An important life lesson from our favorite FBI agent.
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Thứ Ba, 11 tháng 8, 2015
Matt Brammeier tweeted on Sunday that he’s “all good in the hood” after a horrific crash at the Tour of Utah left him in hospital.
On Saturday 8 August, Matt Brammeier was involved in a high speed crash while taking part in the Tour of Utah event.
Brammeier is a 30-year-old Irish cyclist and a five-time Irish National Champion.
As a service car turns a sharp bend, Brammeier can be seen hurtling forwards, seemingly losing control of his bike.
Despite the crash being at such high speed, Matt Brammeier managed to survive with rib and pelvic fractures.
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Immediately after the accident, another two cyclists were unable to avoid a motorbike in another collision.
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Erica Garner
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The daughter of Eric Garner, who died last year after being held in a chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes on Staten Island, is sharply criticizing a Blue Lives Matter police fundraiser that took place during a recent local minor league baseball game.
The event took place at a Sunday afternoon game for the Staten Island Yankees — a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees.
"When I heard about the event I threw up. I was just at the grave site of Mike Brown, with his mother and his father in Ferguson. I just observed the memory of the one-year mark of my father's killing," Erica Garner said. "It's not the cause that is a slap in the face to me and Mike Brown's family — it's the slogan. That slogan stands for every single person that has been lost to police and gotten no justice. It's a slap in the face to everything the Black Lives Matter stands for."
Garner also mentioned the families of 10 other black Americans whose deaths were caused by police.
Blue Lives Matter is a nonprofit organization that "help[s] Law Enforcement Officers and their families during their time of need." Proceeds from the event with the SI Yankees were to benefit the families of detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were fatally shot in Brooklyn in 2014. According to comments made by the gunman on social media, their deaths were a response to Eric Garner's death.
Joseph Imperatrice, who started Blue Lives Matter, said the name of his organization is not meant to be a direct response to the Black Lives Matter movement that has come into prominence in the past year.
"I have no idea when the phrases for each of them started coming around," Imperatrice told BuzzFeed News. "I think what people are forgetting is that people of all walks of life wear that uniform, and behind that uniform are people of all colors and races. The name is not a spinoff, it's not a fight, it's not to throw it in anyone's face. The last thing we're going to do is start a nonprofit just to stir up controversy."
But controversy there was, for both Blue Lives Matter and the SI Yankees.
On Twitter, Erica Garner called the Blue Lives Matter event during the SI Yankees game "disgusting," and noted that her "father was killed not too far from this event."
This Sunday was also the one-year anniversary of the police-involved killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. As the SI Yankees played out their game on Sunday, remembrance protests were taking place in Ferguson, largely organized by black activism organization Black Lives Matter.
Mike Holley, senior director of marketing and fan experience, said the timing of the event was "entirely coincidental." Blue Lives Matter had reached out to the SI Yankees in February and requested a Sunday game against the nearby Brooklyn Cyclones, an affiliate of the New York Mets. The Yankees and Cyclones played in Staten Island on Sunday only twice during the season, and the Aug. 9 date was the only game still free for an event, he added.
"Had we known this weekend was the anniversary [of Michael Brown's death] back in February, we would have done something different," Holley told BuzzFeed News. The scheduling of the event did not stand out to them closer to the date, either, he acknowledged.
According to the SI Yankees website, a separate event, NYPD Appreciation Night, will be held Aug. 14.
Holley explained that the Staten Island Yankees hold fundraising events like the Blue Lives Matter event during many games in a given season, and that they didn't intend for the event to be "politically charged." Instead, he said, the games are intended to give community members a platform for fundraising.
As he said in statements to other reporters Monday, the SI Yankees are open to hosting fundraising events for any organization, as long as the money is for a cause, including Black Lives Matter, Holley said.
"I want everyone to know we are open to events to benefit Black Lives Matter, and that we see ourselves as a platform for the Staten Island community."
He added: "I can totally understand it seems like it is something that is offensive, but we definitely did not think that people would see it as we were making any sort of a statement. In retrospect, it's easy to see why people are upset. If I or anyone had been able to see it then, we would have changed the way we held the event. If we had done just a fundraiser for these two families, I don't think anyone would have been upset."
Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home of the Staten Island Yankees.
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But for Erica Garner, the intent of the organizers does not outweigh the context of her father's nearby death and the ensuing year of attention on police violence against black Americans.
She would like to see the SI Yankees hold an annual day of remembrance for her father on June 17, the day of his death, and to donate proceeds to families of police violence.
In response to a statement given earlier today by SI Yankees President Jane Rogers about the nature of the event, Erica Garner said: "Being the president of anything means that you don't have the luxury of your intentions outweighing your results. I would hope that she is more educated than I am, and I'm smarter than that. I will take her at her word, but if that is the truth, she needs to be fired. Period. What did she think would happen? In this place? On that day?"
Holley said he is not at liberty to discuss personnel decisions, but noted that a firing is unlikely.
Erica Garner also pointed out that Staten Island is home to many NYPD officers, and compared "race relations" on the small island to the American South.
"The [SI Yankees] stadium is a short walk from where my father was killed and directly across the street from the police department that is home to my father's killer — who is still on the city dole, by the way. It's not hard to see that Black lives do not matter on Staten Island."
Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who held Erica Garner's father in the chokehold, was not charged with homicide. The City of New York recently reached a settlement with the Garner family.
Dave Driskell tagged the photo as #wanderlustwod, meaning workout of the day.
A popular CrossFit competitor and coach has angered some of his thousands of Instagram fans by posting a photo of himself working out inside a Holocaust memorial.
He wrote, "Hello Berlin, Germany. 15 hour layover. Checking the sites. Drinking the beers. Eating the bratwurst. #vagabond #wanderlustwods #handstands #365daysofhandstands."
The post was later deleted.
Dave Driskell posted the photo of himself doing a handstand at Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on Monday.
Generally the song is sung with reference to common objects or folks that one might find on a bus:
The wheels on the bus go round along with round,
Round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels for the bus go round and also round,
All through this town.
The horn on the actual bus goes beep, beep, beep,
Beep, beep, beep.
Beep, beep, beep.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,
All over the town.
The door around the bus goes open and also shut,
Open and turn,
Open and shut
The door on the bus should go open and shut
All over the town.
The windows on the bus go up and down,
Up and down
Vertical
The windows on the bus go up and down
All through the area.
The money on the particular bus goes clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink.
The bucks on the bus will go clink, clink, clink,
All over the town.
The driver around the bus says "Move upon back,
Move on back again,
Move on back"
The driver for the bus says "Move about back",
All through the location.
The baby on the actual bus says "Wah, wah, wah,
Wah, wah, wah,
Wah, wah, wah".
The child on the bus states "Wah, wah, wah".
All through the town.
The mommy around the bus says, "I enjoy you,
I love a person,
I love you"
The daddy about the bus says, "I enjoy you, too".
All over the town.
The bell on the bus goes ding-ding-ding,
Ding-ding-ding,
Ding-ding-ding.
The bell for the bus goes ding-ding-ding.
During the town.
The wipers within the glass go swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
Through the town.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels within the bus go round as well as round,
All day long.
All day long,
The whole day.
These lyrics can always be continued until either until you will find not any more objects or people left within the bus to name or maybe the participants get bored.
The wheels on the bus go round along with round,
Round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels for the bus go round and also round,
All through this town.
The horn on the actual bus goes beep, beep, beep,
Beep, beep, beep.
Beep, beep, beep.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,
All over the town.
The door around the bus goes open and also shut,
Open and turn,
Open and shut
The door on the bus should go open and shut
All over the town.
The windows on the bus go up and down,
Up and down
Vertical
The windows on the bus go up and down
All through the area.
The money on the particular bus goes clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink.
The bucks on the bus will go clink, clink, clink,
All over the town.
The driver around the bus says "Move upon back,
Move on back again,
Move on back"
The driver for the bus says "Move about back",
All through the location.
The baby on the actual bus says "Wah, wah, wah,
Wah, wah, wah,
Wah, wah, wah".
The child on the bus states "Wah, wah, wah".
All through the town.
The mommy around the bus says, "I enjoy you,
I love a person,
I love you"
The daddy about the bus says, "I enjoy you, too".
All over the town.
The bell on the bus goes ding-ding-ding,
Ding-ding-ding,
Ding-ding-ding.
The bell for the bus goes ding-ding-ding.
During the town.
The wipers within the glass go swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
Through the town.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels within the bus go round as well as round,
All day long.
All day long,
The whole day.
These lyrics can always be continued until either until you will find not any more objects or people left within the bus to name or maybe the participants get bored.
Thứ Hai, 10 tháng 8, 2015
Yes! We’ve scored… oh, no we haven’t.
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1. Well, here we go again. Wonder how badly we'll be beaten this time?
2. No, stop that. Be positive. This could finally be our year.
3. Two minutes 'til kick off and a guy in the Tartan Army is already topless. But where's his chest hair? One of life's great mysteries.
4. Ah, good old pre-match music. "500 Miles" should really be Scotland's national anthem.
5. It starts... and our centre-back immediately gets a yellow card. Amazing.
6. Our goalkeeper is time wasting already. 0–0 is clearly in the sights. Aim high, lads, aim high.
7. Should I appreciate that rather decent pass dished out by a player I really dislike from my rival club team? No.
8. OK, the opposition's pressure is building. Beer on intravenous drip, please.
9. And there it goes. We're one behind after just 15 minutes.
10. Wee Jimmy from accounts just won the office sweepstake.
11. So annoyed. All that preparation and optimism has gone out of the window just like that.
12. Meh, oh well. There's no harm in losing to a better team.
13. I wonder what pub we're going to after the game?
14. Whoa! We've won a corner. That's, like, almost a penalty.
15. Our braveheart defenders are coming up for it. Gallantly striding into the battle zone like William Wallace.
16. That was actually a nice cross… must be the wind.
17. Ooftt! Our defender scored! Ya dancer. That was totally the best goal ever.
18. OK, it was a scuffed header that flicked off a shoulder before being deflected in. But it was the best scuffed header.
19. Topless guy in the crowd is going wild. What a hero. We are topless guy. I am topless guy.
20. We can totally do this.
21. Wait, England are losing in their game? This is the best day ever.
22. A mis-hit strike off the crossbar! So close to taking the lead. Scotland, you really are beautiful today.
23. I've never wanted to buy a tartan kilt so much in my life.
24. Come on, goalie: Timewaste, timewaste!
25. Uh oh. Here's the dreaded comedown. The opposition are picking up again.
26. There's a bad feeling in my belly. Maybe it's just my digestive system fighting with the salad* I had for lunch.
27. *Chips and gravy.
28. This is like the opening game of France '98 all over again. Oh, the glory days.
29. We've somehow made it to half-time and we're not losing. Phew. This feels like getting into the Garage in Glasgow when you're 16. Yas!
30. What the hell is Amy Macdonald doing singing on the pitch?
31. Does she ever go away?
32. Okay, here we go again. Come on, Scotland, let's go tiki-taka on these guys.
33. Half of the team's on yellow cards.
34. And now one has received a free upgrade to a red. Dang.
35. The goalie's doing well under pressure. If only he had Jim Leighton's eyebrow Vaseline, though, then he'd be a world-beater.
36. Half an hour into the second half, and we've not even had a shot on goal yet.
37. This must be what it feels like to be Scotrail's timetabling boss: always missing targets.
38. Last 10 minutes. Sweaty palms.
39. Or is it just beer-tears weeping out of my system from last night?
40. Come on, boys. We're minutes away from a famous, tell-your-grandkids 1–1 draw.
41. Oh crap. The other team just scored.
42. Linesman, you neep! That was most definitely offside, I think. Maybe. Was it?
43. If you're not going to go to Specsavers, at least go to bloody Vision Express or something.
44. Oh wait, his flag is staying down. This is real. This is happening. This is shite.
45. I wonder what pub we're going to after the game?
46. They've all but snatched victory at the last minute. Just like when my brother thieved the last multi-pack can of Irn-Bru that I had been eyeing up all day.
47. Bru? Who cares about that now anyway. This disappointment calls for a whisky or four. Pub?
48. Come on, there's two minutes of added-on time. Let's just go for it! There's still hope. Not much, admittedly, but…
49. Wait! We've got a free kick near the box!
50. Aaaand it's ended up in row Z. Even ruddy Alex Salmond after a day on the sauce in the House of Commons bar could have hit that on target.
51. Well, there we go. Full-time whistle. Glorious failure yet again. So near, yet so far.
52. But hey, they tried their best and that's all that matters. Maybe they'll win next time?
53. Ach, probably not.
54. I'm off to the pub.
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