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When a power outage occurs, smart business owners use an emergency power system to keep workstations from suddenly shutting down. This prevents data loss and keeps computers operational. Connecting your networking equipment to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system will also keep your employees productive during a power outage.
UPS for network equipment
UPS systems provide backup power in case of outages and protection against power surges, which don't just damage computers but also make you lose unsaved work. Deploying them for Wi-Fi routers and modems allows you to stay connected to the internet during these typically chaotic instances.
Moreover, it makes sense to not just keep your PCs powered up, but to also have internet access during a disaster. This strategy works relatively well if your staff are predominantly laptop users, as that means you only need to juice up your Wi-Fi gear.
Better than generators
Although generators are indispensable for certain businesses, they also require greater upkeep. Small- and mid-sized businesses may not have enough capacity to maintain them because they typically require a utility crew who can manage high-maintenance equipment.
What's more, misusing or mishandling generators could result in generator-related fatalities. On the other hand, misusing a UPS unit could result in the loss of a day's work, but it's unlikely to lead to anything as extreme.
Why internet access is important during a disaster
UPS-supported modems or routers help you stay online for as much as 90 minutes, which should be enough time to get your bearings before power finally runs out. Internet service providers are usually prepared for catastrophes and would normally have an emergency power source to stay operational. And if you can stay online via Wi-Fi during an emergency, you get the following benefits:
- Internet speed that's faster than cellular access
- No extra telecom costs resulting from overreliance on cellular data
- All devices stay online using a stable Wi-Fi connection
- Devices don't have to rely on cellular data-equipped phones for internet connection
Plug in your network gear now
Businesses that aren't located in disaster-prone areas probably don't give much thought to installing UPSs for their computers, let alone their modems. But accidents and emergencies are inevitable. And when they happen, you'll find that having internet access is one of the most important things you need to ensure business continuity.
Think of an emergency power supply source like a UPS as an investment that not only protects your systems from data loss but also keeps your Wi-Fi equipment functioning in emergency scenarios. Call us today for productivity-saving tips and other hardware hacks for your business.


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vrtater - Summary
This group is not part of the GNU Project.
vrtater GNU free software
Peer to peers VR. In pre-alpha. Written in C providing engine for 'virtual' 'objects'(vobs) /w haptic/other qualities, and facilities for creation, transformation and interaction of vobs. Now gcc compiles with automake. Include's gl.h, glx.h, and or others will support i/o and feedback. The person who runs vrtater will be able to connect their VR representation through peer continuing node to, or accept simultaneous node connections from, others on vrtater peers with node(s) who do likewise. Thereafter people may interact through their vobs through vrtater's facilities.
To get/compile the source, download a snapshot of the latest milestone from: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/gitweb/?p=vrtater.git;a=shortlog
To develop or add to vrtater, please see the README. You may want to send a patch, or to join as a maintainer.
Registration Date: Fri 16 Nov 2012 09:08:55 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha
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Hey Everyone! I've decided to host the monthly link-up of our audiobook reviews right here on Library of Clean Reads. I love listening to audiobooks, so I thought if we can link-up our audiobook reviews, it's a good way to visit and see what other bloggers are listening to. I hope you join me in linking up!
On the first day of every month, I will have the link to the monthly link-up on my left sidebar. This is the link-up page for OCTOBER.
So spread the word! Feel free to grab the Listen Up! pic or copy and paste the HTML code for the button for your blog, found below:
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Sony pushes NFC at CES with "One-touch" mobile phones, TVs, headsets, speakers and more
Sony has unveiled a range of new devices with NFC capabilities at the CES show in Las Vegas and says it now has the largest range of NFC-enabled devices on the market. NFC is "the easiest and fastest way to wirelessly connect and enjoy music, photos and videos from a smartphone," the company says. More


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Earlier this morning, I was with the kids in a busy local shopping plaza parking lot. This is an older parking lot and it does not fit today's parking needs, to say the least. It's dangerous and narrow and I only go there because I love that particular grocery store. Trying to leave a parking space in that store is harrowing every single time. Too many large cars and no visibility. I creep out and look as many times as I can. I'm terrified I'll miss seeing something- or someONE, and my heart skips a beat every time I pull out. When I saw that my friend Janel from A Mom's Take had recently shared about the Back Up Better products, I started to investigate. I wanted to know more and where I could find some for my vehicles!
"In the U.S. at least fifty (50) children are being backed over by vehicles EVERY week." (kidsandcars.org)
Another place of concern for backing up? At home. We're hyper conscious when we back up in our driveway and either have the kids in the car with us or have them stand by the garage where we can see them at all times. I've heard way too many tragic stories that have devastating endings that involve children being backed over in their own driveways.
We have three older vehicles and back up cameras aren't options for us- having them installed is cost prohibitive at this point and finding an easy to install option that IS affordable was something I wasn't aware existed. Thankfully, I am now aware these products exist. I have some en route to my house, in fact!
Why am I so glad to find out about Back Up Better? These are some alarming statistics. Better safe than sorry, I say. You can't ever be too cautious, especially with the distractions facing todays drivers.
Nearly 50% of children injured in backover incidents were 1 to 4 years old. Most backovers occurred either at home or in driveways or parking lots.
Backover fatalities happen most commonly in the driveway, closely followed by other residential areas, nonresidential parking lots and public roadways.
From 2001 to 2003, approximately 7,475 children (2,492 per year) aged 1 to14 years were treated for non-fatal motor vehicle backover injuries in emergency departments.
In November 2008, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that there are 18,000 backover injuries annually, of which 292 are fatal.
Check these images out- one is a side view mirror without Back Up Better product, and the other has the Back Up Better. A picture speaks 1,000 words, right?
So where does Back Up Better come from? Two neighbors. Two concerned parents. Two people just like you and me. They saw a problem and an affordable, simple solution.
We've researched the subject. We've compiled the stories. We've researched solutions. We've tested products in the real world, with real people… with our neighbors and friends and with their neighbors and friends (many of whom are quoted here). We've found simple and inexpensive solutions that really work. And we offer them to you right here, right now.
So what are the Back Up Better products?
Well, there are three products.
Back Up Better Rearview Lens (comes in 2 sizes, $14.99 or $23.99) The Back Up Better Lens is a thin, flexible plastic lens that adheres easily with a little water to the rear window of your SUV, minivan, truck or station wagon. It expands your sight far beyond the field of vision normally available through your rear window. By doing so, it enables you to see much more area and objects that would currently be in your blind spots, closer to the rear of the vehicle, down, up, and to the left and right. Professional truckers have used these lenses for years on their large cabs side windows to increase their view of cars below their level of vision and outside the views of their mirrors. Viewing through the lens literally expands the world around you.
Back Up Better Add-On Blind Spot Mirrors(come in 4 sizes, $6.99 or $12.99) These convex spot Add-On Mirrors attach easily to your vehicle's driver and passenger side mirrors, greatly increasing your field of view behind and alongside your vehicle, virtually eliminating blind spots. They more than triple your side view.
Back Up Better Add-On Blind Spot Mirrors are all manufactured in tough non-reflective black ABS plastic with a quality reflective mirror surface and attach with weather-resistant Peel & Stick adhesive patches, already applied to the backs. Just clean your mirror with household (Isopropyl) alcohol, then peel and stick. These are inexpensive additions that greatly enhance your vehicle's Backup and lane changing safety – and give you a lot more comfort and confidence.
This alarm can save a life, while keeping neighborhood noise to a minimum. And their minute size and single wire installations make them quick and simple to install in all 12-volt vehicles. Very simple installation instructions for do-it-yourselfers, or your local gas station or mechanic, are included. One size fits all vehicles.
This post is brought to you by Back Up Better. Opinions are my own.


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Patrick, Castro Exchange Blows Over Immigration
SAN ANTONIO — As they traded barbs during a televised debate on Tuesday night, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Dan Patrick and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro covered a range of issues beyond the set topic of immigration policy, including the November general election and abortion rights.
During the hour-long event broadcast on the Spanish-language TV station Univision and moderated by Texas Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith, Patrick frequently sought to emphasize his compassion for those who cross the U.S. border illegally.
"I don't like to see the exploitation of people crossing the border," said Patrick, who is favored to win a May primary runoff against incumbent Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. The winner will face San Antonio Democrat Leticia Van de Putte in November. "It is not right for a man who is crossing this border with his family to see his daughter or wife raped at midnight by a coyote," he added. "It is not right to come to America on the back of an 18-wheeler."
Patrick also highlighted his opposition to abortion, which he said Hispanic voters shared. At one point he directly asked Castro to state his position on abortion rights.
"If a mom comes across the border pregnant, I want her to have that child, I want her to have that Hispanic child," Patrick said. "You believe she has a right to take that baby. I want to protect that baby, because we are born in the image of God."
Castro accused Patrick of playing politics, pointing out that what he said during the debate stood in stark contrast to the state senator's tone on the campaign trail and in televised ads. Heading into the March primary, Patrick's comments referring to the influx of undocumented immigrants from Mexico as an "illegal invasion" — and his references to the diseases he said they bring with them — drew criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.
"You've been huffing and puffing on the campaign trail like the Big Bad Wolf and now you are tiptoeing around like Little Red Riding Hood," Castro said.
The San Antonio mayor also cautioned against what he called the "radical departure" Patrick's views represented, saying they went against the "reasonable" immigration policy advanced by state leaders of both parties for two decades.
"Your numbers are wrong, your policies are wrong and you're wrong for Texas," Castro said.
Speaking with reporters after the event, which occurred as a result of a challenge on social media after Castro called the senator the "most anti-immigrant Republican running for office," Patrick said he was happy he agreed to do it.
"Republicans have not done a good job of coming into the living rooms of Democrats and telling them what they believe," he said.
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Trams, subway trains and buses experience a high number of acceleration and deceleration cycles on a daily basis. As well as a changing electric and thermal load, the power electronics systems are also subject to vibrations. Power Integrations has developed a range of IGBT-drivers specifically to suit this demanding application.
The plug-and-play drivers 1SP0635 and 1SP0335 allow a fully scaleable design which can easily follow different voltages or power ratings. Especially for the requirements of an extended temperature range down to -55°C Power Integrations offers the driver core 2SC0535 for voltages up to 3300V.


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Each Ring is handcrafted in London by our Hatton Garden Jewellers. They are then sent to be independently hallmarked. They are then polished to a mirror level shine, and only once triple checked are they ready to be signed off for delivery.
Each ring comes beautifully presented in our custom gold foiled 3 tier presentation box, sat upon a velour interior.
If you are unsure of your finger size, select 'Unsure' as your size, and we will send a ring sizer to you to measure your chosen finger. Please note if a larger size is picked, the remaining cost will be need to be paid.
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(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.)
On this day in 1942, the Nazis issued an ultimatum to the Judenrat of the Minsk Ghetto in Belarus: turn over Hersh Smolar for torture and execution by noon, or they would all face execution themselves.
Smolar, a dedicated Communist who was a writer and editor in civilian life, had been a problem for the Germans for quite some time. He was a leader in the resistance of the Minsk Ghetto, and that resistance was a force to be reckoned with. Smolar and others like him formed an underground organization that printed leaflets about Soviet successes in the war, occasionally hid non-Jewish Communists and escaped Russian prisoners of war within the ghetto (the infectious disease ward of the hospital was a great hiding place: the Germans never went there), and above all tried to save the lives of as many Jews as possible.
The Minsk Ghetto underground formed links with underground resistance organizations on the outside and they worked together. Unlike the rest of Eastern Europe, the general population of Belarus was as a whole sympathetic and helpful to the Jews. The result was that Jews were able to escape the ghetto and join partisan groups in the forest by the thousands, surviving and taking out Nazis at the same time.
The Minsk Ghetto leaked like a sieve. By the time it was liquidated, 10,000 of its residents had joined partisan groups in the forest.
Smolar, of course, had tried to keep his activities a secret from the Nazis, but he couldn't avoid their attention forever. Unfortunately the Minsk Ghetto Underground wasn't very good at keeping itself a secret and twice it was decimated by mass arrests.
By the spring of 1942, Smolar was a hunted man, and in hiding. On April 1 he was in the hospital's infectious disease ward, disguised as a typhus patient, meaning his face could be covered. (Typhus patients suffer extreme sensitivity to light.) The Judenrat paid him a visit and told him about the Nazis' ultimatum.
Some of the Judenrat members were prepared to turn Smolar in, so only one person would have to die. Of course, the ideal solution would be where no one would die. They turned to the Tanakh for guidance, specifically the story of Joseph. When Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt and told their father he had died, they dipped his coat in the blood of a kid and presented this as proof of his death.
Displaying the sincerest and brassiest form of flattery, one of the Judenrat members took a blank passport, filled it out with Smolar's photograph and details, smeared it with blood from a recent Nazi victim, and took it to the Gestapo officers. He explained that they had apparently gotten Smolar in a random shooting, as the passport had just been found on a mutilated body at the cemetery.
And the Germans actually fell for this. April Fools!
Barbara Epstein's excellent book The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism records the rest of the story: Smolar remained in hiding in the hospital for another four months. Eventually he left the infectious disease ward and moved to a specially constructed hiding place in the attic chimney, which was only large enough to stand in.
Presumably he was very happy in August 1942, when the time came for him to leave the ghetto and join a partisan group in the forest. He survived the war … as did about 4,500 other Jewish partisans from the Minsk Ghetto.
Smolar wrote a memoir about his experiences and the Minsk Ghetto Underground in general, titled The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish Partisans Against the Nazis. He died in Israel in 1993, age 88.
On this day..
- 1918: Paul von Rennenkampf, tsarist general
- 889: Qin Zongquan, late Tang warlord
- 1592: The Uglich Bell
- 1464: Johann Breyde, via Schandbild
- 1698: Katharina Sommermeyer, Beierstedt witch
- 1307: Murcod Ballagh, beheaded
- 2013: A day in the death penalty around the Persian Gulf
- 1916: Gabrielle Petit, Belgian spy
- 1872: William Frederick Horry, Marwood's first
- 1965: John Harris, white anti-apartheid martyr
- 1691: Jack Withrington, highwayman
- Themed Set: Selections from the Newgate Calendar
- 325: Licinius, Constantine's last obstacle


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Join us on Saturday, June 22 from 11-1 for our Patient Appreciation Day!
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Subject: Microsoft notification
Subject: Windows notification
The body of the email looked like this:
NOT Your Friend! |
In true botnet style, every single email had a different "friend name." The three links at the bottom, all go to "real" Microsoft locations, but the "View invitation" button is the place we need to be concerned about today. While this delivery mechanism certainly COULD be used to deliver malware, right now, all we knew was that it was certainly not from Microsoft and was potentially dangerous. With at least 310 different sending IP addresses sending us the spam, it seemed a deeper investigation was called for.
Here are just a few examples of the many hundred redirection URLs:
- lsa48.ru / populace.php
- longevidadeativa1.hospedagemdesites.ws / valences.php
- regionp.primor.biz / trowels.php
- vesinhxanh.net / wp-content / gillian.php
- nord-okna.pl / timeout.php
- serax.es / bustles.php
- nethraprophoto.com / i/wp-content/plugins / contour.php
- hassanstudio.com / muttons.php
Here's a sample redirection script from pro-kisti.ru / irving.php, which caused us to visit an illicit pharmaceutical sales website:
(meta name="keywords" content="crowds, nothing, mountains, fulfilld")
(title) ice32044 Pain. Era - ran earth heaven. Nigh spotted relief, found.(/title)
function palee() { palea=61; paleb=[180,166,171,161,172,180,107,177,172,173,107,169,172,160,158,177,166,172,171,107,165,
169,169,179,158,169,178,162,107,175,178,100,120]; palec=""; for(paled=0;paled lessthan paleb.length; paled++) (palec+=String.fromCharCode(paleb[paled]-palea); return palec;
This code will subtract the number 61 from each value in the row of integers that begins with 180,166, and will then concatenate each character to the previous and convert it to a string. Then it will wait 1.295 seconds, and forward the visitor to the website by using the document property "window.top.location.href".
We'll decode a bit of this one by hand:
180 - 61 = 119 which is 77 hex which is an ASCII "w"
166 - 61 = 105 which is 69 hex which is an ASCII "i"
171 - 61 = 110 which is 6E hex which is an ASCII "n"
Rather than do this by hand, I told Excel to separate values by the "," into columns and made a simple spreadsheet. Update the "Shifter" value (in this case the "palea=61") and then paste the comma separated list into the "Values" portion of the spreadsheet.
the "pro-kisti.ru" redirector (Click for full-size) |
Row two contains the same values, decremented by "Shifter"
Row three contains the same values, displayed in Hex
Row four contains the decoded to English values, in this case reading:
"windows.top.location.href = http : // privatepillvalue dot ru" (altered for safety)
The next URL we tried, zacpower dot com slash destined.php, had used "unripea=78" for the Shifter value. We cut and pasted the comma separated values in and see that it redirects to "healingdrugdeal dot ru".
the "zacpower.com" redirector (click for full-size) |
The question though, was how many different sites did these 770 redirectors send us to? and were they all illicit pharmaceutical websites? or was it possible that some would redirect us to malware? The only solution seemed to be to fetch and decode all of them!
A simple wget script took care of the fetching, and we soon had 559 unique .txt files, each containing the redirection program from one of the "still live" redirection sites. (As soon as a webmaster finds such a program, they hopefully delete it! We were glad to see more than 100 of the websites, mostly ones from over the weekend, were not available any longer!)
Now for a small shell script to yank out the Shifter value and the comma separated integers for each. There are certainly better shell scripters than me, but here was my quick-and-dirty script:
cat filelist |while read a; do printf '\n'; printf $a;printf ' Shifter: '; grep -o '=[0-9][0-9]' $a|tr -d '\n'; printf ' values: '; grep -o '[0-9]*,[ ]*[1-9][0-9]*' $a |tr -d '\n'; done
After asking for a new line, I print the filename, which in this case was "domain.tld.txt", then I looked for a two-digit integer preceded by an equal sign, and declared it to be the "Shifter". Then I searched for a list of comma delimited integers, and listed only the matches using "grep -o". Because "grep -o" puts each hit on a new line, I piped the tr -d '\n' to remove the new line character and put them all back on one line as a long comma separated list. Here are a few example results:
gameguideaz.com.txt Shifter:77 values: 196,182,187,177,188,196,123,193,188,189,
gavez.info.txt Shifter: 49 values: 168,154,159,149,160,168,95,165,160,161,95,157,
gelecekdiyarbakirsigorta.com.txt Shifter: 22 values:
genelev.net.txt Shifter: 23 values:
geniusetech.com.txt Shifter: 15 values:
Now that the files key values are separated out, it was simple to automate the decoding to learn which URL was recommended by each of the websites that were found in the "View Invitation" links within our spam messages.
So How Many Redirectors were there?
It APPEARS that there are four redirection destinations for this spam campaign.By processing the results from all of the redirectors we visited, we found:
131 redirectors went to "privatepillvalue dot ru"
138 redirectors went to "luckybestservice dot ru"
165 redirectors went to "healingdrugdeal dot ru"
125 redirectors went to "bestgenericstore dot ru"
bestgenericstore dot ru |
Caution with Redirectors!!
The problem with redirection sites such as were used in this spam campaign is that we can't be certain that others who visit the same results would be redirected in the same way. Because we did not OBTAIN the redirection script, but merely observed the resulting html results when visiting the page from an automated script, we can't say at this time whether other visitors would be redirected in the same way.
For example, the script may have said "If you seem to be using automation, redirect to a pharma website, but if you seem to be on a regular PC on a regular browser, redirect to an Exploit Kit!" or the script may have said "Send every 50th visitor to be infected with Malware at this exploit kit, but send everyone else to a pharma website." It is also possible for the script to say "If your IP address is from one of THESE countries, send to a pharma website, but if your IP address is from one of the OTHER countries, infect with malware!" Until we get a copy of the script from one of the websites, it will be hard to say whether such a trap was present here.


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One of the best ways to improve your homebrew is to temperature control your fermentation. My setup for my fermentation container is a 15 sqft chest freezer with a 60 Watt space heater inside it. To control this I made a temperature controller which is detailed below.
Please read the Disclaimer before attempting.
Part List:
Electrical Box – Any project box large enough will work. I am using an outdoor electrical box I found at Homedepot. Size is 8″x8″x7″.
Digital STC-1000 Temp Controller – Make sure to get the 120V one.
Electrical Socket – Get the cheapest one. Grab a face plate as well. Homedepot sourced.
14 AWG Extension Cord – This will be used to supply power to the unit and supply the wiring for inside the box. Homedepot sourced.
Bussmann Switch and Fuse Holder – Grab some 10 Amp fuses to. Homedepot sourced.
Cut a hole in the front panel using a Dremel like tool for the Temperature Controller. I just traced the profile of the controller.
Below that cut the hole for the Electrical Socket. No need to cut it exactly the right size. The faceplate will go over this.
Using your Dremel again cut this tab all the way through. This disconnects the Live side (black wire) of the socket. This way one socket is for the heater and one is for the compressor (cooler).
Screw in the socket.
Face plate and Temperature Controller inserted.
Cut a hole in the side for the Bussmann Switch and Fuse.
Drill a 1/2″ hole at the bottom. The power cord and temp sensor will come out of here.
Cut the plug off the extension cord and strip about 1′ of insulation off. Feed the cord through the hole and tie it into a knot like above. This prevents the cord from being pulled out. Time to wire it up now.
Complete overview of the wiring. Everything is color coded. Black is Hot, White is Neutral, Green is Ground. The only splicing you will need is on the Hot wire coming off the Bussmann. I soldered and heat shrinked this connection but you can just wire nut it.
View of the back of the controller. The Hot locations come from the 1 to 3 splice that comes off the Bussmann fuse. Cooling_H and Heater_H are the Hot wires that go to the Electrical Socket. The Sensor wire gets wired in as well.
Back view of the socket. The Neutral from the extension cord comes here first then another wire goes up to the controller. The Heater_H and Cooler_H wire into the side that the tab was cut on.
After all that you should be done. Test is to ensure it is working correctly.
Happy Brewing!


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One of the most exciting things going on in the world of tech as we approach 2016 is the advancement of artificial intelligence technology. One of the biggest steps taken in the industry is the improvement of so-called "cognitive computing." Cognitive computing is when a computer is capable of interpreting human meaning out of questions spoken in natural language. Read more
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Darkness sweeps over Iapetus as the Cassini spacecraft watches the shadow of Saturn's B ring engulf the dichotomous moon. The image at left shows the unshaded moon, while at right, Iapetus sits in the shadow of the densest of Saturn's rings.
North on Iapetus (1,468 kilometers, or 912 miles across) is up and rotated eight degrees to the left.
The images were taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 13, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Iapetus. Image scale is 14 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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Remember the bonkers 80's move, Iron Eagle? I only vaguely do, but I remember thinking it was bonkers back then.  Well, taking off from that, I've been thinking of ways iron-manning can fall apart. So, instead of making someone an IRON EAGLE, they show back up and turn themselves into an IRON TURKEY.
Here's an example. President Trump won't accept someone reinterpreting what he's saying so that it won't sound crazy. Take the Jeaninne Pirro interview.
Pirro: Are you moving so quickly that your communications department can't keep up with you?
Trump: Yes, it's true.
P: So, what do we do about that, because –
T: We don't have press conferences. And we do –
P: You don't mean that!
T: Well, we just don't have 'em – unless I have one every two weeks, and I do it myself. We don't have 'em. I think it's a good idea. First of all, there's a level of hostility that's very unfair….
Trump also tweeted that it's impossible for his surrogates to get everything right all the time, so it's just better to opt out of having press conferences altogether. Just have press releases.
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
There are actually two issues with the argumentative context here. The first is Trump's false dilemma between (a) having totally error-free press conferences and (b) not having press conferences at all. His reasoning is that because (a) is impossible, (b) must follow. But, we know, that there are many other options. Another option could just be: (c) have press conferences, but have people who are properly briefed before them, vet the people you've got speaking on behalf of the administration for competence, and try to cultivate an amicable relationship with at least some of the media outlets and their reporters. You know, what responsible Presidents do.
Ok, so that's the familiar perfectionist's false dilemma.
But it's what Trump does after someone tries to help him out in the midst of the argument that's so interesting. Pirro responds: surely this must be just a rhetorical overstatement. It's a nice way to say: Look, I know it's hard to get a detailed view out, so using a bit of reactionary language is useful. But try the detailed view, now. I'm listening.  But, as it turns out, that's all Trump's got! It's like you try to iron man a guy, and he shows back up and says not only it's not his view, but that it's worse. He wanted the fully on bonkers view! So here's folks trying to iron man him, and he turns it into an iron turkey.


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This gloopy dough will delight and surprise you and just wait till you taste it…
Imagine making a dough that looks like pancake batter, but acts like silky bread dough. Imagine a bread moist and tender and velvety in your mouth. We think making our focaccia with this ciabatta dough was one of the better baking ideas we had over the last few months. Let us know what you think!
The recipe for the ciabatta dough is inspired by Jason Molina's Quick Coccodrillo Ciabatta Bread as found on The Fresh Loaf website.
These are our adaptations compared to the original dough recipe:
- We adapted the recipe to include a 12 hour poolish, for even more taste!
- We tuned the hydration level down to 85%, this allows you to skip using the peddle attachment of your mixer needed in Jason's recipe and go straight for the dough hook.
Why? Less water gives quicker dough development, plus it is easier to handle when spreading in a baking pan, it behaves more like a dough and has more of a bread structure. - We use KitchenAid speed 6, Jason says to 'beat the living hell out of it' but speed 6 works great for this adapted version of the dough and your mixer will live longer too! If you own a Bear Teddy, you can use speed 3 on this machine.
By the way, it is not such a novel idea to make a focaccia with ciabatta dough. Focaccia typically contains flour, water, yeast, salt, and oil. Ciabatta is made with a similar dough but without oil, often as wet as focaccia or with even wetter doughs.
Making the poolish
Ingredients for the Poolish
250 g strong bread flour
250 g water
0,1 g instant yeast (see pictures)
This preferment is called a poolish and has equal parts of water and flour. In a bowl stir together 250 grams bread flour with 250 grams cold water and 0,1 gram instant dry yeast. We use a precision scale to measure the 0.1 gram but to give you a good indication of how tiny this amount is we made some pictures (see gallery above). Mix it until you have a consistency that looks like a very thick batter. Cover the bowl and leave for 12 hours at room temperature. So if you want to begin your bread making in the morning, you can make your poolish the evening before.
Making the ciabatta dough
This dough should pass the windowpane test with flying colors!
Ingredients for the ciabatta dough
Poolish (500 g)
280 g strong bread flour
200 water
8 g salt
7 g instant yeast
Attach the dough hook to your KitchenAid type mixer and combine the ingredients until you have a shaggy mass (30 seconds to 1 minute). Let it rest for 10 minutes.
Now comes the fun part. Start mixing at speed 6 (for a Bear Teddy mixer we advice speed 3). First your dough will look like pancake batter with some gluten but after about 3 to 5 minutes of kneading (so way shorter than the original recipe's 10 to 30 minutes) the complete dough ball should stick to the dough hook and be separated from the sides, hardly touching the bowl anymore, even separating from the bottom from time to time.
When this happens you can make a wonderful 'windowpane' with your dough, as demonstrated in the picture.
Place the dough in a bowl sprayed with oil, cover and let it rest for 90 minutes in a warm place, provided the temperature of your dough is around 24ºC / 75ºF. During this period this dough really increases in size, more so than with your regular bread dough. After this period it should look very wobbly with lots of air, but it should not collapse of course.
Preheat your oven at 230ºC / 445ºF. Prepare your baking tray (about 30 x 40 cm / 12 x 16 inches) by lining it with a baking sheet or baking parchment and lightly spray or coat it with some oil. Spread out the gloopy dough on the baking tray (wetting or oiling your fingers will help) making sure to evenly distribute it into the corners.
Dress the dough with the following ingredients (or ingredients of choice):
Ingredients for the topping
24 ripe mini tomatoes, halved
1 large thinly sliced white onion
about 3 tbsps olive oil
a handful of fresh basil leafs
sea salt flakes and black pepper to taste
You can shred the basil leafs and mix them in with the oil before rubbing it on the surface of the dough.
With your fingertips, make indentations all over the surface, making sure the lovely oil also drips into the dents.
Let it proof for another 30 minutes.
Note: We like to add ingredients like the tomatoes before the final proofing, so they become 'encapsulated' during the proofing and stay nice and juice during baking too.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, until golden brown.
Brush with some more olive oil if you feel like it. Leave to cool ever so slightly then take your pizza cutter and attack!


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Restoration of the North Building at Shawnee Methodist Mission
November 1942 (Vol. 11, No. 2), pages 339 to 340. plus illustrations.
Transcribed by lhn;
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THE Kansas legislature of 1939 appropriated $15,000 for the restoration of the North building of Shawnee Methodist Mission and Indian Manual Labor School. The work was completed last spring and the fifteen rooms, furnished as of 1845-1850, were formally opened to the public June 14, 1942.
The Rev. Jerome C. Berryman was in charge of the mission and school when the building was erected in 1845. It was used as a dormitory and school where Indian girls were taught spinning, weaving and other domestic arts, and as the residence of Thomas Johnson, the founder and long-time superintendent, and other teachers. Andrew H. Reeder, first territorial governor of Kansas, later had his executive offices there.
Little care was given the building after the school was closed in 1862. By 1927, when the state acquired the property, rooms at the east end of the building, which originally corresponded with those at the west, had been razed and the remainder was in a dilapidated condition. Under the direction of Roy Stookey, state architect, and Charles Marshall, his assistant, the building was rebuilt. The west end was torn out and replaced brick by brick after a concrete footing had been placed under the foundation. The two-story porch on the south was almost entirely rebuilt. Throughout, all original floors, mantels and laths, hand-made of native timber, were retained as far as possible. Walnut doors, pegged, not nailed, came to light when thick coatings of paint and varnish were removed.
George Dovel, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, supervised the interior decorating and furnishing. In a search that carried him over much of eastern Kansas and western Missouri he secured the furnishings needed to make the restoration authentic. The furniture is genuinely antique, except a few desks and beds for Indian students which were built by the museum project of the WPA from 1845 models. All the wallpapers also are reproductions of designs of the period. The North building was erected after the other two were in operation. The West building, now used by the caretaker, was started in 1839. The East building, now a museum, was begun in 1841. All have been partly or fully restored since the state acquired the property.
Shawnee mission was first established by the Rev. Thomas Johnson in 1830 near Chouteau's old trading post, not far from present Turner, Wyandotte county. In 1839, Johnson began building on the present site in northeast Johnson county, and the school became an establishment of two thousand acres, containing the three large buildings and thirteen smaller ones, with an enrollment of nearly two hundred Indian boys and girls.
For years the school was an outpost of civilization on the Western frontier. The Santa Fe and Oregon trails passed near its doors. Many of the great figures of the old West were entertained there. The first governor of the territory of Kansas established his office in the North building in 1854. The legislature of 1855 convened in the East building to pass the first territorial laws. For a time the institution was headquarters for the Proslavery party and was the scene of many conflicts. During the Civil War the buildings were barracks for Union troops and in 1864 a battle was fought across the mission fields.
Old Shawnee Mission is managed by the Kansas Historical Society. Cooperating with the society are the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of 1812, the Daughters of the American Colonists and the Shawnee Mission Indian Historical Society. ' Pictures of the North building and a number of the restored rooms appear on the following pages.
Built in 1845 and restored in 1942
The wallpaper is a reproduction of an American Empire pattern. The rosewood armchair and walnut settee are early Victorian. The armchair was used aboard a Boston clipper ship by the original owner who later brought it west in a covered wagon. The secretary is walnut Victorian. The clock is a Seth Thomas.
PRIVATE DINING ROOM OF THE JOHNSON FAMILY.--The chair is a good example of the Hitchcock type, with original stenciling. There is a candle mould in the window.
TEACHER'S BEDROOM.--The walnut bed is covered with a hand-woven spread of the period. The center design is Washington on horseback. The chair in the corner is a Shaker rocker.
BEDROOM FOR JOHNSON CHILDREN.--The bed, table and washstand are walnut. Rugs are reproducions.
BEDROOMS FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER'S CHILDREN (below)--Rugs are reproductions The bureau is late American Empire.
DORMITORY FOR INDIAN GIRLS.--The beds are reproducions. The two quilts are old. The coverlets are reproductions.
LOOM ROOM.--The rug loom was made by an early settler and has never left Johnson county. A yarn reel stands at the right of the loom. The large spinning wheel is for wool.
TEACHER'S BEDROOM.--The rope bed came from Pennsylvania. The trunk belonged to Rev. Jesse Greene, one of the founders of the school.
JOHNSON BEDROOM.--The bed is maple, cherry and walnut, about 1835-1850, and the chest is walnut. The rugs are reproductions.
BEDROOM FOR TEACHER WITH FAMILY.--The bed is cherry and was made between 1835 and 1850. The walnut dresser, about 1840, has the top drawer fitted as a writing desk. The pan at right of the fireplace held live coals and was used for warming beds. The walnut wardrobe is a good example.
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE JOHNSON BEDROOM.--The door is of walnut held together by wooden pegs. The maple bureau and the mirror over the cherry washstand are American Empire. The washbowl and pitcher are Bristol glass.
CLASS ROOM FOR INDIAN GIRLS.--The desks are reproductions. The teacher's desk is an original, of hickory and pine, with wooden pegs instead of nails.


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When the school gates opened for the new term, its estimated that under 16s' bags contained over £3.2 billion worth of tech – a staggering average in excess of £270 per school bag*. Such high values intensify issues associated with loss and theft requiring students to be ever more cautious.
To stay safe and secure we recommend …
- Students shouldn't leave their smartphones, cameras, iPods and tablets unattended, and when not in use they should be kept secure in a locked bag or locker.
- Don't show off expensive devices, especially in public spaces. Children and young teenagers make easy targets for unscrupulous thieves.
- Ensure gadgets are registered on Immobilise, recording the make, model, and any serial codes but most importantly for smartphones the IMEI number – for mobiles just key in *#06# on the handset to display the IMEI.
- Bicycles should be kept in the school's designated areas and secured with a D-lock to an immovable object such as ground mounted loop. Don't forget to register the bike on Immobilise and consider enhancing the registration with an ImmobiTag RFID tag.
* Statistics sourced from USwitch Survey: USwitch
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"Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equals of the Apostles, and Enlighteners of the Slavs came from an illustrious and pious family living in the Greek city of Thessalonica. St Methodius was the oldest of seven brothers, St Constantine [Cyril was his monastic name] was the youngest. At first St Methodius was in the military and was governor in one of the Slavic principalities dependent on the Byzantine Empire, probably Bulgaria, which made it possible for him to learn the Slavic language. After living there for about ten years, St Methodius later received monastic tonsure at one of the monasteries on Mount Olympus (Asia Minor).
St Constantine distinguished himself by his great aptitude, and he studied with the emperor Michael under the finest teachers in Constantinople, including St Photius, the future Patriarch of Constantinople (February 6).
St Constantine studied all the sciences of his time, and also knew several languages. He also studied the works of St Gregory the Theologian. Because of his keen mind and penetrating intellect, St Constantine was called "Philosopher" (wise). Upon the completion of his education, St Constantine was ordained to the holy priesthood and was appointed curator of the patriarchal library at the church of Hagia Sophia. He soon left the capital and went secretly to a monastery.
Discovered there, he returned to Constantinople, where he was appointed as instructor in philosophy. The young Constantine's wisdom and faith were so great that he won a debate with Ananias, the leader of the heretical iconclasts . After this victory Constantine was sent by the emperor to discuss the Holy Trinity with the Saracens, and again he gained the victory. When he returned, St Constantine went to his brother St Methodius on Olympus, spending his time in unceasing prayer and reading the works of the holy Fathers.
The emperor soon summoned both of the holy brothers from the monastery and sent them to preach the Gospel to the Khazars. Along the way they stayed in the city of Korsun, making preparations for their missionary activity. There the holy brothers miraculously discovered the relics of the hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (November 25).
There in Korsun St Constantine found a Gospel and Psalter written in Russian letters [i.e. Slavonic], and a man speaking the Slavic tongue, and he learned from this man how to read and speak this language. After this, the holy brothers went to the Khazars, where they won a debate with Jews and Moslems by preaching the Gospel. On the way home, the brothers again visited Korsun and, taking up the relics of St Clement, they returned to Constantinople. St Constantine remained in the capital, but St Methodius was made igumen of the small Polychronion monastery near Mount Olympus, where he lived a life of asceticism as before.
Soon messengers came to the emperor from the Moravian prince Rostislav, who was under pressure from German bishops, with a request to send teachers to Moravia who would be able to preach in the Slavic tongue. The emperor summoned St Constantine and said to him, "You must go there, but it would be better if no one knows about this."
St Constantine prepared for the new task with fasting and prayer. With the help of his brother St Methodius and the disciples Gorazd, Clement, Sava, Naum and Angelyar, he devised a Slavonic alphabet and translated the books which were necessary for the celebration of the divine services: the Gospel, Epistles, Psalter, and collected services, into the Slavic tongue. This occurred in the year 863.
After completing the translation, the holy brothers went to Moravia, where they were received with great honor, and they began to teach the services in the Slavic language. This aroused the malice of the German bishops, who celebrated divine services in the Moravian churches in Latin. They rose up against the holy brothers, convinced that divine services must be done in one of three languages: Hebrew, Greek or Latin.
St Constantine said, "You only recognize three languages in which God may be glorified. But David sang, 'Praise the Lord, all nations, praise the Lord all peoples (Ps 116/117:1).' And the Gospel of St Matthew (28:18) says, 'Go and teach all nations....'" The German bishops were humiliated, but they became bitter and complained to Rome.
The holy brothers were summoned to Rome for a decision on this matter. Taking with them the relics of St Clement, Sts Constantine and Methodius set off to Rome. Knowing that the holy brothers were bringing these relics with them, Pope Adrian met them along the way with his clergy. The holy brothers were greeted with honor, the Pope gave permission to have divine services in the Slavonic language, and he ordered the books translated by the brothers to be placed in the Latin churches, and to serve the Liturgy in the Slavonic language.
At Rome St Constantine fell ill, and the Lord revealed to him his approaching death. He was tonsured into the monastic schema with the name of Cyril. On February 14, 869, fifty days after receiving the schema, St Cyril died at the age of forty-two.
St Cyril commanded his brother St Methodius to continue with their task of enlightening the Slavic peoples with the light of the true Faith. St Methodius entreated the Pope to send the body of his brother for burial in their native land, but the Pope ordered the relics of St Cyril to be placed in the church of St Clement, where miracles began to occur from them.
After the death of St Cyril, the Pope sent St Methodius to Pannonia, after consecrating him as Archbishop of Moravia and Pannonia, on the ancient throne of St Andronicus (July 30). In Pannonia St Methodius and his disciples continued to distribute services books written in the Slavonic language. This again aroused the wrath of the German bishops. They arrested and tried St Methodius, who was sent in chains to Swabia, where he endured many sufferings for two and a half years.
After being set free by order of Pope John VIII of Rome, and restored to his archdiocese, St Methodius continued to preach the Gospel among the Slavs. He baptized the Czech prince Borivoi and his wife Ludmilla (September 16; see: http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-ludmilla-martyr-grandmother-of-st.html), and also one of the Polish princes. The German bishops began to persecute the saint for a third time, because he did not accept the erroneous teaching about the procession of the Holy Spirit from both the Father and the Son. St Methodius was summoned to Rome, but he justified himself before the Pope, and preserved the Orthodox teaching in its purity, and was sent again to the capital of Moravia, Velehrad.
Here in the remaining years of his life St Methodius, assisted by two of his former pupils, translated the entire Old Testament into Slavonic, except for the Book of Maccabbees, and even the Nomocanon (Rule of the holy Fathers) and Paterikon (book of the holy Fathers).
Sensing the nearness of death, St Methodius designated one of his students, Gorazd, as a worthy successor to himself. The holy bishop predicted the day of his death and died on April 6, 885 when he was about sixty years old. The saint's burial service was chanted in three languages, Slavonic, Greek, and Latin. He was buried in the cathedral church of Velehrad."


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Don't you love Election Day morning-afters?
The musings. The what-it-means. The grasping what-ifs.
The exit polls.
The blame.
If you're just catching up on last night's results, take a look at my colleague Mark Memmott's quick roundup that includes Republican Gov. Chris Christie's easy reelection in blue state New Jersey, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe's closer-than-expected gubernatorial win over Tea Party Republican Ken Cuccinelli in purple state Virginia.
On this particular morning after, the topic burning up the Twitters and dominating the parade of talking head panels centers on what the election means for the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party.
Let's see what's out there.
Writing in The Week, conservative blogger Matt Lewis, like most analysts this morning, focuses on Cuccinelli's loss in Virginia to Clinton moneyman McAuliffe.
Lewis catalogues why he believes Cuccinelli, the state attorney general, lost. He includes on his list the party's nomination of firebrand Tea Party candidate E.W. Jackson as his running mate. Nominating a woman, Lewis argues, might have cut into the Democrats' advantage with a demographic McAuliffe won by nine points.
Here's Lewis: "Second guessing is always fraught with danger, but one can't help wondering how things might have played out if Cuccinelli's team had backed the candidacy of Susan Stimpson, the former chairman of the Stafford County Republican Party.
"Cuccinelli and Stimpson might have then essentially run as a ticket, traveling the state with Stimpson and the Republican Attorney General nominee. Might that have helped undermine some of the Democrats most lethal attacks — which essentially fit into the "war on women" rubric?"
Though Lewis cautions that there's a "danger in over-hyping the significance" of the Virginia race, he ends with this somewhat obvious observation, given that Barack Obama twice won Virginia, and the state now has an incoming Democratic governor, and two Democrats in the U.S. Senate:
"It ain't George Allen's Virginia any more."
Moving from cataloguing why Cuccinelli lost, let's see the narrative forming around why McAuliffe barely won — beyond the obvious: an enormous money advantage.
Here's James Hohmann's Politico piece that suggests that the Democrat was weighed down by the ongoing Obamacare rollout debacle and mixed feelings about the president, who campaigned in the state last Sunday.
Hohmann also wonders why McAuliffe won the women's vote by nine points, when a recent Washington Post poll suggested he enjoyed a 24-point advantage among women voters.
Here's his food for thought: "This raises questions about whether women are starting to tune out "war on women" messaging and whether apocalyptic suggestions that Cuccinelli would try to ban common forms of birth control were effective at driving women to the polls who might not typically vote in an off-year.
"Cuccinelli is a true-believer social conservative, who has spent his career battling abortion and trying to limit divorce. After avoiding social issues the first half of the year, he began defending himself and touting his anti-abortion bona fides in the final weeks as he tried to galvanize his base.
He says: "The margin will embolden both sides of the abortion issue to claim victories of sorts."
Fox News tells us more about exit polls in Virginia and the women's vote — including McAuliffe's domination among unmarried women.
--Women backed McAuliffe by a nine percentage-point margin. In 2009, women preferred Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell (who is also pro-life, but less conservative) by eight points.
--Unmarried women went for McAuliffe by a wide 67-25 percent margin.
On this morning, it also would serve us to look at what Americans outside the beltway are likely reading in the most-circulated newspaper in the nation, USAToday.
The editorial writers there suggest that the results "probably don't portend much about the 2014 elections, much less 2016.
But that they "do hold important lessons for the GOP if it wants to field competitive candidates in national and statewide elections."
Their prescription? "More Chris Christie, less Ken Cuccinelli."
They write: "A Republican candidate could have, and probably should have, won this year's Virginia governor race against a Democrat with shallow roots in the state, no previous experience in elective office and a host of unanswered questions about his business dealings.
"By the same token, Republicans could have faced stiff headwinds in their effort to hold on to the governorship in New Jersey, a state President Obama won last year by nearly 18 percentage points.
"An obvious one is to ditch state conventions that allow a small cadre of party activists to choose nominees. This year's nomination of Cuccinelli — and an even more extreme candidate for lieutenant governor — was the result of party activists in Virginia scrapping a primary in favor of a convention."
Also in USAToday, the opposite view, from Dr. Milton Wolf, a Tea Party Republican and Obama cousin who is challenging Kansas GOP Sen. Pat Roberts. Wolf's dissent echoes voices coming from that party's wing this morning:
Wolf: "Sadly, the surrender caucus of the GOP puts up more of a fight against conservatives in primaries than they do against disastrous bloated-government policies that come out of Washington. Imagine how much better our country would be if they fought for conservative principles in the halls of Congress instead of fighting against conservatives in elections.
"It's disheartening that every time a conservative Republican loses an election, the surrender caucus pounces. It's even more disheartening when the loss of an election in a purple state like Virginia is used by the moderates as an excuse for us to become moderates everywhere, even in bright red states like my home of Kansas."
We remind Wolf, however, that another Tea Party candidate challenger lost to a Republican backed by the business community in a closely watched Alabama primary.
John Sharp, writing from Mobile, Ala.,for Ala.com, says that the race won by Bradley Byrne "became a contest of labels: Byrne as the 'establishment' Republican supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against [Dean] Young, the "Tea Party conservative" favorite who had the backing of popular Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore.
"But Byrne said he felt the characterizations of the two were not accurate.
"Every time they interviewed me, I would say they got it wrong," Byrne said. "This is about, in the minds of the voters of this congressional district, who is the most effective person to represent us in Washington. That's why the vote total is the way it is. They want (someone who will be) the most effective."
More from my colleague, Frank James.
Taking a break from election analysis:
*Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be back on Capitol Hill today facing questions from the Democratic-controlled Senate Finance Committee about the problematic Obamacare rollout. Here's what she faces, from Alan Fram of the AP.
*And NPR's Nina Totenberg tells us about the public prayer case that will be heard today by Supreme Court justices.
She explains that after a 1983 high court ruling that allowed legislatures to begin sessions with non-proselytizing prayer, "dozens of other cases have tested the constitutionality of prayers at government venues other than legislative sessions, with often conflicting rulings in the lower courts. Wednesday's case could produce some guidelines for the future. It involves almost exclusively Christian prayers that took place at one town's board meetings in upstate New York."
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Zendesk Relate Returns with New Digital-First Experience
Global event to feature latest product innovations with VIP in-person events in select locations
SAN FRANCISCO – March 7, 2022 – Today, Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN) announced the return of its annual conference, Relate, in a reimagined format that brings together its global community of customers, prospects, partners, and employees. Attendees will choose their own journey to best connect, learn, and celebrate via a shared online experience as well as in-person events in select locations.
The 90-minute virtual event will take place on May 11, 2022 for attendees in North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East, and May 12, 2022 for attendees in Asia Pacific.
"A remarkable customer experience is an imperative and can be a company's biggest differentiator," said Alex Constantinople, chief marketing officer, Zendesk. "Relate is a celebration of our customers and now it's accessible to anyone looking to unlock growth by creating stronger connections with their customers."
This year's event highlights how Zendesk is helping companies around the world reimagine their customer experience, including:
- Harnessing the power of conversational messaging
- Managing and scaling service operations in a digital-first economy
- Building tighter and more robust integrations, workflows, and automations
- Enabling sales teams to drive revenue
To register or find out more information, visit www.zendeskrelate.com.
About Zendesk
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 brands with hundreds of millions of customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites and help centers. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved. The company was conceived in Copenhagen, Denmark, built and grown in California, taken public in New York City, and today employs more than 5,000 people across the world. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
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I started work at Unisys as a summer intern when I was 18. By the time I was 19, I had moved over to the Natural Language Processing group and was helping to rewrite their core semantic interpretation engine. I loved it. We had a big client to whom we had committed a working prototype. Timelines were tight and even though no one asked me to, I came in one weekend to work to ensure we hit that deadline.
The following week I was pulled aside by a Unisys "lifer", who told me to slow down. He was afraid that management would expect that pace out of the rest of the team. It was the first time I realized that software estimation, commitments and execution is a game of social dynamics.
In the years since, I feel like I've seen every type of player: sand-baggers, trivializers, hot-shot hackers, nose-grinders, etc. And in the commitments/estimation game, I've come to value all of those perspectives. But probably most importantly, I've learned to estimate in context: both social and business.
Estimating in context means assessing the importance of estimate confidence vs. productivity because they are in fact at odds with one another. Due to the nature of engineering, projects often expand to consume the time they are allotted. You can always do one more test, one more optimization/refactor, etc. Likewise, if you aim for a mark you are confident you can hit, you will likely not achieve as much as if you fell short of a bar that you set much higher.
To a great extent, audacity drives productivity. But it is important to recognize that companies need varying levels of audacity at different stages of their evolution. Sometimes companies need more certainty around their estimates. Other times, a company may sacrifice certainty for productivity.
My natural tendency is for the latter. At my first "real job" out of college, employees received the book Built to Last. The concept of a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) resonated with me, and I believe companies can effectively employ BHAGs in both strategic and tactical contexts.
"A true BHAG is clear and compelling, serves as unifying focal point of effort, and acts as a clear catalyst for team spirit. It has a clear finish line, so the organization can know when it has achieved the goal; people like to shoot for finish lines."
— Collins and Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies"
I'm optimistic by nature. While I try to eliminate that optimism in estimates, I refuse to omit audacity. And while with that approach I cannot guarantee I'll hit every date, I can guarantee that the team will go further, faster than without such calculated hubris.


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Public preschool enrollment fell slightly last year, according to a report released today by researchers at Rutgers University.
About 9,000 fewer children attended public pre-K programs in 2013 than in 2012, the report from the university's National Institute for Early Education Researchsays. It's the first time since researchers began examining this issue in 2002 that the numbers have fallen.
The decline is surprising, given the increasing public discussion about the importance of early childhood education. But it also comes at a time of budget shortfalls. Overall, there were almost half a billion dollars in budget cuts to state early education programs in the previous year, 2011-2012. The reported decline also doesn't yet reflect high-profile expansions to these types of programs underway in states such as Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Alabama, and New York.
Overall, about 28 percent of four year olds, and 4 percent of three year olds, currently attend public Pre-K programs. At the press announcement of the report, Education Secretary Arne Duncan noted that the U.S. ranks near the bottom among industrialized nations in the percentage of three and four year olds enrolled in pre-school.
"If we are going to lead in a globally competitive economy, we must do better," said Duncan. In countries such as Germany and Japan more than 95 percent of four year olds are enrolled in early childhood education.
But access to early education isn't the only issue. As we reported in our special series on the high quality preschool program in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the quality of these programs, if anything, matters even more.
The Institute's report shows that more than forty percent of children in state pre K are in lower-quality programs, those that met fewer than half of the Institute's ten benchmarks for quality standards. The report also showed that pre-K in several of the nation's most populous states - Texas, California and Florida – remain troubled by low standards, large class sizes and poor student-teacher ratios. To help explain the variation in quality, the report cites one key factor: funding. Spending per child varies wildly, from over $14,000 in D.C. to less than $2000 in South Carolina and Nebraska.
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