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These Things, They Go Away
October 10, 2017 § Leave a comment
Automatic for the People came out 25 years ago this week, and as fond reflections pour across the Internet (see Billboard, Newsweek, Salon, Mike Mills at Stereogum, and Bryan Wawzenek's thoughtful and layered reading at Diffuser), I find myself in the complicated position of feeling nostalgia for a record that was already swimming in nostalgia.
(Wawzenek, as he has done brilliantly with Document and other albums, is following with even more thoughtful takes on each track from both a critical and historical angle).
Automatic for the People came out when I was 17 years old, between two hospitalizations during what was a very fucked-up year, more fucked up than teen years usually turn out to be. My grandmother died that January, the day of Bill Clinton's inauguration. As much as I was going to miss my grandmother, I would really come to miss her house. I can still smell the living room carpet, see the colored-glass spice jars set out as decoration in the window above the sink, hear the wet sound of the screen door pulled open.
Automatic gets thought of as R.E.M.'s album of mourning, partly because of its black-gray album art, partly because of the immediate connotations brought up by "Try Not to Breathe" ("I will hold my head still with my hands at my knees") and "Everybody Hurts," partly because of the dirgy string arrangements on the early singles, "Drive" and "Man on the Moon." I don't think it's coincidental that it's the last album in the R.E.M. catalogue that makes any real allusion to the community in the band's hometown of Athens, Georgia, that allusion being the title, which was a service slogan of a beloved restaurant in town (now closed) called Weaver D's Fine Foods. We had gotten to know Athens, and its characters and structures, very well during much of the band's residency with I.R.S. Records—between Wendell Gee offering advice to the young, Peewee dishing out pearls of wisdom in back of Oddfellows Local 151, or Mr. Mekis and his split personality living in a divided house (in "Life and How to Live It"). Automatic is, in so many ways, an album about growing up and leaving home.
At night I would put the disc in my Discman and walk out in a black hoodie and black jeans and lean against a tree at the end of my street, watching the traffic, in what probably came across as an unsubtle cry for help, though no police car ever came by to shine a light. I would lean against the tree and listen to men in their thirties sing about teenage independence ("Hey kids, where are you / Nobody tells you what to do"), then allusions to the music of my parents' generation: an opener with the lyric "rock around the clock"; a poppy third track ("The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite") that cites Dr. Seuss while paying homage to The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonite"; and a tenth track that mentions Elvis idolatry amidst the name-dropping of forgotten celebrities (Montgomery Clift, Andy Kaufman, Fred Blassie) and that feels like the kind of parental insistence of how things used to be that generates an eyeroll. Oh, the way Glenn Miller played.
The band knew that, perhaps for the first time, the majority of its audience was MTV-driven and younger than they were. So the songs are tinged with brotherly advice. They arrived at a time when I was trying to figure out if my irritableness and ennui was a sign of mental imbalance ("Maybe you're crazy in the head") now that I had made friends on Lithium regimens, when I waiting to see if my father would survive his heart transplant ("readying to bury your father and your mother"), when I was registered to vote and starting to pay attention to the news. I was learning to manage a checkbook. "Ollie, ollie, in come free" sounded to me like "income free." Nothing's free, so fuck me.
Even things like pay telephones, mentioned in "Sidewinder" ('scratches all around the coin slot") have since fallen by the wayside, and the idea of cutting keys to give out to (and subsequently demand back from) lovers somehow feels like generational hardware. Do kids go skinny-dipping anymore? Do they hitchhike ("pick up here and chase the ride" / "none of this is going my way")? It's so riskless and formal now that we have an app for that.
"These things, they go away / replaced by everyday." Packing up my grandmother's house. Pocketing my grandfather's Swiss army knife for myself. Ironically, one seemingly dated theme from Automatic for the People that has come back into the fold: conspiracy theories. Michael Stipe practically foretells fake news ("nonsense has a welcome ring"), and naturally, if you believe they put a man on the moon you'll believe that the earth is round, that the adults in your life who give you this cracked advice know what they are doing.
What I Read in January-July 2017
September 2, 2017 § Leave a comment
This is not a complete list by any stretch, but I've fallen well behind. There were re-reads in the mix, too—Frederick Busch's Sometimes I Live in the Country, and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, and Michael Tisserand's biography of George Herriman, which might need its own post.
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell
This collection was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2009, having received much acclaim for its depiction of an under-represented Middle America—small-town folks of limited means struggling to make do. Knowing this, it's somewhat of a challenge not to regard the characters as though they are creatures in a cage. If the book had been published now, they would certainly be compared to Trump voters—there is the right combination of frustration with themselves and suspicion of anyone who might be in a position to offer a solution.
The title, of course, alludes to more than the salvaging of machine parts or the useful portions of a slaughtered animal, though those things do occur here. The stories seek to pit characters against the strictures of economy and geography and addiction. But too many moments have been stripped of what ought to have been a more informative nuance. When Campbell writes of a character named Jim Lobretto, "He might have left the can outside the door while he paid, but knowing his luck, some bastard would steal it," it's not clear whose voice we are reading; the free indirect style is not apparent elsewhere in the story. There are a number of similar instances where the language leans on arbitrary swearing to remind us that these are frustrated characters long past the point of caring what someone from out of town might think. It's as though we should expect them to want to be elsewhere, with a wide-angle awareness of their options, which I suspect is not how people in such situations actually live.
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going, Joyce Carol Oates
I have never read a Joyce Carol Oates novel. I read some stories in school, though I can't remember what they were, and I have read her essays and reviews. I read her warm and effusive encomium to Hill Street Blues that was published in TV Guide in 1985; it formed the basis of an essay I wrote on the magazine's onetime role as a critical evaluator of television. I saw Foxfire once on cable. Jenny Lewis is in that one; she's a singer now.
I had hoped that the Hill Street Blues essay would be included in this collection. What is here is a miscellany of book reviews, scholarly essays, and introductions to both Ms. Oates's and other writers' works. She is, of course, a wise reader with a great depth of knowledge of traditions ranging from myths to poetics and painting to her pet interests, boxing and serial killers. I was glad to see essays here on Fitzgerald and Grace Paley, whom I've recently read, and of course John Updike, who arose to fame concurrently with Oates and who has been viewed as a rival in both profligacy and relevance.
The first section, "Where Is an Author?" takes on broader challenges about art and the challenges faced by the artist as she takes on fear, sin, and victimization. "Art and 'Victim Art'" is a response to a 1995 essay by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker objecting to the dance show Still/Here by Bill T. Jones, in which images of cancer and AIDS patients are shown. Croce struggled with the task of reviewing a show "from which one feels excluded by reason of its express intentions, which are unintelligible as theatre"; as a work of art, it rendered itself "undiscussable":
The thing that "Still/Here" makes immediately apparent, whether you see it or not, is that victimhood is a kind of mass delusion that has taken hold of previously responsible sectors of our culture. The preferred medium of victimhood—something that Jones acknowledges—is videotape (see TV at almost any hour of the day), but the cultivation of victimhood by institutions devoted to the care of art is a menace to all art forms, particularly performing-art forms.
I have heard the same disparagement spat forth for what is called "Therapy Art"—the effort to utilize art to reassume control, to touch upon and rewrite pain, as though apology for daring to put forth one's contribution were sewn into the lining. It is not a coincidence that a lot of such art is created by women; Frida Kahlo's paintings and Plath's The Bell Jar might unfairly attract this label.
The revulsion of victimhood and the seeming embrace of victim identity seems to inflame a lot of the criticisms of our contemporary activist organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and the Women's March on Washington, in our present dialogue. Writing in 1995, long before such organizations flourished, Oates sees a problem:
The very concept of "victim art" is problematic. Only a sensibility unwilling to grant full humanity to persons who have suffered injury, illness, or injustice could have invented so crude and reductive a label.
There's an acceptance that aggressors—in war, in capitalism, in sex relations—are entitled to all of the complexities that humanity entails; victims are simplistically reduced to what they have been stripped of or denied. But with art and criticism that imbalance steers a warped conversation:
Through the centuries, through every innovation and upheaval in art, from the poetry of the early English Romantics to the "Beat" poetry of the American 1950's, from the explosion of late-19th-century European Modernist art to the Abstract Expressionism of mid-20th-century America, professional criticism has exerted a primarily conservative force, the gloomy wisdom of inertia, interpreting the new and startling in terms of the old and familiar; denouncing as "not art" what upsets cultural, moral and political expectations. Why were there no critics capable of comprehending the superb poetry of John Keats, most of it written, incredibly, in his 24th year? There were not; the reviews Keats received were savage, and he was dead of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
I have more Brooklyn novels than I can read, and I have read plenty, from Alfred Kazin to Hubert Selby, Jr. (but not Jonathan Lethem), but this one uses a poet's language to bring the streets alive. It makes its center the heartache of adolescence, barely disguised from the author's childhood. As crushes slip from August's grasp and friends become pregnant, the tone of the neighborhood shifts:
From that window, from July until the end of summer, we saw Brooklyn turn a heartrending pink at the beginning of each day and sink into a stunning gray-blue at dusk. In the late morning, we saw the moving vans pull up. White people we didn't know filled the trucks with their belongings, and in the evenings, we watched them take long looks at the buildings they were leaving, then climb into station wagons and drive away.
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
A well-liked book that is about bending genre as much as gender. As Nelson writes about building a relationship and family with her fluidly gendered partner, she reads herself with a poet's critical eye, citing thinkers ranging from Gilles Deleuze to Lucille Clifton to Wittgenstein. It's an intense mashup, interspersing the theoretical with domestic, intimate scenes, and turns what would normally be abstruse queer theory into very real art. It is most remarkable when even its quotidian moments invite a socio-critical lens. Commenting, for example, on an old family photo emblazoned on a ceramic mug:
But what about it is the essence of heteronormativity? That my mother made a mug on a boojie service like Snapfish? That we're clearly participating, in a long tradition of families being photographed at holiday time in their holiday best? That my mother made me the mug, in part to indicate that she recognizes and accepts my tribe as family?
Scrapper, Matt Bell
Set in "The Zone," the abandoned center of Detroit, Scrapper conveys with gloom and angst the haunted vastness of cities. A young man named Kelly rummages through old homes, factories and warehouses to strip them of their copper, gold, and whatever other scrap metal he can find and resell on the black market. So much of the book lives in its dark internality, not just because Kelly works alone but because he's instinctively a nonverbal creature. This allows Bell to stuff the book with long, creeping paragraphs of thought and memory, though the chunks don't always reveal much, instead seeming to set the mood with their murmur:
Kelly thought the world wasn't full of special objects, only plain ones. Nothing was an assembled special, nothing and no one, but the plainest objects could be supercharged by attention, make nuclear by suggestion. He could pick up the same object in two different houses and in one sense a completely different thrumming. What he wanted was anything loved.
Kelly is a former wrestler, and in his echoing head, and his attraction to fitness as an escape and for control, he has a spiritual twin in the ex-soldier Skinner in Atticus Lish's celebrated novel Preparation for the Next Life. His attentions turn to the pursuit of justice after he discovers a 12-year-old boy chained naked to the bed in one of the houses. The tension that unfolds in the remainder of the book relies on the reader's investment in the revenge that Kelly seeks toward the boy's abuser. In a city that is full of holes and bereft of order, though, revenge does not feel like an honest motivator.
Hunger: A Memoir of My Body, Roxane Gay
I bought Hunger while vacationing in Portland, Maine, and finished it before the vacation was over, it's that good a read. It is also a memoir that holds up its responsibility of having something to say. The primary topic of the book, Gay's struggles with obesity since childhood, allow for more open digression on the portrayal of bodies and eating in mass media and the facile approaches that our medical industry takes to nutrition. It is searing and honest, particularly with its slow looks at triggering events, in particular the author being the victim of a gang rape by neighborhood boys at the age of twelve. In reaction, the preteen Gay finds comfort in food:
What I did know was food, so I ate because I understood that I could take up more space. I could become more solid, stronger, safer. I understood, from the way I saw people stare at fat people, from the way I stared at fat people, that too much weight undesirable. If I was undesirable, I could keep more hurt away.
The chapters in Hunger are short, and the sentences patient and for the most part contractionless, so the tone is one of reflection. The social aspects of having a large body invite a number of angles, and Gay takes on all of them. "There are so many rules for the body," she writes in a chapter on The Biggest Loser, "often unspoken and ever-shifting." She writes about the "unspoken humiliations" that come with a judgmental gaze at an oversized woman. "They can plainly see that a given chair might be too small, but they say nothing as they watch me try to squeeze myself into a seat that has no interest in accommodating me." There are sighs from passengers when she boards an airplane. And there is society's temptation to correlate a lack of control in one's body to lack of discipline in one's character.
The Autograph of Steve Industry, Ben Hersey
This novel from Magic Helicopter Press, by a local author, came recommended to me by a friend at AWP. Set in Massachusetts, it covers every local landmark I ever knew in my childhood, from Kelly's Roast Beef to Richdale to Route 1 South to yes, even candlepin bowling.
Playing that bingo game is only part of the fun of reading The Autograph of Steve Industry. Its narrator is the frontman of a rock band called The Steamrollers, and his marriage to Saundra, the mother of his young daughter, is on the rocks. Providing the framework of the book is a set of odd and feckless survey questions that the narrator uses as a jumping-off point, in many cases hardly provided "answers" in the traditional sense at all. Steve's inclinations are torn between angst, rage, and pathos—a desire to do his friends and loved ones good without sacrificing what little he knows to be true about himself. A novel about an adult man who makes a fetish object out of his own aimlessness might sound frustrating, but the energy of the novel resides in the electric voice that Hersey gives Steve, one that riffs and buzzes like a guitar.
The Autograph of Steve Industry is excerpted here and here.
How to Get Into the Twin Palms, Karolina Waclawiak
This book is set in Los Angeles, but it's a different kind of Los Angeles from the one laid out by golden dreamers or even Spanish-speaking immigrants, it's the Los Angeles that's nestled amid the freeways and motels and low-slung apartment buildings. The narrator is a Polish woman, Anya, who calls bingo games at the bingo hall and seems to exist among a community of strangers without really interacting with them. She lives across the street from the exclusive title nightclub and becomes obsessed with its Russian owners and clientele, literally watching parking lot trysts from her balcony. Los Angeles is a show to her and she seems, for some reason, to want a part. She finds a way in through Lev, a somewhat gruff Russian gangster-type who provides both sex and challenge for Anya. There are multiple levels of alienation and exclusion at play here, and the disjointed narrative—which at times pinballs between languages–creates a mood of ill communication and driftlessness:
I stood up and stared at him. Gathered the half-smoked, crushed cigarettes in my hand and started walking away from him.
"You were walking in front of your window. Nearly naked. What could I do?"
I don't know why but looking at him—his face swollen and ruddy—I wanted him to work harder.
He should have begged.
I didn't answer him but just kept walking. Toward the alley and toward the dumpster. He followed me, close. I could hear his steps, his attempt to get in line with mine. He was following me to the dumpster. I crossed pavement and dumped the cigarette butts in the bin, turned on my heel and stared at him.
"All that for a few cigarettes?"
I had embarrassed myself by being overly dramatic.
"You American girls are all the same." He started walking away.
"Like what?"
I searched for a Polish translation. Something similar.
It all meant the same.
This Is Not a Confession, David Olimpio.
I've met Olimpio twice, and got this book signed by him at AWP last spring. These linked essays are mostly about his childhood and family, and they are explicit about incidents, most notably the sexual abuse that the author suffered at a young age by a babysitter. And while the title invites the kind of self-questioning that Magritte similarly prompts, making you wonder if you are reading a riddle, there's also a suggestion that we as a reader are not being invited to make judgments. This is just what is. This is what happened.
Olimpio sifts and strains the language in these pieces so that the irony of the title does not tinge what is inside. The first set of essays are about time and relativity, which tacitly brings to the surface questions of memory and distance and immediacy. He does not shy away from details about his babysitter's abuse, nor the extramarital relationships he undertakes as an adult, and the juxtaposition of their telling invites an interpretation of behavioral cause and effect. Some of the stories are, frankly, what might be called TMI, and in some the journey doesn't generate enough of a lesson to pay off. He remembers whole conversations in a way I have found suspect in the work of other memoirists, as though he knew when he was having the conversation that he would later be writing about it, but this could also speak to the effect of what the writers trains himself to observer and remember, especially when working from experience. If this is indeed not a confession, with whatever odor of guilt that word connotes, there's some other fair motive for justifying their sharing, even if it's the author's chance to clear his head.
An excerpt from This Is Not a Confession can be found here.
Potatoes in Minutes at Bodega
July 4, 2017 § Leave a comment
And as I have a walk around, other things sound like they're ready to fall apart, like the refrigerator rattling only because (perhaps? hope to God?) a pickle jar is jammed against the compressor. I hear scratches and try not to think about what has nested in the walls.
I have a new story, "Potatoes in Minutes," up at Bodega as part of Issue #59, alongside poetry by Cassie Duggan, Dacota Pratt-Pariseau, and Barbara Tramonte.
Anyone who knows me will see a lot of real life in this story. "Potatoes" was one of two stories I workshopped at last year's Catapult Online Fiction Workshop taught by Justin Taylor, and I'm pleased that it's found a good home.
Thanks to Melissa Swantkowski and the editors at Bodega for picking this up.
The Highbrow Era of TV Guide at Electric Literature
June 15, 2017 § Leave a comment
But in its best years, TV Guide was more than a guide; it allowed you to participate in the cultural conversation of television even through those shows you never watched, like you might read The New York Times Book Review about books you don't ever plan to read. Before the Internet was available to host this conversation, TV Guide was the document that brought it to the masses, physically and metaphorically denser than the gossipy, photo-filled space-holder we find in the supermarket today. Its editors were determined to ensure that Americans embrace television as serious, even highbrow art.
Up at Electric Literature today I am thrilled to have a new essay about a magazine that was can't-miss weekly reading in my formative years: TV Guide.
This piece is new critical territory for me and I'm grateful to editor Kelly Luce for giving it an excellent home.
Head under Water at Prick of the Spindle
May 30, 2017 § Leave a comment
If they liked you, they'd remember you. And every once in a while a kid pops back in to say hello. A little fuller in the face, a little more run-down. Out of the Army or Marines with erect posture, rounder head, clearer gaze. The women thicker in the hips, more sass, more sashay.
They shake hands with their old principal and say hey there, Mr. Rush, you're lookin' good, and they chat Edwin up, because they want to retrace things and show him they're different people now, they talk a different game.
At Prick of the Spindle today I have a new story, "Head under Water." It's by far the longest story I've ever written, and "new" is a bit of a relative term, as it turns out that according to my records I've been working on the story in some form for over eleven years. It's undergone several substantial revisions and at least three title changes. I'm glad for it to have found a home in what is definitely its final form, and I'm grateful to editor Cynthia Reeser for picking it up.
Drawing Names
May 13, 2017 § Leave a comment
Last November, when we visited Montreal, we made a trip to Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, an edgy bookshop known for its sweet selection of graphic novels. This is from Mile End, by Michel Hellman, which I have been reading slowly with Bing Translate close at hand. Though I took five years of French in school and two more semesters in college, I don't hear it well enough to maintain a conversation. Reading the words essentially as captions to illustrations has provided a fun and useful way to brush up on my French and learn about life in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal (where Librairie Drawn & Quarterly happens to be).
Perhaps with cartoons on the brain, yesterday I went for a walk into town and came back with Michael Tisserand's Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, an exquisitely designed brick about the curious life of the man who created Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse.
Herriman was born in New Orleans, of Creole descent to a family that took pains to hide its African-American heritage. That peculiar backstory seems to inform a lot of the mischief and anarchy that came through in the Krazy Kat comics. This is going to take me a while to get through.
Zoo Stories
April 16, 2017 § Leave a comment
Last Friday night, in Amherst, I attended a reading by Porochista Khakpour, author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion.
Born in Tehran, Khakpour immigrated with her family to the United States as a young child. It was interesting to hear her stories of growing up in a bilingual household and discovering her love for literature by way of the western-canonical writers she thought she was supposed to like (Shakespeare) before discovering the ones that spoke to her (Faulkner).
She told about growing up in a country that, in the eighties, went out of its way to telegraph its hatred for her people, a country where FUCK IRAN buttons were sold in grocery stories.
Khakpour read an essay originally published in Guernica titled "Camel Ride, Los Angeles, 1986," about a childhood trip to the Los Angeles Zoo and her father's stubborn insistence that his children enjoy a ride on a camel, notably his refusal to see the implications of a Middle Eastern family riding a camel for the amusement of westerners.
Out loud he said, "Are you ready? Come on, everyone! This is what you've been waiting for!"
What we'd been waiting for was more likely a place where we could be like everyone else, rid of a certain yellow and maroon script, rid of rides on the backs of things or just the idea of us riding on the backs of things, especially that thing. We were somewhere else altogether.
The Last Illusion adapts a tale from the Persian Shahnameh and projects it onto a backdrop of post-Y2K and pre-9/11 New York City. The main character, Zal, is a "bird boy" who was raised in a cage by his mother. He is rescued by a psychologist named Hendricks, who specializes in the study of feral children. In the original poem from the Shanameh, Zal is an albino child, whose paleness causes his parents to abandon him on a mountain.
At the same time, an illusionist named Silber seeks to perform one final stunt—to make the World Trade Center disappear. Intrigued by Zal's freakish tendencies, he ropes the boy in as an assistant. Zal has odd birdish habits—such as eating insects covered in yogurt—and a desire to fly, a talent that Silber had demonstrated in his earlier spectacles. Zal's girlfriend, Asiya, has odd eating habits as well–she's an anorexic–and she experiences premonitions of disaster that cast a surreal pall. The reader, of course, knows exactly the disaster of which she speaks. So we get a novel that interweaves themes of flight and escape, showmanship, and the establishment and rebirth of identity against forces both resistant and inevitable. For that reason it reminded me of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
Khakpour has a memoir coming out next year, titled Sick, about her battle with late-stage Lyme disease.


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Better comfort for betting creatures
Casinos in Las Vegas are always changing, both inside and out.
While the building boom has slowed since the end of the last century (the only current projects being The Cannery to open in North Las Vegas in January and Steve Wynn's La Reve to open on the Strip in 2005), owners continue to reorganize their casino floors to maximize profits.
A disturbing trend in recent years was the downsizing of race and sports books to make room for slot machines, which make more money per square foot and don't require as many salaried personnel.
But not every place is cutting back. In fact, many have expanded their books, especially those that cater to horseplayers.
The locals' casinos devote a lot of space for horseplayers because they have a loyal fan base that fills the books on a daily basis, not just on weekends like in some Strip properties. The two biggest operators, Station Casinos and Coast Casinos, have upgraded all of their properties in the past year, making crystal-clear plasma screens the standard, and expanding VIP areas.
But those two multiple-property outfits are not alone:
* The Gold Coast, which totally refurbished its book last spring, has competition on both sides of Flamingo Road from the Palms and the Rio.
When the Palms opened a year ago last week, it devoted more space for its race book than any new property since Mandalay Bay, which opened in March 1999. In addition to having plenty of space to spread out your Racing Form, the Palms also has individual betting terminals so players can make wagers from their seats.
The Rio had to keep up with its neighbors, so its race book now has 80 seats with individual monitors, as well as 15 VIP booths. The Rio's video monitors have also been upgraded, with six 70-inch TV's making a "video wall" in front of 75 sports book seats.
* Because of its small race and sports book, the Hard Rock is using the adjacent Sports Deluxe lounge to cater to horseplayers. There are spacious booths with individual monitors (and six big flat-screen TV's behind the bar), plus frequent cocktail service.
"We want people to know they can play the horses here in comfort," said Jamie Shea, the Hard Rock's race and sports book manager.
Previously, the Hard Rock race and sports book kept banker's hours, but it now opens at 9 a.m. daily (7:30 a.m. on Saturdays and Sunday) and closes at 10 p.m. (2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday). In addition, the Hard Rock used to take only five major tracks, but now offers up to eight tracks on weekdays and 14 on weekends.
Faces change, too
The surroundings aren't the only things that change at race and sports books. New faces appear all the time, and old faces reappear with great regularity.
o The most widely reported change is Joe Lupo leaving the Stardust after the Super Bowl to accept a senior management position at The Borgata, which opens next summer in Atlantic City. Bob Scucci has assumed Lupo's role as the race and sports book manager at the Stardust and has named two new shift managers: Doug Castaneda, who was promoted from sports book supervisor, and Jake Kolleth, who returns to the Stardust after a four-year stint at the Mirage.
o Stations Casinos have had a bunch of changes. Bert Cirincion, formerly the race and sports book manager at the Fiesta Rancho, has replaced Brad Bryant at the Sunset Station. That has caused a domino effect, with Chris Davis moving from the Wild Wild West to oversee the operations at both the Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson properties (both owned by Station Casinos), and Tim Peters, moving from his post as assistant manager at Barley's to take over Davis's former job at the Wild Wild West.
* Fred Crespi, who preceded Bryant at the Sunset Station, became the race and sports book manager at the Palms at the start of the football season, replacing sports book manager Perry Swanson and race book manager Marcus Hurd.
2003 tourneys coming together
Handicapping tournament players love to mark their calendars and plan their vacations and road trips to hit as many big events as possible. Another has been added to the 2003 list with the Harrah's Reno Horse Handicapping Tournament on April 9-11.
The entry fee is $500 and the field will be limited to 100 players, but regardless of the number of entries there is a $25,000 first-place prize.
The tournament is the week after the Championship at The Orleans, slated for April 3-5 in Las Vegas. That event also has an early-bird contest on April 6, and players can make the eight-hour drive or short plane ride to Reno for an action-packed two weeks of tournament play.
Other Nevada tournaments on the 2003 calendar: Coast to Coast Super Tournament at the Suncoast, Jan. 16-18; Winter Challenge at the Reno Hilton, Feb. 6-8; Pick the Ponies XXII at the Las Vegas Hilton, April 30-May 2; Summer Showdown III at the Reno Hilton, June 20-21; Gold Coast Tournament (name to be determined), July 10-12; Summer Stakes III at Bally's Las Vegas, Aug. 1-2; Brawl in the Fall at the Reno Hilton, Sept. 4-6; Championship at The Orleans, Oct. 9-11; and Pick the Ponies XXIII at the Las Vegas Hilton, Oct. 22-24.
The Bally's and Reno Hilton tournaments are qualifiers for the Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association national championship.
Football contest updates
"Papa" Joe Chevalier, nationally syndicated host on the Sporting News Radio network, went 6-1 with a best-bet winner in the Stardust Invitational to defeat Karol Lucan, marketing director of Olympic Sports, who went 3-4.
This week's quarterfinal match in the Invitational, a single-elimination winner-take-all handicapping tournament, is between Notre Dame legend Rudy Ruettiger and Houston radio talk show host Lance Zierlein.
* "Hollywood Al" went 4-1 last week to take over first place in the Las Vegas Hilton SuperContest. Picking five NFL sides per week, he now has a record of 37-16-2 for 38 contest points (a win is worth 1 point and a push is worth a half-point). Former leader "I Walk A Beat" went 1-4 to slip into second place with a 36-19 record.
* "Mbay Dice" maintained its lead in the Gambler's Challenge at Station Casinos with a record of 37-18. "J.P.N" and "Roland Phillip" are two games back at 35-20. Selections for the leaders in both high-end contests are available in their respective sports books by Friday afternoon.


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Able Forces Interview: Channel 3 Winchester VA Talk of the Town  Skip Rogers; Co-Founder and Executive Director of Able Forces was interviewed by Barry Lee, Host of Winchester VA's Talk of the town. To view the interview click HERE and select Episode 29. The interview is at 8:20 minutes of the program.
Able Forces provides testimony to the House Armed Services Committee  Recently, the HSC Foundation in partnership with the House Armed Services Committee and the offices of Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) hosted a congressional briefing in Washington, DC to discuss the issues facing returning veterans with disabilities. The briefing was video'd and can be viewed by clicking HERE and scrolling down to the video link. Able Forces testimony is at 18:05 minutes. Skip Rogers as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Able Forces provided testimony. He is a Board Member of the HSC Foundation's National Youth Transition Collabrative with Able Forces being selected as a primary non-profit providing services at their National Veterans Center in Washington DC.
9/11 10th Anniversary Event  Able Forces in association with Guts & Glory Motorsports is sponsoring a Day of Remembrance on Sunday September 11th. The day will feature a Motorcycle Rally through the Shenandoah Valley, with music from Nashville, military displays, and fun for the entire family. For additional information click here
Able Forces Featured in Insperity News.  Insperity Teams With Military Charitable Organzation. Click HERE to take look.
Able Forces Featured in Cover Article for U.S. Army PEO STRI.  Able Forces and the 1st-ever Federal contract to exclusively employ Wounded Warriors has been featured in the cover article of the U.S. Army PEO STRI magazine. Take a look: Wounded Warriors Bring A Unique Perspective To STRI
Able Forces Awarded 1st Federal Contract exclusively to employ Wounded Warriors. Able Forces began supporting U.S. Army PEO STRI (simulation command) in Orlando Florida on 2 May 2011. This 1st-ever Federal contract is exclusively providing Wounded Warriors as Military Enviornment Experts to assist the Command with updating and upgrading the military simulation systems that train and prepare our Warfighters for combat.
Able Forces and Booz/Allen/Hamilton (BAH) Team to support Missile Defense Agency. Able Forces and BAH are teamed to support the Missile Defense Agency MiDAESS contract. Able Forces is currently providing cleared-Wounded Warrior personnel to support document declassification activities.
Able Forces and HSC Foundation Partnership - Able Forces and HSC Foudnation are partnering to extablish a "Vets Center" within the National Youth Transitions Center. The Vet Center will bring together several nonprofit organizations that serve wounded veterans in the following areas: post-secondary education; job training and the transition to civilian employment; job placement; and family supports. The Vet Center will occupy a designated space in the Transitions Center and will include a training facility and one-on- one counseling space. Participating veterans will be invited to attend Transitions Center social events, town hall meetings and more. The goal is to provide a special "vets only" space but also help these young people make the transition back to civilian life. Dedication of the new $40M facility located in Washington DC is scheduled for September 2011.
Able Forces working closely with Virgina Army National Guard. Able Forces is working with the Virginia Army National Guard 3/116th (Winchester/Manassas) on serveral upcoming events. The Guard is supporting Able Forces in June for two events; Car Show For The Troops and the Honor and Courage Festival. The Car Show For The Troops will be held on 4 June 2011 at Old Dominion Speedway, Manassas Virginia from 1PM to 5PM. The Honor and Courage Festival is being held on 25 June at their Armory at 118 Pendleton Drive, Winchester Virginia as an outreach event for all Veterans. It is being held from 10AM to 4PM and will feature live entertainment, static displays, and family activities along with many charitable organizations that support our Heroes.
WALGREENS - Walgreens, its Managers, and customers have been tremendous supporters of Able Forces and our work with Wounded Warriors and Disabled Veterans. They have spend countless hours gathering and creating Gift Bags, now over 4,100 to distribute to our Veterans Hospitals, Ft. Belvoir Warrior Transition Unit, Quantico Marine Base, and Walter Reed Mologne House. They most recently collected over $2500 to provide 150 Wounded Warriors $20 Gift Cards to their stores. The Gift Cards were distributed to Warriors at both Ft. Belvoir WTU and Walter Reed Mologne House.
Here's some recent articles and clips from various media outlets talking about Able Forces, the work we do and the people behind it.
08/28/10 - Warren Sentinel Article
04/10/10 — Radio Interview with WINC FM & Barry Lee
03/11/10 — Warren Sentinel Article
Press Releases
23 December 2010 - Heroes For Hire-The Country Network
15 December 2010 - Heroes For Hire Program
8 December 2010 - Guts & Glory Motorcycle Rally
11 August 2010 - Training Classes Press Release
29 June 2010 - VWIP Press Release
29 June 2010 - RIDE Press Release


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text: It is with tears, laughter, and storytelling that we shared in the passing of James "Hooks" Farrell, October 22, 2017. He was proceeded in death by his best friend and wife of 46 years, Roseann (Williams) Farrell. Hooks was born in Oakland, on April 24, 1924, to Joseph Farrell and Mary Stephens. Hooks was one of five boys born to Joseph and Mary. There were numerous cousins, neighbors, and friends who grew up in their welcoming and loving house on Dawson Street in the heart of Oakland which exemplifies the saying that "it takes a village." He insured that his own life and family lived that way too. Whether it was packing 20 kids into the back of the station wagon and taking them to a basketball game, or stepping over bodies on the living room floor full of the kid's friends or anyone who needed a place to sleep. Sometimes he didn't even know their names, but was happy that they had a roof over their heads. In his later years, he got the most enjoyment taking part in his grandchildren's lives and telling them stories of "when I was your age" and that's not how we did it "when I was a Navy Seal" (which he wasn't). Hooks was proceeded in death by his brothers, Joseph (Nan), Richard (Bernice surviving), Jack (Jacqueline), and last surviving brother, Gene (Susie). Hooks and Roseann were married in December of 1951 after he came back from the Navy. They both grew up in Oakland, Hooks on Dawson Street and Roseann on Frazier Street. One of Hooks' favorite sayings was that Roseann married up- he moved her from lower Oakland to Dawson Street. It was said in love and was a favorite part of a rich and heartwarming story telling and love story. They shared a life of family, friends, ttravel and adventure. Hooks' basketball life took them on trips all over the country where they made memories and friendships that are lasting to this day. Hooks and Roseann had seven children, James (Paula Gibson); grandchildren Jennifer, Colleen, Caitlin, and Casey; Tommy (Juliette Banas); grandchildren, James, Kyra and Thomas; Barbara (Michelle Amato); grandchildren, Darlajia and Keyona; John Paul (Lisa Soltis); grandchildren, Ali and Lauren; Patrick (Cathy Cubelic); grandchildren, Brandon, Jessie, and Kylie; Earl David (Patricia Campolongo); grandchildren, Jake and Justin; Joe (Gina Clair); grandchildren, Clair, Davey and Joey. He is also survived by seven great-grandchildren, Joseph and Marcus (Jennifer Farrell), Madelyn and Zachary (Colleen Farrell), Ella, Lucas, and Jack (Casey Farrell). Hooks was also a man of the town and helped build a better Pittsburgh and Community. He was a graduate of Central Catholic High School where his six boys followed in his footsteps. He also was a graduate of Duquesne University where, not only did he star on the basketball team, but played in the NCAA playoffs, coached the Dukes basketball team and started the 1st golf team. He played basketball with his friend, the famous Chuck Cooper who was the first African-American player to be recruited by the NBA. Later Hooks had a scholarship named after him through the Chuck Cooper Foundation. Hooks was inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame for Basketball, Duquesne University Hall of Fame, He was on the board of directors and inductee of the Dapper Dan Charites, President and Founder of Dukes Court at Duquesne University, along with buddie, Mossie Murphy, and was a founding board member of the Ozanam Cultural Center. He also had a rich life in public relations and was appointed to sit on the State Ethics Commission from 1987-1991.Those of us who had him in their lives could never get enough of his stories, famous sayings, and impeccable knowledge and memory of just about any subject. He was the go-to guy for almost anything you could think of. Hooks was the fixer… He knew a guy, who knew a guy, who knew a guy! And it got done. We will miss you and your rich and full life. It was a treasure map. The world is an emptier place with you not here. Who's gonna fix my ticket? Love you Hooks, rest in peace. Give Roseann a hug from all of us. Viewing will be at the THOMAS L. NIED FUNERAL HOME, 7441 Washington Ave., Swissvale, PA 15218, 412-271-0345, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, from 1:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Mass of Christin Burial will be at St. James Church in Wilkinsburg, 7818 Franklin Ave., Wilkinsburg, PA 15221, Thursday October 26, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. Interment is private. Memorial contributions can be made to the Parkinson Foundation Western Pennsylvania, 575 Lincoln Ave., Belleve, PA 15202, www.pfwpa.org.


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For four days last April, the Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church "played" Las Vegas. As an alternative to Caesar's Palace (reminiscent of Jesus's and Paul's day), Roundtable participants discussed how to be effective in helping Christians live faithfully within the choices offered by modern technological society.
The Episcopal Church was represented at the Roundtable by the ST&F Network Steering Board and the ST&F Committee, with members from 6 provinces of the church (see roster). The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada, joined the ST&F Committee meetings for a day. Bp. Katharine herself has dual training, both in oceanography and in theology.
The Committee, with several newly appointed members, addressed a challenging mandate from the 2003 General Convention. Its first priority is the design of a "web-based Resource Center" that is both attractive and useful to a wide range of Episcopalians. A brainstorming session produced a list of the most important topics to address (see article below, "The Living Church highlights ST&F Network mission).
The Creation Subcommittee produced a draft of its document called "A Catechism of Creation," which it has been working on for a year. This will become a centerpiece of the Resource Center. The subcommittee, chaired by Dr. Robert Schneider, received praise from everyone for producing what the Committee believes will fill a void in Christian education. This void has proven to be an unfortunate opportunity for creationism (in its several variations) to creep into Episcopalians' thinking, where it has not had a strong currency for several decades. (See the introduction to the Catechism by Dr. Schneider, below.)
The minutes of the ST&F Committee meetings can be accessed by clicking here.
The Network Steering Board considered strategies for raising the profile of the Network in order to attract new members. Among the ideas discussed was the possibility of becoming an institutional co-sponsor of the upcoming AAAS syposium on neuroethics, to be held at MIT. The Board voted to do this, and will make a contribution from its bank account. In addition to the brochures in English and Spanish, produced for the Minneapolis General Convention, the Board thought that it would be a good idea to have something more visible--like a poster--to take to meetings and conventions.
Following the discussion, the Nominating Committee presented a slate of officers and other Board members. The slate was voted in unanimously (see announcement below).
The outgoing Convener, Barbara Smith-Moran, presented the Episcopal delegation's "Report to the Roundtable. To read this Report, click here. To read the minutes of the Steering Board meeting, please contact the Records Secretary.
The Lutheran Church's Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology (ELCA) hosted the 2004 gathering at a family resort hotel off the main Strip. Being slightly distant from "Entertainment Central" made it easier to resist the multiple distractions from the committees' agendas. One morning, though, I used the hotel's business services office to get photocopies of the Order for Morning Prayer. The packet of copies was returned to me with 20 complimentary tickets to "The Only Daytime Topless Show in Town." I told the office manager, "But we're a church group." And she replied, "Oh, it's a very tasteful show." I took them back to our meeting room--and they were all snapped up after Morning Prayer, presumably for souvenir bookmarks.
The "star" of the show for the Las Vegas Roundtable was not Wayne Newton, but rather astrophysicist Stephen Lepp, from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. A specialist in atomic and molecular processes, Prof. Lepp gave an excellent banquet talk about the history of the cosmos. Using breathtaking pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, he talked about star formation in nearby regions of our Galaxy.
Sewanee [The University of the South] has received a $15,000 grant from the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science to develop over a three-year period a series of programs that will examine the concerns, connections and conflicts of science and religion. This project is a threeway collaboration among the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Theology, and the Province of Sewanee Environmental Ministry of the Episcopal Church.
The Metanexus Institute is dedicated to education, research and outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion. With special funding from the John Templeton Foundation, Metanexus has provided support for Local Societies Initiatives (LSI) that seek to encourage thoughtful and dynamic exploration of the interrelationship of science and religion, to promote greater appreciation of these issues and to enhance increased cooperation between science and religion.
The University's ENTREAT--Enter Now The Reflection, Education, Action Treatise--group is the newest LSI group and is one of 87 groups in 26 countries on six continents. ENTREAT programs will provide a method for examining the concerns, connections and conflicts of science and religion. All programs will examine the intersection of science, religion, and ethics.
Dr. Francis Hart, professor of physics, and Joyce Wilding, Province of Sewanee Environmental Ministry leader, will co-chair ENTREAT. Dr. Robert Hughes will represent the School of Theology. Faculty from the seminary and the biology, chemistry, economics and physics departments will comprise the ENTREAT core group and will host quarterly symposia and an annual conference.
[For details about this program's events, please contact Ms. Joyce Wilding. Ms. Wilding is a member of the ST&F Network Steering Board. She is featured "In the Spotlight" in the Ash Wednesday 2004 issue of the Network Newsletter.]
Sandra D. Michael, a deputy from the Diocese of Central New York, was bracing herself when she attended the discussion of General Convention's resolution concerning research on human stem cells.
A professor of biology at Binghamton University with a Ph.D. in genetics, Ms. Michael also serves as convener of the Episcopal Church Network for Science, Technology and Faith (STF). She said she was prepared in Minneapolis to stand up and offer an impassioned argument in favor of the measure supporting therapeutic stem cell research. She was delighted when she didn't have to.
"It was really gratifying to see that the Episcopal Church really is a thinking Church," she said. She found that the discussion was well researched, prayerfully argued, and in line with the recommendations of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Encouraging thoughtful and prayerful discussion of science and technology issues is a goal of the STF Network, the concept of which had its inception 15 years ago. About 120 members currently participate in the network, which is open to all Episcopalians interested in the interactions of Christian faith with science, technology, and medicine.
Network members come from many backgrounds, Ms. Michael said. "Most, but not all, have a degree in science or technology, and many members are ordained with a science background. But others don't have a science degree, yet have an interest in the history or philosophy of science. Some are parish priests, some are university faculty, and others work in government or the private sector."
She said growing network membership is a major goal for her in her role as the network's convener. "I consider the network to be one of the best-kept secrets of the Episcopal Church," she said with a laugh. "We particularly want to have high school and college-age youth and seminarians involved in our activities. We want all Episcopalians to understand that they don't need to check their faith at their office or laboratory door, nor check their science at the altar."
Members meet annually at the Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church in the U.S. and Canada. The Roundtable is a meeting of Christian delegations interested in the science and faith dialogue. Between meetings, the network keeps its members informed and updated through its recently revamped website (www.episcopalchurch.org/science/) and a newsletter.
"We are gearing up to be a continuous resource to the Episcopal Church at all levels," Ms. Michael said. "We want the network to be more than a discussion among ourselves, and to be a resource for all individuals, as well as parishes, seminaries, and dioceses."
Among the issues the network will be tackling in the coming year are Creationism and its corollary, "Intelligent Design;" genetics issues such as genetically modified food, genetic engineering, and stem cell research; and environmental issues. The network also will be working with other organizations to hold a conference, titled "Our Brains and Us: Neuroethics, responsibility, and the Self," to be held next April at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ms. Michael said that integrating her career and interest in science with her faith life as an Episcopalian is something she appreciates, but that many people shy away from making the connection. A big reason for this, she said, is that even within the majority of Christian denominations that have issued official statements that accept evolution science as being compatible with a faithful adherence to scripture, "a lot of people worry that if they are Christian, they cannot believe in evolution."
To address this concern, and many other ethical and moral issues that may be of interest to parish discussion groups, cell groups, and forums, the network is inviting persons with an interest in writing to submit articles for the network newsletter. Articles will be peer-reviewed and those accepted will appear on the network website and in its newsletter. A brain-storming session yielded many topics of interest, including
In this new feature, we invite our members to introduce themselves with short biographies. Please send your own bio-sketch to the Editor. We will include your email address unless you specify otherwise.
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in genetics, reproduction, contemporary issues in the biomedical sciences, and health care in the 21st century. My main research interests are in the endocrine and immune system correlates of female reproduction. I am very active in my nine scientific societies, with current service on two editorial boards and two boards of directors. I am also very active in campus and SUNY-wide faculty governance, outreach, and development. I have been a visiting professor in Japan, England and Ireland, and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to the Czech Republic in 1994.
I continue to be a frequent presenter at professional society meetings, and am author of over 100 publications in scientific journals. A major current focus is melding science and religion interests into my scholarly professional life. In 1999-2003 I served as a member of the advisory board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion. I was a recipient of four fellowships from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, and of one National Science Foundation fellowship for creation-and-evolution dialogue.
A member of the ST&F Network since 2000, I am pleased to have been elected its Convener last April. One of my main goals in this role is to grow the membership of the Network. I have always said it's one of the best kept secrets within the Church. I also currently serve on the Executive Council's Committee on Science, Technology and Faith. In addition, I serve in a variety of capacities at the parish, diocesan, provincial, and national level. I was a deputy from the Central New York diocese to the last General Convention, where I served on the committee of the Church Pension Group. I am standing for election to the next General Convention in 2006.
Outside my interests in my scientific career and life of the Church, I am an avid skier, golfer, bridge player, and traveler. My penchant for travel probably arose from my childhood where my Air Force family moved every two to three years. I have achieved my goal to travel to all 50 states, and am now tackling the rest of the world. Another main interest is music, especially opera. I have been a long-term member of the board of directors of Tri-Cities Opera, a regional opera company with ties to my University through its master's degree in Opera.
My two Persian cats (Satsu and Kutani) and I can be reached by email at email@example.com.
[To learn more about the Network's new Convener and her views on science-and-religion interaction, see the July 2004 issue of Binghamton's research e-newsletter--click here.]
My current ministry involves a portfolio of work, paid and volunteer, salaried and freelance. I work part-time for the National Center for Science Education, where I am the Faith Network
Project Coordinator. My mandate is to identify, resource and support leaders of the faith communities who support the teaching of evolution in the public schools. I was recommended for this position because of my experience organizing on religious liberty issues in public
education in Southern California. But the great blessing has been in getting connected with various science and theology groups.
When in seminary in the early seventies I longed to
integrate my undergraduate learning with theology, but found few opportunities.
Most of my ministry, though, continues to involve consulting in local ministry development (variously called shared, total, mutual and baptismal ministry), encouraging adult learning and systemic change. I have been working on the educational aspects of Shared Ministry in my diocese, Northern California, and consult formally and informally with small congregations. I teach ministry development in the January term at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, work on continuing education strategies and programs, and facilitate conferences.
I hang my alb at Holy Family Church, Rohnert Park, where I am beginning a diaconal ministry in environmental concerns. It seems easier to apply my knowledge of evolution and theology to encouraging ecological action than it does to apply it to convincing church folk that change, in a changing context is a natural response to God's continual call!
Before moving to Sonoma County in 2000 I lived in Los Angeles, where I had served as diocesan missioner for Christian education from 1990-1995. From 1973-1989 I worked for the diocese of Nevada where I did a little bit of everything and a whole lot of local ministry development. I earned my M. Div. in 1974, and my A.B. in biology in 1968.
I can be reached by email at email@example.com.
After getting my undergraduate degree in art history, I specialized in art conservation. Currently I serve as Director of Northern Light Studio, which is devoted to research, practice, and teaching in the area of historic painting techniques. I have experience in the conservation of sculpture, paintings, frescos, and rare books. For eleven years, I worked in the Physics Department at Washington University at St. Louis as research associate and Director of the Conservation Laboratory.
This line of work frequently takes me to Europe, where I have become a specialist in the painting techniques of Italian, Dutch and Flemish masters. In the picture below, I am teaching a class in the pigmentation used by Rembrandt.
In the early 1990s, I earned my M.Div. at Episcopal Divinity School, specializing in pastoral theology. That's where Barbara Smith-Moran and I first met, and we had many conversations about the interactions of science and religion, and their importance for the church. I became an early member of the ST&F Network back when it was known by a different name.
I've served as volunteer chaplain for the Juvenile Detention Centers in St. Louis, and I've also served as Director of Spiritual Formation at my parish. One of the courses I've taught is called "Seen and Unseen: Theology and the Visual Arts."
I can be reached via email at email@example.com.
Why not print out Science, Technology and Faith Network brochures for your parish or cathedral tract-rack. Help spread the word to those who wonder how Christian faith interacts with developments in science and technology. There is a real hunger among Episcopalians to be able to ask important questions about faithful living within contemporary society. The Network welcomes questioners.
The Network brochure is available both in Spanish and in English versions, as pdf files (Acrobat Reader required).


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"Our life maybe a crazy life but it's our life" I'm married to a pastor of a small rural church, who is also the prison chaplain. We have 5 kids, each with their unique story. I love gardening & we all love the outdoors. Our life is not the way we planned it to be, but we are learning to trust God in every area. Come and read about our life as we live it to the fullest!
Monday, October 12, 2015
It's a CRAZY life
This is a first for us, we have our wonderful respite worker (that we know and love personally) watching Sam and Sarah. We've never left them over night with anyone but Steve. That sounds so funny but Steve is very capable to taking care of the kids. Anna, the young woman who is watching them is also and we are really happy that God allowed our paths to cross because otherwise I wouldn't feel safe leaving them. Steve is at college so I feel like our family is very spread out this week. We pretty much did any type of traveling as a "tribe" before now. Life does bring changes.
So last week I ended up in the ER. For the past six years I've had stomach/side pain that has gone undiagnosed. The last two months things have been worse than ever so I was getting pretty worried about what was going on with me. After a lot of testing, it seems that I have Crohn's Disease.
Only people who have been undiagnosed for years with something can relate to my feeling of relief in having an answer. Honestly I was relieved it was not something worse and shocked that after all the testing that's been done on me that I've not been told this before. In the past six years I've had two colonoscopies. And while I knew I had colitis, and some diverticulitis, no one ever said Crohn's. in spite of all the issues going on. It may have just now gotten to the point that they feel it's Crohns and not some of the other, I don't know but my entire digestive system is involved at this point. So..... I'm on two antibodics and a steroid. Unfortunately they make me nauseated. I'm being really careful with my diet right now, hoping to get the inflammation down. I believe this will be quite the weight loss diet of the year for me LOL~!
So again let me encourage you if you have anything going on medically, get it checked out! I'm terrible at letting myself go while I'm taking care of my family but that doesn't help them in the long run.
In spite of everything going on with me, we had a wonderful weekend. Our son was home from college again, we went to the movies, I helped a little on some schoolwork and we just hung out together as a family. Nothing else can be any better than that!
Sunday mornings are always a bit rough around our house. Jon does an early service at the prison and that leaves me to get the kids up and going. This past Sunday we had it all working ....we were going to be to church EARLY! BUT........ Shad comes running inside to tell me there was a bird stuck in our fence....WHAT?? Of course I thought he was exaggerating, nope not at all. There was a BIG bird stuck in our chain link fence. It was some type of crane, or maybe a blue heron, never really was sure of what kind it was....but I was SURE it had a LONG neck and a LONGER beak. When Steve was little we watched "The Crocodile Hunter" and learned from Steve Irvin to always cover an animal's face. So we got gloves on and a big towel out. I was able to wrap his head/neck up and we tried to work him out. We couldn't without a wire cutter so I called 911 and our wonderful Sheriff's Office came out and helped me. The Officer could not have been any nicer. He managed to cut just one small link and we were able to work the bird out. He called a bird rescue that came to get the bird. The funniest thing, the bird rescue people wanted to know WHAT kind of bird it was before they came out. I wouldn't take the towel off its' head to take a picture of it because I did not want that thing to kill me. So the rescue person told me if it was a blue heron (which is what they thought it was) the bill could go through my skull....that was reassuring as I was holding its body up facing it! I dang sure wasn't going to take the towel off then! Anyhow he lived and hopefully will recover. I was praying out loud for the bird as we were trying to get it out. It just seemed so hopeless. I figure that the bible says that God knows when a sparrow falls to the ground, so He must know when a big bird does too! You just can NOT make up my life.....there is no way!
We may be leaving for NY this Friday- it's hard because my dear father in law is nearing the end of his life and we just hate the thought of being so far away at this time. However, Sam's eye pressure is up and the doctor's office had to reschedule him due to their situation last month. It's very hard to know what to do. We are putting off making a decision until we can talk to the doctor's office. Sam will be having a procedure done under anesthesia and has to have two of his doctors there. It's hard to get that all coordinated. Every year there is some shifting but this year is worse since we are more concerned about Sam's eye than ever and also worried about Jon's daddy.
Please keep Jon's dad in your prayers. He has been a wonderful father, father in law and grandfather. We pray that he stays comfortable and that this process is peaceful for him. He's fought for a long time and is a strong man in so many ways.
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Hi Yvonne, I know you don't know me but I will certainly be praying for you, Jon and Sam. Not easy. And happy anniversary!ReplyDelete
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Praying for comfort for your family concerning your husband's father.ReplyDelete
Great that you were able to get the bird loose. My son is a nuisance wildlife trapper,~ small animals, birds, snakes, etc., so if you ever need help, I'm sure he'd come down the road to lend a hand.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's almost 16 years ago.......it's a rotten thing to have. They don't know what causes it, barely know how to treat it and can't cure it.....:(
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about it, if I can, ~ it's different for each person. (It's a struggle for me to keep my weight up even to 100 pounds. ) It can affect your joints, your eyes, lot's of things beside's the intestines.
Take care, prayers for you all.
Lost the comments I wrote....Happy Anniversary...And will continue praying for your whole family, and the trip to NY....and for your father in love....ReplyDelete
Love from NC
Please comment and let us know you are all ok. It's been a long time since we heard from you!ReplyDelete
Awwww. Thank you. All is well I will try & post in the next couple of days!ReplyDelete


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But what happened in Indy won't make it any easier. Griffin's performance caught Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's attention.


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A good decision is what's best for you and your company. To make good decisions, argues Dalio, a person must have the ability to explore different points of view and different possibilities, regardless of whether it hurts your ego.
Any entrepreneur nowadays will tell you they are open-minded. But are they? Are you? According to Dalio, here are some clues that will tell if you are truly open-minded.
- Close-minded people don't want their ideas challenged; open-minded people are not angry when someone disagrees.
- Close-minded people are more likely to make statements than asking questions; open-minded people genuinely believe they could be wrong.
- Close-minded people focus much more on being understood than on understanding others; open-minded people always feel compelled to see things through others' eyes.
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Dalio believes that recognizing these traits in yourself is just the first step. The second step is recognizing them in others. Once you do, "surround yourself with the open-minded ones," he says.
According to Dalio, it's critical to reframe a disagreement not as a threat, which is what your primitive brain sees, but as an opportunity to learn. "People who change their minds because they learned something are winners, whereas those who stubbornly refuse to learn are the losers," he says. Dalio points out that being open-minded doesn't mean that you blindly accept another person's conclusions. He recommends being open-minded and assertive at the same time. "You should hold and explore conflicting possibilities in your mind while moving fluidly toward whatever is likely to be true based on what you learn," he says.
Dalio offers several recommendations to help you develop the habit of being radically open-minded. Among them:
"Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path" Dalio says that recognizing what you don't know is more important than whatever it is you know for sure.
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For most entrepreneurs, their goal is to build the best company and the best life they possibly can. Disagreements, debate, and feedback all serve the ultimate purpose--to reach the best decision. Setting aside your ego could be your ultimate competitive advantage. "If you are too proud of what you know ... you will learn less, make inferior decisions, and fall short of your potential," says Dalio.
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Theme of the day? The End Times - or, as JTC put it in
the beginning of the tract, "Near future".
I love this tract. Not only this tract seem
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conspiratorial... Most JTC tracts are just casually
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Christian Values die"), but this one just simply bites.
Even the first speech bubble begins: From the World Court
headquarters in Rome... Stand by as Supreme Justice Mahoney, S.J.,
adresses the world.
So what the Catholic conspiracy is doing this time, you may ask?
Well, the people first criminalize the Protestant
belief that Jesus is the only way to the heaven. And while they're
at it, they make it a treason and a capital offense. (Those
eeeeeeeeevil Catholics, you know, they're nasty... =)
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last generation, and the end of the world is near.
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still married". With the quote from Exodus 20:10,
("Honor thy father and thy mother" etc etc), and note
that "Bobby won't live long". (Kids. Be nice
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The kid then tells that his teacher told cats and dogs would be
great for Halloween sacrifice. "She's a witch?" "You
idiot! You knew that!" The boy then tells how bad people come back
as dogs and cats - and JTC then quickly notes that Reincarnation is
a "LIE!"...
Then the kid tells, after calling his mother with a horrible name
"old crud" and she tells him less kindly to go to bed, that his
friend's mother had told his friend to go to bed in an equally un-nice
way and she's now in concentration camp for child abuse...
Next day: The Famous New Age Healer is looking for sickos
"who believe Jesus Christ created the universe." Promises of
rewards are given.
Kid asks his grandfather a question regarding this issue, and
grandpa happily tells the Truth about Creation. The kid goes away,
enraged, calling his grandpa an "insane criminal".
Twelve hours later, in Mental Health division. Two staff members
discuss about "patient's" condition. "How long before he cracks?"
"Not long! We inserted microchips to increase the pain." (See
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Christians, THEY come to kill them, but "Their clothes are
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clouds with the Christ." Insert Normal JTC stuff
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It's a great blessing when a new mom with postpartum depression (PPD) is fortunate enough to be diagnosed early by a knowledgeable medical practitioner or therapist. But without guidance, it isn't always clear where the boundary between normal baby blues and PPD lies. As with any other illness, the quicker that PPD is identified and treated, the faster the woman will recover. Postpartum Depression For Dummies can help you begin the process of determining what's going on with you and give you a better idea of where you fall so that you can get yourself into proper treatment right away. The book covers all aspects of PPD, from its history and its origins to its effects on women and their families to the wide variety of treatments available—including conventional Western medicine, psychological therapy, alternative medical treatments, and self-care measures. Postpartum Depression For Dummies reveals: Why some doctors may be hush-hush about PPD How to distinguish between pregnancy hormone changes, "baby blues," and PPD The difficulties of getting a proper diagnosis The role and importance of a therapist The benefits of medication for depression Alternative treatments with a successful track record How to find the right balance of psychological, medical, and alternative treatment Ways you can help foster recovery The nutrition you need to care for yourself properly How to help your partner help you Postpartum Depression For Dummies also provides the additional resources you need—web sites, organizations, and further reading—to help avoid the unnecessary suffering caused by undiagnosed and untreated PPD and survive and thrive as a new mom.
Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Bringing Postpartum Depression into the Light: What It's All About. Chapter 1: The Big Adjustment:Welcome to Motherhood. Chapter 2: These Ain't No Baby Blues: PPD, Up Close and Personal. Chapter 3: You Mean There's More? Five Related Postpartum Disorders. Part II: The Three Little Letters: PPD and You. Chapter 4: Looking Within: Is PPD Your Big Bad Wolf? Chapter 5: A Professional Assessment: What's Huffing and Puffing at Your Mind's Door? Chapter 6: Seeking Out a Therapist to Keep Your Proverbial House Standing. Part III: Diagnosis Confirmed: Looking at the Treatment Options for PPD. Chapter 7: Venting Your Mind and Heart: Psychological Treatment. Chapter 8: Counteracting a Chemical Cause: Medical Treatments. Chapter 9: All Things Natural: Alternative Treatments. Chapter 10: Creating a Comprehensive Treatment Plan. Part IV: Traveling the Road to Recovery. Chapter 11: Getting the Most Out of Your Treatment. Chapter 12: Setting the Supermom Cape Aside: Caring For Yourself. Chapter 13: Coping with Your Feelings. Chapter 14: Finding Somebod(ies) to Lean On. Chapter 15: Helping Your Partner Help You. Chapter 16: Helping the One You Love: A Chapter for Family, Friends, and Partners. Part V: Moving Beyond PPD. Chapter 17: Delight at the End of the Tunnel: Emerging with a New Sense of Self. Chapter 18: Deciding Whether to Have Another Baby. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 19: Ten Common Fantasies about Motherhood. Chapter 20: Ten Thoughts to Focus on Throughout the Day. Appendix: Resources. Index.
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