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Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from Houston, Texas, has admitted to having an eight-month affair culminating in an aborted pregnancy with her 13-year-old student.
Investigators said that the illicit relationship began after the boy contacted Vera on Instagram, and they began having sex over the course of nine months.
One fellow student told KTRK that the pair’s flirtation spilled over into the classroom, where the boy once was seen grabbing his teacher’s behind.
Vera claimed to investigators that the boy’s parents knew what was happening, approved of it and let their son stay over at her house and were supportive of her keeping the baby.
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10 Odd And Unusual Things To Do In Los Angeles – Van Life Wanderer
How to Fact Check Suspicious Science Stories for Yourself – Popular Science
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show – WSJ
If you are a side-sleeper, get this pillow. The difference in your sleep quality will be night and day! – Amazon
Radio host who spurned vaccines, mocked AIDS patients dies of covid-19 – Gazette
Billions wiped from Macau casino stocks as city eyes gambling review – MSN
Tourists Are Now Smoking Toad Venom in Mexico’s Hipster Town Tulum – VICE
SpaceX set to make history with first all-civilian crew launched into orbit – Yahoo
Be a Schedule Builder, Not a To-Do List Maker – Nir And Far
What Is Financial Infidelity? Being transparent about money matters is critical in partnerships and marriage. Here’s how to spot financial infidelity — and rectify it – Shondaland
Trump claims the California recall election was rigged less than an hour after polls closed – Insider
R. Kelly Sexually Abused Aaliyah When She Was 13 or 14, Witness Says – NY Times
Top 10 Movies that Launched a Genre – Listverse
Get all the benefits of the sauna without having to use the dirty one at the local gym – Amazon
What Happened When I Ate The Best Brain Foods For A Week – Fast Co
Men Think These 4 Things Attract Women But They Actually Don’t – Wing Girl Method
Some anti-vaxxers are gargling the common antiseptic Betadine in an attempt to treat and prevent the coronavirus – Newsweek
Nihilisa Frank Asks, Is Kawaiilism the Answer to Our Existential Dread? – Geek Extreme
Here Are The Worst Car Myths: Some of these have been around so long people actually believe them – Jalopnik
A damn fine collection of ‘perfect’ women (nsfw) – Leenks
Of course, it’s a gallery of cores set in corsets – The Chive
10 Little Tricks That Can Help You Look Better in Photos – Bright Side
Britney Spears Bikini and Heels of the Day – Drunken
Thonged Chargers Fan is Back! – Egotastic
After Years of Waiting, We Have a Real Electric Truck, And Maybe a New Elon Musk – Inside Hook
36 of the Best New iOS 15 Features for iPhone – Life Hacker
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Pennsylvania Church Holds ‘Blessing’ Ceremony Featuring AR-15 Rifles
Worshippers in a Pennsylvania church clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged wedding vows in a commitment ceremony.
The event at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland, Wayne County, led a nearby school to cancel classes.
The Rev. Sean Moon leads the controversial church. He and his wife are known as the king and queen. Moon said in a prayer Wednesday that God gave people the right to bear arms. He held a gold AR-15 rifle throughout the ceremony.
Moon is the son of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, often described as a cult, in the 1950s.
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The 20 Fastest Growing Jobs in the Next Decade – Visual Capitalist
An awesome tripod for smartphones. It is light enough to take anywhere but strong enough for the heaviest smartphone and even some cameras. It is also flexible and can be propped and manipulated to hold your camera in incredibly weird ways – Amazon
Is St. Louis Safe To Visit? – Van Life Wanderer
Prince Andrew served with papers in US sexual assault lawsuit – Bloomberg
After his death, Ted Williams (the last baseball player to hit .400) was decapitated and his head cryogenically frozen at a lab in Arizona so he could be brought back to life in the future – Deadspin
Tesla opens a showroom on Native American land in New Mexico, getting around the state’s ban on automakers selling vehicles straight to consumers – Business Insider
Emma Raducanu, whose stunning victory at the US Open earned her $2.5 million, said her initial goal was to win enough prize money to replace her broken AirPods – Insider
Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, says Dutch court – Reuters
Man who spent 15 years on death row before exoneration dies of Covid – NBC
5 Things You Do Not Want to Tell the Man You’re Dating – Linkiest
Octavia Spencer Recommends Britney Spears Get a Prenup After She Announced Her Engagement to Long Term BF – Yahoo
I don’t know how people live without a back scratcher. I keep one near my desk. The pleasure of an hard to reach itch scratched is incomparable – Amazon
Teddy Moutinho – Interview, Photos, and More – Unfinished Man
Putin self-isolates after Covid cases in inner circle – France 24
Logic Problems to Challenge Your Bored Brain – Popular Science
6 Things You Need to Do to Prevent Getting Hacked – Wired
Apple Issues Critical Patch To Fix Security Hole Exploited By Spyware Company – NPR
Jeff Bridges Says “Cancer is in remission" – Consequence
This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature – Smithsonian
Litecoin price jumped 20 percent after hoax linked the cryptocurrency to Walmart – The Verge
Megan Fox Reveals Inspiration For Viral ‘Naked Dress’ at 2021 MTV Video Music Awards – Maxim
Woman Strolling Through Airport In Only A Bikini And A Mask Goes Viral – Ruin My Week
A Trial Lawyer on What to Wear to Get Out of Jury Duty – Mel Magazine
What Parenting Really Looks Like
What Is It Like To Have An Autistic Child?
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My daughter is nearly 19, she is the 5th of 5 children and if she had been first there would likely have not been more. She is time intensive and energy draining. She is not adaptive. She is at the higher end of the specturm although she has some very extreme deficits as well.
This past week she told me that she hates my guts, that she never gets enough attention, that is is unreasonable to only get 5 to 6 hours of my attention and conversation a day.
We could never get up and just decide to go to the zoo, because she doesn’t operate on spur of the moment. Everything has to be planned well in advance.
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Former Huntington Beach councilman is brutally KO’d – Streamable
Pictures and Videos of the Day – Ned Hardy
FBI releases first declassified 9/11 document after Biden order – Reuters
Sudden downpours come with a heightened risk for flooding and mudslides. You can help control floodwaters by stacking sandbags in front of doorways or garages to block seepage or by piling them up to form makeshift mini dams. But for city folk looking for hassle-free prep, “sandless” bags are the way to go – Amazon
Transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin wins MMA debut – NY Post
Twelve hours in a Florida COVID-19 ICU – Tampa Bay Times
Former WWE star Al Snow saves boy from riptide in ocean – TMZ
Blockchain, explained Blocks? Chains? How does this whole thing work? – The Verge
Seven Pro Wrestlers that Died too young – Linkiest
Study of 486 families finds essentially no influence of adoptive parents on adoptees’ IQ in adulthood, providing further evidence for the predominance of genetic influences on adult intelligence – Science Direct
Why Do I Hate Computer Science? – Geek Extreme
This garden hose will make your life easier, its super lightweight, it never tangles, or twists and is super easy to store – Amazon
A damn fine collection of hot women – Leenks
Karens Start Facebook Group Named ‘Karens United’ To Rally Against Being Called Karens – Unilad
Maryland Man Gets 10 Years for Semen-Filled Syringe Attack – CBS
In 2018 Bob Costas was removed from his spot on the Super Bowl and fired from NBC for submitting a monologue that discussed the dangers of concussions during the Super Bowl – ESPN
Los Angeles voted most expensive, inconvenient and over rated city in North America – Timeout
Church leader follows teen girl into bathroom to tell her she’s ‘too fat’ for shorts – Reddit
9 Gym Machines You Should Never Use—and the Alternative Exercises You Should Be Doing Instead – Men’s Journal
The Secret to Living a Meaningful Life – BBC
Larry Elder prepares for California recall loss and claims fraud even though vote hasn’t even taken place – SacBee
Why most gas stations don’t make money from selling gas – The Hustle
Everything You Didn’t Know About the Trusty Tape Measure – The Art of Manliness
Taking Your Girl to Hooters and Other Videos of the Day – Drunken
Kendra Lust Drops a Thirst Trap for Her Lions! – Egotastic
The Essential Guide To Building Your Bug-Out Bag
Whether it’s a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood, or any number of other emergencies, a fully stocked bag of emergency gear allows you and your family to quickly evacuate to a shelter or other secure location without forgetting any basic survival supplies and tools.
Let’s get one thing out of the way — yes, this is “prepper” mentality. Guess what. There’s no shame in being prepared. A certain organization has “Be Prepared” as their motto — and it’s meant to mitigate this exact sort of tragedy. And look at how many people literally had their lives suddenly and unexpectedly destroyed in this past storm. How will you respond to a crisis when it’s your turn?
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