Ironhold

My maternal grandmother was a war bride. 
She didn't talk much of what life was like beforehand, and we suspect that what happened played a part in her eventual mental illness. 

Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya. "Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan."
Fuchida was an officer with the Imperial Navy, and was part of the task force sent to Midway. However, he was struck with appendicitis after the task force was too far underway for him to be evacuated back to Japan, and so he spent the entire battle as an unwilling observer. 
It's for this reason that after the battle was over, the powers-that-be ordered him to prepare a report on what happened and what went wrong. The Japanese government was so mortified by the loss at Midway they made news of the entire battle classified information, denying that it had even happened. The final copy of Fuchida's report disappeared as part of this intense campaign of secrecy, but when he was cleaning out an old foot locker several years later he discovered a draft copy he had written. This draft copy forms the core of the book. Okumiya, an aviator with the diversionary offensive against the Aleutian Islands, provided supplementary information from there. 
For obvious reasons, when the book was published in Japan about a decade after the incident, the United States Navy was quick to acquire the rights to translate the book into English. The copy I have is a paperback edition of the Navy's translation, with annotations in place to note where the accounts differ. 
Fuchida makes it clear that the top brass of the Imperial Navy *never* entertained the idea that their military intelligence was wrong, let alone that the United States had any chance of winning. As a result, the war games they engaged in to help simulate possible events during the battle were worthless because anything that potentially caused the Imperial Navy to lose was overruled by the judges. Instead, the Imperial Navy quite literally underestimated the number of carriers the US Navy had and had no precautions in place lest the carriers approach from the direction they approached in (a scenario that had, in fact, actually emerged during the war games but was ignored). The US Navy had broken enough of Japan's codes to know that Midway was a likely target, and so had long since prepared. 
The loss at Midway broke the Japanese Navy, putting them on the defensive for virtually the rest of the war. The Battle Off Samar was their last major offensive action, and the loss of so many ships to such a small American force so put the Japanese to shame that they never recovered emotionally. This is how the kamikaze attacks got started, the utter desperation at the knowledge that the Americans couldn't be stopped as things existed. 

Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya. "Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan."
Fuchida was an officer with the Imperial Navy, and was part of the task force sent to Midway. However, he was struck with appendicitis after the task force was too far underway for him to be evacuated back to Japan, and so he spent the entire battle as an unwilling observer. 
It's for this reason that after the battle was over, the powers-that-be ordered him to prepare a report on what happened and what went wrong. The Japanese government was so mortified by the loss at Midway they made news of the entire battle classified information, denying that it had even happened. The final copy of Fuchida's report disappeared as part of this intense campaign of secrecy, but when he was cleaning out an old foot locker several years later he discovered a draft copy he had written. This draft copy forms the core of the book. Okumiya, an aviator with the diversionary offensive against the Aleutian Islands, provided supplementary information from there. 
For obvious reasons, when the book was published in Japan about a decade after the incident, the United States Navy was quick to acquire the rights to translate the book into English. The copy I have is a paperback edition of the Navy's translation, with annotations in place to note where the accounts differ. 
Fuchida makes it clear that the top brass of the Imperial Navy *never* entertained the idea that their military intelligence was wrong, let alone that the United States had any chance of winning. As a result, the war games they engaged in to help simulate possible events during the battle were worthless because anything that potentially caused the Imperial Navy to lose was overruled by the judges. Instead, the Imperial Navy quite literally underestimated the number of carriers the US Navy had and had no precautions in place lest the carriers approach from the direction they approached in (a scenario that had, in fact, actually emerged during the war games but was ignored). The US Navy had broken enough of Japan's codes to know that Midway was a likely target, and so had long since prepared. 
The loss at Midway broke the Japanese Navy, putting them on the defensive for virtually the rest of the war. The Battle Off Samar was their last major offensive action, and the loss of so many ships to such a small American force so put the Japanese to shame that they never recovered emotionally. This is how the kamikaze attacks got started, the utter desperation at the knowledge that the Americans couldn't be stopped as things existed. 

Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya. "Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan."
Fuchida was an officer with the Imperial Navy, and was part of the task force sent to Midway. However, he was struck with appendicitis after the task force was too far underway for him to be evacuated back to Japan, and so he spent the entire battle as an unwilling observer. 
It's for this reason that after the battle was over, the powers-that-be ordered him to prepare a report on what happened and what went wrong. The Japanese government was so mortified by the loss at Midway they made news of the entire battle classified information, denying that it had even happened. The final copy of Fuchida's report disappeared as part of this intense campaign of secrecy, but when he was cleaning out an old foot locker several years later he discovered a draft copy he had written. This draft copy forms the core of the book. Okumiya, an aviator with the diversionary offensive against the Aleutian Islands, provided supplementary information from there. 
For obvious reasons, when the book was published in Japan about a decade after the incident, the United States Navy was quick to acquire the rights to translate the book into English. The copy I have is a paperback edition of the Navy's translation, with annotations in place to note where the accounts differ. 
Fuchida makes it clear that the top brass of the Imperial Navy *never* entertained the idea that their military intelligence was wrong, let alone that the United States had any chance of winning. As a result, the war games they engaged in to help simulate possible events during the battle were worthless because anything that potentially caused the Imperial Navy to lose was overruled by the judges. Instead, the Imperial Navy quite literally underestimated the number of carriers the US Navy had and had no precautions in place lest the carriers approach from the direction they approached in (a scenario that had, in fact, actually emerged during the war games but was ignored). The US Navy had broken enough of Japan's codes to know that Midway was a likely target, and so had long since prepared. 
The loss at Midway broke the Japanese Navy, putting them on the defensive for virtually the rest of the war. The Battle Off Samar was their last major offensive action, and the loss of so many ships to such a small American force so put the Japanese to shame that they never recovered emotionally. This is how the kamikaze attacks got started, the utter desperation at the knowledge that the Americans couldn't be stopped as things existed. 

Remember the Conference talk about lifting where you stand? 
That's what I'm getting at: making the most of where you are at any given moment and hoping for the best. 

The key is to make your overall product appealing enough to the mainstream while still having church-friendly messages and content. 
I mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aquabats
How many people even within the church known that MC Bat Commander, Crash, and Eaglebones are members? 

Not many people know this, but a lot of hard rock and heavy metal bands have actually taken to doing Christmas albums since the 1990s. 
I've heard quite a few of these, and to be honest I find that a lot of these songs are worth pursuing. 
For example, Manowar is a heavy metal band most known for doing songs about sword & sorcery fantasy scenarios, but their rendition of "Stille Nacht" has an incredible power and reverence to it that, given just who is singing it, comes off as a group of warriors laying aside their weapons for the season. 
Or we have Rob Halford, best known as the bombastic front man of Judas Priest, turning in incredibly soulful and reflective renditions of "Away In A Manger" and "Good King Wenceslas". 
Shinedown's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" actually sounds like it's from the perspective of someone who was at war, even if only at war with himself. 
Et cetra. 
Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Yeah, they started out as a heavy metal band named Savatage. 
It shows that there's good to be found if people are willing to look. 

To me at least, that's still a bit alarming that an app can get a phone hot. 
And 17% is nothing to sneeze at. 
So even though you likely have a newer, better phone than I do, it still suggests that perhaps the app is too high-performance for its own good. 

It was a full two-hour session of Conference, the Saturday morning session from October 2021. 
I regularly use radio apps like iHeart and TuneIn, and neither one is as intensive in regards to energy usage or phone heat. 
The only thing I can figure is that whoever in Salt Lake designed the app presumed it would be used on high-end bleeding-edge devices with top-of-the-line specs and so bogged it down with high-end everything. 

There's also the fact that a lot of mainline Christians are coming to realize that somehow we're doing a pretty good job of holding things together and pushing back against the modern world. They're curious as to how we're getting it done and want to learn more about us. They know we can be allies for the greater good, and are going from there.

For about a *month* when I went to the actual page for the General Conference videos on the church website I got a 404 error indicating an invalid link. Same for many of the other videos. 
I guess they finally put Conference back online, as that's what I'm seeing now. 

YouTube no longer allows people like me who are using ad blockers to actually see any videos. 

Check with Brigham Young University to see if they've prepared anything. That's my suggestion. 

The problem is that a lot of people nowadays don't understand nuance. They want the world divided into a binary system where you're either "good" or "bad". This complicates efforts to evaluate people from history. 

The problem is that a lot of people nowadays don't understand nuance. They want the world divided into a binary system where you're either "good" or "bad". This complicates efforts to evaluate people from history. 

I know people from all walks of life via social media, including a few athiests. 
I was actually talking with one of them last night about this, with him noting his frustration with remarks like hers. Athletes, by virtue of being athletes, face injuries consistent with their sport, and her number was finally up. That doesn't mean anything either way. 

The issue is that because a number of right-wing groups were going hardcore about conspiracies regarding child trafficking and prominent individuals, there are a lot of left-wing outlets, like Rolling Stone, who dismiss *all* discussion of the matter as conspiracy theory when it is in fact a real issue. 
This dismissal, in turn, leads the folks on the right to suspect that these outlets are covering something up, especially since some of these same outlets praised the film "Cuties". 
That's the issue.

The issue is that because a number of right-wing groups were going hardcore about conspiracies regarding child trafficking and prominent individuals, there are a lot of left-wing outlets, like Rolling Stone, who dismiss *all* discussion of the matter as conspiracy theory when it is in fact a real issue. 
This dismissal, in turn, leads the folks on the right to suspect that these outlets are covering something up, especially since some of these same outlets praised the film "Cuties". 
That's the issue.

And where were the protocols to stop the robot from loading cargo there if it was in fact occupied? Some basic sensors and a little bit of extra programming would have taken care of it. 

I am, for all intents and purposes, a Reagan-era political conservative.
...Who, because of how politics has shifted over the years, now comes up as a "moderate" on a lot of those automated "where do you fall on the political spectrum?" tests. 
The way I see it, society needs to periodically test the old and new against each other. 
Is there still merit in the old ways of doing something?
Is the proposed new way of doing something truly better? 
Sometimes it becomes clear that the old ways need to crumble. But other times it becomes clear that the new ways are not for the best and may even be for the worst. 
What I find is that moderates and conservatives tend to agree with me on this approach, while liberals and "progressives" are frequently aghast and presume evil things about me. 
Society needs to evolve to survive, but not all would-be evolutions are beneficial in the long run.

I am, for all intents and purposes, a Reagan-era political conservative.
...Who, because of how politics has shifted over the years, now comes up as a "moderate" on a lot of those automated "where do you fall on the political spectrum?" tests. 
The way I see it, society needs to periodically test the old and new against each other. 
Is there still merit in the old ways of doing something?
Is the proposed new way of doing something truly better? 
Sometimes it becomes clear that the old ways need to crumble. But other times it becomes clear that the new ways are not for the best and may even be for the worst. 
What I find is that moderates and conservatives tend to agree with me on this approach, while liberals and "progressives" are frequently aghast and presume evil things about me. 
Society needs to evolve to survive, but not all would-be evolutions are beneficial in the long run.

I think you and your parents need to both take it down a notch. 
Your dad is out of line for saying things like you won't have your muscles in Heaven. 
You need to ask yourself *why* you're spending so much time at the gym and what you hope to accomplish through it. 
As it is, you don't need to be wearing a name tag to serve as a missionary. Your membership in the church is enough that you should be a living example to others as much as you can be, and you should also be well-versed enough in the scriptures, the church's teachings, and the church's history to answer any questions that people may have. 
 
And for the record, my maternal grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in my senior year of high school. It would have been a hardship for me to leave my parents at that point, and so I made the internet my mission field. 

OK yeah, those are all fairly new, having been built in the last 20 years. 
If you follow the Central Texas Expressway (that is, the service road) a little eastward, you'll get to the intersection with Trimmier Road. 
The intersection itself is home to both a CVS and a Walgreen's. 
If you go north at the intersection with Trimmier, you'll pass a Red Lobster on your way to Mary Jane Drive. Turn left and you'll eventually come to the stake center. 
If you go south at the intersection with Trimmier, you'll come to Lowe's Boulevard. Turning right will take you to the H-E-B Plus grocery store, which has a gas station, a Whataburger, a UPS store, and a Freebirds Burritos. Turning left will take you past a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a Kohl's, an Office Depot, and a Lowe's before you reach W. S. Young Drive. Going straight through that intersection will take you to the Cielo Vista shopping center, which has an Aldi's, a PetSmart, an Ollie's discount store, and an Academy Sports. 
Going straight through the Trimmier intersection will take you past a shopping center with a Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree, and Tractor Supply as well as a Wendy's and an In-And-Out Burger. 
The Killeen Mall is on the north side of the highway along W.S. Young, but has been *heavily* changed over the last 10+ years. Sears, Beall's, and the movie theater are gone, as are many stores & concessions that used to be there. However, there's a Chuck E. Cheese where the theater used to stand, while Hallmark and J. C. Penney are still there inside the main facility.
edit - 
As far as Fort Hood Street / Highway 195 itself goes? 
Going north will take you past a shopping center (on your right) that has a Big Lots and a supermarket called O-Mart that specializes in Asian goods. Following 195 north across the railroad tracks will take you past Book 'Stan, one of the two comic book shops in the area. 
Going south will take you through a rather... colorful part of Killeen, but if you turn right on Stan Schleuter heading towards Clear Creek Road you'll see a recently developed area with multiple retail outlets and America's Heroes Comics, the other local comic shop. 

Screwed up the one and only good relationship I've ever had because I was dealing with an undiagnosed mental health condition and it was affecting my judgement. 
Am now staring down 40 with zero prospects and no means to support anyone anyway due to how little I make at the local-level newspapers I'm with. 
All I can do is trust that whatever will happen will happen. 

Screwed up the one and only good relationship I've ever had because I was dealing with an undiagnosed mental health condition and it was affecting my judgement. 
Am now staring down 40 with zero prospects and no means to support anyone anyway due to how little I make at the local-level newspapers I'm with. 
All I can do is trust that whatever will happen will happen.