Why is it so hard to change?
Stopping smoking, eating 'better', exercising more... the mainstream of so called resolutions that we all love to announce from time to time. And this time we really really mean it, we think. The true motivator behind wanting change to happen on a physical level is to feel better, and have more satisfying emotions. There is truth to this process, according to the principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are all interconnected and when we change one, the others will change, too. Why is it so difficult, then, to change a behaviour? How can we bring about a truly lasting change that's not depriving us of every pleasure in life imaginable, and doesn't involve eating dust for the rest of our life to maintain it?
We must start with awareness, it is the key to change, being aware of our own behaviour. As soon as we start paying attention to our own behaviour we claim back control, we bring the unconscious into consciousness. I find that in many cases we confuse with true awareness with self-criticism, which is mainly fuelled by comparing self to others or reacting to something someone else said. In this case, from the beginning, our desire for change is motivated by the need to please others. We can compare that to building a house on a foundation made of straw - the whole dwelling will collapse at a promise of a slightly stronger breeze.
True self awareness comes from within. It sounds very corny but it's true. How to access that awareness from within? Well, start by asking yourself these questions (close your eyes and really think about the answers): How is the behaviour affecting your life, your health, your finances? Do you like how it's influencing your life? What are you willing to give up and what will you gain from it? What are the benefits of changing? How will life be like after you've changed? Who is there to support you? Why is it important to you to work on it right now? What benefit will a delay bring? You can't fix something until you admit it's broken. No real awareness, no lasting change.
The simple answer is - to feel better. Safer. The exact same reason we're now trying to change that same behaviour. The point of a coping mechanism is to protect us from harm: overeating to deal with complicated and stressful emotions; smoking to separate ourselves from a situation or to belong to a social group; holding on to anger to avoid closeness, and so on. We've grown out of it now and want to let go but letting go causes fear and anxiety and - boom!- we're back in the circle. Although the self-defeating behaviour is draining us of life energy, we are trapped in it. It's easy to see no way out.
Self-defeating behaviours are not just smoking, over/under eating or substance abuse even though these are the most widely advertised (read: monetised). Any behaviour that is a knee-jerk reaction, an automatic conditioned response to a feeling you wish to avoid, it inhibits your ability to adjust to a situation. Self-defeating behaviour is designed to make you fail but you do it anyway. A conditioned response. Some other examples of such behaviour may be familiar to you from social interactions with your loved ones: staying angry, focusing on what others are doing wrong, taking things personally, staying in an abusive relationship, trying to change others, trying to take care of everyone else, and so on.
It is hard to change because it hits us on a very deep emotional level, we learnt these behaviours because they made us feel safe and now we need to let go. Our inner child is crying for the comfort of that blankie and sending us unconscious messages of the horror and misery we will most definitely face when we stop our beloved behaviour. We need to recognise these messages and counter them with full conscious awareness of adult reality. Adulting takes getting used to, but if we persevere the rewards are great. As adults we can learn the benefit of responsibility for our own actions and behaviours. That's the true freedom. We'll blame others less and recognise that others can't make us do anything we don't want to do... We're not children anymore, we're adults. We make life happen and we have the power to tell our inner child that everything will be ok, we are in control, safe and better off with new behaviours.
2. Find support. People who you're closest to must be supportive of your decisions otherwise there is a danger of you being bullied out of your desire to change. They can't help it, it's their own self-defeating behaviour to keep you down so that they could feel better about themselves. If that happens, observe it like that.


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Bivian Lewis Lee Jr. (August 3, 1948 – November 14, 1984) was an American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the third round of the 1971 NFL Draft. He played college football at Prairie View A&M.

Lee played quarterback at Emile High School in Bastrop, Texas. He went to Prairie View, where he still is the record-holder for 21 career interceptions. He also returned one interception 105 yards for a score.

Lee led the Saints in interceptions with four in 1972 and was tied for the team lead with three in 1973.

He died of cardiac arrhythmia, with his death providing some impetus for congressional investigations into dietary supplements.

His son, Bivian "Sonny" Lee III was honored during the 15th Annual BET Awards for his work as the founder of Son of a Saint, a 501 c 3 organization based in New Orleans which mentors boys whose fathers have been incarcerated or are dead.

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Japanese names for girls
Before the baby's arrival, parents are faced with a difficult decision. There is not always agreement when it comes to naming the baby. While some prefer traditional names well known to all, others prefer a more original and different name. We have names for all tastes.
If you already know that the baby you are expecting is a girl and you like original names, you can choose a Japanese name for your girl. Names of Japanese origin are little-used names but they are liked for their beautiful and eloquent meanings. Many Japanese girl names refer to concepts full of beauty, others evoke the seasons of the year or even mention characteristics of the moon.
In recent years, couples are choosing to choose different names, with a special meaning for their babies. If you are having a girl, check out this list of the best known Japanese names. This will make it easier for you to choose a special and unique name for your treasure.
1. Aiko
This name carries a very tender meaning: 'dear daughter'. It is typical of a girl who makes herself loved, loved and respected.
It is a very popular name that can be used for both girls and boys. It means 'bright', 'smart', 'the one with light'.
3. Chieko or Chika
Name for girl with a unique meaning. It is said of a girl 'wise', 'intelligent', 'with grace' and of 'great cultural background'.
4. Dai
A delicate and strong name at the same time. It means 'great', 'great'. Describes a powerful, strong, ambitious woman.
5. Eri
Short name, with good and easy pronunciation that means 'blessed prize', 'welcome gift'.
6. Fuji
It is a very used and well-known name. It is a plant of Chinese origin that produces mauve or bluish scented flowers. It means 'wisteria', the name of the flower.
7. Gen
Short and very simple name that means one of the most beautiful seasons in Japan: 'spring', 'the one who makes rebirth', 'the rebirth of things'.
8. Gina
A popular name that literally means 'silver'.
9. Haruka
In this case the name means 'spring flower', 'far',and we love it because there are few names as feminine as this one. If your baby girl is to be born in the spring, Haruka may be the ideal name.
10. Hiriko or Hiroko
One of the funniest and most popular Japanese names. It means 'generous', 'the one who is good', 'great', 'generous daughter'.
11. Jin
One of the peculiarities of Japanese names is simplicity. This short name has a great meaning. It means 'sweet girl', 'tender girl', 'loving woman'.
Very simple name that means 'woman of good work', 'obedient woman', 'respectful woman'.
13. Kaori
One of the sweetest Japanese names is this which means 'aroma', 'fragrance'. It is a simple and fresh name that is perfect to reinforce your girl's personality.
14. Katsumi
If you want your girl to be a beautiful and triumphant woman, this name would come in handy because it means' victorious beauty ','beautiful with triumph'.
15. Keiko
This looks like a name out of a Japanese movie, right? It has a nice pronunciation and is very attractive. It means 'cheerful, funny, happy and smiling woman'
16. Kiko
If you are looking for a cute, beautiful and fun name for your girl, this name is ideal. Sounds great, doesn't it? It simply means 'hope'.
17. Kyoto
You have surely heard this name many times since it is the name of a very famous and very important city in Japan. It means 'mirror'. In Spanish it translates to 'capital city'
Short Japanese name for a girl that has double meaning: 'shine' or 'shimmering' and 'flower or beauty'
19. Masako
Very popular Japanese name meaning 'royal daughter', 'true daughter '.
20. Michiko
If you put this name to your girl, it will sound a little strange in Spanish. It would sound something like 'my boy' and could create controversy. In any case, it is a name widely used in Japan and it means the opposite: 'girl who is on the right path', 'woman who takes the right path'
21. Mizuki
The name means 'beautiful as the moon' and we love it for a girl because it is full of delicacy and musicality. Like all Japanese names, its meaning is very eloquent and evokes a certain mysterious air.
22. Mitzuki
Much like the previous one, this name means 'Moonlight'. It will be perfect to highlight the charm of your girl because it is an enigmatic and very seductive name.
23. Naoko
One of the Japanese names that is spreading the most is this which means 'obedient girl'. If you expect your little girl to be calm and polite, Naoko will fit her personality perfectly.
24. Natsu
Many Japanese names refer to the seasons of the year. If your girl is going to be born in the summer, this name means 'summer' is the one you are looking for for her.
25. Oyuki. With a different and original musicality like few others, this name that means 'snow queen' it is ideal if your baby girl is to be born in one of the cold winter months.
26. Laughter
Although this name means 'laugh' in Spanish, in Japanese it is not understood by the same. Japanese female name meaning 'they grow flowers in the home'
27. Sachi
Japanese name for girl that means 'blessed woman', 'lucky woman'
28. Sakura. This name that means 'Cherry Blossom' It is one of the most fashionable Japanese names for girls. We like it for its meaning and because it also sounds forceful and with character.
29. Shika
A name that in Spanish would sound something like 'girl' but which has a very different meaning: 'deer with a good heart'
30. Yoko. It is the best known among Japanese names because it is worn by a famous person, the mythical Yoko Ono. We like it because it has one of the most beautiful meanings, 'daughter of the ocean'.
31. Yumiko. This name that means 'archer girl' it is ideal for a girl with character and personality. We like its meaning because it gives off strength and vitality and we like how it sounds because it is so original.
The Japanese take the task of choosing the name for the baby very seriously and responsibly. Therefore, Japanese names have a much deeper and more special meaning than the others. They usually choose a name that the family likes but also that follows some criteria. To choose the name of the baby, Japanese families ask themselves:
What qualities do you want your baby to have? How they want me to grow
In what year, in what month and in what season of the year will you be born
What emotions has the mother experienced during pregnancy
A name that is mentioned in a poem or traditional poetry
A name that means something beautiful in nature (animal, flower, land, mountain, sea ...)
What famous or respectable person parents admire
A name with moral values
Does the name have rhythm, harmony, does it sound good?
Is the name easy to pronounce?
If the baby has siblings, their name should match or match theirs to maintain harmony
In Japan, the birth certificate is processed in the first 14 days after delivery. In addition, there is a custom that was established in the years 794 to 1185, to perform a ceremony (Oshichiya) to choose the baby's name. They usually do it on the night of the seventh day of the baby's birth.
You can read more articles similar to Japanese names for girls, in the category of Names for girls on site.
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1) If you find yourself challenging yourself and the decisions you are making, you are not thinking clearly and will become emotional soon, at least my experience proves that. And becoming emotional will not work well.
2) If others are constantly winning and you are losing adhering to your schedule of bets based upon either a pre-planned schedule or you are wagering against those winning because you just know luck can not hold out type of wagering, you are not going to win much or win more than a unit or two before you start losing, the same way your enemies will do. You became jealous and spiteful at the table and for your own sake, stop thinking that way.
3) There is a time and place to fall in love with the game that will help you win, IMO. And that is when you are on a senseless win streak, keep doing what you are doing, ride it and do not over figure it out and compare what won against your rationalized thought or knowledge.
4) Do not dismiss the Bead Plate section of the scoreboard. It is actually more accurate when has a pattern or a strong repeating ANYTHING, than any other section of the board.
5) + - 10's as well as + - 20's, will hold true more than any other total score numbers that I have ever seen. As well, when one side was -10 to -20 and started on its way back and then is within 2 or 3 of becoming equal, then equals out, it will bounce back and forth a few times, almost every time I see that scenario happening.
6) Do not base what happened outside of a section on what just happened or should happen on the nest hand. One of the worst ways to wager, IMO.
One more thrown in for good luck: Not very frequently is there more than 3 naturals in a run of under 9 IAR of either B or P. Somehow, that fourth one does not come about very often.
Bead Plate the same as the Big Road, Al. Except it doesn't show tie.
Many, if not all of the boards with their Bead Plates absolutely do show ties, stop the false information please.
I don't suppose you're going to tell me what false information you're referring to?
You stated the Bead Plates do not show ties and I have seen it on most of them.
If you even read what a Bead Plate is, the link you posted this morning, even stated that ties were shown as green within the Bead Plates.
I stand corrected, Al. I didn't look at the link much, just posted it since I don't use the Roads. But my statement remains true that the Bead is the same as the Big, it just runs the patterns vertically.
Bead plate road contains green spots referring to ties.
Notice that every other derived road do not classify ties.


Make sure to read Heisman Watch Week 12 before reading this. Wow this week was quite crazy especially for some Heisman candidates in some meaningful rivalry games. The stages for these players were high and they showed why they should all be in consideration for the Heisman and that the award may not be already won like some people think it is. Let's see how these final 4 candidates performed against their rivals.
Coming into this game most people expected a very high scoring game between 2 high scoring offenses and 2 Heisman candidates. This win keeps Oklahoma playoff hopes alive and well especially with an unfortunate loss from Michigan. In the 59-56 win over West Virginia Kyler put up 364 yards in the air, 114 yards on the ground, 4 total touchdowns and 1 interception. After this performance it really looks like he may have an edge on Tua.
Grier may be the longest shot to win the award out of these final 4 but he is still a great player. After this performance he may have moved himself up in the rankings though. In the 59-56 loss to Oklahoma Grier recorded 539 passing yards and 5 total touchdowns.
As a Michigan fan this is really tough to write but ya gotta do what ya gotta do at this point. Haskins performance against what looked to be a very dominant defense in Michigan was very impressive on Saturday. In the huge 62-39 win over #4 Michigan, Haskins had 318 passing yards and 5 touchdowns.
What else did you expect from Tua this week n the Iron Bowl? In the huge 52-21 win over Auburn, Tua recorded 324 passing yards and 6 total touchdowns. After Friday night it may have looked like Murray had tightened the race a little bit but after this performance it still looks like Tua is in the lead.


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A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State
Robert Morton
East Asia and North East Asia
Plate section faces page 114
Foreword by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG
List of Plates
1 Yokohama
2 Edo
October 1866 – May 1867
3 The Shogun
January – April 1867
4 An Adventurous Journey
July – August 1867
5 The Birth of the New Japan
October 1867 – March 1868
6 Kyoto
February – March 1868
7 Osaka
March – July 1868
8 Tokyo
August 1868 – January 1870
9 After Japa
10 The Return
11 The Legacy 1906 –
Mitford (later to become the first Lord Redesdale) was an urbane aristocrat, had charm, looks and excellent manners. He was always in the right place at the right time, almost drowned, could have burned to death, was shot at, and was nearly cut down by samurai swords. But 'Bertie', as he was known, was never fazed by events. He stood face-to-face with the new, teenage Emperor when almost everybody else, including the Shogun, could only talk to him behind a screen. He became friendly with the last Shogun and witnessed a hara-kiri, his atmospheric account of which is now a classic. An accomplished linguist and writer, Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing the writings of his contemporary Ernest Satow. This book will be of particular interest to students and readers of Japanese history, as well as readers of nineteenth-century biography in general. It will also have special appeal to those who are familiar with the Mitford family history.
Dr Robert Morton is a professor at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the prize-winning A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State (Renaissance, 2017) and A Life of Sir Harry Parkes (Renaissance, 2021).
The State of the Japanese State
Gavan McCormack
British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018
Peter Kornicki, Anthony Best, Hugh Cortazzi
The Thames and I
Naruhito
Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium
Dragoljub Marjanovic


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Elucidation of the Mechanism of Redox Grafting of Diazotated Anthraquinone
Sergey Chernyy, Antoine Bousquet, Kristian Torbensen, Joseph Iruthayaraj, Marcel Ceccato, Steen Uttrup Pedersen, Kim Daasbjerg
Redox grafting of aryldiazonium salts containing redox units may be used to form exceptionally thick covalently attached conducting films, even in the micrometers range, in a controlled manner on glassy carbon and gold substrates. With the objective to investigate the mechanism of this process in detail, 1-anthraquinone (AQ) redox units were immobilized on these substrates by electroreduction of 9,10-dioxo-9,10-dihydroanthracene-1-diazonium tetrafluoroborate. Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance was employed to follow the grafting process during a cyclic voltammetric sweep by recording the frequency change. The redox grafting is shown to have two mass gain regions/phases: an irreversible one due to the addition of AQ units to the substrate/film and a reversible one due to the association of cations from the supporting electrolyte with the AQ radical anions formed during the sweeping process. Scanning electrochemical microscopy was used to study the relationship between the conductivity of the film and the charging level of the AQ redox units in the grafted film. For that purpose, approach curves were recorded at a platinum ultramicroelectrode for AQ-containing films on gold and glassy carbon surfaces using the ferro/ferricyanide redox system as redox probe. It is concluded that the film growth has its origin in electron transfer processes occurring through the layer mediated by the redox moieties embedded in the organic film.
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Chernyy, S., Bousquet, A., Torbensen, K., Iruthayaraj, J., Ceccato, M., Pedersen, S. U., & Daasbjerg, K. (2012). Elucidation of the Mechanism of Redox Grafting of Diazotated Anthraquinone. Langmuir, 28(25), 9573-9582. https://doi.org/10.1021/la301391s
Chernyy, Sergey ; Bousquet, Antoine ; Torbensen, Kristian ; Iruthayaraj, Joseph ; Ceccato, Marcel ; Pedersen, Steen Uttrup ; Daasbjerg, Kim. / Elucidation of the Mechanism of Redox Grafting of Diazotated Anthraquinone. In: Langmuir. 2012 ; Vol. 28, No. 25. pp. 9573-9582.
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The Village of Indian Hill
Indian Hill is a quiet residential community located in Hamilton County, Ohio just off Interstate I-71 and I-275. It's an affluent village with around 5,900 people on over 20 square miles. It's rural atmosphere and reputation for safety have attracted families for decades.2
With the highest average home values in the region, Indian Hill promotes a reputation of affluence and prestige. Their school district is continually rated Excellent with Distinction and the community has hundreds of park space and acres of green space.
One of the most unique characteristics of Indian Hill is the zoning code. All of the parcels (unless grandfathered in) are restricted by the 1, 3 & 5 acre zoning requirements. This is much different than surrounding communities that cater towards smaller lot buyers with ¼ to ½ acre lots on average. Due to these restrictions and the price of homes, lots are hard to come by and carry a price averaging $400-800,000.
Additionally, Indian Hill's rural roots and history have made it one of the most picturesque communities in the State of Ohio. With bridal trails and horse fence stretched throughout the community, you'll think you're deep in the county, while in fact only being 20 minutes from downtown Cincinnati.
2 http://www.ci.indian-hill.oh.us/
Indian Hill School District
Nearby Private Schools
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Q: Find out the number of connections to tomcat server I have a Java/Java EE web application deployed on Tomcat Server 5.5.17. I want to know the number of clients which are connected to the server. How can we find it out?

A: And if you need to figure to what each connection is doing , use this on linux
netstat -an | grep :8080 | awk '{print $6}'

If there are three connections , you will see
LISTEN
TIME_WAIT
TIME_WAIT
And if you only want to count connections which are in TIME_WAIT state
netstat -an | grep :8080 | grep TIME_WAIT | wc -l

A: See the section under Tomcat Manager for an example of counting the sessions in a webapp.
Counting the number of connections is probably a bit harder. Tomcat starts a new thread for each request coming in up to a maximum of maxProcessors. Beyond this number, the requests are queued up to a maximum of acceptCount. Requests beyond this number are refused/dropped (or crashes, I am not sure). The properties can be monitored using a JConsole: Steps here. The specific properties mentioned above are properties of the HTTP Connector.
EDIT 1:
After looking through source code of CoyoteConnector and AJP Connector, there is a private property called curProcessors which tracks the number of processors currently in use. However, adding the curProcessors variable to the mbeans file for connectors does not seem to display the  current value in the JConsole display.
Note: The mbeans XML file that I modified was in tomcat\server\lib\catalina.jar and is in the org\apache\catalina\connector directory in the jar. Below is an example of the entry I added:
<attribute   name="curProcessors"
    description="the number of processors currently in use"
    type="int"/>

A: Most reliable way would be to search for ip.addr.of.srv:port in netstat. Here's the Windows based example (sorry, no Linux guru here ;) )
netstat -np tcp | find "12.34.56.78:80"
Replace 12.34.56.78 by IP where Tomcat listens on and 80 by port where Tomcat listens on.
This is actually not a programming problem, hence I voted to migrate this question to serverfault.com.

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Four stonewall trees at Bonham Road removed for public safety
The Highways Department (HyD) removed four stonewall trees with a potential risk of collapse on a retaining wall at Bonham Road in Western District for public safety this evening (August 7).
The retaining wall at Bonham Road originally had six stonewall trees that were all Ficus microcarpa. Subsequent to the collapse of one of the stonewall trees on July 22, the HyD immediately arranged expert inspections for the five remaining trees. In accordance with the advice of tree experts and the Tree Management Office (TMO), HyD removed a tree in poor condition and pruned the remaining four trees to reduce the risks and ensure public safety on the same day.
The HyD has been closely monitoring the conditions of the remaining four trees and found new cracks on the stonewall today. There were signs of unstable and worsening support of the remaining four stonewall trees, and the potential risk of collapse could not be entirely alleviated by extensive pruning. The HyD in consultation with the TMO decided to remove the four trees as soon as possible for public safety.
The HyD informed the Central and Western District Council about the situation and conducted the removal this evening. The four stonewall trees were not listed on the Register of Old and Valuable Trees.
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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1906
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BLUNT (Sponsor) AND SCHILLING.
Read 1st time February 3, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
To repeal section 577.023, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to intoxication-related traffic offenses, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 577.023, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 577.023, to read as follows:
577.023. 1. For purposes of this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) An "intoxication-related traffic offense" is driving while intoxicated, driving with excessive blood alcohol content, involuntary manslaughter pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of section 565.024, RSMo, assault in the second degree pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of section 565.060, RSMo, assault of a law enforcement officer in the second degree pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection 1 of section 565.082, RSMo, or driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in violation of state law or a county or municipal ordinance, where the judge in such case was an attorney and the defendant was represented by or waived the right to an attorney in writing;
(2) A "persistent offender" is one of the following:
(a) A person who has pleaded guilty to or has been found guilty of two or more intoxication-related traffic offenses, where such two or more offenses occurred within ten years of the occurrence of the intoxication-related traffic offense for which the person is charged;
(b) A person who has pleaded guilty to or has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter pursuant to subsection 1 of section 565.024, RSMo, assault in the second degree pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of section 565.060, RSMo, assault of a law enforcement officer in the second degree pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection 1 of section 565.082, RSMo; and
(3) A "prior offender" is a person who has pleaded guilty to or has been found guilty of one intoxication-related traffic offense, where such prior offense occurred within five years of the occurrence of the intoxication-related traffic offense for which the person is charged.
2. Any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a violation of section 577.010 or 577.012 who is alleged and proved to be a prior offender shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
3. Any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a violation of section 577.010 or 577.012 who is alleged and proved to be a persistent offender shall be guilty of a class D felony.
4. No court shall suspend the imposition of sentence as to a prior or persistent offender [under] pursuant to this section nor sentence such person to pay a fine in lieu of a term of imprisonment, section 557.011, RSMo, to the contrary notwithstanding, nor shall such person be eligible for parole or probation until [he] the person has served a minimum of [forty-eight consecutive hours' imprisonment, unless as a condition of such parole or probation such person performs at least ten days of community service under the supervision of the court in those jurisdictions which have a recognized program for community service] ten consecutive days' imprisonment if a prior offender and at least thirty consecutive days' imprisonment if a persistent offender.
5. The court shall find the defendant to be a prior offender or persistent offender, if:
(1) The indictment or information, original or amended, or the information in lieu of an indictment pleads all essential facts warranting a finding that the defendant is a prior offender or persistent offender; and
(2) Evidence is introduced that establishes sufficient facts pleaded to warrant a finding beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant is a prior offender or persistent offender; and
(3) The court makes findings of fact that warrant a finding beyond a reasonable doubt by the court that the defendant is a prior offender or persistent offender.
6. In a jury trial, the facts shall be pleaded, established and found prior to submission to the jury outside of its hearing.
7. In a trial without a jury or upon a plea of guilty, the court may defer the proof in findings of such facts to a later time, but prior to sentencing.
8. The defendant shall be accorded full rights of confrontation and cross-examination, with the opportunity to present evidence, at such hearings.
9. The defendant may waive proof of the facts alleged.
10. Nothing in this section shall prevent the use of presentence investigations or commitments.
11. At the sentencing hearing both the state and the defendant shall be permitted to present additional information bearing on the issue of sentence.
12. The pleas or findings of guilty shall be prior to the date of commission of the present offense.
13. The court shall not instruct the jury as to the range of punishment or allow the jury, upon a finding of guilty, to assess and declare the punishment as part of its verdict in cases of prior offenders or persistent offenders.
14. Evidence of prior convictions shall be heard and determined by the trial court out of the hearing of the jury prior to the submission of the case to the jury, and shall include but not be limited to evidence of convictions received by a search of the records of the Missouri uniform law enforcement system maintained by the Missouri state highway patrol. After hearing the evidence, the court shall enter its findings thereon. A conviction of a violation of a municipal or county ordinance in a county or municipal court for driving while intoxicated or a conviction or a plea of guilty or a finding of guilty followed by a suspended imposition of sentence, suspended execution of sentence, probation or parole or any combination thereof in a state court shall be treated as a prior conviction.
Missouri House of Representatives


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The Conference on Green Chemistry and Nanotechnologies in Polymeric Materials is an annual conference dedicated to recent developments in polymer science and technology.
The 10th Conference on Green Chemistry and Nanotechnologies in Polymer Chemistry, follows on the successes of earlier nine workshops held in Pardubice (Czech Republic) 2010, Riga (Latvia) 2011, Cracow (Poland) 2012, Pisa (Italy) 2013, San Sebastian (Spain) 2014, Bragança (Portugal) 2015, San José (Costa Rica) 2016, Prague (Czech Republic) 2017 and Cracow (Poland) 2018.
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Conference combines two popular areas of current research: the green approach utilizing renewable resources and mild reaction conditions together with innovative nanotechnologies enabling to design novel polymer materials with advanced properties.
The 10th Conference on Green Chemistry and Nanotechnologies in Polymeric Materials organized by the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry offers a friendly environment to encourage open discussions, to exchange ideas and to initiate collaboration with other participants from scientific institutions and industry.
We`re looking forward to an excellent meeting with great scientists from different countries around the world and sharing new and exciting results in Polymer science.
We look forward to welcome you in October 2019 in Riga, Latvia.
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Conservatives Promote Free Speech For Social Media
March 7, 2020 This article was posted by TLB Staff Analysis, FREEDOM, MEDIA, Spotlight 0
By: David Almasi
The National Center has joined more than two dozen organizations in a letter to Attorney General William Barr to promote online freedom of speech. The letter supports Barr's recent comments that social media companies might now be liable for consideration as publishers of content and thus no longer exempt from federal protection and scrutiny.
"As conservatives, we do not argue for onerous regulations … or burdensome federal legislation,"
the letter from the members of the Free Speech Alliance (FSA) reads.
"However… the concerns you raised are quite justified."
In the letter, FSA additionally offers Barr four principles for the government to deal with issues of bias and censorship coming out of Silicon Valley.
As part of a Justice Department-hosted workshop, Barr recently said that high-tech companies are no longer "underdog upstarts" – but are now "titans of U.S. industry." He added that "valid questions have been raised as to whether Section 230′s broad immunity is still needed."
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act currently protects social media platforms from certain legal liabilities regarding content posted by third parties. Such protection is being questioned as platforms begin acting like publishers when they censor certain content – usually conservative – in a seemingly political manner.
The FSA letter asserts that "[e]ach of the major social media platforms has an oversized share of influence on the public conversation." It additionally points out that there are many high-profile examples of social media silencing conservative viewpoints. These include Twitter suspending LifeSite for its criticism of a radical transgender activist. It also includes the case of Facebook using a pro-abortion fact-checker to limit the outreach of a pro-life group in a manner that even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted showed extreme bias.
FSA outlines four principles for judging and dealing with biased social media providers:
Transparency in showing how companies treat people with differing opinions.
Clarification and agreement on what constitutes "hate speech" so that it can be employed uniformly.
Adherence to policies on speech that mirror the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Truly diverse hiring practices that protect conservative voices in a liberal industry.
The letter remarks:
As conservatives, we shy away from advocating for government interference in the free market. However, as you and other leading public policy officials consider the path going forward, we ask you to consider the principles we have laid out as best practices for dealing with the problems raised by these social media platforms.
The last principle, calling for political diversity in hiring, has been championed by the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP). In shareholder proposals, FEP has asked corporations to amend their policies to ensure people are not discriminated against because of their political beliefs. While this reform has been adopted by major corporations such as Walmart and Pepsi, it has been viciously fought by Apple.
Other signers of the FSA letter included the Media Research Center (which organized the effort), Heartland Institute, Concerned Women for America, the Conservative Partnership Institute and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
To read the entire letter from the Free Speech Alliance to Attorney General Barr, click here.
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A "Dashing" Trio of Classic TV Detectives — "One White, One Armenian, One Greek and Bald"
A Look Back at Michael Cole as Pete Cochran, Mike Connors as Joe Mannix, and Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak
In the history of television, a countless number of "cool" detectives and private-eyes of all genders have been portrayed by a distinguished group of performers.
In my book, Dashing, Daring and Debonair: TV's Top Male Icons From The '50s, '60s, And '70s, I profile several actors from the machismo sector, three of which I have also addressed in the past year on Medium.com:
Michael Cole as Pete Cochran on The Mod Squad (ABC, 1968–1973)
Mike Connors as Joe Mannix on Mannix (CBS, 1967–1975 )
Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak on Kojak (CBS, 1973–1978).
In each case, the actors were surrounded by an additionally-charismatic group of male and female co-stars and/or supporting players, such as Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton and Tige Andrews beside Cole on The Mod Squad ("one white, one black, one blond"), Gail Fisher as Connors' dedicated sidekick on Mannix, and Kevin Dobson who shared the screen with Savalas on Kojak.
But for the moment, the focus is on Cole, Connors, and Savalas in the three separate links below.
I hope you enjoy the read — and the ride through their remarkable lives, careers, and performances as their most well-known and legendary characters on historic television series.
The Eternally-Mod Michael Cole
A Classic TV Retrospective On One Of TV's Top Male Icons
"Who are you …'Mannix'"? —Mike Connors and Gail Fisher had it down!
Mike Connors was an actor and producer, known for Mannix, Tightrope, and The Ten Commandments.
Telly Savalas as "Kojak": "Who Loves Ya', Baby?"
A retrospective on TV's original bald, lollipop-loving private eye
Herbie J Pilato is the host of Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, a classic TV talk show now streaming on Shout! Factory TV. He is also the author of various pop-culture/media tie-in books including Dashing, Daring, And Debonair: TV's Top Male Icons From The '50s, '60s, And '70s. For more information, visit www.HerbieJPilato.com.
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Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me with an earlier sight of his statement. I say to the Chancellor: his complacency today is astounding. We face – in every public service – a crisis on a scale we've never seen before. Hasn't he listened to the doctors and nurses, the teachers, the police officers, the carers and even his own councillors? They are telling him they can't wait for the next Budget. They're telling him to act now. For eight years they've been ignored by this government. And today – they've been ignored again.
The Chancellor has proclaimed that there is light at the end of the tunnel. But this shows just how cut off from the real world he is. Last year growth in our economy was among the lowest in the G7 and the slowest since 2012. Wages are lower now – in real terms – than they were in 2010 – and they're still falling. And there are 3 million people in insecure work. According to the Resolution Foundation, the changes to benefits due to come in next month will leave 11 million families worse off.
And – as always – the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people. The gap in productivity between this country and the rest of the G7 is almost the widest for a generation. UK industry is 20 to 30% less productive that in other major economies. And why? Well, part of the reason is that investment by this government, in real terms, is nearly £18 billion below its 2010 level.
And this is a government that cut R&D funding by £1 billion in real terms. Business investment stagnated in the last quarter of 2017. And despite all the promises the government continues to fail to address regional imbalances in investment: London will receive almost five times more transport investment than Yorkshire & Humber. This is a government that single-handedly destroyed our solar industry: 12,000 jobs were lost as a result of subsidy cuts. The Chancellor talks about the 4th Industrial Revolution but Britain has the lowest rate of industrial robot use in the OECD. And the government has put just £75m into its Artificial Intelligence programme – less than a tenth of the US government's commitment.
The Chancellor has made great play this week of reaching a turning point in reducing the deficit and debt. It's a bit rich coming from a Party that has increased the debt by over £700 billion.
It's worth remembering that this is the Party that promised to eliminate the deficit completely by 2015, then 2016, then 2020. Bizarrely, his predecessor – now ensconced in the Evening Standard, and Blackrock, and the Washington Speakers Bureau has been tweeting about achieving three years late a deficit target that he actually abandoned himself. The reality is that the Chancellor and his predecessor have not tackled the deficit. They have simply shifted it onto the public services his colleagues are responsible for. He's shifted it on to the Secretary of State for Health and the shoulders of NHS managers, doctors and nurses. NHS Trusts will end this financial year £1 billion in deficit. Doctors and nurses are struggling and being asked to do more, while 100,000 NHS posts go unfilled. Does the Chancellor really believe the NHS can wait another eight months for the life-saving funds it needs? How many more people have to die while waiting for an ambulance?
We are expecting the pay offer to NHS staff shortly – forced upon him by the Labour Party's and Trade Unions' campaigns against the pay cap. Let me say to him: taking away a day's holiday from those dedicated staff is mean spirited and I ask him now: will he drop this miserly demand?


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Q: Intellisense problems with node.js development with Visual Studio 2017 Usually we're in a microsoft stack development but for the project purposes we need to develop in node.js in visual studio 2017.
There are some things we don't understand at all but are quite annoying.
We've installed node.js tools for Visual Studio 2017 but intellisense work for some things and doesn't for others.
2 main problems we're facing:

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*For example, for some node modules (router, express, etc...) intellisense works fine. For others (mongorito, for examlple, but its not mongorito specific, there are many others also) we don't get any intellisense nor we can navigate through its definitions ('go to definition').

*For any file we open we get alot of TSxxx error messages. something like this:

Don't know if its important but with the same setup we had our team members to work on angular 2/4 projects (that use node modules, of course) and everything worked fine.
So, if anyone has a piece of advice we would highly appreciate it. And please explain it like for a complete idiots.
PS.
Don't know if its important, but i must say that solution builds, all tests are good and all runs as it should. Its IDE problem.

A: So, for everyone having the problem i'll post the solution here.
Problem was in typescript version. Now, that comes with a few details.
In Visual studio pre 15.2 you can't have typescript versions switching. So, i first updated VS to 15.2.
After that, i've installed Typescript SDK with latest typescript (2.4.1. i think at the moment).
Then go to Tools > Options > TextEditor > Javascript/Typescript > Intellisense > Here choose typescript version from the drop down.
[I'll leave answer unaccepted for a bit for the case someone comes with a better solution]


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July 07, 2021 | By Scott LaFee
How to Reduce Obesity among Latino Children, with Precision
UC San Diego and community collaborators receive $3 million grant to develop more community-centered, precision approaches to reducing adverse childhood events that lead to obesity, a nationwide problem
As part of Governor Gavin Newsom's newly budgeted California Comeback Plan and the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM), researchers at UC San Diego, led by the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI), will receive approximately $3 million to create a precision, community-based program to address specific health problems related to adverse childhood experiences or ACEs, a term that describes potentially traumatic events that affect children, such as family violence, abuse or neglect.
Specifically, the funding will be used to develop and deliver interventions designed to mitigate childhood trauma within the Latino community and improve a key clinically relevant endpoint: childhood obesity.
Gary S. Firestein, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute is lead principal investigator for the newly funded CIAPM study.
The effort will be conducted by a community-centered research team comprised of academic researchers from ACTRI and its Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, and San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative associated Latino community organizations. Family Health Centers of San Diego is the key clinical partner that will implement the approach in partnership with the San Diego Promotores Coalition, and powered via the digital health tool, Streetwyze. Collaborating community partners include American Academy of Pediatrics, County of San Diego, Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center, Poder Popular and Vista Community Clinic, among others.
The new study will systematically examine community, organizational, family, and individual predictors of childhood obesity, including ACEs-related behaviors (stress, anxiety, reactivity, over-eating), while also intervening on key behavioral targets for obesity (e.g., self-regulatory skills, resiliency, diet, physical activity). Recommendations and best practices to address ACEs and resilience will be developed and disseminated to local, regional, and state organizations at the study's conclusion.
"Working with the Latino community, we want to create a family-based approach to improve individual and community resilience to stress and address the obesity epidemic," said lead principal investigator Gary S. Firestein, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and ACTRI director.
"We want to test whether this approach, which involves the use of extensive informatics and analytics, works better than what's normally been done. Is a precision, community-based approach superior to the existing standard of care and what's been tried in the past?"
Job Godino, PhD, scientific director of the Laura Rodriguez Research Institute at Family Health Centers of San Diego, agreed: "We are very excited by the potential of this work. Our mission is to ensure that health care innovations engage and benefit uninsured, low-income, and medically underserved persons, and this effort provides an opportunity to do so. We currently lack a systematic program that simultaneously addresses ACEs and obesity and is embedded in our community health setting. We sincerely hope that the community-centered precision medicine approach will advance health and resiliency in the families we serve."
Childhood and adolescent obesity have reached epidemic levels in the United States, with an estimated 17 percent presenting with obesity. Rates continue to rise, with older children more likely to experience obesity and at greater risk of becoming adults with obesity.
(In adults, obesity is roughly defined as a body mass index of 30.0 or higher. BMI measurement is different in children due to different rates of growth, and is based on percentiles.)
The prevalence of childhood obesity varies among ethnic groups, age, sex, education levels and socioeconomic status. In a 2019 published study, prevalence of obesity among non-Hispanic Black (22.0 percent) and Hispanic (25.8 percent) children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 years was higher than among both non-Hispanic white (14.1 percent) and non-Hispanic Asian (11.0 percent) children and adolescents.
While the prevalence for obesity among girls was similar to overall percentages, Hispanic boys had a 28 percent higher prevalence of obesity than non-Hispanic Black boys (19 percent).
Blanca Meléndrez, director of the Center for Community Health at UC San Diego and a co-principal investigator on the study with Eric Hekler, PhD, professor and interim associate dean for community partnerships in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, said that beyond determining which methods best promote resiliency and reduce obesity among children, researchers and community collaborators will seek to create interventions that can be delivered to different families that match a family's unique circumstances and needs.
"Our approach is new in many ways," Meléndrez said. "First, the intervention will be much stronger because, as a community-based approach to ACEs and obesity, community members and researchers will come together and inform each other's work. Second, our approach is developed to continually learn and improve upon previous intervention iterations. We want to adapt and better account for different family needs so that each family gets the right support at the right time for them."
CIAPM was launched in 2015 to support collaborative, patient-focused research and foster a new approach to health and medicine. It relies on translating available large data sets and technical innovation into better health outcomes.
Governor Newsom's $100 billion economic post-pandemic recovery package, part of the state's $262.6 billion 2021-2022 budget, allocates $12.4 million in new CIAPM funding for three projects, among them the San Diego effort. They join four projects that the state had previously funded.


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The volatile oil and the hexane extract from the leaves of Porcelia macrocarpa (Warm.) R.E. Fries, Annonaceae, were submitted to chromatographic separations. Nine sesquiterpenes (alpha-cubebene, alpha-copaene, germacrene-D, bicyclogermacrene, gamma-cadinene, delta-cadinene, spathulenol, globulol and cis-cubenol) and one diterpene (phytol) were identified in the volatile oil (83.1 % in weight). Two sesquiterpenes (spathulenol and macrocarp-11(15)-en-8-ol), the latter with a novel skeleton, one diterpene (phytol) and two steroids (sistosta-5,25-dien-3beta-ol and sitosta-5,22,25-trien-3beta-ol) were isolated from the hexane extract. These compounds were characterized by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, including bidimensional analysis and mass spectrometry.


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The Pasadena Half Marathon & 5K at the Rose Bowl is a truly unforgettable race experience, with a one of a kind finish line on the field at the world-famous Rose Bowl!
Registration for the third annual Pasadena Half Marathon & 5K on Sunday January 20th, 2019 will open on May 1st.
Come enjoy the picturesque course through beautiful Pasadena, passing landmarks like the Colorado Street Bridge, Old Town Pasadena and Cal Tech University before a majestic finish on the field at the world-famous Rose Bowl.
The half marathon will begin at 7 am, side-by-side with the 5K, but in separate corrals. Please pay careful attention to your corral placement (based off projected finish times) and line up in the appropriate corral for your bib number range.
*The half marathon has an age limit of 12 years old. All participants must be at least 12 years of age on race day.
The 5K will begin at 7 am, side-by-side with the half marathon, but in separate corrals. Please pay careful attention to your corral placement (based off projected finish times) and line up in the appropriate corral for your bib number range.


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Effects of pollution can go beyond physical health and even affect intelligence according to research conducted in China that was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
China has air pollution at levels three times higher than guidelines set by the World Health Organization. Air pollution is a worldwide concern, there is no question these findings will be relevant across other countries as well.
Scientists found that high levels of air pollution causes significant drops in test scores in reading and arithmetic in effects that look like losing one year of education, and are worse on certain people. In those that are over the age of 64 the effect is much worse, men and people with low education are also at risk of suffering greater losses equivalent to several years of lost education. The longer people were exposed to dirty air, the greater the damage was in intelligence.
This effect may be linked to oxidative stress and neuroinflammation which are known causes of brain related problems; oxidative stress is linked to increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, and neuroinflammation is linked to increased likelihood of depression.
Negative effects of air pollution on the brain may not be as evident as the effects on the body and risk of developing diseases. Exposure to high levels damages cells in the respiratory system putting the lungs and heart through heavy stress, forcing them to work harder to function and supply the body with nutrients needed to stay healthy. Those with existing cardiovascular and respiratory illness exposed to air pollution can experience an aggravated condition. Long term exposure is more serious, it can speed up aging of the respiratory system, and those regularly exposed are at greater risk of succumbing to premature death.
While air pollution will affect everyone certain people can be more susceptible including those with existing conditions; age is also an important factor, particularly the elderly, those under the age of 14, and pregnant women. Those who work outdoors for a living or other activities that require spending more time outside including athletes are all at greater risk. Even those who are physically fit are not spared from the negative effects of air pollution mentally or physically.


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Q: How to use NTLM authentication with Apache Wink client I'm trying to use wink-client v1.4 to communicate with a Sharepoint RESTful web service.  I have created a simple Java SE Maven project that can do this task on Windows using a BasicAuthSecurityHandler.  However, this same project doesn't work on Mac OS X.  I receive a 401 HTTP status code on the Mac.  Wink is somehow using my NTLM credentials when being run from Windows.  I'm using JDK 7 for both platforms.
How can I use NTLM authentication with Apache Wink client?
public String getSharepointInfo() {
    spUser = "user";
    spPassword = "password";
    spUri = "https://someSharepointURL/";

    ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();

    Application app = new Application() {
        public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
            Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
            classes.add(WinkMOXyJsonProvider.class);
            return classes;
        }
    };
    clientConfig.applications(app);
    BasicAuthSecurityHandler basicAuthSecurityHandler = new BasicAuthSecurityHandler();
    basicAuthSecurityHandler.setUserName(spUser);
    basicAuthSecurityHandler.setPassword(spPassword);
    clientConfig.handlers(basicAuthSecurityHandler);
    RestClient client = new RestClient(clientConfig);
    Resource resource = client.resource(spUri);

    ClientResponse response = resource.accept("*/*").get();

    String blah = response.getEntity(String.class);
    System.out.println("The response is " + blah);
    return blah.toString();
}

A: I've figured it out.
My ultimate goal was to create a simple test case that I could port to WebSphere Application Server v8.0.  The Apache Wink client can't handle NTLM authentication on its own.  You have to use a separate Http client to handle NTLM authentication.  I chose Apache Http Cient v4.0.1, since that buggy version is packaged in WAS v8.0.  It's a huge pain to override that provided version too.  That's why I didn't choose a more recent, better version of Apache HttpClient.
So, here's how you get Apache Http Client v4.0.1 to handle NTLM authentication:
Use the following dependencies...
    <dependency>
        <groupId>jcifs</groupId>
        <artifactId>jcifs</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.17</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.wink</groupId>
        <artifactId>wink-client</artifactId>
        <version>1.4</version>
    </dependency>

I'm using com.ibm.ws.prereq.jaxrs.jar contained in WAS v8.0 to get Apache Http Client v4.0.1.  That's installed in my Maven repo, and I specify that as a dependency to get Http Client v4.0.1.
Follow the steps here.
Now, Wink comes into play:
public int attemptWinkHttpClienGET() {
    ClientResponse response = null;
    try {
        String spUri = "https://some-sharepoint-url/listdata.svc/";

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append(spUri).append("UserInformationList").toString();

        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        httpClient.getAuthSchemes().register("ntlm",new JCIFSNTLMSchemeFactory());
        CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        NTCredentials ntcred = new NTCredentials("username_here", "password_here", InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(), "domain_here");
        credsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope("base_url_here_sans_https://", 443, AuthScope.ANY_REALM, "NTLM"), ntcred);
        httpClient.setCredentialsProvider(credsProvider);

        org.apache.wink.client.ClientConfig httpClientConfig = new org.apache.wink.client.ApacheHttpClientConfig(httpClient);
        Application app = new Application() {
            public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
                Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
                classes.add(WinkMOXyJsonProvider.class);
                return classes;
            }
        };
        httpClientConfig.applications(app);
        RestClient client = new RestClient(httpClientConfig);
        Resource resource = client.resource(sb.toString());
        response = resource.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE).get();
        UserInformationListResponse blah = response.getEntity(UserInformationListResponse.class);
        Results[] results = blah.getD().getResults();
        for (Results result : results) {
            System.out.println("User Name: " + result.getFirstName() + " " + result.getLastName());
        }
        System.out.println("The response is " + response.getStatusCode());
        response.consumeContent();
    } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(HttpTest.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }

    return response.getStatusCode();
}

Now, the final bit.  I use MOXy as my JAXB implementation.  I had some issues getting it to work even though I was registering it in my app variable.  I was seeing some Jackson-related errors.  Apache HttpClient v4.0.1 is apparently using Jackons under the hood as a default.  Here's what I did to overcome that problem.
I added the following dependencies:
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-media-moxy</artifactId>
        <version>2.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.0-rc2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.13</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.13</version>
    </dependency>

Here's WinkMOXyJsonProvider.java
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.rs.MOXyJsonProvider;

@Provider
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class WinkMOXyJsonProvider extends MOXyJsonProvider {

}

I observed the String result returned from Sharepoint and then created a bunch of MOXy POJO's mimicking the JSON object hierarchy.


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Congress Votes to Boost Space Spending: Which Companies Win More Money?
Surprise: All the usual suspects stand to benefit -- plus a few companies you may not yet have heard of.
Rich Smith
(TMFDitty)
After famously gutting NASA's budget for earth science and climate change-related missions in 2017, is President Donald Trump having a change of heart on space?
It kind of looks like he is. The president raised his "ask" for NASA's space budget in February, requesting that Congress fund the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the tune of $19.9 billion in fiscal 2019 -- giving the agency $300 million more than its medium-term forecast had counted on. And the news gets better from there.
Just a couple of miles away from the Oval Office, on Capitol Hill, Congress is working on an appropriations bill that would lift NASA's budget into a higher orbit. On May 8, the House Committee on Appropriations released its Fiscal Year 2019 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill. As it regards NASA in particular, this proposed budget contains $21.5 billion in planned funding -- a number Politico says is $810 million more than NASA is receiving currently, and $1.6 billion more than the President requested.
Put down your calculators: That's a cool 8% bump into higher orbit, compared to what NASA thought it might be getting after seeing the president's proposal earlier this year.
NASA's new budget includes nearly $1 billion in funding for lunar projects. Image source: Getty Images.
Which companies will win more money?
So who will get the loot? Believe it or not, more than half the House's increase in funding (a $459 million increase compared to fiscal 2018) is going to science programs -- $6.7 billion in total. And while the bill is short of specifics, this is money investors can probably expect will be going to satellite makers such as Boeing (NYSE:BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE:OA), and Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR), also to satellite launchers such as SpaceX, and Boeing and Lockheed's United Launch Alliance.
In fact, Boeing and Lockheed Martin look to be two-time winners, as the second largest bump in funding is going to help pay for deep space missions, and to NASA's Orion crew vehicle and Space Launch System (SLS), which are designed to carry them. Orbital ATK (soon to be absorbed into Northrop Grumman) and Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE:AJRD) are other key players on the SLS project. Congress wants to pour an additional $294 million into this program, funding it with $5.1 billion next year.
To the Moon, Alice!
It's harder to predict the winners in a separate category of space spending that may surprise you: Lunar exploration and development.
The House Appropriations budget contains nearly $1 billion in funds for projects tied to the moon:
$504.2 million to build a lunar orbital platform that can serve both as a gateway to lunar landings, and potentially as a hub for missions that will reach past the moon -- perhaps as far as Mars.
$116.5 million for advanced lunar and surface capabilities, which might include anything from housing modules to mining the moon.
$218 million for planetary science, including rovers and science instruments that will be used to explore the lunar surface.
And $150 million for commercial low-earth orbit development -- the much ballyhooed transition of the International Space Station to private ownership, freeing up NASA funding for missions farther away from Earth.
Who will help NASA with all of the above? It's a safe bet that Boeing, Lockheed, and all the other "usual suspects" will bid for moon-related space work. But they'll have to contend with a rising tide of "new space" companies that hope to return us to the moon "smaller, better, faster, and cheaper" (so to speak).
To name just a few of these unlikelier suspects, tiny Moon Express recently won government approval to land robots on the moon to begin (initially small scale) moon-mining missions. Rocket Lab is another U.S. company that hopes to play a role, by providing the rockets that will deliver Moon Express's landers to the moon. And Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has been particularly vocal about his company's desire to help NASA out with moon missions.
For that matter, even SpaceX's Elon Musk has been making noises about how SpaceX wouldn't be averse to assisting with a moon mission (in addition to his ultimate objective -- a mission to Mars).
The upshot for investors
The bad news of course is that most of these new space companies mulling moon plans -- everyone from small up-and-comers like Moon Express and Rocket Lab to household names like SpaceX -- are currently not available for investment. All of these companies are privately held.
The good news, though, is that now that Congress seems intent on pouring money into space, the chances of these companies living long enough to go public so that we can invest in them just got significantly better.
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use material::Material;
use math::{Isometry, Scalar};
use ncollide3d::bounding_volume::{HasBoundingVolume, AABB};
use ncollide3d::query::{Ray, RayCast, RayIntersection};
use std::sync::Arc;
use texture2d::Texture2d;

pub struct SceneNode {
    pub refl_mix: f32,
    pub refl_atenuation: f32,
    pub refr_coeff: Scalar,
    pub alpha: f32,
    pub solid: bool,
    pub material: Arc<Box<Material + Sync + Send>>,
    pub transform: Isometry,
    pub geometry: Box<RayCast<Scalar> + Sync + Send>,
    pub aabb: AABB<Scalar>,
    pub nmap: Option<Texture2d>,
}

impl SceneNode {
    pub fn new<
        G: 'static + Send + Sync + RayCast<Scalar> + HasBoundingVolume<Scalar, AABB<Scalar>>,
    >(
        material: Arc<Box<Material + Sync + Send>>,
        refl_mix: f32,
        refl_atenuation: f32,
        alpha: f32,
        refr_coeff: Scalar,
        transform: Isometry,
        geometry: Box<G>,
        nmap: Option<Texture2d>,
        solid: bool,
    ) -> SceneNode {
        SceneNode {
            refl_mix: refl_mix,
            refl_atenuation: refl_atenuation,
            alpha: alpha,
            refr_coeff: refr_coeff,
            material: material,
            aabb: geometry.bounding_volume(&transform),
            geometry: geometry as Box<RayCast<Scalar> + Sync + Send>,
            transform: transform,
            nmap: nmap,
            solid: solid,
        }
    }
}

impl SceneNode {
    pub fn cast(&self, r: &Ray<Scalar>) -> Option<RayIntersection<Scalar>> {
        let res = self
            .geometry
            .toi_and_normal_and_uv_with_ray(&self.transform, r, self.solid);

        if res.is_none() {
            return None;
        }

        match self.nmap {
            None => res,
            Some(ref nmap) => {
                let mut inter = res.unwrap();

                if let Some(ref uvs) = inter.uvs {
                    let shift_color = nmap.sample(uvs);
                    let shift = (shift_color.x + shift_color.y + shift_color.z) / 3.0;

                    inter.toi = inter.toi - shift as f64;
                }

                Some(inter)
            }
        }
    }
}

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Over the past three months I'm Harley♦Quinn or Quinn as we call her now around the barn, has been learning the ropes. Her prior experience was assessed at about.....umm, zero. So, Joe and Bailey have been working hard to simply get her broke. Broke to stand to mount. Broke to the bit. Broke so she stops. LOL. And, so forth. Yep, the basics. But, she wasn't even officially two those first 90 days - her birthday was April 15. What can you expect? I kinda laughed, 'cuz the updates and reports always included emojis of a hand slapping forehead 🤦♂ or laugh/crying😂 etc. 😜 hmmmmm. Well, she's not even two yet. 🤷♀ Lets take our time with her. So, slow progress was the goal.
Visiting with HQ. Mad Love!
I visited her in Feb and then again early April to see her progress. In Feb she was still figuring it out. However in April she seemed to be getting ahead. Joe mentioned that she really was starting to hit a nice gait the past two weeks. You could see a huge leap forward. It was really exciting to see her understand things. She was still unpredictable and learning, but the riding part was certainly progressing tremendously. Now that long stride seemed more purposeful. Me. I was simply tickled pink. Joe was thinking he may take her to a show soon if she kept advancing, he thought it might also help her get more broke.
HQ going to the show.
The show started at five. I found out that they would be streaming the show live on reporTV. It was after 4pm and I was still at the Midwest Horse fair with Lisa, Morgan and friends watching a demo. If I left by five I would be able watch her. Obviously I wasn't going to miss this....and by 5pm I was in my car heading back home. It would take an hour to get home, but she was in class ten so that would be about 7 pm or so. I'd make it.
When I arrived home Scott was waiting. He had gone that morning to pick up our new car. And it was parked out in the driveway for me to see. Of course we checked it out and I got the full tour. And then we went inside to logon to watch Quinn's class. When I logged on, class nine was just starting so our timing was perfect. Scott got out his phone to tape the class. Then they announced Quinn's class and opened the gate. Four 2 year olds would make the gate call. Joe riding Quinn entered last and the gate closed behind her. It was the honorable Sam Sorrell who would judge the class.
I was so proud. She came into the ring like a good girl, ears forward and alert. She looked great. Moving forward, striding unbelievably and that head nod. Up and down. Up and down. Oh. My my my. She looked really good out there! With two year olds, you never know what you're gonna get. But she looked like she was having a great time out there.
They went flat walk and running walk. And then they reversed to go the other way. The reporTV video man did a great job showing each horse on the internet stream and included nice close up shots of each horse too. It was so cool to be able to watch her real-time during the class even though we weren't there in person. Each time Joe and Quinn were on the screen they looked great. Nice clean passes. She was so upright and striding. I just squealed with happiness and pride. And Scott just kept saying how great she looked. We were both thrilled. When they called for the lineup I think we both breathed again for the first time that whole class. I said I think she looked great and Scott said, umm yeah! And we laughed.
Baby girl's first show. And it's a blue debut.
Then the announcer came back on and called number 315 for the win. That's Quinn's number! Joe pulled out of the lineup and rode around to the winners circle. I screamed and cheered and couldn't believe it. Scott grinned from ear to ear. We jumped up and down. Then we watched as Joe and Quinn made their very first victory lap. She owned that ring like a boss! Lol.
We got text messages and videos from Joe, Bailey, Julie and a number of friends. We were all on cloud nine.


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