What Salary Should You Ask For? How to Figure Out Your Worth

 Posted on August 21, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1082 words  |  Kelle Repass

Whether you’re nailing down the details of a new job offer or hoping to negotiate a raise in a current role, you probably want to make sure you’re being paid fairly. One way to do that, according to experts, is to figure out your market value. Your market value is an estimation of how much you should be earning based on your job title, years of experience, skills and location. Doing research to determine your worth before walking into a salary negotiation can help you get the outcome — and the income — you want. [Read More]

White supremacist who marched in Charlottesville: 'I'm not the angry racist they see in that photo'

 Posted on August 21, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  365 words  |  Martina Birk

"I did not expect the photo to be shared as much as it was," Cvjetanovic told Channel 2 News in Nevada. "I understand the photo has a very negative connotation. But I hope that the people sharing the photo are willing to listen that I'm not the angry racist they see in that photo." The rally Cvjetanovic took part in, called "Unite the Right," was organized to protest the planned removal of a confederate statue in Charlottesville honoring Gen. [Read More]

Who Is Olivia Rodrigo? How Did She Become Pop's Newest Star?

 Posted on August 21, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1072 words  |  Billy Koelling

You don’t have to be a teenager to love Olivia Rodrigo’s music, but it certainly helps. Hitting play on Sour, the 18-year-old Disney star and hit singer-songwriter’s debut album, is a guaranteed one-way ticket to reliving the most potent emotions of adolescence: the all-consuming heartbreak, the envy and insecurity, the sense that everything that’s happening is the biggest thing ever. Mirroring the album’s intensity, Rodrigo’s rise has been quick and efficient: the January release of chart-topper “Drivers License” propelled her to the top of the pop stratosphere. [Read More]

Why Mystery Books Are So Satisfying

 Posted on August 21, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  796 words  |  Tandra Barner

I was 6 when I fell in love with mysteries. Some schoolbook had a (not very accurate) comprehension page about the Mary Celeste, a ship that was found drifting in the Atlantic in 1872, intact—a meal still cooking in the galley—with the crew, passengers, and lifeboat missing, never to be seen again. I was totally enthralled. I can still remember lying on the living-room rug with the book, promising myself that when I died, I would ask God for the answer. [Read More]

Your Tweets Will Soon Show Up on Google Search Results

 Posted on August 21, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  269 words  |  Patria Henriques

Our 140-character tweets will appear more prominently on Google searches in coming months thanks to a deal reportedly signed between the search engine and Twitter. Instead of crawling for data, as Google previously had to do, the search engine giant will now have access to Twitter’s firehose, basically a flow of data created by the microblogging company’s 284 million active users, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. In layman’s terms, this means users will be able to view live tweets instead of Google’s current model of just showing the profile information. [Read More]

10 things men do to hurt women intentionally

 Posted on August 20, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  421 words  |  Kelle Repass

Understanding these behaviours is crucial for women to recognize red flags and prioritize their emotional safety. Here are ten harmful behaviours to be vigilant about: Gaslighting This manipulative tactic aims to make a woman doubt her own reality, emotions, and perceptions. Gaslighting often involves downplaying the significance of a woman's feelings and experiences, leading her to question her sanity and emotional stability. ADVERTISEMENT Emotional manipulation Men may employ emotional manipulation to gain control over a woman's decisions and actions. [Read More]

5 Lottery Winners Who Got in Trouble With the Law

 Posted on August 20, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  552 words  |  Tandra Barner

One of New Jersey’s richest Powerball winners was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a child, prosecutors said, landing him on a growing list of lottery winners who have either befallen misfortune or been accused of a crime. Pedro Quezada, 49, won $338 million — one of the state’s biggest Powerball jackpots in history — in 2013. He was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexually assaulting a young girl for about three years when the child was between 11 and 14 years old, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said in a statement. [Read More]

7 Historians on the Biggest Political Scandals in US History

 Posted on August 20, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1567 words  |  Kelle Repass

With nearly 250 years of American history accounted for, it’s perhaps no surprise that the nation’s political life has had its good and bad moments. Political scandals have dogged Washington from the beginning, and continue to this day — a fact of which the nation was reminded on Thursday by the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report on the Russia scandal. It’s too soon to conclude where the Mueller report and surrounding saga will fit in the history of American political scandal, but other moments have firmly solidified their places in that past. [Read More]

Actor Bob Manuel Udokwu's wife debunks death rumours, says her children are traumatised

 Posted on August 20, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  768 words  |  Patria Henriques

In a post shared via her Facebook page on Tuesday, July 27, 2020, Udokwu expressed worry at the number of articles published with stories of her death and that of her children. "A lot of people undermine death. They forget that it is a grave occurrence and not something to be spoken lightly of or joked about. I know death. I’ve lived it. Death drains. It hurts. It changes you. [Read More]

All-TIME 100 Songs

 Posted on August 20, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  135 words  |  Billy Koelling

It’s often considered the greatest movie song of all time, but it almost didn’t make it into the final cut. When The Wizard of Oz was in previews, MGM thought the opening Kansas sequence was too long and that the song slowed the film down. Later, after making it into the film, “Over the Rainbow” won an Academy Award for Best Song. The tune itself is pop perfection. At just over two minutes, its lilting, free-floating melody and uplifting orchestral backing perfectly evoke Dorothy’s hopes of leaving the only home she’s known. [Read More]