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Van Morrison biography
Date of birth : 1945-08-31
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Belfast, Ireland
Nationality : Irish
Category : Arts and Entertainment
Last modified : 2011-02-28
Credited as : Jazz blues singer, Brown Eyed Girl, Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. Subject only to the whims of his own muse, his recordings cover extraordinary stylistic ground yet retain a consistency and purity virtually unmatched among his contemporaries, connected by the mythic power of his singular musical vision and his incendiary vocal delivery: spiraling repetitions of wails and whispers that bypass the confines of language to articulate emotional truths far beyond the scope of literal meaning.
George Ivan Morrison was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on August 31, 1945; his mother was a singer, while his father ardently collected classic American jazz and blues recordings. At 15, he quit school to join the local R&B band the Monarchs, touring military bases throughout Europe before returning home to form his own group, Them. Boasting a fiery, gritty sound heavily influenced by Morrison heroes like Howlin' Wolf, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Little Walter, Them quickly earned a devout local following and in late 1964 recorded their debut single, "Don't Start Crying Now." The follow-up, an electrifying reading of Big Joe Williams' "Baby Please Don't Go," cracked the U.K. Top Ten in early 1965. Though not a major hit upon its original release, Them's Morrison-penned "Gloria" endures among the true classics of the rock pantheon, covered by everyone from the Doors to Patti Smith. Lineup changes plagued the band throughout its lifespan, however, and at the insistence of producer Bert Berns, over time session musicians increasingly assumed the lion's share of recording duties. A frustrated Morrison finally left Them following a 1966 tour of the U.S., quitting the music business and returning to Belfast.
After Berns relocated to New York City to form Bang Records, he convinced Morrison to travel stateside and record as a solo artist; the sessions produced arguably his most familiar hit, the jubilant "Brown-Eyed Girl" (originally titled "Brown-Skinned Girl"), a Top Ten smash in the summer of 1967. By contrast, however, the resulting album, Blowin' Your Mind, was a bleak, bluesy effort highlighted by the harrowing "T.B. Sheets"; when Berns released the LP against Morrison's wishes, he again retreated home to Ireland. After Berns suffered a fatal heart attack in late 1967, the singer was freed of his contractual obligations and began working on new material. His first album for new label Warner Bros., 1968's Astral Weeks, remains not only Morrison's masterpiece, but one of the greatest records ever made. A haunting, deeply personal collection of impressionistic folk-styled epics recorded by an all-star jazz backing unit including bassist Richard Davis and drummer Connie Kay, its poetic complexity earned critical raves but made only a minimal commercial impact. The follow-up, 1970's Moondance, was every bit as brilliant; buoyant and optimistic where Astral Weeks had been dark and anguished, it cracked the Top 40, generating the perennials "Caravan" and "Into the Mystic."
The first half of the 1970s was the most fertile creative period of Morrison's career. From Moondance onward, his records reflected an increasingly celebratory and profoundly mystical outlook spurred on in large part by his marriage to wife Janet Planet and the couple's relocation to California. After His Band and the Street Choir yielded his biggest chart hit, "Domino," Morrison released 1971's Tupelo Honey, a lovely, pastoral meditation on wedded bliss highlighted by the single "Wild Night." In the wake of the following year's stirring Saint Dominic's Preview, he formed the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, featured both on the studio effort Hard Nose the Highway and on the excellent live set It's Too Late to Stop Now. However, in 1973 he not only dissolved the group but also divorced Planet and moved back to Belfast. The stunning 1974 LP Veedon Fleece chronicled Morrison's emotional turmoil; he then remained silent for three years, reportedly working on a number of aborted projects but releasing nothing until 1977's aptly titled A Period of Transition.
Plagued for some time by chronic stage fright, Morrison mounted his first tour in close to five years in support of 1978's Wavelength; his performances became more and more erratic, however, and during a 1979 date at New York's Palladium, he even stalked off-stage in mid-set and did not return. Into the Music, released later that year, evoked a more conventionally spiritual perspective than before, a pattern continued on successive outings for years to come. Albums like 1983's Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, 1985's A Sense of Wonder, and 1986's No Guru, No Method, No Teacher are all largely cut from the same cloth, employing serenely beautiful musical backdrops to explore themes of faith and healing. For 1988's Irish Heartbeat, however, Morrison teamed with another of his homeland's musical institutions, the famed Chieftains, for a collection of traditional folk songs.
Meanwhile, Avalon Sunset heralded a commercial rebirth of sorts in 1989. While "Whenever God Shines His Light," a duet with Cliff Richard, became Morrison's first U.K. Top 20 hit in over two decades, the gorgeous "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" emerged as something of a contemporary standard, with a Rod Stewart cover cracking the U.S. Top Five in 1993. Further proof of Morrison's renewed popularity arrived with the 1990 release of Mercury's best-of package; far and away the best-selling album of his career, it introduced the singer to a new generation of fans. A new studio record, Enlightenment, appeared that same year, followed in 1991 by the ambitious double set Hymns to the Silence, widely hailed as his most impressive outing in years.
Following the uniformity of his 1980s work, the remainder of the decade proved impressively eclectic: 1993's Too Long in Exile returned Morrison to his musical roots with covers of blues and R&B classics, while on 1995's Days Like This he teamed with daughter Shana for a duet on "You Don't Know Me." For the Verve label, he cut 1996's How Long Has This Been Going On, a traditional jazz record co-credited to longtime pianist Georgie Fame, while for the follow-up Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, he worked with guest of honor Allison himself. Morrison continued balancing the past and the future in the years to follow, alternating between new studio albums (1997's The Healing Game, 1999's Back on Top) and collections of rare and live material (1998's The Philosopher's Stone and 2000's The Skiffle Sessions and You Win Again). It wasn't until 2002 that an album of new material surfaced, but in May his long-anticipated Down the Road was released. Three years later, Morrison issued Magic Time. Pay the Devil, a country-tinged set, appeared in 2006 on Lost Highway Records. In 2008, Morrison released Keep It Simple, his first album of all-original material since 1999's Back on Top.

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I was going through one of the editions of my Donna Hay magazines when I saw a delicious pasta dish* – I immediately thought of making it for our lazy Sunday lunch. The cold weather changed my mind – I knew then that I needed some risotto.
I'd seen a recipe for roasted tomato risotto and it sounded great – but the tomatoes I had at home were so beautiful and juicy I didn't want to roast them. I decided to make the risotto my way (even using red wine instead of white).
There were some broccolini florets in my refrigerator and I used them too. The good thing is you don't need to blanch them first – they'll cook while the rice cooks.
The risotto turned out really good and this is my entry for the Weekend Herb Blogging, this time hosted by one of my favorite foodies ever, the sweet Ellie from Kitchen Wench.
Tomato, broccolini and basil risotto
1 liter vegetable stock – use a mild one otherwise it will be too overpowering
1 tablespoon butter
½ tablespoon olive oil
½ small onion, finely chopped
115g (a heaping ½ cup) risotto rice – I used Arborio
1 ½ tablespoons dry red wine
a heaping ½ cup broccolini florets, chopped in bite-sized pieces
1 tomato, plump but firm, finely diced
1 tablespoon cold butter – extra
¼ cup (not packed) basil leaves
50g (½ cup) parmesan, grated – reserve 1 tablespoon
freshly ground black pepper
Heat the stock and keep it gently simmering.
Place the butter and olive oil in a large heavy-based saucepan over high heat. Add the onion and sauté until it's soft and transparent.
Add the rice and stir for 1 minute or until the grains are glossy and well coated in the butter/olive oil. Add the wine, mix well until the wine is absorbed, then add 1 ladle stock, simmer and stir until it is absorbed. Add the broccolini florets and continue to add the stock, 1 ladle at a time, stirring continuously until the stock is absorbed.
Before adding the last ladle of stock – the rice will be almost al dente - add the tomatoes then keep stirring.
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Spoon onto warm serving plates, sprinkle with the reserved parmesan and top with an extra dash of pepper if desired.
Serves 2 with a very light appetite or 1 like me. ;)
* Joey posted the exact same recipe I intended to make – a delicious coincidence.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tomato, broccolini and basil risotto
31 comments:
I always preferred brocollini to brocolli...easier to eat. Hmmmn...and the basil..I can just imagine how tasty this dish turned out!
- May 24, 2007
Just one, for me too!
- May 24, 2007
- sher said...
I never get tired of risotto, and I saw broccolini in the store, almost bought it. Now I think I will get some and make this! It looks delicious.
- May 24, 2007
- Susan said...
This looks substantial, yet not heavy - very healthy, too, with the broccolini. I often confuse broccolini with broccoli rabe. I think I'll have to buy some and settle this once and for all.
- May 24, 2007
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Patricia, this dish has all of my favorite flavors. I will definitely be making it. Broccolini's sweeter flavor is perfect with the tomatoes.
Those Donna Hay magazines are so inspirational, aren't they? And so are you.:) - May 24, 2007
- Nora B. said...
it started to get very chilly in Sydney so we had risotto (roated veg & feta) yesterday too. Patricia, now that you've mentioend it, I am curious to try using red wine in my risotto.
- May 24, 2007
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
That's what risotto is about isn't it...just what you happen to have! This looks beautiful enough to bring happiness!
- May 24, 2007
I love risotto, and this looks lovely--flavorful and fresh.
- May 24, 2007
- lululu said...
Such a light but rich flavored risotto!
- May 24, 2007
- Kirsten said...
Looks delicious! I adore risotto of any kind, and broccolini is the best.
Wonderful! - May 25, 2007
- Amanda at Little Foodies said...
I love risotto. So comforting. Yours sounds very delicious, enough for one definitely ;). Amanda
- May 25, 2007
Miam miam or mamamia !!!! I love risotto me too
- May 25, 2007
mmmmm, i recently bought some arborio rice to tr my hand at risotto. this recipe looks wonderful and o so delicios! you are so right, nothing takes the chill out like a warm bowl of risotto!
- May 25, 2007
- Freya said...
I love your phrase 'branching them' for the brocollini - they are just like little trees!
This risotto sounds delicious and an unusual twist! - May 25, 2007
Freya and Paul, that was one of those sneaky typos that plague us all. I'm sure Patricia meant to type blanch and her fingers just didn't cooperate.
Patricia, once again you're enticing me to try something new. Risotto doesn't sound hard to make, just tedious with all that stirring. But maybe it's time I got over myself and did it. - May 25, 2007
- Kelly-Jane said...
Your risotto looks lovely, I would love it too :)
- May 25, 2007
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Veron, me too - my husband will eat a whole bunch if I let him. :)
Tigerfish, next time I'll double it and you have some too, sweetie! :)
Sher, me neither - risotto is just my favorite food ever.
Susan, I think this recipe would work with both and even with broccoli. I just happens to love broccolini more than I love the others. ;)
I truly hope you like it.
Susan, I really hope you like this dish - it was made with a lot of love.
And you are so sweet, my dear friend - thank you so much!
Nora, that risotto sounds delicious! Are you posting it? I hope so. :)
I didn't have white wine, so I thought that I could use red wine since I was going to add tomatoes.
Tanna, I sure didn't mean to leave the broccolini florests alone in the refrigerator!
Sarah, thank you!
Hi, Lululu! Tks for stopping by!
Kirsten, I love risotto too!
Amanda, I'd share some with you, sweetie.
Candy, merci!
Aria, the risotto really lighten up my day!
Freya, it was a typo - but it was funny. :)
Thank you!
Terry, my dear friend, thank you for standing up for me. :)
Just so you know it, I was busy making Joao's food so I stirred less than usual and it worked beautifully. - May 25, 2007
- Stella said...
This looks like the perfect comfort food on a cold day Pat!
yummmsss.... Plus it's healthy & tasty, what could one ask more? - May 25, 2007
- Truffle said...
This sounds like my perfect dinner! Thank you so much for sharing :)
- May 26, 2007
- Gattina Cheung said...
my risotto sweetheart, the flavor of this dish sounds very bold, but I love it!!!
- May 26, 2007
I love your dish!
Paz - May 26, 2007
- Helene said...
Risotto is the only rice dish I know how to cook...yep, this little one here does not know how to cook rice unless it is risotoo or pudding!
Beautiful and so appetizing! - May 26, 2007
Wow! Sweetie, this looks like a divine risotto dish - so healthy and packed with flavour!!
- May 27, 2007
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Risotto is so much fun to make - I've only make light colored risottos but the red and green in this recipe is intriquing!
- May 27, 2007
What a great dish! I'll have to try this with some sun-dried tomatoes. :)
- May 28, 2007
- Kalyn Denny said...
It looks and sound wonderful. I've only cooked broccolini a couple of times, but I really like it. The combination sounds great. And so interesting that Joey made the Donna Hay recipe you were thinking of. (Great minds thinking alike and all that!)
- May 28, 2007
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Valentina, it's very comforting, indeed! I had 2 bowls, I'm a mess. :)
Truffle, thank you for commenting, dear!
Gattina, I'm glad you like it, sweetie!
Paz, thank you!
Helen, I think you're fine then - my favorite dishes!
Ellie, it was very tasty!
T.W., the flavors worked fine together!
Amy, that idea sounds delicious!
Kalyn, my husband and I love broccolini. And I had a laugh when I saw Joey's post. :) - May 28, 2007
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
I have some roasted tomatoes from last summer in my freezer -- I think I'll try this recipe with the last of my stash!
- May 28, 2007
- Andrea said...
This looks really yummy!
- May 29, 2007
- christine said...
What a wonderful idea for risotto. I'm so used to using mostly fresh mushrooms when making risotto and I haven't yet tried other variations. I like the sound of this one! :)
- May 30, 2007
Patricia, this recipe looks divine! Thanks for sharing it with us. We are proud to have it included in this week's FoodieView Recipe Roundup!
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In manual clearing of cheques, many errors may occur and the whole process is quite time consuming. The MICR technology speeds up the processing of cheque as it reduces manual efforts of sorting. Thus the 384010051 of Allahabad Bank, Unjha branch makes the system almost error free and faster. Use of Allahabad Bank MICR codes for Unjha branch, makes the characters readable even if there are other marks and stamps on it.
Allahabad Bank MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) code is a machine readable code used for processing and clearance of cheques. Allahabad Bank MICR code for Unjha is a 9 digit code, in which first 3 digit represents the city code, next 3 digit to bank code and later 3 digit to branch code. 384010051 is the MICR code of Allahabad Bank for Unjha branch. MICR code for Unjha branch includes document type indicator, bank code, cheque number, etc. When a cheque goes for clearing, this code is read by a magnetic reader and then automatically sorted. MICR code for Allahabad Bank Unjha is presented in the table alongside.
The MICR code 384010051 is used in RBI cheque clearing process to identify the branch Unjha and Allahabad Bank bank for clearing processes. The MICR characters, which are printed using magnetic ink, are passed before a MICR reader. Initially the ink gets magnetized and when it is read, each character produces a unique waveform which can be easily identified. MICR code of Allahabad Bank is typically in either of these two font's: E-138 and CMC-7.


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New Jersey boys and burlesque buddies Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are entertainment legends. True fans know that these stars of vaudeville, movies and television also had their own successful and long-running radio program.
Their vaudeville style was well in evidence on the air, complete with wild wordplay and their quick and clever covering up of flubbed lines. Laugh along and enjoy the power of patter as demonstrated here in 10 of the team's digitally restored and remastered radio performances.
Since all comics need a good set up to deliver a joke that really pays off, Abbott & Costello brought in some of the best supporting characters in the business, including Mel Blanc, Elvia Allman, Iris Adrian, Artie "Mr. Kitzel" Auerbach, and burlesque compatriot Sid Fields - all of whom can be heard in this set. Whether the gag is about dancing lessons, movie parodies, odd jobs, or other nonsense - it's all confusion, all commotion, and all funny!
Includes their classic "Who's On First" routine, and a Program Guide by Derek Tague with photographs and background information about these great entertainers.
Episodes Include: It's Time to Smile: Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga 07-31-40; The Abbott & Costello Show: Investment Advice 10-05-44, Merchant Marines 01-25-45, Lou Discovers Uranium 03-07-46, Ha-LOU-cinating 10-10-46, Marriage Bureau 04-21-48, Sam Shovel: At the Races 02-17-49, Sam Shovel: 100 Steps to Take When You Come Face to Face With a Killer 02-24-49, Who's on First (Excerpt) 04-17-47; The Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel: Guests: Abbott & Costello 01-04-46


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I was at the OpenStack Summit this week. The overwhelming majority of OpenStack deployments are Linux-based, yet the most popular laptop vendor (by a long way) at the conference was Apple. People are writing code with the intention of deploying it on Linux, but they're doing so under an entirely different OS.
But what's really interesting is the tools they're using to do so. When I looked over people's shoulders, I saw terminals and a web browser. They're not using Macs because their development tools require them, they're using Macs because of what else they get – an aesthetically pleasing OS, iTunes and what's easily the best trackpad hardware/driver combination on the market. These are people who work on the same laptop that they use at home. They'll use it when they're commuting, either for playing videos or for getting a head start so they can leave early. They use an Apple because they don't want to use different hardware for work and pleasure.
Apple's laptops are still the best PCs money can buy at the moment (despite their horribly outdated displays). It's no wonder Linux developers, too, favour them.


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Project Members
- David Gil
- Uri Tadmor
- Peter Cole (University of Delaware)
- Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware)
- Bambang Kaswanti (Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya)
Language Contact in Indonesia
Nearly 800 languages are spoken in Indonesia, in addition to Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), the national language. The great majority of Indonesians are therefore proficient in at least two languages, their local home language and Indonesian. This makes Indonesia an ideal location in which to study language contact.
In cases where the local language is a variety of Malay/Indonesian, this local variety coexists in diglossia with forms of standard Indonesian. Stable situations of partial or full societal bilingualism, often with a variety of Malay/Indonesians but also among other languages, have existed in many areas for centuries, perhaps millennia.
Our Language Contact project studied languages and dialects spoken throughout Indonesia, which exhibit salient language contact phenomena. These phenomena may be the result of various processes such as substratum influence (interference through shift); superstratum influence, cultural borrowing, and other types of borrowing; and contact languages which are the results of pidginization and creolization. Priority was given to varieties of Malay/Indonesian, or languages which have been strongly influenced by Malay/Indonesian. Languages/dialects studied:
- Semarangan
- Ketapang Malay
- Cina Benteng Malay
- Sarang Lang
- Makassarese Malay
- Kualan and Samandang
- Bandung Indonesian


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Welcoming the Accession of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
BODY: Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H. Res. 558, which welcomes the accession of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Earlier this month I celebrated the 86th anniversary of the declaration of independence of Lithuania with my constituents and the Lithuanian Society in Baltimore. I am very enthusiastic about the accomplishments of the Lithuanian people and my optimism for that nation's future. As you know, I am of Lithuanian heritage and share your special interest in Lithuania's development.
I am proud of the United States' strong support for Lithuania through the extension of membership to the NATO alliance, and the continued endorsement for the nation's integration into the European Union. In 2003 the U.S. Senate unanimously ratified Lithuania's inclusion into NATO, and praised Lithuania for "serving as an example to emerging democracies worldwide."
As an invited member of NATO and the European Union, the Republic of Lithuania plays a role in promoting security abroad and in combating international threats. Since 1994, the Lithuanian Armed Forces have demonstrated this commitment by deploying over 1,300 servicemen on missions to the Balkans and, most recently, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Lithuania's accession to NATO really marks the return of Lithuania to the Euro-Atlantic partnership and alliance, as we face the new challenges of the global war on terrorism.
Lithuania has made considerable progress towards a functioning market economy, and has enjoyed some of the highest domestic product growth rates in all of Europe. I am therefore pleased to see that Lithuania will shortly be joining the European Union (EU), which will grow from 15 to 25 members on May 1, 2004.
By joining the EU, the nation will greatly benefit from a larger, more integrated European marketplace. We should continue our partnership to further strengthen Lithuania's economic growth.
I am also pleased to report that in the last decade Lithuania has made great progress in the area of human rights, rule of law, and religious freedom all while pursuing further integration into European political, economic, and security organizations. As a member of Congress, I serve on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, commonly known as the Helsinki Commission. I also serve as the Chairman of the Economic Committee of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. Lithuania, among other countries, has agreed to the terms of the Helsinki Final Act, which calls upon governments to respect religious freedom and minority rights as well as guarantee free speech and political dissent. Lithuania has successfully moved to establish a strong democratic government, holding fair elections since 1991 and supporting an independent judiciary, both of which are critical components for maintaining rule of law and fighting corruption in any country.
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to join my colleagues in supporting this resolution, in saluting the accomplishments of Lithuania and looking forward with great pride and expectation to the future. I urge my colleagues to take a moment to reflect on the unique Lithuanian culture and its contribution to the world.


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We don't have any of that in Florida. (Pine cone pile, anyone?)
That's ok, though; with cakes like these, I don't think I'm missing all that "mulch":
Ah, you don't often see this level of technique used! You see, dragging a knife through icing takes confidence, a steady hand, and the kind of technical know-how that knows exactly which end is the pointy one. [nodding seriously]
Still, no matter how you slice it, those skills pale in comparison to this...
...feather? Spear?Long-necked snail? Worm in a hat? Worm in a skirt? Garden trowel? Underside of a snorkeler's leg?
Hey, I could go on all day. I suspect, however, that Zoey K., Hap C., & Brady want me to make like a tree, and get out of here.
- Related Wreckage: Fall Fumbles
(Note: If you now have Biff on the brain, congratulations! You're a geek! Now go watch this funny song he sings as a reward.)


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The Talismanic Tiger | Vintage Japanese Woodblock Art (available framed or unframed)
The Talismanic Tiger | Vintage Japanese Woodblock Art (available framed or unframed)
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For our Bespoke Frames we use Hahnemühle German Etching paper of 310 GSM weight. This paper boasts a distinct mottled texture and warm base tone, resulting in prints with vibrant colors, rich blacks, and striking contrast. Its pronounced texture allows the paper to hold more ink, enhancing the depth and intensity of the artwork. The paper's weight and textured surface lend a handcrafted feel to any piece, while its robust Giclee quality ensures minimal fraying at the edges, making it an ideal choice for archival prints.
⭐PROCESSING AND DELIVERY: Most items are ready for shipment after 1 - 5 business days. Bespoke Frames can take up to 10 business days. Following shipment, delivery time is 1 - 7 business days for most customers in the United States, Canada, and Western EU. We can still deliver to you if you are located outside of these regions, but please contact us so that we can give you more accurate delivery times.
⭐PACKAGING: Our standard packaging for posters is flat for posters up to A4 size. We use cardboard tubes for larger posters. Framed prints are carefully wrapped and fitted with edge protectors for shipment.
Bespoke Frames are protected on all sides with recyclable and biodegradable wrapping materials. Strong recyclable archival foam made from recycled materials is then carefully fitted to make sure no damage can occur in transit. The foam covered frame is then placed into extra protective 100% sustainably sourced and recyclable card packaging for dispatch.
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The very generous people from CSN stores who had sponsored a giveaway at my blog some months back, asked me to review one of their products. Anyone who has been to their site knows what gorgeous products they have.They sell everything from Housewares, Home Decor, vanity to Furniture. Check out their site for their amazing collection.
Now I am a dummy when it comes to Kitchen gadgets. It is my plain ignorance about things that can be bought for the Kitchen, makes me not buy them. All I buy is pretty kitchen things from HomeGoods but they are not gadgets.
I want something that can be plugged, that will whir, make a mean noise and output some amazing result. Actually I don't even know what that sentence means.
To educate myself and maybe some more souls like me, I need your help.
Please tell me in your comment Or on Facebook
What is your favorite kitchen gadget ? It has to be something you own and have used. Also tell me why do you like it so much. If you can remember the brand etc., it is better.
It can be anything from the mortar-pestle, to your favorite wok, to the Kitchen Aid mixer, to the spoon that you lick all day. Ok maybe not the spoon.
Please, pretty please help me here.


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text: Who we are The Science Team at TU helps guide where and how the organization conducts its conservation efforts, collaborates on scientific projects with various state and federal agencies and partners, and also conducts original scientific research on trout conservation and conservation planning. We have a state-of-the-art technology center in Boise, Idaho, that supports much of our analytical work, including spatial modeling, other GIS work, and development of web-mapping applications. Our staff has skills ranging from fisheries and stream ecology to restoration ecology and genetics as well as geographic information systems and landscape planning. CURRENT PROJECTS How we work As one of the nation's foremost aquatic conservation organizations, Trout Unlimited works hard to ensure that its efforts to protect, reconnect, restore and sustain coldwater fisheries and their watersheds are guided by the best available science. The Science Team works primarily in four areas: conservation planning, restoration design and monitoring, conservation research, and science interpretation and technology transfer. Conservation Planning. Our conservation planning efforts help to answer the question of where the best opportunities exist for TU's conservation work. To accomplish this, we use the best available information on fisheries resources, habitat conditions and future threats to identify priority areas for protection, reconnection, and restoration. This helps to ensure that TU's place-based work achieves the greatest conservation benefit for the least cost. Restoration Design and Monitoring. The Science Team works closely with TU program staff and grassroots to address the how of restoration. The design of a successful restoration project requires a variety of skills and knowledge that must take into account the entire aquatic system as well as our target species. Monitoring is an important component of any restoration project because it allows us to track the effectiveness of our restoration work. Conservation Research. Aquatic systems are complex and our understanding of how they function continues to evolve. Our research activities help inform our planning and restoration work to make sure that our efforts are consistent with the most current scientific knowledge of coldwater fisheries and their habitats. Science Interpretation and Technology Transfer. An important aspect of our work is communicating our analyses and research in a meaningful way to a variety of audiences from our peers in the scientific community to resource managers, TU staff, volunteers and school kids. We have a variety of citizen science tools to improve stream monitoring, climate change awareness, identification of aquatic invasive species, and other hazards to our stream systems.


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Watertown, Mass., resident David Henneberry's name was on many people's lips Saturday, as the hero who called police to say bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be hiding in his back yard. Massachusetts State Police have now released images that show what the authorities saw from a police helicopter as a wounded Tsarnaev hid under a tarp.
The photos show how the State Police Air Wing helicopter's forward-looking infrared sensors picked up the suspect's body heat as he lay in the boat's cockpit area. A law enforcement vehicle eventually approached the boat, and flash-bang grenades were deployed to help subdue the suspect.
Just before Tsarnaev was discovered, a lockdown on a nearby area was lifted. And Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Col. Timothy P. Alben tells The Republican that before the call came in, many of the hundreds of police personnel who had been looking for Tsarnaev and his brother, who died early Friday in a gunbattle with police, were starting to lose energy.
"Their bodies were telling them to go home, but their hearts were telling them to stay. Everyone's eyes were red. They were so tired," he said.
But then came the call from Henneberry, who had used the respite from the lockdown to step outside — where he noticed that the covering that had protected his boat all winter was no longer closed. After pulling a ladder up to the boat's side for a better look, he also saw blood.
Henneberry, identified by USA Today as a "a retired New England Telephone worker," has seemingly declined all interviews. His side of the story has largely been told by his stepson, Robert Duffy.
As Duffy tells CNN, after Henneberry saw that a cord holding the tarp had been cut, he "basically stuck his head under the tarp [and] noticed a pool of blood."
He also saw what looked like a figure, possibly a man, Duffy says. That's when Henneberry called the police.
"We were all so exhausted but it was the last of many, many leads that had not panned out for us before," Alben said.
After police arrived, an exchange of gunfire broke out. The authorities were also concerned Tsarnaev might detonate an explosive device. But officials, including an FBI hostage rescue team, eventually succeeded in apprehending the suspect.
While Henneberry may be a hero, his neighbor, George Pizzuto, says Henneberry is probably not very happy about the condition of his boat, which reportedly sustained damage in the ordeal.
"That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up," Pizzuto told ABC's WHAM 13 News. "He's going to be heartbroken."
But as Duffy told CNN and other news outlets, the damage to the boat was the least of his family's worries Friday night. As he watched the news on TV, Duffy was unable to contact his mother and stepfather to be sure they were safe. Eventually he heard from his sister, saying that the couple was fine — and that the lockdown that had paralyzed the Boston area was now over.
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News that first broke in the New York Post would seem to signal that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to be the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee.
The Post reports that "the word is going out quietly to Republican activists across New Jersey. ... Gov. Chris Christie is going to be giving the keynote speech" at the GOP convention in Tampa next month.
NBC News, which says it has also been told that Christie will be giving that high-profile address, notes that being the keynote speaker "sometimes serves as a launching pad for political figures with ambitions of higher office" — remember then-state Sen. Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. But, the network adds, "typically, the keynote speaker is separate from the vice presidential nominee, who, like the presidential nominee, speaks on separate nights."
NPR's Liz Halloran previously reported on the pluses and minuses of putting Christie on the ticket:
Upside: Popular national figure; blunt personality appealing.
Downside: Popular national figure; blunt personality appealing — which has the potential to overshadow the candidate, a la McCain/Palin in 2008.
Our friends at It's All Politics are following the 2012 campaign here.
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An Indonesian volcano that had been rumbling for months finally unleashed a deadly cloud of poisonous gas and gray ash, killing at least 14 people only a day after authorities had allowed thousands of evacuated villagers to return to their homes.
A series of huge blasts came from Mount Sinabung, a 8,530-foot-high volcano in western Sumatra, on Saturday, sending lava and pyroclastic flows down its slope into nearby settlements.
"Among the dead on Mount Sinabung were a local television journalist and four high-school students and their teacher who were visiting the mountain to see the eruptions up close, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. At least three other people were injured, and authorities feared the death toll would rise."
Sinabung had been active for four months, but officials who thought the worst was over allowed about half of the 30,000 evacuees to return to the area around the mountain.
Following Saturday's eruption, all those who had been allowed to return home Friday were ordered back into evacuation centers, the AP says.
Indonesia is part of the Pacific system of seismic faults and volcanic activity known as the "Ring of Fire." Sinabung is among 130 active volcanos in the archipelago.
In 2010, 324 people were killed in a two-month-long eruption of the country's Mount Merapi.
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60134 Zip Code Income, Population and Demographics
Are you tired of spending 10+ hours searching for demographic and population data for the 60134 zip code? We have all of the data you need by state, county, city, and zip code that will save you many hours of research!
In this article, we'll explore most of the 190+ data points we have for 60134, covering popular demographics statistics like household income, race, age and gender, educational attainment, poverty, housing, and transportation.
60134 is a zip code in Kane County, Illinois, which covers Blackberry and Geneva, with a total population of 30,938 people.
The data on this page is from the 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year survey from the US Census Bureau.
Median Household Income
According to the latest ACS 5-year survey in 2022, the median household income in 60134 is $143,697.00.
The chart below shows the average household income by age in 60134.
Average Household Income
A very commonly asked question is "what is the average household income in the 60134 zip code?". The official term for the average household income is the mean household income. The mean household income is the total income of all households divided by the number of households.
The average (or mean) household income in 60134 is $178,878.00.
31.67% of households in the 60134 zip code are classed as high income households (making $200,000+ per year).
The difference between a median and an average income
The difference between a median and mean household income is that the median income is the middle point of the set of numbers whereas the mean income is an average of all numbers.
Both metrics are important when looking at the income statistics for 60134 but because the median value doesn't depend on other numbers in the dataset, it doesn't change as much when some of the values are extremely low or extremely high.
Household Income Tiers for 60134
We can also look at the household income tiers. This lets you see how many households fall into each of the earnings brackets and what percentage that bracket is of the total number of households.
The chart below shows the household income brackets to see which age groups have the highest median income. The actual data is more granular than these brackets, but we've simplified them into bigger categories to make reviewing the data for the 60134 zip code easier to view.
You can purchase the raw data above, which will have the full income tiers with smaller jumps in household income.
Per Capita Income
The per capita income is the average income of all people in the 60134 zip code. This is calculated by dividing the total income of all people in 60134 by the total number of people in 60134.
It differs from the average or mean household income because it includes all people in 60134 and not just the people who earn an income (i.e. children, retirees, unemployed, etc.).
The per capita income in the 60134 zip code is $65,341.00.
Population in 60134 by Race and Ethnicity
The total population in 60134 is currently 30,938 people.
The race and ethnicity of the population in 60134 can be very important for social research, economics, and marketing to a multi-culturial society.
Whether you want to target products or services to a particular race or ethnicity, or provide housing and new businesses to improve areas with a larger ethnic minority population, this data is very valuable for discovering suitable areas.
The chart below breaks down the population and percentage for each race and ethnicity in the 60134 zip code.
Population of 60134 by Age and Gender
Another very important demographics statistic for the 60134 zip code is the age and gender of the population. The age and gender of the population can be used to track trends in population growth or decline, and for businesses, the data can be used to identify people important to you and your business need.
In the table below, we show age groups at a 10 year granularity for ease of use. The raw data, which can be purchased above, includes age and gender at a 5 year granularity.
Education Levels
Educational attainment is a very useful statistic that can give insights into other data such as the average household income, unemployment levels, and literacy.
What this means is that it is likely for areas that have higher levels of education to have higher average household incomes, lower unemployment rates, and higher literacy rates.
The chart below shows the educational attainment of the population in the 60134 zip code.
Unemployment Rates
The unemployment rate is the percentage of the population that is actively looking for work but is unable to find a job. The unemployment rate is a very important statistic for 60134 because it can show how many people are actively looking for work and how many people are unable to find a job.
Lower levels of unemployment is generally seen as a positive sign for the economy. It also makes the government in 60134 look good because it shows that they are doing a good job of creating jobs, working to capacity, being efficient, and keeping the economy strong.
The unemployment rate is calculated using the total population in the 60134 zip code that are over the age of 16.
The current population in 60134 that are over the age of 16 is 23,887 people.
The unemployment rate in 60134 is 4.60%, which means 778 people are unemployed.
Median Age in 60134
The median age is an interesting metric because it gives us an idea of the age distribution of people in the 60134 zip code. You know when you see a median age that it is the age where half of the population is older and half is younger than it.
For demographic studies, this can be used to infer and compare date to things such as birth rates, the age of parents, and so on.
An increasing median age can be a sign of an aging population, which can be a sign of a declining population. This is because older people tend to have fewer children and die more often than younger people.
The median age in 60134 is 39.5 years old.
We can also look at the median age by gender to compare the see how each group compares to the total median age:
Median age by gender in 60134
Households and Families
There are a total of 11,129 households in 60134, and the average household size is 2.77 people.
For families, the total number is 8,505, and the average family size is 3.22 people.
1.30% of those families in the 60134 zip code are living below the poverty line.
The table below shows the poverty thresholds for 60134 in .
Please note that the poverty thresholds shown above are from , while the latest demographics data we have is from 2022.
Households and Families by Marital Status
There are four types of household and family, as defined by the Census Bureau:
- Married-couple
- Male householder, no spouse present
- Female householder, no spouse present
- Nonfamily household
In the table below, you can see the total households and families in the 60134 zip code for each type, as well as the average sizes.
Housing Data in 60134
There are total of 11,419 housing units in the 60134 zip code. Of those units, 11,129 (97.46%) are occupied, and 290 (2.54%) are vacant.
Rental Rates
Of the 11,419 housing units in 60134, 1,506 (13.19%) are occupied by renters. The median rent paid by renters is $1,748.00.
Owner occupied housing units make up the remaining 83.61% of housing units, with 9,547 housing units in total.
The table below breaks down how much rent is paid by renters in the 60134 zip code.
Property Values
The median value of a property in 60134 is $410,000.00.
The table below breaks down the range of valuations for all properties in 60134.
Property Age
We can also look at the number of properties built in a given year to see the spread of property age in the 60134 zip code.
Vehicles Available per Household
Finally, we have data on how many vehicles each household in 60134 has. The table below breaks down the number of vehicles available per household.
Commuting to Work in 60134
The time and means of commuting to work are useful metrics to look at because they can be correlated against other data such as income and education level.
Does a longer commuting time indicate a higher average income? If so, has the huge increase in home working during the pandemic changed this?
Using these metrics, we can get a better understanding of the demographics of the 60134 zip code, how they commute, and how that correlates to other data points.
The average travel time is 29.9 minutes, and the chart below covers the range of travel times across the population of 60134.
We can also look at the means of transport in 60134 to see which modes of transport people are using to commute to work.
Hopefully this article has given you the demographics data you were looking for in the 60134 zip code.
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FILE — In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, looks towards President Barack Obama as he speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's vow to take his message straight to the public during his first presidential visit to Israel next week will be a tough sell with many Israelis who consider him naive, too soft on the nation's enemies and even hostile to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama steps into the Middle East's political cauldron this coming week, he won't be seeking any grand resolution for the region's vexing problems.
His goal will be trying to keep the troubles, from Iran's suspected pursuit of a nuclear weapon to the bitter discord between Israelis and Palestinians, from boiling over on his watch.
Obama arrives in Jerusalem on Wednesday for his first trip to Israel as president. His first priority will be resetting his oft-troubled relationship with now-weakened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and evaluating the new coalition government Netanyahu laboriously cobbled together.
The president also will look to boost his appeal to a skeptical Israeli public, as well as to frustrated Palestinians.
"This is not about accomplishing anything now. This is what I call a down payment trip," said Aaron David Miller, an adviser on Mideast peace to six secretaries of state who is now at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.
For much of Obama's first term, White House officials saw little reason for him to go to the region without a realistic chance for a peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians. But, with the president's one attempt at a U.S.-brokered deal thwarted in his first term and the two sides even more at odds, the White House has shifted thinking.
Officials now see the lowered expectations as a chance to create space for frank conversations between Obama and both sides about what it will take to get back to the negotiating table. The president will use his face-to-face meetings to "persuade both sides to refrain from taking provocative unilateral actions that could be self-defeating," said Haim Malka, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The trip gives Obama the opportunity to meet Netanyahu on his own turf, and that could help ease the tension that has at times defined their relationship.
The leaders have tangled over Israeli settlements and how to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions. Netanyahu also famously lectured the president in front of the media during a 2011 meeting in the Oval Office, and later made no secret of his fondness for Republican challenger Mitt Romney in last year's presidential campaign.
Beyond Mideast peace, the two leaders have similar regional goals, including ending the violence in Syria and containing the political tumult in Egypt, which has a decades-old peace treaty with Israel.
The president's trip comes at a time of political change for Israel.
Netanyahu's power was diminished in January elections, and he struggled to form a government. He finally reached a deal on Friday with rival parties, creating a coalition that brings the centrist Yesh Atid and pro-settler Jewish Home parties into the government and excludes the ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties for the first time in a decade.
The coalition will be sworn in Monday, two days before Obama's arrival.
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Saturday congratulated Israelis on their new government. He said the president looked forward to working closely with Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders to address common challenges and advance shared interests in peace and security in the region.
Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, acknowledged that with a new government, "you don't expect to close the deal on any one major initiative." But he said starting those conversations now "can frame those decisions that ultimately will come down the line."
Among those decisions will be next steps in dealing with Iran's disputed nuclear program.
Israel repeatedly has threatened to take military action should Iran appear to be on the verge of obtaining a bomb. The U.S. has pushed for more time to allow diplomacy and economic penalties to run their course, though Obama insists military action is an option.
The West says Iran's program is aimed at developing weapons technology. Iran says its program is for peaceful energy purposes.
Another central difference between the allies on Iran is the timeline for possible military action.
Netanyahu, in a speech to the United Nations in September, said Iran was about six months away from being able to build a bomb. Obama told an Israeli television station this past week that the U.S. thinks it would take "over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon."
Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., tried to play down any division on the Iranian issue ahead of Obama's trip. He said Friday that "the United States and Israel see many of the same facts about the Iranian nuclear program and draw many similar conclusions."
Obama's visit to Israel may quiet critics in the U.S. who interpreted his failure to travel there in his first term as a sign that he was less supportive of the Jewish state than his predecessors. Republican lawmakers levied that criticism frequently during last year's presidential campaign, despite the fact that GOP President George W. Bush did not visit Israel until his final year in office.
The centerpiece of Obama's visit will be a speech in Jerusalem to an audience mainly of Israeli students. It's part of the president's effort to appeal to the Israeli public, particularly young people.
He will make several cultural stops, all steeped in symbolism, in the region. They include the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem; Mount Herzl, where he'll lay wreaths at the graves of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, and Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister who was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist who opposed Rabin's policy of trading land with the Palestinians for peace; and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a revered site for Christians.
In a sign of the close military ties between the U.S. and Israel, Obama will view an Iron Dome battery, part of the missile defense system the U.S. has helped pay for.
Traveling to the West Bank, Obama will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah. Obama and Fayyad will visit a Palestinian youth center, another attempt to reach the region's young people.
Obama will make a 24-hour stop in Jordan, an important U.S. ally, where the president's focus will be on the violence in neighboring Syria. More than 450,000 Syrians have fled to Jordan, crowding refugee camps and overwhelming aid organizations.
The White House said Obama had no plans to visit a refugee camp while in Jordan, though he will be discussing with government officials how the U.S. can increase its assistance.
In his talks with Jordan's King Abdullah, Obama also will try to shore up the country's fledgling attempts to liberalize its government and stave off an Arab Spring-style movement similar to the ones that have taken down leaders elsewhere in the region.
The president's final stop will be in Petra, Jordan's fabled ancient city.


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In a society addicted to smartphones and other mobile devices, mobile marketing (i.e., advertising through text messaging) may be a direct and cost-effective means of reaching a large number of potential customers. However, businesses and marketing agencies must beware because mobile marketing campaigns may lead to allegations of violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"). As many companies have learned the hard way, if you do not have the express consent of the individuals who receive the marketing texts, you may end up on the losing end of a very expensive class action lawsuit. The TCPA makes it illegal for companies to "call" a cell phone user by means of an automatic telephone dialing system without their prior consent. Various courts, including a federal district court in Ohio, have ruled that text messages qualify as "calls" under the TCPA. Lawsuits alleging mobile marketing TCPA violations target not only the marketing agencies who actually perform the campaigns, but also the companies that hire the agencies. Therefore, businesses have to be aware of the consequences of an improperly executed mobile marketing campaign. Last year, a class action TCPA mobile marketing case filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio settled with the defendant, Viking Magazine Services, agreeing to pay a six-figure settlement. The case arose after Viking, a company that sells magazine subscriptions, hired Xcel Direct to text thousands of potential customers offering gift cards and a sweepstakes entry as well as providing a phone number for Viking. Xcel Direct assured Viking that it had obtained consent from the individuals that it intended to text, although Viking made no attempts to independently verify this. After a test run of the marketing campaign, a group of recipients of the marketing texts filed a lawsuit against Viking alleging TCPA violations. The group was granted class certification. Viking eventually settled for $300,000.00. Similar claims have resulted in eight-figure settlements against businesses. For example, Jiffy Lube settled a TCPA mobile marketing class action in 2012 for $47 million. Furthermore, if liability is established at trial, the potential penalties are also daunting given that individual damages range from $500 to $1,500 per violation (i.e., per person receiving a text without prior consent) under the TCPA. While the financial liability associated with illegal mobile marketing campaigns may cause businesses to look to other marketing avenues, it is worth noting that mobile marketing can be effective when done properly. The key to avoiding TCPA liability is consent. Businesses engaging in mobile marketing campaigns must take the necessary steps to protect themselves against liability by fully understanding and implementing TCPA-required actions before carrying out such marketing campaigns. Indeed, the failure to do so may turn a seemingly harmless $0.10 text message into a multi-million dollar mistake.
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