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During the game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Detroit Pistons on Monday, LeBron James introduced the Nike LeBron Watch through one of campaign's exclusive sneaker releases, the "Waffle Trainer."
His team lost, 125-114, but fans still had something to get excited about. Five Player Editions (PE) of The King's latest signature shoe, the Nike LeBron 15, which aren't originally made available to the public, can now be purchased via the SNKRS app every time he plays in them.
The new sillhuottes are Lebron's way of honoring the legendary sportsmen he admired, as well as his tribute to iconic Nike models. From baseball superstar Ken Griffey, Jr. to the Nike Air Diamond Turf, he had a special design for each career inspiration.
"When I was a kid, the athletes and the shoes represented in this series inspired me to chase my dream of one day becoming a professional athlete," says James in a news release. "It's important to me to share these stories and inspiration with my fans. I want them to be a part of every step of my journey, so I'm excited we're making these shoes available to them."


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Richard Higbie, a "Diplomatic Security Service criminal investigator" in Dallas, Texas has confirmed that his Gmail account was hacked and a four year stash of emails containing damaging details of possible illegal activity by the U.S. State Department, have been stolen and deleted. Also lost are communications with his attorney, Cary Schulman. Higbie has asked for an FBI investigation.
Higbie, the second-highest-ranking agent in the Dallas office, played a vital part in helping fellow whistleblower Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator for the department's Inspector General, lift the lid earlier this year on a series of coverups by leading officials, the Post reports.
The alleged coverups included keeping an Inspector General investigation under wraps that confirmed members of then-Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's security detail had paid for hookers and that the Belgian ambassador had solicited underage prostitutes.
The Post says that several investigations by the service, which protects dignitaries and investigates crimes at the agency, were allegedly derailed by senior officials, including one case in which Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills allegedly interfered. Source: NewsMax
In 2012 Higbie sued Hillary Clinton in her capacity as Secretary of State. The story of the lawsuit is somewhat difficult to follow. Higbie claimed that he was demoted, or an attempt was made to demote him, after he refused to take an overseas assignment due his daughter's "chronic and terminal illness."
The alleged coverups included keeping quiet separate IG investigations that found that members of then-Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's security detail had engaged hookers and that the Belgian ambassador had solicited underage prostitutes.
These were among a string of investigations by the service, responsible for protecting dignitaries and investigating crimes within the department, that were allegedly derailed by senior officials, including one instance of interference by Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills.
Since the revelations in June, the department again mostly swept the cases under the rug.
Higbie's investigation claims that two State Department officials lied in sworn testimony about federal agency officials failing "to follow proper procedures" and denying knowledge of misconduct. Source: New York Post
According to the New York Post story linked above, Schulman's Dallas law office was broken into shortly after the email hacking.
Although cops arrested a petty thief for the crime, Schulman said, "We feel like we're in a movie. It's nuts. It makes us wonder . . . . maybe we've got something we don't even realize or maybe they're worried about something."
Amid all the protestations and sworn testimony of high officials, there is this:
Yet Fox News has obtained meeting notes, draft reports and other evidence that suggest both officials were aware, at the time they were deposed, of a pending investigation into DS and its operations by the State Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG). What's more, both officials had been apprised of the OIG's preliminary finding that DS did indeed fail to follow proper procedures in at least eight cases, and possibly more, because of "undue influence" and "pressure" brought to bear by senior State Department officials to halt internal investigations.
The evidence indicates the two officials were presented with those conclusions approximately 60 days before they testified in their depositions.
Lawyers and experts contacted by Fox News said the implications could be staggering for a federal law enforcement agency whose officers frequently testify in criminal prosecutions if two of its top officials were deemed to have testified untruthfully in sworn proceedings. Source: Fox News, 6/18.2013 (much more in this story of interest)
In June 2012, this site published a district judge's ruling against Hillary Clinton's request to partially dismiss the case because valid claims were not made (Texas Case – Richard Higbie v. Hillary Rodham Clinton (acting in her official capacity as Secretary of State) [Civil Action No. 3-11-CV-2636-L]. Higbie also sought to amend the claims as stated in the suit. Both Hillary and Higbie
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Sam A. Lindsay United States District Judge
Before the court is Defendant's Partial Motion [sic] to Dismiss, filed January 23, 2012. After carefully reviewing the motion, response, pleadings, and applicable law, the court denies Defendant's Partial Motion [sic] to Dismiss.
I. Factual and Procedural Background
Plaintiff Richard Higbie ("Plaintiff" or "Higbie") brought this lawsuit on October 5, 2011, against Defendant Hillary Rodham Clinton ("Defendant" or "Clinton"), alleging employment discrimination by an agency operated under the United States Department of State ("Department of State"). Higbie's allegations in Count Three of his Complaint arise from an alleged breach of an agreement to mediate an administrative claim related to his employment discrimination lawsuit. He alleges that two supervisor agents disclosed information discussed during mediation to an Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") investigator. Defendant has moved for dismissal of Count Three of Plaintiff's Complaint because the relevant statute does not provide recovery for a breach of a confidentiality agreement.
Higbie is a Senior Criminal Investigator/Senior Special Agent with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security ("BDS") within the Department of State. He currently serves in the Dallas Resident Office, which operates under the direction of the Houston Field Office. Previously, Higbie was employed as a Foreign Service officer; he was converted to a Civil Service officer after filing an administrative complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") and subsequently reaching a settlement with the Department of State in 2005. In his discrimination suit, he alleges that the Resident Agent in Charge in the Dallas Office removed him from assuming the role of Acting Resident Agent in Charge, despite this role being outlined in his job duties. He also complains of continuous discriminatory practices by the agency after the previous settlement.
In 2009, Higbie contacted an EEO counselor to begin the process of filing a complaint. Higbie alleges that after filing a formal discrimination complaint and signing an EEO/Alternative Dispute Resolution-Agreement to Mediate, two direct supervisors provided an EEO investigator with affidavits containing confidential information regarding mediation. The agreement to mediate contained a standard confidentiality clause that stated: "Mediation is a confidential process. Any documents submitted to the mediators and statements made during the mediation are for settlement purposes only." (hereinafter, "Confidentiality Agreement"). P1.'s Compl. 17. The Complaint alleges that by providing the affidavits to the EEO investigator, the agency demonstrated a willful attempt to further discriminate against Higbie while he engaged in protected activity.
Three observations: 1) You have have great courage to do the right thing when accusing the federal government of anything, 2) if you are going to keep important and vital information stored in an email account, you should always, always use an paid email server – just pay for it, it's the best protection if it is possible for you to be protected, and 3) keep copies in numerous places and on separate computers.


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I am now a citizen who can stand tall, proud and free. I have cast off the oppressive shackles of adolescence and moved into adulthood through the prestigious path of social service. Check me out.
Several weeks ago, my mother called me to tell me I had received a summons from the Hartford County Superior Court. I immediately panicked, but managed to speak calmly and clearly to my mother. "Mom," I said, "I want you to know that it's a lie - a horrendous, impossible lie. First of all, where would I even get that kind of stuff; and second, how could I possibly fit that much in there? It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Conspiracy!"
After calming me down, my mother managed to tell me that it was just a letter summoning me for jury duty in January. Unbeknownst to the FBI, my secret factory to overstuff pierogies full of high-quality imported Scottish goat cheese continues uninterrupted.
At first, I was overjoyed to be called for jury duty. Everyone says it's a big hassle, but I'd never done it before, and I figured the first time couldn't be that bad. I assumed that the Legal System In Action would be exciting. It sure makes for riveting television, at least, and television never lies to me.
When I got my "Confidential Juror Survey," I was reasonably excited. I was going to be a part of something special; to help someone in need of justice; to change the world or, at least I would, if I didn't go to school out of state.
On the juror survey, I was given a list of eleven different situations that would prevent me from having to serve. Listed were such tantalizing statements as "I do not speak or understand English," "a judge of the Superior Court has found that I exhibit a quality which will impair my ability to serve," and "I am Governor."
Since no selection described my situation, I considered selecting one of the other options available to me. I could either go to the court speaking some sort of gibberish language and gesticulating wildly, legally change my name to "Governor," or tell the judge that every time someone says "Your Honor" I launch into a musical medley of "Man Of La Mancha." I eventually decided against these plans and settled on just telling whoever was in charge that I would not be present for the case. I assumed this would take an hour at the absolute most, and I would then be allowed to leave with a smile on my face and a Snickers bar in my hand.
The only way I could have possibly gotten a ruder awakening is if Andrew "Dice" Clay jumped on my bed at five 'o' clock in the morning wearing squeaky clown shoes, shouting a lengthy string of epithets the likes of which have never been heard.
I arose that fateful morn and drove to the courthouse at 8:30 A.M., where I met the dozens of other prospective jurors, none of who looked happy to be there. We then watched a high school health class-quality video about the responsibilities of jurors. After that, I sat, listening to other people's names get called. I was to do a lot of sitting that day.
After two hours of counting ceiling tiles, a woman arrived with a stack of videos for us to watch on a big-screen TV, but what I thought to be salvation turned out to be an even more sinister form of punishment as a jury of my peers elected to view "My Best Friends Wedding." I didn't think it was possible, but my hatred for Julia Roberts actually grew that day.
To prevent myself from strangling someone, I wandered over to the magazine rack, where dusty periodicals went to die. Unfortunately, this appeared to be a rather exclusive burying ground, as the only magazines here were "Vogue," "Modern Parenting," and "Home & Garden," all of which are extremely relevant to me as a non-stylish, urban bachelor. Nevertheless, I sat down and started reading.
When four-thirty rolled around, there were only five jurors left, and we all sensed an unspoken bond of unity and strength that was last felt during the Battle of Britain, except for that one gentleman who confided in me that he would now be paying the fee for skipping jury duty instead of wasting his time again.
At 4:45 I was finally allowed to leave with nothing more than my shattered belief in an efficient justice system and a pocketful of justice department pens I stole for ironic value. Say what you will, but at least now I know how to get the most nutrition out of my homegrown vegetables for my children - and I'll look damn good doing it, too.


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Rockets 112, Suns 95: Chris Paul scored 25 points to lead six Houston players in double figures and the Rockets, still without injured James Harden, rolled past host Phoenix.
"We have enough talent here to get over that hump and make a lot of good things happen", Love said.
But Cleveland apparently rediscovered its form overnight, as the three-time defending Eastern Conference champions dominated the first quarter on Friday. They caught me on the retaliation.
"We went 1-5, or 1-4, whatever the hell it was, on this road trip, so there ain't no progress", James, who finished with 27 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds, told reporters after the game. IN shut out the Cavs over the final 3:57 and twice stopped James when he could have given the Cavs the lead.
In his first ever playoff game in 2006, James played the hero by tiptoeing the line and staying in play, leading to a game-winning layup to beat the (that time he was coming from the left of the hoop, rather than the right).
Oladipo made the free throw to extend Indiana's lead to 84-82.
Larry Nance Jr. had 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, who blew an early 19-point lead before running away in the fourth quarter.
James then had two chances to give Cleveland the lead in the final 2 seconds.
Then, James' desperation 3 bounced high off the rim.
James was understandably frustrated, and he was caught on cameras in the first half of the game lashing out at his team-mates and assistant coach Phil Handy, after Pascal Siakam dunked with little resistance. They have two first-round draft picks - including the heralded Brooklyn Nets' selection via the Irving trade - but the superstar player whom the franchise could pursue with that pick has not been made available. Love now has 7,007 career rebounds.
Stephenson tied it with a 3-pointer at 74-all late in the third. He finished 2 for 15 and went 0 for 6 from 3-point range. Cleveland had a 39-18 scoring advantage on fast-break points.
Collison hit 9 of 11 shots, and Domantas Sabonis contributed 12 points and a team-high 15 rebounds for the Pacers. The Pacers are 17-5 when making 10 or more 3s in a game.
While Rose and Shumpert continue recovering from injuries, Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue chose to give Thomas and Wade extra rest because of the back-to-backs.
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NEW ORLEANS - Anthony Davis scored 36 points in his return from a right ankle sprain, and New Orleans beat Portland. But the Cavaliers lacked the defensive pressure and fortitude against a team without two of its starters - point guard Kyle Lowry and forward Serge Ibaka - and had minimal energy off the bench.
What the replays showed later that the referees didn't see, however, was that Stephenson pushed James' side with his thumb that got the Cavs' star irate. It's going to start with us and just everybody getting back to what we were doing when we were playing good ball. We've got to get back to that helping the helper.
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[Want to know what RV living costs? Check out this post from Bill Widmer of The Wandering RV for answers to all your burning questions about the RV lifestyle]
Living in an RV is a freaking blast! With RV travel, you get to see the world and experience true freedom.
But the living in an RV full time isn't something most people are comfortable diving head-first into. After all, there are a lot of unknowns…What RV should I buy? Where should I stay? How will I get my mail?!
These are all valid questions. But there's one question that's even more important – what does RV living cost?
Once you know the costs of living in an RV full time, you can figure out whether you can afford it and set income goals to get there!
My girlfriend Kayla and I lived in an RV for over 6 months, and still frequently travel in one. So we've got a good idea of the costs. And in this article, we'll break it all down for you!
RV living cost: A breakdown
I'll keep this as simple as possible. This section will just list out all the RV travel costs we incurred in a bullet format, and their rough figures.
- RV Payment: Chances are, you have to take out a loan to purchase your RV. Depending on your rig, this could cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars a month to nothing at all (if you pay it off!).
- Campground Rent: This is another wildly varying cost, as campgrounds have different costs based on location, time of year, and length of your stay. It ranges from a few dollars a day all the way up to $60 per day or more.
- Gas: The third and final huge variable to RV travel. This could be your biggest expense at several hundred dollars a month, or nothing at all, depending on how much you like to travel.
- Insurance (Health & Vehicle): Health insurance, if you pay it out of pocket, is likely $100-$250 per person. RV insurance is fairly cheap, at around $550 per year (~$46 per month) for a motorhome or $250 per year (~$20/month) for a non-motorized trailer.
- Utilities: Depending on how much you cook and how cold the temperature is outside, you might need to fill up on propane once every month or two. A full 20-pound tank costs about $19 to fill, so let's say $19/month for simplicity's sake. Sometimes you have to pay extra for your electric, internet, etc. at your campground, but this is usually built into the rental cost. Finally, your phone bill is likely $75-$100 per person per month.
- Food/Groceries: Kayla and I LOVE to eat. And we eat lots of fresh produce and grass-fed meats. So our grocery bill runs about $800 per month. But you can definitely feed two people for a month (albeit not the greatest food in the world) for $400.
- Repairs/Maintenance: Build this cost into your budget!! You'll have to make repairs eventually (like replacing your RV water pump when your water stops working mid-shower), so it's better to have that money put away than pay with credit or dig a hole in your wallet. We'd budget about $100 per month for this.
- Fun! If you're living in an RV, you want to enjoy it, right? Budget a few hundred dollars a month to do things like snorkeling, eating out at local amazing restaurants, trying out local attractions, or just going out to the movies.
- Miscellaneous: Add 10% to your monthly costs to cover security and miscellaneous purchases, like tools, souvenirs, a portable grill to make life soooo much easier, etc.
Total Monthly RV Living Costs: Ranges from $1,400 to $3,000 per month.
Obviously, that's a big gap. But there are a lot of variables, like how much you travel, where you stay (and for how long), how much your rig costs, and how much you spend on groceries/eating out/fun.
Also, if you want to test drive the RV life before committing to buying, you can always rent one out for a few days or months on RV Share.
So what if you want to spend the least amount possible on RV travel?
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How to save money on RV travel
Here are our biggest tips for saving money while living in an RV:
- Stay on the west coast. For whatever reason, campgrounds on the west coast (assuming you're RVing in the US) are way more affordable and abundant than campgrounds in the east. I've seen some for as cheap as $300 per month!
- Plan your route in advance. If you know where you're going, you'll tend to do less driving – which will save on gas.
Stay at campgrounds for long periods of time. Most campgrounds give discounts on longer stays. Plus, you won't be driving, so you'll save more money on gas!
- Avoid eating out. This is more of a general way to save money, but it still rings true. Eating out is expensive! Instead, cook some of Kayla's delicious recipes.
- Set a budget! I can't tell you how important this is. Set a budget for everything we talked about here, and stick to it!
- Track your expenses. I just recently started doing this, and it really puts things in perspective. I use this Google sheet to track all my income and expenses (just go to "File" -> "Make a copy" so you can edit it). Once you see where you're spending too much, it's easier to cut back! Plus, it makes you think twice before spending (do I really want to track this?).
Now you know how much it costs to live in an RV and some camper money-saving tips.
[You might also like: 11 awesome RV storage ideas for your tiny kitchen]
But we have one last important question to answer:
How can you make more money while living in an RV full time?
Here are some ideas on making money while reducing costs living in an RV.
- Try workamping. Workamping (aka "Work Camping") simply means working for your campground host in exchange for free rent and/or an income when living in an RV. Personally, Kayla and I hated it, but we're very entrepreneurial and hate being confined.
- Become a virtual assistant. Being a VA is an amazing way to make money from anywhere with a laptop and an internet connection. In fact, Kayla and I just hired a VA to help us grow our business, and she lives in Madrid, Spain! (In case you didn't know, a VA is basically someone who helps a business owner with various admin tasks from answering emails to gathering data, booking events, managing projects, and more. It's very versatile!)
- Get a remote job. With remote work, you can do everything from acting to writing blog posts, creating online courses, consulting, and more!
And there you have it! How much it costs to live in an RV, how to save, and how to make more money from the road.
If you have any questions or other suggestions on how to save money, cut costs, or make a better income, drop them in the comments below. Thanks for reading!
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For Christmas this year I made a series of portraits. I did them in the style of magazine/product ads. I used the Roman alphabet, but shifted and rotated the letters, so that the text would be a design element, but with no other content.
Ad for Chicken (Ronny)
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Ad for Glass of Milk (Andy)
Ad for food (Jacob)
Ad for Banana (Gilbert)
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What does this mean? It means when researchers are developing code for artificial intelligence, they can give control of the Minecraft player to the artificial intelligence and see how they do. This gives them an instant visual of how the code is working, and allows them to quickly make changes and try it again.
While the Minecraft component is still in private beta, researchers are incredibly excited for it. "People build amazing structures that do amazing things in Minecraft, and this allows experimenters to put in tasks that will stretch AI technology beyond its current capacity," explained Katja Hofmann, who leads the project at Microsoft Research's Cambridge lab in the UK.
If this is any indication, when intelligent robots take over the world, they will probably be able to play Minecraft with you.
Source: Engadget


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For off road riding the possession of large gonads definitely seems to help! I tried to order some off the TouraTesticle website but they seem to be permanently out of stock!
I seem to remember that last year I needed bigger gonads for the trail down off the mountain to the final night campsite!
Tim's parting words to me just before we headed down onto it were "you won't be using much fuel on the way down this one Toddy!"
I'm just having a read through this and all I can say is
I don't want to risk blowing a seal
I rode back to town at speed with the GS skipping over the pot holes, little streams and sand dunes. Got to town to the shop that sold coffee and the biker and dog that Id just said goodbye to were sat drinking coffee. To this day Ive no idea how he did it.
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just a quick post to sum up my weekends which went by soooo quickly hehe
was working at Select on Saturday when everyone just coincidentally decided to pop by!
I swear everyone did not plan it together, they just happened to pick the same day to come down!
So happy to have the company of these precious ones cos some I haven't seen ever since 2014 arrived
we had a great afternoon/evening just chit-chatting over super yummy pandan cake (c/o my love, J)
and basically just talking and laughing about... well... everything hehe
So glad you all came down to support + not forgetting Eug who's not in the pic hahahahaha
so much love


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Aisam Ul Haque stunned Sania Mirza with an upset victory on Saturday, 1st of June 2013. Aisam Ul Haque Qureshi along with his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black comprehensively beat top seed couple of Sania Mirza and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden in straight sets by 6-2, 6-3. This was the first round of French Open Tennis Championship in Paris. The event was for the mixed doubles. Aisam and Cara Black did this upset in less than one hour time. First set was won by them in just 26 minutes. It took them only 32 minutes to win the second set.
In the past year Aisam Ul Haque wanted to select Sania Mirza as his Mixed Doubles partner. Sania Mirza turned it down and said that she has been going along well with Mahesh Bhupathi and she did not wish to switch her partner right now so playing with Aisam is not a possibility. Sania Mirza has been married to Shoaib Malik for over a year now and Pakistan Tennis Federation has been trying to persuade her to start coaching for Pakistan but according to the news she ruled this possibility out by saying that there are no international Tennis tournaments held in Pakistan.
Aisam Ul Haque and India's Rohan Bopanna made it to the finals of the ATP South African Championship which was held in Johannesburg. This happened back in 2010. They lost the final but Aisam Ul Haque's speech on the ceremony was the one which earned the hearts of many Pakistanis. He told the whole world that Pakistan is a country of loving and caring people and not a country of terrorists. He further added that we the people of Pakistan want peace as much as all the other nations do.


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The Snow Valley Nordic Ski Club is a non-profit organization for cross-country skiing enthusiasts in the Kitimat and Terrace area. The club runs and maintains the Onion Lake Ski Trails located half-way between Kitimat and Terrace. The club is run entirely by volunteers through the support of people like you, local governments and local businesses.
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I'm on a roll, y'all…two weeks in a row of posting pictures of my middle-aged self modeling my Sunday outfit! Here 'tis:
Oh! I got my hair colored and cut on Saturday, so now you can't tell how much gray I have…
I almost got a head-to-toe shot here didn't I? The pants are from Old Navy; the sweater, tank top (you can just see it sticking out underneath the sweater), the scarf, AND…
the socks all came from Target. The boots are the same ones I wear almost every Sunday and nearly every day in between. I've only had the boots for about a month, and they're already getting scuffed.
Joe's parents gave me this necklace a couple of years ago for my birthday. They brought it back from a trip to Arizona. The in-laws stayed with us on Saturday night and attended Mass with us today. The boys' guitar/voice/drum teacher set another gig up for them last night (much like the one I told you about in this post), and Joe's parents as well as several friends come out to watch, including some of Curly's buddies from school. They rocked.
I am excited about the conclave starting this Tuesday! I even signed up to get an email and a text when the smoke turns white so I won't miss a thing! So it might wake me up in the middle of the night…I don't care. Check out the Pope Alarm for yourself; it's super-easy to sign up.
And be sure to head on over to Fine Linen and Purple to see what other lovely ladies are sporting this week!
(I just realized something…these last couple of Sundays it's been a little disconcerting to hear the priest NOT mention Pope Benedict in the Eucharistic Prayer. Next week? If all goes well at the conclave, there will be a NEW pope to pray for! I wonder what his name will be? Oh, I'm so excited!)


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We are currently experimenting with RethinkDB on a new project we are working on. The ease of use and functionality so far has been top notch. This project requires porting a few existing MySQL tables into RethinkDB, and we will share a few tricks we learn along the way.
The first tip comes to us via the RethinkDB team itself.
When we ported over our tables, all values were added as strings, and we needed to convert some of them back to integers. In our example, we stored a row
day as an value, 0-6. We wanted to convert this back to an int so we could do comparision queries against it. Here's the easiest way to accomplish this.
r.table("hours") .update({ day: r.row("day").coerceTo("NUMBER") });
This will coerce the value of each entry to a number, and re-save the row.


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In weeks past, I have gotten emails from a few readers asking me how I manage to travel all the time yet live in the Greater Los Angeles area (summed up) and if I'm in debt, broke, I spend too much, etc… etc…Basically, how am I making this work? Coincidentally, my friend Rosy asked me a somewhat similar question this week about retirement accounts/traveling and we had a nice, engaging conversation about.
I haven't had time to fully answer that question and make time to do it…until now. I am not going to post photos in this blog like I do with my others because I want you to read and get a full understanding.
Here's the thing guys: right now in my life, I have 2 top personal priorities: retirement and traveling. Those are the 2 things I am passionate about.
So let's back up to how I grew up: I grew up with a father who was ultra conservative. He instilled in me as a toddler to save my money and even got me one of those game where you would punch out the cents/dollars on the game board and learn how to count the money. He set me up with financial advisors when I was a child. I was always taught to put away so much of my paycheck so that one day, I could retire. I wouldn't be where he is today because of him teaching me hard work and how to save. I'm thankful he paid for my college tuition so that I wouldn't be paying off student loans. I'm thankful he allowed me to live at his house rent-free after college so that I could save and be prepared to move out of the house when I was ready, which for me was age 30, as you all know.
The difference between my father and I is that as our fun, spending "splurges" if you want to call it, is that he liked his Corvettes. He loved either owning, restoring and/or judging them in competitions. We went on family vacations mainly to Florida and one time to Mexico. He made sure my mom and I had a nice time and that we could enjoy the warm weather away from Minnesota when it got bitterly cold in the winter.
My splurge is traveling. I love spending money on experiences and not material things. When I was in my 20s, all I wanted was the latest, trendy look. Today I am a lot more casual/affordable in my look. I never traveled at all because I was trying to grow into my career profession as a journalist. When I took that Coursera course everyone online was talking about called "The Science of Well-Being" from a Yale University professor on how to become happy, she even said the same exact thing: experiences make you more happy than material things! It was freaky, because I am already doing most of the things she mentioned to keep my mind, body and spirit happy.
A couple months ago, I wrote an article for the Freelancers Union about "How to Balance Freelancing with a Full-Time Job." In it I discussed how although I give props people who can do the gig economy, I don't see how it can be financially accomplished in a smart way in terms of saving living in greater metropolitan areas like Los Angeles or New York City. In order for me to still have a comfortable lifestyle within my means and save for retirement, I need to have a full time job with freelancing on the side. I am happy that with all my hard work out here that I secured myself a very good, well paying full-time job with benefits. Anyone should be proud of that!
I go on to say that my full time job goes towards my HSA, 401K and all bills/expenses, which includes traveling. Not a dime of it is from my freelance money. My freelance money goes in my IRAs, CDs if I open them and savings accounts. I then say that people wonder if I am tired when I tell them I am juggling it all and sometimes I am, but I power through and am grateful for all of the amazing opportunities that have happened to me out here in LA. I am the only one running this ship out here and sometimes I get a bit emotional on some days, but that's the way it is. As long as I get 9 hours of sleep, eat right and go to the gym every week, I am mostly good and have a ton of energy to get me through the day. If someone has a better way of doing it, I would love to hear from you!
I also have to remind myself that I made my choice to live here, this is the life I wanted for myself. At the same time, I refuse to go broke or in debt living in Greater Los Angeles. When I travel, I make sure I book my trips a month ahead of time with deals, what's realistically within my budget and pay it all off before the trip so that all I am left over with is food and entertainment expenses.
I travel also because I have heard so many stories of people retiring in their 60s/70s that saved up money to travel everywhere and suddenly their health goes bad or something else bad happens. Then they say they wish they could've done this or done that when they had the chance when they were younger. I don't want to ever have to say that at that age and miss out.
You have to understand that I fight for this life where I have chosen to live Every. Single. Day. Sometimes I get a bit intense and passionate about it, but I can say in the future that I lived my life with no regrets. Life's an adventure and you're on a spiritual journey. I am mostly content and I am good, man. Hard work pays off eventually. Eight years later, it's still going well for the most part. 🙂
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The Student Union's Board held the two companies' shareholders' meetings on 9 March, choosing the members of the boards for the 1 April 2017–31 March 2018 term.
Mikko Myllys continues as the Chairman of HYY Group's Board, while Jaakko Hietala, Tarja Pääkkönen, Reima Rytsölä and Erkka Valkila continue as assessors on the Board. Antti Kähkönen and Aarni Suvitie continue as a student member on the board, while Susanna Jokimies, Pilvi Nummelin and Anna-Maija Riekkinen have been appointed as new student members.
Daniel Sazonov continues as the Chair of the Board at Ylioppilaslehden kustannus Oy. Anssi Mykkänen continues as a Member of the Board and Harri Saukkomaa as a specialist. Noora Eilola, Joni Hauhia and Timo Jääskeläinen were chosen as new student members.
This year, the members of the boards were chosen using an application-based model. In this model, the importance of the applicants' background in representative council groups was reduced, and more weight was given on their competence.
For more information, please contact Member of the Board Hanna-Maria Häkkilä, tel. 050 595 0327, firstname.lastname@example.com


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This is the 4th in a series of blogs inspired by a day's workshop in Narrative Coaching by Dr David Drake.
It's a tough world out there right now. Every day brings more news of companies ceasing to trade, shops closing, redundancies rising. There is uncertainty wherever you look. The pace of technology grows ever faster, we are adapting, facing challenges which would have been unthinkable a generation or two ago.
Or would they?
- 50 years ago – one of the most severe winters on record, there was snow on the ground from Boxing Day until late March.
- 100 years ago – Emily Davison ran out in front of the King's Horse to protest for votes for women, she died of her wounds.
- 150 years ago – the world's first underground railway opened in London.
Those are all pretty big challenges which our ancestors coped with. They, improvised, adapted and overcame the hurdles in their way.
It's the same in our own lives. I don't know about you but I'm not in the same industry I joined after education, and being a coach wasn't my dream job (how times change). I didn't know my life would lead this way but I was flexible enough to adapt.
I thought of this when David talked about helping clients to change their narrative, to "Rewrite their destiny". Many clients are so strongly identified with certain patterns of behaviour that they struggle to see what they could do differently. Clients become comfortable in set roles. These may be positive ones such as "provider" or "parent". Other times though it may be a role which leaves the client debilitated, (we've all met "victims" or "saboteurs"). In order to play these roles there is often a supporting cast, people who've almost come to expect such behaviour and in some way enable it. It's a vicious circle and does no one any good.
How does this relate to Narrative Coaching? Well, our clients are able to rewrite their story, to take a new role in a different narrative. More than that though, they can get rid of certain characters if they don't help the action along or serve a useful purpose in the plot. They are free to change their story from a tragedy to an adventure, a romance or a thriller (or if they are lucky – all of that and more).
I wrote last week about how we are coaches, not editors. We owe it to our clients to listen well. It is incumbent upon us to feed back what we heard, what gripped or inspired us, what bored or saddened us. It's a privileged position to be in and we should take that responsibility very seriously.
I'll leave the final word on this subject to master storyteller – Shakespeare
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts"


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• Reduces the risk of pressure injury development by 88%, determined by independent meta-analyisis
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Paula Scher has been one of the most influential voices in the graphic design field for almost four decades. She studied graphic design at the Tyler School of Art and initiated her career in the seventies working for the phonographic industry. In 1991, she became the first partner of Pentagram, in New York, where she developed identity systems for clients such as Citibank, Public Theater, Tiffany & Co. and the New York MoMA. In 2009, she was elected president of the AGI. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Musem and at MoMA, both in New York, at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and at the Musem fur Gestaltung, in Zurich.
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1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein, have contributed articles in the past 170 years. It is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States.
Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus M. Porter in 1845[2] as a four-page weekly newspaper. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured. Current issues include a "this date in history" section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology.
Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn a mere ten months after founding it. Until 1948, it remained owned by Munn & Company.[2] Under Munn's grandson, Orson Desaix Munn III, it had evolved into something of a "workbench" publication, similar to the twentieth-century incarnation of Popular Science.
In the years after World War II, the magazine fell into decline. In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine. Thus the partners—publisher Gerard Piel, editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller, Jr.—essentially created a new magazine.[3] Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. In 1986, it was sold to the Holtzbrinck group of Germany, which has owned it since.
In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of Nature Publishing Group, a division of Holtzbrinck.[4]
Donald Miller died in December 1998,[5] Gerard Piel in September 2004 and Dennis Flanagan in January 2005. Mariette DiChristina is the current editor-in-chief, after John Rennie stepped down in June 2009.[4]
International editions
Scientific American published its first foreign edition in 1890, the Spanish-language La America Cientifica. Publication was suspended in 1905, and another 63 years would pass before another foreign-language edition appeared: In 1968, an Italian edition, Le Scienze, was launched, and a Japanese edition, Nikkei Science (日経サイエンス), followed three years later. A new Spanish edition, Investigación y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976, followed by a French edition, Pour la Science, in France in 1977, and a German edition, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, in Germany in 1978. A Russian edition V Mire Nauki was launched in the Soviet Union in 1983, and continues in the present-day Russian Federation. Kexue (科学, "Science" in Chinese), a simplified Chinese edition launched in 1979, was the first Western magazine published in the People's Republic of China. Founded in Chongqing, the simplified Chinese magazine was transferred to Beijing in 2001. Later in 2005, a newer edition, Global Science (环球科学), was published instead of Kexue, which shut down due to financial problems. A traditional Chinese edition, known as 科學人 ("Scientist" in Chinese), was introduced to Taiwan in 2002. The Hungarian edition Tudomány existed between 1984 and 1992. In 1986, an Arabic edition, Oloom magazine (مجلة العلوم), was published. In 2002, a Portuguese edition was launched in Brazil.
Today, Scientific American publishes 18 foreign-language editions around the globe: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian (discontinued after 15 issues), Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.
From 1902 to 1911, Scientific American supervised the publication of the Encyclopedia Americana, which during some of that period was known as The Americana.
First issue
It originally styled itself "The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise" and "Journal of Mechanical and other Improvements". On the front page of the first issue was the engraving of "Improved Rail-Road Cars". The masthead had a commentary as follows:
Scientific American published every Thursday morning at No. 11 Spruce Street, New York, No. 16 State Street, Boston, and No. 2l Arcade Philadelphia, (The principal office being in New York) by Rufus Porter. Each number will be furnished with from two to five original Engravings, many of them elegant, and illustrative of New Inventions, Scientific Principles, and Curious Works; and will contain, in high addition to the most interesting news of passing events, general notices of progress of Mechanical and other Scientific Improvements; American and Foreign. Improvements and Inventions; Catalogues of American Patents; Scientific Essays, illustrative of the principles of the sciences of Mechanics, Chemistry, and Architecture: useful information and instruction in various Arts and Trades; Curious Philosophical Experiments; Miscellaneous Intelligence, Music and Poetry. This paper is especially entitled to the patronage of Mechanics and Manufactures, being the only paper in America, devoted to the interest of those classes; but is particularly useful to farmers, as it will not only appraise them of improvements in agriculture implements, But instruct them in various mechanical trades, and guard them against impositions. As a family newspaper, it will convey more useful intelligence to children and young people, than five times its cost in school instruction. Another important argument in favor of this paper, is that it will be worth two dollars at the end of the year when the volume is complete, (Old volumes of the New York Mechanic, being now worth double the original cost, in cash.) Terms: The Scientific American will be furnished to subscribers at $2.00 per annum, – one dollar in advance, and the balance in six months. Five copies will be sent to one address six months for four dollars in advance. Any person procuring two or more subscribers, will be entitled to a commission of 25 cents each.
The commentary under the illustration gives the flavor of its style at the time:
There is perhaps no mechanical subject, in which improvement has advanced so rapidly, within the last ten years, as that of railroad passenger cars. Let any person contrast the awkward and uncouth cars of '35 with the superbly splendid long cars now running on several of the eastern roads, and he will find it difficult to convey to a third party, a correct idea of the vast extent of improvement. Some of the most elegant cars of this class, and which are of a capacity to accommodate from sixty to eighty passengers, and run with a steadiness hardly equaled by a steamboat in still water, are manufactured by Davenport & Bridges, at their establishment in Cambridgeport, Mass. The manufacturers have recently introduced a variety of excellent improvements in the construction of trucks, springs, and connections, which are calculated to avoid atmospheric resistance, secure safety and convenience, and contribute ease and comfort to passengers, while flying at the rate of 30 or 40 miles per hour.
Also in the first issue is commentary on Signor Muzio Muzzi's proposed device for aerial navigation.
1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
Lida Scott Howell (August 28, 1859 – December 20, 1938) was an American female archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won three gold medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the double national and Columbia rounds and for the US team.[1]
Her father, Thomas Scott, is the oldest archer ever to have competed in the Olympics.
Beginning and Career:
Lida Scott was born in 1859. Her father was Thomas Foster Scott. She was an American archer who competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics. She was born in Warren, Ohio. Scott appeared as a competitor for the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics, representing the Cincinnati Archers and competing in both the women's double York round and the women's double American round. The events were both held on September 19, 1904. In the women's double American round, Scott was one of 22 competitors. She ranked in seventeenth place with a score of 562, hitting 135 targets across three phases, 40 yards, 50 yards, and 60 yards. The women's double York round, where Scott was one of sixteen competitors, saw her rank in thirteenth place, having accumulated a score of 375, having managed to hit 99 targets again across three phases, this time 60 yards, 80 yards, and 100 yards. Scott, who competed in the events at the age of 71 years and 260 days, holds the distinction of being the oldest person to compete in an archery event at the Olympics. As of 2013, he is still the oldest.
Archery was an event in five of the earliest Olympics and, as it had been an acceptable leisure sport for upper class women for a long time, they were allowed to participate. America's first female gold medalist in archery was Lida Scott. Lida Scott became interested in archery around 1878. It was a result of articles she had read that were written by Maurice Thompson. In 1881, she won the Ohio State archery championship. She repeated her victory in 1882. In the spring of 1883 she married Millard C. Howell and also won her first national championship. Her dedication to the sport continued and by 1907, she had won seventeen national titles. She competed in archery at the St Louis Olympic Games in 1904, winning two gold medals. Her score for the national round archery was 620 and for Columbia round archery, 867. Her scores in the 1895 championship set records which were not broken until 1931 – 36 years later. As an archer, she was clearly a woman ahead of her time. In 1904 a reporter from the Cincinnati Times Star interviewed Mrs. Howell after winning her 15th championship. When asked why she preferred archery over other sports, she replied, "Archery is a picturesque game, the range with its smooth green and distant glowing target with its gold and radiating red, blue, black, and white, the white-garbed players, with graceful big bows and flying arrows, makes a beautiful picture." The reporter commented that the love of archery with her is surely inborn.[2] She retired from National Competition in 1907. After the 1920 Olympics, archery was discontinued until 1972 due to a lack of standardized international rules.
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[SCMP Column] Thucydides Trap
June 04, 2018
So is this what the gates to the slippery slope down into the Thucydides Trap look like? Is this a deathly mix of hubris, fear and honour dragging us down into a hegemonic war?
As Donald Trump's hyperactive team hurtle from G7 belligerence in Paris, to Pacific Ocean defence talks, and a likely summit with North Korea's Kim Jung-un in Singapore, to mercantilist trade battles in Beijing and snarling unfinished business in Nafta, it is time to pause and think afresh about Thucydides' story.
It was Graham Allison at the Harvard Kennedy School that reminded us of the immediate danger of a Thucydides Trap - the rise of Athens and the fear this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable.
It is worth looking closer at the story leading into the Peloponnesian War. Archidamus, King of Sparta, seemed keenly aware of the trap: "We must not be hurried into deciding in a day's brief space a question which concerns many lives and fortunes and many cities, an in which honour is deeply involved. We must decide calmly." One must pause, and wonder whether Archidamus was not pleading directly into Trump's ear.
He was flatly contradicted by Sthenelaides, one of his five magistrates: "Vote, Spartans, for War as the honour of Sparta demands." Sthenelaides won the argument and 27 years of war followed. So say Bolton, Navarro, Lighthizer, and one wonders whether 27 years of war is set to follow without history's lessons being learned.
But the Peloponnesian War offers further insights: seven years into the war, at the battle of Pylos, the Athenians had a massive victory, prompting Sparta's leader to call for peace: "If great enmities are to be settled it will not be by revenge and military success, but when the more fortunate combatant waives his privileges and, guided by gentler feelings, conquers his rival in generosity and accords peace on more moderate conditions than expected."
The Athenians ignored this advice, decided to try to double down on their Pylos victory – and in due course lost the war, never to recover. How distant Trump is to this temperate counsel. Quoting "The Art of the Deal": "I fight when I feel I'm getting screwed, even if it is costly and difficult and highly risky."
Graham Allison reminds us that in the past 500 years, there have been 16 examples of the Thucydides Trap opening its jaws – and 12 ended in war: "On the historical record, war is more likely than not."
And on Trump's watch, and with Trump's hawks in the ascendant, warning lights are flashing red. Much may depend on the temperance of China's leadership. Temperance is certainly not in the words or body language of European, Japanese, Canadian or Mexican leaders as they have bristled this week at Trump's decision to go ahead with tariffs on steel and aluminium exports, with threats to do the same on the global car trade.
Add in the unilateral US decision to renege on the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions, at the same time threatening EU companies with reprisals if they do not toe the line, and the likelihood of retaliation and escalation seems high. Many are perplexed: if this is how you deal with long-standing allies, what is in store when it comes to dealing with parts of the world where alliances are fragile, or do not exist?
Philip Stephens in the Financial Times, captured the mood: "In squandering America's soft power, (Trump) has shrunk its ability to get things done. And in staking out a belligerent unilateralism, he has persuaded allies and adversaries alike that the American moment has passed."
Potential wars with long-standing allies are being primed, and opportunities to work cooperatively to address the trading world's genuine problems with China's different and powerful economic model are being squandered, with a fundamental US failure to ask the first and simplest question in diplomacy: "And then what?"
In Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani argues persuasively in a new book "Has the West Lost it?" that world domination by an eighth of the world's people is coming to an end, and that the emergence of China as a new and major force is a fact and a fait accompli that we all have to adapt to.
As the FT's Martin Wolf adds: "The lesson the west must learn is to interfere less and cooperate more… Far too many people in rich countries think the answer is for the billions of poorer people to abandon hopes for a better life. That is not just immoral, it is infeasible."
China is in the early stages of getting to grips with the implications of its emergence – and the likelihood that at some point soon a billion Indians may also be striving to join the high-consuming global middle classes. It is uniquely pressured to explore resource efficiencies that will allow so many more people to become consumers without natural resources being exhausted, and environmental reforms that allow us to consume without destroying our planet.
It is relying on a more authoritarian economic model to tackle these awesome challenges, and while we in the democratic west may not be comfortable with this, we face an imperative to cooperate in remediation, not foment mercantilist trade policies that inflict harm in all directions and put our global trading system in jeopardy.
It is arguable that Trump's erratic and transactional policies have already inflicted irreparable harm. Canadian and Mexican businesses are without doubt looking to diversify their markets. Europeans too are reviewing the alliance networks that have secured peace and prosperity for the past 70 years.
China, stung by the US decision to halt supplies of high-tech components to ZTE, has learned an irreversible lesson and reacted predictably, focusing on strengthening its high-tech self-reliance, reducing its dependence on foreign supply of key technologies. The global network of multilateral supply chains, which have been key to maintaining peace through our lifetimes, are being weakened and dismantled.
These are without doubt the gates to the Thucydides Trap. Let us still pray that we do not pass through.
David Dodwell researches and writes about global, regional and Hong Kong challenges from a Hong Kong point of view. Opinions expressed are entirely his own.
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I was using ssh to remotely work on my home machine. I was out for few weeks and the IP address only changes every few months, so I thought I was safe.
In reality it took less time for the IP to change. So I needed a plan...
Since I didn't setup a dyndns, or had anyone who could to tell me the new IP, I had to hack it out!
Fortunately I found a a list of the IPs used by each ISP in Portugal.
I then proceeded to fingerprint the machines. I knew my machine had port 3000 open, so I needed to find machines with port 3000 open
sudo nmap -p3000 --open 5.43.0-63.1-254 5.158.0-63.1-254 5.249.0-127.1-254 37.28.192-255.1-254 46.189.128-255.1-254 77.54.0-255.1-254 78.137.192-255.1-254 83.174.0-63.1-254 87.103.0-127.1-254 89.114-115.0-255.1-254 93.108.0-255.1-254 94.60-63.0-255.1-254 95.136.0-127.1-254 148.63.0-255.1-254 148.69.0-255.1-254 148.71.0-255.1-254 149.90.0-255.1-254 161.230.0-255.1-254 178.166.0-127.1-254 188.37.0-255.1-254 212.18.160-191.1-254 213.30.0-127.1-254 -oN nmap_output.txt
I built this command that will analyse about ~1.000.000 IP addresses and figure out which have the port I want open, producing a list. This took about a day to complete.
It was then a matter of parsing the result. First I removed the RTT warning lines and got only the lines with IP addresses.
grep -v RTT nmap_output.txt | grep report > without_errors.txt
producing a list like this:
Nmap scan report for 184.108.40.206.rev.vodafone.pt (220.127.116.11)
Nmap scan report for 126.96.36.199.rev.vodafone.pt (22.214.171.124)
Nmap scan report for 126.96.36.199.rev.vodafone.pt (220.127.116.11)
I parsed this list to get just the IP addresses, using cut and a regex with sed.
Nmap scan report for 184.108.40.206.rev.vodafone.pt (220.127.116.11)
I parsed this list to get just the IP addresses, using cut and a regex with sed.
cat without_errors.txt | cut -d' ' -f6 | sed "s/(//" | sed "s/)//" > only_ips.txt
Producing a list like this
And now I finally had a list which I could try to login into:
for i in $(cat only_ips.txt);do ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=2 -p22 $i "echo $i";done 2> /dev/null
And TADAM! I found my new IP address.
You could also first refine your fingerprinted result by finding machines that have another port open that you know to be open.
nmap -iL only_ips.txt -p2000 --open


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QjackCtl is a(n ageing but still, modernized) Qt application to control the JACK sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure.
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Enjoy && Keep having fun!
Hi there, trice again,
Like some post-LAC2019 frenzy hangover, here comes the third and final batch-of-one:
The changes for this seasonal release are as follows:
Wiki (help still wanted!):
Enjoy && Please, have (lots of) fun.
Wholly cheers!
The Vee One Suite of old-school software instruments are here again and now released for the second QStuff* Spring Break'19 batch post-LAC2019 frenzy:
All still delivered in dual form:
Changes are that there are quite a few fixes since previous releases:
The Vee One Suite are free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Make the fun great again!
synthv1 0.9.7 (spring-break'19) is out!
synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx.
samplv1 0.9.7 (spring-break'19) is out!
samplv1 is an old-school polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.
drumkv1 0.9.7 (spring-break'19) is out!
drumkv1 is an old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.
padthv1 0.9.7 (spring-break'19) is out!
padthv1 is an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer with stereo fx
padthv1 is based on the PADsynth algorithm by Paul Nasca, as a special variant of additive synthesis.
Interesting times we're living in...
The first batch to the so called Qstuff* Spring Break'19 is now being delivered as fully complementary as post-LAC2019 frenzy ;)
And in this batch, we have:
All the boring (to death) details, below...
QjackCtl is a(n ageing yet modern, not so simple anymore) Qt application to control the JACK sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure.
Qsynth is a FluidSynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.
Qsampler is a LinuxSampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.
QXGEdit is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices.
QmidiCtl is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast (http://llg.cubic.org/tools) and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows (http://nerds.de). QmidiCtl was long ago designed for the Maemo enabled handheld devices, namely the late Nokia N900 and promoted to the Maemo Package repositories. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl may still be found effective as a regular desktop application and recently as an Android application as well.
QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI and JACK-MIDI) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows.
Enjoy && Keep the fun!
Hi again,
For last but not least and concluding the so called traditional pre-LAC2019 release frenzy:
Here the last changes included for this wrap-up release:
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A new twist on an old threat tactic could allow hackers to compromise your computer and steal your information. As with similar campaigns, infected Microsoft Office documents are sent as attachments in spam emails. However, no interaction is required on the part of the victim this time around. When the document is opened, the vulnerability spreads, making it a nastier technique. The latest versions of the malicious documents have been installing the Dridex banking Trojan, which can steal your banking credentials and other sensitive data. Today is Patch Tuesday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday), and an update is expected from Microsoft to fix this vulnerability in Office, but until then, and AS ALWAYS:
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"Furious 7," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," "Bridge of Spies" and "The Revenant" are among the nominees for the Visual Effects Society's 14th VES Awards that honor outstanding visual effects and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials and video games, as well as VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists.
Nominees announced Tuesday for outstanding visual effects in a photoreal feature are "Furious 7," "San Andreas," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "The Martian"
In contention for outstanding supporting visual effects in a photoreal feature are "In the Heart of the Sea," "Bridge of Spies," "The Walk," "Everest" and "The Revenant."
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