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Published on Oct 16, 2014
"The Mars Underground" Updated Edition/Director's Cut
Leading aerospace engineer and Mars Society President Dr. Robert Zubrin has a dream. He wants to get humans to the planet Mars in the next ten years.
Now, with the advent of a revolutionary plan, Mars Direct, Zubrin shows how we can use present day technology and natural resources on Mars to make human settlement possible. But can he win over the skeptics at NASA and the wider world?
The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary that follows Zubrin and his team as they try to bring this incredible dream to life. Through spellbinding animation, the film takes us on a daring first journey to the Red Planet and envisions a future Mars teeming with life and terraformed into a blue world.
A must-see experience for anyone concerned for our global future and the triumph of the human spirit.
"This film captures the spirit of Mars pioneers who refuse to let their dreams be put on hold by a slumbering space program. Their passionate urge to walk the soil of an alien world is infectious and inspirational. This film is the manifesto of the new space revolution." James Cameron - Director of "Avatar"
Border Stories | Franciso Guajardo | TEDxMcAllen
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http://tedxmcallen.us/blog/more-tedxmcallen-2015-videos-now-online/
Why Your Next CEO Should Have a Childhood in Poverty | Dalinda Gonzalez-Alcantar | TEDxMcAllen
Published on Nov 1, 2015
Learning the skills it takes to create your life instead of waiting for opportunity to be handed to you is what drove Dalinda to learn to code.
Dalinda is an educator specializing in impacting communities through technology. While eJumcomm is working on empowering student leaders and families within the education system, her latest startup Border Kids Code acts as an enrichment program to empower student for the high tech world of tomorrow teaching them to code with after-school and summer programs.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/ 4 /2015 Chris Christie shows contender qualities in speech on addiction
I wish our Democratic candidates spoke with this kind of eloquence on the subject of addiction.
Say what you will about the Crispy Critter, and I've said a lot about him, mostly negative, this time he hit the ball out of the park.
Paving Paradise to put up a parking lot.
Who says your dollar doesn’t stretch in today’s housing market? In poking around looking for homes priced less than $50,000, we uncovered a 20-bedroom mansion in Manchester, NH, for just $29,900.
Of course, there is one tiny catch to get all this house for such a low price. Namely, a buyer has to move the home from its present location, a task that could cost $200,000 to $300,000 if done locally.
The Catholic church next door now wants the home sold and moved so it can build a parking lot for parishioners. Greg Barrett is the listing agent.
The 30-room, Queen Anne–style mansion still features original ornate wood molding and carvings throughout, as well as stained-glass windows and a massive main staircase, all classic touches that harken back to the Gilded Age.
http://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/mansion-on-the-move-in-new-hampshire/?cid=syn_outbrain_0214_rss_uh-01
Scaling Walls With Words | Amalia Ortiz | TEDxMcAllen
Rolling Stone - The Border War on Birthright Citizenship
When Texas began refusing birth certificates to the U.S-born children of undocumented immigrants, a legendary lawyer fought back
By Eric Benson October 29, 2015
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In 2013, an estimated 295,000 children were born in the U.S. who had at least one undocumented immigrant parent, according to the Pew Research Center, accounting for eight-percent of all domestic births. And Texas is home to 1.65 million undocumented immigrants, nearly 15 percent of the national total. It is reasonable to assume that tens of thousands of children are born to undocumented immigrants in Texas every year, and that a great many of them now lack birth certificates. "These quasi-citizens, outcasts, will likely experience the harsh effects of being unable to prove their true status for many years to come," reads the Mexican government's amicus brief. "We are witnessing the creation of a vulnerable citizenry: undocumented citizens."
Texas is an outlier in this regard, even among states that refuse to accept matrículas. In Arizona, parents can get a birth certificate for their children with a credible witness to attest to their identity and a notorized signature. In Arkansas, they can present a foreign passport without a U.S. visa. In Virginia, they can use a hospital birth letter. Even Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for harsher immigration restrictions, told the Austin-American Statesman that "the more I think of it, the more I come down against the Texas argument, reluctantly."
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Still, the timing seems awfully suspicious. The decision to deny foreign passports that lacked a U.S. visa came on the heels of President Obama's Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, a 2012 policy that lifted the threat of deportation for as many as 1.7 million undocumented immigrants. The increasing rejection of the matrícula as a valid ID coincided with the Central American immigration "surge" in 2013 and 2014. And what appeared to be a widening crackdown on the matrícula this year followed a Texas-led lawsuit filed last December to block President Obama's new executive actions on immigration, one of which — the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) — offers immigration deferrals and work authorizations to the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens.
"In order for an immigrant parent to apply for DAPA, they would need their U.S.-born child's birth certificate for that application," Ana Hernandez, a Democratic state representative from Houston, tells me. "I don't think that it's a coincidence that after that was announced, they began to enforce this policy."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-border-war-on-birthright-citizenship-20151029#ixzz3qBPMhNFF
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“Star Wars” lets Princess Leia age realistically: Is this an alternate Hollywood universe?
The most breathtaking moment in the new trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer doesn’t involve explosions or lightsabers or ominous references to the Dark Side. It’s an eyeblink-long shot of Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, in the embrace of Harrison Ford’s Han Solo. It’s a moment of a weary-looking woman with graying hair and lines on her face. Holy science fiction, Hollywood — somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, a grown woman has been given permission to look like a grown woman. I want to go to that planet!
Fisher, who turns 59 this week, has for years been a sardonic and brutally honest chronicler of her own struggles with addiction, bipolar disorder (including a hospitalization just two years ago), and weight — all while working in an industry that isn’t known for being easy on even seemingly perfect women. A few years ago, when the vicious cracks about Fisher resembling Jabba the Hut (actual sexist BS trolling entertainment story) were hitting peak cruelty, she became a spokesperson for Jenny Craig.
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/20/star_wars_lets_princess_leia_age_realistically_is_this_an_alternate_hollywood_universe/
Her expression is so moving to me. And she is so beautiful.
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