Find the newest Collingwood homes for sale & real estate listings below! The surrounding rolling hills and parks, the quiet streets and the gorgeous landscaping all make Collingwood a popular neighbourhood in northwest Calgary. Collingwood homes for sale are nestled between Charleswood and Cambrian Heights and the community borders Nose Hill Park in the north, Confederation Park in the south and John Laurie Boulevard in the west. Together with Brentwood and Charleswood, Collingwood is part of the Triwood neighbourhood. It offers plenty of schools and diverse opportunities for independent businesses and the Brentwood LRT line is in close proximity.
Collingwood housing market statistics: As of April 23, 2019 there are currently 12 properties for sale in Collingwood listed as active, with an average asking price of $1,026,417. The highest-priced property is $2,999,800; the lowest priced property can be purchased for $329,900. Collingwood neighbourhood listings have an average price of $481 per square foot, based on listings with 4.2 bedrooms, 3.3 baths, and 2,065 square feet of living space.
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While the land in the area of what is now the real estate market of Collingwood became part of the City of Calgary in 1910, it wasn't until 1959 that the development of homes started and the community began to take shape.
Real estate in the community of Collingwood consists mostly of single-family homes. The share of these units is approximately 75%. They typically offer mountain views and are in close proximity to one of the local parks or smaller green spaces. There are plenty of upscale homes here but low rise condos are also available. Most of the residents are families and students, who study in the closely located University of Calgary. It is common for Collingwood home owners to stick around and stay settled here for year after year. That is why new homes for sale do not come up as often as they do in other parts of the city.
Homes for sale in Collingwood are just a short walk away from a range of large parks and other amenities. With its area of 2700 acres, Nose Hill Park offers plenty of opportunities for recreation and sports including 8 kilometres of walking trails. Confederation Park is known for its biking tracks and wooded areas for cross-country skiing and is also home to a golf course. Canmore Park has tennis courts, playgrounds and gorgeous fountains.
The neighbourhood is served by the Triwood Community Association that comes complete with indoor and outdoor hockey rinks, an ice skating rink and facilities for lacrosse. Popular children's community programs held in the centre include the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts.
It is easy to reach the shopping facilities in the local area and beyond. The LRT is in Brentwood which is minutes away and for motorists 14 St. NW passes though Collingwood. If you need anything outside the community you can reach it easily by driving or with public transit.
For home buyers in the neighbourhood of Collingwood there is a large number of school options. The choice of primary schools ranges from public Capitol Hill and French Banff Trail to private St. Luke and St. Joseph. The junior high schools include public Senator Patrick Burns and Branton, which provides instruction in French, and private St. Margaret and Madeleine d'Houet. There are two senior high schools within a short distance of the community including William Aberhart and St. Francis.
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Are you looking for change and a new challenge? Would you like to use your excellent skills to support pupils with complex needs who find it difficult to learn and who need passion, creativity and innovation to help them progress? We can offer you all of this and so much more at Hatton Special School.
Hatton is a large primary special school in the London Borough of Redbridge (outer London). Our pupils are aged 3-11 with a range of complex needs including autism, social communication difficulties, downs syndrome and other learning difficulties. The School was graded as 'outstanding' by Ofsted in November 2018. Our pupils are amazing and work very hard to achieve small and big steps of progress over time. They are supported by a dedicated staff team and we stand by our ethos of "Learning, Growing & Achieving Together"; we value teamwork and support one another to develop. Although our staff are amazing and have developed some fantastic practices in working with our pupils, we do not sit back. We are continually striving to further develop the learning opportunities we provide for our pupils.
Currently we are seeking to recruit teachers. Applications are invited from enthusiastic, passionate individuals who have a genuine interest in working to support pupils with special educational needs to achieve the very best outcomes. The class teacher position will require the teaching of pupils across a broad spectrum of SEN, including pupils with ASD and challenging behaviour. Specific experience of working with primary aged pupils with additional needs is desirable but not essential and others including keen NQTs will also be considered.
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Live updates: Sean Sadler, 32, on trial accused of murdering baby Lilly Hanrahan
Sadler, of Coriander Close, Northfield, has denied the charge and is standing trial at Birmingham Crown Court
BirminghamLive reporter
MSP Birminghammail
Birmingham Crown Court (Image: Birmingham Mail)
A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a baby girl who died in hospital after being found with a head injury.
Sean Sadler, 32, of Coriander Close, Northfield, has denied murdering Lilly Hanrahan on November 22 2017.
He has also pleaded not guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm on the 21-month-old between November 5 and 12 2017.
Sadler is standing trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Updates will follow below.
'He tried to wake her up but she did not awake', trial told 16:07
Scan showed 'extensive brain damage' 16:02
Sadler dialled 999 saying Lilly was unresponsive and unconscious 15:33
Lilly's wounds were 'abuse injuries inflicted by an adult', murder trial told 15:16
Guardian was still worried about string of injuries - but Lilly collapsed before hospital appointment 15:01
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Sadler denied taking pictures of Lilly's injuries in bid to 'decieve' her guardian
Sadler was asked about bruising to the back of her head and said he thought it was a carpet burn.
He said at first the special guardian thought he had done something to Lilly. Mr Hankin says:
He denied the true reason he had been photographing her injuries was to deceive the guardian that he was not responsible for them.
The trial has now been adjourned for the day
'He tried to wake her up but she did not awake', trial told
Sadler was interviewed and said when Lilly came home on the morning of her collapse she was "perfectly fine."
He said Lilly was in the living room watching TV.
Mr Hankin is taking the jury through images of the house. He says:
There is a sofa and opposite the sofa is a TV. There is a small lounge. This is the key location. There is the kitchen and the passageway back to the front door."
Sadler said Lilly was left with him when the special guardian went out, the court is told. Mr Hankin says:
He changed Lilly's nappy and took off some of her clothes
Initially he said he laid her down on the settee. He said she went to sleep and did not want her sibling disturbing Lilly
He said he did not go back into the living room because Lilly was quiet.
She was on the settee the whole time.
At some stage before he tried to wake her up and checked on her and noticed she way lying in an unusual position and he took a photograph.
This is the photo Sadler took. He said at some point later he went back into the living room and she had returned to her normal foetal position.
He stated he tried to wake her at this point but she did not wake up and he went back to the kitchen."
Scan showed 'extensive brain damage'
Mr Hankin said the surgeon performed the operation but, as he reached the conclusion, he recognised the pressure inside Lilly's skull began to rise so the swelling was continuing. He says:
A scan showed new areas of bleeding, damage to the brain caused by the interruption of blood and oxygen supply.
He operated again to try and help Lilly.. After the operation clinical signs were poor.
Lilly was in a coma and her breathing was being maintained by a machine.
Investigations were carried out and one of them was an eye examination which revealed there was bleeding in the back of the eyes, both eyes.
There was no disorder capable of causing Lilly to collapse into a coma, nothing medically to explain this presentation.
An MRI scan was performed. That scan showed extensive brain damage caused by an inadequate supply of oxygen to the brain.
In spite of all the surgical procedures a decision was taken to withdraw life support."
'Damage to the brain caused by an inadequate supply of oxygen and blood', trial told
Mr Hankin continues:
A consultant in emergency medicine was concerned that Lilly's brain was swelling and she was referred for a CT scan.
He also noticed a crescent pattern on her thighs consistent with finger marks."
He says the special guardian told the doctor Lilly had been well earlier that day and in the morning she had watched TV before having a nap
Sadler went to check on Lilly and she was unresponsive.
Following concerns raised, social services and the police were subsequently contacted, said Mr Hankin. He says:
Images showed there was fresh bleeding over and above the brain. The brain was swelling but there was no skull fracture."
There was damage to the brain caused by an inadequate supply of oxygen and blood.
It was for that reason emergency surgery was undertaken."
He says the doctor who carried out the surgery found bruises on Lilly's head and adds:
Because of what he saw he photographed the marks.
You can see a bruise to the right side to the head. You can see bruising to the top of the head.
You can see the pattern and shape and distribution of injury and the location."
Sadler dialled 999 saying Lilly was unresponsive and unconscious
Turning to the weekend of November 18 and 19, Mr Hankin said:
On Saturday, November 18, Sadler arrived at the special guardian's home and he was to spend the night there
At the same time she took Lilly to her mother
When Lilly arrived at the house she was promptly sick, vomited, which apparently was not uncommon."
She went to bed at 6.30pm and the next day Lilly returned to the special guardian's house, said Mr Hankin.
He said the special guardian later left the house, leaving Sadler home alone with Lilly.
She returned in the afternoon and was at home until she went out again, the court heard. Mr Hankin says:
Sadler was with Lilly for all but a very short period of time when he went out to the shops to collect some items.
A 999 call was made by Sadler who said Lilly was unresponsive and unconscious.
An ambulance crew happened to be nearby. They found Lilly placed on the floor with her eyes closed and unresponsive although she was breathing."
Lilly's wounds were 'abuse injuries inflicted by an adult', murder trial told
They noticed nothing exceptional and decided to end the monitoring.
However there were some bruises they found difficult to explain, for example the multiple bruises on Lilly's thighs.
Several of the nursery witnesses spoke of an area to the back of Lilly's head, where a scab had formed.
One of the issues you will be asked to consider is the timing and causation of these bruises and injuries.
The prosecution say the bruises and marks which are of concern include faded bruises seen on both ears.
On November 18, the afternoon before the collapse, photos were taken in the morning.
This shows bruising to the thighs and a mark on the rib cage. Sadler sought to explain the origin of these bruises.
The relevance lies in their pattern and distribution. While some may be innocent some are not. They are abuse injuries inflicted by an adult."
Guardian was still worried about string of injuries - but Lilly collapsed before hospital appointment
Lilly continued to sustain injury. On October 15 there is damage to a toe nail and a week later bruising to the upper thigh.
On October 31 there is a red mark to the back of the head in the hair line.
On November 1 is her right buttock, a circular bruise.
On November 1 the special guardian again sought medical intervention. She expressed her continued concern about what she thought was bruising.
She was given an appointment. On November 14 she saw a doctor. She showed the doctor the photographs on her phone.
Dr Lawrence made a referral to Birmingham Children's Hospital. The appointment was for November 21
The doctor felt her concerns were entirely rational. Lilly collapsed two days before the appointment.
The issue was also raised by the special guardian at the nursery. She arranged to meet with the manager on November 1.
She raised similar concerns to the ones she raised with the doctor. As a result the nursery agreed to monitor using a body map."
Lilly was referred to hospital over injuries
Mr Hankin went on:
There are several other photos of injuries to Lilly.
Friday, September 15. The first, taken in the morning, shows a red mark in Lilly's armpit and other images show a damaged toenail."
There were also photos of bruising to the thigh. He tells the jurors:
September 26, scratch marks on the left leg and then bruises on the inside and the back of the left ear and bruises on the shoulder taken on September 30.
Such was her concern about these marks that, on October 2 the special guardian took Lilly to see her GP.
He noted unexplained bruising in the outer part of the ear and upper back. This is two days after the photos you have just looked at.
As a result the doctor referred Lilly to the Birmingham Children's Hospital where she was examined by a consultant paediatrician.
He discharged her with no concerns that Lilly was the victim of abusive handling. There were no safeguarding concerns."
He believed she had a viral illness. Mr Hankin says:
Soon afterwards she received a telephone call to return to the hospital."
A doctor examined Lilly's ear but it did not look like a bruise to him.
Sadler was in relationship with baby's special guardian
Mr Hankin says there will be detailed medical evidence in the case.
He says Lilly was born healthily on February 21, 2016. Her mother was a heroin addict and the baby was discharged into the care of her grandmother.
Another woman was appointed the girl's special guardian and on July 7 Lilly moved into the woman's house. Mr Hankin says:
She was noted to be doing extremely well. The woman began a relationship with the defendant.
It began in Spring 2017 and he became a regular visitor and often stayed the night.
She began to leave Lilly in Sadler's care
On September 2 at 12.39pm Sadler sent her a text message while he was babysitting saying: 'I have something to show you about Lilly.
Soon after a photo was taken. Police examined the telephone belonging to the woman. There was a folder which contained various photos of Lilly.
One was taken on September 2. It shows bruising on the top of Lilly's head."
'Sean Sadler is responsible for her murder', jury told
Mr Hankin goes on:
The period of three days she spent at the Children's Hospital allowed for extensive medical investigation.
There was no evidence of natural disease. She was a normal healthy girl.
She had no recent significant illness or accident.
The head injury that caused her death was between the times she was last seen to be well and when she lost consciousness.
It occured when she was in the care of Sean Sadler
The prosecution contends that Sean Sadler caused the death of Lilly by assaulting her and he is responsible for her murder.
The likely mechanism was forceful shaking, possibly involving an impact on a yielding surface such as the armrest of a sofa.
Sadler also caused her older injuries, the fractures to the vertebrae and bleeding in the lungs."
He said these were also caused by forceful shaking.
Jurors told of baby girl's injuries
Jonas Hankin QC, prosecuting, tells the jury:
This case concerns the events which lead to the death of Lilly Hanrahan at the age of 21 months
Against a background of good health and no history of accidental injury to explain her collapse."
He said she was taken to hospital a state of deep coma which continued to worsen. Mr Hankin went on:
When her hair was shaved several bruises were found on the top of her scalp and further grip marks on both of her thighs.
Medical investigations revealed extensive bleeding into the back of her eyes `
Lilly died three days after she was admitted to the Children's Hospital.
There followed post-mortem investigations which showed she had sustained a catastrophic brain injury.
She also sustained six broken ribs."
She also had three fractured vertebrae in her spine
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Mr. James Short died Sunday, Sept. 1, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Gemberling, at the age of 78 years, five months and twenty-eight days. (b. 7 Mar., 1834) His wife preceded him in death last year. The deceased was born in Virginia, but spent the better part of his life on the farm near Emden. He suffered for years with palsy and the past year grew steadily weaker. To mourn his departure are his daughter, Mrs. Mary Gemberling and one son, Monteville Short, besides a host of other relatives and friends. Rev. Wahl preached the funeral sermon at the home. Interment in Bethel Cemetery.
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Home Arts & Entertainment Stony Brook University's National Cancer Survivors Day celebrates life
Stony Brook University's National Cancer Survivors Day celebrates life
by Heidi Sutton - June 10, 2017
Dr. Jennifer Arnold leads the Parade of Survivors. Photo by Cindy Swanson
By Heidi Sutton
On Sunday, June 4, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in various locations across the country for National Cancer Survivors Day, a celebration of life for anyone who has been touched by cancer. Locally, the Stony Brook Cancer Center hosted its 13th annual event, made possible by sponsorship from the Stony Brook School of Medicine and Stony Brook University.
The weather cooperated as attendees participated in a variety of outdoor activities, such as the popular dunk-a-doc, bedpan golf, chemo bag toss and face painting, as well as musical entertainment. The day culminated with the Parade of Survivors to the tune of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing."
Dr. Yusuf Hannun
"There is really no activity that I look forward to more every year than what we are doing here today, to celebrate you and to celebrate survivorship," said Dr. Yusuf Hannun, director of the Stony Brook Cancer Center, to a crowd of survivors, doctors, nurses, family members and friends. "Looking around … I am really humbled to see how this event has been growing exponentially, from very modest beginnings of a handful of dedicated volunteers and determined survivors, to today with over 1,300 [attendees], 300 of them survivors," he said.
Hannun also took the opportunity to speak about the new 245,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art Medical and Research Translation (MART) building, which served as the backdrop to the event and is scheduled to open by the end of this year. The director stated the new facility "will allow us to serve twice as many patients and their families … and allow us to continue to push back against cancer at all times. We are very excited to move into that building."
The keynote speaker of the day was Dr. Jennifer Arnold, who is featured on TLC's docudrama, "The Little Couple" along with her husband, Bill, who is originally from Port Jefferson Station, and their beautiful children, Will and Zoey. The show has served as an invaluable way to break down barriers and educate the public about people with disabilities.
Dr. Jennifer Arnold
Standing at just 3 feet and 2 inches, Arnold was born with a rare type of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, Strudwick type and has undergone over 30 surgeries in her lifetime. In 2013 she was diagnosed with stage 3 choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer that developed after a non-viable pregnancy. She graciously chose to share her fight with viewers of her show.
Now a three-year cancer survivor, Arnold shared her journey and personal lessons learned at Sunday's event with a dynamic, motivational and inspirational presentation titled Surviving with Grace and received several standing ovations.
"Although I had a lot of life lessons [growing up], nothing taught me more than going through cancer," said Arnold. "Sometimes life throws a wrench into the middle of your world and you have to be ready for that because life is short, no pun intended."
"Going through chemotherapy changes you a lot, physically, emotionally, mentally…," she said. After chemo, "I didn't go back to normal, but I did go back to life. Truly it takes a village to go through your treatment and survivorship. It's okay to accept that help."
Arnold continued, "This is a wonderful life that we have and I am so blessed to be alive and to be able to share my story and I know that many of you in the audience feel the same way. … Whether it's the fact that you've undergone treatment for cancer or whether you've had other obstacles in life, I hope that you too can overcome those obstacles and that you can survive with grace."
'The Little Couple'
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Life and Practice In Paradise: The most frequently asked question I get is: What does it take to get licensed in one of the island nations? Living "the island life" is the fantasy of many people especially in winter when the temperature dips and the snow is flying.
Very few people ever get to live that dream. I am one of the fortunate few. It didn't just happen. It took a lot of planning, hard work, perseverance and above all, PATIENCE.
This is the unembellished reality: Do not confuse your island vacation with the day to day experience of living and working.
When you are on vacation you arrange to leave most of the reminders of real life and responsibility at home. You don't have to look at your bills and all the things that require your attention and energy each day. That is what vacations are, an escape from the responsibilities and stresses of everyday living.
When you move to a place to live and work, no matter where you go, no matter how warm, beautiful and idyllic it seems, you will still have to deal with the realities, responsibilities and stresses of daily living. Some of these you will bring with you, some will be familiar. And there will inevitably be other, unfamiliar issues to deal with that come with the new location. You will trade your snow shovel and traffic for other things. Some of them you might not like any better. Others may even seem worse than those old familiar hassles. It is a very individual thing.
The question is what compromises are you willing to make in your lifestyle, and how much inconvenience are you willing to put up with? If you are married, the better question might be, what is your spouse willing to endure to live in "paradise"?
I first arrived in these Bahama islands on my boat in 1990. Most local communication was by VHF marine ship to shore radio since most people did not have telephone. Electricity was expensive but service fairly reliable. Gas and diesel fuel was often of poor quality and 3 times the price per gallon in the states. Food shopping was a real eye opener. Fresh fruit, veggies and dairy products were almost nonexistent, as were fresh meats and most of the grocery items we take for granted in even the smallest market in the U.S. Restaurants offered a limited menu, due again to the difficulty in getting supplies.
I didn't cruise to the islands for their amenities or a culinary experience. I'm a boat nut and water rat. I came for warm turquoise water, white sand beaches, sunshine and blue skies. The diving is some of the best in the world. Deep sea fishing off of Long Island, N.Y. involved a minimum run of 30 and sometimes 100 miles offshore usually in rough water. Here the ocean depth drops to several thousand feet within sight of land. That means there are Marlin, Wahoo, Dolphin fish (Mahi Mahi) and Tuna minutes, instead of hours, from your dock. That's what I call luxury.
Since then many things have changed, some for the better some not.
Fast forward to 2010. I've been living and practicing here full time since 2002. We have telephone and even cellular that works — sometimes. Electricity has become a major issue in recent years as the generating capacity of the government owned Power Company has not been able to keep up with the demand.
Summer 2010 has been difficult with multiple daily power outages of several hours at a time. Thankfully, the government is building a new power plant that is due to be ready in 2011.
What about grocery shopping? For many years there was a steady improvement in the availability of fresh produce and meat, as well as specialty items. Everything is expensive, but the variety and regular availability of food items was steadily improving. Then two years ago we had a major setback. The only supermarket on Great Abaco Island burned down. That meant that everyone from 60 miles north and 60 miles south plus the residents of many small cays had to shop at 3 small markets. They all get their supplies from the States and Nassau via once a week freight ships. They did their best to keep the area supplied, however, they seldom get all that they order. And often, by the time it gets on the shelf, the "fresh" stuff isn't fresh any more.
Then, on August 16, 2010, a beautiful new supermarket opened! It was the biggest event to happen in Abaco in years. The new store rivals most markets in the U.S. but we still have to time food shopping expeditions between the time when you think the new shipment will have cleared customs and gotten into the stores and when the shelves are picked clean for another week.
What about other shopping? Shopping malls? Well there aren't any. Home Depot? Lowes? Nope. No Borders or Barnes & Noble either. No bookstores, period. No McDonalds, Burger King or Pizza Hut. No corporate or franchise businesses at all, with the exception of Kentucky Fried Chicken. No dry cleaner either. And no movie theater – we used to have a small multiplex theater, but it closed down a few years ago.
These are the kind of concessions we have to make to live in paradise.
Think carefully about what your life would be like without these conveniences we tend to take for granted. Ask yourself if you really want to live without them before you pack up your life and move to paradise.
I am speaking about life in the out islands of the Bahamas, which is where I live. But from what I know, I believe much of the Caribbean is basically the same. Many of the Caribbean Island nations are much poorer than the Bahamas, however, which means they have even less to offer in the way of modern conveniences, infrastructure and "stuff." Moving to one of these places can be a real culture shock.
And even if you think you can be happy living without many of the conveniences of modern life in the USA, you need to realize that you will pay a premium for whatever you do have in the islands.
Gasoline here is about $5.00/ gal. Most things that we have shipped in carry a 50% to 60% import duty. Just recently the import duties on cars have gone through the roof. Cars with engines over 2 liters carry a duty of 85%!
The cost of housing is another issue. Real Estate here is very costly. A 2 bedroom 1 bath house on a postage stamp sized lot could easily run you $400,000 or more in any area you would consider living. And no, that is not water front. Paradise does not come cheap.
I am also frequently asking about what it takes to get a Chiropractic license in the islands. Chiropractic Licensing laws and work permit requirements vary from one Island Nation to the next. All are careful to be sure not to create competition with their citizen doctors. So the best opportunities are going to be in areas where there are no chiropractors, where the need is great and where you would not be a competitor to a citizen. That would mean living in the more remote and less developed areas. Yet if the island nation of your choice does not know about Chiropractic, you could have another problem altogether.
For years I tried to get a work permit and license here – but they did not license chiropractors at all. They had no designation for such a work permit. Catch 22. It took a long time for the laws to change. In 2002 I received the seventh Chiropractic License issued in the Bahamas. And it took me over ten years of persistence to get it. They still do not make it easy for foreigners.
The Bahamas Ministry of Immigration requires a work permit for which you would need the sponsorship of a Bahamian doctor. A license to practice Chiropractic must be approved and issued by The Bahamas Health Professions Council. Licensing and work permit fees cost about $10,000 each year.
These are the realities of living and practicing in the islands. It isn't for everyone, only you can decide if it is for you.


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Welcome to the official start of the Snowflake Shimmer Quilt Along! I am so excited to get started and I hope you are too!
The Snowflake Shimmer Quilt Along will run from July 1st, 2016, until October 7th, 2016, with a set of directions or a link up party revealed on the Fridays listed in the schedule at the bottom of this post. The quilt will finish at approximately 72″ x 88″, a very generous lap / twin size, and the Snowflake Shimmer quilt is a beginner level pattern.
The directions will be posted to this blog (and can always be found in the Blog Hops tab above) and e-mailed to the quilt along email distribution list which I will be forming starting today. Want to be added to the e-mail list? Simply add a comment to this post or send an e-mail to me at jetgirl8 (at) gmail (dot) com to get a more printer friendly version of the monthly instructions.
Please share your progress pictures on social media with the hashtag #SnowflakeShimmerQuilt or in the specially created Facebook Quilting Jetgirl page.
And now onto June's instructions… oh wait, you might want to see the design first, right? I am excited to share with you Snowflake Shimmer!
Once again, I learned that photographing larger quilts can be a bit of a challenge, especially when I work solo! Thankfully the park sprinklers had not yet reached this area of the grass, so I was able to spread it out and take a few photos before frantically gathering it up when the sprinkler system hissed to life.
At 72 x 88, this really is a very generous sized quilt. Above, I draped it on my queen size mattress with the top even with the headboard to show how large this quilt will be when you are finished.
And no quilt finish post (even if it is the kick off of a Quilt Along!) would be complete without showing off the quilting texture on the quilt back. I quilted using 50wt Aurifil 2605 (Grey) in a combination of large looping swirls in the background (hoping to evoke the floating, meandering path a snowflake can gently fall in), straight line echoes in the secondary star patterns, and a fun free motion quilted snowflake motif that I designed and will be sharing with you as a template when I talk about quilt finishing during the Quilt Along! I did the background and star quilting on my longarm and traced the templates and sewed the snowflakes using free motion quilting on my domestic machine.
Fabric A (lightest color value), 1 ¼ yd.
Fabric C (darkest color value), 4 ½ yds.
Backing Fabric, 5 ¼ yds.
In addition to fabric, the Snowflake Shimmer quilt requires a 9ʺ square ruler (or larger). If you have a large rectangular ruler that is over 9ʺ long on each side, that would also work.
Michael Miller generously donated Cotton Couture solids to make the sample quilt and the quilt that I will be making during the Quilt Along.
The Fat Quarter Shop has bundles of the blue and gray Michael Miller Cotton Couture colorways available for purchase (links below). You will still need to purchase your backing fabric, but these kits have everything you need for the quilt top and binding in either colorway.
I am suggesting the background is dark (Fabric C), the stars in the center are a medium tone (Fabric B), and the diamonds that form the snowflake shapes are lighter (Fabric A). What matters the most is that there is a tone contrast between your three fabric selections. Prints can work really well in this design, especially in the stars (Fabric B) and diamonds (Fabric A).
To evaluate your fabric selections, take a photograph of your fabric and convert the image to greyscale using the photo editing software you are familiar with or a filter in an app like Instagram.
Below is a blank quilt pattern that you can use to color and plan your layout. I also like to use blank patterns to doodle and design my quilting motifs.
Play off the "snowflake" theme by using snowflake fabric.
Play off the "shimmer" theme by using metallic fabric.
To download the Fabric Requirements PDF, simply click on the link or image above and save the PDF that opens.
Each week, my goal is to also list a few tutorials or other reading material that might support or help this QAL. This week I have a few tutorials of my own to share along with a very inclusive fabric selection tutorial from Diary of a Quilter. If you are stumped at any point in the QAL, please leave me a comment or send an email.
As I mentioned above, if you would like to join the email list to receive each new instruction as a PDF via email, please comment or email me at jetgirl8 (at) gmail (dot) com and I will begin an email list that will be active starting with the Fabric Preparation instructions on July 29th.
On Friday, July 22nd, I am going to open a linkup for you to share your fabric selections. The link up will be open through Thursday, July 28th. By linking up, you will become eligible for one of the (4) prizes from awesome sponsors Aurifil, Meadow Mist Designs, Sew Fresh Quilts, and Quilting Jetgirl. If you do not have a blog, you can link up by linking to an Instagram photo. If you do not have Instagram, you can email me during the linkup time frame and I will make sure you are included in the random drawings for the giveaways.
There is nearly a month to get your fabric selections on hand before July 29th, when I will be releasing the details on fabric preparation. I am really looking forward to seeing what we create together!
I love snowflake items as well as snowman everything. Thank You for the time and effort you are taking to do this for us.
Could you please add my name to your mailing list. Thank you. Looking forward to this one.
I would love to be on the mailing list for this quilt along.
Fabulous design and love your fabric combo!
A lovely simple design, perfect to practice negative space quilting.
I know that I am really late getting to the party but I love the quilt! I really want to make it for my husband but our bed is a queen. Is it possible to alter to a queen size? The colors are just perfect!!!


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package com.hazelcast.map.impl.query;

import com.hazelcast.config.Config;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
import com.hazelcast.map.QueryResultSizeExceededException;
import com.hazelcast.map.impl.MapService;
import com.hazelcast.query.TruePredicate;
import com.hazelcast.spi.properties.GroupProperty;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastParallelClassRunner;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastTestSupport;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.ParallelTest;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.SlowTest;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import static com.hazelcast.util.IterationType.ENTRY;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

@RunWith(HazelcastParallelClassRunner.class)
@Category({SlowTest.class, ParallelTest.class})
public class MapQueryEngineImpl_queryLocalPartitions_resultSizeLimitTest extends HazelcastTestSupport {

    private static final long RESULT_SIZE_LIMIT = QueryResultSizeLimiter.MINIMUM_MAX_RESULT_LIMIT + 4223;
    private static final int PARTITION_COUNT = 271;

    private IMap<String, String> map;
    private MapQueryEngineImpl queryEngine;
    private int limit;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        Config config = new Config();
        config.setProperty(GroupProperty.PARTITION_COUNT.getName(), "" + PARTITION_COUNT);
        config.setProperty(GroupProperty.QUERY_RESULT_SIZE_LIMIT.getName(), "" + RESULT_SIZE_LIMIT);

        HazelcastInstance hz = createHazelcastInstance(config);
        map = hz.getMap(randomName());

        MapService mapService = getNodeEngineImpl(hz).getService(MapService.SERVICE_NAME);
        queryEngine = new MapQueryEngineImpl(mapService.getMapServiceContext());

        // we fill all partitions, so we get the NodeResultLimit for all partitions as well
        QueryResultSizeLimiter resultSizeLimiter = queryEngine.getQueryResultSizeLimiter();
        limit = (int) resultSizeLimiter.getNodeResultLimit(PARTITION_COUNT);
    }

    @Test
    public void checkResultSize_limitNotExceeded() throws Exception {
        fillMap(limit - 1);

        Query query = Query.of().mapName(map.getName()).predicate(TruePredicate.INSTANCE)
                .iterationType(ENTRY).build();
        QueryResult result = (QueryResult) queryEngine.execute(query, Target.LOCAL_NODE);

        assertEquals(limit - 1, result.size());
    }

    @Test
    public void checkResultSize_limitEquals() throws Exception {
        fillMap(limit);

        Query query = Query.of().mapName(map.getName()).predicate(TruePredicate.INSTANCE)
                .iterationType(ENTRY).build();
        QueryResult result = (QueryResult) queryEngine.execute(query, Target.LOCAL_NODE);

        assertEquals(limit, result.size());
    }

    @Test(expected = QueryResultSizeExceededException.class)
    public void checkResultSize_limitExceeded() throws Exception {
        fillMap(limit + 1);

        Query query = Query.of().mapName(map.getName()).predicate(TruePredicate.INSTANCE)
                .iterationType(ENTRY).build();
        queryEngine.execute(query, Target.LOCAL_NODE);
    }

    private void fillMap(long count) {
        for (long i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            map.put(i + randomString(), "");
        }
    }
}

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SHA Administration
Meet Fidan Gousseynoff, SHA's new Executive Department Manager
Fidan Gousseynoff is new to the SHA Executive Department, but she has been at the agency for awhile now.
And she's fitting in nicely as Executive Department Manager, a job she began in October.
As she settles in, Gousseynoff is finding that she enjoys her work organizing and overseeing business for the executives of the largest housing authority in Western Massachusetts.
"It's dynamic and diverse," said Gousseynoff, who was born and grew up in Azerbaijan, formerly part of the Soviet Union. "I love it. I love the people, and everything about it."
Fidan Gousseynoff, SHA's new Executive Department Manager.
SHA Executive Director William H. Abrashkin said Gousseynoff has proven a quick study as she learns the ins and outs of the Executive Department, and an easygoing one at that.
In her new position, Fidan has to be the classic "Jack of All Trades." She sits at the crossroads of many SHA programs and activities, and has to know all parts of our operations to be sure that they are coordinated, information is shared, regulations satisfied, and deadlines met," he said.
"It is a job that requires both a big view of the SHA and close attention to detail. Fidan brings these qualities to her new position, and we are delighted to have her as a member of the SHA executive team."
Gousseynoff has worked at SHA the past 6 ½ years, starting out as ROSS Grant coordinator for elderly programming at Saab Court and moving to Gentile Apartments, where she worked as site coordinator, a job that included resident services as well as property management. Prior to that, she worked at the Chicopee Housing Authority.
She holds a mastor's degree in modern history and international relations from Baku State University in Azerbaijan. After earning her degrees, she taught political science at Western University and worked as an events manager for Spearhead Exhibitions, a United Kingdom-based company that focuses on energy and is one of the world's leading trade show organizers with offices in many countries.
Gousseynoff came to the United States in 2004 with her husband and young daughter. They live in Longmeadow, and are expecting a son in March.
She is in Russian and Azerbaijanian (Turkish), and has provided translation services to the Translation Center at UMass and to the Century College in Minnesota.
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import io.proleap.cobol.asg.metamodel.CobolDivisionElement;
import io.proleap.cobol.asg.metamodel.call.Call;

public interface AlternateRecordKeyClause extends CobolDivisionElement {

	Call getDataCall();

	PasswordClause getPasswordClause();

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Title Patricia Callahan of Louisville, Kentucky, 1922.
Description Portrait of Patricia (Mrs. Elliott) Callahan of Kentucky wearing a feathered hat and fur around her neck. Stamped on back of image: credit, John T. Berry (Louisville photographer); June 20, 1922. Handwritten on back: President Louisville Order of Junior League.
Source 7.25 x 9.5 in. b&w photographic print. Item no. 1994.18.1482 in the Herald-Post Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
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Posted on September 9, 2021 by Rosie Dodd
In Richard Cumberland's popular play of 1771, The West Indian, the title character, Belcour, newly arrived in London, is described as having "rum and sugar enough belonging to him, to make all the water in the Thames into punch." Cumberland uses this image to emphasise the immense wealth of the absentee sugar planters who relocated to London in the later Georgian era and who reshaped London, from the new residential district of Marylebone in the west to the vast docklands to the east.
The playwright implies that these new inhabitants are remaking London into a site of Creole pleasure, yet it also echoes their transformation of its international commerce.
In this talk, Natalie will explore the dual impact of this group on the city. She will also argue that English ridicule of the lifestyles of this new class of rich Londoners masked deeper concerns about the physical, economic, and cultural transformation of the city at the heart of the British Empire.
Natalie Zacek is senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. Her first book, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize, and she has published many journal articles and book chapters on the social, cultural, and gender history of the Caribbean.
This event is a Zoom webinar on:
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The FGSJ offers financial support to projects for the conservation and restoration of historic buildings, and seeks to stimulate an interest in and an appreciation of the value of Jamaica's heritage.
Jamaica has some of the finest Georgian buildings outside Great Britain. The architecture of this period was adapted to suit the tropics while maintaining the style and charm of its eighteenth-century origins. The particular Georgian quality of grace combined with utility appears not only in the design of great houses and civic buildings, but also in quite modest buildings throughout the island.
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Hate preacher Scott Lively: Gay rights groups are trying to have me murdered
Nick Duffy September 19, 2014
Notoriously anti-gay hate preacher Scott Lively has claimed that rights groups are trying to have him murdered.
Lively, who is running for governor of Massachusetts, cheered on anti-gay legislation in Russia, branding Putin an 'unlikely hero' for passing it.
It previously emerged that he addressed an anti-gay conference in Uganda just before the country's homophobic law was first drafted, and he is due to stand trial for Crimes Against Humanity for his role in encouraging anti-gay laws around the world.
He has now claimed that groups objecting to his work are trying to get hum murdered.
He wrote: "I believe they are now deliberately trying to incite murder against me and every other person on their enemies list.
"It is just cold hard fact that some 'gay' activists are incited to murder by inflammatory leftist rhetoric.
"Because I am a Bible-believing Christian I am not afraid of death. But neither am I volunteering for martyrdom.
"As of today I am for the first time going to start taking precautions against the possibility of being assassinated by agents of the LGBT movement. For one thing,
"I will no longer publicize my travel schedule in advance. And I am demanding a retraction and public apology from both HRC [Human Rights Campaign] and SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Centre].
"To both of them I insist: STOP INCITING HATE BEFORE YOU GET PEOPLE KILLED!!!!!"
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Q: Newly installed Ruby gems not showing up in $LOAD_PATH I'm using MacPorts in order to manage my Ruby/Rails/Gems installations. Recently after doing a gem install wirble, wirble fails to load when I start an instance of irb. Here's the output:
$ irb --simple-prompt
Couldn't load Wirble: no such file to load -- wirble

The Wirble gem doesn't show up in my $LOAD_PATH:
>> puts $:
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionmailer-2.3.5/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/activeresource-2.3.5/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql-2.8.1/bin
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.0.1/bin
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.3.5/bin
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.7/hide_lib_for_update
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.7/bin
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/site_ruby/1.9.1
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/site_ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin10
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/site_ruby
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/vendor_ruby/1.9.1
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/vendor_ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin10
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/vendor_ruby
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/1.9.1
/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/1.9.1/i386-darwin10
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=> nil
>>

The gem is definitely installed:
$ gem list |grep -i wirble
wirble (0.1.3)

It is located in /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wirble-0.1.3/
How do I get this and future gems I installed appended to my $LOAD_PATH?

A: Did you require RubyGems in irb?
require 'rubygems'

will probably be necessary before requiring any gems. You can also put this line in ~/.irbrc so you RubyGems will automatically be required when irb is started up.
I'm not sure why some of your Gems are in your load path -- gems usually don't appear in $:.

A: I got this to work!
Used this version: https://github.com/blackwinter/wirble.git and it worked!
Hope that helps!
John

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London's largest charity for the older LGBTQ community has been awarded a £300,000 grant
Opening Doors London helps give a voice to the older LGBTQ community
London's largest charity for older LGBTQ people has been awarded a £300,000 grant.
Opening Doors London (ODL) were awarded the funding from City Bridge Trust – the City of London Corporation's charitable funder – to help it develop and expand its 'Ambassadors' programme.
Led by volunteers, the scheme aims to represent older LGBTQ people and give them a voice to service providers, policy makers, researchers and the media.
The donation will fund the 'Ambassadors' programme for the next five years and is supported by a part-time policy officer and a part-time ambassador support officer.
Dhruv Patel, chairman of the City of London Corporation's City Bridge Trust Committee, said: "Opening Doors London's work goes to the heart of our own commitment to tackle disadvantage across the capital and help make London a fairer and better place in which to live.
"My colleagues at City Bridge Trust were impressed by the charity's sterling work to support the needs of people from the older LGBT+ community who, all too often, can feel isolated, lonely, and discriminated against.
"We hope that this significant grant for Opening Doors London will help it build upon the success of its commendable 'Ambassadors' programme over the next five years."
Alice Wallace, Director of Opening Doors London, said: "Opening Doors London Ambassadors are volunteers who are over 50 and who identify as LGBT+ and who are happy to speak about growing up LGBT+ before recent legislation was in place to protect their equality rights.
"They also speak to health and social care professionals about the inequalities that their generation still faces today.
"We are delighted that funding from the City Bridge Trust will ensure that our Ambassador volunteer programme expands in the years ahead, and that the experience of our LGBT+ city elders continues to inform and influence inclusive health and social care services in this internationally recognised city of diversity."
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Broken hearts in a Texas town
June 30, 2017 by Terry Teachout
In today's Wall Street Journal I write about New York revivals of Horton Foote's The Traveling Lady and Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room. Here's an excerpt.
"The Traveling Lady," among the most tenderly poignant of the soft-spoken studies of small-town life in which Horton Foote specialized, has had its ups and downs—mostly the latter. It ran for just three weeks on Broadway in 1954. Three years later, Kim Stanley, the star of that ill-fated production, repeated her much-admired performance on TV's "Studio One," and in 1965 the play, retitled "Baby the Rain Must Fall," was unsuccessfully filmed, this time as a vehicle for Steve McQueen. But by then Mr. Foote's once-promising career was in eclipse, and it wasn't until years later that he was generally recognized as one of America's most important playwrights. Now the original stage version of "The Traveling Lady," judiciously tightened by Mr. Foote from three acts to one for a 2004 revival, is being performed off Broadway in a production directed by Austin Pendleton, who has a knack for making smart things happen in small theaters. He's done it again: I feel certain that Mr. Foote himself would have delighted in the perfect stylistic unanimity of this lovely revival.
In all its iterations, "The Traveling Lady" tells the story of Georgette (Jean Lichty), who comes to Harrison, the tiny Texas town that was the center of Mr. Foote's semi-fictional universe, to await the imminent release from prison of Henry (P J Sosko), her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, an aspiring country singer who can't manage to stay out of trouble. What follows is a tightly snarled web of hope and disappointment…
As always, Mr. Pendleton has staged "The Traveling Lady" with a gentle understatement that draws you in before you know it, and his actors exude a feeling of community so strong as to create the impression that they've known one another for years, maybe decades….
Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," which ran off Broadway in 1991 and was filmed five years later, has made it to Broadway at last. I'm surprised it took so long, since it's the kind of play that typically goes over big there, a kitchen-sink-and-hospital-room cancer comedy in which all of the characters say cleverish things most of the time. The characters in question include Bessie (Lili Taylor), a dutiful daughter who comes down with leukemia after spending 20 years caring for her (unseen) senile father; Lee (Janeane Garofalo), Bessie's not-so-dutiful sister, who flew the family coop as fast as she could but now finds herself saddled with a teenage son (Jack DiFalco) who set fire to her house and is now in a mental institution, and…but you get the idea, right? Lots of laughs, lots of jerked tears, very little reality….
Read the whole thing here.
Austin Pendleton talks about his off-Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Traveling Lady:
The 1957 Studio One TV version of The Traveling Lady, adapted by Foote, directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Kim Stanley, Steven Hill, Robert Loggia, and Mildred Dunnock. This performance was originally telecast live by CBS on April 22, 1957:
Replay: Fred Astaire dances to "Mellow Yellow"
Courtesy of Marc Myers, Fred Astaire dances to Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" on The Fred Astaire Show, accompanied by Young-Holt Unlimited. This program was originally telecast by NBCon February 7, 1968:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
Almanac: Eric Hoffer on death
"How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."
Eric Hoffer, "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,''" New York Times Magazine (April 25, 1971)
The chords that bind
I take music for granted—not because I don't love it passionately, but because it has always been as much a part of my life as the air around me. To be sure, there have been times when I paid less attention to music, but sooner or later it has taken hold of me again. It is my second language, one learned in childhood, meaning that I "speak" it without an accent and as easily and naturally as I speak English. To come at it from the other direction, I experience a piece of instrumental music in much the same way that I experience a short story or an essay: it talks to me.
I remember being overwhelmed by my first encounter with something that Felix Mendelssohn said in an 1842 letter to a friend: "The thoughts which are expressed to me by music that I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite. " I also remember reading the following passage in a biography of Donald Francis Tovey and thinking, I know just what he meant:
I have (this sounds like fantastic nonsense, but it isn't) frequently caught myself positively solving some problem (of a more or less philosophical nature) in, say, the key of A minor, where I had utterly failed to reason it out in words.
If music has this strong an effect on you, then there will be times when you feel an overpowering, almost physical urge to listen to a specific piece of it. Such a feeling came over me last night: I felt that if I couldn't listen to the first movement of Charles Ives' Third Symphony right away, I would be reduced to abject despair. Therein lies the supreme spiritual utility of the digital technology that has brought about what is without question the most radical transformation of daily life to take place in my lifetime: I screwed in my earbuds and clicked a few keys on my MacBook, and all at once my head was full of Ives.
Why, though, was it this particular piece that I craved? I'm sure it was because I'd spent an hour talking to my brother on the phone on Tuesday night. A year has gone by since I saw David, and it's been nearly two years to the day since my last visit to the small town in southeast Missouri where we grew up and where he still lives. Having lived in New York for thirty years, I can't pretend to be anything other than a city dweller now, but I'm still a small-town boy at heart, and Ives' Third Symphony, whose subtitle is "The Camp Meeting" and whose first movement is called "Old Folks Gatherin'," overflows with the hymn tunes and homespun harmonies of Ives' youth, which I, too, heard in church on Sunday mornings back in Smalltown, U.S.A. No sooner did I start listening to it than I was swept back in time, and when the music ended, I felt serene and secure, more so than I've felt for quite some time.
Not surprisingly, listening to "Old Folks Gatherin'" also made me long to see my brother. Alas, we won't be together again until the first week in December, when he and his wife will be in West Palm Beach for the premiere of my new play. But we are always together in my heart, and that'll have to do for now.
As I typed that last sentence, I found myself thinking of a sentence uttered by Abraham Lincoln a century and a half ago: "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." So far as I know, Lincoln didn't much care for music, classical or otherwise, but anyone capable of penning a phrase like "mystic chords of memory" must surely have had some inkling of its ineffable power. Music is for me what the madeleine was for Proust: it opens the door to memory. Last night its mystic chords also bridged the thousand-mile gap between New York City and Smalltown, U.S.A., and put my beloved brother in the room with me for a few precious minutes. Of such little blessings is the life of a music lover made.
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic perform Charles Ives' Third Symphony:
See me, hear me (cont'd)
My latest appearance on CUNY-TV's Theater Talk, the second part of a discussion of the second half of the Broadway season just past, can now be viewed online. The hosts are Susan Haskins and Michael Riedel and the other panelists are Peter Marks of Washington Post, Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Times and The New Yorker, and Linda Winer of Newsday. (The first part of the discussion can be viewed here.) The episode also includes an interview with Joel Grey:
So you want to see a show?
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)
• Groundhog Day (musical, G/PG-13, reviewed here)
• Hamilton (musical, PG-13, Broadway transfer of off-Broadway production, all shows sold out last week, reviewed here)
• On Your Feet! (jukebox musical, G, closes August 20, reviewed here)
IN LENOX, MASS.:
• 4000 Miles (drama, PG-13/R, closes July 16, reviewed here)
CLOSING SUNDAY ON BROADWAY:
• Present Laughter (comedy, PG-13, reviewed here)
Almanac: Lord Byron on hatred
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron, Don Juan
Virtuoso fireworks for the Fourth of July
This week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column is a tribute to two patriotic virtuoso piano showpieces. Here's an excerpt.
Like all red-blooded Americans, I love fireworks, whether in the sky or on the stage. Anyone who isn't thrilled by the high-wire theatricality of a virtuoso performer needs to have his hypothalamus examined. I also love the Fourth of July, the national holiday on which it's customary to set off skyrockets of the non-musical kind. Alas, the classical musicians of today seem increasingly disinclined to display the heart-on-sleeve patriotism that led Van Cliburn to open his recitals with "The Star-Spangled Banner," and to play it with the utmost splendor and conviction….
This is undoubtedly one of the reasons why I've never heard a concert performance of either of the two most spectacular exercises in flag-flying pianistic patriotism that I know, Louis Moreau Gottschalk's "The Union" and Vladimir Horowitz's transcription of "The Stars and Stripes Forever." The other reason is that both pieces are monstrously, knuckle-crunchingly hard to play. But they make for irresistibly pleasurable listening…
Gottschalk's French-sounding given names obscure the fact that he was America's first important native-born composer. In "The Union," composed in 1862, he proudly wore his nationality on his sleeve. The piece's subtitle, "Concert Paraphrase on National Airs," situates this seven-minute medley of three patriotic songs in its proper musical context: It's an all-American version of a Liszt-style operatic fantasy, a showpiece in which familiar melodies are cleverly woven together, then festooned with fantastically complex technical stuntwork. In "The Union," though, the melodies are not arias by Rossini or Verdi but "Hail, Columbia," "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Yankee Doodle." Gottschalk chose these songs because he wrote "The Union" as an act of musical homage to the Northern side in the Civil War….
Vladimir Horowitz brought off a comparable feat of patriotic prestidigitation when he transcribed "The Stars and Stripes Forever," the most famous and beloved of John Philip Sousa's 137 marches for military band. Arturo Toscanini, Horowitz's father-in-law, started performing "The Stars and Stripes Forever" with the NBC Symphony in 1943 as a wartime tribute to the U.S. armed forces. Horowitz, a refugee from Soviet Russia who became a naturalized U.S. citizen the following year, heard a Toscanini performance and decided to arrange the march as a gesture of gratitude to his new-found homeland. The results were an instant hit…
A slightly shorter version of this column appears in the print edition of today's Journal. To read the complete online version, go here.
Leonard Pennario's 1974 studio recording of "The Union":
Vladimir Horowitz plays "The Stars and Stripes Forever" in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945:
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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This article appeared in the Fall 2018 International Issue.
There are many reasons to focus on international marketing and distribution, and if you ignore this segment, your business could be missing out. Global parcel shipping has increased by 48% over the last two years, and it is expected to grow by over 20% this year. Ninety-five percent of all consumers live outside the US. Finally, in comparison to a domestic order, the average order value of an international shipment is 17% higher, meaning that you get more revenue for each order.
In spite of these opportunities, shippers feel that there are significant obstacles to international shipping, with high shipping costs, additional fees at delivery, and lengthy delivery times being among the most cited. But, as with many things in our industry, these concerns can be mitigated with careful planning.
The centerpiece of your strategy starts with the fact that customers like shipping options. Given that fact, any international shipping programs must include options. Primarily, the most important options for customers are choosing between higher or lower shipping charges, faster or slower delivery times, more or less shipment visibility, and how to pay the duties and taxes.
When working with your carriers, make sure that they offer you both an international express service as well as a deferred global postal consolidation option. The cost between these services is staggering, with the express option costing two to three times more than a deferred solution. The main reason for these cost differences is that the express option is a door-to-door pick-up and delivery with expedited, formal customs clearance in the local country. Consolidation, on the other hand, is an option where your package is picked up, grouped together with other packages, forwarded to the local country, and injected into their local postal system for delivery to your customer.
These cost differences and forwarding processes also mean very different transit and delivery times to your customers. When utilizing an express service, you can expect delivery to your customer within one to three days. With consolidation, delivery times are usually four to seven days, depending on the service you select. Transit times also differ greatly by destination country, so you will want to work with your carrier on which lanes and countries provide the best deliveries.
When evaluating these different shipping options, also consider that they offer very different tracking and shipping visibility for your customers. International express shipping provides your customers with frequent updates, including a pick-up scan, in-transit scan, customs, out for delivery, and proof of delivery. With a postal consolidation option, you will have very limited visibility that may or may not include proof of delivery.
When offering these choices to your customers, it is crucial that you fully explain the many differences in service between express shipping and consolidated shipping thorough your website, at check out, and with your customer service. Most surveys show that if you set customer expectations up front, they are willing to accept longer transit times for significantly lower shipping costs.
Offering your customers choices in shipping costs and deliveries will have a major impact on your overall growth, as the order volume usually grows significantly when less expensive shipping options are offered.
The last area of concern for most international shippers is how to handle duties and taxes for your customers. Primarily, most shippers have utilized a deliver duty unpaid (DDU) option, which means that duties and taxes are paid by the customer at time of delivery and determined by the destination country. This approach does eliminate the need for shippers to calculate duties and taxes at point of shipping. However, the downside is that the carriers may charge extra fees for collection of the duties and taxes, and the customer may refuse the shipment when they see the additional costs. Collecting duties and taxes at delivery can often lead to longer delivery times.
Another approach which is becoming more common is for shippers to utilize a deliver duty paid (DDP) service where the duties and taxes are prepaid and charged to the customer at point of sale. In order to do this, shippers must calculate real-time duty and taxes for their products based on a number of factors, including country of origin, a harmonized code, and the fully landed cost of the total order value. While this may sound overwhelming for shippers, there are many carriers and services that can facilitate this, including DHL ICart, UPS i-parcel, and FedEx Cross Border, as well as many others. Most surveys have shown that utilizing a DDP service leads to better customer satisfaction and a smoother delivery.
Keep in mind that whatever approach you take, you, as the shipper, are responsible for accurate duties and taxes collection.
There are many ways that you can take advantage of global growth and reach new customers. As we have discussed, the key is to plan and communicate your international strategy before you start shipping. Partner with your carriers to come up with the right shipping strategies that offer your customers choices and cost-effective ways to get your products to your international customers.
Tim Sailor, DLP is the founder of Navigo Consulting Group, which specializes in contract optimization, distribution analytics, and strategic sourcing. Since 1995, Navigo has reduced its clients' shipping costs by 20%-30%. Tim has contributed to the transportation industry for over 30 years. You can reach Tim at 562.621.0830 or Tim@NavigoInc.com.


Storing food is a great way to save money and ensure a ready supply of food in cases of emergency. Most people stock up on canned goods and processed foods because of their long shelf life and lack of preparation needed to store them. Dehydrating is a great way of preserving fresh foods while adding something tasty and nutritious to your food stocks.
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The Nesco dehydrator also has an adjustable thermostat that ranges from 95 to 160 degrees for easy temperature control making it great for drying a wide variety of foods. The unit comes with five trays and can be expanded to 12 for drying larger quantities. It also comes with a recipe book with 52 pages of easy to make meals as well as some jerky spices to get you started.


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Die NBA-Saison 1987/88 war die 42. Spielzeit der National Basketball Association. Die reguläre Saison begann am 6. November 1987 und endete am 24. April 1988. Darauf folgten die NBA-Playoffs am 28. April 1988, die Mitte Juni mit den NBA Finals endeten. Die Meisterschaft konnten sich die Los Angeles Lakers mit einem 4:3 in der Serie gegen die Detroit Pistons sichern.

Draft
Der NBA-Draft 1987 fand am 22. Juni 1987 in New York City statt. An erster Position wurde David Robinson von den San Antonio Spurs gewählt.

All-Star Game
Das All-Star Game 1988 wurde am 7. Februar 1988 im Chicago Stadium ausgetragen. Der Osten gewann mit 138 zu 133. Zum MVP wurde Michael Jordan gewählt.

Endstände
 S = Siege, N = Niederlagen, PCT = prozentualer Sieganteil, P = Rückstand auf Divisionsführenden

In Klammern sind die Platzierungen in den Setzlisten der jeweiligen Conference-Playoffs aufgeführt.

NBA-Auszeichnungen
 Most Valuable Player: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
 Rookie of the Year: Mark Jackson, New York Knicks
 Defensive Player of the Year: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
 Sixth Man of the Year: Roy Tarpley, Dallas Mavericks
 Most Improved Player: Kevin Duckworth, Portland Trail Blazers
 Coach of the Year: Doug Moe, Denver Nuggets
 All-NBA First Team:
 F – Charles Barkley, Philadelphia 76ers
 F – Larry Bird, Boston Celtics
 C – Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
 G – Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
 G – Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
 All-NBA Second Team:
 F – Patrick Ewing, New York Knicks
 F – Karl Malone, Utah Jazz
 F – Buck Williams, New Jersey Nets
 C – Mark Eaton, Utah Jazz
 G – Fat Lever, Denver Nuggets
 G – Alvin Robertson, San Antonio Spurs
 All-NBA Rookie Team:
 Greg Anderson, San Antonio Spurs
 Armen Gilliam, Phoenix Suns
 Mark Jackson, New York Knicks
 Derrick McKey, Seattle SuperSonics
 Kenny Smith, Sacramento Kings
 NBA All-Defensive First Team:
 Michael Cooper, Los Angeles Lakers
 Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
 Rodney McCray, Houston Rockets
 Kevin McHale, Boston Celtics
 Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
 NBA All-Defensive Second Team:
 Mark Eaton, Utah Jazz
 Patrick Ewing, New York Knicks
 Fat Lever, Denver Nuggets
 Karl Malone, Utah Jazz
 Alvin Robertson, San Antonio Spurs
 Buck Williams, New Jersey Nets

Playoffs
In der ersten Runde wurde im Best-of-Five-System gespielt, ab der zweiten Runde dann im Best-Of-Seven-System.

Weblinks
 Die Saison 1987/88 bei basketball-reference.com

NBA-Saison
Basketballsaison 1987/88


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RECORDING: *Non-Member Pricing* 2022 January - Police Board Governance, A Primer to Brush Up on Your Basics
During this refresher session, seasoned Police Governance authority Andrew Graham will provide a research-based overview of how you should build an effective police governance system, starting with the fundamentals. Attendees can expect to delve into the answers to these foundational questions:
What does it mean to govern?
Are governance and oversight different?
To whom/what is a Board/Commission accountable? How?
What are the key activities of Boards/Commissions?
No matter what your level of expertise in governance is, we aim to encourage you to re-examine the fundamentals of your governing body in order to strengthen public safety in your community.
ANDREW GRAHAM, Adjunct Professor. School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
Andrew Graham teaches at Queens University School of Policy Studies as well as a variety of international and Canadian venues. Professor Graham teaches in both the graduate and professional development programs at Queens. He designs and delivers courses on leadership, financial management, policy implementation, risk management and police governance. He is the author of Canada's leading textbook on managing public money, Canadian Public Sector Financial Management, available through McGill-Queens Press.
He has worked with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada in the development of public sector learning material and sits on its Public Sector Advisory Committee. He has worked with several countries on public administration financial competence.
For ten years, he served as National Editor of the Case Study Program of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Canada's leading source of public sector case studies. He has also published Making the Case: Writing and Teaching Case Studies, also available through McGill-Queens. He also edited Innovations in Public Expenditure Management, a publication of the Commonwealth Secretariat and authored Canada's Critical Infrastructure: When is Safe Enough Safe Enough? for the Macdonald Laurier Institute of Canada. He also received the Principal's Award for Curriculum Design at Queen's University. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Affairs Education. Financial Management Institute of Canada (fmi*igf) awarded Professor Graham the 2013-2014 Alan G. Ross Award for Writing Excellence for his article "What is financial literacy for the public manager".
With respect to risk management, he has written extensively in this area, including an e-book Implementing Risk Management, available free on his website. He has worked internationally in training organizations on risk, financial management and professional learning.
He has worked extensively on issues of police governance in Canada, working with national and provincial organizations in providing advice and training on how to build effective police governance. He has developed police governance training, based on his research at the Conference Board of Canada, for the Canadian Police College and the Canadian Association of Police Governance (CAPG). He has advised First Nations on police governance, advising the First Nations Police Governance Council on design and delivery of effective governance in the indigenous context. He recently completed a review of the Peacekeeper Law of Kahnawá:ke and developed an intensive training program for new board members. He provided advice on governance to the 2018 Inquiry into the Thunder Bay Police Service Board by Senator Murray Sinclair and subsequently developed an onboarding training package for the new Board. The CAPG awarded him the 2018 Emil Kolb Aware for leadership in police governance in Canada.
An Assistant Deputy Minister for 14 years in the federal government with over 30 years of service, he has experience in line operations (Warden, Kingston Penitentiary), leading a complex regional operations, and a number of national policy and corporate leadership roles, including Senior Deputy Commission of the Correctional Service of Canada. He has extensive corporate management experience, including having served as the ADM, Corporate Services of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He took part in an executive interchange to the Conference Board of Canada for two years, focusing on governance and risk.
He served as President of APEX, the professional association of public executives. He is a voting member of the Institute on Governance. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Public Administration Journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
He has a Masters of Arts degree in political economy from the University of Toronto and a B.A. from Glendon College, York University. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Canadian Centre for Management Development. He holds a Diploma in Landscape Design and Horticulture from Guelph University. He is a graduate of the Orvis School of Fly Fishing.
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