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Qin ai de jiating,
Welp not much happened this week. The weather for the first part of the week was gorgeous! We saw sunshine for the first time since I have been here in Jilong. It was great! The work picked up a little since guo nian is over. But later this week it started raining again and won't stop for a week. Blast! Good thing this Oregonian loves the rain! Anyways, Sister Howell lost her voice on Thursday so for the last part of the week I have been doing most of the talking. Its kind of scary but it has been great to see how much I understand and can share. The gift of tongues is an amazing thing!
We experienced some heartache this week. Huang li qin one of our investigators last week missed her baptismal date. This is the third baptismal date she has missed. We finally got a hold of her at her friend's clothing booth. We have been trying to call her for the whole week with no results. When we asked her what happened she said that she went to Taipei with her family. When we asked if she still had a desire to get baptized she said she wasn't sure. She has all the sudden become very flaky. We invited Sister Chen to peike for us but Li qin didn't show up. Long story short, we are going to have to let her go. Sister Howell and I when we got home just sat on our floor and cried. It is so hard to see an investigator who we have worked so hard with. We walked to her house for pete's sake which is 30 minutes away one way. We had so much hope that this baptismal date would be the one for her. It is really hard but I know that Heavenly Father still loves her and is mindful of her. I hope that she will one day get baptized and reiceve the blessings that come from it.On a happier note, our Elders had a baptism last Saturday. He is 80 years old!! He is a sweet old man with such a big heart. It was so great to see him get baptized. This is the first baptism in Jilong for a long time.
The new transfer starts today. We recieved the move call on Friday and Sister Howell and I are staying in Jilong together for another transfer!!! I am so excited to stay here in this wonderful place. Huang zhanglao is moving to the southern part of Taiwan and Chen zhanglao, our district leader, is training again.
I hope that you all have a great week. Sorry this e-mail is so short. Nothing really happened this week. I love you all so much!!
All my love,
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Walmart will soon deliver groceries to nearly half of US shoppers. Business Insider Hayley Peterson
Those deliveries will cost $9.95, with a $30 minimum. Sigman has been optimistic about the company's "click and collect" option - which allows customers to shop online through its website and pick up groceries at Walmart's physical locations - seeing it as an opportunity to drive incremental sales growth. It also comes at a time of intense competition within the grocery space and follows Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods previous year.
Walmart says it will continue to use of ride-hailing services like Uber to deliver the goods to shoppers' homes as it expands its service. The service, which has become a customer favorite and touted as a "Grocery Hero" for moms on the go and time-strapped families, is now available in 1,200 stores with 1,000 more to be added this year.
Though many companies, Amazon in particular, are now working to shorten the supply chain with grocery delivery, with this move Walmart gains greater control over its supply chain on the production side. "I think that's probably the most important aspect of this". Jet now offers grocery delivery in some markets through traditional mailing services such as Federal Express, the article noted. If all goes to plan, 40 percent of the U.S. population will have the option to pay $9.95 and have their groceries picked and delivered to their front door in just a few months. "We are extremely happy with the results that we have had out of the USA", he added, noting the company does not have a specific timeline in mind for the rollout.
Relying on third-parties for delivery could ultimately be a disadvantage, however. Also, the company has been testing same-day deliveries with Deliv for quite some time.
But the Amazon threat still looms even with Walmart's sizable physical footprint on its side. Moreover, the recent kitchen product launches, including a wide variety of meal-kits, are expected to benefit from improved delivery services.
"'We are gaining new customers who might not have had access to Walmart previously, ' Ward said about what he's learned from the pilot test of grocery delivery thus far". The stage for the grocery-delivery war is set: Now we just have to see if consumers are actually interested.
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1. Better grip.
Soapy water and slippery dishes don't mix. Anyone who has ever dropped a soapy dish and broken it knows how dangerous sharp objects and murky sudsy water can be. Wearing gloves allows you to grip items better than you would be able to with just your fingers when hand washing dishes.
2. Protect your skin.
Hot water and harsh chemicals can do a number on your skin. We use our hands so much around the house, that they've become our workhorses for nearly every job. Protect your skin by not allowing it to be exposed to chemicals and water temperatures that can irritate and dry out your hands. This is especially true if you have cuts or lesions on your hands. Avoid the pain and chance of infection caused by exposing your hands to dishwater or other chores. If you're sensitive to latex, try latex free gloves.
3. Protect your nails.
Torn nails can happen so easily when your nails have been weakened by chemical and water exposure. Prevent snags and tears as well as chipped paint by wearing gloves when you do household chores.
4. Avoid gross stuff.
Yes, I know a seasoned housekeeper should not be shocked or repulsed by any household job. The fact is, that there are jobs in our home that are yucky, icky, and gross to do. If they are disgusting to think about, they are even more disgusting to touch and expose our skin to.


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Photo of Fidget because I could not think of anything else!
As of this morning, I am the proud owner of a shiny new dishwasher. Yes, I know that they are not strictly necessary and that I can live without, but boy do they make life easier. I can finally find my sink again, and of course I am helping to save the planet (research shows they use less energy than washing by hand. No I don't understand either). At any rate, I no longer have to wash dishes by hand which, for someone who lives on their own, took a hell of a lot longer than you would think.
This week I have been back at the house with the outdoor dogs. You may remember I had an incident, a couple of months ago, when I had to resort to climbing a fence to get at a dog, and give road kill to ferrets. Well, no fence climbing this time, but I have had to give chicks to ferret kits. I really do not do dead things, and to have to get frozen chicks out of the freezer, leave them in a dish to defrost and then take them out to the ferrets does not fill me with joy. The things I do for money sometimes!
This is the first weekend when I have been able to make the most of the sunshine. I went out this morning and again this evening, but in between I have been able to sit out and read. I need to sort out some other seating, something that I can really laze on, although I know full well that I won't get anywhere near it.
I am reviewing what I am going to do to push Scent Trail. The realisation dawned a while ago that the Craft Fairs I have been doing are not the way forward, and I am lucky if I make back the cost of the table. I am doing one next weekend, but I think it will be my last for a while. I was speaking to a local artist and book illustrator I was at school with yesterday, and she is going to give me a list of larger Fairs which she thinks will be good for me to attend. They will be more expensive to do, but if I add up what I have spent so far on what have proved to be complete wastes of time I would be horrified. Plus think what else I could have done with the hours I have spent sitting twiddling my thumbs.
If I stand any hope of leaving the day job/hampster wheel, I have to start earning money from soap. Hopefully soon I will expand the range with the liquid soap, and following some, research shampoo. I have an issue with the colour of my liquid soap though. A couple of people have said that the colour is off-putting (how dare they), I think because they are used to seeing pretty pink or purple soaps in the supermarkets. I was going to use some lovely clear bottles, but I think I will have to look into the opaque variety. Bum!


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Time well-spent today: watching "The Verdict":
I hadn't seen in quite a while. It still holds up. Exquisite performances by everyone in the cast. If you haven't seen it, I can't recommend it too highly.
On a supremely shallow level, there's also The Moment That Paul Newman Looked His Best On Film:
Line that up against The Moment That Robert Redford Looked His Best On Film:
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I'm trying to knit things for the etsy store. Today has been "small items" day --- pet toys, bangle bracelets, hats. I feel pretty productive.
Even with that and Newman, I will still gripe about my latest medication not working. When I go to the psychiatrist's next week, there will, undoubtedly, be another prescription to try. I hate to see January coming, when my new deductible has to start all over.


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Thiago Goncalves def. Shingo Suzuki by KO at :26 in Round 1
Lightweight Bout
Akira Okada def. Mauricio Reis by Unanimous Decision
Welterweight Bout
Yuki Kondo fought Eric Michael Fought to a Majority Draw
Flyweight Bout
Hiroyuki Abe def. Masakazu Utsugi by Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) at 2:18 in Round 2
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Takuya Eizumi def. Takamasa Kiuchi by Unanimous Decision
Super Flyweight Bout
Daichi Kitakata fought Tatsuya So to a Unanimous Draw
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Yoshihiro Matsunaga def. Toshio Mitani by Unanimous Decision
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Katsunori Takahashi def. Ben Buchan by Submission (Armbar) at 3:16 in Round 2
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Takahiro Takaoka def. Chiaki Wakana by Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) at 3:18 in Round 2
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Koji Obata fought Toshio Ito to a Draw
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Dublin High golfer Jacob Solomon finished his high school career in a manner that was a little hard to believe.
Let it sink in.
On the par-5 18th hole of the June 3 state tournament, Solomon made an eagle putt to win by one shot at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach.
Consequently, he keeps seeing his name on the electronic sign in front of Dublin High, acknowledging his historic accomplishment. He became the first North Coast Section male to win a state golf title with his 3-under par 68.
Solomon's dramatic victory clinched his selection as East Bay Boys Golfer of the Year.
On 18, he scalded his second shot 210 yards with a 3-iron to 10 feet from the cup. The stage was set for Dublin golf history.
"I was probably a little nervous, but at same time I really trusted in my abilities," Solomon said of the eagle putt. "I was confident. I felt I had the right read, and I stepped up there and hit the putt and it went in. It was pretty cool."
Of course, to win a state championship, first you need to qualify. Solomon barely got there. He earned the third of four individual qualifying spots in the North Coast Section Division I Tournament of Champions. Then he finished in a three-way tie for the final three individual qualifying spots at the NorCal tourney.
"I didn't feel like I was having a great postseason overall until I won state," said Solomon, who was medalist at the Diablo Foothill Athletic League tourney. "At NCS I didn't even think I was going to get through that."
All he needed was an opportunity, it turned out.
"I knew all the pieces were there. I was hitting the ball well and making putts, and everything came together," Solomon said.
Solomon, who is headed to Auburn, is an accomplished American Junior Golf Association player. He tied for 10th in the AJGA Thunderbird International Junior on May 25 and took top honors at the Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic in April. So his game is in very good shape.
In the state tourney, Solomon reeled off birdies on 9, 10 and 11 to get to 3-under, but gave three back on 12 and 13. He birdied 16, setting up the dramatic finish.


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This afternoon we leave for Disneyland. Staying all night in Indy, flying to Anaheim on Thursday morning. Should have 2 1/2 days to spend in the parks before the race on Sunday the 6th. I am really fired up and ready to run. We come home on Labor day. I will do a race report after we get home.
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There are a few simple edits that you can make yourself without relying on the auto-corrects that you editing software uses. I suggest making the edits yourself because it allows you to see what looks good, what works for you, and you can experiment to create your own editing style.
Here are some basic edits that you can make using any version of Adobe Photoshop Elements or CS version:
1. Adobe RGB
2. Levels
3. Color Curves
4. Hue and Saturation
5. Unsharp Mask
6. Cropping
These elements are what should be done before you even think about making any creative adjustments to your photo. Keep in mind that you can make those kind of adjustments while using each of these edits, but to keep the quality of the photograph at its highest you want to adjust it to the proper exposure.
This edit is common in Adobe Photoshop software, but you may have a harder time finding it in other photo editing programs. The purpose for converting your photograph to Adobe RGB is for printing purposes. For basic printing, the basic colors of light are used: RGB (Red, Green, and Blue), but for published printing in magazines you may be looking at the basic colors of ink: CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black). I highly suggest for printing your own images from home, a local photo lab, or an online printing service that you make sure your photograph is in RGB, preferably the standard Adobe RGB, so that your colors will stay true to how you are seeing them.
Just a note, however, you also need to keep in mind that the color you see on your screen, no matter if you did convert to Adobe RGB, can differ slightly on paper. Monitors need to be calibrated to the printer and ink used to make prints. This is why many photographers do not offer a disk to customers of their photos and insist that images be purchased through their studio or the printing company of their choice.
I will say that for local or amateur photographers starting out that offering a CD of photos with images in Adobe RGB will be safe for clients to use to make their own prints. Keep in mind that you do not want to saturate, intensify the color, of your photos excessively because this could still ruin the prints.
Here's how you do it (screen caps from Adobe Photoshop Elements 9):
1. Open your image
2. Go to 'Image' (beside of Edit)
3. Go down to 'Convert Color Profile'
4. Choose 'Convert to Adobe RGB Profile'
Levels is a tool in editing that allows you to lighten a darkened image or darken an image with too much light. All of this has to do with exposure, the amount of light in the photograph. Ideally, you want all of your photos to be properly exposed before you go to edit them, but that is ideally, right? We all know that it's impossible to get the perfect shot every time.
Here is how you adjust your Levels (screen caps from Adobe Photoshop Elements 9):
1. Go to 'Layer' (beside of Enhance)
2. Go down to 'New Adjustment Layer'
3. Choose 'Levels'
Now, you will see something that looks like this:
The idea for Levels is that it should look like a mountain with the highest peak in the middle - that is a properly exposed photograph. But, because not all photographs can be perfect, you will need to tweak the darkness (black arrow) or lightness (white arrow) of the photograph to get it properly exposed. The important thing to remember is even if your photograph's levels do not resemble a mountain, you may still be properly exposed. You want to keep the arrows under the "mountain" at the edge of each side of the mountain, like pictured above. Only if your arrows do not meet the bottom edges of your mountain do you need to bring them in to meet. However, if that is the case, you can adjust it to your preference up to the mountain.
Color curves adjusts your color balance. The best thing I can suggest for working with color curves is to mess around with it and get a feel to how your movements affect the photo. Here is what it looks like:
Looking at this grid to adjust color curves might look confusing, but I am going to try to explain it the best that I can. You are working with the three visible dots in the middle of the line. Highest of the three dots controls the darkness/lightness of the Highlights in the photo. Click the dot and drag it upward to highlight them even more or drag it downward to darken them. The middle dot controls the Midtone Brightness, where if you click and drag it upward the photo gets brighter or drag it downward the photo gets darker. But, it also controls the Midtone Contrast. Once you have the Brightness set how you want it move the same dot to the left or right to change you contrast. Left is less contrast and right is more contrast. Finally, there is the lowest of the three dots on the left. This dot controls Midtone Shadows, where it follows the same up and down principle as the other edits.
There is no right way to have this look. The only suggestion I can offer to have a photograph with color balance that would match a properly exposed photo would be to have your line look like an 'S':
Here is how to get to it (screen caps are from Adobe Photoshop Elements 9):
1. Make sure you have the 'Background Layer' selected
2. Go to 'Enhance'
3. Go down to 'Adjust Color'
4. Click 'Adjust Color Curves'
Now, for those using the complete version of Photoshop you won't find Color Curves there. You will need to follow the instructions on how to find 'Levels' above in the 'New Adjustment Layer' and look further down to select 'Color Curves'.
Here is where you can adjust colors to make then more or less intense or change the color of something all together. Here is where getting creative can enter your editing process full force.
All adjustments to the left make the image darker or take away color while adjustments add color or make it brighter.
Hue adjustments change the overall color cast of the image, if left on 'Master', but you can choose different colors to look at to isolate the Blues in your image and adjust them to be Reds or any color you like.
Saturation adjustments either remove all the color from you image (Black and White) or intensify the colors in your photograph. It works the same as Hue, where if you leave it on Master the entire photograph changes or you can choose a specific color or set of colors to desaturate or saturate.
Finally, you have Lightness. You can dark or lighten the photograph. Master alters the entire photo, while choosing a specific color only changes that color.
Here is where you find it (screen caps are from Adobe Photoshop Elements 9):
1. 1. Go to 'Layer' (beside of Enhance)
2. Go down to 'New Adjustment Layer'
3. Choose 'Hue/Saturation'
For every photograph, you want it to look as crisp as possible. This is where Unsharp Mask comes in because it gives you the opportunity to adjust every aspect of the sharpness in your photo.
When working with your Photoshop document, you need to Flatten all the layers.
1. Go to 'Layer'
2. Go down and choose 'Flatten Image'
This makes all the image edits into one single image for you to sharpen. You will be working with three adjustments: Amount, Radius, and Threshold.
Amount (%) is the percentage of sharpening you want done to the photo from 1%-500%. The range to stay between would be 25%-125% for a photograph that will not look too grainy.
Radius is the amount of area that will be sharpened in any one place by an invisible border. An example would be that the pupil of the eye will be sharpened automatically, but without a larger radius you may not get the whole eye or the eyebrows included. I suggest a safe range for radius to be 0.1-1.5 so that your entire image is not consumed by sharpening.
Threshold plays off of the radius by including and excluding certain areas to sharpen. Lower values here include more sharpening of areas, while higher values exclude more areas. Threshold is more or less a tonal adjustment and need to remain no greater than 5. A rule of thumb is lower threshold should be used for inanimate objects and higher threshold for more detailed photographs, like those of people.
Once you've completed the items above (sometimes you can leave Unsharp Mask until after you crop) you can crop the image to the size that you need. I highly suggest that for printing images you crop them to the size that you plan to print the image. For example, if you are wanting to print a batch of 4x6 photos, you need to crop all the photos to 4x6 ahead of time. Images that are used for the internet can be cropped at whatever size you need them to be.
The important thing to keep in mind when cropping your photos is the PPI (Pixels Per Inch) because it DOES matter. Photos being uploaded to the internet or to sites like Facebook need to be changed to 100 PPI. While photographs that are being printed need to have more pixels per inch at 300 PPI. This DOES affect the quality of the image - you want to have more pixels when you are making prints.
As you can see, I have included in the screen cap above what cropping to a 4x6 at 300 PPI would look like on Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.
Here's how you get to those options:
1. Go to 'Image' (beside of Edit)
2. Choose 'Crop'
When putting in values for your width and height be aware of the orientation of your photograph because a 4X6 and a 6x4 are completely different depending on which box you place them in.
Overall, those are the basic steps to editing a photograph in any photo editing program, but I chose to show you examples with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. Never feel overwhelmed with making adjustments to a photo because there is a golden rule when editing photography:
*Any screen caps that you may have had trouble viewing at home can be clicked on for a larger view of the photograph.


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Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Under threat of United Nations Security Council sanctions for its own nuclear program, Iran has been elected to a vice-chair position on the U.N. Disarmament Commission, whose mission includes deliberations on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.The commission's deliberations began last Monday and are scheduled to continue until April 28. On the first day of the commission meeting, Iran along with Uruguay and Chile was elected as one of eight vice-chairs, elected to serve for one year.
Isn't that something…Maybe the UN has been asleep for several years because I don't know if they are aware of this, but Iran is spearheading its own WMD program. That might need to be repeated…IRAN IS A TERRORIST STATE THAT IS BUILDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND HAS THREATENED TO DESTROY ISRAEL. This is what Sen. Norm Coleman (R) had to say about this: "The election of Iran as a vice-chair of the U.N. Disarmament Commission at the same time as Iran clandestinely pursues its own nuclear ambitions provides yet another example of the U.N.'s inability to establish credible institutions to deal with global issues. Having the Iranians serve on this commission is like asking the fox to guard the hens, and will only ensure its ineffectiveness."
This is an outrage! Not only has the UN placed the world's worst human rights violators on their Human Rights Council but now they decide to place Iran on the Disarmament Commission. Are you fuckin' kidding me! If Hitler was still alive, I'm sure the United Nations would honor him with an award for world peace. This is the same group that John Kerry wanted the U.S. to take orders from. This has to be the last straw, doesn't it? The United States should stop all funding and all support for this anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist organization that has an agenda against our country. In the Twilight Zone in which we live, this is shockingly typical behavior on the part of the world community. How many times do I have to point this out for people on the left to understand what's going on. And I predicted this on Monday saying, "The world community will also weigh in on the situation by downplaying the significant steps Iran has taken in its research and development phase of nuclear technology. The UN will do this because they are pacifists."
This is what is going on, the UN is doing what it can to support Iran's "right" to acquire nuclear weapons. It's funny because America has been the focus of the world's hatred but actual terrorists have their sympathy. It's also amazing because the U.S. withdrew its name from the Human Rights nomination process because it was likely that they would not be nominated due to the over-hyping of Guantanamo and Abu Grhiab. The UN condemns the United States for removing a brutal dictator, they condemn the United States for imprisoning terrorists but they reward terrorist states and those who espouse anti-Semitic views. It's quite clear that the United Nations is pro-terrorist, pro-oppression but anti-American… Is there one legitimate reason why the US should not discontinue funding such an organization?


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I was listening to the latest Windows Weekly podcast over the weekend, and they started talking about how expensive software is, and some possible solutions to the problem. While I can see the problems subscription software can have, I hate the idea of paying hundreds of dollars for Windows of Microsoft Office.
Software that lasts for 30-90 days trials are no good. The problem is the average computer user realizes it's a trial version at first, but by the time 90 days hits, they forget and the security software stops working, leaving their computers vulnerable to threats. I think trying software out before you buy it is a fantastic idea, and allows people to get a feel for it and see if they want to continue using it, but 90 days is far too long. Either way, companies like Symantec and McAfee need to make it much more obvious when the software stops working. To their credit, I do like their annual subscription fee after the first year.
No one likes paying hundreds of dollars for Microsoft Office or Windows. Leo Laporte (@leolaporte) and Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) suggested charge a yearly subscription fee instead, say $49. I'm not sure how that would work on multiple licenses, but it's certainly a much more economical pricing point. Apple isn't using subscription pricing for Snow Leopard, which comes out later this year, but they're only charging $29 to upgrade from the Leopard operating system.
Just a thought. Hopefully more people and companies start thinking this way.


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Secure Islands
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5 Menachem Begin Ave., Beit Dagan, Israel
|Aki Eldar, Yuval Eldar
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Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli privately held technology company headquartered in 5 Menachem Begin Ave., Beit Dagan, that develops and markets Information Protection and Control (IPC) solutions.[1]
Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. was founded by two brothers Aki Eldar and Yuval Eldar in late 2006, to develop and sell advanced data security solutions. The then Jerusalem-based start-up company suggested a new solution for data protection: embedding security directly in data. Secure Islands builds software designed to classify sensitive information automatically based on policies outlined by an enterprise, and then to wrap it in the appropriate level of Digital rights management (DRM).[2][3]
In November 2015 Microsoft acquired Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. for an undisclosed amount.[4]
- 1 About Secure Islands Technologies Ltd.
- 1.1 Leadership Team
- 1.2 Investors
- 1.3 Technology
- 1.4 Security Solutions
- 1.5 Awards
- 2 See also
- 3 References
About Secure Islands Technologies Ltd.[edit]
Leadership Team[edit]
The company is run by a board of directors. Members of the board of directors as of November 2015 are: Aki Eldar, Yuval Eldar, Asher Jospe, Tsachy Shasha, Greg Grimaldi.[5] Furthermore, the company has a professional leadership team who have contributed to its successful development: Amir Avraham (VP Finance), Roee Oz (CTO), Paul Gabrik (EVP Sales, North America), Guri Geva (VP Sales, EMEA), Ayal Ofer Laleh (VP Research & Development), Yoel Knoll (Director of Marketing), Danny Seker (Director of Customer Success), and Reut Bar Lev (HR Manager).[6]
Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. is a private start-up company. However, the company is backed by prominent and experienced major international investment funds such as Docor International, Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, Shlomo Kramer, Galilaea Group and Credit Suisse NEXT. The company's solutions are deployed in top-tier Fortune 500 firms and government agencies worldwide.[7][8]
Docor International[edit]
Docor, a subsidiary of the Van Leer Group Foundation, was founded to promote commercial activities in Israel. Docor aims to support Israeli economy by investing in globally oriented Israeli companies that have innovative technologies targeted at growing markets and the needs of future industries. Docor's strategy is to provide for the companies in which it invests, an international business network and skilled management support.
Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem[edit]
Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem was established in 1992 by a consortium of sponsors, such as Intel, Teva Pharmaceuticals, AVX, Motorola and the Jerusalem Development Authority.[9]
Shlomo Kramer[edit]
Shlomo Kramer is a pioneer in the Internet security market. In 2002, he was a co-founder, CEO, and President of Imperva. Some years earlier, Mr. Kramer was a co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies. In 2006, Mr. Kramer was selected by Network World magazine as one of 20 luminaries who changed the network industry.
Galilaea Group[edit]
The Galilaea Group is a privately owned boutique investment firm. Its main focus is on IT, green energy and environment-friendly technologies. As part of its business model, the group plays an active role in the business development of its portfolio companies.
Credit Suisse NEXT[edit]
Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, LLC, is a private equity fund dedicated to investing in technology companies. The fund part of the Credit Suisse Asset Management ("CSAM").[10]
Microsoft is set to acquire Israeli cyber-sec startup Secure Islands for $100-150 million, according to Israeli sources.[11]
Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. software is based on its active data immunization concept. Secure Islands' Data Immunization technology uniquely embeds protection within information itself at the moment of creation or initial organizational access. This process is automatic and accompanies sensitive information throughout its lifecycle from creation, through usage and collaboration to storage and archival.[12][13]
Security Solutions[edit]
The corporate headquarters, informally known as the Microsoft Redmond Campus, is located at One Microsoft Way in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft initially moved onto the grounds of the campus on February 26, 1986, weeks before the company went public on March 13. The headquarters has since experienced multiple expansions since its establishment.
Secure Islands' IQProtector adaptively, accurately, and persistently classifies unstructured data from the moment of creation or first access.[14]
Information Rights Management (IRM)[edit]
Secure Islands IQProtector fully automates IRM by classification on endpoints (including PCs, mobile phones and tablets), repositories and ECM systems.[15]
Enhanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP)[edit]
Organizations can prevent data leakage thanks to Secure Islands' data-centric security – uniquely embedding protection within the data itself at the moment of creation or initial organizational access. .[16]
Cloud Services[edit]
Secure Islands' IQProtector adaptively, accurately, and persistently classifies unstructured data from the moment of creation or first access.[17]
Enterprise Applications[edit]
Secure Islands Technologies offers for large-scale data sources a set of built-in data interceptors which capture data at creation, in motion, in use, and at rest – identifying data in need of protection based on content-driven, pre-defined policies, and submitting for automatic classification and protection by IQProtector Suite.[18]
8 June 2015 - Secure Islands Technologies announced today that it won a Red Herring Top 100 North America award. "Secure Islands has transformed the data security field with its innovative data immunization technology," said Alex Vieux, chairman and CEO, Red Herring. "With large, global rollouts at large companies, its solution has proven its performance, and has gained significant traction. Thus we have selected the company as a Red Herring Top 100 for we have confident it will soon become an industry brand name."[19]
31 August 2015 - Network World (NWW) published the first formal product review of IQProtector Enterprise, version 5.0. which received NWW's Clear Choice award. The review states that "IQProtector's security was top-notch in our tests."[20]
6 October 2015 - Secure Islands Technologies announced that it was selected as winner of the annual SINET 16 competition from a pool of more than 130 applicants from around the world. SINET is an organization dedicated to developing cyber security innovation through public-private collaboration.[21]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Secure Islands' Technology". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Forbes How To Protect A Company's Data". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Secure Islands Technologies". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Microsoft to acquire data protection firm Secure Islands. The deal will be used to bolster Microsoft's Azure Rights Management Service". PC World. November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Leadership Team". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Investors". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Microsoft set to acquire Israeli startup Secure Islands for $100-150M". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Secure Islands Technologies raises $1.1m in first round". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Cyber security co Secure Islands raises $12m". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Microsoft is set to acquire Israeli cyber-sec startup Secure Islands for $100-150 million". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "About Secure Islands Technologies Ltd". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Secure Islands: 'Immunizing' corporate data as soon as it is created". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Classification". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Information Rights Management (IRM)". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Enhanced DLP". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Classification". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Enterprise Applications". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Red Herring Top 100 North America award". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "NWW's Clear Choice award". Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Winner of the 2015 SINET 16". Retrieved November 5, 2015.


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In addition to making great progress with my learning-to-knit-lace project (more of which in another post), I felt like doing a bit of sewing this week, just to do something easy and uncomplicated, and for the instant gratification of quick results.
You might remember I made a tablecloth for my mum a few weeks back, and I felt like sewing a similar one just for me. I had a great time playing with fabrics in my stash, and eventually chose some of my favourite Amy Butler fabrics, in orange, pink and green.
I just love the colour combinations and the patterns (you will have gathered by now that despite my Scandinavian background I don't really do stylish minimalism). I'm really pleased with the results, the tablecloth suits the dining room really well. The combination of pink and orange gives the room – which is otherwise quite neutral – a lovely glow. So all in all, instant gratification was received!


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Alibaba, China's online shopping giant, has boosted its estimated value to $130bn ahead of what is expected to be one of the largest initial public offerings ever seen.
The 15-year-old retail business raised its value from $116bn in an updated prospectus filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday night.
Alibaba also revealed a group of 27 top executives and investors in the company, including co-founder Jack Ma, can appoint another two directors to the company's board once it goes public later this year.
The move would expand the board to 11 members from nine and cement the group's control over the board.
Alibaba is taking a relatively cautious approach to its listing on the New York Stock Exchange. It said in its official filings that it is seeking to raise $1bn at its initial public offering – much less than Facebook or Twitter sought on their respective market debuts. Some of that restraint comes amid concerns that investors have fallen out of love with technology stocks, and may be wary of a major online retailer.
However, that figure is expected to change once banks start testing investor appetite, with some analysts predicting that it will rocket as high as $20bn.
Alibaba's pre-IPO S1 document laid bare the breadth of the business, which operates a string of online marketplaces, including Taobao, an equivalent to eBay, the Amazon-style Tmall, and Juhuasuan, China's version of Groupon. Last year, 8m merchants used the three websites to sell $248bn-worth of goods to 231m buyers.
But although the size of Alibaba is impressive, it is its rapid growth trajectory that is most likely to pique investor interest. The business, which was founded by former school teacher Jack Ma in his flat in Hangzhou, doubled its profits to $1.35bn in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2013. Revenues jumped 66pc to $3.1bn.
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The filings also revealed that it is sat on $7.9bn of cash, cash-equivalents and short-term investments – a major war chest which will help to fuel its expansion by buying up smaller players.


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My favorite time to paint is early in the morning. When it is quiet and I have had my coffee.My studio is outside so I have a few steps from my house to get to it. I think there is something very intimate in the smaller works having always painted quite large. Painting usually everyday and always in the morning I have chosen the title Morning Paintings.


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I only took seven shots in a quick impromptu photo shoot in the afternoon. Having the car parked in the grass with the sun filtering through the trees looked like ideal light for a good photo. The photo above is my favorite of the bunch, the others were either very similar or had the house in the background.


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Gabriela Lessa is hosting another contest! Below I've posted my four entries in order to get feedback before I submit them. The great thing about this contest is that the judges are editors, so even if you lose you win, having gotten an editor to look at your work. The entries are supposed to be your first paragraph, and a one sentence pitch. Wish me luck.
Name: Mary Jean Schiller
Title: Abandon All Hope
Genre: single-title romance
Manuscript word count: 88,698
Judge: Deb Werksman
One-sentence pitch:
First paragraph:
After eight years of trying to forget her, rock star Chase Hatton is to be interviewed by photo-journalist Hope Creswell, the woman who was his childhood friend, turned high school flame, but ended up mysteriously walking out on him the night of their senior prom.
New, shorter pitch-
Hope, having spent the last eight years trying to forget her childhood friend/high school flame, Chase Hatton, has now been assigned to interview the rock star for the newspaper.
Even newer pitch-
Hope spent eight years trying to forget her first love turned rock star, Chase Hatton, whom she abandoned the night of their senior prom, and now she must interview him.
Most recent pitch-
Rock star Chase Hatton had spent eight years trying to forget Hope, his first love, who had disappeared on prom night, and now he would face her in an interview.
Chase Hatton had been bewitched by Hope from the very start.
He was…ten…no, twelve…definitely twelve, as he was playing American Junior League baseball that summer. There had been a break in their schedule, so his mom had asked the new neighbor lady over for dinner, along with her ten-year-old kid. Chase's mom had told him that he couldn't go over to Bobby McGraw's to play catch, as he was needed at home to entertain, of all things, the new neighbor's daughter. A girl!
Name: Mary Jean Schiller
Title: To Hell in a Coach Bag
Genre: single-title romance
Manuscript word count: 110,000
Judge: Deb Werksman
One-sentence pitch:
First paragraph:
When they set off on a cross-country trip, four Midwestern lunch ladies have an opportunity to learn more about themselves, and they also discover romance along the way.
Plan A to get backstage at the Chase Hatton concert was a dismal failure. By the time Chase took the stage, our sign was beer-soaked and trampled underfoot. I bent down, as best as I could in the space we had carved out on the floor of Chicago's All-State Arena, and scooped up the poster-board, being careful to avoid Samantha's "cheetah-skin" heels. The "Lunch Ladies Love Chase Hatton!" side had a size-eleven boot-print right in the middle of it, and the "We Have Access to Government Meat!" side was completely smeared.
Name: Mary Jean Schiller
Title: Lady of the Knight
Genre: single-title romance
Manuscript word count: 110,042
Judge: Deb Werksman
One-sentence pitch:
First paragraph:
When two Knights of the Order are sent to the planet Faador to rescue a princess, they both fall in love with the gutsy woman, which changes their lives forever.
Darrius Lee bolted upright in bed and listened intently to the darkness. What had interrupted his sleep and caused him to become so fully awake? Several seconds elapsed while he held his breath and waited, but he heard no noise. Still, he was aware that someone else was in the suite he shared with his young novice, Orrion Quinn. He focussed on his Spirit Within to get a feel for the level of danger they were in. He sensed at once that the outside presence he felt in the room was not threatening. Yet he knew that something must be amiss for someone to enter their rooms unannounced in the middle of the night.
Name: Mary Jean Schiller
Title: My Name Is Peter
Genre: middle-grade fiction
Manuscript word count: 4,693
Judge: Aubrey Poole
One-sentence pitch:
First paragraph:
Peter is a gregarious, fallible, big-hearted fisherman and he tells us about the day he met Jesus, and the days that followed.
My name is Peter and I'm a fisherman.
It's a hard life, up before the sun has breathed life into a new day and to bed long after the shadows have fallen across the land. And the work is physical, leaning over the edge of the boat to pull in nets full of streaming fish is hard on the back–and that's on a good day. On a bad day we row and row in search of fish, putting our nets in and hauling them up, each time with precious little to show for it. It is work that brings you to God. You have to trust in Him when the sun beats down on you, and you're hungry, and you know that your family is hungry, too.
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"Cuisine at Home" is my favorite cooking magazine. I've tried many others but they just don't measure up. Cuisine also has some great cookbooks, and I just received "Soups, Stews, and Chilies". Tonight for dinner I tried my first recipe; as expected, it was awesome!
4 strips thick-sliced bacon
1.5 pounds flank steak (or london broil), cut into 3 pieces and seasoned w/salt, pepper
1 medium-large onion, diced
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 poblano chili, diced
1 jalapeno, diced
2 Tbsp minced garlic
1 Tbsp tomato paste
1/3 cup masa harina
1 bottle beer
2 cups beef broth
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1/3 cup sliced green olives w/pimiento
1 Tbsp. dried oregano
2 tsp. ground cumin
Salt to taste
** This is a very slight variation on the original ingredients due to what I had on hand.
** London Broil is currently half the price of flank steak, so that's what I used
Preheat oven to 375. Cook bacon in a large ovenproof pot (I use a porcelain enameled cast iron dutch oven) over medium high heat until crisp; transfer to a paper towel lined plate and set aside. Brown steak in drippings, about 5 minutes per side; remove and set aside. Add onion, chiles and bell pepper; saute until beginning to brown, 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and tomato paste, cook 2 minutes, then stir in masa harina and cook 1 minute. Deglaze pot with beer; simmer until nearly evaporated, scraping any bits from the bottom of the pot. Add broth, bring to a boil, then return steak to the pot; cover and braise in the oven until fork-tender, about 1 hour (mine took 1.5 hours). Remove steak from the pot, shred with 2 forks, then add back to the pot with reserved (chopped) bacon, beans, olives, oregano, and cumin. Simmer 5 minutes, season with salt. Serve with mashed sweet potato.
Mashed sweet potato
2 lb. sweet potato, peeled and cubed
3 Tbls unsalted butter
1 Tbls brown sugar
4 Tbls half and half
Salt and pepper to taste
Pinch cayenne pepper to add a bit of spice, if desired
Boil potatoes in salted water until tender, 10 - 15 minutes. Drain and place in bowl of mixer with butter and brown sugar. Mix until potatoes start to mash. Add half and half and seasoning. Continue mixing until creamy.
Update: This is even better the 2nd day!!
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When I was a child, in the Fifties, there was free orange juice and school milk, you didn't pay for dental treatment or glasses (though you did if you wanted nice frames instead of the pink or blue plastic National Health ones), prescriptions didn't cost anything and students got grants to go to university. There was lots of council housing – even if some of it was prefabs – and I think I'm right in saying that fares weren't such a huge bite of people's income as they are now. Postage certainly wasn't something you'd think twice about. The Post Office and the railways were nationalised, like gas and electricity, and before Dr Beeching came along in the early Sixties you could go almost anywhere by train. There were plenty of police stations and policemen on the beat, and you rarely saw a beggar. Prime Minister Macmillan, who always reminded me of a Scottie dog, kept saying, "You've never had it so good." I was too young to understand what he meant, but I knew that for some reason my parents (who I later learned had far-left sympathies) didn't like it.
I was bemoaning the current state of this country the other day with a friend of a similar age and she said, "Of course you mustn't forget that as you get older there's always a tendency to think things were better back then." My immediate response was, "But they were," as I thought of all the depredations inflicted on the Welfare State by Thatcher and her disciples Blair and Cameron. (Yes, I do mean Blair.) When I think back to the Fifties, though, the picture is far less simple. Society may have become more egalitarian in the Sixties, but in my south London suburban primary school the divisions according to class and income couldn't have been clearer. Children like me from owner-occupied homes, whose fathers had a profession rather than a job, were more likely to be put in the top stream and then to pass the eleven-plus. This meant they went on to grammar schools, or if they did especially well they might get a scholarship to a fee-paying school. Children who didn't pass the eleven-plus went to the Secondary Modern, which meant they stood little chance of going to university or even getting more than a couple of O-levels. Far fewer people went to university then – polytechnics didn't really count – and most subjects were unremittingly academic. In 'good' schools anything creative or practical tended to be marginalised, giving people who weren't up to the mark academically the message that they were already second-class citizens. Michael Gove has his precedent in this not so good aspect of the good old days.
The children who went to the Secondary Modern were more likely to come from the council houses – which were still roomy and solid, by today's standards, though not as pretty as the private ones – and to have fathers who worked locally, perhaps even mothers who worked as well, which mothers didn't do unless they had to. I can remember some children in my class whose clothes were definitely older and more worn than the rest, and one or two who gobbled up not only their own – to me – disgusting school dinners but other people's leftovers too, because they didn't get enough to eat at home. One of these was a girl from a big family, whose mother worked as a lollipop lady. I suspect now that she had to look after her younger siblings, while at the same time trying desperately hard to pass the eleven-plus and get a good education. She didn't make it, but people said there was a chance of transferring to a grammar school later if she did well enough. I don't know if she did, but even then it didn't seem fair that with all her hard work she shouldn't get the opportunity, especially when people from my sort of background might swan through the exam with comparative ease.
If someone complained, "It's not fair," teachers at school were quick to say, "Life isn't fair," implying you should jolly well put up with it. It was never a popular doctrine. Most of us had a basic sense that things should be as fair as possible, not just for ourselves but for everyone. And in the Fifties and Sixties there was at least some sort of commitment to the idea that inequalities could be minimised, income differentials to some extent levelled out, opportunities made available to more of the population. Comprehensive schools, the CSE (forerunner of the GCSE) and the 'new universities' were part of this, as was the ongoing commitment to the Welfare State by governments on the Right as well as the Left. I was shocked recently to read the following quotation from a speech by President Eisenhower in 1954: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of the party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things… Their number is negligible and they are stupid." That was America and Eisenhower was a Republican; in this country you might well have heard something similar from some who called themselves Conservatives. It shows with appalling clarity just how far the whole political spectrum has moved to the right since that time.
I'm tempted to follow this with a rant about Thatcherism, adding my voice to the thousands who still deplore the way that in the Eighties she dismantled so much that held our society together – not that she believed in society, of course. The consequence, inevitably, was that the rich started getting richer again and the poor poorer. Taxes were lowered for those who had most, so that they could have even more, and at the other end of the scale people became homeless and beggars appeared on the street. The Seventies had been a troubled decade and many people thought Thatcher's kind of leadership was just what we needed. And wasn't it great to be able to buy your council house? At least it was until your son or daughter had no prospect of owning a house and no opportunity to get on the council list.
I won't go on, though I could. I've already nailed my colours to the mast as an Old Labour socialist who doesn't swallow the idea that people should stand or fall solely by the operation of the free market. That's all very well for those at the top of the tree – who have usually had more help than they like to admit in getting there – but in what sense is it fair and equitable, in a society that has so much, for increasing numbers of people to be unable to afford to feed their families? Though I was shocked by the quotation from Eisenhower, I was even more shocked to hear Camila Batmanghelidjh say that many of the children who now come to her charity, Kids Company, are not distressed or in trouble but simply don't have enough to eat. If Cameron is hoping that private philanthropy or voluntary organisations, as opposed to the state, will pick up the tab, the plain fact is that in a lot of cases they don't and can't.
That was a rant and I'm not going to delete it. I know there are plenty of arguments against state interference, and few of us would want to go back to the kind of 'we know what's best for you' paternalism that delivered the benefits of the Welfare State in the Fifties. But surely that doesn't mean successive governments have to abdicate greater and greater amounts of responsibility for the necessities that should be available to us all. Instead of bending over backwards to keep visible taxes as low as possible (they don't talk about all the hidden taxation), why not raise taxes and provide better services? It wouldn't cost people any more in the long run, if we're already having to pay increasing amounts for the dwindling services that are still available.
There – I've had my say. What it comes down to is that for me it isn't right – it isn't fair – for a small percentage of the population to own so much of the country's wealth, while those at the other end of the scale struggle to afford even the basics of life. We are all human beings and fundamentally we all need the same things, and I believe that it's up to the state, in an appropriate way, to take some responsibility for providing them. I don't like the way we are going, and yes, I do think that in those respects things were better when I was young.


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Sometimes, I think I'm not the target audience
I read The New York Times every day, though I did spend my formative newspaper-reading years with other newspapers (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune and The Chicago Tribune to be precise). Sometimes, however, it's rather clear to me that I am not the target audience of some of the features.
For example, take this article about building a personal library.
READING is part of getting away for many people, whether it's packing a couple of paperbacks for a Caribbean vacation or browsing the bookshelf on a rainy Saturday at a friend's country house. Indeed, built-in bookshelves and rooms called libraries are common amenities in vacation-home properties.
Okay, I can get behind this. I like to read. And I like vacation. Sometimes, the two things even go together for me. I don't really think about "vacation-home properties," but the problem of what to read on vacation has certainly come up for me.
Then I read the next paragraph:
If you're staring at empty shelves in your new weekend home, you should ask yourself some questions before taking your credit card into the little bookstore in the village. For whom are you buying books? And for what purpose? If they're to be merely decorative, you're probably best off buying secondhand hardbacks. Don't forget the oversize art books for those tall bottom shelves.
Oops. Never mind. They're not talking to me.
I probably should have figured that out when I saw that the article linked to more "Your Second Homes" columns.
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Setuid, setgid and sticky bit
Till now you have used three octal numbers for permissions for three types of users,
i.e. Owner, group and others. These three octal numbers / digits have values from
000 till 777 , representing: "no permissions to any one" till "all permissions for
everyone", respectively. There are in fact four octal number positions designed for
file and directory permissions. The fourth number happens to be on the left side of any permission set, and if not present, then is assumed to be 0 (zero). This number can be 1 or 2 or 4 maximum and it's special meaning are below:
1 Sticky bit
2 Set group ID on execution
4 Set user ID on execution
Now first sticky bit :
If sticky bit permission is applied on a file like :
[root@mainserver / ]# chmod 1755 myfile.txt
, then as per the man page:
"On older Unix systems, the sticky bit caused executable files to be
hoarded in swap space. This feature is not useful on modern VM
systems, and the Linux kernel ignores the sticky bit on files. Other kernels
may use the sticky bit on files for system-defined purposes. On
some systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit on files."
What this means is that sticky bit on files is useless in linux.
Sticky bit on a file can be checked by the ls command. The " T " indicates that this file has sticky bit on.
[root@mainserver / ]# ls -l
-rw-r--r-T 1 root root 4847 Jul 8 12:26 myfile.txt
And if sticky bit is implemented on a directory like:
[root@mainserver / ]# chmod 1777 mydirectory
, then as per the man page:
"When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may
be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner. Without the sticky
bit, anyone able to write to the directory can delete or rename files.
The sticky bit is commonly found on directories, such as /tmp, that are
What this means is that sticky bit on a directory allows users to create files in that
directory with a facility that only root or the user who created the file will be able to
delete or rename the file.
Sticky bit on a directory can be checked by the ls command. The " t " indicates that
this file has sticky bit on. A common example is the /tmp directory on Linux.
[root@mainserver / ]# ls -l
drwxrwxrwt 21 root root 4096 Jul 13 17:39 tmp


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The cutest thing in the rain forest
What's the cutest thing at La Selva? I know many who would nominate Steven for the title, and some who would nominate Dennis, but personally I think the cutest thing here is the bats. This week I've had the good fortune to see a bunch of particularly cute ones.
On Wednesday evening, the German bat researchers caught a leaf-nosed bat about the size of my hand, with a little baby clinging to it. It was a ball of brown fluff all except for its bright pink nose and its itty bitty wings. The babies in a lot of bat species here can weigh up to a third of the mother's body weight. ("That's like giving birth to a turkey!" Erin said. For me, it would have to be an extraordinarily large turkey, like the one my family got for Thanksgiving one year from a farmer in the next town. It was so large we had to slice it in half with a crosscut saw before we could fit it in the oven. I have a whole new respect for bats.)
On Friday I got to see an even cuter bunch of bats: Ectophylla alba, the white tent-making bats. They produce their own shelters by gnawing along the midvein of a Heliconia leaf. Every few days, when the leaf wears out, they move to a new roost. I check for bats every time I see a folded-down leaf, but I've only found them twice. Erin's excellent field assistant Mauricio located these guys while he was doing a survey of understory herbs. He guided a bunch of us out there around noon. It was the best lunch break I've had in a long time.


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Normally our schooling never ends. I am a strong believer on making schooling a way of life, who we are, and not a seasonal occurrence. This summer I did take a large break to finalize paperwork for my older graduated children,and refocus on what the Lord has in store for the two youngest. I spent some much time dragging older children to the finish line that I forgot how exciting elementary school is.
We got some of our new books last week... and as I looked through the material and I visualized all the fun things we could do to make this school year an exciting, productive but fun year.
Most of all my goal is to plant a seed in my son a love for the Word of God. My heart to stay diligent on the Word, in the Word with him, and her. If NOTHING else gets done. I don't care. I want him so grounded in the knowledge as well as understanding that I want Him(Jesus) to solidify things within him.
First Day of School.
Lord Guide me in your wisdom.
Monday, August 25, 2014
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text: And earlier on in the article: "Today's environmentalism is as much a victim of the contemporary cult of utility as every other aspect of our lives, from science to education. We are not environmentalists now because we have an emotional reaction to the wild world. In this country, most of us wouldn't even know where to find it. We are environmentalists now in order to promote something called 'sustainability'. What does this curious, plastic word mean? It does not mean defending the non-human world from the ever-expanding empire of Homo sapiens sapiens, though some of its adherents like to pretend it does, even to themselves. It means sustaining human civilisation at the comfort level which the world's rich people – us – feel is their right, without destroying the 'natural capital' or the 'resource base' which is needed to do so. […] And so the deserts, perhaps the landscape always most resistant to permanent human conquest, are to be colonised by vast 'solar arrays', glass and steel and aluminium, the size of small countries. The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of 500-foot wind-turbines and associated access-roads, masts, pylons and wires. The open oceans, already swimming in our plastic refuse and emptying of marine life, will be home to enormous offshore turbine-ranges and hundreds of wave-machines strung around the coastlines like Victorian necklaces. The rivers are to see their estuaries severed and silted by industrial barrages. The croplands and even the rainforests, the richest habitats on this terrestrial Earth, are already highly profitable sites for biofuel plantations designed to provide guilt-free car-fuel to the motion-hungry masses of Europe and America. […] Destruction minus carbon equals sustainability." Unzoom and read the full article (it's a testimonial, actually) at http://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-kingsnorth/confessions-of-recovering-environmentalist image source: http://youropenbook.agitprop.co.uk/growing.php?p=2 ;-


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Gentry Creek Falls is a 4.5 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee that features a waterfall and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
dogs on leash
kid friendly
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wild flowers
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From Mountain City, take US 421 towards US 91. Follow 91 for roughly 6.6 miles into Laurel Bloomery, TN. You should see a Cherokee National Forest sign (brown sign) around the left side of the highway that points to Gentry Creek Road. The Laurel Bloomery Fire Department sits right beside of this road. Follow the road until it splits. There should be a sign nailed to a post telling you to turn right to head towards Gentry Creek Falls. Keeping following the road, it'll turn into a gravel road where you will drive passed the parking lot for Rogers Ridge Horse Trail. The next lot is where you park to follow the trail to the falls.
easy to moderate 2.3 mile out and back trail to pretty double water fall .the trail has hardly any elevation gain it is rocky in places,and you do cross the creek alot 13 times I think but worth it, good day hike
A very nice trail along the creek with pretty scenery but no views along the way. Falls is also attractive. Saw four groups hiking out as we were walking in and three groups hiking in as we were hiking out but managed to have the falls to ourselves while we were there. Several young kids seemed to have no troubles with the hike.
Beautiful hike. Highly recommend! It took us 3 hours but we ate lunch by the falls and stopped to let our dog swim a couple of times.
Great hike! Beautiful waterfalls! Make the extra trek to the top for an even better view!
Beautiful. Easy hike other than creek crossings. wear shoes that can get wet!
Great trail--not too much elevation change but very rocky. Lots of stream crossings. Well marked and walked along the river most of the way.
Great trail. Like others have said, very rocky. We hiked to the falls but then decided to go a bit further and scale the waterfalls. There are three levels to the falls and we made it to the very top! It's dangerous though as you'll be going off an unmarked trail.
Very rocky trail. The waterfalls were very nice and the temperature was wonderful walking next to the water. Definitely got my feet wet and fell in on the way back.
Holly B.
One of my most favorite trails. Nice and shady on a hot summer day. Love crossing the creek and getting the feet cooled off. As others say, you cross the creek each way about 15 times (more if its been raining and some of the normal trails are now are under water!) Definitely wear shoes you don't mind getting wet / water shoes and something with good tread. Although the trail is not difficult in elevations it is very rocky. We go several times a year
nice place to take kids! I had three six year olds with me and they were able to hike the whole trail with no problem. you cross the creek several times , but its nice on a hot day and the kids loved it. the waterfalls were beautiful. and we were the only ones on the trail when we went.
Creek Crossing Galore! Six mile hike logged with GPS. On this trail you will cross the creek over a dozen times. The trail is very muddy in many areas. Parking area is a good size for this secluded trail. This hikes surprise is well worth the creek crossings and mud. The falls are very beautiful.
Peaceful walk through the woods by the creek. I could hear water almost the whole trip! The path was a gentle incline up almost the whole way, and fun in the way down. Be prepared for a scramble over bigger rocks at the end. There were three spots on the trail that were not marked clearly (two paths, both looked plausible ). I chose the one that hugged the creek and all was well. My 11.5 year old dog and I (50+) made it without problems, although we are sore today (knees). Was hoping for a bigger swimhole by the falls, but cooled off just fine in the cool spray of the falls and wading. Beautiful hike ! There are camping spots on the gravel road before the trail head .
This is a great short trail. The path is mostly rocky and you definitely want to wear waterproof shoes due to crossing the stream numerous times. We took our time and completed the trail in a little over 3 hours. We were the only ones there the day we went. Hearing the running stream was relaxing as we hiked.
Great 4.5 mile hike but wear your Chacos because round trip we crossed the creek 34 times.
the trail is tagged camping my family and children love to hike and camp. Does anyone thats hiked this trail know if theres designated tent spots or do u just find a spot
Wasn't expecting much and the waterfalls turned out to be way cooler than I thought. A lot of stream crossings.
After a haevy rain the stream that you need to cross maybe higher than your boots! Also, the stream is running faster and stronger.
Such a beautiful hike along and and throughout the creekside. The waterfalls were absolutely beautiful! Be sure to go up the trail to the left of the waterfalls so you can climb up to the third one up top and see them from up there!
Nice trail wear water shoes
Very nice hike with a very cool waterfall. Be prepared to get your feet wet with many creek crossings
If you don't like water, this isn't the trail for you! We crossed the creek about 14 times and there are some stepping stones, but they are slippery and I didn't always use them. Once at the falls, you can keep going to get on top of the double drop and even further to get onto the upper single drop, but it's dangerous. Also, the locals say watch out for snakes, particularly eastern diamond backs.
wonderful hike with wild flowers, cascades, brook and rainbow trout in stream, beautiful waterfalls, and no big elevation changes. We hiked it with our 7year old and he loved getting to cross the stream over rocks and logs. We werent expecting to have to cross over the stream 17 times one way but it was still fun! It was unmarked so finding the traill head was a bit confusing but once you get to the gravel road follow that up towards the right and it deadends where you will follow the blue blazed trail.
Great hike with a lot of stream crossing. One of my favorite waterfall hikes. It's around Mountain City, TN and is located in TN. Not sure why it's saying Grayson,NC...I'm guessing it may be near by?