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Date: February 20, 2020 - February 23, 2020
Image Credit: Painting by Gwendolyn Zabicki as seen in her exhibition In A Room With Many Windows on view now at Heaven Gallery.
The weekend is warming up and there's a lot happening across the art scene in Wicker Park Bucktown! With an array of openings and closings, reading and workshops, and happenings of all sorts, our latest WPB Weekend Arts Guide has the scoop...
Thursday (2/20/2020)
Neighborly
Cocktail Infusing and Tasting Class with Aged & Infused
Join Neighborly to learn how to craft up a new cocktail mix with local connoisseurs Aged & Infused! You'll learn about infusing, how to mix cocktails using infusion flavors, and finally taste a few of Aged & Infused's creations! Tickets include an intro to infusing, tips and tricks on flavor pairing, samples of Aged & Infused's mixes, snacks, an infusion kit to take home, and 10% off any purchases at Neighborly the day of the workshop.
6:30pm to 8:00pm [SOLD OUT]
What Remains: Off-Site Performance Program - Chapter 3: Referential
Defibrillator Gallery proudly presents Off-Site Performance Programming for their current exhibition What Remains: On the Sacred, the Lost, and the Forgotten Relics of Live Art. Hosted by No Nation Unspace Lab, Chapter 3: Referential relates to participating artists' personal stories, and experiences. The relics featured in this chapter act as conduits, channeling narratives and associations, referencing biographies and experiences. The evening features performance art by Maya Nguen and Noa/h Fields, Erin Peisert and Amy Whitaker, and will sōderberg. Referential features live installations and sound-performance. Curator ieke Trinks conceived of a project that would speak to the challenges of keeping records of live performances beyond the dominant and didactic lens of video and photographic documentation. What Remains is structured around proposals from artists to re-interpret the relics in the Defibrillator object archive and provide a framework for reconceptualizing their value and meaning through new works.
Friday (2/21/2020)
David Leonardis Gallery
Matt Lamb Paintings
David Leonardis has over 100 fantastic Matt Lamb artworks available along with new works by Donald Topp (pictured above), Aly Jados, and more. This Friday DLG will hold an artist reception for Matt Lamb and his amazing paintings! As always the PBR, red wine, and bottled water are on the house!
Reception 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Paul Sierra: New Works
Paul Sierra is a storyteller, a literary painter. He equally melds message with the pure art of painting. His works tell of mystic struggles; from coming to terms with life, to the finality of mortality and how that finality affects every day in between.
Opening Reception 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Toy de Jour: Vintage, Toys, Arts & Farts
Walrus Mania
Toy de Jour and Junk Fed present Walrus Mania, a group exhibition featuring 30 artists working in painting, sculpture, toy art, illustration, and photography. The curated works will pay tribute to the vintage Star Wars Walrus Man action figure. Originally sculpted by Stephen Geddes for the now defunct Kenner toy company and released in 1979 as part of the second wave of Star Wars action figures, Walrus Man is one of the most vividly iconic action figures of its time. With a complementary contrast of orange and blue, flippered feet, and vaguely walrus-like head, the figure is a departure from the character depicted in the film, and remains a favorite among toy collectors. The Walrus Mania exhibit was conceived by visual artist Todd S Rogers, under the moniker Junk Fed, out of a personal obsession with the aesthetics of the original action figure and the creative liberties taken in its design, separating it from the creature seen briefly in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Contributing artists include BattleBabies, The Block Watch, CantinaDanny, Cassie Hart, chooseplastik, Dollar $lice Bootlegs, Galaxxor, Green Plastic Tunnels, Nathan Hamill, Handmade Stuffs, Healeymade, Ironoclast, Jellykoe, Junk Fed, Killer Bootlegs, KrymsynGardImmoral, Lab Monkey Number 9, Mad Monster Lady, ManOrMonster?, Mortar Heads, Mr. Walters, Oscar Cisneros, Pez Banana, poopbird, Super Group Hugs, Terra, The Sucklord, The Tennessee Wolfman, Tiffany Flanagan, and Undead Speed Equipment.
Opening Reception 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Nick Van Zanten: easily suede
UGLY is pleased to present easily suede, an exhibition featuring new work by Nick Van Zanten. This is Van Zanten's first exhibition with the gallery and will feature new entries into his Formfit series of abstract/wearable wall-mounted fabric assemblages as well as a series of photograph and sewn compositions.
Saturday (2/22/2020)
House Dance: Self-Guided Dance Session
Join Heaven Gallery for their second House Dance Self-Guided Session. This new series aims to rebuild community power through dance. Enjoy a night of movement and music without staying out late! The evening features Chicago DJ Cordell Johnson, with mocktails available for a suggested donation and tea donated by DavidsTea. Heaven asks for a suggested entry donation of $5.
LVL3 is proud to present something blue, a group exhibition marking their first 10 years as an artist-run space. something blue digs through the archives of LVL3 to welcome back 10 previous artists: Jaime Angelopoulos, Alika Cooper, Amy Feldman, Yowshien Kuo, Ryan Lauderdale, Christopher Meerdo, Adam Milner, Daniel Shea, Soo Shin, and Wyne Veen. LVL3 is honored to celebrate the accomplishments of these artists and the impact they've had on our programming. To commemorate the past decade, we pay homage to the traditional American 10 year wedding anniversary gift. Tin, aluminum, silver and cyan—the work in this exhibition celebrates something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
Beyond Reach: Selva Aparicio & Valentina Zamfirescu + Onyx Engobar: Use of the Erotic as Power: A Self Study in Black Myths & Black Eroticism in the Window
Roots & Culture is pleased to present Beyond Reach, an exhibition that pairs artists Selva Aparicio and Valentina Zamfirescu who reflect on the (im)possibility of corporeal touch. In Beyond Reach, viewers near physical bodies and their memory-images yet true connection continually evades; multiple layers of material and technological intervention block the path and problematize skin-to-skin contact. Selva Aparicio gives meaning to the neglected, finds beauty in peril, and empowers her gathered materials to raise questions on mourning, death and fragility. Aparicio has covered an entire room with concrete tiles cast from impressions of human cadavers, inviting viewers to touch and intimately experience the crevices of skin frozen in metamorphosis from living to dead. Valentina Zamfirescu's sculptural installations likewise center around bodies and mediate corporeal experiences of the world. Working primarily with digital technologies, Zamfirescu brings back suppressed personal memories and stages them in virtual reality or through digital print. While Zamfirescu's most recent work employs VR, her virtual environments always exist within an installation and employ sculptural elements to direct and constantly pull viewers back to their occupied body. Interwoven together as a two-person exhibition, Selva Aparicio's and Valentina Zamfirescu's meticulously crafted installations reference a universality of being and distill our strongest, most human connections as material and digital form.
Exhibitions Close - Final Day
Vertical Gallery
Winter Group Show
Vertical Gallery presents a special five-artist exhibition for their first exhibition of 2020. The Winter Group Show will feature Julieta XLF, Leon Keer, James Knight (Fourhundred ML), Li-Hill, and Martin Whatson. Julieta XLF (Valencia, Spain) paints whimsical figures, often entwined with nature, that seem larger than life. Since 2004, she has been focusing on mural interventions in public spaces. Leon Keer (Utrecht, Netherlands) is a Dutch pop-surrealist artist. He is a leading artist in anamorphic street art. James Knight (Fourhundred ML) (Vancouver, Canada) began in the graffiti art scene, and has continued to define his style to what he calls 'rough realism' – hyper-detailed photorealistic paintings created with spray paint. Li-Hill (Toronto, Canada) employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. Martin Whatson (Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian street artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aesthetic combining abstract movement with figurative stenciled compositions.
Babble Bot Story Time + Sarah Kozloff: The Nine Realms
Join Volumes for a very special Storytime with local author Bennett Dixon! Dixon is a former advertising copywriter, an SCBWI member, and the proud father of a four-year-old and a two-year-old. He often wishes he had a translating robot. Babble Bot is a picture book about a baby and a daddy who can't understand one another until a toy robot steps in to translate. Opening a hilarious and heart-warming line of communication, the robot enlightens daddy on the meaning of baby-speak like "Blah-dee, gunk-gunk" ("You are the one who gives me bottle") and "Floompa flimmer--bzzzt!" ("Your outfit--it's terrible!") But when the robot's batteries run out, baby and daddy are on their own. Written by Bennett Dixon, featuring 32 full-color illustrations by renown illustrator Josh Lewis, and made for children aged 2-6, Babble Bot is a light-hearted take on a universal human condition--the need to connect and be understood.
Join Volumes as they welcome author Sarah Kozloff, the debut author of the four book series The Nine Realms. Sarah will be present to talk about her new incredible sweeping, cinematic, epic fantasy series. A Queen in Hiding is book one in this exciting series, and Tor Books is excited to be releasing one book of the quartet per month through April so readers won't have to wait to binge the whole series. In book one, readers meet Cérulia, Princess of Weirandale. Orphaned, exiled, and hunted, she must master the magic that is her birthright, become a ruthless guerrilla fighter, and transform into the queen that she is destined to be. To do it, she must win the favor of the spirits who play a role in mortal affairs, assemble an unlikely group of rebels, and wrest the throne from a corrupt aristocracy whose rot has spread throughout her kingdom. Kozloff holds an endowed chair as a professor of film history at Vassar College. She worked in the film industry in both television and film before becoming a professor.
Story Time 10:00am to 11:00am; Nine Realms 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Sunday (2/23/2020)
Texas Two-Step Dance Class & Workshop
Put on your boots and come learn the basic Texas Two-Step with some spins and dips. Caitlin Rafferty and J.B. Duckett will be teaching a basic refresher on the two-step, then move on to teaching more advance turns, spins and dips. The workshop will have a donation-based beer and wine bar. Space is limited to 30 attendees, so reserve your tickets here or pay $13 at the door.
Generational Desidentificación Entrance In2/Or Via The Emerald Nebula Waterfall Abyss
No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab presents an afternuevening of/with readings, performance art, 2D and 3D work, and video. Generational Desidentificación Entrance In2/Or Via The Emerald Nebula Waterfall Abyss features work by Mike Burcl, Lauren Chasczewski, Andrew Choate, Trent Helton, Jennifer Karmin, Joey Meland, Natalia Nicholson, Dave Rempis, Garret Roberts, Sophie Schroeders, Chloe Shields & John Cook, Skippie, and Jacob Wick. Pay with a poem, or pay with a butt-print. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Tarot 2.0
If you have taken a tarot class before or have a familiarity with the cards and want to further awaken the mystic spirits, then this class is just for you! The workshop will focus on the four suits of the minor arcana and their relationship to the major arcana, as well as explore the deeper meanings of card relationships in different spreads. The class will be $30.
Adam Falkner: The Willies
Join Volumes as they welcome Adam Falkner to read from his new poetry collection The Willies. He will be joined by Chicago poet Kee Stein. Dr. Adam Falkner is a poet, educator and arts & culture strategist. He is the author of Adoption and The Willies, and his work has appeared in a range of print and media spaces including on programming for HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Education from Columbia University. As a researcher, Adam's work focuses on themes of culturally empowering education, intergroup dialogue and the capacity for the applied arts to facilitate social change. His dissertation examined the impact of an innovative arts-based curriculum designed to disrupt one school's tolerance-based approaches toward engaging issues of bullying across lines of race, gender, and sexual orientation, and explored the use of student creative writing and performance as tools toward cultivating safer, more courageous classrooms.
CA$H ONLY by Jacob King
AdventureLand Gallery will open a unique photo exhibition featuring Chicago born artist Jacob King, on view through the end of the month. CA$H ONLY will feature several works by King that explore the microenvironment of a rare Chicago institution, the "Slashie" (half bar/half liquor store). Rite Liquors is a community hub sitting in East Ukrainian Village. This Slashie institution remains a constant amongst the rapidly changing neighborhood King also grew up in. The works presented depict four years of this Chicago community while emphasizing conversations of culture and informational exchanges...All accompanied by a shot and a beer. Born in 1994, Jacob King documents complex and intertwined social scenes within Chicago using 35mm film photography. King first experimented with images at a young age through a darkroom course at Marwen, a youth art center for CPS kids. He continues his education at Northeastern Illinois University and has volunteered as a lab assistant at LATITUDE Chicago, a nonprofit, digital print lab in West Town. King has participated in many group shows over the years and CA$H ONLY will be his first solo exhibition.
Jessica Brackett: I Love You to Death
Join Agitator in celebrating their first Artist in Residence! Jessica Brackett is a Chicago-based artist with ties in LA, Portland, and London. She works in sculpture, painting, and installation. Through her work, she seeks to falsify the familiar and elevate the mundane. Working in still life, she uses plants, insects, and water as metaphor for the human condition. She received her BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings can be seen throughout the US, and Asia, as well as featured 3 years in a row on Emmy-Winning hit television series Portlandia.
The Dime
Natural Illusion: Samantha DeCarlo
Natural Illusion is an exhibit of new work by Samantha DeCarlo.
Gallery Café
Syd Veverka: Stop Complaining and Kiss Me!
Gallery Café presents Stop Complaining and Kiss Me!, a complete take-over by artist Syd Veverka. Veverka's colorful abstracts and playful imagery are encapsulated by her murals, tables, porcelain animals, paintings on canvas and drywall, and varied artistic output on exhibition.
In A Room With Many Windows + Presence and Absence
One her exhibition In A Room With Many Windows, Chicago artist Gwendolyn Zabicki says "After becoming a mother, my relationship to time changed and warped. I am awake more hours than I used to be and am busier than before. Yet, there is also a lot of downtime in my day when I am feeding or holding my sleepy daughter. It is during these times that I am alone with my thoughts. Those brief, flickering thoughts that come and go so quickly between so many other things have become the subject of my new work. Sam Anderson wrote, 'How many fleeting associations combine to make up a life? How many rusty pipes do we mistake for owls? A vast majority of our waking hours are filled not with witty jokes or brilliant thoughts or epic feelings but with tiny, private mind-motions—thoughts that are hardly even thoughts at all, that don't rise to the level of sharing with another human being. That millisecond when—again and again—a rusty pipe looks like an owl, or a newscaster's voice reminds you of a long-gone uncle, or a daily routine sets off a small chain of involuntary associations. These things are almost nothing, and yet they are who we are.' These uncatchable, ghostly thoughts are almost impossible to notice and then adequately describe-- a kind man who held the door for me and my bulky stroller; the perfect shadows of two curators on a wall; a rainy flight home; that gray lady on a smoke break, seen over a decade ago, blending in with three gray columns; startling myself awake from a nap because I thought I was falling. The act of painting these fleeting thoughts is an attempt to capture a nearly invisible but very large part of being alive."
Presence and Absence is a collaborative group show of Korean and Korean-American artists based in Detroit and Chicago. The exhibition includes mixed media photography, video installation, minimalist objects, photographic installation of ceramics, non-traditional woven objects, and portrait paintings. Presence and Absence presents the artists' introspective processes and the dialogue between materiality and craft that they each engage with. Stable and serene, historic and contemporary, traditional and speculative—diverse visual languages inform each work and together build a vital conversation about identity, culture, and experience today. The perspectives of each of the Korean or Korean-American artists represented in the exhibition are woven together to address the tension felt between the West and the East. In Presence and Absence, the artists identify conflicts tied to their educational backgrounds in the United States and the surrounding circumstances they are immersed in politically, socially, and culturally in Detroit and Chicago. Exhibiting artists include Joonghan Bae, Seuil Chung, Ray Im, Myungchan Kim, Jeong Hoon Park, and Yena Park.
Cuffing + In The House of Color
With the Holidays and New Year in the rear view mirror, we find ourselves in the midst of Cuffing Season! Cuffing, Jackson Junge Gallery's first group exhibition of 2020, pays homage to this cultural phenomenon. The seemingly millennial occurrence fools no one...since the dawn of time, couples have turned to each other for warmth, comfort and seasonal fun when the days grow darker and colder. Urban Dictionary defines "cuffing" as the moment when "people who would normally rather be single or promiscuous find themselves, along with the rest of the world, desiring to be tied down by a serious relationship." Cuffing explores these desires and exposes the intimacy and inevitable end to this "thirsty" time of year. The exhibition features artworks by sixteen artists around the United States including Alvin Black III, Michael Coakes, David Decesaris, Anita Frazier, J. Allen Hyde, Kurt Kreissl, Kenneth Marier, James Mesple, Christina Ivelisse Morris, Juan Arango Palacios, Darrin Patton, Karen Remsen, Samuel Schwindt, K Smith, Allan Teger, and Benjye Troob.
Jackson Junge Gallery presents In The House of Color, its first solo exhibition of 2020. This exhibition features paintings on both panel and paper by M Jackson, created at her studio here in Chicago. M Jackson, also known as L Lee Junge, has been hailed as an 'intoxicating' new talent on the American artistic front. A fascination with movement typifies much of Jackson's artwork, which ranges dramatically from floral and inanimate renditions, to the worlds of musical expression or evocative, often jaded bar scenes. No matter what the depiction, the fluidity of her work channels an energy that seems to defy the very nature of a one-dimensional canvas. In this exhibition Jackson has altered her "In the House of" mindset to focus on "The House of Color," or the theory that different colors, lines and shapes provoke a range of different emotions in an audience. The inspiration for In The House of Color stems from a passion for new artistic horizons. Experimenting with fresh forms of abstraction, Jackson has explored a new approach to her paper pieces. Allowing for a more flexible and oftentimes smaller surface than her usual large compositions these works challenge Jackson in a new way. Fascinated by color theory, Jackson's focus lies with two of the primaries, blue and red. She is interested in the way that people are drawn to certain colors and the way those colors create energy and set a mood. In her own words, "When one asks why or what it is that I paint, the answer is very simple. I paint because I must and I paint what I feel. My inspirations are energy and movement and I strive to capture these as I explore various subject matters; it is my goal to touch the emotions of the human spirit." Both panel and paper works will be on display and available for purchase during the exhibition.
Langer Over Dickie
Controlling Time
Controlling Time extrapolates on the quick media that places a halt on late capitalism's infinite stream of time. Based around "vignettes" of video made for the portable device screen that can be viewed anywhere, the videos in the exhibition mystify and evade immediate consumption. The videos are elusive in their subject matter and in their creation. They are the shadows and alternate temporalities that late capitalism abhors, and they become the lull contemporary society needs. The artists in Controlling Time use the materiality of video to assert autonomy and regain control over their temporal situation. As video continues to be the medium for emancipatory practices, envisioning alternative histories and possible futures, the artists in the show engage video art's subversive history, and leverage its potential in order to create new discourse, and in turn regain control of the constant flow of time. The exhibition features work by Chekwube Danladi, Tanya Garcia, Jiwon Ham, Taha Heydari & James Williams II, Shawné Michaelain Holloway, Kasem Kydd, Charles Long, Yvette Mayorga, Jessye McDowell, Danielle Rosen, Vida Sačić, Alfredo Salazar- Caro, Rabia Tayyabi, and Marcela Torres. An concurrent pop-up will feature work by exhibiting artists as well as additional artists including AjA Design/Elnaz Javani, Shir Ende, Yvonne Martinez, and Xandria Phillips, with a make-up bar by Kate Bowen. Controlling Time is currated by KT Duffy.
Line Dot Editions
Sean Hannaway: Now With More Extra!
Line Dot is thrilled to present Sean Hannaway's first solo show, Now with More Extra!, featuring a new collection of original paintings on reclaimed rococo-style mirrors. Hannaway is a Chicago born-and-based painter known for his punchy, densely layered style that blends high Renaissance subjects and graffiti aesthetics. The push and pull between his techniques, colors, and influences creates a dynamic tension in his work. A cheeky sense of humor pervades his practice, and is manifest in his use of plastic framed rococo-style mirrors from the 1960s as his canvases. Once obscured by layers of paint, the forms of the mirrors lose their gilded, gaudy essence and become graceful curves and flourishes that seamlessly blend into the final painting. Hannaway daylights as a Creative Director at Leo Burnett and has been featured in three previous shows at Line Dot, all of which sold out.
Wires & Fires
Join Little Broken Things for Wires & Fires! Ash Kirby's first ever art show will include colorful art prints of dragons and robots! Popping up with Ash will be Albina Tritina handmade beaded and wire wrapped jewelry. The folks of Little Broken Things are so excited for this event, so stop by and have fun with them! Bring a friend and drink, shop and support all things local!
Rainbo Club
Hookups & Breakups
Rainbo hosts an exhibition of wire art by Rich Salamander and collage by Orphan Schlitz.
System Link: Video Game as Memoir
Video games have historically been a product catered to the player. A focus on engagement, replayability, and general entertainment value has guided design strategies that create impersonal pieces, appealing to the widest range of players possible. While film, music, writing, and other media have historically been vehicles of memoir and personal storytelling, games often maintain a trajectory as products of their audience and not their creator. The voices of the individual artists have recently begun to break through the standards of generalization in the medium, creating stories where players are able to experience the emotional perspectives of the creator. In doing so memoir games reveal that assumptions about the general audience skew toward specific perspectives, and exclude others. VGA Gallery's first exhibition of 2020 seeks to highlight those works, exploring how a range of game makers and artists have translated their personal experiences into the interactive context. Each work is designed to allow the player to understand, empathize with, and connect to other lived realities, using the participatory advantages of video games to express a story as no other medium can. The different projects showcased in System Link: Video Game as Memoir offer different answers to the question "What happens when you let the player of games into your story?"
Neighborly: Cocktail Infusing and Tasting Class with Aged & Infused - 6:30pm to 8:00pm [SOLD OUT]
No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab: What Remains: Off-Site Performance Program - Chapter 3: Referential - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
David Leonardis Gallery: Matt Lamb Paintings - reception 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Firecat Projects: Paul Sierra: New Works - opening reception 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Toy de Jour: Walrus Mania - opening reception 5:00pm to 9:00pm
UGLY: Nick Van Zanten: easily suede - opening reception 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Heaven Gallery: House Dance: Self-Guided Dance Session - 7:30pm to 10:00pm
LVL3 Gallery: something blue - opening reception 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Roots & Culture: Beyond Reach: Selva Aparicio & Valentina Zamfirescu with Onyx Engobar: Use of the Erotix as Power: A Self Study in Black Myths & Black Eroticism in the Window - exhibitions close
Vertical Gallery: Winter Group Show - exhibition closes
Volumes Bookcafe: Babble Bot Story Time - 10:00am to 11:00am + Sarah Kozloff: The Nine Realms - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Agitator Co-operative Gallery: Texas Two-Step Dance Class & Workshop - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
No Nation Art Gallery & Tangential Unspace Lab: Generational Desidentificación Entrance In2/Or Via The Emerald Nebula Waterfall Abyss - 6:18pm to 10:44pm
Sideshow Gallery: Tarot 2.0 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Volumes Bookcafe: Adam Falkner: The Willies - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
AdventureLand Works on Paper: CA$H ONLY by Jacob King
Agitator Co-operative Gallery: Jessica Brackett: I Love You to Death
The Dime: Natural Illusion: Samantha DeCarlo
Gallery Café: Syd Veverka: Stop Complaining and Kiss Me!
Heaven Gallery: In A Room With Many Windows + Presence and Absence
Jackson Junge Gallery: Cuffing + In The House of Color
Langer Over Dickie: Controlling Time
Line Dot Editions: Sean Hannaway: Now With More Extra!
Little Broken Things: Wires & Fires
Rainbo Club: Hookups & Breakups
Video Game Art Gallery: System Link: Video Games as Memoir


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The United Kingdom is the story of how three very different nations have came together to become one. The beginnings of this story date back to the first settlers of the British isles. These are believed to be explorers from the Roman Empire. This web page is ment to inform people of not only how this country was formed but to give alittle backround of each of the former countries that make up the United Kingdom.


The new Maruti Suzuki Ciaz is everything you expected. Is that enough?
Updates can be a tricky thing. How much does a manufacturer add without putting in too much? Is erring on the side of caution the way to go? I suppose most of the process of updating a car involves looking at the competition a whole lot. After all, if a car needs to be updated, it's because the competition has moved on a bit. Or maybe they just want to remain more relevant. Whichever way you look at it, the new Maruti Suzuki Ciaz ticks all the boxes.
It's new enough in some ways and completely different to the earlier model in other ways, enough to make this a vastly different car to its predecessor. So what are the things that remain similar? The car's well-balanced proportions and the roomy interior are the positives. What I think could've been done better, despite the LED upgrade, are the tail-lamps. And what's changed? Well, one look at the front should tell you that. The Ciaz now looks sharper and more sophisticated than it ever did.
What you won't notice unless you pop the bonnet open is the new K15 motor, Maruti Suzuki's very own effort. It's a 1.5-litre four-cylinder unit that offers 103 bhp and 14 kgm worth of smooth and eager performance, and is ample evidence that today's engines leave little room for complaints. The Ciaz gets Maruti Suzuki's smart hybrid tech standard across all variants which works off a lithium-ion battery using brake energy regeneration. This motor is pretty much all you'll ever ask for from a car like this and, given Maruti Suzuki's history, it'll likely be suitably frugal and reliable, too.
The older 1.3-litre DDiS motor continues in the new Ciaz, but only until Maruti Suzuki's own diesel motor sees light of day. Asking company officials about the diesel motor only got a smile and silence. Some more prompting provoked a promising 'soon'. We'll have to wait, but not for much longer.
I drove both the manual and automatic versions of the petrol motor, and my impressions were positive. As much as I liked the manual gearbox with its positive shift action and near-perfect ratios, it was the 4-speed automatic that I found a lot more interesting. It might sound like it's a couple of gears short, but at least it's not an AMT or a CVT. It even has a touch of nostalgia as standard fitment. Whether that's intentional or otherwise I don't know, but I like it; under the usual P, R and D, you also get a 2 and an L, something that cars used to get several years ago. Some of the journalists present did express surprise at its presence in 2018, but no one really complained. It's clearly an old design, but it performed well.
Upshifts were quick and seamless, certainly faster than human arms can manage through a manual lever. It was a pleasant surprise, and driving the Ciaz soon became a bit of a drag-racing session, slowing down to a crawl and then flooring it. Even driving normally, the automatic was unintrusive in the way it went about things. The only thing I can point a criticising finger at is the sudden halt in acceleration after 110 kph.
The automatic decides it's time to engage overdrive and the revs drop suddenly and stay there. You can get around this by shutting overdrive off via a button on the drive selector so that the motor revs like mad. This is a quirk, but it will only be a bother if you are interested in regular top-speed runs on a highway. For normal driving, it's completely fine. The 2 and the L, in case you were wondering, are low ratios for steep inclines. Wonder which Suzuki car this gearbox came from.
Ride quality is pretty similar to the older Ciaz's, if memory serves correctly. The Ciaz is still good over bad roads. Changes have been made to the suspension, but handling remains easy and surefooted, and the optional 16-inch wheels hold the road well. The steering action is light and reasonably precise, while the ground clearance is enough to negotiate rough roads. And when it's time to stop, the brakes are strong enough, too.
However, though the Ciaz gets safety features like ESP and hill-hold assist in the automatic variants, and a high-speed warning alert that beeps once at 80 kph and then keeps going on at 120 kph, I think it should've had six airbags instead of just dual front airbags. Maruti Suzuki leads the Indian car market and it should lead by example, too. The new Ciaz gets things like cruise control, auto headlamp levelling, projector headlamps, LED lighting and so on. It can and should offer maximum protection, too.
The interior is a comfortable place as it always was, and it now gets a strip of wood finish running across the dashboard and doors. This is accompanied by satin chrome accents, too, while the rest of the cabin is beige. Again, the interior is improved, with familiar and user-friendly buttons and touchscreen within easy reach. The seats are comfortable at the front and the rear, the steering wheel feels nice to hold, and the driver's view of the surroundings is great.
The new Ciaz's pricing begins from Rs 8.19 lakh for the base petrol, Rs 9.19 lakh for the base diesel, while the top-spec petrol automatic and diesel manual models are both priced at Rs 10.97 lakh. There are a total of 11 variants including these, so I'm sure there's something for everyone who's looking for a car like this. And the sales numbers should tell us fairly soon if getting everything we expect is enough.


In late August I had the pleasure of attending my first live jazz performance, Galen - In The Tradition at the beautiful San Bernardino Valley College auditorium. This performance was actually the soft opening of the newly remodeled auditorium, which left quite an impression on me. This concert was presented by the Arts, Lecture and Diversity Committees of San Bernardino Valley College.
The concert was a showcase of the musical talents of Galen Abdur-Razzaq, a nationally recognized jazz floutist, and his band. His band members were Clayton Cameron on drums, Darek Oleszkiewicz on the contra bass, and Kevin Toney on Piano. Galen plays multiple instruments, including the piccolo and saxophone and has been playing the flute since the late 60's. Galen is an arranger, composer, director, educator, and writer who has worked with musicians all over the world.
The venue offered a calm setting set off by soft lighting of blue, purple, with the occasional shades of red accompanied by a light fog. It was an intimate setting neither too large nor too small for the performance, which was only half filled by guests. The artists were in black clothing which, in a way, caused the silhouettes of the performers to fade into the background allowing the instruments to become the main focus as they popped out of the darkness.
Galen was a "cool cat" as he smoothly moved across stage throughout the performance behind his dark shades and soft voice. Galen was quite the storyteller as well, providing the audience of a detailed history of the music and why it was important to him and the history of jazz. It was very interesting to hear how the history of jazz, as he saw and experienced it throughout his life, was so closely related to the history of rock and roll itself. You can see many of the themes he presented played out in rock and roll throughout history and even today. From the drum solo's to the piano melodies and even the descriptions of the artists themselves, this concert was not only a travel through jazz history, but rock and roll history as well.
It was interesting to see music we have all heard throughout our lives played out live. To see each instrument create magic on the stage was truly a joy. The smooth bass from the contra bass set the mood while Kevin on the piano and Clayton on the drums brought it all together which laid the path for the remarkable skills of Galen on the flute. I was a huge fan of Clayton Cameron and his drumming abilities. His beats had me tapping my feet throughout the performance.
I enjoyed all of the songs that were performed, but there were three that really spoke to me. I enjoyed "Moanin" written by Bobby Timmons, which incorporated popping and humming sounds while Galen played the flute. I also enjoyed "Straight, No Chaser" written by Barry Harris, which was an uptempo song which featured a lively back and forth with drums and the contra bass. My favorite song, however, was "Sound for Sore Ears" written by Jimmy Heath, which featured an amazing drum solo by the very talented Clayton Cameron. This song and drum solo were definitely the highlight of the evening for me.
The audience members were warm and welcoming of the performers and their performances, applauding for every break and every solo. There were plenty of people around me steadily tapping their feet and bobbing their heads to the music throughout the night. The crowd was engaged because the performers themselves were engaged, especially Galen, as he provided a background of the performance. It was interesting to see how enthusiastic and passionate the performers were while playing. You could feel their excitement in the auditorium, especially from Clayton the drummer.
This was an amazing experience which, for me, shed a new light on jazz, which I had never really listened to in the past. The performance has left me wanting to hear more jazz, and has given me a great appreciation for the history of jazz. Galen and his band members showcased raw emotion and the purest love for music that left me yearning for more.


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Pogba returns to Juventus after failures at Manchester United
A new phase in the career of French midfielder Paul Pogba began today as Juventus announced the signing of the player. This is the second time he has come to the Old Lady from Manchester United, both times as a free agent.
The first departure from MJ was also accompanied by scandal
The financial issue and the scandal are perhaps two constants in the career of the flamboyant midfielder. Pogba first appeared in the main United squad for an English Premier League match in the 2011/2012 season, but left for Juventus Turin after the end of the season with scandal.
He played his first game for the Italian outfit when he was 19 – and immediately joined the main squad under Antonio Conte. As a result, the Turin side extended their championship streak to two seasons and Paul scored five goals in 27 Serie A games.
"It was the players who were the main culprits for the team's success. They had the right attitude to work, they trained as hard as they could. The player who impressed me the most was Paul Pogba. After all, last season he played for Manchester United's youth team and essentially didn't play any adult soccer at all," Conte said, summing up Pogba's debut season at Juve.
The next season, in addition to winning Serie A, Juventus reached the Europa League semi-finals but it was with the arrival of Massimiliano Allegri that Juventus and Pogba in particular started to shine.
The new coach brought a more haphazard style of play to Juve, with chances escalating down the flanks – the direction of the attack was set by the midfield. In such a paradigm, the French player's playing qualities took on a new coloring. As a result, Paul had a season, after which Manchester United agreed to pay the Italian giants 105 million euros to bring back his pupil.
Had his best season at Juventus under Allegri – goes back to him
The 2015/2016 season for the French midfielder remains the second most productive of his career, with 13 goals and nine assists in 35 games in the Italian Serie A, an average of 86 minutes on the pitch per game. Pogba made the weather at Juve's center back along with Arturo Vidal, Andrea Pirlo and Claudio Marchisio.
The Old Lady made it all the way to the UEFA Champions League final, with Pogba twice assisting Morata in the decisive moments – first in the winning goal against Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the last eight (2-1) and then in the Real Madrid CF semi-final (the goal put Juve through to the final). The Italians were one step away from the trophy – the Barcelona trio of Messi-Suarez-Neymar were beyond their grasp. But it was enough to interest MJ bosses – in the summer of 2016 Pogba returned to England. Allegri, meanwhile, summed it up:
The club made an outstanding deal from a financial point of view. I wish him a lot of luck, perhaps we will meet in the Champions League in the future. He had great seasons at Juventus, has grown tremendously as a player and is capable of adding more.
Pogba continued to flare up periodically at MJ – Allegri will breathe life into him
Pogba has cemented his status as a mood player at Manchester City – after Ole Gunnar Sulsjær joined the club during the 2018/2019 season, the Frenchman became enthusiastic again and scored 22 points (13 goals + 9 assists) in 35 APL games. But he was not good enough for more.
Pogba's return to Allegri looks even more encouraging – the 29-year-old midfielder is familiar with the Italian specialist's approach, it will avoid the misunderstandings and scandals that happened with Mourinho. Juventus fans will be more favorable to him (in the relationship between the club and Paul there is no such negative context, as in the case with the Mancunians). In addition, the start of the season promises to be the most successful – the World Cup is approaching, and Pogba perfectly sets himself up for short stretches. The attitude of the French national team midfielder to his new-old club is evidenced by his first words after signing the contract:
Hello, bianconeri! As you can see, I'm back and I'm very happy. I'm looking forward to the season, I want to take trophies with you again. Soon we will be on the field – together with you.
Paul is able to join attacks from deep, as he showed under Sulzer after the acquisition of Bruno Fernandes, can hold on to the ball and find a moment to strike inside the penalty box.
Juventus, on the other hand, are slowly moving away from their Championship tradition – last season the Italian outfit slumped in all respects when compared to Serie A 2021/2022. Juve's athletic players dominate the current squad but no midfield player can guarantee the level of creativity that comes from Pogba in optimum form – he will guide the coach's thinking and the Old Lady have signed Angel Di Maria from Paris Saint-Germain to pair the Frenchman on the other flank.
Ideally, Di Maria and Pogba would be the missing piece of the puzzle that would make it possible to fight for the top-3 once again. Allegri will still need to establish teamwork, so it will take time to get into shape. But keeping those players and adding variation will produce a quality championship contender. A renewed Juventus game will be played for the first time on August 14 when the Bianconeri take on Sassuolo in the opening round of Serie A.
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EDITED BY REV. A. A. LAMBING.
ing to the operations of the French in this country.
France, and of the Country of Louisiana.
*These notes are reproduced with the references.
336 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
dried, which had been gathered up at the foot of the rapids.
was all that made up his mission.6 The 26th, I set out from M.
second in command of the detachment, to set out with Messrs.
me, I went to the portage which M. de Contrecoeur had made.
388 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
Ganaouagon17 and of the Cut Straw.18 In the evening Messrs.
having cleared about three-quarters of a league19 of the road.
ing the Canadians to discipline, of which they stood in need.
abated I resumed the march, and that day made half a league.
his detachment and the chiefs, the 25th of July, 1749.
340 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
only to treat with them of good things.
kuin, this 25th of July, 1749. All the officers signed.
France, we Celoron, commander of the detachment sent by M.
of July, 1749. All the officers signed.
Joncaire of my arrival, they were on the watch to discover me.
342 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
only in our villages, but in all those of the Beautiful River.
344 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
the fears which my expedition into this country has caused you.
you, if like sensible people you wish to avail yourselves of them.
bring to all the villages of the Beautiful River."
Nations have forbidden them to remain beyond the mountains.
ness, and if they are wise they will profit by my advice."
speak to us as a good father.
winter, and that we will go next spring.
346 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
Two belts of wampum to the Indians of the detachment.
told us, and we will pay attention to it."
that they would go down next spring to see their father Onontio.
348 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
sess you will be always masters of."
that by spring the English shall retire."
induced them to keep the promise which they had given me.
immediately set out. We made about fifteen leagues that day.
order to give M. de Joncaire time to reach the village of Attique.
350 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
conducted to the River au Vermillion, on the Wabash, in 1745.
kindness, and that they should profit of the advice I gave them.
preliminaries of the peace, signed more than fifteen months ago.
I passed by a Loup village47 in which there were only three men.
people had gone to Chiningue, not hazarding to remain at home.
Chavenoun.50 I made the same citation to them as to the others.
examine by my countenance if they could discover my plans.
the 8th of August, 1749.
of the village, whom we are awaiting, shall have arrived."
354 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
on the part of your father Onontio."
in the village. On hearing this, which I communicated to Messrs.
braves of the village had arrived earlier during the night.
ernor, to which they listened with marked attention.
356 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
of August. 1749, A belt.
am going to look for to tell them to retire."
358 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
down next spring to hear the word of our father Onontio.
that we may find some at Niagara when we are passing that way.
our father and assist us."
convinced he will not refuse him to you."
that we will do, without reserve, all that you have asked of us.
us, and we shall pay attention to it."
land there, having spoken to them at Chiningue.
360 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
lowing official statement of it.
with Messrs. the officers at our camp, the 15th of August, 1749.
that way to ply their trade on the Beautiful River.
official statement, and which we have signed along with Messrs.
the officers at our camp, the 18th of August, 1749.
362 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
for me to represent to me that they were afraid to go to St.
false reports, which would lead them to lay ambushes for us.
364 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
were disposed to follow him; and, for security, they retain M.
defense." This caused me to make the most serious reflections.
quarter-of-a-league's distance from the village I was descried.
366 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
held firm to this point and brought them round to my views.
of our brethren, and we beseech you to forget this great mistake.
The sorrow we feel for it gives us hope that you will pardon us."
for it, constrain me to pardon you. Be wiser for the future.
father Onontio; which I bring to you."
368 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
only to procure them that which is most advantageous."
notice of the dispositions of the people of Detroit.
Answer of the Indians of St. Yotoc, to the speech of M.
only in what is right."
ment, against the beginning of October.
these people on matters of importance.
I drew up an official statement.
entrance of the Rock River, the 31st day of August, 1749.
The inscription is always the same.
scarcity of water in this river, it took thirteen days in ascending it.
having come for camping, we passed the night in this place.
scarcity of provisions then in my possession to give them supper.
in order to ruin you in my estimation.
such a way that not a single spark can escape."
who call you back to your village.
selves of what I do for you."
The 18th. About nine A. M., they came to give their answer.
pipe with our father next year.
mission. We have none other but good answers to give you.
addressed us. We see clearly that you have not forgotten us.
done so, and we shall continue to do so during the whole winter.
376 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
and assuring me that they would return thither next spring.
buy provisions and canoes to convey me to Detroit.
nations of the south let loose against the French."
whose courtesy I am much indebted for the copy.
manuscript, with all the errors of orthography and French."
Paris, 24th March, 1885. Edmond De. Hennetot.
collated with the original by a person worthy of all confidence."
378 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
For a notice of Celoron, see Researches, vol. I, p. 13, note.
Also Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman, vol. I, chapter II.
died at Nemour, October 26th, 1756.
gratitude by criticizing him. This is but one instance.
St. Sulpice, Paris, and was admitted into that Congregation.
Onondaga and Cayuga, all eager to receive Christian instruction.
chie owing to the successes of the English against the French.
Bishops and the Pope. He died at Verjon, July 15th, 1781.
coloring to his account of this zealous missionary.
seventeenth century.- Drake's Indians of North America, p.
13; Shea's Charlevoix, vol. II, pp. 8, 9, note.
villages to hunt or wage war.
Frontenac. -Shea's Charlevoix, vol. III., pp. 175, 176.
8. I have not been able to learn anything of this officer.
calm and Wolfe, vol. I., p. 486.
See Montcalm and Wolfe, passim.
12. Around the falls and rapids of Niagara.
that name. For the meanings of the word, see Marshall, as above.
I have adopted Mr. Marshall's translation.
380 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
loaded canoes, except near its mouth."
17. For a notice of this village see p. 388.
18. See further on p. 343.
always overstated by the early French voyageurs in America,"
was meant the Allegheny and Ohio.
American Cyclopaedia, vol. IV., p. 346.
Journal no definite idea of its length can be ascertained.
na gi-a, he stays long." Indian Names, etc., Heckewelder, p. 21.
tion from the Gulf of Mexico to within ten miles of Lake Erie.
-American Cyclopaedia, vol. V., p. 221."
this officer in my reading.
vol. II., p. 124, note.
ister of Fort Duquesne, pp. 16, 17, note.
frequently resorted to in the New World.
27. Another name for Conewango Creek.
which the French laid claim.
site of what is now Irvineton.
have never before met the name.
quakink, or men of red clay, the name now used by the tribe.
paedia, vol. V., p. 362.
382 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
37. The French word is oncles, uncles.
38. John Frazer. -History of Venango County, p. 42.
river in Father Bonnecamp's map.
Creek-see Researches, vol. I., p. 17, note.
41. This rock has long been known as "The Indian God."
exactly 115 miles above Pittsburg.
and Mahoning sixty.-Researches, vol. 1, pp. 18, 19, note.
ning, I have been at all these places times without number.
Allegheny. It was on both sides, though principally on the east.
any map, of any Indian village at the mouth of the Kiskiminetas."
Certainly Father Bonnecamp's map gives neither river nor village.
evidence will be brought to prove the position here maintained.
Kittanning, the point wi1l, I think, be placed beyond question.
lost by the fire."-Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. I., pp. 426, 427.
384 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
the 9th of September, 1756, that Attique has been attacked; Col.
of the same year, of the destruction of Kittanning on the 8th.
engagement having taken place at or about that time and place.
far as I can find, on this point.
into the river on the opposite side.
that the date was not given in figures, but was spelled out in full.
ancien villages des Chaouanous, le sixieme Aoust, 1749."
above the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
country in 1745, by order of the Marquis de Beauharnois.
386 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
reader can compare this extract with the Journal, as above.
49. Aliquippa. See Researches, vol. I., p. 21, note 43.
no mention of the Monongahela river.
Paris; Chronicle of the Canadian Clergy.
text conveys the idea of the Celoron.
better to conceal their leaning towards the English.
p. 16, notes 19 and 20.
(Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. I., p. 46,) also embraces this opinion.
there. The writer also refers to certain passages in the Pa.
in the affairs of the Ohio valley.
to determine the precise spot from the Journal.
tions all the principal rivers he passes.
63. "Fortunately the discovery of the plate in March, 1846,"
says Mr. Marshall, (p. 145,) "leaves no doubt of the inscription.
was projecting from the river bank, a few feet below the surface.
from the Journal, that on the plate being Chinodahichetha.
colony some forty years later. It is 354 miles below Pittsburg.
of the young men to the present emergency.
are given as in the Journal, are unknown to me.
67. The same must be said of this place.
Mississippi, nearly opposite St. Louis.
history, and need not be discussed in this place.
accustomed to penetrate to the west from Carolina.
7I. See Researches, vol. II., p. 64.
72. Riviere la Blanche, probably the Little Miami.
390 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
eating him. - Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman, vol. I., pp. 84, 85.
pathies of the Indians with the English.
75. This was the last leaden plate buried by the expedition.
76. This is apparently a mistake for the 1st.
the present city of Fort Wayne. "It undoubtedly took its name,"
Journal, but they are given as they are found.
some Western writers that his name was Morgan is unfounded."
and others.- Shea's Charlevoix, vol. VI., pp. 121, 122.
vol. II., p. 55, note.
82. See Researches, vol. II, p. 63.
one of the Six Nations. - Shea's Jogues' New Netherlands, p.
am at a loss to know what animal is meant by the last term.
392 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
filled with raccoons." - Col. Smith's Captivity, pp. 81, 82.
REFERENCES TO REGISTER OF FORT DUQUESNE.
Chief of the forts of Duquesne, Presqu' Isle and the Riviere au Bouefs'.
speaking; but he afterward succeeded to the command of Fort Duquesne.
Fort Duquesne, I have not been able to learn."
English at the capture of Fort Niagara.-Mag. Amer. Hist., Vol. 2, p.
130; The Olden Time, Vol. 2, p. 152.
Celoron's Expedition. The former took the most prominent part.
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY REV. A. A. LAMBING.
born at Montreal, on the 29th of December, in the year 1693.
Montreal, on the 29th November, 1686, and had a large family.
command of the Baron de Longueuil, with Celoron as captain.
party of Indians, joined the expedition under Celoron's orders.
394 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
the governor acquainted with these transactions.
*At the head of Lake Champlain.
too proud to humiliate himself in pleading his own cause.
land, in the summer of 1756. (See New York Hist., Doc. Vol.
and all our historians, have made the same mistake about it.
396 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
ada. See Daniel, Histoire des grandes families du Canada.
there for the second time when Celoron met him at Niagara.


Just had my first ever 100% hatch - 18 fertile Shetland eggs and hey presto 18 little chicks. Absolutely thrilled and whats more they all hatched in 24 hours and all pipped and got out within a an hour or two rather than taking ages. Got a second lot of to hatch next week………………….gosh no idea where they're all going if I get another large hatch !! I'm a very happy chuckler today.
well done hens and boy!! and you for looking after their offspring!! (did you use an incy?) how fab....perhaps you will have 36 lill'uns soon!!
Yes the eggs are split between my 2 trusty R-Com Inccys. Got one with slightly splayed legs but already splinted them so should be fine.
Wow ! That's a good hatch April well done .
When is the due date for the second hatch April?
2nd lot of 16 Shetlands (just 2 not fertile in the end) finished hatching this morning and hey presto...…………….another 100% got out safely ! This means two 100% hatches. I have been hatching using incubators for about 15 years and I have never had this happen. Did my settings differently this time - also hatched much earlier than usual and obviously very lucky to have such a 'Marvellous Marvin'. Bodes well for one of his son's (who I intend to keep) and should keep a few other poultry keepers happy as well if the boys follow in their fathers footsteps. Hopefully, I'll have a few Shetlands for sale come the Summer.
(09-04-2019, 12:05 PM)april Wrote: 2nd lot of 16 Shetlands (just 2 not fertile in the end) finished hatching this morning and hey presto...…………….another 100% got out safely ! This means two 100% hatches. I have been hatching using incubators for about 15 years and I have never had this happen. Did my settings differently this time - also hatched much earlier than usual and obviously very lucky to have such a 'Marvellous Marvin'. Bodes well for one of his son's (who I intend to keep) and should keep a few other poultry keepers happy as well if the boys follow in their fathers footsteps. Hopefully, I'll have a few Shetlands for sale come the Summer.
Settings differently in what way? My last couple of batches of brahmas I've incubated warmer based on eggshell temperatures.
Sutty, 37.5 all the way through. 50% humidity until candling at day 18 - none pipped internally so left humidity change until day 19 and then raised it to 58%. At first sign of an external pip, which was day 20 on first batch and late in day on day 19 this latest lot, I raised it to 63%.
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God bless all of you! Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
Katie M. from Durham, North Carolina, is not only getting into the holiday spirit at work, but she is doing it Steelers-style!!
Her office is having a cubical-decorating contest so she decided to combine her llove for the Steelers with her holiday theme and brought in just a few of her favorite things and went to work….literally.
She calls her creation, "Steelin' Christmas"!
There is a even a Steelers gnome hidden in that display somewhere that Katie says is about to steal Christmas…or maybe steel Christmas!


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The Future of Cultural Value
Investing in culture
Valuing culture
Education and talent
International trends
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Provocation 1
Professor Oliver Bennett
Why I'm involved in the Warwick Commission:
Before starting an academic career, I worked for several years in arts management, where questions of cultural value were a professional preoccupation. Such questions have remained central to my academic work and, to a large extent, have informed both the teaching and research in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, which I set up at Warwick and directed for many years. I am co-author, with Eleonora Belfiore, of The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). I have also recently been a member of the London Cultural Policy Reference Group, a small group invited to advise the Mayor's Office on research and policy for London's cultural sector. I therefore have a longstanding professional interest in the aims of the Commission.
Professor Oliver Bennett established Warwick's Centre for Cultural Policy Studies in 1999, having previously established the M.A. in European Cultural Policy and Management in 1993. He directed both the Centre and the MA course until 2008.
He has published widely on cultural policy, intellectual history and cultural politics. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Cultural Policy and a founder member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR). In 2012, he was awarded a higher doctorate (DLitt) by Warwick for his contributions to cultural policy research.
Oliver's current research focuses on the institutional promotion of hope, conceived as a form of 'implicit' cultural policy. He has a long-standing interest in questions of pessimism/optimism and is now working on a sequel to his book, Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001). Provisionally entitled Cultures of Optimism: The Institutional Promotion of Hope, this will be published by Reaktion Books in 2014.
Staff page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/cp/staff/bennett/
Email: o dot bennett:warwick dot ac dot uk
The Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value,
Warwick Business School,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL
Email: warwickcommission@warwick.ac.uk
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Фонтьє́нн () — муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Прованс — Альпи — Лазурний Берег, департамент Альпи Верхнього Провансу. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 600 км на південний схід від Парижа, 90 км на північний схід від Марселя, 37 км на захід від Дінь-ле-Бена.

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Розподіл населення за віком та статтю (2006):

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У 2010 році у муніципалітеті числилось 58 оподаткованих домогосподарств, у яких проживали 122,0 особи, медіана доходів виносила  євро на одного особоспоживача.

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 Sous la direction d'Édouard Baratier, Georges Duby, et Ernest Hildesheimer, Atlas historique. Provence, Comtat Venaissin, principauté d'Orange, comté de Nice, principauté de Monaco, Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1969

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Anatomy of a feud: How Trump attacks
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 1:11 PM EDT, Thu March 21, 2019
Kellyanne Conway addresses husband's criticism of Trump
To his supporters, he's the counterpuncher who won't relent in his own self-defense, even long after a perceived slight. To most everyone else, he's a begrudged bully who refuses to allow old vendettas to die — even after the foe in question has.
President Donald Trump has waged scores of feuds over his decades in public life, each singular in the minute details that irritate and consume him. But patterns have emerged that tie the conflicts together into one prolonged occupation Trump has honed over time.
This week, Trump railed against the late Sen. John McCain and the husband of a top White House adviser. His attacks on McCain, who is venerated among Republicans and widely respected by Democrats, drew shock and anger. His rebuke of George Conway, the lawyer spouse of Kellyanne, prompted more eye-rolling.
Those around Trump said they aren't sure why Trump is re-litigating the disputes now, though offered plenty of theories. Some officials suggested he is trying to distract from the looming conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Others said he is eager to reoccupy the news cycle after congressional rebukes and a white nationalist terror attack.
A prevailing theory is that he's just bored and eager to inject controversy into the late winter doldrums.
"I think it's stupid," Trump's onetime communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN. "He wants to continue to do that, I'm saying very publicly that's an unnatural social act and it will turn people off eventually."
"I understand the point, I understand the grievance that the President is bringing up. But you're not scoring any points with anybody," Scaramucci said.
Whatever the cause, Trump's attacks largely obscured his intended policy message, which on Wednesday was meant to be a resurgence of manufacturing in the Midwest.
And they followed a pattern of behavior that Trump has developed and honed long before occupying the Oval Office.
Trump's grievances can begin anywhere, but more often than not, spring from a personal slight or insult. In the case of McCain, Trump has long questioned whether the senator — who was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years — should be categorized as a hero. He revived that skepticism in the early days of his presidential campaign when McCain suggested Trump "fired up the crazies" during a rally in Phoenix.
It was all downhill from there, with the seed of resentment growing as Trump saw various other acts as signs of duplicity and treachery. Even as other Republicans rushed to McCain's defense, occasionally rebuking Trump by name, he did not relent.
This week, his renewed ire appeared to be prompted by a Fox News interview that mentioned McCain submitted to the FBI an unsubstantiated dossier of information about Trump's ties to Russia.
In the case of Conway, the spark was weekend tweets questioning the President's mental state — a subject that Trump has shown sensitivity about in the past. In response, Trump deemed the spouse of one of his top advisers, Kellyanne Conway, a "husband from hell."
People who have worked or known Trump going back decades say it was rare for the brash businessman to put aside the type of insults that others might quickly write off. Instead, they fester for years or decades, emerging at sometimes unpredictable moments. That was the case in Trump's dispute with Rosie O'Donnell, with whom he clashed in the mid-2000s and later attacked on the campaign trail.
"Not only does he come back strong, but he comes back to try to tug at some emotional piece," said Jack O'Donnell, who worked with as a Trump casino executive but later had a falling out.
Dividing loyalties
Trump's practice of unrelenting criticism has a tendency to divide people: those who view the attacks as self-defense and those who view them as unnecessary browbeating. Often, the people closest to Trump are caught in between.
This week's examples have forced some of Trump's staunchest allies to pick a side — either the President or the people they love.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has emerged as Trump's closest ally in the Senate, was also McCain's best friend. The pair traveled the world together on official business. When McCain died last year, Graham lamented that "America and Freedom have lost one of her greatest champions."
He added, "And I've lost one of my dearest friends and mentor."
Seven months later, as Trump renewed his attacks on McCain for voting against a health care repeal measure, Graham defended his late friend. But he did not call out Trump by name. The tepid response reflected Graham's newfound reliance on Trump as a political ally, one he phones frequently and plays golf with on the weekends.
Long fixated on the loyalties of those close to him, Trump rarely forgets who was with him and who wasn't. His tests of allegiance have divided families and close friendships — something he watches play out with enthusiasm.
In the case of the Conways, Trump has injected himself into what was once a political disagreement between husband and wife. George Conway's tweets attacking the President and questioning his mental health have long bothered Trump, but he was advised to refrain from responding.
This week saw the end of the restraint. Trump labeled Conway a "wack job" on the South Lawn on Wednesday. But Kellyanne Conway — caught between a president she has served loyally and a husband intent on tearing him down — has shown no signs she'll step away from Trump.
Driving a wedge through relationships is a "way of control for him," said Jack O'Donnell.
"If he can cause more friction between the Conway family, I think that's what Trump is trying to do. And it's very typical of him," he said.
If the Conways' marriage finds itself split by Trump, it would not be the first time.
"I almost got divorced through this whole fiasco," Scaramucci said on Thursday. "Thank God my wife and I were able to put the marriage back together. I don't know why George is hitting him that hard. The President waited four months before he responded. And, you know, Kellyanne seems to be defending the President, so I want to stay out of that one because I don't like getting involved in people's relationships, particularly after the fiasco that I went through."


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Prasad Abhyankar's responsibility, as part of the team, is to implement established standards of service and to restructure the entire Front Office department in terms of manning, SOPs, yearly budget and cost control. At The Fern Goregaon, he has maintained a Guest Satisfaction rating of 95% since 2016. He has successfully implemented high impact sales initiatives that resulted in increased occupancy and revenue year on year.
It has been proven that negative reviews often lead to lost revenue for any hotel. Abhyankar makes sure that he meets guests personally during their stay to understand their problems and escalate any issues brought to the fore to the management in real-time, allowing concerned departments to address them before it leads to terrible reviews. He practices this as a rule in daily operation and has converted 5% of unhappy guests into repeat clients for the hotel.


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File #: R-21-226
Type: Resolution Status: In Council - Final Action
File created: 12/6/2021 In control: City Council
Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Establishing A Redistricting Committee Pursuant To Article 4, Section 3 Of The City Charter To Review And Make Recommendations Concerning The Nine Council Districts; Repealing Enactment R-2010-103 (R-10-109) (Bassan, Pe?a)
Attachments: 1. R-226
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TWENTY FOURTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-21-226 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY:	Brook Bassan, Klarissa Pe?a
Establishing A Redistricting Committee Pursuant To Article 4, Section 3 Of The City Charter To Review And Make Recommendations Concerning The Nine Council Districts; Repealing Enactment R-2010-103 (R-10-109) (Bassan, Pe?a)
WHEREAS, the City Charter requires that the Council appoint a committee composed of an equal number of representatives from each Council District to review and make recommendations regarding redistricting the Council Districts based on information from the Federal Census; and
WHEREAS, in appointing the committee, the Council shall, "as nearly as is practicable" provide a fair and balanced representation of all geographical areas of the City in the redistricting process and provide a total membership that reflects the racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of the City's population; and
WHEREAS, any recommended changes in districts must comply with constitutional principles and court decisions governing voting rights and redistricting; and
WHEREAS, the Council district boundaries may be altered by the Council and Mayor once following each Federal Census; and
WHEREAS, the 2020 census data was released during the Summer of 2021, and state law requires that cities undergo their redistricting process the calendar year immediately after the data is released.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
Section 1.	The 2020-2022 Redistricting Committee is hereby established for the purpose of reviewing the 2020 Census data and making recommendations regarding redistricting of City Council Districts.
Section 2.	The Redistricting Committee shall provide a fair and balanced representation of all geographical areas of the City in the redistricting process and provide a total membership that reflects the racial, ethnic, and...
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Matt Box, a graphic designer, illustrator and recent University grad, has a new project aimed at transporting the styles of influential skateboarders' back to the 60s. The new series, "Acid Drops" is made up of short animations drawn and painted in watercolor—the first featuring famed skateboarder Jason Dill. Matt's intent was to "psychedelically capture" the skaters and present them in watercolor format to highlight the fluidity of their movements. The first installment took about a month to complete and can now be found all over the interweb.
See more of Acid Drops the Jason Dill edition from Matt Box below.


the 13 books I plan to read in October!
Some titles here below are déjà vus. As you may experience yourself as a book blogger, you make nice great plans, and then a secret messenger drops an awesome book you HAVE to read and review NOW, or you go to the library and can't resist this brand new book on display… And here go your neat plans!
Currently reading #4 and 5. The latest by Kate Morton is as good as ever!
The last two are audiobooks – working my way down the titles of my favorite series!
I know, it's kind of silly to be French and to read the Nobel Prize of literarture in translation, but it was there in front of my nose, and free to grab! Actually, when I left the library, I had already read a quarter of it!
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I really enjoyed book two in the French Illusions series, much more lively than the first book. I've also read all of the Hugo Marston books, and I'm just a little bit in love with him! Enjoy!
Looks like a lot of good books for the month! A lot of good-looking covers, too, for that matter.
yes, always judge a book by its cover, lol!
I've read several Kate Morton books. I've heard good things about her new one. I'll be looking for your review.


Did someone fast forward this week?
I can't believe that I am writing yet another Thankful Friday post – how can it be? It seems like only yesterday that I was jabbering on about Lovely Turkish Man and his suicidal, psychopathic cat, Jessie.
Anyway, today I am thankful for my half day. Friend-Who-Knows-Big-Words rightfully pointed out that I rarely seem to work a full week at the moment, and she's right. Between having to use up holiday and work events, the three- or four-day week is becoming something of the norm!
Hurrah to that, I say!
Last night I went climbing with Flo – it was great fun even though I was a bit rusty after a rather long break from it. Gingerbread Man was meant to be coming too, but he's sick – something to do with a dodgy carbonara I do believe. So spare a thought for him as I don't think he's having a Thankful Friday, more seeing Thursday in reverse.
I guess I should be thankful that he didn't invite me around for carbonara, too.
So yah, today's post – well there's not much to report, except I misheard the bus as saying Halal Brompton Hospital instead of Royal Brompton Hospital, which made my mind boggle.
Whales vomit regularly as a means of the ordinary digestive process, to expel inedible things they have swallowed – and apparently if you find whale puke, you're in the money.
Emetophobia is a fear of vomiting – luckily Gingerbread Man doesn't seem to have this.


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Mark Gowin named head football coach at St. Edward's School
The veteran coach has more than 30 years of experience in Virginia and Washington, D.C. He replaces Bill Motta, who was let go in November.
Mark Gowin named head football coach at St. Edward's School The veteran coach has more than 30 years of experience in Virginia and Washington, D.C. He replaces Bill Motta, who was let go in November. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2020/01/07/st-edwards-vero-beach-mark-gowin-football-coach/2832177001/
Jon Santucci, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 5:06 p.m. ET Jan. 7, 2020 | Updated 5:10 p.m. ET Jan. 7, 2020
St. Edward's School football coach Mark Gowin. (Photo: PHOTO: PROVIDED)
St. Edward's School named Mark Gowin as the Pirates' head football coach Tuesday.
Gowin, who has been a part-time employee at St. Edward's the past two years, had a long and successful coaching career in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Mark Mersky, St. Edward's head of school, announced the move in a written statement.
"We are thrilled to have a head coach who is internal at the School, who cares deeply about our student-athletes and indeed about Saint Edward's School as a whole," Mersky said. "Our goals were and always have been to enhance the football program at the School for many seasons to come."
Gowin was an athletic director and coached for more than 30 years at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., and Episcopal High School in Virginia.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to be the head varsity football coach at Saint Edward's School," Gowin said in the statement. "Having consulted and worked part-time at the School for the last two years, I have been impressed with the administration, the faculty, the staff and the students with whom I have had the pleasure to work. I am looking forward to coaching the student-athletes on the football team and for our coaching staff and team to continue to make positive contributions to the Saint Edward's School Community."
Gowin went 107-100 in 24 years at Episcopal before stepping down in 2012, according to the Washington Post. He led the team to three undefeated seasons, three Interstate Athletic Conference titles and was named the All-Met Coach of the Year in 1982 and 1992.
Gowin replaces Bill Motta, who was relieved of his duties in November after recording a 51-48 record and a conference championship over 10 years at St. Edward's. The Pirates went 6-4 in 2019, which was a five-win improvement from 2018.
St. Edward's is the lone area school to change coaches this offseason.
Note to Dolphins: Don't let another franchise QB slip by
Vote now for the TCPalm.com Athlete of the Week for Dec. 15-Jan. 4
Great white shark caught within sight of beach
World No. 1 Koepka returning to Honda Classic; who's next?
Watch sailfish fleet return with catches
HS Roundup: Sebastian River wins tournament


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.class final Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;
.super Landroid/database/ContentObserver;
.source "SoundSettings.java"

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x12
    name = "SettingsObserver"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field private final DEFAULT_VOLUME_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

.field private final ZEN_MODE_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

# direct methods
.method public constructor <init>(Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;)V
    .locals 1

    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

    new-instance v0, Landroid/os/Handler;

    invoke-direct {v0}, Landroid/os/Handler;-><init>()V

    invoke-direct {p0, v0}, Landroid/database/ContentObserver;-><init>(Landroid/os/Handler;)V

    const-string/jumbo v0, "adjust_media_volume_only"

    invoke-static {v0}, Landroid/provider/Settings$System;->getUriFor(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/net/Uri;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->DEFAULT_VOLUME_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

    const-string/jumbo v0, "zen_mode"

    invoke-static {v0}, Landroid/provider/Settings$Global;->getUriFor(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/net/Uri;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->ZEN_MODE_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public onChange(ZLandroid/net/Uri;)V
    .locals 6

    const/4 v3, 0x0

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-wrap0(Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;)Landroid/content/ContentResolver;

    move-result-object v0

    invoke-super {p0, p1, p2}, Landroid/database/ContentObserver;->onChange(ZLandroid/net/Uri;)V

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->ZEN_MODE_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

    invoke-virtual {v2, p2}, Landroid/net/Uri;->equals(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z

    move-result v2

    if-eqz v2, :cond_1

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-wrap5(Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;)V

    :cond_0
    :goto_0
    invoke-static {}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-get0()[Lcom/android/settings/notification/SettingPref;

    move-result-object v2

    array-length v4, v2

    :goto_1
    if-ge v3, v4, :cond_4

    aget-object v1, v2, v3

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Lcom/android/settings/notification/SettingPref;->getUri()Landroid/net/Uri;

    move-result-object v5

    invoke-virtual {v5, p2}, Landroid/net/Uri;->equals(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z

    move-result v5

    if-eqz v5, :cond_3

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-get2(Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;)Landroid/content/Context;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Lcom/android/settings/notification/SettingPref;->update(Landroid/content/Context;)V

    return-void

    :cond_1
    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->DEFAULT_VOLUME_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

    invoke-virtual {v2, p2}, Landroid/net/Uri;->equals(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z

    move-result v2

    if-eqz v2, :cond_0

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-get16(Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;)Lcom/samsung/android/media/SemSoundAssistantManager;

    move-result-object v4

    const-string/jumbo v2, "adjust_media_volume_only"

    invoke-static {v0, v2, v3}, Landroid/provider/Settings$System;->getInt(Landroid/content/ContentResolver;Ljava/lang/String;I)I

    move-result v2

    if-nez v2, :cond_2

    move v2, v3

    :goto_2
    invoke-virtual {v4, v2}, Lcom/samsung/android/media/SemSoundAssistantManager;->setVolumeKeyMode(I)V

    goto :goto_0

    :cond_2
    const/4 v2, 0x1

    goto :goto_2

    :cond_3
    add-int/lit8 v3, v3, 0x1

    goto :goto_1

    :cond_4
    return-void
.end method

.method public register(Z)V
    .locals 7

    const/4 v3, 0x0

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->this$0:Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;

    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-wrap0(Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;)Landroid/content/ContentResolver;

    move-result-object v0

    if-eqz p1, :cond_0

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings$SettingsObserver;->ZEN_MODE_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

    invoke-virtual {v0, v2, v3, p0, v3}, Landroid/content/ContentResolver;->registerContentObserver(Landroid/net/Uri;ZLandroid/database/ContentObserver;I)V

    invoke-static {}, Lcom/samsung/android/settings/notification/SoundSettings;->-get0()[Lcom/android/settings/notification/SettingPref;

    move-result-object v4

    array-length v5, v4

    move v2, v3

    :goto_0
    if-ge v2, v5, :cond_1

    aget-object v1, v4, v2

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Lcom/android/settings/notification/SettingPref;->getUri()Landroid/net/Uri;

    move-result-object v6

    invoke-virtual {v0, v6, v3, p0}, Landroid/content/ContentResolver;->registerContentObserver(Landroid/net/Uri;ZLandroid/database/ContentObserver;)V

    add-int/lit8 v2, v2, 0x1

    goto :goto_0

    :cond_0
    invoke-virtual {v0, p0}, Landroid/content/ContentResolver;->unregisterContentObserver(Landroid/database/ContentObserver;)V

    :cond_1
    return-void
.end method

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Fruit Picking And Farm Work Experiences
Iris from Austria worked for Chandler & Dunn Picking Fruit in Kent, England.
"The Wages were paid daily and depended on the kind of fruit, bin and speed, but was usually between £25 and £72. The most enjoyable part was living together with the other fruitpickers at the camp site and least the picking itself. I would definately recommend it to others, it was a lot of fun and at least a change to normality ! "
Sara From New Zealand Picked Strawberries On Samso Island In Denmark
"The best bit was the social scene, with a great atmosphere, drinking and playing music etc in our time off work. The money isn't great, camping facilities are basic and it does get hard on the back"
Louise From England Picked Apples In France
"The job was quite dull ... picking apples 8 hours a day and sometimes in the rain wasn't much fun although I got a really good tan and got quite fit. The best part was the people I met and the drinking and partying"
"I loved france and the farm owners who would do anything for us. I am still keep in touch with the farm owners and the other fruit pickers
Jeff From England Picked Strawberries In Denmark
" The farmer employed too many pickers so we weren't given many hours (sometimes only 2 or 3 hours a day) which meant we couldn't pick enough strawberries to earn decent money and I ended up with only 1000 euros after 6 weeks work"
"There are no 'pubs' to speak of on Samso Island and there is very little to do. If you are going to Samso I would advise working on a smaller farm"
Ceri from England worked for Chandler & Dunn in Kent.
Work involved Picking apples and pears which included a mile walk to work across fields, or a 3 mile cycle if working at the other farm.
"The pay wasn't too bad, the most enjoyable part was meeting people from other countries, Least Enjoyable was working in the rain. Would recommend it to others, if they are prepared to work hard for OK pay"
Sarah From The UK Picked Strawberrries on Samso Island In Denmark.
Work involved getting up at 5.00 am and picking Strawberries all morning.
" The social atmosphere is very good and I met lots of lovely people, it's like being on holiday all the time, Working outside in the summer is excellent"
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Cherry and sweet rolls just go together. This is a great recipe from JoCooks which uses cherry pie filling (see my recipe for homemade cherry pie filling) Make yourself a nice pot of coffee and get ready to Enjoy!
In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast into the warm milk. Let temper for 5 minutes. In a separate (mixer)bowl,while yeast is tempering, cream sugar and butter. Add salt, eggs, and gradually add flour to mix well.
Pour the milk/yeast mixture into the flour mixture and using the dough hook, mix til well incorporated. Place dough into an oiled bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place about 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size.
Punch the dough down and then roll it out on a lightly floured surface, until it is approx 16 inches long by 12 inches wide and approx 1/4" thick.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees while you spread the cherry pie filling evenly over the entire surface of the dough. Working carefully starting at the outside long edge, roll the dough towards the opposite long side, jelly roll style. Cut the roll into 1 3/4 inch slices, and place in a lightly greased baking pan, filling side up. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown. If you would like to drizzle with a confectioners sugar glaze, wait til the rolls have slightly cooled and then do so. Enjoy!


Curran, J. V., was born in Providence, R. I., May 18, 1861. His father, George E., was a native of the north of Ireland, and came to the United States when a boy and was always identified in railroad matters; he died in 1884. J. V. Curran, at the age of four years, lost his right arm in a railroad accident. He was educated in the public schools and was engaged in the railroad business. In 1880 he was appointed station agent at Hebronville, which position he still holds. In 1889 Mr. Curran married Mary Cavanaugh, and they have two children: George D. and Mary E. Mr. Curran was appointed postmaster in 1895; truant officer; secretary of American Legion of Honor; the Red Men; member of Co. C., of Attleborough, and through his influence a kindergarten has been added to the public schools. He was elected a member of the Attleborough Republican town committee for the year 1899. He has been a delegate of his party both in district and State conventions and in October, 1898, was appointed one of the seven members of the Republican district committee of Bristol county for the term of three years. The Attleborough Daily Sun, under date of March 23, 1898, has this to say of Mr. Curran, among other things: He cast his first vote in the town of Attleborough, and ever since that time has taken a deep interest in public affairs. He takes to politics as naturally as a duck takes to water. Possessed of a superabundance of good humor, even his political opponents are always glad to greet him. Mr. Curran in politics is vigorous and aggressive and infuses much enthusiasm into whatever cause he espouses. He is a wide awake, public spirited, progressive man, fully alive to the interests of his section of the town."