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Bombylius major Linnaeus, 1758
Diptera: Larger Brachycera: Bombyliidae
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Bombylius major March 2012
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Taxonomic group: soldier flies and allies (Diptera: Larger Brachycera) - County data
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a couple weeks ago i got sparkle but to sac thanks to my buddy ryan. it's been super nice on the weekends lately and i've gotten to go out on a couple rides. this is such a fun bike!
i think i'll probably be out on it again this weekend, i'll see if i can't setup my gopro and get some fun video.
i really wish i could capture the color on this thing, it's so rad.
this bike is doug's west coast rally bike now, and after all the trouble he had with the laguna i'm going to keep riding it now and again to make sure it's in great shape for him the next time he's here.
oh, and sorry about not updating this as often as i was for a while there. i've been working on dirty and a few other bikes, taking pictures for big updates and stuff, i just haven't posted anything in a bit.
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On behalf of the British Council, Oui Marketing is rolling out a global multi-channel communications campaign in some 20 countries on 5 continents. Entitled There Are 1001 Ways to Speak English (portfolio), the campaign marks the 25th anniversary of the IELTS, the world's leading English test, and targets international students seeking entry into English-language universities, and candidates for immigration to English-speaking countries.
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At the origin of this collaboration, CinéFête's will to facilitate orders of programs for schools (schools, colleges and universities) and to simplify the management of its catalogue and royalties. With an accounting system directly connected to the catalog and transparent for users, calculation and payments of the royalties to the authors and right holders are now made directly from the site.
Besides this technical revamp, CinéFête wanted also to renew its brand image long time associated with a catalog of educative films and to broaden its audience to larger public than children and to territories outside Quebec
The new visual identity designed around a logo symbolizing the projector/screen couple, opens a window on the diversity and the richness of CinéFête's catalog. It also depicts CinéFête as the witness of a world of cultures and exchanges, told through a catalog of documentaries offering a large variety of points of view.
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L'Association des agences de publicité du Québec (AAPQ) vient de lever le voile sur les membres de son nouveau conseil d'administration. Nous sommes fiers de compter parmi les dix membres élus notre président, David Proulx.
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Il y a moins d'un an, David entrait dans le premier comité de la Relève de l'AAPQ. S'ajoute ce premier mandat au sein du C.A. de l'AAPQ pour – au moins – les deux prochaines années. Fondée en 1988, l'AAPQ est un organisme sans but lucratif qui regroupe aujourd'hui plus de 70 agences membres, lesquelles génèrent plus de 85 % du chiffre d'affaires de l'industrie au Québec.
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For the launch of its world campaign to promote the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), the British Council has decided to retain the services of Oui Marketing.


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It's a video that should give pause to any organization that uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) cards as employee badges.
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Finally, Qatar has set employee minimum salary for expatriate as $200 (750 Riyal / € 166) with major changes in the package of labor ahead of 2022 FIFA World Cup. With a lot of continuous global scrutiny and criticism for the treatment of foreign workers in the country, a government of Qatar compels to set expatriate or employee minimum salary introducing minimum wage policy.
According to the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Abdullah Saleh Al Khulaifi; temporary minimum wage policy comes into effect immediately.
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Besides the expatriate/employee minimum salary rule set, they will receive free accommodation, food and healthcare plans, covered by employers.
It is believed that one of the important changes in labor policy is introducing the employee minimum salary for foreign workers from which more than 2 millions foreign workers who are working in Qatar will be directly benefited.
This is the very first time Qatar has been introduce employee minimum salary policy.
According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs; employment contact below 750 Riyals will not be approved. For your information, all employment contracts must be approved from Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in Qatar. It is said that 750 Riyals figure might be increased further after a complete review but for the moment employer cannot hire expatriate below this figure.
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As well as this will also preventing changes to contract terms after the arrival of workers in Qatar which is believed the crystal clear hands on benefit for expatriate since there are a lot of problem in between two parties (employer and employees) contradict in contract terms after arriving here in Qatar.
It is expected that this major reform in labor package will be enough to satisfy the UN's international labor rights. Since being controversially able to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 by Qatar, they are spending $500 million a week on the tournament but they are continuously accused of forcing workers to toil in conditions.
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One of the best ways to show that you and the rest of your sorority sisters are all in a special event together is through the creation of event t-shirts. Of course, you also want to make sure these shirts look good, because if they don't, you are going to hear about it form everyone in the sorority (and maybe even from those who are outside of the sorority). Because of this, you need to keep an eye out for an exceptional design and make sure you are always designing something that the majority of everyone is going to like. You probably are not able to create a shirt that 100 percent of everyone enjoys, but that is just something that is going to happen. Thankfully though, there are a few specifics you can keep in mind.
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All I know about this is that python 3 has turned print() into a function whereas in python 2 it was an expression.
But I have used parenthesis with print in python 2 as well, like print("Hello everyone"), So how is this possible and how it is evaluated i.e. like an expression or a statement?
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Automotive Supply Chain Management: As Good As It Gets?
Many observers agree that the automotive industry is running its supply chain well. They also agree there's room for improvement.
The best Tier 1 suppliers, come "very, very close to 100% perfect orders," says Scott Lundstrom, chief technology officer, AMR Research (Boston, MA). They score perfect deliveries 98% to 99% of the time. Yet a 90% perfect-order score, unheard of in any other industry AMR surveyed, is considered a "failing grade" in automotive. Moreover, the difference in a supplier's "strong" performance versus another supplier's "weak" performance, as measured by perfect-order fulfillment, is a mere 6%. "That is the equivalent between an A+ and a C-. That's how demanding the automotive environment is." exclaims Lundstrom. "The demand is not so much about being an excellent supply chain company. The demand is about what's next."
Being "perfect"
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In technological terms, according to AMR, the better automotive Tier 1 suppliers use more packaged software applications and system. They also use "slightly more" e-business, though Lundstrom admits this is deceiving because "automotive has shared data for many years to a degree that's unprecedented in most other industries."
More important, the major difference between "strong" and "weak"—"best" and "worst"—lies in the supplier's commitment to "best practices." The best suppliers are focused on process excellence. They insert technology where they've already improved processes to minimize costs. "Best practices are things that people do," says Lundstrom (emphasis added). Unfortunately, not everybody quite understands this. Too many suppliers struggling to better their perfect-order performance, continues Lundstrom, have "bought into the notion that somehow they can implement their way into a better supply chain. They can not. Technology helps, but technology does not fix fundamental, underlying business process problems in the supply chain."
So forget about silver-bullet software implementations.
"Best" suppliers are also focused on supplier integration, on what and how data are shared up and down the supply chain. For example, an OEM will fully disclose order information and inventory requirements to a Tier 1 as soon as the OEM knows those requirements. The Tier 1 will then fully disclose that information to its Tier 2 suppliers.
"Automotive is an anomaly. You don't find too many supply chains operating with the same purposefulness and degree of information exchange," says Lundstrom.
Of course, this all comes as a double-edged sword. Technology costs. Perfection has a price. There's a fine balance between retaining customers and destroying profit margins. AMR found that the difference in total supply chain management (SCM) costs between the "best" and "worst" automotive suppliers is half the cost. Expressed as a percent of revenue, 20% of the revenue of a Tier 1 automotive supplier is the difference in SCM costs between the best and worst performers.
Given such "perfection," what should the automotive industry look for to improve its supply chain? "It's not so much whose supply chain automotive should model, but whose business model automotive should adopt," says Lundstrom. Which leads to a discussion about automotive's physical supply chain. But first, let's address two other automotive supply chains.
The design supply chain
According to Detroit-based CIMdata, the automotive industry has a design (or intellectual property) supply chain. There, says Ken Amann, CIMdata's director of research, the automotive industry is making progress in effective integration. But it still has a ways to go.
OEMs and Tier 1s are aggressively pursuing what CIMdata calls "collaborative product development"—collaborative product design and design chain management, which includes such basic issues as working with suppliers, sharing designs and design activities, and realizing that they're not going to do it all themselves. The larger issue in outsourcing design work is in bringing people together more effectively into the overall environment so that all can be managed more effectively.
Such collaboration is not just a technology issue. It's also an operational issue, which involves cultural, organizational, and ownership issues, says Amann. "The technologies provided by the product lifecycle management suppliers are the enablers that allow these collaborative environments to happen. You can't just put the environment out there and expect it to work." For example, how do OEMs and suppliers handle design review-and-approval processes, as well as security and privacy issues? Guaranteed, now that these processes involve different companies, organizational structures, and people, you can't assume the processes are going to work the way they have in the past.
The customer data supply chain
Another challenge, according to Bob Pethick, lead director for automotive and industrial for Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath's at its Detroit office, is in accessing customer data that's meaningful to help drive the supply chain. To date, most automotive customer data reside in dealer management systems, which "are contracted, bought, and paid for by the dealers themselves," says Pethick. "Dealers have been very protective about their customer data, especially since the OEMs a few years ago announced they were going to try to disintermediate the dealer chain."
The solution here is basically to reengineer the entire OEM-to-dealer systems architecture. The goal is to enable better sharing and, adds Pethick, "to figure out how to create processes and data that will let [both OEMs and dealers] mine and use the data to gain competitive position."
Changing the supply chain model
Now for the big-ticket item ripe for change. The automotive industry runs its supply chain "relatively efficiently," says Karen Peterson, vice president and research director at Stamford-based Gartner. However, she's quick to point out that "efficiently" does not necessarily equate to "well."
Therein lies the rub. The auto industry is very efficient at mass production, at pushing cars out to be sold. "That efficiency is no longer a competitive advantage. It no longer equates to growth," explains Peterson. Mass production is no longer a "best practice" when the goal is to service customers or, at the very least, to implement some form of mass customization.
Pethick states it another way. The automotive industry operates its supply chain well "given that they are limiting themselves to a very introspective model for supply chains—a 'push' supply chain as opposed to a 'pull' supply chain. They're very good at optimizing a suboptimal model."
Worse, notes Peterson, the industry might be "as effective as possible, but it also might be building things people don't want." The industry over builds and offers incentives—discounts and rebates—thereby losing money on each car that never should have built in the first place. "That's not very smart," laughs Peterson.
"The industry is paying customers to take the product at a discount because it's not exactly what the customer wanted," reiterates Pethick. He contrasts this to the build-to-order business: "Customers pay extra for product because they are so enthusiastic about the service."
Moving toward mass customization, though, is "causing huge challenges," says Peterson. The industry "has to change its entire perspective so that the pull signal is coming from the customer rather than from some way arbitrarily determined by the OEM." In short, says Peterson, the automotive industry has to change the whole way it operates its supply chain, including the industry's mindset toward customers. "Sure we're seeing information sharing in the automotive supply chain. It's just not being done to support new change processes," she says. For example, the industry needs to focus on building to, if not "Quantity One," at least to customer requirements. "We might not build to a 'customer of one,' but let's have a better understanding of what the customers' requirements are and build to those requirements at some level of aggregation." While today's locate-to-order is "a good step ahead," says Peterson, "it's not the end state."
A better way?
What would be a perfect end state? Think of the design-to-order program at Bob's Store, which lets you design your own chinos and jeans with the help of technology. Customer cost: Forty bucks. (Trawl over to http://www.bobsmade2order.com/cgi-bin/bobs.pl. For more details, go to the "tier 1"—Archetype Solutions, Inc. (Emeryville, CA)—at http://www.archetype-solutions.com/.) Lands' End has a similar program for chinos. And check out the Nike iD program (http://nikeid.nike.com). There you can design a logo that Nike will fabricate onto your very own pair of Nike athletic shoes.
("That's the fashion industry," you huff. "Everyone knows that people will pay extra for good-looking, good-fitting clothes." Now think about all the people you know who consider their cars a fashion statement.)
What's a more realistic end state? "Move away from a single-mode mass production model to a more flexible manufacturing supply chain," suggests Pethick. "Maintain the mass production model for high-volume vehicles, but have separate supply chains, even separate types of plants, geared to lower-volume niche markets, niche-product supply chains." Of course, admits Pethick, this will involve reengineering the basic capability and flexibility of the automotive assembly process.
"You have to treat supply chain performance just like you treat manufacturing quality," concludes Lundstrom. "You have to create continuous improvement programs, meaning you have to monitor and manage and adapt yourself on an ongoing basis."
What Makes a "Perfect Order"?
A recent study by AMR Research defines several ways automotive orders can be "imperfect." They can be late, contain poor quality, damaged, or incorrect parts, contain the incorrect quantity, or they can be the correct parts but incorrectly labeled. A perfect order, says Scott Lundstrom, AMR's chief technology officer, "is absolutely exactly what the customer ordered. Right quality, right timing, right delivery.
"Anyone in the automotive industry that isn't [an excellent supplier] is already dead."
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One of the characteristics of the Catholic Church that appealed to me right away was that not only does the Church teach the importance of strategy, but she also recognizes the importance of tactics. And like the Marine Corps, the Church Militant produces field manuals teaching and relating the effective use of both strategy and tactics. All of which are based on her actual experience gained in fighting, and winning, spiritual wars.
Yes, I have been marital in this space of late but as I said, do not be afraid. It is not because I miss the action of being a Marine that's driving my writing in recent posts. Instead, I've just been sharing a few examples from my military experience on ways to win the war that rages within each one of us, as well as the one that rages all around us. After all,
The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
So says Job (7:1), and he should know. No, I haven't waxed nostalgic for the "way of the warrior." I just clearly recognize that in our state as Christians and as Catholics, we are all warriors. Whether you realize that or not probably has to do with where you are on your faith journey. If you are a Catholic, you are a warrior. Welcome aboard.
Sun Tzu, that pre-Christian Chinese military genius, offers this wise saying,
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
In the realm of spirituality, #1 and #2 of these thoughts are acceptable in my estimation. But we have to avoid #3 at all costs. When thinking along these lines, I can't help but remember these words that I memorized long, long ago.
To locate, close with, and destroy the enemy, through fire and maneuver, or repel the enemy assault by fire and close combat. —Mission of the Marine Corps rifle squad.
Maybe I'm just a romantic. Perhaps only I see how applicable these words are to describing the situation "on the ground" inside of me. But I think these words can also be seen as the Mission of the Desert Fathers, or as the Mission of all Christians, and particularly as the Mission of the Catholic Church. Just capitalize the "e" in enemy and I think you will agree.
When I was a kid with dreams of a glorious military career, I often read books about heroic military leaders. I was always intrigued by what books these heroes read as well. I learned that Chesty Puller, the cantankerous legendary Marine, kept a dog eared copy of The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar in his pack or pocket. So I bought a copy too, and read it from cover to cover.
Last night, my family watched the movie Patton, starring George C. Scott. The version I picked up from the library had an introductory interview by the writer of the screenplay, Francis Ford Coppola. One of the things that Coppola found interesting about Patton was that he was "a Southern gentleman (by heritage, anyway, as he was also Chesty Puller's cousin) who was also literary." He was well read in other words. He studied everything he could get his hands on that he thought would help him in his vocation of fighting and winning wars.
As Catholics, we should do the same. How to use the "down time?" Read and constantly prepare for spiritual war. Because even if you aren't engaged in combat operations right at this moment, you could be at any time. Where did I get the title of this post? From my Marine Corps leadership experience, of course. The first leadership trait Marines are taught is "know yourself, and seek self-improvement." The wisdom of Sun Tzu put into action.
The second trait is "be technically and tactically proficient." How? Take a look:
Before you can lead, you must be able to do the job. The first principle is to know your job. As a Marine, you must demonstrate your ability to accomplish the mission, and to do this you must be capable of answering questions and demonstrating competence in your job specialty. Respect is the reward of the Marine who shows competence. Tactical and technical competence can be learned from books and from on the job training.
Boring, right? But wait, there is more,
1. Seek a well rounded military education by attending service schools; doing daily independent reading and research; taking correspondence courses from MCI, colleges, or correspondence schools; and seeking off-duty education.
2. Seek out and associate with capable leaders. Observe and study their actions.
3. Broaden your knowledge through association with members of other branches of the U. S. armed services.
4. Seek opportunities to apply knowledge through the exercise of command. Good leadership is acquired only through practice.
5. Prepare yourself for the job of leader at the next higher rank.
Get the point? You're not done training for war once you've earned the title Marine. You are just getting started! It is the same thing when you become a Catholic. Yes, the mark of Baptism lasts forever. But that doesn't mean you are done. It means you are in Christ's Army now, and it's time to start, ahem, soldiering.
This might surprise you but professional military reading is not only encouraged in the Marine Corps, it is a requirement. So let me share a field manual with you that St. Francis de Sales kept in his cargo pocket and who went so far as to call it "the golden book." Which means you need to order a copy of it, pronto. Below is the full title and the preface to get you started,
The Spiritual Combat: To Which Is Added the Peace of the Soul, and Happiness of the Heart, Which Dies to Itself in Order to Live To God.
The following treatise comprehends in a concise manner, the whole system of a Devout Life, gathered from the maxims of the Gospel, particularly by those who regard humility and self-denial.
Among an infinity of encomiums which might be cited in its commendation, let it suffice to say that one of the greatest Saints those later ages have produced, St. Francis of Sales, for upwards of twenty years carried this book in his pocket, and never failed reading some pages of it every day: he called it his Director, and recommended it to all those who consulted him in the great affair of salvation.
And, though that excellent book, the Imitation of Christ, like this, tends to unite the soul entirely to God; yet St. Francis gave the preference to the Spiritual Combat, for this reason, because the latter reduces its maxims to practice; whereas the former contains indeed abundance of choice sentiments, but does not point out the immediate application of them.
The Spiritual Combat has this fate in common with several excellent treatises, to be attributed to various authors. What appears, most probable in regard to this tract is, that the first sketch of it was from the pen of Dom John de Castaniza, a Spanish Benedictine; but that the finishing hand, with very great additions, was put to it by Dom Laurence Scupoli, a Theatine of Italy.
As the author has laid down a plan, which if duly followed will lead to the most consummate sanctity; persons who live in the world, may imagine such spirituality too refined for their practice; but this may be depended on: that no one can read this little tract, without reaping great advantage from it in whatever state of life he is placed.
And if in the pursuit of human arts and sciences, we are fond of learning under the greatest masters, though we have very little hopes of attaining their perfection, certainly the same rule ought to direct our choice with regard to the science of the Saints, which at least, in some degree, is absolutely necessary for the salvation of our souls.
You never heard of the Theatines? Nor had I. But that is one of the beneficial side effects of learning about, and being, soldiers for Christ. There are a lot of regiments in Our King's Army, from the Assumptionists to the Ursalines. Each with a different history, and a different charism, but all with the same mission: to bring all souls to salvation through Our Lord, Jesus Christ.
So don't delay in reading Scripture, praying, and studying tactics like good soldiers. Get started today, before you walk into an ambush.
You'll find the rest of The Spiritual Combat on the YIMCatholic Bookshelf.


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People with Parkinson's disease who undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy may benefit for up to ten years, new research suggests.
DBS is a form of surgery that is sometimes used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, during which a wire with electrodes is placed in the brain. An implant then generates electrical signals to stimulate areas of the brain.
Previous research suggests that DBS of the subthalamic nucleus can be effective for up to five to eight years after surgery, bringing about improvements in motor function and quality of life.
Scientists in Perugia, Italy, have now shown that the effects may be even more long-lasting.
The researchers analysed 18 patients, all of whom had received DBS implants between 1996 and 2000.
Publishing their findings in the Archives of Neurology, they revealed that patients were still benefiting from improvements in motor function after ten years.
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Can someone help me understand why this isn't working?
From: George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:19:20 +0200
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I have a basic example I am trying to get working to convert ;
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Here is the XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="hello.xsl"?> <greeting>
Hello, world!
</greeting>
Here is the XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/">   <title>Today's greeting</title>   <xsl:apply-templates select="greeting"/>   </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="P"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
I am guessing that the value of greeting selected in the apply-templates call contains
Hello, world!

I was hoping because the output type was HTML a result tree containing
Hello, world!
 would be created that my match="P" would process (my apologies if my terminology is not correct, still getting up to speed with this).
Am I thinking about this the wrong way? Any advice would help.
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In our coverage here at City of Ate, we typically try to lean towards high-end foods and unique eateries (OK, on occasion). But, we also know crap sells, mainly because often we're the ones buying it. And while our fast-food coverage usually highlights absurdity, sometimes it crosses into all-business territory. Case in point: Have you tried the new effing chocolate chunk cookies at Chick-Fil-A? They're amazing.
We were driving down the highway last night and I slammed my hand on the steering wheel and said something like, "Gosh DANG IT!" And the kids were like, "What happened?"
"This cookie is amazing! That's what happened! Now every time I drive by a stupid Chick-fil-A I'll be haunted by their warm gooiness. And for the first time in my life I'm mad that they're closed on Sundays. Why do they do that? That's so dumb."
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It's the devils work, these cookies. I'm serious. A half dozen (with tax) costs $6.66.
They're made with both semi-sweet and milk chocolate chunks and whole oats. I love oats in a cookie. They give cookies more texture and offset the sweetness.
I didn't want to do this, but I had to. There are 320 calories and 14 grams of fat in each cookie. That's a meal! Which I'd be willing to skip for one of these. The new summer slim down plan: a Coke Zero (because their diet is caffeine free, which renders it useless) and one cookie for dinner. That's it. Ball game.


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Children 3 years old through Pre-K participate in an environment with consistent, loving small group leaders. The children begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. in their Sunday School Classroom for a short period of time with their small group leader. This is a time for the children to get comfortable and are introduced to their Bible lesson for the day. At 9:45 a.m., the children are led to the Preschool Large Group Space (Room 248 in the Nursery Hallway) for music and an exciting presentation of their Bible Story. The Sunday School hour ends back in their Sunday School Room with activities that help emphasize the Biblical concept learned and "Make It Stick". By the time children leave for Kindergarten, we want our children to know:
God Made Me
God Loves Me
Jesus Wants to Be My Friend Forever
Kindergarten through Fifth Grade
Children in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade participate in a small group environment with consistent adult small group leaders to help them grow into a deeper relationship with God. The curriculum focuses on 12 Virtues (Qualities) of God through approximately 50 Bible Stories. We want every child to know by the time they leave fifth grade:
I need to make the wise choice.
I can trust God no matter what.
I should treat others the way I want to be treated.


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The most common platforms where couples get a chance to dance with each other are weddings and parties. The most commonly used music in the background is a mixture of folk, western and bollywood facilitated by a DJ. The success rate of giving a riveting performance is highest for couples with a great sense of rhythm. The rest falter, and are not able to put their best foot forward. Understanding the talent and capability of your dance-partner and adapting accordingly is a challenge, taken care of in Bollywood Salsa Workshop. So whether you are a couple with good sense of rhythm or not, learn how to match steps with the DJ and do justice to your dance-partner.View Video Send Enquiry


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I'm using UCM and IMP 9.1.2. All versions of Jabber v9.6 won't login in 'auto' mode, even though it can see my IMP server dns address has been identified to jabber via the SRV record. I must click 'manual setup' and then select Presence as the method and it then setup completes the login to the discovered IMP server.
I can clearly see it wants to use webex instead of presence as the method. Even the text says "Enter your WebEX ..." At least on the ipad version, the logs show it checking with Cisco's cloud webex server and finding our domain a valid webex domain. Why does v9.6 prefer webex and how do I stop it from doing that?
For example, here are snippets from the ipad client that show it trying webex sso method. I don't understand why it is trying that. I replaced our real domain name with 'mycompany.com'.
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.029 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][determineIsWebexCustomer] Determining if an organistation's domain (mycompany.com) is a webex customer.
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.030 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][determineIsWebexCustomerFromCache] Checking if domain is a webex customer from the Service Discovery Cache
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.030 WARNING [bace000] - [service-discovery][determineIsWebexCustomerFromCache] The domain tried (mycompany.com) is different to the domain in the cache ().
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.031 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][getCasLookupResult] CAS Lookup with domain: mycompany.com
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.039 INFO [bace000] - [csf.httpclient][CurlHeaders] Number of Request Headers : 0
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.418 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][getCasLookupResult] CAS lookup request has been successfully finished with domain: mycompany.com
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.418 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][parseCasResponse] Domain is WebexCustomer but doesn't support WebexSso.
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.418 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][Discover] Domain mycompany.com is a webex customer. Returning successful result
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.424 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][writeToCache] Writing to cache
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.424 INFO [bace000] - [service-discovery][writeToCache] Domain (mycompany.com) is a webex customer. Saving to cache!
********** Discovered Dns Services Records Found **********
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.459 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - [Login Time Ceck] start to check sso.
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.606 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - CSILoginSSO-- signInSSO mycompany.com
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.607 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - YLCSigninUIMgr enableUserInteraction NO
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.608 INFO [3b8dd18c] - [CSFServiceLocatorManager][onDiscoveryFinished:] out
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.657 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - *****Chat Url [all]: https://loginp.webexconnect.com/cas/FederatedSSO?action=getconfig&org=mycompany.com - navigationType = 5
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.657 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - *****Chat Url: //loginp.webexconnect.com/cas/FederatedSSO?action=getconfig&org=mycompany.com
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.780 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - CSIWebViewTouch Connection didReceiveData; original request: < 0x1ba9ae90=""> { URL: >https://loginp.webexconnect.com/cas/FederatedSSO?action=getconfig&org=mycompany.com }
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.784 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - *****Chat Url [all]: https://loginp.webexconnect.com/cas/FederatedSSO?action=getconfig&org=mycompany.com - navigationType = 5
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:07.784 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - *****Chat Url: //loginp.webexconnect.com/cas/FederatedSSO?action=getconfig&org=mycompany.com
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:08.505 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - webViewDidFinishLoad
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:08.505 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - didFinishLoad
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:08.554 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - content 2 :
Connect Client Single Sign On
-- 2014-01-17 12:09:08.554 DEBUG [3b8dd18c] - parseSSOResponse str=
Connect Client Single Sign On
Ok, what is happening is that Jabber 9.6 is apparently now hard-coded to contact loginp.webex.com to check for webex licenses, which we have, so it never tries our IMP servers once it sees we have cloud webex enabled for our domain. The flowchart in the docs show this behavior.
Apparently there is some webex/UC integration that needs to be done before the 'simple' method will work in 9.6 for those who have webex licenses.
What worked in our case for 9.6 for Windows was a combination of things. First one was to make sure we had the required internal DNS SRV records - _cuplogin and _cisco-uds. Second one was to use the SERVICES_DOMAIN=domain.com switch when installing the client with msiexe.exe (whether manually at a workstation cli or through an SMS flavored package.)
We did have to further tweak the SERVICES_DOMAIN switch just a little in our environment, to SERVICES_DOMAIN=internal DNS server ipv4 address.
We've had to go that way since our internal/external domains match up. Which seemed to be just enough to still let Jabber 9.6 reach our WebEx Connect site. Switching to IP address for SERVICES_DOMAIN seems to "trap" the lookup internally, at which point the Jabber client behaves as expected for auto-configuraiton.
You can get a good visual of whether it's going to work at the Jabber login screen. If it's hitting WebEx, youl'll see that reflected at the login screen. If it's hitting your internal records, you'll see a callout for Jabber voice services.
The problem for us was that Webex messenger was enabled in the Cisco cloud, and it shouldn't have been. Our rep got involved and had that deprovisioned in the Cisco cloud and now the simple login method works. If webex messenger is provisioned Jabber clients 9.6 and above will ignore on-premise presence servers with the auto method. Jabber 9.6 is hard-coded to check Cisco's CAS and ask for webex credentials if the check is successful. We do have webex meetingplace licenses but that is a separate thing from webex messenger.


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The 84th annual 4-H Achievement Banquet was recently held at Salem United Methodist Church in Newton to honor Harvey County 4-H members, volunteers and supporters. More than 75 4-H members, their families, and special guests attended the annual awards banquet sponsored by the Harvey County 4-H Council.
Harvey County 4-H members receiving 4-H Achievement Pins, County Champion awards, Kansas Award Portfolios, Club Seals, scholarships and special awards were recognized. Results are below, organized by 4-H Club. Continue reading "4-H Achievement Night"


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Amazon Grew Twice as Fast as the Overall E-Commerce Market in Q4
Amazon's growth of 35 percent in the fourth quarter ended up clocking in at more than twice the overall market's growth, according to comScore, which released new data yesterday.
In the fourth quarter, comScore said, U.S. retail spending was up 14 percent — to nearly $50 billion — compared to a year ago.
Of course, Amazon's results include international sales, as well as purchases made from mobile phones, which comScore does not track, so the comparison isn't exactly fair.
Still, despite Amazon's exuberant performance compared to the market as a whole, it fell short of Wall Street estimates, which had expected sales to rise by more than 40 percent from the fourth quarter in 2010.
Last week, the earnings news led to Amazon's stock tumbling in after-hours trading by nearly 10 percent, to $175.50. Since then, the stock has partially recovered, and is currently trading at $184.74 a share.
More findings from comScore's fourth-quarter and year-end reports:
- The fourth quarter represented the ninth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth, and fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth rates.
- For the entire year 2011, U.S. retail e-commerce spending reached a record $161.5 billion, marking a 13 percent increase from 2010.
- The categories that grew by at least 18 percent year over year: Digital content and subscriptions, jewelry and watches, consumer electronics, toys and hobbies, and computer software.
- 10 days in Q4 surpassed $1 billion in online spending.
- 52 percent of e-commerce transactions included free shipping, representing an all-time high.


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Name: Maurice
Grey County, Ontario (Zone 4b)
Mar 28, 2013 5:52 AM CST
|If you have a cat and you have seen your cat eat any part of a daylily may I please ask you to answer a few questions at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/...
It is important that as many people as is possible provide information. No personal questions are asked. I will post the results here when the information has been analyzed.
Thank you,
Edited to add the results....
The Results
There were 12 responses. That is good, but I will be posting similar survey requests at other daylily sites because I will need more responses to be convincing.
All identified plant B as the one their cat ate. Eleven identified that plant as a daylily and one identified it as not a daylily.
The cats ate seedling leaves (9), mature leaves (8), flower buds (1), flower parts (3) and even the fibrous roots (1).
Two of the cats vomited but the other 10 were completely unaffected.
None of the cats needed treatment.
What the ASPCA did and found:
The ASPCA veterinarians published an article with the title "A Retrospective Study of Daylily Toxicosis in Cats" . It was based on 22 reports in their database of cats suspected or known to have eaten daylilies. Of those 22 cats seventeen cats vomited (had upset digestive symptoms). Eight of the cats showed more serious problems. Of those showing more serious problems seven developed kidney (renal) failure. Of those seven it was known that five died even though treated.
The problem:
The ASPCA report is basically the opposite of what daylily enthusiasts have observed happen to their cats when they have eaten daylilies.
Lilium, true lilies such as the Easter lily are known to be poisonous to cats and cause kidney failure.
Some people call Lilium, lilies and some call them day lily (or daylily).
Some people call Hemerocallis (true daylilies) daylilies and some call them lilies.
Some garden plant outlets sell daylilies as 'bulbs'.
It is unknown how the ASPCA identified that the cats which they classified as having eaten daylilies actually had eaten Hemerocallis. If they simply asked the cat owner there may well have been misidentifications in which some cats which ate Lilium were identified as having eaten daylilies. Those could have been the cats that developed severe symptoms and died.
The other side of the problem:
Hemerocallis (daylilies) are known to contain a poison. The poison has been identified and it has been found in the roots. Hemerocallis roots have poisoned and killed some people in Asia.
Many (most) chemicals are poisons. It is the amount eaten (the dose) that is used to decide how poisonous a substance is. Different individual plants can contain different amounts of their chemicals, including having none at certain times or when grown in certain locations or under certain conditions. The result is that daylily roots have been used medicinally in Asia for a long time with very few cases of human poisonings.
It is easy to understand why the ASPCA takes the cautious approach and labels Hemerocallis as poisonous to cats. Cats actually correctly identified as having eaten Hemerocallis may be aggressively treated by vets even if they show no symptoms. Their concern is that if not treated then, the cat may later show symptoms and by that time it is too late.
Modern taxonomy does not place Hemerocallis in the same plant family as Lilium (the family Liliaceae) it does not even place them in the same plant order (the order Liliales), but that is very recent and such changes can take a very long time before they are generally accepted as correct.
I will post requests for daylily growers to complete a survey at three other locations. Hopefully I will be able to collect at least 40 completed surveys in total, which would be about double the number analyzed by the ASPCA. That may help convince them to try some properly controlled feeding tests of their own (as long as all the surveys do indicate that eating daylilies never poisons cats).
A final request, if you completed the survey and you have seen more than one cat eat daylilies, could you please post in this thread how many cats you have seen eating daylilies. Thank you.
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| Quote | Post #380861 (1)
Mar 28, 2013 5:59 AM CST
|Maurice - I sure wish we could get the daylily off the list of problem plants for cats. My own vet knows better, yet just sent out a link to clients that listed daylilies on the poisonous list.
I filled out your survey.
Thanks for doing this!
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| Quote | Post #380864 (2)
Mar 28, 2013 9:24 AM CST
|I always heard it's only the Asiatic lilies that are poisonous to cats, as they can cause kidney damage and possible failure. I have six cats and I've never seen any of them chewing on any daylilies. But they do love the grass family!
Mar 28, 2013 10:37 AM CST
|Maurice, just completed the survey and hope it helps establish clearly either that daylilies are--- or are not--- toxic to cats.
Mar 28, 2013 10:42 AM CST
|Just like Betty we've never seen our cats eating dls, or the neighbors cats that come through our yard. To be fair though I didn't realize there was a possibility of dls hurting cats until last year, so probably haven't been really watching for it. Look forward to reading your results.
Mar 28, 2013 12:13 PM CST
|The ASPCA keeps a database on plants toxic to pets/animals, and does indicate that Hemerocallis is toxic to cats (liver failure, which can be fatal) and cows, and not toxic to dogs. But, the same entry claims the Family for hemerocallis is the lily family "Liliaceae" which is not correct. Betty must be right that it is just Asiatic lilies that are toxic to cats. Unfortunately, it looks like the Animal Poison Control Center/ASPCA has it confused and mixed together - since lilies and daylilies are not from the same family at all, as it would appear from their "Day-Lilies" entry.
Perhaps this is one source of confusion that vets and owners find who reference that site, or others who disseminate their information to base alerts upon? Once the survey results are known, it might be a good place to contact and update.
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Daylilies that thrive? click here!
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| Quote | Post #380981 (6)
Mar 28, 2013 2:06 PM CST
|I did the survey. We have had more cats than I care to know for many years inside and out. I have never noticed an outside cat eating any part of the daylilies, only grass. We have a cat inside who munches on the daylily foliage when new ones are soaking in the kitchen sink. She has not been sick nor has she thrown up from eating the foliage. Of course, she has a condition known as P.I.C.A and eats clothes, towels, socks, shoe strings, etc. That may kill her one day but it won't be from eating daylily foliage.
"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"~~~David Bishop
Mar 28, 2013 6:48 PM CST
|Took the survey. I have many many kitties. The only danger from eating daylilies is the danger from their daylily obsessed owner!
It's my cats world, I'm just here to open the cans.
Mar 29, 2013 4:02 PM CST
|Took the survey too. I think what Tina said is probably what happens. I've read hysterical owners with this same question on other daylily forums. They believed that daylilies were deadly because their vet told them they were. The list needs to change and Vets need to be notified. I have one cat that I've seen eating daylily foliage. That was maybe 4 or 5 years ago. She's still with me......Maryl
Mar 29, 2013 9:18 PM CST
|Even though I usually keep the door closed when I have seedlings in a small bedroom, occasionally the cats do manage to get in there and chew some. No problems, have never seen anything. It also saves me from having to trim them.....
So I too took the survey. Hope this helps for better identification of poisonous plants in the future, and that it quits giving daylilies a bad rep ~Jan
Mar 31, 2013 9:18 PM CST
If you are a member of the daylily robin (AHS), search the archives as it has been discussed several times.
Apr 3, 2013 9:43 AM CST
|Maurice updated the first post in this thread, and asked me to change the title to reflect the results of his survey.
I have had many cats eat foliage. I gave up on trying to start seeds indoors as my house cats always find a way to get to them and chow down all the tiny seedling foliage to nubs and have never been sick from it. My outdoor cats eat the seedling foliage too - but they also eat grass and chew on other young greenery of other plants. In the summer, they hang out under the daylily foliage, and are often seen chewing on the over hanging foliage tips. I've seen several of my indoor cats that managed to get up on my tables and get to various flowers I have brought inside and chew on the petals - daylilies included. I've never had any become ill to the point of being concerned about them, having them vomit or taking them to the vet. However, the outdoor garden cats might become sick and vomit and I don't know about it - but I don't think it is a problem for them.
Apr 3, 2013 10:22 AM CST
|The fact that daylily roots are poisonous to humans is surprising to me. Don't the Chinese eat daylilies as part of their diet??? I know I have tried the tubers and boiled them like potatoes just out of curiosity and I didn't get sick.
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Name: Maurice
Grey County, Ontario (Zone 4b)
Apr 3, 2013 11:15 AM CST
Hemlady said:The fact that daylily roots are poisonous to humans is surprising to me. Don't the Chinese eat daylilies as part of their diet??? I know I have tried the tubers and boiled them like potatoes just out of curiosity and I didn't get sick.
The Chinese have used the roots for herbal medicines. At least some Chinese researchers are investigating how to make daylilies safer or looking for medicinal replacements that are safe. They do use flowers and/or dried buds as food items.
Poisons are very complicated.
If I asked people to choose whether to drink a cup of caffeine or a cup of trichloroethylene (an industrial solvent) most people would say the cup of caffeine. Unfortunately, caffeine is more poisonous than trichloroethylene. It takes 2.4 g/kg body weight of trichloroethylene to kill 50% of the mice it is fed to but only 0.1 g/kg of caffeine to kill the same proportion of mice.
Some of us drink many cups of coffee, or tea or colas each day. Of course a cup of coffee is not the same as a cup of caffeine. A cup of coffee might have 0.1 g of caffeine. And a person might weigh 70 kg. A person would have to drink 70 cups of coffee in one go to get the dose of caffeine that would kill 50% of the mice. (People might have a different dose that kills 50%, for example the dose that kills 50% of lab rats is 0.2 g/kg body weight).
Second, there is more than one daylily species. The poison has been found in some of the daylily species but it may not be in all of them. Unfortunately, our daylilies were originally created using hybrids of quite a few daylily species. So some daylily cultivars might have the poison and some might not.
The poison might not be in the roots until certain times of the year or it might not be in the roots unless the daylilies have been stressed by heat and no one knows whether the poison is present only some of the time and what might cause it to be present or absent. It is not known what might cause differences in the amount of the chemical in the roots. How many roots would have to be eaten to become ill is also unknown.
Boiling plant parts removes some chemicals - at least some of them dissolve into the water. There are wild plants that can be collected and eaten. The instructions often say to cook the plants in several changes of water to remove/reduce chemicals that might make one sick. Whether the poison in daylily roots is removed by boiling the roots or whether the poison is destroyed by heat is unknown.
I'm very glad that you suffered no ill effects from eating the boiled tubers. I have eaten the flowers once. But I have never done so again after I learned that more than one research group had found poison in the roots and that some people had died. I would never eat any of the tuberous roots.
The poison was first named hemerocallin but is now called stypandrol.
Apr 3, 2013 11:25 AM CST
I have 17 cats today and have had many many over the years. I can say that I can recall 5 of them specifically eating my daylily leaves. None of those 5 had any issues. Hope this helps.
It's my cats world, I'm just here to open the cans.
Apr 3, 2013 1:28 PM CST
|Is the full text for the retrospective study available anywhere online for free?
Apr 3, 2013 1:28 PM CST
|Thanks for that info Admmad. Gosh, and I thought if we ever had a food shortage in this country that I would still have my daylilies to eat Guess not.
Lighthouse Gardens
Name: Maurice
Grey County, Ontario (Zone 4b)
Apr 3, 2013 1:54 PM CST
Anne said:Is the full text for the retrospective study available anywhere online for free?
Not that I know of. You may be able to request a copy through InterLibrary Loans through your local public library. I do not know what the cost of a photocopy would be.
The full information for requesting a photocopy is:
Title: A Retrospective Study of Daylily Toxicosis in Cats
Authors: RM Hadley, JA Richardson, and SM Gwaltney-Brant
Journal: Vet. Human Toxicol. Volume 45 Issue 1 pages 38-39, 2003
Apr 4, 2013 5:45 AM CST
|This has been a GREAT thread, such great information.
The problem with vomiting after a cat eats daylily leaves is that many cats will vomit after eating something like that. I know my cats will vomit after eating grass - and the grass isn't poisonous - I always believed that they ate grass because they had an upset stomach, and did so to make themself vomit (or is that an old wive's tale?)
I know at least one of my cats ate my seedlings, I don't remember if he vomited. (he has since passed away several years later of bladder cancer) That was the cat I was referring to when I completed the survey. ~Jan
Apr 4, 2013 6:25 AM CST
|I believe cats eat grass when they are trying to get rid of a hair ball in their stomach. They know that grass will make them vomit. My cat if he can't have grass will deliberately swallow his dry food whole and that makes him vomit too.
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