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I'd suggest using bigger ones instead, ie GWS Naro Max, Park or the equivaltents, as 9-gram servos might not be powerful enough to work with the 200 - 250W brushless motors that are normally used on this airplane. http://www.gwsus.com/english/product...ub%20micro.htm http://www.gwsus.com/english/product/servo/mini.htm Chen |
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Wolfe -- look for an ESC that has a built-in switching BEC (aka sBEC). Here's one from HobbyKing:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...e_Series_.html headsuprc has several, reasonably priced. Meaning, only twice the HobbyKing price. At this point if a plane is over 35" or so, reasonably acrobatic and/or over 20 ounces, I use an sBEC. |
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Well I just ordered a couple of these - will they be OK?
https://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/...dproduct=11430 What does "switching" do? Wolfe |
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Good luck to them and may they have an easier time getting it going than the crew here, trying to re-open an old strip. Onandaga, Mich. They have done vast improvements and $$$$$$$$ done the permits and can't open because of one local resident..
Is't Onondaga up and running now? Sept. 7th, 2013 was re-opening day (?). There should be a serious push for the old Ct. Dragway, enough pressure and $$$ on Consumer Reports to at least give it a try; it's already there, in the middle of nowhere. Butch/56sedandelivery.
Thats big news! I checked out the web site and it looks like they could use some support in the way of signing a petition. The guys at the Hole Shot Drags do a great job at the Waterford Speed Bowl, hope they can make this work! I passed the word onto a few buddies and we are all buying helmets!
When it was built, it was in "the middle of nowhere." Unfortunately, over the course of the 60's and early 70's, the farm land and wooded areas were sold off and houses were build. All of a sudden, people are complaining about the noise every Sunday from the dragsters. The Town of East Haddam created varrious noise ordinances, bans on "jet propulsion engined vehicles in competition" and similar such laws. Then they got the ones suing the drag strip for "diminished property values", ruined family get-togethers, "can't enjoy my back yard", etc, etc, etc. When CR purchased the property, one of the first objections was the facility being reopened as a drag strip. CR absolutely promised (crossed their heart and everything) that they would not allow competition, all vehicles tested would be stock and have mufflers, etc. The old Connecticut International Raceway is closed and gone, unfortunately. (I know all this because I grew up in the area. I used to be able to hear the cars run from my parent's house. Matter of fact, Dad disappeared one Sunday, couldn't find him anywhere. Finally, we saw him walking up from one of the fields. He had walked via the old back roads and abandoned dirt roads the couple of miles to the strip and watched the races all afternoon.) I hope the guys in Windham have good luck in this endevour.
If I am not mistaken the CT State Police have the final say. I remember at CT dragway racing couldn't start until the State Police were there. KK
Yes they do. BUT they listen to the town authorities as they know they don't have the expertise to "legally" determine all the problems that crop up now. Now the SP is more of an advisory body and look things over after the big decisions are made by the local authorities.
Here's a thread I put up with some links... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=849426
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PoliticsEgypt: One year of Mohamed Morsi Is Egypt's president to blame for the nation's problems, or should the opposition share some of the responsibility? Inside Story | 01 Jul 2013 00:20 GMT | Politics, Egypt This Sunday will mark a year to the day that Egypt's first freely elected president came into office, but the country continues to face a growing rebellion. Having been a year in office, if the president wants to report to the populous, it would probably be wise ... to do so on a regular basis. It's highly unusual that any leader in the world would make a speech for two and half hours. Angus Blair, founder of the Signet Institute Opposition groups are planning street rallies this weekend aimed at forcing President Mohamed Morsi out of office, while the main opposition coalition calls for early presidential elections. Their charge is that the president has failed to fulfil promises to restore security, improve the economy, share power and institute social justice - and they are calling for his resignation. Morsi used a televised address to take stock of his first 12 months in office. He offered opponents a say in amending a disputed constitution, and a forum to seek national reconciliation. He also admitted his mistakes, but accused those he called "enemies of Egypt" for causing the nation's problems. "I have had made a lot of mistakes and have had some successes at the same time. That's a fact. Economic growth has been delayed and we must progress in this area. It requires political settlement and stability. In the past year I have discovered that the country's institutions need dramatic reforms to achieve the revolutions goals. We must steer away from traditional solutions. "It is no secret that our revolution has enemies. Abroad, there are those who realise what a free, strong and developed Egypt is capable of presenting for its people. And inside the country, there are those who think they can turn the clock backwards to the corrupt, oppressive state it was before. It seems that there are those between us who cannot imagine living any other way," said Morsi. Shortly after his address, protesters attacked the Freedom and Justice Party headquarters in northern Egypt. The building was ransacked and items set on fire. This fuelled concern about the mass demonstrations planned for this weekend, as the country becomes increasingly and dangerously divided. One of the groups that has tapped into the discontent caused by the economic crisis is the Rebellion (Tamarod) movement. Set up last month, the movement is supporting calls for Morsi's resignation. The main point that Morsi made [in his speech] is that he showed everybody [that] it was the first time for a president of Egypt to present a statement of what he's done and his mistakes of the first year in power; and also to show his accomplishments. Nader Omran, co-founder of the Freedom and Justice Party Its co-founder Mahmoud Badr said: "The campaign's goal is to collect signatures from the Egyptian people to withdraw confidence from President Mohamed Morsi, due to his failures politically, economically and socially, and after all the Egyptian blood which has spilled during his era. He has proven that he can't achieve any of the goals of the revolution, so we Egyptians decided to establish a campaign to demand the withdrawal of confidence from Mohamed Morsi." Morsi won the presidential election by a narrow margin in June last year. He ran as a candidate for the Freedom and Justice Party, which is the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. In August, he set his sights on the military, dismissing his defence minister and stripping the military of any say in legislation. Then he turned to the economy, seeking a $4.8bn loan from the International Monetary Fund, which is yet to be confirmed. In November, Morsi took on the judiciary, stripping judges of the right to challenge his decisions, only to back down in the face of mass protests. In December, it was the turn of the constitution. A draft was approved, that boosted the role of Islam and was backed by a public referendum; but it also drew more opposition protests. Now, after a year of politics and protests, Morsi appointed to key posts allies who want Islam to play a greater role in politics. And he accused the opposition of rejecting calls for national reconciliation. So, is president Morsi to blame for Egypt's problems, or should the opposition share some of the responsibility? To discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, is joined by guests: Nader Omran, the co-founder of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party; and Angus Blair, the founder of the Signet Institute, which specialises in economics, business and politics in the Middle East and North Africa.Source: Al Jazeera
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Annals of Technology: The Cobweb: Can the Internet be archived? by Jill Lepore. (I believe that you can access one article without hitting a paywall.)
If, like mine, your last name falls near the end of the alphabet and, if like me, you subscribe to at least one magazine, you'll probably have noticed by now that most of the world reads "your" magazine before it graces your postal box. Everyone else has already read and digested The New Yorker, January 26, 2015 issue, I'm sure. My copy came in today's mail.
I'll keep this brief; but, I can't ignore the article entirely. First off, the article was so much fun to read. Secondly, it answered a question that I didn't even know I had.
As you can tell by the sub-title, the article addresses Internet archiving. One of the enterprises engaged in such activitie is the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco CA. In the article, we are told:
"The address of the Internet Archive is archive.org, but another way to visit is to take a plane to San Francisco and ride in a cab to the Presidio, past cypresses that look as though someone had drawn them there with a smudgy crayon. At 300 Funston Avenue, climb a set of stone steps and knock on the brass door of a Greek Revival temple. You can't miss it: it's painted wedding-cake white and it's got, out front, eight Corinthian columns and six marble urns."
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""We bought it because it matched our logo," Brewster Kahle told me when I met him there, and he wasn't kidding. Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive and the inventor of the Wayback Machine. The logo of the Internet Archive is a white, pedimented Greek temple."
And now, we've stumbled upon a question that I didn't know I had. For some years, I've never faltered when running across the term "Wayback Machine" - understanding from context what it meant. I did not know that the "Wayback Machine" had its genesis in a kids' TV cartoon. A later paragraph in the article educates me.
"Kahle is long-armed and pink-cheeked and public-spirited; his hair is gray and frizzled. He wears round wire-rimmed eyeglasses, linen pants, and patterned button-down shirts. He looks like Mr. Micawber, if Mr. Micawber had left Dickens's London in a time machine and landed in the Pacific, circa 1955, disguised as an American tourist. Instead, Kahle was born in New Jersey in 1960. When he was a kid, he watched "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show"; it has a segment called "Peabody's Improbable History," which is where the Wayback Machine got its name. Mr. Peabody, a beagle who is also a Harvard graduate and a Nobel laureate, builds a WABAC machine—it's meant to sound like a UNIVAC, one of the first commercial computers—and he uses it to take a boy named Sherman on adventures in time. "We just set it, turn it on, open the door, and there we are—or were, really," Peabody says."
Returning to the Greek Revival temple much later in the article we are told that:
"On the wall on either side of the altar, wooden slates display what, when this was a church, had been the listing of the day's hymn numbers. The archivists of the Internet have changed those numbers. One hymn number was 314. "Do you know what that is?" Kahle asked. It was a test, and something of a trick question, like when someone asks you what's your favorite B track on the White Album. "Pi," I said, dutifully, or its first three digits, anyway. Another number was 42. Kahle gave me an inquiring look. I rolled my eyes. Seriously?"
My hat is off to the author, Ms Lepore!
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MINNESOTA SPORTS ROUNDUP: Freeman on his way to Minnesota in a one-year deal
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman has a new home. Multiple media outlets report that Freeman will sign a one-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings. The deal is for a reported three-million dollars. Freeman was cut by Tampa Bay last week after a tumultuous season with the Bucs. The signing adds a 25-year-old former first-round draft choice to the crowded mix at quarterback for Minnesota. Christian Ponder started the season's first three games, losing all three.


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A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other Democrats derided the effort as a stunt aimed at tossing political red meat to conservative voters.
U.S. health officials on Thursday warned Americans not to travel to the three West African countries hit by an outbreak of Ebola.
A team of several dozen international investigators descended today on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site in eastern Ukraine to begin combing an area now designated as a crime scene.
British Pvt. John Parr set off on his reconnaissance bike on the lookout for German troops amid the rolling farmland and woods south of Brussels in August 1914.
A video camera captured the terrifying plight of two women as a freight train bore down on them as they walked along an 80-foot-high railroad bridge in Indiana.
Americans are wary of granting refugee status to children crossing the U.S. border to flee strife-torn countries in Central America, and most in an Associated Press-GfK poll say the U.S. does not have a moral obligation to accept asylum seekers generally.
The rupture of a nearly century-old water main that ripped a 15-foot hole through Sunset Boulevard and turned a swath of the University of California, Los Angeles, into a mucky mess points to the risks and expense many cities face with miles of water lines installed generations ago.
Despite some good news, Medicare and Social Security still face long-term financial problems as millions of baby boomers reach retirement. Social Security's disability program is already in crisis as it edges toward the brink of insolvency.
When FBI agents and police officers fanned out across the country last month in a weeklong effort to rescue child sex trafficking victims, they pulled minors as young as 11 from hotel rooms, truck stops and homes.
In the Republican-heavy Southeast, critics said Tuesday that a plan by President Barack Obama's administration to cut pollution would raise electricity prices, result in job losses and may not significantly curtail the carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
Republican Gov. Chris Christie will be swinging through the South as part of another jam-packed month of travel boosting fellow GOP candidates.
The Senate voted Tuesday to keep federal highway money flowing to the states into December but only after rejecting the House's reliance on what lawmakers called a funding "gimmick" and moving to force a post-election debate on whether to raise gasoline taxes.
More than 35 percent of Americans have debts and unpaid bills that have been reported to collection agencies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Urban Institute.
When it comes to preventing the spread of germs, maybe the president is on to something with his fondness for fist bumps.
Members of Congress are falling over one another to show their support for Israel. While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire, U.S. lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to take no action that puts pressure on Israel to halt its military operations.
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Tuesday, December 30 2014
2014: A Most Mediocre Year
The odds of discovering gems like Boyhood felt thinner in 2014 than they have for quite some time.
Thursday, June 4 2009
Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection
Again in the Eastwood oeuvre, a man who thinks he's in control, and especially around women, finds out he's not quite.
Thursday, January 15 2009
The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008
Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.
Thursday, July 11 2013
To Live Is to Die: Clint Eastwood's Dangerous Oeuvre
These 20 films are a journey through the social and political conditions of America and a broader history of human violence that crowns no winners and knows no end.
Thursday, October 23 2008
Identities in Flux
Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.
Tuesday, December 23 2014
Clint Eastwood's Legacy of Hunters: 'American Sniper'
In American Sniper, military sharpshooter Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) comes to see that delineations among wolves, dogs, and sheep are rarely obvious.
Friday, June 20 2014
'Jersey Boys' Heavy-Handed Mama's Meatballs Nostalgia
Clint Eastwood's bland band biopic approach drains the energy from the stage version of this blockbuster razzmatazz jukebox musical.
Thursday, March 13 2014
Million Dollar Baby: 10th Anniversary Edition
This new 10th anniversary Blu-ray offers a pair of new interesting bonus features that have new perspectives on the film.
Sunday, February 26 2012
Secrets and Lies: 'J. Edgar' Explores the Duality of Hoover and the FBI
Revealing the nature of secrets, the power they—and those who keep them—generate, and the tragedy of good intentions gone horribly awry, whether in public or private, makes J. Edgar a powerful film.
Tuesday, November 8 2011
Clint Eastwood Shows 'J. Edgar' Haunted by History
As much as he wants to emulate Jimmy Cagney, Hoover appears during a couple of FBI team arrests to be too anxious to use his weapon. This translates -- awkwardly and obviously -- to his relationship with Tolson as well.
Tuesday, February 17 2015
In Memorial of American Sniper's First Awards Season Victim: Unbroken
Clint Eastwood's look at Chris Kyle's legacy as American's deadliest marksman claimed its first Awards Season victim: the other war story.
Thursday, June 19 2014
Jersey Oys: Hollywood's On-Going Problem with Musical Biopics
By shuffling the songs off to the side, Clint Eastwood does the Four Seasons and Jersey Boys a grand disservice.
Friday, October 22 2010
'Hereafter': Death Be Not Profound
A triptych of tales which argue for a stronger editorial hand and the inherent flaw in such a format -- all parts of your omnibus better work, or the failures threaten to pull down the successes.
Thursday, October 21 2010
Age as Appreciation: The Critics and 'Hereafter'
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Friday, December 11 2009
'Invictus' Is More Thrilling Off the Pitch Than On
If truth is stranger than fiction, what is the fictionalized version of reality? More normal? Less special? That's the quandary facing Clint Eastwood and his
Wednesday, February 8 2012
Is Clint Eastwood really a partisan provocateur?
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Feb 15, 2014 6:28 PM by Meteorologist Stephanie Ortmann
After a windy Saturday, winds will decrease for the overnight hours. Winds will be out of the east-southeast ranging from calm to light (5 mph). It'll be a dry night with variable clouds overhead. Expect morning lows in the 20s/30s.
The mountains look to receive another shot of snow Sunday while the lower elevations remain dry and partly sunny. Winds will once again pick up for the day, but they won't be as strong as Saturday. Expect sustained winds between 5 to 15 mph gusting up to 20 and 30 mph at times out of the west-southwest. Sunday's breeze will help us warm to above average readings with most areas topping out in the 60s.
The weather looks nice for the first half of the workweek with mostly to partly sunny skies expected plus comfortable highs in the 50s/60s. Colder air moves in for the second half of the week with a chance for rain/snow Thursday and again Saturday. The end of week forecast still has the potential to change, so stay tuned.
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By Charlie Knoxville Floyd Mayweather calls himself "The Best Ever", but is he really the best if he isn't taking on challenges like the greats of old?
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By Charlie Knoxville The super fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather may never happen because of Floyd's unwillingness to face the Filipino boxing icon, but of the two superstars only one of them is taking on the more challenging opponent in their upcoming fight.
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This movie is good for its educational value, but it wasn't very entertaining. The movie, except for the intro with the whale jumping out of the water towards you, dragged on for the entire 40 minutes. Not even Sam Cardon's music made it any better. Unless you're very interested in whales, don't expect too much from this documentary.


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The Birth of the Pill (and More than Four Crusaders)
October 16, 2014 at 3:51 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: "The Birth of the Pill", birth control pill, Gregory "Goody" Pincus, In vitro fertilization, Jonathan Eig, Margaret Sanger, Roman Catholic Church, the Pill
As you can see, I've been doing a lot of book reviewing lately. This week, the National Catholic Reporter published my review of Jonathan Eig's The Birth of the Pill, so here it is. (Apologies to those who already read it there.)
By Jonathan Eig
Published by W.W. Norton & Company, $27.95
At first glance, The Birth of the Pill may seem an odd choice for review in a Catholic publication. Of the four "crusaders" in the subtitle, only one, obstetrician/gynecologist John Rock — was a practicing Catholic.
Of the other three, the brilliant research biologist Gregory "Goody" Pincus was the son of Jewish immigrants. Fired by Harvard for the Brave New World overtones of his in vitro fertilization discoveries, Pincus went on…(Continue here.)
Jesus Was a Migrant
October 10, 2014 at 4:35 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: "American Madonna", "Good Catholics", "Jesus Was a Migrant", "My Priceless View", Deirdre Cornell, Patricia Miller, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, St. Patrick's Cathedral, The Venerable Pierre Toussaint
The following is a slightly revised version of a review that appeared in the current issue of Gumbo, the monthly publication of the Grail in the U.S.A.
Jesus Was a Migrant. By Deirdre Cornell Orbis Books, 2014. 144 pp. $20. Available at http://www.orbisbooks.com/jesus-was-a- migrant.html
Grail member Deirdre Cornell's new book, Jesus was a Migrant, could hardly be more timely. Even as nearly seventy thousand unaccompanied minors have poured across the southern borders of this ostensibly Christian nation in the past year, too many of our fellow-citizens still oppose providing them with shelter. And in the face of this crisis, our president has allowed a mere four thousand refugee visas to be designated for these young people while failing to increase the total number of refugee visas at all.
In her very first chapter, Cornell articulates the argument that all of these Christians need to hear "Surely a God who migrated from heaven to be born to a refugee family—to be born to a people painfully and intimately versed in Exodus and exile journeys—surely this God would ask us to look for his presence among migrants. Jesus was a migrant. How can migrants not matter?"
Cornell expands this message in fifteen subsequent narratives, each of which brings the experiences of migrants into detailed and memorable focus. In Part I, we walk with the migrants of Israel, from Genesis to Exodus to Babylon and back, and then meet Cornell's own immigrant ancestors fleeing to the U.S. during the Great Irish Hunger of the 1840s. In Part II, we celebrate with Rosa, a Central American migrant who had made her way to the U.S. at great cost only to be forced to return home a month after her quinceañera; then we bury with Deirdre the stillborn twins of Susana and Pedro even as other Christians are celebrating the birth of Jesus. In further chapters we mourn with the Latino community as they raise the money to ship the body of a young migrant back to Mexico and share the visit of Deirdre and her family to their compadres and godchildren in a trailer park in Florida. Jesus and other migrants become ever more real to us as we proceed.
In some respects, Jesus was a Migrant is a continuation of Cornell's two previous books. She continues writing in the first person, for example, weaving her own (now twenty) years of migrant ministry into the stories of the men and women she and her husband Kenney serve. Jesus was a Migrant also continues the references to and elaboration on the Psalms and the Hebrew prophets that enriched her first book, A Priceless View. Indeed, the integration of absorbing and accessible study of the Psalms, the Prophets, and the Gospels in Cornell's's stories of migrant experience is one of the outstanding features of this new collection. And migration itself was already a subtext in American Madonna, Cornell's second book, about the Virgin Mary crossing Mexican and U.S. borders.
But Jesus was a Migrant differs from these previous books in some respects. First of all, it's a collection of shorter pieces, revisions of articles written for The Catholic Worker and other publications or given as talks. And presumably because they were created for different audiences, the articles exhibit less of the scholarly nuance that I, for one, valued in the two previous books.
Indeed, during my first reading of Jesus was a Migrant, I found it almost pious. For example, Cornell uses Marina Warner's feminist critique of the cult of the Virgin Mary to leaven her study of Latino/a Marian devotion in American Madonna. But in Jesus was a Migrant, she draws (briefly) on the work of Ann Catherine Emmerich, a German mystic whose writing inspired Mel Gibson's violent, antisemitic film, "The Passion of the Christ." And while Patricia Miller begins Good Catholics, her study of the Catholic struggle over abortion rights, with a denunciation of the misogyny embedded in the doors of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cornell begins a chapter on the lives of Catholic saints who were migrants with a reflection on the body of Pierre Toussaint in the crypt beneath those doors. Indeed, in this chapter, Cornell includes the life of one of the figures on the doors Miller find so sexist, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini.
As I reread American Madonna however, I had to admit that Deirdre Cornell had warned readers of this shift well before the publication of Jesus was a Migrant. Speaking of her years working with Catholics in Mexico as a Maryknoll lay missioner that led her to a new devotion to the Mother of God, Cornell wrote, "Immersed in a community that I loved and that loved her, I began to speak less and to listen more…I learned to tread on holy ground where I had to take the proverbial sandals off my feet."
The articles in Jesus was a Migrant are testimonies to this transformation. We all move toward holy ground in different ways. Some of us do so by critiquing the sexism sculptured on cathedral doors. Others cry out to the Mother of God to aid us when our children are deported or our partner gets cancer from pesticides. Jesus was a Migrant helps us hear that second set of voices.
My Buddhist Bracelet
October 4, 2014 at 5:39 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 9 CommentsTags: Buddhism, Catholicism, Thomas Merton, Zen Buddhist meditation
A year or so ago I was walking across Bryant Park, just behind the New York Public Library, when a man I took to be a Buddhist monk walked up to me. He held out a bracelet made of dark brown round wooden beads; one bead, which was larger than the others, had two figures on it, apparently from some Asian language. The "monk" asked if I would like one. I took out a five dollar bill and offered it to him. He replied that the bracelet cost twenty dollars. I said I was sorry but I couldn't pay twenty dollars and started to put the money back. He scowled at me, in a not very Buddhist way, but then took the five dollars and gave me the bracelet. I put it on.
I suppose I took the bracelet because I am somewhat attracted to Buddhism. I took a required course on Japanese Buddhism in graduate school and read some Dōgen, whose thinking I rather enjoyed. More recently though, since my husband and his mother were both so sick this summer, I have been practicing Zen meditation. I decided I really needed to calm down. I even joined the Brooklyn Zen Center, in search of a community of support.
In sharing this with you, I do not mean to mean to suggest that I am some kind of spiritual adept. Except that it would demonstrate a distinctly unBuddhist kind of grandiosity to make such a claim, I'd be inclined to say that I am the worst meditator in the world. Often I seem capable of suspending the anxious planning my next activity (sometimes my next blog post) for no more than a few seconds at a time. And most days I can barely stay sitting for the fifteen minutes that I plugged into the Zazen Lite app on my iPad.
Let me also be clear: I am not planning to transfer from Catholicism to Buddhism any time soon. As my American-Baptist-clergyman husband is given to saying, my Catholicism is genetic. Then too, some very distinguished Catholics have found Buddhism deeply meaningful. A copy of Thomas Merton's Zen and the Birds of Appetite is on the book shelf next to my computer.
Despite its pitifulness, my meditation practice does seem to be helping me. As a result, I suspect, of saying "thinking" and bringing my attention back to the present the six or seven thousand times I do so in any given meditation session, I now sometimes find myself being able top stop my mind from racing on to the next task when I am not meditating. Maybe this grey haired lady will learn to be in the present before she is no longer in it at all.
A few months into my meditation practice, I heard on the radio that Asian men posing as Buddhist monks were conning people in New York by selling fake Buddhist bracelets to them. I suppose this news could have annoyed me. I was certainly glad I hadn't given the guy the twenty dollars (though the odds on this child of Depression-survivor working class parents doing so were slim to none even if the "monk" had been authentic.)
I've decided, though, that something about the fraudulent Buddhist bracelet fits in perfectly with my attempts at meditation. I'm not awfully good at it, but I find it a comfort. My quasi-monk wasn't very honest, but it's rather a nice bracelet. I think I'll put it on and go meditate.
After the People's Climate March
September 25, 2014 at 4:31 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 CommentsTags: "The Wrath of Capital", Adrian Parr, Chris Hedges, Climate Change, Cochabamba water wars, neoliberal economics, People's Climate March, The Grail in the USA, the World Bank
Last Sunday, between 300 and 400 thousand other people and I marched around Manhattan to tell world leaders on their way to the UN climate summit that things have to change. I am sure you have seen photos and videos and read articles about the March. It was in many ways inspiring and encouraging. Just seeing the outfits people wore and the signs they carried made me smile many times. One of my favorites was a crude sign–a piece of cardboard on a stick carried by a young man–that read, "I Can't Swim." And as a person who has made many snide remarks over the years about environmentalists being white people who love polar bears, I laughed out loud at a t-shirt with a polar bear on it, who said, in a cartoon bubble, "Save the Humans!" Furthermore, after the March, at the UN, many heads of state, including our own Barack Obama, made inspiring statements about the need to act on climate change.
But there are (at least) two things you need to know if you want to grasp the full significance of the People's Climate March. This first may be obvious to a lot of readers: it took a massive amount of work. For the Interfaith Contingent, with which I and my sister Grail members marched, just establishing the order for our various groups to stand in took very many emails and phone discussions. The people from GreenFaith and 350.org who got us organized deserve an enormous amount of credit. It is also the case that in order to be sure the police would allow us to enter the Interfaith staging area on 58th St. for the March, we had to arrive before 11 AM, even though our contingent didn't actually start marching until approximately 2:15 PM. Marching around Manhattan for an hour is nothing compared to standing and sitting and standing some more for three and half hours. I was exhausted before we set out.
The other thing you need to know is that, hundreds of thousands of marchers in NYC and around the world notwithstanding, the March doesn't begin to be enough to force world leaders to take action on climate change. This is the case because neoliberalism, the economic system that came to dominate the world during the reigns of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, simply won't permit some reasoned process of changing our energy system, no matter how desperately such change is needed. As Chris Hedges points out in a devastating Truthdig column published a few days before the March, the NYC police, under the leadership of our ostensibly progressive mayor, wouldn't so much as allow the March anywhere near the United Nations, despite the fact that it was explicitly aimed at the UN summit occurring later that week. The fossil fuel industry owns the government, and as Hedges argues compellingly, we're going to have to engage in non-violent protest in very large numbers to turn things around. (I myself am terrified at the prospect of going to jail, so don't think I read Hedges' article with equanimity.)
Adrian Parr's galvanizing book, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, clarifies the ways in which the neoliberal economics that is inscribed in our societal DNA again and again appropriates environmental and climate change discourse (and actions) for its own purpose, the endless expanse of profit. It does this by rendering invisible the full cost of various climate related practices and products. For example, in her chapter on water, Parr explores the ways in which the water wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the early 2000s did and did not reverse the impacts of neoliberalism on the thirst of the average Bolivian. For water activists like me, the success of the citizens of Cochabamba in overturning the forced privatization of their water as part of the World Bank's "structural adjustment program" was a glorious example of an environmental victory. Unfortunately, deeply inscribed class differences and political corruption mean many Bolivians must still struggle mightily for access to reasonably priced potable water. Similarly, the government of India touts the marvels that genetically modified seeds are doing and will do for the farmlands of India increasingly devastated by climate change. No mention is made of the profits the corporations who own these seeds are making, the increasing debt of the farmers who buy them, and the rising suicide rate among them. We might also ask who owns the factories where solar panels are manufactured and what the laborers in those factories are being paid.
The argument that we can mitigate climate change and grow the neoliberal economy at the same time is what my doktormutter, Laura Levitt, calls a "happy narrative." Enslaving somebody, destroying the environment, and growing the economy go hand in hand, and only a radical commitment to stopping all of them can get us where we need to go.
Home from Vacation
September 22, 2014 at 2:23 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 5 CommentsTags: Quebec City, St. Francois de Laval, St. Marie of the Incarnation
Some readers may have noticed a certain silence on my part. My last post appeared on August 16. Well, we've been on vacation. But as with most things, there's more to it than that.
At one level, there's my esteemed companion's absolute objection to mentioning in a blog post that we're away, even as I find it hard to blog without doing so. We live in the middle of Brooklyn, and while I feel fairly safe here–lots safer than I felt in Brooklyn in the 1970s or 1980s–we really can't afford to be inviting people over while we're gone.
But at a deeper level, I just needed to knock off. I mentioned in an earlier post that my husband was seriously ill this past spring and summer, first with pneumonia, then with (thank God, early-stage) kidney cancer. Years ago I took a vocational aptitude test and got a score of less than zero for nursing, so you get a picture of me dealing with all that. Then, as Keith began to recover, Betty, his ninety-three year old mother down in Florida, became seriously ill–sort of lost her mind, leg swelled up, already had congestive heart failure, had surgery, stopped being able to breathe, had a tube down her throat, etc., etc. For days, every time the phone rang we expected to hear we'd have to fly down there for Keith to do the funeral. And in the midst of all that, a tooth popped out while I was flossing, and I ended up having a root canal and other fun dental procedures.
But we seem to have survived. Not only is Keith much better, his mother is about to go back to her independent living apartment, having regained her faculties and begun walking again. And I myself am having the occasional thought.
So let me share a few of them, after which, tomorrow or the next day, I'll write something about yesterday's People's Climate March which I participated in.
During our time away, we spent a week at my brother's place in rural Vermont, and almost two weeks in Quebec City, east of Montreal, in Canada. Regarding Vermont, let me say that it's quite an experience for someone who ordinarily shares a borough with two-and-a-half million other people to go walking for an hour and not see a soul. Sometimes I really like it; other times it kind of freaks me out.
As for Quebec City, it's pretty amazing. You may know that the old part of the city is walled, the only walled city in North America north of Mexico. Founded in 1608, it's also full of museums and monuments about the history of New France, a subject I knew very little about before we went there. One of my favorite parts of the visit was taking a tour of the Museum of the Ursulines, which explores the history of the oldest order of Catholic sisters in North America, brought there by Sister Marie Guyart of the Incarnation. Sister Marie was a widow in Tours, France, who entered the (cloistered) Ursuline order but in 1639 traveled to New France and started the first convent in North America in Quebec City; the school she founded was also the first women's educational institution in North America. A mystic, she also wrote dictionaries in three indigenous languages and an Algonquin catechism. And lest you think everything has changed in three-hundred-fifty years, she struggled against efforts by the bishop of Quebec City, Francois de Laval, to take control of her community. Pope Francis canonized both of them together last April; I'm sure Archbishop Laval was thrilled to have feisty Soeur Marie join him at the same level of churchly adulation.
The other thing I love about Quebec City is that when I'm there I know how to speak French, whereas when I'm in Paris, I'm way too ignorant to be able to do so. Seems as if only 10 percent of English Canada speaks French, so when an English speaker starts speaking in French, the Québécois are thrilled. A sales person said, "You really know how to speak French, don't you!?" whereas the snotty Parisians say, "Your accent is terrible. Speak English." Finally, my seven years of French classes have been redeemed.
There's lots more to be said about Quebec City, but not now. Stay tuned.
Righteous Over Gaza
August 13, 2014 at 11:43 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 5 CommentsTags: "The Shadow of a Year", antisemitism, British Mandate for Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, John Gibney, Palestinians, the State of Israel
As I explained in a previous post, I was shocked to learn the history of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Palestinians, how the Israelis drove the Palestinians off their land, even attempting to eradicate Palestinian traces from the landscape. Aware as I was of the history of Western (and Christian) antisemitism, I had avoided the whole question of Israel and the Palestinians. And I do believe that the current killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the destruction of Gaza by the Jewish Israelis is totally unacceptable, something the international community must stop.
Yet even as I acknowledge all this, I must admit I am also deeply disturbed by the self-righteous tone of many of the anti-Israeli articles, listserv posts and demonstration announcements coming my way of late. By mentioning this I do not mean to suggest that I agree with the majority of Americans who blame Hamas for the current conflict. I don't blame Hamas. At least, I don't blame them any more than I blame myself and the rest of us supposedly virtuous USies.*
To begin with, as I'm sure you've heard, the United States is helping to fund the Israeli military, at the rate of $3 billion a year. That's somewhat, but not massively, less than the amount Congress says we can't afford to intervene in the refugee crisis on our borders. And as a result of this $3 billion, we help to guarantee that the Israelis, whether they are the attackers or the attacked, will lose a minute number of soldiers and civilians compared to the deaths and destruction in Gaza. And let's be clear: my husband and I are funding the Israelis, as you are if you are paying U.S. taxes. I am not refusing to pay those taxes now, just as I did not refuse to pay them during the invasion of Iraq, a military catastrophe that we not only made possible but implemented.
And that's not the only reason we and our European allies are not entitled to feel righteous toward the Israelis. Another is that the U.S. fought with the Europeans who had gone to war against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Then, as part of the League of Nations, we agreed to the establishment of the British Mandate for Palestine, which took what is now Israel , Gaza, and the West Bank out of Arab hands. With the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British had pledged themselves to establishing a Jewish State in Palestine, and after World War II, that state was established; Gaza came under the control of Egypt, and the West Bank under Jordan. I myself have often wondered why the victors in World War II didn't give Bavaria to the Jews for a homeland, considering the crimes the Germans had perpetrated against them. But since the British already controlled Palestine, I guess it was just easier to hand a chunk of that territory over to the State of Israel. We colluded in this mess from the beginning.
The other reason many of us here in the U.S. and Europe have no reason to be righteous about the ongoing catastrophe in Israel/Palestine is that Christian antisemitism and the Holocaust did and still do play a major role in Israeli violence. There are those who question how the Israelis can continue to invoke the Holocaust as a justification for their actions, as if a people can recover from a genocide in a few decades, or even seventy-five years. Those who take this position need to get real. In my studies of the history of Ireland, I have been struck by the extraordinary length of time that it takes for a people to truly work through and move on from traumas such as massacres and famines. In The Shadow of a Year Irish historian John Gibney documents how Catholics and Protestants in Ireland used a Catholic uprising and massacre in 1641 to justify violent attacks on each other up to and including the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the late twentieth century. I wonder how long we USies* will continue to fixate on 9/11 and use it to justify our own Middle Eastern wars?
But the Jews have sustained persecution by the Christian West since well before 1641–since at least the 4th century, when Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire. In Constantine's Sword, James Carroll argues that, had it not been for pogroms and conversions, in 2000 there would have been two hundred million Jews in the world, not a mere thirteen million. Seventeen hundred years of ethno-religious persecution, even without the Holocaust, might well result in a culture of paranoia.
As I said at the beginning of this post, I am not on Israel's side. I believe it is a telling sign of the dysfunction of the entire international order that the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, and the inhumane blockade that facilitated the conflict, continue.
But I also think that those of us with Christian roots, or who are citizens of the United States, have an obligation to be extremely careful about how we talk about this conflict. Self-righteous condemnation of Israel risks making us sound all too much like the Euro-American antisemites and colonizers who played a major role in getting this conflict going in the first place.
*"USies" is a term I formulated so as to avoid describing myself and other resident of the U.S. as "Americans," a term some Central and South Americans find offensive.
Please Come to the People's Climate March September 21!
July 30, 2014 at 3:17 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 CommentsTags: Cimate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, People's Climate March, UN Climate Summit 2014
I don't need to tell you about the dangers of climate change. The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is hair raising–and they're noted for the moderation of their reports. The U.S. report is equally chilling. It used to be that if you had kids and grandkids you were supposed to be concerned about this. Now if you're planning to live fifteen more years you need to be afraid.
On September 21, climate action groups from around the world, including religious, spiritual, and interfaith groups, are converging on New York City for what we hope will be a huge march down the middle of Manhattan to get the attention of world leaders who will be gathering later that week for a climate change summit at the UN. World leaders have been pretty much AWOL on this subject. Some of the best, like Germany, who pride themselves on green technology, are importing increasing amounts of coal from the U.S. where numbers of coal burning power plants are being phased out. I kid you not. We need to scare these guys and gals to death.
To accomplish this, we need you to come to the People's Climate March on September 21. If you live in the NY metro area you absolutely HAVE GOT TO COME. And if you live somewhere else, you should really try. Imagine telling somebody in 25 years that you participated in the climate change equivalent of the March on Washington! Won't you be proud? Churches and non-profits are arranging for places where out of towers can stay, so you just need to get yourself here.
This is how you sign up for the March:
1. First, click here on this link: http://facebook.com/events/301805359975258/
2. Then, RSVP for the March by clicking "Join"
Then start making plans!
Catholics and Contraception: A Page Turner
June 28, 2014 at 2:52 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: "Catholics and Contraception: An American History", contraception, ct, Leslie Woodcock Tentler, the Affordable Care Act, the contraceptives mandate of the Affordable Care Act, The Grail Movement, the Hobby Lobby case, the rhythm method, U.S. Catholics
A while back, I mistakenly thought a Catholic Studies scholars' group I belong to was going to read Leslie Woodcock Tentler's Catholics and Contraception: An American History (Cornell 2004) so I sent off for a copy from Amazon. (Someday I am going to analyze my addiction to Amazon Prime, but not today.) The brand new hardback copy of Catholics and Contraception (C&C) that I received cost $2; lucky Tentler and I aren't in this business for the money.
Truth in advertising requires me to admit that I spent most of the 60s and 70s in Catholic women's schools and then living in residential communities of the Grail, an international women's movement; we had more arguments about lesbianism than about contraception, and I was more upset by the Vatican rejection of women's ordination in 1976 than by Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's 1968 encyclical condemning artificial contraception. When I finally got married, at the age of 47, I had already undergone a complete hysterectomy. Of course, I had school friends with seven or ten or twelve siblings, and I got to know the mothers of such families in the Grail. But generally speaking, contraception was not my issue.
C&C examines contraception in U.S. Catholicism from 1873 to 1970, with an epilogue addressing the following three decades. My initial inclination, after finishing the book, was to go on a rant about how these men–popes, bishops, and priests for the most part, along with the occasional male lay leader– could have dared to tell married couples, and women in particular, what they must do with their sexuality. But this would have been a projection of the current situation onto the past. The striking point I took away from C&C is how very much has changed in an astonishingly short period of time. As Tentler notes, according to a study done in 1970, fully 78 percent of U.S. Catholic women aged twenty to twenty-four were limiting their families by a means other than abstinence or rhythm; during the controversy over the Affordable Care Act's contraceptives mandate, I in turn read that 97 percent of Catholic women surveyed reported having used artificial contraceptives at some point in their lives. But before the 1960s, this was much less the case.
A good deal of this change Tentler attributes to the "non-reception" of Humanae Vitae by the vast majority of American Catholics, (as well as the Vatican II emphasis on freedom of conscience, and the sexual revolution). Not all aspects of these changes were positive, in Tentler's estimation, leading as they did to sexual promiscuity, high rates of divorce, and out-of-wedlock births. Ultimately, we learn, the Vatican decision to condemn contraception based on little more than the pope's "no" undercut massively the church's own authority. More's the pity, Tentler suggests, since many of the positive aspects of Catholic teaching about sexuality and marriage went down the tubes along with the ill-advised encyclical.
Yet it's not only what Tentler says about the effects of Humanae Vitae that I found fascinating. I also learned much that I had not known about Catholics and contraception in the century before that encyclical. I had no idea, for example, that a number of moral theologians had initially condemned rhythm–the only contraceptive method (besides sexual abstinence) that the church eventually allowed to couples attempting to limit the size of their families. These earlier moral theologians believed that even the rhythm method would create a "contraceptive mentality" in users. And Tentler would seem to agree; after the failure of rhythm, Catholic couples often did move to the pill.
I was also initially annoyed by Tentler's extensive attention to the experience of priests and bishops regarding contraception. The first five chapters draw to a considerable extent on interviews Tentler did with these men, as well as on archival material by and about them. "A book about contraception according to Catholic priests. Thanks a lot," was my first response. Yet Tentler's research on the clergy demonstrates what a mess the question of contraception was for almost the entire American church, not married couples only. Many priests were reluctant at best to question laypeople in confession about their use of contraceptives, even when bishops demanded that they do so. And Humanae Vitae only exacerbated the crisis of priestly morale and identity that occurred after Vatican II, especially among younger men; fully 50 percent of American priests disagreed with the substance of the encyclical. This surely contributed to the departure of a large number of American men from the priesthood in the decades that followed.
But Catholics and Contraception does more than fill readers in with details about the past. It also provides an essential context for the current, seemingly endless disputes over the contraceptives mandate of the Affordable Care Act. Indeed, the Supreme Court is expected to issue their decision on the Hobby Lobby case any day now. But the context Tentler provides is particularly important in relation to the claims of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other conservative Catholic groups that the contraceptives mandate is a violation of Roman Catholic religious freedom. But it's not only non-Catholics working in Catholic institutions who will be deprived of free contraceptives under the ACA if the mandate is gutted; most sexually active U.S Catholics working in those institutions will be as well. The Roman Catholic religious freedom under consideration in these cases is that of the 447 Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. and the relatively small number of priests, nuns and laypeople who agree with them on this issue. The institutional church has never afforded the vast majority of Catholics "religious freedom" regarding the use of contraceptives. Most days I doubt it ever will.
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