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Show QltxntS'fcfes Wednesday, September 22, 1999 SMS SI Answer by: Erie Hawley, Utah State University Extension Computer Network Specialist Two parts of a computer need to be checked, software such as your operating system (Windows or DOS for example) and applications like WordPerfect, Excel, Quicken, etc., and hardware such as the CPU, memory, moth- erboard and disk drives. Most Y2K problems are found in the computer BIOS (basic system), which provides information the computer needs to know all the time to keep it running. If the BIOS is not Y2K OK, the system could fail even if aU of the software is OK. The best thing to do is con- tact the manufacturer of your computer. Checking the HardwareBIOS: Before checking your hardware you should create a bootable floppy disk. In Windows 9598NT right click on the floppy drive icon in My Computer," choose Format and check the Copy System Files checkbox. When checking a system, its best to do it by booting from this floppy so you dont cause your Y2K crisis today instead of January. AUTOMATIC CHECKS: Use commercial software, designed to check for Y2K compliance, that can analyte your system hardware and BIOS. There are many software packages or tools that do this and some of them are free. One is available from your USU Extension County agent or can be downloaded from http: www.ext.usu.eduy2k. This will test whether your BIOS and system clock are in good shape or need further testing. It will also certify that leap year is computed correctly and test other critical Y2K dates for the next decade. It may ask you to perform the manual tests listed below. MANUAL CHECKS: You can boot from the floppy and change your system date and time to see if the clock changes or rolls over." You need to check if it rolls over correctly when running as well as when it is turned off. This requires two tests for each date Free target shooting will be available on shooting ranges at you want to check. Remember the Division of Wildlife Resourcthat leap year rollover needs to es two hunter education centers be checked as well as the Decem- Sept. 25, in celebration of Naber 31, January 1 rollover. Heres tional Hunting and Fishing Day. A proclamation declaring Sept. a testing example: TEST ONE: - At the DOS 25 National Hunting and Fishprompt type date," change the ing Day in Utah was signed Sept date to 123199; 2- - type time, 2 by Gov. Mike Leavitt The only portion of the shootchange the time to 11:57 pjn.; the machine ON, wait 5 ing ranges not open for free minutes; 4- - type date, make shooting that day will be the sure it indicates the year 2000; skeet and trap ranges at both 5- type time, make sure it centers, which are ran by a prishows a time just after midnight; vate concessionaire. 6- - IMPORTANT: reset the date While use of the ranges will be and time to the CURRENT time free Sept 25, hearing and eye and date before you remove the protection are required and must be purchased by those who don't floppy and reboot to Windows. TEST TWO: - At the DOS bring their own. Earplugs cost prompt, type date, change the .25 cents and glasses are availdate to 123199; 2- - type time, able for $2. change the time to 11:57 p.m.; the machine OFF, leave the floppy IN the disk drive; 4-- wait 5 minutes, turn the machine on; enough water in an area so birds for5- type date, make sure it indi- can move from day to day to be close still and in 6- proximicates the year 2000; type age time, make sure it shows a time ty to drinking water. In addition to the release of just after midnight; 7- - IMPORd birds, the Division is TANT: reset the date and time and to the CURRENT time and date trapping relocating wild' before you remove the floppy and chukars from existing flocks reboot to Windows. If your com- within Utah for release in areas, puter fails either of these tests, where populations have declined you most likely need to replace and where new guzzlers have it. Local retailers can assist you been constructed. Many of the chukars that will in the upgrading process. If your computer passes, you need to be released this fall have been make sure the software is OK. banded with aluminum leg Checking the Software: As bands. Hunters who harvest with hardware, you can contact banded birds should phone inforthe vendor or manufacturer of mation to the Division at the your software to determine if it telephone number printed on the is Y2K OK, or you may use com- band. Information collected from mercial software designed to band returns will be used by bi- -. check for Y2K compliance of your ologists to assess released bird programs. As a rule of thumb, returns to the hunters bag, surDOS and Windows 3. 03.1 are vival information and dispersion not Y2K OK, and Windows 9598 of birds into preferred habitats. Because of safety concerns for NT can be made so. Most software manufacturers have up- potentially overcrowding areas grades or patches that can solve with hunters, and because of the most potential issues. Check sensitivity of the location of guzzler sites being vised by wildlife, their web sites. Division will not provide the Direct column topic questions to: Donna Falkenborg, Utah maps of guzzler site locations of State University Extension, more specific release informa-- 1 0500 Old Main Hill, Logan UT tion. Chukars are an exotic bird, 15 84322-050Phone inches in length and weighing 20 fax: ounces. They are native to placemail: donnalext.usu.edu. es like India and Afghanistan in the Middle East The chukar partridge inhabits some of the most inhospitable habitat Utah has to it for y2k?" pen-rear- ed ty for Utah's upland game sportsmen. Since the closing of the Divisions last game farm in 1993, many Utah upland game hunters have expressed an interest in seeing some of their license funds used to raise game birds for release into the wild for hunting. Beginning in 1997, the Division re instituted limited releases of chukar partridge. The Division is not operating a game farm of its own, as was the case until 1993. Instead, birds for release are now grown by a Utah game bird producer, purchased under contract by the Division, and released into the Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Credential rn pen-reare- 0. 3; severe drought or winter conditions. Over the past several years, the Division has constructed n hundreds of new game bird and small mammal guzzlers in the best chukar habitat of Utahs desert country. Guzzlers have been installed on many west desert mountain borranges from the Utah-Idah- o der to the Mohave desert of Washington County, in the very southwestern comer ofthe state. The new guzzler design allows the watering devices to be placed in the roughest, rockiest, cheat-gras- s infested habitats Utah has to offer ideal for the chukar partridge. The new guzzlers are placed in long, narrow canyons with steep, 350-gallo- rocky slopes, providing good escape cover for chukars. Complexes of four to six guzzlers are built about one mile apart in an area. wild. Biologists then move down the Chukars will be released into mountain range a couple of miles areas ofUtah where the Division and build another guzzler comhas constructed new game bird plex. hunter ed- Uli Braun corns 1- partridge releases During September, the Division of Wildlife Resources will release about 4,000 chukar partridge throughout Utah. Adult birds will be released as part of a continuing effort to provide more hunting opportuni- The Divisions two ucation centers are the Cache Valley Hunter Education Center, 2851 West 200 North in Logan, and the Lee Kay Center for Hunter Education, 6000 West 2100 South in Salt Lake City. Were allowing free shooting on the ranges to celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day, and to promote shooting sports, said Lenny Rees, Division hunter education coordinator. There 1- 1999 chukar Page 7 Hunter education center shooting ranges open for free as national Hunting and ishing Day celebrated September 25th What should we do to our older home computer to prepare 3; Nephi, Utah . will be no charge on the rifle, archery and handgun ranges, to encourage people to come out and site in their firearms before the upcoming hunts. Each center offers both small bore and large bore rifle and handgun ranges, and archery ranges. Shooters and archers are required to bring their own firearms and ammunition, and archery tackle and arrows. For more information call the Lee Kay Center for Hunter Eduor the cation at (801) Cache Valley Hunter Education Center at (435) Free shooting at the centers is 972-132- 6, 753-460- 0. being offered to celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day, which was established by Congress in 1972 to recognize the vital role hunters and anglers play in wildlife conservation. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, through special license fees and excise taxes on their equipment, sportsmen and sportswomen contribute more than $3 million by the National Certification each day about $22 billion to Board for Therapeutic Massage date to pay for land acquisition. and Bodywork (NCBTMB). Uli Braun passed the NCBTMB certification examination in July 1999 in Salt Lake City. The National Certification Examination in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork is developed through extensive research by industry experts in anatomy, physiology, massage and bodywork theory, assessment and techniques, and business and Uli Braun, of Nephi, the owner ofStudio of Massage Therapy in Nephi and Santaquin, recently joined the ranks of more than 34,000 massage therapists and bodyworkers currently certified wildlife programs. For more information about National Hunting and Fishing Day, call the National Shooting Sports Foundation at (203) 0 or visit the foundations web site at wwwzihfday.org. 426-132- From page 6 Ducks scaup restriction has been added to the daily duck bag limit. Hunters are encouraged to re0 view page 24 of the Waterfowl Proclamation, which provides a drawing and description of scaup. The proclamation will be available from Division offices by Sept. 20, and from hunting and fishing license agents statewide by Sept. 24. Those with questions about the 1999-200- upcoming waterfowl season may call their nearest Division office, or the Divisions Salt Lake City office at (801) 538-470- 0. CORPORATION professional ethics. The NCTMB credential determines which practitioners have mastered the knowledge required to practice massage therapy and bodywork, lb earn the credential, several criteria must be met, including a minimum of five hundred hours of schooling. Nationally Certified practitioners have also agreed to abide by a Code of Eth- Mixed locally SEE US FIRST FOR ROCK PRODUCTS! that a massage therapist or bodyworker has mastered the basic professional levels of knowledge essential for performing safe and effective programs of therapy for clients, responding up-to-da- Competitive pricing Guaranteed to please Great service ics. As the NCBTMB Chairperson says, Passing this exam means to typical questions and problems that arise in a session. Uli Braun has been a massage offer. therapist for 10 years and has Chukars are found in the bar- received her training at West ren desert areas of the state and Wind Academy in Phoenix, Ariprefer steep, rocky, arid slopes. zona. She stated, I am proud to have Low growing shrubs such as cheat-gras- s met the highest professional saltbush and sagebrush, vegetative zones below the measures possible by passing the juniper tree belt seem to be pre- National Certification Examinaferred. Talus and rocky slopes tion in Therapeutic Massage and provide chukars with concea- Bodywork. Now I look forward to lment and escape cover. Foods maintaining my certification and consist of grass seeds, weed staying through coneducation in flowers buds and in and my professeeds, tinuing the winter, new growth cheat sion." The National Certification grass. Male and female chukars are Board for Therapeutic Massage almost identical in appearance, and Bodywork is a nonprofit orexcept that male birds will often ganization committed to fosterhave a button-like- " spur on the ing high standards of ethical and back of the leg. professional practice in the deThe 1999 chukar season livery of services and the compeopened Sept. 18 and runs tency of practitioners of therathrough Jan. 31, 2000 in some, peutic massage and bodywork. areas of Utah. 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