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Amazing 40th Birthday Gifts for Women
September 28, 2011 | 
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40th birthday gifts are always tricky, especially if the one you intend to give the gift to is sensitive about age.
So if you are a man wanting to give a woman something special, then try these interesting 40th birthday gifts.
How about a short course on cooking? With a Novelli Cooking Course, your special girl can improve her culinary skills by getting some valuable hands-on experience on cooking some of Jean-Christophe Novelli’s dishes. This will also give her a chance to stay at the Novelli Academy in the Hertfordshire countryside.
You can also try to give her the Postal Garden Design Package. With this, you can give her the garden she always dreamed of! She will only have to complete a site survey and answer a comprehensive questionnaire regarding her current garden. With this information, a professional garden designer can make detailed designs based on the preferences provided. Aside from that, she can also get some gardening hints and tips, plus a comprehensive planting scheme.
Finally, one of the best 40th birthday gifts you can give her is a Personal Shopping Experience. She could, for example, get the services of a personal shopper at the House of Fraser. This will begin with a consultation on the kind of style she has and what pieces she’s looking for, followed by the consultant picking out some items for her, and of course, the fitting. In addition to that, she could get a small makeover, some vouchers to spend at the House of Fraser, and a goodie bag filled with samples.
So, here are just a few ideas- try one for size.
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Address by Phone Numbers – Get the Street Address & House Number From Any Phone Number
Do you ever get multiple calls on your phone over and over again only to have the person on the other end hang up as soon as they here your voice? This type of bad behavior or prank calls can drive anyone crazy and worst make you feel unsafe.
These day’s people can snoop from just about anywhere. They can get into your business by sneaky software automatically installed when you visit unsafe sites and they can make your life a living hell by calling you mindlessly for no reason. This is particularly frustrating for business owners, especially small neighborhood restaurants who depend on the community for survival.
Often times, there are calls for orders to addresses that don’t exist putting the lives of innocent delivery men at risk. But, there are some nifty solutions to catch these prankers and stop them dead in their tracks. Did you know that it is now possible to get complete address with street number and zip code from a phone number?
Not only that, they can also find out if this person has a criminal record. Almost all of these services charge a small one time fee for this valuable information. Some of these companies offer a monthly subscription fee for unlimited phone number lookup but this is for businesses that are constantly searching up people from a phone number. Hint: private investigators, repo man etc.
The paper phone book is old school but the data has moved online which makes it easier to get what you want in a split second. What I mean is that, you can now get the information you want without sifting through the 300 page yellow book for that annoying person or persons correct street number address who can’t seem to keep their fingers off the phone.
You can instantly end their little game and put them on notice. Wouldn’t it be great to have those phone calls stop? These services are there for you to use. People can no longer hide, if you have a phone number and need a name immediately, because of these sophisticated online services.
House Music: My Favorite Songs and Artists
House music is a form of electronic dance music. It originated in what one might call post-disco America. House is a relative of disco music. Some may say that house evolved from disco music. It was also influenced by soul and funk.
Frankie Knuckles was one of the founding fathers of house. He was a DJ at a club in Chicago known as The Warehouse. Some people say that house music takes its name from The Warehouse where primitive house began. Frankie Knuckles would mix disco, Philly soul, European pop, synthesized drum beats, and sound effects to make his music. Later artists would use synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, mixers, electronic drum machines, vocals, and other effects to make the first original house records.
A genre of music known as garage house also became popular around the same time in New York City. Larry Levan was a DJ at the Paradise Garage from which garage house gets it name.
I had a friend named Mark who introduced me to house during my college days in the late 1980s. Mark was from the Chicago area so it’s no surprise that he was familiar with the genre. He used to play a lot of house and other dance music. He made me a few a mix tapes, some of which were recordings of WBMX and WGCI radio programs. I had never heard anything quite like Chicago house music before.
Some of house music’s popular songs contained the word jack. Jacking was the word used by Chicago club-goers to describe the frenzied body of a dancer when dancing to the Chicago house sound. Larry Heard uses the word jack in the opening of his song “Can You Feel It?” He says, “In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And, from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And, while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldly declared, “Let there be HOUSE!” and house music was born.”
Some Names Associated with House:
Frankie Knuckles
Larry Levan
Marshall Jefferson
Todd Terry
Farley “Jackmaster” Funk
Ralphi Rosario
Jesse Saunders
Tyree Cooper
Chip E.
Adonis
Steve “Silk” Hurley
Phuture
Lil’ Louis
J.M. Silk
Ron Hardy
Kevin Saunderson
Some of My Favorite House Songs:
1. Can You Feel It? – Larry Heard (a.k.a. Mr. Fingers)
2. Jack it All Night Long – Bad Boy Bill
3. Rhythem Method – Mink
4. House Nation – House Master Boyz
5. Whatever Turns You On – Mario Reyes
6. Pump Up Chicago – Mr. Lee
7. Used By DJ – MKII
8. Jack Me ’til I Scream – Julian Jumpin’ Perez
9. Can You Party? – Royal House
10. Can U Dance – Fast Eddie Smith and Kenny “Jammin” Jason
11. Can’t Stop the House – Thompson and Lenoir
12. How to Play Our Music – Reese and Santonio
13. Don’t Make Me Jack (Tonite I Wanna House You) – Paris Grey
14. Pump Up the Volume – M/A/R/R/S
Other songs I heard on WBMX or WGCI mixes that were house or dance music:
Big Fun – Inner City
Good Life – Inner City
American Soviets – C.C.C.P.
Baila – Raz
Rock This House – Mark Imperial and Dennis Ramirez
Bass Line (The Gemini Rap) – Mickey Oliver Project featuring M.C. Taste
I Want to Be Your Property (Street Latin Wolff Mix) – Blue Mercedes
I’m So Hot For You – Bobby Orlando
Birthday Suit (House Mix) – Johnny Kemp
Some different styles of house music include deep house, acid house, and ambient house.
An interesting genre related to house is hip-house. Hip-house is a blend of hip-hop and house components. Hip-house was extremely popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Some hip-house songs may include:
I’ll House You – Jungle Brothers
Pump Up the Jam – Technotronic
Groove is in the Heart – Deee Lite
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) – C&C Music Factory
Strike it Up – Black Box
Everybody Everybody – Black Box
The Power – Snap!
Vogue – Madonna
Yo Yo Get Funky – Fast Eddie
It Takes Two – Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
House continues to have a presence in contemporary times. My favorite is Chicago house from the 1980s. Trax Records and DJ International Records pressed many of the Chicago house songs onto vinyl. Some of these songs can be heard at online video websites. Compact discs can be found online and even some classic vinyl records are for sale as well.
I’m glad that my friend Mark introduced to me to house. I hope you enjoy it too.