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1. Rigors (202 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 24-07-2024 | Poems
Gary Beck/Rigors
Disorder
Gunshots echo again
as we huddle on the floor
hoping the street battle
will be over soon
before bullets penetrate
the walls of our apartment
in public housing.
Almost every night now
shooting starts after dark
so we don’t dar...
2. ZeroGPT.com: The Comprehensive AI Checker and Beyond (328 times seen)
By Miscellany | 01-06-2024 | Articles
In the age of artificial intelligence, distinguishing between human-generated content and machine-generated text has become increasingly critical. ZeroGPT.com has emerged as a robust tool designed to detect ChatGPT-generated text, offering users a reliable means to verify the authenticity of written...
3. "This Person Does Not Exist": Exploring AI-Generated Imagery (303 times seen)
By Miscellany | 01-06-2024 | Articles
In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, the ability to create realistic images of human faces that do not correspond to any real individuals marks a significant technological milestone. This innovation is epitomized by the website "This Person Does Not Exist," which leve...
4. The Pomodoro Technique: A Time Management Strategy for Enhanced Productivity (370 times seen)
By Miscellany | 01-06-2024 | Articles
In today's fast-paced world, effective time management is crucial for achieving productivity and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. The Pomodoro Technique, developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, is a popular time management method that has helped millions of individuals optimiz...
5. How learning a new language changes your brain (348 times seen)
By Miscellany | 03-05-2024 | Language
There are many reasons to learn a new language. For work, school, a new relationship or simply for pleasure – regardless of the motivation, many people find that studying a new language is an enriching experience that can definitely change the way you think. But did you know that it can also c...
6. Objectives (411 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-03-2024 | Poems
Gary Beck/Objectives
Shelter
I don’t like living here.
There’s no heat in winter.
It’s sweaty hot in summer.
None of the people are nice.
This one guy wants to sex me.
I told him I was only twelve
but that didn’t matter to him.
He keep try...
7. Checkout Time at the Tri-State Grocer (448 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 02-02-2024 | Short Stories
Checkout Time at the Tri-State Grocer
By Raanan Geberer
Ever since I'd gotten the job as a reporter/assistant editor on a small trade paper called the Tri-State Grocer with the covert help of its secretary -- who happened to be the wife of one of my father's friends -- ...
8. Glimpses (546 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 10-11-2023 | Poems
Gary Beck/Glimpses
Coincidence?
We survived the Cold War,
though a few times
obliteration murmured
and defeated the Soviet Union
by outspending the big, bad, bear.
Yet ongoing threats
to American security
changed the nation,
gave the oligarchs
opportunity
...
9. Molecular Distortion (621 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 23-08-2023 | Poems
Gary Beck/Molecular Distortion
Dumbing Down
The rush of technology
in the Information Age
has left many behind.
The switch from horse and buggy
to the automobile
separated those
who couldn’t catch up
to the new ride
and eager drivers.
The challenge to...
10. Discoveries (830 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 11-02-2023 | Poems
Gary Beck/Discoveries
Strange Surroundings
I have always lived
in alien enclaves.
never taking root
no matter how long I stayed
in one place
long enough to belong,
my distance from others
engraved in my soul,
that for some reason,
cause, curse, inheritance,...
11. Stillness (975 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 02-11-2022 | Poems
Sixty-nine tears dropping from only one eye:
sixty-nine tears and the sound of a heart splitting in two.
In some corner of the gloomy large room, a soul breaking free.
Happiness, sadness, all that stuff doesn't matter anymore;
only the feeling of freedom matters,
only the feeling...
12. Double Envelopment (1006 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 16-09-2022 | Poems
Gary Beck/Double Envelopment
Unfair
A child asked me:
“Why do some people have so much
and some so little?”
I searched for words of comfort,
but found none.
I considered explanations,
greed, capitalism,
inherited wealth,
but they wouldn’t mea...
13. A Carnival of Freaks (975 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 27-07-2022 | Poems
The monkey's praying, the baby is asleep and the monk goes on a trip.
Grandma's shouting, playing free, under a palm tree.
A lot of elephants behind me, speeding for a cup of tea.
Yellow circles on the ground, someone gets the black cat bound.
A mad woman barks like a dog, whil...
14. Last Words (956 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 12-07-2022 | Poems
To western sites I retreat, so dark and so deep.
In a winter palace my soul bleeds, in a battle field my body splits.
To eastern sites I retreat, so dark and so deep.
Distant ghosts echoes my voice, heavy machines run with big noises.
To southern sites I retreat, so dark and so deep.
...
15. Unillumined (1327 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 08-05-2022 | Poems
Gary Beck/Unillumined
City Fixture
The homeless sit
on unrelenting streets
cardboard signs
advertising need.
Passersby seldom notice
the invisable men
hulking on concrete nests.
Learning Gap
The pace of life
changes incrementally.
the...
16. The Answer (1017 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 11-04-2022 | Poems
"Tell me why," the small poet asked the cold wind, "I'm so tiny and the stars
are so big; crowded houses, everywhere full of people, and I'm lying alone in this
little patch of ground. Tell me why my lyrics don't reach the skies, and my mood is
always darker th...
17. Benefits of exercise (1277 times seen)
By John Smith | 24-03-2022 | Articles
Benefits of Weight Training: Get Fit, Lose Weight, Build a Greater Body, and Prevent Disease. Many have benefited from our training, but they are both generally conveniently one of two types.
Health, self-esteem, mind-body fusion
Adjusting and postponing injury or chronic health conditions
...
18. Unveilings (1078 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 28-01-2022 | Poems
Gary Beck/Unveilings
Political Sketch
Too many of us
have become so angry,
so self-righteous
we don’t care if our country
is torn apart,
rather than reach across
the great divide
and compromise.
Soon we will be like Russia
oligarchs, functionaries, se...
19. Amazing Echoes (1067 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 23-01-2022 | Poems
Crazy horses for the dead boys, wild horses for the still boys;
so they can run the last ride, before dying again.
Fast cars for the dead boys, loaded guns for the still boys;
so they can breathe for the last time, before ending life again.
I'm Macbeth, I'm Hamlet, I'm the mo...
20. Advantages of using bitcoin to bet online (1241 times seen)
By Miscellany | 22-01-2022 | Sports Betting
You cannot imagine how much I dislike the Treasury and banks. They have ruined many people's lives, because they show no mercy to anyone. They can leave you homeless, just because you have lost your job, and cannot pay the money that they ask for. It is no use telling them that you need more tim...
21. Sports Betting Jargon (970 times seen)
By Miscellany | 22-01-2022 | Sports Betting
Today I will talk about sports betting jargon, which can be useful for learners of English, and for those that are not familiarised with those terms. I have visited the following website: onlinebetting.nz, and I have come across the words below:
punter / bettor (American English): Someo...
22. Online Sports Betting (1049 times seen)
By Miscellany | 21-01-2022 | Sports Betting
It is a fact that many people like playing the lottery, doing the pools, gambling at casinos, betting on sports, and so forth. Some of them even dream of becoming rich, which is a long shot.
Some types of gambling, such as playing roulette or slots, do not require any previous knowledge...
23. Lottery and Sports Betting (1044 times seen)
By Miscellany | 21-01-2022 | Sports Betting
The word lottery has two meanings:
1. Governments sell lottery tickets as a way of raising money. They have a number printed on it. If you buy a winning number, you win a cash prize. If you win the first prize, it will make you rich. However, as you know, that is the same as looking for a needle ...
24. Shaken Words (957 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 15-01-2022 | Poems
No sad light inside this golden eye. No long finger pointing to the end of nothing.
And the mad man cried out, inside the heavy walled room, like a bird trapped
in a cage, like a man tied to a family.
White clouds like cotton sealing the landscape, and at the mountain top,
a woman scream...
25. Purpose (1044 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 29-08-2021 | Poems
Gary Beck/Purpose
Assessment
I sit among the aged, infirm,
in the hospital room
and know I am aged, infirm.
Unlike some I do not cry:
'where did the time go?'
I know where it went.
A lot of excitement.
A lot of fulfillment.
Frustrat...
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