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On an overcast 70-degree day in mid-October, about forty thrill-seeking bike messengers and cyclists sped off on an illegal bike race known as the alleycat, zig-zagging through traffic, running through red lights, and evading NYPD to compete for a hefty first place prize of $1,000 courtesy of the Coca-Cola Company, one of many sponsors. None of the competitors — mostly men on road and fixed gear bikes — knew where the 34-mile course would take them until the start of the race.
The La Marqueta Chase Alleycat started and finished at 116th and Park Avenue, celebrating the recent reopening of the marketplace under East Harlem’s Metro North railway tracks. The race “connected riders to a series of markets throughout the city, borough to borough,” said Diego Gerena-Quiñones, a messenger for Street Kings. Unlike other alleycats, the race didn’t require paper stamping at checkpoints. Instead, riders took selfies and posted them on Instagram with hashtag #LaMarquetaChase. Dominican Chris won the grueling race, finishing in just under 2.5 hours, followed by Mike and Austin Horse, according to co-organizer JC ‘Diablo’ Ramirez.
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito was there to show support for her district and constituency. “It’s a way to play up the community,” she said. However, she admitted, “I don’t know what to expect.”
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The makeshift memorial inside the Pink Houses where rookie cop Peter Liang fatally shot unarmed resident Akai Gurley. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork)
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A St. Louis County grand jury has decided against indicting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown, to the surprise of virtually no one, but the disappointment of a nation. The Brown family released the following statement:
We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.
While we understand that many others share our pain, we ask that you channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change. We need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen.
Join us with our campaign to ensure that every police officer working the streets in this country wears a body camera.
We respectfully ask that you please keep your protests peaceful. Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate reaction.
Let’s not just make noise, let’s make a difference.
St. Louis Alderman Antonio French shared a Vine of Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, surrounded by protestors. She said, “They still don’t care. They ain’t never gone care.”
Michael Brown's mother with supporters outside the Ferguson Police Department. https://t.co/TV5uJYGtdx
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) November 25, 2014
"They still don't care. They ain't never gone care." – mother of Michael Brown, unarmed teenager killed by … https://t.co/pBSp35GFWS
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) November 25, 2014
UPDATES BELOW
Tear gas is flying.
As The President Speaks, Tear Gas Is Being Deployed In #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/tn03KvcTRx
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 25, 2014
Tune into an amateur livestream below.
Protesters vandalize police car.
Photo: A protester squirts lighter fluid on a police car as its windows are shuttered in #Ferguson – @AP pic.twitter.com/QRfbPFLfZp
— Mashable News (@MashableNews) November 25, 2014
Darren Wilson’s lawyers releases a statement about decision not to indict.
There’s a police car on fire in Ferguson.
St Louis County Police car on fire in #ferguson pic.twitter.com/yOxFM6fYr3
— Rick Meyer (@RickMeyerKSDK) November 25, 2014
Protests are taking place in cities all across the United States, including New York.
"@KING5Seattle: Aerial view of #Ferguson protests in New York City pic.twitter.com/Ybu5enZQKW"
— Frédéric Arnould (@FredericArnould) November 25, 2014
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was “splattered” with fake blood at a Ferguson protest in Times Square.
BREAKING: #NYC Police Commissioner Bratton splattered with fake blood at #Justice4MikeBrown protest pic.twitter.com/GHa6ZWYcKq
— Jeff Rae (@jeffrae) November 25, 2014
The aftermath of splattering from another angle.
Another photo of #NYPD Commissioner Bratton with fake blood on his face that protesters threw #Ferguson Via @jeffrae pic.twitter.com/kJTfWDsRpt
— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) November 25, 2014
There have been several reports of looting on West Florissant.
Looting at the Dollar Tree located at 10752 West Florissant #Ferguson https://t.co/U59uWPb6WW
— Jeanie Smith (@JeanieSmithKSDK) November 25, 2014
Several vehicles at a car dealership burned.
Car dealership on fire pic.twitter.com/ETrKgvaRUe — Afterwards pic.twitter.com/JPcJOpfixK #Ferguson
— Michael Rusch (@weeddude) November 25, 2014
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Type3johnI gotta learn how to do a wheelie.
Many of you deduced that the Ferrari F50 used in that canal wakeboarding video belonged to our favorite band of monied insane people, Tax The Rich . You were right! Now here's their full version of that video, in all its epic glory.
TaxTheRich's Ferrari F50 wakeboarding video was pretty sick, wasn't it, brah? One group of folks in England definitely didn't think so: the cops. They're looking into whether any laws were broken during the filming. Lame!
Type3johnLego. Always good. Never hateful.
This is the note that was included with some LEGO doll house sets in the 70's, reminding parents that it's okay for girls to want to play with rocketships and boys to build dollhouses. It's weird to think some parents actually needed to be reminded of that. I had a Cabbage Patch Doll growing up. And a My Little Pony. It was pink with blue hair. I bet my mom still has it. Plus a jar full of my baby teeth. Ooh -- and my rat-tail. I know for a fact she has my rat-tail in an envelope somewhere.
Thanks to Luis, who agrees there's nothing wrong with a boy wanting a Polly Pocket playset (I had two of those too).Type3johnThis couldn't be more perfect of a situation
I'll be honest with you, readers, because you're the only ones I really trust: I love a good fiasco. I mean, if something's going to go wrong, I love a nice avalanche of wrong to really settle things. And it should end with a parade, or maybe a dead horse. This video of a guy trying to park a Fiat 500 comes shockingly close to that.
When someone asks you if you want to wakeboard in a random canal behind their screaming Ferrari F50, you say "Yes." It's that simple.
Disclaimer: Adult language and blood.
Western Kentucky University professor John All was conducting climate research in Nepal on Monday when he suddenly fell into a crevasse, breaking his arm, five ribs and dislocating his shoulder.
"It probably took me four or five hours to climb out. I kept moving sideways, slightly up, sideways, slightly up, until I found an area where there was enough hard snow that I could get an ax in and pull myself up and over," he told HLN's RightThisMinute.
"I knew that if I fell at any time in that entire four or five hours, I, of course, was going to fall all the way to the bottom of the crevasse. Any mistake, or any sort of rest or anything, I was going to die."
See the rest of his ordeal below:
Submitted by: (via DrJohnepal)
The last thing I need is the first thing I want.
First came the fires.
Specifically, back in July of 2012, Lambert Park — a small but well-crafted network of singletrack at the foot of the mountains above Alpine, UT, just one mile from where I live — caught fire in a huge way.
“It could have been a lot worse,” we said. Presciently, as it turns out.
Because a year later, the floods came. And they were amazing. Without any vegetation holding the water back, it cut an amazing gash down the mountain.
That’s me, standing at the bottom of one of the trenches the water cut — it was well more than twenty feet deep and thirty feet wide.
And all those rocks and dirt that the water picked up? Well, they had to wind up somewhere.
Anywhere the water went, it left boulders behind.
Yeah, that trail suddenly gets a lot more technical right there.
And honestly, I didn’t think the flooded, rock-strewn part of Lambert Park would ever be rideable again.
And I am so happy to announce that not only was I mistaken, but I was mistaken in the best possible way.
UtahMountainBiking.com To The Rescue
UtahMountainBiking.com is one of the sites pretty much every single mountain biker in Utah knows about — it’s the best resource there is for getting ride information and access info for trails throughout Utah.
But they also do a lot of trail work.
So after the rains and the floods, the UtahMountainBiking.com guys got to work. Within a few days — amazingly — they got parts of the trail into rideable condition.
And then more rain…and floods… came.
I thought it was over; I assumed this section of Lambert Park was done.
And I was wrong. The UTMTB guys went back at it.
And they made the trail better than it used to be. Specifically, they took the Zag trail, which used to be one of the least interesting trails in the park, and turned it into a fun and challenging ride.
It’s twisty and technical, but if you pay attention you can keep your momentum.
The Hammer and I have been out to Lambert every day for the past few days; the trail salvaged by the the UTMB folks has become our favorite.
Who’d have expected that fire plus flood could equal a fantastic reimagining of a new trail?
Thanks, UtahMountainBiking.com guys. You’re amazing.
The premise of Star Trek: Voyager is that the Voyager is far from Federation space, and operating with limited supplies. The ship starts the series with 38 photon torpedoes and "no way to replace them." Okay, so how many photon torpedoes are actually fired by Voyager in the show? Watch and learn:
Because the Internet is awesome, lots of people have already done the math on this, though they tend to give up in frustration after a while (unlike the intrepid video editor above). The short version is that the writers did keep track of the photon torpedo count until the fifth season, then decided they needed a way to make more. And eventually they ditched the count entirely, because who really cares? Anyway, you can read a brilliant writeup here that attempts to tie together all the threads of this very nerdy problem. Another useful resource is Rick Kuzma's Star Trek: Voyager Statistics.
"We need more firepower," indeed!
(Via Kottke.org.)
