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Holiday Inn Express Lisbon - Alfragide - Oeiras
Along with free buffet breakfast, this hotel offers free WiFi and dry cleaning/laundry. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the bar/lounge. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can provide tour/ticket assistance.
Holiday Inn Express Lisbon - Alfragide - Oeiras
Hotel Info: 855-239-9222from $67
- Room, Non Smoking
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- This hotel has 128 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 5 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is noon
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- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
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- One child (18 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
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- Free buffet breakfast daily
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Beach shuttle (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
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- Conference space size (meters) - 74
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Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge
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Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 20 per pet, per night
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Education is the biggest gift you give your child. Being unfamiliar with public schools here I sweated the decision, but ultimately enrolled via school of choice with Paw Paw Early Elementary. I am happy to report it is flooded with a staff of teachers who confirmed that I made the right choice keeping my kids there. Initially I couldn't fathom any other education outside of Catholic/private school for my twins. I had little faith in public schools. When I found myself needing full day (young 5's and kindergarten) I held my breath and started them in Paw Paw.
However, we found the most pleasant surprises inside that building and I continue to be amazed at the organization, discipline, and passion that exists within the staff who spend their days with these kids.
After attending a recent seminar with these teachers, I am glad I made the decision to keep them put. It's hard to put into words when you see that what they are doing isn't just a job to them, I watched in awe as Amy Wilson demonstrated rewiring the brain. I had been only slightly introduced as my kids explain "fish hooking" and I now watch my struggling reader (who lost basic skills during temporary hearing loss) put together the pieces with delight and pride. Further, it also challenges and engages my gifted and often bored reader.
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The bye weeks are over and Thanksgiving is here, which means it's time for the contenders to begin to separate themselves from the pretenders in the National Football League.
While the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers have separated themselves from the pack, there are 18 teams with records of 5-5 or better jostling for the 12 available playoff berths.
The New England Patriots, who faced questions about their awful defense before putting up back-to-back solid efforts in wins over the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, are now two games clear of the Jets and Buffalo Bills in the AFC East.
The AFC North is still very much a three-team race, with the 7-3 Baltimore Ravens ahead of the 7-3 Pittsburgh Steelers thanks to their season sweep and the Cincinnati Bengals still just a game back, but with losses to both of the teams ahead of them.
The Houston Texans were waltzing away with the AFC South and may still do so, but they'll do it the rest of the way with backup quarterback Matt Leinart at the helm. The Cowheads still lead the Tennessee Titans by two games.
The Oakland Raiders may be starting to pull away from the AFC West pack. At 6-4, the Silver and Black are a game up on the Denver Fighting Tebows and two clear of the Chiefs and fading San Diego Chargers.
The NFC is more clearly defined. Green Bay and San Francisco are running away with the NFC North and West, respectively, while the New Orleans Saints lead the Atlanta Falcons by a game in the NFC South.
The much-ballyhooed Philadelphia Eagles, meanwhile, kept themselves in the NFC East discussion with their win at the Meadowlands on Sunday night. While the Eagles still trail the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants by two games, they have a 3-1 record in the division and still have games remaining with the Cowboys and lowly Washington Redskins.
The Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, meanwhile, lead the wild-card pack while trailing the actual Pack by three games in the NFC North. Chicago, however, lost quarterback Jay Cutler on Sunday to a broken thumb, so if there is a playoff berth to be had, it will come with Caleb Hanie calling the signals.
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Dog Tags Locations Guide
19 dog tags are scattered across Battlefield 4's single player campaign. Use the guide below to learn the locations of each one.
You will find three dog tags in Baku.
- In the tutorial section, keep an eye out for a dog tag on a board. This one is called "Nice Play."
- While you're in the C4 Tutorial room, you must jump over the hole to find the next dog tag. It is called "One Way Trip."
- During the Dunn Is Down section, enter the crashed helicopter. The dog tag called "Sergeant Dunn" can be found inside.
You will find the next three dog tags in Shanghai:
- First, go to the transit street and head for the dead end. There is a door nearby that holds the dog tag called "One Man Riot."
- When you reach the Lobby Assault part of the game, you must search the area at the top of the elevator. You will find a dog tag called "Going Up."
- Once you are through with the tank chase, you will be able to access a back alley. The dog tag called "Business Casual" is there.
You should have a total of six dog tags.
You will find three more dog tags in the South China Sea:
- Instead of going straight to the medbay, take a detour into a nearby cabin, and you will find the dog tag called "Carcharodon."
- While you're doing the swimming trials, keep an eye out for a pile of rubble. Once you see it, search the area around it to find the dog tag called "Lord of the Waves."
- Yet another dog tag is found in a crashed helicopter. This time, you will find the crash after the helicopter battle. The dog tag called "Agent Kovic" is inside.
You should have a total of nine dog tags.
You will find three dog tags in Singapore:
- Early on, you will find yourself on a beach, and you will see a stranded boat. Search the boat to find the dog tag called "Horizontal Rain."
- Another dog tag is hidden behind the café's counter. It is called "Armored Column."
- Most fittingly, the plane in the hangar contains a dog tag called "Grounded." It is located on the plane's door.
You should have a total of twelve dog tags.
The next three dog tags are in the Kunlun Mountains:
- Search the cells in the breakout section. The dog tag called "Cage Fighter" is hidden in one of them.
- When you reach the landing bay, make your way to the second floor and look for an electrical box. Nearby, you will find the dog tag called "Freedom at Any Cost."
- You can find the next one during the bridge encounter. The dog tag called "Shaw-Shanked Redemption" is in the area around the tram platform.
You should have a total of fifteen dog tags.
You will find two more dog tags in Tashgar:
- While on the bridge, take a moment to enter the truck. Inside, you'll find the dog tag called "Destruction Enthusiast."
- If you go from container to container during the helicopter encounter, you should find the dog tag called "Upstream Swimmer" hidden in one of them.
You should have a total of seventeen dog tags.
Your final two dog tags are in Suez:
- The next one is in the train, and it is tricky. You must access the propeller, and then find the dog tag called "Rebel" located on the back of the plane.
- You will find the final dog tag, called "Fleet Guardian," on a bed in the medbay.
This should complete your hunt, with a total of nineteen out of nineteen dog tags.


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US May Cede Control of the Internet Domain System
US May Cede Control of the Internet Domain System
On March 14, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the US government will not renew its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. ICANN is the nonprofit organization that manages the Internet's address system. The US is consciously relinquishing control over certain technical aspects of the Internet by not renewing ICANN contract, which expires in September of 2015.
The US has maintained a central role over ICANN since it was originally developed in 1998, but officials at NTIA argue US oversight was always intended to be temporary. ICANN will now meet with businesses, civil society organizations, and technical experts of the global Internet community to develop a transition plan that will allow the global internet community to govern and maintain the internally used database of domain names and addresses. ICANN will consider the views of governments, businesses, and nonprofits to establish this new system.
Many business entities, consumer advocacy groups, and members of Congress are concerned with this change, warning that by giving up control the US will open the door to regulation by other countries or international organizations who might limit the free flow of information and ideas. Placed in the wrong hands, they argue, ICANN could be used to silence controversial speech or limit global innovation.
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a panel on April 11 to discuss the NTIA's announcement. The panel included the vice president of ICANN as well as several Internet policy officials within the US government and from the private sector.
On Thursday, April 10, the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee voted to stop the administration's plan and passed H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, along party lines. The bill would force the NTIA to delay the transition for up to a year until the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports to Congress on the potential outcomes of the changes. Some Democrats in the House are in favor of requesting a GAO report. However, they will not support the bill if the administration's final decision is forcibly tied to the GAO's findings.
I am against of this. The Internet Domain System must not be controlled by US.
What will happen then if the have all the authority to suspend any domains? It's like revoking our internet freedom. They can easily closed any domain they don't like.


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Garden Fresh Tomato Aspic
|8 Large
|Lemon flavored gelatin
|3 Ounce (1 Package)
|2 Tablespoon
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|Prepared horseradish
|2 Teaspoon
|Worcestershire sauce
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|Finely chopped celery
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Finely chopped onion
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Finely chopped green pepper
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|Spinach leaves
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Cut off stems of tomatoes.
Prepare tomato shells by scooping out pulp; reserve pulp.
To drain, invert tomato shells on paper toweling.
Place reserved pulp in blender container.
Cover; blend till pureed.
Sieve to remove seeds.
Measure 2 cups puree.
In saucepan combine puree and gelatin.
Bring to boiling; stir to dissolve gelatin.
Remove from heat; stir in catsup, lemon juice, horseradish, Worcestershire, salt, and pepper.
Chill till partially set.
Fold celery, onion, and green pepper into gelatin mixture.
Sprinkle in-sides of tomato shells with salt; place upright on tray.
Fill with gelatin mixture.
Chill till firm.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1447 Calories from Fat 806
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 90 g138.1%
Saturated Fat 8.4 g41.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 78.6 mg26.2%
Sodium 2537.8 mg105.7%
Total Carbohydrates 152 g50.8%
Dietary Fiber 20.7 g82.9%
Sugars 125.8 g
Protein 23 g46.4%
Vitamin A 272.8% Vitamin C 496%
Calcium 22.2% Iron 29.8%
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A rare example of a Civil War defensive earthwork, long buried under thick vegetation and largely forgotten for years, has been cleared and surveyed by archaeologists from the English Royal Commission (RCHME) and the National Trust.
The survey found that Gallants Bower, one of a pair of forts on either side of the Dart estuary near Dartmouth in Devon, survives almost complete with five massive bastions up to 5m high, linked by a large curtain wall. The fort was built and manned with guns by Royalist forces who occupied the town in 1643. It was intended as a bulwark against an expected Parliamentarian assault, but in the event it served only as a refuge for defeated Royalist forces when the town was taken by General Fairfax in January 1646.
Surviving Civil War military structures are rare because most were associated with the sieges of large towns, and have since been obliterated by urban expansion or pressure on agricultural land, although substantial fragments remain at Newark and Huntingdon. The partner of Gallants Bower, Mount Ridley on the eastern bank of the estuary, is less well preserved, as a large house was built on the site, which has since been subdivided into holiday apartments. Gallants Bower, which belongs to the National Trust, survived because of its prominent but less accessible location on a narrow wooded spur above the Dart estuary.
According to the surveyor, Rob Wilson-North of RCHME, the strength of the fortifications reflects the length of time available to the Royalists for building the fort, in contrast to the more hastily-erected structures surviving at places such as Newark. The steepness of some of the curtain wall's upper scarps suggests they were originally retained by wooden or stone revetting.
Gallants Bower and Mount Ridley defended the routes into Dartmouth from the south-west and south-east respectively. Fairfax, however, attacked from the north. According to the local historian Ray Freeman, as many as 1,000 Royalists then fled the town to Gallants Bower and nearby Dartmouth Castle, but all quickly surrendered on the promise that their lives would be spared. Many years later, one soldier told of how he had to have his hand amputated because of frostbite, as a result of lying all night on the ground in Gallants Bower during the freezing January night. In 1650, orders were given for Gallants Bower to be demolished.
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Scientific analysis of early/mid Anglo-Saxon pottery from the Midlands has raised the intriguing possibility that everyday goods were distributed on a regional basis in England at a far earlier date than had previously been thought.
Much late Roman pottery in Britain was manufactured in defined areas and distributed nationally by road, river or coastal transport; but in the post-Roman period, scholars have regarded most pottery as locally produced, reflecting a fragmentation of the economy as a whole. Only from the later 7th century, with the development of Maxey-type ware in the East Midlands and Ipswich-type ware in East Anglia, did pottery seem once again to resume a regional distribution.
Studies by pottery specialists Alan Vince of Internet Archaeology and David Williams of Southampton University, however, have shown that vast quantities of pottery, almost certainly made in Leicestershire, were distributed north to East Yorkshire and south as far as the English Channel in the late 5th to early 7th centuries. The pottery, Charnwood ware, generally rough in texture and dark grey, can be identified by traces in the clay of an igneous rock, granodiorite, whose source lies in the Charnwood forest in the northern part of the modern county.
This type of pottery was used for domestic items and funeral urns, and examples have been studied from both settlements and cemeteries using `thin section' analysis and binocular microscopes. It is unknown whether the granodiorite occurred naturally in the potter's clay or whether it was introduced as a temper. The proportion of this type of pottery in the overall sample from an area diminishes with distance from Leicestershire: it makes up about half the pots from Northamptonshire, a third from the Fens, and less than a twentieth beyond the Humber and on the South Coast.
According to Dr Vince, it is unclear at present if the pottery was made at `production centres' in Leicestershire or if potters from elsewhere came to Charnwood for materials - a seemingly bizarre idea for which there are nevertheless ethnographic parallels. Another possibility is that the goods were exchanged - perhaps during religious festivals - at the large cremation cemeteries, some with more than 2,000 urns, that are known throughout the area where Charnwood ware occurs.
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The archaeology service in Worcestershire gained a last-minute reprieve last month, after alarming proposals had been put forward by the county council to close it down for lack of funds.
The change of heart by the county's main budget committee followed a wave of local media and public support for achaeological work in the county. A new proposal for a 10 per cent increase in the council tax, which has yet to be confirmed, is expected to leave the service intact.
The proposal to abolish the service, made in advance of annual budget-setting, recalled similar brinkmanship in Buckinghamshire last year, where the county council drew back in the end from complete abolition but left only a skeletal archaeology service with a staff of two to look after planning guidance and the county's Sites and Monuments Record (the SMR).
Further proposals this year include the abolition of Northamptonshire Heritage's nationally admired education service, and cut-backs to museum archaeology in North Somerset. The Pembrokeshire Coast national park authority has decided not to refill its vacant post of park archaeologist. These renewed pressures follow the fragmentation of services in Bedfordshire, and deep cuts over recent years to archaeology in Staffordshire, Hampshire and elsewhere (see BA, February, March 1998).
In Worcestershire, loss of the archaeology service would have brought an end to archaeological advice on planning applications, the closure or export of the SMR to a neighbouring county, an end to services for local schools, and the abolition of the field unit which currently undertakes the great majority of archaeological work in the county. Recent projects include the discovery of an Iron Age site near Evesham, prehistoric landscape surveys, and an assessment of the surviving archaeology of 64 small towns along the Welsh border.
In Northamptonshire, loss of the education service will mean an end to teacher training, archaeology sessions in the classroom, and the provision of artefacts such as pottery and bone, as well as the closure of the local Young Archaeologists' Club.
Vicky Pearson, education officer, said that the council was engaged in a fundamental reassessment of its services, and that archaeology was perceived as a luxury. `Other parts of the archaeology service are likely to be threatened in future years,' she said.
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The Government signalled its support for the protection of all field boundaries, in its response last month to a report by the Environment Select Committee (see BA, February). It recognised that traditional field boundaries are of `historic importance' and `contribute significantly to local distinctiveness'.
At present only hedgerows enjoy some protection. New legislation to cover all boundaries, however, has to await the results of the Government's own research into landscape damage caused by agriculture and forestry, and up-to-date information on the state of boundaries provided by the Government's Countryside 2000 Survey.
An excavation in the vaults of Bellots Hospital, Bath, by the Bath Archaeological Trust has revealed a substantial Roman road and frontage buildings, one of which formed part of a black-smith's shop containing an anvil stone and spoil heap, preserved beneath demolition deposits of uncertain date. The anvil stone contains a worn area, possibly where the smith placed his foot. It will eventually be stored in the Roman Baths Museum.
Visitors will be admitted to the site of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre in Southwark, London, for the first time in four centuries next month, when a sound-and-light show will be staged telling the history of the Rose and of Bankside. The show forms part of a campaign by the Rose Theatre Trust to raise funds for a full excavation of the site, which was discovered in 1989 and preserved in the basement of an office block.
The news follows an assessment, published last month, of the location and survival of the archaeological remains of all surviving Elizabethan theatres in London, including the Theatre in Shoreditch, where some of Shakespeare's earliest plays were performed, and which was dismantled to provide building material for the Globe. The survey, by Simon Blatherwick for English Heritage, pinpointed 24 theatres of which the remains of eight - including well-known sites such as the Theatre, the Cockpit, the Hope and the Fortune - are thought to survive well.
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Herb Alpert: On The Record
On Feb. 7th, 2011, Alpert and his highly accomplished wife, vocalist Lani Hall, released their latest CD on the Concord Records label, I Feel You.The album, driven by Hall's sultry and drivingly authoritative vocal stylings in counterpoint to Herb's mellow yet trenchant horn, feature their reimaginings of vocal jazz standards like "Fever," "There Will Never Be Another You,"and "'Till There Was You," along with pop classics that parallel A&M's golden era.
Before the '60s went psychedelic, Alpert's sound defined the decade, from swinging spy movies to jazz bars and bachelor pads across the country. No self-respecting "Mad Man" in the Don Draper era would have been without an album or two from the TJB, or their equally iconic covers. To this day, perhaps no album cover is as well- rememberedor parodiedas 1965's Whipped Cream and Other Delights (A&M, 1965). Using the TJB's success to build A&M Records into a powerhouse perhaps second only to Motown among the major indie labels of the era, Alpert watched A&M's revenue go from $500,000 in 1964 to nearly $30 million just three years later. The performers who called A&M home during the late 1960s and '70s read like a veritable Who's Who of rock, pop and jazz royalty. From Karen Carpenter, Supertramp, The Police, The We Five, Cat Stevens, Joe Cocker, Billy Preston, the Captain and Tennille, and Peter Frampton to straight-ahead and Latin legends like Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Gato Barbieri, Chuck Mangione, George Benson, Sergio Mendes, and Burt Bacharachall recorded at A&M's historic studios on La Brea in Hollywood, the former site of Charlie Chaplin's studio lot.
Following a spring mini-tour in support of I Feel You, Alpert returns to his West Coast Habitat in May, with dates scheduled in Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Monica and Orange County.
AAJ: Your wife, Lani Hall, said that she can see her music in pictures, in a very visual, cinematic sense, and that helps her with her interpretations. Is that the same way with you? When you hear a song in your mind, can you see the sort of music-video imagery that goes along with it?
HA: I don't know if mine is as exact as her'sshe's pretty specific of what she sees; she can describe it in minute detail. The first record I recorded for A&M was The Lonely Bull, based on experiences I had in Tijuana in 1962. And when that record became a big hit, I was getting letters from people from every part of the world thanking me for this vicarious trip to Tijuana, which I found very fascinating. And from that point on, I realized that I needed to make visual music, that I needed to make music that stirs or conjures up images, and that's what I always tried to do.
AAJ: A surprising number of singers and musicians also seem to be gifted in painting, drawing, and sculpting. How long have you painted and sculpted, and what led you to transition into visual arts recently?
HA: Well, I transitioned after traveling around the world, playing concerts with the Brass. I'd go to museums and I'd get inspired, and I started painting around 1970, so I've been at it around 40 years. I think there's a connection in all the arts. I've kind of been blessed in that I don't think too hard about it, I don't over-analyze what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. When I paint or sculpt, it's just something that comes out of me, it's just a feel, and when I feel like I'm finished I stop. And if someone likes it, great, but if they don't then, that's all right, too.
AAJ: That sounds an awful lot like the philosophy of jazz improv, of free-form jazz.
HA: Well, that's what jazz is all about. It's all about the moment, and I think that's the thrill of it. The thing that makes it so much fun for me now, with what I'm doing with my wife and this great trio behind us is that every night it's something different. Basically, Lani establishes the song, and then everything that's happening behind her is just pure improv. Given that we know the chord changes and the general plan, everything that the musicians play is just very spontaneous. Night after night, it's a new experience.
AAJ: A&M Records was known for its perfectionism in recording its acts, and for using up-to-the-minute recording technology and special effects. That said, when you're outside the studio and performing live, even if it is funkier and messier, there's that feedback from the performer to the audience, like a stage actor. Do you prefer one to the other? What does each one mean to you?
HA: I actually think there's a little bit of a danger with the technology the way it is today. There's umpteen tracks you can record on, and there's umpteen ways that you can clean up a recording, cleaning up the intonation, cleaning up every little detail, cleaning up whatever you want to. And to me, that sort of takes the heart and soul away from music. Music should be people bouncing off of each other and taking the good with the bad, and that's what we were consciously try to do.
For me, some of the recordings that I hear nowadays are just a little too worked-over, too "perfect." Everything's in just the "right" place. I had this experience with a rock and roll band back at A&M recording at one of our studios, and it was time for them to mix the record for the final stages, and I remember talking to one of the musicians, and I said, "Well, this should be rather easyyou just have four pieces in the group," and he said "Yeah, man, but we have the drums on 30 tracks!" And I said, "What the hell are you gonna do with 30 tracks of drums?" [Laughs] I mean, they had every possibility covered! But in the final analysis, that just makes confusionyou kind of lose perspective if you have that many options.
AAJ: One of the things that the old TV game show and variety/talk show people used to say when the trend went over to pre-taped shows from live, is that you could do a lot more with a show taped in advancebut you lost your spontanaity. Is it sort of like that?
HA: Oh, yeah! Us old timers remember the old Milton Berle and the Sid Caesar shows, and we knew that that was just happening, it was just live, and just whatever happened at that moment was what happened, and there's something really engaging about that.
AAJ: Does performing live, improvising, working without a net still turn you on, does it still give you a thrill?
HA: Oh, it's a definite thrill. There's a feeling of wonder, actually, because sometimes you play things that you didn't even realize you were capable of playing, or you getit's hard to put it into words, but I get the same feeling when I'm painting and sculpting, sometimes, something happens that's just totally out of my control, and it's really beautiful, and I'm not even sure how I did it, but it's thereand it's to be appreciated, at least by me.
AAJ: Political-incorrectness time. How did a nice Jewish guy from the southern California suburbs become so identified with introducing with bringing iconic Mexican and Latin rhythms like mariachi and banda into the Kennedy-era American mainstream?
HA: I think there was a progression there. I had a great experience working with Sam Cooke in the early days, just watching him, listening to him. He taught me some things when he didn't even really realize he was teaching me anything, but his way of thinking about making music and making records really rubbed off on me. Then, after I left that situation, I recorded for a major company for about a year, and I saw up-close how I was mishandled by them. There was an inhuman aspect to itthe recording studio was very stark, very cold, and they wouldn't even call me "Herb Alpert"they'd call me "Number 875437A" or whatever. It was like something out of The Prisoner. Those experiences let me know what I didn't want to do if I ever had the chance to own my own record company.
As an escape, I used to go to these bullfights regularly in Tijuana in the springtime. And I was enamored of these little brass bands in the stands that would sort of "announce" the action of each event of the bullfight. People would scream and yell "!Ole!" and so forth, and I got interested in that feeling, and what I tried to do is interpret that feeling. I had never really listened to mariachi before, but I was just trying to interpret the feelings that I felt there and put it onto a recordwhich was The Lonely Bull, our first hit record.
AAJ: What made you decide, before you were even 30 years old, to strike out with Jerry Moss and form your own record label? How did that come about?
HA: Well, in those days there were a lot of little record companies around. You know, A&M wasn't even the first title for the companythe first was Carnival Records, but we found out there was prior usage of that name, and we wanted to release this Lonely Bull record, so we came up with some other names, and A&M was actually probably about third on the list! We settled on A&M, but were just releasing one recordwe didn't have any plans to start up a record company, we didn't have the money to start a record company. We were fortunate that my partner Jerry Moss knew a man named Nate Duroff, who owned Monarch Pressing Plant in Los Angeles, and he extended us an enormous amount of credit in order to press the amount of records we needed to satisfy the demand, and one thing led to another. We had a lucky break, we knew some good people, the timing was right, and we took advantage of it.
AAJ: That was when Motown, and Atlantic, and Sun Records, and a lot of formerly niche labels were really coming out in a big way.
HB: Well, it was, and it was a little daunting because most of our indie distributors told us, "Why don't you just take the money and run?" They thought we had just gotten really lucky being so close to Tijuana, and that we'd have just one hit record and that would be it. But we decided to just hang on for dear life, and we did rather well, and we just kept reinvesting the money into the company.
AAJ: That touches on an interesting point: When A&M started in 1962, there was no counterculture, no Vietnam, no disco, JFK was still president, men were still wearing crew cuts and bow tiesand worst of all, Jim Crow was still alive. And A&M Records really broke open as the '60s and '70s broke open. How did A&M keep "hanging on for dear life" at a time of such massive change in music and the culture?
HA: Well, I think we'd better give credit to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. We really kept them going, up through about 1967 or '68, with the amount of records we were selling. That sustained us, but little by little, we just kept picking up some great artists along the way. And we weren't interested in just the beat of the week; we weren't interested in getting artists that sounded just like the artists that were on the radiowe were looking for the ones who had what the radio didn't have. We were looking for people who had something special to say in their own way.
AAJ: So many A&M artistsThe Carpenters, Supertramp, and Cat Stevens in particularreally stood the test or time. Their stuff still sells, still gets used in movies and TV, and they don't have that embarrassingly dated quality that so much pop music from the '60s and '70s does. How do you account for that?
HA: That's where passion wins out; it wasn't just about making hit records for these people, it was about doing what they really wanted to do. When I signed the Carpenters in 1969, their first album didn't really sellit just sort of lingered there. And what I was getting from people on my own company was, "Why did you sign these people? They don't really fit in, they're too soft, they don't really fit in." And then I gave "Close to You" to Richard to record, and after that record became a big hit, everyone was looking at me like, "Wowhe's a genius!" It takes time, but if you have an artist who really has something special to say, in their own special way, you have to just let them flag themselves down the runway.
AAJ: Dick Cavett once asked Katherine Hepburn what the essence of "star quality" is, and she famously replied, "I don't know what it is, but I've got it!" As someone who scouted and developed so many recording stars, what do you think gives a jazz or rock performer "star' quality," that special extra something?
HA: That's a good question. With Sam Cooke, I learned a lesson that really carried me to this day. Sam was the first black artist to form his own record company, a company called Sar Records, and he was auditioning this artist, and he wanted me to sit in with him. So I listened to this guyhe was this really good looking guy from the Caribbean, who came in with a box, put his foot up on it and started playing his guitar, and started singing really interesting songs, I thought. This artist was in the studio and Sam and I were in the control room, and Sam asked me what I thought, and I said, "I think he's pretty good, he's a good looking guy, he writes a nice song..." And then Sam told me to turn my back on him for five minutes and see what I thought, and so I turned my back, and I listenedand I got nothing. And that's when Sam said, "Man, it sounded poor, and it doesn't make any difference whether you're black or white, or what kind of echo chamber you're using. What the people are listening to is a cold piece of wax. It either makes it or it don't!"
At the time, I wasn't quite sure what he was driving at, but boy, did I find out what he meant later! And from that point on, after I'd started A&M, whenever I would audition new acts, I used to listen with my eyes closed. I didn't want to be intimidated by their "look" or for them to sell me a bill of goods with their body motions, or whatever. And that's how I picked out artists for the most part.
On the Carpenters' tape, for example, I remember sitting on my couch at A&M, and there were two stereo speakers on the floor about 8 feet in front of me. I had my eyes closed, and it felt like Karen's voice was just sitting next to me on the couch, and that's why I was intrigued to meet them. To be honest, it wasn't really the kind of music that I would have actually gone out of my way to listen to myself, but I liked it, I liked their passion about it. They were making the music that was coming out of them naturally. And Richard seemed to be like a student of the record business, he knew about recording and technology and he just was somebody I felt if he was given a chance, he could really put it together.
AAJ: Do you think Karen Carpenter ever realized just how good she was, especially as a singer? It was always said that she thought of herself first and foremost as a drummer, especially back then.
HA: You're absolutely right. I think if you'd asked her at the time, she thought of herself as a drummer. And this is the sad part for me because I loved her, and I don't think she really realized just how much she touched people deeply. It was so unfortunate, because she was such a lovely, innocent girl.
AAJ: Not that they deserve it, but with some performersJohn Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, John Belushi, Tupac Shakur you can sort of see it coming. But when you have a Karen Carpenter, a Gilda Radner, a Natalie Wood, though, you never think that they're going to die young, that it could happen to them.
HA: Oh yeah, it was a major shocker. Especially because she bounced into my office about two weeks before she passed away, and this was after she had spent some time in the hospital trying to work out this problem that wasn't identified at the time at being [anorexia], and she was all excited about getting back in the studio and recording again and getting back with Richard. And then, just two weeks later, she was gone. It was unbelievable.
AAJ: One other A&M question: People today always talk in business-speak about the "brand." When you look back at A&M, what was the A&M brand to you? What did the label stand for, in its glory days?
HA: Well, I never really thought of it as a brand. Jerry and I just wanted to make the best music we could. In the '60s, it seemed like a lot of companies would just get a hit record, and then they'd surround it with 10 other so-so cuts, and we never did that. We always wanted to make sure everyone felt like they were getting their absolute money's worth with an A&M record. And then right after The Lonely Bull, I hired a quality control person who was listening to every master coming out of A&M to make sure that the quality was as good as it could be. And I think people recognized that we were trying to make the records that we would buy ourselves.
AAJ: Going back to the Tijuana Brass, that group had some of the top studio/session musicians in HollywoodTonni Kalash, Bob Edmondson, Phil Ceroli, Hal Blaine. How did that come together? How did you recruit them for such a new concept?
HA: Well, I didn't really "recruit" them, they were hired guns. They were professional musicians who were working in Los Angelesyou call 'em and pay 'emthat's about what it amounted to. And when I hit on Hal Blaine, I loved the sound of his drums. He was on most of the recordingshe didn't do The Lonely Bull but he was on everything after the South of the Border album, and he was the one who gave me the idea for that bass drum line in A Taste of Honey. I was just using musicians of my choice, I would sometimes scramble them up. I didn't have a really set group together until after the Whipped Cream and Other Delights album, when I got a traveling group together. Quiet as it's kept, I played all the trumpet parts on all the Tijuana Brass records, so that was the sound. The sound of the Tijuana Brass is the sound of my horn.
AAJ: And the second people hear it, they know it's you. It's certainly one of the most distinctive sounds in popular music.
HA: I think that's what everybody strives to get. You want to find your own personality on your instrument, and if you can do that, then that's a big win.
AAJ: There was a 20/20 (ABC-TV news program) interview, aired in 1980, about how you almost had to give up the trumpet. And there was kind of a gap in there from the last Tijuana Brass album in the early '70s to Rise in 1979 and '80. What was that all about? Was there a health issue?
HA: Yeah, that was earlier, that was back in like 1970, I was going through a divorce, I was emotionally spent, and all of a sudden, I just couldn't seem to play the horn like I used to be able to. I never really thought about how to play it until I ran into major snags, and then it took a while to work that out.
AAJ: Let's talk about today. How did I Feel You and Anything Goes come about? The sound is so different than the familiar riffs and gestures of the Tijuana Brass. And it does represent something of a "comeback" for you, to touring and performing live.
HA: Well, Lani and I said that if we could have some fun playing, and doing some concerts, than let's give it a go. And I was reluctant at first because the Tijuana Brass was so popular, and so associated with me, that I thought we'd go into a concert hall and people would be calling out "Tijuana Taxi" or "Spanish Flea!" But it never happened! So we got a group together, we started doing some concerts, and I got some tremendous feedback and great energy from playing again, live. Lani is a world- class singer, and we thought if we could have some fun doing it, we'd just continue on so here we go!
AAJ: You and Lani Hall have had one of the most successful marriagesand fruitful collaborationsin both Hollywood and jazz.
HA: Well, she's my muse. I adore this woman, she's fantastic. We just celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary, and she's still the best thing that ever happened in my life.
AAJ: But for every Newman and Woodward, Steve and Eydie, or Louis and Keely, there seem to be 10 high-profile celebrity marriages that crash and burn. When you're both artists, you're both high-profile, how do you keep it fresh, so that you're collaborating with each other, instead of competing against each otherso that you stay each other's muse?
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AAJ: What are your plans for the futurewhat does tomorrow look like for you?
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Employment screening means, essentially, checking out a job candidate's background. Is the person who he or she claims to be, with the qualifications stated in the resume or job application? Does the candidate have any criminal convictions or other disqualifying qualities or issues?It's easy to get employment screening done nowadays – a few mouse clicks will get you an online report on just about anybody via one of the hundreds of Web-based employment screening companies out there. But, frankly, many of the screening services being offered online are cursory and, well, unreliable at best. Are you sure you're really getting a valid, reliable screening report? Will it stand up to scrutiny if a legal issue (e.g., God forbid, a lawsuit) ever happens to your company? To judge this, you need to know a little about employment-related background checking, which is what this brief article is about.First, you should be aware that pre-employment screening in the U.S. is closely regulated by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and various state employment laws. The law does of course permit employers to conduct background checks on potential employees, but employers are required to disclose in writing to the job applicant that they intend to do so, and if an "adverse action" is taken due to information found in the background check (i.e., the person is not hired), then the employer has to inform the applicant of this and disclose the specific unfavorable information uncovered.Oftentimes, such unfavorable information consists of a criminal records finding. A thorough pre-employment check should always include a comprehensive criminal records search. If your job candidate has been convicted of fraud or other serious crimes in the past, this is obviously relevant to your employment decision (although the law requires you to consider each case of a criminal record finding on an individual basis in terms of its seriousness and job relevancy.)It's also important to be aware that many "third-party" pre-employment screening services (especially Web-based companies) do a less-than-adequate job of searching criminal records. They simply don't cast a wide enough net in their searches. Most conduct criminal records searches only in the state-of-residence or even just the county-of-residence of the job applicant. So your applicant may have a fraud conviction, or even a lengthy rap sheet, in another state, but come up clean on the pre-employment check.
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Many people with criminal records are quite aware of this shortcoming, and simply move out-of-state when job hunting.That's why your screening company should run a national database criminal records search as part of the screening process. Unfortunately, the best national criminal records databases currently available to the public are incomplete. They omit data from numerous counties across the country and sometimes contain out-of-date data. So it's important to supplement the national database criminal records search with onsite searches at county courthouses in your job applicant's counties-of-residence. All reputable pre-employment screening agencies have this capability.Accepting your screening agency's "standard" pre-employment screening report, if it checks for criminal records only in your applicant's state-of-residence, is clearly inadequate. Your otherwise-impressive applicant may have a history of serious fraud convictions or other crimes in another state.But even the criminal records searches described above are not enough. To be really thorough, your screening agency must also check:– Aliases. Has your job candidate been convicted of a crime under another name?
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— Federal convictions, such an income tax evasion, mail fraud, drug trafficking, and immigration law offenses.
— International "wanted" lists, such as Interpol's.
— And yes, even terrorist watch lists. Why not? — it's easy to do.Unfortunately, very few pre-employment screening companies are this thorough. To most, pre-employment screening is a "volume" business and each applicant you submit gets a quick and cursory (not to say "quick and dirty") once-over. However, if you specifically request the above additional searches, most will comply.After An Employment Offer Has Been MadePast workers' comp claims are the most obvious type of public record to research at this stage. You can't legally check to determine if your job applicant has a history of making workers' compensation claims prior to making an offer of employment. Workers' compensation history searches must always be conducted post-offer. However, this type of information can obviously be a valuable tool in your fraud-fighting arsenal. Not only can it identify habitual claim filers, it can also help your company avoid placing new employees in positions that may pose risk of re-injury.Note, however, that employers may not rescind an offer due to finding claims and must make a reasonable effort to accommodate a previously-injured worker. Even so, a workers' comp history search can be useful at the time a new employee is brought aboard in verifying his/her employment record supplied on the job application. If an applicant has failed to list a previous employer against which he/she filed a claim, this says something about the employee's integrity and likelihood to file future claims.Currently, workers compensation history data is available in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wyoming. California requires prior written approval by the California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers Compensation Electronic Data Exchange (EDEX). Your pre-employment screening agency should be able to provide the needed forms.Workers compensation searches are not available in: Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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So criminal records (if thoroughly researched) and workers' compensation histories can be extremely helpful — what other types of public information might be useful in the investigation of a suspicious claim? There are innumerable categories of records and searches that could be mentioned. Here are a few to consider:– Civil Suits. You can research civil suits online through most counties' websites. A good listing of county websites and phone numbers is available on Background Check Gateway.
— Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Did your candidate post pictures of himself/herself surfboarding off Malibu while collecting disability? Interesting.
— Newsgroups. Did you know that at Google Groups you can search someone's postings to newsgroups (of which there are thousands and thousands nowadays) going back years? Yet many people have no idea their postings are public information which can easily be tracked by their name or email address. What's your candidate talking about these days in the NASCAR Enthusiast newsgroup?
— Blogs. Same principle. If your candidate, like millions of us, keeps a chatty public diary online (i.e., blog), you can listen in via IceRocket.com.
— Career sites. Is your candidate applying for other jobs by posting a resume on Monster.com or other career sites? It might be revealing to find out what qualifications he/she is claiming in those applications.– Real Estate. Has your candidate recently taken out a mortgage on a new house or condo? This can be an indicator of financial stability, an important qualification for many types of positions. You can research this at SearchSystems.net, among many other sites.Accessing public records used to be an incredibly difficult chore. Your main tool in the "old days" was shoe leather as you plodded from courthouse to courthouse digging out dusty records. Now, with the Internet, it's easy. You can access public records on your job applicant or employee which are scattered nationwide in minutes. Give it a try and you'll soon wonder why you never made full use of public records as an employment-screening tool before!


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Two of those Beemers are being ridden by American Jimmy Lewis and Spaniard Oscar Gallardo, the duo who tied for the win in today's stage. That performance and Roma's presumed demise (he could conceivably re-enter the rally tomorrow) moved Gallardo to second and Lewis to third in the overall standings. The new overall leader is Frenchman Richard Sainct, last year's Dakar winner. Gallardo is 44 minutes back, while Lewis is just over an hour behind.
In the automobile class, motorcycle ace Stephane Peterhansel sits in second overall, and he thinks he could have been higher if he had capitalized on his Mega's dexterity in the technical early stages.
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.. or use the word Rare for the following: Conn 80a, Director, Or Olds Ambassador.
.. or use the word Rare for the following: Conn 80a, Director, Or Olds Ambassador.
good 1.
or use these phrases:
"marketed as a student horn, but used by many professionals"
"just went through by my tech"
"need to sell fast, so bid aggressively"
"will blow away anyone in your section"
"they don't make them like this anymore" - no kidding? For a good reason!
"comes with free pep band music" - well, shoot, who can't use more of that?
"recommended by my band director" - that's good enough for me!
Stop acting like someone shot your dog.
The one I could never figure out "The Valves Work Great....considering their age".
So when I am looking at some horn from 1935 what exactly does that mean?
I forgot.....
"Comes with bendy thing to hold music" (lyre) Anybody NOT have a drawer full of these?
"Buttons are MOP" Any horn NOT have these?
Lots of photos of music books, cleaning devices, empty off brand valve oil,filthy cleaning snake and or mouthpiece brush,music for large marching band 4th cornet from Evansville High 1973........but not many pics of horn, or 3 pics of same side/area
"Can't find a serial number" (It's under the plastic valve block cover laced up with an old tennis shoe lace)
" It's a dog eat dog world out there and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear" Norm Peterson "Cheers"
"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up" Lilly Tomlin
How about pulling the item when they don't think they'll get enough and relisting it the next day or, no reserve opening bid $800, and one of my personal favorites for mpc's $0.99 no reserve, shipping $17!! There's an 80a on there now for at least the 4th time. Never seen it get above 225, then it gets pulled. The video isn't even the same horn!! OOPS, my fault for noticing.
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The other side of ebay.
Just bought a besson crescendo, not much money (£70) but was in very good nick and looks and sounds great. The seller answered my questions promptly, sent extra photo's, gave me a history of his ownership, even found the old paperwork.
I always ask a simple question and if they answer i may bid, if they dont i wont bid.
I may not be a good player but if i practice every day with a purpose I can only get better.
Olds Special 1958 trumpet
Besson Crescendo 1960's trumpet
B&S 138 trumpet
Olds Ambassador 1954 cornet
I especially love it when I see this coupled with an absurdly high "buy it now" price. There's an "ultra rare" Besson 2-20 cornet that's been listed for an extremely long time; I think the buy it now price is somewhere in the $700+ range.
I also enjoy sellers who seem quite capable of describing an item, adding that it's in minty condition (just trying that as an adjective). They then go on to state they aren't an expert in the area and that they can't be held responsible if what they're telling you is wrong.
" It's a dog eat dog world out there and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear" Norm Peterson "Cheers"
"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up" Lilly Tomlin
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