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rise is always fun to rewatch for me because of its attention to design details. these screenshots are from the bug busters episode. look at his battle shell: we see in these shots that it's designed to be flexible and not constraining for his movement
if you ever held a mango cut like this, you'll get the idea of how donnie's battle shell works
#i put a screenshot of my old tweet on my personal account but it got too much attention#seems like people find it useful so im putting it here too#i kept the caption as it was in the orig tweet#maybe one day i infodump about fleo's arm mechanics cos im a cybernerd... maybe#rottmnt
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Recently, I stumbled upon this Tweet:
On the linked web site, you can draw circles freehand. Then a programme analyzes how close to perfect your circle is. I tried a few times (at the PC using my mouse, by the way), and with a bit of practice you can get decent results. My first scores were 6,450, 950, 5334, 17,142 and finally 40,581:
Then I started trying other approximations of the circle and got nice scores that way. The octagon seems to be a better circle than my best real circle so far:
In the original tweet, the example shows a circle with a score of 1,197,568. That is quite impressive, and I wanted to get there, too. So I tried painting better circles, but didn’t get very far. My best freehand circle scored 68,688 and didn’t look better than the previous one:
The main difference between the two seemed to be the number of points (the slower you draw, the denser the lines get and the more points you have on the screen), but that isn’t consistent either – the circle scoring 17,142 consists of 300 points, the one scoring 49,581 has 282 points, the third scoring 68,688 has 539. The squares don’t really show this connection either:
But I kept coming back to the circle from the tweet with the million score. My freehand circles finally maxed out at 88,289, so I decided to cheat a little bit. I used a compass to draw a perfect circle on paper, cut it out and used the paper as a kind of stencil in front of the display. With this help, I drew circles scoring 798,000, then 2,609,000, and finally 52,462,000:
(Now I wonder what score a really perfect circle would get – infinite?) Anyway, after that I didn’t feel like trying to get better and did other stuff:
Amazing what weird forms get good scores, but you don’t even have to draw geometrical forms or faces or stuff, even just hatching areas of the screen with lines, ordered or random, even scrawling wildly across the screen will get you good scores:
You even get reasonable scores using very few points, but it shouldn’t be too few, else the scores nosedive:
Segments of circles work as well:
Then I wondered how low a score you can get. It is possible to get a score of 0:
In between I came across some weird things:
Next to the octagon mentioned above there are other approximations that work quite well:
I still don’t understand how the thing determines where to put he circle that is the basis for calculating the score. In other words, I don’t know why the thing puts the circles where it puts them, or how the size is determined. The connection between my scrawlings and the resulting circles appears sketchy at times:
But this doesn’t really matter, in the end it is just a wild swirl of nothing anyway:
Perfect Circles Recently, I stumbled upon this Tweet: On the linked web site, you can draw circles freehand.
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Good Girls series on Netflix is an unpredictable hit!
Good Girls series on Netflix is an unpredictable hit!
GOOD GIRLS — “Find Your Beach” Episode 301 — Pictured: (l-r) Retta as Ruby Hill, Christina Hendricks as Beth Boland, Mae Whitman as Annie Marks — (Photo by: Jordin Althaus/NBC)
Positive Celebrity rating:
The Good Girls series is an excellent show, worth viewing multiple times not only for enjoyment but cinematic effects as well (4.5/5). In fact, Good Girls was renewed for a third season of 16 total episodes, which will premiere February 16, 2020!
Netflix seems to be killing it with their current content the genres all have some great line-ups including Good Girls, The Witcher, You, Messiah, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Eli, Ghosts of Sugar Land, Before I Wake, etc.
In fact, we have been watching the first seasons of new films and shows on Netflix.
That being the case, one show, Good Girls, stood out to us because it brings forth a lot of positivity, emotionally draws the audience in and never fails to make us rapidly hit the “I’m still here,” button.
Yes, The Good Girls is that unique of a show.
The new series has brought forth a lot of the things people face daily with a dramatic and comedic twist.
“Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.”
Isn’t it true there are good people, who make bad decisions at times in life?
90 Day fiancé: Happily Ever after is real talk.
With that in mind, you can see why their friendship is strong.
Yes, they have support for one another due to bad choices.
Regardless, from a mental perspective, it shows how important it is to have healthy friendships.
You never know what a person might be facing in silence, be a good friend and reach out.
At the beginning of the “Good Girls,” I kept thinking about “How there could be so much money in a grocery store?”
Then it all made sense…
Cinematography and transitions were amazing, the whole crew did an amazing job.
I cannot stress this enough, transition means so much in film and done right it can pull on two different emotions.
MAIN CAST OF GOOD GIRLS
Christina Hendricks as Elizabeth “Beth” Boland.
Retta as Ruby Hill, Beth’s best friend, a waitress who is struggling to pay for her daughter Sara’s kidney disease.
Mae Whitman as Annie Marks, Beth’s younger sister and mother of Sadie. Sadie was born when Annie was still a teenager. She works at a grocery store called Fine and Frugal.
Reno Wilson as Stanley Hill, Ruby’s mall-cop-turned-actual-cop husband.
Manny Montana as Christopher, also known as Rio, a high ranking criminal who has a money laundering business. He supports his business through wrapping paper, pills, cars and other creative ways.
Lidya Jewett as Sara Hill, Ruby’s and Stan’s daughter who has kidney disease.
Isaiah Stannard as Sadie Marks.
Matthew Lillard as Dean Boland, Beth’s cheating car salesman husband. Due to his decisions, the plot took the turns it did to make a captivating show.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jerzy Zieliński
Darren Genet
Robert Reed Altman
Tim Bellen
EDITORS
Brad Katz
Todd Gerlinger
Shoshanah Tanzer
Kenneth LaMere
Maura Corey
FAVORITE SCENE – NO SPOILERS
Man, this scene crushed, it happens and it goes to show how corrupt our government can be in order to merely “solve a case.”
“You know what I have been thinking about, how you sat at our table and said we were the same.”
Detective: “Not so much, huh?”
“Not at all, brother.”
How many people do you think are in jail or prison when they shouldn’t be?
Further, how many stories have you read about x person getting out after 50+ years after they were finally found not guilty.
FUNNY FACTS ABOUT THE GOOD GIRLS SERIES
It brought to my attention how bad it is to eat those banquet beef meals from the frozen section at the supermarket.
The Good Girls episode called “One Last Time,” was absolutely hilarious, we loved the loan guy’s personality, that was the perfect mesh into the storyline.
You can’t deny we all have that one friend who wants a damn burrito.
With that in mind, it was Chelsea Handler who said:
“If you can make someone laugh, you can make someone listen,” and they nailed it, especially in those scenes of “crime and drama,” but a dash of “comedy.”
Then the girls feeding him in the back of the car holding him until the morning hours to finish “the job,” absolutely hilarious, the script for these scenes is excellent.
To end, if you haven’t had the chance to watch the Good Girls series on Netflix, give it a go, you won’t regret it but make sure to do it on a binge day, unless of course, you can run on little to no sleep.
Currently, the Good Girls series on Netflix has two successful seasons.
Amazing production, a phenomenal cast, and crew.
We noticed the show started as a short on IMDB and soon grew it’s own empire, truly deserved, can’t wait for more episodes.
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Well, if you were wondering why I haven’t been very active lately, here’s a bit of an update.
If you missed out on Life Update: 2019 Hates Me, check that out. 2019 has not been kind to me at all. Like, Things kept going to wrong, and it decided to come to a head in August.
I had a recent issue involving boundaries with a family member that lead to my post How to Know When it’s Time To Set Boundaries. Things can get pretty rough when you try to create boundaries and people keep breaking them. Eventually you hit a breaking point, which is what happened with me.
So, a great way to get away from some problems like this is maybe a weekend away? How about a trip to the beach! That sounds great right?
So I planned with my friend who I went on vacation with (check out my post on that here), packed up a bag with all of my beach things, including water shoes since Connecticut beaches seem to be a bit more… seashell laden than the Jersey Shore, and got myself ready for the beach!
If you’ve been keeping up with things so far, you might gander that something was going to go wrong. And you would be right.
This is what I walked out to when I tried packing up my car:
Yeah, some asshole decided a 2007 Jeep Liberty with no air conditioning was the best choice in the parking lot of my apartment building to try and steal.
It’s been over two weeks and my car hasn’t really been fixed. Well, it has, but it’s complicated.
In order to fix everything, the key fobs needed to be reprogrammed to work with the car. Unfortunately when I went to go pick it up the other day, it seems that the programming for that wasn’t entirely fixed right. Random dash lights kept going on, and when I told the car shop about that they said I needed to return it because something wasn’t calibrated right.
So I’m still in a rental.
In other news, due to my current apartment is raising the rent, and the recent break in, I’m moving! I’ll be moving closer to work, which is nice, but I’ll have two roommates. They seem nice enough. Maybe I’ll do a bedroom tour post once I get in and settled!
So, that’s what’s been going on, and still is going on. If you want to help out with some of the financial aspects of all of this (car insurance deductibles aren’t cheap!) You can donate through my Ko-Fi page here.
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Life Update: August 2019 Well, if you were wondering why I haven't been very active lately, here's a bit of an update.
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New top story from Time: These Baltimore Residents Say Trump’s ‘Rodent’ Tweets Ring True. They Live in Homes Owned by Jared Kushner’s Family
BALTIMORE (AP) — Davon Jones doesn’t have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump’s tweets that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” His apartment owned by the president’s son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago. “I don’t know how they come in,” Jones says. “Every time I catch them, they come right back.”
Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area, and some have been criticized for the same kind of disrepair and neglect that the president has accused local leaders of failing to address. Residents have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks and, yes, mice — plenty of mice. And they say management appears in no hurry to fix the problems.
“They don’t care,” says Dezmond James, who says he has spotted as many as three mice a week since he moved in to the Commons at White Marsh in suburban Middle River four years ago.
Julio Cortez—APMice droppings are seen near a mouse trap and a glue trap in the kitchen of Davon Jones’ residence at the Commons at White Marsh apartments, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in Baltimore. The apartment complex is owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump, who days earlier vilified Congressman Elijah Cummings’ majority-black Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”
James says he sees a massive contradiction in Trump’s much-publicized tweets laying the blame for Baltimore’s poverty, crime and rodent problems on frequent antagonist Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings. Trump, he said, should look more at what he — and specifically Kushner — could do about it. “His son-in-law owns all of this — then he can fix it. I’m pretty sure he has a lot of money,” says James, who is studying to be a medical assistant. “That’s kind of weird that you want to talk trash. … If you want to make improvements, you can make improvements.”
Conditions got so bad two years ago that the Baltimore County government issued a release showing the Kushner Cos. had violated housing codes more than 200 times in just 10 months and only moved to fix the problems after being threatened with fines. “I had black mold in my cabinets. I called them, I called them, I called them. And they never did anything,” says Simone Ryer who moved out Whispering Woods in Middle River two years ago. “That was more than enough for me to leave.”
In a statement, the Kushner Cos. said it was proud of its Baltimore-area apartments and has worked to maintain a “high quality residential experience for our tenants” by investing “substantial amounts” in upkeep.
A website for the Commons at White Marsh boasts of “amenities that amaze,” but many of the 181 comments posted by residents at the review site apartmentratings.com complain of rats, mold, bedbugs, roaches and leaks. The reviews say management is generally unresponsive.
A 2017 report by the New York Times and ProPublica about residents at Kushner-owned developments echoed many of those online complaints, with one woman saying she found a mouse on her 12-year-old child’s bed. The Kushner Cos. told the Times at the time that it is had spent $10 million on its properties, but their age means issues can still arise. A Baltimore Sun story the same year found the Kushner Cos. used the courts to arrest tenants late on rent more than any other landlord in the state.
And a lawsuit seeking class-action status for residents alleges Westminster Management, the Kushner subsidiary that oversees rental properties in Maryland and other states, often charges tenants illegal and excessive fees that keeps them in constant fear of eviction and guessing what they owe. Westminster has said it has broken no laws and denies the charges.
Jared Kushner took in $3.1 million from Westminster in the past two years, according to financial disclosure reports he filed with the federal government. He stepped down as CEO of parent company Kushner Cos. when he and his wife, Ivanka Trump, joined the White House as senior advisers to the president, but he still retains a financial interest and draws money from many of its operations.
Julio Cortez—APCarrie Newson watches television in the dining area inside her home at the Dutch Village apartments, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in Baltimore. Newson has complained to management about mice and mold in her home but the issues have yet to be fixed. The apartment complex is owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump.
At the Kushners’ Dutch Village community in Baltimore, Ronald Newson says his 86-year-old mother, Carrie, has been asking maintenance staff for nearly a year to patch a hole in her ceiling from a leak on the second floor, and that someone has to come to kill all the mice she’s been living with. As a stopgap measure, she jammed the leg of a chair against a hole in the corner of her living room, but they kept coming out anyway. They also come from behind her stove.
“It takes them a long time to get repairs done,” the son said. He suggested that Trump, instead of blaming Cummings for the city’s problems, should look to landlords like Kushner, too.
“He talks about everyone but his son-in-law.”
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Apple Quietly Recalls 2 iPhone 6’s | The 6s for Some Faulty Batteries & 6+ for Some Faulty Cameras
Tweet Apple Has Kept Their iPhone 6s Battery Recall Program A Well Guarded Secret I Know Because I Ended Up Buying One of the Faulty Models I’m writing this post because of my experience upon discovering that my awful battery problem had a solution. Later on I discuss the faulty camera problem…but in much less depth because I have no personal experience with it. I Discovered That My iPhone 6s Was…
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This Is the Literal End of Especia
This Is the Literal End of Especia @EspeciaOfficial #homicidols
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One of the Greats. And Sylvester Stallone.
Golden Globe and Tony Award winner, and multiple time Emmy nominee, Brian Dennehy has passed at 81, and the actor that Pauline Kael in her February 24th, 1986 review of F/X called “the kind of actor John Wayne would be if he was an actor” is getting deserved respect far and wide, as his theater and television work playing Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, his film work in First Blood, Cocoon, Tommy Boy and many others. His beefiness could be used for menace but it could also be all sensitivity, and he showed considerable wit in F/X and Silverado. I want to speak off the cuff of a few deeper cuts in Dennehy’s repertoire.
Early Dennehy turns I was exposed to by the fabled WHT!
While many are rightly naming First Blood as his breakout role, we knew Dennehy early in our household, as my dad loved him as the sympathetic Club Med bartender listening to Dudley Moore whine about his marriage and strategize how to seduce Bo Derek in Blake Edwards’ 10, and I still remember his memorable turn as a heavy in Walter Matthau’s Little Miss Marker, co-starring Tony Curtis, Julie Andrews and Bob Newhart, one a major film and one quite minor, but both of which were in regular rotation on Wometco Home Theater back in those days.
Everyone remembers Bo Derek from 10, But I remember Dennehy.
Dennehy overpowering Newhart and Curtis in Little Miss Marker.
Neither those nor a memorable turn around that time in Michael Ritchie’s Semi-Tough that I caught up with later are necessarily where you should go tonight to pay respect to one of our great character actors, although they are all solid character parts. I wish to bring up a few later works you may/may not be aware of.
“Best Seller” Good disreputable fun.
BEST SELLER — Directed by John (Rolling Thunder) Flynn and written by high-concept legend Larry Cohen, BEST SELLER is one of those crazy baroque and occasionally silly Cohen thrillers involving a best-selling author played by Dennehy who gets caught up with a sociopathic hit man played by James Woods who wants him to write his life story. It doesn’t wholly hang together, but its shopworn parts are kept humming by two ace mechanics in Dennehy and Woods. Woods gives one of his terrifically feral performances, and Dennehy gives it some dimension, some credible emotion and realism. It’s a lot of fun.
Character Actors Unite!
LAST OF THE FINEST — A conventional L.A. cop film, looking better in the rear-view mirror because they don’t make conventional cop films so much anymore, and because a solid director, John Mackenzie (who made a true classic, the British crime flick The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren) worked with an excellent who’s-who-of-late-80s-character-actors cast, with Dennehy getting a rare lead: Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, and Bill Paxton all give able support. A serviceable flick, and that’s not meant in the pejorative. Action, drama, some cliches, and a chance for Dennehy to be front and center.
The Belly of the Architect.
THE BELLY OF THE ARCHITECT — The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (remember that? it was a solid mid-level art-house hit around 1988) was made by notorious, committed-to-his-vision filmmaker Peter Greenaway. A couple years before it he gave Dennehy another lead as an architect whose health and marriage deteriorate while he’s in Rome. Definitely an art film about alienation and mortality, and not for all tastes, it nevertheless is a showcase for a major Dennehy performance, again in a lead, showcasing his versatility. Put him in Europe with a self-serious auteur or in a fistfight with Sylvester Stallone, Dennehy could do it all.
Curious billing.
INDIO — this one is kind of junky, an Italian action flick that I’m just pointing out because it is the flip-side of Architect. Those who like seeing Americans taking paychecks to work in low-budget euro-genre flicks will enjoy Dennehy take his turn at bat, somehow getting lower billing than boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler on the poster! I hope the check paid for an in-ground pool at Dennehy’s nice Malibu spread or something.
This still bleeds intensity.
SPLIT IMAGE — First Blood director Ted Kotcheff made this underrated movie about trying to deprogram a young man brainwashed by a cult, which was overshadowed at the time by art house success Ticket to Heaven with Nick Mancuso. But this holds up, with a superior cast including Miles O’Keefe (Great Santini and Caddyshack) as the troubled young man, Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley as his distraught parents, Peter Fonda as the charismatic cult leader, and James Woods again showing up on a Dennehy set to play the deprogrammer. Kotcheff could make some turkeys, but he’s an underrated director who has directed several excellent films in many genres, including Wake in Fright, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, North Dallas 40, Uncommon Valor, Weekend at Bernie’s, and, yes, the original First Blood.
I’ll just add that Dennehy’s scenes in Righteous Kill with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are a guilty pleasure; the film is crap, but as they gave the two leads enough money to show up in this craptastic cop thriller, playing active street detectives despite both being around 70 at the time, they had to find someone older, bigger, and talented enough that he cold convincingly play a captain who could chew their asses out. Sure enough, Brian Dennehy was the man they called, and De Niro and Pacino wake up and actually get a spark going with him in their few scenes together.
(Left to right.) Robert De Niro, Brian Dennehy and Al Pacino star in Overture Films’ RIGHTEOUS KILL.
As Stallone, the star of First Blood, of course, tweeted today, “the world has lost a great artist.”
R.I.P. Brian Dennehy. Even in the middle of a prolonged crisis, this news stands out. We miss you already.
Brian Dennehy, 1938-2020: Some Non-Rambo Choices to Watch this Week Golden Globe and Tony Award winner, and multiple time Emmy nominee, Brian Dennehy has passed at 81, and the actor that Pauline Kael in her February 24th, 1986 review of…
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CM Punk and Paige Joke About Spots In the WWE Royal Rumble 2020
#CMPunk and #Paige Joke About Spots In the WWE Royal Rumble 2020
WWE Backstage analysts CM Punk and Paige took to Twitter over the weekend and joked about being in the 30-Man and 30-Woman Royal Rumble Matches later this month.
Paige tweeted, “I am coming back to the #royalrumble you guys. I’m entering myself into the men’s and being number 2 and taking that bish to suplex city then go on to win the whole thing.. [face with tears of joy emoji]”
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Davido reveals when he will quit smoking as Don Jazzy celebrates one year without cigarettes
Davido reveals when he will quit smoking as Don Jazzy celebrates one year without cigarettes
Mavin producer, Don Jazzy, on Wednesday celebrated one year of quitting smoking.
The ‘Ijeoma crooner who quit smoking last year took to his Twitter handle @DONJAZZY to announce that he has kept to his promise.
He wrote, “Today makes it one year since I quit smoking. Clap for me please,” he tweeted.
Responding to a fan who asked how he was able to quit smoking, he said:
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Episode N0. 64 Nurturing The Relationship You Have With Yourself
Episode N0. 64 Nurturing The Relationship You Have With Yourself
[Tweet “The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.”- Diane Von Furstenberg”]
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PASADENA, Calif. | ABC executive sees silver lining in Oscar flap: interest
PASADENA, Calif. | ABC executive sees silver lining in Oscar flap: interest
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Oscar disarray over the exit of Kevin Hart as the host of the show had an upside — people paid attention, ABC’s entertainment president said Tuesday.
“Ironically, I have found that the lack of clarity … has kept the Oscars really in the conversation, and the mystery has been really compelling,” said Karey Burke, whose network is the ceremony’s longtime home.
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Toke Makinwa is taking us down memory lane to some of trying times in her life.
Toke Makinwa might be one of the most successful celebrities around but she has also faced some obstacles in life which are worth telling like the time she was robbed, her marriage failed and was ridiculed about it.
The gorgeous multi-talented media personality made this known on her Instagram page on Friday, August 17, 2018. If you are very conversant with Toke’s Instagram page, you will notice that she regularly post messages about her Christian faith and her latest post gives a download of her experience in 2015.
“Felt led to share this here. I was on a workcation sometime in 2015, my career was picking up, I was a newlywed, everything was groovy and I had to represent a brand in Paris. Each time I’m away, I find it easier to pray. (Something about Lagos and the hustle and bustle, you know what I mean) As I settled down the first night I was praying and I had an epiphany, maybe na vision sef I sha know something strange happened. I woke up and burst out the words “the glory of my latter days will overshadow my former.” Correct message, went about my duties on cloud 9, God has promised me good and there was nothing to fear.
“Fast forward to a night before we left Paris, the team had a big dinner with an international brand and I was tempted to go. I was invited and It was going to be fun. My hustler mode kicked in, I could market myself sone more for future work but the spirit told me to have a quiet evening with God. It was a tough one o, dinner with Vogue or pray? Prayer won that night and it wasn’t good. I started to pray, fell asleep and woke up. It was as if someone had been In my room, I blurted out the words; “you’ll walk thru fire , but I will be with you”. Which kind of message was this? Checked my windows and surroundings and as soon as I confirmed no one was there, I cast it off as a bad dream, prayed and slept. The next day I was robbed and a lot of money was taken. I remembered the dream and told myself the robbers have taken my problems and I flew home.
“Few months after, hell was on earth, everything I had was broken, I was a subject of ridicule and shame and everything went left. Tonight reading this I remembered both vision. God is not a man, he walked with me, he kept his word, he has restored all I thought I lost and made me a praise on earth. O ti mu mi gbagbe, ibanuje ana!!!!! Why my long epistle? No vex, somebody might be walking in that fire now, don’t buckle, don’t quit. He has prepared you for this. Rest in his care for your future is far brighter n greater than now. Thank you for reading stay blessed ❤️,” she wrote.
Toke Makinwa isn’t the kind of celebrity is who runs out of what to say on social media, and we love it because she keeps her fans and admirers wanting to read more about her views on certain topics which sometimes are controversial.
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“Staying in marriage for financial gains is lame” – Toke Makinwa says
Toke Makinwa is dishing out advice to women who get married for financial gains as a lame move. The multi-talented media personality made this known via her Twitter page on Thursday, August 9, 2018. According to Toke, it is lame for any woman to stay in a marriage for financial gains.
“Staying in a domestic marriage because of financial gain or the lies you tell yourself about surviving is lame, I’m yet to see anyone leave a bad situation do badly, it’s the fear that keeps you from your potential,” she tweeted
She also went on to advice women to get busy with their lives by getting a job or just do something for a living.
“If she’s dead, they will survive. Women need to get busy, relying on a man can put you I jeopardy. Use your hands, get up, get busy,” she concluded. Let’s just say these tweets will indeed get a number of women rethinking the reasons they decide to get married.
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Pokhran test in 1998 is a time in history which changed how India was viewed by the world. Those in power always want to stay powerful. They find ways to stop others from growing powerful.But India no longer wanted to be a victim of circumstances and greed of more powerful nations!
India is a country which in 2500 years,has never invaded another territory. But has been invaded multiple times by foreign powers-APJ Abdul Kalam (President of India)
That’s why India needed to become a nuclear power. The logic was simple. If you want to keep your home safe, you make your own home stronger. That’s what our Government, under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee made India a Nuclear power.
Pokhran Nuclear test: What was it?
Pokhran was India’s second nuclear test. It happened in Rajasthan, in Indian Army’s Pokhran test range. The hot arid deserts helped keep India’s secret safe.
Pokhran Nuclear tests: The why?
USA, Russia, UK, France, and China already were nuclear powers before 1967 .and though they signed the in a treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear weapons, have yet to destroy their entire stash of nuclear warheads. The treaty said they would help when in need. But imagine your neighbor having that kind of power. That won’t help you sleep peacefully.
One country was from which we had wrested freedom and one more who shares several borders with India, was already a nuclear power. An unscrupulous neighbor who could never be trusted. What the Government did is called Preventive medicine like vaccines, or strategic defense. However you look at it, a foreign nation will think twice about attacking India. It serves as a warning.
Every Action has an Equal an opposite reaction:Newtons’ Third law !
Not something which helped India sleep peacefully. It was time to get stronger, not to attack but to defend. That’s the why behind India’s birth as a Nuclear power.
Who all did it?
The scientists at DRDO and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Indian Army
Government of India
Parmanu: Nation first !
APJ Abdul Kalam :The chief of DRDO during Pokhran
What Pokhran Achieved?
India tested five Nuclear warheads. One fusion and Four fission. The developing and testing was under such secrecy to avoid detection by eyes in the sky. The passion,.courage, and dedication of the scientists and politicians who made this possible make them superheroes.I t also sent out a strong message to the world.
Indians believe in nonviolence, but we can protect our own.
Enough of being invaded.L oving and caring for neighbors is fine, but if the same neighbor attack or cast aspirations on our motherland, we are prepared.
India and Indians appreciate their Independence .It will never allow a foreign power to invade and take over again.
India has the brains and brawns to stand with the most advanced nations in this world.
India will stand by its own word to its citizen, they will be kept safe.
India can keep a secret.
India is an ancient land and the people value their motherland to keep it safe.
India is a responsible nuclear power.
You can catch this amazing movie of valor, Indian intelligence, Indian scientists and a wise Government who knew it was time to act. Whether it was foresight, historical perspective or good intelligence, is for us to guess and for them to know then Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief APJ Abdul Kalam who later become our Late President famously said, nuclear weapons were for “national security”
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The Critical view:
Is it overly simplistic? Is it a nationalistic viewpoint without sense? Is it propaganda? Nuclear power is destructive, why risk it?
My answers:
It’s not simple, but a cinematic representation of an event whose entire details cannot be revealed, because of national security.
It is nationalistic and I find no harm in that.
It is not propaganda but a necessary part of modern India, you should know about.
Nuclear power is destructive, but it can be used for constructive purposes. Both fission and fusion happens simultaneously inside the sun, What will you call the sun? Science and technology are rarely evil or good. Their application and the people behind them, decide the nature of the action. India will never be the first to use the nuclear weapons. Our ex-Prime Minister Mr.Vajpayee promised that. He also wanted India to be safe.
Pokhran was needed and the Parmanu movie is a spy thriller! It’s a must watch, to know how India hoodwinked foreign intelligence and become a Nuclear power!
This Independence Day, let’s celebrate India’s journey in becoming a super-power country of the world! On August 15, 12 Noon, Zee Cinema brings to us ‘India Ka Superpower Moment’ with the World T.V. Premier of Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran
Parmanu movie:My Thoughts on Pokhran Pokhran test in 1998 is a time in history which changed how India was viewed by the world.
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Guest Post: Finding Your Creative Process
Finding your creative process can be a unique experience for each of us. When we are drawn to create there are so many sources for inspiration. My friend Shannon is an amazing artist. Not only is she an award winning fine artist who specialize in oil paintings but she’s fantastically creative. She specializes in Contemporary Coastal Vignettes and is currently working on a series of beautiful abstracts. I asked Shannon to share her thoughts on creativity, what inspires her and how she finds her creative process.
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My friend Naomi asked me recently how I get my creative juices flowing and it was a joy to think about this and share my process.
A perfectly inspired creative day for me begins with being outside in the morning! There has never been anything that inspires me more creatively than being outside experiencing God’s awesome canvas. Especially here in California where I have lived for most of my life. Now that I live a block from the ocean, either a beach walk, bike ride or a Yoga by the Sea class are my favorites. In a pinch, a simple walk around the block with my puppy works well too. Not much inspires me more than crashing waves or hanging out at a local harbor watching commercial fishing boats come and go while giant sea lions bark and play in the water. I also love watching giant herons and dolphins. Another of my favorite things to do is go whale watching, it feels so primal and calming to see them move through the water. When I’m in the Conejo Valley in Southern California where I’ve lived the longest, a hike through a local canyon or an oak tree forest hoping for a deer sighting is another favorite way to inspiration. All those interesting shadows and plays of light through the craggy trees get my mind racing on what the next best way I can capture that feeling will be so I can share it with someone else.
There has never been anything that inspires me more creatively than being outside experiencing…
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Finding your creative process:
Why do you love creativity?
I don’t remember ever NOT being creative so for me, it’s just a part of who I am. Even as a little girl I was always making something. I remember if I ever asked for a gift of any kind, it was always something I could use to create something new. I remember by eight years old begging my mother for a guitar and as soon as I got it and taught myself to play it. I began writing my own songs rather than play ones I heard on the radio. I also remember asking for and receiving a sewing machine at age 7 and a leather tool making kit soon after. I didn’t seem to have a knack for sewing but I loved writing poetry and making music. Finally in college I found oil painting to be my favorite way to express myself.
What inspires you?
I am most inspired by water of any kind. I love the ocean, lakes, waterfalls and even vernal pools. I love seeing the reflections and hearing the sounds of water and thinking about ways to create something that can translate that feeling of hope I feel around water. Growing up I always wanted to visit my grandmother near the beach. As soon as we got there I’d beg anyone to take me down to the water. There are long rock walls surrounding that area in New York and I loved walking up on them all the way to the sea. There used to be fireworks every summer weekend. Watching the reflections of all those colors made me feel like all I wanted to do was shout with joy and create something! I promised myself as soon as I graduated high school I would live near the ocean and that’s exactly what I did.
What are your sources of inspiration?
I am truly never, ever NOT inspired! I think this is because I’m fascinated by many things. I wonder how things grow: from tree bark to vegetables to grapes and I love gardening in my yard. Tending to the garden is also a wonderful stress reliever and serving things I’ve grown makes me smile. I’m always wondering what’s underneath all water sources, how things work, how other creative people make what they do, and what their life stories are. I even wonder what animals might be thinking when they look at you. I even wonder about the creatures who lived in empty shells I’ve found over the years. I am astonished by the variety in nature I am compelled to create things that celebrate this. Honestly I get cranky if I’m traveling and forget my sketchbook or camera or something to write ideas down on. I love my iphone because it’s a great way to record things I see and experience.
How do you come up with ideas?
I love listening to classical music or Italian opera alone in my car when I’m going to art functions, this relaxes and inspires me so much especially since traffic in Southern California is a consistent nuisance but driving along a country road during a New England fall is pretty close to perfect inspiration! Most ideas I’ve had over the years feel divinely inspired and I thank my creator daily. Thank you Lord above! I create best when I am alone in a quiet environment. I’ve also had a lot of inspiration from traveling in my youth and encourage other young people to travel too! These days a simple day trip to wine country or a boat trip to a local islands is enough to inspire me for months at a time. But I often get my best ideas while I’m cooking a nice meal or late at night as I’m falling asleep. Also, in the middle of the night if I wake up in that sort of twilight state, I seem to think clearly about brand new ideas. I have always kept paper or a writing pad on my nightstand and often scribble words down so I don’t forget them. I used to write songs for years like this and if I didn’t write down
lyrics that came to me easily at night, or sing a melody into a little tape machine I used to have, they’d evaporate in my brain by morning. Now that I’ve been expressing myself as a fine artist for many years, I seem to think in terms of a series of work I want to focus on for a few months or even a year or two at a time. I have always created in batches where I’ll need to paint wildly for months and be prolific, and then I’ll have to have a month of quiet rest to tend to my home and family. This is what inspires me the most, as I am definitely a
homebody.
I think creativity can take so many forms and one thing can inspire another. I’ve always done silly little things like name my car over the years. I also think everyone should have a theme song or a fight song to lift them up when they’re low. Mine is brown-eyed girl and it reminds me of when I was young and dreaming big which carries over to present day and always being open to new experiences. I believe in doing hard things outside one’s comfort box and I think when you do, it makes you braver to try other new things. I’ve played several instruments over the years and yet when I think about learning to play the cello one day I get goose bumps. I love the Italian language and took 2 years of it in college but now that I don’t remember as much, I look forward to immersing myself in that again too. I really also want to learn to captain a boat and it’s this kind of thing that informs my art process and keeps me excited to wake up and paint every day possible!
Creativity can take so many forms and one thing can inspire another.
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Shannon is an award winning fine artist Living in Southern California. She paints “Contemporary Coastal Vignettes,” seascapes, landscapes & still life in oil using palette knives & brushes & sometimes watercolor.
She’s been painting away on her new series ODYSSEY THROUGH OXNARD which explores the paradox of old and new alongside Oxnard’s unique history and complex culture. She’s completed more than 10 paintings in this series already. Her series was on display in October at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum where she was their first Artist in Residence! Find out more about Shannon and see her beautiful artwork at http://ift.tt/1R6o81g and on Instagram: @shannoncelia.
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Shekhar Kapoor's mother died, said- 'Delhi's pollution killed my mother'
Shekhar Kapoor’s mother died, said- ‘Delhi’s pollution killed my mother’
Shekhar Kapoor tweeted on twitter to know about the demise of his mother Kanta Kapoor. He tweeted, Delhi’s pollution killed my mother. In the last winter, he had a lung infection, which was never healed. He also went into depression because of this. I wish I kept them in London, but my mother wanted to live in her house (Delhi).
Pollution in Delhi killed my mother. She got a severe lung…
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