USCB has announced its 2018 baseball schedule, beginning with the Sand Sharks hosting Milligan College on Feb. 2 at Hardeeville's Richard Gray Sports Complex.
The Sand Sharks will compete against six opponents currently ranked in the NAIA top 25 poll, as well as five games against NCAA Division II teams. The Sun Conference schedule features three-game series against four ranked teams – No. 4 Southeastern (Fla.), No. 10 Keiser (Fla.), No. 21 St. Thomas (Fla.) and No. 25 Webber International (Fla.) – and the non-conference slate includes two games against No. 15 Middle Georgia and a three-game set at No. 12 Georgia Gwinnett.
The Sun Conference tournament is set to begin May 3, followed by the NAIA World Series Opening Round on May 14, and the NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho, on May 24.
The Sand Sharks finished the 2017 campaign with a 32-22 record, and a 13-11 record in Sun Conference play.
Read the school's full release here.
Posted on December 18, 2017 by justinjarrettPosted in Baseball, Sports, USCBTagged Baseball, Sports, USCB.


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Can Greek Tragedy Get Us Through The Pandemic?
A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that's all of us.
By Elif Batuman
"Children of Thebes, why are you here?" Oscar Isaac asked. His face filled the monitor on my dining table. (It was my partner's turn to use the desk.) We were a couple of months into lockdown, just past seven in the evening, and a few straggling cheers for essential workers came in through the window. Isaac was looking smoldery with a quarantine beard, a gold chain, an Airpod, and a black T-shirt. His display name was set to "Oedipus."
Isaac was one of several famous actors performing Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" from their homes, in the first virtual performance by Theater of War Productions: a group that got its start in 2008, staging Sophocles' "Ajax" and "Philoctetes" for U.S. military audiences and, beginning in 2009, on military installations around the world, including in Kuwait, Qatar, and Guantánamo Bay, with a focus on combat trauma. After each dramatic reading, a panel made up of people in active service, veterans, military spouses, and/or psychiatrists would describe how the play resonated with their experiences of war, before opening up the discussion to the audience. Since its founding, Theater of War Productions has addressed different kinds of trauma. It has produced Euripides' "The Bacchae" in rural communities affected by the opioid crisis, "The Madness of Heracles" in neighborhoods afflicted by gun violence and gang wars, and Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound" in prisons. "Antigone in Ferguson," which focusses on crises between communities and law enforcement, was motivated by an analogy between Oedipus' son's unburied body and that of Michael Brown, left on the street for roughly four hours after Brown was killed by police; it was originally performed at Michael Brown's high school. Read the full piece at The New Yorker.

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ByTowne Cinema closing after more than 70 years
Published Friday, December 4, 2020 12:43PM EST Last Updated Friday, December 4, 2020 12:59PM EST
OTTAWA -- After more than 70 years of showing films to Ottawa audiences, the curtain is set to fall at the Bytowne Cinema for the final time.
In a statement, ByTowne owner Bruce White announced the cinema will be closing on Dec. 31, citing fewer customers and fewer films available during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The cinema has been losing money every day since the pandemic hit. Even when we've been allowed to be open, audiences are dramatically smaller," said White.
"The ByTowne has a fantastic customer base, but many ByTowners just aren't coming these days. And I don't blame them: our staff have done an amazing job with COVID protocols that keep customers as safe as possible, but everyone's risk assessment is personal, and specific to their circumstances."
The ByTowne on Rideau Street opened its doors on Feb. 10, 1947 as the Nelson cinema. According to the ByTowne website, Local entrepreneur Hyman Berlin built the cinema through the fall and winter of 1946. The first film was called "Johnny Frenchman."
The ByTowne closed in the spring during the first wave of the pandemic, but reopened in July when Ottawa moved to Stage 3 of the COVID-19 reopening plan. All movie theatres were forced to closed in Ottawa for 28 days in October when Ottawa moved to a modified Stage 2.
Theatres have been allowed to open in Ottawa since Nov. 7, when Ottawa moved to the orange-restrict zone as part of Ottawa's coloured-coded COVID-19 restrictions.
The ByTowne says while there have been fewer customers during the pandemic, there have also been fewer films available.
"Another factor in my decision to end programming as of Dec. 31 is that we're running out of movies," writes White.
"Since the pandemic hit, distributors have also had to make some business decisions. They've sold some titles to streaming services, skipping the marketing expense of releasing them to only a few limited-seating cinemas. Other movies have been moved from fall and winter releases to, well, some unspecified point in a possibly rosier future."
White says he started working on a succession plan in August, 2019, hoping to find someone to carrying on the ByTowne tradition and bring in fresh ideas.
"I was making some progress at that. Then the pandemic hit," writes White, noting he was at retirement age.
"It's still possible that someone will want to take over the ByTowne business and offer independent cinema to the ByTowne's wonderful fan base. But it's a scenario that's unlikely until we get out of the eye of the pandemic storm."
The ByTowne currently has 15 employees. White asks people to consider donating to his new project, "The Staff Appreciation Fund."
"E-transfer any amount to cinemail@bytowne.ca and I will make sure the Fund is equitably distributed to the staffers, ideally in time for Christmas," said White.
Two men work on the marquee of an independent theatre in Ottawa, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS)


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Afterschool Focus: The Nita M. Lowey 21st CCLC Program, From Day One to Present Day
Program Profile: SPLASH 21st CCLC Keeps Students and Partnerships Central to Program Mission
News from the Field: Jones Center 21st CCLC Supports Students in Person and Online
Afterschool Focus
The Nita M. Lowey 21st CCLC Program, From Day One to Present Day
Those of us who work in afterschool know that the Nita M. Lowey 21st CCLC programs play a special role in our communities. In this issue of Illinois Quality Afterschool Quarterly, we are revisiting the history and purpose of the 21st CCLC program and showing how programs are supporting students, schools, and communities today.
Learn more about the history and purpose of the 21st CCLC program.
SPLASH 21st CCLC Keeps Students and Partnerships Central to Program Mission
Since it was launched in 2005, SPLASH 21st CCLC has grown from a single site to a total of five. Even as the program has grown and changed, student-centered programming and strong relationships have remained a central part of the program.
Learn more about SPLASH 21st CCLC.
News from the Field
Jones Center 21st CCLC Supports Students in Person and Online
Like 21st CCLC programs across the country, the Harold Colbert Jones Memorial Community Center 21st CCLC program in Chicago Heights has changed its afterschool programming as schools and communities continue to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 21st CCLC has offered online programming, modified in-person activities, and collaborated with schools and other projects to continue providing the supportive environment and academic enrichment that students need.
Learn more about Jones Center 21st CCLC.
Supporting Students with Disabilities During Virtual Learning
Students with disabilities may face unique challenges during school closures or virtual programming. The CEEDAR (Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform) Center has developed resources to help educators support students with disabilities. These include a virtual toolkit to support online learning and a family guide to at-home learning for parents of students with special needs.
Citizen science, or scientific research conducted by amateur or nonprofessional scientists, has become a popular form of virtual or hybrid programming. This blog post from the U.S. Department of Education's You for Youth (Y4Y) 21st CCLC resource portal provides an overview of citizen science with links to free training and several project ideas to get your team started.
Important Dates and Events
November 19, 2020 — Fall 2020 Resource Bulletin Release
January 7, 2021 — Winter 2021 Newsletter Release
Grants and Other Opportunities
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)/Candlewick Press "Light the Way" grant awards $3,000 to assist a library in conducting exemplary and replicable outreach to underserved populations through a new and innovative program or expansion of an existing program. Applications are due on December 1. Learn more on the ALSC website.
Do you have a question for your afterschool colleagues? Would you like to know what's going on in other Illinois 21st CCLC programs? Join the Illinois Quality Afterschool Facebook Group.
Would you like to receive the Illinois Quality Afterschool newsletter and resource brief? Fill out our online subscription form.
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Q: Maven version plugin reports not generating I want to take a report of what are the newer versions available on the dependencies using mvn site
command.
Version goal used is dependency-updates-report. Report do generate in command.versions:dependency-updates-report
But not in mvn site command.
This is my pom.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.dexter</groupId>
    <artifactId>vulnTest</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.owasp</groupId>
                <artifactId>dependency-check-maven</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <format>HTML</format>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.7</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>dependency-updates-report</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.3</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.7</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-jdbc -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
            <version>5.0.2.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-jdbc -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.19</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-configuration/commons-configuration -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
            <version>20030311.152757</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-io/commons-io -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.mail/mail -->
        <!--<dependency>
            <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
            <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.1</version>
        </dependency>-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security.oauth</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-oauth2</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.1.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>
    <!--  <reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.2</version>
        <reportSets>
          <reportSet>
            <reports>
              <report>project-team</report>
            </reports>
          </reportSet>
        </reportSets>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </reporting>-->
</project>

A: You have do define the plugin and goal as reporting:
<reporting>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.7</version>
            <reportSets>
                <reportSet>
                    <id>dependency-updates-report</id>
                    <reports>
                        <report>dependency-updates-report</report>
                    </reports>
                </reportSet>
            </reportSets>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</reporting>

Now maven-site-plugin will use versions-maven-plugin and you should see in log:
[INFO] Generating "Dependency Updates Report" report    --- versions-maven-plugin:2.7

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RooBee Beauty: Hi. Don't Hate Me.
I feel kind of silly posting after...oh...months. :/ I thought I would have more time after school let out, but in reality all my time and energy transferred to working 40+ hours at my job. If it's not one thing, it's another, right? But I don't want anyone to think I don't care about this blog/channel and I feel horrible Randi has kept this thing afloat without me. (Sorry, Randi!) She's the best.
It's such a beautiful mixture of dark purple base and chunks of multicolor glitter. I love that it has the depth and sophistication of a darker polish, but it's still interesting and fun with the glitter. The formula is a amazing, too--one coat and it's opaque. Boom. Gotta love that!
And another combination I'm LOVING lately is OPI's Dollface with Sephora's Pot of Gold.
I'm so sad that this didn't photograph as well as it looked in person. It was such a lovely, feminine neutral. I ended up repainting my nails the same combo after it had chipped. That never happens, people. Never. That should speak to this combo's level of awesome.
Okay, that's all for now. I'll be back very soon with other things I've been loving. Until then!


Spring Training offers the promise of great things ahead for (most) Major League Baseball teams — a championship run, the first winning season in years, the call-up of a hot prospect. But Spring Training 2016 also meant an end to one of the great baseball celebrations: Adam Jones is going to stop planting pies in the faces of his Baltimore Orioles teammates after walk-off victories. At least for a while.
But while we mourn the loss of an Oriole pie to the face, there are plenty of memories to last a lifetime. So to celebrate the legacy of a great celebration, here are some memorable "pie in the face" moments in Major League Baseball.


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Popp - Laya
Pre-order - Street Date 7/5/2019
With seemingly effortless precision and a sense for the imperfect, Popp merges ambient, third stream, minimal music on his debut album, Laya. The title derives from the Sanskrit language and signifies a place of rest and mental inactivity. In the spring of 2019 Popp created these eight tracks from hours of improvisation in his own studio. The moments thus captured were then enriched with more sounds and effects to add layers and shed the manually played percussion of all it's earthliness. The result is an album of concealed complexity and unadorned beauty. Raised on an old farm in rural Bavaria, Simon Popp started playing the drums at the age of nine. During his studies at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Munich, he extensively studied African music from countries like Togo, Ghana, and Benin where rhythm is central to culture. On his quest for this world's sounds, Popp collected and recorded a wide variety of drums and other instruments, adding to the placelessness of Laya. 180 gram pressing, includes download.


Ireland's Darren O'Neill stopped Gabriel Richards in the first round at the European Olympic Qualifying event in Samsun, Turkey, on Tuesday.
The Kilkenny fighter floored Richards twice before another standing count for the Swede quickly ended the contest.
O'Neill, 30, will now take on top seed Abdulkadir Abdullayev from Azerbaijan for a place in the semi-finals.
The top three men will earn a place for their country in their division at the Rio Games this summer.
David Oliver Joyce had a unanimous points victory over Otar Eranosyan from Georgia in the lightweight division.
But world bronze medallist Michael O'Reilly, the number one seed in the middleweight class, lost to Ilari Kijala of Finland in a unanimous points decision.


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// Copyright 2019 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "components/signin/internal/identity_manager/primary_account_policy_manager_impl.h"

#include <memory>
#include <string>

#include "base/test/task_environment.h"
#include "components/prefs/testing_pref_service.h"
#include "components/signin/internal/identity_manager/account_tracker_service.h"
#include "components/signin/internal/identity_manager/fake_profile_oauth2_token_service_delegate.h"
#include "components/signin/internal/identity_manager/primary_account_manager.h"
#include "components/signin/internal/identity_manager/primary_account_policy_manager_impl.h"
#include "components/signin/internal/identity_manager/profile_oauth2_token_service.h"
#include "components/signin/public/base/account_consistency_method.h"
#include "components/signin/public/base/signin_pref_names.h"
#include "components/signin/public/base/test_signin_client.h"
#include "components/sync_preferences/testing_pref_service_syncable.h"
#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"

class PrimaryAccountPolicyManagerImplTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  PrimaryAccountPolicyManagerImplTest()
      : test_signin_client_(&user_prefs_),
        token_service_(
            &user_prefs_,
            std::make_unique<FakeProfileOAuth2TokenServiceDelegate>()),
        primary_account_manager_(&test_signin_client_,
                                 &token_service_,
                                 &account_tracker_,
                                 signin::AccountConsistencyMethod::kDisabled,
                                 nullptr /*policy_manager*/),
        policy_manager_(&test_signin_client_) {
    PrimaryAccountManager::RegisterProfilePrefs(user_prefs_.registry());
    PrimaryAccountManager::RegisterPrefs(local_state_.registry());

    policy_manager_.InitializePolicy(&local_state_, &primary_account_manager_);
  }

  ~PrimaryAccountPolicyManagerImplTest() override {
    test_signin_client_.Shutdown();
  }

  base::test::TaskEnvironment task_environment_;
  sync_preferences::TestingPrefServiceSyncable user_prefs_;
  TestingPrefServiceSimple local_state_;
  TestSigninClient test_signin_client_;
  ProfileOAuth2TokenService token_service_;
  AccountTrackerService account_tracker_;
  PrimaryAccountManager primary_account_manager_;
  PrimaryAccountPolicyManagerImpl policy_manager_;
};

TEST_F(PrimaryAccountPolicyManagerImplTest, Prohibited) {
  local_state_.SetString(prefs::kGoogleServicesUsernamePattern,
                         ".*@google.com");
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("test@google.com"));
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("happy@google.com"));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("test@invalid.com"));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("test@notgoogle.com"));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername(std::string()));
}

TEST_F(PrimaryAccountPolicyManagerImplTest, TestAlternateWildcard) {
  // Test to make sure we accept "*@google.com" as a pattern (treat it as if
  // the admin entered ".*@google.com").
  local_state_.SetString(prefs::kGoogleServicesUsernamePattern, "*@google.com");
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("test@google.com"));
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("happy@google.com"));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("test@invalid.com"));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername("test@notgoogle.com"));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_manager_.IsAllowedUsername(std::string()));
}

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Wolfies World – Wolfie Rankin
The Werewolf of Melbourne.
Art by @Onionwolf
This is not the future
Here we sit thinking we're so advanced, but I often wonder.
We still drive cars and are happy to burn coal and oil, it might be saving our jobs, but is having a job more important than saving life, all life?
We can ignore climate change, wars and gun violence, while Celebrity sex scandals and baby bumps fill our magazines and newspapers.
What is this obsession we have for non-news?
Our media is a bit like hoping to sit down to a big roast dinner on a sunday and finding that all we're really getting is a plate full of jellybeans.
It's crap like this which is making Murdoch rich and the population stupid.
Our computers are marvelous, yet unable to think or consider, or know anything about their user or anything else, and they can be so damn frustrating to use.
And why the fuck are we still religious in 2013? can't more people see that religion is the biggest ball and chain in the leg of humanity? it holds back science, medicine, and equality between the sexes and gets in the way of same sex marriage.
As a kid, I used to think that soon after the year 2000, things would be amazing, but I feel as though we've been ripped off.
Where are the big dreams we had?
Tags: 2000, equality, future, religion, War, Wolfie
Why yes, that's me on that shirt.
Some people like my logo enough to wear it out, and if you consider yourself to be one of those people, then you may be interested to know where to get the shirt.
It's on Redbubble with all my other photos and things (You can get some really nice photos I've taken over the years as prints, posters or postcards).
If you buy the shirt, I recommend a brown one.
Wolfie!
Tags: redbubble, shirt, t-shirt, Wolfie
Behind the wall.
It was hopefully the final night of being in hospital, it was hot in there and between the temperature of the room, the sickness and the runs, there was little room for sleep.
Laying next to me was a patient whose wife had seen him admitted, but had to go back to the country to keep everything running, neither he nor I had seen a family member or friend for days, and we were both slipping into a kind of madness.
Nothing works unless you ask for it days in advance, there's no TV and there's no Phone, if you bring in a Radio it might work.
This Man wanted to phone his wife and tried to ring her, only to discover it wouldn't let him, so he beat the crap out of it with the handset. Now I'm not one for vandalism, but I understand why he did it.
Behind the wall, someone who worked at the hospital was reciting a story they'd written, and now and then they would ask one of the nurses to play one of the characters, none of them were actors, that was plain, they all sounded like they were reading words from a page.
But the strangest thing about it was the story was about Wolfie the Werewolf.
I remember hearing bits and pieces of the story, and the accompanying score, for there was music to go with it, in between random hospital noises.
I would have got out of bed and tapped him on the shoulder, and shown him my t-shirt with my avatar on it, if I wasn't so sick.
There he was, telling the tale aloud, while the real Wolfie was having a hard night, only meters away.
PS – His Wolfie died, I lived and went home to Katie.
Tags: 2010, Melbourne, recording, RMH, Role Playing Game, Royal Melbourne Hospital, RPG, story, Wolfie
A rose unfurls
In the last few weeks I've been growing facial hair, out of curiosity.
I was never "allowed" to do it before, either because of Mum stating that she hated beards, or my teenage inner-self feeling that somehow the act of growing a beard would be both a source of horror and deep embarrassment.
But I've got past it, the whiskers are growing, and not only that, there is a feeling of liberation, there's a personal growth happening along side the hair growth.
I feel almost like I'm standing on the shore of a large lake, with a small boat which I've stared at for years, but never had dared to take out for a paddle.
I am frightened of change, change for me has almost always been something bad…
but now a change is coming, which I feel I'm in control of.
I've got into the boat and it's taking me out into the lake, and I'm not afraid, for once, I'm not afraid… I can see the shore slipping into the distance as My boat moves across crystal clear and completely calm water into the center of the lake, which I can't see at this point, and that's how life is… but it's going to be ok.
The beard is just the tip of the iceberg, there's more going on inside, it's calm and quiet, like I've figured it all out at last and have lost all reason to be nervous.
I think I once read a story about American Indian boys going out into the wilderness in their early teens, as a coming of age ceremony… and staying until they found out who they were, and then returning home with a new name.
My Dear friend Michelle would know if this is right, As the blood runs through her veins.
For such a long time I have toyed with the idea of changing My name, But I couldn't, It felt like a disservice to my Parents, who You probably know, I love dearly, despite Death taking them from Me.
But then, This is about Me and My life, and where I find myself at this time.
And I think of the remaining years that I have to stand up and say "Yes, this is Me" and be proud of myself.
I almost lost the chance, as you know.
Up until last year I still had a Sister, who knew my Name, and Knew who gave it to me and why. She could recite the two names in the middle in Her sleep, She knew my last name, and what that meant.
But She was taken from Me by Cancer.
I don't have much contact with family anymore, there are embers in the fireplace, but that's about all, there's only one who knows a smattering of my Roots and that's My Niece.
What is left of the old Me, How many, apart from corporations requesting money for unpaid bills, know Me by that name?
Some years ago, I began calling myself Wolfie, and it worked, it was
accepted. It was only a nickname, but now it's become a lot more than that.
Was my real name Wolfie all along?
I never spent one day in Tibet, but Ladies and Gents, I think I've found myself.
Now that other factor, Google Plus and their silly names policy.
People have been talking about the use of "Nyms" (the Pseudo kind), and there's this twitch inside when I apply it to "Wolfie Rankin", because it's gone beyond that point.
When some say that "nyms" are nothing but worthless trolls and hoons, who make life difficult for "normal" people who have lives and jobs, and therefore are superior to anyone they wish stick the toes of their nice Italian shoes into, and they apply that
stereotype to me, then how do I feel?
I often think a twitter businessman in a clean suit and tie, is every bit as bad as that pretend sexy lady bot who pops up at times and tries to trick me into viewing a URL.
I don't care what Google thinks, or the people who use it, But perhaps it's the last straw.
I know I'm not a troll and you know it too… I'm Wolfie!
I want to be Myself, not what anyone else thinks I should be, and I think that time has finally come.
The boat is going further and further out into the lake.
On the seat beside me a red rose unfurls and I smell its sweet perfume.
I leave the person I was on the bank, and become myself, the one I was meant to be.
Like the Wolf inside, this is a time of Transformation, Change, and Rebirth.
Finally at long last, it's OK to simply be Myself.
This is Me, I am Wolfie Rankin.
Tags: epiphany, google+, Nickname, Nyms, personal growth, Pseudonym, self discovery, Wolfie
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Wolfies Tea Party.
I had a bit of idea, just a small one, but then, a small idea can be quite lovely.
and the implications might be bigger.
Basically all it is, is that sometime tonight, between six and nine pm, we sit down in our favourite quiet spot and have a cup of tea, with a cake or a biscuit.
You will note that I didn't give any specific time, It's tea, it shouldn't be regimented to a specific minute of the day, and many of us are settling kids down for the night, having our evening meal, or watching a favourite tv show… do this when you feel you are ready.
Switch the lights off, except for the nearest one, the tv and the radio too, it will be you, alone, or with a friend, a cup of tea, and a bikkie.
It need not be fancy, you could be at a camp fire with an old metal mug if you're
lucky enough to be in that situation.
But… because we're doing this online thing, what I'd like you to do, is grab your mobile, take a photo of your tea, or yourself having tea (don't spill it) or whatever you feel might be a good shot, Take it and upload it, either to Yfrog or Flickr and tweet with the hashtag #WRtea, So that the rest of us can see you've joined in.
It'll be a much nicer tea party than that other one, and look at the electricity we'll be saving by switching things off for a little while.
Let's allow a little Global Togetherness to happen, and create a piece of peace.
Please join us, you'd be most welcome, and spread the word!
*note: I may re-post photos to the Facebook Event Page, I've found that while Yfrog photos easily crosspost to Facebook, Twitpic ones do not, hrmmm.
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Categories : internet, Social Network
#WolfieTU Tweetup
A tweetup is defined as a twitter users get together, usually in a local area.
The general idea would be to gather a set of people who you regularly talk to, who live close by, or who might be in the area visiting, and meet at a pub, a gallery or a park for instance.
Now the world is a lot smaller because of the way we communicate online, and although we may chat to friends in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Tokyo, New York or Hobart, it's obviously going to be really difficult to get those people in the same place, at the same time, in a real life setting, although that would be very desirable.
So what I'm proposing is to have a global tweetup in Second life, possibly next week.
Second life is a virtual reality meeting place, and in my opinion is more Social Media than a game, some disagree, but whatever position you hold, the fact remains that people do meet there and talk.
Why we'd use Second life is because you can have multiple people in one space, possibly twenty or so, and use voice.
It sounds as though if we had twenty people all talking at once, then conversation would become very difficult to follow, but not really. Being in Second life is a bit like being at a party, it's only the people that you are standing near who can be heard clearly, so by mixing in and moving around, voices fade in and out just like in real life.
Since the feedback on Twitter was positive, I think we should try it out.
But I would like to get a few things sorted out first, namely a suitable day, and a suitable time.
Some time towards the end of the week would probably best, Thursday, Friday or Satuday night, possibly around nine in the evening, Melbourne time. (+10 AEST).
Those who would like to try this out and hear the voices of those who they tweet with, should create a Second life account as soon as possible, please don't leave it till the last minute as the software does take a while to download and install, and then there's an awkward bit as you suddenly try to come to grips with unfamiliar software… don't be too worried as I can help you with this when we're there.
We will naturally enough, be using ABC Island as the location.
Secondlife registration and software is available here and is completely free of charge. (Mac/PC/Linux)
If you have questions, you can ask here or tweet with #WolfieTU
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The men's team sabre competition at the 2015 European Games in Baku was held on 26 June at the Crystal Hall 3.

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The Langham, Chicago
330 North Wabash Avenue
Pacific Eagle acquired this Class A site in downtown Chicago in 2010 and completely renovated the first 13 stories of the iconic 52-story IBM Tower that sits on the National Register of Historic Places. This 52-story building was completed in 1972 and was the last building to be designed by world renowned architect Mies van der Rohe. The Langham, Chicago has been open since mid-2013 and features 316 rooms and over 15,000 square feet of event/meeting space. The hotel received the #1 ranking by Travel+Leisure for "The 2014 World's Best Awards" in the category of Top Large City Hotel in the US and was ranked the #6 hotel in the "Top 50 Best Worldwide".
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Novel therapeutics and pathomechanisms in human mendelian disorders: Phenylketonuria, maple syrup urine disease, and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency
by Vogel, Kara Rain, Ph.D., Washington State University, 2014, 240; 3640086
The body of this dissertation is focused on understanding the pathomechanisms and paving the way for new treatment paradigms in human metabolic disease, particularly phenylketonuria (PKU), maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency.
Phenylketonuria and MSUD are heritable aminoacidopathies displaying aberrant cerebral transport of large neutral aminoacids. This work presents evidence that non-physiological amino acids (NPAAs) have pharmacodynamic efficacy in selective exclusion of phenylalanine from the brain of phenylketonuric mice. Data is presented for feeding and intraperitoneal injection studies of various NPAA's including methyl-aminoisobutyric acid (MAIB), and some selected MAIB-related alkanoic acid analogues. My data indicates that MAIB is the most selective phenylalanine transport inhibitor identified thus far. Regional brain amino acid studies in intermediate MSUD mice fed low (6%) and high (19%) protein chow suggest that despite varying improvements in the pathophysiological branched-chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine and valine) in serum, glutamine, aspartate, glutamate, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), asparagine, citrulline, and serine levels remained unchanged in the brain, demonstrating that dietary correction of MSUD monitored in blood does not accurately reveal corrections in brain biochemistry, providing important insights for human patients. Moreover, I have documented similar findings in PKU mice.
The final chapters of this work contain a review of the treatment prospects for SSADH disorder (a defect in GABA metabolism), and our collaborative work with the University of California focused on hyperphysiological GABA's on mTOR-driven selective autophagy. SSADH-deficient mouse studies utilizing electron microscopy to quantify mitochondria in liver and brain tissues suggest mitophagic inhibition may play a causal role in the findings of oxidative stress in patients and mice. The impact of these findings are discussed from a pharmacological viewpoint including the scope of treatment of hyperGABAergic disorders.
Lastly, I have included my literature characterization of hepatocyte transplantation (HTx) for inborn errors of metabolism which suggests that we can attempt therapeutic HTx in a murine model of a new disease, transaldolase deficiency, with a goal of gaining almost complete hepatic repopulation with gene-replete (wild-type) cells. My final article is a preclude to future postdoctoral work in the area of liver repopulation and novel therapeutic approaches.
Advisor: Gibson, K. Michael
Commitee: Marsh, Susan, Potter, Nancy, Wisor, Jonathan
School: Washington State University
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
School Location: United States -- Washington
Subjects: Molecular biology, Pharmacy sciences
Keywords: Hepatocyte transplant, Inherited disorders, Maple syrup urine disease, Metabolic disease, Phenylketonuria, Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase disorder


Grab a blanket, a lawn chair, your favorite beverage (non-alcoholic) and snack and head on down to the Guidant John Rose MN OVAL for an outdoor movie! Movies are broadcast on the giant 117-square foot score board. All movies are FREE, courtesy of Great Southern Bank!
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Contact and separation between two surfaces creates static electricity, which can often cause materials like paper, plastic, textiles and other non-conductive materials to randomly attract to or repel from themselves or their surroundings.
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Nerilka's Story & The Coelura
Imprint: Transworld Digital
#8 in the Series: The Dragon Books
Nerilka's Story
It was in Moreta's time -- a time of legend, of heroic valor, of terrible Threadfall and the Great Plague that devastated both Holders and Dragonfolk. For Lady Nerilka of Fort Hold, the tragedy was twofold, for with the death of her mother and her sister, her father's mistress took possession of the Hold. Angry and betrayed, Nerilka decided to escape and, as Pern seethed in turmoil, she began her perilous journey to Ruatha, Lord Alessan and an unknown destiny.
A gripping tale in Anne McCaffrey's world-famous Chronicles of Pern.
The Coelura
When the Lady Caissa was told by her exalted sire to enter into an heir-contract with Cavernus Gustin she was appalled. For although Gustin was genetically sound he was vain, pompous and intellectually inept. But Caissa's father was determined there should be a union -- he had his own privately plotted plans for such a match. And a few hours later Caissa began to suspect what they were. On a private flight over the forbidden areas of the North, she was alerted by a distress signal -- and there discovered a stranger who said his name was Murell -- a man surrounded by coelura, the incredible rainbow creatures whose very brilliance threatened their extinction. It was the coelura her father wanted. And Murell was determined to save them.
Dragon Harper
Todd McCaffrey
Dragonsong
Dragon's Kin
The Skies Of Pern
Dragongirl
Moreta - Dragonlady Of Pern
Dragon's Time
The Renegades Of Pern
Dragonsdawn
The Dolphins Of Pern
Red Star Rising
The Masterharper Of Pern
Dragondrums
Dragonsblood
All The Weyrs Of Pern
Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Achievement Literary Award. Born and raised in the US, although of Irish extraction, she spent the last years of her life in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains. She is the creator of the Dragons of Pern series. Todd McCaffrey, Anne's son, is a computer engineer living in Los Angeles. The approved heir to Pern, his first solo Dragonriders of Pern novel was Dragonsblood. Visit his website on www.toddmccaffrey.org


'Finally an artform where you can fly, just like in your dreams.' – Laurie Anderson.
Do oceans have walls? I'm flying, on 'slow fly'. If this is slow, how fast might 'fast' be? I haven't come across an ocean yet, but I've passed through endless rooms, which turn into skyscraper size edifices, and then what seem to be the inside of rock formations. All is monochrome. Like a dream. Do you dream in colour? I don't think I do.
Everything here is chalk on blackboard. The world around me dissolves with the wave of my magic wand, to reform in a different combination of lines and angles and seemingly bottomless pits and limitless ceilings. It's chalk. It turns to dust. It can be wiped out. You can use the wand to write with it. There is a lot already written on the walls. I catch random words or phrases. Empire. Endless. Angels of Artifice. 'There must be a pony ride somewhere around here' speaks to me. Something about the contrast between the high-tech virtual ride I'm experiencing and the lure of the no-tech pony ride promised.
There are figurative images drawn on the walls – giant heads, chairs, dogs. Some are static, some form themselves into line-drawn animations that recall early Felix the Cat or Mickey Mouse cartoons. A row of chalk people dance in endless formation around the walls of a room. Laurie Anderson's soothing, soporific voice guides, muses, elucidates, or contradicts. 'I'll find you by your song' she says as I race through a low tunnel, walls closing in. Familiar Anderson tropes and themes: Dogs. Death. Remembrance. The endlessness of space, inner and outer. The seductive power of words, written or spoken.
Inside the Chalkroom, in the moment, everything is lucid. After I leave, the dream dissipates. I find it hard to recall what I've seen and heard; the visceral, kinetic experience of flying is what stays, wiping out the details like a duster passing over a blackboard.
As I whizz around, I remind myself that it's 2-D. It's not real, it's virtual. But it feels real and I flinch as I pass through walls and wince with a horrible lurch of vertigo if I look down as the floor drops away. I find a technique for grounding myself. I stamp my foot on the real floor beneath me. Even though I'm looking down through empty space I can feel my foot on the ground. You're only a pack of cards, I want to cry. But like Alice, the dream world I've been dropped into feels real enough to rise up and hurt me. And if the feeling of danger is real, then – is this real fear or virtual fear?
This is my second visit. Our second visit. In here somewhere, invisible to me, in her own virtual world, is Aislinn. First time round, my session finished just seconds before hers did, and I took off my VR set to see her standing, her arms raised in somnambulist Superhero pose, swaying gently from side to side as she flew who knows where. In Dreams You Too Can Fly.
Once is not enough. We've come back for more. Far from feeling more at ease, more adventurous, I'm actually more cautious on the return visit. First time round, I'd passed through the walls before I'd realised what was happening, or been taken by surprise by the steep drops or soaring heights. This time, I know what's coming. Except I don't, because every journey is different. Chalkroom is like a complex video game, programmed to offer endless variables. This time round, I've been seduced by the promise of a 'secret room' somewhere in there, and find myself passing through ever smaller windows and doors, entering into ever smaller and tighter spaces. It feels claustrophobic. I get stuck. No really, I'm cornered and can't get myself out of the tight spot I'm in. Somewhere a long way away, there's a voice saying something, and I realise that someone has been tapping me on the shoulder for a while – it is an usher who is helping me get flying again. I find out afterwards that I'd moved too close to a real wall and had thus blocked the signal to my controller.
I find many things I didn't encounter on my first flight. Most worryingly, an enormous cube of white mist that it is impossible to pass through. But some things I want to find and can't. Like someone attempting to re-enter a dream from the previous night, I desperately try to find the expansive outdoor space that I remember, a landscape of grey clouds and seas. Suddenly, just seconds before my flight ends, there it is… I breathe a sigh of relief. And then it's over.
I want to run into things. The first time I am in the Chalkroom: fear of crashing, a certain terror at how close I feel pain might be. Second time: relish in flying at things, excitement in recklessness. I get used to the invulnerability of my VR (dis)embodiment even as my perceptions tell me to duck, to cringe, to cry out in pain. Before the attendant tightens the VR helmet, I am instructed to hold my arms out in front of me, parallel, to fly; but instinct tells me to swim through the air, convinces me that I must propel myself forward by sweeping my arms in half-circles around my body, making midair chalk-dust angels. Many false starts follow as I clunk into walls and cut my flight short with pinwheeling arms.
I can call a menu into existence and warp to a specific room, but this feels like cheating. It is more wonderful to stumble across new sights. My wonder is especially potent when I find a tree. It grows out of a mirrored floor and is reflected – doubled. Bubbling, floating strings of letters surround it; or perhaps they are falling leaves, strips of an unreadable narrative cut from some unknown book. I sweep my hands through the letters but cannot catch them. This body is limited: it is sometimes too immaterial, other times too solid. This body cannot dive beneath the reflective floor and see up close –come close enough to desire to touch – the second tree and look up at the 'real' tree. Or perhaps I am trapped in the mirror-reality and the 'real' tree is the inaccessible but visible one below me.
Some sights disturb and frighten me, such as the chain of small chairs that meanders and writhes in midair. Other sights are less primally distressing. I long to interact with the piles of chairs scattered along the walls and in the corners of another room. I want to run through them as if they were autumn leaves and listen to the satisfying clatter. But my legs cannot carry me to them. I cannot touch the objects of this world. Instead I stumble into the real stool I have forgotten about. Its clatter disappoints.
Halfway through my second trip I reject the rooms and zoom out to view the marvellous horizon that greeted me when I first dropped into the dream. In the beginning, Anderson's voice was an unbreakable traction pulling me over dark floating pillars and through the illuminated doorway. But my eyes were drawn to the horizon behind me. I longed to fly and swim and run away to the silvery shoreline even as my eyes stung from the intensity of the colourless sunset. I twisted around because I preferred to see this photo-negative beach than pay attention to the alphabet cloud overtaking me as Anderson inducted me into the Chalkroom.
When I return to the pillars, the shine and sparkle of the virtual sea is as beguiling as I remember. The sunset reflected on water is like the pure light and clarity of mind in the Bardo that engulfs the disembodied spirit as it passes through the after-death state into reincarnation. This liminal space between embodiments, as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a test during which the spirit witnesses deities enacting a terrific theatre; to self-liberate, the spirit must recognise the deities as its own projections. The Bardo is where the spirit can reject illusory fear and self-attachment and find the path to less suffering. Fittingly, my experience in the Chalkroom has been shaped by odd desires and fears I must abandon to escape back into life. Bardo is whispered in my ear in the dog room, where an illusory animal – a cloud of letters, a projected demon – swallows me up as I fly through its mouth and into the perfect darkness behind it. I re-materialise near the main entrance after a moment's travel into the void. There is no secret room beyond. The dog, and the expectation of such a room, was only the deceptive radiance of my mind.
I return to one room again and again. Here I can pull the chalk dust from the walls, manipulate the ephemeral matter so it coalesces into letters, words. Like the clouds and strings of text elsewhere in this world, once liberated from the wall the dust becomes typescript, letters lifted from a computer screen, a printed book. The letters are mechanically born, unlike the handwriting scrawled over miles of chalkboard. I press the trigger on my righthand remote to active my limited control over this dust: I can call it to me, but other than activating the virtual gravity in my hands, I cannot change its galaxy shape or re-scramble the letters into words other than 'Bardo' and 'Dream'. I discover on my second visit that I can also pull the lefthand trigger and split the chalk dust into two spirals. I enjoy lazily waving these swirls around me – bringing them close enough I can almost feel their gentle touch on my cheeks, across my shoulders, over the backs of my hands. I spin, sometimes smacking a hand against the real walls of the box I am in, sometimes nudging against the stool, sometimes tangling my neck in the umbilical wire of the VR helmet, my tether to the material world and the mechanism of my cyborg reincarnation.
Chalkroom is a virtual reality work by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang; a 15-minute solo experience in which the reader flies through an enormous structure made of words, drawings and stories. It has been previously presented in the USA, Denmark, Italy and Taiwan.


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Joshua Tree National Park is honored to announce a new agreement with the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians (TPBMI) formally signed today at a ceremony at the Tribal headquarters in Coachella, Calif. This agreement allows for continued cooperation and a path toward shared stewardship of park resources. The signing formalizes an important historic relationship, strengthening the park's ongoing commitment to the shared stewardship of land and resources.
"The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians and Joshua Tree National Park have a long, extensive history of working together to protect sacred sites and interpret the history of the first people in this area," said Superintendent David Smith. "This agreement is just the next step in a journey where we continue to collaborate to protect the park's resources and honor the history of the people who helped shape this cultural landscape."
Through this unprecedented agreement, the park and the TPBMI government have identified several critical areas for collaboration:
Trail development: The Tribe and the park will coordinate opportunities to establish trails originating on Tribal land to connect to established trails on NPS land. Coordination would include planning and technical guidance on implementation and management of the trails on Tribal land.
Mutual aid to support law enforcement, fire, and search and rescue: The park's chief law enforcement ranger will work with the director of Tribal law enforcement on appropriate emergency mutual aid in areas such as law enforcement, fire, and search and rescue.
Continue joint planning on educational and interpretive activities: The Tribe and the park will collaborate on educational activities both inside the park and on Tribal lands. This could include exhibits, web and social media, and other digital media planning, as well as a future loan program for the Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center in downtown Twentynine Palms.
Other areas of mutual interest, such as the Desert Tortoise Program and a future transportation program, are addressed in this agreement as well.
"Our collaboration with Joshua Tree National Park is long-standing and meaningful for the Tribe and visitors to the park," said Darrell Mike, Chairman of the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians. "This new alliance is allowing us to collaborate on expanding our existing initiatives with the Joshua Tree National Park. This is sacred land to the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians and this historic signing will allow us to expand park services for those who visit and live near the park."
The National Park Service recently awarded the Tribe a grant for trail planning and design through the Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program. The proposed trail will provide a loop hike through the park's northern boundary and back down through Tribal lands.
Joshua Tree National Park is grateful for the opportunity to work with its partners who have inhabited this place for time immemorial.
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Photo Credit To Volta Inc.
US pioneer Volta enters the European Electric Vehicle Charging market
Volta Inc., the industry leader in commerce-centric electric vehicle charging, announced its expansion into the European market, with an initial focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. The announcement was made today at the NOAH Conference in Zurich.
With unique charging stations that feature high-impact, large-format digital screens located near the entrances of premier commercial locations, Volta's network is among the most utilized in the U.S. For consumers, Volta provides seamless, reliable charging that complements their daily lives and routines.
For site partners, the eye-catching displays and premium station locations help drive business by attracting more customers for longer periods of time. For advertisers, Volta stations double as an innovative, digital out-of-home advertising platform, allowing brands to reach shoppers seconds before they enter a store to make a purchase.
The build-out of Volta's network is powered by best-in-class behavioural science and machine learning technology, allowing the company to deploy infrastructure intelligently and efficiently.
"We believe in a regenerative energy future that is clean, connected, and custom-fit to how we live our lives," said Chris Wendel, Co-founder and President of Volta. "We've been honing our expertise over the past decade in the U.S., helping to catalyse one of the most significant macroeconomic shifts of our lifetime. We're proud to see the company we've built extend into Europe and look forward to the many opportunities that lay ahead."
"Volta continues to anticipate and guide the rapidly-evolving changes in consumer behaviour around fuelling and commerce – proving businesses can thrive while building a more sustainable future," said Vincent Grena, Head of Volta Europe. "Our local teams of industry veterans look forward to delivering measurable commercial advantages for our site partners, and maximum convenience for EV drivers."
Volta's Europe expansion is driven by experienced local teams of EV charging hardware and software engineers, SaaS experts, and digital outdoor media sales leaders operating out of initial offices in Berlin and Paris.
Post source : Volta Inc.
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Citation: Kuhn, M.T., Hutchison, J.L., Norman, H.D. 2005. Characterization of days dry for United States Holsteins. Journal of Dairy Science. 88(3):1147-1155.
Interpretive Summary: Factors that affect length of dry period (the period between lactations when a cow is not being milked) were examined. Herd and regional averages and genetic parameters related to days dry were calculated with data from a national database. Herds averaged 61 d dry, with minimal variation among herd averages. Heritability of days dry was estimated at 7% and repeatability at 12%. This research can be useful in determining appropriate models for field data or factors to control in designed studies. Dairy producers can also benefit by knowing the magnitude and extent that various factors play in decisions for dry off.
Technical Abstract: This research characterized days dry (DD) for modern day US Holsteins. This included investigation of factors influencing DD, summarizing variation in herd means as well as within herd variation, and estimation of parameters related to DD. Data consisted of records initiated before 2003 from cows first calving after 1996. Herds were required to be on test during the entire period. Strict edits were applied to ensure quality of data. A total of 459,075 records from 295,067 cows in 3527 herds were included. Overall mean DD was 60.5 d, and standard deviation among herd means was 5.8 d. Approximately 91% of all herds had mean DD between 50 and 70 d. Although most herds were maintaining the traditional 60 DD, some were utilizing shorter dry periods. There were 41 herds that had mean DD of <=45 d and 2 herds with mean DD of <=30 d. Some herds (125) had unusually long mean DD, exceeding 71 d. Variation across regions of the United States was minimal, although southwestern herds did show somewhat longer DD than other regions. Days open (DO) accounted for the most variation in DD with longer DO leading to longer dry periods. Heritability of DD was 7% and repeatability 12%. Error correlations indicated that longer dry periods benefit both milk yield and SCS in the subsequent lactation. Genetic and permanent environmental correlations were large, which indicated that 1) bias would result if genetic evaluations for milk yield included an adjustment for DD and 2) correction for cow effects is warranted in estimation of DD effects on performance. The relationship between DD and DO is due primarily to permanent cow effects. Improved fertility will enhance the feasibility of shortened dry periods.


1) Is it possible to download from the web the bios of this card (same brand and model precisely) and modify it or do I need to download the bios present on my VGA?
2) What is the easiest way to make this change? Is there a utility like for previous AMD models?
3) What can I use to flash the bios from dos?
That wall of text above is a good starting point, you need to modify a copy of your cards specific bios and also make a copy that will be untouched.
Start by getting gpu-z and saving 2 copies. Put 1 in a safe spot to not be modified.
If you dont have an igp, get a cheap graphics card as a backup incase TUL card gets bricked.


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National Museum of Qatar
Museo del Acero
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