If your fantasies involve riding through the streets of Paris on a bicycle, fuel your dreams with this soundtrack of gorgeous vintage French pop songs. From the torch singers of the 1930s music halls to the preternaturally chic Yé-Yé girls of the 1960s, and all the flirtatious gentlemen who came between, there’s really nothing quite like it. Start with these ten songs, beloved classics of the genre. “Parlez-Moi d’Amour” - Lucienne Boyer (1930)...
Print brochures can be an effective tool for marketing your home business, but there are several things to consider before printing your brochure. Factors such as size and resolution can affect how prospects react to your brochure. More importantly, your brochure will become part of your brand identity, so design decisions and creative ideas should be made with that in mind. With the abundance of available desktop design tools, such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, and Microsoft Publisher, many home business owners decide to create their own brochures....
When people think about becoming a manager, they may have unrealistic expectations about how they can get results from the employees they will manage. Sometimes people who haven’t ever been managers imagine that being a manager is somewhat like sitting in a big leather chair and issuing proclamations. The modern-day equivalent of being a king. The reality is there might be a leather chair involved, but proclamations are few and far between....
Understand the pros and cons of both horizontal and vertical pianos, and find out which style best suits your playing needs. Prices of Grand vs. Upright New grand pianos can cost from $10,000 to $150,000, while upright pianos have a smaller price range at $2,000 to $8,500. Used piano prices stay about the same for horizontal pianos, but good vertical pianos are sometimes seen on sale for $500 to $2,500....
A cost-plus contract is a construction contract under which the contractor gets paid for all construction-related expenses plus an agreed-upon profit. The term “plus” refers to the profit to be earned by the contractor. A cost-plus contract usually represents a win-win situation for the contractor because all risks are essentially covered and all expenses are likely to be paid. What to Charge A cost-plus contract is a tool that the contractor uses to get paid for almost every expense related to the construction job....
The best pop instrumentals of the Sixties went big, in part, because they filled a niche—as rock and soul and their variants took over the charts entirely in the ’60s, instrumentals became one of the last holdouts for what would soon be called “adult contemporary” music. The decade may have started with jazz noodlings and big band tunes, but by the end, its pop instrumentals had taken on a decidedly European flavor....
Looking for songs to play with your family? Here are the lyrics and guitar chords for a bunch of great children’s songs. If the following songs are in a tricky key for you and your family to sing along in, consider using a capo. Children’s Song Chords and Lyrics The Alphabet Song Baa, Baa, Black Sheep The Bear Went Over the Mountain Billy Boy B-I-N-G-O The Farmer in the Dell...
Band breakups are kind of like divorces. Sometimes they’re amicable, but often they’re not. Like divorces, sometimes there are assets to be divided and making the wrong calls here can have long-lasting implications. Despite some short-term hard feelings, it is possible to manage a break up while protecting your rights and keeping your sanity intact. If you have a band contract, it should have provisions that dictate how to deal with things like unused recordings, songwriting credits and more, so all you have to do is abide by it....
Product liability insurance protects a company against claims or suits arising from the company’s products, whether they were made by the company or sold by them. This form of insurance covers a manufacturer’s or seller’s liability for bodily injury or property damage sustained by a third party due to a product’s defect or malfunction. The product may be virtually any type of good sold to businesses or the public, like machines, food, medicines, and clothing....
Some people make the unfortunate move of wiring money for an eBay item, only for it not to show up. If this has happened to you, take a deep breath. What you’re about to read is not going to make you happy, but the sooner you know, the sooner the initial blow is out of the way. Getting Scammed You were scammed. No, there is no doubt about it. No, it doesn’t matter if you sent the money “to eBay” or put it “in escrow” or if the seller was “eBay approved” or any number of other official and above-board-sounding things....
Type of MOS : PMOSRank Range: MGySgt to PvtJob Description: LAAD gunners operate and perform prescribed maintenance on LAAD surface-to-air weapon systems. Job Requirements Must possess a GT score of 90 or higher.Non-MOS qualified prior service Reserve Marines, or other Reserve Marines who hold a PMOS other than 7212, may be certified for MOS 7212 by attending the LAAD Gunner Course. If the course is not available in a timely manner, or a Marine is unable to attend the course, a unit commander may certify a Marine to be fully qualified and award AMOS-only 7212 upon successful completion of the Alternate Training Instructional Program (ATIP) of Marine Force Reserves, as described in COMMARFORRES Order 1535....
If there’s any doubt that the pizza segment of the U.S. retail restaurant is alive and well, consider that nearly 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year. So what are the top pizza restaurant chains in the U.S.? Rankings change from year to year, but here’s a list of those that were considered notable in 2016. Many have over 500 units and gross sales of over $375 million, according to the Directory of Chain Restaurant Operators, and the Daily Meal surveyed diners who cited some of them as the “best” pizza chains out there....
When Sam Walton was working his first “retail” job as a young boy, selling milk from the family cow door-to-door, it’s unlikely that he had an idea that nearly a century later people would be googling “best Sam Walton quotes” in order to know what a kid working a milk route thought about retail competition, leadership, and the global retail phenomenon that we all know as the Walmart business. No collection of quotations from famous retail leaders and U....
You must follow certain rules if you’re a landlord in Texas and you decide that you want to collect a security deposit from your tenants in Texas. You could lose your right to keep any portion of your tenant’s security deposit if you don’t follow these rules, even if you have a right to make deductions from the deposit. Luckily, the laws in Texas are much more relaxed than in many other states....
These handsome actors who hail from Ireland are a talented bunch when it comes to American film. These modern movie stars have reputations in typecast roles like being a bad boy, the super spy, and the heroic dad. With actors like Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson, the following list provides the top 10 best Irish actors who have a lot more than luck on their side. The following actors are either from Ireland, have the accent and/or have lived there for some time before becoming remarkable Hollywood actors....
Georgia O’Keeffe, born Nov. 15, 1887, came to maturity during the early 20th century when there was great excitement and change going on in America. There were advances in technology and movement away from classical traditions in art. New York City was developing into a thriving metropolis with skyscrapers and automobiles. Photography, first invented in the mid-1800s, became more accessible to the public in the 1880s with the invention of the Kodak camera and developed into an art form, called Pictorialism, when Alfred Stieglitz, famed photographer, gallery owner, and promoter of artists, held the Photo-Secession show in 1902....
The composer Giacomo Puccini created the opera La Bohème in 1896, a four-act opera that premiered on February 1, 1896, in Teatro Regio, Turin—just a few years before composing Madama Butterfly, which is considered his most well-known work. The setting of La Bohème takes place in 1830s Paris, France. The opera is based on a collection of related stories by Henri Murger published in 1851 and follows the standard Italian opera format as a very popular performance across the world....
According to Star Wars lore, a padawan, or Jedi apprentice, is a trainee who is apprenticed to a Jedi knight or master. Padawans receive one-on-one instruction in the ways of the Jedi. When a Padawan’s training is completed, he must pass the Trials to become a Jedi knight. Padawan means “learner” in Sanskrit. The term made its first appearance in “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” with Obi-Wan Kenobi as the padawan to Master Qui-Gon Jinn....
In traditional indoor volleyball, there are six players on the court at a time for each team. Each occupies a location on the court, but that location changes when the players are required to rotate. Locations on the Court Andrew St. Clair Each player starts in a specific location, which is aptly named by its placement on the court. The front-row players are the left front, middle front and right front....
One of the biggest reasons soldiers join the U.S. Marines is to take part in an “adventure.” Also, military recruits are drawn to the Marines because they want to meet and overcome the challenges, physical and mental, of earning the title “Marine.” According to the United States Marine Corps, no other billet in the Marines, or any service, can live up to the importance of Marine Security Guard duty. Marine Security Guards provide security at about 125 U....
