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Q: Alphabetically searching of records via accessing rest services in windows phone 7 I am trying to make Alphabetically searching of records via accessing rest services in windows phone 7.
Design page code..

            <controls:PivotItem Header="buddies">
             <toolkit:LongListSelector x:Name="BookList" Background="Transparent" IsFlatList="true"

              GroupViewOpened="LongListSelector_GroupViewOpened"
              GroupViewClosing="LongListSelector_GroupViewClosing">
                <toolkit:LongListSelector.GroupItemsPanel>
                    <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                        <toolkit:WrapPanel Orientation="Horizontal"/>
                    </ItemsPanelTemplate>
                </toolkit:LongListSelector.GroupItemsPanel>
                <toolkit:LongListSelector.GroupItemTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <Border Background="{Binding Converter={StaticResource GroupBackground}}"
                                Width="99" Height="99" Margin="6" IsHitTestVisible="{Binding HasItems}">
                            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}"
                                       FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}"
                                       FontSize="48"
                                       Margin="8,0,0,0"
                                       Foreground="{Binding Converter={StaticResource GroupForeground}}"
                                       VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
                            <Border.Projection>
                                <PlaneProjection RotationX="-60"/>
                            </Border.Projection>
                        </Border>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </toolkit:LongListSelector.GroupItemTemplate>
                <toolkit:LongListSelector.GroupHeaderTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <Border Background="Transparent" Margin="12,8,0,8">
                            <Border Background="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}"
                                    Padding="8,0,0,0" Width="62" Height="62"
                                    HorizontalAlignment="Left">
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}"
                                           Foreground="#FFFFFF"
                                           FontSize="48"
                                           FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiLight}"
                                           HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                                           VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
                            </Border>
                        </Border>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </toolkit:LongListSelector.GroupHeaderTemplate>
                <toolkit:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <Grid Margin="12,8,0,8">
                            <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
                                <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                            </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                            <Image Width="110" Height="150" Source="{Binding ImageUrl}" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
                            <StackPanel Grid.Column="1" VerticalAlignment="Top">
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding AutherName}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextLargeStyle}" FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}" Margin="12,-12,12,6"/>
                                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Email}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" TextWrapping="Wrap" FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}"/>
                                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                                    <TextBlock Text="Title:" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSmallStyle}"/>
                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSmallStyle}" FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}"/>
                                </StackPanel>
                                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                                    <TextBlock Text="Price:" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSmallStyle}"/>
                                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Price}" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSmallStyle}" FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}"/>
                                </StackPanel>
                            </StackPanel>
                        </Grid>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </toolkit:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>

            </toolkit:LongListSelector>
            </controls:PivotItem>

    </controls:Pivot>
</Grid>

Here is my MainPage.xaml.cs page code
  private LongListSelector currentSelector;
    List<Person> objperson = null;
    // Constructor
    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        string Categoryid = "2";
        WebClient proxy = new WebClient();
        proxy.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("http://localhost:3160/Service1.svc/GetListItemDetail/" + Categoryid));
        proxy.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(proxy_DownloadStringCompleted);
    }

    void proxy_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Error == null)
        {
            XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(new StringReader(e.Result));

            var CatList = (from item in doc.Descendants("ItemDetail")
                           select new Person
                           {
                               GenreName = item.Element("GenreName").Value.ToString(),
                               ItemID = Convert.ToInt32(item.Element("ItemID").Value),
                               CatID = Convert.ToInt32(item.Element("CatID").Value),
                               GenreID = Convert.ToInt32(item.Element("GenreID").Value),
                               AutherName = item.Element("AutherName").Value.ToString(),
                               Title = item.Element("Title").Value.ToString(),
                               Email = item.Element("Email").Value.ToString(),
                               Price = item.Element("Price").Value.ToString(),
                               Description = item.Element("Description").Value.ToString(),
                               ImageUrl = item.Element("ImageUrl").Value.ToString()
                           }).ToList();

            objperson = new List<Person>();
            objperson = CatList;

            BookList.ItemsSource = CatList;
        }
    }

    public List<Person> GetPersonListInfo()
    {
        List<Person> objp = new List<Person>();

        objp = objperson;

        return objp;

    }

    private void LongListSelector_GroupViewOpened(object sender, GroupViewOpenedEventArgs e)
    {
        //Hold a reference to the active long list selector.
        currentSelector = sender as LongListSelector;

        //Construct and begin a swivel animation to pop in the group view.
        IEasingFunction quadraticEase = new QuadraticEase { EasingMode = EasingMode.EaseOut };
        Storyboard _swivelShow = new Storyboard();
        ItemsControl groupItems = e.ItemsControl;

        foreach (var item in groupItems.Items)
        {
            UIElement container = groupItems.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item) as UIElement;
            if (container != null)
            {
                Border content = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(container, 0) as Border;
                if (content != null)
                {
                    DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames showAnimation = new DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames();

                    EasingDoubleKeyFrame showKeyFrame1 = new EasingDoubleKeyFrame();
                    showKeyFrame1.KeyTime = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(0);
                    showKeyFrame1.Value = -60;
                    showKeyFrame1.EasingFunction = quadraticEase;

                    EasingDoubleKeyFrame showKeyFrame2 = new EasingDoubleKeyFrame();
                    showKeyFrame2.KeyTime = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(85);
                    showKeyFrame2.Value = 0;
                    showKeyFrame2.EasingFunction = quadraticEase;

                    showAnimation.KeyFrames.Add(showKeyFrame1);
                    showAnimation.KeyFrames.Add(showKeyFrame2);

                    Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(showAnimation, new PropertyPath(PlaneProjection.RotationXProperty));
                    Storyboard.SetTarget(showAnimation, content.Projection);

                    _swivelShow.Children.Add(showAnimation);
                }
            }
        }

        _swivelShow.Begin();
    }
    private void LongListSelector_GroupViewClosing(object sender, GroupViewClosingEventArgs e)
    {
        //Cancelling automatic closing and scrolling to do it manually.
        e.Cancel = true;
        if (e.SelectedGroup != null)
        {
            currentSelector.ScrollToGroup(e.SelectedGroup);
        }

        //Dispatch the swivel animation for performance on the UI thread.
        Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() =>
        {
            //Construct and begin a swivel animation to pop out the group view.
            IEasingFunction quadraticEase = new QuadraticEase { EasingMode = EasingMode.EaseOut };
            Storyboard _swivelHide = new Storyboard();
            ItemsControl groupItems = e.ItemsControl;

            foreach (var item in groupItems.Items)
            {
                UIElement container = groupItems.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item) as UIElement;
                if (container != null)
                {
                    Border content = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(container, 0) as Border;
                    if (content != null)
                    {
                        DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames showAnimation = new DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames();

                        EasingDoubleKeyFrame showKeyFrame1 = new EasingDoubleKeyFrame();
                        showKeyFrame1.KeyTime = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(0);
                        showKeyFrame1.Value = 0;
                        showKeyFrame1.EasingFunction = quadraticEase;

                        EasingDoubleKeyFrame showKeyFrame2 = new EasingDoubleKeyFrame();
                        showKeyFrame2.KeyTime = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(125);
                        showKeyFrame2.Value = 90;
                        showKeyFrame2.EasingFunction = quadraticEase;

                        showAnimation.KeyFrames.Add(showKeyFrame1);
                        showAnimation.KeyFrames.Add(showKeyFrame2);

                        Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(showAnimation, new PropertyPath(PlaneProjection.RotationXProperty));
                        Storyboard.SetTarget(showAnimation, content.Projection);

                        _swivelHide.Children.Add(showAnimation);
                    }
                }
            }

            _swivelHide.Completed += _swivelHide_Completed;
            _swivelHide.Begin();

        });
    }
    private void _swivelHide_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //Close group view.
        if (currentSelector != null)
        {
            currentSelector.CloseGroupView();
            currentSelector = null;
        }
    }

I am new to windows phone 7 application development, no idea about grouping of alphabets in Longlistselector. Please help me in that. Thanks in advance.

A: A super easy way to do it, is to use a specialized collection for the LongListSelector. I just so happen to have written one
Basically you would change your code to the following:
BookList.ItemsSource = new LongListCollection<Person, char>(CatList, x => x.Title[0]));

And you would get the alphabetic grouping on the first character of the Title property.
The only detail you need to be aware of, is that your Person class would need to implement IComparable<Person> to be ordered by the Title property (because you do want sorting, right?)
Simply done as:
public int Compare(Person other)
{
    if (other == null)
        return 1;

    return this.Title.CompareTo(other.Title);
}

A: There is code I used once for grouping. As you can see, it's similar to Claus's:
public class YourList : ObservableCollection<ItemsInGroup>
{
    private static readonly string Groups = "#abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

    Dictionary<string, ItemsInGroup> groups = new Dictionary<string, ItemsInGroup>();

    public YourList()
    {
        foreach (char c in Groups)
        {
            ItemsInGroup group = new ItemsInGroup(c.ToString());
            this.Add(group);
            groups[c.ToString()] = group;
        }
    }

    public void AddItem(Item item)
    {
        string GroupKey = Item.GetSomeFieldKey(item);// a, b, etc.

        for (int i = 0; i < groups[GroupKey].Count; i++)
        {
            if (Item.CompareBySomeField(item, groups[GroupKey][i]) < 0)
            {
                groups[Item.GetSomeFilesKey(item)].Insert(i, item);
                return;
            }
        }
        groups[GroupKey].Add(item);
    }
}

.
public class ItemsInGroup : ObservableCollection<Item>, INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public ItemsInGroup(string category)
    {
        Key = category;
    }

    public string Key { get; set; }

    public bool HasItems { get { return Count > 0; } }

//INotifyPropertyChanged implementation

}
Item must implement:
 public static string GetSomeFieldKey(Item item)

and
 public static int CompareBySomeFields(object obj1, object obj2)

Usage:
 YourList list = new YourList();
 foreach (var item in resultListFromService)
 {
      list.AddItem(item); // fill list with items
 }
 myList.ItemsSource = list; // bind to UI

Hope this helps better understand how it works


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The Journals
The Old Santa Fe Trail
The Prairie
The Price of the Prairie
Kansas Facts: Information about The Counties of the State
The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
Expansion and Conflict, by William E. Dodd
Governors of the State of Kansas
The Ranche On The Oxhide
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody
The Border and the Buffalo
Chapter IX: Passing of the Pony Express
Chapter VIII: Early Overland Mail Routes
Chapter VII:Anecdotes of the Trail and Honor Roll
Chapter VI: Riders and Famous Rides
Chapter V: California and the Secession Menace
The Farm Home And The Community
Written by Dwight Sanderson
Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
Category: Kansas People
The American farmer thinks first of his own home; only recently has he commenced to appreciate that his and other homes form a community. In the "age of homespun" the pioneer subdued his new lands and built his home; the farm and the home were his and for them he lived. He bought but little and had but little to sell. Farms were largely self-supporting. Neighbors helped each other in numerous ways and as the country became more thickly settled neighborhood life grew apace. But there was little sense of relation to the larger community. Roads were bad and people were too widely scattered to come together except on special occasions. The family was the fundamental social unit and social life revolved around the family, or in the immediate neighborhood.
But "times have changed." The farm is no longer largely self-supporting. It is now but a primary unit in a world-wide economic system, conducted with money as the basis of exchange and dominated by the interests of capital. Farm products are sold for cash and their value is determined by distant or world markets with which the farmer has no personal contact and of which he often has but little knowledge. Most of the goods consumed on the farm must be purchased. The marketing of his products and the purchasing of goods have given the farmer increasing contacts with the village and town centers and a broader knowledge of the world at large.
During the past century modern ideas of transportation and the development of industries due to inventions and scientific discoveries have resulted in an enormous growth of city populations. The social life of the cities is increasingly dominated by the interests of the individual rather than those of the family, until the breaking down of urban family life has become a world-wide problem. The family is no longer the social unit of the city as it is in the country.
Now farm people are by no means as isolated from town and city as is often imagined. Their brothers and sisters, sons and daughters have gone to make up the increasing urban populations. Through correspondence and visiting back and forth, through frequent trips to town, through the daily city newspapers, and through the general reading of magazines, farm people are in more or less close contact with the life and manners of the cities. Inasmuch as slightly over half of our people now live in towns or cities and only one-third live on farms, it is not surprising that urban ideals and values and the urban point of view tend more and more to dominate those of the countryside. There has been a natural tendency, therefore, for the association of country people to center in the country town and village, in the community center.
Better transportation and the inability to maintain satisfactory institutions in the open country have made this process inevitable and it will do much to abolish the evils of rural isolation. The increasing difficulty of maintaining successful churches in the open country and the growth of the village church, the dissatisfaction with the one-room district school and the desire for consolidated schools and community high schools, are evidences of this tendency.
The smaller size of the farm family has made it less self-sufficient socially than formerly, and the fact that fewer near relations live nearby and farms change hands more often has resulted in fewer neighborhood gatherings. The different members of the family tend to get together more with groups of their own age and sex coming from all parts of the community, and definite effort is made for the organization of such groups according to their various interests.
Attention is directed to these tendencies because in our present emphasis on the relation of the farmer to his community and on community values, we must not lose sight of the fact that the family must ever be recognized as the primary social institution of rural life. Indeed, it may not be too much to claim that the largest value in the agricultural industry is in the possibility of the most satisfactory type of home life. The millionaire farmer is so rare as to be negligible, and although farmers as a class doubtless have as wholesome and satisfactory a living as they would in other pursuits, yet no one engages in farming as a means of easily acquiring large wealth. The highest rural values cannot be bought or sold.
The mere fact that farming is practically the only remaining industry conducted on a family basis--which seems likely to continue--and that all members of the family have more or less of a share in the conduct and success of the farm, creates a family bond which does not ordinarily exist where the business or employment of the father and of other members of the family is dissociated from the home. Although the burden of the farm business on the home is often decried and there is obvious need of lightening the mother's work for the farm as much as possible, yet under the best of conditions there is on the farm a constant and intimate contact between the father and mother and children which is rarely found under other conditions.
Primitive woman discovered the art of agriculture. At first, the men assisted the women in what time they could spare from hunting; but as game became scarce and the food supply grown from the soil was found to be more certain, agriculture became man's vocation. Permanent home life commenced with the development of agriculture. As he became a farmer, primitive man stayed at home with his wife and shared with her the nurture of the children. Before then the family had been _hers_, now it was _theirs_. The mere fact that the home and the business are both on the farm, that father is in the house several times a day and that the whole family are acquainted with his farm operations, will always give the farm home a superior solidarity, so long as the family lives on the farm. Though but few farm homes are ideal and some of them have but little that is attractive, yet nowhere are conditions so favorable for the enjoyment of all that is most precious in family life as in the better American farm homes.
If this be true, that the chief value in agriculture is in the possibility of the most satisfactory home life, then community development should be considered primarily from the standpoint of its effect on the farm home, for the social strength of the country will be more largely determined by its homes than by its other social institutions. We should endeavor, therefore, to build up that type of community life which makes for better homes and stronger families. While seeking to afford superior advantages to individuals, all effort toward community improvement should recognize that the strength of the community is in its home life.
The need of this point of view with regard to rural community organization has been very forcibly indicated by Mr. John R. Boardman, one of our keenest observers and interpreters of country life in his "Community Leadership." He says:
"At the heart of the rural situation is the rural family. The social problems involved in home life in the rural village and on the farm are of two kinds,--developmental and protective. The social unit in the city is the individual. Urban conditions have rapidly disintegrated the family as a social unit. Grave dangers have resulted from this interference with the unity of domestic life. The rural family is in danger of meeting the same fate. It is now the social unit in the rural social structure. Every effort must be put forth to make this situation permanent. The major problem is one of home conservation. Protection of the rural family against social exploitation will demand increasing attention. The development of social organization along lines which interfere with the unity and solidarity of rural family life must be approached with extreme caution and tolerated only as they may be absolutely necessary. So far as possible social organization must be built around the rural family and give it every possible opportunity to act as a family in the scheme of organization and activity. The home as a social center must receive increased attention. There is great danger, in the new interest which is being aroused in rural social life, that the matter of social organization be greatly overdone. The rural family will be the one to suffer first and most severely as a result of this craze for social organization."
In support of this point of view it is interesting to note that the strongest rural institutions, the church, the grange, and the recently organized Farm Bureaus, are all organizations which have an interest for the whole family or for most of its members. With an increasing sense of social needs and responsibilities on the part of rural people, new organizations will be formed and various community activities must be undertaken, but if country people will remain true to their traditions and, with clear view of changing conditions, will seek to organize their community life as an association of farm and village _families_, they will create the most satisfying and enduring type of society. The community buildings now becoming so popular in rural communities are a good example of a family institution organized to furnish better recreation and social facilities for the whole family.
Inasmuch as the home is its primary social institution, the rural community must give its first consideration to its relations to the home and how the home life may be strengthened, if the rural family is to withstand the influence of the disintegrating home life of the city. For the farm home is in a process of readjustment to modern conditions and the recognition of ideals and objectives of home-life by the community will be a powerful factor in their maintenance.
The mother has ever occupied the central position in the home. Under modern conditions, as a result of her education and broader knowledge of life, through her more frequent contacts with town and city and through her wider reading, many a farm mother is coming to feel that her position is an anomalous one. In some cases she may be able to solve her own problems, but only a general change in public opinion concerning their position will bring a more acceptable status to farm women as a class.
Some of the farm woman's problems arise from the increasing division of labor between her husband and herself and from the marketing of the farm products; these are the problems of her economic status. The peasant woman of medieval Europe or the wife of the American pioneer never worried that she did not receive a monthly allowance or a certain share of the farm income. She worked with her husband and family in raising the farm products and she shared in their consumption, for but relatively little was sold off the place. To-day, the wife of the farm owner does little work on the farm; its products are sold and much of the food and practically all of the clothing is purchased. She and her children contribute a considerable amount of the labor of the farm enterprise, and do all of the housework; but the husband does the selling and most of the buying, she often has but little share in the management of the family's finances, and rarely knows what she may count on for household expenses. She comes to feel that she is no longer a real partner, but a sort of housekeeper, though without salary or assured income. In over nine thousand farm homes studied in the northern and western states,[5] one-fourth of the women helped with the livestock, and one-fourth worked in the field an equivalent of 6.7 weeks a year, over half of them cared for the home gardens, and one-third of them kept the farm accounts. Over a third of them helped to milk, two-thirds washed the separators, and 88 percent washed the milk pails, 60 percent made the butter and one-third sold the butter, but only 11 percent had the spending of the money from its sale. Likewise 81 percent cared for the poultry, but only 22 percent had the poultry money for their own use and but 16 percent had the egg money. These figures do not give us a complete analysis of the household finances in relation to the amount contributed by farm women, but they are indicative of the general situation.
It is because of these facts that farm women feel that a larger portion of the farm income should be spent in giving them better household conveniences, somewhat commensurate with the amount that is spent for improved farm machinery and barn conveniences. Only one-third of these farm homes had running water; and but one-fifth had a bath-tub with water and sewer connections; 85 percent had outdoor toilets. Improvement is in evidence, however, for two-thirds had water in the kitchen, 60 percent had sink and drain, 57 percent had washing machines, and 95 percent had sewing machines. It is not that she is merely seeking less work so that she may attend her club or go to the movies, that the farm mother desires better conveniences and shorter hours--her average working day is now 11.3 hours--but because she has new ideals of the nurture which she wishes to give her family and of what she might do for them had she the time and physical strength.
As a result of the coöperative survey of 10,000 representative farm homes in 241 counties in the 33 northern and western states made by home demonstration agents and farm women, Miss Ward[6] gives some interesting "side-lights," which are as illuminating as the statistics:
"Women realize that no amount of scientific arrangement or labor-saving appliances will of themselves make a home. It is the woman's personal presence, influence, and care that make the home. Housekeeping is a business as practical as farming and with no romance in it; home making is a sacred trust. A woman wants time salvaged from housekeeping to create the right home atmosphere for her children and to so enrich their home surroundings that they may gain their ideals of beauty and their tastes for books and music not from the shop windows, the movies, the billboards, or the jazz band, but from the home environment.
"The farm woman knows that there is no one who can take her place as teacher and companion of her children during their early impressionable years and she craves more time for their care. She feels the need of making the farm home an inviting place for the young people of the family and their friends and of promoting the recreational and educational advantages of the neighborhood in order to cope with the various forms of city allurements. She realizes that modern conditions call for an even deeper realization and closer contact between mother and child. The familiar term, 'God could not be everywhere so He made mothers' has its modern scientific application, as no amount of education and care given to children in school or elsewhere outside the home can take the place of mothering in the home. 'The home exists for the child, hence the child's development should have first consideration.'
"Farm women want to broaden their outlook and keep with the advancement of their children 'not by courses of study but by bringing progressive ideas, methods, and facilities into the every day work and recreation of the home environment.'"
"True enough," you say, "but these are problems of the individual home. What have they to do with the community?" Just this: The status of the farm woman is a matter determined more by custom than by individual achievement. It is difficult for any one woman, no matter how able or strong-minded, to maintain a status much in advance of that of her neighbors; but let the women of a community get together and discuss their problems and ideals and the group spirit strengthens each of them in the pursuit of the common ideals. It is such a desire for mutual support--even though they are not conscious of it--which has drawn farm women together into clubs and which has given such an impetus to the Home Bureaus, or women's departments of the county Farm Bureaus. Not only in women's organizations, but finally in community organizations of men and women, such as the Grange and the church, the social standards of the community receive the sanction of public opinion, than which there is no more powerful means of influencing family usages. The community as such, must give recognition to a new and better status of its farm women.
If the rural home remains the primary social institution, it will be due to its intelligent effort at self-defense, and not to any inherent right which it has to such a position. Originally the family was but a biological group. Until modern times the agricultural family was chiefly an economic unit. Only with the isolation of the American farm, did the individual family assume the primary social position known to our fathers and grandfathers. Physical isolation and large families made the farm home the only possible social center. Isolation is largely passing, families are smaller, and organizations of all sorts and commercial amusements compete with the family. It is the use of leisure time which reveals the true loyalty of the family group. If there be nothing to attract them to the fireside, they will inevitably go elsewhere whenever possible. Hence, if it would have its foundations strong, the community must encourage the enrichment of home life, particularly, in the hours of leisure when life is most real. The family games after supper, the group around the piano singing old and modern songs, the reading aloud by one member of the circle, the cracking of nuts and the popping of corn, the picnic supper on the lawn, the tennis court or croquet ground, the home parties, the guests ever-welcome at meals, these are but items in a possible scorecard of the sociability of the home. We are giving much thought to all sorts of group activities, but how much attention have we given to systematically encouraging the social unit which has the largest possibilities, the family? Last summer my friend, Professor E. C. Lindeman, of the North Carolina College for Women, spent several weeks in becoming acquainted with rural Denmark under peculiarly favorable conditions. A statement in a letter from him regarding Danish home life is apropos in this connection:
"I observed that the country people find a great deal of social expression within their own homes. The home life is organized on a much higher plane than is common in America. In addition, there is a larger content of cultural and educational material within the family circle."
In the same way the economic position, health, education, and all other phases of life of the family are the most potent influences both in the life of its members and of the community.
The question arises, therefore, what is the community doing to strengthen the home? In recent years the new discipline of Home Economics has vigorously attacked the problems of diet, clothing, and household management, and has accomplished much. It is now concerning itself with health, child welfare, and even with child psychology and the family as an institution. Yet the home economics point of view is necessarily restricted to that of the institution which it serves, i.e., the home; it has the same limitations, when pursued solely from the home standpoint, that farm management has as an interpretation of farming if not related to agricultural and general economics. We need a consideration of the problems of the home from the standpoint of other social institutions and with regard to its function in social organization. We need a clearer concept of the relation of the home to the community and to community associations and activities.
The community institutions, the school, the church, and various organizations, have had too much of a tendency to compete with the home rather than to support and strengthen it. Thus the tendency of the school has been to demand a larger and larger portion of the child's time and to assume that because certain phases of education can be more economically given in the school, that, therefore, it should take over as much of the educational function of the home as is possible; a conclusion which is by no means valid. In the home project a new educational principle has been discovered, which has far-reaching significance: for in it the school and the home coöperate, the school outlining, standardizing, and interpreting, while the home furnishes supervision, advice, and encouragement. Thus, the home is stimulated to perform those educational functions in which it is superior, through a definite effort upon the part of the school to strengthen them. The same principle is being applied to education in hygiene. Why should not the church and Sunday school adopt similar methods and undertake a definite system of encouraging the home to give moral and religious education in an adequate fashion, rather than attempt to give homeopathic doses to children _en masse_? Why should not the church, or the school, or both, give parents instruction and inspiration as to how to educate their children in matters of sex, about which they are in the best position to gain their confidence? Should not our clubs and social organizations, for men and women, boys and girls, face the question, as to whether their aggregate activities are unduly competing with the home, and should they not give definite thought as to how they may assist and strengthen the basic institution of our social organization? If the home is the essential primary social institution, then its well-being should command the consideration of every institution of the community; for the function and objectives of the home cannot be determined solely by either its own ideals and purposes, or by the values established by the various special interest groups. The home and the community institutions are constantly in a process of adapting themselves to each other, and to the extent that each recognizes the function of the other and is willing to coöperate rather than to compete, is the highest success of each made possible.
This problem of the relation of the home to the community is a relatively new one, and is largely the result of better means of communication which have enlarged the horizon of every farm home. When the life of the child was almost wholly within the home and the neighborhood, the parents gave themselves little concern about the influence or conditions of the larger community. But when her children go to a consolidated school and their school associates are unknown to her, when they attend the movies in the village, and when they read the local weekly or the city daily newspaper and the monthly magazines, so that they know what is going on throughout the world, then, if she be wise, a mother commences to realize that the community is having a growing influence in shaping their character and that however ideal the home may be, it is but a part of their lives. She commences to appreciate that she must have an understanding of the life and forces of the community so that she may use her influence toward making their social environment what it should be and so that she may be able to make the home so attractive that it will hold their primary interest and loyalty. Thus community problems of health, of education, of recreation and social life, and of religion become inter-related with those of the home. The successful homemaker can no longer concern herself solely with home-management, but must assume her share of responsibility in community-management, or "community housekeeping."
With the new responsibilities of suffrage rural women are following the example of their city sisters in taking a larger interest in civic affairs and social legislation, and with a most wholesome influence on community life. There is, however, some danger that while the men are engaged with their business problems, these social problems will be too largely left to the women;[7] for without the sympathetic understanding and hearty coöperation of their husbands, rural women will find that their new social ideals will materialize but slowly. Here again, such family organizations as the Grange, the Church, and Farm and Home Bureau, in which community activities engage both men and women are peculiarly serviceable.
An interesting example of how the family may function in community life is found in a small town in southern Michigan (Centerville) where the people have established a coöperative motion picture theater, to which the families buy season tickets, and where one may find whole families together enjoying the best pictures to the accompaniment of a community orchestra. This is also being accomplished in many community buildings.
On the other hand the home need not abdicate all of its old-time functions as a social center. A few years ago in attending a rural community conference at the University of Illinois I was interested to hear a farm woman, a graduate of that university, tell how she and her neighbors had held amateur dramatic entertainments on their front verandas during the summer. The young people took the parts and the audience sat on the lawn, and thus many families were brought under the influence of the better homes who would not have thought of visiting them. When winter came on, these entertainments were continued in a slightly different manner, so that neighboring families were brought into contact without any tendency toward undue intimacy between families which would not associate otherwise. Family parties for young and old, should by no means be abandoned in favor of community parties, however satisfactory and attractive the latter may be.
The social responsibility of the rural home must receive new recognition, for the day when we can live to ourselves in the enjoyment of a select group of personal friends is rapidly passing, if we are to have satisfactory social conditions. It is one of the bad effects of the increasing amount of tenancy in our best farming sections, and of the frequent changing of farm ownership, that the shifting of residence makes it difficult for the family to secure a satisfactory social position in the community life.
In the last analysis, however, the largest contribution of the home to the community and the best means of solving the problem of its relation to community life, is in the development of the best social attitudes among its members toward each other and toward the life of the community; for all sound social organization is but an application of the relations of the family to the affairs of larger social groups, and unless attitudes of mutual aid, common responsibility, and voluntary loyalty, are maintained in the home, so that its relations form a norm for all other human groups, rural society will have lost the chief dynamic of social progress.
[5] From "The Farm Woman's Problems," Florence E. Ward. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Circular 148 (1920).
[6] _Ibid._, pp. 14, 15.
[7] Benjamin Kidd claims that this superior interest of women in race welfare is due to woman's cultural inheritance and that from the very nature of the division of labor between man and woman, man is less capable than woman of devoting himself to human welfare. "But the fact of the age which goes deeper than any other is that the male mind of the race as the result of the conditions out of which it has come, is by itself incapable of rendering this service to civilization. It is in the mind of woman that the winning peoples of the world will find the psychic center of Power in the future."--"The Science of Power," p. 241.
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Dillon Chen is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in 2016, and works primarily in the men's fashion industry. Dillon has had the pleasure of assisting design teams at Calvin Klein, Coach, Theory, Converse, and Under Armour. He is currently freelancing at an independent outerwear label, Rainforest Inc. We connected with Dillon to see what he's been up to.
Can you tell us about a project that ~transformed~ you the most as an artist? What was challenging about it? what did you learn about yourself through it?
I wrote and recorded a demo called Angel in U around two years back with the help of a musician I met at karaoke. It was just something we did for fun, but it really meant the world to me. I sing in the shower and can strum a few chords on the guitar, so I wouldn't call myself a musician by any measure. When my friend, Luke, sent the demo back to me after our recording session, I couldn't believe that it was my voice on the track. It actually sounded good. Granted, he did 99% of the work, playing instruments, recording my vocals, and post production, but it was genuinely a beautiful collaboration. I remember after recording with Luke, I stayed up all night in my apartment thinking I was going to become a pop star. That's the gift he gave me, the experience that sparked a dream so powerful it warped my reality. The only challenge of the project was to overcome the hesitation to express myself 100% during the recording session. Although, it wasn't difficult to achieve in the privacy of a small, dim practice space, with the guidance of my friend. I discovered my inner voice through this project, but also the dangers of being seduced by your own art. I had created a dream and lost myself in it for a while, because I didn't want to deal with my reality and responsibilities. That's the double edged sword of art. If anybody's curious, you can search "angel in u spaceprince" on Youtube to check out the demo. It's going strong at 33 views.
What are the challenges of working in the fashion world?
My last notable job was very high pressure. It was incredibly fast paced and not all that creative. Every day I'd go into work, and my manager would lay out a row of print outs from Pinterest for me to sketch. Whatever brand of garment was photographed on the print out, I would have to copy closely. Then my manager would open the sketch, make some tweaks, and drop in colors from the season. Sometimes I'd sketch directly from garments that were purchased at other stores. It was difficult for me to reconcile, the fact that our design process started from another piece of clothing, hardly evolved, and I didn't have any say in it. That was the job, however, and it seemed the most plausible solution to meet the demands of merchandising as well as short production timelines. I wasn't comfortable copying designs, but was expected to do so on the daily, so it really messed with my head. I spoke out about it, but since nothing changed after a year, I left the job. On one hand, I regret I wasn't able to overcome these challenges in order to maintain my career, but it was like trying to overhaul all of my morals and falling apart at the seams while doing so. I've taken a break from fashion since, and am still trying to figure out how to get back up.
What does artistic integrity mean to you?
Having ownership over your work. Knowing that what you put out into the world, came from your head or your heart. I draw from reference photos that I find online, but the look of the final piece, and the message that it speaks, is my own. To paint a scene, or build a chair, you will need to study other paintings and other chairs to understand how they were created, but then you have to figure out how to make it your own. That doesn't always mix with big business, when you have other people dictating what works and what sells. My last job felt meaningless because there was no ownership of work. I couldn't point at a garment sketch and say, I came up with that. When a team is driven by a strong vision and works towards realizing it, the authenticity of the product will naturally show through.
What strikes you as "inauthentic" in the art world? What frustrates you about art as an industry?
The art world is such a broad term. There's a lot more authenticity in the fine art world vs the commercial fashion space. The voice of a singular artist has more of an identity than the voice of a company, but less of a reach. Art that is inauthentic doesn't express an idea, a story, or a feeling. So it may be considered less a work of art, and more of a product. I don't have much experience working professionally in the art industry, so I guess my only frustration is how difficult it is to make a living out of it. Then again, there are a lot of successful artists out there, so I still have a lot to learn.
I saw that you won a wearable technology contest in 2014, where you were praised for exceptional vision in designing something "likely unbuildable with today's technology." What else would you design if you didn't have to consider the feasibility of execution?
A time machine.
How do your backgrounds in art & illustration, fashion design, & industrial design come together? What does an interdisciplinary thought process/creative process look like for you?
I'm a very visual thinker, so the best way I can communicate an idea is by sketching it to create a picture. My drawing has helped me land jobs in fashion, and got me through the Industrial Design program I studied at school. It's given me the avenues to explore ideas beyond the page, whether it be a lighting project, a Mars Transit Habitat, or commercial garments. Fashion and Industrial design have completely different processes and principles of design, but they can both start out as a sketch. An interdisciplinary thought process gives me more than one angle to look at and solve a design problem.
What's your dream commission & why?
This illustrated campaign for Bobblehaus is certainly a rare opportunity that I view as a professional milestone. I was very inspired and awed by Ignasi Monreal's illustrated campaigns for Gucci, so this project was like my "Gucci" moment. I hope to apply my artistry to visual development for film and animation some day. Having studied Industrial Design and dipped my toes in Fashion, I find that storytelling has the most room for blue sky creativity and self expression, so I'm really drawn to that space right now.
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Do you have anything personal you'd like to share with the community?
This is really a reminder for myself, but I'd like to encourage anyone reading to practice kindness, stay healthy, and keep working on their craft. I haven't created artwork to the level of finish in these pieces for Bobblehaus in a very long time, so I feel very grateful to be given the chance to polish and showcase my artistry. This project pushed me to get back on my feet during a time I felt knocked down. Big thanks to Abi and Ophelia for putting their trust in me.
What would a self-portrait of your alter-ego look like?
My alter ego is a character named spaceprince, who's on a mission to save the galaxy armed with his laser gun that goes, pew-pew!
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Niscemi is a little town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy. It has a population of 27,558.[3] It is located not far from Gela and Caltagirone and 90 km from Catania.
1 Etymology
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The name Niscemi is derived from the Arabic word نَشَم neshem or its singular form نَشَمَة neshemeh, this being the name of a particular type of tree.
World War II[edit]
During World War II, Niscemi was the location of Ponte Olivo Airfield, a military airfield used by the United States Twelfth Air Force during the Italian campaign. After the war the area was redeveloped and no evidence of the wartime airfield remains.
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Main article: Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (NRTF) Niscemi
US Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Earth Terminal Facility at NRTF Niscemi
Today, there is a military radio station for naval communication, U.S. Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (NRTF) Niscemi. Its tallest antenna is a guyed mast, 252 metres (827 ft) high, situated at 37°7'32"N 14°26'11"E.
The United States Navy installation is the focus of ongoing protest by locally based activist groups, who oppose it and demand its removal on grounds of health (danger from electromagnetic radiation), environmental damage and opposition to the use of armed drones in the Middle East, allegedly guided from this base.[4] Allegations of armed drones being operated from this base has never been verified however, as the newly installed MUOS (Mobile User Objective System)[5] was intended as an upgrade to legacy communication equipment, and is not intended to communicate with unmanned flying drones. Niscemi inhabitants say the Berlusconi government did not consult them before granting the US the use of the location.
^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ Istat Data - Population of Niscemi until December 30, 2016
^ Nadeau, Barbie Latza (April 28, 2015). "The Tiny Italian Town Killing the U.S. Navy's Surveillance Plans". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
^ "Navy Satellite Programs" (PDF). Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 978-0-912799-02-5
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Jeffrey Wong Insurance Agency provides insurance to technology service businesses in Benicia, Vallejo, Concord, Fairfield, San Jose, Walnut Creek, and surrounding areas.
With such a wide range of potential protection plans, it is important that you contact an insurance specialist at Jeffrey Wong Insurance Agency to go over all of your options. We will help you find a plan that is right for your business.


Next week at WWDC, held in San Francisco, Apple is rumored to be refreshing the MacBook Air lineup. Although there are not many specifics on what Apple will offer in the new lineup, I am hoping to see that they change the design simply because the current design is a couple years old. Apple is known to keep the design of Macs the same for a few years before they change it up.
It is quite obvious that Apple will update the Intel processors found in the MacBook Airs as well as other specifications. Maybe a Retina MacBook Air option? Who knows, we just have to wait till next week to find out! Let us know what your predictions are for the MacBook Airs in the likely refresh next week.
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I am currently working on a translation of a little illustrated book on the life and works of Gustav Klimt, and having such a lot of fun with it! Art nouveau is atyle that appeals to me, yet I previously knew very little about the Vienna Secession - the period in Klimt's life I'm working on at the moment. My ideas of Klimt's work were pretty much limited to The Kiss and similar. Now I am aware of his academic phase, portraits, murals, landscapes... I just love being able to exercise my brain, improve my general knowledge and read an interesting book all at once. And I get paid for it. And, hopefully, the end result will be that other people get to find out all about it too.
In other news, spurred on by Kevin Lossner's post on finding good translators over at Translation Tribulations, I have applied to join the ITI, the UK Institute of Translation and Interpreting. I had looked at their website before and found it rather daunting, but this time I have bitten the bullet and sent off the forms. Their exam will follow in due course and I'll let you know how I get on!


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Q: Restart Activity on uncaughtException in the onCreate method of an Activity, I'm running this :
Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
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            public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable ex) {
                Intent intent = getIntent();
                finish();
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What I am trying to do is, when in this activity, I would like to restart it and clear previous intents, with these lines of code, I end up having a blank screen and the app running in the background, either way I have to restart it or kill it from the multitasking screen and this is not really user friendly. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Kiawah Isand's Beachwalker Park has been honored before, and it's been honored again by National Geographic as the fourth best "family beach" in the United States.
The magazine says, "Nature lovers will appreciate the pristine condition of this barrier island, just 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Charleston. Beachwalker Park is the only public beach on Kiawah Island; the rest is a golf resort. The gentle surf, wildlife sightings, and amenities, including a snack bar and umbrella and chair rentals, draw day-trippers and resort guests alike. Visit the Heron Park Nature Center to learn how to explore the surrounding flora and fauna. Kayak through preserved mangrove forests and lagoons. Don't miss the weekly oyster roast and BBQ on Mingo Point, where you can savor the sunset and listen to music."
Beachwalker Park is located on the west end of Kiawah Island and is a part of Charleston Parks and Recreation. It's packed with amenities including outdoor showers, snack bar, picnic area, lifeguards on duty (seasonally), dressing areas, and chair and umbrella rentals.
But beware the $7 parking fee -- in fact you should check out the beach's hours and other fees.
A hat tip to The Post and Courier for spotting this story.


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Flying Clubs Club Connector Newsletter News from HQ: News Clubs, Fly-Ins and High School STEM
News from HQ: News Clubs, Fly-Ins and High School STEM
November 19, 2017 By AOPA You Can Fly Staff
New Clubs, New Neighbors, and New Responsibilities
By Steve Bateman, Director, Flying Clubs Initiative
As mentioned in previous Club Connector editions, the Flying Clubs group, along with AOPA regional Ambassadors, have a goal to help start 30 new flying clubs in 2017. With three new clubs recently becoming operational in New Jersey, Indiana and California, we are now up to 27 – and we have others forming nicely in several parts of the country. We also have a goal to deliver 40 face-to-face seminars in the Maximum Fun, Minimum Cost series on how to start and how to benefit from flying clubs. We're optimistic that we'll achieve these goals, both of which contribute greatly to the overall goal of increasing the number of active pilots in the USA.
By the end of 2017, the Flying Clubs Initiative will have helped form 65 flying clubs in its brief history. Given that an average club has 12 members, this means that approximately 780 pilots are now flying as active members in new flying clubs. This increase in activity generates hangar rental fees, fuel sales, proficiency and currency training, maintenance, and many other aviation-related businesses opportunities—all of which are contributors to vibrant and lively airport operations. The fact that clubs stimulate economic activity and improve the viability of aviation businesses, highlights the collaborative relationship that should naturally exist between clubs and the airports at which they are based.
There is no doubt that we are in this together – clubs need FBOs for fuel and maintenance services, schools need clubs to help alleviate rental-based scheduling headaches on the flight training fleet, and airport operators need engaged and active tenants, be they commercial (FBOs, schools, etc.), non-profit clubs, and individuals.
Collaborative and cooperative relationships don't always come naturally, especially if an FBO, school or club has operated independently of an airport for years, and another tenant suddenly joins the airport and changes the status quo. In such cases, and really in all cases, we must understand that collaboration is a combined responsibility. If we don't take it seriously, an airport operator has the right – delegated from the FAA – to bring parties into line with expected standards and operational behaviors.
We have seen a couple of such conflicts in the past few months. The FAA is quite clear that flying clubs provide services and opportunities for the enjoyment of its members, only, and that all members, by definition, must share equally in the assets, liabilities, and obligations of the club. In the context of clubs, there is a line that must not be crossed between providing aviation opportunities to its members, and reaching out and offering services to the general public.
One example of this is the use of club aircraft for flight training. Now, it is perfectly okay for members of a club to use club aircraft for purposes of individual flight training – but it is not okay for the club to extend that privilege to non-members, nor to try to work around the rules by offering lower-cost memberships to student pilots. Flight schools are commercial operators and are held to higher operational rules and standards compared with flying clubs, which therefore adds to the cost of operations and hence the cost of services. Let's leave the business of commercial flight training to the schools and FBOs, while we enjoy the benefits of camaraderie and lower operational costs for our club members, only.
On the Tarmac in Tampa
By Les Smith, Sr. Director, Pilot Community Development
It is the time of year where snow has already fallen in some parts of the country, prompting me to follow the tropical siren call of AOPA's final Regional Fly-In of 2017 held in Tampa, FL. Nearly 5,500 attendees, including 339 aircraft also answered that call. They found themselves on an airport tucked against an active ship channel with line of sight to the nearby Tampa downtown skyline.
The Florida weather came through with balmy high 70's, low humidity and easy breezes. Attendees had plenty to choose from with in-depth workshops on Friday followed by a Barnstormer Party with the band on the porch of the airport terminal, and attendees dancing on the tarmac below.
Those who chose to fly in and camp were treated to a beautiful setting right along the water. Peter O. Knight Airport (KTPF) offered a convenient layout for a walk amongst more than 50 aircraft on static display. There were nearly 60 vendors as well, offering all kinds of tempting ways to spend your aviation dollars. Saturday included a full schedule of seminars in four settings. There were prize drawings for those who collected their "passport" stamps from the various venues.
During the Town Hall, AOPA President Mark Baker recognized James McCague for flying the greatest distance to the event. James flew his C-182 just less than 1,000 nm from Ontario, Canada, and received an Appareo Systems Stratus ADS-B receiver for his efforts. The relaxed Florida vibe, the mild late-season temperatures and the graciousness of our hosts at Peter O. Knight made for a thoroughly delightful conclusion to this year's AOPA Regional Fly In season.
If this sounds like your kind of fun, make your way to one of the 2018 fly-ins scheduled to take place in Missoula, Montana, on June 15 and 16, 2018, followed by Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sept. 14 and 15; Carbondale, Illinois, Oct. 5 and 6; and Gulf Shores, Alabama, Oct. 26 and 27. We look forward to seeing you at one of these events.
By Cindy Hasselbring, Sr. Director, High School Aviation Initiative
More than 255 high school educators and administrators gathered from 40 states in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 6 and 7, to learn how to start or improve their high school aviation STEM programs. Participants learned about how to build an airplane at their school, and also aviation 101 for the non-pilot educators. As part of the event, educators were able to go on tours at the American Airlines pilot training facility to see the flight simulators and emergency training area. Several representatives from companies such as American Airlines, Boeing, UPS, NASA, Alaska Airlines, and Envoy Air, took part. During the symposium, more information was shared about AOPA's newly developed high school aviation STEM curriculum. This curriculum is currently being field-tested in 29 high schools across the country and will be available at no charge to high schools in the fall of 2018.
Fly lots and fly safe!


Please join us for a presentation on Bears Ears National Monument. This presentation will provide information on the struggle to protect sacred and ecologically delicate Indigenous lands from natural resource development by the Indigenous-led non-profit organization, Utah Diné Bikéyah, supported and co-sponsored by the American Indian Community House and the American Indian Law Alliance. You will hear about the tribal communities who are organizing to keep the public informed and ready to take action because the reductions are not just an example of indigenous sacred lands under threat but represent impending threats to civil and human rights as well.
Article 11 of the UNDRIP states, "Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artifacts, designs, ceremonies, …" This goal was in part accomplished by the grassroots initiatives of local Indigenous people who requested the National Monument to protect Bears Ears but President Trump has recently reduced Bears Ears National Monument by 85%.
Thus, Bears Ears National Monument is at the center of a critical discussion about federal or public lands and Indigenous communities, which impacts the cultural and spiritual lives of five federally recognized tribes – Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute Mountain Ute, and Ouray and Uintah Ute tribal Nations. Furthermore, President Trump has taken away protections across a vast area of ancestral lands sacred to more than a dozen Tribes in the Southwestern U.S. Therefore, protection of these lands is more crucial than ever.


A really beautiful aqua blue that manages to have a fantastic translucent quality, without looking washed-out or pastel. It's a wonderful dye stash staple that mixes well with all the other locked-in colours to create a variety of shades. Of course, its main selling point is that it won't run when you rinse it out. You can see how we've put it to the test in our article Hair Dyeing Fun with Pravana Locked-In.


It might only be in my head, but I think I can feel the good energy these clothes radiate when I put them on. German company Armedangels is very transparent when it comes to their production and wants a genuine change of conditions in the fashion industry. On their website, you can take a good look at how their clothes are produced, the seals and the sustainability of the used materials up to the box they are shipped in. Nevertheless the products are affordable and very beautiful.
I love the "Eve" longsleeves. The organic cotton is very soft, and when it's cold, I just wear two longsleeves on top of each other as in the picture above. Also, they are long enough and the thin material can be adjusted.
I just wore my Josefine Dizzy Strokes Dress on a long journey and it turned out to be a very good choice. It is light, comfortable, breathable and still looks chic enough to be considered for an upgrade. You never know!
Armedangels isn't completely vegan. There are a few items made of organic wool and the company is very proud of the animal-friendly farming that you can have a look at on their website. That's still not an option for vegans of course, but you can simply filter for vegan in the shop and that's what most things are.
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Getting the services of a good printing company is not just all about having certain materials printed by them, they are also there to make your life simpler and easier as their client. When you decide to do the printing job on your own, with not enough experience, for sure, you will not be getting the kind of professional results that you need from these materials to be effective enough. That is why for all your printing concerns, making them look more professional can be done with the help of a good professional printing company. It is only from these printing companies that you will be able to have all of your printed material needs be met by them. Whatever printing needs you have and whatever budget you have, there is no doubt that a good printing company will help you out. You get what you pay for and even more with these professional printing companies. The following are some of the materials that a good printing company can do for you.
Promotional and advertising materials: From startup businesses to old businesses, getting the services of a professional printing company will be able to help advertise what your business offers. Whether your business is a big one or a small one, you can take advantage of posters and leaflets. Hiring these companies enables you to also get quality promotion counter displays as well as bunting banner prints. By giving a more professional look to your promotional items, they become more effective and allow you to get better value for the money you use to invest on them. Since time immemorial, the use of posters and leaflets is very much effective in selling different products and services. This has been proven true, most especially when they are done right. For some companies on shows or on malls, having promotion counter displays helps them boost their exposure. For businesses in the restaurant industry, they use the services of these companies to produce their menus. The use of varying printed materials in some companies also helps in being able to provide the right information to the right people as well what message must be given. Thus, be sure to have figured out what your exact business needs are when it comes to your business goals before you seek out and hire the services of a good printing company.


Holland's appearance as Spider-Man in Civil War was an unexpected treat in the midst of an already great film, thanks to the way he seemed to effortlessly portray the kind of Peter Parker that we hadn't seen onscreen in years: the upbeat, sincere, wisecracking, and most of all young little hero from the Big Apple. Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire did their best in the role, with Maguire coming out looking a little bit better, in my opinion – though he lost some points by the end with his overwrought nebbishness, he was at least more affable than the infinitely smug and insincerely "cool" Garfield. But neither seemed to capture the essence of Spidey the way Holland did in those scant few minutes of MCU screen time. Now, given its own feature film, we get to see this performance blossom into its full potential: Holland is in pitch-perfect tune with the high-school-drama tone of Homecoming, which is a more convincing teen movie than I've seen in years. The characters at Midtown High actually feel like teenagers – with Jacob Batalon as Parker's sweet, dorky, very relatable best friend Ned ("the guy in the chair!"), Zendaya as the hilarious, fiercely independent Michelle, and Tony Revolori as a re-imagined Flash Thompson, whose bullying feels much more realistic than the jock archetype the character's usually associated with. (Revolori plays him as a rich kid who can't understand why people like Parker more than they like him. He's cruel to Peter not through physical violence but through words and social media.) The cameraderies and rivalries among these characters feel like a cross-section of a real-life high school, which makes the transition into the film's larger conflict – Peter's repeated attempts to sabotage a local arms dealer named Adrian Tooms (Michael Keaton) – ring with deadly tension.
Jacob Batalon and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Keaton's Tooms is another of the film's real triumphs, with fully understandable personal motivations that bolster the down-to-earth scale of the film. He's a family man first and a criminal second – and though he presents himself as the opposite number to Tony Stark, the billionaire one-percenter who rains destruction down on blue-collar workers like him who are just trying to support their families, it's revealed that he's not really as downtrodden as he claims. He has a huge, beautiful house and a great family; he's got it made. It's his inability to see the truth – that he's much more like Stark than he would ever admit – that makes him a tragic villain in the classic Spider-Man vein, part of a rogues' gallery full of troubled crooks with their own twisted sense of morality. Keaton flips the old Batman switch with Tooms, providing a two-faced performance as both a loving father and an unscrupulous baddie that fills the screen. There's a scene in which Tooms is driving Peter and his daughter to their high-school dance and begins to divine Peter's secret identity, and a beautiful transition occurs when he realizes who this boy really is, realization giving way to a shift in personality as the glare of a red stoplight suddenly turns green and illuminates the sinister flip from dad to vulture. It's both an homage to Taxi Driver and a proof of concept from Jon Watts, the director of Cop Car, who wrings extreme tension out of characters simply talking in a car.
Homecoming is the ultimate rejection of the DC-led grimdark, a superhero film that strips back the excessive scale of most blockbusters and contents itself with providing a rewarding, funny, heartfelt film full of appealing characters and believeable stakes. It's classic summer-movie entertainment in the simple joys it provides, making you laugh, keeping you on the edge of your seat, and injecting that level of fun with a deeper layer of purposeful storytelling. And as a Spider-Man film – one that gives us a Peter Parker who is unequivocally charming, fallible, and true to the qualities that made him a beloved hero in the first place – it's undeniably the best I've ever seen.


The word cortical refers to 'cortex,' or the outer layer of an organ. Atrophy implies a decrease in size of an organ.
What is the function of the cortical nephron?
What is the cortical region?
In the human brain, the cortical region is part of the cerebralcortex. It assists in breaking down sensory input into manageabledata for the brain to decode.
Cortical means "pertaining to the outer layer of an internalorgan", or "pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root".
What is cortical or sub-cortical dysfunction?
What is a corticated ossicle?
What is the definition of cortical?
Cortical-- Regarding the cortex, or the outer layer of the brain, as distinguished from the inner portion.


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Q: Massive dilaton Dilaton field is one of the matter fields which comes from the string theory. However, people consider it as a scalar field in black hole physics, so the dilaton particle in this regard is spinless. In the low energy limit, the mass of dilaton is zero and also it has no charge. So, all three quantum numbers of dilaton are zero. Why we use this field when we know that it can not exist?
Also, in some theories, people consider mass for dilaton. But, it is not very usual. Please, I need more information about massive dilaton since there is a little information in the literature.

A: In string theory, the quantities of phenomenological interest depend on more fundamental quantities called moduli. The moduli correspond to the sizes of the extra dimensions, separations between branes, and so on. To make a prediction, one needs to calculate or at least estimate the moduli vevs (which will lie at the minimum of some potential, describing the ground state of the dynamical geometry), and this is very difficult (unless supersymmetry is unbroken, but that is not the physically realistic case). So-called "moduli stabilization" is a major area of research.
The dilaton mass and dilaton vev in string theory are examples of this problem. For unbroken supersymmetry, the dilaton mass is zero. In some models, supersymmetry is broken by gaugino condensation in a hidden sector, and there are papers on what the dilaton potential is for this case. You can find further papers by looking for "dilaton stabilization". I am no expert, but I would regard all such results as tentative (relying on some assumptions about the potential) and model-specific (there does not seem to be a "general theory of dilaton stabilization").
A comment on Physics SE once recommended chapter 9 of Gasperini's "Elements of string cosmology" for this topic.


The bamboo invitation card is invitation card that made from bamboo and paper roll in it, it serves as an wedding invitations. In it there is a paper containing the wedding invitation for your friends and your relation. This bamboo invitation cards are unique and classic in its class, but which still have a function as they should. On the main page / front, containing a backyard wedding invitations and can function as a site plan for your wedding guests to took wedding's place, so as a guests you don't have trouble to finding a position where the wedding took place, and its unique in case unrolled bamboo newsletter on this invitation will have a classic impression for your guests when reading , it will impress like the king who read the petition because it holds the invitation rolls.
In addition to the plan, the backyard can also fill in the calendar year. This year's calendar also has a power function very well, why is great ? because it has functions such as calendar years in general, so after you're done for the wedding , bamboo invitation will serve as the calendar year that can be displayed in the living room or bedroom in the houses of your invited guests. And in this calendar you can also mark your wedding date, so your guests can easily view your event to be held if a calendar viewed by your guests, your wedding will be remembered on the calendar.


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The Historical Register of the United States, 第 1 巻
Thomas H. Palmer 編集
The preceding estimates do not embrace the expense incident to the proposed increase of the
navy, nor any
other expenditure not yet authorised by law. In order to meet any new expense which may thus be authorised by congress, it will therefore be necessary to increase the loan to a corresponding amount.
The sums received or to be received on loan, during the calendar year 1812, have been stated (so far as ascertained on the 1st of December at the treasury) at
$12,950,200 The payments on account of the principal of the
debt during the same year, though not yet
precisely ascertained, may be estimated at 2,350,200 Making the actual increase of debt during that year
$10,600,000 It appears, according to the preceding estimate, that the whole sum to be borrowed during the year 1813 will amount to about twenty millions of dollars; and that the payments on account of the principal of the public debt will exceed five millions, making the actual increase of debt during that year $15,000,000
Of the revenue which will accrue during the year 1813, and on which the receipts of the year 1814 will principally depend, it is not practicable at this moment to form a correct estimate. So far as may be inferred from the experience of the short period which has elapsed since the declaration of war, it is not probable that the revenue derived from customs will exceed the amount of $5,000,000, at which it had been estimated in a former communication. The duties accrued or which will accrue during the last six months of this year, after deducting drawbacks and expenses of collection, are estimated at less than $9,000,000. Which, deducting about 5,500,000 dollars on account of duties on the late importations from Great Britain, and one million for the duties on importations from Calcutta and China, would not leave more than 2,500,000 dollars for the ordinary revenue on those branches of commerce which are permitted by law, and from which the United States will not be nearly excluded by the war. All which is respectfully submitted.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Treasury Department, December 1st, 1812.
A. A statement exhibiting the Amount of Duties which accrued
on Merchandise, Tonnage, Passports, and Clearances, of Debentures issued on the Exportation of Foreign Merchandise, of Payments for Bounties and Allowances, and for Expenses of Collection, during the years 1810 and 1811.
1811. Duties on merchandise 16,601,711 71 10,427,412 21 tonnage
169,161 24 124,363 30 passports and clearances 23,428 00 19,737 70
A statement of the Amount of American and Foreign Tonnage
employed in Foreign Trade for the year 1811, as taken from
the Records of the Treasury. American tonnage in foreign trade,
Tons, 948,247 Foreign tonnage,
33,203 Total in the foreign trade of the United States, 981,450
Proportion of foreign tonnage to the whole amount of
tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the United States,
3.4 to 100 Treasury Department, Register's Office, November 18th, 1812.
JOSEPH NOURSE, Register.
B. A statement exhibiting the value and quantities respectively of
Merchandise, on which duties actually accrued during the year 1811 (consisting of the difference between articles paying duty imported, and those entitled to drawback re-exported), and also the net revenue which accrued that
year,
from duties on Merchandise, Tonnage, Passports, and Clearances.
Goods paying Duties, ad valorem. 15,951,507 dollars at 123.per cent.
1,993,938 38 2,524,551 15
378,682 65 131,114 20
26,222 80 --addl. duty on $18,604,453 at 2 per cent. 465,111 32 18,607,172
2,863,955 15 Spirits, 3,447,873 gals. at 27.6 cents (average) 950,603 86 Sugar 55,332,314 pounds, 2.5 do. 1,391,731 56 Wines, 1,614,654 gallons, 31.3 do.
505,111 35 Teas, 2,557,329 pounds, 21.1 do. 510,594 24 Coffee, 17,468,398 do. 5 cents,
873,419 90 Molasses, 8,500,019 gallons, ' 5 do.
425,000 95 All other articles,
8,093,709 03 From which deduct Bounties,
784 13 Duties refunded, after deducting there
from duties collected on merchan-
dise, the particulars of which could
not be ascertained, and difference in
calculation,
8,050,456 31 3, per cent. retained on drawback,
80,952 67 Extra duty of 10 per cent. on merchandise imported in foreign vessels,
48,947 50 Net amount of duties on merchandise,
8,180,356 48 Duties on tonnage,
105,890 43 Light money,
18,472 87 Duties on passports and clearances,
19,737 70 Gross amount of revenue as per statement (A), 8,324,457 48 Deduct expenses on collection,
440,924 46 Net revenue,
$ 7,883,533 02 Treasury Department, Register's Office, November 18th, 1812.
JOSEPÄ NOURSE, Register. VOL. 1.
'Ss
C. Statement of the lands sold in the districts of Marietta, Zanes
ville, Steubenville, Canton, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Jeffersonville, and Vincennes, from the 1st of October, 1811, to the 30th September, 1812 ; showing also the amount of receipts from individuals and payments made by Receivers during the same time; with the balance due, both on the 1st October, 1811, and 1st October, 1812.
Lands sold, after deducting lands reverted, acres 391,664 65
Purchase money, S849,632 09!
Lands reverted, acres 94,075 63
In hands of receivers, Oct. 1, 1811
203,408 777 Due by individuals, Oct. 1, 1811
1,496,371 673 Receipts by Receivers. On account of purchase money,
746,897 43 On account of forfeitures,
47,431 26+ Payments by Receivers. Into the treasury,
782,543 31 The part for expenses,
29,045 91 Repayments,
Balance due, Oct. 1, 1811.
From individuals,
By receivers,
1,599,106 331
184,094 133
Total balance due Oct. 1, 1812,
$ 1,783,200 47
Total Sales of Land.
From the opening of the land of- Acres. Dollars.
fices to 1st Oct. 1811, 3,374,843 431 7,130,852 261 Amount sold since, as above stated,
391,664 65 849,632 091
3,766,508 084 7,980,484 36
Statement of the lands sold in the Mississippi territory from the
1st of October, 1811, to the 30th of September, 1812; showing also the amount of receipts from individuals and payments made by receivers during the same time; with the balance
due, both on the 1st of October, 1811, and 1st October, 1812. Lands sold, after deducting lands reverted, acres 144,872 753 Purchase money, $ 299,904 361 Lands reverted, acres 5,529 86 In hands of receivers, Oct. 1, 1811,
33,717 491 Due by individuals, Oct. 1, 1811,
474,541 231 Receipts by Receivers. On account of purchase money,
121,377 411 On account of forfeitures,
541 36 Payments made by Receivers. Into the treasury,
85,675 77 The part for expenses,
5,920 11° Repayments,
General Land Oifice, 3d December, 1812.
EDWARD TIFFIN, Commissioner.


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2017 Gibson Relays Live Blogging Coverage
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Follow live blogging coverage of the 2017 Gibson Relays from the National Stadium in Kingston on Saturday, February 25.
By World Track | Published on February 25, 2017
The relay carnival is opened to several different levels of athletes, including professionals, high schools, colleges and the primary age groups.
Some of the top high schools scheduled to take part at the meeting are Calabar, Jamaica College, Kingston College, St. Jago on the boys' side, while the likes of Edwin Allen, St Jago, Holmwood and Hydel are among the leading girls' teams.
However, St Elizabeth Technical (STETHS), who won the high school boys 4x400m and 4x800m titles last year, has opted to skip this year's meet.
It is understood the athletes have not recovered fully from competing at the Western Championships last week and coach Reynaldo Walcott decided to give them some rest.
According to Walcott, his team has a very busy schedule leading up to the 2017 Boys and Girls' Champs next month and needed to "prioritise."
"The Gibson McCook Relays is a prestigious meet on the athletics calendar, but after competing at the Western Championships last Saturday our athletes are fatigued and worn out and definitely need some time to recuperate," Walcott said in the Jamaica Gleaner.
"Both meets are too close. We definitely have to make a decision like this."
The 2017 Gibson Relays will begin at 9:00 a.m. ET with the heats of the 4x400m relays for high school boys open. This will be followed by the Institution men and the high school girls open in that section.
Action in the heats of the 4x100m relays will begin at 10:15 a.m.
The opening final on the track will be the One Mile Open for men and this gets going at 4:00 p.m.
The title races in the sprint relays get going at 4:20 p.m. ET.
Among the individual titles up for the taking at the 2017 Gibson Relays are the men's and women's 100m and 400m open events, as well as the men's and women's open long jump and high jump.
Some of the top athletes who have graced the track at the Gibson Relays in previous years are, world record holder Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake, Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce, Omar McLeod and Elaine Thompson.
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United States can no longer take literacy for granted
J.R. Labbe
Here it is, the start of another school year, when parents attempt to get recalcitrant children to embrace the joy of reading for the sake of learning, and out comes a report that says the typical adult American read only four books in the past year.
Not exactly stellar role models, those typical adult Americans. According to the study by the Book Industry Study Group, 27 percent of Americans surveyed in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll said they hadn't read a single book in the past year.
Excuses abound as to why grown-ups don't read more and why book sales in the United States are relatively flat. So many other activities compete for attention, plus the Internet and other media provide information and entertainment that are less time-consuming.
There's another, much less talked-about reason: the percentage of adult Americans who lack the basic literacy skills needed to function in society, much less read for pleasure.
About 41 million Americans, or 21 percent to 23 percent of the adult population, read at the lowest literacy level, according to research by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The long-term ramifications of a nonliterate citizenry are chilling, especially when research shows that 65 percent of the children of illiterate adults will themselves become illiterate adults. If Mom or Dad can't read, write or perform basic computations, how can they help their children master these skills?
Illiteracy affects more than one's ability to function independently in society. It dramatically impedes the opportunity to succeed financially, to move up the employment ladder from unskilled labor into better-paying positions.
The median weekly pay for someone with below-basic literacy skills, according to the United Way for Metropolitan Tarrant County, Texas (which has identified improving adult literacy as a community priority), is $432; for someone at a proficient level, it's $975.
"America can no longer take active and engaged literacy for granted," said Dana Gioia, National Endowment for the Arts chairman, upon the release of a 2004 NEA report that documented the decline in literary reading in the United States. "As more Americans lose this capability, our nation becomes less informed, active and independent-minded. These are not qualities that a free, innovative or productive society can afford to lose."
Futurists paint a bleak picture for the tactile creatures among us who relish grabbing hold of a captivating book. The cover story of the March/April edition of The Futurist magazine, "The New Media Age: End of the Written Word?," explores what the explosion of digital and visual communications technology might mean for a "postliterate future."
Just typing those words sends a shiver down my spine. Even as my employer, along with every media company in the country, wrestles with how to capitalize on the use of "new media" to draw in younger consumers, it's impossible for me to imagine a society in which the printed word will be a quaint relic.
Futurist William Crossman, founder and director of CompSpeak 2050 Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Cultures, sees this as a positive development for human evolution.
Crossman contends that voice in/voice out (VIVO) computers "will allow the world's millions of functionally non-literate people to access all information via the Internet and the Web without having to learn to read and write."
"Our great-great-grandchildren won't know how to write or read text, and it won't matter," Crossman wrote for The Futurist. "They will become as skillfully 'literate' in the information technology of their generation as we are in ours."
I'm almost glad I won't be around to see it. How incredibly sad never to know the pleasure that can be found without electrical outlets, rechargeable laptop batteries or access to wireless networks: picking up a book and reading.
Jill "J.R." Labbe is deputy editorial page editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Her e-mail address is jrlabbe@star-telegram.com.