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Month: February 2020

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Jake Paul wants you to have financial freedom by paying him a monthly fee

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Jake Paul has made it clear that he wants to diversify the way . Hes stepped back a bit from YouTube, but hes become a professional boxer. Hes . He apparently teamed up with Tana Mongeau to . Now, hed like you to send him some of your earnings so he can teach you the best way to make more money for yourself. Early Saturday morning, Paul tweeted that he was fed up with the worthless education system and that he wants to make a REAL difference in the world.…

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How 2 Total Idiots Made a Marriage Work

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ShareTweetPin I guess if any relationship was doomed for failure, it was ours. I had come off the tail-end of heartbreak hard and fast. After six years of marriage, my ex-husband had come home and told me he didn’t love me anymore. Already an injured bird, it didn’t take much to rip off my wings, ensuring I would never fly again. Indeed, I was a woman who based her worth on the people who loved her, or sadly, in the event of divorce, the man who didn’t. And there you…

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Rod Blagojevich is charging $100 for personalized shout-outs on Cameo

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Washington (CNN)If you’ve had the urge to hear from Rod Blagojevich directly after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, you’re in luck — but it will cost you. During his tenure as governor, Blagojevich was charged with corruption and impeached by the state Legislature in 2009. His Cameo offering comes the week after his sentence was commuted by the President after the Democrat and former “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant had served eight years of a 14-year sentence for pay-for-play crimes. His charges included trying to solicit money for an appointment to…

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How a Hacker’s Mom Broke Into a Prisonand the Warden’s Computer

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John Strand breaks into things for a living. As a penetration tester, he gets hired by organizations to attack their defenses, helping reveal weaknesses before actual bad guys find them. Normally, Strand embarks on these missions himself, or deploys one of his experienced colleagues at Black Hills Information Security. But in July 2014, prepping for a pen test of a South Dakota correctional facility, he took a decidedly different tack. He sent his mom. In fairness, it was Rita Strand's idea. Then 58, she had signed on as chief financial…

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Gunman Nabbed After Shooting Second NYPD Cop

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A gunman marched into a Bronx police stationhouse on Sunday morning and immediately pulled out a gun and shot several rounds at the desk area, injuring an NYPD lieutenant in the armhours after an assassination attempt on two officers sitting in a van in the same precinct, according to several reports. This was an attempt to murder the very people who work so hard day and night to keep the people of this city safe, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a Sunday press conference. The coward from this mornings…

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Youre Never Going To Get Better If You Remain On The Same Toxic Path

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Holly Riordan Updated February 27, 2020 By Lucas Newton You aren’t going to get better if you remain in the same routine that has you stuck. You aren’t going to get any better if you engage in the same bad habits and associate with the same toxic people, day after day after day. You aren’t going to get any better if you stubbornly stay in this place you’ve been your comfort zone even though you aren’t really comfortable at all. You aren’t going to get any better if you refuse…

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How to watch ‘Last Week Tonight’ season 7

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The Daily Show created many hilarious alums, but none quite as poignant, prescient, or hilarious as John Oliver. The funnyman from across the pond may look like an out-of-work Harry Potter, but his news program far outdoes any other television satire going. He tore Donald Trump a new one when he was simply a presidential prospect and has gone head to head with the titans who make life in this country so terrible, including the gun and tobacco industry. Who will Oliver take down next? Who knows. But considering it’s…

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Some People Are Meant To Let Go

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Daisha Wilson Updated February 27, 2020 Priscilla Du Preez Daisha Wilson Updated February 27, 2020 Priscilla Du Preez Some people come into your life like boosters for a rocket. When rockets go off into space, the boosters fall off when they reach a certain altitude. And just like that rocket, as you reach certain altitudes in your life, not everyone will be able to hold on. So don’t feel discouraged when you start to notice that they fell off. It doesn’t make them bad boosters, they just couldn’t reach where…

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To the Wife Whose Husband Wont Say “Im Sorry”

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ShareTweetPin So you had a beautiful wedding. Maybe bought a house, and you might even have a cute kid or two. Everything was going as planned. It was all falling into place. You read great marriage books, you asked for advice, you made it through premarital counseling. Even the part when you try to convince the therapist or pastor that you hardly ever fight, and you are sure there is enough chemistry to keep sex from becoming a chore. But there is something that feels off. You never imagined this…

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The Smithsonian Puts 2.8 Million Images in the Public Domain

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A Charlie Parker alto sax. The original patent model for the Singer sewing machine. Around 75,000 specimens of bees. All of these live in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, the sprawling cultural organization that comprises 19 museums, nine research centers, and one 163-acre zoo. As of this week, images of these artifacts, part of a trove of 2.8 million digital pictures and 3-D models, will be in the public domain for the first time under the Smithsonian's new Open Access program. The Smithsonian is not the first organization to…

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