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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mossley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
Mossley railway station serves the town of Mossley, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line 9.9 miles (16 km) north-east of Manchester Victoria and is managed by Northern.
The station is a small, two-platform station, with the only on-site services being a ticket office that is staffed during weekday and Saturday mornings/early afternoons (Monday - Friday 06:45 - 14:20, Saturday 07:45 - 15:00). Outside of these times, tickets must be purchased on the train or prior to travel. There is a waiting room on the southbound platform and a waiting shelter on the northbound side. Train running details are provided by telephone and timetable posters.
Disabled access to the station is limited, with wheelchair provision only being made for the Huddersfield to Manchester platform. As the Manchester to Huddersfield platform is accessible through a single staircase, disabled passengers often find it easier to travel on to Huddersfield and then disembark at Mossley on the opposite platform when the train makes its return journey.
Mossley was (until May 2018) served by an hourly Northern service from Manchester Victoria to Huddersfield throughout the week, including Sundays, with some additional services during weekday peak hours. A few services extended to/from Leeds eastbound and to Wigan Wallgate or Southport westbound.
The more frequent TransPennine Express service, from Liverpool Lime Street or Manchester Airport, passes through Mossley without stopping. From the May 2018 timetable change however, TPE became the main operator serving the station. They provide an hourly express service (including Sundays) to Huddersfield, Leeds & Hull eastbound and to Stalybridge & Manchester Piccadilly westbound. Northern now provide a limited weekday peak hour service to Manchester Piccadilly and Huddersfield. Passengers wishing to travel to Manchester Victoria and points west must change at Stalybridge.
Steam locomotive 777 Sir Lamiel passes through the station in 1983.
A First TransPennine Express Class 185 passes through the station.
The station buildings and footbridge.
The view from the station footbridge.
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^ "Full steam ahead for Mossley station group". Tameside Advertiser. Manchester: Trinity Mirror plc. 12 February 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
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To the great annoyance of many a developer, Android 2.3 (a.k.a. "Gingerbread"), which was originally released at the end of 2010, has been the most common version of Android in the wild. Even until late last year, the general word was that accounted for half of all Android operating systems in the market.
Here's some good news: according to Engadget, who are going by Google's cleaned-up metrics (which are supposed to better reflect the number of active users), modern versions of Android — that is, 4.0 and higher ("Ice Cream Sandwich" and "Jellybean") — now account for more than half the active Android installations. I think it's safe to say that this is being driven by big sellers like the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note II, and should continue with the release of the S4 and HTC One.
Who Sold How Many Tablets in 1Q13?
Total tablet shipments for 1Q13 were 49.2 million units — that's more than were shipped in the first half of 2012.
The year-over-year growth in tablet shipments in 1Q13 is a healthy 142%.
Apple's performance — selling 19.5 tablets in 1Q13 — outperformed IDC's projected 18.7 million.
ASUS is now the third biggest seller of tablets, thanks to its Nexus 7 tablet.
The combined sales of Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets make up 900,000 units in 1Q13.
You've probably seen a couple of articles on how iOS users account for more online activity than Android users even though there are more Android units out there, such as GoGo: in-flight Internet use 84 percent iOS, 16 Android and Time's iOS vs. Android article. Here's another data point: NetMarketShare's latest web usage share data for various mobile operating systems, which shows iOS accounting for nearly 60% of web usage, more than double Android's share.


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It's a peaceful oasis, were we not only talk about the Virgin Mary, but we can also feel Her presence, leading us to Jesus Christ.
We meet many people here, of different backgrounds, races and social status. Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Muslims, they all come here to worship and pray to Mother Mary.
Here in Medjugorje there are three central pilgrimage sites: the church, the Podbrdo hill, the place of apparition and the road of the Cross at Križevac hill, where all the pilgrims pray and try to understand the mysteries of the resurrection.
The eyes haven't seen, the ears haven't heard and the heart hasn't felt the overwhelming feelings that one can confront with in this place.
A miracle is a divine intervention, it's the supernatural in our lives, but we don't really have to think about extraordinary things; we just have to feel them in our hearts. To be witnesses of these miracles, Mother Mary invites us to open our hearts to Christ and pray, because prayer is the time that we give to God and these prayers work in our behalf.
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Medjugorje it's a sanctuary dedicated to Mother Mary. It's a peaceful oasis, were we not only talk about the Virgin Mary,but we can also feel Her presence, leading us to Jesus Christ.


Ever wondered where the best place in France to be a student is? If you think it's Paris you'd be wrong, apparently. Here is a countdown of the Top Ten best places in France to study and the reasons why, according to the latest rankings. Can you guess which city comes out on top?
According to the rankings by student magazine Etudiante.fr the French capital Paris is not even one of the top ten best places in the country to study.
"Obviously Paris is great for culture but the cost of living, and in particular the price of accomodation, means it does not score highly in the rankings," she told The Local.
Apart from "culture" the classifications were based on everything from job prospects to transport and quality of teaching to nightlife.
The Top Ten makes for interesting reading, especially the number one spot, which most gap year students would probably never think of when planning their year out.
So without further ado, here is a countdown of the top ten places in France to be a student, from 10 to number one and the reasons why, according to Etudiante.fr.
If you are thinking of coming to France to study you should also read out Top tips for how to live on a student budget in Paris and if you ignore these rankings and have you heart set on the French capital then you should also check out our Top Tips for finding a flat in Paris.


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Dhimurru rangers have been involved in some very interesting work this week at the Garanhan (Macassan) stone pictures site. Archaeologist Prof. Campbell Macknight and colleague Bill Gray, who were involved in the original mapping of the now National Heritage listed site, returned to re-record and assess the 45 stone pictures.
The arrangements were done towards the end of the nineteenth century by Yolngu wanting to record the history of traders from Macassar that came every year from about 1780, to harvest dharripa (trepang), a sea slug, which they processed on site (with Yolngu assistance), then sold on to the Chinese. The pictures depict boating and processing equipment used and are an important part of Yolngu history. Our rangers did an awesome job surveying the site and interpreting the stories for the visiting Learning on Country students. This work demonstrates why 'Country Needs People' http://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/

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In India, during the 15th, 16th and subsequently 17th century, women were considered to be just vessels for piling on work that men didn't find feasible to do, such as cooking, washing, doing the laundry, spending time with the children etc. Women had been looked down upon as second best.
Whenever there was a marriage, the father of the bride would give away his daughter like a liability. Some of the words that are actually mentioned in the Hindu transcripts containing marital rituals, the father of the bride has to convey to the groom something like, "I henceforth give away my daughter as a servant to you for lifetime".
From the words it suffices to say that the status of women was rather shallow and demeaning during the early centuries, in India.
Let us go back in time to those eras when the Mahabharata and the Ramayana were written, the two great epics that made its mark as classic tales in the history of Indian literature. In Ramayana written by Rishi Valmiki, Sita was the wife of the rightful heir to the throne of Ayodhya, Rama.
When Rama was sent to exile, Sita was kidnapped by the spiteful king of Lanka, Ravana. The entire story revolves around how Rama fights and kills Ravana to rescue his wife and win back his throne. However when Sita had returned to Rama after the end of Ravana, Rama forced her to walk bare-feet on the sacrificial fire to prove her chastity.
This disgraceful and disrespectful act of how Sita had to prove her chastity to her own husband, and only then was she accepted back into his life ,highlights the status of women in the Indian society.
Mahabharata was written by Rishi Vyasa, where due to a curse inflicted on Draupadi, she was forced to marry all five of the Pandavas together. This in itself was highly disrespectful and to top it all Draupadi was used as a bet in a treacherous game of dices played between the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
When the Pandavas lost the game, The winning party began to strip off Draupadi's saree in an attempt to deeply humiliate her, while all her five husbands stood still and watched and did nothing to stop it.
This evidently displays objectification of women in the Indian society to an extent that their dignity is openly used as a betting tool in a game of dice between men.
Evil against women
Women in India have frequently fallen victim to several social evils which stripped them off their dignity, making them weak and vulnerable and subsequently even lead to several deaths. During the early ages , a very prevalent ritual was the Sati. Sati was a ritual that was performed when a married man with a living wife passed away.
In such cases the wife was burnt alive along with the corpse of her dead husband. It was believed during these periods that women were born to serve men all their life, so when the husband passed away there was no reason for the wife to be alive any more.
The wife was burnt along with her husband so that in the afterlife she could serve her better half. This of course was downright murder and an atrocious ritual which was banned by the revolutionary Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
Another popular custom was the ban on widow remarriage. Widows were not allowed to remarry and they were subjected to a life of drudgery and pain after the death of their husbands. They had to live in separate compartments and were not allowed to talk to anyone or meet anyone.
They had to eat tasteless food and spend all their hours engrossed in worship. They were not allowed to be present during any joyous ceremony or touch anything given by someone who is not a widow. The widows were alienated from the rest of the world and treated in a way as if they had a disease.
However, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was the man who finally gained permission for the allowance of widow remarriage thereby breaking an age old torture method inflicted only on women, forever.
Women during these dark days were not allowed to have even the basic education or attend school. They were married off at too young an age and often to men who were more than twice their age. They were subjected to a life of intense humiliation, pain, domestic violence and torture at their in-laws.
Another social evil that exists in the society even today is female foeticide. Female Foeticide is the abortion of a female fetus outside of legal methods. Sons are often considered to be a boon in Indian society as they carry forward the family name and also is free from the process of giving dowry during marriage.
On the contrary , women are often considered to be the burden in Indian society. Hence after prenatal sex determination when the family finds out the baby to be born is a female, they get rid of it through illegal means. Due to this shameful act at present there is only 927 females per 1000 males in India.
Revolution in the status of women
However, in course of time certain strong willed and ambitious women helped revolutionise the status of women in India. The revolution started in 1848 when Savitribai Phule along with her husband opened a school for girls in Pune and became the first ever female teacher in India, since before that women were forbidden from even the basic education.
In 1886 Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Ghosh became the first females to be trained in Western Medicine. The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885, and in 1917 Annie Besant assumed control over the office as its first ever female president followed by Sarojini Naidu in 1925 who became the first ever India-born female president of the INC.
In 1979, Mother Teresa bagged the Nobel peace prize for her immense contributions to the Indian society. Pratibha Patel became the first female president of India in 2007.
Status of women in India today
If we look up close and personal around us, and observe treatment of women in this post modern society, we can see how the lifestyle of women in India has changed drastically, especially in the urban areas. A woman in India living at the heart of the city wakes up every morning and goes to work in offices which used to be unthinkable at one point of time.
We see women running multinational companies and organisations on their own, working outdoors from morning till night, and even earning more than their male counterparts. A woman of the 21st century India demands equality and respect, and acceptance in society.
With the rising discussions on feminism and women empowerment, campaigns and protests against discrimination, the women of the 21st century India have not sat idle but have battled their way up the social ladder, proving that they are not only meant for serving their husbands and giving birth to children.
Women at the moment have a 50% reservation in railways in India, a major chunk of all educational institutions is run by women, they play a vital role in the Indian economy and 40% of the total votes polled in elections come from women. Women also hold major political positions and have a 30% reservation of seats in the Union Parliament.
The status of women therefore its safe to say, has improved over the last century due to modernism and westernisation creeping in into the Indian society.
Governmental propaganda such as "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" started by BJP government with an aim to inspire every parent to give their daughters a fair chance at education and "kanyashree" started in West Bengal by the state government under CM Mamata Banerjee that offers money needed to provide basic education to underprivileged young girls has also led to the increase in the educational rates among women especially in the rural areas.
Women in the rural areas have set up cottage industries dealing in woven cloths, jute baskets and handicrafts and are not confined to their houses anymore.
Up to more recent times 24 year old Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi of the Indian Air Force became the first Indian female fighter pilot to fly solo. Avani flew a MiG-21 Bison which is essentially a jet aircraft which has the highest recorded landing and take-off speed in the world.
Hima Das became the first Indian woman sprinter to win an international championship, 5 times in one year. With these milestones set by women in so many different fields India has now started looking at women in a new light. The wind of revolution is taking over little by little and we see women all over job sectors, media organisations, as well as in the parliament and judiciary.
However, with rape cases making headlines every single day in the newspapers, women in India still have a long way to go. Still in the public transports women are subjected to molestation and groping, women travelling after 10 in the night on the streets of India feel unsafe, new born babies as well as 80 year old women get raped, women get cat-called and eve-teased on every step of the way.
The realisation has to come from within, and Indian men have to be taught from childhood that women should be respected and not objectified. They should be taught that a man and woman are physiologically different but discrimination on the basis of gender is a social evil that needs to be eradicated at all costs. Everyone has the right to live life on their own terms and enjoy a harassment-free livelihood.
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Summary: Edwin Jarvis arrives in America to start a new life, with a new wife, in New York, and attempts to find his footing with a very interesting new employer.
Over the next few days, Jarvis continued to settle into his new life and arrange Mr Stark's house to his own satisfaction. He met the gardener and finished with the library. He fixed the dumbwaiter. He did the wine cellar accounts. Mr Stark seemed content with all the changes Jarvis made, though there were a few grumblings about his office being 'too clean to work in'. Jarvis saw no evidence of Mr Stark failing to work in it, so considered the point moot.
Ana arranged things around the Jarvis Residence and went out to look for work. She was turned down at the first three shops she tried. Her accent made people assume she was German, who, while not the official enemy as yet, were certainly not looked on kindly. Her attempts to explain that she was Hungarian evidently made little difference, as it all amounted to the same thing to those she spoke to, many of whom thought of Europe as a big muddled mess of countries that were all controlled by Hitler.
"I'm sorry about that, as well," he said.
This was the time period in which Jarvis learned it was best to be mindful what one told Mr Stark, as when Jarvis casually mentioned Ann was having trouble finding work and the reasons for it, Mr Stark demanded to know the names of the shops.
Jarvis decided it was prudent to pretend not to know the names of the shops and promised he would ask Ana and return to Mr Stark with them. Thankfully, Mr Stark's attention span was such that he'd forgotten by the end of the day, and Jarvis didn't bring up the subject again until Ana had found work at the fifth shop she tried.
By the end of the first week, they had food in the pantry, work for both of them, new clothing, and a beautiful roof over their heads. Far more than either of them could have asked for. It seemed almost too much, and indeed, one night, as they were listening to Benny Goodman, Ana got up and abruptly left the room in tears. Jarvis followed her, worried she was ill. She'd closed herself up in the bedroom, and he knocked and entered after her. She was sitting on the bed, sobbing.
She held up a hand and shook her head.
She shook her head again and mumbled something in Hungarian that he couldn't make out. He sat on the bed next to her and put an arm around her shoulders, unsure what else to do. She continued to mumble, and he finally made something out.
She nodded again. "I'm so happy, I feel sad," she said.
He gathered her up properly in his arms and rocked her gently until she'd calmed down.
"You have left the wireless on," she said, with a sniff.
By the end of the first fortnight, Jarvis thought he had things well in hand. He'd established a routine, as much as one could with Mr Stark, who tended to be haphazard about his day. Jarvis' father had always said that the mark of a good servant was one who anticipated his master's needs and was one step ahead of them. Jarvis didn't know how to be one step ahead of a man who might get up at 8AM or might bat at Jarvis and tell him to go away and sleep until 2PM instead and then stay up all night. Or who might come home at 5PM and lock himself in the basement, only eating food if Jarvis brought it. Or who might decide to go out dancing without coming home at all and then go to one of his other residences with a young lady he'd met only hours earlier.
The women were perhaps the biggest adjustment for Jarvis to make. There were many of them, even in that first fortnight, and Jarvis marvelled at Mr Stark's ability to woo them and then simply walk away when the wooing was done. Mr Stark saw no harm in his attitude; he felt that he hadn't forced anyone to spend time with him and had made no promises or declaration of intents to them, and if they had misinterpreted his actions, that was unfortunate but not his fault. Jarvis thought that belief was more logical in theory than in practice and wished Mr Stark would take a little more care when parting ways. This somehow rapidly evolved into Jarvis parting ways on his behalf, as Jarvis had set a precedent with Miss Flossie as being 'good' at it.
He tried to be gentle and to treat each of them with dignity and respect, but it was his least favourite part of his job, and he couldn't help but feel that this was perhaps one of the areas in Mr Stark's life in which he was not very generous at all.
Jarvis' own love life was another adjustment that had to be made. Going from scattered letters with increasingly long durations between each to a terrifying silence to suddenly being married and established in one's own residence was quite a turnaround. Jarvis had a slight fear that it would all go wrong; that there would be some fundamental incompatibility they didn't know about due to the nature of their courtship, or that he simply couldn't make her happy. Fortunately, there were only a few areas which needed some tweaks to achieve domestic bliss. Jarvis learned not to touch Ana's clothing, that it was in no way helpful of him to attempt to move it or iron it or fold it. She brought in an extra blanket for the bed so that he didn't have to unwind her from the cocoon she made when he was coming in late. They were all little things; the fundamentals worked well, and the little things could be changed.
"He's hardly lacking for company," Jarvis pointed out.
"I will ask him," Jarvis said.
He broached the subject on a morning where Mr Stark was cheerful and hadn't had a late night.
They selected the Sunday night, and Ana spent most of that day hard at work cooking and cleaning. Jarvis had taken his afternoon off that day, but, aside from setting the table, his help was not wanted, so he ended up reading in the parlour unless directed towards another task.
Jarvis decided it was best to let her indulge whatever it was she felt she needed to do. Mr Stark arrived at the appointed time, without Jarvis having to go over and remind him as he'd expected to have to do. Mr Stark often grew distracted on his way to do something and needed gentle nudging to send him on his way again.
"What neighbourhood is this?" Ana asked.
"Don't I know it?" Mr Stark said. "Couldn't go anywhere without the baleboste trying to feed me up. That's where I learned all my Yiddish, too." He said something Jarvis couldn't understand, but Ana let out a loud laugh.
"Mr Stark, that is not an appropriate thing to say to any woman but to a married one it is very bad," she said, with a mock look of scolding.
Mr Stark just grinned and held out a bottle of wine in his hand.
"For the hostess," he said.
She handed off the bottle to Jarvis and went into the kitchen. Jarvis escorted Mr Stark to the dining room and made sure he was comfortable before he went off to find a corkscrew. He'd brought a nice vintage of wine, something that would have cost close to $15 in a restaurant, Jarvis estimated.
"You've done the place up nice," Mr Stark said, looking around.
"It was hardly a sty before," Jarvis said.
"It feels rather like one, too," Jarvis said.
Jarvis uncorked and decanted the wine, distracted by Mr Stark's sneaky 'c'mere' gestures at him.
Mr Stark gave him an OK sign.
"Although, if you'd like to say grace, I'm sure neither of us will mind," Jarvis added.
That was how Jarvis felt on the matter of grace as well and was surprised to hear someone else say it so succinctly.
Ana brought out some challah and a liptauer spread to go with it. She blessed the meal and invited Mr Stark to partake as he pleased. He didn't hesitate to dig right in. Jarvis let the wine breathe a little before he served it and took some of the liptauer for himself. It was a sort of cheese spread filled with the paprika Ana seemed to put into everything she made. Jarvis' palate rapidly needed to adapt to a wider variety of flavours than his British upbringing had previously exposed him to, and it wasn't doing well at the challenge.
"So, how's Mrs Jarvis liking New York?" Mr Stark asked.
Jarvis felt that little flicker of anger in his stomach that he had whenever she mentioned what she'd been through in Budapest. It sometimes flared into a much larger ball of anger if he thought too hard about it. Mr Stark's face reflected the same thing for a moment before his smile returned, if a bit forced-looking.
Ana looked to Jarvis, questioning.
Jarvis poured the wine, and Ana brought out the cabbage rolls and goulash after they were done with the liptauer. Mr Stark happily served himself both.
"You two been to the theatre yet?" he asked.
"How'd you get by in my plane, then?" Mr Stark asked. "You know, the one loverboy stole to rescue you? Betcha that flew pretty high, right Jarvis?"
"I know," Jarvis assured him.
Mr Stark continued to suggest things they needed to see in New York and the surrounding areas, waxing on very lyrically with the passion and familiarity of a man who had been born and raised in the city. Little delis and shops, restaurants in back corners, places to buy the best sausages.
Jarvis and Ana exchanged smiles.
"I'm sure that will be our first stop," Jarvis promised.
Mr Stark was a charming, personable man, with a great many stories and a talent for telling them and the evening passed pleasantly. Jarvis couldn't help but feel that his parents would be disapproving of having the master for dinner, but Jarvis had a good time. His parents weren't approving of a lot of things he'd done of late. Jarvis had a hard time regretting them, whatever their opinion.
Mr Stark drank more of the wine than Ana or Jarvis did and was a little squiffy by the end of the meal. Nothing too dramatic, but more delighted with the world than he might have otherwise been.
"That was very geshmak," he told Ana, as they parted.
"Good, I'm glad you enjoyed it," Ana said.
Mr Stark kissed her warmly on both her cheeks and, for a terrifying moment, Jarvis thought he was going to do the same to him, but he went for a sturdy handshake instead, with a clap to Jarvis' arm.
"You're okay, too," Mr Stark informed him.
Jarvis walked with him as far as the drive, at least, and watched to make sure Mr Stark made it safely into his home. Later on, he would go up and ensure all the lights were off and the house was secure. For the moment he returned to help Ana with the washing up.
Jarvis nodded. "We will have him back to dinner more, yes," he said.
At halfway through his trial period, Jarvis had all of Mr Stark's properties to rights and his finances arranged such that Jarvis could monitor the bills and pay them or investigate them if they seemed irregular. Mr Stark spent money freely on almost anything he liked but had more than enough income and capital to make that acceptable behaviour. Jarvis merely ensured that all of the purchases made in Mr Stark's name were done with his knowledge.
Jarvis and Ana continued to settle into New York until they had favourite spots to go and the butcher's and shop owners knew them by name and sight. Mr Stark's generosity tapered off somewhat, much to Jarvis' relief. He felt as though he could go to Mr Stark to request anything and it would be granted, but the onslaught of gifts and bonuses and 'helpful' items slowed down to a near stop. Jarvis thought of it as Mr Stark doing some sort of 'wooing' of him in a manner of speaking, and, like all of Mr Stark's other wooing, once Jarvis had been wooed, Mr Stark lost interest in it. However, unlike his other wooing, Jarvis wasn't dismissed and, in fact, was given more and more responsibility and trust as he continued to work for him.
He grew much better at anticipating what Mr Stark would do or need and knew which flowers he would want on the table, and when it was time to go to the jeweller or florist, and when Mr Stark wanted out of a situation and when he was hoping for an excuse to remain in one. Jarvis ended up in the lab quite frequently and rapidly picked up knowledge of Mr Stark's inventions as they were explained to him in a voice far too cheerful for what some of them did. He had to confess most of what Mr Stark said made little sense, and it could all be magic for all Jarvis knew. Jarvis still remained wary of the lab and what it contained, but he was gradually given permission to tidy it and touch certain items in it, and he started to find names for the tools and what they were used for and could give them over when Mr Stark held out his hand for them.
Jarvis retrieved Mr Stark's jacket, which had been tossed on the floor of the lab, and fished in the pocket. He pulled out a handful of pearls from a string that had broken.
"Oops," Mr Stark said, without any abashment. "Like I said, busy day. I should get those back to Gracie. My fault they broke." He gave a wink.
Jarvis rolled his eyes behind Mr Stark's back and looked once more to find the telegram. There it was. Jarvis glanced over it.
"Do you need anything else this evening?" Jarvis asked.
He took Mr Stark's discarded jacket to his room to place it in the laundry hamper, then took care of the lights and locks and went home. Ana was in front of the wireless, sketching in a book. She smiled up at Jarvis, then frowned.
"Something is wrong," she said.
"No, nothing is wrong," Jarvis said.
"No, it's not," Jarvis said.
Jarvis could forgive his parents if he felt it was merely the treason charges they were upset about. Being charged for treason was hardly something which one hoped their son would aspire to do. It was certainly not being useful. But his parents had never approved of Ana. They did, initially. When Jarvis wrote and told them about her, they thought she seemed a nice girl; a good match. Until he mentioned she was Jewish. Then, quite suddenly, it didn't seem feasible. Surely he couldn't expect her to move for Jarvis after the war? She wouldn't like England. She would be lost there. She would be much better off with a Jewish boy. It would be awkward, wouldn't it? What about children, how would they be raised? Jarvis felt it wasn't so much that they disliked the Jews or held any ill-will toward them, but that they felt that people should stick amongst their own kind and not intermingle. He'd very naively thought at the time that they would come around to the idea, and indeed, they might have. But Ana's religion was a large factor why he needed to commit treason for her and that did nothing to help his cause.
"I'm sorry you had to choose," Ana said, her voice small and her eyes cast down. He hated to see her so upset. She had such a happy countenance to her that when it dropped even for a moment, it was though she took all the sunshine with her.
"Perhaps in time..." Ana said.
Jarvis kissed her nose. "Téged is szeretlek," he replied.
Ana bit on her lip and then snorted, before starting to giggle.
"Who else is it that you love?" she asked him, her eyes dancing with mirth.
"I beg your pardon?" Jarvis said.
"It makes sense to me," Ana said, primly.
"What is the right way, then? Szeretlek is?" he tried.
"No, that means you love me and also do something else like you hate me," she said.
"Én is szeretlek," Ana replied.
"Én is szeretlek," Jarvis repeated.


I am proud of myself for getting out of my comfort zone today.
That's awesome @Maddyw I always feel so great after doing that!
I'm so proud of myself. Just Saturday I couldn't imagine being in my place today. Over the weekend I went through my first break-up but we still managed to remain friends and even though I love her I can see that we weren't compatible (and we were super long distance, so that added pressure). I'm proud I'm accepting this without my anxiety or depression going over board. Of course, I have to take care of myself over the next few weeks, and will update when I'm proud of that. Haha.
I also came out to my mum as gay. She said she sort of knew, as parents seem to always do hahah.
Wow so much to be proud of @Hozzles!!!
Coming out to your mum is a huge step - well done!
Navigating a break up is extremely difficult - so massive well done on that one too.
@Saltwaterdreamtime - nice one overcoming those fears!


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Class R.id

java.lang.Object

depauw.edu.myro.android.sandbox.R.id

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R

public static final class R.id
extends java.lang.Object

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Field and Description

static int
accel_down

static int
accel_left

static int
accel_right

static int
accel_up

static int
akey

static int
asharpkey

static int
backwardDistance

static int
backwardGo

static int
backwardText

static int
backwardTime

static int
battery_label

static int
battery_level_image

static int
battery_value

static int
bkey

static int
bool_button

static int
button_manual_refresh

static int
button_scan

static int
button1

static int
button2

static int
button3

static int
camera_bool

static int
camera_btn

static int
camera_console

static int
camera_on_off

static int
camera_qr_image_bitmap

static int
camera_simple_image

static int
cameraBoolean

static int
cameraList

static int
circle_btn

static int
ckey

static int
connect

static int
control_down

static int
control_left

static int
control_right

static int
control_up

static int
csharpkey

static int
disconnect

static int
dkey

static int
drawing

static int
dsharpkey

static int
duration_text

static int
editText1

static int
editText2

static int
editText3

static int
editText4

static int
editText5

static int
ekey

static int
fkey

static int
forwardDistance

static int
forwardGo

static int
forwardText

static int
forwardTime

static int
frequency_text

static int
fsharpkey

static int
gkey

static int
gsharpkey

static int
infotable_layout

static int
intro

static int
ir_left_label

static int
ir_left_value

static int
ir_right_label

static int
ir_right_value

static int
light_center_label

static int
light_center_value

static int
light_label

static int
light_left_label

static int
light_left_value

static int
light_right_label

static int
light_right_value

static int
line_btn

static int
line_label

static int
line_left_label

static int
line_left_value

static int
line_right_label

static int
line_right_value

static int
list

static int
listView1

static int
movementList

static int
name_label

static int
name_value

static int
new_devices

static int
obstacle_center_label

static int
obstacle_center_value

static int
obstacle_label

static int
obstacle_left_label

static int
obstacle_left_value

static int
obstacle_right_label

static int
obstacle_right_value

static int
octave1_btn

static int
octave2_btn

static int
octave3_btn

static int
octave4_btn

static int
octave5_btn

static int
octave6_btn

static int
octave7_btn

static int
octave8_btn

static int
oval_btn

static int
paired_devices

static int
play_button

static int
point_btn

static int
polygon_btn

static int
rectangle_btn

static int
RelativeLayout1

static int
savePictureButton

static int
scribblerImages

static int
sensor_table

static int
speakButton

static int
stop

static int
text_btn

static int
textView1

static int
textView2

static int
textView3

static int
textView4

static int
textView5

static int
title_new_devices

static int
title_paired_devices

static int
toggleTimer

static int
turnLeftDistance

static int
turnLeftGo

static int
turnLeftText

static int
turnLeftTime

static int
turnRightDistance

static int
turnRightGo

static int
turnRightText

static int
turnRightTime

static int
voiceList

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R.id()

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equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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RelativeLayout1

public static final int RelativeLayout1

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accel_down

public static final int accel_down

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accel_left

public static final int accel_left

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accel_right

public static final int accel_right

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accel_up

public static final int accel_up

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akey

public static final int akey

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asharpkey

public static final int asharpkey

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backwardDistance

public static final int backwardDistance

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backwardGo

public static final int backwardGo

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backwardText

public static final int backwardText

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backwardTime

public static final int backwardTime

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battery_label

public static final int battery_label

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battery_level_image

public static final int battery_level_image

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battery_value

public static final int battery_value

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bkey

public static final int bkey

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bool_button

public static final int bool_button

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button1

public static final int button1

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button2

public static final int button2

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button3

public static final int button3

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button_manual_refresh

public static final int button_manual_refresh

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button_scan

public static final int button_scan

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cameraBoolean

public static final int cameraBoolean

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cameraList

public static final int cameraList

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camera_bool

public static final int camera_bool

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camera_btn

public static final int camera_btn

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camera_console

public static final int camera_console

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camera_on_off

public static final int camera_on_off

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camera_qr_image_bitmap

public static final int camera_qr_image_bitmap

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camera_simple_image

public static final int camera_simple_image

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circle_btn

public static final int circle_btn

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ckey

public static final int ckey

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connect

public static final int connect

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control_down

public static final int control_down

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control_left

public static final int control_left

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control_right

public static final int control_right

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control_up

public static final int control_up

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csharpkey

public static final int csharpkey

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disconnect

public static final int disconnect

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dkey

public static final int dkey

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drawing

public static final int drawing

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dsharpkey

public static final int dsharpkey

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duration_text

public static final int duration_text

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editText1

public static final int editText1

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editText2

public static final int editText2

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editText3

public static final int editText3

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editText4

public static final int editText4

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editText5

public static final int editText5

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ekey

public static final int ekey

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fkey

public static final int fkey

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forwardDistance

public static final int forwardDistance

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forwardGo

public static final int forwardGo

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forwardText

public static final int forwardText

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forwardTime

public static final int forwardTime

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frequency_text

public static final int frequency_text

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fsharpkey

public static final int fsharpkey

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gkey

public static final int gkey

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gsharpkey

public static final int gsharpkey

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infotable_layout

public static final int infotable_layout

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intro

public static final int intro

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ir_left_label

public static final int ir_left_label

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ir_left_value

public static final int ir_left_value

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ir_right_label

public static final int ir_right_label

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ir_right_value

public static final int ir_right_value

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light_center_label

public static final int light_center_label

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light_center_value

public static final int light_center_value

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light_label

public static final int light_label

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light_left_label

public static final int light_left_label

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light_left_value

public static final int light_left_value

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light_right_label

public static final int light_right_label

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light_right_value

public static final int light_right_value

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line_btn

public static final int line_btn

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line_label

public static final int line_label

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line_left_label

public static final int line_left_label

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line_left_value

public static final int line_left_value

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line_right_label

public static final int line_right_label

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line_right_value

public static final int line_right_value

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list

public static final int list

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listView1

public static final int listView1

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movementList

public static final int movementList

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name_label

public static final int name_label

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name_value

public static final int name_value

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new_devices

public static final int new_devices

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obstacle_center_label

public static final int obstacle_center_label

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obstacle_center_value

public static final int obstacle_center_value

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obstacle_label

public static final int obstacle_label

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obstacle_left_label

public static final int obstacle_left_label

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obstacle_left_value

public static final int obstacle_left_value

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obstacle_right_label

public static final int obstacle_right_label

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obstacle_right_value

public static final int obstacle_right_value

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octave1_btn

public static final int octave1_btn

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octave2_btn

public static final int octave2_btn

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octave3_btn

public static final int octave3_btn

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octave4_btn

public static final int octave4_btn

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octave5_btn

public static final int octave5_btn

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octave6_btn

public static final int octave6_btn

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octave7_btn

public static final int octave7_btn

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octave8_btn

public static final int octave8_btn

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oval_btn

public static final int oval_btn

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paired_devices

public static final int paired_devices

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play_button

public static final int play_button

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point_btn

public static final int point_btn

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polygon_btn

public static final int polygon_btn

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rectangle_btn

public static final int rectangle_btn

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savePictureButton

public static final int savePictureButton

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scribblerImages

public static final int scribblerImages

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sensor_table

public static final int sensor_table

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speakButton

public static final int speakButton

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stop

public static final int stop

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textView1

public static final int textView1

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textView2

public static final int textView2

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textView3

public static final int textView3

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textView4

public static final int textView4

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textView5

public static final int textView5

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text_btn

public static final int text_btn

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title_new_devices

public static final int title_new_devices

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title_paired_devices

public static final int title_paired_devices

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toggleTimer

public static final int toggleTimer

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turnLeftDistance

public static final int turnLeftDistance

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turnLeftGo

public static final int turnLeftGo

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turnLeftText

public static final int turnLeftText

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turnLeftTime

public static final int turnLeftTime

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turnRightDistance

public static final int turnRightDistance

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turnRightGo

public static final int turnRightGo

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turnRightText

public static final int turnRightText

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turnRightTime

public static final int turnRightTime

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voiceList

public static final int voiceList

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R.id

public R.id()

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Directed By: James Sweeney
In Theaters: Feb 28, 2020 Limited
Streaming: May 29, 2020
Valparaiso Pictures
Straight Up: Trailer 1
Straight Up Reviews
nico y
A very Millenial movie with charming performances
Katie Findlay is wonderful in 'Straight Up', written, directed, and starring James Sweeney. The acting here is much better than the second and third act story which end up fizzling out. I had a smile on my face for about half of the flick and then the tone changes and the end result didn't work for me. Hope it does for you! Final Score: 5.2/10
Crisis in sexual identity. So this is about a pair of intellectual soul mates, Todd and Rory (James Sweeney, Katie Findlay). He may or may not be gay, but he's young and figuring it all out. Is their companionship enough to keep a relationship going? Now I knew next to nothing about this; I just caught a glimpse of it while scrolling, which is more often than not the impetus for me taking chances on movies nowadays. The trailer seemed both snappy and witty enough for something to be there. I do like the points that this movie had to make, but I feel like this movie could have used some more time in the oven before releasing the end product. To start this off on a positive, I think that the biggest strength of Straight Up is the performance of the two leads. Sweeney acts, writes, and directs, so it makes sense that he gives the character of Todd the most engaging commentary to make. I do think that Findlay keeps up with him, and she is the reason why these two have good friendship chemistry. These are characters that can be difficult people, but you always understand their motivations. The dialogue that they share is entertaining, but I do have to say that it frequently feels unnatural. Even only ten minutes in, this was reminding me of the breakneck speed of something like His Girl Friday, or if you were looking for a reference this century, The Gilmore Girls. I know that show has its following, but I never cared for it because the banter ping pongs so quickly that characters are seldom allowed to react naturally. Rory gets introduced as all of this was going through my mind, and you can probably guess that this is where the Gilmores get a shoutout by name, so it is 100% confirmed that it was an influence. When this movie is just Todd and Rory, I mostly like it. They're in denial and lying to themselves, but that makes for an interesting dynamic. However, I found almost every side character in this to be insufferable. The friends in this are truly awful people, and I could maybe get past it if they were toned down, but they do nothing but antagonize and cause conflict to the point that there should be way more fighting in this. Todd and Rory are not a passive couple; they are people who will call you out on your BS, so when the story reaches this egregious and socially aggressive game night, their reactions feel inauthentic. I like the core voice here, I believe that Sweeney just needs to hone his craft, and given his age, he has the time to do that.
Dane M
Hey look, I'm 100% gay gay gay and I liked it. One of the audience reviewers lambasted it saying, 'boo it was a sad ending'. Hello? (slight spoiler alert). He ended up with a guy so NO, he had the happy ending he was looking for. ie: boyfriend and girl who's just a friend.
Definitely different, but a quite enjoyable movie with almost nonstop dialogue between the main characters.
Witty dialogue and winsome characters. The ending was somewhat unclear, but the love story was great.
Cynthia T
This film really upset me. It treats the anti-Latinx racism of a main character's father for laughs, and that racism is egged on by another main character. Why is racism funny, especially in this moment? Racist jokes are still racism. I also found the male lead's mocking treatment of his psychologist, played by a Black woman, to be tinged by racism, as he entitled-ly diminishes her professionalism and expertise. The film is also misogynistic in that it treats women's bodies as disgusting (there's a scene that treats a woman's period as gross) and it marginalizes the female lead. Even though she's a main character, the film does not fill out her story of what appears to be extreme trauma from sexual assault, and instead treats her as merely a sidekick to the male lead's self-discoveries. I'm really disappointed by the non-intersectional nature of this film, how it rightfully asks the audience to empathize with people experiencing homophobia but then invites racism and misogyny into the picture and asks the audience to laugh.
Erika J
This film was quirky yet touching. Highly recommend.
Paul E
It was an unexpected and entertaining story. I could have done without the racist monologue that came from an otherwise likable character and was seemingly passed off as acceptable behavior.
#Splat 🤮 So problematic and cliché after cliché. These people aren't likeable or interesting. And the only menton of Spanish/Latinos was a put down to Puerto Ricans and another to Mexicans. Yawn.


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Benefits Of iPhone App Development: The Big Picture
One of the many reasons why iPhone app development is a lucrative business nowdays is the fact that it caters to all-round requirements of the users. For instance, iPhone users use their devices to perform a wide array of tasks, right from checking their calorie intake, browsing through the weather reports, booking a flight ticket or making reservations at their favorite eating joints. Let us look at some of the key areas where iPhone app development has made its mark:
There is no doubt that the iPhone is one of the best devices for entertainment. For instance, users can listen to their favorite radio channels, view movies and trailers, watch, upload and download videos or use some random fun app, which will keep them entertained. Think of apps like Shazam, or the Talking Tom app which sole purpose is to entertain the end-users.
Games / Sports
The smartphone device from Apple looks to be more like a gaming console than any other smartphone in the market. This has been possible partly due to various in-built features and functions of the iPhone device such as gyroscope, retina display and accelerometer, and partly due to some of the most amazing apps which are developed for it. The iTunes Store is full of games apps which can give the regular gaming consoles a run for their money.
Moreover, there are iPhone apps which provides the users various player stats, team stats and match stats of their favorite sports be it basketball, baseball, tennis or football. So, why should the users look anywhere else but their iPhones to meet their games or sports related requirements?
Another sector where iPhone app development leaves its mark is business / finance. There are apps for businessmen or investors that meet their needs aptly. For instance, there are apps which allow users to view the current stock updates and other apps which help them manage their portfolios. Additionally, there are apps which help users manage their bills and receive or calculate their taxes.
There are apps which are specifically developed to increase the productivity of the users. Still do not have a clue? Then think of Evernote the amazing note taking app which can achieve many more tasks. Also, think of Instapaper or Dropbox which gives users more options than they can ever imagine. Need I say more?
One of the most thought after apps by users of all age groups are the utility apps. These apps turn the iPhone into a tool using which they can accomplish a large number of their day-to-day tasks. Some of the prominent utility apps are health and fitness apps like – calorie counter or photo editing apps such as Camera + or Instagram. Also, there are apps which help users have a good night's sleep and also apps which help translate phrases or find nearby places to dine out, when they are at a foreign locale. So, many of the utility needs of individuals are handled efficiently by such apps.
To conclude, it is through iPhone app development that developers can meet the immediate requirements of their target users in various sectors as explained above. If you are a developer and wondering whether you should develop iPhone apps or not, take a cue from the above pointers and set out to develop your apps right away.


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Sarah Moyer
by Conspirare | Oct 15, 2018 | Company of Voices, soprano
Known for her "purity and flawless range" (South Florida Classical Review), soprano Sarah Moyer was exclusively featured in the 2014 the Boston Globe Magazine for her work as a professional singing artist and deemed her "the kind of church singer who will rock your sacred-music world". As a soloist, her recent repertoire includes Haydn's Salve Regina with Masterworks Chorale, Vivaldi's All'ombra di sospetto and Handel's Nel dolce dell'oblio with Les Bostonades, American premieres of Melani's Regina Coeli a5 and Teodora with Reed College Collegium, world premieres of Kallembach's Easter Oratorio and Theofanidis' Four Levertov Settings with Seraphic Fire, American premieres of Nørgård's Nova Genitura and Seadrift with Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, and Foss' The Prairie with Boston Modern Orchestra Project; she also "beautifully executed" (Miami Herald) the world premiere of Runestad's The Hope of Loving with Seraphic Fire, and was described as "perfect for Baroque works… one wants to hear more from this obviously gifted singer" (South Florida Classical Review) for her brief performance in Handel's My Heart is Inditing. This season's solo engagements include Mozart's Requiem and Theofanidis' Four Levertov Settings at Aspen Music Festival, Handel's Messiah with Variant Six + Bourbon Baroque, Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia with Emmanuel Music, Handel's Messiah with Handel Society of Dartmouth College, Bernstein's Glitter and be Gay with Mistral Music, and a solo recital about Celestial Sprites in the Skylark Spotlight Series.
Ms. Moyer is simultaneously active as a vocal chamber music artist. Nationally she appears frequently with Skylark, GRAMMY® nominated Seraphic Fire, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, GRAMMY® nominated True Concord, Lorelei Ensemble, The Thirteen, Ensemble Origo, and is excited to be joining Conspirare in November 2018! She is a founding member of Illumine, a trio devoted creating arrangements and recordings for soprano, trumpet, and harp. Locally, Moyer sings regularly with Boston's various religious institutions such as Emmanuel Music, Church of the Advent (Beacon Hill), Trinity Church (Copley Square), and Boston University's Marsh Chapel where she is a former Choral Scholar, among others. She has also supported music education by presenting masterclasses and workshops with Skylark, and through performing with the Handel and Haydn Society Outreach Vocal Quartet from 2014-2016. She is a recipient of the 2015 St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award.
When not making music, Ms. Moyer enjoys spending time outdoors, visiting quirky museums and roadside attractions, and expanding her refrigerator magnet collection.
www.sopranosarahmoyer.com


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Since the day I arrived on the tiny island of Folegandros, I felt called to paint one of the 72 white-washed churches dotting the landscape. I wanted to paint it plein air, on site, so I could really experience the sounds, the wind, the essence of my subject. I grabbed my paints, canvas, and easel, hopped on my trusty 4-wheeler and drove to the church I had chosen on the other side of the island. When the road ended, I hiked another mile down an old mule trail, and finally reached the church on top of the hill overlooking the blue, blue Aegean Sea. Not another soul around, I was free to paint.
The light was crisp and sunny and the wind was absolutely howling, so much so that my canvas shook in the wind, and my brush skipped and bounced every time it touched the canvas. Realizing that I was trying to control the situation too much, I was forced to loosen up. I let go. I painted bold deliberate strokes. By the end of the day, the sun cast reds and oranges onto the landscape. As if to mirror how I was feeling, the little white church seemed to lean towards the sun, honoring it, celebrating it, yearning to become one with it.


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Bernt Balchen (ur. 23 października 1899 w Tveit, zm. 17 października 1973 w Chappaqua) – norwesko-amerykański pilot, pionier lotnictwa polarnego, jako pierwszy odbył transatlantycki lot pocztowy ze Stanów Zjednoczonych do Francji (1927), jako pierwszy przeleciał nad biegunem południowym 29 listopada 1929 roku i dokonał pierwszego lotu transpolarnego z Alaski nad biegunem północnym do Norwegii (1949) – był pierwszym pilotem na świecie, który przeleciał nad obydwoma biegunami.

Życiorys
Bernt Balchen urodził się 23 października 1899 roku w Tveit koło Kristiansand w Norwegii. Jego rodzicami byli lekarz Lauritz Balchen (1869–1912) i Dagny Dietrichson (1879–1954).

W 1916 roku ukończył szkołę średnią w Kristiansand, a następnie uczęszczał do szkoły leśnej (1917–1918). Już w latach chłopięcych był zapalonym sportowcem i myśliwym, a jego idolami byli polarnik Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) i pionier lotnictwa Leif Dietrichson (1890–1928), który był kuzynem Balchena. Amundsen był przyjacielem rodziny Balchenów i Bernt poznał odkrywcę w 1912 roku wkrótce po jego powrocie z Antarktydy.

W 1918 roku wstąpił do Legii Cudzoziemskiej, ale wkrótce wrócił, by służyć w armii norweskiej. Jako ochotnik walczył po stronie "Białych" w wojnie domowej w Finlandii i został ranny podczas ataku kawalerii. Po powrocie do Norwegii zaczął trenować boks z zamiarem startu na igrzyskach olimpijskich w 1920 roku, lecz nie został powołany do reprezentacji.

W 1920 roku zdobył licencję pilota, a w 1921 roku ukończył szkołę lotnictwa marynarki wojennej. Równolegle pracował w leśnictwie i ukończył szkołę techniczną w Härnösand w Szwecji w 1923 roku. Służył w administracji lotnictwa marynarki wojennej w Horten i w 1924 roku został porucznikiem.

Współpraca z Amundsenem (1926)
W 1925 roku Balchen spotkał się ponownie z Amundsenem, który zrekrutował go na wyprawę w 1926 roku. Amundsen planował wspólnie z pilotem Umberto Nobile i Lincolnem Ellsworthem dokonać pionierskiego przelotu nad biegunem północnym na włoskim sterowcu, oznaczonym symbolem N-1, a przez Amundsena nazwanym "Norge". W tym samym czasie podobne plany miał amerykański pilot Richard Byrd (1888–1957), który wraz z Floydem Bennettem (1890–1928) planował przelot nad biegunem północnym samolotem Fokker F.VII/3m o nazwie "Josephine Ford". Balchen zaprzyjaźnił się z Bennettem i udzielał mu porad w sprawie przygotowania samolotu do lotu w warunkach polarnych. Amundsen czekał z wylotem, aż "Norge" będzie w pełni sprawny. Byrd i Bennett dokonali przelotu jako pierwsi, jednak Balchen nie wierzył, by udało im się przelecieć nad biegunem, ponieważ wrócili dość szybko do bazy. Wyprawa Amundsena wyruszyła wkrótce po powrocie Byrda i Bennetta – sterowiec nie mógł jednak zabrać wszystkich 19 członków ekspedycji więc trzech – w tym Balchen – musiało zostać na lądzie.

Wyjazd do Stanów Zjednoczonych
Jeszcze na Spitsbergenie Byrd zaproponował Balchenowi pracę przy swoich kolejnych projektach i Balchen wyjechał z nim oraz z Bennettem do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Tam wraz z Bennettem przeleciał samolotem "Josephine Ford" trasę od wybrzeża do wybrzeża – 14 tys. km. W 1926 roku latał na nocnej trasie pocztowej między Nowym Jorkiem i Cleveland.

Zimą 1927 roku wykonał misję dla rządu kanadyjskiego – w trudnych warunkach pogodowych, w czasie burzy i zimna dochodzącego do -54 °C przetransportował drogą lotniczą siedem ton dynamitu i sprzętu do Fortu Churchill w północnej Kanadzie. Po powrocie do USA pracował jako główny pilot oblatywacz dla producentów samolotów Fokker i Wright Aeronautical. Fokker wysłał go do pracy dla Western Canada Airways w Hudson, aby uczył kanadyjskich pilotów obsługi samolotów wyposażonych w pływaki.

Współpraca z Byrdem
Latem 1927 roku został zatrudniony przez Byrda, by uczestniczyć w planowanym przelocie transatlantyckim. Przelot samolotem Atlantic-Fokker C-2 odbył się w czerwcu 1927 roku – był to pierwszy transatlantycki lot pocztowy. Z powodu złych warunków atmosferycznych lądowanie miało miejsce w Ver-sur-Mer w Normandii.

Balchen był pierwszym pilotem Byrda podczas lotu 29 listopada 1929 roku nad biegunem południowym, który był pierwszym przelotem nad owym biegunem w historii.

Lotnictwo cywilne

W 1931 roku Balchen przyjął obywatelstwo amerykańskie. W tym samym roku przebudował samolot Amelii Earhart (1897–1937), którym przeleciała samotnie nad Oceanem Atlantyckim w 1932 roku.

Następnie przez kilka lat pracował jako pilot dla Trans World Airlines i Pan American World Airways, a także jako pilot oblatywacz dla wytwórni samolotów Fokker, Northrop i Douglas.

W latach 1933–1935 był pilotem wyprawy Lincolna Ellswortha (1880–1951) na Antarktydę i po raz drugi przeleciał nad biegunem południowym.

W połowie lat 30. XX w. powrócił do Norwegii, aby współpracować z Norweską Kompanią Lotniczą (nor. Det Norske Luftfartsselskap, DNL) kierowaną przez Hjalmara Riisera-Larsena (1890–1965). Balchen rozpoczął obsługę krajowych tras lotniczych w Norwegii, został mianowany zastępcą Riisera-Larsena i naczelnym inspektorem. Pomagał m.in. w negocjowaniu umów z przewoźnikami amerykańskimi. 30 listopada 1939 roku przebywał w Helsinkach negocjując kontrakt dla Finlandii na kupno amerykańskich myśliwców, kiedy Sowieci zaatakowali Finlandię. Wiosną przebywał w Nowym Jorku, by w imieniu DNL zawrzeć umowę z Pan American World Airways na loty transatlantyckie na trasie z Nowego Jorku do Bergen, kiedy Niemcy zaatakowały Norwegię i umowa nie doszła do skutku.

II wojna światowa
W 1940 roku Balchen pracował dla Dowództwa Promów Królewskich Sił Powietrznych (ang. Royal Air Force Ferry Command), które zajmowało się przewozem morskim samolotów od producentów na front. W tym samym roku założył w Toronto Little Norway – bazę szkoleniową dla norweskich pilotów na uchodźstwie.

Kiedy Stany Zjednoczone przystąpiły do wojny w grudniu 1941 roku wstąpił do United States Army Air Forces, gdzie awansował do stopnia pułkownika. Został mianowany dowódcą ósmej grupy zadaniowej, a jego zadaniem było zbudowanie najbardziej wysuniętej na północ bazy lotniczej na świecie – na zachodnim wybrzeżu Grenlandii na północ od koła podbiegunowego. Na lotnisku tym miały lądować samoloty w drodze z Ameryki do Europy, m.in. by przyspieszyć pomoc dla oblężonej Wielkiej Brytanii. Baza "Blue West-8" w Søndre Strømfjord została ukończona w 1943 roku. Balchen przeprowadził wówczas również wiele akcji ratunkowych, ratując pilotów jednostek zestrzelonych nad Grenlandią. W uznaniu zasług otrzymał Zaszczytny Krzyż Lotniczy i Medal Żołnierza.

W 1944 roku objął dowodzenie "Operacją Balder" – lotami transportowymi i kurierskimi między Wielką Brytanią a neutralną Szwecją. Założył bazę w Sztokholmie i rozbudował flotę operacji z 5 do 22 samolotów, które przetransportowały ponad 2000 Norwegów do Wielkiej Brytanii i repatriowały ponad 1200 internowanych lotników amerykańskich. Dzięki operacji przerzucono ponad 200 ton sprzętu dla sił oporu w Norwegii i Danii.

Balchen przeprowadził wiele niebezpiecznych misji lotniczych. Dowodził samolotami, które zrzucały agentów wywiadu nad Norwegią. Przetransportował do Wielkiej Brytanii nienaruszony niemiecki pocisk rakietowy V2, który spadł na terenie Szwecji – był to pierwszy zachowany w całości pocisk V2, który wpadł w ręce Brytyjczyków. W 1944 roku przeprowadzał pierwsze zrzuty zaopatrzenia dla norweskiego ruchu oporu podczas jasnych letnich nocy, przy czym loty na północ Norwegii były najdłuższymi tego typu lotami (16 godz.) wykonywanymi na terenie Europy. Pod koniec 1944 roku Balchen poprowadził dziesięć w pełni oznakowanych amerykańskich samolotów transportowych C-47 do Szwecji, które były wykorzystane do przerzucenia ponad 1500 żołnierzy norweskiej lekkiej piechoty do walki w północnej Norwegii i dostarczenia zapasów norweskim żołnierzom i cywilom na terenach zniszczonych przez wojnę. W uznaniu zasług Balchen otrzymał Legię Zasługi i odznaczenia od królów Norwegii, Szwecji i Danii.

Lata powojenne
Po wojnie Balchen powrócił do Norwegii i w latach 1946–1948 był dyrektorem generalnym DNL. Następnie wyjechał ponownie do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Jako pułkownik Sił Powietrznych USA objął dowództwo 10 dywizjonu ratunkowego w Fort Richardson na Alasce. 23 maja 1949 roku dokonał pierwszego lotu transpolarnego z Alaski nad biegunem północnym do Norwegii, stając się tym samym pierwszym pilotem na świecie, który przeleciał nad obydwoma biegunami. W 1951 roku doradzał przy budowie bazy dowodzenia strategicznego United States Air Force w Thule na Grenlandii.

Od późnych lat 40. XX w. Balchen rozważał upublicznienie swoich wątpliwości na temat pierwszego przelotu Byrda nad biegunem północnym w 1926 roku. Byrd i jego wpływowa rodzina uniemożliwiła publikację tych wątpliwości w autobiografii Balchena, która ukazała się drukiem w 1958 roku. Byrd prawdopodobnie stał również za nagłym zahamowaniem kariery Balchena, który pracował w latach 1951–1955 na stanowisku do spraw arktycznych w Waszyngtonie i nie został awansowany ani razu, aż do przejścia na emeryturę w 1956 roku. Awans Balchena na generała miał być blokowany przez brata Byrda, polityka Harry'ego, siedem razy, czego jednak nie potwierdzał senator Barry Goldwater (1909–1998), który zabiegał o nominację dla Balchena.

Po przejściu na emeryturę Balchen wrócił do lotnictwa cywilnego i w 1959 roku został wiceprezesem linii lotniczych Resort Airlines. Angażował się na rzecz poprawy bezpieczeństwa lotów zimowych.

Balchen był trzykrotnie żonaty: w 1930 roku poślubił Emmy Sørlie, w 1948 roku Ingerem ("Bess") Engelbrethsen, córkę malarza Ingvalda Augusta Engelbrechtsena, i w 1962 roku Audrey Schipper, córkę konsultanta R. M. Schippera.

Balchen zmarł 17 października 1973 roku w Chappaqua i został pochowany na Cmentarzu Narodowym w Arlington.

Publikacje
Lista podana za I Norsk biografisk leksikon:
 War below Zero, New York, 1945
 Mat i flygende fart. Bernt Balchens oppskriftsbok, 1951
 Come North With Me. An Autobiography, New York, 1958
 The New York to Paris Air Derby, 1927 [w:] J. F. Sunderman (red.) Early Air Pioneers 1862–1935, New York 1961

Prace plastyczne
Balchen przez całe życie szkicował i malował akwarele. W 1953 roku wystawił swoje prace w galerii w Nowym Jorku, później miał jeszcze dwie kolejne wystawy. W swoich pracach przedstawiał przede wszystkim krajobrazy arktyczne.

Odznaczenia i wyróżnienia
Balchen otrzymał tytuł doktora honoris causa Tufts University oraz University of Alaska. Był honorowym członkiem Norweskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego, Norweskiego Aeroklubu, Norweskiego Klubu Polarnego, Klubu Odkrywców i Stowarzyszenia Oficerów Obrony Powietrznej.

W 1953 roku otrzymał Harmon Trophy.

W uznaniu zasług przyznano mu m.in. następujące odznaczenia:
 Medal Sił Lądowych za Wybitną Służbę
 Legia Zasługi
 Zaszczytny Krzyż Lotniczy
 Medal Żołnierza
 Medal Lotniczy (USA)
 Order Świętego Olafa

Upamiętnienie
Po śmierci w 1973 roku Balchen został przyjęty do amerykańskiego Narodowego Panteonu Sławy Lotnictwa (ang. National Aviation Hall of Fame). W 1974 roku, jako jedyny nie-Kanadyjczyk, został również przyjęty do Kanadyjskiego Panteonu Sławy Lotnictwa (ang. Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame).

Na cześć Balchena nazwano szczyt górski w paśmie Alaska na Alasce – Mount Balchen (3395 m n.p.m.) oraz szczyt na Antarktydzie Mount Balchen (3085 m n.p.m.).

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Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańscy piloci
Amerykańscy podróżnicy i odkrywcy
Norwescy piloci
Podróżnicy i odkrywcy XX wieku
Odznaczeni Distinguished Flying Cross (Stany Zjednoczone)
Odznaczeni Distinguished Service Medal
Odznaczeni Legią Zasługi
Odznaczeni Medalem Lotniczym (USA)
Odznaczeni Orderem Świętego Olafa
Uczestnicy II wojny światowej
Uczestnicy wojny domowej w Finlandii (Biała Gwardia)
Urodzeni w 1899
Zmarli w 1973
Hasła utworzone w ramach Tygodni Tematycznych 2019
Odznaczeni Medalem Żołnierza

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Life as an engineer
I have my opinions. And you have yours. Take everything with a grain of salt.
My answer for the mobile application war
Just last week, our in-house project for the local market, PocketBank, kicked off. During the planning phase, a lot of time was spent on discussing the technologies we would be using in the project, which essentially a navigation app where we want an excellent offline mode and deploy on as many platforms as possible. The question was whether we should build a web app or a native app. The final decision was to go with native app as we failed to find a good map-kit with offline mode for web app. But thats not it, not yet. The discussion inspired further thoughts on the future of the ongoing application war.
I am not trying to make this blog another comparison between web app and native app as that kind of article/blog has been around for years and with a single Google search, you can find more than enough to read a whole night. What I am going to try is to predict the trend how people are and will be developing their applications for the current and future. The prediction at least will be carried out for my company for the coming time.
Here are some opinions of mine when making decision about the trend:
The fact that native app and nothing else can take full advantage of the specific features devices and platforms never changes.
Both leading mobile platforms iOS and Android are currently go for native app and build up a tight ecosystem around the platform (and devices), app stores and developers. A few factors of this ecosystem are awesome, like one-click payment, the powerful tools (IDE, instruments, etc.) available to native stacks. Web payment alternative such as Paypal, Google Checkout or other payment gateway is just not as convenient. I worked with XCode for a while and felt like dragged back to stone age when working on a number of HTML/CSS/JS tools). Some other factors aren't nice though, like entry cost, revenue split and that the static app stores' content oriented billing model can't fit all kind of shopping and services on the web.
Development cost is always a big concern. An app for iOS and Android usually calls for a developer for each and preferably more. That's double the resources a web app requires. And native app is expensive also because it requires skills and knowledge that aren't widely available. You can draw on a larger talent pool using web technology than you can with Objective-C.
Mobile platforms are taking steps towards a better support for web app. WebOS is a great supporter when exposing all of the API in JavaScript. And Windows 8 follows that movement, a foreseeable convergence of native and web app. But wait, do you remember the one-good-one-bad circle of Microsoft products? Windows 95 was a breaking news, Windows 98 wasn't much more than a wrapper of 95. Windows 2000 was kinda good, but WinMe wasn't. Windows XP was Microsoft's greatest OS ever and Win Vista couldn't do anything worse. Perhaps we will have to wait till Win9.
When a platform comes up with a new stunning feature that is not in HTML5 specifications (which takes forever to complete), it gonna take time for different browsers to implement the feature (some might never do). Despite a common belief among One Web supporter that "Regardless of who you are, what device you're using and what browser you're accessing content from, no user should be left behind.", there are a number of model browsers not as supportive as others (Android's browser, I am looking at you particularly) and eventually the next IE6 will emerge. Hopefully with the current platform/application update mechanism, thing will be less a catastrophe.
The native-app wrappers like PhoneGap or Titanium are getting well-known these days and they have their own use when providing HTML-based app with a (limited) set of native API. But IMHO, web app makes a better UX. Many users acknowledge traditional drawback of web app and when the experience turns out to be much better than what user expected, a little quirks won't even find its place it user's mind. But such a native app will fall right into "a piece of junk" category.
You hate Android's fragment? You will even hate mobile browsers' fragment even more.
One Web is more a business and development decision rather than a decision to create an optimal experience for the users. The typical reason is to lower the cost and/or complexity. Compared to native apps, the web is a much wilder place. There is little or no standard about UI and UX and hence nothing to guarantee a consistent experience for users. However there are some positive points when it comes to web app UX like
Accessibility: generic experience for different platforms
No installation or update
Performance (don't get me wrong, I am not talking about the speed if that is the "performance" you are thinking about): no native app will ever deliver fresh content as quickly as the web
Joe Hewitt's tweet: "I want desperately to be a web developer again, but if I have to wait until 2020 for browsers to do what Cocoa can do in 2010, I won't wait"
My answer for the current...
The current generation of cell phones aren't quite powerful enough and HTML5 isn't quite developed enough so for coming time, web app won't be able to replace non-trivial native app.
Native app is the number one choice for heavy tasks and new features. And by new features, I am not limiting to what platform vendors themselves have to offer but also the involvement and contribution of third-parties, a wish for a less-close future
Native-app wrapper wont be come mainstream, but remains relatively helpful for the access to (limited) platform API for the current time when WebOS is suspended and Win8 is in progress
Business model like that of Bizness Apps will thrive as there is a growing demand for trivial apps from companies and no platform is proven to win the market
... and for the not-too-distant future
Eventually "web will win" is inevitable with direct support from platform level (e.g. WebOS and Win8)
Lot of effort and time are required to re-establish the ecosystem native apps is living in for web app, solve the feature puzzle and develop a new HIG that is neither iOS, Android nor any specific platform but a generic experience for all users
Native app remains the preferable choice for what it used to be the first ranked choice (above)
Native-app wrapper will become far less attractive, especially if there is a way to use native code to access platform API and then expose that to JavaScript. I wont be surprise if it will be eventually extinct
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Khang Vo September 14, 2011 at 9:39 PM
I still have a big doubt with the cross platform development like PhoneGap and Titanium. It is hard to debug, no debuggers at all:(. I have ever tried to do something really big with them because the process was so heavy for me.
My information may be outdated, but the last time I tried Titanium was November last year and July this year for PhoneGap. Feel so sad
Khang Nguyen September 15, 2011 at 6:11 PM
You can place some log to make up for that. Or you test your app on PC's browsers where developer tools are provided and only move to the mobile for major tests (which is very effective for PhoneGap as after all, your PhoneGap app runs inside a webview)
Thoai Nguyen October 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM
@Khang Nguyen: I believe PhoneGap has a plugin system that allows you to port in some native code. However, it doesn't seem to work well in full screen mode (e.g. embedding a native map into the HTML flow), so you might need to design one screen with IB and load it with native code.
http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36753496/How%20to%20Create%20a%20PhoneGap%20Plugin%20for%20iOS
@Khang Vo: Yeah, that's the worst part about these tools - debugging is hard, especially when we start to mix native code alongside with HTML/JS.
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By Rick Bacon
Chromium-6 Conversion
Intelligent water treatment system remediates chromium-6 in California
New data on the efficacy of stannous chloride (SnCl2) to treat hexavalent chromium [chromium-6, or Cr(VI)] released in Fall 2016 highlighted the methodology as an economical treatment approach with the potential to significantly reduce the capital, operations and maintenance costs of chromium remediation compared to best available technologies, which have been surrounded by controversy over their high capital and operating costs.
Research has shown the reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) by both stannous chloride and ferrous ions to be highly effective. However, conventional stannous reagent dosing methodology is not without disadvantages. Stannous salt solutions are highly corrosive, toxic and hazardous reagents requiring special shipping, storage and handling. The reagents have a limited shelf life due to their chemical instability, and once expired, they must be disposed of safely. Due to the high density, viscosity and acidity of stannous salt solutions, they also may require a complex delivery system design and control. All combined, conventional dosing approaches for stannous reagents are associated with high capital and operational costs.
Aqua Metrology Systems (AMS) has supported the evaluation of SnCl2 as a potential lower-cost chemical reagent for treating Cr(VI) contamination through studies at remediation sites. AMS believes that certain characteristics of the traditional SnCl2 reagent make it unsuitable for treating Cr(VI) in a consistent and predictable manner.
As a result, AMS designed the patent-pending SafeGuard H2O, an intelligent online Cr(VI) treatment system that generates a stannous ion reagent in-situ via an electrolytic process. The system also features real-time sensing to ensure that the performance is optimized to avoid under- or over-treatment, and that any deterioration in system performance is signaled to permit timely remedial intervention. A two-week demonstration of the technology was undertaken at the city of Los Banos, Calif., from December 11 to 22, 2017.
Demonstration Study
A SafeGuard H2O demonstration unit was installed at Los Banos Well #14, one of the city's wells that has elevated Cr(VI) levels of 40 ppb and extremely challenging water quality due to the presence of high levels of uranium, high conductivity and hardness (Table 1). This type of water composition is particularly problematic for traditional Cr(VI) treatment systems based on ion exchange or zerovalent Cr(VI) remediation, and excellent for detailing the treatment efficacy of the SafeGuard H2O system.
During the two-week evaluation period, the SafeGuard H2O system's performance for consistently treating Cr(VI) below 10 ppb under extremely challenging water conditions was evaluated.
Online Cr(VI) Remediation System
In the standard process design of the SafeGuard H2O system, a stannous ion reagent generator is installed inline with the reagent generation stream and controlled by an automated galvanostat (amperostat). The galvanostat maintains a certain electric current sufficient to generate a stannous ion reagent into the stream at targeted levels, according to incoming Cr(VI) contaminant levels and flow rate. A stannous ion reagent is continuously produced and delivered by water flow to the main water stream, where it is mixed and further reacts with chromate, reducing it into Cr(III) in the contactor vessel. An online Cr/tin monitoring system continuously analyzes tin and chromate levels at critical process steps and reports the results to the main control system every thirty minutes. Tin dosing is adjusted according to real-time process data, ensuring a high level of system automation and integrity. Treated water proceeds to the storage tank, where it can be either incorporated into a water-blending scheme or discharged for public consumption. A standard SafeGuard H2O system design process flow diagram is detailed in Figure 1, pg. 35.
Hexavalent-Trivalent Chromium Conversion Reaction Efficiency
Raw well water was continuously treated by
in-situ generated stannous reagent (1.0 ppm dose). Six samples of treated water were collected on December 11 and 13, 2017, and immediately analyzed for Cr(VI) using the online SafeGuard monitor at site within 5 to 6 minutes after sampling (SG 0 h) and then again 24 hours later at AMS's lab (SG 24 h) on another SafeGuard Cr(VI) monitor .
One representative sample from each daily series was split, preserved and delivered to a third-party certified lab (BC Labs) for further Cr(VI) analysis. The residual Cr(VI) results from the 12 field samples were analyzed by the online SafeGuard Monitor (SG) monitor and BC Labs.
Immediately after sample collection (SG 0 h Data), hexavalent chromium residuals levels were 2 to 3 ppb. However, within 24 hours, Cr(VI) levels decreased to 1 to 2 ppb (SG 24 h Data). Hexavalent chromium results obtained in two split samples by the third-party certified laboratory (BC Labs) were under the detection range (below 0.2 ppb).
Some additional decrease in residual hexavalent chromium levels in treated raw samples indicates ongoing reduction process after sampling. Low residual hexavalent chromium levels detected by the SafeGuard monitor as well as BC Labs indicates a high hexavalent chromium conversion efficiency.
Hexavalent-Trivalent Chromium Conversion Reaction Kinetics Study
Hexavalent chromium conversion kinetics (rate) is represented as fraction of converted Cr(VI) related to the initial level in untreated raw water as a function of reaction (contact) time.
The SafeGuard H2O system was set to generate stannous reagent into raw water flow at 1.0 ppm and 0.5 ppm. Treated water samples were collected and analyzed on the online SafeGuard Cr(VI) analyzer at 3-, 10- and 15-minute intervals. The minimal time required for testing on the SafeGuard analyzer is 3 minutes.
The hexavalent chromium conversion reaction rate is fast. At the 1.0 ppm reagent dose rate over 90% of initial Cr(VI) levels can be converted into trivalent form within a 3-minute contact time. At the 0.5 ppm reagent dose rate, approximately 88% of initial Cr(VI) converted into trivalent form during a 3-minute contact time. There was an insignificant effect on conversion reaction at both dosing levels (1.0 ppm and 0.5 ppm) when the contact time was increased to 15 minutes.
The highest reagent generation efficiency and reagent-contaminant reaction rate occurred with a stannous generation rate of 50 to 100 mg per minute at given (3 liters per minute) treated water flow. The SafeGuard H2O system performance under optimal conditions.
At the 1.0 and 0.75 ppm reagent dose rates, the online SafeGuard Cr(VI) monitor detected trace levels of residual hexavalent chromium, while outside lab results were under the detection range. These low residual Cr(VI) contaminant levels indicate a high efficiency (over 90%) of the conversion process from Cr(VI) to the trivalent form.
High kinetics of Cr(VI) conversion reaction were confirmed in less than five minutes from the treated water sample collection to the SafeGuard analyzer displaying results.
Decreasing the reagent dose rate down to
0.5 ppm resulted in a lower conversion efficiency, approximately 90%. At a stannous reagent dose of 0.25 ppm, data from the online SafeGuard analyzer and the outside lab support a conversion efficiency of less than 50%.
The SafeGuard H2O system successfully demonstrated the ability to efficiently generate stannous reagent levels (0.25 to 100 ppm) into raw water stream and to convert hexavalent chromium into trivalent form with high efficiency and stability.
The system's performance was monitored in real time using the automated SafeGuard Chromium monitor, a feature of the Cr(VI) remediation system that contributed to fast system setup and optimization. Analytical data from the online method and laboratory showed good agreement, further validating the ability of the SafeGuard H2O system to monitor the Cr(VI) remediation process in real time.
SafeGuard H2O's real-time sensing ensures that performance is optimized to avoid under- or over-treatment, and that any deterioration in system performance is signaled to permit timely remedial intervention.
The experimental results suggest a high probability for the scalability of the SafeGuard H2O system for point-of-supply and point-of-entry systems. Full-scale evaluation is required to further demonstrate the long-term system performance of SafeGuard H2O in field conditions.
Rick Bacon is CEO for Aqua Metrology Systems. Bacon can be reached at [email protected] or 408.523.1900.


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Warren est une ville américaine située dans le comté de Knox, dans l'État du Maine, sur les rives de la rivière Saint George. Selon le recensement de 2010, sa population s'élève à .

Histoire
Le peuplement de la région a débuté en 1736. Incorporée le , la ville a été nommée en hommage au général Joseph Warren.

De nos jours, elle abrite la prison de l'État.

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Town dans le Maine
Localité dans le comté de Knox (Maine)


Can you really beat those vivid reds and that gorgeous carpet of autumn leaves at Kathryn Albertson Park in October? A perfect backdrop for Destany's senior session last year – take a look below!
Beautiful Izabela caught classic Kathryn Albertson Park in all its autumn glory for her senior session last year, and even though we had to fight for photoshoot space occasionally, those magical shimmering reds were so worth it. Favorites below!
Funky downtown grunge and sun-dappled natural beauty at Cottonwood Creek were a great pairing for Ally's senior session last September – favorites below!


Back to work today, and choir tonight, but thanks to yesterday's day off, we had fresh fruit bread for breakfast, made with oats, rye flour, bread flour, honey (of course!), dried cranberries and powdered orange, as well as marmalade. Definitely a pantry special. It was fairly difficult to cut due to the excessive marmalade, so we didn't bother toasting it, or even buttering it – but it was luscious enough without any further adornment.
Dinner after choir was beet bourgignon (from the freezer – I'm not that industrious after choir, generally!), served with the roasted pasta from the Coburg Farmers' Market. I'm not sure this was the best accompaniment, but the beet bourgignon was delicious.
Pantry challenge day 11, with Coburg Market!