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Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has ranked among the ten largest Japanese global brands in market value. Lexus is headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, with major operational centers in Brussels, Belgium, and Torrance, California, United States.
Lexus originated from a clandestine flagship sedan project, code-named F1, which began in 1983 and culminated in the launch of the original Lexus LS in 1989. Subsequently, the division added sedan, coupé, convertible, and SUV models. In 2005, a hybrid version of the RX crossover debuted, and additional hybrid models later joined the division's lineup. In 2007, Lexus launched its own F marque performance division with the debut of the IS F sport sedan, followed by the LFA supercar in 2009.
From the start of production, Lexus vehicles have been produced in Japan, with manufacturing centered in the Chūbu and Kyūshū regions, and in particular at Toyota's Tahara, Aichi, Chūbu and Miyata, Fukuoka, Kyūshū plants. Assembly of the first Lexus built outside the country, the Ontario, Canada-produced RX 330, began in 2003. Following a corporate reorganization from 2001 to 2005, Lexus also operates its own design, engineering, and manufacturing centers, solely responsible for the division's vehicles.
Since the 2000s, Lexus has increased sales outside its largest market in the United States through an ongoing global expansion. The division inaugurated dealerships in Japan's domestic market in 2005, becoming the first Japanese premium car marque to launch in its country of origin. Further debuts in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and other export regions have since followed. The division's lineup has also been expanded to reflect regional specifications in model and powertrain configurations.
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A Legal Aid report outlining "lunch shaming" led to the 2014 law that directs schools NOT to take public action against kids whose families can't pay for their lunches. Jessica Webster with the Legal Services Advocacy Project believes some school districts have maintained the practice. Read the article here.


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Q: String Security  и @PreAuthorize Добрый день. Работаю со Spring Security 4. Профиль может редактировать только его хозяин или администратор. Имею следующий код в контроллере (UserDetails переопределен и имеет поле uid):
@PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') or "
        + "(isAuthenticated() and principal.uid == #personId)")
@RequestMapping(path = "/persons/uid{personId}/edit",
                method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String editPerson(@PathVariable Integer personId, Model model) {
    getPerson(personId, model);
    return "editPerson";
}

и на JSP-странице просмотре профиля:
<c:url value="/persons/uid${person.uid}/edit" var="editUrl" />
<sec:authorize url="${editUrl}">
    Редактировать
</sec:authorize>

Ссылка показывается всем. Однако, при отсутствии нужных прав (uid != 1 или неавторизированный пользователь), доступ на страницу persons/uid1/edit запрещен, то есть тут @PreAuthorize работает.
Подскажите, в чем дело?

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First Meeting from Feel the Heat ~ A Love Under the Sun Romance by Dellani Oakes
Jax Jendrasik is at his younger brother's bachelor party, held at a local gay bar. While there, a guy named Teddy hits on him and causes trouble when Jax tells him he's not gay. Rather than getting in a conflict with the bouncer, he offers to leave. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Teddy's willing to let it drop. Fortunately for Jax, help is handy in the form of a sultry blonde.
Jax gave his brother another hug and headed toward the door. The bouncer silently saw him out. Teddy was waiting on the sidewalk a few feet from the door.
"You owe me an apology," he stated.
The bouncer was still watching.
Jax appealed to him. "He grabbed me and spilled my drink on my pants. Do you believe I owe him an apology?"
Nodding, Jax walked around Teddy. The shorter man, using what seemed to be his signature move, grabbed his arm again. Careful not to raise his fist, or his voice, Jax turned.
"Enough. I'm going to say this one last time—not gay. Excuse me."
He'd taken two steps when he was tackled from behind, going down hard on the pavement. Teddy sat on his ass, screaming at him. Fists hammered ineffectually on his back as his face pressed into the damp pavement. Suddenly, Teddy flew through the air. The bouncer held the scrawny man by the scruff of his neck, toes barely tapping against the sidewalk.
"You okay?" Someone else came over, helping him sit up. "DJ, call the cops and an ambulance."
"Sure thing," the bouncer said.
It took a few seconds for his vision to clear. The person who had helped him sit up, was a woman. A very beautiful woman. She was obviously dressed for a night out, because her red dress clung to her voluptuous frame like it had been painted on. Her hair was done in an exaggerated Eighties style, which entailed a lot of hairspray and glitter. Huge gold, disc shaped earrings dangled from each ear.
"You okay?" she repeated, crouching by him.
"Dunno. How many of you are there?"
She giggled. "If you see more than two, there's something wrong."
"I only see one, does that mean I'm okay?"
"Then you're f***ed, cause I'm twins."
It hurt to laugh, but the cheesy joke had to be acknowledged and appreciated.
"You're going to be all right. An ambulance is coming. Is there anyone we can call?" she asked.
"His brother's inside. I'll get him," the bouncer said, still holding Teddy by the collar.
Jax held up a hand, stopping him. "Please don't. He's drunk, and he's a drama queen even when he's sober. Call my sister."
He tried to dig his phone from his pocket. It stuck. The woman tugged until she got it for him. He hated to admit, but that got him hotter than he'd been in weeks.
"Sister's name?" She unlocked it per his directions,
"Telise. But you'll find it under T-Rex."
"Okay. Why?" She fiddled with the phone.
"You'd have to meet her. I'm Jax."
Nodding, she put the phone to her ear. "Hi, Telise? I'm a friend of Jax's. He's had a little accident at the bar. He's not badly hurt, but we've sent for an ambulance, to take him to the hospital."
Jax could hear his older sister screech, even though the phone wasn't on speaker.
"I'm okay!" he said loudly, but it cost him.
The woman put the phone on speaker.
"Lorvel Collier Janesek, I'm gonna kill your ass!" Her Southern Bitch showed when she was upset.
"Could you hold off on that until after the wedding, or Eduard will rip you to shreds."
The ambulance screamed to a halt beside them, stopping traffic.
"I'll meet you there. Don't die."
"Promise. Love ya."
"Yeah. Love ya." She hung up.
"So…your brother is the drama queen?" The woman handed his phone back.
"Trust me, he's worse." Sighing, he leaned against her.
She held him gently, cradling his head.
"What happened here?" the EMT asked as he trotted over.
The bouncer and woman told him. A police car hustled up, stopping behind the ambulance, blue lights flashing. The light hurt Jax's eyes. Holding up a hand, he squinted. Suddenly, he turned his head away from the woman, and hurled. She didn't get upset, merely held him as he gagged.
"Probably got a concussion," she said to the EMT.
"My thoughts exactly. Okay, my friend, we're gonna go for a ride. Is your lady friend coming?"
"I'll follow you. Got to have my car to get home."
They were loading him into the ambulance and he realized he didn't know her name.
"Hey!" he called, waving at her.
"Lie back, friend. You can't get agitated."
"But I don't know her name! Ask her name!"
"Ask her when she gets to the hospital."
"What if she doesn't come?"
The EMT looked at the woman in red, grinning. "Oh, she's coming. Trust me. Lie back now, Jax. We've got you."
© Dellani Oakes 2020
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eastern England miền đông nước anh
eastern Euphrates đông Euphrates
eastern Europe Đông Âu
eastern France miền đông nước Pháp
eastern city thành phố phía đông
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Austria now called the Ostmark (Eastern March).
Madalyn Davis, 21, is understood to have been fatally injured at Diamond Bay cliff tops in Vauclause, in the eastern suburbs of the city, early on Sunday.
Harry's father and heir to the throne Prince Charles and his elder brother Prince William were to attend the meeting at the queen's rural Sandringham estate in eastern England, a palace source said.
Police conducted anti-terror operations in the capital Ankara, Istanbul, eastern Erzurum, northern Trabzon and Kastamonu provinces and arrested 11 suspects.
Turkey has no time and patience and it wants safe-zone to be built along eastern Euphrates line, along Syria, as soon as possible," said Erdoğan in a speech at a graduation ceremony at the National Defence University in Istanbul.
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Russian-backed rebels then began an insurgency in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine.
It says it can make 330,000 per year at its factory in Zwickau in eastern Germany.
Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in their first face-to-face meeting, discussed prisoner exchange, a renewed commitment to implement an existing ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region and gas.
The clashes broke out near the Nation square in eastern Paris during a demonstration, organised by trade unions, to demand that President Emmanuel Macron abandon a planned reform of the state pension system.
South-eastern Turkey has been wracked by violence since the ceasefire with the PKK collapsed.
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The eastern grey kangaroo is about 18 millimetres high.
They rebuilt the interior and added an eastern extension and a western wing with a Gallatin Place entrance Nghĩa: Họ xây dựng lại nội thất và thêm phần mở rộng phía đông và cánh phía tây với lối vào Gallatin Place
Worried parents whose children were trapped inside the Polytechnic University were among the 200 protesters who joined a peaceful rally on Monday night in eastern Tsim Sha Tsui, a tourist area which is only 300 metres away from the besieged campus.
Security forces launch Operation Kıran-6 in eastern Turkey
Eastern and southern England are braced for their coldest night of the winter, with -12C (10F) forecast, while parts of Scotland could see similar lows.
The mansion has French architectural style combined with eastern features.
A lack of interest in criticising other countries for human rights violations (Russia itself is credibly accused of targeting civilians in Syria) rounds out a package bound to appeal to many Middle Eastern governments.
US President Donald Trump has compared the deadly conflict between Turkish forces and Kurds in north-eastern Syria to a fight between children.
Turkish soldier killed in eastern Turkey
The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.
Turkish-backed proxies leading a ground offensive on Kurdish-held border towns in north-eastern Syria have killed nine civilians including a female politician, a human rights monitor has claimed.
(CNN) — A gunman in an eastern German town has killed two people and injured several others in a suspected antisemitic rampage on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Events in north-eastern Syria show that alliances are under threat from all sides.
The remains of deceased soldiers have been transferred to Japan over the course of the past 20 years from 126 burial sites in far eastern Russia.
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Faxai, which made landfall near the city of Chiba before 5am Monday, was one of the strongest recorded typhoons to hit the Kanto region of eastern Japan.
The water environment improvement project, focused on the eastern part of Son Tra District, will include the construction of a sewage system to collect wastewater and rainwater, and preventing rainwater from overflowing into the city's beaches.
Andy McKean, a moderate from eastern Iowa whose 29 years in the legislature include stints in the House and Senate, announced his party switch at a news conference Tuesday.
Performed by an all-female cast, it focuses on four young women (in reality, about 15 were used on rotation) who lived in a schoolhouse next to Wolf's Lair, Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters in East Prussia (now Poland).
Turkish security forces regularly conduct counterterrorism operations in the eastern and southeastern provinces of Turkey where the PKK has attempted to establish a strong presence and bases.
When Poland and seven other central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union in 2004, its citizens gained the right to work across the bloc without the need for a work permit or visa.
First being a district governor in central Aksaray province's Gülağaç, he later worked in eastern Malatya's Kuluncak, Hasköy district of eastern Muş province, northwestern Düzce's Cumayeri and northeastern Rize's Çayeli.
Earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 1976, he served as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs since 2017.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesman reiterated on July 6 that Turkey is determined to reinforce its air defense systems as threats continue to arise from Syria, Iraq and eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey on June 20 sent a second ship for exploratory activities off the eastern Mediterranean.
Two Turkish soldiers, who were injured in a clash with terrorists in eastern Turkey, succumbed to their wounds, security sources said on June 12.
Two PKK terrorists on Turkey's most-wanted list were neutralized in counterterrorism operations in eastern Elazığ province, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Thursday.
A Turkish soldier was killed and another injured on May 10 in a PKK attack in eastern Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
Nearly 800,000 people in India's eastern coastal districts have been evacuated ahead of the expected arrival of a major cyclone packing winds of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles) per hour.
Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN)Sri Lankan security forces were involved in a shootout and seized bomb-making equipment during raids in the eastern part of the country Friday, as they searched for suspects linked to the Easter Sunday bombings.
Suicide bombers struck hotels and churches in the Colombo area and the eastern city of Batticaloa. Hundreds were injured, officials said.
Putin Simplifies Russian Citizenship Process for Eastern Ukrainians
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree making it easier for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine to obtain Russian passports and citizenship, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
A choir of female students from rural areas of the Gürpınar district in the eastern province of Van is preparing to perform in Istanbul's Vodafone Park Stadium.
The blast in Yancheng city, eastern Jiangsu province, was one of the worst industrial accidents in the country in recent years, razing buildings nearby and blowing out the windows of surrounding homes.
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Earlier three people were killed in twin explosions in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
The blast in eastern Jiangsu province was one of China's worst industrial accidents in recent years.
The AKP says it will also challenge the result in Istanbul - the largest city - and the eastern province of Igdir.
The Syrian Democratic Forces said it defeated ISIS and fully liberated Baghouz in eastern Syria.
As the agenda shifted towards the newly-claimed natural gas resources in eastern Mediterranean in the offshores of Israel and the Cyprus island, the project once again came to the fore.
With the help of this marine radar, Israel, Greece and Cyprus will be able to surveil Turkish soil as well as vessel movements across the eastern Mediterranean basin 24 hours a day.
The installation of the "Long Horizon" radar system in eastern Crete is expected to provide the monitoring countries a competitive edge with its extensive coverage area that goes beyond the existing traditional radars.
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58-year old Sami Demir from Turkey's eastern province of Van installed five marble sculptures of Ottoman sultans which were built in China and worth $175,000 in his own garden.
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Knights Score Four Unanswered to Spoil Gallant and…
Knights Score Four Unanswered to Spoil Gallant and Reaves' Return
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Courtesy: Wade Vandervort/Las Vegas Sun Reilly Smith, William Karlsson, and Jonathan Marchessault celebrate following a goal against the New York Rangers during a NHL game.
On Jan. 6, fans inside T-Mobile Arena were greeted by the sight of two familiar faces. Ryan Reaves and former head coach Gerard Gallant made their return to the Fortress with the New York Rangers.
After some pageantry and nice "welcome back" videos, it was business as usual. The Golden Knights hammered the Rangers with four unanswered goals en route to a 5-1 win.
"Our guys knew how important this game was," head coach Pete DeBoer said. "No one was happy about our game against Nashville. That's what good teams do. They bounce back after an off effort with a real good game. I thought we kept our focus and did that tonight."
The first period of play saw both teams trying to figure out how the other wanted to play. Robin Lehner made his return to the lineup and made some good saves early on to keep the Rangers off the board. Alexander Georgiev did the same for the Rangers in net during the first period.
There was not a lot of scoring chances until about midway through the period, when the Rangers got their first power play of the game. They spent the entire power play in the Golden Knights zone but came away empty.
The Golden Knights got their first power play opportunity with just over two minutes left in the first period. Jonathan Marchessault got the VGK on the board, cleaning up a rebound in front of the net to make it 1-0.
The Rangers quickly responded at the start of the second period. Chris Kreider skated down the right-wing and fired a wrist shot over the glove-hand of Lehner to tie the game at one.
That was the only blemish on an otherwise solid performance in net for Lehner. The Golden Knights went on to score two goals in the second period following the Kreider goal.
Mark Stone, who made his return to the lineup as well, scored the eventual game-winning goal of a feed from Evgenii Dadanov. Later in the period, Matias Janmark scored his fifth goal in the last five games to make it 3-1.
Two minutes into the third period, the Golden Knights put the game on ice. Nolan Patrick made a beautiful drop pass to Brett Howden, and Howden fired a wrist shot just under the pad of Georgiev to make it 4-1.
Marchessault potted a late insurance goal on a two-on-one rush to bump the score up to 5-1. Marchessault now leads the team with 18 goals on the season, equaling his high from last season and is on pace to break his career high in goals (30).
The score held up, and the Golden Knights walked away with another victory over their former coach.
In the last five games, despite winning each of them, Lehner had been struggling. Since being pulled against Dallas, Lehner had a 2.92 goals against average and a .889 save percentage. The goals he had been letting in during this time were ones that when he is on his game, he stops.
Thursday night's game was a monumental step in the right direction. While he was not asked to do a ton during this game, he made some big saves at key moments to not allow the Rangers to gain any momentum.
"As always, it's nice emotions when you're able to get back on the ice," Lehner said. "I felt pretty good. I've been working hard to get back and it was nice to get back and get a win."
Part of the reason the Golden Knights were able to get this done was their transition play and defense. In the second period, play opened up significantly more. Both teams were getting out in transition, but the Golden Knights were one step ahead. Not only did they generate more chances off the rush, but they also defended the neutral zone much better. This lead to all four of their unanswered goals.
This allowed them to have extended zone time and keep the pressure on the Rangers. While none of these opportunities lead to any goals, it did lead to prime scoring chances and a lot of Ranger turnovers.
"We started turning pucks over at the blue line and we started defending in our D-zone instead of playing," former Golden Knights head coach Gerard Gallant said in his postgame press conference. "When you let [Vegas] go D-to-D and get pucks to the net and win battles, you are not going to beat that team."
The Golden Knights reunion continues on Saturday night when the team will welcome back the most familiar face of all. Marc-Andre Fleury, who was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks in the offseason, will make his return to the Fortress in his first game against his former team. Puck drop for that game will be at 7 P.M. PST and can be viewed on AT&T Sportsnet.
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See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon: China's Lunar Radio Observatory
For nearly as long as there has been radio, there have been antennas trained on the sky, looking at the universe in a different light than traditional astronomy. Radio astronomers have used their sensitive equipment to study the Sun, the planets, distant galaxies, and strange objects from the very edge of the universe, like pulsars and quasars. Even the earliest moments of the universe have been explored, a portrait in microwave radiation of the remnants of the Big Bang.
And yet with all these observations, there's a substantial slice of the radio spectrum that remains largely a mystery to radio astronomers. Thanks to our planet's ionosphere, most of the signals below 30 MHz aren't observable by ground-based radio telescopes. But now, thanks to an opportunity afforded by China's ambitious lunar exploration program, humanity is now listening to more of what the universe is saying, and it's doing so from a new vantage point: the far side of the moon.
Bouncing Both Ways
As any amateur radio operator can tell you, the key to direct global radio communication is the Earth's ionosphere – those layers of charged particles that ebb and flow 50 to 600 miles (80 to 1000 km) above our heads. Produced by the constant stream of radiation flowing from the Sun and interacting with the Earth's magnetic field, the ionosphere has long been known to refract radio waves. The degree to which radio waves are refracted depends on things like the structure of the ionosphere, which changes diurnally, as well as the angle at which the radio waves strike the charged particle layers. But refraction also depends heavily on the wavelength of the incident waves, with the 10-meter band, or 28 MHz, normally considered the upper limit for useful ionospheric bounce.
The refraction of radio waves below 30 MHz or so represents the core problem for ground-based low-frequency radio astronomy. (Nomenclature note: while commercial and amateur radio operators consider the space between 3 MHz and 30 MHz to be the "high frequency" (HF) band for historical reasons, the frequencies reflected by the ionosphere are very low for ground-based radio astronomy.) The ionosphere is nearly as efficient a reflector of radio waves coming from space as it is to those from terrestrial sources, and so acts as a blanket, isolating us from what the universe is telling us in those wavelengths. To be able to do any useful observations below 30 MHz, radio astronomers need to cast off that blanket, and the easiest way to do that is to build a space-based radio telescope.
The Magpie Bridge
The Chinese Chang'e-4 lunar mission presented a perfect opportunity to test what's possible with low-frequency radio astronomy, and to potentially pave the way for larger-scale efforts in the future. Part of the ambitious, multi-decade Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), which may culminate with a crewed mission in the 2030s, Chang'e-4 is a complicated mission made more so by the fact that it was designed to explore the far side of the Moon.
Queqiao relay satellite at Earth-Moon L2, showing its vantage point for line-of-sight to both Earth and the far side of the moon. Note the NCLE package with three antennas deployed on the top. Source: China Academy of Space Technology.
Thanks to tidal locking, the Moon rotates on its axis with exactly the same period as it rotates around Earth, meaning it only ever presents one face to us. So anything on the far side will be blocked off from radio contact with Earth. A practical far-side mission must therefore necessarily include some kind of relay system, to allow for communication between the Earth and Moon. While this could be accomplished with a satellite in lunar orbit, capable of buffering far-side signals until it's back in sight of Earth ground stations, Chinese mission planners came up with a far more interesting idea: they'd place their relay satellite so that full-time communications would be possible.
To accomplish this, the Chang'e-4 mission planners aimed their relay satellite Queqiao at the Lagrangian point L2, a point in space that lies on the line between the Earth and the Moon, but 65,000 kilometers (40,000 miles) beyond the Moon. Queqiao orbits the L2 point in a halo orbit, an elliptical path around the point but with the orbital plane more or less perpendicular to the line between the Earth and the Moon. That gives the satellite, with its massive 4.2-meter dish antenna, full-time line-of-sight to both the Chang'e lander and the Yutu-2 rover on the lunar far side, as well as the ability to stay connected to ground stations on Earth. This also gives it full exposure to the Sun, allowing it to be powered by solar panels rather than RTGs.
(Queqiao literally means "magpie bridge", and stems from a Chinese myth where magpies would flock to form a bridge once a year so that the daughter of the Goddess of Heaven could cross the Milky Way to be with her husband. Poetic, no?)
Slightly Stuck
Queqiao has been on-station and fulfilling its primary mission as a communications relay since June of 2018. But Queqiao's unique position made it the perfect place to do some science too. The Chinese Academy of Science teamed up with astronomers from Radboud University in the Netherlands to design the Netherlands-China Low-Frequency Explorer, or NCLE. The ten kilogram package includes a sensitive broadband software-defined radio (SDR) receiver and digital signal processing capabilities, fed by a trio of monopole antennas that can be extended to a length of five meters each.
Deployment of the antennas was supposed to happen early in the mission, but Queqiao's primary mission had priority and the antennas remained stowed for most of the last 18 months. The command to unfurl the antennas was only recently sent, and while one antenna deployed to its full 5-meter length, the other two antennas appear to be stuck with only about 2.5 meters exposed. It's possible that the extended stowage time led to lubrication problems like those that afflicted the high-gain antenna of the Galileo probe, but whatever the problem, the science that can be done by NCLE at this point is limited.
If the NCLE is able to fully deploy all the antennas, there's a vast amount of science waiting to be done. The observatory is perfectly poised to listen in on drastically red-shifted emissions on the 21-cm hydrogen line. Normally in the L-band section of the UHF part of the spectrum, the H-line is the characteristic spectrum of the most abundant element in the universe, and thereby provide a map of its distribution. H-line emissions from the earliest parts of the Big Bang, the so-called "dark ages" that occurred when the universe was only 800 million years old, is extremely red-shifted, lowering its frequency to the point where the ionosphere and terrestrial interference make terrestrial observation impractical. NCLE's quiet spot in space aboard Queqiao would let cosmologists listen in on the very earliest period of the Big Bang in ways never before possible.
Schematic of the evolution of the universe. Fully deployed, NCLE will be able to see back to the "Dark Ages" period, and beyond. Source: NASA/WMAP team.
The music of the universe is not the only thing NCLE will be listening to. Using beam-steering, the NCLE antennas will be able to observe the Sun, Jupiter – an extremely bright radio source – and the Earth. Astronomers will have a vantage point to study the interactions between the Sun and the Earth's ionosphere at lower frequencies than ever before possible, and even to characteristic the "leakage" of man-made radio signals through the ionosphere. And all the planned observations will inform decisions on how to improve low frequency space-based radio astronomy, including possibly building a permanent observatory on the Moon's far side, or orbiting more satellites to improve resolution through very-long baseline interferometry.
Queqiao was designed to last five years, so the NCLE team has a while to work out the antenna bugs and get the observatory up and running. Here's wishing them the best of luck as they explore the low-frequency domain from the dark side of the Moon.
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6 thoughts on "See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon: China's Lunar Radio Observatory"
ITS NOT THE DARK SIDE!!!! IT GETS JUST AS MUCH SUN AS THE EARTH-FACING SIDE!!!
Hirudinea says:
Dark not only means without illumination but can also mean obscured or unknown, as in Darkest Africa, which didn't lack sunlight but whose interior was unknown to Europeans. And besides it was a great album.
It's definitely dark to the earth's radio sources. If you're complaining, you're just looking at the wrong wavelengths, man.
I think we can all agree that the artwork justifies the poetic license.
Wrong – It IS a great album!
It is as good today as the day it was released – something you can't say about a lot of music. I still have the record I bought in 1973, and the CD (finally!) in the middle 80's, plus others since..
Gerry O'Driscoll says:
So… you mean to say…
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
(Scnr)
betsuin says:
Would love to see the specs of that SDR! Guess I'd better do a bit of search.


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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/76-people-overdosed-near-yale-and-officials-suspect-a-bad-batch-of-synthetic-marijuana
76 people overdosed near Yale, and officials suspect a bad batch of synthetic marijuana
Nation Aug 16, 2018 12:00 PM EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The number of overdose victims linked to a suspected bad batch of synthetic marijuana has risen to 76 in New Haven, Connecticut, as officials try to determine exactly what sickened people.
People on and around the historic New Haven Green near Yale University began falling ill shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, and the overdoses continued into Thursday morning. No deaths were reported, and most people brought to hospitals have been discharged, officials said.
Symptoms varied. Many victims lost consciousness, officials said. Others vomited. Some just became nauseous or lethargic.
Toxicology testing remained incomplete Thursday. Some victims tested positive for the powerful opioid fentanyl, but it appeared most if not all the overdoses were caused only by a potent batch of "K2" synthetic marijuana, said Dr. Kathryn Hawk, an emergency medicine physician and professor at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where many of the victims were treated.
Hawk said the people who tested positive may have taken other drugs laced with fentanyl in addition to the synthetic marijuana, which is plant material sprayed with drugs and chemicals.
Both drugs, especially fentanyl, have been linked to rising overdoses across the country. Hawk said some people got better with the help of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, while others didn't.
"The most important point is when you buy something on the street, you never know what you're going to get," she said.
Officials said three people have been arrested in connection with the overdoses, including a man who may have been giving out free samples of K2.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration tested some of the synthetic marijuana seized in New Haven and did not find fentanyl, said Rick Fontana, the city's emergency operations director.
Fontana said 72 people were brought to hospitals and four refused to be treated or transported to hospitals.
"Yesterday was extremely, extremely busy, something we haven't seen in quite some time, a lot of people dropping all at the same time," Fontana said.
He said a few people fell ill Thursday morning, but it wasn't immediately clear if they used the same bad batch of synthetic marijuana.
New Haven first responders were called to a similar overdose outbreak on the Green on July 4, when more than a dozen people became sick from synthetic marijuana. The city also saw more than a dozen synthetic marijuana overdoses in late January. No deaths were reported in either outbreak.
Left: A man prepares to smoke K2 or "Spice", a synthetic marijuana drug, along a street in East Harlem on August 5, 2015 in New York City. New York, along with other cities, is experiencing a deadly epidemic of synthetic marijuana usage including varieties known as K2 or "Spice" which can cause extreme reactions in some users. According to New York's health department, more than 120 people visited an emergency room in the city in just one week in April. While the state banned the ingredients used to make K2 in 2012, distributors have switched to other ingredients and names in an attempt to circumvent the law. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
'It's like zombieland over here'; 33 suspected of K2 overdose in New York City
By Courtney Norris
Crackdown on synthetic pot has driven the dangerous drug to the streets
By Jon Gerberg
Federal agents launch nationwide crackdown on synthetic drugs
By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press


Just a quick heads up to let you all current and prospective Verizon subscribers know that the sign-up page is live for both the HTC One and LG G2. As the flagship models for both hardware makers, you can't really go wrong with either of these models. Unfortunately, there's no indication as to what pricing and availability is for either device; it's really just a matter of weeks from what we understand.


Despite new technologies and devices, the predicted death of television has not materialized and, says a new study from Clusters, people are watching just as much television as they always have done.
While the average person spends around three and a half hours watching television each day, they also spend another two hours watching content on mobile devices and computers. According to Chris Cowan, managing director at Clusters, people are watching the same amount of television as always, but in different ways and at different times. Furthermore, 25% say that television today is better than it was 5 years ago.
Cluster's study of 1,000 people in the UK came up with six different types of television viewer. Device Hoppers consist of the urban young - they hop between multiple devices and watch television while on the move. Knowledge Hunters, on the other hand, watch TV to keep informed, are conventional and socially active. For Fans of the Familiar, television plays a key role in their daily routine, they are settled in life and never miss an episode. TV Escapists, meanwhile, watch TV as a way of escape and are loyal to the TV set. Indifferent Onlookers are heavy viewers of TV, using it to pass the time, and usually watch alone. Finally, Family Entertainers use TV as a way of spending time together and are mostly made up of housewives with young kids.
The study also found that the way people refer to their favorite viewing has changed. Instead of referring to genres - such as 'reality TV' or 'crime documentaries' - people are increasingly referring to the "brand and ethos behind the channels themselves" - such as citing All4.
"This is an incredibly powerful point for channels and brands, and suggests that the role of brands is important to signpost and recommend content as the wealth of choice increases," says Clusters in a blog post.


If you are like most of the people out there, you like looking great. However, this can mean different things to different people and you should never actually follow a trend if you do not feel comfortable with it.
Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, but before that, keep in mind that the first one who should like how you look is none else than you.
If you like your looks, then this will shine through and it will give you much more confidence, which, in its turn, will make people look at you differently.
Although many of the ladies out there dream of having the perfect large breast size, there may be some of you searching for the exact opposite.
The reasons behind this can vary a lot, from simply wanting to appear slimmer to find it uncomfortable to have large breasts.
The good news is that you can actually reduce breast size without surgery and if you want to find out more on how to reduce breast size in 7 days, then do read on.
Women tend to have a larger percentage of body fat than men and this is not at all related to what you eat or how you work out, but to your genes.
Since as a woman you are supposed to carry a pregnancy and to give birth, your body was especially "designed" to be able to do that.
Thus, especially around your hips and especially around your breasts, you will tend to gather more body fat.
This is actually the first thing you should know about reducing breast size: most of the size around your breast is comprised out of fat (that doesn't mean that you are overweight, but just that your body is structured that way by nature). If you want to reduce your breast size, you can start with that.
This can be tricky, especially if you do not want to lose weight in any other areas of the body.
While you cannot actually target weight loss within a single area of your body (or at least you cannot do it without plastic surgery), there are certain things you can do to work your way up to a smaller breast size.
There are workouts specifically designed to tone up that area, which means that the body fat gathered around your breasts will eventually slim down and your breasts will be smaller.
To make sure you are getting the right work out for your type of body and for your purpose, it is best to consult with a gym trainer or with a physical therapist, who will be able to assert how much body fat you have your breasts and who will be able to teach you exactly which are those exercises you should do in order to tone up your breasts.
In addition to specific weight lifting exercises, he/she will most likely suggest you take up some sort of cardio work out as well since this will maximize the effects of the weight loss. You can also read about how to naturally reduce breast size?
You have probably heard this before, but you are what you eat. This means that whatever you put into your body will eventually show on the outside of it (and not just in matters of weight, but also in the way your skin will look and in your general appearance).
It is highly important that you are very careful about what you eat if you want to make yourself look better (not just in the area of the breasts, but your entire body).
Focus on foods that can really provide you with enough nutrients and make sure that you do not eat a lot of the so-called "bad fats" (you can find these in fast-food products and in overly processed products as well).
Instead, focus on the good fats (found in nuts, almonds, avocado, olive oil, fatty fish and so on).
Furthermore, do eat a lot of vegetables since they tend to provide your body with a lot of vitamins that are healthy for your skin and for lowering your entire body fat percentage.
If you are planning to reduce your breast size by weight loss, remember to do it the healthy way and not to starve yourself.
This will not be a good idea for you from any point of view you look at it: it will endanger your health and it will make your breasts appear like they lack toning (which is definitely something you do not want). You can also read about the Home Remedies For Bigger Breasts.
If you have been searching ways to reduce the size of your breast, you have surely stumbled upon at least one advertisement for pills that claim to make your dream come true.
The truth about these pills is the fact that some of them can actually work, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't put in any kind of effort.
As a matter of fact, pills are great because they can help you reduce your breast size more effectively, but, like all the slimming pills out there, they will not be able to do this "on their own".
If you choose the right pills, you can even start seeing the results within your first week!
Furthermore, remember that you should never take pills without prior medical consultation.
You cannot know exactly whether or not a certain ingredient contained in the pills you want to take will not harm your body, so it is best to talk to your doctor about it.
He/she will be able to advise you on whether or not you should take the pills, on the ingredients contained by them and he/she will be able to answer the further questions you may have about this subject.
Breast reduction can be a matter of aesthetics and it can even be a matter of health (since large-breasted women tend to slouch more and this can affect their spine).
Still, no matter how much you want to reduce the size of your breasts, you should never endanger your health.
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In 2018, Judith Shatin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita, retired after 39 years with the University's McIntire Department of Music, including two terms as department chair. In April of 2019 the Music Library is honoring Shatin's contribution to the arts at UVA, and her role as primary architect of the commonwealth's first PhD program in music and first PhD in Composition and Computing Technologies, with an exhibition "Judith Shatin: From Mimeographs to Microchips." The exhibition of selected scores, correspondence, and related material is part of a department-wide month of concerts, seminars, and other events celebrating Shatin's tenure at UVA. For other events in the Music Department's celebration, please visit the Shatin Music Month webpage.
Shatin came to UVA from Princeton in 1979, dedicated to exploring the musical possibilities of combining sounds of the digital age with acoustic instrumentation. According to department chair Ted Coffee, she composed "exquisite" music that bridged a potential divide between the digital and traditional worlds. Under Shatin's leadership, UVA in 1987 joined other elite institutions in establishing the Virginia Center for Computer music. In 2006 the Z-Society presented her with their Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
Among items on display are examples of sheet music from Shatin's compositions on the environment (Singing the Blue Ridge, Piping the Earth), and UVA history (Jefferson in His Own Words) that addresses Jefferson's contradictory beliefs about freedom and slavery and his founding of the University, and a DVD of Robert Arnold's film Rotunda, which she scored, combining more than 300,000 images and her music drawn from a full year of observing the Lawn.
This entry was posted in Exhibit, News and tagged awareness, history, Judith Shatin, McIntire Department of Music, Music Library, technology by Mitch Farish. Bookmark the permalink.


Sports Page — Coach at the Ivor Walters Primary School, Mrs. Govanie Manners-Hendrickson in a recent interview pertaining to her team's preparations for the upcoming Inter Primary sports meet on April 2nd , appeared somewhat low keyed and cautious.
She did however indicate that her athletes will give of their best and that she is not certain what the results would be like.
The athletes had an intense work out at the ET Willet Park on Monday 24th March.


Patrick Roy was shockingly traded from the Montreal Canadiens to the Colorado Avalanche in the middle of the 1995-96 season and helped his new team to the 1996 Stanley Cup Championship. He was a fierce competitor with immense confidence who carved out his own place in hockey history. Idolized by young players, there are many NHL goalies that based their game off of Roy's style. Roy has been credited with popularizing the butterfly style of goaltending. In the 2000-01 season, the Avalanche won the Presidents' Trophy and went on to beat the New Jersey Devils for their second Stanley Cup. Roy has signed and inscribed "96 01 SC Champs" on this acrylic Colorado Avalanche puck in black paint pen. His signature and inscription are deemed authentic by virtue of Upper Deck Authenticated's Five Step Process.


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'use strict';

import * as fs from 'fs';
import { dirname, basename } from 'path';
import * as objects from 'vs/base/common/objects';
import { IDisposable, dispose, toDisposable } from 'vs/base/common/lifecycle';
import Event, { Emitter } from 'vs/base/common/event';
import * as json from 'vs/base/common/json';
import * as extfs from 'vs/base/node/extfs';

export interface IConfigurationChangeEvent<T> {
	config: T;
}

export interface IConfigWatcher<T> {
	path: string;
	hasParseErrors: boolean;

	reload(callback: (config: T) => void): void;
	getConfig(): T;
	getValue<V>(key: string, fallback?: V): V;
}

export interface IConfigOptions<T> {
	onError: (error: Error | string) => void;
	defaultConfig?: T;
	changeBufferDelay?: number;
	parse?: (content: string, errors: any[]) => T;
	initCallback?: (config: T) => void;
}

/**
 * A simple helper to watch a configured file for changes and process its contents as JSON object.
 * Supports:
 * - comments in JSON files and errors
 * - symlinks for the config file itself
 * - delayed processing of changes to accomodate for lots of changes
 * - configurable defaults
 */
export class ConfigWatcher<T> implements IConfigWatcher<T>, IDisposable {
	private cache: T;
	private parseErrors: json.ParseError[];
	private disposed: boolean;
	private loaded: boolean;
	private timeoutHandle: NodeJS.Timer;
	private disposables: IDisposable[];
	private _onDidUpdateConfiguration: Emitter<IConfigurationChangeEvent<T>>;
	private configName: string;

	constructor(private _path: string, private options: IConfigOptions<T> = { changeBufferDelay: 0, defaultConfig: Object.create(null), onError: error => console.error(error) }) {
		this.disposables = [];
		this.configName = basename(this._path);

		this._onDidUpdateConfiguration = new Emitter<IConfigurationChangeEvent<T>>();
		this.disposables.push(this._onDidUpdateConfiguration);

		this.registerWatcher();
		this.initAsync();
	}

	public get path(): string {
		return this._path;
	}

	public get hasParseErrors(): boolean {
		return this.parseErrors && this.parseErrors.length > 0;
	}

	public get onDidUpdateConfiguration(): Event<IConfigurationChangeEvent<T>> {
		return this._onDidUpdateConfiguration.event;
	}

	private initAsync(): void {
		this.loadAsync(config => {
			if (!this.loaded) {
				this.updateCache(config); // prevent race condition if config was loaded sync already
			}
			if (this.options.initCallback) {
				this.options.initCallback(this.getConfig());
			}
		});
	}

	private updateCache(value: T): void {
		this.cache = value;
		this.loaded = true;
	}

	private loadSync(): T {
		try {
			return this.parse(fs.readFileSync(this._path).toString());
		} catch (error) {
			return this.options.defaultConfig;
		}
	}

	private loadAsync(callback: (config: T) => void): void {
		fs.readFile(this._path, (error, raw) => {
			if (error) {
				return callback(this.options.defaultConfig);
			}

			return callback(this.parse(raw.toString()));
		});
	}

	private parse(raw: string): T {
		let res: T;
		try {
			this.parseErrors = [];
			res = this.options.parse ? this.options.parse(raw, this.parseErrors) : json.parse(raw, this.parseErrors);
		} catch (error) {
			// Ignore parsing errors
		}

		return res || this.options.defaultConfig;
	}

	private registerWatcher(): void {

		// Watch the parent of the path so that we detect ADD and DELETES
		const parentFolder = dirname(this._path);
		this.watch(parentFolder, true);

		// Check if the path is a symlink and watch its target if so
		fs.lstat(this._path, (err, stat) => {
			if (err || stat.isDirectory()) {
				return; // path is not a valid file
			}

			// We found a symlink
			if (stat.isSymbolicLink()) {
				fs.readlink(this._path, (err, realPath) => {
					if (err) {
						return; // path is not a valid symlink
					}

					this.watch(realPath, false);
				});
			}
		});
	}

	private watch(path: string, isParentFolder: boolean): void {
		if (this.disposed) {
			return; // avoid watchers that will never get disposed by checking for being disposed
		}

		try {
			const watcher = extfs.watch(path, (type, file) => this.onConfigFileChange(type, file, isParentFolder));
			watcher.on('error', (code, signal) => this.options.onError(`Error watching ${path} for configuration changes (${code}, ${signal})`));

			this.disposables.push(toDisposable(() => {
				watcher.removeAllListeners();
				watcher.close();
			}));
		} catch (error) {
			fs.exists(path, exists => {
				if (exists) {
					this.options.onError(`Failed to watch ${path} for configuration changes (${error.toString()})`);
				}
			});
		}
	}

	private onConfigFileChange(eventType: string, filename: string, isParentFolder: boolean): void {
		if (isParentFolder && filename !== this.configName) {
			return; // a change to a sibling file that is not our config file
		}

		if (this.timeoutHandle) {
			global.clearTimeout(this.timeoutHandle);
			this.timeoutHandle = null;
		}

		// we can get multiple change events for one change, so we buffer through a timeout
		this.timeoutHandle = global.setTimeout(() => this.reload(), this.options.changeBufferDelay);
	}

	public reload(callback?: (config: T) => void): void {
		this.loadAsync(currentConfig => {
			if (!objects.equals(currentConfig, this.cache)) {
				this.updateCache(currentConfig);

				this._onDidUpdateConfiguration.fire({ config: this.cache });
			}

			if (callback) {
				return callback(currentConfig);
			}
		});
	}

	public getConfig(): T {
		this.ensureLoaded();

		return this.cache;
	}

	public getValue<V>(key: string, fallback?: V): V {
		this.ensureLoaded();

		if (!key) {
			return fallback;
		}

		const value = this.cache ? this.cache[key] : void 0;

		return typeof value !== 'undefined' ? value : fallback;
	}

	private ensureLoaded(): void {
		if (!this.loaded) {
			this.updateCache(this.loadSync());
		}
	}

	public dispose(): void {
		this.disposed = true;
		this.disposables = dispose(this.disposables);
	}
}

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Courses, money & enrolment
Career & experience
New to UBC
Vancouver Academic Calendar 2019/20
Courses by Subject Name
Courses by Subject Code
Courses by Faculty/School/College
Homepage Course Descriptions Courses by Subject Name ANTH
Anthropology, Faculty of Arts
ANTH: Anthropology
ANTH 100, 103, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 213, 214, 215, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 225, 231, 232 and 329 are general courses open to all students. ANTH 100 is a prerequisite to all other third- and fourth-year courses, unless permission of the instructor is obtained. Some courses have additional prerequisites, as listed in the descriptions. For details of current listings, consult the departmental website at www.anth.ubc.ca.
ANTH 100 (3/4) d Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Basic concepts and methods of anthropology; culture and race; comparative study of social systems, religion, symbolism, art, and other institutions. Examples are drawn from a variety of cultures.
ANTH 200 (3) Introduction to Problems in Method and Theory in Anthropology
A survey of basic concepts and procedures in the cross-cultural study of human societies.
ANTH 201 (3) Ethnic Relations
An introduction to the study of the relations between ethnic groups and of the interplay between ethnicity and other social factors.
Equivalency: SOCI 201.
ANTH 202 (3/6) d Contemporary Social Problems
Cultural background to contemporary events; problems of nationalism and regional conflicts, economic and social development, gender, religion and social change. Course may stress a different region of the world in different years.
ANTH 203 (3) Anthropology of Drugs
Illicit and/or licit drugs through historical, political, cultural and societal examples.
ANTH 205 (3) The Anthropology of Insurrections and Revolution
Analysis of insurrections and revolutions from a comparative perspective.
ANTH 206 (3) Witches, Vampires, and Zombies: Anthropology of the Supernatural
Anthropological approaches to supernatural beliefs in both traditional and contemporary societies.
ANTH 210 (3) Eating Culture
An anthropological exploration of how the collection, cultivation and consumption of food shapes human society and culture. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 213 (3) Sex, Gender, and Culture
An anthropological exploration of how understandings of sex and gender are culturally and historically shaped.
ANTH 214 (3/6) d The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective
A cross-cultural comparison of family and kinship to provide an understanding of variations in the structure and meaning of marriage relations; forms of domestic organization; and the sexual division of labour, property, and inheritance.
ANTH 215 (3) Japanese Popular Culture
Television shows, dramas, movies, advertising, marketing, manga (Japanese style "comics"), anime (Japanese animation), theatrical forms, popular literature, popular music, fashion fads, tourism, toys, and sports.
ANTH 217 (3) Culture and Communication
The study of communication; the relation between communication and its cultural context with emphasis on verbal and non-verbal communication, cross-cultural communication, and cultural differences in the use of oral, literate, and electronic media.
ANTH 220 (3) First Nations of British Columbia
The cultures, languages, and resources of First Nations, with anthropological perspectives on colonization and development.
ANTH 221 (3) Contemporary Indigenous Cultural Expressions
Forms and styles of indigenous expressive arts, and their current place in the lives of Indigenous Peoples.
Prerequisite: ANTH 220 is recommended.
ANTH 227 (3) Introduction to Medical Anthropology
An examination of health and illness, in their social and cultural contexts.
ANTH 240 (3) Sport in Society and Culture
Sport within the context of historic and contemporary society.
ANTH 241 (3) Introduction to Museums and Museology
The critical study of anthropology museums as social institutions and material culture research and classification from the late 19th century to the present day.
ANTH 300 (3/6) d Contemporary Anthropological Theory
Contemporary approaches to society and culture in anthropology.
ANTH 301 (3) Ethnography of Eurasia
Eurasia, including the Russian Federation, Central Asia, and Mongolia, with an emphasis on issues of power, identities, and transnational mobility in the region.
ANTH 302 (3/6) d Ethnography of South Asia
A specialized study of ethnographic and theoretical problems relating to South Asia.
ANTH 303 (3/6) d Ethnography of Special Areas
A specialized study of ethnographic and theoretical problems in one area. Different culture areas or regions may be selected each term. Consult the Department for this year's offerings.
ANTH 304 (3/6) d Ethnography of the Northwest Coast
Specialized study of ethnographic and theoretical problems of the region.
ANTH 307 (3/6) d Ethnography of Korea
An exploration of ethnographic, topical, and theoretical issues.
ANTH 308 (3/6) d Ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 312 (3) Anthropology of Gender
Theoretical approaches to, and the ethnographic study of, gender in cross-cultural contexts.
ANTH 315 (3) Japanese Culture and Society
Japanese culture and society: patterns of organization, value systems, family, education, work, minorities and diversity, harmony and conflict, urban/rural differences, gender, sexuality, youth, tradition, continuity, change, and future prospects.
ANTH 316 (3/6) d Political Anthropology
Comparative study of political organization; leadership and non-centralized and centralized political systems.
ANTH 317 (3/6) d Linguistic Anthropology
A survey of the ethnographic uses of language data and the techniques of linguistic analysis.
ANTH 329 (3/6) d Contemporary First Nations Issues
Anthropological perspectives on contemporary issues of public policy, law, and political activity, as they affect the place of First Nations people in British Columbia and Canada.
ANTH 330 (3) Anthropology of Rural Peoples and the Global Economy
A comparative study of rural peoples (such as small-scale horticulturists, artisans and craft workers, peasants, fisherfolk, or industrial/manufacturing workers) in the global economy.
ANTH 331 (3/6) d Art, Aesthetics and Anthropology
Anthropological perspectives on art, aesthetics, and expressive culture.
ANTH 332 (3/6) d Oral Tradition
An ethnographic perspective on the dynamics of oral tradition in various oral and literate cultures; the characteristics and roles of oral genres including folktale, genealogy, oral history, autobiography, and myth in these societies; and the relationship between orality and literacy.
ANTH 333 (3) Language and Power
A sociolinguistic examination of the role of language in articulating, maintaining, and subverting power relations in society.
ANTH 341 (3/6) d Museums, Heritage and Memory
Museums, galleries, monuments, and other cultural institutions' relations to our perception of history and geography.
ANTH 350 (3/6) d Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Polynesia and Micronesia
Major cultural groupings in Polynesia and Micronesia, emphasizing both traditional cultures and the incorporation of the region into modern international institutions.
ANTH 351 (3/6) d Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Melanesia
Major cultural groupings in Melanesia, emphasizing both traditional cultures and the incorporation of the region into modern international institutions.
ANTH 353 (3) Ethnography of Latin America
Indigenous peoples of Latin America, emphasizing both pre-Columbian cultural traditions and socioeconomic and cultural changes from the Colonial period to the present.
ANTH 360 (3) Introduction to Ecological Anthropology
Analysis of the relations between human societies and the ecological aspects of their environment (including technology, society, and ideology). Previously ANTH 460.
ANTH 378 (3) Anthropology of Media
Analysis of contemporary mass media and of the anthropological use of media (photography, film, digital audio and video, etc.).
ANTH 400 (3/6) d History of Anthropology
The development of anthropological theory and practice in institutional contexts.
ANTH 401 (3) First Peoples of North America
Anthropological perspectives of indigenous cultures and societies of North America.
ANTH 402 (3/6) d Ethnography of China
Advanced studies in the ethnography of China, premodern and contemporary. Topics may include kinship, rural and urban social structure, stratification and mobility, religion, national power structures, and social change in Chinese society.
An advanced study of ethnographic and theoretical problems. A different region may be studied each term.
ANTH 404 (3/6) d Ethnography in Circumpolar North: Comparative Perspectives
An examination of relationships between indigenous people and nation states in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia, using ethnographic methods.
ANTH 407 (3) Principles of Field Work
An examination of field work as the basic setting for ethnographic research. Research design; relationships with study participants, field techniques, and data analysis and presentation.
ANTH 408 (3/6) d Field Methods
Intensive examination and application of selected methods of ethnographic data-collection, e.g., visual anthropology, anthropological interviewing, genealogies, ethnographic semantics, life histories, oral traditions. Consult department for current description.
ANTH 409 (3/6) d Topics in Applied Anthropology
Advanced study of the theory and practice of applied, action, and consultancy anthropology. Topics may include the application of anthropology to questions of aboriginal rights and title, education, medicine, development, women and development, tourism, and other social issues.
ANTH 412 (3) Advanced Topics in the Anthropology of Gender
Contemporary theory employed in the anthropological study of gender.
ANTH 413 (3/6) d Relatedness: Family, Kinship, and Social Relations
A cross-cultural survey of the social and cultural bases of relatedness including changing family relationships, kinship, and social organization, based on theoretical analysis and case studies.
ANTH 414 (3) Anthropology of Globalization
Theories on the global flow of people, commodities, images, and ideas with critical ethnographic attention to the different ways people respond to globalization.
ANTH 415 (3/6) d Religion and Society
Comparative study of religious beliefs, practices, and movements; relations between religious, social, and political institutions; religion as a force for stability and change; anthropological/sociological theories of religion.
ANTH 416 (3) The Ethnography of Japan
Ethnographies about Japan and processes of conducting fieldwork on Japan, covering topics such as work, leisure, identity, tradition, popular culture, rural/urban lifestyles, gender, sexuality, internationalization.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 215, ANTH 315.
ANTH 417 (3/6) d Language, Culture, and Cognition
The relationships between linguistic and cultural phenomena; how language affects normative and cognitive systems of thought and behaviour.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, LING 200. May be taken as co-requisites.
ANTH 418 (3) Anthropological Statistics
Applications of statistical techniques to quantitative and qualitative data in Anthropology.
ANTH 421 (3/6) d The Anthropology of Place and Space
An anthropological understanding of the spatial dimensions of social practice, and the relationships of space to culture, history, and power.
ANTH 422 (3) Modes of Subsistence
The nature of subsistence systems antedating or alternative to modern commercial systems. Introductory survey with basic readings; focus on problems such as the development of complex cultures without agriculture, the ambiguity of hunting and gathering, agricultural and other "intensification", "orchestration" of the use of adjacent microenvironments. Of interest to students of archaeology, anthropology and cultural geography.
ANTH 423 (3) Ethnography of East Africa and the Swahili Coast
The everyday lives of people who inhabit East Africa and the Swahili Coast, and consideration of slave trade, long distance migration, colonialism, nationalism, independence movements, religion, identity politics, music, gender, sexuality, health, ecotourism and conservation. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 427 (3) Topics in Medical Anthropology
Anthropological perspectives on health, illness, and disability as represented by classic and contemporary research in selected topics in medical anthropology including disease and human evolution, illness and human ecology, culture and epidemiology, ethnomedical systems, the relationship between folk and biomedicine and the cultural construction and social organization of health care, illness and disability. Specific content will vary from year to year. Consult the Department brochure.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, SOCI 100.
ANTH 428 (3) Medicine, Technology, Culture, and Society
A medical anthropological perspective on medical science, technology, translational research, and clinical practice, in laboratory, clinic, family, social, and cultural contexts. Topics include explanatory models of health, acute and chronic illness, disability; social and cultural dimensions genetics; clinical interaction.
ANTH 429 (3) Global Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts
Includes examination of the social and cultural dimensions of specific life-threatening emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the political economy of health, cultural interpretations of illness and healing, medical pluralism, therapy management, and the cultural construction of efficacy.
ANTH 431 (3/6) d Museum Practice and Curatorship
Management of museum collections and their public presentation, addressing questions of access, collaboration, and cultural property. The public interpretation of anthropological concepts and materials utilizing the programs and facilities of the Museum of Anthropology.
ANTH 432 (3/6) d The Anthropology of Public Representation
The public presentation and interpretation of anthropological concepts and materials utilizing the programs and facilities of the Museum of Anthropology.
Prerequisite: ANTH 341. Permission of the department is also acceptable.
ANTH 433 (3/6) d Directed Studies
General reading and/or a research undertaking, with the agreement, and under the supervision, of a Department faculty member selected by the student. No more than six credits of Directed Studies may be taken for credit toward the Major or Honours program.
ANTH 435 (3) The Japanese Tea Ceremony: Ethnography of Performance, Practice, and Ritual
An exploration of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Practice, as a culturally embedded ritual, performance, and aesthetic form, and as a way of understanding underlying elements of Japanese culture. This course has a studio component and a nominal fee may be charged.
ANTH 449 (6/12) d Honours Tutorial
Will usually require the presentation of at least one research paper.
ANTH 451 (3/6) d Conservation of Organic Materials
Conservation of organic materials within a museum environment; the nature of materials, mechanisms of deterioration and principles of preventive conservation. Recommended for students intending to work with cultural materials.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor required.
ANTH 452 (3) Conservation of Inorganic Materials
Conservation of inorganic materials within a museum environment; the nature of materials, mechanisms of deterioration and principles of preventive conservation. Recommended for students intending to work with cultural materials.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor is required.
ANTH 461 (3) Anthropological Study of Local Ecological Knowledge
Analysis of the concepts of ecological anthropology via the medium of local ecological knowledge. ANTH 360 is recommended as background.
ANTH 462 (3) Special Topics in Ecological Anthropology
May include environmental discourse and social movements, anthropological contributions to ecological management systems, or examination of emerging issues in the field. ANTH 360 is recommended as background.
ANTH 470 (3/6) d Topics in Contemporary Theory
Selected topics in contemporary social and cultural theory which contribute to anthropological analyses. Topics may include Marxist anthropology, critical theory, theories of culture, phenomenology, behavioural ecology, structuralism, hermeneutics, formal theory and examination of specific social theorists.
ANTH 471 (3) Anthropology of Law
Cross-cultural study of the operation of law within contested systems of meaning, the social organization of law, and forms of consciousness of the participants in legal/justice practices.
ANTH 472 (3) Anthropological Study of Social Inequality
An anthropological perspective on the historical origins and theoretical explanations of social inequality.
ANTH 478 (3/6) d Ethnographic Film Methods
Ethnographic digital video production, including methods of ethnographic fieldwork, creation of field notes, and research design; basics of digital video planning, production, and editing. Production fees are charged for this course. Prerequisite: ANTH 378 is recommended.
ANTH 480 (3/6) c Urban Ethnographic Field School (UEFS)
A combination of approximately 50 hours of volunteering and fieldwork based in community organizations with theoretical approaches to urban spaces. Students will engage in collaborative research while considering a range of theoretical and methodological approaches.
ANTH 495 (3/6) d Advanced Studies in Anthropology
An intensive examination of selected topics in Anthropology. Consult the Department for this year's offerings.
ANTH 500 (6) History of Anthropological Thought
Various approaches to anthropology, from classical to contemporary. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 501 (2-6) d Social Structure and Kinship
This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 502 (2-18) d Advanced Ethnography of a Special Area
ANTH 505 (2-6) d Religion and Society
ANTH 506 (3/6) d Current Research in Anthropology
The relationship between current theoretical issues and research methods. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 510 (3-6) c Comparative and Developmental Studies in Archaeology
ANTH 512 (2-6) d Language and Culture
ANTH 513 (3-6) d Advanced Studies in Feminist Anthropology
Feminist approaches to ethnography, theory, methodology; current issues in feminist anthropology; gender relations; feminist anthropology and postmodernism. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 515 (2-6) d Cultural Evolution and Cultural Ecology
ANTH 516 (3) Qualitative Methods in Anthropology
A discussion of selected methods used to observe, describe, and interpret cultural phenomena and social organization, including participant observation, interviewing, ethnographic semantics, life histories, componential analysis, and photography. Attention will also be given to ethics in anthropological research and writing and to such analytic matters as the nature of description, conceptualization, generalization, and content analysis. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 517 (3) Archaeological Methods
A discussion of selected basic data-gathering methods in their relation to the development of ideas about the archaeological record. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 518 (3/6) d Museum Methods
Analytical approaches to the study of museums and collections. Methods of field collecting, collections research, laboratory procedures, visitor studies, social organization of museum and related cultural industries, exhibit and program evaluation techniques and the ethics of museum research and practice. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 519 (3/6) d Seminar in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 520 (2-6) c Advanced Prehistory of a Special Area
ANTH 527 (3) Advanced Archaeological Methods
An intensive review of analytical approaches to the study of archaeological data and their applications. Includes research design; sampling strategies; analytical lab procedures; classification and typology; and multivariate analysis and other statistical procedures. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 528 (3) Advanced Quantitative Methods
Introduction to the anthropological application of a variety of quantitative techniques: sampling designs, analysis of variance and regression, multi-way contingency tables, multivariate analysis. A series of lectures will outline the logic and exhibit applications that have been made. Students will then generate their own application and presentation. Access to data files specific to the substantive field of cultural anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology is provided. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 530 (2-6) d Social Change
ANTH 532 (2-6) d Field Methods
ANTH 534 (2-6) d Special Advanced Courses
ANTH 540 (2-6) d Advanced Seminar
ANTH 541 (3/6) d Advanced Seminar in Critical Museum Anthropology
ANTH 545 (2-6) d Graduate Research Seminar
ANTH 548 (0) Major Essay
ANTH 549 (6/12) c Master's Thesis
ANTH 551 (3/6) d Cultural Studies in Communication and Interpretation
History, theories, principles and techniques of communication and interpretation of cultural materials. Topics include examination of how various media (script, objects, film, video) are used to interpret histories, society, and culture in museums, art galleries, historic sites and related areas; and how communication programs are planned, implemented and assessed. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
Prerequisite: ANTH 431. Permission of the instructor is also acceptable.
ANTH 649 (0) Doctoral Dissertation


Which vendor was the number one all-flash storage array vendor in 2014? Shipping more petabytes and units for SSA than any other competitor.
IBM has announced it was the number one all-flash storage array vendor in 2014, shipping more petabytes and units for SSA than any other competitor.
According to data in a new report by leading IT analyst firm Gartner, companies around the globe are turning to IBM and its flash storage solutions for faster access to data-driven insights.
In 2014 alone, IBM sold more than 2,100 FlashSystems, totalling 62 petabytes (PB) of capacity, 33 percent of the total all-flash PB capacity for the year, and 82 percent more than the closest competitive product.
In its Market Share Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays Worldwide Report for 2014, Gartner identified IBM as the number one worldwide solid-state array vendor in unit shipments and petabytes delivered for 2014.
"With over a third of the world's 2014 all-flash array capacity on IBM FlashSystem, this solution is proving itself as the all-flash enterprise storage solution of choice across Tier 1 enterprise and cloud deployments around the world," says Michael Kuhn, Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM Enterprise Storage.
With IBM's new FlashSystem solutions, Kuhn says clients can deploy an all-flash enterprise storage solution for less than US$2 a gigabyte of storage, making the price of all-flash systems as cost-effective, or even less expensive, than arrays with enterprise high-performance spinning disks.
As a result, Kuhn says FlashSystem is helping companies move their mission critical applications to all-flash storage arrays.
By lowering the price barrier, FlashSystem is becoming more pervasive in storage environments of data intensive industries such as healthcare, financial services and retail.
In addition to being able to meet the rapid-fire demands of data-intensive applications, companies adopting FlashSystem are also recording significant savings in energy, space and IT administration costs.
IP-Only AB is a Swedish internet and telecoms operator that owns its own Nordic fiber infrastructure, metro area networks, data centers and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform - its customers include telecoms operators, communications- intensive companies, financial institutions and media companies.
"FlashSystem helps IP-Only cut costs by reducing the need to deploy new physical servers as the virtual landscape grows," adds Christian Pallinder, Senior Solutions Architect, IP-Only AB.
"The impact of FlashSystem exceeded our expectations, enabling us to run around three times more virtual machines per physical server. Effectively, the solution paid for itself immediately.
"Using FlashSystem, we reduced report processing time from six hours to four minutes without any code change.


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Chemistry Doubts
kinetic theory of gases
About kinetic theory of gases
All gaseous laws (e.g., Boyle's law, Charles' law etc.) are concise statements of experimental facts observed in the laboratory by the scientists. Conducting careful experiments is an important aspect of scientific method and it tells us how the particular system is behaving under different conditions. However, once the experimental facts are established, a scientist is curious to know why the system is behaving in that way. A theory is constructed to answer this question. A theory is a model (i.e., a mental picture) that enables us to better understand our observations. The theory that attempts to elucidate the behaviour of gases is known as kinetic molecular theory.
In order to derive the theoretical aspect of the various gas laws based on simple experimental facts, Maxwell proposed the following postulates under the heading of kinetic theory of gases.
Postulates of kinetic theory of gases
A gas consists of a large number of very small spherical tiny particles, which may be identified as molecules. The molecules of a given gas are completely identical in size, shape and mass.
The volume occupied by the molecules is negligible in comparison to the total volume occupied by the gas (i.e. volume of the container).
The molecules are in rapid motion which is completely random. During their motion, they collide with one other and with the sides of the vessel. The pressure of the gas is due to the collisions of molecules with the sides of the vessel.
The molecules are perfectly elastic, i.e. there occurs no loss of energy when they collide with one another and with the sides of the vessel.
The laws of classical mechanics, in particular Newton's second law of motion, are applicable to the molecules in motion.
There is no force of attraction or repulsion amongst the molecules, i.e. they are moving independent of one another.
At any instant, a given molecule can have kinetic energy ranging from a small value to a very large value, but the average kinetic energy remains constant for a given temperature, i.e. the average kinetic energy is proportional to the absolute temperature of the gas.
Velocity Distribution of Gas molecules
Speed of a gas molecule changes continuously due to the intermolecular collisions and their collisions with the wall of container. Thus, speed of an individual molecule is not constant. Also, the observable properties of gas such as volume, pressure and temperature are constant with time. It is expected to be applicable to the distribution of molecular speed and we consider a statistical average of the speed of whole of the collection of gas molecules to remain constant with time. That is the fraction of the total molecules having speed between any definite ranges must be constant, even though the speeds of the individual molecules may be changing as a result of molecular collisions. Distribution of molecular speed over a possible range was first investigated by Maxwell using the theory of probability. Results were expressed as the Maxwell law for distribution of molecular speed as
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Courier Publishing
Rosalie Hall Hunt leading girls & boys to gain 'world hearts'
GAs at First Baptist Church, Guntersville, Ala., listen attentively as Rosalie Hall Hunt shares about global missions. Rosalie and her husband, Bob, served as Southern Baptist international missionaries for 30 years.
By Trennis Henderson
For these Girls in Action, learning about global missions from GA leader Rosalie Hall Hunt is a definite perk; in fact, she literally wrote the book on the history of Woman's Missionary Union.
Rosalie and her husband, Bob, are retired Southern Baptist missionaries now living in Guntersville, Ala., having served 30 years in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Myanmar, South Asia, Australia and the Philippines.
Hunt is the author of WMU's 125th anniversary history, "We've a Story to Tell: 125 Years of WMU," as well as historical narratives about such legendary missions leaders as Fannie E.S. Heck, Ann Hasseltine Judson and Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend.
Two of Hunt's books, "Her Way: The Remarkable Story of Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend," and "Out of Exile: Fannie Heck & the Rest of the Story," were published by Courier Publishing, the book-production arm of The Baptist Courier.
Rosalie Hall Hunt
She brings that same missions passion and commitment to her grade school GAs who gather each Wednesday evening for missions education and activities at First Baptist Church in Guntersville.
"I so much want these girls to have a world heart, a worldview, and know that America is not the center of the universe and that they can be part of God's plan," she emphasized. "You don't have to be 29 years old. You can be part of God's plan when you're 9 years old, and He can speak to you then and keep speaking to you."
The Royal Ambassadors at First Baptist are in good hands as well. Jackie Hester, an assistant principal at Central School in Madison County, is a former Alabama Acteens panelist. Her love of missions was nurtured during her years as a GA and Acteen, and she wanted to pass along that missions legacy to her son and other boys in the congregation and community.
"What we like to do is to make sure the boys understand what it is to be the hands and feet of Jesus," Hester said. "We want to incorporate the values and the virtues of the RAs and make sure they understand what it is to be a missionary themselves."
Jackie Hester teaches RAs at First Baptist Church, Guntersville, Ala.
Hands-on missions
Rosalie and Jackie work closely with a team of other GA and RA leaders in the church to help their students both learn about and get personally involved in missions.
"I like how I get to help people that don't have a lot of stuff," fourth-grader Ella Kate Smith said. She said her GA experience has helped her understand "how important it is to learn about God and tell other people about it."
Ella Kate's sister Caroline, who is entering the seventh grade, said she enjoys "doing all the projects that we get to do," as well as "meeting all these missionaries that come and get to talk to us."
As the girls hear firsthand from visiting missionaries, Caroline added, "We've gotten to learn about what they do and the risks that they might take to be a missionary in foreign countries" while sharing the gospel of Christ around the world.
Among the GAs' hands-on projects: connecting with girls their own age or a few years older at Light of Hope Learning Center in Bangladesh. The center is a day shelter that provides impoverished girls with education, life skills, health care and moral training. The girls at Light of Hope also create products that are marketed through National WMU's WorldCrafts fair-trade ministry.
After studying about the girls in Bangladesh, the GAs in Guntersville wanted to find practical ways to help them. They decided to organize a bake sale to raise money for a sewing machine for the center.
Inviting church members to make donations to purchase the baked goods, Hunt said, "By the time we finished, we ended up with $4,700, so we got a bunch of sewing machines for them."
The GA group has continued to support the Light of Hope girls, sending them cards, letters and birthday gifts as well as praying for them.
"I think they're realizing they can actually make a difference," Hunt said, "and just because the needs are so vast doesn't mean there aren't individual needs that they can meet."
Perry Rose Stewart, a sixth-grade GA, readily agreed. Summing up her GA experience, she said, "I've learned more about God, and I've gotten to see how other people live in other countries and how I can make a difference in their lives."
Equipping future church leaders
On the RA front, Hester and other leaders seek to encourage a similar level of missions awareness and involvement. Their RA chapter has taken the lead in organizing an annual chili cook-off to raise funds for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, and has added a soup cook-off to benefit the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.
They also have collected shoes for children in need, served alongside the ushers as church greeters, and shadowed several of the church's ministers and leaders.
"Part of being an RA is learning how to be a leader and follow that leadership role and that's what we promote for our boys," Hester said. RA leaders strive to help the boys "feel a purpose and be connected to our church," she said. "We want them to be leaders."
Equipping next-generation missions leaders also is a top priority for Hunt. Noting that she would love for some of her GAs to eventually answer God's call to career missions, she recounted her own commitment to a life of missions service more than seven decades ago.
"I felt God's call to missions when I was 9 years old — perfect GA age," she said. "So I wanted that for the children in this church … . That's when the Lord speaks to children, when they're young, when their hearts are tender."
Affirming her personal motivation for nurturing a love of missions in her young GAs, Hunt added, "I really hope to instill a vision in another generation so they will pass it on."
— Trennis Henderson is the national correspondent for Woman's Missionary Union. A Baptist journalist for more than 35 years, Henderson is a former editor of the Western Recorder of the Kentucky Baptist Convention and the Arkansas Baptist News state convention newsjournal.
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Puppet Enterprise includes a script for uninstalling. You can uninstall component infrastructure nodes or from agent nodes.
The puppet-enterprise-uninstaller script is installed on the master. In order to uninstall, you must run the uninstaller on each infrastructure node.
By default, the uninstaller removes the software, users, logs, cron jobs, and caches, but it leaves your modules, manifests, certificates, databases, and configuration files in place, as well as the home directories of any users it removes.
Note: If you don't have access to the installer directory, you can run /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet-enterprise-uninstaller.
(Optional) If you don't uninstall the master, and you plan to reinstall on an infrastructure node at a later date, remove the agent certificate for that component from the master. On the master: puppet cert clean <PE COMPONENT CERT NAME>.
You can remove the agent from nodes that you no longer want to manage.
Note: Uninstalling the agent doesn't remove the node from your environment. To completely remove all traces of a node, you must also purge the node.
The *nix agent package includes an uninstall script, which you can use when you're ready to retire a node.
Note: This procedure doesn't apply to macOS nodes.
To uninstall from a Windows node, use the Windows Add or Remove Programs interface, or uninstall from the command line.
Uninstalling removes the Puppet program directory, the agent service, and all related registry keys. The data directory remains intact, including all SSL keys. To completely remove Puppet from the system, manually delete the data directory.
Use the Windows Add or Remove Programs interface to remove the agent.
You can use the following command-line flags to change the uninstaller's behavior.
-p — Purge additional files. With this flag, the uninstaller also removes all configuration files, modules, manifests, certificates, the home directories of any users created by the installer, and the Puppet public GPG key used for package verification.
-d — Also remove any databases created during installation.
-h — Display a help message.
-n — Run in noop mode; show commands that would have been run during uninstallation without actually running them.
-y — Don't ask to confirm uninstallation, assuming an answer of yes.


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Q: Webrtc setRemoteDescription don't work for caller Part of code looks like this:
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A: I think the issue is because either setRemoteDescription is failing, or there is a race condition between that and createAnswer, so add it inside success callback and for clarity, add an error callback too...
something like:
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    pc.setRemoteDescription(new SessionDescription(message), console.log.bind(console, 'success'), console.error.bind(console));
}

if Promise and ES6 are supported:
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package io.finch.argonaut

import argonaut.{EncodeJson, PrettyParams}
import io.finch.EncodeResponse

trait Encoders {

  protected def printer: PrettyParams

  /**
   * Maps Argonaut's [[EncodeJson]] to Finch's [[EncodeResponse]].
   */
  implicit def encodeArgonaut[A](implicit e: EncodeJson[A]): EncodeResponse[A] =
    EncodeResponse.fromString[A]("application/json")(a => printer.pretty(e.encode(a)))
}