PORT CLINTON - The Lake Erie Herb Society Annual Plant Sale will be held on May 12 at Lakeview Park in Port Clinton. The Herb Society, founded in 1988, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The group hosts monthly meetings and draws members from Ottawa, Sandusky and Huron counties.
At monthly meetings, members hear educational talks from guest speakers, do hands-on activities and enjoy herb-based refreshments like flower petal salads and lavender cookies.
During the June meeting, members will learn about the various uses of lavender from member Sonya Culp. Other future meeting topics include edible flowers and early herbalists.
Herb Society members have taken several field trips to locations like Cleveland Botanical Garden, Toledo Botanical Garden and Mulberry Creek Herb Farm, which is a key supporter of the club. In May, the group will travel to Gahanna, Ohio.
"Gahanna is the herb capital of Ohio," Anderson said.
Like many of the Herb Society members, Anderson is an avid indoor and outdoor gardener. She currently tends about 100 plants inside her home, many of which are tucked into her home's sunroom overlooking the Portage River in Elmore. When the weather allows, some of the plants will be moved outside to flourish in the sun.
Anderson uses her plants to make potpourri and to create smudge sticks, which are bundles of dried rosemary and lavender that, when burned, release their scent into the air.
Anderson also finds many culinary uses for her herbs and flowers.
The Lake Erie Herb Society Annual Plant Sale will be held at Lakeview Park in Port Clinton on May 12 from 9 a.m. to noon. Visitors can purchase a variety of herbs from Bench Farms, perennials donated by members, plant-related gift items, and vegetable plants, including heirloom tomatoes. Funds raised through the sale will help pay for guest speakers and hands-on activity supplies and provide donations to local charities supported by Lake Erie Herb Society, including Ruth Ann's House in Port Clinton.
"Cindy Bench from Bench Farms on Route 2 furnishes the plants for us wholesale for our plant sale. She is our go-to person," Anderson said.
Herb Society meetings are held at Peace Lutheran Church in Marblehead on the 2nd Monday of every month at 6 p.m. Society fees are $10 per year. For more information, call Sharon Anderson at 419-862-2964.


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Amy became the Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law in the summer of 2018. She manages law library operations and strategic planning, oversees the legal research curriculum, and teaches Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Communication in the first year legal writing program. Professor Emerson's areas of expertise include law library administration, emerging law library service models and technologies, alternative research platforms, and experiential legal research pedagogy.
Prior to joining Villanova, and following nine years in private practice, Professor Emerson served as Associate Director for Library Administration and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. While at Cornell, she created the Legal Research Clinic and became its Director, building the first generalist legal clinic of its kind.
Professor Emerson received her B.A. with honors from Wells College, and dual J.D. and M.L.S. degrees with honors from Syracuse University.
Mary Cornelius - Head of Circulation and Reference Librarian
Mary is the Head of the Circulation Department and an experienced Reference Librarian. She handles the day-to-day operations of the Circulation/Reserve Desk and is responsible for hiring, training and managing the student Circulation/Reserve Assistants who work at this Desk. In addition, Mary researches and fulfills inter-library loan requests from Villanova Law faculty and students and provides expert research support. She is also responsible for maintaining records and creating reports on various aspects of library services. Prior to joining Villanova's Law Library in 1988, Mary was a Reference Librarian at American University Law School Library and a Librarian for a medium size law firm in Washington, DC. She holds a Masters in Library Science from The Catholic University of America and completed substantial coursework towards a JD at The Washington College of Law, American University Law School.
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Lori currently serves as the Head of Staff Development for the library, providing training to support library projects and identifying professional development opportunities for the librarians and library staff. She also manages our law databases, helps to maintain the law library's website, creates and manages the library's research guides and develops additional tutorials for faculty and student use. Lori teaches the Advanced Legal Research elective course and guest lectures on research in seminar paper and other courses as well as the law school clinics. Lori joined the Villanova Law Library in 2010, after working as the firm librarian for a large law firm based in Los Angeles. She holds a JD from Northeastern University School of Law and a Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.
Steve Elkins - Associate Director for Collection Management
Steve coordinates law library activities involving the book collection and online resource procurement, including acquisitions, cataloging and collection management. He also manages the integrated library system and its public catalog interfaces. In addition, Steve supervises the law school archives and prepares law library statistical and budget reports. Steve joined the library in 1989 after working as a cataloger at the University of Virginia law library. He has a Masters in Library Science from the University of Maryland, a Masters in English Literature from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Theology from Wheaton College, Illinois.
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Mary Jo supervises Law Library cataloging and our participation in the Government Document Depository Program. She maintains the Law Library catalog database, processes new materials for the collection and assembles data for the monthly acquisitions list and statistical reports. She also processes interlibrary loan requests from other academic libraries. Mary Jo joined the Villanova Law Library in 2004. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from Drexel University and a Bachelor's Degree in Education from Kutztown University.
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Before joining the Law Library staff in 2006, Robert practiced law in Missouri, and was later a Reference Librarian at the University of Missouri -Columbia School of Law Library. Robert earned his B.A. from Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, and his M.A., Information Science and Learning Technology, from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Information Science and Learning Technology.
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Lorraine joined the library in November 1994 as a Cataloging Assistant. She also worked at the Circulation Desk and in Interlibrary Loan before becoming the Administrative Assistant for the library. Currently, in addition to her duties as Administrative Assistant for the library staff, Lorraine continues to work at the circulation desk, manages the library student worker's hours for the payroll office, assists with editing and updating the website, coordinates the journal/moot court /transfer student writing competitions, and manages student, faculty, and staff Wildcard access on behalf of the law school.
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Diane works in library collection maintenance, including library binding and shelving. She maintains the law school archives, scans archival material for the Law Library Digital Repository and coordinates access to the archives. She fulfills law faculty scanning requests and inter-library loan scanning of Falvey Library materials that are held in the Law Library. She serves as a member of the Law Library Public Relations Committee. Diane particularly enjoys planning the library showcase displays of archival material. Diane has worked in the library since 1990 and has lived in the area since 1964.
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ParisDailyPhoto: A very popular man!
I guess if you could call a motorcycle helmet "cute" that would be the one!
Like children would say : "c'est CHOU ....... !!!".
Funny to think that 40 years before now, no helmet was needed. Seems just incredible in the current context. Now that a helmet is compulsory, I wish many kisses from many colored lipsticks would go to your helmet or even to a little smile on your face...!
Welcome to the party, Madge!
It got a big smile from me! But aren't you tempted to go get one just like it?
Eric, you don't have to buy one of these. Buy a white one. I will cheerfully decorate it for you the next time I'm in Paris, although it might be a while. oops. Did I say that out loud?
I have often wanted to ask you about scooters/motorcycles in Paris, and this post seems like a good time. As a former motorcyclist (I was on my 3rd motorcycle before buying my first car), I know how harsh riding in the cold weather can be. I have seen many scooters in Paris with "aprons" that keep riders warm up to their waists. I saw only a few covered scooters - mostly the larger BMW scooters with windshields and roofs but open sides. I would think that more scooter owners would want more coverage in the cold months.
Have you tried a covered scooter? How do you stay warm?
-> Drummond, your "whispering" bonne journée is so "poo-poo-pee-doo" ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~!!
This may be the most WANTED man in the city ... Did you also check his shoes, pants, jackets ? Is he one of your relatives, Eric ;) ??
haha popular indeed! interesting that the helmet law has been in use for so long there. here it's only been in like the last 10-15 years? and i don't even think it's national. so many people complain about it too.
The kisses reminds me of Oscar Wilde's tomb festooned with bright red smacks all over it.
And stop-and-go traffic is work.
She's tall, and quite grumpy.
Her lips are all lumpy.
"Please drive us more smoothly, you jerk!"
Great idea for a cool scooter ride on Valentine's Day. Love it!
@Lucie "Like children would say : "c'est CHOU ....... !!!". " C'est très Chou et cute @Lydia!
(BTW, you could add a 'l' in the word popuar ;) - I did, thank you!!
@Sasho "Eric, you don't have to buy one of these. Buy a white one." Awwwwwwww, that is so cute to say!
@Jeff (Mings) - Hey Jeff! "Have you tried a covered scooter? How do you stay warm?" Well, no I have never tried. the BMWs are only 125 cc and they're quite expensive (and don't exist anymore! - I mean they don't make them anymore). Besides it's never VERY cold in Paris, and a trip within Paris never lasts more than 20-30 minutes so it's bearable. Mostly, only my fingers suffer; I have tried everything but no gloves are warm enough to protect your hands when it's really cold outside.
@Gunn Talking about cold, are there many scooter drivers in Stavanger ?!
"and i don't even think it's national. so many people complain about it too." No, in Florida for instance it's not compulsory. It always freaks me out when I see a biker without a helmet down there.
@PHX "The kisses reminds me of Oscar Wilde's tomb festooned with bright red smacks all over it" True! But not anymore, it's protected now.
I understand you need gloves Eric and I am not surprised at all (my hands are often colder than anything else)!
Have you already tried silk gloves under any kind of warm gloves? It worked well while I was skiing so I think it couold work too while scooting.


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BYU Leads-Off the Season Beating Out Utah and Villanova
PROVO -- The BYU swimming and diving team edged out in-state rival Utah and Villanova for their first pre-season meet and victory at the annual Don Reddish Relays at Utah Thursday night. The BYU men took eight out of the 12 relays and the women took half of theirs, going six for 12.
Junior Brett Allen stood out for the Cougars with a 20.51 lead on the 50 free in the 200 freestyle relay, and Junior Jorge Azevedo clocked in at 49.6 in the 3x100 fly. Freshman John Kendrick made a good show for the Cougars with a 4:40 in his leg of the 500 free.
"I'm pleased with our guys' performance tonight," said men's swimming coach Tim Powers. "We're about where we were hoping to be."
With equal momentum, the women led their portion of the relays. BYU women's swimming coach Stan Crump said the success is just a forecast of the season ahead.
"Pretty good for mid-October," said Crump. "We'll be hard to beat."
BYU's 400 medley relay team, made up of senior Brittany Davis, sophomores Angela Goodson and Jamie Bloom and freshman Leilani Roberts finished in 3:55.67, nearly five seconds ahead of Utah's team, who came in at 4:00.26.
The women have two more weeks of training before they head to Stockton, California for their last warm-up before the regular season at the Pacific Invitational Oct. 28-29. The men will report to the Big West Shootout in Irvine, California Nov. 4-5 for their final preseason match-up before BYU hosts UNLV to begin the regular season Nov. 11.
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You joined Agrium in September 2017, and then, Nutrien formed in January 2018. What has changed from when you joined until now?
The agriculture industry is dynamic and changing. Consolidation of the industry is taking place, and new technologies are continually being developed to help farmers be more productive. By combining Agrium and PotashCorp, we created Nutrien, which has the world's best fertilizer assets and is the No. 1 ag retailing company in the world.
We now have the size and global scale to bring unique solutions to our customers in a way no one has before. Our global network is working with farmers around the world and providing them the broadest portfolio of products, services and technologies. In the U.S., we are offering new agronomic tools this year. We've expanded our digital platform (Echelon) to enable farmers to better plan for the entire year on a field-by-field basis, and we are offering new financial tools to help farmers manage cash flows.
When your new role at Nutrien was announced, it was said you had "a mandate to grow the retail business." What specific goals are you working toward?
Our top focus is always looking for ways to create new value for our customers. With the help of our new digital tools and our 3,000 independent agronomists, we are moving from a products-focused retailer to a solution-focused partner for our customers. We have found by focusing on solutions and outcomes with our customers, we can help them reduce risk, increase yield and improve profitability through operational efficiency. We firmly believe that if we can help our farmer-customers be more successful, then our business will grow, too.
Additionally, we continue to look for opportunities to build our retail footprint. Right now, we are building several new retail facilities across the U.S., and we are expanding our footprint through acquisitions of existing retail companies.
It was a very active end to 2017 right before Nutrien officially launched. Seven days after your new role was announced, Crop Production Services (CPS) acquired the Southern States Cooperative locations in southern Georgia and Florida. How is that integration going, and how will those locations impact CPS's footprint and overall business?
The acquisition of Southern States Cooperative is going very well. Currently, we are making significant investments in these facilities, including expanding the warehouse capacity at some of the sites, acquiring new custom application equipment and most importantly providing our CPS training and digital tools to our new employees. We have operated this business for nearly six months, and the results are showing a strong improvement, so everyone is pleased with the acquisition—our new customers, our employees and our investors.
With your responsibilities for retail operations in North America, South America and Australia, what are some key differences in those geographies?
As you know, farming is local, and with today's digital tools, it's really field by field. Agronomic practices and grower solutions vary because field pests—weeds, insects and diseases—vary, and cropping practices are unique to each area. That said, our teams share best practices on how we can introduce new technologies or solutions in one area that can also help our customers in another region. But at the core, farmers have shared values no matter where they farm. They embrace the responsibility of being good stewards of the land and environment. Additionally, they want to do business with people they know and trust, which is why we deploy our 3,000 agronomists to focus on serving our customers with the best advice, products and service. The geographies may be different, but the focus on people and relationships remains the same.
With the current down ag economy, input efficiency and return on investment have been the focus for farmers. How are Nutrien and its retail business positioned to help farmers be more efficient and capture maximum profits?
From a retail perspective, we offer our farmers the best advice, products, services and solutions for their farms. Yes, we're full-service, but really, we're focused on full solutions that drive efficiency and greater net returns for our customers and their farms. Additionally, we have digital and financing tools that help our customers manage risk, make better input decisions and help them manage their cash flows throughout the year.
Finally, our size and scale allow us to make significant investments in training our people, keeping our facilities updated and providing custom application services. These investments are all focused on making our customers more successful and ensuring we can be a strong and sustainable partner to them over the long run.
There has been a lot of merger, acquisition and consolidation activity in the ag industry (including Nutrien). From your perspective, how will the crop chemical mergers affect CPS?
I firmly believe these mergers will help farmers. The mergers between the chemical and seed companies will help create more investment and scale in R&D, which ultimately helps farmers.
For us, the partnership we have with these companies is imperative. Our role relies heavily on helping them bring new technologies to the market. Our agronomists stay up to date on all the new technologies and trends, so we can help transfer that knowledge to our farmer-customers.
Today, what's the impact of online commerce on ag retail, and how do you see its impact on the industry changing?
We've talked extensively to our customers about the complete value of the services we provide—including a full line of product and technology offerings and inventory, knowledgeable agronomists and custom application equipment. Farmers want to know who they're dealing with, and the trusted adviser role we have is critical to their success. Today, our customers order from us online, by phone and in person. We don't see that changing. In fact, we are just about to roll out new features to help our customers manage their businesses with us online, anytime, anywhere. That's why having 1,500 branch locations with product inventory and services ready in-season to serve farmers is critical. When weather hits or commodity prices fluctuate and suddenly our customers need to make changes on the fly, we are there to serve them.
The online-only companies are creating a lot of hype around their business model, but as farmers find out they don't offer a full line of products, they offer no service and they can't rely on them in-season, they quickly conclude that the hype is more for the investor community than it is for farmers. Our growth in customer share last year is indicative that growers value service as well as the local, trusted and personal relationship we provide.
What are the greatest challenges for ag retail today?
Some of our greatest challenges mirror those of our farmer-customers—commodity prices, weather, regulations and managing risks. Global trade of ag commodities is very important to having a healthy agriculture industry. We advocate for smart regulations and good trade policy to help our farmers. Additionally, the retail industry is overbuilt today and needs more innovation and modernization, which will drive further consolidation. Farmers are best served by retailers that have the resources to invest in their facilities, equipment and their employees. We feel we play an important role in all of this.
What are the greatest opportunities for ag retail today?
There's no doubt that technology—product and digital—combined with value-added services and products represent the next great leap forward for ag retail. Ag retailers like us need to lead to serve the changing needs of our customers. We have a great team here at CPS across the entire organization. And we have the resources of Nutrien to make the investments needed to stay on the leading edge.
We are excited about the future of agriculture for our customers and for ourselves! It's our vision to become the ag solutions retailer with a single and unrelenting focus on our customers' success.


The starting point of the itinerary is the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Carceri. Leaving the city to the south, you reach the first of the Medici municipalities, Poggio a Caiano (15 min. by car from the city centre), whose territory, together with that now included in the Municipality of Carmignano, was one of the favorite estates of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Francesco I and the Grand Duke Ferdinando, lovers of the beautiful country houses, hunting trips and great feasts in the gardens. The second stop on the itinerary is the large park of the Cascine di Tavola. In 1473/74 the Magnificent, the most enlightened member of the family, bought a "casa da signore" (mansion) on a small hill and the vast surrounding land, designing the renovation into a new villa that became a noble residence and the centre of a large estate. It was the genesis of Poggio a Caiano Medicean complex which consists of the Villa and its park, the Scuderie (restored in 2000 and now used as an exhibition and conference space) and the Cascine di Tavola (8 a.m.-4 p.m.
in winter, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. in summer). The third stop on the itinerary is Villa Ambra in Poggio a Caiano. Completed in 1520 according to the plan by Sangallo, it is the prototype of the Renaissance villa; the most prestigious room is the Leo X hall, surrounded by an imposing cycle of frescoes painted by Pontormo, Franciabigio, Alessandro Allori and Andrea del Sarto. The villa was always the summer residence of the Medici and the scene of important events in their dynastic history. Here were celebrated the weddings of Alessandro de 'Medici and Margaret of Austria (1536), of Cosimo I and Eleonora of Toledo (1539), between Francesco I and Bianca Cappello (1579). The death of the latters, perhaps due to poisoning, is still shrouded in mystery and stuff of legend. At the time of Cosimo III (second half of the seventeenth century), the villa was equipped with a theatre on the ground floor to satisfy the whims of Marguerite Louise d'Orléans.
Prince Ferdinando made it an active cultural centre. To the death of the last descendant of the Medici family, the building became property of the Habsburg-Lorraine family. Since 2007 the villa hosts the Still Life Museum, which occupies sixteen rooms on the second floor and exhibits around 200 paintings from the late sixteenth to the mid eighteenth century. To find the other big Medici villa, fourth stop of our journey, we have to leave Poggio a Caiano in direction of Artimino, in the Municipality of Carmignano (10 minutes by car). Villa la Ferdinanda, also called "of the Hundred Chimneys", was built by the Grand Duke Ferdinando I (1549-1609) on the hill of Artimino at the end of the sixteenth century according to the plan by Bernardo Buontalenti, the court architect who was responsible for the realization of many Medici buildings as well as the bastions of Prato walls. The villa was the favorite of Ferdinando in the summer and the main floor was frescoed by Domenico Cresti, known as Passignano, and by Bernardo Poccetti with mythological subjects that allude to the virtues of Ferdinando.
On the ground floor are the grand ducal cellars and the armory. Among the buildings annexed to the villa is the elegant structure of Paggeria which now houses a hotel. Again the imposing building is linked to the territory being the centre of Barco Reale, great hunting reserve, cared for with great interest by the Grand Duke himself. The villa and the Artimino estate are now private property. The villa, used for ceremonies, events and conferences, can be visited only by reservation (055 / 8751427-8-9). Since 2014 both villas have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO.


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Leptokarya is the village of the highest altitude in South Evros (700 m) and is located 33 km north of Alexandroupolis, after the village of Aisymi. In Leptokarya live about 60 people, mostly Muslims by religion.
In Leptokarya, the Sarakatsani Association of Evros has built a Traditional Sarakatsani Settlement, a model village with huts (konakia) and everything used to be included in a Traditional Tselingato (stockbreeding clan). The settlement of Sarakatsani in Leptokarya is a living museum and recreation area. It offers a unique opportunity to the visitors to experience the daily lifestyle of Sarakatsani.
Moreover, at this point outside Leptokarya there is a space for recreation and events, with all the necessary infrastructure to be able to serve visitors who want to enjoy nature, in an area with beeches, clean air and cold water from the spring of Leptokarya.
In Leptokarya, is held annually, usually in August the famous Gathering of Sarakatsani, which attracts many visitors to the village.
Evros - Archaeological Sites
The ancient Homeric land of Cicones, that is Evros, has to show numerous great archaeological sites that attest its long history. The archeological sites in Evros are mostly located on the coastline of the county and they are related to
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Evros is a region with a wealth of churches, with a long tradition. At that time, some of the most remarkable monuments of the Byzantine tradition were built in the region; not only in Greece but also in all the
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The area gives prominence to a culture that exists thousands of years and constitutes a synthesis of all the nations that meet at that point and have occasionally prevailed. The sights of Evros include monuments, buildings, squares and churches that
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In Alexandroupolis operates one of the university hospitals of Greece, under the auspices of the Democritus University of Thrace. The University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, located on the outskirts of the city, at a distance of six kilometers from the center,
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The visitors of Evros can admire its entire history through the wealth of museums found in every town, but in most of the villages as well. They host objects that recount the region's as well as the residents' course over
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The villages and the towns of the Evros are scattered throughout the region. The capital, Alexandroupolis, naturally dominates, as it is the largest city and the center of all activities. The characteristic of the Evros, which forms the border of


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Q: JsonHttpContent with ASP.NET Core 3.1 I created a custom HttpContent to efficiently send objects using System.Text.Json with HttpClient. Sadly there's very little documentation around how to correctly do this. The following class results in an error about malformed JSON data at my test endpoint. Looking at the packets in wireshark shows that only an empty json object ({}) is transmitted. I also tried to flush the stream (same result) or dispose it after writing to it (this results in an error about tring to access a disposed object).
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Common
{
    public sealed class JsonContent : HttpContent
    {
        private readonly object _content;
        private readonly JsonSerializerOptions _options;

        public JsonContent(object content, JsonSerializerOptions options)
        {
            _content = content;
            _options = options;
            Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json")
            {
                CharSet = Encoding.UTF8.WebName
            };
        }

        protected override Task SerializeToStreamAsync(Stream stream, TransportContext context)
        {
            return JsonSerializer.SerializeAsync(stream, _content, _options);
        }

        protected override bool TryComputeLength(out long length)
        {
            length = 0;
            return false;
        }
    }
}

The whole thing is used like this:
public static async Task<HttpResponseMessage> PostAsJsonAsync<T>(this HttpClient client, string url, T content,
    CancellationToken ct = default) where T : class
{
    return await client.PostAsync(url, new JsonContent(content, Json.DefaultSerializerOptions), ct);
}

What am I missing here?

A: Seemingly, you have missed the type of _content. Try this:
protected override Task SerializeToStreamAsync(Stream stream, TransportContext context)
{
    return JsonSerializer.SerializeAsync(stream, _content, _content.GetType(), _options);
}

The method you called was actually SerializeAsync<TValue>(...), which uses typeof(TValue) as the type to serialize. Because your _content is an instance of object, so TValue in this case is object, thus _content was serialized as object. That is why you see only {}.
The fix calls another overload SerializeAsync(...) which allows you to specify the correct type to serialize.

A: Does your object contain fields or properties.. System.Text.Json will not serialize fields..

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As an important tool for performance assessment in multi-state systems, the universal generating function approach is introduced and developed aiming at strength reliability analysis of structural systems. Static reliability models of statically determinate and statically indeterminate systems are built by constructing special generating functions, which are used to describe probability distributions of the resistance and the load. Composition operators and performance structure functions thereof are defined to composite different universal generating functions. When composition operators are executed, computational costs can be reduced by means of collecting like terms. The results of theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that the generating function approach can be widely used for probability modeling of large complex systems with the failure dependence.


One major dispute that often arises is when an employee is terminated. There may be issues of wrongful termination, severance agreements or a non-competition clause that was either part of the original employment agreement, or a contract that the employer wants the terminated employee to sign as part of a severance package.
Mediation (n.) a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) or "appropriate dispute resolution", aims to assist two (or more) disputants in reaching an agreement. The parties themselves determine the conditions of any settlements reached— rather than accepting something imposed by a third party.
Scott Cliff practices employment litigation and believes in speaking frankly with clients regarding their case and whether or not it can be won.


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The biggest game in Spanish soccer, El Clásico, is returning to the Copa del Rey. Monday's draw for the semifinal of the Spanish cup competition pits Real Madrid and Barcelona in a two-legged tie. The first of those games is tentatively scheduled for March 1. Then, the return leg at Camp Nou is tentatively scheduled […]
ByKyle Fansler
Leagues: Bundesliga
Most predictable soccer leagues in Europe ranked
Parity in soccer is not exactly commonplace. Some leagues have it, others have less. It is part of the excitement in all leagues, though. In fact, a lack of competitive nature makes those shock runs at titles or European spots that much more exciting. A team challenging Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga, albeit rare, is […]
Vinicius gets revenge, Real Madrid advances in Copa del Rey
Real Madrid came back to beat Atletico Madrid, 3-1, in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals on Thursday. The Madrid derby is historically one of the fiercest rivals in club soccer. Thursday's game didn't disappoint. The match featured three brilliant goals, as well as a red card. The pre-match hype for the massive match was marred […]
Atlético Madrid signs Memphis Depay from Barcelona
Memphis Depay has switched from Barcelona to Atletico Madrid in a deal worth about $3.2 million. Despite the relatively low fee, Barca will still make a profit on selling the forward. Depay previously arrived to the Camp Nou on a free transfer in the summer of 2021. The Netherlands international began his time at Barca […]
El Clásico preview: Supercopa may be must-win for both sides
Sunday's El Clásico in the Supercopa de España has an added significance. Yes, it is still the biggest teams in Spain going head to head. Both are at the top of the LaLiga table. Real Madrid cruised into the Champions League knockout stage, while Barcelona slumped into the Europa League, a competition it can, and […]
Leagues: EPL
LaLiga president says Premier League 'not financially sustainable'
LaLiga president Javier Tebas has made some interesting comments regarding the Premier League. The Spanish lawyer claimed that the English top flight is "not financially sustainable." Tebas made the comments during a recent conference about economics in European soccer. "What I'm worried about is the Premier League, and I've been worried for many years now," […]
Chelsea signs João Félix on short-term loan deal
João Félix has officially signed for Chelsea on loan. The Portugal international will, however, just be at Stamford Bridge for the remainder of the current campaign. Chelsea snatched up Felix in a $11.8 million move, while also covering his salary during his time with the Premier League club. This brings the total cost of the […]
What soccer games are coming to ESPN+ in January
January 2023 brings not only a new year, but a return to consistent club soccer games on ESPN+. This includes league competitions, namely the Bundesliga and LaLiga. However, it also delves into cup ties. With the World Cup now in the rearview mirror, players are fully in the swing of the club season. Here are […]
Barcelona hit with Financial Fair Play violation and fine
Barcelona paid a fine resulting from overspending and triggering the Financial Fair Play regulations. This stems from Barcelona's acquisition of Dani Alves, Andreas Christensen and extending Ronald Araújo's contract. Barcelona's excessive spending is a much-noted topic. Just this past summer, Barcelona spent well over $100 million on Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski and Jules Koundé. However, the […]
How LaLiga TV revenue compares to Premier League money
Spain's LaLiga and England's Premier League are two of the top soccer leagues in the world. Both divisions typically sit atop the rankings of most-watched leagues around the globe as well. After all, there are nine massive clubs between these two leagues. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, and […]
Arsenal and Man United battle for João Félix
Both Arsenal and Manchester United are interested in signing João Félix from Atletico Madrid. David Ornstein revealed the transfer news during NBC Sports' Premier League coverage on Wednesday. However, The Athletic reporter added that United do not have a ton to spend this January. "I don't think there's much money to spend at Manchester United," […]


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Roget's Thesaurus is First Published 50 Years After its Composition
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Detail of portrait of Roget from a photograph probably by Maull & Polyblank.
On April 29, 1852 British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer Peter Mark Roget published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and to Assist in Literary Composition, the manuscript for which he had originally written in 1805, nearly 50 years before publication. The 15,000 words it contained were arranged conceptually rather than alphabetically, incorporating 1002 concepts, in six classes derived from Aristotelian, Leibnizian principles of classification:
Abstraction Relations
Affections
The Thesaurus contained synonyms, in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.
"Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words. These words are not exactly synonyms, but can be viewed as colours or connotations of a meaning or as a spectrum of a concept. One of the most general words is chosen to typify the spectrum as its headword, which labels the whole group.
"Roget's schema of classes and their subdivisions is based on the philosophical work of Leibniz (see Leibniz — Symbolic thought), itself following a long tradition of epistemological work starting with Aristotle. Some of Aristotle's Categories are included in Roget's first class "abstract relations". The Wikipedia "category schemes" are also based on the same principles" (Wikipedia article on Roget's Thesaurus, accessed 11-28-2008).
"In information technology, a thesaurus represents a database or list of semantically orthogonal topical search keys. In the field of Artificial Intelligence, a thesaurus may sometimes be referred to as an ontology.
"Thesaurus databases, created by international standards, are generally arranged hierarchically by themes and topics. Such a thesaurus places each term in context, allowing a user to distinguish between "bureau" the office and "bureau" the furniture. A thesaurus of this type is often used as the basis of an index for online material. The Art and Architecture Thesaurus, for example, is used to index the national databases of museums" (Wikipedia article on Thesaurus, accessed 11-28-2008).
The printing of the first edition was 1000 copies. The original manuscript for Roget's Thesaurus is preserved in the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum.
Kendall, The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus (2008).
Knowledge Organization / Taxonomy / Encyclopedism
Indexing & Searching Information


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package org.databene.commons.xml;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXTransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.sax.TransformerHandler;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.databene.commons.ConfigurationError;
import org.databene.commons.IOUtil;
import org.databene.commons.StringUtil;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.AttributesImpl;

/**
 * Writes XML to a stream. The interface is similar to {@link Transformer},
 * but setup is easier, methods have been simplified and convenience methods
 * have been added.
 * Created: 28.11.2010 06:39:04
 * @since 0.5.4
 * @author Volker Bergmann
 */
public class SimpleXMLWriter implements Closeable {

    OutputStream out;
    TransformerHandler handler;

	public SimpleXMLWriter(OutputStream out, String encoding, boolean includeXmlHeader) {
        try {
			// create file and write header
			SAXTransformerFactory tf = (SAXTransformerFactory) SAXTransformerFactory.newInstance();
			handler = tf.newTransformerHandler();
			Transformer transformer = handler.getTransformer();
			transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.STANDALONE, "yes");
			transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, encoding);
			transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
			transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}" + "indent-amount", "2");
			if (!includeXmlHeader)
				transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
			handler.setResult(new StreamResult(out));
			handler.startDocument();
		} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
			throw new ConfigurationError(e);
		} catch (SAXException e) {
			throw new ConfigurationError("Error in initializing XML file", e);
		}
	}

	public void print(String text) throws SAXException {
		characters(text.toCharArray(), 0, text.length());
	}

	public void text(String text) throws SAXException {
		handler.characters(text.toCharArray(), 0, text.length());
	}

	public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
		handler.characters(ch, start, length);
	}

	public void comment(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
		handler.comment(ch, start, length);
	}

	public void endCDATA() throws SAXException {
		handler.endCDATA();
	}

	public void endDTD() throws SAXException {
		handler.endDTD();
	}

	public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
		handler.endDocument();
	}

	public void endElement(String name)
			throws SAXException {
		handler.endElement("", "", name);
	}

	public void endEntity(String name) throws SAXException {
		handler.endEntity(name);
	}

	public void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) throws SAXException {
		handler.endPrefixMapping(prefix);
	}

	public String getSystemId() {
		return handler.getSystemId();
	}

	public Transformer getTransformer() {
		return handler.getTransformer();
	}

	public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length)
			throws SAXException {
		handler.ignorableWhitespace(ch, start, length);
	}

	public void notationDecl(String name, String publicId, String systemId)
			throws SAXException {
		handler.notationDecl(name, publicId, systemId);
	}

	public void processingInstruction(String target, String data)
			throws SAXException {
		handler.processingInstruction(target, data);
	}

	public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {
		handler.setDocumentLocator(locator);
	}

	public void setResult(Result result) throws IllegalArgumentException {
		handler.setResult(result);
	}

	public void setSystemId(String systemID) {
		handler.setSystemId(systemID);
	}

	public void skippedEntity(String name) throws SAXException {
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	public void startCDATA() throws SAXException {
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	public void startDTD(String name, String publicId, String systemId)
			throws SAXException {
		handler.startDTD(name, publicId, systemId);
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	public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
		handler.startDocument();
	}

	public void writeElement(String name, Map<String, String> attributes) throws SAXException {
		startElement(name, attributes);
		endElement(name);
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	public void startElement(String name, Map<String, String> attributes) throws SAXException {
		AttributesImpl atts = null;
		if (attributes != null) {
			atts = new AttributesImpl();
			for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : attributes.entrySet())
				addAttribute(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue(), atts);
		}
		handler.startElement("", "", name, atts);
	}

	public void startElement(String name, Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
		handler.startElement("", "", name, atts);
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		AttributesImpl atts = null;
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			throws SAXException {
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	}

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			String systemId, String notationName) throws SAXException {
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	}

	@Override
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					handler.endDocument();
				} catch (SAXException e) {
					throw new RuntimeException("Error in closing XML file", e);
				}
				handler = null;
			}
		} finally {
			IOUtil.close(out);
		}
	}

	public static AttributesImpl createAttributes(String attributeName, String attributeValue) {
		AttributesImpl atts = new AttributesImpl();
		if (attributeValue != null)
			addAttribute(attributeName, attributeValue, atts);
		return atts;
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	public static AttributesImpl addAttribute(String name, String value, AttributesImpl atts) {
		if (!StringUtil.isEmpty(value))
			atts.addAttribute("", "", name, "CDATA", value);
		return atts;
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John van den Berk (Oss, 1967) is een voormalig Nederlandse motorcrosser die tweemaal wereldkampioen is geworden. Hij werd ook tweemaal Nederlandse kampioen in de 125cc-klasse.

Van den Berk kreeg de liefde voor de motorsport mee van zijn vader. Op 9-jarige leeftijd debuteerde hij in de 50cc-klasse. In 1984 won hij met het Nederlandse team de coup des nations.

In 1987 werd Van den Berk wereldkampioen in de 125cc-klasse op een Yamaha. In het jaar hierop stapte hij over op naar de 250cc-klasse waar hij, nogmaals op de Yamaha, wereldkampioen werd. Hiermee was hij de eerste motorcrosser die de 125cc- en de 250cc-klasse achter elkaar wist te winnen.

Voor het seizoen 1988 werd hem door de KNMV de Hans de Beaufort-beker uitgereikt. Sinds 1992 heeft hij last van een knieblessure en eind 1995 zette het een punt achter zijn sportcarrière. Van den Berk is tegenwoordig hoofdtrainer van de KNMV en organiseert hij Europese motorcross trainingen.

Externe link
 Officiële site

Nederlands motorcrosser

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Not everything will be added.
How to: despite Adobe canceled the support for Flash mobile .apk plugin you can still install an old version of http://goo.gl/KwL2N make sure your download source is Adobe.com and nothing else!!! Enable your phone temporarily to accept external sources for .apk installations. As this plugin no longer gets security updates never start your mobile Flash plugin on suspicious webpages.
Comment opinions or suggest innovative projects!
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Read user blizzari´s comments what worked for him. I tested some games with a seven inch Android tablet, Pig dice http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Paddle2See/1524612 runs fine, even a shooter written in 2007 works out of the box!
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Ocean Navigator / March-April 2012 / March/April 2012 Issue 200: Blue water vagabond
March/April 2012 Issue 200: Blue water vagabond
by David Berson
The ketch Uldra.
from Blue Water Vagabond
In 1931, 26-year-old Dennis Puleston, a resident of the small English village of Leigh, decided it was high time to see the world. He had graduated from University of London after studying both biology and naval architecture and was working at a bank. It wasn't the life he imagined as a young lad reading the exploits of Joshua Slocum and Alain Gerbault. Like his heroes, he wanted to sail around the world.
So along with a like-minded companion, Geoff Owen, they purchased a 26-year-old wooden boat named Uldra, built of teak, kauri, and white oak. Uldra was 31 feet with a beam of 9 feet, drawing 5 feet 10 inches. To protect her from the ravages of the tropics, her bottom had been sheathed with copper. Uldra had a water tank capacity of 120 gallons, two Primus stoves set on gimbals and no engine. Uldra had a gaff-rigged main and Marconi-rigged mizzen.
They tested the boat and themselves in increasingly boisterous weather until they were sure they knew what they were about. Finally with $200 saved between them, they set off for the Canary Islands.
Thus began a six-year odyssey. The world before World War II was a much easier place for a young sailor to get along and to survive without money. Along the way he operated a coconut plantation in Tortola, survived a hurricane, got shipwrecked off Cape Hatteras, crewed on a schooner from Newfoundland in the winter, searched the Caribbean for Spanish treasure, sailed to the South Pacific, got captured by Japanese soldiers in China, and did it all with his faithful dog Tiger.
All of this and more was lyrically recorded in his book, Blue Water Vagabond. Of all the "let's go cruising" genre books, Blue Water Vagabond is far and away one of the best, capturing a time, only 80 years ago, that has long since vanished: the Caribbean and the South Pacific had not yet been "discovered," the anchorages were empty and the cruise ships had not yet arrived.
What makes Puleston even more interesting is his career after this adventure. He settled in the U.S. and during World War II, along with Rod Stephens, helped develop the DUKW, an amphibious landing craft. He also went on to become a preeminent ecologist and was one of the founding members of the Environmental Defense Fund.
Like most navigators of the day, Puleston mostly did observations of the sun: "We both took morning observations of the sun, to determine our daily position. We had different methods of working out our sights, so there was no chance of us both making the same slip. On comparison we found that the results of our calculations never differed by more than four miles."
So let's join a young Puleston on the deck of Uldra, somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean, running down the trade winds.
The date is Oct. 20 and we are using the 2012 Nautical Almanac. The dead reckoning (DR) position is 25° 15' N, 58° 16' W. Height of eye is 10 feet and we are taking a morning sun line and we will see how the line of position matches up with the DR. We are taking a lower limb shot of the sun. The time in GMT of the shot is 12:27:35. The Hs of the observation is 31° 18.6'. We need to calculate the Ho, and then using H.O. 249 Vol. 2 reduce the sight so we can find the intercept. Then we need to plot and locate the estimated position (EP).
A. What is the Ho?
B. What is the intercept?
C. What is the EP?
A. Ho is 31° 30.2'
B. Intercept is 16.2 nm toward
C. EP is 25° 15' N by 58° 12' W
Long Solution
Back in the day everyone who went offshore relied on celestial navigation. It is true that there was no other off shore navigation system, but it is also true that once the basics were mastered, celestial navigation was a pretty reliable method of navigation. I only remark on this because in Dennis Puleston, we have a story of a young man sailing around the world and getting everywhere with his sextant, timepiece and sight reduction tables. It's a good lesson to remember.
We have young Puleston doing a morning sun sight out on the Atlantic on his way to the West Indies. The purpose of this one line of position (LOP) is not to get a fix — for that we need two sights — but to see where the DR position is in relation to the LOP. We want the DR nearby or right on the LOP. This will confirm that the log is reading correctly and that there is no unknown current setting the vessel. It is usual for the navigator to take a morning sun line and then advance the LOP to a noon sight and create a running fix. That fix then can be advanced to an afternoon sun line. Usually that is all that many generations of navigators ever did. Many of them eschewed star sights as they were just too difficult.
Puleston is at a DR of 25° 15' N by 58° 16' W on October 20. We will be using the 2012 NA. and HO 249 Vol. 2 for solutions The height of eye is 10 feet. The time of observation of the Lower Limb of the sun is 12:27:35 GMT. The Hs is 31° 18.6'. We want to find the HO, the intercept and we want to plot the sight to calculate the EP.
Hs 31° 18.6'
-dip 3.1'
Ha 31° 15.5'
+3rd cor 14.7'
Ho 31° 30.2'
Next we go to the daily sun pages of the NA for Oct. 20 GMT 12:27:35
GHA 1200 hrs 3° 49.1'
Inc 27:35 + 6° 53.8'
GHA 10° 42.9'
+ 360°
GHA 370° 42.9'
-ass long 58° 42.9'
LHA 312°
While we are here we see that the declination of the sun at 1200 hrs is S10° 35.0'. The d correction is 0.9' and is increasing. We see this by inspection. In the 27 minutes and 35 seconds the declination has increased 0.4' so we have:
S 10° 35.0
S 10° 35.4' Declination
We now can enter HO 249 Vol. 2 using assumed longitude, assumed latitude and LHA. These are the three entering arguments necessary for the solution of the celestial triangle.We go to Contrary declination to latitude and find:
Hc 31° 35' d-36 z 121°
We go to Table 5 in HO 249 to calculate the correction for minutes of declination and find that is 21. We see that the d correction is minus so we subtract that from the Hc and we get:
Hc 31° 35
- d -21'
We subtract this from the HO and get:
-Hc 31° 14.0'
Intercept 16.2 Toward
We know that the LOP is toward because HO is greater than the HC and we recall that Ho MO Tow.
Next we lay out a plotting sheet and use the following as our Assumed Position 25° N by 58° 42.9'
When we plot we find that the DR is almost right on the LOP and our EP is 25° 15' N by 58° 12' W.


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LG Optimus 2X UK release date March 18th priced £470
First dual-core handset to hit UK mid-March
By Luke Johnson 2011-01-28T14:29:56.270Z
LG's dual-core smartphone under £500
The world's first dual-core processor rocking mobile phone, the LG Optimus 2X, is to launch in the UK on March 18th priced £469.99, online retailer Play.com has revealed.
Available to pre-order now ahead of its mid-March launch, the LG Optimus 2X will touch down as the first mobile handset to tout a dual-core processor, beating the recently announced Motorola Atrix and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S 2 to the coveted punch.
Unveiled at CES 2011 earlier this month the Optimus 2X will complement its dual-core credentials with a feast of high-end specs including a 4-inch WVGA touchscreen display, 8GB of inbuilt storage and full HD 1080p video recording and playback capabilities.
Set to launch running Google's Android 2.2 mobile operating system, FroYo, the 2X, which has recently been spotted sporting a lighter-hued white shell, has already been confirmed to be on the receiving end of a 2.3, Gingerbread, innards update shortly after arrival.
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Description of the female of Platycheirus altomontis Merlin Nielsen in Nielsen, 2004 (Diptera, Syrphidae) with notes on the occurrence and hilltopping behaviour of rare French montane and Alpine Syrphidae
Frank Van de Meutter
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A focused search in very high (2500-3200 m asl) Alpine mountain tops in France resulted in the discovery of the very rare Alpineendemic syrphid Platycheirus altomontis Merlin Nielsen in Nielsen, 2004, including its hitherto unknown female. A description of the female is given and further complemented with behavioural observations of this species with special reference to hilltopping. Additional records and behavioural observations are provided for rare and new species for the French fauna from the montane and Alpine habitat with focus on species of high altitude (>2750 m) and hilltopping behaviour. The species Rohdendorfia alpina Sack 1938 is new to France and was observed in large numbers at scree slopes above 2750 m and males were found sitting at hilltops up to 3200 m. Hilltopping behaviour of Syrphidae was observed over the whole altitudinal range visited, and multiple species engaged in this behaviour even at above 3000 m. Hilltopping appears to be more common in some genera (e.g. Parasyrphus and Pipizella) than in others and may be linked to specific phenotypes in some species. The latter was observed for the species Cheilosia melanura (Becker, 1894) of which at high hilltops much smaller males were found than at lower altitudes.
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Van de Meutter, F. (2022). Description of the female of Platycheirus altomontis Merlin Nielsen in Nielsen, 2004 (Diptera, Syrphidae) with notes on the occurrence and hilltopping behaviour of rare French montane and Alpine Syrphidae. ALPINE ENTOMOLOGY, 6, 65-76. https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.6.81676
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When I Am Sad, I Don't Want To Reach Out.
If I could disappear completely, until the feelings pass, I would.
And if you ask me if I am okay I will say fine, every time.
You see, I don't want your help, because I don't feel like anyone can help me.
I don't feel like I deserve the help.
When I am sad, I don't want to 'reach out'.
But if you reach in, if you really reach in.
Ask me twice, 3 times, how do you really feel, are you really ok.
Maybe I will answer honestly one day.
And if you show up at my door and sit with me, without judgement.
Maybe I will awake to a brighter day.
Maybe I will look for the help.
When I am sad I don't want to reach out.
Maybe you will be the one to reach in.


Abi F Jones is an English born songwriter and recording artist. In 2018 she received major success with her single 'outside' written with Justin Beibers 'what do you mean' producer 'MDL' and Dutch sensation 'Palm Trees' .
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We're hiring: Information Resources Manager
MND Australia seeks a science or health communicator with experience at the intersection of research and practice to develop evidence based, best practice and plain language health information in a variety of formats.
The position is a parental leave backfill for three days a week (0.6 FTE) until 30 June 2022.
The appointee will work remotely and, as necessary, at the MND Australia Offices, Deakin, Canberra.
The position is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of MND Australia's objectives and priorities including:
to strengthen MND Australia's position as the provider of trusted and up-to-date MND information
to develop evidence based and best practice MND information for our members, people living with MND and health professionals and community providers in a variety of formats
coordinate and develop new easy to understand resources including writing content for the MND Australia and MND Connect websites, fact-sheets, explainer pieces, newsletters, blogs, webinars, infographics and social and traditional media
chair the national Information Shared Service Group to review and update existing national information resources for people living with MND and to support the national MND Association network
with the Communications Manager, identify opportunities to disseminate information on MND and the work of the national network of MND associations via all media
support the successful delivery of MND Australia events such as conferences and the new care-focussed webinar series.
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Application and consideration process
For further details regarding this opportunity please contact the MND Australia CEO David Ali via [email protected] or 0438 202 642.
If you think you can contribute to MND Australia's Strategy and ongoing transformation, please email your application marked 'APPLICATION' in the subject line to [email protected] before Thursday 23 December.
For your application to be considered you must submit a current resume (CV), and a brief document that addresses why you would be perfect for this position, what you bring and thoughts on what you would do, how and why drawing on your skills, experiences and passion.
Please note interviews will be held via an online platform in early January 2022.


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The Stronger hitmaker announced last week (ends13Sep15) that he has decided to present Yeezy Season 2, his collaboration with sports brand Adidas, on Wednesday (16Sep15) at noon, a move that especially surprised other designers who had been planning for months to stage their own shows at the exact same time.
In particular, designer Anne Bowen was scheduled to debut her new street collection, Nomad VII, during the same time slot, and now an angry Bowen is scrambling to reschedule her show for the next day (17Sep15), so as not to clash with West's runway presentation.
A frustrated Bowen tells Women's Wear Daily, "We have been prepping for a year for this at considerable financial, labour and commitment-cost to our company. Our show date has been scheduled for months and has been on the Fashion Calendar for weeks... And just yesterday we learned that Kanye West is having a show at the same time on the same date as ours.
"Kanye knows he is a media sensation and it is just not ethical to do this. It's like we are David and he is Goliath. We have put our heart and soul into our show, and should not be stepped on like this."
Her publicist adds, "We're scrambling like crazy and it's costing us a lot of money... and now we have to re-invite the press... We sent out printed invites by hand, and they're useless. We're trying to contact everyone by e-mail."
West's show will mark the rapper's second appearance at New York Fashion Week - earlier this year (15), he debuted his Yeezy Season 1 collection, with wife Kim Kardashian in the front row, alongside the likes of Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
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Gloria Molina has been Los Angeles County's First District Supervisor since 1991, when courts ordered the creation of a protected Latino seat on the County Board of Supervisors. Akin to the mayoralty of the nation's biggest Mexican-American "city," the post has given the former congresswoman a chance to promote her view--widely shared across the country--that greater parent involvement is the key to boosting the academic performance of disadvantaged children.
She's tried dramatic measures, like having the district attorney threaten parents with jail time when children are habitually truant. But last year, Molina explored gentler approaches, having her staff look for examples of successful parent involvement programs that she might introduce to the schools in her community.
To her surprise, the landscape was already cluttered with such programs. At the 800-student Murchison Street Elementary School in Molina's own East L.A. district, her staff found a PTA; parent advisory councils for bilingual and compensatory education programs; a health clinic delivering primary care to parents and children; a family center linking parents to counseling and social service programs; adult literacy classes in English and Spanish; a parent site committee to make school budgetary decisions; a Parent Center, where mothers can get school information and help with activities (like making costumes for school plays); and a "Baby and Me" program to train young mothers to speak with toddlers in a way that stimulates intellectual growth, and to show these mothers how to teach youngsters colors and the alphabet, so they will enter school more ready to learn. Some 40 mothers at the school regularly volunteer in classrooms and on the playground. Teachers hold regular parent conferences to discuss student progress, as well as several school-wide parent meetings annually to explain standardized testing, report card formats, and the importance of homework and regular attendance.
The school also conducts classes in which parents are taught how to prepare their children to read. Bob Bilovsky, the principal, describes a Friday morning class, attended by 18 of Murchison's 500 mothers: "We give them the books and go over them so they can read to their children. Many do not know how to read to their children. We are trying to teach them to establish a set time for reading and say, 'Let's turn off the TV,' and to deal with the problem that the husband wants to watch TV. We are explaining how to preview the book with their children before reading it, asking them to guess what will happen."
Murchison's teachers say all these programs contribute to student learning, but there is no firm evidence they do. Murchison's standardized scores hover around the 14th percentile. At this rate, most Murchison students were scheduled to be held back under the Los Angeles Unified School District's new policy to abolish "social promotion." (Implementation of the new policy was recently postponed because the district lacks space and teachers to accommodate all those slated to spend an extra year in school.) Molina concluded that, despite the school's abundant parent literature (in Spanish and English) and its frequent parent meetings, Murchison's mothers understood little about how they could support student learning.
So she decided to join the informal mothers' meeting held every Wednesday morning at the Murchison Parent Center. Molina's own parents had instilled their 10 children with the value of education. She wanted to see if she could persuade the 15 mothers who regularly attended these meetings to do the same. For four months, she became the mothers' tutor. She asked them to create notebooks to record their children's test scores. She and her staff taught teamwork exercises, to build the mothers' confidence in approaching school officials. She gave the mothers a homework assignment of their own (finding out what books their children were reading in class), but only one participant was able to determine this by the following week. So Molina brought copies of the books to the next meeting and urged the mothers to ask their children questions about them. She emphasized the importance of supervising homework and of reading with children on a daily basis.
By the year's end, Molina was less confident that simple calls for parent involvement provide a solution to urban education's problems. Telling mothers to read to children at home was not helpful for mothers who are semiliterate themselves and have few books at home and little familiarity with public libraries. It was apparent to Molina that these mothers needed, far more than exhortations to get involved, intensive and ongoing instruction in how to do so. Also to be overcome were the difficulties recruiting mothers for such instruction--especially if they had multiple jobs or cared for other preschoolers. After all, the Wednesday morning group attracted only 15, and all told, only about 100 of the school's 500 mothers were involved in any of the various literacy programs Murchison offered.
Molina approached the highly regarded Reading/ Language Arts Institute at California State University, asking that an ongoing program be created for Murchison, incorporating the insights she had gained in her Wednesday meetings. The institute designed a summer tutoring program for 15 children and their mothers. But it was never implemented because the cost, including individual work with each mother, was prohibitive--about $1,000 per student, for only eight weeks of instruction.
As Molina discovered, it is no easy thing to foster parent involvement in low-income, inner-city schools--or, rather, it is no easy thing to foster the kind of parent involvement that actually produces academic gains: conducting literacy activities in the home, supervising homework, and communicating the importance of academic work.
Many people think that the success of inner-city private schools proves otherwise, but they are wrong. It's true that Bob Bilovsky and his staff must persuade parents to enroll in Murchison's parent programs, while private schools can require parents to "volunteer." But at inner-city Catholic schools, many parents, like Murchison's, have neither the skills nor the confidence to provide support for learning. Usually, low-income parochial schools press parents to fulfill their volunteer obligations by engaging in fundraising, not academic participation. And at these schools, standardized test scores are also below grade level. Where Catholic school scores are higher than at neighboring public schools, it's probably the result of the Catholic schools' ability to selectively enroll students whose parents offer more academically effective support. Conventional controls for race and income mask such differences among families.
Across town from Murchison, St. Milton and St. Felipe are parish schools in an impoverished African-American community. (Martin Carnoy, Luis Benveniste, and I promised faculty members anonymity when we interviewed them for a 1999 Economic Policy Institute book, Can Public Schools Learn from Private Schools?, so here I use pseudonyms for them and their schools.) Parents in both parish schools are required to sign contracts to volunteer for 30 hours per year. They are, however, permitted to make small additional financial contributions in lieu of time, such as selling "scrip" for use at local retail stores. Parent volunteering might also include occasional chaperoning of field trips, janitorial upkeep of school facilities, or helping with clerical tasks.
Staff and parents often blame each other for the disappointing test results. Parents say they've paid the tuition, and it is the teachers' job to boost academic achievement. Teachers complain that without parental support for the academic program, there is little they can do to improve performance.
The staff has much the same complaint at a public school in a Los Angeles working-class white community where well-paying longshore jobs requiring little education have been plentiful. In a poll at Mashita Middle School, teachers said that lack of parental support was the school's most serious problem--specifically, inadequate parent involvement in supervising homework and communicating to children that they should come to school prepared.
One Mashita teacher complains that she spends an hour a week telephoning parents whose children are doing well and whose children are not, but gets little response from either group. Another notes that 180 students are in her six science classes, yet only three parents attended open house.
Three years ago, Mashita established a focus group of parents and teachers to develop ways to increase parent involvement. The group developed plans for parent training, but there was almost no parental response. The group disbanded.
Mashita parents may undervalue education because of a misplaced faith that good jobs will always be available on the docks for high school dropouts. At other lower-income schools, different preconceptions, even culture, may contribute to parents' failure to give the kind of support children need for academic success. Some parents, even when making an effort to promote academic growth at home, are not comfortable interacting with children conversationally. Instead of a "how do you think it should be done?" approach, the dominant mode of many less-educated parents is a "watch me and copy" instructional style. Encouraging inquiry, however, contributes more to intellectual development.
Other cultural characteristics also influence parent involvement, although the sensitivity of race relations makes these difficult to discuss. Perhaps a historical reference can make it easier. In the early twentieth century, there were dramatic differences in educational attainment among the children of various immigrant groups. For Italian Americans, for example, it generally took three generations before college attendance was common. For Greek Americans, it took four. Such differences are difficult to explain without acknowledgment of cultural differences in parental assumptions, expectations, or pedagogical styles.
The St. Felipe and St. Milton schools provide a more contemporary example. They are operated by the same religious order, and several nuns have served both parishes and can compare the two. African-American parents at St. Felipe mostly have origins in the American Southeast. According to Sister Cecilia, the principal, they tend to be more suspicious of the faculty and more defensive about its judgments regarding academic work or discipline. Yet because parents come so quickly to their children's defense, Sister Cecilia feels she has access to parents and can facilitate relationships that later become more constructive. At St. Milton, on the other hand, African-American parents are either recent immigrants from Belize or have origins in Creole-speaking Louisiana. More willing to defer to faculty judgments about academic and disciplinary matters, they also have less confidence in their ability to help their children learn. Less suspicious of school, they are more reluctant to get involved.
l Gore has proposed funding preschool for all three- to five-year-olds whose parents want it, but even if this campaign promise were adopted, it holds little hope for any quick solution to the problem posed by differences in the academic support parents can provide to their children. Gore's idea is to place very young children in the hands of professional educators, to offset the inability of many low-income parents to prepare children for learning. But the cost, at least $50 billion over 10 years, is high (Bill Bradley, probably accurately, insists the cost would be much higher), and even were money available, Gore has not indicated where he would find trained teachers for this massive expansion of public education, when teacher shortages in low-income communities are already great. An incremental effort, of course, would be a step forward, especially if combined with the kind of intense parental tutoring that Gloria Molina and the Cal State Reading/Language Arts Institute proposed. But even preschools cannot by themselves fully equalize achievement between poor and more advantaged children.
One recent study, for example, found that parents with professional occupations directed an average of 2,153 words an hour to children between one and three years of age. For working-class parents, the average was 1,251, and for parents on welfare, only 616. If we can assume that the language toddlers hear plays an important role in their later intellectual development, then by the time preschool begins, there is already a lot of catching up to do.
Parenting practices almost certainly have more impact on children's cognitive development than preschool practices. Indeed, changing the way parents deal with their children may be the single most important thing we can do to improve children's cognitive skills. But getting parents to change their habits is even harder than getting teachers to change. Like teachers, parents are usually suspicious of unsolicited suggestions. This is doubly true when the suggestions require fundamental changes in a parent's behavior... . As a practical matter, whites cannot tell black parents to change their practices without provoking charges of ethnocentrism, racism, and much else. But black parents are not the only ones who need help. We should be promoting better parenting practices for all parents... .
One of the initiatives that earned Bill Clinton a reputation as a reformer when he was governor of Arkansas was HIPPY, his Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters. Paraprofessionals visited homes of welfare mothers on a weekly basis, introducing lessons the mothers could teach infants and toddlers and reviewing the previous week's assignments.