Who are the main characters in Star Trek?
Who is the main character in Star Trek?
The primary character in the original series was the Captain of the ship. This allowed them to show the challenges of command. That held true with some of the newer series's. It was played by William Shatner, and it was James T. Kirk that was the focus.
Who are the main characters in Number the Stars?
The main characters in Number the Stars, are Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen. Minor characters include: Kirsti, Peter, Annemarie's parents, Ellen's parents, and Uncle Henrik.
How Star Wars characters in soul caliber 4?
What is the initial situation of the two main characters in Star Wars Episode 4?
Which characters are you talking about? Luke Skywalker lives on his Uncle's ranch on Tatooine, and wishes he had a better purpose in life. Obi-Wan Kenobi finds him, tells him he's a jedi, they go on an adventure. Leia is kidnapped by Darth Vader, has to get saved by Luke and Han Solo.
What was the football movie where the main character had to carry the football to class every day?
Who is the main character in Star Wars?
How do you get a star for every character in Mario super sluggers?
Who are the main characters in Star Wars?
Luke Skywalker for original trilogy, Anakin Skywalker (Luke's dad) for the newer trilogy. \n\nHere is a great list for referencing the main characters of the Star Wars saga.
Which Star Wars game has every single character?
Who is the main character in Omen of the Stars?
Who is the main character in the Star Wars saga?
in episode 1 to 3, it is Anakin Skywalker, and in 4-6, Luke Skywalker is the main character.
Who is the main character in lucky star?
It is a girl named Konata, the girl with the blue hair. There are four main characters:Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi and Miyuki Takara.
Will Ivypaw become the main character of Omen of the Stars?
Ivypaw and her sister, Dovepaw are both characters, though Dovepaw is one of the three. She had a point-of-view in Fading Echos, but it is unknown for the other future books.
How many chapters does every soul a star have?
Every Soul a Star has seven chapters for each character, there are seven chapters for Bree, seven for Ally and seven for Jack. So overall there are 21 chapters plus an epilogue for all three of them.
Who will be the main character in Star Wars 7?
The main cast of Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Wedge, Cewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO would return with new characters like Anikin Solo, Ben Skywalker, and Mara Jade Skywalker the villians would be The Dark Jedi, the clones of Vader and Luke, and some Stormtroopers.
What are the main characters in the book soul surfer?
In the book Every Soul a Star where is the setting?
The setting is at the Moon Shadow campground where Ally lives, the city where Bree used to live and on the bus tour that Jack is riding. There are also little places within these main places.
Who are the main characters in Star Wars the Clone Wars?
What genre is the book every soul a star?
i think it is fiction or realistic fiction. that book is really good! :) i love it! i am actually reading it right now! i like ally the best!
How does bree life change in the book every soul a star?
She seem to be more into wildlife because when she was alone in her cabin, she didn't want to put on the clothes that used to be hers. She feel that she is not who she is anymore ever since she moved to Moonshadow Camp Ground.
Who were the main characters of Star Wars A New Hope?
Main characters in A New Hope include Luke Skywalker, Obi-wan "Ben" Kenobi, Han Solo, R2-D2, C3PO, Leia Organa, and Darth Vader.
Who is the first main character shown in Star Wars?
If you go according to the original trilogy, it is Darth Vader who is shown first in episode IV: A New Hope. He is boarding Princess Leia's Blockade Runner. Then it shows Leia, R2-D2, C-3PO, and then Luke. Then the others fall into place as the main main character, Luke, meets them.
In Every soul a star what does ally want to discover?
Ally wants to discover if she really is moving to the city. she also wants to discover how the city is.
How do you get every Pokemon in soul silver?
What is the theme of every soul a star by Wendy Mass?
Change: each character goes through different levels of change in their lives whether its moving or experiencing new things each character learns how to adapt to a rather different part of their typical life.
What is Kes' last appearance as a main character in Star Trek Voyager?
The episode "The Gift" in season three. She comes back as a guest star in the episode, "Fury". I think that's the last time she was on Voyager.
Who was the main character in the origanal 3 star wars?
luke skywalker The main characters for all are the robots. The saga is supposed to be told from their point of view.
What is the sequel to every soul is a star?
What are two themes of every soul a star?
things don't stay the same forever and it doesn't matter where you are, it's who your with.
Who are main characters in lucky star?
Why would you recommend every soul a star to someone?
Who is the main character in Star Wars KOTOR?
What are the ally's personality in every soul a star?
I don't understand your question. Is it "What is Ally's personality in E.S.A.S", or "What are the ally's personality(as in ally like friend or partner)"?
Is Anakin Skywalker the main character in star wars?
Yes, I suppose you could say that. The entire Saga does revolve around Anakin, from the moment he was found by Qui-Gon to the moment of his death in Return of the Jedi .
Who are the main characters in every Pixar movie?
What are quotes from the book every soul a star?
Who are the main characters in star wars the Phantom Menace?
The main characters on The Phantom Menace is Qui-Gon, Kanobi, Anakin, Amidala, Gunray, and Darth Maul.
Is every soul a star a book about friendship?
Yes, one of the main themes of Wendy Mass's Every Soul a Star is friendship.
What is a good thing about the book every soul a star?
Well, each character, Jack , Ally, and Bree, have their own personality. They're not all the same, and they will fight for what they believe (keeping the moonshadow camp; leaving it).
What happed to the soul of every person?
It depends on the beliefs person answering. Some would argue that there is no soul others that a soul is given by their particular god. Ultimately no one knows or can prove a soul is real and exists. Anyone saying otherwise is relying on their religious dogma. Which also cannot be proven.
What is the main character?
A main character is a character that is in the story from beginning to end.
What movie star is the main character in the war movie 'The Battle of Iwo Jima'?
There was no movie entitled 'The Battle of Iwo Jima'. There was a movie entitled 'Letters from Iwo Jima' which starred Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. There was also a 1949 film starring John Wayne called 'Sands of Iwo Jima'.
What actor starred as the main character in The Recruit?
The Recruit, which was released in 2003, starred Al Pacino along with his co-star, Colin Farrell. The movie Stars Al Pacino with a run time of approximately 115 minutes.
Who are the main characters in every Harry Potter movie?
It would be very difficult to name all the main characters of every Harry Potter movie. The movies are known for having huge casts. Some of the main characters are Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Voldemort, and Hagrid.
Who are the main characters who starred in all the American Pie Movie's?
There is only one character who has appeared in all eight of the American Pie Movie's. He is Noah Levenstein who was played by Eugene Levy. Most of the original cast have not appeared in the more recent movies.
Who are the main characters in Star Trek Insurrection?
"Star Trek: Insurrection" was released in 1998. It featured the characters "Pickard", "Riker", "Geordi", "Data", "Worf", "Troi", "Ru'afo", "Beverly", and several others.
What star wars characters appear in every movie?


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What happened to José Luis Fernández, the actor who played Pancho in "Blue Summer"? – TV
On October 11, 1981, 'Verano azul' premiered on TVE, a series that marked a before and after in the history of television and which caught 9 million Spaniards in its last chapter.
It was a revolution in our country. The production started with shy audience data, but 'Verano azul' ended up reaching, even, that football matches were delayed because the adventures of Desi, Pancho, Tito and company meant the stadiums weren't filled.
The alternate ending of 'Blue Summer'
Verano Azul's ending wasn't initially the one we've always known, as revealed by Jorge Sanz. The actor attended the TVE program Vaya Crack, presented by Roberto Leal. There, Jorge Sanz had to tell four anecdotes and that the participants tried to guess whether what the actor said was true or not.
One of these anecdotes referred to the legendary TVE series Verano Azul, which ended in 1982 with a tragic and unforgettable end that, many years later, will remain engraved in the memory of the Spaniards: the death of the mythical Chanquete.
But, as the actor revealed, that ending wasn't what the writers originally intended. After Chanquete's death, there was an additional secret chapter that was never completed. "A part was taped. There was always something going on and there was a really clumsy one who got lost and had to go get it, because we were a scout group," the actor explained.
"It was never aired and it has to be stored in a box in a basement here on TVE and one day it will be recovered. An incunabula of Blue Summer", he summed up. The competitors bet because the story told by Jorge Sanz was false, but it turns out that this is not the case, that it is true that this hidden end of 'Verano Azul' exists.
In this sense, the Cueva de Nerja offers on its website the unpublished chapter of the 'Blue Summer' series, which is physically exhibited in the Museum of Nerja thanks to one of the protagonists of the series, Miguel Joven, 'Tito' in fiction, and collaborator of the foundation of the cavity.
A series to remember
The success of the series was so great that even today, the most loyal fans want to know what happened to its actors. In this sense, in recent days María Gallarón has given more details about the actor José Luis Fernández, who played Pancho on the show.
In this sense, Gallarón explained that the actor is currently admitted to a psychiatric center: "He's fine and he's still there and when he talks to us he gets very emotional, he loves us a lot and we love him."
The actor has been involved in various issues with the law and also with drugs. In fact, the actor was arrested in 1989 for robbing a French citizen at gunpoint. when a weapon and a piece of paper were seized.
After 'Verano azul', the actor tried his luck in the world of music with Artero, with whom he formed the musical duo 'Pancho y Javi'. Finally, he tries to resume his career as an interpreter, participating in plays as a dubbing actor. He also participated in the series 'Children of Mambrú', which was established in 2012.
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Oleksandr Stanislavovych Syrskyi (; born 26 July 1965) is a Ukrainian military officer. Holding the rank of Colonel general, he has been the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces since 2019. Previously, he was the commander of the Joint Forces Operation from May to August 2019.

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Syrskyi commanded the defence of Kyiv. From September 2022, he commands the Kharkiv counteroffensive.

Biography
Syrskyi graduated from the Moscow Higher Military Command School, the Soviet Union's leading higher military educational institution. Before the war in Donbass in the 2000s, he commanded the 72nd Mechanized Brigade and was promoted to major-general.

As of 2013, he was the First Deputy Chief of the Main Command Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and was involved in the then processes of cooperation with NATO. In November 2013, Syrskyi, on behalf of the Ministry of Defense, discussed changes to the Ukrainian army in accordance with NATO standards at NATO headquarters.

War in Donbas
With the beginning of the war in Eastern Ukraine, he was the chief of staff of anti-terrorist operations.

In particular, he was one of the chief commanders of the anti-terrorist operation forces during the battle of Debaltseve in the winter of 2015, together with the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko they went to the city itself. He led the battles in Vuhlehirsk, the village of Ridkodub and an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Lohvynove. He also coordinated the withdrawal of the Ukrainian military from Debaltseve. Under his leadership, possible routes of crossing the Karapulka River were blown up.

Oleksandr Syrskyi was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky III degree and later received the rank of lieutenant-general due to his achievement during the battle of Debaltseve.

In 2016, he headed the Joint Operational Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which coordinates the operational actions of various Ukrainian security forces in the Donbas. In 2017, he was the commander of the entire Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine, which was later replaced by Joint Forces Operation.

From 6 May to 5 August 2019 he was the commander of the Joint Operational Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Since 5 August 2019, Syrskyi has been the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 23 August 2020, he was promoted to the rank of colonel general. The rank is no longer awarded in the Ukrainian army since 1 October of the same year, but Syrskyi retained it, being at this moment the only Ukrainian military officer left in active service to hold this particular rank.

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Syrskyi initially organised and lead the defense of Kyiv.

In April 2022, Syrskyi was given the Hero of Ukraine award for his efforts. In September 2022, media reported that Syrskyi is the architect behind the successful Kharkiv counteroffensive. Syrskyi has been described as "the most successful general of the 21st century so far".

Awards
 Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky III degree (14 March 2015)
 Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky II degree (18 March 2022)
 Cross of Combat Merit (17 July 2022)
 Hero of Ukraine (6 April 2022)

References

External links
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Colonel Generals of Ukraine
1965 births
Living people
People from Vladimir Oblast
Recipients of the Order of Gold Star (Ukraine)
Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class
Ukrainian military personnel of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian people of Russian descent

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Q: How do I run an iPad Simulator in Xcode? I am trying to run an iPad simulator on Xcode, but currently I only have one option when I go to Xcode > Open Developer Tool > Simulator, which launches the iPhone simulator.
How do I launch the iPad simulator?

A: For bonus points :)
I would also extract the simulator from inside Xcode to make it more accessible.
Applications / Xcode.app ( right click and select "Show Package Contents" )
From this folder Contents / Developer / Applications / Simulator.app
Create a shortcut to that and simulator opens without opening the main Xcode.app

A: You should select an iPad device by navigating to
Hardware/Device/[OS version if you have multiple OS versions installed]/[device]
in the simulator's menu.

If there are no iPad devices in the list, follow these instructions:

*

*Click on Hardware/Device/Manage Devices...

*Select the Simulators option on the top.

*Press the plus (+) sign in the lower-left corner.

*Define the name, the device type and the OS version of the new simulator, then click on Create.

For more information, check out Getting started in Simulator.

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This is for Xcode 11.2.1+

open XCode, from the App menu:
Xcode -> Open Developer Tool -> Simulator

This will open the latest iPhone simulator and to change it to anything else e.g iPad:
Hardware -> Device -> iOS -> iPad

A: This has changed.
Now, after you opened your simulator as you mentioned you need in the simulator menu bar to go to:
File -> Open Simulator -> [ios version] -> [ios device]
There you can find an ipad simulator to open.

A: Open Simulator, go to File > Open Simulator > {Your version of IOS} > {Device you want}.
Dont Forget to rebuild your app before trying to launch it.

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April 26, 2006 | Byron Burnham has been appointed vice provost and dean of the graduate school at Utah State University. Burnham will assume his duties July 1.
Prior to his appointment as vice provost and dean, Burnham served as department head and professor for the department of instructional technology and research professor for the department of psychology in the College of Education and Human Services.
USU president Stan Albrecht said he is pleased with Burnham's appointment to this vital position.
The announcement was made by USU's Executive Vice President and Provost Raymond T. Coward following a telephone conference call with President Stan Albrecht and USU's board of trustees.
Burnham replaces Tom Kent, who left USU Aug. 1, 2004, to become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Michigan University.
The School of Graduate Studies is the central administrative body that promotes, supports and reviews graduate education at Utah State University, ensuring consistency and excellence in all graduate degree programs.
A search committee, headed by professor Jim Dorward, coordinated the efforts that culminated in Burnham's appointment.
"Following the application and interview process, the search committee recommended candidates to the provost and the president," Dorward said.
He characterized the pool of candiates as individuals of exceptional backgrounds and skills.
Coward acknowledged the committee for its efforts.
Burnham said the demand for graduate degrees is increasing, and while USU has excellent graduate programs in a number of areas, expansion in other areas is possible.
Burnham joined Utah State University in 1972, where he was program coordinator in the Conference and Institute Division and executive secretary of the Quality of Rural Life Programs until 1979. He spent several years at the University of British Columbia, before returning to USU in 1980 as director of the Management Institute and assistant director of the Conference and Institute Division. He has served as associate dean for Extension, Learning Resources Program, and as interim dean of Information and Learning Resources. He participated in the National Leadership Development Project, sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the University of Wisconsin. The project focused on improving higher education across the United States. As part of the project, Burnham undertook a two year study of leadership in higher education.
Burnham earned bachelor's and master's degress from USU and his doctorate from the University of British Columbia in adult education.


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[email protected] | Jan. 15, 2002 | Will Zuzak
Cauchon, Coderre now responsible for d/d
Dear Subscribers:
Jean Chretien's cabinet shuffle on Jan. 15, 2002 marks another twist in the d/d saga: Martin Cauchon replaces Anne McLellan as Justice Minister and Attorney General; Denis Coderre replaces Elinor Caplan in citizenship and immigration.
Let us hope that Mr. Cauchon is less morally corrupt than his predecessors, Allan Rock and Anne McLellan.
To place the d/d issue in historical perspective, I am appending my August 1996 letter to the Montreal Gazette (archived as DESCHENE.001 on the Lily website), as well as the July 18, 1996 letter of Kestelman and Friedman to which I refer therein.
This letter illustrates the tremendous pressure that the Holocaust Industry exerted on the judges of the Federal Court. And I have previously demonstrated the close ties between the Supreme Court justices of Canada (Antonio Lamer et al) and Israel (Shamgar and Barak).
Will Zuzak
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Will Zuzak; DESCROCK.013 = Letter to Montreal Gazette; 1996-08-25
Dear Reader:
Appended below is a Letter to Editor which I attempted to have published in the Montreal Gazette. Unfortunately, even after contacting Jennifer Robinson and faxing the material directly to her, the Gazette appears to be unwilling to do so.
For the past several years, I have repeatedly warned Canadians of the dangers of Allan Rock's initiative with denaturalization and deportation corrupting our system of jurisprudence as has occurred in the United States. Many of my views on the subject have been archived at
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/pakistan/83/demjanjuk/
under the DESCROCK file names. You are invited to peruse these and make your concerns known to your local newspapers, your members of parliament, the Justice Department, in particular, and the government of Canada.
Those in the Montreal area are encouraged to contact the Montreal Gazette:
Michael Goldbloom, President and Publisher	(514)987-2222
Joan Fraser, Editor in Chief	(514)987-2500
Jennifer Robinson, Editorial Page Editor	(514)987-2462
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Dear Sirs/Mesdames:
Since Emailing and subsequently faxing the appended letter to you for inclusion in your Letters to Editor section on July 24 and August 8, 1996, I have not had an acknowledgement/response from you. Neither (to my knowledge) have you published the letter.
I feel that it is important that the public be informed on all aspects of the war crimes issue and that the hate mongering of Ms. Kestelman and Mr. Friedman not go unchallenged. In my opinion, the Gazette has so far failed to provide fair and balanced information to the public on this issue.
Could you please publish my letter as requested or, if you have no intention of doing so, could you please justify your decision such that I can take further appropriate action.
Will Zuzak; 1996-08-15
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Dear Sirs:
In their July 18, 1996 letter to the Montreal Gazette titled "Decision shows it's time for Federal Court to go", Paula Kestelman and Sam Friedman are disingenuous in avoiding the two main issues in the war crimes controversy. The two issues are "denaturalization and deportation" and "subversion of the Canadian system of jurisprudence".
Canada's war crimes legislation stems from the Deschenes Commission debacle of 1985-87 during which thousands of innocent Canadians were defamed and libeled as war criminals. Upon passage of Bill C-71 in August 1987, the federal government stated that it had opted for a "made-in-Canada solution". There would be no "denaturalizations and deportations".
Since then, several cases were tried in Canadian criminal courts using rigorous rules of evidence in front of a jury. All succeeded in demonstrating the innocence of the accused victims. Justice was done and was seen to be done.
Recently, the Justice Department has reneged on its original promise and is now attempting to denaturalize and deport its victims in civil courts of law without a jury and using lax rules of evidence. By no stretch of the imagination can denaturalization and deportation be equated to justice. In fact, it is a blueprint for injustice, as demonstrated by the infamous John Demjanjuk case in the U.S. No criminal acts need be proven; irregularities in immigration procedures are sufficient.
The second, and even more important issue in the long term, is the integrity of the Canadian justice system. An independent judiciary, free from political interference or pressure from lobby groups, is one of the cornerstones of a healthy democracy.
Ms. Kestelman and Mr. Friedman are doing Canadians a grave disservice by condoning and even promoting the subversion of our justice system.
Because of the very serious impropriety on the part of assistant deputy attorney-general, Ted Thompson, his conduct, and that of justices James Jerome and Julius Isaac, is now under judicial review. It is incomprehensible that Justice Minister Allan Rock would compound this judicial interference by appealing the decision of Justice Bud Cullen, and even launching other war crimes cases, while this review is in progress.
To conclude, it is clear from what has transpired that something is seriously wrong in the way the Justice Department is run.
Respectfully submitted
Will Zuzak ; Tel:(514)652-8697
604 des Fauvettes
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Montreal Gazette | July 18, 1996 | Kestelman and Friedman
Decision shows it's time for Federal Court to go
Two points must be raised in regard to the July 06, 1996 decision of Federal Court Justice Bud Cullen to drop the action against three suspected Nazi war criminals living in Canada.
First, the delays that were tolerated by the Canadian justice system are absolutely incredulous. Federal Court Justice James Jerome was assigned to the case in January 1995. He appeared to have no interest in hearing the case and so seemed to have been playing for time by delaying procedures in his court.
After 20 months, the case of the three had still not gone to trial. The lawyer for the Canadian government, fed up with this dilly dallying, sought to have this affair heard by another justice. Instead of finally hearing the case, the second justice, Bud Cullen, giving truly vague reasons, ordered all charges against the three men stayed.
Our second point refers to the disdain displayed by the federal justices for victims of war atrocities in the past and in recent years. The judgment has created a situation where war criminals from many countries today may find safe haven in Canada. Word gets around the world quickly.
It is possible that perpetrators of war crimes in the "killing fields" of Cambodia, Haiti, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia are already living in Canada.
After the July 06, 1996 judgment, they probably would notify their associates back home that in Canada they would be completely safe from any type of retribution or threat of deportation.
Canada could now join the ranks of Paraguay and Argentina, where perpetrators of war atrocities could find refuge. Canada, with its generous social benefits and a lackadaisical judicial system, offers a comfortable refuge indeed for suspected war criminals.
If the appeal of the Federal Court's judgment is rejected, the federal Immigration Ministry will be left virtually unable to deport people suspected of war crimes. Instead, they will be provided with the same social benefits given to other citizens of our country.
What we would suggest to prevent this from ever happening again is to simply dissolve the Federal Court and transfer all its jurisdictions to the provincial courts. Quebec for example, has a truly fine court structure where cases can be brought to trial quickly if any of the lawyers involved are serious about doing so.
It is clear from what has transpired that something is seriously wrong in the way the Federal Court is run.
Paula Kestelman and Sam Friedman


This weekend is our last weekend at our church and our pastor is having Greg and I preach the last message together. In May of 2015 we started our ministry by sharing our testimony and this weekend we will be leaving parting words from our heart.
The following is our very first message. It's a story about God's wonder-working power of forgiveness. My husband NEVER demanded forgiveness but his repentant and remorseful heart allowed for it to come in a way he never saw coming.
We should never hold a person hostage by unforgiveness but at the same time, the one being forgiven needs to be careful of thinking they are entitled to it. Forgiveness is a process: it takes time and it takes work. When a remorseful and repentant person receives forgiveness, it changes their life. Remorse and repentance go hand in hand. When a person is repentant, they make restitution and they quit doing the sin that entangled them in the first place. Remorse is a deep sorrow and regret that recognizes first how they have hurt God and then how they have hurt others.
The forgiving person when forgiving keeps themselves from being stuck, bitter and angry. When I chose to forgive my husband, I was allowing God to do whatever He wanted to do in my life and I was not about to miss out because I knew He had so much more for me.
So if you've never heard our testimony listen to the following. I will post our parting words on Monday.
I'm sure we all know those people who have incredible knowledge and speak right over our heads. Sometimes I just want to say, "Hey can you speak more in a language I understand!" It drives me crazy. I want to have this great convo with this person and I only understand three or four words per sentence. I think we need an app for understanding brainiacs or a book called Conversations for Dummies.
1 Corinthians 8:1 English Standard Version ……..we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
In their defense, there are those who hang around with the same people who have that same level of knowledge, so that's just their normal language and they forget to dummy down when they come around people who are normal like me. Ok, I just saw that look of surprise on your face. Don't judge me……… especially if you think you're normal.
But………………..then there are those who do it just for show so they can look like they are language gods. Those are the ones who make me crazy. Just saying.
But am I truly justified here in my thinking if I do the same thing with the superior knowledge I may have in a subject or with a gift God has given me? Do you? Do I make people look small so I can look big?
Everything we say or do should be motivated by our love for God, ourselves and others. We glorify God and build up the ones we love or He loves….and even the ones hard to love.
My hope and goal is to not lord it over someone that I know more or am better than them. When I share with someone my whole motivation is to point them to God and show His love. I share my knowledge or passion because I want to give them something that propels them forward in their walk or journey with the Lord…………….or it should be!
I teach a 4 step class on Sunday mornings at our church and one of my favorite classes is the Spiritual Gifts and Temperament Class. I had 6+ years of training in Temperament Theory and Therapy so I absolutely love sharing the things I know with my students. Seeing the moment that light bulb comes on in someone's mind and they start relating and when you see that incredible joy on their face, well. that is what drives me to do what I do.
One of the spiritual gifts that God seems to have permanently given to me (we all know that the Spirit gives as He wills.) is the gift of encouragement. So everything I do I do through that gift. But without loving those people who walk through that door, and I do, my words could fall on deaf ears. My gift is not teaching but when I am motivated by love and I teach with encouragement, I look like a teacher.
My encouraging words to you today are: use the gifts and knowledge that God has given you to change your sphere of influence whether it's in your home, workplace, church, family or neighborhood and let everything be motivated by love.
He'll show us the way he works so we can live the way we're made. Let me say that again more slowly He'll show us the way He works so we can live the way we're made.
At 1:00 this morning God reminded me of this scripture. I had been reading in 2 Kings and then I picked up a book I was reading and the author mentioned this scripture and it just stopped me in my tracks and I kept repeating it over and over as if it were the first time I was seeing it! I must have sat on my couch in the silence for an hour applying that scripture to everything that was going on in my life the last 4 or 5 months.
So let me backtrack a little. I think the word for me has been "loss". I've been suffering a lot with that…loss of my dog, loss of my dreams and visions, lost of physical well-being, loss of weight……..oh wait that's a good one...there are more but I don't want to get into the woe is me trap.
A friend of mine told me that I would find intimacy with God through my suffering. That I was facing a mountain (of God) that I would either speak to, climb up or go around. My first inclination was to speak to it and tell it to go away. Sigh…that didn't happen. Pretty sure God wasn't gonna let me desire to go around it. He definitely would let me make the choice but I have chosen to climb it instead!
With everything I have been going through, I've been dealing with a little depression but fortunately not living there. For about a week now I have been feeling God prompting me to fast and pray for everything and so yesterday was my first day and it didn't quite start off the way I thought it would.
When I woke up I woke from a very intense dream When these dreams come, they are so intense that I wake up with a stiff neck and migraine. My whole focus was on the pain I was in that I forgot the dream til later that night. Hubby and I were discussing some issues we are dealing with and the dream popped back into my head. I will prolly share that dream in the next blog. But what I realized is that God was already honoring my fast and speaking to me. I just love when He does that! Just confirms that I was supposed to do this fast and even in my pain I am still hearing His voice.
I ended up taking some muscle relaxers because my neck was so stiff I couldn't move and even swallowing was hard. I sat down on the couch ready to read, pray and worship and fell asleep. I couldn't even keep my eyes open if I wanted to. I slept til 5:00. I lost my whole day but I go days with only 4 or 5 hours of sleep, so I guess my body really needed the rest. That's why He spoke at 1 in the morning hahahahah.
I've moved from regretting the mountain to putting on my hiking gear and wanting to climb it. I want Him to show me how He works so I can live the way I was made. Fasting and prayer give me joy in the journey!! I am seeking to hear more from my father and with every step, I am asking, "What can I learn from what's going on all around me." I'm praying for wisdom to speak life into all the things that have felt like death and that He would help me to share what I have learned to help other's deal with their mountains or at least to encourage them to want to climb it!!
When You're In It To Win It!
I started my weight loss journey in April of 2018….Or should I say my millionth attempt at weight loss? At this moment I am down 17 pounds. This is the slowest I have ever lost on a weight loss plan but it's one that I have to say I enjoy the most. I'm enjoying cooking so much that I've probably in three months cooked almost half of the recipes in my cookbook. I have three cookbooks. I'm trying things I never would have tried before and opening up a new world of tastes to me. Who knew that you could bake desserts with white beans, black beans, spinach, and okra. You couldn't have paid me to even look at okra in the past.
I've been off of processed sugars and fake sugars for three months. Did I say I have…had a sugar addiction. I now use stevia which is a plant-based sweetener. It took a little to get used to the aftertaste but I don't even know the difference now.
I am also off of white bread, white potatoes, and white rice. I think the hardest thing to give up was pizza but thank God there's cauliflower pizza and I love it!. I also have yet to try the pizza recipe in my cookbook. I've been going in order from front to back with the recipes. Don't ask….it's just how I roll.
So how do I know I'm in it to win it? Since starting this weight loss plan, I have been in pain from some severe things going on in my neck. It started on my right side in my shoulder and shoulder blade. I went to see a Dr and he did an MRI on my neck. Much to my surprise, it was my left side that was in bad shape. The miracle was I wasn't experiencing any discomfort or pain on that side. My Dr. was puzzled. Well that all changed two weeks ago and then I learned what level 14 type of pain was. It's right up there with birth and kidney stones. Some days I want to put my fist through the wall; it hurts so bad.
I also lost my little Jackie (schnauzer dog)of 15 years last week. Watching him have seizures on top of my pain was killing me. That dog went through so much with our bigger dogs. We always thought he had nine lives and would outlive us. I have cried for days.
My daughter and her husband have moved across the States and my youngest and his wife will be joining them in the fall. I won't see my daughter leading worship anymore and it kind of hurts but I am so happy for her.
I've also lost my dreams. I'm kind of at a place of not knowing what God has for my life. Only four months ago I had incredible visions only to watch them slip away from me. I'm sitting here with this huge mountain in front of me not knowing whether to climb it, go around it or make it go away. I'm totally open for whatever God wants me to do. I just don' t know what that is.
in the midst of all of this, I have never cheated or wavered off plan. I have stayed focused and not even felt the need to eat off plan. I am/have been a pain and emotional eater and here I am sticking with this plan that I am totally on board with. I have no desire to go back to sugar eating which has always been my narcotic. I don't look for reasons to cheat or make excuses to eat in an unhealthy way. I don't ever want to touch processed sugar again. Every other diet I have done, I couldn't wait to get to goal so I could add junk again….and I made up for lost time. Everything I eat now, I know is good for me and doing good things for my body. That is exciting. If I can overcome temptation in my hardest days, then how much easier will it be when my days get better?
That's how I know I'm in it to win it!!!
The Things Diets Have TaughtMe!
So in my last blog, I shared how a little bit of every diet philosophy I've been on has now come together in this new healthy plan I am following.
One thing I learned that has always stayed with me but not been followed faithfully is to eat till you are satisfied, not till you are full. I hate that feeling of being full. Seriously if you think about it, if you eat till satisfied, you'll actually be hungry for your next meal and not eating for comfort or pain. I learned to let my stomach tell me when it was hungry. Today I am eating every three to four hours but it's usually my tummy that is saying when it wants to eat. I don't find myself watching the clock until the next meal!
The second thing I learned was to eat the best parts first. An example: if you have a cinnamon roll everyone knows the center is the best part, right? But we usually save it for last. If we eat it first, then if we're not hungry we're not still stuffing to get to the center. We can stop when we feel satisfied.
I'm a weird eater….but I know there of some of you out there that will relate so don't even laugh at me. I eat around my plate. In other words, I start with one food group, finish it and move on to the next. Eating this way gives us the mindset even if we are full, that we need to eat everything on our plate. Most of what I am eating now is combo foods that you eat all together and guess what… I don't always finish it all!!! This is incredibly freeing to me.
The third thing I have learned that a great meal can be lean and green. You don't have to have potatoes or rice to round off a meal. A meal can be truly satisfying with a nice chunk of protein, a veggie and a luscious fat! Real butter people, not that crappy margarine stuff!!
Now potatoes and rice aren't bad, sweet potatoes and brown rice are better for you, but you don't have to mix them with fats just a nice protein, veggie and carb and you can still lose weight and feel good. We don't have to learn to hate food! Well except for sugar and dietary sugars. Sugar is poison for me but in its pure form like Stevia, I feel more in control. Oh and the things they are finding out that the "diet" sugars do to you, well let's just say I wanna keep my mind.
The fourth thing I have learned is not to believe everything you read. For example, once I read that the first two bites of anything are where and when you get the best flavor. I talked myself into believing that for the sake of the diet I was on. But then I put it to the test…I don't know about you but when I eat something that tastes good, every bite is full of the best flavor hahahahaha. That's probably not the best thing to remember but it's how I roll.
I haven't had sugar for three weeks now. I'm not drinking diet soda anymore. I drink water or tea. I carry liquid stevia with me. Oh and yesterday I brought my own dressing when I went out to eat cause I don't want to go back to that horrible sugar addiction I had. Alcohol to an alcoholic is what sugar is to me. I sat at a meeting a week ago with desserts galore on the table in front of me and I didn't even want to indulge. All I kept thinking was I have stevia now and I can go home and make something that tastes amazing and be healthy for me.
I'm sure I've picked up a few other things that I can't remember at the moment but the things I've mentioned are the ones that stand out. I'm enjoying the learning process as I try new recipes and how some of the ingredients are actually helping my body! I'm wondering as I put wonderful things into my body if it will help with the symptoms of fibromyalgia that I suffer from every day. Wouldn't that be something? One can certainly pray, hope and dream!!!
Three weeks ago I started the Trim Healthy Mama Plan and so far have lost 7 1/2 pounds. I actually wasn't expecting to lose anything this first month as my body is healing from the bouncing around of other diet plans so this was a pleasant surprise. What I am surprised about is how great I feel about what I am doing!!
I have dieted on and off and on and off since 1978. Every new diet brought new challenges and weight loss. I loved challenges! I always got to my goal on each diet but never could get over the comfort that food brought. The last diet I went on I lost 13 pounds and the food was great but I just never felt good.
I am a pain eater. I suffered tremendous mental pain for 27 of those dieting years and add on physical pain from fibromyalgia, a bulging disc in my neck, and back pain that isn't fibro related, gallbladder surgery, knee surgery, and you end up with a diet of comfort food, comfort food and more comfort food which created a sugar addiction.
Every diet I went on allowed me to get sugar in and sometimes I would have an all sugar day from points that allowed it to bars that were filled with it to brand named desserts that oozed of it. It was crazy!
At our small group the first night we met, the ladies were gathered around the counter talking about recipes. I went up and looked to see what they were doing and I couldn't believe people lost weight eating those recipes. I was hooked and bought the book and two cookbooks. I had planned to go back to an old faithful diet that I kept going on an off of but was saved that night.
I'm not going to name the other diets but this plan and I do mean plan not diet that I am now following is awsamazing!!!! For the first time I feel and know what I am putting in my mouth and how it is helping my body! I am using only stevia that is pure as my sweetener, none of those other ones that they are always finding that are bad for you. I am trying things like whey protein, phylum flakes, glucomannan , mineral salt, pressed peanut flour, collagen and other amazing things I have never heard of. I'm reading about the health benefits of each of these and everytime I use them mentally and physically I am feeling good!
I am finally sleeping through the night…still a night owl and can't fall asleep early but once I do, I am actually sleeping. It's such a relief after so many years of insomnia and waking up exhausted. I am still dealing with physical pain but I'm actually letting my stomach tell me it's hungry and using other methods like breathing and exercises to deal with the pain.
I'm not rushing to the scale every single day because I am more concerned about eating healthy and letting my body heal then weight loss but of course I am celebrating the losses. I think it's pretty cool that I forget to weigh myself at the beginning of the week. That never happened before. I think I have a whole new mindset that is really looking at this as a lifetime of healthy living.
What's even crazier is that there's a little bit of every diet philosophy I have done in this one plan. I'll try to share that next time.


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Q: Convert the multiple rows Select statement result into a single row string result I have the following sql query. I'd like the results to be concatenated with a , and I need this as one single query.
Select LOCATION_CODE from LOCATION WHERE ZIPCODE = '555555';

Location table
  location_id | location_code   |  zipcode
--------------------------------------------
      1       |    ASDFSFD      |  555555
      2       |    OUIXVCX      |  555555
      3       |    2KLJSDF      |  555555
      14      |    887CSD       |  555555

Need the results like below...   ASDFSFD,OUIXVCX,2KLJSDF,887CSD

A: with location_code as (
select 'ASDFSFD' loc_code, 555555 zipcode from dual
union all select 'OUIXVCX', 555555 from dual
union all select '2KLJSDF', 555555 from dual
union all select '887CSD', 555555 from dual
)
select rtrim (xmlagg (xmlelement (e, loc_code || ',')).extract ('//text()'), ',')
from location_code where zipcode = 555555;

A: If you are using Oracle 10g, you can also use the undocumented aggregate function WM_CONCAT():
SELECT WM_CONCAT(location_code) FROM location WHERE zipcode = 555555;

One possible caveat is that WM_CONCAT() returns a CLOB in some versions of Oracle 10g (e.g., 10.2.0.5), but a VARCHAR2 in others (e.g., 10.2.0.1).
You can also develop your own string concatenation aggregate function; please see the following links for specifics (as well as other methods of how to accomplish string concatenation):
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/string-aggregation-techniques.php#wm_concat


(CNN) -- Six months and more than 17,000 air sorties after it began, NATO's Operation Unified Protector in the skies over Libya grinds on.
What was envisaged in March as a rapid engagement to prevent Moammar Gadhafi's forces from razing Benghazi to the ground has evolved into a long slog. And increasingly NATO operations have dovetailed with those of the rebels -- with the aim of making pro-Gadhafi forces incapable of offensive action.
"What was initially supposed to be a neutral intervention to protect civilians that were threatened specifically in Benghazi has morphed into being largely a one-sided affair to support the Libyan rebel force to overthrow Gadhafi," says Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Throughout the conflict NATO has continued to insist that all its actions are aimed at protecting civilians from pro-Gadhafi forces, and that it has not "taken sides." On Thursday, the Royal Air Force spoke of "precision strikes on former regime facilities at Sabratah [west of Tripoli], including a commando base which had been used by Colonel Gadhafi's men to launch numerous reprisals against the local people."
But such missions are invariably close to areas where the rebels are trying to break through. In recent weeks, sustained NATO strikes around Brega, Misrata and in the western Nafusa mountains have helped tip the military balance in the rebels' favor, to the point that Gadhafi's opponents have become reluctant to enter the fray until air power has softened up the enemy.
Derek Flood, a journalist and analyst with the Jamestown Foundation, has just spent several weeks in western Libya. "I found the rebels had become almost overly dependent on NATO to the point they wouldn't act without NATO actually softening up the targets first."
Most recently, rebel efforts to take the vitally important town of Zawiyah, just 30 miles west of Tripoli, were preceded by several days of NATO sorties. NATO lists about a dozen "key hits" around Zawiyah in the past five days. The Royal Air Force also targeted a boat commandeered by several Libyan soldiers to get out of Zawiyah, but a statement said that "since it was clear from their actions that these troops continued to pose a threat to the local population, the RAF patrol engaged the ship," which was destroyed.
Video footage emerged at the beginning of this month of a column of rebel tanks and pickup trucks, outside the city of Brega in eastern Libya, daubed with orange paint to distinguish them from government forces and ensure they weren't erroneously bombed.
"Western air forces don't bomb without that direct ability to visualize the battlefield, especially when the regime has placed so many of its assets within civilian protected areas," Zenko says.
NATO spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie was pressed on the issue at a news briefing last month. "NATO does not have direct coordination with opposition forces or rebel forces in Brega," he said. But he added: "We follow the situation through allied information sources that are in the area."
Zenko says such "allied information sources" may be retired special forces soldiers or military contractors. They are said to be in contact with a liaison office in rebel-held Benghazi, which passes on information to the NATO command center in Naples, Italy.
NATO won't comment on such arrangements.
The arms embargo has been liberally interpreted by some, with Qatar and France supplying the rebels with weapons and military advice. Qatar is reported to have supplied the rebels with antitank missiles, flying them into Benghazi. And Derek Flood said he believes Qatar was also getting weapons to the rebels via the Tunisian border. In the western mountains "there was support on the ground from Qatari officials as well as Emirati officials," he said. Tunisian officials deny weapons are crossing their border. Neither Qatar nor the United Arab Emirates have commented on such involvement.
At sea, NATO has operated a blockade -- in accordance with U.N. resolutions -- to prevent any resupply of Gadhafi forces. But in one instance in May a Canadian frigate stopped a rebel tugboat carrying howitzer rounds, ammunition and "lots of explosives" from Benghazi to Misrata. NATO commanders allowed the vessel to proceed on the grounds that it was moving from one Libyan port to another.
More recently, there was the murky case of the oil tanker Cartagena, a vessel owned by the Libyan government but stranded at sea with 30,000 tons of gasoline since May. Rebels boarded the ship in international waters and diverted it to Benghazi with NATO permission. The unknown: Did the rebels have help in seizing the ship? It's not the sort of operation they are used to.
NATO's mission has shifted in another way. After hitting more than 3,000 military targets -- from ammunition dumps to tanks to radar and command-and-control facilities -- there are not many more left. So it has turned to the regime's infrastructure. The satellite dishes of Libyan state TV were bombed on the grounds that the broadcaster was being used to "incite violence." The radar at Tripoli airport also was taken out, and the sprawling Gadhafi compound in Tripoli has been targeted several times.
While the Libyan regime has lost access to much of the country and is losing critical routes to the east, west and south, Derek Flood says it appears to retain control of border crossings in the Sahara desert -- from Algeria, Chad and Niger.
The military balance has tipped in the rebels' favor. Flood says the capture by rebels of the important road junction at Gharyan 80 kilometers south of Tripoli can only further isolate the regime, cutting off fuel supplies from Algeria. Even so, it still controls large tracts of a vast country.
NATO's current mandate in Libya expires at the end of September. Its members may yet be asked to extend it once again.


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rodeje25
Location: Cold and Rainy Netherlands
Re: Video games have been ruined forever... again!
Post by rodeje25 » Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:32 pm
i think woman could do anything even if they have different bodies (something bigger in the brain wich allows them to multitask better (apparantly), breasts, etc) they are still the same as men because woman could do the exact same thing agianst men actually. because we are also different from woman like we are taller (in general), have more hair on our bodies and we don't have breasts and we have a penis etc. but i think it is weird that it has to be done by making organisations like feminism (not sure if it is an organisation tough) to do this stuff. and if woman want video games to change then why do they want to change existing video games and upcoming video games. i mean woman can learn coding to and they can start making their own games too and of course woman can play video games and i wouldn't see why men would say woman shouldn't play video games because on 9gag i see a lot of pictures about boys being able to game with their gf and that would be a paradise then.
i hope i am more right this time and EPR i hope i made my vision about feminism and my thoughts about it less "ingorant".
Endoperez
Location: cold and dark and lovely Finland
Post by Endoperez » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:19 pm
Why do you assume women aren't creating games already? Women developers are a minority, but they do exist. They seem to be more common as game artists than as game programmers, but I've met both.
Also, many women aren't feminists, and see nothing wrong in current video games. As you said, men and women can think and act in the exact same way. Many women think games are fine as-is.
I don't know why women shouldn't play games, but I've seen it said. For example:
"I think they need to stop targetin video games and do things in the real world and leave te pixel world alone. That is mostly our territory and you better keep your hands of it or we will bite!"
Maybe it's a joke... but if you are the butt of jokes often enough, it hurts. Also in games with a voice chat, a female voice will get more negative comments than male voice. And then there's cases like this. Or the "she's a fake gamer, she's not a real geek, she just does it for attention" thing, another pretty common one.
While talking about these things, try to avoid telling other people you how they should feel. "Oh, it can't be that bad!" and so on. Facts are fine. "Men get bullied too..." is fine, but "... so women shouldn't feel bad!" is not.
If you want to know how a woman in gaming feels, you should listen to what she says. You are not a woman, so you don't know what it's like for women. You need to hear it from someone who is.
As far as ignorance goes, you're actually doing better than I did back when I first learned about feminism. I kept bothering these people who were trying to discuss feminism, and I basically asked joined in and asked them to explain feminism to me, instead of starting out by reading about it in Wikipedia! "I don't know what you're talking about, but boy, you sound angry! You shouldn't be angry. Is there even anything to be angry about? Oh, feminism? Please, do tell me what it's about."
There's a joke comic that pretty much describes how obnoxious I was.
You read about it as soon as you realized you needed more info, and only then started asking questions.And being able to admit your own mistakes is always a plus in my book, it's suprisingly hard. So yeah, you're good.
Korban3
Location: 42nd St E, Hell
Post by Korban3 » Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:09 pm
I have a suggestion that will solve everyone's problems.
stay with me here
everyone stopped being assholes
and just let other people do their thing
EPR89
Post by EPR89 » Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:49 pm
Korban3 wrote: I have a suggestion that will solve everyone's problems.
The problem is that the thing one guy does is the thing another guy considers an asshole move.
EDIT: HOWEVER, some of those positions can be justified, others not so much.
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Endoperez wrote: Why do you assume women aren't creating games already? Women developers are a minority, but they do exist. They seem to be more common as game artists than as game programmers, but I've met both.
I do know there are female developers, 22cans has woman. But that aside i mean more like why aren't there any female only teams who have woman as a target audience instead of woman working between hundreds of men.
I met a girl gamer on gmod and she got angry at me immediatly for asking if she was a girl. So i apoligized for asking and said it was awesome there was a girl on the server.
But this part points out to the fact that there are sooo many pictures on 9gag about boys being able to game wih their gf and that would be a paradise. So it is sooo weird that guys do this and i can't figure it out myself . I guess I'm very different. My sisters (3 sister, i'm the only boy in the family together with my dad) play games also and they never have been in a situation like this.
As for the following
EPR89 wrote:
+1. This mostly happened between endoperez and phoenixwarior.
And i consider myself as being here for mostly gathering info about feminism and here and there say what i think is weird about it and here and there i'm being awfully wrong.
And fuck autocorrect i'm Turning it of right NOW!
Post by Endoperez » Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:10 am
rodeje25 wrote: I do know there are female developers, 22cans has woman. But that aside i mean more like why aren't there any female only teams who have woman as a target audience instead of woman working between hundreds of men.
All-woman teams are rare, but there's Giant Spacekat at least. Probably several small companies making casual puzzle games.
Funny thing about them - the boss is actively talking about feminist issues on Twitter, but it was only after their game had already been released that they realized their game's characters were unnaturally thin and that's kinda unhealthy and bad. Here they have the original on the left.
https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/ ... 60384?s=09
Again, women are used to the same games as men, and just because there's more women in the team doesn't mean they do different games. I believe the team that made HuniePop was mostly female, and it's a porn puzzle game where playing well causes anime women to remove their clothes and get excited.
Do women need different games, or do they want the games we already have (that they already know and play) to treat them differently?
Many are happy with existing games having better female characters. Mass Effect had female Shepard as a choice. New Lara Croft has been praised as a well-written even from a feminist viewpoint.
There's also games like Bayonetta, where the camera tends to focus on the character's butt and her clothes fly off during special moves. Some feminists dislike the "male gaze" (= camera shows thing men stereotypically enjoy looking at, like slowly showing a woman's legs, butt, breasts...) and criticize the game. Other feminists think the female character is powerful and awesome and love the game. You can't make one game that's fun for all girls, or all boys. But if having a few more, different characters makes a game more fun for women, it might be worth the time.
It might be different in different age groups. Maybe girl gamers are common now, but were more rare earlier? Or maybe it just seemed like that because there was no internet. I have no idea!
My sister didn't play games, but she does enjoy casual mobile games now.
Post by rodeje25 » Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:19 am
Endoperez wrote:
I think girl gamers are less rare now but still rare. Because i mostly meet very young boys with a high voice who call you a cunt when you are innocent and they are as well but thet start shootin at you because of nothing and you were able to kill them before they killed you. And i meet more normal male gamers with a lower voice and they don't call you a cunt immediatly and they don't rdm (random death match) as well.
But what was that all about gamersgate and david and totalbiscuit wich caused someone to leave and ask his money back?
Post by Endoperez » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:21 am
Haha, that seems like a good description of some games! The cussword changes in different servers too.
I wonder what kind of players Nintendo's Splatoon will have. Bright, colourful, quite girly compared to military shooters.
GamerGate is, well, hard to discuss. Some people think GG is about ethics in journalism, and there's also some trolls but they don't matter, or are not part of GamerGate. Some people think GamerGate trolls are criminals or at least trying to drive women out of games, and anyone who associates with them in GG is suspicious no matter what they claim they found about journalists.
So if you support GamerGate, some people assume you support the people who are harassing and threatening people using GG and related tags.
At the same time if you oppose GamerGate, some people assume you are a mad feminist who tries to ruin games by bribing or shaming developers to make different games, or something. I'm not sure, because I'm against GG and don't understand the movement.
David commented on Total Biscuits comments. Total Biscuit represented the first position, David the second. Opinions started very far apart and things got heated.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Wolfire/stat ... 6784534528
I found some serious stuff about feminisn but i will write it when i get home. Otherwise my poor iphone would die from all the tapping on the screen..... My thumbs would die as well.
Edit: will come on sunday i'm sleeping at a friends house right now
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Post by Korban3 » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:59 pm
Or we could all stop being teeth in the gears of 'war', (see what I did there) and stop using labels to divide ourselves. We all like games and we can all agree that ethics are important. Despite differences, maybe we should all just live and let live, instead of gnit picking and being stupid fucks.
Phoenixwarrior141
Location: I've lost all sense of direction, I'm quite concerned to be honest.
Post by Phoenixwarrior141 » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:14 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU9aU9NVDg8
Because, reasons.
Post by EPR89 » Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:16 am
Phoenixwarrior141 wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU9aU9NVDg8
You need to stop just posting random stuff here.
Write a comment on it or just let it be.
Post by Phoenixwarrior141 » Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:22 pm
Oh wait fuck.
Important Note/Comment Thing because people told me to:
With KotakuInAction moving away from the standard doxxing and such (Moving toward actual ethics in journalism) this popped up.
It's proof that GG needs to exist as it is now, because it's obvious from the article that the writer didn't play the game. Instead saw this scene, and decided that social justice was more important.
See Endo? If you look on the GG Subreddit, you'll see that doxxing is forbidden and most of the posts there have been gradually shifting toward ethics. Moot (Admin of 4Chan) abandoned 4Chan for being the commander center for GG, which was supposedly evil and ruining live for the lulz. Yet at the time, GG has gradually moved on from doxxing like in the early Zoe Post days to actual ethics like they claim. Regardless of what you say, GG isn't as evil as you want to make it out to be. You can go on and on about how people talk it's talk but don't condemn those who walk it's walk. When gradually that walk has become more about ethics and protecting the gamer identity.
Hell, #NotYourShield exists.
Post by Endoperez » Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:29 pm
That's nice, but I believe they could get more done by using a different name. A proper organization would also help, so they have a media-trained representative who can give interviews etc. It'd also help all of GamerGate to move on. The Twitter group is still following the same old community leaders, including the ones who planned things during Zoe post. As long as these people who aim for ethics in & around gaming community share the name or even ally with unethical behaviour, I won't be able to take it seriously.
I will admit that I haven't seen doxxing in KiA recently. It is still full of weird concepts and slang (so many "shills") but that on its own isn't evil.
Did you see the recent Tropes vs Women Kickstarter update? It explained quite well why the series hasn't been finished yet, and what Anita Sarkeesian & co have been doing during these years. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/56 ... ts/1115560
One interesting factoid I specifically want to point out - trying to make videos without any mistakes whatsoever is really difficult & timeconsuming. Every word is weighed. Think what you will about her, but I believe that shows she is open to criticism and tries to improve based on it.
Are you aware of the term 'cognitive dissonance'? It's the mental discomfort one experiences when receiving new information that contradicts existing values or beliefs or facts. I read about that when I realized there really are gamergaters who think it's all about ethics, sometime last October.
Endoperez wrote: That's nice, but I believe they could get more done by using a different name. A proper organization would also help, so they have a media-trained representative who can give interviews etc.
This is actually a concept that GamerGate holds near and dear. It never wants to go outside gaming and into the other media. It never has it's own unanimous "Voice" (Unlike feminism, which has important figureheads that most people look up to, while GG holds everyone equally). So when Anita goes onto ABC and says a lot of anti-gamergate shit. GG just raises it's shields and waits for the normals and outsiders to come into gaming. Only to get bashed by people who know what they're talking about.
It'd also help all of GamerGate to move on. The Twitter group is still following the same old community leaders, including the ones who planned things during Zoe post. As long as these people who aim for ethics in & around gaming community share the name or even ally with unethical behaviour, I won't be able to take it seriously.
There's a difference. GG doesn't care about ethics outside of journalism, it only cares about journalistic ethics. Anything else is entirely secondary.
It's a remnant from 4Chan, shill is a negative term for liberals (Like they think the SJWs are).
Doxxing is actually forbidden on KiA.
Speaking of which, I wonder if TumblrInAction still exists. It was KiA before KiA existed.
Those Gaters make up the vast majority of actual gaters. You can dox in the name of GG all you like, but that doesn't make you part of the movement or it's community.
Strangely, just like in 40K, one of the Chaos gods (Khorne, God of War) gets pissed off if you kill innocent civilians shouting "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE.".
Lot of parallels to 40K in the GG controversy.
I am aware of the term (Thank you Spec Ops!), you're probably feeling it now.
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The Risks of Texting and Driving
We have always been told and warned not to use phones while driving, recently though, there are further studies that even emphasize the gravity of the consequences of texting behind the wheel.
National Safety Council's annual injury and fatality report says that compared the 2014 record, the usage of cellphones as cause of car accidents have modestly increased to 26%.
Contrary to the belief that most phone related accidents are due to texting while driving, studies show that it is only responsible for 5% of phone-related crashes. According to studies, though majority of car crashes are results of distraction due to talking on hands-free cellphones.
Texas A&M as supported by NSC conducted a research called "Voice-to-Text Driver Distraction Study" which yielded results warning drivers that talking while driving can be more distracting and dangerous than texting when operating behind the wheel. In addition, it states that even the use of talk-to-text applications does not contribute as a solution.
According to Texas A&M's survey, manual texting requires a bit lesser time as compared to the voice-to-text method for most phone-related tasks. Despite this, however, it yields the same level of distraction and effect to driving performance.
Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T, four of the country's big names in the cellphone industry, joined together in an effort to launch an advertising campaign called "It Can Wait" early in 2013. The ad warns phone users against the consequences of misusing their own handheld device.
Hands-free cellphone use has seemingly become a major cause of distraction for those behind the wheel. In studies published earlier in 2009, one of which a report in the Journal of Safety Research, it has been proven that the level of focus and driving performance while using hands-free phone was seldom found to yield better results than that of using handheld gadgets.
The NSC, in their full reports, rates and lists different duties in relation to the effect they have on a driver's mental workload through using gathered data from a cognitive research. Driving and talking on a hands-free cellphone resulted to a 2.27 workload rating, which is not far from the 2.45 workload rating of driving and talking on a handheld phone. A rating of 3.06 workload was also found on the same scale when studied the usage of speech-to-text applications while driving.
NSC's website reports that an estimated 245,358 phone-related car crashes happened so far this year. An increased reaction time is recorded as one of the effects cellphone usage, whether handheld or hands-free, has on drivers.
Last year's NSC reports states that the rate of drivers handheld electronic gadgets operation while behind the wheel has increased to 1.3% in 2011 from the 0.9% the year before that.
At present, 12 states, together with D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico have made usage of handheld devices while behind the wheel illegal, as reported by the Governors Highway Safety Association. Five among the 43 states that have prohibited texting while driving have strict implementation of their laws.
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