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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Colorado has been one of the leaders in elections in a number of years. The right to vote is the foundational expression of having voice in how we're governed. It is basically the heart of American democracy, so it means everything. The work that Colorado is doing on risk-limiting audits is critically important to the elections community across the United States. Risk-limiting audits are important because we can conduct a post-election audit that...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Colorado Department of Transportation requires revegetation as part of road construction projects. The revegetation of previously disturbed areas from highway construction activities is a critical component to overall site storm water management strategy. Poor revegetation actions during and after construction can lead to difficulty in deactivating storm water construction permits (SCPs). CDOT's specifications for revegetation projects are discussed...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Colorado Department of Agriculture, Division of Inspection & Consumer Services inspects pet care facilities to ensure the health and safety of mammals, reptiles, fish, and birds. In addition they check grooming facilities and pet food labels, including sending food to an independent laboratory for content analysis.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Three initiatives integrate cyber security resources to protect Colorado elections: 1) Securing the statewide voter registration system; 2) Securing overseas and military ballot return with encryption; 3) Colorado threat information sharing and joint fusion center. These initiatives make Colorado one of the safest states to cast a ballot resulting in one of the highest voter turnout.
11) District 9
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
13) 24: Season 2
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Eighteen months after the murder of his wife, Jack Bauer is estranged from his daughter, Kim, and no longer works for the CIA's Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. But a phone call from the president sends a reluctant Jack back to CTU. There he's told of a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in L.A.
14) Little Bird
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
15) Official secrets
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The incredible true story of the spy who defied her government to stop a war. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on UN council members to force the vote for the invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world rush into war. Gun makes the decision to leak the memo to the press, igniting an international firestorm that would expose a vast political...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Monsanto Company is the world's leader in agricultural chemicals, seed and genetically modified crops, as well as being one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. This film uses hitherto unpublished documents and testimonies of victims, scientists and politicians to expose Monsanto's lack of care in protecting the environment and the health of those exposed to their products. Shows how the company promoted such products as Roundup...
18) Too big to fail
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
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Four years ago, climate change was hot. Politicians from both parties, pressed by an anxious public, seemed poised to act. But that was then. Today, public opinion about the climate issue has cooled, and politicians either ignore the issue or loudly proclaim their skepticism of scientific evidence that human activity is imperiling the planet. What's behind this reversal?