- Relying on a bunch of (possibly intoxicated, potentially
high or outright irresponsible) music fans to hold you aloft in the air as you
ride the wave of their support - and the strength of their scrawny arms - is always
a dicey proposition. Young Thug knows it and knows it well after suffering an
ugly fall while crowdsurfing during his show in New York over the weekend.
Footage from the show shows the Atlanta rapper falling on his head after being
dropped by the crowd, which might be a memorable concert moment, but isn't the
best way to ensure that you’ll be healthy and able to finish your current tour.
Other than fans dropping him on his head, Young Thug is - pun intended - riding
high, as he released three well-received commercial mixtapes in 2016,
culminating in the much-lauded “Jeffrey,” which dropped - again, pun intended -
in August. The rapper was performing at New York’s Terminal 5 venue when things
all went wrong after he launched himself into the crowd mid-show and began
moving smoothly across the crowd. He was pulled deep into the crowd as fans
flocked toward him to be part of the mayhem and in the process, pulling Young
Thug into a precarious position in which he was sent tumbling downward and leaving
his upended legs dangling in the air. The good news is that he survived the
show to crowdsurf another day, but maybe next time staying upright and on the
stage is the best option……..
- World, it’s time to get our inner dork on and celebrate. Yes,
we’re one step closer to answering one of the great riddles of the universe because
the geniuses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN - not
great at creating accurate acronyms, but kick-ass at science - have used a
laser to tickle atoms of antimatter and make them shine. The CERN folks and
predecessors have spent decades figuring out how to create an antimatter
version of the most basic atom — hydrogen — and trap it for long enough to
perform tests and according to a paper published online Monday by the journal
Nature, they’ve finally done it. As per their findings, when antihydrogen is
stimulated with a laser it produces light on the same ultraviolet frequency as
hydrogen and that opens up all sorts of doors for scientists when it comes to
understanding the subtle difference that explains why the universe is made of
matter despite the fact that theory stipulates that the Big Bang produced an
equal amount of antimatter and the two cancel each other out. All of that
sounds very complicated and hard to get a handle on, but the bottom line here
is that a hell of a lot of money has been spent, cool scientific doo-hickies
and whatchamacallits have been created and the perfect holiday gift, an antimatter version of the most basic atom,
is now trapped and available to present to that special, 190-IQ nerd in your
life……..
- Dear basketball fans: This is why you can't have nice
things. You’ve proven that you really don’t know what you’re doing when it
comes to picking the NBA’s best players for the annual All-Star Game and now,
the league is trying to mitigate your uninformed, biased impact on the game
while not offending you by totally taking away your voice. In other words, the
league is introducing significant changes to its All-Star balloting procedures
that will give players and members of the basketball media a combined 50
percent of the vote in order to counterbalance biased fans. Fan votes will
still to account for 50 percent of the vote total for All-Star starters, with
players and a panel of media members accounting for 25 percent each. "I
guess they're trying to fix the deserving factor, maybe," said Cleveland
Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving, a three-time All-Star who was left off the team
last year. “Leaving it up to the players, that's good as well. Leaving it up to
the fans, that's good as well. But the other 25 percent I think they need to
throw out." So Irving doesn’t appear to be a fan of the media, or he
believes that 75 percent is enough of the whole to count. Either way, All-Star
voting is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET on Christmas Day, before the
league's annual holiday slate of five games. When it does, players and select
media members will be eligible to complete one full ballot each, with players
indeed able to vote for teammates or themselves, while fans can submit one full
ballot daily through NBA.com or the league's smartphone app, as well as through
Twitter, Facebook and Google Search, and both Sina Weibo and Tencent Microblogs
in China. Everyone will be voting for three frontcourt starters and two
backcourt starters from both the Eastern and Western Conference for the game,
which will take place Feb. 19 in New Orleans………
- Holidays and ham. They’re synonymous in America and for a
Monroeville, Pennsylvania do-gooder, they’re the perfect way to spread holiday
cheer loudly so that everyone can hear - and see, smell and taste. This local
business owner decided to feed the masses this holiday season in the name of Sister
Carol Arch, who has been a Catholic nun for 60 years, working as a teacher and
principal at St. Bernadette’s Catholic School in Monroeville for 40 of those years. The
donor holds Arch in such high esteem that he made the decision to honor her life
and career by donating 60 Christmas hams, one for each of her years of service,
to feed local families in need. Add it all up and you have more than 1,000
pounds of dead pig, enough to feed a few thousand people. “I’m blessed over and
over again by the wonderful people of St. Bernadette’s Parish. The ‘ham man’
goes to church here. It’s wonderful to know that other people bless my life,”
Arch said. Rather than eat the hams herself - pig for days, yo! - Arch decided
to donate the 60 hams to four different charities. Angels’ Place, Jubilee
Kitchen and The Sisters of St. Joseph Mother House and Sister Carol Sister
Place will give those hams to local families who need to fill out their
Christmas table and the world will be a better, protein-filled place because of
it……..
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