Space Opera Vs!

Here is a cool little thing I like to do... Get a genre. Find the main TV series and Films in that genre and add up all their scores and compare....

Where do I get the scores? IMDB.com of course. So all of the numbers below that have a year beside them are from IMDB. The first box is my total averages... enjoy!

Today is SPACE OPERA!

(Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, as well as chivalric romance, and often risk-taking.)

Star Trek	7.267
Star Wars	7.825
Star Gate	7.771
Firefly	8.500
Battlestar Galactica	7.660
Farscape	8.250
Babylon 5	6.988
Andromeda	6.600

Firefly Wins Of course....

The OBVIOUS winner here is Firefly with  8.5/10. I was wondering if I should have added in Starship Troopers? What do you think? I have added Andromeda as an "also ran". But when I was looking into Andromeda I was surprised how many of its cast would turn up in other Space Opera.

But there is a breakdown below: 

Star Trek
Star Trek (1966–1969)	8.4
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)	6.4
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)	7.7
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)	6.6
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)	7.3
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)	8.6
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)	5.4
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country(1991)	7.2
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine(1993–1999)	7.9
Star Trek: Generations(1994)	6.6
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)	7.7
Star Trek: First Contact(1996)	7.6
Star Trek: Insurrection(1998)	6.4
Star Trek: Enterprise(2001–2005)	7.7
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)	6.4
Star Trek (2009)	8
Star Trek Into Darkness(2013)	7.8
Star Trek Beyond (2016)	7.1
	7.266666667
Star Wars
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	8.7
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)	8.8
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	8.4
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)	6.5
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)	6.6
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)	7.6
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)	8.1
Rogue One (2016)	7.9
	7.825
Star Gate
Stargate (1994)	7.1
Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)	8.4
Stargate: Atlantis (2004–2009)	8.1
Stargate: Continuum (2008)	7.6
Stargate: The Ark of Truth(2008)	7.4
Stargate SG-1: Children Of Gods - Final Cut (2009)	8.1
SGU Stargate Universe(2009–2011)	7.7
	7.771428571
Firefly
Firefly (2002–2003)	9.1
Serenity (2005)	7.9
	8.5
Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 1979)	7.1
Battlestar Galactica (2003)	8.6
Battlestar Galactica (2004 - 2009)	8.7
Battlestar Galactica : The Resistance (2006)	7.9
Battlestar Galactica : Razor (2007)	7.7
Battlestar Galactica : Razor Flashbacks (2007)	7.7
Battlestar Galactica : The Face Of The Enemy (2008)	7.7
Caprica (2009 - 2010)	7.1
Battlestar Galactica : The Plan (2009)	7.1
Battlestar Galactica : Blood And Chrome (2012)	7
	7.66
Farscape
Farscape (1999 - 2003)	8.3
Farscape : The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)	8.2
	8.25
Babylon 5
Babylon 5 : The Gathering (1993)	6.6
Babylon 5 (1994 - 1998)	8.3
Babylon 5 : In The Beginning (1998)	7.7
Babylon 5 : Thirdspace (1998)	6.9
Babylon 5 : The River Of Souls (1998)	6.6
Babylon 5 : A Call To Arms (1999)	7.2
Babylon 5 : The Legend Of The Rangers (2002)	6.1
Babylon 5 : The Lost Tales (2007)	6.5
	6.9875
Andromeda
Andromeda (2000 - 2005)	6.6

Star Wars should have scored higher... Thanks Lucas!

Have I left any out? Please tell me what you think at donalod@gmail.com

A Handmaid's Tale

Going to cut to the chase here. This could have been called "A 'Vision Of Donald Trump's World In The Future' Tale".

Bloody horrible existance. Welcome to Saudi Arabia.  

Have you been watching "A Handmaid's Tale"? It is very good. Well acted. You know all the usual stuff, the sets are well lit. The sound is good. These are things you take for granted but they need alot of work in television and film production. What else is important? Hmmm... Well the continuity is good. You know what continuity is? That is when someone is for example holding a cup in, lets say, their right hand in a scene, the camera cuts away from them and then back to them and all of a sudden they are holding the cut in their left hand. You know? What else is important?

Hmmm.

Well set costumes are important. All the clothes look well, Gives a certain look and feel to the program. A feeling of doom and utter hopelessness. A feeling that everything is shit in this world and that there is no hope for anyone. Wait a second, this is reminding me of one more thing that I have left out of my "what makes a good TV or Movie" list.

Yes, that's it. The story. You know like a quality story. Not like Eastenders or Home and Away story. I mean a real story that actually has something to say. Like real meaning kind of stuff. So I don't want to give too many spoilers away so if you do not want any spoilers look away now... go to another webpage. Close this tab on your browser and go elsewhere. Go on....

If your still reading. Ask yourself this. What countries support female genital mutilation? What countries is it illegal to be gay in? Would you visit these countries? Would you support their governments? Support their economies? Well I did some research.


Here is a link to the Wiki page on the trendy FGM...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation

Percentage of the 15–49 group who have undergone FGM in 29 countries for which figures were available in 2016

How about countries that are illegal to be gay in? Lets look into that....

(going away doing some research...)

1. Yemen
2. Iran
3. Mauritania
4. Nigeria
5. Qatar
6. Saudi Arabia
7. Afghanistan
8. Somalia
9. Sudan
10. United Arab Emirates

Boy oh boy... scary isn't it. Saudi Arabia... UAE. These are countries that we trade with! These are countries that America have done massive arms deals with lately. USA have signed an arms deal worth $110 billion with SA that will increase to around $350 billion in the coming years (click here for link). You telling me that a man as crazy as Trump might not make the Handmaid's tale come true?

I love the series A Handmaid's Tale so much because I hate the point of the story of the Handmaid's tale so much.

Existence is horrible for 100's of millions of women because of religion.

If you are not watching A Handmaid's Tale already, watch it now I would advise. Link to the IMDB page is below.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/

Keyboard shortcuts for Google Sheets

Whats All This Then? Well what this is, is an extremely helpful list of keyboard shortcuts in Google Sheets. Google Sheets is the equalivant to Microsoft Excel. So these commands are for Windows and boy to I love them.  Want to insert a row in Sheets? Insert rows above Ctrl + Alt + Shift + = Ctrl + Alt + = (with rows selected) Want to delete a row? Delete rows Ctrl + Alt + - (with rows selected) Full Page is here with links to Windows, Chrome OS and Mac Common actions
Select column	Ctrl + Space
Select row	Shift + Space
Select all	Ctrl + a Ctrl + Shift + Space
Undo	Ctrl + z
Redo	Ctrl + y Ctrl + Shift + z F4
Find	Ctrl + f
Find and replace	Ctrl + h
Fill range	Ctrl + Enter
Fill down	Ctrl + d
Fill right	Ctrl + r
Save (every change is saved automatically in Drive)	Ctrl + s
Open	Ctrl + o
Print	Ctrl + p
Copy	Ctrl + c
Cut	Ctrl + x
Paste	Ctrl + v
Paste values only	Ctrl + Shift + v
Show common keyboard shortcuts	Ctrl + /
Insert new sheet	Shift + F11
Compact controls	Ctrl + Shift + f
Input tools on/off (available in spreadsheets in non-Latin languages)	Ctrl + Shift + k
Select input tools	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + k
Format cells
Bold	Ctrl + b
Underline	Ctrl + u
Italic	Ctrl + i
Strikethrough	Alt + Shift + 5
Center align	Ctrl + Shift + e
Left align	Ctrl + Shift + l
Right align	Ctrl + Shift + r
Apply top border	Alt + Shift + 1
Apply right border	Alt + Shift + 2
Apply bottom border	Alt + Shift + 3
Apply left border	Alt + Shift + 4
Remove borders	Alt + Shift + 6
Apply outer border	Alt + Shift + 7 Ctrl + Shift + 7
Insert link	Ctrl + k
Insert time	Ctrl + Shift + ;
Insert date	Ctrl + ;
Insert date and time	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + ;
Format as decimal	Ctrl + Shift + 1
Format as time	Ctrl + Shift + 2
Format as date	Ctrl + Shift + 3
Format as currency	Ctrl + Shift + 4
Format as percentage	Ctrl + Shift + 5
Format as exponent	Ctrl + Shift + 6
Clear formatting	Ctrl + \
Navigate spreadsheet
Move to beginning of row	Home
Move to beginning of sheet	Ctrl + Home
Move to end of row	End
Move to end of sheet	Ctrl + End
Scroll to active cell	Ctrl + Backspace
Move to next sheet	Ctrl + Shift + Page Down
Move to previous sheet	Ctrl + Shift + Page Up
Display list of sheets	Alt + Shift + k
Open hyperlink	Alt + Enter
Open Explore	Alt + Shift + x
Move focus out of spreadsheet	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + m
Move to quicksum (when a range of cells is selected)	Alt + Shift + q
Move focus to popup (for links, bookmarks, and images)	holding Ctrl + Alt, press e then p
Open drop-down menu on filtered cell	Ctrl + Alt + r
Open revision history	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + h
Open chat inside the spreadsheet	Shift + Esc
Close drawing editor	Shift + Esc
Edit notes and comments
Insert/edit note	Shift + F2
Insert/edit comment	Ctrl + Alt + m
Open comment discussion thread	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + a
Enter current comment	holding Ctrl + Alt, press e then c
Move to next comment	holding Ctrl + Alt, press n then c
Move to previous comment	holding Ctrl + Alt, press p then c
Open a menu
File menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + f other browsers: Alt + Shift + f
Edit menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + e other browsers: Alt + Shift + e
View menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + v other browsers: Alt + Shift + v
Insert menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + i other browsers: Alt + Shift + i
Format menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + o other browsers: Alt + Shift + o
Data menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + d other browsers: Alt + Shift + d
Tools menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + t other browsers: Alt + Shift + t
Open insert menu	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + = Ctrl + Alt + =  (with cells selected)
Open delete menu	Ctrl + Alt + - (with cells selected)
Form menu (present when the spreadsheet is connected to a form)	in Google Chrome: Alt + m other browsers: Alt + Shift + m
Add-ons menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + n other browsers: Alt + Shift + n
Help menu	in Google Chrome: Alt + h other browsers: Alt + Shift + h
Accessibility menu (present when screen reader support is enabled)	in Google Chrome: Alt + a other browsers: Alt + Shift + a
Sheet menu (copy, delete, and other sheet actions)	Alt + Shift + s
Context menu	Ctrl + Shift + \
Insert, delete, hide, or unhide rows or columns
Insert rows above	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + = Ctrl + Alt + = (with rows selected) in Google Chrome: Alt + i, then r other browsers: Alt + Shift + i, then r
Insert rows below	in Google Chrome: Alt + i, then w other browsers: Alt + Shift + i, then w
Insert columns to the left	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + = Ctrl + Alt + =  (with columns selected) in Google Chrome: Alt + i, then c other browsers: Alt + Shift + i, then c
Insert columns to the right	in Google Chrome: Alt + i, then o other browsers: Alt + Shift + i, then o
Delete rows	Ctrl + Alt + - (with rows selected) in Google Chrome: Alt + e, then d other browsers: Alt + Shift + e, then d
Delete columns	Ctrl + Alt + - (with columns selected) in Google Chrome: Alt + e, then e other browsers: Alt + Shift + e, then e
Hide row	Ctrl + Alt + 9
Hide column	Ctrl + Alt + 0
Unhide row	Ctrl + Shift + 9
Unhide column	Ctrl + Shift + 0
Use formulas
Show all formulas	Ctrl + ~
Insert array formula	Ctrl + Shift + Enter
Collapse an expanded array formula	Ctrl + e
Show/hide formula help (when entering a formula)	Shift + F1
Full/compact formula help (when entering a formula)	F1
Absolute/relative references (when entering a formula)	F4
Toggle formula result previews (when entering a formula)	F9
Resize formula bar (move up or down)	Ctrl + Up / Ctrl + Down
Help for screen readers
Turn on screen reader support Learn more about using Google Sheets with a screen reader	Ctrl + Alt + z
Read column	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + c
Read row	Ctrl + Alt + Shift + r

Search Concepts We All Should Know - From Google

This is actually pretty reading. I am signing websites up to Googles Search Console and this was one of the pages that was on it. Considering it is Google that supplied this document I consider it very worth reading.

And here goes...

The reports in Search Console are organized according to the general outline of the Google Search pipeline: Content is first crawled (discovered), then it is indexed (parsed and analyzed for content), after which you, the website owner, analyze the search traffic to your site and also consider how search results are displayed to the user or linked to by other sites.

Crawl

Google’s web crawlers follow links and sitemaps to generate a list of publicly available URLs to visit and index for content. This is the first step in the process of being added to Google’s search results.

• Property
  A generic term for a website or an app that you have added to your Search Console account. You can see a list of your properties on your account homepage.
• Verify
  To prove that you own the website or app referred to in your Search Console account. A property must be verified before you can start seeing any data for it. You’ll be asked to verify a site after you add it to your Search Console account.
• Googlebot
  Google’s web crawler. Google has a few different Googlebots that request your pages as different device types (a smartphone, a feature phone, or a desktop computer) to calculate different search results for users searching on these devices.
• Canonical
  If you host the same page at different URLs, your search results can be diluted across these duplicate pages. For example, you might have the same page at http://example.com/dogs and http://www.example.com/dogs; a search might then show separate, lower ranked results for each page than if you had only a single page. In this case, you should indicate to Google that these pages are the same, and choose one to be canonical (the official page) to show in search results. Indicate canonical pages or sites using a Sitemap, HTML tags, or Search Console settings.
• robots.txt
  The name of a file on your site that tells Google which pages not to index or show in search results.
• Sitemap
  A list of URLs in your site that Google uses as starting locations to begin crawling a website. A sitemap is contained in one or more files stored on your website.

Index

The process of visiting URLs and analyzing the content and meaning of each page. This helps Google determine the best search results for a user’s query.

• Resource
  A web page typically loads many additional resources such as CSS, JavaScripts, and images. Be sure that Googlebot isn’t blocked from accessing any resources that affect the meaning of the page during the indexing process.
• Render
  Google tries to display all pages that it indexes in order to view the page as a user would. Rendering is the process of displaying the page with the images and layout to help Google analyze the meaning of the page.

Search traffic

• Manual action
  If your page violates one of Google’s quality guidelines, such as spammy content, it can be subject to a manual action, which will demote it in Google search results.
• International targeting
  Explicitly targeting your search results at users by language or country. This can be done using hreflang link tags or the country targeting setting in Search Console.

Search appearance

How your page or app appears in search.

• Structured data
  A public XML standard way of describing information about your pages in a format that the Google crawling engine understands. For instance, you can add ratings, event information, or video information. Some types of structured data are used to create rich snippets.
• Snippets
  The small descriptive lines of text that appear under each result in Google search results. These are generated programmatically by Google during indexing, and can have visual characteristics known as rich snippets.
• Rich snippet
  A visually enhanced Google search result, such as star ratings or event times. Rich snippets are often generated from structured data added by the page author.
• Sitelink
  If your website has a logical hierarchy or structure, Google might display a set of sub-links below the main search result. For example, for an airline site, the main result will be the airline home page, and the smaller links below would be direct links to the booking page, the flight status page, the baggage policies page, and so on. You cannot specify sitelinks for your site.