text: Psychological Assessments at SPELD SA Identifying Specific Learning Difficulties – Is an assessment needed? What to do next: Decision Making Chart Psychological Assessments Psychometric-Educational Assessment Assessment follow-up Literacy Review Assessment Choosing a psychologist or other professional Length of assessment What You Need to Bring Cost of Assessment at SPELD SA Book an Assessment at SPELD SA Identifying Specific Learning Difficulties - Is an assessment needed? Based on Understanding Learning Difficulties: A guide for parents, p.10 The decision to seek professional advice and a possible assessment to determine whether or not a student has a learning difficulty is a complex one. It should only occur after a number of other steps have been taken – including a period of observation and collection of relevant information. Firstly, a child's teacher is well-placed to observe whether there is a specific area of concern. Schools frequently collect data through screening, observation and regular in-class assessments. They will be able to make suggestions for appropriate strategies to be adopted at school and at home. Secondly, prior to the psychological assessment, students need to be provided with explicit, systematic and cumulative instruction that forms part of intervention for at least 6 months. One of the criteria for the diagnosis of a learning disability is how well the student has responded to quality intervention over an extended period of time. Thirdly, information gathered over this period of approximately 6 months will assist the practitioner conducting the assessment, in providing background information to better inform decision-making about on-going levels of support. The "Understanding Learning Difficulties: A guide for parents" contains more information about identification and intervention. What to do next: A Decision Making Chart for Parents may help you in deciding whether you want an assessment for your child. Psychological Assessments Assessments at SPELD SA are conducted by a registered psychologist, who specialises in learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia. Assessments are for students aged 6 years -16 years 11months. For people aged 17years and older, SPELD SA can recommend other psychologists who conduct suitable Psychometric-Educational Assessments. Ring the office on 8431 1655. Psychometric–Educational Assessment The psychologist conducts a series of tests that investigates the child's intellectual abilities, identifying strengths and weaknesses in their cognitive functioning. Academic assessments are then conducted to investigate specific areas of learning difficulty (as required), such as reading, written expression, spelling and mathematics. A Psychometric–Educational Assessment may only be performed once in a 12month period. On the initial consult with the psychologist, learning history and learning difficulties will be discussed. The psychologist will then decide on and run a battery of tests including: WISC-V IQ assessment – an assessment of intellectual ability looking at areas of verbal language, visual problem solving, working memory and processing speed. WIAT (pronounced WHY-IT)– academic achievement tests with subtests chosen depending on need (e.g. reading, spelling, numeracy etc.) And any additional assessments that may add to the broad picture of learning difficulties, again needs based. Assessment follow-up. A written report is provided approximately four weeks after the assessment with details of the individual's strengths and weaknesses, evidence-based strategies for remediation, and suggestions for accommodations (if needed). Recommendations to consult with other professionals, such as a speech pathologist, an occupational therapist or a paediatrician may be made. Tutor support may also be recommended. A Psychometric-Educational Assessment update may be required as the child moves through their schooling, for instance when moving from primary to secondary school or applying for SACE and University accommodations. Literacy Review Assessment Some clients choose to return for a Literacy Review Assessment, twelve months or more after a Psychometric–Educational Assessment, to review the child's progress. Choosing a psychologist or other professional. Psychological assessments at SPELD SA specialise in learning difficulties. For concerns regarding disorders such as ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing or Oppositional Defiant Disorder, SPELD SA can suggest other professionals who may support you. Phone 8431 1655 for recommendations or to make an appointment. For more information about other professionals who may become involved in supporting you and your child go to Who to contact if you have concerns about your child . Length of Assessment A Psychometric-Educational Assessment is three fold, taking approximately 2.5 hours. Pre-assessment consultation to discuss the reasons for the assessment. – approximately 10mins Assessment with the child – 1.5- 2 hours. The time involved depends on which tests need to be administered as discussed in the pre-assessment consultation. Post- assessment consultation – approximately 10-15mins, to discuss the assessment. A Literacy Review assessment takes 1.5 – 2 hours. Please allow half day for the assessments and ensure that your child is well rested. A Carer's Note can be provided upon request. What You Need to Bring Your child's glasses (if applicable) Samples of your child's school work (unaided and unedited) Recent school reports A letter from the teacher outlining the child's difficulties and school support provided Any other professional reports (e.g. speech pathologist, psychologist, audiologist, optometrist, O.T.) Cost of an Assessment at SPELD SA For the current cost of the Psychometric-Educational Assessment and Literacy Review Assessment, please contact the office on 8431 1655. Concession rates - A limited number of concession assessments, for Health Care Card holders, are available per year. Conditions apply. Please contact the office for further details. Rebates/claims Claims for Psychometric-Educational Assessments cannot be made to Medicare. In some instances, it may be possible to claim a portion of the cost through medical extras, depending on your cover. Contact your health fund. Book an Assessment at SPELD SA Contact SPELD SA to book an assessment on 8431 1655. Once you have an appointment, you will be contacted three weeks before your child's assessment by both phone and email to confirm your appointment. Your assessment will be reallocated to another client on our waiting list after 48 hours if you are unable to be contacted. 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we could do a more global scale where it could be a world map and there are 4 regions cold, dry, tropic and urban. the Goal is to wipe
out other species and be the dominant ant over the world. Your traits would give you bonuses (or negative affects to your troops like the amount of dice you would roll). though because this is a ant game we would do ant warfare so less of fighting but more of food fighting so basically starving your enemy out or raiding there nests. It could take some time to make up rules but we could do it.
though it would be fun for a video game because of more content
also as a side note you mentioned D&D do you happen to play it because i'm a huge nerd and love to play it.
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Goebert, Jerry – Mishap Collection #2 (with art by Tom Brinkmann)
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Mishap Collection #2: The Greasing of Billy Charter
A better name for this comic might be "Kids, Ask Your Parents." Or maybe even grandparents, sadly enough. I was alive when the events in this comic would have made sense (the title is about Billy Carter, the "famous" brother of the former president), but was too young to have any sort of sense of who Jimmy Carter was, much less his brother. Granted, I have learned a bit more about the situation in the meantime, so the events of this comic are not totally lost on me. Mostly lost, maybe, but not totally. The brothers are portrayed as siamese twins who are joined at the hand, possibly a reference to the fact that they often hung out together, but I don't know for sure. This is a series of one panel strips, so there isn't much of a story to keep up with, but the individual strips can be just as confusing. Topics include Billy and his trying to get business connections, Jimmy striking up an oil deal, Jimmy smuggling out some of Billy's booze after the 1980 election (or possibly not), and Jimmy hoping that Reagen gets elected. Ah, if only he knew how that would turn out, or that Reagan would be on his way to sainthood from some of the more dimwitted folks out there. Tom Brinkmann's art works great for this and it's probably funny if you're old enough to remember those years, but it's just past my consciousness. If you're interested in political humor from different eras I'd give it a look though. $1
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For those of you who've followed my site for awhile, you will know that last year I changed my fermenting ways. I did this because I learned that my approach to fermentation was very haphazard and if I was doing this ultimately for my health, I wanted to do it right. So, I've been on a year long journey delving into the world of anaerobic fermentation, why and how.
Yogurt is something most of us take for granted, or perhaps assume it's a health food regardless of how it's prepared. I know you real foodies know how to find 'healthier' yogurts in the store or even how to make homemade. I've found that I don't want to consume yogurt unless it's in the most optimal form for many reasons. One, I don't tolerate much lactose and most yogurt has it. Second, I want the most probiotic content I can get and most yogurts don't really have all that much if any. Unless, of course you understand a bit more about the science behind how bacteria thrive in yogurt and how to reduce the lactose to make it more tolerable, not to mention the best quality milk to make it less of a food sensitivity issue.
Did you know that there are 2 kinds of milk, A1 and A2? That's a whole 'nother ball of wax and I'll save that discussion for a later date. Today, I've asked my good friend Patty, author of the blog, Loving Our Guts to share what she has learned about yogurt making. Patty has been on GAPS for many many years and before that was on the SCD diet. She has been making yogurt for ages for her family and has learned a ton on the subject.
I know you are gonna learn a ton from this post. In addition to the text below – you have the option to enjoy a recorded version of this information that Patty and I did together. If you have time, I highly recommend you listen to the recorded version -there is also some dialogue at the end and few pieces not written in the post that you may enjoy! (*Note: this recording was part of a course that I taught, so some information may not pertain to you as you listen, for example asking questions on the course facebook page. Regardless of that, the recording is a great resource and I wanted to share it along with this post).
Listen to Patty Talk About All the Intricacies Involved in Yogurt Making HERE
What Is Yogurt
Yogurt is a way to ferment milk to make it last longer, decrease the lactose and increase the beneficial bacteria. You can find yogurt in nearly every store and it is generally considered in our culture to be a health food. There is good reason for this! Yogurt is lower lactose than regular milk and somewhat predigested so it is easier on your gut. It is populated with beneficial bacteria that will then do good things for your gut. And since it is a whole food it contains more nutrition and is nicer to consume than a pill.
Why You Should Make Your Own Yogurt
While all of this is true for many brands of commercial yogurt, sadly it isn't true for all. The longer you ferment your milk the more beneficial bacteria it will contain. Some commercial yogurts are only fermented for a matter of minutes. Some are pasteurized after they are fermented killing off the beneficial bacteria. Many contain large amounts of sugar or artificial sweeteners. Most are sold in plastic containers and the fat in the yogurt attracts the plastic in the container, putting bpa or whatever plasticizer is present into your food. Also over time the beneficial bacteria die in a container so there is no way to know how much is still there when you consume the yogurt.
All of these are good reasons to learn to make yogurt yourself. You can avoid additives, prevent contact with plastic, ferment it long enough to get lots of good bacteria and consume it soon enough that the good stuff is still alive! It's also much cheaper and once you figure out your method is not difficult or time consuming.
Ingredients in Yogurt
So let me explain some things about yogurt. I'll start with the starter. All yogurt needs a starter. That is a certain amount of the microbes that you want to grow in your milk to transform it into yogurt. For yogurt to form it needs to contain Lactobacillus Bulgaricus and Streptococcus Thermophilus. These two bacteria interact together to help the milk coagulate. They also form the lactic acid that helps to curdle the milk. Both of these actions on the milk create the familiar thick structure of yogurt and the lactic acid also is responsible for the familiar sour taste. Other bacteria can be used in addition to those two as long as they can thrive on lactose (the sugar in milk that feeds the bacteria.) Each will have a distinct flavor that may be more noticeable to some than others.
Some other bacteria strains that are commonly found in yogurt are:
- L.Acidophilus
- B. Longum
- L. Casei
- B. Bifidum
This is far from an exhaustive list but most of the commercial yogurt starters available contain some or all of the strains I have already mentioned. Commercial yogurts will also contain some or all of these strains and sometimes more. Often you can use commercial yogurts for starting yogurt as well, just make sure it says live strains on the container and does not contain any flavors or other additives.
I personally have experience using the Yogurmet starter culture and the Custom Probiotics starter culture. Both make good yogurt. I prefer the Custom Probiotics for two reasons. It does not contain any fillers (Yogurmet has sugar and dried milk) and it has more strains of bacteria. You can get starter #1 with 3 strains (L. Bulgaricus and S. Thermophilus and L. Acidophilus) or you can get starter #2 that has those three plus L.Casei and B. Longum. You can also request that B. Bifidum be added to either one when you order it. It is more of an investment up front ($50 a bottle) however my family makes 1-3qts of yogurt each week and a jar lasts us 12-18 months. It is, as far as I can tell, the most economical way to get your yogurt starter. (*Note from Lydia- L. Casei is a key strain to help heal leaky gut. Lactobaccillus Casei is found in the mouth and intestine, it can survive the stomach acid and can settle into the intestines, it has a wide pH and temperature range. If you are working to heal your gut -get the Yogurt Starter #2 to get the benefits of the L. Casei. Another good option recommended on the SCD diet is GI ProStart Yogurt Starter).
There are other ways that people have "started yogurtâ€. Using a probiotic called VSL#3 is a popular approach. The theory is that the bacteria in the pill will multiply in the yogurt and create even more of those beneficial bugs that can then be ingested thus saving the person money. This starter has a different flavor than traditional yogurt but is not unpleasant. One word of caution though, not all bacteria thrive in milk. Some won't do much of anything, some will make and unpleasant product. L-Reuteri is one such culture. I have heard from those who have tried that it turns the yogurt into a slimy snot like substance. So you have been warned! Just because a pill says probiotic on it does not mean you can use it for a yogurt starter.
Incubation Methods
Ok now how to make yogurt. The most important thing you need for making yogurt is a way to keep it warm. For the duration of the fermentation you need to keep the milk warmer than 95 and cooler than 118. That can be tricky to do. Obviously the easiest way to do it is to simply purchase a yogurt maker. There are many varieties available, some have lots of small cups, others have one large container. Another easy method is to use an Excalibur Dehydrator. It allows you to set the temperature and walk away. When these sorts of purchases aren't in the budget other approaches are used. One is to use the heat from the lightbulb in the oven. Many replace their oven light with a 100 watt lightbulb while they make yogurt. Another is to fill a cooler with hot water and put a mason jar of yogurt into that cooler. If the water cools too soon simply replace it with hot water again. Some have an elaborate method of using their crock pot and turning it off and on as needed to keep their milk in the right temperature range. Still others put a lightbulb in a box and keep their yogurt warm using that. My former doctor would simply put the hot mixture into a thermos and put the thermos in a sleeping bag to keep it warm. A little time online will reveal many different options for making yogurt.
I highly recommend that you try out your chosen method using some water before you invest your milk so that you won't be surprised that it gets too hot or doesn't stay hot enough and ruins your milk.
Vessel For Yogurt Making
The container that you use to make yogurt is also important. For many years I made my yogurt using mason jars. It is a glass container so no worries about plastic getting into my food. It is readily available at many stores or possibly even in your kitchen already. Once I learned about the risks to bifidus strains of bacteria from oxygen exposure I decided to do some testing as to what kind of container was best. I was amazed to discover that the type of container had a profound impact on the flavor of the yogurt and ultimately decided that it was best to make yogurt in an anaerobic vessel (the Probiotic Jar is a good one) and to leave the airlock on the jar while it is in storage in the fridge. The longer the yogurt was stored the more dramatic the flavor difference between the different kinds of containers. I am able to fit a 2L jar with a mini-airlock in my 9 tray Excalibur Dehydrator and that is how I make yogurt now.
How To Make Yogurt
So once you have made these decisions and assembled your supplies you are ready to get started making yogurt.
- Milk- Preferably raw (from Jersey cows if possible or goat, this is A2 milk), second best non-homogonized low temp pasteurized whole milk, third best homogenized pasteurized whole milk. Never use Ultra Pasteurized milk. You can also use heavy cream either raw or pasteurized with not additives.
- Thermometer (to keep track of the milk temperature)
- Jar to make milk in (I prefer Probiotic Jars)
- Pot to heat milk in
- starter culture or additive free active culture plain yogurt
- A way to keep the milk warm.
Take your milk and put it into the pot on your stove. Heat it on medium high till the milk is 180 degrees. Then remove the pot from the stove and allow the milk to cool to 115.
Once the milk is cool enough mix a small portion of it with the starter culture you are using. Follow the package directions for how much to use of a powdered culture or use ¼ cup commercial yogurt for each 1 qt of milk. You can also use previously made homemade yogurt. More about that below.
Mix the milk and the starter till they are combined then add in the rest of the milk till the jar is full. Put the lid on tightly. If you are using a Probiotic Jar put water in the airlock and put that on the jar. (*Note from Lydia: making yogurt anaerobically is optimal as the Lactobacillus bacteria strains and Bifido bacteria strains need an anaerobic environment.)
Put the jar where you are keeping it warm. I set my dehydrator to 105 with my anaerobic jars. With mason jars I set it to 95. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error to get it right for your exact set up. That is why I suggest a trial run with just water in your jars.
Traditionally yogurt is fermented for 4-8 hours. The longer it ferments the more beneficial bacteria it will contain. Also the longer it goes the less lactose and more sour it will taste. GAPS and SCD have you ferment yogurt for at least 24 hours to make it virtually lactose free. I have read that if you go beyond 30 hours the bacteria colonies will collapse because of lack of food so be careful to not go too long. There does not seem to be much of an increase in bacteria or decrease in lactose beyond 24 hours.
After it is done culturing 4-24 hours hours put the yogurt right into the fridge. Don't stir or shake it till it is fully chilled. 5-6 hours. If you do disturb it the curd won't set and your yogurt will be runny.
*Raw milk- You can make raw yogurt. To do this heat your milk just to 110 or so and then add your culture and proceed from there the same as any other method.
**Homemade yogurt as a starter. Homemade yogurt will lose it's effectiveness sooner or later. When that happens you will have ruined yogurt. You can feel pretty safe using it for 4 generations if you heat your milk to 180 and then cool it. It is best to only use it for 2 generations if you are keeping your milk raw since raw milk has it's own innate bacteria that will begin to compete with the yogurt bacteria.
If you enjoyed this information, you might enjoy reading more of Patty's post on the subject as well:
- http://www.lovingourguts.com/the-great-yogurt-experiment/
- http://www.lovingourguts.com/the-great-yogurt-experiment-after-one-week/
- http://www.lovingourguts.com/the-great-yogurt-experiment-2-week-results/
- http://www.lovingourguts.com/2012/01/gaps-basics-sour-cream.html
- http://www.lovingourguts.com/gaps-basics-how-to-make-gaps-yogurt/
Thanks so much Patty for sharing your expertise with us! I hope this is helpful to others and maybe even encourage some to take the leap and give homemade yogurt making a try!
To read more of Patty's insight, be sure to check her out over at 'Loving Our Guts' and on facebook @Loving Our Guts.
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A pop-up retail space featuring local and international fashion designers:
February 2015, From the 27th – 28th of March, leading local and international fashion designers will converge underneath one roof to bring Mercedes-Benz Bokeh Fashion Film Festival goers a unique shopping experience.
The Mercedes-Benz Bokeh Fashion Film Festival, which brings together creatives in the film, fashion, artistic and related technical industries to celebrate their craft, is one of the most creative and inspiring fashion film festivals globally. Taking place over a two day, two night period at the luxurious 15 on Orange – African Pride Hotel in Cape Town, it acts as a platform for both local and international speakers, film makers, fashion designers and guests to network, nurturing the all important relationships amongst designers, film makers, producers and clients.
Founder of the festival and Cape Town local, Adrian Lazarus, has partnered with The Cape Town Fashion Council (CTFC) whose purpose is to represent, develop, support and grow the Western Cape fashion sector, highlighting its uniqueness and excellence on both a national and global scale. Together the partnership offers those attending the festival the opportunity to shop leading trends in a gallery-like shopping space. "The CTFC are undoubtedly the leaders in fostering great fashion in Africa. They are a proactive and dynamic team, and under the leadership of CTFC CEO Bryan Ramkilawan, I feel confident in taking direction from them when it comes to the fashion aspect at the festival", says Adrian. The CTFC have used designer sales from previous collaborations as well as an internal curation process for the selecting of designers partaking in the CTFC Designer Pop-Up. In terms of leading trends that will be available for purchase Bryan says, "South African designers have adapted to international trends and have adopted the quick response approach to design, so expect to see international inspiration translated into South African style."
International designer Anastasia Ramlall will also be showcasing her collection. Based in Mauritius, she started her AR RESORTS brand four years ago. "I wanted to create a Mauritian high-end collection employing our locals. I import my fabrics from around the world but the production takes place in our ateliers in Mauritius." Catering to a niche market, she offers limited eclectic editions made with fabrics ranging from silk and crochet to linens and voiles. Her collection to be showcased, made up of graphic textiles, is both modern and sophisticated. Some pieces will exhibit an "East meets West" influence using beautiful fabrics in sequins, cut and embroidered by hand to create a chic, feminine feel. Anastasia, who is honoured to be participating in the festival, say, "I am fond of South Africa and its rich artistic and cultural diversity. As a Mauritian designer, it will be such a privilege for me to showcase my collection alongside talented South Africans."
This unique retail space is set to add a fresh, exclusive edge to the event with a tinge of surprise. "It's an exciting part of our festival, offering those attending the opportunity to interact directly with most of the designers who are showing on the fashion installations, as well as give them the chance to browses collections and purchase pieces made specifically for the festival", says Adrian. Far too often fashionistas see designers only for a few seconds after their shows on the end of the runway. The festival encourages customers to meet the designers who can explain their designs first hand. The CTFC Designer Pop-Up, which will be located in the library of the 15 on Orange Hotel, will be open from 12h00 – 17h00 and 18h00 – 20h00 on both the 27th and 28th of March.


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Has Axegrinder Got an Apology for You
The smug and ridiculously well paid hosts on Have I Got News for You committed the sort of lazy mistake they enjoy lampooning journalists for on 14 December when they alleged that a Lady Camoys was a Nazi-loving aristocrat.
- August 14, 2018
BBC's Kamal Ahmed says corporation needs to examine 'how we do news' as younger audiences snub 'linear news'
- August 10, 2018
BBC, NUJ and IFJ condemn 'thinly-veiled threats' on lives of Persian Service journalists issued through Iranian news agency
- August 10, 2018
BBC Radio 4 World at One editor Owenna Griffiths to join PM and be replaced by former Today deputy Victoria Wakely
Unfortunately in making their reference to a dead Lady Camoys they failed to check whether there was a living Lady Camoys who might take offence. A schoolboy error as they say.
Here is the BBC correction: "During a recent episode of 'Have I Got News for You' broadcast on 14 December 2012, reference was made during the 'Missing Words Round' to a newspaper headline that referred to a story about a Lady Camoys (whose full name is Mary Jeanne Stourton Camoys) containing allegations to the effect that she was a Nazi loving aristocrat. The BBC would like to make it clear that the Lady Camoys being referred to, both in the programme and the newspaper, was a previous Lady Camoys, who died in 1987. This was not intended to refer to the current Lady Camoys, whose full name is Elisabeth Mary Hyde Camoys, to whom we apologise for any embarrassment caused."
An exception to Mail apology rule
The Daily Mail's corrections column has become a sporadic part of the paper – no doubt thanks to rising standards and fewer mistakes.
Axegrinder breathed a sigh of relief to see it missing on Tuesday. No mistakes today I thought, only too find this correction on page 22 headed Stephen A. Wynn.
Mr Wynn did not have links to the mafia, as the Mail alleged in an earlier piece, nor did he threaten to kill an associate over a gambling debt or almost lose his gambling licence over money laundering allegations.
A 500-word apology
Time magazine has published an amazing 500-plus word correction to a piece which wrongly alleged – among other things – that Oxford University accepted only one black Caribbean student in 2009.
The correction goes on and on, concluding with: "The article has been changed to correct the misstatement that a lack of strong candidates from poor backgrounds is not the concern of Oxford and Cambridge.
The article has amended the phrase 'Oxford and Cambridge's myopic focus on cherry-picking the most academically accomplished,' to more fairly reflect the universities' approach."
So much for US-journalism's fabled reputation for fact-checking!
And a few more…
Last month Press Gazette revealed that model Katie Price had launched a mammoth legal action against Northern and Shell over a series of articles which she said were libellous and breached a "goodwill" deal with the company.
Since then we have been told that the lawsuit was not only settled before Christmas, but that numerous apologies have been published.
They include this in the Daily Star: "Katie was never due to appear on the show [Celebrity Big Brother] and we had been informed of this before we published the story but due to a misunderstanding the story was published."
And this in OK: "We suggested that Katie Price had given us an interview about Danny Cipriani and we published an article which we incorrectly claimed included details given to us by Katie.
"In fact, Katie had not taken part in an interview in which she either confirmed or commented on any relationship with Danny Cipriani."


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Location: Honey Bee Research
Project Number: 5342-21000-015-00-D
Project Type: In-House Appropriated
Start Date: Oct 1, 2008
End Date: Sep 30, 2013
1: Determine the nutrients in pollen that promote worker longevity. 1.A. Determine the effects of pollen mixtures on worker protein and lipid stores and longevity. 1.B. Characterize the chemical composition of pollen mixtures that optimize worker protein and lipid stores and longevity. 2: Determine the effects of undigested saccharides in high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) on worker physiology and longevity. 2.A. Identify the saccharides in HFCS. 2.B: Determine the effect of saccharides in HFCS on worker physiology and longevity. 3: Evaluate the effects of supplemental feeding on Varroa tolerance, queen production and foraging activity of honey bee colonies. 3.A. Modify the MegaBee diet by adding chemical components that were identified in the pollen mixture analysis. 3.B. Determine the effects of nutrition on Varroa infestation and reproduction in worker and drone cells. 3.C. Determine the role of nutrition on queen production and reproductive potential. 3.D. Evaluate the effects of supplemental protein feeding on the foraging rates of honey bee colonies. 3.E. Improving honey bee immune response to CCD by determining the role of symbiotic microbes in bee nutrition. 3.F. Develop IPM tools (e.g., "soft" miticides that are non-toxic to workers and queens, traps, and exclusion devices) and methodologies for control of key pests (especially Varroa mites), and miticide resistance management programs to preserve useful chemical options. 3.G. Determine the impact of the small hive beetle on colony development and longevity, and develop management systems for controlling the beetle in hives, including use of antifeedants for protection of protein supplements from small hive beetle damage. Develop effective control programs for management of small hive beetle in bee hives, with the goal to prevent contamination of bee products.
1. Nutritional value will be evaluated by measuring protein and lipid levels and on bee longevity. The chemical composition of pollens that are more nutritious than MegaBee will be determined. 2. Determine the effects of high fructose corn syrup containing higher saccharides on honey bee longevity. 3. Determine the effects of improved nutrition of the longevity of bees parasitized by Varroa, the reproductive potential of queens, and foraging activity of colonies used for pollination. REPLACING 5342-21000-014-00D (8/08). FY09 Program Increase $270,000. FY10 Program Increase $315,000.


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Yesterday Forbes announced its list of "The 20 Richest Women In Entertainment."
Number one is not a huge surprise:
But way to go J.K. Rowling for being the only author to make the list. And then to come in second only to Oprah…
Number three is also a little surprising.
As for the rest, Ellen DeGeneres made the list, though she's toward the bottom. And who would've guessed that the Olsen Twins would edge out Judge Judy? And would either Ashley or Mary-Kate have made the cut at all if she weren't lumped together with her sister as if they are a single entity?
Here's the full list:
1. Oprah Winfrey


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As of 2015, Brazos Valley Schools Credit Union has 10 branches and 25 ATM locations in Texas, including branches in Bryan, Brenham, Houston, Katy and College Station. Customers can find exact branch locations and detailed contact information at BVSCU.org.Continue Reading
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Prescription medication safety stressed to parents; unwanted medicine collection this weekend
Heidi Aikens, prevention supervisor for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, Inc., recently held a presentation for parents at St. Marys Area High School. Aikens focused a portion of her presentation on prescription medication safety, offering a variety of tips for individuals who may have potentially dangerous prescription medications in their homes. Aikens advised attendees to first contact their doctor or pharmacist to find out if a prescription that they or a family member has been prescribed is considered to be dangerous. She also recommended that individuals have a safe place to keep their medications, especially if their doctor or pharmacist does indicate that it might be dangerous. "A lot of times, if there's someone who is looking for a prescription drug they're not necessarily going to come to your home and take the whole bottle. If they get an opportunity to be in a home with someone who has some type of an addictive drug, they may make their way into your bathroom and into your medicine cabinet, but to take them all would be really obvious to you. So they may take three or four, or five or six, but they won't take them all," Aikens said. "If you were given the medication for a specific instance, you use it for that instance and get rid of it. You are a major target for people who use and abuse prescription drugs. They look for people that have had surgeries. They look for people that have chronic pain. They're trying to find you. They'll find ways to break into your home," Aikens said. Area residents who currently have medications that they would like to dispose of may do so at the county's unwanted household medicines collection, which will be held Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Education Center at Elk Regional Medical Center. Individuals planning to dispose of medications at this collection are asked to keep all medicines in their original containers and leave the name of the medication visible on the label. A black permanent marker can be used to black out all personal information, including the prescription holder's name, address and account number. Additional information about the collection can be obtained by contacting the Elk County Recycling Office at 814-776-5373.


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Humans As Cat Chow
Two hundred thousand years ago or thereabouts, an African lion killed someone. Along with a meal, the big cat got a wicked stomachache. Today a record of that unfortunate death still survives, in the bacteria that make big cats sick.
The trail of this strange story starts in the 1980s, when scientists discovered that ulcers are caused by bacteria known as known as Helicobacter pylori. H. pylori is found in people around the world, and scientists learned how to recognize the different strains they carried. Based on the patterns of the strains, a team of scientists concluded in 2003 that Helicobacter pylori must have been present early in the history of our species, and was spread across the world during the migration of humans. (I wrote a long post on H. pylori and human evolution when the scientists who discovered its link to ulcers got the Nobel Prize.)
But there were skeptics.
The skeptics proposed that Helicobacter pylori spread into humans in just the past few thousand years. They searched for a closely related species of Helicobacter that might have been its ancestor and found one: Helicobacter acinonychis. Preliminary studies suggested that it was far more like our own Helicobacter pylori than other species of Helicobacter. Helicobacter acinonychis also causes severe gastritis in its hosts–lions, tigers, and cheetahs. In laboratory experiments, scientists found that it could also infect mice.
Some of the scientists who had initially proposed the ancient origin of Helicobacter pylori have tested this alternative, and they've published their results in a paper in the journal PLOS Genetics. Their surprising conclusion is that the big cats actually got their ulcer bugs from us.
The scientists got to this conclusion by sequencing the genome of H. acinonychis and then comparing it to H. pylori strains. By comparing the mutations in each strain, the scientists found that the bacteria all descend from a common ancestor that lived about 200,000 years ago. But which way did the parasite jump? The scientists argue that it went from humans to cats. The cat bacteria carry 92 fragments of various genes that can be found in good working order in the human strains. It would be hard to imagine how the bacteria could have moved from cats to humans and then repaired all 92 genes. The bacteria must have shifted from humans to cats, and then genes that were no longer essential in the new environment began to mutate. Many of the genes that Helicobacter acinonychis has lost made proteins that appear on the surface of Helicobacter pylori. Losing those proteins may have helped the bacteria escape the immune systems of cats. The bacteria also have some genes not found in Helicobacter pylori, and these show signs of having been delivered to the bacteria by viruses. Exactly what they do for the microbes isn't clear yet.
What makes this hypothesis particularly compelling is that it's the same sort of process that scientists have documented in many other species of bacteria. It just so happens that scientists have recently documented it in the evolution of bacteria in yogurt 5,000 years ago, about which I blogged last week.
It's pretty easy to guess how a lion or cheetah could have picked up our bacteria: by having one of us for breakfast. Once the bacteria were transferred to a big cat, they then spread to other species. It's no big surprise that big cats ate some of our ancestors. (Check out the recent book Man the Hunted for the evidence.) What is surprising is how clearly the unfortunate fate of some early Homo sapiens has been preserved in living bacteria. And it's also a striking demonstration that it's not just humans that can pick up diseases from animals (such as influenza and HIV). The parasite highway runs both ways.
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Finally, an example of humans striking back. All we ever hear about is some nasty bug jumping species boundaries to humans. I'm glad we got off our collective butts and struck back especially with a preemptive strike.
Would we be better off as yogurt-eating vegetarians?
I know I would be.
Makes you wonder what Helicobacter-infested creature our ancestors ate to get this bug into our lineage in the first place.
David B. Benson (June 18, 2006 04:13 PM) asks:
Would we be better off as yogurt-eating vegetarians?
Not clear, but we (or our ancestors) would probably have been better off if big cats were.
"Now you kittens listen to me: Don't you eat those hairless apes–they're filthy!"
This paper tells a similar story to Hoberg et al's "Out of Africa – Origins of the Taenia Tapeworms in Humans", but, it seems, from a quick read, more rigourous, better informed and a lot less speculative.
Hoberg et al 'proved' that humans must have caught tapeworms long before domestication (therefore we gave them to pigs and cows) and as a result of eating bovids, shared as prey with lions, cheetahs, hyaenas and hunting dogs.
They presented figures purporting to show that speciation between two human tapeworm species closely related to felid and hyaenid tapeworms diverged 'between 780kya and 1.71Mya'.
These were figures taken up by many commentators, including, I'm sorry to say, Carl Zimmer.
They 'proved' that humans ate big game regularly, at least as long ago as a million years, and depending on your bias, perhaps as long as 2.5My.
Those dates have irrevocably entered the 'Human Story' as the paper is now widely cited by palaeoanthropologists.
Hidden in the small print of the paper were the real estimates of bracketed ages (to 95% confidence level) ranging between 170,000 years ago and infinity (ie before Creation).
I've written this up at:
as part of a series of 'papers' querying the general assumption that very early humans ate a lot of big game meat, and thus we became what we are.
The writers of this paper are far more cautious, and note that rates of gene evolution in bacteria can vary widely.
Hoberg et al also noted similar rate changes between larger 'animals', but then based their estimates of the timing of speciation in tapeworms on comparisons between their 'molecular clock' ticks and those of hammerhead sharks (diverged when Panama closed), humans/chimps, snapping shrimps, and mangrove crabs. Perhaps if they'd mentioned the common names of those in their paper they might not have got such unquestioned acceptance of their findings.
Finally, ignoring the fact that lions, leopards, and hyaenas, the primary hosts of tapeworms closely related to human ones, ranged throughout Africa and Eurasia (even North America) during the Pleistocene, they plumped for origins of tapeworms in Africa alone via African bovids (antelopes) as secondary hosts.
They didn't actually give any direct evidence that the antelopes they named were the exclusive secondary hosts, nor that they were commonly infected in the wild. In fact their list of secondary hosts appears to come from a couple of palaeoanthropogical papers quite unrelated to tapeworms.
African antelopes nowadays are not infected with specifically human tapeworms, which might be another slight objection to their findings.
Yes, we were definitely more often eaten by, rather than catching and eating, big game.
Richard Parker
Just a quick question.
How did you like 'Man the Hunted'? I read some decent reviews and one scathing one on amazon.
I'm curious to your thoughts.


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Lately, I have noticed a tendency for people to send me e-mail in the form of attachments containing Microsoft Word documents.
There are several good reasons not to use Microsoft Word as a document interchange format:
In sum, you should only exchange Word documents with people who are engaged in a task of editing a document together with you. In this context it makes sense. But if the document is a finished product that is to be simply printed and/or read, why not use a format that is better suited, less resource-consuming, and more universally acceptable?
A suggestion: finished documents should be circulated in HTML, RTF, PostScript or PDF form if there is a need for special formatting and fonts, and in plain text form otherwise.
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May 17, 2011
So last Wednesday I started a job, it is my first job since finishing University last year. It is at MLC which is the Wealth Division of NAB (National Australia Bank), it is not a fancy job and is only for a 3 month period but I like the idea of experiencing what working in a big corporate company is going to be like. I missed the training week that was a couple weeks ago so I have been jucked into the role and am pretty much learning as I go. I actually did not know what exactly my role was before my first day, I hate talking on the phone which was the only way I could communicate with my boss, so sort of just said I will take it then turned up on the Wednesday clueless.
Once the 3 month period wraps up there is likely to be a chance to go permanent, have no idea what I will do at this stage, who knows I may be a PLO BEAST by then and gap it to Thailand for a few months before coming back to work in the Aussie summer for a few months while all the sport is on, good weather etc. then head to Europe in March. That would be an ideal plan actually, but I am only playing the micro stakes PLO at the moment, but am learning a TONNE recently.
My computer is not happy. I have been playing 4 tables with overlap as I have to use it in safe mode cause it just freezes otherwise L. But that is okay, I am at Melbourne airport at the moment, heading back to Wellington to graduate for a few days. That is another reason I took the position at MLC, they were happy to let me have days off for graduation, other jobs said that would not be possible. I decided to come to the airport mega early, and with no internet here it gives me a chance to study lots of hands that I have saved is Word from my sessions in last couple weeks (HEM does not work in Safe mode hence hands are in Word). Hopefully a friend can fix up my lappy while I am home as safe mode also has no sound and I miss watching TV shows online and stuff.
Hmmm Random Stuff
- I think I am going to start a thread in 2p2's Poker goals and challenges to document my PLO progress daily, and make more substantial updates here each week or two.
- I have a Boost Juice voucher, it opens at the airport at 5:30am, I get a 2nd one for a dollar, getting excited for that!
- I registered for a Social Ultimate Frisbee league so when I get back from graduation I have that to look forward to, should be exciting!
- PLOJunior.blogspot.com, gotta keep posting there more!
- Played at Crown Casino 3 times in the 6 weeks or so I have been in Melbourne, not into live cash games at the moment. Want to play some tournaments, the Melbourne Champs has just finished but with the new job and struggle to get FTP cash (GaryBenson was charging high fees for his service for a while, and MoneyBookers is not available, I decided against playing a bunch of the tourneys)
- Gutted to not be heading to Vegas this year, feel as though after last year I know so much more about what to/not to do to have fun. Hopefully some DCers can take a bracelet or four!)
Hmmm, you can tell I am just writing what is going through my mind as I write this!
For the hands that I am to review of my own hands I am going to use this format:
What is our hand structure:
Why is this hand going to be profitable post flop:
General good and bad qualities about this pre flop hand:
Vitals (SPR/IP or OOP/No. Players/what do we have):
Flop Discussion:
TURN (if needed):
How do villains and hero's hand range change) :
Turn Discussion:
RIVER (if needed):
What are ranges for both us and villain, how strong is each part on a scale of 1 – 10:
What reads do I gain on villain:
Something like that anyway, going to be dumb with no PPT access, but can do that another time. Just need to think about my thought processes for now. I hopefully will go through 4 – 5 hands super thoroughly before my time to board.


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Maryland Residential Custody Laws
Pretty much anyone who has had to deal with residential custody issues in Maryland knows that the standard for determining a minor child's custody is the "best interest" test, which seems to be a vague notion at first glance. Afterall, what determines what is in the best interest of a child or children without saying more about it. A study of Maryland case law, however, provides some guidance on this subject.
Some of the factors that are considered in deciding what is in the best interest of a child are 1) Fitness of the party seeking child custody, 2) Adaptability of the prospective custodial parent to the task of raising the child, 3) Age, sex, and health of the child (and which parent could best accommodate them), 4) Physical and moral wellbeing of the child, 5) The child's environment, and 6) The influence likely to be exerted on the child. Gillespie v. Gillespie, 206 Md.App. 146 (2012). In some cases, applying the facts to these factors may result in a court order that awards sole residential custody of a child to one parent or joint residential custody to both parents. Under the Equal Protection Clauses of Maryland and U.S. Constitutions, a court may not consider a parent's gender as a factor in deciding the custody of a child.
The issue can become more complicated when considering some of the factors and applying the parties' life-style to them. For example, many clients expect that their spouse's adultery should be a determining factor in deciding their minor child's residential custody, particularly when the moral wellbeing of a child is a stated factor in deciding the child's best interest. But adultery does not become a factor if the child has not been exposed to it. Swain v. Swain 43 Md.App 622 (1979). In other words, a child is not negatively impacted by an adultery that s/he has not been exposed to; obviously, it would be a different situation if an adulterous relationship took place in the presence of a child but that is not a common scenario, and a parent who has exposed the child to his/her adultery probably has neglected the child in many other ways that would negatively impact that parent's request for custody.
The household where the child resides (or is expected to reside) and its adequacy play a major role in deciding the issue of child custody in Maryland. If the parents have already separated and do not live close to each other after their separation, the parent remaining in the family home where the child resided prior to separation has an advantage because an argument can be made that staying in the marital home would bring stability to the child's life; in many cases that would allow the child to continue to attend the same school, and maintain the child's bonds with the his/her friends in the same neighborhood. If you are seeking custody of your child(ren), it would not be prudent to remove yourself from the family home and relocate far from it unless the custody and visitation issues have already been decided by a valid parental agreement or as part of a separation and property settlement agreement.
It is noteworthy that trial courts are prohibited from awarding custody to a parent at a distant future, Schaefer v. Cusak, 124 Md.App 288 (1998), i.e. awarding sole residential custody to one parent but also awarding custody to be changed to joint residential custody 2 years from the trial date. A court custody order is always subject to modification and a parent can petition the court to change the custody schedule provided that there were material and/or significant change in circumstances since the court last entered a custody order that would justify modifying it.
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Bodyblade Exercise- Everything You Need To Know
Did you know that Bodyblade Exercises can help you tone virtually any part of your body? Are you wondering what a Bodyblade is? Well, this post will clear your doubts. Read this post to find out what a Bodyblade is, and how performing some Bodyblade exercises can tone your entire body.
What Is Bodyblade?
Bodyblade is a product created by Bodyblade Inc. It is a simple oscillator bar, which looks like a bow without strings. It uses dynamic spinal stabilizers and oscillations to tone your body. Bodyblade is one of the best rehabilitation and sports performance training equipment available right now.
The Bodyblades are available in three variations: Bodyblade Pro, Bodyblade Classic and Bodyblade CXT. Bodyblade Pro is available online for around $150 while the Bodyblade Classic and Bodyblade CXT cost around $110 and $70 respectively.
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Choosing The Right Bodyblade:
Now that you have a fair idea about the Bodyblade, you might want to know how to choose the best-fit. Bodyblade's website offers Bodyblades for all purposes, whether you are buying one to get started or going up a level. It is important to understand which one will suit you best.
Bodyblade For Men:
Bodyblade designs for men feature three categories – expert to professional, beginner to amateur, and children.
For experts and professionals, the Bodyblade Pro and the Bodyblade Classic series are the best, depending on whether you weigh more than 150 lbs or in between 125-150 lbs. For children, the Bodyblade Classic series and the Bodyblade CXT are perfect.
Bodyblade For Women:
Bodyblade designs for women feature the same three categories – expert to professional, beginner to amateur, and children.
Just like how it was for men, for experts and professionals, the Bodyblade Pro and Bodyblade Classic series are perfect, depending on whether you weigh more than 150 lbs or in between 125-150 lbs. Children should use the Bodyblade Classic or the Bodyblade CXT.
Bodyblade Tips:
Before you begin exercising with your Bodyblade, here are some tips for getting the best out of your routine.
1. Frequency:
Ensure that you exercise at least 3–5 times a week.
2. Intensity:
Once you get comfortable using a Bodyblade, begin keeping it further away from your body to increase the leverage and resistance.
3. Time:
Start small, with around 45-60 seconds for each exercise, before you increase the duration. The longer you exercise, the stronger your muscles become.
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Bodyblade Exercises:
Use the Bodyblade to augment various yoga poses and exercises you usually perform. Let's look at some popular Bodyblade exercises here:
1. Bodyblade Yoga – Tree Pose:
The Tree pose helps improve your balance, tightens the glutes and strengthens your lower body. The presence of a bodyblade makes this exercise a tad more challenging, yet effective at the same time.
To Perform:
- Hold a Bodyblade in your right hand.
- Now bring your feet together and stand erect on a yoga mat.
- Your heels should touch each other.
- Now begin raising your left leg and keep your left foot on the side of your right knee.
- Instead of raising your hands above your head and joining them for a namaskar, lift your right hand with the Bodyblade and your left hand straight up and keep them parallel to each other.
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Autostraddle is running a multipart series about perspectives on queer feminism, so I figured it would be a good time to present mine. I'm also going to throw my hat in the ring to join in for the next part if they're interested in adding a trans perspective to the mix.
Looking back on it now with my spiffy hindsight goggles, I think I was being steered towards becoming a feminist since around the time I was born. Stretched out along a timeline it really feels like part a long and difficult process that went from taking women as a whole off of a lofty pedestal to figuring out just what a woman- especially a strong one- really was and finally realizing that she is what I'd been striving my whole life to become despite that pesky penis of mine. Because of that it feels a little bit wrong to place the emphasis on the tipping point that pushed me into taking up the mantle of feminism, but I'll get over it because I'm sure that as I continue to sort through the tangle of my identity as a transwoman and my feminist ideology I'll get around to writing about all those little fits and starts at some point.
Growing up, my impression of feminism as an institution was split very decisively between past and present. What I didn't understand until later was that it's the line between first and second wave feminism. Women who fought for the vote and put lead weights in their parasols to defend themselves against the vile minions of the patriarchy were the epitome of cool because they didn't take shit from anyone. They were never in short supply either because Canadian broadcasting has this really weird fetish for producing period dramas that take place in the Maritimes between the turn of the century and the Great Depression. They also produced "Heritage Minutes" that lionized pioneering feminists in Canadian history like the first female doctors and educators, which lead me to the naive conclusion that oppressing women went out with chamber pots and the bubonic plague.
My mother graduated from UVM and moved up to Canada to pursue a career as a dental hygienist. She enjoys her work and went back to it once my sister and I were school age and could be left with a babysitter for a couple hours a day. What I didn't know until years later was that my mother had strongly considered joining the airforce, but changed her mind based on the terrifyingly high incidences of rape that women were subjected to by their fellow airmen.
I was raised to respect women, use a condom, and understand that abortion is not a difficult issue at all; it's the woman's body so it's ultimately her decision. It was pretty much just baseline behaviors with no real stance one way or another on proactive feminism. Contemporary feminism had a really bad rep where I'm from- Calgary- at the time somewhat owing to none other than K.D. Lang, the barefoot vegan lesbian who kind of looked like a dude and was harshing the local cattle industry. I was mostly bewildered and vaguely hostile to the idea of her at the time because it seemed to be the prevailing attitude at the time and I wasn't old enough yet to really understand. Somewhere around a decade later I'm kind of out as a transgendered vegetarian, so it turned out okay.
I was very geeky and ostracized as a teen, so every chance I got was spent escaping into comics and video games where more often than not I was following or controlling the exploits of a badass chick with big guns both real and metaphorical. There was always a definite sexual attraction there in the case of someone like Lara Croft, but I'm convinced now that I was also acting out my fantasies of leaving my boring awkward male body behind for a curvy and far superior female vessel. I drew reams of fan art of Lara back then, posting what I thought were the best bits in my locker and protesting vehemently when my classmates called it out as fap material. "It's not that! Lara's more than just hot, she's awesome!" I would shout down the halls at them.
But it all came crashing down one night in 2004 when the curtain was pulled back and I finally understood the horrible truth. My gun toting heroines were a humbug, and a cruel one at that. I was directed to Gail Simone's notorious Women in the Refrigerator polemic by a wise friend who understood very well that my notions of equal opportunity Nazi bashing were a far cry from an accurate indicator of female progress inside or outside of comics and the like.
The site, and the well known trope by the same name gets it's name from an incident in Green Lantern where the eponymous hero- civilian name Kyle Rayner- came home from heroing to find a note from an enemy saying "I left you something in the fridge." That something was the dismembered corpse of his girlfriend. A true fridging in the parlance of the scene occurs when a female character- usually a love interest- is maimed or killed solely to advance or add pathos to a male protagonist. It's a widely used plot device in all manner of other media, but the combination of it's startling ubiquity and Gail's passion have for better or worse tied it to comics.
I thought I had done well by steering clear of the testosterone overloaded 90s antiheroes that made me dry heave at the sight of their inexplicably glowing eyes and proliferation of useless pouches and yet I was almost worse off. But despondency soon turned to hope as I discovered that female and queer comic fans- almost as a consequence of their marginalization- seem to have the best taste. Or at least the tight circle who took me in and rehabilitated me with a steady diet of provocative and intelligent material, did. Those comics in turn awakened a growing curiosity and passion for feminist and queer theory that exploded out of comics and into my entire worldview with the power of a thousand exploding suns. It was either that or the time that I was at the drug store as a kid trying to reach a copy of Mad Magazine and was bitten by the radioactive copy of Bitch that was lying in wait behind it.
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One way to create this progress bar dialog box is to use Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) to create a COM object, then place the object inside a DLL. After you install and register that DLL on a machine, your scripts can call the DLL whenever you want a progress bar. Although effective, this solution requires that you write VB code and use a VB compiler.
A simpler solution is to use Windows Script Components (WSC—formerly called Scriptlets). WSC lets you create reusable COM objects in any scripting language that Windows Script Host (WSH) supports. These objects not only offer methods and properties but also support events.
This month, I show you what makes up WSC and how to begin building a progress bar dialog box. To create this progress bar dialog box, you need WSH 2.0, VBScript 5.0, and Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 or later. If you need any of these programs, go to http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/vbscript/scripting.asp and download the Windows Script (WS) 5.5 set. You also need the Windows Script Component Wizard. WS 5.5 includes this wizard, but you can download it separately from the Microsoft Scripting Web site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/ default.htm?/scripting/scriptlets/default.htm). This site also contains the WSC language reference and supporting documentation.
What Makes Up WSC?
Simply stated, WSC consists of three components:
The script component runtime engine (scrobj.dll). This DLL helps dispatch COM requests to your scripts.
A set of interface handlers. Interface handlers are compiled COM components that implement specific COM interfaces. Microsoft built several interface handlers in the script component runtime engine, including the COM Automation, Active Server Pages (ASP), and IE 5.0 Dynamic HTML (DHTML) interface handlers. Other interface handlers are available as add-on components in DLLs or are embedded into specific applications. You'll be using the COM Automation interface handler for the progress bar dialog box.
Script component files. Script component (.wsc) files are .xml files that contain information about the type of COM component you want to create (i.e., the interface handler you want to use). Then, depending on the functionality the interface handler makes available, you write code in the .wsc file to implement those interfaces. For example, one of the most common types of COM components (and the one you'll be creating) is the Automation component, which is a component with properties, methods, and events that you can call from other applications. Microsoft built the low-level COM interfaces required to implement this functionality into an Automation interface handler. In your .wsc file, you define the properties, methods, and events you want to expose, and the Automation handler makes sure they're called correctly when the host application needs them. You use special XML elements to write these definitions.
What Are XML Elements?
In WSC, XML elements define the .wsc file's script component and its behavior. Because .xml files are similar to .html files, the XML elements are similar to HTML tags. A basic .wsc file might contain any number of the following common XML elements:
The <registration> element. If the host that will access the script component uses the Windows Registry to create an instance of that component (e.g., WSH), you need to include the <registration> element. This element lets you register your script component as an available COM component in the Registry. You don't need to include the <registration> element if the host doesn't directly use the Windows Registry when creating an instance of the script component (e.g., IE 5.0).
The <script> element. This element contains the code that implements the logic of the script component, depending on what type of COM component you're creating. For example, if you're creating a COM Automation component, you declare properties, methods, and events in a <public> element, then write the script to define them in one or more <script> elements.
The <public> element. This element contains declarations for properties, methods, and events that your script component exposes. The declarations point to variables or functions that you define in a separate <script> block. You use the <public> element to specify that a script component implements the COM Automation interface handler.
The <implements> element. This element specifies the COM interface handler for the script component, which determines what type of COM component the script component will be. Because the <public> element specifies that a script component implements the COM Automation interface handler, you don't need to use an <implements> element for the Automation handler.
The <component> and <package> elements. The <component> element contains one entire script component definition. Multiple <component> elements can appear in the same .wsc file, in which case a master <package> element contains the multiple <component> elements.
The <object> element. This element contains information about an object you're using in your script component, such as another COM component.
The <resource> element. This element contains values that you can't hard-code into your script component (e.g., dynamic data, strings that you need to translate).
The <reference> element. This element references a type library you want to use in your script component.
- The <comment> element. This element contains text that the script component runtime engine ignores when it parses and executes the .wsc file.
The XML elements that you'll use to create the progress bar dialog box are <package>, <component>, <registration>, <public>, <implements>, and <script>. Now, let's move to the task at hand—building the script component. Let's look at the first stage in using WSC to build the progress bar dialog box.
How Do You Begin?
The first stage in building a script component is to identify its requirements and determine which objects, methods, properties, and events can meet those requirements. For example, suppose you want to create a small IE Web browser window with an HTML page that displays a progress bar. The first task is to consider how you want the progress bar dialog box to look and act. Then, you determine the methods, properties, and events this IE progress bar dialog box needs to meet those requirements.
Let's say you want a way to specify the dialog box's size and position because you don't want it to open at the default size that IE specifies. Checking the object model for the WebBrowser object in the Reference for Visual Basic Developers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/ c-frame.htm?/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reflist_vb.asp), you find that this object's Top, Left, Height, and Width properties let you set a dialog box's distance from the top of the screen, distance from the left of the screen, height, and width, respectively. The Reference for Visual Basic Developers is a handy guide when you're creating script components because it discusses all the supported properties, methods, and events of the WebBrowser and InternetExplorer objects. To navigate to this reference in the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library CD-ROM or DVD, go to Platform SDK, Web Services, Web Workshop, Reusing Browser Technology, Reusing the WebBrowser Control, Reference for VB.
With the dialog box's size and position requirements met, you can now identify the requirements for the progress bar and related elements. You want the dialog box to have a title and to textually and graphically show progress information. To display progress information textually, you need two string properties that you can change as the script progresses. To display progress information graphically, you need a property that lets you specify in a percentage how complete the script's execution is so that you can accurately draw the progress bar. To cancel the script's execution if a problem occurs, you need an event. Finally, you need a way to easily display or hide the dialog box on the screen.
No object currently meets all these requirements. However, you can build a custom WSC object called ProgressDialogBox with the methods and properties from the IE object model. Then, in a script, you can use ProgressDialogBox to take in the necessary parameters and pass those parameters to the appropriate methods and properties of the IE objects.
To meet the specified requirements, ProgressDialogBox needs two methods: Open and Close. The Open method needs to take in five parameters:
objBox.Open "title", w, x, y, z
where "title" is the dialog box's title, w is the dialog box's distance from the top of the screen, x is the dialog box's distance from the left of the screen, y is the dialog box's height, and z is the dialog box's width.
ProgressDialogBox needs four write-only properties (i.e., Line1, Line2, PercentageComplete, and Visible) and one event (i.e., Cancel). The Line1 and Line2 properties are the strings you use for the dialog box's textual progress information. The PercentageComplete property provides the percentage you use to draw the progress bar, and the Visible property lets you easily display or hide a dialog box. The Cancel event lets you cancel the script, if necessary. Table 1 summarizes these properties, methods, and events and provides examples of their usage.
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