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		<title>Is the Apple iPod going to last or burn out like the Apple Macintosh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking to the near future at the main competition for the Apple iPod are the new age mobile phones. Not only do they have the normal features of a mobile phone but they're also adopting a higher standard of digital camera and a built in MP3 player. Unless Apple decides to bring the iPod into the mobile phone industry, we may see them move to the back of the shelf at ebay.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today the Apple iPod is leading the market in the portable music player industry, having sold around 15 million iPods since they were released. But some people are now saying like the Apple Macintosh once an industry leader the iPod will also become a memory.<br />
Looking to the near future at the main competition for the Apple iPod are the new age mobile phones. Not only do they have the normal features of a mobile phone but they&#8217;re also adopting a higher standard of digital camera and a built in MP3 player. Unless Apple decides to bring the iPod into the mobile phone industry, we may see them move to the back of the shelf at ebay.</p>
<p>Below are an example of some already available mobile phones that incorporate the higher standard digital camera and MP3 player:</p>
<p>  Motorola MPx220<br />
  Siemens SX1<br />
  Sony Ericsson P910i<br />
  Sony Ericsson W800i</p>
<p>Looking at the Sony Ericsson W800i, this mobile phone offers a 2 mega pixel digital camera with video recording capability. Also a built in MP3 player and the phone comes with a 512mb Memory Stick  PRO Duo. This maybe only capable of holding around 150 music tracks or 10-15 full length CDs. You can upgrade the memory stick to 1GB doubling the storage capacity.</p>
<p>Obviously the Sony Ericsson W800i does not have the storage capacity of a 60GB iPod video, but looking at the technology trends everything is getting smaller with higher storage capacity.</p>
<p>Once mobile phones have a higher storage limit (60GB) they will also have the capability of playing MP4. Then your every day mobile phone will be a Phone, Camera, MP3 music player and an MP4 video player which fits in your pocket.</p>
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		<title>Practicing The Guitar &#8211; Are You Kidding Yourself?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practicing the guitar is no different than doing anything else to improve other aspects of you life. For example, if you're an athlete do you improve your endurance by driving you car? No, you do it by running or some other form of exercise that builds muscle and cardio vascular endurance.

So it is with the guitar. Be sure that when you sit down to practice that you practice. Avoid the temptation to kid yourself by saying that you were practicing by just holding your guita...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Practicing the guitar is no different than doing anything else to improve other aspects of you life. For example, if you&#8217;re an athlete do you improve your endurance by driving you car? No, you do it by running or some other form of exercise that builds muscle and cardio vascular endurance.</p>
<p>So it is with the guitar. Be sure that when you sit down to practice that you practice. Avoid the temptation to kid yourself by saying that you were practicing by just holding your guitar of by just playing some familiar tune or chord.</p>
<p>If you really want to improve your level of skill, play some new, challenging selections. Or, use your time to work on some exercises your instructor has given you, even if its working on basic guitar scales and chords. This will truly build your skill when it&#8217;s time to learn a new tune.</p>
<p>When practicing, avoid distractions such as TV, phone, food and friends. Select a place and time to practice when you won&#8217;t be disturbed. Ask your family or friends to respect this time and to not disturb you until you have finished.</p>
<p>Be sure that what you are working on is correct. If you have an instructor, ask him or her to critique your practice techniques. If you don&#8217;t use an instructor, be sure to read any reference materials you have to be sure that what you are practicing is being done right. Practice may make perfect, but perfect practice definitely makes perfect.</p>
<p>Before each practice session, spend a few minutes to decide what you want and need to work on. If you have a plan and work your plan, you stand a much better chance of improving your skills quickly. Just sitting down and making some sounds because you&#8217;re not sure what to do is just a waste of time.</p>
<p>Remember, you want to learn to play the guitar. So, work on the things that will get you to that point quickly. And, even if you are an accomplished guitar player, you can still improve. That improvement can only come by using good practicing techniques.</p>
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		<title>Paris Hilton the Modern Day Aphrodite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris Hilton is the modern day Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The internet was just born and already it has 6 billion websites, one for every person on Earth today. Human beings are obsessed with writing and even more obsessed with Paris Hilton, the number one search on the internet. Lets get to know a little about our modern day Aphrodite aka Venus, the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Sex worshipped by the Greek and Roman people 4 thousand years ago. Paris Hilton proves once again that sex sells both hamburgers and religion.</p>
<p>The Greek Goddess Aphrodite Festival is called the Aphrodisiac, which was celebrated all over Greece especially in Athens and Corinth. Christina Onassis was the heiress of Aristotle Onassis the Greek shipping billionaire. We are talking real money here. Christina was Aristotle&#8217;s only living child, a real heiress, like Jennifer Gates, 9, and Phoebe Gates, 3, the two daughters of the world&#8217;s richest man, send me the Bill Gates, at $51 billion dollars and counting. Bill and Melinda French of Dallas Texas have given so much money to charity that they have completely eradicated poverty in Africa. Paris Hilton, if she is lucky enough to make it into her grandfather&#8217;s will will be lucky to inherit one million dollars. The One with the money, Paris&#8217; great grandfather Conrad Hilton, (whose son Nicky was the first husband of Elizabeth Taylor), left the grand total of nothing to his 4 children. He married his third wife at 87 and then left his entire fortune to the Catholic Church. Paris&#8217; grandfather Barron Hilton went to court to contest the will and he won, becoming the first person ever to defeat the Vatican in court, walking away with a few hundred million. He has 8 kids. They have kids. Paris&#8217; slice of the pie could be $200,000, walking around money for the Sultan of Brunei, whose oil fields America is now spending its blood to protect. That is hot   not.</p>
<p>Being an heiress is normally a mirage, as Christina Onassis can testify to. Have you ever noticed how many pop icons cash in on Jesus&#8217; story right in their names? It&#8217;s like people&#8217;s minds are like search engines responding either positively or negatively to certain keywords like Paris Hilton. Madonna, the Virgin Mary, Christ Ina Aguilera, Britney Spears, I have a pain in my side, said Jesus. Is that a spear in my ribcage or are you just happy to see me? Jesus Christ was a Jewish Rabbi painted by the Greek New Testament writers with the Godlike qualities of the Greek Goddess Eurynome and Bellerophon and his flying horse Pegasus and several other Greek deities. You can read all about it at The Temple of Love. 20 million Christian and Jewish children lost their lives in WW2 aka The War Against the Jews because according to stories which God of Mount Sinai aka Jesus aka Allah aka Elohim Himself endlessly calls man made legends and fairy tales right in the Holy Bibles, the Jewish people killed this half real half fictitious character 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. Humans have a problem separating fact from fiction. At least Paris Hilton is a real person. I&#8217;ve seen her. I&#8217;ve touched her. I&#8217;ve kissed her. Her lips are as candy. Her legs are as ladders.  </p>
<p>Sex sells. Paris Hilton was a nobody, an extra in a series of B movies until the videotape of her coiting Rick Salomon in &#8220;1 Night in Paris&#8221; showed up on the internet last year at the same time that The Simple Life debuted. People are fascinated by infamy. Did you know that the male cat&#8217;s penis has spines which point backwards? Upon withdrawal of the penis the spikes rake the walls of the female&#8217;s vagina. The female needs this stimulation for ovulation to begin. Paris Hilton, outraged over the release of the video, raked in $400,000 plus a percentage of the profits of the film which shot her to super stardom. Without that video Paris Hilton is serving cocktails at Studio 54 today instead of dancing on the bar topless with the world&#8217;s media murdering each other for a snapshot of Paris Hilton half nude. </p>
<p>Paris Whitney Hilton was named after Whitney Houston because her name wasn&#8217;t famous enough. During the Aphrodite Festival, the Aphrodisiac, in Corinth Greece, the men had intercourse with the Priestesses of Aphrodite. This was considered a method of worshipping Aphrodite. What did you get for Christmas? In the Holy Temple in Jerusalem the Priests lured the people in with The Temple Prostitutes who lived in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. King Solomon who built the Holy Temple had 900 wives, concubines and mistresses. Compared to him Jesus was a mere piker with his Mary Magdalene and a few of her girlfriends.  Do you hear what I&#8217;m saying girlfriend? At least Paris Hilton is a real person.</p>
<p>Aphrodite was born as an 18 year old Paris Hilton in the Sea off of Cyprus after Cronus cut off Uranus&#8217; genitals and the elder God&#8217;s blood and semen dropped on the Sea where they began to foam. Aphrodite rose out of the foam in her 18 year old birthday suit. When did people become so prudish? Going wild over 1 Night in Paris? 4,000 years ago mating with hookers in the Temple was normal. In 1879 William-Adolphe Bouguereau painted the Birth of Venus, (Venus was Aphrodite&#8217;s Roman name), which showed the full face on nude 18 year old Aphrodite being born rising from the sea foam. How did Hugh Hefner get to be called risqu</p>
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		<title>MP3 Music Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MP3 technology is the most popular upcoming music technology that has all the advanced features.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier form of music players required moving parts to read enclosed data on a tape or CD whereas MP3 players use solid state memory. An MP3 player is more of  a data storage device with an embedded software application that enables users to transfer MP3 files to that player. MP3 players include some utilities to copy music from CD or websites and then organize them and create custom list of songs in the order you want to hear them. Such list of songs is called a &#8220;play list&#8221;.</p>
<p>The MP3 player is the combination of various technologies and its components are not only revolutionary but also prove to be a great consumer product. If you wish to store music as well allow the user to hear the songs played and for this the player first pulls the song from its memory, then decompresses the MP3 encoding, runs the decompressed bytes through a digital to analog converter and amplifies the analog signal allowing the song to be heard. </p>
<p>There are different stuffs or components but these could vary as the basic parts of a typical MP3 player. This includes data port, memory, microprocessor, digital signal processor, display, playback controls, audio port, amplifier and power supply. </p>
<p>The player is plugged into the USB port of your computer or a parallel port to transfer data. USB based players transfer data much faster than those using the parallel port. Memory types include internal flash memory, compact flash cards, smart media cards, memory stick and internal micro drive. </p>
<p>Except the last one, all the above mentioned players are of solid state memory and the advantage of solid state memory is that there are no moving parts that mean better reliability and music without any skips. Mp3 players also contain tiny hard disk drives that could store 10 to 150times more than flash memory devices. </p>
<p>The microprocessor is the brain of any player and monitors user input through the playback controls and displays information about the current song on the LCD panel and then sends directions to the DSP chip that informs exactly how the audio is processed. The DSP pulls the song data from memory and apply any special effects and streams to the amplifier. The DSP runs a decompression algorithm that compresses MP3 files and then turns back the bytes into sound waves. </p>
<p>The amplifier also boosts the strength of the signal and then sends it to the audio port whereby you can attach the pair of headphones. Most of the MP3 players are powered by battery.</p>
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		<title>The Legendary Career Of Barbra Streisand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The legendary career of Barbra Streisand is well known around the globe. Paved with impressive achievements and memorable moments, Streisand became the first female actress to ever direct and star in a motion picture that was recognized with a Best Director nomination from the DGA (Director's Guild of America). The film, The Prince of Tides, was also honored with seven Academy Award nominations.

In 1963, Barbara Streisand released her first album, which was fittingly title...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The legendary career of Barbra Streisand is well known around the globe. Paved with impressive achievements and memorable moments, Streisand became the first female actress to ever direct and star in a motion picture that was recognized with a Best Director nomination from the DGA (Director&#8217;s Guild of America). The film, The Prince of Tides, was also honored with seven Academy Award nominations.</p>
<p>In 1963, Barbara Streisand released her first album, which was fittingly titled &#8216;The Barbra Streisand Album,&#8217; for which she received two Grammy Awards. At that time, she was the youngest artist to have ever received the Album of the Year award. As Barbra made her motion picture debut in 1968, her attempt paid off with an Academy Award for Best Actress, which would be the first of two Oscars for this outstanding performer.</p>
<p>The self-proclaimed &#8220;actress who sings,&#8221; Barbra Streisand has repeatedly found herself at the top of the record charts and the box office. Her music success is marked with albums that have been certified as both gold and platinum. Her film roles have earned her undeniable success at the Academy Awards but, through it all, Barbra Streisand has remained dedicated to the causes that mean so much to her.</p>
<p>The Streisand Foundation, which is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, contributes to an array of causes every year. Among them, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, the Institute for America&#8217;s Future, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the Center for Public Integrity and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Since it&#8217;s inception in 1986, The Streisand Foundation has provided grants totaling nearly 15 million dollars to national organizations dedicated to bettering a number of important issues. In 1993, The Streisand Foundation noted that it would prioritize projects that were geared toward the economically disadvantaged youth in Los Angeles, California.</p>
<p>Because of her national fame and world-renowned recognition, Barbra Streisand is an icon. Both movie and music fans are always in search of memorabilia that depicts the likeness of their favorite celebrity. Everything from autographs to movie collectibles and concert memorabilia, Barbra Streisand is always a fan favorite. For additional information on her legendary career or any of the latest events, fans may visit her official website at www.BarbraStreisand.com Autograph seekers may send their request, along with a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) to:</p>
<p>Barbra Streisand<br />
c/o Martin Erlichman Associates, Inc.<br />
5670 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2400<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90036</p>
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		<title>Legal Music Downloads vs File-Sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[File-sharing networks are bad news for your PC ! I know because I have been a victim.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Consumer attitudes towards music downloads have changed dramatically. Legal music downloads have increased by almost 30% whilst illegal downloads have seen a decline of the same amount. Why the change ? Research in Austria suggests that consumers fear legal action against file-sharing (illegal music downloads).Not only are you breaking the law by downloading copyrighted material, but you are also downloading potentially harmful viruses to your PC. Close to 40% of file-sharers in the US and the UK have cited that the main reason they stopped downloading music using P2P (peer-to-peer) programs such as Kazaa was due to the fear of lawsuits. Since the recording industry started taking legal action against file-sharers in September of 2003, 14227 actions have been announced in 12 countries. These lawsuits can cost you tens of thousands of dollars !</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t your average teenager who downloads music illegally on the internet. You&#8217;d be surprised to learn that people from all walks of life are involved too. Doctors, teachers, nurses, cooks, university students, and even a judge ! John Kennedy, IFPI (International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers) Chairman and CEO, had this to say, &#8220;We are now seeing real evidence that people are increasingly put off by illegal file-sharing and turning to legal ways of enjoying music online. Whether it&#8217;s fear of getting caught breaking the law, or the realisation that many networks could damage your home PC, attitudes are changing, and that is good news for the whole music industry.&#8221;</p>
<p>Legal music downloading started really taking off during the first half of 2005, especially in Europe. In the US alone, 159 million tracks were legally downloaded in that period. Subscriptions to online music downloading services such as Napster, iTunes and Rhapsody now count well over 3 million users. Napster, for example, is expanding its reach. There is Napster UK, Napster Germany and Napster Canada. Hopefully they will expand into countries like Australia, France, South Africa and many more.<br />
Connect by Sony, Real&#8217;s Rhapsody, and Apple&#8217;s iTunes are three of the most popular legal downloading services. You can expect to get charged between 79</p>
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		<title>Guitar Lesson &#8211; How To Practice In 20 Minutes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many guitarists don't have enough time to practice for long periods of time. But if you want to progress fast, you need the guitar in your hands as regularly as possible.

It's better to practice for 10-20 minutes every day, than 4 hours on just one day of the week.Getting into a rhythm of regularly picking up your guitar for a quick practice session is a great habit to get into.

So if you don't have enough time for a full practice session, and you have 10-15 minutes to ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many guitarists don&#8217;t have enough time to practice for long periods of time. But if you want to progress fast, you need the guitar in your hands as regularly as possible.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s better to practice for 10-20 minutes every day, than 4 hours on just one day of the week.Getting into a rhythm of regularly picking up your guitar for a quick practice session is a great habit to get into.</p>
<p>So if you don&#8217;t have enough time for a full practice session, and you have 10-15 minutes to spare, here&#8217;s some ideas for what you should practice:</p>
<p>Practice a chord change.<br />
Perhaps switching from an F barre chord to a D open is causing you difficulty?<br />
If you spend just ten minutes going over and over the change, you will increase your ability to do it at the level you require.</p>
<p>The key is to focus, and hone in on one skill that you can improve in a short period of time.</p>
<p>Work on a song you want to memorize.<br />
This will give you a chance to actually play some music! You need to have fun in your practice to keep you fresh and focused.</p>
<p>Listen to a song on a CD and jam along.<br />
This is a great way to improve your playing, and it&#8217;s particularly suitable for short practice sessions.</p>
<p>An important part of learning guitar is to train your ear, and jamming along to a CD is the perfect way to do it.</p>
<p>Work on a lick you want to learn.<br />
You&#8217;d be surprised how many times you can work through a lick in just a few short minutes. You can also combine this practice technique with practicing chord changes.</p>
<p>This will improve your skills in a short period of time.</p>
<p>Work on picking skills &#8211; do drills up and down the neck.<br />
You can use your metronome to work on speed picking skills, or you can slow everything right down and work on keeping your body in a relaxed so that you develop an ease to your playing.</p>
<p>Work up and down a scale.<br />
In ten minutes you can play through a scale around 50-100 times. This will improve your stamina and also help you build speed.</p>
<p>Remember to use a metronome when you&#8217;re trying to build speed though. Because you want a smooth rhythmic sound to your speed picking, not a struggling, hurried sound.</p>
<p>So build up gradually.</p>
<p>Be Creative!<br />
Play some chords in combinations that sound good to you, or play some single note melodies. Again, this improves your ear and you could maybe work out some parts to a song of your own.</p>
<p>Okay, that&#8217;s all the ideas I&#8217;m going to give you for now. Use your imagination to come up with more things you could try, and mix it up so it doesn&#8217;t get boring.</p>
<p>Also, keep your guitar ready and set-up. Sure, it&#8217;s protected all hidden away in your case, but if it&#8217;s ready for you to have a short practice session, then you&#8217;re more likely to pick it up and practice, even if it is just for a short time.</p>
<p>So keep that guitar out and ready to practice!</p>
<p>You may not think these short practice sessions help much, but doing this builds up your skills fast   and you&#8217;ll surprise yourself by how much you improve just be having the guitar in your hands regularly.</p>
<p>However, you don&#8217;t want to solely rely on these quick practice sessions. Like most things, you need to strike a balance. A good way of finding that balance is to set a routine.</p>
<p>When you have a routine, you will find it gets easier to find the time for practice. Once you&#8217;re in a habit of practicing regularly, you&#8217;ll find it harder to break out of, and that&#8217;s a good habit to have!</p>
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		<title>Free Music Downloads for Kelly Clarkson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Kelly Clarkson, many American idol winners and contestants are offering up their tunes for listening online.  You can find a number of sites that offer samplings of their music, both complete CD's and selected tracks that you can transfer to your music player and listen to offline.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson has become a familiar voice on the radio and television as she continues to delivery amazing new songs with incredible vocals that continue to skyrocket her farther up the charts.  Thanks to the power of the Internet there are many sites where you can find free music downloads of her work to hear for yourself how powerful her music and voice really is.</p>
<p>As you download her music you can enjoy it almost anywhere you go &#8211; from your car to your computer at work and your portable iPod thanks to MP3 formats that most of the songs come in.  This universal music format is widely recognized by almost all music players and stereo systems today and is the standard format for delivering audio content on the Internet.</p>
<p>In fact, many American idol winners and contestants are offering up their tunes for listening online.  You can find a number of sites that offer samplings of their music, both complete CD&#8217;s and selected tracks that you can transfer to your music player and listen to offline.  Part of the immense power of the Internet is how quickly and easily it is to get songs to fans and help build up support for a particular artist.  There is virtually no cost associated with it and with a click of a mouse the tracks can be sent around the world to fans even in remote parts of the rain forest in South America!</p>
<p>If you want to find out more about how to get songs and albums downloaded to your computer check out underground websites and fan discussion sites where you will find people talking about the latest places to obtain and listen to a wide variety of musical creations.</p>
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		<title>Throat Singing in Inuit Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction to ancient throat singing in the Inuit culture in Arctic Canada.  Describes recent revival of this entertainment form.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally, Inuit throat singing was a form of entertainment among Inuit women while the men were away on hunting trips.  It was an activity that was primarily done by Inuit women although there have been some men doing it as well.  In the Inuit language Inuktitut, throat singing is called katajjaq, pirkusirtuk or nipaquhiit depending on the Canadian Arctic region.  It was regarded more as a type of vocal or breathing game in the Inuit culture rather than a form of music.  </p>
<p>Inuit throat singing is generally done by two individuals but can involve four or more people together as well. In Inuit throat singing, two Inuit women would face each other either standing or crouching down while holding each other&#8217;s arms.  One would lead with short deep rhythmic sounds while the other would respond.  The leader would repeat sounds with short gaps in between.  The follower would fill in these gaps with her own rhythmic sounds.  Sometimes both Inuit women would be doing a dance like movement like rocking from left to right while throat singing.  Sounds produced can be voiced or unvoiced and produced by inhalation or exhalation.  Both Inuktitut words and meaningless syllables are used in Inuit throat singing songs.  However, when words are used in throat singing, no particular meaning is placed on them for a song.  When meaningless syllables are used, they are often portrayals of sounds the Inuit hear in their natural environment such as animal sounds or even water running down a creek.  Popular Inuit throat singing songs are usually identified by the first word or sound that is produced in each song.</p>
<p>Inuit throat singing is a skill that has to be taught and developed.  Inuit throat singers try to show their vocal abilities in a fun competitive manner and the first one to either run out of breath, stop or laugh is declared the loser of the game.  Each game usually lasts from one to three minutes.  In a group of Inuit women, the overall winner is the one who beats the largest number of her competitors in this fun filled activity.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no written record of when the Inuit first developed their form of throat singing which differs from the type found in Mongolia and other parts of the world that has some form of throat singing.  The Inuit did not keep any written records and history was simply passed down from generation to generation orally.  It was reported that at one point in time, Inuit women would actually have their lips almost touching while using each other&#8217;s mouth cavity as a sound resonator.  This technique is not used anymore.    </p>
<p>Inuit throat singing was actually forbidden by Christian priests for almost 100 years but since this religious ban was lifted, there has been a resurfacing of this traditional activity in the Inuit communities during the last 20 to 30 years.  Interestingly enough, there has been a lot of interest among the younger Inuit generations in this revival in addition to the Inuit elders who are trying to bring throat singing back as part of present Inuit culture.   Many of the young Inuit women who have taken up throat singing claim that it is a way for them to express their Inuit identities in the modern world where many Inuit traditions have already been lost.  The revival of Inuit throat singing has been so popular that in September of 2001, the first throat singing conference was held in Puvernituk, Nunavik where different types of Inuit throat singing from different Arctic regions of Canada were demonstrated and shared.  There has even been a small number of Inuit throat singing CDs produced.</p>
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		<title>Ipod Music Downloads   Review of Sites and Services</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a review article on ipod music downloads.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IPOD music downloads is a very good choice for getting the newest songs quickly and without the hassles of traveling to the music store. There are many locations right on the web that can provide you with the best of the best for much less. There are several locations that do offer a wide range of choice when it comes to IPOD music downloads. Some offer more than others or they offer a better quality product. It will take a little looking to find the most affordable choice that is also the one that has what you would like to download.</p>
<p>Once you find the right location for your IPOD music downloads, you can easily and quickly (it seems almost instantly) download them to your PC, your notebook, or you can check out iPod music downloads as well. There are specific services that are available to provide you with the ability to get great quality songs on your iPod. If you choose iPod music downloads, you can find the right location to download from on the web to your iPod, take the music with you wherever you decide to go and, if you like them; you can even burn them to CD. </p>
<p>No matter if you choose iPod music downloads or find a few great songs to download to your PC, there are many services that are providing this ability to you. If you are skilled, you can even find a few free iPod music downloads. Of course, to get the best products available, you may want to go with a paid service. It also pays for you to take your time in checking out a few of the services for their fees and their membership details. With so much competition out there, you are sure to find a great deal being offered to new members. Ipod music downloads are fast becoming the best way to get the songs you want to see quickly.</p>
<p>Visit this site again in the future as I will be posting new reviews on music download sites and also tips on the best downloads.</p>
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