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In fact, they look on Texas as their own country, and are very proud of it! Whatever your opinion on this, you will agree that Texas has a huge amount to offer tourists. Ranging from outdoor activities, to restaurants and bars – and everything in between – there is something here for every holidaymaker. 

 This magnificent building was completed in 1888, in downtown Austin. As well as housing the offices and chambers of the Texas Legislature, it also houses the Office of the Governor.
True to Texan style the building is 302.64 feet high, the 6th tallest state capitol and taller than the US Capitol in Washington DC.
If there are special exhibits on display you may have to stand in line to enter, but mostly you will not have to wait to see inside. 

 This is not only the leading science and space centre, but also to official visitor centre of NASA Johnson Space Centre.
It is home of Mission control and astronaut training. The centre was opened in 19921 and is one of the most visited attractions in the state.
There are over 400 permanent exhibits, with attractions, live shows, and theatres. Plan to spend the full day here. There is a café where you can get lunch. 

 This is the largest of the Texas barrier islands. It is also the largest barrier island in the world. You will find it along the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. You will know it by the pure white beaches at the south end.
The island is easily accessible by car, and there are several airports you can fly into, then rent a car.
There is a town on south padre island although it is sparsely populated, so if you choose to camp there, be sure to take provisions. 

(If you want to find out about the other 97 things there are to do in Texas just click the button below the author's name)

In the video, a man cuffed to the floor, not at all resisting, has a police dog buried into his arm as officers try and pry it off. It must have hurt like a mofo! People are shouting to get the dog off and all things considered, it seems like the police maybe were not working too hard to get that very well trained dog off. Watch the video below and then some thoughts below that… 

Now first off you have to wonder how a dog came to bite a cuffed man. They attack on command. Maybe the guy ran away after being cuffed? We don’t know what happened before this video started so can’t judge that too much. Second, sometimes dogs do go off on their own and it does seem that maybe the officer couldn’t get him to release with commands. 

And then you ask, why wasn’t the officer pulling harder. Well, when you pull harder the dogs (or so I have been told) are trained to dig in deeper. The dog was already pretty tight on that man’s arm and as you see when the officer pulls back the dog bites harder.

Honestly I don’t know what the issue was here. An out of control dog that should not have grabbed the man, poor training or malicious intent by the officers who wanted to hurt the man.

Do you have anymore insight on this?

 PUBLIC NOTE: The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not reflect the view of eNDP Radio, Ransom Enterprises, affiliates or partners. 

However, it seems as though she is warming up to the idea of rekindling her romance with the Migos rapper. After the 26-year-old revealed to fans that she had grown out of love with her baby daddy, Offset has done everything in his power to win his wifey back. And it looks like his efforts are working, as a source told Hollywood Life that Cardi might reconsider getting back with her man. They said: ‘Cardi hasn’t completely forgiven and forgotten, but she was missing Offset like crazy so she’s giving him another chance.’

The source then continued to say how she has set out her stall and if he ‘messes up again,’ then she won’t take him back a second time. The insider added: ‘Offset has vowed he will never take Cardi for granted again, and he won’t even look at another woman, all he wants is her and Kulture. ‘For now Cardi is enjoying being wooed again and Offset is going all out to prove to her that she’s his queen, his everything.’ The rapper announced their split just months after welcoming their baby daughter Kulture into the world. In a video shared with her 36.5million followers, the Bodak Yellow songstress explained: ‘So everybody been bugging me and everything and you know I’ve been trying to work things out with my baby father for a hot minute now. ‘We are really good friends and we are really good business partners— you know he’s always somebody that I run to to talk to, and we got a lot of love for each other but things just haven’t been working out between us for a long time.

 
While many fans are praising Kevin Durant for his efforts on the court during the NBA Finals. Many people are also recognizing him for the changes he is making in the community. 

According to Sports Illustrated, Durant has been mentoring students at the Boys & Girls Club in the Bay Area, and recently he gave four students a surprise of a lifetime by announcing he would pay for their first year of college.

The moment was captured in a short documentary produced by ESPN. Each of the four students were introduced as they spoke about their time being mentored by KD, and he also spoke about how the students impacted his life in return.

Durant said, “It’s something I always dreamt about, and I always wanted to be a part of something special outside of myself. So glad I could be able to help. It feels like I’m doing something good in the world when I help someone else out.”

Check out the documentary below:

https://youtu.be/On8km3zUuYQ

 Keshia Knight Pulliam's soon-to-be ex-husband, Ed Hartwell, isn't waiting until their divorce is finalized to move on with his love life. In fact, he's already impregnanted another woman who, according to the former child star, was his mistress. 

The woman in question is Hartwell's ex-fiancée, Tonya Carroll.

According to theYBF.com, Pulliam did an interview where she revealed that she had divorce papers drawn up and ready because she learned he had been cheating on her with Carroll. 

Pulliam and Hartwell's divorce is still ongoing which means they are still legally married.

Seemingly unbothered by this fact, Carroll has been taking to Instagram to share her baby news and tease her followers about the gender of her child with the former athlete. Take a look, below:

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Meanwhile, Pulliam and Hartwell are currently in the midst of a nasty child support battle as she claims he owes her money for the care of thier daughter, Ella Grace. 

The site reports that Hartwell has only been to approximately 20 of his 80 visits to see the baby and has allegedly been "figuring out every way not to pay."

 
It’s no secret that Bobby Brown’s sister Tina Brown snapped a photo of Whitney Houston’s bathroom and sold it to the “National Enquirer” back in 2006. Well, as most of you know that photo ended up on Pusha-T’s album and Tina wants everyone to know she had nothing to do with it and no longer owns the rights to the photo. She also regrets taking the disturbing photo to begin with.

The Blast spoke with Tina and she said “Kanye West did not purchase the picture from me or my son [Shayne Brown].”

She also opened up about why the photo was taken in the first place.

“During the time the picture was taken, in 2006, my sister Whitney and I were at a very low and self-destructive point in our lives, it was not only her mess, it was mine as well.” She continued, “Together, she and I decided to take the pictures in the bathroom and share with the world, the pain we were going through … it was a united cry for help.”

She’s adamant that the photo was “not at all a betrayal of one another,” which is a little hard to believe since she profited off of it. She’s decided to speak out because she wants to set the record straight that she didn’t make a dime off of the photo on Pusha-T’s “Daytona” album, which reportedly was licensed for a cool $85,000.

Many thought that Whitney was done with Tina after she sold the photo but Tina claims they remained close.

“Throughout that chaotic time and until her death, Whitney and I remained the best of friends and sisters.”

Jaden Smith once seemed to be a promising actor, but something happened along his road to fame to cause him to disappear from the spotlight. While children of Hollywood stars often find it difficult to step out of the shadows cast by their famous folks, Jaden has been doing everything in his power to create his very own shadow since the moment he was old enough to perform. The charismatic fashionisto and his younger sister, Willow, were both homeschooled by their actor parents Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, who promoted total freedom of expression (probably a little too much freedom, Will later admitted) and encouraged their kids to find their inner artists. Jaden would later follow in his father's acting footsteps after the pair starred alongside one another in the 2006 biographical drama The Pursuit of Happyness, making a ton of cash for Sony and pleasing the majority of movie critics. But things didn't really pan out too well in the long run.

As Jaden grew from a young boy to a young man, his relationship with Tinseltown began to sour. The early box office promise he'd shown (2010's Karate Kid remake also made a killing) all but vanished with one giant misstep in 2013, and the actor/rapper/philosopher has been distancing himself from the entertainment industry ever since. Here's why it feels like Hollywood won't cast Jaden Smith anymore.

The aforementioned giant misstep was the notorious After Earth. Even if you've never seen it, chances are you've heard of it — the disastrous sci-fi blockbuster starring Will and Jaden Smith as father and son cost $130 million to make but only returned $60 million domestically. This M. Night Shyamalan-directed mega-flop was torn to shreds by reviewers, only managing a rather embarrassing 11 percent Critic Score on Rotten Tomatoes.

"That was the most painful failure in my career," Will said about the much-maligned movie during an interview with Esquire, revealing that it stung much worse than his infamous bomb from 1999, Wild Wild West. "Wild Wild West was less painful than After Earth because my son was involved in After Earth, and I led him into it," he explained. "That was excruciating." 

Both Will and Jaden were popular at the Razzies the following year; the younger Smith was named worst actor, while his old man came out on top in the worst supporting actor category.

In 2014, hacker group Guardians of Peace stole a bunch of sensitive information from Sony Pictures' computers and wiped the studio's hard drives for good measure. U.S. investigators pointed the finger at North Korea, suggesting the country was supposedly furious that the studio was going to release The Interview, a comedy about a fictional attempt to assassinate the country's supreme leader Kim Jong-un. Included in the hackers' data haul were private emails among executives.

Most of the headlines were about Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio (just two of the many high profile stars that Sony execs had been bashing in private,) but Will Smith's kids also came up in conversation. According to Us Weekly, TriStar executive Tom Rothman emailed former Sony head Amy Pascal a link to an interview that the Smith children did with T magazine, along with the message, "1. Read this, 2. they r home schooled: don't let this family date your movies!!!"

In the aforementioned magazine interview, Jaden came out with some stuff that made him a target of ridicule both in Hollywood and online. "Your mind has a duality to it, so when one thought goes into your mind, it's not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain," he said, for example. "When you're thinking about something happy, you're thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple." 

Okay, maybe not every young person talks philosophy, but clearly his chatter had turned off some Hollywood bigwigs.

If you thought the whole "opposite of an apple" thing made Jaden sound, um, unique, that was just the tip of the iceberg. The confident youngster also bragged about his grasp of time in that now-infamous 2014 T magazine interview, claiming he had the ability to manipulate it. 

"It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe," he said. "It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds." Jaden was 16 at the time.

He continued to give a number of unconventional interviews over the next few years, each one as original as the last. In 2015, he told GQ that he had built his own pyramid from scratch. "The tip is missing, but the whole structural thing is built, and it sits at 12.5 feet tall," he said. "I'll Instagram a picture of it once this comes out, so people know what I'm talking about." The following year, Jaden told musician Pharrell Williams that "nothing is real" during their chat for Interview magazine.

After the crushing disappointment that was After Earth, Jaden Smith's movie career seemed to be over before it had really even begun. It would be three years before he acted again, and his return in the 2016 TV movie Brothers in Atlanta was hardly met with fanfare. Why did he wait so long to come back? Well, in his time away, Jaden and his sister apparently became more interested in the pursuit of scientific knowledge than they were in making movies.

"Me and Willow are scientists," he told GQ. "So everything for us is a scientific test upon humanity." Jaden revealed that he and his sibling had started an initiative called Mystery School, inspired by the selective systems of education employed in ancient Egypt and Greece. "Plato, Pythagoras, all these students had mystery schools. And what they learned in there was sacred. Like, you couldn't say the word 'dodecahedron,' which is just a shape, outside of one of the mystery schools or they would, like, kill you or whatever. Because it was such a sacred shape."

Jaden even compared himself to scientific pioneer Galileo. "People think you're crazy — I feel like it's an honor, actually, for people to think I'm crazy. Because they thought Galileo was crazy, too, you know what I'm saying? I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo."

If there's one thing we've learned about Jaden Smith so far, it's that he clearly thinks very highly of himself. He once referred to himself as "the future of music, photography and filmmaking" in a tweet, a claim that angered a number of journalists in these fields. 

Writing for the New York Post, Kyle Smith was one of the many commentators who weighed in on Jaden's robust self-esteem. "Whoa, kid — why not worry about walking the dog and taking your SATs before you do all that?" he said. "Jaden's primary activity these days seems to be trying to be the black Boy George, minus the talent."

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