TMZ– Kim Kardashian’s life motto is firmly cemented …. once you go BlackBerry … you never go back, and thanks to a top dog at the mobile company, she’ll never be without her longtime companion.
Kim K went into panic mode Wednesday after her BlackBerry Bold took its last gasp. The conundrum … no Bolds no mo’.
But it’s BB to the rescue … company exec Alex Thurber tells TMZ they’ve got Kim covered. They’re sending her their most secure Android smartphone … a smart move that surely has Tim Cook sorely disappointed.
There is a fly in the ointment. The new BlackBerry smartphones don’t have the iconic keyboard, but Thurber says BB is developing an old-school keyboard for its new device.
So, in the fruit basket of life … Kim continues to choose berries over apples.
Not gonna lie, my thoughts on Kim Kardashian over the time she’s been famous has been such a wild ride. Went from watching her sex tape, watching her explode as Hollywoods next “It” girl, to absolutely hating her guts because of what she influences on society to kinda siding with her because its the contrarian point of view, to now I might try to be BBM friends with her. You know who else is Team Blackberry? This guy.
It’s been a long painful battle. Dealing with the masses laughing at me for carrying around dead technology like it’s an abacus or something. And I feel for Kim K here. The Blackberry Bolds are dead. Ive always said if blackberry comes out with a phone with a keyboard I like, Ill ride with it to the end. I wasn’t a big enough force i guess to send the failing company into over haul to design me another Bold. I don’t have that power but you know who does? Kim Kardashian. She might be my only savior. Don’t get me wrong if push comes to shove and Blackberry doesn’t make a new Bold for me, I wont cry. I know i fought the battle long and hard with out ever relenting for nearly a decade when technology and smartphone boom was at it’s strongest. But in that time period I’ve come to learn and accept that Kim K. and the Kardashian clan are one of the strongest forces out there and it’s time for me to get out of the battle field so they can continue the fight on Cellphones with keyboards on them. So as long as the battery stays charged and at least one person text me so I can write a novel with the QWERTY keyboard, my allegiance is with Kimberly Kardashian West and the Blackberry Family.
![If you look up the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for the DCEU, prepare yourself. Really, it’s not all that pretty. All of the films rank well under 60% to clinch a ‘rotten rating’ with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice sitting at 27%. Even the much-anticipated Suicide Squad has earned at 34% rating, and frankly, fans are fed up with the site’s reporting. In fact, they’re so fed up that they’ve started a petition to make Rotten Tomatoes shut down. With just 413, the petition has one goal in mind: get rid of Rotten Tomatoes. Hosted by change.org, the petition’s description sums up its mission succinctly: “We need this site to be shut down because It's Critics always give The DC Extended Universe movies unjust Bad Reviews, Like 1- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 [,] 2- Suicide Squad 2016 and that Affects people's opinion even if it's a really great movies.” Should you scroll down to read comments left on the petition, fans have flooded them with their sympathetic views. Many agree the site does offer biased reviews for DC’ films and think it's pathetic that people would try to intentionally make the studio's cinematic universe fail. Other fans reference Marvel Studios and their films’ higher ratings, insisting the difference is due to Hollywood’s double-standards. However, it looks as if some of these fans aren't quite sure of how Rotten Tomatoes work. As the website only aggregates externally published reviews to create its ratings, Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t actually award frivolous reviews on their own. To put it simply, the just do the math based on other outsourced reviews. But, of course, there are fan who’re accusing the site of selectively collecting certain reviews that further their ‘diabolical’ plot to ruin the DCEU. Many movie-goers, however, usually just ignore the site’s critical ratings and only care about the film's audience score. As that specific ranking is created by fans’ reviews, the rating is a more approachable number to digest. And, if you look at the DCEU's audience scores, fans can see their films all have ratings at or above 65%. So, hey - that's awesome!](https://theuglyorange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/screen-shot-2016-08-03-at-11-41-52-pm.png)
![Despite experiencing the worst of human kind, Cola the dog still manages to wag its tail and embrace a pat. The dog was nine months old when its front legs were hacked off with a sword by a neighbour as punishment for chewing a pair of shoes in Bangkok, Thailand. The horrific incident was reported to the Soi Dog Foundation — Asia's largest animal welfare group focused on stray cats and dogs — which jumped in to save Cola's life. Losing a lot of blood and on the brink of death, Cola was moved from a small clinic to a larger, experienced veterinary clinic in Bangkok. Now Cola is learning to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs. Soi Dog Foundation's video of Cola walking on his new prosthetics has been viewed more than six million times on Facebook since it was uploaded this week. Foundation co-founder John Dalley told the ABC Cola snuck next door and "nibbled" on his neighbours shoes. The dog's elderly owner offered the neighbour the equivalent of $40 to compensate, but they returned that night armed with a sword. In court, the man said the attack was an accident, Mr Dalley said. The man was issued one month's detention for the crime. Mr Dalley said Cola was adapting well to the new legs. "He had wheels at first, just to keep him moving and get him going to allow the wounds to properly heal," he said. "He managed to adapt to walking on his back legs only kangaroo-fashion, but with [prosthetic] legs on is able to run and play.](https://theuglyorange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/7680138-3x2-700x467.jpg)
![ABC10- A regular day at the Costco in Modesto quickly turned into one of panic and chaos, when a 61-year-old man started pacing up and down the aisles with a large knife. "There were kids and families. Costco did a really good job rushing everybody outside," said George Kunkel, a demo vendor at the wholesale club. "It was intense. He's roaming around. What is he going to do?" The man was caught on camera roaming around the clothes section. Witnesses say he started charging at people, Costco employees specifically. "He didn't proceed to do jabbing until people were out of his way and nothing but employees in front of him," said Seth Watson, who works at Costco and witnessed the whole thing. Watson also said he saw employees trying to defend themselves with chairs and other objects. That's when someone stepped in. An off-duty officer with the California Department of Corrections just happened to be one of the hundreds of people in the Costco at the time. "I didn't even know that was an armed officer," Watson said. "Glad he was there." Kunkel said the officer told the man to put the knife down, but he refused. "Finally [the man] kind of charges at him," Kunkel said. "That's when the officer takes a shot to his stomach. One shot and he went down." After the shooting, Costco closed down for the rest of the day. Modesto Police spent several hours gathering evidence. The officer was not injured. The man is in the hospital in critical but stable condition. The investigation will be treated as an officer-involved shooting. Many people are just thankful that an officer was in the right place at the right time.](https://theuglyorange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/la-fi-costco-visa-20150303.jpg)
![Tracy Rosner, a third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last week claiming employment discrimination on the basis of her race — which is white. Miami-Dade School Board attorneys have not filed a formal response in court and did not return calls for comment Thursday. We'll update this post if they provide one. Rosner's attorneys write that her school's students are on three tracks: college preparatory, gifted, and extended foreign language (EFL), where they receive one hour of foreign language instruction per day. In May 2015, Rosner requested to be reassigned to the EFL track, where students are taught both English and another language.But Rosner says the principal had an unfair policy of requiring its foreign language teachers to actually speak the language they were teaching. In a totally ¿En serio? moment, Rosner claims that she was "otherwise fully qualified" for the job and that the policy is discriminatory. Her complaint says the school could have given her the job and then just had someone else teach the foreign language component for one hour per day. After she was denied the job, Rosner says, the school's principal retaliated by doubling her workload and asking her to teach all the subjects instead of just reading and language arts. Rosner apparently complained to the superintendent and even made a formal complaint to the school district's civil rights office, but administrators there found no probable cause and closed the case. The lawsuit claims that non-Spanish speakers are a minority population in Miami-Dade County and that seeking employment solely from Spanish speakers "disproportionately affects" Rosner and others like her. "As a direct and proximate result of the retaliation against Ms. Rosner, and the violation of her rights... Ms. Rosner was provided a less desirable position and has damages including emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, [and] loss of enjoyment of life," the lawsuit states.](https://theuglyorange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/teacher-near-chalkboard-with-spanish-greeting.jpg)
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