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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
2:04 pm	Beyonce's Amazing Talent The first born of two daughters, Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, on 4 September 1981. Her beautfiul voice and singing talent were evident before she reached the age of seven. At the age of seven, Beyonce began attending dancing school and had joined her church choir, in which she was a soloist. In her teenage years, Beyonce started spending all of her free time appearing and singing at local functions with her childhood friends LaTayia Roberson, Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett. Named "Girl's Tyme" during this period of their career, the group even appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search but they did not make it into the qualifying round. At this time, Beyonce's dad quit his steady job to commit his time to managing and promoting the group. To this day Matthew Knowles manages his daughter's career. After trying out a few different band names, the girls settledon the name Destiny's Child. Their musical breakthrough came when their song "Killing Time"was included in the soundtrack for the movie "Men In Black" in 1997.. In 1998 the group achieved a number one single with "No, No, No Part 2". The group became a trio later on that same year with the departure of LeToya and LaTayia, who decided to pursue individual careers.Destiny's Child shrank that same year when LeToya left the group to pursue a solo career. Destiny's Child continued onwards and became one of the top R&B/Pop groups in 2000 accumulating four Billboard Hot 100 number one singles and numerous top ten hits, as well as two albums that went tonumber one. Destiny's Child's next album also was met with tremendous success, including singles like "Bug A Boo", "Jumpin' Jumpin', and "Say My Name". The folllowing year, 2001, they won two Grammy awards for "Say My Name." After that album, Destiny's Child produced another album, "Survivor", which included hits like the title track and the single "Bootylicious". The band decided to break up in the year 2005 but by then had shown themselves to be one of the top selling female groups ever. Before the breakup of Destiny's Child, Beyonce had already demonstrated her talents as both a singer and as a songwriter. She won the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers' 2001Songwiter of the Year award. Beyonce was the first African-American female to receive the award and only the second female to win it. Beyonce continued to work on her solo projects during this period, and though they were not as successful as her earlier work shewas not easily discouraged. The release of her first solo album, "Dangerously In Love", saw Beyonce return to her success with the album reaching the top selling album with over 300,000 copies sold in the first week alone.. The album's initial single "Crazy In Love" reached the top of the charts immediately as well and remained there for 8 weeks. In the same year, her debut album and its first single reached the top of the charts at the same time, a feat placing Beyonce in the same region as artists like the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart. No female artists other than Beyonce has attained this accmplishment. The next year, 2004, Beyonce won five Grammy Awards for her debut album. In correspondence with her 25th birthday, she released a second album called "B'day," which sold more than her first solo album, with 541,000 copies sold in the first week afterrelease. B'Day's first singl went on to also reach number one on the US R&B charts. Beyonce's third album, "I Am...Sasha Fierce", introduced fans to her alter ego and also went on to post impressive sales figures. Beyonce's amazing abilities continue to dazzle, and her admirers eagerly await what is coming next. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 24th, 2010
12:30 pm	2012 Government - Is There a Conspiracy? There is information and rumours about the end of humanity everywhere, though it has cropped up a lot more on the web in the last few years. The latest version that has become quite popular is that the world will end on December 21, 2012. The end date of the ancient Mayan calendar is December 21, 2012.In addition, the ancient Nostrodamus forecast disasters in the weeks before the date of 21 December 2012. The end of the world has always fascinated many people who have imagined and even tried to predict what it will be like. They base this on one of Nostradamus' prophecies regarding a planet that will approach the earth and could alter the earth's gravitational pull and knock the earth off its axis. Such an event would also rip the planet's crust apart, leading to other disasters that would kill almost everyone on the planet. Only a few would survive such an event, and those who did survive are believed to have been selected by the government which is actively protecting their lives. The issue of the few who would be saved has generated a critical question.And out of this have risen several other conspiracy theories. One of the most widespread conspiracy theories is that the government will secretly protect a few thousand people in order to preserve the future of humanity. This theory supposes that the list of survivors will include those in power in government and corporations, those who can bear children and are healthy, and those who can maintain and continue to develop technology. These chosen ones will live in bunkers that have been set up and supplied with the necessities to sustain hundreds of survivors for a few years. The underground bunker will serve as a shelter to protect those who are living within. As well as the necessities of food and water in the bunkers, they will also have items such as seeds for growing their own produce over the years. By supplying the seeds in these bunkers, new life will be sustained going forward. Many believe that it will be years or decades before the earth's aboveground soil would be able to grow and sustain plant life. A theory like this one seems impossible to fathom. A common question is whether the government is attempting to maintain calm among the populace while some openly question about the upcoming events. Those who beleive in these theories question who will be the chosen people on the list to be saved. No actual scientific evidence can be offered that these events will occur, and it is important to acknowledge that there are many things that could threaten to harm our species and our planet well ahead of the year 2012. There are possibilities of nature taking its toll against our species, an asteroid strike or something such as a flu pandemic, or a nuclear war. We have no guarantees in our lives, but by being ready for the likely events we can increase our likelihood of surviving them. (Comment on this)