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NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Audibles NFL Week 11 storylines: Andrew Luck's arrival revives Colts-Patriots rivalry by Chris Burke Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Fri Nov. 16, 2012 Andrew Luck leads his surprising Colts into Foxboro this Sunday for his first showdown with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)For years and years the Colts-Patriots rivalry was one of the NFL's best, with Tom Brady and Peyton Manning dueling on an annual basis. Last season, the ninth straight in which those two AFC foes met, the luster lacked. The Colts entered the early December contest at 0-11 and with Dan Orlovsky running the show at quarterback.Indianapolis still made a game of it, scoring 21 points in the fourth quarter to lose by seven, but the national excitement waned.Eleven months later, it's back.We can thank Andrew Luck and the resurgent 2012 version of the Colts for that. As Luck churns his way toward Rookie of the Year honors, the Colts are one of the NFL's biggest surprises -- their 6-3 record has them firmly in wild-card position and matches New England's start to the 2012 season.On Sunday Luck leads his team into Foxboro for his first meeting with Brady and the Patriots. The start time of the game was bumped from 1 p.m. ET to the less-crowded 4:25 slot, a nod to the interest in the first Luck-Brady showdown.If the AFC continues to play out as it has so far, though, the second meeting of those quarterbacks could come in the postseason. Of course, as the playoff picture stands right now, it would not be the Patriots that Luck's Colts would draw in Round 1.It would be the Denver Broncos ... and Manning.• Checking in on the quarterback infirmaryWeek 10 was none too kind to the NFL's signal-callers. Three of them (Alex Smith, Jay Cutler, Michael Vick) exited their games in the first half with concussions, then Ben Roethlisberger suffered an extremely unusual and serious injury in the Monday night game.Of the four, only Alex Smith is in line to play in Week 11. That's bad news for the Bears, San Francisco's Monday opponent, who announced Friday that they'll hold Cutler and start Jason Campbell. The Eagles also declared Michael Vick out for their game Sunday in Washington, turning things over to the backup -- Nick Foles, in this case.Roethlisberger's timetable, meanwhile, remains very much up in the air. At the least his injury will sideline him for Sunday night's crucial AFC North showdown against Baltimore, giving Byron Leftwich his first start since 2009. The Ravens and Steelers meet again in Week 11; will Roethlisberger be available for the rematch? It is possible. Unfortunately for the Steelers, it is also possible that Big Ben has to shut it down until next season.• Here come the Saints (and Buccaneers)The NFC South race remains relatively drama-free for now, with the 8-1 Falcons still in cruise control, despite a loss to New Orleans last week. A visit from Arizona this Sunday should not cause Atlanta too much consternation.Below the Falcons in the standings, though, are a pair of teams rapidly making up for lost time. The Saints, thanks partially to that emphatic win over Atlanta, have won four of five to get back within a game of .500; the Buccaneers have reeled off three straight wins to improve to 5-4, placing them just a half-game back in the NFC wild-card race.New Orleans heads to Oakland this Sunday, while Tampa Bay visits Carolina. Should both teams win, we may have to start talking about the NFC South as a potential three-playoff-team division.• San Diego's last shot in the AFC WestTechnically, the earliest the Broncos can clinch the AFC West is in Week 13. Ostensibly, however, they can put a bow on the division race Sunday afternoon.That's if the Broncos can take down San Diego for a second time this season. Manning's team already did just that back in Week 6, rallying from a 24-0 halftime deficit to send the Chargers spiraling. If Denver repeats that outcome Sunday, it will push its AFC West lead out to three games and hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over San Diego. In other words, one divisional race will be over.• Does Detroit have any fight left?The Lions have spent the past two weeks batting off insults from anonymous sources -- first, center Dominic Raiola was in the crosshairs, then Ndamukong Suh endured his turn this week. Just the latest in a long string of unwelcome distractions for Jim Schwartz's club.The on-field product has not been much better. Coming off a playoff appearance in 2011, the Lions have failed to meet expectations thus far in 2012, slumping to a 4-5 start. Their fading hopes are on the line Sunday, when the Packers visit Motown. The Lions have knocked off the Packers just once in the past six seasons -- and that win came in a game that saw Aaron Rodgers leave with an injury.• The Tim Tebow saga refuses to go awayThe Jets are 3-6, barely with a pulse in the playoff race. And yet, more of the NFL news cycle has been devoted to their backup quarterback than maybe any other topic this season.Suffice it to say, Tebow's arrival in New York has not exactly sparked the Jets as they hoped it might. He has seen the field only sporadically (unless you count his work as a blocker on punts), and now this week, several of his teammates ripped Tebow in the press.All the while, Mark Sanchez has wallowed in underachievement as New York's starting quarterback, unable to get the offense going with a shaky line and depleted receiving corps at his service. The Rams could put a dagger in the Jets' season on Sunday by knocking them off in St. Louis. The downside of that? Once the Jets are eliminated officially from contention, the cries for Tebow to play will grow only louder. More Audibles


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Tokyo police revealed that charges have been filed against former IBM exec Takumi Otoshi. On August 22, Otoshi allegedly used his iPod to film up a young woman's skirt while riding the escalator at JR Yotsuya Station in Tokyo.
Otoshi was the president of IBM Japan between 1999 and 2008. As Tokyo Reporter points out, he was, until recently, a senior adviser to IBM.
A fellow commuter noticed that Otoshi was doing something odd with his iPod and notified station staff. Numerous questionable files were discovered on his iPod. The former exec confessed to authorities, adding, "I have an interest in peeping photos."
In the wake of this incident, Otoshi has submitted his resignation as senior adviser to IBM.
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Jason and Whitney (Jones) Steeley of El Dorado are pleased to announce the arrival of their daughter, Amiyah Rian Steeley.
Amiyah as born on Sunday, January 5 at 3:34 a.m. at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs, 2 oz and was 20 inches long. Amiyah has one sibling, Raylan Steeley who is two years old.
She was received by grandparents Mark and Darla Jones, Melvin and Sandra Manchack, and Elsa Stephens and by great-grandparents Peje Jones, Mary Neiman, and David and Bev Drake.
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What are the most used metrics to evaluate the QoS of a video streaming session? I am looking for tutorials, papers, lecture notes, ppt, anything of that kind, or your own answer.
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When I sit for meditation, there are a lot of thoughts that come to my mind. How can I be free from thoughts while meditating?
You can't. At best, you can gently refuse to follow each train of thought as it occurs. Watch the boats floating by; just don't climb into any of them.
This becomes easier after a few months.
The goal is not to try to be free from thoughts or to resist them. Instead welcome the thought, acknowledge it then say goodbye to it. Dedicating time to try and not think about it will inevitably lead to you thinking about it. So just let it happen and be very passive with it. Thoughts will come and go easily, they only stick around when we focus on them, whether that focus is on the thought or on getting rid of the thought.
Meditation = Concentration
As mentioned in previous answers, the practice of meditation is not meant to prevent thoughts from entering the mind but rather to hone your ability to concentrate on the object of meditation you've set out to practice. For all other sensations and thoughts that enter, it also requires increasing your awareness of the present moment in order to let them "run off" the mind without attachment.
Personally, I find that it helps to imagine I am channeling/transforming all thought sensations and physical sensations that enter my consciousness into the object of meditation itself, thereby enhancing my concentration on said object. For example, in the moment I notice I am having thoughts or feelings of physical pain/discomfort in the body, I try to take those sensations and convert/merge them into whatever the object is - whether it's for Mindfulness of Breathing or one of the Four Sublime Abiding.
However, it is also my understanding that for insight meditation (Vipassana), there is no single object but rather the goal is to stay with your thought and physical sensations and follow them to their root conditions/elements of wind, water, earth, and fire.
Most importantly though, remember to have patience and compassion for yourself while applying the right effort towards your practice. In other words, practice with wholesome intention and without attachment/grasping onto achieving a specific outcome. After all, meditation is as much about lessening our negativity towards ourselves and others as it is about building our capacity for the positive.
Here's to wishing everyone here fruitful meditation practice! That is, without expectation of - nor attachment to - said fruits :)
I agree with frank. Just notice that there are some thoughts and then continue with your meditation.
You can also try to concentrate on two things at the same time : your breath and how something feels a like (the fabric of your shirt or jeans, the touch of your finger on an other finger ... ). As we can't handle more then two tasks at a time the thoughts will go away.
it's not about attempting to be free from thought
A point of meditation is not so much to be free of thoughts in the sense of being devoid of thoughts but rather in the sense of being independent of thoughts, such that thoughts have no power over you anymore. Having no thoughts at all is obviously not sustainable in every day life, but detachment from thoughts certainly is.
Regard thoughts like passing clouds floating lightly through a summer sky. If detachment happens sometimes thoughts disappear at all, but this is only a pleasant side effect.
I find I continually think of a couple of things at the same time so part of my meditation process is to have planned thoughts. Like @hexodus, I tie something physical to my thoughts -
usually I let one part of my mind count my breaths while another counts my heartbeats. When beginning a meditation this helps persuade stray thoughts to stay only briefly. Once I am relaxed I find I have often forgotten to keep counting, but my mental state is still very relaxed.
You might want to look at this page.
Sadly, it's in French so I put it in Google translation. It seems still pretty understandable.
Basically, he explain us his tricks.
Breathing is very important but one good advise is to try to visualize a basic shape in our head, make it do a loop, make it spin in 2D then in 3D, this will keep your mind busy trying to visualize it (don't hesitate to check out his article, he put some images to help illustrating).
This is really effective and it prevents you from the free train of thought which is very hard to deal with otherwise.
In Mindfulness practice we work on our relationship to things. So for example, don't get hung up on having thoughts while practicing, but rather open to them and see how you continually tend to get hooked by them. See how you tend to be very identified with and bound up with the thinking process. Dragged about by it into the past, the future, worry, fantasy, endless commentary. Seeing all of this going on helps you over time to become dis-entangled from thinking . Unfortunantly sitting with an overly busy mind can be part of the practice. You have to be willing to sit with the busy everyday-mind and be committed to continually bringing it back from whatever it wanders on to. Over and over, again and again, you let go of whatever comes to cloud awareness. By doing so the mind will begin to lay things down and become more quiet.
I find it helpful not to associate meditation with ceasing thoughts or with relaxaton even. (See these as side benefits of the practice.) Look on practice as acceptance time, getting to know your mind and its content better. Thoughts will continue to bubble up when you sit to meditate, but by not giving them your attention they eventualy run themselves out and fade away.
I was seeking answer to same for years together and then saw this link one day, must say very easy method to get into meditation, still not guaranteed that all will get this working as it's more of internal state of spirit and awareness of self which makes it possible for a being, still see if this works for you, if works then it is easiest method to get into meditation...
It is great initiative with these people to help people get into meditative state, and they really do not charge anything for this like many other practices.
People always say that so and so practice changed them many ways, but genuinely speaking i must say it changed me a lot and my life too hence thought of sharing, follow same even during office hours. before trying this had tried many but this seemed really giving meditation, rest most i tried were looking working only in books and theories. hope you get it helping you.
How can you be free from thoughts?
Just do more meditation.
Do it some month and the time without thoughts will increase.
Thoughts aren't bad. Don't dismiss them.
Short Zen answer would be:
So this should be your approach, don't cling to your thoughts, but don't actively fight them either. They'll settle eventually, if it doesn't: just keep meditating. It's just what it is: sitting and breathing.
Disassociate yourself from these wandering thoughts. As a computer game analogy, these interrupting thoughts belong to your character, while you are the player. But your player (you) isn't aware (mostly) that he has a personality / character overlay applied to his actions (aka, conscious vs sub-conscious, id, ego). While trying to mediate, your character keeps injecting thoughts into your mind, trying to control and direct the story.
Your job is to notice these thoughts as they are being injected into your mind. At first, while learning, be amused by them. Try to see if you can identify the thought's origin. Why did I just think that? Disassociate with them. They are not part of the true 'you'. Like others have said, it is almost impossible to turn these thoughts off. Luckily you don't have to. You just have to learn on how to use them to your advantage.
The simplest method I've tried was (as others have said) to let your conscious thought focus on your breathing. Notice how it feels to breath in, then out. How does it sound? Gradually reduce your level of concentration on your breathing, but not entirely. Get to a point where you are barely thinking about your breathing, but are just experiencing it. Eventually you should be able to just tune out everything but your breathing for 10 seconds, then 30, then a full minute. Even still, you'll occasionally notice a wandering thought drift by (usually 'hey, I didn't have a thought for a while now!'), but now your true mind already has something to occupy it, so these stray thoughts are easier to ignore.
Another method to occupy your thoughts is a guided meditation (is that what they are called?) where you follow a predetermined script (either memorized, or from an audio source). For example, imagine walking down a long, winding path through a forest. Notice the birds chirping, the gentle summer breeze flowing through the branches, etc. A proper script will slowly calm your mind (while giving it something to concentrate on), and bring your brain waves into the proper frequency. Google should provide you with some great sources for these meditations.
I do not try to control the thoughts that come when meditating. I begin by focusing on my breathing, but inevitably my mind will wander to something else. When this happens I acknowledge the thought and then purposefully pull my mind back to my breath.
I have found that the more I meditate the shorter my "distracted" moments become. I find that the thoughts I have the hardest time holding at bay lead me to realizations about my overall feeling and focus for the day and so I do not dismiss them but see them as a valuable part of the overall mindful experience.
If I just cannot get a thought out of my head then I will take a few minutes and freely think about only that before returning to the meditation.


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Hoping he might be able to get something to treat his chronic ennui, Henri the Existential Cat pays a visit to Le Vet.
He tells the doc about his growing disillusionment with the world, but he just checks for gunk in Henri's ears and pronounces him healthy, as always.
Typical nihilist.


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I'm trying to SSH to a server on startup with a .sh script, but that will require me to enter the password for the account on the server that I'm SSHing to. I did some RTFMing, and I see in "-o" that it has "PasswordAuthentication" but I'm not sure how or if I could use that option. As this will be in a shell script, obviously I'd like to have the password in that file, or in any case not have to enter in the password manually every time the script runs.
I'm on my phone now so I can't give you a detailed answer. The proper solution here in my opinion is to use key based authentication. Basically you use ssh-keygen (I think) to generate a public/private key pair. Since you need script access, enter a blank password when prompted. Then, follow the relevant man pages to install the public key on the server and install the private key in its proper place.
Now you should be able to log in to that server securely and without a password. Note that by securely I mean as long as your user account isn't compromised.
I would suggest that you use ssh-keygen to generate an ssh key and use that to login to your remote ssh server.
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Back in December in the midst of their brutal opening stretch of games in which they dropped their first seven contests, the Pratt High School boys basketball team was downed at home by the Kingman Eagles 56-46.
As evidence that PHS head coach Dave Swank's "improvement for February" strategy is working, on Tuesday night the Greenbacks virtually reversed the score on the Eagles, coming away with a 57-46 triumph on the Eagles' home floor.
The 21-point turnaround was accomplished by a combination of several factors: defense, rebounding and offense.
"We played well defensively," Coach Swank opined. "We were able to get 10 steals out of our zone, which is pretty good. Liam Kahmeyer was especially active on defense, anticipating where Kingman was going to try to pass the ball."
Pratt outrebounded Kingman 22-20, not a huge differential but significant given that the Frogs have only one bona fide "big man", Chase Hageman. "One of our 'February goals' is to win the rebounding battle," Swank mentioned.
Pratt has had nights this season where they have struggled offensively, but Tuesday was not one of them. The Greenbacks sprinted to an early 11-2 lead largely on the strength of 3-balls from Garret Smith and Skylar Dean. Smith and Dean continued scoring throughout the game, ending with 17 and 16 points respectively to pace the Frogs.
Joining them in double figures was Chase Hageman who scored 13 points from the post. "We did a nice job of getting the ball inside to Chase," Coach Swank said. "Then Chase really finished strong at the rim." Hageman had three "and 1s" in the second quarter, scoring 9 of his points in that frame to lead the PHS Q2 charge.
The win improves the Greenbacks record to 5-9 overall, 2-1 in the CKL. Pratt has won five of its last seven contests after going 0-7 to start the year. Next up is Nickerson on Friday, the team that Pratt beat for their first victory earlier this season. But this time, the game is at the PantherDen, always a tough place to play. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Garret Smith 2-3-4/7-17; Skylar Dean 4-1-5/8-16; Mayberry 0-0-3/4-3; Chase Hageman 4-0-5/8-13; Kahmeyer 2-0-4/5-8
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When the height of the Fanotec pole increases beyond 3 meters, the need for an effective support base becomes prominent. Some professional pole systems on the market come with a dedicated support tripod, which is bulky, costly and cannot be used for other purposes.
High end tripods for photography are strong enough to support a 6 meter pole. Some people even attempt to install a rotator and pole directly onto the tripod. This is very dangerous. Rotators and tripod center columns are designed to withstand vertical loading with minimal bending torque. With a 6 meter pole, the torque is increased by 30 times. This can cause damage, without noticeable warning, to the tripod center column top disk, rotator and pole base and to the gears on top of the pole. Damage to equipment and potential injury to people in the area should be avoided at all costs.
As part of the pole systems, Fanotec is releasing a low cost, light weight and safe to use tripod adapter for use with Fanotec rotators and poles.
This tripod adapter works with tripods that have a 3/8 male thread on top and a 3/8 male/ female thread at the bottom of the center column. The adapter spreads the bending torque over the length of center column, greatly reducing the torque at the tripod top disk, rotator and pole base. It works with Fanotec advanced rotators, pole rotator (coming soon) and Fanotec poles.
It will have an introductory price of $49.95 and will be available in Feb 2011.
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They're called "Man's Best Friend," and friends don't let friends walk alone.
On Saturday, planes were not the focus of the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport. Instead, it was friends helping friends out.
"I brought my dog out. This is his favorite day of the year, he loves to be around other dogs. We like to support the humane society," says 5K participant Paula Hayes.
Hundreds of dogs and their owners came out to help other canines who are staying at the Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society find a new, loving home.
"Dogs like Max need a home, and it's much better to adopt than to buy. All these wonderful dogs out here in the yellow bandannas need a home," says Shannon Gadd.
"This event is just what I consider a little piece of heaven - with all the dogs and people. They just know the day is all about them," says 5K sponsor Rosemary Hotaling.
The main event is the 5K walk. It's a chance for pooches that are up for adoption to build a relationship with people looking for that loving companion.
"There's so many nice dogs out there that need homes. All the dogs we have, have always been rescued from shelters," says Dan O'Brien, a 5K participant.
"I know how much you pamper your own dog, and you love your dog so much. So, just giving that option to another dog is nice," says 5K participant Cindy Casana.
"A friend had Tucker, and was going to get rid of him. He needed a home, so we took him," says Hayes.
Organizers say the event is a success year after year.
"Even the last two years, which were cold, windy, and rainy, we still had a fantastic turnout. You know the love is here in this community," says Hotaling.
That love helped eight of the 35 dogs in this year's walk find a home.
Organizers say eight dogs were adopted in last year's event.
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Is there a way to configure SQL Server to limit the number of rows than an update statement can modify? Say I wanted the limit to be 30,000 rows and someone fired an update that would modify 45,000 rows, they would receive an error or some other preventive message.
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A trigger would be how I would handle this. This will slow down all your update statements as SQL now has a bunch of extra work to do, but it'll handle your requirement.
Personally I wouldn't like the idea of the instead of trigger and reapplying the update with a smaller row set as this gets into tricky areas of half completed operations now which could get very messy, quickly.
You could do this with an AFTER INSERT TRIGGER, and count the number of records in the inserted table, and handle your desired record limit that way.
You could also use an


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iPod- and iPhone-Related Gifts for Kids
Looking for a gift for your iPod or iPhone obsessed child? Find the perfect iPhone/iPod case and accessories for kids of all ages, whether you're looking for holiday gifts and stocking stuffers or a graduation or birthday gift for your hard-to-please teen or tween.
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Help your LEGO fan protect his iPhone (models 5 and 5S) with this nifty case made with an official LEGO base plate, which he can build on with his LEGO bricks. Also check out LEGO cases for the iPad Mini and iPod Touch.
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In all my years of covering sports, as a player, a fan and a coach I have never felt the inner national pride and patriotism that was felt at the United States World Cup qualifying match against Guatemala on Tuesday.
We have all been to sporting events and have experienced the faithful singing of the National Anthem.
To the day, I had never experienced the type of emotion and pride that was felt to begin this soccer match.
In this recital of our nation's song, listening and participating along with 16,000 plus in unison to begin the match was quite simply beautiful and made you proud to be an American while sending chills throughout your spine.
At most sporting events there is a partisan fan base within the stands. With a definitive split between the home team and the away squad.
This crowd was like none other, with the youngest to the oldest fan clad in the brilliance of the stars and stripes.
United as fans we cheered on our nation's team.
The Guatemalans struck first within the first five minutes of the game and it looked as if it was going to be a nightmare for the United States.
The Americans responded with the same resiliency of its nation and scored three unanswered goals en route to victory.
The match was crucial for both teams and the winner earned the the right to move onto the next round of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The Americans won in a 3-1 final.
To have been able to experience and be a part of such a momentous ocassion for American sports, not only soccer, and in the company it was shared with will be a lasting memory in the heart of this American for life.
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What's the easiest way to give someone a 20GB folder? I've thought about starting a bittorrent, but it seems like there must be a simpler way. It's too big to email or upload to any free filesharing servers. I could start my own server but it seems like there must be an easier way to do it than that as well. Any ideas?
Yeah that is a heck of a lot. Is this person close? throw it on some external media and bring it to them or mail it.
Before considering any sending options over the internet, make sure you compress it first. This can drastically reduce sending time, especially if a lot of text documents are involved.
Bittorrent wouldn't be a bad idea actually. You can upload incrementally and whenever you guys have the time.
There is also DC++ which I've used for similar tasks.
DVR-R are cheap nowadays. If it takes less than 2 weeks for the letter to arrive to the other party, you should fit the folder to 4 DVD-Rs with compression.
It would be a more preferable method considering there maybe error even if you transmit the folder by multiparts RARs. I can't imagine trying to download 20GB of data from another peer (excluding by BT, since you only need to start the program and it'll do the downloading and error checking by itself).
The others are correct about snail mail.
But if you want to use the internet this is how you can do it.
But beware, it is going to take some time. Let's say your uplink is 20kB/s.
The data is 20GB => 20 000 000kB.
Then it would take approximately 20 000 000kB / 20 kB/s = 1 000 000 s = 277h = 11 days...
And if we say that snail mail usually takes 3 days.
That means that you need to have a connection with a uplink speed of about 70-80kB/s if you are going to be faster...
Use Skydrive.............
This is my answer to a similar question:
Bittorent won't help unless there's multiple receiving party. If not, use ftp or DC+ server. Depending on the distance to the recipient, snail mail might be actually faster, that's just 5 DVDs after all.
if you can't split the 20GB's into smaller parts, then get a USB flash drive big enough to hold the data and send that by mail. Heck if it's important that speed play a role, then by overnight courier. That will be fast as well.
Toss it all on a USB thumbdrive and send it FedEx. (or UPS. Or USPS. Or Pony Express. Or, you know, drive it over there yourself.)
Shipping 20GB over the net is going to be painful any way you slice it. Honestly, this is a perfect use for the sneakernet.
20gb is alot of data to be sending. Thats almost two weeks worth for me lol
Cut to DVD's and deliver by snail-mail ?
Or SkyDrive offers 25GB for free also.
As someone else pointed out i'd send it over DC, compress it first! You dont want the overhead of many files.
And if you compress it, please split the archive in several small ones. So you can re-send any corrupt files.
You do not want a 20GB rar file, or similar, to be corrupt when you finally are finished!
You can use: 1) upload 2) Storage media
1: upload (You need to have fast internet connection) a) Bit torrent b) Sky drive ( you can get 25 GB for free and direct link ) c) File-sharing service ( rg: rapid-share, media fire [use hjsplit to split files] )
My recommendation: use method (2) Good luck!
Carrier Pidgeon... never fails!
My best bet, define your own FTP server, place a root directory where your file is and then provide the other part your actual public IP address. He should get the file with no bandwidth restrictions at
You can use http://forgetbox.com, which I develop, for that.
There's no size limit, and you can share your folder to anybody in 4 clicks.
ForgetBox is made to handle compression and internet connection shortages. So it should do the trick!
Try Fileai Securely share files that are too big to e-mail for FREE!
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(I just copies what they have on their site; i dont work for them or anything lol)
There's a heck of a lot of answers here, but I have to recommend this because it's awesome. Works almost like a torrent, in the sense that you can resume, and transfers in chunks.
It does require some simple "registration" thing, but it's really painless.
And the interface looks nice:
zeZebra. I have no affiliation with them.
Binfer is another option. It's not entirely free, though, only 1 GB is free.
When your contact starts Binfer at the other end, the files will transfer directly from your computer to your friend's computer. It will take care of interrupted transfers. You may want to turn off encryption at both ends to speed up a little.


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6 Beloved 80s Toys With Bizarrely Horrifying Origin Stories
#3. Sectaurs -- Biological Warfare, Slavery, More Mutants
Remember that scene in Big where Tom Hanks convinces the toy makers that a toy shaped like a bug was much cooler than one shaped like a building? This is basically what toy makers had in mind when they made Sectaurs. These action figures were basically human-insect hybrids that came with their own bug to fly around on.
Coming up with the idea for bug people is pretty easy, but when it came time to make the cartoon, the writers needed some background info on how they came to be this way. Was it magic? Aliens who were bug-like? Apparently, kids needed something a little more edgy to watch on Saturday mornings, so the writers finally settled on fallout from biological warfare.
That's from the opening credits.
Therefore, the Sectaurs story goes something like this:
Thousands of years ago, there was a peaceful planet full of enlightened beings (the Ancients) whose scientific advances had fostered the perfect utopia ... until one day something went terribly wrong and the whole planet was almost entirely destroyed by an unknown biological disaster.
Well, shit.
From the ashes of the ruined planet rose a race of animal-insect mutants who are in a perpetual state of war:
If you watched the video above, you saw that what they're fighting over is control of "the secrets of the Ancients." You see, instead of saying "my bad" and cleaning up their horrific messes, the wise Ancients decided to store all their knowledge in "hyves" and leave their mutated offspring to work it out among themselves. Fortunately for the good guys, they're each able to bond with the mind of one giant mutated bug, giving them bug superpowers.
The show ran for only five episodes, and they're all the stuff of nightmares. The first episode shows the evil Spidrax attacking a village in his giant flying spider bug. The whole thing is reminiscent of Vietnam War films, with villagers running for their lives as their homes and fields are burned. And that's just the first scene.
Have fun, kids!
#2. P.J. Sparkles -- Lord of the Flies on Ecstasy
P.J. Sparkles is a doll that really doesn't need a back story. It's a little girl doll that lights up. That's it, that's all it takes to entertain toddlers. Hell, the empty box would be enough to entertain most toddlers.
Via Tons-of-toys.com
But as with the rest of the toys on this list, the makers felt they needed to come up with a complicated P.J. Sparkles creation myth, and they included a VHS cassette along with the doll:
The short film tells the story of P.J., an orphan who wishes on a star for someone to love. Instead of finding her a caring and stable home, the wishing star sends P.J. to Twinkle Town. Despite its cheerful name, Twinkle Town is a foreboding, polluted place with no apparent order. It's populated by crowds of dingy children who immediately begin to cheer P.J. as soon as she arrives.
P.J. soon discovers that these nameless children were left there by the wishing star, and despite the star's dubious skills, have been wishing for a leader ever since. It's unclear why P.J. was chosen as their messiah, er, leader, but somehow the kids just know by looking at her that she's the one.
Hey, she seems pretty OK, let's worship her.
Let's stop and make it clear that even the people writing this monstrosity couldn't have given less of a shit about it. At one point, P.J. performs magic without meaning to and offers as an aside, "I wonder how I'm doing that?" When P.J. appears out of nowhere to a troubled kid and he wants to know where she came from, her horse tells him, "Just go with it, kiddo, it takes too long to explain."
Seriously, kid, just shut the hell up and watch your movie. Mommy needs her schnapps.
Anyway, the villains of the story, who are inserted almost as an afterthought, are the only adults in Twinkle Town, and they really don't like what P.J. has done with the place. In case you weren't sure they were the bad guys, they carry a bag of filth around with them wherever they go.
Yeah, we were being literal.
Having discovered a "cure" for all the love and happiness in Twinkle Town, the two villains manage to turn all of P.J.'s followers against her. P.J. begins to grow faint and fade away. She's informed by the horrible wishing star that her very existence depends on how much love the children give her. So, unless she can manage to bring the children back under her thumb, P.J. will die. And unless they follow P.J. adoringly, the kids better get used to a dark existence trapped in Twinkle Town forever.
Wait, was this toy just a front for a cult? All the profits went to fund some compound somewhere, didn't they?
#1. Rainbow Brite -- Incarnated Evil, Child Abandonment, Murder Via Rainbow
If you were around in the '80s, you remember the enormously popular Rainbow Brite doll. Here's a video of that kid from Poltergeist trying to sell one to you:
For the most part, the Rainbow Brite cartoon series could not have been more innocuous -- even the "villains" Murky and Lurky were really just a couple of inept caricatures. Really the only objectionable thing about the series was the fact that it seemed to be produced by a bunch of grown-up hippies. But then we have the two-part special, "The Beginning of Rainbowland." That's where we get Rainbow Brite's terrifying origin story.
It turns out Rainbow Brite started out as Wisp, a human toddler who was transported to an unnamed planet and given a quest to save it. Wisp must discover a way to bring color to the desolate landscape. To do this, she must find the Sphere of Light, which is held captive in a castle by a being known as the Evil One. It turns out that Murky and Lurky were just the henchmen for the Evil One, who is determined to keep the land in darkness. There are frequent lightning strikes, rivers of lava and evil creatures who are constantly trying to capture or kill little Wisp.
These guys, for instance.
As she travels, Wisp encounters a field full of statues, which on further inspection turn out to be the frozen corpses of others who've tried to reach the castle. Wisp continues on, gathering new friends with her, until she comes to ...
...a river full of flesh-eating piranha.
Wisp then discovers an abandoned baby lying on the rocks and crying. Despite her friends' annoyed protests, Wisp decides that she must help the baby.
Seriously, how the fuck did it get there?
The bad guys decide they need to capture Wisp to steal the source of her rainbow powers. They accomplish this by kidnapping the baby as a way to lure Wisp into a trap. Wisp confronts the Evil One, who brandishes the baby in one huge fist and demands Wisp's Rainbow Belt.
The Evil One, about to beat a toddler to death with an infant.
Now it's time for Wisp to embrace her destiny as the One and bend reality to her will. A beam of rainbow shoots out from her stomach ...
... and wraps around the Evil One like a goddamned boa constrictor ...
... and crushes him until nothing but his empty cloak remains.
Wisp takes her place as Rainbow Brite and restores color to Rainbowland, where she hopefully receives treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. You may think this episode was some kind of an intentionally edgy, gritty reboot of the character maybe meant for girls in their early teens ... then you realize that "The Beginning of Rainbowland" is recommended for kids as young as 3 years old.
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There's more gravitational force in our galaxy (and others) than can be explained by counting stars. So why not lots of dark planetery systems (ie without stars) ? Why must we assume some undiscovered and unexplained form of matter ?
There is a very precise reason why dark planets made of 'ordinary matter' (baryons - particles made up of 3 quarks) cannot be the dark matter. It turns out that the amount of baryons can be measured in two different ways in cosmology: - by measuring present-day abundances of some light elements (esp deuterium) which are very sensitive to the baryon amount, and - by measuring the distribution of the hot and cold spots in the Cosmic Microwave background (CMB), radiation left over from the early universe that we observe today
These two methods agree spectacularly, and both indicate that baryons are 5% of the total stuff (energy/matter) in the universe. Meanwhile, various measures of gravitational clustering (gravitational lensing, rotation of stars around galaxies, etc etc) all indicate that total matter comprises 25% of the total. (The remaining 75% is in the infamous dark energy which is irrelevant for this particular question).
Since 5% is much less than 25%, and since the errors on both of these measurements are rather small, we infer that most of the matter, about 4/5 ths (that is, 20% out of 25%) is 'dark' and NOT made up of baryons.
As above answers have mentioned most of the ordinary matter has been considered as candidates and we are fairly certain that there has to be some sort of "dark" matter at work.
Firstly, we take on the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. A very famous example is the Bullet cluster where you can clearly observe the effects of a compact mass acting as an optical lens. A mass of such magnitude can not conveniently be a cluster of brown dwarves and most black holes we observe have many objects orbiting and a particle jet accompanying. Besides, a black hole of small magnitude would not be enough to explain the magnitude of the gravitational lensing in question.
Secondly, much more complicated computations made with general relativity principles need a lot more mass to account for the current shape and angular speed of galaxies. It may be easy to say that GR is wrong(which you shouldn't say to the face of a physicist), even though GR is incomplete in the sense that it is not a theory of everything, it still explains most of the gravitational phenomena pretty well. Besides, the fact that there is gravitational lensing means that there really IS some sort of mass or gravitational pull(or more like space time curvature anomaly) in certain parts of our galaxy, and the universe.
Even though dark matter seems so mysterious, we can guess most of its properties from our "lack of knowledge". Firstly, since it is "invisible" in all spectrum of light, we can assume that it does not interact via electromagnetic force. Since it is a fountain of gravitational force, we can say that it, surprise surprise, interacts via gravitational force. Calculations for weak&strong forces are pretty complicated and very indirect so I'm just going to say that most of the currently proposed dark matters interact via strong and weak forces as well.
A planetary system without a star is only possible if the star died out to be a neutron star, black hole, or a white dwarf, all of which are detectable in some way.
Besides, there would have to be an unrealistic amount of these "faded" star systems to even account for the lost mass. And assuming that such planetary systems are fairly rare, we would rather consider an unusual form of matter which is quite possible and plausible if found.
All the matter that we do know to exist (called Baryonic matter) emits some kind of electromagnetic radiation at some frequency. Sometimes it's measured in infrared radiation, because matter, no matter how cold, will still radiate some amount of heat. To the best of our knowledge, it's not actually possible to cool any matter to absolute zero, and it's certainly not happening naturally. I believe the coolest matter known to exist in the universe is around 3 degrees Kelvin. Other wavelengths can determine the exact nature of the matter in question, and its temperature. For example, ionized oxygen glows in visible light at a certain wavelength - that's one of the things that make emission nebulae visible.
So, after measuring all that matter in other galaxies, we've noticed that there's simply not enough mass to keep them from falling apart (namely, stars within galaxies are moving faster than the escape velocity of the gravitational pull of the center of mass of the galaxy) - especially when we've tried to make computer models of galaxies. That was the first clue that there was something going on that we didn't fully understand. As others have described, other methods of determining the total mass of a galaxy have shown similar results.
As a result, there's only one possible explanation for this phenomenon: there must be some kind of matter (and all matter has mass) that we can't detect. In fact, the amount of mass that can't be accounted for in this way is about 95% of the mass of any given galaxy. Of course, that's a pretty big deal.
By the way, we've been trying to work out this very large discrepancy since 1933. The difference between now and then is that accuracy of our measurements of velocity of stars in other galaxies has improved, as well as our ability to measure other phenomena happening within galaxies and galaxy clusters. The more accurate we've become in our measurements, the more this glaring discrepancy has become evident.
The possibility of large dark objects made of normal baryonic matter has been considered. These are called MACHOs.
However, there are various reasons to think that most of the dark matter can't be in the form of MACHOs. From the above wikipedia article (which links to some relevant journal articles):
The Big Bang as it is currently understood simply couldn't produce enough baryons without causing major problems in the observed elemental abundances,[6] including the abundance of deuterium.[7] Furthermore, separate observations of baryon acoustic oscillations, both in the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure of galaxies, set limits on the total baryon-to-total matter ratio. These observations show that a large fraction of non-baryonic matter is necessary regardless of the presence or absence of MACHOs.
All possible dim/dwarf/died stars, interstellar medium(gas,dust,molecular cloud etc.), have been considered. But they are not enough. The rest part can only be something we never know before. We are expecting some unknown new particles.
The major missing link is the existence of a class of particles, which aside from gravity are sufficiently weakly interacting to fill the need. We already know of one kind of particle which has most of these characteristics, neutrinos. In this case physicists and cosmologists have theoretical reasons to believe the upper bound on the amount of mass in neutrinos is too small. But the mere existence of one class of weakly interacting particles should make the possibilty of another appear less novel.


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Report: Batman: Arkham Knight is Rocksteady's next game, features driveable BatmobileWritten by: / / No Comments
Rocksteady and Warner Bros. Interactive have since confirmed the existence of Batman: Arkham Knight – get the first details on the game over here, and watch the debut trailer to see the game's villains and redesigned Batmobile.
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Reports of Rocksteady Studios' next entry to the ongoing Batman Arkhamverse series has seemingly been revealed thanks to a listing at online UK retailer GAME, with details on the villains, gameplay and settings of the game.
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The details arrived on NeoGAF with the above image, which reveals that the game is the "explosive finale to the Arkham series" with villains including Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face and Harley Quinn all named to make a return.
According to the image, Arkham Knight is set in Gotham City and introduces "an uniquely designed version of the Batmobile," which is driveable and may point to an even more expansively open world environment this time around for the 2014 game, due out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
A pre-order bonus is even mentioned, which will net you the chance to play as Harley Quinn in exclusive challenge maps.
It seems as though we're due for an official reveal of the game very soon – stay tuned!
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This problem appears to be pretty simple to me but my book gets a different answer.
$$\frac{dy}{dx} = xy^2$$ For when y is not 0 $$\frac{dy}{y^2} = x \, dx$$ $$\int \frac{dy}{y^2} = \int x \, dx$$
$$\frac{-1}{y^1} = \frac{x^2}{2}$$
$$\frac{-2}{x^2} = y$$
Is there anything wrong with this solution? It is not what my book gets but it is similar to how they do it in the example.


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AC Milan ease past Spezia
New AC Milan coach Clarence Seedorf was in the stands as the Rossoneri beat Spezia 3-1 in the Coppa Italia round of 16.
• Marcotti: Seedorf born ready
Mauro Tassotti -- who played for the club for 17 years and has been on the coaching staff for over a decade -- led Milan on Wednesday evening following the dismissal of Massimiliano Allegri, but Seedorf watched on as new signing Keisuke Honda scored on his first start for the club.
Robinho put the hosts ahead...


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The Player's Handbook mentions that high intelligence is very important for a thief, but Intelligence Table I does not list a minimum value for a thief, only for an assassin.
Is there a minimum value?
No, there's no minimum Int value for a thief. The lack of other mechanics in AD&D1 leaves a lot that is later moved to proficiencies (and in 3.x, skills) to simple attribute checks, and so one could reasonably expect a 1E DM to call for lots of Int Rolls to do various theifly things, like case a joint, spot the watch, etc.
Despite all that, no minimum was ever required to be a Thief; the sole requirement was (and even in later editions, still is) Dex 9+, and only Dex.
6 is the minimum for all classes except the fighter, which can have 3-5 as well. The Thief needs a 9 or better in dexterity & 6 or better in all other attributes, save for wisdom, which can be as low as 3.


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