Google developed a reputation in the mid-aughties for its lavish employee perks, particularly their corporate kitchens dishing out gourmet meals for their well-fed workers. But in a recent Business Insider profile of Nate Keller, the former Google executive chef unveiled the high cost of keeping Mountain View's advertising talent nourished:

[Keller] grew the kitchen staff to 675 employees and was responsible for serving 40,000 meals per day by the time. By the time Keller left Google in 2008, Googlers were eating $1 million worth of chicken per month.

Holy shit! That's a lot of bird. In fact, assuming every single one of Google's then 20,222 employees were chowing down on campus, the company was shelling out nearly $50 per employee every month just on flightless fowl. And never mind the venerable Gum Drop Mountain of snacks kept on hand to make sure employee blood sugar levels don't fall too low.

Fifty bucks per person may not seem like a lot, but the wholesale cost of chicken was 71.1 cents a pound in 2008, according to the USDA. That means Googlers were gobbling up just under three pounds of poultry a day. Compare that to Proposition Chicken: an employee of the popular San Francisco restaurant says they go through approximately 100 pounds of chicken a day, with the average order being under one pound each.

Once again, Silicon Valley is plump with perks.

Photo: AP

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Tonight on television there will be: Television programs. Among them will be included a fantasy date with Tom Arnold, hunks climbing things, a new kind of family or two, teens who are wolves and coyotes, and nothing of interest happening under any sort of dome. Also Top Models such as the top model featured in the video above.

At 8/7c. it's another trip to Paradise for various Bachelors and Bachelorettes, as well as former bachelor Tom Arnold's time Running Wild with Bear Grylls. If urban found-art and neo-dadaism is more your flavor, we've got the Top 8 Masterchefs and Switched At Birth's season finale, this time named after a 1974 work by Fluxus artist Robert Filliou, "And life begins right away (Je suis Libre d'être Libre)." It is a piece of actual garbage with writing on it, which is the opposite of the show, which is nice (and has artistic merit)! But if you are into the heavy shit then really you only have one option: Nick's new Dora And Friends: Into The City!, whose premiere episode "Doggie Day!" I have seen, and found to be bonkers.

At 9/8c. Ninja Warrior goes to Vegas for some Finals, HBO's got a special on Pamela Smart, there's the usual Hotel Hell and Real Housewives of Orange County, and a couple of premieres of note—America's Next Top Model (ep title "The Boyz R Back" is one notable part; the fact that the show still exists is the other) and Dallas on TNT—and, of course, the summer finale of the best show on television, The Fosters. Tonight, sweet little Connor's shitty dad intensifies his campaign against sweet little, possibly-gay little Jude, causing mom Lena (with whom Jude's been on a three-episode Wiccan sabbatical after she miscarried a unicorn baby) to go apeshit, while Callie starts thinking she can put her bio-dad's money to good use in a move that will probably backfire horrifically and probably end up with a maimed Rosie O'Donnell.

What further calamity may befall the Fosters this week? Watch and find out! I predict at least three further calamities will befall them. Brandon's on/off relationship with Lou will bust into crazy/beautiful territory once she learns about his recent rape by his dad's live-in AA sponsor/fiancée. Jesus is getting super-John Tucker'd, I bet. Mariana's estrangement from her Latina heritage will probably cause one. I'm the most interested in that one because I feel like none of us can more forward until we actually see Teri Polo coldcock a drug addict.

At 10/9c. David Rees is Going Deep with the unstoppable technique for How to Climb a Tree; Mistresses and Under the Dome are both shows that are on, in different ways; Teen Wolf is going for it as we finally learn the situation of the mysterious Benefactor. Who do you think it is? I think it is somebody's mom, or somebody's mom's mom. Somebody that didn't canonically exist a month ago, that's who I think. I also anticipate learning a great deal about a subject that I didn't heretofore know much about, but that's every week. You should never underestimate Teen Wolf's manic drive to educate.

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In a stunning approximation of human behavior, Karlie Kloss-lover Taylor Swift revealed via Yahoo! livestream today that she made a new album. A "pop" album. The first single, which we can only assume was turned down by Avril Lavigne, is called "Shake It Off."

Swift even had the video ready for song, which preaches with all the authority of a Wyomissing, Pennsylvania-born white girl that "the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate." The theme of the video is "all types of dancers." Like this type:

And this type:

And sure, who can think of one good reason why not, this type:

Over the course the livestream, Swift took questions from "fans"—audience member Joey asked, with PR-professional specificity, what special features will appear on the deluxe album—and talked about her love of metaphors. "All I think about are metaphors and cats," she said.

She lip synched to her own song, danced with lucky audience members, and pretended that she's been to a house party before ("If you've ever gone to a house party, you know like, how people are, you know ..."). She told us her new album is called 1989, after the year of her birth. The album cover is a Polaroid.

Humble fans offered their praise on Twitter:

Seriously what @taylorswift13 has been up to is better than you ever imagined...

— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 18, 2014

In case anyone was confused about the gravity of this Yahoo! livestream event, Tay cleared things up before she signed off. "We just made history," she said. Album's out in October!

When you think of McDonald's, the corporate powers that be behind the golden arches would really prefer if your mind didn't immediately flash to expired garbage meat or wages barely preferable to indentured servitude or even their terrifying new toothed box of a mascot. No, McDonald's would rather be synonymous with class, sophistication and refinement, which is why they've taken to rounding up reporters and bloggers and serving them, basically, a bunch of food that is not McDonald's.

The Associated Press reports that last fall, the company held a night for food bloggers and reporters at an event space in Tribeca (as opposed to, say, at a McDonald's restaurant). "Celebrity chefs" fashioned haute cuisine out of ingredients from the chain's menu. Read: they took some fries and some McNuggets and buried them under actual food. In July, they did the same thing for another group of reporters who were in New Orleans to cover the Essence Festival. That event was also not held at a McDonald's.

The Tribeca menu included Kung Pao chicken made with McNuggets and garnished with parsley, a vegetable that is, in fairness, found at McDonald's restaurants: there's dehydrated parsley in the Vegetable Beef Soup, the 42nd ingredient in the dish, just after the potassium chloride. They also served slow-cooked beef over gnocchi that theoretically originiated from McDonald's fries, and, for dessert, a pumpkin spice "biznut" out of their biscuit mix. In New Orleans they had the king-sized brass balls to serve beignets, which were stuffed with grilled chicken and paired with their Honey Mustard Sauce, which, miraculously, contains both honey and mustard.

A McDonald's spokesperson told the AP there would be even more "chef events" in the coming months, the dates and times of which appear to be guarded like nuclear launch codes. There's no pretense whatsoever that any of these dishes will eventually make their way onto McDonald's menus: the idea seems to be to simple show that it's possible, theoretically, to make McNuggets into something real fancy.

McDonald's brand and strategy officer Kevin Newell told the AP that all this is part of "telling our story in a much more proactive manner." They're also rolling out other options, like "Build Your Own Burger" stations in Southern California, where you can get your burger cooked slower than a regular McDonald's burger.

Meanwhile, the company has no plans to pay their workers a living wage or let them unionize, unless of course they're sued into it.

[Image by Candice Choi via AP]

As another long night in Ferguson begins, the National Guard is on the scene, but so too are the local police, who continue to demonstrate great judgment and a keen grasp on how they're coming across to the outside world. A few minutes ago, police tried to shut down CNN anchor Don Lemon's live broadcast as he stood on a sidewalk in the middle of a group of protesters.

"I think we're about to be arrested because we're standing on a sidewalk," Lemon told a studio anchor in New York, sounding quizzical. A police officer began to shove him backwards while shouting "Move out of the way!" Lemon added, with a bit of understated 'tude, "You can see what's happening. We've been standing here all day. They told us to come here. I can't move. I'm not going to resist a police officer."

After a little more jostling, the officer stomped away and began to corral people who aren't Don Lemon.

By this point in the proceedings, you might think that Ferguson law enforcement knows better than to arrest reporters, especially on live television, but you'd think wrong. Getty photographer Scott Olson has also reportedly been arrested. There's no word yet on what he's being charged with. (Correction: An earlier version of those post stated that a second Getty photographer, Joe Raedle, had also been arrested. He has not. He took the images of Olson being placed into custody.)

Images of Getty photographer Scott Olson being arrested in Ferguson, taken by fellow Getty photographer Joe Raedle pic.twitter.com/NEul6TnsKG

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) August 18, 2014

The officer doing the arresting seemed pretty tickled:

Obama: "Police should not be arresting journalists for doing their jobs." #Ferguson, now: @GettyImages' Scott Olson. pic.twitter.com/2XAJPwSEiD

— Matt Galloway (@mattgallowaycbc) August 18, 2014

Meanwhile, in a solidarity protest in downtown St. Louis, Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and political activist known for her support for Palestine has been arrested in front of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's office. Reporter Chris Stanford of local news station KMOV tweeted that Epstein and seven other people were arrested for blocking the entrance of an office building and refusing to disperse:

Several protesters just arrested downtown #StL including this woman for "blocking the entrance" #ferguson pic.twitter.com/3Pjka8j0Tz

— Chris Stanford (@StanfordKMOV) August 18, 2014

Epstein is the tiny white-haired lady being zip-tie handcuffed by two female police officers. Earlier, according to Stanford's tweets, security had refused to let the protesters into the building, on the grounds that they weren't there on "official business."

Protesters aren't being let in, security told me they're not here on "official business" - #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/6CleokqMnA

— Chris Stanford (@StanfordKMOV) August 18, 2014

Epstein immigrated to the United States in 1948 and currently lives in St. Louis. She seems unamused but unfazed by the arrest in photos from the scene:

Hedy Epstein being arrested for justice for Michael Brown Jr. #don'tshoot #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/OniQfkDzr5

— Michael T McPhearson (@MTMcPhearson) August 18, 2014

Don Lemon, photojournalists and a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. Stay tuned as Missouri's police officers doubtless make more excellent choices throughout the night.

A hard-to-pronounce volcano in the middle of Iceland is showing signs that it could erupt soon, and to add insult to injury, the volcano sits beneath a glacier which could itself explode if and when it comes in contact with magma.

The stratovolcano, called Bárðarbunga (pronounced similar to "ba-thar-bunga"), sits beneath the largest glacier on Iceland according to Ben Orlove over at GlacierHub. Recent earthquake activity in and around the volcano is growing in frequency and occurring closer to the surface, suggesting that Bárðarbunga may soon erupt.

Reports Orlove at the glacier website:

More than 1400 earthquakes have been recorded, some small, some medium-sized, concentrated near the faults associated with the volcano. These swarms constitute a second line of evidence that an eruption may occur, since such earthquakes can be created by pools of magma as they move upward. The earthquakes in the last 24 hours have been more numerous, more powerful, and closer to the surface—all pointing to an increased likelihood of eruption.

Given the signs of magma movement within the volcano and the increased earthquake activity, the Icelandic Meteorological Office raised the aviation threat level around the volcano to "orange" — or a 4 out of 5 on the agency's risk scale — indicating that the "volcano shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption."

Americans are most familiar with Eyjafjallajökull (which is pronounced "EH-ya-fi-AHT-la-yo-coot," if you ever wondered), the Icelandic volcano that erupted in 2010. The volcano produced an enormous ash cloud that overspread most of Europe, snarling air traffic for nearly a week.

Volcanic ash is destructive to aircraft as the glass and rock that makes up the ash cloud can clog its engines and sandblast the cockpit's windscreen, leaving the pilots flying both blind and without engines in the worst case scenario.

In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Bárðarbunga erupts in the next day or two, a run of the HYSPLIT volcanic ash model shows that any potential ash would likely travel south towards the Bay of Biscay, then head east over western Europe.

[Since Bárðarbunga sits beneath a glacier, enjoy the top image of terrain in western Iceland taken by Eric Montfort and posted on Flickr]

Today on Instagram, Nicki Minaj posted new stills from her upcoming "Anaconda" video, which appears to prominently feature Drake. And Nicki Minaj's ass. And Drake staring longingly at Nicki Minaj's ass and, somewhere, according to Drake, Drake's boner.

On his Instagram, Drake reposted a few of Nicki's images and added his own commentary, specifically that Nicki putting her hand on his crotch made his "anaconda" (:-/) go "way up."

What a monumental day for Drake's dick.

[image via @nickiminaj]

The rest of the world might be falling apart, but Rikers Island is still reliably horrific. A New York mother is suing Corizon, the company that provides healthcare at Rikers, New York City's largest jail complex, saying her 19-year-old son died in a cell there last year after being denied adequate medical treatment.

DNAInfo reports that Andy Henriquez, who was from Washington Heights, entered Rikers when he was just 16, after he was accused of taking part in the gang-related murder of Mohamed Jalloh, a 17-year-old from the Bronx who was hacked to death with a machete on a public street. Henriquez was arrested after he went to a nearby hospital with cuts on his hand and charged with second-degree murder and gang assault.

Henriquez was still awaiting trial three years later, on April 7, 2013, when he died in solitary confinement from complications caused by a torn aorta. The lawsuit filed by his mother, Sandra De La Cruz, says that Henriquez complained of chest pain for months. He was diagnosed eight separate times with costochondritis, inflammation and joint pain near the heart. But his mother's lawsuit says he was never given a full cardiac exam or other testing that might have shown the pain was caused by a tear in his aorta.

The night of his death, the suit says, Henriquez was given an anti-flammatory and a muscle relaxant and sent back to his cell. A few hours later, he was also given a hand cream that wasn't prescribed for him. Not surprisingly, none of that managed to cure a torn heart. He was found dead later that night.

Several men who were locked up with him reported that Henriquez frequently complained of severe pain.

"He was screaming all day and all night," one of them, Ernest Madison, said in a deposition, according to DNAInfo. In their own depositions, several Rikers guards admitted that while they were supposed to check on him every 15 minutes, the checks didn't usually happen on schedule. All of them denied hearing Henriquez screaming for help.

[Rikers emergency services personnel walk into the jail's juvenile facility. Image by Julie Jacobson via AP.]

Dr. Michael Baden, a respected medical examiner and author of the private Michael Brown autopsy report, appeared on Fox News Monday night to speculate on whether marijuana could have made Brown "do things to a police officer that normally he would not have done." (Hint—no.)

Baden was a guest on Greta Van Susteren's show when Susteren brought up the toxicology report, asking him whether Brown might have had drugs other than marijuana present in his system. In response, Baden delivered up a word salad about the "levels of different drugs that are present in marijuana."

Van Susteren: In terms of the toxicology—and I'll get to the bullet wounds in a second—does the fact that they found marijuana, does that exclude the fact that there might be other drugs in his system, or even that the marijuana was laced with anything? Is that the final analysis, or could there be more information to come in terms of the toxicology?

Baden: I don't know, because I haven't seen the toxicology report yet. That's part of the autopsy and that should be coming to the family in the next day or two.

Very important with marijuana is the levels of the different drugs that are present in marijuana to have an opinion as to whether or not he might have been affected by the marijuana, so that he may have been acting in a crazy way and may have done things to the police officer that normally he would not have done. Which would be the issue that might arise.

Compelling stuff.

[h/t Mediaite]

In the new appified San Francisco, startup advertisements are everywhere: Our highway are lined with their obnoxious billboards, spinning-sign guys are used to recruit Lyft drivers, and ads dangle from doorknobs like pizza menus. Now, one startup is taking the scourge of parking tickets and using them to hawk quasi-legal services.

Got ticket at 12:39 pm, by 5:40 pm, somebody had attached flier for app to beat ticket. San Francisco, 2014. pic.twitter.com/jbp3GDPqZB

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) August 15, 2014

The latest ad space pioneer is Fixed, a company that claims it can help get "up to 50% of tickets" dismissed. According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

Fixed relies on violations that are debatable and parking enforcement officers who make mistakes. The app is relatively simple: Users receive a prompt to take a photo of the ticket and enter the violation code. The app looks up the violation and suggests common mistakes that might get it thrown out by agency administrators. It also prompts motorists to photograph evidence at the scene - properly curbed wheels or faded red paint, for instance - and checks the street grade against a geological survey map.

Then, because you can't quite disrupt the MTA yet, Fixed mails a hard copy of the complaint to the MTA. If it gets dismissed, the makers of the app collect 25 percent of the original fine. If it doesn't get thrown out the first time, Fixed can try again with a second mailing. If the driver doesn't emerge victorious, the whole process is free (except for that ticket, of course).

As far as the burgeoning crop of ridiculous solutionist startups go, Fixed actually seems to be one of the better ones. After all, everyone's itching for a way to avoid San Francisco's notoriously high parking ticket fines.

But, as SF Citizen points out, Fixed's ham-fisted marketing campaign offers the convenience of the on-demand economy to those of you that may have caused a greater inconvenience:

[In my opinion,] the first step after you get a ticket is figuring whether you deserved it or not. Well, were you blocking the street sweeper or not? Oh, you were? So why try to get the ticket "fixed?"

Photo: SF Citizen

Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, reached out to the grieving parents of Michael Brown Monday night with a heartfelt letter published in TIME magazine, advising the family that "neither of their deaths shall be in vain."

Fulton's son Trayvon, of course, was gunned down in 2012 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman who later testified that the unarmed Skittles-toting teenager made him fear for his life.

In her letter to Brown's family, Fulton acknowledges that their lives have been changed forever.

"I wish I had a word of automatic comfort but I don't. I wish I could say that it will be alright on a certain or specific day but I can't. I wish that all of the pain that I have endured could possibly ease some of yours but it won't," Fulton writes.

I hate that you and your family must join this exclusive yet growing group of parents and relatives who have lost loved ones to senseless gun violence. Of particular concern is that so many of these gun violence cases involve children far too young. But Michael is much more than a police/gun violence case; Michael is your son. A son that barely had a chance to live. Our children are our future so whenever any of our children – black, white, brown, yellow, or red – are taken from us unnecessarily, it causes a never-ending pain that is unlike anything I could have imagined experiencing.

Further complicating the pain and loss in this tragedy is the fact that the killer of your son is alive, known, and currently free. In fact, he is on paid administrative leave. Your own feelings will bounce between sorrow and anger. Even when you don't want to think about it because it is so much to bear, you will be forced to by merely turning on your television or answering your cell phone. You may find yourselves pulled in many different directions by strangers who may be well-wishers or detractors. Your circle will necessarily close tighter because the trust you once, if ever, you had in "the system" and their agents are forever changed. Your lives are forever changed.

However with those changes come new challenges and opportunities. You will experience a swell of support from all corners of the world. Many will express their sympathies and encourage you to keep fighting for Michael. You will also, unfortunately, hear character assassinations about Michael which I am certain you already have. This will incense and insult you. All of this will happen before and continue long after you have had the chance to lay your son to rest.

Addressing the media circus surrounding the shooting, Fulton advises the Browns to "Honor your son and his life, not the circumstances of his alleged transgressions. I have always said that Trayvon was not perfect. But no one will ever convince me that my son deserved to be stalked and murdered. No one can convince you that Michael deserved to be executed."

"But know this," she continues. "Neither of their lives shall be in vain. The galvanizations of our communities must be continued beyond the tragedies. While we fight injustice, we will also hold ourselves to an appropriate level of intelligent advocacy. If they refuse to hear us, we will make them feel us. Some will mistake that last statement as being negatively provocative. But feeling us means feeling our pain; imagining our plight as parents of slain children. We will no longer be ignored. We will bond, continue our fights for justice, and make them remember our children in an appropriate light."

[via TIME, image via AP]

A Russian neo-Nazi gang leader nicknamed "The Hatchet," best known for leading a group that filmed themselves violently humiliating and harassing young gay men, has been sentenced to five years in prison for making a video of himself beating and torturing a gay Iraqi man.

Maxim "Tesak" Martsinkevich ("Tesak" is Russian for "hatchet") has been active and infamous in Russia for years, but he's best known for founding "Occupy Pedophilia," a group that filmed themselves forcing gay men to drink urine, dumping it over their heads, threatening them with axes, and menacing them with large sex toys. All of it was done, Martsinkevich said in interviews, in the name of "curing" the men of their homosexuality. (Russia, as you probably recall, isn't the friendliest place to be gay: the country passed a law in 2013 banning gay "propaganda.")

Occupy Pedophilia posted dozens of disturbing videos (you can see some stills here, if you really want to ruin your night) but in November 2013, Martsinkevich abruptly fled Russia, posting on his website that he needed to take "an urgent vacation" to avoid being charged with extremism. The video that got him into trouble showed him beating a gay Iraqi man who he'd lured to an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Martsinevich claimed on video he'd gotten the man there by promising to let him have sex with a 15-year-old boy; instead he shaved the middle of his head, painted a rainbow on his scalp and a star of David on his chest, and forced him to make a "confession."

The neo-Nazi was arrested in Cuba in January of this year and extradited back to Russia, where he was convicted of making extremist statements, specifically ones that lead to"incitement of hatred or hostility and humiliation of human dignity." He wasn't tried or punished for the violently homophobic part of the attack. Martsinekvich previously served three years in prison, from 2007 to 2010, for "incitement to ethnic strife with the threat of the use of violence."

Nine other members of Occupy Pedophilia are reportedly awaiting trial as well. They're accused of a laundry list of bad things, including, according to LGBTQ nation, "organization of an extremist community and membership in an extremist community, beatings and other acts of violence, the threat of murder and causing grievous bodily harm, intentional infliction of moderate bodily harm, torture and robbery."

[Martsinkevich pictured in 2007; image by Sergey Ponomarev via AP]

Duane Merrells carries an American flag upside-down in protest as he walks through the streets of Ferguson on Monday, August 18. [Image by Charlie Riedel via AP]

Protesters in Ferguson began throwing rocks at Chris Hayes Monday night during a live MSNBC broadcast, demanding he "tell the true story."

Like clockwork, tensions erupted yet again in Ferguson after dark when police began trying to clear the streets of protesters. As the lines of protesters were driven back, a few took out their frustrations on Hayes.

Hayes (who was also a target last night for police officers who threatened to mace him) then attempted to interview the rock-chucking protesters.

"The gentleman behind me in the mask is telling me this is a civil rights movement, it's just not about Mike Brown, it's about all people" Hayes explained. "There's a lot of frustration."

Don Pardo, the legendary announcer who introduced Saturday Night Live for close to 40 years, died Monday night at age 96.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC confirmed his death without providing any additional information.

Pardo joined SNL as an announcer for the show's first episode in 1975, missing only the seventh season and a handful of episodes last year when he broke his hip.

"Every year the new cast couldn't wait to hear their name said by him," Lorne Michaels told the New York Times.

The show celebrated his 90th birthday with a live tribute in 2008.

Pardo, who was also an announcer on The Price is Right and Jeopardy, began his career at NBC in 1944 when he and a friend toured the studio and left with a job offer.

Although he retired in 2004, he continued to record the SNL intros from his home in Arizona.

He is survived by three daughters, Dona, Katherine, and Paula; two sons, David and Michael, and a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

[image via IMDB]

The protests in Ferguson escalated again Monday night after a small group of protesters reportedly began throwing Molotov cocktails at police and firing live ammunition, prompting a heavy-handed response from law enforcement officers. At least two people were reportedly shot and multiple people arrested in the melee.

The now-nightly clash started anew Monday afternoon, when protestors reportedly began throwing bottles at police officers. MSNBC's Chris Hayes was also targeted and pelted by rocks during a live broadcast later that night.

According to CNN producer Steve Kastenbaum, police told reporters a small group of protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails, prompting police to respond by firing immense clouds of tear gas, LRADs, and stun grenades at the crowd of protesters and reporters.

According to Kastenbaum and other reporters, the "small group of violent protesters" were also responsible for the gunshots and may have started fires around the neighborhood.

Capt. Johnson later told CNN that police responded after protesters became "agitated."

"Protesters became large and agitated … and several of the groups tried to get media attention and agitated the response. When police stepped in, they began to throw frozen water bottles at officers," Johnson said.

"The crowd began to walk past the designated area for protesters … and then they turned back. When a large group got to our area, they became agitated and one threw an explosive device on the ground," he said.

Around midnight, VICE's Tim Poole reported hearing the "large successions of live fire" audible on the above clip from VICE's livestream. According to CNN, at least two people were shot in the melee.

Don Lemon's live broadcast was interrupted by police officers, who attempted to shove him out of the way as cameras rolled. And according to reporter Trey Yingst, police officers "lobbed a tear gas canister into a group of journalists" around 9:25 pm.

Belleville News-Democrat reporter Jacqueline Lee reported a similar experience early Tuesday morning.

Police just shot at least three tear gas canisters at me. One hit my leg, one my backpack. #Ferguson

— Jacqueline Lee (@BNDJLee) August 19, 2014

They're saying "Go home" I literally have nowhere to go. I'm hiding. A @bellevillenewsd photog, other journo with me. #Ferguson

— Jacqueline Lee (@BNDJLee) August 19, 2014

We held up media credentials. They drove into parking lot of private apartment complex and shot tear gas in circle, 10ft from us. #Ferguson

— Jacqueline Lee (@BNDJLee) August 19, 2014

"I can't even begin to describe tear gas. Imagine burning styrofoam, plastic, and cayenne pepper turned into gas that floats in air unseen," Complex video editor Sean Stout explained on Twitter Monday night.

CNN talent hit by tear gas #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/08Mw2zJFSA

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 19, 2014

Media taking cover behind an electric box pic.twitter.com/ItmD6WfPeP

— Ryan Devereaux (@rdevro) August 19, 2014

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's David Carson, at least 12 people were arrested in a truck in Canfield, near where Michael Brown was shot. Carson reports police confiscated at least two pistols and a Molotov cocktail incident to the arrests.

Around midnight, SWAT officers also forced members of the press out of the main protest areas, claiming the live gunfire and escalated response was a threat to their safety.

But even as the media began to pull out early Tuesday morning, residents continued to report violent police clashes.

They just tear gassed the neighborhood!! #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/61dAon1wEb

— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) August 19, 2014

They're telling for us to GET UP AND GO HOME, while they drive down the streets firing shots and rubber bullets #Ferguson

— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) August 19, 2014

THEY DROVE DOWN THE STREET TO SHOOT AT US IN TRUCKS

— ShordeeDooWhop (@Nettaaaaaaaa) August 19, 2014

According to St. Louis alderman Antonio French, the protests moved from Ferguson to Canfield early Tuesday morning.

The guys police are battling right now on Canfield are the fighters I described earlier. Reporters, you don't want to be over there now.

— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 19, 2014

While peace was maintained at the front near #Ferguson Ave, once again there's still fighting and gas near Canfield - pic.twitter.com/o11j57po2D

— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 19, 2014

Turmoil in Ferguson continued Monday night, even after Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon lifted the town's curfew and called in the state's National Guard. At least 31 people were arrested by police and at least two have been reported shot. [Front page of today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Newseum]

This is a great little reminder that not all youth coaches and parents are psychopaths. After losing to Jackie Robinson West 8-7, Dave Belisle gathered his Cumberland American team from Rhode Island to let them know that even though they lost, it's not a reason to be upset or disappointed.

As most of the kids in the huddle cried, Belisle made them all lift their heads and look him in the eye as he told them to be proud because they had their hometown "jumpin', the whole state jumpin', you had New England jumpin', you had ESPN jumpin'." He also told them the only reason he would cry after this run is because he won't be coaching them. You don't often see moving post-game speeches from the losing side, but this one was excellent.

[ESPN]

What's up with Bill Cosby? Who knows! He showed up on last night's episode of The Tonight Show in a Taz-like whirlwind (impressive for a 77-year-old), and Jimmy Fallon barely got a word in edgewise. This was Cosby's opening monologue:

"We're here! We're here on the Fallon show and we're waiting for the gas pedal and the clutch and the break...Too many people have hit the deer, and the deer always win. But the ones I don't understand, I don't understand the intelligence of a moth."

He went on to take Fallon to task for imitating him, briefly discuss pigeons, and describe sex as a septuagenarian.

He also did this:

Never again did he mention the moth. I don't understand what Bill Cosby doesn't understand about the intelligence of a moth.