Pacific, Fukushima radiation dump and all that, at least in the northern hemi. Is there an easy way y’all could determine if they harvest sushi type seaweed down there along the coast………La Montanita coop is interested in finding a source down in the southern hemi ………….I love sushi but be damned if I’ll eat it if parts of it are coming from Japan, Korea, CA………….and “they” are not telling us what’s happening, happened to the fruit and veggie crops in CA………yuck.

    • Jill March 18, 2013 at 6:03 pm #

      Haven’t seen any sushi here in Valparaiso. Can’t say if that is true throughout Chile. Not on the menu in restaurants except for ceviche. We have no idea if or what is exported.

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Faith actors and communities can serve as first responders to violence against children (VAC). They are able to report and refer cases of abuse, provide emergency support, offer psychological and spiritual counseling, and present communities with important child protection information.  This page presents examples and resources that demonstrate how faith actors can and are serving as first responders to VAC.

(I)t is a total strength to the whole thing as you have loads of places where they are just responding to local need… The trouble is when you look into some of the models, how much thought has really gone into this? (AB, safeguarding expert, Christian, England)

Related page and resources: Faith actors are important first responders to violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic

View the JLI’s Online Roundtable on Faith Actors as First Responders to Violence Against Children: See speakers info here

Practice Examples:

Example 1: Walking with Wounded Children

  • Organization: Petra Institute in South Africa
  • The Project: The Walking with Wounded Children program aims to equip faith leaders to work with vulnerable and traumatized children by providing psychological/counseling training.  The program involves discussion, individual and group study, role play, and learning by doing. Trainees of the course work to build relationships with children under the supervision of the program.
  • Results: In equipping faith actors with the appropriate skills, building meaningful relationships with children, and by promoting cascade learning amongst the community, the program has found that faith actors are able to play a determining role in establishing communities where children feel safe.
  • Watch this JLI Webinar to hear Reverend Dirk Coetsee present on the Walking with Wounded Children program.

Example 2: The Butterfly Project: Listening to victims

  • Organization: Chab Dai
  • Timeline: 10 years long longitudinal study, since 2010. Project situation: towards the end.
  • The Project: The project partners with faith-based care facilities that provide survivor support in order to understand what makes a program effective. The Butterfly Project intends to determine indicators of success in the different programs and approaches by using participants’ perceptions of their experiences to establish their desired participation in society. The programs map the progress of these participants, which makes it possible to assess correlations between the children’s outcomes, the programs set by the shelter they attended, and other possible factors.
  • Results: The project has yet to conclude, but the program’s Resilience Thematic Report indicated that although some participants refer to a connection to a religious community as a positive factor, the same subjects make the same reference about their family connection. As a result, it is not possible to conclude if the positive perception is linked specifically to the participation in a religious community or simply having a connection per se. Further, the report indicated that the participants’ main and often only connection to the religious community is through the shelter and that because almost all of the NGOs responsible for providing services were Catholic, the Buddhist majority felt socially isolated from the culture and spirituality in their reintegrated communities. Lastly, even though the project is still ongoing, and no thematic report has been dealing deeply with the religious factor, the Chab Dai Organization is currently working on this theme and will produce a report soon.
  • See Chab Dai – Coalition’s Butterfly Longitudinal Research “Top 10” Findings – 2018 and find the full case study in JLI’s 2019 Scoping Study (Palm, S. and Colombo, F. 2019, pg. 13).

Example 3: Education and Rescue Centers

  • Organization: Catholic Church in the Suguta Mar Parish in Kenya
  • The Project: Catholic Church in the Suguta Mar Parish operates an education and rescue centre to accommodate girls who are survivors who may have fled their homes as a result of forced marriages and other forms of GBV. Counselling is also provided
  • See JLI’s 2019 Scoping Study for more information (Rutledge, K. and Eyber, C. 2019, pg. 23).

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