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[QUOTE=lillu89;13852346]I bet that small gay kid can still kick your ass.[/QUOTE] ............:bottle::bottle:"peeleft:Comment by lillu89 on 10-18-2013
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Here are three songs that I've been listening to a lot lately, and which remind me of each other. Two are new and one is old, and I'm pretty sure that the new ones are at least partially inspired by the old one.
(You should listen to this whole album, btw; it's really good.)
And, as a bonus, here's a different recording of that last one!
The Bolo Burger
So at one of our favorite restaurants, they have a burger called the Bolo Burger. It's a lovely Southwesternish burger with cream cheese and ham and lots of peppers. It's really good, so I decided to kinda copy it but with my own modifications. Here is my not-exactly-a-recipe!
You will need:
- n burgers worth of beef
- n buns, lightly toasted, whatever kind you like best (I like brioche)
- some breadcrumbs
- some cream cheese
- n/2 canned chipotle peppers
- n/2 poblano chiles
- n slices of Canadian bacon
Some discussion about ingredients:
- What kind of beef should you get? It depends on how you are going to cook the burgers:
- If you are going to cook them on the grill, get 80% lean or 85% lean, otherwise they will be too dry (because the fat drips off and is lost). I prefer the 85% lean personally.
- If you are going to cook them in a pan, get 85% lean or leaner, because otherwise they will be too greasy (because the pan holds the drippings).
- What is this nonsense with the breadcrumbs? Counterintuitively, working breadcrumbs into your burger results in a juicier burger, because the breadcrumbs will absorb juices that will otherwise flow out and be lost. For this recipe, I recommend panko breadcrumbs, but I have also made a really good cheeseburger with some crumbled-up-and-toasted cornbread (and then I put a runny fried egg on top, which, wow).
- Chipotle peppers come in a can that always has way too many peppers in it for whatever you are doing. This is annoying, but they freeze well, and are actually easier to work with frozen, especially if you're mincing them, which we are.
- Poblano chiles are wide, flattish, dark green, and very shiny. They tend to turn up at the tip, which makes them look like shoes for elves. They are often incorrectly labeled as pasilla peppers in U.S. grocery stores. (Pasillas are actually skinny long peppers that are difficult to find anywhere but in specialty Mexican markets.)
- Pre-heat your grill or pan (cast iron is always a good choice if you're going this route).
- Cut up the poblano chiles into two or three pieces each, such that each piece is pretty flat. Trim off the ribs and the thing that holds all the seeds. (The white stuff on the ribs and the seed-holder-thing is analogous to the placenta, and it's where the capsaicin glands are. Swoosh!)
- Finely mince the chipotles and mix them into the cream cheese. I usually use about two chiles for an 8oz. container of cream cheese (that's the smaller tub). You can add more of the sauce they come in to increase the smokiness without really increasing the heat.
- Pat your beef out thinnish, and dump some breadcrumbs on top. You want probably about a 2:1 ratio of beef to breadcrumbs (or even more breadcrumbs). Add kosher salt and fresh-ground black pepper on top, and mix the breadcrumbs into the beef thoroughly. Form the beef into n patties. (A wide, uniformly thin patty is usually better, because it'll cook more evenly than one that's too thick in the middle. Bread analogy: think pancakes rather than buns.)
- Put the burgers on the grill / pan, and the poblanos too, skin-side down. The burgers probably want 3-5 minutes per side, and you can leave the poblanos alone the whole time.
- After the flip, put the Canadian bacon on the grill or pan. We're just looking for warmed through (if you cook them too much, they turn into leather). If you're grilling, go until you juuuust see grill marks.
- The poblanos are ready to come off when the skin has big dark-brown blisters. If you want, you can peel the skin off (some people get a bitter / soapy taste from the skin). Slice the pieces up into strips, say 1/2″ wide maybe.
- Assemble the burger. The arrangement I've found produces minimal slippage is, from bottom up:
- bottom bun
- cream cheese
- burger
- poblano strips
- Canadian bacon
- moar cream cheese?
- top bun
- Devour, then wish you had another one.
Part 2
(So this is the part where I talk about some reasons why I think the new policy doesn't make sense.)
I'm a mathematician by trade; I'm thus really good at figuring out when things are internally consistent. That's what mathematicians do: we posit some axioms that are to be taken as true, and then we figure out what other facts we can deduce from those axioms.
So, I tried to do this with the new policy. I mentally accepted as true all the other scriptures and doctrines of the church, and then tried to see if the new policy "fit" with everything else. It didn't. There are many examples of scriptures and doctrines of the church with which the new policy does not fit, but I will focus on three.
I'll start with the second article of faith: "We believe that man must be punished for his own sins, and not for Adam's transgression." This is a nice, neat encapsulation of one of the fundamental differences between Mormonism and other Protestant sects (and Mormonism is most definitely a Protestant sect): Mormonism repudiates the doctrine of original sin. The new policy is inconsistent with the second article of faith, because it punishes children for the sins of their parents.
Moroni 8:8-10 elaborates on this point:
"Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them; and the law of circumcision is done away in me. 9 And after this manner did the Holy Ghost manifest the word of God unto me; wherefore, my beloved son, I know that it is solemn mockery before God, that ye should baptize little children. 10 Behold I say unto you that this thing shall ye teach—repentance and baptism unto those who are accountable and capable of committing sin; yea, teach parents that they must repent and be baptized, and humble themselves as their little children, and they shall all be saved with their little children."
Again, the new policy is inconsistent with this scripture. If anything, to be consistent with this scripture, the policy should be that it is especially important to allow the children of gay parents to be full members of the church, so that they can exert a positive influence toward repentance on their parents.
Moving on to a different point, Doctrine and Covenants 68 is a section of almost constitutional importance to the church. I'll focus on verses 25-27 (emphasis mine):
"25 And again, inasmuch as parents have children in Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents. 26 For this shall be a law unto the inhabitants of Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized. 27 And their children shall be baptized for the remission of their sins when eight years old, and receive the laying on of the hands."
Again, the new policy is inconsistent with this scripture.
I'll end this discussion, and this letter, with one last scripture, whose import I believe is self-explanatory:
Mark 10:13-16: And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Spencer Bagley
Feelings about the new church policy
Okay, so I'm writing my resignation letter soon, and I just need to get some thoughts out so I can organize them into a more coherent narrative when I get around to writing the actual letter. So this blogpost is a scratchpad for that letter. This is really Part 1, about some feelings; Part 2 will examine some reasons why I think this policy doesn't make good logical sense. This is a living document and subject to editing. Here goes:
I thought I was done being hurt and angry about how the church affects me as a gay man.
That hurt and anger started early. When I was sixteen, I was attending the University of Utah. I remember one particular fall morning when I was sitting on the bench at the bus stop at the local grocery store, waiting for the bus to the university to come. I remember praying earnestly for God to tell me that I wasn't gay. I remember the desperation, the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, the fear that I was really broken in this particular way that I had been told so many times was terrible. I remember the many lessons where I was taught that sexual sin was the most abominable above all other sins. I remember feeling vile, the lowest of the low. I don't remember feeling like God answered that prayer.
I fought it for a while. I didn't want to be gay. I didn't want to be broken. I didn't want to be vile. Who would? I talked to the bishop about it and went to some counseling through LDS Family Services. I remember thinking on my mission that I wasn't gay anymore. When I got back, I eventually realized that wasn't the case. I then thought I could go the Josh Weed route. It became clear that that wasn't going to work either.
During graduate school, I went to therapy for about a year. It wasn't just about the gay-and-Mormon thing (there was also some dissertation stress bound up in there), but that was a large part. I was very, very lucky to have as my counselor an excellent man named Martin Doucett, who was also gay and who was also raised religious and who also walked away. He helped me work through some of the most painful and frightening experiences in my life.
I chose to walk away from the church at around that time, because in the end, that was the less painful of the two options available to me. I haven't been to church now in basically two years. And I felt much, much better after leaving. It's hard to breathe through a mask; it's hard to be constantly on edge, constantly guarded, constantly waiting for someone to say something unintentionally unfeeling; it's hard to hate yourself every Sunday night. When I left, those things went away.
However, I don't want to make it sound like it was all rainbows and sunshine for me after I left. I mourned, because I lost a community. I lost a connection to a tribe that I'd been part of my entire life. I lost part of my identity. It was like cutting part of my body off, and the fact that it needed to go, and the fact that I was the one in control, the one wielding the knife, didn't make it hurt any less. My relationships with my family, and especially my mother, became all fraught and complicated and emotional and angry.
Things eventually got better. It took time. Healing takes time. I met a very good man named Matt. That helped. We dated for a while and eventually broke up because of distance and situation. That hurt, but it was a refreshingly normal kind of hurt. I met another very good man named Eric. That helped more. We live together now in a house that we bought together. We wear each others' rings; even though we're not officially married yet, we're planning on tying the knot soon. My family and I have reconciled. My mom likes Eric. I was at peace; even though I occasionally missed my friends and my community at church, I was happy; I thought I had moved on and exorcised my demons and gotten rid of the hurt and the anger.
But then this happened. Last Wednesday, news broke that the church had instituted a policy that the children of gay parents aren't eligible for baptism until they are 18 and formally disavow their parents' relationship; even then, they can't be baptized without permission from the First Presidency. This policy is exclusionary and terrible and it has reopened old wounds. I'm hurt and angry all over again. And it's the kind of hurt and angry that's like eating really spicy food: at first you're like, hmm, piquant, but then it escalates, and then you're like, my goodness, this is in fact quite painful.
I don't know what to do about this. I don't know how to move on. I thought I had, but I guess not. However, one thing has become clear to me: I can no longer allow my name to stay on the membership rolls of an organization that doesn't want me there. I can no longer even tacitly support policies that discriminate against people like me.
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On Imagine Dragons' "Amsterdam," and being gay and Mormon
I don't know what this song is supposed to be about, but if this song is not about a gay Mormon becoming aware of his sexuality, attempting to deny it, struggling and failing to resist "temptation," looking for help in trying to live the straight life, hearing and attempting to follow (or cope with) well-meaning advice from more-or-less sympathetic people around him, and ultimately deciding to accept himself and make his own decisions, then I don't know what it is about. And that, my friends, is my story. Today, on National Coming Out Day, I'm going to tell you some of that story.
I'm sorry, mother / I'm sorry I let you down
The very first person I told was not my mother, but my bishop. I was eighteen, I think, and I had been "struggling with feelings of same-gender attraction," as the clinical language employed to hold these yucky, sinful feelings at the end of a pair of surgical tongs would have it, for at least four years. I did not want to be this way — gays were bad and terrible and succumbing to this temptation was letting the "natural man" win. I remember sitting on a bus stop bench on my way to school one crisp fall morning, all but crying, pleading with God to tell me that I wasn't really gay (even though I had a crush on my (male) math professor). Finally I mustered the courage to confess my sinful feelings to my bishop. He was very kind. He said, "That is serious," and recommended professional counseling. He also recommended that I tell my parents. So the very second person I told was my mother. I walked home, sat on the kitchen counter in my church clothes, and said, "Mom, I have been struggling with same-sex attraction." She was surprised but promised to help me overcome these sinful impulses. I was grateful; that's what I wanted to hear at that time. I wanted to hear that I could get through this, and that I wasn't doomed to be gay.
Over the course of the next eight years, many things changed. I gradually came to accept myself, and to realize that these feelings weren't sinful. My being gay, and accepting myself as being gay, has been hard on my mom, and I'm sorry about that. I wish it wasn't that way, but it is.
Well, these days I'm fine / No, these days I tend to lie
I wore a lot of masks for a lot of years, and eventually those masks started to chafe. When I lived in San Diego, I went to a singles ward. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea, the plan is that you throw a bunch of young single adults together into a church organization, and then hopefully marriages happen — heterosexual marriages, of course. There's an expectation hanging in the air that everyone should be dating, and if you're not, then you are not taking your duties as a young single Mormon seriously. It was during my time in San Diego that I came to accept that I was gay — but before this acceptance, I lied to myself, and to the girls I dated, that everything was totally okay with this situation, and after this acceptance, I still put on my straight mask every Sunday and acted cheerful and bit my tongue whenever a wave of anti-gay sentiment would break over me (and this was in the thick of the first few post-Prop-8 legal fights over gay marriage, so there were plenty of those waves sloshing around). I was not fine, but my mask made me feel a little more safe. It could only ever be temporary, though. There is only so much lying you can do. Masks are heavy, and they make it hard to breathe.
Just by my left brain / Just by the side of the Tin Man
For a lot of years I tried to let my mind overrule my heart. It was important to me to have a wife and a family and a white picket fence and a dog and 2.3 children. It was important for me to stay Mormon. It was going to be okay, because there were people who had made it work. People can change. People are awesome; they can do lots of things. I was going to make it. Even though it was going to leave a lot of needs unfulfilled, it would still fulfill a bunch of other needs, and that complicated calculus was going to work out in my favor somehow. (I wrote that D&S post, btw. I'm done being anonymous about it.)
Eventually, though, I realized that I had a heart all along and I needed to listen to what it said.
"Your time will come, if you wait for it" / It's hard – Believe me, I've tried / but I keep coming up short
The party line of the church when it comes to gay people is that yes, some people are born gay, and we don't know why, but acting on those impulses is bad, and everything is going to work out in eternity. There seems to be the understanding that being gay is an unfortunate condition of mortality that will magically go away once immortality happens. In other words, it's pathologized. Something is wrong with you, like if you were born without a foot or something. Don't worry, you'll get that foot back when you are resurrected.
The well-meaning advice given to me by a succession of Mormons trying to be sympathetic and understanding while toeing the party line was thus: "Just don't act on it in mortality. It'll all work out in heaven, you'll see." And, you know, for a long time, that was comforting. But once I started to think about the subtext, it started to feel less like sympathy and more like condescension. "Oh, you poor broken thing, you'll be fixed after you die." It started to rankle.
The other thing that really rankled about this was that I felt like these people did not understand how hard it was, and how saturated the world is with heteronormativity. Every straight couple cuddling in church or walking down the street holding hands, every "what's-your-type" or "who's-your-celebrity-crush" conversation with the guys, every Valentine's day commercial where the guy plants a beautiful piece of jewelry in the girl's coat pocket, every failed relationship with a girl who you actually really like but just can't love — they're all reminders that you are not normal, no matter how hard you try. You will always come up short.
I'm sorry, lover / I'm sorry I bring you down
And on that subject: The hardest coming out I ever had to do was to my girlfriend. We had been dating, pretty seriously if long-distance, for eight or nine months. She was from a part of the city that is usually considered to be the blue enclave in an otherwise very red area, and had expressed some pretty liberal views about the church, and so even when I admitted to myself that I was gay (this happened during the time we were dating), I wasn't too worried. I thought she might be someone I could be Josh Weed with.
One day, though, she told me a story that made it clear that that was not really an option, and I knew that I was going to have to tell her, and that our relationship would end as a result. I still remember that phone call. I was so nervous; my heart was pounding. But it was what needed to happen, for the both of us.
(The fact that I awkwardly bumped into her two weeks later at a restaurant where we'd gone on a date the previous winter was just an amusing bit of cosmic lagniappe.)
Kinda thought it was a mystery / and then I thought I wasn't meant to be / You set yourself fantastically, "Congratulations, you were all alone"
Why was I gay? Why did I have to struggle with this? Was it some cosmic mistake? Just a big sign from the heavens that I was supposed to spend my life alone, without companionship of the meaningful sort that everyone else gets to experience, and then when I died God would pat me on the back and say "congratulations, you did it, you were alone forever just like I wanted you to be"?
Fortunately, as it turns out, no.
"Your time will come if you wait for it" / … But I won't wait much longer / 'cause these walls start crashing down
As I've alluded in the rest of this post, I am done waiting. Those walls are now rubble on the ground. I broke through the barriers that kept me from accepting myself as myself. It was hard, and it took a long time, and several rounds of counseling, but it was worth it. I make my own decisions now. I have a serious boyfriend now, and it is wonderful — I couldn't believe how big of a difference there is between this relationship and relationships I have had in the past. The rain falls for the both of us; the sun shines on the both of us. I am happy.
Believe me when I say / that I wouldn't have it any other way.
Observations on moving
(WordPress just said "Beep beep boop" while it prepared this page for me. That made me happy. I always need more deliberate whimsy in my life.)
On Sunday I jumped in the car and drove to my new home for the next year at least. I've been collecting some thoughts, observations, and stories over the last week or so about the move, with the aim of compiling them in a blog post. So here goes!
- I drove I-80 through Cheyenne and then down I-25. I was originally going to go US-40 through Vernal and then to US-34 through Rocky Mountain National Park, but I ended up getting a later start than I wanted, so I took the quicker route.
- It's been a while since I've driven I-80 through Evanston, so I had forgotten how pretty the stretch just past Echo Reservoir is. The highway follows a cut through red rocks and pine trees, which is a lovely combination — especially because I'm more used to the drive through southern Utah, where it's just plain red rocks (and maybe some sagebrush if you're lucky).
- The drive through Wyoming is a whole lot of boring flatlands punctuated by sudden moments of ridiculous beauty. As soon as you get past Evanston, there's a solid hour of nothing interesting, but then suddenly at Green River there's this ridiculous bluff that pops up out of nowhere and a cool tunnel through a mountain, and then there's nothing again for two hours, and suddenly there's this really interesting mountain that just stands out all by itself, and then an hour of boring, and then you climb out of Laramie through this gorgeous red rock pass, and on top of the pass there's this plateau with these neat rock outcroppings all over.
- I'm always amused by flipping through radio stations out in the middle of nowhere, just to see what's on the dial. Usually, at any given point in Wyoming, there is a Jesus station, an NPR station, and some country music.
- On that subject: I think that in order to understand country music, you really have to drive through some flatlands under that clear blue sky you only get in the summer. I don't particularly like country music (with the exception of Johnny Cash and sometimes Garth Brooks), but I do appreciate how it captures the feeling of expanse that's found in these places.
- When I got my uhaul box I found that my spice box had fallen over and disgorged its contents all over everything else. Not a big deal, except for the fact that my cumin is in a bottle whose lid has been broken for quite a long time. So now a bunch of my stuff smells like cumin. I wish it had been basil or something because damn but cumin is pungent.
- My landlord is basically the coolest.
- I now own a kitchen table and six chairs. SIX! That means I can invite five people over and have chairs for all of them! There is not room in my kitchen for six chairs so I'm going to have to scatter a few throughout my house.
- I also now own a coffee table and it makes me feel like an adult at least a little bit.
- Have been feeling a little insecure lately because my new town is a little smaller, a little countrier, and maybe a little less tolerant than San Diego.
- Have also been feeling really lucky and really happy lately, for other reasons that I don't particularly feel like disclosing.
Running out of steam. Maybe more later.
A darn shame: On l'affaire Kelly et al.
(That's right, I'm mixing several languages in my post title. flex)
About a year and a half ago, By Common Consent published an interesting post entitled "A darn shame". The gist of the post is that the author firmly believes that the church is the way to God, and the instrument to build the kingdom of God on the earth, but:
I cannot, in good conscience, recommend that my gay friends investigate the church. This sickens me. As far as I can tell (a very limited distance), to join the church as a member of the LGBT community is to consign yourself to misery. Since we are, that we might have joy, I cannot suggest it.
This seems to be the seed around which my thoughts on the excommunication of Kate Kelly have crystallized. Even if I were a believing Mormon once more (I'm not, for a variety of reasons, but I don't count myself among the bitter exmo crowd), I would be unable, in good conscience, to recommend the church to many of the friends I've made in graduate school. They ask questions and want good answers that have good reasons besides "because I said so," and recent events indicate that the church climate is once more growing colder for questioners.
Recently, it looked like the church was taking steps to distance itself from the Proposition 8 fiasco (though contra this narrative, see here for an example of local leaders involving themselves in the fray in their official capacities), grapple with its views on gay people, extend a welcoming hand toward those who doubt, and frankly address sensitive issues in church history. I and others saw these developments as steps toward greater glasnost and willingness to engage with the murky business of life in a pluralistic, evidence-based society. I was hopeful.
To see why this looked like a pivot toward glasnost, it's useful to look a little further back in the church's recent history. Starting in, say, the early 1980's (or maybe earlier, perhaps as a result of the correlation program beginning in earnest in 1972), there seemed to be a trend toward anti-intellectualism, and in my reading, Boyd Packer was at the center of this movement. In 1981, he gave an address to church educators entitled "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater than the Intellect", in which he said that "some things that are true are not very useful." Many have read this as a shot across the bow of Mormon historians who feel it is important to develop the most factual accounts of church history possible. Another address, given by Boyd Packer in May of 1993, is even more direct:
There are three areas where members of the Church, influenced by social and political unrest, are being caught up and led away. … The dangers I speak of come from the gay-lesbian movement, the feminist movement… and the ever-present challenge from the so-called scholars or intellectuals.
(Speaking as someone who's all three of those things, back when I was struggling with how much I wanted to be involved with the church, it wounded me more than a little to hear that I was considered a danger to the church.) This period of strong anti-intellectualism culminated in September 1993 with formal church discipline of six intellectuals who had spoken publicly to express their doubts about the status quo. With this history in mind, it's more evident why the recent actions of the church looked like an opening up to hard questions on thorny issues, and why I was hopeful.
Imagine my surprise (and dismay), then, when news came that disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against Kate Kelly, John Dehlin, and Rock Waterman. (And if you think that the timing is a coincidence and that local leaders didn't have marching orders from Salt Lake, then would you like to buy this neat bridge?) I had hoped that the church was more willing to substantively address questions, even difficult ones. I had hoped that well-meaning doubt, backed by the spirit of inquiry, would no longer be stigmatized. I had hoped that we had left 1993 behind us. It looks, though, like I was wrong. And that's a darn shame.
Let's talk about Led Zeppelin IV for a moment
First of all, rank the tracks on Led Zeppelin IV from best to least best (I avoid the word "worst" on purpose here). Now, do the same for any other rock album, and start comparing head-to-head: the top track to the top track, the second to the second, and so forth. Now obviously the four best tracks on IV are Levee, Stairway, Black Dog, and Rock and Roll, in some order, and I think it's clear that these four will win each one of those head-to-head matchups. (Indeed, one could persuasively argue that the fourth-best song on IV is better than the second-best, or even the best, song on many other albums.) But what's incredible about this album is that the fifth- through eighth-best tracks will blow any other album's deep tracks out of the water.
Let's see this principle in action. My ranking of IV's tracks goes something like Levee – Stairway – Black Dog – Rock and Roll – Misty Mountain Hop – Going to California – Evermore – Four Sticks. (You could talk me into interchanging Stairway and Levee or Black Dog and Rock and Roll or California and Evermore. And really, the "least-best" track on the album is Four Sticks?? Any other album is going to compete with that?)
Now let's compare head-to-head with another iconic album: Van Halen's debut. The ranking of this album's tracks is going to be something like Runnin' – Jamie's Crying – You Really Got Me – Ain't Talkin' – Ice Cream Man – I'm the One – Eruption – Feel Your Love – Little Dreamer – On Fire – Atomic Punk. The first time I'm seriously persuaded to take the Van Halen track over the Led Zeppelin track comes clear down at track 7, where I like Eruption slightly more than Evermore. And I like Feel Your Love better than Four Sticks, but I'll take Four Sticks over anything in slots 9-11 on the Van Halen album.
The brilliance of individual tracks aside, another place where IV shines is sequencing. Is there a better four-track sequence than Black Dog – Rock and Roll – Evermore – Stairway? Is there a better closing track than Levee? I submit that the answer to both questions is a "no" as resounding and emphatic as the crisp snap of John Bonham's drums (although VH's opening four is competitive).
Come at me bro. Tell me I'm wrong.
Quant analysis
So I'm meeting with my advisor on Friday and have to have something productive to show for myself but I can't brain enough right now to do the qualitative analysis I was planning on, so I'm doing some quant stuff instead. The problem is there's so much quant stuff to do that I keep starting to do one thing but distracting myself with something else. So I'm going to make a list here so that I can be more focused.
- ANOVA test/homework fairness questions (DONE)
- Import and link Calc 2 roster data (DONE)
- Clean data so that it doesn't have a bunch of RedIDs for which I have nothing other than an indicator of their Spring 13 enrollment status (DONE – More annoying than I'd thought)
- Recalculate persistence
- How do various sub-populations compare in various outcomes across the four treatments? This is a big question that uses a lot of two-way between-groups ANOVA.
- Sub-populations: people who've never had calculus before; gender; race/ethnicity; quartiles on CCR; quartiles on ACT/SAT…
- Made a variable for the kind of calculus people have had before.
- Outcomes: beliefs items; final grade; score on final exam; CCI score; CCI normalized gain; persistence…
- Sub-populations: people who've never had calculus before; gender; race/ethnicity; quartiles on CCR; quartiles on ACT/SAT…
- Link focus group protocol items to post-term survey items (DONE-ish. No analyses conducted yet but I know which FG items correspond to which survey items.)
- Learn R and the IRT packages for R; conduct IRT analysis of CCI items
I'm sure I'll think of more things but this is a good list for right now.


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Is programming a useful skill for a computer user? Why or why not?
Solutions for Chapter 14
Is programming a useful skill for a computer user? Why or why not?
Need of Programming Skill
What sets us humans apart from the other species is the way we are able to extract benefits from almost everyone and everything we come in contact with. And so is the case with programming. By this skill or tool as some prefer to call it, we are able to get a computer to complete an operational or computation task on our behalf.
Computers not only perform logic and arithmetic operations faster than humans, but they are also error-free. Further, computers can also be scheduled to run a program at a given time so one done not need to continuously monitor or be physically present to trigger them. It is also possible to have programs trigger others that perform different functions.
Programs can be constructed to perform a fixed taxed whenever triggered or accept a user input on the fly. Given what is possible from programming, it is no doubt a sure shot way to not only increase one's productivity but also keep errors to a minimum, if not prevent them entirely. Hence the knowledge of programming is definitely very useful.


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Jennings man held in teen's shooting
Jennings authorities have made an arrest in the shooting of a 14-year-old Rayne native.
Kenneth Pattum, 20, of Jennings was booked on charges of attempted manslaughter.
The case is still under investigation and further charges may be pending.
The victim was allegedly shot twice in the upper body about 5 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment complex at the intersection of Granger and Louise Street, south of Jennings.
Sources said the boy was airlifted to a Lafayette hospital where he remains on life support.
Anyone with further information is urged to call Jennings authorities at (337) 821-5513.
Bond has been set for Kenneth Pattum at $250,000.


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American Airlines to switch entirely to electronic ticketing
FORT WORTH (AP) - American Airlines says it is getting rid of paper tickets over the next 18 months to cut costs and reduce airport waiting times.
Zale Corp. names new chief executive
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United seeks $1.8 billion in federal loan help
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Demand for high-speed access growing
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Insurance Poilicy can be sold for cash
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Market Summary
NEW YORK (AP) - The technology-dominated Nasdaq closed up 19.38, or 1.3 percent, at 1,460.34, rebounding from an earlier decline of 26 points that put the index nearly 9 points below its Sept. 21 close of 1,423.19. Sept. 21 marked the end of the first week of trading following the attacks.
Edinburg whips Dillas
EDINBURG - The Roadrunners pulled even in the win column with the Dillas by winning their second straight game against Amarillo, 8-3, Sunday at Edinburg Stadium.
Dillas thump WhiteWings
HARLINGEN - Kevin Seibert came through with strong outing to lead the Amarillo Dillas to a 7-2 win in the first game of a three-game set at Rio Grande Valley.
Amanda Simmons
Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Simmons of Richardson announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Brooke, to John Patrick Herbert III.
Julia Kimber
Shawn and John Kimber of Amarillo announce the engagement of their daughter, Julia, to Jhered Montoya.
Kara Brownlee
Brenda and Mike Brownlee of Stratford announce the engagement of their daughter, Kara, to Chris Britton.
Tracy Graves
Susan and Bill Graves of Three Rivers announce the engagement of their daughter, Tracy Dale, to Jimmy Ray Woodin.
Cassie Floyd
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Sherylyn Monroe
Dianne and Steve Monroe of Sunray announce the engagement of their daughter, Sherylyn, to Steve Yowell.
Keziah Nelson
Linda Nelson of Billings, Mont., announces the engagement of her daughter, Keziah, to Johnny Harris.
Nikki Walker
Karen Bunch of Amarillo announces the engagement of her daughter, Nikki Walker, to Jody Hodges.
Jan Stevens
Jan Stevens and Terry Davis, both of Amarillo, announce their engagement. The bride-elect is the daughter of Jen Carter of Wildorado.
Lesley Lewis
Ronnie and Gay Lewis of Amarillo announce the engagement of their daughter, Lesley Anne, to Sean Paul McCrummen.
Erica Guerrero
Esther and Jesse DeLeon of Amarillo and Vincent Guerrero of Fort Worth announce the engagement of their daughter, Erica Andrea Guerrero, to Juan Carlos Ramos.
Leslie Downs
Dr. and Mrs. John C. Lasher of 7705 Bent Tree St. announce the engagement of their daughter, Leslie Lasher Downs, to John Robert Holman.
Amber Turner
Ramona and Charles Turner of Amarillo announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber, to Shane Simmons.
Lori Davis
Jamey and Peter W. Davis of Amarillo announce the engagement of their daughter, Lori Beth, to Dustin John Bettencourt.
Tiffany Pulliam
Terriann and Bobby Pulliam of 6828 Rochelle Lane announce the engagement of their daughter, Tiffany, to Rocky Diaz.
Keesha Owen
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Wendy Anthony
Diane and Bill Clifton of Childress and Jerry Anthony of Amarillo announce the engagement of their daughter, Wendy Michelle Anthony, to Ted Cameron Meador.
Brief: New twist on old favorite
Attention, all campers. Skippy Peanut Butter has created a new twist on that old campfire favorite - s'mores.
Affirmative Parenting: To teach organization, be prepared
Q. My 8-year-old daughter had an overall B average in third grade, but she has had difficulty completing assignments since the first grade.
Researchers: Greenland rocks were too hot for life
Long before animals evolved on Earth, long before even pond scum arose, came the mother of all evolutionary events - the origin of life on Earth.
Tourney to benefit Eveline Rivers Christmas Project
The Eveline Rivers Christmas Project works year round to ensure joy and warmth to economically disadvantaged children during the Christmas and winter season.
Brief: One-day course to help parents, grandparents
The STAR Program of Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation will sponsor a one-day parenting course on Saturday for parents or grandparents who want to regain control of their children's behavior.
'Defeetist' attitude
When you're young and idealistic, you want someone to sweep you off your feet.
Build a sailboat for a pool regatta
When Marco Polo went seeking a direct trade route between Venice, Italy, and the Far East, he was only 17 years old. When he "discovered" China in the 13th century, it was a major accomplishment.
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Under Cover
When the movie "Spider-Man" came out, all I could think about was Underoos, the kids' underwear emblazoned with superheroes and film and TV characters.
Get on your feet...comfortably
Advice gleaned from people who are on their feet all day and from the American Podiatric Medical Association.
MOMS Club to meet Wednesday
The MOMS Club of Amarillo will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 3500 S. Bowie St.
Panhandle People: Amarillo, area students graduate
Mary Margaret Hagen graduated cum laude from Baylor University in Waco on May 18 with a bachelor of science degree in education. She plans to spend two years in France as a missionary first- grade teacher.
Group offers booklet to help reduce those energy bill costs
Financial Assistance Network has published a booklet, "How to Get Up To $25,000 of Government Money to Help Reduce Your Energy Bills."
Opinion: View 'health care' under ethical lens
The ethics of medical care has gained increasing public attention as scientific and technological advances force us to face the difficult decisions affecting life and death.
eBay to offer health insurance to small entrepreneurs
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Online retailer eBay Inc. plans to offer health insurance to merchants who make a living auctioning items on its popular site.
New Internet degree to be offered at Tech
The Texas Tech School of Allied Health will offer a bachelor of science degree in clinical support services management over the Internet this fall.
Medical Rounds
The Hepatitis C support group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 1523 S. Taylor. Call 352-3241 or 352-4121.
Amarillo City Commission, 3 p.m., Commission Chamber, third floor, City Hall, 509 E. Seventh Ave.
A Day In The Life: Guard takes honor in performing final service
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Peter LeBlanc has a solemn duty, and he could not take it more seriously.
Airmen awaiting hearing in connection with shooting
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Union sues Continental Carbon
SUNRAY - The union representing workers at the Continental Carbon plant here filed suit against the company Friday alleging violation of environmental laws.
Bulletin Board
Gene Parker has sent a list of things he recommends you never say to the police officer who just pulled you over. Of course, I'm sure these came from the Internet and not from personal experience.
Phoenix man to run across America
Kenn Kemper is running across America.
Bulletin Board
Amarillo High grad Joe Foran recently was honored as Southwest Area Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the wholesale/retail category.
Teen to be tried as an adult
The hearing to determine whether an Amarillo teen should face a homicide charge as an adult lasted four hours, but filing against him took minutes after a judge ruled he could be tried as an adult.
Meet Your Neighbor: Love for books leads to career
A love for books and some good advice from her aunt helped make being a librarian the career of choice for Linda Bagwell.
Tech seeks community input
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Car crashes into house
Two men were arrested about 7 p.m. Sunday after they attempted to flee the scene where their car had crashed into a house. Amarillo police Sgt. John Krizan said the Pontiac sedan was southbound on Crockett Street as it neared the Interstate 40 access road.
Postal rates, rules affect mailers
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Pampa promotes academics, culture
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Pickup, bus collision injures 3 Monday afternoon
A four-vehicle Monday afternoon wreck sent three people, including an Amarillo City Transit bus passenger, to get medical assistance.
Planner: Amarilloans continue building, buying bigger homes
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Brief: Storms pepper area with hail, little damage
A couple of isolated storms skated around the area Monday evening, dropping some hail but doing little damage by press time.
Brief: Baby injured in stabbing released from hospital
The 9-month-old girl injured in a June 14 stabbing incident was released from Northwest Texas Hospital over the weekend to family members, said police spokesman Cpl. Jerry Neufeld.
Shuttle mission delayed
NASA announced Monday that preparations for the planned July 19 launch of Columbia on the STS-107 shuttle flight to be commanded by Amarillo astronaut Rick Husband are on hold.
It's All Trew: 'Waste not, want not' was law at supper
The temper tantrum at age 4 was one of my better performances, resulting in being spanked and sent to bed direct from the supper table.
Brief: Pampa family homeless after fire damages house
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Brief: Man robbed at Kmart
A small amount of cash was taken during an early Sunday robbery in the Kmart parking lot at 2747 Duniven Circle.
Study: AC good for economy
A new study says Amarillo College is good for Amarillo's economy.
First-Person Account: Family flees wildfires in Arizona
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Caution in order as fireworks sales begin
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Amarillo Planning and Zoning Commission, 3 p.m., Commission Chamber, third floor, City Hall, 509 E. Seventh Ave.
Fire damage starts with bug bombs
Bug bombs caused fire damages estimated at $30,000 to a residence on Monday afternoon in a basement in the 2500 block of Orange Street.
District boasts small student-teacher ratio
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Pampa EDC might be facing probe by state Attorney General
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Brief: Group names Woodall Justice of the Year
The Justices of the Peace and Constables Association of Texas named a local judge best in the state at its annual meeting Saturday.
Brief: Woman in police custody following car chase
A 40-minute car chase in Amarillo and Randall County ended Monday after a Department of Public Safety trooper shot out a tire. Amarillo Police Department officers took the 58-year-old female driver into custody after the pursuit ended, police said.
HPISD settlement may be near
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Jerry Don Hiberd
BORGER - Jerry Don Hiberd, 41, formerly of Amarillo died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
Toni Lynn Hubbs
BORGER - Toni Lynn Hubbs, 44, died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
Jack N. Mouser
WELLINGTON - Jack N. Mouser, 55, died Thursday, June 20, 2002.
Robert Coleman
FOLLETT - Robert Coleman, 72, died Thursday, June 20, 2002.
Henry C. Roan Jr.
CLAUDE - Henry C. Roan Jr., 81, formerly of Claude died Monday, Sept. 17, 2001, in Apple Valley, Calif.
Grace Lee Giles
FLOYDADA - Grace Lee Giles, 86, died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
Thomas Edison Huff
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS - Thomas Edison Huff, 78, formerly of Pampa, died Friday, June 21, 2002.
James E. Anderson Jr.
KINGSTON, Okla. - James E. Anderson Jr., 87, died Sunday, June 23, 2002, in Idabel.
Alta Stephens
Alta Stephens, 79, of Amarillo died Saturday, June 22, 2002.
Lawana Cox Sallee
Lawana Cox Sallee, 65, of Amarillo died Monday, June 24, 2002.
Mildred Jackson Alexander, 68, of Plainview died Saturday, June 22, 2002. Bartley-Silva Funeral Home.
Novella Ann Miller
Novella Ann Miller, 29, of Amarillo died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
Phillip L. Maxwell
Phillip L. Maxwell, 62, of Amarillo died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
Kenneth Earl Sutton
PAMPA - Kenneth Earl Sutton, 59, died Thursday, June 20, 2002, in Paris, France.
Helen Genevieve Wells
CLOVIS, N.M. - Helen Genevieve Wells, 92, died Friday, June 21, 2002.
Edward Mays Osborne
PLAINVIEW - Edward Mays Osborne, 106, died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
John Guy Garrison
FLOYDADA - John Guy Garrison, 89, died Thursday, June 20, 2002.
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Florence Harvey
MULESHOE - Florence Harvey, 91, died Saturday, June 22, 2002.
Edith M. Goodrich, 91, of Amarillo died Monday, June 24, 2002. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle.
Chrystal Dawn Tankersley Robison
TURKEY - Chrystal Dawn Tankersley Robison, 25, died Friday, June 21, 2002.
J. Malcolm Anthony
ABILENE - J. Malcolm Anthony, 89, died Sunday, June 23, 2002, in Tempe, Ariz.
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Zola Faye Brannan
ANDREWS - Zola Faye Brannan, 75, died Saturday, June 22, 2002.
LaVerne Creamer
PADUCAH - LaVerne Creamer, 85, died Saturday, June 22, 2002.
Raeman S. Cole
EARTH - Raeman S. Cole, 89, died Sunday, June 23, 2002.
Alejandro E. Garza
Alejandro E. Garza, 61, of Oklahoma City died Sunday, June 23, 2002, in Amarillo.
Jose Trinidad Mireles-Morales
Jose Trinidad Mireles-Morales, 60, of Amarillo died Saturday, June 22, 2002.
Letters To The Editor: Sexually abusive priests shouldn't get 2nd chance
I would love to hear Bishop Yanta's defense for priests who have abused a child.
Letters To The Editor: Naturally crazy
The Texas Natural Resources Conservation Committee is conserving nothing. Its members are destroying the upstate area of Texas by allowing all these pig facilities.
Editorial: Minority homeowners would benefit from plan
It's time more Americans begin to enjoy a piece of the American Dream.
Editorial: High and dry: Safety spreads fast in Panhandle
Local leaders are not trying to take the rocket's red glare out of the Fourth of July, they're just trying to protect the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Editorial: Consumers can get off the hook
Texans who have taken advantage of the no-call list designed to prevent unwanted telemarketing calls will enjoy an uninterrupted dinner beginning July 1.
Other Opinion: Priests should practice what they preach
Our own Bishop John Yanta is on record in this newspaper for at least two utterances with respect to the assembly of Catholic Bishops in Dallas whereat the bishops proposed a policy just slightly short of zero tolerance of priests who sexually abuse children.
Guest Column: Billboard ordinance stifles free speech, cripples businesses
I'm writing not only as president of the Amarillo Advertising Federation and one who sells advertising, but also as the owner of a retail business that purchases advertising.
Monday Briefing
YMCA officials were in a festive mood June 17 thanks to a grant from the Mary E. Bivins Foundation, a significant chunk of change that will change the community for the better.
Horsley: Lou, we found your bra; wish you had called
Two weeks ago I invited readers to make up stories pertaining to the black bra I found lying in the street.
Brief: Thompson, Swoopes lead Comets past Fire, 71-58
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Tina Thompson scored a career-high 31 points and Sheryl Swoopes added 17 as the Houston Comets won for the seventh time in eight games, defeating the Portland Fire 71-58 Sunday.
Brief: Yori named Nebraska women's cage coach
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska athletic director Bill Byrne didn't look far in his search for a new women's basketball coach.
Rudd finds a little luck in California
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) - With the bad luck that Ricky Rudd has had, he knows how Jerry Nadeau feels.
Area Golf Calendar
29-30: Phillips Golf Course (Borger), Club Championship, call 274-6812. Country Club of Dimmitt, Dimmitt Darlins (Two-women scramble),
Brief: Mickelson retains crown with 64 in Connecticut
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - Phil Mickelson became the first repeat winner in Greater Hartford Open history, holing a sand wedge for eagle and scrambling home in steamy conditions.
Look for Brazil, Germany to meet in World Cup championship match
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - Brazil and Germany entered this World Cup supposedly with their weakest teams in years.
Kelting triumphs in Tall Tower Open
There were times during the last four years that Kyle Kelting wondered if he'd ever win another local individual tournament of champions qualifying golf tournament.
Brazilian teen-ager may be lottery pick in NBA draft
NEW YORK (AP) - Maybyner "Nene" Hilario could become the "Next Nowitzki" - the term used by NBA draftniks to describe a relatively unknown overseas player who can be turned into an All-Star.
Big-time sophomore jinx
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - She was the darling of the Women's NBA last season, the country girl who went from women's college basketball's all-time leading scorer to professional rookie of the year. And the whole time she smiled through her purple-and-silver braces.
Capriati still mad at King
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Jennifer Capriati isn't ready to make up with Billie Jean King.
AL Roundup: Texas tops Angels twice; streak at 7
ARLINGTON (AP) - Dave Burba allowed one run in 6.2 innings, and Alex Rodriguez hit his 22nd homer as Texas completed a doubleheader sweep and won its season-high seventh straight game, 3-2 over the Anaheim Angels on Monday night.
Doctors: Kile ailment common, treatable
CHICAGO (AP) - The heart condition linked to the death of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile is common and treatable, and should have been suspected, given his family history, doctors said Monday.
American League Standings
American League Standings
Vibrant one day, gone the next: Kile's death shows our vulnerability
Darryl Kile was working on a no-hitter through six innings in his first major league start for Houston 11 years ago. He never got the chance to finish it.
Interleague Roundup: Rangers up streak to five with sweep
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run homer for his first extra-base hit in 16 games, and the Texas Rangers finished off a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates, winning 10-4 Sunday.
Texas celebrates national championship
AUSTIN (AP) - Texas baseball fans love their Longhorns. They proved it over the weekend and they'll get the chance to show it again tonight.
Detroit says plan was to walk Castillo in 9th
MIAMI (AP) - The Detroit Tigers weren't going to give Luis Castillo another chance to extend his 35-game hitting streak.
Brief: Mavs waive oft-injuired forward Manning
DALLAS (AP) - Danny Manning, a former No. 1 overall draft pick, was waived Monday by the Dallas Mavericks.
U.S. World Cup run may give sport a boost
America's World Cup team returns from the Far East full of vigor and confidence. Its history-making run to the planet's top tournament quarterfinals solidified soccer's standing as a viable sport in the United States.
NL Roundup: Braves edge Mets, 3-2, on Lockhart's home run
NEW YORK (AP) - Pinch hitter Keith Lockhart lined a leadoff home run in the ninth inning, and the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets 3-2 Monday night for their sixth straight victory.
Brief: Texas stars dominate Oklahoma in Oil Bowl
WICHITA FALLS (AP) - Travis Wilson of Carrollton Creekview caught two touchdown passes to lead the Texas high school all-stars to a 28-7 victory against Oklahoma in the 65th Oil Bowl Classic football game.
Organ recipients to celebrate new life with competition
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - In the painful, breathless years before Maureen Pecor received a new lung, cystic fibrosis made walking up a flight of stairs seem like climbing a mountain.
Brief: Barrera wins rematch by decisioning Morales
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The rematch was almost as good as their first fight. Only this time the result was different.
Sampras rolls in first round
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Back home on Centre Court at the All England Club, Pete Sampras served just like Pete Sampras.
Brief: Paterno's brother, ex-broadcaster, dies
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - George E. Paterno, a longtime Penn State football broadcaster and brother of coach Joe Paterno, died Sunday, several days after he suffered a heart attack.
Rangers manager recalls Munson tragedy
Jerry Narron could imagine how Jason Simontacchi must've felt as he prepared to pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday night.
Brief: Marion Jones extends streak in national 200
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Marion Jones pulled away from Kelli White in the final few meters to win her fifth straight national 200-meters title Sunday at the U.S. Track and Field Championships.
Brief: Nicklaus, Snead withdraw from major
FAR HILLS, N.J. (AP) - Jack Nicklaus has withdrawn from this week's U.S. Senior Open, the USGA confirmed Monday.
Examiner: Autopsy shows blocked coronary artery
CHICAGO (AP) - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile likely died from a blockage of a coronary artery, Cook County's chief medical examiner said Sunday.
Brief: Boselli has shoulder surgery
HOUSTON (AP) - Tackle Tony Boselli, expected to anchor the Houston Texans' offensive line this season, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder Monday.
Interleague Boxes
Rangers 10, Pirates 4
Rib strain may force Sampras to pull out
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Pete Sampras was notably absent as dozens of top players and their coaches shuffled out to the 14 practice courts at the All England Club's north end Sunday.
Cross makes nice recovery from lost engine on Friday
On Friday, Kelly Cross lost an engine. On Saturday, Cross celebrated by winning the modified A main at Route 66 Motor Speedway.
Brief: N. Iowa reinstates women's sports
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) - Northern Iowa announced Monday it is reinstating its women's swimming and tennis programs in the face of a threatened lawsuit over Title IX, the 1972 federal law requiring schools to provide equal opportunities for male and female athletes.
Teammates, fans pay tribute to Kile
CHICAGO (AP) - Jim Edmonds leaned against a wall for support, his eyes red and watery, Darryl Kile's No. 57 written on both his cap and the thick tape covering his right wrist.
Brief: Boxer dies 36 hours after fight
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Panamanian fighter collapsed and died in his hotel room Monday, some 36 hours after he was stopped in a title fight.
National League Standings
National League Standings
Brief: McCarron finishes career with win
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron finished his career with his 7,141st trip to the winner's circle, his final ride a victory on Came Home in Sunday's $107,500 Affirmed Stakes.
Streetball Challenge set for July 13-14
Amarillo's original 3-on-3 streetball event returns for the 11th consecutive year as Kids, Incorporated brings basketball back to downtown Amarillo.
Spurs just looking for a player with ability
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The upside for the San Antonio Spurs, relatively speaking, is that their first-round pick in Wednesday's NBA draft is two spots higher than it was last year.
Brief: Green signs deal with Florida Atlantic
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Sidney Green, who led Florida Atlantic to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history, was rewarded with a new contract Monday.
Brief: Tim Knight: Accounting rules misunderstood
LUBBOCK (AP) - A son of Texas Tech coach Bob Knight says he made a mistake assuming that the rules that apply to merchandise exchanges between stores in the private sector are acceptable at a store operated by a university.
Supreme Court orders review of Texas ruling
AUSTIN (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider an opinion that struck down a patient's right to seek a second opinion in Texas if a managed health care provider denies coverage of a medically necessary treatment.
Leadership program canceled after more than half fall ill
LUBBOCK (AP) - Ruben Picon felt sick again Monday.
Three Air Force officers die in Mexico
DEL RIO (AP) - Three Air Force officers stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base were killed in a weekend car crash in northern Mexico, base officials said.
5 people die in crash
TERRELL (AP) - Five people were killed and at least 36 were injured Monday when a bus transporting a group to a Louisiana church camp slammed into a concrete pillar, shearing off part of the driver's side.
First tests on twins 'good news'
DALLAS (AP) - A team of medical experts said Monday that preliminary tests on conjoined twins from Egypt show the 1-year-olds may not share as much vascular tissue as doctors had feared.
PTA to begin outreach to Hispanics in Texas, California and Florida
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The National PTA is starting a program to attract more Hispanic parents to the education advocacy group.
Texas public schools won't be rated next year
AUSTIN (AP) - Texas public schools will not be rated next year because the state wants time to adjust to a new, harder accountability system that includes a tougher standardized exam, Education Commissioner Felipe Alanis said Monday.
Israelis place 400,000 under curfew
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops are keeping at least 400,000 Palestinians under effective house arrest with round-the-clock curfews and largely barring the media from covering its escalating invasion of the West Bank - an operation that has faced minimal Palestinian resistance and limited international criticism.
Court: Authorities to turn over Vicente Fox's campaign records
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A federal electoral court ordered banking authorities Monday to hand over information requested by investigators probing allegations that President Vicente Fox's 2000 campaign accepted prohibited donations from foreigners.
Russians return to water-soaked homes
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) - Residents across southern Russian on Sunday began shoveling mud from their water-soaked homes after the flood waters that killed dozens and forced 55,000 to evacuate started to recede.
Israeli forces take control of 6 Palestinian cities
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces clamped down harder on the West Bank, as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged to widen his military offensive against Palestinian extremists to the Gaza Strip, where a helicopter strike killed four Hamas members Monday.
Recording says bin Laden alive
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An audio recording purportedly from one of Osama bin Laden's spokesmen asserts the al-Qaida leader is alive and his organization intact enough to prepare fresh attacks against the United States.
Providence mayor convicted of corruption
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. was convicted Monday of turning City Hall into a den of thieves at the same time the popular and irrepressible politician was overseeing a renaissance in Rhode Island's biggest city.
Asylum seekers leave China bound for South Korea
BEIJING - China allowed 24 North Korean asylum seekers who had managed to get into the South Korean Embassy here to leave for Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, ending a season of diplomatic impasse that strained relations with its Asian neighbors and dramatized the desperation of North Korean refugees.
Nasdaq dips below close of Sept. 21, then rallies
A burst of buying set off an afternoon tech rally on Wall Street Monday, reversing an earlier selloff that sent the Nasdaq composite index briefly below the closing low it reached after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
People In The News: John loses case on appeal
LONDON (AP) - Elton John lost his case Monday at the Court of Appeal, which he'd hoped would revive his multimillion-dollar negligence claim against his former accountants.
Fire is at town's doorstep
SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) - An explosive, 500-square-mile wildfire burned nearly to the doorstep of this evacuated mountain town Monday as ash rained down in an eerie shower on crews desperately fighting to hold back the flames.
Serbia's Socialists choose new leader
ELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Moderates in Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist party voted to remove the former Yugoslav president as party leader on Sunday, a year after he was extradited on war crimes charges.
Poor tourists, help for exporters result of euro
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - As the euro rises against the U.S. dollar, Thomas Metcalf's Berlin hotel room has gotten more expensive by the day.
South Florida county grapples with terrorist ties
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Jose Padilla, accused of conspiring to explode a "dirty bomb" in the United States, worked at a suburban Taco Bell and discovered Islam here.
Fadzil Noor dies at age 65
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Fadzil Noor, the leader of Malaysia's opposition Islamic fundamentalist party, died Sunday after failing to regain consciousness following heart bypass surgery two weeks ago, hospital officials said.
Israel surrounds Arafat compound
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers surrounded Yasser Arafat's shell-shattered compound early today while the Palestinian leader and aides were inside, expanding Israel's control over the West Bank.
Milan's temperatures rise, 'fashion runway lukewarm'
MILAN, Italy (AP)- Italian menswear for spring-summer 2003 is truly a hot item. The five-day preview showings got off to a simmering start over the weekend with temperatures in this fashion capital soaring into the 90s.
People In The News: Fiancee OKs on-screen smooch
NEW YORK (AP) - Adam Sandler says on-screen romances are hard on real-life relationships, but his fiancee Jacqueline Titone was fine when she saw him smooch Emily Watson in "Punch Drunk Love."
Court: Tougher gun-crime sentencing OK
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that judges can lengthen the prison sentences of people who use guns while committing other crimes, even if the defendant hasn't been convicted of any charge specifically involving the weapon.
Thailand emerges as major culprit in illegal ivory trade
PAYUHA KHIRI, Thailand (AP) - Scrutinizing the logo of the Liverpool soccer team, Amnuay Chansonthima foresees a hefty profit.
Hong Kong leader announces cabinet
HONG KONG (AP) - In Hong Kong's biggest shake-up since the handover from Britain to China five years ago, the leader of the island territory named a new Cabinet of political appointees on Monday, replacing civil servants at the top levels of government.
Check this Out
FRANKSVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Reigning kraut-eating champion Brenda Lashley brought a secret weapon to this year's contest:
Court overturns death penalty in five states
WASHINGTON (AP) - Juries, not judges, must make the crucial decisions that mean a convicted killer lives or dies, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, a finding that could overturn scores of death sentences nationwide.
Water scarce in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Abdul Baqi says the "flower" is very difficult to find these days, its life-bearing "root" buried deep beneath the harsh sands and dry, packed earth.
Rail crash in Tanzania kills more than 100
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - An out-of-control passenger train going backward hit an oncoming cargo train in central Tanzania on Monday, killing more than 100 people on the packed train. Another 800 were injured.
Scientist discovers new monkey species
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Scientists working in Brazil's central Amazon have discovered two new monkey species that are about the size of small cats, Conservation International announced Sunday.
Mineta: Amtrak won't shut down this week
WASHINGTON (AP) - Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta expressed confidence Monday that the nation's passenger rail system will not be shut down this week, but he offered no immediate solution to Amtrak's financial problems.
Today in History
On June 24, 1908, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 71.
New Afghan Cabinet sworn in Monday
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai swore in his new Cabinet on Monday, having won over a candidate who threatened to join the opposition but failing so far to find someone to take the women's affairs post after a prominent Afghan woman opted for a lower-profile job.
Justin Dart Jr. dies at age 71
WASHINGTON (AP) - Justin Dart Jr., an activist who for more than five decades worked in his wheelchair to champion the cause of people with disabilities, died Saturday. He was 71.
Provocative ad starts panic in France
PARIS (AP) - TV viewers were alarmed. A commonly consumed product, they were warned in an ad, had been found to contain frightening toxic substances.
FBI report to show crime rising
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of murders in the United States rose by 3.1 percent last year as police departments nationwide reported an overall increase in major crimes for the first time in a decade, a law enforcement official said.
Brief: Albanian parliament elects retired general president
TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Alfred Moisiu, a 72-year-old retired general and former defense minister, was elected president of Albania by a comfortable majority in parliament. He was the only candidate.
Civil rights activists honor man killed in 1982
DETROIT (AP) - Family, friends and civil rights activists gathered Sunday at the grave of a Chinese-American man who was beaten to death 20 years ago by two unemployed autoworkers to commit themselves to fighting for justice.
Bush: Arafat must go
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush urged the Palestinians Monday to replace Yasser Arafat with leaders "not compromised by terror" and adopt democratic reforms that could produce an independent state within three years.
Check this Out
WORTHINGTON, Ohio (AP) - Officials in this Columbus suburb want neighbors to be more neighborly.
'It's sitting, waiting on us'
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Bush Palestinian statehood plan questioned by members of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of Congress and Palestinian leaders on Sunday questioned President Bush's plan for an interim Palestinian state and urged stepped-up U.S. peacemaking efforts as Bush prepared to announce his Mideast blueprint.
Portales, Roswell to get federal funds
WASHINGTON (AP) - Roswell and Portales are getting federal grants from the Federal Aviation Administration to pay for projects at their airports.
Yugoslav president fires army chief Monday
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - President Vojislav Kostunica fired the chief of Yugoslavia's army Monday, but the former ally of ousted strongman Slobodan Milosevic refused to step down setting up a showdown that could threaten Yugoslavia's stability.
Arafat, Sharon react to Bush's speech
JERUSALEM (AP) - Yasser Arafat welcomed President Bush's Mideast policy speech Monday as a "serious effort to push the peace process forward," but the Palestinian leader ignored Bush's calls for new Palestinian leadership.
Former Luxembourg prime minister dies
LUXEMBOURG (AP) - Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Werner, whose blueprint for a common European currency inspired the creation of the euro, died Monday, the government said. He was 88.
Iranian quake kills 220 people
ABDAREH, Iran (AP) - In a matter of seconds, Zahra Gholamzadeh lost her husband, son and home. On Sunday, she stood on the rubble of her mud house, recalling how her life was suddenly turned upside by the Iranian earthquake that killed hundreds of people.
U.S. quiet about Guantanamo prisoners
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Dealerships, garages at odds over car repair
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - At least a couple of times a week, mechanic Ernie Pride tells customers at his independent repair shop he can't fix their cars because he doesn't know what's wrong with them. Go to the dealer, he advises.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Day 216 - McDonaldsization and Responsibility Part 3
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to want life to be easy by having things handed to me on a platter for doing nothing - for giving no effort into the equation of receiving - allowing myself to become expectant of rewards throughout my life for putting in no effort to receive that reward
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that to receive one must give and to receive that which one would like in life one must according give equally to that which is received to live within the principle of equality because I cannot continuously receive without putting in my fair share into the task that I would like to receive from and so within this I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to expect things for free in this reality, to expect things to be given to me for doing nothing through keeping and holding onto the memory of receiving Mcdonalds when I get stitches under my eye, want things to be given to me for free, want rewards to be free and unconditionally given at every moment that I would want one - similarly acting in accordance to sweets and treats wherein I expected to be given candies just because I wanted it and if I were to not get the reward when I wanted it throw a tantrum for not getting it as a method of creating a disturbance in someone's reality in order to get the reward for free
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use nastiness and essentially blackmail when I was a child, the blackmail being throwing a tantrum in front of everyone or being nasty to my parents when I did not receive what I wanted, manipulating and being an asshole to those that I saw as providers of the treats/rewards for not giving me my happiness in the form of a reward and in this I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that when/as a reward is given such as a lollipop or a sweet the behaviour is accepted and allowed causing myself and others to allow ourselves to be assholes to those that are the providers of treats for us just to go into the polarity of being nice for a moment in order to receive that reward or treat - thus in giving a reward for nice or pleasant behaviour one implicitly accepts the opposite behaviour as a contrast for the rewarded giving the person/child a reference on how to behave in one moment and then how to behave in the next moment in order to get a treat
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to abuse the relationship between my parents and I through allowing myself to become an asshole and a devilish child where I would throw tantrums and lash out at them just because I was not given a treat or given something that I had wanted at that moment and in this to allow myself to remain a constant, unsympathetic asshole to my parents over time because I was given everything with the expectation of doing nothing - not allowing myself to see how much effort they've put into and had to walk through in their lives in order to raise me in this world - and in this expect everything from my parents or an authority figure for doing little to nothing
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to yell, scream, cuss, and become violent at my parents when I was younger and still to this day be unsympathetic and nasty to them within who they are - attacking them when the opportunity is needed such as when I am told to do something that I do not want to do or feel attacked myself with words and the nastiness that I've developed as a child in order to maintain receiving these treats that I've gotten throughout my life.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that things in this world are not free and that the rewards in this world are not without an input of effort to receive them - defining rewards within something that one wants - and that when/as my parents would give me something that I wanted they needed to put in effort to provide for me and they needed slave away in this money system in order to provide for me, they needed to give up their lives in order to provide one for me, and that being nasty to them with cussing and manipulative words and insincere promises is absolutely uncalled for and is absolutely abusive and that in this I realize that I have never been grateful for that which has been given to me unconditionally, so I ask why should I continue to receive if I have not given an equal effort in/as myself in/as life - and that in this why should we receive life if we only squander and take for granted each breath that we take here in the physical and choose to ignore the plethora, the vast amount of relationships that are here in every breath that support us as life
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to take that which has been given to me in this life, all the materials, all the opportunities, the housing, the food, the opportunity to develop myself in/as an effective human being and squander them, take them for granted through the belief that I should receive these things unconditionally and from a whine and a want not ever considering what I have in fact here in this life, never considering what has actually been given to me in this life as LIFE itself, abusing life, abusing myself as life, abusing myself to a level that is beyond measure and that only my own forgiveness of myself will ever repair and correct
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider all that which has been given to me in this life, all that which has been provided to me because of the region of the world that I live in, to not consider all other regions, all of the relationships that go into making the materials here, into making this life within the first world possible, and in this turn a blind eye to the abuse that exists in every breath here, within all the materials that are here, within all that IS here, not allowing myself to stand up from this abuse by/as considering the relationships here, considering and taking note of the processes that have gone into making this world the way it is, considering the life lost, the life abused, the life squandered in order to make this world the way it is.
I commit myself to changing the relationship that I have allowed myself to live with giving and receiving from one of expecting receiving without giving into giving to all that which I would like to receive - to give to myself that which I would like to receive in/as this life which is a quality of life, which is the ability to in fact live without enslavement to money, without enslavement to allowing thoughts/feelings/emotions to define me, which is the necessities of life being given unconditionally from birth to death and in this I commit myself to put in the effort within supporting the Equal Money System equal to that which I would like to receive within/as the Equal Money System so that I give to all and to myself within/as the support of the Equal Money System - give myself the ability to in fact live and not live a systematic lifestyle that is wrought with abuse and mistreatment of life
I commit myself to changing myself in the relationship of give and take from taking all the time from others without equal giving into giving unconditionally that which I would like to receive from the equation/situation - in this considering all the relationships that exist within the equation/situation and accordingly live what is best for all relationships in that equation/situation, and in this to start to consider all the relationships that exist here in the physical that have provided me the gift of life and accordingly give life back to them by/as supporting the Equal Money System and pushing for it's implementation into/as this world so that life here is not conditioned to a specific quality of life due to geographical location or money within a bank account but provided unconditionally for all that are here simply because they are here and accordingly support all that is here by being here.
I commit myself to investigating all the relationships here that provide me with the ability to live here in this physical and in investigating the relationships within myself to start to change myself into living what is best for all the relationships here within the physical and within my body to give myself the best quality of life possible within the limitations that are here at the moment, to give myself the best quality of life within the limitation of diabetes, within the limitation of my geological location, within the limitations of/as money at this current stage within process, and in this live what is best for all within providing myself a life of quality within/as lived actions and decisions to give what is best for all to all
I commit myself to stop taking that which has provided to me for granted, stop taking the materials that are here that allow me to live the way I do for granted, to stop taking the breath for granted, to stop taking the opportunities that are here for me for granted and to in this live what is best for all within the consideration of all that is here and has provided me with the ability to live here in the physical - and to in this stop squandering the life that has been given to me by only living for my own self interest and to start consider all the relationships in equality that allow me to live here and support all the relationships here within what is best for all - investigating what I am able to live within/as that is best for all the relationships and in this I commit myself to give life to that which has given me life and support me as life here by/as changing my living into consideration of all that is here and what is being lived by all that is here - investigating and changing the relationships that I live within here to that which is best for all
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