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Congratulations to Nancy Houston of Graham & Jensen Law Firm for winning our Referral Contest. Nancy submitted four referrals in March. Here’s Mary Marder (right) presenting Nancy with her new I-Pad Mini . Many THANKS to everyone who submitted referrals.

If you stand at the equator on the first day of spring, you will see the sun pass directly overhead. This only happens two times a year: the first day of spring and the first day of autumn.

Baby birds are born with the ability to sing, but they must learn the specific songs of their species.

In January, Google purchased home automation company Nest Labs, the maker of the Nest Thermostat, for $3.2 billion. This purchase was a huge sign that big companies (like Google) very strongly believe that we will soon live in a world where everything is connected online.

Have you benefited from all the good advice you’ve received over the years? Have you experienced times when you got great advice and it didn’t work? Don’t we all want good advice from whoever can give it? There are times when even the best advice doesn’t pay off.

Yet Most Businesses Don’t Have Even One

When it comes to backing up and protecting your company’s critical data, you need to know for certain – without any lingering doubts – that you could recover your files and be back up and running again fast after a natural disaster, server crash, hacker attack or other data-erasing event.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to say farewell to a dear old friend, Windows XP. Born October 25, 2001, this operating system was a reliable computing friend through the dawn of the Internet revolution. She introduced us to “the blue screen of death,” but overall lived a happy and productive life.

Our desire to serve others is core to who we are, not just for our Zanacore clients but in our community and elsewhere. For me personally, there is no greater joy than becoming the hands, feet, and heart of Christ as we serve the poorest of the poor along with the Missionaries of the Poor.

St. Patrick wasn’t Irish and he wasn’t born in Ireland. His parents were Roman citizens living in modern-day England.

The Harp (not the Shamrock) has been a symbol of Ireland since the medieval period.

The Shamrock was a symbol St. Patrick used to preach about faith, hope and love.

This past Christmas, a hacker reportedly stumbled upon a back door to Linksys and Netgear DSL modems that allowed him to reset the router’s configuration and gain Admin access. Not good!

Some routers have this “back door” open to the local computer network while others are open to the Internet side of things, opening up users of these devices to remote Internet attacks.

To be a successful executive you must know how to knock down walls. I don’t mean the walls of brick and steel that hold up buildings; I mean the bureaucratic barriers that hold up communication.

In many companies, communication flows through narrow channels, usually from the top down — chimneys of power, they’re called.