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dailyoverview:

Check out this amazing view of Monte Fitz Roy — a mountain in the Patagonia Region on the border of Argentina and Chile — captured by a Planet Labs satellite at a low angle. With an elevation of 11,171 ft (3,405 m) and sheer granite faces, it is one of the most technically challenging mountains to ascent on Earth. Monte Fitz Roy is also the inspiration for the Patagonia clothing company’s logo.

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49°16’17.1"S, 73°02’33.9"W

Source imagery: Planet Labs

inthenoosphere:

“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941

nbcnews:

Two black men arrested at Starbucks settle with Philadelphia for $2

The two black men whose arrest at a Philadelphia Starbucks last month set off a wave of protests against the coffee giant for discrimination have reached a settlement with the city, the mayor’s office said Wednesday.

They will each be paid $1.

In addition, Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson, both 23, will release the city and employees of all claims in exchange for the creation of a $200,000 fund that, through the help of a nonprofit organization, will assist young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia.

Robinson and Nelson will also serve on a committee to establish and award the grants, which will focus on starting a pilot curriculum for public high school students to attain the skills to become business owners.

Read more here.

This is how it’s done.

Cynicism is the real enemy, and I admire these guys so much.

This breaks the usual pathetic pattern of – cops do something horrible, the city’s taxpayers pay, taking much needed funds away from meaningful reform and making victims’ families temporarily rich, and their lawyers – permanently so, repeat – and nothing changes.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0909/The-Freddie-Gray-6.4-million-settlement-is-big-but-will-it-send-right-message