How to prepare for a clean install of Windows 10 Creators Update | News

With the public release of the Creators Update for Windows 10 arriving Tuesday, April 11, it's time to start prepping for that "feature update" (aka version 1703). There are several steps that you can and should take to get your machines ready. Let's begin with a discussion of upgrade versus clean install of this new major Windows 10 release and an overview of the pros and cons for each approach. Clean install versus upgrade install The fastest and easiest way to move up to the Creators Update is to simply let Windows Update handle it. That is, you'll be offered the Creators Update through Windows Update sometime after the release goes public, when you accept the offer, the update will download itself and get installed on your PC(s).
http://www.cio.com/article/3188037/windows/how-to-prepare-for-a-clean-install-of-windows-10-creators-update.html

Cyberattacks During Election Made 40 Percent of Americans More Cautious About Email - NBC News

WASHINGTON — Forty percent of Americans say they are more cautious about what they write in emails since last year's cyber attacks against the Democratic Party, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. The March 11-20 opinion survey showed that a sizable minority of Americans made personal changes to how they interact online following the hacking of emails during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, which were later published by WikiLeaks and other entities. Among respondents, 45 percent said they had changed their online passwords since the hacks.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cyberattacks-during-election-made-40-percent-americans-more-cautious-about-n743341

The Nuclear Option | and Why It Matters - NBC News

What is "the nuclear option"? The "nuclear option" is a last-resort, break-in-case-of-emergency way for the majority party in the Senate to overcome obstruction by the minority. All it actually involves is changing the rules of the Senate so that a nominee like Gorsuch can be confirmed with a simple majority of 51 votes. Under the previous rules, 60 votes were needed to foil any attempt by the minority party to block a vote by use of the filibuster. While senators are no longer required to give actual speeches to mount a filibuster, it has remained powerful tool that allows the minority to gum up action in the Senate until the majority can find 60 votes to break a logjam. The change to a simple majority vote may not sound very dramatic, but in a place like the Senate, which operates on tradition and bipartisan comity, it's a big deal befitting its apocalyptic name.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/nuclear-option-what-it-why-it-matters-n742076

Taylor Swift May launch her own online music service

Taylor Swift has filed trademarks to launch a service that may offer music downloads and content, EW has learned. Should the 27-year-old pop star ultimately launch a digital music hub, it could resemble services maintained by the likes of Pearl Jam, Phish, and Bruce Springsteen, which those artists use to distribute their own concert recordings and rarities. Swift has had a complicated relationship with the music streaming services. When she released her most recent album, 1989, in late 2014, Swift declined to offer it on platforms like Spotify — and went a step further when she subsequently pulled the rest of her catalog from streaming services.
http://ew.com/music/2017/03/15/taylor-swift-online-music-service/

Canadian Weather News | what does 97 cm of snow in 72 hours looks like

It's a fact that makes leaves most Canadians amazed, though it's uncertain whether Newfoundlanders feel the same: Toronto has seen 81 cm of snow this winter. Gander has seen 97 cm of snow since Thursday. As the storm rolls out of the region late Tuesday, it'll be followed by clear skies to end the week. Here's hoping Newfoundlanders are able to catch some sunshine below the scenic snowdrifts left behind.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/top-10-tweets-newfoundland-buried-by-spring-blizzard/81012/

Washington State News | Seattle mayor touts construction milestone

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says completing a tunnel that will serve as an underground highway was “a major construction milestone in our plan to reclaim Seattle’s waterfront.” Murray said Tuesday that the city is one step closer to taking down a double-layer waterfront highway to make room for “our vision of a well-connected 21st century city” serving “pedestrians, transit and sensible car trips.” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the breakthrough is “a historic moment in our state’s transportation history.” Critics call it an expensive vanity project, and environmentalists have objected to building another highway in Seattle.
http://mynorthwest.com/591725/the-latest-seattle-mayor-touts-construction-milestone/

Self Help News | Becoming Larger Than Life as a public speaker

Becoming Larger Than Life To say that there is no ego in a person who does public speaking regularly or for a living would be clearly a false statement. But for those of us who only speak from time to time, when you see a speaker who can walk out in a room of 30 people or a auditorium of 3000 and literally “own the room”, it really is an amazing transformation. To imagine how you could ever be that much larger than life is mind boggling. But in a lot of ways, when you step out to talk to a group of people, you do become larger than life. That is because you are doing the impossible. You are having a conversation with dozens of people all at once. Now, whether you feel like you are having that conversation or not isn’t important. If your talk is not interactive, you may not know the dialog is happening. But in the minds of every single individual in that hall, they are interacting with you. What you are saying is getting down inside of them and they are reacting to it.... read on
http://rockstarseo.ca/becoming-larger-life-public-speaker/