Kobe Braynt Honored With the 2020 Championship Rings

The L.A. Lakers decide to honor Kobe Bryant with the 2020 championship rings. Which are said to include 2 sentimental tributes to the late legend in the design. This comes  shortly after LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the rest of the returning squad of the 2019-20 received their rings right before the start of the season opener against the L.A. Clippers. 

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• ​​The rings are made of ​804 stones, ​16.45 carats, ​​nods to the Orlando bubble, the league's social justice movement, regular-season wins and more.
• ​​The design includes homage paid to the Five-time champion; ​The first tribute is a snake wrapped around each player's jersey number on the side of the ring ... ​

​Which reps Kobe's "Black Mamba" moniker and mentality.

• ​​​​​​A detachable top, revealing each retired number in the franchise;With Bryant's #8 and #24 in the team's Black Mamba jerseys worn during their title run.
• ​​​Then LeBron's actual handwriting inscribing the team's motto, "Leave a Legacy," on one side.

Ray J & Wife on Baby #3 Inspite of Their Divorce
This was made by Jason of Beverly Hills who told ESPN that it only took him 4 weeks to complete, which was due to the shortened off season.

Rest In Peace, Mamba. Your legacy lives on.

Jessie J Goes Completely Deaf On Christmas Eve.

 

Jessica Ellen Cornish better know by her stage Jessie J apparently spent her Christmas Eve in hospital, completely deaf. The singer shared a video of herself singing, in good spirits on Saturday. This was 2 days before, she revealed that she was apparently hospitalized and diagnosed with Meniere's disease, on an Instagram video post. This is a condition of the inner ear that can actually cause vertigo, which  unfortunately made her, somewhat deaf and unable to walk properly.

Jessie, at the time explained,
“I woke up and felt like I was completely deaf in my right ear, couldn’t walk in a straight line”

“Basically I got told I had Meniere's syndrome.”

She went ahead to say,
“I know that a lot of people suffer from it and I’ve actually had a lot of people reach out to me and give me great advice, so I’ve just been laying low in silence...."

Again indicating that,
"Now’s the first time I’ve been able to sing and bear it. I just miss singing so much and being around anyone."

The singer continued,
“It could be way worse, it is what it is. I’m super grateful for my health. It just threw me off. On Christmas Eve I was in the ear hospital going, ‘What is going on?’ But I’m glad I went early and they worked out what it was real quick and I got put on the right medicine, so I feel a lot better today.”

Having being, I have to confess, a big fan of her music -my favorite album being 'Who You Are"- I sure do wish her a quick full recovery.

What's your favorite track by Jessie?

Helen Keller's Life Time Achievements Deserves To Be Respected.

 Helen Keller, An Underrated Deaf and Blind Heroin

So apparently there seem to be a smear campaign against Helen Keller based on her white privilege. But then, an organization named after her thinks this is a misguided view of her history, and wants to change the conversation.
Sue Pilkilton, director of the Helen Keller Birthplace Museum in Tuscumbia, spoke up saying focusing on Helen's race is just wrong, considering her life time achievements, and all the good she did for others.

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Sue went on to clarify that, Keller's legacy is tied to activism, education and breaking barriers for hearing and sight-impaired people of all races, genders and status -- and all the chatter about white privilege detracts from her life's work.
This was sparked by remarks by Anita Cameron, an advocate of The point Black disability rights, made over the weekend. When Anita remarked, according to TMZ, "..Helen was likely patched through to the right people as a result of being white ... whether she knew it or not..."
This got folks speculating how Helen was wealthy and/or how she came from a rich family...riches amassed from a cotton plantation thanks to slaves her father is recorded to have owned...which according to trolls, somehow compromises her, Helen's, great works and awesome legacy.
Sentiments that got Sue explaining how despite the fact that indeed her family did receive an income from a cotton plantation,"...they were far from aristocrats or big ballers.." Which, in my humble opinion, I think she shouldn't have had to.

Anyway here's what I think, Helen Keller's life time achievements is clear prove that she, for Heroin earned each on every award, title and even more deserves to be respected. Helen certainly refirmed that disability was, and surely is, NOT inability. And that infact totally overshadows her skin's colour and its speculated trivial previledges, period.

Ray J and Princess: 3rd Baby: Amid Divorce.

Ray J and wife, Princess Love: 'Who Cares About the Divorce, Let's have another kid..'

 Ray J and Princess Love, the 'Love & Hip Hop' stars, openly talk about possibly having a third baby. Yeah, yeah, I know...kawaida... But here's the catch, apparently the two are actually in the middle of a divorce.

This came up during the show's four-part special segment of the show, 'Secrets Unlocked.' Which is set to be air on Jan. 4 on VH1. So apparently according to Princess Love, this is strictly a business transaction.

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Basically this means that she needs Ray J, not as a husband but rather some sort of sperm donor.

Its pretty intriguing that, Princess Love first filed for a divorce, in May this year; this is after just 4 years of marriage... dropped the suit... after they allegedly reconciled...Then about 4 months later, Ray again files his divorce papers putting the case back in motion. Hah! Talk about drama..

Imagine 2 kids--Melody and son, Epik--to co-parent, a show mandating you to still have to work together amid a crazy dysfunctional marriage...

Then Bam!! Just like that...
''Let's have a third baby?!''
What exactly are these guys on... Cause if this ain't what trippin' is, I don't else can be..

What do you think about all this? Drop your comments below. Thank you.

Sonko Mike Hearing Updates

 

 

Governor Mike Sonko has affirmed that in reality his wife and girl ventured out to New York, United States, however paid for the excursion through close to home methods. 

"My wife saved individual money. The excursion was legitimate and authentic on the grounds that they were both piece of the public authority appointment affirmed by State House," he told Senate. 

Sonko was offering an explanation to allegations that he offered his wife and girl a rich outing to New York City to the detriment of the citizen. 

While being questioned, the lead representative told the Senate whole that "these are simply slanderous attacks. My girl didn't burn through Sh840M. The sum being referred to is just Sh2.6M."

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Nairobi County Assembly Minority Leader Michael Ogada had on Wednesday blamed Sonko for flying his girl in a top notch trip to the US which converted into the misappropriation of public assets. 

Sonko was likewise blamed for breaking public trust by marking the Deed of Transfer of urgent area capacities to the Nairobi Metrpolitan Service while alcoholic, to which he replied, "I was informed that I will be aided and that we will cooperate with the president. I was not informed that the General planned to assume control over the capacities." 

Sonko has considered his arraignment by the Nairobi County Assembly a political witchhunt.

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Quote of the day

"When you will be on your deathbed, you sure will NOT wish that you spend more time working."

This is the hard truth, but it needs to be said. In this fast moving modern world, we all feel obliged to put in more hours, more efforts, eking to become and remain more relevant in relation to what is popularly perceived as being successful. In this pursuit, we end losing touch with what actually brings us peace and happiness. The things that we really love doing.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that working is not important but rather, putting emphasis on the importance of striking a balance between what we have to do, work, and what we love to do.

Life is to short to focus most of our energies towards what we do because we have to, rather than what we do, not only because we always want to but even more, love to do, for the joy and serenity it brings us.

Am I making sense?

WTF: What The Fact: Weird Undercover Agents

 Animals incarcerated for alleged espionage.

You sure won't believe this. You just can't make this up... Here is a list of some of animals incarcerated for alleged espionage.

1. Spy Squirrels Ring Nabbed

In 2007, fourteen squirrels were arrested in Iran. Yes, you read correctly. Fourteen squirrels were spotted near a nuclear enrichment plant and taken in for questioning by the Iranian army. What was their crime? What were they being charged with? Espionage. Apparently they were “spy squirrels.”

2. Spying Pigeon

So apparently, the pigeon above, was captured by Indian police on suspicion it was an 'undercover agent' for Pakistan.The poor bird, booked by the Indian cops as a "suspected spy" according to The Guardian. 

“Nothing adverse has been found, but we have kept the bird in our custody,” senior police superintendent Rakesh Kaushal told local media. 

3. The Snooping Vulture

A Griffon Vulture is seen at the veterinary clinic at the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo, near Tel Aviv January 29, 2016. The vulture from an Israeli nature reserve with an Israeli identification ring and location transmitter was captured by residents of the south Lebanese town of Bint Jbeilon on suspicion of espionage after flying across the border.

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Baz Ratner/Reuters

4. The 'OO7' Duck

A French "spy" "duck" in custody in Egypt. 

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State media

Several alert Egyptian citizens alerted authorities to what was reported as a 'spy duck' with a surveillance device, or bomb, on its back. Authorities arrested the bird, a French research subject. When a veterinarian established the device was, in fact, a tracker, and the bird was, in fact, a stork, police moved to release the bird. The stork's whereabouts are unknown, but last anyone heard, the stork was waiting for the prosecutor to sign off on its release. But that's not the strangest animal accusation Egypt has made...

5. The Eerie Dolphin

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In another case of Israel supposedly coopting wildlife, a dolphin was acting fishy off Gaza, and attracted the attention of Hamas's Qassam Brigade Naval Commandos. Upon investigating, they found what was described as "a murderer" of a dolphin, equipped with a surveillance package. As usual, no photos of the dolphin nor its equipment were released. The dolphin's whereabouts are unknown.  

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