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BIOL398-03/S13:Class Journal Week 5
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- The purpose of this assignment was to learn how to navigate these three biological databases for future reference.
- I liked the SGD database the most because it was the easiest to use for me and stated information directly.
- I disliked the Reactome database the most because it was VERY hard to navigate and find the reactions I was looking for. I was actually unable to find the reaction, only a part of it.
Kevin Matthew McKay 15:00, 14 February 2013 (EST)
Laura Terada Week 5 Journal
- What was the purpose of this assignment?
- The purpose of this assignment was to familiarize ourselves with the different databases available in regards to genes and their pathways. Secondly, this assignment allowed us to better understand the pathway we have been discussing in class.
- Which of the three databases did you like the most? Why?
- I liked the second database, SGD, because I found it to be the easiest to navigate through. I liked how the pathway diagrams showed the input and outputs in comparison to KEGG and Reactome that used symbols/legends. There were also different levels of detail, which is another aspect that I liked. Lastly, the summary section of each gene page was helpful.
- Which of the three databases did you like the least? Why?
- My least favorite database was Reactome because its pathways were difficult to go through. It was difficult to search for pathways/reactions with specific enzymes.
Laura Terada 15:03, 14 February 2013 (EST)
Paul Magnano
- 1.What was the purpose of this assignment? I believe that the purpose of this assignment is to help us becoe familiar with scientific databases, specifically ones that are relevant to this class. By learning how to navigate these databases, we can get a better understanding of the various gene exprssion pathways we re learning about in class, as well as get additional information that isnt specifically covered in class lectures or the scientific papers we are reading.
- 2.Which of the three databases did you like the most? Why?
- 3.Which of the three databases did you like the least? Why?
Paul Magnano 20:58, 14 February 2013 (EST)


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Election Tampering Produces Millions of Civil Rights Violations
The right to vote is one of our most important and sacred civil rights. Our country's founders decreed the right to vote because they saw voting as a means of protecting ourselves from our own government. When Richard M. Daley uses taxpayer's money to reward city workers to campaign for himself and his favored candidates, Daley violates the civil rights of millions of voters and non-voting residents. Furthermore, countless candidates, city employees, and political organizations are also affected and become victims of civil rights violations. Daley's violations of our civil right to vote has led to excessive increases in our taxes, fines, and fees.
Daley knows that he can get away with just about anything as mayor when he commands patronage workers who give him a decided advantage at the polls. More than anything else, tampering with our vote impedes our ability to protect ourselves against unscrupulous politicians like Daley. That is why there have been so many political scandals in Chicago and Illinois.
Millions of voters in multiple Chicago and Illinois elections have had their civil rights violated. Daley and his political machine tampered with elections from 1989 to 2004. Voters who went to the polls in city, county, state, and federal elections in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 have had their civil rights violated. If you live in suburban Cook County, DuPage County, or downstate Illinois, your civil rights were violated too. Chicago Democrats violated your civil rights when they successfully tampered with elections in order to seat enough representatives to hijack Cook County and Illinois state government from people like you and me.
Tampering with Chicago elections has infected other states like a flu virus. Because Chicago Democrats tainted federal elections that sent representatives to the U.S. Congress and officials to the White House, wherever you live in America, your civil rights have been violated. Since non-voters, including children, also are governed by politicians who were elected as a result of a flawed election process, they, too, have had their civil rights violated.
President Obama came out against the Arizona immigrants law of 2010 because the president said the law could lead to civil rights violations. It's nice to hear the president pledge to uphold civil rights, but what about the civil rights of millions of voters in Chicago and Illinois? What is President Obama doing about the millions of Chicago and Illinois residents who have had their civil rights violated because of Daley tampering with elections?
When public officials like Daley violate the civil rights of voters to get themselves and their lackeys elected, the ill effects of these violations continue for the whole time the perpetrators hold public office. Daley's entire 21-year reign as mayor has resulted in massive violations of our civil rights.
Read how Jay Stone wants to protect your civil and voting rights.

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Fun Stuff from Oliebollen
Looking for a way to kill another grey March afternoon? Head on over to Oliebollen for a few fun and free activities including a Solar System Mobile which we know interests many of you. And yes...it even includes this rather sad looking Pluto.
In fact, the whole page is currently a Pluto Fan Club Page. It includes fun facts about Pluto, a membership card to the club, and a protest letter. Find it all at one of our favorite shops.


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Public health prohibitionists take note: E-cigs will save more lives than your draconian laws, writes Brian Monteith
Two years ago I wrote about how the British Medical Association – the doctors' trade union – is so gripped by a self-serving politically correct agenda that it damages the important relationship between patient and doctor.
The BMA's over-the-top and outspoken histrionics continue to throw the profession into disrepute. I warned that its behaviour challenged the notion of "trust me, I'm a doctor" – to the point it would become as absurd as "trust me, I'm a politician". The profession of doctor risks losing respect – not because of individual cases of malpractice or chicanery, but more akin to the behaviour of teachers' unions and their willingness to strike, undermining the once universal respect that dominies were held in.
My comments back then upset some people, but the evidence remains unchanged; indeed the BMA is at it again, this time demanding that Celtic and Rangers football clubs repudiate their relationship from e-cigarette manufacturer E-lites and ban their use at designated areas of their stadia.
If we consider what an e-cigarette does in the practical sense, we can see that it delivers a dose of nicotine that meets a consumer's desire for the experience and, if they believe they have a craving, can, like nicotine patches, help them satisfy that need without resorting to smoking. Nicotine patches and other forms of nicotine replacement therapy have the backing of millions from pharmaceutical companies and can of course be prescribed by doctors – unlike e-cigarettes that have become popular simply by the choice of consumers, the vast majority of whom have been, or remain, smokers.
E-cigarettes go further than patches, though, for in employing inhalation to provide the nicotine hit they allow the consumer to go through a very similar physical process of putting a cigarette-like device to the lips, drawing in a vapour and then holding it between the fingers before repeating the process. It is to all intents and purposes the same sensation as smoking but without the smoke. Thus you will not find the smell in the air and there will be no film of tar to coat the lungs.
There is only a vapour and there is absolutely no danger, real or imagined, of second-hand smoke. But it is the similarity to the physical routine of smoking that is making it far more popular with people wishing to give up smoking or find a less risky approach to consuming nicotine, just as they might prefer to enjoy their morning fix of caffeine through an espresso or cafe latte than being offered caffeine pills.
But there's the rub: it feels like smoking and looks like smoking – and although smoking is an entirely legal and legitimate act within the decreasing boundaries set by politicians – allowing the very act challenges the central strategy of tobacco control. It reinforces the notion that smoking is normal.
Forgive me if I find some double standards here in this debate. I remember in a more liberal age when I was at university we were challenged to think what was normal and what was abnormal and encouraged to be generally less pejorative and judgmental in our use of the word. Reactionaries who might accuse some behaviour or belief as not being normal were derided and told to change their ways; it was normal to be homosexual for instance, normal to be left-handed and normal to doubt the existence of God (or another life force).
Now those who doubt a God (not necessarily your God), are left-handed, or homosexual, are indeed minority groups, but they are, we generally agree, normal; few would say otherwise. So why is it acceptable to demonise and de-normalise smokers when they constitute not 3.5 per cent (homosexuals); not 11 per cent (left-handers); nor 25 per cent (God-doubters) but last year accounted for 25 per cent of adults, according to the Scottish Health Survey just published.
Indeed last year's survey put the number of smokers at only 23 per cent so smokers are not only by any measurement normal, they are becoming more numerous – more normal! The failure of regulations, bans and harassment is not so much a repudiation of public policy but, like so many interventions by politicians, has resulted in the opposite of its intentions – a reversal of the long-established decline in smoking.
The extent to which smokers must be abused reached its zenith recently when football commentator Archie Macpherson, recovering from liver cancer, felt it was acceptable behaviour to demand that society must find new ways of "terrorising smokers". Really? As if it would be perfectly reasonable for members of the public to accost someone smoking in the street, to prosecute people smoking in their own homes, to make them stitch a red circle on to their lapel – or for an old soldier who sacrificed a limb for our freedoms two generations ago to be abused for puffing the aromatic sliced black twist in his pipe?
Had Macpherson said we should terrorise lefties or homosexuals then the commentariat's dogs of war would have been unleashed on him. But not for abusing smokers – for they are not normal in the eyes of the BMA and those who would terrorise them.
If the distribution of clean needles and replacement drugs such as methadone can form "harm reduction" public policy because it is recognised that drug use and addiction cannot be suppressed, then why is it not acceptable for the public to purchase e-cigarettes with their own money, without call upon scarce NHS resources, and use them wherever they want? E-cigs do not harm a person serving at a bar, or those sitting in an aircraft, in a bus shelter – or at an Old Firm match.
It is time those in public health – including the BMA – recognised that smoking will not go away, that the policies of prohibition are counterproductive and are only creating a new breed of rebels. Better then that they resort to harm reduction and with e-cigs save more lives than they ever will with their laws, their bans and their outrageous terrorising of smokers.


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Engine Mechanical problem
1997 Pontiac Grand Am 6 cyl Front Wheel Drive Automatic 90000 miles
ok I just got my first car and im working out the bug's I tuned the car up new oil filters spark plugs wire's. Just normal things to make the car run a bit better. It has about 90000 miles on her and she runs rather nice. Well it did the other day I drove about 30 miles and stopped at about 3 place's. When I got out of the care for about 5 minets and tryed to start it back up it wouldnt turn over. It cranks and the battery is 12 1/2 and my lights outside and on the dash works radio turns on but the car wont start! I cheaked the fuel and the engine is getting gas but my spark plugs dont spark. When I try to turn it over. When I turn the key it cranks but 10 seconds after the car starts to click, the clicking comes frome under the dash next to the fuse boxs and starts to hum, I cabt seem to find out what the problem is could u pleease help me
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The Legality of Civility
Public institutions in particular must find the narrow path between the uncivil and the unconstitutional.
By William E. Thro
Higher education wants civility on campus. Unfortunately, civility is difficult when there is constant interaction among students, faculty, administrators, and support staff, as well as alumni, donors, independent contractors, and visitors. The higher education community of the early 21st century reflects the diversity of society, not only in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation, but also in terms of educational attainment, job security, political ideology, religious belief, and generational perspective. A university will have workers without a high school diploma and professors with two doctorates, hourly at-will employees and tenured faculty, Marxists and libertarians, Christian fundamentalists and militant atheists, people who were born before World War II and people who were born after the end of the Cold War.
Moreover, the rise of e-mail and social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter allows individuals to share their most profound thoughts or their irrational rants with the entire campus and the world beyond. Given myriad viewpoints, personal agendas, characteristics, and easy methods of communication, it is inevitable that misunderstanding, miscommunication, and some degree of conflict will arise. It is quite easy for any college or university to fall into the abyss of incivility.
Yet, as all higher education business officers strive to help their colleagues avoid being uncivil, those at public institutions face an additional challenge. Unlike independent institutions that generally are restricted only by contractual arrangements such as employee, faculty, and student handbooks, public institutions are subject to the federal and their respective state constitutions as well as certain state laws governing behavior by public employees. The legal reality for public institutions is clear: Restrictions on personal interactions and behavior that promote civility may well trample the constitutional rights of students, professors, or other employees. In their efforts to avoid the abyss of incivility, public institutions can easily fall into the abyss of unconstitutionality.
Guiding Principles
Public institutions must navigate a narrow path between the uncivil and the unconstitutional. Administrators— including business officers—must develop a campus culture where courtesy and tolerance are the norm, but where the fundamental rights of American society receive respect. The common good is sometimes subordinate to individual freedom. While the line between constitutional and unconstitutional behavior is usually dependent upon context, several general principles apply.
First, there is a constitutional right to be obnoxious, offensive, or disrespectful. The courts have consistently upheld the rights of individual students and student groups to say and do things that are offensive to the university administration or to a majority of the campus community. While the unique nature of higher education leads to different constitutional rules concerning race, the Supreme Court has never said that public institutions may impose greater restrictions on expression. To the contrary, in some instances, the court actually requires state universities to subsidize religious expression directly, a result that would be unthinkable outside of the higher education context.
Administrators— including business officers—must develop a campus culture where courtesy and tolerance are the norm, but where the fundamental rights of American society receive respect. The common good is sometimes subordinate to individual freedom.
Second, because academic freedom is a special concern of the First Amendment, faculty arguably enjoy greater constitutional rights within the academic sphere. Indeed, the American Association of University Professors is pursuing a legal strategy of arguing that professors at public institutions have greater free speech rights than ordinary public employees. Similarly, public university professors asserted a constitutional right to view sexually explicit images on their university-owned computers. A sharply divided federal appellate court ultimately rejected the claim, but the dissenting judges and many legal scholars accepted the basic constitutional premise.
Third, in some circumstances, a public institution is obligated to allow the campus community, and perhaps even outsiders, to use its property or its means of communication to express messages that are offensive to many. Under the Supreme Court's public forum doctrine, a state institution's practice of allowing students and outsiders to engage in expressive activity may preclude any sort of viewpoint restriction. Moreover, there may be some spaces, such as parks or certain sidewalks, that are available for free speech regardless of what the institution has done in the past. While the university may be able to restrict the type of expressive activities that take place on its property, it may not restrict the viewpoints expressed. Of course, much of the uncivil expression may come through Web-based technology, where the institution's ability to regulate is severely limited.
To be sure, not all expressive activity is protected by the Constitution. Behavior that amounts to racial or sexual harassment, or actions that are designed to intimidate others, likely to cause imminent illegal activity, or substantially disrupt the classroom or workplace can be—and should be—punished by public institutions. Indeed, because harassment is a form of discrimination, the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause as well as Title VI, Title VII, and Title IX require public institutions to punish racial and sexual harassment. Yet, speech or conduct that falls far short of harassment, intimidation, or disruption can still cause a firestorm of controversy. Simply prohibiting unprotected expression does not guarantee civility.
Bridging the Abyss
Navigating the narrow path that runs between the abyss of incivility and the abyss of unconstitutionality is difficult. Nevertheless, there are things that college and university business officers may do to assist their institutions.
1. In developing policies to promote civility or to regulate expressive activity, consult with the institution's attorneys. Although it may not seem like it at times, lawyers really can be your best friends. The federal reporters contain numerous cases where administrators did not bother to consult their lawyers, but did something simply because it seemed right or a good idea.
2. Recognize that a vigorous marketplace of ideas does not necessarily lead to incivility. If expression is uncivil, the solution is more speech, not a limitation on existing speech. Reinforcement of an argument is more effective than raised voices. Indeed, if all feel that they can express their ideas and if people see hateful or irrational ideas dismissed by others, they will see less need to aggressively promote or defend their own speech. Incivility results only when speakers fear that they will be silenced or listeners fear that idiocy will be accepted.
3. Lead by example. At my own institution, the president and his top administrators, including the university business officer, literally have transformed the mission and culture of the university. If the administration and the senior faculty practice civility and implicitly demand it from others, then change will follow.
While narrow, the path between the uncivil and the unconstitutional is not an impossible one to find. Institutions should promote civility, but should respect the constitutional rights of all segments of the campus community.
WILLIAM E. THRO is university counsel at Christopher Newport University, a public liberal arts university in Newport News, Virginia. From 2004 to 2008, Thro served as solicitor general of Virginia. (The views expressed in this essay do not necessarily reflect those of Christopher Newport University or the attorney general of Virginia.)
Return to "The Peaceable Workplace."
- "Getting Their Best Behavior," by Judy Rookstool
- "The Business Case for Being Kind," an interview with P.M. Forni
- "The CBO as Civility Broker," an interview with Rita Bornstein


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The east Denver community group Stop Walmart Colorado is transitioning into Do It Right at 9th, reflecting the group's more positive vision for the redevelopment site.
Opposition to developer Jeff Fuqua's plan to build a Walmart as anchor of the Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard mixed-use project on the old University of Colorado Hospital campus spawned StopWalmartColorado.com.
Now, the same neighbors say they are are focused on not only stopping Walmart, but securing the right development at Ninth and Colorado.
In an e-mail, neighborhood volunteers said www.doitrightat9th.com is the new domain and will soon be the group's website.
The group said the "right" development must be embraced and supported by the community, and it is clear that the current Fuqua development is not.
Do It Right at 9th will be releasing a survey, asking neighbors for their input on the development.
Over the weekend, opponents of Walmart were urged to pick up yard signs and sign petitions.
The project is on hold after City Councilwomen Mary Beth Susman and Jeanne Robb announced Sept. 21 they will not support tax increment financing for the development as currently proposed. They cited neighbors' opposition to Walmart as well as the project's imbalance of retail over residential.
Fuqua, who needs public financing to help pay for demolition and infrastructure, said he is evaluating financial restructuring of the project but remains committed to the redevelopment.
John Mossman: 303-954-1479, firstname.lastname@example.com


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December 06, 2004
Now that we know abashed rhetoric doesn't work against Halo's defenses... how about using a poison tipped Nerf gun the next round?
Between the big three consoles, Sony's PlayStation 2 reigns as king whether it's in comparing sales figures or more important, in games. Games make the system. That's the bottom line right there. Sony's console has dominated with strong results bringing in RPG heavy hitters right down to some of the best that action, platform, horror and other genres has to offer. Grand Theft Auto or Gran Turismo, anyone? But of all the genres available, one has shifted in the favor of another console. When the Xbox launched, everyone had their eye on the predicted-to-be revolutionary First Person Shooter, Halo. Today, Halo is the very reason that the Xbox exists. Arguably, Halo has kept the system alive. Deep down Xbox owners know that to be the truth. So when Sony spread the word that a "Halo killer" was upon us, gamers across the board reacted. In one group of people, you have those who would claim this so called "Killzone" to be nothing more than a spoof -- a false hope if you will. Then in a second category you have those loyal to the hope that Killzone just might clobber what is called by many as the "Best. Console FPS. Ever." The outcome, the trial, the final testament to what many have been waiting to dethrone its competitor or fall far from grace has finally come down to this...
All wars occur for a reason. Different times, different places, and different kinds of people have affected these proceedings throughout the course of history. But what will the future bring? In one future, a major confrontation between the Earth-loyal ISA forces is defending their home from the invading humanized outcasts called Helghast. Once a part of Earth, these Helghast people had been wrought with disease when war forced them to leave their home and find commune elsewhere. Unnatural, the Helghast donned a new appearance that was fitting for their dark days to come. Charred fatigues with bright shining eyes, this Helghast faction has long waited for the day when they would be lead back to Earth to reclaim what was once their home. That time has arrived, and there'll be no stopping them from forcing death and destruction all around them...unless you as a special forces ISA member put your shooting abilities to the test.
When you're a newcomer developer like Guerilla Games whose job is to create a First Person Shooter that would live up to the hype its sales would be based on, you've got an awful lot to live up. Trying to outdo a title like Halo, you've not only got to do some of what that game does, but also more. Microsoft's game experience took you through the role of Master Chief, a lone super soldier in a story-driven, vehicle-boarding, multi-gun equipping human versus alien conflict. In some ways, Killzone achieves some of these same elements. It's got a story, and it's got weapons you can swap between both good and evil forces. But what Killzone doesn't have are vehicles multiple persons can hop on board and join in your fight. Killzone does have its unique elements, however. These include four unique characters that ultimately band together as a team and work in conjunction throughout the levels, as well as a feature that wasn't officially included in the original Halo: online play.
Playing online is a big deal for any First Person Shooter these days. You can frag your friends, you can frag the computer, or you can just frag a number of strangers whether you're playing at home or on the 'net locked in competitive battle through various types of modes. Killzone in its online and offline multiplayer venues too, features six different versus modes for up to 16 players in all (two offline and sixteen online). Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Domination, Supply Drop, Assault, and Defend and Destroy are the game types that are included. As most players of the genre are aware by now, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch are those types of games where it's either you against everyone else, or one team against the other in an attempt to eradicate each individual player who isn't your own. Domination and Supply Drop are kind of a unique twist on the "Capture the Flag" game type, where in Domination, players have to control a set of switches. In Supply Drop, it's picking up and returning cases to team-controlled bases that gets this game going. Lastly, Assault and Defend and Destroy are even more interesting, as in Assault players will defend their base while an opposite team has to challenge it. Through Defend and Destroy, both teams have bases, and both teams must attempt to eliminate the other one's. Split into six multiplayer methods, over online or off of it, there's certainly no shortage of reasons to replay Killzone here.
But naturally, your reasoning for wanting to play through Killzone depends on how the game functions from the outset. Playing Killzone unfortunately isn't a great game all together like its hype-standing model. Strip away the thought that this isn't the same game as Halo, however, and you do have a pretty good game underneath its shell. Kind of like fusing squad-based and First Person Shooter genres into one, Killzone's single player story leads across an enemy-filled single player campaign, gradually pairing players up with four distinctive soldiers. Players begin the game as the leader of the pack in some ways. An all-around skilled soldier type, Templar can pilot any fixed gun in a level or wield most types of weapons for a person of strength, experience, and skill. Along the way, Templar will meet up with Luger, a deadly assassin, Rico, a heavy weapons type, and Hakha, a half-human and half-Helghast spy whose abilities as the only one able to bypass Helghast security mines and utilize enemy weapons makes him a good guy to have on your side.
What of the characters, though? What makes these people important? Well, every new level you'll come across, you get to choose which of these four you want to be (eventually anyway). Whoever you control, the computer fills in for the remainder of the troop. And it's with this choosing that you'll find you're able to try out different tactics. Choose Luger for instance, and you'll find that with her specialized rapid-firing handgun weapon, you're able to snipe at enemies from a clearer distance better than the standard sniper rifle. Luger also carries the ability to visualize the terrain in infrared and night vision. Pick Rico, though, and you'll be liable for taking down more than anyone's fill with bigger, meatier guns that only he can use (imagine holding your very own heavy machine gun in portable mode). Like Halo, each character also has their own refillable health meter that regenerates on its own over time the less you get shot at. Players can also locate ammunition and health (since sometimes the health bar doesn't fill all the way) over fallen comrades or Helghast enemies when needed. It's also a possibility to swap weapons (in which you can carry up to three at a time), although this doesn't happen very often since unused weaponry items (from some unique and various machinegun types, to a grenade launcher, to knives and handguns) aren't supplied very often.
Of the elements that diminish Killzone though, are a few things that just don't seem quite right. For starters, Killzone sets up a bizarre pacing for its fight sequences. Usually you're off blasting your way through one area to the next, killing off every band of Helghast enemies that assembles before you (and destroying their tanks or flying crafts from time to time). The objectives in this sense are also unclear at times, since you can press select to bring up a list of the exact objectives...which in turn will state "Escape the lab." Or, "Traverse the park." Not that it really matters much how descriptive these details are, but it would be nice to have some kind of hint as to where to go exactly or what is what at times. At least the levels aren't too hard to follow, and the computer does show you the way at times. Oddly enough, though, it's when the Helghast start to fire at nothing in scripted moments before you ever arrive on the scene that the pacing breaks up. Usually you'll hear them speaking when you get a few feet away from their position. They'll start shooting at nothing, you wait until they actually reveal they're reloading, and that's when you go in and fire up the place. It is also in these back and forth bullet scenarios that the enemy will sometimes stop firing completely. You may think they're gone, but really they're just standing around doing nothing. That's when you're expected to either fire at empty space and boot them up again, or foolishly walk into the room and lose some health or life all together. Computer allies are another element that hurt playing the game. Regular ISA agents that you'll meet up with on occasion, and your squad members too will be reluctant to stick their head out before you do. For the most part, you'll find yourself being wounded by gangs of Helghast while others stay behind until you're able to move in closer at times. It'd make a lot more sense if like in a real squad, you could tell the other members what to do, or if you could switch between them...or if they were programmed to cover your back and you can cover theirs just the same. But in Killzone, the feeling's more like you've got to be everyone's savior.
Halo is a game that is known as one of the first Xbox titles to fully take advantage of the Xbox controller (and has managed not to mess up in the process). Killzone does about the same for the PlayStation 2 now, in applying nearly every button to every function in the game. Just like Halo, Killzone doesn't screw with its play mechanics either...though some things are a bit awkward to get used to like some things were in Halo. No doubt about it, driving the Warthog vehicle was the strangest portion in adjusting to the gameplay of Halo. It's a completely unorthodox scheme to have to control a vehicle with two analog sticks simultaneously. In Killzone, the weirdness resides in sniping Helghast enemies with a sniper rifle. Zooming in with a press of R3, the camera can mechanically be shifted then with the right analog stick and the gun fired with the R1 switch. It's an awkward process, but somehow it feels right. The same thing can be said about all other functions in Killzone. Cycling through weapons with circle, reloading with triangle, activating special abilities with square (with Luger), and activating objects with X are the face buttoned controls. Primary fire (R1), secondary fire (R2), ducking (L2), and tossing a grenade or holding onto it (keep L1 pressed long enough, and you'll get a more explosive effect) all work well too. Figuring out Killzone shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes, and it's quite surprising how second nature maintaining its control configurations actually becomes.
Easier than learning the game is looking at it. Killzone has always been designated to be one of the PlayStation 2's shining examples in quality visuals, and in the finish this analysis has evidently come true for the title. In its most appetizing component, Killzone's bodywork, its levels, lend a keen visceral appeal to the grizzled settings where bullets fly and people die. Amongst the ins and outs of ruptured buildings, docks, trenches, beach outposts and more, there's a much needed grittiness flowing throughout Killzone's reality. Textured through the hardened and broken pieces seen along the land, concrete and steel items share a certain polish that paints them in a drab but authentic outline. Rubble and dead bodies are laid to waste and to provide cover in the streets and inside enemy-maintained structures. Shoot through glass windows, and they'll shatter. Shoot at a water cooler, and it'll fly from its liquid station and drip along the ground. Near a computer emitting a green glowing hue, and it'll shine on your weapon and arms alike. ISA and Helghast in the game each have an appearance that applies to them. While there aren't much more than about two types of character models for both sides (the ISA forces are mostly made up of bald men in future-like war uniforms, and the Helghast mostly in black and red-eyed outfits of their own), the characters look nice, especially the Helghast. Their faces, which have on these black, almost Darth Vader-like helmets with gas-mask-like faces and red-lit eyes, give to the Helghast a superb demeanor that certainly makes them one of the most ominous looking foes ever to grace the video game scene. When you're shooting the Helghast and blowing stuff up, their animations are kind of stiff and the levels look a bit smudged, though. But if you walk up to their bodies when you're through, you'll see that plenty of detail went into making these guys and their weapons look particularly genuine (with a rich source of textures that give life to all the little nooks and crannies of most game objects and environments).
Good and bad at the same time, Killzone's range of sounds openly reflects an aspect that creeps to the point of annoyance at times. It's not Killzone's musical showcase, as there actually isn't any music during the game (and if there is, you probably wouldn't even remember where it was heard). It's not the audio side either. There are plenty of unique effects attached to each weapon and action -- be it the beeping of the grenade, to the shaken blasts of shotguns, to the smattering of machineguns, or the perfect pitch used for every step across every different surface (steel, concrete, sand, etc.) No, rather it's the voiced portion of the game that bothers with its overuse of same lines that flip the mood of the intense battle at hand. Helghast soldiers in particular state and shout out lines like, "Keep quiet," "Kill him," and "There they are!" The thing is that it's not generally annoying to hear the Helghast speak these parts in their gravelly tones a few times. But when you hear them say pretty much the same exact stuff through the course of every level, it gets a bit too repetitive. You'll even hear them talk right at the second you get to the scripted sections in every level you're supposed to reach. Right at that key moment, you hear them, or your allies say something, in which their lines don't help out with exaggerated wimpy screams. The story moments, though, are the best part about the voice cast -- there is a fitting selection of strong talents chosen for the movie scenes seen from time to time to progress between levels. Luger's perceptively charming English vocals over to the tough and roughness of Rico's work make the characters believable for whom their personalties are seen as.
Despite what you may be thinking, that in playing, writing about, and even in grading Killzone, Halo affects none of this game here. Pointing out that Halo was the primary source for what would ultimately be the reason that there is a Killzone game, is what I wanted to show. Because there was a Halo, Sony was able to commercialize Killzone for being a better game than it was. Did I play Halo? Yes. Did I enjoy Halo? You betcha. Is Killzone better than Halo? No way. But, Killzone doesn't have to be better than Halo for it to be a decent and playable game. From the moment I started playing Killzone, I began to like it. I might've wanted to see this game become a gargantuan epic of a First Person Shooter deep down inside, but I like what's come out if it even if it hasn't reached a "Halo" status.
Bottom Line
Like I said before, if you take away the idea that this is supposed to be some kind of Halo terminator, you have a pretty decent shooter on your hands. Interesting weapons, plot, admirable graphics, and four personalities you can not only be, but work together with drive Killzone in certain ways no other First Person Shooter has done before. Take it as it is, Killzone's got the makings of something special.
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DENVER – Keith Brooking showed off his chops with a big fourth-down stop on the last play of the third quarter.
Brooking slammed into Knowshon Moreno on fourth-and-1 from the the Cowboys 30-yard line, stopping the Broncos RB for no gain.
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George Harrison interviewed in a pub with Jonathon Ross and John Peel.
At the beginning of the interview in an English pub the guy with the mic asks George from across the table "what do you think you'd of done if the Beatles weren't the massive hit they were or even if they weren't successful at all ?".
George, looking intensely at the interviewer with a straight face, says, "ahhhhh, been Paul".
George laughs after saying this. So does the interview guy. I don't know if the interviewer knows why he's laughing but he follows George and laughs along with him.
This exchange between the two starts at exactly one minute and thirty seconds.
George's laugh is a tell. What he's saying could be anything, but please, someone look at this and discus.
Is he saying that if they weren't successful, they'd of done something like what Paul did when he became successful, like doing other things behind the scenes related to music ? Is he saying that if they didn't make the big time, they'd be dead, as in like Paul is dead ? A little voice is telling me right now, that Paul may have committed suicide. I hope I'm wrong.
This is very intense, this short exchange, and how George is saying something that is very important yet he's masking what he's saying and covering it with a laugh.
Someone please help !! What is he saying here ?
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SHOCKER: Black Queens left stranded at Accra Sports Stadium as pitch is being used for a schools gala
By Ameenu Shardow, follow on Twitter @alooameenu
The senior women's team, the Black Queens have been left stranded at the Accra Sports Stadium as the pitch is being occupied by juvenile school football gala.
The Black Queens had arrived at the nation's Wembley at 15:00 GMT to train ahead of their African Women's Championship qualifier against Burkina Faso.
The team of players and officials were however unable to descend from their team bus as the field is already occupied by a school activity without their notice.
Worst of all, a grand stage is being mounted on one halve of the pitch to be used for a non-sporting activity this weekend.
Coach Yusif Basigi was left to make several calls to management members of the Black Queens for remedy.
It is however unclear why the Black Queens were made to arrive at the stadium to train without knowing the facility is unavailable.
Even more worrying is that the visiting team - Burkina Faso - are to access the Accra Sports Stadium for their final training session before the match.
The Ghana FA has now been left in a dilemma as they now have to find an alternative venue for the qualifier which was originally scheduled to take place at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday.
Pictures by Francis Oseina - GFA TV
CommentsThis article has 4 comment(s), give your comment
ZG GH4LIFE says:February 27, 2014 05:27 pmOh Ghana, this is 2014, there should not be any communication problems in Ghana at all since there is something now called cell phones which everybody, including ice water sellers have one.GOD HELP US
Lord Dennings says:February 27, 2014 09:33 pmGod help us indeed. Why is the playing field being used for other non sporting activities. Are these activities not damaging the playing field and/or the grass?. Then we will spend another money to fix it. God help us indeed.
anokwale says:February 28, 2014 02:31 amSimple lack of respect and money being put in someone's pocket.
Fiifi, says:April 21, 2014 12:58 pmThe GFA doesn't care a hoot for the rest of the national teams in Ghana! All what they care for is the Black Stars where those responsible get some "grease" in their palms when the foreign national players are in town! How can a scheduled programme and also an international obligation be thrown into the dustbin like that!Those responsible are now only thinking about how to make a trip to Brazil on the ticket of GFA! THEY NEED "SIDE ISSUES" TO RAISE THE NECESSARY "(BRIBES)"CUM FARES FOR BRAZIL! HOPELESS OFFICIAL IN CHARGE, and such people run GFA?!?!?! APUU!!


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Man arrested in connection with shooting of six-year-old
13/08/2014 - 09:10:46Back to Ireland Home
A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a six-year-old in Dublin in June.
Sean Skully suffered spinal injuries in the attack near his home at Croftwood Gardens in Ballyfermot. He was shot in the neck.
It is reported that the boy was standing in the hallway of the house when two men knocked on the front door. Finding it already ajar, they pushed it open and fired into the hallway.
The suspect was picked up on Saturday evening under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act.
He was taken to Ballyfermot garda station for questioning and was released without charge on Sunday evening.
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Gotta be honest here—that was not what we were expecting. And it was hard to get through.
Here we were, all hunkered down with chocolate and Kleenex, fully prepared for two hours of real, serious mourning over one half of one of TV's greatest couples, despite our many feelings about last week's horrific, unnecessary, and totally cruel death episode.
We thought, well, at least it looks like we'll get a nice funeral, and a decent send-off. At least.
But then what we got was not that. It was the opposite of that. It was messy, confusing, heart-wrenching in a lot of weird ways, and it was just not what we wanted.
But it might have actually been exactly what we needed.
At first, we really hated it. We hated how we only got to see about ten seconds of Derek's funeral, and we hated how Meredith disappeared for the first hour, and we hated the insane number of time jumps. We went from Derek's death in April to Memorial Day to Halloween to Thanksgiving in like half an hour. It was strange, and didn't feel like it was really happening, and we found ourselves clinging so intensely to the moments when we did get to mourn, when Amelia lost her s—t in the middle of the hospital and in front of Owen, and when Meredith laid in bed alone and yet another Chasing Cars cover played.
We needed that, and that's what we thought we wanted, but what we really needed was the rest of the episode: Everyone moving on. Last week, and all throughout the next few days, it seemed like the show couldn't really go on, and we couldn't go on watching it. What was the point if Meredith—who was the show's heart and soul from the very beginning—couldn't ever get her happy ending? What was the point if there was literally no hope for the couple we had come for, and the couple we had stayed for through so many years and so much insanity?
And that was what this episode was answering. Now, in theory, the show can start anew. We don't have to spend episode after episode wondering if everyone will make it out of this grief OK, wondering if Meredith's pregnancy will go well, wondering if Amelia will manage to stay on the wagon even through losing her brother. Everything that happened in that episode could have been stretched through all of next season, and we would have hated it.
We may have hated watching that episode (and we did—we really, really did), but now it's done. We got through the tunnel of that one difficult two-hour outing to find light on the other side. It's not the brightest light, but it's still light. MerDer may be over, but Meredith is still alive with a miraculously non-hostile uterus, and we don't have to wonder what's going to happen anymore, and we don't have to suffer through any agonizing grief. We're free.
Of course, the preview for next week's episode showed Amelia confronting Meredith about pulling the plug on Derek before she got to say goodbye, so we're not totally free, but at least we're a lot closer than we were at the beginning of that roller coaster we just went on.
So thanks, Grey's Anatomy. You just did us all a huge favor.
Other thoughts:
—Killing off burn victim JJ was truly, truly unnecessary, as was that five minute conversation about dumb seven dwarf names.
—Meredith being pregnant was also unnecessary but we guess it gave her something to do for all those months she was in hiding.
—Way to nearly scare us to death with April and Jackson. If they had killed April, we would have actually thrown our TV (computer, let's be real) across the room, as opposed to just threatening to do that multiple times.
—Bailey and Ben really need some other things to talk about FOR A YEAR that aren't related to one of them having to pull the plug on the other one. And Ben should really know better than to present his living will on Valentine's Day, of all days.
—Alex Karev is a treasure who may never die. Just keep that in mind, Grey's writers.


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Satellite transmitter tracking of adelie penguins during their winter migration route from Cape Bird and Cape HallettEntry ID: K063_1997_1998_NZ_1
Abstract: Winter migration routes of adelie penguins were investigated by attaching transmitters to penguins from the Cape Bird colony and Cape Hallett colony and tracking the birds throughout the winter. Dummy transmitters were successfully attached to 10 penguins at the Cape Bird Northern colony and to 8 at the Cape Hallett colony. Three different combinations of securing the transmitters were used: Tesa tape and Loctite 401, Tesa Tape and Loctite 3801, Tesa tape and both Loctitie 3801 and 401. Searches were made for the birds after they return from their winter migration at the start of the next season. One PTT was attached to a large male penguin at Cape Hallett and tracked using satellite telemetry.
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The setup is standard: a mixed bag of guests, a remote location and an imaginative litany of murders. It's business as usual for Agatha Christie, which is why And Then There Were None works so well.
The play, which opens Friday at Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre, finds 10 guests assembled on a remote island off the Devon coast. Each carries a dark secret and could be a killer who is working his or her way through the guest list.
"The challenge with this is making everyone look like a suspect," said David Bartlett, who plays William Blore, a former police inspector. "But you have to do it without putting a big neon light over the character that actually is guilty."
The pleasure of Agatha Christie, said Steve Walpert, the production's director, stems not only from seeing a well-plotted mystery unfold but also from playing amateur detective, trying to discern not only who done it, but also who will get done.
"It's sort of like playing Clue in Bizarro world," said Sara Bryan, who plays the self-righteous spinster Emily Brent. "Instead of trying to guess what happened, the audience is trying to guess what will happen."
Mr. Walpert said staging the mystery was a shell game, a process of offering false leads, fake clues and the odd misdirection.
"There are times when, just through staging, we've tried to shift focus toward a character that might, or might not, be the killer," he said. "We're trying to throw the audience a couple of curve balls."
Although it is staged as a period piece, John Gary Pullen, who plays Phillip Lombard, an adventurer famous for escaping deadly scrapes, said the piece remains timely and well-written.
"She (Agatha Christie) was ahead of her time," he said.
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Yep - and another version uses the word 'tresspasses" to indicate it is things we have done wrong, not "gifts" we have received. I hate it when folks pervert the BIble's Truth in order to push an agenda. Happens way too much, even in Churches.
The Old Testament told folks to forvive debts after seven years - that was for individials, not for a "collective" like the government who steals from us to pay others. I also believe it was for the peace of mind of the one whoi didn't get paid back - forgiving the tort is a way to provide closure and put it behind you so it doesn't continue to eat your lunch and make you think and act in ways you wouldn't ordinarily do.
The Bible is Human Nature Exemplified and Explained with Common Sense Advice, inspired by He who created us and should know how we rock and roll.


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MobyLives, a must-read for anyone curious about the changes taking place in publishing, has an excellent post today about the cost of publishing ebooks. What's more, today's story led me to an earlier post about self-published author Andrew Hyde who learned the hard way that Amazon takes more than just a 30% commission from its Kindle Direct authors:
Amazon's total fees ate away almost a third of Hyde's royalty: The book retails on Amazon for $9.99, and under the 70% percent royalty plan Hyde imagined he would get $7. But Amazon charges $2.58 per download to deliver the ebook, with the author's royalty being calculated on what's left after the delivery fee is deducted.
One of the things Bezos and crew have done extremely well is convince readers and self-published authors that they're on their side despite all evidence to the contrary. But what I've wondered for some time now is how Amazon plans to make its money publishing ebooks. After all, they're now selling Kindles at a loss, and their business plan for ebooks has been to sell them at a loss as well. If the publishers' settlements with the DoJ get approval, Amazon will be prevented from selling ebooks at less than what they pay the publishers, but that won't stop them from maintaining razor-thin margins. Moreover, Amazon's financial statements are notoriously opaque, rarely revealing which parts of its business are profitable.
So, how do you make a profit selling both ebooks and ebook readers for nothing? By screwing authors and charging them for the privilege.
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This lovely, glorious week is BOYLESS. It's spring break, and the boys went out to Gramma's (God bless her heart). Most Hawsum.
Hunky took Monday evening off to go out to dinner with me to our favorite steak place. Would you believe that I spent an entire dinner NOT cutting someone's food, NOT getting up to fetch something, NOT raising my voice even once (actually, we signed the entire time), NOT leaving the table in complete and utter disgust, and (bonus plan, baby!) NOT ONCE did I have to utter any of the following oft-repeated phrases:
"Would you stop that!"
"Don't fill up on milk. You're not getting any more until your [insert vegetable here] is gone."
"Oh, for the love, quit teasing your brother!"
"Don't worry about the dog. Worry about you."
"Don't you dare chew until it's so gross you throw up. I WILL just get you more."
"Well, if you would ignore him, he would give up and quit teasing!"
"You took that much, you finish it."
"That is disgusting! Knock it off!"
"Because I'm the mom. When you're paying your own mortgage payment, you can make the rules."
"What the… get up off the floor!"
"That was NOT the cat. Why can't you go in the bathroom and do that?!"
It was heavenly.
After that, we were on our way over to WalMart to pick up a couple things, and I told Hunky I had to pick up some paint samples to take home and compare to the tub/sink and then bring back to pick out a new bathroom set that doesn't clash. You're all quite intelligent; I trust you can see where this is going.
Exhibit B in the whole "Tom's a chick" trial.
Dory: So don't let me forget.
Hunky: I'll try.
Dory: I wonder what they were thinking when they picked that color out. It's such a weird, gross mauve.
Hunky: [matter-of-factly] It's really more of a coral than a mauve.
Dory: *looks at Hunky* *blink* *blink blink*
Hunky: I am just a big girl, huh?
Dory: *nods slowly and solumnly*
I swear I did not make that up. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.
Last night, I went to deaf club dinner without having to worry about what to make the boys for supper and if the house would be standing when I got back. Then I went to a hockey game without refereeing my own fights up in the bleachers.
Tonight, I plan on doing absolutely as little as possible. Household chores can wait… I have a quiet evening ahead of me. There will be a wonderful glass of merlot and a book and/or a movie blissfully sans interruptions. Tomorrow night, we're taking the boys back for a short time to take them to see Thousand Foot Krutch. Friday I'm going to go visit my new niece and then go to a CMA meeting. Saturday is an all-day activity for CMA. While I would prefer to have the entire day to myself, at least I don't have to take the boys to the kids' room and worry about who they're going to
emotionally scar forcibly apologize to for leaving dents where they've ricocheted off the walls.
Yesterday my manager came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and said, "Can you come over here with me?"
That was exactly what I was asked before I got laid off a few years ago. I instantly got wet pits and started hyperventilating. Then I remembered that the temp agency would just find me something else less like watching a video of How To Watch Paint Dry.
"I'm really sorry to bother you with this, but I need to have a quick meeting and we can't find our interpreter. I hate to ask you to do this, but would you interpret for Elle?"
Elle is a friend I met in Deaf club. She works in the next department over. She's full Deaf, and a really great ASL teacher to boot.
"I'll sure try."
So I stood right next to my manager, speechreading and interpreting simultaneously. Now, I'm kind of slow, but my vocab's not too shabby. But at one point my manager said, "And we had a bunch of people call in sick; Jane, Mary, Tom, Dick, Harry, Ethel, Fred, Bertha…" (No, I don't work at a nursing home – I just had to make up names.) I turned to Elle and signed – MANY PEOPLE CALL SICK – MANY MANY NOT SHOW-UP. My finger-spelling skills suck too much to even attempt to keep up with a long list of names. She knew. She just smiled.
Rip it, roll it, and punch it, dude. Friends don't let friends drink and ride the EAC.


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September 2014 - Carnival Sunshine to Caribbean - Western
Although there were a few 'hiccups' on this cruise, I will always cruise with Carnival Cruise. On the Lido deck, the soft drink dispensers (just before you entered the inside dining area) seemed to be leaking quite a bit a water. Although the crew members were working feverishly to correct the situation, it still leaked water during the entire cruise. And there was a small metal grate just as you stepped out from the hot tub up by the Serenity area that was very slippery. Guy's Burger are the best. I ate more cheese burgers (and fries) in that one week than I've eaten in the past 25 years. My favorite moments were sipping coffee with a good book catching the sun rises. I loved the buffet style breakfast. The hot tub experience was awesome. The cruise ship was very comfortable (our cabin was right under the cheese burger station). In fact, the food was great. Overall, I loved the experience (the carefreeness) and can't wait to do it again next year.


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There is something going on at Intel's extensive Israeli holdings and the local press can't quite put its finger on it.
In January, Intel announced a round of appointments, which took Intel Israel, and its general manager Maxine Fassberg by surprise.
Intel VP PC Client Group Mooly Eden was appointed general manager of Intel Israel. According to Intel, Fassberg was going to be subordinate to Eden and was just going to be manager of Israel's manufacturing operations in the Promised Land.
Fassberg was incandescent with rage and thought that there must have been some mistake. Not only was this a considerable demotion, but Intel had failed to tell Fassberg what it was planning.
Intel said that she will likely stay on at the company for the time being, and her duties in her new position will include relations with the Israeli government. She will deal with the huge grants that Intel is due to receive to expand its production capacity in Israel.
It looks like someone at Intel had a plan and Fassberg was headed for her new role and office, probably in the lift or the corner of the cafeteria.
Imagine everyone's surprise this morning when Intel announced that there had been a terrible mistake and said Fassberg will be reinstated as general manager of the company. Eden will serve only as company president.
Intel in Israel appears to be taking its lead from a chicken with its head cut off. Earlier this week it was scheduled to hold its annual press conference, where it would disclose its performance, but the event was postponed to "sometime in the future". Apparently this was so Eden could participate in it when he returns to Israel. However, this is the second time that the event was postponed.


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I remember the day when my daughter was born. In some ways, it feels like it was yesterday. To this day, I feel a surge of emotion anytime I think about my daughter. She may not be the whole of who I am, but she encompasses such a big part that I would feel lost without her in it. The day my daughter was born I remember the doctor lifting her out of my ex-wife's stomach and into the air. I remember carrying her right after she was born as her mother was not in any condition to be able to hold her. I remember her trying to feed on me, which was an amusing moment. And I remember the nurse showing me how to give her a bath. So many thoughts were swirling through my head, but the one thought which came to the forefront was, "so this is what it feels like to be a parent."
Of course, at that moment, I had no clue what parenthood meant. Not in the deepest sense of the word anyway. I was staring down at a new creation. And this creation needed me. She needed to be able to eat, sleep, socialize, learn, grow, and to be protected from the outside world. And she was connected to me at the very deepest part of my being. Someone had detached a part of my soul and placed it into this person. This emotion, however, was not the "be all end all" to being a parent. Parenthood meant so much more than that. And I intuitively knew that.
So as any good parent, or geek, knows, when you need to learn something in a hurry, you go to your local library to find good source material. Or maybe you do research on the internet. But eleven years ago, when internet information was speculative, instead of the "fake news" it is today, going to the library was a safer source of information. So off I went. It began with popular pregnancy books such as What to Expect When You're Expecting. From there it was What to Expect The First Year and the Mayo Clinic's Guide to Your Baby's First Year. All of this was in addition to parenting classes, social groups, and every new parenting fad known to man.
Nevertheless, whatever those books taught me, life always teaches you differently. You do whatever you can to make plans in life and then you are thrown constant curves. I remember hearing a joke once that always stuck with me. The joke goes,"How do you make God laugh? Make a plan." And there is a subtle truth to that. We cannot know what we have in store for us from day to day. And adding another life into our own always creates a little more chaos.
It is in this crazy world that I have learned some lessons about parenting that I have found throughout my brief stint as a parent. I know that my parents have been parenting for 43 years now. They still parent to this day, even if it's awkward for the both of us. And to a certain extent, you never do stop. Because how can you pretend to be something you are not?
I have only been doing this parenting gig for the last eleven years. Of course, my situation is different from everyone else. I am a divorced parent who attempts to co-parent with another person. This can be chaotic and wild at times. And yet, you might recognize some common themes in my parenting life that you can find on your own. That's what I hope to do here. Reach out and connect with people and maybe help them along their path. Maybe, they can help me along mine. So in that vein: Here are my top ten things I have learned from being a parent.
Top Ten Lessons I Have Learned Being A Parent
10) Parents get no days off, and yet they must get time off in order to survive.
I know what some of you parents must be thinking. Especially the single parents, or helicopter parents. This man must be off his rocker. There is no such thing as a day off, let alone a few hours. And in a certain sense, this is true. You never stop being a parent. You do not get time off your job. For those of you who remember them, it's like you are hooked up to a pager that can go off at any time. The moment it beeps, you have to drop whatever you are doing and run. Walking will only get you a failing grade.
Despite this, everyone needs their own little part that is them. If, as a parent, you are making your children your life, you are doing it wrong. First, you need to be able to recharge to give to your kids more fully. Without a recharge, you are Baymax on low battery. Sure, you can pet the kitty, but you aren't helping the kitty. Second, kids need space in order to thrive. This does not mean that you must be far away from them. But the goal of being a parent is to make them "self" sufficient. Stepping in every time trouble occurs makes a martyr out of you, and them more impotent with every interference.
9) Adaptability is life. Rigidity is death.
These plain facts are things parents fight against. Our parents taught us to parent a particular way. Any other way seems foreign. And since it is simple, we fall into the same patterns our parents fell into. Even the books we find tell us we need to do seven simple steps, make eight hard choices or eat nine crazy donut holes. (Maybe not the donut holes.) They give lists in order to make difficult information simple for us. Even this post is a crazy oversimplification of things I have learned along the way. Given we learned a particular way, we are inclined to do things the same way.
Given our penchant for falling into that trap of parenting the same way, we grow rigid in our thinking and decision making when it comes to our kids. Unfortunately, a giant elephant awaits for us in the room. Here is a secret. As much as our kids resemble us, they are not us. Every child handles life differently. The could be shy, talkative, flamboyant, reserved, modest, loud, soft, gregarious, studious, or any one of a million different personality traits. When we fall into rigid thinking patterns we damage our kids. And ultimately we damage our relationship with our children.
Instead, we need to adapt to who they are as people and learn to handle things like, consequences, punishments, rewards, and standards differently for each child. But be careful here. Kids value fairness as well. If you have different expectations of different children, individually explain to the more gifted children that you expect more and why. Just be sure to celebrate that child when they meet expectations like you would for the kids you don't expect as much from. It's walking a tightrope sometimes when you deal with children. Unfortunately, trying to be rigid just ends up with you and your child falling off the tightrope together, without a net.
8) You never feel more helpless than when your kids are hurting.
Maybe this shouldn't be something that one learns. But it's one thing to know that you love your kids. It's another thing to learn how helpless you feel when your kids hurt. It's not even the same with spouses. With a spouse, you are there for them and can help them out in whatever way. This doesn't mean that when bad things happen to them or they are hurting you don't feel bad. It just feels like you can do more for them than your kids.
With my daughter being sick, I felt lost. I can remember all the home remedies from my childhood as possible, but they all go out the window when my daughter has a fever of 105 and is shaking. Even knowing the exact things to do (get her in an ice bath, call the emergency line, etc.) can only take you so far. And then you sit, and stare, and wait. The waiting gets to you.
7) Sorry is a word you need to become intimately acquainted with.
To be honest, one should seek forgiveness for all kinds of wrongs. I know for the generation of parents who raised children my age, sorry wasn't a word which left their lips very frequently. They made a decision and then lived with it: right or wrong. And they didn't like looking back at them.
This attitude propagates two bad things. One, it models bad behavior for a child. Children learn from their parents. And learning to seek forgiveness is essential in relationship restoration. Kids need to be able to do that. And truthfully, we should want that with others. Two, it makes bad decisions look more foolish. Kids are not only watching our behavior to see how they should behave. They analyze our behavior and it reflects on how they view us.
If our kids view us as foolish, how can we expect them to come to us when they are really facing difficult decisions? When they want to know about their relationships or they are facing peer pressure, to whom do you think they will turn? If we cannot own poor decisions, I guarantee they will not be coming to us when the important decisions need to be made.
6) It's not the quantity of time that matters, it's the quality.
I begin with the proviso that every day I want more time with my daughter than what I have. But . . . I have a much better relationship with my daughter the day I separated from my spouse than I had before that. How can I say that you ask? How is it possible when I get to see my daughter so much less? For me, this is true and not true. Literally, I would be in the same house as my daughter, but my ex-wife frequently controlled the time I had with her. This may be different for other people in divorce situations. But it was true for me. So my relationship pre-divorce was shaky at best.
Post-divorce, the relationship I have with my daughter is all about us. By no means do I declare myself a perfect parent. I have my selfish moments. I have my times that I feel guilty for days because I didn't have the energy to engage my daughter like I would have liked. But most of the time we do. We talk about doing things together, putting together puzzles, cooking food, going to events, or different places, and so much more. My daughter and I actually spend time engaging one another. It's not always perfect. But our relationship turned into something far better. It turned into something real.
So yes, I have less time than I might have had before. And yes, I would love more time with her and often think the situation is unfair. But I also realize that my relationship with my daughter is far better than it might have been had I continued on in my marriage. That makes me eternally grateful.
5)Being busy is not a replacement for engagement.
I know that many parents are tempted to fill all of their kids time up with things. It can be dance classes, math tutors, swimming classes, judo, cooking classes, or "how to not be mad at your parent for signing you up for too many classes" . . . . classes. We may even be doing this with all of the best of intentions. But it doesn't make our kids better people. And it doesn't make us better parents.
I know as a weekend dad, the temptation for every weekend is to fill it with wall to wall adventures. But that doesn't help our relationship. And sometimes it can be too much and makes my daughter ill. Being the fun dad is nice, but that doesn't grow the relationship I have with my daughter. As much as I love Disneyland, the time spent on The Haunted Mansion does not compare to my daughter explaining to me the battle of Lexington and Concord in grape jelly. The times we talk far outweigh any fun we may have had sliding down the ice at the Queen Mary. (Although we did love that too.)
4) Being a parent is not for everyone.
Before I became a parent, I assumed that everyone at some point in their life would want kids. And even if they denied it now, they would change later on. Certainly, for many people, they do change their minds. But I would ask if it's always for the right reasons. Having children and raising them is a lifetime commitment. If you cannot commit to that, you might need to rethink what you are doing.
For others, the issue is temperament and not whether or not they could commit to it. Some people just do not do well with children. They are more of a burden or an accessory to their life instead of a living human being that needs love and dedication in order to grow. If your idea of having a child becomes more about you than it does about the child, rethink your priorities. And if you cannot, rethink having children.
3) There is no minor league parenting.
I know many people think that walk into parenting thinking they will have their first child, working out the kinks, and then do better with the second child. Or if not the second, then the third and the fourth. Every child you have, you are responsible for. When you act like you can practice on one child, you mess around with another human life. And you do that life damage. While it doesn't require perfection to be a parent, it does require understanding that your children are not the equivalent of a test kitchen. Plus, when you screw up the first one, the chances you do the same thing or worse to the second grow exponentially.
2) Having a child brings out your best, and your worst.
Children bring such beauty and joy to our lives. You might understand how they bring out our best. But how can they bring out our worst? I would say that children take a measuring stick to who we are as human beings. They push every one of those boundaries. If you struggle with patience, try dealing with two fighting siblings after you have barely been able to sleep the night before because Johnny woke up with a nightmare. Two hours of sleep and loud screeching noises are not a good recipe for patience. If you struggle with self-control, how do you respond when they bother you all day and prevent you from finishing a major project at work? Do you keep it together?
All the while, I say that they also bring out our best. Maybe you are successful at these things. Or you reveal yourself to be more selfless than you would have ever been beforehand. You spend all hours at hospitals taking care of your kid. Or you end up doing something to protect your children that injures you because you are the parent who would take a bullet for your kids. Ultimately, kids do not push us to be one thing or another. They are merely a reflection of the type of people that we are.
1) Parenting is a team sport, even when the team is dysfunctional.
If you have a favorite sports team, you know that in order to win, the players must be performing at their peak performance, and be on the same page. A pitcher does not throw a knuckleball to a catcher when he expects a fastball. The offensive line in American football cannot decide to take a play off because the quarterback has called too many run plays. The goalie in soccer cannot just walk away from the goal because he believes his defenders can hold off the other teams forwards.
As a parent of a child, you have another parent, or you have other people in the child's life that represent important figures in their life. All of those people participate in the life of the child in order to help them grow and become healthy members of society. In order to do this, everyone must be committed to having that child grow up happy and healthy. You can debate what this looks like with other people, but the child's growth must be the focus. Everyone has to have the same end goal.
This doesn't change, even when your relationship with the other people participating in the child's life is dysfunctional. For me, that means that even though I am divorced and have a severely dysfunctional partner who should be co-parenting with me, my focus cannot change. And I cannot simply kick her off the parenting team. We should be bonding over end goals as we cannot get a redo in our partner.
The greatest team analogy has to be like Shaq and Kobe in basketball. Those were two people who didn't get along. But they forced themselves to do so as winning was paramount. This led to amazing things. Of course, they didn't last forever. Their dysfunction eventually wrecked the team. But now you listen to the both of them, and they respect each other immensely. They see the other's talent and can respect the role they played for the team.
That's my hope with my co-parent. As difficult things are, I think that learning to respect my co-parent and her contribution to our child helps our daughter grow. I have limitations as a person and as a parent. I know that my ex-wife connects with my daughter in ways that I cannot. This is something I need to realize and appreciate. Fighting that only brings this parenting team down.
If you are a single parent with no partner, then your team consists of the other people important to your child. Encourage your children to engage in healthy ways with these people. Because they can help your child grow in ways that you might not be gifted in. Good parenting means dedication and giving to the child selflessly. We need other people to help. And that's the way it should be.
Continue the Conversation
So these are the top ten things I have learned while being a parent. The wild and crazy adventure of parenting continues daily. And there is no raising one's hand because you are about to vomit. There is no getting off. I wouldn't have it any other way. So what things have you learned from being a parent? What things did you wish you would have known beforehand? What skills or attributes did you have that were untapped until you had kids? And if you don't have children, what are your biggest fears or concerns about being a parent? I would love to hear from you.
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Until next time, this is me signing off.
David Elliott, Single Dad's Guide to Life


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Today we read the fifth chapter of The Referral of a Lifetime: The Networking System That Produces Bottom-Line Results Every Day (The Ken Blanchard Series) by Tim Templeton. (If you are following along in the paper version of the book, we read pages 57-78 this morning.)
On page 61, near the bottom, they give Highground a title of a "PERCEPTION CHANGER" I really like that title! Additionally when they talk about making a service directory for other great business resources in the community I thought that was a genius idea. If you don't feel like you have a great network of professionals you can refer (and make a directory for) I would highly recommend visiting a local BNI chapter and see the system of networking they have to offer. You can learn more about BNI by visiting http://www.bni.com and search for a chapter near you.
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