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Following President Donald Trump’s election, many Americans were looking for a restart button, or at the very least, an escape key. After desires to move to Canada had all but died, one state remained resilient in its efforts to distance itself from United States. The term “Calexit” pervaded Twitter with a hashtag expressing support for California to separate from the Union and become its own country.
And while many who were unsatisfied with the election results, especially those living in a blue state like California, may see this as an opportunity to break free from the turmoil of American politics, Calexit will only add to our nation’s political problems.
The official Calexit campaign is primarily sponsored by the Yes California independence organization, which has begun the long process of attempted succession. The first step is to put an initiative on the 2018 ballot for California voters to then vote in 2019 whether or not to secede from the Union. To get that first initiative set, the organization must collect 585,407 valid signatures from registered voters by July 2017. According to Politifact, the popular vote to secede would then require a two-thirds vote in congress and support from 38 state legislatures.
“As the sixth largest economy in the world, California is more economically powerful than France and has a population larger than Poland,” Yes California claims on its website. “Point by point, California compares and competes with countries, not just the 49 other states.”
The campaign is flawed in a variety of ways, particularly its appeal to liberal values and neglect to mention economic and political ramifications for secession.
“In our view, the United States of America represents so many things that conflict with Californian values, and our continued statehood means California will continue subsidizing the other states to our own detriment, and to the detriment of our children,” the organization states on its website.
The organization claims California’s economic problems can all be traced back to the federal government. Yes California asserts that “California exerts a positive influence on the rest of the world, and California could do more good as an independent country than it is able to do as just a U.S. state.”
Even if all the claims Yes California makes about the advantages Calexit would produce for the state itself were true, there is a larger issue at hand. LA Times contributor Conor Friedersdorf described the nation of California as one that values ideological purity. Calexit and Yes California appeal to liberal ideals but ignore the devastating reality Calexit secession would have for Democrats.
With the largest population of any state, California also has the most electoral votes, which have been definitively blue since 1992, and the most seats in the House of Representatives, 38 of which belong to Democrats. Furthermore, California, as a blue state, progressively leads the country on issues such as climate change and immigration.
To secede from the Union is to give up on the American Experiment. It is to say that multiple ideologies cannot live harmoniously through compromise and conversation. Calexit emphasizes ideological purity over actual ideology. It proposes a state of progressives living progressive lives, isolated from the world in a utopia of liberal agenda. In reality, Calexit would eliminate hope of a more progressive United States where liberals can play an integral role in United States politics and fulfill their role as watchdogs during this season of Republican majority in Congress.

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Common’s Nobody’s Smiling Tour Brings Fresh Elements to the Hip Hop Tour Scene
Dawn Paul | 12/4/2014, 7:55 p.m. | Updated on 12/4/2014, 7:55 p.m.
“Nobody’s Smiling” is Common’s latest album and he’s promoting it on a 13-date tour. He made a stop in Houston this past Tuesday night. Common’s Chi-Town flavor and lyrical genius set the Warehouse Live stage on fire. Houston has been in anticipation for Common’s “Nobody’s Smiling” tour and his show left me speechless. I have nothing but respect for Common and his craft, not just because of his musical talents, but also because of how he treats his fans and people behind the scenes. Common sets the standard for how all artists should embrace and appreciate their fans on and off the stage. The “Nobody’s Smiling” tour brings fresh elements to the hip hop tour scene I haven’t seen in a long time.
New Orleans native and hip hop artist and producer Jay Electronica opened the show like only he does with his unique brand of performing style. Jay has major love from Houston and did something that you don’t see many artists do…he invited more than 20 Houston fans on stage with him while he performed one of his hits. Jay is one of those artists who doesn’t like to be kept in a box when it comes to his music and performing. In every word, we felt his genuine love and appreciation for Houston.
Not only did Common sing favorites from his current “Nobody’s Smiling” project, but he also brought a little hip hop nostalgia to the tour with a surprise performance from the Geto Boys. The “Nobody’s Smiling” tour gave props to hip hop’s Notorious B.I.G., as well as other hip hop artists. Common always shows love to the ladies and one lucky female fan was brought on stage and he did a little freestyling for her. The freestyling didn’t stop there and he did some lyrics showing Houston some major love, mentioning JJ Watt, Third Ward and Frenchy’s Chicken. The whole show was nothing but high energy. His genuine appreciation for the Houston fans came out through his performance.
Though he is knocking doors down in Hollywood, Common has not turned “Hollywood” and he still pays tribute to his Chi-Town roots. He’s made his mark in the music scene and in the acting game as well, but he has not forgotten his Chicago roots and his love for people. I respect him in that he has not let the Hollywood opportunities change him and he has stayed true to who he is and his craft. Not only does Common’s “Nobody’s Smiling” tour entertain, but the music from this album keeps us socially conscious. For upcoming ‘“Nobody’s Smiling” tour dates and updates about Common, visit http://www.thinkcommon.com/.


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The New York Soil Health Trailer will be at the August 6-8, 2019 Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls, NY, as part of its summer tour across the Northeast to educate viewers on soil compaction in regional pasture soils.
The solar-powered trailer carries a demonstration table that shows how different soils react to rainfall and how healthy soils improve infiltration and prevent runoff. The unit illustrates how such practices as cover cropping and no-till farming are effective for reducing soil erosion and enhancing nutrients to support crop development.
A USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service grant provided the funding to develop the New York Soil Health Trailer, which has its own water supply to simulate rainfall on the various soil samples to demonstrate water-holding capacity and runoff levels.
More than 1,000 people per year for the past three years have seen how important maintaining soil health is to farm and land sustainability.
“Seeing is believing. We have made presentations for everyone from crop and vegetable growers and farm employees to school students and military veterans interested in getting into farming,” says New York Soil Health Trailer coordinator Fay Benson, a Cornell University Cooperative Extension educator with the small dairy support team of the South Central NY Regional Team, the NY Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, and the NY Organic Dairy Initiative responsibilities.
Benson’s presentations are made in cooperation with Cornell Soil Health Laboratory faculty, his fellow Extension educators, and local agricultural professionals. Following Empire Farm Days, the New York Soil Health Trailer will travel northeast for the Maine Soil Field Days. New York Soil Health Trailer will be located near the Soil Health Center, organized by the New York State Interagency Soil Health Working Group, New York Soil Health Initiative, and Empire Farm Days for the agricultural and rural living event at Rodman Lott and Son Farms in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
See www.empirefarmdays.com and Facebook for details on the Soil Health Center farmer panels, daily luncheon sponsored by King’s AgriSeeds, and the daily cover crop field demo tour sponsored by King’s AgriSeeds and Seedway.

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was born in Wroclaw in 1947. She studied composition with Stefan B.Poradowski and Tadeusz Natanson at the State Higher School of Music in her native town. In 1978 she attended lectures by Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez (Paris Conservatory, IRCAM) and a seminar on the music of Iannis Xenakis in Aix-en-Provence. She also worked at the experimental studio in Marseille.
Sheis a prize winner of several competitions, including the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union, the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition and the International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim. Her piece Icarus for orchestra was awarded Prize at the UNESCO International Composers’ Rostrum in Paris (1987), Her honors also include the Wroclaw City Award and the Prime Minister’s Award for her works for young people (1989). In 1998 she received the Adam Chmielowski (Brother Albert) Award, Music Award of Town Wroclaw (2002) , Music Award of Polish Composers’ Union and Music Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2006).
Since 1993 she has been a Professor of Composition at the Wroclaw Academy of Music and the head of the Department of Compositionand Theory of Music; since 1998-2009she wasalso Professor of Composition at the Poznan Academy of Music.
She was member of the Repertoire Committee of the International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumnanartistic director of Festival of Polish Contemporary Music Musica Polonica Nova.Recently she was invited to the honour cometee of the World Music Days 2014.
Her compositions are ordered by famous solists, chamber ensambles and symphonic orchestras, published by PWM Edition and recorded by Polish Radio. She is a jury member at polish and international competitions for composers and performers.
Principal works: the cycle Fresco: Reanimation for orchestra (1972); Epitaphios for orchestra (1976); Icarus for orchestra (1979); Allacampanafor piano and orchestra (1985); Eternel for soprano, boys’choir, mixed choir and orchestra (1989); Palindrom for string orchestra with harpsihord (1994); Uru Anna for lyric tenor, large mixed choir and large symphony orchestra (1999); the cycle for percussion:Ostinato for percussion quartet (1974); Canon for motoric group (1975); Studio per violino et Tam -Tam(1975); BIS*– JOKE for percussion and piano (1985);Triangle! for percussion sextet (2nd version 1990);Lesoleil, concertofor percussion and orchestra (1991); the cycle eco music: Landscape with a Water Ouzelfor soprano and 3 violins (1986);In the Kingdom of Autumn Leaves, ballet (1989); TERRA for male choir and piano (1995); Bartokiana for 2 cellos and piano (1995); Lydian Music for chamber orchestra (2002); The cycle Thinking of Vivaldi: ElCondorfor 2 marimbas and string orchestra (1996, Spring); Como el sol e la mar for flute and chamber orchestra (2008 Summer); Cyclemadrigals:In Search of Wandering Echo for two violins (2000); An Algorithm of the Dream of a Great City for marimba solo (2001), Birds on the twilights horizon for clarinet, trombone, cello and piano (2006); Cycle reportages: Palm Sunday in Nazareth for soxophons, percussion and organ (2009); ICE – LAND Rainbow bridges over Dettifoss for chamber orchestra (2011);Migration of the Green Scarab for flute, violin, viola and cello (2012); other independence position are: Wratislaviae Cantati Bugle – call - Hallelujah (1993); Arabesca for string quarett (1979); Lydian Quartet- string quartet (1994);Eco per flauti (1980);Bartokiana, second version for concertante marimba and chamber orchestra (2000);Magnificat MMfor soprano, mixed choir and orchestra (2005); Madrigale for two pianos (2011); HARMONY for orchestra (2011).


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The vegetarian puff pastry roll is a preparation in a fragrant crust that wraps a very soft filling of mashed potatoes, spinach, mushrooms and mozzarella. A delicious second course, very light and very simple to prepare.
For this recipe you need a few ingredients, easy to find, to obtain a truly superlative result! The combination of these ingredients makes this dish unique in flavor and that everyone will love! Perfect to serve as a main course or as a single dish (for example for dinner).
Prepare this recipe of mine too and you will see how good it is!
Cooking: 40 minutes
Preparation: 35 minutes
Flat cost: medium
Doses: 6 people
INGREDIENTS FOR 6 PEOPLE
• pot for cooking potatoes,
• 2 non-stick pans,
• rectangular baking pan,
• potato masher,
• kitchen brush,
• greaseproof paper,
• smooth blade knife,
• various containers,
• various cutlery.
HOW TO PREPARE THE ROLL OF VEGETARIAN PASTA PASTA
Prepare the ingredients
• Peel, wash and cut the potatoes into coarse cubes. Place them in a pot full of water, with a handful of salt and boil for at least 15 minutes (until they are tender).
• Clean and wash the spinach (you can also use frozen ones) and place them in the pan with a drizzle of olive oil, a pinch of salt and a little water; cook over medium heat until they wilt.
• Clean and wash the mushrooms (you can also use frozen ones) cut the larger mushrooms into chunks, arrange them in the pan and add a drizzle of olive oil, a pinch of salt, a pinch of parsley and a clove of whole garlic (which you will eliminate when you remove from the heat ) and little water. Cook over medium heat, until they wilt.
Prepare the vegetarian puff pastry roll
• Pass the potatoes through the potato masher and arrange everything in a large container, let it cool for a few minutes. In the meantime, when the other ingredients are ready, drain them in a colander, in order to remove any remaining water.
• Add to the warm potatoes, beaten eggs, Parmesan, grated nutmeg and season with salt. Mix everything until all the ingredients are well blended. Set aside.
• On a pastry board, spread a sheet of parchment paper, sprinkle the center with a handful of breadcrumbs, arrange and flatten the potato mixture to give it a thickness of about 1 cm.
• Arrange the spinach, mushrooms and mozzarella slices in the center, which, depending on the width you give the potato base, you can also arrange vertically.
• Close by overlapping the outer flaps, making sure that everything is tightly closed and well wrapped in the potato mixture.
• Close the roll of vegetables in parchment paper and set aside.
• Unroll the rectangular puff pastry and arrange the potato roll in the center, removing the parchment paper. Shape it slightly to make it easier to cover the pastry.
• Wrap everything in the puff pastry sealing the edges well, turn the roll so that the closing of the pastry is at the base and fold the outer edges.
• Transfer, with its parchment paper, the roll of puff pastry to the baking sheet and arrange the paper access. With a sharp and smooth-edged knife, cut some Xs to create a braid (as shown in the photo).
• Oil your vegetarian puff pastry roll with a drizzle of olive oil and brush everything.
• Bake in a preheated oven and bake at 190 ° C for 40 minutes, ventilated oven or at 200 ° C for 40 minutes in a static oven, in any case until golden brown.
• Let it cool for a few minutes in the oven and then take your vegetarian puff pastry roll out of the oven.
• Cut into slices and serve hot for a racy heart, but it will also be warm if it is warm!
• You can prepare in advance and serve it on the same day, so that it is fragrant.
• You can keep in the fridge for a maximum of 1 day, take it out 10 minutes before reheating it in the oven or microwave, but the pastry will no longer be fragrant as freshly prepared!
• You can omit the addition of mozzarella.
• I added the mozzarella for pizzas, because it does not release water during cooking, but you can replace it with slices of fresh scamorza.
What's for dinner? 20 quick and easy recipes to prepare a homemade and tasty dinner for the whole family.
What to cook for dinner tonight? What's for dinner? In English it sounds more chic! How many times have we said or at least thought about one of these phrases? Nearly every day!
And yes, because bringing to the table a good tasty dinner, which is also healthy, homemade and maybe even to be prepared in a short time is a question that arises every day for everyone. Especially for those with a family, or for mothers who work all day.
So how to try to organize yourself better and prepare a decent dinner without having to improvise on the run every night?
Here are some simple rules that will solve the problem of what to prepare for dinner!
The main tip for preparing a homemade dinner healthy and tasty is to plan meals. It takes a few minutes but trust us, it saves you so much time and in the long run.
How to plan one or more weeks of dinners (or even lunches).
Also avoiding extra trips to the supermarket will save you time and money.
Trust and you will see that this simple method will help you a lot in preparing dinner. From now on, answer the question "What's for dinner?" it will no longer be a problem! 😀
If you are interested in learning more about the topic, read also: 5 tricks that work to cook better and faster
Having made this premise, let's see immediately what they are thereand 20 quick and easy recipes to bring a delicious dinner to the table.
1- Lemon chicken with white rice. As good as that of the Chinese restaurant, that is, in small bites, and accompanied by boiled rice.
2 – Baked chicken breast with vegetables
A tasty and succulent recipe, a clever idea to cook meat and side dishes in one go.
3 – Chicken thighs breaded in the oven
Always a guarantee and you will please everyone, especially children.
4 – Baked chicken nuggets
They are golden chicken breast sticks, not fried and baked in the oven with a little oil. As good as fast food.
5 – Pan-fried chicken with rosemary
Flavored with slices of lemon and fresh rosemary, it is a light, tasty and very simple second course that will please the whole family. Ideal to prepare even in advance.
6 – Homemade chicken and beef burgers
Always appreciated by everyone, in this recipe we prepare them in two versions: half with chicken and turkey meat and others with the beef.
7 – Potatoes stuffed with meat and sausage
An easy and cheap second course, delicious and very inviting. Also to be prepared in advance and reheated at the last moment.
8 – Baked meat and potato pie
A delicious, hearty and nutritious single dish. It is prepared by making several layers of potatoes and minced meat, alternating with slices of mozzarella.
9 – Potato and tuna meatballs baked
Tasty morsels based on canned tuna, very simple and very tasty. They are an easy and inexpensive recipe, which is prepared with a few ingredients that we all have at home.
10 – Baked meatballs
A simple, light and tasty second course that can be prepared in 5 minutes. They are an alternative light and more digestible to the classic meatballs with sauce or fried.
11 – Baked frozen cod meatballs
They are quick and easy fish burgers prepared with frozen cod fillets.
12 – Rustic lentil soup in a pressure cooker
A healthy, genuine and very filling dish. It cooks in 15 minutes with the pressure cooker.
13 – Eggs in purgatory
A succulent second dish where the eggs are cooked directly in the tomato.
14 – Salmon steaks with pistachio and walnut breading
A tasty one second dish of fish, tasty, simple and quick to prepare.
15 – Breaded baked squid rings
A tasty and quick second course of fish. A'idea for dinner very easy and sure success.
16 – One-pot recipe potato omelette
A second course based on simple and genuine ingredients such as eggs, potatoes, cheese and a little milk.
17 – Simple recipe pasta and beans
A classic dish of Italian cuisine, one soup thick and tasty, excellent for a light dinner.
18 – Meat pie with three vegetables
A tasty single dish based on minced meat and vegetables, au gratin in the oven. A clever solution to cook a main course and side dish all in one pot!
19 – Fillets of mackerel with orange
An easy and genuine fish dish to prepare at the last moment.
20 – Salt sea bream cooked in the oven
A simple and effective second course of fish. It is prepared in 5 minutes, put in the oven and you can dedicate yourself to the side dish.
If you still haven't found the right recipe for your dinner, take a look at these collections too:
Even a nice risotto can be an excellent dinner, a light and digestible single dish.
Or some healthy vegetable meatballs:
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Protesters made a silent "human chain" near the RSA (PHOTOS)
Today, December 4, in the morning, strikers came to the walls of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration and Regional Council buildings. People lined up near the "White House", but did not block the entrance to the administrative building. Strikers did not chant any slogans, and were standing in silence.
As the organizers explained to the 7dniv.info, it was a peaceful silent strike. Protesters did not plan to block the work of the RSA and the regional council. Instead they called employees of the RSA and regional council to join the strike.
Дмитро Тужанський: угорській громаді Закарпаття потрібні гарантії їхніх прав та увага української влади як до повноцінних громадян
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Webinar: Balancing the Lawyer Budget
November 15, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
No one actually likes budgeting, except maybe those financial folks, right? So Jessica Medina, former lawyer turned Accredited Financial Counselor, will be taking us back to the beginning by demonstrating a way of looking at your money that doesn’t involve tracking every single expense every single day. She’ll provide a framework that lets you stop budgeting and finally bring balance to your spending plan — you’ll get all the necessary stuff covered while leaving room for the luxuries, however you define them. And we could all use a little more of that this year!
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Appearing on Fox News’ Your World on Tuesday afternoon, Congressman Ron Paul reiterated to host Neil Cavuto the reasons why he has not officially endorsed the Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan presidential ticket and why he does not view vice presidential candidate Ryan as a serious budget cutter.
Cavuto began the conversation asking the outgoing Texas congressman: “You are backing but not wholeheartedly enthusiastic?”
“I have not endorsed the ticket,” Rep. Paul clarified. “I endorsed the principles I have been talking about … I endorse peace, prosperity, individual liberty and the Constitution. I am more intent on that than on the politics.
Asked whether he could leave the Republican National Convention without officially endorsing the Romney ticket, Paul said, “I am not intending to endorse anybody.” Cavuto pressed him on whether he has any “dog in the fight” between Romney and Obama, to which the libertarian congressman replied that he has no intention to endorse, and to put him down as “undecided.”
Yesterday, VP candidate Ryan told Fox News that he believes Romney has a lot to offer Paul’s supporters, seemingly confident that the ticket has not alienated the congressman’s libertarian supporters. “Are they overly confident?” Cavuto asked.
“They could be jumping the gun because I am not a block,” Paul replied. “If i do something they do not think is consistent [like endorse Romney], I will lose credibility.”
Paul reiterated his criticism of Rep. Ryan for not being an actual budget cutter, adding that the VP pick’s budget plan “does not cut anything, really,” and that he believes the Democrats falsely solidified Ryan’s reputation as a “budget slasher” when, in fact, his proposal only cuts proposed increases, but not actual long-term spending.
Asked whether he feels the GOP has mistreated him, Paul told Cavuto that “My supporters think we are treated atrociously,” but indicated that he is not angry.
Watch the full interview below, via Fox News:
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$84.20 is the cheapest price for a train ticket to Cloppenburg, according to recent searches on Wanderu. You can use our search to check if this price is currently available on buses from your city to Cloppenburg. In the last month, trains from Sulzbach to Cloppenburg had the lowest average price at $84.20. In general, these cities tend to have the cheapest trains to Cloppenburg:
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi speaks during a visit to the Military Academy, 19 January 2023. Egyptian Presidency
El-Sisi reviewed Egypt's efforts in various fields, advising them on how to assess situations correctly, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement.
The president was accompanied by Minister of Defence and Military Production Mohamed Zaki and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Osama Askar, who inspected the students’ training areas.
El-Sisi watched the cadets perform their daily exercises and military rehabilitation activities, which are implemented according to the latest advanced systems, Rady said.
The president advised the students to maintain their high level of physical fitness and mental readiness and to show the noble military values the Egyptian Armed Forces have been always characterised with.
El-Sisi also met with the families of a number of new students at the academy, expressing appreciation for their efforts to raise their sons on the well-established values and love of the homeland.
The president has visited the military and police academies frequently. The most recent visit took place in December, where he witnessed tests for candidates applying to join military colleges at the headquarters of the Military Academy.


Andy Reese examines how our ideas about stormwater have changed since the 1800s. He insightfully looks back at why we pursued stormwater management in ways which unknowingly – at the time – foreclosed opportunities for more sustainable, livable communities. “It is much easier to know what the next paradigm is than to move into the next paradigm,” wrote Andy Reese.
According to Kevin Lagan, the Wal-Mart development in the City of Courtenay precipitated the beginning of a major change in how the City administers the zoning/development/approval process, collaborates with other agencies and also manages the rainwater resource.
The City of Courtenay was the first BC municipality to adopt a policy requiring developers to provide a minimum soil depth on building sites as a rainwater management tool. “The challenge for the City is in how to ensure that developers and house builders fulfil their obligations to provide and preserve the minimum required depth,” stated Sandy Pridmore.
"Learning Lunch Seminar Series" promotes consistent provincial approach to rainwater management in BC
“Within the Cowichan Valley Regional District, there are five local government jurisdictions; and the same group of developers and development consultants have projects in all or most of those jurisdictions,” stated Peter Nilsen. It therefore becomes essential that developers and their consultants hear a consistent message regarding rainwater management and green infrastructure expectations when doing business at the front counters in each of those jurisdictions.”
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Within the Cowichan Valley Regional District, there are five local government jurisdictions. A consistent message regarding rainwater management and green infrastructure expectations is an essential element of a regional team approach.
Under the umbrella of the Water Sustainability Action Plan for British Columbia, the British Columbia Inter-Governmental Partnership responsible for the Water Balance Model powered by QUALHYMO has developed the Water Balance Model Commuinity-of-Interest as a companion website to the Rainwater Management Community-of-Interest.
In November 2007, the Capital Regional District hosted a full-day workshop titled Bio/Infiltration: Tools for Rainwater Management. The workshop featured case studies from both sides of the Georgia Basin, thereby facilitating a sharing of experiences
An overview of the issues that often plague the implementation of innovative rainwater management projects. Topics covered included the role of Environmental Monitoring, Construction Supervision, and Erosion & Sediment Control.
If we view innovative rainwater management comprehensively, it starts with an understanding of site processes, systems and context. At a November 2007 workshop, Paul de Greef provided a landscape architect's perspective.
View Royal’s Highway Improvement Project will provide more travel choices that will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other vehicle emissions. The project also uses innovative technology to treat the stormater/rainwater runoff, improving the natural habitat of Portage Inlet and Esquimalt Harbour.


To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
Nikon has launched a fifth generation model in its mid-range series of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. The new Nikon 1 J5 is the first Nikon hybrid to feature a back-illuminated sensor that packs a 20.8Mp resolution for stills, as well as 4K capture for video. With impressive looking performance specs too, is the Nikon 1 J5 a serious contender for the mid range hybrid market?
After the announcement of the flagship Nikon 1 V3 the company revealed a new less expensive model sharing many of the features, including the 18-Mpix CX format (1-inch type) sensor with an improved hybrid AF system including 105 on-chip phase-detection points covering most of the frame, and new Expeed 4 level processor. Read on to find out how well this new model performs.
Hot on the heels of the Nikon 1 V3 launched last month, Nikon have just unveiled a new model in their consumer orientated J range of mirrorless hybrid cameras. With many features from the V3 filtering down to the new Nikon 1 J4, is it a serious contender for the point-and-shoot market?


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FSU Libraries observe 'Open Access Week' to encourage free online access to scholarly research
As Florida State University observes Open Access Week Oct. 20-26, Florida State University Libraries are advancing two campuswide initiatives to support a growing international effort to promote free and immediate online access to scholarly research and the right to use research results as needed.
The two initiatives — "DigiNole Upload-A-Thon" and "Individual Statement on the Right to Research" — underscore this year's Open Access Week theme, "Generation Open," targeting new faculty and graduate students who are the future of scholarship.
"FSU Libraries are proud to recognize Open Access Week and encourage everyone to learn more about Open Access and the benefits it can bring to the scholarly community, as well as the public as a whole," said Julia Zimmerman, dean of FSU Libraries.
Open Access Week, a global observance that began in 2008, provides an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access.
The principle of open access is that publicly funded scholarship and research should be accessible to the general public. Universities around the world are supporting this principle by working toward providing unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly research, from scholarly journal articles to a growing number of theses, book chapters and scholarly monographs.
"The open access movement is a natural outgrowth of the ability that the Internet affords us to share information," said Micah Vandegrift, Florida State's scholarly communication librarian. "Academic publishing is one of the last remaining industries that has yet to adapt to a digitally connected, international web where content is shared and reused in fascinating ways."
The first initiative, "DigiNole Upload-A-Thon," is an effort to bulk up the holdings of DigiNole Commons — the university's institutional repository of scholarly articles — by asking one new faculty member from each academic department to upload an already-published scholarly article. The libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication is willing to assist anyone with the deposit process.
Institutional repositories similar to Florida State's DigiNole Commons are becoming increasingly commonplace at the nation's universities as a method of achieving open access for works published in traditional, closed-access journals. All major publishers and many society and association publishers, including the Modern Language Association, permit this practice.
The second initiative, "Individual Statement on the Right to Research," an open access resolution offered by the Right To Research Coalition, will give individual Florida State students and student organizations the opportunity to endorse the idea of open access as a right.
This is the fifth year that Florida State has celebrated Open Access Week. Learn more about FSU Open Access Week events by visiting the university libraries blog at fsulib.wordpress.com/oaweek-2014/ and follow the conversation on Facebook and Twitter by using the hashtag #GenOpenFSU.
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- An open letter to the FSU community
- FSU hires 15 rising stars to bolster key research areas
- Cybersecurity campaign urges online safety at Florida State
- Lecture honors legacy of Gov. Reubin O'D. Askew
- Writer-in-residence wins prestigious literary prize
- kNOw MORE: FSU launches initiatives aimed at prevention of sexual violence
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- Three graduate students receive prestigious P.E.O. awards
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dances Around Questions About Her Attorney
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a young Democrat who is running for Congress in New York’s 14th district. She has come under fire for not providing enough information about her attorney, and some have even accused her of being unqualified for the position. In an interview with The Washington Post, Ocasio-Cortez defended her decision to not release more information about her attorney and said that she trusts the judgment of her campaign team. She also noted that she is working with a team of lawyers who are experienced in electoral law and campaign finance.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez danced around questions about her attorney on Thursday, but did not provide any further information. Her refusal to answer questions may be a sign that she is not confident in her lawyer, or she may simply not know who he is. However, because the interview was conducted in Spanish and Ocasio-Cortez only spoke a few words of it, it is difficult to say for certain what her reasoning was.


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The latest Active Lives results released by Sport England show that there are now 73.3% adults active for at least 30 minutes a week in Greater Manchester, which equates to 1,639,000 adults. This is an increase of 14,900 from the survey 12 months ago and a total increase of 68,100 since the survey began in 2015 – 16.
Following the recent release of a number of documents relating to childhood health and wellbeing we have produced a summary of each and linked them in with our work Greater Manchester
A recent study from the University of Bristol has found that there is a dramatic drop in the physical activity levels of children by the time they reach the end of primary school.
45.2% of children and young people are now achieving an average of 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Whilst more than three in ten are failing to achieve 30 minutes of activity a day.
As we age, inactivity (less than 30mins a week) increases, with older adults being more than twice as likely to be inactive, 75+ years 54% and 55+ years 36.8% compared to 16-34 year olds 18.7% in GM.
Six in ten children and young people in Greater Manchester are not active enough. 35.8% of children and young people, on average, do less than 30 minutes of activity each day, with only 39.9% doing at least 60 minutes or more.


Japanese company Elecom unveiled a bunch of new foldable silicone wireless keyboards, under the TK-FBS035E series. Available in black+gray (BK), purple+green (PU), red+black (RD), and white+gray (WH) variants, the operational part of these keyboards are made of silicone, with cellophane common-membrane printed circuit sheet, which allows it to be folded around a small rectangular box that holds the keyboard's logic, the battery compartment, and a Bluetooth transmitter that lets you use the keyboard with Bluetooth-equipped PCs and notebooks, tablets, and smartphones.
The keyboard has a standard QWERTY layout, configured for English US, and has 88 keys. The key pitch is 13 mm, and key travel (stroke) is 2 mm. When rolled out, the keyboard measures 275.5 x 96 x 15.1 mm (WxDxH), and weighs approximately 105 g. It needs two AAA-size batteries. Its Bluetooth transmitter allows a range of up to 10 m. It is priced at 7,350 JPY (US $95), and will be available to Japanese markets in February.


This device meets the standards of IEC60335-2-9 clause 184.108.40.206 figure 103 and figure 104, Household and similar electrical appliances-Safety-Part 2-9: Particular requirements for grills, toasters and similar portable cooking appliances.
The hot plate tester is designed to simulate the vessel placed on the hotplates in normal operation in order to measure the plate's heating capabilities.
Aluminum vessel: flat base with cover, meet the requirements of table 101 quantity of liquid in the vessel, mainly used for water boiling testing.
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The vessel is made of low carbon steel having a maximum carbon content of 0.08%. It is cylindrical without metallic handles or protrusions. The diameter of the flat area of the base of the vessel is to be at least the diameter of the cooking zone. The maximum concavity of the base of the vessel is 0.006d. The base of the vessel is not to be convex. A3 low carbon steel, surface: black oxidating. meet the requirements of table 101 quantity of liquid in the vessel and figure 104 parameters requirement (Φ110mm, Φ145mm, Φ180mm, Φ220mm, Φ300mm,1 set with 5 pcs), mainly used in cooking oil heating test.


CSA has received a contract for a project in CANADA which includes a relocation of a Polymerization Plant to Azerbaijan. For this project, CSA will provide laser scanning and will create an intelligent as-built 3D model from the laser scans. The laser scan database will contain over 1,600 high resolution scans.
As a part of the project CSA will provide integration between PanoMap® laser scan database and plant P&ID’s. For this project, CSA will be using its 3D intelligent modeling technology, Plant/CMS™ and PanoMap® laser scanning technology. The laser scan database and 3D model will also be provided on Android tablet using CSA’s iPanoMap™ technology. The 3D model will be converted into Intergraph PDS format. The laser scan data and the 3D model will be used for re-assembly of the plant at the final location.


The United States puts the Houthis back on the terrorism list
Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, announced today, January 17th, that the White House has once again included the Yemeni Houthis on its terrorist list, and this decision will be implemented after 30 days.
This decision is in line with the United States’ efforts to increase pressure on this group, which is engaged in military activities in certain parts of Yemen.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel, the Houthis have declared that they will continue to attack ships passing through the Red Sea until Israel’s military operations in Gaza cease.
So far, they have fired dozens of missiles and drones towards commercial ships passing through the Red Sea.
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When it comes to development in the area’s beach towns, two words sum it up – it’s complicated.
There’s not a ton of places where new homes and businesses can go, though there are what Wilmington-Cape Fear Home Builders Association Executive Director Cameron Moore calls “pockets” in places like Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Brunswick County beach towns and around Surf City and North Topsail Beach.
“One particular challenge with a confined amount of area is that many of the beach towns have to rely on a fixed property tax base, which can present challenges when it comes to services. This has caused some beach towns that had the option to look across to the mainland side and pursue voluntary annexations to help offset this,” Moore said. “From a regulatory barrier side of things, you have flood insurance, homeowners insurance, CAMA [Coastal Area Management Act] requirements, water and sewer constraints and other variables that play a part in how and when properties are developed.”
Each beach community is unique, said Tyler Newman, president and CEO of Business Alliance for a Sound Economy.
“The beach towns are an important part of the regional economy – tourism, room occupancy tax, sales tax income, parking revenue, property tax, in addition to the businesses that are based there and the folks that come and rent every year,” Newman said. “Increasingly, as we look at funding coastal storm damage reduction projects and inlets and bridges and ferries and other types of investments, everybody in the state has a vested interest in the continued viability of our beach towns.”
And with new federal flood maps come new requirements for planned projects, Newman said.
“It’s a multifaceted challenge to build or develop out on the barrier islands,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s where people want to be.”
Some of the projects that have been the subject of news reports – and controversy in some cases – this year have included potential development in Sunset Beach and Wrightsville Beach.
In August, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a challenge to a state permit that would allow developers to build 21 beachfront homes in Sunset Beach, in a community referred to as Sunset Beach West, according to a law center
The center filed the challenge in the state Office of Administrative Hearings on behalf of the Sunset Beach Taxpayers Association and N.C. Coastal Federation.
“This state permit would allow the destruction of dunes that buffer the community from storms and hurricanes, and jeopardize the integrity of Bird Island [a bird sanctuary],” said Geoff Gisler, senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, in the news release. “Under this illegal permit, the community would lose the natural setting that makes Sunset Beach so unique for a questionable development in a hazardous location.”
Multiple efforts to reach one of the developers involved in the project, Sammy Varnam, were unsuccessful. But Varnam has said in recent news stories that those who oppose Sunset Beach West have a negative attitude in general toward coastal development. He said the developers are not doing anything illegal.
The Sunset Beach Town Council says some of the land belongs to the town, an assertion expected to be the subject of a pending court case.
“The town’s already made the statement that we feel we own the property, so the development really is not the question. It’s ownership,” Town Councilman Peter Larkin said.
Councilman Mark Benton said he is not against development, but in addition to the ownership issue, the property, next to the Bird Island sanctuary, is a unique case.
“We’re trying to resolve that issue and do the right thing with that piece of property,” Benton said. “It’s a special piece of property.”
He said development there “would fundamentally change the look of Sunset Beach.”
Mike Giles, N.C. Coastal Federation’s coastal advocate, said in the Environmental Law Center’s news release that Sunset Beach West “threatens to undo the work done decades ago to protect Bird Island. We will ask the court to provide the protection that the State failed to.”
A de-annexation bill that would have removed the land for the Sunset Beach West development from town limits died earlier this summer during the General Assembly’s short session.
Newman, whose advocacy group BASE has partnerships with the Brunswick County Association of Realtors and Brunswick County Home Builders Association, said of Sunset Beach officials, “They’re continuing to make things more challenging for future investment. While at the same time, the beach town next door, Ocean Isle, they’ve got a really positive atmosphere for business and vacationers and folks who live there full time.”
Some regulations a developer has to consider are town-specific.
In Wrightsville Beach, for example, the height limit is 40 feet. At one time, a property owner had wanted to build a 50-foot mixed-use structure on land at the base of Johnnie Mercers Fishing Pier, but town officials have rejected proposals that might have allowed higher buildings or at least the consideration of higher buildings.
Town Manager Tim Owens said an approved plan for the project has been in place since around 2006, but Wrightsville Beach officials expect the owner to come back to the town with an amended site plan for the property at some point. In April, a store built in 1955 that shared the lot burned to the ground, and for now the land is vacant.
To address a problem relating to the potential need to rebuild existing homes, the town of Carolina Beach took action recently. The New Hanover County beach community became the first local entity to request the creation of a development line under a regulation approved by the Coastal Resources Commission in 2015, according to a news release from the Wilmington Regional Association of Realtors.
Other towns have also been considering it.
Referred to as the “legal non-conforming” issue, part of the concern relates to using a beach vegetation line set decades ago to determine where some structures can be rebuilt, though through the years nourishment projects have rebuilt beaches. The issue was affecting Carolina Beach real estate broker Julie Damron’s clients and their ability to procure loans.
“If your property is all of the sudden legal non-conforming, then your lenders are not apt to want to loan on it because that gives them a little bit of a scare there,” Damron said.
For WRAR, Carolina Beach’s action was a victory.
“This approach not only rewards communities that have a long-term commitment to beach renourishment,” said Adrienne Cox, WRAR public affairs director, in a news release, “but also returns some decision-making to local communities.”
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The Massachusetts office of public collaboration at the University of Massachusetts at Boston shall conduct a study of current local and regional needs for conflict resolution and collaborative infrastructure in the commonwealth.
The study shall include but not be limited to: (i) a literature review of research and publications on the utilization by local governments of public policy dispute resolution and other collaborative processes to address complex, contentious public issues; (ii) a municipal needs assessment involving select Massachusetts local government representatives, representatives of regional planning associations and municipal associations to examine the challenges faced by Massachusetts local governments; (iii) investigation of existing state infrastructure that can support municipal conflict resolution and collaborative problem-solving; (iv) investigation of programmatic approaches in other states for deployment and funding of community dispute resolution and public engagement and benchmarking effective programs and models for potential replication; (v) preliminary design of an evidence-based policy framework for state and private investment and provision of grants, technical resources and capacity-building services to local governments; and (vi) recommendations for the infrastructure and resources needed to oversee and administer a technical assistance grant program and recommendations for implementation and timeframes.
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Pharaohs Organic Hemp Colas
The Pharaohs Organic Hemp Colas is a medically-safe cannabinoid product designed for instant relief from anxiety and stress. Made from USDA Organic hemp, it contains many essential fatty acids and proteins. It comes in a 3.5g sealed packet which can be used several times as directed by the physician. The product is extracted from the hemp plant’s bud which has the highest hemp content. Thus, it has a comparatively higher penetration and absorption rate against other stress-relieving medications. When inhaled, it directly goes into the bloodstream, acting upon the pituitary gland. This induces a pleasurable effect as the nervous system relaxes.
Depending upon the individual’s body capability, the effect may stay for a couple of hours. Unlike transdermal CBD patches, organic hemp starts its actions utmost immediately. The extracts are also proven useful in reducing health issues resulting due to inflammation of a body part. Upon smoking, the extracts reach the target and diminish the pain and swelling with the help of its anti-inflammatory properties. The organic hemp is a great substitute for painkillers for arthritis, osteoarthritis, and other joint pains.
However, pregnant ladies, lactating mothers, and people having recent surgeries should refrain from using the product. Some medications can also react aggressively with the components, so a professional consultation is necessary.

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The Elite Force H8R is an aggressive looking revolver that packs impressive value. This polymer revolver comes with 9 10-shot clips and is CO2 powered for reliability. The CO2 cartridge is stored in the comfortable contoured grip. The muzzle end features a rail at 6 o'clock for mounting lights or lasers and a 12 o'clock rail for a red dot sight. There is also a safety lever hidden behind the hammer for added security.
The new Gen2 version now features an adjustable hopup system for better performance and shot consistency. The built in green fiber optic sights help with faster sight acquisition and aiming. Great high capacity airsoft pistol, will help you domiate.
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THE best of Liverpool’s up and coming musicians will showcase their talents at a special event this week as part of Independent Venue Week.
The ‘LIMF Academy Showcase’ will take place at city centre venue Magnet and will see the ‘Most Ready’ artists from 2015’s Liverpool International Music Festival Academy celebrate their success to date, taking place from 7pm on Thursday 28 January.
The Showcase not only coincides with independent venue week, but also reaffirms Liverpool’s newly awarded status of UNESCO City of Music which the city received because music is at the heart of its contemporary culture and it invests in young people so that world class talent can continue to be honed here.
It also comes just two months after LIMF scooped a national award at the UK Festival Awards for ‘Best Festival for Emerging Talent’ based on the work by the Academy.
On Thursday evening there will be performances from the three 2015 winners who are:
- Amique – working on his craft since the age of 7, Amique is a singer, producer, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and band leader and has gained a reputation as a serious talent within the industry.
- Jalen Ngonda – USA-born Jalen has classed Liverpool as home since 2014. He was inspired by his father’s collection of jazz, hip-hop, soul and classical records and is widely regarded as one to watch.
- Michael Seary – The 24 year old Liverpudlian producer creates mostly drum and bass tracks, releasing EP 1343 Days to critical acclaim and support. His LIMF Academy win has resulted in him working with one of his producer inspirations Feint as well as Grammy Award winner Steve Levine. New songs and collaborations are on the cards for 2016 as he takes more steps towards bigger success.
Michael Seary said: “The academy has been a good springboard in my career as it has opened up new opportunities to me that I would not have achieved without the support from the Academy team. The money that was awarded to me has helped me to better my image and artist profile by allowing me to have professional level promo shots taken, get music videos shot and high end mastering. But aside from the money the one-to-one support behind the scenes has been exceptional as the whole academy team do genuinely only want the best for you. With the help of the support I have managed to gain multiple national radio plays on tracks of mine which I feel the academy is directly responsible for.”
Amique said “I am really excited to play the upcoming LIMF Academy showcase at Magnet. I get to play with the most fabulous musicians and I’m super grateful for the opportunity.”
The showcase will also feature:
- Eleanor Nelly who took the Academy’s ‘One to Watch’ title last year – the 16 year old singer/songwriter is cutting her musical teeth by playing at festivals and venues up and down the country and has recently released her first EP Insane and Loved.
- Katy Alex who is a 2014 LIMF Academy graduate and described as a northern Lilly Allen. With a passion for fashion and music she performs regularly in the city and is hoping to be signed to a major label in the next two years.
- L U M E N is 17 year old Liam who has been championed by BBC Introducing and spends most of his time making music and experimenting with sounds. He is hoping to start to get noticed and get an ‘in’ into the music industry.
The event starts at Magnet (Hardman Street) from 7pm until 11pm. Tickets can be bought online for just £2 plus £1.25 booking fee from TicketQuarter – www.ticketquarter.c.uk/online/limf-academy. Tickets can also be bought on the door on the night.
Yaw Owusu, LIMF Curator, said: “”With all the recent awards, including UNESCO City of Music, 2016 is a very exciting time for the city and our music creators. The spotlight is once again thrust on our music makers. It’s amazing that at the same time our pool of raw music talent is probably as strong and as deep as it ever has been. The LIMF Academy hopes to continue to be a central part of the grassroots music culture and a leading beacon for music talent discovery and development in the region, making sure our stars of the future get the support they need.
“Our crop of talent this year are all doing amazing things. Our ‘Most Ready’ are now breaking through on national platforms and the story is just starting. It’s vitally important we all get behind these artists and help them as they build their careers.”
The LIMF Academy Showcase is hosted in association with Bido Lito!
Sam Turner from Bido Lito! said: “Two things we try and champion through Bido Lito! is emerging talent and independent culture, so having the LIMF Showcase gig as part of Independent Venue Week is a perfect fit for us. It’s been fantastic seeing the Academy artists progress through the programme so we’re really looking forward to seeing them all together in a live setting. It’ll be a boss night.”
Independent Venue Week runs from 25 to 31 January. It aims to celebrate small music venues across the country, and the people who work and play in them.

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Morningstar, Hyde Park Angels, I2a and REV Venture Partners have all sold their ownership stakes in YCharts to private equity firm LLR Partners, which now has sole ownership of the investment analytics firm. The “recapitalization” is intended to support growth, with a focus on product, sales and marketing, as well as opening up the possibility of acquisitions, according to an announcement.
Terms were not disclosed.
“LLR Partners brings to YCharts deep experience within wealth management technology, a collaborative approach, and a strategic vision that aligns with our long-term objectives,” said Sean Brown, president and CEO of YCharts, in a statement. Past and current fintech investments at LLR include Cedar Capital, Rapid Ratings and Sterling Trading Tech.
Leadership at YCharts will remain the same following the acquisition.
“YCharts will continue operating ‘business as usual,’” said Will Ruben, spokesperson for the firm. “This transaction provides significant benefits to our three key constituents: customers, employees and investors.”

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When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, more than 14 million Ukrainians were displaced. Half fled to other countries, while millions became displaced within Ukraine itself. Since the military offense began, generous individuals have asked how to help Ukrainian refugees. The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) has outlined four ways you can help refugees impacted by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Spread Awareness about the Ukraine Crisis
With some simple actions, you can advocate on behalf of all who are impacted by this crisis, including Ukrainian women refugees, who make up half of all displaced Ukrainians, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). If you use social media, log onto your personal channels and post about your concern on the Ukraine crisis.
You can use this example from WRC to tweet to your network.
Stay Informed on Ukraine
Russia’s war on Ukraine is creating an ongoing crisis. Stay informed and find ways to support internally displaced Ukrainians and Ukrainian refugees. WRC posts frequent updates on the crisis, including updated statistics on Ukrainian refugees, how we are advocating for an effective humanitarian response in Ukraine, and ways for you to take action and support Ukrainians affected by the conflict.
View WRC’s Crisis Response page to learn more on the current situation on the Ukraine crisis.
Make Your Voice Heard on the Ukraine Crisis
If you are in the United States, contact the Biden administration to demand action on the Ukraine crisis. In your message to the US president, you can use recommendations from WRC’s Ukraine policy brief, which includes the following:
- Uphold the highest standard of protection for refugees and internally displaced people, particularly children and unaccompanied minors, especially at border crossing areas, reception centers, and shelters.
- Prioritize gender-based violence prevention and response.
- Ensure women and girls can safely access comprehensive health services.
- Prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
- Ensure that humanitarian assistance is delivered quickly and effectively to all people, regardless of their gender, age, disability status, sexual orientation, or any other aspect of their identity or social status.
- Optimize opportunities for women and girls to fully, equally, and meaningfully participate in humanitarian responses.
- Support grassroots civil society organizations that are on the frontline of the crisis response with direct flexible funding.
- Respond effectively to the needs of women and girls in all their diversity, LGBTQI+ individuals, older adults, and those with disabilities and ensure that all vulnerable and marginalized people are provided with comprehensive and quality assistance services.
See our Ukraine policy brief for more detailed recommendations on ways that governments, UN agencies, humanitarian actors, and individuals can take action.

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Young and confused Janet falls for a fast talking cowboy can real love win over the excitement of this wayward rogue?
After losing her ma, Janet was always a little wild. The only one who could understand her was Jimmy Dalton. Over the years Jimmy fell in love with the intelligent and outspoken girl. He dreams of them together on a little ranch and he is working hard to make that dream come true. Then Ray Burnett rides into town, good looking, sweet talking, and telling tales of adventure.
Jimmie wonders if he should let Janet go, if this is the life for her. Only the more he learns the more he knows that something is wrong.
Will Janet see what is in her heart before it is too late?
Find out in The Love in His Heart a sweet historical western romance with a guaranteed happy ending.

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STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Making strategic investments in our people, especially our children, has been a critical component of my economic strategy from the start. Last year, we worked together on a bipartisan basis to open the doors of college, expanding Pell Grants and creating $1,500 Hope scholarships to advance the critical goal of making college universally available. This year, I have proposed strategic investments to improve and reform K-12 education by putting standards, accountability, and choice back into our public schools. My agenda reduces class size, modernizes schools, invests in technology, and puts an end to social promotion. These initiatives would help ensure that every eight-year-old can read, every 12-year-old can sign onto the Internet, and every 18-year-old can be ready for college.
That is why I am deeply concerned with the Labor/HHS appropriations bill that Congress is considering today. This legislation denies essential educational opportunities to young people across the country, and important training and job opportunities for all Americans.
On balance, this bill fails to provide young Americans with the schooling and training that will be essential to their success as working adults, and to our success as a nation. The bill is fundamentally flawed. Overall, it cuts $2 billion from our request for education investment, short-changing initiatives on education reform, on raising educational achievement for our children, and on providing focused help for students who need it most. In addition, the bill fails to fund my childcare initiatives, eliminates current job training and other programs for low-income Americans, and has many other problems as well.
By turning their backs on America's young in this bill, the House Republicans are taking a step backward. I urge the Committee to provide the funds necessary for this bill to move America into the future, not backward. This bill shortchanges investments in education, and if it were sent to me in its current form, I would have no choice but to veto it.


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This interview is part of the Canadian Quilters Showcase series. I wanted to share with the world some of the amazing talent found here in our country. Quilters from across Canada have submitted quilts with their stories and are featured monthly. Know someone who should be showcased? Nominate them!
Meet Rose-Marie Christie!
Rose-Marie was born in Winnipeg MB, currently lives in Alberta and has lived in provinces across the country including Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan to name a few. She learned to sew in high school. She used to design clothes with her mother, by taking a pattern and making it their own. Sewing took a back seat until she discovered quilting.
Rose-Marie’s 18 year quilting journey has taken her from a simple pillow top to contemporary and art quilts. She is a member of the Lethbridge Centennial Quilters’ Guild and the Sundance 1 RV Resort sewing group in Casa Grande, AZ. These are opportunities for sharing ideas and sewing with others. There is nothing quite like a quilting community.
I love how one piece of fabric can create so many different blocks. A One Block Wonder quilt is on my ‘one day’ list, and after seeing this stunning quilt, they for sure have moved up the list. In fact I’m going to attempt this quilt with 2 complimentary panels. I will be sure to share the process with you!
Quilt name: Bursting Roses
Finished size: 60″ x 70″
Pieced by: Rose-Marie and JoAnn
Quilted by: Rose-Marie
Why did you choose this pattern? How long did it take to make this quilt? Where did you get the pattern? Fabric?
The technique is called One Block Wonder by Maxine Rosenthal. There is no actual pattern. We winter in Casa Grande Arizona. In 2012, my Iowa friend, JoAnn, wanted me to help her get started making one. I helped her with the stacking and she did the cutting. In 2016, she became gravely ill. Nothing was going to stop her going to Casa Grande. I asked how the quilt was coming along. It had not progressed. I asked if she wanted me to put it together. She said yes. She gave me the neat little stacks of triangles stored in sandwich bags. Whenever I had a chance to sew sets of three together, I would pin the sets to show them to her. When they were all sewn, I wheeled her to the Sewing Room in our RV park. We put them on the design wall. It was so nice to have this big space to play with positioning. Once we were both happy with the placement, I started sewing the strips and the hexes began to appear. Maxine’s book is loaded with ideas for borders. JoAnn chose one and I proceeded to finish the quilt top. JoAnn was smiling ear to ear. So heartwarming. JoAnn likes her quilts hand quilted. The idea was for that to be done over the summer, and I would do the binding over winter. Unfortunately she passed away March 2017 while visiting family in California. It was her desire that her family gift me the quilt top, which they did in November. In attendance were 3 of her daughters, her husband and 2 of her dearest friends. I was very grateful. It is an amazing memory for me. At the moment it hangs in my sewing room. Eventually it will hang in my Arizona living room.
Why do you quilt? What do you like most about it? What do you like least about it?
I like all aspects of quilting. I like the creative process the most.
Were there special people or circumstances that encouraged you to begin to quilt?
I love to travel. While visiting an RV park in Texas, I met a number of quilters who sewed and quilted by hand. It didn’t take me long to dive in. I made a block with several hexagons and made a pillow top. All sewing was done by hand. My second project, also done by hand, was a project bag. The addiction began. I soon purchased a small Bernina suitable for travel. When Bob and I embarked on a full-time RVing adventure, Amelia, my trusty little Bernina, followed along. I made bed quilts, wall hangings, tablecloths, placemats, bags and wearables. Many of these were hand quilted. When our nomadic lifestyle came to an end, I purchased another Bernina for embroidery and quilting. Whenever possible, I purchase fabrics as souvenirs of our travels. Our next trip is taking us to Indonesia where I plan to purchase unique batiks.
What do you do with your finished quilts?
Put them on beds, tables, walls, and give as gifts
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So, I read your script Delirium last night.
I hope you enjoyed it.
There is a horror template that is familiar to me, which is the scary monster who is gonna pick people off one by one, and maybe the protagonist too, but the protagonist needs to have some kind of affirmation of their impact somewhere towards the 3rd Act.
Usually, unless you’re Nightmare on Elm Street and then — kill em off half way through.
And then just keep making movies.
Do you have hopes of it getting made?
I mean — back to good old “no expectations”. Would I like it to get made? Sure. Do I expect it to get made? Not really, no. I’m perfectly fine with that. I’ve heard folks talk about screenplays as being just blueprints and nothing more than blueprints.
I’m not a hundred percent sure I buy that. I feel like they are a story-form in and of themselves that can be enjoyed in and of themselves. I derive pleasure from it that way, not so much in thinking “oh, this will only give me pleasure if it’s translated into film”. I derive pleasure just from the screenplay format itself.
If you’re a good enough writer you can always write something you’re passionate about and still be willing to sacrifice some of your children should the opportunity arise.
[Laughs] I am not long in this business — I’m very much a beginner in terms of the business side of this. But as far as I can tell, a lot of this is about building a character around yourself, if that makes sense.
That’s interesting. Expand on that?
I pitched a show to the BBC. It was the BBC Writers Room, specifically a program for amateur screenwriters who had had nothing produced. When I didn’t get it, I called them up after and asked if they had any feedback to share. The one thing they told me was “you have to stand out somehow. You have to be the only person who can tell this story.”
It seems like if someone else — “if you gave the same logline to someone else they couldn’t write it the way you could write it” — that’s how I interpreted it. And that advice has borne out to be true. I mean the Northern Irish accent helps with this.
It helps build a character and I think that’s what Delirium does. It’s a weird fucking script to be honest with you. It’s Lovecraftian, which isn’t made very much. So that’s a whole other kettle of…
Were you just about to say another kettle of fish?
Yeah, is that going to translate?
It’s a little on the nose given the topic.
That should be your tagline: “whole other kettle of fish.”
Going back to the thing about getting it made. Even on that topic of Lovecraft, I don’t want to dive too deep into it because it’s a massive esoteric topic in itself, but the whole thing about Lovecraft. I think I’ve read everything he’s ever written in fiction form. But that guy is….exceedingly problematic.
To say the least.
I’ve heard people make the arguments that he was just of his time, but I’m pretty sure he was bad even for his time. Which is part of the inspiration behind Delirium. Okay, I like where this guy is going, I like his general aesthetic, but I disagree with a lot of his fundamental ideas about life. That was kind of my way in. His whole thing was “life is pointless, we’re all going to get wiped out in a second.” I was like – eh…that’s not a bad thing, necessarily. You know, that could be a good thing. That was kind of my way in.
I just thought, as soon as I put a Lovecraft quote at the start, I’m gonna be fucked.
It follows that it was important to you to have a black female as your lead.
A hundred percent. Every single [Lovecraft] story is unfailingly a white man in his 20s-30s who is really erudite, educated and looks down on everyone who isn’t from a city. It gets incredibly boring after a while. This whole sub-genre of horror need not be sequestered away to such a small group of people. It is for everyone, I think. And in recent years there have been loads of great writers who have taken it on. Neil Gaiman’s done a lot of it. There’s a great tabletop RPG called Call of Cthulhu and it takes a really progressive stance towards all these things. I very much wanted to define myself as being part of that.
I feel like when you start citing Lovecraft you have to take a stance on this one way or the other. And I very much wanted to take the stance of “I respect Lovecraft, I love his aesthetic in general, but we can bring it forward, let’s not keep in the 1920s, let’s bring it kicking and screaming into 2020.”
This specific concern often comes up and that is: the one impossible fact of the world that allows the whole story to function. I’ve heard it referred to it as the “gimme”– and that you get one “gimme”.
I think I have a few “gimmes”. I’m thinking of Delirium, and there’s a few things that the readers have got to be on board with. I think it helps to be — well let’s start with the backstory stuff, there’s this whole virus that’s killing everyone but I don’t really show that because I didn’t want to be like The Walking Dead. I think that helped, having it be in the background, not right in the forefront and people will just accept that. You’ve also got to deal with this setting of an ocean full of satellites, which does exist, but maybe not quite as visually stunning as that. I might’ve embellished a bit.
I don’t think I ever say in any metatextual text that “this place exists” I think I just go for it and hope for the best. And then there’s a space station that crashes down, and there’s an alien heart, I don’t know. I don’t really know if I 100 percent agree with [the one gimme]. Maybe in the setting of a kitchen sink drama, there might be one gimme because that’s meant to be realistic, like a Ken Loach movie, or I, Daniel Blake is gonna have like one thing that sets it in motion, and everything else feels tangibly real. I feel like if you just write it confidently and it seems like something even slightly plausible within genre expectations, you’re good to go.
It’s more like a good-faith contract.
It is a good-faith contract, you have to keep the reader in mind and don’t throw so much at them so they have to raise an eyebrow about whether this could really happen in this script, that’s probably the most important thing. If you say there’s a massive disease in A Star is Born, that’s going to feel really weird, but in Delirium it’s fine.
So you set it on a ship. I like the layers of setting, like there’s – you have the ocean, you have the ship, then you have the rooms in the ship, and then the freezer. And obviously having it on a ship has helped you in many many ways. What was behind the decision?
I waste a lot of time on YouTube and there’s a great channel called The Art Assignment. They just talk about Fine Art. There’s one particular episode where they talk about the most isolated forms of art, and they just happen to mention offhand that Point Nemo is the most isolated place on earth and I was like oh, interesting, let me research that, so I research that and oh, apparently that’s where a Cthlulu is meant to live in the Lovecraft mythos. Ooh, interesting!
And then I started thinking you could have a horror film set there. Then I started researching more. Then I heard about a satellite graveyard — that’s a pretty cool setting. But the only way you could navigate that is on a boat. There weren’t too many ways about it. I mean I had the space station in, at one point, but with the exception of that. It’s like the old adage of limitation breeds creativity.
So I’ve got three levels, and a lot of the drama does take place in a lot of the same stuff but I do experiment and I do go in a submersible and in a space station– then there’s a dream sequence, trippiness. A lot of it was just because a boat felt like this was the only place this could’ve happened. You could’ve done it underwater like that recent Kristen Stewart movie Underwater. But I like the idea that these people are super desperate and that they’re outcast and starving and hungry and stranded.
I feel like that’s how all my ideas germinate. It’s like a grab bag: “oh I like the sound of that” and kinda mash them together and think “this looks terrible” or “this could be okay.”
This is something that’s really expected with the horror genre: it’s that you have this combination of you have the antagonist who is quite existential, and that thing that is sort of compelling that kind of haunted house domino effect where one gets picked off right after the other. Then they also start to turn on each other, and become manifestations of that antagonist. Is that something you’ve used before in horror?
To be honest, every horror script I wrote before Delirium wasn’t particularly successful. I feel like that was because I went a little bit over the top. I think there’s a schlocky B-movie director in me somewhere. I throw all that fucking blood everywhere, I feel like that’s somewhere in me —
It very very fun, but I feel like I’ve got to put a leash on that. My third acts always go bananas. I feel they just go crazy, and Delirium is no exception. But also, again, based on this Lovecraftian horror I feel like having a big sea monster show up defeats the entire point. Not that I’m implying that it doesn’t exist, I think its existence is the whole existential threat of this entire thing.
I don’t want to get too pretentious. I don’t want to be a wanker about it, but I feel like, you know, having an existential threat like a Cthulhu-esque monster which is essentially what it is. I’m not saying it but I’m coding it very much in that language. It’s very much a metaphor for other things, other existential crises that can occur, I think that’s the horror of it.
That’s what a lot of Lovecraftian literature is based off. It’s like, all of this can end just like that for no good reason, and how do you reckon with that inherent chaos of the world? A lot of people say religion, which is a great way, but you know for me I was like “uh, I don’t know”.
For me I feel like people when– not to get too dark about this– but when someone close to you dies I feel like everyone has that existential crisis a little bit — let’s start thinking about the meaning of all this. And similar things have happened to me. I think Lovecraft’s got a really depressing way of looking at things: “life is meaningless, let’s just all lie down.”
Put paper bags over our heads.
Yeah, exactly, but it’s like…”ah, come on dude, fuck off, let’s you know, life is meaningless, let’s throw a party”. That’s kind of where I’m at. And I feel like that was my driving message. I felt like a shiver going down my back when I said that. But that was the driving ethos of what I wanted to say with Delirium. This could all end tomorrow. That’s all the more reason to have some fun today. I think Lovecraft in horror is just another way of talking about that.
I was going to ask you about handling exposition, because you prefer to pose the question and then arrive at the moment of exposition when it’s earned as opposed to trying to explain everything out the gate
I had a lot [of exposition]. This has developed since Austin, but in the original script there is essentially one lore-dump fairly near the beginning, when Hawkins talks to Morgan. It’s pretty near the beginning, in the wheelhouse.
There’s a bit of an exposition dump there. It’s almost out of necessity because by that point I’m almost 25 pages in and I haven’t given very much. I’m like “okay, you’ve stuck with me for a while, here’s a little something just to tide you over”.
I think audiences are more tolerant of a short lore dump that’s concise and quick and entertaining as opposed to exposition that’s drip-fed throughout the entire thing. Because I think that can get annoying after a little while.
That being said, when Delirium has been sent out to particular producers and studios, the one critique that has come back almost universally is that there isn’t enough. That they are a little confused, which, again, don’t blame them, in the slightest. I think Delirium was my attempt to strip back as much exposition as I possibly, possibly could. Until it was like literally straining underneath me.
My first draft was not good, I had to bring it back in a little bit. It’s a very thin rope to walk across. I don’t know if I can be super scientific about it. It’s just kind of a gut feeling. Which I think just comes after writing a lot. If you can frame exposition as a mystery then you’re in the money.
That’s always a challenge with post-apocalypse. You at least want to get a sense of how things got to the way that they were.
I think that’s related to the “gimme” that you were talking about earlier. It’s like, if I say “there is a virus that’s eradicated the majority of the world’s population”, I say “okay!” you’re like that’s the premise of the story, you’re willing to go with it. Exposition, man. It’s a whole thing.
I don’t pretend to be a master of it. I don’t think anyone really is, I think we’re always struggling to balance one side of the line or the other. Different people want different things. I’m currently writing a script I was specifically told has one foot in Blumhaus and one foot in A-24. You gotta choose one, because someone who watches an A-24 film is going to be more open to guessing and trying to deduce things, whereas if you’re watching a Blumhaus film, I think it’s expected to at least have a clearer sense of where this is, what this is, what to expect, how this is all gonna tie up.
It’s more conventional, but not in a bad way. It’s your genre and who your audience is, I think, that dictates how much exposition you can get away with. Which is always a line we’re going to have to worry about forever and ever, and ever.
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A Castle With A Town
Arundel sits on a curve of the River Arun and feels like an ancient market town that never once lost its desire to treat travellers to its charms, with lively markets, countless tea rooms, antique stores stuffed with art deco sculptures, tatty books and personal relics from local auctions along with inviting little pubs lining the main street. But the most notable attraction is the castle packed full with 1000 years of history that sways over the slated roofs of Arundel. From afar, the Castle’s imposing looks are disarming and its various battlements and towers look huge, giving Arundel the appearance of a medieval village clinging to the walls of a castle for safety, especially when coupled with the cathedral that forms a striking double-tiered crown when viewed from the hills.
A closer inspection reveals rooms immortalised and bedecked with luxuries enough for a Queen — indeed Queen Victoria’s bedroom is accessible, still waiting patiently to comfort royal shoulders once more — and various artefacts and paintings from throughout Arundel’s history line the ancient walls. Of particular note is the stunning library that evokes a sense of smokey mysticism with its fusion of Asian and European decor: hardwoods, lush, evocative red fabrics and Chinese lanterns that light the dusty pages of the 800-year-old manuscripts. Much of Arundel Castle is private as the family of the Dukes of Norfolk still live there so many parts are off-limits. But the oldest part, the castle keep, offers a fascinating view into Arundel's beginnings as well as the best elevation to take in the views of the South Downs. In the warmer months, the gardens provide glorious escapes, with enchanting fountains, pretty follies, water gardens and the sweet aromas of rose, dahlias and lilies scenting the air with a summery English romanticism.


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A new study conducted by WRAP, Waste & Resources Action Programme, published on 28th August 2009, has identified that demand for waste wood will outstrip supply in the next few years. The report, ‘Wood Waste Market in the UK’, provides both a detailed analysis of how the situation with waste wood product availability is likely to develop over the coming years, and also looks at the origins of waste wood products.
WRAP’s research anticipates a 14% decrease in the amount of waste wood compared to before the recession, a figure which could take up to 5 years to return to pre-recession levels. Director of Market Development, Marcus Gover, advises that WRAP are keen to offer support to recycling and reprocessing businesses across the UK in light of the problems that this shortfall could cause.
“Our new report gives valuable insights as to the issues currently affecting the wood waste market in the UK. It brings into focus the real need to ensure we’re recovering our arisings of waste wood as efficiently and to as high a standard as possible.”
The findings of the report showed that the construction and demolition industries are the biggest generators of waste wood, with figures in 2008 being estimated at between 4.5 and 4.6 million tonnes. WRAP note in their report however, that these levels are lower than previous estimates expected to be found, something that is being put down to the difficulty in accessing accurate information about the levels of waste generated by the construction and demolition industries.
Apart from affecting businesses such as fence panel manufacturers who currently use 60% of the recycled wood waste produced by the UK, the other main area that will be hit by shortages is electricity generation. As the search for renewable technologies and clean alternative energy sources continues, one solution is wood fired power stations and CHP plants (combined heat and power). WRAP warn that although wood waste price increases in line with the higher levels of demand should keep things in balance, if this does not happen, we are likely to see shortages of wood waste arise, which would be bad news for this latest source of low carbon power generation.


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The track measuring and diagnostic railcar of SBB is crossing the bridge above the Rhine Falls.
Interregio IR 2279 from Zurich (16:09) to Locarno (19:13) at 16:59 near Seewen.
September 26th, 2014
Fog in the lower regions, sun and nothing else in the mountains and the last day of the summer season means always a high peak in traffic on the Wengernalpbahn. In such occasions the older veteran... (more)
Test run with the self-propelled snow blower Xrotm 95 on the Gotthard north ramp.
Two BLS oldies, #182 and #167, with an intermodal train on the Gotthard north ramp.
The last green painted Re 4/4 II of the SBB passenger department is pulling the IR 2169 to Locarno.
Tilting trainset 500 003 in the new paint scheme on the way to Lugano.
SBB Cargo multisystem locomotives 484 005 and 484 009 with a southbound intermodal train.
Self propelled (two 336 kw Cummins diesel motors) track measuring and diagnosis vehicle XTmass 99 85 9160 001 of SBB infrastructure, built by Mermec/Italy. Measuring is with up to 120 km/h, for tr... (more)
Re 4/4 II # 11109 in "Swiss Express" paint scheme of the 1970' is pulling a radio measuring train from Winterthur to Bülach. 8 locomotives of the serie got this paint scheme around 1975 ... (more)
Re 6/6 # 11663 with name and blazon of Eglisau is one of only two, left in the green paint scheme with the original round headlights. She is pulling the empty gravel train from Oberwinterthur back... (more)
719 045/046 is "LIMEZ III", a clearance gauge measuring train of DB AG.
A northbound Rhatische Bahn has departed Filisur, Switzerland and is headed for Chur. That isn’t graffiti on the electric; RhB sells advertising space its motors.
Re 456 091 of the Südostbahn with publicity paint scheme "Voralpenexpress" is pulling Voralpen Express 2413 from Rapperswil to St.Gallen near Schmerikon. In the rear sister Re 456 096 is... (more)
Former Gotthard locomotive for fast passenger trains from the pioneering days of electrification, Be 4/6 # 12320 from 1921, is leaving Thun with a train over the Lötschberg mountain line to Brig.

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Six professional dancers on Dancing with the Stars paid tribute to Patrick Swayze during last night's broadcast.
The dancers performed a medley of songs associated with Swayze's film career, including his 'She's Like The Wind' from the soundtrack to the 1987 movie, which was choreographed by Chelsie Hightower and Dmitry Chaplin, according to E!.
Jonathan Roberts and Anna Trebunskaya waltzed to 'Unchained Melody', taken from the 1990 movie Ghost.
Tony Dovolani and Cheryl Burke recreated the famous lift between Swayze and co-star Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing, set to the Oscar-winning track '(I've Had) The Time Of My Life'.
Swayze's upcoming autobiography will be available as an audiobook narrated by the late actor before his death.

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SummaryA young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider car culture, his ex-felon brother and his need for self expression.
-- Los Angeles
Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Street art -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Drama.
Action and adventure films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
|Publisher|| Universal City, CA :Universal Pictures Home Entertainment,2017
1953- film producer.
Blum, Jason, film producer.
James, Elgin, screenwriter.
Coker, Cheo Hodari, screenwriter.
Montreuil, Ricardo de, 1974- film director.
Bichir, Demián, 1963- actor.
Chavarria, Gabriel, actor.
Rossi, Theo, 1975- actor.
Benoist, Melissa, actor.
Revolori, Tony, 1996- actor.
Longoria, Eva, 1975- actor.
Senti, Bryan, 1983- composer.
BH Tilt (Firm), presenter, production company.
Imagine Entertainment (Firm), presenter, production company.
Telemundo Group, Inc., production company.
Blumhouse Productions, production company.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
Demian Bichir, Gabriel Chavarria, Theo Rossi, Melissa Benoist, Tony Revolori, Eva Longoria.
Director of photography, Andres E. Sanchez ; editors, Billy T. Fox, Kiran Pallegadda ; music, Bryan Senti.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for language, some violence, sensuality, thematic elements and brief drug use.
In English; with optional French or Spanish subtitles; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH); audio-described.
Title fom container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.
Special features: Lowriders: art, love, and family; Ghost's arrival; The culture of Lowriders; previews.
DVD; NTSC; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; dual layer; Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS Dolby Digital 2.0.
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.