TEMPLAR SECRETS | ArticlesBase.com

<p><strong>A TEMPLAR SECRET ALMOST BETRAYED ?</strong><br /><br />I will never forgive myself for my carelessness. There it was, translated, it would appear, from  French and I let it go. The problem was, that being a particularly high official of the much criticized modern order of the Temple and a journalist at that, I had often interpreted things like these as hysterical nonsense. I assume it was the product of a very fertile imagination, but there were aspects with respect to the period in which I read it that disturbed me.</p> <p>The members who kept me well supplied with researched and archive documentation came from ancient Templar families and they were not certain of what I had inherited from the Order itself.  Knowledge of any value it would seem, was only handed down by those who had it through people or family members whose special initiation, depended on trust and strength of conviction. I suspect that it was intended to provoke a reaction and was bait, based on truthperhaps.  It was written in English, clear English and well before any of the Indiana Jones charades were projected which could have made me think that their creators had something to do with it. I did not in any case attribute any significance to the statements, not being particularly scientifically minded.<br /><br />It had remained ingrained in my mind even before I embarked on what was probably the most exhaustive study of the nature of Templar philosophy and hidden knowledge, ever undertaken by members. Academics on the subject are generally very dismissive of the Order and its survival and even recent, so called, definitive studies have the aggravating affront to affirm what they do not know or ever hope to understand from sanitized public documents and so called secret rules. These limited studies arrive at false conclusions based on what the public was expected to see and not what was being discussed, applied and crytographed for those looking for the signs. In fact, according to some, it is not for academia to go against established thinking if there is no obvious evidence to the contrary.  And yet for anyone with a bit of imagination can see a huge variety of coincidences and underlying meanings that of thermselves speak on another, much more meaninful plane. Without a proper evaluaton of the behaviour of the knights and the possible reasons for their symbols there is no key to go further into their cryptic and often badly disguised inheritance. The understandings that were utilized in the context of internal teachings produced mistaken beliefs in some, patently contrary to that put forward by the ecclesiastical authorities. There was no need to hide these beliefs from the Church which knew only too well what they meant. The work undertaken by the founders of the Order was done in the name of and for the Church authorities who had doubts about their ability to get away with it.  It was the release of this knowledge to the outside world  that put the Church on its guard especially when it took public obedience and fear away from them.</p> <p>It was the gradual emergence of similar deductions from different quarters, including hostile accusations, that enabled me to evaluate the documents that the modern order had inherited. The detractors of the Order and certain simpleton modern writers taken in by spurious masonic claims, had completely ignored the nature of the curious documents available from the French National Archives. The Order always referred to these as the treasures and indeed they were in terms of what they meant to those who inherited the knowledge.  Despite being laughed out of court by the usual institutions, the very existance of these documents denote a contrivance that would have required the minds of Einstein and Nostradamus to invent them, in an attempt to bend the  past. The modern documents and established symbols inherited by the Order are in fact  proof of the survival of its survival even if the present so called Templars have lost their way through the mediocrity of its recruitment and lack of application by its leaders of the terms of the constitution.  It was this conviction that led me to rifle through every nook and cranny to find that other curious piece of writing which I had thought was a load of unrelated nonsense because of its lack of heading or signature.  It was included among  a large collection of french essays written by an eminent templar of the post second world war Order by the name of Norberto Castro of Costa Rica. He was the country's representative to UNESCO and knew that the Order had not only survived but that the hidden knowledge had been handed down. Members of that quality formed the core of the Order in those early years of the 20th. century. I threw it out because it did not form part of that collection, but whoever handed it to me must have either had a very scientific mind or wanted to test my reactions.  I can only surmise that like some other ones which were translations from other languages, that it had been sent on old fashioned fax machines with thermal paper and that these had darkened beyond recognition of characters. I have several of these including one that gave detailed information about the membership of a modern Scandinavian King to the Order and who had, in writing, refused to become head of the apprentices, which he called "boy scouts". His membership, incidentally, had nothing to do with Masonic platforms, even if he was a member of that organisation also as was often the case with Royals.</p> <p><strong>A</strong><strong> Fragmented text.</strong><br /><br />The text had two key statements that stuck in my mind and I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would have included it in the dossier without the  intention  of provoking a reaction or why the text was written in fragments, if it was merely a Mickey Mouse piece of idiocy. I now know, having discussed the subject with members of ancient templar families that it was probably taken from a letter written by a highly educated Templar of the 12th.century to State, Church or family connections on his return from the Holy Land -  maybe the legendary and enigmatic Hugh de Payen himself.<br /><br />The first statement, said approximately ".....when it was lifted from the ground, the air became fetid and difficult to breathe and it returned to normal when it was put back after some time.."<br /><br />The second one " at one particular point of the day, the sun rays came through and the whole area was flooded with light as it came directly into the chambers enabling us to see everything around for some distance....."<br /><br />My own prejudice and strict, objective training dismissed it all at the time as stuff and nonsense of the type that the Order has been smeared with throughout the ages. In retrospect, I also have to take into account that this happened in the early seventies and long before any of the glossy writers like Baigent and Co.came into the scene.  Since the Holy Blood had been written on the back of Gerard de Sede I combed his writings for a clue as to the nature of these cryptic statements had been taken from there. De Sede mixed with high executive members of the Order at the time. This is reflected in his knowledge with respect to correspondence only available to the Grandmaster and Priors at the time, including the reflection that the Grand Master at the turn of the 19th.century was the ill fated Duc de Brissac and the transmission of the leadership was effected via the startled bookseller in the middle of the night. The Duke was executed shortly afterwards by the mobs.</p> <p><strong>The splitting of the Order</strong></p> <p>In the early part of last century, the Order had been divided into two halves to fit the needs of some very misguided executives who thought that without the support of the Church it could not survive. This highly sceptical attitude was adopted, mainly by Latin members who despite the fact that it was the Church which spent most of it time past and present trying to destroy all vestiges of the Order always placed their unmitigated and misplaced loyalties in her unwilling hands.  The establishment attitude can be well understood in the context of some of the potentially dangerous information that the Early Templars and St. Bernard himself appeared to have found out about in their calculated searches throughout the Middle East. This knowledge is not too difficult to extract and both the modern order and many other splinter groups have inherited much of it at top level. The result of this schizoprenic behaviour on the part of the super Catholics within the Order of those early, post war days, was the creation of a non Catholic, Christian version under the authority of one called The Chef Mondial. He was in that instance based in Switzerland and under him, the non Catholic branch grew rapidly, without religious prejudice, to overshadow the version based in Oporto and which had eventually lost most of its higher level members.  The truth of the matter was that a French Prince of the House of Chimay had already, some hundred years earlier,  told the Church to keep away and forever safeguarded the privacy and independence of the Order. In the transition period brought about by the Ecumenical movement, the return to normality and one indivisable Order created justifiable and important splinter movements unwillinging to lend loyalty to the Vatican in this ambiguous way. The loss of a great deal of documentation was inevitable and among them I am fairly certain was the original letter from which the translation handed to me came from. I have copies on file, taken from the French National Archives, of the correspondence for example of high level 19th, century members like the royal Duke of Brabant on Templar letter headings complimenting Priors on their choice of new entries.  I mention this to show just how backward, academic investigations are with respect to matters which are looked down by the power establishments and on which these so called independent scholars depend for with respect to high academic office.  I often swam against a tide of academic prejudice when sourcing out material and even from within the Order as a result of the hatred generated by the fervent Catholics within the Order who felt, in their stupidity, that the Order belonged to a Church that dismissed it out of hand.  Much could be accounted for by the loss of the continental aristocracy as guardians of the movement (as a result of the French Revolution). All future, non aristocratic leaders were to recoil or act unwisely when confronted with material for which they were ideologically unprepared, in contrast to the relative ease of absorption  (as a result of the strict family training), of the aristocratic, natural inheritors.</p> <p><strong>Dangerous predators.</strong><br /><br />The attempt on the part of a member of the well known PD2 group associated with the murdered Calvi to absorb the identity and legitimacy of the Order and his aggressive correspondence with the Grand Master and myself, put a full stop on any attempts to file back much of the material that inevitably stayed behind in war torn and nazi dominated Europe. The last Belgian Grandmaster Van den Berg was involved in the Resistance movement and his peculiar accidental death has been attributed to a Nazi execution. The attempt to hand all the international correspondence to the Regent Designate in Oporto failed.  His son, the present Rgent, Fernando de Sous Fontes, was to bewail the lack of inmportant material in his archives.<br /><br />The implications of the curious text and subject of this exercise, are more than obvious to those who may know what it may refer to, but there is only one thing that can produce the sensation that the writer refers to with respect to the removal of the object from its base - ionisation of the air, and this means the existance of an electric field force attached to the object or its base. The document I read was way ahead of the ionisers I started to purchase in the eighties and long before the filming of Raiders of the lost Arc.  In any case why statements like those should have been written within a context of a letter long before then, will forever haunt me.</p> <strong>About the Author:</strong><br /><p>Parliamentary correspondentage at 15. 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Going Green Learning Spanish Online - Useful New Spanish For a Going Green World

<p>Going green is a hot topic these days. Everyone is learning how to do it, and companies all over the world are finding ways to include it in their work processes. So it is not surprising that the phrase "going green" would need to be translated meaningfully into languages all around the world. New concepts need new words. And not surprisingly, Spanish language students are wondering if there is an authorized translation of going green in Spanish. So far, no one has a definitive answer, but you can find some help online.</p><p>Yahoo! Answers were asked the question "What is the authorized translation in Spanish for "going green"? The best answer chosen by 2 votes only was, "I don't know about authorized or unauthorized versions but 'hacerse/volverse ecologista' is a good answer."</p><p>WikiAnswers simply states the question, "How do you say going green in Spanish?" with the answer being that; This question has not been answered yet.</p><p>An online search for green Spanish points to numerous websites devoted to learning Spanish for the green industry, that invariably lead to websites where you can learn how to have basic conversations with Spanish speaking gardeners about your lawn, your plants, business transactions, and garden care instructions. These common phrases about plants and their use and care will become increasingly important as we seek to work on our world ecology. Everyone who cares for gardens and plants will be able to help us to open dialogue about best practices for maintaining our green environment. So this theme of Spanish language will be a good starting place for online learners who are interested in the going green movement.</p><p>Recently, Spain's national postal service has switched to eco-friendly scooters to deliver their mail. The scooters use 100% electrical energy. This focus on saving energy by better ecology is a prime example of the push toward going green around the world. With Spanish language nations increasing their push towards going green, the new language of the trend will be welcomed, and interesting to learn. Publictechnology.net is a good site for current events concerning going green in Spanish speaking countries.</p><p>In the meantime, Spanish students who are active in the going green movement will want to access as many word relating to biology and science as possible. Common idioms for living and working in the world will eventually include going green concepts. It is an exciting time for learning Spanish because new words and phrases will be adopted to keep up with the new concepts entering world discussion of this highly popular global issue.</p><p>See how you can <a target="_new" href="http://www.learnspanish-software.org" rel="nofollow">Learn Spanish</a> effectively and quickly, or at your very own pace! You can learn to Speak Spanish Confidently and Naturally in Less than 8 Weeks!</p><p>Learn to Speak Spanish Confidently, Naturally and Fluently with 31 Lesson Interactive Audio Course!<br> <a target="_new" href="http://www.learnspanish-software.org" rel="nofollow">Learning Spanish Online</a> has Never Been Easier or More Effective!</p>

Evaluating MLB Pitching

<p>As a MLB baseball fan and sports bettor, you probably know that one key element in any baseball game is the pitching. A solid pitcher can completely shutdown an opposing side. What happens when you have two very good pitchers going at it? Usually the game is low scoringâ€"no matter how good the hitters are. Just the opposite can happen when to sub-par pitchers take the mound. Knowing how to properly evaluate pitching is key to winning your baseball bets. However, evaluating can be a complicated task. Just what should we pay attention to? That’s the purpose of this article. We will discus what’s important to look at and use the past performance of real pitchers to illustrate these points. It’s time to play ball. <p> ERA <p> The most common mistake for those wagering on MLB baseball has to be simply looking at the pitcher’s ERA. The ERA is important, but you have to dig a little deeper to get the full story. Let’s take a look at Chicago White Sox pitcher Freddy Garcia. Let’s imagine that it’s late in the season and he’s on the mound with his 3.87 ERA. It would be easy to look at that and decide that he’s a good pitcher. However, looking at his stats deeper tells a tale of two pitchersâ€"home and away. Let’s compare. <p> 1.At home, Garcia has a 4-5 record. On the road he is 10-3. 2.At home, his ERA is 4.38. On the road his ERA is 3.40. 3.At home he gave up 17 home runs 38 walks. On the road he gave up 9 home runs and 22 walks. 4.He pitched 10 more innings on the road. <p> So what does this data tell you? For one, it tells you that Freddy Garcia is not a good pitcher at home. By looking deeper into the ERA and where the game is being played, you can get a better picture of just who’s taking the mound for a game. <p> Team Performance <p> Another area you want to look at is team performance, which looks at how well the pitcher has performed against the team. While you can look at history, it’s best to look at the current season and only pull in history if there are no current season performances. The reason is simple; teams change, at least a little, each year. Let’s keep looking at Freddy Garcia to see why team performance is so important. Take a look at a couple teams Garcia pitched against in 2005 and the outcome. <p> 1.Garcia pitched four games against Detroit and had a 2.61 ERA. 2.Garcia pitched four games against Cleveland and had a 2.63 ERA. 3.Garcia pitched three games against Seattle and had an 8.35 ERA. 4.Garcia pitched two games against Oakland and had a 3.46 ERA. <p> By looking at team performance, we can see that Garcia’s outcome fluctuated and there are certain teams that he just does not do well against and others he dominates. We just looked at ERA here, but you can drill down further and look at overall pitching performance such as: hits, walks, home runs, innings pitched and so forth. <p> Inning Count <p> The last area of our discussion involves inning count. It’s vital that you know how deep, on average, the pitcher goes into games. If the pitcher is known for 5-6 inning outings, then you know the bullpen will be a major factor in the game. If this is the case and the team’s bullpen is suspect, you have to devalue the starting pitcher some. If you have a pitcher that normally works 7-8 innings and the team has a dominant closer and possibly a very good setup man, then you can focus more on the starting pitcher. Here’s an example list of pitchers and their 2005 averages. <p> 1.Freddy Garcia 7 innings. 2.Randy Johnson 6 2/3 innings. 3.Pedro Martinez 7 innings. 4.Jose Contrares 6 13/ innings. 5.Livian Hernandez 7 innings. <p> In the case of Randy Johnson and Jose Contrares, we would have to discount their ability slightly if their team’s bullpen was not solid. Getting 7 innings of work out of a starting pitcher is good and about the average. <p> So the next time you go to bet baseball, look at who is pitching and do a little evaluating. It will pay off in the end. <p> <p> <p></p>

Beginner Learning Guitar - The Basic Equipment You Need To Play Guitar | ArticlesBase.com

<p>If you're a beginner that's bent on learning the guitar, that's absolutely great! Playing the guitar is a very enjoyable experience that can enrich your life in many ways.<br /><br />Before you go out and start jamming with bands and promising your friends that you'll be singing at the camp fire, you're going to need some basic equipment. Here is a list of the basic things that every beginning guitar player should own.<br /><br />1. You need a guitar. This one is obvious, but it needs to be said. You can't stand around telling everyone that you play the guitar when you don't even own one!<br /><br />2. Get your instrument a case. Sometimes beginners learning guitar might overlook this piece of equipment, but owning a case is almost as vital as the instrument itself. A well-constructed case can save you hundreds of dollars in damage and grief when that first big accident comes.<br /><br />3. Hold it up with a guitar strap. You don't want to be sitting down playing forever, so go out and shop for a strap to hold up your guitar. There are so many to choose from with a huge variety of colors, fabrics, and lengths.<br /><br />4. Play through an amplifier. If you want to play live and share what you've learned as a beginner with an audience, you're going to need a guitar amplifier to project your sound. If you want an amp for practice reasons, stick with a 15 watt version, but if you want to play live, pick something with at least 90 watts.<br /><br />5. You'll need cables to hook up to the amp. So you have the guitar amp, but you can't plug in without some good cables! Order some semi-long quarter-inch cables to hook up to your amplifier. Make sure you purchase extras when the first batch goes bad right in the middle of a performance.<br /><br />6. Keep that guitar in tune with a tuner. You need your strings to stay in tune when you're playing and the best way to keep that in check is with an electronic tuner. Go to your local music store and check out tuners that can hook right up to your amplifier as a pedal for tuning live on the go.<br /><br />These are just some of the very basic things that a beginner learning guitar should own. Remember that things will wear and break and it's always a good idea to have back-ups of your equipment and gear.</p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br /><p>Kyle Hoffman is an experienced guitarist that has been playing in a number of successful bands for years. Check out his most important tips for beginning guitarists at <a href="http://how-to-guitar-tune.blogspot.com/2009/06/playing-guitar-chords.html" rel="nofollow">How To Guitar Play</a> as part of his popular guitar blog, <a href="http://how-to-guitar-tune.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">How To Guitar Tune</a> now!</p>

Emergency Workout

The significance of workout routines in maximizing weight loss possibilities is endless. For as long as we can remember, health experts and nutritionists have since been commending the roles of these exercise routines to our system because not only can it regulate the healthy functioning of our hearts, more than anything else, exercise routines can also help us shed off unwanted fat and weight through its effect on the elimination of body fat. Aside from these, there is also a long list of benefits that can be reaped from the adherence to an exercise routine.
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<br>Some dieters might be a little hesitant to follow a weight loss routine that delves into exercise because they do not have much time to engage in such activities. Luckily, some exercise routines can already be done in the confines of your own home. One of these is the Emergency Workout System designed by Minna Lessig. This DVD-based exercise routine includes both aerobics and weight training as an effective weight loss program.
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<br>It is common knowledge that aerobic activity increases metabolism and fat burning, while weight training builds muscle mass which in turn increases the body's potential to burn calories. In this light, it is already clear to us just how this workout routine is expected to optimize weight loss. But even with these benefits, there are also some sides to the use of this weight loss aid which we could not say is a good idea. For one, the website that advertises this product has very few testimonials. This could also mean that the product itself is not that credible in maximizing weight loss because if it is, the users of this product would have been eager to make their commentaries about how this weight loss aid changed their bodies. Of course, the other thing that we saw with this method is that it does not have the sufficient diet component that could really push for optimal weight loss.
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<br>Indeed, toning up is important and it is also a trend. There's nothing wrong with following trends but before you do, make sure that the means that you are trying to achieve that trend is really worth your while, otherwise, you are simply wasting your resources. For those people who want to lose weight, toning up would be hard to maintain because you have to shed off those fats first. This could be done through the use of a powerful weight loss supplement such as those that combine the properties of the succulent herb Hoodia Gordonii and the Bitter Orange derivative, Advantra-Z. We cannot discount the fact that using weight loss supplements might be irksome for some dieters. But Hoodia Gordonii and Advantra-Z is different from other weight loss formulas. Both are equipped to promote weight loss without unnecessarily creating health problems for dieters. Indeed, both are said to be free of side effects. When used together, the formulation that carries these ingredients is said to provide maximum weight loss like no other weight loss combination can.
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<br>About the Author: Charles Volcolatte is a health and weight loss researcher for www.skinnyasap.com. He writes and researches actively on <a href="http://www.skinnyasap.com/" rel="nofollow"> Dieting Information</a> and shares his knowledge at www.skinnyASAP.com where he works as a staff writer.
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The Undefined Direction of Thai Buddhism Part 2 | ArticlesBase.com

<p>To have a clearer picture of the situation, what has been described above can be put in other words. While the future of Buddhism depends in the first place on the good education of the monks and novices, most of the Thai monks and novices now, the great majority of whom are in rural areas, count among the less educated people of the country. Moreover, the traditional system of monastic education, the one under the charge of the Sangha, has been in a state of rapid decline. Many big Pali schools have closed, while those which continue suffer from sharply decreasing numbers of students. On the contrary, modern schools for monks and novices, both those unrecognized and those passively recognized by the Sangha, including those which teach exclusively secular subjects and those run by outsiders, lay parties and even businessmen, enjoy a rapidly increasing number of monks and novices as their students to the dissatisfaction and out of the control of the Sangha administration. This well represents the many unsolved problems, the passive and indifferent attitudes and the latent conflicts prevailing in the Thai monkhood of today.<br />
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Optimistically, however, in spite of all the drawbacks and short-comings, the Thai Sangha, in comparison with the ecclesiastical institutions in other countries, is well organized. Thousands of monasteries and over a quarter of a million monks and novices are unified under one and the same administration. With this national organization of the Sangha, the Thai monkhood enjoys the full recognition and the official support of the state and the uniformity of all ecclesiastical affairs and religious activities such as education, ritual and observances. Under the centralized pyramidal hierarchical system, all ecclesiastical activities can be kept under close supervision, relatively good monastic discipline can be maintained, and the quick dissemination of instructions and prompt dispatch of information can be carried out between the distant local monasteries and the top administration in Bangkok. With an ecclesiastical organization and hierarchy paralleling that of the secular government, full cooperation and concord between the Sangha and the state are secured. Under these circumstances, the monks have been able to play many roles that contribute to the unity of the people and national security.<br />
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With the huge national Sangha under such a centralized administration, however, Thai Buddhism may be either very strong and steady on the move towards prosperity and the realization of its benevolent objectives or exceedingly clumsy and sluggish to be left behind in confusion, backwardness and impotency, almost solely subject to the effective or ineffective central administration and leader-ship. With the current latent conflicts unrectified under the attitude of indifference and inaction, the direction of Thai Buddhism seems unpredictable.<br />
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Concealed behind all the conflicts is the conflict between traditionalism and modernization. Strict traditionalism becomes an extreme which not only hinders effective adjustment but also causes a reaction in the form of another extreme, usually the opposite one, that is, extreme modernization. By modernization is meant good and effective adjustment to the modern changing world. But extreme modernization will go too far so as to result in secularization or even politicization. In the age of social change and political instability of today, there is a fear of overstepping from one extreme to the other. A mistake of this type would mean a danger and perhaps even a discredit to Buddhism. To avoid this the Middle Way must be secured...<br />
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As all know well, the Middle Way begins with Right Understanding as its first factor. To be sure, this Right Understanding involves in the first place the intellectual responsibility on the part of the Thai monkhood to define its identity and to identify its specific function that will distinguish itself from other institutions of the society. This knowledge is a prerequisite for the monks' survival and for their meaningful existence. Without it, they will not know even where to start and where to stand. Thai Buddhism is now just on the way to finding its Middle Way.</p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br /><a href="http://konruk.net/photos/show/Seuyouyong/3399" rel="nofollow">Riddell football helmet</a> <a href="http://konruk.net/photos/show/Seuyouyong/3386" rel="nofollow">Used backhoe sale</a> <a href="http://konruk.net/photos/show/seosaro/3365" rel="nofollow">My computer freezing </a>

How to Flatten Your Stomach by Boosting Your Metabolism to Burn Fat

<p>If you want to know how to flatten your stomach, then you will need to know how to boost your metabolism. If your metabolism is running slow, you will not burn calories and this will result in extra fat being stored, especially around your midsection.</p><p><strong>Don't Skip Meals</strong></p><p>Skipping meals only fools your body into thinking that it needs to store fat in order to survive. The most important meal of the day, and I'm sure you've heard this from your mother, is breakfast. Skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do if you want to know how to flatten your stomach.</p><p>Your body has not eaten since the night before and if it doesn't get food in the morning, your metabolism will slow down and your body will store fat. It needs energy and energy comes from food. If you feel that by skipping meals, it will make you lose weight, the opposite is actually true.</p><p><strong>Eat Small Meals</strong></p><p>Try to cut down the amount of food you eat at one sitting and break it up into several smaller meals throughout the day. Doing this will keep your metabolism working all day and burn more calories.</p><p>Try splitting your meals in half. Eat one half at lunch time and save the other half as a snack a couple hours later. Do the same for dinner. Make sure you are eating healthy foods rich in protein and low in fat.</p><p><strong>Take Up Weight Training</strong></p><p>Building muscle through weight training and resistance exercises is a great way to boost your metabolism and one of the best ways to go about getting a flat stomach. Building muscle burns calories and in turn burns away fat. Your body will continue burning calories and fat even after you stop exercising.</p><p>Did you know that people who have excess belly fat are more likely to die of heart disease, stroke and a number of other dangerous diseases?</p><p>To find out more about <a target="_new" href="http://www.exercisesforaflatstomach.com" rel="nofollow">how to flatten your stomach</a> and get into amazing shape, I invite you to visit <a target="_new" href="http://www.exercisesforaflatstomach.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.exercisesforaflatstomach.com</a> to see how you can become fit and toned in no time.</p>

The social impact of Motown music in American culture | ArticlesBase.com

<p>Music echoes social changes and as such it bears the weight of the expression of the people. In the 1950s, in the fear of racial segregation, black communities were still fighting for their right to social freedom. The founding of Motown Records in Detroit in 1959 joined the ardent opposition of the civil rights movement to racial, social, economical and political discrimination and individual, police and mass violence against black people. By assembling an impressive roster of talented artists, Motown managed to break down the social and racial barriers and become the most important independent record label of the early 1960s in the history of pop music.</p> <p>Racism was extremely present in the lives and careers of American black artists and musicians in the 1950s. However, even before Motown, there had been examples of successful black musicians such as Jackie Wilson, who had topped the Billboard Top 40 chart countless times between 1958 and 1963, and Ruth Brown, who had sold more albums than any other artist in the 1950s with Atlantic Records. But, Motown managed to bring all available talent together, under one record label, and at the same time, to associate its birth and success with the broader socio-political setting of its era.</p> <p>Echoing the frustration of black people in the turbulent setting of the mid-1950s in the United States, Motown associated music with black civil rights struggle by being the first record label owned by an African-American. Under the leadership of Berry Gordy Jr., who aspired to bridge the gap of racial discrimination by producing music that could appeal to all people, regardless of the color of their skin, Motown became a vehicle of black pride and self-expression. Besides, the broad appeal of Motown integrated the political and cultural aspects of the broader socio-political environment and associated music and the right of black communities to social equality.</p> <p>Through the creation of a distinctive soul sound with obvious elements of pop influence, Motown produced unique dance music featuring artists such as The Jackson Five, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and many others. What became known as The Motown Sound was much more than great music full of energy and emotion. The tambourines that enhanced the back beat; the melodic bass guitar slides that anchored the gospel vocals; the chord and horn sections; all orchestrated in innovative pop production techniques was the way of black community to artistic expression and financial freedom.</p> <p>Motown’s recording of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a Dream’ speech, delivered on August 28, 1963 in Detroit on ‘The Great March for Freedom’ is considered the most important contribution of Motown to the civil rights struggle. King declared the March as ‘the largest and greatest demonstration for freedom ever held in the United States’ and Gordy realized the historical importance of that March before taking its historical place with the American Revolution. That recording was made so that every American child, black or white, could listen to history. Although, until then, Motown was not really involved in political issues, in the altering political climate it released ‘Down To Earth’ by Stevie Wonder (1966), ‘Love Child’ by The Supremes (1968), ‘War’, by Edwin Starr (1969), and ‘What’s Going On?’ by Marvin Gaye (1971), beginning a trend for message songs.</p> <p>The 1967 Detroit riots led Motown to the production of music that could evoke radical sentiments and drastic action. However, because the city upheavals had rather a class than racial character, which undermined to a certain extent Motown’s aspiration of being a vehicle of improvement for the black community, they actually marked the end of an incredible era. The decline of Detroit and the auto industry as a result of the struggle of the poor against the rich was bound up with the decreasing energy of the people who produced the Motown Sound. Marvin Gaye’s surprise ‘With the world exploding around me, how am I supposed to keep singing love songs?’ echoed the reality of an era, full of social problems and contradiction that were evolving with explosive energy.</p> <p>In reality, Motown created the grounds on which broader cultural integration would follow in the 1970s with the emergence of hip-hop as a massive cultural phenomenon. Through the mixing of astonishing percussion riffs and rhythmic drum breaks of funk and disco elements, hip-hop expressed political speech and opposition to social inequality and discrimination against African-Americans. For many, Motown has emphasized on race relations and community life as a means to create an impact on popular music and social structure.</p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br /><p>I work as a financial and investment advisor but my passion is writing, music and photography. Writing mostly about finance, business and music, being an amateur photographer and a professional dj, I am inspired from life.

Being a strong advocate of simplicity in life, I love my family, my partner and all the people that have stood by me with or without knowing. And I hope that someday, human nature will cease to be greedy and demanding realizing that the more we have the more we want and the more we satisfy our needs the more needs we create. And this is so needless after all.</p>

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