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Today, Bank of the West and Fruition Sciences have announced three finalists for the 2014 Vintage Report Innovation Award Presented by Bank of the West. The award recognizes the most groundbreaking method, practice or sustainable approach used during the 2014 vintage.
This year's finalists are Monica Cooper, UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor; E. & J. Gallo, and Ridge Vineyards. Monica Cooper examined the effectiveness of regional grower groups and remote mapping strategies to monitor and manage grapevine leafroll-associated viruses. E. & J. Gallo experimented with a variable rate irrigation system prototype to assess vineyard variability and water use efficiency. Ridge Vineyard used sequential petiole sampling and berry analysis to evaluate two rootstocks from the same ranch to determine which consistently generates a higher quality wine. The winner will be announced at the 2014 Vintage Report Conference on January 20, 2015 in Napa.
"In the Premium Wine Group, we are fortunate to work with many of the organizations and individuals at the forefront of the wine industry. We are excited to partner with Fruition Sciences to help raise the profile of industry innovators and spread the word about the creative experiments that will shape the future of wine-making," said Managing Director Adam Beak, head of the Premium Wine Group.
Each year, Fruition Sciences organizes the Vintage Report Conference, an exclusive event that brings together winemakers, viticulturists and scientists to discuss the latest innovations and advances in viticulture and enology. In doing so, the Vintage Report provides a venue for bringing new ideas to the forefront and improving the industry as a whole. Now in its second year, the Vintage Report Innovation Award Presented by Bank of the West focuses on approaches and techniques used during the 2014 vintage (though they may have started earlier) that are either being used in or are exportable to Napa terroirs.
Founded in 2007, Fruition Sciences is an information technology company providing winemakers and grape growers with a decision tool to optimize their vineyard management. With a focus on monitoring plant physiology, Fruition Sciences has developed a very unique approach to optimize vineyard monitoring.
Bank of the West is a regional financial services company chartered in California and headquartered in San Francisco with $69 billion in assets. Founded in 1874, Bank of the West provides a wide range of personal, commercial, wealth management and international banking services through more than 650 offices in 22 states and digital channels. Bank of the West is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, which has a presence in more than 75 countries with 180,000 employees.


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General purpose classrooms are equipped with a control system panel that eliminates most individual remote controls and power switches. A.V. equipment is located in the equipment cabinet or podium at the front of the room. The control panel is usually located on top of the cabinet or podium.
The DVD player is located in the equipment cabinet/podium.
Press the "POWER" button. The unit will turn on and the power indicator will illuminate.
Press the "OPEN/CLOSE" button on the player.
Hold your disc by its edges and gently place it into the tray with the playback side down. Their are two different disc sizes. Place the disc in the correct guide, If the disc is out of the guide, it may damage the disc and cause the DVD player to malfunction.
Press "OPEN/CLOSE" button to close the disc tray.
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Discussion in 'iPad Apps' started by iPadIssues, Dec 29, 2010.
I'm looking for an app that can import files from microsoft office but also export files so that they can be opened in microsoft office. I'm pretty much looking for this to be done with powerpoint and word files. Does anybody know if something like this exists?

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text: Nancy Vincic is a 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Stoney Creek, Ontario Canada. Her passion and love for music began at an early age always singing and performing in front of family and friends. Her love for rock and roll music was highly influenced by listening to her parent’s records of Queen, Bon Jovi, and many Canadian artists like Bryan Adams and Amanda Marshall. She began to perform at open mic nights, and began to compete in singing competitions across the city. At age 14 she learned piano and picked up the guitar at 16, and decided to write and perform her own music. It wasn’t until she attended high school that she knew she would pursue a career in music. She was a lead vocalist of her high school pop/rock choir the BR Xpression singing songs by Led Zepplin, AC/DC, and Pink. It was there she gained experience in performing in front of a number of audiences and various venues across the city and also across North America. Within her four years of high school, the Xpression traveled to Chicago, New York City, Myrtle Beach and Nashville to compete in the Heritage Music Festivals. In 2014, she was the recipient of the Maestro Award in Nashville Tennessee for her Vocal Performance. Following high school, she performed at various venues such as Stonewalls Hamilton, The Casbah, and in 2014, she sang the National Anthem at the Toronto Argonauts game. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Emerging Artist award at the City of Hamilton Arts Awards, as well as a performer at the Pan Am Games Promenade Event at Gore Park in Hamilton. She was also accepted into the world renowned music school Berklee College of Music. In 2016, she moved to Toronto to pursue her musical studies at one of Canada’s most prestigious music schools Humber College. She is working to complete her Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice. Within her first year, she worked alongside many talented faculty members which included Rik Emmett, the singer/guitarist of the successful Canadian Band Triumph, learning performance skills and the craft of songwriting. In 2017, she performed backup with the BR Xpression and alumni for pop sensation LORDE at the 2017 MMVAs. She is currently performing across Hamilton and the Greater Toronto Area, and is working to release her first single in the summer of 2018.

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Still 72 hours to go before the carnage ends.
Too busy pointing out who next should die.
Neighbors alone shone benevolent lamps.
Even God's Eyes had run dry of water.
Yet the Lion stands as a new dawn breaks!!

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US license plates starting JBJI.
In the United States recorded a lot of cars and people often need help in finding the license plate. These site is made to help such people. On this page, six-digit license plates starting with JBJI. You have chosen the first four characters JBJI, now you have to choose 1 more characters.

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October is the time to break out your games with ghosts, monsters, and zombies. In Dead of Winter, each player controls a faction of survivors living together in the colony trying to survive the winter in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
Gameplay is a mix between cooperative and competitive play. At the beginning of the game, players choose one main objective out of a series of possibilities. Everyone works together to complete this objective (well, maybe not everyone). Each player also draws a secret objective that they must individually complete. Most of the secret objectives will add a series of other victory conditions to the main objective. However, someone might have a Betrayal objective, which requires the colony to fail the main objective.
Most of the action revolves around two things: searching and attacking. Survivors search six different locations for items that might help them endure the winter – fuel, food, medicine, weapons, and more. Survivors can also attack zombies and other survivors. Every time survivors leave a location to travel to a new one or attack a zombie outside, they must roll the exposure die. On the exposure die is the possibility of nothing happening, an injury, frostbite, or even death.
The game ends when colony morale reaches zero, the main objective is completed, or the round marker gets down to zero.
Between main objectives, secret objectives, different survivors, and crisis cards, there are enough combinations to make the replay value fantastic. This game can unfold many different ways and it will keep you coming back.
I like cooperative objectives. It is fun to team up with your friends against the game. This game adds a nice balance by having a shared main objective and secret individual objectives. It can be as cooperative or competitive as you want to make it.
This game is full of choices and your choices matter. Do you rescue someone or let them die? Do you take the safe route or do you risk frostbite for a better reward? You will make some kind of choice every turn and these opportunities can create some interesting interactions around the table. If you make an unpopular choice, don’t expect the other players to let you forget it!
This game takes a lot of set-up. There are thirteen different decks of cards. There are lots of different pieces to set up, whether they are survivors or zombies. There are many parts to this game, so you cannot pull it out for a quick run.
Many of the main objectives are too easy. Each one is double sided, with the back side having a harder difficulty. Even still, it is often hard to fail unless someone is a traitor or things go really It’s a fun ride, but not always a challenging one.
The rulebook has missing information. Most of it is some corner cases but, with a game this complex, you’re bound to run in to something. On more than one occasion, we have wanted to settle a rules issue and were unable to find the answer in the rulebook. If you have a casual group, this won’t matter much. If you have someone who likes to argue about rules, this could be a headache.
Dead of Winter has been a go-to game in my playgroup for a few months. It is a big enough sandbox to let us interact and have some creative and interesting experiences. If you are even remotely into the zombie genre and you like cooperative games, Dead of Winter is a great choice to add to your collection.
Looking to get your hands on a copy? Buy one here at TEG!
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Q. How can I find information on larger consulting firms in the Boston area?
Select your screening criteria for consulting companies in Plunkett Research Online within the Consulting industry section.
Enter your own screening criteria using Company Dossier to generate a company list.
If you need a CONSULTING DIRECTORY, you can gain electronic access through the Gale Directory Libary. Screening criteria includes geography and size.
Boston Business Journal + More Click on View Book of Lists (left-hand column). Use the Table of Contents to find the page that lists the 25 largest IT Consulting Firms in the greater Boston area.


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1. Tell us a bit about your family. Mum, Dad and dog Winston live in Hereford, a small town near Wales. Brother James lives in London and I pop over to see him when I need a good roast dinner.
2. How do you work through self-doubts and fear? It’s a torturous process and one I’ve not found a solution to, other than working on something else/crying.
3. What scares you the most? I have recurring nightmares about ships and being back in an exam situation.
4. What makes you happiest? Writing with my dog at my feet.
5. What’s your greatest character strength? Work ethic.
6. What’s your weakest character trait? Obsessive about planning.
7. Why do you write? Sounds vomit inducing but it’s just become my main passion.


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OgilvyOne Business' New Business & Marketing Manager, Anna Stone, speaks to Campaign about her pursuits outside of the office.
Our industry’s full of people shouting about their great work. Awards won, media firsts, landing pitches – you know the stuff. But what really makes them tick? Outside work, how do they spend their time – what will they be remembered for?
"On Monday nights I’m in an equally hectic but totally different environment to work – running a Brownie pack.
GirlGuiding lets me try amazing new things, have heaps of fun, learn and develop all sorts of skills. Keeping the attention of 27 fidgety children keeps your presentation skills sharp, and taking them to train with the Team GB Sitting Volleyball team makes you look at motivation in a whole new way.
Leading a team of volunteers is different to leading a team of employees – the volunteers bring different knowledge, experience, likes and dislikes and you have to respect they’ve all given up their time to be there.
It’s lovely to see the girls grow and develop skills through three years in the pack.
The best bits are the silliest – making a mess with slime, painting with our feet and doing the conga in our local supermarket.
15 years, two continents and over 150 children later, I can’t imagine spending my spare time doing anything else."
This was first published in Campaign.

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With Roadside Assistance, you’ll never be alone behind the wheel. Contact LJ Adams Insurance today to find out how you can get signed up.
*Roadside Assistance coverages and availability vary from state to state. Please contact a representative at LJ Adams Insurance for full details.

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A speakeasy in the heart of 17th avenue.
Located in the same block as Model Milk, this 50 seat speakeasy, can be accessed through it's own door—marked with the #300 address—on 17th avenue. The parlour offers a seated cocktail experience for smaller, intimate groups of imbibing guests. Model Citizen features a monthly rotating cocktail menu and weekly features with bar snacks from the Model Milk kitchen. No Reservations required, but due to the intimate style of Model Citizen, groups larger than 6 can inquire with our events team about bookings.

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text: There is a new apartment development currently being marketed in Fortitude Valley. It is called The Dunmore. Management rights have been sold to Mantra, and the property will be managed under the Peppers brand as a small hotel. For investors, the rental returns will be on a pooled basis based on lot entitlements, similar to many Mirvac properties.


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We understand the importance of adequate services and the need for a properly qualified service team to perform their tasks as expected along with the continuous changing of technologies. Therefore, our service team receives professional training through dedicated training programs provided by our manufacturing partners and by Diamond Spectrum internal programs.
It is one of our responsibilities to serve a complete successful installation and commissioning of the equipment we supply; That also includes staff training on the operation of the instrument and other optional services.
We offer training on the application and the preventive maintenance of all the equipment we supply.
Maintenance and repair are performed by a well trained team of engineers and technicians. With the aid from manufacturing companies manuals, most repairs can be done at customers’ sites or at Diamond Spectrum’s workshop if needed which is fully equipped with specialized tools and instruments for different tasks.
is a critical step to which we are dedicated to perform for pharmaceutical industries including all the instruments and equipment we supply. we also perform qualification in other sectors as well.

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Starbucks Just Released Another New Holiday Beverage!
Starbucks just released ANOTHER holiday drink!
However, only Starbucks Reserve Bars will be carrying this festive holiday drinks.
So if you are lucky enough to live close by get the new Wintry Juniper Latte!!
Starbucks unveiled the new flavor this week.
It's espresso base is accompanied by steamed milk infused with a syrup and it's not like any other syrup, it's made with dried juniper berries sage and mandarin .
The LA address is at 4th and La Brea At Hillhurst & Avacado.


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We have a unique breadth and quality of products. To support these products(manufacture of stone powder of mechanical philippines crusher), we have created twin marketing hubs, in Singapore and The Hague. These hubs ensure innovative customer solutions and superior customer service.
China Stone Crusher manufacturer, Ball Mill, Sand Making Machine supplier - Henan Sunstrike Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.
China Ball Mill manufacturer, Crushers, Mineral Processing Mechanical supplier - Zhengzhou Shanchuan Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.
Alibaba.com offers 2,836 stone pulverizer products. About 44% of these are crusher, 29% are mine mill, and 14% are grinding equipment. A wide variety of stone pulverizer options are available to you, such as jaw crusher, raymond mill, and impact crusher.

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Office space has recently been renovated and is ready for occupancy. Located in the heart of downtown the space is convenient to the Post Office and local convenience store. There is plenty of off street parking with rear entrance available.
This ranch offers 3 Bedrooms, 2 full baths. Enjoy the back deck for grilling & chilling on those summer days. Call today!
Maticulously mantained 3 Bedroom home with a bonus family room on the first floor, and finished attic. 1st floor open floor plan with updated kitchen and Stainless steel appliance. Laundry room conveniently located off the kitchen.


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Students are encouraged to work together to create an inclusive learning community at the University of South Carolina.
Check back in the Fall!!
The Multicultural Assistance Peer Program (MAPP) is a program designed to assist first year multicultural students in their transition to the University of South Carolina. The program works to establish positive networks for the student’s matriculation; academically, socially and culturally.
The OMSA Peer Educators are a cohort of students committed to educating, serving, and advocating for their fellow students and the University community in matters of inclusivity and advocacy through providing opportunities for learning, facilitating self-discovery, and empowering students in the creation of an inclusive Carolina community. OPE’s assist OMSA with facilitating presentations and discussion groups, and also with other volunteer opportunities that arise throughout the school-year.
New students are paired with a peer mentor to help with their transition to campus.
Information and services for students who don't identify with normative notions of gender or sexual orientation.
This program supports students who identify as men of color with workshops, mentor relationships and self-reflection.
A certificate program for students who want to become more involved in their community.
Trained student facilitators who lead social justice discussions and activities.
We have a variety of student-led groups who are moving equality efforts forward.
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text: Neurons are the building blocks of the nervous system which incorporates the brain and spinal cord. Neurons ordinarily don't replicate or supplant themselves, so when they wind up plainly harmed they can't be supplanted by the body. Cases of neurodegenerative infections incorporate Parkinsons, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington's disease. Neurodegenerative diseases are incurable and incapacitating conditions that outcome in dynamic degeneration and/or passing of nerve cells. This causes issues with development (called ataxias), or mental working (called dementias).

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Ke'Lee P. is a licensed Musikgarten Instructor out of Orlando, FL. She studied at Wright State University where she majored in Vocal Performance. Ke'Lee is certified in Early Childhood Music and Movement and has taught Early Childhood music classes, Vocal Lessons, and Acting at various daycare centers, performing arts schools, and private homes in the Orlando area since 2006.
Ke'Lee performs everything from Opera to Gospel music. She has been a featured artist with Encore Theater Company and performed with Dayton Opera, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and many more.
Her joy is watching her students’ progress and thrive. She has had students appear on X Factor, The Voice and America's Got Talent. She has been the Director of Education for several performing arts schools and is currently teaching classes and lessons throughout Central Florida.


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On September 22-23, 2008 PDE’s Collaborative Coaching Board (CCB) led the first Governor’s Institute on Instructional Coaching. As part of the CCB’s mission to ensure the consistency of coaching practices across state sponsored coaching initiatives, the CCB wanted to share new information and resources with Pennsylvania’s instructional coaches.
The Institute featured keynote presentations by Cathleen Kral, the Director of Literacy in Boston Public Schools on “Responsive Instructional Coaching”; Dr. Rita Bean, Professor of Reading at the University of Pittsburgh on “The Role of Coaches”; Mary Catherine Moran, Senior Project Associate of the Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center on “Applying the Core Concepts of Coaching”; and Ann Delehant, Senior Consultant and Former Trustee of the National Staff Development Council on “Coaching Conversations: Changing School Culture.” Participants also had the opportunity to learn from Pennsylvania practitioners during a session on the role of reflection. Classrooms for the Future (CFF) Mentor, Virginia Glatzer, and CFF Coach, Heather Ryder shared how CFF coaching logs foster reflection, and Michele Rodgers, PA High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI) Mentor, and PAHSCI Coaches Michele Merkel and Michelle Wenger shared their implementation of the Before-During-After coaching model and a plethora of tools designed to support one-on-one instructional coaching and mentoring.
The Institute also provided participants with a chance to learn in a smaller group setting during breakout sessions. Keynote presenters Cathleen Kral, Mary Catherine Moran, and Ann Delehant led breakout sessions following their keynote sessions. CCB members provided additional breakout sessions with Regina Palubinsky of PaTTAN discussing formative assessment, Cathy Bailey of Partnering for Academic Excellence showing designs for effective professional development, and Elizabeth Powers of MACC sharing a data dialogue protocol. Beverly Barksdale from the School District of Philadelphia and Michele Rodgers, PAHSCI Mentor, also provided a breakout session on classroom management techniques.
CFF Mentor, Dr. Joanne Romano led the closing session of the Institute, a panel discussion featuring teams from PAHSCI and CFF schools. The PAHSCI team from Harrisburg’s SciTech High School included Principal Mike Reed, Coach Deb Hines, and Teacher Delia Gongloff. The CFF team from Eastern Lebanon County High School included Principal Randall Grove, Coach Dottie Noll, and Coach Amy Weddle. The chance to hear how coaching makes a difference at the school level to improve student achievement was an excellent way to wrap up this first Governor’s Institute on Instructional Coaching.
Governor’s Institute participants commented that this Institute featured very knowledgeable presenters and session facilitators, and provided networking opportunities, and great resources – including books! Participants received copies of coaching books by Dr. Rita Bean, Mary Catherine Moran, and Dr. Jim Knight. Participants suggested that the next Institute include more differentiation in the sessions offered in order to address the needs of new and experienced coaches, different content areas, and the differences between high school and elementary coaching. Participants definitely valued this Governor’s Institute and requested that PDE offer an Instructional Coaching Institute next year.
In addition to recognizing the presenters for the valuable information and insights they provided, the CCB would also like to thank the Governor’s Institute planning committee for their tremendous work in creating this first Governor’s Institute on Instructional Coaching. A big thank you to Planning Committee members Cathy Bailey, Rita Bean, Ellen Eisenberg, Virginia Glatzer, Holly Jobe, John Nau, Elizabeth Powers, Regina Palubinsky, Joanne Romano, Anita Siegfried and most especially Teresa Shakespeare!
Collaborative Coaching Board members are pleased that this event was so well received and glad to have been able to provide this Institute in order to support the effective use of instructional coaching across schools in Pennsylvania. But the Governor’s Institute for Instructional Coaching did not end on September 23. The CCB is providing additional professional development for instructional coaches by hosting three Governor’s Institute “Book Talks” featuring the authors of the resource books provided at the Institute. In winter and spring 2009 authors Dr. Rita Bean, Mary Catherine Moran, and Dr. Jim Knight will lead online discussions of their books on instructional coaching. Stay tuned for details on these follow-up events of the Governor’s Institute on Instructional Coaching!


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How do I stop a boy at a playgroup from biting my son?
You've raised your child to not bite other kids, but that doesn't mean other kids won't do the same. What do you do if another child is biting your son?
If your child is old enough to speak then it may be a perfect time to teach your child how to deal with bullies. My neighbour's son is aggressive with pushing, pinching and yelling, etc (he had ASD). I was torn about keeping her completely away from him to protect her until I started thinking of what coping skill was I teaching her. I told her that his behavior was unacceptable and that she should use her words to tell him to "stop", "don't do that" or "I don't want to play with you anymore if you push". I never let her play near him unless I'm there to supervise but am very proud of how she has chosen to deal with him. On days where is is aggressive, she tells me she doesn't want to play with him because he's in a bad mood and on his good days they play sports together. My favorite was when he wanted to play tag and tagged her a bit more firmly than she would have liked and she yelled at him "No, no, no hitting J, go to your room!!". Some moms may disagree with my way of handling the situation but I gave this a great deal of thought and firmly believe that it is my responsibility to teach my daughter how to deal with adversity with courage while reaffirming to her that mommy ALWAYS has her back if she needs me to step in which by the way I have.
I have to agree, my son was bitten (on the face) a couple of times at school and we had the discussion that if another child got into his space which is the area he can hold his arms out then he can put his arms out and say no get away or you are in my space. He is only 3 but it has seem to work and he hasn't been bitten again.
Being on the other side of the situation, im a little sensitive on this subject. My oldest son was a biter. he started at about 15 mo. My husband and I had talked to our sons dr about it because it was out of aggression and anger. After watching his actions before his biting happened it was always a defense issue. Either someone had taken something from him or hurt him. He was only trying to protect himself. Granted it wasnt the best way to go about doing it, it was his way. I always watched him very closely around other children though so I could supervise the situation. If I knew he was going to bite I would stop him. I found if I was more supportive of him rather than frustrated or getting angry for his biting he was less likely to even get to the point of biting. He did grow out of the biting phase at about 2 1/2 when he was able to express his anger or fright through words.
With all that being said, I would talk to the mother first. If she isnt even aware of her child biting how can she correct it? If that doesnt work, then sit with the children while they play. Maybe there is an issue or miscommunication between the children that can be solved easier by an adult being present. I think it is important to teach your children that just because the other child has one small issue that you shouldnt drop all friendship with that person. I do however believe all children should stand up for them selves also.
know this sounds harsh, but bite the kid back. That's how I have taught all my kids not to bite. Once they realize it hurts, and isn't fun to be bitten, they usually stop the behavior.
does not necessarily work. My Mother did that to my son who was two at the time and he just laughed! He thought it was a game!
This worked with my daughter but with my son he thought it was a game, he just put his arm back out to me again!...like 'come on', with a smile on his face after he tried to bite me again!
I agree with talking to the other child's parent. (I had the same issue at my playgroup with a boy hitting my daughter in the face). If the parent fails to act, I see no problem in disciplining that child yourself. You shouldn't have to be forced to leave a playgroup where you have found/made friends due to lazy parenting.
There is a problem with disciplining another parent's child...the kid isn't yours and you could be looking at legal action. I agree that lazy parenting is annoying, but if the problem persists, they'll be the only parent left in the playgroup. If someone else attempted to parent my child owing to a disagreement with me - I'd be furious! I had a mom once, that didn't think I was feeding my daughter well-enough (she thought all babies should be fat), so she started giving my (then) one year old pizza bread & she's allergic to gluten!
I don't see how legal action would be involved in disciplining another's child. You addressed the situation to the other parent, and they ignored it. You are protecting your own child. I don't see how a timeout would escalate to a legal matter.
I agree - speak to the child's parent, legal action is a definate if you discipline a child that is not yours. Is there not a person that runs the playgroup? like a council member or a co-ordinator, someone you could also address the problem to? If there is no one in that position, then as mothers do, sit down with all mothers of the playgroup and discuss a course of action. Have you spoken to the child's parent, they might be horrified to learn their child is bitting (I know I would!) I don't believe that you need to change playgroups because of a bitting child. Another way of getting around this problem is to talk firm to the child (once a bitting situation has occured) You Cannot physically touch the other child, but get down to their level and firmly say "No bitting" - perhaps you could say it loud enough for the child's parent to hear and this might prompt them to do something. If you physically touch the child (even pushing their had away) it is a form assault, and would lead onto legal action, words are always best. Good luck!
I have to agree with Ashley since I do it myself. I don't hit the other child but I will be firm in my speech and advise that child that their behavior is not acceptable. Some kids listen, some don't. The ones that do we are fine since I'm not laying a hand on them and they get the picture. The ones that don't listen to me I walk them to the parent and I talk to the parents about what happened. Most of the time the parent is fine, some aren't, they don't like being told their child is bad, but I would rather have a parent correct my child appropriately than let my child hit someone. In the bigger picture it's all of our responsibility to protect all children and to be sure we're steering them in the right direction. If you spare the rod you ruin their future. Discipline is very important to me, but that's my personal view of it.
I agree that if you have tried talking to the other childs parent and he or she is still biteing, then inform the parent that their child needs a time out, if they get upset then tell them the next time it occurs you will have your child bite him or her back.
I am not afraid to get stern and tell someone else's kid that it is not okay to bite, hit, kick, or anything. Short of putting my hands on someone else's child, it will be handled.
tell the parent that their kid is biting your kid you teach your child that it is not ok to do that and do they tell theirs it is ok? as far as you are concerned your kids not a happy meal so they better either feed their kid something before group or be more diligent with what their child is doing.
I know you have taught your child not to bite , But it is time for your child to bite the kid back . Or exclude the child from play group explant to the parent this is unexcepatable behavior and the child will be allowed back when it dose not bite anymore . If you have a biter it has to be dealt with .
We dealt with this issue with my son. He was only around his sister so she is the one who he bit. We tried biting him back....but it didn't really help. Anytime she took something from him or pushed him he would bite her. I have gotten pretty good at interception. I watch my son closely to make sure he is controlling himself. When he doesn't, he gets to sit in his room or take a nap. He does not usually bite anymore. It just takes a lot of supervision. It works the other way too. My children have been hit and pushed also. If the parent was not watching and taking care of it then I have asked that child to stop. If that doesn't work, I tell my children to find a different child to play with.
It's an extremely unfortunate phase that so many toddlers go through! When I worked at a daycare center, I saw so much of this. The biter feels he has no other way to communicate his anger. Speak with the caregivers and ask that the boy be "shadowed". This is not always possible at every given moment, but it's effective most of the time. Chances are, your son is not the only"victim", and they have spoken to the parents already. Keep an eye on your own son because he may turn from victim to biter quickly, and you'll find yourself on the other side of the fence! Good luck.
talk to the other childs parent/s you'll probably find they are embaressed about it and are trying to deal with it sometimes theese thing do not change overnight.
the first time my daughter got bit she was 2, she pushed the biter down and told her that "that was not nice". My daughter was also taught that if someone hurts you "it is not ok", i did end up talking to the other mom (at her daycare), and was told at that time that the little girl had bitten multiple children recently (they were trying everything to stop her from biting) . If there was a biter in the daycare room with my girl should i be informed (or was to much of me to ask?) . In todays world words can only get you so far before the other guy is gonna freak out with the punches..... If my children get hurt, they have every right to defend themselves.
In EVERY group of kids there is a biter! Its a very NORMAL toddler behavior. That being said, its about being present, watching closely if something starts, then you have to be there to stop it. We had a child in our group who had the same problem and with all of us watching, and helping him it has stopped. Children bite when they dont have enough language to cope, or feel threatened! Its about helping them choose words and defusing a situation!!! hope that helps!
I used to be a shy little girl & everyone would pick on me & hit me. Until my mom got tired & told me that if i didn't start defending myself, I would get a spanking from her too. I was only 5 & I will never know if she really meant those words but it worked. She taught me that picking fights was not ok but there was nothing wrong with self defense. I teach my kids the same thing, & guess what, no one picks on my 6 & 4 yr old sons anymore because the other kids know they will get hit....with a closed fist.
We don't really do play groups in my area due to not being able to control how a lot of people (LOTS of drug abusers reproducing here) raise/control their kids. We had the biting issue (my son being the bitee twice) in daycare and one time the biter bit my son right on his cheek and broke the skin. But when your child is at risk of being hurt (like mine was) I would definitely consult with the other parent that it happened. When it happens in a place like preschool and daycare the teachers can't tell you who the other kid is, just that it happened and proper action will take place or already has taken place (at least where I live).
Talk to the other kids parents. If that parent is unresponsive and/or the biting doesn't stop - find a different playgroup.
How do you stop your kid from biting other kids?


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Nigerian medical doctor and graduate of the Igbinedion University, Edo, Olutobi Ajao has been rescued after swallowing 80 tablets of different medicines.
In a vague post on Facebook, he informed friends of what he had done, but the post alerted friends who rallied to get him help.
“Finally went through with it. Ingested about 80 tablets of different drugs. If and when I die, please do remember that it was oro that killed me,” he wrote in the post, a screen shot of which was uploaded by Instablog9ja.
His friends appealed to him to shelve the plan as whatever his problems could be solved however difficult they appear.
About six hours after his post, one of his friends indicated that he had been found and resuscitated.
Another of his friends later posted that the situation was under control but called for prayers.


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Hi my name is Dan and in this video we are going to look at adding fonts to your website. Now there are two kind of main ways you can add fonts. One is your boring old system fonts; things like Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana. And the other way is to use hosted fonts. And that would be a surface like Adobe’s web edge fonts or you could use Google fonts. So we will look at both of those. So lets first look at system fonts. So lets look at adjusting this h1. Now I want to change the font of this, I can go to my all, I'm going to go to my main.css, find my h1, find text and font family here, these are my system fonts; boring and there’s not much of a selection there. What we want to do is to look at hosted fonts.
So, hosted fonts, the easy way to get to the Adobe hosted fonts, which are called Edge Web Fonts. Lets go to manage fonts and this pops up. Now these are fonts that Adobe allow you to use for free on you website. And to use one, I an go through this big long list and all I need to do is tick one on. So I can click on this one here, say I decide to use Alfa Slab. And I can click done. Now nothing really happens, what I need to do now is click on h1 and on font family; you will see this one called Alfa Slab. Click it, give it a second and it should update. Now if it doesn’t update and it still stays the same font it means that you're probably not connected to the Internet. If you do connect to the Internet, it will update so don’t worry too much about it if its not updating locally, it will work when you put it on a website. So that’s edge fonts, you can go through and pick different fonts for different parts.
Now my advice is to make sure you keep the fonts down to a bare minimum so maybe two fonts for your website, three if you have to. Because what needs to happen is, I will show you in the background here, in code view, what’s happening is I'm going to go source code. So I'm in html, source code and I'm looking at code view so I am now looking at the html of the page. What you can see now in the head is Adobe has added this bit of script. And it just says that the following script downloads the font blah blah blah. And you can see here, there is the name of our Alfa Slab One. So Adobe are hosting it for us on something called Edge Fonts and it just means when our website is loaded, it goes and gets that font and loads it on our age. Now if we keep adding fonts, its going to keep increasing the load time. Now fonts are reasonably big in terms of file sizes. So we don’t want to have loads of fonts because our page would take a long time to load and Google doesn’t like that and we don’t do anything Google doesn’t like.
Great, so in terms of Edge Web Fonts, that’s all you need to do, you don’t even need to worry about this bit of code, just don’t delete it. And you can start working through the fonts. Now, Edge fonts are great, perfect, built in, there’s no reason you can’t use them, but I'm going to cover Google Fonts now. Why? Because Google Fonts is probably the industries standard, as a web designer, you should know all about Google fonts and it’s going to help us learn a little bit more about code and how that works. Okay so I'm going to undo this and its not just a matter of edit, undo, it kind of works. So I'm going to undo, its going to remove that font. What its done is its removed it from the html code but its still here being called as Alfa One and I don’t want it there anymore. So I'm going to bin it and it should go back to its lovely old Arial self. So to work with a Google Font, you need to go to it’s website. Right, so Google has got a website Google.com/fonts, and there is a huge amount of fonts here. We love them; we love Google because they are giving it to us for free. You're allowed to use them commercially for websites and there is a huge selection.
To use them is quite simple as well. What we are going to do is, can you see the preview text here? I'm going to type in “lets make this awesome” just to give it an idea of what its going to look like in all the different fonts. And you can scroll through; there are hundreds of them. What I've selected in my Photoshop mock up is I've used two fonts. I've used this one here called Roboto slab and this one down here just called Roboto. So they’re two separate fonts, they’re in the same family, they look a little different but they relate to each other nicely. So I've got Roboto and Roboto Slab, I'm going to use those two on my website. I can find them over here, so I can type in Roboto, and you can see there, the name is down here, Roboto, there’s Roboto Condensed, I don’t want Mono. I want this one here, Roboto Slab and Roboto. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add to the collection, great, and its added it to this little bottom piece here, I'm going to scroll down, find Roboto Slab and click add to collection.
All right, and now I'm going to go to the one that says use. Now in terms of Roboto, I've got lots of different weights. And we call them normal but in code we’re going to call them this number here; 400, that’s the regular size. I’d like to have 300, 500 and 700. Why? Because in my design, I've used those different sizes around the website, and I'm a bit of a nerdy graphic designer as well so I love fonts and I love messing around with them. The only trouble is, you’ve got to make sure, and can you see over here, it’s in the green? It means that; remember we talked about earlier if you have to many fonts it takes ages for the page to load? There’s a helpful little guy here to say that you’re still in the green, fine. And down here I've got normal but I'm going to pick this one.
Nearly out the green, and bold, I always end up about here, if you're going for super fast, you want to keep it as low as you can. I'm pressing into the yellow because I love fonts and I love loads of them. Next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to scroll down the bottom here and there’s two parts I need to do. This part here goes into the head, we saw a little earlier there where Adobe puts Web Edge Fonts into the head for us, we have to manually put this in to use the Google one. So I'm going to copy this, select it all and go copy, edit, copy, jump back into Dreamweaver. So to use this font, I'm going to go to my code view, make sure I'm in source code, and I'm going to find the head tag. Because back in here it says, the instructions to imbed your collection it needs to be the first element in your head tag. So you just need to look for that tag here. There he is there, there it is in my html.
So I'm going to put it just after the head and I'm going to paste it and this is my link to my Google font. So very similar to the Adobe Edge Fonts. You can see here it’s got the family of Roboto and its got my 400, 300, 500, all the different sizes plus the Roboto Slabs. And now, it’s available to be used on my website. So the next thing I need to do is jump back in to the Google site and you can see here, this is how to use these fonts. Font family is Roboto sans serif, so I'm going to start with the Roboto Slab because we are styling my h1. So I'm going to copy this and you can see it over here, this is how it should look like in your css. So lets go and do that, so jump back in to Dreamweaver, going to go to my main.css, I'm going to find my h1, there he is there. And I'm going to put a return in and add paste and font family colon Roboto Slab and this thing here, this back up is in case Roboto Slab doesn’t load, the browser knows to just go and load just the basic serif font.
Great, lets jump back to live view, you’ll see here it’s now changed to Roboto Slab. Now it’s a little more manual using Google Font, I've got to go through and find all my classes and add either Roboto or Roboto Slab. Its not a big deal and it allows me access to a big volume of fonts that I can sue from Google. One other thing to note for Google Fonts is Google lets you actually download the fonts to use on your machine. And at the moment we are just kind of hinting at them in our code to go off and pull them from our website. If we wanted to use them say, like in my Photoshop tutorials, what you can do is you can go download the fonts and use them on your system. That means you can use them in your print stuff and in your concepts like we have here.
To do that on the Google Fonts website, we are going to scroll to the top here and can you see this little button here? This little insignificant little download arrow, if I click this, it says “don’t worry, you don’t need to download them for work on your website”. But if you do want to work locally or use them in say Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop like I have, you can download the zip file. You click it, it will download, you open it up and you’ll end up with the fonts. Now I've got the fonts already downloaded for you if you want them.
They’re in the class files; so I'm going to jump to my desktop, so check them out in the Dreamweaver exercise files that you’ve downloaded. Go to fonts and you can see here, there’s Roboto and here’s all the fonts and here’s Roboto Slab as well. To install them both on a mac or a pc, just double click them, okay if you double click them and click install on a mac, on a pc its slightly different but just as easy and they will be installed for you to use locally. Now remember you don’t need to download them to use them on your website, it’s just handy to have them downloaded for you to use in other things.
Now the last thing to know about fonts is a nice little way of changing the default font of the whole site. Because at the moment I'm going to change my h1 to the slab, I'm going to change my p tag here, this first paragraph to using just Roboto and I'm going to have to go through and do it for every instance, okay so the p tags, the a tags, any classes, anything I've used I'm going to have to go and change the font for. What we can do just to make it a little simpler for us is we can go and change what’s called the body tag. And the body tag is everything that appears on the page so I will show you on source code. I will go to code view, we talked a second ago about the head, there he is there. Everything that is in the head is everything that the browser sees. So the browser needs to know what font to use, what the page title is and what the description is. The body is what everyone sees on your webpage, it starts here and it goes all the way to the bottom, down here and everything inside of this is stuff that appears on your page. So what we can do as a nice little trick for web design is we can style the body tag and say everything that is inside the body tag become, and in my case, its going to become Roboto. And that just means we don’t have to go through and style all the different tags to say they’re Roboto. I don’t have to go through and say this container is Roboto, this p tag here is Roboto, this h1 doesn’t have to be Roboto. I can just say everything inside the body is Roboto and they all come along for the ride. What’s also good is say that we don’t want the h1 to be Robot but he says because he is inside the body tag he has become Roboto. What I can is, the body is quite broad in terms of what it does, and it’s kind of a broad sweeping stroke.
So if I style this to be say Roboto and be red but I want the h1 to be Roboto but I want it to be green, all I need to do is style the h1 and what will happen is the h1 is more specific, so it will override the body. So you can have this underlying body tag styling just the basics, maybe the font, maybe the font size, or maybe the colour and then you an have more specific stuff like the h1 or the p tag or the links or list items, you can be more specific with the colours with those specific tag. So what I am going to do now is change the body tag. That will mean everything inside of here; any tags that I create are going to become Roboto. To do that I need to style the body tag and there are a couple of ways. I'm going to go back to the live view, I'm going to click inside here anywhere and you can see here the body is way, way back up under breadcrumbs. And my tag selector I'm going to click body and I'm going to say with my css, and I'm going to create, is there already a body in here? There’s not, so I'm going to create a new selector, and I don’t want body p, I just want to style the body. Hit enter twice and I'm going to say you my friend, are going to be Roboto. So I've got a tag, he's here in css, I can pick it from here so if I click on text and I click on font family, I could do it if I was using edge fonts, but I'm not, I have to do it the longer way.
So I’m going to go to into my main css, in my code view, sorry under source code in the html, you can see here I've still got my link to Roboto and Roboto Slabs. So that’s there, next I need to go to main.css, find my body. Now the body, because he is so broad, he should be at the top. So I'm going to copy him, I'm going to cut him, so I've selected both the open and closed parenthesis, go right to the top and he should go at the top here. Best to have a body right at the top and then later on this h1 can override it because css works from top to bottom. Okay so the body is at the top and then something more specific happens later on, which is the h1, is going to override it. So I'm going to put it in here and I'm going to jump back to Google, find out what the css should look like, now I'm copying this to make it easy, you can type it in obviously, font family, Roboto. Now I'm going to say all the body, be this font here. What I might do while I'm here as well is I'm going to change the font, actually I might change the colour, I'm going to spell it the American way and you type in colour, colon and in my case I know that I want white which is #ffffff and I'm going to close it with a semi colon. Great, so it means that all the fonts in my website now, if I jump back to live view, lets just do a file save all. All fonts that are going to appear on my website are going to be this new Roboto. It doesn’t look this much different from Arial but if you're a bit of a type nerd, it looks a million times better and you can see down here, he's come along for the ride and everything inside here now is white and its going to be this Roboto.


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Yolanda Gamboa knows her high-powered career at Bank of America is the result of a sound education.
Yolanda Gamboa grew up on the southwest side of Chicago, the oldest daughter of a railroad worker and a candy-manufacturing employee. Neither of her parents graduated from high school, but they both knew the value of an education and worked hard to ensure that their three children went to college.
Firmly believing in the importance of giving back, Gamboa started her career at the United Way, then left to work on her JD at the University of Chicago. After graduation, she clerked for a judge before going in-house at LaSalle Bank Corporation to focus on banking law as a consumer finance attorney. Now at Bank of America, her team handles the legal needs of the bank’s online and mobile channels and ever-changing offerings.
While Gamboa volunteers through opportunities available to employees of Bank of America, she has given much of her time to Mujeres Latinas en Acción. The Latina organization provides after-school programs for youth and teens; parent support programs; counseling, crisis intervention, and court advocacy for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault; court-supervised visitation for noncustodial parents; referrals to medical and financial support resources for women in need; and leadership development programs.
While on the board, Gamboa helped provide oversight for the staff. During her tenure, she reviewed the organization’s finances, impacted the funding, and made decisions about how to focus on resource development. “We were able to grow participation in the board, and we established a young-professional advisory committee to get younger Latinas involved in Mujeres and provide them with mentorship opportunities,” she says. “The goal was to then have some of those women serve on the main board.” Today, three of the young professionals serve on the board.


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Discussion in 'Desteria Announcements' started by iLemon, Jan 13, 2019.
No printer LOL, yeah lemon idk about that one CHIEF, you might have just lost some factions playing.
Hopefully it plays as well as it sounds.
Printer would have been nice but I can see why it's been disabled, I personally dont have a problem with it being disabled - although its a make or break factor for others.
Expand the team and branch the Desteria brand to Hytale.
How the hell are you gonna do this?
Remember when they removed printer on one of the resets... That went well.
It's time to get the ball rolling!
Desteria has become one of the longest-running Minecraft factions servers since it was first released in February 2014 by Ambushment. In total, we’ve welcomed over 1.5 million players to our server over the years. We’ve released dozens of x.0 updates; successful ones, and some less liked ones — we all have a favorite map whether it’s 3.0, 5.0, 9.0, ‘11.0’ or any of our other releases.
Almost five years later, and still running the same five-year-old Minecraft version due to unpopular 1.9 combat changes, we sat down and designed a truly different factions experience. This includes various measures to encourage raiding, discourage f top ‘cheating’, add more world corners, bring new features but also reintroduce much-loved features like the NEX boss.
As this update focuses on the core concept of Factions, we’ve changed some features and rules which impact the gamemode. This includes; changes to the world’s shape, revisited third-party mods we allow, anything that affects the duration of maps, and changes to improve the balance between new and experienced players.
Today we’re going to announce what we’ve been working on. There’s a lot to cover — so let’s get to it!
We're phasing out the numbered versions (x.0), and instead, kicking off with Desteria Plus: Season 1. A season will last exactly ten weeks or seventy days. This means that a schedule for the start and end of a map is pre-defined, as-well-as an end of map purge event.
We're bringing something completely different to Desteria. As the first-ever Factions server to offer a plus (+) shaped world, there are now 8 corners up for grabs on a brand new seed.
The overall world surface area has decreased from 900,000 blocks to 500,000 blocks, thus drawing factions closer together, while keeping the same distance from spawn to the world ends.
All sides of the world have a physical world border.
A large bedrock wall will mark the inner corners of the map at +/-5K, +/-5k. This is due to Minecraft limitations. We experimented by sending packets to players to show borders at the inner corners, but it gives you a red glow and prevents you from building (as you would be outside the border).
The current faction top system has its flaws because it lets players store spawners in their vaults until the very end of the map when they place down all their spawners.
We've designed a new system where your faction's value is calculated based on the amount of time a spawner is placed down.
In addition to these changes, we're incorporating a new rule for Top Factions - You can only win on a single realm. If you win F-Top on multiple realms, we will take your highest rank and give you a coupon for that rank only. You will be disqualified from the other realms entirely. This is to keep power factions from taking over multiple realms and ruining the chances for other smaller factions. I believe this will be a positive change.
Both outposts now have a fresh new look, as-well the spawn has a drop-down into PvP structure, so there's no more combat logging.
Quests are various tasks assigned daily to each faction and individual player. There are two types of quests: Personal Quests and Faction Quests.
To view your current quests, open the /quests menu.
Alongside all the other changes, we revisited the class system and made some tweaks that will hopefully benefit the entire progression system as a whole, as well as give it a more RPG-like feel.
All the kits were streamlined to offer the same kind of armor and weapons to maintain consistency. There are a few one-offs with each kit, but nothing major as we wanted to make the kits mostly the same in terms of what you get out of them. We also implemented levels into the existing class ranks, allowing for a more smooth transition between each rank and a more familiar system when compared to a more traditional RPG. On top of this, we've added in extra rewards along the way as you level and rank up, increasing your chances of getting awesome rewards for in-game currency.
Prestige has also been overhauled and reduced from 12 prestiges to only 5. This means that every class only has a single prestige perk that you will gain automatically when you prestige. After you've prestiged through all four classes, you can pick whichever class you like and prestige a fifth time for Completionist Fly - allowing you to fly anywhere on the server!
The extra prestige perks that you were able to get from the original 12 have been moved either into the class system itself or moved into a different section altogether to be obtained in a different manner.
Effective immediately, we're changing how we hand out top voter gift cards. Previously, we were handing out matching rewards for each place based on the number of votes each player had - but that ultimately defeats the purpose of having 5 different rewards for 5 different places. That is going to change from here on out.
We will now be giving out rewards based on their place on the list of top voters. If you're #3 with maximum votes, you'll still get the third place prize, based on whoever is first to take each place. There will also be 5 vote links available.
Update to 1.15, if the new combat Mojang produce is liked.
It's not about being scared. The time of factions has evolved to a faster paced gameplay. No one wants to sit around building puesdo by hand for 30mins +. Even with printer it took a while building ****. Were going from a world with tech back to ancient times. Like what?
Good, was about to say you have to be an idiot to not want printer. Even if you don't use it .


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The third release by 'Puta Volcano' was probably one of the most pleasant surprises for 2017 mostly because we had no clue what to expect until the album was released.
'Harmony of Spheres' is an unpretentious progressive blend of hard rock with a lot of heavy, desert rock elements, grungy feeling and the vocals of Luna that can vary from mellow and melodic to harsh, grungy and more hoarse when needed.
This is an album that is going to capture your attention from the first listen and won't let you get bored for a single moment.


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What is a J-1 exchange visitor?
How does a person become a J-1 exchange visitor (scholar)?
What is the 2 year rule or 212(e)?
What is the health insurance requirement?
Can a medical doctor be sponsored in J-1 status?
What can we do if a J-1 scholar applies for a visa and it is denied or delayed?
What is the “check-in” requirement? What do we do if the J-1 scholar will be delayed in arrival?
What is the time period that a J-1 scholar may enter and leave the U.S.?
How does a scholar travel and re-enter the US or renew the J visa?
Who is required to pay the I-901 SEVIS fee and when?
Do you have information on housing, schools, transportation, etc, which may aid the scholar and family members?
How can a scholar have a family member/friend/colleague visit the U.S.?
Is it permissible for a J-1 scholar to work/receive payment outside the University of Michigan?
Our scholar has tax questions that we don't know the answer to. Do you have advice regarding taxes?
My department has decided to continue sponsorship of a J-1 scholar longer than the current DS-2019. How can we extend the program?
Do we need to do anything when a J-1 scholar leaves the country?
I have more questions. How can I contact International Center?
The International Center is designated by U.S. Department of State as an Exchange Visitor Program Sponsor. Exchange Visitor is the title of a J-1 status holder, which is a U.S. non-immigrant classification. We often also refer to an Exchange Visitor as “EV”, “J-1”, or “visiting scholar”. The J-1 exchange visitor status allows temporary educational exchange (which may be either paid or self-funded) in the United States. If you want to invite a scholar to participate at your department in J-1 status, you would request a Form DS-2019 immigration document from the International Center.
The Form DS-2019 is a certificate of eligibility of J-1 status. It is issued by the International Center through the Department of Homeland Security's SEVIS system. The DS-2019 allows a person to request a J-1 visa to enter the U.S. The DS-2019 also determines the length of a J-1's legal stay in the U.S. Hosting Unit Responsibilities explains U-M department responsibilities when hosting J-1 Exchange Visitors, and general information about the DS-2019 and J-1 status is on our J-1 Visitor page.
The department at University of Michigan wishing to host the person begins the DS-2019 request process by preparing and submitting an e-Form to the Shared Services Center (SSC) or, for the Medical School, by contacting the Medical School Immigration Compliance Unit (MS-ICU). The SCC (or the MS-ICU), evaluates English proficiency, collects documents from the prospective Exchange Visitor and enters information into M-Pathways. They then transfer the request to the International Center for review and approval. Once an International Center advisor has approved the request, the request for the visitor’s Form DS-2019 is submitted to the U.S. government's SEVIS system (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System) so that Form DS-2019 can be issued. Form DS-2019 is either mailed directly to the Exchange Visitor, or is provided to the department for mailing, depending on the hosting department’s instructions. A $180 SEVIS I-901 fee must be paid and then the scholar should go to an appointment at the U.S. consulate for the J-1 visa. The Exchange Visitor applies for J-1 visa (a visa application fee is also required) at the consulate. When the visa is approved the Exchange Visitor can enter the U.S. with the DS-2019 and J-1 visa up to one month before the start date of the DS-2019. When the Exchange Visitor has arrived in the U.S., he/she must attend J-1 check-in program at the International Center and will be automatically enrolled in the mandatory health insurance program (for the J-1 and any J-2 dependents). For more information about the J-1 Exchange Visitor process, visit Hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor.
Under specific circumstances, J-1 and J-2 status holders may incur a two-year home physical presence requirement. If one is subject to the rule, this means that he/she is not eligible to change to H, L or Permanent Residency (PR) classification without first returning to the home country for a total of 2 years. A waiver of this requirement can be applied for and obtained in specific circumstances. If the two year rule applies, changing status from J to another non-immigrant classification (such as F-1) in the United States is prohibited. The two year rule does NOT prohibit one from returning to the U.S. in any classification besides H, L, or PR.
All J-1 exchange visitors and accompanying J-2 dependents at the University of Michigan are required to have health insurance coverage that meets the University's standards at all times. The exchange visitor and any J-2 dependents will be automatically enrolled in our Aetna Student Health insurance program after they attend the mandatory immigration check-in program. The insurance plan coverage will be effective on the exchange visitor’s program start date (Form DS-2019, Item3). If the scholar will receive health insurance coverage through University Benefits, the Aetna Student Health insurance can be cancelled once the scholar enrolls in Benefits and the Benefits have begun. If the scholar holds insurance from their home country, he/she will have the opportunity to apply for a waiver of the mandatory health insurance at a later time. In order for a waiver to be granted, the health insurance coverage must be proven to meet specific mandatory standards.
What is the “check-in” requirement? Do we need to do anything if the scholar will be delayed in arrival?
The check-in requirement is linked to the start date of the SEVIS DS-2019. We must report the arrival of the J-1 in SEVIS within the first 30 days after the document begins. If an exchange visitor is delayed and will enter the U.S. more than fifteen days after the DS-2019 start date you should request an “amendment” of the DS-2019 so that the start date is changed to a later date. After completing the online Pre-Arrival and Post-Arrival trainings, a newly arrived scholar may call the International Center to schedule attendace at the Physical Presence Check-In.
What is the time period that a J-1 exchange visitor scholar may enter and leave the U.S.?
The scholar may enter the U.S. to begin J-1 status no more than thirty days before the start date of the DS-2019. J-1 exchange visitors are usually granted admission for “duration of status” which is noted as D/S on the admission stamp in the passport and on the Form I-94 printed from https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/home. With duration of status granted, a J-1 has a thirty day grace period to depart the U.S. after the expiration of the DS-2019. J-2 dependents must depart before or with the J-1.
The University of Michigan is committed to assisting our international students and scholars when possible, through our Visa Assistance Program. If your exchange visitor contacts you to notify you that he/she has experienced a visa delay or denial, please ask him/her to fill out the on-line Visa Assistance Web Form. The information gathered in this form will be sent to a U-M email group. The members of this group will take all possible steps to assist the scholar with U-M related matters including employment. The U-M can also assist with suggestions and recommendations about best practices regarding visa requests and will advise on next steps.
Do you have any information on housing, schools, transportation, etc, which may aid the J-1 scholar and his/her family members?
Yes, we do have many resources on life in Ann Arbor to help ease the transition.
Please refer to detailed information on our website about travel and visa application for further details. The U.S. visa (stamp or sticker in your passport) is a travel document which allows entry to the United States with a valid DS-2019. The scholar only needs to have a valid J visa when re-entering the U.S.; the scholar may remain in the U.S. with the valid DS-2019. If the scholar plans to travel and re-enter the U.S. from abroad after the visa has expired, the scholar needs to apply for a new visa before he/she re-enters U.S. The scholar can only apply for the visa outside the country at a U.S. Consulate.
How can a J-1 scholar have a family member/friend/colleague visit the U.S.?
The spouse and children under 21 of the J-1 exchange visitor are eligible for J-2 dependent status. You or the scholar may request DS-2019 from International Center for J-2 dependents during the program. Family members or friends who are NOT children under 21 or the spouse of the J-1 exchange visitor should apply for a B-1/B-2 visitor visa which allows eligibility to visit the United States temporarily for tourism or business purposes. Family members from certain countries may be eligible to travel to the U.S. for visits of up to 90 days without a B-1/B-2 visa through the U.S. Department of State Visa Waiver Program. It is recommended that the scholar give his/her family members a letter of invitation to document the purpose of their visit. Refer to Family Visitors to the U.S. for an invitation letter template and more details on the visa application requirements.
In addition to employment at the University of Michigan related to the J-1 objective, J-1 scholars and professors may be eligible to be authorized for incidental employment directly related to the J-1 objective, such as providing occasional lectures or consulting. Incidental employment should be approved by the U-M International Center prior to the activity. For more information, refer to Incidental Employment for J-1 Scholars and Professors.
The exchange visitor may be eligible for an “extension” of Form DS-2019 if he/she has not reached the maximum duration of the J category (see section 4 of the DS-2019) and has not applied for and received a waiver of the Two-Year Foreign Residency Requirement. You, the sponsoring department, would submit an e-form for an extension request to the Shared Services Center or, for Medical School units, to the Medical School Immigration Compliance Unit (MS-ICU). Extension requests should be submitted well in advance of the DS-2019 expiration. For more information on program duration and extension you may contact icenter@umich.edu. The maximum length of program for Short-term Scholars is six months, for Specialists one year, and for Professors and Research Scholars, five years.
If the scholar will return home and is ending participation more than 15 days before the end date of the current DS-2019, the end of the program should be reported to International Center by submitting our Departure Form. If the scholar is leaving within 15 days of the end date of the DS-2019, no action is required.
U-M International Center staff members are not authorized to give advice regarding taxes. We do have some helpful information about taxes, tax preparation, ITIN, or tax treaty questions at Taxes and Social Security. The Internal Revenue Service is the U.S. department in charge of taxes. Tax forms and information can be found on the IRS website. GLACIER Tax Prep tax preparation software is available free of charge to any international scholar with a UM/Ann Arbor uniqname and password. Assistance is available via GLACIER Tax Prep online help (click on the Help link at the top of any Glacier Tax Prep screen). You will then be able to send a question to the Glacier Tax Prep Support Center. The Support Center will send a response to the email address in your Glacier Tax Prep record. Information and assistance with tax withholding forms for international students, faculty and staff is available from the U-M Payroll Office. Their website includes information on determining tax status (“nonresident or resident alien” for U.S. tax purposes) and on tax treaties, as well as some basic information on the taxation of foreign nationals.
The Department of Homeland Security requires a fee of $180 for all new J-1 program applicants to cover the costs of the operation of the SEVIS program. If a future scholar is issued a new DS-2019 for beginning a new program he/she must pay I-901 SEVIS fee. Transfer, extension, or other updates to the original DS-2019 do not require SEVIS fee. You can read more information on our website at What to Expect When Traveling and go to the official website for SEVIS fee information and payment. Some departments choose to pay this fee on behalf of the exchange visitor but it is optional. If you do want to pay the fee, you will need the exchange visitor’s SEVIS ID number, name, and date of birth. This information must match the information printed on the exchange visitor’s Form DS-2019. After the SEVIS fee payment is made, a receipt should be printed. The scholar should bring it to the visa interview and when traveling to the U.S.
The U-M International Center is authorized to issue a Form DS-2019 to foreign medical graduates (M.D.s) to enable them to come to the U.S. for the primary activity of observation, consultation, teaching, or research. They can participate in a non-clinical exchange program, either with NO PATIENT CONTACT OR CARE, or where patient contact is only INCIDENTAL to the primary activity. M.D.s with direct patient contact must be sponsored by ECFMG.
Doing a diagnostic examination in the presence of a senior physician who repeats the exam or ensures at every step that it is done correctly and the proper diagnostic information is obtained.
Being present during therapies and treatment with opportunities for hands-on experience in ways that do not compromise the care of the patient.
Being present in the operating room and having limited patient contact, but not performing procedures.
You may email questions to icenter@umich.edu for response by one of our International Student/Scholar Advisors. You also can call our Front Desk (734.764.9310, press 0 for the Receptionist) to ask questions via telephone. If no advisor is currently available, your phone call will be returned as soon as possible.


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SERVPRO of Salem/Plaistow started as a family run business by parents Ken and Joyce White in 1975. Their three sons, Eric, Gregg, and Brian, grew up learning the SERVPRO way of helping remediate water, fire, and mold damages “Like it never even happened.” In 1992, the three brothers took over the business to continue the legacy their parents had started for home and business owners. They continued to train all those that came to work with them to understand the stress and worry that comes with a fire or water damage and the disruption it causes your life and home or business.
Our crew members are trained in Water and Fire Remediation, Mold Remediation, OSHA & HIPPA certified, and SERVPRO’s own HERO READY Training. Our entire staff is continuously learning in the field and through new trainings offered. Several members of our team work on volunteer projects within the communities of SERVPRO of Salem/Plaistow to help lift them up in areas of need.
When you are in need of fire, water, or mold remediation, call the team in your community that is always Here to Help®.


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Sherliker Limited is a specialist marine consultancy providing a service to production facilities which need to contract in design, drafting, project management or project planning.
Chris Sherliker who heads up the company can draw on twenty years of experience primarily in the marine industry. After training as a yacht designer, Chris initially worked hands-on, building several composite race boats and carbon pre-preg components before working as a designer for many of the marine industry’s innovators and luminaries before setting up his own company.
Sherliker Ltd. offers a very comprehensive design service ranging from hand drawn annotated sketches to fully rendered 3D models of complete assemblies and computerised databases of detailed construction drawings for production building.
CAD work is usually started as a 3D model which develops into an accurate and potentially fully detailed representation of the product. It is very easy to visualise the final product with a fully rendered model which can be rotated on screen. This can be generated form the client's brief or developed from existing models or traditional drawings. The 3D model is the definitive reference for all subsequent work.
From the 3D model further models can be developed to suit CNC machining of plugs with flanges and alignment blocks. If hand built plugs are deemed the most appropriate method then deducted surfaces and frames can be generated for either CNC cutting or plotting at full size. Traditional lines plans and multiple rendered images are also produced to aid comprehension by the workforce.
The geometry of the internal structure and fit-out can be established using the base model allowing parallel building of the main shell and the internal structure and furniture to reduce build durations. Large items of equipment can be modeled and fitted in their required locations to establish what will fit where at this stage of the design.
Where a new product is being developed the final cost of tooling and prototyping can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds, investing in design and project management up front is very appropriate as it safeguards the investment and can lead to significant savings during the development and throughout the production.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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With Spring in full swing, and our time spent increasingly outdoors, we're all reminded of the Bay Area's vast natural beauty. This month, we'll go on a brief tour throughout the region and look at some of the most beautiful homes in the best neighborhoods.
If there's a rainbow after every storm then nowhere is this more true than today in San Francisco.
As we head into the New Year of 2017, one of the first questions is of course: what lies ahead?
It has always been an axiom that the right address has been essential for entree into high society, even in our (Not-So)-Gilded Age.
The global ultra-luxury market saw a number of fascinating properties around the world become available on the open market this month -- but none announced their presence as dramatically as the Ritz-Carlton's new residences in Bangkok.
With glittering opening night galas for our Symphony and Opera, a slew of fashion events, cocktail parties, and glamorous black tie benefits, the Fall social season has arrived in San Francisco!
August is a time of anticipation and preparation for the months ahead, as vacations wind down, back-to-school shopping is in full force, and the busy Fall social season is about to begin.
Following my discussion last month about the iconic Waldorf Astoria in New York comes news that the famous hotel brand will be coming to San Francisco! This months feature includes San Francisco's New Most Glamorous Super-Luxury Hotel, Real Estate in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, The City's "Towers of Secrecy" and LA's Biggest Sale Ever!
Real Estate Secrets Revealed & More!
San Francisco's South of Market/TransBay area is seeing stunningly rapid changes that are transforming the City's skyline. This month's issue features a look at the NEW Pacific Heights, Augmented Reality & the Future of Real Estate, Prices in the 2040 Ultra-Luxury Market and Real Estate Secrets Revealed!


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How can viscosity testing help in quality control of pharmaceutical liquids? This application report shows how simple viscosity measurements of pharmaceutical liquids with the ViscoQC series help to retain steady, perfect consistency of the medicine.
The “thickness” of pharmaceutical liquids, like cough syrup, plays a major role in quality control. Liquids with a high viscosity flow more slowly than low-viscosity liquids. Cough syrup needs a high viscosity for several reasons. One reason is that it has to stay on the spoon for medication. Furthermore, cough syrup should flow slowly through the digestive tract to coat the surface of the throat and not flow off. Only cough syrup, which stays long on the affected area in the throat, has a soothing effect by increasing the moisture.


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Several weeks ago, I received an email inviting all “men with power tools” to help construct a traditional outdoor edifice for the holy days. I emailed the liberal-leaning rabbi at my progressive temple to point out that perhaps women could handle a drill as well as men, and that, in fact, my old-fashioned father had purchased an electrical tool kit for my 10-year-old daughter because she liked to build things.
I received a reply from my rabbi explaining that the men’s group really wanted something to do that was their own but that of course I was welcome. She informed me that I could join the women’s group; apparently, the men had formed a men’s group only because the women had their own group. Her point, subtly implied, was that no harm was meant but that everything has its place.
I’d like to call both emails a form of microaggression, but they speak to a macro issue I’ve found over the years and in discussions with other Solo Moms. It’s tough to have faith with the faithful if you’re a Solo Mom.
Why should that be the case? We work so hard, and we are grateful for all the help we can get. And yet somehow it seems (based on only my own personal polling) that the Solo Mom has a rough road finding a place for herself and her kind of family in a religious institution.
Let’s face it: religion and solo parenting are an uneasy match. From the Solo Mom’s point of view, that makes no sense. We know that we cherish community and routines as Solo Moms. We often feel we need to have a belief system when faced with all the pressures of everyday life. Continuity, stability, warmth, and inclusion are what we dream about in a religious community; yet, all too often, it’s difficult to feel accepted, and it’s hard to find a way to participate.
Sometimes it feels as if, within the structure of religion, there are many roles that people want you to play as a parent, that of nurturer, caregiver, educator, mentor—all of which are encouraged in sermons and talks. The role of Solo Mom, unfortunately, is not supported in practice. Instead of receiving comfort and inclusion, a Solo Mom can often find herself sitting alone or allowed in company but always having to explain herself and her situation. It doesn’t feel good.
There are logical reasons for this on the religious institution side. Western theistic religion likes pairs, symmetry, making sense of the world for you. OK, maybe not that last one. But it is true that most Bible studies for children involve those two-by-two animals clumping themselves onto the ark to save humanity.
Although we may think of faith in an emotional, perhaps abstract way, religious institutions (yes, even those in California) often are based on tradition and age-old texts, which have inspired followers for centuries. They have served as unifiers and as the source for traditions that bind society together. You can get married in a religious institution, but unless you are royal (or Catholic), you usually don’t divorce there. It’s interesting to see that the latest Synod of Bishops has been recently struggling with the question of family as it tries to find its public voice in the 21st century. It makes sense that religion would want to promote a coupled life—less stress, more stability, simpler cultural adjustment. Even the most progressive institutions—those that embrace gay marriage and support transgender congregants—can work only with the model that follows a notion of family they have promoted for years: the binary parents. Maybe it’s confusing for them. Maybe it’s uncomfortable.
So why seek the benefits of religion only if you are sometimes considered the first step on a slippery slope that leads to the end of society as we know it? Frankly, it’s a tough question.
What to do? We have to change the way we Solo Moms approach religious institutions.
It’s an interesting construct that people who set off alone on an adventure (such as hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or biking across the United States) often remark on the surprising kindness of strangers. It restores their faith in themselves and in humankind, yet it also makes me wonder whether we expect or demand kindness from those who know us because we believe there is some bargain we have made within our own community that requires reciprocal respect.
So maybe that’s the solution. For those of us who want institutional religion in our lives, who desire faith and prayer in our families, continuity and religious school for our children (and maybe, if you’re a Jewish mama like me, a little bit of Hebrew—what could it hurt?), perhaps we should regard members of these institutions (no matter how long we’ve known them) as strangers and refuse to get upset or hurt by their clumsy lack of understanding.
The search for faith, for continuity, for warmth is ours alone. We can’t always expect to find it answered for us by others when we join a religious community. We somehow don’t fit.
Maybe we Solo Moms should think of ourselves on a permanent adventure, wading every day into unknown waters, looking for answers, for meaning. Then we truly can be pleased and surprised (and, yes, edified!) when we encounter unexpected kindness from the people we see all the time.
Do you have a viewpoint or opinion relevant to the experience of Solo Moms? You can share it in our Perspectives section.


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If you are one of many owners of this beautiful set who were unfortunate to have some of the common problems - snapped corner guard (extremely common), missing pieces (common), heavily scuffed/damaged board, this page might be for you! I have replacements available. Please see below.
US buyers - you can pay listed prices (below) via (1) PayPal, or (2) Send a check or Money order and save 3%, or (3) ask me to setup an EBay auction (to be better protected), but this would cost extra 15% to cover for EBay fee. Or contact me using the link below (ignore chess book questions, but use comments field).
Non-US buyers - you can NOT use PayPal link. You can only go EBay route mentioned above, but I will ship to EBay and EBay will ship to you. This would be VERY costly due to Ebay fees. Or, you can send me $$ via Moneygram and I will ship direct. Please contact me using the link below (ignore chess book questions, but use comments field).
Contact me with details if you need a special arrangement I will issue PayPal invoice (US). Money order (US) or Moneygram (Non-US) accepted as well.
Please review the photos. Pieces and corner guards are in great condition. The board is in good condition with some very minimal scuffs. Click photos to enlarge! .
The following items are available: please make sure to send me a note telling what piece and what color you are ordering.
Includes insured shipping (US only).
Significant Discounts if you buy multiple pieces.
"It began over three thousand years ago, in ancient Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where a great pharaoh died at the tender age of 18--and with him was laid to rest the treasures of his kingdom, many made entirely of solid gold! They lay buried for centuries, until in 1922 world-acclaimed archeologist Howard Carter discovered them once more. Today those priceless masterworks are displayed in museums and can only be experienced from afar.
Now you can own a masterpiece reflecting the incomparable splendor of the greatest art discovery of all time. The Treasures of Tutankhamun Chess Set. Each of the 32 playing pieces is intricately sculptured, then richly coated in 24 karat gold. And each represents a revered artifact from the era of Tutankhamun himself. The playing board is framed in rich hardwood and trimmed with accents of ebony black and gleaming 24 karat gold. The set includes a dust cover -- a pyramid-shaped showpiece crafted of solid glass and polished brass."
Contact me if interested or need additional details.


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Bloomberg’s short article/interview entitled “A Folding Bike Helmet That Looks Good and Still Shields Your Brain” shows inventors can still find room to innovate, even in a mature product market. Spanish inventor, Carlos Ferrando, created a bike helmet that has two unique features – it collapses/folds to reduce space when not in use, and it is designed to be more aesthetically appealing than the traditional bike helmet. Ferrando said he wants his helmet to “normalize the idea of wearing one (bike helmet) as a fashion accessory”.
Ask your students who they think the target market for this product would be. If they say “bicycle riders” push them to go deeper. It’s true that anyone who rides a bicycle could benefit from this product but a mass market strategy is unlikely to be as successful for a product like this. A seg mented strategy has a better chance of success. In chapter 4 we offer a possible market segmentation for the bicycle-riders product-market. If students believe this product could effectively serve multiple segments you might want to break them into groups and have each group focus on a particular segment. Ask each group to develop a promotional strategy for their target market. After a few minutes have each group share their strategy and discuss the differences. If the students did a good job there should be distinct strategies for each market. If the strategies are generally similar then they’ve taken a “Combiner” approach which doesn’t really cater to the unique attributes of each segment. Either way, you have a good discussion!
Most industries report a decline in the effectiveness of advertising as a means to tell customers about their product. As we note in chapter 16, customers tend to place more faith in what real people say about goods and services they might buy. Apps, including the online review site Yelp and social media site Instagram, offer customers an easy and fast way to hear about other customers’ experiences.
Restaurants have long benefited from word-of-mouth (telling a friend about that “great meal you had at the new bistro”). Today, some restaurants are looking for ways to be more “Instagrammable.” Read more at this trend in “Instagram is pushing restaurants to be kitschy, colorful, and irresistible to photographers,” The Verge, July 20, 2017.
This article could be discussed at many different points in the semester. It offers an interesting example of customer value (chapters 1, 8 and 17); for some target customers, improving the “shareability” of an experience enhances the experience. For many young people, sharing the experience is part of the experience. It also suggests how consumer behavior (chapter 5) with social media (chapter 16) can impact new product development (chapter 9). After sharing this example in class, students could be asked: why are these businesses doing this? They are likely to immediately get that it fosters word-of-mouth, but may not readily connect with other benefits.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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Oleum Cajuputi (U. S. P.)—Oil of Cajuput.
"A volatile oil distilled from the leaves of Melaleuca Leucadendron, Linné (Nat. Ord.—Myrtaceae). It should be kept in well-stoppered bottles, in a cool place"—(U. S. P.).
SYNONYMS: Oleum cajeputi, Oil of cajeput, Oleum Wittnebianum.
Botanical Source and History.—This oil is distilled from the leaves of Melaleuca Leucadendron, a tree growing in the Moluccas and adjacent islands. It is variously known as White tea-tree, Broad-leaved tea-tree, Paper-barked tea-tree, Swamp tea-tree, and White-wood. It is a small tree, with a tolerably erect but crooked trunk; a soft, thick, spongy, whitish, ash-colored bark; and scattered branches, with the slender twigs often drooping as completely as in the weeping willow (Salix Babylonica). The leaves are alternate, most frequently vertical, short-stalked, narrow- lanceolate, while young, sericeous, sometimes slightly falcate, entire, from 3 to 5 inches long, and from ½ to ¾ of an inch broad; and very aromatic when bruised. The flowers are ternate, sessile, small, white, scentless, in terminal and axillary, downy spikes; the bracts are solitary, lanceolate, silky, and caducous. Calyx urceolate. Corolla white and orbicular; filaments 30 to 40, much longer than the petals; anthers ovate-cordate, with a yellow gland on the apex. The style is somewhat longer than the stamens; the stigma obscurely 3-lobed. The capsules are 3-celled and 3-valved; the seeds numerous, and angularly wedge-shaped (L.). This tree is the Melaleuca Cajuputi of Roxburgh, and the Melaleuca minor of De Candolle. By Bentham, it is regarded as a variety of Melaleuca Leucadendron. Several other species of Melaleuca, as M. latifolia, M. viridifolia, and M. hypericifolia, yield closely related oils, while an extract prepared from the M. paraguayensis (I couldn't find such a plant. -Henriette) has been used in rheumatic and allied complaints.
Preparation and Description.—Cajuput oil is obtained by distillation of the leaves, which are collected in autumn, allowed to steep for a night in water, and then distilled in copper vessels. The yield is very small. It is imported from the East Indies in green-glass bottles. The U. S. P. describes it as "a light, thin, bluish-green, or, after rectification, colorless liquid, having a peculiar, agreeable, distinctly camphoraceous odor, and an aromatic, bitterish taste. Specific gravity, 0.922 to 0.929 at 15° C. (59° F.). With an equal volume of alcohol it affords a clear solution, which either has a slightly acid reaction, or, in the case of the rectified oil, is neutral to litmus paper"—(U. S. P.). The odor of the oil has been stated to resemble the combined fragrance of camphor, rosemary, and cardamom. The green color is not essential, and may be removed by distillation; it is due chiefly to the presence of copper, and partly to the presence of some altered chlorophyll. The oil is slightly laevogyre. Sulphuric and nitric acids have but little action on cajuput oil.
Adulterations and Tests.—In consequence of its high price, oil of cajuput is subject to adulteration. Oils of rosemary or turpentine, combined with camphor and bruised cardamom seeds, and appropriately tinted with milfoil resin, have been sold as genuine oil. Oil of camphor has been used as an adulterant. Oils of lavender, origanum, and rosemary frequently serve for adulteration, but are distinguished by the energetic action of a solution of iodine, besides, all would materially affect the nature of the residue of the iodine test subsequently described. "On shaking 5 Cc. of the oil with 5 Cc. of water containing a drop of diluted hydrochloric acid, the oil loses its green tint and becomes nearly colorless. If to this acid liquid, separated from the oil, a drop of potassium ferrocyanide T.S. be added, a reddish-brown color will usually be produced (presence of traces of copper). If 5 parts of the oil be heated to 60° C. (122° F.), and 1 part of powdered iodine gradually added, with avoidance of any further rise of temperature, the mixture, on cooling, will deposit a mass of crystals"—(U. S. P.).
CINEOL (Eucalyptol, C10H16O) is a constituent of many essential oils. It is a colorless liquid, of a characteristic camphoraceous odor, optically inactive, boils at 177° C. (350.6° F.), congeals at a temperature slightly below the freezing point of water, and forms a characteristic addition product with hydrobromic acid which is decomposable by water into its constituents.
Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—Cajuput oil is a powerful diffusive stimulant, diaphoretic and antispasmodic. When swallowed, it occasions a warmth in the stomach, with an increased action of the pulse, and occasionally diaphoresis. It is very much valued in the islands of the Indian Ocean, the inhabitants of which employ it extensively in rheumatism, palsy, epilepsy, and many other diseases; using it both internally and as a local application. It may be advantageously employed internally in chronic rheumatism, hysteria, colic, spasms or cramps of the stomach or bowels, cholera morbus, Asiatic cholera, congestive dysmenorrhoea hiccough, nervous dysphagia, in the typhoid stage of fevers, in nervous vomiting, and wherever a powerful stimulant is required. It also appears to be useful in removing worms, and in chronic affections of mucous tissues, being especially useful in chronic laryngitis and chronic bronchitis, as well as catarrh of the bladder. It should never be given internally when inflammation is present. Externally, it is very beneficial as an application to rheumatic, neuralgic and other pains, nervous headache, and may be used alone, or in combination with other oils. It has likewise been found efficient as a local application in gutta rosea, parasitic and other cutaneous maladies. Applied to the cavity of a carious tooth, it alleviates toothache The dose is from 1 to 10 drops, on sugar, in emulsion, or in sweetened brandy and water. Externally, it may be applied 3 or 4 times a day.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries