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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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anthology shows

We Always Need A Black Mirror

    The Netflix original series Black Mirror has attracted a surprising number of critics, some ridiculing the very premise of the series - and having that backfire - others just dismissing it as "pretentious," while others claim the very title sailed over their heads, and finally a whole subsection out there blowing it off because it's similar to The Twilight Zone franchise.    Um, yeah, that's the whole point!      For those out of the loop: Black Mirror is a modern speculative fiction anthology series with…
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Metabolism Health

Warrior Dash - Philanthropic 5k Mud Runs for a Thrill Seeker

Dancing Through The Mud                What comes to mind when you think of the term “thrill seeker”? Some people envision a person who finds solace skydiving and whirling through the atmosphere at a rate of -9.8 meters per square second. Enjoyable activities definitely cultivate the human nervous system and release norepinephrine and dopamine, and some of us are more prone to seek out these behaviors due to these neurotransmitter releases. For myself, I have lived to partake in 5k Mud Runs like…
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Is It Hashimoto's Disease Or Hypothyroidism?

Photo of a woman with a goiter. (Photo by By Drahreg01 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2688708).    I've recently been feeling pretty bad so I went to a family doctor and she did a lot of tests to see if anything might be wrong with me. As it turns out, I have hypothyroidism. I looked up the symptoms later when I got home and it definitely seemed to match what I had been experiencing. In fact, I've been having many of these symptoms for years. Some of them…
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Moving to Asia

Thailand VS Philippines in language, culture, money, and love

Moving to Thailand or the Philippines and how the English language, cultural influence, cost of living, and relationships could affect your choices.        It is never as easy as choosing a pros and cons list or just doing what works for others.    If one is considering the possibility of moving to Asia and becoming an official Expatriate (or expat for short), two popular choices are:   Moving to Thailand Moving to the Philippines   I use these two more specifically because I have lived in both countries.  In…
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No Job, No Apartment, No Problem, Graduating and Moving to Asia

In my senior year of college, I still didn’t have much of a plan for what to do after graduation.   Studying writing and psychology didn’t provide the clearest of paths and I wasn’t one of those kids who’d had an internship every summer. But I did know three things:  I liked working with kids.  I liked traveling abroad.  And I didn’t want to move back in with my parents.        Taking A Risk   I wanted to take a risk and do something out of the ordinary.   There’s no better way to grow than getting out of your…
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Thailand VS Philippines by Food

Food, one of the key happiness factors of living in Southeast Asia   It can be said for those looking to live in the Philippines or Thailand that:     "a way to a Expat's heart is through their stomach."      When choosing to move to a country to live in Asia, people often consider between moving to Thailand or moving to the Philippines.  They are both unique in their own right.  When deciding between moving to Thailand or moving to the Philippines, we often look into some of the bigger issues between the two…
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Child Discipline

Spanking Your Children May Do Good than Harm

Spanking Your Children May Do Good than Harm  Parenthood is one tough challenge after another, especially when a child has behavioral problems such as throwing temper tantrums, talking back or persistent stubbornness to name a few. When it comes to effective and constructive ways to disciplining a child, parents must understand first that every child is a unique individual just like you or me; therefore, there is no such thing as a sole uniform tactic and training. What works with one child may…
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Tips

How to get Shared Link URL of a IMGUR post

by Makio

It is a bit cryptic to get a shared link of an IMGUR post.  You can do it in 4 steps.   1) Click “…” beside the social link icons of an IMGUR post        2) Select “Embed Post”        3) Click Share in the Popup window        4) Get the shared link under LINK tab    
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Politicians

John McCain: The End of Civil Politics?

It has been a rough year. From the fashion community, we lost Kate Spade; from television and culinary, we lost Anthony Bourdain. And now recently with the loss of the superstar Aretha Franklin, some people were shocked to learn that just a few days later John McCain had passed away.  Before I go any further, let me say that this is completely an opinion piece so you do not have to agree with me, all I ask is that you read and try to understand my perspective as a young person and maybe try to…
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RPGs

Persona 5: the best JRPG you’ve never played

by Dominus

I noticed this game after being released back in 2016 and quickly receiving very good reviews, eventually being called the best JRPG of all time, a masterpiece hailed as the second coming of the game equivalent of Jesus. I usually tend not to pay too much attention to all the hype, having realized that much of what is being spread on the internet is usually BS but the review and gameplay videos looked good and I took advantage of a 50% off sale to get my hands on it. I had heard of the Persona…
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World History

Notre Dame Will Be Restored. Look At How These Destroyed Buildings And Cities Came Back

The tragic fire which devastated the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is seen as a symbol of the loss of civilization as a whole by many. But the beloved church, like many historic buildings and structures throughout the world, knows the touch of wanton destruction throughout the centuries. Now that the funding for Notre Dame reaches over $1 billion dollars, there will be no problem with its famed being placed at some point in the future.    A Parisian history of catastrophes By definition, Notre Dame…
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Violance and Trauma

A Letter from the Voiceless

The day you broke me wasn't the day you attacked me. The day you broke me wasn't the days, weeks or months that followed. The day you broke me wasn't even the hours upon hours I spent crying in my shower. The day you broke me was far worse than any of that... and I can't rid myself of that feeling. I can't take back how small, scared, or broken I felt the minute you came strolling back into my life as if nothing was wrong. As if you had never done all of those horrible things... and I was just…
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Medication

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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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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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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