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Arts

Apple Teams Up With Boys & Girls Clubs Of America To Bring New Coding Opportunities To Young Learners Across The Country

In celebration of Computer Science Education, Apple and Boys & Girls Clubs of America today launched a new program that will bring coding to Boys & Girls Clubs in more than a dozen US cities. This new collaboration will bring coding with Swift to tens of thousands of students across the country, building on Apple’s existing partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America through … Continue reading Apple Teams Up With Boys & Girls Clubs Of America To Bring New Coding Opportunities To Young Learners Across The Country

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Movie Review

A Simple Indie Film Filled with Tears, Drama and Silence in “Lotawana”

By Mike Szymanski Sometimes a true “Film” is about filmmaking, not the dialogue. A lot of silence permeates this moody, picturesque film that’s an impressive first feature by Trevor Hawkins. Every scene, every camera shot, every moment is a piece of art, framed in nature and natural surroundings as we follow this couple who live on a sailboat, and take life where the wind send … Continue reading A Simple Indie Film Filled with Tears, Drama and Silence in “Lotawana”

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Arts

Digital and Analog Photography 101

By Stephen Pisko The digital camera is a “reproduction of nature” A duplication of subject and object. An analog film camera is a “direct reflection of nature” It records what is before the lens within an actuality an “original image generation”. Be “pure as possible”! Eliminate a copied prostitution! Digital portrays the visual more untrue with an added instant quality realized within captivation the digital … Continue reading Digital and Analog Photography 101

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Movie Review

Inheritance Italian Style

By Mike Szymanski Think of “Inheritance Italian Style” as like a dark comedy melodrama with wacky characters, over-the-top acting, and unpredictable liaisons all set in a beautiful countryside estate. It’s enjoyable, heart-felt, ridiculous, sad, and funny. Five sisters come together to discuss the dividing up of the family furniture well before their parents are gone in a large villa in Sicily. The countryside and the … Continue reading Inheritance Italian Style

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Lifestyle, Spirituality

When Life Gives You Lemons- My Survival Story

By Sherletta Germain 2018 started off so perfect, which was cool because 2017 was a doozie. Have you ever felt like that? Like you wish the year would just “end” already because you are just over it? 2017 left me wanting to leave it right where it was-behind. The year before, I had lots of hard decisions and welcomed the smooth transition into a new … Continue reading When Life Gives You Lemons- My Survival Story

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Healthy Living

The Best Berries I Have Ever Grown

By Jannie Vaught Last year I purchased 4, 2-year-old Arkansas Thornless blackberry plants. I prepared the bed and placed them in a fence line to use as a trellis. They arrived within 4 days and were fresh and undamaged. I planted them and placed a low fence around them to keep the chickens out when they free range. They are possibly the best berries I … Continue reading The Best Berries I Have Ever Grown

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Arts

Minimalism

By Stephan Pisko Within these times’ and environments’ the human being favors “minimalist artistic expression” than a “clogged creative conglomeration” ….. The world visual is so intensely packed with no “relaxed state of being” mind is searching for a “temporary expressive ease”….. If an artist can create this type of “relative relief” it may show some signs’ of repeated recognition. Minimalism is less to perceive … Continue reading Minimalism

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Healthy Living

We Are Into Some Frosty Weather

By Jannie Vaught We had been unseasonably warm through November and December. We entered winter, but it felt like T-shirt weather. For this gardener, this puts me in a constant weather alert position. As I watched what was happening to the north of us it became very concerning that we may have another “Killer” freeze. We have been preparing all summer and repairing the old … Continue reading We Are Into Some Frosty Weather

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Healthy Living

Piece of Eternity

By Stephan Pisko Human beings’ identity all wish to “be somebody”……. They enter this existing activity programmed pressured into “becoming someone” but humans’ are something long before physicality inclusion identities’ all contain a “piece of eternity” the unseen energy within bodily mass is timeless without age eternal isn’t that something somebody? Physical identity doesn’t think so! It’s an unknown metaphysical factor mind cannot calculate such … Continue reading Piece of Eternity

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Arts

Happy New Year

It is time to get into the New Year spirit… With Family Good Friends Wonderful food Lively celebration And being grateful for all that we have and the past year….” Let’s celebrate! The end of the year is a time of year for remembrance. To take stock of where we have come from in the past year, and have a moment to think about where … Continue reading Happy New Year

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Arts

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films, Indie Episodic, New Frontier Lineups Announced

82 Features, 6 Indie Episodic, 15 New Frontier Projects to Debut! Ticket Packages On Sale December 17; Individual Tickets On Sale On January 6 The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent work selected across the Feature Film, Indie Episodic, and New Frontier categories for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will take place in Park City, Salt Lake City and … Continue reading 2022 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films, Indie Episodic, New Frontier Lineups Announced

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Arts

Ex-Big Blue linebacker Keith Rivers is now a ‘giant’ in the art world

He wants to be a “Giant” in the art world too. Former Giants linebacker Keith Rivers once collected sacks, but the 35-year-old retired NFLer — a … Ex-Big Blue linebacker Keith Rivers is now a ‘giant’ in the art world Previously published in the New York Post By Dean Balsamini He wants to be a “Giant” in the art world too. Former Giants linebacker Keith … Continue reading Ex-Big Blue linebacker Keith Rivers is now a ‘giant’ in the art world

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Philosophy

Identity And The Eternal Now

By Stephan Pisko Not just an image it is you (identity) not only a role it is you (identity) so you the (identity) really must believe in “that” to go out and sell “that” to other identities’. Don’t always be the (identity) on the “outside of the fence looking in on something (or) someone (identity) truly wishes to be “infinitely becoming someone (or) something” is … Continue reading Identity And The Eternal Now

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Arts, Book Review

“Through These Brown Eyes” Book Reveiw

By Vernon Nickerson “Attention, all lovers of edge-of-your-seat, hair-raising, triumphant, tragic, and triumphantly heart-wrenching romance dramas currently live-streaming in 2021! Have I got the perfect low-tech/high-heart string tugging memoir for you. Angelica Robles debut as an author to watch, Through These Brown Eyes, is the perfect getaway book for your reading pleasure. I highly recommend it as well earned respite from way too much electronic … Continue reading “Through These Brown Eyes” Book Reveiw

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Arts

Public Power In The Entertainment Industry

By Stephan Pisko When your an entertainer (actor/actress) in the film industry the more notoriety you receive the more isolated you become if you really want to maintain your “public power”. When the public knows you too well you lose your “public domination” the more notoriety your image obtains the more “damned” you become it is a custom designed lifestyle that is not humanly normal … Continue reading Public Power In The Entertainment Industry

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