Barb was a fabulous sponsor last year, for the Pets on Quilts Show, and we appreciate her sponsorship this year!
Many of you know Barb for her great patterns. She has such cute ideas! That one above is something that would look great in a corner of my kitchen - how about yours?
You can check out the selection at her Etsy shop, over at this link.
This is one of my favorites - it's a great change-up from rectangular table toppers!
Barb spent time in Samoa, so these lovely fabrics are near and dear to her heart. They feature in some of her quilted projects.
Bejeweled Quilts can also be found on Craftsy -- click on this link to hop over there! You'll find a variety of free patterns that will be great for quick projects and gifting!
Barb is offering THREE of her great patterns to one lucky winner at the Pets on Quilts Show in August! Yay! That's going to make somebody happy!
Please take a moment to click on one of the links above and check out her patterns -- or drop by her blog and let her know we sent you! Better yet, leave a comment here to thank her for being a gracious sponsor of awesome prizes!
Thanks, Barb, for sponsoring our show! We love ya!
All of us here at the Lilypad would like to thank all of you special peeps and purr-friends who have stopped by and offered words of encouragement.
Here he is, with his "I don't trust you right now" face on.
This was a few minutes after I gave him his morning dose of The Awful Medicine. The doc warned me that it tasted terrible.
But it has helped! His appetite has increased, and I think, I'm not sure, maybe I'm being too hopeful.... I think he has put back an ounce or two. It feels like he is not quite as bony at the shoulders and hips.
He still is very careful how he sits and lies down. I imagine that tumor makes it uncomfortable, but he still enjoys his sun puddles on the screen porch, and watching the birds and squirrels.
And that is what I'm aiming for -- for him to have as much time as possible to enjoy the world he loves, and have lap time when he wants it.
"Aw, mom, you're embarrassing me."
So, thank you for your kind words. We will see if he is able to get stronger, before we decide if an ultrasound exam would stress him more than help him. The vet says that even if we are able to do a surgery, it may not be worth it, for what it would put him through. So we may be looking at keeping him comfy until it is time to cross over the bridge.
All of you special folks who left us love are the best! Keep purring and sending pawsitive thoughts in this direction!
Terri Stegmiller sponsored a prize last year, and she is back this year for the fun! Terri is a talented designer, and dreams up beautiful and sometimes whimsical patterns for lovely quilted projects. Take a peek over her shoulder and see what I mean!
Isn't that the cutest? Love how one kitty is expressing his individuality. We all know a cat like that, am I right? That is called "Purrfectly Patterned" and it was accepted to "Patterns," the 2016 Dinner at Eight Artists exhibition, which will debut at the Houston International Quilt Festival this fall.
I first "met" Terri in blogland when I had the honor of testing a pattern for her. Remember this wallhanging?
It was so much fun to make! I added some 3D touches, and I love how Terri's design really brings those kitties to life!
Terri is an artist and designer, and her focus is on textile arts -- she is multi-talented and works in art quilting, painting, stencils, and more.
She offers tutorials on her blog for projects that we can all enjoy. The tote bag above is one of those tutorials.
The photo above is from her thread sketching tutorial. You can learn from her tutorials how to bucket dye, to make faux batik fabric, and to construct a folio, an eyeglass case, or a pillow cover!
Have you ever wanted to sun dye fabrics? Or have you wanted to print on fabrics? You will find instructions and inspiration in Terri's world!
I enjoy keeping up with Terri's blog, and I hope you will hop over to see her. It's particularly interesting to see how she uses stencils and Thermofax screens to make lovely, one of a kind fabrics.
Those gorgeous fabrics are the bundle of fat quarters that Terri is sponsoring. Beautiful!
Take a cyber trip and visit her shop, and be sure to look on her tutorial page for the videos she has posted. There's one of her creating one of her art pieces -- and it's fascinating to watch!
Thank you so much, Terri! We love our sponsors, and appreciate your sponsoring a prize again for our Show!
Just a quick update and a sincere "Thank you" to all of you -- all of the purrs and prayers have been much appreciated!
Moses' blood work does not look good. His white blood cells are high, and his albumin is low; coupled with the mass in his tummy, the doc says he is reasonably sure this is cancer.
Now we move to phase two . . . trying to see what we can do to maintain a good quality of life in an elderly cat. He's probably not a good candidate for surgery, but research has brought up some ideas of meds that might slow the growth of the tumor, and increase his appetite, so that he can be more comfortable and enjoy life here in the studio.
And he is a great duckling baby-sitter, too!
Please keep those pawsitive thoughts coming as we try to come up with a strategy for Moses. We're not ready yet to throw in the towel, though we know that day will come. Hopefully he has some time left with us. We want to do the right thing for an old friend.
Frogs and dragons and cats, oh my!
You see a lot of these boys frolicing around here at the Lilypad. They are supervised by the Official Studio Cat, Moses.
He's in time out here, for being way too grumpy.
Hope all of you pawsome peeps and pets out there will send up purrs and prayers for Moses. He's lost some weight lately and is off his feed. Just got back from the vet and hope to hear about his bloodwork tomorrow. Not sure what we are dealing with, but he does seem to have a mass in his belly.
Want something fun and fast to do this weekend? You know, the instant gratification kind of project?
Hop over to Jenny's and check out her tea towel project. She has a tutorial, too, and is offering the pattern for the sweet birdies in her Etsy shop.
Speaking of shops, I have a tip for you . . . scoot over to Etsy and check out the gorgeous thread holders that Bea of BeaQuilter is offering.
Letters with dowels for thread and enough room to organize with the bobbins, too!
I do love me a . . .
. . . a squared-up HST!!
Been making a bunch of these critters lately. I like the instructions that Jacquelynne Steves gives in her Maggie's First Dance pattern. You cut your pieces a teensy bit larger, and then square up those bad boys and add them to your block!
And I have the most awesome tool for doing just that!
Here is one of our lil cuties, ready to be used in the block. He fills up that two inch square just perfectly. Did ya think he came that way?
Can you see it? It's a groove on the back side of the ruler. What for, you ask?
OK, I understand, I'm a visual learner, too. I will show you.
Then you turn the ruler. No, no, no, don't lift it up. Just turn it!
Trim those two sides, and you're done!
Oh, OK, I admit it. I needed to watch the video, too. Here is a link to the hugely wonderful video instructions.
I'm telling you, the best quilting tools are made by quilters, for quilters. Am I right? Check out the story behind these great rulers and squares: click here to see the home page and then scroll down to meet the peeps behind the tools.
Do you have a favorite quilting tool?
Clever Tools sponsors again! Huzzah!
Clever Tools sponsored a prize for our show before . . . they are back for more fun this year!
Enter Ellen Holder of Clever Tools! She's invented the "Grip and Stitch" tool for us quilters!
What exactly are "Grip & Stitch" discs? Check out the Frequently Asked Questions on the Clever Tools site!
This brought the joy back to my quilting!
Padsworth thinks they are "ribbet-worthy" too, and not just because of their cute mascot!
These look deceptively simple -- but what a difference they make! With my gloves, I was still in pain. The Grip & Stitch pieces are so easy to hold, and they do an awesome job of moving the fabric sandwich around with a minimal amount of effort from me!
No pain, just fun again!
And one lucky prize winner in August will get a set of these!
(Waving) Thank you, Ellen, for sponsoring a prize at our August Pets Show! Can't wait to see what new products you dream up next!
You know what goes together like peanut butter and jelly? Or maybe you prefer peanut butter and chocolate?
It's the Pet Show and the Fat Quarter Shop! Our buddies at the Fat Quarter Shop have sponsored for several years now, and we sure appreciate them!
Many of us have their online store favorited on our web browser, and we keep kleenex close by, for when we are dreaming (and drooling) over their site!
But why not? They have so much to offer at the Fat Quarter Shop!
They keep the new fabrics coming in, fast and furious!
Got a pre-cut based project on your mind? Fat Quarter Shop has them all . . . jelly rolls, cute charm packs, and big, bodacious bundles!
They have all your favorite designers, and beautiful collections so that you can get yardage!
Kimberly and her wonderful crew make sure that they provide us with a one-stop shop, too. All of the patterns, notions, and tools that we need are available in their store!
And if you need help, their customer service is outstanding! Their crew will send you swatches, advise on yardage, and much more!
This year, the folks at Fat Quarter Shop are providing TWO gift certificates for our random drawings and viewers' choice winners!
(Waving) Thank you, Fat Quarter Shop! We love our sponsors!
Get ready for our show! The fun begins on August 14th!


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From Yale Psychologist Paul Bloom, a Sweetly Na�ve Love Letter to Science
Ben Carson's thoughts on evolution have proved to be a rich source of occasions for lecturing about how "Scientific Faith Is Different From Religious Faith." That's the headline of an essay at The Atlantic by Yale psychologist Paul Bloom. You know what's coming from the accompanying photo of Dr. Carson. He's at a podium looking maximally clueless — as we all look when captured at the wrong moment in the middle of certain rhetorical gestures common in public speaking.
Bloom argues that science has a unique status, incomparably superior to religious faith. Those who say science is itself a "faith" are wrong.
You don't need to wait long for the ritual conflation of intelligent design with creationism. It comes in the fourth paragraph. He writes:
In the first article that I ever published for The Atlantic, I argued that many religious beliefs arise from universal modes of thought that have evolved for reasoning about the social world. We are sensitive to signs of agency, which explains the animism that grounds the original religions of the world. We are naturally prone to infer intelligent design when we see complex structure, which makes creationism more appealing than natural selection.
So "religious beliefs" — including "intelligent design," which equals "creationism" — are a kind of error arising from evolved intuitions gone astray. He goes on to say that religion arises also from the error of believing accounts from other people, with no good grounds for doing so and, quite likely, without even understanding the content of those accounts.
What's sweet and sincere about the essay is Bloom's admission that on certain scientific ideas outside his academic field, he believes things (about climate change, for example) not based on expertise but on the "say so" of other scientists. Yes, Bloom admits, individual scientists can be biased, but the enterprise of science is goal-directed to discover the truth. So taking scientific findings on faith is justified. In fact, it's not faith — it's warranted belief.
People defer to authorities not just to the truth of the religious beliefs, but their meaning as well. In a recent article, the philosopher Neil Van Leeuwen calls these sorts of mental states "credences," and he notes that they have a moral component. We believe that we should accept them, and that others — at least those who belong to our family and community — should accept them as well.
None of this is special to religion.
There are "credences" in the context of science too, Bloom says — things believed on authority by non-specialists — but those are justified, you see, unlike religious credences.
He leaves out that testimony in the context of religious traditions isn't necessarily as easily dismissed as he suggests. His own Jewish ancestors believed in a revelation at Mt. Sinai based on, so the argument goes, a continual transmission from generation to generation of the "credence" that the event was witnessed by a multitude of escaped slaves. Those witnesses testified to it to their descendants, with no record of contradiction.
Religions also survive a kind of natural selection. Those with no insights into the human experience tend to fade and crumble, as a long historical record of failed faiths seems to confirm.
That aside, taking Bloom's approach means, for the non-specialist, accepting all views held by a majority of scientists. Is this warranted, or na�ve? The history of science is also a history of failed doctrines that faded and crumbled. Is it very likely that science today has finally got everything all figured out?
Obviously, for anyone, it's impractical to consider every scientific matter an open question. A thoughtful layman or non-specialist reasonably accepts the majority view on a great many things (vaccines, for instance). But identifying a legitimate scientific clash on a vital issue is not beyond the powers of an intelligent man or woman, even if lacking a PhD in that precise field. See Granville Sewell's post, "It's Really Not Rocket Science."
On the issue of evolution, whether Darwinian theory serves adequately in explaining the origins of complex animal life, there is indeed a controversy. See Stephen Meyer's books, Signature in the Cell and Darwin's Doubt, for ample documentation.
A discerning layman is also capable of noting the consistency with which Darwin-defending scientists take refuge in the false equation of ID with creationism. Bloom does it himself. Right or wrong, ID and creationism are not the same thing. This itself is highly suspicious — a red flag. You see, again and again, otherwise smart folks, scientists and non-scientists, giving clear evidence of having failed to consider the scientific argument for design, brushing it aside with that comforting equation, an excuse for neglecting to think.
As Bloom says of other "credences," many who express strong views on the design inference "literally don't know what they are talking about." Again, I mean scientists too, including plenty in the field of evolutionary biology. That, along with the evidence of a controversy going on in professional scientific venues that Steve Meyer demonstrates, is reason enough for the layman to give a second look to the evolutionary credence.
Image: Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, by Carol M. Highsmith via Wikicommons.
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Senior Fellow and Editor, Evolution News
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute and the editor of Evolution News & Science Today, the daily voice of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture, reporting on intelligent design, evolution, and the intersection of science and culture. Klinghoffer is also the author of six books, a former senior editor and literary editor at National Review magazine, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Seattle Times, Commentary, and other publications. Born in Santa Monica, California, he graduated from Brown University in 1987 with an A.B. magna cum laude in comparative literature and religious studies. David lives near Seattle, Washington, with his wife and children.
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The Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has constituted a team of Independent Prosecutors to look into the case files of 5 banks that were implicated in the transferring of looted NYS Money.
Haji, through a press statement directed that the five banks mentioned in the loot be investigated afresh over suspicions that the banks violated legislations put in place to govern banks and provisions of crime proceeds by aiding in money laundering.
The DPP further gave the team of prosecutor up to 14 days to come up with a conclusive report and make recommendations.
Standard Chartered Bank, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Equity Bank, Diamond Trust Bank and the Cooperative Bank of Kenya.
In 2018, it was established that the Standard Chartered Bank received 1,628,902,000in the period between 2016 and 3018 out of which money amounting to 588,558,000 was illegally transferred into individual and company accounts without following due procedure.
The Kenya Commercial Bank, (KCB) received a total of KSh. 800,000,000 out of which 148,397,000 was irregularly wired into different accounts.
Equity Bank received 886,426,904 of NYS Funds into their system out of which 264,200,000 and an additional $8,000 (translating to about 824,000) was transferred irregularly.
Diamond Trust Bank received 164 million shillings out of which 27,946,298 was suspiciously transacted into the different accounts.
The Cooperative Bank of Kenya received a total of KSh.250 Million out of which 25 Million shillings was irregularly transacted.
Noordin further confirmed that powerful individuals in the government were involved in the looting that led to the loss of about KSh. 8 Billion that was lost in 2018.
Earlier last year, the Central Bank of Kenya undertook a close inspection into the named banks and announced penalties and new policies to guide the Financial Institutions as a way o mitigate and control the returning of money acquired through corrupt deals back into the market.
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On April 5, 2011, a Toronto Maple Leafs loss officially ended their playoff run. Almost like clockwork, the Toronto Sun began a series on what's wrong with the Leafs in the next day's paper.
The regularity of this kind of sportswriting, where a columnist takes it upon themselves to explain why a team's model is broken and how it ought to to fixed, usually in something like 30 column inches, is far from new. Hell, there's been books written on the topic.
While the regularity of these columns diminishes their impact, so does their scope. There are many things which went wrong with the Leafs in hindsight yet far fewer that can be seen up ahead. More often than not, these columns resemble postmortems from a television drama: "the victim died from a gunshot to the head," says a coroner looking at a man with a hole in his head.
Liebling was an old-school newspaperman with a history at both The New York Times and The World and in 1935, he joined the fledgling New Yorker magazine. There, he wrote about anything and everything with consummate skill: from riding with the US Army as it roared through North Africa and France in the second world war to virtually inventing modern press criticism with his Wayward Press column to French cuisine.
But some of his best writing was reserved for his passion: boxing. The Sweet Science is the best collection of Liebling's writings on the subject. It's a volume of essays written for The New Yorker between 1951 and 1956 which even now still pack a punch.
He wrote about fights as good as anybody and perhaps better than anyone. His pieces avoid the trappings and cliches of boxing stories by sidestepping themes of morality or danger. In his world, a fighter is somebody who's job description includes punching people in the nose or has to be dissuaded from pigging out on hot dogs. There's never a sense of danger from his pieces; Liebling wrote like the fan he was.
"The punch knocked Marciano through the ropes and he lay on the ring apron, only one leg inside.
His pieces take you all over. From a fight in a crowded garage, converted to an ad-hoc arena, in Donneybrook, Ireland to a crowded Yankee Stadium, hosting a fight at 11 p.m., and most memorably to the long-gone clubs and restaurants, gathering places for training fighters and fans of the fight game. Here he's captured a moment in time, of boxers rebelling against trainers by eating hot dogs and riding in canoes, of an Irish crowd lurching between a riot to waiting for the next fight to begin, of suits and binoculars, cigarettes and the Polo Grounds.
Not to mention how well researched this book is: Liebling was a longtime fan of boxing who rubbed elbows with trainers and fighters and his pieces turned middleweights into fighters from the Song of Roland and elevated the all-but-forgotten Pierce Egan to "the Herodotus of boxing" through his liberal quoting. It's hard to imagine too many current writers dropping names like that without sounding pretentious.
Unlike today's writers who look backwards to explain what's gone wrong, Liebling was able to look ahead and see what would go wrong, namely that the promise of exposure would lure fighters away from small fights and hurt the lower levels – the foundation – of the sport.
And it's that mix between smarts and fun which keeps me coming back to Liebling. It's one of those rare books which I find myself going back to again and again because it's such a joy to read: the way in which he wrote about the fights was not only all but unprecedented, but is still fresh today. It's no small surprise that writers continually sing his praises, from The New Yorker editor David Remnick to novelists like the late Mordecai Richler.
However, one dissenting voice is Joyce Carol Oates, who, in her On Boxing, notes that Liebling has a "jokey, condescending, occasionally racist attitude towards his subject." There are times when I'm inclined to see her point, such as when Liebling calls "Hurricane" Jackson – a boxer who could neither read nor write – an animal. One is left with a confused impression from this: while Liebling is cruel to him in print, he's more than gracious to other boxers.
Ultimately, it's a minor curiosity in a seminal work. Sports Illustrated once called The Sweet Science the best sports book ever written. It's hard to disagree. It represents the best kind of sportswriting: vivid, timeless and utterly free of cliche.


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package com.thoughtworks.go.domain;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import com.thoughtworks.go.config.ArtifactPlan;
import com.thoughtworks.go.config.ArtifactPlans;
import com.thoughtworks.go.config.ArtifactPropertiesGenerators;
import com.thoughtworks.go.config.EnvironmentVariablesConfig;
import com.thoughtworks.go.config.Resource;
import com.thoughtworks.go.config.Resources;
import com.thoughtworks.go.util.FileUtil;
import com.thoughtworks.go.util.TestFileUtil;
import com.thoughtworks.go.util.command.EnvironmentVariableContext;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static com.thoughtworks.go.helper.EnvironmentVariablesConfigMother.env;
import static com.thoughtworks.go.utils.SerializationTester.serializeAndDeserialize;
import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.hamcrest.core.IsNull.nullValue;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.matchers.JUnitMatchers.containsString;

public class DefaultJobPlanTest {

    private File workingFolder;
    private File toClean;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws IOException {
        workingFolder = TestFileUtil.createTempFolder("workingFolder");
        File file = new File(workingFolder, "cruise-output/log.xml");
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        file.createNewFile();
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() {
        FileUtil.deleteFolder(workingFolder);
        FileUtils.deleteQuietly(toClean);
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchResourcesIfBuildPlanHasNoResources() {
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, null);
        Resources agentResources = new Resources(new Resource("Foo"));
        assertTrue(plan.match(agentResources));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchIfBuildPlanAndAgentHaveSameResources() {
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(new Resource("Foo")), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, null);
        assertTrue(plan.match(new Resources(new Resource("Foo"))));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldNotMatchIfAgentDonotContainBuildPlanResources() {
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(new Resource("Foo")), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, null);
        assertFalse(plan.match(new Resources(new Resource("Bar"))));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchIfAgentAndBuildPlanResourcesIrrespectiveOfOrder() {
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(
                new Resources(new Resource("Foo"), new Resource("Bar"), new Resource("car")), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, null);
        assertTrue(plan.match(
                new Resources(new Resource("Bar"), new Resource("car"), new Resource("Foo"))));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchIfBothAgentAndBuildPlanHaveNotResources() {
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, null);

        assertTrue(plan.match(new Resources()));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMergeTestReportFilesAndUploadResult() throws Exception {
        ArtifactPlans artifactPlans = new ArtifactPlans();
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), artifactPlans, new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), -1,
                null);
        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.unit, "test1", "test"));
        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.unit, "test2", "test"));

        final File firstTestFolder = prepareTestFolder(workingFolder, "test1");
        final File secondTestFolder = prepareTestFolder(workingFolder, "test2");

        StubGoPublisher publisher = new StubGoPublisher();
        plan.publishArtifacts(publisher, workingFolder);

        publisher.assertPublished(firstTestFolder.getAbsolutePath(), "test");
        publisher.assertPublished(secondTestFolder.getAbsolutePath(), "test");
        publisher.assertPublished("result", "testoutput");
        publisher.assertPublished("result" + File.separator + "index.html", "testoutput");
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldReportErrorWithTestArtifactSrcWhenUploadFails() throws Exception {
        ArtifactPlans artifactPlans = new ArtifactPlans();
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), artifactPlans, new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), -1,
                null);
        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.unit, "test1", "test"));
        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.unit, "test2", "test"));

        prepareTestFolder(workingFolder, "test1");
        prepareTestFolder(workingFolder, "test2");

        StubGoPublisher publisherThatShouldFail = new StubGoPublisher(true);
        try {
            plan.publishArtifacts(publisherThatShouldFail, workingFolder);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), containsString("Failed to upload [test1, test2]"));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldUploadFilesCorrectly() throws Exception {
        ArtifactPlans artifactPlans = new ArtifactPlans();
        final File src1 = TestFileUtil.createTestFolder(workingFolder, "src1");
        TestFileUtil.createTestFile(src1, "test.txt");
        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.file, src1.getName(), "dest"));
        final File src2 = TestFileUtil.createTestFolder(workingFolder, "src2");
        TestFileUtil.createTestFile(src1, "test.txt");

        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.file, src2.getName(), "test"));
        StubGoPublisher publisher = new StubGoPublisher();
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), artifactPlans, new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), -1,
                null);

        plan.publishArtifacts(publisher, workingFolder);

        Map<File, String> expectedFiles = new HashMap<File, String>() {
            {
                put(src1, "dest");
                put(src2, "test");
            }
        };
        assertThat(publisher.publishedFiles(), is(expectedFiles));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldUploadFilesWhichMathedWildCard() throws Exception {
        ArtifactPlans artifactPlans = new ArtifactPlans();
        final File src1 = TestFileUtil.createTestFolder(workingFolder, "src1");
        final File testFile1 = TestFileUtil.createTestFile(src1, "test1.txt");
        final File testFile2 = TestFileUtil.createTestFile(src1, "test2.txt");
        final File testFile3 = TestFileUtil.createTestFile(src1, "readme.pdf");
        artifactPlans.add(new ArtifactPlan(ArtifactType.file, src1.getName() + "/*", "dest"));
        StubGoPublisher publisher = new StubGoPublisher();

        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), artifactPlans, new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), -1,
                null);

        plan.publishArtifacts(publisher, workingFolder);

        Map<File, String> expectedFiles = new HashMap<File, String>() {
            {
                put(testFile1, "dest");
                put(testFile2, "dest");
                put(testFile3, "dest");
            }
        };
        assertThat(publisher.publishedFiles(), is(expectedFiles));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldApplyEnvironmentVariablesWhenRunningTheJob() {
        EnvironmentVariablesConfig variables = new EnvironmentVariablesConfig();
        variables.add("VARIABLE_NAME", "variable value");
        DefaultJobPlan plan = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), new ArtifactPlans(), new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), -1, null, null,
                variables, new EnvironmentVariablesConfig());

        EnvironmentVariableContext variableContext = new EnvironmentVariableContext();
        plan.applyTo(variableContext);
        assertThat(variableContext.getProperty("VARIABLE_NAME"), is("variable value"));
    }

    private File prepareTestFolder(File workingFolder, String folderName) throws Exception {
        File testFolder = TestFileUtil.createTestFolder(workingFolder, folderName);
        File testFile = TestFileUtil.createTestFile(testFolder, "testFile.xml");
        String content = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n"
                + "<testsuite errors=\"0\" failures=\"0\" tests=\"7\" time=\"0.429\" >\n"
                + "<testcase/>\n"
                + "</testsuite>\n";
        FileUtil.writeContentToFile(content, testFile);
        return testFolder;
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldBeAbleToSerializeAndDeserialize() throws ClassNotFoundException, IOException {
        DefaultJobPlan original = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, new JobIdentifier(), "uuid", new EnvironmentVariablesConfig(), new EnvironmentVariablesConfig());
        DefaultJobPlan clone = (DefaultJobPlan) serializeAndDeserialize(original);
        assertThat(clone,is(original));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldRespectTriggerVariablesOverConfigVariables() {
        DefaultJobPlan original = new DefaultJobPlan(new Resources(), new ArtifactPlans(),
                new ArtifactPropertiesGenerators(), 0, new JobIdentifier(), "uuid", env(new String[]{"blah","foo"},new String[]{"value","bar"}), new EnvironmentVariablesConfig());
        original.setTriggerVariables(env(new String[]{"blah","another"},new String[]{"override","anotherValue"}));
        EnvironmentVariableContext variableContext = new EnvironmentVariableContext();
        original.applyTo(variableContext);
        assertThat(variableContext.getProperty("blah"),is("override"));
        assertThat(variableContext.getProperty("foo"),is("bar"));
        //becuase its a security issue to let operator set values for unconfigured variables
        assertThat(variableContext.getProperty("another"),is(nullValue()));
    }
}

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Join fellow Stanford women for a downtown meet up in the Seaport district! It's a great time to grab a quick bite and connect with fellow female alumni for an evening of conversation and networking.
Although there is no registration fee for this event, please register so we can determine final counts for this meetup.
The event is limited to members of Stanford Women's Alumni Network-New England.
For questions, contact Addie Swartz, '82 at addie111@gmail.com.


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Florida Gov. DeSantis Defends Banning AP African American Studies In State High Schools
He claims the curriculum has an 'agenda' to indoctrinate students, but Black leaders say the Republican is trying to whitewash history.
By Nigel Roberts
(Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
January 24, 2023 / 11:24 AM
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explained his grievances with the Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum that the state's education department blocked from its high schools, angering Black leaders and educators.
Speaking Monday at a press conference in Jacksonville, DeSantis said some of the lessons have an agenda, highlighting topics on Black queer studies and the Movement for Black Lives, Politico reports.
According to the College Board, which handles all AP courses, the course touches on literature, arts, humanities, political science, geography and science. It has been under development for more than a decade in collaboration with colleges, universities and secondary schools. The board is offering the pilot program at more than 60 schools nationwide before it expands to additional schools.
On Jan. 12, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) sent a letter to the College Board saying that the content of the AP African American studies course "is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value." That letter neglected to identify exactly what content is objectionable.
Florida Gov. DeSantis Drops Proposed AP African American Studies Course For Florida High School Students
After a backlash, FDOE Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. outlined the administration's concerns in a tweet on Jan. 20. The department took issue with six topic in the proposed course curriculum that conflicts with state law: intersectionality and activism, Black queer studies, "Movements for Black Lives," "Black Feminist Literary Thought," reparations, and "Black Study and the Black Struggle in the 21st Century."
Diaz wrote, "Florida rejected an AP course filled with Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other obvious violations of Florida law. We proudly require the teaching of African American history. We do not accept woke indoctrination masquerading as education."
"When I heard it didn't meet the standards, I figured, yeah, they may be doing CRT. It's way more than that," DeSantis told reporters on Monday.
DeSantis is one of several conservative politicians who have opposed CRT, a college-level academic framework to analyze systemic racism that is not taught at elementary or secondary schools.
Under DeSantis'leadership, the Republican-dominated state legislature passed a measure dubbed the "Stop WOKE Act'' that the governor signed into law last April. It restricts how race is discussed in public schools, colleges and workplaces. Among other things, it prohibits instruction that could make students feel responsibility or guilt for historic wrongs because of their race, gender or national origin.
Black educators and leaders in Florida have called DeSantis's moves an attempt to whitewash history.
Despite the controversy, DeSantis stood his ground on Monday: "That's the wrong side of the line for Florida standards. We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don't believe they should have an agenda imposed on them. When you try to use Black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes."
OPINION: Using Critical Race Theory As An Excuse Not To Teach Black History, A Nefarious Tactic
Outcry over DeSantis' decision to ban the curriculum has reached the White House.
"It is incomprehensible," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a Jan. 20 press conference, according to USA Today. "Let's be clear. They didn't block AP European history. They didn't block our art history. They didn't block our music history. When you think about the study of Black Americans, that is what he wants to block."
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with state House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell (D) and state Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book (D) on Jan. 22 when she was in Tallahassee for an abortion rights rally, The Hill reported.
"Every student in our nation should be able to learn about the culture, contributions, and experiences of all Americans – including Black Americans – who shaped our history," Harris said in a statement released by the White House, according to The Hill.
"Unfortunately, in Florida, extremist so-called leaders ban books, block history classes, and prevent teachers from freely discussing who they are and who they love. Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America's future."
Meanwhile, Florida's Black leaders are seeking to overturn the DeSantis administration's ruling that the AP African American source "significantly lacks education value," according to Politico.
"When you devalue my history, and say it lacks educational merit, that is demeaning to us," Rev. R. B. Holmes, Jr., pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee, told reporters Monday, according to Politico.
A coalition of students, teachers, lawmakers and faith leaders plan to hold a rally Wednesday at the Capitol in Tallahassee to voice their opposition to DeSantis. And Black faith leaders are planning a march there next month.
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ALK Technologies announced upcoming GPS navigation software that gives you free offline and online navigation, similar to Nokia Maps, but for iOS and Android.
Over the past few years I've written here about CoPilot Live from ALK Technologies and yesterday in Barcelona they made a major announcement about a new navigation application for iOS and Android. Their upcoming CoPilot GPS software will allow you to get free GPS navigation and route planning for both online and offline modes, similar to what we see with Nokia Maps and Google Maps Navigation on Android.
While Nokia Maps allows you to download entire countries before traveling, Google Maps Navigation just lets you cache maps along a specific route. This upcoming CoPilot GPS software will also let you download an entire country or region before you travel so you can take along your iPad or smartphone and navigate without a requirement for an expensive data connection.
Alternate Routes: CoPilot provides up to 3 ways to your destination. Drag and drop the route to adjust.
CoPilot GPS users can also upgrade to full voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation via in-app purchase, and benefit from 3D map views, speed limit warnings, and realistic ClearTurn display with lane assist arrows and signposts at complex interchanges.
CoPilot GPS will be available this spring from the Android Market and App Store. You can pay a single $19.99 fee and get lifetime voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation, which is still an excellent deal. You will be able to subscribe to their real-time traffic service too for $9.99 for a year.
Once the software is released, I plan to load it up on all my devices and try it out. In the past I have always taken an older Nokia smartphone along when I travel out of the country, but can now take along my iPhone 4S or Galaxy Nexus.


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This video is called Best Shark Attack Video – gigantic Great White Shark in South Africa while Cage Diving. It is about a great white shark, as filmed from a cage with divers inside.
Here is information on its fossil relative Procarcharodon, at 10 metres long still bigger, from the Oligocene period.
I am learning slowly how to embed videos in this blog; and I hope to do more.
Great white shark near Cornwall, see here.
This entry was posted in Film, Fish and tagged Oligocene, paleontology, sharks by petrel41. Bookmark the permalink.
BEIJING (Reuters) – There is growing public support in China for the need to protect the world's dwindling shark population, but little understanding about the connection between conservation and shark finning, according to a survey.
Shark fin, once offered as a gift to emperors, is traditionally served at Chinese wedding banquets and occasions when the host wants to impress guests with expensive and unusual dishes.
Some also believe it is good for health.
The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization estimates 100 million sharks are caught each year, though experts say the real figure could be twice that, leading to a dramatic drop in the populations of some species.
"If you can stop people consuming shark fin soup, it would relieve a huge pressure on the species," Steve Trent, president of conservation group WildAid, told Reuters at the unveiling of the survey.
"This is something where individuals at home, work and places of entertainment, can have a real impact," he added.
Activists say finning is incredibly wasteful, with sharks simply dumped overboard to bleed to death after their fins have been hacked off. The industry disputes this, saying to be that wasteful makes little economic sense.
In China, which accounts for more than half global shark fin consumption, people know little of the problem, thinking sharks are fierce killers, and that eating their fins is good for the health and a demonstration of wealth, the survey found.
Wellington – A great white shark, electronically tagged in March in New Zealand, has swum more than 3,000 kilometres to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it was reported Monday. The journey of the 4.4-metre female shark, named Kerri by scientists, was the longest swim recorded in New Zealand, according to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).
It was the first evidence that great whites, which are protected in New Zealand waters, do travel to Australia, a NIWA statement said.
The shark was given an electronic "popup" tag by a team of scientists from New Zealand, Germany and the United States in March at Stewart Island.
The tag records location, depth and temperature and floats to the surface after a pre-determined time, transmitting data to a satellite, which emails the results to the scientists' computers.
The tag began calling home on December 18, but it will be another 10 days before all its data is received.
"At this stage, we don't know what route Kerri took or how quickly she travelled to Australia," said NIWA fisheries scientist Malcolm Francis.
Department of Conservation scientists Clinton Duffy said: "Our tagging results show these sharks can be highly mobile.


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package com.legendshop.test;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileFilter;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.net.URL;

/**
 * @author Michael Bauer
 * @version 0.9a
 *
 */
public class EMFMain {
	private static File emfHome;

	private static DynamicURLClassLoader dLoader = new DynamicURLClassLoader();

	/**
	 * Main method. Loads the Spring Context XML file and starts all the
	 * services.
	 *
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// Setup the EMF_HOME
		String f = System.getenv("EMF_HOME");
		if (f == null || f.equals("")) {
			// EMF_HOME was not set, use current user.dir
			f = System.getProperty("user.dir");
		}
		try {
			emfHome = new File(f);
			if (!emfHome.exists())
				throw new Exception("EMF_HOME " + f + " did not exist.");
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.err.println("Could not determine EMF Home: " + e);
			System.exit(-1);
		}

		loadProperties();

		loadLibraries();

		try {
			System.out.println("DynamicURLClassLoader:");
			URL[] urls = dLoader.getURLs();
			for (URL url : urls)
				System.out.println("\t" + url);

			Runnable server = (Runnable) dLoader.loadClass("com.legendshop.test.EMFServer").newInstance();

			Thread t = new Thread(server, "EMFServer");
			t.setContextClassLoader(dLoader);
			System.out.println("ClassLoader server: " + t.getContextClassLoader());
			t.start();
			t.join();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.err.println("An unrecoverable exception occured trying to start the EMFServerThread: " + e);
			e.printStackTrace(System.err);
			System.exit(-1);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Loads the properties tiles.
	 *
	 */
	private static void loadProperties() {
		try {
			File props = new File(emfHome.getAbsoluteFile() + System.getProperty("file.separator", "/") + "conf");
			FileFilter filter = new FileFilter() {
				public boolean accept(File file) {
					String p = file.getAbsolutePath();
					return (p.toLowerCase().endsWith(".properties"));
				}
			};

			File[] listing = props.listFiles(filter);
			if (listing != null)
				for (File f : listing)
					System.getProperties().load(new FileInputStream(f));
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println("An error has occured loading the properties: " + e);
			System.exit(-1);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Loads all the libraries in the EMF_HOME/libs directory
	 *
	 */
	private static void loadLibraries() {
		try {
			File libs = new File(emfHome.getAbsolutePath() + System.getProperty("file.separator", "/") + "lib");
			FileFilter filter = new FileFilter() {
				public boolean accept(File file) {
					String p = file.getAbsolutePath();
					return (p.toLowerCase().endsWith(".jar") || p.toLowerCase().endsWith(".zip"));
				}
			};

			File[] listing = libs.listFiles(filter);
			for (File f : listing)
				dLoader.addURL(f.toURL());
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.err.println("An error has occured trying to load the libraries: " + e);
			System.exit(-1);
		}
	}
}


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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
You are here: Home / 2017 / November / Archives for 9th
Archives for November 9, 2017
So you want to see a show?
November 9, 2017 by Terry Teachout
Here's my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.
BROADWAY:
• Dear Evan Hansen (musical, PG-13, all shows sold out last week, reviewed here)
• Hamilton (musical, PG-13, Broadway transfer of off-Broadway production, all shows sold out last week, reviewed here)
OFF BROADWAY:
• The Portuguese Kid (comedy, PG-13, extended through Dec. 10, reviewed here)
CLOSING NEXT WEEK OFF BROADWAY:
• After the Blast (drama, PG-13, closes Nov. 19, reviewed here)
• The Home Place (drama, PG-13, closes Nov. 19, reviewed here)
CLOSING SUNDAY IN MADISON, N.J.:
• Shakespeare in Love (historical romcom, PG-13, reviewed here)
Almanac: John Cleese on comedy in old age (2)
"Jesus is said to have never laughed in the Bible, and I think it's because laughter contains an element of surprise—something about the human condition that you haven't spotted yet—and Jesus was rarely surprised. I still laugh, but many of the things that would have made me laugh 30 years ago—paradoxes about human nature—wouldn't make me laugh anymore because I just believe them to be true. They're not revelations."
John Cleese, quoted in David Marchese, In Conversation: John Cleese (Vulture, September 12, 2017)
Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]
About "About Last Night"
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]
About My Plays and Opera Libretti
Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]
About My Podcast
Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on "Three on the Aisle," a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]
My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]
To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]
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In an effort to provide opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals and battle the enormous direct and indirect costs to the economy of re-incarceration, social enterprises in the UK and worldwide have attempted to integrate these individuals into their workforce, setting them up for future success. This research centers around learning the best practices of such business and identifying the resources necessary for such businesses to succeeded to create a roadmap for future entrepreneurs and managers to follow.
While a great deal of resources exist to assist formerly incarcerated individuals find employment after leaving prison, there is a severe lack of literature assisting companies who desire to make this part of their business model and hiring culture. Such companies may struggle to find the most capable formerly incarcerated employees, provide appropriate onboarding and training sessions to properly address deficiencies, and offer opportunities that allow these individuals to capitalize on their existing talents.
One of the most significant insights from my research is the impact of opportunities while these people are in prison on their success outside of it. The Clink Charity, which operates five restaurants, fully staffed by current prisoners in five prisons in the UK, has never failed in finding a job for their former employees upon their release, assuming they decide to seek employment. Their program has been linked to a massive drop in re-incarceration rates; only 12% of their former employees end up back in prison, while the national average is around 60%. Employers are much more open to hiring employees who have gained job-specific skills, proven themselves in a work environment, and have had a chance to gain soft skills in interacting with customers, supervisors, and co-workers.
Building on this theme, most social enterprises in this area do not plan to permanently employ most of their formerly incarcerated employees. They give these individuals a chance to gain skills and prove that they are serious about finding and keeping a stable job while acting as a sort of vetting process in the eyes of mainstream employers. This is one successful and proven approach to this risk mitigation issue, though more explanation is needed into other methods of tackling this problem, such as a way for incarcerated individuals to leave prison "with honors" due to exemplary behavior, engagement with educational opportunities, and willingness to work while incarcerated.
This research adds a new perspective to the discussion focused on an intermittent step between incarceration and re-employment. Social enterprises, in addition to other organizations, can act as a midway point between these two stages for incarcerated people.
Moving forward into my professional life as an entrepreneur, I hope to incorporate these findings into whatever company I run to create the best possible scenario for formerly incarcerated employees to succeed in my company and beyond.


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est un film américain réalisé par Tor Ramsey, sorti en 2001.

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 Réalisation : Tor Ramsey
 Scénario : Karen L. Wolf
 Production : John A. Russo, Joseph Wolf et Karen L. Wolf
 Musique : Alan Howarth
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1
 Genre : Horreur
 Durée : 90 minutes
 Dates de sortie : 2001

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Home/Our People / JOSEPH B. HOFFMAN
JOSEPH B. HOFFMAN
JOSEPH B. HOFFMAN Partner
I am passionate about the deal and focus on identifying where my client's leverage is, what it consists of, and how and when it should be deployed in order to achieve the right result.
jhoffman@kelleydrye.com
The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1982, with honors
University of Maryland, College Park, B.S., 1979, cum laude
District of Columbia, 1982
Maryland, 1994
Virginia, 2001
Joe Hoffman co-chairs the Washington D.C. Business Group. His commercial practice focuses on real estate and corporate transactions involving the purchase and sale of assets and companies, as well as institutional financing transactions in a wide range of industries. He represents real estate developers, telecommunications companies, lenders, venture capital funds, emerging growth companies, thoroughbred horse industry interests and high net worth individuals.
Over the course of his career, Joe has successfully closed billions of dollars of business transactions. When structuring, negotiating and documenting such deals, Joe is totally client-focused and results-driven, and is able to see beyond the particular challenges of a transaction in order to serve as a catalyst to closing it. Joe understands businesses of all sizes and with diverse goals and budgets. He accommodates clients with simple transactions, as well as those that require sophisticated legal counsel and acute negotiation skills, to achieve the desired outcome.
One of the most prolific deal makers at Kelley Drye, Joe provides the talent and intellectual agility needed to close even the most sophisticated or difficult transactions, as well as less complex transactions. He is diplomatic, focused and persuasive. After decades of practice, Joe understands the big picture of a transaction, and he is most appreciated for delivering practical solutions to even the most challenging negotiations in order to forge win/win solutions. End-game driven and pragmatic, Joe excels in determining the critical factors of a transaction, as well as in negotiating through or around even the most precarious scenarios, by bringing people together to support his client's business objectives.
Joe is personally committed to the clients he serves, and enjoys serving not only as a trusted legal advisor, but also as a member of their team. His dedication and responsiveness have resulted in long-term client relationships, some of which have lasted for more than 25 years. Joe's consistently stellar performance has him ranked among the "best of the best" in transactional law. He was awarded the SmartCEO "Power Player" award for 2013, and he was listed among Washington, D.C.'s "Leading Lawyers" for 2006 and 2008. Joe also was ranked as a preeminent attorney in the Corporate/M&A area by Chambers USA in 2008 and 2009. As if practicing law was not enough to consume all his time, Joe enjoys family time, skiing, biking and swimming, and devotes substantial time giving back to the community by holding leadership positions in various non-profit organizations.
Charles E. Smith Life Communities, past board chair and board member
Congregation Beth El, vice president of development and board member
Represented client in bankruptcy proceedings in purchasing a multifamily property from a condominium association that had been terminated by court order, together with related joint venture and financing work.
Represented an industrial developer in acquiring former agricultural property and developing three warehouse projects, requiring land and development joint ventures with the private equity arm of a national insurance company.
Represented client in its purchase and financing of eight Northern Virginia warehouse/flex properties, totaling 26 buildings and 950,000 square feet of space.
Represented the purchaser out of receivership of a multifamily property, including assumption of an existing mortgage loan and negotiation of agreements among three joint venture partners to finance renovations and construction.
Represented developer in connection with its acquisition of a vacant retail property in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and assemblage of adjacent lots from multiple sellers over the course of several years; negotiation of the acquisition and construction financing necessary to transform the property into a medical office building with structured parking; and sale of the property to a foreign pension fund.
Represented client in connection with its construction of a warehouse and industrial building in Harford County, Maryland, including acquisition of agricultural property formerly used as farmland, construction financing, and joint venture agreements for the development parcel and a land-holding venture.
Represented the purchaser of a seven-property shopping center portfolio from a national publicly traded REIT involving two joint ventures, four loan assumptions and three new loans.
Represented client in financing the Washington Harbour complex in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.
Counseled private equity company, as a member of a joint venture, in connection with the joint venture's $16 million acquisition of a 75-room boutique hotel in the Kalorama section of Washington, D.C.
Represented real estate owner in its sale of property to County government under threat of eminent domain.
Represented the senior lender in a loan secured by a pledge agreement collateralized by another loan and a deed of trust on the majority of units at a busted condominium project.
Represented clients in connection with their joint venture project to acquire distressed debt secured by 234 proposed single-family condominium units in Connecticut, as well as subsequent foreclosure and redevelopment.
Handled the client's acquisition, construction and mini-perm and permanent financing and development of property on which client constructed a retail shopping center, including negotiating land-use rights and a joint venture agreement with the seller and primary developer of the mixed-use project.
Represented a local real estate owner in the refinancing of three separate loans in an aggregate amount of more than $108 million and secured by three separate multifamily apartment complexes.
Handled real estate assemblages, acquisitions, dispositions, related financings, like-kind exchanges and leases.
Served as borrower's and lender's counsel in real estate financings, including conduit loan transactions.
Served as bank counsel in various loan transactions.
Represented a lending syndicate of seven regional and community banks providing a $24 million first mortgage loan to refinance the existing senior debt on an Aloft Hotel and an Element Hotel, including negotiation of an Intercreditor Agreement with a mezzanine lender.
Counseled a Fortune 10 company in a multistate real estate disposition program involving hundreds of sites and related operating businesses.
Represented real estate concerns and other operating businesses in financing transactions involving related borrowers and cross-collateralized security.
Represented the principal shareholders of a government contractor that provides technology solutions in health IT, life sciences and grants management in the company's sale and recapitalization.
Represented the founders of a software developer and provider of healthcare payor administration solutions in the company's sale to a subsidiary of a NYSE-listed company.
Represented a NYSE-listed company in the sale of its food solutions business that provides product design and product integrity services on a worldwide basis.
Represented a provider of predictive data analytics and reconciliation solutions in the telecom and media sectors in a stock sale to a portfolio company of a private equity fund.
Represented telecommunications company in its sale to a leading NASDAQ-traded VoIP cloud-based communications company.
Represented a lab testing company in the purchase of substantially all the assets of an independent food testing laboratory.
Represented a NYSE-listed company in the acquisition of a laboratory testing and consulting company, and its two operating subsidiaries, expanding the client's range of food, beverage and nutrition testing services.
Represented telecommunications client in acquiring Lifeline-related subscriber bases and related assets in separate transactions.
Represented a national diet chain in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of a provider of weight loss, exercise and diet plans and products, including dietary supplements.
Counseled a software company in its sale to a NYSE-listed company.
Served as company counsel for a services and software venture in a recapitalization funded by a private equity fund.
Counseled publicly traded and privately held telecommunications concerns in merger and private placement transactions.
Served as counsel for the sellers of interests in a closely held wholesale jewelry business.
Handled senior secured, asset-based debt financings and subordinated registered debt offerings.
Represented venture funds and portfolio companies in the software, professional services, hardware, telecommunications and other industries in connection with venture capital investments.
Represented an international telecommunications company in multiple, staged sales of interests to a venture capital concern.
Represented a telecommunications company in asset acquisitions.
Counseled clients on various telecommunications contracts involving carriers, end-users, agents and equipment financing.
Counseled the majority stockholders of a racetrack venture in the sale of the business to a NASDAQ-listed company.
Counseled a closely held thoroughbred racetrack venture in the sale of an ownership interest to a NYSE-listed company.
Served as Maryland corporate counsel for one of the largest complexes of investment companies sponsored by a Fortune 100 company in connection with securities registrations and issuances, corporate and shareholder governance, capital transactions and other corporate matters.
Handled the purchase of industrial equipment assets and related operations.
Counseled a closely held printing company in the sale of assets to a NASDAQ-listed company in a "pooling" transaction, as well as the sale of real estate held by a related joint venture. The transaction involved minority stockholder litigation and buy-out of minority partners in real estate.
Structured and negotiated an investment manager's carried interest and employment relationship with a Far East investment fund.
Represented a closely held clinical research organization in the sale of stock to a NASDAQ-listed company in a "pooling" transaction.
Handled the sale of a minority interest's stock in a telecommunications hardware company.
Represented a NYSE-listed company in the purchase of an infomercial business together with the related manufacturing element and intellectual property.
Represented a Korean conglomerate in a venture capital investment in a strategically situated, high-tech Silicon Valley company.
Represented a NYSE-listed company in the sale of an airline fleet.
Handled employment and severance agreements for executives and employers.
Represented a master franchisee for Israel in contract negotiations with respect to a NASDAQ-listed company's educational learning center and computer-based testing franchise.
The Best Lawyers in America© (Woodward/White, Inc.), Real Estate Law, 2020-2021.
Congregation Beth El presented Joe with the Kavod award for service to the Jewish community on March 5, 2017.
2013 SmartCEO Power Player Award
Ranked as a leading practitioner in the Corporate/M&A area by Chambers USA, 2008 and 2009.
Honored as one of Washington's leading lawyers, SmartCEO magazine, 2006 and 2008.
George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1982, with honors
University of Maryland, B.S., 1979, cum laude
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A vegetarian world would be healthier, cooler and richer: study
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Grabauskas will begin his new role in mid-April heading the agency responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of the $5.2 billion rail project. The HART board of directors voted unanimously on the selection after taking public testimony at its board meeting today at Mission Memorial Annex.
Grabauskas' three-year HART contract includes an annual base salary of $245,000, a $36,000 a year housing allowance and a transportation allowance of $6,000 a year. The proposal also includes the potential for a $35,000 annual performance bonus.
Grabauskas is currently chairman and senior strategic adviser of the Bronner Center for Transportation Management, Grabauskas formerly served as general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). As chief executive officer of MBTA, Grabauskas had oversight of a 6,100-employee operation, with an annual operating budget of $1.4 billion and an annual capital budget of more than $500 million, with operations in 175 municipalities throughout eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His work also included completion of several capital expansion projects, including an 18-mile commuter rail line.
Grabauskas also served as Secretary of Transportation for the state of Massachusetts, with oversight of a $1.4-billion annual administrative budget and an annual capital budget of more than $1.8 billion. In that cabinet-level role, Grabauskas had oversight of MBTA, highways and municipal airports.
The HART board's selection process began in November 2011 and involved 150 people being contacted as part of the search.


As with many personality disorders, the exact cause of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is unknown. It is probably a mixture of genes, early childhood experiences and psychological factors.
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Dissociative disorder is a psychological condition in which consciousness, memory, identity or perception are disrupted e.g. multiple personality disorder.


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From the age of fifteen I have been interested in medicine and human science. In my mid-teens I spent most weekends with a family friend who worked as a nurse in a nearby private orthopaedic hospital. I 'assisted' her when she changed dressings and injected medicines. I made use of myself by serving afternoon tea and dinner to the patients who appreciated any kind of help. A few years later I started my training as an adult nurse and in the mid eighties I completed my two-year intensive care training course. Looking after an intensive care patient is a careful balancing act, making sure each organ system is as close to normal as possible. This has helped enormously to enhance my observation skills. After a few years working in a conventional hospital I got offered a position as an IC nurse on the surgical ICU in a homeopathic hospital in Germany, and… WOW, that was quite a different perspective and experience! That's how I got into the magical world of Homeopathy. A few years later my first son was born in that hospital and I was in total awe when one of the nurses gave him just one single pill to restore his vitality after his traumatic birth. That ignited my interest in this wonderful art of healing.
OK…fast forward to 1996. We moved to England and my second son was born a few months after arriving here. He had a middle ear infection when he was just 5 months old, screaming day and night and running a very high fever. Sadly the doctor failed to diagnose it. I was lucky enough to consult our paediatrician in Germany who was a medical homeopath. He was simply wonderful in advising me which remedies to look at and how to get my baby's ear infection sorted. As I was so frustrated and disappointed in the conventional health care system I decided to study homeopathy professionally and enrolled on a four-year-course in a homeopathy college in the South East of England and graduated as a professional homeopath in 2006.
And here I am, 8 years down the line… I truly LOVE every single aspect of the art & science of homeopathy. I love the case taking – getting to get the patient known and to create a 'relationship', to ask all these many questions until a have a clear picture of how this patient is affected by their disease/disorder, to then analyse the case and select the correct remedy that restores their health. Homeopathy is so gentle and yet powerful. It's wonderful and very rewarding to see how the patient progresses on the homeopathic prescription. I look forward to each and every day in my clinic…each case is different and so unique, it's never boring. That's why it doesn't feel like a 'job' or 'work' in the conventional sense… I'm honoured and blessed to be able to help others with this amazing form of medicine.