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Downtown Phoenix volunteer-run garden hits seventh year serving community

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Roosevelt Growhouse is now in its seventh year as a productive, creative space for the downtown Phoenix community. I chatted with Growhouse manager Kenny Barrett about how he and fellow artist, Kelly Placke, first started Growhouse with the intent of taking an underutilized property and creating a productive space for the community as well as a creative space for artists, given its location in the heart of Roosevelt Row Arts District. These days, the Growhouse garden is teeming with hundreds of volunteers with volunteer garden days every Sunday from ten till noon.

Roosevelt Growhouse is located at 6th St. and Garfield.

STUDENTS CURIOUS HOW ASU’S LAW SCHOOL RELOCATION WILL AFFECT DOWNTOWN CAMPUS

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The relocation of Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, which will bring hordes of law students to the Downtown Phoenix campus, has current downtown students concerned: where will these new students park?

The construction site for ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law new location in downtown Phoenix.

Downtown Phoenix, like most downtown’s in a big city, has limited parking, and ASU student Allison Bailey is concerned that lack of parking might be somewhat of an issue come next fall. And, not to mention, the Starbucks line downtown will surely triple.

“I think it’s great to have all the law school students come down here and expand the downtown campus,” says ASU student Allison Bailey. “But to be honest, I’m just really worried, because I get Starbucks every morning. With more students coming in the lines are going to be extra long.”

The $129 million will be called the Arizona Center for Law and Society.

Construction for ASU’s new law school started in July of 2014 and is set to open in the fall of 2016. Azcentral.com recently created a timelapse of the progress on construction thus far, which can be seen here.

Significant progress has been made. What progress is yet to be seen, and will surely be looked for, is that of what will become of the parking situation. That and, of course, the Starbucks lines.

Significant progress made on Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s new home in downtown Phoenix.

Interactive Map of first five of I-10 shootings

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On August 29th an SUV driving on the I-10 in Phoenix, Az was struck by a bullet. What seemed to be an odd and perhaps isolated situation soon grew to be an apparent problem to those who habitually drove on the I-10 when two more shootings happened on the I-10 later that day, as well several other incidents well into the first two weeks of September. Suspect Leslie Allen Merritt Jr. has since been arrested after being linked to the 11 I-10 shootings and will face the courts this upcoming Friday.

2014 Phoenix Weather Report might explain why Phoenix is popular snowbird destination

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The following graph of the weather in Phoenix during 2014 highlights the fact that for almost the majority of the year – May to September – Phoenix was consistently above 100 degrees. When Phoenix wasn’t busy being terribly hot, the graph highlights 2014s very mild winter. The lowest recorded temperature was only in the 30s, which could be why Phoenix is a highly desirable vacation destination for the snowbirds of the world.

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Data collected by National Weather Service and compiled using infogr.am.

 

Steve Jobs revolutionizes the world of mobile phones with new ‘iPhone’

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Keynote speaker of the Macworld Expo 2007 Steve Jobs just unveiled Apple’s latest product that will change the world of smartphones forever – the iPhone.

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Steve Jobs unveils Apple’s latest product – the iPhone.

With iPod capabilities, easy access to the Internet and numerous other remarkable features, the touchscreen iPhone is unlike anything anyone has seen before in the world of mobile phones.

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Steve Jobs introduces new features of revolutionary new “iPhone”.

The slide-to-unlock screen makes accidental phone calls nearly impossible.

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Jobs demonstrates how to unlock the iPhone. Once unlocked you can access the iPod, the phone and the Internet.

The easy-to-use interface, utilizing touch screen, makes the iPhone all around more agreeable than other preexisting smartphones.

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Steve Jobs explains how to use touch screen iPhone to navigate the music player.

And not to mention the iPhone’s video capabilities. With the ability to download and screen movies and episodes of various shows, the iPhone essentially enables you to carry around John Krasinski and the rest of The Office cast in your pocket at all times.

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Jobs shows off iPhone’s video capabilities with an excerpt from an episode of The Office.

Well done, Steve Jobs. The tech world commends you.

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Keynote speaker of the Macworld Expo 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s latest product – the iPhone.

Huge storm leaves thousands of Phoenicians without power

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An ominous thunderstorm quickly turned to fast and heavy rain Monday night in the Phoenix area knocking down trees, flooding streets and leaving 70,000 without power.

In some parts of town the storm dumped over an inch of rain in under an hour, according to AZCentral.com, causing major flooding.

Fire officials received more than 400 calls within a two-hour period – the amount they would normally receive in a day – and responded to house fires, motorists stranded in floods, car accidents and other problems all brought upon by the storm.

Now, two days after the chaos, the city is on the mend. Fallen trees and power lines are being taken care of, and SRP and APS have made substantial progress toward restoring power.

While the storm was hitting, it was quite a sight to behold. Civilians and news stations took to social media to share their shots of the storm, and The Weather Channel even posted a time-lapse video of the thunderstorm as it hit Phoenix which can be seen here.

Monday’s storm hit hard, but it’s not so out of character for an Arizona monsoon. A storm that slammed through the Phoenix metro area in 1996 was called by some “the costliest storm in Arizona history” as it caused around $160 million in damage. Another storm in 2002 had winds excess of 100 miles per hour and major flash flooding in the Phoenix area.

Arizona monsoon season begins on June 15 and ends on September 30, during which Arizona typically receives about half of its yearly rain fall.