Over the past summer, Cloverdales Good Shepherd Episcopal Church began replacing all of the glass windows in the church with stained-glass ones each window a reflection of the beauty surrounding Cloverdale. One window, located in the front entrance of the church, has a slightly different story it was found in a Healdsburg antique shop and donated to the church by Gene and Carolyn Marcinkowski after they realized that it would be a perfect fit for the space.

The Marcinkowskis stumbled upon the window while they were perusing the antique shop, having stopped because Gene remembered the shop had a silver candy dish like the one they had at their wedding 65 years ago.

While the Marcinkowskis didnt leave with the candy dish, they eventually left with their other find. After seeing the old window, Gene measured it, came back to Good Shepherd and measured the window space and found that it would be a perfect fit.

I said God intended it to be here, Gene, senior warden of Good Shepherd said, walking through the church on a tour of the new additions.

Before the stained-glass installation, the space the antique window now fills had been occupied by a plain window. Now it matches its newly installed counterparts. The throng of new stained-glass windows in the main chamber of the church arent traditional ones. Gene said that Good Shepherd didnt want windows that depicted saints. Rather, it sought windows with some religious imagery that also depicted landscape scenes common in Sonoma County.

Though all the current stained glass windows are staying, the church, started in 1888, has had its fair share of upgrades and has seen its fair share of window-changes.

According to the Reveille archives, the church installed its Senior Warden window during a major renovation in the 1990s in it, California stained glass artist Bruce St. John Maher depicted Jesus wearing blue jeans and work boots, sitting on a log in front of rolling hills of vineyards. That iconic piece is now joined by new stained-glass counterparts.

Through the up and down years of the church, we finally this year were able to get enough money to put the windows in, Gene said.

So, when he and Carolyn stumbled upon a window that would fit the church, the Marcinkowskis couldnt pass up the change to welcome it into the congregation.

We both fell in love with it and I envisioned it in our narthex right above the old organ. After some measurements of the window and then at the church, it fit perfectly. It was meant to be, Gene wrote in an email to the Reveille, describing how the Marcinkowskis happened upon the window. By the look of the lead and glass this window must've come out of an old church built around the same time as ours. We are so pleased for it to now be a welcome part of our church.

In addition to this new round of colorful windows, the church has seen a lot. Gene recounted reading about how the church operated during the 1918 pandemic, holding little to no services. Now, over 100 years later, the church is going through the same thing its closed for services, with its priest and deacon instead uploading a full service to YouTube.

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The vast majority of consumers have a poor understanding of data privacy issues yet think they are proactive in protecting themselves, according to a survey of US and UK residents.

More than 83% of 1,000 people surveyed said they were proactive in maintaining their data privacy however, they did not take basic precautions to protect their data -- showing a lack of education without a corresponding drop in confidence.

The survey from Entrust, a US Identity management and data privacy company, also found that 64% are willing to share personal data if it makes it easier to access key services.

And a whopping 83% say they are comfortable storing their biometric data with apps or third-party identity verification systems such as those at airports.

Consumers exhibited a split personality in that they had high confidence in their abilities to protect their personal data but 79% also said they were somewhat or highly concerned about their data.

About one third (34%) of consumers were very pessimistic saying that they believed they had little control over their data and nearly one-quarter said the issues were too complex to understand and 30% did not know where to begin.

A key difference between countries: UK consumers had a significantly higher trust in their employers, banks and government agencies to hold their personal data secure.

Major Internet platforms have come under fire for their use and misuse of consumer personal data. In 2021 US and UK lawmakers are looking at potential regulations to control the use of personal data. This will have huge consequences on multi-billion dollar online advertising markets and data sellers.

The Entrust survey shows that voters will need to become better educated to be able to understand and support upcoming data privacy regulations.

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Windows 10 offers a Quick Access menu in File Explorer's sidebar. However, the folks using the File Explorer since Windows 7 prefer the Favorites menu in the sidebar. Thankfully, you can replace Quick Access menu with Favorites in Windows 10.

You will need to tweak a few files in the Registry Editor to bring back Favorites from the dead. We recommend taking a backup of Registry Files before moving on, as it could break how your system works. Another way is to make a restore point, which also works great.

Let's begin.

You will need to tweak a few files in the Registry Editor to bring back Favorites from the dead. We recommend taking a backup of Registry Files before moving on, as it could break how your system works. Another way is to make a restore point, which also works great.

Step 1: Search for the Registry Editor in the Start menu and launch it.

Step 2: Drill down to the below folder structure.

Step 3: Create a new key under the NameSpace folder and name it as:

It should look something like this.

Step 4: Now, navigate to the below folder structure.

In the right window-pane, right-click in an empty area to select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value (even if you are running 64-bit version) and name this file with the same key that you created above in Step 3 like this:

Step 5: Double-click on the newly created file and set the Value data to 1. Save changes.

Step 6: At this moment, you should view the familiar Favorites menu at the bottom of the File Explorer.

You need to move it to the top to access it easily. To do so, navigate to this folder structure in the Registry Editor.

And create a new sub-key by the same name again. Right-click on CLSID to do so just as before.

Step 7: Under the newly created key in step 6, you will create a DWORD (32-bit) Value file and name it:

Step 8: Double-click to open the newly created file and set the Value Data to 4.

The Favorites menu should be visibly higher in the sidebar inside File Explorer.

So, we shared how to hide the Quick Access menu and bring back Favorites in the File Explorer sidebar menu. But we are not done yet. The problem is that you can access everything that's inside the Favorites folder, but you still can't expand it in the sidebar. Clicking on the arrow (that expands a folder) yields nothing, and the arrow disappears when you try.

This is where we will switch to CMD or Command Prompt. We will then use a Windows tool called 'mklink,' which is a command-line tool. It allows users to create a symbolic link allowing us to link one folder to another's location. It can be useful in several conditions.

Step 1: Search for and open CMD from the Start menu and select Run as administrator.

Step 2: Give the below command to change the directory.

Step 3: I will be adding the Downloads folder and name it Downloads123. Here's the command syntax for that.

Replace SomeName with the name of the link that you want to be and SourceFolder with the location where the link should point to. So for linking to the Downloads folder, the command should look like this:

It created a new folder in Favorites named Downloads123 but more importantly, the dropdown menu works perfectly.

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Quick Access is not so bad, but many users are used to the old ways, and we understand that. This is why we found a way to fix it for you. The steps can be a little complicated, and there are certainly quite a few. I suggest you go through the steps once before actually doing anything and then start afresh. That way, you will understand what we are doing and why. Take it one step at a time and check where your screen looks and functions like the one shown in the screenshots.

Let us know in the comments if you got the Favorites menu back. Found another or a better way to fix the issue? Again, do let us know in the comments section below.

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When NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover went on a spacewalk on February 1st, they wrapped up a multi-year effort to replace the aging nickel hydrogen batteries on the ISS with new lithium-ion models. The International Space Station Program approved the development of lithium-ion batteries to replace the stations aging power storage system back in 2011. Battery production started in 2014, and the first lithiumion replacements flew to the station aboard JAXAs Kounotori 6 resupply flight in December 2016. Now, four years after that flight and 14 spacewalks with 13 different astronauts later, the upgrade is finally complete.

Ground controllers used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to position some of the batteries for installation. However, some required additional spacewalks for the locations the arm couldnt reach. The batteries arent quite like the lithium-ion were used to, with their space-grade lithium-ion cells and radiant barrier shield. Since lithium-ion technology has greater energy density than nickel-hydrogen, only 24 new batteries were needed to replace the 48 old ones.

The ISS uses batteries to store energy harnessed from the sun with its solar panels, and it taps into those reserves every time it doesnt have access to sunlight. And that happens often, since the station passes between sunlight and darkness every 45 minutes. That stored power is necessary to keep everything working on the ISS, including the stations life support systems. Aside from providing the station with muchneeded power, the batteries could also give us the insight needed to improve lithium-ion safety.

Now that this particular upgrade is complete, the ISS program will shift its focus to replacing the stations solar arrays. Six new arrays will be flying aboard SpaceX flights over the next few years to replace the current ones near the end of their 15-year lifespan.

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Over its lifespan, Googles Android TV has seen two core designs that the company has built on top of. Google TV is set to replace what Android TV established over the next year, but now Google is bringing a lot of that experience over to current hardware. The Android TV homescreen is being updated with new personalized recommendations, a Discover tab, and more.

Starting today and rolling out over the next few weeks, Android TV devices will see an update to the homescreen, which delivers an experience thats a whole lot closer to whats seen on Google TV. Its not an exact copy, but the similarities are obvious.

The biggest change here is that, like Google TV, the Android TV homescreen is getting three tabs Home, Discover, and Apps. The main home tab (seen above) acts a lot like what Android TV already offers. It shows the sponsored row at the top with Favorite Apps and Play Next below. From there, youll have rows packed with content from apps installed on your Android TV.

Android TV also gets a new Discover tab, which is entirely new to the experience. This tab is whats most reminiscent of Google TV. Like the For You tab on those devices, whats found here includes movies and TV shows that are trending on Google Search as well as personalized recommendations. As far as we can tell, though, the Watchlist feature that makes Google TV so good is nowhere to be seen here. Finally, theres an apps tabs, which shows all installed apps as well as a link to the Google Play Store.

Google says that this redesigned homescreen will be rolling out in the United States as well as Australia, Canada, Germany, and France with more countries to follow.

This comes at an interesting time, as Google has previously said that the goal is to transition current Android TV hardware to the Google TV UI over time. Still, Google did previously tease that some features of the new UI would be ported back to Android TV, and it seems that this is the fulfillment of that promise. In a way, this also acts as a stopgap for the TVs and set-top boxes that wont be updated to the Google TV UI as a whole.

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Liverpool have been rocked by injuries this season. The Reds have been utterly devastated by the fitness issues theyve faced and Kopites have been clamouring for reinforcements to be brought in in the January transfer window. However, the club appears to be waiting until the summer. According to Melissa Reddy for The Independent, Liverpool will replace Joel Matip at the end of the season.

We never saw this coming.

The Reds sold a centre back in the summer without replacing him.

Who couldve guessed that the invincible Virgil van Dijk would be ruled out for the season?

By mid-November we were down to just one centre back in the first team squad and he isnt the most reliable fitness wise.

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In fact, Matip is currently ruled out with an abductor problem, leaving the Reds without a natural senior centre back in the first team.

Naturally, fans and pundits have been urging Liverpool to invest in January.

The financial reality means that the club will likely have to wait until the end of the season to strengthen.

According to The Independent, Liverpool will look to replace Joel Matip in the summer.

Melissa Reddy wrote: when Liverpool do buy a centre-back, it will be their intention that the player ultimately replaces Matip.

This comes as no surprise.

The persistent injuries to Matip during his time at Anfield have blighted what couldve been an immense career.

He is one of the most naturally talented defenders weve seen at the club this century but he is so rarely fit.

We need a man who can play most of our league games without a problem.

We cant keep chopping and changing our centre back pairings. Bringing in a centre back to replace Joel Matip makes sense.

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A rumor on Thursday claims Apple is developing native Apple Music and Podcasts apps for dissemination on the Microsoft Store, though it remains unclear if the company plans to replace iTunes for Windows.

Citing sources familiar with the matter, 9to5Mac reports Apple is testing Music and Podcasts apps for Microsoft platforms as part of a closed beta process. The apps could make their way to the Microsoft Store later this year.

While not revealed in the report, Apple could be working on an iTunes replacement for Windows. The once-ubiquitous and bloated media management hub was split into distinct apps and system services with the introduction of macOS Catalina, but remains intact on Microsoft's operating system.

Job listings in 2019 hinted that Apple is working on standalone media apps for Windows, a natural expansion for subscription services like Apple Music and Apple TV+. At the time, Apple was seeking engineers with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) experience. The API, introduced alongside Windows 10, allows developers to write and deploy software for use on Windows 10, Xbox One and HoloLens.

Apple most recently released Apple TV+ for Xbox consoles in November, a move that coincided with availability on Sony's latest PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

If Apple chooses to replace iTunes for Windows with standalone Apple Music and Podcasts apps, iPhone users without access to a Mac will need new means of syncing and backing up their device to a host computer. On Mac, those duties are now in the domain of Finder.

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Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ for Business.

Many of the typical differentiators of business PCs don't apply to Microsoft's Surface line. The form factors are the same, for example, and while business laptops often have a fingerprint sensor, the biometric Windows Hello camera is on consumer models as well.

Even a Surface Go with Windows Home has what's effectively BitLocker drive encryption(although it's called 'Device encryption' in Settings because home users don't have the same management options as enterprise admins). With a tablet form factor and USB-C, there are few worries about buying accessories that need to be interchangeable, or whether components will be available down the line because there's nothing replaceable.

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Businesses do care about the packaging of devices (because they're on the hook for disposing of -- and preferably recycling -- it as part of their corporate social responsibility programs), so they like the brown-box packaging for the Surface business line: it's now 99% natural fibre and 64% post-consumer recycled waste.

The things that business really care about in laptops are manageability and security. Business Surface models are available with Windows Autopilot, so they can be delivered preconfigured, and the new Pro 7+ comes with some key Windows security options turned on by default for the first time: HVCI (Hypervisor Code Integrity) and VBS (Virtualization-Based Security).

VBS sets up several small, fast, invisible virtual machines (VMs) on the PC that are separate from the main Windows OS, and Hyper-V tells the PC hardware to treat memory pages for them differently, so each VM can only access its own memory. It handles things like secure Windows logon and the integrity of Hyper-V itself, as well as OS security features like Credential Guard. These are usually optional features, however, and before turning them on organisations want to make sure they don't break any drivers.

Having them on by default is more secure because the PC is protected from the very first time it's turned on turning them on later runs the risk that malware could have already infiltrated the system. It's arguably simpler, as drivers that aren't compatible simply won't get installed. But OEMs tend not to turn them on by default because they worry that performance might be affected.

Microsoft tells us that it did a lot of tuning to Hyper-V (as well as pushing the ecosystem on drivers) so that turning on these security features hasn't reduced performance or battery life. (Also, as business PCs, it's less of a problem if the security features impact the frame rate of some games than it would be on consumer devices.)

Hopefully, that will encourage other PC vendors to start turning them on by default as well, because although Windows has a range of security features that use the hardware virtualisation features in CPUs, many PCs with the right hardware don't take advantage of them. Surface is an important business line for Microsoft and the devices have to succeed in their own right, but part of its raison d'tre is to showcase how the hardware can enable Windows features in ways that other OEMs can follow.

The Pro 7+ doesn't go as far as the Surface Pro X and other Secured-core PCs, which use the CPU to check the measurements made during Secure Boot before loading Windows, in case malware has compromised UEFI or other firmware on the PC. Attacks on firmware have been increasing since 2016 and Secured-core offers the kind of protection you need in regulated industries because the device is protected before the TPM is initialised in the factory, so you don't have to worry about supply-chain attacks where the PCs you order are intercepted and tampered with before they reach you. When Secured-core PCs were announced in 2019, Microsoft director of OS security Dave Weston told us that they're "specifically designed for highly targeted industries that handle super-sensitive data and need added, multiple layers of security built in."

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Not everyone needs that level of security, especially when it comes at the cost of some convenience. Like the new Pluton security processor, Secured-core PCs, take several lessons from the way Microsoft secures the Xbox, although Windows isn't becoming a appliance in the same way a games console is.

But you can't, for example, install a new DMA device attached over Thunderbolt on a Secured-core PC until you unlock it with a PIN or biometrics. And it's always possible that turning on all the Windows security features will mean some badly written driver that you actually need won't work.

That's far less of a problem in the Arm ecosystem where there are fewer legacy drivers to worry about and where every device is already running a hypervisor (usually the one Qualcomm provides). As long as Hyper-V delivers as good or better performance as that hypervisor, there's no performance impact from turning on the security features for Windows on Arm devices like the Surface Pro X.

For the Pro 7+ Microsoft told us that although it's not a Secured-core device, the company feels it has equivalent levels of security thanks to the custom UEFI firmware used in Surface devices.

These two features, which are the basis of so many advanced Windows security features, can push the x86 ecosystem along so that, over time, all PCs can eventually ship secure by default. And while it's too early to see the Pluton security processor showing up in Surface, Microsoft did tell us that's definitely on the roadmap for the future.

The Surface Pro 7+ has a removable SSD.

Another notable thing about the Pro 7+ is its removable SSD. On the Surface Pro X models, this seems like a way to get flexibility in pricing and spec: you could buy a cheaper unit with the storage you thought you'd need and upgrade when you discovered you were doing more on the device than you'd planned. Or, as happened to us, you could buy a Pro X with less storage that you really wanted because the larger models weren't shipping and plan to upgrade later. (That upgrade hasn't happened yet because the right format of SSD has been hard to find.)

We did ask Microsoft if the company had taken any steps to make that easier for businesses would additional SSDs be available through the Microsoft Store or deals with OEMs? but the spokesperson had nothing to share.

In fact, although you could use the removable SSD to upgrade the storage capacity, even with OneDrive integration making it easy to get your files, cloning and reimaging devices is still a somewhat tedious process. The removable SSD in the Pro 7+ isn't really there for device upgrades; it's for data retention. If the Surface Pro is damaged, the organization doesn't have to worry about losing data that needs to be archived or securely deleted. It's much easier to scrub an SSD that you can pop out of the slot and put into an external enclosure than one that you have to prise out of a sealed tablet with specialist tools and a hot air gun (or send back to Microsoft).

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Need a quick but powerful way to rename large groups of files in Windows 10? Using Microsofts free PowerToys, all that power is only a right-click away thanks to the PowerRename module. Heres how to use it.

Before all this exciting renaming action can begin, youll first need to download PowerToys from Microsofts website. To get it, visit this link in your favorite browser and look for the latest release toward the top of the page, which will have a name similar to PowerToysSetup-0.27.1-x64.exe. Download that file and run it to install PowerToys.

After youve installed PowerToys, launch PowerToys Settings and click PowerRename in the sidebar. Make sure that the switch beside Enable PowerRename is turned on.

After that, close the PowerToys Settings window.

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Now that you have PowerToys installed, renaming a bunch of files is as easy as a right-click menu choice. First, locate the files that you want to rename in File Explorer or on the desktop and select them.

Then right-click the files and select PowerRename from the menu that appears.

The PowerRename window will open. This is where the magic happens.

First, enter the criteria that will determine what gets renamed. By default, PowerRename works with simple search-and-replace functionality. In the first text box, type a search term. On the next line, enter what you want to replace it with. PowerRename will replace the first occurrence (or every occurrence if you check a box) of that term in all of the file names youve selected with the replacement text.

Heres an example where P4 in each file name has been replaced with photo_. The neat thing is that PowerRename provides a preview of what the renamed files will look like right there in the window. That way, you dont have to guess what the result might be.

Near the middle of the window, youll see other options that change how PowerRename works. Consider each one and place a checkmark beside those that you want to use. Heres what each option does:

When youre ready, click the Rename button, and PowerRename will perform the operation youve specified.

If you dont like the result, you can press Ctrl+Z in File Explorer to undo the rename process. Very handy!

What if you dont want to just replace a word in a file, but rather, youd like to replace the entire filename with something completely new? In that case, youd want a wildcard to match all of the files youve selected. To do that, youll need to use a very simple, regular expression, .*, which means everything.

In this example, well replace all file names selected with a base file name that gets progressively numbered. First, enter .* in the Search for box, then enter the name youd like to use in the Replace with box. Then check Use Regular Expressions, Enumerate Items, and Item Name Only.

With all that checked, youll end up with a series of similarly named files that are numbered in sequential order. When youre done setting it up, click Rename, and the operation will complete. Have fun renaming things!

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Need more power and options? Try these other batch rename tools for Windows.

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COVID-19 has infiltrated the SEC, forcing the postponement of UKs second conference game earlier on Tuesday, but a quick fix might be right in front of us.

The Kentucky Womens Basketball Team was supposed to take on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers down in Knoxville this Sunday on Jan. 3, but due to coronavirus concerns, that game has been temporarily shelved. As pointed out to me by Conner Robinson (@ConnerRobinson7) on Twitter, the postponement of other games across the league has incidentally opened up an opportunity for the Wildcats. Robinson noted that Mississippi State is also currently in need of an opponent on Jan. 3.

Across the street from the Vols, the Vanderbilt Commodores are in a similar COVID situation, as theyve postponed their first three SEC games due to coronavirus protocols. One of those games also happens to fall on Jan. 3, in which Vandy would have played No. 12 Mississippi State. Now the Bulldogs are in search of a game to playwhy not Kentucky?

The Wildcats were already scheduled to travel down to Knoxville on Sunday while the Bulldogs would have hosted Vanderbilt. If Kentucky is willing to travel the extra mileage, they could swap out the postponed game against Tennessee with a ranked matchup against Mississippi State.

It works out even more perfectly than that, too, as Robinson explained to me. He pointed out that Kentucky is currently scheduled to play MSU on Jan. 24 while Tennessee will matchup against Vanderbilt on the same day. If the schedule-makers switch UK and Vandy on Jan. 24, pitting the Wildcats against the Volunteers and Bulldogs against the Commodores on Jan. 24, it would cleanly fix the issue. This also assumes that no other major scheduling changes have been made from now until then, which could be a hiccup rescheduling this Sunday with such a small turnaround window.

The biggest downside? It would force Kentucky to play three games in a row against top 15 opponents instead of three spread across four games. If the Cats were to find a way to swap out UT with MSU, then theyd play the No. 12 team, No. 9 team, and No. 5 team in back-to-back-to-back outings.

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