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package org.onetwo.common.utils;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.onetwo.common.date.NiceDate;
import org.onetwo.common.profiling.TimeProfileStack;
import org.onetwo.common.reflect.BeanToMapConvertor;
import org.onetwo.common.reflect.BeanToMapConvertor.BeanToMapBuilder;
import org.onetwo.common.reflect.CopyConfig;
import org.onetwo.common.reflect.ReflectUtils;
import org.onetwo.common.utils.User.Address;

public class ReflectUtilsTest {

	public static class ReflectTestClass {
		public Optional<UserEntity> getUser() {
			return null;
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetUser() {
		Method method = ReflectUtils.findMethod(ReflectTestClass.class, "getUser");
		Type returnType = method.getGenericReturnType();
		if (returnType instanceof ParameterizedType) {
			ParameterizedType ptype = (ParameterizedType) returnType;
			System.out.println(ptype);
			assertThat(ptype.getRawType()).isEqualTo(Optional.class);
			assertThat(ptype.getActualTypeArguments()[0]).isEqualTo(UserEntity.class);
		}
		System.out.println(returnType);
		assertThat(ReflectUtils.getGenricType(returnType, 0)).isEqualTo(UserEntity.class);
	}

	@Test
	public void testSuperClass(){
		Class<?> sclass = UserEntity.class.getSuperclass();
		System.out.println("super class: " +sclass);
		Type type = UserEntity.class.getGenericSuperclass();
		System.out.println("super type: " +type);
		System.out.println("getCanonicalName: " +long.class.getCanonicalName());

		assertThat(ReflectUtils.findMethod(UserEntity.class, "getId").getName()).isEqualTo("getId");
		Method method = ReflectUtils.findMethod(UserEntity.class, "setId");
		assertThat(method.getReturnType()).isEqualTo(void.class);

		Class<?>[] intes = UserEntity.class.getInterfaces();
		for(Class c :intes){
			System.out.println("c:" + c);
		}
		Type[] types = UserEntity.class.getGenericInterfaces();
		for(Type c : types){
			System.out.println("types:" + c);
		}

		sclass = BaseEntity.class.getSuperclass();
		System.out.println("BaseEntity super class: " +sclass);
		type = BaseEntity.class.getGenericSuperclass();
		System.out.println("BaseEntity super type: " +type);

		intes = BaseEntity.class.getInterfaces();
		for(Class c :intes){
			System.out.println("BaseEntity getInterfaces:" + c);
		}
		types = BaseEntity.class.getGenericInterfaces();
		for(Type c : types){
			System.out.println("BaseEntity getGenericInterfaces:" + c);
		}

		sclass = IBaseEntity.class.getSuperclass();
		System.out.println("IBaseEntity super class: " +sclass);
		type = IBaseEntity.class.getGenericSuperclass();
		System.out.println("IBaseEntity super type: " +type);

		intes = IBaseEntity.class.getInterfaces();
		for(Class c :intes){
			System.out.println("IBaseEntity getInterfaces:" + c);
		}
		types = IBaseEntity.class.getGenericInterfaces();
		for(Type c : types){
			System.out.println("IBaseEntity getGenericInterfaces:" + c);
		}
		intes = Serializable.class.getInterfaces();
		Assert.assertTrue(intes.length==0);
		types = Serializable.class.getGenericInterfaces();
		Assert.assertTrue(types.length==0);

		PropertyDescriptor prop = ReflectUtils.getIntro(UserEntity.class).getProperty("id");
		Class<?> targetClass = prop.getWriteMethod().getDeclaringClass();
		System.out.println("testSuperClass target: " + targetClass);
		Assert.assertEquals(UserEntity.class, targetClass);
	}

	@Test
	public void testSimple(){
		Method[] methods = User.class.getDeclaredMethods();
		for(Method m : methods){
			System.out.println("m : " + m.getName());
			int index = m.getName().indexOf("a");
			if(index!=-1){
				String[] pnames = StringUtils.split(m.getName().substring(index), "a");
				LangUtils.println("${0}--${1}", index, pnames);
			}
		}

	}

	@Test
	public void testToMap(){
		BeanToMapConvertor bean2MapConvertor = BeanToMapBuilder.newBuilder()
				.propertyAcceptor((p, v)->v!=null)
				.build();

		Address address = new Address();
		address.setDetail("test address");
		User user = new User();
		user.setUserName("testName");
		user.setAge(11);
		user.setBirthDate(NiceDate.New("2013-4-18 14:00:00").getTime());
		user.setAddress(address);

		Map<String, Object> map = bean2MapConvertor.toFlatMap(user);
		Assert.assertEquals(false, map.get("avaiable"));
		Assert.assertEquals(11, map.get("age"));
		Assert.assertEquals(map.get("userName"), "testName");
		Assert.assertEquals(map.get("address.detail"), address.getDetail());
	}

	@Test
	public void testToStringMap(){
		User user = new User();
		user.setUserName("testName");
		user.setAge(11);
		user.setBirthDate(NiceDate.New("2013-4-18 14:00:00").getTime());
		Map<String, String> map = ReflectUtils.toStringMap(true, user);
		Assert.assertEquals(map.get("avaiable"), "false");
		Assert.assertEquals(map.get("age"), "11");
		Assert.assertEquals(map.get("userName"), "testName");
	}

	@Test
	public void testSetExp(){
		User user = new User();
		user.setUserName("testName");
		user.setAge(11);
		user.setBirthDate(new Date());

		Object value = "testName";
		ReflectUtils.setExpr(user, "address.detail", value);
		Assert.assertEquals(user.getAddress().getDetail(), value);

//		System.out.println(user.getAddress().getDetail());
	}

	@Test
	public void testSetExp2(){
		User user = new User();
		user.setUserName("testName");
		user.setAge(11);
		user.setBirthDate(new Date());

		Object value = "true";
		ReflectUtils.setExpr(user, "avaiable", value);
		Assert.assertEquals(user.isAvaiable(), true);

//		System.out.println(user.getAddress().getDetail());
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetExp(){
		User user = new User();
		user.setUserName("testName");
		user.setAge(11);
		user.setBirthDate(new Date());

		User.Address addr = new User.Address();
		addr.setDetail("testDetail");
		addr.setPhone("888888");
		user.setAddress(addr);

		Object value = ReflectUtils.getExpr(user, "getAddress().detail");
		Assert.assertEquals(user.getAddress().getDetail(), value);

		value = ReflectUtils.getExpr(user, "getAddress2().detail");
		Assert.assertEquals(user.getAddress().getDetail(), value);
	}

//	@Test
	public void testGetOgnl() {
		User user = new User();
		user.setUserName("testName");
		user.setAge(11);
		user.setBirthDate(new Date());

		User.Address addr = new User.Address();
		addr.setDetail("testDetail");
		addr.setPhone("888888");
		user.setAddress(addr);

		Object value = MyUtils.getValue("getAddress().detail", user);
		Assert.assertEquals(user.getAddress().getDetail(), value);

		value = ReflectUtils.getExpr(user, "getAddress2.detail");
		Assert.assertEquals(user.getAddress().getDetail(), value);
	}

//	@Test
	public void testPerform2(){
		TimeProfileStack.setActive(true);
		int count = 4;
		for(int i=0; i<count; i++){
			this.testPerform();
		}
	}

	public void testPerform(){
		int count = 10;
		String exp = null;

		exp = "ognl";
		TimeProfileStack.push(exp);
		for(int i=0; i<count; i++){
			testGetOgnl();
		}
		TimeProfileStack.pop(exp);

		exp = "exp";
		TimeProfileStack.push(exp);
		for(int i=0; i<count; i++){
			testGetExp();
		}
		TimeProfileStack.pop(exp);
	}

	@Test
	public void testCopy(){
		Map map = new HashMap();
		map.put("userName", "namevalu");
		map.put("age", 111);
		map.put("name2", "name2");
		User user = new User();
		ReflectUtils.copy(map, user, true);
		Assert.assertEquals("namevalu", user.getUserName());
	}

	@Test
	public void testCopyWithConf(){
		Map map = new HashMap();
		map.put("userName", "namevalu");
		map.put("desc", "  ");
		map.put("age", 111);
		map.put("height", null);
		map.put("name2", "name2");

		User user = new User();
		user.setHeight(11);

		ReflectUtils.copy(map, user, CopyConfig.create());
		Assert.assertEquals("namevalu", user.getUserName());
		Assert.assertEquals("  ", user.getDesc());
		Assert.assertEquals(111, user.getAge());
		Assert.assertTrue(user.getHeight()==null);

		user = new User();
		user.setHeight(11);
//		ReflectUtils.copy(map, user, CopyConfig.create().ignoreNull().ignoreBlank().ignoreFields("age"));
		ReflectUtils.copyIgnoreBlank(map, user, "age");
		Assert.assertEquals("namevalu", user.getUserName());
		Assert.assertEquals(0, user.getAge());
		Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(11), user.getHeight());
		Assert.assertTrue(user.getDesc()==null);

		user = new User();
		user.setHeight(11);
		ReflectUtils.copy(map, user, CopyConfig.create().ignoreNull().ignoreBlank().includeFields("age"));
		Assert.assertNull(user.getUserName());
		Assert.assertEquals(111, user.getAge());
		Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(11), user.getHeight());
		Assert.assertNull(user.getDesc());
	}

	public static class UserSeperator {
		private String user_name;
		private Date birth_date;
		private String desc;
		private Integer height;
	}
	@Test
	public void testCopyFields(){
		UserSeperator map = new UserSeperator();
		map.user_name = "namevalu";
		map.birth_date = new Date();
		map.desc = "des";
		User user = new User();

		Integer h = 11;
		user.setHeight(h);
		ReflectUtils.copyFields(map, user, '_', true);
		Assert.assertEquals(map.user_name, user.getUserName());
		Assert.assertEquals(map.birth_date, user.getBirthDate());
		Assert.assertEquals(map.desc, user.getDesc());
		Assert.assertEquals(h, user.getHeight());

		ReflectUtils.copyFields(map, user, '_', false);
		Assert.assertNull(user.getHeight());
	}

	@Test
	public void testSetFieldValueByClass(){
		User user = new User();
		ReflectUtils.setFieldsDefaultValue(user, Integer.class, 163, int.class, 28);
		Assert.assertEquals(163, user.getHeight().longValue());
		Assert.assertEquals(163, user.getBust().longValue());
		Assert.assertEquals(28, user.getAge());

//		System.out.println(user.getAddress().getDetail());
	}

}

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The Mexican Congress has been conducting forums throughout Mexico and Baja for the past two years, seeking input from the sportfishing and commercial industry on the feasibility of removing dorado from the list of species "reserved exclusively for sportfishing" as is outlined in the current Mexican Fisheries law.
The passing of this initiative would allow the commercialization of dorado.
The sixth Forum was convened unexpectedly last week in Tapachula, Chiapas. Minerva Saenz, the IGFA Representative in Los Cabos, along with many others, responded to the last-minute call for testimony. They traveled more than 2,000 miles at great personal expense to once again voice the Sportfishing Industries' opposition to any action that would allow the taking of more dorado for commercial purposes.
Presidents of various commercial fishing associations also attended and encouraged the passing of this initiative which would result in the commercialization of dorado.
Many Mexican sportfishing organizations were represented including the local Asociacion de Pesca Deportiva of Chiapas and were joined by IGFA representatives in voicing their opposition.
The following items summarize the opposition to the submitted initiative and was signed by the following: Minerva Sáenz, Representante IGFA, Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S.; David Jones, Representante IGFA, La Paz, B.C.S.; Ing. Ricardo Hernández Carrasco, Representante IGFA, Oaxaca,Oaxaca; Gary Graham, Representante IGFA, Baja California Sur; and Nassim Joaquin Delbouis, Representante IGFA, Cozumel, Quintana Roo.
Lack of biological studies confirming whether or not the dorado population could sustain commercialization.
The illegal exportation of dorado is a flagrant violation of Mexican laws.
Commercialization of dorado is not a sustainable economic solution for local fishermen.
The 'Dorado Defenders' who have made the effort to attend all of the six public forums are to be commended for their ongoing passion and commitment to Sportfishing in Mexico.
The dedicated group includes Minerva Saenz, Enrique Fernandez del Castillo, the President of the Fundacion para la Conservacion de Los Picudos, A.C., Sandra Pinos, Gllen Bercovich, Dr. Carlos Villavicencio, and the Sportfishing Union of Owners of Sportfishing Boats for Los Cabos and many, many others who have given their support with time, money and energy.
While the political process seems far removed from sportfishing, if it weren't for the continued coordinated dedication and effort of interested individuals representing the sportfishing industry, sportfishing's contribution to Mexico's economy through tourism would be overlooked entirely.
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Review: Gwilym Simcock and Yuri Goloubev at St John the Evangelist, Oxford
By ljazzn on 13 February 2014 • ( 1 Comment )
Yuri Goloubev and Gwilym Simcock
Photo Credit: Alyn Shipton
Gwilym Simcock and Yuri Goloubev
(12th February 2014. St John the Evangelist. Review by Alyn Shipton)
The piano and bass duo has an honourable history in jazz, going back to Ellington and Blanton in 1939, and then — from the era when New York cabaret laws only allowed two-in-a-bar — taken forward in the 70s and 80s by the regulars at Bradleys bar on University Place, such as Roger Kellaway and Red Mitchell, or Cedar Walton and David Williams. It is, however, a format that has somewhat fallen out of favour recently, and so it is great news that Gwilym Simcock and the Italian-based Muscovite Yuri Goloubev have chosen to revive the tradition.
Their new album "Reverie at Schloss Elmau" will no doubt be reviewed on this site shortly, but following Gwilym's recent return to playing after a hand injury, this Oxford concert was one of a tiny number of live UK duo dates before the two of them embark on an Italian tour next month. On record, the balance between bass and piano is excellent, and some of the playing exquisitely delicate, by turns with passages of more robust dialogue. So this was a chance to hear it transferred to a concert setting.
Gwilym is more experienced than most in playing chamber jazz in large acoustic spaces, following his years with Acoustic Triangle, using the reverberation of cathedrals and parish churches across Britain as an integral ingredient in the music. So how would the duo fare in St John's, a lofty Victorian gothic church whose partially carpeted interior and warm stonework creates the illusion of a much drier acoustic than is actually the case?
Initially, the piano — St Stephen's House's magnificent concert Steinway —tended to drown the bass, despite Goloubev's discreet amplification. For a number or two he sounded like mid-period Eddie Gomez, either a swarm of angrily buzzing bees that occluded the marvellous articulation of his pizzicato runs, or rather boomy lower range noise that was further muddied by the space around him. But as the set went on, each of them relaxed, playing slightly fewer notes and improvising less frantically, so that the space caressed their music and made it more effective. By the second half, they were on song. A slight repositioning of the bass during the interval to a more central position projected far better, and the balance became ideal.
Both musicians have a classical background, and this was particularly evident in Goloubev's lovely singing arco tone. So few contemporary jazz bassists use the bow with any finesse — with the honourable exception of Christian McBride — so it was a delight to hear the instrument's cello like tone and warm sonority on Gwilym's composition "Flow". Once in his new position, Goloubev's rapid-fire pizzicato work was fully audible, and his fluent solo on his on "Non-Schumann Lied" was wittily underpinned by piano harmonies that echoed the 19th century song tradition. The alternating keys in Gwilym's "Shades of Pleasure" assisted the pair's musical dialogue, and when they dropped into a standard — an excellently paced version of "I Hear A Rhapsody" — it became a three-way conversation with the building: a long unaccompanied left hand piano passage using the full resonance of the nave.
By the time they wound up with the soaring arco melody of Gwilym's "A Joy Forever", which was followed by an elegantly constructed piano solo that built up in complexity over a perfectly constructed bassline, they were playing even more sparingly and more beautifully. The encores, including a spiky melody over a full and complex left hand ostinato inspired by Samuel Barber's "Excursions", were dazzling, and left the audience wanting more. So in the end, a form that has mainly flourished in recording studios and small bars proved conclusively that in such expert hands it can make the transition to large scale auditoria, without losing the intimacy and nuance of real musical conversation.
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alanc says:
14 February 2014 at 11:52 am
heartily concur with all the above!

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Haywire over Hayward.
By slaytonf, September 2, 2015 in General Discussions
speedracer5
Errol Flynn's girlfriend in another life
LocationPortland, OR Metro Area (West Side)
I don't know much about Susan Hayward except for her unfortunate role in The Conqueror, which for whatever reason, I'm looking forward to.
I recorded Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, but I haven't watched it yet.
I want to see The Lusty Men which I missed during Robert Mitchum's SUTS tribute.
I also want to see I Want to Live! which I understand is the ultimate Susan Hayward performance. For some reason, women prison films are interesting to me.
I also want to see Valley of the Dolls, I haven't seen it before--even though it's been on Netflix Instant Streaming forever.
Along with THE LUSTY MEN, I recommend the rest of this Thursday's Susan Hayward lineup. The films are mostly 20th
Century Fox films, other than TLM, and are the films that cemented her as one.of the top stars of the 1950s. All have something worthwhile.
I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE (1951): Susan rises from rags to riches in the rag trade. She partners with Dan Dailey (in a then rare dramatic role) and Sam Jaffe, to help her move from model to dress designer. Later, she wants to move into more haute couture, and uses George Sanders for this. Sanders, in a retread of his Addison Dewitt characterization (for which was then winning an Oscar), helps to deflate her inflated ambitions. An enjoyable film, with a typically gutsy performance from Susan.
DAVID AND.BATHSHEBA (1951): Susan stars with Gregory Peck in this thoughful biblical epic. Her beauty tempts Peck's stoicism. Her role is subsidiary to his, but together they had the biggest grossing film in that year.
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (1953): Frontier tale of Hayward as the woman who becomes involved with Andrew Jackson, and who sullies hisi political.chances because of her past. Very good performance by Susan, with a young.pre-stardom Charlton Heston as Jackson. The only drawback is that it wasn't in technicolor.
WITH A SONG IN MY HEART (1952): Susan won her third Oscar nomination with this colorful biopic, recounting the life of tragic torch singer Jane Froman. Froman chose her over other asiprants for the role, which included Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell. She was supported by Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, and Thelma Ritter, once more nominated in the supporting category. Note: This role would be directly responsible for her getting I'LL CRY TOMORROW some three years later.
And of course, THE LUSTY MEN, the Nicholas Ray modern western she did on loan to RKO. With Robert Mitchum (in the first of two costarring roles with Hayward) and Arthur Kennedy, this tale of the rodeo circuit is gritty and exciting.
Btw, these films, along with almost all others in the Hayward canon, are far better than the ill-fated THE CONQUEROR.
Thanks for the recommendations Arturo! I'll try to check out as many of them as I can.
I don't expect The Conqueror to be good. I just want to watch it because it's so notorious. In fact, I'm expecting a terrible film. I just want to see it.
film lover 293
Susan isn't bad in "The Conqueror" (1956)--at least no worse than the rest of the cast. It's John Wayne who is disastrously miscast as Temujin/Genghis Khan--& Oscar Millard's woeful attempt at a Shakespeare level script--are what make this a "camp" classic. A few samples (spelled as pronounced by Wayne):
Tj/GK --"Juhmooga, Ah feel this wuhman is for me; and mah blood says, Take Her!
Tj/GK, to murderous bride Bortai (Hayward)--"Yer beautiful in yer wrath!"
Tj/GK, to the sky--"Eternal skies, send me men!
Miscast as Wayne is, the real disaster is Millards' script; it comes off as a Baaaaaad retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" set in Asia. About "The Conqueror", Hayward was later quoted as saying "I had hysterics all through that one...it looked like a wild Irishman stopped off on the road to Old Cathay."
The Susan Hayward movie I'm most looking forward to is VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
LOL. Bad movie heaven!!!!!!!!!!
She is the best thing in the film.
True. The only bad thing is she isnt in it enough...........
Her rendition of I'LL PLANT MY OWN TREE is truly singular.
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LocationPittsburgh, PA
OK. Now you've done it. I will be hearing that damn (horrible) song in my head for the next 24 hours.
Mwahahahahahahahaa.
I think it would've helped the film immensely if, right before her big fight with Patty Duke, Susan had said, "Now I'm gonna plant my own foot right in your *** and call it my own" and then just knocked her lights right out.
LOL. Well maybe not in that number..........some of the worst songs ever in that movie (thanks to Dory and Andre Previn)
Me too now.
LMREO!!!
I'll Plant My Own Tree
I'll plant my own tree and I'll make it grow.
My tree will not be just one in a row.
My tree will offer shade
when strangers go by.
If you're a stranger, brother, well so am I.
Come tomorrow all that I see is my tree,
oh, Lord, what a sight.
Let someone stop me and I will put up a fight.
It's my yard so I'll try hard
to welcome friends I have yet to know.
Oh, I'll plant my own tree,
my own tree,
and I'll make it grow.
Gee thanks for that. You're so thoughtful!!! I can see the mobiles moving right now.
I HAD blocked the lyrics from the song--time to listen to "Rabbit of Seville" 2-3 times to get the words Gone again
Good luck to you!!!
On a more positive note, I Can Get It For You Wholesale is on tonight. I havent seen that one.
Dory writing "I'll Plant My Own Tree" is probably what drove Andre to leave her for Mia.
HelenBaby2
Aw, as over the top as Patty Duke is in this movie, I kinda love her in it.
Yeah, but just like Susan she isnt in it enough. But her sections are very entertaining!!! When those 2 arent featured the film is really boring......
Apparently Dory Previn was no stranger to drug problems which explains a lot about
"I'll Plant My Own Tree." No one could have been in their right mind and write stuff like
"My TREE will not BE (hey, it rhymes!) just one in a row."
Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin she was not.
Honestly, the lyrics to I'LL PLANT MY OWN TREE give one the sense that a gun was pulled on someone in the back seat of a taxi cab and then ordered "write a song about trees in three minutes or I kill you."
Sammy Cahn, probably the fastest of the great lyricists, could have written a good one in 3 minutes.


3.28 Megapixel camcorder (Model no. 0280C001) released by Canon in January 2015. Features a 32x optical zoom and has the ability to shoot 1080p video.
Is the charging port that the power cord plugs into replaceable?
The cord does not stay plugged in.
Patrick Mooney, I had no luck finding a replacement charge port for your R600, You could try gently to pry the male connector apart to make it a little wider to fit snugger into the port(just be careful, not too much). The other alternative would be to purchase an external charger for the battery which can be found by google search (Canon Vixia HF R600 external battery charger) or contact Canon to see if charge port/part may be available. Posted some links below for external chargers and Canon support site. Good luck.
Patrick Mooney will be eternally grateful.


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Browse Definitions Computing fundamentals
subset symbol
The subset symbol indicates a specific relationship between two sets. The symbol looks like the uppercase letters U and I placed close together in a sans-serif font, and rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Subset relations form the foundation of mathematical logic, including Boolean algebra, which is important in the design of computers and signal-processing systems.
Suppose there are two sets A and B. The statement "Set A is a subset of set B" is written A B. This means that every element contained in set A is also contained in set B. Any set is, by default, a subset of itself. Also, the empty set (also called the null set) is a subset of any set.
Here are some examples of true statements using the subset symbol:
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... } {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...}
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...} {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...}
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4} {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...}
{-2, -3, 4} {-2,-2.5, -3, -3.5, -4}
The following statements, however, are not true:
{-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...} {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...}
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...} {0, -1, -2, -3, -4, ...}
{-2,-2.5, -3, -3.5, -4} {-2, -3, 4}
Sets can contain things other than numbers. Examples are points on a plane, points on a spherical surface, and points in three-dimensional ( 3D ) space. Subset relationships can be expressed in terms of specialized illustrations called Venn diagrams. In the illustration below, A B, and C B. The following statements are also true: A A, B B, and C C. However, it is not true that B A, nor is it true that A C, nor is it true that B C.
Compare proper subset symbol. Also see set theory and Mathematical Symbols.
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Basalt tiling in the tasting room comes from a river bed on the ranch, the remaining evidence of a river that flowed through the area , years ago. Thornley also repurposed excavated raw materials from the wine cave construction into a pair of -foot walls, made out of what looks like soil-turned-solid, that span the back of the Estate House. In the cave, a dome-shaped section was left unfinished, unveiling the stunning, red-orange rock into which it was dug.
"Our winemaking philosophy is to create terroir-inspired wines that tell the story of the vineyard they came from and the vintage year that they are grown," says Hamel. "It made sense to us to make sure that flowed through the design of our Estate House, winery, and wine caves as well."
Wine tastings at Three Sticks, located right off the Historic Sonoma Plaza, take place inside a Vallejo-Castanada adobe, the longest-occupied residence in Sonoma during California's Mexican Period. In , years after the adobe's initial construction by the brother of Sonoma's founder, General Mariano Vallejo, Three Sticks proprietors Bill and Eva Price acquired the property and began the painstaking restoration process for their winery.
Preservation of the structure was their top priority, so they enlisted the help of many professionals architects, historians, archaeologists, etc. to ensure that the adobe's historical integrity remained intact. A refuse site was discovered during this process and throughout several digs at this spot, they discovered artifacts that date back to the s—including bottles, porcelain plates, vessels, tools, and dolls—many of which are now on display at the winery. In the end, the adobe's original walls, doors, knobs, roof, siding, and some historical plantings in the garden courtyard were preserved.
Three Sticks hired renowned San Francisco-based designer Ken Fulk to transform the interior. The adobe's living room is now a lounge, a former bedroom is the reception area, and the dining room is a tasting room. "We wanted an homage to the past, but not a false historical feeling," says chief operating officer Prema Behan. "Ken's ability to celebrate the past through materials and design, while still making the space feel utterly au courant and luxurious, made him an obvious choice for this project." Fulk achieved this by using a blend of materials that were indicative of the s—like wood, stone, metal, leather, cowhide, and authentic adobe bricks—with both contemporary and antique furnishings. In the lounge, for instance, cast-resin desert tortoise shells hang on the walls, the floors have been replaced with handmade Mexican tiles, and a pair of midcentury modern orange chairs sit atop an antique Khotan rug.
"We did not want the home to feel like a house museum," says Behan. "The adobe needed to be alive, relevant, and energetic so that guests could feel the living history of the building and celebrate the unique Sonoman, Californian, and Mexican heritage of our region."
Artist Rafael Arana hand-painted a thistle pattern in the entry room and Three Sticks' iconic black-and-white mural on the back wall of the enclosed patio, which depicts the site's rich history leading up to the present. The garden bathroom also can't be missed: It's achieved fame all on its own thanks to its wall-to-wall plant and floral wallpaper.
In , the venerable Silver Oak in Napa Valley opened up a second property in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley. Set on a historic piece of land that was deeded to the wine region's namesake, Cyrus Alexander, in , the winery unites the past and present with a modern, glass-walled interpretation of the classic barn, built with natural and recycled materials.
Designed by Daniel Piechota of Piechota Architecture, the glass creates the illusion of being outdoors, engulfed by the estate's acres of cabernet sauvignon vines and the rolling hills of the Alexander Valley. "It was important to us culturally that we stay in touch with the agricultural side of winemaking," says Silver Oak CEO David Duncan. "Fruit quality is the most important variable in fine wine, so we wanted our team and our customers to be immersed in the farming process and be able to see a grapevine from any point on the property."
From the vineyard to the winery design, the driving force at Silver Oak is sustainability. Its Oakville winery was the first LEED Platinum-certified winery in the world, and now the Alexander Valley property is the second. But this time, it's taken its mission even further. The net zero energy, net zero water winery—, rooftop solar panels emit percent of their energy needs—is currently under review for the Living Building Challenge, the most advanced measurement of sustainability in buildings.
Silver Oak's team vetted a list of more than , construction and industrial materials for their environmental impacts before building. They used reclaimed redwood from old fermentation tanks used by a Cherokee winery in the s for siding as well as wood from naturally felled valley oak trees—which required removal for safety reasons—for flooring, wall, and ceiling panels. As for the insulation? The material was made with ground-up blue jeans.
Louis M. Martini Winery
In an effort to evolve with the ever-changing wine industry, many of Napa Valley's most historic properties—including Clos Du Val, ZD Wines, and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars—have undergone major restorations in recent years. But none of these undertakings have been as epic as the overhaul of Louis M. Martini, which opened its brand-new visitor center in the spring of .
"The original winery building, constructed in , is one of the first five wineries built in Napa Valley following the end of Prohibition," says Jonathan Wendorf, Louis M. Martini's estate manager. "We've been crafting cabernet here for generations. Everything connects with the working winery and the building's historic legacy."
Original terra-cotta wall tiles—which Martini brought up to Napa from a winery he had in Kingsburg in the 's—cover the exterior and some of the interior walls. These historic squares juxtapose the emphatically modern interior that ushers the winery into the st century. Wine country's most sought-after architect, Howard Backen of Backen & Gillam Architects, utilized industrial and reclaimed materials, like metal and oak, and built the roof out of materials recovered from a dog track in Santa Ana, California. Large glass doors on three sides create a seamless integration between the outside and interior, a signature feature of Backen's designs.
The structure has myriad spaces scattered throughout its large, open floorplan, each dedicated to a different tasting experience. Tasting flights are offered at the dramatic Crown Bar in the center, which peers into the barrel room. To the left, the light-filled Heritage Lounge hosts seated wine and food pairings, while the private, study-like Founders Room pours tastes of library wines and barrel samples. To the right, a small lecture hall called the Wine Study is used for wine education. The glass doors of the Heritage Lounge open up to Martini Park, where guests relax in serene outdoor nooks. Groups can book shaded cabanas and indulge in wine and wood-fired pizzas as if they're in Tuscan wine country.
And yet, the most extraordinary part of the restoration is hidden beneath the ground. Lined on both sides with old redwood casks, the Underground Cellar includes a wine library for older vintages housed inside an old bank vault that Martini purchased from a bank that was going out of business.
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Found this one at the doorstep of my friend's house after class. Poor guy accidentally smashed into the door (i assume) and broke his neck (definately).
How easily the brittle thread shatters and breaks.
The spool destroyed, released, ascends to heaven.
So i'm guessing you cut out of the piece of paper and then stuck the bits behind?
Whatever way you did it, very clever. And great use within the subject.
I carefully cut out pieces from magazine paper and glued them on my drawing and thank you!
Oh gosh, mixed media and birds combined? Yes please. ;u; This is great.
The picture makes more sense with the story. Especially the bold straight lines.
huh, i've seen this before and i could have sworn it was a dd . __.
OH my goodness! this iamge is sick. I LOVE IT! No wonder who got a Daily Deviation. Hell, I'd recommend this too. It's just...to amazing. I wanna cry tears so bad...that its so beautiful. Damn, that's HOT!
This piece is fantastic, I always loved this one.
You made an otherwise crude and sad scene look like fine art... the use of the paper strips helps you achieve that.
what kind of tools did you use to draw the bird?
Poor birdie. ;^; You did an excellent job!
That reminds me of the dead bird I saw at my sister's school.
Hmm I remember him being a little more brown-ish... possibly the female of the grosbeak? Thanks for your input though, I've always been curious!
Maybe...the beak shape just said grosbeak to me. Or maybe finch.
Yes I did, in my flower garden.
oh, so sad it looks absolutely real though!
++ The more that I keep looking at this the more I fall in love with it.
Just wanted to say that in addition to what I already said.
This is beautiful. Great drawing and additions of the magazines and newspaper really makes it stand out even more. Love-love it.
I found a dead cat (a little white kitten actually, probably less than a year old.) in the road as I was driving one night. It was late, and the cat had just been hit and I wanted to pick it up and move it out of the road. On my way back I did.
It was already stiff, but it was still warm.
It was a very odd experience. It felt spiritual almost.
mhmm I picked up a dead opossum once... and buried him on my backyard. Poor thing.
My grandma buried a dead possum one time. Then the next morning she found the hole empty.
The possum was playing possum. The next time she found a dead possum, she made sure it was dead before she buried it.
Fascinating piece of art. Great use of illustration, painting, and collage.


If someone asked you "tell me about your life," do you talk about your possessions? Your wealth? Work? Health? Relationships? Those are things that we have but it's not what actually builds the content of our life. So what is it?
Memories. Stories. You can't tell a person something you don't remember, and the things you most remember are the things that you experienced that made you laugh, cry, surprised, excited, etc.
This past week I caught up with one of my best buds who moved to another state and I haven't seen in about a year. Life keeps us both busy and its been a few months since we really chatted. You know, one of those chats where time runs by faster than you care to think about and you're talking up a storm about both important stuff and nonsense; busting up laughing over the stupidest things that only you two find funny. I hadn't cried laughing that hard in a while.
After we hung up I was remembering the good times we had in high school and college. The times BC (before Christ) and BA (Born Again…or Bad-fillintheblank). We've been through a lot together and now there's a good 1000+ miles between us. We've grown up and changed in ways that are both for the better and maybe not so much. But even with all this time and miles between us, when we pick up the phone its as if a minute hasn't passed by since we last kicked it.
Memories. They are the building blocks, or wood, that make up a house regardless of whether it will be inhabited or abandoned. There's not much to enjoy though in a house (life) that's abandoned. It's why memories aren't meant to be built alone, but to be shared with people you love and care about.
It took me two years of college, a study abroad trip, three years of work, several other trips in between, a year of jobless international solo travel, a hard but broken heart and five digit total expenses over those years; to finally understand that fact.
In 2012 I went on a study abroad trip to Turkey. During my time there I took a week off to go travel, by myself, in the middle of the country where people barely speak a lick of English and they could easily take advantage of a lost foreigner. I had nothing except a small backpack and a desire to see the seven churches in the book of Revelations (all in Turkey).
Without writing a novel with all the details here, I have to say it was one of the most amazing and life-defining experiences of my life; where I met wonderful people, experienced a foreign culture first hand as an adult on my own, and learned to walk by faith and not by sight. More relevantly, it refined me as a person who likes to be extremely self-sufficient.
This particular skill and experience comes at a cost though, because I'd be lying if I said I didn't struggle with loneliness for a long time even after then.
So here I am, one of those days in that week traveling through Turkey, sitting on a bench in the city of Salihli (formerly known as Sardis) after having just arrived by bus. It's during the time of Kurban Bayram, which is the annual Islamic celebration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son to God. There's literal blood in the streets all over the country, because people are taking their sheeps, goats, cows, donkeys, etc., out into the streets to slit their throats and prepare them for a multi-day feast. I'm sitting on this bench just before sunset, observing people clean up the blood on the streets before dinner, not knowing where I was staying that night (I always booked hotels last minute), letting the reality of my existence in that moment sink in; and then I hear the Lord speak to me.
"Is that really the case? But at what cost?" He replied.
Side-note: Those quotes up there are directly copied from a journal I still have from that time in which I wrote down what had happened during my travels.
I've traveled to many other cities and countries since then, had lots of amazing once in a lifetime experiences that most others unfortunately don't have, and successfully made and spent lots of money; yet it wasn't until this past year that I finally understood what God was speaking to me all those years ago. I preached vulnerability and love with others, but I didn't practice it with myself.
Even though I built a lot of good solid fun memories all those years, it would be nothing compared to if I had shared those same memories with a loved one by my side. Honestly the best memories I have are the ones that God, my family or friends are involved; no matter how eventful (lit) or not it was. It is for this reason that I write this as a little reminder of wisdom to myself and anyone reading this.
Life is not about what you do, where you go, or how you live; at the end of the day it's about who you share it with.
Yes, this great king conquered half the known world, this woman went where no other woman has gone before, this former lawyer lived such and such life of integrity and passive revolution; I'm sure those people would rather tell you more about who was by their side through it all than just their accomplishments. A piece of paper can detail accomplishments just fine, but it can't bleed, sweat, or show the tears of everyone involved.
A family is not just one person. A kingdom is not just one king. A life is not just one heart.
So don't isolate, integrate. Build memories with the people you love so that you can laugh, cry, smile and reminisce about it many years from now.


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The Oregon National Guard participated in arctic warfare training in British Columbia late last month. They may be able to practice their new skills in the winter weather forecast to hit Oregon this weekend.
Members of the Oregon National Guard coincidentally received training in arctic warfare in Canada during the record-breaking lows that hit a large swath of the nation the last week of January.
Ironically, a National Guard sergeant, April Davis, who wrote about the training, noted that Oregon soldiers "don't often get a chance to train in adverse winter conditions."
But Oregon soldiers may soon have plenty of winter weather in which to practice their new skills.
Snow is forecast to blanket the Pacific Northwest this weekend. Portland could receive four to 14 inches of snow between Saturday and Tuesday, according to KGW meteorologist Rod Hill.
Nearly 40 soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat team, traveled to Manning Park, British Columbia, Jan. 24-28 to participate in the training alongside the Royal Westminster Regiment, 39th Canadian Brigade Group.
The training focused on winter survival, cold weather tent living and transporting light infantry in wintery weather.
The unit is headquartered in Springfield and has companies based in Corvallis, Hillsboro and Gresham.
To see a photo gallery of their training, visit the Oregon National Guard's Flickr page.


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Gen James Logan Jones, Jr. ID: 400
First Name: James
Last Name: Jones, Jr.
Birthplace: Kansas City, MO, USA
Branch: Marines (present)
Home of Record: Kansas City, MO
Middle Name: Logan
Date of Birth: 19 December 1943
Rank: General
Years Served: 1967-2007
James Logan Jones, Jr.
• Vietnam War (1960 - 1973)
• Gulf War (1990 - 1991)
General, U.S. Marine Corps
James Logan Jones Jr. was born on 19 December 1943 in Kansas City, MO. He is the son of James L. Jones, Sr., a decorated Marine in World War II who was a Captain in the Observer Group and the Commanding Officer of its successor, the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion. Having spent his formative years in France, where he attended the American School of Paris, Jones Jr. returned to the U.S. to attend the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966. Jones, who is six feet four inches tall, played forward on the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team. Jones was a member of the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at Georgetown and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1967.
Military Career
Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a Platoon and Company Commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines. While overseas, he was promoted to First Lieutenant in June 1968.
Returning to the U.S. in December 1968, Jones was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA, where he served as a Company Commander until May 1970. He then received orders to Marine Barracks, Washington, DC, for duties as a Company Commander, serving in this assignment until July 1973. While at this post, in December 1970 he was promoted to Captain. From July 1973 until June 1974, he was a student at the Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps University, MCB Quantico.
In November 1974, he received orders to report to the 3rd Marine Division at MCB Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, where he served as the commander of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, until December 1975.
From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington. During this assignment, he was promoted to Major in July 1977. Remaining in Washington, his next assignment was as the Marine Corps Liaison Officer to the U.S. Senate, where he served until July 1984. In this assignment, his first commander was John McCain, then a U.S. Navy Captain. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in September 1982
Senior Staff and Command
He was selected to attend the National War College in Washington. Following graduation in June 1985, he was assigned to Command the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, from July 1985 to July 1987.
In August 1987, Jones returned to Headquarters Marine Corps, where he served as Senior Aide-de-Camp to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was promoted to Colonel in April 1988, and became the Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps in February 1989. During August 1990, Jones was assigned as the Commanding Officer of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC. During his tour with the 24th MEU, he participated in Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq and Turkey. He was advanced to Brigadier General on 23 April 1992. Jones was assigned to duties as Deputy Director, J-3, U.S European Command, Stuttgart, Germany, on 15 July 1992. During this tour of duty, he was reassigned as Chief of Staff, Joint Task Force Provide Promise, for Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia.
Returning to the U.S., he was advanced to the rank of Major General in July 1994 and was assigned as Commanding General, 2nd Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantic, MCB Camp Lejeune. Jones next served as Director, Expeditionary Warfare Division (N85), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, during 1996, then as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Policies, and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington. He was advanced to Lieutenant General on 18 July 1996. His next assignment was as the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
On 21 April 1999, he was nominated for appointment to the grade of General and assignment as the 32nd commandant of the Marine Corps. He was promoted to General on 30 June 1999, and assumed the post on 1 July 1999. He served as Commandant until January 2003, turning over the reins to General Michael Hagee.
Among other innovations during his career as Commandant, Jones oversaw the Marine Corps' development of MARPAT camouflage uniforms, and the adoption of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). These replaced M81 Woodland uniforms and the LINE combat system, respectively.
SACEUR/EUCOM
Jones assumed duties as the Commander of U.S. European Command on 16 January 2003, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe the following day. He was the first Marine Corps General to serve as Commander, SACEUR/EUCOM.
The Marine Corps had only recently begun to take on a larger share of high-level assignments in the Department of Defense. As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current Commandant of the Marine Corps (General James T. Conway) in terms of seniority and time in grade - the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace; former Commandant Michael Hagee, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.
As SACEUR, Jones led the Allied Command Operations (ACO), comprising NATO's military forces in Europe, from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium. Jones relinquished command as SACEUR on 7 December 2006, and was succeeded by U.S. Army General John Craddock.
Jones was reported to have declined an opportunity to succeed Gen. John P. Abizaid as Commander of U.S. Central Command when he stepped down as SACEUR.
General Jones retired from the Marine Corps on 1 February 2007.
Defense Distinguished Service Medal w/ 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Silver Star Medal
Legion of Merit w/ 4 Award Stars
Bronze Star Medal w/ Valor Device
Combat Action Ribbon
Navy Presidential Unit Citation
Joint Meritorious Unit Award w/ 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation w/ 3 Service Stars
National Defense Service Medal w/ 2 Service Stars
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Vietnam Service Medal w/ 4 Service Stars
Southwest Asia Service Medal w/ 1 Service Star
Armed Forces Service Medal
Humanitarian Service Medal
Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon w/ 7 Service Stars
Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon w/ 1 Service Star
NATO Meritorious Service Medal
Vietnam Gallantry Cross w/ Bronze Star
Legion of Honor, Commander
National Order of Merit, Officer
Meritorious Service Cross, Post-Nominal: M.S.C.
Military Order of Italy, Commander
Order of the Cross of the Eagle, 1st Class
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Commander's Grand Cross
Military Order of Aviz, Grand Cross
Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation
NATO Medal for Yugoslavia
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
In Retirement
Following his retirement from the military, Jones became president of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; served as chair of the board of directors of the Atlantic Council of the U.S. from June 2007until January 2009 when he assumed the post of National Security Advisor. He also served as a member of the guiding coalition for the Project on National Security Reform, as well as chairman of the Independent Commission on Security Forces of Iraq.
Jones was a member of the Board of directors of the Boeing Company from 21 June 2007 to 15 December 2008, serving on the company's Audit and Finance Committees.
Jones was a member of the Board of directors of Cross Match Technologies, a privately held biometric solutions company, from October 2007 to January 2009.
Jones was a member of the Board of Trustees of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a bipartisan think tank, from 2007-08, and then began serving again in 2011.
Jones was a member of the Board of directors of Chevron Corporation from 28 May 2008 to 5 December 2008, serving on the Board Nominating and Governance and Public Policy Committees.
According to the first report since he re-entered government service in January 2009, Jones earned salary and bonus of $900,000 from the U.S. Chamber, as well as director fees of $330,000 from the Boeing Company and $290,000 from Chevron Corporation.
After leaving the Obama administration, Jones returned as a Fellow at the U.S. Chamber in 2011.
Then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Jones twice to be Deputy Secretary of State after Robert Zoellick resigned. He declined.
On 25 May 2007, Congress created an Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq to investigate for 120 days the capabilities of the Iraq armed forces and police. Jones served as chairman of that commission and reported to Congress on 6 September 2007noting serious deficiencies in the Iraq Interior Ministry and in the Iraq National Police.
Rice appointed Jones as a special envoy for Middle East security on 28 November 2007, working with Israelis and Palestinians to strengthen security for both sides.
Jones serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), where he works on a variety of national security and energy-related issues. Jones is also a co-chair of BPC's Energy Project.
National Security Advisor
On 1 December 2008 then-President-elect Obama announced Jones as his selection for National Security Advisor. The National Security Advisor is appointed by the President without confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
The selection surprised people because, as Michael Crowley reported "The two men didn't meet until Obama's foreign policy aide, Mark Lippert, arranged a 2005 sit-down, and, as of this October, Jones had only spoken to Obama twice." Crowley speculated that Jones' record suggests he is "someone who, unencumbered by strong ideological leanings, can evaluate ideas dispassionately whether they come from left or right," and, "This is probably why Obama picked him." Jones was also picked because he is well respected and likely to possess the skills to navigate the other prestigious and powerful cabinet members. "He does not appear to be a natural antagonist of anyone else on the team. Though he doesn't know Gates especially well, both men share long experience in the national security establishment (Gates was in the Air Force and previously headed the CIA). Jones and Clinton have a more direct connection, having bonded - as Hillary did with many military officials - during her tenure on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The two are said to have particularly clicked at a 2005 conference on security policy in Munich. Jones hosted a small private dinner that included Clinton and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, among others; at the end of the convivial evening, according to one person present, Jones followed Clinton out to her car to visit in private."
Jones assumed the post when Obama was sworn into office on 20 January 2009. He announced his resignation as National Security Advisor on 8 October 2010 and was replaced by Thomas E. Donilon.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who hired Jones as his military assistant, is quoted as saying Jones has a placid demeanor and a "methodical approach to problems - he's able to view issues at both the strategic and tactical level." While he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, Jones often signed e-mails as "Rifleman," because he served as an infantry officer.
Jones was also responsible for convincing country music artist Toby Keith that he should record and publish his popular concert hit Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American).
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Change of Command ceremony, 13 January 2003. SgtMaj Alford McMichael (left) salutes as General Jones (center) relinquishes command to General Michael Hagee (right). Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz (left) and Jones at press conference on Jones' assumption of command of EUCOM.
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VMware's VSAN 6 and EMC Vspex Blue launches start off what is shaping up to be a busy year in hyper-converged infrastructure.
This is shaping up to be a pivotal year for hyper-convergence.
VMware launched Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6 -- the second version of its VSAN hyper-converged software -- and EMC joined the VMware roster of VSAN partners with its Vspex Blue EVO: RAIL system in early February. The market is now crowded with vendors dedicated to hyper-convergence -- Nutanix, SimpliVity, Scale Computing, Pivot3, Maxta and Nimboxx -- plus VMware and its large EVO: RAIL partners.
While 2014 was largely about validation for hyper-convergence, 2015 will be about accelerating features and adoption for the early players.
Who are the early hyper-convergence leaders?
Hyper-converged systems combine compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources into one box. Nutanix and SimpliVity were among the first into the market, and are generally acknowledged as the leaders in technology and market share.
IDC's Marketscape report on hyper-converged systems published in December 2014 listed Nutanix as the clear leader, with SimpliVity the other player in the "Leaders" category. Other vendors included in the "Major Players" category were VMware, Scale Computing, EMC (ScaleIO) and Pivot3. Maxta, which sells hyper-converged software and prevalidated reference architectures with hardware partners HP and Cisco, was listed as a "Contender." The report did not include VMware EVO: RAIL partners such as Dell, HP, NetApp, Fujitsu and Supermicro that sell VSAN on commodity hardware.
Gartner's 2014 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems listed Nutanix and SimpliVity as visionaries. They were the only hyper-convergence players and the only privately held companies in the quadrant.
IDC crowned Nutanix the market share leader with 52% of the hyper-converged market in the first half of 2014. Nutanix in January said it hit a $300 million annual run rate for the fourth quarter of 2014, which translates to a $75 million quarter. That followed a $50 million third quarter. Nutanix also claims 50 customers who have purchased $1 million or more of its products and services. And these are still early days in Nutanix's OEM deal with Dell that started in October 2014.
SimpliVity said it has shipped OmniCubes to over 1,500 customers in 2014, and it should receive a boost in coming quarters from a sales partnership with Cisco.
VMware is also claiming rapid growth for VSAN, currently with 1,000 customers in the ninth month that it has been available.
VSAN 6 was about playing catch-up, but not leapfrogging the competition. VSAN is not the first to support all-flash. Nutanix began selling an all-flash system last year, as did Microsoft Hyper-V-centric vendor Gridstore. VSAN does not yet support any data reduction in VSAN. Except for SimpliVity, the other hyper-converged products support multiple hypervisors. VSAN is part of vSphere, and would have to be redesigned to support other hypervisors.
Still, by improving VSAN 6 in key areas VMware raised the bar for all of its competitors. The early hyper-converged vendors will not be able to stand still if they are to hold off VMware with VSAN 6 and its large EVO: RAIL partners.
Sunil Potti, who became Nutanix's senior vice president of engineering and product management in January, said competition from EVO: RAIL will help the market because large vendors are pushing hyper-convergence. But he said VSAN software powering EVO: RAIL is tied to one hypervisor, and that will limit its functionality. Nutanix supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM hypervisors.
Potti sees Nutanix enjoying the early-mover advantage in hyper-convergence that VMware had with hypervisors.
"It all comes down to -- did you start this from a net-new scrap of paper?" he said. "Is this foundationally a rewrite? It's always good when a majority of vendors embrace the architecture. But the winners do it with no dependency on legacy."
Potti said Nutanix will eventually branch out beyond the hyper-converged systems it now sells. He says the current hyper-converged infrastructure is "Act One" in the vendor's plans.
"Act Two will converge compute and storage across the data center into a hybrid cloud infrastructure," he said. "VMware [server virtualization] was about decoupling the application from the server. I believe Nutanix has the ability to decouple the application from the data center. We're just in the first stage now."
SimpliVity CEO Doron Kempel said he still considers VMware more of a partner than a competitor. Like Nutanix, SimpliVity was among the vendors at VMware's PEX partner show last week. OmniCube still supports only VMware hypervisors, although SimpliVity is working on support for Hyper-V and KVM.
Kempel said OmniCube and VSAN/EVO: RAIL usually turn up in different use cases. VSAN is commonly used for VDI and remote offices. Kempel said OmniCubes are frequently used for primary storage and to replicate data between cubes in different sites. He said more than 80% of its customers run Microsoft SQL databases on OmniCubes.
"People don't deploy SimpliVity to run VDI," he said. "They're running tier-one, mission-critical deployments."
VMware is counting on VSAN 6 to bring it into primary business-critical storage environments. Along with all-flash hardware, it added support for 64 nodes in a cluster and improved its snapshot capability. As part of vSphere, VSAN has a huge potential install base that can deploy it any time. And VSAN sales should get a boost this year from the upgraded version plus its EVO: RAIL OEM partners, although VSAN 6 will not be part of EVO: RAIL until the second half of 2015.
Kempel sees deduplication as SimpliVity's biggest advantage in the market, and he expects that to still be the case after VSAN adds the feature. SimpliVity's use of an ASIC to run its data compression is unique among hyper-converged products.
"In most hyper-converged products, you slow down the storage once you start getting into heavy workloads," Kempel said. "The processor runs the storage and the infrastructure. We do the heavy-duty infrastructure on our card. We don't slow down your application."
Nothing is slowing down the hyper-convergence momentum these days.
EVO: RAIL versus competitors: How do they stack up?
There will be a shakedown in the hyper-converged area with those providing to all hypervisors wining the a huge pot of gold for the accomplishment.
Not just a shakedown, but a consolidation, with the larger vendors buying out the smaller ones. I'm surprised we haven't seen that happen already.


Social Evening at the Betty Cottles Inn, Okehampton.
The Society held a Social Evening on Saturday 18th November 2018 at the Betty Cottles Inn, Okehampton. What an enjoyable and well supported event. Excellent food, great company we must do it all again very soon.


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Edward W. Calvin, the leading druggist and owner of both livery stables of Newman, was born in Wayne County, Illinois, December 21, 1860. He is a son of Dr. J. W. Calvin, who was born in Kentucky in 1829, and he the son of Hiram Calvin, who was a native of Virginia. His father was a graduate of Rush Medical College. He married Sarah Brown, of New Buffalo, Michigan, whose death occurred some twenty years ago. He has practiced at various places, was at Newman one year and is at present in active and successful practice at Toledo, Ohio.
E. W. Calvin has for several years extensively engaged in buying and selling horses and has been remarkably successful in all business enterprises in which he has been interested. In June, 1897, he opened out in the drug business and keeps on hands one of the most complete assortments of drugs found in a first-class drug store.
In 1889 he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Smith, of Vermilion County. They have one child, Oka McCrea. Mrs. Calvin is a daughter of Michael Smith, who was born in Vermilion County, Illinois. Her mother was Mary Ann Snapp. She was a daughter of George Snapp, a native of Richmond, Virginia, He was a carriage maker by trade and after working some time at his trade in Richmond he removed to Georgetown, Vermilion County. He was in the war of 1812. Mrs. Calvin's grandfather, Joseph Smith, was a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and later removed to Vermilion County, where he resided until his death. In about 189o Mrs. Calvin started her present millinery store in Newman and carries a stock as large and varied as can be found in many towns of from ten thousand to fifteen thousand people. Edward W. Calvin has made a success of every business venture he has ever undertaken. He takes an active interest in political and social affairs and is public spirited and interests himself in everything that helps Newman and Douglas County.
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Sorry its taken so long! I lost my camera for a week or so in the move. Here's some pictures… more to come very soon, I promise!
These are pics of the front of house, the living room and OF COURSE the MAN ROOM! The Man Room is the first room that was completed. More pictures to come when more progress is made!
Wordless Wednesday: Our Little Cheerleader- Go State, GO STATE!


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A War on Wikileaks?
by Maximilian Forte
In the interest of full disclosure, I am one of Wikileaks' many financial donors. I have downloaded their entire Afghan War Diary, and numerous other documents in the past, and I have shared them. I am also one of the critics of some aspects of the Wikileaks review process. Some might rush to conclude that this puts individuals such as myself in a difficult position. Not from our standpoint. Instead the difficult positions are owned by the U.S. State Department and Pentagon, whose emissions have been chock full of absurd assertions, twisted logic, while appealing to us with as much charm as that of a delinquent about to commit date rape: first the appeal to our good side (ethics), then the threat of destruction (prosecution).
The past week has seen a mounting cascade of legal threats against Wikileaks, launched first via the mainstream media, which along with its patron state is clearly smarting from the lash of uncontrolled information access. A Pentagon official reportedly exclaimed, with obvious joy: "It's amazing how [Wikileaks' Julian] Assange has overplayed his hand. Now, he's alienating the sort of people who you'd normally think would be his biggest supporters." In one step, three fallacies: one, that this story is all about Julian Assange, thus reducing the complex to the personal; two, that supporters of Wikileaks have become antagonistic toward what is an amorphous transnational movement without clear boundaries of membership or location; and three, the implication that support has shifted toward the Pentagon, as if it now has some sort of green light of legitimacy to commit any acts against Wikileaks that it wishes. It's only at these big historical moments, with so much at stake, with everything seemingly up in the air, that one finds so many people who are so wrong about so much.
Let's review the strategy of intended intimidation. The first step involved the military threatening its own—not in itself illogical, since the leaks emanate from within its ranks. However, the military threatened its own to avoid looking at what is now public. The Department of the Navy, in a message titled "Wikileaks Website Guidance," issued the following statement as reported on August 5th:
"personnel should not access the WikiLeaks website to view or download the publicized classified information. Doing so would introduce potentially classified information on unclassified networks. There has been rumor that the information is no longer classified since it resides in the public domain. This is NOT true. Government information technology capabilities should be used to enable our war fighters, promote information sharing in defense of our homeland, and to maximize efficiencies in operations. It should not be used as a means to harm national security through unauthorized disclosure of our information on publicly accessible websites or chat rooms."
A similar message was issued by the Special Security Office of the Marine Corps Intelligence Department addressed to ALCON (all concerned), which threatened to discipline offenders:
"By willingly accessing the WIKILEAKS website for the purpose of viewing the posted classified material—these actions constitute the unauthorized processing, disclosure, viewing, and downloading of classified information onto an UNAUTHORIZED computer system not approved to store classified information, meaning they have WILLINGLY committed a SECURITY VIOLATION. Not only are these actions illegal, but they provide the justification for local security officials to immediately remove, suspend 'FOR CAUSE' all security clearances and accesses. Commanders may press for Article 15 or 32 charges, and USMC personnel could face a financial hardship as civilian and contractor personnel will be placed on 'Administrative Leave' pending the outcome of the [criminal] investigation."
The threat to military personnel is one thing, but it has been done in a manner that threatens a wide array of actors, which theoretically could include independent bloggers, journalists, university librarians, and scholars. Sumit Agarwal, the former Google manager who—take note of the military-new media complex at work—is now serving as the Defense Department's social media czar, asserted to Wired's Danger Room that many of us may be guilty of illegal information trafficking (as I said in my last article, we are all hackers now):
"I think of it as being analogous to MP3s or a copyrighted novel online—widespread publication doesn't strip away laws governing use of those. If Avatar were suddenly available online, would [it] be legal to download it? As a practical matter, many people would download it, but also as a practical matter, James Cameron would probably go after people who were found to be nodes who facilitated distribution. It would still be illegal for people to make Avatar available even if it were posted on a torrent site or the equivalent. With minor changes to what is legal/illegal re: classified material vs a copyrighted movie, doesn't the analogy hold? One person making it available doesn't change the laws re: classified material. Our position is simply that service members ought not to use government computers to do something which is still completely illegal (traffic in classified material)."
Also on August 5th, the Pentagon issued an outlandish demand, so bizarre that it could not possibly be met with anything less than scorn. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell ordered Wikileaks to "return" all documents (which are not paper documents, but digital copies, of which countless copies now exist in circulation):
"These documents are the property of the U.S. Government and contain classified and sensitive information. The Defense Department demands that Wikileaks return immediately all version [sic] of documents obtained….Wikileaks' public disclosure last week of a large number of our documents has already threatened the safety of our troops, our allies and Afghan citizens….The only acceptable course is for Wikileaks to return all versions of these documents to the U.S. government and permanently delete them from its website, computers and records."
At the same time this indicates one of the main lines of argument that the U.S. would begin to pursue against Wikileaks in earnest, and it is by far the weakest: that the leaked records threaten the safety of its troops and allies.
Fox News was eager to dedicate its time and energies to looking for legal loopholes by which to hang Wikileaks. It demonstrated no such concern for the finer points of international law, let alone another country's domestic laws, when it came to the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, here is Fox on Wikileaks' trail in Sweden. On August 6th Fox was happy to have surfaced with this report: "But the law [protecting freedom of expression and the anonymity of sources] only applies to websites or publications that possess a special publishing license granting them constitutional protection, and WikiLeaks has not acquired the requisite paperwork." Fox's headline was "WikiLeaks Website Not Protected by Swedish Law, Legal Analysts Say"—no legal analyst was named or quoted in the article. The only reason Fox issued this piece is as part of an effort, combining old media, social media, and the national security state, to draw a tighter noose around Wikileaks' collective neck. At a time when many "patriotic Americans" are publicly calling for Wikileaks' people to be hunted down and shot, it is interesting to note that Fox is only too happy to reveal the name, location, and photograph of the person hosting Wikileaks' server in Sweden.
On August 9th, the Wall Street Journal claimed to have obtained a letter from five human rights organizations that was critical of Wikileaks' failure to redact the names of Afghan civilian informants in the records that were publicly released. The WSJ's Jeanne Whalen, in language that is strikingly close to that of the unnamed Pentagon official quoted above at the start, wrote: "The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents' publication." This could be a problem for Wikileaks, insofar as Julian Assange has effectively conceded the argument in an interview with, among others, The Guardian: "If there are innocent Afghans being revealed, which was our concern, which was why we kept back 15,000 files, then of course we take that seriously." The problem is that many such identities are revealed in the files that have already been released. Assange argues that the U.S. military is ultimately to blame for having placed Afghan civilians in danger, and for recording identities that could be revealed. He is not wrong there, and the U.S. was overconfident that its database was beyond any danger of leakage, which is obviously wrong. Perhaps not wanting to engage in cold, bitter irony, Assange did not choose to give back to the state the words it often gives us: "Mistakes were made. We regret all loss of innocent civilian life. Unfortunately, the enemy chose to embed itself in the civilian population." Wikileaks, via Twitter, was correct in noting that not once since the recent leaks exploded into public has the Pentagon said it was sorry about all the Afghan civilians it killed, or that it would stop.
Now, on August 10th, we are told that the U.S. is urging all of its allies, especially those in NATO and with troops in Afghanistan, to crack down on Wikileaks. An unnamed American diplomat has stated:
"It's not just our troops that are put in jeopardy by this leaking. It's U.K. troops, it's German troops, it's Australian troops—all of the NATO troops and foreign forces working together in Afghanistan. [Their governments should] review whether the actions of WikiLeaks could constitute crimes under their own national-security laws."
Some U.S. allies, such as Canada, are likely to bolt out of the gate to be the first to do so. The day after the release of the documents, Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon insisted, at first, that he would not comment directly on the leaked documents, saying they had "nothing to do with Canada." Yet, as if he had suddenly received an automated statement transmitted to a secret implant buried in his head, he said: "Our government is concerned, obviously, that operational leaks could endanger the lives of our men and women in Afghanistan." Again, three absurdly contradictory elements bundled together: 1) we are not commenting on the documents; 2) the documents have nothing to do with Canada; and, 3) the documents could endanger our troops.
The latter point is likely to be how the U.S. will impress upon allies the need to collaborate in persecuting Wikileaks. The endangering of Afghan civilians cannot, clearly, be a point on which to prosecute a case against Wikileaks, because the irony would be too immense for even the U.S. to try to keep inflated and aloft. The safety of troops is not much less ironic—after all, it was the state that placed those troops in harm's way, not Wikileaks—but it does play better with a home crowd that has been sufficiently conditioned to thirst for the blood of imagined "traitors." The leaders of the chief national security state of the West increasingly sound like angry and desperate bloggers, promising the wrath of god and total vengeance—and it may be because, one, the state is increasingly powerless to deal with transnational, decentralized, non-state phenomena that can fight back on cyber terrain (and win), and two because that crowd of angry, righteous patriots is the one the state is playing to.
It would be amazing if the U.S. or an ally ever got to try a case against Wikileaks on the grounds that troops' lives had been endangered. It would be a massive fiasco. The state would need to show—and not just assert, as it does now—exactly how any troops were actually endangered. Which of the rounds received from small arms fire in Afghanistan is a regular "insurgent" round and which one is a Wikileaks' inspired round? In a war zone, how do you calibrate safety levels such that you can tell when, with Wikileaks, the danger meter went deeper into the red? And since Afghan civilians are already, all too painfully, aware of the damage done by U.S. and NATO forces, how can the release of these records do any greater damage? Did Afghans need a reminder, in print, in another language?
If the state fails to make any sense—not surprising—it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. And in this case, the danger lies at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
Bullying Assange, or worse yet, actually capturing him and imprisoning him, will only make Assange into an international hero, the Che Guevara of information warfare. For all those who may be "alienated," or who expressed any criticisms, they/we would clearly pick Assange over the Pentagon any day. The U.S. does not want this to be publicly proven on a world stage, so our answers to the question of what the U.S. is up to, and why it seems to have become so utterly unhinged, have to lie elsewhere. I contend that it is fear promotion, as part of a campaign of global counterinsurgency on psychological and emotional levels, to which the best answer is a combination of further tactical innovation, and greater humor.
MAXIMILIAN C. FORTE is a professor in anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He writes at Zero Anthropology. He can be reached at max.forte@openanthropology.org
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Ireland: RTÉ Spent €331,000 on Eurovision 2017
It was revealed today that RTÉ spent a total of €331,482 on this year's Eurovision participation. The broadcaster sent a team of 16 people to Kyiv, including Brendan Murray, his backing vocalists and tour manager, who all spent two weeks in…
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In an interview with the Herald, Brendan Murray, this year's Irish Eurovision participant, spoke about his experiences at the contest and what needs to be done to get Ireland back into the final. Ireland has not reached the finals of…
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Louis Walsh has revealed in an interview after the Second Semi-Final that he "wouldn't have changed a thing" about the Irish Eurovision act this year. In an interview with the Ray D'Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1, Louis Walsh said that…
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Ireland: Bookmakers Not Confident in Brendan Qualifying Tonight
Oddschecker takes a look at the chances of Ireland making it through to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. Brendan Murray will have the hopes of a nation resting on his shoulders when he performs 'Dying to Try'…
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Ireland: Brendan Murray Performs On The Late Late Show
Brendan Murray performed "Dying To Try" last night on the The Late Late Show, as he prepares for the Eurovision Song Contest. Brendan Murray gave his last public performance of "Dying To Try" last night before he heads off for Kyiv,…
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Brendan Murray has revealed the five backing singers who will travelling with him to the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. This evening the five backing singers who will be travelling to Ireland to compete in the Eurovision Song…
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The Irish entry for the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine, "Dying To Try" has been revealed today on RTE 2FM. "Dying To Try" will be the entry for Ireland at this years Eurovision Song Contest 2017…
3 February 2017 3 February 2017 Eurovision 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Ireland National Selection News by Anthony Granger
Ireland: 3 Songs In The Running For Eurovision 2017
Eurovoix.com understands that just three songs are left in the running for Brendan Murray to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv. RTE have shortlisted three songs for Brendan Murray to perform for Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest…
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Ireland: Brendan Murray Travelling To Stockholm This Week
Brendan Murray the Irish entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 is travelling to Sweden this week to work with a "world famous producer". In a tweet last night which has since been deleted, the Irish entrant revealed that he…
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A grand total of 330 songs have been submitted in Ireland for Brendan Murray to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. In Ireland a total of 330 songs have been submitted as potential entries for Brendan Murray to perform at…
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Ireland: Brendan Murray To Eurovision 2017
RTE has this evening confirmed that Brendan Murray will be representing Ireland at the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. Brendan Murray has been internally selected to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. Brendan is…


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    private final Class<? extends ApplicationProvider> providerClass;
    private final Class<? extends Application> applicationClass;

    private static final String METADATA_RESOURCE_PATH = "/META-INF/providers/%s.xml";

    ApplicationXMLDescriptorLoader(Class<? extends ApplicationProvider> providerClass, Class<? extends Application> applicationClass) {
        this.providerClass = providerClass;
        this.applicationClass = applicationClass;
    }

    /**
     * Default metadata path is:  /META-INF/providers/${ApplicationProviderClassName}.xml
     *
You are not recommended to override this method except you could make sure the path is universal unique

     *
     * @return metadata file path
     */
    private String generateXMLDescriptorPath() {
        return String.format(METADATA_RESOURCE_PATH, providerClass.getName());
    }

    @Override
    public ApplicationDesc getApplicationDesc() {
        String descriptorPath = generateXMLDescriptorPath();
        ApplicationDesc applicationDesc = new ApplicationDesc();
        applicationDesc.setProviderClass(this.providerClass);
        ApplicationProviderDescConfig descWrapperConfig = ApplicationProviderDescConfig.loadFromXML(this.getClass(), descriptorPath);
        applicationDesc.setType(descWrapperConfig.getType());
        applicationDesc.setVersion(descWrapperConfig.getVersion());
        applicationDesc.setName(descWrapperConfig.getName());
        applicationDesc.setDocs(descWrapperConfig.getDocs());
        applicationDesc.setJarPath(DynamicJarPathFinder.findPath(applicationClass));
        if (applicationClass != null) {
            applicationDesc.setAppClass(applicationClass);
            if (!Application.class.isAssignableFrom(applicationDesc.getAppClass())) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(applicationDesc.getAppClass() + " is not sub-class of " + Application.class.getCanonicalName());
            }
        }
        applicationDesc.setDependencies(descWrapperConfig.getDependencies());
        applicationDesc.setViewPath(descWrapperConfig.getViewPath());
        applicationDesc.setConfiguration(descWrapperConfig.getConfiguration());
        applicationDesc.setStreams(descWrapperConfig.getStreams());
        return applicationDesc;
    }
}