Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

OntarioCA.gov/museum; InlandEmpire.us; Crystal Quintero, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Spanish culture invaded Mexico

Ontario, California – On exhibit from today October 11, 2018 to Saturday, November 10, 2018, the Ontario Museum of History & Art presents its annual Día de los Muertos ("Day of the Dead") exhibit.

The museum has been honoring Day of the Dead traditions with large-scale exhibitions and events for two decades. Día de los Muertos: Everyday Heroes showcases vibrant pieces of art honoring the deceased.

To live and love Life, one must not fear Death.

Día de los Muertos emphasizes remembrance of past lives and a celebration of the continuity of life. It is a tradition with roots extending to Mexico's oldest pre-Columbus civilizations.

Explore Día de los Muertos through the artwork of local artists at this annual exhibit showcasing contemporary work in painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, ofrendas ("offerings," altars), and the participants from a citywide ornament contest. Admission is FREE. For more information, call (909) 395-2510. (NOTE: Museum is closed on Nov. 11).

The increasingly popular Día de los Muertos holiday is a vibrant celebration of life and loved ones celebrated on November 1st and 2nd each year. It is a long standing cultural celebration in Latin America with strong ties to indigenous Mexican culture. More

• FREE: Remember Me Artist Reception
• Saturday, 1:00-3:00 PM, Oct. 13th, 2018
• Ontario Museum of History & Art
• 225 South Euclid Ave., Ontario, CA 91762

• Wicked Lit at the mausoleum, Altadena, L.A.

Policeman and Prison Guard or Rapists?

Rapist policeman and prison guard arrested
Greg hardesty & Jon Cassidy (Orange Country Register, April 5, 2010)
WESTMINSTER – An off-duty Westminster police officer and an off-duty state [prison guard] corrections officer were arrested Saturday night in connection with a carjacking, kidnapping, and rape of a 25-year-old restaurant employee in Ontario, police said. Anthony Nicholas Orban, 30, a five-year police officer assigned to investigations with the Westminster Police Department, has been relieved of duty pending an investigation, a department spokesman said Monday morning. The other suspect is Jeff Thomas Jelinek, 30, an officer with the California Department of Corrections, said Sgt. David McBride of the Ontario Police Department.

• PHOTO: What rapists really look like -- a police officer and prison guard brutally kidnap, carjack, and rape woman at gunpoint (Ontario P.D.)

COMMENTARY

One has to wonder what's happening in the world when the most trusted authorities in a society flagrantly violate that trust. Police, priests, guards, monks, cardinals, bishops, teachers -- is it any wonder? Everyone is exposed to the same arousing media and the same out-of-control celebrities. And when we think "everyone else is doing it," we have a tendency to want in. We may not. But people in authority seem to be all too eager to jump on board and get away with:

1. drugs (ingesting and dealing)
2. lying (perjury and fraud)
3. sexual-misconduct (ruining and raping)
4. theft (thievery and embezzlement)
5. murder (in anger and for hire)

These five run exactly counter to Buddhism's Five Precepts. The Buddha saw that these intentional-actions (karma) led to extremely painful results. They are not capable of pleasant results. Although one may certainly enjoy doing them, that is only because they have not yet borne fruit. When they do the fruit and results (phala and vipaka) of such karma is painful, hard to bear, and unwelcome.

Why is the World Flooding?

An undated photo from the Center for Northern Studies shows the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf disintegrating. The incredibly rapid rate at which Canada's Arctic ice shelves are disappearing is an early indicator of the "very substantial changes" that global warming will impose on all mankind, a top scientist said on Wednesday (Denis Sarrazin/Center for Northern Studies/Handout/Reuters).

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India is under water. Burma is still on the mend. Bangladesh is bracing for Monsoon season. And New Orleans is being evacuated as it's lashed by a series of hurricanes led by Gustav, the heaviest since Katrina. The levees aren't holding in Nepal. And everywhere, weathered and aging infrastructure faces challenges it will not likely survive. Why is this occurring? It's no mystery; it's human activity (particularly everything involved in meat production) that even Al Gore knows about. There is a Buddhist niyama involved as a...

19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

Charmaine Noronha (AP)

TORONTO -- A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

"The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared. We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf. It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic," said Mueller. More >>