Pineapple Salsa Papadum Cones are a new Indianized twist to the great spanish salsa. We can name it a Indo-spanish dish. This is an easy, quick and refreshingly juicy citrus salsa.
This salsa is sweet, spicy, tangy, colorful, and refreshing. These fruity salsa papadum cones would make a great appetizer for any summer treat. And freshness of crunchy-juicy fruits, and crispness of a papadum makes this appetizer very desirable.
Let's learn to cook Pineapple Salsa Papadum Cones in easy to understand quick steps.
Take a mixing bowl. Add all the ingredients to the bowl, and mix well.
Cover the bowl with clingfilm and place it in the refrigerator for at least 30-40 minutes.
Cut the papadums into halves. Heat a grill pan and roast the papadums.
Shape papadum immediately into a cone. Repeat the same process with remaining papadums. Your cones are ready.
Stuff the pineapple salsa into the papadum cones.
Props & Styling: I used a dark wooden board and a gray backdrop for these photographs. I also added raw pineapple, and some salsa to the frame for styling.


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Hong Kong Heritage Museum A History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: A History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum
Historical Museum Exhibition
Exhibition Design, Graphic Design and Illustration
"The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: A History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum" is an exhibition that shows more than two million years of world history with 100 items from the British Museum collection. Going along with this theme but adding Hong Kong characteristics, Curators have written a novella entitled A Day in Time - 1935 Hong Kong, Illustrated with 100 Period Objects to recreate a period in local history. Our team designed an installation in the form of a giant three-dimensional book, which shows several scenes from the story such as a Chinese family home in a tenement building, a photographic studio, a street, and a mansion in the Mid-Levels of Central District. Visitors can walk into scenes from life in old Hong Kong as portrayed in the story and reminisce about the past through the period objects, presented through multimedia and interactive programmes.
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Accueil Tous les numéros Volume 60 / Numéro 5 (September-October 2005) Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Rev. IFP, 60 5 (2005) 747-762 Références
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Microfracturation in rocks: from microtomography images to processes
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Development of a non destructive characterisation technique for the 3D investigation of micro-heterogeneous structural materials
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3-D Microscale Geometry of Apple Tissue using X-Ray Computed Microtomography
13th World Congress of Food Science & Technology, 431 (2006)
Pore Structure Characterization of Indiana Limestone and Pink Dolomite from Pore Network Reconstructions
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Dossier: Synchrotron and Neutron Solutions to Oil Industry Problems
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Das Siegel von Oklahoma wurde im Jahr 1905 als offizielles Siegel des US-Bundesstaates angenommen.

Beschreibung

Das Siegel Oklahomas besteht aus einem fünfzackigen Stern innerhalb eines Kreises mit 45 Sternen auf blauem Untergrund.

In der Mitte des großen Sterns ist eine Personifizierung der Justitia mit verbundenen Augen dargestellt, die ihre Waage über einen Siedler und einen Indianer hält, die sich die Hände reichen. Zwischen ihnen liegt ein Füllhorn. Dies war das ursprüngliche Siegel des Oklahoma-Territoriums.
Darüber steht das lateinische Motto des Staates:
"Labor Omnia Vincit."
(Arbeit besiegt alles.)

Um diese zentrale Darstellung finden sich in den fünf Zacken des zentralen Sterns die Siegel der Fünf zivilisierten Nationen (gegen den Uhrzeigersinn):
 Symbol der Chickasaw: bewaffneter Krieger
 Symbol der Cherokee: siebenzackiger Stern in einem Kranz aus Eichenlaub
 Symbol der Creek: Weizen und Pflug
 Symbol der Seminolen: Indianer im Kanu
 Symbol der Choctaw: Pfeil und Bogen

Um das Siegel herum steht die englische Beschriftung:
"Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma - 1907"
(Großes Siegel des Staates Oklahoma - 1907)

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Sony Plans 15 Inch Full HD Vaio S Laptop
| Updated: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 17:27 [IST]
The trendsetting Sony Vaio laptops are coming back in new forms. Vaio S series were pretty successful. But they were criticized for their 13.3 inch displays. A lot of opinions from users stated that a bigger display with a few added features would be cooler. Sony took these feedbacks positively and made sure to do something that would impress the fans. They are now planning to launch 15 inch VAIO S series laptops featuring full HD compatibility. The idea of Full HD function in 15 inch displays and for laptops is already getting a lot of positive responses.
The new Sony VAIO S series will have a 15.5 inch display screen, with superb full HD display, constructed with magnesium and aluminum raw materials so that the laptop becomes light in addition to its low weight of 4.4 pounds. The screen size is said to be 1920 x 1080 pixels and the screen comes with a glossy Anti reflective finish. VAIO S series laptops have a unique characteristic of possessing an external sheet battery fixed under it. This technique effectively doubles the battery life of Sony VAIO laptops. So supposedly, with this technology, the new Sony VAIO S series laptops will be giving 10 hours battery life instead of just 5 hours which is the normal battery life.
Sony Vaio laptops are very popular for their attractive looks in various colors. Besides the looks, the laptop offers amazing performance as well. It owes its great performance factor to the Intel Core i7 processor integrated in the popular Sandy Bridge chipset. 1080 resolution HD videos can't be just played like that. They require great graphics support. That's the role of the AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics processing Unit with 1 GB video memory. The card is good enough not just for HD videos but hi-end video games as well.
A cool new technology used in Sony VAIO S Series laptops is the Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System. It's a graphics switching system having two modes namely the Speed and the Stamina modes which can be switched and used for optimum GPU performance. The new Sony VAIO S series laptops also come with a wonderful backlit keyboard and a smooth aluminium palm rest. Typing in the keyboard is very much comfortable with all keys neatly spaced and offering good response. The 15.5 inch Sony VAIO S series laptops will be appearing in marketplaces this month itself and is said to be a bit more priced than the 13 inch versions. It's estimated to be price in India at around Rs 43,000/-
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Trendlines allow you to show trends in charts that might be otherwise difficult to notice. Basically, this is mostly used as a visual aid to illustrate an upward, downward, or flat trend over varying data points in a chart.
Select the desired chart by clicking it.
If you selected a basic option you are done, otherwise continue to Step 3.
Once you click More Trendline Options, a window will open that allows you to select the type of Trendline and options related to its calculation, display, and appearance.
I will select the basic option Linear; Linear and Exponential are the two most often used options. Then, I want to display the Equation used to generate the Trendline, so I check that option at the bottom of the window.
If you want to change the look and style of the line, select from the categories on the left side of the window: Line Color, Line Style, Shadow, or Glow and Soft Edges.
Hit the Close button at the bottom of the window when you are finished and that's it!
You will notice the mathematical equation that appears to the right of the Trendline. That is the formula used to generate the Trendline and you can move it anywhere on the chart by clicking it and dragging it.
Basically, that is all there is to creating a Trendline in Excel.
To manage a Trendline, you just have to get to the Trendline Options window.
Click the desired chart and then specifically click the Trendline (this is important because you can have more than one Trendline on a chart).
From the window that appears, you can manage every aspect of the Trendline.
Click the desired chart and then specifically click the Trendline that you want to remove (this is important because you can have more than one Trendline on a chart). If you have only one Trendline on the chart or you want to remove all of them, then you do not need to specifically click a Trendline.
Trendlines are features of charts that help you better visualize a pattern or trend so a user can more clearly analyze what is happening with the data. This feature can be quite helpful, especially when the chart by itself doesn't clearly convey the trend that you want to show, but you probably don't need to use a Trendline on every chart or else you will just annoy people and it won't actually be helpful.
Download the spreadsheet that accompanies this tutorial to see the above example in Excel.


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Wheelabrator Submits Application to DEP to Continue Monofill Operation
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I am giving out 10 free review copies to all members with over 100 posts.
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Just wanted to say that I've used @healzer's products in the past and as fab as they are, what I've been even more impressed by is the level of support.
If you're wanting to go into Pinterest marketing then I'm pretty sure he's got your back with this!
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Bump. Honestly thought people would be snapping this up.
Honestly thought people would be snapping this up.
Looks like a great tool. I'm thinking there aren't a lot of folks here using Pintrest to drive traffic. Doesn't the platform skew toward the ladies?
@Iwokeup is the only person I can think of here with a product line for women.
My jigsaw puzzle line will likely skew heavily female.
I know nothing about pinterest and did not include it in my marketing mix. Mostly because I have zero clue how to use that platform and put my eggs in the instagram basket instead.
I'm launching in a month or so - is pinterest (and this tool) something that can help me build a following that would be receptive to a launch announcement in the near future? Is it hands off (it seems that way?) or is it rather involved on my end?
If you think I can benefit from this I will happily "guinea pig" this for you with my new brand and report back to others on what I experienced when using it.
Right now my artists's have awesome followings but I have almost none of my own so this is a pain point for me right now.
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Yes, I think your product might kill it here.
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Ummm, you forgot about me.
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I read an interesting article about Pinterest demographics, and it heavily skews towards affluent, older, women. I apologise for the French Google link, I'm on Vaca in Paris and it wont change to the usual .com or .ca.
I see that people on this forum aren't very familiar with Pinterest and its possibilities.
I've personally had some "okay" success with Pinterest back in 2014 -- well you can read the full story on that thread.
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I've been meaning to look into Pinterest but I never had the chance to fully delve into it. A LOT of my female friends use it though.
Oh what timing, I'm starting to include Pinterest in my marketing mix. One of my side project's target market is women, and since Pinterest is 70% female I would be stupid not to give it a whirl.
Do you have any review copies available? If not I would happily purchase.
I've sent a review copy to you.
Let me know how it goes, and if you ever need anything else, I'm here for you.
Hi @healzer I'm not sure about Pintrest, however I'm willing to learn. Also a product that I've just sourced and landed from China is most likely to be bought (I'm assuming) by females, though untested as yet.
My wife uses it in her work (nursery teacher) and I just feel there's something there I'm missing out on. I can only promise that I won't waste the opportunity and will give it a full and thorough review.
I'd be interested in checking it out. Are you looking for feedback?
I would be interested in taking you up on the review offer if you have one left. I've had a Pinterest page set up for about a year but currently only have 700 followers. Sounds like a really useful tool to get followers up and thereby free traffic.
I added you on skype as per your image above but you haven't added me yet.
Send me the details as well.
Thanks for the shout. Might have missed this.
@healzer, if you're still offering review copies then definitely be up for running some tests. Working with some food / cookery clients at the mo which Pinterest is perfect for.
Really interesting tool! Do you need a big starting base of followers? Im doing monthly recurrent social media marketing and tools like these could do wonders I think!
Definitely not, it is primarily designed to help you automate the Pinterest activities, as a consequence it helps you grow the followers base.
@healzer, if you're still offering review copies I'll be interested in one. Thanks!


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Q: fix mysql query to return random row within subgroup I'm using the following query to randomly draw one row from the subset, for each ID1-ID2 pair, of records that have the minimum distance in time (YEAR and MMDD fields).
CREATE TABLE temp4 AS
     SELECT *
      FROM temp3
  GROUP BY ID1, ID2
  ORDER BY DATEDIFF( CONCAT(YEAR,'-',LEFT(MMDD,2),'-',RIGHT(MMDD,2)), CONCAT(ID3_YEAR,'-',LEFT(ID3_MMDD,2),'-',RIGHT(ID3_MMDD,2)) ) ASC, RAND()
     LIMIT 0, 1;

From a previous question I've posted here, this is how the table looks like
ID1 ID2 YEAR  MMDD  ID3 YEAR_ID3  MMDD_ID3
---------------------------------------
1   2   1991  0821  55  1991      0822
1   2   1991  0821  57  1991      0822
1   2   1991  0821  88  1992      0101
1   3   1990  0131  89  2000      0202
1   3   1990  0131  89  2001      0102

FOR EACH ID1-ID2 pair, I need to select the ID3 with

THE MINIMUM DISTANCE IN TERMS OF TIME (both YEAR field and MMDD field, i.e. I need to compare YEAR and MMDD vs. YEAR_ID3 and MMDD_ID3)
IF MORE THAN ONE ID3 SATISFIES THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT ABOVE (i.e. they both have the same YEAR_ID3 and MMDD_ID3), I NEED TO SELECT ONE RANDOMLY.

IN THE ABOVE EXAMPLE, THE QUERY SHOULD RETURN
1,2,1991,0821,55 (OR 1,2,1991,0821,57 - ACCORDING TO THE RANDOM DRAW)

1,3,1990,0131,89

THE ONE I'VE PASTED ABOVE ONLY RETURNS ONE ROW... :(
SOMEHOW THERE WAS A GREAT SOLUTION BELOW IN THE COMMENTS SECTION POSTED BY OMG... but it disappeared?!?!?
I'm pasting it here
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS temp4;
CREATE TABLE temp4 AS
SELECT x.id1,
       x.id2,
       x.YEAR,
       x.MMDD,
       x.id3,
       x.id3_YEAR,
       x.id3_MMDD
 FROM (SELECT t.*,
               ABS(DATEDIFF(CONCAT(CAST(t.id3_YEAR AS CHAR(4)),'-', LEFT(t.id3_MMDD,2),'-',RIGHT(t.id3_MMDD,2)),
                        CONCAT(CAST(t.YEAR AS CHAR(4)),'-', LEFT(t.MMDD,2),'-',RIGHT(t.MMDD,2))))  AS diff,
               CASE
                 WHEN @id1 = t.id1 AND @id2 = t.id2 THEN @rownum := @rownum + 1
                 ELSE @rownum := 1
               END AS rk,
               @id1 := t.id1,
               @id2 := t.id2
          FROM temp3 t
          JOIN (SELECT @rownum := 0, @id1  := 0, @id2 := 0) r
      ORDER BY t.id1, t.id2, diff, RAND()) x
 WHERE x.rk = 1;

I'm pasting here a SQL dump of a test table
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `temp3`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `temp3` (
  `id1` char(7) NOT NULL,
  `id2` char(7) NOT NULL,
  `YEAR` year(4) NOT NULL,
  `MMDD` char(4) NOT NULL,
  `id3` char(7) NOT NULL,
  `id3_YEAR` year(4) NOT NULL,
  `id3_MMDD` char(4) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

INSERT INTO `temp3` VALUES('1', '2', 1992, '0107', '55', 1991, '0528');
INSERT INTO `temp3` VALUES('1', '2', 1992, '0107', '57', 1991, '0701');
INSERT INTO `temp3` VALUES('1', '3', 1992, '0107', '88', 2000, '0101');
INSERT INTO `temp3` VALUES('1', '3', 1992, '0107', '44', 2000, '0101');

A: The usual way to extract a random record(s) from a query is
SELECT [] FROM table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT []

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$2.5 Million Plant to Treat Contaminated Ground Water at the Dewey Loeffel Landfill Superfund Site in Nassau, New York Nears Completion
EPA Announces Agreements with Companies to Conduct Studies of Contamination at the Site Total Actions Expected to Cost at Least $4.5 Million
(New York, N.Y. – Nov. 26, 2013) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck today visited the Dewey Loeffel Landfill Superfund site in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York to announce that General Electric Company and SI Group, Inc. (formerly Schenectady Chemical) have agreed to conduct comprehensive studies of the contamination at the Dewey Loeffel Landfill Superfund site. The site, which is located four miles northeast of the village of Nassau in southern Rensselaer County, is contaminated with volatile organic compounds and other hazardous substances that have seeped out of the landfill and contaminated the ground water. In addition, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have also moved downstream, contaminating sediment and several species of fish in and near Nassau Lake. The EPA also announced that the construction of a new water treatment system for collecting and treating liquid seeping from the landfill and ground water is nearly complete and is expected to begin operations in January 2014.
Many volatile organic compounds are known to cause cancer in animals and can cause cancer in people. PCBs are chemicals that persist in the environment and can affect the immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems and can cause cancer.
"Since the Dewey Loeffel site was added to the federal Superfund List in 2011, the EPA has taken action to protect people and the environment from exposure to an array of toxins," said Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "The newly constructed water treatment plant will eliminate 6-8 truck trips per week to transport contaminated water through the surrounding community for disposal. The treatment system and the agreements announced today are important environmental accomplishments."
One of two agreements announced today is between EPA, GE and the SI Group for an investigation and assessment of long-term cleanup options for the landfill and the ground water underlying it. The estimated value of this investigation is $1.5 million. Under a separate agreement, GE will investigate and assess long-term cleanup options for the ponds, streams and other water bodies that have been impacted by contamination from the site, including Nassau Lake. The cost for the first phase of this investigation is estimated between $500,000 and $1 million. Under both agreements, the companies will pay for the EPA's costs in overseeing the work.
The treatment plant that is nearing completion replaces an old system that is pumping and collecting the contaminated liquid, called leachate, seeping from the landfill and contaminated ground water at the site. The liquid waste is then trucked away from the site for disposal. The new system will treat the liquid waste at the site. GE and SI Group are constructing the plant under a 2012 agreement with the EPA.
Between 1952 until 1968, an estimated 46,000 tons of industrial waste material generated by several Capital District companies was sent to the site. The waste included industrial solvents, waste oil, PCBs, scrap materials, sludge and solids. From 1980 until the site was added to the federal Superfund list in 2011, numerous investigations and cleanup actions were performed at the site by GE and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
In March 2011, the EPA began gathering landfill and ground water data. In fall 2011, the EPA began operating the ground water and leachate collection systems that had been installed by the state. In April 2012, the EPA reached an agreement with GE and SI Group for the companies to take over the operation of the collection system and construct a new plant capable of treating the contaminated ground water and leachate at the site, which will eliminate the need to truck it away. GE and SI Group took over the operation of the old system in August 2012 and began constructing the new system in May 2013. Between August 2012 and October 2013, more than 2.5 million gallons of extracted ground water and leachate have been collected and disposed of out of the area.
Treated water from the new system will be discharged to surface water only after the EPA verifies that sampling data shows that the treatment system is working effectively and is capable of meeting stringent discharge limits set by the NYSDEC. GE and SI Group will continue to send the wastewater off-site by truck until the plant has shown that it can effectively treat the liquid waste. All work being performed by GE and the SI Group is being conducted under EPA oversight.
The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for the cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. After sites are placed on the Superfund list of the most contaminated waste sites, the EPA searches for parties responsible for the contamination and holds them accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups.
The EPA has a webpage about the site at: http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/dewey
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Akio Otsuka portrays the voice of Solid/Naked/Old Snake in every Metal Gear Solid title, and the Super Smash Bros. Brawl incarnation of Snake; he also voiced a Japanese-exclusive DLC weapon for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Otsuka has contributed to several other franchises including Kingdom Hearts, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Onimusha and Yakuza.
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En informatique, un traitement par lots ( en anglais) est un enchaînement automatique d'une suite de commandes (processus) sur un ordinateur sans intervention d'un opérateur.

Une fois que ce processus est terminé (quel que soit le résultat), l'ordinateur traite le lot suivant. Le traitement des lots se termine une fois que tous les lots de la pile ont été exécutés.

Détails

Le déclenchement de ces traitements peut ainsi être automatisé, par exemple grâce au programme cron dans un système Unix. Les traitements par lots sont surtout utilisés pour des tâches automatisées, notamment pour la gestion des comptes sur le parc informatique d'une entreprise, d'une université… Les travaux lancés en lots n'utilisent que les cycles processeur non utilisés par les travaux interactifs. Les lots ont donc toujours une priorité d'exécution plus basse que les interactifs mais en revanche un temps d'exécution () plus élevé que les interactifs de façon à rester en mémoire principale le plus longtemps possible. Pourquoi le time slice est-il plus généreux pour un lot que pour un travail interactif ? Parce que lors d'un ordre de lecture de la base de données, le système charge dans le buffer plusieurs slots de façon à faire le moins possible d'accès disque, sachant qu'un accès disque provoque immédiatement une purge sur disque du lot qui devra attendre de revenir en mémoire pour continuer à s'exécuter.

La deuxième génération d'ordinateurs était exploitée exclusivement sous forme de traitement par lots, progrès sur l'utilisation en vacations de ceux de la première génération. La notion de système d'exploitation devint alors essentielle. Les ordinateurs étaient alimentés en entrée par des instructions encodées sur des cartes perforées et fournissaient les données de sortie sur des imprimantes (exemple : le système FMS).

Les terminaux interactifs en ligne de commande ne se sont répandus que vers le milieu des années 1960, lorsque le coût du temps machine est devenu suffisamment abordable  grâce à la troisième génération d'ordinateurs.

Les programmes de traitement par lots s'opposent aux programmes interactifs, ou transactionnels. Le transactionnel comme CICS sur les mainframes d'IBM n'est rien d'autre qu'un traitement batch qui par le biais du pooling donne la main à tour de rôle au terminal dont le bit est « on » dans une table, c'est-à-dire que le programme avec toutes ses données est ramené du disque en mémoire centrale, exécute la transaction et est immédiatement purgé de nouveau sur disque.

Un vrai traitement batch comprend des codes de condition permettant d'enchaîner les traitements comme un véritable programme (si… alors… sinon…). Un programme batch n'a pas besoin pour s'exécuter d'obtenir une réponse de l'utilisateur, il s'exécute en autonome. les travaux batch sont surtout lancés de nuit par les opérateurs système suivant le planning établi, ou bien par un robot sous surveillance d'un seul opérateur.

Langage de commande DOS et Windows

Par abus de langage, un fichier batch est, sous le système d'exploitation Windows, un fichier (ou script) contenant une série d'instructions DOS. Ces fichiers, lorsqu'ils sont lancés, exécutent les commandes contenues dans le fichier.

Le mot batch désigne alors un langage anonyme, parfois appelé langage batch ou langage DOS, et qui est interprété par les exécutables cmd.exe et command.com, un sous-ensemble des shells unix comme bash ou ksh.

Le langage de commandes Windows est relativement lent car il n'est pas compilable et demande donc, au moment de l'exécution, une interprétation de ses commandes par cmd.exe et command.com, qui sont ensuite exécutées sur le processeur.

De par l'utilisation d'outils de haut niveau, un fichier de commandes peut aisément formater un disque ou supprimer un fichier.

Exemple : Le renommage en masse

Le renommage en masse de fichiers ou de dossiers informatiques d'une façon automatique est un exemple de traitement par lots.

Pour effectuer ce genre d'opération, un logiciel spécialisé est utilisé. Ces logiciels peuvent avoir plus ou moins de fonctionnalités, mais certaines fonctions de base sont partagées.

Fonctions de base
 Trouver une partie du nom et la remplacer ou l'effacer.
 Changer des lettres minuscules en majuscules et vice-versa.
 Ajouter une séquence numérique (001, 002, 003…).
 Ajouter la date et l'heure (actuelle ou prise du fichier ou dossier).
 Changer la longueur du nom.

Exemple : L'arrêt planifié
 Lorsqu'un téléchargement ou une action (comme une défragmentation du disque dur ou une analyse par un antivirus) est en cours d'exécution, un arrêt planifié peut être programmé à l'aide d'un fichier Batch. Une seule commande est nécessaire : shutdown, la commande d'arrêt du PC. Pour créer votre fichier Batch, il vous suffit de lancer le Bloc-Notes de Windows et de taper cette commande en première ligne :
 shutdown /s /t [temps désiré en secondes]
 Cette commande permet d'éteindre l'ordinateur une fois que le temps désiré est écoulé. Par exemple, shutdown /s /t 180 fera s'éteindre l'ordinateur 180 secondes, soit 3 minutes après l'exécution du fichier Batch. Après avoir entré les commandes, enregistrez sous, avec le nom désiré, et l'extension .bat ou .btm (les plus utilisées).
 Après l'exécution du fichier, l'ordinateur planifiera un arrêt automatique dans 180 secondes. Lors d'un téléchargement, vous pouvez lancer un arrêt planifié à plus longue durée (1 h 30, 2 h…).

Fonctions avancées
 Extraction d'information (comme étiquettes ID3 de MP3 ou EXIF de JPG) et les placer dans le nom.
 Ajouter une séquence alphabétique (a, b, c, d…).
 Suppressions de fichier temporaire.
 Création de petits programmes, ex : installeur.

Commandes externes

Les commandes externes sont des fichiers (au format .bat, .cmd ou .exe).

Voici une liste (non exhaustive) de commandes externes directement fournies par Microsoft avec Windows :
 Ping.exe
 Defrag.exe
  (présente uniquement sous les versions 32 bits de Windows car travaille en 16 bits)
 Net.exe
 Certutil.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Kris Jamsa - MS-DOS, fichiers batch - (éd. Presses Pocket / P.S.I., coll. «  », 1991)  - 207 p. -

Voir aussi

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Q: Crazy orders HP calculation In the final battle against crazy hand in crazy orders, player HP is based on damage taken and the hand's HP is based on the number of turns. But how does this work, exactly? Particularly, for player HP:

*

*What is the ratio between damage and HP?

*Does healed damage count towards the total?

A: The amount of HP you start with in the final fight against Crazy Hand is equal to damage + 150, where "damage" is the amount of damage you have at the time of selecting the "fight Crazy Hand" ticket.
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Q: Mod Rewrite Hide Folder I think this is a pretty simple question.
How do you an apache rewrite to hide a folder.
EX: www.website.com/pages/login.php to www.website.com/login.php
or www.website.com/pages/home.php to www.website.com/home.php
The folder needs to alway be hidden. thanks

A: I know the original post here was from a couple years ago, but it's been coming up first in the search engine, so maybe this will help others looking to hide a folder name in the URL.
Not exactly what original poster wanted, but along the same lines.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomainname\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomainname\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfoldername/
RewriteRule (.*) /subfoldername/$1

The above example would redirect any request to mydomainname.com or www.mydomainname.com to the subfoldername directory in the root directory for the domain, and the subfolder name would not appear in the URL.

A: I assume what you want is for the browser to request /home.php but the server to actually use the file located at /pages/home.php, right? If so, this should work:
Make sure the apache mod_rewrite module is installed. Then, use something like this in your apache config, virtual host config, or (less desirable) .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$   /pages/$1

The rules use regular expressions, so you may want to look at a reference on that topic if you're unsure. Read the manual for more info on other directives (RewriteCond can be very useful) or rule options.

A: If your example actually reflects the files you need, then in your .htaccess file:
#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/pages/(.+)\.php $1\.php [NC, L]

Also, if the directory has read permission, it cannot be, in reality "hidden".  I assume you mean that it no longer appears in the url.


Sandy sometimes uses real people as characters in his books, with, he says, their permission. He first met Dr Howard & Mrs Fiona Moffat when they were not Dr and Mrs. They were all adolescents. Howard was principally Sandy's friend, and Fiona went to school with Sandy's sisters.
Sandy visited Howard and Fiona in Botswana from Swaziland when he was teaching at the university in Swaziland. They welcomed him and enjoyed introducing him to the delights of Botswana, helping to start developing that love of Botswana and its people which is so characteristic of Sandy all these years later.
Fiona Moffat was a librarian, she is now retired, and her husband, Howard, is a medical practitioner of missionary background. Indeed, in a source some eleven years old at the time of writing (making it around 2004) Howard is not only a medical practitioner, he is also a preacher who sometimes takes the services at the Gaborone cathedral. Being a medical missionary runs in the family. His grandfather, Robert Moffat, was an early missionary in what is now Botswana.
One of Robert's daughters, Mary, married the famous/infamous missionary doctor David Livingstone, who then put her and their children through hell. Several of their children died as a direct result of his obsessions. Eventually, she was left alone in England and Scotland and appeared to lose her "faith". Livingstone dragged her back to Africa where she finally died. She wasn't yet forty. Another of Howard's relatives, Howard Unwin Moffat, was the Premier of Southern Rhodesia.
Sandy apparently has said that Howard is the closest he has ever come across to a saint. Eleven years ago, he was the medical superintendent at Gabarone's main hospital and personal physician to Botswana's president, but those were the least of his work in the country with the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world. Howard's work load was absolutely stunning, and his commitment to his patients and the people of Botswana is absolute. His name can be found on many research papers as he struggled to help the Batswanans fight their way out of this frightful plague.
Howard treated Obed Ramotswe when he was dying in Mochudi, and since having moved to Gaborone, he looks after Mma Ramotswe's medical needs. He had a speaking role in the first novel, but Fiona didn't. After she "mentioned" this to Sandy he's made sure Mma Ramotswe has a chat to her in every novel since.
We've found one undated source which says Howard has retired to Exeter, England. If it's true it must have come as a heck of a shock to him, as he's lived in southern Africa effectively all his life. We suspect, though, that he wouldn't be allowed to retire if he stayed on in Botswana. We don't know if this source is correct. We have no information on Fiona. If anyone knows more, please let us know by way of the Contact page.


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The spectrum of SWI/SNF mutations, ubiquitous in human cancers
A Hunter Shain 1 , Jonathan R Pollack
1 Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America.
SWI/SNF is a multi-subunit chromatin remodeling complex that uses the energy of ATP hydrolysis to reposition nucleosomes, thereby modulating gene expression. Accumulating evidence suggests that SWI/SNF functions as a tumor suppressor in some cancers. However, the spectrum of SWI/SNF mutations across human cancers has not been systematically investigated. Here, we mined whole-exome sequencing data from 24 published studies representing 669 cases from 18 neoplastic diagnoses. SWI/SNF mutations were widespread across diverse human cancers, with an excess of deleterious mutations, and an overall frequency approaching TP53 mutation. Mutations occurred most commonly in the SMARCA4 enzymatic subunit, and in subunits thought to confer functional specificity (ARID1A, ARID1B, PBRM1, and ARID2). SWI/SNF mutations were not mutually-exclusive of other mutated cancer genes, including TP53 and EZH2 (both previously linked to SWI/SNF). Our findings implicate SWI/SNF as an important but under-recognized tumor suppressor in diverse human cancers, and provide a key resource to guide future investigations.
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / genetics*
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / metabolism
Exome*
Mutation*
Neoplasms / genetics*
Transcription Factors / genetics*
Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / genetics*
SWI-SNF-B chromatin-remodeling complex
TP53 protein, human
R01CA112016/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States


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The development of the Strategic Plan and four phases proceeded along two parallel tracks: the first community engagement, the second City staff engagement.
•	PDC engaged over 300 Milpitas community members in aspirational conversations about the future of the City, using a variety of methods such as one-on-one interviews, focus group discussions, and an online survey.
•	In parallel, PDC assisted the Executive Management Team in the selection of 20 staff employees from different City departments to form an Employee Engagement Team (EET). PDC provided an extensive facilitation training program for EET members, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to engage their fellow employees in group discussions regarding the organizational and community environment. The EET then conducted over 25 small group discussions with 120 Milpitas employees.


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Sara, your art is just beautiful, awesome.
This is a digital version of what I think would be a weeping bell flower.


Do you prefer yoga to meditation? Or meditation to yoga? For many of us in the western world, moving our bodies is a lot easier than sitting with our unruly minds. For others, a daily yoga practice is just too much to ask, but meditation feels doable.
Join me as I explain the subtle body science and profound effects that yoga, breathing and meditation have on the body, mind and spirit.
Before we talk about yoga, breathing, and meditation individually, let's examine the common goal of all the Vedic sciences. These three techniques were all used as part of Ayurveda, which was the Vedic system of health designed to purify the body in order to enhance self awareness and lay the foundation for deep and profound transformational changes in one's life.
Of these three techniques, yoga works most directly on the density and imbalance of the body. Clearly, there are well-documented benefits of a yoga practice on physical health, well being, stress reduction, fitness, and mental and emotional health. Each posture in a yogic practice breaks up physical congestion and adhesions in the muscle and soft tissue that literally block the flow of the body's prana, or life force, through the body. Without the unobstructed flow of prana, the body becomes dense, toxic and emotionally protective.
Meditation is the final step on this road to deep transformational change. With the prana now moving through the subtle energy channels (called nadis ) into both the body and mind, the ability to drop into a state beyond thought becomes possible. This is the role of meditation – to transcend incessant thinking and begin to function from a deeper place of feeling and knowing.
Before I take you further into the subtle body science of yoga, breathing and meditation, let's take a look at a map of the whole person through the lens of the Vedic sciences.
In the eyes of Ayurveda, the human body is a container for the true self – or pure consciousness – which has its seat in the center of this container. Surrounding the eternal Self is a series of sheaths, traditionally called koshas, which organize the various elements of the human being. These sheaths get progressively more dense as they move outward. As I map out the sheaths, I'll start with the densest, outermost sheath and move inward.
Understanding the way the sheaths work can be helpful in mapping out a way to access the stillness of pure consciousness, which may be said to be the goal of yoga, breathing, meditation, and Ayurveda.
Just within the body sheath is the energy sheath (pranamaya kosha) where prana, or life force, moves. The energy sheath is the support system for the body sheath. In order for the body to function properly, prana must be flowing freely.
It is here that yoga is most effective. When prana does not flow freely, the whole energy flow of the subtle body system is compromised. The 72,000 subtle energy channels (called nadis) don't activate – in fact, they don't exist if prana doesn't flow. Without prana flowing through the nadis, the energy centers (chakras) are blocked and spiritual progress comes to a grinding halt. Each yoga posture is much like a whole body mudra. Each asana has a specific effect on the opening of subtle channels and on the movement of the prana. This movement of prana is not just an esoteric idea, it is something you can feel and experience directly by trying a few simple yoga postures.
In childhood, we inevitably get our feelings hurt. Someone takes our seat or makes fun of us on the playground, and we are crushed. We no longer feel that it is safe to live in our heart-centered world, and we employ the mind to protect our feelings from getting hurt again. The mind is located in a more dense sheath called the Manomaya kosha. I call this the great barrier sheath. Unfortunately, the mind does such a good job of protecting us that, over time, it creates a seemingly impenetrable barrier – doing everything it can to keep all invaders out of our delicate heart space, including ourselves.
Meditation helps balance the manomaya kosha by inviting us to still the mind and transcend the trajectory of thought, unveiling the connection to pure consciousness that is always there. Pranayama also works at this level by driving prana into the mind and loosening old protective mental and emotional patterns. In this place of non-thinking, uninhibited by old emotional patterns, the mind finally has a choice. Seeing its fears and attachments for what they are (protective thought patterns), we have the choice to act out of that fear, or out of our true nature.
Sometimes called the Intellectual or Wisdom sheath, the Vijnanomaya kosha is the sheath of discernment. Here we discern between the impressions that we allow ourselves to experience on the deepest level, and the ones we do not let in. You can think of this kosha much like a lotus flower that opens and closes as needed.
Meditation helps balance the vijnanomaya kosha by stilling the mind and allowing us to access a pure place of feeling and knowing, so that we can know what is right without having to think about it. It can also be described as the level of gut feeling or intuition.
At the center of all the other sheaths, the subtlest sheath is called the Anandamaya kosha, or bliss sheath (Ananda means great joy or bliss.) Housed in the heart, the seat of pure consciousness, the bliss sheath lies closest to our eternal Self and governs our authentic self-expression.
Yoga, pranayama, and meditation work together to help us cultivate and maintain a constant connection to the Anandamaya kosha, so that we may carry this connection to our true selves and pure consciousness into every aspect of our lives.
The only roadblocks in the healing process are our fears. From here, as we continue to live with awareness through the practices of yoga, breathing and mediation, we are constantly confronted with more choices. We are continually challenged to take the risk to be vulnerable, powerful and loving rather than controlling, needy and fearful. This is the game of life and the real purpose of all Vedic sciences.


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Mick Beddoes: 'I will leave if Rabuka is elected to lead SODELA party'
SODELPA LEADERSHIP
This week SODELPA decides on its new Party Leader
Not surprisingly, the Fiji Sun is pushing Mr Rabuka as the front runner, mainly I think because they know if he is elected, it will almost certainly secure Fiji First's 2nd term in government come 2018. But for me, a Rabuka led SODELPA will mean the end of my membership with the party, not because I dislike him, but because he represents everything that I am opposed to.
The Leader we select this week is supposed to be the one who is going to lead our charge against Fiji First and help us win in 2018. Such a person I would have thought would already have a high and visible profile calling out the Kai-Bai government every time it acts outside the democratic framework and countering the relentless attacks against SODELPA, the party they aspire to lead.
I have looked hard to find statements or sentiments from the aspiring candidates and while there are many examples from the 3 MP candidates, the same cannot be said for Mr Rabuka and Mr Jale.
Mr Jale as far as I can see has a limited profile, Mr Rabuka on the other hand has a high profile, but not for the reasons he believes. The only 2 things he is reported to have said in recent times is, SODELPA should have a vision like Fiji First, and that 'Frank Bainimarama' had the right to change our current Fiji Flag? This of course is the opposite position that the SODELPA Youth under the direction of Ro Teimumu Kepa took on the flag issue and succeeded in getting it pushed back?
First of all Mr Rabuka's commitment to the party itself is a concern. This will be I believe his 3rd attempt to try and secure our party leadership but after each previous failed attempts, he has resigned? What does this say about his commitment to the party? Is it conditional on his being elected leader?
Another problem I have with a Rabuka Leadership, is that his credentials mirror that of Dictator Frank's in that their rise to Leadership was on the back of committing the capital crime of treason; they both refuse to take responsibility for their crimes, they both hide behind their immunity protection, while all ordinary citizens that they want to lead have no such protection, and while they enjoy this elitist and privileged position their co coup conspirator George Speight & co who committed the exact same capital crime as them, are allserving life for their 2000 effort. And what is worse, neither Mr Rabuka nor Mr Bainimarama think there's anything wrong with this?
The other misconception that his supporters have is that Mr Rabuka will bring to the party his huge support base? But there is no evidence of this. What I can confirm however, from 'official' records is that 24 years ago, and 5 years after his 'Father of all Coups [1987], Mr Rabuka did win the General elections with his SVT Party with 154,656 votes and 36 seats formed the government and became Prime Minister. But over the following 14 years to 2006, his support base reduced through a party split and disillusion with the SVT and in 2006 they received just 238 votes. This is what the 'official' record of support for Mr Rabuka was 10 years ago.
In contrast to this, just 20 months ago our current leader Ro Teimumu Kepa who is, in my view, the 'most electable' respected, admired and courageous leader we have, and a Paramount Chief of Fiji received 49,485 votes which is 35% of the total SODELPA votes in 2014. And we think we are going forward by replacing her with someone who 10 years ago could only secure 238 votes? I mean, seriously?
Even Hon Tikoca's supporters numbered 2,406, Hon Kiliraki has 2.413 and Hon Gavoka has 3,690, and although their numbers collectively are less than 18% of that which Ro Teimumu polled, they are each 10 to 15 times greater than the Fiji Sun's presumptive new SODELPA leader Mr Rabuka.
As for concerns some have raised about Hon Gavoka and his relationship to the Attorney General, from my own experience with the Hon member, I can say that it does not diminish his determination to do what is right.
Winning elections is about increasing voter numbers. In 2014 we secured 139,857 votes and along with our Opposition partners and Independents, 41% of the voters voted against Fiji First and the difference between winning or losing the 2018 elections based on these results, is a shift of just 14% of Fiji First supporters to the Opposition. Consolidating our support from 2006 and working with our opposition partners to build that 41% to 55% is what will win the election for us. To the current SODELPA leadership, I say displacing the leader who polled the largest number of votes for the party and risking her supporter's continued loyalty, after the disrespectful way Ro Teimumu has been treated by some in the executive, is an act of lunacy.
Of course we can just hand the next elections on a plate to Fiji First, all we have to do is elect Mr Rabuka as our new leader and we will have helped created a scenario where the 2 candidates most likely to be our next Prime Minister are the very ones who destroyed our democracy. What does that say about our morals and integrity as a society? Sadly what the coup culture has given Fiji is a new military and social elitewhose rise in fame, fortune and status, have been achieved on the back of acts of treason, through favours, corruption and nepotism.
Everyone born in 1987 will be 31 in 2018 and those born in 2000 will be become eligible to vote in 2018, so we have arrived at the time when the majority of our people will have never experienced real democracy, they have grown up under the shadows of coups, oppression and threats and although it's been 29 years since the first coup that began all our problems, it's never too late to start saying NO.
Some coup leaders in other countries are finding out that, the 'arm of the law is long' so while the usurpers of our democracy and their aiders and abettors may well succeed for now in 'delaying' their day in court, ultimately that day will come. It's not a matter of if, but when!
Mick Beddoes
What is Mick Beddoes talking about? He supported the main man behind the 2000 coup, Laisenia Qarase. If it was not for Qarase, Frank Bainimarama would not have found the support to instruct the CRW to carry out the 2000 coup. Mick, being a politician in touch with the happenings, should have known this., If he knew, and we say he knew, and he still supported Qarase after the 2001 election, then he is a hypocrite. He should shut his trap and retire.
Yes but despite all that some of his points are actually quite valid, don't be too quick to throw the man under a bus my friend.
Hey builder, you sound like an idiot saying things that you know nothing about. You clearly have no idea of what you are talking about. Try thinking for yourself for a change and not stop 'barking' for your masters.
Take some time to read my statements after my first election to parliament in 2001 and you will understand why I say you are an idiot!
Interesting Revelation
You mean Qarase was a member of Butadroka's Party or drafted its constitution and was aware of coup as he flew in Fiji Air or Sun Alliance?
BulaBoy
Capital offence? What capital offence? The capital nature of treason has been done away by Mick's mate Qarase.
Toady Mick is losing memory faster than hair I think.
POLICE COM ARREST THEM!
MICK Beddos and kEPA should be arrested now for going against the CONSTITUTION,which clearly gives immunity for everything these people are against.
This is unconstitutional if you OPPOSING anything in the IMMUNITY because it is part and parcel of the LAW,and the clauses are very clear as well for NOT any one to go against it.
Pol-com please act the ball is in your court,arrest and uphold the law.
So you want the Police Commissioner who was part of the act of treason in 2006 to arrest me for expressing my view about a Rabuka leadership of SODELPA?
I can forgive ignorance, but stupidity cant I cannot cure.
Ratu Sai
What Mick says makes a lot of sense and people should seriously think about it. If Fiji is to forward we need new leaders not tarnished ex coup perpetrators. The coup culture in Fiji has to change, and we may as well start now.
The right place for Rabuka is in jail as Penaia had no authority to pardon Rabuka.
As far as support for Rabuka is concerned, it has come down to the lowest, lately not even a street dog would wag its tails for Rabuka.
Come on young members and Youth of SODELPA, kick this dog out,
Such comments coming from a person such as Beddoes is a sheer case of the pot calling the kettle black. Both men have a habit of sitting on fences and jumping to a side which favours them and gives them a place in the spotlight
Pyotr Velikiy
You couldn't be more accurate about Mick Bedfellow .
He along with Inoke Kubuabola and Sir Jim Ah Koy and Aiyaz Khaiyum all are political sluts ready for PM worship at every opportunity. Some years ago they were either Alliance,SVT or National Alliance party nowadays, they're staunch Fiji First.
Your days are numbered in single digit years ahead. A new horizon and a new beginning is underlay. 2018 shall be the year of political change. A free and happy Fiji is only 18 months away. The people of this nation will speak in 2018 and a lot of obtuse MP's will be unemployed or on prison,depending upon what the living document 1997 has to say about their current arrogance
Sobo Mick
Oilei Beddoes you were with Bainimarama's Charter Committee just a while back. Gosh the hypocrisy of all these so called democracy fighters. Democracy my foot. You go wea u get your bread buttered from.
'Absolute and unconditional immunity' - these two words in themselves could not be clearer
('more clearer' as the vernacular has it) that ill has been done and must be exonerated somehow. Well, the Duty to Protect comes ahead
and is a higher binding principle now: in both international law and self-evidently in conscience.Let the deceased and violated since 1987 and God be our Witness!


This article won a prize from the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Once relegated to county fairs and half-time shows, competitive eating is becoming a mainstream phenomenon. Web sites devoted to the avocation list more than 80 major contests held in 2005 in specialties ranging from tater tots to tiramisu . The more popular events are televised and can include prize money in excess of $20,000 . There are even professional eaters with fan clubs .
However, it can be a challenge to compare performances across eating disciplines since different contests often have very different rules. For example, at the top hot-dog eating event , competitors swallow as many wieners as they can over a period of 12 minutes. At the championship for birthday cake , on the other hand, contestants race to consume five pounds of cake in the least amount of time. For accurate comparison, results from these events must be normalized.
I analyzed 23 records taken from the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) Web site . To normalize the records, I calculated the rate of ingestion (ROI) for each based on the total weight of food consumed and the length of time involved. The ROI for the records varied from a high of 1.51 kg/minute for baked beans to a low of 0.12 kg/minute for beef tongue (mean=0.43 kg/minute, SD=0.32). The results are presented as a bar graph.
ROI varies directly with ease of consumption. The two foods with the highest ROIs, baked beans and gelatin dessert, are soft in texture and can be ingested with minimal mastication. The two foods with the lowest ROIs offer more formidable challenges to the eater. Beef tongue requires substantial chewing whereas butter can be extremely unpleasant to ingest in large quantities .
"Debris" foods yield lower ROIs. Pork ribs and chicken wings are known as debris foods because they require eaters to cast off refuse during consumption. These foods both fall in the lower half of the bar graph, suggesting that separating meat from bone slows eaters down. Pork on the rib also has a 35% lower ROI than rib-free pork, another indication that debris foods handicap the eater.
The Kobayashi effect must be considered. The two high outliers in terms of total weight were rice balls and hot dogs. The records for these foods are held by Takeru Kobayashi , who is currently the top-ranked competitive eater in the world  and legendary for his superhuman feats of ingestion. There is a good chance these high marks are due to Kobayashi's exceptional capacity, not to the characteristics of the foods themselves.
This is not the first study to seriously analyze the sport of competitive eating. In a 1998 paper titled "Can Abdominal Fat Act as a Restrictive Agent on Stomach Expansion?"  Krachie hypothesizes that larger competitive eaters can be at a disadvantage due to midsection fat.
ROI analysis could extend Krachie's work by examining whether eating performance varies consistently with certain physical characteristics (gender, body weight, ethnicity, etc.) of competitive eaters.
The author thanks Professor Marti Hearst and Morgan Ames at the UC Berkeley School of Information for their advice during the preparation of this paper.


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Bills considered
The following bills were introduced
Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Services Modernisation) Bill 2009 [see also bills passed] [passed by the House of Representatives on 15 September 2009]
Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 [passed by the House of Representatives on 19 October 2009]
Keeping Jobs from Going Offshore (Protection of Personal Information) Bill 2009 [private senator's bill]
Long Service Leave Legislation Amendment (Telstra) Bill 2009 [passed by the House of Representatives on 21 October 2009]
Statute Stocktake (Regulatory and Other Laws) Bill 2009 [passed by the House of Representatives on 17 September 2009]
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 [passed by the House of Representatives on 22 October 2009]
Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Bill 2009 [passed by the House of Representatives on 20 October 2009]
The following bills were passed
Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 1 Senator Xenophon amendment agreed to [The House of Representatives will now consider the amendment made by the Senate]
Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Services Modernisation) Bill 2009 [This bill will now be assented to]
Federal Justice System Amendment (Efficiency Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2008 18 Government amendments agreed to [The House of Representatives will now consider the amendments made by the Senate]
National Consumer Credit Protection Bill 2009 56 Government amendments agreed to [The House of Representatives will now consider the amendments made by the Senate]
National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Bill 2009 [This bill will now be assented to]
National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2009 43 Government amendments agreed to [The House of Representatives will now consider the amendments made by the Senate]
To introduce private senators' bills
Poker Machine (Reduced Losses) Bill 2009 notice given by Senator Xenophon
Protecting Problem Gamblers Bill 2009 notice given by the Leader of the Family First Party (Senator Fielding)
Relating to the consideration of bills
Any bills relating to the Government's new national broadband network' notice given by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Senator Conroy)
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 notice given by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Minchin)
Messages from the House of Representatives
Federal Court of Australia Amendment (Criminal Jurisdiction) Bill 2008
Fuel Quality Standards Amendment Bill 2009
agreeing to the amendments made by the Senate [These bills will now be assented to]
Bills assented to
Assent to a number of laws was reported in the Senate
See Committees for details of reports relating to legislation
For scheduled public committee hearings
For committee reports
A notice of motion was given to schedule estimates hearings for 2010.
Reports tabled
Reports on legislation
Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee
Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection) Bill 2009 Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Interim report, Final report and correction
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 Environment, Communications and the Arts Legislation Committee [a statement was made in relation to the report]
Economics References Committee Government's economic stimulus initiatives Interim report [reporting date for the final report extended to 27 October 2009]
Economics References Committee GROCERYchoice website Interim report [reporting date for the final report extended to 16 November 2009]
Privileges Committee 139th report Persons referred to in the Senate Mr Alan Cummine [A motion to adopt the report was agreed to]
Government responses tabled
Housing Affordability in Australia Select Committee A good house is hard to find: Housing affordability in Australia
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Personal Property Securities Bill 2009
Meetings during the sitting of the Senate
The Senate authorised the following meetings to be held while the Senate is sitting:
Finance and Public Administration References Committee 26 October 2009 from 1.50 pm to 2.00 pm Private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1)
Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee 27 October 2009 from 3.30 pm Access to justice
Reporting dates extended
The Senate extended reporting dates for the following inquiries:
Environment, Communications and the Arts References Committee
Forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands to report by 29 October 2009
Impact of mining operations on the Murray-Darling Basin to report by 19 November 2009
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee
Natural resource management and conservation challenges to report by 18 December 2009
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009 to report by 27 October 2009
Notices of motion given
To extend a reporting deadline
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee Rural and regional access to secondary and tertiary education opportunities to report by 11 December 2009
To hold meetings when the Senate is sitting
Corporations and Financial Services Joint Committee 28 October 2009 from 5.00 pm Financial products and services in Australia
Economics References Committee 28 October 2009 from 5.00 pm GROCERYchoice website
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee 28 October 2009 from 11.00 am Australia's trade and investment relations with Asia, the Pacific and Latin America
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee 29 October 2009 from 3.30 pm Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill (No. 2) 2009
National Capital and External Territories Joint Committee
28 October 2009 from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
29 October 2009 from 10.00 am to noon
Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee 28 October, 18 November and 25 November 2009 from 11.45 am to 1.30 pm Review of Auditor-General's reports
To refer matters to committees
Economics References Committee Matters relating to certain subsidiaries of the Reserve Bank of Australia to report by 4 February 2010 notice given by the Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown)
Environment, Communications and the Arts References Committee Matters relating to the practices of Australia Post regarding the treatment of injured and ill workers to report by 24 November 2009 notice given by the Leader of the Family First Party (Senator Fielding)
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee Matters relating to import restrictions on beef to report by 30 November 2009 notice given by Senator Milne
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and outcomes)
Clerk's documents were tabled [legislative instruments and other documents required by statute to be tabled, including Governor-General's Proclamations]
To disallow
National Health Security (SSBA Standards) Amendment Determination 2009 (No. 1), made under subsection 35(1) of the National Health Security Act 2007 [homepage] notice given by the Chair of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances
Schedule 2 of the Fair Work Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1), as contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 164 and made under the Fair Work Act 2009 [homepage] notice given by Senator Abetz
To approve a determination
Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2009, made under section 10B(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 [homepage] notice given by the Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion (Senator Stephens)
Orders for the production of documents
Motions agreed to
Answers to questions on notice nos 2043 and 2044 relating to macular degeneration [see Notice Paper, 27 October 2009, pages 43 and 44] to be tabled by no later than 27 October 2009 moved by Senator Cormann
Documents relating to the disposal of Telstra shares by the Future Fund to be tabled by no later than 16 November 2009 moved by the Leader of the Family First Party (Senator Fielding)
Documents tabled
Documents were tabled in response to the following orders of the Senate:
Aged care providers [order agreed to 19 August 2009]
Australian forest cover statement in response [order agreed to 16 September 2009]
Chemotherapy treatment [order agreed to 18 August 2009]
National Broadband Network [order agreed to 13 May 2009]
Strategic review of Australian Government climate change policies [order agreed to 3 September 2008]
The following notices of motion were given requiring Ministers to table documents:
Minister for Climate Change and Water (Senator Wong) to table a copy of a letter relating to funding approval for stage 2 of the Northern Victorian Irrigation Renewal Project by no later than noon on 29 October 2009 notice given by Senator Birmingham
Minister representing the Treasurer (Senator Sherry) to table documents relating to the Frontier Economics report on the carbon pollution reduction scheme and any proposed modifications to the scheme by no later than 4 November 2009 notice given by Senator Xenophon
Orders with continuing effect
Departmental and agency appointments and vacancies
Letters of advice for various portfolios were tabled [Lists of appointments made and existing vacancies are required to be tabled 7 days before the commencement of budget, supplementary budget and additional estimates hearings]
Departmental and agency grants
Letters of advice for various portfolios were tabled [Lists of all grants approved are required to be tabled 7 days before the commencement of budget, supplementary budget and additional estimates hearings]
Indexed lists of departmental and agency files published on the Internet
Statements of compliance for the Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy portfolio agencies and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) were tabled [Letters of advice about certain files created by departments and agencies are required to be tabled twice a year]
Auditor-General Audit reports nos 6 and 7 of 2009-10 [see Journals entries nos 30 and 38]
Australian National Audit Office Report for 2008-09
Australian Parliamentary Delegation Report Vietnam and the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum 17th annual meeting, Vientiane, Laos 5 to 15 January 2009 [a motion to take note of the report was agreed to]
Department of Parliamentary Services Report for 2008-09
Department of the Senate Report for 2008-09
2 petitions
Ministerial statement tabled
The Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion (Senator Stephens) tabled a ministerial statement about the Commonwealth's preparations for this bushfire season [a motion to take note of the statement was debated first speaker]
Questions without notice and issues arising during question time first question
Adjournment debate first speaker
Matter of public importance discussed
Border protection moved by Senator Parry [first speaker]
Questions on notice Failure to provide answers
Senator Cormann asked the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing (Senator Ludwig) why answers had not been provided to questions on notice nos 2043 and 2044 asked on 29 July 2009 relating to macular degeneration. Senator Ludwig indicated that answers would be provided. A motion to take note of the Minister's response was debated and agreed to [first speaker].
Death of former senator
The Deputy President informed the Senate of the death, on 2 October 2009, of John (Jack) Gordon Evans, a senator for the state of Western Australia from 1983 to 1985. A condolence motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Evans) was passed.
Days of meeting
A notice of motion was given to establish the days of meeting for 2010.
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate Journals.
The Senate Daily Summary is available on the Internet at www.aph.gov.au/senate
It is issued by the Senate Table Office as a convenient summary of each day's proceedings in the Senate. For a complete account see the official record, the Journals of the Senate, on the Internet at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/index.htm
The Order of Business (or Senate Red') and the Dynamic Red (which updates the Order of Business throughout the sitting day) are also available on the Internet at www.aph.gov.au/senate
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An update campaign defines which device or devices receive a firmware update and the firmware image that is installed.
A campaign is built around a manifest sent to the device and a filter that determines which devices receive the manifest.
Note that devices that receive a manifest may reject the update if it does not match the compatibility fields or rules as defined in the manifest. This is to avoid firmware created for a specific model or for use by a particular vendor being updated on an incompatible or inappropriate device.
Tip: You may want to use the manifest tool to update a single device, or to upload the firmware and manifest to speed up the development cycle. See the manifest tool tutorial for details.
For more information, see an explanation of filters or the Update service API.


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package org.hawkular.metrics.core.impl.cassandra;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.datastax.driver.core.ResultSet;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
import com.google.common.base.Function;

import org.hawkular.metrics.core.api.Counter;

/**
 * @author John Sanda
 */
public class CountersMapper implements Function<ResultSet, List<Counter>> {

    @Override
    public List<Counter> apply(ResultSet resultSet) {
        List<Counter> counters = new ArrayList<>();
        for (Row row : resultSet) {
            counters.add(new Counter(row.getString(0), row.getString(1), row.getString(2), row.getLong(3)));
        }
        return counters;
    }
}


text:
Stygnomma leleupi is een hooiwagen uit de familie Stygnommatidae.

Stygnommatidae