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Historical Map: Old Paris Metro Map at Marcadet Poissonniers Station (pre-1967?)

Great photo of the remnants of an old Metro map. The original poster of this photo on Flickr notes that it’s normally hidden behind advertisements these days. The best I can do with dating is pre-1967, as Line 7 has yet to be split into 7 and 7bis north of Louis Blanc station, instead being branches of the same line.

Source: andrew gallix/Flickr

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In this 25-second audio clip, Ben Garner shows incredible poise, despite what was undoubtedly a disappointing verdict not to indict the officer who killed his son.

Officers fired for misconduct often appeal the decision and get reinstated by obscure judges in secretive proceedings.

One of the main misconceptions about heavy metal, often floated by the kind of people who wouldn’t be caught dead actually listening to the stuff, is that it’s all about hate and rage—the impotent tantrums thrown by angry little boys trapped in the black-clad bodies of burly men. But some of the best extreme music being made today runs a much wider spectrum of emotions, ranging from grief and loneliness to wonder and awe to near-religious euphoria. (Satan no longer has a monopoly on the genre, if he ever really did.) It’s the cathartic, even meditative qualities of metal that are explored in A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, a new documentary whatsit that frequently resembles nothing so much as an adaptation of some imaginary black-metal record. The atmosphere is mythic and pervasive. The imagery, of night and nature and dancing flames, seems ripped from ...

A stirring, sermonizing-free micro portrait of the American healthcare system’s macro failings, Remote Area Medical charts four days in the operation of Remote Area Medical (RAM), a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing desperately needed health services to isolated areas—or, increasingly, to middle American regions where people can’t afford insurance. Over the course of a long weekend at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, directors Farihah Zaman and Jeff Reichert detail the efforts of RAM to provide dental, ophthalmological, and other basic services to thousands of poor, rural citizens, who arrive in throngs, days in advance, to wait patiently in the stadium’s parking lot for a ticket to gain access to see volunteer doctors. It’s a mass gathering of staggering proportions, and one that the filmmakers detail with no narration but great attentiveness to their various subjects’ plights. The camera tracks every emotional up and down ...

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrian children in Lebanon still have no schools. UNICEF innovator James Cranwell-Ward became interested in low-cost technology that could help deliver education for these vulnerable children; he developed an all-in-one Raspberry Pi-based computer system that can be used for programming and electronics as well as learning across a broader curriculum, and in October, refugees aged 10 to 16 attended their first Raspberry Pi class. One student is 11-year-old Zeinab Al Jusuf:

You might recognise those screens; they’re a specially developed UNICEF version of Alex Eames’ HDMIPi screen, and Alex wrote about them for us back in May when this project was in the planning stages. The Pis are mounted behind the screens, and provide access to materials including an Arabic-language KA Lite, an offline version of the education package Khan Academy.

Alongside their studies in areas like science and numeracy, the children are learning to code their own games. Zeinab says, “Over there, we can log in and play games. But here we can create our own games and play with them ourselves or let others play with them.”

It’s hoped this pilot will be extended to provide opportunities for children across Lebanon and beyond, and you can find out more from UNICEF, or from James’s photo log.

mermaid:

…a simple Markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.

For example, given the following text

graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

mermaid will generate a chart like this

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In the end the entire project only ended up costing me about $15.00 as I already had the Arduino and DVD drives, and I pulled the laser diode from one of the DVD drives

via: 3dprint.com

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

Author and media maker Janet Mock launched her second annual #TransBookDrive this week on Indiegogo and it's already been a smashing success. The project, which raises money to send books to incarcerated transgender inmates in U.S. jails and prisons, has already raised nearly $8,000 in fewer than two days, already surpassing its goal of $5,000 with 28 days left.

It's an effort that highlights a significant problem. Nearly one in six transgender people in America has been to prison -- and nearly half of all transgender black people, according to Lambda Legal. Once incarcerated, transgender inmates -- particularly women locked in men's facilities -- face increased risks of physical and sexual assault behind bars. 

Mock timed this year's drive to coincide with the paperback release of her memoir, "Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More." She partnered with biyuti publishing, Black Girl Dangerous and LGBT Books to Prisoners to fulfill book requests from 200 transgender inmates. The books will be delivered in care packages that include a handwritten letter from each author. Those authors and titles include: Mia McKenzie's "Black Girl Dangerous Anthology" and "The Summer We Got Free," "Decolonizing trans/gender" 101 by b. binaohan, "Make Love to Rage" by Morgan Robyn Collado, "Trauma Queen" by Lovemme Corazón and Mock's "Redefining Realness." 

With your continued help, we'll DOUBLE the amount of books per package + more!https://t.co/nvjsRo9TLh #transbookdrive pic.twitter.com/LDifv8ORCc

-- Janet Mock (@janetmock) December 2, 2014

Read more about the book drive at Indiegogo. 

* This post has been updated. 

NBA Hall of Famer and current TV analyst Charles Barkley never misses an opportunity to beat the black community upside the head with his bootstrap logic. He recently called Ferguson protesters "scumbags," and in a lengthy interview with CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday he reiterated his point that he doesn't believe white police officers shoot people because of racism. 

Some notable quotes:

• "We as black people, we have a lot of crooks. We can't just wait until something like (the Brown shooting) happens. We have to look at ourselves in the mirror," he said of people in black communities.
• "There is a reason that [cops] racially profile us in the way that they do. Sometimes it is wrong, and sometimes it is right."
• "Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on," he said. "But to be burning people's property, burning police cars, looting people's stores, that is 100 percent ridiculous."

Read more. 

scrapes:

dynastylnoire:

jadebrieanne:

Anybody who lives in St. Louis…don’t visit this establishment. 

booooooooooooooost

it’s real

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gutcheck/2014/12/time_out_bar_grill_boycotts_the_st_louis_rams_after_hands_up_dont_shoot_gesture.php

we should all write yelp reviews like “there was a HAIRBALL in the cheeseburger. FUCK this place!”

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A group representing St. Louis' black police officers issued a statement this Monday* standing by five Rams players who entered Sunday's NFL football game doing "hands up, don't shoot," widely perceived as a gesture of support for Ferguson protesters. The African-American group's support directly contradicts that of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, which issued its own public statement against the Rams and has raised significant financial support for former officer Darren Wilson. The statement appears on the Facebook page of the Ethical Society of Police, which describes itself as "the primary voice of African American Police Officers in St. Louis City," and according to its Web site, dates its founding to at least 1968. Their statement reads in full: 

ST. LOUIS CITY AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS SUPPORT THE RAMS PLAYERS ACTIONS 

The Statements of the St. Louis Police Officers Association does not represent the opinion of a majority of African American Officers. 

General Counsel, Attorney Gloria McCollum, on behalf of THE ETHICAL SOCIETY OF POLICE- St. Louis, STATES: 

"THE ETHICAL SOCIETY OF POLICE, is the primary voice of African
American Police Officers in St. Louis City, and as such it COMPLETELY SUPPORTS THE ACTIONS OF THE ST. LOUIS RAMS FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN WHICH THEY SHOWED SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILY OF MICHAEL BROWN BY ENTERING THE STADIUM WITH THEIR HANDS UP.

We think that their actions were commendable and that they should not be ridiculed, disciplined or punished for taking a stand on this very important issue which is of great concern around the world and especially in the community where these players work. 

THE STATEMENTS OF THE ST. LOUIS POLICE OFFICERS 
ASSOCIATION DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAJORITY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS IN THE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFICERS ON THEIR GOVERNING BOARD AND THEY HAVE A MINIMAL AMOUNT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMBERS. 

The Ethical Society of Police has been the primary bridge between African American community and the police department for many years. The Ethical Society will use its best efforts to continue to work with the community leaders and the Department of Justice to address issues that affect our community such as racial profiling, police brutality and disparities in hiring and disciplining practices of African American Officers. 

GLORIA J. MCCOLLUM, General Counsel for the Ethical Society of Police, - St. Louis, Misouri

 

*Post has been updated since publication to correct that the statement issue date was Monday, December 1, not Tuesday, December 2.

peopleofthediaspora:

socialjusticekoolaid:

You Couldn’t Make This Shit Up (12/2/14): The petty ass St Louis Police Department is on Twitter arguing about the definition of an apology. You see, they were pressed as hell yesterday that several players showed solidarity with Ferguson protesters. They released a “scathing” rebuke, calling on the players to be disciplined. The NFL said “nope.” Now Chief Belmar is claiming the NFL apologized. Again, the latter was like “nah.” These asshats are literally in charge of protecting the community at large. No wonder shit is so jacked up. #staywoke #farfromover

The level of incompetence showcased by the police department is scary.

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Ooh, a shiny new edition!

A crowd of protesters briefly took over a section of Manhattan's West Side Highway and were in a standoff with police Wednesday evening, hours after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island earlier this summer — in a case that was recorded on video and showed the dead man crying "I can't breathe." A crowd estimated to number more than 100 was on the highway and was seen being pushed north by a line of police officers wearing helmets and armed with batons at around 9:30 p.m. At least six protesters were detained with plastic restraints, and shouted out their names as they were taken into custody. By about 10:15 p.m. the highway was reopened in both directions. Police said they made 30 arrests at various protests around Manhattan as of 10:15 p.m. Protesters also staged a "die-in" in the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal and crowds earlier voiced their anger over the grand jury's decision in Times Square. There were also protests in Washington, D.C., and Oakland, California.

spaceexp:

Planetary Glass Set

via reddit

shanellbklyn:

youwish-youcould:

prettyboyshyflizzy:

killbenedictcumberbatch:

owning-my-truth:

12 Year Old Dymond Milburn was severely beaten by 3 plainclothes police officers because they thought she was a prostitute. Even though they beat her with a flashlight and caused injuries to her head, spine, throat and ear, the cops charged her with assault.

Sean Stewart, one of the cops involved, later received “Officer of the Year”

Credit: Cop Block

WHAT THE FUUCK

please tell me this isnt real

Its very real

If I ever have children boy lemme tell you and this shit happens I’m burning down the whole fucking city word on everything.