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Cooped Up At Home? Put Your Brain To Good Use

Image Credit: Pexels, Free to Use Licence  COVID-19 has well and truly put a spanner in the works of our day to day activities. Whereas last month we could whittle away the hours with our daily commute, social gatherings, and other communal activities, now we’re staying at home, which many of us have found to be quite a difficult transition to make. You see for some of us, staying at home prevents us from escaping boredom, inevitably leaving us alone with the thoughts that we try so hard to suppress. So what can you do to prevent the existential dread from slipping in during these isolated few weeks – the answer is to put your mind to good use.  Putting your brain to good use…
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Rush Limbaugh’s stupid Covid-19 comments are going to get people killed

It’s one thing to be a rabble-rousing contrarian. It’s quite another to engage in dangerous rhetoric that will get people killed. And Rush Limbaugh’s recent rhetoric on the Cvid-19 outbreak absolutely will get people sick, and possible dead. This morning, Salon reported: On Friday, the 69-year-old Rush Limbaugh argued that health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cannot be trusted because they are part of “the Deep State” and have an anti-Trump agenda. In audio that Media Matters has posted on its website, embedded above, Limbaugh can be heard on Friday telling listeners, “We’ve talked about the Deep State all these years since Trump was elected — the Trump-Russia collusion, the FBI — well,…
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Becoming A Female Powerhouse Singer

https://pixabay.com/photos/audio-concert-mic-microphone-music-2941753/  Online singing lesson websites may appeal to you because you have your sights set on being the next Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, or Ariana Grande. If you want to master the art of being a good female powerhouse singer, read on to discover some top takes to take into your singing lessons online. The first thing you need to do is recognise that everyone has her own vocal timbre, i.e. the colour of the voice. Dramatic is the heaviest, moving down to spinto, then to lyric, and then soubrette is the lightest. Dramatic voices are very heavy and full. You then have spinto, which actually means ‘pushed’. These singers tend to have an edgy voice and can handle belting at intermittent levels,…
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Do You Want A Career In Music?

Image by Pexels from Pixabay    Growing up, many people idolize singers and bands. Some people have big dreams of becoming a very talented musician and making it big in the music industry. Others may have a love for music, but don’t want the fame. If you are thinking about what career you want to have or you feel as though it is time for a change in your career, but you are not sure what to do, then here is a list of jobs that may help you with picking a career related to music. Musician/Performer One of the main careers in the music industry that you probably think about right away when you think about the subject is to be a musician/performer. This…
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HVAC Company in Norfolk, VA Introduces New Website

Homes and offices, alike, require repair services for various systems from time to time. It could be your heating system, your solar or electrical appliances, or even wiring that needs to be checked. Whichever it may be, you will need reputable repair services at one point or another. To put it into perspective, a typical air conditioning system can run up to 1600 hours a year, which is almost equal to 88,000 miles for a car being driven at 55 miles per hour. Now, that is a very long distance to have a car run without maintenance, and it would be the same for any machine for that matter. Conducting routine maintenance on your HVAC system is the best way to ensure that it withstands…
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