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

Undocumented Dream | Rossy Evelin Lima | 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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Jackie Evancho...

“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.

Kumbaya moment live right now, on family leave. nt

When the smartest people in the room are on the podium,

you know you're in the Democratic Presidential Debate.

Five fine candidates... They differ, they disagree, but all would be fine leaders of this country.

I'm proud of what the Democratic Party brings to the table.

Telpochcalli School

Telpochcalli (Nahuatl for "house of youth&quot is a small school dedicated to integrating the Mexican arts and culture into an innovative academic and social experience and development of fully bilingual/biliterate students in English and Spanish. The school is comprised of students, teachers, parents and artists who aspire to nurture an understanding and appreciation of the self, family, community and world.

http://telpochcallies.weebly.com/


Tēlpochcalli (Nahuatl: house of the young men), were centers where Aztec youth were educated, from age 15, to serve their community and for war. These youth schools were located in each district or calpulli.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%93lpochcalli