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8 Must-Visit Places in Coastal Oregon - Perfect Getaway with Outdoor Explorations and Wanderings

On my first full day in Oregon, I met a woman who asked me how long I would be staying. I replied that I would only be there for the summer while I completed my internship. She then proceeded to warn me, with a sly smile on her face, that I should be careful or Oregon will steal my heart and I will not want to leave.    I went back home at the end of that summer, but the words spoken prophetically by the woman in the cafe rang true. I did not go to Oregon expecting it to steal my heart the way it…
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Four More Podcasts - For When You Suddenly Have A Lot of Time on Your Hands

And here we are, still in quarantine (or at least us non essential folks should be).    I know you are probably sick and tired of hearing that word (quarantine, ugh) and all of its associates, so you will be happy to hear that the pandemic is not the focus. Today, I am writing to offer you what will hopefully provide some much needed entertainment and delight on slow days working from home or during any other downtime you might have.    After several weeks of entering data alone in my home, with only my…
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Medication

My Experience With Antidepressants

Antidepressants are most commonly used to treat depression in people with major depression or depression caused by other illnesses (such as bipolar disorder). My experience began when I was about 19. I had been depressed for a long time and decided to see a psychiatrist. At first I was diagnosed with major depression but later on, another doctor realized I actually had bipolar disorder II.      The first antidepressant I was given was Paxil. It didn't help me at all. In fact, the only thing it did…
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What is Gene Therapy? How helpful is it?

According to the research, Gene therapy is an exploratory procedure that uses genes to treat or anticipate disease. It was conceptualized in 1972. Basically, it is designed to acquaint hereditary material into cells to make a beneficial protein or to compensate for abnormal genes.      Gene therapy is the restorative delivery of nucleic acid into a patient's cells as a medication to treat illness. It is the addition of new genes to a patient's cells to supplant absent or breaking down genes…
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Produce vs. Prescriptions: Natural Alternatives to Synthetic Drugs from my Real Experience

Milestones in Medicine   Over the past century, and more recently, in the past ten years, we found ways to fight back many infectious diseases and illnesses. For precautions, there have also been many vaccinations distributed, in order to prevent any more illness outbreaks. You practically need a physical before joining anything sports or work-related. However, despite all of the prescriptions, treatments, and medical procedures, a lot of people still experience health complications.    It doesn’t…
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Film and TV

In The Shadow Of A Tall Mouse - Disney's Real Monopoly Game

  Recently the excellent post by OldFashionedMillenial, titled "Is Disney Monopolizing Hollywood?," has been getting a lot of hits and general buzz. So the Editors That Be asked the Present Author to weigh in.  What a fortunate pass this is because I happen to have a lot on my mind about Disney. See, I grew up in Southern California, in the south of L.A., and quite a bit of my time was spent in Anaheim, California, home to Disneyland itself. My step-dad worked there as a night engineer. He'd score…
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How Luna Lovegood Changed My Life

When you are young, there are so many things that affect how you mold yourself into who you want to be.Whether you model yourself after who your parents are (or aren't in some cases); characters you saw on television or in movies, or you mold yourself the way I did: through books. When I was younger if you couldn't find me, I was probably holed up with some new book, or an old favorite, imaging the characters and the thick descriptions of settings and places I would never get to visit. But…
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Why Frozen is So Important

Ever since I was little, I lived for storytime.   Whether done through voice, animated cartoon, or something I created inside my own mind, the process of crafting a story and giving someone an experience in some made believes realm where everything can happen and happy ever afters are just over the horizon. And if anyone was good at peddling an idyllic make-believe world for children and adults alike, it’s Disney.   Disney got ahead of literally everyone else when they animated almost every…
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The Workplace

Sexual harassment discrimination

by Dominus

Let’s imagine a scenario where a man is at his workplace. He walks by a female coworker and slaps her on the butt. That is an immediate case for his dismissal and prosecution as a sexual offender in a sexual harassment case. I find that to be a clear-cut case of a deviant forcing his odd behavior on an unsuspecting and unwilling victim. We have the right to not be touched in a sexual way by someone who we don’t feel attracted to. Now, if the same scenario plays, this time with a woman slapping…
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Dystopian Novels

Why Do We Force-Feed Dystopian Literature To Students?

    If you can read this, you're not living in a dystopia!  You know how teenagers end up so negative, depressed, and pessimistic?  Maybe it's because we shove gloom and doom down their throats as part of their required reading. In the United States, George Orwell's mid-20th-century dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is heavily picked by teachers as required reading for students, and the blues don't end there.  Here is a list of required reading titles for American high schools, let's see how negative…
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Mental Strategies for Entrepreneurs

The Mental Processes of High Achievers

by Dominus

There are those among us that reach greatness. We notice many of them only after they managed to grab the attention through some impressive achievement. News of these exceptional men and women circulate and make us wonder just how they did it. The easy answers most of us come up with are: “They are naturally talented, otherwise they wouldn’t be standing there, receiving praise”, “They must have had the right connections, so an easy ride to the top was a given”, “That person is an as**le that…
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Failure can be your friend

We have been taught to strive for success for as long as we can remember.        This is the directive beaten into our heads since we could understand language and it is one of the main goals we set for ourselves. We know that achieving mastery in a field is the way to go because it was told to us so often, that it became a core belief in our psyche. We were also told that the road to success is not an easy one and that we would have to endure many hardships along the way. This is all true, but…
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Freedom of Religion

The Freedom of Religion and Kirishitan (Christian) Faith in Japan

by Makio

The Persecution of the Kirishitan (Christian) Faith in Japan  In Japan, for 250 years, there were people who hid their Christian faith for more than seven, eight, or nine generations, without being noticed even by their neighbors or the local government.Those who used to be called as Kakure (Hidden) Kirishitan (Christian in old Japanese), are now called Senpuku Kirishitan (潜伏キリシタン), Underground Christian.  I first heard the name during a junior high history class about 30 years ago. At that time, I…
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Gardening

10 TOOLS TO HELP YOU GARDEN LIKE A PROFESSIONAL THIS SPRING

Are We There Yet?     If you are reading this, then you are probably as excited as I am about spring. I’m writing to you from the fine and gorgeous Northeast of the U.S, where spring is always welcomed when it finally arrives.    But as the thermostat begins its slow descent, and the sun in our hemisphere begins its ascent, thoughts of spring start to race through our minds. Being unprepared for winter up in these parts can be a death sentence, luckily spring is a little more forgiving.    But if you want…
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How To Start A Butterfly Garden

  Starting a butterfly garden is one of the coolest things you can do to enhance your home. Being outdoors is great for both your mental and physical health so why not make it extra fun by making your environment more beautiful? By creating a garden that will invite butterflies you're not only helping them but you're making your own life more fun and colorful as well.    Butterflies not only bring beautiful colors and excitement to our lives, but they also help pollinate flowers and crops, play an…
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How a Garden Grows You: The Therapeutic and Meditative Effects of Gardening

      Every neighborhood has at least one.      From one corner of the earth to another this person isn't hard to spot.  They have been exposed to the calming, meditative, mood, and life-altering effects of gardening.  There they are, bathing in the therapeutics offered up by the delightful sights, sounds, and odors found only in a garden.       Growing up there was an old man around the corner who was always in his garden.  He had course white hair, rough, like dried sage, that poked out of his grey…
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Toxic Fanbases

Bill Maher vs. Comic Book Fans - A Deeper Look

    Oh God, What Is It This Time?  The Internet has an upset tum-tum again. This time it's because Bill Maher has said some mean things about comic book fans. With tone-deaf timing, Maher picked the passing of revered comic book creator and legend Stan Lee to trash comic fans. First in November 2018 came his blog post on his own Real Time website - didn't even know he had a blog, did you?  "I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks…
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US 2020 Primary Election

A Day At The Zoo: 2020 US Democratic Presidential Candidates

  Us Democratic Party Vectors by Vecteezy    Has it been 4 years already? My, how time flies when your country is held in the iron grip of the new Nazi reich! Why, just a few ICE roundups ("The goal is to terrorize"), concentration camps, and blatant systematic sex trafficking barons, and it's like the first term of "I still can't believe he's president" Trump just flew by! Yet oddly, we have all aged a couple centuries in four years.  Which makes my job here as a political prophet this election season…
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Day to day life

Fighting tips for the civilized individual

by Dominus

   Ever been in a fight? I don’t mean a verbal conflict with somebody but an actual fight! Do you know how to protect yourself so that you don’t get hurt any more than necessary? I am surprised at the number of grownups that are so bad at it, that they literally resemble children when they fight. I have witnessed this enough times to notice that there is a lack of education regarding this issue in the world right now. I am not pro-fighting, but odds are, if you are a guy, there will come a time…
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Not Well Known but Common Struggles of Millennials and Advice from My Experience

Generations  Everyone has different expectations and thoughts regarding the different generations.   The most common generations are the Silent Generation (age 70-90), The Baby Boomers (age 51-69), Generation X (36-50), and the Millennials (age 21-35). Each generation has its own distinct characteristics based off of experiences and events during the era they were living in.    Generational Names in the United States, ThoughtCo  My grandparents were from the Silent Generation and grew up during…
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