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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

[OFFICIAL VIDEO] Can’t Help Falling in Love – Pentatonix

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Published on Apr 24, 2017

How Sanctuary Cities Actually Work

Published on Apr 25, 2017

President Trump says he wants to strip funding from so-called "sanctuary cities," but what exactly do these cities do?

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Cities and counties that limit their cooperation with federal immigration agents are sometimes called "sanctuaries," but the word doesn't actually have any legal meaning. However, because the constitution prohibits the federal government from making states enforce its laws, cities, counties, and other local jurisdictions have lots of freedom to ignore, or comply with, requests from federal agencies like ICE to detain undocumented immigrants for deportation.

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Animated Maps: 550,000 miles of cable hidden under the ocean t...

Published on Apr 24, 2017

Every time you visit a web page or send an email, data is being sent and received through an intricate cable system that stretches around the globe. Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.

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Unknown Cluster of 12 Asteroids Pass Earth! 7.1 Quake

Near-Earth objects create quite a bit of confusion - never seen this before?

Published on Apr 24, 2017

A sudden dip and then increase in the Proton Density of the Solar Wind strikes the Planet Causing a 7.1 shallow quake in Chile.
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Mebbe Mesa Is Still Mayberry RFD: 1950's-Style Urban Planning

Infrastructure & Environment

A New Idea to Fight Silicon Valley Sprawl

Critics say suburban headquarters for companies like Apple and Google contribute to traffic and sprawl. The solution may lie in better connections to transit.

by Daniel C. Vock | April 24, 2017

The Apple spaceship -- like similar Silicon Valley headquarters for Facebook and Google -- typifies the biggest challenges of the new tech economy in the San Francisco Bay Area: Massive, isolated corporate campuses plopped down in the 'burbs, which drive up housing costs and force many workers to endure hours-long commutes.

Rethinking the Corporate Campus examines the forces that shape our employment landscape, highlights the implications of different models, and recommends policies and practices to tackle two key questions:
How do we encourage employers to choose efficient, sustainable, high-performance locations?

How do we create new locations that are more efficient, sustainable and high-performing?

A new report from SPUR, a civic planning organization in the area, makes the case that many of the region’s woes could be addressed simply by encouraging major employers to set up their corporate campuses near transit stops.

That's a throwback to 1950s-style office parks, the report says. “This environment emerged in an era of wide-open spaces, cheap land and easy mobility by car -- an era that is long past. Today that same environment, built for near-term expedience, is expensive, congested and ubiquitous. Nightmarish commutes and soaring home prices are taking a toll on the Bay Area’s prized quality of life, challenging its long-term competitiveness,” the SPUR researchers write.

The SPUR report offers a number of recommendations to help change the urban design and advocates for cities to change their zoning codes to allow more growth near transit stops and encourage mixed-use development in those areas.

Time To Get Happy > Honoring 25th anniversary of LISC serving Phoenix

To honor the 25th anniversary of LISC serving Phoenix, we are celebrating by hosting a community talk by Charles Montgomery, award-winning author of Happy City.
Montgomery advocates for building healthy communities through transformative conversations about cities, science and human well-being. The life-shaping power of urban design isn’t always obvious. But design has huge consequences for people, the economy and the planet. The good news: the happy city, the green city and the low-carbon city are the same place, and everyone can help build it.
The Happy City team helps build happiness into neighborhoods and cities through research, public events and collaborative consulting. Their work is grounded in evidence from psychology, neuroscience, public health, and behavioral economics. Their inspiration comes from urban innovations around the world.
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About LISC Phoenix

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Non-Profit Organization · Phoenix, Arizona

LISC is a national organization with a community focus. Our program staff are based in cities and rural areas where LISC-supported community development

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CEO Maurice Jones Lays Out “Audacious Goals” for LISC

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Bernie's Unity Tour Here + A Feisty Economic Populist Named Mello

The Unity Tour Was Kind of a Mess—and That’s Okay

The party is still divided on policy and politics—but a full airing of differences is healthy.

By Joan WalshTwitter Yesterday 5:19 pm

The Democratic National Committee’s Unity Tour is over, and the reviews are in: Most journalists panned it. . . Journalists treated the “unity tour” as a spectacle meant to spotlight party unity. It was anything but—yet it was necessary.

Photo credit: Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez at a DNC rally in Mesa, Arizona, on April 21, 2017. (AP Photo / Matt York)

Source: The Nation

The embers smolder on social media, and controversies can reignite them into firestorms. Almost a year after he was mathematically eliminated by Clinton, Sanders voters still feel like their man could have beaten Trump, if the DNC hadn’t had a thumb on the scales. Clinton voters believe her victory was hobbled not merely by James Comey and Russian hacking, but by “Bernie or Bust” voters who Sanders helped create by treating the former Secretary of State as a creature of Wall Street and the 1 percent.4

There are genuine gulfs in ideology as well as political strategy. On one side, Sanders and many supporters want to see Democrats fight to win back working-class white voters who’ve abandoned the party. “I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to the people where I came from,” he sternly intoned a week after the election. A few days later he added in a speech: “One of the struggles that you’re going to be seeing in the Democratic Party is whether we go beyond identity politics.” Naturally, the party’s existing base, overwhelmingly female and multiracial, don’t like seeing their issues derided as “identity politics” and shunned as distractions, lifestyle questions or political correctness run amok, while the troubles of white downscale men are centered.5

A Unity Tour was bound to roll into that pothole, and it did almost immediately when it headed to Omaha, Nebraska to support a former state senator running for mayor, Heath Mello.
Mello’s feisty economic populism caught the eye of Sanders’ supporters . .
Still, I think it’s progress that these issues are being faced in Donald Trump’s first 100 days, when the Resistance still seems sizeable and urgent and people can come together around the necessity of defeating Trump—even as they disagree on tactics as well as policy. None of the Unity Tour stumbles were fatal, a few ended productively, and the party factions will have to keep working to define what “unity” means in the wake of the transformative Sanders-Clinton battle.15