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Watch These Movies While Stuck at Home!

Bored at home?  Looking for something to watch, but tired of cycling through the same Netflix options?   For those of you who have already burned through your queue, it's time to start looking for rentals, a nearly extinct concept in 2020.        Fear not, because there are plenty of exceptional films out there that are not on popular streaming services. This article is meant to dig into a few good choices that you might not have already thought of.    Explore these overlooked gems today, then go visit your…
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Quarantine Playlist – Songs to Listen to While Stuck at Home

by CFC123

Music, with all its transcendent power, can help us through some tough times. For some, music helps those who need to assuage their anxieties caused by depression. Other times, it can just be for a troublesome problem sweeping the nation.   Since we all are experiencing that similar problem right now, let’s dive into some good music to help alleviate everyone’s cooped-up feelings. Skip to the right mood for you, or ride the whole wave beginning to end (I promise it will leave you will a…
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Five Podcasts For When You Suddenly Have A Lot of Time on Your Hands

When I first began hearing the term Podcast, I thought, what is all the hubbub? It is just people having a conversation, not unlike a youtube video or talk show.  Then, as podcasting grew in popularity - rather rapidly, I must say - I went from skeptical to enamored upon discovering a few that interested me.      I realized podcasts could be creative, educational, inspirational, and downright hilarious. They are a great companion for long drives or days when you are doing work around the house (or in…
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Holding on to Hope: Ways to Cope in the Face of a Pandemic

“These are mad times we live in. Mad!”    These words, spoken by Professor Slughorn in The Half-Blood Prince, have been tumbling around in my head for weeks. In the film (and perhaps the book, I don’t recall), Slughorn relays this message to Dumbledore as the imminent threat of Lord Voldemort grows stronger. In this story, the imminent threat is COVID- 19, rather than an extremely powerful wizard.    I don’t know that there is a “chosen one” to defeat COVID-19 as Harry Potter defeated Voldemort, but…
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The Top SEO Tools For Content Marketing

  Hi, I'm "Penguin" Pete Trbovich, and you overthink SEO!  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been oversold for decades as the easy road to riches, subject to every snake oil tonic shuckster to roll into town. You shouldn't believe most posts about "best SEO tools," because they're usually trying to sell you something they make, and it's not the best.  Except you can believe this post, because it's selling nothing. In fact, most of these tools are free or at least "freemium." It's getting no…
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Camera Reviews

Review Of Canon PowerShot SX130IS Camera

A few years ago I was in the market for a new digital camera and I decided to buy a Canon PowerShot SX130 IS from Amazon. I wouldn't call myself a digital camera expert or anything, but I do photography as a hobby and I even make a little bit of money from it occasionally by selling stock photos. So I thought I'd provide a review of this camera.   I'm going to start off by mentioning some facts and stats about it.   It has a 12x optical zoom and it's a 12.1-megapixel camera. According to the user…
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POC Politics

What Is The Real Future of Latina Women - Change, Power, or Problems?

  By 2060, over 30 percent of the American population will be Latino. That is almost double what it stands at right now. But if you look at where it can be decades from now, what you might want to look at is creating a movement for one half of the community that is not getting enough attention – Latina women.    Shaping the New Minority The reality of the U.S. becoming a “minority majority” country grows closer as more local communities dramatically shift in demographics. Even outside the big cities…
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The Rich and Famous

When are you rich enough?

by Dominus

We all want the good life. We want to succeed in what we do and reap the financial rewards to ensure a comfortable lifestyle that practically eliminates the worries that come with not having enough money. Suppose you make it, and after a long and arduous journey, you get everything that you decided to get. You now have a stable financial income, the bank account is nice and fat, the future is looking bright. Do you really stop there?  The reality of it is that most people who have made their…
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Are rich people examples to follow?

by Dominus

What happens to competent people when they get everything that they set out to get? That far-away goal has been reached, the obstacles have been bested; everything that needed to be done is now a thing of the past. As the healthy human beings that they are, they seek new challenges, something bigger, better, more thrilling to master. Afterwards, they do something even harder and more rewarding, always pushing the limits and being hungry for success. After clearly proving their worth in front of…
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Ethics and Morality

When Does Lie Happens?

   NB: To have a better understanding of the subject matter of this feature – lying, reading the previous article entitled “Unraveling Truth and its Many Faces,” is a necessary requirement – a pre-requisite.         In the previous article I wrote the discussion focused on some of the most common criteria of truths, which oftentimes, taking for granted; or if not, most people are just unware of. The main contention I presented on the said [article] is, whenever one is talking about truth, there must…
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nutrition

How To Avoid Eating Excess Sugar

I have a health condition called PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). I won't go into all the details about it but it puts me at a very high risk for developing type 2 diabetes later on in life. So recently I decided to start eating healthier and to cut out excess sugar from my diet. And from that point on, I've noticed that food companies put sugar in everything. Obviously, if you really want to know exactly what's in your food you should probably cook it yourself from scratch, but…
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Nuclear War

The nuclear test sites heritage

by Dominus

What happened to the nuclear test sites after the nuclear tests stopped? The US alone carried out 1054 tests out of which 928 were executed on the mainland. Out of an initial lack of information about the dangers of nuclear contamination these sites were visited right after the detonations with devastating effects for the ones who were exposed to nuclear radiation. After this slow yet rude awakening, the sites were left alone for a long time. What is happening to them and how are they being…
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Museums

How Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Got Started

  Many people like going to wax museums to see the life-like recreations of famous people and celebrities, both alive and dead. But did you ever stop to wonder how wax museums became so popular in the first place? Most people already know about the most famous chain of wax museums in the world which is Madame Tussauds. But did you know that she was a real person and that the way she got started creating wax figures was anything but fun?    The Early Life Of Madame Tussaud    She was born December 1st…
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stand-up comedy

Let Comedians Say What They Want - That's Their Job!

  I'm going to tell you a wonderful, wonderful story that happened to me one time:  I was perusing the works of the late, great George Carlin, one of my biggest heroes growing up. This was back in the day when you had to catch the special on HBO or else rent the video from Blockbuster (only a five-minute ride from my house on dinosaur-back). And I caught the one time in his stage act where he ripped into parents and children. Thanks to the miracle of modern YouTube, the clip is available here:    As I…
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Hong Kong protests and China

The Road To Hong Kong

  Good morning class.  Today we're going to talk about China, and why you never, never should.  For the people of Hong Kong, the story of their strife with China began in March of 2019, when the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government triggered widespread panic overconcerns that China could subject Hong Kong to its draconian laws and crippling human rights record. Some more.  Hong Kong and China… It's complicated! The British gave Hong Kong, a formerly…
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Criteria of Truths

Unraveling Truth and its Many Faces

  One of the most commonly used, or shall I say, abused words in the history of humanity is “truth.” Many, if not all, understood truth (solely) in the context of verifiability. In other words, if I am stating something -  a claim maybe; and if this [claim] is supported by evidences, then, I possessed the truth – done. In a colloquial definition, it is more associated to persona – a concrete human, by saying, “[truth] is someone who is a conveyor [bearer] of reality.” The notion of truth is…
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