- Cleveland doesn’t need any more sports heartache or drama.
But seeing as God hates Cleveland, the city is getting it anyhow. Two of the
city’s best athletes are locked in a beef that seems to have neither a point
nor a possible positive outcome and it all stems from a social media beef. Cleveland
Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving and Cleveland Browns receiver Josh Gordon are
beefing after Gordon said during a television interview that he had special
insight into the ongoing feud between Irving and Cavs teammate Dion Waiters. "I
talked about it with Dion," Gordon said. "He's my neighbor in my
building, so we hang out all the time. I'm aware of the rift in the locker
room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the
spotlight." The tension between Irving and Waiters is no mystery and the
two reportedly have come to the verge of a straight-up fight on multiple
occasions. Still, having an athlete from a different sport lay his business out
on national television clearly pissed off Irving. Even after Gordon said he
hoped the two got along but supported the idea that one of the two would have
to be traded, neither Irving nor Waiters was happy with their fellow Northeast
Ohio athlete. Irving told Gordon to "mind his own business," to which
Gordon snarked on Twitter that he had "hit a nerve" with Irving. "Guys
like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business,"
Irving said. "Does he still play for the Browns? I'll continue to root for
the Browns, but in terms of this stuff here, what goes on in this locker room,
he needs to stay out of it." All of this is cast against the backdrop of
growing rumblings that Irving – once anointed as the Cavs’ franchise savior
post-LeBron James – is unhappy in Cleveland and wants out. After practice
earlier this week, Irving said he had spoken with Gordon and “t the whole
situation kind of got blown out of proportion.” For his part, Waiters said
Gordon’s comments are "total
BS" and that it is not true that he and Irving do not like each other. If
all of this sounds like a bunch of eighth-grade girls gossiping about each
other in the hall between classes, well, that’s Cleveland……….
- Back-to-back days of riveting news from Ukraine? Believe
it. On Tuesday, the fight went from the streets outside to the parliament,
where lawmakers are every bit as enraged as their constituents. The good news
is plentiful for all sides in this one after a massive brawl took place. For
those involved, the good news is that former world heavyweight champion and
current Ukrainian
politician Vitali Klitschko was involved. Had Klitschko been there to
administer his brand of justice, skulls would have likely been caved in. For
those on the outside, the sight of out-of-shape politicians in suits trying to
speed-bag one another with their fists of fury was as entertaining as hell and
then some. Shortly after Klitschko, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance
for Reform party, told lawmakers that Ukraine was facing a "real war"
as a result of the events in Kharkiv and Donetsk, the sh*t hit the eastern European
fan. Petro
Symonenko, the head of the Communist Party, told lawmakers that their own actions
in bringing down the government of President Viktor Yanukovych had set the
precedent for what was now occurring and that did NOT sit well with radical
nationalist lawmakers. These legisla-niacs bum-rushed the podium where
Symonenko was speaking, resulting in a brawl that certainly kicked things up a
notch. Two deputies from a far-right nationalist party seized Symonenko and his
supporters rallied to his defense, with one of the deputies later returning to
his
seat in the chamber with scratches on his face clearly
showing. It is the second fight in the parliament in the past two months and
the tension across the war-torn nation suggests that there could be more such
scraps in the offing………..
- Give Rob Lowe credit. Not only is he self-absorbed and
hung up on his appearance, but he is also a good enough liar to convince
himself that he's
not a narcissist. Lowe, looking to drum up interest for his second
autobiography (because the first one just didn’t tell the story the right way),
let the world know that there is an "unbelievable bias" against good-looking
people like himself. The book, “Love Life,” is now on more radars after
Lowe explained how he is finally finding roles that his jaw-dropping good looks
once prevented him from getting. “There's this unbelievable bias and
prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain
or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting," Lowe said.
"They can't be any of the things that you long to play as an actor. I'm
getting to play those parts now and loving it. When I was a teen idol, I was so
goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously." Well, at least
Lowe admits he was also incredibly superficial about his own good looks and wouldn’t
have taken the time to look beneath the surface back in the day. He added that
his comic abilities surprised some because of his good looks and hung that too
on a “historical bias that good-looking people are not funny." Somehow, he
managed to outrun those good looks at some pointed and landed his most recent
role on NBC’s “Parks and Rec.” Lowe’s next attempt to overcome that inherent
bias about his handsomeness will come in “Sex Tape,” a film about a man and wife
whose intimate video is accidentally shared with their friends. His own sex
tape scandal provided perfect preparation for the role and he admitted that he “pioneered
the field” of getting after it on film and then having said film “accidentally”
leaked to the world………
- Who has time charge the battery on a phone that seems to
lose power in the amount of time it takes to send a single text message? That’s
a problem and Israeli
tech start-up Store Dot has a solution. The company saw the struggles of
smartphone users to charge their phone during their hectic schedules and the
dilemma those same people faced watching their battery drain. Now, these bio-organic
tech thinkers have come up with an idea that can reportedly charge a mobile
device in 30 seconds or less. Unfortunately, this invention is only in the
prototype stage and Store Dot isn't expected to have the device on the market
for another couple of years. Right now, their invention cannot charge a full-capacity
battery, nor is it anywhere close to being small enough to fit inside a
handset. In order to take this to-be-named product from cool idea that isn’t
actually functional to market-worthy creation that tech enthusiasts will shell
out big dollars for, Store Dot plans to spend three years and at least $6.25
million in funding. According to founder and CEO Dr. Doron Myersdorf, a
functional prototype is about one year away. Once that prototype is created,
Store Dot will embed it inside devices. In the ensuing year, the plan calls for
attaining the required energy density for an entire day of device use. "So
we are talking about three years for a commercial ready device," Myersdorf
said. "So I assume it will be three years before you can actually purchase
it on the market." The current prototype, rocking a bulky battery pack
rigged to a smartphone, is on display at Tel Aviv's Think Next symposium this
week. To further bolster its product arsenal, Store Dot is also looking into
developing cadmium-free displays, which provide a non-toxic alternative,
serving as the first ever bio-organic display, according to Myersdorf………
- There are good reasons to lose a job. This is not one of
them. While being asked to do something illegal or unethical and refusing is a
solid piece of logic to explain why you were canned, merely dumping a few
friends on a social networking site doesn’t exactly fall under the heading of
justifiable reasons to get a pink slip. Carol
Thebarge spent more than three decades working in the Claremont (N.H.) Local
Schools system, but she lost her post as a substitute teacher late last week
when she was allegedly fired for refusing to unfriend students at Stevens High
School on her Facebook account. According to Thebarge, she worked as a
substitute teacher at the school and was directed to sever her online ties with
students at the school. When she said no, the powers that be told her to beat
it. "I will miss the daily contact. They have taught me as much as I have
taught them," she said. "Didn't want it to end this way." The
ultimatum came from a district administrator and after her termination,
Thebarge went right back to the Facebook page to which she is clearly so
devoted and returned fire. "Those of you who know me and my philosophy in
life, that of marching to the beat of my own drummer, would assume I would
choose the latter of the two choices. And I did," she wrote in a post.
This battle has actually been going on for four years after administrators
first approached Thebarge four years ago about deleting her students as friends
on Facebook. The tipping point was after another teacher at the school, Christopher
LeBlanc, was accused of sexually
assaulting a student in a classroom. That led to a typical bureaucratic
overreaction and the ensuing miffed response from Thebarge. She later ranted on
Facebook that, “No man or institution will dictate my relationships here, or
otherwise that are within the range of my own consciousness.” Still,
Thebarge will not fight her dismissal and will instead subsist on the social
networking adoration of people one-third her age………
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