Meher Baba IS

Bhau Chat, Sunday, 26th June 2011/Updated Skype Instructions

Bhau Kalchuri

 

Please forgive the lack of an extract this week and combined nature of mailing – technical difficulties. Updated Skype instructions are at the bottom.

Note all the pages at links below are translatable into 51 languages.

Subscription information and the Security Statement for Bhau’s mailing can be found at the bottom of this email or at:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org/text/announcements/subscribe-security.htm

An easy way to log onto both the chat and webcast is to go to Bhau’s home page:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org

and click on the Chat Room and/or Webcast tabs on the top banner.

For the Chatroom, the text portion of the chat, click on:

http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html

Further Chat-room log-on instructions can be found at:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org/text/announcements/ChatroomLog-On.html

The Webcast log-on instructions are slightly more complicated and can be found below or at:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org/text/announcements/WebcastLog-On.html

Skype instructions can be found below or at:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org/text/announcements/SkypeInstructions.html

Instructions on recording the webcast can be found below or at:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org/text/announcements/WebcastRecording.html

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As always, Bhau’s participation depends on upon his health, and he may drop in and out at any time.

When Bhau joins in, the chat will be webcast (log-on instructions below).

The JaiBaba.com chatroom is always open, 24/7, and you are welcome to check it out at any time.

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SUGGESTED TIMES FOR SUNDAY’S BHAU-BASED CHAT (WORLDWIDE)

The following times are based on a three-hour chat.

If your city is not listed below, the exact time for your location can be calculated at

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

NOTE THAT ALL BEGINNING TIMES EXCEPT AUCKLAND, ETC. ARE ON SUNDAY, 19th JUNE.

Honolulu: 1:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m.
Anchorage*: 3:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.
Los Angeles*, Phoenix, San Francisco*, Seattle*, Vancouver*: 4:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Denver*, Edmonton*, Guatemala, Managua, Mexico City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa: 5:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Bogota, Chicago*, Houston*, Kingston, Lima, Minneapolis*, Montgomery*, New Orleans*, Winnipeg*: 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Caracas: 6:30 a.m. (6:30) – 9:30 a.m. (9:30)
Atlanta*, Boston*, Columbus*, Detroit*, Havana*, Indianapolis*, La Paz, Miami*, Montreal*, Nassau*, New York*, Ottawa*, Philadelphia*, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Toronto*, Washington DC*: 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Asuncion*, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Halifax*, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago*, São Paulo: 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
St. John’s*: 8:30 a.m. (8:30) – 11:30 a.m. (11:30)
Casablanca, Reykjavik: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (14:00)

London*, Algiers, Dublin*, Lagos, Lisbon*,: 12:00 p.m. (12:00) – 3:00 p.m. (15:00)
Amman, Amsterdam*, Ankara, Barcelona*, Belgrade*, Berlin*, Brussels*, Budapest*, Cairo, Cape Town, Copenhagen*, Frankfurt*, Geneva*, Harare, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Madrid*, Oslo*, Paris*, Prague*, Rome*, Stockholm*, Vienna*, Warsaw*, Zagreb*, Zürich*: 1:00 p.m. (13:00) – 4:00 p.m. (16:00)
Jerusalem, Addis Ababa: 2:00 p.m. (14:00) – 5:00 p.m. (17:00)
Aden: 2:00 p.m. (14:00) – 5:00 p.m. (17:00)
Antananarivo, Athens*, Baghdad, Beirut*, Bucharest*, Helsinki*, Khartoum, Kuwait City, Kyiv*, Minsk*, Nairobi, Riyadh, Sofia*, Tallinn*: 2:00 p.m. (14:00) – 5:00 p.m. (17:00)

Dubai, Moscow*: 3:00 p.m. (15:00) – 6:00 p.m. (18:00)
Kabul, Tehran*: 3:30 p.m. (15:30) – 6:30 p.m. (18:30)
Islamabad: 4:00 p.m. (16:00) – 7:00 p.m. (19:00)
Karachi, Lahore, Tashkent: 4:00 p.m. (16:00) – 7:00 p.m. (19:00)
SAMADHI, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi: 4:30 p.m. (16:30) – 7:30 p.m. (19:30)

Kathmandu: 4:45 p.m. (16:45) – 7:45 p.m. (19:45)
Almaty, Dhaka: 5:00 p.m. (17:00) – 8:00 p.m. (20:00)
Yangon: 5:30 p.m. (17:30) – 8:30 p.m. (20:30)
Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta: 6:00 p.m. (18:00) – 9:00 p.m. (21:00)
Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Perth, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei: 7:00 p.m. (19:00) – 10:00 p.m. (22:00)

Seoul, Tokyo: 8:00 p.m. (20:00) – 11:00 p.m. (23:00)
Darwin: 8:30 p.m. (20:30) – 11:30 p.m. (23:30)
Brisbane: 9:00 p.m. (21:00) – 12:00 a.m. (0:00)
Adelaide*: 9:30 p.m. (21:30) – 12:30 a.m. (0:30)
Canberra*, Melbourne*, Sydney*, Vladivostok*: 10:00 p.m. (22:00) – 1:00 a.m.

Anadyr*, Kamchatka*, Suva: 11:00 p.m. (23:00) – 2:00 a.m.

STARTING ON MONDAY, 27TH MARCH
Auckland*: 12:00 midnight – 3:00 a.m. (3:00)
Chatham Islands*: 12:45 a.m. – 3:45 a.m.
Kiritimati: 1:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m.

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TO LOG ONTO CHATROOM:

Click on:

http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html

Or, copy and paste URL into your browser

Or, go to www.JaiBaba.com Home Page.

Go midway down the page. Under Featured Areas on the far left, click on JaiBaba Chat.

Follow the instructions on the Welcome To The 2005 Bhau Chats page:

1. Nickname: Type the name that you want to go by in the chat room.

2. Text Color: Choose a color for your messages. The default is black.

3. [Join Chat]: Just click this button to enter the chat room!

4. Remember Settings: Check this to set a cookie which stores your nickname and Text Color for future log ons.

NOTE: This chat is logged, and any rude behavior can result in the user being permanently banned from the chat room.

If you receive the error message:

“Alert! The URL that you used to access this chatroom may cause errors. Please log in again, using

http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html”;

your computer is probably set to reject cookies from this domain. Check the Internet for:

“Setting [insert the name of your browser, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Apple, etc. without these brackets] to accept cookies”

and follow the instructions you find

Click off Remember Settings and trying logging back in.

Whenever you wish to post a message to the chat, type your message in the box beneath [Help] [Refresh Messages], then click on Update

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TO ACCESS THE WEBCAST:

The broadcast will be a video feed like a TV and best viewed on a connection that can stream at least 148kbps. Please check your speakers and have them ready.

The link is active only during the broadcast times below.

Windows Media Player

To log onto the webcast, open a new browser tab/window.

A. Method A

Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/mb

Press Enter.

B. Method B

Type or Copy/Paste

http://ambppct.org/events/bhaulive2007.php

Midway down the page you will see a pink underlined sentence.

Click here to listen to Bhau Live

When you click on that link (when the broadcast is active), your Windows Media Player should fire up and you will see the live image and hear Bhau talking.

If you click on the link and your Windows Media Player does not automatically open and play the video stream, use Method C.

C. Method C

Open Windows Media Player.

Go to:

File-open URL.

Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/mb

Into the box and press Enter.

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FOR USERS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH MACS, WHO DON’T HAVE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, REAL PLAYER ALSO WORKS.

Another alternative, suggested by Eric Romesberg, is VLC Media Player, downloadable at:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

According to Eric, “VLC supports Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux. I was able to watch and simultaneously record the video+audio or watch the video+audio while recording only the audio (to reduce the file size)”

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REVISED SKYPE INSTRUCTIONS

As always, please do NOT send private messages to Bhau during the chat. They are very confusing to the typist and throw the sequence of Bhau’s responses out of kilter.

ALSO PLEASE NOTE: The Bhauchat Skype is accessed ONLY during the Chats itself. Anything received on SKYPE outside of the Chat hours will NOT be responded to.”

Bhau loves hearing/seeing his dear ones from all over the world via Skype, and only recently has it dawned on the Chat Team that our SKYPE instructions have been causing enormous confusion. The source of confusion is because we have using been using “Skype” and “Skyping” to indicate two entirely different Skype features.

A) Skype Video/Phone calls
B) Skype Text IM (Instant Message)

Dear ones should never use the Skype Video/Phone call feature to call the Trust Office. These calls confuse the Team and disrupt the flow of the Chat. And the Skype Text (Instant Message) channel should be used ONLY to indicate that you are available for the chat.

But if you are at your computer, will be there for the duration of the Chat, and would like to Skype Bhau, please use the Skype Text IM (Instant Message) feature (NOT the Video/Phone call feature) to send the following message or something similar:

“I am at my computer and will be here until Bhau’s Chat ends. I would like to have a Skype Video/Phone call with Bhau.”

As soon as Bhau is available, the Bhau Team will Skype Video/Phone call you to prepare you for your Skype with Bhau.

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>From Mother P Squared (Joanna):

As always, many thanks to Skypers for their courtesy in recognizing that so many people are longing to Skype Bhau and keeping the length of their Skype to a minimum.

Please note that the Text Chat and the Skype are completely independent. The person in charge of the Skype and is totally focused on it and does not monitor the Text Chat. They have no way of knowing if someone is Skypeable if they post an announcement on the Text Chat. Conversely, the person in charge of the Text Chat does not monitor the Skype Text IM (Instant Message).

So please do NOT mention that you are Skypeable on the Text Chat. Instead, send a SKYPE TEXT IM (Instant Message) [NOT on the Skype Video/Phone call feature] to the Bhauchat Skype address.

Someone will send you a Skype Text back noting that the Trust Office is aware that you are Skypeable.

Once you have notified that you are Skypeable, please remain online until the Bhau Team contacts you or the Chat ends. If you decide to leave the Chat, please notify the Team you are logging off. It disrupts the flow of the Chat terribly when Bhau is ready to chat in person with someone who has indicated that they are Skypeable, but when the Team tries to contact that person, they have logged off.

Also, if you have been fortunate enough to have a Skype with Bhau one week, please skip a week or two before signing up again to allow others their chance to see Bhau cyber face-to-face.

As there are only 10-12 slots available per Chat for Skypers, we are trying to figure out an equitable arrangement to minimize the number of people who have indicated they are Skypeable but are not Skyped before the Chat ends.

Bhau and everyone on his Team appreciates your patience and understanding. Thank you for your most loving support, and we look forward to seeing and “seeing” you dear ones on the Chat each week.

Mother P Squared

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If you would like Bhau to Skype you.

1. Make sure that Bhauchat is on your Skype Contact list, If it is, skip to DURING THE CHAT.

2. There are two ways to add Bhauchat to your Contact list:

A. Type “Bhauchat” (without the quotation marks) in the box below Contacts. You will receive a message:

i. “Bhauchat is not in your Contacts.”

ii. Below this is a an icon with a white cross in a green circle and the words: “Find this,” Click on the icon. This will take you to the:

iii. Skype – Add a Contact screen, which should say:

1 match found for Bhau chat
Bhauchat
India

with an

Add contact

Icon. Click on this icon, and Bhau’s Team will accept you for the Bhauchat Contact list.

Or

B. You can go directly to the Add a Contact icon (just above the Call phones icon) and follow the above procedure.

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WHEN YOU ARE SKYPING BHAU:

>From Magician (Hughie):

There are three volume controls that Skypers need to be aware of.

The following instructions are for Windows, but apply similarly to Macs.

Please note that Mute is indicated by a circle with a red slash through it.

The three volume controls are:

1. THE MASTER COMPUTER VOLUME CONTROL.

This is usually indicated by a small gray icon in the lower right hand corner of your computer. This controls both the Webcast Volume and the Skype volume.

It must NOT be muted when Skyping Bhau.

2. THE WEBCAST VOLUME CONTROL

On Windows Media Player, this icon is a speaker with sound semi-circular sound waves coming out it. When muted, there will be a red circle with a slash over the sound waves.

This MUST BE muted when Skyping Bhau.

If you are listening to the Webcast on a different media players, the instructions would be similar.

3. THE SKYPE VOLUME CONTROL

The icon a speaker with a soundwave to the right of the microphone volume. This icon is ONLY visible when a Skype call is in progress.

It must NOT be on mute.

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RECORDING THE WEBCAST

Unfortunately, no further information is regarding the following procedures. Please contact your local geek for advice.

If you are using Windows Media Player and have Real Player installed, the webcast can often be recorded by right clicking on the Windows Media Player image and clicking on “Download this video.”

Eric recorded the webcast using the following procedure:

Here are the VLC menus I used to watch the webcast and record the video+audio:

1. Open VLC Media Player

2. Click on Media Open Network Stream…

3. Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/Meher Baba

in the address field

3. Click the down-arrow to the left of the Play button

4. Select Convert

5. For the profile, select “Video – H.264 + AAC (TS)”

6. Select a folder and name for the destination file, with a .TS extension

7. Check the box “Display the output” to watch the webcast while recording.

8. Click Start

RECORDING THE AUDIO

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

Audio only can be recorded by selecting the “Audio – AAC (MP4)” profile instead, using a .MP4 extension for the filename.

AUDACITY

The audio portion of the webcast can also be recorded by itself by using the Audacity program (use the WAVE function).

www.audacity.com
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SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BHAU’S MAILING LIST

An English version of the Subscription Information and the Security Statement, translatable into 51 languages, has been posted at:

http://www.bhaukalchuri.org/Announcements/subscribe-security.htm

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL AT YOUR STANDARD EMAIL ADDRESS AND WISH TO CONTINUE RECEIVING UPDATES ON BHAU’S HEALTH AND HIS MESSAGES, NO FURTHER ACTION IS NECESSARY.

Note: The * format is used below to thwart (or at least slow down) malware spyders and webcrawlers. Just replace the asterisked word with the appropriate symbols.

Due to technical difficulties, certain email addresses have been lost from Bhau’s master mailing list.

Also, due to mischief on the part of spammers who have spoofed JaiBaba.com’s ISP server, emails to the aol.com and sc.rr.com domains and possibly others are being blocked.

If you have an email address in these domains, have received this email from another source and would like to continue receiving updates on Bhau’s health and his messages, please email

bhaulist *at* yahoo *dot* come

with

Subscribe

in the Subject Line.

TO CHANGE OR UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THE MAILING LIST, ALSO EMAIL:

Bhaulist *at* yahoo *dot* com

with Unsubscribe or Change

in the Subject line. No need to put anything in the body of the email for Unsubscribe. For Change, simply list Old: and New: email addresses in the body of the email.

IF YOU WISH TO UNSUBSCRIBE, PLEASE FOLLOW THE ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS AND NOT ADD US TO YOUR SPAM LIST.
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SECURITY STATEMENT

Bhau’s mailing list is 100% opt-in and is not shared with anyone. The email address of anyone who wishes to unsubscribe is completely removed from our database as soon as possible. To protect our subscribers, all emails from newshivalist *at* jaibaba *dot* com will have Bhau’s name in the subject line. If the email does not, PLEASE DELETE IMMEDIATELY.

Unless otherwise specified in the Subject Line (where pictures or the occasional PDF will be sent in html format), all of Bhau’s messages and Awakenings will be in plain text format only, with no html or other coding and absolutely no attachments.